FED REVEALS $3.3 TRILLION PAYOUTS OF $28.3 TRILLION + PAID OUT,MUST BE $50-60 TRILLION NOW

AND THIS IS ONLY $3.3 TRILLION OF THE $28.3 TRLLION UP TO NOVEMBER LAST YEAR.IT MUST BE $50-60 TRILLION GIVIN OUT BY NOW.

THE EURO NEEDS A FISCAL UNION-LEARN FROM HISTORY
http://shadowfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Bordo-Euro-Needs-A-Fiscal-Union.pdf

Usage of Federal Reserve Credit and Liquidity Facilities BY FED DEC 1,10
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/reform_transaction.htm

This section of the website provides detailed information about the liquidity and credit programs and other monetary policy tools that the Federal Reserve used to respond to the financial crisis that emerged in the summer of 2007. These programs fall into three broad categories--those aimed at addressing severe liquidity strains in key financial markets, those aimed at providing credit to troubled systemically important institutions, and those aimed at fostering economic recovery by lowering longer-term interest rates.The emergency liquidity programs that the Federal Reserve set up provided secured and mostly short-term loans. Over time, these programs helped to alleviate the strains and to restore normal functioning in a number of key financial markets, supporting the flow of credit to businesses and households. As financial markets stabilized, the Federal Reserve closed most of these programs. Indeed, many of the programs were intentionally priced to be unattractive to borrowers when markets are functioning normally and, as a result, wound down as market conditions improved. The programs achieved their intended purposes with no loss to taxpayers.The Federal Reserve also provided credit to several systemically important financial institutions. These actions were taken to avoid the disorderly failure of these institutions and the potential catastrophic consequences for the U.S. financial system and economy. All extensions of credit were fully secured and are in the process of being fully repaid.

Finally, the Federal Reserve provided economic stimulus by lowering interest rates. Over the course of the crisis, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) reduced its target for the federal funds rate to a range of 0 to 1/4 percent. With the federal funds rate at its effective lower bound, the FOMC provided further monetary policy stimulus through large-scale purchases of longer-term Treasury debt, federal agency debt, and agency mortgage-backed securities (agency MBS). These asset purchases helped to lower longer-term interest rates and generally improved conditions in private credit markets.The links to the right provide detailed information about the programs that were established in response to the crisis. Details for each loan include: the borrower, the date that credit was extended, the interest rate, information about the collateral, and other relevant terms. Similar information is supplied for swap line draws and repayments. Details for each agency MBS purchase include: the counterparty to the transaction, the date of the transaction, the amount of the transaction, and the price at which each transaction was conducted. The transaction data are provided in compliance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The Federal Reserve will revise the data to ensure that they are accurate and complete. No rules about executive compensation or dividend payments were applied to borrowers using Federal Reserve facilities. Executive compensation restrictions were imposed by statute on firms receiving assistance through the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Dividend restrictions were the province of the appropriate supervisors and were imposed by the Federal Reserve on bank holding companies in that role, but not because of borrowing through the facilities discussed here.Additional information about the Federal Reserve's credit and liquidity programs is available on the Credit and Liquidity Programs and the Balance Sheet section.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst.htm

Fed Names Recipients of $3.3 Trillion in Crisis Aid
December 01, 2010, 12:51 PM ESTBusinessweek to Business Exchange By Craig Torres and Scott Lanman(Updates with names in second paragraph.)

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve, under orders from Congress, today named the counterparties of about 21,000 transactions from $3.3 trillion in aid provided to stem the worst financial panic since the Great Depression.Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. were among the biggest borrowers from one program, the Term Auction Facility, with as much as $45 billion apiece. Some aid went to U.S. units of foreign institutions, including Switzerland’s UBS AG, France’s Societe Generale and Germany’s Dresdner Bank AG. The Fed posted the data on its website to comply with a provision in July’s Dodd-Frank law overhauling financial regulation.The Federal Reserve followed sound risk-management practices in administering all of these programs, incurred no credit losses on programs that have been wound down and expects to incur no credit losses on those that remain, the central bank said in a statement in Washington.Even so, the release may heighten political scrutiny of the central bank already at its most intense in three decades. The Fed’s Nov. 3 decision to add $600 billion of monetary stimulus has sparked a backlash from top Republicans in Congress, who said in a Nov. 17 letter to Chairman Ben S. Bernanke that the action risks inflation and asset-price bubbles.These disclosures come at a politically inopportune moment for the Fed, Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington whose research focuses on Congress’s relationship with the Fed, said before the release. Just when Chairman Bernanke is trying to defend the Fed from Republican critics of its asset purchases, the Fed’s wounds from the financial crisis are reopened.

Six Programs

The information, which also includes the amounts of transactions and interest rates charged, spans six loan programs as well as currency swaps with other central banks, purchases of mortgage-backed securities and the rescues of Bear Stearns Cos. and American International Group Inc.The data detail the breadth of central bank support that reached beyond banks to companies such as General Electric Co., which accessed a Fed program 12 times for a total of $16 billion in commercial paper. Lawmakers demanded disclosure, over the Fed’s initial objections, as U.S. central bankers pushed beyond their traditional role of backstopping banks. The Fed bought short-term IOUs from corporations, risky assets from Bear Stearns and more than $1 trillion in U.S. housing debt.Companies’ participation in the programs reflected the severe market disruptions during the financial crisis and generally did not reflect participants’ financial weakness,the Fed said today in its statement.

Dollar Squeeze

The presence of foreign banks in the program underscores the squeeze in dollar liquidity after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. on Sept. 15, 2008. UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, was the biggest borrower from the Commercial Paper Funding Facility, tapping the program 11 times for $74.5 billion.The emergency programs included the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, which has supported billions of dollars in credit to small businesses, credit card borrowers, and students, and the Term Auction Facility, which helped banks get cheaper funding.
Bernanke pushed the boundaries of the Fed’s powers, using section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, which allowed the central bank to aid non-banks under unusual and exigent circumstances.In some facilities, the Fed engaged in non- recourse lending, meaning it loaned against collateral alone and took a greater risk of loss.

Risk Exposures

By moving into the world of non-recourse loans, they started to accept risk exposures that the private sector was no longer capable of maintaining, said Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP LLC in Jersey City, New Jersey. That effectively turned the Fed into an asset warehouse.Congress excluded one Fed lending program from disclosure, the discount window, which is the subject of a 2008 lawsuit filed by Bloomberg LP, parent of Bloomberg News, against the central bank. A group of banks is appealing to the Supreme Court over lower-court decisions ordering the Fed to identify loan recipients. The program peaked at $110.7 billion in October 2008.We see this not as the end of a process but really a significant step forward in opening the veil of secrecy that exists in one of the most powerful agencies in government, Senator Bernard Sanders, the Vermont Independent who wrote the provision on Fed disclosure, said to reporters Nov. 17.

Request Rebuffed

Sanders said he was motivated to use legislation to force the Fed to reveal borrowers after Bernanke rebuffed his request to identify the firms.Given the size of these commitments, it is incomprehensible that the American people have not received specific details about them,” Sanders said in a letter to Bernanke on Feb. 4, 2009.The Federal Reserve does not release specific information regarding the borrowings of individual institutions from our lending facilities, Bernanke said in a reply to Sanders. The approach is completely consistent with the long-standing practice of central banks.Vincent Reinhart, a former Fed official, disagreed with Bernanke’s argument in the letter. The central bank assumed a greater burden of disclosure by taking on a fiscal policy role, such as acquiring $30 billion of assets to ease JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s purchase of Bear Stearns in 2008, said Reinhart, who headed the Fed’s Division of Monetary Affairs.

No National Principle

There is no national principle about hiding fiscal policy decisions,said Reinhart, now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.At a time of stress, the Federal Reserve was willing to provide subsidies to a critically important area of the economy -- the financial system,Reinhart said. But the public should know how much the Federal Reserve provided and to who.A year after his 2009 correspondence with Sanders, Bernanke said in House Financial Services Committee testimony the Fed would agree to reveal the names of borrowers of emergency facilities with a sufficiently long lag. Once again, he said that the confidentiality of the discount window must be maintained.Today’s information relates to aid from Dec. 1, 2007, through July 21, 2010, when President Barack Obama signed Dodd- Frank into law. The act also requires the Fed, after a two-year delay, to identify firms that, following the law’s passage, borrow through its discount window and participate in its purchases or sales of assets such as mortgage-backed securities and Treasuries.

Emergency Powers

The Dodd-Frank legislation has also limited the Fed’s emergency lending powers from now on to programs with broad- based eligibility, curtailing bailouts of individual institutions.You have to balance the different considerations, said Roberto Perli, managing director at International Strategy & Investment Group in Washington and a former Fed Board staff member. They crossed a line, but what would have been the alternative? You can’t have a huge run on money funds. The situation was very delicate. The alternative would have been a lot worse.--Editors: Christopher Wellisz, James Tyson To contact the reporters on this story: Craig Torres in Washington at ctorres3@bloomberg.net. Scott Lanman in Washington at slanman@bloomberg.net;To contact the editor responsible for this story: Christopher Wellisz at cwellisz@bloomberg.net.

Europe pins hopes on ECB as crisis fears spread By Luke Baker and John O'Donnell - DEC 1,10

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is under pressure to unveil new steps to stabilize the euro zone when it meets on Thursday as the bloc battles a crippling debt crisis that has stoked contagion fears in the U.S. and Asia.An 85 billion euro ($110.7 billion) EU/IMF rescue of Ireland last weekend and public assurances from leaders that the euro will be defended at any cost have failed to impress investors who are targeting Portugal, Spain and Italy in a test of the European Union's resolve and crisis-fighting resources.A day after investors pushed the risk premiums on Spanish and Italian bonds to euro lifetime highs, markets steadied as speculation grew the ECB could agree to step up its purchases of government debt and a U.S. official told Reuters Washington would support boosting an EU rescue facility via IMF funds.Speaking in Brussels, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he had confidence the ECB would take whatever action was needed to protect the stability of the single currency bloc.I'm sure the ECB is analyzing the current situation and that it will take the decisions necessary to guarantee the financial stability of the euro zone,Barroso said.The EU's Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn appeared to pass the baton to the ECB, saying recent EU actions provided a sound basis for further stabilization measures by the central bank.

HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL

The ECB launched a bond purchase program in May after Greece was bailed out, but it has been highly controversial within the bank and has been used only erratically.
Influential Bundesbank head Axel Weber has called publicly for the program to be scrapped and fellow ECB members have criticized the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to buy $600 billion of U.S. debt in a policy known as quantitative easing.Any sense from fiercely independent central bankers that they were being bullied by EU politicians into making bond purchases could further deepen their opposition to such a step.With the euro under threat, however, they may decide they have no other choice.In recent days, economists have urged the ECB to throw out its rule book and do all it can to save the euro, particularly since governments seem to be running out of ideas for restoring confidence in their monetary union.There is a feeling that things have got to a point where the ECB has to do more, said Gilles Moec, an economist at Deutsche Bank.Reflecting global concern about the euro zone crisis, the U.S. Treasury announced late on Tuesday it would send an envoy to Europe this week to discuss the turmoil with governments in Berlin, Madrid and Paris.A U.S. official told Reuters in Brussels Washington stood ready to support an expansion of the bloc's current 750 billion euro rescue mechanism via extra funds from the International Monetary Fund, a step German officials have said they oppose.

It is up to the Europeans, the U.S. official said. We will certainly support using the IMF in these circumstances.The comments helped push the euro up to $1.3130 in late European trading after three successive days of losses which took it to a 10-week low against the dollar on Tuesday.The premium investors demand to hold Portuguese, Spanish and Italian bonds instead of German benchmarks fell and European bank stocks rebounded, with Spain's Banco Santander and BBVA up more than 7 percent after the Spanish government announced new steps to reduce the national debt. Debt auctions in Portugal and Germany, however, showed investors remain nervous. Lisbon's borrowing costs surged in a 12-month bill auction and a German five-year note sale drew the weakest demand in half a year.

Manufacturing data underscored the economic divergences plaguing Europe.Citigroup's chief economist said this week euro zone turmoil might be the opening act of a global sovereign debt crisis that could infect the United States and Japan.EU plans to make private bond holders bear some of the pain from any sovereign debt restructuring after mid-2013 have led investors to reassess the risk of putting their money in the government bonds of high-debt countries.

LIMITED OPTIONS

Strong action by the ECB is one of a small number of unattractive options for stopping the rot, given divisions among European governments over how to respond.
Germany has resisted pressure from countries such as France to turn the euro zone into a fiscal union, a step that could help the bloc address its economic imbalances, but would require members to sacrifice sovereignty for the good of the group. Chancellor Angela Merkel is also skeptical about putting up more funds for bailouts, concerned that German taxpayers could end up underwriting the rescues of countries her government believes have become targets because of economic mismanagement.Pressure from Germany's partners is mounting. Portugal's Treasury Secretary Carolos Pina told Reuters the EU needed to deepen its budget and create a European Treasury to defend the euro, a move that would be anathema to Berlin.
(Writing by Noah Barkin; Editing by Andrew Dobbie)

Ireland discloses bailout deal details By David Stringer, Associated Press – DEC 1,10

DUBLIN – Ireland must consult the IMF and European authorities over any major change to its economic policy, according to documents disclosed Wednesday outlining details of the country's international bailout.Finance minister Brian Lenihan said Ireland had also been set quarterly targets for its recovery under the deal for up to euro67.5 billion ($89 billion) in international loans.The documents show the country had promised to take any corrective actions necessary to fix its ravaged economy in order to win the deal.We have been through a traumatic two years. Of course we would have preferred to avoid to resort to external assistance, but we can emerge from it a stronger and fitter economy, Lenihan told Ireland's parliament.After making the documents public, Lenihan said the bailout requires the government to consult with the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF about the adoption of policies that are not consistent with this memorandum.The documents show that every week government departments will supply regular data on the state of Ireland's finances to authorities offering the country loans.Under the deal, Ireland has pledged to sell off its stakes in the country's crippled banks "within the shortest timeframe possible.Prior to the bailout, Ireland had already committed at least euro45 billion to bailing out five banks. The deal provides an immediate euro10 billion to inject into the cash-strapped lenders.The reason we had to seek external assistance is because the problems in our banking system simply became too big for this state to handle on its own, Lenihan said.

However, he told lawmakers they would not have a chance to vote to approve Ireland's acceptance of the bailout. These supporting documents do not represent international agreements and do not require the approval of the Dail," he said, referring to the country's parliament.Critics have charged prime minister Brian Cowen with meekly accepting a deal which is too costly — Ireland will pay an average of 5.8 percent on its loans — and which they say prevents future governments from altering key elements.Ireland will hold elections early next year, when Cowen's Fianna Fail party is expected to be ousted.Lenihan said the government had no option but to accept the terms. Without this program, our ability to fund the payments to social welfare recipients, the salaries of our nurses, our doctors, our teachers, our (police) ... would have been extraordinarily limited and highly uncertain, he said.Under the terms of the bailout, Ireland must use euro17.5 billion of its own cash and pension reserves to shore up its public finances.Opponents say that, in effect, hard-pressed taxpayers will be forced to carry the costs of the government's attempted bailout of its imploded banking sector.Lenihan also confirmed he would soon announce legislation setting out the burden to be shared by junior debt holders in Irish Nationwide and Anglo Irish Bank.Cowen said Sunday that European authorities had rejected the idea of senior bondholders taking a hit under the bailout.Earlier, he defended his plan to cut the country's minimum wage by one euro (US$1.30) from the present rate of euro8.65 (US$11.30) per hour, saving it would help save jobs. Last week, he outlined a program of deep cuts and tax hikes totaling at least euro15 billion ($20.5 billion), intended to help restore Ireland's deficits to the euro-zone limit of 3 percent of GDP from its current postwar European record of 32 percent.

On Tuesday, national football team manager Giovanni Trapattoni — an Italian — agreed to cut his own euro1.8 million ($2.4 million) salary to help out the country's struggling football authority.Official data — also released Wednesday — showed Ireland's unemployment rate fell slightly to 13.5 percent over the last month — although new job losses are expected as the austerity measures bite. The Central Statistics Office said the number of people claiming unemployment benefits — which also includes payments to low income workers — was 425,002, also slightly down on October.However, the number of benefit claimants had risen 2.8 percent over the last 12 months.Opposition legislator Richard Bruton of the Fine Gael party said the fall in benefit claimants was simply evidence more people were leaving Ireland to find work Investors, however, showed some support for Cowen's plans as yields on Ireland's 10-year bonds eased to 8.959 percent Wednesday from 9.219 percent on Tuesday.

David Walker and financial boondoggles
By hollyonthehill

David Walker, former Comptroller General of the United states, was in town recently to talk at Senator Orrin Hatch’s Economic Summit.Walker served as Comptroller General and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, his tenure as the federal government’s chief auditor spanned both Democratic and Republican administrations. Normally a 15-year position, Walker stepped down after ten years when he was personally recruited by Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group, and former Secretary of Commerce to lead his new foundation. The foundation distributed the film I.O.U.S.A. that looks at the alarming financial situation we find ourselves in.Walker has compared the present-day United States with the Roman Empire in its decline, saying the U.S. government is on a burning platform of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, expensive overcommitments to government provided health care, swelling Medicare and Social Security costs, the enormous expense of a prospective universal health care system, immigration, and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon.In 2007, Walker called the Medicare Part D program probably the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation since the 1960s. I would argue that the most serious threat to the United States is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan, he continued but our own fiscal irresponsibility.

I’m going to show you some numbers…they’re all big and they’re all bad, he told CBS. You know the American people, I tell you, they are absolutely starved for two things: the truth, and leadership. What’s going on right now is we’re spending more money than we make…we’re charging it to a credit card…and expecting our grandchildren to pay for it. And that’s absolutely outrageous.He was clearly able to read the writing on the wall when he continued: The fact is, is that we don’t face an immediate crisis. And, so people say, What’s the problem? The answer is, we suffer from a fiscal cancer. It is growing within us. And if we do not treat it, it could have catastrophic consequences for our country.The cancer, Walker says, are massive entitlement programs we can no longer afford.It’s the number one fiscal challenge for the federal government, it’s the number one fiscal challenge for state governments and it’s the number one competitive challenge for American business.In an ironic twist, Senator Hatch voted for Medicare Part D.

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CHANUKAK STARTS AT 6PM IN ISRAEL TONIGHT.HAPPY CHANUKAH ISRAEL.

OU Effort to Make Chanukah Safer
by David Lev NOV 30,10

With Chanukah beginning Wednesday night, Jewish homes around the world will be graced with the soft glow of beautiful light – from wax candles and olive oil, the preferred media for fulfilling the commandment of lighting the Chanukah menorah over the eight nights of the holiday.And while those candles burn, many families will enjoy the yummy treats associated with Chanukah – latkes (potato pancakes), sufganiyot (jelly donuts), or other oil-fried treats that Jews around the world eat, in commemoration of the miracle of the single flask of olive oil that burned for eight days.But those beautiful lights and tasty treats contain a danger – the open flame that burns on the menorah lights, and the hot frying pans that the treats are cooked in. While most of us come away from Chanukah with happy memories of fun and inspiration, there always seem to be a few who come away with far different memories – dark memories of a home lost to a major fire, caused by a candle that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It's tragic any time of year, but especially on Chanukah – and the Orthodox Union, among many others, is dedicating itself to ensuring that this year remains fire-free for all Jews. For the OU, December isn't just the month Chanukah falls in – it's Fire Safety Month, a month to reacquaint ourselves with the basic rules of fire safety, especially those that apply in the home. The initiative is the latest aspect of the OU’s Safe Homes, Safe Shuls, Safe Schools program, and was instituted, according to Frank Buchweitz, OU National Director of Community Services and Special Projects, because we want to protect our families. Chanukah presents us with the opportunity to sensitize the community to dangers associated with use of fire in many of our observances.In an effort to promote fire safety, the OU has posted six fire prevention guides on its website. The guides include:Chanukah Burn and Scald Prevention tips, which not only include candles, but the making of latkes as well; it advises women to be particularly careful of their sleeves and hair when lighting and blessing candles;Torah Tots/Play it Safe for Chanukah, which has a variety of safety tips, including keeping a 10 lb. ABS fire extinguisher near the kitchen, away from the stove;

Fire Safety for Jewish Observances, which among other items advises that candles should be kept at least four feet away from curtains, draperies, blinds, kitchen cabinets and bedding;A link to the New York City Fire Department’s fire safety information website;Who by Fire: Helping Burn Victims and Their Families, with a special section for Chanukah; and Home Safety – Ten Hot Tips to Make Your Home a No Burn Zone, including developing an emergency evacuation plan.In addition, the OU has provided guidelines from Rabbi Hershel Schachter, OU Halachic Decisor, on Chanukah fire safety.

In accordance with Jewish law (halachah) Rabbi Schachter declared: “If one is not going to be home while the Chanukah candles are lit, it is better that they not be lit, but one can light later in the evening if they will be home. There should always be someone watching or near the candles.In terms of using an electric menorah, you shouldn’t say a bracha (blessing) on it, although you are able to say a bracha on electric (incandescent) lights for Shabbat and Yom Tov candles. When lighting in a hotel room, one should make sure he has half an hour to let the candles burn, and then blow them out when he has to leave.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

I WENT TO MY LOCAL BANK TO GET SOME CHANGE YESTERDAY BUT THEY SAID THEY HAD A TECHNOLOGY TROUBLE AND ARE NOT OPEN,THIS WAS 9AM.MEANWHILE THEY WERE ALL OUT IN THE OUTSIDE OF THE BANK-4 OF THEM,JUST WAITING IN THE ATM TELLER PART.AN HOUR LATER I PHONED THE BANK TO SEE IF IT WAS OPEN AND I SAID TO THEM,THE LADY ON THE PHONE-DID YOU GET THE GLITCH FIXED YET AND WAS THAT GLITCH A BANKING HOLIDAY.SHE REPLYED TO ME AND SAID NO THE BOILER DOWN STAIRS WAS LEAKING GAS AND IT STINKS IN THERE.I THEN SAID TO HER HOW COME USE ARE STILL IN THERE WORKING THEN.SHE REPLYED SOMEBODY HAS TO ANSWER THE PHONE AND I'M WAITING FOR AN IMPORTANT CALL FROM TORONTO SO I MUST GO.I FOUND THIS INTERESTING SO I WILL SEE IF THERES ANYTHING IN MY LOCAL PAPER ABOUT IT TODAY.UPDATE I JUST PHONED THE BANK AGAIN A FEW MINUTES AGO AND IT WAS A BOILER PROBLEM THE LADY ON THE PHONE TOLD ME AND THERE OPEN TODAY BUT WITHOUT HEAT.SO NO SUSPICIOUS BANKING HOLIDAY ON MY MIND NOW.

Watchdog Probes DHS Spying on Drudge - FOIA request investigates whether critics of TSA are being listed as domestic extremists Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com Wednesday, December 1, 2010

A Freedom of Information Act request filed by former Congressman Bob Barr seeks to discover whether the Department of Homeland Security has been keeping tabs on the Drudge Report and other prominent media outlets who have spearheaded a nationwide revolt against invasive TSA airport security measures.The FOIA request, filed by Barr’s Liberty Guard organization (PDF here), demands that the Transportation Security Administration, an agency of the DHS, turn over all information related to Matt Drudge,drudgereport.com, along with other media personalities and websites that have been at the center of the TSA controversy, including Alex Jones, John Tyner and prisonplanet.com.The request seeks to ascertain whether any of these names have been linked with the term domestic extremist, in reference to a reported TSA memo that was leaked last week which, according to Doug Hagmann, officially addresses those who are opposed to, or engaged in the disruption of the implementation of the enhanced airport screening procedures as domestic extremists.Numerous confirmed memos originating out of federal or state law enforcement agencies, such as the infamous MIAC report, have listed conservatives and libertarians as “domestic extremists and even potential domestic terrorists for opposing big government and supporting Constitutionally-minded campaigns and causes.Barr’s attempt to discover whether the federal government is treating critics of the TSA as domestic extremists is key in light of TSA chief John Pistole’s announcement yesterday that all travelers flying in US airspace would be checked against a government watch list before they are given permission to board an aircraft, a system some have likened to Communist-style internal checkpoints.

The notion that Matt Drudge, a constant thorn in the side of ‘Big Sis’ Janet Napolitano, along with other prominent media critics of the TSA, could be the target of DHS surveillance is hardly far fetched considering the fact that Homeland Security was caught recently spying on Tea Party groups as well as State Representative Daryl Metcalfe.The TSA is turning into an arm of the DHS’ political police force – how long before Matt Drudge, Bob Barr and Alex Jones are put on a list and prevented from flying? Will everyone who opposes being radiated in a naked body scanner or having their kids felt up by TSA goons be put on a list? Drudge has been at the forefront of a national rebellion against the TSA’s new enhanced pat down procedures which subject travelers, including children, the disabled and the elderly, to humiliating treatment which falls not far short of sexual molestation.

The Freedom of Information Act request also aims to uncover why the TSA made the decision to stand down on its normal security procedures the day before Thanksgiving in what was a blatant public relations ploy to deflate the impact of the national opt out day protest which had been scheduled for the same day.We’d like to think that the TSA has been listening to citizens concerned about being given a choice between naked imaging or pat down searches of people’s private parts, said former Congressman Bob Barr, Liberty Guard’s Chairman. If this is the indeed the case, we’d like to commend the TSA for applying a bit of common sense to the controversial situation. However, it’s far more likely the reason was political and we think the public should be made aware of the motivations of our country’s security chiefs.As we highlighted on Monday, according to numerous reports, major airports around the country roped off body scanners and refrained from conducting the more invasive pat downs on national opt out day. Our own reporters, who were flying from Denver International Airport, confirmed that the body scanners were out of use and pat downs were either light or non-existent.This was later spun by the TSA and the establishment media to claim that the body scanner opt out protest had been a total failure, when in fact that majority of the body scanners were not even in use and millions more had boycotted airports altogether and traveled via clogged highways.

Considering recent hardline statements made by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John Pistole, this apparent sudden reversal in the TSA’s direction warrants additional scrutiny, said Joe Seehussen, President of Liberty Guard.We’d like to know if we can expect a policy shift from the TSA or if they were merely attempting to shut down the public outcry regarding their search procedures.Statement from Alex Jones, one of the individuals named in the FOIA request.If the TSA really believes that the terror threat is so imminent that old ladies have to have hands put down their pants, then why did they turn off scanners on the busiest travel day of year? This is right out of the old Soviet Union and then some, the TSA is boldly going where no police state has ever gone before, sticking hands down people’s pants and radiating them, and when the public speaks up about it and the press reports on it they’re labeled extremists and spied on? The TSA needs to be investigated by Congress and grand juries for standing down and removing security on the busiest travel day of year, security that they say is so vital to prevent terror attacks.They didn’t announce they had changed security, then simply lied to everyone while mockingly taunting critics in claiming that the public loved the pat downs and scanners.This is a group of bureaucrats gone wild, Big Sis is developing the TSA as a Gestapo force to be used on the streets of America, trained to humiliate Americans on highways, at shopping malls, sporting events and any other public gathering. Regardless of your political persuasion, me must stand up to this tyranny in unison.Now the TSA is talking about putting its critics on lists? How about we put everyone who’s a real American on a list and then we can see who’s not on the list and find out who the real enemies are. Let Matt Drudge and Alex Jones go down in history as being at the top of the list when it comes to opposing sticking hands down children’s pants and groping them.

MATERIALISTIC DUMBDOWN WORLD RIOTS OVER CHEAP CHINESE GOODS
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Americans Trample One Another To Get Their Hands On Cheap Foreign-Made Plastic Crap The American Dream November 30, 2010

As this latest Black Friday clearly demonstrated, Americans are literally willing to trample one another to get the best deals on cheap foreign-made plastic crap. Meanwhile, as thousands of factories and millions of jobs continue to get shipped overseas, the United States is rapidly turning into a post-industrial wasteland. Once great manufacturing cities such as Camden, New Jersey have become crime-ridden, gang-infested hellholes. In some U.S. cities, the real unemployment rate is around 30 or 40 percent. The American people desperately need jobs, but the American people are also showing no signs that they plan to give up their addiction to cheap foreign goods. Our politicians keep insisting that the American people just need more education and more skills in order to compete, but they don’t ever seem to explain how more education and more skills are going to make new jobs pop into existence out of thin air. The truth is that the American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Nightmare and there is not much hope that any of this is going to turn around any time soon.The video posted below is a compilation of video footage from this past Black Friday. It is absolutely shocking to see what average Americans will do to each other just to save a little bit of money on cheap foreign-made goods….Very few of the Americans in the video posted above probably even realize that this behavior is destroying our economy a little bit more every day.

Proponents of outsourcing point to all the cheap goods filling our stores as a good thing, but they never tell us about all the good paying American jobs that have been lost.Sacrificing our industrial base for cheap foreign-made plastic crap is kind of like throwing your furniture into the fire to keep your house warm. We are literally participating in our own economic destruction.This is a long-term problem that we are facing. The United States has been running trade deficits for over three decades. Big corporations like Ford Motor Company are making record profits by shipping our jobs out of the country.But without good paying jobs, the U.S. middle class simply is not going to survive.If anyone can explain how the U.S. middle class is going to continue to exist without good jobs then please let the rest of us know.Just look at what is already happening in city after city across the United States.In a new article entitled City of Ruins, Chris Hedges does an amazing job of documenting the horrific decline of the city of Camden, New Jersey. Hedges estimates that the real rate of unemployment in Camden is somewhere around 30 to 40 percent, and he makes it sound like nobody in their right mind would want to live there now….Camden is where those discarded as human refuse are dumped, along with the physical refuse of postindustrial America. A sprawling sewage treatment plant on forty acres of riverfront land processes 58 million gallons of wastewater a day for Camden County. The stench of sewage lingers in the streets. There is a huge trash-burning plant that releases noxious clouds, a prison, a massive cement plant and mountains of scrap metal feeding into a giant shredder. The city is scarred with several thousand decaying abandoned row houses; the skeletal remains of windowless brick factories and gutted gas stations; overgrown vacant lots filled with garbage and old tires; neglected, weed-filled cemeteries; and boarded-up store fronts.Gangs have stepped into the gaping void left by industry. In Camden today, drugs and prostitution are two of the only viable businesses left – especially for those who cannot find employment anywhere else. The following is how Hedges describes the current state of affairs….

There are perhaps a hundred open-air drug markets, most run by gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos and MS-13. Knots of young men in black leather jackets and baggy sweatshirts sell weed and crack to clients, many of whom drive in from the suburbs. The drug trade is one of the city’s few thriving businesses. A weapon, police say, is never more than a few feet away, usually stashed behind a trash can, in the grass or on a porch.But before we all start judging Camden for being such a horrible place to live, it is important to realize that this is happening in communities from coast to coast. All over the United States industries are leaving and deep social decay is setting in.If your community is still in good shape right now, be thankful, because what is happening in Camden is going to be happening everywhere soon.So can anything be done to reverse all this? Well, yes, but right now most of our politicians are standing idly by and are refusing to even speak up about these issues.Some time ago, CNN ran a series entitled Exporting America that looked into the phenomenon of big corporations outsourcing jobs that used to go to Americans. The following are the U.S. companies that CNN confirmed were sending jobs overseas….3Com,3M/A-Aalfs Manufacturing,Aavid Thermal Technologies
ABC-NACO,Accenture,Access Electronics,Accuride Corporation,Accuride International
Adaptec,ADC,Adobe Systems,Advanced Energy Industries,Aetna,Affiliated Computer Services,AFS Technologies,A.G. Edwards,Agere Systems,Agilent Technologies
AIG,Alamo Rent A Car,Albany International Corp.,Albertson’s,Alcoa,Alcoa Fujikura
Allen Systems Group,Alliance Semiconductor,Allstate,Alpha Thought Global,Altria Group
Amazon.com,AMD,Americ Disc,American Dawn,American Express,American Greetings
American Household,American Management Systems,American Standard,American Uniform Company,AMETEK,AMI DODUCO,Amloid Corporation,Amphenol Corporation,Analog Devices
Anchor Glass Container,ANDA Networks,Anderson Electrical Products,Andrew Corporation
Anheuser-Busch,Angelica Corporation,Ansell Health Care,Ansell Protective Products
Anvil Knitwear,AOL,A.O. Smith,Apple,Applied Materials,Ark-Les Corporation,Arlee Home Fashions,Art Leather Manufacturing,Artex International,ArvinMeritor,Asco Power Technologies,Ashland,AstenJohnson,Asyst Technologies,Atchison Products, Inc.
A.T. Cross Company,AT&T,AT&T Wireless,A.T. Kearney,Augusta Sportswear,Authentic Fitness Corporation,Automatic Data Processing,Avanade,Avanex,Avaya,Avery Dennison
Azima Healthcare Services,Axiohm Transaction Solutions-B-Bank of America,Bank of New York,Bank One,Bard Access Systems,Barnes Group,Barth & Dreyfuss of California
Bassett Furniture,Bassler Electric Company,BBi Enterprises L.P.Beacon Blankets BearingPoint,Bear Stearns,BEA Systems,Bechtel,Becton Dickinson,BellSouth,Bentley Systems,Berdon LLP,Berne Apparel,Bernhardt Furniture,Best Buy,Bestt Liebco,Corporation,Beverly Enterprises,Birdair, Inc.,BISSELL,Black & Decker,Blauer Manufacturing,Blue Cast Denim,Bobs Candies,Borden Chemical,Bourns,Bose Corporation
Bowater,BMC Software,Boeing,Braden Manufacturing,Briggs Industries,Brady Corporation
Bristol-Myers Squibb,Bristol Tank & Welding Co.,Brocade,Brooks Automation,Brown Wooten Mills Inc.Buck Forkardt, Inc.Bumble Bee,Burle Industries,Burlington House Home Fashions,Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway-C-Cadence Design Systems
Camfil Farr,Candle Corporation,Cains Pickles,Capital One,Cardinal Brands,Carrier
Carter’s,Caterpillar.
FOR TTHE COMPLETE A-Z LIST GO TO
http://www.infowars.com/americans-trample-one-another-to-get-their-hands-on-cheap-foreign-made-plastic-crap/
That was a really long list, but hopefully it got the message across.The United States, once the greatest industrial power on earth, is rapidly becoming a post-industrial nation.As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last time that less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.Meanwhile, our trade deficit continues to soar. Every single month, tens of billions of dollars more goes out of the United States than comes into it. We are literally being drained of our national wealth.In the video posted below, Daniel R. Amerman, CFA, describes some of the horrific dangers that our absolutely massive trade imbalance is causing….But most Americans could care less about these issues. They just want someone to fix things so they are the way they used to be, and they want to be able to continue to get great deals on cheap plastic crap down at the local Wal-Mart.Unfortunately, the obscene lifestyles that we have all been living are not even close to sustainable. All of this consumerism is going to come crashing down one way or another. Most Americans seem to think that somehow this great bubble of debt can just keep expanding forever, but that is just not possible.America is in such deep economic trouble that it is hard to even put it into words. Most Americans will not even understand this until the whole thing comes rudely crashing to the ground.By then it will be far too late.

TSA Caves On Pat Downs But Mandates Government Permission For All Fliers
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com December 1, 2010

In response to the national outcry surrounding invasive pat down measures, the TSA has been forced to refine its airport security procedures, but has simultaneously entrenched its policy that requires government permission for all Americans who wish to fly, creating what critics have labeled a Communist-style system of internal checkpoints.After a public revolt against naked body scanners and TSA groping that was primarily spearheaded by the Drudge Report website, TSA chief John Pistole announced yesterday was looking at refining pat down procedures to make them less intrusive.Pistole said that the TSA will work quickly to determine whether there is a viable alternative but that he has no timetable, reports the Washington Post today.

However, until such a time that the policy is changed, cases of rampant TSA abuse continue to occur, including a recent example where a young mother who was subjected to enhanced groping was subsequently locked inside a screening box for almost an hour by agents after she refused to allow them to put her breast milk through an x-ray device, a legitimate request that is even written into the TSA’s own guidelines.
Despite appearing to back down on hugely unpopular pat down measures, Pistole confirmed that every single passenger who flies in American skies is now checked against a government watch list before they are allowed to board a plane, meaning that every US citizen now requires de facto government permission to travel.The TSA began matching passengers against a watch list maintained by the FBI last year. By June, all passengers on domestic flights were being prescreened, and with Tuesday’s announcement, all international passengers headed to or from the United States are as well, reports the Post.Under the Secure Flight program, the TSA demands that passengers submit personal information 72 hours before being cleared to fly. While on the surface, this is justified by invoking the threat of terror, as we have seen from the MIAC report and others, the federal government now considers politically active Americans as potential terrorists, meaning that innocent travelers could find themselves on a watch list and barred from flying.By combining the requirement for government photo IDs in order to fly with checking government watchlists including potentially every passenger, Secure Flight puts the federal government into the business of licensing travel, warns Michael Ostrolenk.

What the government can allow one day, it can forbid the next. All things considered, isn’t this a higher-tech and later-day version of South African domestic passports or eastern European checkpoints? In fact, because of the high technological capacity of the U.S. version, aren’t its implications for travel control of plane, train, bus and subway travel much more far reaching? It’s incredible that something like this is happening relatively unrecognized in America.
Indeed, the 9/11 Commission demanded that the dubious no fly list be extended to trains, boats and basically every form of travel, handing the feds the power to control the mobility of millions of Americans. Rahm Emanuel and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have also demanded that people on the no fly list be prevented from purchasing firearms.The no fly list is merely one component of a 500,000-750,000 strong government watch list that has ensnared people like the late former Senator Ted Kennedy, former presidential candidate John Anderson, and many others including a Vermont college student, a retired Presbyterian minister and an ACLU employee. People with similar names to aliases used by alleged terrorists are automatically put on no fly lists and federal watch lists.Unfortunately, government watchlists seem to have been more successful at causing problems for innocent people than they are at catching terrorists. Despite the fact that underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was on a watch list, the US State Department refused to revoke his visa and allowed him to board Delta Flight 253, with the aid of a well-dressed Indian man who convinced airline officials to let Abdulmutallab on the Christmas Day flight.

Mother Kept In Glass Cage For Almost An Hour By TSA For Resisting Over Breast Milk Steve Watson Infowars.com December 1, 2010

The latest case of TSA tyranny to hit the headlines comes in the form of a young mother who was subjected to enhanced groping and then shut inside a screening box for almost an hour by agents after she refused to allow them to put her breast milk through an x-ray device, a legitimate request that is even written into the TSA’s own guidelines.The ordeal, which took place at Phoenix airport earlier this year, was captured on security cameras, which Stacey Armato, who is also a lawyer, gained access to, but only after repeated requests and careful editing by the TSA had taken place.After being told that her breast milk might have to be put through an x-ray scanner, Ms Armato attempted to show the TSA agents a print out of their own guidelines allowing non x-ray screening for breast milk. This act of serious disobedience resulted in the agent pushing Ms Armato into a glass cage, telling her to be quiet if you know what’s good for you, while calling for back up.Standing 50 ft away are the same manager and supervisor I had dealt with the previous week. Ms Armato writes in her description of events, referring to a previous 30 minute delay at the security gate for the exact same reason.After being shut in the box for some 20 minutes, in full public view of other passengers, Ms Armato began to cry and remonstrate with TSA agents. She was then approached by a police officer who told her that she had been singled out by TSA agents who recognized her because she had filed a complaint against them regarding the handling of her breast milk the previous week.

Ms Armato writes:About 10 minutes into all this, a Phoenix PD comes to calm me down. I explain to him that there is no reason I should be treated this way and I have every right to be upset.He then says they (aka TSA) saw me coming, have it out for me (from my complaint against TSA the week before when they didn’t know the breast milk rules then either), and I should travel out of a different gate in future weeks.

He said TSA wants me to play along with their horse and pony show and if I don’t then TSA can have the Phoenix PD arrest me! Well, I wanted to get home to my baby and my flight was 30 minutes from departure so I played along. Three Phoenix PD watched in the background…I could tell they all knew this was a waste of their time but I was happy to have them standing by in case TSA continued to act out of line.
Eventually Ms Armato was released from the box, and subjected to a full groping from another TSA agent.A TSA manager then approached her and told her that the milk had to go through the x-ray scanner because the containers it was in were too full and it was not a clear liquid. These are both made up rules that are not mentioned anywhere in TSA guidelines, proving that even the TSA manager had no regard for the official laws in this instance.The guidelines allow Mothers flying with, and now without, their child be permitted to bring breast milk in quantities greater than three ounces as long as it is declared for inspection at the security checkpoint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XhnZlmLGK8&feature=player_embedded

According to TSA rules breast milk is to be treated as a medical liquid, which should not be subjected to x-ray radiation.Ms Armato writes:He read the first form which stated that medical liquids can have alternate screening (no x-ray). He was quick to say well this isn’t a medical liquid! So I had him read the second form which says breast milk is to be treated like a medical liquid. He then says,well, not today.I started balling all over again once he said that.Again this is clear evidence of a TSA supervisor acting like a supreme authority and simply making up the rules as he goes along.Ms Armato was then forced to pour out the milk into 8 different containers, only half filling each, as per the TSA’s new completely made up rule.Because of all this, she missed her flight home to feed her hungry baby in Los Angeles.The following video, which shows some of the lengthy screening process, was edited together by Ms Armato with the help of her family. The full unedited set of videos can be viewed at the foot of this article:According to Ms Armato, the TSA edited out almost 30 minutes of footage, including a section where a TSA manager demanded and took down her personal information, took pictures of her breast milk and shouted at her for not watching closely as the agents tested it for explosive residue.

Ms Armato has vowed to fight the TSA on the issue.Southwest put me on the next flight home and, as luck would have it, I was standing in line right behind my Constitutional Law professor from my law school days. At that point I knew I needed to stand up for my rights and help myself and other mothers against the uninformed, retaliatory, and harassing TSA employees that help keep us safe.she writes.Last week we detailed reports of a woman being forced to remove her sanitary towel following TSA screening. These are the type of dangerous terrorists America must now be protected from.Here is the full set of videos of the incident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdAtb95h1Cc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_66tgs45o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXtK8WOT910&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rxfe94sVrU&feature=related

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

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

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

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

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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED DEC 01,2010

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +192.09
10:30 AM +188.60
11:00 AM +199.89
11:30 AM +190.19
12:00 PM +244.42
12:30 PM +241.01
01:00 PM +244.53
01:30 PM +244.50
02:00 PM +246.65
02:30 PM +255.50
03:00 PM +265.20
03:30 PM +262.28
04:00 PM +249.76 11,255.78

S&P 500 1206.07 +25.52

NASDAQ 2549.43 +51.20

GOLD 1,388.50 +2.40

OIL 86.64 +2.53

TSE 300 13,148.30 +195.50

CDNX 2087.16 +14.72

S&P/TSX/60 752.93 +11.59

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +131 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +250 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,391.90.OIL opens at $85.77 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +265 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +265 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,423.20 (NOT AT CLOSE)

CRUDE OIL +1.1 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +600,000 BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES -200,000 BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION

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.

IDF Officer Warns: If Peace Talks Resume, So Will Terror
by Maayana Miskin NOV 30,10

We assume that if Israel resumes negotiations with the Palestinians, there will be more attempted shooting attacks. When [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu was in Washington there were two shootings. Fortunately all the terror cells were caught, Colonel Guy Hazot said Tuesday, following the capture of a terrorist cell.IDF commanders have previously warned that Hamas and other terrorist groups will double their efforts to attacks Israelis if the diplomatic process moves forward. While the Fatah-led PA agreed for a brief period of time to negotiate with Israel, many groups rejected negotiations, among them Hamas, Islamic Jihad, breakaway Fatah groups, and the PFLP.The cell that was nabbed most recently was part of the Abu-Moussa brigade, a group that split from Fatah and is now affiliated with Hamas. Its members were responsible for shooting and wounding a man and his pregnant wife as they drove to Be'er Sheva fr m their community southwest of Hevron.The cell had also planned to kidnap Israelis, Hazot revealed, adding that most terrorist cells hope to kidnap an Israeli. They understand very well that a kidnapping has an impact that goes well beyond the tactical significance.Israelis who break the law by entering villages in Area A, which are under full PA control, are particularly at risk, he said. The captured cell had planned to target Israelis who bring their cars to the town of Dahariya, near Hevron, for repairs.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

EU turns to small-scale peace building in Middle East-Nablus in the West Bank. The former chief of the local cell of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade now runs a toy shop in the town (Photo: michaelramallah)ANDREW RETTMAN 30.11.2010 @ 17:51 CET

EUOBSERVER / JERUSALEM - Israel does not see a meaningful role for the EU in the big diplomacy of the Middle East Peace Process, but EU support for Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad's state-building is contributing to one of the few good news stories in the region.Israel has long believed that the EU is not on a par with the US as a player in the Middle East talks because it does not have the military capacity or political will to give hard security guarantees to any future peace treaty.The EU's frequent statements that a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine should be based on 1967 borders also irritates Jerusalem by what it sees as pre-judging the outcome of talks along pro-Palestinian lines and creating a disincentive for the Palestinians to give ground in negotiations. The recent emergence of EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and her European External Action Service (EEAS) has created extra confusion within EU-Israel diplomacy by adding a new entity into the equation, which already saw Israel juggling individual relations with the 27 EU member states, plus the rotating EU presidency and the European Commission.There is a big difference between Ashton and each and every country in the EU. Ashton is an independent element. She is not an average of the 27 or even of the big five. She has a policy of her own, an Israeli official told EUobserver in Jerusalem last Thursday (25 November). When we talk about the EU's joint line, they [individual member states] tend to distance themselves from it, to say: No. This is not what we agreed to in the meeting.

The contact added that the EU's new institutional set-up damages the ability of large EU countries to come forward with unilateral initiatives because Brussels cries foul over attempts to usurp Ms Ashton's role. Europe is handicapped. It is self-handicapped. It cannot play the role of a mediator here,the Israeli official said. Leaving aside the big headlines of international diplomacy, the EEAS' Jerusalem-based mission to the Palestinian Authority (PA) is quietly helping Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to make an impact on good governance and rule of law in the occupied territories, however.The security situation between Israel and the West Bank is currently at its most quiet in the past three years.

Tourists are coming back to Palestinian-controlled sites such as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Border checkpoints are relaxed. New investments, such as shopping malls, are springing up on the Palestinian side. And despite deep-rooted antipathy, there is a new climate of trust - Mr Fayyad's security services are co-operating with Israeli intelligence in rooting out active militants. In one Israeli suburb built on occupied land, Efrat, neighbouring Arabs have begun dropping in to ask the local rabbi for advice on their private lives.It's no longer cool to be a terrorist in the West Bank,Avi Issacharoff, a reporter for the left-leaning Haaretz daily said.The former chief of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades [a Palestinian militant group] in Jenin, Zakaria Zbaidi, now manages a theatre. The chief of the brigades in Nablus, Mahdi Abu Razale, has opened a toy shop. He actually sells toys to kids.
Analysts pin the change to the fact that Mr Fayyad has given the Palestinians hope they might one day live in a normal country following decades of corruption and maladministration by the Fatah movement.By August next year they want to have all the institutions in place to function as a state, not in order to declare a state unilaterally, but in order to assume all the responsibilities of a state. This goes hand-in-hand with our position,Christian Berger, the EU's ambassador to the PA told this website.Mr Berger explained that Mr Fayyad's first big achievement was to set up a single treasury account and a transparent audit system to handle the government's budget.

Meanwhile, the EU in partnership with the US is helping to train professional judges and public prosecutors, renovate judicial buildings and jails and upgrade the civilian police force. The EU is also drafting a memorandum of understanding between the PA and NGOs to allow civil society visits to prisons.People had lost faith. Now you see investors coming back. You can run a business without being burgled or extorted and if you have a problem, you can turn to the police and the courts, Mr Berger said. Asked if he would feel comfortable with the level of due process if a personal friend of his ended up in a Palestinian jail, the EU diplomat said: Chances are pretty high that everything would be in order ... But we are not there yet. You don't want the security forces to be too zealous. The civilian oversight structures, the checks and balances are not yet strong enough.Turning to the more intractable problem of Gaza, where 1.4 million Palestinians live under an Israeli siege and under the Islamist strictures of the militant Hamas movement, some Israelis hope the green shoots in the West Bank might also see Gaza inhabitants call on Hamas to take a more moderate line.Roni Keidar, a co-founder of Other Voice, a small NGO in the Hamas-rocket-scarred town of Sderot which tries to build contacts with ordinary people in Gaza, said the few Gaza dwellers she has met also crave a more normal life.

Describing her first contact with a Gaza woman who got a rare Israeli pass to visit Tel Aviv, Ms Keidar said: I was surprised to see this glowing person freed from her cage - and we all know Gaza is a prison - so open, so tolerant and so positive about life. She took off her veil and she wanted to go to the mall ... If you can bring some hope and create an economy, maybe people wouldn't turn so readily to violence.

Rabbi Weiss: Sharon Lied; I'm Sorry I Was Part of the Expulsion
by Maayana Miskin NOV 30,10

Rabbi Yisrael Weiss, former IDF Chief Rabbi, who held the post during the Gush Katif expulsion, has expressed regret over his role in the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria. At the time, Rabbi Weiss came out against refusing orders, despite the call to soldiers to refuse orders from former Chief Rabbi of Israel, the now-late Rabbi Avraham Elkana Shapira, Rabbi Zalman Melamed of Beit El and others. Rabbi Weiss said that IDF soldiers who are told to expel Jews from their homes by force must do so.I think that many, many people, not just myself, are sorry for having supported the Disengagement, he said in an interview with the Hebrew-language daily Yediot Aharonot.However, Rabbi Weiss did not blame himself or others for having supported the expulsion.We have to measure things according to how they looked at that time,he argued. Other leading rabbis.He accused then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of having lied to get his support. I asked [Sharon], Why uproot those communities? and he told me, Rabbi Weiss, I understand defense, right? I promise the people of Israel 40 years of peace,he recalled.Today I know that he lied to me, he added.He accused former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz of dishonesty as well. Halutz dismissed rumors that he was planning to replace Rabbi Weiss, only to inform him two days later that he would in fact be replaced, the rabbi said.

As Chief Rabbi of the IDF, he sanctioned the digging up of graves of Gush Katif expulsion victims' relatives, including children and soldiers who died at the hands of terrorists. Transferring graves is a serious problem in Jewish law. Adding to the dilemma were the emotions surrounding families who were expelled, whose homes were destroyed, and who then had to face the relocation of their relatives' graves. Those digging up the graves were filmed joking with one another at the gravesites, causing an uproar in religious circles.Rabbi Weiss gave an interview to discuss his new book, B'dam Libi (lit. In the Blood of my Heart).(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

WikiLeaks: Arabs Admit Iranian Threat not Linked to PA Demands
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu NOV 30,10

The Arab world contradicted its public stand in private cables and ignored any connection between solving the Iranian threat and meeting PA demands for a state, WikiLeaks revealed.Most of the diplomatic cables that were revealed are full of gossip and previously known but unconfirmed observations, as well as incorrect predictions. However, one of the most astounding leaks was the Arab world’s overriding concern over the Iranian nuclear threat and not over the establishment of the Palestinian Authority.Israel has always rejected linking the two issues, but many America officials, especially senior army brass, have maintained that the unsolved issue of the PA is the kingpin of all other Middle East problems.

The WikiLeaks disclosures totally debunked this notion.Note that Arab leaders did not condition their opposition to Iran or call for a U.S. attack on settling the Arab-Israeli or Israel-Palestinian conflicts, said Barry Rubin, the Director of the Gloria Research in International Affairs.This is contrary to what Administration officials, academia, and parts of the mass media who argue these issues are basically linked have been claiming, and that is that the conflict must be solved before doing much else,he added.As I've told you, the Arab regimes worry first and foremost about Iran and have greatly downgraded their interest in the conflict or antagonism toward Israel.The near obsession with Iran among Arab leaders was documented in leaked cables that point to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as urging the United States to attack Tehran. Saudi Arabia has denied the documents’ accuracy.

Bahrain, an oil-rich Gulf state, told American officials they could use their country as a base for an attack on Iran if there were guarantees that its security would be protected in the event of a counterattack or sanctions by Iran.A year ago this month, Bahrain's King Hamad told U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, That [nuclear] program must be stopped. The danger of letting it go on is greater than the danger of stopping it.As previously reported, Saudi King Abdullah advised the United States to attack Iran. The Saudi ambassador commented to the United States,He told you to cut off the head of the snake.The major exception to fears of Iran is Syria, where Syrian President Bashar Assad has allied himself with the Islamic Republic as part of a northern axis that includes Lebanon and Turkey. He not only doubted that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, but he also said it would not attack Israel in order not to harm Arabs in the country.Although mainstream media have reported Assad’s statements without comment, his remarks cannot be taken at face value. Like the Palestinian Authority’s single minded- goal to become a state based on its demands incorporated in the Saudi Initiative of 2002, Syria has one principal objective – taking the strategic Golan Heights and its valuable water resources away from Israel.

According to the leaked documents, Assad also said that the Annapolis meeting on the Middle East two years ago, I know it [Annapolis] is just a photo op. But I am sending someone anyway. We do what we think is good for our interests.In another cable, Assad admitted that Hamas is an uninvited guest in Damascus, where the terrorist organization’s Khaled Mashaal has made his headquarters. He also verified what Israel has warned for more than a year – that Hizbullah is the most powerful political faction in Lebanon.One surprising statement in a leaked cable came from Qatar’s Amir Hamad bin Khalifa, who told U.S. Senator John Kerry last February, When you consider that many in the region perceive that Hizbullah drove Israel out of Lebanon and Hamas kicked them…out of the small piece of land called Gaza, it is actually surprising that the Israelis still want peace.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

CNN Sob Story Belittles Israeli Care of Gaza Girl
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu NOV 30,10

A CNN report on a three-year-old Gaza girl suffering from a disease caused by kidney failure has the makings of a great human interest story. However, the network turned it into an article that is uncomplimentary to Israel and ignores Palestinian Authority indifference.The girl from Gaza is Aya abu Mouwais. The CNN report effectively creates deserved sympathy for her, beginning with the description, “The second she opens her eyes she starts crying. The 3-year-old is in pain every waking moment and has been for two years.She is suffering from oxalosis, a condition which occurs when the kidneys fail. Doctors in Israel say if the Palestinian girl doesn't have a liver and kidney transplant she could die within months.Instead of praising Israel for accepting Arab patients from terrorist-run Gaza, CNN leads the reader to think that Israel is the villain.The article describes the family having to drive back and forth to a Haifa hospital every day, including a wait at the Gaza crossing. No mention is made that the passage point has been used by terrorists.Last year, a sick woman in Gaza used the crossing on her way to Soroka Medical center in Be’er Sheva, where she planned to blow herself up in a suicide attack. She was stopped by attentive guards.After CNN continues to describe the plight of the little girl, who undergoes dialysis treatments that have made her bones brittle to the point that she has a broken arm, the writer then points out the medical care is paid for by the Palestinian Authority but then adds the PA has no money for liver and kidney transplants in Belgium, at a cost of approximately $700,000.

Instead of noting the medical care the girl receives at Haifa, CNN implicitly blames Israel for not providing an organ transplant because only Israeli citizens are allowed organ transplants in Israel unless the patient sources organs themselves. The article fails to note that the policy is very common in many countries, who consider their own citizens a priority.CNN also does not refer to the general shortage of organs in Israel, a small country where many Jewish patients have died waiting for a donor.No questions are raised in the article why there is no organ transplants available in Gaza and why the Palestinian Authority has not asked for financial help from the United States European countries, which have channeled billions of dollars to the PA the past several years for new vehicles and for paying Arabs to takeover and build on Israeli government land in Judea and Samaria.The author also igored the fact that despite the takeover of Gaza by Hamas terrorists, Israel each month allows hundreds of sick Arabs to receive care in Israeli hospitals, often at government expense, while forwarding humanitarian aid, much of which is confiscated by Hamas or sold at a profit..(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Leading rabbi says Europe risks being overrun by Islam
ANDREW RETTMAN 30.11.2010 @ 09:42 CET

EUOBSERVER / JERUSALEM - One of the luminaries of the international Jewish community, Rabbi David Rosen, has warned that Europe risks being overrun by Islam unless it rediscovers its Christian roots.Speaking to journalists at a meeting in Jerusalem on Friday (26 November), Rabbi Rosen, the director of inter-religious affairs at the Washington-based American Jewish Congress, said that a predominantly secular and liberal Western European society is under threat by the rapid growth of Islamic communities that do not want to integrate with their neighbours.The Arab quarter in Brussels.I am against building walls. My humanity is my most important component. But Western society very clearly doesn't have a strong identity. I would like Christians in Europe to become more Christian ... those who do not have a strong identity are easily overrun by those who do,the rabbi warned. I think there is a pretty good chance that your grandchildren, if they are not Muslim, then they will be very strong Roman Catholics, he told one Italian reporter. I don't think a tepid identity can stand up to the challenge.Rabbi Rosen's views are shared by a number of Jewish commentators, who look at the demographic growth of Muslims in Europe with the same trepidation as the demographic growth of Arabs in Israel.

You have a problem that you don't see: You are in love with the idea of multi-culti, but you don't speak Arabic. In an era of liberalism, how do you protect your way of being? What is the contract [with Islam]? Moti Cristal, a professional Israeli negotiator in the private-sector conflict resolution firm Nest Consulting, said.
Nachman Shai, a member of parliament for the centrist Kadima party in Israel, noted that the alleged soft threat to Western European identity is matched by the hard security threat of radical Islamist groups.If you follow the current streams in the Arab world, and you all have Muslim communities in your own countries now and you read about these developments, and you can see them there too, then you see that the Muslims are moving to the extreme, not to the centre, not toward compromise. They keep their own traditions. They keep their own way of life and they are becoming more and more religious and more and more radical, he said.The politician explained that Israel is surrounded by an arc of militant Islam stretching from Iran, through Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.Israel believes that EU neighbour and enlargement candidate Turkey is also moving further to the right in a deep strategic shift that goes beyond its disappointment with the slow pace of the accession process and may be based on Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan's ambition to become the new leader of the Muslim world.Syria is another link in the axis of evil, our axis of evil, which starts in Iran, goes through Lebanon and then unfortunately, one day, Turkey too, Mr Shai added.The Israeli point of view is likely to resonate in some parts of Europe, which has seen an upsurge in anti-Islamic far-right parties in the past two years of economic crisis. It also dovetails with the recent upswing in Islamist terror plots in EU states such as Belgium and Germany.But the point of view is also rooted in the Jewish struggle to create a safe homeland for the Jewish people in a territory that sees competing claims from the native Arab population.

Mohammad Darawshe, the co-executive director of the Abraham Fund Initiatives, a New-York-based NGO working to promote co-existence between Israel's Jewish and Arabic citizens, noted in a potential lesson for Europe that Israeli authorities' unwillingness to share wealth and power with the 1.4 million Arabs who make up a fifth of the population is in itself a cause of tension. I live in a country where I am reminded every day that I do not belong ... We are seen as an extension of the Palestinian Arab enemy, a sort of fifth column in the state, he said.Referring to growth in racism in the Jewish Israeli establishment, Mr Darawshe cited a recent survey by Tel Aviv university which showed that 65 percent of Jewish high school children do not like the sound of Arabic music, do not want to live next to Arabs and do not have any objections to the state imposing further limitations on Arab Israeli rights. They're not stupid kids and they're not racist kids. But they are hearing these things from someone older then them,he said.

Russia suspected of moving tactical weapons near Lithuania
30.11.2010 @ 10:37 CET

Lithuanian FM Audronius Azubalis said he raised concerns about Russia moving tactical weapons towards its border, WSJ reports. Being a NATO member, of course, someone could say, Don't worry.But when you're living in the neighborhood, you should always be more cautious,Mr. Azubalis said.

Gaddafi wants more money to prevent Europe becoming black
ANDREW WILLIS 30.11.2010 @ 09:34 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - African and European leaders exchanged barbed criticisms during the first day of an EU-Africa summit in Tripoli, Libya, on Monday (29 November), with contentious trade deals and migration issues among the hot topics.
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, host of the two-day summit, slammed Europe's economic partnership with Africa as a failure, and demanded the 27-member union provide more money in the fight against illegal immigration.During an opening address to the leaders of 80 different nations, Mr Gaddafi demanded that Christian, white Europe lend more financial support for his efforts to combat irregular emigration to Europe. Otherwise it risked becoming black, he said.A European agreement last month to allocate €50 million for projects aimed at improving Libyan treatment of refugees, mostly coming from African conflict zones and aiming for Europe, was brandished by human rights groups at the time as worryingly vague.The Libyan leader also criticised the EU for linking aid to good governance and progress on human rights issues, leading European Council President Herman Van Rompuy to hit back in his following speech.In Europe's experience, the perspectives for economic growth are closely linked to elements of good governance, said Mr Van Rompuy. Africa is not an exception.The extent of Africa's frustration with the EU was highlighted in a leaked document prior to the summit however, in which African leaders say they are ready to abandon ten years of trade talks because European demands for market liberalisation are not being matched by return gestures.One of the many US diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks has meanwhile highlighted the seemingly bizarre whims of Libya's aging ruler who seized power in a coup in 1969.

Gaddafi ... reportedly cannot travel with his senior Ukrainian nurse, Galyna Kolotnytska. He also appears to have an intense dislike or fear of staying on upper floors, reportedly prefers not to fly over water, and seems to enjoy horse racing and flamenco dancing, the US's man in Tripoli, ambassador Gene Cretz, told Washington in 2009.Climate change proved another contentious issue at the summit, with the African Union refusing to sign a joint statement on climate change intended as a strong signal to the UN multi-lateral talks currently underway in Cancun, Mexico. African diplomats said it only expressed European views on the matter.

Sudan

A draft summit declaration seen by Reuters suggest EU and African nations will press Sudan to accept the results of next year's referendum on whether the south of the country should secede, part of a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of north-south civil war.But analysts say the January vote, where a majority are expected to support dividing the country, could result in fresh violence.Sudan's decision to pull out on the eve of the EU-Africa summit also served to create tension at the bi-regional meeting, the first between the two sides in roughly three years.The decision to boycott this week's event followed an EU threat to walk out if Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attended the meeting.Mr Bashir is under international indictment from the Hague-based International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes against humanity and genocide in Sudan's western province of Darfur.

Brussels says first ever citizens' petition does not count
ANDREW WILLIS 30.11.2010 @ 17:38 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The entry into force of the EU's new citizens' initiative (ECI) - a petition procedure under the Lisbon Treaty allowing European citizens to demand action in a particular area - is likely to be welcomed by a legal battle between Greenpeace and the EU institutions. The environmental NGO has successfully collected the required 1 million signatories in a petition calling on the EU to ban GMOs, but officials from both the European Commission and the European Parliament say the move is premature.We've always said that we take their opinion very seriously but it's not an ECI as the legislation is not yet in place, Michael Mann, the commission's administration spokesman, told this website on Tuesday (30 November).Strictly speaking, they would have to do it all over again, he added.The Greenpeace view that the petition counts as the Lisbon Treaty is in place doesn't stand up to legal scrutiny.A European Parliament official concurred. We may end up going to court on this,the contact said.Greenpeace argues the Lisbon Treaty's coming into force on 1 December 2009 makes their petition over the controversial GMO issue legitimate. We disagree with the commission and we have a legal opinion to back this up,said the group's communications officer, Jack Hunter. It would be political madness to ignore the petition, especially after such a low turnout in the last European elections,he added.The dispute comes as MEPs in the European Parliament's constitutional affairs committee made a fresh push on Tuesday to alter the draft legislation setting up the citizens' initiative, unanimously approving a report on the subject.Changes include an earlier check on the admissibility of an ECI, rather than after 300,000 votes have been collected as originally proposed by the commission in spring. If MEPs get their way, a check will be carried out as soon as a particular initiative is registered with the commission.Member states themselves have called for the threshold to be lowered to 100,000 signatures.

Once an initiative is registered, MEPs say signatories on a petition should come from at least one fifth of EU member states, a lower threshold than the one third proposed by the commission and backed by member states.A meeting between the three institutions on Tuesday evening is likely to settle on a one fourth compromise, say EU sources.MEPs also sought to simplify the signing of petition initiatives by deleting a requirement to give an ID card number, arguing that a name, address, nationality and the date and place of birth should be enough. A number of member states have called for ID numbers to be included.The organisers of any initiative that manages to collect the required 1 million votes within the 12-month time period should then be invited to a public hearing by the commission and the parliament, said the MEPs.We decided that it's not enough for the commission to just send a letter saying Yes or No, said Green MEP Gerald Hafner, one of the report's authors.

Asked whether the initiative could be hijacked by extremist groups, centre-right MEP Alain Lamassoure said: The time is always right to introduce more democracy into the system.The process will be positive, even is used by political parties, lobbyists, euro-sceptics, he argued, so long as it is transparent.If the two sides manage to reach an agreement, ambassadors from member states will give their approval to the citizens' initiative on 9 December, allowing the fully plenary of MEPs to vote on 16 December. A few months will then be required for the procedure to be fully put in place.

Four European states host US nuclear bombs, WikiLeaks reveals-Soviet nuclear warheads under inspection. The US bombs in Europe are thought to date back to Cold War times (Photo: jenspie3)LEIGH PHILLIPS 29.11.2010 @ 19:33 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Turkey have US nuclear weapons situated on their soil, the WikiLeaks whistleblower files have revealed.The four countries, along with Italy, had long been suspected of being home to a collection of American nuclear armaments, but neither the states nor Nato had ever officially confirmed or denied their presence.For the first time, the confidential files released on Sunday evening (28 November) have acknowledged what was until now only conjecture, upending decades of careful diplomatic ambiguity. In a confidential memo from US ambassador to Germany Philip Murphy, he casually mentions the possible withdrawal of the weapons from Germany and perhaps from the Netherlands and Belgium as well.The memo also confirms the presence of US nuclear weapons in Turkey.Italy is also believed to be a silent custodian of American weapons of mass destruction.

Asked by EUobserver whether the country will now reassess its ambivalent public position on the matter in the wake of the leaks, the Dutch foreign ministry continued to stick by its long-standing stance, saying that there would likely be no comment forthcoming on the issue of US nuclear weapons.According to estimates found in a 2007 report using a variety of different sources to catalogue deployment of US nuclear weapons in Europe from the Natural Resources Defence Council, an American environmental protection NGO, the continent is home to 480 such weapons.The report estimated that the Kleine Brogel weapons base in northeastern Belgium near the city of Meeuwen housed 20 nuclear weapons.The same document reckoned that another 20 are housed at Volkel Air Base near the town of Uden in southeast of the Netherlands. Nuclear weapons are thought to have been stored there since the 1960s and the Cuban Missile Crisis.Some 20 nuclear weapons are believed to be stored in an underground vault at the German Luftwaffe's Buchel Air Base near the Luxembourg border. Last October, the country's foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, came close to admitting their existence when he called for a country free of nuclear weapons.However, he would not say where the weapons were located, or if they did indeed exist.Italy is also thought to host a total of 90 such arms, with 50 at Aviane Air Base near Udine in the north of the country, and 40 at Ghedi Torre Air Base near Brescia on the Adriatic coast.Incirlik Air Base, east of Adana in Turkey on the northern Mediterranean coast, is believed to store 90 such weapons.Beyond the undeclared European nuclear states, the UK, an admitted member of the nuclear club, is home to 110 US nuclear weapons, at RAF Lakenheath, about 30 kilometres northeast of the university town of Cambridge.Dutch foreign minister Uri Rosenthal described the leaks in general as not conducive to communication, but also warned: We mustn't get spastic over them.

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.

Flooding leaves deadly trail of destruction in Venezuela
NOV 30,10

CARACAS (AFP) – Days of driving rain have sparked massive flooding in Venezuela that has killed at least 21 people and left thousands homeless, Vice President Elias Jaua said Tuesday.We are talking about 21 people who have died between Thursday and today Tuesday, Jaua said on VTV state television.The dead included two rescue workers who headed out to help stranded locals and ended up swept away by a river themselves, the governor of the state of Vargas, Jorge Luis Garcia Carneiro, said.Many of the dead were swept away by rushing water or were killed when their homes collapsed on top of them, authorities said.President Hugo Chavez's government issued emergency decrees for three states in the north: Vargas, Miranda and the Capital District including most of Caracas.Also hard hit were other northern states such as Nueva Esparta, Carabobo and Aragua.The rains and flooding closed some airports and oil refineries, blocked roads and destroyed thousands of homes.Rain was forecast to continue over the next 24 hours, forecasters said.

15 people hurt as storms tear through Miss., La. By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press – Tue Nov 30, 4:53 pm ET

YAZOO CITY, Miss. – Clarence Taylor slipped on a pair of gloves Tuesday and went to work cleaning up damage from the possible tornado that tore through his hometown. He knows the drill — another twister devastated the area in April, leaving a path of destruction nearly a mile wide and killing a dozen people.No one died in the latest storms, though 15 people were hurt in Mississippi and buildings were badly damaged there and in Louisiana late Monday. Schools were closed in Alabama and tornado watches were posted in Tennessee and parts of North and South Carolina on Tuesday as the storms moved east.In Yazoo City, the 63-year-old Taylor said Battle Street, where he has lived most of his life, looked like a war zone.He paused to take a slow drag off a cigarette and pointed to power lines hanging from broken poles and twisted pieces of tin scattered about from a nearby business. The winds blew off a tarp he had put on his roof to cover damage from the April storm.This is the second time it dropped down on this street in just six months, Taylor said. I've been through it, man.Taylor said the tornado sounded like a bomb and he bolted down the street to check on his 93-year-old mother a few doors away. The wind blew him down, but he made it to her house and found her unhurt.I'm blessed, man. I'm blessed, Taylor said.Yazoo City, an hour drive north of Jackson, has seen its share of disasters. Much of the town burned in 1904. Main Street was rebuilt with two- and three-story brick buildings and got a facelift during the filming of the 2000 movie Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? One of the buildings featured in the movie, Grace Hardware, was heavily damaged by the storms and thick sheet metal that tore from its facade battered nearby businesses.

Water was still dripping from the ceiling Tuesday as friends of owner Susan Cartwright Guion helped load merchandise onto a truck. Though it's called a hardware store, the owners make custom furniture and sell antiques and art.It's been here a long, long time, but now it has no roof and we have no insurance,Guion said.A few blocks away, a large tree on the courthouse lawn was uprooted, falling between the two story white building and a war memorial for local veterans. An American flag and the pole from which it hung were twisted among the broken branches.A few shingles blew off the courthouse and some windows were blown out, but the building was otherwise unscathed.Gov. Haley Barbour, who is from Yazoo City, and Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant both assessed damage in the town, which sits where the foothills of Mississippi meet the vast, flat farmlands of the Mississippi Delta.I think what you've got here is storm fatigue, Bryant said. It's very frightening to people.Barbour declared a state of emergency for Attala, Leake, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Smith, Warren and Yazoo counties and other parts of the state damaged in the storms. The declaration frees up state resources to help in the recovery.At least 24 businesses were damaged in Yazoo City, Bryant said, though authorities were still working to quantify the damage.

Lord, we can't get over one tornado before we have another one, said John Anderson, who sat at the counter of his jewelry store as neighboring business owners picked up debris and tried to salvage merchandise. Anderson said he's been lucky — his business escaped major damage in both storms — but the twisters still take an emotional toll. It makes it kind of scary,Anderson said. It makes you wonder if you should move from here and start over somewhere else.In central Louisiana, a tornado destroyed a brick house and damaged three other homes near the town of Atlanta as a front with thunderstorms moved across the region from Monday into Tuesday. No one was hurt, the Winn Parish sheriff's office said.Associated Press Writer Jack Elliott in Jackson contributed to this report.

Heavy snowfall closes roads in Spain, Portugal
– Tue Nov 30, 11:44 am ET

MADRID – Heavy snow has hit northern Spain and Portugal while rains and winds have battered normally sunny resort areas.Spain's meteorological agency said 35 of Spain's 51 provinces were on snow alert Tuesday. Badly hit was the northwestern region of Galicia, where several roads were cut off and schools forced to cancel classes.Heavy snow also fell in neighboring regions of northeastern Portugal, closing roads and schools.Torrential rains and gales have lashed much of Spain over the past two days, affecting normally sunny tourist destinations such as Tenerife in the Canary Islands and Malaga in southern Spain.Spanish airport authority AENA said poor weather in northern Europe led to flight delays to and from Madrid.In Scotland, snow and accumulating ice forced Edinburgh Airport to close briefly Monday night. Delays and closings also were reported at Luton Airport, north of London, and London City Airport in east London.Driving was equally treacherous: heavy snow in North Yorkshire, North England, has resulted in at least one highway death.Schools Tuesday morning were struggling to reopen after hundreds of campuses in North England and Scotland closed Monday morning.

Eurozone debt crisis deepens
NOV 30,10

PARIS (AFP) – The financial cloud hanging over the eurozone darkened Tuesday, with the euro falling and Italy hit by rising borrowing rates as EU measures to control sovereign debt left investors uncertain and anxious.The euro fell under 1.30 dollars for the first time since mid-September, dropping at one point to 1.2969 dollars from 1.3121 dollars late Monday. The single currency later edged back up to 1.2982 dollars.Upward pressure intensified on 10-year borrowing rates for countries seen at risk of needing a rescue after Greece and Ireland, with attention focused on Spain, a potentially much bigger problem for the EU.The yield -- the rate of return -- on 10-year Spanish bonds rose above 5.50 percent from 5.46 percent late on Monday and for fellow struggler Portugal to 7.072 percent from 7.0 percent.The gap between Spanish and benchmark German borrowing rates at one stage widened to 3.0 percentage points, an all-time high.The differential is a short-term fluctuation, Spain's Deputy Finance Minister Jose Manuel Campa insisted Tuesday.We cannot react to fluctuations of one or two days on the market, especially at times when, given the market tensions, there is a perception that liquidity is smaller than in normal market conditions,he said.These are short-term fluctuations. We are currently in a period of turbulence. What is important is to execute planned policies and the markets will respond, he added.

Spain's Socialist government has introduced politically sensitive measures aimed at reviving the economy and slashing its public deficit, including an overhaul of the country's rigid labour market rules.Italy too was under pressure on Tuesday, with the spread between its 10-year rates and those of Germany coming to 2.0 percentage points, likewise for the first time.Italian bond yields rose to 4.687 percent from 4.638 percent on Monday.Objectively, on the basis of Italian fundamentals, the reaction seems excessive, said Marco Valli, an economist with UniCredit bank.But the market is panicking, which could mean that the eurozone crisis of confidence has entered a more dangerous phase, requiring possible intervention by the European Central Bank.ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet meanwhile sought to soothe fears raised by the Irish debt crisis in remarks to the European Union's parliamentary committee on economic and monetary affairs.He said both Greece and Ireland were solvent, insisting that the eurozone economy was functioning and had grown by more than expected this year.Trichet said that observers are tending to underestimate the determination of the (eurozone) governments and the EU as a whole.Markets have given a big thumbs down to the steps announced by the European authorities at the weekend, said Lee Hardman, an analyst at The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in London.

In addition to approving an 85-billion-euro (111-billion-dollar) rescue for Ireland, European Union ministers outlined measures under which sovereign debt could eventually be re-structured -- but bondholders may have to bear some of the costs of future bailouts. A taboo was lifted when the Europeans (ministers) on Sunday said that sovereign debts could be restructured after 2013, which signals that bondholders could no longer be protected,said bond strategist Nordine Naam at Natixis bank.Hardman said the poor bond market reaction is an indication that the market is worryingly losing confidence in the European authorities' ability to deal effectively with the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.At Pimco, a big fund heavily invested in government bonds, chief executive Mohamed El-Erian, said: My concern is that indecisive management of problems in Greece and Ireland might lead investors to sell sovereign bonds issued by peripheral (eurozone) states as a preventive measure.
The longer the uncertainty over how investors will participate in losses lasts, the greater the probability that they withdraw from the market for government bonds, El-Erian said.Trichet agreed that markets needed greater clarity from EU political leaders, in particular regarding the possibility that investors would suffer losses in the event that a eurozone country defaulted on its debt.Trichet said rules agreed to last weekend by eurozone finance ministers would be fully consistent with IMF policy and would not automatically demand that private investors bear losses. These rules are no less and no more than those which already exist at a global level, he noted.At CitiFX, a branch of Citigroup, analyst Valentin Marinov said the fall of the euro signals that investors remain more focused on potential contagion to other eurozone countries than they do the situation in Ireland.A failure from the euro to rally on this development (the Irish rescue) suggests investors do not believe the package goes far to averting strains in countries such as Portugal and Spain.Ratings agency Standard & Poor's Tuesday placed Portugal on a credit watch because of increased risks to the government's creditworthiness, due to the Portuguese government not doing enough to enact growth-enhancing reforms and from proposed changes to European Union rules that could mean private bondholders are last in line to be paid back.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

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

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

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

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

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

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

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

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

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

North Korea boasts advances in nuclear program
By Jeremy Laurence - NOV 30,10

SEOUL (Reuters) – Secretive North Korea boasted advances in its nuclear program on Tuesday, making sure it held the world's attention, saying it had thousands of working centrifuges, as pressure built on China to rein in its ally.Nuclear-armed Pyongyang's revelations about its uranium enrichment, which gives it a second route to make a nuclear bomb, came a week after it fired an artillery barrage at a South Korean island, killing four people, including two civilians.Experts have voiced surprise at the sophistication of a uranium enrichment plant and light-water reactor at the North's main nuclear complex, which were shown to a U.S. scientist earlier this month. There has been no way to verify the North's claims.The North is also seen as a proliferation risk, accused by the West of supplying Syria, and possibly Iran, with nuclear know-how.Currently, construction of a light-water reactor is in progress actively and a modern uranium enrichment plant equipped with several thousands of centrifuges, to secure the supply of fuels, is operating, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported.Nuclear energy development projects will become more active for peaceful purpose in the future, added the paper, according the state news agency KCNA.New revelations by whistle-blower Wikileaks, meanwhile, suggested that some Chinese officials did not view North Korea as a useful ally and would take no action if it collapsed.The United States kept up pressure on China to use its influence with North Korea.The Chinese have a duty and an obligation to greatly impress upon the North Koreans that their belligerent behavior has to come to an end,White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. I think you'll see progress on multilateral discussions around this over the next few days.By staging provocations and flexing its nuclear muscle, the isolated North is seeking to increase its leverage as it pushes for a resumption of talks with regional powers, which it walked out of two years ago, in return for aid, analysts say.

Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at Seoul's Kookmin University, said Pyongyang was simply following a typical pattern.For the last two years, both Washington and Seoul have tried to ignore them, so now they use both artillery and centrifuges to say: We are here, we are dangerous, and we cannot be ignored. We can make a lot of trouble, but also we behave reasonably if rewarded generously enough,Lankov wrote on the East Asia Forum website.North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests to date and is believed to have enough fissile material from its plutonium-based program to make between six and 12 bombs.It is impossible to verify the North's uranium enrichment program, which it first announced last year. International inspectors were expelled from the country last year, but Washington has said since 2002 that it suspected Pyongyang had such a program.Analysts say its actions are also linked to family politics, as ailing leader Kim Jong-il seeks to burnish a military image for his inexperienced son and chosen successor Kim Jong-un.

THREE-WAY MEETING

South Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday the North's nuclear program, last week's attack on Yeonpyeong island and a Chinese proposal for emergency talks would be raised at meeting of foreign ministers in Washington in early December.South Korea, Japan and the United States, three of the six countries involved in the on-off disarmament talks, will attend.Talks host China has proposed a summit meeting of the six parties that have been trying to rein in North Korea's nuclear program. Russia and North Korea are also part of that group.Returning to consultation and talks is in the interests of all sides, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regular news briefing.Ensuring the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula is the shared responsibility of all sides. We call on all sides to do more to stabilize the situation.Japan's Kyodo news agency quoted diplomatic sources in Beijing as saying Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, who advises leaders on foreign policy, would visit North Korea as early as Wednesday, likely to urge North Korea to take part in the talks.South Korea has already said now was not the time for talks. Kyodo quoted Akitaka Saiki, Japan's chief envoy to the six-party talks, as also saying it was too soon for talks.The new Wikileaks revelations, purporting to be from U.S. State Department cables and published by several Western papers, raised questions about the future of the relationship between China and North Korea described in the past as being as close as lips and teeth.In one cable by the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, a top South Korean official is described as saying in February that some Chinese officials would not intervene if North Korea collapsed. U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Stephens wrote that Chun Yung-woo, then the vice foreign minister for South Korea, said the younger generation of communist leaders in China would not risk new armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula, the Guardian reported.

Some analysts were skeptical.

My personal advice is that the report has been misplaced, said Wang Dong, a professor at Peking University. North Korea is a strategic question for China, not a financial or economic one. He said they have made a mistake about China's viewpoint.
The United States wants Beijing to use its leverage to restrain its ally North Korea, whose shelling of Yeonpyeong last week was the first attack on civilians on South Korean soil since the end of the Korean war in 1953.The U.S. and South Korean militaries started a third day of large-scale joint exercises off the peninsula's west coast on Tuesday in a show of force they say is meant to deter Pyongyang from staging further provocations.(Additional reporting by Yoo Choonsik in Seoul; Chris Buckley in Beijing; Patrick Worsnip in New York; and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Editing by Nick Macfie and Jonathan Thatcher)

Russia's Medvedev warns of new arms race
By Steve Gutterman – Tue Nov 30, 9:21 am ET

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Tuesday that a new arms race would erupt within the next decade unless Russia and the West forged an agreement to cooperate on building a missile defense system.In his annual state of the nation address, Medvedev called for closer cooperation with the United States and the European Union, holding out the prospect of closer ties two decades after the Soviet Union's collapse ended the Cold War.He said tension would ratchet up fast, forcing Russia to bolster its military arsenal, if Western offers of cooperation on a system to defend against missile threats failed to produce a concrete agreement.The warning appeared to reflect wariness in the Kremlin over uncertainty about Senate ratification of New START, the nuclear arms limitation pact Medvedev signed with President Barack Obama in April, centerpiece of the push for better ties.In the coming decade we face the following alternatives: Either we reach agreement on missile defense and create a full-fledged joint mechanism of cooperation, or ... a new round of the arms race will begin, Medvedev said.And we will have to take a decision about the deployment of new offensive weapons. It is clear that this scenario would be very grave.The remarks, in a 72-minute speech to members of parliament and ministers, raised the stakes in sensitive discussions with the United States and NATO on missile defense. The issue has divided Moscow and the West since the 1980s.Medvedev agreed to NATO's offer of missile defense cooperation at a summit with the alliance that was hailed as a fresh start, but the plans are sketchy and Russia has warned it wants an equal voice in evaluating threats and responses.

Medvedev has pursued warmer ties with the West and particularly Washington since he was steered into the presidency by his predecessor, Vladimir Putin.He has embraced Obama's efforts to reset a relationship that hit post-Cold War lows during Russia's war with Georgia in August 2008, months after he took office.

RESET UNDER THREAT?

After the address, Kremlin aide Arkady Dvorkovich told journalists the collapse of the New START pact would mean nothing good and we are counting on ratification going through.Obama wants the treaty ratified before his Democratic Party's majority decreases when the new Senate elected this month convenes early next year.Medvedev's comments also seemed aimed to assuage hard-liners and assure Russians steeped in decades of anti-Western rhetoric that Moscow will not open itself up to a threat.
When Medvedev said Russia might have to deploy more weapons, applause broke out after a brief pause before he went on to say that would be very grave.Russia has emphasized it could withdraw from New START if a U.S. missile defense system becomes a threat to its security.Russia wants a legally binding agreement on missile defense because it sees potential threats, said military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer. But he said Russia does not have the capabilities to hold its own in an arms race in the foreseeable future.Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, said Medvedev's message was that if Russia is shut out of meaningful missile defense cooperation, it will try to take measures to counter that by modernizing its nuclear arsenal.The Kremlin's pursuit of better ties with the West has been accompanied by calls for a stronger say across a broad swath of the globe including Europe, America and the ex-Soviet Union.I see significant potential in broadening cooperation with the European Union and the United States,Medvedev said, though he underscored that Moscow wants concrete benefits such as help on Moscow's bid to join the WTO.
(Additional reporting by Alissa de Carbonnel, Tom Grove, Amie Ferris-Rotman and Denis Dyomkin; Editing by Jon Boyle)

Diplomatic memo leaks complicate picture in NKorea
By JEAN H. LEE and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press - NOV 30,10

SEOUL, South Korea – A top South Korean official dismisses China's nuclear negotiator as incompetent.A Chinese envoy mocks North Korea as a spoiled child.After a major escalation of sporadic skirmishes between the rival Koreas, an international effort is trying to rein in rising tensions. But U.S. diplomatic memos leaked this week call into question whether regional powers — most notably China — have any insight into or influence over enigmatic and defiant North Korea.South Korea's military drill last week from an island along a disputed maritime border sparked a North Korean artillery attack that killed four South Koreans and wounded 18 others. U.S.-South Korean war games — including the presence of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the waters to the south — are threatening to draw a new round of North Korean fire.China is pressing for an emergency meeting in the coming days to discuss the attack and ways to defuse tensions, saying the session should be convened by the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the United States — the members of the stalled North Korean nuclear disarmament talks.China consistently supports dialogue between the North and South sides of the Korean peninsula to improve their relations, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Tuesday.The talks would be just what North Korea wants. After walking away from the talks in April 2009, Pyongyang has made clear in recent months that it is ready to restart the negotiations to gain much-needed fuel oil and aid in exchange for nuclear disarmament.Seoul has reacted coolly. South Korean officials said they must consider it carefully, citing Pyongyang's recent revelation of a new uranium enrichment facility that would give North Korea a second way to make nuclear bombs.

Tokyo and Washington have backed Seoul, and the three powers arranged to meet in Washington — rather than Beijing — next week to discuss North Korea in a move that clearly underlined the fault line in the six-party negotiations.U.S. officials said Washington was ruling out the six-party talks for the time being. The United States wants China to urge North Korea to stop the destabilization, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. But I think there has to be a seriousness on the part of the North Koreans to get back to these talks.Japan, too, rejected an immediate round of aid-for-disarmament talks, but sent its envoy to the North Korean nuclear discussions, Akitaka Saiki, to China to meet with counterpart Wu Dawei. Saiki told Wu it wasn't the right time to restart the talks, according to the Kyodo News Agency.

China, belatedly waking up to its role as North Korea's mentor, invited high-ranking North Korean official Choe Thae Bok, an aide to leader Kim Jong Il, to Beijing for talks. State Councilor Dai Bingguo, meanwhile, was sent to Pyongyang to urge North Korea to join the emergency meeting, Kyodo reported from the Chinese capital.All parties will have competing ideas on how to resolve the tension, said Kim Keun-sik, a North Korea analyst at South Korea's Kyungnam University.North Korea and China will want to resolve the matter through dialogue, while South Korea and the U.S. will say, Why negotiate at this time? and think about pressure and punitive measures, he said.Consensus may be hard to reach, if secret U.S. diplomatic cables posted online by the website WikiLeaks are any indication.China is Pyongyang's closest ally: Beijing fought on the northern side of the Korean War, its aid props up the current regime and its actions have often insulated North Korea from foreign pressure. It has repeatedly opposed harsh economic sanctions and responded to North Korean provocations by repeating calls for a return to denuclearization talks.

However, Chinese officials are quoted as using mocking language in reference to North Korea, with then-Deputy Foreign Minister He Yafei telling a U.S. official in April 2009 that Pyongyang was acting like a spoiled child by staging a missile test to try to achieve its demand of bilateral talks with Washington.China would appear to have little ability to stop a collapse and less influence over the authorities in Pyongyang than is widely believed, South Korea's then-Vice Foreign Minister, Chun Yung-woo, is quoted as telling U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Stephens in February.China lacks the will to push North Korea to change its behavior, according to Chun, who said the choice to keep Wu — considered the most incompetent official in China — as nuclear envoy was a very bad thing and indicative of Beijing's disregard for the process.Still, Chun predicted Beijing wouldn't oppose the U.S. and South Korea in case the North Korean regime collapsed.China would be comfortable with a reunified Korea controlled by Seoul and anchored to the U.S. in a benign alliance as long as Korea was not hostile towards China, Chun said.One diplomatic cable lauded South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's courting of the Chinese as noteworthy successes, added that he met with President Hu Jintao an unprecedented three times in his first year in office.However, another memo painted a different picture of their relationship, saying Hu pointedly ignored one request on North Korean refugees and pretended not to hear a question about a contingency plan for the collapse of North Korea.Another cable hinted at a South Korean strategy to remain at odds with the North to encourage such a collapse — even at the risk of heightened tensions. It is our assessment that Lee's more conservative advisers and supporters see the current standoff as a genuine opportunity to push and further weaken the North, even if this might involve considerable brinkmanship.It helps Lee that the South Korean public is calm to the point of apathy about inter-Korean relations, the cable said. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says WikiLeaks acted illegally in posting the leaked documents online. Officials worldwide say the disclosures jeopardize national security, diplomats, intelligence assets and relationships between foreign governments.Bodeen reported from Beijing. Associated Press writer Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul also contributed to this report.