PROOF THE BIBLE WILL COME TO PASS LITERALLY IN OUR DAY NOT SPIRITUALLY LIKE GODLESS AND SKEPTICS TRY TO DELUDE THEMSELVES INTO BELIEVING.
PROPHECIES LITERALLY FULFILLED-DEC 2 AND 6,2010 PRTS 1 & 2
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North Carolina Economy Moves From Textiles to Tech
By Jonathan Serrie Published December 22, 2010| FoxNews.com
Facebook Post: North Carolina's economy is moving away from the textile business and into high-tech future.The foothills of North Carolina are famous for furniture and textiles. But as jobs in those industries moved overseas, local leaders worried about too many closed factories and skyrocketing unemployment.We have been as high this year as 17.9 percent, said Tom Johnson of the Economic Development Commission of North Carolina’s Rutherford County. A lot of that, of course, is attributable to textile operations closing.So, Rutherford County, and other small communities in the foothills of North Carolina, banked on a high-tech future. They started luring companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook to build massive computer data centers. Such facilities require plenty of electricity and extensive cooling systems.With the region’s history of manufacturing, much of the power and water infrastructure is already in place. In fact, Facebook is building a new data farm right on the property of an old textile mill near Forest City, N.C.What we recognized in North Carolina is that it has an abundance of power, said Peter Marin, president of T5 Partners, a company that develops data centers. It has nuclear power. It has a pro-business environment.
What the Tax Deal Means to Your Wallet Two Senators Promise 2011 Deficit-Cutting Bill FCC Approves Plan to Regulate Internet Internet Road Rules Near FCC Vote New Census May Complicate Obama 2012 Bid Marin said generous tax incentives are another big factor in attracting the expensive facilities to North Carolina.The region is now aggressively marketing itself as a Data Center Corridor.The opportunity that these facilities are providing goes long beyond just the taxable opportunities, said Scott Millar, president of the Catawba County Economic Development Corporation. But the taxes aren’t bad by themselves.Economic development officials predict the data centers will create jobs, albeit indirectly.A typical data center may have 35 or 40 or 45 jobs, whereas a textile company may have 450 or 500 jobs, said Rutherford County’s Tom Johnson. There’s a huge difference in the employment. But there’s also a huge difference in the investment level. Facebook was announced at $450 million.
Johnson said that level of investment has already created construction jobs and is likely to create new opportunities for support industries and related employment in a region that is hungry for work.
Data center corridor seeing a lot of traffic Published Monday, November 29, 2010 8:38 am by Ronnie Bryant, Special to The Post CHARLOTTE POST
Traffic has really picked up lately in the data center corridor in the western part of North Carolina. Infocrossing Inc., a subsidiary of Wipro Ltd, is the most recent addition to what is becoming a fast-growing cluster. The company, which manages the high-volume computer operations of other companies, plans to build a $75 million data center in Kings Mountain. Infocrossing’s announcement comes on the heels of one by Facebook, which announced it will build a $450 million data center in Rutherford County. Google was the first big name to settle into that area, landing in Caldwell County in 2007. Apple followed with an announcement in Catawba County in 2009.
Although data centers bring few jobs – Wipro expects to hire about 17 full-time workers – the operations are large energy consumers and add tremendously to the tax base. Additionally, the growing grouping enhances the state's reputation as having a high-tech economy.
The public and private sectors are leveraging available assets in the western part of the state to appeal to data centers’ sweet spots – an abundance of low-cost energy, a good labor pool, strong fiber optics infrastructure, lack of extreme weather, excellent transportation network, plus tax breaks and a high quality of life. Due to the importance of providing consistent service, data centers are risk adverse, and when they look Google’s and Apple’s – and now Facebook’s and Infocrossing’s – decisions to locate in western North Carolina, other data centers will be encouraged to come as well.
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Monday, December 20, 2010 White House Gives Go-ahead For Elitists to Control DNA Barcode Gene identified in plants -- animals next? Michael Edwards Activist Post
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It is official: in the name of clean energy, pollution control and medicine, the White House is prepared to let scientists, spearheaded by the J. Craig Venter Institute, manipulate DNA of organisms to forge new life forms, according to a recent AFP article.The Orwellian language used by Barack Obama's Presidential Commission For The Study of Bioethical Issues is a study in wordiness, misdirection, and obfuscation that is typical when trying to cover up the true intent. For example, on one hand the Commission acknowledges that the J. Craig Venter Institute has found the ability to forge new life forms, but also states that Venter's team didn't create life, since the work primarily involved altering an already existing life form. Since we won't get straight truth from the mainstream media, science, or the government, it is better advised to look at who Craig Venter is, and what public statements have been issued about this agenda that literally could transform the human race from a naturally evolving species into a manipulated computer code.
As far back as 2003, a BBC article titled Warning on Gene ID Cards cited Craig Venter as a leading scientist in gene mapping who, at the time, was offering the very rich a chance to buy their map for $710,000. This sets up, in effect, a division of gene class where elites would have access to potentially life-saving information, while the underclass could be discriminated against by insurance companies and employers. The short article concludes with an even more critical warning by Dr. Helen Wallace of GeneWatch that, What we could end up with is a massive DNA database by the back door.And this was almost 8 years ago.In the intervening time, the possible misuse of such a database became clear in 2006 when collaboration between the J. Craig Venter Institute and Google resulted in a ZDNet article titled Google Accused of Bio-Piracy. Plans were revealed to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet. The source of this story came from a Pulitzer Prize winner, David Vise, but to this day it seems that neither the J. Craig Venter Institute, nor Google have acknowledged any ongoing partnership.
The Institute announced in May of this year that it finally had created the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell, dubbed Synthia by the media. Most people probably concluded that this was a rather innocuous, self-promoting announcement designed to receive funding. However, if one looks deeper into this press release, one should notice the words synthetic genome. This is an admission that goes beyond simply altering an existing life form, as the Institute asserts, but illustrates the ability to replicate the entirety of an organism's hereditary information.The technical breakdown of this initiative is exceedingly important, but is better left to experts in the field. Regardless, the assertions of the J. Craig Venter Institute have found the software of life are being taken seriously by the White House at a time when revelations about how computing, medicine, technology, and the police state are converging on an almost daily basis. In just the past month, the following stories made headlines: Lawsuits have been filed in Austin, TX by parents who have discovered that DNA had been secretly taken from babies and sold to pharmaceutical companies and/or the Armed Forces for genetic research as far back as 2002.
Unions have started to implement biometric ID threat assessment cards at the behest of Homeland Security in a cooperative effort between public and private authorities.
Iris scan technology is being used by NYC law enforcement to create a biometric database in homage to Minority Report.GM Mosquitoes have been released in the Cayman Islands to combat Dengue fever, while noted depopulation advocate, Bill Gates, has been funding the initiative.Connections have been made between the above-mentioned Dengue fever mosquito release to the history of CIA bioweapons research, as well as various NGOs and Globalist think tanks that will apply the funding of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation toward flying vaccines as a solution to the problem of viruses.It is worth adding that part of the stated purpose of the first artificial cell, Synthia, is faster vaccine production.The flowery language that comes from elite circles about Utopian equality ring empty in the face of their documented history of discriminatory programs and depopulation initiatives. Giving over our blood, and now our life force, to elites who long ago distanced themselves from the concerns of the average man and woman does not bode well for the health of humanity.
Warning on gene ID cards 2003
Scientists have decoded human DNA
The complete genetic makeup of individuals could soon be scanned and recorded on a smart card, says a leading scientist. But pressure groups say that the genetic identity cards could lead to discrimination without much benefit to the citizen. Sir Paul Nurse, the chief executive of Cancer Research UK, predicts that the process of unravelling a human genome could be completed far more swiftly in future.We need to be extremely careful how this technology is used to shape our society
Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research UK
In a speech to the Royal Society's People's Science Summit, he said he could foresee a time - perhaps within 20 years - when the entire genetic code of every newborn baby would be recorded. This, he said, might eventually help predict vulnerability to common diseases - and help individuals avoid illness by taking preventive measures.
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But Sir Paul said that the advances risked leading to genetic apartheid as insurers and employers ruled out people with genetic defects. Sir Paul, awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2001, said: In 1985, it took three years to decode a single gene - now we can sequence the entire human genome in just a few years. The American scientist Craig Venter is already offering the very rich to buy a map of their genomes at a staggering $710,000 (£450,000), but even he anticipates selling them for much less in years to come.
Combination of factors
He said some genetic tests - for less common conditions such as Huntington's disease and cystic fibrosis - could predict future disease with some accuracy.But he insisted more common diseases such as cancer and heart disease were likely to be the result of a combination of many different genes alongside lifestyle factors such as poor diet or smoking.He said: We need to be extremely careful how this technology is used to shape our society - this issue is too important to be left to scientists and policy makers alone.Dr Helen Wallace, from the pressure group Genewatch, said that the public was being misled by promises that a map of their genome could offer certainty about their future health.Although gene tests can be very useful, there is no way you could use them to predict common disease.What we could end up with is a massive DNA database by the back door.
Science of man-made life can proceed: White House
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The White House on Thursday said the controversial field of synthetic biology, or manipulating the DNA of organisms to forge new life forms, poses limited risks and should be allowed to proceed. An expert panel convened by President Barack Obama advised vigilance and self-regulation as scientists seeks ways to create new organisms that could spark useful innovations in clean energy, pollution control and medicine. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues concluded that synthetic biology is capable of significant but limited achievements posing limited risks, it said in its first report.Future developments may raise further objections, but the Commission found no reason to endorse additional federal regulations or a moratorium on work in this field at this time.The panel was created by Obama last year. Its first order of business was to consider the issue of synthetic biology after the J. Craig Venter Institute announced in May it had developed the first self-replicating bacteria cell controlled by a synthetic genome.
Critics said the discovery was tantamount to playing God, creating organisms without adequate understanding the ramifications, and upsetting the natural order. Announcing the creation of the first synthetic cell, lead researcher Craig Venter said at the time it certainly changed my views of the definitions of life and how life works.But the commission said Venter's team had not actually created life, since the work mainly involved altering an already existing life form. Thoughtful deliberation about the meaning of this achievement was impossible in the hours that elapsed between the breaking news and the initial round of commentaries that ensued, it said in its report.Of note, many scientists observe that this achievement is not tantamount to creating life in a scientific sense because the research required a functioning, naturally occurring host cell to accept the synthesized genome.
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ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE MAY 21, 2010.Scientists Create Synthetic Organism
By ROBERT LEE HOTZ
Heralding a potential new era in biology, scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, researchers at the private J. Craig Venter Institute announced Thursday.Tom Deerinck and Mark Ellisman, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego
Scanning electron micrographs of M. mycoide
.We call it the first synthetic cell, said genomics pioneer Craig Venter, who oversaw the project. These are very much real cells.Created at a cost of $40 million, this experimental one-cell organism, which can reproduce, opens the way to the manipulation of life on a previously unattainable scale, several researchers and ethics experts said. Scientists have been altering DNA piecemeal for a generation, producing a menagerie of genetically engineered plants and animals. But the ability to craft an entire organism offers a new power over life, they said.
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..The development, documented in the peer-reviewed journal Science, may stir anew nagging questions of ethics, law and public safety about artificial life that biomedical experts have been debating for more than a decade.This is literally a turning point in the relationship between man and nature, said molecular biologist Richard Ebright at Rutgers University, who wasn't involved in the project. For the first time, someone has generated an entire artificial cell with predetermined properties.David Magnus, director of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, said, It has the potential to transform genetic engineering. The research is going to explode.Leery of previous moral and ethical debates about whether it is right to manipulate life forms—which arose with the advent of cloning, stem-cell technology and genetic engineering—some researchers chose neutral terms to describe the experimental cell. Some played down the development.I don't think it represents the creation of an artificial life form, said biomedical engineer James Collins at Boston University. I view this as an organism with a synthetic genome, not as a synthetic organism. It is tough to draw where the line is.For the first time, scientists have created a synthetic cell, heralding a new era in biology. Shelly Banjo talks to Robert Lee Hotz about the huge implications of this development.
.The new cell, a bacterium, was conceived solely as a demonstration project. But several biologists said they believed that the laboratory technique used to birth it would soon be applied to other strains of bacteria with commercial potential.
I think this quickly will be applied to all the most important industrial bacteria, said biologist Christopher Voigt at the University of California, San Francisco, who is developing microbes that help make gasoline.Several companies are already seeking to take advantage of the new field, called synthetic biology, which combines chemistry, computer science, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology to breed industrial life forms that can secrete fuels, vaccines or other commercial products.
Synthetic Genomics Inc., a company founded by Dr. Venter, provided $30 million to fund the experiments and owns the intellectual-property rights to the cell-creation techniques. The company has a $600 million contract with Exxon Mobil Corp. to design algae that can capture carbon dioxide and make fuel.At least three other companies—Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, Calif.; LS9 Inc. in San Francisco; and Joule Unlimited in Cambridge, Mass.—are working on synthetic cells to produce renewable fuels.Although patents on single genes now face legal challenges, Dr. Venter said he intends to patent his experimental cells. They are pretty clearly human inventions, he said.Before making their work public, the researchers said, they briefed White House officials, members of Congress and officials from several government agencies. Within minutes of Thursday's announcement, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced it would hold a public hearing on the new technology next week.
Environmental groups also reacted quickly. Friends of the Earth issued a statement asking the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration to fully regulate all synthetic biology experiments and products, while ETC Group, a group based in Canada, called for a global moratorium on synthetic biology.There was no immediate reaction from Roman Catholic and Protestant groups that have questioned such developments in the past. There was some support. It is very much within divine mandate that we do these things, said theologian Nancey Murphy, who studies Christianity and science at the Fuller Theological Seminary, a multidenominational Christian seminary in Pasadena, Calif.The announcement Thursday was the culmination of a project Dr. Venter and his colleagues have pursued since 1995. In a series of peer-reviewed papers, the group has published the interim technical steps. So far, that research has withstood scrutiny.
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Daniel G. Gibson at the J. Craig Venter Institute, who was the lead researcher on the Science paper announcing creation of the first synthetic cell
.The latest research was reviewed by a panel of independent scientists, but no one has duplicated the team's experiment. Other researchers working on different approaches in the field found the report credible and said it combined a series of prior advances.They are pulling all the pieces together, said Drew Endy, a biologist at Stanford University who is president of the BioBricks Foundation, a nonprofit consortium organized by researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California to make the DNA tools of synthetic biology freely available.To make the synthetic cell, a team of 25 researchers at labs in Rockville, Md., and San Diego, led by bioengineer Daniel Gibson and Mr. Venter, essentially turned computer code into a new life form. They started with a species of bacteria called Mycoplasma capricolum and, by replacing its genome with one they wrote themselves, turned it into a customized variant of a second existing species, called Mycoplasma mycoides, they reported.
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J. Craig Venter, chief executive officer of Synthetic Genomics Inc.
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.To begin, they wrote out the creature's entire genetic code as a digital computer file, documenting more than one million base pairs of DNA in a biochemical alphabet of adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine. They edited that file, adding new code, and then sent that electronic data to a DNA sequencing company called Blue Heron Bio in Bothell, Wash., where it was transformed into hundreds of small pieces of chemical DNA, they reported.To assemble the strips of DNA, the researchers said they took advantage of the natural capacities of yeast and other bacteria to meld genes and chromosomes in order to stitch those short sequences into ever-longer fragments until they had assembled the complete genome, as the entire set of an organism's genetic instructions is called.They transplanted that master set of genes into an emptied cell, where it converted the cell into a different species.Journal Communitydiscuss.. What makes a big part of this possible is the enormous increase in computing power over the last few years, and it's what will continue to make advances like this appear at a faster clip. The singularity approaches. —Kevin Carpenter.
We make a genome from four bottles of chemicals; we put that synthetic genome into a cell; that synthetic genome takes over the cell, said Dr. Gibson. The cell is entirely controlled by that new genome.The scientists didn't give the new organism its own species name, but they did give its synthetic genome an official version number, Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0.To set this novel bacterium—and all its descendants—apart from any natural creation, Dr. Venter and his colleagues wrote their names into its chemical DNA code, along with three apt quotations from James Joyce and others. These genetic watermarks will, eventually, allow the researchers to assert ownership of the cells. "You have to have a way of tracking it, said Stanford ethicist Mildred Cho, who has studied the issues posed by the creation of such organisms.Write to Robert Lee Hotz at sciencejournal@wsj.com
THIS JUST KILLS ME BELL CANADA HIRES MUSLIMS AND INDIANS TO HELP CANADIANS WITH THEIR COMPUTER TROUBLES AND PHONE TROUBLES WHEN YOU PHONE FOR HELP AT BELL CANADA.THIS IS WHY I QUIT BELL.YOU WOULD PHONE FOR SERVICE AND GET A MUSLIM OR AN INDIAN OR AN INDONESIAN THAT YOU COULD HARDLY UNDERSTAND TO HELP YOU OUT.IN THE LAST 2 YEARS I DEALT WITH BELL.THE ONLY TIME I NEVER GOT FOREIGNERS WORKING ON MY COMPUTER OR PHONE INFORMATION IS WHEN I DEMANDED TO ONLY SPEAK WITH A CANADIAN WORKER.THIS BELL CANADA IS JUST REDICULAS FOR OUT SOURCING TO HIRE MUSLIMS AND INDIANS AND INDONESIANS INSTEAD OF CANADIANS.AND WE WONDER WHY MUSLIMS CONTROL COMPUTERS,STEAL OUR INFO AND SCAM US FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES,ESPECIALLY AFRICA.BELL PROBABLY OUTSOURCES TO AFRICA TO.ANOTHER CONTROL FREAK COMPANY BELL IS.
Bell Canada may outsource jobs to India: news reportPost time:2010-11-26Source:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com Author
Canadian telecom giant Bell Canada, a subsidiary of Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE), is looking for suitable vendors as part of outsourcing key voice-based projects for its internet, Solo Mobility , Bell Mobility and satellite TV divisions to India , said a report.Bell Canada plans to outsource these projects via fixed payouts as part of a deal worth approximately $25 million to $30 million a year, said a news report attributing the news to market sources.
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Bell Canada to outsource voice projects to India
By Ravi Menon Nov 22 2010 , Bangalore
India best for offshore outsourcing
for suitable vendors as part of outsourcing key voice-based projects for its internet, Solo Mobility, Bell Mobility and satellite TV divisions to India.Bell Canada plans to outsource these projects via fixed payouts as part of a deal worth approximately $25 million to $30 million a year, according to market sources.The projects being sent to India will be largely inbound and Bell Canada is looking at outsourcing the work to a outsourcing partner with strong competencies in carrying out front-end work for international clients.A Bell Canada spokesperson did not reply to a questionnaire seeking comment on the development.Founded in 1880, Montreal-headquartered Bell Canada is a leading player in the Canadian wireless telecommunication industry, controlling about 30 per cent of total wireless subscribers in that country. Wireless, the key revenue driver, makes up roughly 50 per cent of Bell Canada’s revenues.Over the last 10 years, Bell Canada’s holding company Bell Canada Enterprises has branched out into complementary business segments such as cable TV, VoIP, IPTV, broadband internet, and wireline phones. With this, key divisions under Bell Canada include internet services provider Bell Internet, cellular wireless services provider Bell Mobility and direct-to-home satellite division Bell TV.
Bell Canada is cutting Canadian jobs in favour of contractors overseas MAY 2007
MONTREAL, May 2,2007 /CNW Telbec/ - The Canadian Telecommunications Employees'
Association (CTEA) is denouncing Bell Canada's intention of cutting jobs and
reducing the work hours of its employees in favour of outsourcing companies in
India. The concern stems from the fact that the long term affect of this
action is unknown.During 2005 bargaining, Bell Canada increased the salary of most
employees in the Assignment/Activation group stating they were underpaid
compared with telecommunications competitors, said Line Brisson, Chairman of
the CTEA Clerical Bargaining Committee. Today, the Company alleges these
employees are costing too much and announced their jobs will be eliminated.
This is unacceptable. The issue here is that they are now comparing the job
that is done on Canadian soil with the market wages overseas. As long
companies such as Bell Canada use overseas markets as the basis of comparison
for wages, the jobs will always be too expensive to perform in Canada.CTEA members made HUGE CONCESSIONS in 2005 by signing a Collective
Agreement intended to secure their jobs.
The CTEA is losing count of the number of decisions Bell Canada has made
to the disadvantage of its employees: contracting out of Residential and
Business Client Representative jobs, contracting out of account collection and
repair services to Expertel, Minacs, and contractors overseas. Bell Canada is
continually seeking to lower its costs by reducing its Canadian staff and
increasing cheap labour. The CTEA wants to know what kind of savings is Bell
Canada seeing when they charge their customers rates for services that are set
for the Canadian market, yet the labour behind that service is being paid at
overseas market wages? Outsourcing of jobs places a very real strain on the economic condition of any country, and at the end of the day, customers and the Canadian economy will be paying the price.
Bell Canada recently announced that it intends to slash the benefits of
its future pensioners - yet another savings they will incur.Bell Canada continues to level down. The CTEA Bargaining Committee found it even more shocking when the Company who offers telephone service, shared with the them that employees taking over the Activation function in India will not be equipped with telephones themselves. This is UNACCEPTABLE behaviour from a Company that proclaims itself as a communications leader in Canada.The CTEA is opposed to outsourcing and it will take all the necessary means to promote the job security of its members.
About the CTEA:
The CTEA is an independent union certified in the 1940s by the Canadian
Labour Relations Board to represent employees of Bell Canada. Over the years,
the CTEA has been certified as the bargaining representative for several
groups of employees working for employers such as Comtech, Bell Aliant, ACMS
(Amdocs), Télébec S.E.C., Yellow Pages Group, and Bell ICT Outsourcing
Solutions inc.
For further information: In Quebec: Line Brisson, CTEA Vice-President,
(514) 861-9963, ext. 233, Fax: (514) 861-5985, lbrisson@acet-ctea.com; In
Ontario: Brenda Knight, CTEA President, (613) 521-3289, Fax: (613) 521-3267,
bknight@acet-ctea.com; www.acet-ctea.com
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NORTH CAROLINA WILL BE THE DATA FARM FOR GOOGLE,FACEBOOK AND APPLE TO SELL ALL OUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM.THE CONTROL FREAKS ARE HARD AT IT.
North Carolina Economy Moves From Textiles to Tech
By Jonathan Serrie Published December 22, 2010| FoxNews.com
Facebook Post: North Carolina's economy is moving away from the textile business and into high-tech future.The foothills of North Carolina are famous for furniture and textiles. But as jobs in those industries moved overseas, local leaders worried about too many closed factories and skyrocketing unemployment.We have been as high this year as 17.9 percent, said Tom Johnson of the Economic Development Commission of North Carolina’s Rutherford County. A lot of that, of course, is attributable to textile operations closing.So, Rutherford County, and other small communities in the foothills of North Carolina, banked on a high-tech future. They started luring companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook to build massive computer data centers. Such facilities require plenty of electricity and extensive cooling systems.With the region’s history of manufacturing, much of the power and water infrastructure is already in place. In fact, Facebook is building a new data farm right on the property of an old textile mill near Forest City, N.C.What we recognized in North Carolina is that it has an abundance of power, said Peter Marin, president of T5 Partners, a company that develops data centers. It has nuclear power. It has a pro-business environment.
What the Tax Deal Means to Your Wallet Two Senators Promise 2011 Deficit-Cutting Bill FCC Approves Plan to Regulate Internet Internet Road Rules Near FCC Vote New Census May Complicate Obama 2012 Bid Marin said generous tax incentives are another big factor in attracting the expensive facilities to North Carolina.The region is now aggressively marketing itself as a Data Center Corridor.The opportunity that these facilities are providing goes long beyond just the taxable opportunities, said Scott Millar, president of the Catawba County Economic Development Corporation. But the taxes aren’t bad by themselves.Economic development officials predict the data centers will create jobs, albeit indirectly.A typical data center may have 35 or 40 or 45 jobs, whereas a textile company may have 450 or 500 jobs, said Rutherford County’s Tom Johnson. There’s a huge difference in the employment. But there’s also a huge difference in the investment level. Facebook was announced at $450 million.
Johnson said that level of investment has already created construction jobs and is likely to create new opportunities for support industries and related employment in a region that is hungry for work.
Data center corridor seeing a lot of traffic Published Monday, November 29, 2010 8:38 am by Ronnie Bryant, Special to The Post CHARLOTTE POST
Traffic has really picked up lately in the data center corridor in the western part of North Carolina. Infocrossing Inc., a subsidiary of Wipro Ltd, is the most recent addition to what is becoming a fast-growing cluster. The company, which manages the high-volume computer operations of other companies, plans to build a $75 million data center in Kings Mountain. Infocrossing’s announcement comes on the heels of one by Facebook, which announced it will build a $450 million data center in Rutherford County. Google was the first big name to settle into that area, landing in Caldwell County in 2007. Apple followed with an announcement in Catawba County in 2009.
Although data centers bring few jobs – Wipro expects to hire about 17 full-time workers – the operations are large energy consumers and add tremendously to the tax base. Additionally, the growing grouping enhances the state's reputation as having a high-tech economy.
The public and private sectors are leveraging available assets in the western part of the state to appeal to data centers’ sweet spots – an abundance of low-cost energy, a good labor pool, strong fiber optics infrastructure, lack of extreme weather, excellent transportation network, plus tax breaks and a high quality of life. Due to the importance of providing consistent service, data centers are risk adverse, and when they look Google’s and Apple’s – and now Facebook’s and Infocrossing’s – decisions to locate in western North Carolina, other data centers will be encouraged to come as well.
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Monday, December 20, 2010 White House Gives Go-ahead For Elitists to Control DNA Barcode Gene identified in plants -- animals next? Michael Edwards Activist Post
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It is official: in the name of clean energy, pollution control and medicine, the White House is prepared to let scientists, spearheaded by the J. Craig Venter Institute, manipulate DNA of organisms to forge new life forms, according to a recent AFP article.The Orwellian language used by Barack Obama's Presidential Commission For The Study of Bioethical Issues is a study in wordiness, misdirection, and obfuscation that is typical when trying to cover up the true intent. For example, on one hand the Commission acknowledges that the J. Craig Venter Institute has found the ability to forge new life forms, but also states that Venter's team didn't create life, since the work primarily involved altering an already existing life form. Since we won't get straight truth from the mainstream media, science, or the government, it is better advised to look at who Craig Venter is, and what public statements have been issued about this agenda that literally could transform the human race from a naturally evolving species into a manipulated computer code.
As far back as 2003, a BBC article titled Warning on Gene ID Cards cited Craig Venter as a leading scientist in gene mapping who, at the time, was offering the very rich a chance to buy their map for $710,000. This sets up, in effect, a division of gene class where elites would have access to potentially life-saving information, while the underclass could be discriminated against by insurance companies and employers. The short article concludes with an even more critical warning by Dr. Helen Wallace of GeneWatch that, What we could end up with is a massive DNA database by the back door.And this was almost 8 years ago.In the intervening time, the possible misuse of such a database became clear in 2006 when collaboration between the J. Craig Venter Institute and Google resulted in a ZDNet article titled Google Accused of Bio-Piracy. Plans were revealed to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet. The source of this story came from a Pulitzer Prize winner, David Vise, but to this day it seems that neither the J. Craig Venter Institute, nor Google have acknowledged any ongoing partnership.
The Institute announced in May of this year that it finally had created the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell, dubbed Synthia by the media. Most people probably concluded that this was a rather innocuous, self-promoting announcement designed to receive funding. However, if one looks deeper into this press release, one should notice the words synthetic genome. This is an admission that goes beyond simply altering an existing life form, as the Institute asserts, but illustrates the ability to replicate the entirety of an organism's hereditary information.The technical breakdown of this initiative is exceedingly important, but is better left to experts in the field. Regardless, the assertions of the J. Craig Venter Institute have found the software of life are being taken seriously by the White House at a time when revelations about how computing, medicine, technology, and the police state are converging on an almost daily basis. In just the past month, the following stories made headlines: Lawsuits have been filed in Austin, TX by parents who have discovered that DNA had been secretly taken from babies and sold to pharmaceutical companies and/or the Armed Forces for genetic research as far back as 2002.
Unions have started to implement biometric ID threat assessment cards at the behest of Homeland Security in a cooperative effort between public and private authorities.
Iris scan technology is being used by NYC law enforcement to create a biometric database in homage to Minority Report.GM Mosquitoes have been released in the Cayman Islands to combat Dengue fever, while noted depopulation advocate, Bill Gates, has been funding the initiative.Connections have been made between the above-mentioned Dengue fever mosquito release to the history of CIA bioweapons research, as well as various NGOs and Globalist think tanks that will apply the funding of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation toward flying vaccines as a solution to the problem of viruses.It is worth adding that part of the stated purpose of the first artificial cell, Synthia, is faster vaccine production.The flowery language that comes from elite circles about Utopian equality ring empty in the face of their documented history of discriminatory programs and depopulation initiatives. Giving over our blood, and now our life force, to elites who long ago distanced themselves from the concerns of the average man and woman does not bode well for the health of humanity.
Warning on gene ID cards 2003
Scientists have decoded human DNA
The complete genetic makeup of individuals could soon be scanned and recorded on a smart card, says a leading scientist. But pressure groups say that the genetic identity cards could lead to discrimination without much benefit to the citizen. Sir Paul Nurse, the chief executive of Cancer Research UK, predicts that the process of unravelling a human genome could be completed far more swiftly in future.We need to be extremely careful how this technology is used to shape our society
Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research UK
In a speech to the Royal Society's People's Science Summit, he said he could foresee a time - perhaps within 20 years - when the entire genetic code of every newborn baby would be recorded. This, he said, might eventually help predict vulnerability to common diseases - and help individuals avoid illness by taking preventive measures.
Gene underclass
But Sir Paul said that the advances risked leading to genetic apartheid as insurers and employers ruled out people with genetic defects. Sir Paul, awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2001, said: In 1985, it took three years to decode a single gene - now we can sequence the entire human genome in just a few years. The American scientist Craig Venter is already offering the very rich to buy a map of their genomes at a staggering $710,000 (£450,000), but even he anticipates selling them for much less in years to come.
Combination of factors
He said some genetic tests - for less common conditions such as Huntington's disease and cystic fibrosis - could predict future disease with some accuracy.But he insisted more common diseases such as cancer and heart disease were likely to be the result of a combination of many different genes alongside lifestyle factors such as poor diet or smoking.He said: We need to be extremely careful how this technology is used to shape our society - this issue is too important to be left to scientists and policy makers alone.Dr Helen Wallace, from the pressure group Genewatch, said that the public was being misled by promises that a map of their genome could offer certainty about their future health.Although gene tests can be very useful, there is no way you could use them to predict common disease.What we could end up with is a massive DNA database by the back door.
Science of man-made life can proceed: White House
Dec 16 10:10 AM US/Eastern
The White House on Thursday said the controversial field of synthetic biology, or manipulating the DNA of organisms to forge new life forms, poses limited risks and should be allowed to proceed. An expert panel convened by President Barack Obama advised vigilance and self-regulation as scientists seeks ways to create new organisms that could spark useful innovations in clean energy, pollution control and medicine. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues concluded that synthetic biology is capable of significant but limited achievements posing limited risks, it said in its first report.Future developments may raise further objections, but the Commission found no reason to endorse additional federal regulations or a moratorium on work in this field at this time.The panel was created by Obama last year. Its first order of business was to consider the issue of synthetic biology after the J. Craig Venter Institute announced in May it had developed the first self-replicating bacteria cell controlled by a synthetic genome.
Critics said the discovery was tantamount to playing God, creating organisms without adequate understanding the ramifications, and upsetting the natural order. Announcing the creation of the first synthetic cell, lead researcher Craig Venter said at the time it certainly changed my views of the definitions of life and how life works.But the commission said Venter's team had not actually created life, since the work mainly involved altering an already existing life form. Thoughtful deliberation about the meaning of this achievement was impossible in the hours that elapsed between the breaking news and the initial round of commentaries that ensued, it said in its report.Of note, many scientists observe that this achievement is not tantamount to creating life in a scientific sense because the research required a functioning, naturally occurring host cell to accept the synthesized genome.
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ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE MAY 21, 2010.Scientists Create Synthetic Organism
By ROBERT LEE HOTZ
Heralding a potential new era in biology, scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, researchers at the private J. Craig Venter Institute announced Thursday.Tom Deerinck and Mark Ellisman, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego
Scanning electron micrographs of M. mycoide
.We call it the first synthetic cell, said genomics pioneer Craig Venter, who oversaw the project. These are very much real cells.Created at a cost of $40 million, this experimental one-cell organism, which can reproduce, opens the way to the manipulation of life on a previously unattainable scale, several researchers and ethics experts said. Scientists have been altering DNA piecemeal for a generation, producing a menagerie of genetically engineered plants and animals. But the ability to craft an entire organism offers a new power over life, they said.
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..The development, documented in the peer-reviewed journal Science, may stir anew nagging questions of ethics, law and public safety about artificial life that biomedical experts have been debating for more than a decade.This is literally a turning point in the relationship between man and nature, said molecular biologist Richard Ebright at Rutgers University, who wasn't involved in the project. For the first time, someone has generated an entire artificial cell with predetermined properties.David Magnus, director of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, said, It has the potential to transform genetic engineering. The research is going to explode.Leery of previous moral and ethical debates about whether it is right to manipulate life forms—which arose with the advent of cloning, stem-cell technology and genetic engineering—some researchers chose neutral terms to describe the experimental cell. Some played down the development.I don't think it represents the creation of an artificial life form, said biomedical engineer James Collins at Boston University. I view this as an organism with a synthetic genome, not as a synthetic organism. It is tough to draw where the line is.For the first time, scientists have created a synthetic cell, heralding a new era in biology. Shelly Banjo talks to Robert Lee Hotz about the huge implications of this development.
.The new cell, a bacterium, was conceived solely as a demonstration project. But several biologists said they believed that the laboratory technique used to birth it would soon be applied to other strains of bacteria with commercial potential.
I think this quickly will be applied to all the most important industrial bacteria, said biologist Christopher Voigt at the University of California, San Francisco, who is developing microbes that help make gasoline.Several companies are already seeking to take advantage of the new field, called synthetic biology, which combines chemistry, computer science, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology to breed industrial life forms that can secrete fuels, vaccines or other commercial products.
Synthetic Genomics Inc., a company founded by Dr. Venter, provided $30 million to fund the experiments and owns the intellectual-property rights to the cell-creation techniques. The company has a $600 million contract with Exxon Mobil Corp. to design algae that can capture carbon dioxide and make fuel.At least three other companies—Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, Calif.; LS9 Inc. in San Francisco; and Joule Unlimited in Cambridge, Mass.—are working on synthetic cells to produce renewable fuels.Although patents on single genes now face legal challenges, Dr. Venter said he intends to patent his experimental cells. They are pretty clearly human inventions, he said.Before making their work public, the researchers said, they briefed White House officials, members of Congress and officials from several government agencies. Within minutes of Thursday's announcement, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced it would hold a public hearing on the new technology next week.
Environmental groups also reacted quickly. Friends of the Earth issued a statement asking the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration to fully regulate all synthetic biology experiments and products, while ETC Group, a group based in Canada, called for a global moratorium on synthetic biology.There was no immediate reaction from Roman Catholic and Protestant groups that have questioned such developments in the past. There was some support. It is very much within divine mandate that we do these things, said theologian Nancey Murphy, who studies Christianity and science at the Fuller Theological Seminary, a multidenominational Christian seminary in Pasadena, Calif.The announcement Thursday was the culmination of a project Dr. Venter and his colleagues have pursued since 1995. In a series of peer-reviewed papers, the group has published the interim technical steps. So far, that research has withstood scrutiny.
J. Craig Venter Institute
Daniel G. Gibson at the J. Craig Venter Institute, who was the lead researcher on the Science paper announcing creation of the first synthetic cell
.The latest research was reviewed by a panel of independent scientists, but no one has duplicated the team's experiment. Other researchers working on different approaches in the field found the report credible and said it combined a series of prior advances.They are pulling all the pieces together, said Drew Endy, a biologist at Stanford University who is president of the BioBricks Foundation, a nonprofit consortium organized by researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California to make the DNA tools of synthetic biology freely available.To make the synthetic cell, a team of 25 researchers at labs in Rockville, Md., and San Diego, led by bioengineer Daniel Gibson and Mr. Venter, essentially turned computer code into a new life form. They started with a species of bacteria called Mycoplasma capricolum and, by replacing its genome with one they wrote themselves, turned it into a customized variant of a second existing species, called Mycoplasma mycoides, they reported.
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J. Craig Venter, chief executive officer of Synthetic Genomics Inc.
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.To begin, they wrote out the creature's entire genetic code as a digital computer file, documenting more than one million base pairs of DNA in a biochemical alphabet of adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine. They edited that file, adding new code, and then sent that electronic data to a DNA sequencing company called Blue Heron Bio in Bothell, Wash., where it was transformed into hundreds of small pieces of chemical DNA, they reported.To assemble the strips of DNA, the researchers said they took advantage of the natural capacities of yeast and other bacteria to meld genes and chromosomes in order to stitch those short sequences into ever-longer fragments until they had assembled the complete genome, as the entire set of an organism's genetic instructions is called.They transplanted that master set of genes into an emptied cell, where it converted the cell into a different species.Journal Communitydiscuss.. What makes a big part of this possible is the enormous increase in computing power over the last few years, and it's what will continue to make advances like this appear at a faster clip. The singularity approaches. —Kevin Carpenter.
We make a genome from four bottles of chemicals; we put that synthetic genome into a cell; that synthetic genome takes over the cell, said Dr. Gibson. The cell is entirely controlled by that new genome.The scientists didn't give the new organism its own species name, but they did give its synthetic genome an official version number, Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0.To set this novel bacterium—and all its descendants—apart from any natural creation, Dr. Venter and his colleagues wrote their names into its chemical DNA code, along with three apt quotations from James Joyce and others. These genetic watermarks will, eventually, allow the researchers to assert ownership of the cells. "You have to have a way of tracking it, said Stanford ethicist Mildred Cho, who has studied the issues posed by the creation of such organisms.Write to Robert Lee Hotz at sciencejournal@wsj.com
THIS JUST KILLS ME BELL CANADA HIRES MUSLIMS AND INDIANS TO HELP CANADIANS WITH THEIR COMPUTER TROUBLES AND PHONE TROUBLES WHEN YOU PHONE FOR HELP AT BELL CANADA.THIS IS WHY I QUIT BELL.YOU WOULD PHONE FOR SERVICE AND GET A MUSLIM OR AN INDIAN OR AN INDONESIAN THAT YOU COULD HARDLY UNDERSTAND TO HELP YOU OUT.IN THE LAST 2 YEARS I DEALT WITH BELL.THE ONLY TIME I NEVER GOT FOREIGNERS WORKING ON MY COMPUTER OR PHONE INFORMATION IS WHEN I DEMANDED TO ONLY SPEAK WITH A CANADIAN WORKER.THIS BELL CANADA IS JUST REDICULAS FOR OUT SOURCING TO HIRE MUSLIMS AND INDIANS AND INDONESIANS INSTEAD OF CANADIANS.AND WE WONDER WHY MUSLIMS CONTROL COMPUTERS,STEAL OUR INFO AND SCAM US FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES,ESPECIALLY AFRICA.BELL PROBABLY OUTSOURCES TO AFRICA TO.ANOTHER CONTROL FREAK COMPANY BELL IS.
Bell Canada may outsource jobs to India: news reportPost time:2010-11-26Source:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com Author
Canadian telecom giant Bell Canada, a subsidiary of Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE), is looking for suitable vendors as part of outsourcing key voice-based projects for its internet, Solo Mobility , Bell Mobility and satellite TV divisions to India , said a report.Bell Canada plans to outsource these projects via fixed payouts as part of a deal worth approximately $25 million to $30 million a year, said a news report attributing the news to market sources.
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Bell Canada to outsource voice projects to India
By Ravi Menon Nov 22 2010 , Bangalore
India best for offshore outsourcing
for suitable vendors as part of outsourcing key voice-based projects for its internet, Solo Mobility, Bell Mobility and satellite TV divisions to India.Bell Canada plans to outsource these projects via fixed payouts as part of a deal worth approximately $25 million to $30 million a year, according to market sources.The projects being sent to India will be largely inbound and Bell Canada is looking at outsourcing the work to a outsourcing partner with strong competencies in carrying out front-end work for international clients.A Bell Canada spokesperson did not reply to a questionnaire seeking comment on the development.Founded in 1880, Montreal-headquartered Bell Canada is a leading player in the Canadian wireless telecommunication industry, controlling about 30 per cent of total wireless subscribers in that country. Wireless, the key revenue driver, makes up roughly 50 per cent of Bell Canada’s revenues.Over the last 10 years, Bell Canada’s holding company Bell Canada Enterprises has branched out into complementary business segments such as cable TV, VoIP, IPTV, broadband internet, and wireline phones. With this, key divisions under Bell Canada include internet services provider Bell Internet, cellular wireless services provider Bell Mobility and direct-to-home satellite division Bell TV.
Bell Canada is cutting Canadian jobs in favour of contractors overseas MAY 2007
MONTREAL, May 2,2007 /CNW Telbec/ - The Canadian Telecommunications Employees'
Association (CTEA) is denouncing Bell Canada's intention of cutting jobs and
reducing the work hours of its employees in favour of outsourcing companies in
India. The concern stems from the fact that the long term affect of this
action is unknown.During 2005 bargaining, Bell Canada increased the salary of most
employees in the Assignment/Activation group stating they were underpaid
compared with telecommunications competitors, said Line Brisson, Chairman of
the CTEA Clerical Bargaining Committee. Today, the Company alleges these
employees are costing too much and announced their jobs will be eliminated.
This is unacceptable. The issue here is that they are now comparing the job
that is done on Canadian soil with the market wages overseas. As long
companies such as Bell Canada use overseas markets as the basis of comparison
for wages, the jobs will always be too expensive to perform in Canada.CTEA members made HUGE CONCESSIONS in 2005 by signing a Collective
Agreement intended to secure their jobs.
The CTEA is losing count of the number of decisions Bell Canada has made
to the disadvantage of its employees: contracting out of Residential and
Business Client Representative jobs, contracting out of account collection and
repair services to Expertel, Minacs, and contractors overseas. Bell Canada is
continually seeking to lower its costs by reducing its Canadian staff and
increasing cheap labour. The CTEA wants to know what kind of savings is Bell
Canada seeing when they charge their customers rates for services that are set
for the Canadian market, yet the labour behind that service is being paid at
overseas market wages? Outsourcing of jobs places a very real strain on the economic condition of any country, and at the end of the day, customers and the Canadian economy will be paying the price.
Bell Canada recently announced that it intends to slash the benefits of
its future pensioners - yet another savings they will incur.Bell Canada continues to level down. The CTEA Bargaining Committee found it even more shocking when the Company who offers telephone service, shared with the them that employees taking over the Activation function in India will not be equipped with telephones themselves. This is UNACCEPTABLE behaviour from a Company that proclaims itself as a communications leader in Canada.The CTEA is opposed to outsourcing and it will take all the necessary means to promote the job security of its members.
About the CTEA:
The CTEA is an independent union certified in the 1940s by the Canadian
Labour Relations Board to represent employees of Bell Canada. Over the years,
the CTEA has been certified as the bargaining representative for several
groups of employees working for employers such as Comtech, Bell Aliant, ACMS
(Amdocs), Télébec S.E.C., Yellow Pages Group, and Bell ICT Outsourcing
Solutions inc.
For further information: In Quebec: Line Brisson, CTEA Vice-President,
(514) 861-9963, ext. 233, Fax: (514) 861-5985, lbrisson@acet-ctea.com; In
Ontario: Brenda Knight, CTEA President, (613) 521-3289, Fax: (613) 521-3267,
bknight@acet-ctea.com; www.acet-ctea.com
NKOREA SILENT ON SOUTH KOREAS DRILLS
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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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.
Northeast to miss white Christmas
– Wed Dec 22, 4:10 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Northeast will not have a white Christmas. A winter storm that was expected earlier in the week for Christmas Eve into Christmas Day in the Northeast will be delayed by a day, if it makes an appearance at all, according to forecasters referencing government weather data.It doesn't look as dramatic as it did earlier this week, said Bob Haas, a meteorologist with MDA EarthSat Weather in Rockville, Maryland.Cities in the lower Midwest will likely still get snow, but the storm is not expected to arrive in the Northeast, if at all, until Christmas night into Sunday, Haas said.The U.S. Global Forecasting System, a weather prediction model run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows the storm remaining mostly offshore and as less of a threat to cities along the Interstate 95 corridor on the East Coast than previous forecasts.The storm right now is more of a threat to the U.S. Gulf Coast cities as light snow or rain.One caveat is the European equivalent of the GFS, which shows the storm moving inland instead of remaining offshore.
In that scenario, snow would start early on Christmas Day around the North Carolina-Virginia border, then make its way up the East Coast toward New England on Saturday and into Sunday.Colder-than-normal temperatures are still expected to linger in the Northeast next week, with the coldest temperatures expected Sunday into Monday.
Temperatures will warm up thereafter. January weather in the Northeast is expected to be variable, with bursts of cold moderated by warmer periods in between, Haas said.(Reporting by Jeanine Prezioso; Editing by Walter Bagley)
Waterlogged California braces for more furious weather
– Wed Dec 22, 3:38 pm ET
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Southern California, already reeling from days of flooding, thunderstorms and tidal surges, braced for even more furious weather Wednesday, as forecasters warned of the arrival of yet another powerful storm.A new weather system, forecast to be the most intense of the past week, was expected to spawn more wind, rain and even small tornadoes in the state, which has suffered an unrelenting barrage of inclement weather.Wednesday's forecast is definitely going to be the main event of an eventful climatological week, Bill Patzert, a specialist at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Rainfall was expected to total as much as 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) per hour, which could cause flooding not only in low-lying areas, but in the state's saturated foothills and mountains.Meanwhile, rising flood waters also were causing problems throughout southern California. Local news programs broadcast numerous reports of stranded motorist who had to be plucked from their cars after becoming trapped by raging flash floods.Officials warned residents, particularly those near local creeks and waterways, to take the risk in earnest.This is not a playground. This is no time to do extreme sports, said Jack Wise of the Los Angeles Fire Department.Even six inches (15 centimeters) of water in the flood control channels is enough to wash you down the river... There's nobody to hear you scream, Wise said.
Officials in Los Angeles County order the evacuations of hundreds of homes in the shadow of the denuded San Gabriel Mountains, which recent fires have made bereft of vegetation and where there was a high risk of flooding and landslides.If you fail to comply, it could result in death, Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich said.California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger meanwhile has declared a state of emergency in a half dozen southern California counties because of the storms.Weather officials said the rain would be accompanied by winds between 15 to 25 miles (24 to 40 kilometers) per hour and gusts of up to 65 miles (100 kilometers) per hour.Heavy snows, rain, winds and lower-than-usual temperatures have buffeted the western United States throughout the weekend, hitting Oregon and California especially hard.
In farm-rich central California, floods earlier this week forced 2,000 people from their homes in Kern county, the local fire department reported in a statement.
Meanwhile downtown Los Angeles has seen days of record rainfall, with cascades of water causing power outages across Southern California, mudslides and rock slides in the area's scenic foothills, and closure of parts of the famed Pacific Coast Highway.
The one bright spot was had by the region's winter resorts, where record amounts of snow created a skiers' paradise just in time for the Christmas holiday season.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Strong aftershock hits Japanese islands
– Wed Dec 22, 6:06 pm ET
TOKYO (AFP) – A strong 6.3-magnitude aftershock struck off southern Japan on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, a day after the region was rocked by a major earthquake.The latest jolt to hit the region, following Wednesday's 7.4-magnitude quake, struck at 7:49 am local time (2149 GMT Wednesday), 146 kilometres (91 miles) east of Chichi-shima in Japan's remote Bonin islands region, at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injury.It was the strongest aftershock since yesterday's earthquake, said Masahide Fujimaru, a village official on Chichi-shima island.But it was not strong enough to make things fall from shelves, Fujimaru told AFP by telephone. There is no confusion and we have not received any information of damage or injuries.Japan's meteorological agency said the latest quake will not create a major, widespread tsunami but warned that there may be some change in sea level in a few hours.Japan's agency has also warned strong aftershocks would continue for the time being in the region.Scores of villagers on the remote Pacific archipelago -- known locally as the Ogasawara islands -- scrambled for higher ground Wednesday after the 7.4 quake sparked a tsunami alert.The seabed tremor struck at 2:19 am, jolting people out of bed as loudspeakers blared across the Ogasawara islands and authorities warned of the risk of a two-metre (six-foot) high local tsunami.The tsunami alert was later downgraded and all warnings were lifted five hours after the quake hit near the islands, some 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo.
The quake was followed by a series of aftershocks measuring between 5.3 and 5.6 which continued into the morning.About three hours after the quake, a 60-centimetre (two-feet) wave was monitored 700 kilometres away at Hachijo-jima, part of the Izu island chain that runs south of Tokyo, the meteorological agency said.Waves of up to 20 centimetres also reached the southwestern Japanese main islands, the agency said.
The Ogasawara chain, made up of more than 30 subtropical and tropical islets some 240 kilometres north of Iwo Jima, were put under the control of the United States after World War II, and returned to Japan in 1968.The remote islands have preserved their unique biological habitats and have been dubbed the Galapagos of the Orient.Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes strike Japan, which sits on the Ring of Fire surrounding the Pacific Ocean.In 1995 a magnitude-7.2 quake in the port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people. But high building standards, regular drills and a sophisticated tsunami warning system mean that casualties are often minimal.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
LOOKS WHATS BACK FOR THE NEXT SCARE TACTIC AGAIN BY THE NEW WORLD ORDER CONTROL FREAKS.
Hong Kong bird tests positive for bird flu
DEC 22,10
HONG KONG (AFP) – Hong Kong authorities confirmed Thursday that a dead bird found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the H5 strain of the bird flu virus.A government spokeswoman told AFP that laboratory tests had confirmed the highly decomposed chicken carcass found on the seashore of an island in the territory on December 18 carried the deadly strain.In a press release a spokesman said the Hong Kong government was concerned about the incident and will continue to monitor the situation.There were no poultry farms within three kilometres of the shore and there was no evidence of backyard poultry in nearby villages, the statement added.The government will step up inspections of the shore and its immediate vicinity, the statement said.Officials did not raise the city's public health warning on bird flu.
In November, Hong Kong confirmed its first human case of bird flu since 2003, after a 59-year-old woman tested positive for Influenza A (H5), a variant of bird flu.At the time, the government raised its avian influenza alert level to serious, but it has been lowered since.Hong Kong was the site of the world's first major outbreak of bird flu among humans in 1997, when six people died of a mutation of the virus, which is normally confined to poultry.Millions of birds were culled in the 1997 outbreak.Six years later the city was gripped by a full-blown panic when the deadly respiratory disease SARS emerged, killing about 300 people.Public anxiety returned to the city of seven million people last year with an outbreak of swine flu that claimed about 80 lives.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Iraqi churches cancel Christmas festivities By YAHYA BARZANJI and SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press - DEC 22,10
KIRKUK, Iraq – No decorations, no midnight Mass. Even an appearance by Santa Claus has been nixed after Iraq's Christian leaders called off Christmas celebrations amid new al-Qaida threats on the tiny community still terrified from a bloody siege on a Baghdad church.Christians across Iraq have been living in fear since the assault on Our Lady of Salvation Church as its Catholic congregation was celebrating Sunday Mass. Sixty-eight people were killed. Days later Islamic insurgents bombed Christian homes and neighborhoods across the capital.On Tuesday, al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on Iraq's beleaguered Christians, many of whom have fled their homes or the country since the church attack. A council representing Christian denominations across Iraq advised its followers to cancel public celebrations of Christmas out of concern for their lives and as a show of mourning for the victims.
Nobody can ignore the threats of al-Qaida against Iraqi Christians, said Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako in Kirkuk. We cannot find a single source of joy that makes us celebrate. The situation of the Christians is bleak.Church officials in Baghdad, as well as in the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul and the southern city of Basra, said they will not put up Christmas decorations or celebrate midnight Mass. They urged worshippers not to decorate their homes. Even an appearance by Santa Claus was called off.It's to avoid any attacks, but also to show that people are sad, not happy, said Younadim Kanna, a Christian lawmaker from Baghdad.Even before the Oct. 31 church attack, thousands of Christians were fleeing Iraq. They make up more than a third of the 53,700 Iraqis resettled in the United States since 2007, according to State Department statistics.Since the church attack, some 1,000 families have fled to Iraq's safer Kurdish-ruled north, according to the United Nations, which recently warned of a steady exodus of Iraqi Christians.The latest threats were posted late Tuesday by the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida front group, on a website frequented by Islamic extremists. The group said it wants the release of two women it claims are being held captive by Egypt's Coptic Church.Muslim extremists in Egypt accuse the Coptic Church of detaining the women for allegedly converting to Islam, an accusation the church denies. The message posted Tuesday was addressed to Iraq's Christian community and said it was designed to pressure Egypt.Few reliable statistics exist on the number of Christians remaining in this nation of 29 million. A recent State Department report says Christian leaders estimate there are 400,000 to 600,000, down from a prewar level of some 1.4 million.
For those who remain, Christmas will be a somber affair.In the northern city of Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Sako said there will be no Christmas decorations outside churches and a traditional visit by Santa Claus has also been called off. Money usually used on celebrations or gifts will instead go to help Christian refugees.Ashour Binyamin, a 55-year-old Christian from Kirkuk said he and his family would not go to church on Christmas and would celebrate at home.At Baghdad's Our Lady of Salvation Church, where more than 120 parishioners were held hostage by gunmen during the four-hour siege, all Christmas Masses have been canceled. Only a modest manger display will mark the occasion.We have canceled all celebrations in the church,said Father Mukhlis. We are still in deep sorrow over the innocent victims who fell during the evil attack.In Baghdad's Karradah neighborhood, where many of the city's remaining Christians live, churches were guarded by security forces Wednesday and surrounded by razor wire. Shop owners said few people were buying the Christmas trees and Santa Claus toys on sale.Ikhlas Bahnam, a Christian in the neighborhood, vowed to go to Mass on Christmas Day, despite what she called the government's failure to protect her small minority. But she won't be visiting friends during the holiday season because all of them have fled the city.
We did not put any decorations inside or outside our house this year, Bahnam said. We see no reason to celebrate.In Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, the Rev. Faiz Wadee, a Syrian Orthodox priest, said there will be no public Christmas celebrations there.And Christians in Iraq's second-largest city of Basra have also called off all celebrations, said Saad Matti, a Christian legislator on the Basra provincial council.There will be only a small Mass in one church in Basra without any signs of joy or decoration and under the protection of Iraqi security forces, he said. We are fully aware of al-Qaida threats.Matti said Christians were also toning down their celebrations out of respect for a Shiite holiday going on at the same time. The majority of Iraqis are Shiite Muslims, especially in the south.
Even among Iraqi Christians who've managed to escape the violence, the mood was subdued.Maher Murqous, a Christian from Mosul who fled to neighboring Syria after being threatened by militants, said his relatives are still at risk in Iraq, and since they cannot celebrate, neither will he.We will pray for the sake of Iraq. That's all we can do,he said from his home in Damascus.Yacoub reported from Amman, Jordan. Associated Press writers Sinan Salaheddin and Rebecca Santana in Baghdad and Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed to this report.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
France wants closer euro zone economic policy: report
– Wed Dec 22, 3:40 pm ET
BERLIN (Reuters) – France wants all 16 euro zone governments and any other interested European Union members to coordinate their economic policy more closely in the future, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde told a German newspaper.The crisis showed us that it is not sufficient to limit public debt as foreseen in the Maastricht Treaty. Ireland stuck to these criteria and finds itself nevertheless in difficulty, Lagarde said in an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.The EU must not look just at the budgets, it must monitor how the economies in the member states develop.Countries that set out to boost exports and increase investment in a certain sector, for example, would directly affect other EU countries.I don't think it is possible to take away sovereignty over budgets from national states, but we could coordinate with each other already when we are preparing tax legislation. Germany and France plan exactly that - more and more we want to coordinate already when we draft our budget plans for the coming years, she explained.Furthermore, I can also imagine creating an arbitration body (for closer economic policy coordination), Lagarde said.
European countries' diverging tax rates have become a subject of tension. In negotiations on Ireland's EU/IMF bailout last month, France and Germany wanted Ireland's ultra-low corporation tax rate -- long seen by higher-tax European countries as unfair competition -- to be addressed but Dublin made clear the tax rate was non-negotiable.Lagarde, in the interview, acknowledged that all 27 member EU states were unlikely to agree to such a wide-ranging move to coordinate economic policy, with the UK likely to vent fierce opposition, but she said some countries outside the euro zone would be interested.I doubt that a coordinated economic governance would be possible with all 27 states. Great Britain, for example, disagrees entirely on certain things. But that shouldn't hold up all the others, she said.Lagarde rejected the idea of issuing common euro zone bonds -- which some European policymakers and analysts say would help ease market concerns about peripheral euro zone debt -- at least until member states have aligned themselves more closely.Definitely not at present, she said, when asked under what conditions France would support debt jointly issued by all 16 states.Before we introduce euro bonds, we first need a economic governance,(GOVERMENT) she said.She also told the newspaper that the French government was committed to lowering its debt and was currently planning to propose a tax reform prior to presidential elections in 2012.(Reporting by Christiaan Hetzner; Editing by Susan Fenton)
Spain PM: Fixing hurting economy will take 5 years
– Wed Dec 22, 9:21 am ET
MADRID – Spain's prime minister says it will take his nation five years to repair the economic damage caused by Europe's debt crisis and a big real estate boom that went bust.Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told Parliament that Europe's fourth largest economy needs five years to correct the structural imbalances in our economy. Spain has unemployment of nearly 20 percent, with grim growth prospects.Zapatero also said Wednesday that his government will unveil a long-awaited proposal to raise the retirement age from 65 to 67 on Jan 28.He spoke a day after Parliament approved a 2011 austerity budget by a razor-thin margin — a move that likely saved Zapatero his job. Zapatero likely would have had to call early elections if it had not passed.
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
North Korea response muted to South's planned drills By Yoo Choonsik and Sylvia Westall - DEC 22,10
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea criticized major land and sea military exercises to be staged by the South on Thursday, but stopped short of threatening a retaliatory strike as tension remained high on the divided peninsula.In a show of military might, South Korea will hold a major.land drill in the Pocheon region, between Seoul and the heavily armed demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas. It will also continue naval live-fire exercises 100 km (60 miles) south of the maritime border with North Korea.The drill, involving a larger scale of firepower and personnel than usual for such an exercise at an army training ground, is an indication that conservative President Lee Myung-bak wants to underscore his renewed determination to stand tough against the North.He has replaced his top defense officials with more hawkish military men, a response to criticism of a perceived weak response to hostile acts from the North, including a submarine attack in March and the shelling of an island last month.We're keeping up the alert, a Defense Ministry official said on the condition of anonymity. There may have been some adjustments to readiness posture but we are still on top alert.A large contingent of mechanized units operating tanks, three dozen self-propelled artillery, fighter jets and multiple rocket launchers, were set to stage the live-fire drill starting at 0500GMT just miles from the border with the North.
(South Korea) is trying to hide the provocative nature toward the North of the war exercises, Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency said in a comment issued in the form of a news dispatch rather than in the name of any government organization.The South Korean Army is making no secret that the drill is aimed at displaying its firepower to its neighbor.Yes, it will be a show of force against that, an army officer said on Wednesday, when asked if the shelling of South Korea's Yeonpyeong island last month was a factor, although he said similar drills had been staged before.Seoul's financial markets were little moved in early trade as investors kept a close eye on how North Korea will react to the drills, although the North's threatening remarks had in the past failed to have a lasting effect.
DISPUTED WATERS
The North's reaction was relatively calm in comparison with its threats of a retaliatory strike made as recently as last week ahead of Monday's live-firing drill on Yeonpyeong, in disputed waters off the west coast of the peninsula.Its official Rodong Sinmun newspaper accused the United States of conspiring with the South and Japan to bring war to the Korean peninsula.The Korean peninsula has turned sharply unstable on the brink of war due to scheming by the U.S. to militarily stifle the North, the commentary said.Analysts say the North is unlikely, in the near-term at least, to launch a further attack against the South like last month's shelling of Yeonpyeong or the sinking in March of the Cheonan warship. The South accuses North Korea of sinking the vessel, though the North denies involvement.For now, the North is likely to wait and see if its latest actions, including an offer to readmit international nuclear inspectors, yield results, such as a return to international talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme.The White House said on Wednesday it did not expect the military exercises to trigger a North Korean response. Exercises that have been announced well in advance, that are transparent, that are defensive in nature, should in no way engender a response from the North Koreans, spokesman Robert Gibbs said.But some say South Korea should not be complacent because the North will probably strike again when the conditions are right.The North Korean leaders did not duck the fight this time because they were afraid, Andrei Lankov at Kookmin University in Seoul wrote in Financial Times earlier this week referring to the Monday's drills.Rather, they did what a cold-minded tactician should do: they avoided an engagement under unfavorable conditions chosen by the opponent, in order to strike the opponent at the time and place of their own choice, suddenly and forcefully.(Additional reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Alex Richardson)
SKorea holds massive new drills after North attack By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press - DEC 22,10
http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/23598019
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea on Thursday mobilized hundreds of troops, tanks, helicopters and jet fighters for a massive military exercise aimed at sending North Korea a message of strength amid high tensions on the peninsula.The firing drills set for later in the day near the Koreas' heavily armed land border signaled that South Korea is willing to risk further escalating tensions with North Korea, which shelled a southern island off the Koreas' western coast on Nov. 23, killing four South Koreans and stirring fears of war.The attack was portrayed by Pyongyang as a retaliation for southern military exercises on Yeonpyeong island that day.South Korea has conducted 47 military drills this year similar to the one planned for Thursday, which was scheduled in response to the North Korean attack, an army officer said on condition of anonymity citing department rules. Thursday's drill will be the biggest-ever wintertime joint firing exercise that South Korea's army and air force have staged, an army statement said.We will completely punish the enemy if it provokes us again like the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, Brig. Gen. Ju Eun-sik, chief of the army's 1st armored brigade, said separately.
South Korean forces are on high alert even though the North backed down from its threat to again retaliate over a separate firing drill the South held Monday on Yeonpyeong in disputed western waters.The two Koreas remain technically at war since their 1950s conflict ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty. The past month's military tension, however, has been the worst in several years.The North has made conciliatory remarks in recent days — telling a visiting U.S. governor it might allow international inspections of its nuclear programs — but Seoul is mindful of past surprise attacks and still is bracing for possible aggression.The White House dismissed concern that South Korea's exercises could lead to any escalation of the situation.I think exercises that have been announced well in advance, that are transparent, that are defensive in nature, should in no way engender a response from the North Koreans, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a briefing on Wednesday.South Korea's navy also began annual four-day firing and anti-submarine exercises Wednesday off the country's eastern coast. That area has been less tense recently but in the past, the North has used eastern waters as a submarine route for communist agents to infiltrate South Korea.The Koreas' recent military skirmishes, including last month's artillery bombardment, have been in the tense western waters, where Pyongyang does not recognize the U.N.-drawn border.Thursday's air force and army drills will involve 800 troops, F-15K and KF-16 jet fighters, K-1 tanks, AH-1S attack helicopters and K-9 self-propelled guns. They will take place in Pocheon, about 30 miles (45 kilometers) north of Seoul and about 21 miles (33 kilometers) south of the North Korean border.
Seoul has relocated more artillery on Yeonpyeong island following last month's shelling and plans to deploy Israeli-made Spike missiles there soon, Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unidentified military official. The Joint Chiefs of Staff declined to confirm the report.North Korea, meanwhile, indicated to visiting New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that it was prepared to consider ways to work with the South on restoring security along the border.Richardson praised Pyongyang for refraining from retaliation and said his visit to the North provided an opening for a resumption of negotiations aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program. North Korea pulled out of six-nation talks to provide Pyongyang with aid in exchange for disarmament in April 2009, but since has said it is willing to resume them.The White House, however, rejected the idea, saying Pyongyang needed to change its belligerent behavior first and was not even remotely ready for negotiations.In Seoul, a senior South Korean government official said the military would remain prepared for the possibility of a surprise attack in coming days. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Separately, about 200 South Koreans attended a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening for the four South Koreans killed by North Korea's attack on the Yeonpyeong.They observed a moment of silence and placed flowers on a makeshift mourning site in central Seoul. We, the survivors, should remember their sacrifice and make efforts to ensure that their sacrifice will not be in vain, said Choi Hong-jae, a 42-year-old executive. Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee, Foster Klug and Kim Kwang-tae in Seoul, Lee Jin-man in Gimpo, South Korea, and Mark S. Smith in Washington contributed to this report.
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU DEC 23,2010
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM +9.99
10:30 AM +12.45
11:00 AM +11.81
11:30 AM +20.60
12:00 PM +10.30
12:30 PM +5.33
01:00 PM +9.88
01:30 PM +11.02
02:00 PM +8.03
02:30 PM +1.05
03:00 PM -4.99
03:30 PM +15.50
04:00 PM +14.00 11,573.45
S&P 500 1256.77 -2.07
NASDAQ 2665.50 -5.88
GOLD 1,380.50 -6.90
OIL 91.53 +1.05
TSE 300 13,371.20 -9.50
CDNX 2175.38 +8.02
S&P/TSX/60 763.87 -0.79
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -3 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -4 points at low today.
Dow +13 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,377.00.OIL opens at $90.53 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today so far.
Dow +23 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today.
Dow +23 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,427.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NATURAL GAS -184 BCF
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.
Northeast to miss white Christmas
– Wed Dec 22, 4:10 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Northeast will not have a white Christmas. A winter storm that was expected earlier in the week for Christmas Eve into Christmas Day in the Northeast will be delayed by a day, if it makes an appearance at all, according to forecasters referencing government weather data.It doesn't look as dramatic as it did earlier this week, said Bob Haas, a meteorologist with MDA EarthSat Weather in Rockville, Maryland.Cities in the lower Midwest will likely still get snow, but the storm is not expected to arrive in the Northeast, if at all, until Christmas night into Sunday, Haas said.The U.S. Global Forecasting System, a weather prediction model run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows the storm remaining mostly offshore and as less of a threat to cities along the Interstate 95 corridor on the East Coast than previous forecasts.The storm right now is more of a threat to the U.S. Gulf Coast cities as light snow or rain.One caveat is the European equivalent of the GFS, which shows the storm moving inland instead of remaining offshore.
In that scenario, snow would start early on Christmas Day around the North Carolina-Virginia border, then make its way up the East Coast toward New England on Saturday and into Sunday.Colder-than-normal temperatures are still expected to linger in the Northeast next week, with the coldest temperatures expected Sunday into Monday.
Temperatures will warm up thereafter. January weather in the Northeast is expected to be variable, with bursts of cold moderated by warmer periods in between, Haas said.(Reporting by Jeanine Prezioso; Editing by Walter Bagley)
Waterlogged California braces for more furious weather
– Wed Dec 22, 3:38 pm ET
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Southern California, already reeling from days of flooding, thunderstorms and tidal surges, braced for even more furious weather Wednesday, as forecasters warned of the arrival of yet another powerful storm.A new weather system, forecast to be the most intense of the past week, was expected to spawn more wind, rain and even small tornadoes in the state, which has suffered an unrelenting barrage of inclement weather.Wednesday's forecast is definitely going to be the main event of an eventful climatological week, Bill Patzert, a specialist at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Rainfall was expected to total as much as 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) per hour, which could cause flooding not only in low-lying areas, but in the state's saturated foothills and mountains.Meanwhile, rising flood waters also were causing problems throughout southern California. Local news programs broadcast numerous reports of stranded motorist who had to be plucked from their cars after becoming trapped by raging flash floods.Officials warned residents, particularly those near local creeks and waterways, to take the risk in earnest.This is not a playground. This is no time to do extreme sports, said Jack Wise of the Los Angeles Fire Department.Even six inches (15 centimeters) of water in the flood control channels is enough to wash you down the river... There's nobody to hear you scream, Wise said.
Officials in Los Angeles County order the evacuations of hundreds of homes in the shadow of the denuded San Gabriel Mountains, which recent fires have made bereft of vegetation and where there was a high risk of flooding and landslides.If you fail to comply, it could result in death, Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich said.California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger meanwhile has declared a state of emergency in a half dozen southern California counties because of the storms.Weather officials said the rain would be accompanied by winds between 15 to 25 miles (24 to 40 kilometers) per hour and gusts of up to 65 miles (100 kilometers) per hour.Heavy snows, rain, winds and lower-than-usual temperatures have buffeted the western United States throughout the weekend, hitting Oregon and California especially hard.
In farm-rich central California, floods earlier this week forced 2,000 people from their homes in Kern county, the local fire department reported in a statement.
Meanwhile downtown Los Angeles has seen days of record rainfall, with cascades of water causing power outages across Southern California, mudslides and rock slides in the area's scenic foothills, and closure of parts of the famed Pacific Coast Highway.
The one bright spot was had by the region's winter resorts, where record amounts of snow created a skiers' paradise just in time for the Christmas holiday season.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Strong aftershock hits Japanese islands
– Wed Dec 22, 6:06 pm ET
TOKYO (AFP) – A strong 6.3-magnitude aftershock struck off southern Japan on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, a day after the region was rocked by a major earthquake.The latest jolt to hit the region, following Wednesday's 7.4-magnitude quake, struck at 7:49 am local time (2149 GMT Wednesday), 146 kilometres (91 miles) east of Chichi-shima in Japan's remote Bonin islands region, at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injury.It was the strongest aftershock since yesterday's earthquake, said Masahide Fujimaru, a village official on Chichi-shima island.But it was not strong enough to make things fall from shelves, Fujimaru told AFP by telephone. There is no confusion and we have not received any information of damage or injuries.Japan's meteorological agency said the latest quake will not create a major, widespread tsunami but warned that there may be some change in sea level in a few hours.Japan's agency has also warned strong aftershocks would continue for the time being in the region.Scores of villagers on the remote Pacific archipelago -- known locally as the Ogasawara islands -- scrambled for higher ground Wednesday after the 7.4 quake sparked a tsunami alert.The seabed tremor struck at 2:19 am, jolting people out of bed as loudspeakers blared across the Ogasawara islands and authorities warned of the risk of a two-metre (six-foot) high local tsunami.The tsunami alert was later downgraded and all warnings were lifted five hours after the quake hit near the islands, some 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo.
The quake was followed by a series of aftershocks measuring between 5.3 and 5.6 which continued into the morning.About three hours after the quake, a 60-centimetre (two-feet) wave was monitored 700 kilometres away at Hachijo-jima, part of the Izu island chain that runs south of Tokyo, the meteorological agency said.Waves of up to 20 centimetres also reached the southwestern Japanese main islands, the agency said.
The Ogasawara chain, made up of more than 30 subtropical and tropical islets some 240 kilometres north of Iwo Jima, were put under the control of the United States after World War II, and returned to Japan in 1968.The remote islands have preserved their unique biological habitats and have been dubbed the Galapagos of the Orient.Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes strike Japan, which sits on the Ring of Fire surrounding the Pacific Ocean.In 1995 a magnitude-7.2 quake in the port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people. But high building standards, regular drills and a sophisticated tsunami warning system mean that casualties are often minimal.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
LOOKS WHATS BACK FOR THE NEXT SCARE TACTIC AGAIN BY THE NEW WORLD ORDER CONTROL FREAKS.
Hong Kong bird tests positive for bird flu
DEC 22,10
HONG KONG (AFP) – Hong Kong authorities confirmed Thursday that a dead bird found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the H5 strain of the bird flu virus.A government spokeswoman told AFP that laboratory tests had confirmed the highly decomposed chicken carcass found on the seashore of an island in the territory on December 18 carried the deadly strain.In a press release a spokesman said the Hong Kong government was concerned about the incident and will continue to monitor the situation.There were no poultry farms within three kilometres of the shore and there was no evidence of backyard poultry in nearby villages, the statement added.The government will step up inspections of the shore and its immediate vicinity, the statement said.Officials did not raise the city's public health warning on bird flu.
In November, Hong Kong confirmed its first human case of bird flu since 2003, after a 59-year-old woman tested positive for Influenza A (H5), a variant of bird flu.At the time, the government raised its avian influenza alert level to serious, but it has been lowered since.Hong Kong was the site of the world's first major outbreak of bird flu among humans in 1997, when six people died of a mutation of the virus, which is normally confined to poultry.Millions of birds were culled in the 1997 outbreak.Six years later the city was gripped by a full-blown panic when the deadly respiratory disease SARS emerged, killing about 300 people.Public anxiety returned to the city of seven million people last year with an outbreak of swine flu that claimed about 80 lives.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Iraqi churches cancel Christmas festivities By YAHYA BARZANJI and SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press - DEC 22,10
KIRKUK, Iraq – No decorations, no midnight Mass. Even an appearance by Santa Claus has been nixed after Iraq's Christian leaders called off Christmas celebrations amid new al-Qaida threats on the tiny community still terrified from a bloody siege on a Baghdad church.Christians across Iraq have been living in fear since the assault on Our Lady of Salvation Church as its Catholic congregation was celebrating Sunday Mass. Sixty-eight people were killed. Days later Islamic insurgents bombed Christian homes and neighborhoods across the capital.On Tuesday, al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on Iraq's beleaguered Christians, many of whom have fled their homes or the country since the church attack. A council representing Christian denominations across Iraq advised its followers to cancel public celebrations of Christmas out of concern for their lives and as a show of mourning for the victims.
Nobody can ignore the threats of al-Qaida against Iraqi Christians, said Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako in Kirkuk. We cannot find a single source of joy that makes us celebrate. The situation of the Christians is bleak.Church officials in Baghdad, as well as in the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul and the southern city of Basra, said they will not put up Christmas decorations or celebrate midnight Mass. They urged worshippers not to decorate their homes. Even an appearance by Santa Claus was called off.It's to avoid any attacks, but also to show that people are sad, not happy, said Younadim Kanna, a Christian lawmaker from Baghdad.Even before the Oct. 31 church attack, thousands of Christians were fleeing Iraq. They make up more than a third of the 53,700 Iraqis resettled in the United States since 2007, according to State Department statistics.Since the church attack, some 1,000 families have fled to Iraq's safer Kurdish-ruled north, according to the United Nations, which recently warned of a steady exodus of Iraqi Christians.The latest threats were posted late Tuesday by the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida front group, on a website frequented by Islamic extremists. The group said it wants the release of two women it claims are being held captive by Egypt's Coptic Church.Muslim extremists in Egypt accuse the Coptic Church of detaining the women for allegedly converting to Islam, an accusation the church denies. The message posted Tuesday was addressed to Iraq's Christian community and said it was designed to pressure Egypt.Few reliable statistics exist on the number of Christians remaining in this nation of 29 million. A recent State Department report says Christian leaders estimate there are 400,000 to 600,000, down from a prewar level of some 1.4 million.
For those who remain, Christmas will be a somber affair.In the northern city of Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Sako said there will be no Christmas decorations outside churches and a traditional visit by Santa Claus has also been called off. Money usually used on celebrations or gifts will instead go to help Christian refugees.Ashour Binyamin, a 55-year-old Christian from Kirkuk said he and his family would not go to church on Christmas and would celebrate at home.At Baghdad's Our Lady of Salvation Church, where more than 120 parishioners were held hostage by gunmen during the four-hour siege, all Christmas Masses have been canceled. Only a modest manger display will mark the occasion.We have canceled all celebrations in the church,said Father Mukhlis. We are still in deep sorrow over the innocent victims who fell during the evil attack.In Baghdad's Karradah neighborhood, where many of the city's remaining Christians live, churches were guarded by security forces Wednesday and surrounded by razor wire. Shop owners said few people were buying the Christmas trees and Santa Claus toys on sale.Ikhlas Bahnam, a Christian in the neighborhood, vowed to go to Mass on Christmas Day, despite what she called the government's failure to protect her small minority. But she won't be visiting friends during the holiday season because all of them have fled the city.
We did not put any decorations inside or outside our house this year, Bahnam said. We see no reason to celebrate.In Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, the Rev. Faiz Wadee, a Syrian Orthodox priest, said there will be no public Christmas celebrations there.And Christians in Iraq's second-largest city of Basra have also called off all celebrations, said Saad Matti, a Christian legislator on the Basra provincial council.There will be only a small Mass in one church in Basra without any signs of joy or decoration and under the protection of Iraqi security forces, he said. We are fully aware of al-Qaida threats.Matti said Christians were also toning down their celebrations out of respect for a Shiite holiday going on at the same time. The majority of Iraqis are Shiite Muslims, especially in the south.
Even among Iraqi Christians who've managed to escape the violence, the mood was subdued.Maher Murqous, a Christian from Mosul who fled to neighboring Syria after being threatened by militants, said his relatives are still at risk in Iraq, and since they cannot celebrate, neither will he.We will pray for the sake of Iraq. That's all we can do,he said from his home in Damascus.Yacoub reported from Amman, Jordan. Associated Press writers Sinan Salaheddin and Rebecca Santana in Baghdad and Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed to this report.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
France wants closer euro zone economic policy: report
– Wed Dec 22, 3:40 pm ET
BERLIN (Reuters) – France wants all 16 euro zone governments and any other interested European Union members to coordinate their economic policy more closely in the future, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde told a German newspaper.The crisis showed us that it is not sufficient to limit public debt as foreseen in the Maastricht Treaty. Ireland stuck to these criteria and finds itself nevertheless in difficulty, Lagarde said in an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.The EU must not look just at the budgets, it must monitor how the economies in the member states develop.Countries that set out to boost exports and increase investment in a certain sector, for example, would directly affect other EU countries.I don't think it is possible to take away sovereignty over budgets from national states, but we could coordinate with each other already when we are preparing tax legislation. Germany and France plan exactly that - more and more we want to coordinate already when we draft our budget plans for the coming years, she explained.Furthermore, I can also imagine creating an arbitration body (for closer economic policy coordination), Lagarde said.
European countries' diverging tax rates have become a subject of tension. In negotiations on Ireland's EU/IMF bailout last month, France and Germany wanted Ireland's ultra-low corporation tax rate -- long seen by higher-tax European countries as unfair competition -- to be addressed but Dublin made clear the tax rate was non-negotiable.Lagarde, in the interview, acknowledged that all 27 member EU states were unlikely to agree to such a wide-ranging move to coordinate economic policy, with the UK likely to vent fierce opposition, but she said some countries outside the euro zone would be interested.I doubt that a coordinated economic governance would be possible with all 27 states. Great Britain, for example, disagrees entirely on certain things. But that shouldn't hold up all the others, she said.Lagarde rejected the idea of issuing common euro zone bonds -- which some European policymakers and analysts say would help ease market concerns about peripheral euro zone debt -- at least until member states have aligned themselves more closely.Definitely not at present, she said, when asked under what conditions France would support debt jointly issued by all 16 states.Before we introduce euro bonds, we first need a economic governance,(GOVERMENT) she said.She also told the newspaper that the French government was committed to lowering its debt and was currently planning to propose a tax reform prior to presidential elections in 2012.(Reporting by Christiaan Hetzner; Editing by Susan Fenton)
Spain PM: Fixing hurting economy will take 5 years
– Wed Dec 22, 9:21 am ET
MADRID – Spain's prime minister says it will take his nation five years to repair the economic damage caused by Europe's debt crisis and a big real estate boom that went bust.Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told Parliament that Europe's fourth largest economy needs five years to correct the structural imbalances in our economy. Spain has unemployment of nearly 20 percent, with grim growth prospects.Zapatero also said Wednesday that his government will unveil a long-awaited proposal to raise the retirement age from 65 to 67 on Jan 28.He spoke a day after Parliament approved a 2011 austerity budget by a razor-thin margin — a move that likely saved Zapatero his job. Zapatero likely would have had to call early elections if it had not passed.
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
North Korea response muted to South's planned drills By Yoo Choonsik and Sylvia Westall - DEC 22,10
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea criticized major land and sea military exercises to be staged by the South on Thursday, but stopped short of threatening a retaliatory strike as tension remained high on the divided peninsula.In a show of military might, South Korea will hold a major.land drill in the Pocheon region, between Seoul and the heavily armed demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas. It will also continue naval live-fire exercises 100 km (60 miles) south of the maritime border with North Korea.The drill, involving a larger scale of firepower and personnel than usual for such an exercise at an army training ground, is an indication that conservative President Lee Myung-bak wants to underscore his renewed determination to stand tough against the North.He has replaced his top defense officials with more hawkish military men, a response to criticism of a perceived weak response to hostile acts from the North, including a submarine attack in March and the shelling of an island last month.We're keeping up the alert, a Defense Ministry official said on the condition of anonymity. There may have been some adjustments to readiness posture but we are still on top alert.A large contingent of mechanized units operating tanks, three dozen self-propelled artillery, fighter jets and multiple rocket launchers, were set to stage the live-fire drill starting at 0500GMT just miles from the border with the North.
(South Korea) is trying to hide the provocative nature toward the North of the war exercises, Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency said in a comment issued in the form of a news dispatch rather than in the name of any government organization.The South Korean Army is making no secret that the drill is aimed at displaying its firepower to its neighbor.Yes, it will be a show of force against that, an army officer said on Wednesday, when asked if the shelling of South Korea's Yeonpyeong island last month was a factor, although he said similar drills had been staged before.Seoul's financial markets were little moved in early trade as investors kept a close eye on how North Korea will react to the drills, although the North's threatening remarks had in the past failed to have a lasting effect.
DISPUTED WATERS
The North's reaction was relatively calm in comparison with its threats of a retaliatory strike made as recently as last week ahead of Monday's live-firing drill on Yeonpyeong, in disputed waters off the west coast of the peninsula.Its official Rodong Sinmun newspaper accused the United States of conspiring with the South and Japan to bring war to the Korean peninsula.The Korean peninsula has turned sharply unstable on the brink of war due to scheming by the U.S. to militarily stifle the North, the commentary said.Analysts say the North is unlikely, in the near-term at least, to launch a further attack against the South like last month's shelling of Yeonpyeong or the sinking in March of the Cheonan warship. The South accuses North Korea of sinking the vessel, though the North denies involvement.For now, the North is likely to wait and see if its latest actions, including an offer to readmit international nuclear inspectors, yield results, such as a return to international talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme.The White House said on Wednesday it did not expect the military exercises to trigger a North Korean response. Exercises that have been announced well in advance, that are transparent, that are defensive in nature, should in no way engender a response from the North Koreans, spokesman Robert Gibbs said.But some say South Korea should not be complacent because the North will probably strike again when the conditions are right.The North Korean leaders did not duck the fight this time because they were afraid, Andrei Lankov at Kookmin University in Seoul wrote in Financial Times earlier this week referring to the Monday's drills.Rather, they did what a cold-minded tactician should do: they avoided an engagement under unfavorable conditions chosen by the opponent, in order to strike the opponent at the time and place of their own choice, suddenly and forcefully.(Additional reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Alex Richardson)
SKorea holds massive new drills after North attack By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press - DEC 22,10
http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/23598019
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea on Thursday mobilized hundreds of troops, tanks, helicopters and jet fighters for a massive military exercise aimed at sending North Korea a message of strength amid high tensions on the peninsula.The firing drills set for later in the day near the Koreas' heavily armed land border signaled that South Korea is willing to risk further escalating tensions with North Korea, which shelled a southern island off the Koreas' western coast on Nov. 23, killing four South Koreans and stirring fears of war.The attack was portrayed by Pyongyang as a retaliation for southern military exercises on Yeonpyeong island that day.South Korea has conducted 47 military drills this year similar to the one planned for Thursday, which was scheduled in response to the North Korean attack, an army officer said on condition of anonymity citing department rules. Thursday's drill will be the biggest-ever wintertime joint firing exercise that South Korea's army and air force have staged, an army statement said.We will completely punish the enemy if it provokes us again like the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, Brig. Gen. Ju Eun-sik, chief of the army's 1st armored brigade, said separately.
South Korean forces are on high alert even though the North backed down from its threat to again retaliate over a separate firing drill the South held Monday on Yeonpyeong in disputed western waters.The two Koreas remain technically at war since their 1950s conflict ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty. The past month's military tension, however, has been the worst in several years.The North has made conciliatory remarks in recent days — telling a visiting U.S. governor it might allow international inspections of its nuclear programs — but Seoul is mindful of past surprise attacks and still is bracing for possible aggression.The White House dismissed concern that South Korea's exercises could lead to any escalation of the situation.I think exercises that have been announced well in advance, that are transparent, that are defensive in nature, should in no way engender a response from the North Koreans, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a briefing on Wednesday.South Korea's navy also began annual four-day firing and anti-submarine exercises Wednesday off the country's eastern coast. That area has been less tense recently but in the past, the North has used eastern waters as a submarine route for communist agents to infiltrate South Korea.The Koreas' recent military skirmishes, including last month's artillery bombardment, have been in the tense western waters, where Pyongyang does not recognize the U.N.-drawn border.Thursday's air force and army drills will involve 800 troops, F-15K and KF-16 jet fighters, K-1 tanks, AH-1S attack helicopters and K-9 self-propelled guns. They will take place in Pocheon, about 30 miles (45 kilometers) north of Seoul and about 21 miles (33 kilometers) south of the North Korean border.
Seoul has relocated more artillery on Yeonpyeong island following last month's shelling and plans to deploy Israeli-made Spike missiles there soon, Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unidentified military official. The Joint Chiefs of Staff declined to confirm the report.North Korea, meanwhile, indicated to visiting New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that it was prepared to consider ways to work with the South on restoring security along the border.Richardson praised Pyongyang for refraining from retaliation and said his visit to the North provided an opening for a resumption of negotiations aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program. North Korea pulled out of six-nation talks to provide Pyongyang with aid in exchange for disarmament in April 2009, but since has said it is willing to resume them.The White House, however, rejected the idea, saying Pyongyang needed to change its belligerent behavior first and was not even remotely ready for negotiations.In Seoul, a senior South Korean government official said the military would remain prepared for the possibility of a surprise attack in coming days. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Separately, about 200 South Koreans attended a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening for the four South Koreans killed by North Korea's attack on the Yeonpyeong.They observed a moment of silence and placed flowers on a makeshift mourning site in central Seoul. We, the survivors, should remember their sacrifice and make efforts to ensure that their sacrifice will not be in vain, said Choi Hong-jae, a 42-year-old executive. Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee, Foster Klug and Kim Kwang-tae in Seoul, Lee Jin-man in Gimpo, South Korea, and Mark S. Smith in Washington contributed to this report.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
START TREATY WILL FAIL EVEN IF PASSED
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)
EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)
REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
THIS START TREATY WILL NOT WORK WITH RUSSIA AS THESE PROPHECY SCRIPTURES REAVEAL.RUSSIA SNEAK NUKE ATTACKS AMERICA SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE.
US poised to approve nuclear arms pact with Russia By DESMOND BUTLER, Associate Press - DEC 22,10
WASHINGTON – The Senate is poised to approve a nuclear arms pact with Russia, handing President Barack Obama a huge victory on his top foreign policy priority.
Passage of the New START treaty appeared assured after 11 Republicans joined Democrats in a vote Tuesday to end debate on the pact. That signaled that Obama should have the two-thirds majority he needs when the Senate votes on final approval Wednesday.The approval would mark a big comeback for Obama's arm controls efforts after the treaty appeared all but dead just weeks ago. It also would allow Obama to continue efforts to improve relations with Russia.Ratification would mark a third recent major political victory for Obama, even though his Democratic party was trounced in last month's congressional elections. In recent days he won passage of a bipartisan tax deal and a vote ending the ban on gays openly serving in the military.
We are on the brink of writing the next chapter in the 40-year history of wrestling with the threat of nuclear weapons, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, a Democrat, said after the vote.The treaty would limit each country's strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550, down from the current ceiling of 2,200. It also would establish a system for monitoring and verification. U.S. weapons inspections ended last year with the expiration of a 1991 treaty.The administration was adamant that it be ratified this year because the Democrats' majority in the Senate is set to shrink by five in January and waiting could have meant months of delay or defeat.
Republicans accused Democrats of rushing approval of the treaty for political reasons. They have asserted it would limit U.S. missile defense options and argued it has insufficient procedures to verify Russia's adherence.When Jon Kyl, the leading Republican on negotiations over the treaty, suggested a delay last month, Obama appeared unlikely to find the nine Republican votes needed for passage.But he and top members of his administration lobbied intensely, with Obama postponing his Christmas vacation in Hawaii. They enlisted support from top military officials and big-name Republicans from past administrations who argued the treaty was essential for U.S. national security.In the end, they persuaded enough Republicans to defy the party's top two leaders in the Senate and support the pact.We know when we've been beaten, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch told reporters hours before Tuesday's vote.Even the Senate's No. 3 Republican, Lamar Alexander, endorsed the accord, saying he was assured U.S. defenses would not be weakened.The treaty will leave the United States with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to kingdom come, Alexander said on the Senate floor.
Republicans had tried to kill the treaty by forcing changes in its language that would have sent it back for negotiations with Moscow. Democrats were working to appease some Republican senators by letting them raise these issues in legislation accompanying the treaty that would not directly affect the treaty.
Most Republicans remained opposed.
The administration did not negotiate a good treaty, Kyl said. They went into the negotiations it seems to me with the attitude with the Russians just like the guy who goes into the car dealership and says, I'm not leaving here until I buy a car.
Though Kyl looks likely to vote on the losing side of the debate over the treaty, in his negotiations with the administration he did win Obama's commitment to modernize the remaining nuclear arsenal with projected spending of $85 billion over 10 years.
Some of that money is now in the pipeline, contained in a stopgap government funding bill that cleared Congress on Tuesday. The measure would finance the government, mostly at current levels, through March 4.It makes an exception for nuclear security programs, allowing the government to spend money to modernize the United States' nuclear arsenal at a rate equal to Obama's $624 million request.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 47:13-23,48:1-35
Hareidi Religious Jews to Join Rally for Judea and Samaria
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu DEC 22,10
Thousands of hareidi religious Jews are expected to turn out at a Jerusalem rally Thursday in support of Judea and Samaria. The 7:00 p.m. rally at Zion Square in the center of the capital will be staged against a defacto building freeze and as a salute to Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem residents. Popular singers Ariel Zilber, Yishai Lapidot, Mendy Jerufi and Gadi Elbaz will perform.Support for nationalists by the hareidi religious community, which was less common several years ago, provides an additional and strong ally for Land of Israel activists.One sticker that will be distributed to people will be written in Yiddish, the first language of tens of thousands of people in religious communities, and states, The Land of Israel is ours.
The Halamish organization, which is organizing the rally, stated, We must stop the government from expelling more Jews, and Jewish law, as determined by a council of sages, forbids giving land to non-Jews.
Halamish pointed out that although there is no official building freeze in Judea and Samaria, there is a de facto freeze that it said is a contributing factor to a severe housing shortage. Communities that have been affected include the hareidi religious cities of Beitar Illit, located in western Gush Etzion, Modi'in Illit, located in Samaria and near the city of Modi’in, and Emanuel, east of Kfar Saba and near the Jewish communities of Ginot Shomron and Kedumim in central Samaria.
Organizers, relying on a statement from hareidi religious sages, said that the Holy Land is the foundation for building the truth, and it is forbidden to separate the Land from the Torah because they are one. They noted that the blessings recited after food thank the Creator for the land…the exodus from Egypt…and the Torah.Organizers recalled that before the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif in 2005, they distributed pamphlets to hareidi religious synagogues in Ashdod warning them that the expulsion would be followed by missile attacks.They laughed at such extremist views, but then asked, Who would have thought missiles would explode in Ashkelon, Ashdod, Be’er Sheva and Kiryat Gat? All saw after the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif that the meaning of a peace agreement for terrorists is missiles and rockets. The missile attacks proved it is impossible to make peace with terrorists.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Israel moving tank defense system near Gaza AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press - DEC 22,10
JERUSALEM – Israeli defense officials say the army will deploy tanks equipped with a miniature missile defense system near the Gaza border now that Palestinians are using a tank-piercing missile.The officials allege the Kornet missiles the militants possess came from Iran. They provided no proof.The officials spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss such matters.At a time of rising violence along the Gaza border, Israel's military chief disclosed Tuesday that militants fired a Kornet for the first time earlier this month, puncturing an Israeli tank.As a result, the defense officials say Israel has decided to move dozens of tanks equipped with the new Israeli-developed system, which detects incoming projectiles and shoots them down before they reach the armored vehicles.
Israel complains to UN over Gaza rockets
DEC 22,10
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel has called on the Security Council to issue a clear and resolute message against rockets fired into its territory from the Gaza Strip, in a letter to the United Nations body that was made public on Wednesday.The December 21 letter, made public by Israel's foreign ministry, comes amid rising tensions on Israel's border with the coastal enclave.On Tuesday, Israel launched a series of airstrikes against what it said were tunnels, training sites and weapons facilities in the Gaza Strip, in response to a salvo of mortar shells on Monday and rocket fire on Tuesday morning.A Kassem rocket landed just metres (yards) away from a kindergarten in a southern Israeli kibbutz, wounding a teenage girl.The incidents of the past several days are part of an escalation of terrorist attacks emanating from Gaza that target Israeli civilians, towns, and military personnel, said the letter signed by Meron Reuben, Israel's UN ambassador.Israel holds the de facto authority in the Gaza Strip completely responsible for all of these incidents, which are carried out in clear violation of international law. In response to such attacks, Israel has exercised and will continue to exercise its right to self-defence.
The letter is addressed to US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, the current chair of the Security Council, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.It says three rockets and 18 mortars have been fired into parts of southern Israel from Gaza since December 19 alone.The Security Council, the Secretary-General, and the international community must send a clear and resolute message that these attacks are unacceptable, Reuben wrote.In addition, the Security Council must give appropriate attention to the smuggling of arms into Gaza, which continues to fuel violence and instability in our region.On Tuesday, Israeli army chief Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi warned that the relative calm that has prevailed since Israel's devastating Gaza offensive at the end of 2008 could quickly end.The situation is tense and fragile and could easily deteriorate, particularly if a rocket lands in a populated area, he told a parliamentary committee.Between December 2008 and January 2009, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, in response to hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza into the Jewish state.The war cost the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers.Since then, the number of rocket attacks has dropped considerably, but the army says more than 200 rockets or shells have been fired this year.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
France and Germany oppose newcomers to border-free area
VALENTINA POP Today DEC 22,10 @ 08:56 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - France and Germany sent a joint letter to the EU on Tuesday (21 December) describing Bulgaria and Romania's entry into Europe's border-free Schengen area in March as "premature" and urging more progress in the fight against corruption and organised crime. The move was slammed as an act of discrimination by Bucharest.French interior minister Brice Hortefeux and his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere raised their objections in a joint letter to the EU commission, according to AFP.The ministers said it was premature to let the two countries join Schengen in March - the current date aimed for by the two countries - and recommended that the EU wait for irreversible progress in the fight against corruption and organised crime instead.Back in Berlin, a spokesman for Germany's interior ministry said that lack of progress by Romania and Bulgaria in reforming their judiciaries could have grave consequences for the European Union's security and raised concerns about an overly swift adhesion to the Schengen area, AP reported.
Romanian President Traian Basescu reacted to the letter saying it was an act of discrimination against Romania which his country would not tolerate, even if it comes from EU's most powerful countries.In practice there is little Bucharest can do, as the decision has to be agreed unanimously among Schengen members - 22 EU states plus Norway, Switzerland and Iceland - meaning that France and Germany have veto powers.Meanwhile, a more compliant Bulgarian foreign ministry spokeswoman said her country would do the utmost to remove any doubts, including in the areas of the judicial system and society as a whole.The two newcomers had so far painfully tried to avoid a link between a unique EU monitoring system put in place after they joined the bloc in 2007 and evaluating their fight against crime and corruption, with their bid to become members of the border-free area.So far, the EU commission had maintained that the two processes are not linked and that Schengen enlargement has its own evaluation system, but has also conceded that it is a matter of trust with other states in the area, which will depend on the newcomers to secure their common borders.Experts evaluating the readiness of the countries two have so far given them a green light, with a final report due in January.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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CNBC VIDEOS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED DEC 22,2010
09:30 AM +2.25
10:00 AM +2.34
10:30 AM +3.93
11:00 AM +10.02
11:30 AM +8.96
12:00 PM +13.16
12:30 PM +32.50
01:00 PM +12.26
01:30 PM +23.46
02:00 PM +16.68
02:30 PM +18.39
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03:30 PM +20.52
04:00 PM +26.33 11,599.49
S&P 500 1258.84 +4.24
NASDAQ 2671.48 +3.87
GOLD 1,384.60 -4.20
OIL 90.53 +0.71
TSE 300 13,380.70 +15.60
CDNX 2187.34 +11.51
S&P/TSX/60 764.66 +1.99
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -1 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -1 points at low today.
Dow +13 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,387.80.OIL opens at $90.26 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today so far.
Dow +36 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +36 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,427.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL -5.3 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +2.4 MILLION BARRELS
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EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Japan 7.4 seabed quake sparks tsunami scare
by Harumi Ozawa – Wed Dec 22, 12:52 am ET
TOKYO (AFP) – Scores of villagers on a remote Japanese island chain in the Pacific scrambled for higher ground early Wednesday after a major 7.4-magnitude offshore quake sparked a tsunami alert.The seabed tremor struck at 2:19 am local time (1719 GMT Tuesday), jolting people out of bed as loudspeakers blared across the Ogasawara islands and authorities warned of the risk of a two-metre (six-foot) high local tsunami.The tsunami alert was later downgraded and all warnings were lifted five hours after the quake hit near the islands, some 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) south of Tokyo. No injuries or damage were reported.But about 120 people temporarily evacuated to higher ground on Chichi-shima island and some 50 people on Haha-shima island, Koji Watanabe, a village official on Chichi-shima, said overnight.It was the biggest earthquake I have ever felt, said Masae Nagai, a hotel owner on Chichi-shima, part of the remote archipelago also called the Bonin islands, which has a population of about 2,300.
We were awakened by the quake. It was scary, she told AFP by telephone around sunrise, but she added that the walls of her hotel were not cracked and that things have returned to normal.Local authorities on the Ogasawara islands, near Iwo Jima, said they had set up five shelters for residents but had closed them before sunrise in the absence of damage reports.The jolts were relatively stronger than those we have felt in the past, Kenichi Mochida, another Chichi-shima official, told AFP. But there was no panic as people acted in an orderly manner.Yoshihiro Ikeda, vice principal of the Ogasawara Elementary School with 123 pupils in Chichi-shima, said: We were worried about our students as the jolt was quite strong and lasted very long.
But we were relieved to confirm that none of our students were injured and no facilities were damaged. I guess we were quite lucky, considering the size of the quake.The quake hit at a shallow depth of 14 kilometres, 153 kilometres (95 miles) east of Chichi-shima, and was followed by a series of aftershocks measuring between 5.3 and 5.6 which continued into the morning.About three hours after the quake, a 60 centimetre (two feet) wave was monitored 700 kilometres away at Hachijo-jima, part of the Izu island chain that runs south of Tokyo, the meteorological agency said.
Waves of up to 20 centimetres also reached the southwestern Japanese main islands, the agency said.The Ogasawara chain, made up of more than 30 subtropical and tropical islets some 240 kilometres north of Iwo Jima, were put under the control of the United States after World War II, and returned to Japan in 1968.The remote islands have preserved their unique biological habitats and have been dubbed the Galapagos of the Orient.The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said after sounding the initial alert there was no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami and no nearby islands were thought to be in the tsunami danger zone.But it warned in a bulletin shortly after the quake: "Earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within 100 kilometres of the earthquake epicentre.When a massive 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the most powerful on record, struck off Chile's coast in February, Japan issued its top tsunami alert and ordered more than half a million people to evacuate seaside areas.
Authorities later apologised after a wave of 120 centimetres hit and caused no injuries.Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes strike Japan, which sits on the Ring of Fire surrounding the Pacific Ocean.In 1995 a magnitude-7.2 quake in the port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people. But high building standards, regular drills and a sophisticated tsunami warning system mean that casualties are often minimal.
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.
Biggest storm yet heads for Calif; homes evacuated By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press - DEC 22,10
LOS ANGELES – After days of relentless rain, Southern California is awaiting the most intense storm system yet, with evacuations ordered, rescue crews on standby and residents anxiously eyeing already saturated mountainsides denuded by wildfires.
Forecasters expected more rain across the state Wednesday, but the focus clearly was on Southern California where a monster storm was expected to bring torrential rain, thunderstorms, flooding, hail and possible tornadoes and water spouts. Forecasters warned of possible rainfall rates of .75 inch to 1 inch an hour and thunderstorm rates of 2 inches an hour in the region.Steady rain began falling late Tuesday and was expected to intensify into early Wednesday.It's going to be a three-ring circus, said National Weather Service spokesman Bill Hoffer. There's going to be a six-hour time frame in the early morning when it's really going to be dumping on us.Officials on Tuesday ordered evacuation of 232 homes in La Canada Flintridge and La Crescenta, foothill suburbs of Los Angeles below steep hillsides that burned in 2009 and where mudslides inundated homes and backyards in February.Walt Kalepsch said his backyard filled up with mud and debris last winter, but he planned to stay the night with his wife and daughter.If it gets really terrible, we'll leave. But we've been evacuated so many times, it's like the city's crying wolf, he said. "During the rest of the year, it's absolutely gorgeous. It was just one big wildfire that changed everything.
As the Pineapple Express system swept Pacific Ocean moisture across Nevada, Arizona and Utah, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in six counties.
The huge and powerful low pressure system off the West Coast pushed precipitation right into the Great Basin.It takes a lot of energy to push that moisture over the mountains, said NWS meteorologist Dave Bruno. This kind of storm could march right across the country and create a lot of bad weather along the way. It could affect the Southern Plains on Thursday and Friday. If it sticks together it'll hit Florida by Saturday.With rain falling up and down the state, Sierra Nevada ski resorts boasted of record-breaking December snowfall, with the storms bringing a total of 10 1/2 to 15 1/2 feet to Mammoth Mountain.Rescuers had to pluck some stranded motorists from rain-swollen creeks. Shoppers dodged puddles while buying last-minute Christmas gifts. Disney resorts canceled a plan to shower visitors with artificial snow.In Orange County, four hikers missing overnight in a flooded canyon in the Cleveland National Forest were rescued Tuesday morning by helicopter after their car was trapped along swollen Trabuco Creek. Rescuers used a bulldozer to retrieve five other people who became stranded by the creek.Downtown Los Angeles received more than a third of its annual average rainfall in less than a week.Parts of the San Gabriel Mountains got more than 18 inches of rain since Friday, with coastal cities like Santa Monica and Long Beach getting more than six inches, the National Weather Service said.Mudslides are a significant risk for three years after a fire and are especially likely anytime the rainfall rate reaches or exceeds one inch per hour, said Susan Cannon, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.That's a likely scenario Wednesday in the area burned by last year's Station Fire, which charred 250 square miles above the suburbs tucked below the San Gabriel Mountains.
It means that once the heaviest rains start, it should be a very active time up there, Cannon said.For all the perils of the torrential rains, there was a silver lining: The water is expected to help ease the effects of years of drought. Thursday is expected to be dry, with sunshine. There will be light rain on Christmas Day in parts of California.Water content in the snow pack in California's mountains was at 197 percent of normal and 169 percent of the average measurement for April 1 — traditionally the date when the snow's water content is at its peak, said Ted Thomas, spokesman for the California Department of Water Resources.As the snow melts, that water will run off into reservoirs that feed the state's extensive agriculture and city water systems.Associated Press writers Garance Burke in Fresno; Don Thompson in Sacramento; and Sue Manning, Robert Jablon, John Antczak and Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
4 empty homes destroyed by flooding in northern AZ By FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press – Tue Dec 21, 11:15 pm ET
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Flood waters on Tuesday ripped through a retirement community in northwestern Arizona, washing away four unoccupied homes and threatening to destroy others.Meanwhile, evacuation orders were lifted in a small Utah town about 60 miles away after a dam feared close to breaking was declared safe.But flood warnings and emergency declarations remained in place in some Utah, Nevada and Arizona counties, and more rain was expected overnight.In Arizona, flood waters cut through a group of houses in the rural communities of Beaver Dam and Littlefield, sweeping away four homes after saturating the soil beneath them and causing them to collapse.None of the wood-framed houses was inhabited, although a man was getting ready to move into one of them, said Jeff Hunt, Beaver Dam/Littlefield Fire District chief. The man and workers were putting finishing touches on the home but were able to gather their belongings before flood waters carried it away, Hunt said.
Hunt said about a dozen other homes in the two communities, which share a zip code, were still in danger of being destroyed as flood waters seeped into the ground. About 200 feet of roadway was washed away.I think that through the night we'll lose potentially several more, especially if we get the flows increasing, he said. If we get more velocity, it will pick them off one at a time.Mohave County declared an emergency Tuesday because of flooding in the area — which also was hit by flood waters in 2005, when some homes and a bridge over the Beaver Dam Wash were destroyed.
Authorities began warning area residents late Monday that they should evacuate if heavy runoff from nearby mountains continued. Few people initially did so, but more heeded the warning Tuesday.In Utah, evacuation orders for the town of Rockville, population 247, were lifted Tuesday evening after authorities determined the Trees Ranch Dam on the Virgin River was stable. Suspected leaking from the earthen dam was actually just saturated soil, said Kirk Best, regional engineer with the Utah Division of Water Rights.The potential of the dam breaking led officials to issue evacuation orders for all of Rockville earlier in the day.Nearby Zion National Park also was evacuated and shut down. Park officials said in a news release that they evacuated an unspecified number of people, including guests staying at the Zion Lodge and campers in the park.Daniel McArthur, mayor of St. George, Utah, declared a state of emergency for his city about 40 miles southwest of the park due to flooding. Food waters also wiped out one of two bridges to the southern Utah town of Gunlock, the Washington County sheriff's office said.A flood warning was issued for Utah's Washington and Kane counties through Thursday, and the Virgin and Santa Clara rivers were expected to crest again Wednesday afternoon.In southern Nevada, a state of emergency was ordered after rain-swollen creeks closed some roads in the Las Vegas area and snow disrupted electricity to about 300 customers on nearby Mount Charleston.County crews were expected to work through the night to clear roads so workers could restore power in the mountain area buried under 2 feet of snow.
Threats of flooding across Las Vegas prompted Clark County Manager Virginia Valentine to issue the emergency declaration Tuesday afternoon. She urged visitors to stay away from Mount Charleston, a popular tourist destination, until the storm passed.The National Weather Service said more bad weather was expected overnight.
We're still going to have largespread areas of rain but also the chance of thunderstorms, said meteorologist Jim Harrison of Las Vegas weather bureau. There's going to be additional flooding concerns then.A northwestern Arizona weather station recorded at least 10 inches of rain Tuesday, while rainfall ranged from 10 to 14 inches in southwestern Utah, Harrison said.In Beaver Dam and Littlefield, many residents placed sandbags around homes and built dirt berms to try to control the flood waters. Others gathered things out of their houses, in close view of the homes that were swept into the Beaver Dam Wash and likely ended up in Lake Mead in Nevada, Hunt said.That's kind of the mentality in the rural area here — you build your own, you protect your own, Hunt said. So they're doing their best.One man with a history of heart problems went into cardiac arrest while working on a neighbor's home, but medical responders were able to control the situation and transported the man to the hospital.Hunt said the man was in critical condition, but no other injuries were reported.Associated Press writers Josh Loftin in Salt Lake City and Cristina Silva in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
South Korea army to hold huge drill, North silent
By Jack Kim and Sylvia Westall – Wed Dec 22, 1:52 am ET
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea announced land and sea military exercises on Wednesday including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea just as tension on the peninsula was beginning to ease after Pyongyang's attack on a southern island.The land drill, involving artillery, fighter jets and the largest number of personnel in a peace-time exercise, will take place on Thursday, after the South's live-fire artillery exercise on Monday on the island of Yeonpyeong, and is bound to infuriate the North.We'll be sure to deal a punishing blow if the North tries to repeat the kind of situation like the artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong," Brigadier General Ju Eun-shik said in a statement.There was no immediate reaction from Pyongyang, with the local KCNA agency running stories about leader Kim Jong-il's visit to a power station.South Korea is also holding three days of live-firing naval drills off the peninsula's east coast starting on Wednesday, a media official at the Defense Ministry said.He would not provide details. Yonhap news agency said the drills were taking place 100 km (60 miles) south of the maritime border with North Korea and involved at least six naval boats.North Korea this week offered to re-admit U.N. inspectors concerned about its nuclear-weapon programme, leading to speculation of a resumption of six-party disarmament talks and a general sigh of relief around the world that the crisis had passed.Yes, it will be a show of force against that, an army officer said when asked if the shelling of Yeonpyeong last month was a factor in the land drill's planning.He said similar drills had been staged previously on more than 50 occasions, but the scale this time was unprecedented.
The scale of mechanized assets taking place is enormous. When we would normally have 6 K-9 mechanized artillery, we'll have 36. We'll have the F-15 jets firing. We'll have choppers. You can say most of the mechanized assets taking part will be firing live ammunition.It will take place in Pocheon region, less than 50 km (30 miles) north of downtown Seoul.The latest crisis peaked when North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong, just south of the disputed maritime border, killing four people -- including two civilians -- in the worst attack on South Korean territory since the end of the civil war in 1953.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has suffered widespread domestic criticism for his response to North Korean attacks, with critics saying he was indecisive and failed to keep the public informed.The South carried out live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong on Monday, which provoked only a verbal reaction from the North. It had vowed to strike back if the South went ahead with the drills, prompting fears of all-out war.China, North Korea's only major ally, has urged dialogue to resolve the crisis and urged Pyongyang to follow through on its offer to allow U.N. inspectors into the country.The Chinese Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment on the planned drill.
FAMILY RULE
Analysts say the North is unlikely to undertake another act of aggression like this year's attack on South Korea's Cheonan warship, blamed on the North by the United States and the South, and the Yeonpyeong shelling, at least not in the near term.
Its most likely next move would be to conduct live-fire artillery drills or possibly a short-range missile test into its waters off the west coast. Analysts have said its recent militaristic acts have served to bolster family rule as ailing leader Kim Jong-il grooms his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, as his successor. North Korea likes to step toward the brink and then away from it again, said Brian Myers, an expert on the North at South Korea's Dongseo University.The news from Pyongyang in the past few days indicates that the Kim Jong-il regime is now in the backing-off part of its usual cycle.He said the North probably did not expect the South to carry through with live-fire exercises on Monday.If it had, it would not have made such loud threats of reprisal in its domestic media. After the exercises took place, the Kim regime had to tell its own people that the South's provocation was not worth responding to, a flip-flop it cannot afford to repeat in just a few days. I don't expect the North to be quite as vocal about the next round of exercises.South Korean Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun, speaking before the announcement of the drill, said domestic financial markets had weathered the crisis and the South Korean economy, Asia's fourth-largest, stayed on a growth track.But he warned that the tension could still dent consumer spending with a key sentiment measure due on Friday.South Korean markets were unaffected by the tensions with foreign investors buying into stocks and bond futures. Traders said earlier that the won currency was generally being affected more by concern over the euro zone.Consumers and businesses in South Korea say they have lived with tension on the divided peninsula for years and markets do not always react although the recent crisis had rattled global markets and remained an underlying risk.(Additonal reporting by Yoo Choonsik; Editing by Nick Macfie)
SINS OF PEOPLE
ISAIAH 5:20-25
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
MORE SIN SIGNS
EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Al-Qaida in Iraq threatens attacks on Christians
DEC 22,10
BAGHDAD – Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq is threatening more attacks against the country's Christians unless two women it claims Egypt's Coptic Church is holding captive are released.The Islamic State of Iraq issued the warning in a message posted late Tuesday on a website frequented by Islamist extremists.The group has made similar threats in the past linked to claims of Egypt's Muslim extremists that the country's Coptic Church is holding women captive for converting to Islam. The church denies the allegations.
The message was addressed to Iraq's Christian community to pressure Egypt.The Islamic State of Iraq was behind a recent series of attacks, including the siege of a Baghdad church that left 68 people dead. Some 1,000 Christian families have fled Iraq since then, according to the U.N.
Oil rises above $90 amid US crude supply drop By Alex Kennedy, Associated Press – DEC 22,10
SINGAPORE – Oil prices rose above $90 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after a report showed U.S. crude supplies dropped more than expected for a second week, which suggests demand is improving.Benchmark oil for February delivery was up 19 cents to $90.01 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 45 cents to settle at $89.82 on Tuesday.
The American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday that crude inventories fell 5.8 million barrels last week while analysts surveyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., had forecast a drop of 2.4 million barrels. Inventories of gasoline decreased 2.9 million barrels and distillates rose slightly, the API said.
The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reports its weekly supply data later Wednesday. The EIA said last week that supplies dropped 9.9 million barrels the previous week, the biggest drop in eight years.Oil prices, which rose to a two-year high above $90 earlier this month, have been supported by rallying stock markets. Meanwhile, a strengthening U.S. dollar, which makes crude more expensive for investors with other currencies, has weighed on oil.A steady-higher stock market continues to provide a major counter against a likely renewed weakening in the euro, Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report. A choppy, sideways trade could persist through the balance of this year.In other Nymex trading in January contracts, heating oil rose 0.4 cent to $2.52 a gallon, gasoline futures added 1.5 cents to $2.41 a gallon and natural gas advanced 0.9 cent to $4.07 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude rose 30 cents to $93.50 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)
REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
THIS START TREATY WILL NOT WORK WITH RUSSIA AS THESE PROPHECY SCRIPTURES REAVEAL.RUSSIA SNEAK NUKE ATTACKS AMERICA SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE.
US poised to approve nuclear arms pact with Russia By DESMOND BUTLER, Associate Press - DEC 22,10
WASHINGTON – The Senate is poised to approve a nuclear arms pact with Russia, handing President Barack Obama a huge victory on his top foreign policy priority.
Passage of the New START treaty appeared assured after 11 Republicans joined Democrats in a vote Tuesday to end debate on the pact. That signaled that Obama should have the two-thirds majority he needs when the Senate votes on final approval Wednesday.The approval would mark a big comeback for Obama's arm controls efforts after the treaty appeared all but dead just weeks ago. It also would allow Obama to continue efforts to improve relations with Russia.Ratification would mark a third recent major political victory for Obama, even though his Democratic party was trounced in last month's congressional elections. In recent days he won passage of a bipartisan tax deal and a vote ending the ban on gays openly serving in the military.
We are on the brink of writing the next chapter in the 40-year history of wrestling with the threat of nuclear weapons, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, a Democrat, said after the vote.The treaty would limit each country's strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550, down from the current ceiling of 2,200. It also would establish a system for monitoring and verification. U.S. weapons inspections ended last year with the expiration of a 1991 treaty.The administration was adamant that it be ratified this year because the Democrats' majority in the Senate is set to shrink by five in January and waiting could have meant months of delay or defeat.
Republicans accused Democrats of rushing approval of the treaty for political reasons. They have asserted it would limit U.S. missile defense options and argued it has insufficient procedures to verify Russia's adherence.When Jon Kyl, the leading Republican on negotiations over the treaty, suggested a delay last month, Obama appeared unlikely to find the nine Republican votes needed for passage.But he and top members of his administration lobbied intensely, with Obama postponing his Christmas vacation in Hawaii. They enlisted support from top military officials and big-name Republicans from past administrations who argued the treaty was essential for U.S. national security.In the end, they persuaded enough Republicans to defy the party's top two leaders in the Senate and support the pact.We know when we've been beaten, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch told reporters hours before Tuesday's vote.Even the Senate's No. 3 Republican, Lamar Alexander, endorsed the accord, saying he was assured U.S. defenses would not be weakened.The treaty will leave the United States with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to kingdom come, Alexander said on the Senate floor.
Republicans had tried to kill the treaty by forcing changes in its language that would have sent it back for negotiations with Moscow. Democrats were working to appease some Republican senators by letting them raise these issues in legislation accompanying the treaty that would not directly affect the treaty.
Most Republicans remained opposed.
The administration did not negotiate a good treaty, Kyl said. They went into the negotiations it seems to me with the attitude with the Russians just like the guy who goes into the car dealership and says, I'm not leaving here until I buy a car.
Though Kyl looks likely to vote on the losing side of the debate over the treaty, in his negotiations with the administration he did win Obama's commitment to modernize the remaining nuclear arsenal with projected spending of $85 billion over 10 years.
Some of that money is now in the pipeline, contained in a stopgap government funding bill that cleared Congress on Tuesday. The measure would finance the government, mostly at current levels, through March 4.It makes an exception for nuclear security programs, allowing the government to spend money to modernize the United States' nuclear arsenal at a rate equal to Obama's $624 million request.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
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DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 47:13-23,48:1-35
Hareidi Religious Jews to Join Rally for Judea and Samaria
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu DEC 22,10
Thousands of hareidi religious Jews are expected to turn out at a Jerusalem rally Thursday in support of Judea and Samaria. The 7:00 p.m. rally at Zion Square in the center of the capital will be staged against a defacto building freeze and as a salute to Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem residents. Popular singers Ariel Zilber, Yishai Lapidot, Mendy Jerufi and Gadi Elbaz will perform.Support for nationalists by the hareidi religious community, which was less common several years ago, provides an additional and strong ally for Land of Israel activists.One sticker that will be distributed to people will be written in Yiddish, the first language of tens of thousands of people in religious communities, and states, The Land of Israel is ours.
The Halamish organization, which is organizing the rally, stated, We must stop the government from expelling more Jews, and Jewish law, as determined by a council of sages, forbids giving land to non-Jews.
Halamish pointed out that although there is no official building freeze in Judea and Samaria, there is a de facto freeze that it said is a contributing factor to a severe housing shortage. Communities that have been affected include the hareidi religious cities of Beitar Illit, located in western Gush Etzion, Modi'in Illit, located in Samaria and near the city of Modi’in, and Emanuel, east of Kfar Saba and near the Jewish communities of Ginot Shomron and Kedumim in central Samaria.
Organizers, relying on a statement from hareidi religious sages, said that the Holy Land is the foundation for building the truth, and it is forbidden to separate the Land from the Torah because they are one. They noted that the blessings recited after food thank the Creator for the land…the exodus from Egypt…and the Torah.Organizers recalled that before the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif in 2005, they distributed pamphlets to hareidi religious synagogues in Ashdod warning them that the expulsion would be followed by missile attacks.They laughed at such extremist views, but then asked, Who would have thought missiles would explode in Ashkelon, Ashdod, Be’er Sheva and Kiryat Gat? All saw after the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif that the meaning of a peace agreement for terrorists is missiles and rockets. The missile attacks proved it is impossible to make peace with terrorists.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Israel moving tank defense system near Gaza AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press - DEC 22,10
JERUSALEM – Israeli defense officials say the army will deploy tanks equipped with a miniature missile defense system near the Gaza border now that Palestinians are using a tank-piercing missile.The officials allege the Kornet missiles the militants possess came from Iran. They provided no proof.The officials spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss such matters.At a time of rising violence along the Gaza border, Israel's military chief disclosed Tuesday that militants fired a Kornet for the first time earlier this month, puncturing an Israeli tank.As a result, the defense officials say Israel has decided to move dozens of tanks equipped with the new Israeli-developed system, which detects incoming projectiles and shoots them down before they reach the armored vehicles.
Israel complains to UN over Gaza rockets
DEC 22,10
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel has called on the Security Council to issue a clear and resolute message against rockets fired into its territory from the Gaza Strip, in a letter to the United Nations body that was made public on Wednesday.The December 21 letter, made public by Israel's foreign ministry, comes amid rising tensions on Israel's border with the coastal enclave.On Tuesday, Israel launched a series of airstrikes against what it said were tunnels, training sites and weapons facilities in the Gaza Strip, in response to a salvo of mortar shells on Monday and rocket fire on Tuesday morning.A Kassem rocket landed just metres (yards) away from a kindergarten in a southern Israeli kibbutz, wounding a teenage girl.The incidents of the past several days are part of an escalation of terrorist attacks emanating from Gaza that target Israeli civilians, towns, and military personnel, said the letter signed by Meron Reuben, Israel's UN ambassador.Israel holds the de facto authority in the Gaza Strip completely responsible for all of these incidents, which are carried out in clear violation of international law. In response to such attacks, Israel has exercised and will continue to exercise its right to self-defence.
The letter is addressed to US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, the current chair of the Security Council, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.It says three rockets and 18 mortars have been fired into parts of southern Israel from Gaza since December 19 alone.The Security Council, the Secretary-General, and the international community must send a clear and resolute message that these attacks are unacceptable, Reuben wrote.In addition, the Security Council must give appropriate attention to the smuggling of arms into Gaza, which continues to fuel violence and instability in our region.On Tuesday, Israeli army chief Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi warned that the relative calm that has prevailed since Israel's devastating Gaza offensive at the end of 2008 could quickly end.The situation is tense and fragile and could easily deteriorate, particularly if a rocket lands in a populated area, he told a parliamentary committee.Between December 2008 and January 2009, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, in response to hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza into the Jewish state.The war cost the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers.Since then, the number of rocket attacks has dropped considerably, but the army says more than 200 rockets or shells have been fired this year.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
France and Germany oppose newcomers to border-free area
VALENTINA POP Today DEC 22,10 @ 08:56 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - France and Germany sent a joint letter to the EU on Tuesday (21 December) describing Bulgaria and Romania's entry into Europe's border-free Schengen area in March as "premature" and urging more progress in the fight against corruption and organised crime. The move was slammed as an act of discrimination by Bucharest.French interior minister Brice Hortefeux and his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere raised their objections in a joint letter to the EU commission, according to AFP.The ministers said it was premature to let the two countries join Schengen in March - the current date aimed for by the two countries - and recommended that the EU wait for irreversible progress in the fight against corruption and organised crime instead.Back in Berlin, a spokesman for Germany's interior ministry said that lack of progress by Romania and Bulgaria in reforming their judiciaries could have grave consequences for the European Union's security and raised concerns about an overly swift adhesion to the Schengen area, AP reported.
Romanian President Traian Basescu reacted to the letter saying it was an act of discrimination against Romania which his country would not tolerate, even if it comes from EU's most powerful countries.In practice there is little Bucharest can do, as the decision has to be agreed unanimously among Schengen members - 22 EU states plus Norway, Switzerland and Iceland - meaning that France and Germany have veto powers.Meanwhile, a more compliant Bulgarian foreign ministry spokeswoman said her country would do the utmost to remove any doubts, including in the areas of the judicial system and society as a whole.The two newcomers had so far painfully tried to avoid a link between a unique EU monitoring system put in place after they joined the bloc in 2007 and evaluating their fight against crime and corruption, with their bid to become members of the border-free area.So far, the EU commission had maintained that the two processes are not linked and that Schengen enlargement has its own evaluation system, but has also conceded that it is a matter of trust with other states in the area, which will depend on the newcomers to secure their common borders.Experts evaluating the readiness of the countries two have so far given them a green light, with a final report due in January.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED DEC 22,2010
09:30 AM +2.25
10:00 AM +2.34
10:30 AM +3.93
11:00 AM +10.02
11:30 AM +8.96
12:00 PM +13.16
12:30 PM +32.50
01:00 PM +12.26
01:30 PM +23.46
02:00 PM +16.68
02:30 PM +18.39
03:00 PM +21.79
03:30 PM +20.52
04:00 PM +26.33 11,599.49
S&P 500 1258.84 +4.24
NASDAQ 2671.48 +3.87
GOLD 1,384.60 -4.20
OIL 90.53 +0.71
TSE 300 13,380.70 +15.60
CDNX 2187.34 +11.51
S&P/TSX/60 764.66 +1.99
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -1 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -1 points at low today.
Dow +13 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,387.80.OIL opens at $90.26 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today so far.
Dow +36 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +36 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,427.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL -5.3 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +2.4 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE -600,000 BARRELS
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Japan 7.4 seabed quake sparks tsunami scare
by Harumi Ozawa – Wed Dec 22, 12:52 am ET
TOKYO (AFP) – Scores of villagers on a remote Japanese island chain in the Pacific scrambled for higher ground early Wednesday after a major 7.4-magnitude offshore quake sparked a tsunami alert.The seabed tremor struck at 2:19 am local time (1719 GMT Tuesday), jolting people out of bed as loudspeakers blared across the Ogasawara islands and authorities warned of the risk of a two-metre (six-foot) high local tsunami.The tsunami alert was later downgraded and all warnings were lifted five hours after the quake hit near the islands, some 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) south of Tokyo. No injuries or damage were reported.But about 120 people temporarily evacuated to higher ground on Chichi-shima island and some 50 people on Haha-shima island, Koji Watanabe, a village official on Chichi-shima, said overnight.It was the biggest earthquake I have ever felt, said Masae Nagai, a hotel owner on Chichi-shima, part of the remote archipelago also called the Bonin islands, which has a population of about 2,300.
We were awakened by the quake. It was scary, she told AFP by telephone around sunrise, but she added that the walls of her hotel were not cracked and that things have returned to normal.Local authorities on the Ogasawara islands, near Iwo Jima, said they had set up five shelters for residents but had closed them before sunrise in the absence of damage reports.The jolts were relatively stronger than those we have felt in the past, Kenichi Mochida, another Chichi-shima official, told AFP. But there was no panic as people acted in an orderly manner.Yoshihiro Ikeda, vice principal of the Ogasawara Elementary School with 123 pupils in Chichi-shima, said: We were worried about our students as the jolt was quite strong and lasted very long.
But we were relieved to confirm that none of our students were injured and no facilities were damaged. I guess we were quite lucky, considering the size of the quake.The quake hit at a shallow depth of 14 kilometres, 153 kilometres (95 miles) east of Chichi-shima, and was followed by a series of aftershocks measuring between 5.3 and 5.6 which continued into the morning.About three hours after the quake, a 60 centimetre (two feet) wave was monitored 700 kilometres away at Hachijo-jima, part of the Izu island chain that runs south of Tokyo, the meteorological agency said.
Waves of up to 20 centimetres also reached the southwestern Japanese main islands, the agency said.The Ogasawara chain, made up of more than 30 subtropical and tropical islets some 240 kilometres north of Iwo Jima, were put under the control of the United States after World War II, and returned to Japan in 1968.The remote islands have preserved their unique biological habitats and have been dubbed the Galapagos of the Orient.The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said after sounding the initial alert there was no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami and no nearby islands were thought to be in the tsunami danger zone.But it warned in a bulletin shortly after the quake: "Earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within 100 kilometres of the earthquake epicentre.When a massive 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the most powerful on record, struck off Chile's coast in February, Japan issued its top tsunami alert and ordered more than half a million people to evacuate seaside areas.
Authorities later apologised after a wave of 120 centimetres hit and caused no injuries.Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes strike Japan, which sits on the Ring of Fire surrounding the Pacific Ocean.In 1995 a magnitude-7.2 quake in the port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people. But high building standards, regular drills and a sophisticated tsunami warning system mean that casualties are often minimal.
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.
Biggest storm yet heads for Calif; homes evacuated By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press - DEC 22,10
LOS ANGELES – After days of relentless rain, Southern California is awaiting the most intense storm system yet, with evacuations ordered, rescue crews on standby and residents anxiously eyeing already saturated mountainsides denuded by wildfires.
Forecasters expected more rain across the state Wednesday, but the focus clearly was on Southern California where a monster storm was expected to bring torrential rain, thunderstorms, flooding, hail and possible tornadoes and water spouts. Forecasters warned of possible rainfall rates of .75 inch to 1 inch an hour and thunderstorm rates of 2 inches an hour in the region.Steady rain began falling late Tuesday and was expected to intensify into early Wednesday.It's going to be a three-ring circus, said National Weather Service spokesman Bill Hoffer. There's going to be a six-hour time frame in the early morning when it's really going to be dumping on us.Officials on Tuesday ordered evacuation of 232 homes in La Canada Flintridge and La Crescenta, foothill suburbs of Los Angeles below steep hillsides that burned in 2009 and where mudslides inundated homes and backyards in February.Walt Kalepsch said his backyard filled up with mud and debris last winter, but he planned to stay the night with his wife and daughter.If it gets really terrible, we'll leave. But we've been evacuated so many times, it's like the city's crying wolf, he said. "During the rest of the year, it's absolutely gorgeous. It was just one big wildfire that changed everything.
As the Pineapple Express system swept Pacific Ocean moisture across Nevada, Arizona and Utah, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in six counties.
The huge and powerful low pressure system off the West Coast pushed precipitation right into the Great Basin.It takes a lot of energy to push that moisture over the mountains, said NWS meteorologist Dave Bruno. This kind of storm could march right across the country and create a lot of bad weather along the way. It could affect the Southern Plains on Thursday and Friday. If it sticks together it'll hit Florida by Saturday.With rain falling up and down the state, Sierra Nevada ski resorts boasted of record-breaking December snowfall, with the storms bringing a total of 10 1/2 to 15 1/2 feet to Mammoth Mountain.Rescuers had to pluck some stranded motorists from rain-swollen creeks. Shoppers dodged puddles while buying last-minute Christmas gifts. Disney resorts canceled a plan to shower visitors with artificial snow.In Orange County, four hikers missing overnight in a flooded canyon in the Cleveland National Forest were rescued Tuesday morning by helicopter after their car was trapped along swollen Trabuco Creek. Rescuers used a bulldozer to retrieve five other people who became stranded by the creek.Downtown Los Angeles received more than a third of its annual average rainfall in less than a week.Parts of the San Gabriel Mountains got more than 18 inches of rain since Friday, with coastal cities like Santa Monica and Long Beach getting more than six inches, the National Weather Service said.Mudslides are a significant risk for three years after a fire and are especially likely anytime the rainfall rate reaches or exceeds one inch per hour, said Susan Cannon, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.That's a likely scenario Wednesday in the area burned by last year's Station Fire, which charred 250 square miles above the suburbs tucked below the San Gabriel Mountains.
It means that once the heaviest rains start, it should be a very active time up there, Cannon said.For all the perils of the torrential rains, there was a silver lining: The water is expected to help ease the effects of years of drought. Thursday is expected to be dry, with sunshine. There will be light rain on Christmas Day in parts of California.Water content in the snow pack in California's mountains was at 197 percent of normal and 169 percent of the average measurement for April 1 — traditionally the date when the snow's water content is at its peak, said Ted Thomas, spokesman for the California Department of Water Resources.As the snow melts, that water will run off into reservoirs that feed the state's extensive agriculture and city water systems.Associated Press writers Garance Burke in Fresno; Don Thompson in Sacramento; and Sue Manning, Robert Jablon, John Antczak and Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
4 empty homes destroyed by flooding in northern AZ By FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press – Tue Dec 21, 11:15 pm ET
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Flood waters on Tuesday ripped through a retirement community in northwestern Arizona, washing away four unoccupied homes and threatening to destroy others.Meanwhile, evacuation orders were lifted in a small Utah town about 60 miles away after a dam feared close to breaking was declared safe.But flood warnings and emergency declarations remained in place in some Utah, Nevada and Arizona counties, and more rain was expected overnight.In Arizona, flood waters cut through a group of houses in the rural communities of Beaver Dam and Littlefield, sweeping away four homes after saturating the soil beneath them and causing them to collapse.None of the wood-framed houses was inhabited, although a man was getting ready to move into one of them, said Jeff Hunt, Beaver Dam/Littlefield Fire District chief. The man and workers were putting finishing touches on the home but were able to gather their belongings before flood waters carried it away, Hunt said.
Hunt said about a dozen other homes in the two communities, which share a zip code, were still in danger of being destroyed as flood waters seeped into the ground. About 200 feet of roadway was washed away.I think that through the night we'll lose potentially several more, especially if we get the flows increasing, he said. If we get more velocity, it will pick them off one at a time.Mohave County declared an emergency Tuesday because of flooding in the area — which also was hit by flood waters in 2005, when some homes and a bridge over the Beaver Dam Wash were destroyed.
Authorities began warning area residents late Monday that they should evacuate if heavy runoff from nearby mountains continued. Few people initially did so, but more heeded the warning Tuesday.In Utah, evacuation orders for the town of Rockville, population 247, were lifted Tuesday evening after authorities determined the Trees Ranch Dam on the Virgin River was stable. Suspected leaking from the earthen dam was actually just saturated soil, said Kirk Best, regional engineer with the Utah Division of Water Rights.The potential of the dam breaking led officials to issue evacuation orders for all of Rockville earlier in the day.Nearby Zion National Park also was evacuated and shut down. Park officials said in a news release that they evacuated an unspecified number of people, including guests staying at the Zion Lodge and campers in the park.Daniel McArthur, mayor of St. George, Utah, declared a state of emergency for his city about 40 miles southwest of the park due to flooding. Food waters also wiped out one of two bridges to the southern Utah town of Gunlock, the Washington County sheriff's office said.A flood warning was issued for Utah's Washington and Kane counties through Thursday, and the Virgin and Santa Clara rivers were expected to crest again Wednesday afternoon.In southern Nevada, a state of emergency was ordered after rain-swollen creeks closed some roads in the Las Vegas area and snow disrupted electricity to about 300 customers on nearby Mount Charleston.County crews were expected to work through the night to clear roads so workers could restore power in the mountain area buried under 2 feet of snow.
Threats of flooding across Las Vegas prompted Clark County Manager Virginia Valentine to issue the emergency declaration Tuesday afternoon. She urged visitors to stay away from Mount Charleston, a popular tourist destination, until the storm passed.The National Weather Service said more bad weather was expected overnight.
We're still going to have largespread areas of rain but also the chance of thunderstorms, said meteorologist Jim Harrison of Las Vegas weather bureau. There's going to be additional flooding concerns then.A northwestern Arizona weather station recorded at least 10 inches of rain Tuesday, while rainfall ranged from 10 to 14 inches in southwestern Utah, Harrison said.In Beaver Dam and Littlefield, many residents placed sandbags around homes and built dirt berms to try to control the flood waters. Others gathered things out of their houses, in close view of the homes that were swept into the Beaver Dam Wash and likely ended up in Lake Mead in Nevada, Hunt said.That's kind of the mentality in the rural area here — you build your own, you protect your own, Hunt said. So they're doing their best.One man with a history of heart problems went into cardiac arrest while working on a neighbor's home, but medical responders were able to control the situation and transported the man to the hospital.Hunt said the man was in critical condition, but no other injuries were reported.Associated Press writers Josh Loftin in Salt Lake City and Cristina Silva in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
South Korea army to hold huge drill, North silent
By Jack Kim and Sylvia Westall – Wed Dec 22, 1:52 am ET
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea announced land and sea military exercises on Wednesday including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea just as tension on the peninsula was beginning to ease after Pyongyang's attack on a southern island.The land drill, involving artillery, fighter jets and the largest number of personnel in a peace-time exercise, will take place on Thursday, after the South's live-fire artillery exercise on Monday on the island of Yeonpyeong, and is bound to infuriate the North.We'll be sure to deal a punishing blow if the North tries to repeat the kind of situation like the artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong," Brigadier General Ju Eun-shik said in a statement.There was no immediate reaction from Pyongyang, with the local KCNA agency running stories about leader Kim Jong-il's visit to a power station.South Korea is also holding three days of live-firing naval drills off the peninsula's east coast starting on Wednesday, a media official at the Defense Ministry said.He would not provide details. Yonhap news agency said the drills were taking place 100 km (60 miles) south of the maritime border with North Korea and involved at least six naval boats.North Korea this week offered to re-admit U.N. inspectors concerned about its nuclear-weapon programme, leading to speculation of a resumption of six-party disarmament talks and a general sigh of relief around the world that the crisis had passed.Yes, it will be a show of force against that, an army officer said when asked if the shelling of Yeonpyeong last month was a factor in the land drill's planning.He said similar drills had been staged previously on more than 50 occasions, but the scale this time was unprecedented.
The scale of mechanized assets taking place is enormous. When we would normally have 6 K-9 mechanized artillery, we'll have 36. We'll have the F-15 jets firing. We'll have choppers. You can say most of the mechanized assets taking part will be firing live ammunition.It will take place in Pocheon region, less than 50 km (30 miles) north of downtown Seoul.The latest crisis peaked when North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong, just south of the disputed maritime border, killing four people -- including two civilians -- in the worst attack on South Korean territory since the end of the civil war in 1953.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has suffered widespread domestic criticism for his response to North Korean attacks, with critics saying he was indecisive and failed to keep the public informed.The South carried out live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong on Monday, which provoked only a verbal reaction from the North. It had vowed to strike back if the South went ahead with the drills, prompting fears of all-out war.China, North Korea's only major ally, has urged dialogue to resolve the crisis and urged Pyongyang to follow through on its offer to allow U.N. inspectors into the country.The Chinese Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment on the planned drill.
FAMILY RULE
Analysts say the North is unlikely to undertake another act of aggression like this year's attack on South Korea's Cheonan warship, blamed on the North by the United States and the South, and the Yeonpyeong shelling, at least not in the near term.
Its most likely next move would be to conduct live-fire artillery drills or possibly a short-range missile test into its waters off the west coast. Analysts have said its recent militaristic acts have served to bolster family rule as ailing leader Kim Jong-il grooms his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, as his successor. North Korea likes to step toward the brink and then away from it again, said Brian Myers, an expert on the North at South Korea's Dongseo University.The news from Pyongyang in the past few days indicates that the Kim Jong-il regime is now in the backing-off part of its usual cycle.He said the North probably did not expect the South to carry through with live-fire exercises on Monday.If it had, it would not have made such loud threats of reprisal in its domestic media. After the exercises took place, the Kim regime had to tell its own people that the South's provocation was not worth responding to, a flip-flop it cannot afford to repeat in just a few days. I don't expect the North to be quite as vocal about the next round of exercises.South Korean Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun, speaking before the announcement of the drill, said domestic financial markets had weathered the crisis and the South Korean economy, Asia's fourth-largest, stayed on a growth track.But he warned that the tension could still dent consumer spending with a key sentiment measure due on Friday.South Korean markets were unaffected by the tensions with foreign investors buying into stocks and bond futures. Traders said earlier that the won currency was generally being affected more by concern over the euro zone.Consumers and businesses in South Korea say they have lived with tension on the divided peninsula for years and markets do not always react although the recent crisis had rattled global markets and remained an underlying risk.(Additonal reporting by Yoo Choonsik; Editing by Nick Macfie)
SINS OF PEOPLE
ISAIAH 5:20-25
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
MORE SIN SIGNS
EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Al-Qaida in Iraq threatens attacks on Christians
DEC 22,10
BAGHDAD – Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq is threatening more attacks against the country's Christians unless two women it claims Egypt's Coptic Church is holding captive are released.The Islamic State of Iraq issued the warning in a message posted late Tuesday on a website frequented by Islamist extremists.The group has made similar threats in the past linked to claims of Egypt's Muslim extremists that the country's Coptic Church is holding women captive for converting to Islam. The church denies the allegations.
The message was addressed to Iraq's Christian community to pressure Egypt.The Islamic State of Iraq was behind a recent series of attacks, including the siege of a Baghdad church that left 68 people dead. Some 1,000 Christian families have fled Iraq since then, according to the U.N.
Oil rises above $90 amid US crude supply drop By Alex Kennedy, Associated Press – DEC 22,10
SINGAPORE – Oil prices rose above $90 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after a report showed U.S. crude supplies dropped more than expected for a second week, which suggests demand is improving.Benchmark oil for February delivery was up 19 cents to $90.01 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 45 cents to settle at $89.82 on Tuesday.
The American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday that crude inventories fell 5.8 million barrels last week while analysts surveyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., had forecast a drop of 2.4 million barrels. Inventories of gasoline decreased 2.9 million barrels and distillates rose slightly, the API said.
The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reports its weekly supply data later Wednesday. The EIA said last week that supplies dropped 9.9 million barrels the previous week, the biggest drop in eight years.Oil prices, which rose to a two-year high above $90 earlier this month, have been supported by rallying stock markets. Meanwhile, a strengthening U.S. dollar, which makes crude more expensive for investors with other currencies, has weighed on oil.A steady-higher stock market continues to provide a major counter against a likely renewed weakening in the euro, Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report. A choppy, sideways trade could persist through the balance of this year.In other Nymex trading in January contracts, heating oil rose 0.4 cent to $2.52 a gallon, gasoline futures added 1.5 cents to $2.41 a gallon and natural gas advanced 0.9 cent to $4.07 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude rose 30 cents to $93.50 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
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