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Nov. 23, 2010, 11:38 p.m. EST China, Russia to drop dollar in bilateral TradingBy Chris Oliver

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- China and Russia will stop using the U.S. dollar to settle bilateral trade and instead use the ruble or the yuan, though the move is not meant to signal a challenge to the dollar, according to reports Wednesday. China's Premier Wen Jiabao and Russian President Vladamir Putin made reference to the new currency trade pact late Tuesday, following meetings in St. Petersburg that also saw the signing of bilateral trade and energy-cooperation agreements, according to a report in the state-run China Daily. About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies,Putin told reporters, according to the report. Earlier this week, China added the ruble to the list of currencies that can be traded against the yuan on its domestic exchange.

China, Russia drop dollar as trade currency NOV 24,10

China and Russia have started using their own currencies for bilateral trade instead of the US dollar, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday following the 15th regular high-level meeting between the two countries.The two leaders said the move reflects closer ties between Beijing and Moscow and is not aimed at challenging the US dollar, but to protect their domestic economies.In the past, China and Russia used other currencies, including the dollar, in their trade, but the financial crisis and the decline of the dollar prompted both sides to consider the alternatives.China started permitting the yuan to trade against the Russian ruble from Monday in the interbank market, and the renminbi will soon be allowed to trade against the ruble in Russia, Putin said.The ruble is the sixth foreign currency, after the US dollar, euro, British pound, Hong Kong dollar and Malaysian ringgit, to be allowed to trade against the yuan, according to the Moscow Times. The China Foreign Exchange Trade System, the country's foreign exchange regulator, said in a statement that the move will help reduce foreign-exchange risks and facilitate bilateral trade between China and Russia.The first trade between the two currencies in the amount of 1 million yuan (151,000 USD) was completed on Monday by the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and Bank of China Ltd., according to Bloomberg.At the start of trade, the ruble traded at about 4.6 per yuan, which corresponds to the rate of the National Bank of China, RT says.

The start of direct currency trading is viewed as a result of increasing bilateral trade between China and Russia. In the first ten months of this year, the trade volume between the two countries reached 45.1 billion USD, up 43.4 percent from the same period last year.Wen is in Russia for a three-day visit to discuss trade and negotiate the price of natural gas that will be supplied to China next year.Text source: China Daily, Bloomberg, Moscow Times, RT

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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 NOV 24,2010

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +110.01
10:30 AM +132.45
11:00 AM +132.37
11:30 AM +126.62
12:00 PM +133.58
12:30 PM +135.44
01:00 PM +135.36
01:30 PM +145.27
02:00 PM +135.28
02:30 PM +141.72
03:00 PM +150.87
03:30 PM +149.97
04:00 PM +150.91 11,187.28

S&P 500 1198.35 +17.62

NASDAQ 2543.12 +48.17

GOLD 1,373.50 -4.10

OIL 84.02 +2.77

TSE 300 12,902.00 +108.20

CDNX 2023.58 +22.06

S&P/TSX/60 739.08 +6.96

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +94 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +138 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,376.20.OIL opens at $81.65 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +158 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +158 points at high today.

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

CRUDE OIL +1 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +1.9 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES -540,000 BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ITS JUST A MATTER OF TIME TILL PROPHECY COMES TO PASS.NOT IF BUT WHEN WILL THE NUKES START FLYING.

THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS WW3 STARTS AT THE EUPHRATES RIVER IN IRAQ OR SYRIA.THEN YOU WILL KNOW WW3 HAS STARTED.I BELIEVE SYRIA (DAMASCUS WILL BE NUKED BY ISRAEL)TO BEGIN WW3.OR IRAN DOES SOMETHING BY THE EUPHRATES RIVER MAYBE BUILD A NUKE SITE,THEN ISRAEL NUKES THAT IRAN SITE WHICH STARTS WW3 AND THE BEGGINING OF HELL ON EARTH.

REVELATION 9:14-18
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)

Nuclear warheads

No. of war heads, 2009 Inter- conti- nental missiles Short-range missiles Bombs Sub- marines / non- strategic In reserve/ await- ing disman tlement TOTAL NOW TOTAL IN 2000

Russia 1355 576 856 2050 8150 (12987 2009 TOT NUKES)(21000 NUKES IN 2000)
US 550 1152 500 500 6700 (9552 2009 TOT NUKES)(10577 NUKES IN 2000)
France - - 60 240 - (300 2009 TOT NUKES)(350 NUKES IN 2000)
Israel - - - - - (200 2009 TOT NUKES) (0 NUKES IN 2000)
UK - - - 192 - (192 2009 TOT NUKES)(185 NUKES IN 2000)
China 121 - 55 - - (176 2009 TOT NUKES)(400 NUKES IN 2000)
Pakistan - - - - - (90 2009 TOT NUKES)(0 NUKES IN 2000)
India - - - - - (75 2009 TOT NUKES)(0 NUKES IN 2000)
North Korea - - - - - (2 2009 TOT NUKES)(0 NUKES IN 2000)

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 warns North of enormous retaliation after attackTwo killed after Pyongyang fires on Yeonpyeong island in first attack on South Korean land since 1953 war NOV 23,10

South Korea warned today that it will unleash enormous retaliation if North Korea launches fresh attacks against its territory.North Korean troops bombarded Yeonpyeong, an island in disputed waters, with dozens of rounds of artillery earlier today, reportedly killing two South Korean soldiers and injuring around 20 people.
Seoul placed its military on its highest non-wartime alert level, scrambling F-16 fighter jets to the western sea and returning fire, officials said. It warned that the attack was a violation of the armistice that ended the Korean war in 1953.The South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, who convened an emergency security meeting shortly after the initial bombardment, said an indiscriminate attack on civilians could never be tolerated.Enormous retaliation should be made, to the extent that [North Korea] cannot make provocations again, he said.The assault is one of the most serious in the decades since the war, given the involvement of civilians, although previous firefights around the disputed maritime border have resulted in a higher number of casualties.In a short statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, the North said the South had fired first – presumably in reference to a live-fire drill being carried out as part of annual military exercises. It said it had repeatedly warned the South not to go ahead with the drill.

Analysts said that despite the seriousness of the clash, the situation was unlikely to escalate dramatically given the high stakes involved for all parties.It comes amid growing international concern over reports that North Korea has a new uranium enrichment facility.Lee ordered officials to sternly respond to North Korea's action but stressed that they had to make sure the situation would not escalate, an aide said.

Yeonpyeong is only around 75 miles west of the South Korean capital.Broadcasters showed smoke rising from houses in the attack, and Seoul's YTN television said residents had been evacuated to bunkers after firing broke out, at around 2.30pm. It is thought around 1,200 people live on the island.Lee Chun-ok, a 54-year-old island resident, said she had been watching TV when she heard sounds of artillery, and a wall and door in her home suddenly collapsed.I thought I would die,said Lee, who had been evacuated to the port city of Incheon. I was really, really terrified, and I'm still terrified.The White House condemned the attack as belligerent, adding: The United States is firmly committed to the defence of our ally … and to the maintenance of regional peace and stability.In London, William Hague urged Pyongyang to stop further unprovoked attacks.Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said there was a colossal danger of escalation, Reuters reported. He added: Those who started this bear a huge responsibility.China, North Korea's main ally, steered clear of assigning blame. A foreign ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, urged both sides to do more to contribute to peace and stability in the region.An unofficial spokesman for North Korea told the Guardian that firing artillery was a totally justifiable act of self-defence in response to the sea drills and warned that nuclear war could follow at any point unless the exercises stop. Pyongyang has repeatedly issued such threats in the past.

If the South continues its dangerous behaviour, Seoul will be the next target. It will be a sea of fire, said Kim Myong-chol, executive director of the Centre for Korean-American Peace.Han Seung-joo, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the reckless and provocative act suggested desperation on North Korea's part, and suggested it may be meant to send a message to a domestic audience rather than to the outside world, boosting solidarity and show[ing] that they can get away with this.Professor Chu Shulong, an expert on international security at Beijing's Tsinghua University, said it was too early to be sure what had happened.But he added: Over the years, North Korea has always been a place that likes to make trouble to get attention from the international community. After they get attention, they can start a new round of negotiations and get supplies from other countries. This is what they have been doing during the past 20 years.The disputed maritime border has long been a source of friction and has seen repeated skirmishes – in some cases fatal – in recent years.Relations between the two Koreas have remained especially tense since the South's Cheonan warship sank in March, killing 46 sailors. An international investigation led by Seoul blamed a North Korean torpedo but Pyongyang denies any involvement.

Tensions high after Koreas trade shelling By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press - NOV 23,10 11:15PM

INCHEON, South Korea – South Korea's troops were on high alert Wednesday as their government exchanged threats with rival North Korea following a frightening military skirmish that ratcheted tensions on the peninsula to new extremes.President Barack Obama reaffirmed Washington's pledges to protect ally Seoul after the North shelled a South Korean island near their disputed border, killing at least two marines and wounding civilians in what U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called one of the gravest incidents since the end of the Korean War.In a conversation with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Obama said the United States stands shoulder to shoulder with Seoul. The White House said the presidents agreed to hold combined military exercises and enhanced training in the days ahead.South Korea vowed massive retaliation should North Korea attack again, and said Wednesday it would strengthen military forces in the disputed western waters near the island of Yeonpyeong and halt aid to the communist North. The North warned of more military strikes if the South encroaches on the maritime border by even 0.001 millimeter.South Korea sent two ships carrying 2,000 boxes of relief supplies to the stricken island Wednesday, Coast guard official Kim Dong-jin said. He said that about 340 residents escaping the island were to arrive at the port city of Incheon aboard a Coast Guard ship around mid-afternoon.Images released by the local government and obtained through YTN television showed people huddled in emergency shelters, children wrapped in blankets, rows of destroyed houses with collapsed walls, blown out windows and charred roofs. A man with a shovel walked through the rubble.

The skirmish began Tuesday when North Korea warned the South to halt military drills near their sea border, according to South Korean officials. When Seoul refused and began firing artillery into disputed waters — but away from the North Korean shore — the North retaliated by shelling Yeonpyeong, which houses South Korean military installations and a small civilian population.Seoul responded by unleashing its own barrage from K-9 155mm self-propelled howitzers and scrambling fighter jets. Two South Korean marines were killed in the shelling that also injured 15 troops and three civilians. Officials in Seoul said there could be considerable North Korean casualties.Shin Sung-hee, a fisherman, said he was mending his fishing net near a port on Yeonpyeong when he saw columns of black smoke and fire billowing from the hills.I couldn't think of anything. I just thought my wife would be in danger, so I rushed to my house, Shin said.His wife, Lee Chun-ok, said that when she fled her partly collapsed house, she saw black smoke engulfing the town and fires erupting from nearby hills; a woman was crying on a bridge. Her husband ran over and told her they had to escape, so they ran to a port and managed to get on a ferry with several hundred other people.The U.S. government called the North's barrages an outrageous, unprovoked attack, but sought to avoid any escalation and did not reposition any of its 29,000 troops stationed in the South.South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young told lawmakers Wednesday that the military will send reinforcements to five islands near the disputed sea border, but provided no details. South Korea maintains military readiness to deter North Korea's additional provocations, he said.

South Korea said Wednesday that, despite the artillery exchange the day before, it would continue another previously scheduled military drill set for a different part of the Yellow Sea, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of the disputed waters near Yeonpyeong.The Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military drill by the South Korean army, navy, air force and marines would continue until Nov. 30 as previously scheduled.Separately, South Korea said it was suspending promised aid shipments of cement and medicine worth 580 million won ($506,000), Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said. The government also ordered eight civic groups to stop delivering aid worth 2.7 billion won ($2.3 million) to North Korea.The top U.S. military officer in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, condemned North Korea's unprovoked artillery attack in a statement Wednesday and called on the North to abide by the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.These actions are threatening the peace and stability of the entire region, said Sharp, who commands U.S. forces in South Korea as well as the U.S.-led UN Command. The UN Command has called on North Korea to engage with it in high-level military talks to de-escalate the situation,the statement said. The confrontation lasted about an hour and left the uneasiest of calms, with each side threatening further bombardments. In Seoul, South Korea's capital of more than 10 million people, citizens went about their business Wednesday with shops, offices and financial markets open as usual, but with the previous day's skirmish on their minds.We are concerned that a war might break out, said Oh Duk-man, who was walking in downtown Seoul.

In Young-joo, another pedestrian, called for a strong response. Our government has to react very strongly against North Korea after they invaded us in such a daring way,she said.North Korea's apparent progress in its nuclear weapons program and its preparations for handing power to a new generation have plunged relations on the heavily militarized peninsula to new lows in recent weeks.The attacks focused global attention on the tiny island and sent stock prices down worldwide.The South Korean president, who convened an emergency security meeting shortly after the initial bombardment, said an indiscriminate attack on civilians can never be tolerated.
Enormous retaliation should be made to the extent that (North Korea) cannot make provocations again,Lee said.North Korea does not recognize the western maritime border drawn unilaterally by the U.N. at the close of the conflict, and the Koreas have fought three bloody skirmishes there in recent years. But this clash follows months in which tensions have steadily risen to their worst levels since the late 1980s, when a confessed agent for North Korea bombed a South Korean jetliner, killing all 115 people aboard.The government in Pyongyang has sought to consolidate power at home ahead of a leadership transition and hopes to gain leverage abroad before re-entering international talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons programs.

In March, North Korea was blamed for launching a torpedo that sank the South Korean warship Cheonan while on routine patrol, killing 46 sailors. South Korea called it the worst military attack on the country since the war. Pyongyang denied responsibility. South Korea did not retaliate for the sinking of the Cheonan.Six weeks ago, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il anointed his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, heir apparent. This week, Pyongyang claimed it has a new uranium enrichment facility, raising concerns about its pursuit of atomic weapons.Yeonpyeong lies a mere seven miles (11 kilometers) from — and within sight of — the North Korean mainland. Famous for its crabbing industry, it is home to about 1,700 civilians as well as South Korean troops. There are about 30 other small islands nearby. Kwang-Tae Kim reported from Seoul. AP writers Seulki Kim, Kelly Olsen and Foster Klug in Seoul, Anita Snow and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and Anne Gearan in Washington contributed to this report.

Ashton adds voice to outcry on North Korea attack-The UN Security Council is likely to hold an emergency session on Tuesday or Wednesday in response to the events (Photo: tomdz)LEIGH PHILLIPS 23.11.2010 @ 17:38 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has sharply criticised North Korea's attack on a South Korean island on Tuesday (23 November), which raised tensions between the two sides to a level analysts say have not been seen since the 1950s.Mid-afternoon, Ms Ashton said she was deeply concerned by the situation on the Korean penninsula. Early this morning, North Korea's military fired dozens of artillery shells at the island of Yeonpyeong, some 12 kilometres from the North's coastline, on the disputed Yellow Sea border.I strongly condemn this attack by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. I call on the North Korean authorities to refrain from any action that risks further escalation and to fully respect the Korean Armistice Agreement, she said in a statement.I welcome a call for restraint by [South Korean] President Lee Myung-bak. We are monitoring developments closely.I would like to underline that peace and stability on the Korean peninsula remains essential for the region and the wider world.The attack reportedly killed two marines when around 50 shells landed on the island around 2:30pm local time (5:30am GMT) home to a South Korean military base. A further 16 South Korean marines and three civilians were injured.Seoul placed the country on its highest non-wartime alert and announced that it had returned fire, launching 80 shells of its own and deploying fighter jets to the region.

The Yonhap news agency is reporting that the island's entire 1,600-strong population has been evacuated.Pyongyang for its part said that South Korea had been the first belligerent. The South Korean enemy, despite our repeated warnings, committed reckless military provocations of firing artillery shells into our maritime territory,declared the North's military command, according to the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency. It is our military's traditional response to quell provocative actions with a merciless thunderbolt.South Korea's military said that it had indeed been conducting exercises but that no shelling had targetted the North. Seoul also condemned the attack on civilians, saying that it was in breach of the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.South Korea would sternly retaliate against any further provocations, warned President Lee Myung-bak in a statement. North Korea's shelling of Yeonpyeong island constitutes a clear armed provocation. Furthermore, its reckless shelling of civilian targets is unpardonable.The US called on North Korea to halt its belligerent action, while Russia made similar pronouncements, although Pyongyang's ally, China, called on both sides to do more to contribute to peace.The UN Security Council is likely to hold an emergency session on Tuesday or Wednesday in response to the events.The clashes follow on from the sinking of a South Korean warship in March this year. A later investigation by the South suggested its Stalinist autarkic cousin was responsible.But the targetting of civilians and the killing of soldiers rather than just sailors is an escalation for the North, say analysts.It's alarming the they actually killed South Korean soldiers, Joans Parello-Plesner, an analyst with the European Council on Foreign Affairs told EUobserver.He noted that the island shelling follows on from similar clashes in the same disputed region in 1990 and 2002, including clashes between crab fishermen.However, There will be no war. The South Korean president is trying to calm and stabilise the situation. A conventional war against the North is not an option. The South has so much more to lose, while the Norht has built its whole system upon preparing for war.

They have a G20 economy that they have to protect.As the EU is not involved in the six-party talks between North Korea, South Korea, the US, China, Russia, and Japan, I have little conviction that Pyongyang will hear any message from the EU, he said.
However, where the EU does have a role to play is in its relationship with China, he continued. There, the EU can push Beijing to put pressure on Pyongyang, but this is about all Europe can do.

Lieberman calls North Korea a Crazy Regime
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu NOV 24,10

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called the North Korean regime crazy following its bombing of military installation on a South Korean Island 57 years after an armistice that ended the three years of fighting between North and South Korean War.
Then, as today, the United States supported the South Korean government. The Obama administration called on North Korea to halt belligerent action that resulted in at least two deaths. Similarly, China still supports North Korea.Lieberman told a press conference in Jerusalem that means must be taken to stop and topple this crazy regime. North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear facility that was bombed by Israel two years ago while it was under construction.The Foreign Minister noted that failing to topple the North Korean regime is a message to Iran that it also will not be targeted.North Korea blamed its southern neighbor for the attack, which it said was warning to South Korea to halt military exercises in the area.Despite the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, the countries never signed a peace treaty and formally still are at war.The Korean War was a result of the political division of Korea by agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War. American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part.The 38th Parallel increasingly became a political border between the two Koreas, and cross-border skirmishes and raids escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces invaded South Korea in 1950. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

Obama pledges US to defend its ally South Korea By ANNE GEARAN, AP National Security Writer - NOV 23,10

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged the United States would stand shoulder to shoulder with South Korea after what the White House branded a provocative, outrageous attack by North Korea on its neighbor. Its options limited, the U.S. sought a diplomatic rather a military response to one of those most ominous clashes between the Koreas in decades.South Korea is our ally. It has been since the Korean war, Obama said in his first comments about the North Korean shelling of a South Korean island early Tuesday. And we strongly affirm our commitment to defend South Korea as part of that alliance.Working to head off any escalation, the U.S. did not reposition any of its 29,000 troops in the South or make other military moves after North Korea fired salvos of shells into the island, setting off an artillery duel between the two sides.The president, speaking to ABC News, would not speculate when asked about military options.Obama called South Korean President Lee Myung-bak later Tuesday night, saying the U.S. would work with the international community to strongly condemn the attack that killed the two South Koreans and injured many more, the White House said.The White House said the two presidents agreed to hold combined military exercises and enhanced training in the days ahead to continue the close security cooperation between the two countries.Obama assured Lee that the United States stands shoulder to shoulder with our close friend and ally, the Republic of Korea,the White House statement said.

President Obama said that North Korea must stop its provocative actions, which will only lead to further isolation, and fully abide by the terms of the armistice agreement and its obligations under international law,the statement said.The U.S. has relatively few options when dealing with the Pyongyang government. Military action is particularly unappealing, since the unpredictable North possesses crude nuclear weapons as well as a huge standing army. North Korea exists largely outside the system of international financial and diplomatic institutions that the U.S. has used as leverage in dealing with other hostile countries, including Iran.North Korea has also resisted pressure from its major ally, China, which appears to be nervous about the signs of instability in its neighbor.We strongly condemn the attack and we are rallying the international community to put pressure on North Korea, Obama said in the ABC interview, specifically citing the need for China's help. Obama said every nation in the region must know this is a serious and ongoing threat.An administration official said Tuesday evening that U.S. officials in Washington and in Beijing were appealing strongly to China to condemn the attack by arguing that it was an act that threatened the stability of the entire region, not just the Korean peninsula. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.Defense Secretary Robert Gates phoned South Korea's defense minister to express sympathy for the deaths of two of the South's marines in the artillery shelling of a small South Korean island and to express appreciation for the restraint shown to date by the South's government, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Obama called North Korea's action just one more provocative incident and said he would consult with Lee on an appropriate response.In his phone call to South Korea's defense minister, Gates said the U.S. viewed recent attacks as a violation of the armistice agreement that ended the Korea War in 1953, and he reiterated the U.S. commitment to South Korea's defense, said Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell.
Obama was awakened at 4 a.m. Tuesday with the news. He went ahead with an Indiana trip focused on the economy before returning to the White House after dark.State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. would take a deliberate approach in response to what he also called provocative North Korean behavior. At the same time, other administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe the emerging strategy, said the White House was determined to end a diplomatic cycle that officials said rewards North Korean brinksmanship.In the past, the U.S. and other nations have sweetened offers to North Korea as it has developed new missiles and prototype nuclear weapons. North Korea is now demanding new one-on-one talks with the United States, which rejects that model in favor of group diplomacy that includes North Korea's protector, China.We're not going to respond willy-nilly, Toner said. We believe that it's important that we keep a unified and measured approach going forward.Both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill accused North Korea of starting the skirmish. The violence comes as the North prepares for a dynastic change in leadership and faces a winter of food and electricity shortages. It is the latest of a series of confrontations that have aggravated tensions on the divided peninsula.The incident also follows the North's decision last week to give visiting Western scientists a tour of a secret uranium enrichment facility, which may signal an expansion of the North's nuclear weapons program. Six weeks ago, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il anointed his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, as his heir apparent.

The administration official said the U.S. did not interpret North Korea's aggression as a desire to go to war, but as yet another effort to extract concessions from the international community.Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said no new equipment or personnel have been relocated to South Korea, while Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz seemed to shrug off the latest incident as something that Seoul can handle on its own.The North Koreas have undertaken over time a number of provocations that have manifested themselves in different ways, Schwartz said.The artillery exchange was only the latest serious incident between the two nations. In March, a South Korean naval ship, the Cheonan, exploded and sank in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors. South Korea accused the North of torpedoing the vessel; the North denied the allegation.In August, the South Korean military reported that the North had fired 110 artillery rounds into the Yellow Sea near the disputed sea border but said the shells fell harmlessly into North Korean waters.South Korean officials said Tuesday's clash came after Pyongyang warned the South to halt military drills near the small South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.When Seoul refused and began firing artillery into the water near the disputed sea border, the North bombarded Yeonpyeong, which houses South Korean military installations and a small civilian population.Recent joint U.S.-Korean naval exercises and strenuous denunciations of the North may only have provoked the regime in Pyongyang. Some experts say the secretive regime may be trying to promote Kim Jong Un as a worthy successor who, like his father, is capable of standing up to the U.S. I think it may be all wrapped in this succession planning, in the way the North is looking at it, said Robert RisCassi, a retired Army general who commanded U.S. forces in Korea from 1990-93.

The U.S.-South Korea exercises also angered China. Beijing is regarded as the key to any long-term diplomatic bargain to end North Korea's nuclear program and reduce tensions on the peninsula.But U.S. officials say the North's motives and internal politics are opaque and sometimes appear inconsistent.I don't know the answer to any question about North Korea that begins with the word why, Gates told reporters Monday.Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Anne Flaherty, Ben Feller, Jim Kuhnhenn, Pauline Jelinek and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.

EU sovereign-debt monster approaches Iberian shores
LEIGH PHILLIPS 23.11.2010 @ 09:29 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The sovereign debt crisis behemoth that had shaken Europe to its core by the end of Monday appeared to be moving on southward to demand its latest victims as investors appeared unconvinced that the Irish bail-out plan was working. Dublin also announced it would hold elections early in the new year.
Portuguese, Spanish and EU leaders, alarmed at the seemingly unquenchable vengeance of this marketplace leviathan, insisted that the two Iberian nations were very far from having to follow Ireland and Greece in asking for bail-outs.The premium on Spanish bonds over their German counterparts, viewed as the ne plus ultra of safety, climbed to 2.1 percentage points, up from 2.02 points on Friday, before Ireland had officially applied for the EU-IMF financial rescue. Separately, premiums on Portuguese debt rose to 4.6 percent. European stock markets slid, with Spain's Ibex down 2.7 percent, Ireland off 1.4 percent, and Italy closing at 1.2 percent.

Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates insisted that Lisbon needed no help from any eurozone bail-out scheme, saying there was no connection between the Irish situation and Portugal's own debt problems.Portugal doesn't need anyone's help and will solve its own problems, he said, stressing that his parliament, due to pass further austerity measures this week, and will slash its budget deficit from 9.3 percent of GDP to 7.3 percent this year, and then in 2011 to 4.6 percent giving the country a lower deficit than France, not to mention Greece, Ireland, the UK, the US or Japan.
But market commentators, worried that state deficit figures jumped two percent in the first nine months of this year, appeared unconvinced. Meanwhile, the country's two union centrals were readying a general strike against austerity planned for Wednesday.Not helping matters, on the weekend, centre-right opposition leader Peder Passos Coelho accused the government of fudging the numbers when it came to the state of public debt, saying that the true number is 122 percent of GDP, not 80 percent as attested. Spanish finance minister Elena Salgado for her part, drilled by a radio reporter on whether Madrid will ultimately need help too, replied: Absolutely not...Spain is doing everything it has promised to do, with tangible results.EU economics chief Olli Rehn sought to buttress the the standing of Portugal insisting on the very different situation between Lisbon and Dublin, while the head of the eurozone, Luxemburgish Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker described the market vigilantism against Portugal and Spain as not justified.Railing against the state of affairs, Mr Rehn told MEPs on Monday: Any talk of deconstruction of the European project is irresponsible. All member states would have been in a much more difficult situation without the European Union and its political shield.The euro is, and continues to be, the corner stone of the European Union. It is not only a technical monetary arrangement, but it is indeed the core political project of the European Union.Therefore it is indeed essential that we will do our best, do our utmost, to protect and reinforce this European construct.In Ireland, leader Brian Cowen attempted to quell growing rage at his handling of the economy after his Green coalition partners called for elections in January and backbenchers from his own Fianna Fail party began to call on him to resign, announcing a general election early in the new year following passage of a draconian EU-IMF troika-imposed four-year budget.Irish media however are reporting that opposition leaders from Fine Gael and Labour - expected to form a coalition following any vote - are demanding an election ahead of the passing of the budget.

On Monday, the IMF demanded in a position paper that Dublin slash welfare payments and cut the minimum wage. Separately, further details of the four-year austerity budget are trickling out ahead of its presentation, expected sometime in the next 24 hours, with efforts to ease the costs to business of electricity, broadband, legal fees and rubbish collection.Germany was also insisting that conditions on any loan also include a raising of Ireland's ultra-low 12.5 percent corporation tax.The German government will not be making proposals government spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin.But it is clear that corporation tax should be one point among others when one considers how to increase the receipts part of the budget, he added.Commissioner Rehn on Monday also suggested, speaking to Ireland's RTE broadcaster that the bail-out is likely unfortunately to imply tax increases.

Merkel warns euro in serious condition LEIGH PHILLIPS 23.11.2010 @ 18:03 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday (23 November) warned that the euro is in an exceptionally serious situation as the European Commission issued a veiled warning to the Irish political class not to topple the government. I don't want to paint a dramatic picture, but I just want to say that a year ago we couldn't imagine the debate we had in the spring and the measures we had to take,she said in a speech in Berlin to the Confederation of German Employers, the BDA.We are facing an exceptionally serious situation as far as the euro's situation is concerned.The single currency continued to decline on the back of her statement, falling 1.3 percent to $1.344 by late afternoon, while premiums on bonds in peripheral euro-area states also rose, with Spanish 10-year bonds up 12 percentage points higher, at 4.87 percent and Portugal's up seven percentage points to 6.88 percent.Meanwhile, EU economy commissioner Olli Rehn issued a veiled warning to Irish opposition politicians not to topple the government.Speaking to reporters in Strasbourg asking about worries the Fianna Fail-Green government in Dublin could fall, Mr Rehn said: Stability is important.We don't have a position on the domestic democratic politics of Ireland but it is essential that the budget will be adopted in time and we will be able to conclude the negotiations on the EU-IMF programme in time.The budget needs to be adopted, he said. Ireland will pass the budget in the time foreseen and certainly sooner than later.For his part, the Danish prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, announced that his government would participate in the eurozone bail-out of Ireland alongside fellow non-euro-using states Sweden and the UK.

Mr Rasmussen said that he had backing from MPs, according to a Bloomberg report. The move follows on from comments by the Swedish finance minister on Monday, who urged Denmark, as well as non-EU nations Switzerland and Norway should also put their shoulders to the wheel.The financial stability of Europe is at risk so it is very important to make a broader effort to try to stabilise the situation, he told the Financial Times.Norway's finance minister, Sigbjørn Johnsen, responding to the call, said in a statement that it will support Ireland through the International Monetary Fund and hinted that if asked directly, it could come up with additional support.
Norway will contribute to the financing of the IMF part of the loan package to Ireland through the financing arrangements we already have in place with the IMF, including our bilateral loan agreement with the IMF, he said.We have not received any request for additional financial support. If we receive a request from Ireland for a bilateral loan, we will of course consider it.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Canadian Report: Hizbullah Assassinated Hariri
by Elad Benari NOV 24,10

An investigative report on a Canadian television network has claimed that the Hizbullah terrorist group is behind the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and that UN investigators have overwhelming proof of that fact.The report, which aired Monday on CBC, said that evidence gathered by Lebanese detectives and UN investigators points overwhelmingly to the fact that the assassins were from Hizbullah. CBC based its report on copies it had obtained of mobile phone and other communications in the case.CBC said investigators called in a specialist British communications company, which found that the holders of eight mobile phones had been monitoring Hariri in the weeks before his death. The report added that a Lebanese detective named Wissam Eid who had already uncovered the network and linked it to Hizbullah was killed in January 2008 after he sent his information to the UN investigators.The report also said that the UN team believed their inquiry had been penetrated by Hizbullah and that this is what led to the death of the Lebanese policeman. In addition, said CBC, the investigators also suspected Colonel Wissam Hassan, Hariri's chief of protocol who is now head of Lebanese intelligence, of colliding with Hizbullah and being involved in the assassination.Hariri, who spoke out against Syria’s strong presence and interference in Lebanon, was killed on February 14, 2005 when explosives were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut. 22 others were also killed in the blast.The CBC report comes on the heels of several recent reports which said that the UN tribunal investigating Hariri’s death would charge members of Hizbullah in the killing.Last month, two members of the UN team were pursued by a mob in southern Beirut and had their files stolen.A UN spokesman was quoted in AFP as saying in response to the CBC report: It is a matter of concern that the leaks could have an effect on the substance of the work by the prosecutors and the tribunal itself. We want to be able to ensure that the special tribunal on Lebanon can go about its work without hindrance or interference.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (son of Rafik) dismissed the report on Tuesday and said that Colonel Wissam Hassan has always had our full trust and continues to have our full trust. We generally do not comment on anything that is not formally released by the international tribunal or one of its offices but it is my personal opinion that media leaks do not serve the course of justice.Meanwhile, the prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Daniel Bellemare, said in a statement on Tuesday that the CBC report could endanger certain lives.The most serious impact of the CBC reports is that their broadcast may put people’s lives in jeopardy, AFP quoted Bellemare as saying. He added that he was extremely disappointed by the broadcast.While Bellemare acknowledged that the report came at a time when the Office of the Prosecutor is working flat out to ensure that a draft indictmentis submitted to the pre-trial judge for confirmation in the near future, he refused to comment on issues related to the investigation out of what he termed considerations of utmost concern for the integrity of the investigation and the safety of victims, witnesses, suspects and staff.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Hizbullah Claims: Israel Bugged Our Phones
by Elad Benari NOV 24,10

A senior Hizbullah MP accused Israel on Tuesday of bugging the mobile phones of members of the terror group, allowing them to send false text messages and by this to track the phones' movements.AFP quoted Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah during at a press conference with Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahhas as saying: The enemy (Israel) has succeeded in planting secret lines ... in the mobile phones of some members of the resistance. After a lengthy, complex investigation ... it was revealed that three resistance members were using local mobile phones which had been deliberately sold to them after being implanted with secret Israeli lines.Fadlallah , who chairs the Lebanese parliament's media and telecommunications committee claimed that the phones had been sold to Hizbullah operatives by a Lebanese spying for Israel. He said that Hizbullah cracked the case in coordination with military intelligence after police zeroed in three Hizbullah members believed to be Israeli agents, but who instead turned out to be victims of the Israeli bugging.A ministry expert who also took part in the news conference confirmed that the infiltration meant that Israel could send out text messages and other information from the phones, and could also track their movements and listen in on any conversations they want.

Hizbullah’s accusations against Israel are nothing new: more than 100 people in Lebanon have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel since April 2009. Last July, a Lebanese man suspected of spying for Israel was sentenced to death after being convicted of transferring classified information to Israel that was used during the 2006 Second Lebanon War against Hizbullah.Last month, more than 30 Lebanese citizens were convicted in Beirut on charges of collaborating with Israel. All were sentenced in absentia and received 15-year prison terms. All of the defendants had fled the country for Israel in 2000 when then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak withdrew IDF troops from southern Lebanon.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

LEIBERMAN NORTH KOREA IS CRAZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1jP9DoeKaU&feature=player_embedded

US Says Golan-Jerusalem Referendum Is Internal Israeli Issue
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu NOV 24,10

The United States says the new Golan-Jerusalem referndum law is an Israeli issue, and it declined to comment on it despite criticism from the Arab world . The law blocks any surrender of United Jerusalem or the strategic Golan Heights without approval by the public in a referendum.Asked if the Obama administration is concerned by the new law, the U.S. State Department replied, This is an internal Israeli issue, and the Israeli government is in the best position to address inquiries related to its process.The United States does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Western Wall, the Temple Mount, all of the Old City and all other areas of the capital that were restored to Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967. The current and previous American governments also have encouraged a peace treaty with Syria based on Israel's surrendering the strategic Golan Heights and its rich water resources.The State Department’s no comment stands in stark contrast to statements by U.S. President Barack Obama, who has labeled as settlements all Jewish presence in areas of Jerusalem claimed by the Palestinian Authority.The new law makes it extremely unlikely that any government can surrender any of the land covered by the law, barring a drastic shift in political leanings against the growing nationalist mood.While the United States said the referendum law is an internal issue, Syria's foreign ministry lambasted Israel for what it called a disregard of international law and the will of the international community. The Golan Heights, which were occupied by Israel in 1967, are not negotiable and a peace process is out of question until Syria gets these territories back.

Senior Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat also condemned Israel for what he called making a mockery of international law, which is not subject to the whims of Israeli public opinion.Leaning on the international community’s refusal to recognize Israeli sovereignty over all of the capital, he added, Ending the occupation of our land is not and cannot be dependent on any sort of referendum. Under international law there is a clear and absolute obligation on Israel to withdraw not only from east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, but from all of the territories that it has occupied since 1967.Erekat said the proper international response to the bill should be recognition of the Palestinian Authority as a country with borders based on the 1949 Armistice Line. The borders fell in 1967 when seven Arab countries engaged Israel in a war that they assumed would annihilate the Jewish state in a matter of days.Instead, Egypt fled from Gaza, which it controlled, and Jordan left Judea and Samaria, most of which it occupied without an international mandate.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Storm that smacked Northwest moves to Utah, Idaho By BROCK VERGAKIS, Associated Press - NOV 23,10

SALT LAKE CITY – A ferocious storm that crippled much of the Pacific Northwest barreled into the Rockies on Tuesday, causing whiteout conditions on one of the busiest travel days of the year. The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for Utah, where Interstate 84 and Interstate 15 were temporarily shut down in northern Utah because of windy, snowy conditions that led two tractor-trailers to jackknife and block traffic. Even once the roads were reopened, visibility was still very limited there and elsewhere in the state as many commuters made their way home on snow-covered roads.Numerous schools, governments and businesses in Utah closed hours earlier than normal Tuesday because of the storm, with state traffic officials warning the evening commute could take four times longer than usual.Of nearly 300 flights scheduled to take off from Salt Lake City International Airport Tuesday evening, nine had been canceled, although it wasn't immediately clear if all of those were caused by the storm.Highway officials told holiday travelers earlier in the day to get out of town now or risk being stranded on Thanksgiving.In the western part of Utah, empty eastbound semitrailers on Interstate 80 were being held near the Nevada line to prevent them from tipping over in the windy salt flats.At least three deaths in Washington state have been blamed on the storm, including a man struck and killed outside his car Monday night on snowy Interstate 5 in Tacoma. Officials in Portland, Ore., also were investigating whether a man whose body was found along the Willamette River died from the cold.

Thanksgiving travel was dicey throughout the region, with many highways too dangerous to drive. In Seattle, icy roads kept airline crews from getting to the airport, and people who missed their flights because of the dangerous drive were trying to rebook on already crowded planes.The weather service said 2.5 inches of snow fell at the airport Monday, breaking the old record for the date of 1.5 inches in 1977.The tiny central Washington town of Waterville became a refuge when the blizzard blasted across the scattered wheat fields and sagebrush along U.S. Highway 2.We got sideways snow. We've got snow that's going up, stuck up under things. Snow is everywhere, because it's been so windy, Dave Lundgren, owner of the Waterville Historic Hotel, said Tuesday.We're definitely going to be looking for inside things to do.Even cold-hardened Alaskans were complaining about the weather, with freezing rain making travel hazardous if not impossible. Fairbanks was among the hardest-hit; schools closed and most government agencies and military bases told nonessential workers to stay home.I don't think the roads can get much worse, said David Gibbs, emergency operations director for the Fairbanks North Star Borough.Andy Haner, a weather service meteorologist in Seattle, said the storm blew down from Alaska before turning toward the Northern Rockies.Sometimes we call them inside sliders because they slide down the Inside Passage from Alaska, he said.Citrus growers in California's San Joaquin Valley prepared to fight off crop-damaging frost as a cold front moves into the region.

The storm reached the Salt Lake City area during the evening commute.That's what happened Monday night in Washington. Slick roads, blowing snow and temperatures in the mid-20s turned rush hour in Seattle and nearby cities into an hours-long crawl. Some motorists gave up after being stuck for five hours or more and returned to their offices or just left their cars at the side of the road.Winds gusting to 65 mph made matters worse by cutting off power for tens of thousands of utility customers in Western Washington. Puget Sound Energy said it was doing all it can to restore electricity to tens of thousands of customers who lost power in the Monday night storm, but some could still be in the cold and dark on Thanksgiving. Spokane and Eastern Washington were hit with even stronger winds and colder temperatures, staying well below zero overnight.Tuesday dawned bright, sunny and cold over much of the state as crews hurried to plow and deice roads. Most schools closed, including the University of Washington's three campuses.Annie Wicken, an employee at a Seattle supermarket, said her boss practically begged her to make the hours-long, multi-bus journey to work.I hope people will still try to shop and get their Thanksgiving stuff, she said while waiting at a bus stop.Emergency shelters opened throughout the region to warm the homeless. In Olympia, the Volunteer Center of Lewis, Mason, and Thurston Counties scrambled to find people with four-wheel-drive vehicles to deliver more than 400 Thanksgiving meals to homebound seniors.We feel like these people get shortchanged enough in life. We're bringing them a meal no matter what happens, said the center's Emma Margraf.Two people were killed Monday when their car slid on a snowy road at Cowiche near Yakima and collided with another car, the Washington State Patrol said. Another man died when he was struck outside his car Monday night on snowy Interstate 5 in Tacoma.The patrol Tuesday launched a plane equipped with a heat-seeking camera to look for stranded motorists from Seattle south to Olympia. It said that in the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m., troopers had responded to 1,557 collisions and 1,274 disabled motorists statewide.Much of Northwest will get a cold but brief break to dig out and maybe brave travel for the Thanksgiving holiday before more snow that could arrive by Wednesday night.Associated Press writers George Tibbits, Phuong Le and Donna Gordon Blankinship in Seattle, Nicholas K. Geranios in Spokane, Rachel La Corte in Olympia, and Mary Pemberton in Anchorage contributed to this report.

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.

Quake hits Papua New Guinea: geologists
– Tue Nov 23, 6:41 am ET

SYDNEY (AFP) – A quake of at least 6.0 magnitude struck Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey and Australian seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued.

The USGS said the quake hit the New Britain region at around 7:00 pm (0900 GMT) at a depth of 73 kilometres (45 miles), 430 kilometres north-northeast of the capital Port Moresby.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, based in Hawaii, which monitors violent ocean movements generated by quakes, issued no warning and no alert.
Australian seismologists put the deep coastal tremor at magnitude 6.1, but said that it was unlikely to cause significant numbers of injuries or major damage in the sparsely populated region.There's no threat of tsunami, Geoscience Australia seismologist Clive Collins told AFP, adding that the nearest town to the quake site, Kandrian, was about 70 kilometres away.There might be some local village (affected) -- people in the immediate vicinity would have felt it, he said of the tremor which had its epicentre on the coast and would have mostly affected nearby shallow waters.

Papua New Guinea, which is mired in poverty despite rich mineral deposits, sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a hotspot for seismic activity due to friction between tectonic plates and quakes are frequent.But because the mountainous nation has remote and sparsely unpopulated areas, large quakes often cause very little damage, Collins said.Two recent quakes of 7.0 and 7.1 magnitude in the same region as Tuesday's quake had caused only three deaths in total -- all when the same building collapsed, he said.For such large earthquakes the damage was very small because the area is so sparsely populated, he said.

DISEASES

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

Haiti cholera spreading faster than predicted: U.N.
By Patrick Worsnip – Tue Nov 23, 4:59 pm ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Haiti's deadly cholera epidemic is spreading faster than originally estimated and is likely to result in hundreds of thousands of cases and last up to a year, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.Since the disease first appeared in mid-October it has killed 1,344 people as of Friday in the poverty-stricken and earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation.But U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Haiti Nigel Fisher said the real death toll might be closer to two thousand than one because of lack of data from remote areas, and the number of cases 60,000-70,000 instead of the official figure of around 50,000.Addressing a U.N. news conference by video link from Haiti, Fisher said experts from the World Health Organization were now revising their estimate that the diarrheal disease, spread by poor sanitation, would cause 200,000 cases within six months.They are now revising that to 200,000 in closer to a three-month period. So this epidemic is moving faster, he said, adding that it was now present in all 10 of Haiti's provinces. It's going to spread.The medical specialists all say that this cholera epidemic will continue through months and maybe a year at least, that we will see literally hundreds of thousands of cases, Fisher said.

It was almost impossible to stop the spread of these cases because it is so contagious, and those who carry the cholera bacterium often take days to show it, and in that (time) they may move anywhere, he added.Fisher said U.N. and other aid workers needed to significantly ratchet up their response, including going through faith groups to distribute chlorine tablets to purify water, and increasing the number of treatment centers.But he said opening new treatment centers was running into resistance from local authorities because of people's fears of having them in their neighborhoods.The anti-cholera campaign has been complicated by unconfirmed reports that U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal brought the disease to Haiti, where it had been absent for 100 years.At least two people were killed and dozens were injured in clashes last week between U.N. troops and protesters. The United Nations has blamed the trouble on political agitators looking to inflame tensions ahead of elections next Sunday.Edmond Mulet, head of the U.N. MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission in Haiti, told the news conference there was still no scientific evidence the epidemic had come from the Nepalese and that all tests carried out had proved negative. But experts continued to investigate, he said.(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

NORTH KOREA ACTING UP

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.

MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR DOCUMENTARY
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9164005727480680563#docid=3787046457101273554
NORTH KOREA MILITARY PARADE
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9164005727480680563#docid=7068162650917973714

BIBLES WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS

CHINA MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE EAST)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9164005727480680563#docid=-8916004936135366443
RUSSIA ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE NORTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGqS3TDYRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn3T5XIbNk&feature=related
EGYPT ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE SOUTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_KT4irRTM&feature=related
EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE WEST)(NOT THE USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NEyheTDyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzLjhsRrZYw&feature=fvw
ISRAEL MILITARY-GUARENTEED BY EU TO SECURE THEM THE BIBLE SAYS(2 MAIN ENDTIME PLAYERS)(NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF FUULFILLING THE PROPHECIES ON EARTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TDlvIRIMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdalQdtzfY&feature=related

FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
False flag-From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and can be used in peace-time.(NOTICE EVERY TIME THERES A REAL TERRORIST ATTACK,THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS IS DOING A FAKE DRILL WHICH MEANS THEY CAN SAY IT WAS ONLY A DRILL IF THE ATTACK DOES NOT GO OVER WITH THE PUBLIC OR IF THE GOVERNMENT MUFFED UP THEIR OWN FALSE FLAG CONTROL FREAK,GET MORE CONTROL OF PEOPLES RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.)

I JUST HEARD SOUTH KOREA WAS HAVING A FAKE DRILL WHEN THIS NORTH KOREAN ATTACK OCCURRED.WHAT HAVE I BEEN SAYING FOR THE LAST WEEK.NOW I SMELL A FALSE FLAG ATTACK HERE.WE WILL SEE.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/23162656

North Korea shells South in fiercest attack in decades By Jeremy Laurence and Yoo Choonsik - NOV 23,10

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, killing two soldiers and setting dozens of houses ablaze, in one of the heaviest attacks on its neighbor since the Korean War ended in 1953.The attack comes as the reclusive state has been pressing regional powers to return to negotiations about its nuclear weapons program and follows revelations at the weekend it is fast developing another source of material to make atomic bombs.It also follows moves by iron leader Kim Jong-il to make his youngest son heir apparent to the family dynasty.For decades, the Korean leadership has played a carefully calibrated game of provocations to win concessions from the international community and impress his own military. The risk is that the leadership transition has upset this balance and that events spin out of control.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who has pursued a hard line with the reclusive North since taking office nearly three years ago, said a response had to be firm following the attack on Yeonpyeong island, just 120 km (75 miles) west of Seoul.The two Koreas are still technically at war -- the Korean War ended only with a truce -- and tension rose sharply early this year after Seoul accused the North of torpedoing one of its navy vessels, killing 46 sailors.Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating. You can't see very well because of plumes of smoke, a witness on the island told YTN Television before the shelling ended after about an hour.China, the impoverished North's only powerful ally, was careful to avoid taking sides, calling on both Koreas to do more to contribute to peace.China hopes that the relevant parties will do more to contribute to peace and stability in the region ... it is imperative now to resume the six-party talks, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Hong Lei, told reporters.Those talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program -- involving the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States -- have long been on ice.However, the reclusive North has more recently been pushing to resume the talks, which previously it has used to win massive aid in return for promises to end its weapons program.

AT LEAST 200 SHELLS

YTN said at least 200 North Korean shells hit Yeonpyeong, which lies off the west coast of the divided peninsula near a disputed maritime border. Most landed on a military base there.South Korea's military said two soldiers were killed in the attack, 17 were wounded and three civilians were also hurt. South Korean military returned the fire and sent a jet fighter to the area.YTN showed pictures of plumes of smoke pouring from the island and quoted a witness as saying fires were burning out of control.

WON TUMBLES

News of the exchange of fire sent the won tumbling in offshore markets with the 1-month won down about four percent in NDF trading. U.S. 10-year Treasury futures rose and the Japanese yen fell.It also rattled global markets, already unsettled by Ireland's debt problems and worries about riskier markets. The South Korean central bank is holding an emergency meeting to assess the possible market impact of the shelling. The attack comes just as a U.S. envoy is in Beijing on a tour of the region and is expected to ask China to use its influence to help tame North Korea.
Washington has branded the North a danger to the region and expressed concern Pyongyang would sell nuclear weapons technology to other states. It has said it was ready to return to talks but wants to see more commitment to denuclearization by the North beforehand.The White House condemned the attack, telling the North to halt its belligerent action and saying it was committed to defend the South.It has about 28,000 troops in South Korea, their combined forces facing an estimated one million North Korean soldiers who make up one of the world's biggest standing armies.

UNBELIEVABLE

It's unbelievable, said Zhu Feng, professor of international relations at Peking University. Today's news proves that North Korea, under unprovoked conditions, shot these South Korean islands. It's reckless provocation. They want to make a big bang and force the negotiations back into their favor. It's the oldest trick.The North depends heavily on China for economic and diplomatic support and its leader, Kim Jong-il, has visited China twice this year, in part to gain backing for the anointment of his son as heir. Those ties have become a sore-point with Washington after reports that North Korea appears to have made big steps toward enriching uranium, possibly using technology that passed through or even originated in China.

China has urged returning to the nuclear disarmament negotiations but has also fended off calls from the U.S. and its regional allies to use its vital food and energy aid to North Korea as a lever.(Reporting by Seoul bureau and Michael Martina in Beijing; Writing by Jonathan Thatcher, editing by John Chalmers)

NKorea threatens continued strikes on South
By KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press - NOVEMBER 23,10

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea is threatening to continue launching strikes against South Korea if it violates their disputed sea border even 0.001 millimeter.
North Korea's supreme military command said Tuesday that it would launch merciless military retaliatory strikes.The warning was carried by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency.The comments followed North Korea's bombardment of a South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday. South Korean officials said the barrage set buildings ablaze and killed at least one marine after the North warned the South to halt military drills in the area.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea bombarded a South Korean island near their disputed western border with artillery Tuesday, setting buildings ablaze and killing at least one marine after warning the South to halt military drills in the area, South Korean officials said.South Korea said it returned fire and scrambled fighter jets in response, and said the inhumane attack on civilian areas violated the 1953 armistice halting the Korean War. The two sides technically remain at war because a peace treaty was never negotiated.The skirmish came amid high tension over North Korea's claim that it has a new uranium enrichment facility and just six weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il unveiled his youngest son Kim Jong Un as his heir apparent.The North's artillery struck the small South Korean-held island of Yeonpyeong, which houses military installations and a small civilian population and which has been the focus of two previous deadly battles between the Koreas.One South Korean marine was killed, three were seriously wounded and 10 slightly wounded, a Joint Chiefs of Staff official said. Island residents were escaping to about 20 shelters in the island while sporadic shelling continued, the military official said.

The firing came amid South Korean military drills in the area. North Korea's military had sent a message to South Korea's armed forces early Tuesday to demand that the drills stop, but the South continued them, another military official said.
During the drills, South Korean marines on the island shot artillery toward southern waters, away from North Korea, the official said.Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing military rules.The North's premeditated bombardments struck civilian areas and were inhumane atrocities, military official Lee Hong-ki said. There are about 30 small islands around the Yeonpyeong, and tension runs high in the area because of its proximity to North Korea. Yeonpyeong is known for its crab fishing.After the North's barrages, South Korea responded by firing K-9 155mm self-propelled howitzers, military officials said, but declined to say whether North Korean territory was hit.YTN TV said several houses on Yeonpyeong were on fire and that shells were still falling on the island, which is about 75 miles (120 kilometers) west of the coast. The station broadcast pictures of thick columns of black smoke rising from the island, which has a population of 1,200 to 1,300. Screams and chaotic shouts could be heard on the video.Lee Chun-ok, a 54-year-old island resident, said she was watching TV when she heard sounds of artillery and a wall and door in her home suddenly collapsed.I though I would die, Lee said from the port city of Incheon, west of Seoul, where she evacuated. I was really, really terrified, and I'm still terrified. Relations between the divided Koreas sank to their lowest point in years after the deadly sinking in March of a South Korean warship near the tense Korean sea border, which killed 46 sailors. Seoul blamed a North Korean torpedo, while Pyongyang has denied any responsibility.

President Lee Myung-bak ordered officials to sternly respond to North Korea's action but also called on officials to make sure that the situation would not escalate, according to a presidential official. He asked not to be identified, citing the issue's sensitivity. Lee was holding a security meeting in a presidential situation room, the official said.The United States called on North Korea to halt its beligerent belligerent action, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in Washington. He said the United States is firmly committed to South Korea's defense, and to the maintenance of regional peace and stability.China, which is the North's economic and political benefactor while maintaining robust commercial ties with the South, called for calm.We express our concern over the situation. The situation is to be verified, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regularly scheduled media briefing in Beijing. He called on both Koreas without naming them to do more to contribute to peace and stability on the peninsula.In a message to North Korea's armed forces, South Korea's military urged the North to stop provocations and warned of strong measures unless the North stopped, a Joint Chiefs of Staff official said.

The countries' western maritime boundary has long been a flash point between the two Koreas. The North does not recognize the border that was unilaterally drawn by the United Nations at the close of the 1950-53 Korean War. North and South Korea have fought three bloody skirmishes near the maritime border in recent years, most recently in November 2009. That battle left one North Korean officer dead and three others wounded, according to South Korean officials.Two deadly clashes have previously erupted around Yeonpyeong. In a gunbattle in June 2002, one South Korean warship sank, killing six sailors. The North said it also suffered casualties, but didn't confirm how many. In a 1999 clash, South Korea said several sailors were wounded, and that up to 30 North Koreans died.In a sign of North Korea's anger over the South Korean drills, North Korea's state news agency said in a dispatch Monday that South Korea was readying war games with the United States for aggressive purposes against North Korea. The dispatch quoted what it said were sympathetic Swiss groups that called the drills a criminal act of aggression for provoking another Korean war.The existence of North Korea's new uranium enrichment facility came to light over the weekend after Pyongyang showed it to a visiting American nuclear scientist, claiming that the highly sophisticated operation had 2,000 completed centrifuges. Top U.S. military officials warn that it could speed the North's ability to make and deliver viable nuclear weapons. The military tensions between the two Koreas also comes amid a visit to the region by U.S. special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth. He held talks with South Korean officials Monday and was also scheduled to meet officials in China.

US: too early for military action after North Korea assault
NOV 23,10

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States said Tuesday it was too early to consider any military response to North Korea's attack on a South Korean island, but condemned one of the worst border crises in nearly 60 years.President Barack Obama was awakened before dawn with news of the deadly assault, which sent South Korea's military to top alert, and the White House demanded Pyongyang respect an Armistice agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean war.US envoy on North Korea Stephen Bosworth, who was in Beijing, meanwhile said the United States and key regional player China agreed on the need for restraint, after he discussed the Yellow Sea incident with Chinese officials.The Pentagon was closely monitoring the latest flashpoint with the nuclear-armed Stalinist state, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke by phone with South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-Young, officials said.At this point it's premature to say that we're considering any action, spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan told reporters.He said no additional US forces had been deployed to the region as a result of the North Korean artillery barrage.We're still monitoring the situation and talking with our allies, Lapan said, adding that Washington was mindful of which actions might exacerbate or cool tensions on the peninsula.

Obama, woken by his national security advisor Tom Donilon at 3:55 am (0855 GMT) as the crisis broke, left as planned on a trip with Vice President Joe Biden to a Chrysler auto plant in the state of Indiana.White House deputy spokesman Bill Burton told reporters on Air Force One that Obama would speak by telephone with South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak, but that there were currently not plans for him to make an on-camera statement.Obama was briefed on latest developments in the crisis during his daily classified intelligence update in the Oval Office.In an early morning statement White House press spokesman Robert Gibbs said Washington was in close and continuing contact with its ally South Korea after the attack on Yeonpyeong island, which killed two South Korean marines.The United States strongly condemns this attack and calls on North Korea to halt its belligerent action and to fully abide by the terms of the Armistice Agreement, Gibbs said.The United States strongly condemns this attack and calls on North Korea to halt its belligerent action and to fully abide by the terms of the Armistice Agreement.Gibbs said the United States is firmly committed to the defense of our ally, the Republic of Korea, and to the maintenance of regional peace and stability.Officials appeared to be taking care not to adopt any actions that could further inflame the situation, or reward Pyongyang's latest provocation, following a long showdown over its nuclear program.Mindful of the difficulties in dealing with North Korea's volatile leadership amid an apparent political succession, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told MSNBC the Pyongyang regime was extremely unpredictable.They do things you could not possibly have predicted in a rational world,Morrell said.

Bosworth meanwhile said the shelling came up in my conversation with the Chinese and we both share the view that such conflict is very undesirable and expressed firmly the desire that restraint be exercised.China is seen as the only state which has any influence on Pyongyang, and Washington has in the past exerted behind-the-scenes pressure on Beijing to press North Korea to avoid inflammatory actions. At the United Nations in New York, the British president of the Security Council Mark Lyall Grant said there would be no emergency Security Council meeting on North Korea on Tuesday. Earlier, a French diplomat said such a session was being organized. Fears that the North Korean assault could turn into a full-blown showdown across the world's last Cold War flashpoint depressed US markets, as stocks, already hit by fears over Ireland's plight, slumped. Geopolitics have thrown the market for a loop this morning, courtesy of a provocative action by North Korea, said Patrick O'Hare of Briefing.com.The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 1.6 percent by 1645 GMT, while the S&P 500 index, a broader measure of the market, also lost 1.6 percent.

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.

Indonesia raises alert level at Mount Bromo
– Tue Nov 23, 6:46 am ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia has raised the alert level at one of its dozens of volcanos to its highest level, telling villagers and tourists to stay off the rumbling slopes.Mount Bromo typically erupts once a year but — unlike nearby Mount Merapi — rarely spits debris and hot gas far from the crater and nearby towns are not considered to be in harm's way.The government decided to raise Bromo's danger level after it started shooting ash into the air, the Ministry of Mines and Energy said in a statement. It warned that a bigger blast could still be on the way.Bromo is one of Java island's most popular tourist attractions.Villagers also climb the 7,641-foot (2,329-meter) mountain to leave offerings to spirits.Indonesia is a vast archipelago of 235 million people that straddles the Pacific Ring of Fire, a system of fault lines that leave it vulnerable to earthquakes and give it more active volcanoes than any other country.Bromo is 170 miles (275 kilometers) east of Merapi, which in the past month has unleashed a series of powerful eruptions that have left more than 300 people dead.

TSA NEEDS A FALSE FLAG ATTACK

Electromagnetic Radiation in Our Society is Killing Plants and Trees
PreventDisease November 23, 2010

City plants and trees are becoming sick from wireless radiation from local area networks and mobile phones, according to a European study.All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands.All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. The city of Alphen aan den Rijn ordered the study five years ago after officials found unexplained abnormalities on trees that couldn’t be ascribed to a virus or bacterial infection.An early warning radar station was due to be decommissioned at Skrunda, Latvia after the end of the Cold War. Before it was shut down, a coordinated effort was made to determine whether the station had had any environmental effects. Teams of researchers found such effects wherever they looked, even at extremely low levels of exposure: smaller growth rings in trees, premature ageing in pine needles, chromosome damage in cows, decreased memory, attention, learning, and pulmonary function in school children, increased white blood cells in adults, and an altered sex ratio (more girls) in children born during the years of the radar’s operation.

This experiment with Aspen seedlings in Colorado pinpoints why the trees in the region have been showing steady death and decline since 2004.They put these seedlings inside a Faraday Cage – to shield them from RF radiation and they looked like healthy, well-formed leaves, with plenty of leaves per branch.The seedlings that were not shielded from the radiation were damaged and stunted.K. Haggerty stated that Currently a strong human-generated RF background exists at every point on the earth’s surface, although radio field strength is relatively greater in the most populous and urbanized areas. Globally, the highest field strengths occur in central Europe, the eastern United States, and in China (Figure 9). Forest decline was first recognized and defined based on observed events in central Europe and the eastern US, and China, at this time, is experiencing rapid desertification. [...] More recently, it has been shown that mortality rates of all dominant tree species in the western United States have been doubling every 17–29 years in old growth forests, and that recruitment of new trees is now occurring at a lower rate than mortality [35]. Since aspen decline and other tree decline incidents worldwide have similar symptoms, and since no definitive explanation has been found for those events, it seems plausible that their decline may be related to RF exposure.

Additional testing found the disease to occur throughout the Western world. In the Netherlands, about 70 percent of all trees in urban areas show the same symptoms, compared with only 10 percent five years ago. Trees in densely forested areas are hardly affected.Besides the electromagnetic fields created by mobile-phone networks and wireless LANs, ultrafine particles emitted by cars and trucks may also be to blame. These particles are so small they are able to enter the organisms.The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a lead-like shine on their leaves that was caused by the dying of the upper and lower epidermis of the leaves. This would eventually result in the death of parts of the leaves. The study also found that Wi-Fi radiation could inhibit the growth of corn cobs.The researchers urged that further studies were needed to confirm the current results and determine long-term effects of wireless radiation on trees.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn urges leaders to cede more sovereignty to EU
NOV 19,10

European nations need to cede more of their sovereignty and hand greater powers to the centre to avoid future crises, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.The European Central Bank in Frankfurt Photo: AP By Philip Aldrick, Economics Editor 2:16PM GMT 19 Nov 2010 .In what are likely to prove controversial proposals, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director, called on the European Union to move responsibility for fiscal discipline and structural reform to a central body that is free from the influences of member states. In a speech in Frankfurt addressing the sovereign debt crisis engulfing Europe once again, he said: The wheels of co-operation move too slowly. The centre must seize the initiative in all areas key to reaching the common destiny of the union, especially in financial, economic and social policy. Countries must be willing to cede more authority to the centre.Europe is plagued by crisis because member states put too much faith in banks and let their public finances run out of control. Greece has already been bailed out and Ireland is expected to agree a €100bn (£85bn) rescue within days. Portugal is also at risk.Mr Strauss-Kahn did not name any individual eurozone members, but warned: The sovereign crisis is not over.Reform is vital but, he said: The area’s institutions were simply not up to the task of managing a crisis – even setting up a temporary solution proved to be a drawn-out process.

One [solution] is to shift the main responsibility for enforcement of fiscal discipline and key structural reforms away from the Council. This would minimize the risk of narrow national interests interfering with effective implementation of the common rules.Handing greater powers to the centre would lead to a greater loss of sovereignty for each of the eurozone’s member states. Monetary policy is already under the control of the European Central Bank, with national governments holding on to fiscal authority. In proposals that are likely to play into the hands of eurosceptics in the UK and elsewher, Mr Strauss-Kahn recommended more tax harmonisation and a larger central budget. Reiterating a now common theme, he added that the euro area needs to rebalance – with Germany reducing its dependence on exports and other nations shrinking current account deficits.To manage and monitor the changes, he argued for a larger central budget – funded by more transparent EU-wide instruments—such as a European VAT, or carbon taxation and pricing. Alongside tighter fiscal controls, he said labour market reforms in the euro area need to be centralised. The euro area cannot achieve its true potential with a bewildering patchwork of segmented labour markets, he said.These barriers exacerbate the diverging economic fortunes that threaten the euro area today. It is time to create a level playing field for European workers, especially in the area of labour taxation, social benefits systems and portability, and employment protection legislation.He added: The only answer is more cooperation, and greater integration.

irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 11:11Imperative budget is passed for EU/IMF deal - Dempsey

The EU-IMF rescue deal for Ireland hinges on the publication of the four-year plan and the passing of the budget on December 7th, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey said today.We don't have the luxury of time in relation to this. We asked for assistance, we were given that assistance on the basis that we were going to produce this four year plan, that we were going to produce a budget, and that that budget would pass, Mr Dempsey said.If we can't do that, then the assistance isn't there.EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn said today it was essential that Ireland passes the 2011 budget sooner rather than later. Let's get it out of the way and move on,he said in Strasbourg, where he is meeting Irish MEPs.Late last night, Taoiseach Brian Cowen phoned Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore to offer to make available to them the financial advice underpinning the Government’s proposed budget.Mr Kenny and Mr Gilmore yesterday called for an immediate election before the budget, as did Sinn Féin.While the Taoiseach made no direct request to Mr Kenny or Mr Gilmore to help him get the budget through the Dáil on December 7th, his phone calls to them signalled the first move in a strategy to persuade the Opposition to let the budget pass.

It is understood, however, that both Mr Kenny and Mr Gilmore told the Fianna Fáil leader they wanted to see an immediate dissolution of the Dáil with an election before rather than after the budget. Both will consult senior party colleagues today about Mr Cowen’s offer.This morning, Mr Dempsey said the purpose of the contacts was to inform the Opposition leaders and allow them the opportunity to see the books.
Given the time-scale involved, it would not be possible to have a general election prior to the budget, he said.The proper thing for the Opposition to do is put the country first, put aside politics as usual and get on with this business, he told RTÉ's Morning Ireland.Fine Gael health spokesman James Reilly said his party could not give a guarantee on passing the budget until they had seen it.When we see the budget if the budget meets with all the requirements that we have that's a different matter,he said.Dr Reilly said he would not buy into a budget he said was from a government that has lied to the Dáil, lied to the people and doesn't tell each other what's going on, I'm certainly not buying into that.Mr Cowen announced last night there will be a general election early in the New Year once the budget has been enacted. The Taoiseach’s decision to dissolve the Dáil in the new year came in response to an announcement by Green Party leader John Gormley in the morning that his party wanted an election in the second half of January.This morning, Minister for Tourism Mary Hanafin said she was very annoyed by the Green Party’s surprise decision to call for a general election next month.I am not sure that they have shown that they have the best interests of the country at heart but we are just going to have to work with them over the next few months, she said before attending a tourism conference in Dublin. This is bigger than the Green Party and bigger than Fianna Fáil.Meanwhile, a number of Fianna Fáil TDs who believe it is time for the Taoiseach to step down are due to meet today to discuss a strategy in relation to a motion of no confidence.

Yesterday, Independent TD for North Tipperary Michael Lowry called on the Taoiseach to dissolve the Dáil immediately, while a number of Fianna Fáil backbenchers publicly called on him to resign. Chris Andrews from Dublin South East, Noel O’Flynn from Cork North Central and Seán Power from Kildare South said it was time for the Taoiseach to step down.Carlow Kilkenny TD John McGuinness said last night a number of TDs would meet, separately from a meeting of the parliamentary party also due to take place today. There’s serious discontent within the parliamentary party. I believe it’s now up to those who’ve spoken out to take soundings amongst their colleagues to take action to remove that man [Mr Cowen] immediately, Mr McGuinness said.If a strategy was agreed, it would take a week for a motion to be heard.However, Mr Dempsey said the Taoiseach will lead the party into the next election. Brian Cowen has my full support now and into the next election,he added.

The Irish Times - Tuesday, November 23, 2010EU-IMF arrival to save banks moved Greens to decisionHARRY McGEE

ANALYSIS: Party plan to leave Government took root on Saturday and was played out yesterday.YESTERDAY MORNING’S dramatic announcement by party leader John Gormley that the Greens would leave Government by the end of January was the culmination of a process that began towards the end of last week, but took root on Saturday.The trigger for the decision to pull the plug on the three-year Coalition came in the middle of last week when it was announced that the EU and the IMF would be intervening to save the Irish banks from certain collapse.The development of the commission, ECB and IMF involvement changed the whole political sense and public sense, said Green Minister Eamon Ryan last night.A number of the party’s TDs and Senators, most notably Paul Gogarty and Niall Ó Brolcháin, had been vocal in recent weeks about the need for the Greens to reassert its identity as a party and to distinguish itself from Fianna Fáil.But senior members insisted last night the party was not looking for an opportune time to execute a pre-cooked exit strategy. Rather, they argued, the news that outside agencies were coming in was a genuine game- changer. Of course, Ryan accepted last night the absence of a proper communications strategy by Government Ministers last week did not help.

According to party strategists, the decision to leave Government after the budget and the four-year plan were implemented crystallised over the the weekend. The parliamentary party held a meeting on Saturday at which the view was canvassed.
Further discussions involving the parliamentary party took place late on Sunday night after the Cabinet meeting. The final decision was taken early yesterday morning, resulting in the press conference at 11.30am.To say that the news came as a bolt out of the blue for Fianna Fáil is a severe understatement. John Gormley decided to inform Taoiseach Brian Cowen shortly after 11am but found he could not get through, as Cowen was in a long interview with a local radio station in Tullamore. He got through at 11.30am, just as the press conference was due to start.

Brian Lenihan was also unaware of it when doorstepped by reporters as he left an engagement. It was evident from his comments that he refused to believe that it was happening.Cowen, asked later if he felt a sense of betrayal at the bombshell, said the word was not in his lexicon. However, a number of senior Fianna Fáil figures were furious at the Greens for moving so precipitously. They pointed out that the junior party more or less knew they were pulling out all weekend but had said nothing. What’s more, they had argued the toss on the four-year plan, thus contributing to the delay of its publication by a day.Last night Ryan justified the stance on the basis that the party had to arrive independently at its own strategy, that with the arrival of the IMF and EU, it was important that it set out its own views.

Beck: Obama Will Blame Terror Attack On TSA Resistance
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com November 22, 2010

In little noticed comments made during an appearance on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show on Fox News, Glenn Beck warned that the Obama administration wouldn’t hesitate to exploit a terror attack targeting airliners to blame the event on people protesting naked body scanners and TSA groping in airports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j49_UAxtolc&feature=player_embedded

The Fox News host said that the government was deliberately provoking the American people to rise up so they could squelch the growing resistance with an iron fist, noting that Obama has failed to give a single speech addressing the TSA revolt even amidst the biggest holiday travel period of the year.Let’s get people to rise up and say no scanners….something happens, the President then has the ability to finally give a speech on airport security and say I was trying to protect you and these people stood up against these scanners, and these people died because of it….you have to stop listening, I’ll protect you,said Beck, implying that the Obama administration would exploit a terror attack to blame it on those protesting against scanners and TSA groping in airports.Beck added that people in the Obama administration were probably having casual conversations surrounding the potential of a terror attack targeting airline travel along the lines of, Gee, it wouldn’t be so bad, would it? Beck made similar comments earlier this month when he suggested that the Obama administration was preparing to stage an event that would be blamed on opponents of big government.Discussing how leftists need violence to realize their political agenda, Beck featured a clip in which former Clintonite and Democrat operative Mark Penn said Obama needs an OKC bombing-style event to regain his popularity.Remember, President Clinton reconnected through Oklahoma, right? said Penn on Chris Matthews’ Hardball show. And the president right now seems removed. It wasn’t until that speech [after the bombing] that [Clinton] really clicked with the American public. Obama needs a similar defining moment, according to Penn.As we have documented, Penn is not the only prominent insider to invoke exploitation of terror as a means of reinvigorating the big government agenda. Back in July, former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton Robert Shapiro wrote in the Financial Times that only an OKC bombing or 9/11 style event could provide Obama with the opportunity to demonstrate that he is a strong leader.

After reading a letter written by Tides CEO and founder Drummond Pike that encouraged advertisers to boycott Fox News in a thinly veiled threat that implied Beck’s rhetoric is leading to another OKC bombing, Beck stated, They are setting up an Oklahoma City, they are claiming that one is coming and they’re already marked the one who caused it, referring to himself.The resistance to TSA groping and naked body scanners is only accelerating as Thanksgiving nears and a national opt-out protest is less than 48 hours away.More and more cases of TSA abuse continue to pour in on a daily basis as Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole indicates for the first time that the agency may be starting to cave to the backlash. Pistole told CNN’s State of the Union yesterday that screening procedures would not be altered but in a subsequent statement acknowledged that the TSA needed to make airport security as minimally invasive as possible, in response to the building nationwide outrage and vows by numerous airport directors to ditch the TSA altogether in favor of private security.

FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
False flag-From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and can be used in peace-time.(NOTICE EVERY TIME THERES A REAL TERRORIST ATTACK,THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS IS DOING A FAKE DRILL WHICH MEANS THEY CAN SAY IT WAS ONLY A DRILL IF THE ATTACK DOES NOT GO OVER WITH THE PUBLIC OR IF THE GOVERNMENT MUFFED UP THEIR OWN FALSE FLAG CONTROL FREAK,GET MORE CONTROL OF PEOPLES RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.)

TSA needs false flag security incident to convince Americans to accept obscene pat-downs Mike Adams NaturalNews November 22, 2010

With the grassroots backlash over the TSA’s obscene pat-downs growing by the day, it’s becoming fairly obvious that the only way the U.S. government is going to get the public to accept these Fourth Amendment violations is if there is another terrorist incident that’s stopped by the TSA and its naked body scanners.Be on the watch for a staged security event designed to convince the American people that they need to give up yet more freedoms in the name of police-state security.So far, the TSA is molesting children, teens and grannies without being able to demonstrate that this gross violation of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights is having any effect whatsoever on improving air travel safety. But if there’s anything to be learned from 9/11, it’s that the sheeple are always willing to give up their rights if they can be scared into doing so. (http://www.naturalnews.com…)After 9/11 people were scared and when people are scared they’ll do anything for someone who will make them less scared, said Bruce Schneier, a Minneapolis security technology expert, in an AP story (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101121…). But [this TSA] is particularly invasive. It’s strip-searching. It’s body groping. As abhorrent goes, this pegs it.

TSA is fighting for its survival

The TSA is being threatened right now in a big way: One airport in Florida is already planning to ditch the agency and hire private contractors to run security. A NYC lawmaker has called for the dismantling of the TSA, and Rep Ron Paul has introduced legislation that would result in TSA agents being arrested for felony crimes if they touched peoples’ junk.The TSA, in other words, is fighting for its very survival right now. What it desperately needs is some new terrorist incident to remind the American people how much they need to give up their freedoms in exchange for security.Now, I’m not saying the TSA is going to plot to blow up an airplane or anything, but if there’s anybody who has the access to sneak something past airport security, it’s the TSA.

How false flag operations achieve government goals

The United States government has a long and detailed history of “staging” events in order to sway public opinion. The Gulf of Tonkin event in the Vietnam War era was deliberately staged by U.S. government officials in order to justify an escalation of military attacks on the North Vietnamese. Documents that were finally declassified just this year prove beyond any doubt that the U.S. government conspired to stage this false flag event. (http://www.prisonplanet.com/de-clas…)

Operation Northwoods was a similar plot. As Wikipedia relates:The planned 1962 Operation Northwoods plot by the U.S. Department of Defense for a war with Cuba involved scenarios such as hijacking or shooting down passenger and military planes, sinking a U.S. ship in the vicinity of Cuba, burning crops, sinking a boat filled with Cuban refugees, attacks by alleged Cuban infiltrators inside the United States, and harassment of U.S. aircraft and shipping and the destruction of aerial drones by aircraft disguised as Cuban MiGs. These actions would be blamed on Cuba, and would be a pretext for an invasion of Cuba and the overthrow of Fidel Castro’s communist government. It was authored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, nixed by John F. Kennedy, came to light through the Freedom of Information Act and was publicized by James Bamford. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_…)On the conspiracy theory front, there have long been accusations that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job staged as a pretext to clamp down on Americans’ freedoms and roll out the Patriot Act — the very law that coincidentally gives TSA agents the right to have anybody arrested and detained for 48 hours without cause, without a warrant and without legal representation. The evidence surrounding the collapse of the WTC 7 building now has literally thousands of engineers, scientists and citizens realizing the building was obviously brought down by demolition explosions (http://buildingwhat.org) and not an office fire as was the official explanation.The point of all this is that when governments are cornered but don’t want to give in, they will sometimes resort to falsifying events in order to continue moving their agendas forward. As David Icke explains, it’s the old problem-reaction-solution approach. First, create the problem, then wait for the public reaction that allows you to enact the government solution.The formula works like a charm for everything from pushing flu vaccines to justifying a war.In fact, there is evidence that U.S. agents may already be working on this plan. The fake bomb recently found on board a German passenger jet, we now know, was manufactured by a U.S. company (http://www.prisonplanet.com/fake-bo…).

How government agencies keep themselves alive (and get more funding)Is the TSA at that point of desperation yet? I’m not sure, but it would certainly be easy for high-level TSA operatives to find some patsy who hates the government, convince him that he should carry some liquid explosives onto an airplane, and then catch him at a TSA security checkpoint, thereby proving that we need to keep giving up our freedoms in the name of security.The mainstream media would have a field day with that story, and for the next two weeks on the news, we’d all hear how important the TSA is and what a great job they’re doing, and how this terrorist was caught by the naked body scanner machine, and so on.Don’t be surprised to see such a scenario unfold. It’s not that I personally distrust the TSA in particular, because there are some good people who work there and who are not to blame for all this, but at the same time I’ve been around long enough and studied enough true history to know that government organizations will do practically anything to stay in power.The DEA, for example, is desperately fighting against marijuana legalization not because marijuana is some highly dangerous drug (it isn’t), but because it’s job security for DEA agents.The CDC, likewise, went completely out of its way last year to spread fear about the H1N1 Swine Flu for the same reasons: Job security. There’s nothing quite like declaring a stage-six pandemic to keep the Congressional funding flowing your way, huh? The CDC also has a fascinating history of completely distorting the AIDS epidemic in order to boost its own funding, by the way. Watch this eye-opening video from House of Numbers to learn more: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=4FE73…

Every government agency — the TSA, CDC, FDA, USDA, FTC and so on — fights for its survival every year. That’s because in an era of budget cuts, every agency knows it could potentially be on the chopping block for severe cuts. And funding cuts translate into job losses. So the unspoken rule at all government agencies is to make ourselves important in order to keep the money flowing.This is also why the food contamination scares have been hyped up beyond all reason over the last two years: The FDA wants new powers to control the food supply, and the best way to do that is to latch onto stories about e.coli and salmonella and blow those all out of proportion in order to pass reactionary legislation called Senate Bill 510 (http://www.naturalnews.com/030461_S…).The truth about this food safety situation is that right now something like 80% of the chickens sold in grocery stores are contaminated with salmonella (http://www.naturalnews.com/021258.html), yet you don’t hear a peep about that story. And the FDA is making no effort whatsoever to ban chicken meat from grocery stores. Their fear mongering about food contamination is very selective, it seems.Perhaps the TSA has been learning its lessons from the FDA. Simply stage a false flag attack and you, too, can have increased Congressional funding to fight terror or whatever.

We do need protections, but we need our rights even more

All this isn’t to say that America doesn’t have enemies who really do want to destroy us. It’s true that there are really bad people out there — people and groups who want to bring America down.There are some good people in Washington who are fighting for our safety behind the scenes. Yes, the FBI, CIA and NSA all have a few good men who are doing things around the world that you and I don’t even want to know about. Stuff that would make you cringe if you knew about it.The sacrifices being made by some of these individuals in the name of protecting America’s interests on the international stage will never be fully known, nor recognized by anyone in the mainstream. The everyday American people who go about their lives shopping, watching TV, collecting a paycheck and surfing the web have no idea what goes on behind the scenes to give them the luxury of pursuing such a carefree lifestyle.That’s why nothing I print here is intended to disrespect the front-line warriors who are fighting for America’s interests — soldiers, the few good feds, etc. But at the same time that there are some good men (and women) in these agencies, there are also some rotten apples (like in any organization, I suppose). There are some people working in the government who absolutely would not hesitate to stage a false flag attack if it meant increasing their power, their pay and their importance.And those people must be scratching their heads right now, thinking, Gee, it sure would be easy to pull off a staged event of some kind that keeps us all in power.I just hope they come to their senses and realize they should not be at war with the American people. They’re supposed to be fighting to protect our freedoms, not to take away our freedoms. The real war is with the true enemies of America — those state-sponsored terrorist groups that genuinely want to destroy America and everything it stands for.Certainly, we must not let the terrorists win. But neither must we allow freedom to perish in the process.

Reasonable security is fine

As a freedom-loving American who values both my freedom and my safety, I will gladly submit to having my luggage X-rayed and walking through a metal detector. I will gladly sit beside an armed Air Marshal on the flight, captained by an armed pilot on the flight deck who hopefully has a couple of spare mags along with his Colt 1911, too (pilots carry firearms on airplanes right now, most people don’t even know..).
Yet as much as those security precautions seem reasonable, I refuse to subject myself to a body X-ray that emits ionizing radiation, and I refuse to give in to an obscene pat-down that involves government personnel feeling up my genitals, with or without a latex glove.At that point, security has become tyranny. And the terrorists have already won.We need to rise up and stop this. Just as some of our undercover federal agents (and active soldiers) are fighting for America’s interests overseas, you and I need to be fighting for our freedom right here at home, on American soil, with this airport security issue.We are not subjects. We are not cattle. We are sovereign citizens and we will not surrender our bodies to be fondled by government agents with the excuse that it’s for our own good.And be on the watch for a staged security event designed to convince the American people that they need to give up yet more freedoms in the name of police-state security. I’m willing to bet that precisely such a plot is on the drawing board in Washington D.C. right now.

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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DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

Climate change is the new global terror, says Al Gore
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times New Delhi, November 20, 2010First Published: 20:57 IST(20/11/2010)

Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom the world is awaiting because of climate change and expressed disappointment at world leaders failing to clinch a treaty to fight the new global terror. Terming the logjam in climate negotiations as a startling related stories Need to speed up process of fighting global warming: Al Gore paradox, the man, whose documentary, The Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar said the year 2010 had seen worst of climate change.

There was severe drought in Russia and extreme flooding in Pakistan. What more evidence is required for action, he said at HT Leadership Summit.His worst fear was that after failure of Copenhagen climate summit the talks where heading towards another zombie like the Doha process on World Trade Organisation negotiations. Gore’s solution for the problem was taking the issue back to the grassroots and creating a political storm to compel the leaders to react to climate change.The former president blamed his own country United States – world second biggest carbon emitter -- for failing to legislate a carbon law to curb emissions, resulting in failure of Copenhagen.There are six anti-climate lobbyists for every member of the Senate, he said, adding that such interest groups backed by billions of dollars by polluting companies in US were making an organised attempt to change the public opinion on climate change.They believe that by deceiving people and creating false doubts climate science, they can delay the legislation, the Nobel Peace Prize winner for year 2007 with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said.He like many leaders at the HT Summit had said that a solution to climate crises is not possible without involving business. For this, he recommended a price on carbon, which could be a carbon tax or a price for emissions higher than a particular level for each sector.

Al Gore had a lot of hope for India to take a lead in fighting climate change.

India has a tremendous opportunity to lead the world in energy efficient solutions and in effecting a rapid shift to use of alternate energy like wind and solar,Gore said. The former US president described warm India-United States relation as a constant and not partisan.Three consecutive governments of two different parties have continued strong relations with India…I am happy at the success of (Barack) Obama’s India visit,he said.

EU homeland security plan ratchets up border protection
VALENTINA POP 22.11.2010 @ 17:46 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Commission on Monday (22 November) tabled an Internal Security Strategy with proposals ranging from cyber-squads fighting online fraud to enhanced border management and EU data systems to track potential terrorists taking a flight or wiring money to suspicious organisations.The plan, which includes 41 actions to be regulated in the coming four years, is aimed at implementing the extra powers in the field of home affairs acquired by the EU once the Lisbon Treaty came into force.It also responds to requests from the European Parliament to have EU-based data extraction and analysis on bank transactions to terrorist organisations, instead of sending all the banking data to the US, where such a programme has existed since 2001.Similarly, air passenger data being collected by various European airlines and handed over to US authorities whenever they fly over the Atlantic, may be in future shared and analysed amongst EU countries as well, in the search for terrorists and gangsters.We don't propose many new organisations, but we want to equip existing ones with better tools, EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said during a press briefing.She fiercely rejected the idea that the EU was about to create gigantic databases and encourage people to spy on each other in the search for potential terrorists. A big database on all citizens would not be very democratic. We need legal limitation on the size and scope of how data is collected,she stressed.Instead, the commission is proposing a network where local police, NGOs and religious congregations across Europe can share best practices on how to best identify and work with these vulnerable people [potential home-grown militants],the Swedish commissioner explained. One new programme, Eurosur, in the field of border surveillance – was asked for years ago by member states and will work closely with EU's border agency Frontex.

Eurosur is likely to spark controversy among human rights groups pointing to the fallacy of mashing together asylum seekers and irregular migrants with traffickers and organised crime lords. In the commission's own description of the programme, Eurosur would be a system of systems focusing on enhanced border surveillance in order to reduce the number of illegal immigrants who enter the EU especially across the Mediterranean. It was initially a request from southern states such as Italy and Greece that have not stepped up their administrative response to dealing with asylum claims and are even pushing back boats of people without checking if they are refugees or not.Frontex itself had received criticism for helping Italian sea patrols in pushing back migrant boats. The agency says it has since changed its code of conduct to give greater emphasis to the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.Ms Malmstrom, a former MEP and civil liberties campaigner, has tried to push for a more rights-oriented approach in EU's dealings with migrants.I want border guards, police, and customs officials to co-operate much more effectively at the real hotspots of the EU external borders in order to better fight human trafficking, trafficking in illegal and dangerous goods, and other criminal activity, she said.

Cybersecurity – a buzz word taken up by Nato and the EU as well – is also featuring among the proposed measures in the coming four years.A new cybercrime centre will be set up at Europol, the bloc's police co-operation agency, and special computer emergency response teams will be available in 2012 in all member states.A European crisis management system, looking at more co-ordinated risk assessments on natural disasters and linking it up to nuclear risk monitoring and terrorism, is also included in the plan, with the commission set to table concrete proposals next year.

US has no closer partner than Europe, says Obama
VALENTINA POP 22.11.2010 @ 09:25 CET

EUOBSERVER / LISBON – EU leaders meeting US President Barack Obama on Saturday chose not to discuss any contentious matters in an exercise meant to show how well the transatlantic relationship works, after Mr Obama had snubbed them earlier this year.
This summit was not as exciting as other summits, because we basically agree on everything, Mr Obama told reporters on Saturday night, after a two-day marathon session of meetings at the Nato summit in Lisbon, ending with a two-hour session with EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso.

Nevertheless, Mr Obama argued, I value these meetings because the US has no closer partner than Europe.The reassurances about the importance of EU-US relation come after Mr Obama earlier this year rejected an invitation to Madrid by the then Spanish EU presidency, with White House officials citing the need for the Europeans to make up their minds who represents the EU. Spanish premier Jose Rodriguez Zapatero had seized the opportunity of a transitional period as the new EU rulebook just came into force, to try and organise the EU-US summit himself instead of Mr Van Rompuy.Today marked our first summit under EU's new Lisbon Treaty and it was wonderful to meet Cathy Ashton, who is doing an outstanding work, Mr Obama said in Lisbon.As for the concrete outcome of the meeting, which Mr Barroso described as intimate, friendly and focussed, the three politicians could point to little other than a working group on cybersecurity which will report back to leaders in a year's time and to step up the activity of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) looking at regulatory regimes and business-friendly climate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mr Obama also stressed the need for EU's police training mission to Afghanistan to step up its act, after Nato leaders and partners had just decided to begin the security hand-over to Afghan troops in 2014.Mr Van Rompuy, for his part, said that a speedy compromise on an overarching EU-US data protection agreement may facilitate the conclusion of other data transfer deals - for instance on passenger name records (PNR). This was the only midly contentious matter taken up from a wishlist adopted by the European Parliament in the run-up to the EU-US summit. More controversial matters requested by MEPs were not brought up, including the call for an independent inquiry into Iraqi torture condoned by US and British troops, after the publication of secret war logs by Wikileaks.The US leader took no questions from the press after his five-minute remarks and headed directly to the airport, in his armoured Cadillac. The ambassadors of the EU to Washington, Joao Vale de Almeida and William Kennard, US' envoy to Brussels later on jointly briefed the press and answered questions on behalf of their leaders.Asked why the EU leaders chose to remain silent on the more contentious matters with the US, Mr de Almeida argued that when you have a summit with best friends, the level of disputes is low.There may be differences, such as on data privacy, but no big problems as there are in US' relations with other countries, the former chief of staff of Mr Barroso said.Mr Kennard said that because the relationship is healthy and working, we can focus on challenges outside the EU or the US, such as Iran and the Middle East.On the working group on cybersecurity, the US envoy said that it is building on a lot of work going on already and that unlike the efforts in Nato to counter cyber attacks on military networks, this will focus on the commercial side and potential threats to the regular consumer.

Ireland applies for €90bn bail-out as eurozone trembles-Ireland has become the second country under EU-IMF tutelage (Photo: La Marga)LEIGH PHILLIPS
22.11.2010 @ 09:25 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Irish government has applied for an EU-IMF bail-out of up to €90 billion to save its banking sector from collapse and reduce its borrowing costs, a move that in effect places Irish democracy, like that of Greece, under the protectorship of experts from Brussels and Washington.Ireland's finance minister, Brian Lenihan, made the announcement speaking to public radio on Sunday evening (21 November) that he would recommend the application to a cabinet meeting later that night. The taoiseach, the country's prime minister, Brian Cowen, publicly addressed his nation, admitting to what had been denied for a week.In a bitter exchange with an Irish reporter, the leader rejected responsibility for the crisis: I will defend my position throughout my political career. I don't accept your contention that I am the bogeyman you are looking for.European Union finance ministers on Sunday night gave the nod to the loan, following feverish negotiations between the Irish government and a team of experts from the troika of the EU, the ECB and the IMF, flown into Dublin on Thursday, although exact sums have yet to be announced, following an emergency meeting held at the same time as the Irish cabinet discussion. EU economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn, conceded that the emergency action was taken essentially to protect the eurozone from further contagion: Providing assistance to Ireland is warranted to safeguard the financial stability in Europe.Eyes will now be cast toward Portugal, also in recent days bludgeoned lending costs demanded by investors, to see if the Irish move will be enough to prevent a runaway chain of bail-outs that potentially could include Spain at a massive cost.

Underscoring the acute danger to the eurozone and the wider global economy posed by the relatively small Irish economy, G7 leaders also gave the green light to the deal.
The UK and Sweden, who both lie outside the wounded eurozone, will also offer a set of bilateral loans. Britain – whose own banks have the largest exposure to Ireland, an estimated £150 billion – is likely to be on the hook for around £7 billion, including its participation in the bail-out via the IMF and the EU. However, some sources suggested that a combined bilateral package including other sources could add an additional €20 billion to the estimated €70-90 billion bail-out fund. An Irish default would have left London in a similar situation that Ireland currently faces, with public funds drained to prop up foundering banks.Irish leaders refused to be drawn on the exact numbers involved, although Mr Lenihan insisted it was not a three-figure sum, as had been reported by some media.Precise details of the scale of the three-year loan - what Irish leaders are preferring to a ‘contingency fund' - and the stiff conditions attached to it, will trickle out in the coming days as formal talks between the troika and the Dublin government now begin in earnest. It is expected that a final package will be agreed by the end of the month.What is known is that the loan conditions comprise two broad elements. The first, a deep restructuring of the banks, will see the financial institutions, in the words of Mr Cowen significantly smaller than they were in the past.The second element will attempt an internal devaluation - a bundle of steep public spending cuts, increased taxes that squeezes labour costs. Tied to the euro, Ireland is unable to devalue, imposing such dramatic social pain it is hoped will allow the economy can regain its international competitiveness.And dramatic it will be: a government four-year plan of cuts will include, according to the taoiseach, €10 billion in cuts, including a 10 percent cut in welfare provision and a reduction in public sector jobs of 28,000, and €5 billion in new taxes, including increased taxes on low-income earners and water charges.Ensuring the Irish government sticks to its plan, experts from the troika, currently lodged at Dublin's luxurious, five-star Merrion Hotel, will likely be installed in the finance ministry, with quarterly reviews, as occurs in the case of Greece's bail-out. Failure to meet projections will require a ratcheting up of the austerity.

Mr Lenihan refused to mention the expected interest rate imposed on the loan, but the standard figure, which could open up other EU states to charges of attempting to profit from Ireland's misfortune, comprises an ECB rate of one percent, plus an additional 1.5 to two percent on top, with one percent handling fee, amounting to roughly or just below five percent.The opposition Fine Gael has said it will back any budget proposed by the government, while Labour's Pat Rabbitte, speaking on Irish public television on Sunday night, would not comment on whether his party would do so.Protests against the measures so far have been miniscule, with a few dozen outside government offices on Sunday night, although a major demonstration has been called by unions for 27 November.

Knesset Passes Referendum Law NOV 22,10
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu and Elad Benari

The Knesset passed on Monday evening the bill that would require a referendum before any land officially under Israeli sovereignty is surrendered, specifically the Golan Heights. 65 MKs voted in favor of the bill while 33 opposed it.Labor ministers Ehud Barak, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Isaac Herzog, and Avishay Braverman did not participate in the vote. However, two other members of the Labor Party, Minister Shalom Simchon and Deputy Minister Matan Vilnai were present and voted in favor of the referendum.

Prior to the vote, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office rejected the idea that the referendum law would hurt the chances for peace negotiations between Israel and its neighbors. A referendum prevents an irresponsible agreement and on the other hand makes it possible to achieve a strong public backing for an agreement that will respond to Israel's national interests, said Netanyahu.A recently-passed law already required an absolute majority of 61 Knesset Members before any of the Golan could be handed over to Syria, which has been demanding the entire Golan Heights. A referendum would place a major obstacle if any government were able to win a majority in the Knesset for giving up the area and its rich water resources.The referendum bill also covers United Jerusalem and the rest of Israel except for Judea and Samaria which officially are under military control.Earlier on Monday Kadima leader Tzipi Livni made a U-turn on the bill the party once backed. The Kadima leader said her opposition to the Golan referendum bill is based on a principle that the Knesset, and not the general public, should have the final say on legislature. However, despite Kadima's decision to oppose the referendum bill, two of its members, MKs Otniel Schneller and Eli Aflalo, voted in favor of the referendum.

Consistent with her previous attacks on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Livni said that he is a weak prime minister. This has nothing to do with left or right, but with decision-making in this democracy. There is one referendum, and that's general elections, and the prime minister must say the same thing before and after the elections.Her move to the left is surprising because Kadima formerly had encouraged the bill, which would create a major obstacle to any future effort to surrender any part of the Golan. However, her opposition is consistent with an almost automatic disagreement with every policy promoted by the prime minister and the Likud coalition.MK Livni lost a bitter contest to form the current coalition two years ago. She has claimed she should be heading the government because her party won one more seat than the Likud in the winter 2009 elections. However, she was not able to win over Yisrael Beiteinu, headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and Shas, leaving her with minority support that did not enable her to form a coalition.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

US-Trained Armed Forces Turning PA into Police State’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu NOV 23,10

The United States may have created a Frankenstein in the Palestinian Authority, which human rights groups fear is using U.S.-trained forces to build a police state.I feel real concern that we are reaching the level of a police state, according to Ramallah-based human rights group director Shawan Jabarin, quoted by the Financial Times.The United States has taken pride in its training PA policemen, avoiding use of the words armed forces in order not to violate Oslo agreements. General Keith Dayton, who recently stepped down as director of the training program in the PA, has said the forces have been instrumental in eliminating Arab terror.

However, most of the terrorists and their supporters who have been arrested belong to Hamas, which threw its bitter rival Fatah out of Gaza in a bloody military war more than three years ago.The Financial Times noted that PA politician Badr Abu Ayyash was arrested in September by the Preventive Security Unit, which allegedly tortured him to the point that he can hardly walk today. Other prisoners were quoted as saying that Hamas members are routinely beaten and tortured.Human Rights Watch last month stated that reports of torture by Palestinian security forces keep rolling in. Randa Siniora, the director of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights, told the Times, We are looking at a very gloomy situation. I am afraid that this will become systematic.The anti-Hamas actions may prevent inroads by fundamentalist Muslim members of Hamas, but European countries, which generously fund the Palestinian Authority, have openly questioned whether their contribution justifies the PA becoming a police state.The U.S. State Department five years ago encouraged the PA to establish democratic elections for the first time. However, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was shocked to discover that Hamas won the legislature.

Since then, no general legislative elections have been held, and PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas continues to serve beyond his expired term, leaving the PA without any signs of the democracy that the United States introduced.Ahmed Salhab, who said he was tortured in a PA prison, told the Times, I had to eat lying on my back. I had to pray on my back and other inmates had to carry me to the toilet. I never broke the law. In the past, nobody would have believed that the PA would torture its own people. But now everybody knows that they do not respect human rights.Hamas charged on Monday that continuing arrests of its members in Judea and Samaria are poisoning the atmosphere. A statement from its Damascus headquarters stated, More than 50 armed men of the security services of the Palestinian Authority on Sunday night raided the home of MP Fathi al-Qarawi, arrested one of his sons and confiscated computers.It also charged that a preacher was kidnapped from her home in Shechem.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Is START a Jewish Issue? by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu NOV 23,10

The conservative Heritage House foundation has taken issue with Jewish Democrats and the ADL for trying to turn the Russia-US START program into a Jewish issue.The START nuclear arms control treaty is the focus of U.S. President Barack Obama’s policy towards Russia. The National Jewish Democratic Council has backed it, noting that it forces Russia to cooperate with United Nations sanctions against Iran's unsupervised nuclear program.The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) also has backed START, stating, We are deeply concerned that failure to ratify the New START treaty will have national security consequences far beyond the subject of the treaty itself. The U.S. diplomatic strategy to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons requires a U.S.-Russia relationship of trust and cooperation.The Heritage House, whose founder Paul Weyrich has been charged with backing a fundamentalist Christian theocracy in the United States, accused partisan Democrats in the Jewish community [of] attempting to politicize the security debate of the New START nuclear arms control treaty.In the past, the ADL has accused Weyrich of being part an alliance of prominent conservative Christians who threatened the separation of church and state.

Responding to the Jewish groups’ comments on START, the Heritage House argued, The New START debate is about deadly serious issues, such as nuclear weapons. It should be kept outside of politics, let alone ethnic politics. There isn’t anything particularly Jewish or Democratic about an arms control treaty. Nor there is anything Jewish about the Obama Administration’s decision not to back off criticism about the undervalued Chinese currency just to keep Beijing on board regarding the U.N. Security Council Iran sanctions.The Heritage House alleged that the National Jewish Democratic Council assumes a knee-jerk response from a White House functioning as little more than a political mouthpiece.It reasoned that Israel has close enough relations with Russia, including over a million Russian immigrants, that it does not need START to help ties with Moscow, and that Russia will act in its own interests the way it did when it cancelled the sale of weapons to Iran recently.The think tank also pointed out that Russia helped build Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, sells weapons to Syria, has ties with the Hamas and Hizbullah terrorist organizations and wants to once again become a power player in the Middle East in the way its predecessor, the USSR did: by selling weapons, missiles and nuclear technology, and undermining U.S. interests when it can. Occasionally, it gives terrorists a free pass.(IsraelNationalNews.com)