EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)

I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.

Monday, November 29, 2010

RUSSIA PROPOSES EU UNION

ALEX JONES WEEKLY SHOWS AFTER 3PM
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NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR DOCUMENTARY
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NORTH KOREA MILITARY PARADE
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BIBLES WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS

CHINA MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE EAST)
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RUSSIA ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE NORTH)
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EGYPT ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE SOUTH)
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EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE WEST)(NOT THE USA)
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ISRAEL MILITARY-GUARENTEED BY EU TO SECURE THEM THE BIBLE SAYS(2 MAIN ENDTIME PLAYERS)(NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF FUULFILLING THE PROPHECIES ON EARTH)
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EARTH WORSHIP

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.

THE TALKS TURN TO MONEY,MEANS HST,CARBON TAXES,VAT TAXES ON THE WHOLE WORLD TO PAY FOR THE WORLD GOVERNMENT-PAID TO THE IMF AND POLICED BY THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS.THIS TAX SCAM JUST WON'T GO.THE NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES ARE BOUND THEIR GOING TO MAKE EVERYONE PAY TAXES TO THESE GREEDY BANKERS TO COVER THE NEW WORLD ORDERS BILLS AT OUR EXPENSES.

Australian PM to price carbon pollution next year By ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press – Sun Nov 28, 5:08 pm ET

CANBERRA, Australia – Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday her government would decide next year how to charge Australia's major polluters for the carbon gases that they emit in a bid to curb the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.
Gillard's plan to fast-track Australia's introduction of financial penalties for polluters came hours ahead of a United Nations climate change summit in Mexico starting on Monday that will consider how the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be replaced after 2012.Australia and the United States had been the only industrialized countries to refuse to accept their Kyoto targets on reducing their carbon emissions until Gillard's center-left Labor Party was elected to govern in 2007.The new Labor government under then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd immediately signed up to Australia's reduction target, but Rudd this year shelved until 2013 his plan to make polluters pay for permits to emit carbon gases.Gillard, who replaced Rudd in an internal Labor coup in June before the party was returned at August elections to govern for another three years, said she was confident that her government would decide next year how to make polluters pay after a committee of lawmakers and experts reports on the best strategy to do so.2011 is the year Australia decides on carbon pricing, Gillard told an economics think tank.

Labor's previous attempts to make polluters pay have been thwarted in the upper house, the Senate, where the government does not hold a majority. The conservative opposition argues that families would pay the cost of pollution and has promised to never charge polluters.Australia is one of world's worst carbon polluters per capita because of its heavy reliance on abundant coal reserves for power generation.Climate Change Minister Greg Combet has downplayed the prospect of a global agreement being reached at the U.N. summit at Cancun.Beginning Monday, 15,000 government delegates, environmentalists, business leaders, journalists and others will gather in the meeting halls of a Caribbean resort in Cancun for the annual conference of the 193-nation U.N. climate treaty.Australia's climate change ambassador Louise Hand will lead the 35-strong Australian delegation before Combet heads to Mexico in the second week of the summit to take over.

Stalled on treaty, climate talks turn to money By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent – Sun Nov 28, 7:06 pm ET

CANCUN, Mexico – Facing another year without a global deal to curb climate change, the world's nations will spend the next two weeks debating how to mobilize money to cope with what's coming — as temperatures climb, ice melts, seas rise and the climate that nurtured man shifts in unpredictable ways.Beginning Monday, 15,000 government delegates, environmentalists, business leaders, journalists and others will gather in the meeting halls of this steamy Caribbean resort for the annual conference of the 193-nation U.N. climate treaty.They meet late in a year that may end tied for the hottest globally in 131 years of record-keeping.As the world warms, the long-running U.N. negotiations have bogged down, unable to find consensus on a legally binding agreement requiring richer countries — and perhaps some poorer — to rein in emissions of carbon dioxide and other industrial, transportation and agricultural gases blamed for global warming.The Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives and a recent historic shift in emissions — developing countries now produce more greenhouse gases than the old industrial world — all but guarantee the standoff will drag on, at least for another year or two.The world is waiting for fruitful negotiations, Mexico's environment secretary, Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, told The Associated Press.U.N. officials hope for incremental progress on side issues, not an overarching deal, in two weeks of negotiation ending with three days of high-level bargaining among the world's environment ministers.

Governments need to prove the intergovernmental process can deliver and come to an agreement, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres told reporters outside the beachside Moon Palace Hotel.Mexican naval vessels offshore joined a giant security cordon ringing this sprawling resort area in a country plagued by drug wars, kidnappings and other crime.Hoping to revive momentum in the talks, delegates look for decisions leading to better terms for developing nations to obtain patented green technology from advanced countries, and toward a system for compensating poorer nations for protecting their forests.In particular, the developing world wants a significant deal on finance, a decision to establish a green fund to handle billions in aid dollars pledged by developed nations to help poorer countries adapt to a changing climate by, for example, building shoreline protection and upgrading water systems to deal with drought, and to install clean energy sources.In a nonbinding Copenhagen Accord reached by world leaders at last year's climate summit in the Danish capital, richer nations set a goal of $100 billion annually in such climate finance by 2020.The fund's operational and leadership details would likely be left for post-Cancun negotiation, as would the key question of how it would be financed. A U.N. panel of international political and financial leaders has presented a menu of revenue-raising options, including levies on international flights and on foreign-exchange transactions.

More immediately, less-developed nations will raise concerns about short-term aid, fast-start finance promised in the Copenhagen Accord.There's been too little for small island developing states. It's a trickle, said Grenada's U.N. ambassador, Dessima Williams, chair of an alliance of island states.At Copenhagen, industrial nations as a group pledged $30 billion in quick financing over 2010-2012. Independent analysts find that governments individually since have promised $28 billion for the three years.Poorer nations complain much of the money may not be new, but funds simply reshuffled from other development programs. At Cancun, they're expected to demand a clearer accounting of fast-start finance.That would build confidence in the overall funding process, Robert Orr, a U.N. assistant secretary-general, told reporters in New York. We need new and additional money to address the problem, not repackaged money.On the flip side, the developed north will seek a better accounting from China, India and other emerging economies of the south on what they're doing to slow the galloping growth of their greenhouse gas emissions.

Nations north and south pledged under the 2009 accord to voluntarily lower emissions by specific amounts or, in the case of emerging economies, to slow emissions growth. Developing countries also agreed to some international scrutiny of the steps they take, but the U.S. complains China has backtracked on that. At Cancun, India will submit a compromise monitoring plan it hopes will help satisfy the north on the south's emissions actions, while the south obtains a better accounting on climate finance. Monitoring is the crux of all issues at Cancun,India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, told the AP in New Delhi. The Copenhagen emissions pledges, even if all were met, would take the world only 60 percent of the way toward preventing serious climate change, the U.N. Environment Program reported last week.

Scientists say emissions overall should be cut 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 to prevent a dangerous temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees F) above preindustrial levels. Temperatures already rose 0.7 degrees C (1.3 degrees F) in the 20th century.The Copenhagen pledges would together reduce emissions by only 18 percent, independent analysis shows. In the U.S. case, emissions would be cut by only 3 percent below 1990 levels.For 13 years the U.S. has refused to join the rest of the industrialized world in the U.N. climate treaty's Kyoto Protocol, a binding pact to curb fossil-fuel emissions by modest amounts. The rise of Republicans in Washington, many of whom dismiss powerful scientific evidence of global warming, seems to rule out for now U.S. legislation to cap emissions, essential for drawing others into a binding global deal to succeed Kyoto, expiring in 2012.American negotiators say Washington will never submit to a new Kyoto-style deal on emissions unless China, India and others take on commitments under a legally binding treaty. The Chinese and Indians counter that they're still too poor to risk stifling economic growth, and the historic responsibility for industrial emissions lies with the north.The Obama administration, meanwhile, seeks limited emissions reductions via executive action. But the rest of the world, from Europe to island states facing rising seas, is skeptical of the American will to take demanding long-term action. As the debates drag on, heat-trapping carbon dioxide fills more of the atmosphere. From 280 parts per million before the Industrial Revolution, the concentration stood at 386.8 ppm in 2009.If too little is done, temperatures this century may rise by up to 6.4 degrees C (11.5 degrees F), leading to severe climate disruption, say scientists of the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The disruption may already have begun.

Researchers point to this summer's historic heat wave in Russia and nationwide floods in Pakistan as portents of things to come. In the Arctic Ocean, the summer melt of the ice cap has reached unprecedented proportions in recent years, and studies suggest the summer ocean may be ice-free as early as this decade.Here in Mexico, research points to a drying out and shrinking of farm output in some regions, which might lead to a greater exodus of Mexican migrants to the U.S. Associated Press writer Katy Daigle in New Delhi contributed to this report.

NOW THIS IS BIG NEWS-DETENTION CENTERS OUT IN OPEN TALK.THE BIBLE SAYS GOD DEALS WITH ISRAEL 1ST,THEN THE WORLD.SO THESE DETENTION CAMPS WILL BE WORLDWIDE HAPPENINGS AS GOD IS REVEALING THE FUTURE THREW NETANYAHU AND ISRAEL.

Israel approves detention center for migrants By Amy Teibel, Associated Press – Sun Nov 28, 11:31 am ET

JERUSALEM – Israel's Cabinet voted Sunday to erect a massive detention facility to hold thousands of Africans who have slipped illegally through the porous southern border with Egypt, heating up a debate over how to handle their mounting numbers.
Critics accuse Israel of trying to turn away bona fide refugees and predicted the facility, which will be designed to hold up to 10,000 detainees, would become a squalid refugee camp. The Cabinet minister in charge of prisons said correctional authorities were ill-equipped to run the facility.But other officials said authorities cannot let thousands of economic migrants enter illegally each year, take jobs from Israelis and dilute the country's Jewish character.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet before the vote that the proposed center is part of a multi-pronged approach that will include construction of a barrier along thinly patrolled areas of the 130-mile (220-kilometer) Israeli-Egyptian border, which began last week, and heavy fines on people who employ illegal workers. The barrier is also designed to keep out militants.We have to stop this growing influx that threatens Israelis' jobs and changes the character of the state,said Netanyahu, who later visited the border area where the fence is being constructed.Refugees would not be turned away. And the center, where the migrants would be housed, fed and receive medical care, would be a humanitarian solution for dealing with them until they are repatriated or sent to a third country, he said. The facility is to be completed in six months.This is really a national mission. The influx of labor immigrants threatens the social fabric of the entire country, said Defense Minister Ehud Barak, during a tour of the border fence area.

According to government estimates, about 13,000 Africans will illegally enter Israel this year, joining more than 20,000 others who came between 2006 and 2009.Without government intervention, the number could reach 30,000 a year by 2015, Cabinet secretary Tzvi Hauser told Israel Radio on Sunday. In addition to the African migrants, there are about 120,000 foreign workers with expired visas now in Israel, working illegally, the government and activists say.Most migrants come from Eritrea, Sudan and other impoverished and conflict-ridden African countries. Human rights workers say the Africans appear to be racing to cross the border before Israel completes the border fence.Officials say most migrants come looking for work and have become absorbed into the country's sizable illegal work force. They often earn extremely low wages and live in abominable conditions.But human rights workers say most are not economic migrants. Sigal Rozen of the Hotline for Migrant Workers accused officials of not reviewing applications for political asylum.Rozen's group and The Association for Civil Rights in Israel sent Netanyahu a letter last week calling the proposed center a refugee camp, nothing more than a ghetto.Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Haddad said with its limited staff power, the ministry first reviews applications of migrants from China, Thailand and other countries who came to Israel to work and therefore can be deported. It does not review the applications of immigrants from Eritrea and Sudan because Israel will not repatriate them at this time because of conditions there, even though they don't qualify as refugees, Haddad said.Plans to expel migrants have rankled some Israelis, who don't want their country — founded in part as a sanctuary for Holocaust survivors — to turn away people from repressive, war-torn states.Thousands of migrants have paid Egyptian smugglers, who reportedly demand as much as $10,000 to sneak them across the desert frontier. Hauser told Israel Radio that Israel does not have an agreement with Egypt to turn all the illegals back into Egypt's Sinai peninsula, which borders Gaza.

Over the weekend, the Israel branch of Physicians for Human Rights accused Bedouin traffickers in Sinai of routinely raping migrants, subjecting them to electric shocks, burning them with iron bars and locking some in sweltering containers without food or water until they die. They based the allegations on a significant number of accounts of abused migrants treated in Israel.The stream of migrants began as a trickle in 2005, after Egypt quashed a demonstration by a group of Sudanese refugees. Hundreds entered and as stories of their new lives spread, more came.
Since a request by Israel to tighten border controls, Egyptian forces have shot and killed dozens of African trying to cross the border.

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

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

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

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

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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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CNBC VIDEOS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON NOV 29,2010

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -91.05
10:30 AM -139.18
11:00 AM -124.39
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12:30 PM -120.20
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04:00 PM -39.51 11,052.49

S&P 500 1187.76 -1.64

NASDAQ 2525.22 -9.34

GOLD 1,367.30 +4.90

OIL 83.60 +1.84

TSE 300 12,895.70 +2.90

CDNX 2050.80 -6.20

S&P/TSX/60 738.65 +0.52

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -79 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -153 points at low today.
Dow +0.07 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,360.80.OIL opens at $84.37 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -153 points at low today so far.
Dow +0.07 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -153 points at low today.
Dow +0.07 points at high today.

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

Frustrated with EU pressure tactics, Africa ready to walk away from trade talks LEIGH PHILLIPS 26.11.2010 @ 17:44 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - African states are ready to abandon ten years of trade talks with the EU as their patience has worn thin in response to what they call pressure tactics on the part of the European Commission.In a pair of papers seen by EUobserver using language as blistering as diplomatic phrasing gets, African trade chiefs call on Brussels to step up and take the same supportive attitude towards development behind closed doors in trade talks as in their public pronouncements.The divergences between the EU and Africa seem to be intractable and not resolvable, despite ten years of negotiations, reads one of the papers.Raising the stakes ahead of an EU-Africa summit in Tripoli, Libya beginning on Monday, the nations say that if Europe does not abandon its demands that the continent radically liberalise its economies immediately, Africa says it is ready to walk away from the process.The position paper and political declaration from trade ministers - for the first time involving all five African regional economic communities active in negotiations over Economic Partnership Agreements and the African Union Commission together - are a catalogue of complaints.There is great concern within Africa about the way the EPA negotiations have been conducted and about the outcome of the negotiations so far, reads the paper.

The critical issues that will allow Africa to move forward on the path to industrialization and sustainable economic growth and development have still not yet been addressed.The document argues that their is a gap between Brussels's rhetoric and its negotiating posture.Despite the encouraging statements emanating from the EU which acknowledge the difference in the levels of development of the negotiating parties and the need to show adequate special and differential treatment for Africa, the necessary flexibility in the negotiating position of the EC on many critical issues has not been forthcoming.Greater political will on the part of the EU is needed to move the EPA process forward.The paper argues that the impasse in negotiations in not due to a lack of policy reforms or market opening on the part of African countries, but that Europe continues to push a liberalising model that is inappropriate for states at their level of development.Lessons to be learnt from the global financial and economic crisis highlight the need for increased regulation of the market, rather than policy reforms that put more emphasis on the removal of regulation. Africa needs policy space to diversify its economy, achieve competiveness and attain sustainable economic growth and development.Failure of the part of the EU to grant the flexibilities will pose serious risks to Africa's future development.The states are opposed to EU demands that tariffs on a full 80 percent of their imports be eliminated. The depth of such liberalisation would leave much of the continent's fragile and small industry vulnerable without the umbrella of tariff protection - the same tariff protection, they say, that rich countries historically used themselves to build up their own industry - and lead to deindustrialisation.The nations want to improve infrastructure and institutional and production capacities before opening up their markets.They also say it is unfair to threaten to withdraw access to their EU markets unless agreements are signed.

Ahmadou Abdoulaye Diallo, Mali's trade and industry minister, said of the stalemate: To end the impasse in the current talks, Mali suggests that a number of measurable and objective criteria be met before African countries can conclude the negotiations.
For him, this includes realisation of the Millennium Development Goals, sufficient levels of development within industry and agriculture, a diversification of exports and robust intra-African trade, meaning a development of strong domestic demand rather than just an export-orientation to wealthy countries. If these indicators are not met before concluding the EPAs, the entire process would be highly dysfunctional.
Earlier this month, EU trade commissioner Karel de Gucht admitted that relations between the two sides were souring.It is true that [these talks] can be souring the relations between Europe and Africa, he told Reuters.However, he also hinted that Europe is ready to shift on some of its demands and the timescale involved.On services we can be flexible. I think also on rules we can have a progressive approach,he added.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

NOTICE RUSSIA IS GETTING OUT OF THE AMERICAN DOLLAR AND NOW MAKING A UNION WITH THE EU.JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS THE EU WILL CONTROL THE WORLD GOVERNMENT NOT THE USA.

Putin proposes Russia-EU union
VALENTINA POP 26.11.2010 @ 09:29 CET

Ahead of his two-day visit to Germany, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has projected a vision of a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok in reaction to the economic crisis. Chancellor Angela Merkel, however, said she will pour some cold water on the idea.Writing in German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Thursday (25 November), Mr Putin argued that more integration between Russia and the EU and even a common contintental market would allow them to overcome the effects of the crisis and prevent a new one from emerging.We should be frank about it: The global economic crisis has revealed both Russia and the EU to be economically very vulnerable, Mr Putin wrote. Russia is still too dependent on its oil and gas exports, he argued, while the EU has lost its competitive edge in the world through its de-industrialisation policy. A harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok would imply strategic alliances in key industries, such as shipbuilding, car manufacturing, space exploration and the pharmaceutical industry.In my view, we need to address the question as to how we can trigger a new wave of industrialisation across the European continent, he wrote.

In the field of oil and gas, Russia's main exports to the EU, Mr Putin argued that the co-operation needs to be de-politicised and have European and Russian firms working together from exploration and exploitation of energy resources all the way to the delivery to consumers.Politicisation of Russia's energy exports has however so far been the trademark of Mr Putin's leadership, first as president and now as premier of his country. The former KGB officer famously wrote his PhD on how a state should make best use of its natural resources, although the paper was later on proved to have partly plagiarised US academics. He has been constantly criticised for sanctioning pro-democratic changes in countries such as Georgia and Ukraine with pricing disputes and even cut offs, while awarding more favourable regimes with lucrative gas deals.In one such incident, back in January 2009, EU member states Bulgaria and Slovakia were left in the cold after Gazprom turned the tap off to Ukraine, then led by the Orange Revolution leader Viktor Yushchenko. A more Russia-friendly regime change in Kiev has since sealed a 20-year gas deal at favourable prices in return for an extension of Russia's naval presence in a Ukrainian port.

Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had to pour some cold water on the ideas floated by Mr Putin. Of course we support the idea of a free trade zone between the EU and Russia but I have to pour a bit of cold water on it,she said. The steps that Russia has taken recently do not point in that direction,Ms Merkel added, in reference to plans championed by Mr Putin on withdrawing Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organisation and establish a customs union with Kazakhstan and Belarus instead.The customs union came into force in July, but later on, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said it is not really working and has re-energised the WTO bid.On Wednesday in Brussels, for instance, Russian negotiators agreed to phase out its tarriffs on raw materials such as timber, thus allowing the EU to lift its objections to the WTO bid. The move followed a similar endorsement from Washington, in September this year.

Secular Farmers to Join Mass Prayers for Rain at Kotel Monday
by Gil Ronen NOV 28,10

Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi, Rabbi Yonah Metzger, and his Sephardic counterpart, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, declared Monday a day of fasting and prayer for rain, as the drought continues in Israel.Meteorologists do not expect any rain this week either. The situation is so bad that even secular farmers from kibbutzim – Israel's socialist agricultural cooperatives – are expected to join the prayer session in Jerusalem.A central prayer session for rain will be held at the Kotel Plaza in Jerusalem at 3:30 PM, presided over by the two Chief Rabbis. At the same time, prayers will be held in synagogues throughout Israel.The Head of the Regional Council Center, Shmulik Rifman, a member of secular-socialist kibbutz Revivim, called upon residents of all regional authorities to take part in the prayers and ask for rain. In Judea and Samaria, special headquarters have been set up to help make transport arrangements for bringing as many as people as possible to the Kotel.

The head of the religious Amit educational network, Dr. Amnon Eldar, announced that prayers for rain would be held in all of Amit's 85 schools nationwide, and called on schools to try and bring the pupils to the Kotel.World Bnei Akiva also joined the Chief Rabbis' initiative and promised that Bnei Akiva emissaries worldwide would arrange prayers for rainfall in Israel. Bnei Akiva Director Ze'ev Schwartz said that Jewish communities worldwide are following the drought situation in Israel with great concern. The sense of mutual responsibility is motivating our emissaries worldwide to join the prayer day and ask for the good of the Land of Israel from every place upon the earth.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Iran obtained missiles from N.Korea: US cables
NOV 28,10

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US intelligence believes Iran has obtained advanced missiles from North Korea capable of striking Europe, according to US documents leaked by WikiLeaks and cited by the New York Times.The newspaper, in a diplomatic cable dated February 24, said secret American intelligence assessments have concluded that Iran has obtained a cache of advanced missiles, based on a Russian design.Iran obtained 19 of the North Korean missiles, an improved version of Russia's R-27, from North Korea, the cable said, and was taking pains to master the technology in an attempt to build a new generation of missiles.At the request of US President Barack Obama's administration, the New York Times said it had agreed not to publish the text of that cable.The North Korean version of the advanced missile, known as the BM-25, could carry a nuclear warhead, said the newspaper, adding it had a range of up to 2,000 miles (more than 3,000 kilometres).If fired from Iran, that range, in theory, would let its warheads reach targets as far away as Western Europe, including Berlin. If fired northwestward, the warheads could reach Moscow, it said, referring to other dispatches.The cables say that Iran not only obtained the BM-25, but also saw the advanced technology as a way to learn how to design and build a new class of more powerful engines, said the Times.The leaked documents also showed that Washington demanded China block shipments of the missile parts from North Korea to Iran.The British newspaper The Guardian, citing a diplomatic cable from 2007, said the United States gave China specific details about a shipment that was expected to transit Beijing.We... insist on a substantive response from China to this information, said the document published on the Guardian website, marked secret and sent by the State Department.According to the cable, diplomats were instructed to make the request at the most effective level possible, and express wider concerns at the highest level possible.The US believes that the proliferation of missile technology between North Korea and Iran will increase and that these two countries will attempt to conduct these transfers through Chinese territory, the document read.
It listed 11 alleged deliveries of missile-related jet vanes from North Korea to Iran, saying: It appears that these shipments did occur and are continuing to transit via Beijing.

Erdogan Blasts Israel in Mideast Tour, Plans Gaza Visit
by Maayana Miskin NOV 28,10

Senior Hamas member Said Shaat has told international media that Hamas-run Gaza is expecting visits in 2011 from several international leaders, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Erdogan has been harshly critical of Israel since taking office, and Israel-Turkey ties, once warm, are now virtually non-existent.During a visit to Lebanon last week Erdogan blasted Israel and accused the IDF of a massacre of children in Gaza. He also accused Israel of piracy and state terror over the deaths of nine pro-terror Turkish activists killed in a clash with IDF soldiers.The activists, members of the IHH, were attempting to break the IDF's naval blockade on Hamas. They were not bearing aid. When IDF commandos attempted to turn their ship aside, they attacked the soldiers with knives and guns, seriously wounding them. Soldiers opened fire in defense and killed nine.You bloodthirstily slaughter my nine innocent citizens who were taking food to babies and then you expect us to keep silent. We will not keep silent, Erdogan said in Lebanon, addressing Israel. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri was present for his speech.Erdogan's new, hostile approach to Israel has won him fans throughout the Arab world. During his trip to Lebanon, he was given a leadership award from the Union of Arab Banks. He will soon travel to Libya, where Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi plans to give him the Distinguished Statesman award.

Erdogan is currently leading an international online poll to choose Time Magazine's Person of the Year. The magazine noted that Erdogan has accused Israel of inhumane state terrorism and stated that under Erdogan Turkey displayed a newfound willingness to flex its diplomatic muscle.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Ultra-Left Cites Stolen IDF Docs in Motion Against Yair Naveh
by Gil Ronen NOV 28,10

Several prominent ultra-leftists petitioned the High Court Sunday against the appointment of Major General Yair Naveh as IDF Deputy Chief of Staff. Naveh entered the new position three days ago.The petitioners include former minister and founder of Meretz Shulamit Aloni, veteran leftist journalist-activist Uri Avneri, poet Natan Zach and Musi Raz, Director of Peace Now. They claim that Naveh was responsible for targeted killings of terrorists in contravention of High Court rulings and of international law.Internal IDF inquiries showed that Naveh was involved in targeted killings of wanted Arab terrorists who could have been arrested instead of being killed, the ultra-leftists claimed. The killings caused casualties among innocent bystanders who were present near the terrorists, they said.Defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision to appoint Naveh as Deputy Chief of Staff is extremely unreasonable from a legal standpoint, and is wrong morally as well.The High Court motion is based upon documents that were stolen from Naveh's bureau by then-soldier Anat Kam, and published by Haaretz journalist Uri Blau. Kam is standing trial for the theft.A black flag waves over the appointment, that says it is forbidden, forbidden, forbidden to appoint such a man to the position,Raz said.Peace Now is a group that wants Israel to shrink to the pre-1967 shape that former Foreign Minister Abba Eban named the Auschwitz Borders.The IDF adopted targeted killings of terrorists as one of the methods of dealing with the unprecedented terror offensive unleashed by Palestinian Authority terror groups in 2000. They are generally seen as effective in deterring terrorists by causing their leaders to live in cosntant fear of an unexpected death.Nationalists have also been firecely opposed to Naveh in the past, because of his role in the 2005 Disengagement. His appointment is the most prominent IDF position ever occupied by a religious person.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Youth to Build the Land in Chanukah Camp
by Maayana Miskin NOV 28,10

Teenagers interested in building the land of Israel will get a chance to do so on Chanukah, when the Women for Israel's Tomorrow organization (Women in Green) will sponsor a one-day camp for youth to get involved in agriculture in Judea. The camp opportunity follows a previous successful camp.Participants in the Yibaneh (lit. It will be will be built) camp will be guided by professional farmers from the Galilee region. Their work will involve marking off areas of land, painting, and planting.

Youths age 15 and up are eligible to take part.The camp's motto is Planting trees on the hills and planting values in the heart.It aims to simultaneously develop the hills of Judea and restore plants demolished by Palestinian Authority vandalism, and to teach youth the importance of hands-on work and their own power to rebuild the land of Israel.Work will take place in Netzer in the Gush Etzion region, south of Jerusalem, from 9a.m. to 3p.m. on Sunday, December 5.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Blair: Israel must do more to ease Gaza blockade By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press - NOV 28,10

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Israel needs to do more to ease its blockade of Gaza and allow exports from the Hamas-ruled territory, international Mideast envoy Tony Blair said in an interview Sunday, after meeting with the Israeli prime minister.The former British prime minister told the Associated Press that he hopes to see progress soon, noting that exports are crucial for reviving Gaza's battered economy. There has been significant change in Gaza, but not nearly as much as we need, he said.Israel and Egypt sealed Gaza's borders after the violent takeover of the territory by the Islamic militant Hamas in 2007, allowing in only basic humanitarian goods.In June, in an attempt to defuse international criticism over its deadly raid of a Gaza-bound flotilla, Israel eased the embargo. It now allows in most consumer goods, but has continued to restrict the import of most construction supplies and key raw materials, and banned virtually all exports.Israel argues that Hamas could use cement and steel for military purposes, and that the infrastructure isn't in place yet at Gaza's single crossing for trade with Israel, Kerem Shalom, to safely monitor exports.However, Gaza economists and human rights groups argue that the initial easing of the blockade has not sparked sustained growth. Gaza unemployment remains above 30 percent. Both the construction industry and exports of Gaza-made textiles, furniture and agricultural projects are pillars of the Gaza economy.Blair, who was instrumental in negotiating the easing of the closure in June, said he raised the issue with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday.I hope that in a short space of time, we will get some progress there, because a functioning private sector in Gaza is important, he said. It is important for the economy of Gaza, but it is also important for the people there.Blair said Gazans, most of whom receive some aid, don't want handouts. They want to run their own affairs properly,he said.

Maj. Gen. Eitan Dangot, the Israeli general who controls access to Gaza, told AP last month that he eventually hopes to permit exports, but wants to prevent Hamas from getting credit for any progress. His spokesman, Maj. Guy Inbar, said Sunday the plan is to start allowing exports, in a gradual fashion, in the spring. But security measures, including cargo scanners, would have to be in place, he said.On Sunday, Israel allowed small shipments of strawberries and carnations to be exported from Gaza, the first of the season. Such seasonal shipments were permitted even at the height of the blockade, as part of an arrangement with the European Union.Blair, meanwhile, expressed concern that projects he has been promoting, such as industrial parks and the first planned Palestinian city in the West Bank, are too often held up whenever there is an impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The planned city, Rawabi, has been on hold for a year because Israel has not given the go-ahead for paving a short access road through an Israeli-controlled area.I think this got all somewhat bound up in the political discussions and negotiations,Blair said, adding that he was hopeful there would be movement on the Rawabi project soon.What you can't have is a situation, and this is frankly something that worries me at the moment, you can't have a situation where every time there is a political impasse, everything else stops,he said.

Netanyahu's office declined comment on Sunday's meeting with Blair.While isolating the Hamas government in Gaza, Israel has been trying to talk peace with the rival Palestinian government in the West Bank. Talks have been stalled since late September.The Palestinians hope to establish an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza, which lie on opposite sides of Israel, but their internal divisions are a major obstacle.On Sunday, Hamas prevented two advisers to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the group's West Bank-based rival, from entering Gaza. Hamas police spokesman Ihab Ghussein said the ban came after Abbas' forces began a new arrest campaign of Hamas loyalists in the West Bank. Also Sunday, Israel's Dan bus company said pressure from pro-Palestinian groups forced French multinational Veolia to drop out of an Israeli light rail project that cuts into east Jerusalem.Veolia disputed the assertion, which would bolster an international campaign to boycott companies supporting Israel's occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem. It said its decisions were based solely on financial considerations.Veolia originally had planned to sell its 5 percent stake in the project to Israeli company Dan bus lines, but later sold it to a rival. Dan is now suing Veolia.Additional reporting by Amy Teibel in Jerusalem.

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.

South Korea's Lee warns North against further attacks By Jack Kim and Kim Miyoung - NOV 28,10

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Monday labeled North Korea's artillery attack on a southern island a crime against humanity and said Pyongyang will pay the price for any further provocation.Lee made his first address to the nation since last Tuesday's attack as U.S. as South Korean war ships took part in day two of military maneuvers, prompting concern in regional power China and threats of all-out war from North Korea.North Korea will pay the price in the event of further provocations, Lee said. Attacking civilians militarily is an inhumane crime that is strictly forbidden in a time of war.The bombardment of the island of Yeonpyeong killed two Marines and two civilians, prompting outrage among South Koreans who say their government has been too weak in its response.China has proposed emergency talks amid global pressure on Beijing to be more aggressive in helping resolve the standoff between the rival Koreas and try to rein in ally Pyongyang which depends on China for aid.Washington and Tokyo were non-committal, saying they would consult with Seoul, which was skeptical of the proposal to sit down with North Korea around a table, effectively rewarding it for bad behavior.The reclusive North was previously offered massive aid in return for disarmament pledges that went unmet.A senior North Korean official also expressed skepticism about the Chinese call, Japan's Kyodo news agency said. North Korea has yet to issue an official response but the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said countries responsible for (the latest standoff) should first hold talks.

North Korea was typically bellicose in a newspaper commentary on Monday.The United States is making a mistake if it believes it can surprise anyone or put pressure by bringing in a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper said, quoted by KCNA news agency.We don't want war, but we are not afraid of one. If war mongers want to wage provocations against us, we will not hesitate for a moment to strike back and go to the roots of aggression and eliminate the source of war from this land.The Chinese Foreign Ministry said State Councillor Dai Bingguo, who advises senior leaders on foreign policy, had a phone call with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton late on Sunday.According to the account on the Foreign Ministry's website (www.mfa.gov.cn), Dai told Clinton: "China feels deeply anxious about developments on the Korean peninsula, and believes it is imperative to strive to ease the current situation. We oppose any actions that could lead to an escalation in tensions.At this crucial moment, China and the United States should play a constructive role and strive together to calm the situation and protect the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula.The United States said six-party talks cannot substitute for action by North Korea to comply with its obligations, referring to disarmament talks which North Korea abandoned two years ago.The call for the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, and Russia to meet at a forum hosted by China must be reviewed very cautiously in view of North Korea's provocations, Seoul said.

A poll requested by the independent East Asia Institute think-tank showed 72 percent of South Koreans surveyed thought the government response to Tuesday's violence was inappropriate and 69 percent supported a restrained military attack.That figure was up sharply from less than 30 percent in the previous poll after the sinking of the Cheonan naval vessel in March, also blamed on the North. Both Beijing and Pyongyang have been pressing regional powers to return to talks in some form or other for the past few months in a move analysts say is aimed at extracting concessions.China, which agreed with South Korea that the situation was worrisome, suggested the emergency talks for December. It did not say whether Pyongyang had agreed to join.

In the South Korean capital Seoul, dusted in snow, life and business went on as normal despite the raised tensions. In a sign of the prevailing calm, authorities lifted a ban on South Korean travel to the joint Kaesung industrial complex in North Korea for the day.Markets mirrored the broader region, as players judged the latest spat as being no worse than previous clashes between the Koreas, who are still technically at war having only signed a truce to stop fighting in the 1950-35 civil war.I am worried, but not that worried that I need to stay at home, said Eunhye Kim, an usher showing people from a packed theater.They don't really want to make war ... there's no gain for either side.(Additional reporting by Yoo Choonsik and Jeremy Laurence in Seoul, Chris Buckley in Beijing and Yoko Kubota in Tokyo; Writing by Nick Macfie and Jonathan Thatcher)

US, SKorea launch war games in tense Yellow Sea By DAVID GUTTENFELDER and JEAN H. LEE, Associated Press - NOV 28,10

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea – A U.S. supercarrier and South Korean destroyer took up position in the tense Yellow Sea on Sunday for joint military exercises that were a united show of force just days after a deadly North Korean artillery attack.As tensions escalated across the region, with North Korea threatening another merciless attack, China belatedly jumped into the fray. Beijing's top nuclear envoy, Wu Dawei, called for an emergency meeting in early December among regional powers involved in nuclear disarmament talks, including North Korea.Seoul responded cautiously to the proposal from North Korea's staunch ally, saying it should be reviewed very carefully in light of North Korea's recent revelation of a new uranium-enrichment facility, even as protesters begged President Lee Myung-bak to find a way to resolve the tension and restore peace.The troubled relations between the two Koreas, which fought a three-year war in the 1950s, have steadily deteriorated since Lee's conservative government took power in 2008 with a tough new policy toward nuclear-armed North Korea.Eight months ago, a South Korean warship went down in the western waters, killing 46 sailors in the worst attack on the South Korean military since the Korean War. Then, last Tuesday, North Korean troops showered artillery on Yeonpyeong, a South Korean-held island that houses military bases as well as a civilian population of 1,300 — an attack that marked a new level of hostility.Two South Korean marines and two civilians were killed and 18 others wounded in the hailstorm of artillery that sent residents fleeing into bunkers and reduced homes on the island to charred rubble.North Korea blamed the South for provoking the attack by holding artillery drills near the Koreas' maritime border, and has threatened to be merciless if the current war games — set to last until Dec. 1 — get too close to its territory.As U.S. and South Korean ships, including the nuclear-powered USS George Washington, sailed into the waters off Korea's west coast Sunday, China began launching its diplomatic bid to calm tensions.Washington and Seoul had been pressing China, North Korea's main ally and benefactor, to help defuse the situation amid fears of all-out war.

China, slow at first to react, has quickened its diplomatic intervention in recent days. Chinese state councilor Dai Bingguo made a last-minute visit to Seoul to confer with Lee.Lee pressured China to contribute to peace in a more objective, responsible matter, and warned Sunday that Seoul would respond strongly to any further provocation, the presidential office said.The strong words were Lee's first public comment in days. He was due to address the nation Monday morning amid calls from his people to take stronger action in dealing with the defiant North.Appearing Sunday CNN's State of the Union Sunday, U.S. Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said China should rein in its neighbor.The key to this, obviously, is China, McCain said. And, unfortunately, China is not behaving as a responsible world power. It cannot be in China's long-term interest to see a renewed conflict on the Korean peninsula.North Korea has walked a path of defiance since launching a rocket in April 2009 in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and abandoning the disarmament process in protest against the condemnation that followed.However, in recent months Pyongyang has shown an eagerness to get back to the talks, and has appeared increasingly frustrated by U.S. and South Korean reluctance to restart the negotiations.Seoul has said it wants an acknowledgment of regret for the sinking of the Cheonan warship in March as well as a concrete show of commitment to denuclearization.North Korea, which cites the U.S. military presence in South Korea as a main reason behind its drive to build atomic weapons, routinely calls the joint exercises between the allies a rehearsal for war.

Washington, which keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect the ally, insists the routine drills were planned before last Tuesday's attack. The exercises will take place over four days, but no live-fire drills are planned, said Cmdr. Jeff Davis, spokesman for the 7th Fleet in Japan.Along scenic Mallipo Beach on the west coast, about 50 South Korean soldiers were laying down an aluminum road to prepare for an amphibious landing drill Monday. Barbed wire and metal staves ran the length of the beach for about 2 miles (3 kilometers). Military ships hovered in the distance. North Korea expressed renewed outrage over the Yellow Sea drills.The war games are a pretext for aggression and ignite a war at any cost,the National Peace Committee of Korea said in a statement carried Sunday by the official Korean Central News Agency.Hours earlier, the rattle of new artillery fire from North Korea sent residents, journalists, police and troops scrambling for cover on Yeonpyeong Island. None of the rounds landed on the island, military officials said, but the incident showed how tense the situation remains.Saying they could not guarantee the journalists' safety, South Korea's Defense Ministry sent a ship to ferry them off the island but bad weather forced them to cancel the evacuation. About 380 people, including 28 islanders and 190 journalists, remained on Yeonpyeong on Sunday, officials said.A similar burst of artillery fire Friday occurred just as the U.S. military's top commander in the region, Gen. Walter Sharp, was touring Yeonpyeong Island. No shells landed anywhere in South Korean territory.Calls for tougher action made way Sunday for pleas for peace among about 150 South Koreans who turned out for a vigil Sunday evening in a Seoul plaza, huddling with candles in paper cups and chanting, Give us peace! It was very shocking, said Kang Hong-koo, 22, a student. I'm here to appease the souls of the people who were killed in the North Korean attack. I hope the current tense situation is alleviated quickly.Jean H. Lee reported from Seoul. AP writers Hyung-jin Kim and Kelly Olsen in Seoul, photographer Wally Santana on Mallipo Beach, Gillian Wong in Beijing and Douglass K. Daniel in Washington D.C. contributed to this report.

China proposes emergency talks on Korea crisis By Kim Do-gyun And Jo Yong-hak – NOV 28,10

YEONPYEONG, South Korea (Reuters) – China called for emergency talks on resolving a crisis on the Korean peninsula on Sunday, and Seoul and Tokyo said they would study the proposal, as the U.S. and South Korean militaries started a massive drill.
Beijing's move to bring the two Koreas to the negotiating table comes after global pressure on China to take a more responsible role in the standoff and try to rein in ally Pyongyang.China made clear the talks would not amount to a resumption of six-party disarmament discussions that North Korea walked out of two years ago and declared dead. South Korea said it would carefully consider China's suggestion.Both Beijing and Pyongyang have been pressing regional powers to return to talks, in some form or other, for the past few months in a move analysts say is designed to extract concessions.China, which agreed with South Korea that the situation was worrisome, suggested the emergency talks for December among North and South Korea, host China, the United States, Japan and Russia. It did not say whether Pyongyang had agreed to join.Japan was non-committal. We want to respond cautiously while cooperating closely with South Korea and the United States, Kyodo news agency quoted Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Tetsuro Fukuyama as saying.Beijing has longstanding bonds with Pyongyang, and has sought to shield its small, poor neighbor from a backlash that China fears could draw an even more ferocious reaction from North Korea and dangerously destabilize the region.Critics in Washington and other capitals have said China's approach amounts to coddling a dangerous nuclear-armed state.John McCain, a Republican senator who lost to President Barack Obama in the 2008 White House race, said China should do more to restrain North Korea.Unfortunately, China is not behaving as a responsible world power, McCain told CNN's State of the Union program on Sunday. He said the call for talks was a fine first step but was not enough.I cannot believe that the Chinese should, in a mature fashion, not find it in their interest to restrain North Korea. So far, they are not,he said.

South Korea's marine commander on Saturday vowed thousand-fold revenge for the North Korean attack. North Korea said that if there had been civilian deaths, they were very regrettable,but that South Korea should be blamed for using a human shield.It also said the United States should be blamed for orchestrating the whole sequence of events to justify sending an aircraft carrier to join the maritime maneuvers.Yonhap new agency in Seoul said North Korea, whose ailing leader, Kim Jong-il, is preparing to hand over power to his youngest son, had moved surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missiles to frontline areas, days after it shelled Yeonpyeong killing four people. The North's official KCNA news agency warned of retaliatory action if its territory is violated.South Korea's Defense Ministry told journalists to leave the island on Sunday because the situation was bad. Many residents evacuated earlier said they did not want to return.In Seoul, life carried on normally for the city's more than 10 million residents, with downtown shopping districts jammed with people despite the freezing temperatures, and cafes decked with Christmas decorations doing brisk business.I am worried, but not that worried that I need to stay at home,said Eunhye Kim, an usher showing people from a packed theater in the capital. They don't really want to make war ... there's no gain for either side.

PRESSURE ON CHINA

The around-the-clock exercises, in waters well south of the disputed maritime boundary off the west coast, are being held in the face of misgivings by China and threats of all-out war from North Korea. The chairman of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly will visit China from Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency said.China has not taken sides in the conflict and declined to blame North Korea, unlike the United States, for the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel in March. We ask that China make a contribution to peace on the Korean peninsula by taking a more fair and responsible position on South-North Korea ties, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said he had told a visiting Chinese delegation.Washington says the four-day drill is intended as a deterrent after the worst assault on South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953.Seoul expects jitters in financial markets to settle in the short term unless North Korea carries out further provocations, Yonhap quoted a senior Finance Ministry official as saying.The nuclear-powered carrier USS George Washington, which carries 75 warplanes and has a crew of over 6,000, has joined the exercises and will be accompanied by at least four other U.S. warships, an official from U.S. Forces Korea said.South Korea has deployed three destroyers, frigates and anti-submarine aircraft, Yonhap reported.(Additional reporting by Cheon Jong-woo, Jack Kim and Jeremy Laurence in Seoul; Chris Buckley and Sui-Lee Wee in Beijing and Ed Klamann in Tokyo)(Writing by Nick Macfie; Editing by Andrew Marshall and Philip Barbara)

McCain: Time to discuss regime change in NKorea
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press - NOV 28,10

WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain said Sunday it was time to discuss regime change in North Korea, but the former Navy combat pilot didn't say how he advocates changing the government in the repressive and secretive dictatorship.McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was not suggesting military action against the North. He said the Chinese, the North's closest ally, should rein in its neighbor, and he accused Beijing of failing to play a responsible role in either the Korean peninsula, where tensions are high because of a recent attack by the North, or the world stage.The key to this, obviously, is China, McCain said on State of the Union on CNN. And, unfortunately, China is not behaving as a responsible world power. It cannot be in China's long-term interest to see a renewed conflict on the Korean peninsula.The Arizona Republican added: They could bring the North Korean economy to its knees if they wanted to. And I cannot believe that the Chinese should, in a mature fashion, not find it in their interest to restrain North Korea. So far, they are not.China on Sunday proposed an emergency meeting of the six nations that have tried to engage North Korea in talks about its nuclear program. At the same time, U.S. and South Korea began naval war games in spite of North Korea's protests.Chinese state councilor Dai Bingguo made a last-minute visit to Seoul, the South Korean capital, to confer with the South Korean president, President Lee Myung-bak. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Dai and urged strong statements that the North cannot misinterpret, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Twitter.McCain said the Chinese government's call for emergency talks was a fine first step, but he questioned whether North Korea would stop its long history of confrontation without significant penalties.I think it's time we talked about regime change in North Korea, and I do not mean military action, but I do believe that this is a very unstable regime, McCain said.We can have a peaceful resolution to this issue,he said. But the North Korean regime is not one that's going to abandon the nuclear power status.North Korea shelled the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong last Tuesday, killing four people. In March, the North was accused of sinking a South Korean warship and killing 46 sailors. Also raising tensions was the North's recent revelation that it's operating a new uranium-enrichment facility.

Two other members of the Armed Services Committee, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Claire McCaskill, also called on China to take a stronger role in dissuading North Korean aggression.China has a chance to change the feature of the Korean peninsula, Graham, R-S.C., said on Fox News Sunday.I'm looking at China to step up their game against North Korea and try to get — bring them in the fold of a peaceful nation. So I think we should push China hard and keep the sanctions on North Korea,he said.McCaskill, D-Mo., said that while she agreed that China may not put the pressure it should on the North, it's not time to give up hoping China will restrain the regime in Pyongyang.I think China calling for a resuming of the six-party talks is important ... that's a good sign, she said.We need to continue the exercises. We need to take a very strong stand.

EU approves $113 billion bailout for Ireland By GABRIELE STEINHAUSER and SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press - NOV 28,10

BRUSSELS – EU governments on Sunday approved an euro85 billion ($113 billion) bailout deal for Ireland to help the debt-struck nation withstand the weight of its banking crisis.According to a statement released by the Irish government, the country will take euro10 billion immediately to boost the capital reserves of its banks. Another euro25 billion earmarked for the banks will remain in reserve.The Irish government's public finances will receive euro50 billion, to be drawn upon as necessary.It provides Ireland with vital time and space to successfully and conclusively address the unprecedented problems that we've been dealing with since this global economic crisis began, said Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen at a press conference in Dublin.The statement said the International Monetary Fund, the 16 eurozone nations and the European Commission will be involved. Britain, Sweden and Denmark will offer bilateral loans.The statement says the average interest rate Ireland will is 5.8 percent. This total reflects higher rates to be charged by EU sources, and lower rates from IMF and national donors.Greece is paying 5.2 percent interest on its own bailout from May. Ireland's aid package includes loans that range from 3 to 7 1/2 years, longer than the Greeks' three-year deal.The European Commission also granted Ireland an extra year to bring down its deficit to within the EU limit of 3 percent of GDP. It will now have until 2015, compared with 2014 previously.Pogatchnik contributed to this report from Dublin. Associated Press Writer Robert Wielaard in Brussels 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.

Eyewitnesses Watched as China Earthquake Ripped Ground
LiveScience.com brett Israel ouramazingplanet Staff Writer
livescience.com – Sun Nov 28, 9:50 am ET

The devastating earthquake that hit the heart of China in 2008 caught the region unguarded, and left tens of thousands of people dead.Because the destruction was so widespread, many people witnessed the ground rip apart, which along with other observations and studies, is helping geologists piece together exactly what happened - and how to prevent future catastrophes.The area of Wenchuan, China, was crippled by the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck on May 12, 2008. The temblor killed more than 70,000 people, injured about 374,000, and left approximately 18,000 missing and presumed dead, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). More than 45.5 million people across 10 provinces were affected by the quake. Four million people lost their homes. Several cities were almost completely destroyed.Before the 2008 quake, the region was downgraded to a low seismic risk, so the massive temblor caught many scientists by surprise, which isn't uncommon even in areas known to have frequent earthquakes.Unfortunately, it's kind of a truism about the state of our knowledge that we're constantly surprised, said Ken Hudnut, a geologist with the USGS in Pasadena, Calif., who has studied the Wenchuan earthquake.The most recent comparable earthquake in the area was between 1,000 to 2,000 years ago, suggests a study in the November edition of the journal Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. The issue of the journal is a special one devoted to studies of the 2008 earthquake.The eyewitness reports were published in the November/December edition of the journal Seismological Research Letters.

Rupture

The earthquake ruptured at 6:28 a.m. local time on May 12 along the Longmenshan margin of the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.The rupture caused a 149-mile-long (240 kilometers) surface crack along one pre-existing fault and an additional 45-mile-long (72-km) surface rupture along another fault.Field investigations and seismic data show that the earthquake was triggered by active faults of the Longmenshan thrust belt. Here, tectonic stress grew as the Earth's crust slowly moved from the high Tibetan Plateau to the west, against the strong crust underlying the Sichuan Basin and southeastern China.Once the stress was too much, the earthquake mostly ruptured in what is called a strike-slip fault - these fault systems slide side-to-side when two tectonic plates butt heads. Up to 30 feet (9 meters) of slip may have occurred during the rupture.Such a big gradient typically raises a red flag about earthquakes and landslides. At least 700 people were buried by a landslide in one area during the Wenchuan quake.Take steep topography and shake it hard in an earthquake and stuff's going to come down, Hudnut told OurAmazingPlanet.

Eyewitness reports

Eyewitnesses reported about a mile (1.5 kilometers) of surface faulting in one area. Cracks and fractures were seen on three mountains in the area, and subsidence (the earth shifting to a different level) and street cracks were observed in one city, according to the USGS.Photographs show buildings split by surface ruptures, and people watched as the ground pulled apart right in their backyards.Eyewitness accounts of the surface ruptures have been rare, but they are extraordinary, Hudnut said. Hudnut and colleagues have also interviewed eyewitnesses of the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake in Baja California. One person stepped outside right as the ground ripped apart in front of his house and described the rupture as sounding like a race car going by, Hudnut said. This article was provided by OurAmazingPlanet, a sister site to LiveScience.Reach OurAmazingPlanet staff writer Brett Israel at // ' ); document.write( addy10545 ); document.write( ' ' ); // @btisrael.

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.

Possible tornadoes in La., Tenn. damage homes
– Fri Nov 26, 10:50 am ET

IOTA, La. – Forecasters say possible tornadoes in southwest Louisiana and western Tennessee have damaged more than two dozen homes, but no one has been injured.
National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Rua says winds damaged roofs and uprooted trees just before 11 p.m. Thursday in Louisiana. In West Tennessee, a barn was destroyed and a half-dozen homes were damaged in Gibson County.Sheriff Chuck Arnold says residents reported seeing a funnel cloud about 2 p.m. Thursday.A strong cold front has brought rain and wind across the Southeast.Meteorologists are going out to the damaged areas to see if was caused by tornadoes or strong winds.

Powerful storm to bring snow, ice to the Dakotas By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press – Thu Nov 25, 3:14 am ET

BISMARCK, N.D. – A powerful storm that pummeled much of the West is promising to bring its chaotic mix of snow, sleet and ice to much of the Dakotas on Thanksgiving Day. The system closed roads and delayed flights from Anchorage to Salt Lake City on some of the busiest travel days of the year.Meteorologists warned residents in the Dakotas to expect a range of messy wintery weather, from freezing drizzle in the eastern two-thirds of South Dakota to a possible blizzard in eastern North Dakota.

Like the Boy Scouts, you've got to be prepared for a North Dakota winter or you're asking for your own problems, said Gerald Miller, 52, who plowed roads on his farm just east of Bismarck on Wednesday.Miller has spent every winter of his life in North Dakota except for one in 2003 when he served in Iraq with the National Guard. After Iraq, I promised I'd never complain about the weather in North Dakota again, he said.Blowing snow was likely to cause problems for holiday travelers even in areas not expected to get significant amounts.We have snow on the ground in many areas, and any snow on top of that will combine for the potential to blow around, reduce visibility and drift, and cause problems for people trying to drive, meteorologist Jeff Savadel said.State officials in both Dakotas issued statements urging people to be cautious.In South Dakota, truckers carefully navigated the icy roads, with snow expected later in the day.It's getting bad, said Bob Grape, who had stopped at a gas station in Sioux Falls on his way north. Grape said he would keep moving through the weather unless it got significantly worse.There isn't a load of freight that's important enough to risk your life,he said.In Iowa, at least three people died in weather-related crashes as freezing rain and drizzle left roads with a light glaze.There were 23 accidents during the day Wednesday, police said. State officials say many northern Iowa roads were covered with ice and many schools in the region were closed early.

The storm system buried Seattle in snow, causing at least three deaths, and shut down highways for a time in Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. It also brought high winds on Wednesday to New Mexico and northern Arizona.The roads were less chaotic in Utah on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, there were 118 traffic collisions and 119 vehicles that slid off the road, police said.National Weather Service snow totals showed that it wasn't the quantity of snow that made for treacherous driving.Most cities in Utah received less than 6 inches in the previous 24 hours — an amount residents here are accustomed to. Instead, the danger largely came from high winds blowing snow at night that made it difficult.A lot of people heeded the message, stayed off the road and cut down on a lot of problems,Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Todd Johnson said. The crash figures — they're not as high as I expected them to be.

France and Germany in deal on euro zone crisis: sources
– Sun Nov 28, 9:25 am ET

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Germany and France have reached an agreement on how a future permanent mechanism for resolving debt crises in the euro zone should work once it is introduced in 2013, euro zone sources said on Sunday.The main points of the deal were expected to be announced later on Sunday after a meeting of European Union finance ministers on approving a financial rescue for Ireland to prevent market contagion spreading to Portugal and Spain.Some of the ministers signaled they would also discuss broader issues to stabilize the single currency, an apparent reference to the permanent rescue mechanism to replace a temporary structure that was created in May.France and Germany have pushed in the last hours for the Ecofin (finance ministers) to send a clear message on the participation of the private sector in the permanent mechanism. A deal has been reached, said an EU source familiar with the talks.Economists have said that to stop the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis from spreading from Ireland, the 16 countries that use the currency need to spell out the details of the permanent mechanism for debt crisis resolution.Germany and France say the European Financial Stability Facility, created to support euro zone countries with sovereign debt problems after Greece sank into crisis, must be replaced by a permanent structure in 2013.Germany and France say the permanent system should involve private bondholders -- banks, pension funds and other investment vehicles -- incurring losses if a country defaults or has to restructure its debts.There is concern in financial markets over how big a write-down bondholders could suffer.

The EU sources said European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn, EU President Herman Van Rompuy and Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker discussed the issue in talks on Sunday before the finance ministers' meeting.They gave the go-ahead to the main line of this permanent mechanism. It would be 90 percent inspired by the EFSF, with a strong legal basis to please Germany, a clear role for the IMF and a participation of the private sector, one source said.A second source said the participation of the private sector should be on a case-by-case basis.It is unlikely that this proposal will be made public tonight ... but its main lines will be made public as well as the question of the private sector's participation, one of the sources said.(Reporting by Julien Toyer, writing by Jan Strupczewski, editing by Timothy Heritage)

Asian markets mixed in early trade amid concerns
NOV 28,2010

TOKYO – Asian markets were mixed in late morning trade Monday amid caution over tensions on the Korean peninsula and the debt crisis in Europe.The Nikkei 225 stock average rose 0.30 percent to 10,069.38 at the end of morning trade, buoyed largely by a stronger dollar.Electronics, auto and other exporter issues led morning gains, as a higher dollar benefits exporters as it increases the value of their repatriated profits.The dollar rose to 84.09 yen from 82.55 yen late Friday. The euro stood at $1.3217 from $1.3726.Worries about an escalation between the Koreas weighed heavily on rest of Asian stocks, while investors were also concerned about debt problems in Ireland.Taiwan's Taiex rose 0.46 percent to 8,349.99, while South Korea's Kospi fell 0.31 percent to 1,895.44, and Australia's S&P/ASX200 index dropped 0.65 percent, to 4,568.40. Shares in Shanghai, the Philippines and New Zealand also fell.European Union nations agreed Sunday to give euro67.5 billion ($89.4 billion) in bailout loans to Ireland to help it weather the cost of its massive banking crisis, and sketched out new rules for future emergencies in an effort to restore faith in the euro currency.Joint military exercises involving a nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier and a South Korean destroyer continued Monday, nearly a week after a deadly attack on a South Korean island sent tensions soaring in the region.In New York on Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 95.28, or 0.9 percent, to 11,092.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Parshah Mikeitz - Genesis 41:1-44:17

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION MIKEITZ GENESIS 41:1-44:17

GENESIS 41:1 - 44:17
1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
12 And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

GENESIS 42:1-38
1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

GENESIS 43:1-34
1 And the famine was sore in the land.
2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.
17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.
18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,
20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.
27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.
32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

GENESIS 44:1-17
1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

PROPHETS PORTION

1 KINGS 3:15 - 4:1
15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

ACTS 7:9-16
9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

AIRPORT TRUTHS NOT LIES

DOUG & LAURIE ON THE TSA & MEDIA COVERUP OF FACTS FRI NOV 26-HRS 1-2-3
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/november-2010/

Proof Positive that the government rates body scanner resisters as Non-Islamic DomesticTerrorists By Doug Hagmann Friday, November 26, 2010
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/30401 (LINKS DIC)

My report DHS & TSA: Making a list, checking it twice has apparently stirred a lot of controversy. It has also been met with skepticism and denials about its actual existence. Some find it difficult to believe that our government would actually label anyone who opposes the use of naked body scanners and aggressive airport pat-downs as domestic extremists.It is unfortunately obvious that there are many people who are living in a state of denial or blissful ignorance. We are living in a time when our government can issue an official 86-page report about the mass murder of 13 people at Fort Hood by a man who shouted Allahu Akbar before he began pumping bullets into innocent bystanders yet never once mention Islam, Muslim or the Islamic ideology that allegedly motivated the attack.Alternatively, the government has labeled anyone opposing abortion, illegal immigration, or members of the alternative media as domestic extremists.Such designations were made infamous by the leaked MIAC Memo, a shortened reference to the strategic report issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center dated 20 February 2009. Careful research will show that the memo, which was a law enforcement work product that was actually limited in its intended dissemination, was rebuffed by DHS officials and later retracted. Government officials downplayed its intent after the publication went viral.It was defended as a training aid that was overblown and taken out of context.

Subsequent assurances have been made by the federal government that no such designations exist, at least not in the context of surveillance or other oversight measures of anyone but enemies who pose actual threats to our homeland. These assurances have been parroted by the corporate media shilling for Napolitano and others, who further imply that assertions to the contrary are nothing but conspiratorial nonsense that have no basis in fact. Visits to politically polarized Internet forums and web sites will find pundits and posters disparaging anyone who would fall for such conspiratorial nonsense. They demand proof through publication of the existence of closely guarded and classified memos, lists, and documents that detail such designations. Absent of such proof, they vociferously contend that it simply does not exist.To provide insight to those who are concerned over the direction our current leadership is taking our national security, perhaps we should refer to DHS source document IA-0233-09 dated 26 March 2009 titled Domestic Extremist Lexicon.It is an eleven-page document prepared by the Strategic Analysts Group and the Extremism Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division.Arranged in alphabetical order, the preface clearly states that that the lexicon addresses the nature and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the United States, and specifically names such groups and provides a definition for each.A perusal of the threat identified found the following on page two:Carefully note that the intentionally definition of alternative media includes any information source outside of the corporate media.

Next, take a look at an entry on page three of this document:Perhaps one of the more interesting threats is listed on page four, which states that any act of civil disobedience (including protests) is considered a domestic threat to the United States:To those who remain skeptical that the DHS under the direction of Janet Napolitano, does not classify individuals or groups who would protest the recently enhanced security screening procedures implemented at U.S. airports as non-Islamic domestic terror threats to the U.S. are either in a perilous state of denial or ignorant of the current focus of our homeland security .Indeed, threats to the security of the United States exist within our country. Some have walked or driven in across the border. Others, we’ve voted in or have been appointed by those who have been elected. In any case, it would appear that Big Sis is looking in all the wrong places. I contend that it is by design.

OBAMA'S AIRPORT SECURITY ABUSES DICTATED BY MUSLIM GROUP
By NWV News writer Jim Kouri Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
November 23, 2010 2010 NewsWithViews.com

Obama said counterterrorism experts have told him that the current procedures are the only ones that they think can effectively guard against threats such as last year's attempted Christmas-day bombing. On Saturday while in Libon, Portugal, President Barack Obama told reporters that he asked security officials whether there's a less intrusive way to screen U.S. airline passengers than the pat-downs and body scans causing a holiday-season uproar.

Obama claims his security team told him there wasn't.

Passengers at some U.S. airports must pass through full-body scanners that produce a virtually naked image. If travelers refuse, they can be forced to submit to an thorough patdown of their bodies, including of clothed genital areas and breasts, by security officers of the same sex as the passenger.Obama claims that he's told the U.S. Transportation Security Administration: You... have to think through, are there ways of doing it that are less intrusive. At this point, Obama said counterterrorism experts have told him that the current procedures are the only ones that they think can effectively guard against threats such as last year's attempted Christmas-day bombing. Either [President] Obama is being deceived or he's doing the deceiving. Any cop worth his salt will tell you there are definitely alternatives to this intrusive and time consuming nonsense,said former police detective and expert in interview and interrogation Mike Snopes.The fact of the matter is that the Obama administration is bowing to the demands of groups such as CAIR and others who don't want Muslims to be inconvenienced, said Snopes.Truth be told, there are alternatives to the current heavy-handed security measures being used at U.S. airports: Psychological profiling and transactional analysis.

A PROGRAM KICKED TO THE WAYSIDE

The Council on American Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, began 2010 by complaining about a new security training program Transportation Security Administration security officers assigned to the nation's airports.The CAIR leadership had released a statement that claimed the TSA's airport security directives amount to the profiling of Muslims.According to TSA officials, security officers at major airports across the country would be trained to use casual conversation to flush out possible terrorists. Instructors would first teach officers what suspicious behaviors to look for in travelers. These can include nervousness, wearing a big coat in the summer or reluctance to make eye contact with law enforcement. Then, the officers carry on a supposedly casual conversation with passengers in hopes of spotting possible terrorists or to determine whether further scrutiny of a passenger is required. This would have been a welcomed program by those in law enforcement who've said for years that psychological profiling should be used by airport security staff. While representing the staff and membership of the National Association of Chiefs of Police at lectures or during media interviews, this writer often discusses the need for upgrading the training of airport security staff with part of that upgrade to include psychological profiling.Most police officers and investigators are familiar with the concept since it's used during the interrogation and interview process to detect deception on the part of the subject. Without going into too much detail, interrogators or interviewers, while questioning a subject about the matter at hand, are observing body language, eye contact, breathing, physical characteristics such as dry mouth or profuse perspiration, and other criteria.

However, the Washington-based CAIR officials claimed that the new guidelines, under which anyone traveling from or through 13 Muslim-majority nations will be required to go through enhanced screening techniques before boarding flights, will disproportionately target American Muslims who have family or spiritual ties to the Islamic world and therefore amount to religious and ethnic profiling.Under these new guidelines, almost every American Muslim who travels to see family or friends or goes on pilgrimage to Mecca will automatically be singled out for special security checks -- that's profiling,said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.While singling out travelers based on religion and national origin may make some people feel safer, it only serves to alienate and stigmatize Muslims and does nothing to improve airline security, he said.We all support effective security measures that will protect the traveling public from an attack such as that attempted on Christmas Day,added Awad.But knee-jerk policies will not address this serious challenge to public safety.However, security experts believe that the measures are reasonable and necessary in order to enhance airport and airline protection and safety.Look, I don't buy it. The fact is, what I say is do smart screening. Ethnicity is one of the factors that should be included in the profile. After all, what is profiling? You're extrapolating the common characteristics of the terrorist attacks. 100% of all the terrorist attacks against the United States last year were carried out by Muslim jihadists. So, if that's the one common denominator, let's include that in the mix. That at airports would trigger a secondary inspection in which case the bomber on Christmas Day this year, maybe have they found the bomb, said the respected terrorism expert Steven Emerson, founder and director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism.Are you going to inspect 98 year old ladies from Sweden in wheelchairs because we're trying to distribute the risk among 300 million Americans when the risk category is really spread 99 to 1 million people? No I don't buy it. Let's be smart about this,added Emerson, who is a consultant for several media and law enforcement organizations.

Israeli security agents and police have used this method for screening people at airports and security checkpoints for years with much success. In a commentary distributed by CAIR challenging calls for profiling, Awad suggested alternatives to faith-based security checks: First look at behavior, not at faith or skin color. Then spend what it takes to obtain more bomb-sniffing dogs, to install more sophisticated bomb-detection equipment and to train security personnel in identifying the behavior of real terror suspects.But law enforcement officials and security professionals believe that to treat everyone equally is like grade school discipline.It's ridiculous. Because a few extremists who are Muslims perpetrate terrorist attacks on planes, everyone must be inconvenienced and harassed? That's like elementary school when a student misbehaves and the teacher punishes the entire class by keeping them all after school,said former intelligence officer and NYPD detective Sid Franes.The Israeli security people are trained to use profiling -- they also look at body language, listen to voice patterns, check eye contact and other facial indicators of deception,said Franes.During an interview, Texas Governor Rick Perry suggested that instead of having security officers groping little old ladies at airports, why not have them deployed at the U.S.-Mexico border to protect Americans.

Gate Rape of America Comment on this article at Canada Free Press
By Douglas J. Hagmann NOV 22,10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQTz1bccL4&feature=player_embedded

At the same time that the federal government is mandating the physical and constitutional violation of air travelers at our airports, they are prohibiting law enforcement officers in Arizona from asking for proof of identity and citizenship from those they suspect as being illegal aliens.

22 November 2010: They could not have planned it any better, initiating enhanced screening procedures right before the busiest travel time of the year. Our visceral reaction, outrage and chants of don’t touch my junk are understandable and warranted, but tend to overshadow our visibility of what’s really taking place, which is vastly more than meets the eye.The media seems to be stuck on reporting the more salacious aspect of TSA agents having a collective case of the touchy-feelies while the underlying motives of our government are barely addressed. Yet that’s exactly where we need to be looking. We need to identify and understand what is taking place behind the snappy sound bites and outrageous video snippets. We also need to understand why these things are happening so we will not be surprised at what is likely to happen next.As I wrote last week, the current TSA measures have very little to do with security. It is becoming much more apparent that the Department of Homeland Security itself, at its uppermost levels, has little to do with actual security. At the same time that the federal government is mandating the physical and constitutional violation of air travelers at our airports, they are prohibiting law enforcement officers in Arizona from asking for proof of identity and citizenship from those they suspect as being illegal aliens. They are also planning to remove the token presence of National Guard troops from our southern border by the end of February. So much for security.

This entire scenario would be difficult to reconcile in logical terms, or to simply laugh off and blame it on the inefficiency of government, until you probe deeper into their agenda.The American people are being carefully and deliberately conditioned to accept the stripping away of our Constitutional rights, a process in the making for nearly a century. To see how far this conditioning has progressed, just look at how many people are willing to be groped, fondled, nuked, and subjected to other forms of degrading tactics by agents of the federal government for the mere illusion of security. They reason that if it will make air travel safer to have their genitalia fondled, that it is a necessary evil. Well, they are only half correct; it is indeed evil, but not necessary.At what point will these grope-a-dopes draw the line and consider the actions of the government a provocation? When will people begin to connect the dots of the globalist agenda and become non-compliant?

I believe that is the larger question being raised by the puppeteers behind the proverbial curtain.The erosion of our rights has been in progress for decades and under multiple administrations, but with this administration in particular, there is more to it. Rather than ending this madness, the Obama administration has instead ramped up the very tactics that had progressives calling George Bush a criminal. Why? It seems that people cannot understand that under the umbrella of globalism, political party is irrelevant. Both sides drink from the same trough.To see it as some do, which is some sort of political payback against the American people for the midterm elections results is, in my opinion, purposely myopic. It is much larger than that.The continuity of criminalizing non-criminal behavior of free citizens while giving a pass to others transcends political parties and is an integral component of social conditioning. Although it did not begin with Obama, he is integral in accelerating the implementation of the global power elite’s goals and objectives. Like the sand in the top of an hourglass appears to flow faster as it reaches its end, so too does the agenda of the proponents of a new world order. We are now at that point in time.It would be a mistake to believe that this administration is merely mishandling the current throw-down between the TSA and airline passengers at the boarding gate. It is not being mishandled, but carefully crafted into organized chaos designed to elicit social unrest. Anyone refusing to comply with the increasingly oppressive federal rules will be considered domestic terrorists, much like we’ve seen with individuals and groups concerned with our Constitution, second amendment rights, and pro-life causes.

Many wonder how a regime in Germany could have rounded up and sent six million Jews to their deaths. Well, this is exactly how. It begins through conditioning, involves nationalization, and relies heavily on the conditioning and on the malaise of the people. “They” are the power elite – the globalists, who do not view themselves as Americans and don’t care about national sovereignty and care less about state sovereignty.Under previous administrations, we’ve seen the likes of Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and countless others who were appointed to cabinet positions or advisors with designs on a one world government and consolidation of power among the global elite. Now, take a good look at who Barack Obama has chosen as czars, advisors and appointees. Look at what has been advanced within the last two years under Obama.In addition to the social component, there is a large economic component to this madness as well.Under Obama, the nation’s health care industry has essentially been nationalized, and facing financial difficulties, the government became heavily involved in the auto industry to the point of de-facto nationalization. Why not the air travel industry, which in 2007, was responsible for generating just over $1.3 trillion in economic activity, or 5.6% of the total U.S. economy. The airline industry employed over 11 million Americans who earned about $396 billion.The enhanced screening at our airports is not helping the airline industry, a vital part of our economy and infrastructure, but hurting it. This nonsense has the capacity to deliver a death blow to the airline industry. Could this be part of the larger agenda? Just look at the history over the last two years, and I believe the answer will become quite evident.Meanwhile, take a look back at the airports across the country, as tens of thousands will be huddled in confined areas just to board a plane for the Thanksgiving holiday. It is a recipe for disaster. But a planned one that should not surprise anyone who is paying attention.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010DHS & TSA: making a list, checking it twice
By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director

23 November 2010: Following the publication of my article titled Gate Rape of America, I was contacted by a source within the DHS who is troubled by the terminology and content of an internal memo reportedly issued yesterday at the hand of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. Indeed, both the terminology and content contained in the document are troubling. The dissemination of the document itself is restricted by virtue of its classification, which prohibits any manner of public release. While the document cannot be posted or published, the more salient points are revealed here.The memo, which actually takes the form of an administrative directive, appears to be the product of undated but recent high level meetings between Napolitano, John Pistole, head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and one or more of Obama’s national security advisors. This document officially addresses those who are opposed to, or engaged in the disruption of the implementation of the enhanced airport screening procedures as domestic extremists.

The introductory paragraph of the multipage document states that it is issued in response to the growing public backlash against enhanced TSA security screening procedures and the agents conducting the screening process.Implicit within the same section is that the recently enhanced security screening procedures implemented at U.S. airports, and the measures to be taken in response to the negative public backlash as detailed [in this directive], have the full support of the President. In other words, Obama not only endorses the enhanced security screening, but the measures outlined in this directive to be taken in response to public objections.The terminology contained within the reported memo is indeed troubling. It labels any person who interferes with TSA airport security screening procedure protocol and operations by actively objecting to the established screening process, including but not limited to the anticipated national opt-out day as a domestic extremist. The label is then broadened to include any person, group or alternative media source that actively objects to, causes others to object to, supports and/or elicits support for anyone who engages in such travel disruptions at U.S. airports in response to the enhanced security procedures.For individuals who engaged in such activity at screening points, it instructs TSA operations to obtain the identities of those individuals and other applicable information and submit the same electronically to the Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division, the Extremism and Radicalization branch of the Office of Intelligence & Analysis (IA) division of the Department of Homeland Security.

For any person, group or domestic alternative media source that actively objects to, causes others to object to, supports and/or elicits support for anyone who engages in such travel disruptions at U.S. airports (as defined above) in response to the enhanced security procedures, the [applicable DHS administrative branch] is instructed to identify and collect information about the persons or entities, and submit such information in the manner outlined [within this directive].It would appear that the Department of Homeland Security is not only prepared to enforce the enhanced security procedures at airports, but is involved in gathering intelligence about those who don’t. They’re making a list and most certainly will be checking it twice. Meanwhile, legitimate threats to our air travel security (and they DO exist) seem taking a back seat to the larger threat of the multitude of non-criminal American citizens who object to having their Constitutional rights violated.As I have written before, it has nothing to do with security and everything to do with control.

Why Airline Security Doesn’t Work
By Daniel Greenfield Thursday, November 25, 2010

Three men go on a camping trip. On the way there they’re told by a park ranger to be careful because their campsite is located near some dangerous animals. What dangerous animals? The park ranger won’t say, because that would be profiling. Just keep in mind, he tells them, that people who camped there in the past never made it back alive.As the sun goes down, they pick up their hunting rifles and stand watch for dangerous animals. But they don’t know what dangerous animals, they’re watching out for. And they don’t want to profile. So they keep watch for crickets as much as for bears, and for deer as much as for mountain lions. A rabbit, an owl or a bullfrog all equally frighten them out of their wits. They open fire on mosquitoes and stand watch against monstrous raccoons. By the end of the night, they can hardly see anything or react to danger. That morning, a pair of mountain lions stroll lazily into their camp and find them snoring away.This little story illustrates why we can’t do things this way. Because it’s stupid and it’s suicidal. Human survival is based on recognizing threats, not on reacting to all stimuli because one of them might be threatening, but we don’t want to single it out and make it feel bad. If we actually did things that way, we’d all be dead by now.There are three stages to coping with a threat. First you have to recognize the threat. Second, you have to formulate a plan for dealing with the threat. Third, you have to implement the plan.

So far we haven’t even made to the first stage. We haven’t recognized the threat. At the airline security level, we insist that the threat is completely random. Anyone at all could be a terrorist. There’s no specific ideology or countries that are sources of terrorism. Instead terrorism is like some sort of disease. Anyone at all could be a carrier. And so we have to watch out for everyone. All the time. And like those hunters, we’re either on alert all the time or we’re completely apathetic. We’re either security manic or security depressive. We go from letting everyone pass to strip searching everybody. There’s no rational approach to danger, because we don’t have a rational plan. We just go from 0 to 60 every time there’s a new threat.

Since we failed the first stage, we can’t move on to the second stage. We can’t recognize the threat, so every plan we formulate to deal with is doomed from the start. Instead of addressing a known threat, we go down a lot of blind alleys. Technology keeps getting abused as a shortcut in another episode of security theater, as new machines are bought and installed. But technology is dumb. Machines are a tool, not a plan. Like any tool, they can let us do more. But like all tools, they’re only as smart as the people using them. And the people using them are trained to be dumb.Dumb is the only policy that can exist in the absence of intelligent threat recognition Dumb is the only policy that can exist in the absence of intelligent threat recognition. To be smart you have to make it to the second stage. When you can’t even identify the threat, then you’re hopelessly stuck on stupid, no matter what your IQ might be, or how many diplomas are hanging on your wall. And if you’re just a glorified security guard following a dumb policy, then the outcome is going to be really dumb. Technological solutions to terrorism driven by ‘dumb’ policy are a dead end. No machine can defeat a human being, because the human being can step outside the box and cheat. Any automated security approach might work 99 times out of a 100, but it won’t work 100 times out of a 100. Because it has a weakness. And that weakness is inflexibility. Every automated solution has a way around it. It’s just a matter of finding it and exploiting it.When human beings play a game of cat and mouse, they think about what their opponent will do. Machines can’t think. Neither can bureaucracies. They can only enact policies. And when those policies are dumb in addition to inflexible, then the bureaucracy is no better than a machine. And a machine can be beaten. The people we’re up against don’t have to think about what we will do. They know what we will do. All they have to do is find a way around it. Then in response to their latest attempt, we look for a way to close the hangar, after the plane has already flown away.

In response to 9/11, we obsessively focused on preventing anyone from carrying sharp objects onto domestic flights. Every time the terrorists tried something, we responded with new ‘dumb’ security regimes. We banned liquids in carry on luggage, made fliers take off their shoes and now we run passengers through naked scanners. When the terrorists think of something else, we’ll have to ban that too or find some new way to inconvenience and humiliate anyone who exercises the privilege of flying. As plans go, this is as dumb as buying a bulletproof vest, 6 months after you’ve been shot.Our security agencies are actually pretending that this hopelessly reactive approach is a plan. It’s not a plan, it’s a high tech buzzword rich version of Keystone Kops. We don’t have a plan. We have an approach. And our approach is to try and interdict weapons and bombs that terrorists might try to smuggle on board. Since we’re focusing on the tools, not the terrorists—everyone is a suspect. Imagine if after every stabbing, we disregarded the physical description of the perpetrator, and instead went after everyone who owns a knife. An hour later, there would be thousands of angry citizens arrested for having kitchen knives, bread knives, boxcutters and anything with a blade. And then the police department would be doing things, the same way that the TSA operates now.

The problem isn’t knives or bombs. It’s Muslim terrorists
The problem isn’t knives or bombs. It’s Muslim terrorists. The knives or bombs are just some of the tools they use. But it’s the terrorists who are the threat, not the tools. By now we know that explosives can be smuggled in liquid containers and shoes and powder and body cavities and countless other ways. Even if everyone actually flew naked and without luggage, there would still potentially be a way to blow up a plane, including surgical implants. The TSA has not actually stopped a single act of terrorism. All it has done is inconvenience and humiliate travelers.Saddled with a political taboo against identifying Muslim terrorists as the threat, security agencies have been left with no choice except to focus on the tools. If we don’t know anything about the attacker, then we have to think about the weapons. But from a security standpoint, it’s not possible to reliably interdict a weapon before it’s used. Not when the weapon can be almost anything at all.Law enforcement exists to interdict perpetrators during a crime or to capture them afterward. Trying to prevent a crime from being carried, when we can’t even identify the potential perpetrators, and to do so only based on outdated information about the potential weapons they might use, while trying to screen them from among tens of thousands of other people, without actually slowing down airline travel or inconveniencing anybody—is functionally impossible. Such a system will always be broken from the start. And it won’t accomplish any of its goals.Liberalism created a taboo against identifying criminals, blaming the tools they used, rather than the men themselves. This led to the farce of Gun Control which insisted that guns are to blame for violent crime in urban areas, not the residents themselves. The UK is living out the Gun Control fantasy, and now it’s busy fighting Knife Crime and asking residents to turn in their knives. Security cameras are everywhere. There’s a national DNA database. Everything short of Minority Report’s Pre-Crime psychics is in play, and yet violent crime in the UK is worse than it is in the US.

The TSA’s policies aid and abet the same fantasy, that it’s not Muslim terrorists we should be worried about, but bottles of liquid, shoes and personal privacy. But bottles of liquid and shoes don’t blow up planes, Muslims do.The first stage of fighting terrorism is to identify the terrorists. We haven’t done that The first stage of fighting terrorism is to identify the terrorists. We haven’t done that. The second stage is to formulate a plan for fighting them. Instead we’ve formulated a plan to try and stop them from doing the things they tried to do six months ago. The third stage is to implement the plan. Since we don’t have a plan, we just randomly terrorize people in the hopes that the terrorists will be so impressed by our security theater that they’ll give up and go away, and if they don’t, then at least none of the bureaucrats and politicians in the loop will be held responsible for the next 3,000 dead.We can stop the terrorists and keep America safe. And we can do it without treating everyone who flies like a criminal or demand that fliers accept the unacceptable. But to do that we have to go through those three stages. We have to identify the problem, formulate a plan for dealing with it and implement that plan. To do that requires going back to the beginning and remember why we’re at war.We weren’t attacked by boxcutters in 9/11. We were attacked by Muslims who were acting in the name of Islam. They were not lone gunmen. And their creed goes beyond a few men living in caves in Afghanistan. They did what they did, because their religion and their bible commanded them to do it. This is the enemy. Every mosque on our soil is another base for terror. Every Muslim at the gate is another potential terrorist. You may not like hearing that, but those are the facts.In the 1930’s most Europeans did not like hearing that they would soon have to fight another World War. All educated and moral people back then knew that wars were bad. The real enemy was the government and the capitalists who wanted to make the working class fight another war. So they denied it for as long as they could. Until the enemy was at their gates and the bombs were falling on their cities. Their politics blinded them to the threat. Just as they blind us today. And the blind are vulnerable. When violence happens, the blind have to suspect everyone and grope everyone. Because they can’t see who their enemies are.Right now our security setup is blind, deaf and dumb. It’s three little monkeys in a row. One who can’t see any evil. One who can’t hear any evil. And one can’t speak out and identify any evil. Only when it can see, hear and speak—will we have any shot at fighting the terrorists, instead of terrorizing our own.

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m thankful for what was, what is and what is yet to come What was NOV 24,10

I’m so thankful our country and freedom was divinely inspired by God not Obama or the UN. From the start of our American rumble back in the days of Columbus we have seen God’s miraculous hand on our creation and development. Although it is desperately politically incorrect and annoying to liberals,Columbus wrote in his own journals he was led by Christ to go toward America.Also very annoying to liberals, the vast majority who filled the Halls of congress and the White House over hundreds of years were Christians.It is most clear that God himself wanted America to happen…..but don’t listen to me, Obama says we aren’t a Christian nation.HmmmI’m so thankful that we wrestled through and conquered the evil of slavery, moved boldly forward in race relations and realized that women can vote. We finally discovered that ALL people matter no matter who they are.I’m so thankful that American patriots and visionaries penciled the unique and treasured U.S. constitution and Bill of Rights among other amazing documents. For the first time with any country in history, these documents sanctified our freedom,rights and protection under God.These are not living and flowing documents but rock solid Captain of the Ship documents.I’m thankful for the unique kind of achievement,passion and compassion demonstrated within the heart of the average American.I’m proud that so many millions of our people have thought freedom and life worthy of fighting and even dying for.It is as if the very spirit and bone marrow of the average American dreams big,tries something and fails,then tries again and succeeds.The bottom line is we keep running the race, through the good times and hard times.There is evil in the world and real Americans will stand against it no matter what.I believe America has become over the many decades a leader among nations because we have been a nation in large part submitting to the living God of the Holy Bible,not Islam or powerful dictators and personalities.We have gotten our passion and compassion from the Bible, where we define our worth and freedom as a gift from God to be protected, treasured and fought for.In too many countries and traditions to count, people are nothing but numbers and producers to be maneuvered to secure power and profit. Not in America.

What is

I’m so thankful I survived a near fatal motorcycle accident in 2005, where first responders say I only had 2 minutes to live at the scene. I crashed on my head when a deer jumped on me, causing me to break almost everything in my face and severely damaging my brain. I’m thankful I wanted to learn to walk again, talk again and read again and I’m even more thankful I could work on those things every day for months and years. I saw good days and bad days but there was progress.I’m so thankful my husband stayed by me when I looked like Frankenstein, drooled and repeated myself regularly until my brain healed up. I’m thankful for a second chance at life and my career. The road back has not been easy but I am a Christian and fighter…hmmm……I must be an American.I’m relieved and so thankful that the conservatives won back the House. America is angry, alarmed and afraid of this Internationalist, socialist/communist in the White House. Thankfully we aren’t focusing our emotions on race wars and diversions as his people charge, but the real direction of change for America, which is booting Obama and the progressive liberals right out of the White House and congress. We must never vote wanna be leaders like this into leadership again.

What is to come

We must dream big again

Our country and economy has been hit horribly but we will survive by continuing to snap out of our lethargy, depression, distractions and stupor. We will heal up again by doing the following:

1) Remember who we are and how we survived before

2) Seek our Lord in the Holy Bible for guidance and direction

3) Boldly define evil and stand against it always

4) Protect and cherish our constitution and freedom from internal as well as external threats

Finally, this Thanksgiving season I urge you all to think outside the box, put on that bold and courageous entrepreneurial spirit again and try something new in your life. Jump into a new business idea. Research, plan and implement it. You can do it. Others can make a huge difference by getting out of yourself and your own suffering and serving others. Make a huge difference in someone’s life who doesn’t even deserve it…..forgive, and see what can happen.Have a glorious and hopeful Thanksgiving where ever you are. Thank God for your very life and a chance to fix what is broken. Thank you all for reading my articles and for listening and contributing to my radio show. Help me spread the word about my show www.therothshow.com and join me on line Mon-Friday from 3-6pm PAC. I always have riveting guests, take on the issues and will take your calls.

There is nothing secure for America while Obama is in office By Laurie Roth NOV 25,10

Obama and his sea of anti Constitutional advisers are using numerous bills, conditions and events to do 4 things to Americans – Condition – train – punish and transform us into a Communist style Regime. We are to be brought down. THAT IS THE GOAL OF THIS ADMINISTRATION.How do they do it?

They have to test us

How will the people respond to chaos, false accusations and insults while we watch the shredding of our constitution freedom? We have seen the egregious assault and sell out orgy regarding the crammed Health Care bill against health and the American people. The lies, taxes and constitutional betrayals are too many to count. It is a full on assault against our rights to have choices in Health care, have insurance or not have insurance. This bill is filled with threats, fines, taxes, rationed controls and Government manipulation. It is not American at all but an Obama test and transformation! As I have looked deeper into the vat of horror and insults in the Health Bill, I see a theme, reflecting the philosophy of Obama and his sold out minions. He has written about and spoken on his agenda to transform and change America over his radical and volunteering career. We know Obama is a fan and even taught from radical, Saul Alynsky’s book, Rules for Radicals and studied radicals like Clyde and Piven and his own redistribution of wealth Father from Kenya. His belief system is vividly clear by now. It is evident he represents a bold challenge and assault to America. This is not another Democratic shift to the left but a dangerous, world view clash with America.With the Health care bill Obama has been testing us to see how we would respond to extreme chaos, out of control costs, taxes, threats and fines. Would we take it or would we fight it and how would we fight it? Over 20 plus law suits from States later, the fight is on.

Obama is testing then hopefully training us, (while always punishing us), to slowly boil in water like the frog, and eventually take it. He sees us screaming and yelling but has planned all along to go to such an extreme with the intention of appearing like the problem solving savior and backing up a bit eventually. Obama and the progressive goal all along has been to dramatically push our Health care system into the toilet and back up 20-30% after all the law suits and insurance coverage failures.Dr. Elaina George said on my radio show that all along Obama has intended for the Health care bill and system to fail by introducing such chaos and expense to Health care. This would finally get the American people to submit and come begging to the Government for its version of Health care.Frank Salvato, editor of www.newmediajournal.us also stated on my show just this week that Obama has always intended with a variety of issues to go too far to test and train the American people to take it, while expecting to back peddle a small percentage, making the American people feel like they have won. Really he will have won since moving us 50-75% in the direction of total control was his goal all along, not 100%

What about the TSA and groping nightmare?

Our 4th amendment rights against Government search and seizure are totally being violated with the theatre of the absurd TSA security procedures in Airports across the country. It is a known fact by now that the nudie security machines are radiation risks to all who walk through, especially pregnant women. Oh well, since abortion is so protected and loved by this administration, a few mutated babies here and there shouldn’t matter. The Mom’s can always abort them. In addition, we also know they don’t discard all the nude images of our bodies as they say. Some TSA workers have been caught making fun of body parts already. The workers are groping between your underpants, genitals and even requesting to have Prosthetic breasts taken out. Naturally, some of the photos, especially of big breasts, small penises, and recognized travelers will eventually end up on U Tube or somewhere else on the Internet.Law suits are flying, airports are starting already to opt out, per the advice of Rep. John Mica of Florida who has contacted over 150 airports telling them of the 2001 law he helped write which allows them to do their own private security and opt out of TSA. Obama has had a sea of advisers say that there is no other way to create enough security at Airports other than nudie scanner machines and extreme pat downs. That position is incompetent, a bold faced lie and increases the danger to the American people as they fly. The real security that would not violate our 4th amendment rights and actually protect us from radical Muslims would be El Al like profiling and questioning, along with metal dictators and further security, only as needed with suspicious individuals. Since Obama is a total kiss up to Islam that won’t happen and Muslims will continue to have special treatment while we are violated, waiting in longer lines and risking Islamic terrorists actually getting on planes. I hardly believed my ears the last few days when I heard CAIR and Nepolitano exploring the idea now of Islamic women wearing the traditional Hijab garb, actually searching themselves and reporting to the TSA official if there was anything foreign or dangerous lurking within their robe.For Nepolitano or CAIR to even be talking about a Muslim searching themselves is a bold and vivid invitation for female Muslim terrorists to suddenly where the hijab and magically avoid finding bombs strapped up there privates.

You can’t make this stuff up in a B horror movie.

It has never been one issue at a time with Obama. It is a shot gun type assault on America with the intention every time, regarding travel, Health care, Environmental manipulation/cap and trade, financial stimulus bills, taxation, kiss up to Islam, Airport security extremes and other national security failures. Obama has only 4 goals…..TEST, CONDITION, PUNISH AND TRANSFORM AMERICA AWAY FROM ANYTHING WE HAVE EVER KNOWN.What must America do until Obama and the rest of the dangerous progressives are thrown out?

Be angry and be grumpy but do something

We are at a stage with Health care and now this TSA nightmare where we can’t back down. Call your local and regional airport and tell them to opt out and follow Rep. Mica’s proper suggestion, or else you and everyone you know won’t be traveling with them. You will choose other transportation until this is straightened out. We all must stand and not back up for Obama’s training and conditioning plan. He and Nepolitano are already talking about the Nudie scanners being used for metro travel and trains. Doug Hagmann www.homelandsecurityus.com called it on my radio show weeks ago and said this horror of security will soon be everywhere, including schools and malls. Take your stand and don’t back down at all on this one!

Elections will be coming up again in the next few years

Organize behind conservatives state and federal who will go against Obama in 2012. We need the voter turn out of the century because as you know the left will lie, cheat and steal whatever elections they can. The conservatives need everyone to vote! Protest on all attack fronts by being in regular touch with your Mayor, Governor, Representative and Senator. Keep them on track.The new congress will start to clean this all up but they can’t do it without a lively, angry and focused American people the next few years. Obama will continue to play with executive orders, his czars from hell and treaties. Expect in the days and months ahead, Obama will submit to some reinstated tax cuts, some compromise with health care and some compromise with TSA. Remember, where he plans and wants to compromise to will be his intended plan all along.

Hope for America

Obama did not count on the Tea Party movement turning into a well funded, angry bunch of Americans 100 million plus strong. We all gave him a gift at the Mid terms. His Communist training plans have been a little thwarted. Let us turn his thwarted and stalled plans into flattened pavement.We will.AMERICA MUST NOT BE TRAINED AND AMERICA MUST NOT COMPROMISE ON ANY LEVEL.

Syrian FM warns of war with Israel - Four days after Knesset approval of referendum law, Walid Moallem says full return of Golan Heights is not negotiable.He adds that all sides will lose if new war breaks out in region Roee Nahmias Published: 11.26.10, 09:49 / Israel News

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on Friday warned of the ramifications of a war with Israel. There is no doubt that closing the horizons to peace may lead to a possible war. This option always exists in our region, as Israel usually outrageously evades the commitment to peace, he told Russian newspaper Moscow News.

Pointing Finger

I want to stress that a new war will not result in a winner and loser, the Syrian foreign minister added.Everyone will lose because the existing advanced military technology can cause great damage, even for the side with huge military power.Moallem was asked about the chances for peace negotiations with Israel, four days after the Knesset approved a law requiring the government to hold a referendum on any withdrawal from territories under full Israeli sovereignty. The negotiations on the Syrian channel are possible as far as we are concerned if there is a partner which seeks peace – something which does not exist at the moment. The negotiations must take into account a full return to the Golan up to the June 4 1967 border. This matter is not negotiable, and is the basis for a dialogue on the other issues stemming from it.Damascus harshly criticized the newly approved referendum law on Tuesday. A Foreign Ministry source told the official SANA news agency that the decision amounts to contempt of international law and the position and desire of the entire international community, which confirmed in the past and still maintains that east Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights are occupied Arab territory.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/25/general-visit-scene-nkorea-attack/
North Korea Warns It's on Brink of War Amid New Artillery Fire
Published November 26, 2010| Associated Press

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea – North Korea warned Friday that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war, and appeared to launch its own artillery drills within sight of an island it showered with a deadly barrage this week.The fresh artillery blasts were especially defiant because they came as the U.S. commander in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, toured the South Korean island to survey damage from Tuesday's hail of North Korean artillery fire that killed four people.None of the latest rounds hit the South's territory, and U.S. military officials said Sharp did not even hear the concussions, though residents on other parts of the island panicked and ran back to the air raid shelters where they huddled earlier in the week as white smoke rose from North Korean territory.Tensions have soared between the Koreas since the North's strike Tuesday destroyed large parts of this island, killing two civilians as well as two marines in a major escalation of their sporadic skirmishes along the sea border.The attack — eight months after a torpedo sank a South Korean warship further west, killing 46 sailors — has also laid bare weaknesses in South Korea's defense 60 years after the Korean War. The skirmish forced South Korea's beleaguered defense minister to resign Thursday, and President Lee Myung-bak on Friday named a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the post.

After an unprovoked shelling on Tuesday by its tempestuous neighbor to the north, South Koreans and members of the U.S. military evaluated damage to the island of Yeonpyeong on Friday and consider the country’s the next move. President Barack Obama pledged the U.S.’s support, saying, the United States will stand shoulder to shoulder with South Korea.Retail Group Predicts Biggest Black Friday Ever Politicians Who Own Stakes in Airport Scanner Companies Teenagers adrift in Pacific for 50 days reach land North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, Son Visit Artillery Base Hours Before Hit on South Korea Deficit Hit Men Target NASA's Post-Shuttle Plans The heightened animosity between the Koreas is taking place as the North undergoes a delicate transition of power from leader Kim Jong Il to his young, inexperienced son Kim Jong Un, who is in his late 20s and is expected to eventually succeed his ailing father.Washington and Seoul have pressed China to use its influence on Pyongyang to ease tensions amid worries of all-out war, and a dispatch from Chinese state media on Friday — saying Beijing's foreign minister had met with the North Korean ambassador — appeared to be an effort to trumpet China's role as a responsible actor and placate the U.S. and the South.The U.S., meanwhile, is preparing to send a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to South Korean waters for joint military drills in the Yellow Sea starting Sunday.The North, which sees the drills as a major military provocation, unleashed its anger over the planned exercises in a dispatch earlier Friday.The situation on the Korean peninsula is inching closer to the brink of war, the report in the North's official Korean Central News Agency said.

A North Korean official boasted that Pyongyang's military precisely aimed and hit the enemy artillery base as punishment for South Korean military drills — a reference to Tuesday's attack — and warned of another shower of dreadful fire, KCNA reported in a separate dispatch.China also expressed concern over any war games in waters within its exclusive economic zone, though the statement on the Foreign Ministry website didn't mention the drills starting Sunday. That zone includes areas south of Yeonpyeong cited for possible maneuvers, though the exact location of the drills is not known.China strongly protested an earlier round of drills in the region but has been largely mute over the upcoming exercises. Beijing could be withholding direct criticism to avoid roiling ties with South Korea and the U.S. and to register its displeasure with ally North Korea.The North Korean government does not recognize the maritime border drawn by the U.N. in 1953, and considers the waters around Yeonpyeong Island its territory.Yeonpyeong Island, home to South Korean military bases as well as a civilian population of about 1,300 people, lies only 7 miles (11 kilometers) from North Korean shores and is not far from the spot where the South Korean warship sank in an explosion in March.Gen. Sharp said during his visit to the island that Tuesday's attack was a clear violation of an armistice signed in 1953 at the end of the three-year Korean War.We at United Nations Command will investigate this completely and call on North Korea to stop any future attacks, he said Friday.

Washington keeps more than 28,000 troops in South Korea to protect its ally from aggression — a legacy of the Korean War that is a sore point for North Korea, which cites the U.S. presence as the main reason behind its need for nuclear weapons.
Dressed in a heavy camouflage jacket, army fatigues and a black beret, Sharp walked down a heavily damaged street strewn with debris from buildings. Around him were charred bicycles and shattered bottles of soju, Korean rice liquor.AP photographers at an observation point on the northwest side of Yeonpyeong heard explosions and saw at least one flash of light on the North Korean mainland.There were no immediate reports of damage. Only a few dozen residents remain on Yeonpyeong, with most of the population of 1,300 fleeing in the hours and days after the attack as authorities urged them to evacuate.Many houses were blackened, half-collapsed or flattened, the streets littered with shattered windows, bent metal and other charred wreckage. Several stray dogs barked as they sat near destroyed houses. A group of South Korean marines carrying M-16 rifles patrolled along a seawall as the sun rose from the ocean.On Thursday, the South's president ordered reinforcements for the 4,000 troops on Yeonpyeong and four other Yellow Sea islands, as well as top-level weaponry and upgraded rules of engagement.He also sacked Defense Minister Kim Tae-young amid intense criticism that Yeonpyeong was unprepared for the attack and that the return fire came too slowly. Lee named former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Kim Kwan-jin to the post, the president's office announced Friday.Despite the criticisms, South Korea assured a meeting of the European Olympic Committees on Friday that it would be able to ensure security at the 2018 Winter Games if it's picked. The chair of the Pyeongchang 2018 bid committee presented their case Friday in Belgrade.Lee, dressed in a black suit, visited a military hospital in Seongnam near Seoul Friday to pay his respects to the two marines killed in the North Korean attack.Lee laid a white chrysanthemum, a traditional symbol of grief, on an altar, burned incense and bowed before framed photos of the two young men. Consoling sobbing family members, he vowed to build a stronger defense.I will make sure that this precious sacrifice will lay the foundation for the strong security of the Republic of Korea,he wrote in a condolence book, according to his office.Foster Klug reported from Seoul. AP photographer David Guttenfelder on Yeonpyeong, and writers Kwang-tae Kim, Kelly Olsen and Jean H. Lee in Seoul and Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade, Serbia, contributed to this report.

Defiant North Korea fires artillery warning shots By FOSTER KLUG and LEE JIN-MAN, Associated Press - NOV 26,10

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea – A defiant flash of North Korean artillery within sight of the island that it attacked this week sent a warning signal to Seoul and Washington: The North is not backing down.The apparent military drill Friday came as the top U.S. commander in South Korea toured Yeonpyeong island to survey the wreckage from the rain of artillery three days earlier. As a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier headed toward the Yellow Sea for exercises next week with South Korea, the North warned that the joint maneuvers will push the Korean peninsula to the brink of war.South Korea's government, meanwhile, struggled to recoup from the surprise attacks that killed four people, including two civilians, and forced its beleaguered defense minister to resign Thursday. President Lee Myung-bak on Friday named a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the post.Tensions have soared between the Koreas since the North's strike Tuesday destroyed large parts of Yeonpyeong in a major escalation of their sporadic skirmishes along the disputed sea border.The attack — eight months after a torpedo sank a South Korean warship, killing 46 sailors — has laid bare Seoul's weaknesses in defense 60 years after the Korean War. Lee has ordered reinforcements for the 4,000 troops on Yeonpyeong and four other Yellow Sea islands, as well as top-level weaponry and upgraded rules of engagement.The heightened animosity between the Koreas comes as the North undergoes a delicate transition of power from leader Kim Jong Il to his young, inexperienced son Kim Jong Un, who is in his late 20s and is expected to eventually succeed his ailing father.

Washington and Seoul have pressed China to use its influence on Pyongyang to ease tensions amid worries of all-out war. A dispatch Friday from Chinese state media saying Beijing's foreign minister had met the North Korean ambassador appeared to be an effort to trumpet China's role as a responsible actor and placate the U.S. and the South.The North sees the U.S.-South Korean drills scheduled to start Sunday as a major military provocation. Pyongyang unleashed its anger over the planned exercises in a dispatch earlier Friday.The situation on the Korean peninsula is inching closer to the brink of war, the report in the North's official Korean Central News Agency said.A North Korean official boasted that Pyongyang's military precisely aimed and hit the enemy artillery base as punishment for South Korean military drills — a reference to Tuesday's attack — and warned of another shower of dreadful fire,KCNA reported.China expressed worry over any war games in waters within its exclusive economic zone, though the statement on the Foreign Ministry website didn't mention the drills starting Sunday. That zone extends 230 miles (370 kilometers) from China's coast and includes areas south of Yeonpyeong cited for possible maneuvers, although the exact location of the drills is not known.North Korea does not recognize the maritime border drawn by the U.N. in 1953, and considers the waters around Yeonpyeong Island its territory.Yeonpyeong Island, home to South Korean military bases as well as a civilian population of about 1,300 people, lies only seven miles (11 kilometers) from North Korean shores.The U.S. commander in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, said during a visit to the island that Tuesday's attack was a clear violation of the armistice signed at the end of the three-year Korean War.We at United Nations Command will investigate this completely and call on North Korea to stop any future attacks,he said.Washington keeps more than 28,000 troops in South Korea to protect its ally — a sore point for North Korea, which cites the U.S. presence as the main reason behind its drive to build nuclear weapons.Dressed in a heavy camouflage jacket, army fatigues and a black beret, Sharp carefully stepped down a devastated street strewn with debris and broken glass. Around him were charred bicycles and shattered bottles of soju, Korean rice liquor.

On Friday, Associated Press photographers at an observation point on the northwest side of Yeonpyeong heard explosions and saw at least one flash of light on the North Korean mainland. There were no immediate reports of damage. Only a few dozen residents remain on Yeonpyeong, with most of its population fleeing in the hours and days after the attack as authorities urged them to evacuate.Many houses were burned out, half-collapsed or flattened, and the streets were littered with shattered windows, bent metal and other charred wreckage. Several stray dogs barked as they sat near destroyed houses. South Korean marines carrying M-16 rifles patrolled along a seawall at dawn.About 200 South Koreans held a rally Friday in Seoul to denounce the government's response to the attack as too weak. Similar recriminations have come from opposition lawmakers and even members of Lee's own party, leading to the resignation of Defense Minister Kim Tae-young on Thursday.There also has been intense criticism that Yeonpyeong was unprepared for the attack and that the return fire came too slowly. Lee named former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Kim Kwan-jin to the post, the president's office said Friday.While there is some shock at the extent of the damage the North Koreans were able to inflict, most South Koreans want the threat to be contained, not aggravated, and the government response has been muted and cautious, following an initial angry threat from Lee.The president, dressed in a black suit, visited a military hospital in Seongnam near Seoul on Friday to pay his respects to the two marines killed in the North Korean attack. Lee laid a white chrysanthemum, a traditional symbol of grief, on an altar, burned incense and bowed before framed photos of the two young men. Consoling sobbing family members, he vowed to build a stronger defense.I will make sure that this precious sacrifice will lay the foundation for the strong security of the Republic of Korea,he wrote in a condolence book, according to his office.South Korea assured a meeting of the European Olympic Committees on Friday that it would be able to ensure security at the 2018 Winter Games if it's picked. The Pyeongchang 2018 bid committee presented its case Friday in Belgrade.Foster Klug reported from Seoul. AP writers Christopher Bodeen in Beijing and Kwang-tae Kim, Kelly Olsen and Jean H. Lee in Seoul also contributed to this report.

Financial jihad at Ground Zero By Doug Hagmann
24 November 2010: Prepare to be righteously outraged.

As if it isn’t enough that slumlord and terrorist apologist Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his cadre of associates are rubbing salt in a still-gaping American wound through his plans to erect an iconic symbol of Islamic conquest in the shadows of the former World Trade Center, the Cordoba Initiative (as it was once known) is asking you, the American taxpayer, to subsidize it.An application for a $5 million in federal grant money was reportedly made on or about November 5, 2010 with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) by Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the Ground Zero mosque and Rauf associate.The LMDC was formed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks by former Governor Pataki former Mayor Giuliani to help plan the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan. It is a joint State-City corporation governed by a 16-member Board of Directors, half appointed by the Governor of New York and half by the Mayor of New York.They have yet to be awarded any funding by the LMDC as the confidential review process is still underway. Nonetheless, the mere fact that El-Gamal and his associates applied for grant money is raising some eyebrows. Congressman Peter King (R-NY), the presumptive new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee called it absolutely disgraceful, and added that [i]t goes entirely against the spirit of the fund” in an interview with Fox News. It’s an affront to the memory of all those who were murdered on 9-11. There are so many worthwhile projects in lower Manhattan. This shows a gross insensitivity to the most fundamental feelings of New Yorkers and to those murdered on 9-11 it is a slap in the face that is a terrible insult.

The grant application was submitted under the Lower Manhattan Community and Cultural Enhancement Program that is administered by the LMDC. That program was established “to provide up to a total of $17 million in grants through a competitive process to not-for-profit and government organizations engaged in cultural or community programs or projects.The Ground Zero mosque project is asking for nearly a third of the available money. Will they get it? Some of it? All of it? It’s indeed possible, according to research and interviews I’ve conducted this week.A source close to a member of the LMDC General Advisory Council confirmed that an application was submitted and met all of the criteria for consideration. Additionally, the applicants were extremely careful to structure the grant application to include the request for only the portion of the proposed structure that will not be used for religious activities. This source stated that there is serious consideration being given to awarding at least some of the requested funds, although there is some additional financial information needed from the applicants that has yet to be received.In addition to the LMDC grant money, the Cordoba Initiative is actively pursuing additional public funding. As reported by Reuters in an article on August 27, 2010, a spokesman for New York City Comptroller John Liu said that the Islamic Center could qualify for tax-free financing, and that Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.Rauf, El Gamal and the mosque’s backers are attempting to raise at least $70 million in tax-exempt debt to build the center.Regardless of the funding sources, those of us who understand the Islamic playbook must not let the construction of this symbol of conquest happen. Not for our sake or the sake of our families and our future generations.To courteously voice your concerns over the possible grant being awarded to the Cordoba Initiative (now referred to as the park51 Project), you might consider contacting the LMDC directly. Below is their contact information, along with a listing of the present board members.

Lower Manhattan Development Corporation,One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10006,Phone: (212) 962-2300,Fax: (212) 962-2431 / 33

LMDC Board of Directors
Avi Schick, Chairman,John C. Whitehead, Founding Chairman,Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr.
Amanda M. Burden,Robert Douglass,Peter Davidson,Timothy Gilchrist,Robert M. Harding
Caswell Holloway,Thomas S. Johnson,Kate D. Levin,Robert K. Steel,Julie Menin
Kevin M. Rampe,William C. Rudin,Carl Weisbrod,John Zuccotti

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