Europe's debt woes hammer stocks, euro
Reuters By Richard Leong | Reuters – SEPT 9,11
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fears over Europe's festering debt problems punished global stocks and the euro on Friday as the stakes intensified for the world's top finance officials to find ways to prevent the crisis from spiraling out of control.The euro hit 6-1/2 month lows against the dollar, with more declines likely after the European Central Bank shifted away from further rises in interest rates, a key driver in the single currency's rally this year.Nervousness over the outcome of a Greek debt swap deal fueled safe-haven buying of German and U.S. government debt. The 10-year Bund yield hit another record low, while yields on benchmark U.S. Treasuries touched a 60-year trough.Europe is the No. 1 thing causing pressure on the market as the realization grows that what we've done so far hasn't worked, said Liz Ann Sonders, the New York-based chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab Corp, which has $1.65 trillion in client assets.Divisions within the ECB on the handling of Europe's debt woes boiled over on Friday. Reuters reported board member Juergen Stark will resign because of a conflict over its controversial bond-buying program. The ECB later confirmed Stark will step down at the end of the year.When you get a new story like this, that there's internal turmoil on the ECB, that immediately has implications for the bond-buying program, which immediately has implications on the capital level in European banks, said Jack de Gan, chief investment officer at Harbor Advisory Corp in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.The debt swap deal is critical for Greece to secure a second bailout and avert a near-term default that could ripple across Europe and the global banking system.Banks and insurers face a Friday deadline to indicate whether they will join an exchange of Greek debt, part of an international bailout package agreed in July. It is expected 70 percent of these private investors would agree to such a move, below the 90 percent threshold that Greece has said it wants to go through with the deal.
The cost to insure Greek sovereign debt for five years surged to a record high of 3,106 basis points, up nearly 300 basis points on the day, according to Markit.With that as a backdrop, finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations were to meet in Marseille later on Friday.Meeting host France has called for a coordinated response from G7 members to deal with Europe's debt crisis and the region's shaky banks.In the United States, President Barack Obama unveiled his $447 billion plan to revive economic growth. But investors worried that Congress would hold it up and the Federal Reserve may not follow quickly enough with its own action.Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a speech on Thursday, left the door open for more monetary stimulus but withheld details on the timing and what type of measures the Fed would enact.At 12:40 p.m. (1622 GMT), the Dow Jones industrial average was down 324.11 points, or 2.87 percent, at 10,971.70. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 33.01 points, or 2.78 percent, at 1,152.89. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 63.51 points, or 2.51 percent, at 2,465.63.Top European shares were off 2.6 percent, and the MSCI world equity index was off 2.9 percent. The FTSEurofirst 300 index and the MSCI world gauge were down 3.4 percent on the week.
Another retreat in equities boosted safe-haven German and U.S. government bond prices. The 10-year Bund yield touched an all-time low of 1.75 percent, while the benchmark 10-year U.S. yield was last 1.896 percent, the lowest in at least 60 years.
The euro was last down 1.6 percent against the dollar at $1.3663, its lowest in 6-1/2 months. The single currency has fallen 5.1 percent in September.Gold slipped after soaring to a record high above $1,900 an ounce earlier this week due to its appeal as both a safe haven and a hedge against inflation. It was last down 0.2 percent at $1,865 an ounce as nervous investors sold the metal on growing concerns its run-up had been overdone.(Reporting by Ryan Vlastelica and Rodrigo Campos in New York; Emelia Sithole-Matarise, Brian Gorman and Neal Armstrong in London; writing by Richard Leong; Editing by Dan Grebler)
Exclusive: Stark to leave ECB over bond-buying row
ReutersBy Alexander Hübner and Andreas Framke | Reuters – SEPT 9,11
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank Executive Board member Juergen Stark is resigning his post in what sources say is a protest against its policy of buying bonds to help troubled euro zone debtor states.A euro zone central bank source said Stark was at angry at being passed over when Bundesbank chief Axel Weber quit earlier this year, clearly unhappy with the ECB bond-buying program, and also felt the departure of ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet next month would mark the end of an era at the ECB.Stark's decision to announce his departure now, rather than in a couple of months, was designed not to make it look like he was resigning because Italian Mario Draghi is succeeding Trichet from November 1, said the source.News of Stark's shock departure highlights the size of the split at the ECB over the bond-buy plan and the extreme tension between its members, who have been at the center of the policy response to the euro zone debt crisis.Stark is one of the most experienced policymakers at the ECB, a young institution facing the impending retirement of Trichet and uncertainty about how it will be led by Draghi, whose country is embroiled in the euro zone debt crisis.Stark and Bundesbank head Jens Weidmann both opposed the ECB's decision last month to reactivate its bond plan following a 19-week pause. The bank decided to buy the bonds of Italy and Spain after they came closer to succumbing to the debt crisis.The ECB has faced sharp criticism in Germany for buying bonds -- a move many here see as taking the bank into the fiscal arena and threatening its core role of fighting inflation.
The ECB confirmed Stark would be the second German policymaker to leave the bank this year after Weber quit in February, also in protest at the bond program.This is remarkable, said Manfred Neumann, emeritus economics professor at Bonn University and former thesis adviser to Weidmann.Stark held the same view of the bond-buying as Axel Weber and the current Bundesbank president. It is a position that all the Germans have. This is a sign of huge problems within the central bank. The Germans clearly have a problem with the direction of the ECB.The ECB said Stark had resigned for personal reasons but two other sources told Reuters it was related to the bond-buying that has rescued Italy and Spain from crisis over the past month.The euro, European and U.S. stock markets fell in response. Bond yield spreads, though, for Europe's struggling periphery were only slightly higher.German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen will replace Stark on the ECB's six-member Executive Board, a source familiar with the plan said.Asmussen will be more pragmatic, Bert Ruerup, former head of the wisemen council of economic advisers to the German government told Reuters. I don't think that he will fight as openly. This may calm down when the EFSF gets the power to buy bonds.Asmussen has been a key figure in Germany's policy response to the euro zone debt crisis.The ECB's policy orientation will not be altered by Stark's departure, Austrian ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he expected a German candidate to succeed Stark and that the successor would pursue the same policies of stability as Stark.
TEMPERS FRAY
News of Stark's departure came just a day after Trichet delivered an impassioned defense of the ECB's record and its handling of the euro zone debt crisis.Trichet's emotional response to a question about calls from some in Germany for a return to the Deutschmark suggested tempers were running high at the bank.German politicians immediately leapt on news of Stark's resignation to press for a change of direction at the ECB.His departure is a dramatic alarm signal which shows the ECB must correct its course, said Kurt Lauk, president of the economic council of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats.It is also a clear signal that the ECB must be freed from the role of aid provider that was foisted on it due to bad decisions by politicians,he added.The ECB has been concerned that by buying the sovereign bonds of Italy -- the euro zone's third largest economy -- it is encouraging Rome to slacken efforts to shore up its finances, and has been irritated by flip-flopping over austerity measures.However, Trichet said after the bank's policy meeting on Thursday that the latest decisions by the Italian government meant it was delivering on what it had promised.Stark, 63, has been a member of the ECB's six-member Executive Board -- whose members form the Governing Council along with the 17 euro zone national bank chiefs -- since June 2006.He holds the board's influential economics portfolio, a role that allows him to present a template of the ECB's monetary policy statement that forms a basis for the Governing Council's final view.
The ECB said Stark's successor would be appointed before the end of the year. Stark's term on the board was due to run until May 31, 2014.In addition to Trichet and Stark, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, another heavyweight ECB board member, is expected to leave the bank this year. Their departures leave the ECB without some of its most experienced policymakers while the euro zone crisis shows no sign of abating.(Additional reporting by Marc Jones, Sakari Suoninen, Daniel Flynn and Noah Barkin; Writing by Paul Carrel; Editing by Ruth Pitchford/Mike Peacock)
U.S. demands action from Europe's strongest at G7
Reuters By Catherine Bremer and Tetsushi Kajimoto | Reuters – SEPT 9,11
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - The United States pressed Europe's strongest economies on Friday to give unequivocal financial support to weaker euro zone states to overcome a debt crisis that threatens the world economy.It is completely within the capacity of the stronger members of the euro area to absorb these costs, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said as G7 finance chiefs gathered in Marseille to discuss how to revive a stalling recovery.Those costs would be much, much greater for them and their economies if they sit here and do nothing, and they recognize that, Geithner told Bloomberg Television in comments that appeared aimed primarily at EU economic powerhouse Germany.With markets looking to the Group of Seven major industrial economies for some sign of a policy shift to help faltering growth, a G7 source said the meeting might after all issue a communique, which G7 chair France had said was not planned.Ministers and central bankers were under pressure to calm the biggest confidence crisis in financial markets since the 2007-8 global credit crunch.But a shock announcement that the top German official at the European Central Bank is leaving early in disagreement with the bank's policy of buying euro zone government bonds to support the likes of Italy and Spain laid bare deep rifts over how to manage the debt crisis.The ECB confirmed that chief economist Juergen Stark would retire nearly three years before his term is due to expire. His decision means Bank of Italy governor Mario Draghi will start his term at the ECB helm in November with a mountain to climb to restore its credibility in Germany, Europe's biggest economy.
France has called for a coordinated response from the Group of Seven industrialized nations after mounting anxiety over Europe's debt crisis and the fragility of its banks caused a big fall in world stock markets in recent weeks.Differences between the economic problems facing the euro zone, Britain and the United States -- which unveiled a $447 billion jobs package on Thursday -- are complicating the task though, meaning one-size-fits-all solutions will not work.IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in London before boarding a flight for Marseille that policymakers in advanced economies should use all available tools to boost growth and called for bold action to weather a dangerous new phase of recovery.She also cautioned against too much fiscal consolidation in a climate of sputtering growth.But a G7 source told Reuters a unanimous agreement at the Marseille talks on coordinated monetary easing was unlikely.A source in Brussels has said the G7 would likely agree to keep monetary policy accommodative, slow fiscal consolidation in states where that is possible, and implement structural reforms.Fears the global economy may be in its most difficult period since the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers have added significance to Friday's talks but there has been little evidence of the unity of purpose shown in 2008 and 2009.U.S. President Barack Obama's new package of tax cuts and spending could lift U.S. growth by one to three percentage points in 2012 and add more than a million jobs.But in debt-ridden Europe, there is little scope for fiscal stimulus, and where there is some wiggle-room -- in Germany and Britain -- there is no political appetite for it.In an indication of the conflicting positions on policy, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told Reuters TV decisive moves were needed to restore market confidence and said slowing fiscal consolidation too much would be foolish.I hope we would all agree we have to stay the course, that we have to go through the pain of fiscal consolidation. It's not easy, it creates stresses in some countries, but it's necessary, we have to get through this rough patch,Flaherty said.G7 finance ministers and central bankers trickled into the sunlit Mediterranean port city of Marseille around lunchtime and talks were due to start at 4:00 p.m. (1400 GMT).A working dinner will be followed by briefings from around 9:15 p.m. local time (1915 GMT) by the French, German, Canadian and Japanese delegations and European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet. The United States plans no briefing.
ASIA AS CONCERNED AS U.S.
With Asian economies deeply worried about the West's debt crisis and slow growth, Japan said it will voice its concern on the euro zone debt crisis and seek support for its right to unilateral action over safe-haven buying pushing up the yen.Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa told reporters in Marseille he hoped the talks would share frank views on the crisis and said it was vital that G7 finance chiefs came up with a firm stance to stabilize the world economy.There are various factors behind the world economy's uncertainty but Europe's debt problem is one major factor. It is important for Europe to tackle its debt problems for its own sake but it would also indirectly bring positive effects on Japan's economy,he said.Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Japan would ask the G7 for its understanding on its intentions to counter yen rises.Lagarde said policymakers must act now, and boldly, giving her blessing to more quantitative easing by central banks and saying the challenge was to find a pace of adjustment that was neither too fast nor too slow.She said countries facing market pressures must push ahead with urgent fiscal consolidation, while there was scope for slower action in countries not at the mercy of market forces.If growth continues to lose momentum, balance sheet problems will worsen, fiscal sustainability will be threatened, and the scope for policies to salvage the recovery will disappear, she said.Decisions by the European and British central banks this week to keep interest rates unchanged accentuated the gloom in Europe but neither indicated that a cut was imminent, while Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave no hint of new stimulus to boost the economy in a keenly awaited speech.Despite speculation about new coordinated forex intervention, a standard final statement remains the most likely outcome, Unicredit said in a research note.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says growth across the G7 could slow to an anemic 0.2 percent in the last quarter of 2011. Its chief economist Pier Carlo Padoan urged the G7 to send a clear signal it is ready to take action if growth slows further.(Additional reporting by Daniel Flynn and Claire Watson in Marseille, John Irish in Paris, Keith Weir in London, David Lawder in Washington and Leika Kihara in Tokyo; Writing by Catherine Bremer, editing by Mike Peacock)
Marseille G7 eyeing communique but no big action
Reuters By Giselda Vagnoni and Daniel Flynn | Reuters – SEPT 9,11
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Group of Seven finance chiefs will likely issue a communique after their talks in southern France, following demand from markets, but there will be no talk of combined market intervention, G7 sources said.Sources from different members of the G7 group of industrialized economies said a final communique was now in the works, after pressure from delegations, despite host country France having planned not to issue one.The statement will voice support for U.S. President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan and for Europe's July 21 decision to beef up the powers of the euro zone's EFSF bailout facility, taking care to present a united front among G7 nations, one source said.Final approval on a communique from finance ministers and central bank heads in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille was still required as the group wrapped up meeting sessions at 6:00 p.m. (1600 GMT) and prepared to head into a working dinner.Friday's meeting took place under heavy pressure to take action to revive flagging economic growth in rich nations and calm the biggest confidence crisis in financial markets since the global credit crunch, with policy options limited by big economic differences between countries.A second source said a communique would likely talk about the global economic slowdown, financial market turmoil and the policy tools different countries could use, but would make no reference to concerted interventions.(Writing by Catherine Bremer)
BIBLES WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS
CHINA MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE EAST)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9164005727480680563#docid=-8916004936135366443
RUSSIA ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE NORTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGqS3TDYRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn3T5XIbNk&feature=related
EGYPT ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE SOUTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_KT4irRTM&feature=related
EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE WEST)(NOT THE USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NEyheTDyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzLjhsRrZYw&feature=fvw
ISRAEL MILITARY-GUARENTEED BY EU TO SECURE THEM THE BIBLE SAYS(2 MAIN ENDTIME PLAYERS)(NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF FUULFILLING THE PROPHECIES ON EARTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TDlvIRIMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdalQdtzfY&feature=related
http://euradcom.org/
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3409375633223151728#docid=-6703838290529161821
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3409375633223151728#docid=8697248641166616573
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3409375633223151728#
False flag-From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and can be used in peace-time.(NOTICE EVERY TIME THERES A REAL TERRORIST ATTACK,THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS IS DOING A FAKE DRILL WHICH MEANS THEY CAN SAY IT WAS ONLY A DRILL IF THE ATTACK DOES NOT GO OVER WITH THE PUBLIC OR IF THE GOVERNMENT MUFFED UP THEIR OWN FALSE FLAG CONTROL FREAK,GET MORE CONTROL OF PEOPLES RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.)
With credible 9/11 threat, NY mounts major operation
By Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart | Reuters – SEPT 9,11
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York police will mount a major counterterrorism operation during Friday's evening rush hour as U.S. officials rush to check credible, but unconfirmed intelligence about a 9/11 anniversary plot, a senior law enforcement official told Reuters.The operation will involve a big show of force which will include officers armed with heavy weapons patrolling subways and stepped up security and bag checks at major subway and commuter train stations, including Grand Central and Pennsylvania station terminals, the official said. Law enforcement agencies in neighboring states were also involved.While the operation had been planned some time ago, the forces and tactics deployed will be stepped up after local and federal authorities received what they described as specific and credible but unconfirmed intelligence about a possible threat to attack the United States by Islamic militants timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington.Intelligence about the anniversary threat only surfaced during the course of this week and included possible threats of attacks targeting subways or commuter trains or possible car bomb attacks in New York or Washington, U.S. officials said.Vice President Joseph Biden said on ABC's Good Morning America program on Friday morning: We don't have the smoking gun but we do have talk about using a car bomb.One of the officials said the threat is believed to come from militants following an al Qaeda ideology. But it is not certain whether there is a direct connection to what remains of al Qaeda's battered core leadership.
Officials have said that U.S. law enforcement agencies are on the lookout for three possible suspects, though it is unclear how much, if any, precise information regarding the suspects' identities is available to U.S. authorities.We have to be concerned. Terrorism is theater and this is a stage, right now probably the world's biggest stage, said New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.We have the opening of the 9/11 memorial, the president and two former presidents here, obviously a lot of high profile public officials will be here, so we have to be concerned,Kelly told CNN.On Thursday, President Barack Obama ordered a redoubling of U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the face of a "credible but unconfirmed" threat before the September 11 attacks anniversary.
SUSPECTS LINKED TO AL QAEDA
U.S. officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the threat involved Washington and New York City, which were targeted in al Qaeda attacks a decade ago this Sunday that killed nearly 3,000 people.A counterterrorism official said intelligence pointed to possible car bomb attacks and added the threat information came from Pakistan's tribal areas. A manhunt was under way for two or three suspects, who one person familiar with the matter said were suspected of having links to al Qaeda.But U.S. officials used strong caveats when discussing the threat information privately, with a national security official cautioning that experts thought the threat would ultimately not check out.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stressed at a news conference on Friday that the threat had not been corroborated, even as he announced heightened security measures some of which you may notice, some of which you may not notice.Bloomberg asked citizens to go about their daily routines as usual but report any suspicious or dangerous activity. Over the next three days we should all keep our eyes wide open.The White House said Obama was briefed on specific threat information on Thursday morning, and said the government had already heightened security before the anniversary.
BACK TO BIN LADEN COMPOUND
Documents discovered in Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after he was killed in a raid in May by Navy SEALs, highlighted his persistent interest in attacking the United States around the anniversary of the 2001 attacks. But it is unclear if the plans ever evolved beyond aspiration.As we know from the intelligence gathered following the Osama bin Laden raid, al Qaeda has showed an interest in important dates and anniversaries, such as 9/11, said Jan Fedarcyk with the FBI's New York field office.Kelly announced measures including more bag inspections on the subway, more bomb-sniffing dogs on patrol and increased deployment of radiation monitoring equipment.There will be increased focus on tunnels and bridges and infrastructure in general, as well as landmark locations, houses of worship and government buildings, he said.A law-enforcement source played down an ABC News report about missing rental trucks -- saying the vehicles had been recovered and there was no connection to terrorism.(Additional reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, Alister Bull and JoAnne Allen in Washington and Michelle Nichols in New York; editing by Anthony Boadle)
Clinton: al Qaeda behind unconfirmed threat to U.S.
Reuters By Sandra Maler | Reuters – SEPT 9,11
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday said that al Qaeda was behind a specific, credible but unconfirmed report of a threat to harm Americans, notably in New York and Washington.We are meeting here in New York ... with the news last night of a specific, credible but unconfirmed report that al Qaeda again is seeking to harm Americans and in particular to target New York and Washington, Clinton said in a speech.President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a redoubling of counter-terrorism efforts in the face of the threat ahead of Sunday's 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, U.S. officials said.In a speech ahead of the anniversary, Clinton said it was impossible to foil every plot and that al Qaeda was still capable of regional and international attacks.However, she said Washington would wage a relentless campaign against it and, later this month, would set up Global Counter-Terrorism Forum to gather officials to identify threats, devise solutions and share expertise.The group, to be co-chaired by the United States and Turkey, will also include Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Morocco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, the State Department said.(Editing by Sandra Maler)
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.
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Analysis: Turkey to complicate life for Israel, but avoid war Reuters By Crispian Balmer | Reuters – SEPT 9,11
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Turkey's threat to send warships to protect aid convoys to Gaza is unlikely to trigger conflict with Israel, but the dramatic deterioration in relations between the one-time allies could jeopardize Israeli energy ambitions.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the stakes with Israel on Thursday, saying he would dispatch the navy to escort any future flotillas to Gaza and prevent a repeat of an Israeli raid last year that killed nine Turks.Ankara has already downgraded diplomatic relations with Israel and halted defense trade following the Jewish state's confirmation last week that it would not apologize for the deadly 2010 assault on a boat challenging its Gaza blockade.Despite the intensifying rhetoric, it seems hard to believe that the region's two biggest military powers, both important allies of the United States, would face off over the Palestinian enclave Gaza, which is ruled by the Islamist group Hamas.It won't turn into a military confrontation, because the Turks aren't stupid. It's absurd to think a NATO country would get into a military confrontation with Israel, said Gad Shimron, a retired Mossad officer and defense expert.By the same token, it seems unlikely that Erdogan will let the matter drop, with many analysts seeing his repeated criticism of Israel as a calculated bid to boost his standing in the Arab world and assume a dominant role in the Middle East.Tellingly, he made his comments to Al Jazeera, the pan-Arabic television station, upping the ante just days before he is due to visit a trio of Arab countries, including Egypt, which has itself fallen out with Israel in recent weeks.Erdogan thinks the easy target is Israel, but he doesn't know if it will pay off. He is taking a gamble, said Yossi Shain, a professor at both Tel Aviv University and Georgetown University in Washington.He wants to be the champion of the Arab and Islamic world, but it is not clear whether he can.
DISPUTED GAS FIELDS
Turkey has a much larger navy than Israel but would have to think twice about any military brinkmanship given the imposing strength of the Israeli air force.Keep in mind that were Israel to initiate an interception, say against a Turkish bid to sail on Gaza, it would have the advantage of choosing the time, place and deployment strength,a former Israeli admiral told Reuters, declining to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject.Indicating there is no imminent danger of a clash, the charity that organised last year's convoy to the Gaza Strip said on Friday it had no plans for now for another flotilla.Regardless of that, Turkey has also said it will make its presence felt in the eastern Mediterranean at a time when Israel is looking to exploit recently discovered gas fields off its coasts and hook up with Cyprus to build energy facilities.Turkey does not recognize Cyprus's Greek Cypriot government, while Lebanon has accused Israel of breaking international law by exploring for gas without an agreement between the two countries -- which are formally at war -- on their maritime border. Israel denies this.A heavy Turkish naval presence near the disputed fields could undoubtedly cause Israel headaches, just as it thought that it had finally overcome its longstanding energy shortages.This is a feasible and significantly troubling prospect. I imagine it would compromise foreign investment in those fields, the former admiral said.Israel has sought to play down the diplomatic crisis, with officials pointing out that the two countries had already overcome previous rows, such as in 1980 when Turkey curbed ties to protest at Israel's annexation of Arab East Jerusalem.But back then, Turkey was a much poorer nation than it is today, and there were very few cultural, sporting or business links between the two countries.The implications of a falling-out today are much more significant, with trade between Turkey and Israel worth $3.5 billion last year, helping keep thousands of people in work.Turkey is a very strong country today and this is very serious situation,said Alon Liel, the head of the Israeli diplomatic mission in Turkey from 1981 to 1983 and a former director general of the Foreign Ministry.
LOSING FRIENDS
Although Turkey is an undoubted regional power, it has suffered a difficult few months due to the Arab uprisings.It has had to retool its foreign policy in Syria and Libya, losing old allies in the process, and has distanced itself with Iran. Erdogan is clearly trying to regain the initiative and will have to be careful not to push things too far.He has painted Turkey into a very tight corner, said Gareth Jenkins, an Istanbul-based security analyst.Turkey is squandering the moral capital it had gained after the (2010 flotilla) incident, in which international public opinion sided with Turkey. But the international community will be very hostile.Washington has stayed largely quiet over the past week, urging reconciliation between the two parties without publicly taking sides. However, much more Turkish saber-rattling is sure to fire up passions, with the U.S. Congress fiercely pro-Israel.(Erdogan) is about to get a tough response from Washington. They are watching him and letting him play, but the moment is coming, said Shain, who is working in the United States.Erdogan may well be calculating that Washington cannot afford to imperil relations with Turkey at such crucial moment for the Middle East, but as with his fight with Israel, that is a risky bet to take.(Additional reporting by Dan Williams in Jerusalem and Ibon Villelabeitia in Ankara; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Israel wary at harsh Turk naval challenge
Reuters By Dan Williams | Reuters – SEPT 9,11
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will keep blockading Gaza in the face of Turkey's unprecedented naval challenge and is prepared for escalation though it seeks to calm the waters with its ex-ally, officials said on Friday.Deepening a crisis over Israel's killing last year of nine of their citizens aboard an aid flotilla that tried to reach the Palestinian enclave, the Turks vowed on Thursday to assign warships to escort such convoys in the future.The prospect of a showdown at sea with Turkey, a NATO power and fellow U.S. strategic partner in the region, rattled Israelis already long on edge given Arab political upheaval and Iran's nuclear program.Breaking an almost 24-hour-long silence on the warships announcement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Israeli policy was and remains the prevention of deterioration in our ties with Turkey and easing the tensions between the countries.The prime minister and cabinet discussed the various theoretical possibilities should escalation occur. But a decision on such will be made only if and when required.Confrontation did not appear imminent after the IHH, a Turkish Islamist charity that owned the Mavi Marmara cruise ship stormed by Israeli marines on May 31, 2010, said in Istanbul it had no plan for now to mount another Gaza mission.But Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan also pledged to boost naval patrols around easter Mediterranean gas fields being developed by Israel, a potential blow to the Netanyahu government's quest for energy independence.The Obama administration appealed for rapprochement.We are encouraging both countries to find a way to work together to overcome their differences and restore at least some of the friendship that they previously had,U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro told Israel Radio.
SABER-RATTLING
They had tried to mend fences ahead of a U.N. report last week that deemed the blockade a legal means to stem the flow of arms to Gaza's governing Hamas and other Palestinian militants. Israel formally declared it during a 2008-2009 war with Hamas.
Turkey argues that the naval closure amounts to illegal collective punishment of Gaza's impoverished 1.5 million Palestinians and conditioned reconciliation on it being lifted.There is no intent to review the blockade as long as Hamas amasses missiles. This is a measure consistent with international law, said Yigal Palmor, spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry.The U.N. inquiry also called Israeli marines' gunfire in brawls aboard the Mavi Marmara excessive and unreasonable and the deaths caused unacceptable.Israel voiced regret but rejected Ankara's demand for a formal apology and compensation.While Turkey's navy outclasses Israel's, the latter could make use of its advanced air force in any coastal face-off. Yet analysts saw them coming to blows as unlikely. [nL5E7K91B2]The things Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said are harsh and serious, but I don't think it would be right to get into any verbal saber-rattling with him, Netanyahu deputy Dan Meridor told Israel's Army Radio. Our silence is the best response. I hope this phenomenon will pass.Erdogan's forceful comments about the Eastern Mediterranean also prompted a warning from the European Union not to threaten EU-member Cyprus.Turkey is the only country that recognizes a separate Turkish-run state in Cyprus's northern third, which it invaded in 1974 in response to a Greek-inspired coup.You know that Israel has begun to declare that it has the right to act in exclusive economic areas in the Mediterranean, Erdogan said.
You will see that it will not be the owner of this right, because Turkey, as the guarantor of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, has taken steps in the area, and it will be decisive and holding fast to the right to monitor international waters in the east Mediterranean.EU spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said: The EU urges Turkey to refrain from any kinds of threats, sources of friction that could negatively affect good neighborly relations and the peaceful settlement of border disputes.Any dispute between Turkey and Israel is unlikely to embroil NATO, which operates on the basis of unanimous decisions, an official of the Western alliance said in Brussels.It's literally impossible for NATO to take any action that's not agreed by all 28 allies, the official said.(Writing by Dan Williams; Additional reporting by Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem, Seltem Iyigunl and Ibon Villelabeitia in Istanbul and David Brunnstrom in Brussels)
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.
UN chief says Palestinian statehood long overdue
AFP – SEPT 9,11
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Palestinian statehood was long overdue, a day after its leadership launched a campaign to become the world body's 194th member state.The two state vision where Israel and Palestinians can live... side by side in peace and security -- that is a still a valid vision and I fully support it, he told reporters in Canberra.And I support also the statehood of Palestinians; an independent, sovereign state of Palestine. It has been long overdue.
But... the recognition of a state is something to be determined by the member states,he added.It is not by the Secretary General so I leave it to the member states to decide to recognise or not to recognise.Ban, who has been in Australia as part of a sweeping Pacific tour which has taken him to New Zealand, the Solomon Islands and Kirabati, called for meaningful negotiations to resolve the issue.The United Nations leader's comments came after Palestinians Thursday launched their campaign to join the UN.Their National Campaign for Palestine: State 194 is part of the build-up to September 20, when president Mahmud Abbas is expected to submit a formal request that the UN accept Palestine as a member.However, Washington has already confirmed it would veto any bid, a move also opposed by Israel.The official Palestinian campaign of support for the bid got under way with about 100 people marching to UN headquarters in the West Bank Thursday to hand a letter to the UN representative asking that Ban support them.If the bid is vetoed in the Security Council, the Palestinians plan to turn to the General Assembly where they are expected to easily win the votes needed to upgrade their representation from observer body to non-member state.
US will veto Palestinian statehood bid at UN
AP – SEPT 9,11
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it will veto any bid by the Palestinians to seek statehood recognition at the U.N. Security Council.The administration had long said it opposed such a unilateral move by the Palestinians. The U.S. has been working to prevent a Palestinian resolution from coming before the council.Until now, Washington had not explicitly said it would use its veto to prevent passage. On Thursday, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that if the issue comes to a vote in the Security Council, the U.S. will veto it.Israel opposes the statehood push as well.Nuland says the U.S. view is that the Palestinian effort is misguided and that statehood should come only as a result of negotiations with Israel.
Palestinians officially launch statehood campaign
AP By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press | AP – Thu, Sep 8, 2011
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians on Thursday officially launched their campaign to join the United Nations as a full member state, saying they would stage a series of peaceful events in the run-up to the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly later this month.Some 100 Palestinian officials and activists gathered at the U.N. offices in Ramallah for a short ceremony, where they announced their plans in a letter addressed to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.The letter urges Ban to add his moral voice in support of the Palestinian people.Families of the tens of thousands of victims of Israeli occupation, including those martyred, wounded and imprisoned, and countless others who were expelled from their homes or lost their homes and their property, hope that you will exert all possible efforts toward the achievement of the Palestinian people's just demands, it says.The letter was handed over by Latifa Abu Hmeid, a 70-year-old woman who lost one son in fighting with Israel and has seven other sons in Israeli prisons because of alleged militant activities.Officials said Abu Hmeid was selected to deliver the document because her personal story reflects the plight of the Palestinians. A resident of a West Bank refugee camp, her house has been twice demolished by Israeli authorities as punishment for her sons' activities, they said.
The Palestinians have decided to turn to the U.N. to recognize their independence after two decades of unsuccessful peace efforts with Israel. The latest round of talks broke down a year ago.The campaign seeks recognition of an independent Palestine in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel rejects a return to its 1967 lines.While any U.N. vote will be largely symbolic, the Palestinians believe a strong international endorsement will boost their position and put pressure on Israel should negotiations resume. Israel has been lobbying the international community to oppose the vote, saying peace can only be achieved through negotiations.The letter says the campaign will include a series of peaceful events in various international cities and capitals leading up to the Sept. 21 opening of the General Assembly. Two days later, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will address the gathering in New York and ask for admission to the United Nations.It remains unclear whether the Palestinians will turn to the Security Council or the General Assembly.The Council needs nine votes out of 15 and no veto from any of its permanent members to pass a decision. However, the United States, which opposes the Palestinian bid, is expected to veto any request in the Council.
The Palestinians could then seek admission as a nonmember state of the General Assembly, like the Vatican.Approval in the Assembly, which is dominated by developing nations sympathetic to the Palestinians, is assured. But the vote would not be legally binding. The Palestinians say they will continue their campaign until they gain full U.N. membership.Although the Palestinians say their campaign will be peaceful, Israeli military officials fear that mass demonstrations in the West Bank could turn violent.Security forces have been preparing for the possibility of violence, conducting exercises and stockpiling what they say is non-lethal riot-control equipment like tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades.Israeli West Bank settlers, meanwhile, came under suspicion Thursday in the latest of a string of attacks against Palestinians and the Israeli military in the West Bank.Two cars were torched and Hebrew-language slogans were spray-painted on a mosque in the Nablus area, and three dozen trees were uprooted from Palestinian farmland in the same area, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military said it was investigating.No one claimed responsibility for the acts, but settlers have carried out similar acts before, in some cases in retaliation for Israeli government actions against settlers, a practice they call price tag. Earlier this week, a West Bank mosque was set afire.Settlers are also suspected of having infiltrated an Israeli military base early Wednesday, smashing windows, slashing the tires of about a dozen vehicles and spray-painting graffiti alluding to the demolition of three homes in an unauthorized settler outpost earlier this week.Separately, the military demolished five West Bank shacks and three water cisterns it said Palestinians built without authorization in the West Bank. U.N. officials said 20 people were left homeless.
The demolitions occurred days after military officials had promised to halt the practice, saying the policy was not equally enforced in Jewish settlements. Military officials did not return messages.
Israel deploys drones over Egyptian border
By DANIELLA CHESLOW - Associated Press | AP – Thu, Sep 8, 2011
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A senior Israeli military official says the air force has deployed a special unit of unmanned surveillance aircraft along its long, porous border with Egypt after militants crossed the frontier and killed eight Israelis last month.The official says the drones are monitoring both sides of the 150-mile (250-kilometer) border, though the aircraft are flying only in Israeli airspace. In the wake of the attack, Israel also has sent more troops along the border.Officials have grown increasingly concerned about the security situation in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula following the ouster of longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February.The official spoke on condition of anonymity under military guidelines.Israel, along with the United States, is a world leader in drone technology.
Israel ready to free 1,000 prisoners for Shalit: father AFP – SEPT 9,11
Israel remains ready to free 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for Gilad Shalit, according to the captive soldier's father who demanded Thursday that any UN vote on Palestinian statehood be tied to his release.Noam Shalit indicated that many Palestinian detainees were only being held by Israel because of the dispute with Hamas over his son, now 25, who was grabbed by gunmen from Hamas and two other militant groups on June 25, 2006.Israel is ready to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange of my son. So Israel is not asking for Gilad for free, Noam Shalit told reporters at the end of a visit to the United Nations to lobby ambassadors.The prisoner exchange proposal was made by German mediators to Israel and Hamas in February, but Noam Shalit said the Palestinian side rejected this.After a deal will be carried out, hopefully very soon, Israel will be happy to free many other Palestinian prisoners that from my point of view are not relevant any more, the father added in an indication of the importance that Israel has put on the soldier's release.The captivity of Gilad prevents the release of many, many Palestinian prisoners unfortunately, he said.The father said he had spoken to the ambassadors of several countries at the UN to urge that any vote on Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly include a condition that Gilad Shilat be released.The Palestinian leadership has said it will go to the UN Security Council or General Assembly this month to see a vote giving formal membership to a Palestinian state, or super observer status.
Friday, September 09, 2011
Thursday, September 08, 2011
PLANE CRASH KILLS EX NHL PLAYERS
Hockey world reacts to KHL plane crash
Wednesday, 09.07.2011 / 3:45 PM / News
A sampling of reactions around the NHL to the plane crash that killed at least 43 people, most of whom were members of Yaroslavl Lokomotiv of the KHL:Though it occurred thousands of miles away from our home arenas, this tragedy represents a catastrophic loss to the hockey world -- including the NHL family, which lost so many fathers, sons, teammates and friends who at one time excelled in our League. Our deepest condolences go to the families and loved ones of all who perished.-- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman
KHL LOKOMOTIV CRASH COVERAGE
Demitra remembered as great friend, teammate
Skrastins made mark as an NHL ironman for d-men
Salei leaves behind three kids, special in own way
New coach McCrimmon carved lengthy NHL career
Rachunek had long history with KHL's Lokomotiv
Winter shares memories of Demitra, Vasicek
We will do our best to ensure that hockey in Yaroslavl does not die, and that it continues to live for the people that were on that plane.-- Russian Ice Hockey Federation President and Hall of Fame goaltender Vladislav Tretiak
Obviously, it's a tough day around here. Our thoughts and our prayers go out to the family. You're concerned. We know his kids well. He's a good man. Real big part of our organization here.-- Detroit coach Mike Babcock; Lokomotiv coach Brad McCrimmon, who died in the crash, was an assistant with the Wings for the past three seasons
I was told this morning when we were working out; Pavel Datsyuk came in and said there's a plane that went down somewhere in Russia and believed to be a hockey team on there. We haven't heard any confirmation. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and we're hoping for the best, but we don't know anything right now.-- Detroit captain Nicklas Lidstrom, who played with McCrimmon as a rookie
These things hit you like a ton of bricks. You do your best to deal with them and move on. Right now, we're talking with our different teammates and trying to come to grips with the reality that 'The Beast' is no longer on this Earth.-- Ex-Calgary forward Jim Peplinski, a former teammate of McCrimmon with the Flames
Nothing could prepare the hockey community for the devastating news it received today. The tragic plane crash involving Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League has left all of us beyond words. I had the pleasure of knowing several members of the team, plus the entire coaching staff. In particular, Alexander Vasyunov, who played for us last season, was an outstanding young man and a gifted athlete. Captain Karel Rachunek skated for us in 2007-08. Both were members of the Devils family. On behalf of the entire Devils organization, our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the entire Lokomotiv club.-- New Jersey Devils president and GM Lou Lamoriello
Karlis was one of those guys who would do anything for his team. He worked hard and never complained about anything. He was a really nice guy and great family man. There isn't a single bad thing to say about him.-- Dallas Stars defenseman Stephane Robidas on the loss of former teammate Karlis Skrastins
The Dallas Stars family is shocked and saddened by the passing of Karlis Skrastins and so many other young lives in a plane crash in Russia today. Our thoughts and prayers are with Karlis' wife Zane and his two daughters, Karolina and Laurena, as well as all of the families and friends who lost loved ones on the plane. Karlis was a wonderful father and husband, as well as a good friend. He will be greatly missed. -- Dallas GM Joe Nieuwendyk on Skrastins' death
It's tough, because yesterday they were alive and today they're not. It's very, very tough -- former New York Islanders captain Alexei Yashin, who spent the past four years in the KHL and played for Lokomotiv from 2007-09
I think I knew 80 percent of the team. Either I played with them or I played against them. You see each other in different tournaments. Some of them you're really close with, or some them you just say hi and have a couple of laughs with. It struck me when I found out. I was at breakfast and reading the Russian newspapers and all of a sudden, it popped up. It's almost like you don't want to believe something like that. It's tough. You have chills and you just hope that the families will find the strength to fight through something like that.-- New York Islanders goaltender Evgeni Nabokov, a Russian who played in the KHL last season
Josef was a key part of the Hurricanes for six years, helping us achieve some of our greatest successes. More importantly, he was a great teammate on and off the ice, and was respected as a person as well as a player.-- Jim Rutherford, Carolina Hurricanes president and GM, on former Hurricanes forward Josef Vasicek
He was one of my best buddies. He was in my wedding. I can't believe this-- Columbus defenseman Radek Martinek, a boyhood friend and former teammate of Vasicek with the Islanders
OTHER NHL DEATHS THIS YEAR-SEPT 1,11 CGY (D)WADE BELAK-AUG 15,11 WPG (C)RICK RYPIEN AND MAY 13,11 NYR (D) DEREK BOOGUAARD.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=587821
09/07/11 PHX (C) RETIRED BRAD MCCRIMMON DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 VAN (LW) PAVOL DEMITRA DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 NJ (D) KAREL RACHUNEK DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 DAL (D) KARLIS SKRASTINS DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 DET (D) RUSLAN SALEI DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 NYI (C) JOSEF VACICEK DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 CHI (C) RETIRED IGOR KOROLEV DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 FLA (D) ALEXANDER KARPOVTSEV DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 CLB (C) IVAN TKACHENKO DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 LAK (C) JAN MAREK DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 DET (G) STEFAN LIV DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 NSH (D) ROBERT DIETRICH DES N PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 NJD (LW) ALEXANDER VASYUNOV DES N PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 OTT (D) VTALY ANEYENKO DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 SJS (C) DANIIL SOBCHENKO DIES IN PLANE CRASH
Hockey in shock after Russian jet crash kills 43
AP By LYNN BERRY - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11
TUNOSHNA, Russia (AP) — A private Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people in one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team. Two other people on board were critically injured.Both Russia and the world of hockey were left stunned by the deaths of so many international stars in one catastrophic event. The International Ice Hockey Federation said 27 players of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team were killed, along with 2 coaches and 7 club officials.Russian NHL star Alex Ovechkin tweeted: I'm in shock!!!!!R.I.P ...The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed into the shores of the Volga River immediately after leaving the airport near the western city of Yaroslavl, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. The weather was sunny and clear at the time. Russian media said the plane struggled to gain altitude and then crashed into a signal tower, shattering into pieces.Russian television showed a flaming fragment of the plane in the river as divers worked feverishly to recover bodies.The plane was carrying the team from Yaroslavl to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where they were to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season. It had 45 people on board, including 37 passengers and eight crew, the ministry said.
Officials said Russian player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember.Their state of health is very grave. But there is still some hope, said Alexander Degyatryov, chief doctor at Yaroslavl's Solovyov Hospital.Among the dead were Lokomotiv coach and NHL veteran Brad McCrimmon, a Canadian, as well as Pavol Demitra, who played for the St. Louis Blues and the Vancouver Canucks and was the Slovakian national team captain. Also killed were Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek, Swedish goalie Stefan Liv, Latvian defenseman Karlis Skrastins and defenseman Ruslan Salei of Belarus, the Emergency Ministry said.Though it occurred thousands of miles away from our home arenas, this tragedy represents a catastrophic loss to the hockey world — including the NHL family, which lost so many fathers, sons, teammates and friends, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement.The crash comes on top of an already mournful year for the NHL in which three of the league's enforcers were found dead: Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien and recently retired Wade Belak.The cause of Wednesday's crash was not immediately apparent, but Russian news agencies cited unnamed local officials as saying it may have been due to technical problems. The plane was built in 1993 and belonged to a small Moscow-based Yak Service company.
In recent years, Russia and the other former Soviet republics have had some of the world's worst air traffic safety records. Experts blame the poor safety record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.Swarms of police and rescue crews rushed to Tunoshna, a ramshackle village with a blue-domed church on the banks of the Volga River 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of Yaroslavl. One of the plane's engines could be seen poking out of the river and a flotilla of boats combed the water for bodies. Divers struggled to heft the bodies of large, strong athletes in stretchers up the muddy, steep riverbank.Resident Irina Prakhova saw the plane going down then heard a loud bang.It was wobbling in flight, it was clear that something was wrong, said Prakhova. I saw them pulling bodies to the shore, some still in their seats with seatbelts on.More than 2,000 mourning fans wearing jerseys and scarves and waving team flags gathered in the evening outside Lokomotiv's stadium in Yaroslavl to pay their respects. Riot police stood guard as fans chanted sport songs in honor of the dead athletes.Yaroslavl governor Sergei Vakhrukov promised the crowd that the Lokomotiv team would be rebuilt from scratch, prompting anger from some fans at a perceived lack of respect for the dead.Lokomotiv is a leading force in Russian hockey and came third in the KHL last year. It was also a three-time Russian League champion in 1997, 2002 and 2003.McCrimmon, who took over as coach in May, was most recently an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings, and played for years in the NHL for Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Calgary, Hartford and Phoenix.We will do our best to ensure that hockey in Yaroslavl does not die, and that it continues to live for the people that were on that plane, said Russian Ice Hockey Federation President Vladislav Tretyak.A cup game between hockey teams Salavat Yulaev and Atlant in the central Russian city of Ufa was called off in mid-match after news of the crash was announced. Russian television showed an empty arena in Ufa as grief-stricken fans abandoned the stadium.The KHL is an international club league of teams from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia.Russia was hoping to showcase Yaroslavl as a modern and vibrant city this week at an international forum attended by heads of state, including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, so the crash came as a particularly bitter blow.
Many in the Czech Republic also took the news hard.Jan Marek, Karel Rachunek, and Josef Vasicek contributed greatly to the best successes of our ice hockey in the recent years, first of all to the golden medals at the world championships in 2005 and 2010, said Tomas Kral, the president of the Czech ice hockey association. The were excellent players, but also great friends and personalities. That's how we will remember them.Fans planned to gather Thursday at the Old Town Square in the Czech capital of Prague, where national team players usually celebrate, to commemorate the three Czech players. Vasicek was on the Carolina Hurricanes' 2006 Stanley Cup team.
In the western Slovak city of Trencin, where Demitra started his career and where he played during the NHL lockout 2004-05 season, hundreds fans gathered outside the ice hockey stadium Wednesday night to light candles in his memory.Medvedev has announced plans to take aging Soviet-built planes out of service starting next year. The short- and medium-range Yak-42 has been in service since 1980 and about 100 are still being used by Russian carriers.In June, another Russian passenger jet, a Tu-134, crashed in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people. That crash has been blamed on pilot error.In past plane crashes involving sports teams, 75 Marshall University football players, coaches, fans and airplane crew died in Huntington, West Virginia, on Nov. 14, 1970, coming home from a game. Thirty-six of the dead were players and 5 were coaches.Some 29 people were killed when a plane carrying the Uruguayan rugby club Old Christians crashed in the Andes in 1972, including five crew and some family members.The entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team died in a crash en route to the 1961 world championships in Brussels, and 18 members of the Torino soccer team died near Turin, Italy, in a 1949 crash.In 1993, another plane crash claimed 18 members of Zambia's national football team and five team officials in Libreville, Gabon.Vladimir Isachenkov and Peter Leonard in Moscow, Steve Wilson in London and Karel Janicek in Prague contributed to this report.
Wednesday, 09.07.2011 / 3:45 PM / News
A sampling of reactions around the NHL to the plane crash that killed at least 43 people, most of whom were members of Yaroslavl Lokomotiv of the KHL:Though it occurred thousands of miles away from our home arenas, this tragedy represents a catastrophic loss to the hockey world -- including the NHL family, which lost so many fathers, sons, teammates and friends who at one time excelled in our League. Our deepest condolences go to the families and loved ones of all who perished.-- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman
KHL LOKOMOTIV CRASH COVERAGE
Demitra remembered as great friend, teammate
Skrastins made mark as an NHL ironman for d-men
Salei leaves behind three kids, special in own way
New coach McCrimmon carved lengthy NHL career
Rachunek had long history with KHL's Lokomotiv
Winter shares memories of Demitra, Vasicek
We will do our best to ensure that hockey in Yaroslavl does not die, and that it continues to live for the people that were on that plane.-- Russian Ice Hockey Federation President and Hall of Fame goaltender Vladislav Tretiak
Obviously, it's a tough day around here. Our thoughts and our prayers go out to the family. You're concerned. We know his kids well. He's a good man. Real big part of our organization here.-- Detroit coach Mike Babcock; Lokomotiv coach Brad McCrimmon, who died in the crash, was an assistant with the Wings for the past three seasons
I was told this morning when we were working out; Pavel Datsyuk came in and said there's a plane that went down somewhere in Russia and believed to be a hockey team on there. We haven't heard any confirmation. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and we're hoping for the best, but we don't know anything right now.-- Detroit captain Nicklas Lidstrom, who played with McCrimmon as a rookie
These things hit you like a ton of bricks. You do your best to deal with them and move on. Right now, we're talking with our different teammates and trying to come to grips with the reality that 'The Beast' is no longer on this Earth.-- Ex-Calgary forward Jim Peplinski, a former teammate of McCrimmon with the Flames
Nothing could prepare the hockey community for the devastating news it received today. The tragic plane crash involving Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League has left all of us beyond words. I had the pleasure of knowing several members of the team, plus the entire coaching staff. In particular, Alexander Vasyunov, who played for us last season, was an outstanding young man and a gifted athlete. Captain Karel Rachunek skated for us in 2007-08. Both were members of the Devils family. On behalf of the entire Devils organization, our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the entire Lokomotiv club.-- New Jersey Devils president and GM Lou Lamoriello
Karlis was one of those guys who would do anything for his team. He worked hard and never complained about anything. He was a really nice guy and great family man. There isn't a single bad thing to say about him.-- Dallas Stars defenseman Stephane Robidas on the loss of former teammate Karlis Skrastins
The Dallas Stars family is shocked and saddened by the passing of Karlis Skrastins and so many other young lives in a plane crash in Russia today. Our thoughts and prayers are with Karlis' wife Zane and his two daughters, Karolina and Laurena, as well as all of the families and friends who lost loved ones on the plane. Karlis was a wonderful father and husband, as well as a good friend. He will be greatly missed. -- Dallas GM Joe Nieuwendyk on Skrastins' death
It's tough, because yesterday they were alive and today they're not. It's very, very tough -- former New York Islanders captain Alexei Yashin, who spent the past four years in the KHL and played for Lokomotiv from 2007-09
I think I knew 80 percent of the team. Either I played with them or I played against them. You see each other in different tournaments. Some of them you're really close with, or some them you just say hi and have a couple of laughs with. It struck me when I found out. I was at breakfast and reading the Russian newspapers and all of a sudden, it popped up. It's almost like you don't want to believe something like that. It's tough. You have chills and you just hope that the families will find the strength to fight through something like that.-- New York Islanders goaltender Evgeni Nabokov, a Russian who played in the KHL last season
Josef was a key part of the Hurricanes for six years, helping us achieve some of our greatest successes. More importantly, he was a great teammate on and off the ice, and was respected as a person as well as a player.-- Jim Rutherford, Carolina Hurricanes president and GM, on former Hurricanes forward Josef Vasicek
He was one of my best buddies. He was in my wedding. I can't believe this-- Columbus defenseman Radek Martinek, a boyhood friend and former teammate of Vasicek with the Islanders
OTHER NHL DEATHS THIS YEAR-SEPT 1,11 CGY (D)WADE BELAK-AUG 15,11 WPG (C)RICK RYPIEN AND MAY 13,11 NYR (D) DEREK BOOGUAARD.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=587821
09/07/11 PHX (C) RETIRED BRAD MCCRIMMON DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 VAN (LW) PAVOL DEMITRA DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 NJ (D) KAREL RACHUNEK DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 DAL (D) KARLIS SKRASTINS DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 DET (D) RUSLAN SALEI DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 NYI (C) JOSEF VACICEK DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 CHI (C) RETIRED IGOR KOROLEV DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 FLA (D) ALEXANDER KARPOVTSEV DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 CLB (C) IVAN TKACHENKO DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 LAK (C) JAN MAREK DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 DET (G) STEFAN LIV DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 NSH (D) ROBERT DIETRICH DES N PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 NJD (LW) ALEXANDER VASYUNOV DES N PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 OTT (D) VTALY ANEYENKO DIES IN PLANE CRASH
09/07/11 SJS (C) DANIIL SOBCHENKO DIES IN PLANE CRASH
Hockey in shock after Russian jet crash kills 43
AP By LYNN BERRY - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11
TUNOSHNA, Russia (AP) — A private Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people in one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team. Two other people on board were critically injured.Both Russia and the world of hockey were left stunned by the deaths of so many international stars in one catastrophic event. The International Ice Hockey Federation said 27 players of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team were killed, along with 2 coaches and 7 club officials.Russian NHL star Alex Ovechkin tweeted: I'm in shock!!!!!R.I.P ...The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed into the shores of the Volga River immediately after leaving the airport near the western city of Yaroslavl, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. The weather was sunny and clear at the time. Russian media said the plane struggled to gain altitude and then crashed into a signal tower, shattering into pieces.Russian television showed a flaming fragment of the plane in the river as divers worked feverishly to recover bodies.The plane was carrying the team from Yaroslavl to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where they were to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season. It had 45 people on board, including 37 passengers and eight crew, the ministry said.
Officials said Russian player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember.Their state of health is very grave. But there is still some hope, said Alexander Degyatryov, chief doctor at Yaroslavl's Solovyov Hospital.Among the dead were Lokomotiv coach and NHL veteran Brad McCrimmon, a Canadian, as well as Pavol Demitra, who played for the St. Louis Blues and the Vancouver Canucks and was the Slovakian national team captain. Also killed were Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek, Swedish goalie Stefan Liv, Latvian defenseman Karlis Skrastins and defenseman Ruslan Salei of Belarus, the Emergency Ministry said.Though it occurred thousands of miles away from our home arenas, this tragedy represents a catastrophic loss to the hockey world — including the NHL family, which lost so many fathers, sons, teammates and friends, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement.The crash comes on top of an already mournful year for the NHL in which three of the league's enforcers were found dead: Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien and recently retired Wade Belak.The cause of Wednesday's crash was not immediately apparent, but Russian news agencies cited unnamed local officials as saying it may have been due to technical problems. The plane was built in 1993 and belonged to a small Moscow-based Yak Service company.
In recent years, Russia and the other former Soviet republics have had some of the world's worst air traffic safety records. Experts blame the poor safety record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.Swarms of police and rescue crews rushed to Tunoshna, a ramshackle village with a blue-domed church on the banks of the Volga River 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of Yaroslavl. One of the plane's engines could be seen poking out of the river and a flotilla of boats combed the water for bodies. Divers struggled to heft the bodies of large, strong athletes in stretchers up the muddy, steep riverbank.Resident Irina Prakhova saw the plane going down then heard a loud bang.It was wobbling in flight, it was clear that something was wrong, said Prakhova. I saw them pulling bodies to the shore, some still in their seats with seatbelts on.More than 2,000 mourning fans wearing jerseys and scarves and waving team flags gathered in the evening outside Lokomotiv's stadium in Yaroslavl to pay their respects. Riot police stood guard as fans chanted sport songs in honor of the dead athletes.Yaroslavl governor Sergei Vakhrukov promised the crowd that the Lokomotiv team would be rebuilt from scratch, prompting anger from some fans at a perceived lack of respect for the dead.Lokomotiv is a leading force in Russian hockey and came third in the KHL last year. It was also a three-time Russian League champion in 1997, 2002 and 2003.McCrimmon, who took over as coach in May, was most recently an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings, and played for years in the NHL for Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Calgary, Hartford and Phoenix.We will do our best to ensure that hockey in Yaroslavl does not die, and that it continues to live for the people that were on that plane, said Russian Ice Hockey Federation President Vladislav Tretyak.A cup game between hockey teams Salavat Yulaev and Atlant in the central Russian city of Ufa was called off in mid-match after news of the crash was announced. Russian television showed an empty arena in Ufa as grief-stricken fans abandoned the stadium.The KHL is an international club league of teams from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia.Russia was hoping to showcase Yaroslavl as a modern and vibrant city this week at an international forum attended by heads of state, including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, so the crash came as a particularly bitter blow.
Many in the Czech Republic also took the news hard.Jan Marek, Karel Rachunek, and Josef Vasicek contributed greatly to the best successes of our ice hockey in the recent years, first of all to the golden medals at the world championships in 2005 and 2010, said Tomas Kral, the president of the Czech ice hockey association. The were excellent players, but also great friends and personalities. That's how we will remember them.Fans planned to gather Thursday at the Old Town Square in the Czech capital of Prague, where national team players usually celebrate, to commemorate the three Czech players. Vasicek was on the Carolina Hurricanes' 2006 Stanley Cup team.
In the western Slovak city of Trencin, where Demitra started his career and where he played during the NHL lockout 2004-05 season, hundreds fans gathered outside the ice hockey stadium Wednesday night to light candles in his memory.Medvedev has announced plans to take aging Soviet-built planes out of service starting next year. The short- and medium-range Yak-42 has been in service since 1980 and about 100 are still being used by Russian carriers.In June, another Russian passenger jet, a Tu-134, crashed in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people. That crash has been blamed on pilot error.In past plane crashes involving sports teams, 75 Marshall University football players, coaches, fans and airplane crew died in Huntington, West Virginia, on Nov. 14, 1970, coming home from a game. Thirty-six of the dead were players and 5 were coaches.Some 29 people were killed when a plane carrying the Uruguayan rugby club Old Christians crashed in the Andes in 1972, including five crew and some family members.The entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team died in a crash en route to the 1961 world championships in Brussels, and 18 members of the Torino soccer team died near Turin, Italy, in a 1949 crash.In 1993, another plane crash claimed 18 members of Zambia's national football team and five team officials in Libreville, Gabon.Vladimir Isachenkov and Peter Leonard in Moscow, Steve Wilson in London and Karel Janicek in Prague contributed to this report.
EU-EUROPEAN UNION ECONOMIC WORLD GOVERNMENT
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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WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
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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.
Israel isolated ahead of UN vote on Palestinians
AP By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11
JERUSALEM (AP) — Rising tensions with some of its closest and most important allies have left Israel increasingly isolated ahead of a momentous vote on Palestinian independence at the United Nations.Troubles with Turkey, Egypt and even the U.S. are adding to Israel's headaches ahead of the vote, which is shaping up to be a global expression of discontent against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Palestinians plan to ask the United Nations this month to recognize their independence in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — probably by embracing them as a nonmember observer state.The measure is expected to pass overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly.
The assembly's decisions are not legally binding, so the vote will be largely symbolic. But the Palestinians hope the measure will increase the already considerable pressure on Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, and add leverage should peace talks resume. The Palestinians refuse to negotiate while Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Ghassan Khatib, a spokesman for the Palestinian government in the West Bank, said Israeli isolation is playing right into Palestinian hands. We are seeing that result in increased support for us in the United Nations, he said.On Wednesday, China announced it would support the Palestinian bid. And a French Mideast envoy, Valerie Hoffenberg, said she had been fired after publicly arguing against the Palestinian initiative. France has not publicly said how it will vote, but her comments signaled that the government favors the Palestinians.The vote is seen by many not only as a message of sympathy with the Palestinians, but also a barometer of discontent with Israel's settlement policies. Some 500,000 Israelis now live in territories claimed by the Palestinians.There's no question that had Israel been seen as a country doing its utmost to promote peace, no such vote would be taking place, said Yossi Beilin, Israel's former deputy foreign minister.Beilin cited Netanyahu's refusal to extend a freeze on new settlement construction a year ago as the mother of all sins that put him at odds with the international community. The decision, made over the very public objections of President Barack Obama, caused a brief round of peace talks to collapse.Since then, relations with Obama have been further strained. In May, Netanyahu paid a tense visit to Washington, where he objected before cameras to Obama's call that the 1967 boundaries be the basis of a future agreement with the Palestinians. American officials privately express deep frustration with Netanyahu.
Even so, Washington has been trying to pressure the Palestinians to give up the U.N. bid, saying peace can only be achieved through negotiations.Closer to home, Israel has watched Egypt, perhaps its most critical regional ally, cool relations since the ouster of longtime President Hosni Mubarak in February. Mubarak was seen by many of his people as too sympathetic to Israel, negotiating an unpopular deal to supply it with natural gas, for example.Israel-Egypt relations took a hit last month when five Egyptian police were killed during a firefight between Israeli forces and fleeing militants. Egypt was outraged, and mass demonstrations against Israel erupted in Cairo. Israel later apologized. But there have been calls in Egypt to cancel the 30-year-old peace agreement with Israel — which is an absolutely critical element of Israel's regional strategy.Another key regional ally, Turkey, has greatly curbed diplomatic and trade ties with Israel following Israel's deadly raid on a protest flotilla that tried to breach the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip last year. Nine Turks, one of them an American citizen, were killed in clashes with Israeli naval commandos.Israeli officials have tried to play down the tensions, saying that Israel has long faced hostility on the diplomatic stage. They also say that Israel has enjoyed some key victories recently, such as last week's U.N. report on the flotilla incident that defended its blockade of Gaza. Yet one official acknowledged the "new challenges" are a source of concern. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing sensitive internal discussions.Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. who is close to Netanyahu, said it is a mistake to judge Israel's international standing by recent events.He said Turkey's animosity toward Israel is part of a broader shift by the country's Islamist government that is troubling not just for the Jewish state but for many of Turkey's neighbors.And any anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. passes automatically, thanks to the dominance by developing nations that are sympathetic to the Palestinians, he said. It's conventional wisdom that if there was a resolution whose first clause was anti-Israel and whose second clause was that the earth was flat, it would pass,Gold said.Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni, however, accused Netanyahu of weakening the nation's interests. Israel's isolation is affecting its security and its economy,she told a conference Wednesday.
Report: Israel Offers PA to Postpone UN Bid for Negotiations-Kuwaiti daily reports the PA is considering Israeli offer to postpone the unilateral statehood bid and immediately begin negotiations.By Elad Benari First Publish: 9/8/2011, 1:16 AM
The Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida has reported that the Palestinian Authority is considering an Israeli offer to postpone the unilateral statehood bid at the UN for at least one year and to immediately begin negotiations for a permanent peace agreement.According to the report, which was translated and presented on the website of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Wednesday, the offer was made to the PA during secret negotiations which have been ongoing for several months in various Arab and European countries.According to the report in the Kuwaiti daily, the negotiations also included meetings between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, in which they discussed the possibility of holding a formal meeting between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu promised the U.S. to return to negotiations if an agreement on scheduling was reached.The report stressed that Netanyahu shared the negotiation details with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and opposition leader Tzipi Livni.
Meanwhile, MEMRI also reported that a website close to Abbas’ Fatah party reported that Abbas advisor Nimer Hammad said that if Dennis Ross and David Hale, the U.S. envoys visiting the region, would make offers that meet the PA’s demands of halting Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and recognizing a Palestinian state along the 1949 armistice lines, the PA would forgo an appeal to the UN.The report comes after on Wednesday, the United States formally asked Ramallah to drop its bid for recognition of a PA state based.The request was relayed to Abbas by Hale during a meeting in Ramallah, officials said. The meeting was also attended by Ross and by U.S. Consul-General in Jerusalem, Daniel Rubenstien.The report also seems to be in line with another report earlier this week which said that Abbas and Barak held a meeting in Amman on August 24.Abbas, who told reporters in Ramallah about the meeting, refused to specify the circumstances behind it and simply said the two discussed a number of issues.
US Formally Asks PA to Drop Statehood Bid-After months of implicit opposition to the PA statehood bid at the UN on September 20, the US has formally asked the PA to drop the move.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/7/2011, 8:43 PM
Unmoved by sharp criticism and media antics from Palestinian Authority officials the United States on Wednesday formally asked Ramallah to drop its bid for recognition of a PA state based on pre-1967 lines at the United Nations later this month.The request was relayed to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas by US envoy David Hale during a meeting in Ramallah, officials in Ramallah said. The meeting was attended by US envoy Dennis Ross and US Consul-General in Jerusalem, Daniel Rubenstien.The officials complained US envoys did not carry any new proposals for reviving the peace process and intimated the PA may go only to the UN General Assembly due to the threat of a US veto in the Security Council.We have been advised by some or our European and Arab friends not to go to the Security Council because we don't have a majority in favor of the plan and because of the US threat to use the veto,the official said. We are now studying submitting a request to the General Assembly to accept the state of Palestine as a full member. This is also an important step because it would give us access to numerous international bodies.Such a move would be largely symbolic and be aimed at building lawfare and propaganda momentum as UN membership requires Security Council approval.Hale told Abbas that Washington wants to see the Palestinians return to the negotiating table with Israel, Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said.
Erekat quoted the US envoy as saying that the Quartet members - the US, EU, UN and Russia - were preparing a new initiative for the establishment of a Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders.Erekat quoted Abbas as saying during the meeting that the Palestinians would resume the peace talks with Israel only if it halted construction in the settlements and accepted the 1967 lines as the basis for a two-state solution.Israel did halt construction for 10-months in order to restart negotiations, during which time the PA abjectly refused to come to the negotiating table while continuing to add new preconditions as a means of avoiding direct talks.
According to Erekat, the PA is only planning to apply to the UN for membership of a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 lines, with east Jerusalem as its capital.Contrary to what is being said, we are not asking for independence or recognition of a Palestinian state,Erekat insisted.It's wrong to say that the Palestinian Authority is asking for independence. The independent state was declared more than 20 years ago. We are only asking that Palestine be admitted as a member of the UN.Erekat did not explain, if a Palestinian state was declared more than twenty years ago, how it is that the PA was only created in 1993 with the understanding it was empowered to negotiate for the creation of a state that did not yet exist.
Nor did he explain how the PA was not asking for recognition when in recent months recognition has been at the heart of Ramallah's lexicon with new press releases issued regularly about states newly recognizing a state of Palestine ahead of the UN bid.Erekat also dismissed claims that the statehood bid would affect the right of return for Palestinian refugees to their original villages inside Israel.Going to the UN won't cancel the right of return, he said.Recognition of a Palestinian state will pave the way for the state to enter international institutions and demand all our legitimate rights, including the right of return.But legal experts, UN officials, and the Jordanian government have warned that the so-called right of return very well could be undermined by a successful PA bid at the Security Council thereby undercutting one of its central ideological pillars.And as September 20 approaches Israel's security forces are ramping up for widespread violence expected to erupt in PA administered enclaves after the bid is made - indicating Israel regards the PA bid as anything but a good-faith gesture.As regards the Palestinian issue, Israeli vice premier Moshe Yaalon said Wednesday, no doubt they opted for a unilateral proclamation in order to sidestep negotiations. We are willing to sit down at the table and address not only territorial matters but also the recognition of a Palestinian state. I suggest reading the Arab press which places the September issue front and center.The unilateral proclamation poses a serious threat to the Palestinians as the US may cut off its aid and Israel might back out of the Oslo Agreement. It is my opinion that the September threat is an attempt to twist Israel's arm and gain concessions. We must be prepared for any case scenario. A proclamation at the UN does not change the reality – we have to be prepared for any contingency as we did in 2000,he added.
Begin Breaks Likud Ranks on INR Radio; Rejects PA State-INR interview: Minister Benny Begin rejects PA state, says Naqba Day events prove Arabs' true intent, says pr war can be won with truth.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 5/31/2011, 9:02 AM / Last Update: 5/31/2011, 11:10 AM
Minister without portfolio Benny Begin (Likud), in an Israel National News Radio interview on Monday, rejected the creation of an Arab state west of the Jordan River saying the right of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland was 'obvious' and that such a state would become a haven of impunity for terror. Begin's remarks mark a stark departure from the two states for two people's vision endorsed by Israel's current Likud-run government.I think any second state of any nature, another sovereignty west of the Jordan River, especially when it comprises the PLO or Hamas, would negate or contradict two basic rights of the Jewish people and the citizens of Israel,Begin told Israel National News Radio's Josh Hasten. during an interview on the Israel Hasbara Hour.One is the right of the Jewish people to our homeland, and our right to our homeland does not stop exactly east of the 1949 armistice demarcation lines, also known as the Green Line.It has no historic significance whatsoever. It just marks a balance of military power back then, in 1948 or 1949, between [Israel's] local Arab neighbors and the newborn state of Israel in their attempt to smother the baby state in its cradle. Our right to our land – Including of course to the cradle of our history in Judea and Samaria – is obvious, Begin said.There is also the question of national security, and we have had some experience in the the last twenty years under the banner territory for peace... the actual events have been territory for terror. Every piece of land, every hectare, every acre, that was consigned to the PLO reign, became a haven of impunity for terrorism. And we should anticipate that once we transfer parts of our homeland to the PLO it will be, actually, an indirect transfer of land through the PLO to Hamas, and to Iran,Begin said.
Recent Events Prove Arab's True Intent
Begin cited the recent Fatah-Hamas unity treaty and Naqba unrest throughout Israel on May 15, which saw the infiltration of Northern Israel by over 100 Syrian radicals, along with riots throughout Judea and Samaria, as proof the Arab's have no intention of making peace with the Jewish state.I think in the last month people can see for themselves [what their intentions are] through the following events: the new agreement between the PLO and Hamas, who nobody doubts is openly bent on the destruction of the state of Israel, and then the May 15 marches on our borders marking the devastation or calamity, that they claim was inflicted upon them by the very establishment of the state of Israel on May 15, 1948,Begin explained.Their real aim is not a a two state solution, but a two-stage solution. In the sense that they push us to the pre-1967, actually 1949 lines, and then push more through terrorism and other forms of political pressure in order to dwarf us and to try to erase the state of Israel, the Jewish state, Begin said.They did not mark the date in June, Begin said referring to the 1967 Six Day War, sometimes called the June War, in which Israel liberated its eternal capitol and ancestral heartland. After all, the occupation so to speak of Judea and Samaria and Gaza started in June 1967. No, they mark the original May 15 date of the very birth of the Jewish state.
Israel's Hasbara Advantage
Begin conceded Israel starts at a public relations disadvantage due to the vastly greater sums the Arab world pours into its anti-Israel media efforts, but said Israel has a big advantage in its hasbara [public relations, ed.] war because it doesn't have to sell lies.It used to be Hasbara was translated propaganda,Begin explained. Now they call it public diplomacy, which is a little nicer. But years ago it was considered by Israelis to be propaganda [and therefore beneath them, ed.] One of the nice things about our propaganda is that we don't have to sell lies. We can suffice ourselves with telling people things as they are. We have to tell them the truth. And we have to ask them to judge. Because once they know the facts they will be able use moral judgment.[There was] a very important article written by Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazen, written on May 16 as an op-ed article in the New York Times... [readers] will read it and see easily for themselves what kind of narrative, or actually what kind of lies, the PLO tries to sell intelligent people in America and elsewhere. Its untenable, its unacceptable, and it takes things to such an extreme in such a manner that we can easily prove the narrative is totally false,Begin said.
Such articles will only help us, Begin said optimistically. I don't know if this would be efficient immediately It takes time, but people of good will, if they will stand up and work for truth – for morality – I think it would be a great help to the cause of real justice in our part of the world.
Op-Ed: Sept at UN: 3 Israeli Experts: Is Israel Prepared? Published: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 11:56 PM
3rd in a series: Arutz Sheva brings you the opinions of three respected and involved Israelis, translated from the popular Be’Sheva Hebrew weekly newspaper, on how Israel should deal with the Abbas demand for statehood in September.
Danny Dayan, head of Council of Judea and Samaria:A Golden Opportunity Missed:Israel has done some good political preparation for September (the PM made successful trips to several European countries, for example) as well as security planning (the IDF is rehearsing various scenarios), but the most crucial steps have not been taken: steps that would frighten the Arabs into giving up their plan.And most telling of all: Israel has not been wise enough to turn the crisis into an opportunity, although it has the ability to do so.Deterrent-wise, Israel has done nothing, except for saying a few hollow words that no one took seriously. Israel has an abundance of political leverage, as well as economic, defense, and settlement options that could stop the Arabs in their tracks.Not only has none of them been used, the opposite is true: the policy in the defense establishment is that this is the time to strengthen the PA financially so that it will keep on coordinating security with us.This is not the way to build a wall, said a sportscaster once, coining a new phrase, as Israel’s soccer team absorbed a rival team’s goal. This is not the way to prevent a unilateral Arab offensive against Israel, we have to tell our government, hoping it will come to its senses and act differently.The biggest shame of all is not turning this into a golden opportunity. The unilateral Arab step in the UN voids all former agreements with Israel.It has to be responded to with a strong, obvious unilateral move of our own: asserting Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, if not on its entirety, then on all the Jewish settlements and the open areas between them—what is known as Area C.The Arabs forced Israel into a political war. In this war, just as in military wars, Israel must win and not accept a tie, nor a respectable loss (i.e. a few dozen countries who abstain or vote nay in the UN, our Foreign Ministry’s current aspiration).Only asserting Israeli sovereignty on large portions of our homeland would achieve a victory. This is, therefore, a crisis that has been badly handled, a great opportunity that has been missed.
Dr. David Bukai, Department for the Study of the Middle East, Haifa University
Expose the Palestinian Bluff:There is no difference between the goals of Hamas, Al Qaeda and the PLO, the only differences are in methods and tactics. Abu Mazen is an anti-Semite, Holocaust denier, as extremist as Arafat was.All the moderates surrounding him are the same, clearly announcing that they do not recognize Israel as a Jewish state; that Israel must let the 7 (yes, 7) million refugees return to their homes; mainly because they do not believe in two states for two peoples, but rather in one large Palestinian state alongside a small dual-nationality, multi-cultural one that will quickly become part of the Palestinian state, as will Jordan.
Israel erred egregiously in strategic preparation. Since Abu Mazen does not talk about a Palestinian state with 1967 borders as a final goal, but only as a step on the road to erasing the Jewish state, Israel should have exposed that.Instead of expending so much effort in thwarting the idea of declaring a state, Israel should have exposed the extremist Palestinian goals, suggested that the world have the Palestinians sign that once they have a state with the 1967 borders, they will abandon all other goals for eliminating Israel: no more right of return to within Israel, cessation of terror and all forms of violence, cessation of incitement to anti-Semitic hatred.Abu Mazen and his friends could never accept these conditions ands the international arena would realize that this is not a desire for self-determination with which we are dealing, but a desire to destroy the state of Israel.All the Palestinian groups are not prepared to, are not able to and do not want to agree to a country with 1967 borders. Arafat could not force this on them, and Abu Mazen, just as extreme but weaker, certainly cannot and also doesn’t wish to.
Many people, in Israel as well, do not know his extremist personality and that the brilliant idea of declaring a state in September is just a means to continue his plan of annihilation. Exposing his bluff and proving what he is like are the biggest challenge for Israel, but Israel is failing to meet it. The never ending need to thwart terror keeps Israel from being able to deal with the real challenge: the Palestinian aspiration to destroy israel through delegitimizing and dehumanizing. her internationally. The recognition of a Palestinian state is simply a means to advance the goal of eliminating Israel.
Gen. Amram Mitzna (Res.), former MK and contender for leadership of Israel’s Labor Party
The PA Has No Interest in Escalation:
Gen. Amram Mitzna (Res.), former MK and contender for leadership of Israel’s Labor Party.The IDF and the police force must be prepared for the possibility of riots, perhaps attempts to block roads and even march in the direction of some of the communities in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) and threaten them. The IDF must instruct the residents of Yesha on how to carry on with their lives within their communities and with respect to travel on the roads during this period.My feeling is that the PA has no interest in having an uncontrollable situation on its hands, just as they had no interest in having one on Naqba and Naqsa days. They understand that the IDF and the Jewish residents will not let such disturbances pass them by. Nevertheless, there is still a danger that the whole thing will get out of control, especially in the light of the ability nowadays to fire people up through social networks.In the military sphere: I am not familiar with the details, but I take it for granted that the IDF is suitably organized and that it has learned the lessons of previous events, that it is in contact with the PA and fairly well coordinated with them.In the international arena: the government could have prevented the process in the General Assembly, but today it is a bit late to do anything, although that does not mean there is no need to continue to persuade countries not to support the PA initiative. I regret to say that the handwriting is already on the wall and the General Assembly will support the PA move by a large majority.This is not an existential threat to Israel, at least not in the short term. However, it is another step towards delegitimization and the weakening of our international relations. I have no doubt that the skewed minds of the world will find us new challenges to meet, such as far out legal claims, sending ambassadors to the Palestinians and the like.
WORLD GOVERNMENT
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DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
LORD MONCKTON ON WORLD GOVERNMENT
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EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he 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:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
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Plan For European Economic Government Was Brainchild Of Nazis-Economic Terrorists Seek United States of Europe Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, September 7, 2011
European globalists are committing another act of economic terrorism by exploiting the euro debt crisis in a bid to create a United States of Europe, with European Council president Herman van Rompuy announcing he is ready to spearhead the group, a move that frighteningly parallels plans by top Nazis, may of whom went on to found the EU, and their mission to build a continent-wide economic government.EU leaders are fearmongering over the consequences of member states abandoning the single currency, warning that a euro collapse would lead to martial law and even civil war.
Their solution is to hand themselves even more power to create a common economic policy that all member states would be forced to follow at the expense of their national sovereignty, a de facto financial government for the whole of Europe.
European Council president Herman van Rompuy said yesterday that he was ready to run for a second term as European Union president, to lead a United States of Europe, reports the Irish Independent.Mr Van Rompuy has announced he is willing to take on the unfinished eurozone debt crisis with new powers setting an economic government in Brussels.Simultaneously, British Prime Minister David Cameron last night said that Britain must let eurozone countries move towards a United States of Europe with a common economic policy, reports the Daily Mail.The Prime Minister admitted he was not sure whether Germany and other countries had the political will to prevent a break-up of the single currency, but insisted they must be allowed to try – even if that meant closer integration.The move to exploit the debt crisis in order to completely eviscerate the economic sovereignty of every EU member by forming a central economic planning committee, a United States of Europe, to which all countries are beholden, is not merely an act of economic terrorism, it’s a chilling throwback to identical proposals that were the brainchild of top Nazis.Plans to create a federal European economic government in the name of mandating fiscal responsibility and avoiding a repeat of the turmoil in Greece chillingly mirror blueprints concocted in the 1940’s as a means of preserving fascist power at the end of world war two by men who were responsible for founding the EU in the first place.
As we have exhaustively documented, the European Common Market, the precursor to the European Union, was a brainchild of top Nazis in the 1940’s who wanted to preserve fascist power in the event of defeat in world war two.US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128, also known as The Red House Report, details how top Nazis secretly met at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944 and, knowing Germany was on the brink of military defeat, conspired to create a Fourth Reich – a pan-European economic empire based around a European common market, precisely what the new Economic government proposal backed by the likes of Cameron and van Rompuy calls for.Wealthy Nazi industrialists like Alfried Krupp of Krupp Industries and Friedrich Flick, as well as front companies like BMW, Siemens and Volkswagen, set about the task of building a new pan-European business empire. According to historian Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, an adviser to Jewish former slave laborers, For many leading industrial figures close to the Nazi regime, Europe became a cover for pursuing German national interests after the defeat of Hitler….The continuity of the economy of Germany and the economies of post-war Europe is striking. Some of the leading figures in the Nazi economy became leading builders of the European Union.
The foundations for the EU and ultimately the Euro single currency were laid by the secretive Bilderberg Group in the mid-1950’s. Bilderberg’s own leaked documents prove that the agenda to create a European common market and a single currency were formulated by Bilderberg in 1955. One of the group’s principle founders was H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a former Nazi SS officer.But the ideological framework for the European Union goes back even further, to the 1940’s when top Nazi economists and academics outlined the plan for a single European economic community, an agenda that was duly followed after the end of the second world war.In his 1940 book The European Community, Nazi Economics Minister and war criminal Walther Funk wrote about the need to create a Central European Union and European Economic Area and for fixed exchange rates, stating No nation in Europe can achieve on its own the highest level of economic freedom which is compatible with all social requirements…The formation of very large economic areas follows a natural law of development….interstate agreements in Europe will control [economic forces generally]…There must be a readiness to subordinate one’s own interests in certain cases to those of [the EC].How different is Funk’s call for governments to subordinate their economic interests to those of Europe compared with Jose Manuel Barroso’s insistence that EU member states should be forced to institute structural reforms under pain of financial sanctions? The similarity is frightening.Funk’s co-authors echoed his sentiments. Nazi academic Heinrich Hunke wrote, Classic national economy..is dead…community of fate which is the European economy…fate and extent of European co-operation depends on a new unity economic plan.A new unity economic plan,this is precisely what Cameron and Van Rompuy are proposing – centralized financial control over the economies of Europe ruled by Brussels.Fellow Nazi Gustav Koenig observed, We have a real European Community task before us…I am convinced that this Community effort will last beyond the end of the war.
In 1940, Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels ordered the creation of the large-scale economic unification of Europe,believing that in fifty years’ time [people would] no longer think in terms of countries.Just 53 years later, the European Union in its current form was established.So you have one of Hitler’s most loyal Nazi allies calling for Economic unification of Europe, and now former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is demanding the establishment of a financial oversight body with the teeth to assert control over the finances of member states.
Even on the face of it, the fact that the EU, which began as a free trade area, is now seeking to have its unelected members directly control national economies, is completely dictatorial, authoritarian, and represents the anti-thesis of any notion of democracy or representation of the people of Europe. Add the fact that the exact same agenda was pursued by one of the most notoriously criminal and barbaric regimes in history and surely alarm bells should be ringing? Other top Nazis who called for the creation of a pan-European federal economic superstate include Ribbentrop, Quisling and Seyss-Inquart, who spoke of The new Europe of solidarity and co-operation among all its people… will find…rapidly increasing prosperity once national economic boundaries are removed.Most of the individuals who hold the reigns of power in the European Union are not Nazis, indeed, they probably believe themselves to be fair-minded liberals working for the greater good. However, the European Union by its very nature is totalitarian, because it seeks to remove power from national governments accountable to their electorate and centralize it into the hands of supra-national entities that are accountable to nobody but themselves. It also seeks to remove the right of free speech for anyone in a position of influence who criticizes this agenda.The fact that the EU was a brainchild of top Nazi economists and industrialists, formulated as a means of preserving dictatorial power and then implemented by former Nazi working under the auspices of the Bilderberg Group in 1955, proves that the entire European Union system is poisoned with a legacy and a raison d’être of totalitarianism.The additional knowledge that the European Union is now pursuing identical economic policies to those voiced by top Nazis, several of whom went on to found the EU in its embryonic stages, is a chilling reminder of how fundamentally anti-democratic and fascist the EU is becoming as it swallows up more power from member states and appoints itself as the supreme dictator of an entire continent.The European Union will fight tooth and nail to protect the single currency from collapsing because, as top Bilderberger and Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff made clear in a recent Financial Times piece, the future plan for a globalized currency system is wholly dependent on the survival of the Euro, which would almost certainly be destroyed if the Greeks or any other member state were to default and ditch the single currency.The euro experiment has also brought us to a crossroads in the whole international monetary system,wrote Rogoff. Will our grandchildren inherit a world with a huge number of national currencies, or a very small number of multi-country currencies?
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Markets will drive a two-speed Europe, says Barroso
Today SEPT 7,11 @ 00:59 By Honor Mahony
European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has said he believes the eurozone will integrate further with market demands now trumping past ideological debates.My assessment is that the European Union will go further into integration, namely around the eurozone, he told an audience on Tuesday (6 September) during a visit to Australia.He said that in the past debates about the future of Europe were political or even ideological with federalists on the one side and intergovernmentalists on the other.But now with markets calling for mechanisms for quickly dealing with the eurozone debt crisis, the fundamentals of the debate have been altered.Now, the markets are demanding more integration at least for the euro area. And this is new, said Barroso.The discussion is how far can we go now, do we need a new treaty to go further, what can we do to reinforce the governance of the eurozone, he said, becoming the latest in a series of high level EU officials to raise the spectre of yet another revision of the EU treaties.Barroso, former prime minister of Portugal one of the three bailed-out eurozone countries, also touched on one of the most significant questions thrown up by crisis – how to balance the demands of the market with the slower and messier democratic process.
Now [eurosceptics] understand that one of the issues that the markets are looking at is the capacity of the euro area to have quick answers because the markets are very fast and democratic procedures are always slower than the markets. And we have to understand this.This issue is at the core of a debate in paymaster Germany where parliamentarians are currently discussing what strings to attach in return for their agreement to make the eurozone bailout fund more flexible.German finance minister Wolfgang Schaueble has already indicated he is opposed to greatly increased parliamentary control, fearing it will make the fund too cumbersome, and therefore weak in eyes of the markets.The country’s constitutional court is also expected to highlight the importance of parliamentary democratic process on Wednesday when it gives its verdict on the legality of Germany’s involvement in saving the eurozone, including partaking in the first bailout of Greece last year.
Spectre of fresh EU treaty returns to haunt incomplete Europe 06.09.11 @ 17:31 By Leigh Phillips
It took nearly a decade of squabbling amongst EU states, a series of referendum disasters and a last-minute game of high-stakes brinksmanship from a stubborn Czech president, but the bloc finally managed to radically refashion the way it worked with the passage of the Lisbon Treaty in 2010.Treaty changes, a European finance minister and even a United States of Europe are on the table (ec.europa.eu)So exhausted were they by the struggle by the time the soap opera ended, European leaders then swore it would be very long indeed, perhaps a generation, before the EU treaties would be opened again.But now, in the last few days, as Europe’s economy and the single currency stand on the precipice, these same leaders have begun to eat their words.On Tuesday, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called for the second time in a week for changes to the treaties.Strengthening the eurozone's architecture ... may need profound treaty changes, he wrote in an opinion piece for the Financial Times.On Thursday, Schaeuble presented a plan to draft a new EU treaty to leading figures in his own party, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, and its sister party, Bavaria’s Christian Social Union.According to populist daily Bild, the finance minister made the argument for a major shift in fiscal policy-making powers to Brussels, a move that would almost certainly necessitate a fresh opening of the treaties holding the bloc together.This must be done, he said,even though we know how difficult a treaty change will be.The outgoing head of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, for his part on Monday told participants at a Paris conference that the bloc required a European federal government with a federal finance minister.His successor, Italian central bank chief Mario Draghi added that strengthening the European bail-out fund must be completed,But it is not enough. Let's not forget that the crisis starts from the incompleteness of European construction.Targetting the multiplicity of fiscal policy approaches across the eurozone, he declared:We are discovering that we cannot live with this incompleteness any more.
Gerhard Schroeder, the former German chancellor on Sunday said Countries will have to give up some of their national sovereignty.His vision involves fiscal powers being given to the commission or a European finance minister under the control of the European Parliament as the ultimate authority.The commission will have to be turned into a government that is controlled, in parliamentary terms, by the European Parliament. That translates into a United States of Europe.A newly established think-tank, the Council on the Future of Europe, whose members include Schroeder, Tony Blair, former commission president Jacques Delors, former Spanish prime minister Felipe Gonzalez and economists Nouriel Roubini and Joseph Stiglitz on Monday issued a manifesto that called not just full fiscal union, but for parallel political union.It will be necessary to further lay out a vision of a federation that goes beyond a fiscal and economic mandate to include a common security, energy, climate, immigration and foreign policy as well as develop a common narrative about the future of the union and its place in the world,the document read.Nation states will need to share certain dimensions of sovereignty to a central European entity that would have the capacity to source revenue at the federal level in order to provide European-wide public goods.On Tuesday, responding to the calls for a fresh treaty, the European Commission said that deeper economic integration can happen under the existing treaties, but left the door open for a more radical restructuring of the bloc, should member states feel it is necessary.We have taken note of the comments from a number of European leaders. They have been calling for changes to be made to the treaties to reinforce economic governance,said commission spokesman Olivier Bailly.The current treaties already allow for an awful lot of possibilities to deepen economic integration. We have to make coordination better between European economies ... within the framework of the current treaties.If there were a need for a new legal basis for further economic governance, further integration, then that would be up to the member states to decide to make further changes to the treaty, he continued. But it’s hypothetical for us at the time being.It’s up to them to open the treaty again.
Speaking to EUobserver, Jannis Emmanouilidis, a senior policy analyst with the European Policy Centre, a Brussels-based EU specialist think-tank, said that moves in the direction of fiscal union and a new treaty are inevitable.It seems there is a growing consensus for treaty change, not just in the last few days or weeks, but this has been widening since the start of the crisis months ago, he said.There is increasing awareness of just how dangerous a situation Europe is in - the potential break-up of the euro and the costs that would go along with that. They see the need to get ahead of the curve. To do that they have to go substantially further toward fiscal union.The question is whether this can be done under the current treaty situation, and to be able to answer that, we need a lot more details about what is being proposed,he continued.As to how realistic, achievable all this is, we all know what happened with the Lisbon Treaty, and the problems of domestic resistance have not gone away.
Merkel outlines steps to stability union
Today SEPT 7,11 @ 17:40 By Honor Mahony
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a stability union in which all member states behave in a fiscally responsible manner and miscreants can be brought before the EU’s highest court.Making a direct reference to the founding fathers of the EU, who had to rebuild a destroyed Germany, Merkel told her parliament on Wednesday (7 September) that our task is to show the way to reach a stability union.This would involve a possible EU treaty change to enforce budget control in euro states.If we say we want more Europe, then a treaty change cannot be a taboo,said the chancellor noting that under the current Lisbon Treaty, there is no mechanism obliging countries to adhere to rules underpinning the euro.The chancellor called it one of the EU’s paradoxes that countries can hauled before the European Court of Justice for breaching most EU laws but not when the euro rules are broken.Merkel also dismissed the much-touted idea of eurobonds – the mutualisation of eurozone debt – saying it would lead to a debt union.We have to tell people clearly that we cannot rid ourselves of today's problems - the excessive debts that have grown over decades - just like that, cue eurobonds and debt structuring, and then everything is ok again. No, this will be a long and difficult path, but one that is important for the future.The chancellor said the central question that has to be dealt with is the fact that although all 17 eurozone countries are completely bound to one another, each has control over their national budget.A solution to this thorny issue would lead to a more favourable climate for considering eurobonds, the chancellor indicated.
Solidarity alone is no good
She also dismissed solidarity as a stand-alone concept. We need solidarity and personal responsibility,she said.It is not those who immediately give in and help others who are right but rather those whose actions lead to a stability union.
Brushing all problems under the carpet and talking about solidarity will not lead us to a stability union.Her speech comes just weeks ahead of a Bundestag vote on extending the powers of the eurozone fund, so that it can buy bonds, something strongly criticised by some in her own party.She reminded deputies that the discussions are not taking place in a vacuum and a rejection would have consequences.
Netherlands: Indebted states must be made wards of the commission or leave euro Today SEPT 7,11 @ 17:37 By Leigh Phillips
The Dutch government has proposed that highly indebted states be put into guardianship, with spending decisions seized from the elected government and placed under the direct control of a European commissioner.Mark Rutte has radical ideas for the eurozone (NewsPhoto!)If a state is unwilling to surrender its sovereignty in this way, then it would be forced to exit the euro.Member states not willing to make themselves a ward, may choose to make use of the option to leave the eurozone, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a letter to the national parliament co-signed by the finance, economy and foreign ministers.To continue to be part of the monetary union, states should fully respect agreements.Under the proposals, seen by EUobserver, a special European commissioner would be appointed to oversee the budgets of euro-area countries.If a country repeatedly overspends in breach of EU stability pact rules, this commission overseer would be able to intervene directly in the running of the country, in a similar way to how a court intervenes in the running of a bankrupt firm put into receivership, according to officials familiar with the intention of the Dutch government.The commissioner would be given a ladder of intervention under which the level of control of the state would be steadily ratcheted up and applied this ward of the EU executive.
The first rung of the ladder would involve an outside auditor making adjustments to spending to bring down the level of the deficit.If this level of intervention is insufficient, binding measures would be imposed, or the commissioner could order a country to cut spending or raise taxes.The last rung of the ladder would see a country placed under guardianship. The auditor would then draft the budget of a country before sending it to the national parliament for approval.Such states, described in the paper as notorious sinners, would also lose their voting rights in the EU and the delivery of European structural funds would be dependent on compliance with the orders of the commissioner.The guardianship would be accompanied by intensive monitoring and verification of progress at a more detailed level under prior review by the commissioner.The Hague recogises the extreme nature of the proposals, but argues that such measures are necessary if the eurozone is to survive.
For the eurozone and the internal market in their present form to have a future as a stable currency union that underpins our prosperity, there needs to be a radical break with the persistent habit of soft touch approach to agreements.One Dutch official said of the paper: It is not like it would be a takeover of sovereignty, but things do need to get much tougher for countries.Asked whether voters would still consider themselves in a democracy under such extreme conditions, the official said: In that case, they need to take their own responsibility. If you want to be in the club, you have to play by the rules.The paper adds that for the proposal to be implemented, agreement with especially but not exclusively eurozone countries.
German court: Parliament must not be sidelined in future bail-outs Today SEPT 7,11 @ 12:13 By Leigh Phillips
Germany's highest court on Wednesday approved the country's participation in the Greek bailout and eurozone rescue fund, throwing out suits attempting to bring a halt to the country’s participation in the first, €110 billion bail-out of Greece and the eurozone’s €750 billion rescue fund.The court threw out the suits, but said that parliament needs greater oversight (Al Fed)But the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe also said that the German parliament must have more say when it comes to agreeing further bailout packages.There can be no automatic payments, said court president Andreas Vosskuhle.[The ruling] should not be mistakenly interpreted as a constitutional blank cheque authorising further rescue measures,he said.Parliamentary decisions about taxing and spending are a central element of democratic self government under the constitution, he added in his ruling.As representatives of the people, the elected members of parliament thus also need to remain in control over elementary budgetary decisions.The ruling was in line with most expectations. Few legal experts believed that the court would side with the team of eurosceptics, led by economist Joachim Starbatty, on the substance of their suit that European bail-outs have been unconstitutional.Most did however predict that the court would insist that similar future decisions would require the authorisation of the Bundestag, a move that is likely to throw sand in the wheels of Europe’s attempts to react to market pressures rapidly without having to wait for the slow wheels of parliamentary processes to turn.German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the ruling saying it confirmed her government's European policies.The Federal Constitutional Court said personal responsibility and solidarity, naturally with the absolute approval of the parliament, is the way,she said.
The European Commission said it had taken note with satisfaction of the court's ruling adding that the decision had an important bearing on the capacity of the eurozone to surmount the debt crisis.Responding to the ruling, Jannis Emmanouilidis, an EU institutional expert with the European Policy Centre think-tank, said: The Karlsruhe verdict does allow the EU to move on, especially since it is coupled with an increasing commitment in Berlin to a long-term solution of the crisis.The Court's decision will allow the rescue programmes to go ahead and provide the grounds for implementing the already- adopted instruments and measures aiming to enhance economic governance,he continued.But the most significant development in recent weeks and months is the growing realisation that all this will not be enough: either the euro zone moves towards a fully-functioning Economic and Monetary Union or one crisis will follow the other until maintaining the common currency becomes untenable.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
EU commission wants nations to give up border control decisions 06.09.11 @ 14:14 By Valentina Pop
Brussels - The EU commission wants to have a central role in decisions on the reintroduction of border controls, so far a prerogative of individual member states. A draft proposal will be put forward next week and is already causing a stir in pre-election Denmark.The EU commission doesn't want capitals to randomly put up border controls (MSVG)Freedom of movement of persons is a common European good and decisions affecting it should be taken at EU level,home affairs spokesman Michele Cercone said Tuesday (6 September) during a press conference in Brussels.He explained that the proposals have been requested by member states wanting to have stronger control mechanisms in the so-called Schengen area, a border-free zone comprising of 25 EU and non-EU countries.Under the proposal, likely to be watered down by member states who have to endorse it before it can enter into force, governments will have to ask the EU commission when they want to temporarily re-introduce border controls in case of foreseeable events such as football championships. If approved by the EU executive, the decision is then to be taken by a qualified majority of the member states.In case of unforeseeable events endangering national security or public order - such as a terrorist attack or a nuclear disaster prompting a massive flow of people - member states are allowed to temporarily put in place border checks for a limited period of time, before asking the EU commission and other member states to prolong it.
In the current draft, the number of days is limited to five, after which governments either have to lift the restrictions or go through the EU decision-making process. But EU sources say the number may be altered in the final proposal, due to be presented on 13 September.It is a very brave proposal, to come up with something so pro-European at a time when everybody is going back to nation states, one EU source told this website.The reformist drive was prompted earlier this year by a French decision to deploy border guards and push back Tunisian migrants which had previously arrived in Italy and were granted temporary residence permits.
DenmarkUnder pressure from its anti-immigrant coalition ally, the Danish government also introduced reinforced customs checks at its German and Swedish borders, with migration and crime being a hot topic ahead of the general elections on 15 September.
Stressing that the proposals were asked for by EU leaders in the summer and are not a direct reaction to the Danish moves, Cercone noted that the border-free zone is currently an area of common interest being governed by individual decisions.This has to change,he said. We have to move to a European system if we want Schengen to be safeguarded and guaranteed.Having stronger safeguards in place - the possibility to temporarily suspend a country from the Schengen area if it cannot take care of its borders - may also help Romania and Bulgaria to join, he argued. The two countries had hoped to be part of the border-free area this year, but strong opposition from France, Germany and the Netherlands have thwarted those plans.In an interview with the Muenchener Merkur newspaper, German interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich on Tuesday said that a full membership with the complete lifting of personal controls is out of the question at the moment.But he did not exclude a phased-in approach, with Bulgarian and Romanian airports being included in Schengen first and land borders lifted at a later stage. This was also the case for the nine eastern European states and Malta who joined the area in 2007. Back then, however, land borders came first, at the end of 2007, followed by airports in March 2008.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
As wildfires rage across Texas, feds scuttle volunteer firefighters Mike Adams Natural News September 7, 2011
(NaturalNews) As fires raged across central Texas for the past three days, local citizens sprang into action to protect their lives and property. Local churches opened their doors and began hosting refugees left homeless by the fires which have now destroyed more than 1,000 homes and 100,000 acres across the state in just the past week. Several branches of the YMCA also began hosting families with children, and a public school in Bastrop County opened its doors to serve as an emergency relief center.See a YouTube video of a citizen’s narrow escape around Highway 21 near Bastrop, Texas:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYkc…
Federal agencies seize control on Tuesday
Hundreds of firefighters from all the surrounding counties worked two days and nights in a heroic effort to contain the fires, but high winds Sunday night and all day Monday thwarted their efforts. So the call went out for more volunteer firefighters to join the effort from across the state.Before they arrived, however, the federal government showed up and claimed it was in charge of the situation. Agents with the federal National Interagency Fire Center, a coalition of federal agencies including the U.S. Forest Service, assumed command of firefighting efforts Tuesday afternoon,reports The Gonzales Cannon (http://www.gonzalescannon.com/node/6411).
RealNewsReporter.com is now reporting that volunteer firefighters who had in some cases driven all night to reach Bastrop county were turned away by the feds, who claimed that since local officials never made a formal request for volunteers, the volunteers could not be activated.So while Bastrop County burns from 40+ fires that are still raging, the federal government is actually telling volunteer firefighters to go home.We were at the station getting set up into strike teams, and this guy came up and said that the U.S. Forest Service had assumed control of the situation, and that If you don’t have a vehicle that squirts water, go home, said Gordon Greer of Kirbyville, in a RealNewsReporter article (http://www.realnewsreporter.com/?p=7889). Gordon reportedly drove all night Monday to arrive in Bastrop and take part in the firefighting effort. You’ve got guys who had driven all night long from Corpus Christi and Brownsville on their own dime, and they turned them away,he said.
That same story reports that Jennifer Jones of the U.S. National Interagency Incident Center confirmed multiple federal agencies would be taking over the scene. Tuesday afternoon, the Bastrop County Office of Emergency Management stated on its Facebook page that volunteer firefighters would have to be activated by the National Forestry Service first.In other words, if you’re a local Texan and you want to help other Texans save their ranches, or their homes, or their businesses, you need permission from the federal bureaucracy first! But some Texans aren’t allowing their efforts to be thwarted. As Real News Reporter says in its story, a group of Texas Nationalist Movement members who are also certified firefighters are in the Bastrop area and aiding civilian relief efforts, with or without permission from Washington D.C.
FEMA is approving grant money to help pay for some firefighting efforts
On the good news side, FEMA has reportedly approved several government grants to pay for firefighting efforts, although it should be mentioned that if the federal government wasn’t taking so much of everybody’s money to begin with, local groups of people could more easily afford to pay for their own firefighting defense and wouldn’t need grants to cover the costs in the first place.FEMA has promised to cover up to 75 percent of approved firefighting costs, reports KXAN.com (http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/…), although this will no doubt require weeks or even months of detailed accounting and cost justification efforts.Even Gov. Rick Perry eluded to the frustration of getting federal grants approved for relief efforts, saying, It’s more difficult than it should be to get those assets freed up from the federal government.(http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/…)Perry did confirm that Texas would seek federal disaster relief and that state officials were considering seeking military resources from Fort Hood,reports The Gonzales Cannon (http://www.gonzalescannon.com/node/6411).(Military resources? What kind of military resources? I found it odd yesterday to personally witness what looked like U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters taking off and landing near the Tahitian Village fires in Bastrop. Does the U.S. military have constitutional authority to take part in firefighting operations on U.S. soil? Clearly, some military transport planes could be very useful right now, but we always have to be careful how much control we hand over to the military in these domestic situations… never forget posse comitatus!)
Also, this just confirmed: Gov. Perry has activated Texas Task Force 1, billed as an elite search and rescue team,to head to Bastrop County and make sure everyone is accounted for: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/texas…
Other details on the fire
• Two fatalities have been reported so far: A young mother and her 18-month-old daughter were killed in Gladewater due to the wildfires there.
• Total property damage from the fire is now estimated at $100 million according to the Insurance Council of Texas. (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0…)
• Insurance companies have set up claims camps with large buses and tents to help the locals get their property claims handled. I personally saw several insurance industry buses on the North side of Highway 71 when we drove through.
• 85 fires are still burning across Texas. There is a rumor that at least one Texas fire was started by arson (the fire in Leander), but this has not been confirmed.
• Local churches have stepped up to provide aid, including the Ascension Catholic Church, Grace Lutheran Church and First Baptist Church.
• The winds died down significantly all day Tuesday, greatly slowing the spread of the fires. Low winds are also expected to hold out Wednesday. The severe drought conditions in Texas have made the state a fire tinderbox, and any wind over 5-10 mph could easily cause these fires to spread out of control once again (actually, they’re still not even 10% contained, so they’re not in control at all…)
• Rumor report: A DC-10 aircraft that has been retrofitted for firefighting has arrived in Bastrop County, according to reports on a Central Texas news radio station, but the plane will not be operational until Friday because of mandatory government “down time” restrictions on the flight crew. (Gee, is there nobody else who can fly a DC-10 in Texas? There were thousands of these planes in commercial operation over the past three decades… surely somebody can fly this hunk of steel, despite the fact that the hydraulics have no redundancy!)
NaturalNews wants to talk to some volunteer firefighters…
NaturalNews wishes to thank www.RealNewsReporter.com for covering this story, and I personally would like to know if anyone can put us in touch with Daniel Miller or other members of the Texas Nationalist Movement who would like to be interviewed about all this to tell the rest of the story. Our offices may be contacted at the following email: reply@naturalnews.com or visit www.Facebook.com/naturalnews and send a private message. We are especially interested in stories of local Texans who are trying to help the situation being sent home or interfered with by federal agencies such as FEMA. We all saw what FEMA did to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and we sure don’t need that same government solution in Central Texas.As Rep. Ron Paul has rightly pointed out during numerous interviews,FEMA to the rescue isn’t always a good thing.
Texas volunteer firefighters buy their own gear! Many of the volunteers currently fighting the wildfires in Texas buy their own gear! Please consider supporting them through the Texas Wildfire Relief Fund:http://txwildfirerelief.org/ Over 77 percent of fire departments in Texas are volunteer departments who struggle daily on getting the equipment they need to respond to emergencies across the state, said Chief Chris Barron, Director of the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ Association of Texas (SFFMA). Eighty-six percent of the state’s volunteer firefighters use personal funds for their departments’ safety equipment and supply needs.http://www.globenewswire.com/newsro…)Sources for this story include:http://news.yahoo.com/officials-1-0…
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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.
Yaalon: Israel Not on Brink of War-Vice premier Moshe Yaalon said Israel is not on the brink of war noting arab nations have no time to deal with Israel.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/7/2011, 9:15 PM
Vice premier Moshe Yaalon on Wednesday dismissed the notion strong Islamist currents driving the Arab Spring had brought Israel to the brink of war.There is no all-out-war on our threshold,Yaalon, a former IDF Chief of Staff, stressed. We cannot talk of an Arab coalition. The Arab countries are currently occupied with issues within and have no time to deal with Israel.Tuesday started off with an all-out-war – according to the IDF commander of the Home Front Command, the day continued with the Turkish prime minister's remarks on severing trade ties with Israel, which was later clarified with a statement explaining that he was referring to defense industry trade which has no significant volume as it is; in the background September tsunami is looming. Naturally, the stock market is sliding – not only because of these events but also because of global declines.When we talk about the events unfolding around us, the changes pose no threat to Israel, neither in the short term nor the mid term. What is happening around us is that young people are being exposed to the real word whereas until now they were cut off form the word by totalitarian regimes. Hafez Assad banned cell phones and internet in Syria. He must have seen the world. This wave cannot be contained.The shockwaves present an opportunity for radical elements to try and step into the picture and wreak havoc. The West must do all in its power to help moderate elements rise and prevail over radical elements in the Arab world. Israel will not be affected in the short and mid term; however, we are exposed to the threats on part of terrorist elements which are trying to capitalize on the situation and of course, in the long run there are Iran's nuclear aspirations.
Looking closely at the Arab Spring uprising, one cannot maintain that the uprisings will have only a negative affect on Israel. The situation in Syria which has reached a point of no return may perhaps smash the axis of evil. Insofar as the event in Egypt, is the radical elements in the country are not neutralized Egypt will have a hard time working out of the crisis – this will pose a challenge for any President who is elected.Yaalon's remarks were unusual in that he singled out IDF Home Front Command chief Maj. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg - who said Monday he believed the Arab Spring may lead to an Islamic Winter,increasing the likelihood Israel would find itself at war - for rebuttal.
Trouble for Israel in the Skies Over Turkey? Turkish charter airlines cut back their weekly flights to and from Israel, and El Al is monitoring Israel's diplomatic crisis with Turkey.By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 9/7/2011, 5:50 PM
Turkish charter airlines have cut back their weekly Istanbul-Tel Aviv flights in the face of the rapidly worsening relations between Ankara and Jerusalem. El Al, meanwhile, is monitoring the situation closely: in addition to a spate of cancellations of flights to Turkey, there are other ramifications involved.According to a report published by the Hebrew-language Ha'aretz, El Al has developed contingency plans for the possibility that Turkey may not allow Israel's national carrier to fly through its air space.Such a development would require El Al to reconfigure a number of its routes, including those to the Far East and to the former Soviet Union. This would mean the airline would have to raise its prices due to longer routes that would require more fuel. In addition, the trips themselves would be longer.Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told Arutz Sheva on Wednesday that Israel does not pay a fee to fly through Turkish air space, contrary to other media reports. In addition, Palmor said it was unlikely that Turkey would close its air space to Israeli commercial air traffic.The U.S. has expressed concern over the escalation in tensions between Turkey and Israel over the past several weeks, due to a great extent to Ankara's insistence that Israel apologize for the deaths of nine armed Turkish terror activists who attacked IDF Navy commandos during an attempt in May 2010 by a six-vessel flotilla to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza. All nine were aboard the Turkish IHH-sponsored Mavi Marmara vessel, which carried no humanitarian aid whatsoever.
The United Nations-commissioned Palmer Report has since confirmed that the flotilla had no legal right to breach Israel's territorial waters, and that Israel's blockade of Gaza is legal and appropriate. The blockade is intended to prevent terrorists from supplying Gaza's terrorist rulers with weapons and ordnance, which they then use to attack Israel's civilian population.The last time Turkey downgraded its relations with the Jewish State, Israelis voted with their tourist currency and their consumerism to respond in kind. Despite its diminutive size, in 2008, Israel sent more tourists to Turkey than all but nine other countries in the world. Half a million Israelis visited the country that year, infusing the Turkish economy with tourism dollars.In 2009, however, Israelis canceled plans for annual vacations to Turkey, and companies canceled their workplace junkets.Tourism operators were left with empty slots at a time when the world economy had just started its crash, while the Israeli economy was holding steady with domestic tourism firmed up by Turkish ties to Iran.Some Israeli coffee shops even refused to serve Turkish coffee, to protest the airing of a grossly anti-Israeli scene in a Turkish television show that depicted IDF officers allegedly shooting Arab babies.El Al resumed its daily flights to Istanbul in April 2010 after a hiatus of several years due to security concerns sparked by that growing relationship and Ankara's parallel belligerence towards Israel.
El Al and Turkey's AtlasJet Airlines signed a codeshare agreement at the time, while Turkey's tourism ministry hired a PR firm to resuscitate Israeli visits to the country.Less than a year later, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan continued to aim vitriol at Israel while tightening ties with Israel's enemies, among them the Hamas terrorist rulers of Gaza. Erdogan announced in January 2011 that his nation stands by Hamas, which he called a resistance movement... a political group, and insisting They are people who defend the land.Kadima Knesset member Otniel Schneller suggested last year in response to Erdogan's venom that Israelis boycott dried fruit from Turkey, which is imported in large quantities for the minor Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat.Many Israelis also purchase dried fruit with which to recite the Shehechiyanu blessing (gratitude for having reached this season) during the celebration of the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah, which begins this year at sundown on September 28.
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.
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Tropical Storm Nate forms in Gulf of Mexico
AP SEPT 7,11
MIAMI – Tropical Storm Nate has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, and authorities have issued a tropical storm warning for parts of Mexico's coast.The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Nate could become a hurricane by Friday. The storm was nearly stationary, moving at just 2 mph (3 kph). Nate is expected to move very little Wednesday and Thursday, and then it will start to move north by Friday.
Nate's maximum sustained winds were at 45 mph (72 kph) Wednesday.Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Maria was swirling in the western Atlantic. It was still far from land and was not expected to strengthen in the next couple of days.Hurricane Katia also continued to blow as a Category 1 storm in the Atlantic and was not expected to hit land.
Tropical Storm Maria forms in Atlantic
Reuters SEPT 7,11
MIAMI (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Maria formed in the Atlantic on Wednesday while Hurricane Katia churned up the surf along the beaches of Bermuda and the eastern United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Maria could threaten Puerto Rico and the Leeward Islands of the northeast Caribbean during the weekend, but posed no immediate danger to land.It was about 1,305 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and racing rapidly westward. Maria had top winds of 50 miles per hour (85 km per hour) and could strengthen slightly in the next two days, forecasters at the hurricane center in Miami said.Computer models showed it turning northwest early next week but it was too early to know whether Maria would then curve away from the United States, like Katia is forecast to do.Katia has weakened significantly in the last two days but is still a hurricane with 85 mph winds, making it a Category 1 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. It was a Category 4 at its peak.Katia was centered about 320 miles southwest of the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda and was expected to pass between the eastern U.S. coast and Bermuda by Thursday.
Forecasters said the core of the storm would stay out to sea, but Katia was so wide that its outer squalls could reach the shores of Bermuda, a British territory and global reinsurance hub whose 70,000 residents were under a tropical storm watch.
Katia generated large swells that kicked up the surf and caused dangerous rip currents along the beaches of the Eastern United States, Bermuda, the Greater Antilles and parts of the Bahamas, the forecasters said.Once past Bermuda, Katia is forecast to curve eastward over open seas where it would pose no further threat to land.Neither Maria nor Katia was near the Gulf of Mexico, where U.S. oil and natural gas operations are concentrated.But forecasters were keeping watch on a disturbance in the southwest Gulf of Mexico that they gave a 60 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next few days.Computer models varied widely as to its potential path. Some took it west over Mexico while at least one took it northeast toward the Louisiana-Mississippi coast.The flurry of tropical disturbances is not uncommon for September, the traditional peak of the June-through-November Atlantic hurricane season.(Reporting by Jane Sutton; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Lee's remnants bring fresh flood worries to East
AP By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press – SEPT 7,11
WINDHAM, N.Y. – Drenched and dispirited, East Coast residents recovering from Hurricane Irene were stuck under the chugging remnants of Tropical Storm Lee Wednesday, some of them grudgingly preparing to move to higher ground yet again as rivers rose.From Maryland to New England, heavy rains swelled waterways, flooded highways and stretched emergency responders already dealing with cleanup from last week's punishing blow from Irene. Sodden ground gave rain nowhere to go but directly into streams, creeks and rivers that rushed a turbid red-brown past rural communities.Now it's getting on my last nerves, said Carol Slater, 53, of Huntersfield, N.Y., on the northern edge of New York's Catskill Mountains and just outside of hard-hit Prattsville.The National Weather Service predicted heavy rain would continue across the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states through Thursday with anywhere from 4 to 7 more inches falling and up to 10 in isolated pockets. Flood watches and warnings were up throughout the region.New York positioned rescue workers, swift-water boats and helicopters with hoists to respond quickly in the event of flash flooding. Teams stood by in Vermont, which bore the brunt of Irene's remnants last week, and hundreds of Pennsylvania residents were told to flee a rising creek.By noon Wednesday, Prattsville was cut off, its main roads covered with water as public works crews tried to dredge the creeks to alleviate the flooding. Trash bins stood in the mud-caked streets to collect debris left by Irene and the wreckage of houses destroyed by the earlier storm still dotted the area.
Heavy rain fell and residents were ready to evacuate as the Schoharie Creek escaped its banks and smaller streams showed significant flooding.Businesses and residential areas were devastated before, Wayne Speenburgh, chairman of the Greene County Legislature, said of Prattsville.Downtown, there's nobody living because there's no homes to live in.In nearby Middleburgh, dozens of residents were evacuated from temporary shelters set up in schools, many for the third time since Irene hit. Many businesses remained empty but were adorned with hopeful signs — like the one at Hubie's Pizzeria — that they would reopen.It's encouraging, said James Kelley, 51, of Middleburgh. A lot of people had given up last week, but with all the volunteers and help, it helps people re-energize.Flooding also led to voluntary evacuations in the Catskills town of Shandaken, Rotterdam Junction near Albany, and a section of Schenectady along the Mohawk River. Some schools in the Hudson Valley north of New York City closed or delayed start times.Along the road in Windham were several soggy, cardboard signs from last week's storm that said Thank you for your help.
Patrick Darling said he and wife Dawn are trying to keep their sense of humor while dealing with a second week of flooding.We have stress, lots of stress, he said after using shovels to clear mud and debris from his neighbors' homes. We've been shoveling our stress out.Lee formed just off the Louisiana coast late last week and gained strength as it lingered in the Gulf for a couple of days. It dumped more than a foot of rain in New Orleans and trudged across Mississippi and Alabama.Tornadoes spawned by Lee damaged hundreds of homes, and flooding knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people. Trees were uprooted and roads were flooded. Winds fanned wildfires in Louisiana and Texas, and the storm even kicked up tar balls on the Gulf Coast.At least four people died; no deaths were reported Wednesday. Irene was blamed for at least 46 deaths and billions of dollars in damage.In Maryland, firefighters were among those who had to be rescued Wednesday as storms flooded roads, stranding drivers who had to be pulled from rushing water and pushing residents from their homes.A swift-water rescue boat capsized in the Patapsco River near Catonsville as firefighters responded to rescue calls near the Howard County line, Baltimore County spokeswoman Elise Armacost said, adding that all firefighters were later accounted for.In New York, several residents said even if the call for mandatory evacuation comes, they won't go.We stayed here through Irene, we'll stay through this, said Doris Pasternak, 59, owner of the historic Prattsville Hotel and Tavern, where water rose up to 5 feet into the lower floor after Irene. I have a hatch on the roof. I'm not moving. I'm just too old to pick up and go.A flood watch was in effect through Thursday afternoon in soggy Vermont. Parts of the state are still recovering from flooding from the remnants of Irene, which was a tropical storm by the time it swept over the area.
Swift water rescue teams are on call, and residents should be ready to evacuate if rivers rise fast, said Vermont Emergency Management spokesman Mark Bosma.Irene hit upstate New York and Vermont particularly hard, with at least 12 deaths in those areas and dozens of highways damaged or washed out. Several communities in Vermont were cut off entirely and required National Guard airdrops to get supplies.Flood watches or warnings were in place through Thursday night for much of Pennsylvania. About 3,000 residents along the Solomon Creek in Wilkes-Barre were ordered to evacuate due to quickly rising waters, but the creek crested about 4 feet below flood stage and the order was lifted Wednesday afternoon. Rain from Irene also led to evacuations there last week.Flash flooding shut down dozens of Pennsylvania highways Wednesday and forced the evacuation of some riverfront trailer parks and campgrounds, while state officials braced for potentially worse problems along the swollen Susquehanna River.In New Jersey, where many residents were still cleaning up after Irene, the remnants of Lee were expected to drop anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of rain. There was some flooding along rivers including the Passaic, which breached its banks during Irene and caused serious damage. Heavier flooding is expected Thursday.Meanwhile, in the open Atlantic, Hurricane Katia brought rough surf to the East Coast but was not expected to make landfall in the U.S. Tropical Storm Maria also formed Wednesday far out in the Atlantic, but it was too soon to tell if and where it might make landfall.Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Michael Hill and Rik Stevens in Albany, N.Y.; John Curran in Montpelier, Vt.; Genaro C. Armas in State College, Pa.; Bill Poovey in Chattanooga and Alex Dominguez in Baltimore.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Central Texas wildfire destroys nearly 800 homes
APBy JIM VERTUNO - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11
BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Firefighting crews started Wednesday to gain control of a wind-stoked blaze that has raged unchecked across parched Central Texas for days, leaving hundreds of charred properties in its wake and causing thousands of people to flee.As the crisis unfolded, Gov. Rick Perry flew off to a Republican presidential debate in California as authorities commanded operations fighting the disaster.At least two people have died in the wildfire, which destroyed nearly 800 homes and blackened about 45 square miles (116 square kilometers) in and around the city of Bastrop, outside Austin, the state capital.The Texas Forest Service said Wednesday that blaze had consumed 785 homes, making it the most catastrophic of the fires that have erupted in the past week across Texas. One of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in state history has caused four deaths and pulled the state's firefighting ranks to the limit.But Bastrop County Judge Ronnie McDonald also sounded an optimistic tone, saying firefighters had a good night and that no new structures were lost overnight in the battle to contain the 33,000-acre (13,350-hectare) blaze about 25 miles east of Austin. Containment remained at 30 percent.
The forest service said it responded to a total of 19 new fires Wednesday totaling 1,490 acres (600 hectares) across the state, bringing the count over the past week to more than 170 fires consuming more than 130,000 acres (52,600 hectares).Texas Task Force 1, an elite search team that was sent to New York following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, will be assisting in Bastrop.The team has dogs that can help look for people trapped in debris, Chief Bob McKee told The Associated Press.We also have human remains canines that would scent on deceased persons or animals, McKee said.Crews finally got a reprieve Tuesday from winds pushed in by Tropical Storm Lee that whipped the blaze into an inferno over the weekend. Texas Forest Service spokeswoman April Saginor said the lighter winds were assisting firefighters in their efforts.Even though the fuels are critically dry, the grass is dry and the relative humidity is still pretty low, they were able to take advantage of lower winds, Saginor said.Perry cut short a presidential campaign trip to South Carolina to deal with the crisis, and on Tuesday toured a blackened area near Bastrop.About 1,200 firefighters battled the blazes, including crews from as far away as California and Oregon. Five heavy tanker planes, some from the federal government, and three aircraft capable of scooping 1,500 gallons (5,680 liters) of lake water at a time also helped.The disaster is blamed largely on Texas' yearlong drought, one of the most severe dry spells the state has ever seen. The fire in Bastrop County is the most devastating wildfire in Texas in more than a decade, eclipsing a blaze that destroyed 168 homes in North Texas in April.At least 11 other fires exceeded 1,000 acres (400 hectares) Tuesday, including a 7,000-acre (2,800-hectare) blaze that has destroyed at least 60 homes and threatened hundreds more about 40 miles northwest of Houston. An 8,000-acre (3,230-hectare) fire has destroyed at least six homes in Caldwell County, next to Bastrop County. In far northeast Texas' Cass County, a 7,000-acre (2,800-hectare) fire burned in heavy timberland.Associated Press writers Michael Graczyk in Houston; Jamie Stengle, Danny Robbins, Diana Heidgerd and Schuyler Dixon in Dallas; Betsy Blaney in Lubbock; Will Weissert in Austin; Paul Weber in San Antonio; and AP photographer Eric Gay in Bastrop contributed to this report.
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU SEPTEMBER 08,2011
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -35.64
10:30 AM -5.71
11:00 AM +37.81
11:30 AM +38.79
12:00 PM -27.51
12:30 PM -15.56
01:00 PM -2.50
01:30 PM -63.34
02:00 PM -74.70
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03:30 PM -95.28
04:00 PM -119.05 11,295.81
S&P 500 1185.90 -12.72
NASDAQ 2529.14 -19.80
GOLD 1,869.00 +51.40
OIL 88.91 -0.43
TSE 300 12,684.00 -36.60
CDNX 1804.14 +14.83
S&P/TSX/60 723.96 -2.59
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -52 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -52 points at low today.
Dow +37 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,865.90.OIL opens at $89.46 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -119 points at low today so far.
Dow +63 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -119 points at low today.
Dow +63 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL -4.0 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +200,000 BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +700,000 BARRELS
NATURAL GAS THURSDAYS +64 BCF
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.
Israel isolated ahead of UN vote on Palestinians
AP By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11
JERUSALEM (AP) — Rising tensions with some of its closest and most important allies have left Israel increasingly isolated ahead of a momentous vote on Palestinian independence at the United Nations.Troubles with Turkey, Egypt and even the U.S. are adding to Israel's headaches ahead of the vote, which is shaping up to be a global expression of discontent against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Palestinians plan to ask the United Nations this month to recognize their independence in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — probably by embracing them as a nonmember observer state.The measure is expected to pass overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly.
The assembly's decisions are not legally binding, so the vote will be largely symbolic. But the Palestinians hope the measure will increase the already considerable pressure on Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, and add leverage should peace talks resume. The Palestinians refuse to negotiate while Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Ghassan Khatib, a spokesman for the Palestinian government in the West Bank, said Israeli isolation is playing right into Palestinian hands. We are seeing that result in increased support for us in the United Nations, he said.On Wednesday, China announced it would support the Palestinian bid. And a French Mideast envoy, Valerie Hoffenberg, said she had been fired after publicly arguing against the Palestinian initiative. France has not publicly said how it will vote, but her comments signaled that the government favors the Palestinians.The vote is seen by many not only as a message of sympathy with the Palestinians, but also a barometer of discontent with Israel's settlement policies. Some 500,000 Israelis now live in territories claimed by the Palestinians.There's no question that had Israel been seen as a country doing its utmost to promote peace, no such vote would be taking place, said Yossi Beilin, Israel's former deputy foreign minister.Beilin cited Netanyahu's refusal to extend a freeze on new settlement construction a year ago as the mother of all sins that put him at odds with the international community. The decision, made over the very public objections of President Barack Obama, caused a brief round of peace talks to collapse.Since then, relations with Obama have been further strained. In May, Netanyahu paid a tense visit to Washington, where he objected before cameras to Obama's call that the 1967 boundaries be the basis of a future agreement with the Palestinians. American officials privately express deep frustration with Netanyahu.
Even so, Washington has been trying to pressure the Palestinians to give up the U.N. bid, saying peace can only be achieved through negotiations.Closer to home, Israel has watched Egypt, perhaps its most critical regional ally, cool relations since the ouster of longtime President Hosni Mubarak in February. Mubarak was seen by many of his people as too sympathetic to Israel, negotiating an unpopular deal to supply it with natural gas, for example.Israel-Egypt relations took a hit last month when five Egyptian police were killed during a firefight between Israeli forces and fleeing militants. Egypt was outraged, and mass demonstrations against Israel erupted in Cairo. Israel later apologized. But there have been calls in Egypt to cancel the 30-year-old peace agreement with Israel — which is an absolutely critical element of Israel's regional strategy.Another key regional ally, Turkey, has greatly curbed diplomatic and trade ties with Israel following Israel's deadly raid on a protest flotilla that tried to breach the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip last year. Nine Turks, one of them an American citizen, were killed in clashes with Israeli naval commandos.Israeli officials have tried to play down the tensions, saying that Israel has long faced hostility on the diplomatic stage. They also say that Israel has enjoyed some key victories recently, such as last week's U.N. report on the flotilla incident that defended its blockade of Gaza. Yet one official acknowledged the "new challenges" are a source of concern. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing sensitive internal discussions.Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. who is close to Netanyahu, said it is a mistake to judge Israel's international standing by recent events.He said Turkey's animosity toward Israel is part of a broader shift by the country's Islamist government that is troubling not just for the Jewish state but for many of Turkey's neighbors.And any anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. passes automatically, thanks to the dominance by developing nations that are sympathetic to the Palestinians, he said. It's conventional wisdom that if there was a resolution whose first clause was anti-Israel and whose second clause was that the earth was flat, it would pass,Gold said.Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni, however, accused Netanyahu of weakening the nation's interests. Israel's isolation is affecting its security and its economy,she told a conference Wednesday.
Report: Israel Offers PA to Postpone UN Bid for Negotiations-Kuwaiti daily reports the PA is considering Israeli offer to postpone the unilateral statehood bid and immediately begin negotiations.By Elad Benari First Publish: 9/8/2011, 1:16 AM
The Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida has reported that the Palestinian Authority is considering an Israeli offer to postpone the unilateral statehood bid at the UN for at least one year and to immediately begin negotiations for a permanent peace agreement.According to the report, which was translated and presented on the website of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Wednesday, the offer was made to the PA during secret negotiations which have been ongoing for several months in various Arab and European countries.According to the report in the Kuwaiti daily, the negotiations also included meetings between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, in which they discussed the possibility of holding a formal meeting between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu promised the U.S. to return to negotiations if an agreement on scheduling was reached.The report stressed that Netanyahu shared the negotiation details with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and opposition leader Tzipi Livni.
Meanwhile, MEMRI also reported that a website close to Abbas’ Fatah party reported that Abbas advisor Nimer Hammad said that if Dennis Ross and David Hale, the U.S. envoys visiting the region, would make offers that meet the PA’s demands of halting Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and recognizing a Palestinian state along the 1949 armistice lines, the PA would forgo an appeal to the UN.The report comes after on Wednesday, the United States formally asked Ramallah to drop its bid for recognition of a PA state based.The request was relayed to Abbas by Hale during a meeting in Ramallah, officials said. The meeting was also attended by Ross and by U.S. Consul-General in Jerusalem, Daniel Rubenstien.The report also seems to be in line with another report earlier this week which said that Abbas and Barak held a meeting in Amman on August 24.Abbas, who told reporters in Ramallah about the meeting, refused to specify the circumstances behind it and simply said the two discussed a number of issues.
US Formally Asks PA to Drop Statehood Bid-After months of implicit opposition to the PA statehood bid at the UN on September 20, the US has formally asked the PA to drop the move.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/7/2011, 8:43 PM
Unmoved by sharp criticism and media antics from Palestinian Authority officials the United States on Wednesday formally asked Ramallah to drop its bid for recognition of a PA state based on pre-1967 lines at the United Nations later this month.The request was relayed to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas by US envoy David Hale during a meeting in Ramallah, officials in Ramallah said. The meeting was attended by US envoy Dennis Ross and US Consul-General in Jerusalem, Daniel Rubenstien.The officials complained US envoys did not carry any new proposals for reviving the peace process and intimated the PA may go only to the UN General Assembly due to the threat of a US veto in the Security Council.We have been advised by some or our European and Arab friends not to go to the Security Council because we don't have a majority in favor of the plan and because of the US threat to use the veto,the official said. We are now studying submitting a request to the General Assembly to accept the state of Palestine as a full member. This is also an important step because it would give us access to numerous international bodies.Such a move would be largely symbolic and be aimed at building lawfare and propaganda momentum as UN membership requires Security Council approval.Hale told Abbas that Washington wants to see the Palestinians return to the negotiating table with Israel, Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said.
Erekat quoted the US envoy as saying that the Quartet members - the US, EU, UN and Russia - were preparing a new initiative for the establishment of a Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders.Erekat quoted Abbas as saying during the meeting that the Palestinians would resume the peace talks with Israel only if it halted construction in the settlements and accepted the 1967 lines as the basis for a two-state solution.Israel did halt construction for 10-months in order to restart negotiations, during which time the PA abjectly refused to come to the negotiating table while continuing to add new preconditions as a means of avoiding direct talks.
According to Erekat, the PA is only planning to apply to the UN for membership of a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 lines, with east Jerusalem as its capital.Contrary to what is being said, we are not asking for independence or recognition of a Palestinian state,Erekat insisted.It's wrong to say that the Palestinian Authority is asking for independence. The independent state was declared more than 20 years ago. We are only asking that Palestine be admitted as a member of the UN.Erekat did not explain, if a Palestinian state was declared more than twenty years ago, how it is that the PA was only created in 1993 with the understanding it was empowered to negotiate for the creation of a state that did not yet exist.
Nor did he explain how the PA was not asking for recognition when in recent months recognition has been at the heart of Ramallah's lexicon with new press releases issued regularly about states newly recognizing a state of Palestine ahead of the UN bid.Erekat also dismissed claims that the statehood bid would affect the right of return for Palestinian refugees to their original villages inside Israel.Going to the UN won't cancel the right of return, he said.Recognition of a Palestinian state will pave the way for the state to enter international institutions and demand all our legitimate rights, including the right of return.But legal experts, UN officials, and the Jordanian government have warned that the so-called right of return very well could be undermined by a successful PA bid at the Security Council thereby undercutting one of its central ideological pillars.And as September 20 approaches Israel's security forces are ramping up for widespread violence expected to erupt in PA administered enclaves after the bid is made - indicating Israel regards the PA bid as anything but a good-faith gesture.As regards the Palestinian issue, Israeli vice premier Moshe Yaalon said Wednesday, no doubt they opted for a unilateral proclamation in order to sidestep negotiations. We are willing to sit down at the table and address not only territorial matters but also the recognition of a Palestinian state. I suggest reading the Arab press which places the September issue front and center.The unilateral proclamation poses a serious threat to the Palestinians as the US may cut off its aid and Israel might back out of the Oslo Agreement. It is my opinion that the September threat is an attempt to twist Israel's arm and gain concessions. We must be prepared for any case scenario. A proclamation at the UN does not change the reality – we have to be prepared for any contingency as we did in 2000,he added.
Begin Breaks Likud Ranks on INR Radio; Rejects PA State-INR interview: Minister Benny Begin rejects PA state, says Naqba Day events prove Arabs' true intent, says pr war can be won with truth.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 5/31/2011, 9:02 AM / Last Update: 5/31/2011, 11:10 AM
Minister without portfolio Benny Begin (Likud), in an Israel National News Radio interview on Monday, rejected the creation of an Arab state west of the Jordan River saying the right of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland was 'obvious' and that such a state would become a haven of impunity for terror. Begin's remarks mark a stark departure from the two states for two people's vision endorsed by Israel's current Likud-run government.I think any second state of any nature, another sovereignty west of the Jordan River, especially when it comprises the PLO or Hamas, would negate or contradict two basic rights of the Jewish people and the citizens of Israel,Begin told Israel National News Radio's Josh Hasten. during an interview on the Israel Hasbara Hour.One is the right of the Jewish people to our homeland, and our right to our homeland does not stop exactly east of the 1949 armistice demarcation lines, also known as the Green Line.It has no historic significance whatsoever. It just marks a balance of military power back then, in 1948 or 1949, between [Israel's] local Arab neighbors and the newborn state of Israel in their attempt to smother the baby state in its cradle. Our right to our land – Including of course to the cradle of our history in Judea and Samaria – is obvious, Begin said.There is also the question of national security, and we have had some experience in the the last twenty years under the banner territory for peace... the actual events have been territory for terror. Every piece of land, every hectare, every acre, that was consigned to the PLO reign, became a haven of impunity for terrorism. And we should anticipate that once we transfer parts of our homeland to the PLO it will be, actually, an indirect transfer of land through the PLO to Hamas, and to Iran,Begin said.
Recent Events Prove Arab's True Intent
Begin cited the recent Fatah-Hamas unity treaty and Naqba unrest throughout Israel on May 15, which saw the infiltration of Northern Israel by over 100 Syrian radicals, along with riots throughout Judea and Samaria, as proof the Arab's have no intention of making peace with the Jewish state.I think in the last month people can see for themselves [what their intentions are] through the following events: the new agreement between the PLO and Hamas, who nobody doubts is openly bent on the destruction of the state of Israel, and then the May 15 marches on our borders marking the devastation or calamity, that they claim was inflicted upon them by the very establishment of the state of Israel on May 15, 1948,Begin explained.Their real aim is not a a two state solution, but a two-stage solution. In the sense that they push us to the pre-1967, actually 1949 lines, and then push more through terrorism and other forms of political pressure in order to dwarf us and to try to erase the state of Israel, the Jewish state, Begin said.They did not mark the date in June, Begin said referring to the 1967 Six Day War, sometimes called the June War, in which Israel liberated its eternal capitol and ancestral heartland. After all, the occupation so to speak of Judea and Samaria and Gaza started in June 1967. No, they mark the original May 15 date of the very birth of the Jewish state.
Israel's Hasbara Advantage
Begin conceded Israel starts at a public relations disadvantage due to the vastly greater sums the Arab world pours into its anti-Israel media efforts, but said Israel has a big advantage in its hasbara [public relations, ed.] war because it doesn't have to sell lies.It used to be Hasbara was translated propaganda,Begin explained. Now they call it public diplomacy, which is a little nicer. But years ago it was considered by Israelis to be propaganda [and therefore beneath them, ed.] One of the nice things about our propaganda is that we don't have to sell lies. We can suffice ourselves with telling people things as they are. We have to tell them the truth. And we have to ask them to judge. Because once they know the facts they will be able use moral judgment.[There was] a very important article written by Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazen, written on May 16 as an op-ed article in the New York Times... [readers] will read it and see easily for themselves what kind of narrative, or actually what kind of lies, the PLO tries to sell intelligent people in America and elsewhere. Its untenable, its unacceptable, and it takes things to such an extreme in such a manner that we can easily prove the narrative is totally false,Begin said.
Such articles will only help us, Begin said optimistically. I don't know if this would be efficient immediately It takes time, but people of good will, if they will stand up and work for truth – for morality – I think it would be a great help to the cause of real justice in our part of the world.
Op-Ed: Sept at UN: 3 Israeli Experts: Is Israel Prepared? Published: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 11:56 PM
3rd in a series: Arutz Sheva brings you the opinions of three respected and involved Israelis, translated from the popular Be’Sheva Hebrew weekly newspaper, on how Israel should deal with the Abbas demand for statehood in September.
Danny Dayan, head of Council of Judea and Samaria:A Golden Opportunity Missed:Israel has done some good political preparation for September (the PM made successful trips to several European countries, for example) as well as security planning (the IDF is rehearsing various scenarios), but the most crucial steps have not been taken: steps that would frighten the Arabs into giving up their plan.And most telling of all: Israel has not been wise enough to turn the crisis into an opportunity, although it has the ability to do so.Deterrent-wise, Israel has done nothing, except for saying a few hollow words that no one took seriously. Israel has an abundance of political leverage, as well as economic, defense, and settlement options that could stop the Arabs in their tracks.Not only has none of them been used, the opposite is true: the policy in the defense establishment is that this is the time to strengthen the PA financially so that it will keep on coordinating security with us.This is not the way to build a wall, said a sportscaster once, coining a new phrase, as Israel’s soccer team absorbed a rival team’s goal. This is not the way to prevent a unilateral Arab offensive against Israel, we have to tell our government, hoping it will come to its senses and act differently.The biggest shame of all is not turning this into a golden opportunity. The unilateral Arab step in the UN voids all former agreements with Israel.It has to be responded to with a strong, obvious unilateral move of our own: asserting Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, if not on its entirety, then on all the Jewish settlements and the open areas between them—what is known as Area C.The Arabs forced Israel into a political war. In this war, just as in military wars, Israel must win and not accept a tie, nor a respectable loss (i.e. a few dozen countries who abstain or vote nay in the UN, our Foreign Ministry’s current aspiration).Only asserting Israeli sovereignty on large portions of our homeland would achieve a victory. This is, therefore, a crisis that has been badly handled, a great opportunity that has been missed.
Dr. David Bukai, Department for the Study of the Middle East, Haifa University
Expose the Palestinian Bluff:There is no difference between the goals of Hamas, Al Qaeda and the PLO, the only differences are in methods and tactics. Abu Mazen is an anti-Semite, Holocaust denier, as extremist as Arafat was.All the moderates surrounding him are the same, clearly announcing that they do not recognize Israel as a Jewish state; that Israel must let the 7 (yes, 7) million refugees return to their homes; mainly because they do not believe in two states for two peoples, but rather in one large Palestinian state alongside a small dual-nationality, multi-cultural one that will quickly become part of the Palestinian state, as will Jordan.
Israel erred egregiously in strategic preparation. Since Abu Mazen does not talk about a Palestinian state with 1967 borders as a final goal, but only as a step on the road to erasing the Jewish state, Israel should have exposed that.Instead of expending so much effort in thwarting the idea of declaring a state, Israel should have exposed the extremist Palestinian goals, suggested that the world have the Palestinians sign that once they have a state with the 1967 borders, they will abandon all other goals for eliminating Israel: no more right of return to within Israel, cessation of terror and all forms of violence, cessation of incitement to anti-Semitic hatred.Abu Mazen and his friends could never accept these conditions ands the international arena would realize that this is not a desire for self-determination with which we are dealing, but a desire to destroy the state of Israel.All the Palestinian groups are not prepared to, are not able to and do not want to agree to a country with 1967 borders. Arafat could not force this on them, and Abu Mazen, just as extreme but weaker, certainly cannot and also doesn’t wish to.
Many people, in Israel as well, do not know his extremist personality and that the brilliant idea of declaring a state in September is just a means to continue his plan of annihilation. Exposing his bluff and proving what he is like are the biggest challenge for Israel, but Israel is failing to meet it. The never ending need to thwart terror keeps Israel from being able to deal with the real challenge: the Palestinian aspiration to destroy israel through delegitimizing and dehumanizing. her internationally. The recognition of a Palestinian state is simply a means to advance the goal of eliminating Israel.
Gen. Amram Mitzna (Res.), former MK and contender for leadership of Israel’s Labor Party
The PA Has No Interest in Escalation:
Gen. Amram Mitzna (Res.), former MK and contender for leadership of Israel’s Labor Party.The IDF and the police force must be prepared for the possibility of riots, perhaps attempts to block roads and even march in the direction of some of the communities in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) and threaten them. The IDF must instruct the residents of Yesha on how to carry on with their lives within their communities and with respect to travel on the roads during this period.My feeling is that the PA has no interest in having an uncontrollable situation on its hands, just as they had no interest in having one on Naqba and Naqsa days. They understand that the IDF and the Jewish residents will not let such disturbances pass them by. Nevertheless, there is still a danger that the whole thing will get out of control, especially in the light of the ability nowadays to fire people up through social networks.In the military sphere: I am not familiar with the details, but I take it for granted that the IDF is suitably organized and that it has learned the lessons of previous events, that it is in contact with the PA and fairly well coordinated with them.In the international arena: the government could have prevented the process in the General Assembly, but today it is a bit late to do anything, although that does not mean there is no need to continue to persuade countries not to support the PA initiative. I regret to say that the handwriting is already on the wall and the General Assembly will support the PA move by a large majority.This is not an existential threat to Israel, at least not in the short term. However, it is another step towards delegitimization and the weakening of our international relations. I have no doubt that the skewed minds of the world will find us new challenges to meet, such as far out legal claims, sending ambassadors to the Palestinians and the like.
WORLD GOVERNMENT
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DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
LORD MONCKTON ON WORLD GOVERNMENT
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EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he 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:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
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Plan For European Economic Government Was Brainchild Of Nazis-Economic Terrorists Seek United States of Europe Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, September 7, 2011
European globalists are committing another act of economic terrorism by exploiting the euro debt crisis in a bid to create a United States of Europe, with European Council president Herman van Rompuy announcing he is ready to spearhead the group, a move that frighteningly parallels plans by top Nazis, may of whom went on to found the EU, and their mission to build a continent-wide economic government.EU leaders are fearmongering over the consequences of member states abandoning the single currency, warning that a euro collapse would lead to martial law and even civil war.
Their solution is to hand themselves even more power to create a common economic policy that all member states would be forced to follow at the expense of their national sovereignty, a de facto financial government for the whole of Europe.
European Council president Herman van Rompuy said yesterday that he was ready to run for a second term as European Union president, to lead a United States of Europe, reports the Irish Independent.Mr Van Rompuy has announced he is willing to take on the unfinished eurozone debt crisis with new powers setting an economic government in Brussels.Simultaneously, British Prime Minister David Cameron last night said that Britain must let eurozone countries move towards a United States of Europe with a common economic policy, reports the Daily Mail.The Prime Minister admitted he was not sure whether Germany and other countries had the political will to prevent a break-up of the single currency, but insisted they must be allowed to try – even if that meant closer integration.The move to exploit the debt crisis in order to completely eviscerate the economic sovereignty of every EU member by forming a central economic planning committee, a United States of Europe, to which all countries are beholden, is not merely an act of economic terrorism, it’s a chilling throwback to identical proposals that were the brainchild of top Nazis.Plans to create a federal European economic government in the name of mandating fiscal responsibility and avoiding a repeat of the turmoil in Greece chillingly mirror blueprints concocted in the 1940’s as a means of preserving fascist power at the end of world war two by men who were responsible for founding the EU in the first place.
As we have exhaustively documented, the European Common Market, the precursor to the European Union, was a brainchild of top Nazis in the 1940’s who wanted to preserve fascist power in the event of defeat in world war two.US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128, also known as The Red House Report, details how top Nazis secretly met at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944 and, knowing Germany was on the brink of military defeat, conspired to create a Fourth Reich – a pan-European economic empire based around a European common market, precisely what the new Economic government proposal backed by the likes of Cameron and van Rompuy calls for.Wealthy Nazi industrialists like Alfried Krupp of Krupp Industries and Friedrich Flick, as well as front companies like BMW, Siemens and Volkswagen, set about the task of building a new pan-European business empire. According to historian Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, an adviser to Jewish former slave laborers, For many leading industrial figures close to the Nazi regime, Europe became a cover for pursuing German national interests after the defeat of Hitler….The continuity of the economy of Germany and the economies of post-war Europe is striking. Some of the leading figures in the Nazi economy became leading builders of the European Union.
The foundations for the EU and ultimately the Euro single currency were laid by the secretive Bilderberg Group in the mid-1950’s. Bilderberg’s own leaked documents prove that the agenda to create a European common market and a single currency were formulated by Bilderberg in 1955. One of the group’s principle founders was H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a former Nazi SS officer.But the ideological framework for the European Union goes back even further, to the 1940’s when top Nazi economists and academics outlined the plan for a single European economic community, an agenda that was duly followed after the end of the second world war.In his 1940 book The European Community, Nazi Economics Minister and war criminal Walther Funk wrote about the need to create a Central European Union and European Economic Area and for fixed exchange rates, stating No nation in Europe can achieve on its own the highest level of economic freedom which is compatible with all social requirements…The formation of very large economic areas follows a natural law of development….interstate agreements in Europe will control [economic forces generally]…There must be a readiness to subordinate one’s own interests in certain cases to those of [the EC].How different is Funk’s call for governments to subordinate their economic interests to those of Europe compared with Jose Manuel Barroso’s insistence that EU member states should be forced to institute structural reforms under pain of financial sanctions? The similarity is frightening.Funk’s co-authors echoed his sentiments. Nazi academic Heinrich Hunke wrote, Classic national economy..is dead…community of fate which is the European economy…fate and extent of European co-operation depends on a new unity economic plan.A new unity economic plan,this is precisely what Cameron and Van Rompuy are proposing – centralized financial control over the economies of Europe ruled by Brussels.Fellow Nazi Gustav Koenig observed, We have a real European Community task before us…I am convinced that this Community effort will last beyond the end of the war.
In 1940, Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels ordered the creation of the large-scale economic unification of Europe,believing that in fifty years’ time [people would] no longer think in terms of countries.Just 53 years later, the European Union in its current form was established.So you have one of Hitler’s most loyal Nazi allies calling for Economic unification of Europe, and now former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is demanding the establishment of a financial oversight body with the teeth to assert control over the finances of member states.
Even on the face of it, the fact that the EU, which began as a free trade area, is now seeking to have its unelected members directly control national economies, is completely dictatorial, authoritarian, and represents the anti-thesis of any notion of democracy or representation of the people of Europe. Add the fact that the exact same agenda was pursued by one of the most notoriously criminal and barbaric regimes in history and surely alarm bells should be ringing? Other top Nazis who called for the creation of a pan-European federal economic superstate include Ribbentrop, Quisling and Seyss-Inquart, who spoke of The new Europe of solidarity and co-operation among all its people… will find…rapidly increasing prosperity once national economic boundaries are removed.Most of the individuals who hold the reigns of power in the European Union are not Nazis, indeed, they probably believe themselves to be fair-minded liberals working for the greater good. However, the European Union by its very nature is totalitarian, because it seeks to remove power from national governments accountable to their electorate and centralize it into the hands of supra-national entities that are accountable to nobody but themselves. It also seeks to remove the right of free speech for anyone in a position of influence who criticizes this agenda.The fact that the EU was a brainchild of top Nazi economists and industrialists, formulated as a means of preserving dictatorial power and then implemented by former Nazi working under the auspices of the Bilderberg Group in 1955, proves that the entire European Union system is poisoned with a legacy and a raison d’être of totalitarianism.The additional knowledge that the European Union is now pursuing identical economic policies to those voiced by top Nazis, several of whom went on to found the EU in its embryonic stages, is a chilling reminder of how fundamentally anti-democratic and fascist the EU is becoming as it swallows up more power from member states and appoints itself as the supreme dictator of an entire continent.The European Union will fight tooth and nail to protect the single currency from collapsing because, as top Bilderberger and Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff made clear in a recent Financial Times piece, the future plan for a globalized currency system is wholly dependent on the survival of the Euro, which would almost certainly be destroyed if the Greeks or any other member state were to default and ditch the single currency.The euro experiment has also brought us to a crossroads in the whole international monetary system,wrote Rogoff. Will our grandchildren inherit a world with a huge number of national currencies, or a very small number of multi-country currencies?
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Markets will drive a two-speed Europe, says Barroso
Today SEPT 7,11 @ 00:59 By Honor Mahony
European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has said he believes the eurozone will integrate further with market demands now trumping past ideological debates.My assessment is that the European Union will go further into integration, namely around the eurozone, he told an audience on Tuesday (6 September) during a visit to Australia.He said that in the past debates about the future of Europe were political or even ideological with federalists on the one side and intergovernmentalists on the other.But now with markets calling for mechanisms for quickly dealing with the eurozone debt crisis, the fundamentals of the debate have been altered.Now, the markets are demanding more integration at least for the euro area. And this is new, said Barroso.The discussion is how far can we go now, do we need a new treaty to go further, what can we do to reinforce the governance of the eurozone, he said, becoming the latest in a series of high level EU officials to raise the spectre of yet another revision of the EU treaties.Barroso, former prime minister of Portugal one of the three bailed-out eurozone countries, also touched on one of the most significant questions thrown up by crisis – how to balance the demands of the market with the slower and messier democratic process.
Now [eurosceptics] understand that one of the issues that the markets are looking at is the capacity of the euro area to have quick answers because the markets are very fast and democratic procedures are always slower than the markets. And we have to understand this.This issue is at the core of a debate in paymaster Germany where parliamentarians are currently discussing what strings to attach in return for their agreement to make the eurozone bailout fund more flexible.German finance minister Wolfgang Schaueble has already indicated he is opposed to greatly increased parliamentary control, fearing it will make the fund too cumbersome, and therefore weak in eyes of the markets.The country’s constitutional court is also expected to highlight the importance of parliamentary democratic process on Wednesday when it gives its verdict on the legality of Germany’s involvement in saving the eurozone, including partaking in the first bailout of Greece last year.
Spectre of fresh EU treaty returns to haunt incomplete Europe 06.09.11 @ 17:31 By Leigh Phillips
It took nearly a decade of squabbling amongst EU states, a series of referendum disasters and a last-minute game of high-stakes brinksmanship from a stubborn Czech president, but the bloc finally managed to radically refashion the way it worked with the passage of the Lisbon Treaty in 2010.Treaty changes, a European finance minister and even a United States of Europe are on the table (ec.europa.eu)So exhausted were they by the struggle by the time the soap opera ended, European leaders then swore it would be very long indeed, perhaps a generation, before the EU treaties would be opened again.But now, in the last few days, as Europe’s economy and the single currency stand on the precipice, these same leaders have begun to eat their words.On Tuesday, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called for the second time in a week for changes to the treaties.Strengthening the eurozone's architecture ... may need profound treaty changes, he wrote in an opinion piece for the Financial Times.On Thursday, Schaeuble presented a plan to draft a new EU treaty to leading figures in his own party, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, and its sister party, Bavaria’s Christian Social Union.According to populist daily Bild, the finance minister made the argument for a major shift in fiscal policy-making powers to Brussels, a move that would almost certainly necessitate a fresh opening of the treaties holding the bloc together.This must be done, he said,even though we know how difficult a treaty change will be.The outgoing head of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, for his part on Monday told participants at a Paris conference that the bloc required a European federal government with a federal finance minister.His successor, Italian central bank chief Mario Draghi added that strengthening the European bail-out fund must be completed,But it is not enough. Let's not forget that the crisis starts from the incompleteness of European construction.Targetting the multiplicity of fiscal policy approaches across the eurozone, he declared:We are discovering that we cannot live with this incompleteness any more.
Gerhard Schroeder, the former German chancellor on Sunday said Countries will have to give up some of their national sovereignty.His vision involves fiscal powers being given to the commission or a European finance minister under the control of the European Parliament as the ultimate authority.The commission will have to be turned into a government that is controlled, in parliamentary terms, by the European Parliament. That translates into a United States of Europe.A newly established think-tank, the Council on the Future of Europe, whose members include Schroeder, Tony Blair, former commission president Jacques Delors, former Spanish prime minister Felipe Gonzalez and economists Nouriel Roubini and Joseph Stiglitz on Monday issued a manifesto that called not just full fiscal union, but for parallel political union.It will be necessary to further lay out a vision of a federation that goes beyond a fiscal and economic mandate to include a common security, energy, climate, immigration and foreign policy as well as develop a common narrative about the future of the union and its place in the world,the document read.Nation states will need to share certain dimensions of sovereignty to a central European entity that would have the capacity to source revenue at the federal level in order to provide European-wide public goods.On Tuesday, responding to the calls for a fresh treaty, the European Commission said that deeper economic integration can happen under the existing treaties, but left the door open for a more radical restructuring of the bloc, should member states feel it is necessary.We have taken note of the comments from a number of European leaders. They have been calling for changes to be made to the treaties to reinforce economic governance,said commission spokesman Olivier Bailly.The current treaties already allow for an awful lot of possibilities to deepen economic integration. We have to make coordination better between European economies ... within the framework of the current treaties.If there were a need for a new legal basis for further economic governance, further integration, then that would be up to the member states to decide to make further changes to the treaty, he continued. But it’s hypothetical for us at the time being.It’s up to them to open the treaty again.
Speaking to EUobserver, Jannis Emmanouilidis, a senior policy analyst with the European Policy Centre, a Brussels-based EU specialist think-tank, said that moves in the direction of fiscal union and a new treaty are inevitable.It seems there is a growing consensus for treaty change, not just in the last few days or weeks, but this has been widening since the start of the crisis months ago, he said.There is increasing awareness of just how dangerous a situation Europe is in - the potential break-up of the euro and the costs that would go along with that. They see the need to get ahead of the curve. To do that they have to go substantially further toward fiscal union.The question is whether this can be done under the current treaty situation, and to be able to answer that, we need a lot more details about what is being proposed,he continued.As to how realistic, achievable all this is, we all know what happened with the Lisbon Treaty, and the problems of domestic resistance have not gone away.
Merkel outlines steps to stability union
Today SEPT 7,11 @ 17:40 By Honor Mahony
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a stability union in which all member states behave in a fiscally responsible manner and miscreants can be brought before the EU’s highest court.Making a direct reference to the founding fathers of the EU, who had to rebuild a destroyed Germany, Merkel told her parliament on Wednesday (7 September) that our task is to show the way to reach a stability union.This would involve a possible EU treaty change to enforce budget control in euro states.If we say we want more Europe, then a treaty change cannot be a taboo,said the chancellor noting that under the current Lisbon Treaty, there is no mechanism obliging countries to adhere to rules underpinning the euro.The chancellor called it one of the EU’s paradoxes that countries can hauled before the European Court of Justice for breaching most EU laws but not when the euro rules are broken.Merkel also dismissed the much-touted idea of eurobonds – the mutualisation of eurozone debt – saying it would lead to a debt union.We have to tell people clearly that we cannot rid ourselves of today's problems - the excessive debts that have grown over decades - just like that, cue eurobonds and debt structuring, and then everything is ok again. No, this will be a long and difficult path, but one that is important for the future.The chancellor said the central question that has to be dealt with is the fact that although all 17 eurozone countries are completely bound to one another, each has control over their national budget.A solution to this thorny issue would lead to a more favourable climate for considering eurobonds, the chancellor indicated.
Solidarity alone is no good
She also dismissed solidarity as a stand-alone concept. We need solidarity and personal responsibility,she said.It is not those who immediately give in and help others who are right but rather those whose actions lead to a stability union.
Brushing all problems under the carpet and talking about solidarity will not lead us to a stability union.Her speech comes just weeks ahead of a Bundestag vote on extending the powers of the eurozone fund, so that it can buy bonds, something strongly criticised by some in her own party.She reminded deputies that the discussions are not taking place in a vacuum and a rejection would have consequences.
Netherlands: Indebted states must be made wards of the commission or leave euro Today SEPT 7,11 @ 17:37 By Leigh Phillips
The Dutch government has proposed that highly indebted states be put into guardianship, with spending decisions seized from the elected government and placed under the direct control of a European commissioner.Mark Rutte has radical ideas for the eurozone (NewsPhoto!)If a state is unwilling to surrender its sovereignty in this way, then it would be forced to exit the euro.Member states not willing to make themselves a ward, may choose to make use of the option to leave the eurozone, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a letter to the national parliament co-signed by the finance, economy and foreign ministers.To continue to be part of the monetary union, states should fully respect agreements.Under the proposals, seen by EUobserver, a special European commissioner would be appointed to oversee the budgets of euro-area countries.If a country repeatedly overspends in breach of EU stability pact rules, this commission overseer would be able to intervene directly in the running of the country, in a similar way to how a court intervenes in the running of a bankrupt firm put into receivership, according to officials familiar with the intention of the Dutch government.The commissioner would be given a ladder of intervention under which the level of control of the state would be steadily ratcheted up and applied this ward of the EU executive.
The first rung of the ladder would involve an outside auditor making adjustments to spending to bring down the level of the deficit.If this level of intervention is insufficient, binding measures would be imposed, or the commissioner could order a country to cut spending or raise taxes.The last rung of the ladder would see a country placed under guardianship. The auditor would then draft the budget of a country before sending it to the national parliament for approval.Such states, described in the paper as notorious sinners, would also lose their voting rights in the EU and the delivery of European structural funds would be dependent on compliance with the orders of the commissioner.The guardianship would be accompanied by intensive monitoring and verification of progress at a more detailed level under prior review by the commissioner.The Hague recogises the extreme nature of the proposals, but argues that such measures are necessary if the eurozone is to survive.
For the eurozone and the internal market in their present form to have a future as a stable currency union that underpins our prosperity, there needs to be a radical break with the persistent habit of soft touch approach to agreements.One Dutch official said of the paper: It is not like it would be a takeover of sovereignty, but things do need to get much tougher for countries.Asked whether voters would still consider themselves in a democracy under such extreme conditions, the official said: In that case, they need to take their own responsibility. If you want to be in the club, you have to play by the rules.The paper adds that for the proposal to be implemented, agreement with especially but not exclusively eurozone countries.
German court: Parliament must not be sidelined in future bail-outs Today SEPT 7,11 @ 12:13 By Leigh Phillips
Germany's highest court on Wednesday approved the country's participation in the Greek bailout and eurozone rescue fund, throwing out suits attempting to bring a halt to the country’s participation in the first, €110 billion bail-out of Greece and the eurozone’s €750 billion rescue fund.The court threw out the suits, but said that parliament needs greater oversight (Al Fed)But the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe also said that the German parliament must have more say when it comes to agreeing further bailout packages.There can be no automatic payments, said court president Andreas Vosskuhle.[The ruling] should not be mistakenly interpreted as a constitutional blank cheque authorising further rescue measures,he said.Parliamentary decisions about taxing and spending are a central element of democratic self government under the constitution, he added in his ruling.As representatives of the people, the elected members of parliament thus also need to remain in control over elementary budgetary decisions.The ruling was in line with most expectations. Few legal experts believed that the court would side with the team of eurosceptics, led by economist Joachim Starbatty, on the substance of their suit that European bail-outs have been unconstitutional.Most did however predict that the court would insist that similar future decisions would require the authorisation of the Bundestag, a move that is likely to throw sand in the wheels of Europe’s attempts to react to market pressures rapidly without having to wait for the slow wheels of parliamentary processes to turn.German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the ruling saying it confirmed her government's European policies.The Federal Constitutional Court said personal responsibility and solidarity, naturally with the absolute approval of the parliament, is the way,she said.
The European Commission said it had taken note with satisfaction of the court's ruling adding that the decision had an important bearing on the capacity of the eurozone to surmount the debt crisis.Responding to the ruling, Jannis Emmanouilidis, an EU institutional expert with the European Policy Centre think-tank, said: The Karlsruhe verdict does allow the EU to move on, especially since it is coupled with an increasing commitment in Berlin to a long-term solution of the crisis.The Court's decision will allow the rescue programmes to go ahead and provide the grounds for implementing the already- adopted instruments and measures aiming to enhance economic governance,he continued.But the most significant development in recent weeks and months is the growing realisation that all this will not be enough: either the euro zone moves towards a fully-functioning Economic and Monetary Union or one crisis will follow the other until maintaining the common currency becomes untenable.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
EU commission wants nations to give up border control decisions 06.09.11 @ 14:14 By Valentina Pop
Brussels - The EU commission wants to have a central role in decisions on the reintroduction of border controls, so far a prerogative of individual member states. A draft proposal will be put forward next week and is already causing a stir in pre-election Denmark.The EU commission doesn't want capitals to randomly put up border controls (MSVG)Freedom of movement of persons is a common European good and decisions affecting it should be taken at EU level,home affairs spokesman Michele Cercone said Tuesday (6 September) during a press conference in Brussels.He explained that the proposals have been requested by member states wanting to have stronger control mechanisms in the so-called Schengen area, a border-free zone comprising of 25 EU and non-EU countries.Under the proposal, likely to be watered down by member states who have to endorse it before it can enter into force, governments will have to ask the EU commission when they want to temporarily re-introduce border controls in case of foreseeable events such as football championships. If approved by the EU executive, the decision is then to be taken by a qualified majority of the member states.In case of unforeseeable events endangering national security or public order - such as a terrorist attack or a nuclear disaster prompting a massive flow of people - member states are allowed to temporarily put in place border checks for a limited period of time, before asking the EU commission and other member states to prolong it.
In the current draft, the number of days is limited to five, after which governments either have to lift the restrictions or go through the EU decision-making process. But EU sources say the number may be altered in the final proposal, due to be presented on 13 September.It is a very brave proposal, to come up with something so pro-European at a time when everybody is going back to nation states, one EU source told this website.The reformist drive was prompted earlier this year by a French decision to deploy border guards and push back Tunisian migrants which had previously arrived in Italy and were granted temporary residence permits.
DenmarkUnder pressure from its anti-immigrant coalition ally, the Danish government also introduced reinforced customs checks at its German and Swedish borders, with migration and crime being a hot topic ahead of the general elections on 15 September.
Stressing that the proposals were asked for by EU leaders in the summer and are not a direct reaction to the Danish moves, Cercone noted that the border-free zone is currently an area of common interest being governed by individual decisions.This has to change,he said. We have to move to a European system if we want Schengen to be safeguarded and guaranteed.Having stronger safeguards in place - the possibility to temporarily suspend a country from the Schengen area if it cannot take care of its borders - may also help Romania and Bulgaria to join, he argued. The two countries had hoped to be part of the border-free area this year, but strong opposition from France, Germany and the Netherlands have thwarted those plans.In an interview with the Muenchener Merkur newspaper, German interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich on Tuesday said that a full membership with the complete lifting of personal controls is out of the question at the moment.But he did not exclude a phased-in approach, with Bulgarian and Romanian airports being included in Schengen first and land borders lifted at a later stage. This was also the case for the nine eastern European states and Malta who joined the area in 2007. Back then, however, land borders came first, at the end of 2007, followed by airports in March 2008.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
As wildfires rage across Texas, feds scuttle volunteer firefighters Mike Adams Natural News September 7, 2011
(NaturalNews) As fires raged across central Texas for the past three days, local citizens sprang into action to protect their lives and property. Local churches opened their doors and began hosting refugees left homeless by the fires which have now destroyed more than 1,000 homes and 100,000 acres across the state in just the past week. Several branches of the YMCA also began hosting families with children, and a public school in Bastrop County opened its doors to serve as an emergency relief center.See a YouTube video of a citizen’s narrow escape around Highway 21 near Bastrop, Texas:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYkc…
Federal agencies seize control on Tuesday
Hundreds of firefighters from all the surrounding counties worked two days and nights in a heroic effort to contain the fires, but high winds Sunday night and all day Monday thwarted their efforts. So the call went out for more volunteer firefighters to join the effort from across the state.Before they arrived, however, the federal government showed up and claimed it was in charge of the situation. Agents with the federal National Interagency Fire Center, a coalition of federal agencies including the U.S. Forest Service, assumed command of firefighting efforts Tuesday afternoon,reports The Gonzales Cannon (http://www.gonzalescannon.com/node/6411).
RealNewsReporter.com is now reporting that volunteer firefighters who had in some cases driven all night to reach Bastrop county were turned away by the feds, who claimed that since local officials never made a formal request for volunteers, the volunteers could not be activated.So while Bastrop County burns from 40+ fires that are still raging, the federal government is actually telling volunteer firefighters to go home.We were at the station getting set up into strike teams, and this guy came up and said that the U.S. Forest Service had assumed control of the situation, and that If you don’t have a vehicle that squirts water, go home, said Gordon Greer of Kirbyville, in a RealNewsReporter article (http://www.realnewsreporter.com/?p=7889). Gordon reportedly drove all night Monday to arrive in Bastrop and take part in the firefighting effort. You’ve got guys who had driven all night long from Corpus Christi and Brownsville on their own dime, and they turned them away,he said.
That same story reports that Jennifer Jones of the U.S. National Interagency Incident Center confirmed multiple federal agencies would be taking over the scene. Tuesday afternoon, the Bastrop County Office of Emergency Management stated on its Facebook page that volunteer firefighters would have to be activated by the National Forestry Service first.In other words, if you’re a local Texan and you want to help other Texans save their ranches, or their homes, or their businesses, you need permission from the federal bureaucracy first! But some Texans aren’t allowing their efforts to be thwarted. As Real News Reporter says in its story, a group of Texas Nationalist Movement members who are also certified firefighters are in the Bastrop area and aiding civilian relief efforts, with or without permission from Washington D.C.
FEMA is approving grant money to help pay for some firefighting efforts
On the good news side, FEMA has reportedly approved several government grants to pay for firefighting efforts, although it should be mentioned that if the federal government wasn’t taking so much of everybody’s money to begin with, local groups of people could more easily afford to pay for their own firefighting defense and wouldn’t need grants to cover the costs in the first place.FEMA has promised to cover up to 75 percent of approved firefighting costs, reports KXAN.com (http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/…), although this will no doubt require weeks or even months of detailed accounting and cost justification efforts.Even Gov. Rick Perry eluded to the frustration of getting federal grants approved for relief efforts, saying, It’s more difficult than it should be to get those assets freed up from the federal government.(http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/…)Perry did confirm that Texas would seek federal disaster relief and that state officials were considering seeking military resources from Fort Hood,reports The Gonzales Cannon (http://www.gonzalescannon.com/node/6411).(Military resources? What kind of military resources? I found it odd yesterday to personally witness what looked like U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters taking off and landing near the Tahitian Village fires in Bastrop. Does the U.S. military have constitutional authority to take part in firefighting operations on U.S. soil? Clearly, some military transport planes could be very useful right now, but we always have to be careful how much control we hand over to the military in these domestic situations… never forget posse comitatus!)
Also, this just confirmed: Gov. Perry has activated Texas Task Force 1, billed as an elite search and rescue team,to head to Bastrop County and make sure everyone is accounted for: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/texas…
Other details on the fire
• Two fatalities have been reported so far: A young mother and her 18-month-old daughter were killed in Gladewater due to the wildfires there.
• Total property damage from the fire is now estimated at $100 million according to the Insurance Council of Texas. (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0…)
• Insurance companies have set up claims camps with large buses and tents to help the locals get their property claims handled. I personally saw several insurance industry buses on the North side of Highway 71 when we drove through.
• 85 fires are still burning across Texas. There is a rumor that at least one Texas fire was started by arson (the fire in Leander), but this has not been confirmed.
• Local churches have stepped up to provide aid, including the Ascension Catholic Church, Grace Lutheran Church and First Baptist Church.
• The winds died down significantly all day Tuesday, greatly slowing the spread of the fires. Low winds are also expected to hold out Wednesday. The severe drought conditions in Texas have made the state a fire tinderbox, and any wind over 5-10 mph could easily cause these fires to spread out of control once again (actually, they’re still not even 10% contained, so they’re not in control at all…)
• Rumor report: A DC-10 aircraft that has been retrofitted for firefighting has arrived in Bastrop County, according to reports on a Central Texas news radio station, but the plane will not be operational until Friday because of mandatory government “down time” restrictions on the flight crew. (Gee, is there nobody else who can fly a DC-10 in Texas? There were thousands of these planes in commercial operation over the past three decades… surely somebody can fly this hunk of steel, despite the fact that the hydraulics have no redundancy!)
NaturalNews wants to talk to some volunteer firefighters…
NaturalNews wishes to thank www.RealNewsReporter.com for covering this story, and I personally would like to know if anyone can put us in touch with Daniel Miller or other members of the Texas Nationalist Movement who would like to be interviewed about all this to tell the rest of the story. Our offices may be contacted at the following email: reply@naturalnews.com or visit www.Facebook.com/naturalnews and send a private message. We are especially interested in stories of local Texans who are trying to help the situation being sent home or interfered with by federal agencies such as FEMA. We all saw what FEMA did to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and we sure don’t need that same government solution in Central Texas.As Rep. Ron Paul has rightly pointed out during numerous interviews,FEMA to the rescue isn’t always a good thing.
Texas volunteer firefighters buy their own gear! Many of the volunteers currently fighting the wildfires in Texas buy their own gear! Please consider supporting them through the Texas Wildfire Relief Fund:http://txwildfirerelief.org/ Over 77 percent of fire departments in Texas are volunteer departments who struggle daily on getting the equipment they need to respond to emergencies across the state, said Chief Chris Barron, Director of the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ Association of Texas (SFFMA). Eighty-six percent of the state’s volunteer firefighters use personal funds for their departments’ safety equipment and supply needs.http://www.globenewswire.com/newsro…)Sources for this story include:http://news.yahoo.com/officials-1-0…
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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.
Yaalon: Israel Not on Brink of War-Vice premier Moshe Yaalon said Israel is not on the brink of war noting arab nations have no time to deal with Israel.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/7/2011, 9:15 PM
Vice premier Moshe Yaalon on Wednesday dismissed the notion strong Islamist currents driving the Arab Spring had brought Israel to the brink of war.There is no all-out-war on our threshold,Yaalon, a former IDF Chief of Staff, stressed. We cannot talk of an Arab coalition. The Arab countries are currently occupied with issues within and have no time to deal with Israel.Tuesday started off with an all-out-war – according to the IDF commander of the Home Front Command, the day continued with the Turkish prime minister's remarks on severing trade ties with Israel, which was later clarified with a statement explaining that he was referring to defense industry trade which has no significant volume as it is; in the background September tsunami is looming. Naturally, the stock market is sliding – not only because of these events but also because of global declines.When we talk about the events unfolding around us, the changes pose no threat to Israel, neither in the short term nor the mid term. What is happening around us is that young people are being exposed to the real word whereas until now they were cut off form the word by totalitarian regimes. Hafez Assad banned cell phones and internet in Syria. He must have seen the world. This wave cannot be contained.The shockwaves present an opportunity for radical elements to try and step into the picture and wreak havoc. The West must do all in its power to help moderate elements rise and prevail over radical elements in the Arab world. Israel will not be affected in the short and mid term; however, we are exposed to the threats on part of terrorist elements which are trying to capitalize on the situation and of course, in the long run there are Iran's nuclear aspirations.
Looking closely at the Arab Spring uprising, one cannot maintain that the uprisings will have only a negative affect on Israel. The situation in Syria which has reached a point of no return may perhaps smash the axis of evil. Insofar as the event in Egypt, is the radical elements in the country are not neutralized Egypt will have a hard time working out of the crisis – this will pose a challenge for any President who is elected.Yaalon's remarks were unusual in that he singled out IDF Home Front Command chief Maj. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg - who said Monday he believed the Arab Spring may lead to an Islamic Winter,increasing the likelihood Israel would find itself at war - for rebuttal.
Trouble for Israel in the Skies Over Turkey? Turkish charter airlines cut back their weekly flights to and from Israel, and El Al is monitoring Israel's diplomatic crisis with Turkey.By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 9/7/2011, 5:50 PM
Turkish charter airlines have cut back their weekly Istanbul-Tel Aviv flights in the face of the rapidly worsening relations between Ankara and Jerusalem. El Al, meanwhile, is monitoring the situation closely: in addition to a spate of cancellations of flights to Turkey, there are other ramifications involved.According to a report published by the Hebrew-language Ha'aretz, El Al has developed contingency plans for the possibility that Turkey may not allow Israel's national carrier to fly through its air space.Such a development would require El Al to reconfigure a number of its routes, including those to the Far East and to the former Soviet Union. This would mean the airline would have to raise its prices due to longer routes that would require more fuel. In addition, the trips themselves would be longer.Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told Arutz Sheva on Wednesday that Israel does not pay a fee to fly through Turkish air space, contrary to other media reports. In addition, Palmor said it was unlikely that Turkey would close its air space to Israeli commercial air traffic.The U.S. has expressed concern over the escalation in tensions between Turkey and Israel over the past several weeks, due to a great extent to Ankara's insistence that Israel apologize for the deaths of nine armed Turkish terror activists who attacked IDF Navy commandos during an attempt in May 2010 by a six-vessel flotilla to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza. All nine were aboard the Turkish IHH-sponsored Mavi Marmara vessel, which carried no humanitarian aid whatsoever.
The United Nations-commissioned Palmer Report has since confirmed that the flotilla had no legal right to breach Israel's territorial waters, and that Israel's blockade of Gaza is legal and appropriate. The blockade is intended to prevent terrorists from supplying Gaza's terrorist rulers with weapons and ordnance, which they then use to attack Israel's civilian population.The last time Turkey downgraded its relations with the Jewish State, Israelis voted with their tourist currency and their consumerism to respond in kind. Despite its diminutive size, in 2008, Israel sent more tourists to Turkey than all but nine other countries in the world. Half a million Israelis visited the country that year, infusing the Turkish economy with tourism dollars.In 2009, however, Israelis canceled plans for annual vacations to Turkey, and companies canceled their workplace junkets.Tourism operators were left with empty slots at a time when the world economy had just started its crash, while the Israeli economy was holding steady with domestic tourism firmed up by Turkish ties to Iran.Some Israeli coffee shops even refused to serve Turkish coffee, to protest the airing of a grossly anti-Israeli scene in a Turkish television show that depicted IDF officers allegedly shooting Arab babies.El Al resumed its daily flights to Istanbul in April 2010 after a hiatus of several years due to security concerns sparked by that growing relationship and Ankara's parallel belligerence towards Israel.
El Al and Turkey's AtlasJet Airlines signed a codeshare agreement at the time, while Turkey's tourism ministry hired a PR firm to resuscitate Israeli visits to the country.Less than a year later, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan continued to aim vitriol at Israel while tightening ties with Israel's enemies, among them the Hamas terrorist rulers of Gaza. Erdogan announced in January 2011 that his nation stands by Hamas, which he called a resistance movement... a political group, and insisting They are people who defend the land.Kadima Knesset member Otniel Schneller suggested last year in response to Erdogan's venom that Israelis boycott dried fruit from Turkey, which is imported in large quantities for the minor Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat.Many Israelis also purchase dried fruit with which to recite the Shehechiyanu blessing (gratitude for having reached this season) during the celebration of the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah, which begins this year at sundown on September 28.
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.
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Tropical Storm Nate forms in Gulf of Mexico
AP SEPT 7,11
MIAMI – Tropical Storm Nate has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, and authorities have issued a tropical storm warning for parts of Mexico's coast.The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Nate could become a hurricane by Friday. The storm was nearly stationary, moving at just 2 mph (3 kph). Nate is expected to move very little Wednesday and Thursday, and then it will start to move north by Friday.
Nate's maximum sustained winds were at 45 mph (72 kph) Wednesday.Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Maria was swirling in the western Atlantic. It was still far from land and was not expected to strengthen in the next couple of days.Hurricane Katia also continued to blow as a Category 1 storm in the Atlantic and was not expected to hit land.
Tropical Storm Maria forms in Atlantic
Reuters SEPT 7,11
MIAMI (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Maria formed in the Atlantic on Wednesday while Hurricane Katia churned up the surf along the beaches of Bermuda and the eastern United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Maria could threaten Puerto Rico and the Leeward Islands of the northeast Caribbean during the weekend, but posed no immediate danger to land.It was about 1,305 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and racing rapidly westward. Maria had top winds of 50 miles per hour (85 km per hour) and could strengthen slightly in the next two days, forecasters at the hurricane center in Miami said.Computer models showed it turning northwest early next week but it was too early to know whether Maria would then curve away from the United States, like Katia is forecast to do.Katia has weakened significantly in the last two days but is still a hurricane with 85 mph winds, making it a Category 1 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. It was a Category 4 at its peak.Katia was centered about 320 miles southwest of the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda and was expected to pass between the eastern U.S. coast and Bermuda by Thursday.
Forecasters said the core of the storm would stay out to sea, but Katia was so wide that its outer squalls could reach the shores of Bermuda, a British territory and global reinsurance hub whose 70,000 residents were under a tropical storm watch.
Katia generated large swells that kicked up the surf and caused dangerous rip currents along the beaches of the Eastern United States, Bermuda, the Greater Antilles and parts of the Bahamas, the forecasters said.Once past Bermuda, Katia is forecast to curve eastward over open seas where it would pose no further threat to land.Neither Maria nor Katia was near the Gulf of Mexico, where U.S. oil and natural gas operations are concentrated.But forecasters were keeping watch on a disturbance in the southwest Gulf of Mexico that they gave a 60 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next few days.Computer models varied widely as to its potential path. Some took it west over Mexico while at least one took it northeast toward the Louisiana-Mississippi coast.The flurry of tropical disturbances is not uncommon for September, the traditional peak of the June-through-November Atlantic hurricane season.(Reporting by Jane Sutton; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Lee's remnants bring fresh flood worries to East
AP By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press – SEPT 7,11
WINDHAM, N.Y. – Drenched and dispirited, East Coast residents recovering from Hurricane Irene were stuck under the chugging remnants of Tropical Storm Lee Wednesday, some of them grudgingly preparing to move to higher ground yet again as rivers rose.From Maryland to New England, heavy rains swelled waterways, flooded highways and stretched emergency responders already dealing with cleanup from last week's punishing blow from Irene. Sodden ground gave rain nowhere to go but directly into streams, creeks and rivers that rushed a turbid red-brown past rural communities.Now it's getting on my last nerves, said Carol Slater, 53, of Huntersfield, N.Y., on the northern edge of New York's Catskill Mountains and just outside of hard-hit Prattsville.The National Weather Service predicted heavy rain would continue across the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states through Thursday with anywhere from 4 to 7 more inches falling and up to 10 in isolated pockets. Flood watches and warnings were up throughout the region.New York positioned rescue workers, swift-water boats and helicopters with hoists to respond quickly in the event of flash flooding. Teams stood by in Vermont, which bore the brunt of Irene's remnants last week, and hundreds of Pennsylvania residents were told to flee a rising creek.By noon Wednesday, Prattsville was cut off, its main roads covered with water as public works crews tried to dredge the creeks to alleviate the flooding. Trash bins stood in the mud-caked streets to collect debris left by Irene and the wreckage of houses destroyed by the earlier storm still dotted the area.
Heavy rain fell and residents were ready to evacuate as the Schoharie Creek escaped its banks and smaller streams showed significant flooding.Businesses and residential areas were devastated before, Wayne Speenburgh, chairman of the Greene County Legislature, said of Prattsville.Downtown, there's nobody living because there's no homes to live in.In nearby Middleburgh, dozens of residents were evacuated from temporary shelters set up in schools, many for the third time since Irene hit. Many businesses remained empty but were adorned with hopeful signs — like the one at Hubie's Pizzeria — that they would reopen.It's encouraging, said James Kelley, 51, of Middleburgh. A lot of people had given up last week, but with all the volunteers and help, it helps people re-energize.Flooding also led to voluntary evacuations in the Catskills town of Shandaken, Rotterdam Junction near Albany, and a section of Schenectady along the Mohawk River. Some schools in the Hudson Valley north of New York City closed or delayed start times.Along the road in Windham were several soggy, cardboard signs from last week's storm that said Thank you for your help.
Patrick Darling said he and wife Dawn are trying to keep their sense of humor while dealing with a second week of flooding.We have stress, lots of stress, he said after using shovels to clear mud and debris from his neighbors' homes. We've been shoveling our stress out.Lee formed just off the Louisiana coast late last week and gained strength as it lingered in the Gulf for a couple of days. It dumped more than a foot of rain in New Orleans and trudged across Mississippi and Alabama.Tornadoes spawned by Lee damaged hundreds of homes, and flooding knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people. Trees were uprooted and roads were flooded. Winds fanned wildfires in Louisiana and Texas, and the storm even kicked up tar balls on the Gulf Coast.At least four people died; no deaths were reported Wednesday. Irene was blamed for at least 46 deaths and billions of dollars in damage.In Maryland, firefighters were among those who had to be rescued Wednesday as storms flooded roads, stranding drivers who had to be pulled from rushing water and pushing residents from their homes.A swift-water rescue boat capsized in the Patapsco River near Catonsville as firefighters responded to rescue calls near the Howard County line, Baltimore County spokeswoman Elise Armacost said, adding that all firefighters were later accounted for.In New York, several residents said even if the call for mandatory evacuation comes, they won't go.We stayed here through Irene, we'll stay through this, said Doris Pasternak, 59, owner of the historic Prattsville Hotel and Tavern, where water rose up to 5 feet into the lower floor after Irene. I have a hatch on the roof. I'm not moving. I'm just too old to pick up and go.A flood watch was in effect through Thursday afternoon in soggy Vermont. Parts of the state are still recovering from flooding from the remnants of Irene, which was a tropical storm by the time it swept over the area.
Swift water rescue teams are on call, and residents should be ready to evacuate if rivers rise fast, said Vermont Emergency Management spokesman Mark Bosma.Irene hit upstate New York and Vermont particularly hard, with at least 12 deaths in those areas and dozens of highways damaged or washed out. Several communities in Vermont were cut off entirely and required National Guard airdrops to get supplies.Flood watches or warnings were in place through Thursday night for much of Pennsylvania. About 3,000 residents along the Solomon Creek in Wilkes-Barre were ordered to evacuate due to quickly rising waters, but the creek crested about 4 feet below flood stage and the order was lifted Wednesday afternoon. Rain from Irene also led to evacuations there last week.Flash flooding shut down dozens of Pennsylvania highways Wednesday and forced the evacuation of some riverfront trailer parks and campgrounds, while state officials braced for potentially worse problems along the swollen Susquehanna River.In New Jersey, where many residents were still cleaning up after Irene, the remnants of Lee were expected to drop anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of rain. There was some flooding along rivers including the Passaic, which breached its banks during Irene and caused serious damage. Heavier flooding is expected Thursday.Meanwhile, in the open Atlantic, Hurricane Katia brought rough surf to the East Coast but was not expected to make landfall in the U.S. Tropical Storm Maria also formed Wednesday far out in the Atlantic, but it was too soon to tell if and where it might make landfall.Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Michael Hill and Rik Stevens in Albany, N.Y.; John Curran in Montpelier, Vt.; Genaro C. Armas in State College, Pa.; Bill Poovey in Chattanooga and Alex Dominguez in Baltimore.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Central Texas wildfire destroys nearly 800 homes
APBy JIM VERTUNO - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11
BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Firefighting crews started Wednesday to gain control of a wind-stoked blaze that has raged unchecked across parched Central Texas for days, leaving hundreds of charred properties in its wake and causing thousands of people to flee.As the crisis unfolded, Gov. Rick Perry flew off to a Republican presidential debate in California as authorities commanded operations fighting the disaster.At least two people have died in the wildfire, which destroyed nearly 800 homes and blackened about 45 square miles (116 square kilometers) in and around the city of Bastrop, outside Austin, the state capital.The Texas Forest Service said Wednesday that blaze had consumed 785 homes, making it the most catastrophic of the fires that have erupted in the past week across Texas. One of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in state history has caused four deaths and pulled the state's firefighting ranks to the limit.But Bastrop County Judge Ronnie McDonald also sounded an optimistic tone, saying firefighters had a good night and that no new structures were lost overnight in the battle to contain the 33,000-acre (13,350-hectare) blaze about 25 miles east of Austin. Containment remained at 30 percent.
The forest service said it responded to a total of 19 new fires Wednesday totaling 1,490 acres (600 hectares) across the state, bringing the count over the past week to more than 170 fires consuming more than 130,000 acres (52,600 hectares).Texas Task Force 1, an elite search team that was sent to New York following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, will be assisting in Bastrop.The team has dogs that can help look for people trapped in debris, Chief Bob McKee told The Associated Press.We also have human remains canines that would scent on deceased persons or animals, McKee said.Crews finally got a reprieve Tuesday from winds pushed in by Tropical Storm Lee that whipped the blaze into an inferno over the weekend. Texas Forest Service spokeswoman April Saginor said the lighter winds were assisting firefighters in their efforts.Even though the fuels are critically dry, the grass is dry and the relative humidity is still pretty low, they were able to take advantage of lower winds, Saginor said.Perry cut short a presidential campaign trip to South Carolina to deal with the crisis, and on Tuesday toured a blackened area near Bastrop.About 1,200 firefighters battled the blazes, including crews from as far away as California and Oregon. Five heavy tanker planes, some from the federal government, and three aircraft capable of scooping 1,500 gallons (5,680 liters) of lake water at a time also helped.The disaster is blamed largely on Texas' yearlong drought, one of the most severe dry spells the state has ever seen. The fire in Bastrop County is the most devastating wildfire in Texas in more than a decade, eclipsing a blaze that destroyed 168 homes in North Texas in April.At least 11 other fires exceeded 1,000 acres (400 hectares) Tuesday, including a 7,000-acre (2,800-hectare) blaze that has destroyed at least 60 homes and threatened hundreds more about 40 miles northwest of Houston. An 8,000-acre (3,230-hectare) fire has destroyed at least six homes in Caldwell County, next to Bastrop County. In far northeast Texas' Cass County, a 7,000-acre (2,800-hectare) fire burned in heavy timberland.Associated Press writers Michael Graczyk in Houston; Jamie Stengle, Danny Robbins, Diana Heidgerd and Schuyler Dixon in Dallas; Betsy Blaney in Lubbock; Will Weissert in Austin; Paul Weber in San Antonio; and AP photographer Eric Gay in Bastrop contributed to this report.
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