Monday, April 29, 2013

ISRAEL PM-IF ACTION NEEDED AGAINST GAZA-WE WILL TAKE IT

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), 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,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

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.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THE MOTHER OF THE BOSTON BOMBERS.WHEN SHE WAS SAYING TO CNN OVER THE PHONE THAT THE FBI,CIA KILLED HER ONE SON,TRYED TO KILL HER OTHER SON AND WILL TRY TO KILL HER.BUT IT WAS AFTER THIS WHAT TIPPED ME OFF BY WHAT SHE SAID.SHE SAID ALLAH AKBAR.ALLAH AKBAR AS SHE ENDED THE CNN CONVERSATIONS.EVERY TIME A ISLAMIC RADICAL KILLS SOMEONE THEY SAY ALLAH AKBAR (GOD IS GREAT) WHILE BEHEADING OR KILLING OR RIOTINNG OR WHATEVER DISPICABLE ACT THEIR DOING.SO THIS SAYING BY THE MOTHER TIPPED ME OFF SHE WAS INVOLVED IN SOMEWAY WITH RADICAL ISLAM.NOW WE FIND OUT RUSSIA TAPPED A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE MOTHER AND OLDEST SON WERE THEY USED THE WORD JIHAD TWICE.THE MOTHER OR FATHER WON'T EVEN COME TO AMERICA NOW EITHER.OR SHE COULD BE CHARGED FOR SHOP LIFTING WITH HER IMPENDING CHARGE.ITS HEATING UP.SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.BUT ISLAMIC RADICALS ARE RUNNING RAMPANT EVERYWHERE.NO MATTER HOW THE SO CALLED GENTLE MUSLIMS SAY THEY REFUTE VIOLENCE.THE KORAN TELLS US DIFFERENTLY ITSELF ,NOT ME. THAT NO MUSLIM IS PEACEFUL.WETHER THEY CLAIME IT OR NOT.

Why do Muslims scream "Allahu Akhbar" while they behead someone?

I've seen the beheading videos of Pearl and Johnson recently and I was wondering why they need to shout "God is great" while sawing someone's head off. Any ideas?

WHOA!… Zubeidat Tsarnaeva Tells CNN: “I Don’t Care if My Youngest Son Is Killed. I Don’t Care If I Am Killed. I Will Say Allahu Akbar!” (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 12:09 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muMu0ay9xJM&feature=player_embedded http://news.yahoo.com/mother-bomb-suspects-found-deeper-spirituality-224317582.html 

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-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)

Habermas urges more 'cooperation' between EU states

Today @ 09:36 APR 29,13
By EUOBSERVER
German philosopher Jurgrn Habermas has called for EU countries to increase co-operation and the pooling of sovereignty in a speech at the Catholic university in Leuven. The 83 year old sociology professor urged member states to agree to "supernational" democracy, with current nation states giving up further powers to Brusseks.

NEHEMIAH 2:17
17  Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we (ISRAELIS) are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste,(AD 70) and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem,(DAN 9:24-27) that we be no more a reproach.

LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.(ISRAEL RECAPTURES JERUSALEM)(THE BEGGINING OF THE LAST GENERATION AND THE LAST END OF THE AGE OF GRACE.NOT THE END OF THE WORLD ,THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

PM: If Action is Needed Against Gaza, We'll Take It

Israel is keeping a close eye on the situation in southern Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday
By David Lev-First Publish: 4/29/2013, 4:59 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

Binyamin Netanyahu
Binyamin Netanyahu-Israel news photo: Flash 90
Israel is keeping a close eye on the situation in southern Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at a meeting of the Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu faction Monday. “There is an attempt to revive the wide-ranging attacks on Israel by terrorists attacking the south,” Netanyahu told MKs at the meeting. “They are attempting to reverse the quiet we attained after Operation Pillar of Defense” last November.In recent days, there has been a significant uptick in the number of missiles being fired by Gaza Arab terrorists at targets in the south. The IDF has conducted forays against terror targets in Gaza in response to the attacks, but if necessary, Israel would take more intensive action, the Prime Minister said.Israel, Netanyahu said, would take any and every step to prevent the relative quiet in southern Israel from being compromised. “We are watching the situation and are prepared for any scenario. We will not allow the safety of Israeli residents to be compromised, not in the south, and not in the north.“It must be clear to the forces in Gaza who are firing these missiles that if these attacks continue, we will take action. We will not allow these incremental missile attacks against Israel to continue. We will respond with much greater force,” Netanyahu added.

Steinitz: Nuclear Iran is Like 30 Nuclear North Koreas

The world must not ignore the warnings about Iran as it did 80 years ago with the Nazis, says Minister Yuval Steinitz.
By Elad Benari-First Publish: 4/29/2013, 2:16 AM-Israelnationalnews

International Relations Minister Yuval Steinitz warned on Sunday that Iran having a nuclear weapon would be equal to “thirty nuclear North Koreas”.“We have the right and the ability to defend ourselves,” he said in a speech at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York. “The cooperation with the United States is very important but ultimately each country will make its own decisions on maintaining its security,” said Steinitz, stressing that “Israel can deal with any threat.”80 years ago, said Steinitz, “only one person identified on time and warned the world against the rearmament of Nazi Germany. This was Winston Churchill, but people refused to listen. Some people even mocked him.”“We shouldn’t repeat the same mistake again,” he added, referring to Iran. “The Nazis spoke about the final solution of the Jews in Europe, and the Iranians are talking about destroying the Jewish State in the Middle East. We have to learn from history, even if it doesn’t repeat itself exactly, and if there’s a lesson to learn from history, it is not to repeat the same mistake again and not to allow, come what may, the nuclearization of Iran.”Referring to Syria, Steinitz rejected allegations that Israel asked the United States to take military action in the war torn country..“We never asked and never encouraged the U.S. to take military action in Syria,” Steinitz told the conference, referring to reports that Israel has been pressuring the Obama administration to get involved in Syria, in the wake of the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.“It is up to the U.S. to decide its policy on Syria,” said Steinitz. “Of course, we exchange views with the U.S. about the situation; it’s a very complex and difficult issue."
He emphasized that Israel will “do its utmost to prevent delivery” of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles to terrorist groups such as Hizbullah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tNA6CKcP5L8
 
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

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)

Israel lawmaker claims Hezbollah getting chemicals

JERUSALEM (AP) — A former Israeli defense minister alleged Monday that Syria's chemical weapons are "trickling" to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the first claim by a senior politician in Israel that one of the country's nightmare scenarios is coming true.Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who also called for international intervention in the Syria's civil war to stop mass civilian deaths, did not supply any evidence for his claim.
"The process of weapon transferal to Hezbollah has begun," Ben-Eliezer told The Associated Press. He refused to elaborate.Ben-Eliezer, a retired general who is now a lawmaker from the opposition Labor party, also told Israel Radio that he "has no doubt" that Syrian President Bashar Assad has already used chemical weapons and that that "these weapons are trickling to Hezbollah."His statements do not represent an official assessment and defense officials say that, while they are concerned about Hezbollah getting chemical weapons, they are assuming it has not yet done so.Israel has repeatedly expressed concern that Syria's chemical arsenal could fall into the hands of anti-Israel militants like Lebanon's Hezbollah, an Assad ally, or an al-Qaida-linked group fighting with the rebels. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that militants getting chemical arms or other sophisticated weapons is a red line that could trigger military action.
Israel is widely believed to have carried out an airstrike in Syria early this year on a shipment of sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles allegedly bound for Hezbollah. Israel has all but confirmed it carried out the attack.
Although Assad is a bitter enemy, Israel has been careful not to take sides in Syria's civil war, partly because the Assad family has kept the border with Israel quiet for the past 40 years and because of fears of what would happen if he is overthrown. Israeli military officials believe some Syrian opposition groups, especially those affiliated with the al-Qaida terror group, will turn their focus toward Israel once Assad is ousted.
Ben-Eliezer said he is "amazed by the silence of the world" and that the international community needs to intervene to end the high civilian death toll in Syria's civil war. He said Israel should consider action if there is no international intervention."I wouldn't rule out preparing a plan for Israel to act if the world continues to remain silent and the weapons continue to flow to Hezbollah. These are crazy people, terrorists who will not hesitate to use this tomorrow morning," he said.This week another former defense chief, Environment Minister Amir Peretz, also called for international action in Syria.Both sides in Syria's civil war accuse each other of using chemical weapons in the war, which according to the U.N. has killed more than 70,000 people.The U.S. has warned such weapons cross a red line and last week said the weapons were probably used, though it still seeks definitive proof.Last week, Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, the head of research and analysis in Israeli military intelligence, said Assad's soldiers had used chemical weapons against rebels. He said sarin, a lethal nerve agent, was probably used in one instance. He cited images of alleged victims of the attacks foaming at the mouth and displaying other apparent symptoms of chemical attacks as part of the evidence.
The Israeli government convened its Security Cabinet to discuss Syria on Sunday but no details were released.

Syrian premier escapes bomb attack in Damascus

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's prime minister escaped a brazen assassination attempt Monday when a bomb exploded near his convoy in Damascus, state media reported, in the latest attack to target a top official in President Bashar Assad's regime.Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi was not hurt in the explosion in the capital's western neighborhood of Mazzeh, state TV said. The TV showed footage of heavily damaged cars and debris in the area as firefighters fought to extinguish a large blaze set off by the blast.The state news agency said al-Halqi condemned the bombing, and quoted him as saying that the assassination attempt exposes how armed groups "are bankrupt" after the latest advances made by Syrian troops around the country.As evidence that the prime minister was unhurt, the state-run Al-Ikhbariya station said al-Halqi went into a regular weekly meeting with an economic committee straight after the bombing.The station broadcast video of the prime minister sitting around a table in a room with several other officials. But in comments after the meeting, al-Halqi made no reference to the blast, nor was he asked about it by reporters, leaving doubt as to whether the footage was filmed before or after the bombing.There were conflicting reports about casualties. The state news agency said one person was killed and several were wounded in the blast. Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said the explosion killed five, including two of al-Halqi's bodyguards and one of the drivers in his convoy.Syria's conflict started with largely peaceful anti-government protests in March 2011 but eventually turned into a civil war that has so far killed more than 70,000 people, according to the United Nations.The daring attack in the upscale neighborhood, which is home to many embassies and government officials, was another blow to the Assad regime, exposing its vulnerability in the very heart of his power base.State TV quoted Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi as saying that targeting al-Halqi, who is in charge of carrying out the political program to end Syria's crisis, shows that some in the opposition "reject a political solution."In January, al-Halqi formed a ministerial committee to conduct dialogue with opposition groups. The dialogue is part of efforts to implement a peace plan, including a national reconciliation conference, Assad outlined in a speech earlier that month.The opposition says it will not accept anything less than Assad's departure, and progress has been made on the dialogue since it was announced.A Syrian government official told The Associated Press that an improvised explosive device was placed under a car that was parked in the area and was detonated as al-Halqi's convoy passed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.The attack in the highly secure Mazzeh neighborhood took place only about 100 meters (yards) from the Swiss ambassador's residence. The posh area also is home to a major military air base. Security forces sealed off the area shortly after the blast, allowing only pedestrians to get near the scene of the bombing.Damaged cars, their seats soaked with blood, were surrounded by debris. A blackened shell of a school bus was left standing. A man told state TV that none of the students on board were hurt because the explosion went off shortly after they had left the bus and headed into the school.
The attack was not the first targeting a high official in the Syrian capital during the past year.On July 18, a blast at Syria's national security building in Damascus during a meeting of Cabinet ministers killed top four officials, including the defense minister and his deputy, who was Assad's brother-in-law. That attack also wounded the interior minister.In December, a car bomb targeted the Interior Ministry in Damascus, killing several people and wounding more than 20, including Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar. Initially, Syrian state media said al-Shaar was not hurt in the Dec. 12 blast. News of his wounds emerged a week later, after he was taken to neighboring Lebanon to be treated for a serious back injury.Earlier in April, Ali Ballan, head of public relations at the Ministry of Social Affairs and a member of Syria's relief agency, was shot dead while dining in a restaurant in Mazzeh.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Monday's attack.
Bombings like the one that struck the prime minister's convoy have been a trademark of Islamic radicals fighting in the rebel ranks, raising concerns about the extremists' role in Syria's civil war.Al-Halqi, a senior member of Assad's ruling Baath party, took office last year after his predecessor, Riad Hijab, defected to Jordan. Al-Halqi was Syria's health minister before taking the post. He hails from the southern city of Daraa, the birthplace of the Syrian uprising.Elsewhere in Syria, the Observatory reported fighting Monday near the Damascus International Airport south of the capital. The group said there were also clashes in the northern neighborhood of Barzeh and shelling of the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, south of Damacus.The Observatory and another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, reported clashes and air raids around the military helicopter base of Mannagh near the border with Turkey in the northern province of Aleppo. On Sunday, the Aleppo Media Center said that the rebels have seized 60 percent of the Mannagh air base.Both groups also reported clashes and shelling Monday in the northwestern province of Idlib and the central region of Homs.___AP writers Barbara Surk and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed.

In changing region, U.S. committed to military ties with Gulf Arabs

By William Maclean and David Alexander
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington is signaling its military commitment to its Gulf Arab allies at a time of unfamiliar strain in their decades old partnership.Syria's civil war and Iran's nuclear program have led to tensions, with Gulf Arab states willing a more assertive U.S. response to bring Iran to heel and force Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power. Growing U.S. energy independence has further complicated a relationship founded on oil and defense.Some Gulf Arab oil states had even begun to wonder if the alliance was anything more than the "practical marriage of convenience for a finite period of time" that Henry Kissinger, in a 2007 interview, saw in Washington's ties to Saudi Arabia.Washington is moving to dismiss such doubts, indicating its military partnership with the ruling dynasties who sit on a third of the world's conventional oil reserves will remain deep-rooted, even if trimmed by budget cuts at home."The United States isn't going anywhere. The United States is firmly committed to the security of all our regional partners," said a senior official accompanying U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in the Middle East last week. "We understand in a clear-eyed way what the threats are in the region."Hagel began his week-long trip days after the Pentagon said it was finalizing a $10 billion arms deal that would strengthen the militaries of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as that of Israel.The agreement, more than a year in the making, would result in the sale of 25 F-16 Desert Falcon jets worth nearly $5 billion to the UAE. The UAE and Saudi Arabia also would be allowed to purchase weapons with so-called "stand-off" capabilities that enable them to engage the enemy with precision at a distance.A few days before the trip, President Barack Obama welcomed to the White House Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the UAE, the largest U.S. export market in the Middle East.In a joint statement they reaffirmed a shared commitment to "close defense and security cooperation, including joint training exercises, counterterrorism cooperation and the deployment of interoperable U.S. defense systems".The deal, and Sheikh Mohammed's warm U.S. welcome, are the latest in a series of signals Washington is sending to the region of its undimmed resolve to support the ruling families, partners in Washington's confrontation with Iran.
OIL AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
The West's energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency, says it expects a continued fall in U.S. oil imports, with North America becoming a net oil exporter by around 2030 and the United States becoming almost self-sufficient in energy by 2035.Some Gulf Arabs worry that a United States self reliant in oil might show less commitment to safeguarding the Strait of Hormuz, the world's main energy artery through which 40 percent of the world's sea-borne oil exports pass.Ensuring global energy security is likely to remain an important part of U.S. strategy, said a U.S. official based in the Middle East. While U.S. purchases of Gulf Arab oil may be declining, global dependence is increasing. This fact engages American support, he said.
"Since the health of the U.S. economy is closely tied to the world's, there's every reason for Washington to help protect its allies here," said Les Janka, a former White House and Pentagon official who now heads a business consultancy in Riyadh.When General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs, told the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank on March 18 that he hoped America would achieve energy independence, he added: "But I can assure you that at least from a military perspective . . . you will find that the future will be a period of greater commitment."Pressed to elaborate by UAE envoy Yousef Al Otaiba, Dempsey replied that that commitment should not be measured in terms of carrier battle groups but in terms of improved collaboration."We just have to figure out how to help you do more, so that we can do less, but that doesn't mean less well."Energy is far from the only concern. A U.S. pivot to Asia, perceptions of U.S. economic decline and U.S. military withdrawals, first from Iraq and now from Afghanistan, have blurred Gulf Arabs' security landscape.Fear of Arab Spring contagion, too, means that Gulf Arab authorities see future threats coming as much from internal sources as from the external ones that were the original premise for Western military support.Shashank Joshi of Britain's Royal United Services Institution said Gulf Arab officials appeared acutely aware the internal threat they now faced "doesn't quite yoke the Americans in the same way" the external threats once did.On Syria, Iran and Bahrain, arenas for a region-wide tussle for influence between Sunni and Shi'te powers, Washington's preference for dialogue appears weak to some Gulf Arabs.
"HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW"
In Bahrain, home of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and an important Western ally in keeping Hormuz open, a simmering revolt by its Shi'ite Muslim majority has prompted calls by some in Washington for U.S. ships to base elsewhere.Echoing the view of many Western analysts, Dubai-based Robert Jordan, a former U.S. ambassador to Riyadh, said he was concerned about the message - "we're here today and gone tomorrow" - that a pullout would send. "Perception becomes reality in this part of the world," he said.Gulf rulers are acutely aware they depend for their security on people who live thousands of miles away, who do not share their religion or lifestyle, and above all who sympathize with the democratic impulse at the origin of the Arab revolts.In December a summit of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council announced plans to set up a unified military command to tighten defense cooperation.GCC states are increasingly well-armed. Defense spending by GCC states rose about 9 percent to $74 billion last year, estimated Nicole Loeser, Middle East analyst at Forecast International. She predicts it will hit $86 billion in 2017.Yet Gulf Arab states have faced a host of obstacles to military integration, including a lack of common equipment and their own reliance on bilateral accords with their U.S. ally.Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, a political scientist in the United Arab Emirates, said confidence in America had dropped because of disagreements with Washington over Syria and dismay over its security failures in Iraq and Afghanistan.But America remained indispensable. "We live in a very dangerous region, so ... our ties with America remain strong".(Additional reporting by Phil Stewart in Washington and Mahmoud Habboush in Dubai; editing by Janet McBride)

FAMINE

EZEKIEL 5:16
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

APNewsBreak: Report: 260,000 died in Somali famine

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death toll estimates, officials told The Associated Press.The aid community believes that tens of thousands of people died needlessly because the international community was slow to respond to early signs of approaching hunger in East Africa in late 2010 and early 2011.The toll was also exacerbated by extremist militants from al-Shabab who banned food aid deliveries to the areas of south-central Somalia that they controlled. Those same militants have also made the task of figuring out an accurate death toll extremely difficult.A Western official briefed on the new report — the most authoritative to date — told AP that it says 260,000 people died, and that half the victims were 5 and under. Two other international officials briefed on the report confirmed that the toll was in the quarter-million range. All three insisted they not be identified because they were not authorized to share the report's contents before it is officially released.The report is being made public Thursday by FEWSNET, a famine early warning system funded by the U.S. government's aid arm USAID, and by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit - Somalia, which is funded by the U.S. and Britain.A previous estimate by the U.K. government said between 50,000 and 100,000 people died in the famine. The new report used research conducted by specialists experienced in estimating death tolls in emergencies and disasters. Those researchers relied on food and mortality data compiled by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit.Because of the imprecise nature of the data available, the toll remains only an estimate.When asked about the report, Somalia Health Minister Maryan Qasim Ahmed said she didn't want to comment until she read it because of questions she had about the accuracy of the figures.
Sikander Khan, the head of UNICEF in Somalia, also said he needed to look at the report's methodology before commenting specifically. But he said generally that the response to the famine was problematic because it depended on political dynamics. He said the international community needs to change the way it classifies famines."You lose children by the time people realize it's met the established definition of famine," he said.Marthe Everard, the World Health Organization's country director for Somalia, said she has not yet seen the report but would not be surprised by such a high death toll."The Somalis themselves were shocked about the number of women and children dying," she said, adding later: "It should give us lessons learned, but what do we do with it? How do we correct it for next time?"Much of the aid response came after pictures of weak and dying children were publicized by international media outlets around the time the U.N. declared a famine in July 2011."By then you are too late," Everard said.A report last year by the aid groups Oxfam and Save the Children found that rich donor nations waited until the crisis was in full swing before donating a substantial amount of money. The report also said aid agencies were slow to respond.Quicker action wouldn't have prevented the deaths in areas controlled by al-Shabab. The militant group prevented many men from leaving the famine-hit region and allowed no emergency food aid in.Thousands of Somalis walked dozens or hundreds of miles to reach camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. Countless numbers of families lost children or elderly members along routes that became known as roads of death.

EVERYTHING IS RIGGED-THE BIGGEST PRICE FIXING EVER

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

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:(CONFISCATED) 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(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUgVL9PdxM&list=UU4SH8rh0OjYV3zwqnIfqNbA&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPX59y4KxE&feature=related

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON APRIL 29,2013

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WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHyMYEzRyf8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUUcb36a_4I&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA0xEM1KwG4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7o1S4m5mCw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC7HYC5cto&feature=player_embedded

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.(10 DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT)(10 TRADE BLOCS I BELIEVE)
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(ALL THE WORLDS CITIZENS UNDER DICTATORSHIP)
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.

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever

The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix

Illustration by Victor Juhasz
April 25, 2013 1:00 PM ET
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three – and perhaps as many as 16 – of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that's trillion, with a "t") worth of financial instruments. When that sprawling con burst into public view last year, it was easily the biggest financial scandal in history – MIT professor Andrew Lo even said it "dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scam in the history of markets."That was bad enough, but now Libor may have a twin brother. Word has leaked out that the London-based firm ICAP, the world's largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world's largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps.Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.It should surprise no one that among the players implicated in this scheme to fix the prices of interest-rate swaps are the same megabanks – including Barclays, UBS, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Scotland – that serve on the Libor panel that sets global interest rates. In fact, in recent years many of these banks have already paid multimillion-dollar settlements for anti-competitive manipulation of one form or another (in addition to Libor, some were caught up in an anti-competitive scheme, detailed in Rolling Stone last year, to rig municipal-debt service auctions). Though the jumble of financial acronyms sounds like gibberish to the layperson, the fact that there may now be price-fixing scandals involving both Libor and ISDAfix suggests a single, giant mushrooming conspiracy of collusion and price-fixing hovering under the ostensibly competitive veneer of Wall Street culture.The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia Why? Because Libor already affects the prices of interest-rate swaps, making this a manipulation-on-manipulation situation. If the allegations prove to be right, that will mean that swap customers have been paying for two different layers of price-fixing corruption. If you can imagine paying 20 bucks for a crappy PB&J because some evil cabal of agribusiness companies colluded to fix the prices of both peanuts and peanut butter, you come close to grasping the lunacy of financial markets where both interest rates and interest-rate swaps are being manipulated at the same time, often by the same banks."It's a double conspiracy," says an amazed Michael Greenberger, a former director of the trading and markets division at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and now a professor at the University of Maryland. "It's the height of criminality."The bad news didn't stop with swaps and interest rates. In March, it also came out that two regulators – the CFTC here in the U.S. and the Madrid-based International Organization of Securities Commissions – were spurred by the Libor revelations to investigate the possibility of collusive manipulation of gold and silver prices. "Given the clubby manipulation efforts we saw in Libor benchmarks, I assume other benchmarks – many other benchmarks – are legit areas of inquiry," CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said.But the biggest shock came out of a federal courtroom at the end of March – though if you follow these matters closely, it may not have been so shocking at all – when a landmark class-action civil lawsuit against the banks for Libor-related offenses was dismissed. In that case, a federal judge accepted the banker-defendants' incredible argument: If cities and towns and other investors lost money because of Libor manipulation, that was their own fault for ever thinking the banks were competing in the first place."A farce," was one antitrust lawyer's response to the eyebrow-raising dismissal.
"Incredible," says Sylvia Sokol, an attorney for Constantine Cannon, a firm that specializes in antitrust cases.
All of these stories collectively pointed to the same thing: These banks, which already possess enormous power just by virtue of their financial holdings – in the United States, the top six banks, many of them the same names you see on the Libor and ISDAfix panels, own assets equivalent to 60 percent of the nation's GDP – are beginning to realize the awesome possibilities for increased profit and political might that would come with colluding instead of competing. Moreover, it's increasingly clear that both the criminal justice system and the civil courts may be impotent to stop them, even when they do get caught working together to game the system.If true, that would leave us living in an era of undisguised, real-world conspiracy, in which the prices of currencies, commodities like gold and silver, even interest rates and the value of money itself, can be and may already have been dictated from above. And those who are doing it can get away with it. Forget the Illuminati – this is the real thing, and it's no secret. You can stare right at it, anytime you want.

The banks found a loophole, a basic flaw in the machine. Across the financial system, there are places where prices or official indices are set based upon unverified data sent in by private banks and financial companies. In other words, we gave the players with incentives to game the system institutional roles in the economic infrastructure.Libor, which measures the prices banks charge one another to borrow money, is a perfect example, not only of this basic flaw in the price-setting system but of the weakness in the regulatory framework supposedly policing it. Couple a voluntary reporting scheme with too-big-to-fail status and a revolving-door legal system, and what you get is unstoppable corruption.Every morning, 18 of the world's biggest banks submit data to an office in London about how much they believe they would have to pay to borrow from other banks. The 18 banks together are called the "Libor panel," and when all of these data from all 18 panelist banks are collected, the numbers are averaged out. What emerges, every morning at 11:30 London time, are the daily Libor figures.Banks submit numbers about borrowing in 10 different currencies across 15 different time periods, e.g., loans as short as one day and as long as one year. This mountain of bank-submitted data is used every day to create benchmark rates that affect the prices of everything from credit cards to mortgages to currencies to commercial loans (both short- and long-term) to swaps.Gangster Bankers Broke Every Law in the Book Dating back perhaps as far as the early Nineties, traders and others inside these banks were sometimes calling up the company geeks responsible for submitting the daily Libor numbers (the "Libor submitters") and asking them to fudge the numbers. Usually, the gimmick was the trader had made a bet on something – a swap, currencies, something – and he wanted the Libor submitter to make the numbers look lower (or, occasionally, higher) to help his bet pay off.
Famously, one Barclays trader monkeyed with Libor submissions in exchange for a bottle of Bollinger champagne, but in some cases, it was even lamer than that. This is from an exchange between a trader and a Libor submitter at the Royal Bank of Scotland:
SWISS FRANC TRADER: can u put 6m swiss libor in low pls?...
PRIMARY SUBMITTER: Whats it worth
SWSISS FRANC TRADER: ive got some sushi rolls from yesterday?...
PRIMARY SUBMITTER: ok low 6m, just for u
SWISS FRANC TRADER: wooooooohooooooo. . . thatd be awesome
Screwing around with world interest rates that affect billions of people in exchange for day-old sushi – it's hard to imagine an image that better captures the moral insanity of the modern financial-services sector.
Hundreds of similar exchanges were uncovered when regulators like Britain's Financial Services Authority and the U.S. Justice Department started burrowing into the befouled entrails of Libor. The documentary evidence of anti-competitive manipulation they found was so overwhelming that, to read it, one almost becomes embarrassed for the banks. "It's just amazing how Libor fixing can make you that much money," chirped one yen trader. "Pure manipulation going on," wrote another.Yet despite so many instances of at least attempted manipulation, the banks mostly skated. Barclays got off with a relatively minor fine in the $450 million range, UBS was stuck with $1.5 billion in penalties, and RBS was forced to give up $615 million. Apart from a few low-level flunkies overseas, no individual involved in this scam that impacted nearly everyone in the industrialized world was even threatened with criminal prosecution.Two of America's top law-enforcement officials, Attorney General Eric Holder and former Justice Department Criminal Division chief Lanny Breuer, confessed that it's dangerous to prosecute offending banks because they are simply too big. Making arrests, they say, might lead to "collateral consequences" in the economy.The relatively small sums of money extracted in these settlements did not go toward reparations for the cities, towns and other victims who lost money due to Libor manipulation. Instead, it flowed mindlessly into government coffers. So it was left to towns and cities like Baltimore (which lost money due to fluctuations in their municipal investments caused by Libor movements), pensions like the New Britain, Connecticut, Firefighters' and Police Benefit Fund, and other foundations – and even individuals (billionaire real-estate developer Sheldon Solow, who filed his own suit in February, claims that his company lost $450 million because of Libor manipulation) – to sue the banks for damages.One of the biggest Libor suits was proceeding on schedule when, early in March, an army of superstar lawyers working on behalf of the banks descended upon federal judge Naomi Buchwald in the Southern District of New York to argue an extraordinary motion to dismiss. The banks' legal dream team drew from heavyweight Beltway-connected firms like Boies Schiller (you remember David Boies represented Al Gore), Davis Polk (home of top ex-regulators like former SEC enforcement chief Linda Thomsen) and Covington & Burling, the onetime private-practice home of both Holder and Breuer.The presence of Covington & Burling in the suit – representing, of all companies, Citigroup, the former employer of current Treasury Secretary Jack Lew – was particularly galling. Right as the Libor case was being dismissed, the firm had hired none other than Lanny Breuer, the same Lanny Breuer who, just a few months before, was the assistant attorney general who had balked at criminally prosecuting UBS over Libor because, he said, "Our goal here is not to destroy a major financial institution."
In any case, this all-star squad of white-shoe lawyers came before Buchwald and made the mother of all audacious arguments. Robert Wise of Davis Polk, representing Bank of America, told Buchwald that the banks could not possibly be guilty of anti- competitive collusion because nobody ever said that the creation of Libor was competitive. "It is essential to our argument that this is not a competitive process," he said. "The banks do not compete with one another in the submission of Libor."

If you squint incredibly hard and look at the issue through a mirror, maybe while standing on your head, you can sort of see what Wise is saying. In a very theoretical, technical sense, the actual process by which banks submit Libor data – 18 geeks sending numbers to the British Bankers' Association offices in London once every morning – is not competitive perse.But these numbers are supposed to reflect interbank-loan prices derived in a real, competitive market. Saying the Libor submission process is not competitive is sort of like pointing out that bank robbers obeyed the speed limit on the way to the heist. It's the silliest kind of legal sophistry.But Wise eventually outdid even that argument, essentially saying that while the banks may have lied to or cheated their customers, they weren't guilty of the particular crime of antitrust collusion. This is like the old joke about the lawyer who gets up in court and claims his client had to be innocent, because his client was committing a crime in a different state at the time of the offense."The plaintiffs, I believe, are confusing a claim of being perhaps deceived," he said, "with a claim for harm to competition."Judge Buchwald swallowed this lunatic argument whole and dismissed most of the case. Libor, she said, was a "cooperative endeavor" that was "never intended to be competitive." Her decision "does not reflect the reality of this business, where all of these banks were acting as competitors throughout the process," said the antitrust lawyer Sokol. Buchwald made this ruling despite the fact that both the U.S. and British governments had already settled with three banks for billions of dollars for improper manipulation, manipulation that these companies admitted to in their settlements.Michael Hausfeld of Hausfeld LLP, one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs in this Libor suit, declined to comment specifically on the dismissal. But he did talk about the significance of the Libor case and other manipulation cases now in the pipeline."It's now evident that there is a ubiquitous culture among the banks to collude and cheat their customers as many times as they can in as many forms as they can conceive," he said. "And that's not just surmising. This is just based upon what they've been caught at."Greenberger says the lack of serious consequences for the Libor scandal has only made other kinds of manipulation more inevitable. "There's no therapy like sending those who are used to wearing Gucci shoes to jail," he says. "But when the attorney general says, 'I don't want to indict people,' it's the Wild West. There's no law."The problem is, a number of markets feature the same infrastructural weakness that failed in the Libor mess. In the case of interest-rate swaps and the ISDAfix benchmark, the system is very similar to Libor, although the investigation into these markets reportedly focuses on some different types of improprieties.Though interest-rate swaps are not widely understood outside the finance world, the root concept actually isn't that hard. If you can imagine taking out a variable-rate mortgage and then paying a bank to make your loan payments fixed, you've got the basic idea of an interest-rate swap.In practice, it might be a country like Greece or a regional government like Jefferson County, Alabama, that borrows money at a variable rate of interest, then later goes to a bank to "swap" that loan to a more predictable fixed rate. In its simplest form, the customer in a swap deal is usually paying a premium for the safety and security of fixed interest rates, while the firm selling the swap is usually betting that it knows more about future movements in interest rates than its customers.Prices for interest-rate swaps are often based on ISDAfix, which, like Libor, is yet another of these privately calculated benchmarks. ISDAfix's U.S. dollar rates are published every day, at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., after a gang of the same usual-suspect megabanks (Bank of America, RBS, Deutsche, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, etc.) submits information about bids and offers for swaps.And here's what we know so far: The CFTC has sent subpoenas to ICAP and to as many as 15 of those member banks, and plans to interview about a dozen ICAP employees from the company's office in Jersey City, New Jersey. Moreover, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, or ISDA, which works together with ICAP (for U.S. dollar transactions) and Thomson Reuters to compute the ISDAfix benchmark, has hired the consulting firm Oliver Wyman to review the process by which ISDAfix is calculated. Oliver Wyman is the same company that the British Bankers' Association hired to review the Libor submission process after that scandal broke last year. The upshot of all of this is that it looks very much like ISDAfix could be Libor all over again."It's obviously reminiscent of the Libor manipulation issue," Darrell Duffie, a finance professor at Stanford University, told reporters. "People may have been naive that simply reporting these rates was enough to avoid manipulation."And just like in Libor, the potential losers in an interest-rate-swap manipulation scandal would be the same sad-sack collection of cities, towns, companies and other nonbank entities that have no way of knowing if they're paying the real price for swaps or a price being manipulated by bank insiders for profit. Moreover, ISDAfix is not only used to calculate prices for interest-rate swaps, it's also used to set values for about $550 billion worth of bonds tied to commercial real estate, and also affects the payouts on some state-pension annuities.So although it's not quite as widespread as Libor, ISDAfix is sufficiently power-jammed into the world financial infrastructure that any manipulation of the rate would be catastrophic – and a huge class of victims that could include everyone from state pensioners to big cities to wealthy investors in structured notes would have no idea they were being robbed.
"How is some municipality in Cleveland or wherever going to know if it's getting ripped off?" asks Michael Masters of Masters Capital Management, a fund manager who has long been an advocate of greater transparency in the derivatives world. "The answer is, they won't know."Worse still, the CFTC investigation apparently isn't limited to possible manipulation of swap prices by monkeying around with ISDAfix. According to reports, the commission is also looking at whether or not employees at ICAP may have intentionally delayed publication of swap prices, which in theory could give someone (bankers, cough, cough) a chance to trade ahead of the information.Swap prices are published when ICAP employees manually enter the data on a computer screen called "19901." Some 6,000 customers subscribe to a service that allows them to access the data appearing on the 19901 screen.The key here is that unlike a more transparent, regulated market like the New York Stock Exchange, where the results of stock trades are computed more or less instantly and everyone in theory can immediately see the impact of trading on the prices of stocks, in the swap market the whole world is dependent upon a handful of brokers quickly and honestly entering data about trades by hand into a computer terminal.Any delay in entering price data would provide the banks involved in the transactions with a rare opportunity to trade ahead of the information. One way to imagine it would be to picture a racetrack where a giant curtain is pulled over the track as the horses come down the stretch – and the gallery is only told two minutes later which horse actually won. Anyone on the right side of the curtain could make a lot of smart bets before the audience saw the results of the race.


At ICAP, the interest-rate swap desk, and the 19901 screen, were reportedly controlled by a small group of 20 or so brokers, some of whom were making millions of dollars. These brokers made so much money for themselves the unit was nicknamed "Treasure Island."Already, there are some reports that brokers of Treasure Island did create such intentional delays. Bloomberg interviewed a former broker who claims that he watched ICAP brokers delay the reporting of swap prices. "That allows dealers to tell the brokers to delay putting trades into the system instead of in real time," Bloomberg wrote, noting the former broker had "witnessed such activity firsthand." An ICAP spokesman has no comment on the story, though the company has released a statement saying that it is "cooperating" with the CFTC's inquiry and that it "maintains policies that prohibit" the improper behavior alleged in news reports.The idea that prices in a $379 trillion market could be dependent on a desk of about 20 guys in New Jersey should tell you a lot about the absurdity of our financial infrastructure. The whole thing, in fact, has a darkly comic element to it. "It's almost hilarious in the irony," says David Frenk, director of research for Better Markets, a financial-reform advocacy group, "that they called it ISDAfix."After scandals involving libor and, perhaps, ISDAfix, the question that should have everyone freaked out is this: What other markets out there carry the same potential for manipulation? The answer to that question is far from reassuring, because the potential is almost everywhere. From gold to gas to swaps to interest rates, prices all over the world are dependent upon little private cabals of cigar-chomping insiders we're forced to trust."In all the over-the-counter markets, you don't really have pricing except by a bunch of guys getting together," Masters notes glumly.That includes the markets for gold (where prices are set by five banks in a Libor-ish teleconferencing process that, ironically, was created in part by N M Rothschild & Sons) and silver (whose price is set by just three banks), as well as benchmark rates in numerous other commodities – jet fuel, diesel, electric power, coal, you name it. The problem in each of these markets is the same: We all have to rely upon the honesty of companies like Barclays (already caught and fined $453 million for rigging Libor) or JPMorgan Chase (paid a $228 million settlement for rigging municipal-bond auctions) or UBS (fined a collective $1.66 billion for both muni-bond rigging and Libor manipulation) to faithfully report the real prices of things like interest rates, swaps, currencies and commodities.All of these benchmarks based on voluntary reporting are now being looked at by regulators around the world, and God knows what they'll find. The European Federation of Financial Services Users wrote in an official EU survey last summer that all of these systems are ripe targets for manipulation. "In general," it wrote, "those markets which are based on non-attested, voluntary submission of data from agents whose benefits depend on such benchmarks are especially vulnerable of market abuse and distortion."
Translation: When prices are set by companies that can profit by manipulating them, we're f--ked.
"You name it," says Frenk. "Any of these benchmarks is a possibility for corruption."The only reason this problem has not received the attention it deserves is because the scale of it is so enormous that ordinary people simply cannot see it. It's not just stealing by reaching a hand into your pocket and taking out money, but stealing in which banks can hit a few keystrokes and magically make whatever's in your pocket worth less. This is corruption at the molecular level of the economy, Space Age stealing – and it's only just coming into view.This story is from the May 9th, 2013 issue of Rolling Stone.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425page=4#ixzz2RnMnvCHd
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

TORAH PORTION FROM APR 28 - MAY 4,2013

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

TORAH PORTION FROM APR 28 - MAY 4,2013
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2011/05/parshah-behar-leviticus-251-262.html 

NHL AFTER OTT/BOS TODAY SET FOR PLAYOFFS 2012-13

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

2013 OFFICIAL DRAFT PICK ORDER
1-FLA,2-COL,3-TBL,4-NSH,5-CGY,6-CAR,7-EDM,8-NJD,9-BUF,10-DAL,11-PHI,12-PHX,13-WPG,14-CLB,15-,16-,17-,18-,19-,20-,21-,22-,23-,24-,25-,26-,27-,28-,29-,30-,

2012-13 PLAYOFF MATCHUP RESULTS

1ST ROUND BEST OF 7 CONFERENCE QUARTER-FINALS

EAST DIVISION SERIES A NYI VS PIT
G1-May 01,13 NYI 0 PIT 0
G2-May 03,13 NYI 0 PIT 0
G3-May 05,13 PIT 0 NYI 0
G4-May 07,13 PIT 0 NYI 0
G5-May 09,13 NYI 0 PIT 0
G6-May 11,13 PIT 0 NYI 0
G7-May 12,13 NYI 0 PIT 0 (PIT WINS 0-0)

EAST DIVISION SERIES B OTT VS MTL
G1-May 02,13 OTT 0 MTL 0
G2-May 03,13 OTT 0 MTL 0
G3-May 05,13 MTL 0 OTT 0
G4-May 07,13 MTL 0 OTT 0
G5-May 09,13 OTT 0 MTL 0
G6-May 11,13 MTL 0 OTT 0
G7-May 12,13 OTT 0 MTL 0 (MTL WINS 0-0)

EAST DIVISION SERIES C NYR VS WSH
G1-May 02,13 NYR 0 WSH 0
G2-May 04,13 NYR 0 WSH 0
G3-May 06,13 WSH 0 NYR 0
G4-May 08,13 WSH 0 NYR 0
G5-May 10,13 NYR 0 WSH 0
G6-May 12,13 WSH 0 NYR 0
G7-May 13,13 NYR 0 WSH 0 (WSH WINS 0-0)

EAST DIVISION SERIES D TOR VS BOS
G1-May 01,13 TOR 0 BOS 0
G2-May 04,13 TOR 0 BOS 0
G3-May 06,13 BOS 0 TOR 0
G4-May 08,13 BOS 0 TOR 0
G5-May 10,13 TOR 0 BOS 0
G6-May 12,13 BOS 0 TOR 0
G7-May 13,13 TOR 0 BOS 0 (TOR WINS 0-0)

1ST ROUND BEST OF 7 CONFERENCE QUARTER-FINALS

WEST DIVISION SERIES E MIN VS CHI
G1-Apr 30,13 MIN 0 CHI 0
G2-May 03,13 MIN 0 CHI 0
G3-May 05,13 CHI 0 MIN 0
G4-May 07,13 CHI 0 MIN 0
G5-May 09,13 MIN 0 CHI 0
G6-May 11,13 CHI 0 MIN 0
G7-May 12,13 MIN 0 CHI 0 (CHI WINS 0-0)

WEST DIVISION SERIES F DET VS ANA
G1-Apr 30,13 DET 0 ANA 0
G2-May 02,13 DET 0 ANA 0
G3-May 04,13 ANA 0 DET 0
G4-May 06,13 ANA 0 DET 0
G5-May 08,13 DET 0 ANA 0
G6-May 10,13 ANA 0 DET 0
G7-May 12,13 DET 0 ANA 0 (ANA WINS 0-0)

WEST DIVISION SERIES G SJS VS VAN
G1-May 01,13 SJS 0 VAN 0
G2-May 03,13 SJS 0 VAN 0
G3-May 05,13 VAN 0 SJS 0
G4-May 07,13 VAN 0 SJS 0
G5-May 09,13 SJS 0 VAN 0
G6-May 11,13 VAN 0 SJS 0
G7-May 13,13 SJS 0 VAN 0 (VAN WINS 0-0)

WEST DIVISION SERIES H LAK VS STL
G1-Apr 30,13 LAK 0 STL 0
G2-May 02,13 LAK 0 STL 0
G3-May 04,13 STL 0 LAK 0
G4-May 06,13 STL 0 LAK 0
G5-May 08,13 LAK 0 STL 0
G6-May 10,13 STL 0 LAK 0
G7-May 13,13 LAK 0 STL 0 (LAK WINS 0-0)

NHL STANDINGS UPDATE
AS OF APRIL 28,2013

EASTERN CONFERENCE

ATLANTIC DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
PIT    48    36    12    00    72    165    119
NYR    48    26    18    04    56    130    112
NYI    48    24    17    07    55    139    139
PHI    48    23    22    03    49    133    141
NJD    48    19    19    10    48    112    129

NORTHEAST DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
MTL    48    29    14    05    63    149    126
BOS    48    28    14    06    62    131    109
TOR    48    26    17    05    57    145    133
OTT    48    25    17    06    56    116    104
BUF    48    21    21    06    48    125    143

SOUTHEAST DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
WSH    48    27    18    03    57    149    130
WPG    48    24    21    03    51    128    144
CAR    48    19    25    04    42    128    160
TBL    48    18    26    04    40    148    150
FLA    48    15    27    06    36    112    171

WESTERN CONFERENCE

CENTRAL DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
CHI    48    36    07    05    77    155    102
STL    48    29    17    02    60    129    115
DET    48    24    16    08    56    124    115
CLB    48    24    17    07    55    120    119
NSH    48    16    23    09    41    111    139

NORTHWEST DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
VAN    48    26    15    07    59    126    121
MIN    48    26    19    03    55    122    127
EDM    48    19    22    07    45    125    134
CGY    48    19    25    04    42    128    160
COL    48    16    25    07    39    116    152

PACIFIC DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
ANA    48    30    12    06    66    140    117
LAK    48    27    16    05    59    133    118
SJS    48    25    16    07    57    124    116
PHX    48    21    18    09    51    125    131
DAL    48    22    22    04    48    130    142

TEAM=TEAM,GP=GAMES PLAYED,W=WINS,L=LOSSES,OT=OVERTIME LOSSES, PTS=POINTS,GF=GOALS FOR,GA=GOALS AGAINST

CURRENT PLAYOFF MATCHUPS WITH 00 DAYS LEFT

EAST

D-TOR 57 AT BOS 62
C-NYR 56 AT WSH 57
B-OTT 56 AT MTL 63
A-NYI 54 AT PIT 72

OUT OF PLAYOFFS
WPG 51 - PHI 49
BUF 48 - NJD 48
CAR 42 - TBL 40
FLA 36

WEST

H-LAK 59 AT STL 60
G-SJS 57 AT VAN 59
F-DET 56 AT ANA 66
E-MIN 55 AT CHI 77

OUT OF PLAYOFFS
CLB 55 - PHX 51
DAL 48 - EDM 45
CGY 42 - NSH 41
COL 39

LEAFS STATISTICS AS OF APR 28,2013

PLAYER    GP    G    A    PTS    PIM    PP    SHG
P Kessel    48    20    32    52    18    06    00
N Kadri        48    18    26    44    23    05    00
J Van Riem    48    18    14    32    26    05    00
C Franson    45    04    25    29    08    03    00
T Bozak    46    12    16    28    06    04    01
D Phaneuf    48    09    19    28    63    03    00
N Kulemin    48    07    16    23    22    00    00
C MacArthur    40    08    12    20    26    02    00
J Lupul        16    11    07    18    12    03    00
J McClement    48    08    09    17    11    00    00
M Grabovski    48    09    07    16    24    00    00
C Gunnarsson    37    01    14    15    14    00    00
M Frattin    25    07    06    13    04    00    00
J-M Liles    31    02    09    11    04    00    00
L Komarov    42    04    05    09    18    00    00
M Kostka    36    00    08    08    27    00    00
M Fraser    45    00    08    08    85    00    00
F McLaren    36    03    02    05    112    00    00
C Orr        43    01    03    04    155    00    00
J Gardiner    12    00    04    04    00    00    00
K Holzer    22    02    01    03    28    00    00
R O'Byrne    08    01    01    02    06    00    00
R Hamilton    10    00    02    02    00    00    00
J Reimer    33    00    01    01    00    00    00
J Colborne    05    00    00    00    02    00    00
J Rynnas    01    00    00    00    00    00    00
B Scrivens    20    00    00    00    06    00    00
M Brown (TR)    12    00    01    01    70    00    00
D Steckel (TR)  13    00    01    01    00    00    00
M Komisa (M)    04    00    00    00    02    00    00
TEAM-BENCH    00    00    00    00    06    00    00

(TR) -TRADED TO ANOTHER TEAM
(M) - MINORS TO BE BOUGHT OUT

GOALIES-TEAMS
GP-GAMES PLAYED,W-WINS,L-LOSSES,OT-OVERTIME LOSSES,MIN-MINUTES PLAYED,SO-SHUTOUTS,GA-GOALS AGAINST,SHA-SHOTS AGAINST,GAA-GOALIES AGAINST AVERAGE,SV%-SAVE PERCENTAGE

OTM = EXTRA OVERTIME MINUTES PLAYED

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
V Fasth 25-15-06-02-1428-04-052-0661-2.19--.921  ANA
J Hiller   26-15-06-04-1498-01-059-0675-2.36--.913  ANA
TEAM    48-30-12-06-2936-05-115-1340-2.35--.914  ANA

SO  EN  GOALIE
04   03   V Fasth ANA
01   01   J Hiller ANA
OTM - 56

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
T Rask   36-19-10-05-2044-05-067-0959-1.97--.930  BOS
A Khud  14-09-04-01-0803-01-031-0388-2.32--.920  BOS
TEAM    48-28-14-06-2864-06-102-1351-2.14--.925  BOS

SO  EN  GOALIE
05   05   T Rask BOS
01   00   A Khudobin BOS
OTM - 44

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
J Enrot   12-04-04-01-0623-01-027-0332-2.60--.919  BUF
R Miller  40-17-17-05-2302-00-108-1270-2.81--.915  BUF
TEAM    48-21-21-06-2946-01-139-1606-2.83--.913  BUF

SO  EN  GOALIE
00   03   R Miller BUF
01   01   J Enroth BUF
00   00   M Hackett BUF
OTM - 66

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
J MacD  21-08-09-01-1148-00-055-0562-2.87--.902  CGY
D Taylo  02-01-01-00-0120-00-006-0068-3.00--.912  CGY
L Irving   06-02-01-01-0270-00-015-0128-3.33--.883  CGY
M Kipru 24-08-14-02-1344--00-077-0650-3.44--.882  CGY
TEAM    48-19-25-04-2902-00-157-1412-3.25--.889  CGY

SO  EN  GOALIE
00   02   M Kiprusoff CGY
00   02   J MacDonald CGY
00   00   L Irving CGY
00   00   D Taylor CGY
OTM - 22

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
C Ward  17-09-06-01-0929-00-044-0477-2.84--.908  CAR
D Ellis    19-06-08-02-0997-01-052-0555-3.13--.906  CAR
J Peter   19-04-11-01-0954-01-055-0506-3.46--.891  CAR
TEAM    48-19-25-04-2898-02-159-1546-3.29--.897  CAR

SO  EN  GOALIE
01   01   D Ellis CAR
00   01   C Ward CAR
01   06   J Peters CAR
OTM - 18

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
R Emer  21-17-01-00-1116-03-036-0460-1.94--.922  CHI
C Crawf  30-19-05-05-1761-03-057-0769-1.94--.926  CHI
C Hutto  01-00-01-00-0059-00-003-0028-3.06--.893  CHI
TEAM    48-36-07-05-2946-07-097-1258-1.98--.923  CHI
SHARED S/O 1 EXTRA TO TEAM ONLY

SO  EN  GOALIE
03   01   C Crawford CHI
03   00   R Emery CHI
00   00   C Hutton CHI
OTM - 66

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
S Aitto   01-00-00-00-0049-00-002-0025-2.45--.920  COL
J-S Gig  18-05-04-04-0908-00-043-0469-2.84--.908  COL
S Varla  35-11-21-03-1950-03-098-1007-3.02--.903  COL
TEAM    48-16-25-07-2931-03-150-1508-3.07--.901  COL

SO  EN  GOALIE
03   06   S Varlamov COL
00   01   J-S Giguere COL
00   00   S Aittokallio COL
OTM - 51

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
S Bobro 38-21-11-06-2219-04-074-1084-2.00--.932  CLB
S Mas   13-03-06-01-0712-00-035-0346-2.95--.899  CLB*
TEAM    48-24-17-07-2949-04-115-1436-2.34--.920  CLB

SO  EN  GOALIE
04   03   S Bobrovsky CLB
00   03   S Mason CLB (TRADED)(PHI)
00   00   M Leighton CLB
OTM - 69

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
K Leht   36-15-14-03-1986-01-088-1050-2.66--.916  DAL
C Nilst   05-01-03-01-0291-00-015-0146-3.09--.897  DAL
R Bach  13-06-05-00-0609-00-033-0288-3.25--.885  DAL
TEAM    48-22-22-04-2907-01-141-1489-2.91--.905  DAL

SO  EN  GOALIE
01   03   K Lehtonen DAL
00   02   R Bachman DAL
00   00   C Nilstorp DAL
OTM - 27

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
P Mraz  02-01-01-00-0119-00-004-0051-2.01--.922  DET
J Howa  42-21-13-07-2446-05-087-1129-2.13--.923  DET
J Gust   07-02-02-01-0349-00-017-0140-2.92--.879  DET
TEAM    48-24-16-08-2929-05-110-1322-2.25--.917  DET

SO  EN  GOALIE
05   02   J Howard DET
00   00   J Gustavsson DET
00   00   P Mrzek DET
OTM - 49

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
N Khab  12-04-06-01-0684-01-029-0376-2.54--.923  EDM
D Dubn  38-14-16-06-2101-02-090-1132-2.57--.920  EDM
Y Dani   03-01-00-00-0110-00-007-0059-3.81--.881  EDM
TEAM    48-19-22-07-2925-03-131-1572-2.69--.917  EDM

SO  EN  GOALIE
02   04   D Dubnyk EDM
01   01   N Khabbibulin EDM
00   00   Y Danis EDM
OTM - 45

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN-SO-GA-SHA-GAA-SV%
J Marks 23-08-14-01-1266-00-068-0685-3.22--.901  FLA
J Theod 15-04-06-03-0766-00-042-0391-3.29--.893  FLA
S Clem  19-03-07-02-0866-00-053-0421-3.67--.874  FLA
TEAM    48-15-27-06-2915-00-170-1504-3.50--.887  FLA

SO  EN  GOALIE
00   01   J Theodore FLA
00   01   S Clemmensen FLA
00   05   J Markstrom FLA
OTM - 35

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO-GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
S Bern   14-09-03-01-0768-01-024-0306-1.87--.922  LAK
J Quick  37-18-13-04-2134-01-087-0889-2.45--.902  LAK
TEAM    48-27-16-05-2917-02-114-1198-2.34--.905  LAK

SO  EN  GOALIE
01   02   J Quick LA
01   01   J Bernier LA
OTM - 37

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
D Kuem 06-01-02-00-0288-00-010-0119-2.08--.916  MIN
N Back  42-24-15-03-2368-02-098-1072-2.48--.909  MIN
J Hard    05-01-01-00-0185-01-010-0073-3.24--.863  MIN
M Hac    01-00-01-00-0059-00-005-0033-5.08--.848  MIN*
TEAM    48-26-19-03-2923-03-125-1299-2.57--.904  MIN

SO  EN  GOALIE
02   02   N Backstrom MIN
01   00   J Harding MIN
00   00   D Kuemper MIN
00   00   M Hackett MIN (TRADED)(BUF)
OTM - 43

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
P Budaj  13-08-01-01-0656-01-025-0273-2.29--.908  MTL
C Price  39-21-13-04-2249-03-097-1018-2.59--.905  MTL
TEAM    48-29-14-05-2917-04-124-1293-2.55--.904  MTL

SO  EN  GOALIE
03   02   C Price MTL
01   00   P Budaj MTL
OTM - 37

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
P Rinn   43-15-16-08-2444-05-099-1101-2.43--.910  NSH
C Maso  11-01-07-01-0467-00-029-0229-3.73--.873  NSH
TEAM    48-16-23-09-2930-05-133-1335-2.72--.900  NSH

SO  EN  GOALIE
05   02   P Rinne NSH
00   03   C Mason NSH
OTM - 50

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
J Fraze  01-00-00-00-0019-00-000-0003-0.00--.100  NJD
M Brod  29-13-09-07-1757-02-065-0654-2.22--.901  NJD
K Kink   01-00-00-00-0026-00-001-0013-2.33--.923  NJD
J Hedb  19-06-10-03-1108--01-051-0435-2.76--.883  NJD
TEAM    48-19-19-10-2938-03-122-1110-2.49--.890  NJD

SO  EN  GOALIE
02   02   M Brodeur NJ
01   01   J Hedberg NJ
00   01   K Kinkaid NJ
00   01   J Franzee NJ
OTM - 58

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
E Nabo  41-23-11-07-2475-03-103-1139-2.54--.910  NYI
K Poul   05-01-03-00-0258-00-013-0122-3.03--.893  NYI
R DiPie  03-00-03-00-0176-00-012-0083-4.10--.855  NYI
TEAM    48-24-17-07-2927-03-136-1352-2.83--.899  NYI

SO  EN  GOALIE
03   06   E Nabakov NYI
00   01   R DiPietro NYI
00   01   K Poulin NYI
OTM - 47

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
H Lund   43-24-16-03-2575-02-088-1190-2.05--.926  NYR
M Biron  06-02-02-01-0336-00-013-0156-2.33--917  NYR
TEAM     48-26-18-04-292-02-108-1353-2.21--.920  NYR

SO  EN  GOALIE
02   06   H Lundqvist NYR
00   01   M Biron NYR
OTM - 48

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
C Ande  24-12-09-02-1421-03-040-0677-1.69--.941  OTT
R Lehn   12-05-03-04-0675-00-025-0388-2.22--.936  OTT
B Bish   13-08-05-00-0758-01-031-0399-2.45--.922  OTT*
TEAM    48-25-17-06-2871-04-098-1466-2.05--.933  OTT

SO  EN  GOALIE
03   01   C Anderson OTT
01   01   B Bishop OTT (TRADED)(TB)
00   00   R Lehner OTT
OTM - 51

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
S Mas   07-04-02-00-0378-00-012-0215-1.90--.944  PHI
B Bou    04-00-02-00-0144-00-006-0055-2.50--.891  PHI
I Bryz    40-19-17-03-2298-01-107-1066-2.79--.900  PHI
M Leig   01-00-01-00-0059-00-005-0026-5.07--.808  PHI*
TEAM    48-23-22-03-2902-01-139-1371-2.87--.899  PHI

SO  EN  GOALIE
01   07   I Bryzgalov PHI
00   01   B Boucher PHI
00   00   M Leighton PHI (TRADED)(CLB)
00   01   S Mason PHI
OTM - 22

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
C John   04-02-00-02-0247-01-005-0108-1.22--.954  PHX
M Smi   34-15-12-05-1956-05-084-0938-2.58--.910  PHX
J Labar  15-04-06-02-0726-00-032-0418-2.64--.923  PHX
TEAM    48-21-18-09-2946-06-125-1468-2.55--.915  PHX

SO  EN  GOALIE
05   02   M Smith PHX
00   02   J Labarbara PHX
01   00   C Johnson PHX
OTM - 66

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
M/A Fle  33-23-08-00-1858-01-074-0881-2.39--.916  PIT
T Voko   20-13-04-00-1029-03-042-0519-2.45--.919  PIT
TEAM    48-36-12-00-2899-05-119-1403-2.46--.915  PIT
SHARED S/O 1 EXTRA TO TEAM ONLY

SO  EN  GOALIE
01   02   M-A Fleury PIT
03   01   T Vokoun PIT
OTM - 19

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
A Niemi 43-24-12-06-2581-04-093-1220-2.16--.924  SJS
T Greis  06-01-04-00-0308-01-013-0153-2.53--.915  SJS
A Stalo  02-00-00-01-0042-00-002-0013-2.87--.846  SJS
TEAM    48-25-16-07-2948-05-112-1390-2.28--.919  SJS

SO  EN  GOALIE
04   03   A Niemi SJ
01   01   T Greiss SJ
00   00   A Stalock SJ
OTM - 68

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
J Hala    16-06-05-01-0813-03-029-0286-2.14--.899  STL
B Ellio   24-14-08-01-1292-03-049-0526-2.28--.907  STL
J Alle     15-09-04-00-0804-01-033-0346-2.46--.905  STL
TEAM    48-29-17-02-2923-07-114-1161-2.34--.902  STL

SO  EN  GOALIE
03   02   J Halak STL
01   00   J Allen STL
03   01   B Elliott STL
OTM - 43

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
A Lindb  24-10-10-01-1304-00-063-0642-2.90--.902  TBL
M Garo  18-05-09-02-0910-00-044-0427-2.90--.902  TBL
B Bish   09-03-04-01-0503-01-025-0302-2.99--.917  TBL
C Desj   03-00-03-00-0160-00-008-0073-3.00--.890  TBL
TEAM    48-18-26-04-2904-01-147-1451-3.04--.899  TBL

SO  EN  GOALIE
00   03   A Lindback TB
00   01   M Garon TB
00   01   C Desjardins TB
01   02   B Bishop TB
OTM - 24

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
J Rynn   01-00-00-00-0010-00-000-0006-0.00--.100  TOR
J Reim   33-19-08-05-1856-04-076-0995-2.46--.924  TOR
B Scriv   20-07-09-00-1025-02-046-0542-2.69--.915  TOR
TEAM     48-26-17-05-2911-06-128-1549-2.64--.917  TOR

SO  EN  GOALIE
02   02   B Scrivens TOR
04   04   J Reimer TOR
00   00   J Rynnas TOR
OTM - 31

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
C Schn  30-17-09-04-1733-05-061-0835-2.11--.927  VAN
R Luon   20-09-06-03-1197-02-051-0551-2.56--.907  VAN
TEAM    48-26-15-07-2944-07-115-1389-2.34--.917  VAN

SO  EN  GOALIE
02   02   R Luongo VAN
05   01   C Schneider VAN
OTM - 64

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
B Holt    36-23-12-01-2089-04-090-1123-2.58--.920  WSH
M Neu   13-04-05-02-0723-00-033-0367-2.74--.910  WSH
P Grub   02-00-01-00-0084-00-005-0059-3.57--.915  WSH
TEAM    48-27-18-03-2911-04-130-1551-2.68--.916  WSH

SO  EN  GOALIE
04   02   B Holtby WSH
00   00   M Neuvirth WSH
00   00   P Grubauer WSH
OTM - 31

PLAYE  GP-W-L-OT-MIN--SO--GA-SHA-GAA--SV%
A Pavel  44-21-20-03-2553-00-119-1251-2.80--.905  WPG
A Mont   07-03-01-00-0351-01-017-0168-2.90--.899  WPG
TEAM    48-24-21-03-2917-01-141-1424-2.90--.901  WPG

SO  EN  GOALIE
01   00   A Montoya WPG
00   05   O Pavelec WPG
OTM - 37

* TRADED TO ANOTHER TEAM

NJD G MARTIN BRODEUR SCORES GOAL THU MAR 21,2013
CHI C CRAWFORD,R EMERY SHARED SHUTOUT FEB 28,13
PIT M-A FLEURY,T VOKOUN SHARE SHUTOUT MAR 26,13

TO CALCULATE THE TEAM MINUTES, I TIMES GAMES PLAYED BY 60 AND ADD ALL OT/SO MINUTES = TOTAL - EXAMPLE 1 X 60 = 60 PLUS A 5 MIN SO = 65 TOTAL TEAM MINUTES

GOALTENDER SCORERS ALL TIME - REGULAR SEASON - PLAYOFFS

TEAM    GOALTENDER    R S G    YEAR    PLAYOFFS    YEAR
NJ    Martin Brodeur    1    12-13    0        00 MAR 21,13
CAR    Cam Ward    1    11-12    0        00 DEC 26,11
NSH    Chris Mason    1    05-06    0        00 APR 15,06
BUF    Mika Noronen    1    03-04    0        00 FEB 14,04
SJ    Evgeni Nabakov 1    01-02    0        00 MAR 10,02
MTL    Jose Theodore    1    00-01    0        00 JAN 2,01
NJ    Martin Brodeur    1    99-00    0        00 FEB 15,00
OTT    Damian Rhodes    1    98-99    0        00 JAN 2,99
NJ    Martin Brodeur    0    00-00    1        96-97 APR 17,97
DET    Chris Osgood    1    95-96    0        00 MAR 6,96
PHI    Ron Hextall    0    00-00    1        88-89 APR 11,89
PHI    Ron Hextall    1    87-88    0        00 DEC 8,87
NYI    Billy Smith    1    79-80    0        00 NOV 28,79

GOALTENDER    GOALS    RS    PLAY    TOT
M Brodeur    3    2    1    3
R Hextall    2    1    1    2
E Nabakov    1    1    0    1
D Rhodes    1    1    0    1
C Osgood    1    1    0    1
B Smith        1    1    0    1
M Noronen    1    1    0    1
J Theodore    1    1    0    1
C Mason    1    1    0    1
C Ward        1    1    0    1


SHOOTOUT - GOALIES
With the adoption of the shootout, ties are eliminated from the NHL standings. A team is awarded two points for a win (listed as "W"), zero points for a regulation loss ("L") and one point for a game lost in overtime or a shootout ("OT" or "OTL").The shootout does not count towards individual statistics. A shootout goal is not added to a player's total goals or total points. A shootout goal allowed is not included in the goaltender's goals against, goals-against average, or save percentage. The shootout has no bearing on plus-minus or other "in game" statistics.If a game is tied 0-0 at the end of overtime, both goaltenders are credited with a shutout, regardless of which team wins the shootout or how many shootout goals are scored.Individual shootout statistics are calculated as a separate category in the official NHL statistics.The winning team in the shootout gets one goal added to its season total. The losing team has one goal-against added to its season total. This holds regardless of how many goals are scored during the shootout itself.The shootout is preceeded by a two-minute break, during which the ice-clearing machine cuts a fresh lane from centre ice to each net.The shootout is not be used in Stanley Cup playoff games. The format of playoff games remains unchanged.

GOALIE STATS

Goals-Against Average
This is the number of goals allowed per 60 minutes played, rounded to two decimal points.The Formula: multiply the number of goals allowed by 60 and divide by the total number of minutes played.The Example: If you allowed 4 goals in 180 minutes your GAA is 1.33 (4 times 60 = 240. 240 divided by 180 = 1.33). The result suggests that for every full game you play, you allow 1.33 goals.
Do not count empty net goals or shootout goals.

Save Percentage
This number expresses a goalie's success based on the number of shots he faces.The Formula: Divide the number saves made by the number of shots on goal. Work it out to 3 decimal places.
The Example: If you faced 45 shots and allowed 5 goals, your save percentage is .888 (40 saves divided by 45 shots = .888). The number suggests that if you were to face 1,000 shots you would stop 888 of them.Do not count empty net goals or shootout goals.

EMPTY NET GOALS
Definition: A goal scored into a net left undefended because the goaltender is sitting on the bench. This usually happens late in a game, when a team has pulled the goalie for an extra attacker, desperately seeking a goal. Empty net goals are not counted when calculating a goaltender's save percentage or goals against average.

SHUTOUTS 2 GOALIES SHARED
If two goaltenders combine for a shutout, neither receives credit for the shutout. Instead it is recorded as a team shutout.If a regular season game is tied 0-0 at the end of overtime, both goaltenders are credited with a shutout, regardless of how many goals are scored in the shootout.

2013-14 EASTERN DIVISIONS

EAST TIME ZONE 1 DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
BOS    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
BUF    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
DET    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
FLA    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
MTL    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
OTT    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
TBL    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
TOR    00    00    00    00    00    000    000

EAST TIME ZONE 2 DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
CAR    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
CLB    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
NJD    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
NYI    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
NYR    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
PHI    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
PIT    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
WSH    00    00    00    00    00    000    000

2013-14 WESTERN DIVISIONS

WEST TIME ZONE 1 DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
CHI    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
COL    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
DAL    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
MIN    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
NSH    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
STL    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
WPG    00    00    00    00    00    000    000

WEST TIME ZONE 2 DIVISION

TEAM    GP    W    L    OT    PTS    GF    GA
ANA    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
CGY    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
EDM    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
LAK    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
PHX    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
SJS    00    00    00    00    00    000    000
VAN    00    00    00    00    00    000    000

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