Tuesday, April 07, 2009

OBAMA INTERNET DICTATOR

I WONDERED WHY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS BEEN WATCHING MY SITE 4 OR 5 TIMES A DAY FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS I HAVE NOTICED,I PRESUME THEY PUT ME UNDER THE MISGUIDED LEGEL THEORIES FOR PUTTING OUT BIBLE TRUTH.We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories,Singleton said.

PROOF AP COMES TO MY SITE TODAYS VISIT SO FAR.

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April 6th, 2009 AP cracks down on aggregators. Watch out, Google.
Posted by Sam Diaz @ 1:06 pm Categories: Google, Media


The Associated Press said today that it will sue news aggregators - read: Google - that use its content without permission, another effort to save what’s left of the newspaper industry.The news cooperative didn’t specifically name Google in its statement but resentment has been brewing against Google and other Web aggregators that profit from AP’s content, specifically by placing ads on the portal pages where those stories are indexed and displayed.In a statement, AP Chairman Dean Singleton said the news cooperative would work with portals and other partners who properly license content – and would pursue legal and legislative actions against those who don‘t. We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories,Singleton said.In January, Google pulled the plug on a print-ad project that started in 2006 with 50 newspaper partners and grew to more than 800. The idea was that advertisers could use Google to also place print ads, thus creating a new revenue stream for newspapers and producing more relevant advertising for consumers. Nice try. But in the end, it didn’t work.

The Associated Press held its annual meeting this morning in San Diego, as part of the Newspaper Association of America’s annual convention.Ironically, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is scheduled to deliver the NAA’s closing keynote for the convention and is expected to offer his perspective on newspapers, journalism and Google’s role in the future of the newspaper industry.I wonder if he’ll be introduced by Singleton or greeted with a round of boos from the audience.

Cybersecurity Bill Gives Obama Dictatorial Power Over Internet
Kurt Nimmo Infowars April 6, 2009


As we reported on March 22 when Jay Rockefeller was peddling nonsense about a pimple-faced kid in Latvia taking down the power grid in America with a laptop computer, the current wave of fear-mongering about cyber terrorism is just that — unsubstantiated fear-mongering. Critical networks are largely protected and nightmarish tales of their vulnerability tend to be largely apocryphal, according to Gabriel Weimann, author of Terror on the Internet. Psychological, political, and economic forces have combined to promote the fear of cyberterrorism.Senator Rockefeller declares we’d be better off if the internet was never invented. Indeed, there are political forces are behind Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who declared last month that we would all be better off if the internet was never invented. Rockefeller meant the government would be better off if the internet was never invented. If the internet was never invented, the corporate media would dominate news and information and alternative media restricted to print would have a far more difficult time counter balancing government propaganda. Government and the elite behind it are sincerely worried about the fact increasing numbers of people get their news from alternative media sources on the internet and corporate media newspapers are falling like dominoes. If we fail to take swift action, we, regrettably, risk a cyber-Katrina,said fear-monger Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, who is co-sponsoring the bill. We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs – from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records – the list goes on,added Rockefeller. Rockefeller’s bills introduced in the Senate — known as the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 — would create yet another government bureaucracy, the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor. It would report directly to Obama. Rockefeller’s legislation would grant the Secretary of Commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed to be critical to the nation’s infrastructure without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access(see a working draft of the legislation here).

In other words, Obama would have a Cyber Czar in the Commerce Department and the power to shut down the internet. The cybersecurity fraud now in motion will grant the Department of Commerce oversight of critical networks, such as banking records, would grant the government access to potentially incriminating information obtained without cause or warrant, a violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against unlawful search and seizure, Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Mother Jones. The whole thing smells bad to me, writes Larry Seltzer for eWeek. I don’t like the chances of the government improving this situation by taking it over generally, and I definitely don’t like the idea of politicizing this authority by putting it in the direct control of the president.

Obama’s internet agenda is an extension of his effort to impose government control over the private sector. Republicans call this socialism. In a way it is socialism, but not the kind you were told about in high school — it is a socialism devised by the Trilateralists and Council on Foreign Relations. It is a system of control that will be imposed by the bankers and has nothing to do equality for all individuals or a fair or egalitarian method of compensation for workers. Banker socialism is about serfdom and poverty. It should be obvious what is going on here. Not if but when the next false flag attack occurs here in America, the elite will turn off the internet in order to control the flow of information. They will tell us they were forced to do this in order to deny terrorists in caves or driving around with Ron Paul bumper stickers on their cars the ability to sabotage the power grid and banks. Senate bills No. 773 and 778 are about controlling information. The bills have nothing to do with mischievous kids with laptops in Latvia.

Obama ends Europe trip with tour of Istanbul mosque by Sibel Utku Bila – APR 7,09

ISTANBUL (AFP) – US President Barack Obama visited a landmark mosque in Istanbul on Tuesday, following strong messages of US reconciliation with the Islamic world on his maiden trip to a mainly Muslim country.Taking off his shoes as tradition requires, Obama stepped into the 17th-century Sultanahmet Mosque in the ancient heart of Istanbul, accompanied by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid tight security in the area.Two Muslim preachers guided Obama inside the grandiose edifice -- better known as the Blue Mosque for its blue tileworks -- and the president smiled when they showed him a dome scripture mentioning the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Hussein, Obama's middle name, Anatolia news agency reported.In a major speech at the Turkish parliament in Ankara Monday, Obama declared that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam and called Turkey a critical ally,earning himself much praise in a country where his predecessor left the US image in tatters.Obama conquers hearts,the popular Vatan newspaper trumpeted on its front page, while the liberal Taraf said the speech marked the end of the bellicose spirit of September 11.

Following up on his appeal for dialogue and inter-faith understanding, Obama met on Tuesday with Muslim, Christian and Jewish spiritual leaders based in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city and the meeting point of Europe and Asia.He combined his visit to the Blue Mosque with a tour of the 6th-century Hagia Sophia church, a masterpiece of Byzantine architecture across the Islamic edifice.The church was converted to a mosque when the Ottomans conquered Istanbul in 1453, and was finally transformed into a museum in the 1930s, still featuring both biblical paintings and Islamic scriptures.

Obama also met with university students before wrapping up his two-day visit to Turkey and his début trip to Europe later on Tuesday.A Turkish security official said a man was detained in Istanbul last week on suspicion he plotted to kill Obama. But police then established the man was mentally disturbed and released him.Since his election, Obama has already won significant popularity in Turkey, a NATO member and a key Muslim ally of the United States, and is keen to improve ties that chilled over the US invasion of neighbouring Iraq in 2003 and former president George W. Bush's policies in the Middle East.A public opinion poll found in February that 39.2 percent of Turks had confidence in Obama, making him the most trusted leader in Turkish eyes.

In 2005, only 9.3 percent said they trusted Bush, giving him only a slight lead over Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who had the confidence of 4.6 percent.On Monday, Obama hardened his message in support of Turkey's bid to join the European Union, despite French and German opposition.Turkey and the United States, he said, could set an example to the world by building a model partnership based on democratic values, including respect for religious diversity.In more pointed messages, Obama called on Turkey to step up EU-demanded democracy reforms and broaden the freedoms of non-Muslim minorities and the restive Kurdish community.He urged normalisation of ties with Armenia, while signalling that Washington would not interfere in their dispute on whether the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century was genocide.Obama's decision to include Turkey in his first trip to Europe is largely seen as an effort to keep the country firmly anchored in the West. Turkey's Islamist-rooted government has recently given rise to fears that it is drifting away from the West, forging closer ties with countries such as Iran and Sudan and welcoming leaders of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas in Ankara.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
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) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

4.9 aftershock hits Italian quake region By MARTA FALCONI, Associated Press Writer Marta Falconi, Associated Press Writer – APR 7,09

L'AQUILA, Italy – A strong aftershock has hit the central Italian region where rescuers are searching for survivors of the country's deadliest earthquake in nearly three decades.The 4.9-magnitude aftershock sent rescue workers and survivors scrambling.They had been working frantically in this central Italian city early Tuesday, scooping through piles of rubble with their hands.Tens of thousands of people left homeless by the powerful 6.3-magnitude quake early Monday slept in makeshift tents that provided little protection against the chilly mountain air. Sscores of survivors lined up for a hot cup of coffee or tea and a brioche.

Rescuers hunt all night for Italy quake survivors By Deepa Babington and Antonella Cinelli APR 6,09

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – Rescuers searched through the night for survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 150 people in central Italy early on Monday and left thousands of homeless huddled in tent camps and rough shelters.Firemen and emergency workers pulled more than 100 people from the rubble but rain and freezing night-time temperatures into Tuesday complicated the search for survivors in the medieval mountain city of L'Aquila and the devastated surrounding villages.The quake struck shortly after 3.30 a.m. (9:30 p.m. EDT) on Monday, catching residents in their sleep and flattening houses, ancient churches and other buildings in 26 cities and towns.

Aftershocks rattled the area, some 100 km east (60 miles) of Rome in the rugged Abruzzo region, well into the night as thousands of people sheltered in their cars or in tent camps.Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who declared a national emergency and visited the disaster zone, said at least 150 people had been killed and more than 1,500 injured. The civil protection agency put the number of homeless at up to 50,000.

It is a serious disaster. Now we must rebuild and that will require huge sums of money,Berlusconi said, pledging to seek hundreds of million of euros from an EU disaster fund.Rescue workers using powerful floodlights and bulldozers searched for survivors through the night in L'Aquila, freeing some people trapped for more than 20 hours. A fireman recounted how he pulled a boy alive from the mangled remains of his house.All we could see was his head sticking from the rubble, his entire body was buried. We kept digging, picking piece by piece of debris and we finally managed to get him out -- when we did the fatigue was great but so was our joy,he said.Police patrolled houses ripped open by the quake and arrested several people for looting. Thousands of tents were put up in parks and on football pitches to shelter the homeless for the night and hotels on the Adriatic coast were requisitioned.It's been such a hard and long day. Now that we are sitting here in our car it's all beginning to sink in,said L'Aquila resident Piera Colucci as she prepared to sleep in her vehicle.

DON'T GO BACK TO YOUR HOUSE

Berlusconi, whose government is already struggling to find funds to cope with an economic crisis, said his cabinet would provide 30 million euros ($40.60 million) for immediate assistance and vowed to build a new town in L'Aquila in the next two years. He ordered 1,000 troops to the area on Tuesday.Tonight don't go back to your houses, it could be dangerous,Berlusconi told residents on state television.Shaken survivors described the quake striking like a bomb in the night and the anguish of not knowing the fate of loved ones.I only remember this huge rumble and then someone dragged me out, but I don't know what happened to my wife and three-year-old son,said 35-year-old Stefano Esposito.Most of the dead were in L'Aquila, a city of 68,000, where streets were strewn with rubble and old buildings crumbled like straw houses. Some nearby towns were all but destroyed.In the flattened village of Onna, at least 38 people died and more than 40 were missing, according to local civil protection chief Franco Albanesi. Tearful relatives gathered while wooden coffins were placed on communal ground.As messages of condolences poured in from across the world, Italian politicians put aside rivalries and united in mourning. But there was still room for controversy. Weeks before, an Italian scientist predicted a major quake around L'Aquila based on the radon gas found in seismically active areas, but he was reported to police for spreading alarm and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet.For weeks they told us to stay calm, that we could live in our houses, that there was no problem. Now we see what the problem was,one female resident of L'Aquila told state TV.(Writing by Silvia Aloisi and Daniel Flynn; additional reporting by Reuters Rome bureau; editing by Matthew Jones)

Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake 06 Apr 2009 11:22:00 GMT
Source: Reuters By Gavin Jones


ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population. The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval city, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome.

Vans with loudspeakers had driven around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake was on the way, prompting the mayor's anger. Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for spreading alarm and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet. Italy's Civil Protection agency held a meeting of the Major Risks Committee, grouping scientists charged with assessing such risks, in L'Aquila on March 31 to reassure the townspeople. The tremors being felt by the population are part of a typical sequence ... (which is) absolutely normal in a seismic area like the one around L'Aquila,the civil protection agency said in a statement on the eve of that meeting.

It is useful to underline that it is not in any way possible to predict an earthquake,it said, adding that the agency saw no reason for alarm but was nonetheless effecting continuous monitoring and attention. As the media asked questions about the authorities' alleged failure to safeguard the population ahead of the quake, the head of the National Geophysics Institute dismissed Giuliani's predictions. Every time there is an earthquake there are people who claim to have predicted it,he said.As far as I know nobody predicted this earthquake with precision. It is not possible to predict earthquakes.Enzo Boschi said the real problem for Italy was a long-standing failure to take proper precautions despite a history of tragic quakes. We have earthquakes but then we forget and do nothing. It's not in our culture to take precautions or build in an appropriate way in areas where there could be strong earthquakes,he said.

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 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.

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.

Lieberman rejects foreign 'intervention' in Israeli politics by Marius Schattner APR 7,09

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel's hawkish new Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told foreign powers on Tuesday to stay out of Israeli politics, in an apparent reference to the flagging Middle East peace process.We have never interfered in the affairs of others, and we expect from others that they not interfere in ours,Lieberman told a meeting of his ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party.I do not expect from others that they have a stopwatch in hand and tell Israel when it must produce a responsible political programme,he added.Visiting Turkey on Monday, US President Barack Obama voiced renewed hope that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be resolved on the basis of a two-state solution and urged leaders on both sides for courage to make peace.I believe that peace in the Middle East is possible. I think it will be based on two states side by side,he said.In order to achieve that, both sides are going to have to make compromises. Now what we need is the political will and courage on the part of leadership,he added.The previous two Israeli governments committed themselves to a peace roadmap drafted by the international Quartet of the United States, Russia, European Union and United Nations in 2003.Under it, Israel bound itself to the principle of a Palestinian state -- a concept new Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes.

In remarks after taking office last week, Lieberman said Israel was not bound to conduct final settlement negotiations with the Palestinians as agreed at a 2007 conference in Annapolis, Maryland.The two sides agreed to relaunch the talks on core issues while also implementing the other phases of the roadmap.The talks produced little visible progress before being put on the back-burner in the run-up to the Israeli general election in February.There is only one document that binds us and it is not the Annapolis conference, Lieberman said.Only the roadmap. The Israeli government and the Knesset (parliament) never adopted Annapolis.We will go exactly according to the roadmap,he said. We will never agree to skip any of the stages -- and there are 48 of them -- and go straight to the last stage on negotiations on a permanent agreement.

We will go exactly according to each stage.

In his remarks on Tuesday, Lieberman said we are working on new ideas and that will take a month or two to sort out,adding that Israel would respect agreements it had reached but not mentioning Annapolis.Speaking in Beirut, visiting Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said his country would work to convince the Netanyahu government to accept the premise of a Palestinian state.Italy, as a friend of Israel, is keen to see the peace process launched on the basis of the Quartet and the Arab peace initiative, which envision two states with two free and independent peoples, he told journalists. We will work with the cooperation of the European Union and the United States to encourage the new government to move forward on this road. Lieberman's stand has marked a sharp break with his predecessor Tzipi Livni, who had led the Israeli delegation at the renewed negotiations. The Palestinians slammed Lieberman's comments, with a senior aide to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas saying this minister is an obstacle to peace. He will cause harm to Israel first.Earlier on Tuesday, police questioned Lieberman over graft suspicions for the third time since he was sworn in.The former nightclub bouncer had already been quizzed last Thursday and Friday over suspicions of corruption, fraud, money laundering and breach of trust.

Israel tests anti-ballistic missile system By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer APR 7,09

JERUSALEM – Israeli defense officials say the country has successfully tested an anti-missile system designed to protect the country from attack by Iran.Tuesday's intercept of a dummy missile was the latest test of the Arrow system, a U.S.-Israeli joint venture. The officials say the interceptor was an upgraded Arrow II, designed to counter Iran's Shehab ballistic missile.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity pending an official announcement.Israel believes Iran is developing nuclear weapons that could pose an existential threat to the Jewish state.The Arrow project by Israel Aircraft Industries and Boeing Co. was spurred largely by the failure of the U.S. military's Patriot missiles to intercept Iraqi Scuds in the 1991 Gulf War.

Palestinians, Israel hail Obama remarks Mon Apr 6, 4:09 pm ET

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – The Palestinian Authority on Monday welcomed US President Barack Obama's renewed support for the Annapolis agreement and the stalled roadmap plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace.At the same time, the Israeli government hailed what it said was Obama's commitment to Israel's security.Leading Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat focused instead on the statements by President Obama confirming the principle of a two-state solution.Israel should understand that the track leading to an end of the occupation since 1967 of the Palestinian and Arab territories and to the start of a two-state solution is the only track that can be followed,said Erakat.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman, for his part, said Israel appreciates President Obama's commitment to Israel's security and to the pursuit of peace.The government of Israel is committed to both of these goals and will formulate its policies in the near future so as to work closely with the United States towards achieving these common objectives,said Mark Regev.But Environment Minister Gilad Erdan, who is close to the right-wing premier, was less positive.

Israel does not take its orders from President Obama. In voting for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli citizens decided not to become the 51st state of the United States,he said in a speech to parliament.Erdan said the government would act in Israel's interests, although Obama was a friend of Israel and the United States an important ally, and whatever happens between us will be the result of a dialogue.In an address to Turkey's parliament on Monday, Obama said the United States strongly supports the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.His remarks came after Israel's new Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said last week that the 2007 Annapolis document did not bind Israel though he did accept the roadmap as the basis for progress.A November 2007 conference in Annapolis, near Washington, relaunched peace negotiations on the basis of the roadmap, although dozens of rounds of talks between Israel and the Palestinians have produced little visible progress.In Washington, the State Department later announced that US special envoy George Mitchell would return to the Middle East next week.Mitchell will travel to the region starting on April 13 and meet officials from Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, the Gulf and North Africa, spokesman Robert Wood said.The former US senator and architect of Northern Ireland's peace agreement aims to advance the goal of the two-state solution and comprehensive peace in the region,Wood said.

Israel pledges to work with US for Mideast peace By STEVE WEIZMAN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Apr 6, 1:27 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's administration pledged on Monday to work with the United States for Mideast peace, but pointedly avoided any reference to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks or President Barak Obama's goal of a Palestinian state.On Monday in Turkey, Obama said his administration would push for Palestinian state, underlining that Israel and the Palestinians agreed on that goal under the U.S.-backed road map peace plan and during a 2007 conference in Annapolis, Maryland, that were supposed to revive the plan.The United States strongly supports the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security,Obama told the Turkish parliament.That is a goal shared by Palestinians, Israelis, and people of good will around the world. That is a goal that that the parties agreed to in the road map and at Annapolis. And that is a goal that I will actively pursue as president.At the Annapolis conference, Israel and the Palestinians jointly endorsed Palestinian statehood, but that appears to have changed with the entry of Netanyahu's new, hawkish government last week.Netanyahu's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has ridiculed the conference and said its conclusions are not binding on Israel.

Netanyahu has not endorsed creation of a Palestinian state.

Israel appreciates President Obama's commitment to Israel's security and to the pursuit of peace,said a brief statement released by Netanyahu's office after Obama's comments.The government of Israel is committed to both of these goals and will formulate its policies in the near future so as to work closely with the United States,the statement said, without mentioning Annapolis or Palestinian statehood.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat welcomed Obama's endorsement of a Palestinian state.We hope that the Israeli government will understand that this is the only path to peace,he told The Associated Press.After meeting Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday, international peace envoy Tony Blair was uncharacteristically pessimistic.There is a great deal of skepticism out there at the present time that we can make progress, Blair told reporters.There's a lot of worry, hesitation and concern.Even so, Blair thought Netanyahu would come around to agreeing to a Palestinian state if the right context can be created for peace.Also Monday, Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups said they had evidence that Israeli troops attacked Palestinian medics and delayed the evacuation of wounded people during the January offensive in Gaza.Tel Aviv-based Physicians for Human Rights and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society said they had testimonies from 44 people in Gaza, gathered by five international medical experts, and they called for an independent investigation.It was the latest in a string of allegations by rights groups of Israeli violations during the Gaza operation meant to end Palestinian rocket attacks by Hamas and other militant groups from Gaza.Palestinians say more than 1,400 people were killed during the operation, including more than 900 civilians. The Israeli military says the death toll was lower and that most of the dead were militants.

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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE APR 07,2009

09:30 AM -40.50
10:00 AM -155.15
10:30 AM -146.71
11:00 AM -128.07
11:30 AM -148.30
12:00 PM -169.41
12:30 PM -165.74
01:00 PM -154.12
01:30 PM -187.17
02:00 PM -200.79
02:30 PM -198.72
03:00 PM -182.87
03:30 PM -169.57
04:00 PM -186.29 7789.56

S&P 500 815.55 -19.93

NASDAQ 1561.61 -45.10

GOLD 884.00 +11.20

OIL 49.05 -2.00

TSE 300 8831.86 -184.31

CDNX 951.21 -11.96

S&P/TSX/60 537.70 -11.05

MORNING,NEWS,STATS
GOLD AT OPEN TODAY $876.20.OIL AT OPEN TODAY $50.29 .
Dow -121 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -178 points at low today so far.
Dow -40 points at high today so far.
$12.8 TRILLION IN 6 MONTHS TAKEN BY THE ROBBER BANKERS AND FED SO FAR.

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -9.12%
S&P -7.50%
Nasdaq +1.88%
TSX Advances 620,declines 877,unchanged 271,Volume 2,390,300,005.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 323,Declines 434,Unchanged 360,Volume 192,925,740.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -187 points at low today so far.
Dow -40 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 888,declines 2,490,unchanged 99,New Highs 2,New Lows 36.
Volume 2,113,406,012.
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Volume 894,700,688.
TSX Advances 503,declines 804,unchanged 275,Volume 1,182,030,226.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 248,Declines 342,Unchanged 267,Volume 109,613,627.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -206 points at low today so far.
Dow -40 points at high today so far.

World markets stumble amid US bank, earnings fears By LOUISE WATT, Associated Press Writer APR 7,09

LONDON – World stock markets stumbled Tuesday as fresh concerns about banks and upcoming earnings results from U.S. companies led many investors to book profits following a massive global rally in recent weeks.By noon in mainland Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 fell 1.2 percent to 3,944.70, Germany's DAX dropped 1 percent to 4,304.63, and France's CAC 40 slipped 1.2 percent to 2,896.06.Most major Asian markets suffered losses, tracking overnight selling that pulled Wall Street lower for the first time in five days.Resurgent fears about the banking sector were partly to blame after influential analysts at Calyon Securities warned America's bank losses could exceed Depression-era levels and that government actions might not help as much as expected.A sense of unease also descended on the markets ahead of quarterly earning results that U.S. corporations will release this month, starting Tuesday with aluminum giant Alcoa. The unraveling of IBM Corp.'s $7 billion takeover deal for Sun Microsystems gave markets more reason for caution.In Europe, the EU's statistics agency said economic activity in the countries using the euro currency shrank by 1.6 percent in the final three months of 2008 compared with the previous quarter. That is worse than the Eurostat's preliminary estimate of a 1.5 percent drop in gross domestic product, and economists expect economic activity to keep contracting.We are about to start the earnings season so there is caution ahead of that, said Stephen Pope, chief global markets strategist for Cantor Fitzgerald.Market participation is a bit thin because we're in the run-up to Easter, so movements get a bit exaggerated.

Today is characterized by a defensive mood, a defensive play — just guard your positions, ringfencing any profits you have made in the last few weeks ahead of the kickoff to earnings season,he added.U.S. markets were expected to open lower. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures lost 0.1 percent to 7,841 and Standard & Poor's 500 futures were down 1.1 percent to 821.60.After a four-week bull run that's driven some markets higher by 20 percent or more, investors are becoming more skittish as they brace for another round of selling.All the markets have risen sharply in the last few weeks and the markets are overbought, said Peter Lai, investment manager at DBS Vickers in Hong Kong.Many people are now waiting for news or economic figures as an excuse to take profits, and some of smart funds are already selling.Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average closed down 25.08 points, or 0.3 percent, to 8,832.85 even as the Bank of Japan unveiled new steps to spur lending and corporate financing amid a painful recession. The central bank also announced it was keeping its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a super low 0.1 percent, as was widely expected.Elsewhere, Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 69.07 points, or 0.5 percent, to 14,928.97. South Korea's Kospi added 0.2 percent to 1,300.10 in back-and-forth trade.

Australia's key index dropped 1.3 percent as the country's central bank cut its key interest rate by a further quarter percentage point to 3 percent. Markets in Singapore and Malaysia also lost ground while those in Shanghai and Taiwan gained. India was closed for a public holiday.As in the U.S., investors sold down a number of banks across Asia. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. shed 2.5 percent in Tokyo and leading Australian investment bank Macquarie Group tumbled 4.9 percent.Commodity firms also came under pressure. Rio Tinto Group, the world's No. 3 mining company, plunged 10 percent in Sydney after announcing plans to cut more than 700 jobs at Australian mines due to a drop in aluminum demand and prices. There was also market speculation the commodities giant may look to raise capital through new shares should its deal with Aluminum Corp. of China founder.On Monday, the Dow Jones industrials fell 41.74, or 0.5 percent, to 7,975.85 after being down as much as 155 points. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 7.02, or 0.8 percent, to 835.48.Oil fell in European trading as investors mulled whether crude's two-month rally can be sustained while global demand remains weak. Benchmark crude for May delivery fell 67 cents to $50.38 a barrel. The contract fell $1.46 on Monday to settle at $51.05. AP business writer Jeremiah Marquez in Hong Kong contributed to this report.

ECB rejects eastern fast-track to eurozone
VALENTINA POP Today APR 7,09 @ 08:09 CET


The European Central Bank (ECB) on Monday dismissed proposals made by the International Monetary Fund for eastern European member states to adopt the euro even without full membership of the eurozone.This [IMF proposal] is not realistic. The membership for European monetary union has very clear rules and these rules have to be followed. From an economic point of view, it would not be a good signal [for] the confidence . . . towards the euro,Ewald Nowotny, ECB governing council member, told Reuters.The bank was responding to the publication in the Financial Times of a confidential report drafted by the IMF last month as part of a regional anti-crisis strategy for the eastern EU countries. It suggested that the EU should relax euro entry rules for countries like Hungary and Poland so that these countries can join as quasi-members without needing to hold a board seat in the ECB.Eurozone accession is guarded very strictly by the European Commission and the ECB. Countries wishing to adopt the single currency need to keep a low inflation rate, a public deficit of below three percent of gross domestic product and stable exchange rates – all criteria which seem particularly hard to meet amid the current financial and economic crisis. Countries also have to spend two years in a pre-accession phase, called the exchange rate mechanism II.Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg and chairman of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, has consistently stressed that countries wishing to adopt the euro may not take short cuts.

The commission on Monday played down the IMF report, saying that it was drafted before the bloc's decision to double the fund for eastern EU members to €50 billion and to bolster IMF lending capacity.Meanwhile, in New York, US billionaire and currency speculator George Soros praised the euro and suggested it was the only solution for troubled eastern European countries.Mr Soros told Reuters Financial Television the euro has been a tremendous advantage to countries that use it and said there was no question of a weaker country dropping out.While the IMF was helping to stabilize struggling eastern Europe, Soros said the Baltic states still face serious problems even as Germany, the euro zone's biggest economy, is becoming more open to offering help.Mr Soros also backed the Chinese idea of replacing the dollar as a world reserve currency, possibly with the IMF's special drawing rights.In the long run, having an international accounting unit other than the dollar may be to our advantage,he said.

Fed expands currency swaps with 4 central banks By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer – Mon Apr 6, 5:32 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve has expanded credit lines with the central banks of Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and European Union that will provide foreign currency to U.S. banks — if needed.Under currency swap arrangements the Fed provides dollars in exchange for reserves of the other nations' currencies. The Fed has entered into or expanded 14 such agreements since the credit crisis intensified last year, including with the four central banks in Monday's announcement.The new measures provide a reciprocal arrangement: the Fed can now draw on overseas currencies in exchange for dollars.Should the need arise, euro, yen, sterling and Swiss francs would be provided to the Federal Reserve via these additional swap agreements with the relevant central banks,according to the Fed release. Central banks continue to work together and are taking steps as appropriate to foster stability in global financial markets.Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP, a research firm, said the move was mostly precautionary and enables the Fed to provide short-term, emergency credit in foreign currency for U.S. banks that need such currencies to meet overseas obligations.The arrangement also would enable U.S. banks doing business abroad to obtain foreign currency during domestic bank holidays, when overseas banking markets are operating.This is meant as a late-night, last minute stopgap in the case of an emergency, Crandall said. There's no indication that U.S. banks have a structural imbalance in these currencies.The Fed said the expanded credit lines, authorized through Oct. 30, are worth the equivalent of up to $45 billion with the Bank of England, $108 billion with the European Central Bank, $99 billion with the Bank of Japan and $35 billion with the Swiss National Bank.Separately, the Fed said it auctioned $150 billion in short-term loans to banks and other financial institutions under a program that began in late 2007. The program is intended to stabilize the U.S. financial system by increasing the availability of short-term credit.

Stocks fall after 4-week rally; Dow below 8,000 By SARA LEPRO, AP Business Writer Sara Lepro, Ap Business Writer – Mon Apr 6, 5:57 pm ET

NEW YORK – Wall Street pulled back for the first time in five days Monday as investors worried about balance sheets at banks and the quarterly results that businesses will start releasing this week.Investors were also disappointed that talks for IBM Corp.'s $7 billion deal to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. have stalled — a sign that the market is still not ready to support big mergers.Financial shares sold off after a prominent analyst predicted more losses at banks and said the government's efforts to prop up the ailing industry might not be as effective as hoped.Michael Mayo issued sell ratings on several banks and said in his report that loan losses could exceed levels seen in the Great Depression.The market was already on edge about the coming parade of first-quarter results, which kicks off Tuesday with aluminum producer and Dow component Alcoa Inc. Worse-than-expected reports could easily upset the market's recent advance, which brought stocks up more than 20 percent from early March, when they hit their lowest levels in 12 years.You have some skittishness in the market,said Len Blum, managing director at Westwood Capital LLC. We have earnings season up ahead and it's very difficult to predict what that is going to do.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 41.74, or 0.5 percent, to 7,975.85 after being down as much as 155 points.The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 7.02, or 0.8 percent, to 835.48, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 15.16, or 0.9 percent, to 1,606.71.

Technology stocks were lower following the IBM-Sun news. Discussions between the technology giants had been in their final stages, but The Associated Press learned that IBM took its offer off the table Sunday after Sun terminated IBM's status as its exclusive negotiating partner.It was unclear whether talks were continuing, or if Sun was trying to find an alternative suitor. Sun shares plunged more than 22 percent, falling $1.93 to $6.56. IBM fell 66 cents, or less than 1 percent, to $101.65.A jump in stocks of defense contractors helped the market pull off its lows. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recommended halting production of the F-22 fighter jet as he outlined deep cuts to many of the military's biggest weapons programs, but pointed to spending increasing in other areas. Lockheed Martin Corp. jumped $5.97, or 8.9 percent, to $73.28, while Northrop Grumman Corp. rose $3.96, or 9 percent, to $47.94.

Ford Motor Co. jumped 52 cents, or 16 percent, to $3.77 after the company said it retired debt that would reduce what it owed by 38 percent and save millions of dollars in interest costs.Among the biggest decliners in the financial industry were Wells Fargo & Co., which dropped $1.09, or 6.7 percent, to $15.25, and PNC Financial Services Group Inc., which fell $1.99, or 5.6 percent, to $33.81. Regional bank stocks also posted big losses.Some traders were also unnerved by a two-week delay in a government program to help banks unload troubled loans from their books, which relies on hedge funds and other private investors buying loans and other assets from banks.On Monday the Treasury Department extended the application deadline for the program to April 24 and relaxed some of the participation criteria to attract a wider pool of investors. The delay was a worrisome signal that the program could be running into problems.The announcement came on the heels of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's warning Sunday that the government could force out bank CEOs following its move a week ago to oust Rick Wagoner as CEO of General Motors Corp.Like banks, GM is also a major recipient of government rescue funds, and Wagoner's dismissal raised widespread speculation that leadership at banks being helped by the government could also be in for changes.Financial stocks largely carried the market's recent rally, as unprecedented government intervention and reassurances from bank CEOs that business is better than expected fed optimism that the economy could be turning around.

On Friday, the Dow rose 39 points to close above the 8,000 mark for the first time in nearly two months, logging a fourth straight week of gains and its best four-week performance since 1933. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 8.57, or 1.9 percent, to 447.56. More than two stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume came to a light 5.3 billion shares compared with 5.7 billion shares traded Friday. Treasurys mostly fell, pushing the yield on the 10-year note up to 2.93 percent from 2.90 percent late Friday. The dollar was mostly higher against other major currencies, and gold prices fell to their lowest close in more than two months as demand has waned for safe-haven assets. Light, sweet crude for May delivery fell $1.46 to settle at $51.05 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Overseas, Britain's FTSE 100 slipped 0.9 percent, while Germany's DAX index fell 0.8 percent and France's CAC-40 fell 1.0 percent as stocks fell on Wall Street. Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 1.2 percent.

Brussels pushes for coherent EU economic foreign policy
HONOR MAHONY 06.04.2009 @ 17:18 CET


EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia has urged the bloc to use the financial crisis to develop a common foreign economic policy, urging the union to speak with one voice where money is a key issue, such as in the fight against climate change.Too often the EU's voice on key issues at the global level is fractured and we fail to influence policy debates as effectively as we might said the commissioner Monday (6 April) in a speech on developing an economic foreign policy for Europe.He said that Europe not only has the right but also the responsibility to develop a stronger foreign economic policy as it is the largest economic power in the world, with a high GDP than the US and the world's second most important currency.According to the commissioner, the current financial crisis, which has severely affected EU member states both in and outside the 16-nation eurozone, should give the impetus for a shift in thinking away from an inward perspective towards a global outlook.At the moment, however, national governments have still not fully considered the risks of not doing anything, said Mr Almunia.Of particular importance is having a seat the International Monetary Fund, he noted, with leaders of the G20 nations just last week having agreed to boost the organisations powers and funds.The argument for a single consolidated euro-area chair is quite obvious. Yet, member states concerned jealously guard their seats.He also called on Europe to better coordinate its positions on macroeconomic policy in international groupings such as the G7, G8 and G20, the last of which represents 80 percent of the world's economy.

The European Union went into the G20 last week have spent weeks trying to rally behind a single message. It eventually managed to just before the London meeting, something it heralded as a triumph.The commissioner also pointed to climate change, the biggest economic, political and social future challenge facing the EU, saying that one of the key elements of international discussions in December on brokering a new environment pact will be financing.We will have to be bold in shouldering our part of the financial burden, helping climate change efforts in developing and emerging countries.So far, however, the EU has failed to lead the world on this issue. Although it has set climate targets that are more ambitious than the rest of the world - achieving a cut of 20% in CO2 emissions by 2020 - member states have failed to lend weight to the target by backing it up with financial incentives for poorer countries to do the same.A meeting of EU leaders in March was notable for its postponement of a decision on funding for third world carbon reduction measures and adaptation to climate change, seen as essentially for getting any meaningful reduction in greenhouse gases.In addition, a meeting of EU finance ministers just after the London G20 meeting shows the difficulty of putting Mr Almunia's words on developing an economic foreign policy.At the meeting, there was disagreement about how to tighten up financial regulation, a headline agreement at the G20 meeting the previous day.

US backs Eastern Partnership eyeing energy independence
VALENTINA POP 06.04.2009 @ 16:45 CET


EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The Obama administration backs the EU's newest policy towards its eastern neighbours, especially the bloc's bid to reduce its energy dependency on Russia, a senior US diplomat told EUobserver.The Eastern Partnership is a positive sign that things are moving finally in the right direction,deputy assistant secretary of state Matt Bryza said in a phone interview. He added he was pleased to see that EU energy policy is moving more quickly towards diversification of natural gas supplies.

Of course, there's still a strong debate going on in Brussels and some of the larger member states capitals about how to manage a deep dependence and relationship with Russia on gas with the need to diversify. Europe isn't quite yet at a common external energy policy, but Russia's actions this winter helped to accelerate Europe moving in that direction,Mr Bryza said, referring to Gazprom's decision to cut of gas flows to Ukraine and eastern European countries in January.Our European allies can choose their own energy policies, but I think they are moving in the right direction and I see positive signs in terms of the strong outreach to Azerbaijan now, as we witnessed at the Budapest Nabucco summit in January. Also, we see real progress in the development of pipelines in Europe, whether they be larger projects, like the Turkey-Greece-Italy project or Nabucco, or smaller ones, like the interconnections of various European gas transmission and distribution systems. There is an exhilaration of efforts to develop these sorts of projects,the US diplomat noted.Both US president Barack Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton praised the project of the Eastern Partnership during an informal EU-US summit in Prague on Sunday, Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski said on Monday.A Polish-Swedish initiative, the Eastern Partnership aims at improving the EU's political, economic and energy relations with Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.

Mr Bryza rejected fears about the feasibility of the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline, aimed at carrying Caspian gas to Europe via Turkey after Azerbaijan - the main supplier - signed a deal with Gazprom last month on selling non-defined quantities of gas to the Russian company.It's not worrying at all. President Ilham Aliev's priority is clearly to produce and export as much gas as possible to Europe as quickly as possible, but at the same time he has to live right next door to Russia, where gas demands are increasing. So he's got to find a way to balance these relations,the US diplomat said.However, he stressed that it was important for Europe to do more, in order to ensure that president Aliev knows Europe is Azerbaijan's strategic partner, and in this context, the Eastern Partnership is a welcome step.Europeans do not just have to prove that they just want Azerbaijan's gas, but they also have to embrace Azerbaijan as a strategic partner in broader ways, not just as a blank face like a post office box from which the gas comes.The EU's envoy to the South Caucasus, Peter Semneby, traveled to Baku on Monday to meet Azeri officials to discuss the Eastern Partnership and issues concerning the frozen conflict in Nagorno Karabakh, an Azeri region occupied by neighbouring Armenia.

Armenian row

Meanwhile, the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh looked to overshadow president Obama's visit to Turkey, during which Ankara was set to announce a historic protocol with Armenia. Turkey closed its borders to Armenia in 1993, in solidarity with Azerbaijan, whose population is also ethnically Turkic.Despite calls from Ms Clinton and Turkish president Abdullah Gul, Azeri president Ilham Aliev refused to join Mr Obama in Istanbul on Monday for a UN interfaith conference called the Alliance of Civilisations.He also threatened to cut gas supplies to Turkey if Ankara signs the agreement prior to the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh issue.

Coca-Cola buys stake in Innocent drinks Mon Apr 6, 7:34 pm ET

LONDON (AFP) – US giant Coca-Cola will take a 30-million-pound minority stake in natural drinks maker Innocent to help it expand into Europe, Innocent said Monday.

The British company, which makes 100-percent fruit smoothies and prides itself on its socially-responsible image, already operates in 13 European countries and has an annual turnover of 100 million pounds.Every promise that Innocent has made -- about making only natural healthy products, pioneering the use of better, socially and environmentally aware ingredients, packaging and production techniques, donating money to charity and having a point of view on the world -- will remain,said Innocent co-founder Richard Reed in a statement.He added: We chose Coca-Cola as an investor because as well as providing the funds which will allow us to increase our investment in the brand both in the UK and internationally, they can help us get our products out to more people in more places.James Quincey, group business unit president for Coca-Cola Europe, said the firm was "delighted" to invest in Innocent, saying: We have long admired their brand, their products and their unique approach to business.

Incoming NATO chief: Confront religious prejudice By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer – Mon Apr 6, 11:44 am ET

ISTANBUL – The incoming head of NATO called on Monday for a balance between free speech and respect for religious feelings after a dispute over his support for the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad had threatened his appointment.Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who overcame objections from Turkey about his suitability for the alliance top job, said he will pay close attention to religious sensibilities when he becomes NATO secretary-general in August. His stance over the caricatures had angered Muslims around the world.I would never myself depict any religious figure, including the Prophet Muhammad, in a way that could hurt other people's feelings,the former Danish prime minister said at a conference in Istanbul, Turkey.I respect Islam as one of the world's major religions,said Fogh Rasmussen, wearing a sling after dislocating his shoulder in an accident earlier Monday.In 2005, twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were published in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.The drawings triggered massive protests from Morocco to Indonesia in early 2006, and rioters torched Danish and other Western embassies and diplomatic missions. Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable, for fear it could lead to idolatry.

Throughout the crisis, Fogh Rasmussen distanced himself from the cartoons but resisted calls to apologize for them, citing freedom of speech and saying his government could not be held responsible for the actions of Denmark's free press.My position was clear before, during and after the crisis,Fogh Rasmussen said.In his speech to the Alliance of Civilizations, a forum sponsored by Turkey and Spain to promote understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds, Fogh Rasmussen said prejudice must be confronted.He said dialogue between cultures and religions should be based on mutual respect and understanding and that all kinds of censorship hamper that process.That's exactly the balance that we have to strike,he said, referring to free speech and respect for religions.On another contentious issue, Fogh Rasmussen said Denmark was continuing a four-year investigation of Turkish claims that Copenhagen-based Roj TV has ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. The rebel group has been fighting the Turkish state since 1984 and is considered by Denmark and other Western countries to be a terrorist organization.If sufficient evidence is provided, we will of course do all we can to close this television station, Fogh Rasmussen said. I do hope that the work can be concluded as soon as possible, but it's up to the public prosecutor to decide.

The station has its newsroom and production facilities in Belgium, but transmits its satellite signal to Kurdish viewers via Denmark because it does not have a Belgian broadcasting license. Danish-Turkish relations have long been strained over Kurdish groups based in Denmark.Turkey's Dogan news agency reported that Fogh Rasmussen was injured in his hotel.I had a small accident in my room,said the former Danish prime minister. He joked that he appeared in a condition which might give you a wrong impression of the character of my new job.Associated Press Writer Jan M. Olsen contributed to this report from Copenhagen.

US, EU: North Korea missile threatens neighbors Sun Apr 5, 8:37 am ET

PRAGUE – The United States and the European Union say North Korea's missile launch is a threat to neighbors and demands a response from world nations.A statement from U.S. and EU leaders calls on North Korea to abandon all nuclear weapons and cease threatening behavior.They said North Korea's development of a ballistic missile capability is aimed at providing it with the ability to threaten countries near and far with weapons of mass destruction.The leaders also said the missile launch demands a response from the international community, including from the U.N. Security Council, to demonstrate that its resolutions cannot be defied with impunity.The Security Council meets later Sunday in New York.

Americans split over military action on NKorea Mon Apr 6, 7:01 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Americans are divided over whether the United States should take military action against North Korea in response to the isolated country's launch of a rocket over the weekend, an opinion poll showed Monday.The CNN Opinion Research Corporation survey found that 51 percent were for military action by the United States against North Korea.The poll was conducted April 3-5 before Pyongyang launched the rocket and respondents were therefore asked about North Korea's plans to launch a missile.North Korea announced Sunday that a long-range rocket had placed into orbit a communications satellite, but South Korea and the US military said a satellite never made it into space. A senior Russian military source also said there were no signs of a satellite.Seoul, Washington and Tokyo, along with other nations, say the launch was a pretext to test a long-range Taepodong-2 missile in violation of United Nations resolutions.In the poll, 52 percent of Americans said they had a very unfavorable opinion of North Korea, while 34 percent said they were mostly unfavorable and only 2 percent said they were very favorable.

Some 25 percent of respondents said North Korea poses an immediate threat to the United States, up from 20 percent in October 2006, after the reclusive regime detonated a nuclear device.But more Americans said the country was not a threat at all,at 17 percent, up from 13 percent in 2006. North Korea is a long-term threat, according to 58 percent of respondents, down from 64 percent in 2006.Respondents were also asked about President Barack Obama's performance, nearly three months into the job, and about the contribution of US allies to the war in Afghanistan.Obama's numbers remained steady, with 66 percent approval ratings, up slightly from the 64 percent he received in mid-March, but significantly down from his 76 percent approval rating in February 7-8, a little over two weeks after his inauguration.Some 30 percent said they disapproved of how he was handling his job as president, down from 34 percent in March but up from the 23 percent he received in early February.

Meanwhile, an overwhelming majority of those surveyed -- 78 percent -- said that US allies were not doing enough to help the US military effort in Afghanistan, where the war has been fought for over seven and a half years.Only 20 percent of respondents said US allies were doing enough.The United States has some 38,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan, and has plans to increase the force to about 68,000 by the end of the year. Other foreign countries have about 32,000 troops stationed there.The telephone survey of 1,023 adult Americans had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

Monday, April 06, 2009

USA LESSER ROLE IN THE WORLD

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
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) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

UPDATE AS OF 1:15PM APR 6,09 100 DEAD,100,000 HOMELESS BY QUAKE.

Italy quake kills 150, devastates medieval town by Katia Dolmadjian –2:3oPM

L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) – A violent earthquake rocked central Italy on Monday killing at least 150 people, injuring 1,500 and devastating a walled medieval town where buildings and homes were reduced to rubble.More than 1,700 rescuers scrambled in driving rain to find victims trapped under collapsed dwellings in the regional capital of L'Aquila, the quake's epicentre, and officials warned the toll would rise.

Some 50,000 people were made homeless, emergency services said. Many residents fled L'Aquila, some even on foot.Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi declared a state of emergency and cancelled a trip to Russia in order to visit the Abruzzo region's main town, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Rome.Rescue workers said at least 150 people were killed, Italian media said, while Berlusconi told a news conference here that 1,500 people were injured, adding that a student from the Czech Republic was among the dead.No one will be abandoned to his fate, he vowed, adding that a tent village was being set up that could accommodate between 16,000 and 20,000 people and would be ready by nightfall.In the late afternoon police began going door to door in L'Aquila, checking that people who had decided to stay in the crippled town -- most of them elderly -- had what they needed for the night.We're also patrolling to prevent thefts from empty homes,an officer told AFP after reports of looting.The quake struck just after 3:30 am (0130 GMT) and lasted about 30 seconds, bringing down many Renaissance era and Baroque buildings, including the dome on one of L'Aquila's centuries-old churches. The city's cathedral was also damaged.Roofs caved in on sleeping inhabitants and boulders fell off mountain slopes blocking many roads. At least five children were among the dead in L'Aquila, according to police quoted by ANSA news agency.

The earthquake measured magnitude 6.2, according to the Italian geophysical institute.

The quake, whose epicentre was five kilometers (three miles) directly below L'Aquila, inflicted damage up to 30 kilometres (20 miles) away in all directions.Rescue workers pulled several people alive out of one four-storey building and said they could hear the cries of a woman still trapped. They planned to try to lift the roof with a giant crane.Doctors treated people in the open air outside L'Aquila's main hospital as only one operating room was functioning.L'Aquila resident Maria Francesco said: It was the apocalypse, our house collapsed. It's destroyed, and there's nothing left to recover.

It's a scandal what's happened,she told AFP.For the past three months there have been regular tremors, and they've been getting stronger and stronger! Luigi D'Andrea, a student, was asleep when the quake struck. Everything shook really hard and bricks started falling on me. Then it was an entire wall that collapsed in my bedroom, then a second.He escaped through a neighbour's flat and returned to recover his computer. I'm very lucky I wasn't hurt, but now I don't know what to do, whether I should leave here or not. I'll wait and see.L'Aquila, the region's only university town, suffered the biggest toll while police reported deaths in the towns and villages of Castelnuovo, Poggio Picenze, Torminparte, Fossa, Totani and Villa Sant'Angelo, ANSA reported.Condolences and offers of help poured in from around the world. We want to send our condolences to the families there,US President Barack Obama said during an official visit in Turkey. State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the US embassy in Rome would provide 50,000 dollars in emergency relief funding.Italian authorities told countries offering assistance they did not need rescue teams.UN chief Ban Ki-moon was saddened by the loss of life and destruction of property in central Italy, his spokeswoman said.Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said his country was shocked by the tragedy, adding:We sympathise with those who have suffered and share their sorrow.Pope Benedict XVI, too, sent his prayers, the Vatican said. Italy is criss-crossed by two fault lines, making it one of Europe's most quake-vulnerable regions, with some 20 million people at risk. A powerful earthquake in central Italy claimed 13lives in 1997 and damaged or destroyed priceless cultural heritage. An October 2002 quake killed 30 people including 27 pupils and their teacher who were crushed under their schoolhouse in the tiny medieval village of San Giuliano di Puglia. On November 23, 1980, a quake struck the southern region of Irpiona near Naples, killing 2,570, injuring 8,850 and displacing 30,000.

Italy: More than 70 dead, 1,500 injured in quake By MARTA FALCONI, Associated Press Writer APR 6,09

L'AQUILA, Italy – A powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings early Monday as residents slept, killing more than 70 people in the country's deadliest quake in nearly three decades, officials said. Tens of thousands were homeless and 1,500 were injured.Ambulances screamed through the medieval city L'Aquila as firefighters with dogs worked feverishly to reach people trapped in fallen buildings, including a dormitory where half a dozen university students were believed still inside.Outside the half-collapsed building, tearful young people huddled together, wrapped in blankets, some still in their slippers after being roused from sleep by the quake. Dozens managed to escape as the walls fell around them.We managed to come down with other students but we had to sneak through a hole in the stairs as the whole floor came down, said Luigi Alfonsi, 22.I was in bed — it was like it would never end as I heard pieces of the building collapse around me.In the historic center of the city, a wall of the 13th century Santa Maria di Collemaggio church collapsed and the bell tower of the Renaissance San Bernadino church also fell. The 16th castle housing the Abruzzo National Museum was damaged.L'Aquila, capital of the Abruzzo region, was near the epicenter about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of Rome. It is a quake-prone region that has had at least nine smaller jolts since the beginning of April. The quake struck at 3:32 a.m. The U.S. Geological Survey said the big quake was magnitude 6.3, but Italy's National Institute of Geophysics put it at 5.8 and more than a dozen aftershocks followed.

More than 70 people were killed and the death toll was likely to rise, civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso said as rescue crews clawed through the debris of fallen homes. Some 1,500 people were injured.The quake hit 26 towns and cities around L'Aquila, which lies in a valley surrounded by the Apennine mountains. Castelnuovo, a hamlet of about 300 people 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of L'Aquila, appeared hard hit, and five were confirmed dead there. Another small town, Onno, was almost completely leveled.A few houses have remained standing, but just a few, Stefania Pezzopane, provincial president of L'Aquila, told Corriere della Sera.L'Aquila Mayor Massimo Cialente said about 100,000 people were homeless. It was not clear if that estimate included surrounding towns. Some 10,000 to 15,000 buildings were either damaged or destroyed, officials said.Premier Silvio Berlusconi declared a state of emergency, freeing up federal funds to deal with the disaster, and canceled a visit to Russia so he could deal with the quake crisis.Condolences poured in from around the world, including from President Barack Obama, Pope Benedict XVI and Abdullah Gul, president of quake-prone Turkey.Slabs of walls, twisted steel supports, furniture and wire fences were strewn about the streets of L'Aquila, and gray dust carpeted sidewalks, cars and residents.Residents and rescue workers hauled away debris from collapsed buildings by hand. Firefighters pulled a woman covered in dust from the debris of her four-story home. Rescue crews demanded quiet as they listened for signs of life from other people believed still trapped inside.

A body lay on the sidewalk, covered by a white sheet.

Parts of L'Aquila's main hospital were evacuated because they were at risk of collapse, and only two operating rooms were in use. Bloodied victims waited in hospital hallways or in the courtyard and many were being treated in the open. A field hospital was being set up.In the dusty streets, as aftershocks rumbled through, residents hugged one another, prayed quietly or frantically tried to call relatives. Residents covered in dust pushed carts full of clothes and blankets that they had thrown together before fleeing their homes.We left as soon as we felt the first tremors,said Antonio D'Ostilio, 22, as he stood on a street in L'Aquila with a huge suitcase piled with clothes. We woke up all of a sudden and we immediately ran downstairs in our pajamas.Evacuees converged on an athletics field on the outskirts of L'Aquila where a makeshift tent camp was being set up. Civil protection officials distributed bread and water to people who lay on the grass next to heaps of their belongings. It's a catastrophe and an immense shock, said resident Renato Di Stefano, who was moving with his family to the camp as a precaution. It's struck in the heart of the city, we will never forget the pain.Civil protection official Agostino Miozzo said the aim was to give everyone shelter by nightfall. This means that the we'll have several thousand people to assist over the next few weeks and months," he told Sky Italia. At least one student from Greece was trapped in the debris and another was injured, the Greek Foreign Ministry said. Greece offered to send a rescue team to help, the ministry said.The Israeli Embassy in Rome said officials were trying to make contact with a few Israeli citizens believed to be in the region who had not been in touch with their families. Embassy spokeswoman Rachel Feinmesser did not give an exact number.The last major quake to hit central Italy was a 5.4-magnitude temblor that struck the south-central Molise region on Oct. 31, 2002, killing 28 people, including 27 children who died when their school collapsed.

Heavy, wet snow causes problems in Mich, Ind APR 6,09

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Heavy, wet snow knocked out electrical service to thousands of customers and snarled morning traffic Monday in northern Indiana and southeast Michigan.The National Weather Service said nearly 8 inches of snow fell in the Detroit area and northern Indiana got at least 4 inches.Michigan's CMS Energy Corp. and DTE Energy Co. reported 101,000 homes and businesses lost power and Indiana's Indiana Michigan Power said about 1,100 customers had been blacked out as the weight of the snow snapped branches and power lines.Indiana State Police reported numerous slide-off accidents on the Indiana Toll Road, but no serious injuries.The weather also put a damper on baseball's opening day. The Kansas City Royals' game in Chicago against the White Sox was postponed due to a snowy forecast and the Tampa Bay Rays' game in Boston was postponed because of expected rain and wind.The snow was produced by a storm that swept across the Plains during the weekend, closing highways Saturday in parts of Wyoming and western Nebraska. Wind piled snow into drifts up to 7 feet high in parts of western Nebraska.Some schools in the Nebraska Panhandle remained closed Monday.

Iowa got as much as 10 inches Sunday.

The storm's system's rotation pulled cold air into the South on Monday and the weather service issued freeze warnings from Texas and Oklahoma to West Virginia, with tornado watches posted for parts of the Carolinas and Virginia. The storm system produced severe thunderstorms Sunday in Kentucky and Tennessee.Information from: South Bend Tribune, http://www.southbendtribune.com

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
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.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
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.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
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.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

THE EU
http://www.watchmanbiblestudy.com/Documents/EU_Solana_govt_organization%20.htm
http://www.hutaree.com/10%20Horns%20Seven%20Years.html

Blair steps up fight to be crowned first President of EU,Brown gives grudging blessing to his old rival's return to new job at centre of the global stage
By Jane Merrick, Political Editor Sunday, 5 April 2009
JOHN THYS / AFP

Mr President? Another no vote in the Irish referendum, or Angela Merkel's EU ambitions, could still thwart Blair .Tony Blair has emerged as the leading candidate to become the first permanent president of the European Union after Gordon Brown gave his grudging blessing to the plan. The former prime minister has stepped up his campaign for the job, which he wants to use to build a bridge between Europe and the new Obama administration.His return to the global stage would be a shock to his critics over the Iraq war and dismay many in Europe.But The Independent on Sunday has learnt that Mr Brown has accepted that his old rival should be in pole position for the appointment, on the basis that Britain needs to have a key figure in the architecture of the new world order.A senior British official said: He [Brown] will have to swallow hard to sit down in meetings once again with Blair. But he accepts that there needs to be someone from the UK in the new global architecture. There is no opposition to the plan. Things have moved on, people have moved on.Other European leaders are also broadly supportive because they want a high-profile figure to represent the 27-nation bloc in the new alliance with the US administration. Mr Blair remains a popular figure in the US.

After initially trying to block Mr Blair as a possible candidate last year, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has thrown his weight behind the former prime minister.As the eyes of the world were on London's G20 summit last Wednesday, Mr Blair held private talks with the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso in Brussels. The talks focused on his work as Middle East envoy to the quartet of world powers, but it is almost certain that the two men discussed his candidacy. The former premier also visited Sweden last week, where he shared a platform with Bill Clinton at a climate change conference.The presidency job is dependant on Ireland voting yes to the Lisbon Treaty, which creates the position. The Irish referendum will take place in the autumn.But Mr Blair's plans could still be scuppered if Angela Merkel loses the German general election in September. She is thought to have a strong desire for the job in the event of defeat.Britain has already thrown its weight behind Mr Barroso to serve a second term as Commission President. His re-appointment would also strengthen the chances of a British name for the new job.Mr Blair will have spent two years in the Middle East role by July, giving him a legitimate opportunity to claim he has devoted enough time to the job.But critics will say Mr Blair has failed to make any significant breakthrough. There is also little chance of progress towards the two-state solution under the new hardline Israeli government led by Binyamin Netanyahu.In a sign that Mr Blair's mind is on an exit from the Middle East, he said in Brussels: I think the next six months will be completely critical in determining whether this process will move forward or whether it will slip back. I do believe that if there is not significant progress in the year 2009, the peace process will be in very great jeopardy, because there are decisions that have to be taken.

Brown backs Blair for EU president job
HONOR MAHONY Today APR 6,09 @ 09:15 CET


Tony Blair has renewed his campaign to become the first president of Europe and has received backing from UK leader Gordon Brown.According to a report in the Sunday Independent, Mr Brown is prepared to back his predecessor and great political rival for the new post - foreseen under the EU's planned Lisbon Treaty - in order to have Britain holding a key role in the new world order.He [Brown] will have to swallow hard to sit down in meetings once again with Blair. But he accepts that there needs to be someone from the UK in the new global architecture. There is no opposition to the plan. Things have moved on, people have moved on,said a senior official quoted by the newspaper.It notes that Mr Blair held private talks with European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday last week, where the issue of his candidacy was likely discussed.Mr Blair last year received the public backing of French president Nicolas Sarkozy but he is a devisive figure in Europe having supported the unpopular US-led war in Iraq. In addition, as a Briton, he represents a country that has ambivalent relations with the EU and is not in some of its key structures, such as the euro-zone.He is currently the Middle East envoy, a role he has held for two years. However, critics argue that he has had little success in the job. A gifted orator, he is also the world's highest paid speaker, according to The Times, recently earning almost €440,000 for two half-hour speeches. The President of the European Council is a two and half year post that can be renewed once. The job description in the Lisbon Treaty foresees that the president represents the EU externally and organises the regular meetings of EU leaders.

However, the description leaves plenty of room for manoeuvre, prompting much debate in Brussels about what sort of person should hold the job and how much power they should have.The European Parliament is keen to keep a lid on the powers, fearing that an all-powerful president would change the institutional balance of the EU towards member states.Last month, its constitutional affairs committee approved a report saying the president should not speak for the EU as a whole on political issues.But putting a senior political figure such as Tony Blair into the post would likely see this happening.For the moment, the creation of the post hangs in the balance. The Lisbon Treaty faces a referendum Ireland later this year and has yet to be approved in the Czech Republic. It is also facing a court challenge in Germany and has still to be signed by the Polish president.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

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)

NATO takes in two more former Communist states,Anti-NATO protesters waving the Soviet flag did not celebrate Albania and Croatia joining the alliance (Photo: EUobserver)VALENTINA POP 04.04.2009 @ 15:35 CET

EUOBSERVER / STRASBOURG – Former Communist countries Albania and Croatia were formally welcomed on Saturday (4 April) as NATO's newest members. Macedonia's membership, however, is still pending due to a name dispute with Greece, while Georgia and Ukraine's accession perspectives look distant.You have very well earned your place at the table, outgoing NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told Albanian and Croatian delegations at the opening of the NATO council on Saturday morning in Strasbourg.Mr Scheffer said that the move is testimony to the countries' long years of reforms and a proof of the open-door policy of NATO enlargement.US President Barack Obama, himself for the first time at a NATO summit, thanked the pair for sending 140 Albanian and 296 Croatian troops to Afghanistan - a considerable contribution for the two small Balkan states of 3 and 4.5 million people, respectively. In a short ceremony, Mr Obama handed over copies of the Washington Treaty, which lays out the security guarantees of NATO, to the President of Albania, Bamir Topi and Croatian head Stjepan Mesic.What we bring to NATO is the wartime experience of our military, which many other armies do not have, Mr Mesic said on his way to the ceremony.Croatia's entry comes after intense pressure on Slovenia, where some poilitical factions opposed the move due to a bilateral territorial dispute with its neighbour. All NATO states had to ratify the enlargement treaty and deposit documents in Washington, a formal step completeted on 1 April. Created in 1949, NATO was originally designed to guard European allies of the United States against a potential Soviet attack. Article 5 of the Washington Treaty says that if any NATO member is attacked, all the others must come to its aid.

After the fall of Communism, the prospect of NATO membership drove reforms in eastern Europe. NATO accession has in the past gone hand-in-hand with EU membership - all the former Iron Curtain EU states are also NATO members, with Croatia also expected to join the EU shortly. The NATO leaders' gathering in the top security Music Palace venue in the north of Strasbourg on Saturday saw a second day of riots in the historic city, prompting Michelle Obama and other first ladies to cancel a meeting to a cancer hospital.Some of the protesters waved Soviet flags saying Let's all reunite under Maoism and NATO = legal terrorism.

Macedonia pending

NATO leaders failed to achieve any progress on Macedonian membership, which remains pending because of the country's name dispute with Greece. Athens is blocking Skopje's membership, insisting that the name of the former Yugoslav republic should not be Macedonia,because it threatens the security of a Greek province also called Macedonia.In his opening remarks to the NATO council, president Obama said he was looking forward to Macedonia becoming a member.NATO leaders agreed last year in Bucharest that Macedonia would be a member as soon as the name dispute is resolved. The haggle is also blocking the opening of EU accession talks with the country.

Georgia and Ukraine too hot to handle

As for the next countries in line for NATO membership, Georgia and Ukraine, leaders are expected to repeat what they said last year in Bucharest - that the two states would eventually join, once they fulfill criteria.The membership of the two fomer Soviet states is fiercely opposed by Russia. Mr Obama did not specifically name Georgia or Ukraine when he referred to NATO enlargement in the context of Albania, Croatia and Macedonia.The door remains open to new members as they meet the standards of our alliance and can make a meaningful contribution to allied security,he said.The US is currently thawing relations with Russia, whose help it needs for transport of supplies to Afghanistan and for diplomatic support in the Iranian nuclear dispute.

NATO will disappoint Eastern Europe if it backpedals on ...the timetable for allowing Georgia and Ukraine into the NATO membership waiting-room, Andrew Wilson, an expert on Eastern Europe with the European Council on Foreign Relations, a London-based think tank said in a press release.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A look at North Korea's missile arsenal By The Associated Press – Sat Apr 4, 11:39 pm ET

A look at North Korea's missile arsenal:

ADVANCED TAEPODONG-2: Under development. Potential range of about 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers), putting the U.S. west coast, Hawaii, Australia and eastern Europe within striking distance. North Korea says this, and all Taepdong missiles, are space launch vehicles (SLVs) for satellites, though satellite and missile technologies are considered interchangeable.

TAEPODONG-2: Three-stage rocket with potential range of more than 4,100 miles (6,700 kilometers), putting Alaska within striking distance. South Korea says a test rocket fizzled soon after takeoff in July 2006. First two stages are liquid-fueled, while the third is believed to be solid-fueled. Similar to Iran's Safir-Omid space launch vehicle, suggesting extensive cooperation between the two nations.

TAEPODONG-1: Estimated range of 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers). A test launch in August 1998 flew over Japan and shocked the world because it was well beyond North Korea's known capability at the time. Both lower stages are liquid-fueled, with a potential solid-fuel third stage. Payload is thought to be about 750 pounds (500 kilograms). Accuracy is believed poor, with no meaningful strike capability

NEW MISSILE: North Korea has fielded a new intermediate range ballistic missile, according to South Korea's Defense Ministry. With a range of 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers), it could reach Guam, northern Australia, most of Russia and parts of India. North Korea reportedly used Russian SS-N-6 submarine-launched ballistic missile technology for the mobile, land-based missile. It reportedly is liquid-fueled with one or two stages. Some reports say North Korea put the new missile on display during a 2007 military parade. Accuracy is unknown.

RODONG: Japan is the likely target of this short-range missile. Rodong is almost identical to Iran's Shahab-3 and Pakistan's Ghauri II (Hatf V), the strongest evidence of the countries' collaboration and of North Korean sale of technology and missile equipment to others. All three countries continue to refine the design. Estimated range of 620 to 930 miles (1,000 to 1,500 kilometers) and maximum payload of 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms). They are single-stage, liquid-fuel missiles on mobile launchers. Most have fairly poor accuracy, though some may have been fitted with warhead separation and more modern guidance systems.

SCUD: Single stage, liquid-fueled missile with a range of up to 500 miles (800 kilometers). Known in North Korea by the name Hwasong, the SCUD B and SCUD C can reach only South Korea, but the SCUD D could target Japan. Accuracy is extremely poor. Ballistic missile programs in Pakistan and Iran were built on SCUD technology.

Sources: STRATFOR global intelligence, South Korea's Defense Ministry, with reporting by Carley Petesch in New York and Jae-soon Chang in Seoul.

UN council to meet in emergency session on N.Korea By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer John Heilprin, Associated Press Writer – Sun Apr 5, 4:46 am ET

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council approved an emergency session Sunday to deal with North Korea's rocket launch.Mexico's mission to the United Nations set the meeting for 3 p.m. EDT, spokesman Marco Morales said. Mexico holds the 15-nation council's presidency this month.That approval came after Japan submitted a formal letter requested an emergency session of the United Nations council that handles threats to international peace and security.We received a letter and there will be a meeting, Morales said.Yutaka Arima, a spokesman for Japan's U.N. mission, said his nation asked for the meeting within minutes of the launch.The U.S. and South Korean governments confirmed North Korea launched a long-range rocket launch from its east coast base that flew over Japan.North Korea says it was putting a communications satellite into space. The U.S., South Korea, Japan and others suspect Pyongyang of using the launch to improperly test long-range missile technology.Diplomats at the U.N. say the U.S., Britain, France and South Korea already have begun discussing a possible Security Council resolution to reaffirm its existing sanctions on North Korea.Those sanctions were imposed in 2006 in an attempt to persuade North Korea to shelve its nuclear program and halt long-range missile tests.The diplomats said the U.S., Britain and France, each of which holds veto power on the 15-nation council, are unlikely to seek new sanctions in the face of probable resistance from China, North Korea's closest ally, and Russia, the other two nations with veto power.They spoke on condition of anonymity, because of the sensitive nature of the discussions.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)

EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:10
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.

THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS THE EU WILL LEAD THE WORLD NOT AMERICA.SEE WHAT HAPPENS AMERICA WHEN YOU TAKE GOD OUT OF EVERYTHING AND BETRAY ISRAEL.GOD BRINGS THAT NATION TO ITS KNEES,THEN TO ITS DESTRUCTION.

WHAT THE WORLD WILL BE LIKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8wA8TovXAw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2qDW34Fr64
SILVER BETTER THAN GOLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeVM0MH9Ido&feature=related
2009 AMERICAS DECLINE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w84EiCt0Lqk&feature=related

G-20 Shapes New World Order With Lesser Role for U.S., Markets
By Rich Miller and Simon Kennedy


April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Global leaders took their biggest steps yet toward a new world order that’s less U.S.-centric with a more heavily regulated financial industry and a greater role for international institutions and emerging markets. At the end of a summit in London, policy makers from the Group of 20 yesterday delivered a regulatory blueprint that French President Nicholas Sarkozy said turned the page on the Anglo-Saxon model of free markets by placing stricter limits on hedge funds and other financiers. The leaders also pledged to triple the resources of the International Monetary Fund and to hand China and other developing economies a greater say in the management of the world economy. It’s the passing of an era,said Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, who helped prepare summits for presidents Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. The U.S. is becoming less dominant while other nations are gaining influence.A lot was at stake. If the leaders had failed to forge a consensus -- Sarkozy this week threatened to quit the talks if they didn’t back much tighter regulation -- it might have set back the world’s economy and markets just as they’re showing signs of shaking off the worst financial crisis in six decades.That’s what happened in 1933, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt torpedoed a similar conference in London by rejecting its plan to stabilize currency rates and in the process scotched international efforts to lift the world out of a depression.

More Conciliation

Seeking to avoid a repeat of that historic flop, President Barack Obama junked the at-times go-it-alone approach of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and adopted a more conciliatory stance toward his fellow leaders. In a world that is as complex as it is, it is very important for us to be able to forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions,Obama told a press conference at the conclusion of the summit.

Stock markets rose in response to the steps taken by the G-20 leaders. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index climbed 2.9 percent to 834.38. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 216.48 points, or 2.8 percent, to 7,978.08. Both closed at their highest levels since the second week of February. In an effort to promote harmony, Obama soft-pedaled earlier U.S. demands that the summit agree on a specific target for fiscal stimulus in the face of opposition from France and Germany. Instead, he settled for a vague pledge that the leaders would do whatever it takes to revive the global economy.

Repudiation of Past

The president also signed on to a communiqué that Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz said repudiated the previous U.S.-led push to free capitalism from the constraints of governments. This is a major step forward and a reversal of the ideology of the 1990s, and at a very official level, a rejection of the ideas pushed by the U.S. and others,said Stiglitz, an economics professor at Columbia University.It’s a historic moment when the world came together and said we were wrong to push deregulation.In bowing to that view, the leaders conceded in a statement that major failures in regulation had been fundamental causes of the market turmoil they are trying to tackle. To make amends and to try to avoid a repeat of the crisis, they pledged to impose stronger restraints on hedge funds, credit rating companies, risk-taking and executive pay. Countries that used to defend deregulation at any cost are recognizing that there needs to be a larger state presence so this crisis never happens again, said Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Financial Stability Board

A new Financial Stability Board will be established to unite regulators and join the IMF in providing early warnings of potential threats. Once the economy recovers, work will begin on new rules aimed at avoiding excessive leverage and forcing banks to put more money aside during good times. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had unsuccessfully sought to convince the U.S. and Britain to sign on to similar steps before the crisis began in mid-2007, hailed the communiqué as a victory for common sense.The U.S. did, though, take the lead in getting the summit to agree on an increase in IMF rescue funds to $750 billion from $250 billion now. Japan, the European Union and China will provide the first $250 billion of the increase, with the balance to come from as yet unidentified countries. This will provide the IMF with enough resources to meet the needs of East European nations and also provide back-up funding to a broader set of countries,said Brad Setser, a former U.S. Treasury official who’s now at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

IMF Allocation

The G-20 also agreed to an allocation of $250 billion in Special Drawing Rights, the artificial currency that the IMF uses to settle accounts among its member nations. The move is akin to a central bank such as the Federal Reserve effectively creating money out of thin air, except it’s on a global scale. The increase in Special Drawing Rights will allow countries to tap IMF money without having to accept changes to economic policies often demanded as a condition of aid. The cash is disbursed in proportion to the money each member-nation pays into the fund. Rich nations will be allowed to divert their allocations to countries in greater need. The G-20 said they would couple the financing moves with steps to give emerging economic powerhouses such as China, India and Brazil a greater say in how the IMF is run.

Emerging Markets Benefit

Citigroup Inc. economists Don Hanna and Jurgen Michels called the summit agreement a boon to emerging markets in a note to clients yesterday. Mexico said Wednesday it will seek $47 billion from the IMF under the Washington-based lender’s new Flexible Credit Line, which allows some countries to borrow money with no conditions. Emerging-market stocks, bonds and currencies rallied yesterday on speculation other developing nations will follow Mexico’s lead. Gains in Polish, Czech and Brazilian stocks helped push the MSCI Emerging Markets Index up 5.6 percent to 613.07, the highest since Oct. 15.In a bid to avoid another mistake of the depression era, G-20 leaders repeated an earlier pledge to avoid trade protectionism and beggar-thy-neighbor policies that could aggravate the decline in the global economy. The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicted this week that global trade will shrink 13 percent this year as loss-ridden banks cut back on credit to exporters and importers.

Trade Finance

To help combat that, the G-20 said they will make at least $250 billion available in the next two years to support the finance of trade through export credit agencies and development banks such as the World Bank. The summit took place amid speculation among investors that the deepest global recession in six decades may be abating. Data released yesterday showed orders placed with U.S. factories rose in February for the first time in seven months, U.K. house prices unexpectedly gained in March and Chinese manufacturing increased. Still, a report today is forecast to show U.S. unemployment at its highest in a quarter-century. If the economy turns more favorable, this meeting will probably be viewed as a milestone, said C. Fred Bergsten, a former U.S. official and director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. The G-20 members are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the U.S., the U.K. and the European Union. Officials from Spain and the Netherlands were also present. To contact the reporters on this story: Rich Miller in Washington rmiller28@bloomberg.net; Simon Kennedy in Paris at Skennedy4@bloomberg.net

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, 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
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON APR 06,2009

09:30 AM -3.35
10:00 AM -74.36
10:30 AM -90.48
11:00 AM -96.14
11:30 AM -116.76
12:00 PM -140.58
12:30 PM -150.38
01:00 PM -129.91
01:30 PM -130.23
02:00 PM -112.08
02:30 PM -103.94
03:00 PM -84.59
03:30 PM -85.78
04:00 PM -41.74 7975.85

S&P 500 835.48 -7.02

NASDAQ 1606.71 -15.16

GOLD 870.30 -26.80

OIL 51.11 -1.40

TSE 300 9016.17 -49.59

CDNX 963.17 -12.42

S&P/TSX/60 548.75 -2.06

MORNING,NEWS,STATS
GOLD AT OPEN TODAY $879.30.OIL AT OPEN TODAY $51.76.
Dow -72 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -100 points at low today so far.
Dow -3 points at high today so far.

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -8.65%
S&P -6.73 %
Nasdaq +2.84 %
TSX Advances 783,declines 745,unchanged 263,Volume 2,554,869,281.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 364,Declines 381,Unchanged 364,Volume 226,632,402.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -151 points at low today so far.
Dow -3 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 741,declines 2,849,unchanged 87,New Highs 2,New Lows 40.
Volume 2,839,350,341.
NASDAQ Advances 617,declines 2,013,unchanged 98,New highs 13,New Lows 12.
Volume 866,115,101.
TSX Advances 436,declines 836,unchanged 260,Volume 1,213,076,946.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 241,Declines 358,Unchanged 281,Volume 111,158,314.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -154 points at low today so far.
Dow -3 points at high today so far.

LOOKING BACKWARDS TO THE FUTURE
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/04/04042009-looking-backwards-at-future.html#links

BARROSO AND THE EU WROTE THE RULES AT THE G-20
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=18508669001

WE SEE WAY BACK IN 1988 THEY WERE CALLING FOR A SINGLE CURRENCY ALREADY.

COVER: GET READY FOR A WORLD CURRENCY Title of article: Get Ready for the Phoenix Source: Economist; 01/9/88, Vol. 306, pp 9-10

THIRTY years from now, Americans, Japanese, Europeans, and people in many other rich countries, and some relatively poor ones will probably be paying for their shopping with the same currency. Prices will be quoted not in dollars, yen or D-marks but in, let's say, the phoenix. The phoenix will be favoured by companies and shoppers because it will be more convenient than today's national currencies , which by then will seem a quaint cause of much disruption to economic life in the last twentieth century.At the beginning of 1988 this appears an outlandish prediction. Proposals for eventual monetary union proliferated five and ten years ago, but they hardly envisaged the setbacks of 1987. The governments of the big economies tried to move an inch or two towards a more managed system of exchange rates - a logical preliminary, it might seem, to radical monetary reform. For lack of co-operation in their underlying economic policies they bungled it horribly, and provoked the rise in interest rates that brought on the stock market crash of October. These events have chastened exchange-rate reformers. The market crash taught them that the pretence of policy co-operation can be worse than nothing, and that until real co-operation is feasible (i.e., until governments surrender some economic sovereignty) further attempts to peg currencies will flounder.

But in spite of all the trouble governments have in reaching and (harder still) sticking to international agreements about macroeconomic policy, the conviction is growing that exchange rates cannot be left to themselves. Remember that the Louvre accord and its predecessor, the Plaza agreement of September 1985, were emergency measures to deal with a crisis of currency instability. Between 1983 and 1985 the dollar rose by 34% against the currencies of America's trading partners; since then it has fallen by 42%. Such changes have skewed the pattern of international comparative advantage more drastically in four years than underlying economic forces might do in a whole generation.In the past few days the world's main central banks, fearing another dollar collapse, have again jointly intervened in the currency markets (see page 62). Market-loving ministers such as Britain's Mr. Nigel Lawson have been converted to the cause of exchange-rate stability. Japanese officials take seriously he idea of EMS-like schemes for the main industrial economies. Regardless of the Louvre's embarrassing failure, the conviction remains that something must be done about exchange rates.Something will be, almost certainly in the course of 1988. And not long after the next currency agreement is signed it will go the same way as the last one. It will collapse. Governments are far from ready to subordinate their domestic objectives to the goal of international stability. Several more big exchange-rate upsets, a few more stockmarket crashes and probably a slump or two will be needed before politicians are willing to face squarely up to that choice. This points to a muddled sequence of emergency followed by a patch-up followed by emergency, stretching out far beyond 2018 - except for two things. As time passes, the damage caused by currency instability is gradually going to mount; and the very tends that will make it mount are making the utopia of monetary union feasible.

The new world economy

The biggest change in the world economy since the early 1970's is that flows of money have replaced trade in goods as the force that drives exchange rates. as a result of the relentless integration of the world's financial markets, differences in national economic policies can disturb interest rates (or expectations of future interest rates) only slightly, yet still call forth huge transfers of financial assets from one country to another. These transfers swamp the flow of trade revenues in their effect on the demand and supply for different currencies, and hence in their effect on exchange rates. As telecommunications technology continues to advance, these transactions will be cheaper and faster still. With unco-ordinated economic policies, currencies can get only more volatile.Alongside that trend is another - of ever-expanding opportunities for international trade. This too is the gift of advancing technology. Falling transport costs will make it easier for countries thousands of miles apart to compete in each others' markets. The law of one price (that a good should cost the same everywhere, once prices are converted into a single currency) will increasingly assert itself. Politicians permitting, national economies will follow their financial markets - becoming ever more open to the outside world. This will apply to labour as much as to goods, partly thorough migration but also through technology's ability to separate the worker form the point at which he delivers his labour. Indian computer operators will be processing New Yorkers' paychecks.In all these ways national economic boundaries are slowly dissolving. As the trend continues, the appeal of a currency union across at least the main industrial countries will seem irresistible to everybody except foreign-exchange traders and governments. In the phoenix zone, economic adjustment to shifts in relative prices would happen smoothly and automatically, rather as it does today between different regions within large economies (a brief on pages 74-75 explains how.) The absence of all currency risk would spur trade, investment and employment.The phoenix zone would impose tight constraints on national governments. There would be no such thing, for instance, as a national monetary policy. The world phoenix supply would be fixed by a new central bank, descended perhaps from the IMF. The world inflation rate - and hence, within narrow margins, each national inflation rate- would be in its charge. Each country could use taxes and public spending to offset temporary falls in demand, but it would have to borrow rather than print money to finance its budget deficit. With no recourse to the inflation tax, governments and their creditors would be forced to judge their borrowing and lending plans more carefully than they do today. This means a big loss of economic sovereignty, but the trends that make the phoenix so appealing are taking that sovereignty away in any case. Even in a world of more-or-less floating exchange rates, individual governments have seen their policy independence checked by an unfriendly outside world.

As the next century approaches, the natural forces that are pushing the world towards economic integration will offer governments a broad choice. They can go with the flow, or they can build barricades. Preparing the way for the phoenix will mean fewer pretended agreements on policy and more real ones. It will mean allowing and then actively promoting the private-sector use of an international money alongside existing national monies. That would let people vote with their wallets for the eventual move to full currency union. The phoenix would probably start as a cocktail of national currencies, just as the Special Drawing Right is today. In time, though, its value against national currencies would cease to matter, because people would choose it for its convenience and the stability of its purchasing power.The alternative - to preserve policymaking autonomy- would involve a new proliferation of truly draconian controls on trade and capital flows. This course offers governments a splendid time. They could manage exchange-rate movements, deploy monetary and fiscal policy without inhibition, and tackle the resulting bursts of inflation with prices and incomes polices. It is a growth-crippling prospect.Pencil in the phoenix for around 2018, and welcome it when it comes.

G20 shows power shift to multipolar world Sun, Apr 5th, 2009 1:38 pm
http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=80735&cid=4


COLUMN Paul Taylor

Washington Apr 5 (bdnews24.com)—A year ago, mere mention of the notion of a multipolar world was a sure way to lose friends and dinner invitations in Washington.

The London G20 summit shows just how far power has ebbed from the United States, and from the West in general. Until late 2008, the Group of Eight mostly Western industrialized nations — the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Russia and Japan — was the key forum for economic governance. The new, unwieldy top table has emerged faster than anyone dared predict because a humbled America and a chastened Europe need the money and cooperation of rising powers such as China, India, Russia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia to fix the world economy. The United States remains the pre-eminent military and economic power, and how it manages to clean up its banking system will be the biggest factor in the length and severity of the crisis. But how the emerging countries manage their currency reserves, exchange rates, trade policies and energy exports will also determine whether we recover from recession in the next 18 months or slide into a depression. U.S. President Barack Obama, on his maiden foray in global diplomacy, showed he understands the new dispensation by paying respects in prior bilateral meetings to Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The Europeans acted as midwives to this new world (dis)order, but they have yet to accept that they too need to be cut down to size. To make way for the legitimate aspirations of emerging and developing nations in international financial institutions, the number of Europeans at the table will have to shrink. This should force them to pool their representation under the European Union, as they do in trade negotiations. That may be unpalatable not just for Britain but even for core euro zone members such as Germany and France. Yet French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made the best case for a single EU seat by working like a tag team to pressure the United States and Britain into stricter regulation, notably of hedge funds, and tougher action against tax havens.

Managing the new power constellation won't be easy and may not work. It will take trade-offs between Washington and New Delhi to clear the path for a global trade pact, among Western nations, China and India to fight climate change, and between industrialized and developing powers to reallocate power in the IMF, the World Bank and the United Nations.At least now almost all the key players are at the table, except for Iran. But that's another story.Paul Taylor is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own bdnews24.com/rah/1334h

EU divided on financial oversight rules
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today APR 6,09 @ 09:26 CET


An informal meeting of EU economy and finance ministers in Prague over the weekend highlighted divisions in the bloc when it comes to implementing some of the reforms of the global financial system agreed just days before at the G20 summit in London.

The 27 ministers on Saturday (4 April) reiterated the need to press ahead with recommendations made by a high-level EU panel headed by former International Monetary Fund chief Jacques de La Rosiere calling for a new financial watchdog to prevent future financial crises, which would be chaired by the European Central Bank.But some countries, notably Britain, expressed reservations about how far this joint oversight should go.The ECB clearly has an important role to play in strengthening and enhancing macro-prudential supervision, but the precise role has yet to be determined,UK financial services secretary Paul Myners was reported as saying by Bloomberg.French finance minister Christine Lagarde explained that Britain – which is not among the 16 EU states using the euro – was especially concerned about the ECB being in charge.We have to find a joint solution because we can't leave London out of the system. London's role in finance is too big,she was reported by AFP as saying.

ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet also tried to reassure the British, stressing that all EU central banks would still have a place within the new financial watchdog.I insisted on the need to be clear about the fact that the new risk council would not only be the eurosystem but the system of all the European central banks ... including those that are not members of the eurozone,Mr Trichet said.British premier Gordon Brown is to meet Bank of England Governor Mervyn King on Monday in order to discuss how the country should implement the new financial rules laid out by the G20 leaders.

The British have a somewhat different view,Dutch state secretary of finance Jan Kees de Jager said in Prague. We hope that in the next couple of weeks these hesitations will be overcome,he added.Luxembourg, Belgium unhappy with OECD list.Meanwhile, EU countries that the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) last week included on a grey list of countries that have agreed to better implement international banking transparency standards, but have not yet done so, expressed their dissatisfaction with the move on Friday.I think that the treatment given to some countries is a bit incomprehensible, Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker said.We will negotiate double-taxation agreements. When we do that we will disappear from this list,he added.For his part, Belgian finance minister Didier Reynders said that it was not very pleasant to be on a list that also included tax havens.He also suggested Belgium could soon be taken from the list after it signs agreements on financial information exchange with a number of countries.During their meeting last week, G20 leaders vowed to crack down on tax havens and bank secrecy.

OBAMA ENDORSES SORO'S PLAN TO LOOT AMERICA
By Cliff Kincaid April 4, 2009 NewsWithViews.com


At the G 20 summit in London, President Barack Obama won rave reviews from reporters, many of whom clamored like school kids for the chance to ask him a question at his news conference, but the official conference document proves that plans are being made for what can only be described as the further looting of American taxpayers in order to feed unaccountable and corrupt global entities.This is not global cooperation, as so many in the media described it, but a massive new expansion of the power and authority of international agencies and institutions such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.By embracing the global plan for recovery and reform, which is how it was officially described, Obama explicitly endorsed International Monetary Fund (IMF) surveillance of the U.S. economy, creation of a global Financial Stability Board,the expanded use of a new global currency called Special Drawing Rights, a new global warming treaty, and costly fulfillment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This is in addition to the explicit and reported commitment of over $1 trillion in additional taxpayer money to the IMF and the World Bank.The Special Drawing Rights proposal, which is a vehicle for further U.S. foreign aid to the rest of the world, was the brainchild of billionaire George Soros, who told CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo that the G 20 conference was a success.Dubbed the Lenin of the 21st Century by the Ripon Forum magazine, because of his apparent transformation from super-capitalist into neo-Marxist,Soros waged an expensive but unsuccessful campaign to defeat President George W. Bush for re-election in 2004. He has been determined to install a puppet in the White House.

In addition to financing Democratic Party politicians and left-wing organizations such as the ACLU, he has subsidized a wide array of liberal causes, ranging from abortion rights to gay rights to legalization of dangerous drugs. Even former members of the terrorist Weather Underground, such as Bernardine Dohrn and Linda Evans, have appeared at functions sponsored by his so-called Open Society Institute or accepted its grants.Soros had backed Obama for president in 2008, saying that he had the charisma and the vision to radically reorient America in the world.His prediction seems to be eerily coming true.In the final analysis, the grand total of money to be looted from American taxpayers as a result of Obama’s commitments at the G 20 conference could easily surpass trillions of dollars. In a major understatement, the official conference documentcalls it unprecedented and concerted fiscal expansion.But while Obama endorsed the document and its recommendations, the Congress of the United States can still have some say over whether some of the commitments he made are put into law.Consider the commitment to the U.N. MDGs, for example. The document includes the statement that we reaffirm our historic commitment to meeting the Millennium Development Goals…This is, in fact, a disguised attempt to make then-Senator Obama’s Global Poverty Act the law of the land through executive action. This measure alone has been estimated to cost $845 billion and it was never passed by Congress because of public opposition. In similar fashion, the current Congress can also resist compliance with the U.N. mandate.We will support, now and in the future, to candid, even-handed, and independent IMF surveillance of our economies and financial sectors, of the impact of our policies on others, and of risks facing the global economy,the document states. There is no exception for the U.S. Hence, the IMF will now be in a position to officially monitor and pass judgment on U.S. economic policies. We have become like any other second- or third-rate power in need of global oversight and supervision.

The proposed new Financial Stability Board (FSB)will have a strengthened mandate and work with the IMF to reshape our regulatory systems.Among other things, its mission is to assess vulnerabilities affecting the financial system, identify and oversee action needed to address them,promote co-ordination and information exchange among authorities responsible for financial stability,and monitor and advise on market developments and their implications for regulatory policy.The Financial Stability Board is the new name for a more powerful and expanded Financial Stability Forum, a body originally designed to promote international financial stability through information exchange and international co-operation in financial supervision and surveillance.Members of the group include the central banks of various nations, international financial institutions, and supervisors in important financial centers.

The document also states that we call on the UN, working with other global institutions, to establish an effective mechanism to monitor the impact of the crisis on the poorest and most vulnerable.Is this the same U.N. that has achieved a reputation for corruption, fraud, waste, and incompetence? Is this the organization whose peacekeepers have been found guilty of the sexual abuse of women and children around the world? It is one and the same.In the name of holding big banks accountable, therefore, Obama has put the U.S. in the hands of global institutions that are somehow supposed to help provide a global solution to the global crisis.If anything, the record demonstrates that these institutions make human problems worse, not better.Nevertheless, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared that A new world order is emerging and with it we’re entering into a new era of international cooperation.But viewed in another light, Obama has sold out the sovereignty of the United States and has laid the groundwork for the death of the U.S. dollar as the world’s dominant currency. While President Bush started this insidious processof holding G 20 meetings, Obama has taken the process much further down the road. It is truly unprecedented. The London Summit — Leaders’ Statement,dated April 2, 2009, was only nine pages, and there were some vague and confusing statements in it. But much of it was both understandable and frightening, if reporters would only take the time to bother to read it.We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250 billion into the world economy and increase global liquidity, and urgent ratification of the Fourth Amendment, the document says. Basic research would disclose that this is a reference to Special Drawing Rights, a so-called international reserve asset which under the Obama plan would evolve into a kind of new global currency based on the willingness of the U.S. and other countries to dramatically increase funding of the IMF. In the words of the IMF, a Special Drawing Right is a potential claim on the freely usable currencies of IMF members. That means that its worth is based in part on claims to U.S. taxpayer dollars. It is a new form of foreign aid.

The reference to ratifying the Fourth Amendment (of the IMF Articles of Agreement) means that Obama has agreed that the U.S. will vote to greatly expand the use of SDRs. But the Congress can have a say in this.This proposal had been demanded by billionaire leftist George Soros. Indeed, according to a news account in advance of the London meeting, he had come up with the specific $250 billion figure.As we had documented years ago, Soros has long viewed Special Drawing Rights as a variation of a global tax to finance more foreign aid. Expanding the use of SDRs is another obvious effort to drain wealth away from the United States.The two annexes to the G 20document are full of detailed recommendations for regulating such matters as pay and compensation at financial institutions and international standards in relation to tax transparency.One of the main objectives is to reduce the ability of people and corporations to avoid high tax rates.We reaffirm our commitment to address the threat of irreversible climate change, based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and to reach agreement at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen in December 2009,the document states. This is a commitment to sign a new global warming treaty that could cost the U.S. economy even more trillions of dollars. But this agreement would also require Congressional approval.In a virtual throwaway line, the document calls for extending regulation and oversight to all systemically important financial institutions, instruments and markets, including for the first time, systemically important hedge funds…If such a proposal were actually implemented, and there are strong doubts that it ever would be, such supervision could possibly shed some light on the mysterious behind-the-scenes activities of George Soros himself, one of Obama’s biggest backers, who was convicted of insider trading in France.While decrying the lack of regulation, Soros has made billions of dollars operating a secretive off-shore financial hedge fund and manipulating international financial markets and foreign currencies.

Known as the man who almost broke the Bank of England and described by some as extremely evil,Soros engaged in a complex financial transaction that resulted in the Bank of England losing billions of dollars defending the British pound before having to devalue it. He has controversial investments in places like Colombia, where the banks have been penetrated by drug cartels eager to launder their drug money.In a major court case filed by the law offices of David H. Relkin, Soros has recently been charged with money laundering, bankruptcy fraud, and bid rigging and of having a pattern of money laundering activities that includes the investment in the Colombian bank and using an off-shore tax haven that protects the identity of investors from disclosure. A Soros representative was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying that the lawsuit was completely without merit.The Soros role in the U.S. housing market collapse continues to be the subject of speculation, interest and even Congressional hearings. The collapse of the financial system in mid-September greatly damaged the electoral chances of John McCain and Sarah Palin, who were ahead in the polls at the time, and paved the way for Obama’s victory.In 2008, Soros was once again on the list of highest-paid hedge fund managers, according to Institutional Investor magazine’s Alpha publication. He made $1.1 billion during the economic collapse and recession.2009 Cliff Kincaid.

SDR FROM IMF LINKS
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/sdr.htm

Billionaire and convicted inside trader George Soros has proposed what he calls an annual issue of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) that rich countries would donate for international assistance.The SDR idea is a variation of a global tax to finance more foreign aid. SDRs, created by the International Monetary Fund, have been defined as a form of international reserve currency intended to supplement the existing official reserves of member countries in transactions with the IMF. What Soros proposes would greatly alter and expand their use. As someone who has developed a reputation for practicing financial and economic warfare against the nations of the world, he seems determined to drain more wealth away from the United States.

Clff Kincaid

Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)

The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement the existing official reserves of member countries. SDRs are allocated to member countries in proportion to their IMF quotas. The SDR also serves as the unit of account of the IMF and some other international organizations. Its value is based on a basket of key international currencies.

Why was the SDR created and what is it used for today?
The Special Drawing Right (SDR) was created by the IMF in 1969 to support the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system. A country participating in this system needed official reserves—government or central bank holdings of gold and widely accepted foreign currencies—that could be used to purchase the domestic currency in world foreign exchange markets, as required to maintain its exchange rate. But the international supply of two key reserve assets— gold and the U.S. dollar—proved inadequate for supporting the expansion of world trade and financial development that was taking place. Therefore, the international community decided to create a new international reserve asset under the auspices of the IMF. However, only a few years later, the Bretton Woods system collapsed and the major currencies shifted to a floating exchange rate regime. In addition, the growth in international capital markets facilitated borrowing by creditworthy governments. Both of these developments lessened the need for SDRs.Today, the SDR has only limited use as a reserve asset, and its main function is to serve as theunit of account of the IMF and some other international organizations. The SDR is neither a currency, nor a claim on the IMF. Rather, it is a potential claim on the freely usable currencies of IMF members. Holders of SDRs can obtain these currencies in exchange for their SDRs in two ways: first, through the arrangement of voluntary exchanges between members; and second, by the IMF designating members with strong external positions to purchase SDRs from members with weak external positions.

SDR valuation
The value of the SDR was initially defined as equivalent to 0.888671 grams of fine gold—which, at the time, was also equivalent to one U.S. dollar. After the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1973, however, the SDR was redefined as a basket of currencies,today consisting of the euro, Japanese yen, pound sterling, and U.S. dollar. The U.S. dollar-value of the SDR is posted daily on the IMF's website. It is calculated as the sum of specific amounts of the four currencies valued in U.S. dollars, on the basis of exchange rates quoted at noon each day in the London market.

The basket composition is reviewed every five years to ensure that it reflects the relative importance of currencies in the world's trading and financial systems. In the most recent review in November 2005, the weights of the currencies in the SDR basket were revised based on the value of the exports of goods and services and the amount of reserves denominated in the respective currencies which were held by other members of the IMF. These changes became effective on January 1, 2006. The next review by the Executive Board will take place in late 2010.

The SDR interest rate
The SDR interest rate provides the basis for calculating the interest charged to members on regular (non-concessional) IMF loans, the interest paid and charged to members on their SDR holdings, and the interest paid to members on a portion of their quota subscriptions. The SDR interest rate is determined weekly and is based on a weighted average of representative interest rates on short-term debt in the money markets of the SDR basket currencies.

SDR allocations
Under its Articles of Agreement, the IMF may allocate SDRs to members in proportion to their IMF quotas. Such an allocation provides each member with a costless asset on which interest is neither earned nor paid. However, if a member's SDR holdings rise above its allocation, it earns interest on the excess; conversely, if it holds fewer SDRs than allocated, it pays interest on the shortfall. The Articles of Agreement also allow for cancellations of SDRs, but this provision has never been used. The IMF cannot allocate SDRs to itself.

There are two kinds of allocations:

General allocations of SDRs have to be based on a long-term global need to supplement existing reserve assets. General allocations are considered every five years, although decisions to allocate SDRs have been made only twice. The first allocation was for a total amount of SDR 9.3 billion, distributed in 1970-72. The second allocation was distributed in 1979-81 and brought the cumulative total of SDR allocations to SDR 21.4 billion. A proposal for a special one-time allocation of SDRs was approved by the IMF's Board of Governors in September 1997 through the proposed Fourth Amendment of the Articles of Agreement. This allocation would double cumulative SDR allocations to SDR 42.8 billion. Its intent is to enable all members of the IMF to participate in the SDR system on an equitable basis and correct for the fact that countries that joined the Fund after 1981—more than one fifth of the current IMF membership—have never received an SDR allocation. The Fourth Amendment will become effective when three fifths of the IMF membership (111 members) with 85 percent of the total voting power accept it. Currently, 131 members with 77.68 percent of total voting power had accepted the proposed amendment. Approval by the United States, with 16.75 percent of total votes, would put the amendment into effect.

UPDATE 1-Soros wants IMF assets lending to poor countries
Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:00pm BST(Adds further details)By Cecilia Valente


LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros said on Tuesday developing countries should be allowed to borrow from large countries' quotas of international reserve assets issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMS).Speaking at the London School of Economics ahead of the G20 summit, Soros said large countries could lend their quotas of IMF special drawing rights (SDR) to help their financial system's stabilisation. Soros said Eastern Europe was a prime candidate for support. Soros, said the IMF in turn should issue up to $250 billion a year in SDRs for as long as the current recession lasts.An SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF thirty years ago to supplement the existing official reserves of member countries. SDRs are allocated to member countries in proportion to their IMF quotas.

Soros said Eastern Europe was a prime candidate for International Monetary Fund (IMF) support.It would make a tremendous difference to these developing countries, which would then engage in a domestic fiscal stimulus,he said, adding however there should be some control to ensure the help is properly spent.The billionaire investor also noted SDRs should not be seen as a currency:I do not think America is ready to have the dollar replaced by SDRs as the international reserve currency,he said, but added: In the long term it is something that may come in consideration and in the long term it may be in America's interest.He added gold would not be a good base for reserve currency either: We are not going back to a gold standard.

STIGMA

Last week the Times reported Soros as saying it was conceivable for Britain to seek help from the IMF but he said on Tuesday that posibility was extremely remote.Soros said there was still a stigma attached to applying for IMF funds. The concern in the UK shows there is a real stigma that is attached to (borrowing from) the IMF. Thomson Reuters 2009

GLOBAL SOCOLISTS TOAST VICTORY OVER AMERICA
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/global-socialists-toast-victory-over-america/

DECLARATION FROM G-20
http://www.londonsummit.gov.uk/resources/en/PDF/annex-ifi

SOROS TALKS TO MARIA BARTIROMO
http://www.businessinsider.com/soros-calls-the-g20-a-success-2009-4

FINANCIAL SSTABILITY FORUM MEMBERS
http://www.fsforum.org/members/links.htm

The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency,The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity.By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 2:06PM BST 03 Apr 2009

A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order.We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity,it said. SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund that has lain dormant for half a century.

It has been a good summit for the IMF. Its fighting fund for crises is to be tripled overnight to $750bn. This is real money.Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director, said in February that the world was already in Depression and risked a slide into social disorder and military conflict unless political leaders resorted to massive stimulus.He has not won everything he wanted. The spending plan was fudged. While Gordon Brown talked of $5 trillion in global stimulus by 2010, this is mostly made up of packages already under way.But Mr Strauss-Kahn at least has resources fit for his own task. He will need them. The IMF is already bailing out Pakistan, Iceland, Latvia, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, Bosnia and Romania. This week Mexico became the first G20 state to ask for help. It has secured a precautionary credit line of $47bn.Gordon Brown said it took 15 years for the world to grasp the nettle after Great Crash in 1929. This time I think people will agree that it has been different,he said.President Barack Obama was less dramatic. I think we did OK, he said. Bretton Woods in 1944 was a simpler affair.Just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that's an easy negotiation, but that's not the world we live in.There will be $250bn in trade finance to kick-start shipping after lenders cut back on Letters of Credit after September's heart attack in the banking system. Global trade volumes fell at annual rate of 41pc from November to January, according to Holland's CPB institute – the steepest peacetime fall on record.Euphoria swept emerging markets yesterday as the first reports of the IMF boost circulated. Investors now know that countries like Mexico can arrange a credit facility able to cope with major shocks – and do so on supportive terms, rather than the hair-shirt deflation policies of the old IMF. Fear is receding again.The Russians had hoped their idea to develop SDRs as a full reserve currency to challenge the dollar would make its way on to the agenda, but at least they got a foot in the door.There is now a world currency in waiting. In time, SDRs are likely evolve into a parking place for the foreign holdings of central banks, led by the People's Bank of China. Beijing's moves this week to offer $95bn in yuan currency swaps to developing economies show how fast China aims to break dollar dependence.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the summit had achieved more than he ever thought possible, and praised Gordon Brown for pursuing the collective interest as host rather than defending Anglo-Saxon interests. This has a double-edged ring, for it suggests that Mr Brown may have traded pockets of the British financial industry to satisfy Franco-German demands. The creation of a Financial Stability Board looks like the first step towards a global financial regulator. The devil is in the details.

Hedge funds deemed systemically important will come under draconian restraints. How this is enforced will determine whether Mayfair's hedge-fund industry – 80pc of all European funds are there – will continue to flourish.It seems that hedge funds have been designated for ritual sacrifice, even though they played no more than a cameo role in the genesis of this crisis. It was not they who took on extreme debt leverage: it was the banks – up to 30 times in the US and nearer 60 times for some in Europe that used off-books conduits to increase their bets. The market process itself is sorting this out in any case – brutally – forcing banks to wind down their leverage. The problem right now is that this is happening too fast.But to the extent that this G20 accord makes it impossible for the shadow banking to resurrect itself in the next inevitable cycle of risk appetite, it may prevent another disaster of this kind.The key phrase is new rules aimed at avoiding excessive leverage and forcing banks to put more money aside during good times.This is more or less what the authorities agreed after the Depression. Complacency chipped away at the rules as the decades passed. It is the human condition, and we can't change that.

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