CHINA TO US-LAY OFF AFTER DALAI LAMA AWARD

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

Landslides, floods kill over 150 in northern Philippines By Manny Mogato – OCT 9,09

MANILA (Reuters) – Rescue workers pulled out more bodies from a small mountain village buried under mud in the northern Philippines on Saturday, as the death toll from landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains rose to 153, disaster officials said.Relief officials estimated total damage at nearly 2 billion pesos ($43 million), including 1.6 billion pesos in lost crops.Emergency teams, including troops, began clearing major roads in at least 16 northern provinces on the main Luzon island as the skies cleared and floods began to recede, allowing relief workers to gain access to muddied villages and submerged towns.But Baguio City, known as the country's summer capital, in the vegetable-growing mountain province of Benguet 250 km (155 miles) north of the capital, remained totally cut off by boulders and soil loosened by rains brought by Typhoon Parma.I have some bads news today because a total of 153 people have died in floods and landslides in the north, Lieutenant-Colonel Ernesto Torres, spokesman for the national disaster agency, told reporters, adding he expects the number of fatalities to rise because dozens were still missing.Our rescue teams are working round-the-clock to search for more victims as an entire village was buried by soil loosened by heavy rains brought by storm Parma,he said.Parma first hit the Philippines last Saturday and hovered around the northern part of Luzon throughout the week. It has since weakened into a tropical depression and moved out to sea.Torres said Benguet was the hardest hit with more than 130 people killed in landslides, including rescuers trying to pull bodies out of collapsed houses.

Besides setting off landslides in the mountains, the rain has swollen rivers and reservoirs, forcing dams used for hydropower and irrigation to release water and causing more flooding in areas downstream.About 80 percent of the coastal province of Pangasinan in northwestern Philippines were inundated, with 50,000 people evacuated from low-lying areas, Eugene Cabrera, head of the regional disaster agency, said in a radio interview.The floods and mudslides came two weeks after another storm, Ketsana, inundated areas in and around the capital Manila, killing at least 337 people and forcing half a million from their homes.(Editing by Rosemarie Francisco)

Video shows cars, trucks tossed by tsunami waves By JAYMES SONG, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 9, 7:35 pm ET

HONOLULU – The FBI on Friday released video footage showing waves rushing in and violently tossing cars and trucks in a parking lot as a deadly tsunami struck American Samoa last week.The dramatic video was taken on the morning of Sept. 29 from a stationary security camera at the FBI office in Pago Pago. The video shows about a dozen cars, ranging from an SUV to a Volkswagen Beetle, being thrown around like whitewater rafts.The two-minute clip also shows three people walking in the parking lot shortly before the wave struck. One man runs quickly in the opposite direction less than 30 seconds before the water enters the scene.The FBI said because of its second-floor location at Pago Plaza, the office suffered only minimal damage. No agents were inside at the time. The building is located about 100 yards from the shoreline.The water hit the parking lot at 7:14 a.m. in American Samoa, about 26 minutes after an 8.3-magnitude earthquake shook the South Pacific.The time stamp on the video is in Hawaii Standard Time. Local time in American Samoa is one hour earlier.

At least 183 people were killed in the Sept. 29 tsunami, including 142 in Samoa. An additional 32 people were killed in American Samoa and nine in Tonga.As someone who lives on a Pacific island myself, it really brought home the level of destruction that a tsunami brings along with it,said FBI special agent Thomas Simon Jr. in Honolulu.The video recently arrived at the FBI office in Honolulu, which oversees American Samoa and other U.S. territories in the Pacific. The FBI released it publicly because the bureau felt there was a public interest.

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)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Montserrat volcano spews ash, residents wear masks By JILL LASTER, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 9, 5:11 pm ET

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Rock falls from a spewing volcano stirred up more volcanic ash Friday on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, which lost half its population after a devastating eruption last decade.Dozens of small earthquakes accompanied ash plumes that have billowed up 20,000 feet (6,000 meters) this week, prompting officials to distribute masks to residents, said James White Jr., acting director of the Disaster Management Coordination Agency.A thin layer of volcanic residue now coats several northwestern towns, and ashfall — which can cause respiratory problems and tiny scratches on the eyes — is expected to continue, said Paul Cole, director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory.Cole said the Soufriere Hills volcano, which stirred to life Sunday for the first time in 10 months, may be creating a new lava dome, a mound of cooled lava that forms at the volcano's opening. It would be at least the fifth time that has occurred since the volcano became active in 1995.There aren't any ways to tell how long it will stay active, but it's been going for 14 years on and off, so my guess is that it will continue doing what it's been doing,Cole said.In 1997, a volcanic eruption killed 19 people and buried much of the island, including its former capital, Plymouth, which is now abandoned. Half the British territory's 12,000 inhabitants left.

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.

Small earthquake strikes eastern California Fri Oct 9, 1:30 am ET

LONE PINE, Calif. – An earthquake has struck a remote area of eastern California that has been shaken by a sequence of tremors in the past week.The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 struck at 9:25 p.m. Thursday, six miles south of Keeler and 17 miles southeast of Lone Pine in the arid Owens Valley below the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada.An Inyo County sheriff's dispatcher says she felt some light shaking from the quake, but received no calls and no reports of injuries or damage.The area about 180 miles north of Los Angeles has been rocked by a series of quakes since last week — the largest a magnitude-5.2 which struck last Friday.On the Net: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

6.4-magnitude quake hits Pacific, no tsunami alert Thu Oct 8, 9:46 pm ET

PORT VILA (AFP) – A 6.4-magnitude quake hit the Santa Cruz islands in the South Pacific on Friday, seismologists said, a day after a series of huge quakes sparked a region-wide tsunami alert.The quake struck at a depth of just 9.4 kilometres (six miles) about 315 kilometres northwest of the Luganville, part of the Vanuatu archipelago, at 8:16am (2116 GMT) but no tsunami warning was immediately issued.The region has been pummelled by some 20 aftershocks after Thursday's triple tremors measuring 7.6, 7.8 and 7.3 sparked a tsunami warning for much of the South Pacific, sending thousands of residents fleeing from the coast.The Pacific is still recovering from last week's 8.0 magnitude earthquake and huge tsunami which crashed into Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, wiping out villages and resorts and killing 184.Samoa was holding a national day of mourning including a ceremony at Apia stadium and a mass funeral for 11 of the victims.

US Navy arrives in Indonesian quake zone Fri Oct 9, 9:40 am ET

PADANG, Indonesia – The massive relief effort following Indonesia's deadly earthquake received a boost Friday when U.S. Navy ships and helicopters arrived to distribute aid and help thousands of struggling survivors.Indonesian officials said Friday the death toll from the Sept. 30 quake on Sumatra island had reached 784, with little hope remaining for 242 people listed as missing.Chief Petty Officer Ty Swartz said the USS Denver and USS Campbell arrived late Thursday in West Sumatra province carrying tons of aid and heavy equipment.Four helicopters from the ships arrived Friday at an Indonesian military base in the hard-hit city of Padang, where they would begin flights to distribute aid and evacuate injured people from outlying villages cut off by landslides.At least 180,000 buildings were toppled or damaged in the quake, which also caused landslides that swept away entire villages in the hills.

The ships' personnel joined the 69-member U.S. Air Force Humanitarian Assistance Rapid Response Team, which arrived earlier this week and set up a mobile field hospital, which can treat between 250 to 400 patients a day, Staff Sgt, Veronica Pierce said in a statement.Three of Padang's four hospitals were severely damaged by the earthquake, which limited medical services.The U.S. military deployment is the largest in Indonesia since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 in a dozen countries, roughly half in Aceh.The major role the U.S. military played in the multinational relief effort for tsunami victims improved America's standing here at a time of negative perceptions following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.International aid groups from some 30 nations have rushed to Sumatra to take part in the relief and recovery effort.

DISEASES

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

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

CDC: 76 children dead of swine flu as cases rise By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer – OCT 9,09

ATLANTA – Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous for the young.The regular flu kills between 46 and 88 children a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That suggests deaths from the new H1N1 virus could dramatically outpace children's deaths from seasonal flu, if swine flu continues to spread as it has.CDC officials say 10 more states, a total of 37, now have widespread swine flu. A week ago, reports suggested that cases might be leveling off and even falling in some areas of the country, but that did not turn out to be an enduring national trend.We are seeing more illness, more hospitalizations, and more deaths,the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat said at a press conference Friday.The new virus, first identified in April, is a global epidemic. The CDC doesn't have an exact count of all swine flu deaths and hospitalizations, but existing reports suggest more than 600 have died and more than 9,000 have been hospitalized. Health officials believe millions of Americans have caught the virus.

The virus is hitting young people harder. Experts believe older people are suffering from it less, perhaps because they have a bit of immunity from exposure over the years to somewhat similar viruses.Most healthy children recover and often suffer only mild symptoms. But some have died from it, often from a second infection that moves in while the body is weakened from the flu.Kids with asthma or chronic heart or respiratory conditions also are at greater risk for serious complications.Experts say it's important for parents to watch their children's symptoms carefully. If a child appears to get better, but fever and a cough return, there may be a second infection. Other trouble signs are rapid or difficult breathing or bluish skin color.

Vaccinations against swine flu began this week and so far, states have ordered 3.7 million doses. Demand is exceeding supply, and people seeking the vaccination should ask their state or local health department where to go, said Schuchat, who heads the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.Health officials also said more data is trickling in from several clinical trials of the new vaccine, and so far no serious side effects have been reported.Preliminary results from one study indicate that both a seasonal flu shot and a swine flu shot are effective when given during the same doctor's office visit. However, the government is not recommending that people get the nasal spray versions of the seasonal and swine flu vaccines at the same time.The nasal sprays contain weakened, live virus, and the government doesn't have data on how a person's immune system would react to exposure to both at once, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.On the Net:CDC swine flu update: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/update.htm

Calif. citrus farmers fear tree-killing disease By JACOB ADELMAN, Associated Press Writer – Thu Oct 8, 4:15 am ET

ORANGE COVE, Calif. – Tom Mulholland is girding for battle against a tiny enemy that could devastate the orange grove he has spent his life cultivating. His adversary: the Asian citrus psyllid, a fruit-fly-sized insect with red eyes and a long, leaf-penetrating beak.The psyllid, which can carry an incurable disease fatal to citrus trees, was spotted in August in Los Angeles, closer than ever before to the ribbon of central California where the state's $1.6 billion citrus-growing industry is concentrated.The feared infestation has prompted Mulholland and other citrus-belt farmers to put screens around their young seedlings, vigorously inspect their mature trees and tax themselves to fund research to stop the psyllid.It's like a war, Mulholland said in his tidy office set amid some 400 acres of radiantly healthy Clementine and Satsuma trees on his farm some 200 miles north of Los Angeles in the San Joaquin Valley at the base of the foothills beneath Sequoia National Park. We're sitting here trying to stop this thing, and it wants to keep pushing in.California growers and agricultural officials are worried the state's citrus industry will be crippled by the disease carried by the psyllid, which devastated Florida's crops. The two states produced about 97 percent of the nation's 12 million tons of citrus during the fiscal year ending in June.The huanglongbing disease, which spoils the flavor of the fruit and ultimately kills the tree, has been found in all of Florida's 32 citrus-producing counties since its discovery there in 2005, causing about $100 million in damages, said Andrew Meadows, a spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual, the state's grower trade association.Florida officials have warned that their $9 billion citrus industry could be wiped out in a decade if a solution isn't found to the disease, also known as citrus greening because of the sickly green cast it lends to infected fruit.That's why California is so alarmed,said David Hall, an entomologist with the USDA's agricultural research service in Florida who worked on a team that sequenced the genome of the bacteria that causes citrus greening.

Huanglongbing has been found in Louisiana, Mexico, Brazil and China as well.

In California, the insect has so far been found among planted citrus trees in four southern counties, prompting quarantines that prohibit nurseries from shipping seedlings to other areas. Fruit grown in those counties also must be washed before it can be sold outside the quarantine zone.Dogs trained to sniff out the pest found packages of curry leaves with psyllids in FedEx packages this summer in Fresno and Sacramento. Only the Fresno psyllids tested positive for huanglongbing.The psyllid is not the only pest that could threaten California citrus. The state is also home to the glassy-winged sharpshooter, a threat to grapes but also capable of carrying a debilitating disease called citrus variegated chlorosis that has been spotted in Brazil.California agriculture officials have also been locked in a decades-long struggle with the crop-eating Mediterranean fruit fly, which can harm citrus plants and hundreds of other fruits and vegetables.But the potential devastation that could accompany a psyllid infestation is especially troubling for Mulholland and other citrus farmers, who have started building screens around the currently open-air nurseries where vulnerable seedlings are cultivated in rows of inverted plastic cones.Allan Lombardi, who helps oversee 2,100 acres of pink-fleshed Cara Cara oranges, deep-red Fukumoto oranges and other high-value citrus as a manager with Central Valley grower Griffith Farms, said his company is scrambling to enclose its nurseries before the pest reaches the area, but that it's about two years from completion.If the disease shows up sooner than that, we'll have to have a Plan B, and I'm not sure what that will be,said Lombardi as he looked down a mountain slope and into a lush valley planted thickly with rows of oranges.Citrus farmers have also started instructing workers to watch for signs of psyllid infestation, such as wilted-looking leaves or leaves covered in soot-like mold and white waxy deposits.

California's Citrus Research Board, which raises its $5.5 million operating budget by assessing citrus growers a nickel for every 55-pound box of fruit they sell, plans to contribute to the field checks with a team of up to 25 inspectors, operations chief MaryLou Polek said. She said she hopes to poach trained inspectors from the state agriculture department whose hours or pay have been reduced due to budget cuts.The board has also embarked on an effort to lay traps for the insect throughout the state that will be monitored by researchers carrying camera-equipped handheld devices that record the map coordinates where insects are found and take pictures of the damage.That information, along with other data, will be beamed to a database so researchers can better track the insect's movement and deploy insecticides and other resources where they'll be most effective, she said. Mulholland said he doesn't expect a cure to the disease any time soon, so those efforts to keep the disease-carrying insect from moving any farther north represent growers' best hope against the illness.It's like the AIDS of citrus. It's the very worst disease you can have,he said.The question is, how do we keep the disease from spreading? Associated Press writer Greg Risling in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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

From The Times October 10, 2009 Opt-out over EU treaty demanded by Czech President David Charter in Brussels and Richard Beeston

President Klaus of the Czech Republic: his signature is the last needed on the treaty
Families driven from their homes during the Second World War, gay rights and a recalcitrant Czech President emerged as the last hurdles for a treaty to restructure the European Union.Furious EU leaders are determined to prevent President Klaus from delaying or amending the Lisbon treaty before appending his signature, the last needed to complete the document. Mr Klaus said yesterday that he wanted the same opt-outs as Britain and Poland from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, a key section of the treaty, to stop the European Court of Justice from gaining extra powers over Czech judges.Mr Klaus said that he feared the treaty would give thousands of German families expelled after the war the right to reclaim property in Sudetenland. EU officials said that he had not raised the issue during talks and that his explanation for refusing to sign was a delaying tactic to cause disruption to an institution that he detests.The 66-year-old leader’s demands have dampened the delight in EU capitals over Ireland’s yes vote for the treaty in its rerun referendum a week ago and over the agreement of President Kaczynski of Poland to ratify the document in Warsaw today. EU leaders are desperate for the treaty to come into force as soon as possible so that they can appoint a president and foreign minister, created by the treaty, as well as the new members of the European Commission, who are due to start on November 1.Leaders still intend to discuss at a summit on October 29 whom they want as president — Tony Blair is a leading contender — and foreign minister. It is possible that a consensus over the top post will emerge but it will be a provisional choice, a president-elect, pending Czech ratification.

Legal experts from the EU said that, depending on the precise nature of the extra wording demanded by Mr Klaus, the document might have to go back to all 27 capitals for another round of ratifications. New guarantees given to Irish voters were backed by leaders meeting at the European Council and it is possible that a similar arrangement can be made this month over Mr Klaus’s demands. This might enable him to sign the treaty but claim victory at the same time.In an interview with The Times, Gordon Bajnai, the Hungarian Prime Minister, said that Mr Klaus’s tactics were completely counterproductive and hindering Europe’s recovery from the economic crisis.I am one of those European prime ministers, actually the majority of them, who are quite impatient about getting the Lisbon treaty on track. We are obviously doing everything to pursue it,he said.Mr Klaus has showed no sign of a compromise. As you know, I have always considered this treaty a step in the wrong direction,he said.It will deepen the problems the EU is facing today, it will increase its democratic deficit, worsen the standing of our country and expose it to new risks — among other things also because it endangers the legal status of the citizens and the stability of property rights in our country.The row could trigger a political crisis in the Czech Republic. One EU diplomat said: “At no point did the Czech Government ask for this opt-out during treaty negotiations. The ball is now in the court of the Czech Prime Minister, Jan Fischer — he’ll have to decide if he wants to risk reopening the treaty negotiations.Mr Fischer said that his Government will consider its position on Monday.

How to avoid Czech-mate

Option 1: It is decided at home The Czech Government rejects Klaus’s call for an opt-out. If the President then refuses to sign, could the Government find a way to circumvent him, as when he refused to sign a gay rights law?

Option 2: The fudge The Government backs Klaus’s call for an opt-out that could be agreed readily by European leaders at the next EU summit on October 29. Klaus could sign and the treaty would come into force, probably on December 1

Option 3 Return to go The Czech Government backs Klaus’s call for an opt-out but EU lawyers rule that it must be ratified, again, by all 27 member states. This might delay the treaty long enough for David Cameron to call a referendum on it if he wins the next election.

Dialogue with EU key to progress in Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai by Denholm Barnetson – Fri Oct 9, 12:19 pm ET

VALLADOLID, Spain (AFP) – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday that talks with the European Union on normalising relations would help restore international confidence in his country.The EU in June held its first official talks with Zimbabwe in seven years with a landmark meeting in Brussels, followed last month by the visit of an EU delegation to Harare.The dialogue marks a major diplomatic overture with Zimbabwe after years of strained relations due to a series of violent elections and claims of gross human rights abuses by President Robert Mugabe's government.Tsvangirai joined Mugabe in a unity government in February, and quickly made a tour of western capitals in a bid to improve relations and seek desperately needed aid for Zimbabwe's ruined economy.Zimbabwe is emerging from a political and economic conflict. One of the key things that we need to do is to expedite the EU's rapid dialogue,Tsvangirai told AFP.The issues are very clear. The Europeans have their own legitimate concerns, we have our legitimate concerns and therefore I think that only through dialogue are we able to establish a common ground and remove those obstacles that have led to strained relations.He spoke to AFP in the northern Spanish city of Valladolid, where he was to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Cristobal Gabarron Foundation.The EU maintains a travel ban and asset freeze against Mugabe and about 200 of his close allies, but has also provided 600 million euros in humanitarian aid between 2002 and 2009.Xavier Marchal, head of the European delegation in Harare, said Thursday that the bloc was ready to resume massive and full-fledged assistance to Zimbabwe if relations normalise.Even Mugabe, who just last month railed against bloody whites interfering in his nation's affairs, has struck a more conciliatory tone.On Tuesday he said Zimbabwe was ready for "fresh and cooperative relations with Western nations, which have spearheaded global condemnation of his rule.

Washington, which also maintains sanctions on Mugabe and his inner circle, has responded more cautiously, telling Mugabe to first show his commitment to democratic reform and political opening.The power-sharing government aimed to end political violence that erupted after failed elections last year and to halt Zimbabwe's economic freefall, powered by world-record hyperinflation that impoverished the once dynamic country.Tsvangirai said economic stabilisation was critical to the country's recovery, and also called for a "move away from humanitarian support to development needs.The unity government has been rattled by public feuding between Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Reserve Bank chief Gideon Gono, most recently over control of 400 million dollars in resources from the International Monetary Fund.But Tsvangirai said Gono had no choice but to accept Biti's decisions.The fiscal authority in Zimbabwe is the minister of finance. The governor is answerable and subordinate to the minister of finance, so there is no dispute,the former opposition leader said.Biti will set the priorities.He said the IMF funds would be used for social development in all sectors.Hours after the Barack Obama was sensationally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he also called on African leaders to do more to help the US president develop the continent.I think he will be sympathetic to Africa but I think he has other priorities. So it now depends on the African leadership ... to do something. Let's facilitate Obama to help us.

African nuns tell Vatican they want more influence By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 9, 11:49 am ET

VATICAN CITY – African nuns told a Vatican meeting Friday they want more of a say in running the Catholic Church on the continent, saying they have special talents and shouldn't be left to clean churches and mend vestments.Women also have an important role to play in forging reconciliation in Africa's many tribal and ethnic conflicts —the main focus of the 3-week-long Vatican meeting on Africa, said Sister Pauline Odia Bukasa of Congo.We, your mothers and religious sisters, ask you — our fathers and bishops in this church-family — to promote the dignity of women,she said, requesting in particular greater emphasis on educating young girls.Sister Felicia Harry of Ghana was more blunt, saying African nuns didn't want to usurp priests' powers but wanted to be part of the church's decision-making process.As well as teach catechism to children, decorate parish churches, clean, mend and sew vestments, we religious women in Africa would like to be part of various parish councils,she said, according to a summary of her remarks to the closed meeting.The role of women in the church has been a recurring topic of discussion among the 300 prelates at the meeting, which is hearing testimony from bishops around the continent about their particular problems and advice from colleagues and Vatican officials on how to deal with them.Ghana Bishop Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi said the Vatican needed to address a particular issue that many African priests face concerning polygamous marriages: A woman who married a man who then took other wives isn't allowed to receive certain sacraments because she is in a marriage that the church cannot bless.

He said when the women have walked away from such marriages without the consent of their husbands, the church has been cited for injustice, insecurity, breaking up families, fomenting disunity and destroying social cohesion,he told the synod in asking for some special exemptions from Rome so such women can participate fully in the sacramental life of the church.In addition to the role of women, the synod has addressed issues that are increasingly of concern to the broader church: how to deal with the rapid spread of Islam and Pentecostal churches, which are increasingly drawing away many Catholics.Bishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Nigeria said it seemed the aggressive proselytizing of many neo-Pentecostal communities aims at bringing down the Catholic Church both in her influence as well as in the number of her faithful.This intention is captured in the way some of them refer to the Catholic Church as the dead church,he said, urging the Vatican to reach out in particular to young professional Africans who are increasingly targeted by the new churches.While such problems are universal, a purely African problem has also been raised: tribal and ethnic conflicts within the African church hierarchy.Bishop Albert Vanbuel of the Central African Republic said recent months have seen increasingly bitter divisions between priests, bishops and laymen fueled by tribal and ethnic divisions.
Our church is called on to show a witness ... of reconciliation, justice and peace, and above all of communion,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.

Netnayahu-Mitchell talks constructive: Israel PM By Douglas Hamilton – OCT 9,09

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had constructive talks on Friday with U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy George Mitchell on advancing efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians, his office said.A statement said the two-hour meeting focused "on steps for advancing the peace process.Netanyahu, whose refusal to freeze West Bank settlement construction has opened a rare rift with Washington, agreed to further talks in the coming days. The U.S. envoy and his aides were expected to meet a team of Netanyahu aides on Saturday.

Mitchell later met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and, in remarks afterwards to reporters, acknowledged the continued challenges.We do not underestimate the difficulties for us or for the parties, but we all have obligations to do everything we can to help achieve the goal of comprehensive peace that will be good for the Palestinians, good for the Israelis, good for all the people in this region,Mitchell said.He said that Israeli and Palestinian envoys had been invited to continue their consultations in Washington. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told reporters that he saw those talks taking place maybe in the next two weeks.Mitchell's mission -- the ninth by the 76-year-old trouble-shooter since his appointment in January -- saw mixed messages from Netanyahu's rightist coalition government.Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said ahead of meeting Mitchell on Thursday that he intended to tell him clearly that Washington's goal of comprehensive peace was an illusion.But center-left Defense Minister Ehud Barak separately told Mitchell he believed the time had come to move determinedly forward toward a comprehensive treaty.

CREDIBILITY PROBLEMS

Netanyahu is the ultimate arbiter of policy in the coalition, whose inherent instability has been cited as one reason for not acceding to a demand by Obama and the Palestinians to suspend all Jewish settlement building on occupied land seen as part of a future Palestinian state.Abbas also has credibility problems, as his Islamist Hamas rivals control the Gaza Strip -- half the Palestinian polity -- and rule out any permanent peace accord with the Jewish state.Low-yield peace talks limped on last year under the previous government of Ehud Olmert, until derailed by the Gaza war.Obama has made resumption of substantive negotiations one of his policy priorities and underscored the goal in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly last month, saying it was past time to stop talking about negotiations; it is time to move forward.Obama arranged a meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas in New York, but with scant results. He said further meetings would be held at lower levels and he would receive a status report sometime in October.The New York encounter was seen as a humiliation for Abbas by many Palestinians, and the pro-Western president now appears weakened politically.Lieberman said there was no chance of a Middle East peace deal for many years.There are many conflicts in the world that haven't reached a comprehensive solution and people learned to live with it,he told Israel Radio on Thursday.The Palestinians say Lieberman has made it clear why there will be no relaunch of negotiations any time soon,Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said.We need to hear a response to this statement from Mitchell.There was no word from the envoy on Lieberman's views.(Reporting by Dan Williams and Mohammed Assadi; writing by Doulgas Hamilton; editing by Richard Williams)

Israelis bring green power to West Bank village By TIA GOLDENBERG, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 9, 5:58 am ET

SUSYA, West Bank – Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors — a group of Israelis who installed solar panels and wind turbines to illuminate the Palestinians' makeshift homes.The villagers of Susya live in tents and caves with power lines darting right above their dwellings, connecting a nearby Jewish settlement to the power grid while bypassing them entirely.It was this lack of basic services that drew the physicists from Comet-ME, a group of pro-peace Israeli scientists and activists, to this dusty, desolate area. Now the entire village of 300 people has access to power that is reliable, free and green.At night, rudimentary streetlights dot the otherwise pitch-black village and each home is lit by an energy-saving bulb. Villagers have no access to phone lines, but the power allows them to charge their cell phones.Life is easier now,said Susya villagers Widad Nawaja, standing below the solar panel that powers her home.We have light. Children can do their homework at night if they couldn't finish it during the day.The residents also hope the new amenities will help them make more money: an electric butter churner means they can produce butter faster than by hand, and two green-powered refrigerators can preserve their produce until it can be sold.The communities here are in deep poverty. The project is targeted to help them make more revenue from their own work,said Noam Dotan, an activist and physicist with Comet-ME.

Comet-ME says it seeks to use renewable energy to empower Palestinian communities like this one, which is among the poorest in the West Bank.The West Bank, home to some 2.5 million Palestinians, is controlled by the Israeli military, with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority governing some areas. Some 300,000 Israeli settlers also live in the territory. The Palestinians want to make the West Bank part of their future state.Israel provides power to Jewish settlements and military facilities in the West Bank, as well as to most Palestinian cities and towns.But Comet-ME says some 500 Palestinian families in communities not officially recognized by the Israeli military authorities in this part of the southern West Bank are forced to live off the grid. The Israeli military said it never received a request for power from the community and if it did, the army would study it in accordance with the relevant laws.Susya villagers used to depend on diesel generators which were costly and polluted the air.The community has faced a series of evictions by the military and has clashed with Jewish settlers in the past. But the villagers and the activists say the work to set up the new power system — done by both Israelis and Palestinians — helped temper mistrust.This is an example of the coexistence between Arabs and Jews, and this is a very important thing,said Mohammad Ahmed Nasser Nawaja, wearing a traditional Arab robe and carrying the cell phone he charged thanks to the new power system.Meanwhile, word has spread to other villages lacking electricity. Comet-ME hopes to power up the remaining off-grid families in this area over the next four years.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Report: Tehran vows to blow up the heart of Israel if Iran is attacked Friday, 09 October 2009 10:25 News from Jerusalem .Iranian missiles could reach Israeli nuclear sites

IRAN would blow up the heart of Israel if it was attacked by the Jewish state or the US, a Revolutionary Guards official was quoted today as saying.Even if one American or Zionist missile hits our country, before the dust settles, Iranian missiles will blow up the heart of Israel,the IRNA news agency quoted Mojtaba Zolnour as saying.
Zolnour is a deputy representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the elite Guards force.Iranian officials have previously said Tehran would retaliate in event of an Israeli or US attack.Earlier this year, a senior commander said Iranian missiles could reach Israeli nuclear sites. Israel is believed to be the only nuclear-armed Middle East state.Israel has not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to end a dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions, echoing U.S. policy, although Washington is engaged in a drive to resolve the issue through direct talks with Iran.The West suspects the Islamic state is covertly seeking to develop nuclear weapons, which Iran denies.The Zionist regime and the United States cannot risk attacking Iran,Zolnour said in the holy Shi'ite city of Qom, citing Iranian military and technological advances, IRNA reported.The Australian: At talks in Geneva on Oct. 1, Iran agreed with six world powers - the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - to give U.N. experts access to a newly-disclosed uranium enrichment plant south of Tehran.News Com Au

Hamas declares day of rage for Al-Aqsa Mosque Friday, 09 October 2009 06:48 News from Jerusalem .Muslim rioters in Jerusalem Old City

The Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas declared Friday a day of rage and called on its supporters to come out and demonstrate at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on Temple Mount.
The call came Thursday, following days of tension at the Temple Mount compound as Palestinian protesters sporadically clashed with Israeli police patrolling the holy site.Leading religious figures in the Muslim world, such as Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi, dubbed Friday protect Al-Aqsa day.Joining the call to protect the mosque were Palestinian politicians and religious figures, who have been trying to convince the lethargic public in Gaza to come out and demonstrate.Israel's Islamic Movement also joined the calls, urging Muslims within Israel to attend Friday's prayer at Al-Aqsa. The movement explained that they do not intend to confront anyone, but that prayer at the mosque is a basic right which they have no intention of relinquishing.

In efforts to curb the violence, Israel has instituted restrictions on worshippers entering the compound, allowing men only over 50 years of age to enter. However, no restriction has been placed on women. Consequently, thousands of women arrived at the Temple Mount compound on Thursday in organized buses from Arab towns across Israel, and a similar showing was expected on Friday.A spokesperson for the Islamic Movement in Israel told Haaretz that the tension at the site has been created by Israeli police, which has deployed an unprecedented presence around the mosque and in East Jerusalem in general. We repeat,he said.The Al-Aqsa Mosque is a holy place for Muslims and no one else has any right or ownership over it.The Islamic movement has asked not to address comments made recently by Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, the nonagenarian leader of the Lithuanian sect of the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi community, who told President Shimon Peres that Jews should not make pilgrimages to the Temple Mount so as not to evoke global outrage.According to halacha (Jewish religious law), it is forbidden to ascend to Temple Mount,Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv is quoted by Israel Radio as telling President Shimon Peres.I've said this in the past, and I am once again repeating this statement that Jews are forbidden to go up to the site,Elyashiv said.The Islamic Movement responded to these remarks Thursday, saying that we don't need halacha quoted by this rabbi or another. We derive our legitimacy from the Koran and from the words of the prophet Mohammed.The Islamic Movement also criticized the indifference displayed by Muslim nations in the face of the clashes in Jerusalem. In a flyer the group disseminated, titled Al-Aqsa will be victorious, they said that anyone who harms Al-Aqsa is disrespecting every Muslim, wherever they are, and that despite the indifference and the incitement against the group and its leaders, the mosque will ultimately prevail.haaretz

Settler leader: Obama, keep your hands off Israel Thursday, 08 October 2009 05:52 News from Jerusalem .Keep your hands off of Israel

Some 3,000 members of Likud, as well as thousands of right-wing supporters gathered on Wednesday in the Samaria National Park in the northern West Bank, to voice their support for further construction in the settlements.Samaria Regional Council leader Gershon Mesika, sent a direct message to the U.S. President Barack Obama in his address to the demonstration:Keep your hands off of Israel,he said.It is outside of your jurisdiction. Netanyahu should stand rock solid to protect his country.
Meanwhile, right-wing MK Danny Danon also passed on a message to Obama in a live interview on CNN and said Israel has no partner for peace, adding that U.S. pressure is causing problems for the Jewish people.

Danon also said, that despite Obama's charisma this is not Hollywood.More than 70 buses stood outside the park as thousands of settlement supporters congregated in the park's amphitheater to listen to the right-wind speeches in a demonstration headed by Danon.We need to remember that our hold on Jerusalem starts here,said Likud MK Tzipi Hatovely, who came to the demonstration with her entire family.We will demand that the prime minister continue to build in the West Bank,she added.

Among the top Likud members in attendance were rightist Moshe Feiglin and Minister Yuli Edelstein, who both said that they hoped the talks on a settlement freeze would finally end.Wednesday was one of the only days during the year that visitors were permitted into the national park due to security problems.The park roads are neglected and littered and the surrounding boasts several illegal construction sites.
Some 20 minutes from the Shomron park, in the settlement Revava, MK Danon organized another rally for non-Israeli supporters.We don't know what the government's policy on the settlement freeze is,Danon told the participants.It's obvious that if the policy changes there will be 5,000 people standing here instead of 1,000.A Likud activist now residing in Istanbul, who asked not to be named, told Haaretz that he was very proud of his country: There are brave people here who don't mind living with the Arabs. They're not afraid of anything,he said.haaretz

ON CAPITOL HILL Will your thoughts be subject to hate crimes law? Emergency campaigns seek messages to Washington October 09, 2009 12:24 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh 2009 WorldNetDaily

A hate crimes law is looming in Washington, and at least two organizations are urging Americans to contact their representatives and even the president to express their concern over the plan's potential thought control aspects. WND has reported on the proposal numerous times, most recently just weeks ago when a key Senate vote happened in the wee hours when most Americans were asleep and a warning followed. The proposal – which creates federal protections and privileges for homosexuals and other alternative lifestyles but denies those protections to other groups of citizens – has been added to a defense spending bill.The U.S. House voted yesterday to approve the plan, and the Senate has expressed support. Once approved, it would head to President Obama, who is anxious to satisfy homosexual supporters who have complained he has not done enough for them.When the Senate earlier approved a key move, Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, said, In … months President Obama and the Democratic-led Congress have forced on the American people the most radical and and immoral agenda.The administration and the Democratic-led Congress are out of touch with the mainstream. They represent the most fringe extreme elements of America. They will not be able to continue their efforts to undermine moral values, socialize the economy and trash American pride and heritage.

The people will not remain silent forever,he said.The House vote prompted the American Family Association to alert its constituents and create a procedure for them to send e-mails to Washington about the plan.In its never-ending quest to shred America's Judeo-Christian value system, the left is planning to hurriedly push through a thought crimes bill,the alert said.So-called hate crimes laws are really laws that criminalize thought, because they punish an individual not for what he did but for what he thought. Politically incorrect thoughts about homosexual behavior will result in enhanced criminal sanctions under this law.The AFA said,Everywhere hate crimes laws have gone into effect, they have been quickly used to intimidate, silence and punish people of faith who express deeply held religious objections to the normalization of homosexuality.Such laws not only punish officially disapproved speech and thought, they create two tiers of victims. Under hate crimes laws, some victims get more protections than others, which violates the fundamental American principle of equality under the law,the alert said.In fact, such laws actively discriminate against heterosexual Christians who are victims of crime, since they will get less legal protection than homosexual victims.The American Family Association said since sexual orientation nowhere is defined in the law,this law will give pedophiles, voyeurs, and exhibitionists special protections, which is why the bill has correctly been called The Pedophile Protection Act.Also offering an online contact Washington process is the organization Pray in Jesus Name, founded by former U.S. Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was involuntarily removed from the U.S. military after he prayed in Jesus name.His organization submitted via fax almost 400,000 petitions to Washington opposing the hate crimes law.Also, a separate larger Fed Ex campaign to warn U.S. Senate members of the dangers of the hate crimes plan dispatched more than 705,000 letters to senators.The letter-writing effort was organized by WND columnist Janet Porter, who also heads the Faith2Action Christian ministry. It allowed citizens to send individually addressed letters to all 100 senators over their own signature for only $10.95.

Concerned individuals may e-mail their respective senators or call 1(877) 851-6437 or 1(202) 224-3121.Klingenschmitt said,Please call 202-456-1111 today, and tell White House comment line operators: Mr. President, please keep your promise and veto the F-35 second engine in the Pentagon Budget, 2010 Defense Authorization Act.Several months ago, President Obama promised to veto the Pentagon budget if it contained funding for the F-22 or a second engine for the F-35. The Senate killed the F-22, but after receiving nearly 22,000 faxes from us in the last 48 hours, the House ignored Obama's veto threat and voted Thursday to fully fund a second engine for F-35s. The House also sadly attached the pro-homosexual Hate Crimes bill, which had nothing to do with Pentagon spending, to the budget as a poison pill. If President Obama vetoes the F-35 second engine, as he promised when speaking in Phoenix last spring, he will ironically kill the homosexual agenda and their evil Pedophile Protection Act,he wrote.Attempts by Republicans to add amendments stating pedophilia is not protected as a sexual orientation were blocked by House Democrats.In fact, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., said all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected.This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these philias and fetishes and isms that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule,he said.Further, the proposal has a broad definition of intimidation,so a Christian pastor's sermon could be considered hate speech if heard by an individual who then acts aggressively against someone based on sexual orientation.The pastor, Klingenschmitt said, could be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit a hate crime or inciting violence against gays for quoting the Bible.As it went through the House, the version was H.R. 1913, or the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. The Senate then worked on its own version, and it ultimately was added as an amendment to a defense spending plan.As WND reported, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted a homosexual activist who is attacked following a Christian minister's sermon about homosexuality would be protected by the proposed federal law, but a minister attacked by a homosexual wouldn't be.The revelations came from Holder's June testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was taking comments on the proposal. The measure also was the subject of discussion on talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's July 3 show.This is the question,Limbaugh said.(Sen.) Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) presents a hypothetical where a minister gives a sermon, quotes the Bible about homosexuality and is thereafter attacked … by a gay activist because of what the minister said about his religious beliefs and what Scripture says about homosexuality. Is the minister protected?

No, said Holder.Well, the statute would not – would not necessarily cover that, Holder stated.We're talking about crimes that have a historic basis. Groups who have been targeted for violence as a result of the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, that is what this statute tends – is designed to cover. We don't have the indication that the attack was motivated by a person's desire to strike at somebody who was in one of these protected groups. That would not be covered by the statute.Continued Limbaugh,In other words: ministers and whites are not covered by the hate crime statute because we're talking about crimes that have a historic basis, groups who have been targeted for violence as a result of their skin color, sexual orientation. So hate crimes are reserved exclusively for blacks and homosexuals. Everybody else can get to the back of the bus on this one.The bill was nicknamed The Pedophile Protection Act when Rep. Steve King proposed an amendment during its trek through the U.S. House that would specify pedophiles could not use the law to protect their activities.

Majority Democrats flatly refused.

Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, told WND the move is alarming because this would be the very first governmental and societal disapproval of a sincerely held religious belief, held by a majority of Americans, namely that homosexual behavior is immoral.It's the first time the federal government is writing into law a disapproval of that belief,he said.While he said he doesn't believe there will be immediate prosecutions of pastors and churches for teaching the biblical injunction that homosexual behavior is sin,I think the effect on speech and religious speech is nonetheless real.He said he does expect that pastors soon will begin being called to testify in hate crime cases in court as to what that pastor preaches, what the church teaches, what the Bible teaches.When this happens, there will be a shock wave through pastorates in America,he said. Ultimately, he warned that the homosexual advocates who have pushed the hate crimes plan consider this law just the first step toward silencing Christians.That development already has been observed not only with the enactment of hate crimes laws in other nations but in the hate crime related speech codes existing on many university campuses in the U.S., Stanley said.President Obama, supported strongly during his campaign by homosexual advocates, has indicated he would like to see the legislation become law.I urge members on both sides of the aisle to act on this important civil rights issue by passing this legislation to protect all of our citizens from violent acts of intolerance,he said.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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

Gold eases from highs as dollar recovers - Fed chairman lifts dollar with hint of monetary tightening October 9, 2009

Gold eased in Europe on Friday, consolidating after hitting record highs for three straight sessions, as an indication from the US Federal Reserve chief that monetary policy may be tightened lifted the dollar.Spot gold was bid at $1 046.10 (R7 720) an ounce at 11:38 SA time against $1 054.00 late in New York on Thursday and opening up a gap on its record this week of above $1 060 an ounce.US gold futures for December delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell $8.80 to $1 047.50.Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said at a conference on Thursday he was thinking of an exit strategy from quantitative easing and low interest rates as the US economy improves.The statement lifted the dollar index, which measures the US unit's performance against a basket of six other major currencies, from 14-month lows.The high inflation concerns upon which gold has been soaring until now may start to fade as the Fed (favours) a stronger dollar,said Pradeep Unni, senior analyst at Richcomm Global Services.The dollar's decline had pushed gold to a series of record highs, peaking at $1 061.20 an ounce on Thursday, as investors bought the metal as an alternative to paper currencies. A weak dollar also makes gold cheaper for non-US investors.Despite the dollar's bounce, persistent fears over currency market instability are seen pushing gold to further records this year as funds buy the metal as an alternative asset.It seems people are beginning to realise the real effect of quantitative easing -- not only the threat to inflation, but the threat to fiat (official) currencies,said Nick Bullman, managing partner of hedge fund Bullman Investment Management.If you carry on just printing money, eventually people will start to look for another store of value.

WEAK PHYSICAL DEMAND

Physical demand for gold remains weak as high prices deter jewellers, traditionally the main buyers of gold. Buying in India, the world's largest bullion market last year, has been lacklustre despite the onset of the festival season.The impact of a soaring dollar gold price had been cushioned for domestic buyers by strength in the rupee, but the Indian currency snapped five days of gains on Friday to weaken.Other major centres for physical gold trade have also seen no upturn in sales during the present price run-up, suggesting it is based on large investment rather than broad-based demand.Dubai, a key demand centre for gold, hasn't reported any large rise in demand,said Unni.Retail jewellery units fear the traditional buying quantities will be far less this time during the festive season.Among other precious metals, silver also retreated from the 14-month high at $17.92 an ounce it hit on Thursday, tracking the dollar and gold prices. Spot silver was at $17.56 an ounce against $17.72.Spot platinum was at $1 335 an ounce against $1 344.50, while palladium was at $322.50 against $318. The metal used in autocatalysts hit a peak of $323, its highest since mid-August, earlier on Friday.Palladium, which according to dealers underperformed other precious metals earlier this year, has been lifted by gains in gold, hopes demand will improve as the economy recovers and concerns over the availability of Russian stocks.It is still good value to invest at these kinds of levels,said one platinum group metals trader.Demand will certainly improve, and on the Russian side there is talk of some tightness coming through. That may be the general feeling in the market.- Reuters

Harper says he expects job market to fluctuate Fri Oct 9, 2:20 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's job market could well fluctuate in coming months despite unexpectedly good jobs news in September, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday.Employers hired six times more workers than forecast in September, cutting the jobless rate for the first time since July 2008 in another sign the economy is rebounding from a deep recession.We have some good news today. I don't think we're out of the woods. I think in the next few months we could still see a lot of up and down,Harper told a televised news conference in Welland, Ontario.My big concern remains the United States. ... We have to be realistic that these problems in the United States do continue to create real drags on the Canadian economy,he said.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Frank McGurty)

Japan to obtain rights to platinum in Africa Fri Oct 9, 5:49 am ET

TOKYO (AFP) – Resource-poor Japan has obtained rights to develop platinum mines in South Africa and Botswana in a bid to ensure a stable supply of the metal, officials said on Friday.The government-backed Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. (JOGMEC) has signed a contract with Discovery Metals in Australia to jointly develop nickel and platinum mines in northeast Botswana, it said in a statement.It has inked another deal with Canadian firm Platinum Group Metals to explore for platinum in South Africa.It will pay three million Australian dollars (2.7 million US dollars) to Discovery Metals over three years for exploration costs, in return for 60 percent of the rights to the metals.JOGMEC will pay 3.2 million US dollars to Platinum Group Metals over four years for a 37 percent share, it said in a statement.Japan has in recent years worked to strengthen ties with African countries to ensure supplies of resources including precious metals.

Nigeria's oil output between 1.6-1.7 mln bpd : minister Thu Oct 8, 4:01 pm ET

ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria's crude oil output is hovering between 1.6 and 1.7 million barrels per day following an amnesty deal to militants who waged a violent oil war, the petroleum minister said Thursday.Condensate and crude oil, we are doing about two million bpd. Crude oil fluctuates between 1.6 and 1.7 million bpd,Petroleum Minister Rilwan Lukman said in an interview.The figure is a million barrels less from the 2.6 million bpd the world's eighth largest oil producer used to pump in 2005before the onset of the oil insurgency in the southern Niger Delta.Nigeria's oil production fell to about 1.3 million barrels per day recently due attacks by Niger Delta militants, the minister had told reporters at the end of August.We hope output will improve,after the amnesty, the minister said.We have a capacity of producing over three million bpd, the more peace we have, the more stability we have, we should be able to produce more,he said.He said the country has been able to fulfil its OPEC quota.It fluctuates from day to day, (but) we are meeting our quota,he added.

Militant activities in the oil-rich region -- including kidnappings of mostly foreign oil workers and sabotaging oil installations -- have hit output.Nigeria ranked eighth among the 12-nation global oil cartel, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and is still struggling to regain its position as African leading oil producer having been overtaken by Angola.President Umaru Yar'Adua had in June declared amnesty for all Niger Delta militants who dropped their arms to embrace peace.The amnesty, which officially took off on August 6, ended on October 4.More than 8,000 of the militants who laid down arms have so far been registered but the number could double when the documentation is complete, officials said on Thursday.Figures released by Timiebi Koripamo-Agary, spokeswoman of the government amnesty team, showed that as of Tuesday -- two days after the amnesty deadline -- 8,299 militants had been recorded in seven oil-producing states in the south of Nigeria.

Stocks post their best week since July By Sara Lepro, Ap Business Writer – Fri Oct 9, 5:54 pm ET

NEW YORK – The stock market is keeping its momentum going, giving shares their best week in more than two months.Moderate gains on Friday led by health care and utility companies pushed stocks to a 4 percent gain for the week, their best performance since July. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 78 points, reaching its highest level in a year.Bond prices tumbled, extending the previous day's losses, as the Treasury market struggled to absorb $71 billion of new supply auctioned off this week in the government's ongoing efforts to fund its stimulus programs.The market's performance was a fitting way to commemorate the second anniversary of the record highs set by the Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500 index, which closed at 14,164.53 and 1,565.15 respectively. It was after reaching those milestones that the market began what turned into a cataclysmic slide that ended March 9.This week investors cheered more signs that the economy is healing, including growth in service industries, a surprise profit from aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. and the first gain in retail sales in over a year. That helped put a seven-month rally back on track after two down weeks driven by disappointing economic data.The dollar recovered some of its recent losses against other currencies Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured markets that the Fed will wind down its extraordinary stimulus measures when the time is right. Some investors interpreted Bernanke's comments as a sign the Fed might raise interest rates sooner than expected.

The dollar is a double-edged sword for the stock market. The dollar would benefit from higher interest rates but if the Fed tightens credit too soon it could choke off an economic recovery. On the other hand a continued fall in the dollar, which is more likely with lower interest rates, could trigger inflation.What's particularly concerning for investors is if there is a sharp, sustained move (by the dollar) in one direction or another, said Jordan Smyth, managing director at Edgemoor Investment Advisors.The moderate rise in stocks Friday comes two years to the day after the market hit its peak. The Dow is still down 30.4 percent from its high on Oct. 9, 2007, while the S&P 500 index is down 31.5 percent.The Dow rose 78.07, or 0.8percent, to 9,864.94, its highest close since Oct. 6 last year.The S&P 500 index rose 6.01, or 0.6 percent, to 1,071.49, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 15.35, or 0.7 percent, to 2,139.28.For the week, the Dow rose 4 percent, its biggest gain since the week ended July 24. The S&P 500 index rose 4.5 percent, its best performance since the week ended July 17. The Nasdaq added 4.5 percent.Bond prices fell sharply as selling that was sparked by a weak auction of 30-year bonds on Thursday continued. The 30-year bond fell more than 2 points — its biggest one-day drop in nearly three months — sending its yield up to 4.22 percent from 4.09 percent late Thursday. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.38 percent from 3.25 percent.Despite the big gain in stocks this week, analysts warn that trading could be bumpy in the coming weeks as investors sift through companies' quarterly earnings reports. Major financial firms will report results next week, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. Better-than-expected earnings from banks this year have been a big force behind the market's rally.Investors, having sent the S&P 500 index up 58.4 percent since March, are looking for reassurance from companies that the economy is growing.The market has factored in good earnings and the market has actually discounted good guidance as well,said Jim Herrick, director of equity trading, Baird & Co. So if we don't see that, the market will retrace.

Outside of earnings reports, the dollar will remain a focus. The slide in the dollar has been a boon to both stocks and commodities this year. A weak dollar makes commodities more attractive to foreign investors. Likewise, it helps boost corporate profits at companies that have a strong presence overseas by making prices of their exported goods cheaper for buyers in other countries.Oil prices rose 8 cents to settle at $71.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold prices slipped after touching a fresh high of $1,062.70 on Thursday.Three stocks rose for every two that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume came to a relatively low 990 million shares, compared with 1.3 billion Thursday.In other trading, the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 7.17, or 1.2 percent, to 614.92.Overseas, Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.1 percent, Germany's DAX index dipped 0.1 percent and France's CAC-40 fell 0.2 percent. Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 1.9 percent.The Dow Jones industrial average closed the week up 377.27, or 4 percent, at 9,864.94. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 46.28, or 4.5 percent, to 1,071.49. The Nasdaq composite index rose 91.17, or 4.5 percent, to 2,139.28.The Russell 2000 index, which tracks the performance of small company stocks, rose 34.72, or 6 percent, for the week to 614.92.The Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index — which measures nearly all U.S.-based companies — ended at 10,963.48, up 493.93, or 4.7 percent.

EDF, Constellation nuclear venture get US nod Fri Oct 9, 4:55 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US regulators have approved a plan for French-based EDF to take a stake in Constellation Energy Group, clearing a key hurdle for a new nuclear power plant in Maryland, the companies said Friday.The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the investment structure and license transfer related to EDF's acquisition of 49.99 percent of Constellation Energy's nuclear assets, a joint statement said.

The investment was previously reported to have cost 4.5 billion dollars.

The companies said EDF's has now received all necessary approvals at the federal level and clearance from the New York Public Service Commission.They said that completing this nuclear joint venture is critical to the proposed construction of a new nuclear unit at Constellation Energy's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, which would represent one of the largest industrial development projects in Maryland.It would create 4,000 construction jobs, 400 permanent positions, and enough new, clean energy to power 1.3 million homes, the statement said.This historic nuclear joint venture has the potential to deliver extraordinary value for Maryland and we're eager to complete this transaction and begin delivering those benefits as quickly as possible.It said discussions are continuing with state officials on the plan.
Constellation owns 3,869 megawatts of nuclear generating capacity in the United States.The French state owns around 85 percent of EDF, the world's biggest producer of nuclear energy.

China tells US to back off after Dalai Lama award OCT 9,09

BEIJING – China accused the United States on Friday of meddling in its domestic affairs after American lawmakers recognized the Dalai Lama with an award for his efforts to improve human rights.The U.S. Congress presented the award, which was in honor of the late U.S. human rights activist Tom Lantos, to the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader on Tuesday.China reviles the Dalai Lama and has pressured foreign governments not to meet with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.We urge some members of the U.S. Congress to respect the history and the facts, recognize the true face of Dalai Lama, stop using the Tibet issue to interfere in China's internal affairs, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement posted on the ministry's Web site.The criticism comes even though President Barack Obama did not meet the Dalai Lama during the trip. Obama said he would not meet the spiritual leader until after he visits President Hu Jintao in November.The Lantos Foundation president, Katrina Lantos Swett, called China's criticism unwarranted and commended members of Congress for supporting the Dalai Lama.The Dalai Lama is one of the most highly honored peacemakers of all time, and we are proud to present His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the inaugural Lantos Human Rights Prize,Swett said in a statement.We can only hope that this award brings into public light the continuing human rights violations in Tibet, so that they can be addressed.The Obama administration, which needs Chinese support for crucial foreign policy, economic and environmental goals, must balance efforts to establish friendly ties with China with the desire to support the Dalai Lama, who has called for more autonomy for Tibetans.China says Tibet has been part of its territory for four centuries, and it has aggressively governed the Himalayan region since communist troops took control there in 1951. Many Tibetans say they were effectively independent for most of their history and say Chinese rule and economic exploitation are eroding their traditional Buddhist culture.

East Asia powers show united front on North Korea, economy By Yoko Nishikawa – OCT 10,09

BEIJING (Reuters) – China, Japan and South Korea vowed to seek an early restart to talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions, and also presented a united front on regional economic cooperation at a summit on Saturday.The broad promises to work together on security and economic issues came at a meeting between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who has made strengthening regional ties a keynote of his foreign policy.We will make joint efforts with other parties for an early resumption of the Six-Party Talks, so as to safeguard peace and stability in Northeast Asia,said the joint statement issued by the leaders at the end of their talks in the Chinese capital.The three countries remain committed to the development of an East Asian community based on the principles of openness, transparency and inclusiveness as a long term goal.The vows to cooperate on North Korea and on economic growth are unlikely to make any immediate difference. But they underscored the growing pull for the three Asian powers to set aside some of their friction and seek common ground.The show of unity may also add pressure on North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament negotiations. Beijing is the closest the isolated North has to an ally.The combined GDP of Japan, China and South Korea accounts for 16 percent of the world's total output, with Japan and China respectively the world's second- and third-biggest economies.In April, a month before its second nuclear test, North Korea said the six-party talks -- among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States -- were defunct. It walked away from those talks last December.

HEAVILY HEDGED

This week, North Korea's top leader Kim Jong-il offered visiting Chinese Premier Wen a heavily hedged statement that his government could return to multilateral negotiations, possibly the six-party talks, provided it first saw satisfactory progress in any two-way talks with the United States.Washington has said it is open to talks with Pyongyang as long as that leads to a resumption of the six-party talks.

Hatoyama, who took office on September 16 after his Democratic Party trounced the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, has said he will seek stronger ties with Beijing, which have long been strained by distrust over history, sea boundary disputes and worries over China's growing military and political clout.Tokyo's relations with Beijing and Seoul chilled during then-prime minister Junichiro Koizumi's 2001-2006 tenure when his visits to the Yasukuni Shrine for war dead outraged Japan's neighbors, who see the Shinto site as an unrepentant symbol of Japan's past militarism.All three of Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party successors refrained from paying respects at the shrine, driven at least in part by a desire for steadier political and economic cooperation with fast-growing China.Wen, Lee and Hatoyama also sought to highlight hopes for deeper economic cooperation and integration.In the spirit of facing history squarely and advancing toward the future, the three countries will explore the potential and expand the area of cooperation,the leaders said.They will step up efforts to improve the quality of economic development, oppose trade protectionism, and seek progress in the Doha round of trade liberalization talks, the leaders said.China is now Japan's biggest trading partner, and the second largest export destination after the United States. South Korea, meanwhile, was Japan's third-biggest export market in 2008. Hatoyama has been seeking deeper ties with Asian partners and has promoted the idea of a regional grouping inspired by the example of the European Union. The joint statement stressed that an East Asia community was a long-term goal.China-Japan-ROK cooperation will have many opportunities for development in the coming decade,said the statement. The ROK is the Republic of Korea, the official name of South Korea.
(Additional reporting by Chris Buckley and Ben Blanchard; Editing by Jerry Norton)

DELAY CONFIRMATION OF BERNANKE

WELL NOW I KNOW FOR SURE OBAMA IS A FORERUNNER OF THE EU WORLD DICTATOR.HE GETS A NOBLE PEACE PRIZE FOR LIEING AND DECIEVING,WHAT MORE COULD SATANS PUPPET ASK FOR.JUST LIKE THE FUTURE DICTATOR BY PEACE AND LIES AND DECEPTION WILL DESTROY MANY NATIONS AND PEOPLES.

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.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.

EU CALLS FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7D21rPpBrk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFs99zBTRO0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTfv6uOHgqQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeMBNB0cII&feature=related
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4291770489472554607&ei=iaRTSrzHAoqUqQL1gMGqDw&q=EU&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeMBNB0cII&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVmtbLc4t6M&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5cqh26CC0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
EXCELLENT EU REVIEW - WORLD REGIONS,GLOBAL CURRENCY
http://exposureroom.com/members/cybersilence.aspx/assets/d37a8ebc60694cc98173b8f32cfe898d/
EU-NEW SOVIET UNION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2Ql3wOGcU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Cj1b-rp1E&feature=player_embedded
WORLD GOVERNMENT UNDER TREATYS-INTERNATIONAL LAW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government
TRANSATLANTIC POLICY
http://www.tpnonline.org/

JOAN VEON ON TAMAR YONAH 2008 (WORLD GOVERNMENT)
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK ,RELIGION&RULERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OvpjRglW9U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFnxNowaaIU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=584x0zkmHgw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsZvQcZ9Mu4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGl3DHrVMFY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg90X7OkEsU&feature=related
INSIDE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=36666041
UNDERSTANDING WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.womensgroup.org/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=504526035342184251
BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT PRESS
http://www.bis.org/events/agm2009/pcvideo.htm
HISTORY OF WAR AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1874212534444628577&hl=en

THE EU DICTATOR

REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
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: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
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.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
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.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) 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 A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) 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 (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, 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.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.

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)

Barroso fears powerful European president The EU's Lisbon Treaty has raised a whole series of questions about external representation (Photo: ec.europa.eu)
HONOR MAHONY 08.10.2009 @ 17:31 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has sided with smaller member states in trying to restrict the role of the proposed president of the European Council, a new post created by the Lisbon Treaty.Addressing the European Parliament on Wednesday (7 October), Mr Barroso chastised MEPs for referring to the post as president of Europe.I am sorry, there will not be a president of Europe. There will be, if we have Lisbon, the president of the European Council. It is important to understand that point because sometimes I think there are some ideas about certain derives institutionelles [institutional drifts],he said.

Loosely defined in the treaty itself, talk about the nature of the president's role has become one of the main topics in Brussels in recent days, as national governments deliberate whether the post should go to a well-known personality from a big country or a more discreet politician.The exact job description will be written by the first person holding the job, with ex British prime minister Tony Blair among the most-mentioned candidates for the post. It is widely agreed that a politician of Mr Blair's standing would take the post far beyond the largely administrative role foreseen in the treaty.According to the treaty, which is still awaiting full ratification by all 27 member states, the president is supposed to chair the regular meetings of EU leaders - known as the European Council - and to drive forward their work.Mr Barroso, who himself enjoys attending international summits on behalf of the EU, has a personal stake in the issue. A powerful council president would upset the power balance in the EU and would likely see Mr Barroso relegated to a more much Brussels-based role.The commission president has no formal powers in appointing the European Council president but he warned: The European Commission will not accept the idea that the president of European Council is the president of Europe.Mr Barroso's remarks came shortly after a leaked paper on the new Lisbon Treaty posts by Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg underlined the importance of maintaining the institutional balance of the union. The paper has been interpreted in some quarters as an anti-Blair move.

Poland has also prepared a document on the role of the president of the European Council. Earlier this week, Polish Europe minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz indicated to EUobserver the limited role that Warsaw foresees for the new president.We have to recognise that the Polish minister of finance or agriculture will only take instructions from his prime minister. He will not take instructions from the president of the council,he said. Some member states, such as France, have indicated they want to create a major player with the presidential job by appointing someone who can open doors in the US and China and who can give the EU some gravitas on the world stage.Mr Blair's is not the only name that has been put forward in connection to the job. Other possible contenders mooted include Dutch leader Jan-Peter Balkenende; Luxembourg leader Jean-Claude Juncker and Felipe Gonzalez, a former Spanish prime minister.

EU Council president must manage national leaders, says Barroso
ANDREW WILLIS Today OCT 9,09 @ 17:33 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says a future permanent president of the European Council must be able to stand up to member states that seek to pursue their own interests.Speaking at a brainstorming session of European heavyweights on Friday (9 October), Mr Barroso also indicated that any holder of the new post – set to be created under the Lisbon Treaty - needs to have the necessary skills to create unity within the body that represents EU premiers.The job of the president is to deliver the results of a European Council, he said.Someone who will fight to reach agreement in the European Council.He added that the selected individual must also have a good understanding of the community method, but refused to be drawn on whether former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair met these requirements.Mr Blair has emerged as a frontrunner in recent days following reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been persuaded to swing behind the British candidate.But a paper circulated by the Benelux countries this week that seeks to limit the scope for the role has been interpreted in some quarters as an attempt to thwart Mr Blair's uptake of the new post after an unnamed Belgian diplomat was quoted in French daily Le Monde as saying that the document showed that the former British prime minister is not best placed to occupy the function.Speaking on the sidelines of the Friday's meeting, former commissioner Etienne Davignon told EUobserver that Mr Blair was clearly not the right candidate for the job.While agreeing that the former Labour leader has a sufficiently high profile to influence the European Council, Mr Davignon said his British background essentially precluded him from the job.Yes he is a big character but you can't do the job if your member state is not in big EU policies [such as EMU],said the prominent industrialist who currently sits on the board of numerous cross-border companies and is a key behind-the-scenes mover in European circles.

Lisbon not enough

While diplomats in Brussels this week have worked overtime to lay down the exact role of the anticipated European Council president, Mr Barroso said 2009 was a perfect example of why such a post was needed.So far this year, the Portuguese politician has had the pleasure of working with no fewer than four holders of the position.In March the center-right government of former Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek – whose country held the EU presidency at the time - fell following a vote of no confidence in parliament.The baton was subsequently picked up by the country's eurosceptic president Vaclav Klaus, who proceeded to chair of a number of high-profile events such as a EU-Russia summit, before the current caretaker Prime Minister Jan Fischer took over. And now Sweden's prime minister, Frederik Reinfeldt, is at the helm.No other institution, not even a football club, has done that,said Mr Barroso.While welcoming the recent Yes vote in the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, Mr Barroso issued a warning that its final ratification would not be enough to help Europe tackle the important issues on the horizon.The Lisbon Treaty increases our ability to act but nothing replaces the willingness of member states, he said, singling out social policy as a case in point.The outbreak of the financial crisis last year and the Commission's weak powers in the area of social policy have seen member states opting to deal with the mounting jobs crisis on a national basis.I tried to call an EU unemployment summit in Prague at the start of the year but it was downgraded,said Mr Barroso.

Poland to ratify Lisbon Treaty on Saturday
ANDREW RETTMAN Today OCT 9,09 @ 07:05 CET

Polish President Lech Kaczynski has invited EU dignitaries to Warsaw to watch him ratify the Lisbon Treaty this weekend. But Czech President Vaclav Klaus has come out with a last-minute call to alter the text. Mr Kaczynski has asked Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (the EU president-in-office), European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and European Parliament head Jerzy Buzek to see him sign a Ratification Act on Lisbon at a ceremony in the Polish capital on Saturday (10 October) at noon.The Polish president's chief of staff, Wladyslaw Stasiak, made the announcement on Thursday, after a week of vague and misleading statements on the issue by Polish officials.The Kaczynski signature will leave the Czech Republic's Mr Klaus and the Czech Constitutional Court as the only two entities standing in the way of Lisbon entering into force.The court is expected in the next few days to set a date for its decision on a legal challenge by 17 largely Klaus-loyalist senators.

Czech commentators had expected the judges to rule against the challenge in late November, giving Mr Klaus a few weeks in which to make a dignified climb-down from his opposition to the treaty in time for an EU summit in December.But Mr Klaus in a surprise twist on Thursday told Sweden's Mr Reinfeldt by phone that he aims to submit a new annex to Lisbon ahead of the EU summit on 29 October.The two-sentence annex may involve Czech opt-outs from the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, a codex of basic EU values on issues such as gay rights.As far as I understand it, he's linking this to the Charter of Fundamental Rights and then he wants the European Council to take a decision on this footnote, Mr Reinfeldt said, newswires report.I remember we had lengthy discussions about this Charter of Fundamental Rights, because we had special conditions for Poland and for Britain ...I think that's what he's referring to.Mr Reinfeldt said any last-minute changes to the treaty would send the wrong message at the wrong time.French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner also attacked the Klaus proposal. We are not going to change the Lisbon Treaty,he said, AFP reports.The final scenes in the Lisbon drama come eight years after the EU set up the Convention on the Future of Europe, a forum of 105 European politicians tasked with drawing up reforms for an EU containing 27 or more states.The EU parliament's Mr Buzek is to meet Mr Klaus in Prague on Friday morning to try to persuade the eurosceptic president to change his mind.

EU clears way for new treaty with Syria
ANDREW RETTMAN 08.10.2009 @ 17:44 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU is set to take a major step forward in relations with Syria, a former axis of evil country, following an internal agreement on human rights safeguards.EU ambassadors meeting in Brussels on Thursday (8 October) finalised the text of a political declaration to be attached to the legally-binding text of a new bilateral Association Agreement.The new treaty will help the union develop a substantial dialogue on the human rights situation in Syria, which remains a source of concern to the EU. Respect for human rights constitutes one of the essential elements of the agreement,the declaration says.The EU remains committed to adherence to international human rights standards and laws in its partner states and to the continuing improvement in the application thereof. Violation of human rights will therefore directly affect the application of the agreement with partner states.

The political promise to suspend the treaty in case of a major human rights breach was enough to convince the Netherlands to drop its lone objection to the project. EU foreign ministers plan to sign the association pact at a meeting in Luxembourg on 26 October. The 1,500-page document, which focuses on technical details such as customs rules, has already been translated into all the EU's official languages and stands ready to go.

Politically, the move will mark a major shift in EU-Syria relations.

US diplomat John Bolton in 2002 included Syria in a list of axis of evil countries that sponsor world terrorism. But the EU's rift with Syria came in 2004 when Damascus was blamed for the assassination of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri, a personal friend of former French premier Jacques Chirac.The association treaty is in part a reward for Syria's non-interference in Lebanon's elections earlier this year.
EU diplomats also hope the move will help pull Syria away from Iran and encourage it to steer militant groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas towards peace. The rapprochement could damage EU-Israel relations, however. Israel has in recent weeks voiced worries in Brussels that a pro-Syria move will look like a snub to the Jewish state at a time when the EU has frozen a planned upgrade in EU-Israeli ties.The Netherlands, home to institutions such as the International Criminal Court in the Hague, sees itself as a champion of human rights. It also has a track record of defending Israeli interests inside the EU.Human Rights Watch says Syria is among the worst countries in the region in terms of repression of free speech. But it is significantly more liberal than it was in the 1980s.Human Rights Watch is not against the [EU] agreement. But I think the EU is a bit naive in thinking it will steer Syria away from Iran,the NGO's Damascus-based analyst, Nadim Houry, told EUobserver.If you go as a tourist you'll have a great time,he added on the situation in Syria.If you are a Syrian worker who doesn't hold political opinions, you will have no problems with the security services. But if you do, or, if you are Kurdish and you want to sing Kurdish songs, then you are in trouble.

DISEASES

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

CDC: 37 states report widespread swine flu cases By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer – OCT 9,09

ATLANTA – Health officials say swine flu activity is picking up, with 37 states now reporting widespread cases.Officials with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that the count is up from 27 states the previous week. The figures suggest a leveling off of flu activity the previous week may have been short-lived.Meanwhile, CDC officials say states have ordered 3.6 million doses of swine flu vaccine for a campaign that started this week.On the Net:CDC swine flu update: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/update.htm

Swine flu put many hospitalized patients into ICU By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer – Fri Oct 9, 12:48 am ET

One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That's a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said.What is striking and unusual is that children and teens accounted for nearly half of the hospitalized cases, including many who were previously healthy. The study did not give a breakdown of deaths by age.Contrary to the perception among many people that this influenza, novel H1N1, is mild, these data vividly demonstrate that influenza can make you very, very ill, said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University flu expert and spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.Clearly, the best way to protect yourself and your family is to get vaccine as soon as it becomes available, said Schaffner, who had no role in the study but has consulted for swine flu vaccine makers.The study was done by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, working with hospitals and state and local health departments. Results were published online Thursday by the New England Journal of Medicine.A second study released by the journal revealed that swine flu had a profound effect on intensive care units in Australia and New Zealand from June through August — winter months and the normal flu season in the Southern Hemisphere.They had a 15-fold increase in ICU care. That's a 1,500 percent increase,said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.We're still heading into our flu season. Will we see this same big increase in cases over the next several months or will we have a peak in cases in October or November?

In the U.S. study, researchers led by the CDC's Dr. Seema Jain identified 272 patients hospitalized for at least a day from April through mid-June, when the novel virus caused its first wave of cases. That's about one-fourth of the total hospitalizations for swine flu reported during that time, but researchers only studied lab-confirmed cases and patients who agreed to be part of the study.Three-fourths of these patients had other health problems, such as diabetes — typical of seasonal flu, too. However, only 5 percent were 65 and older; ordinary seasonal flu usually hits hardest in the elderly.Seven percent were pregnant, even though pregnant women make up only 1 percent of the general population. Among hospitalized patients whose weight was known, 26 percent were very obese, confirming a risk factor suggested by other information from the outbreak.Symptoms were different — 39 percent had diarrhea or vomiting versus only 5 percent with regular flu. About 40 percent had pneumonia. Seven percent died, and all had been put on breathing machines.About three-fourths of hospitalized patients were given Tamiflu or other antiviral medicines, although most did not get these within the two days of first symptoms, as doctors recommend. Survival appeared to be better among those who got treatment quickly.The use of antivirals is critical,Jain said.Start them, start them early. The patients who are hospitalized should get them quickly.Other experts caution against making too much of specific numbers from these early results.

We don't know how good these numbers are. They've done a good job; it's the best that we've got,Osterholm said.But there are deaths out there that are not being recognized as influenza — only an autopsy would pick them up. And there are likely hospitalizations for flu that were missed as flu.The Southern Hemisphere study involved 722 patients with confirmed cases of swine flu who were treated in intensive care units. More than 14 percent, or one in seven, died. That study also found a disproportionately large number of cases in pregnant women and the very obese.On the Net:New England Journal: http://www.nejm.org Swine flu information: http://www.flu.gov

Top researcher who worked on cervical cancer vaccine warns about its dangers
Mike Adams NaturalNews Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009

One of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both Gardasil and Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines has gone public with warnings about their safety and effectiveness. This highly unusual warning against these vaccines by one of Big Pharma’s own researchers surfaced in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express in the UK over the last few days. There, Dr. Diane Harper openly admitted the vaccine doesn’t even prevent cervical cancer, stating,[The vaccine] will not decrease cervical cancer rates at all.This is astonishing news. The whole push behind the cervical cancer vaccines is based on the belief that they prevent cervical cancer. That belief, it turns out, is a myth.Dr. Harper also warned that the cervical cancer vaccine was being over-marketed and that parents should be warned about the possible risk of severe side effects from the vaccine. She even concluded that the vaccine itself is more dangerous than the cervical cancer it claims to prevent!

Hysteria over genital warts?
In a New York Times article published last year, Dr. Harper spoke about the fear-based marketing of Gardasil by Merck:Merck lobbied every opinion leader, women’s group, medical society, politicians, and went directly to the people — it created a sense of panic that says you have to have this vaccine now…This behavior by drug companies — using fear tactics to promote a particular disease in order to sell the treatment — is called disease mongering. Most of the pharmaceutical profits generated today are based on precisely this tactic: Spread the fear, then sell the treatment. Read more about disease mongering here: http://www.naturalnews.com/disease_…You can also toy around with the NaturalNews disease mongering engine, where you can invent your own diseases at the click of a button: http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-…Why is disease mongering so important to the profits of the drug companies? They figured out many years ago that selling drugs only to those people who are sick was a very limited income opportunity. To rake in the real profits, they needed to devise a way to sell drugs to healthy people (i.e. people who don’t need them). That’s what cervical cancer vaccines really are: A scheme to sell vaccines to people who aren’t suffering from any disease at all.That one of the industry’s own researchers is willing to speak out against this is not just highly unusual; it’s also highly courageous. It makes you wonder: Who, exactly, is this Dr. Harper?

Dr. Diane Harper
Dr. Harper is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied additional courses at Stanford and received her medical degree from the University of Kansas. She was a key researcher in both Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines, and she’s one of the most experienced researchers in the world on HPV-related diseases. She’s done work for both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.Dr. Harper’s warnings about cervical cancer vaccines are especially relevant considering her expertise in the cost/benefit analysis of vaccines. Her conclusion is that cervical cancer vaccines aren’t worth the risks, nor are they worth all the effort being put into hyping them to the public. This may not be the best use of our resources at this time,she said in a Washington Post article.So why do cervical cancer vaccines continue to be pushed by doctors and health authorities across the US, UK and other first-world nations? Because Big Pharma is the great corporate puppeteer that’s pulling the strings of legislators. With enough money and lobbyists, you can always overcome scientific thinking with fear-based marketing and under-the-table deal-making. Science-based medicine has no place in a world where disease is big business.There’s a ridiculous amount of money to be made by pushing vaccines onto people who don’t need them. If I had ten bucks for every teenage girl that’s been injected with a cervical cancer vaccine, I’d be… well… GlaxoSmithKline

Hate Bill May Soon Go To Obama Rev. Ted Pike
National Prayer Network Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009

Conference between the House and Senate on the defense authorization bill, with hate bill attached, ended today. Sen. Carl Levin and Sen. John McCain announced that the compromise bill includes funding for the development of additional F-35 fighter engines (eventually costing about $100 billion). Asked whether this would tempt a presidential veto, Levin said he did not think so because of accommodations to Obama in the bill that would trim extra spending. McCain said he did not know.The considerations Levin referred to included elimination of a new fleet of C-17 cargo transports as well as a presidential helicopter fleet. Also, initial funds to be provided General Electric-Rolls Royce for development of the engines are only a reported $560 million. Levin hopes such limited initial spending will persuade Obama that extra engines will not threaten his request for purchase of as many F-35 fighters as possible. Obama says extra F-35 engines mean fewer fighters.On the other hand, since F-35 engine production is by far the largest expenditure to which Obama objects, it is open to question whether the President will be appeased. He has stated repeatedly, emphatically, that he will not tolerate a $100 billion expenditure on engine development he thinks unnecessary.Levin must be disappointed. He was a major architect of the Senate decision this spring to strip off F-22 Raptor production, as well as F-35 engine production, from the Senate version of the defense bill. Liberals did so to avoid a veto and protect the attached federal hate crimes bill. Levin said that (largely for the sake of the hate bill) the Senate would not send a defense authorization bill to the President that he is likely to veto.Yet that is exactly what conference may have done.

Soon, this bill will go to both Senate and House for approval. If approved, it will go to the President, for either veto or signing, possibly as early as the end of next week.Is there anything lovers of freedom can do in this very short time to insure its veto? Absolutely! We must hold Obama to his oft-repeated promise to veto extra F-35 engine production. We must let him know that many, many Americans are aware of that promise. We need to bombard the White House NOW with this message: Mr. President, we expect you to keep your promise to veto any military authorization bill that wastes $100 billion of taxpayers’ money on unnecessary F-35 jet engines.

Since the defense/hate bill could be on Obama’s desk in a few days, we have just enough time to get our letters to him — if we act immediately. White House phones and faxes remain very busy, so write the President TODAY at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500.We know that Obama is not a man of his word. But, like all politicians wanting to remain in office, he is aware of the need to protect his image. The more that voters remind him of his promise, the greater will be the possibility he will pull back his pen from signing the defense/hate bill and send it back to Congress.

NEW TORAH IN ISRAEL
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133757
WORLD LIKUDS BACK SAMARIA
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SUKKOT MARCH
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Bnei Menashe Celebrate Sukkot in Northeast India
by Hana Levi Julian OCT 8,09

(IsraelNN.com) The Bnei Menashe community of northeastern India celebrated the holiday of Sukkot this year with sets of Lulavim and Etrogim (palm fronds and citrons) sent to them from Israel by the Shavei Israel organization prior to the onset of the holiday. Shavei Israel is a non-profit organization founded by Michael Freund, who immigrated to Israel from the United States, with the aim of strengthening ties between the State of Israel and the descendants of Jews around the world, among them the Bnei Menashe of India.The Bnei Menashe (Hebrew for sons of Manasseh) claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, who were sent into exile by the Assyrian Empire more than 27 centuries ago. They live in India's northeastern border states of Manipur and Mizoram, and are descended from ancestors who wandered through Central Asia and the Far East for centuries, before settling in what is now northeastern India, along the border with Burma and Bangladesh.

Bnei Menashe with the Israeli lulavim and etrogim / Israel news photo: Shavei Yisrael

Throughout their exile, the Bnei Menashe continued to practice Judaism, including observing the Sabbath, keeping kosher, celebrating the festivals and following the laws of family purity. They also continued to nourish the dream of one day returning to the land of their ancestors, the Land of Israel.Shavei Israel Chairman and Founder, Michael Freund said, We hope the New Year will bring good news and that the dream of the Bnei Menashe to come to Israel will soon become a reality.The worshipers offered a special plea during their holiday services, Freund related, asking to fulfill their age-old dream to make aliyah to Israel during the coming year.In recent years,Shavei Israel has brought some 1,500 Bnei Menashe to Israel, including 450 in the past three years who settled in the Upper Galilee. Another 7,000still remain in India.

Hareidi-Religious Jews Opening Up to State of Israel
by Gil Ronen OCT 08,09

(IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Ehud Barak hosted representatives of various organizations and volunteer groups in his sukkah in the Kirya defense establishment headquarters in Tel Aviv Wednesday. In his speech to the guests, he hailed the hareidi-religious population for gradually opening up to the sovereign State of Israel.Among those attending were representatives of the Tzabar seed groups, a program operated by the Israeli Scout Movement, which brings youths from abroad to Israel for military service. These included cadets in pre-military academies and religious seminaries as well as rabbis from the Nachal Hareidi – an army unit especially geared to hareidi-religious youths, in which Jewish laws are strictly adhered to.There is no sovereign existence of liberty without the readiness to risk ones life defending it,Barak said to his guests.This readiness passes here in a relay race from generation to generation. It requires us to stand up, take responsibility and be ready to act as needed in order to defend the country. You, in your behavior, set an example to other youths of both sexes. You implement the value of responsibility and you represent the antithesis to the prevailing it's all about me spirit in Israeli society.

Hareidis no longer so disconnected
Barak echoed the words of former US President John F. Kennedy when he said:In your daily deeds you show the truth of the saying that what a young person can do for his country is more important than what the country can or should give to each individual. This is the spirit of mutual responsibility, or in the words of our sages – All of Israel are responsible for each other.Barak added: There is a varied group here: from Israel and abroad; secular and religious; people from urban and rural communities; members of the Druze community which has tied its fate [to Israel's] in a knot of sacrifice and self-risk from the days just before the state was founded to these very days; and the hareidis who lived in their own world, disconnected from the life of Israel as a sovereign state, and who today, gradually –through the Nachal Hareidi and other avenues – are opening up more and more a window by which they are connecting themselves to the Israeli state.These things are all exciting. They gladden us and give us confidence,he added.There have always been youths like you. The pioneers of Deganya [one of the first kibbutzim, near the Sea of Galilee – ed.] were 20-year-old youths, and at the time they seemed like they were just going about their day-to-day lives, but in hindsight it is clear that young people like these, in their deeds and their responsibility, in going for the things they believed in, are the ones who determined more than anyone else the future of the state and the country. In this sense you can look proudly – but still with demands from your self – upon this mission that you have taken upon yourselves to lead among Israel's youths.

Ministers: Outlaw Islamic Movement!
by Hillel Fendel OCT 08,09

(IsraelNN.com) Following the brief arrest on Tuesday of Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement Northern Branch, for incitement, at least two government ministers say that Salah’s entire movement should be outlawed.Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom of the Likud sent a letter to Cabinet Secretary Tzvi Hauser, asking that the next Cabinet meeting include this issue on its agenda.The Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel was founded in 1996 as a result of a split with the original, more moderate, Islamic Movement. Its motto is: Allah is our goal, the prophet [Muhammed] is our leader, the Koran is our law, Jihad [religious war] is our way – and death in the way of Allah is our highest hope.Though the organization is located in Israel, it does not recognize Israel’s right to exist. It does use Israeli services for local purposes, however.

Shalom: We're Sovereign in Jerusalem
It’s time we remind everyone that we are the sovereign in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount,according to Minister Shalom. The Prosecution and the police must stop the Palestinian take-over of Jerusalem, and must act with full force against the Islamic Movement’s wild incitement. There are times when the gloves must be taken off… The Islamic Movement must be outlawed – immediately. The movement’s leaders must be arrested and placed behind bars for many years.Minister Uzi Landau (Israel Our Home), a former Public Security Minister, says that this week’s Arab riots in Jerusalem demand that we implement a simple and clear policy against the Islamic Movement. In Ariel Sharon’s first government, Raed Salah was tried and sat in prison… If we show weakness towards him and towards other Arab imams who incite to violence, this will bring upon us even worse riots in the future.Salah's Deputy: Ethiopian Negro Won't Stop Moslem from Praying on Temple Mount Salah’s deputy, Camel Hatib, who has been termed a dangerous man by former Northern District Police Chief Alik Ron, is also in Israel sights.MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) wrote to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, asking that an investigation be opened against Hatib for incitement to racism and violence. Hatib, interviewed on Army Radio, said, “The Al-Aksa Mosque and the Temple Mount are not holy to Jews and they are forbidden from praying there... It cannot be that an Ethiopian policeman, a Negro, will stop a Moslem from praying at the Al-Aksa Mosque.

Salah Kept Out of Jerusalem
Sheikh Salah, head of the Northern Branch, was arrested in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of Jerusalem on Tuesday on charges of incitement and sedition against the State. The police asked that Salah, a resident of Umm el-Fahm in the southern Galilee, be detained for five days or kept under house arrest in his hometown. However, the Jerusalem Magistrates Court ordered him released almost immediately, with the caveat that he not enter Jerusalem for the next month.Police sources put on a brave front, saying the goal was to keep him out of Jerusalem and “show the inciters that Israel is a country of law.

Jews Flout Obama, Lay Cornerstone for E. Jerusalem Homes
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu OCT 8,09

(IsraelNN.com) Developers of a new Jewish neighborhood on privately-owned land in eastern Jerusalem plan to lay the cornerstone for the project Wednesday afternoon, ignoring U.S. President Barack Obama’s opposition to Jewish settlers in the area. Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau and National Union Knesset Member Uri Ariel plan to be on hand for the ceremony which marks the development of 105 luxury units in Nof Tzion. A new Torah scroll also will be dedicated.The project is located in the Jabel Mukabar neighborhood, home to several terrorists with Israeli identity cards who have carried out murderous attacks on Israelis, including the murder of eight students at the Merkaz HaRav yeshiva last year. Police are deployed to prevent violence that has spread throughout eastern Jerusalem this week.The new development project is the second stage of the Nof Tzion neighborhood and is the best answer to incitement and violence from extremist elements,according to the Im Tirtzu (If You Will It) organization. Ninety-one residential units already have been built, and most of them have been sold.The new development of Nof Tzion, which literally means View of Zion, will extend to Armon HaNatziv in eastern Talpiot. The master plan calls for nearly 500 apartment units, two synagogues, community and educational facilities and a mall.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has rejected President Obama’s demand for a total freeze on building in eastern Jerusalem, saying the entire city is under the sovereignty of Israel. The United States and most Western nations regard all of Judea and Samaria, including many parts of Jerusalem, as Arab land that Israel “occupied” since the Six-Day War in 1967. Previously, Jordan occupied the same areas following the War of Independence in 1948, when the Arab world rejected the United Nations partition of the country, which at the time was ruled by the British Mandate.

US envoy holds Mideast talks as Obama wins Nobel By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – OCT 9,09

JERUSALEM – When President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, his Mideast envoy was hard at work in Jerusalem trying to revive a faltering peace process on which Obama has staked his credibility and that of the United States.Israel's refusal to freeze settlement construction, a Palestinian refusal to resume peace talks without that freeze and widespread predictions of failure overshadowed George Mitchell's meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders — underscoring the tough road ahead for the Obama administration's Mideast peace ambitions.Mitchell talked with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for two hours Friday about peace efforts, and the two men agreed to meet again in the next few days, said a statement released by Netanyahu's office after the closed-door meeting.

The statement described the meeting as effective and constructive but did not detail its contents. It said Mitchell and his advisers would meet Saturday with senior Netanyahu aides.Despite the many obstacles in his path, Mitchell began his latest round of talks Thursday reiterating Obama's dogged intent to bring the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.President Obama ... and the U.S. government remain deeply and firmly committed toward achieving a comprehensive peace,he told reporters as he arrived for a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres.Obama began his term in office with a Mideast peace push that included an unequivocal call for Israel to halt settlement activity in the West Bank — a call that was enthusiastically embraced by the Palestinians.Though Netanyahu agreed in principle to the formation of a Palestinian state and said he would limit settlement construction for a limited time, he refused to agree to a full halt.At a summit meeting last month in New York, Obama appeared to yield to the Israelis, which — along with Obama's growing domestic woes — made him appear weak to both sides.

Commenting on the president's award Friday, former Israeli U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman said he hoped Obama would live up to the expectations the Nobel committee had vested in him.I'm a little surprised at the choice, not because I don't appreciate the efforts of the president of the United States for peace, but because in my opinion the test is in the results and not in the attempt,Gillerman told Israel Radio.I think that at this time he has done very little, at least from the point of view of results,he said.This choice is somewhat premature.The Palestinians have been sticking to their demand for a full settlement freeze, and their president, Mahmoud Abbas, was expected to reiterate that position to Mitchell when they meet on Friday evening. With the Israelis consistently rebuffing that demand, that would rule out new talks.Abbas has been weakened by public protests against his decision not to pursue war crimes charges against Israel over the Gaza fighting earlier this year. Criticized for buckling to Israeli and U.S. pressure, he could find it far more difficult to compromise on his call for a settlement freeze.In an interview published Friday in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Jordan's king, Abdullah II, warned that the sides were sliding back into the darkness.He also expressed alarm at repeated clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem, describing the city as a tinderbox.There were isolated outbreaks of stone-throwing in Arab neighborhoods of the city on Friday after Muslim prayers, but demonstrators were dispersed by police who were deployed in strength, expecting disturbances.There have been repeated outbursts of unrest since last week, when rumors spread among Palestinians of an attempt by Jewish extremists to harm the Islamic holy sites in the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.No such attempt was made and nobody has so far been seriously injured.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

Landslide deaths lift Philippine storm toll past 540 Elliot Abrams AccuWeather.by Ted Aljibe Ted Aljibe – OCT 9,09

PANGASINAN, Philippines (AFP) – The death toll from two weeks of unprecedented storms across the northern Philippines soared past 540 on Friday after landslides consumed homes and neck-deep floods inundated towns.At least 181 people were killed in a series of rain-triggered landslides overnight Thursday and on Friday in mountainous regions of the Philippines' main island of Luzon, local officials reported.Meanwhile, the downstream farming plains of central Luzon were inundated with waters that reached two storeys high after dams in the mountains could not hold the phenomenal amount of water that has fallen on the region.The rains in this area are unprecedented,the executive officer of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, Glenn Rabonza, told AFP.We are stretched, no doubt, but we are responding in the best way we can.The crisis showed no signs of easing as tropical storm Parma, responsible for the past week of rains, continued to hover just off Luzon.Further south on Luzon in the nation's capital, Manila, nearly 300,000 homeless survivors from Tropical Storm Ketsana were packed into evacuation camps following record rains on September 26 that killed at least 337 people.

US troops helping out in the capital extended their relief work to the north on Friday, dispatching helicopters and other rescue equipment, the Filipino military said.The US embassy announced an extra two million dollars in aid for the Parma victims on top of money and materials donated for the Ketsana operations.The worst of the overnight landslides appeared to be in remote Benguet province, where 120 people were confirmed killed in five towns, said provincial governor Nestor Fongwan.

Another 38 people were confirmed killed in the neighbouring mountain resort of Baguio, officials there said.Across all of the north, the confirmed death toll from the landslides was 181, on top of the 25 people killed earlier by Parma.In the farming region of Pangasinan province to the southwest of the provinces where the landslides occurred, thousands of people were stranded on rooftops in dangerously similar scenes to those in Manila a fortnight ago.Days of rain from Parma forced authorities to open the gates on five dams, sending water cascading through dozens of towns in Pangasinan, which has a population of 2.5 million people.A lot of places cannot be reached by our rubber boats because the current is too strong due to the waters released by San Roque dam,Pangasinan governor Amado Espino said.The dam is supposed to be for flood control but now it is so filled it is like it is not there. The water just rushes right through from the mountains to Pangasinan.The disaster council's Rabonza said about 60 percent of Pangasinan, including about 30 towns, were flooded with waters reaching as high as the second floor of buildings.In the town of Rosales, neck-high waters swallowed up houses, vehicles, rice fields and even a large shopping mall.Desperate local officials made urgent pleas for rubber boats and helicopters to rescue those stranded by the floods.Parma has been hanging over the northern Philippines since initially hitting as a typhoon on October 3.
Parma hit the Philippines exactly one week after tropical storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rains in more than four decades on Manila.The government has been overwhelmed by the crisis, which has forced hundreds of thousands of people in Manila and other parts of Luzon into makeshift evacuation centres after losing their homes to the floods.

Deluge in rain-soaked Philippines kills over 160 By HRVOJE HRANJSKI, Associated Press Writer – OCT 9,09

MANILA, Philippines – Driving rain on the heels of back-to-back storms triggered dozens of landslides across the northern Philippines on Friday, burying more than 160people, washing away villages and leaving almost an entire province under water.The latest deluge brought the death toll to nearly 500 from the Philippines' worst flooding in 40 years after storms started pounding the country's north on Sept. 26.

More than 160 people were killed in landslides in Benguet and Mountain Province along the Cordillera mountain range, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Manila, officials said. Residents were jolted awake by the rumbling sound of mudslides and floodwaters tearing apart the saturated soil and washing away homes.
Rescuers wading through sloshy mud from nearby Bagiuo city retrieved at least 162 bodies, bringing the total deaths in the two provinces since Typhoon Parma struck on Saturday to 174, said regional disaster relief officer Rex Manuel. At least 48 others were missing and 120 were pulled out alive.Nearly the entire village of Kibungan in Benguet was buried under tons of mud and debris, Manuel said. Some 45 bodies were recovered so far. Rescuers used pulleys and cables to transport the dead they retrieved from piles of rubble.TV footage showed the bodies arriving in black bags in a hall in Baguio, where relatives wept after recognizing their loved ones.

There was a sudden rumble above us, and then the houses at the bottom were gone, including them,said Melody Coronel, pointing to the relatives she found among the dead.In Mountain Province, 15 bodies were retrieved while 20 people were missing from a village in Tadian township, Manuel said.Landslides blocked the roads to the mountain city of Baguio, where 48 people died, in the heart of the Cordillera region. The only way to reach the isolated, mountain communities was by foot, and military helicopters could not fly yet because of fog and rain, said Lt. Col. Ernesto Torres of the government's disaster-relief agency.We are focused on rescue at this time,he said.It is raining nonstop in the Cordilleras.

About 100 landslides have struck the region since the weekend.In Benguet province's Buyagan village, only three out of about 100 houses remained visible after Thursday night's landslide buried most structures there. Some 50 residents were saved and seven bodies recovered, Manuel said.As the mountain region struggled with the rescue operation, farther to the south, in Pangasinan province, pounding rains prompted authorities to discharge excess water from swollen dams. The deluge caused the Agno River and surrounding dikes to burst their banks, inundating 30 out of 48 towns, a scene of mayhem that sent residents onto rooftops, scrambling for safety.Better weather allowed the Philippine coast guard and U.S. Navy helicopters to pluck people marooned on the roofs and treetops.In Rosales, also in Pangasinan province, the biggest mall in town was flooded by neck-deep waters that sent appliances floating and smashing through glass panels. Some residents were seen carrying some of the goods away.About 1,000 people remained stranded in the mall as night fell Friday. Others whose houses were flooded retreated to higher floors or were staying with relatives and neighbors.Forecasters said Parma, which was downgraded to a tropical depression, was still lingering off the northeastern coast. It hit land more than a week ago, the second major storm to drench the country in two weeks. Tropical Storm Ketsana, which struck Sept. 26, left 337 people dead, most of them in and around Manila.The government's disaster relief agency said it had asked the U.S. Embassy to redeploy hundreds of American troops from the massive cleanup in Manila to the flood-hit areas in the north. The U.S. government doubled its aid pledges to $4.3 million.

Two U.S. Navy ships were positioning in the Lingayen Gulf in Pangasinan to provide helicopters and rubber boats for the rescue mission, said U.S. Marine Capt. Jorge Escatell.Six U.S. Navy CH-46 transport helicopters were on standby at Clark Air Base and two more were at a Philippine military camp in nearby Tarlac province, Torres said.Associated Press writers Teresa Cerojano and Oliver Teves contributed to this report.

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

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.

NASA probes hit moon twice; few pictures yet By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer – OCT 9,09

WASHINGTON – Take that, moon! NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash.But initial photos show that the moon didn't give the reaction to the double jabs that NASA expected.And the public definitely didn't get the live explosive views they may have anticipated from the mission called LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

Screens got fuzz and no immediate pictures of the crash or the six-mile plume of lunar dust that the mission was supposed to kick up for scientists to study. The public, which followed the crashes on the Internet and at observatories, seemed puzzled.NASA officials touted loads of data from the probe and telescopes around the world and in orbit. But the crash photos and videos they offered at a morning news conference were few and showed little more than a fuzzy white flash.Still, NASA scientists were happy.This is so cool,said Jennifer Heldmann, coordinator for NASA's observation campaign.We're thrilled.The first photos and videos that NASA got didn't show any plumes. They may still be coming or there may not have been much of a visible plume for the probe and Earth-bound telescopes to see, said LCROSS scientist Anthony Colaprete.We saw a crater; we saw a flash, so something had to happen in between, Colaprete said. The crater was the aftermath of the crash and the flash was the impact itself.The unexpected lack of pictures of a plume could be because the plume was at a different angle, hit slopes or wasn't high enough to show up, he said. Or the lunar soil could have compressed down and not tossed up as much dust as expected, he said.Colaprete played down the importance of pictures of the plume. Far more important is light spectrum measurements — taken but not yet analyzed — to show if there is water or some form of water in what was tossed up. The scientific instruments that took those measurements worked perfectly, he said.What matters for us is: What is the nature of the stuff that was kicked up going in? said NASA project manager Dan Andrews.All nine instruments were working fine and we received good data.Andrews said the science team is pouring through the information to answer the big question: Is there some form of water under the moon's surface that was dislodged? It will probably be two weeks before scientists will be certain about the answer, he said.This is going to change the way we look at the moon,NASA chief lunar scientist Michael Wargo said at the news conference.Expectations by the public for live plume video were probably too high and based on pre-crash animations, some of which were not by NASA, Andrews told The Associated Press Friday morning 80 minutes after impact.Another issue, one NASA thought was a good possibility going into Friday, was that the lighting was bad and work needs to be done on images to make them easier to see, Andrews said.People who got up before dawn to look for the crash at Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory threw confused looks at each other instead. They tried to watch on TV because the skies in Southern California were not clear enough, but that proved disappointing, too.

Telescope demonstrator Jim Mahon called the celestial show anticlimactic.I was hoping we'd see a flash or a flare, evidence of a plume,Mahon said. About 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, 70 elementary school students at the Lewis Center for Educational Research charter school in Apple Valley capped off their weeklong moon camp experience by rising early to watch NASA television along with 300 members of the public.It was cool seeing actual pictures of the moon live,said 10-year-old Jackson Bridges, but he added:I wanted to see the debris flying out.Science Writer Alicia Chang contributed to this report from Los Angeles. On the Net:NASA's LCROSS site: http://www.nasa.gov/lcross

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/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI OCT 09,2009

09:30 AM +2.34
10:00 AM +25.17
10:30 AM +26.68
11:00 AM +32.57
11:30 AM +43.15
12:00 PM +39.12
12:30 PM +29.02
01:00 PM +39.98
01:30 PM +45.50
02:00 PM +44.21
02:30 PM +44.82
03:00 PM +63.26
03:30 PM +57.97
04:00 PM +78.07 9864.94

S&P 500 1071.49 +6.01

NASDAQ 2139.28 +15.35

GOLD 1,050.00 -6.30

OIL 72.32 +0.62

TSE 300 11,437.04 -47.47

CDNX 1307.35 +1.17

S&P/TSX/60 680.34 -3.14

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +11.51%
S&P +17.96%
Nasdaq +34.68%
TSX Advances 999,declines 547,unchanged 223,Volume 651,436,684.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 570,Declines 412,Unchanged 305,Volume 291,026,927.

Dow -7 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -22 points at low today.
Dow +45 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,050.50.OIL opens at $71.55 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -22 points at low today so far.
Dow +45 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 1,723,declines 1,805,unchanged 120,New Highs 250,New Lows 30.
Volume 1,880,658,705.
NASDAQ Advances 1,520,declines 1,013,unchanged 118,New highs 100,New Lows 06.
Volume 864,256,415.
TSX Advances 614,declines 701,unchanged 231,Volume 228,288,418.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 346,Declines 328,Unchanged 324,Volume 119,162,723.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -22 points at low today.
Dow +79 points at high today.
Dow +0.80% today Volume 161,119,768.
Nasdaq +0.72% today Volume 1,889,196,392.
S&P 500 +0.56% today Volume N/A

FRIDAYS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +12.40%
S&P +18.63%
Nasdaq +35.65%
TSX Advances 714,declines 796,unchanged 243,Volume 456,549,902.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 484,Declines 456,Unchanged 369,Volume 242,303,864.

GERALD CELENTE THE DOLLAR IS FINISHED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWw6oowo3wA&feature=player_embedded
ROBERT FISK THE DITCHED DOLLAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBDPGkW6SCU&feature=player_embedded
TRAILERS REPUBLIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzkDReWE0Fc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGScv9umDo&feature=player_embedded
NO MASS GRAVES TOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9fNMYIOTE0&feature=player_embedded

AUDIT THAT FED HAS 301 HOUSE AND 30 SENATE SIGNED UP SO FAR.

FED WEBSITE
http://www.federalreserve.gov/
CREATION OF FEDERAL RESERVE
http://www.1freedom.com/thecreature.htm

Is The Federal Reserve A Secret Society?
Sharon Hughes Changing World Views Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009

While the White House claims an urgency to pass healthcare reform, and while Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, tries to convince the American people that the $787 billion stimulus plan is working by siting things such as the $25 a week increase in unemployment checks the now 9.4% unemployed in our country are getting, the facts prove otherwise.Holding something like this up as proof that the stimulus plan is working is, to put it mildly, unbelievable. Especially when you look at just how much of the stimulus is actually stimulating the economy, and how much (almost half of the $787 billion) is going for appropriations, aka pork, as seen in the chart put together by Senator Ben Nelson. (See chart here.) And, by the way, please note that Congress included in the stimulus package an increase of $20 million for its own budget to cover the salaries and expenses of temporary staff. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or economic wonk to see that this kind of Congressional oversight’ is a foreshadow of what can be expected in the oversite of the proposed government-run healthcare system. But I digress.What has really happened to our economy? Why did it plummet just before the 2008 election? What other forces were at play besides the initially sited culprits, Fannie and Freddie? Many Americans are still asking these questions.Let me ask you a question: How much do you know about the Federal Reserve, the all-powerful, privately owned, non-federal government-run, national bank that wields tremendous economic power over our nation? We talked about this on our show recently, including a segment of an interview I did with Paul Walter, about the book his publishing company reprinted, The Coming Battle, written in 1899 outlining how the banking money power gained control of America. (Hear that interview online here.)

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states that Congress shall have the power to coin (create) money and regulate the value thereof.In 1935 the Supreme Court ruled that Congress cannot delegate its power to another group.But things have changed. Today it is the Federal Reserve that controls and regulates the U.S. dollar.

Interestingly, Congress refused to audit the Federal Reserve after bills co-sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul and more than half of the House (Federal Reserve Transparency Act, HR 1207), and in the Senate (S 604) co-sponsored by Sens. Jim DeMint, Mike Crapo and David Vitter, were stopped before even being introduced on the floor on procedural grounds.Why would they do that? Writing in his recent article, A Force of One: the Federal Reserve, Chuck Norris makes the claim that the FED is a secret society, I agree with Judge Andrew Napolitano, who said last week, We know more about the CIA than we do about the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is the Freemasonry of government agencies. It is a virtual secret society unto themselves – a group of unelected brokers who hold the value of our dollar in the palms of their hands. This one agency, with its power to raise and lower interest rates, has exercised more control over the economy than any other government body.

Norris continues, Could it really be a mere coincidence that the bill to audit the Federal Reserve was refused from even being introduced and that this agency remains the quick convenience store-house of money for the Obama administration’s borrowing and bailout monies? Again, as Judge Napolitano said, The Obama administration not only doesn’t want the Federal Reserve audited, it now wants to put the power to regulate all banks, insurance companies, brokerage houses – into the hands of this super secret bank. What are they afraid we might see if we get a chance to look at their books? So, how did the Federal Reserve become the money manager of the United States? The Federal Reserve came into being with the stroke of the pen of President Woodrow Wilson, establishing a centralized banking system, that balanced the competing interests of private banks and populist sentiment.(sound familiar?) He appointed seven members of the Board with twelve regional banks, which are located in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas and San Francisco.Today’s current (five) board members of the Federal Reserve are Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman, Kevin M. Warsh, Elizabeth A. Duke and Daniel K. Tarullo.Henry Ford once said, It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Did Ford know something we don’t?

Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild said,Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws.He also said, It (the Central Bank ) gives the National Bank almost complete control of national finance. The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class… The great body of the people, mentally incapable of comprehending, will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical (contrary) to their interests.
John D. Rockefeller wrote in his book Memoirs,For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents, such as my encounter with Castro, to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. But, this information doesn’t answer Chuck Norris’ claim that the Federal Reserve is a secret society.Perhaps a speech given by John F. Kennedy to the American Newspaper Publishers Association sheds some light? In it he talks to the press about secret societies:The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.John F. Kennedy wanted to abolish the Federal Reserve. On November 22, 1963 he was assassinated as his motorcade took an unscheduled route in Dallas.More than give detailed information about the Federal Reserve I wanted to provoke questions that would cause you to research for yourself. For in so doing you will learn more than any one article can tell.Is the FED a secret society? You tell me.

Congressmen Grayson and Paul Ask Senate Banking to Delay Confirmation of Bernanke Until Fed Releases Information on Secret Bailouts Washington’s Blog Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009

Below is letter text, and attached is the letter that was faxed to every member of the Senate Banking Committee.10/07/09

Chairman Chris Dodd U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
534 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20551

Dear Chairman Dodd and members of the Banking Committee,

We are writing to ask you to postpone the confirmation of Ben Bernanke until the Federal Reserve releases documentation that will allow the public and the Senate to have a full understanding of the commitments that the Federal Reserve has made on our behalf. Without such an understanding, it is impossible to know whether Chairman Bernanke is fit to serve another term and fulfill the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate to ensure price stability and full employment. A list of said documentation is enumerated below.Since 2007, the Federal Reserve has expanded its balance sheet by $1.2 trillion and taken on substantial credit, interest-rate, and foreign exchange risk. It has lent immense sums to some financial institutions against overvalued collateral, while refusing to lend to others with no clear standards as to who was rescued and who was not. It has set up holding companies using no-bid contracts, and guaranteed substantial liabilities of Citigroup, all the while keeping information about its actions secret from the public and Congress. This is in stark contrast to the analogous period in the 1930s, when the Reconstruction Finance Corporation fully disclosed loans and collateral to Congress.Today, big banks are being bailed out and have a substantially lower cost of capital through an implicit government backstop even as Americans themselves are seeing their pay cut. This lower cost of capital – at government expense – coupled with increased scarcity of credit is resulting in the banks recapitalizing by charging American consumers higher credit costs, including record overdraft fees and much higher credit card rates.

As you know, the Federal Reserve has a chartered mandate of both price stability and full employment. Since 2002, the year Bernanke joined the Federal Reserve board and aligned himself with Alan Greenspan’s activities, the incomes of Americans have actually declined in absolute terms, with incomes projected to decline a further 5% in 2009. One quarter of all mortgage holders owe more than they own, with that number projected to rise to nearly 50% by 2010. Consumer asset prices, most importantly housing, continue to fall, and unemployment continues to rise. This raises real questions about Bernanke’s tenure as Federal Reserve chairman, and about where those trillions of dollars have gone.Federal Reserve secrecy must be understood in the context of an intellectual dogma which Alan Greenspan inculcated into the fabric of the Federal Reserve and the economics profession, and which has severely harmed ordinary Americans. Bernanke’s ‘Great Moderation’ speech in 2004 didn’t even consider the idea that the economy was becoming more unstable, even as risks were being built into the system by the policies he encouraged. He ignored evidence of a crisis, saying in 2007 that the turmoil was contained to subprime mortgages, ignoring the bankruptcy of over 100 mortgage originators, and the clear evidence the crisis would spread. Now, even as the crisis is said to be subsiding, we still do not have credit markets that are able to function without substantial government support, we have not addressed institutions that are too big to fail which the Fed oversees, bank credit availability is again shrinking (posing risk of further increasing already high unemployment), and toxic assets in the system on the books of both private banks and the Federal Reserve have still not seen price discovery.Chairman Bernanke’s policy-making errors might be chalked up to errors of judgment, and it’s possible to argue that he has been chastened by the last few years of turmoil. What is more disturbing is how the Federal Reserve has refused to disclose the details of its commitments to the bankers who came close to destroying our economy. The Bernanke Fed’s execution of its dual mandate cannot be judged without consideration of those commitments, which would require the Fed to disclose documents which it still contends the public has no right to see.Specifically, I ask that you postpone the confirmation of the Chairman until after the Federal Reserve discloses:

(1) Information that Bloomberg reporter Mark Pittman has requested via a Freedom of Information Act Request on the Bear Stearns rescue and that the Federal Reserve is contesting in the courts, [i] and which Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska has ordered by turned over by the Federal Resrve.

(2) Information that Rep. Grayson requested in February at a hearing and by follow-up letter on which institutions received the $1.2 trillion added to the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, how much reach institution received, and what was promised in return.

(3) All Federal Reserve documents that went to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office relating to the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch merger in which potentially illegal and coercive activity might have occurred, as well all Federal Reserve documents relating to the lawsuit pursued by Merrill Lynch shareholders in the US District court for the Southern District of New York.

(4) Transcripts of all Open Market Meeting Minutes up to and including that of June, 2009, transcripts which are normally withheld from the public for five years.

(5) Full disclosure of all terms and conditions of all off-balance sheet Fed transactions in the past three years.

The Federal Reserve must become transparent and open with Congress and the public about its behavior during the financial crisis. Thank you for your consideration of this matter.

Best,Alan Grayson,Ron Paul Member of Congress Member of Congress,Cc: Richard C. Shelby,Tim Johnson,Robert F. Bennett,Jack Reed,Jim Bunning,Charles E. Schumer,Mike Crapo,Evan Bayh,Mel Martinez,Robert Menendez,Bob Corker,Daniel K. Akaka,Jim DeMint,
Sherrod Brown,David Vitter,Jon Tester,Mike Johanns,Herb Kohl,Kay Bailey Hutchison,
Mark Warner,Jeff Merkley,Michael Bennet.

(i] For all securities posted between April 4, 2008 and May 20, 2008 as collateral to the Primary Dealer Credit Facility, the discount window, the Term Securities Lending Facility, and the Term Auction Facility (the Relevant Securities), we request copies of:

1) All forms of other documents submitted by the party posing the Relevant Securities as part of the application for the loan;

2) All receipts and other documents given to the party posting the Relevant Securities as part of the application for the loan;

3) Records sufficient to show the names of the Relevant Securities;

4) Records sufficient to show the dates that the Relevant Securities were accepted and the dates that the Relevant Securities were redeemed;

5) Records sufficient to show the amount of borrowing permitted as compared to the face value, also known as the haircut;

6) Records sufficient to describe whether valuations or haircuts for the Relevant Securities changed over time;

7) Records sufficient to show the terms of the loans and the rates that the borrower must pay;Records sufficient to show the amount that the Federal Reserve has accepted of each of the Relevant Securities;

9) Records sufficient to show which, if any Relevant Securities have been rejected as collateral and the reasons for the rejections;

10) All databases and spreadsheets that list of summarize the Relevant Securties; and

11) Records, including contracts with outside entities, that show the employees or entities being used to price the Relevant Securities and to conduct the process of lending.

Euro bank holds interest rates steady
ANDREW WILLIS Today OCT 9,09 @ 09:04 CET

The European Central Bank held interest rates at their present level of one percent on Thursday (8 October), following a meeting of the bank's governing council in Venice.The current rates remain appropriate,said ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet at a press conference after the meeting, indicating a rise in interest rates – currently at an historic low – would be unlikely before well into next year.With consumer prices 0.3 percent lower in September than a year before, the ECB is well below its target inflation rate of close to, but below two percent.However, concerns over the euro's strength against the dollar also appear to have factored into the ECB's decision to keep interest rates on hold. The single currency for the 16-member area has surged 18 percent against the dollar since February, eroding export returns as Europe struggles to exit its worst recession since the second world war.Excess volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates have adverse implications for economic and financial stability,said Mr Trichet.European policy-makers, including economy commissioner Joaquin Almunia, have all hinted at their desire for a stronger dollar in recent weeks.Mr Trichet also talked of the increasingly pressing need for governments to implement ambitious and realistic fiscal exit and consolidation strategies – suggesting the ECB is concerned that exit strategies will be implemented too late.

Separately on Thursday, the Bank of England also held its interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent, while the European Commission chided a number of banks for announcing to markets the early repayment of debt.Banks which are currently undergoing restructuring aid investment ...need to verify with the commission before announcing the early repayment of debt instruments,said Jonathan Todd, the EU competition spokesman.In a statement, the commission said early repayment of loans raised questions as to whether government intervention had been limited to the minimum necessary.The remarks appear destined for continental banks Dexia and ING, who between them have recently announced over €1 billion in repayments.

Kremlin aide sees value in possible non-dollar oil payments
RIA Novosti Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009

A Kremlin aide said on Thursday it could be advantageous to switch to non-dollar oil payments, but that he had not heard of any discussions on the issue.Britain’s Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday that Russian officials had held secret meetings with Arab states, China and France on ending the use of the U.S. dollar in international oil trading.We have long been saying that there is some sense in creating the conditions for making ruble payments, including for oil, attractive, Arkady Dvorkovich said. The subject is worth discussing, but I do not know if specific talks on the issue are underway.According to The Independent, the countries are reportedly seeking to switch from the dollar to a basket of currencies including the euro, Japanese yen, Chinese yuan, gold, and a new unified currency of leading Arab oil producing countries.Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars,the paper said.The Independent said the meetings have been confirmed by Chinese and Arab banking sources.These plans will change the face of international financial transactions,a Chinese banker told the paper.America and Britain must be very worried. You will know how worried by the thunder of denials this news will generate.
The dollar plummeted on Tuesday after the paper’s article, while gold surged well above $1,000 an ounce in international trading.

Stocks edge higher, adding to the week's big gains By SARA LEPRO, AP Business Writer – OCT 9,09

NEW YORK – The market kept its momentum going Friday, with stocks heading for their best week since July.Major stock indexes rose less than 0.5 percent in midday trading, led by gains in health care and utility stocks. Going in to Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average is up 300 points, or 3.2 percent, for the week. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 3.9 percent.Investors have cheered more signs this week that the economy is healing, including growth in the service sector, a surprise profit from aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. and the first gain in retail sales in over a year.Moderating the market's advance Friday was a rebound in the dollar, which weighed on energy and material stocks. The greenback recovered some of its recent losses against other currencies after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured markets that the U.S. central bank will be able to wind down its extraordinary stimulus measures when the time is right.Some investors interpreted Bernanke's comments as a sign that the Fed might raise interest rates sooner than expected, which would boost the dollar versus other currencies. If the Fed raises rates too soon to support the weak dollar, investors fear the economy's recovery could falter. But a continued sharp decline in the dollar is worrisome because it could lead to inflation.The dollar is really a mixed bag,said Jordan Smyth, managing director at Edgemoor Investment Advisors.What's particularly concerning for investors is if there is a sharp, sustained move in one direction or another.

Record low interest rates in the U.S. and massive government spending have weakened the dollar this year, sending one widely used index of the dollar's value down nearly 15 percent against other currencies since early March, when the stock market's rally began.The decline in the dollar has been a boon to both stocks and commodities this year. A weak dollar makes commodities more attractive to foreign investors. Likewise, it helps boost corporate profits at companies that have a strong presence in overseas markets.The Dow rose 27.13, or 0.3 percent, to 9,814.00. The Standard & Poor's 500 index added 0.49, or 0.1 percent, to 1,065.97, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 7.02, or 0.3 percent, to 2,130.95.With earnings season just getting under way, the market likely faces a bumpy few weeks. Major financial companies, one potential trouble spot for the market, report next week. Investors, having sent the S&P 500 index up 57.5 percent since March, are looking for reassurance from companies that the economy is growing.The market has factored in good earnings and the market has actually discounted good guidance as well, said Jim Herrick, director of equity trading, Baird & Co.So if we don't see that, the market will retrace.Despite the massive rally in stocks over the past several months, the Dow is still down 30.9 percent from its peak of 14,164.53 hit two years ago Friday. The S&P 500 index is down 31.9 percent from its October 9, 2007 high of 1,565.15.

The ICE Futures U.S. dollar index, which tracks the dollar against other currencies, rose 0.6 percent Friday.Oil prices slipped 26 cents to $71.43 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold prices slipped after touching a fresh high of $1,062.70 on Thursday.Bond prices extended losses from Thursday, sending yields higher as Bernanke's comments raised expectations that the central bank may hike rates sooner than anticipated to support the dollar. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.38 percent from 3.25 percent late Thursday.Declining stocks just narrowly beat advancers on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 413.9 million shares, compared with 526.1 million at the same time the day before.In other trading, the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 3.30, or 0.5 percent, to 611.05.Overseas, trading was mixed. Shanghai's main index climbed 4.8 percent, while Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 1.9 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.1 percent, Germany's DAX index dipped 0.1 percent and France's CAC-40 fell 0.2 percent.

A look at economic developments around the globe By The Associated Press – OCT 9,09

A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday:FRANKFURT — European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said it is still not time for the bank to start implementing exit strategies from the extraordinary measures it has taken amid the global economic crisis.Speaking at the University of Venice, Trichet said the economy is still too weak to reverse its extra efforts to increase bank lending.

FRANKFURT — German consumer prices declined somewhat in September, as did exports during the month of August, official data showed, evidence that Europe's largest economy is recovering only gradually.The Wiesbaden-based Federal Statistical Office said German consumer prices fell by 0.3 percent on the year in September, and were 0.4 percent lower compared to August. Food and fuel prices were both lower.
Meanwhile, exports fell 1.8 percent in August from the previous month and were 20 percent lower compared with August 2008. The monthly drop was the first decline after three consecutive months of export gains.European shares were nearly flat. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed up 0.1 percent, while Germany's DAX fell 0.1 percent and the CAC-40 in France was 0.2 percent.

ATHENS, Greece — Greece's central bank governor said the country's budget deficit this year may exceed 12 percent of economic output — or four times the EU ceiling.
George Provopoulos said current data for the first three quarters of 2009 set budget overspending at around 10 percent of gross domestic product.

TOKYO — Japan's core machinery orders, a closely watched indicator of corporate capital expenditure, rose slightly in August from a record low, showing companies remain reluctant to spend despite some improvement in global demand.Core private sector machinery orders inched up 0.5 percent to 668.1 billion yen ($7.6 billion), according to the Cabinet Office's monthly report. The figure excludes often-volatile orders from shipbuilders and electric power companies.The figure undershot Kyodo News agency's average market forecast of a 2.3 percent rise. But it was an improvement from a 9.3 percent decline in July to the lowest level since the government started compiling data in 1987.In Asian trading, Japan's Nikkei index gained 1.9 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng was almost unchanged.Chinese stocks were the best performers, with Shanghai's main index up 4.8 percent.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's central bank left its key interest rate at a record low of 2 percent for an eighth straight month, largely dousing speculation a hike may come before the end of the year. Its benchmark Kospi stock index rose 1.9 percent.

MUMBAI, India — Infosys Technologies Ltd. reported a slight decrease in quarterly profit but raised its revenue and earnings forecasts — a signal the worst may be over for India's software services industry after being hard hit by the global downturn.

TORONTO — Canada's unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in September, the first decline since the recession began in Canada last fall.Statistics Canada said the country added 30,600 jobs last month, several times more than economists expected. It was the second consecutive month of employment gains in Canada.The jobless rate was 8.7 percent in August.

No deal on crucial issues as UN climate talks end By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer – OCT 9,09

BANGKOK – The United States was heavily criticized Friday at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok for failing to offer emission cuts or financing for developing countries —both considered crucial to reaching a global warming pact this year.The Bangkok talks ended just as it was announced that President Barack Obama had won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, for among other things strengthening the U.S. role in combatting climate change. U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said he hoped the award would spur progress when the U.S. delegation arrives in Copenhagen in December for crucial climate negotiations.Obama is set to received his award in Oslo on Dec. 10 — just days after the climate talks start.I hope this encourages him to come to Copenhagen with an ambitious target,de Boer said.We need that.Earlier, the Americans took a beating from environmentalists and poor nations for failing to commit to deep emissions cuts and to provide financial aid to poorer nations.The developing nations are justifiably angry at the lack of progress, about the lack of credible offers by the United States, by the European Union and by Japan,said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists.Jonathan Pershing, the head of the American delegation, said the United States wanted a deal in Copenhagen but he admitted it would be extremely difficult for the U.S. to commit to specific numbers in the absence of legislation from Congress.In the U.S., which rejected the Kyoto Protocol because it exempted countries such as India and China from obligations, a bill that passed the House of Representatives would reduce emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels — about 4 percent below 1990 levels — by 2020. The Senate is considering its own bill that would cut emissions 20 percent.

Negotiations have been deadlocked for months and delegates have raised doubts whether a new climate pact to rein in greenhouse gases can be reached by the time world leaders gather in Copenhagen. The pact would replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.Shayam Saran, India's special envoy for climate change, told reporters said he was dismayed that developed nations hadn't announced plans for deep emissions cuts at the Bangkok meeting, as he had been expecting.Most countries want a new climate pact that includes measures limiting temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, a level necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. But so far, there is no consensus on how to reach that goal.Industrialized nations have pledged emission cuts of up to 23 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 — far short of the 25 to 40 percent cuts scientists and activists say are needed to keep temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).Only Norway announced a new target at the Bangkok meeting, saying it would reduce by 40 percent, up from a previous commitment of 30 percent, by 2020.Developing countries have said they want to do their part but have refused to agree on binding targets and want to see more ambitious cuts by the industrialized nations. They won't sign any deal until the West guarantees tens of billions of dollars in financial assistance.This week has witnessed a very regretful and unfortunate development which has demonstrated without a doubt the lack of seriousness of the developed countries, Lumumba Di-Aping, chairman of the developing block of nations known as the G-77 and China, told reporters.We have witnessed one developed country after another making pronouncements that literally amount to the discarding and killing the Kyoto Protocol.