The national strike, which is threatening to bring the national postal network to a standstill, began with a row over the future of several hundred staff at a delivery office in the central London, writes Christopher Hope.
Published: 6:12PM BST 08 Oct 2009
The trouble started in May, when local managers started to implement parts of the company’s controversial 2009 cost-cutting business plan, after five months of fruitless talks with representatives from the Communication Workers Union.
The plan was deeply divisive. It had called for a 10 per cent cut in costs at depots and sorting offices across the country – and cuts of 22 per cent in London. It was the latest attempt by Royal Mail to reshape the organisation to cope with a 10 per cent annual fall in the amount of mail being sent.
These modernisation plans had been agreed in principle after the last national postal strike in October 2007. Yet the devil was in the detail. The plans included cutting overtime, forcing some full-time staff to work part-time and cancelling set delivery times for some business mail.
Yet Royal Mail sources claimed that the CWU had already sabotaged any attempt to agree the cuts by telling members in April not to engage in talks with Royal Mail on the efficency savings.
Finally, in May, managers in Royal Mail’s East City Delivery Office at the Mount Pleasant sorting office in central London took matters into their own hands and started to implement the cuts among 450 delivery office workers.
One Royal Mail source said: “We did our utmost to try to get the union to engage with us on the changes taking place at a local level. This was in line with the 2007 agreement.”
The result was uproar, and it prompted an immediate call by CWU representatives for local strike action.
News of the ballot at Mount Pleasant spread and soon workers in Edinburgh, Plymouth and Bristol North were balloting for strike action. Scores of other local offices followed in the succeeding weeks.
Over the summer, workers at hundreds ofdelivery offices, mail centres and van depots balloted for strike action as the dispute escalated. By the end of last month, 700 Royal Mail delivery offices and depots had agreed to stage localised strikes, involving 13,000 workers.
The result was chaos in the mail system, with some households waiting for up to two weeks for cheques, bank statements and credit card bills to arrive.
The CWU said some 30million items of mail were stuck in the mail system – although this figure was disputed by Royal Mail. Talks at a national level between the leaders of the CWU and Royal Mail failed to get any agreement. Then last month the CWU announced that it was balloting its 121,000 members for the first national strike in two years.
Robert Hammond, post expert at Consumer Focus, said: “It’s hugely disappointing to watch a great UK institution tear itself apart."
Lord Young, the postal affairs minister, added: “A national postal strike is completely self defeating and will only serve to hurt consumers and businesses who rely on the post and drive even more people away from using mail.”
Meanwhile major customers have started to make their own plans to deliver their post. Internet retailer Amazon signed up a rival courier firm to deliver its goods in the event of a strike.
TNT, the Dutch postal giant, said it expected to win more major mail contracts in Britain, to add to the deals to delivery British Gas and BT phone bills from Royal Mail. The future of Royal Mail has never looked more uncertain.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-mail/6274729/Royal-Mail-how-the-national-strike-plan-began.html
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AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, IF ANY MAN WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD, OR IN HIS HAND. *** REVELATION 14:9
Thursday, October 08, 2009
"THE DAY THE DOLLAR DIED" by Paul McGuire
January 31, 2009
PAUL'S NEW BOOK "THE DAY THE DOLLAR DIED"
Is the current financial meltdown an accident or a planned crisis? Read below and find out why Paul wrote his new ground breaking book "The Day The Dollar Died." ©

Paul McGuire
P.O. Box 220567
Newhall, CA 91322-0567
Paul's brand new book "The DAY THE DOLLAR DIED explains how the current financial meltdown is leading to a one world economic system, cashless society, the mark of the beast and one world government. If you want to understand why trillions of dollars are being spent on bailouts around the world and what the hidden agenda is behind it all then you must read Paul's new book. The book will be shipped in approximately 2 weeks. It is just about to be released.
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PAUL'S NEW BOOK "THE DAY THE DOLLAR DIED"
Is the current financial meltdown an accident or a planned crisis? Read below and find out why Paul wrote his new ground breaking book "The Day The Dollar Died." ©
The President Obama is coming into office at a moment when there is upheaval in many parts of the world simultaneously," Kissinger responded. "You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement. So he can't really say there is one problem, that it's the most important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world. His task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It's a great opportunity, it isn't just a crisis."
Henry Kissinger at the New York Stock Exchange, January 2009
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
-David Rockefeller
"We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest."
-James R. Warburg , C
JOIN PAUL IN TO HELP SAVE AMERICA AND HIS PLAN TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON OUR WORLD!
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
II Chronicles 7:14
Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – specifically, Schwab's comment that the global economic crisis was a "transformational crisis" useful in reshaping a "new world."
While being interviewed by MSNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange - Henry Kissinger, a high ranking member of the Council on Foreign Relations said, "President Obama is coming into office at a moment when there is upheaval in many parts of the world simultaneously," Kissinger responded. "You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement. So he can't really say there is one problem, that it's the most important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world. His task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It's a great opportunity, it isn't just a crisis." Again, the word "crisis" is used. Since H.G. Wells, the science fiction writer who wrote such classics as "The War of the World's" and "The Invisible Man" belonged to a group of British intellectuals who developed a master plan to bring in a new world order through "crisis."
This is why David Rockefeller, of the Rockefeller family who financed and created the United Nations, Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission said, "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." The present financial crisis has been deliberately created as a form of psychological warfare designed to create and environment of fear and panic where people of sovereign nations like the United States, England, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and other nations will voluntarily give up their freedoms and welcome a form of "world socialist government' where the world will be controlled by a new United Nations-type Constitution. Fabian socialists like H.G. Well's understood that in order for a world socialist government to succeed it would need an International Criminal Court and a United Nations army in order to enforce its dictates. This is why the U.S. has been systematically disarmed since 1961. I provide the complete story in "The Day The Dollar Died." T
A lot of people come up to me and ask questions like, "If we try to make a change isn't that interfering with Bible prophecy?" or "Doesn't that the Bible say in that in the last days things are going to get worse ...so why should we try to change things?" or "I am just called to preach the Gospel." First of all we don't have to worry about changing Bible prophecy. God is Sovereign and there is nothing we can do that would prevent His prophetic plan from happening. Number two, it is true that in the last days things are going to get worse. The closer we get to the return of Christ the more evil men and women will become. However, we are called to be salt and light. We are called to speak out for righteousness and make a difference where we can. This is not about attempting to usher in the Kingdom of God through human effort. Ultimately, the world will only be transformed when Christ returns to rule and reign. But we are called to occupy until He comes!
Thirdly, nowhere in the Bible does it say "you are just called to preach the Gospel." In fact, if you read the entire passage surrounding the "Great Commission" we are to make disciples of all nations. That means we are not only to proclaim the message of salvation, but we are to communicate a Biblical worldview and participate in every area of society.
It is absolutely imperative that we can get the information out that is contained in "The Day The Dollar Died!" There are powerful forces that want to destroy our religious liberties and Constitution. They are actively working to submerge America under the rule of a world government with a United Nations-type of Constitution where you would no longer have freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. They are working at this very moment to re-write our Constitution. They are signing treaties and rapidly expanding the powers of Big Brother! Unless we change things they plan to make it illegal to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and teach the Bible. That will be considered a "hate crime" even to say that Jesus Christ is the Way to heaven...that will be a criminal offense because it is intolerant. If they have their way they will shut down all true Bible believing churches and arrest pastors and church leaders. True Christian television and radio will be outlawed and then they will go after the Internet as they have done in China. You say it can't happen here. That's what the Jews said, in Nazi, Germany. They said, "it can't happen here" and then they died. Not only can it happen here, it is happening here! This is why it is vital to distribute as many copies as you can of "The Day The Dollar Died." There is no other book that details all this information. In addition, we need you financial help to buy radio air time and produce television. If you say you can't afford it, you better think twice. You cannot "not" afford it. If you don't act your dollar will be worthless and you will have no freedom. It will be just like China! We are making "The Day The Dollar Died" available at quantity discounts.
Henry Kissinger at the New York Stock Exchange, January 2009
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
-David Rockefeller
"We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest."
-James R. Warburg , C
JOIN PAUL IN TO HELP SAVE AMERICA AND HIS PLAN TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON OUR WORLD!
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
II Chronicles 7:14
Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – specifically, Schwab's comment that the global economic crisis was a "transformational crisis" useful in reshaping a "new world."
While being interviewed by MSNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange - Henry Kissinger, a high ranking member of the Council on Foreign Relations said, "President Obama is coming into office at a moment when there is upheaval in many parts of the world simultaneously," Kissinger responded. "You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement. So he can't really say there is one problem, that it's the most important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world. His task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It's a great opportunity, it isn't just a crisis." Again, the word "crisis" is used. Since H.G. Wells, the science fiction writer who wrote such classics as "The War of the World's" and "The Invisible Man" belonged to a group of British intellectuals who developed a master plan to bring in a new world order through "crisis."
This is why David Rockefeller, of the Rockefeller family who financed and created the United Nations, Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission said, "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." The present financial crisis has been deliberately created as a form of psychological warfare designed to create and environment of fear and panic where people of sovereign nations like the United States, England, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and other nations will voluntarily give up their freedoms and welcome a form of "world socialist government' where the world will be controlled by a new United Nations-type Constitution. Fabian socialists like H.G. Well's understood that in order for a world socialist government to succeed it would need an International Criminal Court and a United Nations army in order to enforce its dictates. This is why the U.S. has been systematically disarmed since 1961. I provide the complete story in "The Day The Dollar Died." T
A lot of people come up to me and ask questions like, "If we try to make a change isn't that interfering with Bible prophecy?" or "Doesn't that the Bible say in that in the last days things are going to get worse ...so why should we try to change things?" or "I am just called to preach the Gospel." First of all we don't have to worry about changing Bible prophecy. God is Sovereign and there is nothing we can do that would prevent His prophetic plan from happening. Number two, it is true that in the last days things are going to get worse. The closer we get to the return of Christ the more evil men and women will become. However, we are called to be salt and light. We are called to speak out for righteousness and make a difference where we can. This is not about attempting to usher in the Kingdom of God through human effort. Ultimately, the world will only be transformed when Christ returns to rule and reign. But we are called to occupy until He comes!
Thirdly, nowhere in the Bible does it say "you are just called to preach the Gospel." In fact, if you read the entire passage surrounding the "Great Commission" we are to make disciples of all nations. That means we are not only to proclaim the message of salvation, but we are to communicate a Biblical worldview and participate in every area of society.
It is absolutely imperative that we can get the information out that is contained in "The Day The Dollar Died!" There are powerful forces that want to destroy our religious liberties and Constitution. They are actively working to submerge America under the rule of a world government with a United Nations-type of Constitution where you would no longer have freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. They are working at this very moment to re-write our Constitution. They are signing treaties and rapidly expanding the powers of Big Brother! Unless we change things they plan to make it illegal to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and teach the Bible. That will be considered a "hate crime" even to say that Jesus Christ is the Way to heaven...that will be a criminal offense because it is intolerant. If they have their way they will shut down all true Bible believing churches and arrest pastors and church leaders. True Christian television and radio will be outlawed and then they will go after the Internet as they have done in China. You say it can't happen here. That's what the Jews said, in Nazi, Germany. They said, "it can't happen here" and then they died. Not only can it happen here, it is happening here! This is why it is vital to distribute as many copies as you can of "The Day The Dollar Died." There is no other book that details all this information. In addition, we need you financial help to buy radio air time and produce television. If you say you can't afford it, you better think twice. You cannot "not" afford it. If you don't act your dollar will be worthless and you will have no freedom. It will be just like China! We are making "The Day The Dollar Died" available at quantity discounts.
Paul McGuire
P.O. Box 220567
Newhall, CA 91322-0567
Paul's brand new book "The DAY THE DOLLAR DIED explains how the current financial meltdown is leading to a one world economic system, cashless society, the mark of the beast and one world government. If you want to understand why trillions of dollars are being spent on bailouts around the world and what the hidden agenda is behind it all then you must read Paul's new book. The book will be shipped in approximately 2 weeks. It is just about to be released.
Book Quantity Discounts
Source: http://paulmcguireblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/pauls-new-book-day-dollar-died_31.html
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Strong Winds Create Damage Accross City
Updated 10/07/2009 11:01 PM
By: NY1 News
Strong winds are being blamed for some minor damage and power outages across the five boroughs Wednesday.
Con Edison and the Long Island Power Authority both reported power outages throughout Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
In Dyker Heights, a tree was knocked down causing an outage and residents say it's been a problem before.
"The residents of the house have complained for numerous years because they saw that the tree was rotting and other limbs have fallen off of the tree in past years as well and nothing was ever done. And today it was done by nature," said one Dyker Heights resident.
It was a similar situation elsewhere in Brooklyn where at least two trees were knocked down, one in Gravesend and the other in Bath Beach.
"We called about this tree about four months ago, five months ago, and they told us they would come by and trim the tree because we knew sooner or later it was going to break down because the limbs were pretty thin and it eventually happened today. It got pretty windy and one of the branches broke and fell down," said one Brooklyn resident.
A large tree also toppled over on Staten Island.
The National Weather Service says it's gotten reports of some wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour.
In Midtown Manhattan, a downed street lamp caused traffic problems at the intersection of West 31st Street and 9th Avenue.
No injuries were reported.
The Department of Buildings is urging property owners, builders, and contractors to take necessary precautions.
Source: http://ny1.com/5-manhattan-news-content/top_stories/106976/strong-winds-create-damage-across-city
By: NY1 News
Strong winds are being blamed for some minor damage and power outages across the five boroughs Wednesday.
Con Edison and the Long Island Power Authority both reported power outages throughout Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
In Dyker Heights, a tree was knocked down causing an outage and residents say it's been a problem before.
"The residents of the house have complained for numerous years because they saw that the tree was rotting and other limbs have fallen off of the tree in past years as well and nothing was ever done. And today it was done by nature," said one Dyker Heights resident.
It was a similar situation elsewhere in Brooklyn where at least two trees were knocked down, one in Gravesend and the other in Bath Beach.
"We called about this tree about four months ago, five months ago, and they told us they would come by and trim the tree because we knew sooner or later it was going to break down because the limbs were pretty thin and it eventually happened today. It got pretty windy and one of the branches broke and fell down," said one Brooklyn resident.
A large tree also toppled over on Staten Island.
The National Weather Service says it's gotten reports of some wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour.
In Midtown Manhattan, a downed street lamp caused traffic problems at the intersection of West 31st Street and 9th Avenue.
No injuries were reported.
The Department of Buildings is urging property owners, builders, and contractors to take necessary precautions.
Source: http://ny1.com/5-manhattan-news-content/top_stories/106976/strong-winds-create-damage-across-city
David Paterson Does the Right Thing and Drops the Rock
Posted: October 7, 2009 04:58 PM
Today is a historic day for New York, the day that the Rockefeller Drug Law reforms kicked in, setting in motion the release of 1,500 low-level nonviolent drug offenders. The new law also gives judicial discretion back to judges, who can now determine whether someone should get treatment for their addiction instead of a jail cell.
I went to Brooklyn's Supreme Court and attended a public event to mark the milestone. The court room was full of activists, politicians and service providers that have been working for years to make this reform happen.
As an activist who has felt the sting of the Rockefeller laws firsthand -- serving 12 years under a 15-years-to-life sentence for a first time nonviolent offense -- I understand the full meaning of these changes. For years the Rockefeller Drug Laws became a political hot potato that was thoroughly debated, but nothing was ever done. Bills were submitted, arguments were made and each political party blamed the other for the impasse. In the meantime, those imprisoned were rotting away in the gulags of New York state. No better off were the family members of the incarcerated, whose hopes and aspirations slowly died as nothing was done.
Governor Paterson deserves thanks and praise for getting the job done. He has been instrumental and worked tirelessly, first as a state senator from Harlem and then as governor, to make these reforms happen. He said that "today was a day for second chances." For me, the governor's statement summed up the purpose of the new reforms. For years the Rockefeller Drug Laws were a symbol of a purely punitive approach to the problems of the drug war in New York state, one based on the archaic and outdated criminal justice mentality of "lock 'em up and throw away the key." Now, under the guidance of Governor Paterson, New York has abandoned that failed strategy and committed itself to a new approach that emphasizes addiction treatment instead of incarceration.
Now that the laws have been reformed, we have to make sure the changes are done right. Advocates and service providers have jumped in and have been working diligently to prepare for implementation. Legal aid and public defender agencies are providing legal counsel. Hundreds of social service agencies around the state have volunteered to provide a broad range of services to individuals who will be released from prison as a result of drug law reform. In New York City alone, more than 100 social service groups have agreed to work with legal aid and public defender agencies to provide services such as housing, job training and drug treatment to people returning from prison as a result of the reform.
For 35 years, New York was known as the state with the worst drug laws. It's time to change directions and make New York known for having the best practices, based on public health and safety.
Anthony Papa is the author of 15 To Life and a communications specialist for the Drug Policy Alliance
I went to Brooklyn's Supreme Court and attended a public event to mark the milestone. The court room was full of activists, politicians and service providers that have been working for years to make this reform happen.
As an activist who has felt the sting of the Rockefeller laws firsthand -- serving 12 years under a 15-years-to-life sentence for a first time nonviolent offense -- I understand the full meaning of these changes. For years the Rockefeller Drug Laws became a political hot potato that was thoroughly debated, but nothing was ever done. Bills were submitted, arguments were made and each political party blamed the other for the impasse. In the meantime, those imprisoned were rotting away in the gulags of New York state. No better off were the family members of the incarcerated, whose hopes and aspirations slowly died as nothing was done.
Governor Paterson deserves thanks and praise for getting the job done. He has been instrumental and worked tirelessly, first as a state senator from Harlem and then as governor, to make these reforms happen. He said that "today was a day for second chances." For me, the governor's statement summed up the purpose of the new reforms. For years the Rockefeller Drug Laws were a symbol of a purely punitive approach to the problems of the drug war in New York state, one based on the archaic and outdated criminal justice mentality of "lock 'em up and throw away the key." Now, under the guidance of Governor Paterson, New York has abandoned that failed strategy and committed itself to a new approach that emphasizes addiction treatment instead of incarceration.
Now that the laws have been reformed, we have to make sure the changes are done right. Advocates and service providers have jumped in and have been working diligently to prepare for implementation. Legal aid and public defender agencies are providing legal counsel. Hundreds of social service agencies around the state have volunteered to provide a broad range of services to individuals who will be released from prison as a result of drug law reform. In New York City alone, more than 100 social service groups have agreed to work with legal aid and public defender agencies to provide services such as housing, job training and drug treatment to people returning from prison as a result of the reform.
For 35 years, New York was known as the state with the worst drug laws. It's time to change directions and make New York known for having the best practices, based on public health and safety.
Anthony Papa is the author of 15 To Life and a communications specialist for the Drug Policy Alliance
Barack Obama's healthcare campaign makes myconservatives.com look feeble
Registered supporters of Barack Obama will today have received an email urging them to support the campaign to bring state-sponsored healthcare to the American people by writing to their local newspapers.
Dr Alice Chen, a practicing doctor in Los Angeles and vice president of Doctors for America, a pro-reform group, gave her name to the email from Organising for America, a group within the Democratic National Committee. In it, she cites the support of the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association and calls on anyone who wants to see the state pay the medical bills of the poorer members of society in the US to contact the press and make their views known.
British political campaigns, even the Conservatives’ new grass roots participation website myconservatives.com, would leave it at that, but this is the Obama camp, the team that financed the large part of an election from online donations, and they’re not about to leave the job half done. Click on the large smiling picture of Dr Chen and type your zip code into a box and you’ll be given a list of the newspapers you might want to contact, either locally or nationally, complete with average circulation figures.
Choose your favourites and enter your contact details into a nicely designed form and you’ll be taken through to a third page where you can write your email. Key messages on the benefits of healthcare and the President’s plan are displayed on the right to help break your writer’s block. In four clicks and a little typing, you have sent your email and added your voice to the crowd.
For drumming up support, this is a superb tool. It’s easy to use, it demands very little of the user and it takes the support registered and delivers it to the places where it will make the most difference.
The Conservative party has a long way to go before it catches up with the Democratic online campaign machine.
P.S. Alice's Page: http://www.communityorganize.com/profile/AliceChen
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The Messiah
Isaiah 53
1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Pacific quakes spark tsunami fears
UPDATED ON:
Thursday, October 08, 2009
05:25 Mecca time, 02:25 GMT

Thursday, October 08, 2009
05:25 Mecca time, 02:25 GMT
Two powerful undersea earthquakes in the Pacific triggered a widespread tsunami warning on Thursday but the alert was later cancelled and there appeared to be little damage.
With memories of last week's deadly series of quakes and tsunamis in the region, however, residents of several islands fled to higher ground and local authorities closed schools and issued alerts to stay off beaches.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued a tsunami warning for the entire southwest Pacific, which included several island nations along with Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, after the quakes struck between Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands early on Thursday.
Hawaii and the Philippines were placed on tsunami watch.
The centre had warned that a tsunami might be destructive along the coasts near the epicentre of the two temblors, between Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, but it later cancelled the warning after a 4cm tsunami was recorded at Lunganville on Espiritu Santo island in Vanuatu.
The US Geological Survey said the first quake, with a magnitude of 7.8, struck 294km northwest of the Vanuatu island of Santo, and 596km northwest of the capital of Port Vila, at a depth of 35km.
A second temblor, with a 7.3 magnitude, struck just 15 minutes at the same depth but 35km farther north of Santo and Port Vila.
A third quake of magnitude 5.7 was recorded nearly an hour later.
There were no immediate reports of injury or damage from officials in Vanuatu, a collection of nearly 200 islands.
"We have no damage reports yet, but we have had no contact with Santo so far," Take Rakau, a spokesman for the Vanuatu police, told the Associated Press news agency.
String of quakes
Coming just over a week after an 8.3 magnitude quake rocked the South Pacific near the Samoan islands, sparking tsunamis that killed around 180 people and devastated coastal villages in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, the authorities and residents took the alert seriously.

Mothers in Fiji took their children to higher ground after the warning [Matai Akauola]
In Fiji, Matai Akauola, a journalist, told Al Jazeera that many workers had evacuated their offices and were moving to higher ground.
The authorities in New Caledonia, a French territory, closed schools and urged people to get to higher ground.
New Zealand's emergency management ministry told people not to be on beaches or boats near the coast.
Moments before the Pacific quakes, a magnitude 6.7 tremor struck southeast of the Sulu archipelago of the Philippines, which is still picking up the pieces from a typhoon that killed at least 22 people last week.
Last week's quake and tsunamis near the Samoan islands were followed by a separate quake near the Indonesian city of Padang in west Sumatra which flattened thousands of buildings in the city and left hundreds dead.
Thousands remain missing and relief workers are battling to get aid to thousands made homeless.
Off Samoa's southern coast, specialist search divers continued to look for bodies this week as funerals continue to be held almost daily in tsunami ravaged villages across the coast.
With memories of last week's deadly series of quakes and tsunamis in the region, however, residents of several islands fled to higher ground and local authorities closed schools and issued alerts to stay off beaches.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued a tsunami warning for the entire southwest Pacific, which included several island nations along with Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, after the quakes struck between Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands early on Thursday.
Hawaii and the Philippines were placed on tsunami watch.
The centre had warned that a tsunami might be destructive along the coasts near the epicentre of the two temblors, between Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, but it later cancelled the warning after a 4cm tsunami was recorded at Lunganville on Espiritu Santo island in Vanuatu.
The US Geological Survey said the first quake, with a magnitude of 7.8, struck 294km northwest of the Vanuatu island of Santo, and 596km northwest of the capital of Port Vila, at a depth of 35km.
A second temblor, with a 7.3 magnitude, struck just 15 minutes at the same depth but 35km farther north of Santo and Port Vila.
A third quake of magnitude 5.7 was recorded nearly an hour later.
There were no immediate reports of injury or damage from officials in Vanuatu, a collection of nearly 200 islands.
"We have no damage reports yet, but we have had no contact with Santo so far," Take Rakau, a spokesman for the Vanuatu police, told the Associated Press news agency.
String of quakes
Coming just over a week after an 8.3 magnitude quake rocked the South Pacific near the Samoan islands, sparking tsunamis that killed around 180 people and devastated coastal villages in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, the authorities and residents took the alert seriously.
Mothers in Fiji took their children to higher ground after the warning [Matai Akauola]
In Fiji, Matai Akauola, a journalist, told Al Jazeera that many workers had evacuated their offices and were moving to higher ground.
The authorities in New Caledonia, a French territory, closed schools and urged people to get to higher ground.
New Zealand's emergency management ministry told people not to be on beaches or boats near the coast.
Moments before the Pacific quakes, a magnitude 6.7 tremor struck southeast of the Sulu archipelago of the Philippines, which is still picking up the pieces from a typhoon that killed at least 22 people last week.
Last week's quake and tsunamis near the Samoan islands were followed by a separate quake near the Indonesian city of Padang in west Sumatra which flattened thousands of buildings in the city and left hundreds dead.
Thousands remain missing and relief workers are battling to get aid to thousands made homeless.
Off Samoa's southern coast, specialist search divers continued to look for bodies this week as funerals continue to be held almost daily in tsunami ravaged villages across the coast.
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Eternal Gospel Ministry - 2009 Fall Camp Meeting
Tuskahoma, Oklahoma
2009 Fall Camp Meeting
Date: October 9, 10, 11, 2009
2009 Fall Camp Meeting
Date: October 9, 10, 11, 2009
Fall Camp Meeting 2009 (July/August 2009)
As we approach the end of summer we want to remind you of our Oklahoma Camp Meeting 2009 this autumn. It would do us good to recall the blessings, the purposes, and objectives of these gatherings.
The Spirit of prophecy has given us divine counsel on the matter of attending camp meeting. “It is important that the members of our churches should attend our camp meetings. The enemies of truth are many; and because our numbers are few, we should present as strong a front as possible. Individually you need the benefits of the meeting, and God calls upon you to number one in the ranks of truth...Strengthen the meeting all you possibly can by being present with your families. Put forth extra exertion to attend the gathering of God’s people.” Testimonies, Vol. 6, pp. 38, 39.
Camp meeting is a time for preaching, fellowship, and personal soul-searching. Notice what is the focus for the theme of camp meeting: “The very first and most important thing is to melt and subdue the soul by presenting our Lord Jesus Christ as the sin-pardoning savior. Never should a sermon be preached, or a Bible instruction in any line be given, without pointing the hearers to the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world (John 1:29).” Ibid. pp. 53, 54.
These words apply to the needs of all who attend camp meeting. They are to be evangelistic. We must hear the important truths for this time. They are also to be a place for revival and reformation as well.
The speakers for the October camp meeting will include: Dr. Sudhir Pandit, MD, Pastor Raphael Perez, Pastor Stephen Lewis, and Elder Charles Gordon.
You are Cordially Invited to attend Our
Fall 2009 Camp Meeting
Speakers:
To Be Announced...
Dates:
Friday October 9, 2009 - Starting at 6:30 p.m.
Sabbath October 10, 2009 - All Day Starting at 7:30 a.m.
Sunday October 11, 2009 - Starting at 7:30 a.m.
Location & Directions:
Tuskahoma, Oklahoma located in the mountains of Southeast Oklahoma (click map link below)
Tuskahoma, Oklahoma located in the mountains of Southeast Oklahoma (click map link below)
Accommodations:
Camping and tents will be permitted. Facilities for shower and restrooms are available. RVs are welcome, hook-up available. Call to reserve a camping spot or for information on local hotels 1-800-769-2150. We do have limited rooms available on our campground. The local hotels are:
Camping and tents will be permitted. Facilities for shower and restrooms are available. RVs are welcome, hook-up available. Call to reserve a camping spot or for information on local hotels 1-800-769-2150. We do have limited rooms available on our campground. The local hotels are:
A & A Hotel 918-569-4101
Sardin Inn 918-569-4665
Clayton Country Inn 918-569-4165
Hickory Ridge 888-545-4992
Little Haven 918-569-3333
Sardin Inn 918-569-4665
Clayton Country Inn 918-569-4165
Hickory Ridge 888-545-4992
Little Haven 918-569-3333
Campmeeting Schedule
To be announced...
*Meals will be Provided Friday Evening to Sunday Morning
*Meals will be Provided Friday Evening to Sunday Morning
Source: http://www.eternalgospel.com/
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THE IRISH REFERENDUM OUTCOME IS NULL AND VOID
BALLOT BOXES ILLEGALLY DELIVERED 48 HOURS IN ADVANCE
Monday 5 October 2009 00:01
• This article may be cut and pasted UNALTERED AND COMPLETE, with attribution.
• UPDATE 4:00pm UK, 5th October 2009:
• Details of a video clip showing the chaos at the Referendum ballot count in Cork, added below.
In today's Daily Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes:
"The methods being used to force this treaty through after electorates have already spoken, cross a line that may not be crossed. The European Project has become the enemy".
• FACT:
The Editor's book, 'The European Union Collective', PUBLISHED SEVEN YEARS AGO IN 2002, is subtitled: 'ENEMY OF ITS MEMBER STATES'.
• QUESTIONS:
Is the so-called Establishment 'mainstream' press DOING ITS JOB if it takes its very best journalist SEVEN YEARS to reach a proper understanding of the operation to destroy us? How many times do we all have to be deceived and insulted before the Fourth Estate starts to do its job properly?
By Christopher Story FRSA, Editor and Publisher, International Currency Review, World Reports Limited, London and New York. For earlier reports, press the ARCHIVE. Order your intelligence subscriptions and our intelligence books online from this website.
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IRISH ELECTORAL LAW FLOUTED, CANCELLING OUT THE RESULT
BLATANT AMERICAN INTERFERENCE IN IRELAND'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS
ILLEGAL BLUEPRINT FOR THE INTENDED EUROPEAN GESTAPO
NOTORIOUS IRISH EUROPHILE HINTS AT THIS WEBSITE
YES, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
PLUS: REPEAT OF THE UPDATE APPENDED TO THE REPORT OF 2ND OCTOBER
• BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION MORE EFFICIENT THAN BLITZKRIEG
• SUBVERSION OF EUROPEAN NATIONS, SUBVERSION OF THE UNITED STATES
IRISH ELECTORAL LAW FLOUTED, CANCELLING OUT THE RESULT
Our published information that the Irish Referendum on the dictatorial Lisbon Treaty was rigged, is ACCURATE. However at the time of the Update to the report dated 2nd October (see below) we hadn’t yet obtained details of the WAY the Referendum was rigged and influenced in favour of the treacherous YES lobby. We now have this information.
This is how the Irish were ‘persuaded’ to change their minds:
(1): Chaos and confusion, by design, at the count:
VIDEO CLIP SHOWS CHAOS AT REFERENDUM COUNT IN CORK
The chaos which appears to have accompanied the premature delivery of the Referendum ballot boxes (enabling them to be pre-stuffed: see below), is confirmed on this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t764ACqXK3M&feature=player_embeddedhttp://
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-OhRZX8dw
The video shows the front of Cork City Hall, Anglesea Street, Cork, Eire, at 10.33 PM on Friday 2nd October 2009. The video's written commentary explains that there is no security either outside or inside the building as people arrive carrying ballot boxes with others walking in empty-handed (presumably to count the votes), and all walk inside. Nobody is challenged by any official who is seemingly in authority. The scene is chaotic. People are seen coming out of the building as well.
One man is seen going in empty-handed, and coming out with what is pretty obviously a ballot box. The camera operator does not follow him, so the man disappears out of camera shot. Seconds later he returns with the ballot box (there is no way of knowing if it is even the same one) and then takes it back inside the building.
The camera operator goes inside the building (unchallenged). He films people arriving, milling around, talking to each other. There are rows of chairs set out and some tables set up (for the counting of ballot papers). Again, no one seems to check whether those inside are there officially, as no one seems to be in charge. There is no sign of a Returning Officer or of electoral officials. People move in and out of the hall.
One man is heard singing a song which appears to make fun of those who have voted NO in the Referendum. The sound quality is poor.
The written commentary adds:
'There were so many people coming and going unchallenged, that it would have been quite simple to take their box of Referendum votes in privacy (sic) for anything up to 10 to 15 minutes, and it would not have been detected'.
The written commentary concludes:
'ANYONE COULD HAVE INTERFERED WITH THE BALLOT BOXES'.
(2): Ballot boxes may have been stuffed prior to the Referendum polling booths opening.
Specifically:
• Under Irish law, ballot boxes are required to be delivered by members of the garda (police) to the polling stations at 7:00 am on the date the election takes place.
• This legal requirement applies to ALL polling in Ireland, whether elections or referenda.
• On this occasion, however, the ballot boxes were delivered to the private residences of the polling/Returning Officers, 48 hours prior to the Referendum.
• A number of honest Returning Officers formally objected to this BREACH OF PROCEDURE, and to the concomitant prospective breach of security, let alone of the electoral legislation.
• We understand that such objections were officially dismissed out of hand on the spurious and diversionary grounds that the ballot boxes possessed no commercial value, so it would be in nobody’s commercial interest to steal them.
• The central issue – that since the Irish ballot boxes were delivered 48 hours early they could be ‘stuffed’ with YES votes, as routinely happens in places like the former Soviet Republic of Georgia – was of course not addressed.
• It follows that, given that the local electoral law was flouted, THE OUTCOME OF THE IRISH REFERENDUM IS FRAUDULENT AND MUST IMMEDIATELY BE DECLARED NULL AND VOID.
• Furthermore, the following questions NEED TO BE ANSWERED IMMEDIATELY:
ONE: What is the total number of registered voters in Ireland?
TWO: How many voters voted in the Referendum?
THREE: Was the total vote tally greater than #One AND/OR #Two above?
FOUR: If either or both apply, do 'phantom', stolen and/or 'dead people's' votes count?
• Any operation to steamroller the Lisbon Treaty (after the Polish and Czech Governments have been bribed by the Germans) will accordingly be FRAUDULENT on this basis alone.
• It will therefore follow that ALL MEASURES taken under the Lisbon Treaty will likewise be illegal – not that this is anything new, as the European Union Collective is itself blatantly illegal, not least because the Treaty of Rome documents were never properly signed (given that several attendees signed blank sheets of paper because their translations were not available at the time of signing).
(3): Blatant American interference in the internal affairs of Ireland:
• INTEL (which is of course a US intelligence community operation, as its name implies) advertised heavily for a YES vote, promoting the FALSE assessment that if the Irish voted NO, ‘Ireland could be left isolated from the European Single Market at a time when the economy needs support’ (1) (because it has been ENRONISED by the Syndicate, as previously explained in these reports).
• That assertion was a blatant falsehood. The Single Market operates under the successive treaties of the fraudulent EU Collective, the currently applicable one being the Nice Treaty. Therefore, whether Lisbon was approved or not would make no difference at all.
• Thus the CIA’s INTEL was LYING TO THE IRISH PEOPLE.
On the basis of this precedent, we presume that the United States would have no objection if, say, the British were to buy newspaper space and broadcast time to lobby for a given outcome every time the United States goes to the polls.
(One can imagine how FURIOUS Americans would be if we tried any such outrage).
• This blatant US intelligence community interference in Irish internal affairs by the engine of instability which has ravaged the Irish financial economy represents yet another odious example of the notorious tendency for the CIA to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries in pursuit of its own selfish objectives – in this case, shoring up the prospectively disintegrating European wing of the TWIN DVD operation to assert the hegemony of pan-German long-range control strategy on the two main victors of the World Wars, Britain and America.
• Unsurprisingly, letters are now appearing in the press [as for instance in The Sunday Telegraph of 4th October] making our point that the so-called Special Relationship is a total farce and has been for decades, as the United States routinely treats Britain with contempt: as, for instance, by allowing the DVD-activated IRA and its splinters to raise money in the United States for the purpose of murdering British citizens and troops en masse.
• The fraudulent Irish Referendum outcome theoretically destroys residual British sovereignty, given that the EU exists explicitly to usurp and hijack the sovereignty of its satrap ‘Member States’: see the Editor’s work ‘The European Union Collective: Enemy of its Member States’ [available from the Edward Harle Limited books segment of this website].
ILLEGAL BLUEPRINT FOR THE INTENDED EUROPEAN GESTAPO
Officials in Brussels have ALREADY set up a Committee on Internal Security (COSI) under the Lisbon Treaty EVEN THOUGH THE LISBON TREATY HAS NOT BEEN RATIFIED. THIS IS ANOTHER BLATANTLY ILLEGAL ACT which renders ALL operations of this Stalinist-sounding revolutionary oppression mechanism ILLEGAL in perpetuity.
• It also calls into question the very purpose of the Irish Referendum itself, raising the rhetorical question: what is the point of bothering the Irish electorate with this latest insult to their tranquillity and intelligence, if the EU’s bureaucrats, who are ANSWERABLE TO NOBODY, have been going ahead with provisions of the Lisbon Treaty even though it has not been ratified?
(They have been doing this in many other areas, too).
• Of course, the purpose of the Irish Referendum to get the insulted Irish electorate to change its mind from the verdict that it handed down in the Referendum of June 2008 is purely and simply to provide the intended illegitimate and illegal operations of the EU Collective with a false veneer of ‘legitimacy’, in the knowledge that the lazy and sycophantic so-called ‘mainstream’ media will just cow-tow and go along with these obnoxious illegalities. In so doing, journalists are validating the illegal behaviour of the manipulators that we have identified.
• Under the illegal COSI blueprint (in which, of course, as usual, the treacherous, revolutionary British authorities participated illegally), law enforcement and “public security organizations” will share intelligence, material from Internet surveillance, and other elements of national security arrangements, acquiring powers over the satrap Member States’ police and security services (2).
• A spokesman for the European Civil Liberties Network, Tony Bunyan, summarised the position correctly with the following statement. The COSI arrangements, implemented illegally PRIOR TO RATIFICATION of the Lisbon Treaty, represented a step towards an ‘EU Home Office or Interior Ministry without any democratic control’. Making the mistake of accepting this outrage as a fait accompli, he nevertheless elaborated:
‘It is outrageous that the rôle of the new EU Internal Security Committee has been decided in secret. If COSI becomes a high-level legislative body, a swathe of decision-making and practice will be removed from democratic debate’.
• The Lisbon Treaty WHICH HAS NOT BEEN RATIFIED, provides that: ‘A standing committee shall be set up within the [European] Council in order to ensure that operational co-operation on internal security is promoted and strengthened within the union’.
• ‘Unbelievably’ (but then again, NOT), an unnamed official involved in this treasonous activity said: ‘Sometimes it is better not to spell things out too much in order to keep flexibility and to allow officials the creativity of a blank slate’. Translation from weasel-language into jackboot Nazi-speak:
• 'We require absolute unfettered carte blanche to impose our dictatorship upon the satrap peoples of Europe and we won’t brook any interference with our stolen prerogative to saddle them with a control régime which will ensure our total hegemony, whether they like it or not’.
NOTORIOUS IRISH EUROPHILE HINTS AT THIS WEBSITE
The former Attorney General of Ireland and now Chairman of British Petroleum, a man notorious for his slavish ideological support for the European Union Collective, Peter Sutherland, was reported on 4th October 2009 to have made the following statement as soon as the rigged Irish Referendum outcome had been announced:
‘This is an outstanding victory for common sense. It was the result of dispelling myths, some of which emanated from the United Kingdom. This was a great achievement with a government in some difficulty and a vital step forward for Ireland’.
• However the YES lobby dispensed MYTHS on a prodigious scale, the primary myth being the lie, identified above, that ‘Ireland could be left isolated from the European Single Market’, when in fact the outcome of the Referendum would and could MAKE NO DIFFERENCE.
• Sutherland, who hates the likes of us, hinted that what we say about the European Commission being a criminal enterprise, is false. In that case, Mr Sutherland, we suggest that you should take the matter up (a) with the UK Serious Fraud Office in London [see our reports dated 2nd October and 16th/20th September 2009]; and (b) with the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg [see our report dated 2nd October 2009].
YES, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
For, as discussed in our report dated 2nd October, the executive arm of the European Union Collective is a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, given that its financial accounts have been specifically DISAPPROVED by the EU’s own Court of Auditors for the past 14 financial years running. For the record, we repeat the information on this subject contained in that report:
• OPEN-ENDED EUROPEAN COMMISSION CORRUPTION:
As previously reported by this service, the accounts of the European Commission have been rejected FOR THE PAST 14 YEARS RUNNING by the European Union's own expert Court of Auditors. This means that the European Commission, which is an illegitimate corporate entity anyway, is a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. It must be continually exposed as such.
Further, the UK Serious Fraud Office have specifically CONFIRMED that remittance of taxpayers' funds into the hands of a criminal enterprise IS OF COURSE ITSELF A CRIMINAL OFFENCE.
What is more, our Irish associate, Richard Sharpe, visited the Court of Auditors in Luxembourg recently and obtained SPECIFIC CONFIRMATION from an official there, MR GEZA NOVACS, who told Richard that quote 'the European Accounts have not been signed off ('qualified') for fourteen years or more' unquote.
That is to say, THEY ARE INDEED FRAUDULENT.
Given this state of affairs, the European Commission's accounts CAN NEVER BE RECTIFIED. For that to happen, it would be necessary to go back to the last set of accounts that WAS APPROVED (15 YEARS AGO) and to work through all the detail, identifying the frauds and perpetrators of fraud, initiating proceedings against them, revealing every single theft and misappropriation in Notes to the Accounts, and implementing the necessary accounting adjustments. This operation would take years and of course IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
THEREFORE the European Commission will remain a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE IN PERPETUITY.
This was all reported in the exposure analysis posted here on 16th/20th September. The relevant text was reappended as Note 1 to the report dated 2nd October [Archive].
•NOTE: We understand that our reiteration of these painful realities is now causing the Eurocracy and the free-wheeling anti-nation state 'Useful Idiot' Europhile community considerable disquiet.
AND WE REPEAT HERE THE UPDATE APPENDED TO THE 2ND OCTOBER REPORT
UPDATE, 4th October 2009:
IRISH LISBON TREATY REFERENDUM 'WAS RIGGED'
Our very informed sources state AS FACT that the Irish Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has been rigged. The article below, as you may have noticed, was angled so as to seek to persuade voters to see sense. But the nests of serpents with which we are dealing are dense. The European Union and its Commission are criminal enterprises, after all: this insufferable Germanic institution exists for the sole purpose of hijacking and usurping BY STEALTH its satrap 'Member States'' national sovereignty. That is its ENTIRE purpose, as is explained in the Editor's exhaustive European study entitled 'The European Union Collective: Enemy of its Member States' (2002) [available from this website: see Edward Harle Limited Books segment].
It is AN IMMENSE, LONG-RANGE GRADUALIST OPERATION, aided and abetted by traitors inside the European national political and bureaucratic establishments, modelled on Hitler's 'Coup d'etat by installments'. That phrase was originally coined by a German living in the United States, Konrad Heiden, and published in his book 'Der Fuehrer', Boston, 1944, on page 579, cited in 'Thirty Days: Hitler's Thirty Days to Power, January 1933', by the US author, Henry Ashby Turner Jr. [Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA and New York, 1996].
In a remarkable new study (3), the Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, Richard J. Evans, explains, amid his horrific and meticulous accounts of the routine atrocities perpetrated by the internally feuding Nazis and their gauleiters (going far, far beyond what the general public holds in its eroding collective memory), that the most conspicuous and perpetual feature of the Nazi regime was: RAMPANT CORRUPTION, PILLAGING, STEALING, GRAFT AND CONVERSION/DIVERSION OF ASSETS: in other words, WHAT WE HAVE BEEN RECORDING.
• Moreover the gauleiters and their associates STOLE FROM AND RANSACKED EACH OTHER.
• Does that sound familiar? Of course it does. THAT'S WHAT THESE NAZIS DO.
And it is this CORRUPTION that has survived to destabilise the whole world in OUR TIME.
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION MORE EFFICIENT THAN BLITZKRIEG
Because what has happened is that these Nazis, using the big German, Swiss and French banks, and the Vatican, later to be joined by British institutions, found that BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION, which came naturally to them anyway, was a more efficient means of achieving their demented hegemony objectives than military force and Blitzkrieg.
Had the Editor not discovered and experienced this from INSIDE THE SNAKE DEN, we wouldn't have been in a position to expose this behaviour 'from within'. Our unspeakable experience, therefore, was 'meant to happen', so that these exposures could be framed and published in our journal and on this website for the whole world to see and understand.
• The point here being that FRAUD, BRIBERY AND BALLOT-RIGGING go hand in hand with the sick Fraudulent Finance practices proliferated originally by the pan-German FIFTH COLUMN inside the US Intelligence Power, WHICH IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.
SUBVERSION OF EUROPEAN NATIONS, SUBVERSION OF THE UNITED STATES
The 'Coup d'etat by installments' in Europe is the TWIN OPERATION, running in parallel with Nazi subversion of the United States by the same operatives, masterminded by the long-range strategic deception 'Black' Nazi Continuum agency based at Dachau, which operates 'independently' of the German Chancellor. Obviously, Hitler's 'Coup d'etat by installments' was implemented over a much shorter timeframe: BUT THE PRINCIPLE IS THE SAME. The rigged Irish Referendum outcome is just another dirty step towards the imminent smothering of the residual sovereignty of the once great nations of Europe, with Britain ALWAYS seen by the pan-German snakes as the main target.
On page 164 of 'Thirty Days', the author described Hitler's 'Coup d'etat by Installments' as follows:
'Only by banning the Communist deputies and by resorting to intimidation and mendacity did Hitler secure on March 23 the necessary two-thirds vote in the new Reichstag for an Enabling Act that transferred legislative authority to his Cabinet, ostensibly for four years. A wave of Nazi purges followed, as one institution after another was subjugated. Arbitrary rule replaced government by law in what has aptly been termed a "Coup d'etat by installments"'.
'By summer, all parties except the Nazis had been dissolved, Hugenberg had been forced out of the Cabinet and Hitler had relegated Papen to insignificance by winning the trust of the President. Even earlier Goering had wrested from Papen control over the government of the largest state, Prussia. Well before the Nazi leader assumed the powers of the Presidency upon the death of Hindenburg in August 1934, he had become dictator of Germany'.
THIS IS THE MODEL, OPERATING IN GRADUALIST MODE, THAT IS BEING DEPLOYED TO SUBVERT THE RESIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STUPID EUROPEAN NATIONS, LED BY TRAITORS AND DESPICABLE DUMKOPFS WITHIN THE NATIONAL STRUCTURES, WHO HAVE CONFUSED COOPERATION WITH SOCIALIST ‘COLLECTIVISATION’ (4).
That the Irish Referendum has been rigged is therefore NO SURPRISE. For we are dealing with ruthless crooks, which is why they are keen on having the British deceiver, intelligence operative and crook, Tony BLIAR, as their first President, to match that disgusting little Portuguese operative, Barroso. Stand by now for consequences similar, in the contemporary context, to those events that followed Hitler's acquisition of GENERAL POWERS from the Legislature by means of INTIMIDATION and MENDACITY, the techniques which, with bribery, have been used to rig the Referendum (5).
Notes and References:
1: The Sunday Telegraph, Business Section, 4th October 2009.
2: The Sunday Telegraph, page 3, 4th October 2009.
3: Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University, 'The Third Reich at War', The Penguin Press, New York, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59420-2006-3.
4: The Editor first understood this when he found himself sitting next to the former British Foreign Secretary, Douglas (Lord) Hurd, on a plane some years ago. Although the Editor carefully avoided confronting Hurd until the end of the flight, he established that Hurd valued British membership of the EU Collective because it fostered ‘cooperation’. However one can cooperate with an external party without getting into bed with them. It was further clear that, wittingly or not, he confused this naïve, mythical ideal of ‘cooperation’ – which suddenly evaporates when the Germans and French want their own way and browbeat all the other EU satrap states in order to get it – with the reality, namely CREEPING COLLECTIVISATION via ever-expanding oppressive regulation which is designed to usurp and destroy national sovereignty – the same objective as Lenin, Stalin and Hitler. So you can appreciate why these ‘Useful Idiots’ (as Lenin called all those who assist the World Revolution without realising what they are doing) are justly called TRAITORS.
5: We are describing and living through components, phases and elements of the ONGOING WORLD REVOLUTION, in case you hadn’t noticed.
• We will revert to the 'usual issues' soon, but, as you will appreciate, these matters are of vital importance and had to be addressed straight away.
Source: http://worldreports.org/news/235_the_irish_referendum_outcome_is_null_and_void
Monday 5 October 2009 00:01
• This article may be cut and pasted UNALTERED AND COMPLETE, with attribution.
• UPDATE 4:00pm UK, 5th October 2009:
• Details of a video clip showing the chaos at the Referendum ballot count in Cork, added below.
In today's Daily Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes:
"The methods being used to force this treaty through after electorates have already spoken, cross a line that may not be crossed. The European Project has become the enemy".
• FACT:
The Editor's book, 'The European Union Collective', PUBLISHED SEVEN YEARS AGO IN 2002, is subtitled: 'ENEMY OF ITS MEMBER STATES'.
• QUESTIONS:
Is the so-called Establishment 'mainstream' press DOING ITS JOB if it takes its very best journalist SEVEN YEARS to reach a proper understanding of the operation to destroy us? How many times do we all have to be deceived and insulted before the Fourth Estate starts to do its job properly?
By Christopher Story FRSA, Editor and Publisher, International Currency Review, World Reports Limited, London and New York. For earlier reports, press the ARCHIVE. Order your intelligence subscriptions and our intelligence books online from this website.
• Please help us with a donation if you can [see 'Donate' above].
IRISH ELECTORAL LAW FLOUTED, CANCELLING OUT THE RESULT
BLATANT AMERICAN INTERFERENCE IN IRELAND'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS
ILLEGAL BLUEPRINT FOR THE INTENDED EUROPEAN GESTAPO
NOTORIOUS IRISH EUROPHILE HINTS AT THIS WEBSITE
YES, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
PLUS: REPEAT OF THE UPDATE APPENDED TO THE REPORT OF 2ND OCTOBER
• BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION MORE EFFICIENT THAN BLITZKRIEG
• SUBVERSION OF EUROPEAN NATIONS, SUBVERSION OF THE UNITED STATES
IRISH ELECTORAL LAW FLOUTED, CANCELLING OUT THE RESULT
Our published information that the Irish Referendum on the dictatorial Lisbon Treaty was rigged, is ACCURATE. However at the time of the Update to the report dated 2nd October (see below) we hadn’t yet obtained details of the WAY the Referendum was rigged and influenced in favour of the treacherous YES lobby. We now have this information.
This is how the Irish were ‘persuaded’ to change their minds:
(1): Chaos and confusion, by design, at the count:
VIDEO CLIP SHOWS CHAOS AT REFERENDUM COUNT IN CORK
The chaos which appears to have accompanied the premature delivery of the Referendum ballot boxes (enabling them to be pre-stuffed: see below), is confirmed on this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t764ACqXK3M&feature=player_embeddedhttp://
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-OhRZX8dw
The video shows the front of Cork City Hall, Anglesea Street, Cork, Eire, at 10.33 PM on Friday 2nd October 2009. The video's written commentary explains that there is no security either outside or inside the building as people arrive carrying ballot boxes with others walking in empty-handed (presumably to count the votes), and all walk inside. Nobody is challenged by any official who is seemingly in authority. The scene is chaotic. People are seen coming out of the building as well.
One man is seen going in empty-handed, and coming out with what is pretty obviously a ballot box. The camera operator does not follow him, so the man disappears out of camera shot. Seconds later he returns with the ballot box (there is no way of knowing if it is even the same one) and then takes it back inside the building.
The camera operator goes inside the building (unchallenged). He films people arriving, milling around, talking to each other. There are rows of chairs set out and some tables set up (for the counting of ballot papers). Again, no one seems to check whether those inside are there officially, as no one seems to be in charge. There is no sign of a Returning Officer or of electoral officials. People move in and out of the hall.
One man is heard singing a song which appears to make fun of those who have voted NO in the Referendum. The sound quality is poor.
The written commentary adds:
'There were so many people coming and going unchallenged, that it would have been quite simple to take their box of Referendum votes in privacy (sic) for anything up to 10 to 15 minutes, and it would not have been detected'.
The written commentary concludes:
'ANYONE COULD HAVE INTERFERED WITH THE BALLOT BOXES'.
(2): Ballot boxes may have been stuffed prior to the Referendum polling booths opening.
Specifically:
• Under Irish law, ballot boxes are required to be delivered by members of the garda (police) to the polling stations at 7:00 am on the date the election takes place.
• This legal requirement applies to ALL polling in Ireland, whether elections or referenda.
• On this occasion, however, the ballot boxes were delivered to the private residences of the polling/Returning Officers, 48 hours prior to the Referendum.
• A number of honest Returning Officers formally objected to this BREACH OF PROCEDURE, and to the concomitant prospective breach of security, let alone of the electoral legislation.
• We understand that such objections were officially dismissed out of hand on the spurious and diversionary grounds that the ballot boxes possessed no commercial value, so it would be in nobody’s commercial interest to steal them.
• The central issue – that since the Irish ballot boxes were delivered 48 hours early they could be ‘stuffed’ with YES votes, as routinely happens in places like the former Soviet Republic of Georgia – was of course not addressed.
• It follows that, given that the local electoral law was flouted, THE OUTCOME OF THE IRISH REFERENDUM IS FRAUDULENT AND MUST IMMEDIATELY BE DECLARED NULL AND VOID.
• Furthermore, the following questions NEED TO BE ANSWERED IMMEDIATELY:
ONE: What is the total number of registered voters in Ireland?
TWO: How many voters voted in the Referendum?
THREE: Was the total vote tally greater than #One AND/OR #Two above?
FOUR: If either or both apply, do 'phantom', stolen and/or 'dead people's' votes count?
• Any operation to steamroller the Lisbon Treaty (after the Polish and Czech Governments have been bribed by the Germans) will accordingly be FRAUDULENT on this basis alone.
• It will therefore follow that ALL MEASURES taken under the Lisbon Treaty will likewise be illegal – not that this is anything new, as the European Union Collective is itself blatantly illegal, not least because the Treaty of Rome documents were never properly signed (given that several attendees signed blank sheets of paper because their translations were not available at the time of signing).
(3): Blatant American interference in the internal affairs of Ireland:
• INTEL (which is of course a US intelligence community operation, as its name implies) advertised heavily for a YES vote, promoting the FALSE assessment that if the Irish voted NO, ‘Ireland could be left isolated from the European Single Market at a time when the economy needs support’ (1) (because it has been ENRONISED by the Syndicate, as previously explained in these reports).
• That assertion was a blatant falsehood. The Single Market operates under the successive treaties of the fraudulent EU Collective, the currently applicable one being the Nice Treaty. Therefore, whether Lisbon was approved or not would make no difference at all.
• Thus the CIA’s INTEL was LYING TO THE IRISH PEOPLE.
On the basis of this precedent, we presume that the United States would have no objection if, say, the British were to buy newspaper space and broadcast time to lobby for a given outcome every time the United States goes to the polls.
(One can imagine how FURIOUS Americans would be if we tried any such outrage).
• This blatant US intelligence community interference in Irish internal affairs by the engine of instability which has ravaged the Irish financial economy represents yet another odious example of the notorious tendency for the CIA to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries in pursuit of its own selfish objectives – in this case, shoring up the prospectively disintegrating European wing of the TWIN DVD operation to assert the hegemony of pan-German long-range control strategy on the two main victors of the World Wars, Britain and America.
• Unsurprisingly, letters are now appearing in the press [as for instance in The Sunday Telegraph of 4th October] making our point that the so-called Special Relationship is a total farce and has been for decades, as the United States routinely treats Britain with contempt: as, for instance, by allowing the DVD-activated IRA and its splinters to raise money in the United States for the purpose of murdering British citizens and troops en masse.
• The fraudulent Irish Referendum outcome theoretically destroys residual British sovereignty, given that the EU exists explicitly to usurp and hijack the sovereignty of its satrap ‘Member States’: see the Editor’s work ‘The European Union Collective: Enemy of its Member States’ [available from the Edward Harle Limited books segment of this website].
ILLEGAL BLUEPRINT FOR THE INTENDED EUROPEAN GESTAPO
Officials in Brussels have ALREADY set up a Committee on Internal Security (COSI) under the Lisbon Treaty EVEN THOUGH THE LISBON TREATY HAS NOT BEEN RATIFIED. THIS IS ANOTHER BLATANTLY ILLEGAL ACT which renders ALL operations of this Stalinist-sounding revolutionary oppression mechanism ILLEGAL in perpetuity.
• It also calls into question the very purpose of the Irish Referendum itself, raising the rhetorical question: what is the point of bothering the Irish electorate with this latest insult to their tranquillity and intelligence, if the EU’s bureaucrats, who are ANSWERABLE TO NOBODY, have been going ahead with provisions of the Lisbon Treaty even though it has not been ratified?
(They have been doing this in many other areas, too).
• Of course, the purpose of the Irish Referendum to get the insulted Irish electorate to change its mind from the verdict that it handed down in the Referendum of June 2008 is purely and simply to provide the intended illegitimate and illegal operations of the EU Collective with a false veneer of ‘legitimacy’, in the knowledge that the lazy and sycophantic so-called ‘mainstream’ media will just cow-tow and go along with these obnoxious illegalities. In so doing, journalists are validating the illegal behaviour of the manipulators that we have identified.
• Under the illegal COSI blueprint (in which, of course, as usual, the treacherous, revolutionary British authorities participated illegally), law enforcement and “public security organizations” will share intelligence, material from Internet surveillance, and other elements of national security arrangements, acquiring powers over the satrap Member States’ police and security services (2).
• A spokesman for the European Civil Liberties Network, Tony Bunyan, summarised the position correctly with the following statement. The COSI arrangements, implemented illegally PRIOR TO RATIFICATION of the Lisbon Treaty, represented a step towards an ‘EU Home Office or Interior Ministry without any democratic control’. Making the mistake of accepting this outrage as a fait accompli, he nevertheless elaborated:
‘It is outrageous that the rôle of the new EU Internal Security Committee has been decided in secret. If COSI becomes a high-level legislative body, a swathe of decision-making and practice will be removed from democratic debate’.
• The Lisbon Treaty WHICH HAS NOT BEEN RATIFIED, provides that: ‘A standing committee shall be set up within the [European] Council in order to ensure that operational co-operation on internal security is promoted and strengthened within the union’.
• ‘Unbelievably’ (but then again, NOT), an unnamed official involved in this treasonous activity said: ‘Sometimes it is better not to spell things out too much in order to keep flexibility and to allow officials the creativity of a blank slate’. Translation from weasel-language into jackboot Nazi-speak:
• 'We require absolute unfettered carte blanche to impose our dictatorship upon the satrap peoples of Europe and we won’t brook any interference with our stolen prerogative to saddle them with a control régime which will ensure our total hegemony, whether they like it or not’.
NOTORIOUS IRISH EUROPHILE HINTS AT THIS WEBSITE
The former Attorney General of Ireland and now Chairman of British Petroleum, a man notorious for his slavish ideological support for the European Union Collective, Peter Sutherland, was reported on 4th October 2009 to have made the following statement as soon as the rigged Irish Referendum outcome had been announced:
‘This is an outstanding victory for common sense. It was the result of dispelling myths, some of which emanated from the United Kingdom. This was a great achievement with a government in some difficulty and a vital step forward for Ireland’.
• However the YES lobby dispensed MYTHS on a prodigious scale, the primary myth being the lie, identified above, that ‘Ireland could be left isolated from the European Single Market’, when in fact the outcome of the Referendum would and could MAKE NO DIFFERENCE.
• Sutherland, who hates the likes of us, hinted that what we say about the European Commission being a criminal enterprise, is false. In that case, Mr Sutherland, we suggest that you should take the matter up (a) with the UK Serious Fraud Office in London [see our reports dated 2nd October and 16th/20th September 2009]; and (b) with the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg [see our report dated 2nd October 2009].
YES, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
For, as discussed in our report dated 2nd October, the executive arm of the European Union Collective is a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, given that its financial accounts have been specifically DISAPPROVED by the EU’s own Court of Auditors for the past 14 financial years running. For the record, we repeat the information on this subject contained in that report:
• OPEN-ENDED EUROPEAN COMMISSION CORRUPTION:
As previously reported by this service, the accounts of the European Commission have been rejected FOR THE PAST 14 YEARS RUNNING by the European Union's own expert Court of Auditors. This means that the European Commission, which is an illegitimate corporate entity anyway, is a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. It must be continually exposed as such.
Further, the UK Serious Fraud Office have specifically CONFIRMED that remittance of taxpayers' funds into the hands of a criminal enterprise IS OF COURSE ITSELF A CRIMINAL OFFENCE.
What is more, our Irish associate, Richard Sharpe, visited the Court of Auditors in Luxembourg recently and obtained SPECIFIC CONFIRMATION from an official there, MR GEZA NOVACS, who told Richard that quote 'the European Accounts have not been signed off ('qualified') for fourteen years or more' unquote.
That is to say, THEY ARE INDEED FRAUDULENT.
Given this state of affairs, the European Commission's accounts CAN NEVER BE RECTIFIED. For that to happen, it would be necessary to go back to the last set of accounts that WAS APPROVED (15 YEARS AGO) and to work through all the detail, identifying the frauds and perpetrators of fraud, initiating proceedings against them, revealing every single theft and misappropriation in Notes to the Accounts, and implementing the necessary accounting adjustments. This operation would take years and of course IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
THEREFORE the European Commission will remain a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE IN PERPETUITY.
This was all reported in the exposure analysis posted here on 16th/20th September. The relevant text was reappended as Note 1 to the report dated 2nd October [Archive].
•NOTE: We understand that our reiteration of these painful realities is now causing the Eurocracy and the free-wheeling anti-nation state 'Useful Idiot' Europhile community considerable disquiet.
AND WE REPEAT HERE THE UPDATE APPENDED TO THE 2ND OCTOBER REPORT
UPDATE, 4th October 2009:
IRISH LISBON TREATY REFERENDUM 'WAS RIGGED'
Our very informed sources state AS FACT that the Irish Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has been rigged. The article below, as you may have noticed, was angled so as to seek to persuade voters to see sense. But the nests of serpents with which we are dealing are dense. The European Union and its Commission are criminal enterprises, after all: this insufferable Germanic institution exists for the sole purpose of hijacking and usurping BY STEALTH its satrap 'Member States'' national sovereignty. That is its ENTIRE purpose, as is explained in the Editor's exhaustive European study entitled 'The European Union Collective: Enemy of its Member States' (2002) [available from this website: see Edward Harle Limited Books segment].
It is AN IMMENSE, LONG-RANGE GRADUALIST OPERATION, aided and abetted by traitors inside the European national political and bureaucratic establishments, modelled on Hitler's 'Coup d'etat by installments'. That phrase was originally coined by a German living in the United States, Konrad Heiden, and published in his book 'Der Fuehrer', Boston, 1944, on page 579, cited in 'Thirty Days: Hitler's Thirty Days to Power, January 1933', by the US author, Henry Ashby Turner Jr. [Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA and New York, 1996].
In a remarkable new study (3), the Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, Richard J. Evans, explains, amid his horrific and meticulous accounts of the routine atrocities perpetrated by the internally feuding Nazis and their gauleiters (going far, far beyond what the general public holds in its eroding collective memory), that the most conspicuous and perpetual feature of the Nazi regime was: RAMPANT CORRUPTION, PILLAGING, STEALING, GRAFT AND CONVERSION/DIVERSION OF ASSETS: in other words, WHAT WE HAVE BEEN RECORDING.
• Moreover the gauleiters and their associates STOLE FROM AND RANSACKED EACH OTHER.
• Does that sound familiar? Of course it does. THAT'S WHAT THESE NAZIS DO.
And it is this CORRUPTION that has survived to destabilise the whole world in OUR TIME.
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION MORE EFFICIENT THAN BLITZKRIEG
Because what has happened is that these Nazis, using the big German, Swiss and French banks, and the Vatican, later to be joined by British institutions, found that BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION, which came naturally to them anyway, was a more efficient means of achieving their demented hegemony objectives than military force and Blitzkrieg.
Had the Editor not discovered and experienced this from INSIDE THE SNAKE DEN, we wouldn't have been in a position to expose this behaviour 'from within'. Our unspeakable experience, therefore, was 'meant to happen', so that these exposures could be framed and published in our journal and on this website for the whole world to see and understand.
• The point here being that FRAUD, BRIBERY AND BALLOT-RIGGING go hand in hand with the sick Fraudulent Finance practices proliferated originally by the pan-German FIFTH COLUMN inside the US Intelligence Power, WHICH IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.
SUBVERSION OF EUROPEAN NATIONS, SUBVERSION OF THE UNITED STATES
The 'Coup d'etat by installments' in Europe is the TWIN OPERATION, running in parallel with Nazi subversion of the United States by the same operatives, masterminded by the long-range strategic deception 'Black' Nazi Continuum agency based at Dachau, which operates 'independently' of the German Chancellor. Obviously, Hitler's 'Coup d'etat by installments' was implemented over a much shorter timeframe: BUT THE PRINCIPLE IS THE SAME. The rigged Irish Referendum outcome is just another dirty step towards the imminent smothering of the residual sovereignty of the once great nations of Europe, with Britain ALWAYS seen by the pan-German snakes as the main target.
On page 164 of 'Thirty Days', the author described Hitler's 'Coup d'etat by Installments' as follows:
'Only by banning the Communist deputies and by resorting to intimidation and mendacity did Hitler secure on March 23 the necessary two-thirds vote in the new Reichstag for an Enabling Act that transferred legislative authority to his Cabinet, ostensibly for four years. A wave of Nazi purges followed, as one institution after another was subjugated. Arbitrary rule replaced government by law in what has aptly been termed a "Coup d'etat by installments"'.
'By summer, all parties except the Nazis had been dissolved, Hugenberg had been forced out of the Cabinet and Hitler had relegated Papen to insignificance by winning the trust of the President. Even earlier Goering had wrested from Papen control over the government of the largest state, Prussia. Well before the Nazi leader assumed the powers of the Presidency upon the death of Hindenburg in August 1934, he had become dictator of Germany'.
THIS IS THE MODEL, OPERATING IN GRADUALIST MODE, THAT IS BEING DEPLOYED TO SUBVERT THE RESIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STUPID EUROPEAN NATIONS, LED BY TRAITORS AND DESPICABLE DUMKOPFS WITHIN THE NATIONAL STRUCTURES, WHO HAVE CONFUSED COOPERATION WITH SOCIALIST ‘COLLECTIVISATION’ (4).
That the Irish Referendum has been rigged is therefore NO SURPRISE. For we are dealing with ruthless crooks, which is why they are keen on having the British deceiver, intelligence operative and crook, Tony BLIAR, as their first President, to match that disgusting little Portuguese operative, Barroso. Stand by now for consequences similar, in the contemporary context, to those events that followed Hitler's acquisition of GENERAL POWERS from the Legislature by means of INTIMIDATION and MENDACITY, the techniques which, with bribery, have been used to rig the Referendum (5).
Notes and References:
1: The Sunday Telegraph, Business Section, 4th October 2009.
2: The Sunday Telegraph, page 3, 4th October 2009.
3: Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University, 'The Third Reich at War', The Penguin Press, New York, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59420-2006-3.
4: The Editor first understood this when he found himself sitting next to the former British Foreign Secretary, Douglas (Lord) Hurd, on a plane some years ago. Although the Editor carefully avoided confronting Hurd until the end of the flight, he established that Hurd valued British membership of the EU Collective because it fostered ‘cooperation’. However one can cooperate with an external party without getting into bed with them. It was further clear that, wittingly or not, he confused this naïve, mythical ideal of ‘cooperation’ – which suddenly evaporates when the Germans and French want their own way and browbeat all the other EU satrap states in order to get it – with the reality, namely CREEPING COLLECTIVISATION via ever-expanding oppressive regulation which is designed to usurp and destroy national sovereignty – the same objective as Lenin, Stalin and Hitler. So you can appreciate why these ‘Useful Idiots’ (as Lenin called all those who assist the World Revolution without realising what they are doing) are justly called TRAITORS.
5: We are describing and living through components, phases and elements of the ONGOING WORLD REVOLUTION, in case you hadn’t noticed.
• We will revert to the 'usual issues' soon, but, as you will appreciate, these matters are of vital importance and had to be addressed straight away.
Source: http://worldreports.org/news/235_the_irish_referendum_outcome_is_null_and_void
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Glenn Beck was born in February, 1964 in Everett, Washington. His parents, William and Mary, lived in Mountlake Terrace, Washington at the time of Beck's birth[4] and sometime later moved their family to the Skagit County town of Mount Vernon, Washington.[5] There, his parents owned and operated City Bakery in downtown Mount Vernon.[6] Beck was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Mount Vernon's private Immaculate Conception Catholic school. At 13, Beck won a contest that landed him his first broadcast gig as a deejay for his hometown radio station, KBRC.[7]
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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How Hidden
How Hidden
The treasures of the gospel are said to be hidden. By those who are wise in their own estimation, who are puffed up by the teaching of vain philosophy, the beauty and power and mystery of the plan of redemption are not perceived. Many have eyes, but they see not; they have ears, but they hear not; they have intellect, but they discern not the hidden treasure.
The treasures of the gospel are said to be hidden. By those who are wise in their own estimation, who are puffed up by the teaching of vain philosophy, the beauty and power and mystery of the plan of redemption are not perceived. Many have eyes, but they see not; they have ears, but they hear not; they have intellect, but they discern not the hidden treasure.
A man might pass over the place where treasure had been concealed. In dire necessity he might sit down to rest at the foot of a tree, not knowing of the riches hidden at its roots. So it was with the Jews. As a golden treasure, truth had been intrusted to the Hebrew people. The Jewish economy, bearing the signature of Heaven, had been instituted by Christ Himself. In types and symbols the great truths of redemption were veiled. Yet when Christ came, the Jews did not recognize Him to whom all these symbols pointed. They had the word of God in their hands; but the traditions which had been handed down from generation to generation, and the human interpretation of the Scriptures, hid from them the truth as it is in Jesus. The spiritual import of the sacred writings was lost. The treasure house of all knowledge was open to them, but they knew it not.
God does not conceal His truth from men. By their own course of action they make it obscure to themselves. Christ gave the Jewish people abundant evidence that He was the Messiah; but His teaching called for a decided change in their lives. They saw that if they received Christ, they must give up their cherished maxims and traditions, their selfish, ungodly practices. It required a sacrifice to receive changeless, eternal truth. Therefore they would not admit the most conclusive evidence that God could give to establish faith in Christ. They professed to believe the Old Testament Scriptures, yet they refused to accept the testimony contained therein concerning Christ's life and character. They were afraid of being convinced lest they should be converted and be compelled to give up their preconceived opinions. The treasure of the gospel, the Way, the Truth, and the Life, was among them, but they rejected the greatest gift that Heaven could bestow.
"Among the chief rulers also many believed on Him," we read; "but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue." John 12:42. They were convinced; they believed Jesus to be the Son of God; but it was not in harmony with their ambitious desires to confess Him. They had not the faith that would have secured for them the heavenly treasure. They were seeking worldly treasure.
And today men are eagerly seeking for earthly treasure. Their minds are filled with selfish, ambitious thoughts. For the sake of gaining worldly riches, honor, or power, they place the maxims, traditions, and requirements of men above the requirements of God. From them the treasures of His word are hidden.
"The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned," 1 Cor. 2:14.
"If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." 2 Cor. 4:3, 4.
Christ's Object Lessons, Ellen G. White, pp.105-106.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Christians coming against astrology, horoscopes,or any spirit of divination
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Christians coming against astrology, horoscopes,or any spirit of divination
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What does God say about those who consult with astrologers and use astrology for guidance in their lives? It's in the Bible, Isaiah 47:13-15 NIV. "All the counsel you have received has only worn you out. Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the flame…Each of them goes on in his error; there is not one that can save you."
Astrology is a divination art, which teaches that the relative positioning in the sky of the Sun, Moon and planets has an influence upon individuals and upon the course of human affairs. The actual word for astrology in the Hebrew language literally means, ‘divining the heavens'. Divination is the act of foretelling future events, or of revealing secret knowledge, by means of signs and omens or other supernatural agency. God prohibits the practice of divination. It's in the Bible, Leviticus 19:26 NIV. "Do not practice divination or sorcery."
When the Israelites were about to enter the Promised Land of Canaan, God warned them not to practice it. It's in the Bible, Deuteronomy 18:9, 12 & 14 NIV. "Do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there…The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so…Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord."
Divination is actually regarded to be a grave sin. It's in the Bible, 1 Samuel 15:23 NIV. "Rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry."
When King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, he summoned the magicians, sorcerers and astrologers to tell him what he had dreamed. How did they respond? It's in the Bible, Daniel 2:10 NIV. "The astrologers answered the king, ‘There is not a man on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.' "
The astrologers of Babylon were unable to help the King with this troublesome dream. However, God had blessed his prayerful prophet Daniel with the true gifts of the Holy Spirit, and he was brought before the king to interpret the dream. It's in the Bible, Daniel 2:27-28 NKJ. "Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, ‘The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king. But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, were these…'" With God’s anointing, Daniel was able to describe and explain the king's prophetic dream.
Astrology is becoming popular, with many people regarding it to be a source of wise counsel. What does God say about those who consult with astrologers and use astrology as guidance for their lives? It's in the Bible, Isaiah 47:13-15 NIV. "All the counsel you have received has only worn you out. Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the flame… Each of them goes on in his error; there is not one that can save you."
In this first mention of astrology in the Bible, God is speaking to the people of ancient pagan Babylon. Middle East archaeology has confirmed that astrology did indeed originate in the nation of Babylon, now called the country of Iraq. Cuneiform tablets have been excavated depicting horoscope charts dating from the 5th Century BC and earlier. Astrology is a divination art which teaches that the relative positioning in the sky of the Sun, Moon and planets has an influence upon individuals and upon the course of human affairs. In our modern times, just like in ancient Babylon, a growing number of people are utilizing the services of astrology consultants.
In the Book of Daniel, there is narrated a profound event in the life of Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon. The king had a very disturbing dream, and he wanted to understand its meaning. Daniel 2:2 NIV, informs us, "So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers to tell him what he had dreamed."
The astrologers, also known as 'Chaldeans', were part of the king's circle of so-called 'wise men' who practiced divination. The actual word for astrology in the Hebrew language literally means, 'divining the heavens'. Divination is the act of foretelling future events, or of revealing secret knowledge, by means of signs and omens or other supernatural agency. The practice of pagan divination is prohibited by God. It's in the Bible, Leviticus 19:26 NIV, "Do not practice divination or sorcery."
Divination was common among the pagan peoples of the Bible lands. When the Israelites were about to enter the Promised Land of Canaan, God warned them not to practice it. Says Deuteronomy 18:9, 12 & 14 NIV, "Do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there… The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so… Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord." Divination is actually regarded to be a grave sin. Declares 1 Samuel 15:23 NIV, "Rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry."
For curiosity and amusement, millions of ordinary citizens read the daily horoscopes published in mass-circulation newspapers. Is it okay to have this kind of casual 'fun' interest in astrology? What counsel does the Bible give on this type of issue? In 1 Thessalonians 5:22 KJV, God emphatically states that we should "abstain from all appearance of evil."
King Nebuchadnezzar had asked his astrologers and other wizards to tell him his dream and interpret its meaning. How did they respond? Daniel 2:10 NIV, informs us, "The astrologers answered the king, 'There is not a man on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.' "
The astrologers of Babylon were unable to help the King with his troublesome dream. However, God had blessed his prayerful prophet Daniel with the true gifts of the Holy Spirit, and he was brought before the king to interpret the dream. The Bible says in Daniel 2:27-28 NKJ, "Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, 'The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king. But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, were these…' " With God's anointing, Daniel was able to then describe and explain the king's great prophetic dream.
If there is a need to understand perplexing situations in our lives, we are wise to shun the error and evil of astrology divination; but rather let us know that "there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets." Like Daniel, in prayer we can turn to God for help. And in the Bible, we have the assured counsel of His truth.
Witchcraft
The practice of witchcraft is forbidden by God. It's in the Bible, Deuteronomy 18:9-13, NIV. "When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and because of these detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God."
Those who practice witchcraft will not inherit the kingdom of God. It's in the Bible, Galatians 5:19-21, NIV. "The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; …drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God."
The future is known only by God, not witches. It's in the Bible, Isaiah 8:19, TLB. "So why are you trying to find out the future by consulting witches and mediums. Don't listen to their whisperings and mutterings. Can the living find out the future from the dead? Why not ask your God?"
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Iron Mountain- The Blue Print For Tyranny (1/14)
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Unemployment Will Rise Through 2010 says Roubini
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
http://nourielroubini.blogspot.com/2009/10/unemployment-will-rise-through-2010.html
"Not just [unemployment] going to go above 10 percent but the risk is it's going to stay above this level and return to more normal only more gradually and that's going to be one of the important sources of weakness for an economic recovery."
To watch ***** video click on link below (was unable to post CNBC video on blog):
http://nourielroubini.blogspot.com/2009/10/unemployment-will-rise-through-2010.html
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http://nourielroubini.blogspot.com/2009/10/unemployment-will-rise-through-2010.html
"Not just [unemployment] going to go above 10 percent but the risk is it's going to stay above this level and return to more normal only more gradually and that's going to be one of the important sources of weakness for an economic recovery."
To watch ***** video click on link below (was unable to post CNBC video on blog):
http://nourielroubini.blogspot.com/2009/10/unemployment-will-rise-through-2010.html
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We Are All Socialists Now
In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French.
By Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas NEWSWEEK
Published Feb 7, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Feb 16, 2009
The interview was nearly over. on the Fox News Channel last Wednesday evening, Sean Hannity was coming to the end of a segment with Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the chair of the House Republican Conference and a vociferous foe of President Obama's nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. How, Pence had asked rhetorically, was $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts going to put people back to work in Indiana? How would $20 million for "fish passage barriers" (a provision to pay for the removal of barriers in rivers and streams so that fish could migrate freely) help create jobs? Hannity could not have agreed more. "It is … the European Socialist Act of 2009," the host said, signing off. "We're counting on you to stop it. Thank you, congressman."
There it was, just before the commercial: the S word, a favorite among conservatives since John McCain began using it during the presidential campaign. (Remember Joe the Plumber? Sadly, so do we.) But it seems strangely beside the point. The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries. That seems a stronger sign of socialism than $50 million for art. Whether we want to admit it or not—and many, especially Congressman Pence and Hannity, do not—the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state.
We remain a center-right nation in many ways—particularly culturally, and our instinct, once the crisis passes, will be to try to revert to a more free-market style of capitalism—but it was, again, under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly. People on the right and the left want government to invest in alternative energies in order to break our addiction to foreign oil. And it is unlikely that even the reddest of states will decline federal money for infrastructural improvements.
If we fail to acknowledge the reality of the growing role of government in the economy, insisting instead on fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century terms and tactics, then we are doomed to a fractious and unedifying debate. The sooner we understand where we truly stand, the sooner we can think more clearly about how to use government in today's world.
As the Obama administration presses the largest fiscal bill in American history, caps the salaries of executives at institutions receiving federal aid at $500,000 and introduces a new plan to rescue the banking industry, the unemployment rate is at its highest in 16 years. The Dow has slumped to 1998 levels, and last year mortgage foreclosures rose 81 percent.
All of this is unfolding in an economy that can no longer be understood, even in passing, as the Great Society vs. the Gipper. Whether we like it or not—or even whether many people have thought much about it or not—the numbers clearly suggest that we are headed in a more European direction. A decade ago U.S. government spending was 34.3 percent of GDP, compared with 48.2 percent in the euro zone—a roughly 14-point gap, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010 U.S. spending is expected to be 39.9 percent of GDP, compared with 47.1 percent in the euro zone—a gap of less than 8 points. As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more French.
Source: http://www.newsweek.com/id/183663
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By Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas NEWSWEEK
Published Feb 7, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Feb 16, 2009
There it was, just before the commercial: the S word, a favorite among conservatives since John McCain began using it during the presidential campaign. (Remember Joe the Plumber? Sadly, so do we.) But it seems strangely beside the point. The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries. That seems a stronger sign of socialism than $50 million for art. Whether we want to admit it or not—and many, especially Congressman Pence and Hannity, do not—the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state.
We remain a center-right nation in many ways—particularly culturally, and our instinct, once the crisis passes, will be to try to revert to a more free-market style of capitalism—but it was, again, under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly. People on the right and the left want government to invest in alternative energies in order to break our addiction to foreign oil. And it is unlikely that even the reddest of states will decline federal money for infrastructural improvements.
If we fail to acknowledge the reality of the growing role of government in the economy, insisting instead on fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century terms and tactics, then we are doomed to a fractious and unedifying debate. The sooner we understand where we truly stand, the sooner we can think more clearly about how to use government in today's world.
As the Obama administration presses the largest fiscal bill in American history, caps the salaries of executives at institutions receiving federal aid at $500,000 and introduces a new plan to rescue the banking industry, the unemployment rate is at its highest in 16 years. The Dow has slumped to 1998 levels, and last year mortgage foreclosures rose 81 percent.
All of this is unfolding in an economy that can no longer be understood, even in passing, as the Great Society vs. the Gipper. Whether we like it or not—or even whether many people have thought much about it or not—the numbers clearly suggest that we are headed in a more European direction. A decade ago U.S. government spending was 34.3 percent of GDP, compared with 48.2 percent in the euro zone—a roughly 14-point gap, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010 U.S. spending is expected to be 39.9 percent of GDP, compared with 47.1 percent in the euro zone—a gap of less than 8 points. As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more French.
Source: http://www.newsweek.com/id/183663
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Is SNL right that Obama's accomplished 'nothing'?
Reuters – U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he attends an AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic at Coney Island in Cincinnati …
Mon Oct 5, 11:24 pm ET
This weekend "Saturday Night Live" opened with Fred Armisen as President Obama, delivering an address from the Oval Office. Noting up front that he'd failed to secure the 2016 Olympic Games for Chicago, Armisen's Obama said it was just further proof that his detractors' fears are unfounded: How could he transform the country into something resembling the former Soviet Union or Nazi Germany when he's failed to accomplish anything at all? "When you look at my record," he said, "it's very clear what I've done so far, and that is nothing."
But are SNL's accusations of Obama being a do-nothing president accurate? Let's run down the list of the nine promises SNL lampooned President Obama for doing "nothing" on to see where he actually stands.
1. Close the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay: In one of his first acts as president, Obama signed an order mandating the close of the notorious lockup by January 2010. On Sunday, White House National Security Adviser James Jones said that he was "hopeful" that the White House would meet that deadline. Several legal and logistical questions remained to be answered, however, including the fate of the remaining detainees.
2. Pull all troops out of Iraq: In February, Obama told congressional leaders that he wanted all troops out of Iraq by August 2010. On June 30th of this year, a large number of troops were pulled out of the country, a move that was understated here in the U.S., but was met by dancing in the streets in some parts of Iraq. At the time of the withdrawal, the American military leadership refused to put a number on how many troops remained, though some have estimated that number remains as high as 124,000.
3. Improve the situation in Afghanistan: In a recent interview with CBS' "60 Minutes," General Stanley McChrystal, America's top commander in Afghanistan, said that things had become "a little worse" than he had originally anticipated in Afghanistan, adding that "the breadth of the violence, the geographic spread of violence, is a little more than I would have gathered." Wednesday marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion, and last Sunday saw the deadliest single battle for American soldiers in Afghanistan since 2001. The administration is currently divided over how to change course in Afghanistan, weighing McChrystal's request for as many as 40,000 more troops against other options.
4. Reform the nation's health care system: This year's health care reform debate has been one of the more contentious debates in American history. Originally, the president set an August deadline for Congress to pass legislation for him to sign. That obviously didn't happen. However, on Friday night the Senate Finance Committee finally released its mammoth health care bill -- the last panel to do so, with a committee vote potentially coming as early as the middle of this week -- setting the stage for an even more intense national debate as the full Senate and House finalize legislation.
5. Cut down on global warming: Prior to the onset of the raucous health care reform debate, the centerpiece of the Administration's efforts to stem the increase of global warming, the Cap and Trade bill, was on the legislative fast-track. However, over the weekend Carol Browner, Obama's global warming czar, said that passage of the bill prior to December's Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was unlikely.
6. Reform the nation's immigration policies: In August, President Obama, under intense pressure from supporters for not moving fast enough on the issue, announced that he would have an immigration bill in Congress by the end of the year, though it likely wouldn't be voted on until 2010. Saying that "demagogues" who "suggest that any form of pathway for legalization for those who are already in the United States is unacceptable" would attempt to obstruct his efforts, the president added, "Am I going to be able to snap my fingers and get this done? No."
7. Changing the military's policies on gay soldiers: In his first week in the Oval Office, President Obama announced that his Administration would have to study the "implications for national security" before he could attempt to repeal the present "don't ask, don't tell" policy initiated by the Clinton administration in 1993. On Sunday, White House National Security Adviser James Jones reiterated Obama's commitment to fulfilling this campaign promise, but added that the president has "a lot on his plate" and would get around to addressing the issue at the "right time."
8. Placing limits on executive powers: In the early days of his presidency, Congressional Quarterly praised Obama for appearing as if he was "rejecting some of Bush's most expansive executive power claims" in the White House. However, that sentiment quickly evaporated among Obama supporters and opponents, with Salon's Glenn Greenwald noting in April that the White House had "explicitly claimed to possess the very presidential powers that Bush critics spent years condemning as radical, lawless and authoritarian."
9. Prosecute those who facilitate torture: In April, President Obama announced that his Administration would not bring charges against those who carried out acts deemed as torture upon U.S. terror detainees, but rather might seek to prosecute the Bush Administration officials who drafted the documents justifying the use of torture as lawful. In August, Attorney General Eric Holder followed through by announcing the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate whether or not the interrogations of suspected terrorists broke any laws.
So, taking all of this into consideration, are SNL's satirical criticisms of President Obama's do-nothingness valid? Probably not, mainly because, as illustrated by the old adage about how one shouldn't watch sausage or legislation get made, the process of "change" and getting anything done in Washington is a long and messy one, and Obama is merely nine months into his term as president. But that doesn't mean that Saturday's SNL skit was humorless, which, for once, it most definitely was not.
-- Brett Michael Dykes is a contributor to the Yahoo! News Blog.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091005/pl_ynews/ynews_pl942
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