UN to take over internet?

Article By: Staff Reporter

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 8:36

Iafrica.com News - http://technology.iafrica.com/news/technology/779992.html

The United Nations is set to vote on a new treaty which could give control of the internet over to the body.
Scores of nations, including Russia and China, are in favour of the move, according to the Wall Street Journal.
If successful, the new proposal would be a major departure from the current system, established in 1988. That year, representatives from 114 countries met to deregulate the burgeoning industry.
The incomplete list of proposals is far-reaching and, among other effects, could see private data and security being subjected to international control. Additionally, phone companies could possibly charge for international traffic.

The diplomatic process is set to begin on 27 February.

Corruption puts strain on South Africa budget

This makes my righteous anger bubbles burst :(

http://za.news.yahoo.com/corruption-puts-strain-south-africa-budget-113200550.html

21st February 2012

 

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lucas Netshiavha feels resentful whenever he sees the slice of his salary taken by South Africa's taxman, since - so he believes - a large chunk will end up in the pockets of corrupt politicians or be washed down the drain of state mismanagement.

"I wouldn't mind so much if my 'donation' was properly spent on education, medicine in hospitals or to help my grandmother back in my home village, but I have serious doubts that's happening," the IT specialist said.
Netshiavha is well paid, but his pay packet is split between his widowed mother and two siblings, and his fears of wasted taxes and creeping corruption under President Jacob Zuma are not unfounded.

Since he came to office in 2009, Zuma has come under fire for what many see as a failure to crack down on officials implicated in misappropriating billions of dollars in state funds.
"Corruption is the bane of our country," IFP opposition leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi told Zuma during a debate in parliament last week. "Yet, sir, you shy away from this issue."
Despite raking in over 600 billion rand in taxes each year, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is likely to announce a budget deficit of more than 5 percent on Wednesday to fund social services and infrastructure spending.
However, the many schools without books and hospitals short of medicines, not to mention a lack of houses and sanitation for millions of South Africans 18 years after the end of apartheid, suggest much of the money is not getting through.
Newspapers are awash with reports of scandals about luxury cars and stays at swish hotels for government bigwigs, while in Limpopo, Netshiavha's home province, the central government has taken over the finances after mismanagement plunged it into bankruptcy.
A report by the Auditor General's office shows the rot is widespread, with state departments spending an unauthorized 20 billion rand in the 2010-11 fiscal year. Three of 39 departments and less than half of 272 state firms had clean audits for 2011.
The former head of the police's Special Investigating Unit estimates the government loses up to 30 billion rand to corruption every year, although most analysts believe this, at less than 4 percent of the budget, is the tip of the iceberg.

Amid reports of hospital patients going hungry and children being taught in the open air, labour federation COSATU has turned on the ANC, its long-time ally.
"Billions of rand which could and should have been spent on improving our healthcare and education systems ... and providing basic services to our poorest communities are being squandered," secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi said at the recent launch of an anti-corruption watchdog.

Critics say Zuma, who has himself faced corruption charges which were then dropped amid opposition allegations of a political fix, has only paid lip service to fighting the rot within his government.
He fired two ministers implicated in graft last year, and suspended his police chief pending a probe into a dodgy property lease deal, but no criminal charges have been laid.
He has also pledged to stamp out corruption and said his government has launched scores of investigations into graft and sent treasury officials to take over local government branches teetering on bankruptcy due to their questionable spending.
Transparency International now ranks Africa's largest economy 64th globally on its perceived corruption index, down from 38th in 2001.

"There is a lot of talk about rectifying the waste, the inefficiencies and the corruption but I don't see the kind of action that we'd like," said economist George Glynos, managing director at ETM.
"There is not a lot of sense in talking about whether we should be increasing budget deficits and government spending when you know it's not being utilized efficiently," Glynos said.

Pope appoints 22 new cardinals

18th February 2012 - CNN News

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/18/world/europe/vatican-new-cardinals/

Rome (CNN) -- Pope Benedict appointed 22 new cardinals at the Vatican on Saturday, with his choices for the lofty role likely to influence who will be appointed as the next pontiff.

The Vatican named the new cardinals last month, but they were officially inducted by the pontiff in a special ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica.

Among those to be elevated to the College of Cardinals are New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, cementing his standing as the top Catholic in the United States, and Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien of Baltimore.

Others include Archbishop Thomas Collins, from Toronto, as well as the Bishop of Hong Kong, John Tong Hon, and Major Archbishop George Alencherry from India

Senior clerics from Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Romania and Brazil are also represented, as well as several from Italy.

The College of Cardinals was established in 1150. Its main role is to advise the current Pope and pick his successor.

"This is the most exclusive club in the Catholic Church," said John Allen, CNN's Vatican analyst. "In many cases, you also become, at least informally, a candidate to be the next pope, because the next pope will almost certainly come from the roughly 120 cardinals under the age of 80."

Once a cardinal reaches 80, he is no longer able to participate in the election of the pope or enter the secret conclave where cardinals gather when the time comes to select the next pope, typically upon the prior pope's death.

The new cardinals each professed their faith and swore an oath of obedience to Pope Benedict and his successors during Saturday's ceremony, called the Consistory, at the Vatican.

They then walked one by one to the pontiff and knelt in front of him to receive the traditional red hat, or "biretta," and gold ring, and a document with the name of the cardinal's titular church in Rome.

In his address, Benedict said that in joining the College of Cardinals, the clerics would "be united with new and stronger bonds not only to the Roman Pontiff but also to the entire community of the faithful spread throughout the world."

Emphasizing the importance of service over self-interest, the pontiff said the red of the cardinals' hats was symbolic of the ultimate sacrifice they would make if required.

"The new cardinals are entrusted with the service of love: love for God, love for his Church, an absolute and unconditional love for his brothers and sisters, even unto shedding their blood, if necessary, as expressed in the words of placing the biretta and as indicated by the color of their robes," he said.

Pope Benedict also announced seven new saints, including the first Native American saint, a 17th-Century Mohawk woman called Kateri, or Catherine, Tekakwitha, who was a Catholic convert.

Existing members of the College of Cardinals and the new cardinals-elect came together for a day of prayer and reflection Friday, in preparation for the ceremony, according to the Holy See Press Office.

Dolan addressed the gathering on the subject of evangelization, saying there was a need to challenge a growing secularization of society.

Madonna’s Superbowl Halftime Show: A Celebration of the Grand Priestess of the Music Industry

By VC | February 6th, 2012 

http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/madonnas-superbowl-halftime-show-a-celebration-of-the-grand-priestess-of-the-music-industry/

When I learned that Madonna – aka the Grand Priestess of the music industry – would be performing at the Superbowl halftime show, I thought: “This should be interesting”. And it was. While most were amazed by a woman in her fifties dancing around with LMFAO and others were annoyed at her lip-syncing, I was interested with something else: the flurry of symbolism flashed to billions of viewers worldwide. While most considered Madonna’s performance as an entertaining interlude to the most important football game of the year, those blessed with symbol-literacy will probably agree with the following statement: Madonna’s halftime show was a big celebration of the Illuminati industry and of its Grand Priestess, Madonna.
A week before the Superbowl, Madonna described on Anderson Cooper the spiritual importance she attributed to her halftime show:

“The Superbowl is kind of like the Holy of Holies in America. I’ll come at halfway of the “church experience” and I’m gonna have to deliver a sermon. It’ll have to be very impactful.”

It is rather appropriate that this Kaballah-intiate referred to the Superbowl as the “Holy of Holies” as it was the name of the most sacred place in Solomon’s Temple. No one was ever permitted to enter the Holy of Holies but the High Priest. This privilege was only granted on the Day of Atonement, to offer the blood of sacrifice and incense before the mercy seat. Madonna’s analogy was therefore telling of the mindset behind her performance. Let’s look at the main parts of her show.

Vogue or Entrance of the Priestess

Madonna entrance is an elaborate procession fit for a High Priestess or even a goddess.

Pushed by hundreds of Roman soldiers and welcomed by hundreds of women, Madonna's glorious entrance is a reflection of her status in the entertainment world.

Her first performance was highly influenced by ancient Egypt-Sumeria-Babylon and Madonna’s costume recalls an ancient Babylonian goddess.

The decor of Madonna's first performance combines elements from ancient Egypt, Sumeria and Babylon. Madonna herself is dressed in a way that highly resembles an Ancient Sumerian/Babylonian goddess, Inanna-Ishtar.

Ishtar with her foot on a roaring lion and wearing a distinctive headdress resembling Madonna's horned crown. Ishtar is often depicted with wings, a feature that is recalled on Madonna's "carriage".

Ishtar was a powerful and assertive goddess whose areas of control and influence included warfare, love, sexuality, prosperity, fertility and prostitution. She sought the same existence as men, enjoying the glory of battle and seeking sexual experiences. Madonna’s portrayal as Ishtar is therefore quite interesting as one can argue that the pop singer has embodied, throughout her career, the same assertive yet highly sexual qualities of Ishtar, even achieving a state of power in the music industry that is usually reserved to men. On an esoteric level, Ishtar is associated with the planet Venus, known as the Morning Star or the Evening Star.

The presence of two Sphinxes in front of Madonna greatly resembles the tarot card The Chariot. According to Manly P. Hall: "This card signifies the Exalted One who rides in the chariot of creation. The sphinxes drawing the chariot resent the secret and unknown power by which the victorious ruler is moved continuously through the various parts of his universe."

So, in this mythologically-charged setting, Madonna performed Vogue. During the performance, covers of Vogue Magazine were displayed, a publication that is at the forefront of Illuminati symbolism in fashion (as seen in the series of articles Symbolic Pics of the Month).
Vogue ends with a symbol that is consistent with the Egyptian-Babylonian theme of the performance, one that is also of highest importance in occult Secret Societies such as Freemasons, the Rosicrucians and the Illuminati: the Winged Sun-Disk.

The song ends with the displaying of a Winged Sun-Disk.

Egyptian mystics used the winged sun for ritualistic magic and invocations:

“‘Emblematic of the element of air, this consists of a circle or solar-type disk enclosed by a pair of wings. In ritual magic it is suspended over the alter in an easterly direction and used when invoking the protection and co-operation of the sylphs.”
-Hope, Murry, “Practical Egyptian Magic”

The winged sun is still being used today by groups like the Freemasons, the Theosophists and the Rosicrucians.

“The Winged Globe is pre-eminently a Rosicrucian symbol, although the Illuminati may lay claim to it, and it may be admitted that it is of Egyptian origin. The Winged Globe is the symbol of the perfected soul making its flight back to the source of its creation in the Elysian fields beyond.”
-Swinburne, Clymer, “The Rosicrucians, Their Teachings”

The symbol of the winged-sun inside a Masonic lodge.

The display of this symbol, although apparently trivial and aesthetic, emphasizes on the occult spiritual dimension underlying Madonna’s entire performance.

Give Me All Your Luvin’ or Madonna’s Sex Kittens

Later in the show, Madonna performed her new single Give Me All Your Luvin’. The song features two new industry favorites: Nikki Minaj and M.I.A. In the song’s music video and during the Superbowl performance, these two female rappers are portrayed in a specific way:  Instead of being presented as full-fledged artists contributing to Madonna’s song, they are portrayed as her “minions” who are cheering for the industry’s High Priestess. This “relationship” where Madonna is in power – and therefore the handler – is drenched in Mind Control symbolism, specifically Beta Programming, also know Sex Kitten Programming.

In the video for Give me Your Luvin', Madonna, Nikki Minaj and M.I.A. are dressed as Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate prototype of Sex Kitten Programming.

Another symbol associated with Sex Kitten programming is feline prints clothing and textiles. The entire half-time show was an animal-print extravaganza.

Like a Prayer or the Final Sermon

Madonna closed the halftime show with one of her biggest hits: Like a Prayer. The video of this song was always controversial due to its mixing of religious themes with sexuality. As the song starts, the show takes on a very solemn and spiritual vibe as Madonna and Cee-Lo Green enter the stage to give the final sermon. Religious figures are usually dressed in white to represent purity and godliness. The two singers where dressed in black robes and black robes are usually used in…black masses.

As the song begins, a huge eye pupil is displayed before the stage, hinting to the Illuminati-influence of this spiritual performance.

Madonna’s halftime show ends in a dramatic yet very significant matter:

At the end of her performance, the floor opens underneath Madonna's feet and she falls into oblivion.

As Madonna is swept in what appears to be the “Underworld”, Madonna sings “I hear you call my name, And it feels like home”. This is another inversion of conventional religious symbolism as “home” should be in the heavens. In Madonna’s case, she obviously didn’t go in that direction.
The show ends with a message no one can disagree with.

The words "World Peace" appear on the stage, a PR-friendly slogan used by those pushing for a New World Order lead by a one world government.

In Conclusion

When taken individually, the symbols described above can be simply considered as “cool-looking” and most Superbowl viewers did not give them much attention. The packing all of these signs and symbols in one comprehensive 13 minute performance cannot however be dismissed as “random images”. Quite to the contrary, the combination of all of these symbols form a whole and define with great depth the underlying philosophy and Agenda of those in power – the Illuminati. Madonna’s embrace of the Illuminati symbolism discussed on this site coincides with her signing with Interscope Records, one of the main purveyors of Illuminati symbolism in the music industry. Her halftime show performance can therefore be considered as the “launching” of her three-album (and 40 million dollars) relationship with the prominent label. Madonna’s Superbowl performance has shown that, despite the fact that she is an industry icon and that she pioneered most of the themes modern pop stars still exploit, she still needs to fit the mold and to embrace the same symbolism rookie pop stars.
Laced with profound imagery, Madonna’s halftime performance was a massive Illuminati ritual, one that was witnessed by billions of viewers. On this Superbowl “Day of Atonement”, Madonna, the High Priestess of the Illuminati industry, entered the Holy of Holies of America and delivered a 13 minutes sermon that was heard by all…but understood by few.

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The CARMEL ALERT  Feb 4th 2012A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying
for the Restoration of Israel & the Jewish People...

Stefan's Comment: 'Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace…" (Jer 6:14)The history of the people of Israel goes all the way back to the patriarchs, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Long have we as a nation, wandered the through deserts and continents, lived in foreign lands under the constant threat of death and even annihilation as a people. This happened in the ancient days of the Bible as we  came out of Egypt, settled in the land of Israel and then were scattered by the Lord for our disobedience. It has also been happening for the past 2000 years, up until 1948, when the Jewish state was resurrected, but also since then the hated of the Jews continues.

For all these thousands of years, and perhaps most of all for the past 65 years, the Jewish people have longed for peace. Peace is sung about in schools, dreamed about by leaders and even carefully planned out by politicians. But peace is like Israel's unicorn, the single-horned mythological creature that cannot be captured. Modern day Israel has sought to live peacefully and dwell in safety in her land since the declaration of the state, but no matter what she does it has never been achieved and always seems to be out of reach.

For Israel, peace with God has always been tightly connected with living in peace in the land. When the children of Israel disobeyed the Lord and His commandments they would be attacked by their enemies, killed by the sword and even uprooted from the land. However when the children of Israel did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord they had peace, safety and prosperity.

Isaiah 9:6-7 says: "Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this".

Similarly, in Hebrews 7:1-3, Yeshua is named the 'king of Salem', along with the 'king of righteousness', as 'Salem' is the same word as 'shalom', if you recognize it (for those who know some Hebrew). 'Peace' in Hebrew is 'Shalom', which many of you will recognize as the greeting that people use here in Israel, much like 'hello' or 'greetings' in English.  'Shalom' comes from the root word SH.L.M (Shin, Lamed, Mem) and in its primitive form means wholeness. These two words are closely related, hence Messiah Yeshua is the Prince of Peace / Wholeness and where He is not present or welcome there can be no real true peace, and there is a void.

When Israel rejected her Messiah, she rejected her real peace and the only One who can make her whole. Up until this very day we are suffering the consequences of that rejection, the lack of peace, both the peace of the nation and the internal peace of each individual. Every person longs for peace. Not only a peace with our surroundings but an internal peace that connects with our souls and our spirits, a wholeness through which we feel complete, worthy, loved and accepted.

In Jeremiah 14:13-14 we read: " Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’" And the LORD said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart”. Peace, Peace and there is no peace, as is written a few chapters before. The Lord showed me how this is the same today, not only in Israel but all over the world with every man and woman on the planet, and it is connected with what Yeshua says in Matthew 24:3-5:  "And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many".

Those words 'Here is the Messiah, there is the Messiah' is in a way the same as saying 'Here is true peace and wholeness, there is true peace and wholeness'. All around us people are being told to look to religion, money, success, titles, love, music and many other things for true inner peace and wholeness, but it is false. 'Peace, Peace, but there is no peace', and so people go from one addiction to another, from one religion to another but are never satisfied.

 In James 4:1-4 we are told that friendship (peace) with the world is enmity with God. There is no middle ground. We cannot serve two masters or have good relations with both the world and that of it, and with the living God, there is no sitting on the fence. We must choose this day who we shall serve and with who we shall be at peace. Moreover, we are called to be peace-makers, which means that we are to be those who seek to bring peace between the people who are around us and God, through Yeshua, by whom they shall find the genuine inner peace and wholeness that they, like every other human being, longs for. As peace-makers we are also called to pray that true peace will come to the house of Israel, that they may dwell in safety once again through the intimate knowledge of Yeshua the Messiah.

Those who pursue this calling shall be called sons of God (Matt 5:9), just as Yeshua is the Son of God and the top peace-maker Himself (Prince of Peace).
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel.  Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God.  Do not be silent, but share this wth your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to.   Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims,  and please remember to pray for all of the soldiers in the IDF - they are defending and fighting for the Kingdom of God.
Shabbat Shalom .... David & Josie
THIS WEEKS NEWS REPORTS   
  Israel Today   Jan 24th1.  More Arabs Declare They Prefer to Live Under Israeli Control       Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is making good on a promise to improve the standard of living and infrastructure in the city’s Arab neighborhoods. One example is the East Jerusalem village of Umm Tuba near the large Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa. The municipality has resurfaced roads and built stylish brick sidewalks, and new classrooms have been added on to the elementary school.  “In recent years the municipality has really been making an effort with regard to the Arab population,” Umm Tuba resident Hassan Abu Tir told Israel Today. “We can go on yelling that Jews have no right to be in Jerusalem, unlike us Muslims, but life under Jewish rule is better for us than under Muslim rule.”Please pray for an increase in the number of Arabs willing to tell the truth about life under the PA
2. Record Number of Israeli Jews Believe in God  Israel Today News   Jan 18thFully 80% of Israeli Jews believe that God exists - the highest figure found by the Guttman-Avi Chai survey since this review of Israeli-Jewish beliefs began two decades ago. The study also found that 70% of respondents believe the Jews are the Chosen People, 65% believe the Torah and mitzvot (religious commandments) are God-given, and 56% believe in life after death. But that doesn't mean Jews in general are becoming more religious, at least not in an Orthodox Jewish way. Only 37% of Israeli Jews had a problem with fellow Jews not following the biblical commandments, and nearly 70% said they want more entertainment venues to be open on the Shabbat. The numbers, however, coincide with other recent findings that Israelis are increasingly hungry for a deeper spiritual life.Please pray that large numbers of Israelis will now move on to discover Yeshua as the Messiah
3. Palestinians Praise Killer of Jewish Family      Israel Today News   Jan 30th    The mother and aunt of a young Palestinian man who brutally slaughtered nearly an entire Jewish family last year went on Palestinian Authority television recently to praise his murderous actions and to denounce Israel for having the audacity to put him in jail.   Hakim Awad was given five life sentences by an Israeli court last August for his role in the March 2011 massacre of the Fogel family in the northern Samaria Jewish community of Itamar. During the home invasion attack, Hakim and his cousin, Amjad Awad (who also received five life sentences), mercilessly stabbed to death Udi and Ruth Fogel and three of their young children, including a four-month-old baby.   The Fogel massacre sent shockwaves through Israeli society both because of the brutality and the purposeful targeting of young children, at least two of whom were sleeping when they were set upon by the Awad cousins.
     Palestinian society views the murders and the murderers much differently.   Last week, Palestinian Authority TV aired a program called "For You" decrying Israel's imprisonment of convicted Palestinian terrorists. Hakim Awad was one of the stars of the show.   Phoning in to the show, Awad's aunt read a poem she had written for Hakim and referred to the blood-soaked killer as a "hero" and a "legend" among his family, friends and peers. Awad's mother also got on the line to lament that she was being prevented from visiting her son due to the severity of the "Itamar operation" - Palestinians regularly refer to the murder of Israeli Jews, even children, as    military "operations."
    Remarks such as those expressed by the Awad matriarchs suggests that Palestinian society has actually been educated to hate Jews even more. And it is a certainty that at least some young Palestinians watching "For You" took away the lesson that they, too, can become "legends" by murdering Jews.  Please pray that the world will recognise that Israel is not the bad guy in the conflict
4. PM Netanyahu Doubtful About Peace Process    Israel Today News   Jan 29th    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday sounded a pessimistic tone when discussing with his cabinet ministers the future potential of direct peace talks with the Palestinian Authority.  "The signs are not particularly good," said Netanyahu in reference to exploratory talks currently taking place in Amman, Jordan. "But I hope they will rebound and we can make progress."  Netanyahu criticized the Palestinian leadership for the seeming failure thus far of the Amman meetings, noting that the Palestinians "have refused to discuss with us our security needs."  A day earlier, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas tried to lay the blame on Netanyahu and his government, insisting that "Israeli intransigence" was behind the failure of the Amman talks, which the Palestinians have threatened to pull out of if Israel does not meet their demands within a matter of days.
    Abbas charged that Israel had failed to provide a "clear vision" regarding future borders and the removal of Jews from Judea and Samaria. Israel maintains that making such commitments at this point would prejudice the outcome of negotiations, and leave Israel with no bargaining chips.  Netanyahu has for years been urging Abbas to return to direct bilateral negotiations without preconditions. Abbas has during that same time being doing his utmost to paint Netanyahu has the primary obstacle to peace over his refusal to accept preconditions.Please pray that all those involved in the peace process will realise its futility
5. Gaza Missile Attack on Southern Israel    Israel Today News   Feb 2nd      Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip launched an unprovoked missile attack on communities in southern Israel on Wednesday night.
Eight missiles landed near an in Israeli towns and villages bordering the Gaza Strip. There were no injuries or damage reported.   The "Red Alert" missile warning system sent local residents scrambling for their bomb shelters, but local officials again warned that the area is largely unprotected. It was noted that Israel's highly publicized "Iron Dome" anti-missile system cannot stop short range rockets fired at communities within 7 kilometers (4 miles) of Gaza, and that most houses and buildings do not have reinforced roofs and walls.   Another often ignored effect of the rocket attacks is the psychological damage it is doing to children living in the area. A very high percentage of Israeli children living in the northern Negev region have exhibited signs of emotional stress disorders due to the missile attacks.Please pray that all incoming missiles will be intercepted before causing any harm or damage6. Israel: Iran's Missile System is Complete  -  Can Also Reach the USA   Israel Today News  Feb 4th     Iran has completed the development of a nuclear weapon and awaits nothing more than a sign from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to start assembling its first nuclear device, said Israeli Military Intelligence Chief Major General Aviv Kochavi on Thursday. Assembling a bomb would take up to a year, Kochavi estimated. With 100 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 percent grade and another 4 tons of uranium enriched to 3.5 percent already in stock, Iran would need another two years to make four nuclear weapons.   Therefore, by the end of 2012
or early 2013 Iran may have a single nuclear weapon, but by 2015 the figure would jump to four or five.  
    The officer was essentially amplifying the words of his predecessor, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, who said on Jan. 26 that as long ago as 2007 or 2008, Iran had already passed the point of no return in developing nuclear weapons.   Kochavi agreed with him that none of the sanctions imposed thus far had persuaded Iran to slow down, least of all shut down, its drive for a nuclear weapon.   His comments coincided with the findings published Thursday by the Enterprise Institute, an American think tank, that Iran would be able to manufacture a 15-kiloton nuclear weapon as soon as August of this year, just seven months from now.Please pray that Iran's nuclear weapons program will be dealt a severe blow
7. Heavy rains raise level of Sea of Galilee   ICEJ News   Feb 1st    A wet January which saw several days of heavy rain and snow have raised the level of the Sea of Galilee by 55 centimeters, although it remained 10 centimeters below the "bottom red line" and is not yet out of danger. Rains continued in many parts of the country on Wednesday giving Israelis hope that the Sea and other main sources of fresh water in the country will make a further recovery from years of severe drought.   Please pray that the rain will continue to fall until the Spring
*  Recommended U-Tube Video Clips  *               
         An excellent 60 min expose on the Israel / Arab Conflict over the land   http://www.glennbeck.com/content/blog/glenn/rumorsofwar/         For a concise look at Israel's right to the land   www.GivePeaceAChance.info
         For a clear exposition of the issue of the borders, FYI.    http://www.youtube.com/user/TheJerusalemCenter .
              
        Jan Willem van der Hoeven speaking at  IRI 2011    http://youtu.be/Jt601Euxz8A
         Israels Great Financial Future   http://www.out-of-zion.com/audio/Hal%20Lindsay.wmv
         Glen Beck Encourages Christians to stand with Israel    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG6jPq1z97s&feature=player_embedded
         Glen Beck interview  FOX NEWS interview   http://www.out-of-zion.com/audio/Glenn%20Beck.wmv  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63hTOaRu7h4&feature=player_embedded#at=103
          Melanie Phillips Interview on Israel TV news   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4dksiRW-Yg   
         The Identity of the Messiah in the Hebrew Scriptures   http://www.youtube.com/user/israelmedia1#p/a/u/1/mQFWi6cCUtY
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbIQto3KPUM&eurl
        85 other YouTube videos about Israel at:     http://www.jr.co.il/videos/israel-videos.htm

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Street life: diary of an SA drug trafficker

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02nd Feb 2012

NOTE: I PRAY that the following article will be a wake up call to fellow brothers and sisters to pray like never before concerning the drug industry and for those who are about to take drugs or are in it to walk away.  Drugs is one of the worst substances on the face of the earth!  Whilst it breaks up families and destroys lives it makes drug dealers rich.  There are no happy stories or happy endings when it comes to drugs!

PLEASE WALK AWAY FROM DRUGS AND WARN YOUR CHILDREN, FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

My own mistakes have led me to where I am today. My grandmother gave me the best education she could afford, the best of everything. I have a five-year-old daughter and smoked throughout my pregnancy. I met my baby daddy in the brothel. He was white and a foreigner and now works in Thailand, of all places. It didn’t work out, unfortunately, because I’m a druggy. But I have a beautiful five-year-old girl who needs me and I need her. My daughter’s at home with my grandparents and by the grace of God I’ve never brought her here.

I’m from south of Jo’burg. My family life was normal, nothing out of the ordinary, but in my first semester at varsity, I was given my school fees in a lump sum and I blew part of it. I didn’t blow the money on drugs or anything. It was alcohol, partying. In my first semester I had less than R10,000 in my account and that wasn’t going to cover me pretending to be going to school. I thought I could make the money. I was kind of desperate and while browsing the newspaper, I found an ad which happened to be for a brothel but it was disguised as a massage parlour.

I went for an interview and that’s when I found out it was a brothel. The money seemed very enticing. They said you can make R15,000 a month working part-time. I started working there and convinced my grandparents that I was going to be staying at res.

That was a hell of an experience because that’s where I got into drugs. Smoking clients want a smoking girl. There’s a lot of money in the brothels. We’d be 18 girls in one house, a beautiful mansion in the suburbs. The guy would come in, wait at the bar area and get to meet each of the girls, in lingerie, personally. Then he’d pick one.

For me it was fun because it was a different experience all together. In the brothel, it’s not about looks or weight or your body or how good you are, it’s about personal preference, what a guy prefers and if you’re willing to play out his fantasies. You’re not forced to do everything. You choose what you will do and how far you’re willing to go. I did everything aside from anal and chocolate showers (it has nothing to do with chocolate, or a shower – GN). I did golden showers. It was fun because I learnt a whole lot of new things. I got to find myself sexually. I got to find out what I like and dislike.

There was a lot of money and you’re supposed to use that job as a stepping-stone to something better. Now I got into the drugging so that was going to be impossible. It’s not easy to discipline yourself when you’re in a brothel in terms of not drugging because the majority of the clients are on drugs. They come and will be drugging while they book you. A guy will come and book you for five hours because he’s busy smoking. Some of them don’t even touch you. They just want the company.

There’s a lot of drugging in the brothels. A lot. It’s difficult to say that you won’t drug because you’ll lose out on a lot of money. A client will never take a non-smoker because it’s going to be awkward when your client is busy smoking if you’re sober-minded.

The crap part is that when you working in a brothel and get money all the time, huge amounts – days aren’t the same; sometimes you’re busy; sometimes you’re not – then you deceive yourself into thinking, “Ah man, I’ll work tomorrow and cover the R2,000 I just blew.”

I met this friend of mine, her name was Lebo, and she was smoking. She was on heroin and crack. That’s when I started with the heroin. She used to lace it in a joint with weed and it would fuck me up like nobody’s business. Then I started with the crack and it escalated. We had a dealer who used to come for us. I learnt of the Sands in Hillbrow and learnt that I could score the drugs cheaper around here.

There’s this hotel here on Tudhope Ave. There was a white guy staying there. He was kind of a supervisor. He was into trafficking. He wasn’t a smoker but he was into trafficking. He only used to smoke himself up when he came back from trafficking. He’s the one that got me into it. I started locally, travelling to Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and KZN. I started with the ganja. That was simple because (the dealers) find a way to hide it in your luggage. I could take a taxi to KZN no problems. I would arrive and drop it off. I didn’t collect the money. They have their own way of knowing that the drop-off has been made and then I would come back.

He started using me to do his jobs. He thought he was clever. I was doing his work without his bosses knowing. Then he’d give me a small cut of what he was getting and I didn’t know. For me it was fun. At the time it was exhilarating. I loved the risk, the risk involved with doing this shit.

Then I started with smaller things. I was carrying moons – crack cocaine, it comes in moons and half moon blocks. I was carrying them from this flat up to the Sands. The Nigerian would be walking in front; I would follow him innocently, just casually walking with 10 moons on me. Half a moon costs R1,800. One Nigerian guy would be selling to another one. He would cut them up into smaller portions and make a killing out of it. I take them from here to way up there, maybe 10 blocks away, because the risk involved with the cops. Any Nigerian who walks around gets searched like mad, but for an innocent passer-by like me, the risk is minimal.

Then it would be the grams of cocaine or heroin. Then the (white guy) introduced me to the (traffickers) and I was baffled as to how I was going to move this stuff. They said, “Don’t worry, we’ll hide it.” But I’m a smoker as well and that used to be a problem because the Nigerians, they don’t want a smoker because it’s risky giving an addict drugs to take somewhere. But I never made any shit. Anyway, the first place I went to was Polokwane, Limpopo.

I carried the biggest consignment I had. It was 10kg of coke and some heroin. I had it in my luggage and in the seams of my clothes. They made small incisions in my jeans and put some stuff in there. It was all over me and my luggage. But that was easy because I would just jump in the taxi and go to Limpopo. There were no roadblocks and no one was going to search me. I got off at the taxi rank and went to the hotel where I was supposed to go.

There were roadblocks a few times. But they’d just check the driver out, randomly search the car. Our police system this side isn’t that up-to-date because the roadblocks are just a waste of time. They don’t do thorough searches. Most of the time I feel they don’t know what they’re searching for. There I am sitting in a car and this cop will be flirting with me rather than searching. There’ll be female cops more into bribery than doing their job. The fear would be there, but you just have to pray to God that everything goes smoothly. I would be scared shitless when I’d see cops but I’d have to be focused and not give it away.

It continued and continued and continued. They would tell me where I have to go. They’d give me money depending on how much I carried, but the most I would make would be R8,000. For me it was a lot because it’s like two days of my time and with that I would come back. They introduced the opportunity of going overseas but I was scared. Anything to do with an airport made me scared. I was not yet ready. Especially given that I would withdraw because I’m on heroin so I have withdrawal symptoms. There’s no smoking when you are going there.

The dealer screwed me over. There was a consignment that I took to the border of Mozambique. I was scared of crossing the border so just met the guy there. I was supposed to get R28,000 but all I got was R18,000. Once I got there, the officials thought it didn’t make sense for me to go all the way to the border and turn back. I had to sweet talk my way out of it, like, “I’m coming to meet my boyfriend. He’s supposed to give me something and I’ll go back home.” I was withdrawing like shit because I didn’t realise how many hours it would take to get me there. I found out afterwards that I was supposed to get R28,000. That’s when the whole problem started.

I stopped with the trafficking. With all of the hype, I was scared. I was terrified. The risk was just not that exhilarating for me. In any case, when I took the stuff, I had to get high so that I would overcome that fear I had and get an adrenaline rush. When I’m high, I feel I can do anything, like I’m on top of the world. But I didn’t trust them anymore and I didn’t know how long they’d been screwing me over. That’s when I realised that I was doing work that normal people sometimes get double what I’m getting. When he screwed me over, I stopped and continued with minor stuff, consignments around Hillbrow. Then I got into testing.

The Nigerians approached me. Before they purchase the stuff I have to test it to see if it is stuff and the quality of it. It’s dangerous but there are ways around it. I don’t just smoke it. The heroin for example, I put it on the foil and burn it first to check if it is heroin. If it is, then I’ll pull and tell the guys the quality and whether they should buy it or not.

This whole syndicate is run by Nigerians. The police will arrest a Zimbabwean guy on the street for fraud not knowing he has a Nigerian boss. The Nigerians have got us all like puppets working for them. They make the money. We do the dirty work for them but they’re the ones that are running this show. Myself, I’ll go and do credit card fraud. He’ll drive me there and stay in the parking lot. I’ll enter. I’ll swipe, come back, get in the car and give him the stuff. He’s going to give me a cut of what I’ve just gone to do. That’s how it works here.

I have a couple of bosses that I’m testing for but they rarely pay me. To them, what they give me is payment enough. But sometimes they bring me shit and what am I gaining? There are many times that they’ve brought shit that wasn’t even the drug itself and had I not been cautious and checked it first, who knows, I could have died.

When they are desperate they treat me well. But they do get big-headed when they see that I’m in a desperate situation. For example, if I’m sick in the morning, they don’t beg because they know that I need them more right now. They actually need me more because I could screw them over. If I tell them that the stuff’s good and they go and blow R30,000 on heroin and it’s shit, then I’m in trouble. But obviously I’m scared because they’ll kill me in a split second. Trust me, they’ll kill me.

I do want to stop but I have this fear of failure after everything my family has done for me. I’ve been on this shit for too damn long and have experienced too many things. For me, it’s just not worth it anymore. It’s not worth going to Limpopo or going to wherever for the eight grand and blowing it on a hotel, drugs and some nice clothes; a week later I’ll be penniless again. It’s getting really lame. DM

Time is running out!

THE KING of kings IS RETURNING SOON!  HE SAYS HE RELENTS IN SENDING JUDGEMENT BUT RATHER TO HAVE HUMANITY REPENT, TURN AWAY FROM YOUR EVIL WAYS, ACCEPT THE SACRIFICE YESHUA/JESUS GAVE OF HIMSELF AND HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE KING AND BE PROTECTED FROM HIS WRATH TO COME!

New SA bill to allow bugging of citizens - South Africa's China moment: Spies bid for new powers

NOTE: THIS IS NOT GOOD!

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A storm is brewing over a draft Bill to be processed by Parliament this year that will legalise the bugging of citizens without a warrant in some circumstances and widen the scope of "counterintelligence" activities.

The Intelligence General Laws Amendment Bill has been attacked as "a major U-turn in government policy" and for largely ignoring the recommendations of the 2008 Matthews Commission, which highlighted unconstitutional provisions in South Africa's intelligence laws.

Against the backdrop of other planned legislation that bolsters spies and weakens civil society, including the Protection of State Information Bill (the secrecy Bill), fears were expressed that the legislation is part of a broader drift towards a "security state" under President Jacob Zuma.

It is seen as marking the transformation from an intelligence mindset where the intelligence services are neutral gatherers of information which is passed to the executive to adjust policy or take action, to a state security mindset in which the agency views its role as countering "enemies of the state".

Published in the Government Gazette late last year, the Bill seeks to create a single intelligence body, the State Security Agency (SSA), by amalgamating existing intelligence structures, including the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the South African Secret Service (SASS).

It also gives legal recognition to the little-known National Communications Centre, which has the capacity for bulk interception of communications and will be subject to minimal legal restraint. The NIA is responsible for domestic intelligence gathering and the SASS for intelligence gathering abroad.

'Excessively secretive'
This week intelligence expert Laurie Nathan, director of Pretoria University's Centre for Mediation, called for the Bill to be the subject of public hearings and added that the joint standing committee on intelligence, whose members would dominate the ad hoc committee that would process the Bill, was "excessively secretive".

"The parliamentarians on this committee are reluctant to play a rigorous oversight role, which is their constitutional obligation, and there's a failure to involve Parliament and the public in the oversight process," Nathan said. The standing committee had refused to discuss the Matthews Commission report on the grounds that "it had not been properly presented to Cabinet by former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils", he said.

Nathan served on the commission.

Standing committee chairperson Cecil Burgess, who also led Parliament's ad hoc committee on the secrecy Bill, could not be contacted for comment this week.

Brian Dube, spokesperson for State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, said on Thursday that the Matthews report had been taken into account in drafting the Bill, which was "a critical step in the quest to provide a sound legal footing for government's efforts to develop a new intelligence dispensation … geared for the dynamic and evolving challenges of the 21st century".

The Bill amends three existing intelligence laws and repeals another to accommodate the establishment of the SSA. Its purpose, it says, is "to address the proliferation of security structures" that had "the unintended consequence of duplicating several support functions" and "a negative effect on service delivery of the intelligence services".

However, the proposed concentration of power prompted complaints by the Democratic Alliance's spokesperson on intelligence, David Maynier, that the government was reversing the approach of the 1995 white paper on intelligence, which stated that the most significant departure from the apartheid dispensation was that, "instead of one centralised, national civilian intelligence organisation, there will
be two".

This arrangement, according to the white paper, "will not only ensure that the new intelligence dispensation in South Africa corresponds with general international trends but will promote greater focusing, effectiveness, professionalism and expertise in the specialised fields of domestic and foreign intelligence".

Maynier, one of the DA's representatives on the ad hoc committee, said his party was still studying the legislation.

Boss is back
"But," he said, "it takes us back to the bad old days of the Bureau for State Security -- Boss is back.

"What worries me is that there seems to be a process of 'Stasification' under way in the state security department. The spooks appear to be becoming more centralised, more politicised and more secret."

Likely to cause controversy is a provision in the Bill allowing the SSA to intercept "foreign signals intelligence". This will, for the first time, provide a legal basis for the work of the National Communications Centre, an obscure, high-tech facility set up in Gauteng in the 1990s. By 2008 it boasted a staff complement of about 300.

The centre's telecommunications and computer equipment can intercept and analyse large volumes of voice and internet traffic, both indiscriminately by listening for keywords and in a targeted way by focusing on individual phone numbers, email addresses and even voice prints.

To date, the centre has operated outside national legislation, including the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Act (Rica), which allows interception only with a judge's warrant. It has relied on the loophole that it supposedly intercepts "foreign" communications only, which is not regulated by domestic law.

Et tu, Twitter?
However, in practice, the centre has defined "foreign signals" to include cross-border communications where one of the parties is in South Africa and the other abroad. And, because of the globalised nature of internet traffic, many emails, voice-over-internet conversations and communication via social media such as Facebook and Twitter -- even if both end parties are in South Africa -- would also be vulnerable.

The current Bill attempts to introduce a definition of "foreign signals intelligence" that will allow the warrant-free tapping of cross-border communications to continue. The definition includes "any communication that emanates from outside the borders of the Republic or passes through or ends in the Republic".

The centre's capabilities have been abused in the past to target South African citizens. The 2005/2006 investigation by Zola Ngcakani, inspector general of intelligence, of the "hoax emails" saga -- an example of the intelligence services being dragged into the ANC succession battle -- found that the centre had been used to target individuals domestically.

Nathan said this week that he was concerned that the Bill failed to address other constitutional defects identified by the commission, including the failure of intelligence statutes to regulate all intrusive operations.

Merely by its definition of key terms, the draft legislation conferred “substantive powers on the intelligence services”, he said.

Widening definitions
An analysis of successive intelligence laws underlines the gradual widening of the counterintelligence function in legislation.

The National Strategic Intelligence Act of 1994 defines counterintelligence as "measures and activities conducted, instituted or taken to impede and to neutralise the effectiveness of foreign or hostile intelligence operations, to protect classified intelligence and to counter subversion, sabotage and terrorism aimed at, or against personnel, strategic installations or resources of the Republic".

This was amended in 2003 to extend the protection of intelligence from classified intelligence only to any intelligence, to add treason to the activities to be countered, and to add security screening to the counter-intelligence function.

The current Bill broadens the concept of counterintelligence by adding sedition to the activities to be countered, widens "terrorism" to "terrorist and related activities", and removes the requirement that the subversion, sedition, treason, terrorist and related activities must be directed at personnel, installations or resources of the state.

Nathan said that a further problem was that the terms "impede", "neutralise" and "counter" were not defined.

But in one respect, the Bill was an improvement on existing intelligence law, Nathan said: it borrowed almost verbatim the definition of national security proposed by the Matthews Commission. This excluded "lawful political activity, advocacy, protest or dissent" from the list of threats to national security.

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A letter of understanding was issued by Lungisa Fuzile, the treasury director general, on January 24, paving the way for the investigators to begin their work.

Fuzile confirmed the letter to the Mail & Guardian, but said the treasury was "not in a position to comment on the investigation". He referred the M&G to the SIU, which was not prepared to comment.

This is the first time treasury has commissioned the SIU to investigate irregularities in the province. It follows a decision by the Cabinet on December 8 last year to effectively take over the cash-strapped Limpopo government and bring five of its 11 departments under administration.

Within weeks of the books being opened, the province was declared bankrupt and a trail of maladministration and gross abuse of public funds uncovered.

Considerable overlap
It is expected that there will be considerable overlap between the SIU investigation instigated by treasury and the probes that are already under way into the financial affairs and business dealings of ANC Youth League president Julius Malema who, together with his friend and political ally Premier Cassel Mathale, is highly influential in the province.

The two have been linked to a string of companies that have been trading off the public purse for a number of years. Last year the M&G revealed how On-Point Engineering, part-owned by Malema, had secured a programme management contract at the provincial transport department through which tenders were doled out to friends and party cronies, as well as to business partners of Mathale.

The M&G later exposed attempts on Malema's part to pressurise staff at the local health department to pay out on multimillion-rand contracts that were being investigated for fraud. Both men have also built impressive property portfolios and lived lavish lifestyles that eventually demanded scrutiny.

The SIU has not been given a deadline to complete the latest probe and it is too early to predict what consequences, if any, its findings might have.

However, in a recent radio interview, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said "there certainly will be consequences if there is wrongdoing, including putting people through the necessary disciplinary processes or criminal processes".

It first had to be established "whether the evidence really strongly and decisively takes us in that particular direction".

Gordhan is due to brief the National Council of Provinces on the intervention and its progress in Parliament on Thursday.