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Sarkozy threatens 'consequences' as Russia stalls on Georgia pullout | World news | guardian.co.uk

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- Sarkozy threatens 'consequences' as Russia stalls on Georgia pullout
- French president demands Moscow honour ceasefire as Medvedev pledges troops will begin withdrawal tomorrow
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- - Ian Traynor in Brussels and Luke Harding in Tbilisi
    
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    Sunday August 17 2008
  - European leaders warned Russia today to withdraw forces rapidly from Georgia or face unspecified "consequences", as Moscow stalled on its pledges to honour a ceasefire and pull back thousands of troops from the Caucasus republic.
  - With the US and European governments due to meet on Tuesday to consider their options for the first time since the crisis erupted, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, threatened the Kremlin with an ultimatum for the first time, warning that more delays to a pullout "would have serious consequences on relations between Russia and the European Union".
  - The French warning echoed similar statements from the Americans in recent days, none of which appear to have rattled the Russians, whose forces remain in firm control of large tracts of Georgia well beyond the two separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
  - "People are going to begin to wonder if Russia can be trusted," Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said today of the Russian failure to keep its promises.
  - The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, added her voice to the pressure on Moscow after holding talks with the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, in the capital, Tbilisi. She described a Russian retreat as "urgent" and said it should be "very fast, very prompt".
  - In Moscow, President Dmitri Medvedev told Sarkozy the Russians would start pulling out tomorrow. But there is a yawning gap between what the Russians and the west understand by withdrawal.
  - Today, Russian forces appeared to be entrenching their positions on the ground barely 20 miles from Tbilisi.
  - Nato foreign ministers are to hold an emergency meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.
  - The Americans could call for a suspension of the Nato-Russia council, a talking shop that dates back more than a decade and symbolises the post-cold war rapprochement that has been shaken by the invasion of Georgia.
  - The conflict has reopened old rifts among the western allies that recall the old Europe-new Europe divisions over the Iraq war in 2003.
  - France and Germany are keen to maintain smooth relations with Moscow and fear the EU's mediation role will be jeopardised if they take sides.
  - The eastern Europeans in Nato and the EU are strongly on the side of Georgia, looking not to Brussels, Paris or Berlin but to Washington for leadership.
  - The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, slammed France and Germany for being too soft on Moscow and complained they were trying to monopolise the EU position.
  - France was unapologetic. "We have to invent a new language with regard to Russia. That is what the European Union is trying to do," said Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister.
  - Sarkozy, the current EU president who negotiated a six-point ceasefire agreement with the Russians and Georgians last week, called for the "withdrawal, without delay, of all the Russian military forces that entered Georgia since August 7" when the fighting started.
  - The Russians, with an estimated 10,000 troops and 150 tanks in Georgia, show no intention of withdrawing the entire invasion force and are planning to leave troops in Georgia proper, beyond the two pro-Russian breakaway provinces.
  - The Kremlin announced that from tomorrow "Russia will begin the withdrawal of the military contingent which was moved to reinforce Russian peacekeepers after the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia." But it stressed that the invasion force would not retreat to Russia but only to South Ossetia, and that Moscow would keep forces in the "security zone".
  - The Russians intend to establish buffer zones in previously Georgian-controlled territory beyond South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
  - One of the most contentious points of Sarkozy's ceasefire plan allows Moscow "to take additional security measures" beyond the two enclaves until "an international mechanism" is established.
  - Sarkozy said this weekend that meant there could be no Russian presence in Georgian urban centres. But the Russians take the point as carte blanche to mount security patrols outside South Ossetia and to keep forces deployed in Georgia.
  - Saakashvili insisted today that he would not be happy until the last Russian soldier had left. "Georgia will never give up a square kilometer of its territory," he said.
  - The "international mechanism", entailing perhaps UN-mandated international peacekeepers, will take weeks to establish at a minimum.
  - The EU is endeavouring to be the main middleman. But apart from perhaps sending a few dozen unarmed ceasefire monitors in the days ahead, it is unlikely to grapple with the bigger issues of peacekeepers until EU foreign ministers meet in Avignon in France next month.
NATO freezes Russian ties over Georgia | U.S. | Reuters

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- By Mark John and Francois Murphy
- The statement did not explicitly refer to a U.S. demand to suspend contacts within the six-year-old NATO-Russia Council (NRC), but NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said it was clear such contacts could not take place at present.
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- - "As long as Russian forces are basically occupying a large part of Georgia I cannot see a NATO-Russia Council convening at whatever level," he told a news conference.
  - "But I should add that we certainly do not have the intention to close all doors in our communication with Russia," he said, after several European allies including Britain and Germany expressed doubts about cutting off links with Moscow.
  - The NATO statement drew sharp condemnation from Moscow, where Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the alliance of bias and wanting to support a "criminal regime" in Tbilisi.
  - "Certainly there will be a lot of changes in our cooperation with NATO and we will have changes in the volume, the quality and the timeframe in our consultations and meetings," Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said in Brussels.
Olmert: Let Foreigners Help Change Status of Jerusalem - Politics & Government - Israel News - Arutz Sheva

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- Olmert: Let Foreigners Help Change Status of Jerusalem
- by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
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- - (IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has proposed to Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that the international community participate in helping to determine the status of Jerusalem.
  - He will meet with Abbas on Sunday, probably for the last time before Kadima party members go to the polls in less than three weeks to elect his replacement.
  - The international community's role would be that of advisors, but would give it large media exposure in attempts to divide the city and make it a shared capital of both Israel and a new Arab country.
  - Leaders of the European Union (EU) and other Western countries have suggested that Jews not have exclusive sovereignty over its holy sites in the city.
  - Yasser Arafat, Abbas's predecessor, rejected a similar offer by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 2000. His rejection of the proposal stemming from the Oslo Agreements helped spark the Oslo War, also referred to as the "second intifiada,"
  - Prime Minister Olmert as recently as two years ago stated that Jerusalem is Israel's "undivided and eternal" capital, and the Shas party has said several times it will leave the coalition and topple the government if the status of Jerusalem is negotiated.
  - However, the Prime Minister has successfully maneuvered negotiations around this obstacle while the Knesset remains out of session, and the media generally has avoided restraining him or questioning him or Shas on its previous promises.
  - Technically, the agreement could allow Shas to claim that Prime Minister Olmert only is placing into effect a mechanism to discuss the status of Jerusalem in the future and that dividing the city is not being negotiated at the moment.
  - Possible international monitors under consideration are Jordan, the Vatican, Egypt and the Quartet, which includes Russia, the United Nations, the United States and the EU.
  - Prime Minister Olmert's proposal calls for a final status agreement to be reached within five years. If Abbas agrees, the deal could effectively bind the next government through international pressure.
Dissecting The New Age: The Trinity of Global Empire

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- Any American who thinks they are living in a free country does not have a clue.
- The fact is that the United States corporation is controlled from the City of London, by the Crown, which is not the British Monarchy as many believe,
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- - but rather the private corporation that is the inner 'City of London' itself, also commonly known as "The City" or "The Square Mile."
  - This square mile that makes up the center of Greater London has its own mayor, laws, courts, flag, police force and newspaper. It is the heart of the global financial system.
  - Vatican City also has its own mayor (called the Governatorate), laws, flag, postal service, newspaper, radio and television stations, and even its own prison.
  - Another thing these three city-states have in common are their own obelisks.
  - Obelisks are tall, four-sided shafts of stone which taper at the top in a pyramidal fashion. The obelisk is phallic in its appearance and represents the male penis.
  - It is symbolic of the Egyptian sun god, Ra, and is an ancient symbol of male energy and generation (G) in Freemasonry.
  - Vatican obelisk: Located in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican obelisk was moved from Egypt to its current location in 1586.
  - The circle at the base on the obelisk represents the female vagina and thus male/female duality.
  - Also notice the lines extending from the circle, forming a Union Jack as seen on the British flag.
  - London obelisk (aka Cleopatra's Needle): Located on the banks of the River Thames, this obelisk was transported to London and erected in 1878 under the reign of Queen Victoria.
  - The obelisk originally stood in the Egyptian city of On, or Heliopolis (the City of the Sun).
  - The Knights Templars' land extended to this area of the Thames, where the Templars had their own docks.
  - Either side of the obelisk is surrounded by a sphinx, also symbolism dating back to the ancient world.
  - Washington Obelisk (aka Washington Monument): Standing at 555 feet, the Washington Monument is the tallest obelisk in the world and also the tallest standing structure in Washington DC.
  - The monument's cornerstone, a 12-ton slab of marble, was donated by the Grand Lodge of Freemasons.
  - Like the Vatican obelisk, the Washington monument too is surrounded by a circle denoting the female.
  - The reflecting pool in front of the monument signifies the ancient Masonic/Kabbalistic dictum, as above/so below.
  - We must first go back to the Knights Templar and their initial 200-year reign of power.
  - So how are these three cities ultimately connected?
  - The Knights Templar were first called "the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon."
  - This is a blatantly misleading title, considering the immense wealth and power of the Templars, who operated 9,000 manors across Europe and owned all the mills and markets.
  - It was the Templars that issued the first paper money for public use in Europe, establishing the fiat banking system we know today.
  - In England, the Templars established their headquarters at a London temple, which still exists today and is called Temple Bar.
  - This is located in the City of London, between Fleet Street and Victoria Embankment.
  - The aforementioned "Crown," to be exact, is the Knights Templar church, also known as the Crown Temple. It is the Crown Temple that controls the legal/court system of the US, Canada and many other countries.
  - All bar associations are directly linked to the International Bar Association and the Inns of Court at Crown Temple in the City of London.
  - Anytime you hear somebody refer to the Bar Association, they are talking about a British/Masonic system that has nothing to do with a country's sovereignty or the constitutional rights of its people.
  - This is why, when you go to court in the US, you see the US flag with a gold fringe, denoting international rule.
  - The government of the United States, Canada and Britain are all subsidiaries of the crown, as is the Federal Reserve in the US.
  - The ruling Monarch in England is also subordinate to the Crown.
  - The global financial and legal system is controlled from the City of London by the Crown. The square mile making up the center of Greater London is the global seat of power, at least at the visible level.
  - The Temple Bar consists of what are called Inns of Court.
  - There are four Inns of Court as follows: Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn.
  - It is believed that the Inner Temple controls the legal system of Canada and Britain while the Middle Temple controls the legal system of the United States, though all Inns are themselves controlled by the same few at the top.
  - Most Americans (and people in general) believe the US declared independence from Britain when this is simply not the case.
  - Of the signatories to the Declaration of Independence, at least five of them were Temple Bar attorneys, all of whom had sworn allegiance to the Crown.
  - Alexander Hamilton was one of the Middle Crown agents during the formation of the US and was assigned to set up the American banking system on orders from the Crown, to control the United States.
  - In fact a 'State' is a legal entity of the Crown. This is why we also have the STATE of Israel.
  - Furthermore, of the members of the Constitutional Convention that signed the completed US Constitution, seven were Middle Inn Templars who had also pledged allegiance to the Crown.
  - Therefore, it is no coincidence that today copies of both the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution hang on the wall in the library of of the Middle Temple in London.
  - To put it all in context, it is the Crown that controls the global financial system and runs the governments of all Commonwealth countries, and many non-Commonwealth 'Western' nations as well.
  - The Crown traces back to the Vatican, which is headed by the Pope, who is the figurehead for the real powers that be behind the curtain, some of which are known but many of which are completely unknown to the general public.
Millennium Ark: The World's Next Superpower

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- The World's Next Superpower
- America's stunning decline is awakening a beast.
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- - October 16, 2009
    
    Stephen Flurry
    
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  - Numerous Bible prophecies spotlight a system of successive world-ruling Gentile kingdoms that culminate in the return of Jesus Christ. These successive “beasts,” as they are called, are discussed throughout the Bible, but especially in four prophetic chapters: Daniel 2 and 7, and Revelation 13 and 17.
  - Daniel 2 describes four successive world-ruling empires: the Chaldean Empire, followed by Medo-Persia, then Greco-Macedonia, and finally the Roman Empire.
  - These four kingdoms were prophesied to continue in succession right up to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
  - In Daniel 7, the prophet describes four beasts, again representing four Gentile kingdoms, but with special emphasis on the fourth-the Roman Empire.
  - This beast has 10 horns, which “are ten kings that shall arise” out of, or after, the Roman Empire (verse 24).
  - Daniel also describes a “little horn” which grew among the 10 horns and uprooted the first three (verse 8).
  - The meaning of this prophecy is made plain in the book of Revelation.
  - Revelation 13 only discusses one beast-representing the fourth and final kingdom, the Roman Empire. This beast had seven heads and ten horns, one head of which received a deadly wound.
  - The Roman Empire existed from 31 B.C. to A.D. 476, at which point the kingdom was crushed.
  - But its deadly wound was healed just as John prophesied (verse 3).
  - There were to be 10 resurrections to come out of that Roman Empire (just as Daniel said), the first three of which were uprooted by the “little horn”-implying that they were not altogether Roman, but nevertheless ruled within the ancient Roman territory after the empire collapsed. And that's what happened.
  - Three barbaric tribes did rule in the region before Justinian restored the Roman Empire in A.D. 554 and effectively “healed” the deadly wound.
  - In this chapter, once again John describes a beast with seven heads, but none of these heads is wounded.
  - Revelation 17 fills in the remaining details.
  - This time a woman, which throughout the Bible symbolizes a church, is riding the beast. She is called a whore in verse 1, and therefore symbolizes a great false church that rides, or heavily influences, this geopolitical beast.
  - When Justinian recognized the supremacy of the pope in 554, the Roman Empire was revived. And because of its close association with the Vatican, it eventually assumed the name Holy Roman Empire.
  - Comparing the historical record with these prophecies makes the meaning undeniably clear.
  - Counting Justinian's empire, there have been six major, historically documented resurrections of the so-called Holy Roman Empire-all of which have been heavily influenced, and in some cases dominated, by the Vatican.
  - The seventh prophesied empire is now forming in the heart of Europe.
  - An Unstable Mixture
  - Those who scoff at the thought of Europe's disparate group of social democracies ever becoming the world's next superpower fail to realize that this is exactly how God said it would happen!
  - Daniel 2 describes the final resurrection of the Roman Empire as being an unstable mixture of iron and clay.
  - And we are now in the early stages of economic emergency that will bring these many nations together as the world's next superpower.
  - The Bible says they will receive their power for “one hour with the beast”-a period that only lasts for about 2½ years. Though short-lived, this awakening beast will display all of the iron-like strength and force of its Roman predecessors.
  - The stunning demise of the United States as the world's lone superpower is only hastening along these prophetic realities.
  - As Charles Krauthammer explains in his latest essay, Washington's radical swing left has set the United States “on course for decline.”
  - In fact, the United States has been on this course for some time now-long before President Obama moved into the White House. But it is true that this radical administration is helping to accelerate America's demise as a world power.
  - The new liberalism, as Krauthammer calls it, envisions a much weaker, less dominant America that plays on a level field with every other nation.
  - And as it happens, this abandonment of international primacy abroad perfectly complements the massive expansion of Euro-style domestic programs at home.
  - “At a time when hundreds of billions of dollars are being lavished on stimulus and other appropriations in an endless array of domestic programs, the defense budget is practically frozen,” he writes.
  - The Europeans, on the other hand, “made the choice long ago to devote their resources to a vast welfare state. Their expenditures on defense are minimal, as are their consequent military capacities.”
  - They've been able to afford their social democracies, Krauthammer explains, so long as America has been able to police the world.
  - But who will stand guard for America if we abandon our military might in favor of massive domestic expenditures, Krauthammer wonders.
  - Of equal concern, prophetically speaking, what will Europe-the world's largest economy-do once it realizes that America no longer has its back?
  - Prophecy tells!
  - As soon as that motley mix of iron and clay coalesces together in support of its prophesied emperor, working in cahoots with the church in Rome, a beast will reawaken in the heart of Europe and turn its attention outward, breaking in pieces “all things,” Daniel prophesied
  - This will be the seventh and final resurrection of the “Holy” Roman Empire.
  - Immediately after that, Jesus Christ will establish God's government on Earth!
    
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