The French Foreign Office reports that French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said this week that, during the European Council meeting on 29-30 October, "the general lines of the European External Action Service will be sketched, in other words the future EU 'Foreign Affairs Minister'. This [diplomatic] service will have to put its members at the core of the Commission, the Council's Secretary General, but also of the 27 member states."

"The credibility and effectiveness of European diplomacy will depend on its ability to analyse and act. The biggest mistake would be to create new European bureaucracy." The paper also reports that the UK is also looking TO INTEGRATE MEMBER STATES' MILITARY CONTINGENT IN BRUSSELS INTO THE EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICE.

The French Foreign Office quotes Bernard Kouchner saying the Lisbon Treaty, "will lead to an influential Europe that will be able to make its voice heard on the international scene because it will be more effective and visible with a stable President of the Council and... a High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and a security policy benefiting from reinforced means of actions, A TRUE EUROPEAN DEFENCE POLICY, and the necessary conditions for powerful diplomacy. Can the diplomat do without the soldier...? I don't think so."

An ambulance crew arrived and called for help, only to be told by their operator that under strict meal break regulations the closest additional crew still had a few minutes left on their lunch break. The paramedics were informed it would take 20 minutes for another crew to arrive. In the end one of them called their colleagues directly and they abandoned their lunch and raced to help. They arrived only five minutes after the original crew and took Bethany to hospital.

An ambulance worker, who asked not be named, said: 'There isn't one staff member who would not go, but we have to be given two 30-minute meal breaks and can't be interrupted. It's a joke.' Bethany's father Stephen 48, of Poole, Dorset, said: 'THE WORLD REALLY HAS GONE MAD.'

A spokesman for the South Western Ambulance Service Trust said it took its health and safety duties seriously. He added: 'In line with national guidelines which must be adhered to by all ambulance trusts, it is important all staff have dedicated 30-minute rest breaks which cannot be interrupted.'

- The G-20 countries, now largely in control of the world's economic caretaking, are turning the US into just one of many countries setting the rules for our future.

- Behind closed doors, Arab Gulf States are seriously considering replacing the dollar for pricing oil.

- The UN Commission of Experts on International Financial Reports is now recommending that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency and replace it with a basket of currencies.

- China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan is calling for a new global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

- A host of leading and Nobel prize-winning economists — such as Robert Mundell, Joseph Stiglitz, George Soros and fund manager Jimmy Rogers — are making similar arguments and doing so with growing influence.

Make no mistake about it — the world's monetary system is on the verge of dramatically changing.

Washington's Tower of Debts - If the government could somehow pay off that debt at the rate of $100 million PER DAY, it would take 3,446 years before the total government debts and obligations are paid off. Even if Washington were to pay off $1 billion per day, it would still take nearly 345 years to pay off those debts!

Patently unsustainable debts? Yes! Patently unpayable? You bet it is! Of course, Washington will never default outright on its obligations. But it doesn't have to. By devaluing the dollar, Washington can effectively pay off its debts with a cheaper currency.

"This deficit is driven by us," New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg candidly said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union when asked about the federal government's projected $1.42 trillion operating deficit for the 2009 fiscal year.

"You talk about systemic risk. The systemic risk today is the Congress of the United States," the Ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, "that we're creating these massive debts which we're passing on to our children. We're going to undermine fundamentally the quality of life for our children by doing this."

The figures, Gregg told King, "MEAN WE'RE BASICALLY ON THE PATH TO A BANANA-REPUBLIC-TYPE OF FINANCIAL SITUATION IN THIS COUNTRY. And you just can't do that. You can't keep running these [federal] programs out [into the future] and not paying for them. And you can't keep throwing debt on top of debt. Standards of living will drop if we keep this up."

More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities. By refusing the latter order, the Oath Keepers hope to prevent cities from becoming "giant concentration camps," a scenario the 44-year-old Rhodes says he can envision happening in the coming years.

It's a Cold War-era nightmare vision with a major twist: The occupying forces in this imagined future are American, not Soviet. "The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here," Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer, said in an interview with the Review-Journal. "My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can't do it without them. We say if the American people decide it's time for a revolution, we'll fight with you." Oath Keepers is not preaching violence or government overthrow, Rhodes said. On the contrary, IT IS ASKING POLICE AND THE MILITARY TO LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS IN RESPONSE TO UNLAWFUL ORDERS.

The US Department of Homeland Security said the nation's economic downturn and Obama's race are "unique drivers for right-wing radicalization and recruitment." The homeland security report added that "disgruntled military veterans" might be vulnerable to recruitment by right-wing extremist groups. That warning was enough to make Rhodes feel paranoid. "THEY'RE ACCUSING ANYBODY WHO OPPOSES OBAMA OF BEING A RACIST OR A POTENTIAL TERRORIST," he said. "What they're saying is, 'We're coming after you.'" The motto of Oath Keepers: "Not on our watch!"

1. Iran has just been caught secretly building a 2nd uranium enrichment facility on a military base in the religious capital of Iran, a city known as Qom;

2. A growing number of Western military analysts say the design of this new facility - and its secrecy, and location - clearly indicates it was being built by Iran for the purpose of creating nuclear weapons;

3. Iran has thus been caught in its third lie since 2002 with regards to building secret nuclear development facilities in Natanz, Arak, and now Qom;

4. Ahmadinejad refused four times during his NBC News interview last week to rule out the building of nuclear weapons;

5. AQ Khan - the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development program - has just admitted selling advanced nuclear weapons blueprints years ago to Iran for millions of dollars;

6. The latest IAEA report indicates Iran has enough low-enriched uranium (LEU) to produce enough high-enriched uranium (HEU) by 2010 to produce two nuclear weapons;

7. Iran has just spent the weekend testing "its most advanced missiles" capable of reaching Israel;

8. Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech to the UN by praying for Allah to hasten the coming of the Islamic Messiah, which according to his theology requires the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization as we know it.

9. Ahmadinejad spoke more openly about his End of the World theology during his UN speech than ever before;

10. Ahmadinejad was asked for the first time by an American reporter to describe his relationship with the "Twelfth Imam" and admitted on camera that he is communicating with this mystical Shia messiah;

Humanly speaking, war is coming. The West does not seem determined enough to stop Iran from getting the bomb. Israel might soon feel compelled to launch a preemptive strike against Iran. It won't be easy, and the entire region could go up in flames.

The German EU parliamentarian is calling for impeachment proceedings against the President of the Czech Republic. According to reports, German diplomats have already been taking steps in Prague to find out if this is possible. Also being discussed is the disempowerment of the president through a change in the country's constitution.

These interventions are directed against one of Germany's neighbors, whose constitutional bodies have on various occasions been the object of Berlin's foreign policy. The reason for Prague's skepticism toward the "Lisbon Treaty" is that IT CANNOT FORGET THE GERMAN EXPANSIONISM THAT LED TO A WORLD WAR 70 YEARS AGO. Even without consideration of the historical contexts, GERMAN POLICY IS TEARING DOWN DEMOCRATIC MINIMUM STANDARDS, which, already at various stages of the ratification process of the so-called Lisbon Treaty, have been ridiculed.

The draft treaty favors THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE EU INTO A GLOBALLY OPERATING MILITARY POWER AND REINFORCES GERMAN HEGEMONY. The massive interference attempts are being accompanied by a nationalist anti-Czech media campaign. Even the haste, with which Berlin wants to see the draft treaty ratified, IS AIMED AT AVOIDING DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES.

The overwhelming majority of the people of Great Britain reject this treaty, which is why the current labor government ratified the treaty without submitting it to a referendum. Now the head of the Conservative Party has announced his intentions to rescind the ratification and hold a referendum, should his party win the next parliamentary elections, if the treaty has not taken effect by that time.

A conservative majority is considered assured in the elections scheduled for next spring. If Berlin wants to keep the British population from rejecting the draft treaty in this referendum, the document must - at all costs - finish the ratification process before the British elections. THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME.

Executives are queuing up to collect multi-million pound bonuses and lenders have launched a hard sell on 95 per cent mortgages, triggering a price war on the high street. Politicians accused banks of 'gorging' themselves on the back of the taxpayer guarantees that were used to bail them out. Their anger was stoked by the news that Goldman Sachs' 5,500 bankers in the UK are in line to pocket £440,000 each after the business revealed a three-fold surge in profits.

John McFall, Labour chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, said: 'There's a lot government money sloshing around the system, which firms like Goldman are gorging on. The industry has said it is going to change, but in fact, it's back to business as usual.'

Vince Cable, Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, said: 'People will be rightly furious to see Goldman Sachs paying out bumper bonuses just 12 months after it was bailed out by the US government. It is farcical that so soon after the reckless greed of bankers brought the world economy to its knees, we are seeing a return to business as usual.' The outcry came after Goldmans revealed that it is on course to shower nearly £14billion on its workers.

After signing $3.5 billion in deals and approving a framework for the export of a huge quantity of Russian natural gas to China during an October 12-14 summit, the two countries have shown that what links them closest is the almighty deal. "The most important thing is that Russia and China have the need and capacity to enhance cooperation and the two economies are complementary to each other," Putin told China's state-run Xinhua news service. For each side, there are clear benefits: Russia's energy companies secure a stake in China, which is set to become the world's biggest energy consumer within five years, according to the International Energy Agency in Paris.

And for China, Russia provides a safer, more direct source for gas and oil than either the Persian Gulf or the Horn of Africa. Energy-rich Russia has suffered from tanking oil and natural gas prices, while China has managed thus far to weather the global economic downturn thanks to $586 billion in government stimulus spending. China has taken advantage of more than $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves to shop for energy and mineral reserves abroad.

"The timing is good," says David Zweig, director of the Center on China's Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "China has been very active to get as many commitments on energy around the world before the dollar devalues too much."

Presidential Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev also singled out the US and NATO, saying Moscow's Cold War foes still pose potential threats to Russia despite what he called a global trend toward local conflicts. Officials are examining "a variety of possibilities for using nuclear force, depending on the situation and the intentions of the possible opponent," Patrushev was quoted as saying. "In situations critical to national security, options including a preventative nuclear strike on the aggressor are not excluded."

The proposed doctrine would allow for the use of nuclear weapons "to repel an aggression with the use of conventional weapons not only in a large-scale but also in a regional and even local war," Patrushev was quoted as saying. He said a government analysis of the threat of conflict in the world showed "a shift from large-scale conflicts to local wars and armed conflicts."

The temperature has shattered a 36-year record. Further into the heartlands of America, the city of Billings registered -12C on Sunday, breaking the 1959 barrier of -5C. Closer to home, Austria is today seeing its earliest snowfall in history with 30 to 40 centimetres already predicted in the mountains. Such dramatic falls in temperatures provide superficial evidence for those who doubt that the world is threatened by climate change.

But most pertinent of all, of course, are the growing volume of statistics. According to the National Climatic Data Centre, Earth's hottest recorded year was 1998.If you put the same question to NASA, scientists will say it was 1934, followed by 1998. The next three runner-ups are 1921, 2006 and 1931. Which all blows a rather large hole in the argument that the earth is hurtling towards an inescapable heat death prompted by man's abuse of the environment.

Indeed, some experts believe we should forget global warming and turn our attention to an entirely differently phenomenon - global cooling.

The growing number of elderly people threatens to make debt unsustainable and HAS LED TO THE UK ECONOMY BEING RANKED ALONGSIDE NATIONS SUCH AS LATVIA, GREECE AND ROMANIA. The warning plunged the Government into a furious row with Brussels, as Treasury officials said it called into question the EC's ability to carry out 'credible economic analysis'.

But the Conservatives seized on the assessment as vindication of their decision to set out a package of spending cuts aimed at restoring the public finances to balance. Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Philip Hammond said: 'This latest rebuke from the EU is further evidence of the extent of Gordon Brown's debt crisis, and shows why we need a clear and credible plan to start reducing Britain's deficit now. If we don't act, interest rates may rise, causing the recovery to falter and putting jobs at risk.'

The EC's report said Britain was among the EU members projected to breach the bloc's deficit ceiling of three per cent of gross domestic product this year and next. It is forecast to have the second-biggest budget deficit at 13.8 per cent, behind only Ireland, at 15 per cent-plus. BRITAIN IS EXPECTED TO BORROW AN UNPRECEDENTED £200BILLION THIS YEAR.

Over the last three months, banks put 63 PERCENT OF THEIR NEW CASH INTO EUROS AND YEN - NOT THE GREENBACKS - a nearly complete reversal of the dollar's onetime dominance for reserves, according to Barclays Capital. THE DOLLAR'S SHARE OF NEW CASH IN THE CENTRAL BANKS WAS DOWN TO 37 PERCENT - COMPARED WITH TWO-THIRDS A DECADE AGO.

Currently, dollars account for about 62 percent of the currency reserve at central banks - the lowest on record, said the International Monetary Fund. Bernanke could go down in economic history as the man who killed the greenback on the operating table. After printing up trillions of new dollars and new bonds to stimulate the US economy, the Fed chief is now boxed into a corner battling two separate monsters that could devour the economy - ravenous inflation on one hand, and a perilous recession on the other. Investors and central banks are snubbing dollars because the greenback is kept too weak by zero interest rates and a flood of greenbacks in the global economy.

They grumble that they've loaned the US record amounts to cover its mounting debt, BUT ARE GETTING PAID BACK BY A CURRENCY THAT'S WORTH 10 PERCENT LESS IN THE PAST THREE MONTHS ALONE. In a decade, it's down nearly one-third.

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CORRUPTION. Playboy marketers have launched a global seduction of 'tweens' by stripping Mother Simpson on its cover. PLAYBOY CARTOONS TRADITIONALLY BRAINWASH USERS into laughing at sexual trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, incest, rape of women and children, and of course sexual harassment.

One news report on "The Simpsons" says its audience is "especially attractive." Why? The show has a 'tween' demographic. Children "between 12 and 17, is an especially key viewing group for 'The Simpsons,'" and thus for Playboy. However, THE TYPICAL DEFINITION OF 'TWEEN' IS YOUNGER, SOME MARKETERS CLAIMING BETWEEN 10 AND 15 YEARS OLD.

"And the magazine is giving the 'Simpsons' character the star treatment, complete with a data sheet, an interview and a two-page centerfold." Playboy's editorial director is coy about the "special issue," saying "it's very, very racy." Bringing the tween boys and girls into the print pornography format of course leads millions straight to Playboy's "soft" Internet pornography and from there to their hard-core, incest and similar vile addictions.

"TODAY IS REALLY A HISTORICAL EVENT FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE," organizer Levi Chazan said as another part of the school was completed. "It is the beginning of the work for the Third Temple." The school will include an exact replica of the Temple. The latest addition to the replica was the area in which priests offered wine and water libations.

The water offering was traditionally given on the Sukkot holiday, which was celebrated last week. Festivities accompanied the completion of another step in the school's construction. Among those present was Baruch Marzel, long-time Land of Israel activist and parliamentary aide to MK Michael Ben-Ari.

The timing of the work on the school is particularly appropriate due to recent Muslim riots against Jewish visits to the Temple Mount, Marzel said.