Wednesday, July 14, 2010

NAACP-TEAS ARE RACIST

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

RUTH LOVELL STANNERS IS THE MAYOR OF OWEN SOUND WERE I WENT UP IN FRONT OF AND WANTED AN ISRAELI FLAG FLOWN IN FRONT OF CITY HALL SINCE THE GAY FLAG WAS ALLOWED TO BE FLOWN.THE ISRAELI FLAG WAS NOT ALLOWED,THE GAY FLAG WAS ALLOWED FOR A WEEK,THEN THERE IS NO SPECIAL FLAGS TO BE ALLOWED FLOWN EXCEPT OTHER COUNTRIES AMBASSADORS ETC.AT LEAST I MADE A LITTLE DIFFERENCE FOR TRYING TO STAND UP FOR ISRAEL 4 YEARS AGO IN OWEN SOUND.NOW IF THIS RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL WOULD FALL IN THE OCEAN IT WOULD POISON ONTARIOS OCEAN.KILLING OCEAN ANIMALS AND PEOPLE IN OUR AREA.IT MIGHT HAPPEN,SO WATCH THE NEWS CLOSELY AS THE BIBLE SAYS FIRST 1/3RD OF THE OCEANS WILL BE POISONED,THEN DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD ALL WORLDS OCEANS WILL BE POISONED AND ALL THE LIFE IN THE SEA DIES.RUTH IS CORRECT TO WORRY ABOUT THESE BEING SHIPPED FROM OWEN SOUND TO SWEDEN.

Radioactive cargo worries mayor Posted By DENIS LANGLOIS, SUN TIMES STAFF
JULY 13,10


Mayor Ruth Lovell Stanners is dead against a plan by Bruce Power to load 16 low-level radioactive steam generators onto a ship in Owen Sound Harbour and ship them to Sweden, but it seems unlikely she can stop it. The Tiverton-based nuclear generation company requires only a heavy load permit from the city, which cannot be denied based on health and safety concerns unrelated to the actual transportation of the 100-tonne vessels through Owen Sound, said city manager Jim Harrold. Bruce Power has already secured the support of Transport Canada, which owns the harbour, conditional upon the approval of a licence from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. An application is now before the CNSC. It would be the first time a licence has been issued to ship nuclear waste across the Great Lakes. Bruce Power spokesman Ross Lamont suggested to council that the city would be in a legal fight if it refuses to issue the heavy-load permit, based on concerns with storing the steam generators by the harbour and shipping them out of Owen Sound.I find life is a lot simpler when we don't use lawyers. I would hope we would have a fulsome discussion as to why,he told council after being asked what would happen if the city said no. He said Bruce Power has no alternate plan to shipping the generators out of Owen Sound Harbour. Other harbours, including one in Goderich, have been ruled out.

Lovell Stanners would also require the support of her council colleagues to stop the plan. Owen Sound councillors Peter Lemon and Tom Pink said they support Bruce Power's proposal.Lemon said he is more concerned about invasive aquatic species, such as zebra mussels, hitching a ride on the ocean-going vessel and remaining in harbour than the risks of the low-level radioactive waste.Other councillors wanted more information.Lamont laid out for council Bruce Power's plan to ship the school bus-sized, decommissioned generators from its Tiverton site to the Owen Sound harbour. The steel vessels will be loaded one by one onto a docked ship -- about the same size as the Chi-Cheemaun -- over three weeks, starting in mid-September, and then shipped to a recycling facility in Sweden.Lovell Stanners said she is concerned about the impact the steam generators might have on the health and safety of Owen Sound residents. She questioned what would happen if one were to fall into the harbour.The more that I have learned, the less I am comfortable with this plan at all,she said during the meeting. Lamont said Bruce Power has chosen to ship the steam generators to Sweden to reduce the amount of waste that will be stored at the Bruce site property. About 90% of the generators' metal will be melted down in Sweden for reuse and the rest will be shipped back to Canada and stored as low-level nuclear waste. He said the generators will be welded shut and will not pose a danger to the public or environment. There will be a protected, guarded staging area in Owen Sound, he said.Bruce Power changed its plan to store the generators at the harbour for five weeks. Now, the plan is to load them on an awaiting ship over three weeks. The longest one will be stored along the harbour will be one night, Lamont said. He said standing next to one of the generators for two hours will deliver no more radiation than a chest X-ray.Bruce Power plans to ship another 16 generators across the Great Lakes, as part of the refurbishment of Units 1 and 2, in a few years. More will be shipped through Owen Sound as other units are refurbished.

Bruce Power is holding a public meeting July 27 at 5 p.m. at the Grey Bruce Health Unit building. It is also holding meetings in Saugeen Shores and at its visitor centre. The only decision council made on Bruce Power's plan Monday was to approve a motion by Coun. Bill Twaddle to invite medical officer of health Dr. Hazel Lynn to speak to council about it. Lamont said she is supportive. Bruce Power must submit its application for a heavy load permit to Owen Sound within 30 days of the shipments. Several anti-nuclear and environmental groups are circulating a petition to oppose Bruce Power's plan. Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley and two state representatives from Michigan are among the people who have signed so far. Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, said it is foolish to ship the steam generators, which have 5,000 corroded pipes inside, on the Great Lakes.The danger is that accidents do happen, he said. There's lots of radioactive junk inside those steam generators. In fact, Bruce Power doesn't even know the complete inventory of the radioactive material inside because it's impossible to measure from the outside and no one wants to go inside because it's too dangerous. If this material were to somehow find a pathway out into the environment, through either a puncture or a crack or just to corrosion, then you have this material leaking into the Great Lakes.Shipping the generators across the Great Lakes also sets precedence, he said, for larger and more dangerous shipments.
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FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
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THIS NAACP IS TO MUCH CLAIMING TEA PARTIERS ARE RACIST FOR BRINGING SOCIALIST SIGNS OF OBAMA TO PROTESTS WHILE AT VOTING BOOTHS THEY PUT ON PURPOSE WHITE HATING BLACK PANTHERS TO STOP WHITES FROM VOTING SO THE DEMOCRATES WIN THE ELECTIONS.AND THE CHARGES AGAINST RACIST WHITE HATING BLACK PANTHERS WERE DROPPED AND TEA PARTIERS JUST HAVE A SIGN SAYING THAT-THAT LIER OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST AND THESE WHITE HATING GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS WANT THE TEAS CHARGED.THIS IS COMPLETLY NUTS.THESE SO CALLED RIGHTS GROUPS AND JESSE JACKSON,AL SHARPTON ETC ARE ALL POCKETED BY OBAMA OVIOUSLY TO SPEW HATE AGAINST NORMAL AMERICANS (WHITES) SO HE CAN BRING ABOUT MARTIAL LAW AND DICTATORIAL CONTROL OF EVERY AMERICAN,THEN WORLDWIDE DICTATORSHIP.OBAMAS CRY WAS HOPE AND CHANGE NOW HES GIVEN AMERICANS HOPLESSNESS AND DICTATORSHIP.WELL THATS A MUSLIM LEADER FOR YOU DESGUISED AS A SO CALLED CHRISTIAN.6 OUT OF EVERY 10 PEOPLE IN AMERICA SAY OBAMA IS LACKING CONFIDENCE MORALITY IN OBAMAS ADMINISTRATION AND SHOWING MUSLIM SYMPATHY.CONFLICT IS UP AGAINST THAT ADMINISTRATION ALLSO IN POLLS.
http://www.breitbart.tv/democrat-congressman-unaware-of-the-new-black-panther-voter-intimidation-case/
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AND THE OTHER ISSUE WE MUST KEEP ON THE TABLE AND IN PEOPLES MEMORY IS THAT BARRY SOETORO IS REALLY BARACK OBAMAS REAL NAME AND HE WAS BORN IN KENYA NOT AMERICA.BARRY SOETORO AKA BARACK OBAMA IS NOT ELLIGABLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT.EVERYTHING HE SIGNS IN BARACK OBAMA IS ILLEGEL,BECAUCE HIS REAL NAME IS BARRY SOETORO.AMERICAS CONSTITUTION WILL BE IN SHAMBLES ONCE THIS SCAM IS FINALLY REVEALED TO THE WORLD.

BY THE TIMELINE IN OBAMAS OWN BOOKS-OBAMA WENT TO PAKISTAN ON HIS INDONESIAN PASSPORT.ANOTHER ISSUE OUT OF 400 PEOPLE AT COLUMBIA THAT GRADUATED THE YEAR OBAMA OR BARRY SOETORO DID,NO ONE COMES FORWARD TO SAY THEY KNEW HIM.HOW COME AT HAWAII HOSPITAL WERE OBAMA CLAIMS HE WAS BORN,NO NURSES OR ANYBODY CAME FORWARD TO SAY THEY WITNESSED OR TOOK PART IN THE BIRTH.THIS BARRY SOETORO OR AKA BARACK OBAMAS LIFE IS A COMPLETE FRAUD.AND AMERICA IS CONNED TO BELIEVE THE LIE.WHY WOULD SOETORO AKA OBAMA SPEND 2 MILLION DOLLARS TO STOP ALL THESE LAWSUITS IF THERES NO COVERUP.HE WOULD JUST SHOW THE PROOF OF EACH EVENT-PLACE OF BIRTH,CERTIFICATE AND REAL NAME BARRY SOETORO INDONESIAN PASSPORT.

The proof is everywhere from statements and affidavits from Government parliament sources and Obama’s own Grandmother who says she saw him born in a hospital in Mombassa Kenya. The former ambassador to Kenya says Obama was born in Mombassa Kenya, so do others. Check out the affidavits at www.obamacrimes.com and join Phil Berg and other concerned citizens for a huge eligibility protest march May 29th 12-4pm.

Top Clinton Official: Only A Terror Attack Can Save Obama
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, July 14, 2010


A former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton says that the only thing which can rescue Barack Obama’s increasingly tenuous grip on power as his approval figures continue to plunge is a terror attack on the scale of Oklahoma City or 9/11, another startling reminder that such events only ever serve to benefit those in authority.

Buried in a Financial Times article about Obama’s growing credibility crisis and fears on behalf of Democrats that they could lose not only the White House but also the Senate to Republicans, Robert Shapiro makes it clear that Obama is relying on an October surprise in the form of a terror attack to rescue his presidency.The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership, said Shapiro, adding, He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.Shapiro’s veiled warning should not be dismissed lightly. He was undersecretary of commerce for economic affairs dung Clinton’s tenure in the Oval Office and also acted as principal economic adviser to Clinton in his 1991-1992 campaign. Shapiro is now Director of the Globalization Initiative of NDN and also Chair of the Climate Task Force. He is a prominent globalist who has attended numerous Bilderberg Group meetings over the past decade.Shapiro is clearly communicating the necessity for a terror attack to be launched in order to give Obama the opportunity to unite the country around his agenda in the name of fighting terrorists, just as President Bush did in the aftermath of 9/11 when his approval ratings shot up from around 50% to well above 80%.Similarly, Bill Clinton was able to extinguish an anti-incumbent rebellion which was brewing in the mid 1990’s by exploiting the OKC bombing to demonize his political enemies as right-wng extremists.As Jack Cashill points out, Clinton descended on Oklahoma City with an approval rating in the low 40s and left town with a rating well above 50 and the Republican revolution buried in the rubble.

Anti-incumbent fever is dominating the political climate once again, with establishment Democrats facing serious challenges from Tea Party candidates, people like Senate Democratic majority leader Harry Reid, who has a battle on his hands against Sharron Angle, a candidate the establishment media has attempted to demonize as a far-right extremist because she supports populist measures like removing sodium fluoride from water supplies and supports the Oath Keepers group, an organization centered around upholding states’ rights and the U.S. Constitution.Only by exploiting a domestic terror attack which can be blamed on right-wing radicals can Obama hope to reverse the tide of anti-incumbency candidates that threaten to drastically dilute the power monopoly of establishment candidates from both major political parties in Washington.As we highlighted yesterday, Shapiro is by no means the first to point out that terror attacks on U.S. soil and indeed anywhere in the world serve only to benefit those in positions of power.CNN host Rick Sanchez admitted on his show this week that the deadly bombings in Uganda which killed 74 people were helpful to the military-industrial complex agenda to expand the war on terror into Africa.During the latter years of the Bush presidency, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld mused with Pentagon top brass that shrinking Capitol Hill support for expanding the war on terror could be corrected with the aid of another terror attack.Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, chair of the war studies program at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, told the Toronto Star in July 2007 that The key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings of two years ago.The same sentiment was also explicitly expressed in a 2005 GOP memo, which yearned for new attacks that would validate the President’s war on terror and restore his image as a leader of the American people.

In June 2007, the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party Dennis Milligan said that there needed to be more attacks on American soil for President Bush to regain popular approval.Given the fact that a terror attack on U.S. soil will only serve to rescue Barack Obama’s failing presidency, and will do absolutely nothing to further the aims of any so-called right wing extremists the attack is blamed on, who should we suspect as the masterminds behind any such acts of terror? Surely not Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief string puller, the son of an Israeli terrorist who helped bomb hotels and marketplaces, and the man who once said, You never want a serious crisis to go to waste….an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.Undoubtedly, the first people we should suspect as culprits in the event of a domestic terror attack in the United States are the individuals Obama fronts for, globalists who are desperate to neutralize the growing success of grass-roots movements who have ridden a wave of rising resentment against big government as a means of obtaining real political power.

SOMETHING IN THE AIR

NAACP says tea partiers racist-Delegates adopt resolution, suggest offenders be expelled from movement July 13, 2010 7:24 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh
2010 WorldNetDaily


The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People today meeting in Kansas City at its 101st annual convention voted to condemn the racism of the tea party movement, claiming it could return the nation to the pre-civil rights era.

Debate on the resolution came up this afternoon, and delegates argued over grammatical errors in the resolution, and whether the tea parties in general or just some of the tea party participants should be condemned, before a request was made to eject the media from the meeting hall, and the organization instantly shut down its webcast. The resolution suggested that people in the conservative political movement – which has vocally opposed many of President Obama's socialist-leaning programs, such as the nationalization of the health care decision-making process in the U.S. – repudiate the racism of the tea parties.There also was argument among convention delegates whether those racists should be expelled from the movement. Said one delegate,There is a racist element in the tea party.They spoke of educating not only NAACP members, but members of the community as well.In an earlier statement, the chief of the NAACP already had condemned the tea party movement.

According to a report from KMBC television in Kansas City, Benjamin Jealous told his organization's members tea parties must expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take the responsibility for them and their actions.We will no longer allow you to hide like cowards and hide behind signs that say lynch our president or anyone else, Jealous said.But the move by the organization drew heated opposition from another organization, Project 21, the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives, where fellow Deneen Borelli said the NAACP is turning itself into a political tool to do the dirty work of the progression movement.As a frequent speaker at tea party rallies around the country, I can assure the NAACP that the tea party movement's concerns are about President Obama's policies and not his race,Borelli said.

Jealous also had targeted former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin – a tea party event celebrity – personally.Sarah Palin says, Let's party like it's 1776.My white daddy would say be careful what you wish for because the 18th century, Sarah, wasn't good for anybody, even folks like you,Jealous said. Hilary Shelton, an NAACP officer, in a Fox News appearance accused the party of sheltering those who are tied to the Nazi party.They are, he said, Making their home with the tea party.The organization did not immediately make a vote count available, but the Associated Press confirmed that the resolution was approved.Instead of criticizing tea parties, the NAACP would be better served denouncing the racist comments made by a member of the New Black Panther Party and their voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place in the last presidential election,Borelli suggested. According to Project 21, the Kansas City NAACP president, Anity Russell, explained the tea party isn't really about limited government and that's why the resolution dealt with the explicitly racist behavior.I urge the delegates to read the Contract from America – a list of policy objectives for Congress that was developed by tea party members nationwide. These objectives are clearly about limited government and liberty. In fact, the NAACP should be very concerned Obama's cap-and-trade energy policy will lead to higher energy prices and higher unemployment – particularly among poor and minority households,Borelli said.Another Project 21 member, Bob Parks, who has participated in tea party events including rallies outside the U.S. Capitol, charged that the NAACP is speaking from intentional ignorance.

"Personally, I'm tired of arguing with the ignorant,Parks said. Al Sharpton recently tried in vain on his radio show to get me to apologize for alleged tea party racism. He tried to get me to apologize for racial epithets hurled at Congressman John Lewis that only Lewis seemed to hear. I would guess neither Al Sharpton nor the overwhelming majority of NAACP members have ever been to a tea party, so they speak from intentional ignorance.While liberals scream racism at the tea parties purely because of their audacity to oppose Obama, it's the progressives who seem to feel free to use racial epithets against others as they know – as is seen in this instance – that the NAACP turns a blind partisan eye,Parks said.As a conservative black man, I have felt more welcomed and at home within the tea party movement than among those of my own who side with this new NAACP,said Project 21 member Kevin Martin.If a few random signs of President Obama looking like the Joker [are] indeed racist, then where was the NAACP when conservative blacks are depicted as lawn jockeys, Oreos and Uncle Toms? Project 21 chairman Mychal Massie said the simple truth is that the tea party movement is about smaller government, lower taxes and an adherence to the Constitution.The NAACP is welcome to disagree with the tea parties, but in making that complaint they must be truthful and not fall prey to ignorance and perceived disaffection,he said.He pointed out that Internet media personality Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for anyone who could provide video and audio evidence of racial epithets being shouted at Congressional Black Caucus members by tea party activists in March – but that remains unclaimed after months. According to Politico, tea party officials also rejected the NAACP statements as false.For the NAACP to accuse the tea parties of racism is insulting to the great patriots who have participated in this movement, and sadly shows just how out of touch that group is with the American people,Tea Party Express spokesman Levi Russell told the publication.He continued, Some of the most compelling leaders of this movement are of many different races – men and women such as William and Selena Owens, Lloyd Marcus, Kevin Jackson and others.The racism accusation by the likes of the NAACP has been proved false time and again. Earlier this year, Democrats smeared tea party activists by claiming members of the Black Caucus were spit on and called the n-word as they paraded through a crowd of tea partiers,he told the publication.Their blatant lie was proved false by overwhelming evidence from multiple video cameras that recorded the event.Dennis Philips, a Dallas tea party organization, said the NAACP makes a living crying racism.The tea party actually, he said, is about fiscal responsibility, national sovereignty, personal responsibility, the rule of law and limited government.

French Legislature Votes to Ban the Burka
by Hana Levi Julian JULY 14,10


Muslim women in France may soon be prohibited from completely covering their faces in public areas.A new law banning the wearing of the burka, or niqab,in public spaces passed Tuesday by a near-unanimous vote, 335 to 1, in the French National Assembly.The bill is written in such a way as to prohibit anyone from wearing an item of clothing that will hide his or her face in open spaces. The term is defined to include streets, shops, parks or cafes, as well as public buildings, such as town or city halls, schools and hospitals. Those who defy the ban would be punished for the violation with a fine of 150 euros ($191).Only 2,000 women from the five million-strong Muslim population are believed to observe the strict tradition of wearing the full face veil, which is seen by many as a symbol of oppression of women.The sight of women clad in the burka on the streets of France is also viewed by most French politicians, as well as many moderate Muslims, as a sign of growing fundamentalism in the community. Among the average grassroots population, the garment is considered an insult to the secular French tradition and the country's constitution.Some Muslim community leaders, however, suspect the law will backfire and stigmatize their brethren instead.

Legal wrangling over the measure has been tempered with the inclusion of language that prevents the ban from discriminating by gender, religion or specific item of clothing.The bill now goes to the nation's Senate, where it is expected to pass a vote in September.Reportedly the Belgian parliament is planning a similar move, and Spain is not far behind, with a measure already in the works to limit the wearing of garments that hide one's face in public buildings.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

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Obama Asks Religious Jew to Cure $1 Trillion Budget Disease
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JULY 14,10


U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Deputy Secretary of State Jacob (Jack) Lew, a religious Jew, as his new director of a budget that suffers from a budget deficit approaching $1.3 trillion. The appointment must be confirmed by the Senate, which may question Lew whether he can function while observing the Sabbath.One story making the rounds in the United States is that Lew, when he was director for the Office of Management and Budget for former U.S. President Bill Clinton, refused to answer an urgent phone call from the president on the Sabbath, when using the phone is prohibited except in life-saving situations.The speakerphone was turned on, and Clinton reportedly said,I know it is the Sabbath, but this is urgent. G-d would understand.Lew later consulted with his rabbi, who told him that the Jewish concept of pikuach Nefesh,or saving lives, is applicable when the president calls urgently and that he can pick up the phone on the Sabbath without violating the Jewish law.

As Clinton's budget director, Lew performed the rare feat of operating three budgets without increasing the national deficit.If there was a Hall of Fame for budget directors, then Jack Lew surely would have earned a place for his service in that role under President Clinton, when he helped balance the federal budget after years of deficits,President Obama said.Lew left the Clinton administration with a record $236 million budget surplus but now inherits a whopping $1 trillion deficit for the first nine months of 2010, and it may reach $1.3 trillion by the end of the year.The bloated budget and the troubled American economy have contributed to a drop in President Obama’s popularity that has sent Democrats scurrying to fight against a possible loss of the party's Congressional majority in November’s mid-term legislative elections.Lew’s service as budget director also may place him in a difficult position on the subject of military aid to Israel as well as to Egypt and other Arab countries.He is a graduate of Harvard University and Georgetown Law Schools and ran the budget for New York University before managing financial branches of Citigroup.Despite his political and financial skills, he faces an uphill task, according to Republican Senator Judd Gregg. He told NBC, I find him to be very thoughtful, very smart, very capable. He’s taking on a job, however, where the numbers don’t match up. This country does not have a policy which is going to lead us out of what is a disastrous financial situation.Lew was born in New York City to a Polish immigrant father. He began involvement in political life at the age of 12, when he volunteered for Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy’s anti-Vietnam war campaign.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Salsa, guacamole dips tied to food poisoning: CDC
Mon Jul 12, 12:07 pm ET


WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Contaminated salsa and guacamole dips are common causes of food poisoning in restaurants, and food workers need to take greater care, researchers told a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on Monday.

They said nearly one of every 25 traceable outbreaks of foodborne disease between 1998 and 2008 began with one of the increasingly popular dips, which are made using onions, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, herbs and other ingredients.Possible reasons salsa and guacamole can pose a risk for foodborne illness is that they may not be refrigerated appropriately and are often made in large batches, so even a small amount of contamination can affect many customers,said Magdalena Kendall or the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.Awareness that salsa and guacamole can transmit foodborne illness, particularly in restaurants, is key to preventing future outbreaks,Kendall, who worked on the study, said in a statement.Salsa and guacamole often contain diced raw produce, including hot peppers, tomatoes and cilantro, each of which has been implicated in past outbreaks.

Kendall and colleagues analyzed all outbreaks of foodborne illness reported to the CDC. None were associated with salsa or guacamole before 1984, they found, but by 1998 to 2008 the two dips accounted for 3.9 percent of outbreaks traced to restaurants.We want restaurants and anyone preparing fresh salsa and guacamole at home to be aware that these foods containing raw ingredients should be carefully prepared and refrigerated to help prevent illness, Kendall said.In March a coalition of consumer and public health groups said foodborne illnesses cost the United States $152 billion in health-related expenses each year.The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill a year ago to reorganize the convoluted U.S. food safety system, but the Senate has yet to act, despite broad bipartisan agreement on the issue.The CDC estimates that 76 million people in the United States get sick each year with foodborne illness and 5,000 die.(Editing by Paul Simao)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

9 killed, 10 missing as typhoon lashes Philippines By OLIVER TEVES, Associated Press Writer - JULY 14,10

MANILA, Philippines – The first typhoon to lash the Philippines this year flooded streets in the capital, toppled power lines and killed at least nine people Wednesday. Ten fishermen were missing after waves overturned their boats.More than half of the main northern island of Luzon, which includes Manila, was without electricity, and authorities said it would take two to three days to restore power. Several dozen flights were canceled, and schools and many government offices closed.

Elsewhere in Asia, heavy rains wreaked havoc in China and Japan. The death toll from rain-triggered landslides rose to 37 in western China, and workers raced to drain overflowing reservoirs in the southeast. Flooding has killed 107 people in China so far this month, the official Xinhua News Agency said.Storms also lashed southern and western Japan, leaving one dead and three missing. A woman drowned in a swollen river, and three people, including two women in their 70s, were missing, according to officials. Nearly 10,000 homes were evacuated.More rain was predicted into Thursday in both Japan and China.In the Philippines, Typhoon Conson came ashore on the east coast of Luzon on Tuesday night with winds of 75 miles per hour (120 kilometers per hour), said weather forecaster Bernie de Leon. It weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed the rice-growing island and then buffeted Manila on Luzon's west coast for two hours.The storm headed out to the South China Sea before dawn and is next expected to make landfall later this week in China, west of Macau.

The nine deaths were spread over three provinces south of Manila.In Batangas province, a 47-year-old woman was electrocuted by a power line that snapped, and a 12-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother died after a large mango tree crashed into their home as they slept, said regional disaster operations officer Fred Bragas.In nearby Cavite province, a woman and her daughter were killed by a falling tree, Bragas said. Another child drowned after falling into a raging river, provincial spokesman Filomeno Maligaya told DZBB radio.At least three people were killed in Camarines Norte province, southeast of Manila, said military spokesman Maj. Harold Cabunoc. He gave no details.He added that authorities and civilian volunteers on Wednesday rescued nine of 19 fishermen who had disappeared when big waves overturned their boats off the island province of Catanduanes.Up to 3,100 people were stranded in ports waiting for the weather to clear.In Manila, the storm brought down branches and trees and scattered trash. Winds ripped tarpaulin billboards along main roads and blew off the roofs of coastal shanties. The national disaster council reported knee-deep floods in some communities in the capital.The Manila International Airport Authority said 63 flights, including four international ones, had been canceled and nine had been diverted to the central Philippine international airport since late Tuesday.

Classes were suspended in schools and most universities in Manila. Several government offices, including the Senate, closed because of the power outage. Thousands of commuters were stranded when the blackouts disrupted train services. Many hotels and shopping malls were relying on their own generators.Newly elected President Benigno Aquino III scolded the weather bureau for failing to predict that the storm would hit Manila.I hope this is the last time we are all brought to areas different from where we should be,Aquino told officials during a meeting of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, noting that government agencies were relying on the weather bureau for their preparations. Weather bureau chief Prisco Nilo explained that it takes forecasters six hours to update weather bulletins. The weather bureau has complained of lack of funding and equipment.Associated Press writers Jim Gomez, Teresa Cerojano, Hrvoje Hranjski, Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Chi-Chi Zhang in Beijing contributed to this report.

More than 10,000 evacuated during China storms
By CHI-CHI ZHANG, Associated Press Writer - JULY 14,10


BEIJING – Workers raced to build waterways to drain overflowing reservoirs in southeastern China and thousands were evacuated following torrential rains that triggered flash floods on Wednesday.Heavy rains overwhelmed three reservoirs in Poyang county in northern Jiangxi province, forcing the evacuation of more than 10,000 people, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.Torrential storms have pelted the Yangtze River basin this week — including parts of Sichuan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces.In western China, the death toll from landslides triggered by heavy rains rose to 37, with another 37 people still missing, Xinhua reported.In the worst-hit community of Xiaohe in Yunnan province, the death toll climbed to 13 following a landslide that swept through town before dawn on Tuesday, Xinhua said.Two landslides killed 14 in neighboring Sichuan province while in Hunan province, ten people including four young children died in two separate slides this week, the report said.Meanwhile, the waters in a reservoir near the far western city of Golmud began to subside after hundreds of workers and soldiers finished digging a diversion channel, an official at the Qinghai province water bureau said.

More than 10,000 residents were evacuated as soldiers transported sandbags, rocks and dirt and used bulldozers to dig the emergency waterway, the Golmud city government website said.Usually prone to drought, Qinghai has seen increasingly heavy rainfalls in recent years. This year's rains fell as snow melted in the surrounding mountains. Dozens of reservoirs swelled beyond their warning levels, the water bureau official said.In the eastern province of Anhui, workers were draining overflowing reservoirs and repairing damaged dams, Xinhua reported. About 70 percent of the 282 reservoirs in Chizhou city have exceeded warning levels due to torrential rains.Since the beginning of July, flooding across China has killed 107 people, with 59 missing and nearly a million people evacuated from their homes as of Tuesday, Xinhua said. More rain was expected to batter affected regions through Thursday.Parts of China experience annual flooding but this year's rains have been particularly devastating. Storms so far this month have caused economic losses of 19.8 billion yuan (US$2.9 billion), according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

China landslide deaths rise to 41

BEIJING (AFP) – A series of landslides triggered by heavy rains in China has left at least 41 people dead and 34 others missing, state media said Wednesday, as authorities brace for possible flooding.The landslides swept through villages in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan and in the central province of Hunan earlier this week.In a small township in Yunnan's Qiaojia county -- the worst-hit -- 17 people have been confirmed dead and 28 were still missing, Xinhua news agency said in its latest report on the mounting toll.Another 43 people were injured, a spokesman for the local government, who declined to be named, told AFP by phone.

Pictures from the scene showed a building completely dislocated from its foundation by the force of the landslide and teetering precariously, a car thrown on its side and streets caked in mud.Relief teams were sent to the scene of the disaster with tents, rice, quilts and fresh clothing, Xinhua said.The China Daily said two other landslides in neighbouring Sichuan province left 14 people dead, and one person was still unaccounted for.In Hunan, 10 people were killed and five others remained missing in two separate landslides, Xinhua said.According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, torrential rains and flooding have left 107 dead and 59 missing in China since the beginning of July, but it was unclear whether the landslide victims were part of that toll.Heavy downpours since last week in parts of central and eastern China -- some of which suffered from deadly floods last month -- have caused levels in major lakes and some tributaries of the Yangtze River to rise alarmingly.The National Meteorological Centre on Wednesday maintained its orange rainstorm alert, predicting more downpours in many of those areas.Typhoon Conson, which has killed three people and caused major damage in the Philippines, is also expected to hit southern China towards the end of the week, the centre warned.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russia to Continue Energy Cooperation with Iran
Reported: 15:27 PM - Jul/14/10


Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Wednesday that international sanctions against Iran will not hinder plans to develop joint energy and power projects with the Islamic Republic.Shmatko further said he saw no obstacles for Russian firms to supply oil products to Iran if they decided to do so.

IDF Blocks Libyan Ship, Captain Changes Course
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JULY 14,10


Eight Navy warships have blocked the path of a Libyan ship trying to reach Gaza, and military sources said the Cuban captain is steering the vessel to El Arish, Egypt, despite denials by activists onboard. The Navy ships' formation at sea had prevented any chance of the ship's continuing to Gaza without trying to run the blockade and risking a disaster.An Al Jazeera reporter said that port workers at El Arish are preparing to receive the vessel.Israel and officials of a foundation named after Libyan President Muaamar Qaddafi (pictured) held indirect secret talks to avoid a clash on the high seas, the London Guardian reported Wednesday morning. The meditator was Austrian businessman Martin Schlaff, accordingto a German media outlet

Qaddafi's representatives wanted guarantees that the 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid on board will reach Gaza, while Israel insisted that it be delivered via ports in Israel or in Egypt.The ship's captain earlier had said the vessel had undergone repairs for a malfunctioning engine. He earlier stated he would head for Gaza and contradicted his own word and a statement by the owner of the ship, said to be loaded with humanitarian aid, that it would sail for El Arish, instead of trying to challenge the Israeli Navy’s embargo over the coastal waters where it has sovereignty.Israel originally had given the boat a midnight ultimatum to shift course before the report that the boat was in need of repairs. The Cuban-born captain told Navy radio operators he would change course.Navy ships are continuing to track the ship, wanting to prevent another clash similar to the May 31 battle with Turkish terror activists, nine of whom were killed after brutally attacking virtually defenseless Navy commandos who had expected to be confronted by pacifists.

The Libyan ship is carrying 21 passengers from Libya, Syria, Nigeria, Cuba, Algeria and Cuba. The ship is sponsored by a charity organization, named after Libyan President Muaamar Qaddafi. The organizers of the project said there are no weapons on board, and it may be trying to stage a public relations coup by forcing the Navy to stop it and then prove it had peaceful intentions.The Mavi Marmara ship’s crew that clashed with the Navy on May 31 later was found to be without any humanitarian aid.On Tuesday, a Greek businessman who owns the Almathea stated that if the Navy challenges the ship, We will choose to sail to the port of El-Arish and transfer the assistance by ground to Gaza.A report published by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center claims that the sole mission of the Libyan foundation responsible for sending out this ship to Gaza is to break the siege. According to the published findings, the Libyans intend to pressure Israel to agree to allow the entrance of goods into the Gaza according to the rules of the game determined by Hamas.In addition, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center report shows that there are political considerations behind the Libya-sponsored flotilla, as Libya is interested in strengthening its position within the Arab League. The move is also expected to increase national political support for the organizer of the ship, Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi, son of Muammar al-Qaddafi.U.S. State Department spokesman Phillip Crowley told reporters Tuesday that the United States urges all those wishing to deliver goods [to Gaza] to do so through established channels so their cargo can be inspected by the government of Israel and transferred by land crossings into Gaza. He called on parties involved to act responsibly.We have urged the Libyan government to avoid any unnecessary confrontation,he added.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Jerusalem-Golan Bill Goes to the Knesset for Final Vote
by Hillel Fendel JULY 14,10


A national referendum will have to be held before any part of the Golan Heights or eastern Jerusalem is given away, according to a bill that has now passed a significant hurdle.The Knesset House and Law Committees, sitting in a joint session, voted to approve the bill, meaning that it can be raised in the Knesset for its final readings. If it passes these, it becomes law.The joint committee passed the bill by a 7-2 vote, despite the government’s opposition as manifest in its rejection of the proposal in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation.Many Knesset Members were thrilled with the results. Likud MK Yariv Levine, the driving force behind the proposal, said, This law has supreme national importance in preserving national unity, and will obligate every Israeli government to reach an agreement that is acceptable to the majority of the nation.MK Carmel Shama, also of the Likud, said that today is a holiday for the Golan, while MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union), a member of the joint committee, said, We will soon bring the bill to the Knesset for its final vote, and I have no doubt that it will pass by a wide majority. The voters’ desire not to have sovereign territories of the country ceded without asking the populace first, will become law.This bill effectively puts an end to the hallucinations of those who hope to give away the Golan or divide Jerusalem in exchange for empty promises, Eldad added.

Voices of opposition were predictably heard from the left. MK Chaim Oron (Meretz) said that the bill is an attempt to sabotage peace efforts. MK Shlomo Mola (Kadima) took a political jab at the Likud in saying that the bill shows that the ruling party does not trust its leader, Binyamin Netanyahu, not to make a deal with Syria involving a withdrawal from the Golan.As of now, the government is permitted to cede sovereign territory only if a majority of the Knesset – at least 61 MKs – approves. The new bill does not apply to Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley, and would not have applied to Gaza, as these areas were never annexed to Israel and were/are still run under military law.Sammy Bar-Lev, head of the Golan Regional Council, noted that Netanyahu has voted for this law in the past more than once, and there is therefore no reason why this critically important law should not pass in the Knesset.Both the Golan and Jerusalem are sovereign areas of the State of Israel,Bar-Lev said,and it is inconceivable that the Golan, and all the more so Jerusalem, should be given away without the consent of a national majority.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Scientists say Gulf spill altering food web By MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press Writers - JULY 14,10

NEW ORLEANS – Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment.Near the spill site, researchers have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes — cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles.Along the coast, droplets of oil are being found inside the shells of young crabs that are a mainstay in the diet of fish, turtles and shorebirds.And at the base of the food web, tiny organisms that consume oil and gas are proliferating.If such impacts continue, the scientists warn of a grim reshuffling of sealife that could over time cascade through the ecosystem and imperil the region's multibillion-dollar fishing industry.Federal wildlife officials say the impacts are not irreversible, and no tainted seafood has yet been found. But Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., who chairs a House committee investigating the spill, warned Tuesday that the problem is just unfolding and toxic oil could be entering seafood stocks as predators eat contaminated marine life.You change the base of the food web, it's going to ripple through the entire food web, said marine scientist Rob Condon, who found oil-loving bacteria off the Alabama coastline, more than 90 miles from BP's collapsed Deepwater Horizon drill rig. Ultimately it's going to impact fishing and introduce a lot of contaminants into the food web.The food web is the fundamental fabric of life in the Gulf. Once referred to as the food chain, the updated term reflects the cyclical nature of a process in which even the largest predator becomes a food source as it dies and decomposes.What has emerged from research done to date are snapshots of disruption across a swath of the northern Gulf of Mexico. It stretches from the 5,000-feet deep waters at the spill site to the continental shelf off Alabama and the shallow coastal marshes of Louisiana.

Much of the spill — estimated at up to 182 million gallons of oil and around 12 billion cubic feet of natural gas — was broken into small droplets by chemical dispersants at the site of the leaking well head. That reduced the direct impact to the shoreline and kept much of the oil and natural gas suspended in the water.But immature crabs born offshore are suspected to be bringing that oil — tucked into their shells — into coastal estuaries from Pensacola, Fla., to Galveston, Texas. Oil being carried by small organisms for long distances means the spill's effects could be wider than previously suspected, said Tulane professor Caz Taylor.Chemical oceanographer John Kessler from Texas A&M University and geochemist David Valentine from the University of California-Santa Barbara recently spent about two weeks sampling the waters in a six-mile radius around the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon rig. More than 3,000 feet below the surface, they found natural gas levels have reached about 100,000 times normal, Kessler said.Already those concentrations are pushing down oxygen levels as the gas gets broken down by bacteria, Kessler and Valentine said. When oxygen levels drop low enough, the breakdown of oil and gas grinds to a halt and most life can't be sustained.The researchers also found dead pyrosomes covering the Gulf's surface in and around the spill site. There were thousands of these guys dead on the surface, just a mass eradication of them, Kessler said.

Scientists said they believe the pyrosomes — six inches to a foot in length — have been killed by the toxins in the oil because there have no other explanation, though they plan further testing.The researchers say the dead creatures probably are floating to the surface rather than sinking because they have absorbed gas bubbles as they filtered water for food.The death of pyrosomes could set off a ripple effect. One species that could be directly affected by what is happening to the pyrosomes would be sea turtles, said Laurence Madin, a research director at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Mass. Some larger fish, such as tuna, may also feed on pyrosomes.If the pyrosomes are dying because they've got hydrocarbons in their tissues and then they're getting eaten by turtles, it's going to get into the turtles,said Madin. It was uncertain whether that would kill or sicken the turtles. The BP spill also is altering the food web by providing vast food for bacteria that consume oil and gas, allowing them to flourish. At the same time, the surface slick is blocking sunlight needed to sustain plant-like phytoplankton, which under normal circumstances would be at the base of the food web. Phytoplankton are food for small bait fish such as menhaden, and a decline in those fish could reduce tuna, red snapper and other populations important to the Gulf's fishing industries, said Condon, a researcher with Alabama's Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

Seafood safety tests on hundreds of fish, shrimp and other marine life that could make it into the food supply so far have turned up negative for dangerous oil contamination. Assuming the BP gusher is stopped and the cleanup successful, government and fishing industry scientists said the Gulf still could rebound to a healthy condition. Ron Luken, chief scientist for Omega Protein, a Houston-based company that harvests menhaden to extract fish oil, says most adult fish could avoid the spill by swimming to areas untainted by crude. Young fish and other small creatures already in those clean waters could later repopulate the impacted areas. I don't think anybody has documented wholesale changes,said Steve Murawski, chief scientist for the National Marine Fisheries Service. If that actually occurs, that has a potentially great ramification for life at the higher end of the food web.

Oil dips below $77 as US crude supplies rise By NATALIE RAGUS, Associated Press Writer - JULY 14,10

LONDON – Oil prices dropped below $77 a barrel Wednesday after a report showed U.S. crude supplies rose unexpectedly last week, suggesting demand remains lackluster.
Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 38 cents to $76.77 a barrel at midday London time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Tuesday the contract gained $2.20 to settle at $77.15.Crude inventories rose 1.7 million barrels last week, the American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday, against a drop of 2.6 million barrels forecast in an analyst survey by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.Inventories of gasoline and distillates also rose, the API said.A strong start to second-quarter U.S. corporate earnings reports had helped buoy oil prices this week. Profits by Alcoa Inc. and Intel Corp. have beat analyst estimates. Google Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Bank of America Corp. are scheduled to announce earnings later this week.Economic guidance should continue to rule in moving oil prices, Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report.This difficult trading environment is likely to continue for at least a couple more months with trading confined to the spring-summer range of about $70 to $80.

Analysts at Commerzbank Corporates & Markets attributed last week's 7 million-barrel decrease in oil supplies to Hurricane Alex, which temporarily impaired oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. The International Energy Agency expects the demand for oil to increase 1.77 million barrels per day for 2010 and 1.35 million barrels per day for 2011.The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reports its weekly supply data later Wednesday.In other Nymex trading in August contracts, heating oil fell 0.71 cent to $2.0403 a gallon, gasoline dropped 0.54 cent to $2.0830a gallon and natural gas fell .6 cent to $4.348 per 1,000 cubic feet.Brent crude was down 19 cents to $76.49 a barrel on the ICE futures exchange.

Slovakia resists EU pressure on bail-outs
MATEJ HRUSKA Today JULY 14,10 @ 08:18 CET


EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The newly-minted Slovak Prime Minister, Iveta Radicova, left the EU capital on Tuesday (13 July) without agreeing to sign up to the eurozone bail-out fund or a separate loan for Greece.After two days of talks with EU leaders, Ms Radicova said the Slovak government will discuss the two questions at its cabinet meeting in Bratislava on Wednesday.The Slovak parliament will later have to approve the eurozone bail-out deal as well. But the government's signature would already allow the other participants in the mechanism to start issuing bond guarantees.Ms Radicova while in Brussels made some positive noises on the €750 billion EU-IMF bail-out mechanism. She said Slovak approval is a formal act whose commitment has been given by the previous government.She tried to distance herself politically from the deal however, saying: Without the agreement of the previous government, the process would not have started. That is a fact that cannot be challenged.She also sounded negative on prospects of Slovakia putting its agreed €800 million in the pot for Greece: The position of our minister of finance and also my personal and our political party is as it was before, that we really do not agree, we really do not agree.The Slovak leader's hard line comes despite mounting pressure from top EU officials.

Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, said at the press conference with Mrs Radicova on Tuesday, that: The previous government assumed a very clear commitment and we certainly expect commitments to be honored. This is a basic rule of the European Union and of international policy.Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of the euro-area finance ministers, told press: We have to have Slovakia signing the framework.Slovak finance minister Ivan Miklos noted that it would be difficult to renegotiate the size of the country's contribution to the bail-out fund.To negotiate today about the technical conditions and numbers is no longer possible because it has long since been approved by a majority of countries. The form of the bail-out has already been fixed,he told media on Tuesday.Corrected at 09.15 on 14 July: the original story said Slovakia's contribution to the Greek bail-out is €4.37 billion. It is in fact €800 million.

NGOs slam EU-Brazil plans to develop biofuels in Africa
ANDREW WILLIS Today JULY 14,10 @ 09:28 CET


EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU and Brazilian leaders are set to announce a new triangular co-operation initiative, under which they will aim to work together in some of the world's poorest countries, but NGOs say the duo's scheme is self-centred and will simply make conditions worse. At a bilateral summit in Brasilia on Wednesday (14 July), European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are to agree to co-operate on a range of different projects in Portuguese speaking parts of Africa, Haiti and East Timor in the coming years. The development of renewable energy is likely to be a central theme, and a first step will see the EU and Brazil sign an agreement with Mozambique this week to develop bioelectricity and biofuels projects, EU sources have indicated. Brazilian companies are world leaders in the production of biofuels and are looking to expand their operations both internally and abroad, while the EU is looking to increase its biofuel use at home in order to meet its target of sourcing 20 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2020.But as EU and Brazilian officials prepare to start studies on how best to develop bioethanol, biodiesel and bioelectricity projects in Mozambique - already a leading African producer of biofuels - environmental groups say the initiative will simply serve to displace people from their land and exacerbate food shortages.In a country that suffers persistent hunger, using millions of hectares of agricultural land to grow crops to power European cars is immoral and perverse, Adrian Bebb, a biofuels expert with Friends of the Earth, told this website.European biofuels targets are what is driving this global expansion, he added. Instead of doing deals to grab more land in the South, the EU should be scrapping its biofuel policy.Development NGOs such as ActionAid have also criticised the EU's biofuel target which demands that 10 percent of transport fuel come from renewable energy by 2020.

Studies suggest that a third of the land sold or acquired in Africa, some five million hectares or an area greater than the size of Denmark, is intended for fuel crops.The gains for both sides as a result of the new deal are clear however. By teaming up with Brazil in Africa, the EU stands to create a new and cheaper supply of biofuel, while Brazilian companies could make considerable savings on EU import tariffs. Biofuel produced in Brazil is currently subject to high tariffs when entering the EU, while duties on African-produced biofuels are much lower.Reports suggest that Cosan and Copersucar are among the Brazilian ethanol producers that stand to gain the most from setting up new production bases in Africa.As part of his trip to Brazil, Mr Van Rompuy is set to visit a Cosan production line and meet with senior company officials on Thursday afternoon.

Summit

Other deliverables from the bilateral summit are likely to include two aviation agreements and a deal to allow all EU citizens from Schengen countries to enter Brazil without the need for a visa.Citizens from new EU member states Malta, Latvia, Cyprus and Estonia still currently need a short-term tourist visa when visiting the South American country.The two sides will also discuss EU-Latin American relations, as well as the non-proliferation of nuclear arms. Brazil was recently involved in an initiative with Turkey to monitor the production of nuclear material in Iran, but the deal received a cold reception from the EU and US.

Self-Devaluation of media WED JULY 14,10

Julian Assange and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (photo: hajo friedrich)
It’s more and more dangerous publishing articles, comments and even cartoons in a paper or in the web. The famous western value freedom of speech seems to go down gradually in value – in mother-countries of democracy and civil rights. A big danger is also the devaluation of media by (Self-)Censorship.Have a look at following declaration: Artists and journalists around the continent have to think clearly about balancing freedom of religion with freedom of speech.This sentence you should read twice. It was published by so called Liberals in the European Parliament ALDI and sounds harmless. But what does it mean in the media-world wide web? To take into account the feelings of religions – all over the world? It encourages a worst case thinking. And that could mean, from my point of view: the end of free press in the western way of thinking.Responsible journalism is the new keyword to keep journalists on a short lead. Poor Europe. Sacrifice key values of western style democracies – to avoid possible protest of disciples of any religion or even terrorist attacks in the name of such? And/or is the purpose of this political lesson: to find arguments to manipulate and control media in a more effective way.

The quoted sentence is written in an invitation letter for a press conference in the European Parliament initiated by two MEPs: Marietje Schaake from the party D66 in the Netherlands and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (FDP) from Germany.There is often a hidden agenda in dealings in the Brussels bubble. I was rather shocked, visiting the seminar organized by so called Liberals – ALDE – in the European Parliament. The title (Self-) Censorship: New Challenges for Freedom of Expression in Europe attracted me. Interesting, as for the speeches (speakers and summaries see below).
But the discussion, moderated by Mrs. Schaake and Mr. Graf Lambsdorff was poor, disappointing. In short: a missed opportunity to strenghten civil liberties. The contrary: the indirect main message was: be careful in using your right of free speeech. Think about possible reactions and consequences this could have. Dear artist, dear cartoonist: before publishing please make an assessment of possible side-effects on earth your products could possibly have.So, the ALDE-seminar was an interesting lesson in the new dimension of political correctness we obviiously entered – to be more precise – in the obvioulsy growing fears in western countries.
It’s worth to look the video of the full conference. Here you can find it: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdsqw8_alev-full-freedom-of-expression-in_news

The most interesting intervention from the audience came from Joe McNamee of the Organisation European Digital Rights(www.edri.org). It is an association of 27 organisations based in 17 countries. They exist in order to support privacy and civil rights in the digital environment.

Joe McNamee gave some examples of latest developments to influence the use of the internet:
- The latest version of the Council of Europe recommendation appeared to legitimise rather than limit profiling by states.
- The EU Directive on data retention has been implemented in numerous (also not implemented in several) EU member states.
- the European Parliament – although a great many signed without realised what they were doing – supported the implementation of the data retention directive and its extension to search engines.
- The European Commission is working on a code of conduct for ISPs to deal with allegations of illegality of material that is hosted online. This includes a recommendation to change terms and conditions to facilitate deletion of websites and for hosting providers to automatically delete websites if they have been asked to do so by bodies authorised under national law to monitor internet content. the full document is available at edri
- The most recent version of the CoE recommendation:
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/DataProtection/TPD%20documents/T-PD-BUR_2009_02rev6_en_Fin%20_2.pdf

Following some extracts of the ALDE-press material on the seminar:

Europe must protect freedom of expression and press following the example of Iceland said Marietje Schaake (D66, NL) during the ALDE seminar on Censorship and Self censorship hosted with Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP, DE) which looked at challenges to freedom of expression, with a special focus on the role the internet plays and with the aim to be informed, and inspired by good practices, to be alerted to worst cases, and to consequently look at concrete ways to make Europe a safe haven for the free word, also online.Freedom of expression is under threat in Europe, which instead should be a model for the rest of the world. How can we credibly speak about a lack of freedom of expression in China or Iran if we don’t apply the highest standards ourselves? Journalists, cartoonists, but also scientists are increasingly censored, or apply self-censorship, and in worst cases, individuals are not able to live in freedom after expressing certain opinions. This is unacceptable and that’s why we should learn from Iceland where the most protective draft legislation for whistleblowers, confidential sources of journalists and libel-tourism prevention is being prepared.Schaake added.Swedish artist Lars Vilks at the ALDE-seminar (photo: Hajo Friedrich)No person should be afraid of the consequences when they freely express themselves. That would be contrary to European values we believe in and protect. ALDE defends the right to offend which is an essential part of freedom of expression, and we will stand with those who come under pressure to freely express their views, be they political, artistic or otherwise.said Alexander Lambsdorff.

The event will be a platform for artists and journalists, as well as for politicians and lawmakers. Ever since the Danish Cartoon riots, freedom of expression has become problematic for artists throughout Europe. Artists and journalists around the continent have to think clearly about balancing freedom of religion with freedom of speech.The legal and political implications of freedom of speech are also rapidly developing. On June 15th, The Icelandic Parliament unanimously passed a bill for the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative. In close cooperation with WikiLeaks, Icelandic parliamentarians devised a law that will counter ‘libel tourism’, taking the best from freedom of expression legislation around the world. It provides for a counter-suit in Iceland against a party which engages in a calculated attempt to suppress the speech freedoms.Julian Assange of WikiLeaks (photo: Hajo Friedrich)
At the same time, WikiLeaks is testing the legal and political boundaries of freedom of speech. WikiLeaks founder internet freedom fighter Julian Assange will come to elaborate his vision of a free society, and the necessity of exposing the public to secret information.

The speakers:

ALDE MEP Marietje Schaake, D66 – NL
Alexander Graf Lamsdorff, FDP – DE
Lars Vilks, Artist
Flemming Rose, Jyllands-Posten editor
Naema Tahir, Dutch author
Professor Alistair Mullis, UK Defamation Law expert
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
Birgitta Jonsdottir, member of the Icelandic Parliament
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff and Marietje Schaake�

Programme of the seminar: (Self) Censorship: New Challenges for Freedom of Expression in Europe

Panel 1

Personal experiences with freedom of expression in Europe

Video message Flemming Rose – Journalist
Flemming Rose is Opinion and Culture Editor of Jyllands-Posten, Denmark’s largest newspaper, since 2009. He joined the paper in 2004 as its Culture Editor, and in 2005he commissioned the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that sparked riots across the Muslim world. Previously he spent 14 years abroad as a foreign correspondent for Jyllands-Posten and Berlingske Tidende, 11 years in the Soviet Union and Russia and 3 years in Washington DC. Rose has a BA in Russian language and literature from the University of Copenhagen and worked as a translator before he became a journalist. He has translated several novels – as well as the political memoirs of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin – from Russian into Danish. He is also the author of The Catastrophe that did not happen: Russia in Change 1992-1996 (1997) and American Voices (2006), and has contributed essays to several anthologies. In autumn 2010 his book about the cartoon crisis will be published in Denmark.

Lars Vilks -Artist
Lars Vilks, artist and PhD in History of Art, Professor in Art Theory in Bergen Art Academy, Norway, 1997-2003, known for his land art pieces Nimis and Arx 1980-. He lives and works in South of Sweden. In 2007 he started a controversy when portraying The Prophet M. as a Round about Dog. The process art piece has been expanding especially during 2010, when the artist was stopped by a Muslim mob during a lecture at the University in Uppsala. A week later Fundamentalist Muslims tried to burn down his home. The artist has no political agenda, he works as an artist.

Naema Tahir – Author
Naema Tahir (1970, Slough, England) is a British-Dutch writer and human rights lawyer, of Pakistani origin. Tahir read Dutch and International Law at Leiden University. She worked as a lawyer for ten years at various Dutch Ministries and the UNHCR (as protection officer in Lagos, Nigeria). She was a lawyer at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, specialized in economic and social human rights. Tahir has authored books on the empowerment of Muslim women, their human rights and reproductive rights, identity, migration and integration, published in the Netherlands. Een Moslima ontsluiert (A Muslim woman unveils, 2005, Houtekiet) dealt with the effects of migration on Islamic identity. The bestselling Kostbaar Bezit (Prized Possession, 2006, Prometheus) was a controversial novel on the reproductive and sexual rights of three Muslim women living in Lahore, Pakistan. The novel Eenzaam heden (Lonesome today, 2008 Prometheus) dealt in a humoristic manner with the issue of identity of an isolated Pakistani family in London who find themselves mildly radicalising. In October 2008 Green Riding Hood and the converted wolf was launched – fairy tales on Muslims and morality in the West. Tahir is currently working on a novel about forced marriages to be launched in October 2010 by Publishing House The Geus. Tahir featured in the book Derde Feministische Golf (Third Feminist Wave, 2006 Houtekiet) by Dirk Verhofstadt (brother to the former Belgium Prime-Minister) who considers Tahir to belong to the avant garde of women in the Netherlands who strive towards the emancipation of and respect for the freedoms of Muslim women.

Panel 2

Legal and Political questions around freedom of expression in Europe

Julian Assange – WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks is a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public. Since July 2007, WikiLeaks worked across the globe to obtain, publish and defend such materials, and, also, to fight in the legal and political spheres the broader principles such as the integrity of our common historical record and the rights of all peoples to create new history. WikiLeaks combines the protection and anonymity of cutting-edge cryptographic technologies with the comfortable presentation style of Wikipedia. WikiLeaks information is distributed across many jurisdictions, organizations and individuals. Once a document published it is essentially impossible to censor.The Pentagon has a manhunt currently underway for Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange.

Birgitta Jonsdottir- Member of Parliament, Iceland
Birgitta Jonsdottir is a poet, journalist, internet pioneer, activist and a publisher. She was elected to the Icelandic parliament in April 2009 on behalf of a movement aiming for democratic reform beyond party politics of left and right. Birgitta managed to rally support from all parties in the Icelandic Parliament for the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a proposal for a parliamentary resolution for Iceland to strongly position itself legally with regard to the protection of freedoms of expression and information.Birgitta has served as the Chairman of the Movement Parliamentary Group since 2009.She is currently a member of the Parliamentary Review Committee on the SIC report, of the Committee on the Environment, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and a member of the Icelandic delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Birgitta is also a part of International Network of Parliamentarians’ for Tibet (INPaT) and an active volunteer for WikiLeaks projects.

Professor Alastair Mullis
currently holds a chair in law (and is Dean) at the Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia. He is also a visiting research professor at the Faculte des Sciences Juridiques, Tunis and holds visiting chairs at the Universities of Muenster, Germany and Thammasat, Thailand. His main research and teaching interests lie in the areas of the law of defamation, international commercial law and torts. He has published widely in these areas and is currently the general editor of the new edition of Carter-Ruck on Libel and Privacy.

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