IMF - RAPING THE WORLD

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

2:45PM MONDAY APR 27,09.A QUAKE NOW IN MEXICO.THEIR BEING JUDGED NOW FOR SOME REASON,MEXICO HAS 149 DEAD BY THE SWINE FLU AND NOW A 6.0 QUAKE.

THE COST OF SWINE FLU VIDEO
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1104797324&play=1
DICTATOR IN CHIEF VIDEO
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1101739429&play=1

Mexico hit by 6.0 magnitude quake Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:18pm EDT

MEXICO CITY, April 27, (Reuters) - Mexico was hit by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of deaths or damage in the capital, Mexico City.The USGS said the quake hit 19 miles (30 km) south-southeast of Tixtla, Guerrero, about 150 miles (240 km) from the capital, Mexico City. Its epicenter was 25.6 miles (40 km) deep.Buildings in the capital shook. The city and its surrounding area have a population of around 20 million.A civil protection official said there were no immediate reports of deaths or damages from the quake in Mexico City.Quakes of this magnitude are classified as strong and are capable of causing severe damage.The quake hit as Mexico dealt with an outbreak of swine flu that has made hundreds of people ill.Mexico's health minister, Jose Angel Cordova, said on Monday that the outbreak was suspected to have killed 149 people in the country and the number of cases was seen rising. (Reporting by Anahi Rama, Editing by Frances Kerry)

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

SWINE FLU FEARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIyA5X0wJ1Y&feature=player_embedded
http://www.infowars.com/swine-flu-and-martial-law/

IS THERE A CONNECTION HERE FOLKS.OBAMA OWNS STOCK IN TAMIFLU,MEXICO WAS IN MASS CONFUSION.OBAMA GOES TO MEXICO,FLU EPIDEMIC OCCURS.A PERSON OBAMA SHAKES HANDS WITH IN MEXICO DIES FROM THE FLU.I SMELL AN OBAMA SETUP HERE,ONLY TIME WILL TELL IF I AM RIGHT.

ANOTHER INTERESTING HAPPENING THIS MORNING AT 10:30AM, THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE IS ADVANCES 1,005,DECLINES 2,375,UNCHANGED 94 AND NASDAQ IS ADVANCES 898,DECLINES 1,659 AND UNCHANGED 99 (2 TO 1 DECLINES TO ADVANCES)BUT STILL THE DOW IS UP 20 POINTS. THERES EVEN SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON WITH A MANIPULATION OF THE MARKETS,IT HAS TO BE TO HAVE THESE NUMBERS AND THE DOW UP POINTS,DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AT ALL.

STEVE QUAYLE ON ALEX JONES TODAY SAYS TO WATCH FOR APRIL 30,09 ITS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN OCCULT NEW AGE WORSHIP.AND SINCE THESE NEW WORLD ORDER FOLKS WANT 2/3RDS OF EARTHS POPULATION KILLED,THIS COULD BE THE PANDEMIC THAT THE BIBLE SAYS COULD KILL 500 MILLION PEOPLE.ONLY TIME WILL TELL BUT READ THE VERSES ABOVE ABOUT 1/4 OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE FROM ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE.
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2009/04/12-of-population-3-billion-die-in.html

Monday, April 27, 2009...12:40 am
Barack Obama owns stock in Tamiflu

Old Article from 2007(Recasts with Tamiflu, adds company and analyst comment, share price)By Sam Cage

ZURICH, Oct 16 2007 (Reuters) - Nine-month sales at Roche Holding AG (ROG.VX) rose 12 percent to 33.95 billion Swiss francs ($28.82 billion), but missed forecasts on lower orders of influenza drug Tamiflu, pressuring its shares.Basel-based Roche confirmed its full-year outlook on Tuesday, saying it expected double-digit increases in group and drugs sales and core earnings per share to grow faster than group sales.Tamiflu sales fell 60 percent in the third quarter following completion of outstanding orders for pandemic influenza stockpiles.The company said government and corporation stockpiling plans had largely been completed and no significant new orders had recently been received.Roche participation certificates, its most widely traded form of equity, fell 2.1 percent by 0713 GMT.The Tamiflu pandemic sales were even less than I had thought, said Landsbanki Kepler analyst Denise Anderson.On the other hand, obviously given the product cycles of a lot of the drugs, the story cycle we see for Roche over the next 12 months has more to do with clinical trials news flow than results, Anderson said.

The company had no plans to raise its $3 billion hostile offer for Ventana Medical Systems Inc VMSI.O, which has been rebuffed by shareholders, diagnostics head Severin Schwan told Reuters.We believe that the offer is fully priced and fair, attractive for the Ventana shareholders, and the ball is with Ventana, said Schwan, who is Roche’s designated new chief executive.Roche declined to comment on any potential interest in U.S. biotech company Biogen Idec Inc (BIIB.O), which has put itself up for sale.

ORANGE ALERT:To all those who have taken an oath to defend the U.S. against all enemies foreign and domestic - BE ADVISED of the following:April 22, 2009
Steve Quayle
http://www.stevequayle.com/index1.html

Over the next 6 months, law enforcement and the military will be given unlawful and illegal orders to round up and purge all dissidents against the New World Order crowd. The purge is the systematic liquidation of all those identified as a threat against the Globalist Plan. Furthermore, all TEA Party participants have been filmed and their license plate information taken by all FBI Special Agents in charge at all the rallies. Consider the ramifications... Since coming to office, the current regime has devoted massive amounts of money and Federal Spy Agency assets to identifying gun owners and those in the military who still love this Country and take their oath seriously. All former combat Veterans, Special Forces, Green Berets, Delta, and Spec operations personnel must absolutely change your physical location and TELL NO ONE! With DHS having validated the Seek and Destroy Lists, their plans are now being set in motion! Does it not make you furious that men and women in the Armed Forces who have fought all these years for the principles that the Constitutional Republic ONCE Stood for, are now deemed terrorists by the DHS along with Constitutionalists, Christians, gun owners and those who speak out against the foreign destruction of America's economy. Domestic security is now defined as quell all first amendment rights. Period! Whether false flag or intentional acts of globalist terror incidents, the events will be orchestrated to blame the DHS hit list people. Whether you know it or not, by painting conservatives and people who are against the New World Order with such a terroristic civil rights violating hit piece you have not only been vilified but have been targeted for extermination. Anyone who would follow orders to take your guns away will not hesitate to BLOW YOU AWAY. History has proven this time and time again! The Psalmist wrote If the foundations be destroyed what shall the righteous do? Our only Hope is to repent and cry out to the Living God and seek his personal direction and guidance. While we can not stop the hand of Divine Judgment, we can know our God and do exploits! Write your Senators and Congressmen and women — scream at the top of your lungs, write editorials; do all that you can do legally. But remember, very soon when they initiate their attacks, you will have no one to blame except yourselves while there is still a whisper of time to make a difference for Righteousness Sake.DO NOT ALLOW THESE PLANS FOR SLAUGHTER TO GO UNOPPOSED!

U.S. Air Force Study Proposed 2009 Influenza Pandemic in 1996
Kurt Nimmo Infowars March 5, 2009

On June 17, 1996, the U.S. Air Force released Air Force 2025, a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future.In the unclassified study, the College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama posed several fictional representations of future situations/scenarios likely to arise.In 2009, according to a figure in the Air Force 2025 report, influenza kills 30 million people.

In Chapter 5, the authors present a timeline figure representing plausible history. In 2009, according to the figure, influenza will kill 30 million people. A similar influenza pandemic occurred in the past, a footnote explains, making a reference to the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919, described as one of the worst human catastrophes on record. It has been estimated that more than 20 million people around the world died during the epidemic, and of the 20 million people who suffered from the illness in the United States, approximately 850,000 died.The influenza virus is unique among viruses in being able to undergo so much antigenic change that an antigenically novel virus can sweep around the world in a year or two, giving rise to significant morbidity and mortality,another footnote states. It is interesting to note that the source of the Air Force’s fictional pandemic is described as unknown and it is not determined if the virus was a natural mutation or bioengineered. Many feared the latter.(Emphasis added.) Is it merely a coincidence the Pentagon would propose in 1996 a deadly flu pandemic for 2009 when live H5N1 avian flu viruses are discovered in vaccines produced by a Baxter International plant in Austria? The fact that Baxter mixed the deadly H5N1 virus with a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses is the smoking gun, writes Paul Joseph Watson. The H5N1 virus on its own has killed hundreds of people, but it is less airborne and more restricted in the ease with which it can spread. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which as everyone knows are super-airborne and easily spread, the effect is a potent, super-airborne, super deadly biological weapon of the sort proposed in Air Force 2025.

Last year, author and researcher F. William Engdahl revealed a Pentagon effort to weaponize avian flu.If the reports are accurate, this could unleash a new pandemic on the planet that could be more devastating than the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic which killed an estimated 30 million people worldwide before it eventually died out, writes Engdahl. Engdahl then suggests that sections of the international pharmaceutical industry cartel are acting in concert with the US Government to develop a genetically modified H5N1 virus substance that could unleash a man-made pandemic. He cites Rima E. Laibow, MD, head of the Natural Solutions Foundation, a citizen watchdog group monitoring the pharmaceutical industry, who states: Our best intelligence estimate is that pandemic Avian Flu has already been created through genetic engineering in the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 Pandemic, misnamed the Spanish Flu, with the DNA of the innocuous H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells, according to the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine’s manufacturer. Some virologists believe that this would insure that the man-made mutant virus recognizes human cells and knows how to invade them.Finally, it should be noted that Walter E. Boomer, a retired former four-star General and Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, sits on the board of directors of Baxter International. Of course, this is not definitive evidence the military controls Baxter or is behind the accidental contamination of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses with the H5N1 virus at its laboratory in Austria. It is highly suspicious, however.Baxter International has had a relationship with the military since 1941, when its blood-collection devices were the only ones that met the specifications of the U.S. Armed Forces.

AMERICA IS FINALLY ADMITTING THERES 40 SWINE FLU CASES NOT JUST 20.THERE WAS 12 IN TEXAS INSTEAD OF 2 AS REPORTED FOR THE LAST 2 DAYS.

Web Posted: 04/26/2009 8:12 CDT SCUCISD closes all schools Davenport/Express-News

Ronald Cables, a custodian for the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District, cleans the seats on a school bus as a precaution. By Elizabeth Allen - Express-News As the number of suspected or confirmed local cases of swine flu climbed to 12, the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District said Sunday it will close all its schools for at least one week.The district also canceled today’s planned public meeting at Steele High School in Cibolo, where the two Texas cases of swine flu were confirmed last week.Another 10 suspected cases are being tested — all from the school district or household contacts of the infected students, and ranging from a 6-year-old to people in their 40s, Dr. Sandra Guerra, regional medical director for the Texas Department of State Health Services, said Sunday.

And there may be more out there.

Linda Moses of Cibolo said she's been sick with vomiting, diahrrea and a cough, and both of her sons have shown flu symptoms as well. One attends Clemens High School.I allowed him to go over and spend time with his grandparents, which I'm a little worried about now, because that's the last thing they need,Moses said.She hasn't been to a doctor yet, but said with the news of the district-wide closure, she's planning to see one as soon as possible.It was scary anyway, but it's really kind of hitting kind of close to home now, Moses said.Schertz has also closed its public library, Guerra said. Cibolo has closed its parks and is asking churches and places where people gather to postpone activities. It is asking private developments to close their parks as well.Employees of Bexar County who live in Guadalupe County are being asked to be extra vigilant, and if they or any family members have flu symptoms, to stay home, said Bexar County spokeswoman Laura Jesse.Since the school district has made the decision to shut down for the next week, we advise our employees to use their better judgment, definitely, if they are feeling ill, not to come to work, Jesse said.

There are between 102 and 146 Bexar County workers living in or around Guadalupe County. Officials are not sure how many will call in sick, but preliminarily, Monday morning, they were not working with a skeleton staff in any department.That goes for the general population, too, said Emily Palmer, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services.Our recommendations are that people who are sick stay home, Palmer said.I don't want to minimize this. We are concerned and we are actively doing surveillance.The state also wants doctors to change their normal approach to possible influenza patients, Guerra said.Instead of running their own tests or using private labs, doctors should contact the state or Metropolitan Health District officials and use those labs to test throat cultures, she said.

She fully expects Bexar County swine flu cases.

I think we're prepared for that, she said.We understand people are people, and we tend to be mobile.Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, noted in a press briefing Sunday that only one of the 20 confirmed U.S. cases had been hospitalized.In Mexico, hundreds have been sickened with the same strain of swine flu that is affecting people in the U.S., and numerous people have died, with 12 of the deaths confirmed as the same strain. Canada has confirmed several cases, while New Zealand and Spain are investigating possible infections.Why that strain at this point appears to be more lethal in Mexico is still a mystery, Schuchat said.It's also too soon to say why it appears to be affecting young, healthy people as opposed to the very old and very young, who are generally the most vulnerable, she said.But those numbers may change as more cases are diagnosed, which health officials expect.Rebecca Villarreal, spokeswoman for the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City district, said the situation is changing every day.

The school district has set up an information hotline at 210-619-4700 for parents and school employees to call for updates, Villarreal said.We recorded the message for the week, and if there's a change we'll update it, she said, adding that the district is working on adding a Spanish version of the message. We know we're going to have questions, especially come Friday, (when) the big question will be,Is there going to be school on Monday? The tone of that question may depend on whether it's being asked by parents or students.The kids are doing a happy dance, said Ken Singel, who has a middle-school and high-school student in the district.My wife's telling me that she's not going to let em out, but ... the little one is already agitating for Schlitterbahn.Singel's wife is a nursing professor, he said, so they're taking precautions, but are not overly concerned.Staff writers Don Finley and Lindsay Kastner contributed to this report.

Is Swine Flu A Biological Weapon? Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com
Monday, April 27, 2009

There are some factors that suggest the swine flu killing people in Mexico may be a biological weapon, but obviously no such conclusion can be drawn at this time. The World Health Organization and the U.S. government have been quick to deny such claims.

The swine flu virus is described as a completely new strain, an intercontinental mixture of human, avian and swine viruses. Tellingly, there have been no reported A-H1N1 infections of pigs.According to a source known to former NSA official Wayne Madsen, A top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, concluded that H1N1 possesses certain transmission vectors that suggest that the new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.Madsen claims that his source, and another in Indonesia, Are convinced that the current outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in Mexico and some parts of the United States is the result of the introduction of a human-engineered pathogen that could result in a widespread global pandemic, with potentially catastrophic consequences for domestic and international travel and commerce.However, it’s important to stress that it is far too early to make this assumption. We have to bear in mind that the number of victims has been comparatively low when one considers the fact that hundreds of thousands in Mexico contract infectious diseases every year related to poverty like tuberculosis and malaria.

Fort Detrick, the U.S. Army Medical Command installation that was the source of the 2001 anthrax attacks, is again attracting suspicion in light of the swine flu panic after it was revealed that criminal investigators are probing whether virus samples recently went missing from its biolabs.Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade, said CID is investigating the possibility of missing virus samples from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, reports The Frederick News.In February, USAMRIID halted their work when virus samples were discovered that were not listed in its inventory. Criminal investigators from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division unit at Fort Meade are now probing whether virus samples are missing from the Army’s top biolab, which also studies pathogens including ebola, anthrax and plague.Obviously, in light of the current swine flu scare, and the new strain’s possible synthetic origin, the fact that virus samples may have gone missing from the same Army research lab from which the 2001 anthrax strain was released is extremely disturbing.A 2008 FBI and DOJ investigation concluded that Bruce Edwards Irvins, a microbiologist, vaccinologist, and senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland, was responsible for mailing anthrax to members of Congress and the media in September and October 2001.The fact that Irvins apparently committed suicide shortly before the announcement led many to suspect that he was a patsy in a wider plot. Despite the suspicious circumstances, no autopsy was carried out on Irvins’ body. His attorney was certain that Irvins, who had cooperated with the 6-year investigation, was innocent of the five anthrax deaths.

The Department of Justice initially considered Dr. Steven Jay Hatfill to be a strong suspect in the anthrax attacks, but he later sued the government and won $5.8 million in damages. A New York Times piece on Irvins’ suicide asked the hypothetical question: What if Dr. Hatfill had committed suicide in 2002, as friends feared he might? Would the investigators have released their evidence and announced that the perpetrator was dead? Fears that a mass pandemic was being readied as a biological attack have rumbled on in the conspiracy community ever since 9/11. Investigators point to the highly unusual number of deaths of top microbiologists to suggest that people with knowledge of the program are being eliminated.

Baxter To Develop Swine Flu Vaccine Despite Bird Flu Scandal
Steve Watson Infowars.net Monday, April 27, 2009

A U.S. based pharmaceutical company that just weeks ago was involved in a scandal involving vaccines tainted with deadly avian flu virus has been chosen to head up efforts to produce a vaccine for the Mexican swine flu that has seemingly migrated into the U.S. and Europe.Baxter confirmed over the weekend that it is working with the World Health Organization on a potential vaccine to curb the deadly swine flu virus that is blamed for scores of deaths in Mexico and has emerged as a threat in the U.S., reports the Chicago Tribune.Baxter has previously worked with governments all over the globe to develop and produce vaccines to protect against infectious disease or potential threats from bioterrorism. After 9/11 Baxter helped supply stockpiles of a smallpox vaccine and in 2003 the company was contracted to develop a vaccine to combat the SARS virus. In 2006 the UK Government announced plans designed to inoculate every person in the country with Baxter’s vaccines in the event of a flu pandemic.However, Baxter has a very recent and most disturbing connection to flu vaccines.As reported by multiple sources last month, including the Times of India, vaccines contaminated with deadly live H5N1 avian flu virus were distributed to 18 countries last December by a lab at an Austrian branch of Baxter.

It was only by providence that the batch was first tested on ferrets in the Czech Republic, before being shipped out for injection into humans. The ferrets all died and the shocking discovery was made. Czech newspapers immediately questioned whether the events were part of a conspiracy to deliberately provoke a pandemic, following up on accusations already made by health officials in other countries.Initially, Baxter attempted to stonewall questions by invoking “trade secrets” and refused to reveal how the vaccines were contaminated with H5N1. After increased pressure they then claimed that pure H5N1 batches were sent by accident.Since the probability of mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible, this leaves no other explanation than that the contamination was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the H5N1 virus to its most potent extreme and distribute it via conventional flu vaccines to the population who would then infect others to a devastating degree as the disease went airborne.The fact that Baxter mixed the deadly H5N1 virus with a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses is the smoking gun. The H5N1 virus on its own has killed hundreds of people, but it is less airborne and more restricted in the ease with which it can spread. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which as everyone knows are super-airborne and easily spread, the effect is a potent, super-airbone, super deadly biological weapon.Indeed, some have already suggested that the current scare could represent the use of such a weapon.Now it has been announced that Baxter is seeking a sample of the potentially lethal never before seen form of swine/avian/human flu virus in order to assist the World Health Organization in developing a new vaccine, reaping billions in the process.Why should Baxter be trusted, when they have already been proven to be at the very least criminally negligent, and at worst a prime suspect in attempting to carry off one of the most heinous crimes in the history of mankind?

The company has already put the safety of the entire human race at risk, and now, just a few weeks later, we’re expected to invest our confidence in them and take their shots with a smile and a still tongue? As Mike Adams of Natural News has commented, If you mail an envelope full of anthrax to your Senator, you get arrested as a terrorist. So why is Baxter — which mailed samples of a far more deadly viral strain to labs around the world — getting away with saying, essentially, Oops? WHO officials are reportedly still closely monitoring the investigation into Baxter’s contaminated flu vaccines, seemingly they are not too concerned. Perhaps we should be.

Swine flu case confirmed in Spain,Spain confirms one case of swine flu; 16 more suspected cases being tested,European health commissioner recommends against travel to U.S., Mexico,Up to 103 deaths in Mexico are thought to have been caused by swine flu,Cases also confirmed in U.S., Canada; suspected cases in New Zealand, Israel
APR 27,09

(CNN) -- The first case of swine flu in Europe was confirmed Monday in Spain as a top European health official warned against travel to Mexico and the United States.
Police keep worshippers from attending Mass at a cathedral in Mexico City on Sunday.
1 of 3 more photos » Spanish health minister Trinidad Jimenez said a 23-year-old man who returned from studying in Mexico last Wednesday tested positive for the virus at a hospital in Albacete, southeastern Spain.At least 16 more cases are being treated as possible swine flu, Jimenez told a news conference. Earlier, Jimenez met with health officials to discuss Spain's response to the crisis.We do not have an emergency situation in Spain, but we are working to prevent any possible development, and we are taking action in accord with the World Health Organization, she said.

Spain's Ministry of Health has urged travelers recently returned from Mexico and the U.S. to be on the lookout for symptoms of the virus, including fever, coughing and respiratory problems.The European Union's health commissioner Monday called on people to avoid traveling to both Mexico and the U.S. amid growing concern that the swine flu virus, which has been blamed for at least 103 deaths in Mexico as well as hundreds more cases of infection, could become a global pandemic.People should avoid traveling to Mexico or the U.S. unless it is very urgent for them,Andorra Vassiliou said.Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Vassiliou's warning was not warranted.U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that the outbreak was a cause for concern but not a cause for alarm.He said the federal government was closely monitoring emerging cases and had declared a public health emergency as a precautionary tool to ensure the availability of adequate resources to combat the spread of the virus.

The World Health Organization has described the outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern. The U.S. has confirmed 20 cases of the disease while Canada confirmed its first case Sunday.Israel and New Zealand, where 22 students and three teachers were quarantined after returning for a three-week trip to Mexico, are also investigating suspected cases. South Korea says it will test travelers arriving from the U.S.Swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease that usually affects pigs. It is caused by a type-A influenza virus. The current strain is a new variation of an H1N1 virus, which is a mix of human and animal versions.When the flu spreads person-to-person, instead of from animals to humans, it can continue to mutate, making it harder to treat or fight off because people have no natural immunity.

Health Library
MayoClinic.com: Influenza (flu)
The symptoms are similar to common flu. They include fever, lethargy, lack of appetite, coughing, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.The virus spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes around another person. People can become infected by touching something with the flu virus on it and then touching their mouth, nose or eyes.Researchers are trying to determine how easily it can jump from person to person. Keiji Fukuda, WHO's assistant director-general, said it was too early to predict whether there will be a mild or serious pandemic. iReport.com: Do you think we should be worried about swine flu? In 1968, a Hong Kong flu pandemic killed about 1 million people worldwide. And in 1918, a Spanish flu pandemic killed as many as 100 million people.

Swine Flu and Martial Law Kurt Nimmo Infowars April 26, 2009

As the AP video here reports, countries around the world are reacting to the Swine Flu (H1N1 ) outbreak in Mexico with quarantines and travel warnings. The United Nation’s World Health Organization convened an emergency meeting Saturday to develop a response to the pandemic potential emerging from Mexico (although the threat is apparently not considered serious enough to prompt officials in the United States to close the border).If the outbreak indeed turns into a global pandemic, as WHO seems to think, we can expect not only quarantines, but the imposition of martial law in the United States. In fact, the government has planned for just such a scenario for some time now.In late 2007, the Bush administration issued a directive establishing a National Strategy for Public Health and Medical Preparedness based on Biodefense for the 21st Century (see PDF). HSPD 21, short for Homeland Security Presidential Directive (signing statement bypassing Congress), defines catastrophic health event as any natural or manmade incident, including terrorism, that results in a number of ill or injured persons sufficient to overwhelm the capabilities of immediate local and regional emergency response and health care systems.HSPD 21 established an academic Joint Program for Disaster Medicine and Public Health housed at a National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. It teamed up the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense to carry out respective civilian and military missions.Prior to this, in May of 2007, the U.S. military had the foresight to plan for a possible avian flu pandemic that could kill as many as three million people in the United States in as little as six weeks,according to Yahoo News. Guidelines and planning assumptions for US military services and combatant commands were published in a document entitled Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza.Possible scenarios include US troops being called in to put down riots, guard pharmaceutical plants and shipments, and help restrict the movement of people inside the country and across its borders, Yahoo summarizes. The plan envisions fast moving, catastrophic waves of disease that would overwhelm health facilities and cripple the ability of state and local authorities to provide even basic commodities or services.The military would be used to restrict traffic within states to contain the spread of the virus, according to the document. It said the military will be called on to evacuate non-infected people from areas abroad that are having problems, and to help allies. In other words, think FEMA during Hurricane Katrina — the relocations, the toxic camps, the confiscation of firearms.

A key military role will be to distribute medical supplies and medications and provide security for the production and shipment of vaccines on orders of the president.DoD’s Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza proposes nothing less than the militarization of health care. In short, the military — provided to augment civilian law enforcement — will be used to vaccinate the population, as directed by the president.Considering the above, the purpose of the brand spanking new KBR camps ostensibly built for an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs comes into focus. As Michel Chossudovsky wrote in 2005, the hidden agenda consists in using the threat of a pandemic and/or the plight of a natural disaster as a pretext to establish military rule and suspend Constitutional government and allow the Military to intervene in civilian affairs in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.Bush said as much when he announced that in the event of a flu outbreak in the U.S. he would consider using the military to effect a quarantine and place National Guard troops under federal, rather than state, control. Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and director of its National Center for Disaster Preparedness, told the Associated Press that a law enforcement role for the military would be an extraordinarily Draconian measure.Since Redlener made his comment, the military, under the Northern Command, according to the Army Times, announced the transfer of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team and its dedicated assignment… as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.Training for homeland operations commenced last year at Fort Stewart and at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.Over the last few months, the military has steadily increased its collaboration with local law enforcement in violation of Posse Comitatus, most notably and egregiously in Alabama and Tennessee (see Damage Control: U.S. Army Investigates Deploying Troops in Samson, Alabama and Massive Checkpoint Operation in Tennessee Violated Posse Comitatus, Fourth Amendment).The federalization and militarization of law enforcement has continued apace since 1994 when the DoD issued a directive allowing military commanders to take emergency actions in domestic situations.Is it possible a mutant influenza virus would be used as an excuse to impose martial law now that the military is in place ?

Our best intelligence estimate is that pandemic Avian Flu has already been created through genetic engineering in the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918Pandemic, misnamed the Spanish Flu, with the DNA of the innocuous H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells, according to the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine’s manufacturer. Some virologists believe that this would insure that the man-made mutant virus recognizes human cells and knows how to invade them, writes Rima E. Laibow, MD, head of the Natural Solutions Foundation, a citizen watchdog group monitoring the pharmaceutical industry. Laibow underscores what we stress above: “Given the shockingly obvious lack of any threat from an un-weaponized H5N1 virus, how can we explain the Bush Administration spending billions of dollars preparing each of the 50 States, for what it calls the inevitable Bird Flu pandemic, which they say could kill half or more of all Americans and similar numbers of people around the globe? Of course, the current swine flu is not H5N1. It is the H1N1 virus. It is however an odd duckling with a suspicious composition: the virus contains genes of human, bird and swine origin.As the virus spreads, more and more people — and even a few virologists — believe H1N1 is a human-engineered pathogen. On April 25, the journalist Wayne Madsen wrote: Our Mexico City source said a top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, concluded that H1N1 possesses certain transmission vectors that suggest that new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon. The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents. Past swine flu outbreaks have been spread from pigs to humans, who then passed the flu on to other humans. However, with A-H1N1, there have been no reported infections of pigs. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), A-H1N1 has gene segments from North American swine, bird and human flu strains and a segment from Eurasian swine flu. Costa Rica, Brazil, and Peru have issued alerts to check all incoming passengers from Mexico at border crossings, airports, and seaports for symptoms of the swine flu. Meanwhile, in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has instituted passive surveillance of travelers entering the country.Napolitano announced this on Sunday. On Friday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was too late to contain the swine flu outbreak in the United States.

Swine flu spreads economic shivers APR 27,09

PARIS (AFP) — The global outbreak of swine flu sent shivers through financial markets on Monday just as some signs had appeared that the global economic crisis might be easing.Travel and tourism took the brunt of uncertainty about how the threat of a pandemic might crimp economic activity, but the pharmaceutical sector rose as attention turned to defensive medical treatments and equipment.Shares in Swiss drug giant Roche surged and then settled with a gain of 3.51 percent on prospects of a surge in demand for its treatment Tamiflu, a focus of interest during previous alerts over bird flu.An analyst at Vontobel in Switzerland, Andrew Weiss, said: When fear about bird flu really took hold in the fourth quarter of 2005, the price of shares (in Roche) rose strongly.In 2006 and 2007 Roche had made sales of Tamiflu worth a total of 4.0 billion Swiss francs (2.65 billion euros, 3.49 billion dollars), he recalled.Rapidly spreading concern about possible international contagion from a fatal outbreak of the human version of flu originating in pigs also pushed up the yen.

In Tokyo, the yen firmed to 96.75 against the dollar from 97.13 in New York late on Friday. Analysts said that the dollar was weakened in part by growing concern over the impact of the new strain of swine flu.The outbreak of swine flu in Mexico is a concerning development for the global economy, said Societe Generale analyst Patrick Bennett.Initial investor reaction has not surprisingly been towards risk aversion.

Pig flu also drove down oil prices with the threat of a drop in air travel, analysts said.In New York, light sweet crude for June delivery fell 2.59 dollars to 48.96 dollars. Brent North Sea crude fell 2.31 dollars to 49.36 dollars a barrel in late morning trade in London.In London, Manoj Ladwa, a senior trader at financial spread-betting firm ETX Capital in London, said: Swine flu is ripping through the markets creating uncertainty in its wake.He added: US markets are sure to be heavily affected by this crisis when they open later today.With the World Health Organisation warning that the outbreak could become a pandemic, the United States declaring a public health emergency and the European Commission calling an urgent meeting of health ministers, stock markets recoiled in alarm.Amid uncertainty over the possible implications of anxiety over flu on economic activity, notably in such sectors as tourism and retailing, investors and analysts took the line of caution.In London the FTSE index of leading shares was showing a mid-morning fall of 1.20 percent, Frankfurt stocks fell by 1.05 percent and the Paris CAC 40 index fell 1.83 percent.

Stocks in Tokyo edged up 0.21 percent but traders said they were held back by concern about the effects of the flu outbreaks. In Hong Kong they fell by 2.74 percent, and in South Korea by 1.05 percent.News over the weekend of a deadly flu outbreak is rocking financial markets, said Matt Buckland, dealer at financial spread-betting firm CMC Markets.After last week's gains many would have been looking to start locking in profits, he said, referring to recent rises in share prices reflecting some optimism that the global economic crisis may be flattening out.But clearly this (flu) news has the potential to become a rather serious development.In Europe, shares in German airline Lufthansa were showing a fall of 10.60 percent and shares in Air France-KLM were down by slightly more than nine percent.British Airways stocks were down 7.26 percent, shares in travel agency Thomas Cook 7.87 percent and in travel group TUI 5.52 percent.Stock in cruise liner group Carnival showed a fall of 6.50 percent and Rolls Royce, which makes engines for aircraft and ships, saw its shares fall by 4.43 percent.But companies making drug treatments were strong. GlaxoSmithKline gained 3.58, AstraZeneca 1.55 percent and Shire 1.21 percent.In Tokyo, airline and tourism shares were hit by the swine flu worries. Travel agency H.I.S. tumbled 10 percent while Japan Airlines dropped 5.2 percent on fears that tourists and business travellers may cancel their overseas trips.But Chugai Pharmaceutical, which sells the Tamiflu drug, climbed 14 percent.

EU health ministers scramble as swine flu hits Europe,People in Mexico City wearing masks on a train due to the swine flu outbreak (Photo: Eneas De Troya)
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today APR 27,09 @ 15:02 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The Czech EU presidency has called an emergency meeting of the bloc's health ministers to take place in all probability on Thursday afternoon (30April), as Spain on Monday confirmed the first case of swine flu in Europe.The news came after Mexican health secretary Jose Angel Cordova said on Sunday that the number of suspected cases of people with the flu strain in his country had reached 1,614, with more than 100 suspected and 20 confirmed fatalities so far.The United States declared a state of emergency over the weekend with at least 20 people identified with the virus. Cases were also reported in Canada.The Presidency has been following the situation very closely, is aware of the seriousness of the outbreak on the American continent, and is determined to minimise the risk of impact on the European Union, the Czech EU presidency said in a statement.In order to evaluate the potential danger and all possible steps forward,it has called on Monday afternoon an urgent meeting of EU states' diplomats responsible for public health to prepare for the extraordinary ministerial.The issue will also be discussed during an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Monday.The announcement of the extraordinary health ministers gathering came almost at the same time as Spain's confirmation of the first flu case in Europe.Spanish health minister Trinidad Jimenez said the case concerned a 23-year-old man in south-east Spain who had recently been to Mexico. Another 17 people are suspected to have the disease, the BBC reports.Ms Jimenez added that the man has been responding well to treatment and his condition is not serious.

The situation is under control,she stressed.

Experts in other member states - including Germany and the UK - have warned it is only a matter of time before the virus spreads in Europe.People suspected to be infected are currently under observation in several European countries, including Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Switzerland.Experts from the World Health Organisation will be meeting on Tuesday and decide whether to raise the level of the WHO pandemic crisis alert system from three to six. A six would mean that a pandemic is under way.

Raising of the alert or not will depend on the evaluation of human to human transfer in the past days.Eat pork, but don't go to Mexico or the US.Meanwhile, EU health commissioner Androulla Vassiliou on Monday advised European citizens not to travel to the areas affected by the flu.Personally, I would try to avoid non-essential travel to the areas which are reported to be in the centre of the cluster, she said in a video statement released in Brussels.On arriving in Luxembourg later on, where she was to brief EU foreign ministers on the issue, Ms Vassiliou stressed that people should avoid traveling to Mexico or the United States of America unless it is very urgent for them.For his part, Robert Madelin, Director General for Health and Consumer Protection in the European Commission, underlined that this completely novel flu virus – a mixture of swine, bird and human viruses – had nothing to do with the food chain.This is a human flu virus ...Not only is this not a pig virus, but it is not affecting pigs, there is no human to pig transition.Similarly therefore, pigs are not carriers. Neither pigs, nor porcine embryos, nor pig meat. And I had a very nice filet de porc yesterday and I recommend you to go on eating pork,Mr Madelin told journalists during a press briefing in Brussels.

No swine flu cases reported in EU as world readies for pandemic
ANDREW WILLIS Today APR 27,09 @ 09:26 CET

Fears that the world may be on the brink of a swine flu pandemic grew over the weekend as the number of suspected fatalities in Mexico surpassed the 100 mark. Meanwhile, Brussels is reporting that no cases of the illness have yet been reported within the European Union.Mexican health secretary Jose Angel Cordova said on Sunday (26 April) the number of suspected cases of people with the flu strain in his country had risen to 1614 with 20 confirmed deaths so far. The United States declared its own emergency over the weekend with at least 20 people identified with the virus while cases were also reported in Canada.On Saturday, the World Health Organisation declared a public health emergency of international concern as the new flu strain – a mixture of swine, bird and human viruses – spread in the region. The European Commission said no cases of the flu have been confirmed in Europe so far. We are following very closely the situation as it evolves, said a spokeswoman for the EU executive.In France however, officials are still monitoring one individual after three other suspected cases turned out to be false alarms. French health minister Roselyne Bachelot sought to downplay concerns of a global spread, saying: We cannot confirm that we are facing a pandemic, reports Le Figaro. In Spain, three people displaying flu-like symptoms are under observation after they arrived in on a flight from Mexico.China and Russia have put in place quarantine measures at airports to isolate anyone suspected as having the virus.

WHO alert system

In 1997, avian flu killed several hundred people in Asia while in 1968, the Hong Kong flu pandemic killed 1 million people globally. The newly detected strain contains genetic material from others that usually affect birds and pigs, and for which there is currently no vaccine, with experts saying one will take several months to develop.

The WHO has currently placed its pandemic crisis alert system on level three and says it needs more information before raising it to level four. Such a move would follow if the virus appears to transfer from human to human in the coming days. Level five signifies a global pandemic is imminent while level six is a declaration that one is already under way.Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's assistant director general for health security, said: We have asked all countries to increase their surveillance.WHO experts will meet on Tuesday to decide whether to raise the pandemic alert. As well as the human toll, concerns are growing in Mexico over the economic consequences of the outbreak. Many businesses have temporarily closed, with Mexican tourism and exports also likely to be affected.The World Bank has already pledged $200 million (€152m) to the country to help it deal with the outbreak.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Belarus dictator makes EU comeback
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 27,09 @ 17:40 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko exchanged gifts with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome on Monday (27 April) on his first trip to the EU in 13 years.The pair in a 25 minute meeting in The Vatican spoke in a positive climate about the relationship between faith and reason" and Roman Catholic-Russian Orthodox church relations, The Holy See said in a statement.The unusual meeting saw Mr Lukashenko - a self-confessed atheist - take along his four year old son, Kolya, born out of wedlock. The boy gave the pontiff a Belarusian spelling book as a form of diplomatic gift. The pope gave the president a traditional golden medal.The trip was Mr Lukashenko's first to the EU since 1996. It comes after the EU provisionally lifted a visa ban on him and his close circles in October.The president, dubbed a dictator by the US, has been widely accused of rigging elections and using security forces to keep down opposition. He is also suspected of personal involvement in the disappearance of four pro-democracy activists in 1999 and 2000.The Rome visit was to see the Belarus leader dine with Italian President Silvio Berlusconi and foreign minister Franco Frattini later in the day.

Italy's message would be based on fundamental European principles on the rule of law and the rights and freedoms of Belarusian men and women, Mr Frattini said in an open letter to Italian daily Corriere della Sera.The Italian reception is a public relations coup for Mr Lukashenko, who was two weeks ago attacked by Czech President Vaclav Klaus. The Czech head of state said he would not shake the Belarusian's hand if he comes to Prague for an Eastern Partnership summit on 7 May.A Czech diplomat on Monday said Minsk has not yet confirmed whether or not Mr Lukashenko will attend the event. Senior EU figures defended the partnership initiative against Russian allegations that it is an attempt to build an EU sphere of influence in the six countries - Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - involved in the scheme.[Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov] knows himself that's nonsense, acting Czech foreign minister Karl Schwarzenberg, speaking for the Czech EU presidency, said on Monday ahead of an EU foreign ministers' meeting in Luxembourg, DPA reports.

Bulgaria PM backs EU Barroso for second term,Bulgaria's PM Stanishev backed Barroso for a second term as European Commission president.Saturday, 25 April 2009 14:48

Bulgaria's Socialist Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev on Friday backed Jose Manuel Barroso for a second term as European Commission president. Stanishev is the first East European leader to voice support for the Portuguese liberal to head the EU's executive arm when its current term ends in June. He told a joint news conference with Barroso in Sofia that the Bulgarian government had very good cooperation with the Commission president and would like to see him re-elected. Last month, the EU conservative European People's Party -- which includes the leaders of France, Germany and Italy -- also backed Barroso for a second term making him the clear favourite.

He also enjoys the support of centre-left leaders in Britain and Spain.

Barroso, who took over as Commission president in 2004 and has sought chiefly to modernise the European economy and fight climate change, will require the approval of the European Parliament where the EPP holds the majority and its presidency.

Elections for the new assembly will be held in June.

EU leaders should normally choose a new commission president at a summit in June, but there have been suggestions that this could be postponed pending Ireland's second referendum on the bloc's Lisbon reform treaty. Ireland is expected to hold a second plebiscite most likely in October after voters rejected the treaty last June.Reuters

Sarkozy misinterpreted on Spanish PM's intelligence: FM,The controversy was further fuelled when Segolene Royal, Sarkozy's failed rival in the 2007 presidential election, offered an apology to Zapatero for Sarkozy's comments. Monday, 20 April 200912:53

France's foreign minister said Sarkozy's remarks about Spanish PM had been misinterpreted and relations with Spain were excellent.There are few people with whom we get on as well as with the Spanish. We've had the same positions for the past two years, Bernard Kouchner told France Info radio, before a visit to Spain by Sarkozy next week.I assure you there is not the shadow of a cloud.Sarkozy's words on Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero reported in French daily Liberation last week, stirred a flurry of press comment in Spain.

Zapatero not very intelligent

Responding to comments from an apparently sceptical Socialist deputy attending a lunch meeting, who said You can say a lot of things about Zapatero, President Nicolas Sarkozy was reported by Liberation to have retorted: He may not be very intelligent. I know people who were very intelligent and who didn't make it to the second round of the presidential election, apparently referring to Lionel Jospin, the failed Socialist candidate in the 2002 election. He went on to add: In my political career, I've often beaten people who were supposed to be more intelligent and who had better academic records than me.The remarks were denied by Sarkozy's office but were widely reported in the Spanish and British press, which said Sarkozy had described Zapatero as not very intelligent.The controversy was further fuelled when Segolene Royal, Sarkozy's failed rival in the 2007 presidential election, offered an apology to Zapatero for Sarkozy's comments.

Kouchner dismissed her intervention.

What I can guarantee is that it was a joke on the part of the president, a manner of making fun of the person he was talking to as he often does,Kouchner said. But above all what I can guarantee -- last night, I was talking to my Spanish counterpart Miguel Moratinos -- there is a very good understanding, very, very good, a real camaraderie.Reuters.

Czech EU presidency splits with commission over Israel
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today APR 27,09 @ 09:45 CET

Caretaker Czech prime minister and European Union president-in-office, Mirek Topolanek, has sharply criticised the European Commission for insisting Israel advance peace negotiations before upgrading EU-Israel relations.Mr Topolanek made the comments in an interview with Israeli centre-left daily Ha'aretz, published on Sunday (26 April), at the end of his visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.The EU suspended technical talks on the upgrade, which is to include regular bilateral summits and trade perks for Israel, amid Israel's attack on the Gaza strip late last year. Tel Aviv's assault on clearly marked UN compounds in particular shook Brussels.Last Thursday (23 April), foreign relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said progress on the upgrade will remain frozen until Israel takes steps to repair the peace process with Palestinians.We do not believe the time is right to go beyond the current level of relations,she said. The ball is now in the court of Israel.Mr Topolanek, a strong supporter of Israel and the first foreign prime minister to visit the new right-wing government in the country, disagreed with Ms Ferrero-Waldner however, saying: the peace process should not be linked to the relations between the EU and Israel.I consider the statement by Benita Ferero-Waldner ...to be really hasty and at this given moment I would not really attribute to it more weight than just a statement by a commissioner. The action plan continuation is a political decision that is to be made by the European Council, and I am still the president of the European Council and I should know something about it.

The acting Czech leader also gave the strongest backing yet of any European leader to Israel's bombardment of Gaza, while criticising Israel's expansion settlement in the West Bank.Although I understand the right of every country to defend its territory, certainly against rocket attacks, and one might find justication for the Gaza operation, it is more difficult for me to understand the further settlements spreading and the cases of evictions [in East Jerusalem].he said. It will be difficult, on the one hand, to promote the idea of two states for two peoples and on the other hand continue the settlements.Mr Topolanek went on to say that while there is no imminent threat of a war between Israel and Iran,over Iran's alleged race to acquire nuclear weapons, he would not rule out a hard power option if diplomacy fails.The fact that the EU is somewhat underestimating this threat is also true, he said.The new Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, in separate public remarks on Friday also criticised the commission's stance on the relations upgrade.Don't set conditions for us,he told Prime Minister Topolanek.Peace is in Israel's interest no less than it is in Europe's interest, and there's no need to make the upgrade in relations with Israel conditional on progress on the peace process.

Iceland closer to joining EU after left-wing victory
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today APR 27,09 @ 09:29 CET

Icelandic voters punished the centre-right party that had governed the country for most of the last 18 years and dominated it for generations, delivering a clear majority in a snap general election to the centre-left Social Democrats and far-left and ecologist Left Green Movement.But in a twist on expectations, voters also sent to the Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, a majority of deputies in favour of an immediate application for membership in the European Union.On an 85 percent turnout, the governing caretaker coalition of the two left-wing parties won 34 seats in the 63-seat legislature. The Social Democrats saw a minor last-minute surge, winning 30 percent of the vote, or 20 seats - slightly higher than polls on Friday had predicted, while their partners to their left won 21.5 percent of the vote, or 14 seats, substantially less than the 27.4 percent they had predicted to win.The centre-right Independence Party, viewed by voters as the architects of the country's economic collapse, saw its support drop to 23 percent, delivering just 16 seats, the lowest result in its history.The people of Iceland are settling the score with the past, with the neo-liberalism that has been in power here for too long, said the Social Democratic prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir after the vote, adding: There is a demand for a change of values.Symbolising the shift, the last prime minister, Geir Haarde, drummed out of his job by the self-styled Busahaldabyltingin, or Kitchenware Revolution, in January, was a former central bank economist, while the new prime minister had been an air stewardess and her finance minister and leader of the Left Greens, Steingrimur Sigfusson, a lorry driver.

The two left parties have reportedly enjoyed a good working relationship but are on opposite sides of the question of whether to apply for EU membership. The Social Democrats believe the crisis, or kreppa, has taught them that their small economy will only be battered again and again if they do not seek the shelter of the 27-country bloc.Ms Sigurdardottir has said she wants to begin the application process within weeks of the election.The Left Greens, for their part, say the EU is too undemocratic and neo-liberal, the very ideology, they say, that caused the crisis in the first place. They also fear loss of control over the country's natural resources.

The Independence party meanwhile has traditionally opposed EU membership as well, but analysts believe that this uncompromising stance has lost it the support of sections of the business community who agree with the new prime minister that there is no alternative to beginning negotiations with Brussels.The EU itself has said that it would be happy to see the north Atlantic nation apply. The application would proceed rapidly, as the country already applies some 75 percent of EU legislation through its existing membership in The European Economic Area (EEA) along with Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. Tough bargaining over Iceland's pristine fisheries is expected to be a major point of division - with 2011 expected to be the earliest possible date of admission.Ahead of the elections, analysts puzzled over how such a major split at the heart of the governing coalition could be resolved. However, taking into account the minor parties, the final seat tally shows a strong majority in favour of the EU.The centrist Progressive Party, which recently changed its position and now backs applying for EU membership, won nine seats, and the Citizens' Movement, which grew out of the protests that led to the government resigning and also supports such a move, won four, giving the pro-EU fraction in the parliament a total of 33 seats.The current coalition is unlikely to break up over the issue, but the Social Democrats have been given a clear mandate for negotiations.Indeed, after the vote, the Left Green leader hinted that his party would be open to the launch of accession talks in order to maintain their relations with the Social Democrats.

The two parties however both back returning to the voters with a referendum on the issue ahead of any formal application.

Albania to file EU membership application
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today @ 09:19 CET

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has said that his country would officially apply for EU membership on Tuesday (28 April), but accession is not expected for several years to come.We have made the important decision to submit the formal request to be a candidate country to the EU on April 28, Mr Berisha said during a televised cabinet meeting on Sunday, AFP reports.Tirana - Albania will be the second country after Montenegro to file an EU membership application since December (Photo: Wikipedia)The decision had been taken after consultation with European capitals which have supported Albania in this democratic step,he added.The lodging of papers will mark an important turning point for Albania which has committed to pursuing reforms on its path to [full] democracy ...Albania, formerly a country known for its high crime rate and corruption, has today become a country very attractive to investors and foreign tourists.After a meeting between French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Mr Berisha on Saturday, the French presidency issued a statement in support of Tirana's bid.Albania will be a member of the European Union and France fully supports this idea, the Elysee said.

Albania will be the second country after Montenegro to file an EU membership application since December.An ex-Communist state of around 3 million people situated in the western Balkans, Albania signed a pre-accession deal, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), with the EU in June 2006. Ratification of its SAA was completed in January this year, when Greece became the last EU state to approve the document.The EU believes the country, which is among the poorest in Europe, has still a lot to do before it is worth of full membership.In its last progress report in November last year, the European Commission noted that corruption and organised crime remained a major challenge.It also pointed to money laundering and drug trafficking as a serious concern, and insisted on the need for a more efficient and independent civil service.

A long process

In any case, Tirana's membership application represents a small step on its EU road.

After Albania files the demand tomorrow, it will be up to EU member states to pass it to the commission for assessment.The EU executive's assessment should then take at least a year, after which the bloc's member states are to decide by unanimity whether to grant the country the status of an EU candidate.If Albania is granted that status, the EU candidate must then start accession negotiations chapter by chapter, with this process alone likely to take several years.In the current political and economic context, the enlargement enthusiasm in EU capitals has been cooling down.The purely technical step of member states passing the membership application to the commission took four months for Albania's neighbour Montenegro.Podgorica filed its EU membership application in December and it was not before last week that the bloc's member states decided to proceed with the dossier.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

Rise in antisemitic attacks worldwide From The Jewish Chronicle
Isabel Janner April 22, 2009

Holocaust images are increasingly used in antisemitic attacks worldwide, according to a new survey.The survey, carried out by Tel Aviv University and the European Jewish Congress, shows the number of incidents increasing gradually from 1989 to 2007, peaking in 2007 and dropping slightly in 2008.The start of 2009 saw sharp increases, triggered by the economic crisis and war in Gaza.According to the report, Antisemitic expressions during the last months of 2008 and beginning of 2009 were not classic stereotyping of the Jews but abuse of the Holocaust… as a political tool against Israel.The report survey blames widespread ignorance combined with a European weariness towards the Holocaust. Its burdensome, lingering memory generates fatigue of the Jewish people because of what seems to be their constant harping on their image at the ultimate victim, without regret for the many other tragedies that have happened since in the world.

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, 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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON APR 27,2009

09:30 AM -34.09
10:00 AM -40.62
10:30 AM -14.97
11:00 AM +36.32
11:30 AM +20.39
12:00 PM +35.60
12:30 PM +6.13
01:00 PM -8.12
01:30 PM -45.56
02:00 PM -77.42
02:30 PM -52.33
03:00 PM -41.10
03:30 PM -64.28
04:00 PM -51.29 8025.00

S&P 500 857.51 -8.72

NASDAQ 1679.41 -14.88

GOLD 906.70 -6.40

OIL 50.11 -1.44

TSE 300 9394.80 -154.68

CDNX 1002.98 -3.83

S&P/TSX/60 569.28 -9.69

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -7.98%
S&P -4.10%
Nasdaq +7.44%
TSX Advances 1,057,declines 471,unchanged 269,Volume 2,499,786,118.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 499,Declines 313,Unchanged 343,Volume 232,609,447.

Dow -74 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -86 points at low today.
Dow +49 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $909.30.OIL opens at $48.27 today.

20 WEEKEND reports of TORNADOES in the U.S.A.
Reports US government is issuing warning of travel to MEXICO due to flu.
Europe government issuing warning of travel to MEXICO due to FLU.
103 DEAD IN MEXICO,New areas ISRAEL,SPAIN confirm swine flu cases.
W.H.O and C.D.C in contact with vaccine companies.
Obama owns or has shares in TAMIFLU,INTERESTING.
TRANSPORTS -100 POINTS AT 10 AM TODAY.
GM to cut 21,000 JOBS.
CHRYSLER to dump PONTIAC from its line.
MILITARY DRILL HELD OVER NEW YORK CITY.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -86 points at low today so far.
Dow +49 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 1,422,declines 2,136,unchanged 111,New Highs 5,New Lows 48.
Volume 3,159,337,076.
NASDAQ Advances 1,154,declines 1,521,unchanged 110,New highs 20,New Lows 17.
Volume 1,063,411,326.
TSX Advances 562,declines 746,unchanged 251,Volume 972,760,039. -65.00
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 302,Declines 316,Unchanged 282,Volume 126,241,146.+0.55

ITS A LITTLE BETTER IN LINE NOW +6 POINTS BUT DECLINES STILL OUTWEIGHT ADVANCES TODAY.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -86 points at low today.
Dow +49 points at high today.
Dow -0.64% today Volume 282,994,601.
Nasdaq -0.88% today Volume 2,101,152,351.
S&P 500 -1.01% today Volume N/A

RECORD LOWS DOW
-Sept 30,1996 5,882.17
-Oct 30,1996 5,993.23
-Nov 6,1996 6,177.71
-Dec 16,1996 6,268.35
-Apr 15,1997 6,587.16
-Apr 21,1997 6,660.21
-Apr 28,1997 6,783.02
-May 1,1997 6,976.48
-May 7,1997 7,085.65

RECORD LOWS S&P 500
-Sept 5,1996 649.44
-Sept 6,1996 655.68
-Sept 11,1996 667.28
-Sept 12,1996 671.13
-Oct 1,1996 689.08
-Oct 28,1996 697.26
-Nov 4,1996 706.73
-Nov 5,1996 714.14
-Dec 17,1996 726.04

CLINTON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u47dmqiblI&feature=player_embedded

The IMF: Raping The World, One Poor Nation at a Time
Friday, 24 April 2009 05:37 Dana Gabriel

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been described as one of the enforcers of globalization. Nations who receive IMF assistance are often forced to surrender more sovereignty and further open up their borders to international banks and multinational corporations. Much of their wealth is then sucked dry by foreign predators with its resources and population essentially becoming the collateral for such financial aid. As a result of the global economic crisis, many more nations are having to turn to the IMF for help. At the recent G-20 Summit in London, the IMF’s role was expanded and its powers enhanced. There was little mention of its failed policies and its less then stellar record of effectively promoting development and democracy around the world. While some talk of reform, the IMF continues to rape the world, one poor nation at a time.The IMF, along with the World Bank were established as financial sister institutions with both originating out of the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. They are part of the United Nations system. The IMF was designed to help stabilize the post-World War II international financial system and is the framework for a central bank of issue. It provides short term financial assistance to nations that qualify, but this is at a very high price. These countries are placed in an economic straitjacket with the IMF and World Bank working in tandem, dictating large portions of public policy.

Some IMF conditions that countries have been forced to comply with can only be described as harsh and undemocratic. Often the devaluation of a nation’s currency has been a precondition for IMF assistance. In order to qualify for IMF loans, some nations have also been forced to lower tariffs, restrict governmental subsidies and spending, balance budgets, as well as sell-off state institutions to foreign interests. In some cases, the IMF has even prohibited wage increases as some countries have tried to do so, in order to compensate for a sharp rise in food prices and other commodities. Environmental and labor rights have also taken a hit as a result of IMF policies. Under the guise of helping economic distraught countries, the IMF is really bailing out foreign investors and multinational corporations. They have further fueled chaos and instability in some of the poorest regions in the world.

At the recent G-20 Summit, leaders pledged to boost the IMF’s financial resources to $750 billion. It will also assume a more central role in monitoring and regulating global markets, playing a key role in the design of a new financial system. The IMF’s power to create money has been activated and they will be able to issue up to $250 billion of new Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). Some countries are calling on SDRs to be used as a full reserve currency to challenge the dollar. In a recent article that appeared in the New American , William F. Jasper writes, If the IMF is empowered with global monetary and financial regulatory powers, along with the ability to issue a global currency and bonds, it will no longer have to ask its member states for funding. Nor will the UN. The IMF will be able to provide the UN with the revenues it needs to become an actual world government.The IMF and World Bank will be holding meetings in Washington on April 25 and 26. On the agenda will be reform measures which could include changing some conditions attached to receiving emergency funds. They will also discuss how best to distribute the extra money they have been allocated. There is a sense that as part of IMF’s new role, it must also address the concerns of emerging economies who are suffering from the global recession. The IMF recently approved a $47 billion line of credit to Mexico who became the first G-20 country to apply for such assistance and may not be the last. There still exists a double standard which allows richer countries to use fiscal expansion in the face of recession while poorer nations are forced into stricter economic restraints.The global elite envision a world without borders. They continue to push their agenda of global governance through the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, the WTO and trade deals such as NAFTA. It is our duty to resist the tyranny of globalization or face enslavement. In the end, national sovereignty must prevail—if we are to have any future.Dana Gabriel is an activist and independent researcher who writes about trade, globalization, sovereignty, as well as other issues.
Contact: newworldordermustbestopped@hotmail.com

US downplays support for EU pipeline
VALENTINA POP Today APR 27,09 @ 10:19 CET

EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS – An energy summit in Sofia over the week-end fell short of specifically backing Nabucco, Europe's planned new gas pipeline, or South Stream, its Russian rival, with the US administration adopting a conciliatory stance towards Russia.In a visible shift in tone towards Moscow, Barack Obama's newly appointed energy envoy, Richard Morningstar, said the Nabucco pipeline was no panaceea for solving Europe's energy security problems.Pipelines are just part of the puzzle. Nabucco is not the Holy Grail that will solve the problem, Mr Morningstar said.The EU-backed, €7.9 billion project to pump gas from the Caspian region via Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary to Austria has faced years of squabbling over terms. Meanwhile, Moscow has been actively promoting its own pipeline, South Stream, to run under the Black Sea and then through Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary to Austria.The previous US administration had backed Nabucco and criticised South Stream as just another means of strengthening Moscow's grip over Europe's gas deliveries.Mr Morningstar however pointed out that Nabucco needs to be based on profitability for all the countries and companies involved in its construction, saying the US would only put in money as part of an international pool.The shift comes after President Obama said he has pressed the reset button in relations to Russia after coming to office, stirring fears in some quarters of eastern Europe.

Mr Morningstar said he had had a constructive dialogue with Russian energy minister Sergei Shmatko, who was present at the Sofia summit, and stressed that the US would listen to what Russia has to say.I will be straightforward - Russia will continue to be a major source of gas for Bulgaria, he said.The Bulgarian-hosted event aimed to prove that the two gas pipeline projects can co-exist and can both benefit from European backing. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cancelled his participation at the last minute however, with Bulgarian Prime Minister Serghei Stanishev due to travel on Monday to Moscow to iron out divergences with his Russian counterpart over the transit fees for the planned South Stream pipeline.Bulgaria, traditionally a Moscow ally and heavily reliant on Russian gas, was particularly hard hit by Gazprom's gas cuts in January and had to struggle for days without any supplies during freezing weather.At a closing news conference, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov said the South Stream agreement should be signed when Russia and Bulgaria resolve their differences, adding that it was not up to Gazprom to determine Sofia's stance on foreign policy issues.Also on Saturday, Bulgaria signed an agreement to explore options of buying gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Egypt via Greece, where an LNG terminal is operational.