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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.

7.2 quake hits South Pacific nation of Vanuatu
MAY 27,10

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 rattled the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu early Friday, triggering a tsunami watch for the area, officials said. There were no immediate reports of damage.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning for Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia. It said the quake had the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that could strike coastlines in the region within minutes to hours.

The warning center said it was not known if a tsunami was generated.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit at just after 4 a.m. local time Friday and was centered 300 miles (485 kilometers) northwest of the capital, Port Vila, at a depth of 22 miles (36 kilometers).Authorities in Vanuatu said they were checking for information on both the quake and the regional tsunami alert.We're expecting to issue an alert for any tsunami threat shortly, but we have no report of a tsunami from Luganville, said the director of Vanuatu's Meteorological Office, who only gave his name as Salesa. Luganville is the island closest to the quake's epicenter.He said his office was assessing the information from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and working with police to gather more information.We have no information yet and no sign of any tsunami,police spokesman Smith Wuwue said from Port Vila on the island of Efate.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
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.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

ANGEL 2 TO DR DOCTORIAN
All of Turkey and those [inaudible;] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another. I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction - men destroying one another.

WHY WOULD CHINA NOT BLAME NORTH KOREA BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS KINGS OF THE EAST COUNTRIES WILL BE WITH CHINA THE LEADER IN WAVE 2 OF WW3,WHICH MEANS CHINA HAS TO BE LUKEWARM ON COUNTRIES FIGHTING IN ASIA TO BE THE LEADER OF THE KING OF THE EAST COUNTRIES.

China not assigning blame in South Korea sinking By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer - MAY 27,10

BEIJING – China offered no indication Thursday of plans to join the U.S. and its allies in blaming North Korea in the sinking of a South Korean warship, saying the issue remained extremely complicated.U.S. officials said Wednesday that China, a key North Korean ally, had indicated it is prepared to hold Pyongyang accountable for the March 26 torpedo attack and could join in some kind of formal rebuke by the U.N. Security Council.However, when asked about the investigation into the incident, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu merely repeated an earlier Chinese statement that fell short of assigning blame.The issue is highly complicated. China does not have firsthand information. We are looking at the information from all sides in a prudent manner, Ma told reporters at a regularly scheduled news conference.

China's position on the ship remains unchanged,he added.The sinking of the corvette Cheonan, in which 46 sailors died, has put Beijing in an uncomfortable position, forcing it to choose between traditional communist ally North Korea and close trading partner South Korea.Doing nothing would preserve relations with a loyal buffer state reviled by the world but could do major harm to China's aspirations to be seen as a responsible rising global power.While China appears to be seeking to buy time, tension on the divided peninsula has been rising dramatically since a team of international investigators said last week that a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine tore apart and sank the ship. North Korea has denied involvement in the sinking and warned any retaliation would mean war.The incident will likely dominate a weekend trilateral summit in South Korea involving Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his South Korean and Japanese counterparts. U.S. officials said they expect Wen to hint that China will accept the results of the international investigation blaming North Korea.They said Wen is also expected to leave open the possibility of backing measures against Pyongyang at the U.N. Security Council, where China's veto could block even the mere discussion of the sinking.

Other countries are also looking for action from China, with the Philippines' president-apparent urging Beijing on Thursday to use its influence on North Korea to defuse the tensions.I did make the request that they would be, as our neighbors, in the best position to influence, with the end point of defusing tensions in the Korean Peninsula,opposition Sen. Benigno Aquino III told reporters Thursday after meeting Chinese Ambassador Liu Jianchao.Aquino is leading by a landslide in votes cast in the May 10 election and is expected to be sworn into office on June 30.

NKorea to scrap pact preventing clash with SKorea By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer - MAY 27,10

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea announced Thursday that it will scrap an accord aimed at preventing accidental naval clashes with South Korea in retaliation for Seoul blaming Pyongyang for a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship.Tension on the divided peninsula has risen dramatically since a team of international investigators said last week that a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine tore apart and sank a South Korean warship on March 26, killing 46 sailors. North Korea has denied its involvement in the sinking and warned any retaliation would mean war.On Thursday, North Korea's military said it will completely nullify an inter-Korean accord aimed at preventing accidental armed skirmishes along the disputed western sea border — a scene of three bloody maritime battles between the two Koreas.Immediate physical strikes will be launched against any South Korean ships that intrude into North Korean waters, the country's military said in a statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

It said it will also start a review to possibly ban South Korean personnel and vehicles from entering a joint industrial park in the North Korean border town of Kaesong — the last remaining major inter-Korean reconciliation project. It gave no timeframe, however.The military said the measures are its first-phase reaction to the reckless moves of the group of traitors and confrontation maniacs, suggesting that more could follow.A South Korean Defense Ministry official said South Korea will resolutely deal with the North's measures, though did not elaborate. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.The announcement came hours after a fleet of South Korean warships staged a large-scale anti-submarine drill off the west coast despite North Korea's warnings that such exercises will drive the peninsula to the brink of war.The two Koreas are still technically at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The U.S. stations 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the Korean War.South Korean and U.S. troops are on their highest alert since North Korea's second nuclear test in May last year, reports said. The mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo newspaper, citing an unidentified Seoul official, reported Thursday the South Korean-U.S. combined forces command raised their surveillance level called Watch Condition, up a level from 3 to 2. Level 1 is the highest.

South Korea, backed by the U.S., Japan and other allies, has begun carrying out punitive measures that range from slashing trade and resuming propaganda warfare to barring the North's cargo ships — the strongest it can implement short of military action.North Korea quickly responded by threatening to cut ties with South Korea, wage all-out counterattacks against psychological warfare operations and bar South Korean ships and airliners from its waters and airspace.We will never tolerate the slightest provocations of our enemies, and will answer to that with all-out war, North Korean Maj. Gen. Pak Chan Su, a Korean War veteran, told broadcaster APTN in Pyongyang.This is the firm standpoint of our People's Army.South Korea pressed ahead Thursday with anti-submarine drills to boost readiness against any North Korean provocations.During a one-day exercise off the west coast, 10 warships including a 3,500-ton destroyer, fired artillery and other naval guns and dropped anti-submarine bombs off Taean, about 95 miles (150 kilometers) south of Seoul, the navy said.It was the first anti-submarine drill since the Cheonan disaster, which occurred about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the north, according to the navy.South Korea is also planning two major joint military drills with the U.S. off the west coast by July in a display of force intended to deter future aggression by North Korea.North Korean state media, citing the drills, criticized South Korea on Wednesday for driving the situation to the brink of explosion.

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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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU MAY 27,2010

09:30 AM +1.98
10:00 AM +148.12
10:30 AM +200.20
11:00 AM +205.33
11:30 AM +188.18
12:00 PM +221.39
12:30 PM +190.23
01:00 PM +200.10
01:30 PM +211.45
02:00 PM +204.98
02:30 PM +237.38
03:00 PM +225.97
03:30 PM +216.25
04:00 PM +284.54 10,258.99

S&P 500 1103.06 +35.11

NASDAQ 2277.68 +81.80

GOLD 1,210.70 -2.70

OIL 74.46 +2.95

TSE 300 11,749.10 +205.20

CDNX 1504.04 +34.36

S&P/TSX/60 690.78 +10.93

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +183 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +231 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,208.00.OIL opens at $72.99 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +245 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +288 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,248.20

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).

European Council seen as winner under Lisbon Treaty
HONOR MAHONY Today MAY 27,10 @ 09:06 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Not quite six months in place, the EU's Lisbon Treaty has already led to a significant shift in the Brussels power landscape, with many of its main actors still trying to find their feet in the new order.The new rulebook, in force since December 2009 after many years of negotiation and then ratification, greatly increases MEPs' co-legislating powers and creates a beefed up foreign policy post and a president of the EU council.But many of its effects were not written into the treaty and are only slowly coming to light as the EU capital goes about its daily business.The changes have led to a relative decrease in the power of the European Commission, in past times the engine of EU integration, and the Council of Ministers, representing member states. In contrast, the European Council - the union's collected premiers and presidents and now an institution with its own budget and president - and the parliament are are winning out in the power stakes, say academics.This has been most evident in the current debate over increased economic governance in the EU, where member states, rather than the commission, have taken the lead in the discussions.

Referring to the competitive environment among EU institutions now, European studies Professor Joerg Monar, from the College of Europe, says the parliament and the European Council are the primary poles of power in the EU. The commission meanwhile appears more and more squeezed between the two.The European Council has become the true policy-maker of the European Union, agreed the University of Bologna's Professor Lucia Serena Rossi during a conference discussing the post-Lisbon Treaty EU on Tuesday (25 May).MEPs, for their part, now have co-decision powers on more than 90 percent of legislation, including in whole new ares such as farm policy and justice and home affairs. Euro-deputies also have the right to be informed about international agreements.Maros Sefcovic, institutional affairs commissioner, said that this has led to a cultural change in Brussels. Indicating the commission's potential unease with the new power shift, Mr Sefcovic urged EU member states to remember the community spirit noting that it is not only important what kind of decisions are taken but how they are taken.The commission's role in the future will be a resolute guardian of the treaties as well as capitalising on its undisputed technical expertise and right of legislative initiative.

No more hiding behind the veto

The Lisbon Treaty also has implications for how member states act in Brussels. Referring to his past life as Slovakia's EU ambassador, Mr Sefcovic noted that the dynamic in the Council, where countries take policy decisions, is totally different.
Now the member states do not have the possibility of hiding behind the veto. They have to come up with much stronger argumentation, much faster. They must be much more persuasive because the decision is in the end taken anyway.The EU's top politicians are also still learning to cope with the treaty. Richard Corbett, an advisor to President Van Rompuy, notes that his boss and Mr Barroso have had to make a special effort to get on as their roles overlap.Both politicians now have a breakfast meeting every Monday. They're adults, they know they must make it work, says Mr Corbett.Mr Van Rompuy, who has carved out a role as first EU president that is not so directly hands-on, but at the same time more than just an agenda planner, said that every treaty has gaps and uncertainties in it. He pointed to the lack of links between the EU's different parts, meaning he has to be careful to informally establish contacts with all EU leaders (he plans to visit national capitals this year and next). Just recently, meanwhile, he told political group leaders in the parliament that he would brief them on European Council meetings on the evening they happen.Other effects have yet to be felt. The European Court of Justice has jurisdiction when the European Council takes a decision by vote, noted Professor Rossi, while the possibility of national parliaments to vet EU laws on whether they are being carried out at the correct level has yet to make an impact.But the treaty will have to be place for years to know how many of its aspects will play out, prompting some to refer to the famous quote by China's first premier Zhou Enlai when asked about the effects of the 1789 French Revolution. It's too early to say,he reportedly replied.

Brussels hatches tax plan to make banks pay-European banks such as RBS have received billions in taxpayers money (Photo: Wikipedia)ANDREW WILLIS 26.05.2010 @ 17:43 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has come forward with plans to levy a new tax on the region's banks that is designed to protect EU citizens from further banking failures in the future. Announcing the proposals on Wednesday (26 May), EU financial services commissioner Michel Barnier said bank insolvencies should no longer come at the expense of the taxpayer after national governments poured billions in public money into ailing firms during the early months of the financial crisis.I believe in the polluter pays principle,Mr Barnier told journalists in Brussels, stressing that the new money should not be considered as a bail-out fund.

Instead, the money could be used to make bridging loans, or for the temporary purchase of toxic assets from companies being split into good and bad banks, says the commission ideas paper. Europe must take a lead in developing common approaches and providing a model for co-operation that could be applied globally, added the Frenchman, who took up the EU's financial reins in February, despite considerable protest from within the UK's financial sector.The latest plans are intended to complement a raft of new rules on tighter financial supervision to prevent bank failures happening in first place, with these currently making their way through the EU's legislative mill. Many details still need to be filled in however, with EU finance ministers and leaders set to discuss the commission's communication next month. Initial indications suggest there is general support among member states, with the EU keen to take a united position into the G20 summit in Toronto on 26-27 June. Given that bankers are responsible for the crisis, I think its very logical that they pay, Swedish finance minister Anders Borg told EUobserver in a telephone interview after the proposals were announced. Sweden has been at the forefront of moves to raise a levy on banks, introducing a tax on the country's firms during the financial crisis. The government charges a uniform tax of 0.036 percent of a bank's total liabilities, hoping to raise a figure of 2.5 percent of GDP by the year 2015.

Rather than contain these kind of details in Wednesday's document, the EU executive intends to gather the views of member states and the banking sector before coming forward with concrete legislative proposals at the beginning of next year. Sweden will support the idea that taxes relate to bank liabilities at next month's finance ministers meeting. When you get into a crisis it is usually the liabilities that count,said Mr Borg. Germany is also pushing ahead with national plans for a bank levy, hoping to raise around €1 billion a year.

No EU-wide fund

The commission shied away from proposing a single EU-wide fund in its communication, instead suggesting a network of national funds. Some fear that the move is only transitionary however. Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday, the UK's new business secretary, Vince Cable, warned against a more European-level approach. The one major reservation that we have about the proposal as I have seen it is that it seems to suggest that the levy will be paid into a pot at the European level for collecting an insurance fund for future bail-outs. That is not the way we saw the levy operating in London,said the minister. Senior banking officials have also cautioned against the commission's suggestion that firms should provide ex-ante funding into the national resolution funds, saying it could encourage banks to engage in risky behaviour. A levy on liabilities dressed up as an ex-ante resolution funding is positively dangerous. It institutionalises moral hazard, will encourage banks to hold riskier asset portfolios [and] creates all sorts of international complications,said Peter Sands, chief executive of Standard Chartered.A further flashpoint is the budgetary positioning of monies gathered under a new bank levy. A number of member states have indicated they want to set the funds against national deficits, while the commission believes it should be kept separate.

US tells Europe to step up its crisis response
ANDREW WILLIS Today MAY 27,10 @ 09:23 CET

US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner prodded European policy makers on Wednesday (26 May) to step up their efforts to restore eurozone stability. Speaking alongside his UK counterpart George Osborne in London, Mr Geithner welcomed European government plans to cut budgetary deficits and the recently agreed €750 billion eurozone rescue mechanism, but added that markets now wanted to see action.What Europe should do is implement the programme they laid out, said the US policymaker. The basic lesson of financial crises is that you have to come in and act quickly and with force.The comments reflect the American administration's perception that the EU was too slow to deal with Greece's debt refinancing problems that subsequently spread to other countries in the 16-member eurozone. Officials have also stressed the need for Europe to put the meat on the bones of the hastily cobbled together eurozone backstop fund agreed earlier this month, as markets continue to harbour doubts over potential implementation hurdles. That agreement itself saw US President Barack Obama put in long distance calls to EU leaders such as Germany's Angela Merkel, as Washington's concerns over global contagion and European foot-dragging mounted. The growing body of advice from the White House marks a turn-around from two years ago when European politicians pointed the finger at America's subprime mortgage and banking industries as the cause of the financial crisis. It also comes despite the fact that the US deficit is currently estimated at around 10 percent of GDP, well above the EU average of roughly 7 percent.

However, the US has grown increasingly concerned that the eurozone's ongoing debt crisis could nip a nascent global recovery in the bud, and points to a series of bank stress tests carried out last year as helping to restore confidence in the US's financial system.Mr Geithner travelled to Frankfurt later on Wednesday for a working dinner with European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, and on Thursday goes to Berlin for a meeting with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.There he is his expected to add his voice to a chorus of criticism against Germany's decision last week to implement a unilateral ban on naked short selling, rather than seeking a more co-ordinated approach.

Economic crisis fuelling racism in Europe, report warns
VALENTINA POP Today MAY 27,10 @ 09:11 CET

The economic downturn has led to a rise in discrimination, racism and xenophobia in Europe, particularly in EU countries such as Italy, Slovakia and Hungary, the latest Amnesty International report on human rights shows.The marginalisation was heightened in 2009 by fears of the economic downturn, and accompanied in many countries by a sharp rise in racism and hate speech in public discourse, the annual report reads.It cites Italy for having passed new legislation as part of a security package establishing as a criminal offence irregular migration, which would deter irregular migrants from accessing education and medical care for fear of being reported to the police. This is especially the case given existing provisions in the criminal code obliging teachers or local authority employees to report all criminal acts to the police or judicial authorities. The UK government is criticised for having put behind bars Iraqis who were rejected by Baghdad when flown back to the country, an expression of the encroaching prison culture when dealing with irregular migrants. In December, the Royal Colleges of Paediatrics and Child Health, General Practitioners and Psychiatrists issued a joint statement calling for an immediate end to the administrative detention of children under Immigration Act powers on the basis that it was shameful, damaging, and permanently harmful to children's health.

In Germany, irregular migrants and their children have limited access to health care, education, and judicial remedies in cases of labour rights violations.
Segregation of Roma continues to be a serious problem in central and eastern Europe, but also in Italy, where unlawful forced evictions drive them further into poverty. Italy also passed new legislation enabling local authorities to authorise associations of unarmed civilians not belonging to state or local police forces to patrol the territory of a municipality, a measure which may result in discrimination and vigilantism, especially against Roma. Slovakia stands out particularly for Romani children segregation, with the Roma Education Fund reporting that almost 60 percent of them are put in special classes for mentally disabled, although they were not diagnosed as such. Local authorities are criticised for engaging in forced evictions and even erecting walls to separate Roma settlements from the rest of the community. Bratislava is also suspected of turning a blind eye to sterlisation of Romani women, even though it has announced legislative measures requiring health workers to seek informed consent for such procedures and introduced the new criminal offence of illegal sterilisation. However, according to the Centre for Civil and Human Rights,the Ministry for Health Care failed to issue any implementing guidelines on sterilisations and informed consent for health workers. Eight Romani women lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human rights claiming their infertility is a result of a sterilisation procedure performed on them during delivery in an eastern Slovakian hospital. A similar case was finalised in Hungary, after eight years of national and international legal proceedings, with the Ministry of Social Affairs announcing it would provide financial compensation to a Romani woman sterilised without her consent in 2001.

Hungary's political and economic upheaval, with an IMF lifeline translating into public sector wage and social programme cuts, has proved a fertile ground for the far-right party Jobbik, with its strong anti-Roma and anti-Semitic agenda.The Hungarian police beefed up its special task force to 120 officers to investigate a series of attacks against Roma, which cost the lives of at least nine people, including women and children.In July, the Budapest Court of Appeal issued a legally binding ruling banning the Magyar Garda, a paramilitary organisation linked to Jobbik. The court ruled that the Magyar Garda's activities overstepped its rights as an association and curtailed liberties of the Roma. But later in July, Jobbik announced the relaunch of Magyar Garda, and one of its newly elected members of the European Parliament wore a Magyar Garda uniform to the first parliamentary session in Brussels.Authorities in a number of countries continued to foster a climate of intolerance against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities, making it harder for their rights to be protected. In August, the Lithuanian parliament adopted a controversial law that institutionalised homophobia, by potentially prohibiting any discussion of homosexuality, impede the work of human rights defenders and further stigmatize LGBT people.Member states of the EU continued to block a new regional directive on non-discrimination, which would simply close a legal protection gap for those experiencing discrimination outside of employment on the grounds of disability, belief, religion, sexual orientation and age,the report notes.Italy and Malta are also singled out for their anti-immigrant stance and the practice of pushing back boats coming from across the Mediterranean, sometimes without assessing the needs of the people on board.

In May, the lives and safety of hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers on three vessels in the Mediterranean were placed at risk first by a squabble between the Italian and Maltese authorities over their obligations to respond to maritime distress calls, and then by the Italian government's unprecedented decision to send those in the boats to Libya – a country with no functioning asylum procedure – without assessing their protection needs,the report reads.Countries such as Greece and Malta routinely detained migrants and asylum-seekers, and in inappropriate conditions.Amnesty International also criticises the effective and transparent accountability for human rights abuses in the context of the secret rendition and detention program of the CIA after 2001, in which scores of EU countries were involved.A German parliamentary inquiry into German involvement in renditions concluded in July 2009, but exonerated all German state actors, despite compelling evidence to the contrary. The methods, evidence and findings of an investigation into the existence of an alleged secret prison in Poland, finally begun in 2008, still remain secret.Several European states ignored the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights against the return of suspects of terrorism to countries where they were at risk of torture.

US Treasury chief to meet German finance minister
MAY 27,10

BERLIN – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected in Berlin for talks with his German counterpart as Europe grapples with its debt crisis.Geithner meets with Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in the German capital Thursday. The talks follow a private dinner Wednesday night with European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet and a stop at Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank.European countries agreed earlier this month on a euro750 billion (nearly $1 trillion) loan backstop for governments in danger of defaulting on debt.Geithner said in London Wednesday that while the European Union has a good plan for tackling the debt crisis, it must act on it soon.He said he believes European leaders will do what's necessary to make it work.

China says Europe key market By Aileen Wang and Simon Rabinovitch - MAY 27,10

BEIJING (Reuters) – Europe remains a key investment market for China's foreign exchange reserves, the Chinese central bank said on Thursday, helping to soothe markets unnerved by a report that it was reviewing its euro-zone bond holdings.The Financial Times said on Wednesday that China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) was meeting foreign bankers because of concerns about its exposure to debt troubles in Europe.That report was groundless, said SAFE, the arm of the central bank that manages China's $2.4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest stockpile.China is a responsible and long-term investor in the investment of foreign exchange reserves and we always follow the principle of diversification, it said in a statement on the central bank's website (www.pbc.gov.cn)Europe was, is and will remain one of the major investment markets for China's foreign exchange reserves, it said.It also said that China was confident that the euro zone would be able to overcome its difficulties, adding that Beijing supported the actions taken by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union to stabilize financial markets.

DIVERSIFICATION

Earlier on Thursday, a government official familiar with China's reserve management said the country remained committed to its long-standing goal of diversifying its foreign exchange reserves.The euro, which had fallen toward a four-year low on Wednesday, jumped to a day's high, after the official said that the direction of diversification will not change.

U.S. stock futures also extended gains.

Over the past few years, when China has mentioned diversification, it has often been interpreted as referring to its objective of reducing exposure to the dollar by lifting investments in other currencies, such as the euro.Analysts say that China has been shifting some of its reserves into a wider range of currencies in recent months, including assets elsewhere in Asia and in commodity-producing countries.
Separately, a banker who has worked with China's reserve managers said they would exercise more caution about buying the euro in the short term, but that they had few other outlets for investing their stockpile of cash.He said that SAFE regularly sought outside opinions about the global economy and that there was nothing unusual about its setting up meetings to discuss the euro's prospects.Marginally, I think they are concerned about what is happening in Europe and they want to reduce their risk, he said.What is happening in Europe is very uncertain and that is what they want to avoid. At the end of the day, these guys are bureaucrats.(Additional reporting by Victoria Bi in Shanghai; Editing by Ken Wills and Neil Fullick)

Oil rises above $72 as traders mull Europe impact By ALEX KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer - MAY 27,10

SINGAPORE – Oil prices rose to above $72 a barrel Thursday in Asia as investors mulled the impact slower European economic growth could have on global crude demand.
Benchmark crude for July delivery was up 85 cents to $72.36 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added $2.76 to settle at $71.51 on Wednesday.Oil has dropped from $87.15 a barrel earlier this month amid investor concern that Europe's debt crisis will undermine a global economic recovery. Some analysts expect oil prices to move higher once the Europe crisis stabilizes and investors focus on surging crude demand in emerging countries.Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal — four of the European countries with the biggest debt and fiscal problems — account for just 4 percent of the global economy and 2.6 percent of global crude demand, Barclays Capital said in a report.Persistent fears about the region's sovereign debt situation keep sentiment fragile and oil prices under pressure, Barclays said.The risk to oil prices is clearly skewed to the upside, once this initial fear about the eurozone fades and fundamentals return to being the focus of the market.In other Nymex trading in June contracts, heating oil rose 2.13 cents to $1.9420 a gallon, and gasoline gained 0.96 cent to $1.980 a gallon. Natural gas was steady at $4.186 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, the Brent crude July contact was up 68 cents to $72.42 on the ICE futures exchange.

Canada defends huge cost of G8/G20 summit security By David Ljunggren – Wed May 26, 4:24 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada defended on Wednesday the huge cost of providing security to two international summits it will host late next month and attacked critics who asked why the bill had shot up to C$930 million ($880 million).In March, Canada allocated C$179 million for security costs at the two summits. This week it shocked legislators by revealing the overall total would in fact be many hundreds of millions of dollars more.On June 25 and 26 leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations will meet in Huntsville, Ontario, about two hours' drive north of Toronto. The Group of 20 nations will then gather in Toronto on June 26 and 27.This is an unprecedented event where you have two summits back to back and we believe the experts when they say this is the necessary level of security, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews told the House of Commons in response to criticism from the Liberals, the biggest opposition party.I understand that the Liberals don't believe in securing Canadians or the visitors here. We're different.The Liberals, noting that security for the two-week Vancouver Winter Olympics in February had cost under C$900 million, said the summit bill was excessive and blamed incompetence and haphazard planning.It's shocking. It's frankly irresponsible ... we can't afford to be spending C$1 billion in 72 hours, said Mark Holland, the Liberals' national security spokesman.

Toews said it was wrong to compare the summits to the Olympics because far fewer leaders had visited Vancouver.I don't think you can say, Well, because it's seven days instead of 14 days, it should be half the price.It simply doesn't work that way,he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.He also said Canada had to protect leaders against threats from very sophisticated criminals or terrorists.The left-leaning New Democrats noted that C$930 million could buy 1,270 new hybrid buses for public transit systems or more than 132 million bed nets to prevent malaria. Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Peter Galloway)

Israel indicts Arab citizen as Hezbollah spy
MAY 27,10

JERUSALEM – Israel has indicted an activist from its Arab minority for allegedly spying for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.The Shin Bet security service says Amir Makhoul confessed to meeting with a Hezbollah agent and providing the group with information about Israelis and sites within the country.But Adalah — an Arab legal center in Israel that is representing Makhoul — says he denies the allegations and that he confessed to the false accusations under duress.Makhoul was arrested on May 6 but Israel maintained a gag order on the case. It later released limited information and fully lifted the gag order on Thursday, after the charges were filed.
Adalah says another Arab-Israeli will appear in court on Thursday on similar charges, all of which he denies.

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.

Singapore closes beaches as oil spill spreads By ALEX KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer - MAY 27,10

SINGAPORE – Singapore closed beaches along 7.2 kilometers (4.5 miles) of its east coast as an oil spill from a damaged tanker continued to spread Thursday.Blotches of rust-colored oil floated next to a breaker wall at a ferry terminal while the nearby National Sailing Center, which usually gives daily classes to hundreds of school students, shut its doors.A pungent stench has now enveloped the eastern coastline — an area that is normally packed on weekends with families, roller-bladers and cyclists enjoying the sand, sea and some of the island's best seafood restaurants.

The smell was so bad yesterday, it made me nauseous, said Ho Shufen, a manager at the sailing center.I don't expect anyone would want to come here until the smell is gone.About 18,000 barrels of light crude oil spilled from the Malaysian-registered tanker MT Bunga Kelana 3 after it collided with the St. Vincent's and The Grenadines-registered bulk carrier MV Waily early Tuesday in the Singapore Strait about eight miles (13 kilometers) southeast of the city-state's east coast.The National Environment Agency said it would take the next few days to clean up the coastline and advised the public to stay away from affected beaches.Officials deployed oil dispersants and 3,300 meters (10,800 feet) of containment booms in an unsuccessful bid to keep the slick from fouling the coast.Officials at the ferry terminal said the oil spill hasn't affected its services.

Israeli prime minister to visit White House By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer – Wed May 26, 3:08 pm ET

JERUSALEM – President Barack Obama's chief of staff on Wednesday invited the Israeli prime minister to the White House next week, in a sign that strained relations between the two allies are beginning to thaw.Rahm Emanuel, who was in Israel for a private visit, extended the invitation during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Officials in Netanyahu's office said the White House meeting would take place next Tuesday, after the Israeli leader wraps up a previously scheduled trip to Canada.Emanuel told reporters the talks would focus on security issues, a likely reference to the Iranian nuclear program, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.The president is asking to extend an invitation to you to come visit him at the White House for a working meeting to discuss both our shared security interests as well as our close cooperation in seeking peace between Israel and its neighbors.

The meeting will give Obama and Netanyahu a chance to repair a relationship that has been strained since the two men took office last year.Obama gave Netanyahu a cool reception during his last visit to Washington, even skipping the usual photograph session with reporters at the start of their March 23 meeting.Relations between the U.S. and its top Mideast ally took a hit earlier that month when Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new homes in a Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden. The announcement infuriated the U.S. and temporarily derailed plans to restart peace talks under American mediation.Obama has pressured Netanyahu, who leads a conservative nationalist government, to halt Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and east Jerusalem — captured territories that the Palestinians claim for a future state along with the Gaza Strip.

Under heavy pressure, Israel has since put the housing project on hold and imposed an unofficial construction freeze in east Jerusalem. Netanyahu has also announced a 10-month slowdown on construction in West Bank settlements.The Israeli gestures helped clear the way for the launch of the U.S.-brokered, indirect peace talks earlier this month.Next week's meeting is expected to address shared concerns about Iran's nuclear program, which Israel, the U.S. and much of the international community believe is ultimately aimed at the development of nuclear weapons — a charge that Tehran denies.Both countries have reacted skeptically to an Iranian proposal — brokered by Brazil and Turkey — to swap low-enriched uranium for fuel rods to power a research reactor. A similar plan proposed by the U.N. in October was intended to deprive Iran — at least temporarily — of the opportunity to use its stockpile of enriched uranium to build a bomb.On Tuesday Netanyahu called the deal a transparent Iranian trick meant to distract world public opinion from sanctions by the Security Council against Iran.In Washington, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said Wednesday that Obama will also meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the near future, but no date has been set.

In a related development, Israel said Wednesday it would begin compensating West Bank settlements for damages incurred because of the construction slowdown.Interior Ministry spokesman Roi Lachmanovich said the state will send around $10 million to settlements to make up for lost revenues from families who would have come to live there had the construction proceeded.Also Wednesday, the Israeli parliament gave preliminary approval to bills that would strip privileges, like family visits and televisions, from Hamas prisoners held by Israel.The measures are meant to pressure Gaza's Islamic militant Hamas rulers to free an Israeli soldier captured nearly four years ago by Hamas-linked militants. Sgt. Gilad Schalit's captors have barred any access to him and have allowed him to send messages only a few times since he was seized in June 2006. In violence early Wednesday, Israeli warplanes pounded suspected militant targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding 15 people, including seven Hamas police, Palestinian hospital officials said. The Israeli military said it scored direct hits on a pair of tunnels that militants were planning to use to attack Israel.The airstrikes came hours after Gaza militants fired several mortar shells toward southern Israel and blew up an explosives-laden donkey cart near the border. No Israelis were wounded in the attacks.

Israel PM leaves for Paris ahead of US talks
MAY 27,10

TEL AVIV (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for Paris on Thursday on a trip that will also take him to Washington after he received a last-minute invitation for talks with US President Barack Obama.In Paris, Netanyahu will formally accept an invitation for Israel to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based group of 30 developed world nations.He is also scheduled to hold talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday, his aides said.He will then travel to Canada on Friday before heading to Washington, where he will hold talks with Obama on Tuesday.White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is on an otherwise private visit to Israel, on Wednesday handed Netanyahu a personal invitation from the US president.Israeli media interpreted the invitation as a signal that the US administration is seeking to turn a new leaf in ties, following a major row over construction of homes for Jewish settlers in annexed Arab east Jerusalem.The Washington visit comes ahead of a similar trip by Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, who is expected to meet Obama at some point in June.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; 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.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

UK gov't discloses size of its nuclear stockpile By DANICA KIRKA and EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writers – Wed May 26, 1:59 pm ET

LONDON – Britain offered its first public accounting of its nuclear arsenal Wednesday, disclosing that it has a stockpile of 225 warheads in a move that offers transparency to non-nuclear states in hope of winning stricter global controls on the spread of atomic weapons.The announcement, made without fanfare in the House of Commons, follows the Obama administration's disclosure that the United States has stockpiled 5,113 nuclear warheads and several thousand more retired warheads awaiting the junk pile — the first public description of the secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.The U.S. made the announcement at the May 3 opening of a five-year review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the cornerstone of global disarmament efforts, where Washington and its allies are seeking stronger measures to prevent the spread of nuclear arms. Britain made its announcement as the monthlong conference at the United Nations nears an end on Friday, with intense debate under way on a final document.We believe that the time is now right to be more open about the weapons we hold, Foreign Secretary William Hague told the House of Commons.We judge that this will assist in building a climate of trust between nuclear and non-nuclear weapons states and contribute, therefore, to future efforts to reduce the number of nuclear weapons worldwide.

Britain had earlier disclosed that it possessed 160 operational warheads, but Hague's comments that the country's overall stockpile of nuclear warheads will not exceed 225 warheads was the first time the maximum size of the total stockpile was revealed. The Foreign Office later said the 225 figure was the number of warheads the country now holds.Countries that don't possess nuclear weapons have long demanded more openness from the nuclear-weapon states — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China — about the size and nature of their arsenals as an essential step toward nuclear disarmament, which is a key plank in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Four other nations have or are suspected of having atomic arms — Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea.British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt told a briefing for U.N. reporters that Hague sent him to New York as the treaty review conference nears an end to emphasize the importance of the announcement in the House of Commons.We are very conscious that everything relating to nonproliferation depends on confidence, the confidence between those who are parties to the treaty, those who are nuclear weapon states and those who are not, Burt said.The new British government also is conscious that, over the last decade, the treaty had come under pressure with no outcome from the 2005 review conference, Burt said.We wanted to make an immediate and positive contribution to that process,he said.

For that reason, Burt said that Hague announced two particularly strong confidence-building measures — the maximum number of warheads in Britain's stockpile and a review of the government's policy on the use of weapons.On the nuclear arsenal, Burt said, until this moment that number has always been kept secret.The foreign secretary has today revealed that number openly as part of our determination to be as open and transparent as a nuclear weapon-holding state in this process,he said.

Burt stressed that Britain holds only 1 percent of the world's stock of nuclear weapons and the explosive power of Britain's stockpile has been reduced by something like 75 percent since the end of the Cold War.On the policy review, he said, Britain's position has always been that the use of nuclear weapons would only be in the most extreme circumstances of self defense following attack in certain particular circumstances.Hague has now offered a review and a discussion of that policy, Burt said.Asked whether Britain's decision to disclose its arsenal was made in consultation with the United States, he said the five nuclear powers continually talk to each other.Burt, part of the new coalition government that took power earlier this month, said Britain was encouraged by the U.S.-Russian agreement in April to further reduce their nuclear arsenals. This and other nuclear-related events indicated that 2010 provided a much better background than 2005 and 2000 to take things on,he said. It's very much done with a sense of this is what other nations are doing in terms of confidence-building measures and transparency, and we very much wanted to play our part at the very earliest stage that we possibly could,he said.Edith M. Lederer reported from the United Nations in New York.