WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
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)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
THERE HAS BEEN A CAPTURE IN THE WEEKEND NYC ATTEMPTED TERRORIST ATTACK.EITHER THIS WAS A TRUE ATTACK OR A SOETORO SETUP TO GO AGAINST CONSERVATIVE-TEA PARTIERS.THE CAPTURE WAS A 30 YR OLD PAKISTANI NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.THERE STRESSING HE WAS NATURAL BORN.I WONDER IF SOETORO IS TRYING TO GET THE PEOPLES MIND OFF THE ILLEGEL CITIZAN SCANDLE AGAINST MEXICO BY STRESSING HE WAS A NATURAL BORN PAKISTANI.SINCE SOETORO WANTS OPENS BOARDERS TO MAKE CANADA,MEXICO AND THE USA A REGIONAL BLOCK.SOETORO WOULD HAVE CONNECTIONS IN PAKISTAN AS HE TRAVELLED THERE LOTS IN HIS LIFE.I SMELL A GOVERNMENT SETUP HERE TO DEFLECT THE IMMIGRATION SITUATION IN ARIZONA AND TO CLAIM THIS INCIDENT WAS DONE BY AN EX VET OR TEA PARTIER OR A CONSERVATIVE.THE NEWS IS STRESSING INTERNET CONNECTIONS,I BELIEVE THIS TO BE SOETORO AND HIS CREW WANTING TO GET DCTATORIAL CONTROL OF THE INTERNET TO BAN CONSERVATIVE VIEW POINTS.THE NEWS STRESSED THIS PAKISTANI WAS A LONER OR JUST A COUPLE PEOPLE WITH HIM.MAN DO I SMELL A FALSE FLAG STAGED ATTACK HERE.I WILL BE WATCHING THIS INCIDENT REALLY CLOSELY.
Left Media, Bloggers Blame Times Square Bomb on Tea Party
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com May 3, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/left-media-bloggers-blame-times-square-bomb-on-tea-party/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJCCRlsw1oE&feature=player_embedded
No need to wait for the authorities to shift the blame for the lame fireworks bomb planted in Times Square on the Tea Party. The chant has already commenced.The suspect is a balding white guy, so it stands to reason the Tea Party is responsible.
Robert Dreyfuss, writing for The Nation, discounts the Taliban link to the Mickey Mouse bomb and blames the Tea Party.It may be that the Pakistan-based Taliban, the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has quietly established a Connecticut franchise while we weren’t looking. That’s possible. But it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled Times Square bomb plot was either a lone nut job or a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right. Which actually exists in Connecticut, where, it seems, the car’s license plates were stolen.How does Dreyfuss know it was the Tea Party? Because the Oklahoma City bombing was supposedly pulled off by a white guy. In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, when self-appointed experts blamed Muslims only to find out that it was a Gulf War veteran named Tim who did it, there has once again been an unseemly rush to judgment.The white guy caught in a video and suspected of placing the bomb with its toy clock looks like your typical Tea Party radical,writes Gather.General consensus is that the perpetrator was a white 40 year old male Christian card carrying member of the Tea Party crowd,declares The Political Jungle blog. In order to make this point, the blogger cites a string of goofy commented posted at Fox News.All speculation at this point, but if I was to place a bet on who did this, I’d go with someone whose sympathies are probably more Tea Party than Taliban, writes Paul Woodward of War in Context.
Election Ink claims the cops have a Tea Party activist in their sights.Anonymous sources have reported that a suspect is currently being questioned in the Bridgeport / New Haven CT area. The suspect is a middle age white male, has a history of strong political views, and considers himself a Tea Party activist. An arrest is expected within days. In a strange twist, the suspect worked in the past as an informant with law enforcement agencies.I don’t know if Election Ink is an Onion spin-off. SodaHead also carried the accusation that a Tea Party activist was behind the absurd non-bombing.Parking a car loaded up with fireworks and propane tanks is a mindset very similar to those of the KKK, the Taliban and guess what — The Tea Party,writes The Rainbow Collective.On and on. It is a feeding frenzy for the government-loving progressives. The corporate media has yet to pin the blame on the Tea Party. In the next few hours or day, they will jump on the bandwagon after officials arrest the white guy captured in the security video now posted all over the web.So who will ultimately be blamed for it? Given Obama’s recent plea to everyone but white males for votes in the upcoming election, it’s safe to say they are going to do everything they can to pin this bombing on the Tea Party Movement. Just wait and see,writes The Nation in Crisis Blog.The establishment is chomping at the bit to blame the Tea Party — not the Republican Borg hive Tea Party, but the real Tea Party — because they are seriously concerned about the political threat posted by millions of Americans sick and tired of authoritarian government and its truckling to the banksters.It’s not enough to brazenly slander the entire movement as racist. Now the Tea Party will be linked to terrorism in order to scare away supporters before the mid-term elections.
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
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -150 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -169 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,186.70.OIL opens at $84.57 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -280 points at low today so far.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -280 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today.
CNBC ALWAYS HAS ERIN BURNETT ON THE RUN.IF SHES NOT FREEZING IN RUSSIA,SHES ROASTING IN JORDAN.YESTERDAY BUT ON TODAYS SHOW ERINS RIDING THE AIR OVER THE OIL SPILL.WHAT A GAL.I CAN SEE WHY MARK WON'T GO WITH HER,THEY GIVE POOR ERIN THE BEAUTY BAD JOBS FOR REPORTING.
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.
ED SCHULTZ AT MSNBC WAS CRYING TEARS OF ENVIROMENTAL PROTEST OVER THIS OILSPILL.WELL GOD IS SHOWING THESE GODLESS NUTCASES HES IN CONTROL.NOT THE GODLESS HATING MEDIA ON THE FAR LEFT.I WONDER HOW MUCH SOETORO-OBAMA AND HIS CHICAGO THUGS ARE PAYING MSNBC TO SPEW ALL THIS HATE.NOTICE KEITH OBERMANNS EYE BROWS LOOK LIKE ARABS.IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IS OBERMANN IS A MUSLIM.THIS WOULD BE A PERFECT CONNECTION TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND BARRY SOETORO THE FRAUD OBAMA.
AND THE OTHER ISSUE WE MUST KEEP ON THE TABLE AND IN PEOPLES MEMORY IS THAT BARRY SOETORO IS REALLY BARACK OBAMAS REAL NAME AND HE WAS BORN IN KENYA NOT AMERICA.BARRY SOETORO AKA BARACK OBAMA IS NOT ELLIGABLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT.EVERYTHING HE SIGNS IN BARACK OBAMA IS ILLEGEL,BECAUCE HIS REAL NAME IS BARRY SOETORO.AMERICAS CONSTITUTION WILL BE IN SHAMBLES ONCE THIS SCAM IS FINALLY REVEALED TO THE WORLD.
BY THE TIMELINE IN OBAMAS OWN BOOKS-OBAMA WENT TO PAKISTAN ON HIS INDONESIAN PASSPORT.ANOTHER ISSUE OUT OF 400 PEOPLE AT COLUMBIA THAT GRADUATED THE YEAR OBAMA OR BARRY SOETORO DID,NO ONE COMES FORWARD TO SAY THEY KNEW HIM.HOW COME AT HAWAII HOSPITAL WERE OBAMA CLAIMS HE WAS BORN,NO NURSES OR ANYBODY CAME FORWARD TO SAY THEY WITNESSED OR TOOK PART IN THE BIRTH.THIS BARRY SOETORO OR AKA BARACK OBAMAS LIFE IS A COMPLETE FRAUD.AND AMERICA IS CONNED TO BELIEVE THE LIE.WHY WOULD SOETORO AKA OBAMA SPEND 2 MILLION DOLLARS TO STOP ALL THESE LAWSUITS IF THERES NO COVERUP.HE WOULD JUST SHOW THE PROOF OF EACH EVENT-PLACE OF BIRTH,CERTIFICATE AND REAL NAME BARRY SOETORO INDONESIAN PASSPORT.
The proof is everywhere from statements and affidavits from Government parliament sources and Obama’s own Grandmother who says she saw him born in a hospital in Mombassa Kenya. The former ambassador to Kenya says Obama was born in Mombassa Kenya, so do others. Check out the affidavits at www.obamacrimes.com and join Phil Berg and other concerned citizens for a huge eligibility protest march May 29th 12-4pm.
Gulf Coast watches, waits for path of oil spill By HARRY R. WEBER and VICKI SMITH, Associated Press Writers - MAY 4,10
NEW ORLEANS – Restaurateurs, hotel owners, fishermen and beachfront property owners watched and waited for the weather and ocean currents to choose where a bulk of the oil from a calamitous Gulf of Mexico spill would finally wash ashore.The consequences of the 200,000 gallons a day of crude spewing from a blown-out underwater well on those whose livelihoods rely on the richness of the sealife in the waters was obvious. Fishing has been shut down in federal waters from the Mississippi River to the Florida Panhandle, leaving boats idle Monday in the middle of the prime spring season. A special shrimping season will close Tuesday evening.
Inns and restaurants that count on tourists attracted to the beautiful blue-green waters and sandy white beaches already are getting calls about the spill, which has flirted with the coastlines before receding, mostly because of the weather.You mentally want to push it back to the west, and then you feel guilty for doing so, said Jan Grant, manager at the St. George Inn on St. George Island, Fla., about the path the spill might take.Engineers from BP PLC have failed to invent a solution to halt the gusher that's been spewing into the sea since an offshore drilling platform blew up and sank last month and killed 11 workers. BP operated the rig that was owned by Transocean Ltd.Chemical dispersants seemed to be helping to keep oil from floating to the surface, but crews haven't been able to activate a shutout valve underwater. And it could take another week before a 98-ton concrete-and-metal box is placed over one of the leaks to capture the oil. .Worse, it could take three months to drill sideways into the well and plug it with mud and concrete to stop the worst U.S. oil spill since the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska, leaking nearly 11 million gallons of crude.Those nowhere near the Gulf who drink coffee, eat shrimp, like fruit or plan to buy a new set of tires, could also end up paying for the disaster. Several river boat pilots said the edge of the slick Monday was 15 to 20 miles off the Southwest Pass, where ships headed to New Orleans enter the Mississippi River.A total shutdown of the shipping lanes is unlikely. However, there could be long delays if cargo vessels that move millions of tons of fruit, rubber, grain, steel and other commodities in and out of the nation's interior are forced to wait to have their oil-coated hulls power-washed to avoid contaminating the Mississippi. Some cargo ships might choose to unload somewhere else in the U.S. That could drive up costs.
Let's say it gets real bad. It gets blocked off and they don't let anything in. They lose time, and they are very concerned about that, said river pilot Michael Lorino. It's going to be very costly if they have to unload that cargo in another port and ship it back here because it was destined for here.BP said Monday it would compensate people for legitimate and objectively verifiable claims from the explosion and spill, but President Barack Obama and others pressed the company to explain exactly what that means.Those who packed a meeting at a Pensacola Beach church wanted to know the same thing.Betsy Robins, 58, said she's lost three houses to a hurricanes, a disaster Gulf Coasters dread but are more accustomed to facing. An oil spill that might foul her properties — that's something she's looking to the oil company to pay for. She wants BP to buy her parcels at pre-slick prices.I don't want to fight another claim, Robins said. I've lost three houses to hurricanes so far. And spent 11 years fighting claims.For the tourism industry, the spill couldn't come at a worse time.It's the beginning of the booking season, the beginning of the summer season,said Marie Curren, sales director for Brett/Robinson, a real estate firm in Gulf Shores, Ala. The only thing that could make it worst now is a hurricane.
Dana Powell expects at least some lost business at the Paradise Inn in Pensacola Beach, Fla., and could see a different type of guest altogether: Instead of families boating, parasailing and fishing, workers on cleanup crews will probably be renting her rooms.They won't be having as much fun, she said,but they might be buying more liquor at the bar, because they'll be so depressed.And what will she serve in her restaurant? Hamburgers and chicken fingers instead of crab claws.
The latest satellite image of the slick, taken Sunday night, indicates that it has shrunk since last week, but that only means some of the oil has gone underwater. The new image found oil covering about 2,000 square miles, rather than the roughly 3,400 square miles observed last Thursday, said Hans Graber of the University of Miami. The new image also shows that sizable patches have broken away and are moving to the north and east, Graber said. By all accounts, the disaster is certain to cost BP billions. But analysts said the company could handle it; BP is the world's third-largest oil company and made more than $6 billion in the first three months of this year. The oil spill has drained $32 billion from BP's stock market value. In the Chandeleur Sound on Monday, about 40 miles northeast of Venice, La., thick, heavy oil formed long clumps that looked like raw sewage. Dying jellyfish could be seen in the water. Sea turtles have been found dead on Mississippi beaches, but necropsies on five of the 30 did not find evidence they died from the effects of oil. The news was better from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle, where the sheen isn't expected to touch beaches before Thursday. Wind and sea currents have helped to keep the oil away from points farther west, said Coast Guard Capt. Steve Poulin. Some businesses were prepared because of their experience during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Folgers Coffee Co., which ships its coffee through the Port of New Orleans, has several weeks' worth of green coffee on hand and has made arrangements to use other ports in the event of a shutdown, spokeswoman Mary Beth Badertscher said. We've learned a lot of valuable lessons from Hurricane Katrina about supply logistics,she said.
About 60 percent of the grain exported from the U.S. goes through the Southwest Pass. If the spill delays barge traffic going down the Mississippi, prices for corn, soybeans and wheat could rise quickly on global markets, said Greg Wagner, a commodity analyst. Grain prices within the U.S. could actually fall if shipments are unable to leave the U.S. and the grain begins piling up at silos in the U.S. But the price decreases would probably be small and wouldn't show up at the grocery store anytime soon, said Seth Meyer, an agricultural transportation analyst at the University of Missouri. In Alabama, scores of shrimp boats sat at dock in Bayou La Batre, their crews unable to work. Vietnamese immigrant Minh V. Le, who owns two trawlers, said: I'm confused about how I'm going to survive.Associated Press writers Sarah Larimer, Mike Schneider, Jay Reeves, Jeannine Aversa, Christopher Leonard, Alan Sayre, Melissa Nelson and Allen G. Breed contributed to this report.
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.
Magnitude 6.4 quake shakes Chile, no damages
Mon May 3, 9:23 pm ET
SANTIAGO, Chile – The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.4 earthquake has struck off Chile's central coast. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.The USGS says the quake's epicenter was 151 kilometers (94 miles) south-southwest of Concepcion, Chile, at a depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles).Radio stations in the Bio-Bio region reported no major damages or injuries from Monday's tremor.The area has been shaken by hundreds of smaller quakes since a huge magnitude-8.8 quake hit on Feb. 27, triggering a tsunami and killing 486 people. On Sunday, a 5.9-magnitude quake struck the area, one of more than a dozen perceptible temblors since Saturday.Tens of thousands of Chileans are still living in tents or temporary huts.
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.
SECOND ANGEL OF THE LORD TO DR DOCTORIAN
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting. The second angel said, Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran. I saw those countries in a few split seconds. 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.I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.
The angel said, The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God. I saw fires rising to heaven. The angel said, This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries.The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
GET READY GODLESS FOR RESULTS.GOD(KING JESUS) WILL NOT BE MOCKED.
Environmentalists warn Jordan River drying up By DANIEL ESTRIN, Associated Press Writer - MAY 4,10
QASR AL-YAHUD, West Bank – Christian pilgrims who flock to the Jordan River to immerse themselves in the water where Jesus was baptized may have nothing left to dunk in next year.A team of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmental scientists says large stretches of the biblical river could dry up by 2011. And much of what remains is nothing but a canal of sewage, they said in a report released Monday.You can almost jump across this river. In other places, you don't need to even jump — you can just cross it. It's ankle deep, said Gidon Bromberg, Israeli director of Friends of the Earth Middle East, the organization that commissioned the report. You struggle to see the water.Sadly, it is one of the efforts to save the river that has helped doom it, the report said. Israel and Jordan have agreed to stop dumping waste into the river and instead treat it in plants expected to be up and running in both countries in 2011.But if no wastewater enters the lower Jordan — the river's largest section — then no water will flow in it at all, the report notes.
According to Christian tradition, John baptized Jesus in the Jordan River. Typical of the region's conflicting land claims, both Jordan and Israel maintain the New Testament baptismal site stands on their soil, and the sites face each other on either side of the Jordan.On the Israeli-controlled side in the West Bank, the site is called Qasr al-Yahud, Arabic for Castle of the Jews or Crossing of the Jews. In Jordan, it is called al-Maghtas, or Baptism Site.The Bible describes the river, which flows south from the Sea of Galilee into the Dead Sea, marking the border shared by Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, as overflowing. In 1847, a U.S. Naval officer visiting the area reported on the deafening roar of the tumultuous waters.
But over the past five decades, Israel, Jordan and Syria have diverted about 98 percent of the Jordan River and its tributaries for drinking water and agricultural use. Only 700 million to about 1 billion cubic feet (20 million to 30 million cubic meters) flow through the river today, a tiny fraction of the 45 billion cubic feet (1.3 billion cubic meters) that used to surge through before the 1930s, when the first dam was built on the river in what is now Israel.What was once the narrowest stretch of the river has now become its widest. In some spots, the Jordan is only a trickle. Otters and other creatures that used to live on its banks are long gone.Today, the lower section of the Jordan is choked with sewage from towns on the Israeli, West Bank and Jordanian sides.The report's authors praised the Israeli and Jordanian wastewater treatment plan, while noting that it will dry up large stretches of the river by the end of next year because the treated sewage will be used for agriculture rather than being pumped into the Jordan.The report recommends that Israel and Jordan rehabilitate the river by filling it with freshwater pumped in from the Sea of Galilee and the Yarmouk river, the Jordan's largest tributary, in addition to highly treated wastewater, to return a third of the volume that once flowed there.Today, most Christian pilgrims who visit Israel immerse themselves in the fresh waters of the Jordan river at Yardenit, a modern-day baptismal tourist site near the Sea of Galilee, 60 miles (100 kilometers) upstream.
Less than a mile (about one kilometer) away, a dam built by Israel blocks the water for agricultural use. Steps away, a fountain of murky sewage from nearby Israeli communities shoot through a rusty pipe, where it joins up with agricultural runoff and saline water from nearby salt springs to form the rest of the river.Some still go to the traditional baptism site of Jesus. On Sunday, a grinning Christian pilgrim from Moscow donned a long white robe and bobbed up and down in the brown waters, gesturing the sign of the cross with his hand each time he came up for air.Some environmentalists strongly discourage baptisms there because the foul state of the waters make it a health hazard.On the Israeli-controlled side, the site is closed most of the year because of its location in a military zone, surrounded by minefields, on the international border with Jordan. About 30,000 pilgrims were allowed to visit this year, according to the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and Israel is now renovating the site to accommodate more tourists. The sad state of the Jordan River does not exist in a vacuum. Political deadlock between governments sharing the river and its tributaries has exacerbated the water shortage. Israel and neighboring Arab countries have complained about each other's projects to divert shared water sources for their own needs. The diversion of waters from the Jordan is also a major reason why the Dead Sea is shrinking so dramatically. The legendary salt-water lake has lost one-third of its volume since Israel and Jordan built plants in the 1960s to divert the waters of the Jordan.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Death toll rises as river crests, floods Nashville By TRAVIS LOLLER and KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press Writers – Mon May 3, 11:03 pm ET
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Muddy waters poured over the banks of Nashville's swollen Cumberland River on Monday, spilling into Music City's historic downtown streets while rescuers using boats and Jet Skis plucked stranded residents away from their flooded homes as the death toll from the weekend storms climbed to 28 people in three states.The flash floods caused by record-breaking amounts of rain caught many off-guard, forcing thousands to frantically flee their homes and hotels. The rapidly rising waters led to the deaths of 17 people in Tennessee alone, including 10 in Nashville, and officials feared that the death toll could increase. Officials announced the latest deaths late Monday after receding flood waters revealed six more bodies.Do we suspect to find more people? Probably so. We certainly hope that it's not a large number, said Metro Nashville Davidson County Fire Chief Kim Lawson.
Though the historic Ryman Auditorium — the former home of the Grand Ole Opry — and the recording studios of Music Row were not in immediate danger, parts of other top Nashville tourist spots including the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole Opry House were flooded.You never think something like this will happen in Nashville,said Stan Milstead of Tulsa, Okla., as he watched the dark brown river waters creep deeper into downtown, where authorities had closed off streets.Weekend storms dumped more than 13 inches of rain in two days in the Nashville area, leading to a quick rise of the Cumberland River and its tributaries. The swollen river crested Monday evening at nearly 12 feet above flood stage in Nashville and was not expected to drop below its flood stage of 40 feet until Wednesday morning, National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Rose said.About five miles east of downtown, flooding forced about 1,500 guests from the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center to evacuate Sunday night to a high school, indefinitely shutting down one of the nation's largest hotel and convention centers.We had just finished eating and suddenly they said: Go! Go! Go! Gerdi Bauerle, 70, who was visiting from Munich, Germany, said Monday. And we said 'Wait, we haven't even paid.
Up to 10 feet of water stood in parts of the hotel, as restaurant chairs and crates of wine glasses floated by. A life-sized Elvis statue missing his guitar was laying on its back in the nearby parking lot of the Wax Museum of the Stars.Water also flooded parts of the Grand Ole Opry House and Opry Mills Mall, which replaced the old Opryland USA theme park. Though it was not immediately known how much water was in the concert hall, managers were finding alternate space for upcoming shows.Though the rain stopped falling on Monday, the river continued to inch upward in some places. Authorities and volunteers in fishing boats, an amphibious tour bus and a canoe scooped up about 500 trapped vacationers at the Wyndham Resort along the river near Opryland. Rescuers had to steer through a maze of underwater hazards including submerged cars, some with their tops barely visible above floodwaters the color of milk chocolate.Bill Crousser was riding his Jet Ski past a neighbor's house when he rescued a man, his wife and their dog moments before flames from a fire in the garage broke through the roof. The woman was taken to a hospital to be examined.We just got the hell out of there,Crousser said.As flood waters receded elsewhere, more victims were found in Nashville and other parts on Tennessee on Monday evening.One body was discovered in a wooded area outside a Nashville supermarket, and another woman was found dead in a home on the western side of town, city spokeswoman Gwen Hopkins said Monday night. Police said a man's body was found in standing water in Bellevue, one of the hardest hit parts of Nashville; nearby the body of an elderly woman was recovered in her home.
The weekend storms also killed six people in Mississippi and four in Kentucky, including one man whose truck ran off the road and into a flooded creek. One person was also killed by a tornado in western Tennessee.In downtown Nashville, water filled the basement of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center where pianos were stored and speed into a mechanical room in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Five inches of water backed up through storm drains into the Bridgestone Arena, damaging dressing rooms and the floor where the NHL's Nashville Predators play. Across downtown on the river's east bank, water covered the grass inside LP Field, home of the NFL's Tennessee Titans.Gov. Phil Bredesen declared 52 of Tennessee's 95 counties as disaster areas after finishing an aerial tour and said he talked with President Barack Obama. Bredesen saw flooding so extensive that tree tops looked like islands as he flew from Nashville to western Tennessee. I've never seen flooding like this, he said. Jim Moser, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Nashville, said a slow-moving weather system pumped up Gulf moisture into highly unstable air over Tennessee. The result was strong storms dumping heavy rains that caught most of the city and surrounding area by surprise. It was much higher than we expected, Moser said. The weather service listed the two-day total as 13.53 inches at the city's airport, outstripping the old record of 6.68 inches from the remnants of Hurricane Fredrick in 1979. Officials said about 50 Nashville schools were damaged. Floodwaters submerged hundreds of homes in the Bellevue suburb on Nashville's west side, including Lisa Blackmon's. She escaped with her dog and her car but feared she lost everything else. I know God doesn't give us more than we can take, said Blackmon, 45, who lost her job at a trucking company in December.But I'm at my breaking point.Mayor Karl Dean and city officials repeatedly implored residents Monday to conserve water after one of two water treatment plants was flooded. As the rising Cumberland River threatened a levee that protected the remaining plant, neighborhoods and businesses northwest of downtown, city workers and about 200 volunteers frantically filled and stacked sandbags. Morgan Castillo, 29, drove from the Nashville suburb of Hermitage to help.It seems like everyone is waiting until it's too late,she said.And then the next thing you know is you're on the roof.Crews worked to restore electricity with about 13,400 still without power, but the Nashville Electric Service was slowed because one of its repair centers was flooded. Statewide, about 22,000 remained without power as of Monday evening.
Many residents who fled their homes worried about what they left behind.
Lucy Owens, 46, said she had to leave so quickly on Sunday night that she didn't have time to grab her family's 100-year-old Bible and afghan made by her mother, who died about a month ago. She said she first tried escape in her truck, but when she couldn't drive past her mailbox because the water was too high, she screamed for help and a police officer came and took her and son to a point where a boat could rescue them. By then, water was up to her ribcage. I got no notice. No one said nothing about evacuating. I did what they said and stayed put. I didn't get out. I didn't drive. Then it just all happened so fast,she said. Associated Press Writers Erik Schelzig in Memphis; Lucas L. Johnson II in Jackson; Dylan T. Lovan in Louisville, Ky.; Roger Alford in Frankfort, Ky.; and Sheila Burke, Randall Dickerson, Joe Edwards and Chris Talbott in Nashville contributed to this report.
Tornado, floods kill at least 22 in southern US
Mon May 3, 9:12 pm ET
BILOXI, Mississippi (AFP) – Violent thunderstorms unleashed tornados and flash floods over the southern United States over the weekend killing at least 22 people and forcing the Kentucky governor to declare a state of emergency.Governor Steve Beshear said Monday four people died in weather-related accidents in his state and requested federal assistance to deal with storm damage.I urge individuals who encounter high waters to use extreme caution and avoid unnecessary contact with flood waters if at all possible, he said in a public alert.In Mississippi, where tornados killed 10 people nine days ago, driving rains and more tornados tore through farming regions damaging homes and destroying crops.The month of May started off with numerous storms which caused major damage and took the lives of six people, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) said in a statement, adding that reports of damage continued to roll in.MEMA spokeswoman Nikki Pressley earlier told AFP the Red Cross and Salvation Army had evacuated dozens of people from their homes to area shelters.The White House said President Barack Obama called Beshear and Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen to extend his deepest condolences for the loss of life and pledge a prompt federal response to their requests for support, as they assess the damage.In Tennessee, two days of driving rain have caused widespread flooding, killing at least six people in Nashville and another six in the rest of the state, forcing scores more to evacuate homes and businesses, The Nashville Tennessean reported Monday.At least two more people were listed as missing.The newspaper said thousands of homes were flooded and entire neighborhoods submerged across the state.Late Sunday, Nashville announced that it was shutting down a water treatment plant and that a levee along the Cumberland River had begun to leak, the report said.After an aerial survey, Mayor Karl Dean said the damage was worse than he thought.This situation is going to require a very large recovery process, the paper quotes Dean as saying. The magnitude of the damage to our community was much more than what I expected. The safety of some of our infrastructure is questionable.
Nashville fire and rescue officials were still searching late Sunday for two young men who went missing after they tried to raft in a creek with inner tubes, the daily said, adding that a third man had swum to safety.President Barack Obama Monday signed a disaster declaration for Alabama, releasing federal aid to help recovery efforts in two counties damaged by tornados and flooding, the White House said.No weather-related casualties have been reported in Alabama.The National Weather Service has forecast more severe weather for the next few days in the region, with several rivers at or near flood stage and nearby areas under flood warnings.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
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)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Fresh ash disruption as EU ministers meet on air traffic control
HONOR MAHONY Today MAY 4,10 @ 09:20 CET
Volcanic ash is disrupting air travel once again just as transport ministers are set to gather in Brussels to discuss air traffic management following last month's travel chaos due to ash from the same Icelandic volcano.A change in wind direction on Monday (3 April) sent the plume from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano over Ireland and the Scottish Isles, prompting the closure of airports.All flights going in and out of Ireland have been grounded since 8am CET this morning, while airspace over the Outer Hebrides was closed during Monday night. The Irish ban is expected to extend until at least 2pm. The ash was expected to exceed the safety level agreed in the wake of the six-day grounding of most European flights in April, a move that disrupted the travel plans of some 10 million passengers and is estimated to have cost the airline industry up to €2.5 billion.Ireland falls within the predicted area of ash concentrations that exceed acceptable engine-manufacturer tolerance levels, the Irish Aviation Authority said in a statement.Iceland's meteorological office said that a recent change of wind direction had sent the ash cloud south and southeast toward Europe, rather than northward. However, the cloud is much smaller than the one that caused the flight paralysis around 20 April.The fresh disruption comes as EU transport ministers will in a specially-convened meeting on Tuesday discuss an improved response to such incidents amid accusations that governments last month over-reacted.
The European Commission, which is pushing to create a single airspace with European supervisors to co-ordinate flight routes and responses, has noted that a more joined-up response would mean that April's flight disruptions would have lasted for three days rather than six.The ministers will also discuss demands by airlines for government assistance to help pay for the loss of revenue as well as the costs of refunding tickets or taking care of stranded passengers.EU passenger rights rules say that airlines have a duty of care to passengers and are required to refund expenses for costs incurred due to flight delays if passengers choose to be re-routed rather than having their tickets re-imbursed.However, airlines have been pressuring Brussels for a softening of the rules, arguing that national authorities had taken the decision to close airspaces, meaning it was beyond their control.The commission, for its part, has indicated that it is open to the idea of some state aid for affected companies, but has remained firm on the rules concerning the rights of passengers. The commission considers that the exceptional circumstances of recent days may justify support measures to offset losses incurred,as long as any proposed aid does not distort competition, EU transport commissioner Siim Kallas said last month.
Merkel backs creation of European credit rating agency Standard and Poor's head office in the US (Photo: Wikipedia)ANDREW WILLIS Today MAY 4,10 @ 09:22 CET
Senior European politicians including Germany's Angela Merkel have indicated their support for the creation of a European credit rating agency.And in a related move on Monday (3 May), the European Central Bank decided to loosen the terms under which it lends money to Greek banks, indicating that it will now accept Greek government bonds below investment grade as collateral. The pivotal role played by the world's top three credit rating agencies, all of them US-based, has been highlighted in recent weeks, as incremental downgrades for Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland have helped fan a fire of market doubts, leading to higher borrowing costs for the weaker eurozone countries. On the same day that her cabinet approved a €22.4 billion loan for Greece, Ms Merkel said there was a clear case to be made for a European ratings agency.A European agency could provide an understanding of basic economic mechanisms different from the existing agencies, more oriented towards ...[sustainability] of the economy and less on the short term,she said. More competition in this area can not hurt.The German government is now pressing for parliamentary approval for the Greek loan by the end of this week, after eurozone finance ministers on Sunday agreed to provide Athens with up to €110 billion over three years (2010-2012), together with the IMF. The country's finance minister Wolfgang Schauble met with banking representatives on Monday in a bid to secure private sector support for the initiative. Officials told the Financial Times that Mr Schauble was seeking a commitment from banks and insurers not to sell their holdings of Greek bonds at the present juncture, in order to help stabilise markets. French finance minister Christine Lagarde also added to the debate on credit rating agencies on Monday, saying there should be more supervision of the current agencies to ensure their full independence.
ECB liquidity provision
To date, the European Central Bank has only accepted investment grade sovereign bonds from European banks looking to borrow money. But on Monday the Frankfurt-based institution performed an about-turn, saying it would in future accept junk status Greek sovereign bonds as collateral. The move, a clear indication that the ECB is also joining in with the eurozone's rescue efforts for Greece, highlights concern that further credit rating downgrades for Athens could result in a liquidity shortage for the country's banks, subsequently harming the economy. The central bank was among those criticising the timing of last week's downgrade of Greek bonds to junk status by credit rating agency Standard and Poor's, with fears that further such downgrades by the remaining agencies could shut Greek banks off from ECB lending prompting Monday's announcement.But the decision marks a dramatic u-turn for ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet, who began the year saying the ECB would not change its collateral policy for the sake of any particular country.The bank's governing council meets this Thursday in Lisbon, where it will likely discuss the need to extend this provision to other countries.
Slovak reluctant to take part in Greek bail-out-Slovakia became the 16th eurozone member in January 2009 (Photo: formulaphoto)RENATA GOLDIROVA Today MAY 4,10 @ 09:31 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - As the Greek government awaits the first tranche of a €110 billion rescue loan, its Socialist counterpart in Slovakia has said it will not immediately contribute its share, citing doubts over Athen's ability to push ahead with necessary reforms. I don't trust the Greeks, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico told journalists on Monday (May 3), a day after the eurozone finance ministers' meeting had welcomed harsh austerity measures linked to the bail-out. The approval by the [Greek] government is not enough. We want to see laws approved by the parliament leading to cuts in salaries, pensions and social benefits. Until then the Slovak cabinet will not authorise its loan.Slovakia, the latest eurozone member state, is expected to contribute as its share of the bail-out some €816 million over the next three years - a figure amounting to the annual budget of the country's interior ministry, according to media reports. Some analysts say however that Mr Fico' toughened stance can be seen as part of a heated election campaign.In February, he argued the opposite of his current position: If Europe could pour huge amounts of money into the banks, why not to help the countries in real trouble.The parliamentary elections in Slovakia are less than six weeks away and most political parties argue against coming to the rescue of debt-stricken Greece. At this stage, the parliamentary debate could be counterproductive,finance minister Jan Pociatek said. The unpopular decision is therefore likely to fall on the shoulders of the next Slovak government and parliament, although Mr Fico - the probable winner - did not exclude his consent to the loan if the conditions are met.
Nobody cares about Greece. Everyone is currently protecting their own national interests … their own skin, the stability of the euro,he said, referring to Slovak citizens' savings. The eurozone has agreed language saying: Parliamentary approval, needed in some member states prior to the release of the first tranche, is expected to follow swiftly.
But it seems the process could be lengthy in some countries.
Slovenia, another recent eurozone member state, will probably need to review its 2010 budget as its share of the loan pool for Greece will jump to €384 million up from an initial estimate of €144 million. Slovenia may review government spending because the amount we may have to pay to Greece is so much higher, the government's chief economic forecaster, Bostjan Vasle, said, according to Bloomberg, with Slovenian lawmakers likely vote on the matter in June.The most crucial vote comes on Friday (May 7), however, when Germany - the biggest contributor to the package - is set to complete its approval of some €22.4 billion.The European Commission has meanwhile hinted that Greece could gain back its lost credibility sooner than expcted and could be able to return to financial markets for funding as early as the second half of 2011. They will get back to the market in the course of 2011 at the latest, a commission official said, according to Reuters reports.It is not assumed that Greece will have no market access throughout the programme, although it will not need access in the first one-and-a-half to two years.Should Greece continue to draw on the lifeline throughout the entire three-year period, it will start repayments from mid-2013 through to mid-2016.
Anti-fraud investigators swoop on EU emissions traders
LEIGH PHILLIPS 03.05.2010 @ 17:32 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Traders involved in Europe's flagship climate change programme, the Emissions Trading System - some of whom work at Germany's biggest banks and energy firms - were the focus of a series of raids and arrests by British and German prosecutors in part of a massive pan-European crackdown on CO2-credit VAT fraud.A total of 25 people were arrested amid a blitz by authorities on hundreds of company offices in the two countries, including Deutsche Bank and energy firm RWE, in a case involving the theft of an estimated €180 miillion from government coffers.
On Friday (30 April), it was revealed that UK tax authorities had raided 81 different offices and homes earlier in the week, arresting 22 individuals - 13 in England and further eight in Scotland. The swoop, which occurred two days earlier, involved roughly 450 staff from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.German authorities simultaneously raided 230 premises, including the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and the offices of RWE, one of the largest energy firms in Europe, according to the Bloomberg news agency.Three individuals in Germany were arrested. Seven of the suspects were employees of Deutsche Bank, although none were among those taken into custody.The operation, which targetted a total of 50 companies and some 150 suspects in Europe's biggest economy, involved around a thousand investigators from Germany.Authorities in eight other EU nations - Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Portugal, as well as Norway, outside the bloc - were approached by Frankfurt prosecutors for their help in the investigation.Computers, mobiles, memory sticks and business records were seized, as well as undisclosed sums of cash.
The criminal activity the raids focussed on relates to what is known as carousel fraud.Criminals establish themselves in one EU member state and open a trading account with the national carbon credit registry. They then buy carbon credits in a different country, which makes them exempt from VAT. These are then sold to buyers in the original country, but with VAT slapped on, although the VAT then just disappears along with the trader and the money never arrives in government coffers.
The raids come after Europol, the European criminal intelligence agency, last December issued a warning that ETS fraud had resulted in around €5 billion in lost revenues.In announcing its investigations into the pan-European racket, the agency said that as much as 90 percent of the entire market volume on emissions exchanges was caused by fraudulent activity. European Commission climate spokeswoman Maria Kokkonen told EUobserver that a new EU directive on reverse charges for emissions trading, which aims to close off this form of tax fraud, was implemented in February of this year specifically to deal with this problem.Under the directive, EU member states may for a temporary period optionally apply a reverse charge to switch the responsibility of paying the government the VAT collected from the vendor to the customer.Also in February, the EU toughened up the requirements for opening an account with national carbon registries.Carbon emissions fraud is a very serious problem and the commission is working closely with member states to combat this problem,said Ms Kokkonen.In fact, the response to this problem has been very swift since it first came to light last summer.However, it should be underlined that this does not affect the overall functioning of the EU-ETS.Environmentalist critics of the ETS however said that such criminal activity is not the exception to the rule, but intrinsic to a carbon market.Carbon markets are highly susceptible to fraud, given their complexity and the fact that it is not always clear what is being traded,said Oscar Reyes of Carbon Trade Watch. It's good that the commission and tax authorities are clamping down, but it is unlikely that this will be the last case of carousel fraud, but also unlikely that it will be the last type of fraud involved in emissions trading.
Leaked tapes show EU leaders' frustration at climate summit
VALENTINA POP 03.05.2010 @ 09:30 CET
Leaked tapes from the failed climate summit in Copenhagen published in German weekly Der Spiegel have documented a deeper rift between France, Germany and the US and China and India than previously thought. The tapes were recorded accidentally on 18 December 2009, during a meeting of 25 leaders, including Germany's Angela Merkel, France's Nicolas Sarkozy, US President Barack Obama and the representatives of China and India, Der Spiegel reports.Angela Merkel expressed her frustration at India's representative who refused to commit to precise overall CO2 emission reduction figures. Then you don't want anything legally binding! she said, only to be countered by the Indian side: Why do you make presumptions? That is not fair! When she presented Europe's demand to have a commitment for a global reduction of 50 percent in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, China's negotiator intervened abruptly and said: Thank you for all your proposals. We've already said we cannot accept the long-term goal of 50 percent.At that point, French President Nicolas Sarkozy jumped in. With all due respect and friendship for China,he said, the West had already committed itself to an 80 percent reduction by the mid-century mark. And China, who will soon be the biggest economy in the world, now tells the world these engagements are for you, not for us.This is unacceptable. One has to react to this hypocrisy, he scoffed.US President Barack Obama tried to moderate the discussion, but also expressed his frustration that the Chinese premier preferred to stay in his hotel room and to send his chief negotiator instead.I know there is a Chinese premier here, one who takes important decisions,the US President said. Mr Obama then told the Chinese negotiator, He Yafei,[the premier] is giving you instructions at this stage.Mr Yafei replied: I do not speak for myself here. I speak for China. I heard President Sarkozy talk about hypocrisy. I would avoid such terms.He argued that industrial countries had to assume their responsibility after causing 80 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions within one century. Don't run away from that,he said.
The two Western-proposed targets, of an internal 50 percent cut by 2050, and an international cut of 80 percent, have long been a bone of contention between rich and poor countries.The latter argue that according to their analysis, this would require a per capita cut in emissions of 60 percent, or 20 percent in absolute terms. Because these countries are starting at a much lower per capita level of emissions, this would mean that the amount of carbon emissions allowed would ironically be higher for developed countries than for the third world. The rich world would be permitted two to five times higher per capita emissions than developing countries.The global south argues that for them to be able to continue to develop, the west must look to achieve negative carbon emissions by 2050, a proposal the EU and US reject.The tapes also document a statement from Mr Obama suggesting he was already considering sealing a deal in a smaller format outside the formal UN process. He said he was hoping to reach an agreement later, outside this multilateral framework,arguing that everybody had more important things to do.The end of the week-long Copenhagen summit was particularly frustrating for the Europeans, as their demands were left out of the final declaration agreed between the US, China, Brazil and South Africa. Yet not even that text could be endorsed by all delegations, who only took note of it.
Lack of trust
Meanwhile, Ms Merkel, seeking to revive international talks ahead of the follow-up to the Copenhagen summit, set to take place in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of this year, said at an informal climate discussion in Germany on Sunday that environment ministers must find a basis of trust in order to avoid a second fiasco.One thing that did not work well in Copenhagen is that a small circle met and the regional groups felt left out of the debate, she told delegates from some 45 countries gathered outside Bonn. The former Danish chief-negotiator and host of the Copenhagen summit, Connie Hedegaard, has meanwhile taken up the post of EU commissioner for climate change. In an interview with UKdaily The Guardian, she defended Denmark's handling of the event.It's always easy to say after that we shouldn't have done a lot of things, she said.But if we had not done so, we would not have had this whole debate and this whole mobilisation we have today.Ms Hedegaard accepted that a global deal was unlikely at the climate conference in Cancun at the end of this year, but she said there should be a focus on substance and action rather than legal form.It would be fine if we can have everything done at Cancun, but it is not likely to happen so then we must include as a next step South Africa.
Jewish luminaries petition EU parliament over settlements
ANDREW RETTMAN 03.05.2010 @ 10:09 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The leader of the Green group in the European Parliament, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy are spearheading a new campaign for the EU to put pressure on Israel over settlement building.The two men have joined a fast-growing list of over 3,500 signatories in an online petition entitled Call for Reason which is to be presented to the EU parliament at a press conference in Brussels on Monday (3 April).The petition says that Israel's policy of settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is morally and politically wrong and feeds the unacceptable delegitimisation process that Israel currently faces abroad.It adds that: It is essential therefore that the European Union, along with the United States, put pressure on both parties and help them achieve a reasonable and rapid solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict ... Systematic support of Israeli government policy is dangerous and does not serve the true interests of the state of Israel.The vast majority of signatories comes from Belgium, France, Italy and Switzerland and is composed of academics, teachers, students, medical professionals and lawyers. Other prominent supporters include philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, historian Zeev Sternhell, Israel's former ambassador to France, Elie Barnavi, and the country's former ambassador to Germany, Avi Primor.
Two French centre-left MEPs, Vincent Peillon and Henri Weber, have also signed up, together with a number of EU officials, such as Claude Rakovsky, a head of unit in the European Commission's competition department.The French-based group behind the project, JCall, says it models itself on J Street, a US-based NGO of mostly left-leaning American Jews and supporters of Israel set up to promote a two state solution to the Middle East conflict.The JCall initiative has been attacked by some leading Jewish commentators. Emmanuel Navon, a professor at Tel Aviv university, said its signatories are clinging to a failed ideology and bankrupt ideas in his blog for the right-wing Israeli daily, the Jerusalem Post. Being a realist means accepting the fact that Israel can neither achieve peace with the Palestinians (a painful admission if you're from the left) nor maintain its sovereignty over all of the historical land of Israel (a no less painful admission if you're from the right),he said. This will largely be used by those who are true enemies of Israel, said Richard Prasquier, the head of the CRIF, the umbrella organisation for Jews in France, in French daily Le Figaro.
May Day protests turn violent as Greeks turn ire on EU, IMF - Riot police clashed with protesters (Photo: endiaferon)LEIGH PHILLIPS 02.05.2010 @ 16:26 CET
Traditional May Day marches turned violent in Greece as workers and youth vented their fury at austerity measures intended to deal with the country's ongoing debt crisis.Tens of thousands took the streets to protest the harsh prescription of public sector cutbacks, wage reductions, pension entitlements and tax increases cooked up by the governing centre-left Pasok at the behest of Brussels, Berlin and the International Monetary Fund.Youthful demonstrators in Athens did not take long to clash with riot police, with dozens of black-clad individuals hurling stones and Molotov cocktails.Several officers were set ablaze by the firebombs. Seven were injured as well as two demonstrators. Anarchists smashed a small number of shop and hotel windows while a public television van was torched.Protestors heckled and threw water bottles at a 73-year-old Pasok politician, Apostolos Kaklamanis, before he was bundled off by the police.Riot police responded with tear gas and had made nine arrests by the end of the day.In Thessaloniki, protesters also fought with police and attacked shop windows and bank machines.In Greece as in most other countries around the world, 1 May, workers' day, is a day for often highly scripted protests as well as festivals and concerts funded by left-wing parties and trade unions. In the Hellenic Republic, while much of the rest of the demonstrations passed largely peacefully, there was a bitter anger focussed squarely at the EU and the IMF, coming ahead of another general strike on 5 May.Trade unions marched to the offices of the EU representation in the country and then on to the US embassy. Protesters chanted and daubed on walls such slogans as IMF and EU Commission out! and No to the EU-IMF junta! - in reference to the military dictatorship that ruled Greece until 1974, backed by the US, the UK and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Investors and European leaders are closely watching how Greek citizens react to the austerity measures. Extended violent protests, as occurred in Athens in December 2008 after a youth was shot and killed by police, could make it difficult for the government to push through its cuts.Early on in the crisis, politicians feared a social explosion, with French President Nicholas Sarkozy even withdrawing two pieces of controversial legislation in the same month as the Athens riots, fearing, he said at the time, another May 1968. However, so far industrial action and civil unrest across the bloc has been muted. Even in Greece, support for the governing Pasok has not really been dented.Despite the violence on Saturday, the protests were not particularly large, with a police-estimated 17,000 in the capital and 5,000 in Thessaloniki.Nevertheless, the euro took a slight dive on Friday after a Greek television poll showed that 60.9 percent were opposed to the EU-IMF deal and 67.4 thought that civil unrest was likely as a result.Separately on Saturday, riot police in the German city of Hamburg broke up a march of a round a thousand young people mounted in solidarity with Greek demonstrators after the protesters attacked police units with bottles and fireworks.
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EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran to hold new maneuvers in Persian Gulf
MAY 4,10
TEHRAN, Iran – In the second military show in less than a month, Iran will hold a new set of maneuvers in the strategic waters of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.Iran regularly holds such military exercises but they are likely to heighten tensions, coming at a time of a deepening standoff between the West and Tehran over the country's controversial nuclear program.The massive maneuvers dubbed Velayat-89 will show (Iran's) defensive and deterrent naval power, said Iranian Navy chief Adm. Habibollah Sayyari. Submarine and air force units are also due to participate, he added.The new war games are to start Wednesday, said the official IRNA news agency. The semiofficial Fars news agency said the exercise will last for eight days and cover a span of about 97,000 square miles (250,000 square kilometers) of Iranian territorial waters.Iran's Revolutionary Guard held five-day maneuvers in late April in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway for around 40 percent of the world's oil and gas supplies.The exercises are intended to show off the country's military might and act as a warning, should U.S. or Israel consider a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. The West suspects Iran's nuclear programs is aimed at building an atomic bomb. Iran denies the charge, saying it's for peaceful purposes, such as power generation.
Iran center stage at nuclear treaty conference By DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writer – Tue May 4, 1:36 am ET
UNITED NATIONS – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seized center stage at the opening of a monthlong debate at the United Nations on how to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. But behind the scenes, U.N. Security Council powers were discussing ways to punish Iran for defying their demands that it curb nuclear activities that could be used to make bombs.The Iranian president used his platform as the only head of state to address the conference of signatories of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to undermine growing momentum in the Security Council for a new round of sanctions.Speaking from the podium of the General Assembly Hall, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Iran of flouting the rules of the nonproliferation treaty with its suspect uranium enrichment program.I hope that we can reach agreement in the Security Council on tough new sanctions, Clinton told reporters, because I believe that is the only way to catch Iran's attention.Earlier in the day, Ahmadinejad rejected such allegations about its nuclear program, saying Washington has offered not a single credible proof that Iran was seeking nuclear weapons. Iran says it only wants the technology for producing nuclear power.As the Iranian president spoke, the U.S. delegation, of working-level staff, walked out of the General Assembly, joined by several European delegations, including the French and British. Lower-level Iranian officials sat through Clinton's later speech.
The rhetorical exchange between the United States and Iran dominated the first day of the month-long conference on how to improve the NPT. The treaty is formally reviewed every five years at a meeting of all 189 treaty members — all the world's nations except India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, all of which either have confirmed or are believed to have nuclear weapons.While taking aim at Iran in her address, Clinton warned the delegates not to allow Tehran to distract them from finding ways to strengthen the enforcement of the treaty.This treaty is weakened when a state flouts the rules and develops illicit nuclear weapons capabilities, she said. Potential violators must know that they will pay a high price if they break the rules, and that is certainly not the case today.The review conference, which resumes Tuesday, is meant to produce a final document pointing toward ways to better achieve the NPT's goals of checking the spread of nuclear weapons, while working toward reducing and eventually eliminating them.Because it requires a consensus of all parties, including Iran, any final document would be highly unlikely to censure the Tehran government, which would block consensus.U.S. officials have said they will be looking to isolate Iran at the conference and to produce an unofficial document calling for stricter enforcement of the NPT that could be signed by the overwhelming majority of signatory countries.On the conference's first day, the United States was supported in its stance against Iran by top U.N. officials.Yukiya Amano, head of the U.N. watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, leveled the specific indictment, saying his inspectors could not confirm that all of Iran's nuclear material is devoted to peaceful activities.As delegates assess the state of the NPT in U.N. conference halls, American and European diplomats will be working elsewhere to reach agreement with the sometimes reluctant China and Russia on a fourth round of U.N. Security Council economic sanctions against Iran.In her address, Clinton proposed that the nonproliferation treaty be strengthened by introducing automatic penalties for noncompliance, rather than depend on such drawn-out council negotiations.Ahmadinejad devoted much of his half-hour speech to the huge U.S. nuclear arsenal, denouncing the Obama administration's refusal to rule out the use of those weapons.Regrettably, the government of the United States has not only used nuclear weapons, but also continues to threaten to use such weapons against other countries, including Iran,Ahmadinejad said.
He referred to the new U.S. Nuclear Posture Review's provision retaining an option to use U.S. atomic arms against countries not in compliance with the nonproliferation pact, a charge Washington lays against Iran. Ahmadinejad was expected to press his campaign against further sanctions at a news conference Tuesday in New York.
US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads By ANNE GEARAN, AP National Security Writer – Tue May 4, 1:08 am ET
WASHINGTON – The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and several thousand more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.The Obama administration disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a campaign to get other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming, and to improve its bargaining position against the prospect of a nuclear Iran.We think it is in our national security interest to be as transparent as we can be about the nuclear program of the United States, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters at the United Nations, where she addressed a conference on containing the spread of atomic weapons.The U.S. has previously regarded such details as top secret.The figure includes both strategic, or long-range weapons, and those intended for use at shorter range.The Pentagon said the stockpile of 5,113 as of September 2009 represents a 75 percent reduction since 1989.
A rough count of deployed and reserve warheads has been known for years, so the Pentagon figures do not tell nuclear experts much they don't already know.Hans Kristensen, director of Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists in Washington, said his organization had already put the number at around 5,100 by reviewing budget estimates and other documents.The import of the announcement is the precedent it sets, Kristensen said.The important part is that the U.S. is no longer going to keep other countries in the dark, he said.Clinton said the disclosure of numbers the general public has never seen builds confidence that the Obama administration is serious about stopping the spread of atomic weapons and reducing their numbers.
But the administration is not revealing everything.The Pentagon figure released Monday includes deployed weapons, which are those more or less ready to launch, and reserve weapons. It does not include thousands of warheads that have been disabled or all but dismantled. Those weapons could, in theory, be reconstituted, or their nuclear material repurposed.Estimates of the total U.S. arsenal range from slightly more than 8,000 to above 9,000, but the Pentagon will not give a precise number.
Whether to reveal the full total, including those thousands of nearly dead warheads, was debated within the Obama administration. Keeping those weapons out of the figure released Monday represented a partial concession to intelligence agency officials and others who argued national security could be harmed by laying the entire nuclear arsenal bare.A senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the overall total is still classified, did not dispute the rough estimates developed by independent analysts.Exposure of once-classified totals for U.S. deployed and reserve nuclear weapons is intended to nudge nations such as China, which has revealed little about its nuclear stockpile.You can't get anywhere toward disarmament unless you're going to be transparent about how many weapons you have, said Sharon Squassoni, a nuclear policy analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Russia and the United States have previously disclosed the size of their stockpiles of deployed strategic weapons, and France and Britain have released similar information. All have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which is the subject of the U.N. review that began Monday. The U.S. revelations are calculated to improve Washington's bargaining power with Iran's allies and friends for the drive to head off what the West charges is a covert Iranian program to build a bomb. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad spoke ahead of Clinton at the conference, denouncing U.S. efforts to pressure his regime to abandon its nuclear program. The U.N. conference will try to close loopholes in the internationally recognized rules against the spread of weapons technology. Independent analysts estimate the total world stockpile of nuclear warheads at more than 22,000. The Federation of American Scientists estimates that nearly 8,000 of those warheads are operational, with about 2,000 U.S. and Russian warheads ready for use on short notice. The United States and Russia burnished their credentials for insisting that other countries forgo atomic weapons by agreeing last month to a new strategic arms reduction treaty. The New START treaty sets a limit of 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads for each side, down from 2,200 under a 2002 deal. The pact re-establishes anti-cheating procedures that provide the most comprehensive and substantial arms control agreement since the original 1991 START treaty. Eds: Associated Press writers Anne Flaherty and Robert Burns in Washington and Matthew Lee at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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