EU TO BAN IRANIAN INVESTMENTS

THIS CLYBURN STILL INSISTS THAT THE REPUBLICANS BOUGHT OFF AND TAMPERED WITH THE VOTING MACHINES.WHO BUT OBAMA AND HIS CHICAGO THUG ADMINISTRAION WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO TAMPER WITH THE VOTING MACHINES TO MAKE THE REPUBLICANS LOOK BAD AND BUY OFF THIS CLYBURN TO PROCLAIM THE STINK PROPAGANDA PUBLICALLY.DON'T BE SURPRISED IF CLYBURN ENDS UP WORKING IN GOLDMAN SACHS THEN BECOMES AN OBAMA CZAR TO DESTROY AMERICA LIKE OBAMA IS DOING.THE PAYOFFS JUST KEEP ON COMING.THE PROPAGANDA JUST KEEPS ON COMING.

THIS WILL BE THE WAY OBAMA USES TO TAX PEOPLE HEAVILY ON CARBON TAXES.TAXES ON SKY HOOKS AND INVISIBLE GASES.THESE SCIENTISTS YOU CAN BE SURE WILL HAVE BOUGHT INTO THE CHICAGO CLIMATE CHANGE COMPANY SO THEY CAN MAKE TRILLIONS LIKE GORE,OBAMA AND THE REST OF THE ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASE ROBBERS.I WONDER IF I AM A RACIST HATER OF BLACKS FOR TALKING AGAINST THE CHICAGO CLIMATE CHANGE COMPANY.AS OBAMA SAYS AGAINST ANYONE WHO REVEALS TRUTH TO THE WORLD.FOR A TELE PROMPTER PROFESSIONAL OBAMA MAY READ WELL BUT WHEN IT COMES TO TRUE ACTIONS FOR AMERICANS HES A WELL DIGGER OR GOLD DIGGER OR GOLDMAN SACHS PUPPET.

Scientists develop tech to track carbon dioxide By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jun 14, 2:20 pm ET

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Scientists have developed a method for detecting and tracking carbon dioxide deep underground, giving the federal government an important tool as people look for ways to keep carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from crowding the atmosphere.Scientists working with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory used colorless, nontoxic liquids called perflourocarbon tracers to essentially fingerprint carbon dioxide that was injected into a coal seam in northwestern New Mexico.They followed the carbon dioxide's movement by tracking the tracers.Using the tracers would help eliminate some of the uncertainty surrounding carbon capture and sequestration, said Brian Strazisar, a physical scientist at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh.There is going to be some sort of requirement that we verify that the carbon dioxide is going where we expect it to and that it's not going back into the atmosphere or into geologic zones that weren't intended. The tracers help with that, he said.With about one-third of the United States' carbon emissions coming from power plants and other large polluters, scientists have been looking at underground fissures, caverns and coal beds as places where those emissions can be stored to reduce a buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.It's those gases that are being blamed for global warming. The Obama administration established a task force on carbon capture and sequestration and has pledged $4 billion for related research, the goal being to get CCS technology widely deployed within 10 years.At Pump Canyon near Aztec, N.M., scientists injected about 18,400 tons of carbon dioxide along with the tracers into a coal layer about 3,000 feet below the surface.

Special units set up at three nearby coal bed methane production wells and in shallow bore holes throughout the area monitored for the tracers and the injected CO2. The project lasted about a year.The technology can measure concentrations as small as parts-per-quadrillion. It can also tell the difference between injected carbon dioxide and CO2 that is naturally produced.A handful of Western states have started developing laws to regulate the so-called pore space beneath the ground where CO2 can be stored.But in the New Mexico Legislature this year, critics were concerned about unknowns surrounding carbon capture and storage, related property rights and potential effects on water and oil and natural gas development. They had questions about who would be liable if injected CO2 contaminated an aquifer or mixed with oil or gas, and what would happen if it found its way back to the surface.The tracer technology can address some of those questions better than other geophysical tools like seismic imaging, said Brian McPherson, a University of Utah professor who was involved in the Pump Canyon project.The tracers are a direct observation. They're less subjective and less interpretive,he said.We can actually forecast how much a tracer is going to go where and then measure it and watch for it. They will help nail down the uncertainty.Sean McCoy, manager of the Carbon Capture and Sequestration Regulatory Project at Carnegie Mellon University, wasn't involved in the study but said it appears from the findings that the tracer technology will improve scientists' ability to characterize places where they're thinking of storing CO2 over long periods of time.There's great potential, and in the real world, we're definitely going to see carbon capture and sequestration happening. But I think there's going to need to be a concerted push to remove some of the obstacles that are out there right now to get this technology rolled out on a large scale,McCoy said.He pointed to the cost, pore space ownership issues and liability.McPherson agreed, saying carbon capture and storage is a real possibility for limiting the greenhouse gas but not a silver bullet.

CO2 storage in the subsurface is just part of everything else that needs to be done, like increasing efficiency and developing better coal combustion technologies that produce less CO2. ... It can be done and these tests and positive results like these tracers are just more evidence that it's something that we should continue examining,he said.

Gulf oil spill and the political spillover in the Senate energy debate By the Monitor's Editorial Board – Fri Jun 11, 1:24 pm ET

At first, the Gulf oil spill was seen as a wake-up call for the United States to finally pass a climate-change law. The images of black goo washing up on beaches would be enough to persuade Americans to kick their fossil-fuel habit.Bu nearly two months after the BP spill began spewing petroleum, it hasn’t turned out that way.Key senators from states that rely heavily on jobs related to both offshore oil and coal continue to block bills that would push the US – the largest source of greenhouse gases per capita – toward doing its part to reverse global warming.Their election-year desire to maintain high-carbon industries during a period of high unemployment is trumping a longer-term need to create a low-carbon economy.This political shortsightedness by a few regions of the United States transcends the usual partisan politics of Washington. In fact, President Obama is now trying to find a compromise with a dozen or so Democratic senators from coal and oil states that could result in passage of almost any energy bill this summer.Such a measure would add to Mr. Obama’s health-care law and the likely passage of financial reform. It would also give him a victory after criticism of his handling of the Gulf oil spill. Most of all, the White House wants some sort of reform in US energy before a possible conservative swing in Congress after this fall’s elections.

What sort of compromises should Obama accept in an energy bill? His choices have only gotten worse. The House passed a climate-change measure last year that set high targets for carbon reduction. But then recently in the Senate, a weaker measure was introduced by John Kerry (D) and Joe Lieberman (I). After that, GOP Sen. Richard Lugar proposed a bill with no carbon targets but only incentives for energy conservation and for coal plants to close by 2018.The White House and Senate majority leader Harry Reid are now trying to pick parts of each measure for a smorgasbord bill that could win the necessary 60 votes for passage.This half-a-loaf political approach may possibly create momentum for stronger action in the future. But it hardly comes close to the huge task of drastic reductions in carbon emissions. It also doesn’t set much of an example for other big polluting nations such as China and India to do their part.A broad consensus already exists on many steps toward better energy use, such as expanding the use of electric cars and investments in renewable energy technologies. But at the least, Obama should insist that the use of oil and coal becomes more expensive in coming years. That could be done through a tax, a cap on polluting industries, or by an assortment of federal incentives.Businesses, as well as most Americans, are uncertain about the country’s energy future. If anything, the Gulf oil spill – an unexpected and tragic event – only reinforces a fear of this uncertainty.It is up to Obama to restore some certainty and help reduce those public fears. He can show better leadership by seeking the strongest energy bill possible.His attempt to display more control over the oil spill should go hand in hand with more political arm-twisting in the Senate.

Obama, shredding the good guys, adoring and promoting the bad
By Laurie roth JUNE 15,10

Where do I begin? So much slaughter…..so little time. Obama has betrayed our allies and violated our national security throughout his first two years. Firstly, he built the perfect environment for international mocking and challenge against America by continuing to apologize for us and our decisions overseas and at home. His pathetic misrepresentations, all but spoon fed the enemies of America with power and hope. Islamic radicals must adore him. He plays right into their hands. Gee, it makes you wonder if he is reading the Koran instead of the Holy Bible. HmmmmmmAs Obama has been destroying our reputation and winning I’m sorry contests around the world, he made sure he has aligned himself with thugs, tyrants, and communists and anti American radicals. His list of radical,Rules for Radicals czars reflect this perfectly. He hasn’t even been shy or hidden about befriending Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro brothers. Other friends seem to be Amidinajad in Iran, who he says has the right to go nuclear, Hamas leadership, who he gave 900,000,000 to, and Manual Zelaya, who he demanded must be put back in leadership in Honduras, even though he was an obvious crook and sham.

More confusion with the good and bad

Obama and Nepolitano were quick to not only minimize and rename the war on terror to overseas contingency operations(a completely meaningless name) but to redefine the real and growing terror as American citizens. We all know by now the famous Homeland security report that accidentally made its way to the public identifying pro lifers, advocates for second amendment rights, sovereignty and returning Vets as potential domestic terrorists. Naturally, that word terrorist isn’t supposed to be used for Islamics we are at war with but easily can attach to you and I, law abiding, U.S. citizens.The rant against our own has continued mightily with Obama not only turning publicly on Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, when she signed SB 1070 into law, but making sure much of the corrupt and meddling world was involved with the witch hunt and slander against a Governor and state he represents.Obama invited Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon to the white house. We all remember how Calderon and Obama stood on the White House lawn and by a Joint Session of Congress to mock and shred Jan Brewer and Arizona for this absurd and racist law.His other friends from hell, Chavez, Ortega and the lovely Castro brothers chimed in to viciously criticize the law as well.Obama even apologized to China for the Arizona law.

Other compromises and confusion

Obama violated our national security by signing an absurd nuclear treaty with Russia. Obama called said he hoped it would stop the drift and was just one step on a longer journey. The bottom line is that he committed that the U.S. would not develop more weapons, downsize and refuse to respond in kind if attacked with a WMD.No one in America wants a Nuclear war or disaster but we have had some comfort with real and aggressive evil in the world that we can use these weapons if we had to as we did in WW11 with Japan. It was ugly then. It was tragic BUT IT WAS A MUST. JAPAN WOULD STOP AT NOTHING, SO AFTER WARNING THEIR CITIES, TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE WITH ENDLESS FLYERS WE DROPPED THE BOMBS. IT STOPPED THE WAR AND MASSIVE KILLINGS OF AMERICANS.With a President who calls our ongoing war with Islamic fundamentalists an overseas contingency operation is it any wonder he plans to shred our nuclear arsenal and ability to respond if need be? Could it be our President is dyslexic, where everything is back to front? Sadly, I don’t think it is a mental problem but instead a big government, fascist, controlling view of his power and agenda. He must create fans and enemies to destroy to stay in power.Your time is almost up in the White House Obama. The mid terms are coming for starters. The masses have awakened and unlike you, most of us remember the difference between right and wrong, American interests and foreign meddling and good and evil.

Economic governance By Honor Mahony JUNE 11,10

There is a certain lack of clarity at the moment about what is meant by EU economic governance.Or to be more precise, everyone seems to know what France’s Nicolas Sarkozy would like. And it is relatively clear what Germany does not want. Beyond that, the lines remain unclear even though the phrase is bandied about freely.In brief, Paris has indicated it would like regular summits of eurozone countries, plus some permanent structures including a secretariat. A more politicised running of the 16 countries with the single currency.Berlin, mindful of the ECB’s independence, would rather keep all 27 member states involved. But an equally pressing concern is to ensure that the Greek situation is never allowed to happen again.This entails revising the euro rules to include greater prevention measures, surveillance and sanctions.So is this the basis of a forthcoming Franco-German compromise? The one in return for the other. Some seem to think so.Casting a somewhat jaded eye over the putative economic governance landscape, one veteran EU diplomat noted:My prediction would be that somewhere down the line, there is going to be one of these grand Franco-German compromises, in which you probably get agreement on tougher sanctions and agreement on new permanent structures and a declaration that France and Germany together have saved Europe.

Whatever about exactly what Chancellor Angela Merkel wants, practicalities may play into Sarkozy’s hand.The last eurozone summit, on Friday 7 May, was by all accounts a rather chaotic affair. The leaders were unprepared and met late into the night. Policy and decisions – including to tell finance ministers to sign off what by Sunday had become the massive 750 billion euro EU-IMF aid mechanism – were made on an ad hoc basis.After the meeting there was much muttering about how it was not the right way to be dealing with affairs of this scale. And making the relatively safe assumption the need for eurozone leader meetings will continue, a solution a la sarkozy could see a secretariat that would prepare policy papers and forecasts for such gatherings. This, presumably, would lend a more informed and less panicked atmosphere to the talks.But if such a Franco-German plan is in the offing – and both sides are keen to their economic governance view prevail – they will have to work a little on their PR.While some outside the single currency are worried about an economic governance elite (or eurozone council as Sarkozy is wont to have it) several eurozone member states are also reportedly getting irritated by eurozone policy being thrashed out by Paris and Berlin.Although to be fair, I am not sure where we would be if France and Germany were not taking some sort of initiative, even if late, reactive and quarreled over.

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 TUE JUNE 15,2010

09:30 AM +2.42
10:00 AM +92.28
10:30 AM +98.33
11:00 AM +105.73
11:30 AM +102.60
12:00 PM +123.34
12:30 PM +125.99
01:00 PM +120.32
01:30 PM +141.44
02:00 PM +150.77
02:30 PM +181.68
03:00 PM +174.16
03:30 PM +188.49
04:00 PM +213.88 10,404.77

S&P 500 1115.23 +25.60

NASDAQ 2305.88 +61.92

GOLD 1,238.50 +13.60

OIL 77.08 +1.99

TSE 300 11,907.50 +240.20

CDNX 1461.51 +8.73

S&P/TSX/60 700.56 +15.51

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +75 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -1 points at low today.
Dow +107 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,227.40.OIL opens at $75.89 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -1 points at low today so far.
Dow +215 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -1 points at low today.
Dow +215 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,254.20 (NOT AT CLOSE)

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.

At least 42 dead in Bangladesh floods, landslide by Muazzem Shakil - JUNE 15,10

COX'S BAZAAR, Bangladesh (AFP) – At least 42 people have been killed by landslides and flash floods in southern Bangladesh and dozens more are missing, police and local officials said Tuesday.The country's flood warning centre said that most of the country's southeast had experienced heavy rainfall during the past 24 hours, with 24.2 centimetres (9.5 inches) falling in many areas.In the worst affected area of Teknaf -- which is on the border with Myanmar and home to tens of thousands of ethnic Rohingya refugees -- at least 25 people were killed and six missing, local official A.N.M Nazim Uddin told AFP.All the roads are under water. We can't reach areas where thousands of people are trapped by the floods, he said by phone.Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in makeshift camps on the hills around Teknaf have been affected by the floods,he added.At least 13 people, including six soldiers, have also died in the southern resort area of Cox's Bazaar, local police chief Nibhas Chandra Majhi told AFP.We could not start rescue efforts yet as landslides triggered by the rains have clogged up the main highways, he said, adding that rescue workers expected the death toll to rise.

And the rain is still pouring down.A further four people -- all members of the same family -- were killed by a landslide in the remote Ghumdhum area, in the Bandarban hill district, local police chief Kamrul Ahsan told AFP.Weather officials have forecast further rains in the areas due to a major depression in the neighbouring Bay of Bengal.Landslides triggered by heavy rains are common in Bangladesh's southeastern hill districts where thousands of poor people live on deforested hill slopes, ignoring government warnings about the risk of natural disasters.The country has more than 200 rivers and is prone to severe flooding. It is the world's most densely populated country with over 1,000 people per square kilometre, but also one of the poorest.Forty percent of the population live below the poverty line.In 2007, more than 130 people died when their shanties were swamped by one of the heaviest landslides in the country's history.

Okla. flooding leads to dramatic rescues By Tim Talley, Associated Press Writer – JUNE 15,10

OKLAHOMA CITY – Record-busting rainfall in Oklahoma led to a day of dramatic rescues from swift floodwaters, but officials and residents acknowledged the outcome could have been far worse.No one had to be hospitalized Monday, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health. There was just one unconfirmed report of a death, in Lawton on Monday night. Stranded motorists climbed trees and waited for rescuers, including one crew whose boat sank and had to be saved themselves.We were lucky to get the people out of the high-water areas, said Oklahoma City Fire Department Battalion Chief Tommy Iago.The places we couldn't walk them out, we used boats.Fire officials in Oklahoma City and the nearby suburb of Edmond launched more than 60 swift-water rescues after a barrage of thunderstorms dumped as much as 10 inches of rain in some areas in a matter of hours. More rain fell Monday night, and the National Weather Service said the 7.62 inches at Will Rogers International Airport in Oklahoma City topped the previous record of 7.53 inches set on Sept. 22, 1970.

Cynthia Banister said fire crews had to rescue a man clinging to a tree near her Edmond home after water topped his SUV.We're very thankful. Just think of what happened in Arkansas recently, Banister said, referring to flash flooding that killed 20 people at a campground.It could have been much worse.One boat carrying rescuers in Oklahoma City sank just as it reached a 17-year-old girl, forcing the firefighters to take to treetops and await help themselves.This is the first time I've encountered anything close to this, fire Lt. Joe Smith said. It didn't feel very good. I like to be in control of the action.The heaviest rainfall was reported across sections of northern Oklahoma City, forcing the closure of some roads and interstates. The torrential downpour sent creeks and rivers over their banks, and the raging currents ripped asphalt from roadways and blew manhole covers from pipes.

KSWO-TV in Lawton reported on its website that witnesses told police a taxi driver drowned Monday night while trying to push his car out of high water. Police and sheriff's department dispatchers would not confirm the death, and a spokesman for Comanche County — about 80 miles southwest of Oklahoma City — did not return a call.

Betty Diehl was house-sitting at her daughter's home in Oklahoma City when a river of water came down the road.The street was rolling, Diehl said.I watched it out the window. I said, You could take a boat out there.Diehl said her daughter's home, like others in the neighborhood, has suffered through several severe weather events in the last six months — a December blizzard, a May hailstorm and now flooding.We've had our share — from ice to hail and now to river, Diehl said. In spite of everything, she said, We were lucky.Fire crews braced for more problems Tuesday, with the forecast calling for more scattered showers.The ground is saturated enough, Iago said.Who knows how much more it can take.The National Weather Service issued a flood watch through 7 a.m. Tuesday for all but far northwest parts of Oklahoma.
Associated Press Writer Sean Murphy contributed to this report.

System at sea could form first Atlantic tropical storm
Mon Jun 14, 2:24 pm ET

MIAMI (AFP) – A low-pressure area forming over the Atlantic could become the first tropical storm of the season, the National Hurricane Center warned Monday.There remains a high chance, 60 percent, of this system becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours, the center said in a statement, as officials anxiously eye weather reports.A major storm could push oil-tainted water from the Gulf of Mexico spill further ashore or into new states, and bring more misery to earthquake-ravaged Haiti where hundreds of thousands still live in precarious conditions.If it becomes a named system, the storm will be dubbed Alex, the hurricane center said.Forecasters have predicted a rougher-than-average 2010 hurricane season.Last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast an active to extremely active hurricane season, saying there could be 14 to 23 named storms, including eight to 14 hurricanes, three to seven of which were likely to be major storms, packing winds of at least 111 mph.This is compared to an average six-month season of 11 named storms, six of which become hurricanes, two of them major.If this outlook holds true, this season could be one of the more active on record, NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco said in May.The greater likelihood of storms brings an increased risk of a landfall. In short, we urge everyone to be prepared,she said.

Millions of gallons of oil from the leaking BP-operated well are sloshing around in the Gulf of Mexico, and are already contaminating southern US shorelines and ecologically sensitive marshlands.And in mountainous Haiti, where floodwaters often trigger mudslides and havoc, hundreds of thousands of people are still living in makeshift camps more than five months after the devastating January 12 quake.

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.

5.7 quake rattles nerves in border region By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 15,10

SAN DIEGO – The U.S.-Mexico border was rocked by a magnitude-5.7 earthquake Monday night, rattling nerves in a region still recovering from the deadly Easter jolt.The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered five miles southeast of Ocotillo in Imperial County — about 85 miles east of San Diego. It struck Monday at 9:26 p.m. PDT.The quake was an aftershock of the deadly Easter Sunday magnitude-7.2 quake that shook Baja California and Southern California, said Egill Hauksson, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He said the epicenter of Monday's quake occurred in the same zone of the quake in April.Aftershocks can go on for months and years, he said.Thousands of aftershocks have occurred since the Easter earthquake. More than 100 aftershocks were recorded immediately following Monday's 5.7 quake, with the largest measuring at magnitude-4.5.A 5.7-magnitude earthquake could break windows, it could throw things on the floor, it could create cracks on the wall, but we don't expect things to collapse,Hauksson said.San Diego County Office of Emergency Services had no reports of significant damage. Louis Fuentes, chairman of the Imperial County board of supervisors, also said he had no immediate reports of damage.As soon as it hit, my wife said, Grab the baby.My daughter ran out to the back yard, said Fuentes, who was in his garage in Calexico, about 30 miles east of the epicenter.It thumped really hard.Fuentes said his chandeliers swayed at his home and metal objects banged but nothing fell off the shelves. Imperial County suffered significant damage in April's Easter Sunday quake.

All the lamps, the liquor bottles and the TV hanging from the ceiling shook, but nothing dropped,said Marina Garcia, an employee at the Burgers and Beer restaurant in El Centro, about 30 miles east of Ocotillo.The quake was felt as a gentle rolling motion in the Los Angeles area.San Diego's Petco Park swayed during the quake, causing a momentary pause at the Toronto Blue Jays-San Diego Padres game. The public address announcer asked that everyone remain calm. The crowd cheered.David Eckstein of the Padres had just grounded out in the bottom of the inning when the stadium began shaking. The next batter, Chase Headley, stayed out of the batter's box for a few seconds, then stepped in.San Diego County sheriff's dispatch supervisor Becky Strahm said some of her colleagues reported things falling off their shelves, but there were no immediate reports of significant damage or injury.The quake followed a series of temblors that struck Southern California over the weekend, including a pair of moderate earthquakes that rattled a desert area east of San Diego. Residents in downtown San Diego felt the ground rumbling during at least one of the Saturday quakes.Associated Press Sports Writer Bernie Wilson in San Diego and Associated Press writers Alicia Chang, Daisy Nguyen and Denise Petski in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

Oil nears $76 as investors eye US demand By NATALIYA VASILYEVA, AP Business Writer - JUNE 15,10

MOSCOW – Oil prices rose to near $76 a barrel Tuesday as investors' focus on an expected drop in U.S. oil supplies offset news of a Greek debt downgrade.Benchmark crude for July delivery jumped 81 cents to $75.93 a barrel late morning London time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.34 to settle at $75.12 on Monday.Oil prices have traded in a $70 to $80 range so far this month after dropping from $87 to $64 last month amid fears Europe's debt crisis could hurt global economic growth. On Monday, credit rating agency Moody's lowered its rating on Greece's debt to junk status.The negative impact of such news on the market is evidently fading, Commerzbank said in a note to investors. On the other hand, reports of this kind are likely to prevent a further rally of oil prices.Stock markets across Europe and Asia were mixed Tuesday morning in Europe and could provide little guidance for oil prices.Oil traders have instead taken heart in recent weeks from a fall in U.S. crude inventories, which suggests demand is improving.Analysts expect another drop of 1.8 million barrels, according to a survey by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., when the American Petroleum Institute announces its weekly supply data late Tuesday and the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration releases its report on Wednesday.Some analysts expect the growth in oil demand in developed countries to catch up with burgeoning consumption in developing countries and push prices higher.We expect prices to eventually move back above $80 supported by the strong growth momentum in demand,Barclays Capital said in a report.Despite price movements being at the mercy of macroeconomic jitters lately, $70 has emerged as a strong floor and with good reason.In other Nymex trading in July contracts, heating oil was up 0.19 cent to $2.0453 a gallon and gasoline added 0.1 cent to $2.0870 a gallon. Natural gas was up 3.7 cents at $5.043 per 1,000 cubic feet.Brent crude was up $1.10 to $76.04 a barrel on the ICE futures exchange.Associated Press Writer Alex Kennedy contributed to this report from Singapore.

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3

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)

SKorea: North raised readiness, no activity seen By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 15,10

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea has raised its military readiness though no signs of fresh provocation were visible amid high tensions after the South blamed it for a deadly warship attack, the South's defense chief said Tuesday.The U.N. Security Council said late Monday it is gravely concerned the ship sinking could endanger peace on the peninsula and urged both Koreas to refrain from any provocative acts. A statement was issued after the council listened to separate presentations from each side, with Seoul seeking U.N. action to punish Pyongyang.Both Koreas have exchanged harsh rhetoric and bolstered their military readiness, but Seoul officials have said it is unlikely renewed tension would lead to all-out war.Now, North Korea is maintaining a considerably strengthened vigilance posture and as you know it's been issuing many threats and statements through various channels,South Korean Defense Minster Kim Tae-young told the National Assembly on Tuesday.But there have been no serious military activities at the border and in rear areas.South Korea has taken punitive measures against North Korea after the warship Cheonan was sunk by a torpedo attack in March, killing 46 sailors. North Korea flatly denies the allegation and has warned any retaliation would trigger war, with its military threatening Saturday to turn Seoul into a sea of flame.Kim said South Korea is closely watching North Korea's military because it may engage in provocative acts at anytime.At the U.N. Security Council meeting, South Korea made a 23-minute presentation and showed a video on the findings it reached with U.S., British and other foreign investigators.

North Korea repeated its stance that it had nothing to do with the sinking.We are just a victim,North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador Pak Tok Hun told reporters before heading into his closed-door meeting with the council.So we'd like to make our position clear here.U.N. diplomats familiar with contacts on possible council action said China, the North's closest ally, is opposed to a third round of sanctions against Pyongyang and indicated the more likely result will be a presidential statement. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because the contacts have been private.A presidential statement is considered a weaker form of rebuke than the imposition of sanctions.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak renewed calls Tuesday for international action to get North Korea to acknowledge and apologize for the ship sinking, according to the presidential office.The two Koreas are still technically at war because their 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The sinking occurred near the tense Korean sea border — a scene of three bloody maritime battles.Associated Press Writer Edith M. Lederer contributed to this report from the United Nations.

SKorea holds civil defense drill amid tension By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 15,10

SEOUL, South Korea – Air raid sirens blared as hundreds of thousands of South Koreans donned gas masks Tuesday in a nationwide civil defense drill, as Seoul's defense chief said North Korea has bolstered its military readiness amid tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship.Although both Koreas have exchanged harsh rhetoric and increased their military vigilance in recent weeks, Seoul officials have said it is unlikely renewed tension would lead to all-out war.The defense drill was the first on a nationwide scale for possible chemical, biological and radiological attacks since 1989, the National Emergency Management Agency said. It said the exercise was resumed in the aftermath of the ship sinking in March that South Korea blamed on North Korea.Now, North Korea is maintaining a considerably strengthened vigilance posture and as you know it's been issuing many threats and statements through various channels,South Korean Defense Minster Kim Tae-young told the National Assembly on Tuesday.But there have been no serious military activities at the border and in rear areas.The U.N. Security Council said late Monday it is gravely concerned the ship sinking could endanger peace on the peninsula and urged both Koreas to refrain from any provocative acts. A statement was issued after the council listened to separate presentations from each side, with Seoul seeking U.N. action to punish Pyongyang.

South Korea has taken punitive measures against North Korea, including trade restrictions, after the warship Cheonan was sunk by a torpedo attack in March, killing 46 sailors. North Korea flatly denies its involvement and has warned any retaliation would trigger war, with its military threatening Saturday to turn Seoul into a sea of flame.Kim said South Korea was closely watching North Korea's military because it may engage in provocative acts anytime.At the U.N. Security Council meeting, South Korea made a 23-minute presentation and showed a video on the findings it reached with U.S., British and other foreign investigators.North Korea repeated its stance that it had nothing to do with the sinking.We are just a victim, North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador Pak Tok Hun told reporters before heading into his closed-door meeting with the council.So we'd like to make our position clear here.U.N. diplomats familiar with contacts on possible council action said China, the North's closest ally, is opposed to a third round of sanctions against Pyongyang and indicated the more likely result will be a presidential statement. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because the contacts have been private.A presidential statement is considered a weaker form of rebuke than the imposition of sanctions.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak renewed calls Tuesday for international action to get North Korea to acknowledge and apologize for the ship sinking, according to the presidential office.The two Koreas are still technically at war because their 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The sinking occurred near the tense Korean sea border — a scene of three bloody maritime battles.Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer contributed to this report from the United Nations.

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

EU stays quiet on Gaza flotilla enquiry
ANDREW RETTMAN Today JUNE 15,10 @ 09:29 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Diplomatic sources have said the EU plans to wait and see how Israel's enquiry into the Gaza flotilla killings is conducted before taking a firm stand on its legitimacy.There was no willingness to approve it or to explicitly disapprove it, an EU diplomat told this website following a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday (14 June). Since it was not possible to agree on a judgement, we can always reserve our position and see how it functions in practice. It's a similar situation to the Goldstone enquiry. In the beginning we had our reservations. But in the end it did a good job,the contact added, referring to a recent UN report which accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza in 2009.UK foreign minister William Hague called Israel's proposal a step forward.French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said only that it should be conducted by experienced men.

I still want to look at the detail of how the enquiry is going to be undertaken,EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton said after the Luxembourg meeting.Will it come up with a credible response which will enable us to see what happened that day?
Israel late on Sunday said it will hold an internal probe into its attack on the Mavi Marmara ship on 31 May, which saw commandos shoot dead nine Turkish citizens, some at point blank range.The UN's envoy to the Middle East, former UK leader Tony Blair, negotiated the participation of David Trimble, an Israeli-friendly Northern Ireland politician, as an observer in the investigation. A Canadian jurist, himself implicated in a cover-up of torture in Afghan jails, is to be a second observer.
Turkey and the Palestinian Authority have already rejected the probe. We have no trust at all that Israel ...will conduct an impartial investigation,Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.It cannot be considered impartial or independent, Leila Shahid, the Palestinian Authority's envoy to the EU, told EUobserver.The UN security council has requested an international enquiry with Israeli participation.

Ms Shahid added that the timing of Israel's announcement, on the eve of the Luxembourg meeting, was designed to put the EU on the back foot by not giving ministers enough time to formulate a response. But EU contacts rejected the theory, saying Israel is more interested in US backing than any EU endorsement.On the underlying subject of getting aid into Gaza, Mr Blair, who attended the Luxembourg event, predicted that Israel will in the next few days agree in principle to drop its list of just 116 types of items which are allowed into the strip and move instead to a blacklist of forbidden goods.The EU is keen for Israel to re-open all crossings into Gaza - including access points such as the Kerem Shalom Gaza-Israel crossing, which is equipped to handle large scale imports and exports - under the control of EU monitors. Ministers on Monday decided to leave the details of the crossing point initiative until their next gathering in July amid ongoing negotiations with Israel, however.It all depends how much the Israelis are willing to give and we haven't had any positive signals from them yet. You can wish for the moon, but if the Israeli side doesn't agree, you won't get it,the EU diplomatic source said.

EU and US seal agreement on bank data transfers
VALENTINA POP Today JUNE 15,10 @ 07:06 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU commission has finalised a draft agreement on transferring European banking data to the US as part of anti-terrorist investigations. Home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom is today (15 June) set to present the draft agreement in Strasbourg, after gaining approval of the other commissioners. The text, which has been published by StateWatch, a civil liberties watchdog, will be then forwarded to the Council of ministers and the European Parliament for its consent.An earlier interim deal was rejected in February by the EU legislature, due to data privacy concerns and inter-institutional power struggling. It strained EU-US relations but put the Parliament's newly acquired powers centre-stage.This time around, the Swedish commissioner believes the provisions have been significantly altered and will gather the support of euro-deputies. They may approve the agreement in July.As outlined last week by Ms Malmstrom in anticipation of the final deal, the text says that all data sent to the US has to be based on an anti-terrorist investigation and that no random scanning, profiling or data mining will be allowed.The transferred data will include a whole range of personal information on the initiator and recipient of a transaction, such as name, address and national identification number.

The agreement provides the right of rectification, erasure and blocking of wrong data, along with administrative and judicial redress. The latter has been a constant sticking point for MEPs.Several layers of independent auditors are set to scrutinise the respect of all data privacy provisions. Similar reports by an EU-appointed auditor last year failed to convince MEPs, however.As was the case in the past, the US pledges to send any leads on terrorism finance to police authorities in the member states concerned, as well as the bloc's police agency Europol and the justice co-operation body Eurojust.A novelty of the draft agreement is the provision that Europol will verify all data requests from the US department of treasury – the entity where the Terrorism Finance Tracking Programme is based. It was set up in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and seriously strained transatlantic relations in 2006 when it emerged that it was tapping a secret US-based database of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), the main company facilitating and keeping track of international transactions.Following the scandal, the Belgium-based company decided to reconfigure its database structure so that European transactions were no longer mirrored in the US. The change occurred on 1 January, which justified the rush to vote in an interim agreement in February, so as to avoid a security gap.

Merkel: Spain can access aid if needed-ANDREW WILLIS
Today JUNE 15,10 @ 09:27 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said eurozone states including Spain are free to call on the bloc's rescue fund whenever needed.Speaking after a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Berlin on Monday evening (14 June), during which French plans for a eurozone economic government appear to have been dropped, the German leader refused to comment on whether a Spanish bail-out application was imminent, however. If there should be problems, and we shouldn't talk them up, the mechanism can be activated at any time,Ms Merkel said.Spain and any other country knows that they can make use of this mechanism if necessary.

Several leading German newspapers have recently suggested that EU and member state officials are quietly preparing to release funds to Madrid from the euro area's €750 billion rescue mechanism that was agreed last month. Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, together with a string of national politicians, strongly denied this was the case on Monday. Spain's economy is currently suffering from a struggling banking sector, an imploded property market, a ballooning budget deficit (currently at around 11.2 percent of GDP) and 20 percent unemployment, rising to 40 percent among young people. Unions have indicated they will hold a general strike in September as the Socialist government prepares to push ahead with a package of public spending cuts and labour market reforms, designed to contain the deficit and kickstart the economy. Several economists have pointed to Spain's rigid labour laws as dissuading companies from making investments.The moves have seen an end to six years of union support for Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, with syndicate leaders on Monday reiterating their concerns over planned changes that will make it easier to hire and fire workers. The country's banks are also suffering from a severe credit squeeze, a point noted by Spanish treasury secretary Carlos Ocana. Obviously we do need for the markets to loosen, Mr Ocana said on Monday, in one of the first government public recognitions of the problem. Burdened with millions of euros worth of bad loans after the country's property bubble burst in 2008, Spanish banks have increasingly struggled to borrow on the inter-bank lending market, an important source of short-term liquidity. As a result the European Central Bank has been forced to make record loans to the country's financial institutions, as other borrowing sources dry up.

Eurozone economic government

The meeting between Ms Merkel and Mr Sarkozy also saw the French leader drop recent requests for regular meetings of eurozone leaders and the creation of a new secretariat designed to underpin the initiative.The change of heart amounts to something of a victory for Ms Merkel, who has previously indicated her preference for economic decision-taking by all 27 EU states instead of the 16 euro area countries alone. Mr Sarkozy also said he now supports Germany's proposal for a suspension of voting rights of EU members which are in serious breach of the bloc's budgetary rules. Like Madame Merkel, I am convinced that the solution to Europe's problems does not lie in the creation of new institutions,he told the Berlin news conference, adding that eurozone leaders would still hold operational, pragmatic, rapid meetings if the need arose.Poland recently indicated it was opposed to the idea of regular eurozone leaders' meetings, fearing that it could relegate non-eurozone states to a second league in a divided EU. Spain and Italy had supported the French proposal. France came up with the term economic government,and I embraced it gladly,Ms Merkel told journalists.But in order to say, yes please, with all 27, so that we have no split in the common market.

EU to ban investments in Iranian gas and oil
VALENTINA POP Today JUNE 15,10 @ 09:29 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Monday (14 June) agreed on a fresh batch of sanctions against Iran aimed at halting its nuclear program, with the new measures to target the country's massive oil and gas industry.

The new sanctions are pending the approval of EU leaders meeting on Thursday in Brussels during a mainly EU economy-oriented summit.They come as accompanying and supporting measures to the United Nations' sanctions agreed last week in New York, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a press conference. Ms Ashton added that the door for dialogue remains open and that has she written to Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, inviting him to resume negotiations on behalf of Germany and the five UN Security Council permanent members - the United States Russia, China, Britain, France.I stand ready to meet with the Iranians if they are willing to discuss the key issue, the nuclear issue, she said after Monday's meeting.

Under the envisaged deal, Iranian banking and financial services will be banned from selling their products in the EU. Member states will also move to freeze EU-based bank accounts belonging to members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, while Irisil, an Iranian shipping company, will be barred from operating in EU waters. EU companies will also have to take a toll from the proposed sanctions, as they will be prohibited to invest in or offer technical assistance and technology transfers to Iran's oil and gas industry.Iran is OPEC's second largest oil exporter and has the world's second-largest reserves of natural gas. European companies such as Gas de France or Austria's OMV have in the past years signed various memoranda of understanding for developing the country's gas fields, but were in the end forced to pull out. OMV has also pushed for Iran to be considered as a source for the EU-backed Nabucco gas pipeline via Turkey. Discussions on Monday afternoon were difficult, as some foreign ministers, notably France's Bernard Kouchner, insisted that the sanctions should not harm the country's population. Sweden's Carl Bildt also said that sanctions alone cannot solve the problem of Iran's nuclear program.

Most ministers in the end supported the shift to tougher sanctions, however. I think Europe can toughen sanctions for oil and gas technologies, visa regime and for products which can be used both for military and civilian purposes,Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini was quoted as saying by Austrian press agency APA.Germany's Guido Westerwelle, whose country's exports to Iran reached €3.7 billion last year, also backed the sanctions as an important signal of determination, although he was reportedly more reluctant to support the oil and gas-related measures. The UN has already imposed several sets of sanctions against Tehran, the last one authorising high-seas inspections of vessels believed to be ferrying banned items to Iran and adding 40 entities to a list of people and groups subject to travel restrictions and financial sanctions.The Iranian government says its nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes, but Western powers suspect it is trying to develop the bomb. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week called the UN Security Council a tool of dictatorship and warned that new sanctions will have no effect.