EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind,(WORLD SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he 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:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (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.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: 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 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
DANIEL ESTULIN ON WORLD GOVERNMENT-WORLD REGIONS JULY 8,10 SHOW
http://messiahsbranch.org/radio_archives.htm
I GUESS THIS IS HOW THE EU WILL GET WORLD POWER THROUGH THE UN AND THEN FORCE THE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY DOWN ISRAELS THROAT BY A GUARENTEED SECURE TREATY FOR LAND.AND THE VATICAN MUST BE HEAVILY INVOLVED TO SO WATCH THE POPE GET HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THE ISRAEL / PALESTINAN SITUATION TO.THEN IN THE FUTURE WHEN THE EU IS THE STRONGEST UN MEMBER,WHEN THE UN FOLDS THE EU HAS PUT THE WORLD IN 10 REGIONAL BLOCS AND CONTROLS THE WORLDWIDE ECONOMIES OF THE WORLD.
MAX KEISER REPORT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQZFX-Xw5fA&feature=player_embedded
JOHN LOEFFLER
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2010/07/john-leoffler-steel-on-steel-christian.html#links
The EU’s monstrous UN power grab
By Nile Gardiner JULY 17,10
As Bruno Waterfield reported earlier, the European Union is moving significantly closer to acquiring the powers of a fully fledged nation state in the United Nations General Assembly. As Waterfield notes:The proposals, following the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty and an increase in foreign policy power, will mean that Europe’s desk will be moved from the margins, where it sits with organisations such as Nato’s parliamentary body, near to the centre of the UN’s assembly chamber.Baroness Ashton, the EU foreign minister or High Representative, will be given a special seat alongside a new European UN ambassador with the right to speak in a timely manner, the right of reply, the right to circulate documents, the right to make proposals and submit amendments (and) the right to raise points of order.This is without doubt the biggest EU power grab since the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty, and combined with the formation of the EU diplomatic corps (European External Action Service, as it is officially known) represents a further giant step towards the building of a European superstate at the expense of the nation state. These developments should be of immense concern to anyone who cares about the erosion of British sovereignty within Europe and maintaining an independent foreign policy.
As Daniel Hannan wrote earlier this week, the EEAS has a budget 20 times the size of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with 7,000 staff in 130 embassies. Incredibly, the House of Commons voted on Wednesday by 321 to 12 to approve the European External Action Service, despite a firm rejection of key aspects of the Lisbon Treaty when the Conservatives were in opposition.Full credit to Douglas Carswell, one of the few MPs who voted against the Bill. Carswell is not only extremely sound on Europe, but one of the bravest and most principled backbenchers of his parliamentary generation. Here is what he wrote on his blog:Yesterday, I voted against the government. Or to put it another way, I voted against the creation of the European External Action Service that the government bizarrely now supports. Not merely have senior Conservatives dropped their opposition to it, but coalition ministers apparently played a decisive role in making sure that the new EU foreign office got off the ground. How can it possibly be right for us to go along with the formal establishment of a European diplomatic corp? If one is a rebel for opposing this sort of nonsense, then we make rebels of our party, our country and our consciences.No doubt Foreign Office officials will be selling these measures as inconsequential and of no threat to British interests. But they are a fundamental threat, and their long-term impact will be hugely negative for the freedom of the British people to shape their own destiny on the world stage. They are large steps towards the relentless goal of ever closer union craved by Brussels bureaucrats who dream of a European superpower, albeit toothless in military terms, and devoid of any semblance of economic growth or stability.The march towards an EU seat at the United Nations as well as an EU UN Ambassador may ultimately spell the end of Britain’s seat on the UN Security Council. By agreeing to these proposals, London is playing with fire, with declining British influence and power the inevitable end result.
My former boss Lady Thatcher wrote in her brilliant book Statecraft:
That such an unnecessary and irrational project as building a European superstate was ever embarked upon will seem in future years to be perhaps the greatest folly of the modern era.It is advice that should be heeded and acted upon by the new British government if it is serious about preventing any further powers from being handed to Brussels, and blocking the rise of a federal Europe.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
P-19 POISON OIL DISASTER
PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
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.
LIVE BP OIL FEED
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=2&openAIR=true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
OBAMA ON OIL SPILL-VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference
PART 1-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html
PART 2-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/p-2-oil-slick-news-nay-29.html
PART 3-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-3-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 4-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p4-oil-spill-news.html
PART 5-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-5-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 6-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-6-oil-remembering-dead-from-rig.html
PART 7-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-7-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 8-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-8-oil-spill-update-news.html
PART 9-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-9-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 10-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-10-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 11-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-11-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 12-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-12-oil-spill-news.html
PART 13-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-13-oil-spill-update.html
PART 14-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/pestilences-chemical-and-biological.html
PART 15-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-15-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 16-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-16-poison-disaster-scheme.html
PART 17-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-17-poison-disaster-news-setup-spill.html
PART 18-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-18-poison-disaster-update.html
FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1219
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1227
JONES ON BP FALSE FLAG TO GET CAP & TAX SCAM THROUGH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNW0lkjTxAQ&feature=player_embedded
GRANT JEFFREY ON WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND THE ENVIROMENTAL RELIGION CULT SCAM OF GLOBAL WARMING UNDER FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH SCAM.CARBON TAX,INVISIBLE SKY HOOKS AND INVISIBLE SMOKE SCAM.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1279
WW3 COMING TOGETHER-GRANT JEFFREY-RUSSIA WANTS OIL CONTOL DOMINATION.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1369
HOLLY SWANSON ON OBAMA CAP & TRADE SCAM-ENVIROMENTALS DICTATORSHIP JUNE 21,10 HR 1
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/june-2010/
OIL SLICK REACHES FLORIDA
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4250674/oil-slick-reaches-florida?playlist_id=86856
WHAT COULD HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THIS OIL SPILL-LAST 30 MINUTES OF SHOW
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2353
http://ruvysroost.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
OIL SPILL IRAN CONNECTION-ALL MUT LISTEN
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2357
TOXIC WATER AT SPILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrbqBEGxiw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq65E7rmO_k&feature=player_embedded
NUKE THE WELL CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1539178724&play=1
OIL RAIN POISON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlC9W8EqRUQ
http://www.jokeroo.com/videos/extreme/oil-rain-lousiana.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZnDYsnRP0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8co1d4zb4&feature=player_embedded
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK-ENVIROMENT-DISASTER STAGED BANKERS=WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6642758020554799808#
OBAMA NEEDS TERRORIST ATTACK TO SAVE ADMINISTRATION-STAGED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22-CIxjm5-Y&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuL9SNdaSqc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xFXy0apNuQ&feature=player_embedded
ITS DAY 87 OF THE POISON DISASTER THURSDAY JULY 15,10 AND THE STAGED EVENT GOES ON.NEW LEAKS,NEW PROBLEMS BUT IN 5 MONTHS WE WILL STOP IT SO NO MORE POISON KILLS ANIMALS AND PEOPLE,MY THOUGHT ONLY.
THE WORLD AS OF 3:30PM HAS JUST BROUGHT WORLD PEACE.THEY CLAIM THE OIL POISON DISASTER IS OVER.GOLDMAN SACHS NUMBERS ARE UP & DOWN.THE FINANCIAL REGULATIONS PASSED,BANKS CAN PILLAGE THE PEOPLE FREELY NOW.IS ALL THIS SUDDEN WORLD PEACE TO COVERUP FOR GOOGLE WHO FELL SHORT ON ITS NUMBERS AND THAT GOLDMAN SACHS GETS A SLAP ON THE WRIST FINE OF $550 MILLION DOLLARS FOR FRAUD AND J.P MORGAN MISSED THEIR MARK.ITS 4:25PM JULY 15,2010.
ITS DAY 88 OF THE POISON DISASTER FRI JULY 16,2010.SEE WHAT GUSHES FROM BP AND OBAMAS PIPES TODAY.
ITS DAY 89 OF THE POISON DISASTER SAT JULY 17,10.SEE IF THE CAP HOLDS.
BP, scientists try to make sense of well puzzle HARRY R. WEBER and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press Writers - JULY 17,10 8:05 AM
NEW ORLEANS – Engineers kept vigil Saturday over the massive cap holding back oil from BP's busted Gulf well, their eyes glued to monitors in a faraway control room that displayed pressure readings, temperature gauges and underwater images.Their round-the-clock work deciphering a puzzle of data from undersea robots and instruments at the wellhead is helping BP and the government determine whether the cap is holding tight as the end of a critical 48-hour testing window approaches. Signs so far have been promising but inconclusive.Saturday afternoon will mark two full days since BP stopped the oil from leaking into the Gulf and entered into the pressure-testing phase. At that point engineers could offer more definitive evidence that the cap is working, or call for more testing. At any time before then, they could also reopen the cap and allow some oil to spill into the sea again. Scientists are watching for leaks either in the well itself or the sea floor.Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said on an evening conference call that engineers had found no indication that the well has started leaking underground.No news is good news, I guess that's how I'd say it, Wells said.One mysterious development was that the pressure readings were not rising as high as expected, said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the crisis.Allen said two possible reasons were being debated by scientists: The reservoir that is the source of the oil could be running lower three months into the spill. Or there could be an undiscovered leak somewhere down in the well. Allen ordered further study but remained confident.
This is generally good news, he said. But he cautioned, We need to be careful not to do any harm or create a situation that cannot be reversed.Inside BP's command center hundreds of miles away in Houston, engineers, scientists and technicians have been carefully monitoring reams of data around the clock, BP's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, told The Associated Press Friday. Other engineers watched on monitors aboard ships at sea.You've got a very, very focused group of people because this is very important,Suttles said.Asked if people are nervous, knowing the whole world is watching and government officials are sitting with them to monitor their work, Suttles replied: I wouldn't say they are nervous. I would use the word focused.Throughout the day, no one was declaring victory — or failure. President Barack Obama cautioned the public not to get too far ahead of ourselves, warning of the danger of new leaks that could be even more catastrophic.Even if the cap passes the test, more uncertainties lie ahead: Where will the oil already spilled go? How long will it take to clean up the coast? What will happen to the region's fishermen? And will life on the Gulf Coast ever be the same again? On Thursday, BP closed the vents on the new, tight-fitting cap and finally stopped crude from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since the April 20 oil-rig explosion that killed 11workers and unleashed the spill 5,000 feet down.With the cap working like a giant cork to keep the oil inside the well, scientists kept watch in case the buildup of pressure underground caused new leaks in the well pipe and in the surrounding bedrock that could make the disaster even worse.Pressure readings after 24 hours were about 6,700 pounds per square inch and rising slowly, Allen said, below the 7,500 psi that would clearly show the well was not leaking. He said pressure continued to rise between 2 and 10 psi per hour. A low pressure reading, or a falling one, could mean the oil is escaping.But Allen said a seismic probe of the surrounding sea floor found no sign of a leak in the ground.
Benton F. Baugh, president of Radoil Inc. in Houston and a National Academy of Engineering member who specializes in underwater oil operations, warned that the pressure readings could mean that an underground blowout could occur. He said the oil coming up the well may be leaking out underground and entering a geological pocket that might not be able to hold it. But Roger N. Anderson, a professor of marine geology and geophysics at Columbia University, said the oil pressure might be rising slowly not because of a leak, but because of some kind of blockage in the well.If it's rising slowly, that means the pipe's integrity's still there. It's just getting around obstacles, he said. He added that any increase in pressure is good, not bad.The cap is designed to prevent oil from spilling into the Gulf, either by keeping it bottled up in the well, or by capturing it and piping it to ships on the surface. It is not yet clear which way the cap will be used if it passes the pressure test. Either way, the cap is a temporary measure until a relief well can be completed and mud and cement can be pumped into the broken well deep underground to seal it more securely than the cap. The first of the two relief wells being drilled could be done by late July or August.In a positive sign, work on the relief wells resumed Friday. The project had been suspended earlier this week for fear that the capping of the well could interfere with it.There was no end in sight to the cleanup in the water and on shore. Somewhere between 94 million and 184 million gallons have spilled into the Gulf, according to government estimates.In Orange Beach, Ala., long strands of white absorbent boom strung along the shore were stained chocolate brown after a fresh wave of BB-size tar balls washed up. Charter boat captains who can't fish because of the spill patrolled the shore, looking for oil slicks. Fishing guides spent their time ferrying Coast Guard personnel. A flotilla of fishing boats operating as skimmers plied the waters across the Gulf.Large sections of the Gulf Coast have been closed to fishing and shellfish harvesting. Many fishermen have been hired out by BP to do cleanup work.Cade Thomas, a 38-year-old fishing guide from Pine, La., said the whole mentality of the place is different.It's all changed dramatically. The fishing stories aren't there, he said.There's no stories to tell except where we went to today and how much oil we saw.
In Grand Isle, La., most of the summer rental cottages are vacant, tables at the single high-end seafood restaurant are empty, and souvenir shops are barely doing enough business to pay the bills. A hand-painted sign along the main road rechristens the tourist town Grand Oil.Folks are grateful the gusher has been stopped, but many say it is too late to save this summer. Thousands of tourists have gone elsewhere. Scientists cannot say for certain what the long-term environmental effect will be. But long after the well is finally plugged, oil could still be washing up in marshes and on beaches as tar balls or patties.There is also fear that months from now, those tar balls could move west to Corpus Christi, Texas, or travel up and around Florida to Miami or North Carolina's Outer Banks.Capping the well was a milestone in the long catastrophe, but people shouldn't let their guards down, said Billy Nungesser, the president of Plaquemines Parish, one of the hardest hit areas along the Gulf.For the first day, we'll be pulling more oil out of the Gulf than is leaking in, Nungesser said Friday.We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but that's a very long tunnel.Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press Writers Holbrook Mohr, Vicki Smith, Shelia Byrd, Jay Reeves, Matt Sedensky, Kevin McGill, and Ramit Plushnick-Masti contributed to this report.
Gulf geyser stops gushing, but will it hold? By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - 8:10 AM JULY 16,10
NEW ORLEANS – BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring, though no one was declaring victory just yet.Engineers, politicians and Gulf residents will watch anxiously over the next day and a half to see if the cap holds. As of Thursday morning, no oil could be seen spewing into the Gulf via underwater camera feeds on BP's website — as it had for nearly three months, spilling up to 184 million gallons.
The accomplishment was greeted with hope, high expectations — and, in many cases along the beleaguered coastline, disbelief. But BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles urged caution and warned the flow could resume.It's far from the finish line. ... It's not the time to celebrate, Suttles said.Regardless, for the first time since an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers April 20 and unleashed the spill 5,000 feet beneath the water's surface, no oil was flowing into the Gulf.For now, engineers and scientists are monitoring the cap for pressure changes around the clock. High pressure is good because it shows there's only a single leak. Low pressure, below 6,000 pounds per square inch or so, could mean more leaks farther down in the well.President Barack Obama, who has encouraged, cajoled and outright ordered BP to stop the leak, called Thursday's development a positive sign.But Obama, whose political standing has taken a hit because of the spill and accusations of government inaction, cautioned that we're still in the testing phase.The worst-case scenario would be if the oil forced down into the bedrock ruptured the seafloor irreparably. Leaks deep in the well bore might also be found, which would mean that oil would continue to flow into the Gulf. And there's always the possibility of another explosion, either from too much pressure or from a previously unknown unstable piece of piping.The drama that unfolded quietly in the darkness of deep water Thursday was a combination of trial, error, technology and luck. It came after weeks of failed attempts to stop the oil — everything from robotics to different capping techniques to stuffing the hole with mud and golf balls.The week leading up to the moment when the oil stopped was a series of fitful starts and setbacks.Robotic submarines working deep in the ocean removed a busted piece of pipe last weekend, at which point oil flowed unimpeded into the water. That was followed by installation of a connector that sits atop the spewing well bore — and by Monday the 75-ton metal cap, a stack of lines and valves, was latched onto the busted well.
After that, engineers spent hours creating a map of the rock under the sea floor to spot potential dangers, like gas pockets. They also shut down two ships collecting oil above the sea to get an accurate reading on the pressure in the cap.As the oil flowed up to the cap, increasing the pressure, two valves were shut off like light switches, and the third dialed down on a dimmer switch until it too was choked off.
It's not clear yet whether the oil will remain bottled in the cap, or whether BP will choose to use the new device to funnel the crude into four ships on the surface.
For nearly two months, the world's window into the disaster has been through a battery of BP cameras, known as the spillcam. The constant stream of spewing oil became a fixture on cable TV news and web feeds.That made it all the more dramatic on Thursday when, suddenly, it was no more.On the video feed, the violently churning cloud of oil and gas coming out of a narrow tube thinned, and tapered off. Suddenly, there were a few puffs of oil, surrounded by cloudy dispersant that BP was pumping on top. Then there was nothing.Finally! said Renee Brown, a school guidance counselor visiting Pensacola Beach, Fla., from London, Ky. Honestly, I'm surprised that they haven't been able to do something sooner, though.Alabama Gov. Bob Riley's face lit up when he heard the news. I think a lot of prayers were answered today, he said. Thad Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral overseeing the spill for the government, said officials are deciding as they go along whether to release oil into the water again. At the end of the 48-hour test it's possible oil will start to flow again — but, theoretically, in a controlled manner.When the test is complete, more seafloor mapping will be done to detect any damage or leaks.
The saga has devastated BP, costing it billions in everything from cleanup to repair efforts to plunging stock prices. Though BP shares have edged upward, they shot higher in the last hour of trading on Wall Street after the company announced the oil had stopped. Shares rose $2.74, or 7.6 percent, to close at $38.92 — still well below the $60.48 they fetched before the rig explosion. The Gulf Coast has been shaken economically, environmentally and psychologically by the hardships of the past three months. That feeling of being swatted around — by BP, by the government, by fate even — was evident in the wide spectrum of reactions to news of the capping.
Hallelujah! That's wonderful news,Belinda Griffin, who owns a charter fishing lodge in Lafitte, La., said upon hearing the gusher had stopped. Now if we can just figure out what to do with all the oil that's in the Gulf, we'll be in good shape.The fishing industry in particular has been buffeted by fallout from the spill. Surveys of oyster grounds in Louisiana showed extensive deaths of the shellfish. Large sections of the Gulf Coast — which accounts for 60 to 70 percent of the oysters eaten in the United States — have been closed to harvesting. At Get-Away-Lodge in Plaquemines Parish, the worst-hit area of the coast, three fishing captains changed oil in the boats they once used for fishing, but are now part of BP's vessel of opportunity program.They were pleased, but concerned — and worried about how long their jobs for BP will last.I think it's wonderful they capped it, but it's not helping our businesses,said Chad Horton, 32, a native of Buras, who used to make a living putting customers on schools of redfish and speckled in these bountiful waters. Our businesses are gone, but we're depending on this (BP job) to support our families. They could come in and pull it out from under us at any time.Rosalie Lapeyrouse, who owns a grocery store and a shrimping operation in Chauvin, La. that cleans, boils and distributes the catch, was shocked.It what? she said in disbelief. It stopped? she repeated after hearing the news. Oh, wow! That's good, she said, her face clouding. I'm thinking they just stopped for a while. I don't think it's gonna last. They never could do nothing with it before.Long after the out-of-control well is finally plugged, oil could still be washing up in marshes and on beaches as tar balls or disc-shaped patties. The sheen will dissolve over time, scientists say, and the slick will convert to another form. There's also fear that months from now, oil could move far west to Corpus Christi, Texas, or farther east and hitch a ride on the loop current, possibly showing up as tar balls in Miami or North Carolina's Outer Banks.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is expecting to track the oil in all its formations for several months after the well is killed, said Steve Lehmann, a scientific support coordinator for the federal agency. Once the well stops actively spewing oil, the slicks will rapidly weather and disappear, possibly within a week, and NOAA will begin to rely more heavily on low-flying aircraft to search for tar balls and patties. Those can last for years, Lehmann said.In St. Bernard Parish, oysterman Johnny Schneider stood near his boat, loaded not with seafood, but yellow plastic boom used to contain oil on the water.Eh, the damage is done. The oil's everywhere now,he said.You ain't never gonna get it out of the water.Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press Writers Shelia Byrd, Jay Reeves, Mary Foster, Alan Sayre, Kevin McGill, Jennifer Garske King, Matt Sedensky, Pauline Arrillaga and Ramit Plushnick-Masti contributed to this report.
BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 15,10
NEW ORLEANS – The oil has stopped. For now. After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring.Though a temporary fix, the accomplishment was greeted with hope, high expectations — and, in many cases along the beleaguered coastline, disbelief. From one Gulf Coast resident came this: Hallelujah.And from another: I got to see it to believe it.If the cap holds, if the sea floor doesn't crack and if the relief wells being prepared are completed successfully, this could be the beginning of the end for the spill. But that's a lot of ifs, and no one was declaring any sort of victory beyond the moment.The oil stopped flowing at 3:25 p.m. EDT when the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap was slowly throttled shut. That set off a 48-hour watch period in which — much like the hours immediately after a surgery — the patient was in stable, guarded condition and being watched closely for complications.It's a great sight, said BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles, who immediately urged caution. The flow, he said, could resume. It's far from the finish line. ... It's not the time to celebrate.
Nevertheless, one comforting fact stood out: For the first time since an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers April 20 and unleashed the spill 5,000 feet beneath the water's surface, no oil was flowing into the Gulf.
President Barack Obama, who has encouraged, cajoled and outright ordered BP to stop the leak, called Thursday's development a positive sign.But Obama, whose political standing has taken a hit because of the spill and accusations of government inaction, cautioned that we're still in the testing phase.The worst-case scenario would be if the oil forced down into the bedrock ruptured the seafloor irreparably. Leaks deep in the well bore might also be found, which would mean that oil would continue to flow into the Gulf. And there's always the possiblity of another explosion, either from too much pressure or from a previously unknown unstable piece of piping.The drama that unfolded quietly in the darkness of deep water Thursday was a combination of trial, error, technology and luck. It came after weeks of repeated attempts to stop the oil — everything from robotics to different capping techniques to stuffing the hole with mud and golf balls.The week leading up to the moment where the oil stopped was a series of fitful starts and setbacks.Robotic submarines working deep in the ocean removed a busted piece of pipe last weekend, at which point oil flowed unimpeded into the water. That was followed by installation of a connector that sits atop the spewing well bore — and by Monday the 75-ton metal cap, a stack of lines and valves latched onto the busted well.After that, engineers spent hours creating a map of the rock under the sea floor to spot potential dangers, like gas pockets. They also shut down two ships collecting oil above the sea to get an accurate reading on the pressure in the cap.As the oil flowed up to the cap, increasing the pressure, two valves were shut off like light switches, and the third dialed down on a dimmer switch until it too was choked off.And just like that, the oil stopped.It's not clear yet whether the oil will remain bottled in the cap, or whether BP will choose to use the new device to funnel the crude into four ships on the surface.For nearly two months, the world's window into the disaster has been through a battery of BP cameras, known as the spillcam. The constant stream of spewing oil became a fixture on cable TV news and web feeds.That made it all the more dramatic on Thursday when, suddenly, it was no more.
On the video feed, the violently churning cloud of oil and gas coming out of a narrow tube thinned, and tapered off. Suddenly, there were a few puffs of oil, surrounded by cloudy dispersant that BP was pumping on top. Then there was nothing.
Finally! said Renee Brown, a school guidance counselor visiting Pensacola Beach, Fla., from London, Ky. Honestly, I'm surprised that they haven't been able to do something sooner, though.Alabama Gov. Bob Riley's face lit up when he heard the news. I think a lot of prayers were answered today, he said. The next 48 hours are critical. Engineers and scientists will be monitoring the cap around the clock, looking for pressure changes. High pressure is good, because it shows there's only a single leak. Low pressure, below 6,000 pounds per square inch or so, could mean more leaks farther down in the well.Thad Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral overseeing the spill for the government, said they are deciding as they go along whether to release oil into the water again. At the end of the 48-hour test it's possible oil will start to flow again — but, theoretically, in a controlled manner.
When the test is complete, more seafloor mapping will be done to detect any damage or deep-water leaks.The saga has devastated BP, costing it billions in everything from cleanup to repair efforts to plunging stock prices. Though BP shares have edged upward, they shot higher in the last hour of trading on Wall Street after the company announced the oil had stopped. Shares rose $2.74, or 7.6 percent, to close at $38.92 — still well below the $60.48 they fetched before the rig explosion. The Gulf Coast has been shaken economically, environmentally and psychologically by the hardships of the past three months. That feeling of being swatted around — by BP, by the government, by fate even — was evident in the wide spectrum of reactions to news of the capping.Hallelujah! That's wonderful news, Belinda Griffin, who owns a charter fishing lodge in Lafitte, La., said upon hearing the gusher had stopped. Now if we can just figure out what to do with all the oil that's in the Gulf, we'll be in good shape.The fishing industry in particular has been buffeted by fallout from the spill. Surveys of oyster grounds in Louisiana showed extensive deaths of the shellfish. Large sections of the Gulf Coast — which accounts for 60 to 70 percent of the oysters eaten in the United States — have been closed to harvesting, which helps explain why one oysterman in Louisiana refused to accept that progress was afoot.
Prove it, said Stephon LaFrance of Buras, La.I've been out of work since this happened, right? And I ain't never received nothing from BP since this oil spill happened,he said. Like they say they stopped this oil leak. I think that's a lie. I got to see it to believe it.Rosalie Lapeyrouse, who owns a grocery store and a shrimping operation in Chauvin, La. that cleans, boils and distributes the catch, was shocked. It what? she said in disbelief.It stopped? she repeated after hearing the news. Oh, wow! That's good,she said, her face clouding.I'm thinking they just stopped for a while. I don't think it's gonna last. They never could do nothing with it before.Long after the out-of-control well is finally plugged, oil could still be washing up in marshes and on beaches as tar balls or disc-shaped patties. The sheen will dissolve over time, scientists say, and the slick will convert to another form.
There's also fear that months from now, oil could move far west to Corpus Christi, Texas, or farther east and hitch a ride on the loop current, possibly showing up as tar balls in Miami or North Carolina's Outer Banks. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is expecting to track the oil in all its formations for several months after the well is killed, said Steve Lehmann, a scientific support coordinator for the federal agency.Once the well stops actively spewing oil, the slicks will rapidly weather and disappear, possibly within a week, and NOAA will begin to rely more heavily on low-flying aircraft to search for tar balls and patties. Those can last for years, Lehmann said.In Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, the worst-hit area of the coast, frequent BP and government critic Billy Nungesser, the parish president, offered a word of caution: This whole mess, he said, is far from over.We better not let our guard down, Nungesser said.We better not pull back the troops because, as we know, there's a lot of oil out there, on the surface, beneath it. And I truly believe that we're going to see oil coming ashore for the next couple of years.Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press Writers Holbrook Mohr, Matthew Brown, Allen Breed, Vicki Smith, Michael Kunzelman, Shelia Byrd, Jay Reeves, Mary Foster, Alan Sayre, Kevin McGill, Jennifer Garske King, Matt Sedensky, Pauline Arrillaga and Ramit Plushnick-Masti contributed to this report.
BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 15,10 4:10PM
NEW ORLEANS – A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. The victory — long awaited by weary residents along the coast — is the most significant milestone yet in BP's effort to control one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said at a news briefing that oil stopped flowing into the water at 2:25 p.m. CDT after engineers gradually dialed down the amount of crude escaping through the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap.
I am very pleased that there's no oil going into the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, I'm really excited there's no oil going into the Gulf of Mexico, Wells said.The stoppage came 85 days, 16 hours and 25 minutes after the first report April 20 of an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers and triggered the spill.Now begins a waiting period to see if the cap can hold the oil without blowing a new leak in the well. Engineers will monitor pressure readings incrementally for up to 48 hours before reopening the cap while they decide what to do.Though not a permanent fix, the solution has been the only one that has worked to stem the flow of oil since April. BP is drilling two relief wells so it can pump mud and cement into the leaking well in hopes of plugging it for good by mid-August.BP has struggled to contain the spill and had so far been successful only in reducing the flow, not stopping it. The company removed an old, leaky cap and installed the new one Monday.Between 93.5 million and 184.3 million have already spilled into the Gulf, according to federal estimates.
BP works to fix valve leak before choking oil flow By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 15,10 8:30 AM
NEW ORLEANS – BP engineers worked Thursday to repair a leak found on a line attached to the new cap placed on top of its busted well in the Gulf of Mexico before continuing its delicate operation to stop the flow of crude.BP isolated the leak Wednesday night and had begun repairing it. It wasn't clear how it would affect the timing of the operation, or whether oil continued to be slowly closed off into the cap.The new, tighter cap had been placed on the busted well Monday, but the operation to start shutting off valves to choke off the oil was abruptly halted for about a day. BP needed time to allay government fears that the disaster could be made worse by going forward with the tests, which are needed to determine whether the temporary cap can withstand the pressure and contain the oil.The new cap along with vessels at the surface meant to siphon up the crude are considered the best hope to stop oil from continuing to foul the Gulf until two relief wells can be drilled that will allow the busted well to be plugged for good. The crisis began April 20 when the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 workers.In the 12 weeks since, an estimated 92 million to 182 million gallons of oil have flowed into the Gulf.
The latest effort to halt the tide of oil — after repeated failures — began with BP shutting off pipes that were funneling some of the oil to ships on the surface so the full force of the gusher went up into the cap. Then deep-sea robots began slowly closing, one at a time, three openings in the cap that let oil pass through. Ultimately, the flow of crude will be blocked entirely.All along, engineers were watching pressure readings to learn whether the well is intact. The first two valves shut off like a light switch, while the third works more like a dimmer and takes longer to close off. The leak was found in the line attached to the dimmer switch, but live video footage showed that oil previously spewing from other sources on the cap remained closed off.Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration's point man on the disaster, said a committee of scientists and engineers will monitor the results and assess every six hours, and end the test after 48 hours to evaluate the findings.I was gung-ho for this test and I remain gung-ho for this test,he said Wednesday.If the cap works, it will enable BP to stop the oil from gushing into the sea, either by holding all the oil inside the well machinery like a stopper or, if the pressure is too great, channeling some through lines to as many as four collection ships.The cap — a 75-ton metal stack of lines and valves — was lowered onto the well on Monday in hopes of either bottling up the oil inside the well machinery, or capturing it and funneling it to the surface. But before BP could test the equipment, the government intervened because of concerns about whether the buildup of pressure from the gushing oil could rupture the walls of the well and make the leak worse.We sat long and hard about delaying the tests, Allen said. He said that the pause was necessary in the interest of the public, the environment and safety, until officials were convinced the test could go forward.
Allen said the testing will also offer insight into the other, more permanent solution to the fix: two relief wells intended to plug the gusher from deep underground. The mapping of the sea floor that was done to prepare for the well cap test and the pressure readings will also help them determine how much mud and cement will be needed to seal off the well.Drill work was stopped on one relief well because it was not clear what effect the testing of the cap could have on it. Work on the other relief well had already been stopped according to plan.The government estimates 1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons are leaking every day.The latest effort to control the gushing well follows a string of failed attempts by BP to contain the leak, including the use of a giant concrete-and-steel box that quickly became encased in ice-like crystals; a colossal siphon tube that trapped very little oil; and an effort to jam the well by pumping in mud and shredded rubber.Online:
BP underwater video: http://bit.ly/bwCXmR Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Matthew Daly in Washington, Tom Breen in New Orleans, Matt Brown in Violet, La., Holbrook Mohr in Empire, La. and Jay Reeves in Bayou La Batre, Ala., contributed to this report.
BP begins testing new cap over Gulf oil leak By TOM BREEN and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 14,10 8:50 PM
NEW ORLEANS – BP allayed last-minute government fears of making the disaster worse and began testing the new, tighter-fitting cap Wednesday that could finally choke off the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration's point man on the disaster, said the government gave the go-ahead after carefully reviewing the risks.What we didn't want to do is compound that problem by making an irreversible mistake, he said at the end of a 24-hour roller-coaster of hopes raised, hopes dashed and hopes raised again along the Gulf Coast.
The cap — a 75-ton metal stack of pipes and valves — was lowered onto the well on Monday in hopes of either bottling up the oil inside the well machinery, or capturing it and funneling it to the surface. But before BP could test the equipment, the government intervened because of second thoughts about whether the buildup of pressure from the gushing oil could rupture the walls of the well and make the leak worse.We sat long and hard about delaying the tests, Allen said. He said that the pause was necessary in the interest of the public, the environment and safety, and that officials were convinced the test could go forward.The test began with BP shutting off pipes that were funneling some of the oil to ships on the surface so the full force of the gusher went up into the cap. Then deep-sea robots began slowly closing, one at a time, three openings in the cap that let oil pass through. Ultimately, the flow of crude will be blocked entirely. All along, engineers will be watching pressure readings to learn whether the well is intact.
Allen said BP will monitor the results every six hours and end the test after 48 hours to evaluate the findings.The one-day delay came just when it looked as if the Gulf oil crisis was nearing an end. The holdup was met with disappointment along the Gulf Coast.This thing's been going on for so long now, it's time to take a gamble, said Mitch Jurisich, a third-generation oyster farmer from Empire, La. If it's going to blow the bottom of the ocean out, it's just going to blow the bottom out.White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the government acted out of an abundance of caution to do no harm,and added that he did not consider the delay to be some giant setback.With the testing on hold, oil continued to spew nearly unimpeded into the water. Two vessels on the surface collected about 700,000 gallons on Tuesday, BP said. The government estimates 1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons are leaking every day.BP also said it was halting drilling for the duration of the test on one of two relief wells that are intended to plug the gusher permanently from deep underground. The company said it was stopping the work because it was not clear what effect the testing of the cap could have on it. Work on the other relief well had already been stopped according to plan.Before BP got the go-ahead for the cap test, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles urged Gulf residents to be patient.We're going to get this thing stopped as fast as we can, he said.If it is not in the next couple of days with the test, we'll do it with the relief wells.Tony Wood, director of the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, said the government's caution is a prudent course, because so much of the work being contemplated is uncharted territory.Wood said trapping the erupting oil in the cap could increase pressure inside the casing, or the piping inside the well, and could fracture it until it is leaking like a sieve. That could make it impossible to plug up the well.
The caution follows a string of failed attempts by BP to contain the leak, including the use of a giant concrete-and-steel box that quickly became encased in ice-like crystals; a colossal siphon tube that trapped very little oil, and an effort to jam the well by pumping in mud and shredded rubber.As of Wednesday, the 85th day of the disaster, between 92 million and 182 million gallons of oil had spewed into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by BP exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.
Online: BP underwater video: http://bit.ly/bwCXmR Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Matthew Daly in Washington, Colleen Long in New Orleans, Matt Brown in Violet, La., Holbrook Mohr in Empire, La. and Jay Reeves in Bayou La Batre, Ala., contributed to this report.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
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.
LIVE BP OIL FEED
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=2&openAIR=true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
OBAMA ON OIL SPILL-VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference
PART 1-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html
PART 2-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/p-2-oil-slick-news-nay-29.html
PART 3-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-3-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 4-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p4-oil-spill-news.html
PART 5-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-5-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 6-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-6-oil-remembering-dead-from-rig.html
PART 7-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-7-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 8-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-8-oil-spill-update-news.html
PART 9-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-9-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 10-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-10-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 11-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-11-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 12-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-12-oil-spill-news.html
PART 13-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-13-oil-spill-update.html
PART 14-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/pestilences-chemical-and-biological.html
PART 15-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-15-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 16-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-16-poison-disaster-scheme.html
PART 17-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-17-poison-disaster-news-setup-spill.html
PART 18-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-18-poison-disaster-update.html
FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1219
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1227
JONES ON BP FALSE FLAG TO GET CAP & TAX SCAM THROUGH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNW0lkjTxAQ&feature=player_embedded
GRANT JEFFREY ON WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND THE ENVIROMENTAL RELIGION CULT SCAM OF GLOBAL WARMING UNDER FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH SCAM.CARBON TAX,INVISIBLE SKY HOOKS AND INVISIBLE SMOKE SCAM.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1279
WW3 COMING TOGETHER-GRANT JEFFREY-RUSSIA WANTS OIL CONTOL DOMINATION.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1369
HOLLY SWANSON ON OBAMA CAP & TRADE SCAM-ENVIROMENTALS DICTATORSHIP JUNE 21,10 HR 1
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/june-2010/
OIL SLICK REACHES FLORIDA
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4250674/oil-slick-reaches-florida?playlist_id=86856
WHAT COULD HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THIS OIL SPILL-LAST 30 MINUTES OF SHOW
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2353
http://ruvysroost.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
OIL SPILL IRAN CONNECTION-ALL MUT LISTEN
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2357
TOXIC WATER AT SPILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrbqBEGxiw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq65E7rmO_k&feature=player_embedded
NUKE THE WELL CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1539178724&play=1
OIL RAIN POISON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlC9W8EqRUQ
http://www.jokeroo.com/videos/extreme/oil-rain-lousiana.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZnDYsnRP0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8co1d4zb4&feature=player_embedded
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK-ENVIROMENT-DISASTER STAGED BANKERS=WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6642758020554799808#
OBAMA NEEDS TERRORIST ATTACK TO SAVE ADMINISTRATION-STAGED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22-CIxjm5-Y&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuL9SNdaSqc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xFXy0apNuQ&feature=player_embedded
ITS DAY 87 OF THE POISON DISASTER THURSDAY JULY 15,10 AND THE STAGED EVENT GOES ON.NEW LEAKS,NEW PROBLEMS BUT IN 5 MONTHS WE WILL STOP IT SO NO MORE POISON KILLS ANIMALS AND PEOPLE,MY THOUGHT ONLY.
THE WORLD AS OF 3:30PM HAS JUST BROUGHT WORLD PEACE.THEY CLAIM THE OIL POISON DISASTER IS OVER.GOLDMAN SACHS NUMBERS ARE UP & DOWN.THE FINANCIAL REGULATIONS PASSED,BANKS CAN PILLAGE THE PEOPLE FREELY NOW.IS ALL THIS SUDDEN WORLD PEACE TO COVERUP FOR GOOGLE WHO FELL SHORT ON ITS NUMBERS AND THAT GOLDMAN SACHS GETS A SLAP ON THE WRIST FINE OF $550 MILLION DOLLARS FOR FRAUD AND J.P MORGAN MISSED THEIR MARK.ITS 4:25PM JULY 15,2010.
ITS DAY 88 OF THE POISON DISASTER FRI JULY 16,2010.SEE WHAT GUSHES FROM BP AND OBAMAS PIPES TODAY.
ITS DAY 89 OF THE POISON DISASTER SAT JULY 17,10.SEE IF THE CAP HOLDS.
BP, scientists try to make sense of well puzzle HARRY R. WEBER and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press Writers - JULY 17,10 8:05 AM
NEW ORLEANS – Engineers kept vigil Saturday over the massive cap holding back oil from BP's busted Gulf well, their eyes glued to monitors in a faraway control room that displayed pressure readings, temperature gauges and underwater images.Their round-the-clock work deciphering a puzzle of data from undersea robots and instruments at the wellhead is helping BP and the government determine whether the cap is holding tight as the end of a critical 48-hour testing window approaches. Signs so far have been promising but inconclusive.Saturday afternoon will mark two full days since BP stopped the oil from leaking into the Gulf and entered into the pressure-testing phase. At that point engineers could offer more definitive evidence that the cap is working, or call for more testing. At any time before then, they could also reopen the cap and allow some oil to spill into the sea again. Scientists are watching for leaks either in the well itself or the sea floor.Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said on an evening conference call that engineers had found no indication that the well has started leaking underground.No news is good news, I guess that's how I'd say it, Wells said.One mysterious development was that the pressure readings were not rising as high as expected, said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the crisis.Allen said two possible reasons were being debated by scientists: The reservoir that is the source of the oil could be running lower three months into the spill. Or there could be an undiscovered leak somewhere down in the well. Allen ordered further study but remained confident.
This is generally good news, he said. But he cautioned, We need to be careful not to do any harm or create a situation that cannot be reversed.Inside BP's command center hundreds of miles away in Houston, engineers, scientists and technicians have been carefully monitoring reams of data around the clock, BP's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, told The Associated Press Friday. Other engineers watched on monitors aboard ships at sea.You've got a very, very focused group of people because this is very important,Suttles said.Asked if people are nervous, knowing the whole world is watching and government officials are sitting with them to monitor their work, Suttles replied: I wouldn't say they are nervous. I would use the word focused.Throughout the day, no one was declaring victory — or failure. President Barack Obama cautioned the public not to get too far ahead of ourselves, warning of the danger of new leaks that could be even more catastrophic.Even if the cap passes the test, more uncertainties lie ahead: Where will the oil already spilled go? How long will it take to clean up the coast? What will happen to the region's fishermen? And will life on the Gulf Coast ever be the same again? On Thursday, BP closed the vents on the new, tight-fitting cap and finally stopped crude from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since the April 20 oil-rig explosion that killed 11workers and unleashed the spill 5,000 feet down.With the cap working like a giant cork to keep the oil inside the well, scientists kept watch in case the buildup of pressure underground caused new leaks in the well pipe and in the surrounding bedrock that could make the disaster even worse.Pressure readings after 24 hours were about 6,700 pounds per square inch and rising slowly, Allen said, below the 7,500 psi that would clearly show the well was not leaking. He said pressure continued to rise between 2 and 10 psi per hour. A low pressure reading, or a falling one, could mean the oil is escaping.But Allen said a seismic probe of the surrounding sea floor found no sign of a leak in the ground.
Benton F. Baugh, president of Radoil Inc. in Houston and a National Academy of Engineering member who specializes in underwater oil operations, warned that the pressure readings could mean that an underground blowout could occur. He said the oil coming up the well may be leaking out underground and entering a geological pocket that might not be able to hold it. But Roger N. Anderson, a professor of marine geology and geophysics at Columbia University, said the oil pressure might be rising slowly not because of a leak, but because of some kind of blockage in the well.If it's rising slowly, that means the pipe's integrity's still there. It's just getting around obstacles, he said. He added that any increase in pressure is good, not bad.The cap is designed to prevent oil from spilling into the Gulf, either by keeping it bottled up in the well, or by capturing it and piping it to ships on the surface. It is not yet clear which way the cap will be used if it passes the pressure test. Either way, the cap is a temporary measure until a relief well can be completed and mud and cement can be pumped into the broken well deep underground to seal it more securely than the cap. The first of the two relief wells being drilled could be done by late July or August.In a positive sign, work on the relief wells resumed Friday. The project had been suspended earlier this week for fear that the capping of the well could interfere with it.There was no end in sight to the cleanup in the water and on shore. Somewhere between 94 million and 184 million gallons have spilled into the Gulf, according to government estimates.In Orange Beach, Ala., long strands of white absorbent boom strung along the shore were stained chocolate brown after a fresh wave of BB-size tar balls washed up. Charter boat captains who can't fish because of the spill patrolled the shore, looking for oil slicks. Fishing guides spent their time ferrying Coast Guard personnel. A flotilla of fishing boats operating as skimmers plied the waters across the Gulf.Large sections of the Gulf Coast have been closed to fishing and shellfish harvesting. Many fishermen have been hired out by BP to do cleanup work.Cade Thomas, a 38-year-old fishing guide from Pine, La., said the whole mentality of the place is different.It's all changed dramatically. The fishing stories aren't there, he said.There's no stories to tell except where we went to today and how much oil we saw.
In Grand Isle, La., most of the summer rental cottages are vacant, tables at the single high-end seafood restaurant are empty, and souvenir shops are barely doing enough business to pay the bills. A hand-painted sign along the main road rechristens the tourist town Grand Oil.Folks are grateful the gusher has been stopped, but many say it is too late to save this summer. Thousands of tourists have gone elsewhere. Scientists cannot say for certain what the long-term environmental effect will be. But long after the well is finally plugged, oil could still be washing up in marshes and on beaches as tar balls or patties.There is also fear that months from now, those tar balls could move west to Corpus Christi, Texas, or travel up and around Florida to Miami or North Carolina's Outer Banks.Capping the well was a milestone in the long catastrophe, but people shouldn't let their guards down, said Billy Nungesser, the president of Plaquemines Parish, one of the hardest hit areas along the Gulf.For the first day, we'll be pulling more oil out of the Gulf than is leaking in, Nungesser said Friday.We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but that's a very long tunnel.Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press Writers Holbrook Mohr, Vicki Smith, Shelia Byrd, Jay Reeves, Matt Sedensky, Kevin McGill, and Ramit Plushnick-Masti contributed to this report.
Gulf geyser stops gushing, but will it hold? By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - 8:10 AM JULY 16,10
NEW ORLEANS – BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring, though no one was declaring victory just yet.Engineers, politicians and Gulf residents will watch anxiously over the next day and a half to see if the cap holds. As of Thursday morning, no oil could be seen spewing into the Gulf via underwater camera feeds on BP's website — as it had for nearly three months, spilling up to 184 million gallons.
The accomplishment was greeted with hope, high expectations — and, in many cases along the beleaguered coastline, disbelief. But BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles urged caution and warned the flow could resume.It's far from the finish line. ... It's not the time to celebrate, Suttles said.Regardless, for the first time since an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers April 20 and unleashed the spill 5,000 feet beneath the water's surface, no oil was flowing into the Gulf.For now, engineers and scientists are monitoring the cap for pressure changes around the clock. High pressure is good because it shows there's only a single leak. Low pressure, below 6,000 pounds per square inch or so, could mean more leaks farther down in the well.President Barack Obama, who has encouraged, cajoled and outright ordered BP to stop the leak, called Thursday's development a positive sign.But Obama, whose political standing has taken a hit because of the spill and accusations of government inaction, cautioned that we're still in the testing phase.The worst-case scenario would be if the oil forced down into the bedrock ruptured the seafloor irreparably. Leaks deep in the well bore might also be found, which would mean that oil would continue to flow into the Gulf. And there's always the possibility of another explosion, either from too much pressure or from a previously unknown unstable piece of piping.The drama that unfolded quietly in the darkness of deep water Thursday was a combination of trial, error, technology and luck. It came after weeks of failed attempts to stop the oil — everything from robotics to different capping techniques to stuffing the hole with mud and golf balls.The week leading up to the moment when the oil stopped was a series of fitful starts and setbacks.Robotic submarines working deep in the ocean removed a busted piece of pipe last weekend, at which point oil flowed unimpeded into the water. That was followed by installation of a connector that sits atop the spewing well bore — and by Monday the 75-ton metal cap, a stack of lines and valves, was latched onto the busted well.
After that, engineers spent hours creating a map of the rock under the sea floor to spot potential dangers, like gas pockets. They also shut down two ships collecting oil above the sea to get an accurate reading on the pressure in the cap.As the oil flowed up to the cap, increasing the pressure, two valves were shut off like light switches, and the third dialed down on a dimmer switch until it too was choked off.
It's not clear yet whether the oil will remain bottled in the cap, or whether BP will choose to use the new device to funnel the crude into four ships on the surface.
For nearly two months, the world's window into the disaster has been through a battery of BP cameras, known as the spillcam. The constant stream of spewing oil became a fixture on cable TV news and web feeds.That made it all the more dramatic on Thursday when, suddenly, it was no more.On the video feed, the violently churning cloud of oil and gas coming out of a narrow tube thinned, and tapered off. Suddenly, there were a few puffs of oil, surrounded by cloudy dispersant that BP was pumping on top. Then there was nothing.Finally! said Renee Brown, a school guidance counselor visiting Pensacola Beach, Fla., from London, Ky. Honestly, I'm surprised that they haven't been able to do something sooner, though.Alabama Gov. Bob Riley's face lit up when he heard the news. I think a lot of prayers were answered today, he said. Thad Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral overseeing the spill for the government, said officials are deciding as they go along whether to release oil into the water again. At the end of the 48-hour test it's possible oil will start to flow again — but, theoretically, in a controlled manner.When the test is complete, more seafloor mapping will be done to detect any damage or leaks.
The saga has devastated BP, costing it billions in everything from cleanup to repair efforts to plunging stock prices. Though BP shares have edged upward, they shot higher in the last hour of trading on Wall Street after the company announced the oil had stopped. Shares rose $2.74, or 7.6 percent, to close at $38.92 — still well below the $60.48 they fetched before the rig explosion. The Gulf Coast has been shaken economically, environmentally and psychologically by the hardships of the past three months. That feeling of being swatted around — by BP, by the government, by fate even — was evident in the wide spectrum of reactions to news of the capping.
Hallelujah! That's wonderful news,Belinda Griffin, who owns a charter fishing lodge in Lafitte, La., said upon hearing the gusher had stopped. Now if we can just figure out what to do with all the oil that's in the Gulf, we'll be in good shape.The fishing industry in particular has been buffeted by fallout from the spill. Surveys of oyster grounds in Louisiana showed extensive deaths of the shellfish. Large sections of the Gulf Coast — which accounts for 60 to 70 percent of the oysters eaten in the United States — have been closed to harvesting. At Get-Away-Lodge in Plaquemines Parish, the worst-hit area of the coast, three fishing captains changed oil in the boats they once used for fishing, but are now part of BP's vessel of opportunity program.They were pleased, but concerned — and worried about how long their jobs for BP will last.I think it's wonderful they capped it, but it's not helping our businesses,said Chad Horton, 32, a native of Buras, who used to make a living putting customers on schools of redfish and speckled in these bountiful waters. Our businesses are gone, but we're depending on this (BP job) to support our families. They could come in and pull it out from under us at any time.Rosalie Lapeyrouse, who owns a grocery store and a shrimping operation in Chauvin, La. that cleans, boils and distributes the catch, was shocked.It what? she said in disbelief. It stopped? she repeated after hearing the news. Oh, wow! That's good, she said, her face clouding. I'm thinking they just stopped for a while. I don't think it's gonna last. They never could do nothing with it before.Long after the out-of-control well is finally plugged, oil could still be washing up in marshes and on beaches as tar balls or disc-shaped patties. The sheen will dissolve over time, scientists say, and the slick will convert to another form. There's also fear that months from now, oil could move far west to Corpus Christi, Texas, or farther east and hitch a ride on the loop current, possibly showing up as tar balls in Miami or North Carolina's Outer Banks.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is expecting to track the oil in all its formations for several months after the well is killed, said Steve Lehmann, a scientific support coordinator for the federal agency. Once the well stops actively spewing oil, the slicks will rapidly weather and disappear, possibly within a week, and NOAA will begin to rely more heavily on low-flying aircraft to search for tar balls and patties. Those can last for years, Lehmann said.In St. Bernard Parish, oysterman Johnny Schneider stood near his boat, loaded not with seafood, but yellow plastic boom used to contain oil on the water.Eh, the damage is done. The oil's everywhere now,he said.You ain't never gonna get it out of the water.Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press Writers Shelia Byrd, Jay Reeves, Mary Foster, Alan Sayre, Kevin McGill, Jennifer Garske King, Matt Sedensky, Pauline Arrillaga and Ramit Plushnick-Masti contributed to this report.
BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 15,10
NEW ORLEANS – The oil has stopped. For now. After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring.Though a temporary fix, the accomplishment was greeted with hope, high expectations — and, in many cases along the beleaguered coastline, disbelief. From one Gulf Coast resident came this: Hallelujah.And from another: I got to see it to believe it.If the cap holds, if the sea floor doesn't crack and if the relief wells being prepared are completed successfully, this could be the beginning of the end for the spill. But that's a lot of ifs, and no one was declaring any sort of victory beyond the moment.The oil stopped flowing at 3:25 p.m. EDT when the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap was slowly throttled shut. That set off a 48-hour watch period in which — much like the hours immediately after a surgery — the patient was in stable, guarded condition and being watched closely for complications.It's a great sight, said BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles, who immediately urged caution. The flow, he said, could resume. It's far from the finish line. ... It's not the time to celebrate.
Nevertheless, one comforting fact stood out: For the first time since an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers April 20 and unleashed the spill 5,000 feet beneath the water's surface, no oil was flowing into the Gulf.
President Barack Obama, who has encouraged, cajoled and outright ordered BP to stop the leak, called Thursday's development a positive sign.But Obama, whose political standing has taken a hit because of the spill and accusations of government inaction, cautioned that we're still in the testing phase.The worst-case scenario would be if the oil forced down into the bedrock ruptured the seafloor irreparably. Leaks deep in the well bore might also be found, which would mean that oil would continue to flow into the Gulf. And there's always the possiblity of another explosion, either from too much pressure or from a previously unknown unstable piece of piping.The drama that unfolded quietly in the darkness of deep water Thursday was a combination of trial, error, technology and luck. It came after weeks of repeated attempts to stop the oil — everything from robotics to different capping techniques to stuffing the hole with mud and golf balls.The week leading up to the moment where the oil stopped was a series of fitful starts and setbacks.Robotic submarines working deep in the ocean removed a busted piece of pipe last weekend, at which point oil flowed unimpeded into the water. That was followed by installation of a connector that sits atop the spewing well bore — and by Monday the 75-ton metal cap, a stack of lines and valves latched onto the busted well.After that, engineers spent hours creating a map of the rock under the sea floor to spot potential dangers, like gas pockets. They also shut down two ships collecting oil above the sea to get an accurate reading on the pressure in the cap.As the oil flowed up to the cap, increasing the pressure, two valves were shut off like light switches, and the third dialed down on a dimmer switch until it too was choked off.And just like that, the oil stopped.It's not clear yet whether the oil will remain bottled in the cap, or whether BP will choose to use the new device to funnel the crude into four ships on the surface.For nearly two months, the world's window into the disaster has been through a battery of BP cameras, known as the spillcam. The constant stream of spewing oil became a fixture on cable TV news and web feeds.That made it all the more dramatic on Thursday when, suddenly, it was no more.
On the video feed, the violently churning cloud of oil and gas coming out of a narrow tube thinned, and tapered off. Suddenly, there were a few puffs of oil, surrounded by cloudy dispersant that BP was pumping on top. Then there was nothing.
Finally! said Renee Brown, a school guidance counselor visiting Pensacola Beach, Fla., from London, Ky. Honestly, I'm surprised that they haven't been able to do something sooner, though.Alabama Gov. Bob Riley's face lit up when he heard the news. I think a lot of prayers were answered today, he said. The next 48 hours are critical. Engineers and scientists will be monitoring the cap around the clock, looking for pressure changes. High pressure is good, because it shows there's only a single leak. Low pressure, below 6,000 pounds per square inch or so, could mean more leaks farther down in the well.Thad Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral overseeing the spill for the government, said they are deciding as they go along whether to release oil into the water again. At the end of the 48-hour test it's possible oil will start to flow again — but, theoretically, in a controlled manner.
When the test is complete, more seafloor mapping will be done to detect any damage or deep-water leaks.The saga has devastated BP, costing it billions in everything from cleanup to repair efforts to plunging stock prices. Though BP shares have edged upward, they shot higher in the last hour of trading on Wall Street after the company announced the oil had stopped. Shares rose $2.74, or 7.6 percent, to close at $38.92 — still well below the $60.48 they fetched before the rig explosion. The Gulf Coast has been shaken economically, environmentally and psychologically by the hardships of the past three months. That feeling of being swatted around — by BP, by the government, by fate even — was evident in the wide spectrum of reactions to news of the capping.Hallelujah! That's wonderful news, Belinda Griffin, who owns a charter fishing lodge in Lafitte, La., said upon hearing the gusher had stopped. Now if we can just figure out what to do with all the oil that's in the Gulf, we'll be in good shape.The fishing industry in particular has been buffeted by fallout from the spill. Surveys of oyster grounds in Louisiana showed extensive deaths of the shellfish. Large sections of the Gulf Coast — which accounts for 60 to 70 percent of the oysters eaten in the United States — have been closed to harvesting, which helps explain why one oysterman in Louisiana refused to accept that progress was afoot.
Prove it, said Stephon LaFrance of Buras, La.I've been out of work since this happened, right? And I ain't never received nothing from BP since this oil spill happened,he said. Like they say they stopped this oil leak. I think that's a lie. I got to see it to believe it.Rosalie Lapeyrouse, who owns a grocery store and a shrimping operation in Chauvin, La. that cleans, boils and distributes the catch, was shocked. It what? she said in disbelief.It stopped? she repeated after hearing the news. Oh, wow! That's good,she said, her face clouding.I'm thinking they just stopped for a while. I don't think it's gonna last. They never could do nothing with it before.Long after the out-of-control well is finally plugged, oil could still be washing up in marshes and on beaches as tar balls or disc-shaped patties. The sheen will dissolve over time, scientists say, and the slick will convert to another form.
There's also fear that months from now, oil could move far west to Corpus Christi, Texas, or farther east and hitch a ride on the loop current, possibly showing up as tar balls in Miami or North Carolina's Outer Banks. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is expecting to track the oil in all its formations for several months after the well is killed, said Steve Lehmann, a scientific support coordinator for the federal agency.Once the well stops actively spewing oil, the slicks will rapidly weather and disappear, possibly within a week, and NOAA will begin to rely more heavily on low-flying aircraft to search for tar balls and patties. Those can last for years, Lehmann said.In Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, the worst-hit area of the coast, frequent BP and government critic Billy Nungesser, the parish president, offered a word of caution: This whole mess, he said, is far from over.We better not let our guard down, Nungesser said.We better not pull back the troops because, as we know, there's a lot of oil out there, on the surface, beneath it. And I truly believe that we're going to see oil coming ashore for the next couple of years.Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press Writers Holbrook Mohr, Matthew Brown, Allen Breed, Vicki Smith, Michael Kunzelman, Shelia Byrd, Jay Reeves, Mary Foster, Alan Sayre, Kevin McGill, Jennifer Garske King, Matt Sedensky, Pauline Arrillaga and Ramit Plushnick-Masti contributed to this report.
BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 15,10 4:10PM
NEW ORLEANS – A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. The victory — long awaited by weary residents along the coast — is the most significant milestone yet in BP's effort to control one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said at a news briefing that oil stopped flowing into the water at 2:25 p.m. CDT after engineers gradually dialed down the amount of crude escaping through the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap.
I am very pleased that there's no oil going into the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, I'm really excited there's no oil going into the Gulf of Mexico, Wells said.The stoppage came 85 days, 16 hours and 25 minutes after the first report April 20 of an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers and triggered the spill.Now begins a waiting period to see if the cap can hold the oil without blowing a new leak in the well. Engineers will monitor pressure readings incrementally for up to 48 hours before reopening the cap while they decide what to do.Though not a permanent fix, the solution has been the only one that has worked to stem the flow of oil since April. BP is drilling two relief wells so it can pump mud and cement into the leaking well in hopes of plugging it for good by mid-August.BP has struggled to contain the spill and had so far been successful only in reducing the flow, not stopping it. The company removed an old, leaky cap and installed the new one Monday.Between 93.5 million and 184.3 million have already spilled into the Gulf, according to federal estimates.
BP works to fix valve leak before choking oil flow By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 15,10 8:30 AM
NEW ORLEANS – BP engineers worked Thursday to repair a leak found on a line attached to the new cap placed on top of its busted well in the Gulf of Mexico before continuing its delicate operation to stop the flow of crude.BP isolated the leak Wednesday night and had begun repairing it. It wasn't clear how it would affect the timing of the operation, or whether oil continued to be slowly closed off into the cap.The new, tighter cap had been placed on the busted well Monday, but the operation to start shutting off valves to choke off the oil was abruptly halted for about a day. BP needed time to allay government fears that the disaster could be made worse by going forward with the tests, which are needed to determine whether the temporary cap can withstand the pressure and contain the oil.The new cap along with vessels at the surface meant to siphon up the crude are considered the best hope to stop oil from continuing to foul the Gulf until two relief wells can be drilled that will allow the busted well to be plugged for good. The crisis began April 20 when the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 workers.In the 12 weeks since, an estimated 92 million to 182 million gallons of oil have flowed into the Gulf.
The latest effort to halt the tide of oil — after repeated failures — began with BP shutting off pipes that were funneling some of the oil to ships on the surface so the full force of the gusher went up into the cap. Then deep-sea robots began slowly closing, one at a time, three openings in the cap that let oil pass through. Ultimately, the flow of crude will be blocked entirely.All along, engineers were watching pressure readings to learn whether the well is intact. The first two valves shut off like a light switch, while the third works more like a dimmer and takes longer to close off. The leak was found in the line attached to the dimmer switch, but live video footage showed that oil previously spewing from other sources on the cap remained closed off.Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration's point man on the disaster, said a committee of scientists and engineers will monitor the results and assess every six hours, and end the test after 48 hours to evaluate the findings.I was gung-ho for this test and I remain gung-ho for this test,he said Wednesday.If the cap works, it will enable BP to stop the oil from gushing into the sea, either by holding all the oil inside the well machinery like a stopper or, if the pressure is too great, channeling some through lines to as many as four collection ships.The cap — a 75-ton metal stack of lines and valves — was lowered onto the well on Monday in hopes of either bottling up the oil inside the well machinery, or capturing it and funneling it to the surface. But before BP could test the equipment, the government intervened because of concerns about whether the buildup of pressure from the gushing oil could rupture the walls of the well and make the leak worse.We sat long and hard about delaying the tests, Allen said. He said that the pause was necessary in the interest of the public, the environment and safety, until officials were convinced the test could go forward.
Allen said the testing will also offer insight into the other, more permanent solution to the fix: two relief wells intended to plug the gusher from deep underground. The mapping of the sea floor that was done to prepare for the well cap test and the pressure readings will also help them determine how much mud and cement will be needed to seal off the well.Drill work was stopped on one relief well because it was not clear what effect the testing of the cap could have on it. Work on the other relief well had already been stopped according to plan.The government estimates 1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons are leaking every day.The latest effort to control the gushing well follows a string of failed attempts by BP to contain the leak, including the use of a giant concrete-and-steel box that quickly became encased in ice-like crystals; a colossal siphon tube that trapped very little oil; and an effort to jam the well by pumping in mud and shredded rubber.Online:
BP underwater video: http://bit.ly/bwCXmR Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Matthew Daly in Washington, Tom Breen in New Orleans, Matt Brown in Violet, La., Holbrook Mohr in Empire, La. and Jay Reeves in Bayou La Batre, Ala., contributed to this report.
BP begins testing new cap over Gulf oil leak By TOM BREEN and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 14,10 8:50 PM
NEW ORLEANS – BP allayed last-minute government fears of making the disaster worse and began testing the new, tighter-fitting cap Wednesday that could finally choke off the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration's point man on the disaster, said the government gave the go-ahead after carefully reviewing the risks.What we didn't want to do is compound that problem by making an irreversible mistake, he said at the end of a 24-hour roller-coaster of hopes raised, hopes dashed and hopes raised again along the Gulf Coast.
The cap — a 75-ton metal stack of pipes and valves — was lowered onto the well on Monday in hopes of either bottling up the oil inside the well machinery, or capturing it and funneling it to the surface. But before BP could test the equipment, the government intervened because of second thoughts about whether the buildup of pressure from the gushing oil could rupture the walls of the well and make the leak worse.We sat long and hard about delaying the tests, Allen said. He said that the pause was necessary in the interest of the public, the environment and safety, and that officials were convinced the test could go forward.The test began with BP shutting off pipes that were funneling some of the oil to ships on the surface so the full force of the gusher went up into the cap. Then deep-sea robots began slowly closing, one at a time, three openings in the cap that let oil pass through. Ultimately, the flow of crude will be blocked entirely. All along, engineers will be watching pressure readings to learn whether the well is intact.
Allen said BP will monitor the results every six hours and end the test after 48 hours to evaluate the findings.The one-day delay came just when it looked as if the Gulf oil crisis was nearing an end. The holdup was met with disappointment along the Gulf Coast.This thing's been going on for so long now, it's time to take a gamble, said Mitch Jurisich, a third-generation oyster farmer from Empire, La. If it's going to blow the bottom of the ocean out, it's just going to blow the bottom out.White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the government acted out of an abundance of caution to do no harm,and added that he did not consider the delay to be some giant setback.With the testing on hold, oil continued to spew nearly unimpeded into the water. Two vessels on the surface collected about 700,000 gallons on Tuesday, BP said. The government estimates 1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons are leaking every day.BP also said it was halting drilling for the duration of the test on one of two relief wells that are intended to plug the gusher permanently from deep underground. The company said it was stopping the work because it was not clear what effect the testing of the cap could have on it. Work on the other relief well had already been stopped according to plan.Before BP got the go-ahead for the cap test, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles urged Gulf residents to be patient.We're going to get this thing stopped as fast as we can, he said.If it is not in the next couple of days with the test, we'll do it with the relief wells.Tony Wood, director of the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, said the government's caution is a prudent course, because so much of the work being contemplated is uncharted territory.Wood said trapping the erupting oil in the cap could increase pressure inside the casing, or the piping inside the well, and could fracture it until it is leaking like a sieve. That could make it impossible to plug up the well.
The caution follows a string of failed attempts by BP to contain the leak, including the use of a giant concrete-and-steel box that quickly became encased in ice-like crystals; a colossal siphon tube that trapped very little oil, and an effort to jam the well by pumping in mud and shredded rubber.As of Wednesday, the 85th day of the disaster, between 92 million and 182 million gallons of oil had spewed into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by BP exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.
Online: BP underwater video: http://bit.ly/bwCXmR Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Matthew Daly in Washington, Colleen Long in New Orleans, Matt Brown in Violet, La., Holbrook Mohr in Empire, La. and Jay Reeves in Bayou La Batre, Ala., contributed to this report.
Friday, July 16, 2010
MUSLIM MAGAZINE - INSPIRE - KILL INFIDELS
WORLD TERRORISM
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.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
DOUG HAGMANNS SITE
http://homelandsecurityus.com/
PDF TO STORY
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/PDF/Inspire%20Summer%202010R.pdf
LISTEN TO SHOW JULY 16,10 HR 1-2-3
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Muslim terror magazine Inspire in English
By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director
16 July 2010: What do detailed bomb making instructions, global climate change, Arizona’s immigration law and the American dollar as a reserve currency have in common? They are all mentioned in the first edition of the Yemen-based English language version of Inspire, a magazine published by the Muslim terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) that was released last Sunday. It is a 67-page glossy publication that is the product of Anwar al-Awlaki (a/k/a Anwar Nasser Abdulla Aulaqi), a U.S. born al Qaeda terrorist and the facilitator for at least two of the 9/11 hijackers. He is also the inspiration behind Fort Hood killer Nidal Malik Hassan, the guidance counselor to the attempted Christmas Day airline bomber, the thwarted Times Square bomber, and at least two other Islamic terrorists in the U.S. It has been branded as the first magazine to be issued by al Qaeda in English.
A complete copy of the publication was obtained and carefully reviewed by investigators of the Northeast Intelligence Network, finding it to represent a new level of threat to the West and specifically, to the United States. Beyond the detailed bomb making instructions using household products and easily accessible components, the publication will likely serve its name well by effectively inspiring Muslims in the U.S. to launch small scale attacks inside our borders.The magazine features columns ostensibly written by al Qaeda terrorist leaders Ayman al Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden, the latter who favorably references the Progressive’s party’s favorite author and American socialist Noam Chomsky on the evils of U.S. policies.
A section of the magazine is dedicated to promoting the assassination of those involved in the publication and dissemination of the cartoon depictions of Islam’s Mohammed, including Seattle resident Molly Norris. According to al-Awlaki, it is the duty of Muslims in the U.S. to seek out and kill anyone who has defamed Islam or Mohammed by printing or publishing such cartoons.This is a golden opportunity to have the honor of performing an act in the service of Islam greater than any form of jihad. Defending the Messenger of Allah is a greater cause than fighting for Palestine, Afghanistan or Iraq; it is greater than fighting for the protection of Muslim life, honor or wealth. This is the pinnacle of all deeds and is waiting for the likes of Muhammad bin Maslamah.He added: We will fight for him, we will instigate, we will bomb and we will assassinate, and may our mothers be bereaved of us if we do not rise in his defense.The authors also collectively appear to understand the politics and current divisiveness within the U.S., even taking a swipe at Arizona’s attempts to secure its southern border by the passage of a state law that will take effect at the end of this month.Interestingly, in an article written by Anwar al-Awlaki titled Shaykh Anwar’s Message to the American People and Muslims in the West, he complains about Barack Hussein Obama’s attempts to disassociate the murderous actions of Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood from the Muslim religion.
[The Obama] administration, tried to portray the operation of brother Nidal Hassan, as an individual act of violence from an estranged individual. The administration practiced a control on the leak of information concerning the operation in order to cushion the reaction of the American public. Until this moment the administration is refusing to release the emails exchanged between myself and Nidal. And after the operation of our brother Umar al-Faruq the initial comments coming from the administration were looking the same: another attempt at covering up the truth.
According to U.S. Representative Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, the magazine is proof positive that al-Qaeda and its affiliates have launched a direct appeal for Americans to launch small-scale attacks here at home.
Based on our analysis, we certainly agree.
A final commentary concerning the man behind Inspire, an English language terrorist tool: Anwar al-Awlaki. Born in 1971 in New Mexico while his father was in the United States on a diplomatic posting from Yemen, al-Awlaki holds an engineering degree from Colorado State University. He also holds a Master’s degree in Education from San Diego State University. He attended George Washington University for a PhD in Human Resource Development on a scholarship provided by the Ministry of Education in Yemen. He fraudulently received $20,000 in scholarship money from a U.S. government program for his schooling in Fort Collins, Colorado by misrepresenting himself as an international student.From 1996-2000, he was the Iman at the Rabat mosque in San Diego, California, which was the spiritual home to two of the 9/11 hijackers. While in San Diego, he was twice arrested for soliciting prostitutes in August 1996 and April 1997. Previously, he had been in contact with an associate of blind sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the terror leader whose followers were convicted of the 1993 bombing attack of the World Trade Center. He had direct ties to the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia. The Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center has been described in official U.S. reports (Traveler Enforcement Compliance System [TECS] reports) as having been under numerous investigations for financing and [providing] aid and comfort to bad [organizations] and members, and as “a mosque operating as a front for Hamas operatives in [the] U.S.
About a week after the attacks of 9/11, al-Awlaki was in the hands of investigators, being questioned about his terror ties. A warrant for his arrest was issued in 2002, and investigators had him in custody at JFK Airport that October. In other words, we had Anwar al-Awlaki, and could have prevented him from his facilitation of terror. The magazine Inspire might never have been published. More importantly, many American citizens might still be alive.At the direction of David M. Gaouette, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Colorado in 2002, the warrant was pulled, most likely at the direction of the former administration or the Department of Justice. Investigation reveals that at the time al-Awlaki was about to be arrested, he was reportedly working at the Saudi Embassy under the protection of then Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar (bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud), husband of Princess Haifa bint Faisal. Haifa bint Faisal indirectly funded at least two of the 9/11 hijackers.In 2008, David M. Gaouette was appointed by the Obama administration to the position of U.S. Attorney in Denver within the Holder Justice Department. Prince Bandar was elevated to the position of Secretary-General of the National Security Council in Saudi Arabia. And Anwar al-Awlaki is now publishing English language terrorist magazines from Yemen.
MURDER AND HATE OF ISLAM
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/PDF/Inspire%20Summer%202010R.pdf
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.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
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Muslim terror magazine Inspire in English
By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director
16 July 2010: What do detailed bomb making instructions, global climate change, Arizona’s immigration law and the American dollar as a reserve currency have in common? They are all mentioned in the first edition of the Yemen-based English language version of Inspire, a magazine published by the Muslim terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) that was released last Sunday. It is a 67-page glossy publication that is the product of Anwar al-Awlaki (a/k/a Anwar Nasser Abdulla Aulaqi), a U.S. born al Qaeda terrorist and the facilitator for at least two of the 9/11 hijackers. He is also the inspiration behind Fort Hood killer Nidal Malik Hassan, the guidance counselor to the attempted Christmas Day airline bomber, the thwarted Times Square bomber, and at least two other Islamic terrorists in the U.S. It has been branded as the first magazine to be issued by al Qaeda in English.
A complete copy of the publication was obtained and carefully reviewed by investigators of the Northeast Intelligence Network, finding it to represent a new level of threat to the West and specifically, to the United States. Beyond the detailed bomb making instructions using household products and easily accessible components, the publication will likely serve its name well by effectively inspiring Muslims in the U.S. to launch small scale attacks inside our borders.The magazine features columns ostensibly written by al Qaeda terrorist leaders Ayman al Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden, the latter who favorably references the Progressive’s party’s favorite author and American socialist Noam Chomsky on the evils of U.S. policies.
A section of the magazine is dedicated to promoting the assassination of those involved in the publication and dissemination of the cartoon depictions of Islam’s Mohammed, including Seattle resident Molly Norris. According to al-Awlaki, it is the duty of Muslims in the U.S. to seek out and kill anyone who has defamed Islam or Mohammed by printing or publishing such cartoons.This is a golden opportunity to have the honor of performing an act in the service of Islam greater than any form of jihad. Defending the Messenger of Allah is a greater cause than fighting for Palestine, Afghanistan or Iraq; it is greater than fighting for the protection of Muslim life, honor or wealth. This is the pinnacle of all deeds and is waiting for the likes of Muhammad bin Maslamah.He added: We will fight for him, we will instigate, we will bomb and we will assassinate, and may our mothers be bereaved of us if we do not rise in his defense.The authors also collectively appear to understand the politics and current divisiveness within the U.S., even taking a swipe at Arizona’s attempts to secure its southern border by the passage of a state law that will take effect at the end of this month.Interestingly, in an article written by Anwar al-Awlaki titled Shaykh Anwar’s Message to the American People and Muslims in the West, he complains about Barack Hussein Obama’s attempts to disassociate the murderous actions of Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood from the Muslim religion.
[The Obama] administration, tried to portray the operation of brother Nidal Hassan, as an individual act of violence from an estranged individual. The administration practiced a control on the leak of information concerning the operation in order to cushion the reaction of the American public. Until this moment the administration is refusing to release the emails exchanged between myself and Nidal. And after the operation of our brother Umar al-Faruq the initial comments coming from the administration were looking the same: another attempt at covering up the truth.
According to U.S. Representative Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, the magazine is proof positive that al-Qaeda and its affiliates have launched a direct appeal for Americans to launch small-scale attacks here at home.
Based on our analysis, we certainly agree.
A final commentary concerning the man behind Inspire, an English language terrorist tool: Anwar al-Awlaki. Born in 1971 in New Mexico while his father was in the United States on a diplomatic posting from Yemen, al-Awlaki holds an engineering degree from Colorado State University. He also holds a Master’s degree in Education from San Diego State University. He attended George Washington University for a PhD in Human Resource Development on a scholarship provided by the Ministry of Education in Yemen. He fraudulently received $20,000 in scholarship money from a U.S. government program for his schooling in Fort Collins, Colorado by misrepresenting himself as an international student.From 1996-2000, he was the Iman at the Rabat mosque in San Diego, California, which was the spiritual home to two of the 9/11 hijackers. While in San Diego, he was twice arrested for soliciting prostitutes in August 1996 and April 1997. Previously, he had been in contact with an associate of blind sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the terror leader whose followers were convicted of the 1993 bombing attack of the World Trade Center. He had direct ties to the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia. The Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center has been described in official U.S. reports (Traveler Enforcement Compliance System [TECS] reports) as having been under numerous investigations for financing and [providing] aid and comfort to bad [organizations] and members, and as “a mosque operating as a front for Hamas operatives in [the] U.S.
About a week after the attacks of 9/11, al-Awlaki was in the hands of investigators, being questioned about his terror ties. A warrant for his arrest was issued in 2002, and investigators had him in custody at JFK Airport that October. In other words, we had Anwar al-Awlaki, and could have prevented him from his facilitation of terror. The magazine Inspire might never have been published. More importantly, many American citizens might still be alive.At the direction of David M. Gaouette, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Colorado in 2002, the warrant was pulled, most likely at the direction of the former administration or the Department of Justice. Investigation reveals that at the time al-Awlaki was about to be arrested, he was reportedly working at the Saudi Embassy under the protection of then Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar (bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud), husband of Princess Haifa bint Faisal. Haifa bint Faisal indirectly funded at least two of the 9/11 hijackers.In 2008, David M. Gaouette was appointed by the Obama administration to the position of U.S. Attorney in Denver within the Holder Justice Department. Prince Bandar was elevated to the position of Secretary-General of the National Security Council in Saudi Arabia. And Anwar al-Awlaki is now publishing English language terrorist magazines from Yemen.
MURDER AND HATE OF ISLAM
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/PDF/Inspire%20Summer%202010R.pdf
GLOBAL WARMING-FALSE LIES
OBAMA YOU CAN NOT EXPECT TO MURDER GOD'S INNOCENT BABBIES (CREATIONS(BY ABORTIONS)AND NOT HAVE CONSEQUENCES LIKE THIS WASHINGTON QUAKE.GOD IS WARNNG YOU TO REPENT AND STOP FUNDING ABORTIONS,ITS NOT A CHRISTIAN THING TO DO,SO CALLED CHRISTIAN DISQGUISED BY THE WOLF MUSLIM IN SHEEPS(CHRISTIAN) CLOTHING.
Minor earthquake shakes US capital's movers By KAREN MAHABIR, Associated Press Writer - JULY 16,10
WASHINGTON – A minor earthquake shook residents awake in the DC area early Friday, rattling windows but apparently causing no serious damage.And while Californians might scoff at the 3.6 magnitude quake, Susan Potter, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, said it was the strongest to hit within 30 miles of DC since they began keeping records.The quake hit at 5:04 a.m. EDT and was centered in the Rockville, Md., area said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center. Baldwin said aftershocks could occur over the next couple days, but none had yet been reported. He said the aftershocks are generally of a smaller magnitude than the initial earthquake.Police in Washington and in nearby Montgomery County, Md., said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.Tafelila Pilgrim, 78, was in the bathroom in Washington getting ready to start her day when the shaking started. A plastic glass of water she had placed on the sink fell and she said she shouted to her roommates.
I start screaming, she said. I was afraid.On the U.S. Geological Survey's website, people as far away as Pennsylvania and West Virginia reported feeling the quake.
Lucille Baur, public information officer for the Montgomery County Police Department, said the department received a lot of calls from people wondering what had happened.Debby Taylor Busse said she was in the basement of her home in Vienna, Va., in Fairfax County when she felt the quake hit. She was already awake watching television, but her husband had been asleep in a second-floor bedroom when the tremor woke him.I didn't know what it was, Busse said. I have never been in an earthquake before. It felt like an airplane going overhead or thunder, but it wasn't coming from above.She said it lasted just a few seconds and compared it to a strong thunder strike — enough to rattle the house, but not enough to knock anything over.
Brett Snyder, who lives in Gaithersburg, Md., told AP Radio he was awakened by the quake but said it wasn't a big deal.It happened very instantaneously and then off to a day's work, Snyder said.Washington resident Denver Turner was sitting at the computer answering e-mails when he felt the carpet begin to vibrate beneath his feet.
I didn't know DC got earthquakes, really, Turner said. Definitely my first experience and not something I'd want to go through on a greater scale.The Washington area has had small, infrequent earthquakes over the years, including a 2.5-magnitude quake in 1997 that was within 25 to 30 miles of Friday's quake and a 2.3-magnitude quake in 1996 that was within 15 miles, Baldwin said.The thing that makes this (Friday's) earthquake distinctive is that is was felt widely over the region, he said.Associated Press writers Matt Small and Jessica Gresko contributed to this report.
IS THE NAACP A RACIST GROUP AGAINST WHITES.ID SAY YES.TELLING THE TEA PARTY TO ROOT OUT RACISM.NAACP GET THE RACISM AGAINST WHITES OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM RIGHT ROLAND MARTIN OF CNN.THE POVERTY LAW CENTER IS PROBABLY BEHIND AND FUNDING THIS RACISM IN THIS CASE.
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.(TR 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 reaches out for new powers at United Nations
LEIGH PHILLIPS 15.07.2010 @ 09:27 CET
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy will in future be able to address the UN chamber no differently from US President Barack Obama or Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmedinejad under draft reforms agreed by member states.EU countries at meetings in Brussels and New York have agreed to table a resolution in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to give the union the right to speak, according to a UK ministerial letter sent out to British MPs on Wednesday (14 July) and seen by EUobserver. The EU currently has only observer status at the UN. Its delegates do not sit among the UN member states, but off to the side, along with entities such as the Vatican, the Red Cross and the Arab League.The symbolic sitting arrangements are not due to change.
But if the motion, which is to be tabled in the coming weeks, is approved by the general assembly, the EU will also be awarded other rights enjoyed by fully-fledged UN members, such as the right to make proposals and submit amendments, the right of reply, the right to raise points of order and the right to circulate documents.
There will also be additional seats put in for the EU's foreign policy chief, High Representative Catherine Ashton and her officials.An EU diplomat said the idea behind the changes is to boost the profile of the EU as an entity in itself at the international level.Britain's EU minister, David Lidington, in the UK ministerial letter said however that the move should not be interpreted as undermining Britain's permanent seat on the UN Security Council: The granting of such rights to the EU will not affect the UK's position as a member of the UNGA or the UN Security Council.
Meanwhile, foreign secretary William Hague is making sure that UK diplomats in New York send out the message the EU upgrade is strictly limited. The new resolution does not imply agreement to seek additional rights in any other fora, the UK ministerial letter says.The new rights flow from changes established by the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force last December. The Lisbon Treaty established new structures for the management of the EU's external relations, Mr Lidington explained.The UN developments could be seen as something of a u-turn for the British Conservative party.Back in October 2007, when the Tories were still in opposition and the Lisbon Treaty was just about to be signed off by EU countries, Mr Hague had warned that Lisbon would ultimately lead to an EU takeover of Britain's permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Mr Hague said at the time: The new treaty, like the old, could automatically let the EU foreign minister speak for Britain at the UN security Council in certain situations.This is clearly the thin end of the wedge for an EU takeover of our only seat. Given that our independent vote at the EU is now coming under threat, the case for letting people have their final say in the referendum [on the Lisbon Treaty] they were promised is now unanswerable.He made the comments after the then deputy UN general secretary Mark Malloch Brown, who later became a Labour minister, said that an EU replacement of the UK seat was inevitable, in remarks first reported by EUobserver.I think it will go in stages, he said. We are going to see a growing spread of that and then steady formalisation of it institution by institution, probably starting in the UNDP or UNICEF [two UN branches dealing with aid] first.It is not going to happen with a flash and a bang, he continued, adding that he hoped it will happen as quickly as possible.Speaking to this website, a UK diplomat said the latest move represents no threat to the UK's security council seat: This is a completely separate discussion. This is about the government's new, engaged and open approach to the EU. This is why we're telling MPs.There is no change in seating arrangements. The EU will not now be sitting amongst the UN member states ... between Ethiopia and Fiji,the diplomat added.
France, UK and Germany call for 30 percent CO2 cut
ANDREW WILLIS 15.07.2010 @ 09:28 CET
Ministers from three of Europe's largest countries have called on the EU to make a unilateral move towards cutting carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2020, rather than the current target of 20 percent. The move, which marks a dramatic u-turn on previous positions, is vital to prevent Europe losing out in the race to develop low-carbon technologies, British energy minister Chris Huhne, German environment minister Norbert Roettgen and French ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said in an opinion piece in the Financial Times on Thursday (15 July).If we stick to a 20 percent cut, Europe is likely to lose the race to compete in the low-carbon world to countries such as China, Japan or the US,wrote the three ministers. While Europe currently enjoys a leading position in the low-carbon goods and services sector, recent research shows China has leapt ahead in green technology investment, attracting $40.3 billion of asset finance for clean energy in the past year, roughly $10 billion more than the EU.
The call for a unilateral jump to a 30 percent cut on 1990 levels is likely to anger European businesses however, with a European Commission paper in May on the subject attracting harsh criticism.Brussels argued that the economic recession would make the greater cut significantly cheaper than previously thought, but fierce lobbying from businesses and certain EU states resulted in the document's language being watered down. While making the case for the larger cut, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard said present conditions are not right due to Europe's economic difficulties. In their opinion piece on Thursday however, the three ministers say there is a compelling economic argument for the 30 percent cut, with failure to move now likely to lead to greater costs in the future. The current target of a 20 percent reduction now seems insufficient to drive the low-carbon transition, they said. The recession by itself has cut emissions in the EU's traded sector by 11 per cent from pre-crisis levels.The greater reduction is a policy for jobs and growth, energy security and climate risk,they add. Previously in UN climate talks, the EU has declared its willingness to make the jump to 30 percent only if other other countries around the world take similar steps, a development that did not materialise in Copenhagen last December. Germany has been among the strongest opponents to a unilateral EU move, stressing that the jump should only be made in the context of a wider international agreement.France has also shown resistance in the past, with the debate now likely to be thrown wide open again ahead of international talks on global warming in December in Cancun, Mexico.
EXAMINING BLACK LOYALTY TO DEMOCRATS
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Global Warming Theory: False in Parts, False in Totality
By Dr. Tim Ball Thursday, July 15, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS
There are so many variables ignored, underreported or simply not understood in climate science and especially in the computer models that purport to simulate global climate, that they destroy any pretence we know or understand weather and climate. But don’t take my word for it. Consider the comments from proponents of anthropogenic global warming including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).In the 2001 report they said, In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that long-term prediction of future climate state is not possible.James Lovelock, Gaia hypothesis speculator said, It’s almost naive, scientifically speaking, to think that we can give relatively accurate predictions for future climate. There are so many unknowns that it’s wrong to do it.Kevin Trenberth, IPCC author and CRU associate said, It’s very clear we do not have a climate observing system… This may be a shock to many people who assume that we do know adequately what’s going on with the climate, but we don’t.Many reports exist on the inadequacy of temperature data. Ross McKitrick asks whether a global temperature exists at all.
Anthony Watts shows the serious problems with the weather stations in the US and these are supposedly the best in the world.We also know how the record is adjusted to support the warming theory. However, measurement of other variables is worse simply because of the complexity of measurements. Instruments to accurately measure precipitation, especially snowfall, have always been a great challenge. Perhaps the most forgotten variable, yet critical to weather and climate, is wind speed. Ancient Greeks knew the importance of wind direction and how it determined the pattern of weather in a region. They even built a Tower of the Winds in Athens honoring the eight wind deities (Figure 1). Direction was critical for sailing as well, so mariners developed the ability to read the wind to 32 points of the compass. Speed was a different matter. Early attempts had a flat board on a spring with a pointer attached that was set against a scale. Wind pushed the board and the pointer indicated the force. The big change came with the wind cup or anemometer in 1846. While this provides an accurate measure, recording the information is important because the work the wind does requires detailed almost continuous data.
Figure 1: Tower of the winds, Athens
Source: wikipedia.org (Tower of the Winds)
The atmosphere is heated by air in contact with the ground (conduction) but also by evaporation of moisture that is then released into the atmosphere. In both cases the rate varies with wind speed. Even a small variation in wind speed results in a variation in heat exchange and distribution in the atmosphere. Wind is created by difference in pressure that is created by difference in temperature. High temperature creates low pressure and wind then blows from the high pressure to redress the imbalance. There are general global wind patterns created by differential heating. If the Earth wasn’t rotating a simple circulation of air rising at the Equator and descending at the Poles would occur, however rotation results in generally easterly winds at the Equator and the Poles with prevailing westerly winds in the middle latitudes. Each region has different land/ water ratios so a shift in these zonal winds will affect the role of the wind in heating the atmosphere.Figure 2 shows plots of the percentage frequency of south winds at York Factory located on the southwest shore of Hudson Bay for two decades over 100 years apart. In the early decade from 1721 to 1731, which is well within the Little Ice Age (LIA), south winds blow less than 7 percent of the time. In the decade from 1841 to 1851, which is outside of the LIA, south winds are occur over 12 percent of the time with a peak in 1842 of 27 percent.
Figure 2: Percentage of south winds at York Factory
Source; Ball (1986), Climate Change, Vol. 8 pp. 121-134.
The 2007 IPCC report acknowledges the shifts in some wind patterns and associated weather systems. Based on a variety of measurements at the surface and in the upper troposphere, it is likely that there has been an increase and a poleward shift in NH (Northern Hemisphere) winter storm-track activity over the second half of the 20th century, but there are still significant uncertainties in the magnitude of the increase due to time-dependent biases in the reanalyses. The word likely is defined as greater than 66% chance. The shift is not surprising because the prevailing westerly wind and accompanying storm track would move north as the Earth warms. They acknowledge the significant uncertainties in the validity of increased frequency. They don’t even attempt to discuss the significance for heat transfer or any other impact on global weather. We know wind causes shifts of Arctic ice to create open water or increase pack ice, but how does this affect heat exchange or evaporation? It is even worse in the Southern Hemisphere (SH). Analysed decreases in cyclone numbers over the southern extratropics and increases in mean cyclone radius and depth over much of the SH over the last two decades are subject to even larger uncertainties. The degree to which the IPCC and their supporters have fooled the world is amazing. As Jean-Francois Revel said: How is it possible for a theory, which is false in its component parts, to be true as a whole. In the case of official climate science he could add that many parts of the whole are simply omitted. He explained the mentality that has pervaded the AGW supporters when he wrote, A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence His book titled, The Flight from Truth: The Reign of deceit in the Age of Information tells it all.
THIS LIER OBAMA CLAIMED NO ABORTION FUNDING IN THE HEALTHCARE BILL.AND WHAT DO I HEAR TODAY ,2 STATES GET FUNDING AND GUESS WHAT FOR.THE FUNDING IS FOR MURDERING(ABORTING) CHILDREN IN 2 STAES IN AMERICA.SO MUCH FOR TRUTH FROM THAT MUSLIM FRAUD FAKE AMERICAN OBAMA.
Obama creates more crises to manipulate and control BY LAURIE ROTH JULY 15,10
President Obama is on a Rules for Radicals roll,creating environmental crises with the calculated sham of the Gulf oil spill, while fueling race wars with the NAACP against the Tea Party groups. Remember, Obama needs crises and enemies to be the messiah and dictator he fantasizes being.As long as people can suffer in the gulf, prices go up and jobs are ruined,he can blame big oil,off shore drilling and eventually Bush, since that is his favorite fall back.Once the problem has grown to the uncontrollable absurd,mostly through his neglect in leadership and careful, planning of chaos, he can cram cap and trade through,most likely in the lame duck session after the election.The Democrats and Obama know what is coming. They will attempt to cram their agenda through anyway they can in sneaky,back handed ways.The other push and distraction is Obama siding with the NAACP and attempting to manipulate a race war by lying about the Tea Party groups,saying they are racist. The hope is that the African American community and their votes will pull into Obama and perceive a growing plot of racism against them with 40-50 million people in the Tea Parties. As with the facts of the Gulf oil spill, this racism charge is a million percent untrue and completely fraudulent.I have spoken at many Tea Party rallies across the country and have seen all kinds of races and political parties represented. Many of the speakers are black. Their focus has never been about race or the specific race of Obama. They have developed only because of the dangerous and frightening over reach of the Obama administration and this congress. They are responding to the out of control spending, taxation, regulations, socialism and shredding of Judeo/Christian values.Obama and the NAACP hopes that Black America will buy the bold faced lie that Tea Party groups are racist and practically the KKK, when they are in truth, real patriots, freedom lovers for all and protectors of our constitution and way of life!
The only racism I regularly see is at the hands of the Obama administration. Remember the recent accusation by the whistle blower who charges Corruption in the Department of Justice and intimidation regarding race. It is almost unbelievable that Attorney General, Eric Holder would dare to throw out an already concluded and slam dunked case against the new leadership for the Black Panthers who were convicted of voter fraud outside a polling facility in 2008. They were encouraging people to murder white crackers and their babies, hitting billy club weapons in their hands and intimidating voters. The facts of this vicious set of crimes were proven. Sentencing was on its way when Holder threw out the case and said they wouldn’t be sentenced. Why??? These guys were acting as vicious, racist criminals. If a white group or person had done that or the KKK had shown up threatening people and calling for murder of blacks, it would have been a legal and media blood bath, with possibly more blood running down the streets.Obama must have contrived and manipulated crises that he can move in on. He has the environmental/oil crises, the fake out race war with the Tea Party he hopes he can fester and the illegal immigration distortion and sea of lies.We have seen Obama body slam Arizona and Governor Jan Brewer when the illegal immigration bill was passed several months ago. You know, that law that reflects the 60 year old federal law that Arizona passed out of desperation since the Feds would not enforce the law on the books. Arizona has been in total melt down with the highest rate of home invasions and crime at the hands of illegal aliens in the country. They had to do something and quick if Governor Brewer was to actually be serving the people of Arizona. Then we saw the Saul Alinsky play book by Obama again. He boldly rebuked Governor Brewer, the State of Arizona and the new law to our media and the world. He made a special call to the Government of China and apologized for the law, while mocking it and Brewer with the President of Mexico, then lining up with Holder and suing Governor Brewer and the State of Arizona, with the Government of Mexico, over the racist, discriminatory, rights violating law. Obama threw other insults at the law but these were just a few.
Once again, the hopes of Obama have nothing to do with the rights of illegal aliens but about hopefully manipulating the Hispanic vote, legal and illegal. He has to look like the messiah for the disenfranchised and needy, when in truth, he is the controlling bully of all. He wants and needs the masses, minorities especially, dependent on Obama and Government, cradle to grave, depending on redistributed wealth and money from hard working Americans. While he preys and manipulates support based on his racist lies, he creates fake out enemies for all to blame. He hopes the masses won’t wake up in time and blame the real perpetrators and racists….Obama, his staff, NAACP and Black Panthers.For Obama’s brand of controlling socialism to work, he must have more control over business, environment, healthcare and media while continuing to create division, race wars and fake out enemies.One thing is for sure. Obama’s scheme is not working regarding his betrayal of Arizona and Governor Jan Brewer. According to Fox news 9 states have lined up in support of Arizona’s law. I only pray that many more will line up and stand for their sovereignty and 10th amendment rights.Get ready Obama. The American people are on to you. Media is finally starting to wake up and states are waking up to their real rights. You can make up all the crises and sea of lies you want. We expect you to do that, We are watching and soon you and this congress will be voted out. We will then send in a wrecking crew and fumigation team to clean out this congress and White House.
Gaslighting America
By Joy Tiz Thursday, July 15, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS
Gaslighting is the systematic attempt by one person to erode another’s reality. This is done by telling them that what they are experiencing isn’t so—and, the gradual giving up on the part of the other person. -Dr. Robin Stern, The Gaslight Effect
In the old movie, Gaslight, a woman is driven mad by her husband. He convinces her that she is imagining things. He keeps lighting a gas lamp in the house, causing the other lamps to become dimmer. When the wife confronts him about this, he repeatedly tells her that it’s all in her imagination and that the lamps are most assuredly not dimmer. Over time, the victim begins to doubt her own perceptions of reality, accepting that her husband must be right. His goal was to gain control over her fortune. Experts who work with emotional abuse victims recognize gaslighting—oppressors manipulate their victims into doubting their own perceptions of reality. The abuser’s goal is to get his victim to affirm that he is right—she’s the problem, not him. Most domestic abusers, however, don’t have abetment from a depraved media.Barack Obama and his cronies are using the same crazy-making tactics depicted in Gaslight, and later, George Orwell’s 1984.Obama proxies in the administration, Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder, would have us believe that we are engaged in overseas contingency operations to deal with man caused disasters. Napolitano actually contends, straight faced, that our border with Mexico is secure, despite a surfeit of evidence to show that our Mexican border is an anarchical combat zone.
Holder peddles even more pernicious feculence. A bright light, rubber hose and sodium pentathol will never get him to concede that there is even the most tenuous of linkages between Islamic jihad and attacks on the United States in the name of Allah.New Black Panthers can menace Philadelphia voters on election day without so much as a whimper of protest from AG Holder. King Samir Shabazz publicly calls for the killing of white crackers and their babies. We are directed not to make too much of this.Taxpaying Americans in lawn chairs waving American flags are the real imperilment to our way of life. By definition, the Tea Party movement is animated by racism. This charge is made over and over without a scintilla of credible evidence and taken as absolute, irrefutable fact. The racism charge is especially malignant. We’ve been taught to fear the PC Police at the cost of our own mental health. Originality is not the trademark of the Left—political correctness is cultural Marxism.Joe Biden is having a grand time telling about our glorious Summer of Recovery. The stimulus worked! Sure, you know lost your job and your neighbor is out of work and your brother in law just got downsized out; but, exalt the recovery!As is so often the case in domestic abuse, this kind of psychological abuse can swiftly escalate into violence. The moribund media is feverishly trying to kindle a race war. If the economy gets bad enough, bedlam will ensue.When the Soviet Union collapsed, the KGB, like ACORN, rebranded itself. Now known as the FSB, its operatives brewed a scheme to retake power before the struggling nation had a chance to evolve into a truly free society. KGB officers didn’t file for unemployment, they went to work in the highest levels of the new government. (Link)
Combining the pandemonium of the Yeltsin years with FSB-staged apartment house bombings, and war in Chechnya drove the Russian people to seek safety over freedom.
It works the same way in domestic abuse cases. Once the victim is adequately disoriented and intimidated, the abuser becomes the sole source of comfort. It’s especially helpful to the abuser if he can cut off the victim’s access to outside influence from friends and family, along with anyone else who might dare to pass along some actual truth. In due course, the victim becomes impervious to facts and evidence. The brainwashing operation is complete. Call it Stockholm Syndrome or as Dr. Patrick Carnes calls it, Traumatic Bonding. The theory of Stockholm Syndrome rests on the tenacity of traumatic bonding.Abusive relationships are more difficult to end than healthy ones. Our relationship to a president who lies to us and betrays the sovereignty of the nation is, unquestionably, abusive. Bonds formed through traumatic events are far more durable than bonds forged via healthy interactions. The toady press has a great deal invested in Obama.Fortunately, Americans are different, dare we say exceptional. It has taken an extraordinary amount of deceit and manipulation over decades to bring America to the brink of accepting Obama style of overbearing governance.
Mr. President, Karl Marx is Dead.
By Philip V. Brennan Thursday, July 15, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS
If you were President of the United States and determined to change our system of government from one that promotes and protects our cherished free enterprise system to one of a Marxist-based coercive regime you would recognize the need to do so without seeming to do so. That’s what is happening now under Barack Obama, who is fully cognizant of the fact that any overt tinkering with our liberties would be met with the stiffest opposition from the American people who have an instinctive distrust of anything that smacks of big brotherism - the very essence of Marxist socialism.To achieve his goal of transforming our system of government he would need to do so without alarming the public that they are about to become subjects of an all powerful Washington dedicated to the principles laid down by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Americans need to be convinced that in enduring recurrent recessions they are victims of such villains as something known collectively as Wall Street, or the hated rich who are determined to keep them subjugated and under their greedy thumbs.Once so convinced they will supinely accept measures that while appearing innocent of hidden motives are shrewdly designed to reduce the American people to the status of Marxist serfdom. If the citizenry can be lulled to sleep while their freedom is being stolen, they will awaken to find themselves shorn of much of their liberty.
Once you accept the reality that this is the case with our current economic maladies you can begin to understand what is afoot. Rather than striving to deal with an economy in trouble, Barack Obama appears to be deliberately attempting to make it worse. By crashing the economy without seeming to do so, he can step in when it hits absolute bottom and apply his solution - a Marxist United States of America. This is how despots are enabled to impose despotism on a formerly free people.Thus we are witnessing an avalanche of government spending authorized by a Congress firmly controlled by Obama’s acolytes and designed to cripple the economy under the massive weight of debt that cannot be repaid in this generation or those to come after it.
Once the economy hits absolute bottom the sky is the limit for the apostles of Karl Marx. A frightened citizenry can be expected to accept any measures that appear to be designed to rescue them from total penury. They will unwittingly swap their economic freedoms for an idiot’s fantasy that will assure them security from want.
From the very beginning the people of this nation have been guided and protected by Divine providence and I see no reason why our Creator would suddenly wash His hands of us and allow us to suffer from the folly of our ways. As an eternally patient and understanding Father, He allows us to stray only so far from his loving arms and when we reach what in his Divine wisdom he knows will bring on our total destruction he reins us in.It is obvious that Barack Obama recognizes only his authority with none above it. He believes there are no limits to his reach and, boy, is he ever in for the surprise of his life. Like all would-be tyrants there is a day of reckoning awaiting him, and it could come as soon as next January when hopefully the Congress will be freed of the deadly grip of a coterie of pseudo socialists and the Nation put back on the path of fiscal sanity.That newly sane Congress will be faced with dealing with Barack Obama for another two years, but if they understand that saying No is their solemn obligation and not merely a symbol of witless opposition, the nation will endure without suffering under the curse of Marxism which has destroyed many governments around the world.One hopeful sign is a sudden resurgence of the sovereignty of the several states. Thanks to Obama’s attempts to reduce the authority of the state governments and subject it to that of an all-powerful federal government, as in the case of embattled Arizona striving to rescue itself from an invasion from south of their border, the several states are awakening to the peril of total subjugation of their rights by the Federal government under Barack Obama and resisting it.The president needs to understand that it is not God who is dead, but Karl Marx, and he needs to rebury his rotting corpse and rescue the nation from its stench before it overcomes us.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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Obama is trying to surround us with Islam JULY 13,10 BY LAURIE ROTH
We already know that we aren’t fighting a war with Islamic radicals or terrorists anymore. We are fighting an overseas contingency operation. Just recently our Commander in Chief Barack Hussein Obama, has removed the terms Islamic extremism from the main document which describes our national security strategy. Islamic extremism, radicalism, fundamentalism is not to be used with military operations and focus anymore. After all, that would be a kind of religious racism wouldn’t it? Obama is aggressively shifting and redirecting how we interact with Islam and Islamic nations. We have seen Obama scrub honest and real national security and war terms from the book. He is openly at odds with his new commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus, who has coined the Petraeus doctrine, which defines the enemy as Islamic insurgents, Islamic extremists, and Islamic subversives. He talks of endless connection and support between Muslim support groups and Islamic terrorists. The obvious rolls on by Obama as usual.Obama has never been happy with the obvious, that we are at war with Islamic radicals throughout the world. So, beyond changing the names and making everyone in the military, media and country pretend we aren’t fighting Islam in anyway, he has done other notable changes. He has appointed devout Muslims to critical Homeland Security positions. Among this growing list include: Kareen Shora, ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and Arif Alikhan, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development.Maybe if Obama can change all the honest names of who we are fighting with and appoint devout Muslims into critical posts of power for national security he can put Islam and its power where he wants it over the American people. After all, it is a Religion of peace. Don’t the American people realize that yet?
Obama has to do more to manipulate Islam to power and control. How about turning our historical and leading space program NASA into an Islamic apologist, with the main goal of honoring the scientific achievements and space interests of Islam? Oh yeah, he already did that.Along with all the name changes and appointments, we see media intimidation, compromise and controls regarding Obama, his roots and agenda. Doug Hagmann www.homelandsecurityus.com and Judi McCloud, editor of Canada free press, investigated for over a year intimidation and threats into silence of some anchors and any staff that would have dared cover Obama’s eligibility story. At least one, major, national host was scared into silence and contacted Hagmann.Even with the intimidation and threats to media from the Obama administration for those who dare to question the holy one, is the complicate and shameful sell out of most media itself. Much of media decided to ignore the sea of compromising voting records, un American and dangerous associations, inconsistent statements and evidence regarding what Obama really believes and operates from. Our country is paying dearly for that disgraceful sell out today.Obama’s final strategy to elevate Islam, the Religion he says he will side with in his own book and own words, is to demonize, patronize and minimize Israel, thus lifting up the threatening Islamic nations and Islamic terrorists surrounding Israel.We have seen Obama give over a billion dollars to the Islamic serial killers, Hamas, who do nothing but attack, murder Israelis and plan more attacks while playing the persecuted victim. We have seen Obama import Hamas victims to the U.S.
Naturally it is not enough to fund the enemy. Therefore, Obama has to insult and harass Israel the entire first two years he is in office. Biden and Hillary had their knickers in a twist when Prime Minister Netanyahu wouldn’t stop building homes on their sovereign land, per their mandate.Obama also managed to support the lies and international distortion surrounding the Turkish flotilla incident, where Israeli commandos were forced to stop ships heading straight for the Gaza. It didn’t matter that Israel had already warned Turkey not to send any ships to Gaza. It didn’t matter that over 50 people on terrorist watch lists were found on one of the boats. It didn’t matter that Israel wasn’t trying or planning to hurt people on the boats but to re route them to another port where they could search them. Why would the Israelis want to search boats full of aid and help??? Maybe because they had apprehended all kinds of terrorist equipment, personnel and bombs going to the Gaza before. Israel ended up being 100% right that this was more of the same. Obama didn’t care. He, along with the Islam worshipping, UN rebuked Israel and demanded investigations….bla bla bla.OK, OK, Islam is a Religion that wants peace. They just have peppered through their teaching, preaching, traditions and Holy books, statements of hate for Jews and Christians, agendas to conquer societies, import Sharia law and have a world wide caliphate again. Jihad is really just an internal struggle, so they say. Tell that to the thousands who have been murdered at the hands of Islamic radicals here and abroad. We have seen non stop honor killings, murder of US soldiers by Islamic US soldiers in our country and abroad; near miss plane attacks and car bombing attempts! 9/11 just started a new wave of what we had been experiencing for years.More in the Religion of peace. This week 64 people were murdered by Somali Islamists who bombed a ton of people as they watched the World Cup finals in Uganda.Finally, is there any question about the loyalties of this President when his attorney General Eric Holder has thrown out the case against the New Black Panther leadership who were caught threatening, menacing and intimidating voters outside a precinct in 2008. Most of us have heard the famous words of Malik Zulu Shabazz by now, screaming his hate for white crackers and urging people to murder whites and their babies. He did this while brandishing a weapon and scaring voters. What we also must remember that the Black Panthers are historically anti Semitic and pro black Islam.Gee, they hate Jews and love Islam. Any questions as to why the slam dunk case against them was thrown out by the Obama administration and Holder???
Reality check
We are in a war with radical Islam, not all Islamics, but many. We have a President who is Muslim and kisses up to Muslim nations. We have a President who insults and shreds our treasured relationship with Israel. We have a President who compromises our national security by appointing Muslims to high level, national security positions and lies about who is threatening us and constantly attacking us.
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 33 killed in Sudan floods
Thu Jul 15, 11:41 am ET
KHARTOUM (AFP) – At least 33 people were killed and several others were missing following powerful floods in eastern Sudan, police said on Thursday.Thirty-three people died, several are reported missing, said Ali Sukar, police chief of Agige district, following days of rain caused flooding in Sudan's Red Sea state.Many head of cattle also perished, Sukar added.Ten days of downpour had flooded villages close to Tokar, an area about 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Port Sudan, the main city in eastern Sudan, which also experienced heavy rainfall on Sunday, residents said.It is not raining today but the water level remains high, Sukar said.State services are providing assistance to the population and looking for the missing. We need help from humanitarian organisations,he added.Dozens of people are killed each year during the rainy season in Sudan, Africa's largest country where many live in mud brick homes.
Tropical depression moving across Pacific
Thu Jul 15, 4:58 am ET
MIAMI – A poorly organized tropical depression is moving across the Pacific off the coast of Mexico and is not a threat to any land.The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the depression has maximum sustained winds Thursday near 35 mph (55 kph) and is expected to strengthen slightly over the next few days.The depression is located about 370 miles (600 kilometers) southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and is moving west-northwest near 9 mph (15 kph) on a track that will take it farther out to sea.
China faces worst floods in 12 years by Marianne Barriaux – Thu Jul 15, 1:58 am ET
BEIJING (AFP) – China could be facing the worst floods in more than a decade if rains continue to drench the Yangtze river region, an official said Thursday, as a major tropical storm threatens the southern coast.The situation along the nation's longest waterway was at a critical point, Wang Jingquan, head of the flood control office at the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission, told AFP.If heavy rain hits the upper reaches of the river, the Yangtze River basin could suffer from flooding similar to 1998, he said.And if you add the (imminent) landfall of Typhoon Conson, the situation along the Yangtze River basin is even less optimistic.China experienced massive deadly floods in 1998 in parts of the Yangtze River basin, which acts as an unofficial dividing line between the north and south of the country.The disaster killed 4,150 people and forced over 18 million more out of their homes, causing economic losses of 255 billion yuan (38 billion dollars), according to state media reports.Wang warned that the nation's three worst floods in recent history -- 1954, 1983 and 1998 -- all happened in July and August.According to the civil affairs ministry, 118 people have died in floods that have hit the southern half of China since the beginning of July, and another 47 are still missing.The downpours have also triggered deadly landslides that have swept entire villages away.A series of such disasters hit parts of southwestern and central China earlier this week, killing at least 41 people, but it was unclear whether the victims were included in the ministry's overall death toll.
In the eastern province of Jiangxi, flash floods forced the evacuation of more than 30,000 people and water from three reservoirs spilled over into neighbouring areas, the official China Daily newspaper said.China's national meteorological centre warned that Conson, which killed 23 people and left dozens missing in the Philippines, was due to hit the southern shores Thursday.It had initially been downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm, but had gathered strength again and was now classed as a severe tropical storm, the centre said.Around 25,000 fishing boats have returned to port in the southern island of Hainan ahead of the storm, which is expected to bring winds that will trigger eight-metre (26-feet) waves, the official Xinhua news agency said.President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao urged local authorities to do their utmost to minimise flood-related losses, Xinhua said.
SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
MORE SIN SIGNS
EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Goldman to pay $550M to settle civil fraud charges By MARCY GORDON and DANIEL WAGNER, AP Business Writers - JULY 16,10
WASHINGTON – Goldman Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges that the Wall Street giant misled buyers of mortgage-related investments.The settlement was announced Thursday by the Securities and Exchange Commission hours after Congress gave final approval to the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression.The deal calls for Goldman to pay a $535 million fine and $15 million in restitution of fees it collected. Of the total $550 million, $300 million will go to the government and $250 million goes to compensate two banks that lost money on their investments.The penalty was the largest against a Wall Street firm in SEC history. But the settlement amounts to less than 5 percent of Goldman's 2009 net income of $12.2 billion after payment of dividends to preferred shareholders — or a little more than two weeks of net income.
Word that Goldman had settled began leaking about a half-hour before stock markets closed and appeared to please investors. Goldman had been trading at about $140 a share. The stock rose to close at $145.22, up $6.16, and shot up to $153.60 in after-hours trading.The settlement involves charges that Goldman sold mortgage investments without telling buyers that the securities had been crafted with input from a client that was betting on them to fail.The securities cost investors close to $1 billion while helping Goldman client Paulson & Co. capitalize on the housing bust, the SEC said in the charges filed April 16.The charges were the most significant legal action related to the mortgage meltdown that pushed the country into recession. They dealt a blow to the reputation of a Wall Street giant that had emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis.Goldman acknowledged Thursday that its marketing materials for the deal at the center of the charges omitted key information for buyers.
But the firm did not admit legal wrongdoing.In a statement, Goldman said it was a mistake for the marketing materials to leave out that a Goldman client helped craft the portfolio and that the client's financial interests ran counter to those of investors.We believe that this settlement is the right outcome for our firm, our shareholders and our clients, the firm's statement said.Robert Khuzami, the SEC's enforcement director, called the settlement a stark lesson to Wall Street firms that no product is too complex, and no investor too sophisticated, to avoid a heavy price if a firm violates the fundamental principles of honest treatment and fair dealing.
The SEC's wide-ranging investigation of Wall Street firms' mortgage securities dealings in the years running up to the financial crisis goes on, Khuzami said.We are looking at deals across a wide variety of institutions and a wide variety of circumstances, he said.Though the fine won't make much of a dent in Goldman's finances, the settlement will have sweeping legal implications for future securities fraud cases, said John Coffee, a securities law professor at Columbia University.Even if the penalty was lower than the market expected, the fact that Goldman admitted that it made misleading and incomplete disclosures to its clients vindicates the SEC's legal theory for the future, Coffee said. You have to understand that the defendant almost never makes such a concession in SEC settlements.The settlement is subject to approval by a federal judge in New York's Southern District. The SEC said its case continues against Fabrice Tourre, a Goldman vice president accused of shepherding the deal. Tourre is still employed by Goldman and remains on paid administrative leave, according to a person familiar with his status who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Goldman is paying Tourre's legal expenses, the source said.The Justice Department opened a criminal inquiry of Goldman in the spring, following a criminal referral by the SEC, the Associated Press reported in April, citing a knowledgeable person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the inquiry was in a preliminary phase. Goldman made no mention of a criminal case in its statement Thursday.Of the $550 million Goldman agreed to pay, $250 million will go to the two big losers in the deal. German bank IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG will get $150 million. Royal Bank of Scotland, which bought ABN AMRO Bank, will receive $100 million.
Goldman will also pay back $15 million in fees it collected for managing the deal. The remaining $535 million is considered a civil penalty. Paulson was not charged by the SEC.The SEC filed the case after a series of embarrassing blunders — most notably its failure to detect the Ponzi scheme run by Bernard Madoff and the alleged fraud by R. Allen Stanford. The Goldman case was a high-profile opportunity for the agency to prove it could be tough on Wall Street.Jacob Frenkel, a former SEC enforcement attorney, said the SEC met that objective.This was a bet-the-agency case,Frenkel said.They had a lot at stake here, and this did wonders to re-establish a strong enforcement image and presence.Goldman dodged major risks as well. The company quieted a source of public criticism and can return to focusing on its business. Goldman's legal troubles may not be over. Despite the settlement, investors who lost money on the transactions could still sue the firm for civil damages, Thomas Ajamie, a Houston-based defense lawyer who specializes in financial fraud cases.Nothing stops the investors from filing their own claims, Ajamie said.
The chairman of a Senate panel that interrogated Goldman officials after the SEC filed its charges, applauded the settlement.Goldman played fast and loose ... misled its clients, and got called on it today,Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Thursday. A key factor in the settlement is that Goldman acknowledges wrongdoing, in addition to paying a fine and changing its practices.AP Business Writers Christopher S. Rugaber and Alan Zibel in Washington and Stevenson Jacobs in New York contributed to this report.
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.
Next steps in test of BP Gulf oil cap
JULY 16,10
NEW ORLEANS – BP shut all three valves to close a new cap over its busted Gulf of Mexico well Thursday, stopping the flow of oil into the water for the first time since April. What's next? THE TEST: BP plans to keep the cap closed for 48 hours to see if it can withstand the pressure of the oil without blowing a new leak in the well. Every six hours, they'll assess the pressure readings and other data to decide whether to continue. High pressure is good; low pressure indicates a possible leak in the well and BP could open the cap again.WHAT CAN GO WRONG: A leak somewhere in the well's piping that extends down far into the earth could complicate the situation in two ways. Oil and gas could erupt into the sea floor and be harder to contain. Damage to the pipes underground could also make it harder to plug the well for good with cement and mud.
NEXT STEPS: After the test, it's not clear yet whether the oil will remain bottled in the cap or whether BP will chose to use the new device to funnel the crude into four ships on the surface.ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: The fishing industry in particular has been buffeted by fallout from the spill. Surveys of oyster grounds in Louisiana showed extensive deaths of the shellfish. Large sections of the Gulf Coast — which accounts for 60 to 70 percent of the oysters eaten in the United States — have been closed to harvesting.
Congress OKs Wall St. crackdown, consumer guards By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer - JULY 15,10
WASHINGTON – Congress on Thursday passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer protections to prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown that knocked the economy to its knees.A year in the making and 22 months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a worldwide panic in credit and other markets, the bill cleared its final hurdle with a 60-39 Senate vote. It now goes to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature, expected as early as Wednesday.The law will give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create a new agency to guard consumers in their financial transactions and shine a light into shadow financial markets that escaped the oversight of regulators. The vote came on the same day that Goldman Sachs & Co. agreed to pay a record $550 million to settle charges that it misled buyers of mortgage-related investments.From storefront payday lenders to the biggest banking and investment houses on Wall Street, few players in the financial world are immune to the bill's reach. Consumer and investor transactions, whether simple debit card swipes or the most complex securities trades, face new safeguards or restrictions.A powerful council of regulators would be on the lookout for risks across the finance system. Large, failing financial institutions would be liquidated and the costs assessed on their surviving peers. The Federal Reserve is getting new powers while falling under greater congressional scrutiny.I'm about to sign Wall Street reform into law, to protect consumers and lay the foundation for a stronger and safer financial system, one that is innovative, creative, competitive and far less prone to panic and collapse, Obama said.Unless your business model depends on cutting corners or bilking your customers, you have nothing to fear.
Republicans said the bill is a vast federal overreach that will drive financial-sector jobs overseas. Before the final vote was even cast, House Republican leader John Boehner called for its repeal.At an eye-glazing 390,000 words — half the size of the King James Bible — the legislation doesn't offer a quick remedy, however. Rather, it lays down prescriptions for regulators to act. In many cases, the real impact won't be felt for years.One of the top regulators who will be charged with implementing the law, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, said the Senate vote represents a far-reaching step toward preventing a replay of the recent financial crisis.The Senate's final passage of the bill, two weeks after the House approved it, is a welcome achievement for a president and congressional Democrats, both increasingly unpopular with voters four months from midterm elections that threaten to put Republicans in charge of Congress. Only three Republicans voted for it — Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, and Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, who has said the bill is not tough enough, voted with most Republicans against it.The law has been a priority for Obama, ranking just behind his health care overhaul enacted in March. In its final form, the package hews closely to the plan unwrapped a year ago by the White House and in some ways is even tougher. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs promptly cast the vote in political terms.This will be a vote that Democrats will talk about through November as a way of highlighting the choice that people will get to make in 2010, he said.The political benefits, however, stand to be overshadowed by lingering high unemployment. And Republicans were betting that public antipathy toward big government and worries over jobs would trump their anger at Wall Street.We're going to be driving jobs and business overseas with this massive piece of legislation, said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., who worked with Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut on certain aspects of the bill, denounced it as a legislative monster.
Named after Dodd and Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, the Democratic committee chairmen who steered it to passage, the legislation ends a trend toward looser regulations that peaked in 1999 with the elimination of Depression-era walls separating commercial banking from riskier investment banking.And though it calls for the biggest changes in generations, it does not approach the scope of the New Deal banking rules enacted under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That era saw the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to protect consumer deposits, and the Securities and Exchange Commission to oversee the markets. The Dodd-Frank law will create a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau empowered to write and enforce regulations covering mortgages, credit cards and other financial products. Lenders face new restrictions on the type of mortgages they write and could not be rewarded for steering borrowers to higher-cost loans. Borrowers are to be protected from hidden fees and abusive terms, but also will have to provide evidence that they can repay their loans, thus halting the no-document loans that had flooded the markets.The vote Thursday capped a year of partisan struggles and cross-party courtship. Any remaining uncertainty about the bill's fate vanished earlier this week when it became clear three Republican senators would vote for it, thus assuring 60 votes to overcome procedural obstacles.Industry lobbyists fought against a number of restrictions in the bill, ultimately winning some concessions. In the end, the final bill was tougher than they wanted but not as restrictive as they feared.
The result will be over 5,000 pages of new regulations on traditional banks and years of uncertainty as to what the massive new rules will mean, said Edward Yingling, president and CEO of the American Bankers' Association. Republican opponents also criticized the bill for not addressing mortgage financing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose questionable lending helped start a collapse in the housing market.Some supporters of the bill also voiced reservations, claiming the bill did not give regulators specific direction on how to implement and enforce new rules.Congress largely has decided instead to punt decisions to the regulators, saddling them with a mountain of rule-makings and studies, said Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del.For all its ambition and reach, the legislation is dotted with exceptions.
Community banks won't have to be examined by the new consumer bureau and would get a break on higher insurance premiums. Despite calls to end proprietary trading by large banks, the law will let them put up to 3 percent of their capital in hedge funds or private equity funds. Auto dealers won't be covered by the rules of the consumer bureau.It is not a perfect bill, I will be the first to admit that,Dodd said. It will take the next economic crisis, as certainly it will come, to determine whether or not the provisions of this bill will actually provide this generation or the next generation of regulators with the tools necessary to minimize the effects of that crisis.
Websense tumbles after Morgan Stanley downgrade
Thu Jul 15, 2:44 pm ET
NEW YORK – Websense Inc. shares tumbled Thursday after a downgrade from Morgan Stanley, which expressed concern that economic trouble in Europe could hurt the company.THE SPARK: In a client note, Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss lowered his rating on Websense to Equal-weight from Overweight.THE BIG PICTURE: Websense, which provides Internet filtering and security software, has seen billings rise from last year, when many businesses were clamping down on technology spending because of the recession.THE ANALYSIS: But Weiss said mounting European concerns may pose a risk to the company's share price. Websense generated about 13 percent of its revenue in the U.K. in the first quarter.Furthermore, Weiss said it may be tough for Websense to keep up enough momentum going into next year to beat this year's results.SHARE ACTION: Websense shares fell 81 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $20.36 in afternoon trading.
Google profit misses as expenses surge By Alexei Oreskovic - JULY 15,10
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc missed Wall Street's quarterly profit estimates for the first time in two years after a spike in expenses offset a 24 percent revenue jump, but it vowed to keep investing in new businesses to drive long-term growth.Shares of the Internet search engine leader fell almost 4 percent on worries about rising costs as it spent heavily on research and development and hired aggressively to expand into new products and markets in hopes of maintaining the growth momentum Wall Street looks for.Google eased worries that lingering economic uncertainty from the European debt crisis could take a toll on its business, and stressed that it planned to continue to aggressively invest in new growth opportunities.They're throwing more money into R&D than people were expecting and a little bit less into sales and marketing, said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis. Google has been pretty clear that it's going back into investment mode. They added 1,200 people in the quarter, which means more expenses are going to kick in September.Google said the spending was concentrated on a handful of initiatives it believes could grow into billion-dollar businesses, providing diversification from the search advertising that now accounts for the lion's share of revenue.
Finance Chief Patrick Pichette cited Internet display advertising and the nascent smartphone advertising market as some of the key areas for investment, and defended the spending amid the economic uncertainty.It's while everybody is cautious that you need to pounce,Pichette said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday.Pichette added that Google, which generated 52 percent of its second-quarter revenue outside the United States, has not suffered any ill effects amid as investors fear that an economic slowdown could crimp advertising spending.Some analysts said headwinds from weakening foreign currency -- in particular the embattled euro -- did not hurt revenue growth as much as anticipated. According to its statement, second-quarter revenue would have been $176 million if forex rates had remained constant from the first quarter.In our results and in our business we have seen no impact of the current turmoil of the economic environment,said Pichette.
PAYROLL BALLOONING
Thursday's results were a rare outright earnings miss -- Google's first since the second quarter of 2008.The world's No. 1 search engine posted net income of $1.84 billion, or $5.71 a share, in the second quarter -- up from $1.48 billion, or $4.66 a share, in the year-earlier period.Excluding items, Google's EPS was $6.45, below the average estimate of $6.52, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.The company has made a number of major strategy shifts this year, including the decision to stop censoring search results in China -- a move analysts say has contributed to the more than 20 percent decline in Google's stock this year.While it announced last week that its license to operate a website in China was renewed for a year, Google did not address that during Thursday's earnings call other than to say that revenue from the country in the second quarter was decent but remained immaterial to the company.More immediately, Google is increasingly pitting itself against rivals beyond Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp, as it ventures into smartphone operating systems, mobile advertising and other areas in search of future growth.Executives highlighted a three-fold jump in searches made on phones running Google's Android operating system as a sign of the platform's growing market traction. To compete with the likes of Apple, Google made a string of acquisitions in recent months and added 1,184 employees to its payroll during the second quarter for a total of 21,805.That spending spree contributed to a 22 percent year-on-year jump in operating expenses in the second quarter and took a toll on the bottom line, according to analysts.The question is going to be, how much money are they going to have to be putting in for new initiatives? asked UBS analyst Brian Pitz. Net revenue, which excludes costs that Google shares with website partners, was $5.09 billion, above the $4.98 billion expected by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Shares in Google fell to $474.50 after closing at $494.02 on Nasdaq.Some analysts highlighted strong 24 percent growth in revenue as signs that Google was weathering well a difficult economic and advertising environment.I was pleased with the revenue coming ahead of expectations, driven by the strength in the U.S.,said Richard Fetyko of Merriman Curhan Ford. Even with the forex headwinds from international, they came in $100 million ahead of expectations.(Additional reporting by Sue Zeidler, Gabriel Madway and Carolina Madrid; Editing by Edwin Chan, Gary Hill and Richard Chang)
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.(TR 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 stress tests to kill off weak banks, experts say
ANDREW WILLIS 15.07.2010 @ 17:44 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - As the debate over the credibility of Europe's banking sector stress tests continues to rage, analysts say the EU's refusal to openly discuss a framework for national debt restructuring has placed the bloc's politicians in an intractable bind. In addition, observers say the tests are likely to see consolidation in the sector. With results from the tests set to be published on Friday week (23 July), concern is centered on whether market participants will consider the criteria used to assess the firms' weaknesses as sufficiently thorough or merely a political whitewashing stunt. Weighting the reduced value of the huge stockpile of sovereign eurozone bonds held by the 91 banks under examination is proving especially contentious, with reports suggesting the value of Greek bonds will be marked down by 17 percent and Spanish bonds by 10-11 percent.Blasted as being too low by some commentators who favour a markdown closer to 50 percent, the committee of national supervisors carrying out the tests is restricted by memberk states' current dialogue on national debt restructuring, said Nicolas Veron.
Germany supports the creation a European framework to manage future debt restructurings in an orderly way, but other member states have come out against the idea.A higher haircut would be an admission that a sovereign debt restructuring may be needed, said Mr Veron, a researcher at the Brussels-based Bruegel think-tank. They are bound by this.He suggests that no haircut be applied to the sovereign bonds as part of the tests, but instead that banks should provide a maximum amount of information to investors on what bonds they hold, allowing them to make the decision.
Consolidation in the sector
Most agree however that any question mark over the veracity of next week's tests could spell another bout of instability for the EU. If the market is not convinced then we are in for trouble, said Rym Ayadi, a researcher with the Centre for European Policy Studies, another Brussels-based think-tank.Ms Ayadi believes that the publication of the results will lead to a significant reduction in the number of European banks on the ground, as weaker firms become the target of takeover deals.
There are 91 banks being tested at the moment, I don't think there will be 91 at the end,she said.Despite the potential takeovers and efforts of banking executives to raise extra capital from the private sector, large capital injections from governments are likely to be needed to shore up a number of the firms diagnosed as being vulnerable. I expect most of the recapitalisations of Spanish regional lenders and the German state-owned Landesbanken will be done from state funds, said Deutsche Bank's chief economist Thomas Mayer. This in turn will place an additional strain on already over-stretched national coffers, he added. Aware of this, EU officials have already indicated that governments will have recourse to components of the eurozone's €750 bail-out mechanism, if needed however.
Slovakia to join EU-IMF fund, reject Greek loan
MATEJ HRUSKA 15.07.2010 @ 10:05 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The new Slovak government plans to back a €750 billion EU-IMF stabilisation mechanism for eurozone countries but is to back away from a separate euro-area countries' bail-out loan to Greece.The coalition parties have agreed [to this] in line with a proposal from the minister of finance, Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova told journalists after a meeting of the ruling coalition parties in Bratislava on Wednesday (14 July), with the government set to formally approve the decision in a vote on Thursday.Bratislava. According to Ms Radicova's spokesman, Rado Bato, Slovakia will demand a binding agreement of the eurozone countries that they reform their banking sector and the EU's Eurostat statistics office, amongst other measures.Without such an agreement, Slovakia will not join the mechanism, he said.Richard Sulik, the speaker of the Slovak parliament and a member of the ruling coalition partner, the Freedom and Solidarity party, added: We will agree with this mechanism, because we do not want to block the whole EU. We do not want to glorify this agreement, because it is not a good thing, but we will vote for it.Following the government's formal approval on Thursday, the other participating countries will be able to issue bond guarantees based on the fund. But it will also have to undergo a parliamentary vote in Slovakia in order to complete the country's internal ratification process.
In a related move set to annoy EU leaders in Brussels, the Radicova coalition on Wednesday also agreed to back out of a bail-out fund for Greece, which would have seen Bratislava paying €820 million into the pot.Based on current projections, three out of four coalition parties in parliament are set to vote against the Greek bail-out, with the remaining party to abstain. Slovakia's decision to stick to its larger EU-IMF commitment is in line with requests made by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during the prime minister's visit to Brussels on Monday and Tuesday. The previous government assumed a very clear commitment and we certainly expect commitments to be honoured. This is a basic rule of the European Union and of international policy, he said.
Bulgaria charges ex-PM amid EU pressure on justice system
VALENTINA POP 15.07.2010 @ 17:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Bulgaria's former prime minister has been charged with losing classified documents during his term, a move he called politically motivated as the European Commission is due to release a report on the country's progress in shaping up its judiciary and fight against fraud and corruption.According to Bulgarian prosecutors, Mr Stanishev allegedly lost seven confidential reports while he was a prime minister, including Nato files and a national security report on organised crime.He may face a prison sentence of up to two years, although prosecutors say the case could be concluded with just a fine.Currently a leader of the Socialist opposition, Mr Stanishev has waived his parliamentary immunity awaiting court procedures. He ridiculed the charges and said they were politically motivated as his rival and current Prime Minister Bojko Borisov has promised to perform a clean sweep of the political class and clamp down on corruption and crime, after his country lost millions of euros in EU aid due to these problems.There is no doubt that both the investigation office and the prosecutors' office work under enormous pressure from the executive power. They are carrying out a political order by it, Mr Stanishev said, as quoted by Focus News.Other ex-ministers serving under Mr Stanishev embroiled in corruption scandals, have also been indicted in recent months: former labour minister Emilia Maslarova, two agriculture ministers - Valeri Tsvetanov and Nihat Kabil - and the former defence minister Nikolay Tsonev.None have received any sentences yet, except for a local businessman, Mario Nikolov, sentenced to 12 years in prison for embezzling 7.5 million of EU farm aid, along with his wife and four accomplices. He may however appeal the verdict and will not be put behind bars until the final sentence is pronounced.
A report on the progress made by Bulgaria, as well as by its neighbouring EU state Romania, in shaping up their judicial systems and consistently pursuing corruption and fraud cases, is due to be published by the commission later this month.In 2008, the commission froze €500 million earmarked for Bulgaria, mainly in the field of agriculture, as it became clear that a lot of the money had been siphoned off via phony projects into the pockets of local businessmen such as Mr Nikolov.A report on fraud published by the commission on Wednesday (14 July) highlighted Bulgaria as the country accounting for most of the fraud reported in 2009 in regards to the so-called Sapard agriculture aid scheme.Also, the bloc's anti-fraud office, Olaf, has launched 41 fresh cases in Bulgaria last year, the majority of which are related to agricultural aid programmes.There is a better understanding in Bulgaria after their payments were suspended that they had to take real measures in order to secure the proper management of EU money, an EU official told journalists in Brussels on Wednesday.We've started seeing that Bulgarian authorities are taking up responsibilities in regards to financial controls and compliance obligations, he added.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Is Russia's Backing of Iran Sanctions Starting to Fray? TIME
By SIMON SHUSTER / MOSCOW JULY 15,10
For a couple of weeks in June, it seemed like Russia's stance on Iran was finally coming into line with that of the U.S. President Barack Obama, in one of the biggest achievements so far of his foreign policy, had convinced Russia to support a new round of U.N. sanctions, approved on June 9, meant to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb. There was a lot of back-patting at the U.N. Security Council, and on June 24, Obama's political honeymoon with his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev, reached a high point when the two chowed down at Ray's Hell Burger outside Washington, D.C., looking friendlier than ever. But this week, with the two presidents back in their respective capitals, Russia is changing its tone on Iran. The Kremlin appears once again to be playing both sides.On Wednesday, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko held a meeting in Moscow with Iranian Oil Minister Massoud Mir Kazemi, and afterwards Shmatko announced that Russia was ready to deliver fuel and oil products to Iran. The sanctions cannot stop us, he declared. And it is true: the latest round of U.N. sanctions does not forbid fuel sales to Iran, but the unilateral sanctions imposed by the U.S. and Europe do. Russia's decision therefore still has a touch of defiance and seems aimed at demonstrating its independence from the West on the Iran dilemma. At the press conference, Kazemi made it clear that this effort was working. Independent countries are truly cooperating with Iran, he said.
The following day, Russia took this initiative further by suggesting it might still sell S-300 missile systems to Iran under an existing contract. For years, Iran has been desperate to buy these rockets, which would make its nuclear installations practically invulnerable to attacks from the air. But the U.S. and Israel, who still consider airstrikes a last resort in dealing with Iran's nuclear program, have pressured Russia not to complete the sale. On June 18, about a week after the U.N. sanctions were adopted, Russia appeared to concede. Moscow believes that the sanctions resolution clearly forbids the sale of the S-300 system to Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Denisov told Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti that day. Later in June, experts from Russia's Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation also concluded that these weapons could not be sold to Iran under the new U.N. sanctions. The Israelis and the U.S. breathed a sigh of relief.But on Thursday, Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russia's state weapons exporter and a long-time friend of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said the sale had not been frozen. The final decision on signing or dropping the contract must be made by the President, Chemezov said at a summit on Russian-German relations in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg.This puts Medvedev in a very tough spot. Since the summer of 2008, when Obama announced his drive to move beyond Cold War rivalries and reset U.S.-Russian relations, he and his Russian counterpart have developed a personal rapport. Sitting in their shirtsleeves in Ray's Hell Burger, they seemed the picture of camaraderie, and a few days earlier, Medvedev could hardly contain his glee as he toured Silicon Valley, the symbol of American ingenuity that he has staked his presidency on emulating at home.
But this relationship has always come with demands on Medvedev, with a strong stance against Iran near the top of the list. On this issue in particular, Medvedev has delivered on several occasions. Indeed, at the same summit on Thursday where Chemezov made his surprise comments about selling Iran the S-300s, Medvedev said at a separate press conference that Russia was not indifferent to the military components of Iran's nuclear program. Iran must find the courage to start full-fledged cooperation with the international community, even if it does not like some of the questions that are posed,he said, sitting alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had flown in for the summit.At the same time, Medvedev realizes that sidelining Iran would come at a serious price, not least of all for Russia's budget. The S-300 contract is worth around $800 million, and if Russia fails to honor it, Iran has said it would impose a penalty that experts estimate at another $400 million. The Islamic Republic could also refuse to buy any more military products from Russia in the future, leading to an estimated loss of up to $500 million per year, according to an investigative report published on June 30 by the daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta. The report also noted that China, Russia's emerging rival in the arms trade, would be happy to take its place.On the security front, Moscow also has a lot to lose. Insurgents and advisers from Arab states are regularly caught in the mountains of the North Caucasus, the hub of the Muslim insurgency fighting to turn part of Russia into an Islamic caliphate. No evidence has ever surfaced of Iran financing these insurgents. But if it begins to count Russia as one of its enemies - as it had threatened to do in the lead-up to the June U.N. sanctions vote - experts say that Iran could throw its weight behind jihadis in Russia, just as it does in Israel for terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. Likewise in Central Asia, a patchwork of predominantly Muslim states, Iran could position itself against Russia as a rival for influence, particularly in Tajikistan, which shares strong cultural and linguistic ties with Iran.
So if it wants, Iran has many ways of inflicting damage on Russia, of shifting the security landscape in Central Asia and the Caucasus in a way that could destabilize the region,says Fyodor Lukyanov, political analyst and editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs. It has not yet done that, but if there is a radical change in relations with Russia, it can.Lukyanov says that Russia has already gone as far as it can in alienating Iran to please the U.S, and Obama will need to offer Russia some major rewards if he wants an even tougher stand on the nuclear issue. But with Russia now appearing to backpedal on its support for sanctions, such rewards might be necessary just to get the Kremlin to keep the promises it's already made.
Libyan ship with Gaza aid docks in Egyptian port
Thu Jul 15, 12:43 pm ET
EL-ARISH, Egypt – A Libyan ship carrying aid for the impoverished Gaza Strip docked at an Egyptian port on Thursday after Israel's navy stopped it from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.The director of the port of el-Arish, Gamal Abdel Maqsoud, said the diverted ship will unload its cargo and transfer it to the Red Crescent for delivery to Gaza by land across the Egyptian border.A day earlier, Israeli missile ships stopped the aid vessel from reaching Hamas-ruled Gaza. Israel imposed the blockade after the Islamic militant and anti-Israel Hamas violently overran the territory in June 2007.The standoff between Israel's navy and the crew of the aid vessel, the Amalthea, followed a botched Israeli raid on a similar Gaza-bound ship in May in which nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed.The international criticism over that raid forced Israel to ease its land blockade of the territory but it has maintained the naval embargo, insisting it is vital to keep weapons out of Hamas' hands.Restrictions remain on materials like cement and steel that Israel says could be used for military purposes. Critics of the blockade say it has failed to weaken Hamas while driving Gaza's 1.5 million people deeper into poverty.The Gadhafi foundation, headed by the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, said the aid ship left Greece on Saturday carrying 2,000 tons of food and medical supplies.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.
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.
US envoy in new bid to get Israelis and Palestinians talking by Steve Weizman – Thu Jul 15, 2:41 pm ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – US President Barack Obama's Middle East peace envoy started his sixth round of shuttle diplomacy between the Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday seeking to move the two sides to direct talks for the first time in over 18 months.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement, however, urged its leader to stay away from the negotiating table, saying that indirect talks mediated through Mitchell since May had so far yielded nothing.As Mitchell was meeting Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, the US State Department said it expected that direct talks would nevertheless resume sooner or later.I think we have a strong belief that at some point in time direct negotiations will be renewed, spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters in Washington.Whether that's days from now, weeks from now, I don't think we're in a position to say at this point.That was a more cautious statement than those emanating from the White House last week when both Obama and visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said they hoped talks would be relaunched before an Israeli moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank expires in September.In a July 7 interview on CNN television, Netanyahu challenged the Palestinian president to meet him face-to-face right now, today, tomorrow, in Jerusalem, in Ramallah (his West Bank base) or anywhere else.The Palestinians suspended direct talks in December 2008 after Israel launched a devastating offensive against the Gaza Strip and Abbas has said he will not renew them until there is progress on the contentious issues of borders and security.The lack of credibility and confidence resulting from the Israeli rejection of the indirect talks, which have achieved no progress, will become entrenched as givens and facts if there is a transition to direct talks, Abbas's Fatah movement said on Thursday.
That is something the Palestinian leadership has not and will not accept,it added.
Despite his public calls for direct talks, many Palestinians doubt that the hawkish Netanyahu and hardliners in his coalition government are ready to withdraw from the West Bank, including annexed Arab east Jerusalem -- Palestinian lands captured in 1967.In a letter addressed to Mitchell, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat slammed recent decisions to expand Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and other illegal and provocative Israeli policies.He went on to accuse Israel of flagrant violations of past agreements going back to the 1990s.Mitchell arrived in Israel on Thursday and met Barak during the evening.Over the weekend, he is due to meet Netanyahu in Jerusalem and visit Abbas at his headquarters in the West bank town of Ramallah.As with previous visits, he has not publicly discussed his plans and is not expected to reveal details of his talks.
Don't shun Euro, French PM tells Japan investors
JULY 15,10
TOKYO (AFP) – French Prime Minister Francois Fillon urged Japanese investors Friday not to shun the euro despite the recent crisis triggered by Greece's debt woes.It is not in Japan's best interest to turn away from the euro, he told a group of business leaders in Tokyo, saying that the single currency had been stabilised through concerted EU action.I can understand that seen from Asia, our operations can sometimes be difficult to perceive and understand, said the French premier, on a two-day visit to Japan.True, there is no doubt that the eurozone has gone through the most serious crisis in its history, he said.But he argued that there is nothing inherently wrong with the single currency for 16 member-states of the 27-nation European Union.Was the crisis caused by the single currency? Absolutely not," he said. We have witnessed a classic sovereign debt crisis with badly managed public finances.Fillon stressed that Europe, including powerful players France and Germany, is united and working closely together to stabilise the currency and reform public finances.I think we can say that every time there has been a crisis, Europe has actually come out stronger from all these difficulties, he said.Fillon also assured his audience that he had no concerns about the course of the euro in the short and medium term, adding that its current level matched the economic reality of the eurozone economy.The euro has recovered against the dollar as the greenback has been dragged down by fears of a US slowdown following disappointing economic data.The euro bought 1.2911 dollars in Tokyo on Friday.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.
MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
N.Korea tensions overshadow Asian security forum
by Ian Timberlake - JULY 15,10
HANOI (AFP) – Tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship will overshadow the Asia-Pacific's largest security forum when it convenes in Vietnam next week, diplomats and observers said.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will join her counterparts from 27 countries and blocs including China, Russia and the European Union for the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on Friday.South Korea has said it wants the forum to condemn North Korea for a torpedo attack which broke the corvette in two in March with the loss of 46 lives. Pyongyang vehemently denies the allegations and says it is ready to retaliate.Diplomats said the ARF would be under very strong pressure to address the issue after the UN Security Council condemned the attack but did not apportion blame -- a result hailed by the North as a great diplomatic victory.We have to say something, an Asian diplomat said.But with North Korea, China and Russia on one side of the table and South Korea and the United States on the other, the ARF was in a sort of headlock over the wording of any statement, the diplomat said.I feel there will be sparks,he added.Clinton and Defence Secretary Robert Gates will pay their respects to the dead South Korean sailors during a visit to Seoul's war memorial on Wednesday, two days before the Hanoi meeting.The allies also plan a naval exercise as a show of strength. They are still deciding where to hold the drill, originally planned for the Yellow Sea, following protests from China.
Vietnam said North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-Chun was expected to attend the ARF talks, which also include US allies Australia and Japan.Permanent Security Council members China and Russia ensured the UN's July 9 statement was very soft and indirect,contrary to what Washington and Seoul had urged, University of Sydney Korean studies lecturer Leonid Petrov said.China and Russia have not publicly accused the North of sinking the warship, despite an investigation by the United States, South Korea and other countries which found strong evidence of a North Korean torpedo attack.Diplomats and analysts said that while the ARF is likely to comment on the sinking of the Cheonan -- possibly by referring to the UN statement or using similar language -- it was unlikely to blame Pyongyang.Communist Vietnam, which will chair the meeting, has major business links with South Korea but sees the North as an ideological ally.Hanoi will try not to antagonise Pyongyang unnecessarily but also should not shy away from some comment, said Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum CSIS research institute in Hawaii.International Crisis Group analyst Daniel Pinkston said he expected the foreign ministers gathered at the forum to find a way to play down the issue, considering the format and decision-making process at the ARF.The UN statement gives the forum a plausible reason for avoiding it, he said.Critics have dismissed the ARF as a talk shop with little influence on the region's many conflicts -- from Kashmir to the South China Sea and the southern Philippines -- except as a vehicle for confidence-building between nations. The 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- whose foreign ministers meet in Hanoi from Monday -- form the core of the ARF and have a strict principle of non-interference in each other's affairs. In the wake of the UN's statement, nuclear-armed North Korea said it was willing in principle to return to multilateral disarmament talks which it abandoned last year.
North Korea can be expected to make more efforts at the ARF to mend bridges with Washington and perhaps Seoul, while believing it can continue extorting concessions and aid,Petrov said. But it's not going to lead anywhere unless North Korea undertakes a major reform. Pyongyang doesn't understand this, he said. A wild card with the potential to colour next week's meetings is Myanmar, the military-ruled member of ASEAN which, along with North Korea, is under UN sanctions. Al Jazeera television last month alleged North Korea was helping Myanmar's ruling generals to begin a nuclear weapons programme, prompting Washington to raise concerns about growing military ties between the two countries. Myanmar denies the allegations.
Minor earthquake shakes US capital's movers By KAREN MAHABIR, Associated Press Writer - JULY 16,10
WASHINGTON – A minor earthquake shook residents awake in the DC area early Friday, rattling windows but apparently causing no serious damage.And while Californians might scoff at the 3.6 magnitude quake, Susan Potter, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, said it was the strongest to hit within 30 miles of DC since they began keeping records.The quake hit at 5:04 a.m. EDT and was centered in the Rockville, Md., area said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center. Baldwin said aftershocks could occur over the next couple days, but none had yet been reported. He said the aftershocks are generally of a smaller magnitude than the initial earthquake.Police in Washington and in nearby Montgomery County, Md., said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.Tafelila Pilgrim, 78, was in the bathroom in Washington getting ready to start her day when the shaking started. A plastic glass of water she had placed on the sink fell and she said she shouted to her roommates.
I start screaming, she said. I was afraid.On the U.S. Geological Survey's website, people as far away as Pennsylvania and West Virginia reported feeling the quake.
Lucille Baur, public information officer for the Montgomery County Police Department, said the department received a lot of calls from people wondering what had happened.Debby Taylor Busse said she was in the basement of her home in Vienna, Va., in Fairfax County when she felt the quake hit. She was already awake watching television, but her husband had been asleep in a second-floor bedroom when the tremor woke him.I didn't know what it was, Busse said. I have never been in an earthquake before. It felt like an airplane going overhead or thunder, but it wasn't coming from above.She said it lasted just a few seconds and compared it to a strong thunder strike — enough to rattle the house, but not enough to knock anything over.
Brett Snyder, who lives in Gaithersburg, Md., told AP Radio he was awakened by the quake but said it wasn't a big deal.It happened very instantaneously and then off to a day's work, Snyder said.Washington resident Denver Turner was sitting at the computer answering e-mails when he felt the carpet begin to vibrate beneath his feet.
I didn't know DC got earthquakes, really, Turner said. Definitely my first experience and not something I'd want to go through on a greater scale.The Washington area has had small, infrequent earthquakes over the years, including a 2.5-magnitude quake in 1997 that was within 25 to 30 miles of Friday's quake and a 2.3-magnitude quake in 1996 that was within 15 miles, Baldwin said.The thing that makes this (Friday's) earthquake distinctive is that is was felt widely over the region, he said.Associated Press writers Matt Small and Jessica Gresko contributed to this report.
IS THE NAACP A RACIST GROUP AGAINST WHITES.ID SAY YES.TELLING THE TEA PARTY TO ROOT OUT RACISM.NAACP GET THE RACISM AGAINST WHITES OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM RIGHT ROLAND MARTIN OF CNN.THE POVERTY LAW CENTER IS PROBABLY BEHIND AND FUNDING THIS RACISM IN THIS CASE.
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.(TR 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 reaches out for new powers at United Nations
LEIGH PHILLIPS 15.07.2010 @ 09:27 CET
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy will in future be able to address the UN chamber no differently from US President Barack Obama or Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmedinejad under draft reforms agreed by member states.EU countries at meetings in Brussels and New York have agreed to table a resolution in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to give the union the right to speak, according to a UK ministerial letter sent out to British MPs on Wednesday (14 July) and seen by EUobserver. The EU currently has only observer status at the UN. Its delegates do not sit among the UN member states, but off to the side, along with entities such as the Vatican, the Red Cross and the Arab League.The symbolic sitting arrangements are not due to change.
But if the motion, which is to be tabled in the coming weeks, is approved by the general assembly, the EU will also be awarded other rights enjoyed by fully-fledged UN members, such as the right to make proposals and submit amendments, the right of reply, the right to raise points of order and the right to circulate documents.
There will also be additional seats put in for the EU's foreign policy chief, High Representative Catherine Ashton and her officials.An EU diplomat said the idea behind the changes is to boost the profile of the EU as an entity in itself at the international level.Britain's EU minister, David Lidington, in the UK ministerial letter said however that the move should not be interpreted as undermining Britain's permanent seat on the UN Security Council: The granting of such rights to the EU will not affect the UK's position as a member of the UNGA or the UN Security Council.
Meanwhile, foreign secretary William Hague is making sure that UK diplomats in New York send out the message the EU upgrade is strictly limited. The new resolution does not imply agreement to seek additional rights in any other fora, the UK ministerial letter says.The new rights flow from changes established by the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force last December. The Lisbon Treaty established new structures for the management of the EU's external relations, Mr Lidington explained.The UN developments could be seen as something of a u-turn for the British Conservative party.Back in October 2007, when the Tories were still in opposition and the Lisbon Treaty was just about to be signed off by EU countries, Mr Hague had warned that Lisbon would ultimately lead to an EU takeover of Britain's permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Mr Hague said at the time: The new treaty, like the old, could automatically let the EU foreign minister speak for Britain at the UN security Council in certain situations.This is clearly the thin end of the wedge for an EU takeover of our only seat. Given that our independent vote at the EU is now coming under threat, the case for letting people have their final say in the referendum [on the Lisbon Treaty] they were promised is now unanswerable.He made the comments after the then deputy UN general secretary Mark Malloch Brown, who later became a Labour minister, said that an EU replacement of the UK seat was inevitable, in remarks first reported by EUobserver.I think it will go in stages, he said. We are going to see a growing spread of that and then steady formalisation of it institution by institution, probably starting in the UNDP or UNICEF [two UN branches dealing with aid] first.It is not going to happen with a flash and a bang, he continued, adding that he hoped it will happen as quickly as possible.Speaking to this website, a UK diplomat said the latest move represents no threat to the UK's security council seat: This is a completely separate discussion. This is about the government's new, engaged and open approach to the EU. This is why we're telling MPs.There is no change in seating arrangements. The EU will not now be sitting amongst the UN member states ... between Ethiopia and Fiji,the diplomat added.
France, UK and Germany call for 30 percent CO2 cut
ANDREW WILLIS 15.07.2010 @ 09:28 CET
Ministers from three of Europe's largest countries have called on the EU to make a unilateral move towards cutting carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2020, rather than the current target of 20 percent. The move, which marks a dramatic u-turn on previous positions, is vital to prevent Europe losing out in the race to develop low-carbon technologies, British energy minister Chris Huhne, German environment minister Norbert Roettgen and French ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said in an opinion piece in the Financial Times on Thursday (15 July).If we stick to a 20 percent cut, Europe is likely to lose the race to compete in the low-carbon world to countries such as China, Japan or the US,wrote the three ministers. While Europe currently enjoys a leading position in the low-carbon goods and services sector, recent research shows China has leapt ahead in green technology investment, attracting $40.3 billion of asset finance for clean energy in the past year, roughly $10 billion more than the EU.
The call for a unilateral jump to a 30 percent cut on 1990 levels is likely to anger European businesses however, with a European Commission paper in May on the subject attracting harsh criticism.Brussels argued that the economic recession would make the greater cut significantly cheaper than previously thought, but fierce lobbying from businesses and certain EU states resulted in the document's language being watered down. While making the case for the larger cut, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard said present conditions are not right due to Europe's economic difficulties. In their opinion piece on Thursday however, the three ministers say there is a compelling economic argument for the 30 percent cut, with failure to move now likely to lead to greater costs in the future. The current target of a 20 percent reduction now seems insufficient to drive the low-carbon transition, they said. The recession by itself has cut emissions in the EU's traded sector by 11 per cent from pre-crisis levels.The greater reduction is a policy for jobs and growth, energy security and climate risk,they add. Previously in UN climate talks, the EU has declared its willingness to make the jump to 30 percent only if other other countries around the world take similar steps, a development that did not materialise in Copenhagen last December. Germany has been among the strongest opponents to a unilateral EU move, stressing that the jump should only be made in the context of a wider international agreement.France has also shown resistance in the past, with the debate now likely to be thrown wide open again ahead of international talks on global warming in December in Cancun, Mexico.
EXAMINING BLACK LOYALTY TO DEMOCRATS
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Global Warming Theory: False in Parts, False in Totality
By Dr. Tim Ball Thursday, July 15, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS
There are so many variables ignored, underreported or simply not understood in climate science and especially in the computer models that purport to simulate global climate, that they destroy any pretence we know or understand weather and climate. But don’t take my word for it. Consider the comments from proponents of anthropogenic global warming including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).In the 2001 report they said, In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that long-term prediction of future climate state is not possible.James Lovelock, Gaia hypothesis speculator said, It’s almost naive, scientifically speaking, to think that we can give relatively accurate predictions for future climate. There are so many unknowns that it’s wrong to do it.Kevin Trenberth, IPCC author and CRU associate said, It’s very clear we do not have a climate observing system… This may be a shock to many people who assume that we do know adequately what’s going on with the climate, but we don’t.Many reports exist on the inadequacy of temperature data. Ross McKitrick asks whether a global temperature exists at all.
Anthony Watts shows the serious problems with the weather stations in the US and these are supposedly the best in the world.We also know how the record is adjusted to support the warming theory. However, measurement of other variables is worse simply because of the complexity of measurements. Instruments to accurately measure precipitation, especially snowfall, have always been a great challenge. Perhaps the most forgotten variable, yet critical to weather and climate, is wind speed. Ancient Greeks knew the importance of wind direction and how it determined the pattern of weather in a region. They even built a Tower of the Winds in Athens honoring the eight wind deities (Figure 1). Direction was critical for sailing as well, so mariners developed the ability to read the wind to 32 points of the compass. Speed was a different matter. Early attempts had a flat board on a spring with a pointer attached that was set against a scale. Wind pushed the board and the pointer indicated the force. The big change came with the wind cup or anemometer in 1846. While this provides an accurate measure, recording the information is important because the work the wind does requires detailed almost continuous data.
Figure 1: Tower of the winds, Athens
Source: wikipedia.org (Tower of the Winds)
The atmosphere is heated by air in contact with the ground (conduction) but also by evaporation of moisture that is then released into the atmosphere. In both cases the rate varies with wind speed. Even a small variation in wind speed results in a variation in heat exchange and distribution in the atmosphere. Wind is created by difference in pressure that is created by difference in temperature. High temperature creates low pressure and wind then blows from the high pressure to redress the imbalance. There are general global wind patterns created by differential heating. If the Earth wasn’t rotating a simple circulation of air rising at the Equator and descending at the Poles would occur, however rotation results in generally easterly winds at the Equator and the Poles with prevailing westerly winds in the middle latitudes. Each region has different land/ water ratios so a shift in these zonal winds will affect the role of the wind in heating the atmosphere.Figure 2 shows plots of the percentage frequency of south winds at York Factory located on the southwest shore of Hudson Bay for two decades over 100 years apart. In the early decade from 1721 to 1731, which is well within the Little Ice Age (LIA), south winds blow less than 7 percent of the time. In the decade from 1841 to 1851, which is outside of the LIA, south winds are occur over 12 percent of the time with a peak in 1842 of 27 percent.
Figure 2: Percentage of south winds at York Factory
Source; Ball (1986), Climate Change, Vol. 8 pp. 121-134.
The 2007 IPCC report acknowledges the shifts in some wind patterns and associated weather systems. Based on a variety of measurements at the surface and in the upper troposphere, it is likely that there has been an increase and a poleward shift in NH (Northern Hemisphere) winter storm-track activity over the second half of the 20th century, but there are still significant uncertainties in the magnitude of the increase due to time-dependent biases in the reanalyses. The word likely is defined as greater than 66% chance. The shift is not surprising because the prevailing westerly wind and accompanying storm track would move north as the Earth warms. They acknowledge the significant uncertainties in the validity of increased frequency. They don’t even attempt to discuss the significance for heat transfer or any other impact on global weather. We know wind causes shifts of Arctic ice to create open water or increase pack ice, but how does this affect heat exchange or evaporation? It is even worse in the Southern Hemisphere (SH). Analysed decreases in cyclone numbers over the southern extratropics and increases in mean cyclone radius and depth over much of the SH over the last two decades are subject to even larger uncertainties. The degree to which the IPCC and their supporters have fooled the world is amazing. As Jean-Francois Revel said: How is it possible for a theory, which is false in its component parts, to be true as a whole. In the case of official climate science he could add that many parts of the whole are simply omitted. He explained the mentality that has pervaded the AGW supporters when he wrote, A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence His book titled, The Flight from Truth: The Reign of deceit in the Age of Information tells it all.
THIS LIER OBAMA CLAIMED NO ABORTION FUNDING IN THE HEALTHCARE BILL.AND WHAT DO I HEAR TODAY ,2 STATES GET FUNDING AND GUESS WHAT FOR.THE FUNDING IS FOR MURDERING(ABORTING) CHILDREN IN 2 STAES IN AMERICA.SO MUCH FOR TRUTH FROM THAT MUSLIM FRAUD FAKE AMERICAN OBAMA.
Obama creates more crises to manipulate and control BY LAURIE ROTH JULY 15,10
President Obama is on a Rules for Radicals roll,creating environmental crises with the calculated sham of the Gulf oil spill, while fueling race wars with the NAACP against the Tea Party groups. Remember, Obama needs crises and enemies to be the messiah and dictator he fantasizes being.As long as people can suffer in the gulf, prices go up and jobs are ruined,he can blame big oil,off shore drilling and eventually Bush, since that is his favorite fall back.Once the problem has grown to the uncontrollable absurd,mostly through his neglect in leadership and careful, planning of chaos, he can cram cap and trade through,most likely in the lame duck session after the election.The Democrats and Obama know what is coming. They will attempt to cram their agenda through anyway they can in sneaky,back handed ways.The other push and distraction is Obama siding with the NAACP and attempting to manipulate a race war by lying about the Tea Party groups,saying they are racist. The hope is that the African American community and their votes will pull into Obama and perceive a growing plot of racism against them with 40-50 million people in the Tea Parties. As with the facts of the Gulf oil spill, this racism charge is a million percent untrue and completely fraudulent.I have spoken at many Tea Party rallies across the country and have seen all kinds of races and political parties represented. Many of the speakers are black. Their focus has never been about race or the specific race of Obama. They have developed only because of the dangerous and frightening over reach of the Obama administration and this congress. They are responding to the out of control spending, taxation, regulations, socialism and shredding of Judeo/Christian values.Obama and the NAACP hopes that Black America will buy the bold faced lie that Tea Party groups are racist and practically the KKK, when they are in truth, real patriots, freedom lovers for all and protectors of our constitution and way of life!
The only racism I regularly see is at the hands of the Obama administration. Remember the recent accusation by the whistle blower who charges Corruption in the Department of Justice and intimidation regarding race. It is almost unbelievable that Attorney General, Eric Holder would dare to throw out an already concluded and slam dunked case against the new leadership for the Black Panthers who were convicted of voter fraud outside a polling facility in 2008. They were encouraging people to murder white crackers and their babies, hitting billy club weapons in their hands and intimidating voters. The facts of this vicious set of crimes were proven. Sentencing was on its way when Holder threw out the case and said they wouldn’t be sentenced. Why??? These guys were acting as vicious, racist criminals. If a white group or person had done that or the KKK had shown up threatening people and calling for murder of blacks, it would have been a legal and media blood bath, with possibly more blood running down the streets.Obama must have contrived and manipulated crises that he can move in on. He has the environmental/oil crises, the fake out race war with the Tea Party he hopes he can fester and the illegal immigration distortion and sea of lies.We have seen Obama body slam Arizona and Governor Jan Brewer when the illegal immigration bill was passed several months ago. You know, that law that reflects the 60 year old federal law that Arizona passed out of desperation since the Feds would not enforce the law on the books. Arizona has been in total melt down with the highest rate of home invasions and crime at the hands of illegal aliens in the country. They had to do something and quick if Governor Brewer was to actually be serving the people of Arizona. Then we saw the Saul Alinsky play book by Obama again. He boldly rebuked Governor Brewer, the State of Arizona and the new law to our media and the world. He made a special call to the Government of China and apologized for the law, while mocking it and Brewer with the President of Mexico, then lining up with Holder and suing Governor Brewer and the State of Arizona, with the Government of Mexico, over the racist, discriminatory, rights violating law. Obama threw other insults at the law but these were just a few.
Once again, the hopes of Obama have nothing to do with the rights of illegal aliens but about hopefully manipulating the Hispanic vote, legal and illegal. He has to look like the messiah for the disenfranchised and needy, when in truth, he is the controlling bully of all. He wants and needs the masses, minorities especially, dependent on Obama and Government, cradle to grave, depending on redistributed wealth and money from hard working Americans. While he preys and manipulates support based on his racist lies, he creates fake out enemies for all to blame. He hopes the masses won’t wake up in time and blame the real perpetrators and racists….Obama, his staff, NAACP and Black Panthers.For Obama’s brand of controlling socialism to work, he must have more control over business, environment, healthcare and media while continuing to create division, race wars and fake out enemies.One thing is for sure. Obama’s scheme is not working regarding his betrayal of Arizona and Governor Jan Brewer. According to Fox news 9 states have lined up in support of Arizona’s law. I only pray that many more will line up and stand for their sovereignty and 10th amendment rights.Get ready Obama. The American people are on to you. Media is finally starting to wake up and states are waking up to their real rights. You can make up all the crises and sea of lies you want. We expect you to do that, We are watching and soon you and this congress will be voted out. We will then send in a wrecking crew and fumigation team to clean out this congress and White House.
Gaslighting America
By Joy Tiz Thursday, July 15, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS
Gaslighting is the systematic attempt by one person to erode another’s reality. This is done by telling them that what they are experiencing isn’t so—and, the gradual giving up on the part of the other person. -Dr. Robin Stern, The Gaslight Effect
In the old movie, Gaslight, a woman is driven mad by her husband. He convinces her that she is imagining things. He keeps lighting a gas lamp in the house, causing the other lamps to become dimmer. When the wife confronts him about this, he repeatedly tells her that it’s all in her imagination and that the lamps are most assuredly not dimmer. Over time, the victim begins to doubt her own perceptions of reality, accepting that her husband must be right. His goal was to gain control over her fortune. Experts who work with emotional abuse victims recognize gaslighting—oppressors manipulate their victims into doubting their own perceptions of reality. The abuser’s goal is to get his victim to affirm that he is right—she’s the problem, not him. Most domestic abusers, however, don’t have abetment from a depraved media.Barack Obama and his cronies are using the same crazy-making tactics depicted in Gaslight, and later, George Orwell’s 1984.Obama proxies in the administration, Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder, would have us believe that we are engaged in overseas contingency operations to deal with man caused disasters. Napolitano actually contends, straight faced, that our border with Mexico is secure, despite a surfeit of evidence to show that our Mexican border is an anarchical combat zone.
Holder peddles even more pernicious feculence. A bright light, rubber hose and sodium pentathol will never get him to concede that there is even the most tenuous of linkages between Islamic jihad and attacks on the United States in the name of Allah.New Black Panthers can menace Philadelphia voters on election day without so much as a whimper of protest from AG Holder. King Samir Shabazz publicly calls for the killing of white crackers and their babies. We are directed not to make too much of this.Taxpaying Americans in lawn chairs waving American flags are the real imperilment to our way of life. By definition, the Tea Party movement is animated by racism. This charge is made over and over without a scintilla of credible evidence and taken as absolute, irrefutable fact. The racism charge is especially malignant. We’ve been taught to fear the PC Police at the cost of our own mental health. Originality is not the trademark of the Left—political correctness is cultural Marxism.Joe Biden is having a grand time telling about our glorious Summer of Recovery. The stimulus worked! Sure, you know lost your job and your neighbor is out of work and your brother in law just got downsized out; but, exalt the recovery!As is so often the case in domestic abuse, this kind of psychological abuse can swiftly escalate into violence. The moribund media is feverishly trying to kindle a race war. If the economy gets bad enough, bedlam will ensue.When the Soviet Union collapsed, the KGB, like ACORN, rebranded itself. Now known as the FSB, its operatives brewed a scheme to retake power before the struggling nation had a chance to evolve into a truly free society. KGB officers didn’t file for unemployment, they went to work in the highest levels of the new government. (Link)
Combining the pandemonium of the Yeltsin years with FSB-staged apartment house bombings, and war in Chechnya drove the Russian people to seek safety over freedom.
It works the same way in domestic abuse cases. Once the victim is adequately disoriented and intimidated, the abuser becomes the sole source of comfort. It’s especially helpful to the abuser if he can cut off the victim’s access to outside influence from friends and family, along with anyone else who might dare to pass along some actual truth. In due course, the victim becomes impervious to facts and evidence. The brainwashing operation is complete. Call it Stockholm Syndrome or as Dr. Patrick Carnes calls it, Traumatic Bonding. The theory of Stockholm Syndrome rests on the tenacity of traumatic bonding.Abusive relationships are more difficult to end than healthy ones. Our relationship to a president who lies to us and betrays the sovereignty of the nation is, unquestionably, abusive. Bonds formed through traumatic events are far more durable than bonds forged via healthy interactions. The toady press has a great deal invested in Obama.Fortunately, Americans are different, dare we say exceptional. It has taken an extraordinary amount of deceit and manipulation over decades to bring America to the brink of accepting Obama style of overbearing governance.
Mr. President, Karl Marx is Dead.
By Philip V. Brennan Thursday, July 15, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS
If you were President of the United States and determined to change our system of government from one that promotes and protects our cherished free enterprise system to one of a Marxist-based coercive regime you would recognize the need to do so without seeming to do so. That’s what is happening now under Barack Obama, who is fully cognizant of the fact that any overt tinkering with our liberties would be met with the stiffest opposition from the American people who have an instinctive distrust of anything that smacks of big brotherism - the very essence of Marxist socialism.To achieve his goal of transforming our system of government he would need to do so without alarming the public that they are about to become subjects of an all powerful Washington dedicated to the principles laid down by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Americans need to be convinced that in enduring recurrent recessions they are victims of such villains as something known collectively as Wall Street, or the hated rich who are determined to keep them subjugated and under their greedy thumbs.Once so convinced they will supinely accept measures that while appearing innocent of hidden motives are shrewdly designed to reduce the American people to the status of Marxist serfdom. If the citizenry can be lulled to sleep while their freedom is being stolen, they will awaken to find themselves shorn of much of their liberty.
Once you accept the reality that this is the case with our current economic maladies you can begin to understand what is afoot. Rather than striving to deal with an economy in trouble, Barack Obama appears to be deliberately attempting to make it worse. By crashing the economy without seeming to do so, he can step in when it hits absolute bottom and apply his solution - a Marxist United States of America. This is how despots are enabled to impose despotism on a formerly free people.Thus we are witnessing an avalanche of government spending authorized by a Congress firmly controlled by Obama’s acolytes and designed to cripple the economy under the massive weight of debt that cannot be repaid in this generation or those to come after it.
Once the economy hits absolute bottom the sky is the limit for the apostles of Karl Marx. A frightened citizenry can be expected to accept any measures that appear to be designed to rescue them from total penury. They will unwittingly swap their economic freedoms for an idiot’s fantasy that will assure them security from want.
From the very beginning the people of this nation have been guided and protected by Divine providence and I see no reason why our Creator would suddenly wash His hands of us and allow us to suffer from the folly of our ways. As an eternally patient and understanding Father, He allows us to stray only so far from his loving arms and when we reach what in his Divine wisdom he knows will bring on our total destruction he reins us in.It is obvious that Barack Obama recognizes only his authority with none above it. He believes there are no limits to his reach and, boy, is he ever in for the surprise of his life. Like all would-be tyrants there is a day of reckoning awaiting him, and it could come as soon as next January when hopefully the Congress will be freed of the deadly grip of a coterie of pseudo socialists and the Nation put back on the path of fiscal sanity.That newly sane Congress will be faced with dealing with Barack Obama for another two years, but if they understand that saying No is their solemn obligation and not merely a symbol of witless opposition, the nation will endure without suffering under the curse of Marxism which has destroyed many governments around the world.One hopeful sign is a sudden resurgence of the sovereignty of the several states. Thanks to Obama’s attempts to reduce the authority of the state governments and subject it to that of an all-powerful federal government, as in the case of embattled Arizona striving to rescue itself from an invasion from south of their border, the several states are awakening to the peril of total subjugation of their rights by the Federal government under Barack Obama and resisting it.The president needs to understand that it is not God who is dead, but Karl Marx, and he needs to rebury his rotting corpse and rescue the nation from its stench before it overcomes us.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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Obama is trying to surround us with Islam JULY 13,10 BY LAURIE ROTH
We already know that we aren’t fighting a war with Islamic radicals or terrorists anymore. We are fighting an overseas contingency operation. Just recently our Commander in Chief Barack Hussein Obama, has removed the terms Islamic extremism from the main document which describes our national security strategy. Islamic extremism, radicalism, fundamentalism is not to be used with military operations and focus anymore. After all, that would be a kind of religious racism wouldn’t it? Obama is aggressively shifting and redirecting how we interact with Islam and Islamic nations. We have seen Obama scrub honest and real national security and war terms from the book. He is openly at odds with his new commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus, who has coined the Petraeus doctrine, which defines the enemy as Islamic insurgents, Islamic extremists, and Islamic subversives. He talks of endless connection and support between Muslim support groups and Islamic terrorists. The obvious rolls on by Obama as usual.Obama has never been happy with the obvious, that we are at war with Islamic radicals throughout the world. So, beyond changing the names and making everyone in the military, media and country pretend we aren’t fighting Islam in anyway, he has done other notable changes. He has appointed devout Muslims to critical Homeland Security positions. Among this growing list include: Kareen Shora, ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and Arif Alikhan, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development.Maybe if Obama can change all the honest names of who we are fighting with and appoint devout Muslims into critical posts of power for national security he can put Islam and its power where he wants it over the American people. After all, it is a Religion of peace. Don’t the American people realize that yet?
Obama has to do more to manipulate Islam to power and control. How about turning our historical and leading space program NASA into an Islamic apologist, with the main goal of honoring the scientific achievements and space interests of Islam? Oh yeah, he already did that.Along with all the name changes and appointments, we see media intimidation, compromise and controls regarding Obama, his roots and agenda. Doug Hagmann www.homelandsecurityus.com and Judi McCloud, editor of Canada free press, investigated for over a year intimidation and threats into silence of some anchors and any staff that would have dared cover Obama’s eligibility story. At least one, major, national host was scared into silence and contacted Hagmann.Even with the intimidation and threats to media from the Obama administration for those who dare to question the holy one, is the complicate and shameful sell out of most media itself. Much of media decided to ignore the sea of compromising voting records, un American and dangerous associations, inconsistent statements and evidence regarding what Obama really believes and operates from. Our country is paying dearly for that disgraceful sell out today.Obama’s final strategy to elevate Islam, the Religion he says he will side with in his own book and own words, is to demonize, patronize and minimize Israel, thus lifting up the threatening Islamic nations and Islamic terrorists surrounding Israel.We have seen Obama give over a billion dollars to the Islamic serial killers, Hamas, who do nothing but attack, murder Israelis and plan more attacks while playing the persecuted victim. We have seen Obama import Hamas victims to the U.S.
Naturally it is not enough to fund the enemy. Therefore, Obama has to insult and harass Israel the entire first two years he is in office. Biden and Hillary had their knickers in a twist when Prime Minister Netanyahu wouldn’t stop building homes on their sovereign land, per their mandate.Obama also managed to support the lies and international distortion surrounding the Turkish flotilla incident, where Israeli commandos were forced to stop ships heading straight for the Gaza. It didn’t matter that Israel had already warned Turkey not to send any ships to Gaza. It didn’t matter that over 50 people on terrorist watch lists were found on one of the boats. It didn’t matter that Israel wasn’t trying or planning to hurt people on the boats but to re route them to another port where they could search them. Why would the Israelis want to search boats full of aid and help??? Maybe because they had apprehended all kinds of terrorist equipment, personnel and bombs going to the Gaza before. Israel ended up being 100% right that this was more of the same. Obama didn’t care. He, along with the Islam worshipping, UN rebuked Israel and demanded investigations….bla bla bla.OK, OK, Islam is a Religion that wants peace. They just have peppered through their teaching, preaching, traditions and Holy books, statements of hate for Jews and Christians, agendas to conquer societies, import Sharia law and have a world wide caliphate again. Jihad is really just an internal struggle, so they say. Tell that to the thousands who have been murdered at the hands of Islamic radicals here and abroad. We have seen non stop honor killings, murder of US soldiers by Islamic US soldiers in our country and abroad; near miss plane attacks and car bombing attempts! 9/11 just started a new wave of what we had been experiencing for years.More in the Religion of peace. This week 64 people were murdered by Somali Islamists who bombed a ton of people as they watched the World Cup finals in Uganda.Finally, is there any question about the loyalties of this President when his attorney General Eric Holder has thrown out the case against the New Black Panther leadership who were caught threatening, menacing and intimidating voters outside a precinct in 2008. Most of us have heard the famous words of Malik Zulu Shabazz by now, screaming his hate for white crackers and urging people to murder whites and their babies. He did this while brandishing a weapon and scaring voters. What we also must remember that the Black Panthers are historically anti Semitic and pro black Islam.Gee, they hate Jews and love Islam. Any questions as to why the slam dunk case against them was thrown out by the Obama administration and Holder???
Reality check
We are in a war with radical Islam, not all Islamics, but many. We have a President who is Muslim and kisses up to Muslim nations. We have a President who insults and shreds our treasured relationship with Israel. We have a President who compromises our national security by appointing Muslims to high level, national security positions and lies about who is threatening us and constantly attacking us.
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 33 killed in Sudan floods
Thu Jul 15, 11:41 am ET
KHARTOUM (AFP) – At least 33 people were killed and several others were missing following powerful floods in eastern Sudan, police said on Thursday.Thirty-three people died, several are reported missing, said Ali Sukar, police chief of Agige district, following days of rain caused flooding in Sudan's Red Sea state.Many head of cattle also perished, Sukar added.Ten days of downpour had flooded villages close to Tokar, an area about 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Port Sudan, the main city in eastern Sudan, which also experienced heavy rainfall on Sunday, residents said.It is not raining today but the water level remains high, Sukar said.State services are providing assistance to the population and looking for the missing. We need help from humanitarian organisations,he added.Dozens of people are killed each year during the rainy season in Sudan, Africa's largest country where many live in mud brick homes.
Tropical depression moving across Pacific
Thu Jul 15, 4:58 am ET
MIAMI – A poorly organized tropical depression is moving across the Pacific off the coast of Mexico and is not a threat to any land.The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the depression has maximum sustained winds Thursday near 35 mph (55 kph) and is expected to strengthen slightly over the next few days.The depression is located about 370 miles (600 kilometers) southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and is moving west-northwest near 9 mph (15 kph) on a track that will take it farther out to sea.
China faces worst floods in 12 years by Marianne Barriaux – Thu Jul 15, 1:58 am ET
BEIJING (AFP) – China could be facing the worst floods in more than a decade if rains continue to drench the Yangtze river region, an official said Thursday, as a major tropical storm threatens the southern coast.The situation along the nation's longest waterway was at a critical point, Wang Jingquan, head of the flood control office at the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission, told AFP.If heavy rain hits the upper reaches of the river, the Yangtze River basin could suffer from flooding similar to 1998, he said.And if you add the (imminent) landfall of Typhoon Conson, the situation along the Yangtze River basin is even less optimistic.China experienced massive deadly floods in 1998 in parts of the Yangtze River basin, which acts as an unofficial dividing line between the north and south of the country.The disaster killed 4,150 people and forced over 18 million more out of their homes, causing economic losses of 255 billion yuan (38 billion dollars), according to state media reports.Wang warned that the nation's three worst floods in recent history -- 1954, 1983 and 1998 -- all happened in July and August.According to the civil affairs ministry, 118 people have died in floods that have hit the southern half of China since the beginning of July, and another 47 are still missing.The downpours have also triggered deadly landslides that have swept entire villages away.A series of such disasters hit parts of southwestern and central China earlier this week, killing at least 41 people, but it was unclear whether the victims were included in the ministry's overall death toll.
In the eastern province of Jiangxi, flash floods forced the evacuation of more than 30,000 people and water from three reservoirs spilled over into neighbouring areas, the official China Daily newspaper said.China's national meteorological centre warned that Conson, which killed 23 people and left dozens missing in the Philippines, was due to hit the southern shores Thursday.It had initially been downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm, but had gathered strength again and was now classed as a severe tropical storm, the centre said.Around 25,000 fishing boats have returned to port in the southern island of Hainan ahead of the storm, which is expected to bring winds that will trigger eight-metre (26-feet) waves, the official Xinhua news agency said.President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao urged local authorities to do their utmost to minimise flood-related losses, Xinhua said.
SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
MORE SIN SIGNS
EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Goldman to pay $550M to settle civil fraud charges By MARCY GORDON and DANIEL WAGNER, AP Business Writers - JULY 16,10
WASHINGTON – Goldman Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges that the Wall Street giant misled buyers of mortgage-related investments.The settlement was announced Thursday by the Securities and Exchange Commission hours after Congress gave final approval to the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression.The deal calls for Goldman to pay a $535 million fine and $15 million in restitution of fees it collected. Of the total $550 million, $300 million will go to the government and $250 million goes to compensate two banks that lost money on their investments.The penalty was the largest against a Wall Street firm in SEC history. But the settlement amounts to less than 5 percent of Goldman's 2009 net income of $12.2 billion after payment of dividends to preferred shareholders — or a little more than two weeks of net income.
Word that Goldman had settled began leaking about a half-hour before stock markets closed and appeared to please investors. Goldman had been trading at about $140 a share. The stock rose to close at $145.22, up $6.16, and shot up to $153.60 in after-hours trading.The settlement involves charges that Goldman sold mortgage investments without telling buyers that the securities had been crafted with input from a client that was betting on them to fail.The securities cost investors close to $1 billion while helping Goldman client Paulson & Co. capitalize on the housing bust, the SEC said in the charges filed April 16.The charges were the most significant legal action related to the mortgage meltdown that pushed the country into recession. They dealt a blow to the reputation of a Wall Street giant that had emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis.Goldman acknowledged Thursday that its marketing materials for the deal at the center of the charges omitted key information for buyers.
But the firm did not admit legal wrongdoing.In a statement, Goldman said it was a mistake for the marketing materials to leave out that a Goldman client helped craft the portfolio and that the client's financial interests ran counter to those of investors.We believe that this settlement is the right outcome for our firm, our shareholders and our clients, the firm's statement said.Robert Khuzami, the SEC's enforcement director, called the settlement a stark lesson to Wall Street firms that no product is too complex, and no investor too sophisticated, to avoid a heavy price if a firm violates the fundamental principles of honest treatment and fair dealing.
The SEC's wide-ranging investigation of Wall Street firms' mortgage securities dealings in the years running up to the financial crisis goes on, Khuzami said.We are looking at deals across a wide variety of institutions and a wide variety of circumstances, he said.Though the fine won't make much of a dent in Goldman's finances, the settlement will have sweeping legal implications for future securities fraud cases, said John Coffee, a securities law professor at Columbia University.Even if the penalty was lower than the market expected, the fact that Goldman admitted that it made misleading and incomplete disclosures to its clients vindicates the SEC's legal theory for the future, Coffee said. You have to understand that the defendant almost never makes such a concession in SEC settlements.The settlement is subject to approval by a federal judge in New York's Southern District. The SEC said its case continues against Fabrice Tourre, a Goldman vice president accused of shepherding the deal. Tourre is still employed by Goldman and remains on paid administrative leave, according to a person familiar with his status who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Goldman is paying Tourre's legal expenses, the source said.The Justice Department opened a criminal inquiry of Goldman in the spring, following a criminal referral by the SEC, the Associated Press reported in April, citing a knowledgeable person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the inquiry was in a preliminary phase. Goldman made no mention of a criminal case in its statement Thursday.Of the $550 million Goldman agreed to pay, $250 million will go to the two big losers in the deal. German bank IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG will get $150 million. Royal Bank of Scotland, which bought ABN AMRO Bank, will receive $100 million.
Goldman will also pay back $15 million in fees it collected for managing the deal. The remaining $535 million is considered a civil penalty. Paulson was not charged by the SEC.The SEC filed the case after a series of embarrassing blunders — most notably its failure to detect the Ponzi scheme run by Bernard Madoff and the alleged fraud by R. Allen Stanford. The Goldman case was a high-profile opportunity for the agency to prove it could be tough on Wall Street.Jacob Frenkel, a former SEC enforcement attorney, said the SEC met that objective.This was a bet-the-agency case,Frenkel said.They had a lot at stake here, and this did wonders to re-establish a strong enforcement image and presence.Goldman dodged major risks as well. The company quieted a source of public criticism and can return to focusing on its business. Goldman's legal troubles may not be over. Despite the settlement, investors who lost money on the transactions could still sue the firm for civil damages, Thomas Ajamie, a Houston-based defense lawyer who specializes in financial fraud cases.Nothing stops the investors from filing their own claims, Ajamie said.
The chairman of a Senate panel that interrogated Goldman officials after the SEC filed its charges, applauded the settlement.Goldman played fast and loose ... misled its clients, and got called on it today,Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Thursday. A key factor in the settlement is that Goldman acknowledges wrongdoing, in addition to paying a fine and changing its practices.AP Business Writers Christopher S. Rugaber and Alan Zibel in Washington and Stevenson Jacobs in New York contributed to this report.
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.
Next steps in test of BP Gulf oil cap
JULY 16,10
NEW ORLEANS – BP shut all three valves to close a new cap over its busted Gulf of Mexico well Thursday, stopping the flow of oil into the water for the first time since April. What's next? THE TEST: BP plans to keep the cap closed for 48 hours to see if it can withstand the pressure of the oil without blowing a new leak in the well. Every six hours, they'll assess the pressure readings and other data to decide whether to continue. High pressure is good; low pressure indicates a possible leak in the well and BP could open the cap again.WHAT CAN GO WRONG: A leak somewhere in the well's piping that extends down far into the earth could complicate the situation in two ways. Oil and gas could erupt into the sea floor and be harder to contain. Damage to the pipes underground could also make it harder to plug the well for good with cement and mud.
NEXT STEPS: After the test, it's not clear yet whether the oil will remain bottled in the cap or whether BP will chose to use the new device to funnel the crude into four ships on the surface.ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: The fishing industry in particular has been buffeted by fallout from the spill. Surveys of oyster grounds in Louisiana showed extensive deaths of the shellfish. Large sections of the Gulf Coast — which accounts for 60 to 70 percent of the oysters eaten in the United States — have been closed to harvesting.
Congress OKs Wall St. crackdown, consumer guards By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer - JULY 15,10
WASHINGTON – Congress on Thursday passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer protections to prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown that knocked the economy to its knees.A year in the making and 22 months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a worldwide panic in credit and other markets, the bill cleared its final hurdle with a 60-39 Senate vote. It now goes to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature, expected as early as Wednesday.The law will give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create a new agency to guard consumers in their financial transactions and shine a light into shadow financial markets that escaped the oversight of regulators. The vote came on the same day that Goldman Sachs & Co. agreed to pay a record $550 million to settle charges that it misled buyers of mortgage-related investments.From storefront payday lenders to the biggest banking and investment houses on Wall Street, few players in the financial world are immune to the bill's reach. Consumer and investor transactions, whether simple debit card swipes or the most complex securities trades, face new safeguards or restrictions.A powerful council of regulators would be on the lookout for risks across the finance system. Large, failing financial institutions would be liquidated and the costs assessed on their surviving peers. The Federal Reserve is getting new powers while falling under greater congressional scrutiny.I'm about to sign Wall Street reform into law, to protect consumers and lay the foundation for a stronger and safer financial system, one that is innovative, creative, competitive and far less prone to panic and collapse, Obama said.Unless your business model depends on cutting corners or bilking your customers, you have nothing to fear.
Republicans said the bill is a vast federal overreach that will drive financial-sector jobs overseas. Before the final vote was even cast, House Republican leader John Boehner called for its repeal.At an eye-glazing 390,000 words — half the size of the King James Bible — the legislation doesn't offer a quick remedy, however. Rather, it lays down prescriptions for regulators to act. In many cases, the real impact won't be felt for years.One of the top regulators who will be charged with implementing the law, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, said the Senate vote represents a far-reaching step toward preventing a replay of the recent financial crisis.The Senate's final passage of the bill, two weeks after the House approved it, is a welcome achievement for a president and congressional Democrats, both increasingly unpopular with voters four months from midterm elections that threaten to put Republicans in charge of Congress. Only three Republicans voted for it — Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, and Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, who has said the bill is not tough enough, voted with most Republicans against it.The law has been a priority for Obama, ranking just behind his health care overhaul enacted in March. In its final form, the package hews closely to the plan unwrapped a year ago by the White House and in some ways is even tougher. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs promptly cast the vote in political terms.This will be a vote that Democrats will talk about through November as a way of highlighting the choice that people will get to make in 2010, he said.The political benefits, however, stand to be overshadowed by lingering high unemployment. And Republicans were betting that public antipathy toward big government and worries over jobs would trump their anger at Wall Street.We're going to be driving jobs and business overseas with this massive piece of legislation, said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., who worked with Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut on certain aspects of the bill, denounced it as a legislative monster.
Named after Dodd and Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, the Democratic committee chairmen who steered it to passage, the legislation ends a trend toward looser regulations that peaked in 1999 with the elimination of Depression-era walls separating commercial banking from riskier investment banking.And though it calls for the biggest changes in generations, it does not approach the scope of the New Deal banking rules enacted under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That era saw the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to protect consumer deposits, and the Securities and Exchange Commission to oversee the markets. The Dodd-Frank law will create a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau empowered to write and enforce regulations covering mortgages, credit cards and other financial products. Lenders face new restrictions on the type of mortgages they write and could not be rewarded for steering borrowers to higher-cost loans. Borrowers are to be protected from hidden fees and abusive terms, but also will have to provide evidence that they can repay their loans, thus halting the no-document loans that had flooded the markets.The vote Thursday capped a year of partisan struggles and cross-party courtship. Any remaining uncertainty about the bill's fate vanished earlier this week when it became clear three Republican senators would vote for it, thus assuring 60 votes to overcome procedural obstacles.Industry lobbyists fought against a number of restrictions in the bill, ultimately winning some concessions. In the end, the final bill was tougher than they wanted but not as restrictive as they feared.
The result will be over 5,000 pages of new regulations on traditional banks and years of uncertainty as to what the massive new rules will mean, said Edward Yingling, president and CEO of the American Bankers' Association. Republican opponents also criticized the bill for not addressing mortgage financing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose questionable lending helped start a collapse in the housing market.Some supporters of the bill also voiced reservations, claiming the bill did not give regulators specific direction on how to implement and enforce new rules.Congress largely has decided instead to punt decisions to the regulators, saddling them with a mountain of rule-makings and studies, said Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del.For all its ambition and reach, the legislation is dotted with exceptions.
Community banks won't have to be examined by the new consumer bureau and would get a break on higher insurance premiums. Despite calls to end proprietary trading by large banks, the law will let them put up to 3 percent of their capital in hedge funds or private equity funds. Auto dealers won't be covered by the rules of the consumer bureau.It is not a perfect bill, I will be the first to admit that,Dodd said. It will take the next economic crisis, as certainly it will come, to determine whether or not the provisions of this bill will actually provide this generation or the next generation of regulators with the tools necessary to minimize the effects of that crisis.
Websense tumbles after Morgan Stanley downgrade
Thu Jul 15, 2:44 pm ET
NEW YORK – Websense Inc. shares tumbled Thursday after a downgrade from Morgan Stanley, which expressed concern that economic trouble in Europe could hurt the company.THE SPARK: In a client note, Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss lowered his rating on Websense to Equal-weight from Overweight.THE BIG PICTURE: Websense, which provides Internet filtering and security software, has seen billings rise from last year, when many businesses were clamping down on technology spending because of the recession.THE ANALYSIS: But Weiss said mounting European concerns may pose a risk to the company's share price. Websense generated about 13 percent of its revenue in the U.K. in the first quarter.Furthermore, Weiss said it may be tough for Websense to keep up enough momentum going into next year to beat this year's results.SHARE ACTION: Websense shares fell 81 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $20.36 in afternoon trading.
Google profit misses as expenses surge By Alexei Oreskovic - JULY 15,10
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc missed Wall Street's quarterly profit estimates for the first time in two years after a spike in expenses offset a 24 percent revenue jump, but it vowed to keep investing in new businesses to drive long-term growth.Shares of the Internet search engine leader fell almost 4 percent on worries about rising costs as it spent heavily on research and development and hired aggressively to expand into new products and markets in hopes of maintaining the growth momentum Wall Street looks for.Google eased worries that lingering economic uncertainty from the European debt crisis could take a toll on its business, and stressed that it planned to continue to aggressively invest in new growth opportunities.They're throwing more money into R&D than people were expecting and a little bit less into sales and marketing, said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis. Google has been pretty clear that it's going back into investment mode. They added 1,200 people in the quarter, which means more expenses are going to kick in September.Google said the spending was concentrated on a handful of initiatives it believes could grow into billion-dollar businesses, providing diversification from the search advertising that now accounts for the lion's share of revenue.
Finance Chief Patrick Pichette cited Internet display advertising and the nascent smartphone advertising market as some of the key areas for investment, and defended the spending amid the economic uncertainty.It's while everybody is cautious that you need to pounce,Pichette said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday.Pichette added that Google, which generated 52 percent of its second-quarter revenue outside the United States, has not suffered any ill effects amid as investors fear that an economic slowdown could crimp advertising spending.Some analysts said headwinds from weakening foreign currency -- in particular the embattled euro -- did not hurt revenue growth as much as anticipated. According to its statement, second-quarter revenue would have been $176 million if forex rates had remained constant from the first quarter.In our results and in our business we have seen no impact of the current turmoil of the economic environment,said Pichette.
PAYROLL BALLOONING
Thursday's results were a rare outright earnings miss -- Google's first since the second quarter of 2008.The world's No. 1 search engine posted net income of $1.84 billion, or $5.71 a share, in the second quarter -- up from $1.48 billion, or $4.66 a share, in the year-earlier period.Excluding items, Google's EPS was $6.45, below the average estimate of $6.52, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.The company has made a number of major strategy shifts this year, including the decision to stop censoring search results in China -- a move analysts say has contributed to the more than 20 percent decline in Google's stock this year.While it announced last week that its license to operate a website in China was renewed for a year, Google did not address that during Thursday's earnings call other than to say that revenue from the country in the second quarter was decent but remained immaterial to the company.More immediately, Google is increasingly pitting itself against rivals beyond Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp, as it ventures into smartphone operating systems, mobile advertising and other areas in search of future growth.Executives highlighted a three-fold jump in searches made on phones running Google's Android operating system as a sign of the platform's growing market traction. To compete with the likes of Apple, Google made a string of acquisitions in recent months and added 1,184 employees to its payroll during the second quarter for a total of 21,805.That spending spree contributed to a 22 percent year-on-year jump in operating expenses in the second quarter and took a toll on the bottom line, according to analysts.The question is going to be, how much money are they going to have to be putting in for new initiatives? asked UBS analyst Brian Pitz. Net revenue, which excludes costs that Google shares with website partners, was $5.09 billion, above the $4.98 billion expected by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Shares in Google fell to $474.50 after closing at $494.02 on Nasdaq.Some analysts highlighted strong 24 percent growth in revenue as signs that Google was weathering well a difficult economic and advertising environment.I was pleased with the revenue coming ahead of expectations, driven by the strength in the U.S.,said Richard Fetyko of Merriman Curhan Ford. Even with the forex headwinds from international, they came in $100 million ahead of expectations.(Additional reporting by Sue Zeidler, Gabriel Madway and Carolina Madrid; Editing by Edwin Chan, Gary Hill and Richard Chang)
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.(TR 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 stress tests to kill off weak banks, experts say
ANDREW WILLIS 15.07.2010 @ 17:44 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - As the debate over the credibility of Europe's banking sector stress tests continues to rage, analysts say the EU's refusal to openly discuss a framework for national debt restructuring has placed the bloc's politicians in an intractable bind. In addition, observers say the tests are likely to see consolidation in the sector. With results from the tests set to be published on Friday week (23 July), concern is centered on whether market participants will consider the criteria used to assess the firms' weaknesses as sufficiently thorough or merely a political whitewashing stunt. Weighting the reduced value of the huge stockpile of sovereign eurozone bonds held by the 91 banks under examination is proving especially contentious, with reports suggesting the value of Greek bonds will be marked down by 17 percent and Spanish bonds by 10-11 percent.Blasted as being too low by some commentators who favour a markdown closer to 50 percent, the committee of national supervisors carrying out the tests is restricted by memberk states' current dialogue on national debt restructuring, said Nicolas Veron.
Germany supports the creation a European framework to manage future debt restructurings in an orderly way, but other member states have come out against the idea.A higher haircut would be an admission that a sovereign debt restructuring may be needed, said Mr Veron, a researcher at the Brussels-based Bruegel think-tank. They are bound by this.He suggests that no haircut be applied to the sovereign bonds as part of the tests, but instead that banks should provide a maximum amount of information to investors on what bonds they hold, allowing them to make the decision.
Consolidation in the sector
Most agree however that any question mark over the veracity of next week's tests could spell another bout of instability for the EU. If the market is not convinced then we are in for trouble, said Rym Ayadi, a researcher with the Centre for European Policy Studies, another Brussels-based think-tank.Ms Ayadi believes that the publication of the results will lead to a significant reduction in the number of European banks on the ground, as weaker firms become the target of takeover deals.
There are 91 banks being tested at the moment, I don't think there will be 91 at the end,she said.Despite the potential takeovers and efforts of banking executives to raise extra capital from the private sector, large capital injections from governments are likely to be needed to shore up a number of the firms diagnosed as being vulnerable. I expect most of the recapitalisations of Spanish regional lenders and the German state-owned Landesbanken will be done from state funds, said Deutsche Bank's chief economist Thomas Mayer. This in turn will place an additional strain on already over-stretched national coffers, he added. Aware of this, EU officials have already indicated that governments will have recourse to components of the eurozone's €750 bail-out mechanism, if needed however.
Slovakia to join EU-IMF fund, reject Greek loan
MATEJ HRUSKA 15.07.2010 @ 10:05 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The new Slovak government plans to back a €750 billion EU-IMF stabilisation mechanism for eurozone countries but is to back away from a separate euro-area countries' bail-out loan to Greece.The coalition parties have agreed [to this] in line with a proposal from the minister of finance, Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova told journalists after a meeting of the ruling coalition parties in Bratislava on Wednesday (14 July), with the government set to formally approve the decision in a vote on Thursday.Bratislava. According to Ms Radicova's spokesman, Rado Bato, Slovakia will demand a binding agreement of the eurozone countries that they reform their banking sector and the EU's Eurostat statistics office, amongst other measures.Without such an agreement, Slovakia will not join the mechanism, he said.Richard Sulik, the speaker of the Slovak parliament and a member of the ruling coalition partner, the Freedom and Solidarity party, added: We will agree with this mechanism, because we do not want to block the whole EU. We do not want to glorify this agreement, because it is not a good thing, but we will vote for it.Following the government's formal approval on Thursday, the other participating countries will be able to issue bond guarantees based on the fund. But it will also have to undergo a parliamentary vote in Slovakia in order to complete the country's internal ratification process.
In a related move set to annoy EU leaders in Brussels, the Radicova coalition on Wednesday also agreed to back out of a bail-out fund for Greece, which would have seen Bratislava paying €820 million into the pot.Based on current projections, three out of four coalition parties in parliament are set to vote against the Greek bail-out, with the remaining party to abstain. Slovakia's decision to stick to its larger EU-IMF commitment is in line with requests made by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during the prime minister's visit to Brussels on Monday and Tuesday. The previous government assumed a very clear commitment and we certainly expect commitments to be honoured. This is a basic rule of the European Union and of international policy, he said.
Bulgaria charges ex-PM amid EU pressure on justice system
VALENTINA POP 15.07.2010 @ 17:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Bulgaria's former prime minister has been charged with losing classified documents during his term, a move he called politically motivated as the European Commission is due to release a report on the country's progress in shaping up its judiciary and fight against fraud and corruption.According to Bulgarian prosecutors, Mr Stanishev allegedly lost seven confidential reports while he was a prime minister, including Nato files and a national security report on organised crime.He may face a prison sentence of up to two years, although prosecutors say the case could be concluded with just a fine.Currently a leader of the Socialist opposition, Mr Stanishev has waived his parliamentary immunity awaiting court procedures. He ridiculed the charges and said they were politically motivated as his rival and current Prime Minister Bojko Borisov has promised to perform a clean sweep of the political class and clamp down on corruption and crime, after his country lost millions of euros in EU aid due to these problems.There is no doubt that both the investigation office and the prosecutors' office work under enormous pressure from the executive power. They are carrying out a political order by it, Mr Stanishev said, as quoted by Focus News.Other ex-ministers serving under Mr Stanishev embroiled in corruption scandals, have also been indicted in recent months: former labour minister Emilia Maslarova, two agriculture ministers - Valeri Tsvetanov and Nihat Kabil - and the former defence minister Nikolay Tsonev.None have received any sentences yet, except for a local businessman, Mario Nikolov, sentenced to 12 years in prison for embezzling 7.5 million of EU farm aid, along with his wife and four accomplices. He may however appeal the verdict and will not be put behind bars until the final sentence is pronounced.
A report on the progress made by Bulgaria, as well as by its neighbouring EU state Romania, in shaping up their judicial systems and consistently pursuing corruption and fraud cases, is due to be published by the commission later this month.In 2008, the commission froze €500 million earmarked for Bulgaria, mainly in the field of agriculture, as it became clear that a lot of the money had been siphoned off via phony projects into the pockets of local businessmen such as Mr Nikolov.A report on fraud published by the commission on Wednesday (14 July) highlighted Bulgaria as the country accounting for most of the fraud reported in 2009 in regards to the so-called Sapard agriculture aid scheme.Also, the bloc's anti-fraud office, Olaf, has launched 41 fresh cases in Bulgaria last year, the majority of which are related to agricultural aid programmes.There is a better understanding in Bulgaria after their payments were suspended that they had to take real measures in order to secure the proper management of EU money, an EU official told journalists in Brussels on Wednesday.We've started seeing that Bulgarian authorities are taking up responsibilities in regards to financial controls and compliance obligations, he added.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Is Russia's Backing of Iran Sanctions Starting to Fray? TIME
By SIMON SHUSTER / MOSCOW JULY 15,10
For a couple of weeks in June, it seemed like Russia's stance on Iran was finally coming into line with that of the U.S. President Barack Obama, in one of the biggest achievements so far of his foreign policy, had convinced Russia to support a new round of U.N. sanctions, approved on June 9, meant to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb. There was a lot of back-patting at the U.N. Security Council, and on June 24, Obama's political honeymoon with his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev, reached a high point when the two chowed down at Ray's Hell Burger outside Washington, D.C., looking friendlier than ever. But this week, with the two presidents back in their respective capitals, Russia is changing its tone on Iran. The Kremlin appears once again to be playing both sides.On Wednesday, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko held a meeting in Moscow with Iranian Oil Minister Massoud Mir Kazemi, and afterwards Shmatko announced that Russia was ready to deliver fuel and oil products to Iran. The sanctions cannot stop us, he declared. And it is true: the latest round of U.N. sanctions does not forbid fuel sales to Iran, but the unilateral sanctions imposed by the U.S. and Europe do. Russia's decision therefore still has a touch of defiance and seems aimed at demonstrating its independence from the West on the Iran dilemma. At the press conference, Kazemi made it clear that this effort was working. Independent countries are truly cooperating with Iran, he said.
The following day, Russia took this initiative further by suggesting it might still sell S-300 missile systems to Iran under an existing contract. For years, Iran has been desperate to buy these rockets, which would make its nuclear installations practically invulnerable to attacks from the air. But the U.S. and Israel, who still consider airstrikes a last resort in dealing with Iran's nuclear program, have pressured Russia not to complete the sale. On June 18, about a week after the U.N. sanctions were adopted, Russia appeared to concede. Moscow believes that the sanctions resolution clearly forbids the sale of the S-300 system to Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Denisov told Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti that day. Later in June, experts from Russia's Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation also concluded that these weapons could not be sold to Iran under the new U.N. sanctions. The Israelis and the U.S. breathed a sigh of relief.But on Thursday, Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russia's state weapons exporter and a long-time friend of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said the sale had not been frozen. The final decision on signing or dropping the contract must be made by the President, Chemezov said at a summit on Russian-German relations in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg.This puts Medvedev in a very tough spot. Since the summer of 2008, when Obama announced his drive to move beyond Cold War rivalries and reset U.S.-Russian relations, he and his Russian counterpart have developed a personal rapport. Sitting in their shirtsleeves in Ray's Hell Burger, they seemed the picture of camaraderie, and a few days earlier, Medvedev could hardly contain his glee as he toured Silicon Valley, the symbol of American ingenuity that he has staked his presidency on emulating at home.
But this relationship has always come with demands on Medvedev, with a strong stance against Iran near the top of the list. On this issue in particular, Medvedev has delivered on several occasions. Indeed, at the same summit on Thursday where Chemezov made his surprise comments about selling Iran the S-300s, Medvedev said at a separate press conference that Russia was not indifferent to the military components of Iran's nuclear program. Iran must find the courage to start full-fledged cooperation with the international community, even if it does not like some of the questions that are posed,he said, sitting alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had flown in for the summit.At the same time, Medvedev realizes that sidelining Iran would come at a serious price, not least of all for Russia's budget. The S-300 contract is worth around $800 million, and if Russia fails to honor it, Iran has said it would impose a penalty that experts estimate at another $400 million. The Islamic Republic could also refuse to buy any more military products from Russia in the future, leading to an estimated loss of up to $500 million per year, according to an investigative report published on June 30 by the daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta. The report also noted that China, Russia's emerging rival in the arms trade, would be happy to take its place.On the security front, Moscow also has a lot to lose. Insurgents and advisers from Arab states are regularly caught in the mountains of the North Caucasus, the hub of the Muslim insurgency fighting to turn part of Russia into an Islamic caliphate. No evidence has ever surfaced of Iran financing these insurgents. But if it begins to count Russia as one of its enemies - as it had threatened to do in the lead-up to the June U.N. sanctions vote - experts say that Iran could throw its weight behind jihadis in Russia, just as it does in Israel for terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. Likewise in Central Asia, a patchwork of predominantly Muslim states, Iran could position itself against Russia as a rival for influence, particularly in Tajikistan, which shares strong cultural and linguistic ties with Iran.
So if it wants, Iran has many ways of inflicting damage on Russia, of shifting the security landscape in Central Asia and the Caucasus in a way that could destabilize the region,says Fyodor Lukyanov, political analyst and editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs. It has not yet done that, but if there is a radical change in relations with Russia, it can.Lukyanov says that Russia has already gone as far as it can in alienating Iran to please the U.S, and Obama will need to offer Russia some major rewards if he wants an even tougher stand on the nuclear issue. But with Russia now appearing to backpedal on its support for sanctions, such rewards might be necessary just to get the Kremlin to keep the promises it's already made.
Libyan ship with Gaza aid docks in Egyptian port
Thu Jul 15, 12:43 pm ET
EL-ARISH, Egypt – A Libyan ship carrying aid for the impoverished Gaza Strip docked at an Egyptian port on Thursday after Israel's navy stopped it from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.The director of the port of el-Arish, Gamal Abdel Maqsoud, said the diverted ship will unload its cargo and transfer it to the Red Crescent for delivery to Gaza by land across the Egyptian border.A day earlier, Israeli missile ships stopped the aid vessel from reaching Hamas-ruled Gaza. Israel imposed the blockade after the Islamic militant and anti-Israel Hamas violently overran the territory in June 2007.The standoff between Israel's navy and the crew of the aid vessel, the Amalthea, followed a botched Israeli raid on a similar Gaza-bound ship in May in which nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed.The international criticism over that raid forced Israel to ease its land blockade of the territory but it has maintained the naval embargo, insisting it is vital to keep weapons out of Hamas' hands.Restrictions remain on materials like cement and steel that Israel says could be used for military purposes. Critics of the blockade say it has failed to weaken Hamas while driving Gaza's 1.5 million people deeper into poverty.The Gadhafi foundation, headed by the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, said the aid ship left Greece on Saturday carrying 2,000 tons of food and medical supplies.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.
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.
US envoy in new bid to get Israelis and Palestinians talking by Steve Weizman – Thu Jul 15, 2:41 pm ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – US President Barack Obama's Middle East peace envoy started his sixth round of shuttle diplomacy between the Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday seeking to move the two sides to direct talks for the first time in over 18 months.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement, however, urged its leader to stay away from the negotiating table, saying that indirect talks mediated through Mitchell since May had so far yielded nothing.As Mitchell was meeting Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, the US State Department said it expected that direct talks would nevertheless resume sooner or later.I think we have a strong belief that at some point in time direct negotiations will be renewed, spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters in Washington.Whether that's days from now, weeks from now, I don't think we're in a position to say at this point.That was a more cautious statement than those emanating from the White House last week when both Obama and visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said they hoped talks would be relaunched before an Israeli moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank expires in September.In a July 7 interview on CNN television, Netanyahu challenged the Palestinian president to meet him face-to-face right now, today, tomorrow, in Jerusalem, in Ramallah (his West Bank base) or anywhere else.The Palestinians suspended direct talks in December 2008 after Israel launched a devastating offensive against the Gaza Strip and Abbas has said he will not renew them until there is progress on the contentious issues of borders and security.The lack of credibility and confidence resulting from the Israeli rejection of the indirect talks, which have achieved no progress, will become entrenched as givens and facts if there is a transition to direct talks, Abbas's Fatah movement said on Thursday.
That is something the Palestinian leadership has not and will not accept,it added.
Despite his public calls for direct talks, many Palestinians doubt that the hawkish Netanyahu and hardliners in his coalition government are ready to withdraw from the West Bank, including annexed Arab east Jerusalem -- Palestinian lands captured in 1967.In a letter addressed to Mitchell, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat slammed recent decisions to expand Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and other illegal and provocative Israeli policies.He went on to accuse Israel of flagrant violations of past agreements going back to the 1990s.Mitchell arrived in Israel on Thursday and met Barak during the evening.Over the weekend, he is due to meet Netanyahu in Jerusalem and visit Abbas at his headquarters in the West bank town of Ramallah.As with previous visits, he has not publicly discussed his plans and is not expected to reveal details of his talks.
Don't shun Euro, French PM tells Japan investors
JULY 15,10
TOKYO (AFP) – French Prime Minister Francois Fillon urged Japanese investors Friday not to shun the euro despite the recent crisis triggered by Greece's debt woes.It is not in Japan's best interest to turn away from the euro, he told a group of business leaders in Tokyo, saying that the single currency had been stabilised through concerted EU action.I can understand that seen from Asia, our operations can sometimes be difficult to perceive and understand, said the French premier, on a two-day visit to Japan.True, there is no doubt that the eurozone has gone through the most serious crisis in its history, he said.But he argued that there is nothing inherently wrong with the single currency for 16 member-states of the 27-nation European Union.Was the crisis caused by the single currency? Absolutely not," he said. We have witnessed a classic sovereign debt crisis with badly managed public finances.Fillon stressed that Europe, including powerful players France and Germany, is united and working closely together to stabilise the currency and reform public finances.I think we can say that every time there has been a crisis, Europe has actually come out stronger from all these difficulties, he said.Fillon also assured his audience that he had no concerns about the course of the euro in the short and medium term, adding that its current level matched the economic reality of the eurozone economy.The euro has recovered against the dollar as the greenback has been dragged down by fears of a US slowdown following disappointing economic data.The euro bought 1.2911 dollars in Tokyo on Friday.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.
MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
N.Korea tensions overshadow Asian security forum
by Ian Timberlake - JULY 15,10
HANOI (AFP) – Tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship will overshadow the Asia-Pacific's largest security forum when it convenes in Vietnam next week, diplomats and observers said.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will join her counterparts from 27 countries and blocs including China, Russia and the European Union for the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on Friday.South Korea has said it wants the forum to condemn North Korea for a torpedo attack which broke the corvette in two in March with the loss of 46 lives. Pyongyang vehemently denies the allegations and says it is ready to retaliate.Diplomats said the ARF would be under very strong pressure to address the issue after the UN Security Council condemned the attack but did not apportion blame -- a result hailed by the North as a great diplomatic victory.We have to say something, an Asian diplomat said.But with North Korea, China and Russia on one side of the table and South Korea and the United States on the other, the ARF was in a sort of headlock over the wording of any statement, the diplomat said.I feel there will be sparks,he added.Clinton and Defence Secretary Robert Gates will pay their respects to the dead South Korean sailors during a visit to Seoul's war memorial on Wednesday, two days before the Hanoi meeting.The allies also plan a naval exercise as a show of strength. They are still deciding where to hold the drill, originally planned for the Yellow Sea, following protests from China.
Vietnam said North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-Chun was expected to attend the ARF talks, which also include US allies Australia and Japan.Permanent Security Council members China and Russia ensured the UN's July 9 statement was very soft and indirect,contrary to what Washington and Seoul had urged, University of Sydney Korean studies lecturer Leonid Petrov said.China and Russia have not publicly accused the North of sinking the warship, despite an investigation by the United States, South Korea and other countries which found strong evidence of a North Korean torpedo attack.Diplomats and analysts said that while the ARF is likely to comment on the sinking of the Cheonan -- possibly by referring to the UN statement or using similar language -- it was unlikely to blame Pyongyang.Communist Vietnam, which will chair the meeting, has major business links with South Korea but sees the North as an ideological ally.Hanoi will try not to antagonise Pyongyang unnecessarily but also should not shy away from some comment, said Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum CSIS research institute in Hawaii.International Crisis Group analyst Daniel Pinkston said he expected the foreign ministers gathered at the forum to find a way to play down the issue, considering the format and decision-making process at the ARF.The UN statement gives the forum a plausible reason for avoiding it, he said.Critics have dismissed the ARF as a talk shop with little influence on the region's many conflicts -- from Kashmir to the South China Sea and the southern Philippines -- except as a vehicle for confidence-building between nations. The 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- whose foreign ministers meet in Hanoi from Monday -- form the core of the ARF and have a strict principle of non-interference in each other's affairs. In the wake of the UN's statement, nuclear-armed North Korea said it was willing in principle to return to multilateral disarmament talks which it abandoned last year.
North Korea can be expected to make more efforts at the ARF to mend bridges with Washington and perhaps Seoul, while believing it can continue extorting concessions and aid,Petrov said. But it's not going to lead anywhere unless North Korea undertakes a major reform. Pyongyang doesn't understand this, he said. A wild card with the potential to colour next week's meetings is Myanmar, the military-ruled member of ASEAN which, along with North Korea, is under UN sanctions. Al Jazeera television last month alleged North Korea was helping Myanmar's ruling generals to begin a nuclear weapons programme, prompting Washington to raise concerns about growing military ties between the two countries. Myanmar denies the allegations.
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