7.2 QUAKE IN JAPAN

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LINDSEY WILLIAMS ON THE MIDEAST SETUP OF CHAOS BY NWO.PLUS JEROME CORSI ON NORTH AMERICAN UNION -CANADIAN TROOPS ON AMERICAN SOIL AND REVERSE ALL ON JONES TODAY.
http://rss.nfowars.net/20110309_Wed_Alex.mp3
LINDSEY WILLIAMS FROM HIS NWO BUDDY LAST OCT THAT THE NWO WOULD CREATE MIDEAST CHAOS AND THAT OIL IS GOING $200.00 A BARREL
http://rss.nfowars.net/20101021_Thu_Alex.mp3

Europe in policy U-turn to Mediterranean partners
by Claire Rosemberg – Tue Mar 8, 3:30 pm ET

BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Commission on Tuesday unveiled new policy guidelines towards Arab neighbours on its southern flank aimed at avoiding errors of the past by linking aid to political and economic reform.The Commission, the European Union's executive arm, will submit its so-called Partnership for Democracy and Shared Prosperity with the Southern Mediterranean to EU leaders gathering in Brussels on Friday for a crisis summit on Libya and the Arab world.The crux of the new thinking is to link the four billion euros of aid to be distributed over 2011-2013 across the region, to progress in judicial reform, corruption, human rights, and to place special emphasis on civil society and small businesses.The Commission proposes following a clearly incentive-based approach, said Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.

Partners who move faster on political and economic reforms should be able to count on greater support from the EU, he added in a speech.Slammed for propping up despots and turning a blind eye to rights abuses, Europe's leaders have pledged a top to toe revamp of Mediterranean policy.Events in the Arab world caught the EU napping despite billions in aid and a slew of trade deals struck during 15 years of a Euro-Mediterranean partnership.Critics slammed the 27-nation bloc for regarding despots as bulwarks against extremism, and failing to enforce the very values founding the union.Europe bowed before these dictators, it paid no heed to repression, said Alain Deletroz, an analyst at the International Crisis Group.Europe is bidding to open a new chapter carrying a heavy burden from the past.Barroso on Tuesday said the EU sought to make a qualitative leap with its neighbours who are willing and able to embark on the path of political and economic reforms.

Fears of tomorrow's unknown shall not prevent us from supporting today's changes, he said. This is a rendezvous with history that we must not miss.Across Europe, contrite capitals have been rattled by skeletons in cupboards, leftovers from ties with the regimes of former allies Hosni Mubarak and Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.France has fired its foreign minister for fraternising with Ben Ali, and Britain, France and Italy have been chided for fawning to Moamer Kadhafi as he unleashes war against his own people -- using arms sold by Belgium, Germany and others.In a much-noted statement of repentance, Stefan Fuele, the Commissioner in charge of the bloc's relations with its neighbours, this month said: We must show humility about the past.
Too many of us fell prey to the assumption that authoritarian regimes were a guarantee of stability.Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the new proposals suggest a change of mandate for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) originally set up to help eastern Europe, enabling it to extend a billion euros a year to the Mediterranean regime.Likewise the European Investment Bank could see a massive boost in its capital, pending EU approval, allowing it to offer loans worth almost six billion euros to the region over three years.

North Korea Nears Completion of Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb-N. Korea Disrupts Current Military Maneuvers With Russian Device To Jam GPS SEOUL, South Korea, March 9, 2011 ABC NEWS

North Korea appears to be protesting the joint U.S. and South Korean military maneuvers by jamming Global Positioning Devices in the south, which is a nuisance for cell phone and computers users -- but is a hint of the looming menace for the military. Watch: N. Korea Warns South, U.S. About Naval ExercisesSince March 4, Pyongyang has been trying to disrupt GPS receivers critical to South Korean military communications apparently in protest of the ongoing joint military training exercises between South Korean and U.S. forces. Strong jamming signals were sent intermittently every five to 10 minutes. The scope of the damage has been minimal, putting some mobile phones and certain military equipment that use GPS signals on the fritz. Large metropolitan areas including parts of Seoul, Incheon and Paju have been affected by the jamming, but the situation is getting wrapped up, no severe damage has been reported for the last two days, Kyoungwoo Lee, deputy director of Korea Communications Commission, said.The jamming, however, has raised questions about whether the Korean peninsula is bracing for new electronic warfare.

The North is believed to be nearing completion of an electromagnetic pulse bomb that, if exploded 25 miles above ground would cause irreversible damage to electrical and electronic devices such as mobile phones, computers, radio and radar, experts say.We assume they are at a considerably substantial level of development, Park Chang-kyu of the Agency for Defense Development said at a briefing to the parliament Monday.Park confirmed that South Korea has also developed an advanced electronic device that can be deployed in times of war.The current attempts to interfere with GPS transmissions are coming from atop a modified truck-mounted Russian device. Pyongyang reportedly imported the GPS jamming system from Russia in early 2000 and has since developed two kinds of a modified version. It has also in recent years handed out sales catalogs of them to nations in the Middle East, according to South Korea's Chosun Ilbo.North Korea Jams GPS Signals in Ominous Threat of More to Come Major Korean newspaper editorials today called the recent jamming a wake-up call, pointing out that consequences could be severe if North Korea succeeds in discharging full-fledged electromagnetic waves. On top of disrupting major communication tools used by both civilians and the military, the waves would affect financial transactions and civilian airplanes dependent on radio signals.The problem could be further exacerbated by the fact that our military equipment increasingly relies on commercial GPS standards, wrote JoongAng Daily, one of South Korea's largest newspapers.

This is the second time North Korea has sought to interfere with military communications. Pyongyang is thought to have been behind a failure of GPS receivers on some naval and civilian aircraft during another joint military exercise in August.South Korea's minister of defense at that time had reported to the Congress, warning that the North poses a fresh security threat capable of disrupting guided bombs and missiles by sending signals over a distance of up to 60 miles. Some modern weapons are equipped with an alternative guided system in addition to GPS, which means the bomb would find its way to the target even if it loses contact with the satellite.But the Korean military weaponry still largely remains vulnerable to GPS jamming signals, said Kwon Oh-Bong of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, answering questions from concerned politicians at a parliamentary working session Monday.Because we have a special code for the military, it is unlikely to be affected by such an attack, but there are some weapons that do not require a special code, so we are researching preventive measures, he said. U.S. Forces Korea spokesman David Oten declined to assess the effects, saying it is a matter of intelligence but added in an e-mail response that they are conducting extensive analysis of potential threats and ensured that United States forces operate using multiple, redundant navigational systems and train extensively to operate in a contested electronic environment.Euri Son and Esther Kim contributed to this article.

Lawmaker Warns TSA Harassment Coming To Sidewalks
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com March 9, 2011
http://www.infowars.com/lawmaker-warns-tsa-harassment-coming-to-sidewalks/

The lawmaker behind a bill aimed at curtailing TSA grope downs and naked body scanners warns that Americans will be subjected to such harassment on sidewalks and at football games if the TSA is not stopped in its tracks now, but in reality, TSA-style measures have already been aggressively expanded well beyond airports.
Republican Rep. David Simpson’s bill in the Texas legislature would classify any search without probable cause as an act of sexual harassment, while naked boded scanner images would be deemed criminal voyeurism.We’re talking about what would be a criminal act in any other place, Rep. David Simpson (R) told Raw Story. If you viewed someone naked without their permission or consent, or as a condition of travel, it would be sexual harassment or voyeurism. If you touched people’s privates, that would be sexual assault.This is not a left or right issue, he added. They are treating American citizens with great indignity, and we’ve got to make this right.Almost entirely mimicking protections already supposedly guaranteed by the Constitution, Simpson’s bill would characterize offensive touching which happens as part of a search performed to grant access to a publicly accessible building or form of transportation, as a state jail felony.Unless there’s reason to believe someone has an explosive or intends to commit a criminal act, you shouldn’t be treating them as a criminal and that’s what we’re doing. It’s un-American and it needs to stop. C.S. Lewis once wrote … that tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive, and I agree with him. They’re trying to make us think we’re safer, but we’re not.

It needs to stop somewhere, said Simpson. If we don’t nip this thing in the bud it’s gonna come to our sidewalks, to our football games.However, TSA-style security harassment is already being aggressively expanded outside the domain of airports.In Philadelphia, you don’t have to visit the airport to have the government molest you, TSA-style stop, question and frisk pat downs are already being conducted by police on the streets targeting people who act suspicious, by doing things like putting their hands in their coat pocket.As we have repeatedly warned, everything unfolding in the airports, from naked radiation body scanners to pat downs, is now being implemented on mass transit as well as every major street corner in America. Constitutional protections of privacy and immunity from unreasonable search and seizure have been abolished and replaced with guilty until proven innocent.Local police, TSA and Homeland Security agents are already implementing airport-style security measures at bus and train stations, including last year in Tampa, where bomb-sniffing dogs and grope downs were used to check passengers.Last month, TSA goons conducted grope downs of passengers, including young boys, at Savannah train station, despite the fact that the travelers were disembarking from their train and trying to leave the station having completed their journey. After the incident received national attention, TSA officials lied about the event, claiming passengers had been free to leave, when in fact they were swarmed by TSA agents and ordered to submit to the search as soon as they stepped onto the platform.

As we reported earlier last year, as the national outrage surrounding the TSA’s use of naked body scanners at airports simmered, the feds had already purchased hundreds of x-ray scanners mounted in vans that were being used to randomly scan vehicles, passengers and homes in complete violation of the 4th amendment and with wanton disregard for any health consequences.With the devices already being used at highway checkpoints, DHS chief Janet Napolitano has now publicly outlined the plan for mobile scanners to be used on all forms of transit, from trains and the metro to boats.These inspection stations are now being expanded to normal roads and highways, unleashing an army of TSA agents who will be given a free hand to litter America with internal checkpoints in a chilling throwback to Soviet-style levels of control over the population.Simpson’s warning that the TSA will eventually be stationed at football games and other public events is already in the works. Since the launch of the Department of Homeland Security’s See Something, Say Something program, the DHS has released promotional material which depicts would-be TSA agents conducting searches at public events, including a Buccaneers football game. After we wrote an article on the subject, the TSA pulled the You Tube videos from the web which showed the pat downs at football games.Indeed, all fans entering the Cowboys Stadium for last month’s Super Bowl final were subjected to grope downs, bag searches, and had to pass through metal detectors.

Homeland Security is also developing technology to be used at security events which purports to monitor malintent on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint. The video below explains how Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) checkpoints will conduct physiological and behavioral tests in order to weed out suspected terrorists and criminals.The clip shows individuals who attend security events being led into trailers before they are interrogated as to whether they are terrorists while lie detector-style computer programs analyze their physiological responses. The subjects are asked about their whereabouts, and if they are attempting to smuggle bombs or recording devices into the expo, proving that the technology is intended to be used at public events and not just airports. Individuals who do not satisfy the first lie detector-style test are then asked additional questions.

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED MAR 09,2011

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -29.43
10:30 AM +22.86
11:00 AM -39.73
11:30 AM -28.49
12:00 PM -6.77
12:30 PM +7.35
01:00 PM +20.28
01:30 PM +13.93
02:00 PM +13.02
02:30 PM +9.99
03:00 PM +9.23
03:30 PM +11.54
04:00 PM -1.29 12,213.09

S&P 500 1320.02 -1.80

NASDAQ 2751.72 -14.05

GOLD 1,429.80 +2.60

OIL 104.31 -0.71

TSE 300 13,884.70 -128.30

CDNX 2326.46 -59.23

S&P/TSX/60 798.74 -7.07

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -15 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -55 points at low today.
Dow +31 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,435.50.OIL opens at $105.69 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -55 points at low today so far.
Dow +31 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -55 points at low today.
Dow +31 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,444.00 (NOT AT CLOSE)

CRUDE OIL +2.5 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE -5.5 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES -4 MILLION BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

Magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits northern Japan
MAR 8,11 10:15PM

TOKYO – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake has hit northern Japan, shaking buildings in Tokyo and prompting the country's meteorological agency to issue a tsunami alert for the northeastern coast. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but officials are still assessing the situation.The meteorological agency says the quake hit at 11:45 a.m. local time Wednesday and was centered about 200 miles (300 kilometers) north of Tokyo at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers).It warned that a tsunami of about 20 inches (50 centimeters) would hit the coast around noon Wednesday, but that time passed without any reports of a wave reaching the shore.There was a 6.3 magnitude aftershock shortly after the main quake.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.TOKYO (AP) — A magnitude 7.2 earthquake has hit northern Japan, prompting the country's meteorological agency to issue a tsunami alert for the northeastern coast.It warns that a tsunami of about 20 inches (50 centimeters) will hit the coast around noon Wednesday.

Magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits northeast Japan
By MALCOLM FOSTER, Associated Press - MAR 8,11

TOKYO – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit northeastern Japan on Wednesday, shaking buildings hundreds of miles away in Tokyo and prompting the country's meteorological agency to issue a tsunami warning for the coast. There were no immediate reports of significant damage or injuries.Japanese officials said they were still assessing the situation and telling residents along the coast to stay away from the shore.The meteorological agency said the quake hit at 11:45 a.m. local time Wednesday and was centered about 90 miles (150 kilometers) off the northeastern coast — about 270 miles (440 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo — at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers).A 24-inch (60-centimeter) tsunami reached the coastal town of Ofunato, in Iwate prefecture, shortly after noon. The meteorological agency warned that a tsunami of about 20 inches (50 centimeters) would hit the coast.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said a Pacific-wide tsunami was not expected.

We have confirmed that small tsunami have come up on the shores, but we have no reports of damage at this point, said Shinobu Nagano, an emergency and disaster response official in Iwate prefecture. We are still trying to determine the impact of the quake.Some train lines in the area were temporarily stopped after the quake, but they were restarted shortly after noon.There was a 6.3 magnitude aftershock shortly after the main quake, the meteorological agency said.The U.S. Geological Survey said the 7.2-magnitude quake struck 8.8 miles (14.1 kilometers) underground, some 104 miles (168 kilometers) east of the closest major city of Sendai. The two agencies often have slightly different numbers.Japan lies on the "Ring of Fire" — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim and where about 90 percent of the world's quakes occur.

Buildings shake as quake hits Japan, no damage reported
MAR 8,11

TOKYO (Reuters) – A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 hit off the coast of northeastern Japan on Wednesday, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.A tsunami warning of up to 50 cm was issued for northeastern Japan, public broadcaster NHK reported. Buildings shook in Tokyo but no damage was immediately reported.The focus of the tremor was 10 km (6 miles) below the surface of the earth, off the coast of Aomori prefecture, NHK said.Tohoku Electric Power said its Onagawa nuclear plant was operating normally after the quake. Tokyo Electric Power also said there was no impact on its power plants in the region.Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.(Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Nathan Layne)

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.

Homes flooded in cyclone-hit northeast Australia
MAR 8,11

BRISBANE, Australia – Heavy rains sent floodwaters pouring into homes and businesses Wednesday in several northeast Australian towns still cleaning up from a massive cyclone that tore through the region last month.A huge band of monsoonal rain hanging over a coastal area south of Cairns prompted flash flood warnings from the Bureau of Meteorology in Queensland state, which was battered by months of deadly flooding that began late last year and by a giant cyclone in February.In the hard-hit town of Cardwell — where Cyclone Yasi tore roofs off houses, threw boats from the sea and shredded the main road last month — nearly eight inches (200 millimeters) of rain fell in just 24 hours, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said. Officials set up an evacuation center and a State Emergency Service team was attempting to push through flooded roads to reach the community Wednesday.Those people, particularly in Cardwell, still reeling from Cyclone Yasi must be thinking what on earth is next, Bligh told reporters in Brisbane.The thoughts of all Queenslanders are with them.Yasi came on top of Australia's worst flooding in decades, with 35,000 homes destroyed, 35 people killed and Brisbane, the country's third-largest city, inundated.

This week's floods have killed one person. A 42-year-old woman died after her car was swept from a flooded road in Kuranda, north of Cairns. Her body was found Tuesday, Queensland police said.Cardwell Caravan Park owner Colin Oke said about three feet (one meter) of water had inundated three cabins, and that two neighboring homes had water above the floorboards.Everything's damaged,he said. I've spent four weeks just removing trees and branches and bits of everyone else's roofs that landed in my yard. I'm about to call my insurer again and tell them I've got another problem.

Flooding threatens parts of mid-Atlantic region
By DAVID PORTER, Associated Press – Tue Mar 8, 6:26 pm ET

WAYNE, N.J. – The mid-Atlantic region braced Tuesday for heavy rains that forecasters said could push rivers and streams over their banks and into neighborhoods over the next few days.Water had just begun subsiding from perennially flooded parts of New Jersey as the state Office of Emergency Management said it was preparing for another deluge.I just walked over to my house to turn the electric back on to save the food in my refrigerator, Robert Hamlin, of Wayne, said between bites of a sandwich. Now, with all the rain they're predicting for Thursday, I'm just going to have to go and turn it back off again.The National Weather Service by Tuesday afternoon had already posted a flood watch for parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, along with northern Delaware and northeastern Maryland, from Thursday morning through Friday morning.Forecasters said that rain may begin overnight Wednesday, but that the heaviest rainfall is expected Thursday, with some areas getting 2 to 3 inches. Of particular concern were the Passaic, Raritan, Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, all of which flow through heavily populated parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia.Flooded streets closed across New Jersey on Tuesday, many residents had been evacuated or had headed to nearby hotels, and others slogged through water that was waist-high in some cases to retrieve belongings and assess damage.

In Pompton Lakes, Chris Baker wound up with 2 feet of water on the first floor of his two-story house, ruining most of his furniture. He stayed in a hotel Tuesday.
This time we didn't have much warning, Baker said. So I grabbed just a couple of pairs of pants, a little suitcase and beat it out the door.The flooding forecast comes as New England cleans up from snow and floods caused by a powerful late-winter storm.It dumped more than 2 feet of snow on parts of northern New York and Vermont. It caused patchy damage in southern New England, where swollen rivers swept away parts of a few houses and at least one mudslide buried cars.It also pushed the winter of 2010-11 up the record list. It gave Burlington, Vt., its biggest March snowfall on record, at 25.8 inches, and its third-snowiest winter on record so far, at 124.3 inches.The 13 inches that fell in Syracuse, N.Y., made it the fourth-snowiest winter on record there, with a seasonal total of 173.5 inches compared with the record of 192.1, set in 1992-93. Rochester, N.Y., surpassed 112 inches of snow by Sunday, more than 30 inches above normal.Associated Press writers Bill Newill in Trenton, N.J., and Adam Pemble in Pompton Lakes, N.J., 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.

Mass fish death in California harbor
MAR 8,11

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Millions of dead fish were found floating in a California harbor after apparently becoming trapped and expiring due to lack of oxygen, experts said.
The silver-colored fish appeared overnight at King Harbor in Redondo Beach, where the surface of the water was covered, said officials.Locals suggested that high winds might have pushed the fish -- initially reported to be anchovies, but later identified as sardines -- into the marina south of Los Angeles.But police spokesman Phil Keenan suggested they were likely chased in by other fish.We believe the sardines were chased in, probably by some other type of predator fish, said Keenan, adding that millions of fish remained alive outside the marina, with seagulls and sea lions feeding on them.But these particular sardines got into this basin here, which is a smaller area -- and a confined area -- and we believe they died of oxygen deprivation.Local official Bill Workman said the water was not polluted.There are no visible signs of any toxins that might have caused (the deaths)... There are no oil slicks or leaking of substances into the water, he said.It looks like what happens to goldfish when you don't change the water in the tank, mouth open and belly up, he told the Los Angeles Times.Keenan added: Sardines consume a lot of oxygen, and there was not a lot of oxygen in the confined area where they were, and so they died of oxygen deprivation.It's like putting too many fish in a small aquarium, he said.

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.

Gadhafi forces barrage rebels in east and west By MAGGIE MICHAEL and PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press - MAR 8,11

TRIPOLI, Libya – After dramatic successes over the past weeks, Libya's rebel movement appears to have hit a wall of overwhelming power from loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi. Pro-regime forces halted their drive on Tripoli with a heavy barrage of rockets in the east and threatened Tuesday to recapture the closest rebel-held city to the capital in the west.If Zawiya, on Tripoli's doorstep, is ultimately retaken, the contours of a stalemate would emerge — with Libya divided between a largely loyalist west and a rebel east as the world wrestles with the thorny question of how deeply to intervene.President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to plan for the full spectrum of possible responses on Libya, including imposing a no-fly zone to prevent Gadhafi's warplanes from striking rebels. According to a White House statement, the two leaders spoke Tuesday and agreed that the objective must be an end to violence and the departure of Gadhafi as quickly as possible.A spokesman for the opposition's newly created Interim Governing Council in Benghazi, meanwhile, said a man who claimed to represent Gadhafi made contact with the council to discuss terms for the leader of four decades to step down. Mustafa Gheriani told The Associated Press the council could not be certain whether the man was acting on his own initiative or did in fact represent Gadhafi.But our position is clear: No negotiations with the Gadhafi regime, said Gheriani, who declined to say when contact was made or reveal the identity of the purported envoy.Libyan state television denied that Gadhafi had sent an envoy to talk to the rebels.In London, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that neither Gadhafi nor rebel forces appeared currently able to establish supremacy.At the moment ... it seems that either side lacks the immediate power to overthrow the other, he said.

Later Tuesday, Gadhafi made a surprise appearance at a hotel hosting foreign correspondents in Tripoli, arriving just before midnight. He raised his fist in the air as he walked from his car to the hotel, then he went into a room separated by curtains for exclusive interviews with a Turkish and a French television station.He stayed about an hour, then he left without speaking to the AP and other news organizations waiting outside.Gadhafi was in a very good mood and he wanted to clarify the situation in Libya, Abdelmajid al-Dursi, Gadhafi's director of foreign media said afterward.Zawiya, a city of 200,000, was sealed off under a fifth day of a destructive siege, with conflicting reports of who was in control. A brigade led by one of Gadhafi's sons, Khamis, is believed to be leading the assault, shelling neighborhoods with tank and artillery fire from the outskirts and trying to push troops in to the city's central Martyrs Square where rebels had set up camp.The city hospital has been overwhelmed with dead and wounded and many houses have been damaged, according to residents who escaped the past two days. One man who slipped out of the city on Monday said pro-Gadhafi forces had seized the central square.An adviser to the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli on Tuesday also claimed that government troops were in control, raising the green flag over the square. The adviser, who is originally from Zawiya, said he was trying to mediate a cease-fire with remaining rebels. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks.But a resident of the nearby town of Sabratha said people who fled from Zawiya on Tuesday afternoon told him fighting continued, with rebels back in control of the square. He said they reported hit-and-run attacks between the two sides.The various reports could not be independently confirmed. Electricity, phone and Internet services have all been cut in the city, making it impossible to reach witnesses inside Zawiya, just 30 miles west of Tripoli.The recapture of Zawiya would be a significant victory for Gadhafi, easing a threat just outside his main bastion in the capital. If his forces can hold it, it would free up troops to deploy against other rebel-held areas.

The fall of Zawiya to anti-Gadhafi residents early on in the uprising that began Feb. 15 had illustrated the initial, blazing progress of the opposition. The uprising swept over the entire eastern half of the country, breaking it out of the regime's control, and seized Zawiya and several other cities and towns in the northwestern pocket of the country where Gadhafi's regime was confined.But the government could be regaining some balance and its capability to lash back with powerful force. The battle is far from over and could be drawn out into a long and bloody civil war. The latest round of fighting on opposite ends of Libya's Mediterranean coast once again revealed the weakness and disorganization of both sides. Even if it ends with Zawiya's recapture, the long siege of the city underlined the rebels' tenacity and the struggles of even a reportedly elite force like the Khamis Brigades to crush them. At the same time, Gadhafi's regime has been using its air power advantage more each day to check a rebel advance west toward Tripoli on the main coastal highway leading out of the opposition-controlled eastern half of the country. The increasing use of air power underlines the vulnerability of the rebel forces as they attempt to march across open, desert terrain — but it also could prompt world powers to impose a no-fly zone over Libya to deny Gadhafi that edge.In the east, Gadhafi's forces succeeded over the weekend in blunting the rebels' attempt to march toward Tripoli, repelling them from Bin Jawwad, a small town 375 miles (600 kilometers) east of the capital, and driving them back to the oil port of Ras Lanouf, further east.On Tuesday, troops fired barrages of rockets at a rebel contingent that tried to move out from Ras Lanouf. At least 26 wounded were rushed to the hospital in the town, some of them with legs lost and other serious injuries, according to doctors there.I was hit in the arm and leg, my friend was wounded in the stomach, Momen Mohammad, 31, said while lying in a hospital bed.

Earlier in the day, warplanes launched at least five new airstrikes near rebel position in Ras Lanouf, one hitting a two-story house in a residential area, causing some damage. None of the strikes appeared to cause casualties, suggesting they were intended to intimidate the fighters, according to an Associated Press reporter who saw the strikes. The anti-regime forces were not taking any chances and were spreading out deep inside the desert around the area in small groups. The rebels seem to have reached a point of their campaign where they need to figure out how to organize resupply lines and avoid becoming easy targets for warplanes in their march across the open desert region with little cover. The extent of their westward reach is a checkpoint about six miles (10 kilometers) west of Ras Lanouf.In Benghazi, Libya's second largest city and the main rebel stronghold in east, there was an unusual attack after weeks of quiet that followed the rebel capture of the territory. Assailants in a car tossed a grenade at a hotel where foreign journalists were staying, but there were no casualties and only some light damage to windows, an opposition official said.In diplomatic action, the United States and its NATO allies edged closer Monday to formulating a military response to the escalating violence in Libya as the alliance boosted surveillance flights over the country and the Obama administration signaled it might be willing to help arm Gadhafi's opponents. Europe, meanwhile, kick-started international efforts to impose a no-fly zone.France and Britain have taken the lead in drafting a U.N. Security Council resolution that would establish a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent Gadhafi's warplanes from bombing civilians and rebels.It still appeared unlikely that U.S. warplanes or missiles soon would deploy in Libya. British and French officials said the no-fly resolution was being drawn up as a contingency and it has not been decided whether to put it before the U.N. Security Council, where Russia holds veto power and has rejected such a move.Western officials have said a no-fly zone does not require a U.N. mandate, but they would prefer to have one.An official with a subsidiary of Libya's national oil company said Tuesday that production has dropped by about 90 percent, a reflection of the beating the OPEC member's oil sector is taking amid violence raging in the country.

Sirte Oil Co. is producing about 9,500 barrels per day, compared to normal production levels at about 95,000 barrels per day, said company official Ahmed Jerski.Analysts estimate that more than half of Libya's almost 1.6 million barrels per day in production is being shut-in, and the disruption in exports has sent global oil prices skyrocketing.The U.S. benchmark crude contract for April delivery was hovering slightly below $104 per barrel on Tuesday, retreating from highs of almost $107 per barrel a day earlier. The drop came as several OPEC ministers said they were talking informally about whether to ramp up production to offset the Libya supply drop.The upheaval has also sparked a massive exodus by foreign workers in Libya fleeing the violence. As of Tuesday, 224,661 migrants had reached Libya's borders with Tunisia, Egypt, Niger and Algeria since February 20, according to the latest International Organization for Migration figures provided Tuesday to AP. But a Red Crescent official said Tuesday that soldiers loyal to Gadhafi have blocked some 30,000 migrant workers from fleeing into Tunisia and forced many to return to work in Tripoli.Ibrahim Osman of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told The Associated Press that the migrant workers were rounded up and held in Libyan immigration buildings near the Tunisian border last week. Osman, who heads the agency's assessment teams in northern Africa, said Gadhafi soldiers were forcibly returning many of the 30,000 Bangladeshis, Egyptians and sub-Saharan Africans nearing the Ras Ajdir border crossing. He said loyalists held a pro-government demonstration at the crossing and appear to have forcibly return the migrants to service jobs.Schemm reported from Ras Lanouf. Ryan Lucas contributed to this report from Benghazi, Libya.

As oil muddies outlook, Fed policy less certain
By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa - MAR 8,11

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Surging oil prices are deepening a split inside the Federal Reserve, blurring the likely direction of U.S. monetary policy and making next week's policy meeting all the more contentious.The sharp rise in energy costs, precipitated by a wave of pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world, could affect the economy in different ways, by retarding growth, boosting inflation or, in the worst case, both.This complicates the terrain for policymakers, hardening long-held positions ahead of the Fed's March 15 gathering.The meeting has definitely gotten more interesting for the participants than they'd like, said Mitch Stapley, chief fixed-income officer at Fifth Third Asset Management.The stakes are rising, he said. The nightmare scenario is some kind of stagflation outcome. That's some ways down the road but you begin to see that discussion emerge.At the heart of the debate is the concept of economic slack, an attempt to measure the gap between current levels of activity and the economy's full potential.

The core of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee, led by Chairman Ben Bernanke, firmly believes broad price pressures are highly unlikely to overtake an economy plagued by high unemployment and meager wage gains.A vocal minority of inflation hawks, however, are skeptical that the so-called output gap is a good determinant of U.S. inflation. If the monetary authorities wait for the country's 8.9 percent jobless rate to fall to more desirable levels, they say, it will already be too late.This camp points to the Fed's massive expansion of credit to the banking system, including zero interest rates and $2.3 trillion in government and mortgage bond purchases to prop up credit markets hit by the worst financial crisis in generations.The purchases have more than tripled the central bank's balance sheet and Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser calls it the kindling of future inflation.In next Tuesday's policy statement, the Fed will likely manage this dissonance by acknowledging a recent pick up in energy costs but also reiterate that inflation expectations remain well anchored.At this point, most analysts see the Fed completing its current $600 billion bond purchase program and calling it a day, even if the situation in the Middle East has widened the range of possible outcomes.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECONOMICS

Unlike the European Central Bank, which recently hinted it could raise rates as early as next month, few believe Fed tightening is imminent.We still assume no interest rate hike until 2012, said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts. The Fed is not the ECB. It will not raise interest rates just because headline inflation is rising.Indeed, Fed officials have taken pains to point out that, while deflation no longer appears to be a risk, underlying or core inflation remains around 1 percent -- well below the Fed's presumed target of 2 percent or a bit below.With U.S. crude oil prices up around $105 a barrel and domestic gasoline costs moving up quickly as a result, it is not hard to envision a scenario where fears of inflation turn into more entrenched expectations for higher prices.Policymakers across the hawk-dove spectrum see expectations as a key harbinger of future inflation and this might force the Fed to tighten the monetary purse strings even with the economy still struggling to gain traction after the recession. Speeches from two of the Fed's regional presidents on Monday highlighted the internal discord. Richard Fisher, the Dallas Fed's colorful hawkish president who likes to quip that doves are part of the pigeon family, said he was starting to seriously consider dissenting against continued accommodation. In contrast, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart raised the possibility that the Fed would have to extend a $600 billion bond-purchase program beyond its June deadline if a further spike in oil appeared to threaten the recovery.My sense of the balance of risks has shifted with the addition of unrest in the Middle East and North Africa,Lockhart said.Given that Lockhart's thinking has tended to mirror that of the Fed's power nucleus in Washington, it is probably a safe bet to expect the Fed to remain on hold for a while -- even if futures markets are pricing in some year-end tightening.

Oil slips as OPEC mulls output, Libyans fight
By Robert Gibbons – Tue Mar 8, 5:30 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices slipped on Tuesday, with Brent falling nearly 2 percent, after Kuwait's oil minister said OPEC was considering a production boost as war-torn Libya's output remained disrupted and the region's unrest fueled concerns about more supplies being cut off.The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has left official policy steady for more than two years, but analysts have said output has been informally rising.Saudi Arabia has offered to help make up for Libya's shut output, estimated at about 1 million barrels per day of its normal 1.6 million bpd.Brent crude for April delivery fell $1.98 to settle at $113.06 a barrel, having fallen as low as $112.13.U.S. crude futures for April delivery fell 42 cents to settle at $105.02 a barrel, above an early $103.33 low.The market is now waiting for the next piece of news to unfold, said Harry Tchilinguirian, head of commodity markets strategy at BNP Paribas.A turn for the worse for the market would be oil infrastructure being hit as a result of the fighting. The demise of the current regime or a more forceful statement from OPEC followed by an increase in production would be significant too.Brent's premium to the U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude ended post-settlement trading down $1.79 at $7.96 a barrel, down from a record of more than $17 last week.U.S. gasoline and heating oil futures settled lower, slumping with the Brent contract. High U.S. gasoline prices may be hitting retail demand, which fell 1.8 percent last week against the previous week and was lower against a year ago, MasterCard said.

U.S. OIL INVENTORY REPORTS

U.S. crude stockpiles rose 3.8 million barrels last week, with gasoline stocks falling 3.7 million barrels and distillate stock dropping 1.5 million barrels, the industry group American Petroleum Institute said in a report released late Tuesday.
Oil futures prices showed little reaction to the API data.A Reuters analyst survey ahead of the API report yielded a forecast for crude stocks to be up 400,000 barrels, distillates down 600,000 barrels and gasoline stocks down 1.5 million barrels last week.The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will issue the government's oil data at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT).

OPEC TALKS PRODUCTION BOOST

We are in consultations about a potential output increase, Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah told reporters. But he added that the group had taken no decision yet to produce above existing output targets.Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi and others in OPEC said world oil markets were sufficiently supplied. Naimi said the kingdom held 3.5 million bpd of spare production capacity to meet any shortages.
Algeria's oil minister said he sees no supply deficits and Iran's OPEC governor downplayed the discussions, saying consumer worries were mostly psychological.With protesters in Kuwait gathering on Tuesday and calls for more Saudi protests later this month, investors remain on edge about unrest in the region. Investment bank Goldman Sachs raised its oil price forecast and said it believed Saudi Arabia already had used up more of its surplus capacity than is widely thought.U.S. crude prices will average $102 a barrel in 2011, the U.S. EIA said, raising its forecast by $9 from February.

BATTLE FOR LIBYA

Libyan government forces attacked rebels on western and eastern fronts, intensifying their offensive to crush the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi.U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron conferred by telephone and agreed to press forward with planning ... on the full spectrum of possible responses, including a no-fly zone.(Additional reporting by Gene Ramos in New York, Nia Williams and Christopher Johnson in London and Alejandro Barbajosa in Singapore; Editing by Marguerita Choy)

German union to stage protest at stock market operator
– Mon Mar 7, 1:49 pm ET

FRANKFURT (AFP) – German trade union Verdi has urged staff at the stock market operator Deutsche Boerse to protest in favour of jobs it says are threatened by a merger with NYSE Euronext, and to press for higher wages.A demonstration is scheduled at noon (1100 GMT) on Wednesday at the operator's headquarters in Eschborn, west of Frankfurt, a statement said.We think this merger is not necessary because German stock market activity will suffer and the system of staff representation on the supervisory board will disappear, Verdi leader Herbert Bayer told AFP.Deutsche Boerse boss Reto Francioni told German business daily Handelsblatt Monday that the huge financial market operator formed by Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext will probably use the latter's stock trading platform.That would mean the end of the German operator's Xetra platform.But Frankfurt and the financial sector will profit from the merger as well since its trading platform for derivative products would probably be retained and fears over a decline were unfounded, Francioni said.Verdi also wants to resume talks with the German market operator on staff wages, and is calling for a four-percent increase.Deutsche Boerse management has offered 2.3 percent, Bayer said.The company employs around 3,400 people worldwide, including some 1,600 in Germany.

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.

Christians and Muslims clash in Cairo, 1 dead By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press – Tue Mar 8, 5:21 pm ET

CAIRO – Thousands of Christians and Muslims clashed Tuesday, with one Christian man killed and scores wounded as anger rose over the burning of a church in a Cairo suburb.It was the second burst of sectarian fighting in as many days and the latest in a string of violent protests over a variety of topics as simmering unrest continues nearly a month after mass protests led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.The violence erupted after Coptic Christians held protests in several locations in Cairo against perceived persecution by the country's Muslim majority.

The Christians have been angered by last week's burning by a Muslim mob of a church in a Cairo suburb. Egypt's military rulers have since pledged to rebuild the church and Prime Minister Essam Sharaf met Monday with the protesters outside the TV building. But the protesters said they wanted more steps to improve the status of Christians.About 2,000 of them cut off a main road running on the eastern side of the city and pelted motorists with rocks. Another crowd of about 1,000 protested outside the TV building in downtown Cairo.The group which included a group of garbage collectors, who are predominantly Christian, demanded equal rights and better quality of life. The clashes broke out when they were confronted by Muslims, witnesses said.At least one Christian man was killed and about 100 others wounded in the fighting, according to an Egyptian hospital official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.Elsewhere in Cairo, a protest by hundreds of Egyptian women demanding equal rights and an end to sexual harassment turned violent Tuesday when crowds of men heckled and shoved the demonstrators, telling them to go home where they belong.

Even before Egypt's uprising unleashed a torrent of discontent, tensions had been growing between Christians and Muslims in the country.On New Year's Day, a suicide bombing outside a Coptic church in the port city of Alexandria killed 21 people, setting off days of protests. Barely a week later, an off-duty policeman boarded a train and shot dead a 71-year-old Christian man and wounding his wife and four others.Also Tuesday, an Egyptian court rejected an appeal by Mubarak and his family against a top prosecutor's move to seize funds that could total in the billions of dollars. The decision clears the way for a criminal investigation and a possible trial of Egypt's former leader.Mubarak, his wife, two sons and their wives have also been banned from travel abroad.Judicial officials described the court decision to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.During the pro-democracy uprising, unconfirmed reports that Mubarak and his family might have amassed billions, or even tens of billions of dollars, over their three decades in power, fueled protesters already enraged over massive corruption and poverty in Egypt.Mubarak, top leaders of his one-time ruling party and other cronies, as well as the powerful military have all profited richly from the corrupt system while nearly half of Egypt's 80 million people live under or near the poverty line set by the World bank at $2 a day.

Mubarak, 82, is suspected of turning a blind eye to corruption by family members and their associates, while many of the allegations of wrongdoing centered on the business activity of his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, as well as Gamal's wife and her family.Unlike other Arab leaders, particularly those in the oil-rich Gulf nations, Mubarak was far from ostentatious. Whatever wealth he and his family may have had was rarely — if ever — flaunted. But that did not stop Egyptians from swapping stories about the size of their wealth and the allegedly corrupt methods they used to amass it.The most prominent symbol of their presumed fortune that has surfaced was a town house in London's exclusive Knightsbridge district, which is listed under Gamal Mubarak's name and where he was said to have lived while working as an investment banker in the early 1990s. The town house has become a focal point for many in Egypt as foreign governments begin to either enact, or consider freezing the family's assets. Gamal Mubarak was the ousted leader's one-time heir apparent, although they never confirmed the plan and remained evasive on the topic almost until the very end. The younger Mubarak rose rapidly through the ranks of his father's National Democratic Party, or NDP, over the past decade to become the country's most powerful politician after the president.In the NDP, Gamal Mubarak surrounded himself with mega-rich businessmen who sought political careers to promote their business interests. Between them, they introduced far-reaching economic reforms that benefited the businessmen. But any prosperity Egypt ever enjoyed never trickled to the impoverished majority.Several of those businessmen are now in prison and subject to criminal investigations as the ruling military pushes ahead with a campaign to cleanse the country from the corruption of the ousted regime.Alaa Mubarak's wealth had been the subject of much speculation well before the political rise of his younger brother. There are allegations that he used the family name to muscle in on profitable enterprises, taking a cut of profits without contributing to the funds invested or work done. Associated Press writer Hamza Hendawi contributed to this report.

Iran's Rafsanjani ousted as head of state body
By Parisa Hafezi and Reza Derakhshi – Tue Mar 8, 4:16 pm ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani lost his position as head of an important state clerical body on Tuesday, a move which tightens the hardliners' grip on power.The defeat for one of the great survivors of Iranian politics since the 1979 Islamic revolution highlighted how even establishment opponents of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are being isolated and sidelined.It follows reports by relatives of reformist opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, denied by the government, that they have been placed in detention at a secret location to stop them orchestrating pro-reform protests inspired by uprisings in the Arab world.Security forces fired teargas to disperse anti-government protesters in Tehran on Tuesday, Mousavi's website said.

An ambush challenge by arch hard-liner Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani forced Rafsanjani to withdraw from running for re-election as chairman of the Assembly of Experts.The 86-member clerical body has the authority to dismiss Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 71, but it has never exercised that power since it was established in 1983. It also appoints the new leader if the old one is removed or dies.The vote will not have an immediate practical impact on Iran's complex political structure but analysts said the hardline triumph at the Assembly would further homogenize the establishment by removing another channel for dissent.In the short-term Ahmadinejad has scored a victory in terms of his immediate authority within the establishment, but it raises questions for those beyond Rafsanjani who may have questions about that authority, said Professor Scott Lucas, academic and editor of the online journal EA WorldView.It is a question of who's next?

Rafsanjani, who had chaired the Assembly since 2007, said he had no intention of causing friction at a time when discord is becoming very serious in the Islamic state.I regard division at the Assembly as detrimental ... I had said before that should he (Mahdavi-Kani) stand for the position, I would withdraw to prevent any rift, Rafsanjani told the Assembly in a speech, the students news agency ISNA said.

Iranian media said last week that more than 50 Assembly members supported Mahdavi-Kani's candidacy, but the challenger was coy up to the last minute over whether he would run.The defeat was a blow to Rafsanjani's attempt to play a bridging role between dominant Islamic hardliners and the increasingly marginalized reformist opposition since Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009.

THE AGILE CLERIC

The 2009 vote, which authorities denied rigging as the opposition claimed, jolted Iran with the biggest anti-government street unrest in the past three decades, creating a deepening rift within the Islamic elites.There are some (officials) who want to monopolize the leadership ... but it is a major mistake as the supreme leader is above factional politics, said Rafsanjani, in a clear reference to Ahmadinejad and his supporters.Ethics have been harmed in society and lies propagate from the level of top officials.Rafsanjani's political power has been declining since he lost to Ahmadinejad in a 2005 presidential bid and criticized the government's crackdown on the opposition in 2009.The cleric has faced persistent accusations of corruption and his family has been harassed. His daughter Faezeh, a former lawmaker and a women's rights activist, was briefly detained on a banned rally on February 14, the first street unrest since December 2009 that was crushed by the elite Revolutionary Guards.His son, Mohsen, resigned as the head of Tehran Metro Company on Friday, citing lack of financial support from the government. Another son, Mehdi, faces arrest if he ever returns to Iran on accusations of fomenting unrest in 2009.Rafsanjani still heads the Expediency Council, an unelected arbitration body that resolves disputes between parliament and a clerical vetting body, the Guardian Council.

Some analysts still believe the agile cleric may still bounce back by using residual influence in some layers of the Revolutionary Guards and among top clerics, who see him as a pillar of the Islamic revolution able to defuse crisis.Rafsanjani, with a political career spanning more than half a century, has held most of the top positions in Iran's political structure including parliament speaker, armed forces commander and president from 1989 to 1997.He has also been at the heart of almost every key moment in the 32-year-old Islamic republic's life, including decisions to prolong and then end the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, as well as covert arms-for-hostages deals with Washington in the 1980s.(Additional reporting by Hashem Kalantari; Writing by Parisa Hafezi Editing by Paul Taylor and Jon Hemming)

Egyptian women's rights protest marred by hecklers
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press – Tue Mar 8, 4:58 pm ET

CAIRO – A protest by hundreds of Egyptian women demanding equal rights and an end to sexual harassment turned violent Tuesday when crowds of men heckled and shoved the demonstrators, telling them to go home where they belong.The women — some in headscarves and flowing robes, others in jeans — had marched to Cairo's central Tahrir Square to celebrate International Women's Day. But crowds of men soon outnumbered them and chased them out.They said that our role was to stay home and raise presidents, not to run for president, said Farida Helmy, a 24-year old journalist.Sexual harassment remains widespread in Egypt, where women often are afraid to report sexual assault or harassment for fear they and their families will be stigmatized. A 2008 survey by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights found that 83 percent of Egyptian women and 98 percent of foreign women in Cairo said they had been harassed — while 62 percent of men admitted to harassing.Tahrir Square was the epicenter of the protests that toppled President Hosni Mubarak last month after nearly 30 years in power. Women in Egypt had reported that Tahrir had been free of the groping and leering endemic in the country, but on Feb. 11, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was sexually assaulted and beaten on the final night of the 18-day revolt. The Associated Press does not name victims of sexual assault unless they agree to be identified.

At Tuesday's march, men scolded protesters and said their concerns were not urgent in the aftermath of the uprising. When the women argued back, some were verbally abused or groped. Others were beaten and had to be ripped away from the groups of men.Mostafa Hussein, 30, said many protesters had to flee the area and hide in a park nearby.They were running for their lives and the army had to fire a shot in the air to break up the mob chasing them, Hussein said.Passant Rabie, 23, said she was surprised that the women were abused after the role they played in the uprising. Women were central to the protests, leading chants, spending cold nights in the square and even fighting during the battle of Black Wednesday, when pro-government henchmen attacked the protesters.I thought we were going to be celebrated as women of the revolution because we were present during the days of Tahrir, Rabie said. Unless women are included now, we are going to be oppressed.On the occasion of the International Women's Day, U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said on Tuesday that the transitions from autocracy in Egypt and Tunisia would be incomplete as long as half of society remained blocked from participating in governance.The United States will stand firmly for the proposition that women must be included in whatever process goes forward, she said.

Hornet's nest ahead? Congress examines Islam in US By CALVIN WOODWARD and EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press – Tue Mar 8, 5:43 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The wreckage of the World Trade Center still smoldered after the 2001 terrorist attacks when a voice rose above the pain and suspicion to demand that American Muslims not be blamed or mistreated. Islam is peace, declared George W. Bush, speaking from a mosque and sounding almost like an imam.As a storm gathers over hearings this week on radical Muslims in the U.S., it seems of another time to recall that it was President Bush — the bullhorn-wielding avenger who wanted Osama bin Laden dead or alive, who warned the world you're either with us or against us — who told Americans their Muslim neighbors were with us. Not just that, he said, but they WERE us.Nearly 10 years and one president later, suspicions persist. The nation hasn't figured out how to accommodate a sizable and long-established religious minority while pressing full throttle against growing extremist elements and an increase in allegations of homegrown terrorist plots.Now comes New York Rep. Peter King, forcing the issue with congressional hearings about radical Islam in the U.S. The first is Thursday, and the protests have already started. Among his fiercest critics, comparisons to McCarthyism, the era of hunting communist sympathizers, are being heard.We see no productive outcome in singling out a particular community for examination in what appears to be little more than a political show trial, a coalition of 50 liberal groups said in a letter to King on Tuesday.With the number of suspected plots increasing and Republicans newly in charge of the House, King now has the power to call attention to the issue as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.

He told The Associated Press that radical Islam is a distinct threat that must be investigated regardless of whose sensibilities are offended. The congressman, a Republican, pointed to his support in the 1990s for hearings into right-wing militias, on grounds that they were the danger of that time. He supported the Irish Republican Army's political wing in the 1980s and 1990s, a time when the IRA was involved in violence in Northern Ireland. He says now that the IRA and al-Qaida are very different and that the IRA never attacked America.Of the current situation, he said in an interview, You have a violent enemy from overseas which threatens us and which is recruiting people from a community living in our country. That's ... what this hearing's going to be.Despite Bush's unifying words at a Washington mosque that September day in 2001, the president's domestic security apparatus never won the trust of many American Muslims, and his war in Iraq only made those tensions worse.

Enter Barack Obama, son of a Muslim father and a man who has traveled to Turkey, Egypt and Indonesia in his presidency as part of a sustained effort to heal rifts with the Islamic world.But his administration, too, has not come to grips with the divide at home. And discovered domestic jihadist plots have risen during his presidency.The Obama administration faces the same challenge as the Bush administration did in deciding whether to assign responsibility to religion as a motive for attacking the U.S., says Stewart Baker, a former senior Homeland Security official.If you don't, then it's a very abstract discussion of why terrorism is bad, Baker said. If you do, you raise the profile of religion in ways that make Americans uncomfortable. That concern hasn't gone away in the new administration — if anything, it's stronger.

The government sees a rising threat at home.In the past two years, authorities say there have been more terrorist plots uncovered or attacks foiled than during the final seven years of Bush's presidency. Some of that is probably explained by better law enforcement — and, notably, by instances of Islamic community leaders helping the authorities. It is also against a backdrop of increased radicalization seen in the number of converts to Islam among plotters and, in some cases, links to terrorist operatives or trainers abroad.Suspicion works both ways. Muslim leaders accuse FBI agents of spying and serving as agent provocateurs in mosques, contributing to radicalism that can turn violent.House Republicans leaders do not appear enamored with the hearings. They don't want a possibly inflammatory distraction when they are trying to keep Congress' emphasis on the economy. Law enforcement officials are nervous, too, concerned that carefully cultivated relationships with Islamic leaders could be compromised if the hearings stir a hornet's nest.But the White House, at least in advance, sounds sanguine. We welcome congressional interest in this issue, Obama spokesman Jay Carney said, though he added quickly: Muslim Americans are part of the solution here. They're not the problem.This is hardly Congress's first look at the issue. Radicalized Muslims have been the centerpiece of most of the congressional hearings on violent extremism since the terrorist attacks, a dozen at least. But the latest push comes from a blunt Republican who, at various times, has said that America has too many mosques and that as many as 85 percent of Muslim leaders were not cooperating with authorities.

King has backed off both remarks but asserts Muslim leaders should be doing more to help.If we thought the hearings were going to be sober and objective, we wouldn't have any concerns about them, Corey Saylor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in an interview.But given King's history of making statements against the Muslim community, I think it raises a concern in reasonable people as to what form the hearings will take.As with most congressional hearings, the true goal is less about fact-finding than about buttressing existing points of view of the lawmakers. King is bringing forward Muslim Americans who say they saw their relatives slip into extremism when the local Islamic communities might have helped prevent that. Democrats will give examples of Islamic leaders who came to the aid of authorities and helped keep the nation safe. Scholars point to a rising level of activism and civic engagement among young Muslims in America, distinct from religious extremism. They see more volunteering on political campaigns, voter-registration drives outside mosques and interest in civil rights, in contrast to older generations whose primary concern was U.S. foreign policy.The founders and leaders of mosques are the ones driving this civic participation, said Sally Howell, associate professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and author of several books and essays on Arabs and Muslims in Detroit. Their main motives are to make sure that their children are becoming good Muslims but at the same time becoming good Americans, she said.The hearings are not likely to go deep on that aspect of Muslim American life. As is often the case in Washington, the everyday lives of neighbors can be lost in the din.Associated Press writer Jeff Karoub contributed to this report from Detroit.

A look at political unrest in the Middle East
The Associated Press – Tue Mar 8, 4:42 pm ET

A look at anti-government protests, political unrest and key developments in the Middle East on Tuesday:

LIBYA:Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi hammer rebels with rocket barrages and airstrikes, trying to check their advance out of the opposition-held east of Libya toward the capital Tripoli. At least 20 were wounded, some of them seriously.On another front, government forces reportedly batter down resistance in the closest rebel-held city to Tripoli, Zawiya.

EGYPT:Clashes between Christians and Muslims escalate with thousands of people burning tires, smashing parked cars and cutting off a main road despite military moves to control a day of violent protests in Egypt's capital.In a separate incident, a protest by hundreds of Egyptian women demanding an end to sexual harassment and equal rights turns violent when men verbally abuse and shove the demonstrators.Also, an Egyptian court rejects an appeal by ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his family against a top prosecutor's move to seize funds that could total in the billions of dollars. The decision clears the way for a criminal investigation and a possible trial of Mubarak, who stepped down Feb. 11 after 18 days of massive protests.

YEMEN:The head of Sanaa University's student body says the Yemeni army has fired rubber bullets at tear gas at students who were protesting on campus. Ridwan al-Masoud says students were injured as the army moved in.In another incident, thousands of inmates riot at a prison in Sanaa, taking a dozen guards hostage and joining the growing calls for the country's president to step down. Police say at least one prisoner is killed and 80 people are wounded. Yemen has been rocked by weeks of protests against the president the last several weeks.

KUWAIT:More than 1,000 protesters call for sweeping political changes in Kuwait as the surge for reforms around the Arab world moves into another Gulf state.Security forces stand by as demonstrators move into an area outside a building holding key offices including those of Kuwait's emir and the prime minister, who is accused by pro-reform groups of stifling political freedoms and muzzling dissent.

BAHRAIN: A senior opposition leader says he would support demands to oust Bahrain's monarchy if that becomes the overwhelming sentiment of protesters whose chants have increasingly targeted the 200-year-old dynasty.The statement by Hassan Mushaima appears to open the door for a more hard-line approach by key opposition factions that have not yet unified their stance on how deeply to press for reforms.

OMAN:More than 150 protesters rally outside Oman's state television headquarters in the capital Muscat to call for greater press freedoms.The peaceful demonstration comes a day after Sultan Qaboos bin Said makes another concession to protesters' calls for more jobs and political openness by dissolving the office overseeing economic affairs.

SYRIA:Syria releases a leading lawyer and human rights activist who was imprisoned since 2009 for spreading false information after giving a television interview that criticized excessive government security and corruption.Haitham al-Maleh, who is 80 and has diabetes and thyroid problems, was convicted in July and sentenced to three years in prison.