EU WILL HAVE GREATER POLITICAL UNION

Israel and PA Discuss Man-Made Gaza Island for Air and Seaports
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu MAR 29,11

Israel and the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority have discussed building air and seaports on a man-made island off Gaza which would exclude Hamas, according to Israel television Channel 2. The government has not commented on the report.The idea has been discussed for the past two months among senior officials and has won wide support, Channel 2 added. The proposed two-acre man-made island would give PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas complete control over land and sea imports and exports, while keeping Hamas-controlled Gaza out of the picture. How that control would be defended was not mentioned.The idea of man-made islands in the Mediterranean Sea was proposed by President Shimon Peres four years ago.We must invest in the sea, and stretch our western border in that direction by building artificial islands, he said at a 2007 conference.Separate ideas proposed by other officials were to build an international airport a quarter-mile offshore from north Tel Aviv and to build between one and five islands along the central Israel coast between Bat Yam and Netanya as a way of alleviating central Israel's land shortage problem.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Israel considering annexing West Bank settlements
By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press – Tue Mar 29, 3:39 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israel is considering annexing major West Bank settlement blocs if the Palestinians unilaterally seek world recognition of a state, an Israeli official said Tuesday — moves that would deal a grave blow to prospects for negotiating a peace deal between the two sides.Israel has refrained from taking such a diplomatically explosive step for four decades. The fact that it is considering doing so reflects how seriously it is concerned by the Palestinian campaign to win international recognition of a state in the absence of peacemaking.The Palestinians launched that campaign after peace talks foundered over Israeli construction in West Bank settlements. On Tuesday, the Israeli Interior Ministry said it would decide next month whether to give final approval to build 1,500 apartments in two Jewish enclaves in east Jerusalem. Israel captured both east Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan in 1967.Israel annexed east Jerusalem, home to shrines sacred to Judaism, Islam and Christianity, immediately after seizing it. But it carefully avoided annexing the West Bank, where 300,000 settlers now live among 2.5 million Palestinians.Although it is widely assumed that under any peace deal, Israel would hold onto major settlements it has built in the past 44 years, any decision to formally annex West Bank territory would be a precedent-setting move that could increase Israel's already considerable international isolation. The Palestinians claim all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, in addition to the Gaza Strip, for a future state.

The government official who disclosed the possible annexation said he did not know how seriously authorities were considering the option. He said that adopting unilateral measures is not a one-way street and added that other options were also being considered.These could include limiting water supplies beyond agreed-upon amounts and restricting Palestinian use of Israeli ports for business purposes, he said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was aware of the moves being discussed, he added, speaking on condition of anonymity because no final decisions have been made.Netanyahu's office had no comment. Nimr Hamad, an aide to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said these threats are not new. ... But we are continuing (our campaign) and are convinced our position is right.In a related development, the Israeli Transportation Ministry is working on a plan to build an island off the coast of Gaza, where an Palestinian-run airport and seaport would be located. Ministry spokesman Ilan Leizerovich said this would allow Israel to cut all ties with Hamas-ruled Gaza.At present most goods and people enter and exit Gaza through Israeli land crossings.Leizerovich said the island would be built about three miles (4.5 kilometers) off the Gaza coast and would be connected by a bridge. He said it would take about six years and cost more than $5 billion to build. The grandiose scheme would need additional government approval, Palestinian acceptance and funding.

Although peace negotiations have taken place since Netanyahu came to power two years ago, they have been sporadic and largely mediated by the U.S. Three weeks of direct talks broke down in September over Palestinian objections to continued Israeli settlement construction.Palestinians say they won't talk peace with Israel unless Israel freezes all construction in both the West Bank and east Jerusalem, lands they claim along with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for their hoped-for state. Israeli officials fault Palestinians for the peacemaking impasse, saying a construction moratorium should not be a condition for peacemaking, because it never was in the past.Israeli building in east Jerusalem is especially contentious because the Palestinians want to create their future capital there. Because of the annexation, Israel does not consider the Jewish enclaves housing 200,000 Jews there to be settlements, but the rest of the international community does.Roi Lachmanovich, a spokesman for Interior Minister Eli Yishai, said officials would decide the fate of the 1,500 new apartments on April 14. The homes would be built in two existing Jewish enclaves in east Jerusalem.Major Western powers have not given up on the concept of a negotiated solution. But with talks deadlocked, Palestinian leaders plan on seeking international recognition of a state, with or without an agreement with Israel, at the United Nations in September.Their campaign has received a boost from Latin American countries that have lined up in recent months to offer recognition. It hasn't received crucial U.S. or Western European support.Although international recognition wouldn't immediately change the situation on the ground, it would isolate Israel and put additional pressure on it to withdraw from occupied territories.Additional reporting by Associated Press writer Ian Deitch in Jerusalem.

Israel and The Occupation Myth
by MK Danny Ayalon, Dep. Foreign Min.MAR 29,11

The hatred and violence that killed five members of the Fogel family existed before the Jewish state did.The recent murder of a family of five in Itamar shocked Israelis to their core. A terrorist broke into the Fogels' home before stabbing and garroting to death the two parents, Udi and Ruth, and their children Yoav, 11 years old, Elad, 4, and almost decapitating Hadas, who was only three months old.
There has since been very little outcry from the international community. Many nations who are so used to condemning the building of apartment units beyond the Green Line remained silent on this sadistic murder. Meanwhile, the few international correspondents to have covered the massacre have placed it in the context of ongoing settlement-building and Israel's so-called occupation.However, regardless of one's views on which people have greater title to Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank, it is a historically inaccurate distortion to claim that the occupation that breeds this type of violence. If this mantra were true, then it must be the case that before the occupation there was no violence. This defies the historical record.In 1929, the Jewish community of Hebron—which stretches back millennia, long before the creation of Islam and the Arab conquest and subsequent occupation of the area—was brutally attacked. The Jews who had been living peacefully with their Muslim neighbors were set upon in a bloody rampage, inspired by Palestinian Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later became notorious as Hitler's genocidal acolyte during the Holocaust. In two days, 67 Jews were hacked or bludgeoned to death. Jewish infants were beheaded and Jewish women were disemboweled. Limbs were hacked off the dead as well as those who managed to survive.

On visiting the scene shortly after the massacre, Britain's High Commissioner for Palestine John Chancellor wrote to his son I do not think that history records many worse horrors in the last few hundred years.This and other similar pogroms happened, not only before the occupation of Judea and Samaria, but even two decades before the state of Israel was reestablished. From 1948 to 1967, Judea and Samaria were illegally occupied by Jordan, which renamed the area the West Bank, in reference to the East Bank of the Kingdom of Jordan that fell beyond the Jordan River. Not one Israeli was allowed into this area, yet nor did Israel know one day of peace in that time, during which it saw brutal attacks launched from the West Bank against Israeli civilians.Further evidence against the mantra that the occupation breeds violence can be culled from Palestinian sources. Take Hamas's founding charter, for instance, which does not mention occupation or settlements. What is does contain are calls for the complete destruction of Israel, down to its last inch, such as: Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it. The charter goes even further, aspiring to a point in time when there will be no Jews left anywhere in the world.Meanwhile, the Palestine Liberation Organization, currently headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, notes in its founding charter that this organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank, while still calling for a liberation of its homeland. This was written in 1964, fully three years before Israel conquered the West Bank during the Six Day War.It's safe to say that the violence and terror visited upon Israelis has little connection to occupation or settlements. This myth has no historical foundation, but is easy to proclaim for those who have little understanding of the conflict.Yet these fatuous canards only make our conflict harder to solve. The recent massacre in Itamar highlighted the Palestinian Authority's ongoing incitement to violence through its media, mosques and educational system. At this point, the basic parameters of the peace process need an overhaul. If our aim is to reach a peaceful resolution, then merely ending the occupation would far from guarantee that, as history has shown.

Israel was assured in the past by the international community that if it just retreated from Gaza and Lebanon, peace would flourish and violence would come to an end. In both cases, this hope proved deadly wrong, and millions of Israelis have been subjected to incessant attacks from these territories since the retreat.This is not about occupation or territory; it is about meaningful coexistence. Only when the root ideological causes of our conflict are solved can Israelis and Palestinians make the painful concessions necessary for peace.(reprinted from the Wall Street Journal, sent to INN by the dep. minister's advisor, Mr. Ashley Perry)Adar Bet 23, 5771 / 29 March 11

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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09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +63.43
10:30 AM +58.13
11:00 AM +72.40
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12:00 PM +71.45
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S&P 500 1328.26 +8.82

NASDAQ 2776.79 +19.90

GOLD 1,423.60 +6.00

OIL 104.25 -0.54

TSE 300 14,083.60 +153.20

CDNX 2286.44 +8.56

S&P/TSX/60 808.30 +8.47

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +43 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +80 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,427.40.OIL opens at $104.77 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +103 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +103 points at high today.

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

CRUDE OIL +2.9 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE -2.7 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +710,000 BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION

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

Klaus warns euro pact will lead to full political union
LEIGH PHILLIPS 29.03.2011 @ 18:26 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Vaclav Klaus, the Czech Republic's famously eurosceptic president renowned across Europe for holding up passage of the Lisbon Treaty for months, has launched an attack against a fresh EU target: the Euro-plus-pact.The Brussels summit on 25 March was not about anything else but the further integration of Europe towards fiscal ... union, he wrote in an opinion piece in Czech daily newspaper Pravo on Monday, referring to the meeting of EU premiers and presidents where 23 out of the bloc's 27 member states signed up to a pact that aims to boost European competitiveness.It was a radical reduction of the sovereignty of other EU countries.However, while trade unions and the left criticise the pact for its institutionalisation of fiscal retrenchment, limits to public spending and demands for wage constraint, Klaus, an ardent free-market liberal, attacked the document for delivering the opening steps towards a redistribution union between rich and poor states.The pact, along with other far-reaching measures endorsed by the summit last Friday, intends to deliver ever closer economic governance where the economic polices of each member state are co-ordinated centrally and supervised by Brussels.

The hair-shirt approach to fiscal policies contained in the pact are the quid pro quo demanded by Germany in particular in return for boosting the size of eurozone rescue funds. Klaus believes this is the beginning of large-scale financial transfers between states.The Czech president, the last EU leader to sign on to the Lisbon Treaty on 3 November, 2009, after months of stonewalling, accused EU leaders of using the economic crisis as an excuse to push for deeper integration. A few years ago when these people managed to pass the Lisbon Treaty - a European constitution - they knew that at the time this probably moved forward too fast and that there should now be a pause,he said.They even told me personally when trying to convince me to sign up to the Lisbon Treaty that there would now be a pause [from further integration moves] for an interval of at least ten years.By using the economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the subsequent crisis of the euro in 2010 - still continuing - it gave them a wonderful excuse to get back to pushing forward with the further deepening of European integration.He worries that the fiscal integration that is occurring today will inevitably be followed by full political integration.He wrote that the European Economic Community later became just the European Community, then along came European Monetary Union and the European Union.Sooner or later, this will be followed by other developments, he wrote, saying that a European fiscal union, or EFU as he terms it, will be followed by an EPU.Where an EFU has been agreed in Brussels agreed ... an EPU is the final stage - the European Political Union.

Softer position from prime minister

The Czech government for its part has said, similar to the position of the UK, Sweden and Hungary, that it does not intend to join for the time being. It has said that while it has little problem with most of what is contained in the pact, there are two reasons why Prague could not join at the moment.The government is wary that language contained in the document encouraging consistency among national tax systems is the first step towards tax harmonisation across the bloc. Ireland and Slovakia, already in the eurozone and signatories to the euro-pact, as well as Hungary, which lies outside both, also have strong reservations about a shake-up of tax policies.The second concern is more easily resolved, in that the government being outside the eurozone had only had a few days to glance at the document before being pressured to sign on.Government sources say that a consultation with other coalition members and the full parliament will be required before any endorsement can be given.Once this consultation is completed and should sufficiently mollifying language on tax issues be found, Prague, like Budapest, could well join.Sweden has also indicated that it would like to join but cannot so long as there is no majority in parliament in favour.It is unlikely, say analysts, that the Czech Republic will choose to be left out in the cold for long.The prime minister welcomes the opportunity to still be able to join at a later stage, said one Czech source.Klaus however indicated he will resist pressure on his country to sign up to the pact.

The position of [Czech] Prime Minister Necas - I wish this was the attitude of the whole of the government - in not entering the EFU, is certainly right and we should support him in it, he wrote.On 18 March, Klaus gave another speech in the Italian Tyrol attacking fiscal integration.In the first historical phase of European integration, liberalisation trends prevailed. In the second phase, especially in the last twenty years, unfortunately, centralisation, harmonisation, standardisation and regulatory trends have dominated.A source close to the president said he is unlikely to drop his campaign against the pact any time soon.Czech diplomats stress however that the president was speaking in a personal capacity and that his arguments may not be the official position of the government.

Bulgarian central bank, finance ministry oppose euro-pact

In related news, EUobserver has learnt that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov spurned advice from his finance minister and the head of the central bank last week, who recommended against the country joining the euro-pact.Bulgaria has a flat income and corporate tax rate of 10 percent, the lowest taxes in the EU. Like the Czechs, Hungarians and Irish, it hopes to retain its ultra-low tax burden.But the prime minister felt that if he signed on despite the opposition of his colleagues, he would guarantee entry to the euro for his country.A government spokesperson confirmed the negative stance of the finance ministry and the central bank, adding however: The whole of the government participated in analysis of the pact, and all opinions were considered, but the final decision was taken by the prime minister.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

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.

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3-SERIOUS INCEDENT
2-INCIDENT
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5,200 military kin brought back to US from Japan
– Tue Mar 29, 3:17 pm ET

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – The U.S. Northern Command in Colorado says more than 5,200 family members of American service personnel have been flown to the United States from Japan following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.Northern Command said Tuesday that about 2,600 arrived through Travis Air Force Base and San Francisco International Airport in California. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport received 2,100 people. Another 500 returned through Denver International Airport.Reception centers at Travis and the Seattle and Denver airports are helping the families arrange temporary lodging, food, pet care and other accommodations.Northern Command is based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. It's responsible for the military defense of U.S. soil and supporting civilian agencies in natural or human-caused disasters.

Japan on maximum alert over nuclear plant
by Huw Griffith – Tue Mar 29, 4:01 pm ET

SENDAI, Japan (AFP) – Japan said Tuesday it was on maximum alert over a crippled nuclear plant where radioactive water has halted repair work and plutonium has been found in the soil.The earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan's northeast coast and left about 28,000 dead or missing also knocked out reactor cooling systems at the Fukushima plant, which has leaked radiation into the air and sea.Prime Minister Naoto Kan conceded the situation at the coastal atomic power station remained unpredictable and pledged his government would tackle the problem while in a state of maximum alert.In a stop-gap measure to contain the crisis at the plant, crews have poured thousands of tons of water onto reactors where fuel rods are thought to have partially melted, and topped up pools for spent fuel rods.But the run-off of the operation has accumulated in the basements of turbine rooms connected to three reactors and filled up tunnels, making it too risky for workers to go near to repair cooling systems needed to stabilise the plant.One tunnel alone holds 6,000 cubic metres (212,000 cubic feet) of contaminated water, more than two Olympic swimming pools. Still, the only choice for now is to keep pumping water, said government spokesman Yukio Edano.

Continuing the cooling is unavoidable... We need to prioritise injecting water, Edano told reporters.If the rods are fully exposed to the air, they would rapidly heat up, melt down and spew out far greater plumes of radiation at the site, located about 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo, nuclear experts fear.Workers have piled sandbags and concrete blocks around the tunnel shafts to contain the water, the nuclear regulatory body said. They have now also restored light in the control rooms of reactors one to four.The water out of reactor two has measured 1,000 millisieverts per hour -- four times the recently-hiked total exposure limit for emergency staff, and a level that can cause radiation sickness with nausea and vomiting in an hour.Adding to the nuclear fears, embattled operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said plutonium had been detected in soil samples that were taken a week ago at five spots in the plant.Nuclear safety agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama said the plutonium data suggested certain damage to fuel rods, Kyodo News reported.The US environmental protection agency says internal exposure to plutonium is an extremely serious health hazard as it stays in the body for decades, exposing organs and tissue to radiation and increasing the risk of cancer.TEPCO shares plunged 18.67 percent on Tuesday, and have now lost nearly three quarters of their pre-crisis value. News reports said the government is considering taking a majority stake in the power company.

Fears have grown in Japan over food and water safety, and vegetable and dairy shipments from four prefectures have been halted.Seawater close to the plant earlier contained iodine-131 as high as 1,850 times the legal limit, but levels fell later and officials say tidal dispersal means there is no immediate health threat from seafood.Japan's government has evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from within 20 kilometres of the plant, and more recently encouraged those remaining within 30 kilometres to also leave.Environmental watchdog Greenpeace, which has taken its own measurements in the town of Iitate, 40 kilometres from the plant, urged the government to evacuate the town, especially children and pregnant women. Remaining in Iitate for just a few days could mean receiving the maximum permissible annual dose of radiation,Greenpeace radiation expert Jan van der Putte said.Jitters continued throughout Asia, with China, South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam reporting that radiation had drifted over their territories, even though they emphasised the levels were so small there was no health risk.Traces of radioactive iodine believed to be from Japan's damaged nuclear plant have even been detected as far afield as Britain, officials said Tuesday.We would like to ask the public not to panic. These are very tiny amounts in the air, Philippine Nuclear Research Institute spokeswoman Tina Cerbolis said, echoing officials in the other countries to have detected the radiation.French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who currently heads the G8 and G20 blocs, will travel to Japan Thursday to meet Prime Minister Kan as a show of solidarity, according to his office.The United States said it would send Japan radiation-resistant robots and trained staff to operate them, aiming to collect information about the reactors from areas too unsafe for humans to enter.

France, U.S. to help Japan in nuclear crisis
By Yoko Kubota and Chisa Fujioka - MAR 29,11

TOKYO (Reuters) – France and the United States are to help Japan in its battle to contain radiation from a crippled nuclear complex where plutonium finds have raised public alarm over the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.The high-stakes operation at the Fukushima plant has added to Japan's unprecedented humanitarian disaster with 27,500 people dead or missing from a March 11 earthquake and tsunami.French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who chairs the G20 and G8 blocs of nations, plans to visit Tokyo on Thursday. He will be the first foreign leader in Japan since the disaster.In further support, France flew in two experts from its state-owned nuclear reactor maker Areva and its CEA nuclear research body to assist Japan's heavily criticized plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO).A global leader in the industry, France produces about 75 percent of its power from reactors so it has a strong interest in helping Japan get through the Fukushima disaster.The United States is also weighing in to send some radiation-detecting robots to Japan to help explore the reactor cores and spent fuel pools, the Energy Department said.

With evidence mounting of radiation inside and beyond the plant, public fears rose a notch with Tuesday's announcement of plutonium traces in soil from five places within the facility.A by-product of atomic reactions and a prime ingredient in nuclear bombs, plutonium is highly carcinogenic and one of the most dangerous substances on the planet, experts say.Japan said, however, that only two of the plutonium traces had likely come from the plant, probably from overheating spent fuel rods or damage to reactor No. 3, with the others being particles in the atmosphere from past nuclear testing abroad.The levels, of up to 0.54 becquerels per kg, were not considered harmful, Japanese officials said.The U.N. atomic agency IAEA agreed. Concentrations reported for both, plutonium-238 and plutonium-239/240, are similar to those deposited in Japan as a result of the testing of nuclear weapons, it said in its latest briefing.First rattled by the earthquake and then engulfed by giant waves, the Fukushima plant resembles a bomb site, with steam and smoke occasionally rising from mangled pipes and twisted steel.Plant operator TEPCO is under enormous pressure, criticized for safety lapses and a slow disaster response. Its shares are down almost 75 percent since the quake -- hitting a 47-year low on Tuesday -- and there is talk of a state takeover.

RISING ANGER

The government, too, is taking heat.Already criticized for weak leadership during Japan's worst crisis since World War Two, Prime Minister Naoto Kan has been blasted by the opposition in parliament for his handling of the disaster and for not widening the exclusion zone beyond 20 km (12 miles) around Fukushima.Is there anything as irresponsible as this? opposition legislator Yosuke Isozaki said on Tuesday.Kan said he was considering that step, which would force 130,000 people to move, in addition to 70,000 already displaced. There is rising despair among farmers and fishermen whose livelihoods have been turned upside down by the disaster.One 64-year-old farmer hanged himself last week after saying our vegetables are no good anymore, media said.With entire towns on the northeast coast reduced to wastelands of mud and debris following the quake and tsunami, more than 175,000 people are living in shelters.The event looks likely to be the world's costliest natural disaster, with estimates of damage topping $300 billion.In a shock to high-tech Japanese whose economy is the world's third biggest, there has been electricity rationing after the disaster and 183,431 houses are still without power.Workers at the Fukushima complex may have to struggle for weeks or months under extremely dangerous conditions to restart cooling systems vital to controlling the nuclear reactors.More than a dozen workers have been injured at the plant, and they are said to be living in grim conditions, sleeping on the floor of a safe room when their shifts are over, and shoving packaged food down quickly to avoid contact with radiation.

CONTAMINATION CONTROVERSY

At the site, highly tainted water has been found in some reactors and in concrete tunnels outside. Sea water has also showed radiation and shipments of milk and some vegetables from areas nearby have been stopped due to contamination.Radiation has been found in tap water in Tokyo, 240 km (150 miles) to the south, and in tiny traces abroad.Experts have said a lack of information and some inconsistent data made it hard to understand what was happening at Fukushima, which appears to have come back from the risk of a core meltdown -- the nightmare scenario -- to a situation where management of released radioactivity is paramount.Engineers face a dilemma: they have to douse the reactors to prevent overheating, but that risks adding to the radiation problems by increasing water flows.If they need to increase cooling, it will increase runoff of highly contaminated water and they don't have any place to store it, said Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists.They may have to make hard choices about releasing larger quantities of radiation to the environment ... There may not be any good choices,he said.While the government and many experts play down comparisons with Chernobyl, the radioactive substances being emitted are the same -- iodine-131, caesium-134 and caesium-137.Some experts say contamination outside Fukushima remains at safe levels for humans, and point out the daily doses that people get unwittingly from X-rays, flights and natural means. But anti-nuclear and environmental lobby groups accuse governments and academics, some with ties to the atomic industry, of glossing over the risks from Fukushima. The crisis in Japan has sent ripples through the global economy, and disrupted supplies for the automobile and technology sectors. In the latest example, Toyota told North American dealers to curtail orders of replacement parts.(Additional reporting by Elaine Lies, Chizu Nomiyama, Kazunori Takada, shinichi Saoshiro, Yoko Nishikawa in Tokyo, Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe in Washington, Eileen O'Grady in Houston; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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.

BIBLES WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS

CHINA MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE EAST)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9164005727480680563#docid=-8916004936135366443
RUSSIA ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE NORTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGqS3TDYRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn3T5XIbNk&feature=related
EGYPT ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE SOUTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_KT4irRTM&feature=related
EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE WEST)(NOT THE USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NEyheTDyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzLjhsRrZYw&feature=fvw
ISRAEL MILITARY-GUARENTEED BY EU TO SECURE THEM THE BIBLE SAYS(2 MAIN ENDTIME PLAYERS)(NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF FUULFILLING THE PROPHECIES ON EARTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TDlvIRIMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdalQdtzfY&feature=related
ANGEL 2 TO DR DOCTORIAN
The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

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Libya coalition: next step could be arms to rebels
ANDREW RETTMAN 29.03.2011 @ 20:23 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Delegates at a London meeting of the anti-Gaddafi coalition have hinted they may start giving weapons to rebels and underlined Arab endorsement of Western bombings. Speaking at an event entitled The London Conference on Libya in the UK capital on Tuesday (29 March), US secretary of state Hilary Clinton and British foreign minister William Hague said UN Security Council resolution 1973 makes it legal to give guns to rebel forces.It is our interpretation that 1973 amended or over-rode the absolute prohibition of providing arms to anyone in Libya, so there could be a legitimate transfer of arms if a country were to choose to do that,Clinton said.We haven't made any decision about arming the rebels, so there was no need to discuss this today. We did discuss non-lethal assistance. We did discuss other means of support ... they obviously are going to need funds to keep them going.
When asked by press on arms transfers, Qatari PM Hamad Bin Jabr Al Thani noted: We have to find a way to stop this bloodshed. We are still in the first few days of this mission [the no-fly zone] and we will have to evaluate it some days later.Anti-Gaddafi forces have suffered setbacks in a battle for the town of Sirte since the weekend. But the prospect of giving out guns poses the risk they could end up in dangerous hands.Speaking earlier the same day at a hearing in the US Senate, US admiral James Stavridis said there are flickers of intelligence that fighters from militant Islamist groups al-Qaeda and Hezbollah are taking part in the anti-Gaddafi action.We do not have any information about specific individuals from any organisation that are part of this. But of course, we are still getting to know the people leading the Transitional National Council [TNC],Clinton said in London, after meeting a TNC leader, Mahmood Gebril, in London earlier in the day.

Clinton and Hague both pointed to a TNC document - A Vision for a Democratic Libya - published on Tuesday as evidence of its credibility. France and the US are also posting ambassadors to the rebel stronghold Benghazi to build relations.In terms of the next steps in the Libya conflict, Hague also gave credence to reports that Italy is in talks with a number of African countries to help find Gaddafi an exit. We're not engaged in the UK in looking for somewhere for him to go, but that doesn't mean that others are not,the minister said.In terms of concrete outcomes, the London meeting saw the creation of the Libya Contact Group - a body of top diplomats from around 40 countries and international institutions - which is to give overall political direction to Nato's anti-Gaddafi mission and to liaise with the TNC on building a post-Gaddafi Libya. Its first meeting is to be in Qatar, with the chairmanship to rotate.The meeting also saw Sweden, a non-Nato member, pledge eight Gripen warplanes for use in the no-fly zone.Most of the London delegates were Nato members. But apart from Qatar, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, the Arab League and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference also sent senior people. The African Union, which is against the no-fly zone, declined to come. A British diplomat put this down to scheduling problems.Given the long history of EU countries' imperialist adventures in north Africa, the UK and the US both underlined the importance of Arab endorsement for the campaign.For his part, Qatar's Al Thani said: I hope in the future we will not need to ask for outside help ... this is an Arab problem, but unfortunately we could not deal with it ourselves.He added: When we saw what we saw in the first few days, we thought it would be shameful to stand on the sideline and to say: This is not our business. This is Arab business. This will be an example of how we can co-operate between us and Nato and the UN. This is the first coalition of its kind and it was demanded by the Arabs.

London meeting to clarify politics of Libya action
VALENTINA POP 29.03.2011 @ 10:18 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - More than 40 delegates from the anti-Gaddafi coalition, the EU, the UN, the Arab League and the African Union are meeting in London on Tuesday (29 March) to establish political guidance and to generate wider support for the Libya operation before Nato takes over.In a joint letter published ahead of the event, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron said the meeting will create support for a new beginning for Libya.We emphasise that we do not envisage any military occupation of Libya, it added.That is why the political process that will begin tomorrow in London is so important. The London conference will bring the international community together to support Libya's transition from violent dictatorship and to help create the conditions where the people of Libya can choose their own future.Recognising the rebels' Benghazi-based Interim National Transitional Council as having a pioneering role in starting a national political dialogue, Cameron and Sarkozy called on all Gaddafi followers to leave him before it is too late.They noted that the 11 days of air strikes have saved hundreds of thousands of people from the brink of humanitarian disaster.But they noted that Libya still needs outside help to avert a humanitarian crisis.Nato will on Wednesday take over military command of the operation, which is to be renamed Unified Protector, despite Sarkozy's endeavours to play the leading role himself for as long as possible.

But the day-earlier London event will set up a contact group of Nato and non-Nato countries supporting the mission to give political steering to the military action, one EU diplomat told this website.France has voiced concern that al-Qaeda or other Islamist groups will portray the Nato-flag missions as Western imperialism. The leaders of Nato members Turkey and Bulgaria gave credence to the theory in recent days, saying the Libya action is a Western oil grab.The only top EU official in the room in London will be foreign affairs supremo Catherine Ashton, who is in charge of EU-level humanitarian assistance and political co-ordination.Speaking about her low profile on Libya so far - a senior EU official said that up until now decisions had to be taken at the level of heads of state and government only. This was chefsache - not a decision to be taken by foreign ministers, he said, using a German term meaning a something that only leaders can deal with.The source added that Europe had a broad common position on Libya despite German abstention in a key UN vote, noting that the Russian PM and President and the US defence chief and his president were all involved in public disputes over whether or not to go in.Asked if the EU missed an opportunity to take charge of events in the early days of anti-Gaddafi coalition-building, he said: No, it showed flexibility. We are not a military organisation, we can send in crisis management teams, but that's something else. What we did, we gave political backing of the EU as a whole to the international coalition.For its part, the White House is keen to give control to Nato to help get the anti-war Republican opposition off its back.

Power and responsibility

Speaking at the National Defence University in Washington on Monday, President Barack Obama said that from Wednesday onward the United States will play a supporting role and that the risk and cost of this operation - to our military and to American taxpayers - will be reduced significantly.At a time of growing concern over the potential for massacres in Syria and Yemen, he noted that we cannot use our military whenever repression occurs.But he added that the US, as a superpower with the means to stop mass killings, had a responsibility to act.Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action,Obama said.Forty years of tyranny has left Libya fractured and without strong civil institutions. The transition to a legitimate government that is responsive to the Libyan people will be a difficult task.

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Libya rebels flee Gadhafi assault as world debates
By RYAN LUCAS, Associated Press - MAR 29,11

RAS LANOUF, Libya – Moammar Gadhafi's forces hammered rebels with tanks and rockets, turning their rapid advance into a panicked retreat in an hourslong battle Tuesday. The fighting underscored the dilemma facing the U.S. and its allies in Libya: Rebels may be unable to oust Gadhafi militarily unless already contentious international airstrikes go even further in taking out his forces.Opposition fighters pleaded for strikes as they fled the hamlet of Bin Jawwad, where artillery shells crashed thunderously, raising plumes of smoke. No such strikes were launched during the fighting, and some rebels shouted, Sarkozy, where are you? — a reference to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, one of the strongest supporters of using air power against Gadhafi.Reports overnight indicated that the rebels were in flight from Brega and Ras Lanouf.World leaders meeting in London agreed that Gadhafi should step down but have yet to decide what additional pressure to put on him.Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to lead, so we believe he must go. We're working with the international community to try to achieve that outcome, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters after the talks concluded.German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said it has to be made very clear to Gadhafi: His time is over.But Germany and other countries have expressed reservations about the current military intervention in Libya, let alone expanding it.France has struck a more forceful tone. Defense Minister Gerard Longuet told France-Inter radio that Paris and London believe that the campaign must obtain more than the end of shooting at civilians.The rout of the rebels Tuesday illustrated how much they rely on international air power. Only a day earlier, they had been storming westward in hopes of taking Sirte, Gadhafi's hometown and a bastion of his support in central Libya. They reached within 60 miles (100 kilometers) of the city before they were hit by the onslaught from Gadhafi's forces, driving them back east to Bin Jawwad under barrages of rocket and tank fire.

Many of the ragtag, untrained volunteers who make up the bulk of the rebel forces fled in a panicked scramble. However, some of them backed by special forces soldiers from military units that joined the rebellion took a stand in Bin Jawwad, bringing up truck-mounted rocket launchers of their own and returning fire.The two sides traded salvos for hours, drilling Bin Jawwad's buildings with shrapnel and bullet holes. The steady drum of heavy machine gun fire and the pop of small arms could be heard above the din as people less than a mile (a kilometer) outside the village scaled mounds of dirt to watch the fighting.But by the afternoon, rebels fled further east, their cars and trucks filling both lanes of the desert highway as they retreated to and even beyond the oil port of Ras Lanouf, roughly 25 miles (40 kilometers) away. Some loyalist forces had reached the outskirts of Ras Lanouf, where the thud of heavy weapons was heard and black smoke rose from buildings.If they keep shelling like this, we'll need airstrikes, said Mohammed Bujildein, a 27-year-old rebel fighter. He was gnawing on a loaf of bread in a pickup truck with a mounted anti-aircraft gun, waiting to fill up from an abandoned gas tanker truck on the eastern side of Ras Lanouf.With international strikes, he boasted,we'll be in Sirte tomorrow evening.This today is a loss, but hopefully we'll get it back, he said.It was the second time in weeks that rebel forces have been driven back from an attempted assault on Sirte. The last time, early in the month, it nearly meant the end of their movement: They retreated hundreds of miles (kilometers) west and Gadhafi forces nearly stormed their capital, Benghazi, until the U.S. and European strikes began 10 days ago, driving Gadhafi's forces back from bloody sieges.Even proponents of the international campaign have been wary of going further by effectively providing air cover for rebels who are now trying to go on the offensive and march through Gadhafi-controlled territory to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, to end his more than 41 years in power.

With the possibility of a prolonged military deadlock looming, 40 foreign ministers, Clinton, the heads of NATO and the U.N. and representatives from the Arab League met in London to decide how to help Libya into a post-Gadhafi future.British Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged that the Libyan people cannot reach that future on their own. ... We are all here in one united purpose, that is to help the Libyan people in their hour of need.Clinton said the international community must support calls for democracy sweeping Libya and its neighbors, but warned that these goals are not easily achieved. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said there are plenty of non-military means at our disposal to oust the Libyan leader. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini pushed a plan for a cease-fire, exile for Gadhafi and a framework for talks on Libya's future between tribal leaders and opposition figures. He said negotiations on securing his exit were being conducted with absolute discretion, though he said there could be no promise of immunity for Gadhafi from international prosecution. So far, Gadhafi has shown little sign he might choose exile, vowing to fight to the end.Cameron and Sarkozy urged Gadhafi loyalists to seize a final chance to abandon him and side with those seeking political reform — effectively pinning hopes on a palace coup.As for the possibility of giving arms to the heavily outgunned rebels, Clinton said the U.S. has made no decision, and British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the subject simply did not come up at Tuesday's meeting.Representatives of the opposition's political leadership, the Interim National Council, met Tuesday with Clinton and Hague but did not attend the main conference.

Mahmoud Shammam, a council spokesman, suggested Libyans were prepared to fight their own battle. Though the international community had a responsibility to prevent mass genocide, he told reporters, We are not asking for any non-Libyan to come and change the regime.The aspirations of the Libyan people are to be free, to live under a constitutional democratic system, Shammam said.(We have) had enough of tyranny.A senior Obama administration official said the U.S. would soon send an envoy to Libya to meet with rebel leaders.Chris Stevens, former U.S. envoy to Tripoli, will travel to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in the coming days to establish better ties with groups seeking to oust the longtime Libyan leader. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning, stressed that the move doesn't constitute formal recognition of the opposition.The international operation has decimated loyalist forces, which would risk more airstrikes if they attempted the kind of powerful counterattack they launched last month. The rebel forces, meanwhile, showed signs of being more organized despite Tuesday's losses, more effectively deploying their heavy weapons at the front.In the more densely inhabited western half of the country, Gadhafi has largely crushed the rebellion in Tripoli and in several towns that rose up against his rule since the turmoil began Feb. 15. Other towns and cities in the west never saw an effective anti-Gadhafi uprising, suggesting his popular support there is stronger, or that tribes in those areas chose to stay neutral to see who wins the conflict.Regime forces continued to besiege the last significant rebel holdout in the west, Libya's third-largest city, Misrata. From Misrata's outskirts, the troops pounded streets and the city's port, residents said. At least three people were killed in shelling Monday, a doctor in the city said.

The U.S. Navy reported that two of its aircraft and a guided missile destroyer attacked a number of Libyan coast guard vessels, rendering them inoperable, in the port of Misrata. It said the Libyan vessels had been firing indiscriminately at merchant ships. U.S. ships and submarines also unleashed 22 cruise missiles late Monday and early Tuesday at Libyan missile storage facilities in the Tripoli area. New explosions were heard in Tripoli on Tuesday night in a sign of a new barrage. Libyan state TV reported strikes in Tripoli by the Crusader colonial aggression and said that the cost of each rocket and bomb is paid for by Qatar and the Emirates — a dig at the two Arab nations that have joined the international campaign. In Benghazi, opposition spokeswoman Iman Bughaigis contended that the international bombardment had left Gadhafi's troops in very bad morale and many of his defectors are leaving him.We understand that it is our fight, she said. The international campaign provides a safe haven ... but to liberate our country, this is our duty and we hope to do that.In an open letter to the international community, meanwhile, Gadhafi called for a halt to the monstrous assault on Libya and maintained that that the rebels were supported by the al-Qaida terrorist network, a claim the opposition denies.What is happening now is providing a cover for al-Qaida through airstrikes and missiles to enable al-Qaida to control North Africa and turn it into a new Afghanistan,he said.Associated Press writers Ben Hubbard in Benghazi, Hadeel al-Shalchi in Tripoli, Bradley Klapper in London and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.

Latest developments in Arab world's unrest
By The Associated Press - Tue Mar 29, 1:03 pm ET

A look at the latest developments in political unrest across the Middle East on Tuesday:

LIBYA-Moammar Gadhafi's tanks and rockets drive back rebels from near his hometown of Sirte, a key government stronghold on the road to the capital Tripoli, as international leaders struggle at a London conference to figure out an endgame for his tottering regime.After the rebels' push westward restored all the territory they lost over the past week, Gadhafi's troops manage to drive them out of Bin Jawwad, a hamlet east of Sirte.There were no international airstrikes in Bin Jawwad during the hours-long battle.

SYRIA-Cabinet resigns to help quell a wave of popular fury that erupted more than a week ago, threatening President Bashar Assad's 11-year rule.Human Rights Watch says more than 60 people have died since March 18 as security forces cracked down on protesters.Government-sanctioned rallies bring hundreds of thousands into the streets in the provinces of Aleppo and Hasakeh in the north, and the central cities of Hama and Homs.

BAHRAIN-Parliament accepts resignations of 11 lawmakers from the Shiite opposition, a sign that the political and sectarian crisis in the tiny Gulf monarchy is deepening.The resignations were submitted last month over the deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in the Sunni-ruled island nation with a Shiite majority.

EGYPT-Members of the ultranconservative Muslim Salafi sect clash with villagers south of Cairo over demands that a liquor store and coffee shops be closed. One villager is dead and eight injured in the clash that erupted late Monday. Dozens of Salafis protest in Cairo, accusing the church of abducting a Coptic priest's wife who some believe converted to Islam and is being held against her will.Ex-President Hosni Mubarak tolerated the Salafis to counterweight his top foe, the Muslim Brotherhood group, but the fundamentalist movement has been increasingly assertive.

JORDAN-King Abdullah II condemns violence and expresses support for dialogue and reform in his first public comments on violence at a pro-democracy protest Friday, when one person was killed.

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DANIEL 12:4
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.

REVELATION 13:13-15
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

REVELATION 14:9-11
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Dolly scientist rejects cloning for food, as EU talks break down
ANDREW WILLIS 29.03.2011 @ 18:14 CET

EUOBSERVER/ BRUSSELS - Long-running EU negotiations on novel foods have ended in acrimony, with MEPs and member states diverging over the issue of labeling food produced from the offspring of cloned animals. At the same time, the scientist behind the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, Dolly the sheep, told EUobserver by telephone on Tuesday (29 March) that cloning for food is hard to justify.I really think the idea that eating cloned animals or their offspring would offer a risk to human health is very, very unlikely, said professor Ian Wilmut, of Edinburgh University.There is another issue - the production of a cloned breeding stock ... There is no doubt that there is still a difficult birth, said Wilmut, also pointing to potential respiratory problems in cloned animals.If you were making cloned animals to make a genetic change to produce a protein that could treat human disease, that might be ethically acceptable. On the other hand, if you were producing more meat, or slightly better quality meat, the advantage would not be very great.EU talks on the subject broke down at 7am on Tuesday morning (29 March) after 12 hours in the negotiating room, with member states blaming the European Parliament and vice versa.Both sides coalesced on the need to ban all food products from cloned animals, but failed to see eye-to-eye on the issue of labeling food products from the offspring of cloned animals.

Member states, represented by the Hungarian EU presidency, agreed to labeling on fresh meat products from the offspring of cloned cattle, arguing that other products should first be subject to a feasibility report by the European Commission. A traceability system for individual cattle already exists in Europe, while a similar system for pigs, for example, is less developed.As a result, national governments are concerned that onerous new rules would be difficult to enforce, while the commission fears the wider measures could attract retaliation from the EU's trading partners.MEPs involved in the negotiations insisted however on the need to immediately cover all products under the additional labeling requirement, arguing that EU citizens were concerned by the matter and had the right to know what they were eating.Measures regarding clone offspring are absolutely critical because clones are commercially viable only for breeding, not directly for food production, Socialist MEP Gianni Pittella and far-left MEP Kartika Liotard said in a joint statement after the talks broke down.No farmer would spend €100,000 on a cloned bull, only to turn it into hamburgers, added the two MEPs leading parliament's negotiating team.The deadlock brings three years of negotiations to an end, after the commission came forward with draft proposals on novel foods in 2008. Speaking to journalists later on Tuesday morning, EU health and consumer policy commissioner John Dalli said many aspects which had been agreed between the two sides would now be lost.These included a legal definition of nano-materials and their mandatory labeling,said the Maltese commissioner, also pointing to mutual agreement for a centralised authorisation procedure to facilitate innovation from the food industry.

Instead, the EU's 1997 regulation on novel foods remains in place, a piece of legislation that says nothing specifically on cloning or the use of nanotechnology.
While the commission does consider products from cloned animals to be novel food, and they therefore require pre-market authorisation, milk from the offspring of cloned animals currently needs no special labeling or permission.

Parties differ on how to cut budget deficit
By David Ljunggren – Tue Mar 29, 2:51 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The two main parties contesting Canada's election have the same fundamental economic goals -- cutting the budget deficit chief among them -- but two very different approaches.The May 2 election pits the incumbent right-of-center, tax-cutting Conservatives against the centrist Liberals, who say Canada can afford new spending programs if it scraps expensive programs favored by the government.The Conservatives -- in power since 2006 with two successive minority governments -- are well ahead in the polls and look set to retain power.The policy gulf between the two was evident on Tuesday when the Conservatives touted tax breaks for small businesses, while the main opposition Liberals promised an annual C$1 billion ($1 billion) fund to help students go to university.Prime Minister Stephen Harper used a campaign event to accuse the Liberals and the two other opposition parties of planning what he called reckless spending programs.They're going to promise everybody billions and billions and billions of dollars and ... they're going to raise taxes to pay for it, he said in Regina, Saskatchewan.Last year Canada ran up a record C$55.6 billion deficit on the back of a two-year stimulus program to fend off the worst of the recession. Ottawa says the budget deficit this fiscal year will hit C$40.5 billion and forecasts the government should be back in the black by 2015-16.

Harper said the economic recovery was still fragile and told Canadians that if they did not return a majority Conservative government the alternative would be a reckless and very dangerous high-spending coalition of opposition parties under the control of Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.The Ignatieff-led coalition's high-tax agenda would kill jobs, stall our economic recovery and jeopardize the financial security of hard-working Canadian entrepreneurs and families, he said.Ignatieff, who has denied he plans to form any kind of coalition, said Canada could afford to invest more in education if it killed some of the Conservatives' spending plans.The Liberals say if they win power they will roll back some corporate tax cuts as well as scrap plans to buy fighter jets and build prison cells.If you're going to spend C$30 billion on jets, if you're going to spend C$15 billion on prisons, if you're going to cut corporate tax rates when they're already competitive, you're not going to be able to fund post-secondary education, Ignatieff told reporters in Toronto.The Liberals like to point out that when they took power in 1993 from the then Conservative government, they were faced with a record budget deficit, which they paid off in five years.(Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Peter Galloway)

Oil rises on technicals, Libya uncertainy, Mideast
By Robert Gibbons – Tue Mar 29, 5:42 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Crude oil prices rose on Tuesday in technical, thin trading and lifted by stronger equities and lowered expectations about a quick return of Libya's oil exporting capabilities.Strong U.S. heating oil and gasoline futures helped lift crude prices early as products were boosted by news of a Sunoco (SUN.N) refinery restoring capacity after losing power and expectations weekly inventory reports would show slumping U.S. products stockpiles.Expectations for a swift restoration of Libyan oil to the market were reduced by successes of troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi's government in reversing rebel gains, adding lift to oil prices.Brent crude futures for May delivery rose 36 cents to settle at $115.16 a barrel, bouncing off its early $113.52 low.U.S. May crude futures rose 81 cents to end at $104.79 a barrel, snapping a string of three lower sessions.Prices reached $105 after slumping to $102.70, where crude found support just below the 20-day moving average of $102.87, according to Reuters data.Traders and brokers said U.S. crude had felt technical pressure after Thursday's $106.69 intraday peak that failed to reach the 2-1/2 year intraday high of $106.95 from March 7.

Recent low trading volumes have added to price volatility, even as the uncertainty about threats to both supply and global demand sent traders to the sideline, thinning volume.Total U.S. crude trading volume was 412,711 lots, 48 percent below the 30-day average, according to Reuters data. Brent trading volume was 323,036, 36 percent below the 30-day average.

MIDDLE EAST TURMOIL

Continued protests and unrest in Yemen, Syria and news of Kuwait's death sentences for three people for being in an alleged Iranian spy ring kept worries about the potential for supply disruptions in the region in play.U.S. stocks rose, also amid thin trading volume as the first-quarter 2011 draws to a close, erasing initial declines, helped by energy stocks and technology and retail sectors that were pressured after Japan's earthquake.Wall Street rose despite news that U.S. consumer confidence fell in March in the face of higher fuel prices and that U.S. home prices fell in January.Pump prices up 26 percent from year ago kept U.S. gasoline demand flat last week compared to the previous week and down versus year ago, MasterCard Advisors said.Uncertainty about oil demand in Japan as the country struggles to deal with its post-quake nuclear crisis remained a factor helping to hem in oil prices.
We have two factors that are countervailing, said Harry Tchilinguirian, analyst at BNP Paribas.There is a risk premium in the Middle East built in on risk of further contagion. On the other hand we have the fact Japan is a major component of the global supply chain, so the potential for a price correction in the second quarter remains.

INVENTORY REPORTS

U.S. crude stockpiles rose 5.7 million barrels last week, much more than analysts expected, the American Petroleum Institute said in its weekly report released late on Tuesday. Gasoline stocks fell 2.0 million barrels and distillate stocks fell only 112,000 barrels, the API said.Crude prices briefly pared gains after the report.
Ahead of the API report, a Reuters survey of analysts had estimated crude stocks would be up 1.8 million barrels, with gasoline stocks seen down 1.9 million barrels and distillate stocks down 600,000 barrels.The API report is somewhat bullish due to the gasoline data. We have seen large drawdowns over the past several weeks, and if the trend does not reverse, supplies could become very tight just in time for the height of the driving season, said John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital LLC in New York.The U.S. Energy Information Administration's inventory report at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT) on Wednesday.(Additional reporting by Nia Williams, Barbara Lewis, Florence Tan, Alejandro Barbajosa and Randy Fabi; Editing by Marguerita Choy)