ONTARIO HYDRO SPRAYED AGENT ORANGE

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The wrath of God- tonight on the Roth Show
11 March 2011: Global chaos, riots, historic earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, tsunamis… moral disintegration of the United States. Everyday events? Hardly. Are we witnessing events foretold in the Bible? Are we watching history unfold? I believe so.Based on everything I’ve read and seen – open source and non-open source material, gas prices will reach $5.00 per gallon by June, if not higher. Power brokers in a global New World Order are behind much of the chaos taking place.

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FRI MAR 11,11 HYDRO OUT FROM 7:45AM - 10:20AM-POWER OUTAGES IN REGION BY DAN MCLEAN - BAYSHORE BROADCASTING

About 4,000 homes in Grey Bruce are without electricity this hour.Westario Power also reports 2,500 homes in the Walkerton are have no power - and thats affected traffic lights in Walkerton causing more problems.About 400 homes in Southampton,another 500 between Paisley and Hanover also have no power - crews are working the area - but theres no word when electricity will be restored.

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.

WELL GUESS WHAT STORY MADE MY COMPUTER RUN ON AND ON.FOR 45 MINUTES I'VE BEEN TRYING TO PUBLISH THIS AGENT ORANGE STORY.GOOGLE-MICROSOFT AND WHOEVER ELSE IS TRYING TO STOP ME FROM PUBLISHING THIS ONTARIO HYDRO AGENT ORANGE COVERUP STORY.DURING THE 45 MINUTES OF RUNNING ON AND ON I CAN TELL THERE BURNING OUT MY COMPUTER BECAUSE IT ALWAYS SMELLS LIKE ITS BURNING WHEN GOOGLE-MICROSOFT(CIA AGENTS OF GOVERNMENTS)MAKE MY COMPUTER RUN ON AND ON.PEOPLE NOW USE KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT HOW THESE NEW WORLD ORDER-ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL FREAKS TRY TO DESTROY YOUR COMPUTER BY ANY MEANS FOR TRYING TO GET THE TRUTH OUT TO PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.IF US CITIZENS EVER TRYED TO DO THIS TO GOVERNMENT COMPUTERS WE WOULD BE CHARGED.BUT THE GOVERNMENT SCHILLS CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO US WITHOUT ANY ACTIONS BEING TAKIN AGAINST THEM.WHAT A SHAME WHEN THEY DESTROY YOUR COMPUTER FOR GETTING THE TRUTH OUT SO PEOPLE WILL NOT BE DECIEVED OF WHAT THESE NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES ARE DOING TO US.

Ontario Hydro sprayed Agent Orange to clear corridors Published On Sat Feb 26 20110) Sidney Rodger, 75, of Beamsville is a former Ontario Hydro supervisor in charge of chemical spraying projects.GLENN LOWSON Diana Zlomislic Staff Reporter

Ontario Hydro used Agent Orange to clear power line corridors across the province, through city backyards and thick rural brush.Hydro's own records, obtained by the Star, boast that in one 12-year period, the power company dropped enough chemicals in Ontario to cover a 30-metre-wide swath travelling four-fifths the distance around the world.The Ontario Hydro revelation moves health concerns over the toxin closer to highly populated areas of the province, with spraying on hundreds of thousands of kilometres of hydro corridors looping through parks and farmers' fields.For months at a time, summer students and salaried Hydro labourers would fan out across Ontario with metal knapsacks filled with poisonous chemicals strapped to their backs. The company also loaded hundreds of gallons of herbicides onto all-terrain vehicles, helicopters, army trucks, swamp tractors and even horses to help workers access every nook and cranny, according to the Star's ongoing investigation.Every power line in Ontario was sprayed, said Sidney Rodger, a former Hydro supervisor who worked in eastern Ontario from 1958 to 1968.All this spraying was done in urban and rural areas with no regard for creeks and streams or residents and wildlife.The Toronto Star interviewed former Hydro employees, including summer students and senior managers, who were assured the chemicals were harmless. The illnesses they've been dealing with the past few decades tell a different story.The men came forward after a Star investigation published last week revealed that the most widely used chemical in the Vietnam War was also employed at large by Ontario's Department of Lands and Forests to strip massive plots of Crown land during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

A Hydro One spokeswoman confirmed the utility also used Agent Orange across Ontario from 1950 to 1979.Daniele Gauvin said anyone with concerns can contact Hydro One, a company created in 1998 to replace Ontario Hydro. Gauvin said people are welcome to call the corporate switchboard.Meanwhile, government officials are probing the effects of Agent Orange use by provincial ministries in northern Ontario and along roadsides across the province.Spraying can be a bitter pill to the public, states an Ontario Hydro training document from 1962. It advised spraying supervisors to practise courtesy, care and common sense.To convince farmers to allow Hydro spray crews onto their pastures, some supervisors would dip a cup into the chemical tank and take a swig.We were just young, single guys making big money, said Orval Newton, 64, who earned $2.06 an hour as a labourer power-spraying trees and brush beneath high-voltage lines from Parry Sound to Toronto in 1967.Bread cost 25 cents a loaf at the time and regular gasoline was 41.9 cents a gallon.We had no protection, he said. The drift would come back into your face. You'd finish the day with your clothes soaked.Four years ago, Newton was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, one of more than 50 medical conditions the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs associates with exposure to Agent Orange.George Hambley, 62, spent three summers spraying near Kirkland Lake during the early 1970s.A massive tractor carrying hundreds of gallons of chemicals rolled through the brush. Attached to the chemical tank were three high-pressure hoses usually carried by seasonal workers like him.The guy on the middle hose got it bad, he said. Sometimes we'd start to gag because the spray was so thick.

A few years after he finished with Hydro, still in his 20s, Hambley started to lose feeling in his toes. Year by year, the numbness spread to his legs and hands. His official diagnosis is neuropathy, a disorder the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs also associates with exposure to Agent Orange.When Hambley was in his 30s, thick, red patches of skin with flaky, silver-white scales started to appear; they now cover 75 per cent of his body.On hot days, and with the blessing of our foreman, we would spray each other with this safe concoction, recalls Bryan Ostrowski, 69, who worked with the chemicals as a teenager in northern Ontario.We would spray upwards beneath the trees, he said.We did this day in and day out.He was 15 his first year.
Ostrowski started developing heart problems in his 20s. He had his first bypass at 41and now has a stent. Polyps riddled his nasal cavities. The polyps were removed in his 30s.Richard Monk, 58, recalls members of his spray gang in Parry Sound complaining about the noxious chemicals shortly after he started working for Ontario Hydro in 1975. His crew used many, many chemicals, including an equal-parts cocktail of the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T mixed in diesel fuel — Agent Orange.There were times we couldn't open our eyes in the morning, he said, because the toxins seemed to glue them shut. We had to walk down the cabin feeling the walls to find a basin to bathe them.The company responded to these complaints, he said, by conducting a study of workers' urine and monitoring the air with some kind of breathing apparatus.

Monk, who retired from the company as a superintendent for northern Ontario after 34 years of service, said he supplied urine samples for two weeks.We never got the results.In 2000, at the age of 48, Monk was diagnosed with bladder cancer.Hydro One could not provide the Star with the results of the urine study. A spokesperson said Ontario Hydro's records are archived with Ontario Power Generation. Hydro One pointed the Star to a different study, based on a questionnaire, that concluded forestry workers who were routinely exposed to poisonous herbicides were no more likely to die of cancer than men in the general population, though it did show a significant increase in suicide.The study tracked 1,222 Hydro employees who worked for six months or more between 1950 and 1982 and who were routinely exposed to herbicides. The report is based on two questionnaires workers were asked to fill out.

The Star asked a leading U.S. epidemiologist who has studied the effects of Agent Orange on military veterans to review the report.No one should derive comfort or reassurance of safety from the Ontario study, said Dr. Joel Michalek, the lead scientist in a prominent U.S. study that tracked the health of about 1,000 military veterans who participated in Operation Ranch Hand — a series of Air Force missions that sprayed defoliants over 1.4 million hectares of South Vietnam.Among epidemiology studies, this particular study offers the weakest form of evidence, with no control group and no measurement of the dioxin contaminant in people who comprised the cohort, said Michalek from San Antonio, where he is vice-chair of the epidemiology department at the University of Texas Health Science Center. David McCarty spent two summers in the early 1960s spraying power lines for Ontario Hydro near his hometown of New Liskeard, Ont. He was 17 years old his first year. I needed a goddamn job, he said. In those days, my dad was a guard at the jail. He made $5 an hour. I was making $11 an hour in the bush. Sometimes, I think it was shut-up money.

He's 64 years old. He's had two heart attacks, the first at age 37. He's been treated for mouth and skin cancer. Doctors twice extracted melanomas from his nose. He was not part of the Ontario study, he said.I've been talking with a girl from the WSIB (Workplace Safety and Insurance Board). She wanted me to put in a claim, he said. My doctor says nobody is going to tell you this is connected.McCarty sprayed power lines from Abitibi Canyon to Sudbury. When we'd come back the next day, you could tell where we left off because the leaves would be brown and curling, he said.

After a day spent in the thick chemical fog, the workers rarely bathed.If you cleaned up at night, you'd get eaten alive by blackflies, he said. You would wash the palm of your hands and your mouth and that's it! We stunk like hell.Tom Plaunt was 19 during his first summer of spraying. For him, it was a sort of initiation into manhood.That's where I learned to smoke cigarettes, drink beer and swear like a trooper,said Plaunt, 66, a retired university music professor in Montreal. He worked on Hydro's spray crews west of Shining Tree, Ont., for two summers in the 1960s.
Still, he can't help but wonder if the wart-like growths that began covering his body shortly after his work with Ontario Hydro are connected to the chemicals he sprayed.The chemical mixture would stick to his skin for days, he said.The men working with this stuff would lose a layer of skin a week, said Rodger, 75, who left Hydro to become a teacher.Many of the men he worked with developed white blotches on their hands and faces. As for his own health, Rodger said he's feeling fine. His youngest son, though, was born with an extra finger, which doctors removed at birth.
Is there a connection? Hard to say.Rodger is certain of one thing.I'm not looking for remuneration, he said. I just want the truth to come out.Diana Zlomislic can be reached at dzlomislic@thestar.ca or (416) 869-4472

650 calls flood Agent Orange hotlines Published On Mon Mar 7 The Canadian Press

Close to 650 calls have flooded provincial hotlines in the wake of recent revelations that Agent Orange was used in Ontario for more than three decades.The government says 292 calls have come in to its Agent Orange information line, while another 354 calls have been logged by the Workplace Safety Insurance Board.The hotlines were set up after the government confirmed about two weeks ago that a chemical mixture linked to certain types of cancer was used during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.The governing Liberals have launched an internal probe on the use of the toxic herbicide, which was sprayed along Ontario highways, in transmission corridors and on Crown land.They’ve also promised to create an independent panel that will investigate the province’s use of 2,4,5-T — a dioxin-laced component of Agent Orange that was approved for use in Canada until 1985.Natural Resources Minister Linda Jeffrey says she’ll likely name the head of an independent panel later this week.

Opposition says smart hydro meters cost consumers more
The Canadian Press Date: Monday Mar. 7, 2011 6:50 PM ET

TORONTO — There's no doubt the Ontario government's $1-billion smart meter program for electricity is costing consumers more instead of saving them money, the opposition parties charged Monday. About 4.5 million smart meters have been installed in homes and small businesses to switch them to time-of-use pricing for electricity and away from the old, two-tiered system based only on total usage. Data from utilities in Bowmanville and Toronto show most customers with smart meters are paying more, while only a small number are seeing decreases, said NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.There's more people paying more than there are saving, said Horwath.Here we have a system that's costing us $1 billion and people aren't getting the benefit in cost savings and they're not getting the benefit in conservation. It's a complete failure.Toronto Hydro figures show 80 per cent of customers had increases averaging $1.50 a month, while 20 per cent had decreases averaging $3.70 a month.

Figures from Bowmanville, east of Toronto, show 57 per cent of residential customers paid more for electricity than they would have paid on the old two-tiered pricing system.The giant transmission utility Hydro One, which is also a local distribution company for about one million customers, also found 57 per cent of customers were paying more with smart meters.The figures are preliminary, cautioned Energy Minister Brad Duguid, because no one has been using smart meters for a full year yet.On average, consumers are saving modestly, and I would use the word modestly, said Duguid.But there are more that would be paying a little bit more and there are less that would be paying significantly less, if you know what I mean. It's a little complicated.Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak literally laughed out loud when asked if smart meters were saving anyone money.I don't think anybody actually believes the premier or his energy minister when they say that these smart meter tax machines are saving anybody money, said Hudak.Everybody I talk to (says) their bills are going through the roof, and the smart meters are making them worse.Hudak has promised a Conservative government would allow people to revert to two-tiered pricing and away from time-of-use so they aren't forced to do dishes and laundry late at night.

I don't think the premier should be dictating to families to have all the kids showered, fed and ready for school by 7 a.m. when the higher rates kick in, said Hudak.We're going to unplug the mandatory smart meters and give families a choice.
Going backwards and unplugging the smart meters is not an option, said Duguid.We're moving toward time-of-use so that we can help Ontario consumers manage their energy costs and understand that there are different costs to energy, to the system, depending on when you use energy,he said.It's very important ... that consumers are fully aware of the costs of energy, on-peak and off-peak.Horwath called the smart meters cruel and unusual punishment, but said the NDP hasn't yet decided if it would go as far as Hudak and agree to let consumers opt out and return to the old pricing plan.We definitely think it's a program that is not going to get the results we need to get, said Horwath.We'd like to see much more investment in conservation.Duguid insisted the smart meters would result in big savings over time, and said they were needed to upgrade Ontario's power system to deal with everything from electric cars to smart appliances.That $1 billion will accrue $1.6 billion in savings over 15 years,Duguid told the legislature. You have to invest in modernizing our energy system if you're going to get access to those savings.

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

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

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

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

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

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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI MAR 11,2011

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -8.88
10:30 AM -22.48
11:00 AM -25.13
11:30 AM +2.54
12:00 PM +18.73
12:30 PM +35.72
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04:00 PM +59.79 12,044.40

S&P 500 1304.28 +9.17

NASDAQ 2715.61 +14.59

GOLD 1,420.00 +7.50

OIL 100.85 -1.85

TSE 300 13,674.30 +35.70

CDNX 2266.75 +27.13

S&P/TSX/60 787.68 +2.34

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -10 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -40 points at low today.
Dow +14 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,414.00.OIL opens at $100.52 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
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Dow +101 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -40 points at low today.
Dow +101 points at high today.

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

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Nato moving warships and planes closer to Libya
VALENTINA POP 10.03.2011 @ 19:38 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Nato defence ministers have agreed to reposition warships and airplanes currently deployed in the Mediterranean closer to the Libyan coast and to further explore the possibility of establishing a no-fly zone. Today we have taken two decisions: to increase the presence of Nato maritime assets in the central Mediterranean ... and to continue planning for a no-fly zone in case Nato were to receive a clear UN mandate, Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said during a press conference at the end of a meeting in Brussels on Thursday (10 March) dedicated to the Libyan crisis.The repositioning of warships comes a few days after the military alliance increased its air surveillance missions on Libya from 10 to 24 hours a day.

This will improve Nato awareness, which is vital in these circumstances, including a better monitoring of the UN arms embargo, the former Danish Prime Minister explained.
Mr Rasmussen also responded to an AFP report saying that France is calling for Nato powers to strike three Gaddafi military hubs.The French ideas were not discussed at all,he said, while sitting at the same table as the French defence minister. We don't look for an intervention in Libya, we need a clear legal basis for any action.
Other ministers at the meeting confirmed that the French colleague kept silent about the airstrike plans which, according to AFP, French President Nicholas Sarkozy plans to present on Friday to fellow EU leaders during a special summit on the Libyan crisis.There was no such proposal [at the Nato meeting]. Maybe it was something for media consumption,Czech defence minister Alexander Vondra told this website.US defence minister Robert Gates, speaking to reporters after the event, said that planning continues for a no-fly zone.A number of ministers made it very clear that we want to put ourselves in a position to assist the UN, the African Union or the Arab League. It's essential that Nato is responsive in this endeavour rather than taking initiative on its own, he added.Earlier this week, Mr Gates told Congress that a no-fly zone entails airstrikes and requires a UN mandate.

Nato's reluctance to go in with the big guns - as one diplomat put it - is also a reflection of wariness among some of its members, notably Turkey, to support any military action in Libya.Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week said that Nato has no business being there and his defence minister on Thursday tried to downplay plans for a no-fly zone.Mr Rasmussen was wary of labelling the situation in Libya as a civil war but did warn of the consequences of a prolonged conflict.Speaking instead of an armed upheaval, he said Nato was particulary concerned of the risk of division within the country and the risk of seeing a failed state that could be a breeding ground for terrorism.

France alienates fellow EU countries on Libya-Berlin believes the Sarkozy move is a public relations stunt (Photo: elysee.fr)ANDREW RETTMAN 10.03.2011 @ 17:22 CET
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EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's surprise decision to formally recognise Libyan rebels in Benghazi as the legitimate government of Libya caused dismay at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Thursday (10 March).German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle in an unusually candid press briefing said he was sitting next to French foreign minister Alain Juppe in the EU capital when the news broke, complaining that he had not been pre-notified and that Mr Sarkozy appears to have acted on a whim.He added that the French position is not the German position or the European position.Berlin believes the Sarkozy move is a public relations stunt following recent revelations that his prime minister and former foreign minister took gifts from dictators in Egypt and Tunisia shortly before the revolutions.It also believes the move is linked to the 2012 presidential elections in France, with the latest polls indicating that Mr Sarkozy will not make the second round.

Italy as well distanced itself from the French position. Foreign minister Franco Frattini told press that the UN and EU should send new fact-finding missions to Benghazi before making any decisions.Belgian foreign minister Steven Vanackere said there is a difference between engagement and recognition. Swedish FM Carl Bildt tweeted: Sweden recognizes states - not regimes. And most other EU countries are the same. Somewhat unclear on what France does.A spokesman for EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton noted that there was a near consensus in the room that the EU must make its decision on the Benghazi-based National Libyan Council in concert with the UN and the Arab League.He added that most EU countries want to keep talking to moderate members of the Gaddafi regime to keep alive the chance of a negotiated solution.For his part, France's Mr Juppe tried to backpedal on the Sarkozy move. He said the news was misreported - that Sarkozy had only said it [the National Libyan Council] is a legitimate interlocutor and that we must explore the option of recognition. But he [Juppe] didn't say this officially. It was more in the corridors,an EU source noted.

As the ministers were leaving the building, the French national news agency AFP reported that Paris is keen to go even further.The agency quoted an unnamed French official as saying Mr Sarkozy will at a special summit on Libya on Friday recommend to fellow EU leaders to strike three Gaddafi targets: a military airport in Sirte, another one in Sebha and a Gaddafi command centre in Bab al-Azizia.EU leaders in their declaration on Friday are set to tell Gaddafi that he must step down and to agree that any military action must have a UN Security Council mandate and the political blessing of the Arab League and the African Union.The Gaddafi regime is finished. This is clear, Italy's Mr Frattini said. All the ministers said that the Gaddafi regime is over but nobody knows how to translate that statement into action ... I don't think he will leave just because we tell him to.Representing the former colonial power in Libya, which has in recent years transferred billions of euros of cash and hundreds of millions of euros of arms to Tripoli, Mr Frattini added that: Italy has a special responsibility [to help solve the crisis] because of its historic relationship with the Libyan people.Italian delegates on Thursday circulated a three-part masterplan for the conflict.On the diplomatic side, Italy wants EU leaders to declare support for the political aspirations of the Benghazi rebels and to press Gaddafi to start a dialogue of reconciliation ... based on the pre-condition that he will step down. If this fails, it wants the EU to close its embassies in Tripoli and to swiftly impose the asset-freeze on Gaddafi's EU-lodged billions.

In terms of multilateral action, it wants the UN to send a fact-finding mission to Libya to collect evidence of atrocities which can be used to prosecute Gaddafi in The Hague and to justify a UN mandate for military action.On the military side, it wants EU or EU and Nato warships to blockade Gaddafi seaports to make sure no illegal weapons get in and to act as a deterrent to further violence. In the second phase, it wants Nato to impose a no-fly zone.Mr Frattini also said he would help Ms Ashton's crisis-response chief Agostino Miozzo to make a second fact-finding mission to Benghazi following his visit to Tripoli on Sunday.EUobserver understands that Ms Ashton's people are not keen to go due to the volatile security situation in the region.Watch the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton talk about the possibility of a no fly zone and the EU's plan for putting more economic and political pressure on Moammar Gaddafi.

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

EU states to discuss reasons for national GMO bans
ANDREW WILLIS 10.03.2011 @ 14:47 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU environment ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday (14 March) will discuss a list of possible reasons why individual member states could opt to ban the cultivation of genetically-modified crops in future. Public morals, public order and cultural policy are among the options listed in a European Commission working document, seen by this website. The paper builds on a commission proposal last July to partially renationalise decisions over GMO cultivation, after years of deadlock in the area.Under the proposal, the EU would continue to approve GMO cultivation along environmental and human health lines, after which member states could then opt to ban a particular crop, based on a different set of criteria.The plan has met with considerable opposition however, with France and Germany concerned that it could result in the fragmentation of the EU's internal market, as well as run into trouble with the World Trade Organisation. Governments have also pressed the commission to provide details of the criteria they could use when deciding on a ban, with debate on the subject now set for Monday.Under a public morals option, the commission suggests religious, philosophical and ethical concerns are all potential reasons for a national ban.Efforts to preserve organic and conventional farming systems could lead member states to invoke the avoidance of GMO presence in other products as a reason, says the working paper. Social policy objectives include the preservation of certain farming types to maintain jobs, while member states could also cite reasons of cultural policy.

General environmental policy objectives such as the maintenance of landscape features and certain habitats, is also listed as a possible option. This differs from the environmental criteria currently used at the EU-level by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) which looks at issues such as toxicity and the impact on micro-organisms.Member states could use one or a combination of these reasons, suggests the commission.However the sole invocation ... will not be sufficient to meet the scrutiny of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The measure should be justified, proportionate and non discriminatory,states the working paper.

Environmental groups argue that member states opting for a national ban under these options would be vulnerable to future legal challenges. We believe that the commission's July proposal must give member states the right to invoke health and [all] environmental reasons, otherwise this debate is going to run on even longer, Greenpeace director of agriculture Marco Contiero told EUobserver.At present, the commission authorises GMO cultivation on the basis of an opinion from EFSA, a controversial body whose views have sometimes clashed with national scientific advice. As a result, certain countries including Austria, France and Hungary have imposed temporary safeguard measures to prevent EU-approved crops from being cultivated within their borders.The commission has failed to act as a risk manager, said Mr Contiero. The proposal is meant to give member states the right to ban GMOs but in reality it doesn't because it maintains EFSA at the heart of the decision-making process.Diplomats concede that a large number of questions still need answering. Our aim is to keep this proposal alive, said a Hungarian EU presidency official on Thursday.Anti-GMO states including Hungary, Austria and Greece support the commission's proposal as a way to impose permanent national bans. The Netherlands supports it as a way of clearing the road for GMO cultivation, but many other states are seeking further clarifications.

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International Women's Day: Emunah and Inspiration
by Rachel Sylvetsky MAR 11,11
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142828 (PICTURES)

Rabbi Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Kook, religious Zionist icon and the first Chief Rabbi of Israel, philosopher and poet, saw in the establishment of a Jewish state an opportunity for the renewal of all that was spiritual in the Jewish nation, of all the inner talents that could not achieve full expression in the Diaspora. Nowhere was the truth of the great Torah sage’s vision more evident than at Emunah [the National Religious Women’s Organization} Israel’s unique celebration of International Women’s Day this past Tuesday, with the first ever Day of Dance-- for Women Only.The first class performances at the event, by women, of women and for women showed that the state of Israel has enabled not only the Jews but also the spirit of the Jewish people to come out of exile.Actually, the idea of celebrating a Women’s Day has its origins in communist countries, where it was part of an attempt to downgrade family loyalty. The first to make it a national holiday was none other than Vladimi Ilyich Lenin.That may be the reason that it is generally a day for women and their organizations to complain about what is wrong with women’s lives. A perusal of the Israeli mainstream media on Tuesday bore out that fact, with most articles replete with criticism, pessimism and demands.Not at Emunah. At the auditorium in Kibbutz Tzora near Beit Shemesh, over 800 women of all ages made the day a showcase for the opportunities that religious women have in the Jewish state and the once unheard of possibility of developing their talents in fields such as the dance.

And what talents! At the morning session, after a Torah lecture on dance in Biblical sources—for today’s religious Zionist woman learns Torah—there were six parallel dance groups, expressing ideas such as faith, emotions, longings for G-d, finding the inner self and six participatory dance workshops ranging from jazz to Ethiopian hip-hop to flamenco.. The workshops were filled to capacity and the joy was palpable.The early afternoon was dedicated to performances by women’s dance groups. I, a former New Yorker who frequented the best in music, dance and art, was astonished by the international level and perfect technique of the classical ballet group Divertissement, led by former Bolshoi dancer Nadia Timfeyba. The Barefoot Dance Group, an original dance trio from the Judean religious-secular town of Tekoa, and the Noga group from the Dance Department at Orot Teacher’s College in Elkana, Samaria, were top rate examples of modern dance.All the dancers were dressed modestly, including the ballerina soloist in Swan Lake, a fact which seemed as natural as it was beautiful. Some were married with head coverings, some had babies close by. The sound of babies cooing that accompanied the performances managed to seem natural as well. It was special to be with women only at the Day of Dance, to be part of an exclusive club whose members feel good about themselves, who have the commonality of pride in accomplishment, in what women can do and want to do.And one of the main things that women want to do at Emunah is to build a Jewish home, not because they have to but because they want to. That made it fitting that Emunah’s woman of the year was Dr. Chana Katan, a respected obs-gynm, author of medical-halakhic papers with her rabbi husband, and the mother of 13 children who said that her family comes first without any references to egalitarianism. MK Gila Gamliel presented Dr. Katan with the award.

(Left to right: Dr. Chana Katan, MK Gila Gamliel, Emunah Chairperson Liora Minka, Family Dept Head Rina Wasserman)We wanted to use the day to show what women have accomplished, summarized Liora Minka, Chairperson of Emunah Israel, and what we have seen today just makes me want to say—Wow! Where did it all start? In Emunah.

Emunah College for Women in Jerusalem was established 30 years ago with the aim of offering religious women career opportunities in fields where there were no religious schools extant. The college offered Plastic Arts and Fine Arts, Drama and other fields which are full of halakhic pitfalls, making the schools for those subjects that existed before the college opened its doors unsuitable for religious young women.Teaching Fine Arts in an observant all women’s framework eliminated many of the problems. Ongoing queries to rabbinic authorities solved others. Studying the arts and planning theatre performances for women only became a reality. So did national awards and prizes for excellence. Audiences that filled the halls led to other performing groups. The creativity and talent had been there, just waiting.And then came the turn of the dance. Thirteen years ago, Orot Teacher’s College in Elkana, opened an academic course of study in dance for religious young women. They came in droves and danced. Talia Perlstein, who organized Emunah's Day of Dance with the help of the Orot College, heads the Department. It wasn’t long before serious women’s dance groups soon sprang up in different parts of the country.(Israel National News.com)

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.

Qaddafi Loyalists Bomb Oil Refinery at Sidra
by Chana Ya'ar MAR 10,11

For the first time, Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi's government forces bombed a major oil facility on Thursday afternoon. Loyalist fighter pilots struck the oil refinery at Sidra, about six miles west of the town of Ras Lanuf.Qaddafi loyalists also appeared to have recaptured the western town of Bin Jawad 30 miles from the strategic port, and the town of Zawiyah, 25 miles west of Tripoli.At least one oil tank was set afire at the Sidra oil export terminal. The pipeline delivering crude oil from southern fields to the port was also damaged in the air strike according to rebels who spoke with reporters, but there was no independent confirmation.It was the first time Libya's oil industry has been seriously affected by the month-long civil war. At least four rebels were killed in the attack, according to a doctor at Ras Lanuf Hospital.Government loyalists used Katyusha Grad missiles, mortars and air strikes in their efforts to retake the two petrochemical complexes located alongside the town.Libyan soldiers and secret police beat and threatened a team of three British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalists while they were on their way to cover events in Zawiyah.The news team was held for 21 hours and tortured with a mock execution while repeatedly being threatened with death. They were also hooded and handcuffed, then punched and beaten with rifles and sticks.Turkish cameraman Goktay Koraltan, British reporter Chris Cobb-Smith and PA Arab correspondent Feras Killani later flew out of Libya upon their release.According to a statement issued by the BBC, the three saw other Libyan captives from Zawiyah who were beaten and tortured during their imprisonment.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni Derides PM's Housing Solution
by Gavriel Queenann MAR 10,11

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni (Kadima) launched a rhetorical fusillade at Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's remark today that Israel's housing crisis requires a metaphorical super-tanker as a solution. Netanyahu's supertanker consists of the establishment of committees responsible for cutting through red tape and fast-tracking approval for construction of new housing units. It can take years of wading through Israeli bureaucracy to obtain construction permits.Responding to the Prime Minister's proposal, Livni said, with all due respect to cosmic supertankers, it won't solve the housing problem in Israel. This program is not a cure-all. The middle class cannot continue to feel that it carries other sectors of society who should share the same burdens on its back.Echoing Livni's sentiments, student union members in Jerusalem said of the plan that It undermines the principle of equality, which can have far-reaching effects. This group, the middle class, is collapsing into poverty, and inflation is burning the middle class' money on fuel, bread and water.

Referring to the ongoing social worker's strike, Livni said, The government thinks it can outsource [social services, ed] and shirks responsibility. It is not possible to privatize this responsibility and transfer it to other organizations in order to continue paying lower wages to employees in those organizations. The result is that employees don't receive decent wages for their amazing contribution to society. Livni was referring to the practice of using workers from manpower companies or privately run organizations to avoid paying government salaries and perks.She criticized the practice of holding negotiations with employees, primarily social workers, while saying that those employed by the government will be paid more, but that those who work in outsourced organizations will not be paid benefits because it's not the government... it is!! Livni is not the only member of the opposition to criticize Netanyahu's construction plan. MK Yaakov Katz (National Union) said, Bibi is not super, and his plan is not a tanker. Without massive government construction of 100,000 housing units, the problem will not be solved.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

Wet Northeast watches skies, worries about floods By DAVID PORTER, Associated Press – Thu Mar 10, 8:51 pm ET

POMPTON LAKES, N.J. – Residents in the Northeast and parts of the Midwest nervously watched rising waterways Thursday as heavy rain swelled creeks and rivers, damaged houses, detoured commuters and forced amusement park workers to pack up equipment.
In Pompton Lakes, N.J., a pelting rain fell on Liri Zekirovski and a friend as they removed water-damaged furniture and flooring from Zekirovski's father-in-law's house next to the Pompton River.It was the second time the area had been waterlogged in less than a week. In a small playground across the street, remnants of Sunday night's flooding could be seen in a bicycle rack that was nearly covered in mud.It's getting ridiculous. It's like every time it rains this is going to happen, Zekirovski said as he pointed to a water line on the front of the house about 2 1/2 feet high. It seems like we're putting in a new kitchen every six months. It might be better just to eat outside.Flood watches were in effect across much of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.The National Weather Service issued a flood warning for the Delaware River from north of Philadelphia through southern New Jersey, where moderate coastal flooding was predicted. The weather service said minor flooding was also likely Friday on the Schuylkill River and the Brandywine Creek in Chadds Ford, Pa., and the local school district canceled classes.

The Mid-Atlantic was also gearing up for rain-related problems. More than 2 inches of rain in parts of western Maryland pushed streams over their banks and prompted road closures, while a mudslide closed one lane of a heavily traveled commuter road in Washington on Thursday morning.In Cincinnati, the rising Ohio River forced employees at Coney Island Amusement Park to move equipment such as ride motors and controllers to higher, dryer ground. The flooding closed roads, a public school, the River Downs horse racing track and waterfront restaurants across the state line in northern Kentucky.The National Weather Service said the Ohio River was expected to crest at more than 4 feet above flood stage this weekend.New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency Wednesday. On Thursday, officials alerted about 100 New Jersey Army and Air National Guard troops that they may be placed on active duty to respond to any flooding.Rainfall amounts of 3 inches or more were forecast for portions of northern New Jersey. The National Weather Service predicted major flooding this weekend along the Pompton River at Pompton Plains and along the Passaic River at Little Falls and Pine Brook.Firefighters needed boats to reach a house fire on a flooded street in northern New Jersey. No one was in the Lincoln Park home when the fire broke out Thursday and no injuries were reported, but the home was badly damaged, the Daily Record of Parsippany reported.Major flooding also is forecast along the Susquehanna River near Binghamton, N.Y., where the water is expected to crest about 5 feet over flood stage on Saturday.About 30 miles away in Waverly, Karla Koehn was moving her living room furniture into the kitchen, where she hoped to keep it dry by setting it atop cinder blocks.

It's the only thing you can do unless you want to completely empty your home, which I don't really have the time or the energy to do, said Koehn, 49, a home health care aide and medical transcriptionist.Koehn endured a major flood during 2006 in which water filled the basement nearly up to her floorboards and made her oil tank float. Now her oil tank is anchored with concrete. This time, she fears water will come in the first floor.You have to worry a little bit because you never know what can happen, she said. Water is pretty powerful.Two to 4 inches of rain was expected in Philadelphia through Friday, with similar amounts forecast for New York's Lower Hudson Valley. At a conference in Philadelphia on Thursday addressing the quality of drinking water from the Delaware River, Environmental Protection Agency regional director Shawn Garvin spoke of his fondness for the waterway he knows so well. I'll be even more familiar with it when I'm vacuuming it out of my basement tonight, joked Garvin, who lives in Wilmington, Del.Moderate flooding was expected in central Pennsylvania, including along the Swatara Creek near Hershey, where the state wrestling tournament was being held at the Giant Center.Parking attendants Dean Behrendt and Cord Clark, both 18 and from Palmyra, were dressed in bright yellow rain slickers, shoulders hunched at times under a steady downpour.

It's cold. It's real windy out, sometimes it makes it unbearable, Behrendt said. I just try to layer up and get through it.In Ohio, heavy rains over the past week-and-a-half have swelled rivers and streams. On Tuesday, the Scioto River in southern Ohio toppled a home that had been under construction in Piketon for the past 10 years.Video shot by John Sparks' daughter shows his unfinished dream house floating down the river. Sparks told WSYX-TV that he plans to rebuild.In northeastern Pennsylvania, the Susquehanna River is forecast to crest at 9 feet above flood stage in Wilkes-Barre by Saturday morning. The city is protected by a levee system, but nearby communities including Plymouth Township, Shickshinny, Plains Township and West Pittston are vulnerable.The storm also was expected to bring snow to some spots.Wet snow was expected to begin falling on northeast Ohio late Thursday. Up to a foot could accumulate through Friday, with the heaviest expected from the Akron area east to Youngstown and the Pennsylvania line.A winter storm warning was in effect through Friday evening for the Pittsburgh area, which could see up to 8 inches of snow by Saturday morning. In the Adirondacks in New York, forecasts called for several inches.Just a few days ago, a wild mix of snow, sleet and rain battered a wide swath of New England and upstate New York, dumping nearly 30 inches of snow on some areas, knocking out power to tens of thousands of utility customers, washing away homes and leaving many rivers and streams at high levels.Associated Press writers Genaro C. Armas in Hershey, Pa., Michael Rubinkam in Waverly, N.Y., Dan Sewell in Cincinnati and Geoff Mulvihill in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

New Tool May Help Minimize Tsunami Death Toll LiveScience.com Ouramazingplanet Staff, livescience.com – Thu Mar 10, 4:44 pm ET

People in the path of tsunamis may get a few more precious minutes of warning time, thanks to a newly developed tool.The system looks at the earthquakes on the seafloor that cause the massive and often deadly waves.Using this system, we could in the future warn local populations, thus minimizing the death toll from tsunamis, said Andrew Newman of Georgia Tech’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Science.According to the scientists who developed it, the system, known as RTerg, could help predict the approach of tsunamis and reduce the death toll by giving local residents valuable time to move to safer ground.The researchers behind RTerg say they used its algorithms to identify an October 2010 earthquake in the Indian Ocean as a rare and destructive tsunami earthquake. The 7.8 magnitude quake generated waves up to 56 feet (17 meters) high, and killed as many as 430 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.Here's how the new system works. Usually within four minutes, RTerg gets a notification from one of the tsunami warning centers around the Pacific region that an earthquake has occurred. This notice gives the system the quake's location, depth and approximate magnitude.

If the earthquake is determined to be of magnitude 6.5 or higher, it takes about a minute to request and receive data from around 150 seismic stations around the world. Once the system collects these data, it uses its algorithm to run through every second of the rupture and determine the incremental growth of energy and ascertain whether the quake was a tsunami earthquake.The Sumatran event was the first tsunami quake that occurred when RTerg was online in real time. With that quake, the system identified the event as a potential tsunami earthquake after 8.5 minutes, and sent a notification out shortly thereafter.For most tsunami earthquakes, inundation of the coastal environment doesn't occur until about 30 to 40 minutes after the quake. So we'll have about 20 to 30 minutes to get our information to an automatic warning system, or to the authorities, Newman said. This gives us a tangible amount of time to get people out of the way.Currently, Newman and his team are working to test and implement a technique for RTerg that could shave another minute or more from the warning time. In addition, they are planning to rewrite the algorithm so that it can be used at all U.S. and international warning centers.The study appears in the March 5 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.This article was provided by OurAmazingPlanet, a sister site to LiveScience.

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.

Powerful quake of Indonesia's island of Bali
– Thu Mar 10, 2:11 pm ET

BALI, Indonesia – A powerful earthquake off Indonesia rattled the popular resort island of Bali early Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, officials said.The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.5-magnitude quake struck at 1:08 a.m. (1708 GMT Thursday) and was centered 315 miles (510 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor.It hit waters 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Bali.
Beni Hendrawanto, of the country's geological and meteorology department, said it could be felt in the main city of Denpasar but there were no initial reports of damage or injuries.Indonesia is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.