STOCK RESULTS APR 26,2011

ON SATURDAY APR 23,11 I GOT MY VOTE IN FOR THE CONSERVATIVES.(I ADVANCE VOTED)ITS THE BEST OF THE WORST IN THESE 2011 MAY 2 ELECTIONS HERE IN CANADA.

Toronto key to majority for Canada's Conservatives
By Julie Gordon and Claire Sibonney - APR 26,11

BRAMPTON, Ontario (Reuters) – The Toronto region is where the 2011 federal election will probably be decided as the Conservatives hunt for the extra seats they need to turn their minority government into a safe majority one.In the city of Toronto, which has a reputation for being a fortress for the opposition Liberals, the Conservatives have the aging populations of affluent electoral districts in their sights, with a special nod to Jewish voters who like the government's pro-Israel stance.And in the suburbs, where visible minorities now make up a rising share of voters, they are targeting the ethnic vote.Their objective is to position themselves as the natural governing party for the 21st century in Canada, said Christian Leuprecht, an associate professor of politics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.That clearly means making inroads with those population groups that are growing rapidly.The Conservatives, in power since 2006, are using their record on the economy and family-centric traditional values to appeal to voters in the suburbs of Canada's largest city, home to 10 of the tightest races for the May 2 election.

Three of the hottest ridings, or electoral districts, are in Brampton, just northwest of Toronto, where half the residents are immigrants, and one in three is from South Asia. Buoyed by an immigrant vote that has traditionally backed them, the Liberals won here in the last election, but only just.Now, the immigrant vote isn't necessarily Liberal.Brampton's population has risen more than four-fold since the 1970s, transforming a once picturesque town into a suburban sprawl of townhouses and strip malls. Sikh men in turbans chat on street corners, while children play road hockey in front of cookie-cutter homes.Brampton is a microcosm about how this country has changed,Leuprecht said.If you can make inroads in this sort of a riding, I think you're also sending a signal that you're keeping up with the times.The province of Ontario, of which Toronto is capital, has a third of the seats in Parliament. That makes it the key electoral battleground for the Conservatives, who are targeting voters in traditional Liberal strongholds, while defending their position against the left-leaning New Democratic Party, which has soared in the polls in the last two weeks of the campaign.The Conservatives hold 143 seats in Parliament and need 12 more for a majority. They won minority governments in the 2006 and 2008 elections.They realized that if they focused on these ridings and work hard, they can win it,said Rajinder Saini, a Punjabi-language radio host and an influential voice within that community.If they go to Conservatives, I will not be surprised.

THE TORONTO FORTRESS

The party may also have an opportunity to break the strong Liberal position within Toronto itself, notably in the diverse riding of Eglinton-Lawrence, where the population has Jewish, Italian and Filipino roots.Here, the Conservatives are benefiting from their clear message as a defender of Israel and the threat of another near-term election if no party wins an outright majority in this one.In the last election, Conservative candidate Joe Oliver narrowed the gap against the Liberal incumbent -- who has held the seat since 1988 -- from 23 percent to 4.7 percent.Now, it's closer, Oliver told Reuters.This still remains an uphill fight but the messages that we're talking about are resonating.But Tariq Amin-Khan, an associate professor of politics at Ryerson University in Toronto, said that the Conservative strategy of targeting voters based on race or ethnic origin could backfire. This targeting of the ethnic vote has really angered quite a few people within the broader South Asian community who see themselves as people who are just being exploited to gain votes,he said.Amin-Khan said a well-publicized gaffe in which a Conservative campaign worker asked community members to wear ethnic costumes for a photo opportunity with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and the accidental release of documents that characterized certain ridings as very ethnic, may have hurt the Conservatives with some voters.They would like their voices heard, and they would also not like to be treated as ethnics,said Amin-Khan.In other words they want to be part of the Canadian mosaic.(Reporting by Julie Gordon and Claire Sibonney; editing by Janet Guttsman and Peter Galloway)

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Busby: Fukushima Explosion Was Nuclear Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com April 26, 2011

British scientist Christopher Busby, a researcher on the negative health effects of ionizing radiation, told Russia Today that one of the explosions at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan was a nuclear explosion, not a hydrogen explosion as widely reported in the media.Busby said the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 was also a nuclear explosion. The Chernobyl nuclear accident dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. Busby told RT the crisis at Fukushima is far worse than Chernobyl.He said the explosion did not originate in the reactor core, but the tanks where spent plutonium MOX fuel rods are stored. MOX fuel contains plutonium blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium. The explosion vaporized the plutonium rods and ejected a large amount of radiation into the atmosphere.Takeshi Tokuda, a member of the Lower House of the Japanese Diet, also believes the first explosion at Fukushima was nuclear. Tokuda talked with a doctor Oikawa of the Minami Soma City General Hospital.

Oikawa told the government representative that materials ejected from the plant after the explosion registered high radiation levels.When the hospital checked the radiation level on the people who escaped from around the nuke plant after the explosion, there were more than 10 people whose radiation level exceeded 100,000 cpm [counts per minute], beyond what could be measured by the geiger counter the hospital had, Tokuda wrote.100,000 cpm is the new level that the Japanese government set that requires decontamination. Before the Fukushima accident, the level was 6,000cpm.The EPA has attempted to downplay the fact that plutonium is now bombarding the United States and much of the Northern Hemisphere. According to Lucas Hixton Whitefield, an EPA RADNet report shows increased levels of plutonium in the atmosphere. Whitefield found information on the plutonium in a RADnet dataset.

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

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.

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Netanyahu Denies Report He Caved In on Temple Mount
by Gil Ronen APR 26,11

The Prime Minister's Office issued a statement Tuesday bluntly denying a report that Binyamin Netanyahu intends to cave in to extreme Arab demands over Jerusalem and demographics.A Kuwaiti newspaper, Al Jarida, reported that Netanyahu will present a diplomatic plan next month that includes Israeli acquiescence to a preliminary Palestinian with eastern Jerusalem as its capital. The paper also claimed that Netanyahu agreed to hand over the Temple Mount and other holy places to international sovereignty.Netanyahu also supposedly consented to let Arab refugees into Israel, in accordance with a plan to annihilate the Jewish state demographically, known as the right of return.Al Jarida said that these concessions were detailed by Israeli delegate Attorney Yitzchak Molcho in a secret meeting with Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erikat, ahead of Netanyahu's upcoming major policy speeches in Washington.There was never any secret meeting between Attorney Yitzchak Molcho and Saeb Erikat,the PMO said, "and therefore it is also clear that the alleged contents of the meeting have no basis in reality.The Kuwaiti newspaper claimed that the United Nations, United States and Russia were involved in the plan to turn over the holy sites to international hands. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

Uzi Dayan: Give Jews Free Access to Joseph's Tomb
by Aryeh Ben Hayim APR 26,11

Major General (reserves) Uzi Dayan called upon the government to open the Tomb of Joseph to Jewish worshipers on a daily basis. We cannot give up these places, he said.The former head of Israel's National Security Council and of the IDF's Central Command expressed his conviction that the IDF would apprehend the Palestinian Authority policemen who murdered Ben Yosef Livnat at Joseph's Tomb. This Passover we made two Passover sacrifices, Daniel Viflic who was murdered by rocket fire from the Hamas terrorists in Gaza as well as Ben Yosef Livnat.In referring to the opinion that neither side was innocent in the shooting at Joseph's Tomb, Dayan replied, There are those who make light of the matter and even call this an incident rather than a terrorist attack. So apparently Hebrew is a beautiful language but this was a terrorist attack. Policemen fired on Jewish worshipers, and this is murder. True, they did not coordinate their entry but here we are talking about the eve of a holiday.In his opinion, the IDF occasionally forgets its proper role. Our job is not to make explanations for the Palestinians but to apprehend those responsible. There must be an exhaustive investigation; one should punish those responsible. It's clear to everyone that the Palestinian police are going to do nothing, especially in light of the fact that we are even providing them with excuses. One must not rely on them. When I was the head of Central Command after the events of the Western Wall Tunnel [1996] we drew up a blacklist of all Palestinian policemen that we suspected of involvement in the terrorist attacks, we went over the list, we arrested those whom we had to and we eliminated those whom we had to.

Dayan concludes that the current situation at Joseph's tomb is insufferable. Following the events that led to the killing of [the Druze Army soldier] Madhat Yusuf at Joseph's Tomb [in October 2000, upon the outbreak of the Second Intifada, aka The Oslo War] the Tomb has been burnt; a mosque was built there, and then the tomb was again repaired. It's legitimate to debate whether to station troops there or not but it's not legitimate that [the PA] won't allow Jews to pray there. It's necessary that people should arrive at Joseph's Tomb every day as well as to the Peace on Israel Synagogue in Jericho. Of course one has to coordinate, but one must again open up these places, otherwise we are de facto giving up on them.To my sorrow the media, that does not always remember all the details, sets the agenda. They deal all the time, and justifiably so, with Gilad Shalit, but don't recall those who were killed in that incident [a reference to two soldiers from Shalit's crew who were killed simultaneously with his abduction, ed.]. Also, in the Joseph's Tomb attack they mention that Ben Yoseph Livnat was murdered, but it's necessary to mention also all those who were wounded and are fighting for their lives. It is necessary to follow the security agenda rather than the media agenda,he added. (Israel National News.com)

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

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

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

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

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

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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE APR 26,2011

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +47.53
10:30 AM +64.48
11:00 AM +56.27
11:30 AM +103.57
12:00 PM +110.29
12:30 PM +113.94
01:00 PM +116.29
01:30 PM +102.66
02:00 PM +105.73
02:30 PM +112.12
03:00 PM +118.82
03:30 PM +116.13
04:00 PM +115.49 12,595.37

S&P 500 1347.24 +11.99

NASDAQ 2847.54 +21.66

GOLD 1,501.60 -7.50

OIL 112.06 -0.22

TSE 300 13,909.10 +1.88

CDNX 2232.50 -27.55

S&P/TSX/60 795.72 +0.97

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +21 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +120 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,503.20.OIL opens at $112.05 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today so far.
Dow +125 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +125 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,515.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Berlusconi and Sarkozy to seek tightening of EU border controls
HONOR MAHONY Today APR 26,11 @ 09:23 CET

The leaders of France and Italy are meeting in Rome today (26 April) to discuss measures to tighten EU border controls amid rising tensions over how to deal with the thousands of migrants fleeing revolutions in north Africa.French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi are expected to use this 29th bilateral summit to call for a partial reintroduction of border controls, a move that would undermine one of the most significant integration steps of the European Union.Europe is not the free movement of illegal immigrants, Laurent Wauquiez, French European affairs minister told Journal du Dimanche. France wants to study the possibility of restoring border controls if there is a major influx at the gates of the Union,he said.Referring to the EU's agreement on abolishing internal borders, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told daily Il Sole 24 Ore: All treaties inevitably grow old. The Berlin wall of North Africa has come down and the context in which these treaties and I think also the Lisbon treaty, were written has changed radically.

The Franco-Italian meeting comes as the influx of some 25,000 Africans over recent weeks has exposed the fragility of Europe's approach to dealing with immigration. Italy, as the landing country for the vast majority of the immigrants, has complained bitterly about the what it is says is a lack of solidarity in dealing with the migrants from the rest of the EU.With its complaints falling on deaf ears, it then infuriated fellow member states - particularly France - by granting Tunisians six-month resident permits allowing them to travel freely within the countries belonging to the Schengen Zone. Many Tunisians, often French-speakers, started to make their way to France, prompting Paris to search trains coming from Italy. Under EU rules, residency permits - Italy has so far granted around 8000 - can only be granted if the person has the means to support themselves.Although France has said it does not want to suspend the Schengen Agreement but just review it, the mere fact that it is being discussed at all is of significant symbolic importance.The 1995 agreement, allowing passport-free travel in 25 European countries and affecting 400 millions citizens, is seen as one of the deepest integration moves in the EU's history, breaking the down national borders and resting on trust between member states.However, the highly visible migration from Africa in recent weeks - where migrants often reach the tiny and ill-equipped Italian island of Lampedusa first - has seen member states defend the domestic line rather than one of EU solidarity.

It also comes amid internal political pressure as national politicians take a hard line on immigration, taking on board some of the policies of rising populist and anti-immigration parties. Sarkozy himself, facing election next year, is under pressure from an increasingly popular far-right National Front party while Berlusconi's government is dependent on the strongly anti-immigrant Lega Nord.Any Franco-Italian agreement reached on Tuesday would have to be agreed by the rest of the EU, with interior ministers meeting on 12 May to discuss immigration.

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.

Iranian Nuclear Program Hit By Second Cyber Missile Virus
by Gavriel Queenann APR 26,11

Iranian civil defense commander Gholamreza Jalali said Monday the Islamic Republic's nuclear program has fallen prey to a computer virus called Stars, Reuters reports.
The Stars virus is the second in the cyber war against Iran's bid for nuclear capability, following after the much-reported Stuxnet virus,Jalalai said the introduction of the new virus is being investigated while admitting Stuxnet still posed a risk. We should know that fighting the Stuxnet virus does not mean the threat has been completely tackled, because viruses have a certain life span and they might continue their activities in another way,Jalali said.The revelation that Stuxnet is still hampering Iran's nuclear program runs counter to previous claims by Iranian officials that the destructive virus had been dealt with and buttresses Saudi concerns that Iran's intention to activate the Bushehr plant in May could lead to a second Fukushima.Saudi concerns were based on reports attributed to a Russian engineer working at the site that metal shards were found in the coolant intakes for the reactor.Iranian officials blamed Israel and the United States -- which believe Iran is seeking nuclear weapons -- for the Stuxnet virus, which some expert shave described as the first guided cyber missile, aimed at Iran's atomic program.

Stars,experts speculate, is the second.Fortunately,Jalali told Iran's press. Our young experts have been able to discover this virus and the Stars virus is now in the laboratory for more investigations,Jalali was quoted as saying. He did not specify the target of Stars or its intended impact.The particular characteristics of the Stars virus have been discovered. The virus is congruous and harmonious with the [computer] system and in the initial phase it does minor damage and might be mistaken for some executive files of government organizations.Bushehr is still not operational, having missed several start-up deadlines since the Stuxnet virus was introduced.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Kremlin chief wants new nuclear rules post-Chernobyl
By Denis Dyomkin and Pavel Polityuk - APR 26,11

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday called on the world community to tighten safety rules at nuclear plants and tell the truth when there were accidents like those at Chernobyl and Fukushima.Medvedev spoke alongside Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich at a solemn ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine when a reactor exploded, sending radiation billowing across Europe.The ceremony, at which the two leaders paid homage to the clean-up workers and victims of the 1986 accident, took on added significance amid efforts by Japan to control the crisis at its Fukushima plant, damaged by an earthquake and tsunami.A jarring note came from Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko whose country suffered as badly as Ukraine from the Chernobyl disaster.Touring border areas in his own country affected by the Chernobyl accident, Lukashenko described Yanukovich as a lousy leader for leaving him out of Chernobyl anniversary events at the behest of European Union leaders.The crisis at Fukushima and what happened at Chernobyl 25 years ago meant new rules had to be developed on the peaceful use of nuclear energy and safety, Medvedev said.Today, I sent proposals to (world) leaders ... aimed at guaranteeing the necessary development of nuclear energy in the world while preventing at the same time catastrophic global consequences,the Russian leader said.

But Medvedev, who may run for a second term in the Kremlin in an election next March, also put the emphasis on the need for governments to come clean in the event of a nuclear accident.The duty of a state is to tell the truth to its people. It must be acknowledged that the (Soviet) state did not always behave correctly, he said.In order for such tragedies never to be repeated we must all be honest, we must provide absolutely exact information about what is going on ..., he said.His words amounted to an acknowledgement of wrong-doing by Moscow since the Soviet Union, of which Ukraine was then a part, delayed announcement of the full scale of the Chernobyl accident for some days.But they could equally be taken as veiled criticism of Japan's handling of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant which was hit by a March 11 earthquake followed by a tsunami.On April 26 1986, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded and caught fire after a safety test experiment went badly wrong. The blast sent radiation billowing across Europe.A total of 31 people died immediately but many more died of radiation-related sicknesses such as cancer, many of them in what is today Belarus.Tens of thousands were evacuated, never to return, from Prypyat, the town closest to the site which then had a population of 50,000.

550 MILLION EUROS PLEDGED

Last week the world community, spurred by the nuclear crisis in Japan, pledged 550 million euros ($780 million) to help build a new containment shell over the stricken reactor at the Chernobyl site to replace a makeshift one that has begun to leak radiation.Chernobyl was a challenge of planetary dimensions. The answer to this challenge can be provided only by the world community,Yanukovich said. In Chernobyl, he thanked Medvedev for Russia's donation of 45 million euros ($65.38 million).
Tuesday's anniversary saw anti-nuclear protests in several European countries. About 120,000 people took part in anti-nuclear rallies across Germany on Monday, the largest Easter Monday protests in many years, ahead of the anniversary.There were 80 rallies across Germany, the largest outside the Grohnde nuclear reactor, one of 17 plants in Germany, where 20,000 took part. About 15,000 also took part in rallies outside reactors at Biblis and Grafenrheinfeld.In Romania, scores of anti-nuclear protesters gathered near government headquarters in Bucharest on Tuesday, and protests were also planned in Vienna after a rally on Monday.Chernobyl is now the benchmark for nuclear accidents.On April 12, Japan raised the severity rating at Fukushima to seven, the same level as that of Chernobyl.(Writing by Richard Balmforth, Editing by Janet Lawrence)

Syria a Bigger Headache for Turkey than Libya
by Aryeh Ben Hayim APR 26,11

Kol Yisrael has just reported that a Turkish citizen was shot in the head crossing into Jordan from Syria. As it is Assad's security forces who hold the weapons, the incident may force Ankara's hand.The Turkish opposition has begun to make hay over the issue by accusing the ruling AKP – Justice and Development Party – of employing a double standard in terms of Syria. A column in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet complained that the government, which is eager to bash Israel on every occasion over Gaza, has very little to say in the face of the images of brutality coming out of Syria and Libya. In the meantime, no one in the party is openly accusing Gaddafi or Assad of murdering their citizens…. those pro-AKP organizations are quick to gather outside the Israeli embassy in protest [but] are not to be seen outside the Libyan or Syrian embassies.How could a Muslim party ignore the fate of the Muslims in these countries, questioned the columnist. He also predicted that the insurgents would remember Turkey's cowardly stance when they came to power.We also saw how the opponents of Gaddafi, who we believe will be successful in the end, turned against Turkey. The same thing could easily happen in Syria if the AKP government continues to go softy softly on Assad.

Syria is more of an issue for Turkey than Libya because of the common border. Turkey fears that the current crackdown could stimulate tides of Syrian refugees crossing the border with Turkey. The Turkish Foreign Ministry is already running through scenarios. A destabilized Syria would also exacerbate Turkey's Kurdish problem.The United States has been in close contact with the Turks and is playing good cop bad cop with Ankara. Officer Obama has been the good cop calling Turkish Premier Erdoganto express appreciation for Turkey's ongoing humanitarian efforts in Libya and its participation in the NATO No-Fly Zone and Arms Embargo operations.The bad cop was being played by David S. Cohen, Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Treasury Department, who is visiting Ankara this week to emphasize the requirement that Turkey comply with the sanctions against Iran and Libya.Cohen will warn the Turks that if they trade with Iran and Gaddafi's Libya, they will find the U.S. financial system barred to them. Now that Washington has reluctantly moved to economic sanctions against Syria, one can expect similar pressure on Ankara in that direction as well.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

European mercenaries fighting for Gaddafi, expert says
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 26,11 @ 08:08 CET

EUOBSERVER / PARIS - Between 300 and 500 European soldiers of fortune, including EU nationals, are working for Colonel Gaddafi in Libya, a leading criminologist has said.The European mercenaries are mostly specialists in heavy weapons, helicopter technology and tactics and command fees of several thousand US dollars a day. The majority come from Belarus, Serbia and Ukraine. There is a significant amount of Polish helicopter experts. Belgian, British, French and Greek nationals are also involved.The Europeans come on top of much larger numbers of hired fighters from the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Mali and Somalia, who are paid up to $2,000 a day. The men come and go via the 15-or-so still-operational military airports in southern Libya.Gaddafi's official army has just 25,000 or so soldiers left due to desertions. But his sons also command three units of well-equipped militia, numbering between 35,000 and 50,000 men in total.The information comes from Michel Koutouzis, a Greek expert on organised crime, whose French-registered company, Lotophages Consulting, does research on security issues for the EU institutions, the UN and the French government, and who spent February and March travelling in north Africa.In Libyan society, there is a taboo against killing people from your own tribal group. This is one reason why Gaddafi needs foreign fighters, Koutouzis told this website.

A contact linked to the rebel authorities, the Transitional National Council in Benghazi, told EUobserver that Algerian, Russian and Syrian serving military officers have also been helping Gaddafi.They began coming after the first US bombardment. Gaddafi changed his tactics - he brought in hundreds of four-by-four trucks from Algeria and stopped relying on tanks,the source said.The Algerians and the Syrians are worried that Libya could set a bad example.He added that Gaddafi uses mercenaries because he does not trust Libyans.There have been almost constant coups against him over the past 40 years. His personal bodyguard are all foreigners. In terms of his inner circle, the loyalists who really believe in him, it's about 10 people, and one of them [foreign minister Moussa Koussa] has defected.For its part, Human Rights Watch, which has three people on the front lines in Libya, cast doubt on the reports.The group's Peter Bouckaert referred to sources in South African mercenary circles, saying they have not heard of any Europeans, South Africans or Zimbabweans going to fight for Gaddafi ... these networks are in touch with each other, so they would have heard.He added that rebels tend to treat any sub-Saharan Africans they come across as mercenaries but that most of them are migrant workers. Bouckaert saw just one confirmed case of a hired fighter from Chad during four weeks in the field. An EU security official and a Nato contact said they have not seen any internal reports about mercenaries. But the Nato source pointed to a press report about Colombian snipers in Misrata.Looking at the history of mercenary activity in Africa, Alex Vines, a researcher at the Chatham House think-tank in London, said: European mercenaries were a problem in the 1960s and then again in the 1990s after the Cold War ended. But it has become much more Africanised since then.He added: The definition of mercenary is also an issue. What you more often have is individuals who are involved in selling weapons and then providing a bit of advice and training before disappearing.A UN convention in 1989 defined a mercenary as any person who is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict; is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and ... is neither a national of a party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a party to the conflict ... [or] has not been sent by a state which is not a party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.The convention obliges participating countries to take criminal proceedings against nationals caught in such activity.Out of the 33 participants, just three EU states - Belgium, Cyprus and Italy - are on the list.

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.

Tornado, floods kill 7 in central US: officials
APR 26,11

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Severe storms that ripped through the central US left at least seven people dead in the state of Arkansas, officials said Tuesday, as flash flood warnings prompted mass evacuations in neighboring Missouri.Strong storm winds and torrential downpours have slammed a swath of central US states in recent weeks, leaving river levels precariously high.Authorities Tuesday had begun evacuating 1,000 people along the swollen Black River near the Missouri town of Poplar Bluff, home to some 17,000 people.The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flash flood warning for three counties in the southwest of the state.The levee along the Black River from Poplar Bluff... remains compromised in several locations,the NWS warned in an advisory.The river is near its crest... which is maximizing the potential of an eventual failure of the levee system.Flash flood warnings were also issued by the NWS in Arkansas, as a tornado that slammed the central town of Vilonia late Monday that has claimed the lives of four people, Arkansas Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Renee Presslar confirmed to AFP.Search and rescue crews were assessing the damage to the town ahead of fresh storms expected to reach the region later in the day.

Three other people were killed when their vehicles were swept from the road in severe flooding in the state's northwest, Presslar added.Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe declared a state of emergency for his state late Monday night in response to the severe storms and flooding that have impacted Arkansas,also warning that there is also a strong possibility of additional severe storms Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Police: Levee protecting Mo. town holds overnight
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press - APR 26,11

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. – A levee protecting a southeast Missouri town from major flooding held up overnight, although the swollen river pouring over in several spots is threatening to burst through the structure and has already forced the evacuation of about 1,000 area homes, a police official said.Poplar Bluff deputy police chief Jeff Rolland said early Tuesday that the Black River overran the levee in about 30 locations between Poplar Bluff and the nearby town of Qulin.How that hasn't broken through yet, it's a miracle,Rolland said.Tuesday brought the promise of more showers and thunderstorms to the area, where river swollen rivers are threatening towns in a vast swath of the nation's midsection.Crews rescued 59 people in 1 1/2 hours late Monday after water spilled over the dam and inundated a section of Poplar Bluff, a town of 17,000 residents that is 130 miles south of St. Louis.Some 1,000 homes have been evacuated in the area, but in the worst case scenario, a levee breach would force the evacuation of some 6,000 homes from Poplar Bluff to Qulin and destroy or severely damage 500 homes in Poplar bluff and its outskirts, Rolland said. Already, 23 small businesses in the area's flood plain have taken on water, he said.

The hotels in town filled up quickly, and 300 people took shelter at the Black River Coliseum, the 500-seat concert venue in town, Rolland said. No deaths or serious injuries have been reported.Families forced to flee their homes Monday watched as murky floodwater began creeping into their yards and homes. If the levee were to give way, many of those homes would be left uninhabitable. Sandbagging wasn't an option — the river, spurred on by 10 inches or more of rain since last week, simply rose too quickly.By the time we realized what was happening it was too dangerous to sandbag, Butler County Presiding Commissioner Ed Strenfel said.Severe storms that began early last week have hammered the nation's midsection without letup. Again Monday, powerful storms ravaged Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee and other states. Authorities said at least seven people were killed in Arkansas — three of them when floodwaters swept two vehicles off of roadways and four when a likely twister tore through the small town of Vilonia.The storm system was expected to move into Illinois and Wisconsin on Tuesday, said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist with the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. At the same time, a second storm system was expected to start along the same path, bringing several more days of rain, he said.

Governors in Arkansas and Kentucky declared states of emergency. In Kentucky, record flooding is expected over the next few days, partly because of a double-whammy — both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers significantly above flood stage. Several dozen residents were evacuated from the area of Cairo, Ill., where the rivers converge.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was considering the extraordinary step of intentionally breaching the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri, just downriver of the confluence, in a bid to reduce the amount of water moving down the Mississippi. The move would soak 130,000 acres of farmland, and Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon objected to the idea. A decision was expected Tuesday.Missouri was still cleaning up from tornado damage in the St. Louis area — 2,700 buildings, including Lambert Airport, were damaged in the Friday night twister — when spring flooding went from bad to far worse Monday.A dam in St. Francois County was in jeopardy of bursting, with a few dozen homes potentially in harm's way. Levees were stressed along the Mississippi River in Pike and Lincoln counties, north of St. Louis.But by far the biggest concern was Poplar Bluff. The Missouri National Guard sent 200 guardsmen and rescue equipment to the area. Several people had to be rescued by boat, including some who don't live in the flood plain, as heavy rain flooded several streets Monday night.

Police officers spent Monday going door-to-door in the southwest part of town, telling residents to get out. Not everyone did.Along one road near the levee, children played knee-deep in water. Adults gathered on the porches, seemingly enjoying nature's show. I'm not worried. This is my favorite time of the year,20-year-old Brandon Andrews said, pledging to ride out the flood in his trailer home, even as water lapped against its sides. He didn't have a boat and the water was already too high to drive through, but Andrews said he had been to the store and stocked up on hot dogs, chili and necessities.Police Chief Danny Whiteley was hoping the water would recede soon enough that flooding would mostly be limited to basements. He wasn't optimistic.I guess you'd call it a perfect storm: It's just all come together at once,Whiteley said.Pinky Mehta reported from Louisville, Ky., Kristi Eaton and Ken Miller in Oklahoma City, Jeannie Nuss in Little Rock, Nomaan Merchant in Vilonia, Ark., and Hasan Dudar in Indianapolis contributed to this report.

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.

Rebuilding Japan's disaster-hit towns may take a decade
By Shinichi Saoshiro - APR 26,11

TOKYO (Reuters) – The reconstruction of Japanese towns and cities devastated by a deadly earthquake and tsunami last month could take a decade, an advisory panel to the government tasked with coming up with a blueprint for rebuilding said on Tuesday.
The March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which left a large swathe of Japan's northeast in ruins, killed at least 13,000 people, forced about 130,000 into shelters and is estimated to have caused $300 billion worth of damage.The first three years would be needed for tasks like rebuilding roads and constructing temporary housing, said Jun Iio of Japan's Reconstruction Design Council, formed after the quake to advise the government's rebuilding efforts.Iio, a political science professor, told a news conference that another four years may be necessary to rebuild towns, and it could take even longer to achieve full recovery.We have to bear in mind that the area afflicted by the disaster is much larger than Kobe, Iio said, referring to the Japanese city ravaged by a powerful earthquake in 1995.

The council, comprising scholars, local governors, business executives and even a Buddhist priest, have also said the challenges of rebuilding after the March disaster have been made greater by a crisis at a tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant.Tens of thousands of residents around the Fukushima Daiichi plant have been ordered to evacuate after the tsunami knocked out the plant's cooling functions, leading to leaks in radiation in the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.The government's ratings are down as evacuees complain about the slow pace of temporary housing availability, while farmers and fishermen affected by radiation leaks from the Fukushima plant are clamoring for a compensation plan from the government and the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.Hundreds of farmers, wearing green scarves and accompanied by two cows, protested at the headquarters of Tokyo Electric on Tuesday, waving lettuces and cabbages into the air and shouting Pay compensation! and Give us back our homeland! Just from spinach, we've had a loss of 22 million yen ($268,800), said a farmer from Ibaraki prefecture, standing next to crates stuffed with spinach. The government has banned shipments of spinach from some areas of Ibaraki, south of Fukushima, after radiation checks.The government has said it would compensate farmers and fishermen affected by shipment restrictions, but it has not said by how much, while those whose goods have not been restricted are also demanding compensation after a plunge in sales.Around 100 anti-nuclear protesters later gathered separately in front of the Tokyo Electric office to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, carrying candles in paper cups written with No Nukes and We Love Fukushima.We don't need another Chernobyl and we don't need the Fukushima plant,said Ryota Souno, 29, a part-time worker, as protesters made speeches to the sound of drums and guitars.

BEYOND POLITICS

Members of the reconstruction council called for greater regional autonomy to deal more smoothly with rebuilding and also said the huge work ahead had to transcend political divisions in a country where a fragile political truce inspired by the disaster has collapsed.Reconstruction efforts go beyond political issues. We can invite opinion from opposition parties as well as the ruling party, said Makoto Iokibe, the council's head and president of Japan's National Defense Academy, told the news conference.Japan's cabinet last week approved almost $50 billion of initial spending for post-earthquake rebuilding but ruling and opposition parties are bickering over how to finance subsequent extra budgets.The next packages are likely to involve a mix of taxes as well as borrowing in the bond market, which could strain Japan's debt-laden economy. Opposition parties, who can block legislation in Japan's divided parliament, have shown little sign of cooperating with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, while lawmakers in Kan's own party are adding pressure on him to resign, although he is unlikely to step down any time soon.(Additional reporting by Chisa Fujioka, Chiaki Kawase; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)

Fed starts meeting, seen signaling no rush to exit
– APR 26,11

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve kicked off a two-day meeting on Tuesday that is expected to conclude with a signal that it is in no hurry to scale back its massive support for the economic recovery.The U.S. central bank, which began meeting at 10:30 a.m., is expected to use a post-meeting statement to confirm that it will complete its $600 billion bond-buying program by the end of June and renew its commitment to maintain rock-bottom borrowing costs for an extended period.The statement is expected at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday.Following the announcement, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold the first-ever regularly scheduled news conference by a Fed chief. The news conference, which starts at 2:15 p.m. (1815 GMT) and is expected to last about 45 minutes, will be broadcast live. Bernanke will open with a brief statement and then take questions.In another new development aimed at improving public understanding of the Fed's policies, policy-makers will issue their quarterly forecasts for growth, employment, and inflation as the news conference begins. Those forecasts were formerly released as part of the minutes of Fed meetings, which are published three weeks after policy meetings.(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Neil Stempleman)

Gasoline rises to $3.87 per gallon
By CHRIS KAHN, AP Energy Writer - APR 26,11

NEW YORK – Gas pump prices continue to climb, hitting $3.87 per gallon on Tuesday, though experts say the national average should fall eventually as Americans drive less.Retail gasoline prices have increased for 35 straight days, adding 32.2 cents per gallon since March 22. They're above $4 per gallon in California, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Alaska and Hawaii.Pump prices, which have followed oil higher this year, got another boost on Tuesday after three Texas refineries lost power. Authorities said they're still looking for the cause of the outage at the Valero, BP and Marathon Oil refineries in Texas City. A Dow Chemical plant also lost power.Gasoline futures increased 2 cents to $3.3003 per gallon in morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.Oil analyst Tom Kloza said the shutdowns may have halted 300,000 barrels of daily gasoline production. It'll take time to get those refineries back in order Kloza said. Refineries are finicky. It's not like turning the lights back on.Kloza thinks gas will start to fall eventually as more consumers drive less and demand falls. But the news will probably get worse before it gets better. He expects pump prices will soon hit a national average of $4 per gallon.MasterCard SpendingPulse has reported that motorists have cut back on gasoline purchases for seven straight weeks. Another SpendingPulse survey is expected Tuesday.

Meanwhile, benchmark crude for June delivery was little changed. It lost 16 cents at $112.12 per barrel on the Nymex.Investors are waiting to hear what the Federal Reserve will have to say about the nation's economy and interest rates. The Fed meets Tuesday and Wednesday. The expectation is that the central bank will keep interest rates where they are now, near zero.In other Nymex trading for May contracts, heating oil gained 2.23 cents at $3.2212 per gallon and natural gas lost 3.5 cents to $4.354 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude rose 24 cents to $123.90 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

WAYNE MADSEN OBAMA WANTS ME OFFED FOR TALKING ABOUT HIS CIA CONNECTION
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Trump: Obama wasn't qualified for Ivy League
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press - Mon Apr 25, 10:00 pm ET

NEW YORK – Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.Obama's 2008 campaign did not release his college transcripts, and in his best-selling memoir, Dreams From My Father,Obama indicated he hadn't always been an academic star. Trump told the AP that Obama's refusal to release his college grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about himself.I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard, Trump said. We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president.Katie Hogan, a spokeswoman for Obama's re-election campaign, declined to comment.

Trump, a wealthy businessman and reality TV host, has risen to the top of many polls in part by his outspoken call for Obama to release his long form birth certificate. The state of Hawaii has released a certificate of live birth indicating Obama was born there on August 4, 1961, but that has not quelled critics who believe Obama was born outside the United States and is therefore not qualified to be president.The so-called birther controversy has dominated the early stage of the 2012 GOP nominating contest, with Trump leading the charge.I have more people that are excited about the fact that I reinvigorated this whole issue,Trump said, adding the last guy (Obama) wants to run against is Donald Trump.Trump is scheduled to travel to the early primary states of New Hampshire and Nevada this week and said he will make a final decision about a presidential bid by June.

Also in the AP interview, Trump:

-Said Republicans had made a mistake by embracing a budget proposal crafted by Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan that included deep cuts in Medicare. The seniors are afraid. The plan Paul Ryan put forth has made the Democrats so happy,Trump said.
-Declined to disclose his net worth, saying he'll do so if he decides to run. You'll see what it is, possibly, very likely, in the next 4 weeks. I don't want to say because I don't want to ruin the press conference,he said.
-Expressed surprise that the 2008 GOP nominee, John McCain, had suggested Trump's effort was a publicity stunt. I congratulate him for getting the attention he's getting,McCain told NBC's Meet the Press Sunday.Trump said he had been a big supporter of McCain.I would find it hard to believe he would say anything bad because I raised a fantastic amount of money for him,Trump said.

Poll: What kind of president would Donald Trump make?
By Susan Page, USA APR 26,11

WASHINGTON — Republicans may be ready for a fling with Donald Trump, but a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows they have reservations about installing him in the White House.The real estate developer and reality TV star, who scores at the top in polls of the GOP field these days, falls to fourth when Republicans are asked to rate who among the contenders would be a good or great president in office.Fifty percent of Americans, including 31% of Republicans, say Trump would make a poor or terrible president.Trump is filling a huge void in the Republican Party right now, and he’s gathering a protest vote: protest against the way Washington works; protest with the establishment Republicans,says Scott Reed, manager for Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign.The jury is still out whether Trump can translate that into a real candidacy for president.His possible bid faces broad resistance: 63% of Americans, including 46% of Republicans, say they definitely will not vote for Trump for president. In comparison, 46% of Americans say they definitely will not vote for President Obama — significantly lower but itself a hurdle to winning the 2012 election.Though Trump initially got attention by expressing doubts whether Obama was born in the USA, that issue is not driving his support. Among those who say they definitely or might vote for Trump, only about a third question whether the president was born in the USA.Support from the birthers is stronger for Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. The issue has persisted even though Hawaii has released an official Certificate of Live Birth showing Obama was born there, a fact confirmed in non-partisan investigations by FactCheck.org and others.Still, in the USA TODAY poll, only 38% of Americans say Obama definitely was born in the USA, and 18% say he probably was. Fifteen percent say he probably was born in another country, and 9% say he definitely was born elsewhere.

USA TODAY/Gallup Poll
Views already are polarized about President Obama and some major Republican candidates for 2012.Source: USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 1,013 adults. April 20-23. Margin of error +/-4 percentage points. Republicans are inclined to say the president was born abroad by 43%-35%.For what it’s worth, not everyone is convinced Trump was born in the USA either: 43% say he definitely was born here, and 20% say he probably was; 7% say he definitely or probably was born in another country. Nearly three in 10 say they don’t know enough to say.The poll of 1,013 adults, taken Wednesday to Saturday, has a margin of error of +/–4 percentage points.

CERN plays down claims of Higgs particle discovery
APR 26,11

GENEVA – Officials at the world's biggest particle physics lab are playing down claims of a major discovery after a leaked internal memo sparked excitement among science enthusiasts that the elusive Higgs-boson God particle has been found.A spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says the observation by scientists working at the $10-billion Large Hadron Collider is probably nothing.The brief note published anonymously on a Columbia University physics blog last week claims unexpected measurements from high-energy particle collisions mark the first definitive observation of physics beyond the standard model.CERN spokesman James Gillies says such results show up frequently but can often be dismissed after further scrutiny.