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WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Arabs Riot in Jerusalem Over Bin Laden's Demise, Hamas Angry
by Hillel Fendel MAY 2,11

While most of the free world praised the United States for having rid it of arch-terrorist Bin Laden, the Hamas organization - which has recently all but merged with Fatah, headed by Mahmoud Abbas - condemned the act. Similarly, Arabs in the village of Silwan, adjacent to the City of David neighborhood in Jerusalem, rioted Monday night in protest over the elimination of Osama Bin Laden. The rioters threw stones at police and attempted to block roads.The Gaza-based website Al Qassam reports that Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the local Hamas chapter that runs Gaza, told reporters on Monday that Bin Laden was an Arab holy warrior.Meeting with journalists in his office in Gaza City, Haniyeh said, If this news [of Bin Laden's killing] is true, then this means that it is part of the American policy based on the oppression and bloodshed in the Muslim and Arab world.Haniyeh expressed his strong condemnation for the killing or assassination of Bin Laden, whom he referred to as Mujahed - someone in engaged in jihad, holy war against infidels. He said he was praying for mercy for Bin Laden.

Hamas reached a reconciliation agreement with Fatah last week, calling for the formation of a joint interim government in the coming days, and preparations for elections a year from now throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The agreement was hailed by most left-wing and anti-Israel organizations, but even President Shimon Peres, a strong supporter of a two-state solution and the Oslo process, said, Israel would like to see the Palestinian people become united for peace - [but] this is not an agreement, this is a split. Hamas is a recognized terrorist organization. According to this agreement Hamas doesn't have to change their charter that calls for the destruction of Israel, they can continue to shoot at us as they did when firing [last month] on a yellow school bus [and murdering a teenager]. Hamas is a branch of Iran - Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah want a union for war...IsraelNationalNews.com)

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Katz: The U.S. Should Choose Israel, Not Pakistan
by Elad Benari MAY 3,11

National Union Chairman MK Yaakov Ketzaleh Katz addressed the relations between the United States and Pakistan on Monday, following the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, which revealed that the arch terrorist had been hiding out in Pakistan and not in Afghanistan as had been believed for quite some time.Katz said that many people of the free world wonder why the U.S. supports, both economically and in terms of security, a radical Islamic state such as Pakistan, whose loyalty to terrorists such as bin Laden is greater than its interests in cooperating with the U.S.Osama bin Laden lived in a luxury neighborhood in Islamabad for five years while the residents of Pakistan helped him out, said Katz.He added that, in his opinion, new thinking by the Americans is required, in which it will support all its friends in the free world, and especially Israel which is a wedge to the radical Islamic terrorism which brings a lack of stability and bereavement to the world.Of course the United States must stop pressuring Israel and pushing it towards the Auschwitz borders [the term used by the late Foreign Minister Abba Eban to describe the so-called 1967 borders -.ed] and right into the hands of the enemies which surround it, added Katz.

Katz’s comments came after more details were revealed on the operation in which bin Laden was killed. Reports said that a U.S. helicopter landed on the roof of bin Laden’s mansion in Pakistan shortly after midnight Saturday, and Navy SEALs (Sea, Air and Land) burst out and surrounded the mansion’s walls, before bin Laden was taken out after a 40-minute firefight. He was shot in the head.Fox News quoted a source who said that bin Laden was given the opportunity to surrender, but other sources said the mission was to eliminate bin Laden and not take him alive.Katz’s comments on the U.S. and Pakistan came on the heels of comments he made earlier on Monday, when he said that Israel has the ability to destroy enemies like Iran and Syria in a second's time.In a session of a Knesset lobby dedicated to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Katz said the greatest revenge against the Germans, who desired to annihilate the Jewish people, is the Jewish nation’s fertility and natural growth.Katz said that Israel should show visiting dignitaries the pinnacles it has reached since the Holocaust and despite it.We must show them that we have the capability to destroy Iran within a second’s time, and Syria in a minute’s time, should they dare lift a hand to us, he said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

US, Iraq, Israel Deny Iran Report IAF Jets are in Iraq
by Gil Ronen MAY 3,11

Israeli jet fighters have been conducting drills at an American military base in Iraq, ahead of a strike against targets inside Iran, Iran's PressTV reported Monday.
Israel flatly denied the report, according to news agencies. So have the U.S. and Iraq.The PressTV report quoted sources close to Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's group as saying a considerable number of Israeli warplanes were seen at al-Assad base in Iraq.The aircraft reportedly included F-15, F-16, F-18 and F-22 jet fighters, as well as KC-10 air-to-air tanker aircraft.U.S. military spokesperson Dave Lapan dismissed the report as ridiculous, and an Iraqi official told reporters that there was no truth to the story, as we in Iraq can never accept launching any military attack against any of the neighboring countries, whether Iran or any other country, from Iraqi lands.The very mention of the F-18 and F-22 models casts doubts on the veracity of the report, since the IAF does not possess these models. Moreover, the American F-22 has yet to take part in U.S. combat sorties and its export is banned.

The warplanes carried out week-long exercises at night, the same source told the Iranian journalists.The drills were reportedly aimed at preparing to strike Iran's air defense systems, disrupt Iran's radar and attack targets deep inside Iran.Iraqi officials had not been notified of the exercises, which were conducted in collaboration with the US military,the agency claimed.(IsraelNationalNews.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 MAY 03,2011

09:30 AM -2.25
10:00 AM +4.84
10:30 AM +12.98
11:00 AM -8.02
11:30 AM +19.56
12:00 PM +21.76
12:30 PM +19.94
01:00 PM -0.52
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04:00 PM +0.15 12,807.51

S&P 500 1356.62 -4.60

NASDAQ 2841.62 -22.46

GOLD 1,538.80 -18.30

OIL 111.17 -2.35

TSE 300 13,692.40 -242.10

CDNX 2158.90 -48.50

S&P/TSX/60 783.09 -15.41

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -1- points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -52 points at low today.
Dow +34 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,544.80.OIL opens at $112.73 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -52 points at low today so far.
Dow +34 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -33 points at low today.
Dow +34 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)

EU super-watchdog warns economic crisis far from over
LEIGH PHILLIPS 02.05.2011 @ 18:53 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's economic super-watchdog has warned that many risks remain to the stability of the EU's financial system and that the global crisis will last for many more years to come.The two deputy chairs of the new European Systemic Risk Board - the bloc's new Frankfurt-based supervisor of supervisors tasked with oversight of the financial system within the Union - gave a frank assessment of the state of capitalism in Europe in their first hearing before the European Parliament's economics committee.There are still many risks to the recovery of the European economy, said Mervyn King, the ESRB's first vice-chair and head of the Bank of England.The economic challenges will last for many years ... The financial crisis is very far from over and the impact will be felt for many years to come.He and his fellow vice-chair, Andrea Enria, also the head of the European Banking Authority, said that the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis is not the only danger present.Enria warned that systemic risk still lies outside regulated areas and that financial innovation is happening so rapidly these days that even in the case of appropriate regulation, capital is already able to pick up stakes and move on to another, unregulated area.He said that the ESRB, which opened its doors in January, faced significant challenges both in data collection on systemic risk and on the credibility of that data.King meanwhile said that the board may have to argue for a limiting of credit growth or take on climbing asset prices, recommendations that may not be very popular amongst financial institutions when the going is good.

At times the ESRB will be doing things that are unpopular ... We will need your support,he told the lawmakers. We will need the help of parliament to take on financial institutions that sometimes have enormous lobbying power.He added that banks are capable of winning control of the regulation that is supposed to reign in excesses.Regulatory capture is one of the problems that any system faces in trying to manage financial institutions. The wealth and power they command means we should take regulatory capture very seriously, King said.King also warned against a rise in long-term interest rates given the groaning public and private debt levels in Europe.

The sheer volume of debt is still very large, he said.If the current climate of very low interest rates were to change, and interest rates were to rise, the economic challenges of high levels of indebtedness would become more severe.The pair also said that the results of stress tests on major EU banks are set to be released in June and that governments need to be ready to act immediately once the assessments are made public.Enria warned: Backstop measures need to be there prior to the publication of the stress tests.By the second half of June, governments must be ready to recapitalise banks, his colleague added. It would be most unfortunate if the stress tests were to appear, and there was a gap, King said.However, they also said that the banks' performance in the tests should not be seen as a pass-fail dichotomy, but that there was more a spectrum between being in the clear and having problematic balance-sheet holes revealed.Other forms of action than immediate recapitalisation could be taken in such circumstances, said Enria: The type of actions could be more varied than just raising core capital and raising it very fast.
A window of six months within which we would expect remedial actions to be taken.
Enria also said the ESRB is readying itself to take on the shadow banking sector, with technical work on the area soon to be under way.He described the sector - involving investment banks, hedge funds, money market funds and insurance firms, which are not subject to the same safety regulations as normal banks - as very difficult to bring into a unified framework,however, as the sector was quite diverse across jurisdictions.He said that he was very keen to get to work on shadow banking, which he described as an oxymoron: Everything that is banking should not be in the shadows. It is very much dealing with systemic risk.He went on to say that there were two possible responses to the problem: Bring everything generating risk under the regulatory umbrella or restrict those activities that encourage systemic risk.But it will require time,he added.

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-10 WORLD REGIONS) 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).

Barroso moots return of internal EU borders
ANDREW WILLIS 02.05.2011 @ 09:28 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The re-instatement of European border controls to tackle a wave of immigration from northern Africa is a possibility, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has suggested. Barroso's remarks in a letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday (1 May) come after a period of bickering between the two states, centered on the fate of some 25,000 Tunisian immigrants who have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa since January.The dispute has thrown the spotlight on a 1985 treaty abolishing border posts - known as the Schengen Agreement - which has grown over time to encompass 25 continental states, home to roughly 400 million people.The temporary restoration of borders is one of the possibilities, provided this is subject to specific and clearly defined criteria, that could be an element to strengthen the governance of the Schengen agreement,Barroso wrote.On Wednesday the commission will come forward with a policy document outlining a series of measures to ramp up the bloc's migration policy following a series of recent revolutions in northern Africa. A more strategic approach concerning relations with third countries, together with the completion of the EU's Common European Asylum System are among the measures expected to feature in the document.In his letter, Barroso also said the commission was in favour of strengthening the EU's joint border agency, Frontex.

Against a backdrop of rising far-right political parties across Europe however, proposals to alter the Schengen Agreement are arguably the most controversial, with the passport-free travel zone seen an a key achievement within the EU integration project.The move comes as another of the EU's landmark achievements - the creation of a single currency area - continues to be buffeted by financial markets.Under current rules, only a serious threat to public order or internal security can be used as a justification for a reinstatement of temporary border controls, with renewal of any extraordinary measures needed after 30 days.But an Italian-French summit in Rome on 27 April called for the re-imposition of borders more easily, after an earlier Italian call for EU member states to share the growing number of north African immigrants arriving on its shores was essentially rejected. Prior to the summit, a Franco-Italian spat saw Rome issue the Tunisian boat-people with temporary residence permits, a measure seen as helping them move out of Italy and further west into Europe.France hit back, rounding up thousands of migrants near the border and restricting train travel between the two states.The immigration issue is set to feature prominently on the agenda of a June European summit in Brussels, with Bulgaria and Romania's push to join the Schengen Agreement adding further spice to the mix.Europe's future migration policy must avoid being overly security orientated, which could appear to reject the values on which the European project is based, warned Barroso in the letter.But Europe must also avoid an overly lax management of its inward migration which could spark greater public concerns, added the commission chief.

EU cheers reported killing of Osama bin Laden
VALENTINA POP 02.05.2011 @ 09:25 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A US-ordered strike in Pakistan which reportedly killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has been met with relief and talk of a safer world by EU leaders, despite the bloc's official stance against targeted assassinations. The news that Osama bin Laden is dead will bring great relief to people across the world,said British Prime Minister David Cameron in a statement.Cameron was the first among EU leaders to react to the announcement made on Sunday night (1 May) by US President Barack Obama that he had ordered the operation which killed the top terrorist. A spokesperson for Chancellor Angela Merkel later said the German leader had communicated her relief at the news to the US president.Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt tweeted: A world without Osama Bin Laden is a better world. His hatred was a threat to us all.EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and EU commission chief in a joint statement said: Osama Bin Laden was a criminal responsible for heinous terrorist attacks that cost the lives of thousands of innocent people. His death makes the world a safer place.They also spoke of solidarity with our friends in the Muslim world in combating the scourge of global extremism.The news comes almost 10 years after the 9/11 attacks orchestrated by Bin Laden which killed thousands in New York and Washington.For his art, the EU's ambassador to Afghanistan, Vygaudas Usackas, welcomed the news that Bin Laden has been finally hunted down in the city of Abottabad, some 80 kilometres northeast of Islamabad.

It could be a gamechanger in boosting the morale and confidence of the US and international community that the efforts and sacrifices of almost the past 10 years of involvement in Afghanistan and in the region are not in vain.The killing, according to Usackas will inject the regional players with confidence to move forward with greater cooperation and steps in support of peace and reconciliation.The head of the EU parliament, Jerzy Buzek, chose similar words.We have woken up in a more secure world. Although the fight of the international community against terrorists is not over, an important step has been made in the fight against al Qaeda, to give security to millions of people: Christians, Muslims, all those who believe in peaceful coexistence,he said. But not all members of the EU parliament met the news with similar enthusiasm.Finnish Green MEP Heidi Hautala, chairwoman of the human rights committee in the EU legislature, told this website that it would have been much better if he was brought to justice alive.I am sure the discussion will continue, including in the European Parliament, as to why it was needed for him to be killed. The aim should have been not to wage a war against al Qaeda and countries suspected of giving them protection, but to make terrorism an issue of international criminal justice.

[Comment] Trade off or trade on for the Palestinians?
BERND NILLES 15.04.2011 @ 18:53 CET

EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - On the fringes of a meeting with key donors to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) on Wednesday (13 April), EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced a trade agreement between the EU and the Palestinian Authority.This agreement will give agricultural and fish products from the West Bank and Gaza Strip immediate duty free access to the EU market. This facilitation of Palestinian trade aims at supporting the EU-aided process of building a viable Palestinian state to live alongside Israel in peace and security.The question, however, is how far this agreement can contribute to Palestinian development as long as exports from Gaza and the West Bank continue to be hampered by Israeli restrictions.Members of the international alliance of Catholic development agencies, CIDSE, support both Israeli and Palestinian partners on the ground. They observe that essential elements of the illegal blockade of Gaza (i.e. general bans on export, import of construction materials, and entry and exit of persons), are still in place.The export ban in particular is undermining the revival of industries and employment and keeping many Gazans dependent on aid. Despite Israel's promises in December 2010 to allow more exports from Gaza, products exiting Gaza in the last weeks of March represented less than a mere 2 percent of pre-blockade export levels.

The situation has been worsened by last month's permanent closure of Karni, Gaza's main commercial crossing with a capacity of 1,000 trucks per day, in contrast to Israel's earlier commitment to open further crossings. This leaves Kerem Shalom crossing, with a current capacity of no more than 250 truckloads a day, as the only permanent access point.Although less severe than in Gaza, movement and access restrictions in the West Bank also impede Palestinians' access to markets, both internal and external. Despite some improvement, the UN's humanitarian agency OCHA reports that there are still 516 permanent checkpoints and obstacles to movement in the West Bank, as well as hundreds of ad hoc flying checkpoints.These hinder movement between rural areas and Palestinian towns, which are already fragmented by illegal Israeli settlements and their transport and security infrastructure. This is a serious obstacle for Palestinian farmers trying to access their lands or transport their products to be exported. Access to the Jordan Valley, East Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank beyond the Wall also remains particularly difficult.The EU has taken a significant step for development in the oPt by removing barriers to Palestinian trade. However, Palestinian products will have difficulty reaching our shores in the first place, unless the EU can convince Israel to do the same, in accordance with international humanitarian law.The Palestinians cannot build their future until their economy is truly unlocked.Bernd Nilles is Secretary General of CIDSE, an international alliance of Catholic development agencies.Hautala also said Washington should use the moment to close its detention centre in Cuba where many terrorist suspects have been held for years without trial.

It is not surprising. Perhaps it is also a moment for the US now after they have achieved this to put their own detention policies up to date with international standards and close Guantanamo once and for all, after it caused so much justified anger against the western world,she said.Meanwhile, Usackas also warned that:the fight against international terrorism is not over. The root causes of international terrorism will need to be addressed and it will require resolve and staying power by the US, European Union and broader International Community.With the US and UK quickly issuing an alert for all American and British citizens travelling abroad to be on their guard for possible revenge attacks, the news could also spell added danger to four French citizens currently being held by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

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.

Amid mourning, search extends for US storm victims
by Juan Castro Olivera - MAY 2,11

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (AFP) – Search and rescue teams combed through the rubble of destruction from a wave of deadly tornadoes, looking for more victims in a disaster that has already claimed nearly 350 lives in the US south.The grim search continued with more than 400 people unaccounted for following last week's devastation around Tuscaloosa, raising fears that the death toll could mount.Firefighters aided by sniffer dogs sifted through the wreckage of homes, buildings and looked under fallen trees in an area some two kilometers (1.2 miles) wide where a tornado swept through.

We are tracking the whole area. We went from one sector to another with a group of 20 people and 10 dogs, said Stuart Samples of Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue, which has been working with local authorities.Police have been restricting travel around the towns of Holt and Alberta, on the outskirts of Tuscaloosa, as the search for victims and possible survivors is carried out.One team member told AFP that no storm victims were located on Sunday.Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox said the high number of missing may simply be a question of communications being disrupted.My hope and prayer is that the number of missing, which seems so large and incredible, is that all of these are just those that haven't been able to connect with each other,he said, but added that my sense is that we will have more fatalities.Alabama was worst hit, with 250 people killed and 2,219 injured.Mississippi has confirmed 35 deaths, and its emergency management agency touched on the scope of the disaster in reporting 993 homes destroyed and another 2,527 damaged in the state.There were also 34 deaths in Tennessee, 15 in Georgia, eight in Arkansas and five in Virginia.The overall death toll of 347 is exceeded only by a tornado outbreak in March 1925 that left 747 people dead.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it estimated there were 312 tornadoes during the Tuesday-Thursday period.

In the local area around Tuscaloosa, some 5,000 properties have been damaged or destroyed, affecting an estimated 13,000 people.In one area dotted by trailer homes and wood-and-metal structures on stilts, most of the structures were razed, with the tornado sending heavy appliances like refrigerators and washing machines flying in various directions.Here is my stepfather's car, resident Justin Boothe said, pointing to the wreckage of a vehicle dragged 30 meters (100 feet) and crushed under a tree.Jerry Johnson left his home before the tornado hit and could not believe what he saw on his return. His house and everything that was inside blew up the street.
The corner gas station and general store called Lucky Dollar also disappeared. One hour after the tornado I came here and I asked the police: Where's the Lucky Dollar? And he told me, You are standing on the property.Daphne Hart, spokeswoman at the American Red Cross, said relief efforts may be protracted.This operation will take time, she told AFP.The devastation is immense.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pledged the federal government would continue to support the stricken states, helping them come to grips and recover from this really terrible swath of tornadoes that swept through the south.That makes the sense of urgency for us even more acute when we see the type of damage we are seeing here today and the spirit of the people, she told reporters in Smithville, Mississippi, on Sunday. The American Red Cross has opened 16 shelters across Alabama, taking in about 900 of the newly homeless, the organization announced.More unstable weather, meanwhile, was threatening the region.The forecasting service Accuweather said the potential exists for an additional three to five inches of rain in the corridor from northeastern Texas to the Ohio Valley through Tuesday, which could lead to flooding.

U.S. will blow up levee to save Illinois town
By Mary Wisniewski – Mon May 2, 7:48 pm ET

BIRDS POINT, Mo (Reuters) – The government said on Monday it will proceed to blow up a levee on the Mississippi River to relieve flood pressure on other levees along the critical commercial navigation route and save the historic town of Cairo, Illinois.

Carlin Bennett, a commissioner in the rural Missouri county that will bear the brunt of the flooding, estimated the operation will cause $1 billion in property damage. It's going to be like a mini tsunami through here,he said.We can't really imagine it right now.The actual detonation of the protective embankment at Birds Point-New Madrid in Missouri will come between 9 p.m. and midnight local time, the Army Corps of Engineers said.Major General Michael Walsh, the army officer in charge of the operation, said he would have preferred to breach the levee in the daylight on Tuesday with the water rising, the agency could no longer wait.The system is under tremendous stress, Walsh said.This is the right time to operate.By blowing up the levee, the Corps hopes to increase the Mississippi's ability to accommodate the rising waters of the Ohio River, sparing Cairo and other towns.Both rivers have been rising as a result of days of rain and the melt and runoff of heavy winter snowstorms.But the move will flood more than 100,000 acres of farmland in southeast Missouri and that state's attorney general tried unsuccessfully to get several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, to block the move.Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon warned on Monday that the action would unleash a tremendous amount of water and local residents should cooperate with law enforcement officials.

The Corps moved explosives to the levee at Birds Point-New Madrid overnight and officials said the process of detonation would take about three hours.Cairo, an historic town of 2,800 people located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, was largely empty after a mandatory evacuation as the Ohio, swollen by overnight rains, continued to rise to dangerously high record levels.As of 5 p.m., the gauge on the Ohio River at Cairo showed the waters at 61.4 feet and the forecast was that they would crest at 61.5 feet -- 21.5 feet over flood stage and their highest level since 1937.The Corps, the primary flood-fighting agency in the region, had said it would detonate explosives in the levee if the river at Cairo reached 61 feet and was rising.Late Sunday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the plan, saying the Corps had the right to breach the levee, as permitted by a 1928 federal flood control law.I don't have to like it, Walsh said.But we must use everything we have in our possession to prevent a more catastrophic event.Deborah Byrne, a minister in Charleston, Missouri who owns 550 acres of the farmland that will be flooded as a result of the intentional breach, worried it would take years for the county to recover from the controversial operation.It's not just 130,000 acres and rich landowners. There are many families connected with these farms. This land has come down through many generations.Cairo, located at the southern tip of Illinois between two states, Missouri and Kentucky, that permitted slavery prior to abolition, was an important destination for runaway slaves during the Civil War. Its population is more than 60 percent African-American and a third of its residents have incomes below the poverty level.(Additional reporting by Miriam Moynihan; writing by James B. Kelleher)

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.

Fighting rages in Libya's Western Mountains
By Lin Noueihed - MAY 2,11

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi stepped up their onslaught on rebel areas of Libya's Western Mountains late on Monday, rebels said, and refugees said towns in the isolated region were on the brink of starvation.At least 10 Grad rockets landed on the town of Zintan, rebel spokesman Abdulrahman told Reuters by telephone.They were fired by Gaddafi forces positioned north of Zintan,he said.
Berber towns in the Western Mountains, close to the border with Tunisia, have been pounded by government forces after joining the rebellion that erupted two months ago.

If I had stayed there my two little daughters would have been among the dead,Fatma Douri, 35, who has fled the besieged town of Yafran, said in a refugee camp in the Tunisian border town of Dehiba.The siege of the town absolutely has to be lifted, otherwise thousands of children are going to be among the dead in the next few weeks.
Like anti-Gaddafi groups in other parts of Libya, rebels in the Western Mountains want more help from Western warplanes. Asked if NATO air strikes on pro-Gaddafi forces around Zintan had been effective, Abdulrahman said:No. They are better than no strikes at all but they could do much better. The targets are clear. If rebel fighters can see them, surely NATO aircraft are able to spot and destroy them.

MINES BLOCK PORT

Further east, a rebel spokesman in the besieged coastal city of Misrata said fighting took place on Monday near the city's airport, which remains under the control of Gaddafi forces.NATO minesweepers searched the approaches of Misrata harbor on Monday for a drifting mine blocking aid supplies.A NATO statement said the alliance had destroyed two of three mines laid by government forces. It said the mines were small and hard to detect but capable of doing serious damage.The International Organization for Migration said an aid ship was still waiting off Misrata for bombing to stop and mines to be cleared before it tried to deliver supplies and evacuate some 1,000 foreigners and wounded Libyans.The rebel interim National Council's senior spokesman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga urged NATO to step up air strikes on Gaddafi forces near Misrata, saying they were trying to destroy the port.

We would like to see heavier and more intensive bombardment of Gaddafi forces, particularly now that they're building up forces in areas 50 or 60 km outside Misrata,he said.They're building up forces in preparation for attack.A Misrata resident and rebel sympathizer named Ghassan told Reuters hospital records showed 110 civilians and rebels had been killed in the besieged city since April 24, and more than 350 wounded.Crowds chanting support for Gaddafi gathered in Tripoli on Monday for the funeral of his 29-year-old son Saif al-Arab. The government says a NATO air raid on Saturday killed him and three of Gaddafi's young grandchildren.The announcement of the deaths triggered attacks by angry crowds on the British and French embassies and the U.S. diplomatic mission in Tripoli, and accusations from the Libyan officials that NATO had been trying to assassinate Gaddafi.About 2,000 people carrying flags and pictures of Gaddafi turned out for the funeral. They pumped their fists in the air and vowed to avenge the death of Saif al-Arab. We are all with Gaddafi's Libya,read one placard.The coffin, covered in flowers and wrapped in the green flag that has represented Libya since Gaddafi took power in a 1969 coup, was carried through crowds to the grave at Hani cemetery.Gaddafi did not appear to be at the funeral but Saif al-Islam, the most prominent of his seven sons, attended along with his elder half-brother Mohammed.

MILITARY PACE INCREASING

Despite denials from Western leaders that the air raid was an assassination attempt, it has renewed debate on whether the strikes are exceeding a UN mandate to protect civilians.British Foreign Secretary William Hague said NATO would intensify military operations in Libya.Time is not on the side of the Gaddafi regime,he said during a visit to Cairo.The policy is to continue to increase pressure on the Gaddafi regime -- diplomatic, economic and military pressure. We have increased the pace of the military operations under U.N. resolution 1973 and will go on doing so.Switzerland said it had found 360 million Swiss francs ($415 million) of potentially illegal assets linked to Gaddafi and his circle. Some 410 million had been traced to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and 60 million to former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.(Additional reporting by Tarek Amara and Abdelaziz Boumzar in Dehiba, Deepa Babington and Michael Georgy in Benghazi, Maher Nazeh and Larbi Louafi in Tripoli, Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, Mariam Karouny in Beirut and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; writing by Andrew Roche; editing by Tim Pearce)

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

FAMINE

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: 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.


Global poverty at mercy of corn harvest
Bill Gunyon, oneworld Guides – Mon May 2, 6:05 am ET

May 2 (OneWorld.net) - If we have any kind of weather problem in the northern hemisphere, we don't have enough corn. This was the alarming verdict of Alberto Weisser, chief executive of Bunge, during last Thursday's presentation of first quarter results for the US agribusiness and food multinational. Whilst the motive of questions posed by financial analysts on the Bunge conference call was related to profit forecasts, low corn stocks have also been a concern amongst agencies monitoring global food security.We do need good weather, repeated Weisser, without mentioning that the northern hemisphere already has a weather problem. Parts of Europe are experiencing unusually high temperatures and shortage of rain. The UK Met Office has warned that both March and April could be the driest for 50 years. This may be too early to affect the corn crop cycle but does not augur well for a stable summer season.More commonly known as maize in the southern hemisphere, corn influences the price of other grains and food commodities traded on world markets. Its cost and availability impact the volume of food aid that major humanitarian donors are able to source from the US and elsewhere.

Other developments shortly before and after the Bunge press conference illustrate the stark contrast between the ability of rich and poor regions of the world to cope with rising food prices.Newly published US consumer spending figures for March brushed aside the implications of food costs. The average American family spends less than 10% of household income on food.The price of gasoline has instead been the center of public concern. This explains why 40% of the 2011 US corn harvest is expected to be converted into ethanol, despite the stressful repercussions for global food stocks.A very different consumer spending analysis has been released by the Asian Development Bank in advance of its annual meeting which starts tomorrow.

Drawing data from 25 developing countries in the region, the Bank concludes that food inflation of just 10% is enough to push 64.4 million people below the international poverty line. Poor households allocate more than 60% of their consumption to food, explained ADB Chief Economist Changyong Rhee.Annual food inflation to early 2011 is such that the estimated increase in the number of poor due to a 10% increase in domestic food prices may have already occurred,warns the report. The Bank also points out that prices are rising further.Asia accounts for two thirds of world poverty. Africa is the location for the remaining third and is even more vulnerable to price inflation.The implication of the ADB analysis is that global poverty has increased by over 100 million due to the spike in food prices over the last year.Evidence for the added sensitivity in Africa is seen in the simmering risk of public unrest in several countries. What started earlier this month in Uganda as a peaceful walk-to-work protest over rising food prices has provoked a heavy-handed response by President Musoveni's security forces.

Responsibility for monitoring the world's supply and demand for food lies with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The timing of the current crisis is awkward for the FAO due to the forthcoming retirement of its long-serving Director-General, Jacques Diouf.The selection process for his replacement, due to be chosen in July, has now moved a step forward. Six shortlisted candidates have released 4-page statements to promote their credentials.All the candidates are men, not one of them from Africa or South Asia where hunger and malnutrition are most acute. Only the candidate from Iraq included any specific reference to the human right to food in the context of his plans.Another multilateral body with the power to energize global food supplies is the World Trade Organization. Its Doha Development Agenda was devised as a new trade round which would assist poor countries in expanding exports of agricultural products.The process has been moribund for some years. On Friday a fresh attempt at resuscitation expired with WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy lamenting a loss of interest by political leaders in many quarters.Constructive proposals for global food security last week were therefore left to the leading humanitarian agency, Oxfam International, which has released a research report with the pertinent title: Who will feed the world? The report grapples with the apparently irreconcilable differences between 500 million tiny family farms across the developing world and industrial agribusiness, hungry for new markets and land.

The two can co-exist, says Oxfam, by making large investments pro-poor.This requires stringent legal and political safeguards for the rights of poor farmers. However, the report stops short of clarifying how such conditions might be achieved in countries of weak institutional capacity.For now it seems that the only winners from the food crisis are the agribusiness giants such as Bunge, whose profit for three months totalled $232 million. It’s probably our best first quarter ever in agribusiness,said Bunge chief executive Alberto Weisser.

Greece gets tough on tax; appoints terror judge By DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press – Mon May 2, 9:48 am ET

ATHENS, Greece – Greece's cash-strapped government promised Monday to raise an additional euro11.8 billion ($17.5 billion) by the end of 2013 via a crackdown on tax evasion, and indicated it could seek a second extension of its bailout loan repayment.Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou outlined the tax crackdown, which includes the appointment of a former terrorism prosecutor to the effort, a year after Greece was rescued from the brink of bankruptcy by a euro110 billion ($164 billion) bailout package from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.He also suggested Athens would welcome a second extension in the repayment schedule for the loan.I expressed the hope that we could have an even better arrangement regarding the repayment of the euro110 billion, Papaconstantinou said of comments he made in an interview to French newspaper Liberation.In the interview published Monday, the minister said Athens favored that the repayment timetable be pushed back again and that the interest rate be lowered even more.....That way, we could deal with our other deadlines.Greece has already had the repayment time for the bailout loans extended from three to 7 1/2 years and the average interest rate cut by one percentage point to around 4 percent, but with the economy still contracting, the debt burden remains so hefty many observers think the country would be better off looking at ways of how it can cut the overall amount it actually owes.

In the meantime, Greece is trying to raise as much money as it can and its new measures were announced in the week that EU and IMF debt inspectors are due in Athens. They have warned that Greece needs to improve its tax system to end a weak run in state revenues that is threatening the country's fiscal rescue program.
Speaking in a news conference in Athens, Papaconstantinou said Greece was in talks with Swiss authorities to monitor Greek deposits. The deal, he said, would resemble a recent agreement between Britain and Switzerland that allows Britons with Swiss bank accounts to send taxes home while maintaining their privacy.Other measures include creating a speedboat division of fraud inspectors, and appointing a former senior prosecutor who handled terrorism cases to assist with the tax collection effort. Retired prosecutor Yiannis Diotis headed the case against Greece's deadly far-left terror group November 17, that led to the conviction of 15 suspected members in 2003.Tax evasion is a crime against the country, Papaconstantinou said, noting that the measures include tougher penalties for bribing tax officials, a radical reorganization of the tax-office structure, and increased use of online tax services.This is the first time ever that such a systematic effort has been undertaken, the minister said.The country's black economy is worth about one-third of the country's gross domestic product according to estimates by the Greek financial research groups, the EU and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.With the country's debt running at 142.8 percent of GDP last year, or euro328 billion ($487 billion), many analysts and politicians in Europe have said Greece will inevitably have to restructure its debt at some point — a restructuring could involve cutting the total amount of money Greece owes or giving it a lot more time to repay.But the government — and the European Union — are adamant that is not on the cards.Debt restructuring for Greece is not part of our strategy and will not be,the EU's top economic affairs official Olli Rehn said in Brussels Monday.Rehn said proponents of restructuring appear to be unaware of the risks to overall financial stability such a move would entail.European officials have warned that a restructuring of Greece's debt could lead to panic on financial markets similar to the turbulence following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, dragging down banks and other struggling eurozone countries.Papaconstantinou reiterated one more time that the country was not seeking a restructure.We have said repeatedly, and we continue to say: There will be no restructuring of the Greek debt,he said. Elena Becatoros in Athens, Gabriele Steinhauser in Brussels and Jamey Keaten in Paris contributed.