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Second Sabotaged Ship Bows Out of Flotilla
by Gil Ronen JUNE 30,11

An Irish ship, the MV Saoirse, will not take part in the planned flotilla in support of the murderous and rapacious Hamas regime in Gaza. The ship has been sabotaged, according to one of its intended passengers.Speaking with the Irish Times last night from the Turkish port of Göcek, Fintan Lane of Irish Ship to Gaza organization said that the ship could not sail because it had been dangerously sabotaged.He said that the ship’s captain noticed that there was something wrong with it Monday. Divers subsequently found that a piece was missing from one of the propeller shafts.This was the type of sabotage that endangered human life, Lane told the Times.They put divers under the boat who cut a piece out of the propeller shaft. That means that the damage would have happened gradually and what would have happened eventually is that the propeller would have come up through the bottom of the boat, caused a flood in the engine room and would have caused the boat to sink.

Six of the 20-plus crew who had been due to set sail on the boat intend to join an Italian-based vessel instead. These include Lane, former Ireland rugby player Trevor Hogan, Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy, Libyan-born Irish citizen Hussein Hamed and Derry-based Sinn Féin councilor Gerry MacLochlainn.Lane said the damage to the ship was similar to that caused to the Swedish ship the Juliano, which flotilla organizers claim was sabotaged in the Greek port of Piraeus by hostile divers.There are eight other vessels that plan to sail to Gaza in the flotilla, which claims to be humanitarian in its outlook but which, in fact, supports the right of Hamas child-killers to import arms without Israeli interference.According to the organizers, the Italian ship Stefano Chiarim will carry the most passengers with 65 people; Canadian ship Tahrir will carry 48 passengers and an American vessel, which is currently detained in Greece, will carry 40 passengers.An additional five ships are expected to depart from Spain, France, Greece, Sweden and Norway. Organizers expect 292 participants and 36 members of the press.(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 THU JUNE 30,2011

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04:00 PM +152.77 12,414.19

S&P 500 1320.62 +13.21

NASDAQ 2773.52 +33.03

GOLD 1,502.70 -7.70

OIL 95.11 +0.34

TSE 300 13,300.90 +111.90

CDNX 1904.14 +11.75

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Dow +44 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +164 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,510.00.OIL opens at $94.90 today.

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

Asian stocks rise as Greece nears debt resolution
APBy PAMELA SAMPSON - AP Business Writer | AP – JUNE 30,11

BANGKOK (AP) — World markets moved higher Thursday as investors await Greece's final stamp of approval on a package of harsh austerity measures aimed at preventing the heavily indebted country from defaulting.Oil prices hovered above $94 a barrel while the dollar sank against the euro and the yen.European shares were higher in early trading. Britain's FTSE 100 was 0.7 percent higher at 5,896.51 and Germany's DAX rose 0.2 percent to 7,311.88. In Paris, the CAC-40 was up 0.4 percent at 3,938.93.
Wall Street was set for a higher opening, with Dow Jones industrial futures 0.2 percent higher at 12,239 and S&P 500 futures 0.2 percent up at 1,306.10.Asian markets closed higher, with Japan's Nikkei 225 rising 0.2 percent to close at 9,816.09. Electronics giant Sony Corp. jumped 3 percent and Mazda Motor Corp. added 1.9 percent.Hiroshima-based Mazda launched sales of its Demio, known as Mazda2 overseas, in Japan on Thursday, offering a version packed with Skyactiv technology. The Skyactiv Demio gets as much as 30 kilometers a liter (71 miles per gallon), according to Mazda.South Korea's Kospi rose 0.3 percent to 2,100.69 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was 1.5 percent higher to 22,398.10. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 1.7 percent to 4,608.00.

Banking shares in Asia followed their U.S. counterparts higher. Hong Kong-listed Agricultural Bank of China, the country's biggest rural lender, rose 2.3 percent. China Construction Bank Corp. gained 1.9 percent. National Australia Bank Ltd. was 1.8 percent higher and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. climbed 2.1 percent.
Greece's approval on Wednesday of austerity measures needed to avert default next month was a decisive step for the country to get the next batch of bailout loans from international creditors and was met with relief in markets. Another bill has to be passed Thursday for the government to secure the money.Investors are going to the market to pick up good bargains that have surfaced over the past few days of selling,said Lee Kok Joo, head of research at Phillip Securities in Singapore.Mainland Chinese shares rose as investors interpreted the upbeat news from overseas as cause for an improved outlook for the Chinese economy.The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.2 percent to 2,762.08. The Shenzhen Composite Index gained 1.4 percent to 1,155.89. Shares in coal, steel and insurance led the gains.Trading volume rose today and the rally could last a few days. I am bullish on the market in the short term, said Peng Yunliang, an analyst based in Shanghai.Shanxi Coal International Energy Group Co. gained 4.5 percent while China Life Insurance, China's biggest insurance company, gained 2.1 percent.Shares in Shenzhen were buoyed by the strong performance of BYD Co., a Chinese battery and auto maker whose shares gained 41 percent in their debut in the smaller mainland market Thursday.MidAmerican Energy, a subsidiary of billionaire investor's Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, holds a 9.9 percent stake in BYD.

On Wall Street, stocks closed higher for the third day in a row Wednesday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.6 percent to close at 12,261.42. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.8 percent to 1,307.41. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.4 percent, to 2,740.49.Financial companies in the S&P 500 rose 2.1 percent after Bank of America Corp. reached an $8.5 billion settlement with investors over claims it sold them bad loans. The investors said Bank of America violated agreements with them by selling them low-quality mortgage-backed securities that lost value when the housing market collapsed. Much of the losses stem from BofA's 2008 purchase of the troubled lender Countrywide.Bank stocks also got a lift from news that the Federal Reserve plans to limit the fees banks can charge retailers for swiping debit cards to 21 cents. That's higher than the 12 cents the Fed first proposed.Benchmark crude for August delivery was 32 cents lower at $94.45 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract settled at $94.77 per barrel on the Nymex on Wednesday.The euro rose to $1.4484 from $1.4428 late Wednesday. The dollar weakened to 80.40 yen from 80.91 yen.

Brussels seeks financial tax in new EU budget
ANDREW WILLIS Today JUNE 30,11 @ 09:24 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Future EU spending is set to increase, focusing marginally less on agriculture and more on research, education and transport, according to European Commission proposals for the next seven-year budgetary period (2014-2020).

The draft budget also includes controversial proposals for EU own resources, including a tax on financial transactions and an EU-wide value-added tax (VAT).
Presenting the document in Brussels late on Wednesday evening after an all-day negotiation with colleagues, European Commission President Jose President Jose Manuel Barroso hit out at early objections from member states.This is an extremely serious, credible proposal, and to say no to something which was only adopted two or three hours ago is not serious or credible,he told reporters.Shortly beforehand, a spokesman for the British government blasted the budget proposals as unrealistic after Britain, France and Germany last December called for a nominal freeze in future EU spending to match national austerity measures. Denmark and Sweden were also quick to criticise the plans.Under the commission blueprint, EU spending would rise to €971.52 billion over the seven-year period, with €1,025 billion pledged in commitments. This compares with €925.5 billion and €975.77 billion under the current period (2007-2013), although there is little change in terms of gross national income (GNI).Strongly defended by French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a recent trip to Brussels, the budget for the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) is set to remain largely the same, although its share of the multi-annual financial framework (MFF) would decrease from 39.4 percent to 36.2 percent.The current two-pillar structure of the CAP will be maintained, with €281.8 billion pencilled in for direct payments to EU farmers (pillar 1), and €89.9 billion for rural development projects (pillar 2). Critics say the policy is wasteful and prevents developing countries from exporting agricultural produce to the EU on a level playing field, while supporters say it helps maintains the high quality of European products and protects the social fabric of rural areas.

EU funding makes it less expensive than 27 national agricultural policies, said Barroso, stressing the added value of the EU budget in general. A further €376 billion would go to boosting underdeveloped areas under the commission plans, with co-financing requirements relaxed for countries receiving funding support such as Greece.The main winners under the draft plans are transport, energy and information technology projects, together with research and education. The European Neighbourhood Policy is also to be boosted in the wake of the Arab Spring, with the commission pledging to maintain overseas development ahead as the clock ticks towards a 2015 deadline for completion of the Millennium Development Goals.The proposal places funding for an international nuclear fusion project (ITER) outside the main financial framework. ITER was a programming headache, said EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski.It is an international commitment with explosive costs, so it should be a commitment of member states.

Own Resources

As well as changes to the expenditure side, the commission documents also include two options to increase EU 'own resources', controversial in some member states who fear it will curb their control over the EU institutions.Lewandowsk said a tax on European financial transactions could enable the EU to raise up to 40 percent of its own revenue by 2020. While Germany and France have backed the move, Britain fears it would cause an exodus of activity from the London's financial heartland unless implemented at a global level.But Barroso insisted that the EU should not wait any longer, arguing that a unilateral European initiative would increase the chances of agreement at G20 level. The fact that some banks continued to pay huge bonuses was simply out of line with reality and unfair for society, he said.A second option would see the creation of a EU-wide sales tax. The new VAT would be levied at a fixed percentage by governments and transferred directly to EU coffers. Current member state contributions based on VAT would be abolished.The commission also said that it wanted to simplify the rebate system through a new practice of annual lump-sum reductions for Germany, Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands.After a legendary battle with other member states, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher won an annual adjustment in 1984 to compensate for the fact that Britain paid more into EU coffers than it received. The cheque is currently worth over €3 billion a year.Wednesday's proposals are only the start of a lengthy negotiation between member states and the European Parliament over the future EU spending plan, with a final agreement expected at some point in 2012.MEPs have already insisted that they want a five percent increase in the long-term budget, with the incoming Polish EU presidency planning to hold a meeting between all parties late this autumn.

Commission unveils austerity package for EU officials
ANDREW RETTMAN Today JUNE 30,11 @ 09:24 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has proposed to get rid of 5 percent of EU officials and to make remaining staff work longer in a show of fraternal feeling with crisis-hit member states.The proposals come as part of Brussels' blueprint for the EU budget for the 2012 to 2020 period, out on Wednesday (29 June).
Commenting on the plan commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said: European institutions should ... show solidarity with European citizens, in an era where rigorous cost savings and maximum efficiency are demanded at all levels.The 5 percent cut would see around 2,500 fonctionnaires pensioned off or let go when their contracts expire over a five year period from 2013 onward.The other 47,500-or-so staff will be made to work at least 40 hours per week instead of the current 37.5 hours with no extra pay. Their retirement age will also go up from 63 to 65 years and the number of special holidays designed for officials to visit their home countries will go down from six days a year to two.Administration commissioner Maros Sefcovic said the measures will save an extra €1 billion. No-one will be dismissed or forced to retire,he added.The commission proposal is a launching pad for talks with member states which normally take over a year to reach agreement.EU officials expect capitals to push for a 10 percent or more reduction in EU staff. Some believe this would force the EU to close peripheral institutions, like the Committee of the Regions. But others say there is enough general flab to remove. We could get rid of 10 percent or even more without really affecting the way parliament works, a European Parliament contact said.

Press literature accompanying the budget proposal attacked myths about the EU, such as the notion that the EU costs too much.Salaries are paid to staff delivering and managing valuable EU policies that have a direct positive impact on citizens. Think of air traffic liberalisation, passenger rights or cheaper roaming charges, it said.
Senior EU civil servants can trouser over €16,000 a month while paying a nominal internal tax.But trade unions note that many junior staff earn just €1,400 or less and work on short-term contracts, with EU jobs becoming less appealing to top talent in member states.The commission on Wednesday said EU administration costs, including the cost of running and leasing EU buildings, will be €62.6 billion in 2011. Just over €10 billion will go on pensions for retired officials and €1.3 billion or so will pay for European schools, which educate children of EU staff.

Opposition leader stirs up trouble for Polish EU presidency ANDREW RETTMAN 29.06.2011 @ 18:24 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has depicted the Polish government as being grossly incompetent and dangerously close to Russia in its handling of the Smolensk tragedy.A parliamentary committee dominated by Kaczynski MPs will on Thursday (30 June) publish a first draft of its report into the 2010 plane crash which claimed the life of Jaroslaw's brother, Lech, the then Polish president, and 95 officials and family members.The report conclusions - seen by EUobserver - speak of gross negligence and even hint at Polish collusion in a Russian plot to put the plane in danger and then to cover up what really happened.

It ultimately blames Russia for not closing the Smolensk airport despite thick fog.
But it also says Polish PM Donald Tusk gave Lech Kaczynski a faulty plane which had been tinkered with by a Russian firm with links to the Kremlin. It notes that a Polish spy arranged the ill-fated trip, which had low-level security. And it accuses Tusk of letting Russia destroy evidence and then of lying about it to press and to parliament.The intensity [of the disinformation campaign] and all that was linked to its wide dissemination shows an element of some kind of preparation, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said at a press conference in Warsaw on Wednesday.The Kaczynski attack is aimed at scoring points in the Polish general election in October and comes at a sensitive moment for the Tusk administration.The Smolensk findings are being released one day before Poland takes over the rotating EU presidency on 1 July. The Kaczynski press conference had simultaneous English translation and was web-streamed to a room in the European Parliament in Brussels, where Kaczynski MEPs invited every reporter in town.Mateusz Kochanowski, a Kaczynski party spokesman in the EU assembly, told EUobserver the publication of the report had nothing to do with the presidency. Kaczynski himself on the day wished the presidency success and said Poles should stand together in the international arena.For their part, Polish officials say the report is part of normal democratic debate, which can in any country spill into international fora.The Smolensk assault is not an isolated incident and Warsaw is not as blase as it makes out, however.When Kaczynski MEPs last week invited Roman Catholic radio-evangelist Tadeusz Rydzyk, a political ally, to the EU parliament, the priest said that Tusk's Poland is becoming an uncivilised and totalitarian country.The Polish foreign ministry reacted by sending a note to the Vatican asking it to make sure, in the words of ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki, that they will prevent these kinds of statements in future.Speaking to the Polish parliament on Tuesday about the importance of the EU presidency to Poland in reputational terms, foreign minister Radek Sikorski said: We are fully aware that every one of our mistakes, whether of substance or organisation, will be painfully visible and could have more important consequences than in normal times, outside the presidency, both for the reputation of Poland and our position vis-a-vis our European partners.

EU holds on to IMF chairmanship
ANDREW WILLIS 29.06.2011 @ 09:19 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - French finance minister Christine Lagarde has been appointed as the new chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at a time of unprecedented economic turmoil in the eurozone.The Washington-based institution's 24-member board maintained a tradition begun after World War II by picking the European candidate over Mexican central bank governor Agustín Carstens. The appointment of a woman to run the IMF for the first time in its history is a novelty, however.The results are in: I am honoured and delighted, Lagarde said via twitter on Tuesday evening (28 June). She will start her five-year term next Tuesday, taking over from her compatriot, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned amid rape allegations.

The congratulations began pouring on Tuesday.

US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner praised Lagarde's exceptional talent and broad experience ... at a critical time for the global economy.European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said the 55-year-old French lawyer is an excellent choice.Mexico's Carstens won the support of Australia and Canada. With the eurozone and the Greek debt crisis set to dominate the IMF agenda for the foreseeable future, he had questioned whether Lagarde's appointment would amount to a conflict of interest.Emerging nations including Brazil and China, as well as Russia, threw their weight behind Lagarde following her diplomatic tour of the globe, however.Lagarde in her acceptance statement acknowledged concerns that the IMF has an overly euro-centric policy, a source of grumbling even before Strauss-Kahn's forced departure.I will make it my overriding goal that our institution continues to serve its entire membership, she said.In an interview with French television shortly afterwards, the minister focused on EU issues and called on the Greek opposition to support the government's austerity package during a parliamentary vote on Wednesday.

Reports suggest that recent weeks have seen growing disquiet inside the IMF over the its lending to Greece, as anti-austerity protests increase in the embattled European state.Despite a €110 billion EU-IMF aid package for Athens last year, the centre-left government is widely expected to ask for a second bail-out if it survives Wednesday's vote.Tackling the financial implications of the Arab Spring and simmering tensions over global exchange rates are also among the issues to tackle early into Lagarde's term.Faced with a daunting set of tasks, Lagarde indicated that she is keen to meet with the fallen Strauss-Kahn.I want to have a long talk with him, because a successor should talk with their predecessor,she told French television channel TF1.I can learn things from what he has to say about the IMF and its teams.

Nationalist Critics: Mayor Nir Barkat has Turned to the Left by David ben Yacov JUNE 30,11

The Chairman of the East Jerusalem Public Complaints Bureau, Aryeh King, affiliated with the National Union-National Religious Party, castigated the decision of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to appoint left-wing Meretz party council member Meir Margalit to handle the ultra-sensitive East Jerusalem file in the municipality.It has become clear that the Mayor is a dangerous left-wing supporter. This disproves any attempts to paint him orange [the color theme of the secular and religious activity against the Gush Katif expulsion, ed.] or associate him with the right-wing. Anyone who appoints a Meretz representative is not in the right-wing.King warns that Barkat may yet endanger the city. He is of the dangerous type, like Olmert and Sharon, like those who pose as innocent. Barkat has swerved to the left, and has therefore appointed a Meretz rep.According to King, Barkat acts on behalf of the Arabs in Jerusalem:Barkat will not sign East Jerusalem demolition orders against illegal construction. He refuses to allocate funds to bring tourists to the Mount of Olives. The Mayor cancels construction plans at the North Jerusalem Atarot industrial zone. The system is helmed in by the [now] left activist, Nir Barkat. He belongs to the Peace Now camp, and wants to divide the city with the Palestinians. It’s time we learn from getting constantly slapped in the face, and stop believing leaders who don a skullcap before elections and embrace rabbis.

Aryeh King has recently opposed the legalizationof 95% of some 200 illegal Arab structures in the East Jerusalem Silwan neighborhood. he has also opposed the construction of a commercial center on the Mount of Olives, in the heart of biblical Jerusalem, and the construction of a large mosque near the gravesite of the late PM Menachem Begin which has been suspended as a result.Municipal Council member, lawyer Yair Gabbai, and the Jerusalem municipality representative on the Planning and Zoning District Committee, calls upon the city’s religious Zionist voters to boycott Barkat after his decision:He has broken all of his pre-election promises. This appointment was to go to right-wing rep Yakir Segev, but Barkat signed a coalition deal with Meretz and intends to appoint Dr. Meir Margalit to the position instead.
Gabbai claims that Margalit belongs to the extreme left-wing:He leads the Committee against the Demolishing of Homes, an organization that supports a boycott of Israel, and rebuilds East Jerusalem court-order demolished homes. He will be in a position to approve or deny demolishing in East Jerusalem, and this is a severe conflict of interests. From now on, the municipality representative on any possible forum will be a Meretz man in favor of the division of the city. He has been defaming the State of Israel for years, and will now decide on East Jerusalem projects. The Mayor has made a left turn, and the public should relate to him accordingly.The Meretz left-wing party that Dr. Meir Margalit belongs to, supports a Palestinian state, the dismantling of most of the Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria, and the division of Jerusalem.The Mayor has defended the unity of Jerusalem in the past, especially with regard to the building freeze insisted upon by US President Obama. The Mayor’s office has not yet issued a response to the council members critique.(Israel NationalNews.com)

Beware of PA Leaders Bearing Gifts?
by David ben Yacov JUNE 30,11

A member of the Palestinian Authority recently placed a surprising order at a retail outlet of the Hatzorfim silver Judaica ornament factory, according to Arutz Sheva Hebrew site..He requested two prestigious gifts of silver and crystal, saying that one was chosen as a farewell gift to ex-ISA (Israel Security Agency) head Yuval Diskin, and one as a welcoming gift for the new ISA head Yoram Cohen, courtesy of PA Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas.The PA purchaser added dedications to the gifts, thanking Diskin for his cooperation, and looking forward to future cooperation with Cohen.The ISA told Arutz Sheva in response that Since the ISA does not divulge details of agency relations with foreign entities, we cannot relate to the issue.Relating to the gifts, the ISA said, The agency is acting in accordance with the Public Service Law on Gifts -1979.Cohen assumed the position of ISA head six weeks ago. He was assistant ISA head between 2005-2008, and is the first religious head of the ISA. He was born in 1960, and is married with 5 children. He has been a resident of Jerusalem since 1983, and was raised and educated in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Medrashiat Noam Yeshiva High school in Pardes Chana, and served in the IDF in the Golani brigade.Yuval Diskin, born 1956, began his career at the ISA in 1978. He was responsible for security coordination over a number of years, is deeply acquainted with the heads of the Palestinian security services, and has been responsible for an uncompromising war against terror and terrorist infrastructures throughout Judea and Samaria.During the worst years of terrorism, he headed the operational region responsible for destroying Hamas military infrastructure throughout Judea and Samaria. He was appointed head of the ISA in February 2005.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

GE and Partners Invest in Israeli Water Tech Company
by Elad Benari JUNE 30,11

An American company will help fund an Israeli company that uses microbial fuel cells to turn waste water into an energy source, Greenbang.com reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, Energy Technology Ventures, a joint venture of GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips, has decided to invest an undisclosed amount in the Israeli company Emefcy Ltd. This is Energy Technology Ventures’ first investment in a non-U.S.-based company and is also its first investment related to water.Emefcy was founded in early 2008 by serial water technology entrepreneurs Eytan Levy and Ronen Shechter. The company is marked as one of the most promising water technology start-up companies and has received technology leadership awards such as The Guardian’s Cleantech 100, Global Water Technologies top 10, Artemis Top 50 and more.

Emefcy’s technology uses the principle of a fuel cell to generate electricity directly from the water. Its electrogenic bioreactor features an anaerobic anode chamber connected to a cathode chamber by an ion exchange membrane, produces electricity as organic matter in waste water decays and drives a current through the fuel cell.This is different from other systems which use aerobic processes or anaerobic digestion to produce methane (natural gas) from the decomposition of organic material in waste water.The technology generates electricity and also produces treated water as a by-product. The result transforms waste water treatment from an energy-intensive, cost-intensive and carbon-intensive process, into an energy-generating and carbon-reducing process.Emefcy expects to apply its process initially for waste water treatment in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and chemical industries.We will use Energy Technology Ventures’ investment to continue development of our technology into full-scale commercial implementation by the end of this year for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, said Levy.Energy Technology Ventures is a company which focuses on the development of next-generation energy technologies. It invests in and offers commercial collaboration opportunities to companies in the renewable power generation, smart grid, energy efficiency, oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, emission controls, water and biofuels sectors. The three companies behind Energy Technology Ventures intend to help start-ups develop next-generation energy technology.General Electric recently announced that it would be building a research and development center in Israel, its eighth in the country.The new center, which will be built near its GE Healthcare subsidiary in Haifa, will focus on medical devices, water and CleanTech.GE previously has worked with Israeli companies such as the Better Place electric car initiative as well as with companies dealing with medical devices and CleanTech.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Tropical Storm Arlene makes landfall in Mexico
JUNE 30,11

MIAMI – Tropical Storm Arlene made landfall early Thursday on Mexico's central Gulf coast near Cabo Rojo with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph).Authorities in the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi prepared for possible flooding as rain began falling along the coast Wednesday. Officials warned residents about impending winds and rain.Officials said 6 inches (150 millimeters) of rain were possible in northern Veracruz state. Some isolated mountainous areas inland could get up to 15 inches (375 millimeters) of rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.Forecasters said extreme south Texas also could get rain.Arlene, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to weaken later Thursday and dissipate on Friday, the hurricane center said.Early Thursday, the storm was centered about 35 miles (55 kilometers) north of Tuxpan, Mexico, and moving west near 9 mph (15 kph).The main threat to Mexico comes from heavy rains that could cause flash floods and mudslides in 13 states, the government said.If heavy rains hit the state of Tamaulipas, they would fall on soil dried out by the most severe drought to hit the area in 50 years. There was still unrepaired damage from Hurricane Alex, which struck the area as a Category 2 hurricane last year.

First named Atlantic storm eyes Mexican coast
– Wed Jun 29, 6:59 pm ET

XALAPA, Mexico (AFP) – Mexico's Gulf coast was on high alert Wednesday as the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season took aim at a region still recovering from the worst floods on record last year.Tropical Storm Arlene was packing sustained winds of 60 miles (95 kilometers) per hour and heavy rains, and the Miami-based US National Hurricane Center forecast it would strengthen before making landfall early Thursday near the border of Tamaulipas and Veracruz states.The state of Veracruz is on red alert, the region's Civil Protection director Laura Gurza told a news conference.The northeast state of Tamaulipas was on a slightly less urgent orange alert.Gurza said however that forecasters were expecting Arlene not to strengthen to a hurricane, but instead make landfall as a tropical storm.State-run oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) had also issued an alert for its facilities on the Gulf of Mexico, ensuring that safety measures were implemented for its platforms and that all transport and delivery ships were secured.Arlene was some 150 miles (240 kilometers) east of the town of Tampico at 5:30 pm (2230 GMT) and churning westward at five miles (seven kilometers) per hour, the NHC said.

The storm was forecast to dump between four and eight inches (10-20 centimeters) of rain over Tamaulipas and Veracruz, with isolated maximum amounts of 15 inches (38 centimeters) over mountainous terrain.These rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, the NHC warned in a bulletin, adding that the coastline could be battered by large and destructive waves.The northeast coast from Barra de Nautla northward to Bahia Algones was under a storm warning, and tropical storm conditions were expected to hit the coast beginning later Wednesday.Mexico was lashed last year by what the government described as the wettest rainy season on record. Several tropical storms and hurricanes caused flooding and mudslides that left dozens of people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

Earthquake hits northwestern Japan, no tsunami warning issued – Wed Jun 29, 7:44 pm ET

TOKYO (Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit central Japan on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.The epicenter of the earthquake was in Nagano prefecture, the agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued.(Reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro; Editing by Chris Gallagher)

DISEASES

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

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti By JONATHAN M. KATZ - Associated Press,TRENTON DANIEL - Thu, Jun 30, 2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Evidence strongly suggests that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says.The study is the strongest argument yet that newly-arrived Nepalese peacekeepers at a base near the town of Mirebalais brought with them the cholera, which spread through the waterways of the Artibonite region and elsewhere in this impoverished Caribbean country.The disease has killed more than 5,500 people and sickened more than 363,000 others since it was discovered in October, according to the Haitian government.Our findings strongly suggest that contamination of the Artibonite (river) and 1 of its tributaries downstream from a military camp triggered the epidemic, said the report in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The article says there is an exact correlation in time and place between the arrival of a Nepalese battalion from an area of its South Asian homeland that was experiencing a cholera outbreak and the appearance of the first cases in the Meille river a few days later.The remoteness of the Meille river in central Haiti and the absence of other factors make it unlikely that the cholera strain could have come to Haiti in any other way, the report says.

In an email U.N. mission spokeswoman Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg didn't comment on the findings of the article published in the CDC journal, referring only to a study released in May by a U.N.-appointed panel.That panel's report found that the cholera outbreak was caused by a South Asian strain imported by human activity that contaminated the Meille river where the U.N. base of the Nepalese peacekeepers is located. The study also found that bad sanitation at the camp would've made contamination of the water system possible.But the U.N. report refrained from blaming any single group for the outbreak. While no other potential source of the bacteria itself was named, the report attributed the outbreak to a confluence of circumstances, including a lack of water infrastructure in Haiti and Haitians' dependence on the river system.The panel's report was ordered by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as anti-U.N. protests spread in Haiti and mounting circumstantial evidence pointed to the troops.Before that, for nearly two months after the outbreak last October, the United Nations, CDC and World Health Organization refused to investigate the origin of the cholera, saying that it was more important to treat patients than to try to figure out the source.The article published in the CDC journal comes as health workers in Haiti wrestle with a spike in the number of cholera cases brought on by several weeks of rainfall. The aid group Oxfam said earlier this month that its workers were treating more than 300 new cases a day, more than three times what they saw when the disease peaked in the fall.

Cholera is caused by a bacteria that produces severe diarrhea and is contracted by eating or drinking contaminated food or water.The disease has spread to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where more than 36 deaths have been reported since November.Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux, the lead author of the CDC journal article, was initially sent by the French government in late 2010 to investigate the origins of Haiti's outbreak. He authored a report for U.N. and Haitian officials that said the Nepalese peacekeepers likely caused the outbreak, a copy of which was obtained at the time by the AP.The latest study was more complete and its methodology was reviewed by a group of scientists.The new study argues it is important for scientists to determine the origin of cholera outbreaks and how they spread in order to eliminate accidentally imported disease.Moreover, the study says, figuring out the source of a cholera epidemic would help health workers better treat and prevent cholera by minimizing the distrust associated with the widespread suspicions of a cover-up of a deliberate importation of cholera.It also argues that demonstrating an imported origin would compel international organizations to reappraise their procedures.After cholera surfaced last fall, many Haitians believed the Nepalese peacekeepers were to blame, straining relations between the population and U.N. personnel and sparking angry protests. On the streets, cholera has become slang for something that must be banished from Haiti.The new study is acknowledged in a commentary by a pair of public health experts affiliated with the CDC.However it occurred, there is little doubt that the organism was introduced to Haiti by a traveler from abroad, and this fact raises important public health considerations, wrote Scott Dowell, director of the CDC's Division of Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response, and Christopher Braden, a medical epidemiologist with the CDC.Associated Press writer Trenton Daniel reported this story from Port-au-Prince and Jonathan M. Katz reported from Mexico City.Trenton Daniel can be followed at http://twitter.com/trentondaniel; Jonathan M. Katz can be followed at http://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth.

Kim cancelled Russia trip on security worry: report
Reuters By Guy Faulconbridge JUNE 30,11

Jun (Reuters) - MOSCOW, June 30 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il canceled a visit to Russia this week because of worries about security following media reports about the trip, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday.Russian authorities in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, 130 km (80 miles) from the North Korean border, had been making preparations for a possible visit by the secretive North Korean leader, a local official said this week.But the unannounced plans for a summit between Kim and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev were abandoned at the last minute and the Kremlin said on Wednesday that Medvedev had no meetings scheduled with Kim.Kommersant cited unidentified Kremlin sources as saying that Pyongyang had asked for a meeting but that Kim had canceled because the North Korean authorities were worried about security after media reports appeared about the trip.We were prepared for it (a meeting) because we use every opportunity for contact, a Kremlin source was quoted as saying.The media reports that a summit could take place played a significant part in the change of mind by the North Korean authorities,the source was quoted as saying.Russia is a member of the long-stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, though diplomats say Moscow has less influence with Kim than China.Kim has made no public visit to Russia since 2002, when he met with then-President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok. The North Korean leader has made several trips to China, Pyongyang's closest big power ally, in recent years.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Angus MacSwan)