THE PATHETIC DEFENCE RESTED YESTERDAY IN THE CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL.A BRIEF REBUTTLE TODAY AND BY TOMORROW THE JURY SHOULD BE DECIDING CASEY ANTHONYS FATE FOR THE ALLEDGED MURDER OF POOR LITTLE CAYLEE MARIE ANTHONY WHO WAS THROWN IN THE WOODS 15 HOUSES FROM THE ANTHONYS.
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WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html (WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS)
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
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.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
About The Ongoing Iranian Missile Tests…
June 30, 2011 By Sean Osborne
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30 June 2010: For quite a few years now I’ve watched and kept track of OSINT reports regarding Iran’s development-in-depth of numerous ballistic missile systems. Just for reference sake you can read them HERE, HERE and HERE.My assessment has always held that there is only one purpose for such development – placing a nuclear warhead onto a distant target. Recently the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) told us point blank what has always been assumed, that being the Iranian warhead’s targets are American military bases and Israeli cities. The difference between my earlier assessments on Iranian nuclear missile capabilities then and now is that now iran can launch these missiles from hardened siloes with little or no warning. Within a day of the IRGC announcement British Foreign Secretary William Hague publicly confirmed the secret nature of the testing as well as the testing in the ongoing Great Prophet Six exercises the IRGC is executing.
Have you heard or read anything of a similar nature coming from Foreign Secretary Hague’s American counterpart, SECSTATE Hillary Clinton? How about a word from her boss in the White House? That’s right, you’ve gotten exactly zero, zip, nada from them about this. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a single American corporate news article on this subject or Foreign Secretary Hague’s accusations. Instead the White House and the U.S. State Department have been downplaying the accelerating Iranian regime’s progress in the field of precipitating a non-existent al-Mahdi-hastening Armageddon scenario. Yet at her SECSTATE swearing in ceremony Hillary Clinton was keen to lecture those in attendance how we’re going to have to be smarter about how we do what we must for our country.As for Barry Soetoro, his most recent State of the Union address did not have so much as a single mention of the Iranian threat. Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea all merited a mention, but not Iran. My best guess is that he doesn’t see the Iranian threat as a problem in need of fixing. Well, so much for Barry’s defeating determined enemies wherever they are comment in that address. I guess Iran is one very real threat that Barry has missed altogether. Would somebody please bring his morning briefer up to speed. Thanks in advance.
Israel and the west in the cross hairs
Posted on June 29, 2011 by Laurie Roth
While we find ourselves stuck in the election Disneyland primary rides, some folks are screaming, some are fainting with fear, many are puking and others watch from the sides. We have only just begun the election madness on all sides and see the theatre of the absurd while other critical things unfold before our distracted eyes.While Obama promises the world and emases more money from known and mystery donors, it is easy not to notice endless elephants running through the living room destroying everything in site. While the Middle East continues to melt down and leadership gets challenged by internal and more radically funded and organized groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran flexes its muscle and flips off the West and Israel.Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired off 14 missiles this week that can strike targets in the U.S. and all of Israel. Naturally, we heard one of their leaders, Brigadier General Amir Hajizadeh, state that Europe was completely safe. These weren’t for them but rather they were simply to provide a defense against Israel and America. You know….because we have forces in the gulf. Iran’s missiles are not small fry. They can travel a range of 1,250 miles and others can travel 2,000 miles. We all know that Iran’s missile program is a huge part of their bold and defiant goal to launch nuclear weapons, where they can easily strike the U.S. and Israel.
Naturally, Tehran denies all this, in fact they are playing politically correct in their lying statements. They said that their latest exercise was really a ‘message of peace and friendship.’ Isn’t that special? Were they studying our politically correct ‘stuck on stupid crowd’ Jimmy Carter, unemployed movie stars and media here? We all know that shooting off missiles and planning to attach nuclear weapons to them, per their own words over the years, is about peace and kindness. I feel the love, don’t you? I’m a little distracted by the body parts and blood in Israel and the US but oh….the friendship of it all.Some say that by August Iran will have Nuclear capability. The threats to Israel and the west have been in place for several years. While the threats have leaked out here and there from the Madi seeking mouth of Ahmadinejad, they play the Saul Alinsky play book of distraction so the UN, Israel and U.S. stay out of their face. It seems to be working beautifully with Obama.The UN, America and Israel knows that Ahmadinejad has a terrorist past and has threatened us all, but pretends that he won’t be a danger once the nuclear path is secure and complete. The whole time we have looked the other way, Iran has morphed dramatically closer to becoming nuclear and completing their attack strategy. How beautiful for Ahmadinejad. While the west is attacking in Libya and election madness is building, media and leaders aren’t looking at me, my evil plans and nuclear development.Is Ahmadinejad simply exercising his sovereign rights as the leader of his country?
I would normally say yes, except for his terrorist, kidnapping, and torturing past. Then there are his chronic and continuous threats to the west and Israel with demonstrated insanity and out of touch reality. Remember, he has hosted international conferences with many speakers talking of how the Holocaust never happened and the Jews were never murdered by the Nazis in WW11. Never mind the hundreds of thousands of witnesses who were there, many still alive, some of whom I have talked to myself.Ahmadinejad, is an anti-Semitic, Christian and freedom hating Islamic who dreams of the Madi coming out of the well and he knows this can’t happen until an end of days battle. He believes he is the conduit and method for that happening. No danger here letting him go nuclear. It’s all about friendship and providing energy.My one suggestion for Ammedinajad is that he jump in the well and wait for the Madi to come out. My other suggestion is for American to wake up and us put a real leader in the White House who will get away from the mirror and actually defend us.
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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EU states object to transparency in law-making-
LEIGH PHILLIPS 30.06.2011 @ 18:13 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU member states are set to launch an appeal of a lower court decision with the European Court of Justice hoping to prevent greater transparency in decision-making - even about transparency rules themselves.Anxious that a recent landmark court ruling could radically open up to public scrutiny decision-making in the Council of Ministers - the European Union's upper house, or the institution representing the member states - a full 20 EU countries have jumped aboard an appeal of the decision.According to EU law, the result of all legislative votes in the Council must be made public. But long before this stage of the process, most of the real negotiations happen at a working-group level - and the secrecy of positions at this stage are jealously guarded by all those involved.Earlier this year, Access Info, a Spanish transparency NGO that aids journalists and citizens in making freedom of information requests across Europe, got wind that some member states in a Council working group in late 2008 had proposed amendments to water down existing EU transparency rules.Their request for the document naming the countries pushing in this direction was effectively denied - it was released but with all the country names blacked out - and the group appealed the decision with the EU General Court in Luxembourg. The UK and Greece intervened in the case arguing against greater openness.
In March, the court ruled that the Council must indeed reveal the identities of the member states taking these positions.EUobserver has since learnt that a clear majority of EU countries are now to appeal the ruling to the European Court of Justice, frightened that it sets a precedent that would force the Council to release the names of member states and the positions they take in all working groups.Such a development would radically roll back the diplomatic secrecy that has been the norm in the Council since its origins with the European Coal and Steel Community in 1957.
An EU source told EUobserver that potentially the positions of states on all subjects and discussions at the level of working group could be opened up for public scrutiny: The decision-making process as established, the 'space to think' must be protected. This is what is at stake.An April Council document minuting discussions on the subject notes A clear majority of delegations indicated their support for an appeal,and one source close the matter told EUobserver that a full 20 member states are backing the legal action.Finland however, abstained from voting on whether to mount an appeal, and told its fellow EU states that it is happy to see the positions of the country released.The Nordic country has a tradition of freedom of governmental information legislation dating back as far as 1766, when it was still a Swedish-governed territory.Helen Darbishire, the director of Access Info explained to this website why it is the identities of countries taking positions in the working groups that counts, rather than the final vote that is meaningful.There are hundreds of working groups, but there is no public list of their members. They don't keep minutes and this is where the real negotiations are made,she said. Some 85 percent of all EU laws are decided in the 150 working groups and committees consisting of delegates from the member states.The vote at the end is frankly just a bit of theatre. It doesn't show you anything about the process that has gone on. By the end, most decisions are unanimous, so you have no idea about who is responsible, who is taking different positions.
What you read on the Council website about transparency is really misleading to the public because that only represents a fraction of the process, not where the debate about future legislation takes place.Founded as a formation essentially involving negotiations between diplomats from the foreign affairs departments of the different member states, the EU and the Council working methods in particular have had more in common with the secret bargaining in matters of war, defence and peace-making than the openness of parliamentary tradition for other matters of law, say critics of EU decision-making.EU diplomats for their part argue that they need to protect this secrecy to enable freer discussion than would be permitted if there were greater public scrutiny of the process.We believe that disclosing the delegation that has put forward certain proposals would limit member states' opportunity for frank and candid policy discussion,one diplomat told EUobserver.Explaining why the Council and a majority of member states will be appealing the case, the source said the legal action is necessary in order to prevent its decision-making processes from being undermined.The member states have indicated that if they lose the case, they will simply switch to verbal agreements and limiting what is committed to paper so that such documents cannot be released as they would not exist.During the initial case before the General Court, pressed by judges to explain how the decision-making process is harmed by disclosure, [the Council] said that if these documents are to be made public, we'll just have to stop putting things in writing,according to Darbishire.
Italian cabinet passes austerity package
HONOR MAHONY Today JULY 1,11 @ 09:16 CET
The Italian cabinet on Thursday passed a series of austerity measures aimed at balancing the budget by 2014 and stopping the eurozone crisis spreading.The package, containing €47 billion of deficit cuts, curbs the budgets of government ministries and local authorities. It will have to be passed by parliament within two months.With today's measures we completed our path towards a balanced budget,said finance minister Giulio Tremonti while presenting the package.Credit rating agencies, which have been toying with the idea of downgrading Italy, will be closely watching how the debate and ensuing vote play out with Italy in the past struggling to get reforms agreed.The reforms are needed to boost growth in the eurozone's most sluggish economy. Growth is needed if Italy is to have any chance of cutting its massive public debt, lying at 120 percent of GDP.But analysts have already criticised the fact that most of the measures will only take place in 2013 and 2014.
On the same day Portugal announced a one-off levy on incomes and said it would speed up reforms to meet the terms of its €78bn EU-IMF bailout.Portuguese prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho made the announcement before parliament after the National Statistics Institute published worse-than-expected data for the first part of this year.The institute said that the deficit fell to 8.7 percent of GDP at the end of the first quarter. But under the terms of its bailout it has to cut its deficit to 5.9 percent of GDP this year and to 3 percent in 2013.Meanwhile, the EU watched with relief as the Greek parliament on Thursday agreed a law to implement a further round of austerity and privatisation measures.The vote paves the way for an emergency meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Sunday where they have to agree to release €8.7bn to Greece, part of last year's EU-IMF €110bn bailout.Agreement on the IMF tranche is expected next week. The Sunday meeting is also expected to discuss the broad outline for a second bailout for the debt-stricken country.While the unpopular measures have regularly caused strikes and protests in Greece and Portugal, non-eurozone Britain was also hit by a large public sector walk out as thousands of teachers and civil servants protested planned pension cuts.Some 104,000 civil servants went on strike while about 27 percent of schools were closed. However, the government was quick to point out that this was less than had been predicted by trade unions.
A short guide to the Polish presidency
HONOR MAHONY 07.01.2011 @ 11:15 CET
With Poland taking over the presidency of the European Union on 1 July, EUobserver presents a short non-exhaustive guide:Calendar restraints - Being a second-half-of-the-year presidency, Warsaw will fall afoul of the EU's famously extended holiday period. Most of the Brussels EU elite starts disappearing in July. The EU capital re-emerges as a complete political city only around the beginning of September. The same Brussels evacuation starts to take place around the middle of December, too. So, the period for getting things done is short.Polling day - And while the effective calendar months are short, so may the attention span of Polish politicians be. National elections will be held in October. Polish officials promise otherwise, but the call of the local constituency will likely prove more alluring than that of Brussels. Meanwhile, a win for the opposition Jaroslaw Kaczynski will see politicians, in handover mode, distracted for the remainder of the six-month stint too. And, in that case, everyone else will be wondering whether it means a return to the abrasive politics of previous administrations.
Defence - It might seem an inauspicious time to want to start talking about EU defence, what with the EU's less-than-exemplary display of unity over Libya, but Poland is going to persevere anyway. If we had civilian and military planning capacity we would have been much effective at the outset of the crisis in Libya, says Europe minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz.Warsaw is neither naive about EU defence of afraid to start a conversation about it. (The it includes battlegroups and a permanent military headquarters). And to be fair, no one else is rushing to talk about defence at the moment. It falls to EU top diplomat Catherine Ashton. But she is too busy trying to do several other jobs at once. And Poland has a point when it says is the only country with any military credibility to hold the presidency since France and the only one for quite some time into the future. This is not a debate Denmark and Cyprus can kick off.Eastern Partnership - This is where Poland has a chance to shine. The recognised lead member state when it comes to countries on the EU's eastern borders, it wants to see real progress - on association agreements - with Ukraine and Moldova. An Eastern Partnership Summit in September in Warsaw is meant to give the policy – which has fallen down the political agenda - a boost. Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt recently said the initiative is as significant as the Lisbon Treaty. The problem is getting other bigger member states - read France and Germany - to think like that. More cash would be good too. See below.
EU budget talks - The European Commission will this summer publish its first proposals for the EU's 2014-2020 budget, a moment that marks the traditional beginning of table-thumping disagreement until the thing is signed and sealed, usually at the last possible minute about two years later. Poland - very keen on seeing the EU's cohesion funds maintained - is shackled to a neutral position because it is the presidency country. But it hopes to project its budgetary views well beyond its presidency by producing a serious paper for discussion in 2012. It plans 12 technical meetings and two ministerial meetings on the budget.Energy security - This is a biggie for the Poles. They want the EU to be energy-independent of Russia. And they particularly want Poland to be energy-independent of Russia. This has resulted in some near-evangelical talk about Shale - the unconventional gas apparently in great quantities in Poland and which Warsaw has indicated it would like to exploit. If commercial exploitation is possible - and it remains a big if - the gas would both eventually end the country's heavy reliance on the dirtier coal and on Russia. Environmentalists are sceptical. But expect more talk anyway.
The economy - Poland is outside the eurozone - though looking to come in - and so lacks clout here. It is not automatically privy to discussions on economic governance or competitiveness, something brought home in March.However it has an ace up its sleeve: its economy is doing relatively well and the only country in the EU at no point to have tipped into recession during the recent economic crisis. So even if it is not inside the room, it can feel somewhat superior outside it. And its finance minister will chair ecofin - the full complement of EU finance ministers - meetings. Warsaw's main focus will be on implementing the new Single Market Act. It also wants to try and achieve something more ephemeral - economic optimism. According to Dowgielewicz, Point two on our to-do list as a presidency is to try to create a better narrative about the European economy.Arguably a task that alone would be tricky enough for any single presidency.One to watch - On the high-flying foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, opinions are divided. Some say that he has no interest in Poland's EU presidency and so will not help more committed members of the administration to make it a success. Others point to the fact that he has been quick to carve out a role for himself alongside Cathy Ashton. Sikorski is keen to take the lead on eastern neighbourhood issues. But Poland also sees its approach to its eastern neighbourhood as a model for the EU to take towards countries in its southern neighbourhood. This gave Sikorski the perfect excuse to pay a highly publicised visit to Libya in May - the first Western foreign minister to go the country since the uprising began. Sikoroski points out that the trip was agreed with Ashton beforehand. Nevertheless, his interactions with Ashton - weakened by internal criticism - throughout the presidency will be something to keep an eye on.
Stress test - Poland will take over the presidency with the EU creaking at the seams. Centre-right MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski puts it thus: All other presidencies have had difficult challenges but none of them have had such a culmination of difficulties. The Union is undergoing a stress test in terms of the euro, in terms of schengen, in terms of ESDP and in terms of [its] neighbourhood. All that put together makes this presidency extremely challenging. More and more, Poland sees that new member states will have take upon their shoulders the defence of the acquis of the old [member states].Logo - There is a long and proud tradition of EU presidency logos. It is not really clear why they are needed (especially in these post-Lisbon mini-presidency times) but they are always unveiled with a something of a flourish. They also usually attract more interest than the presidency programmes themselves. Past star logos include Belgium's 2001 showing with Magritte's hat, while Italy's 2003 effort was something of a flop, where it remained something of a small mystery as to why the E of EU was backwards. Poland's logo meanwhile is inspired by the by the iconic flag of Solidarnosc and was designed by the very artist who designed that movement's symbol so many years ago.The last word - And according to the somewhat ominous words of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, presidency countries can never be too prepared.My message to the Polish presidency is: Be prepared, because something may happen.Famous events of past presidencies include the Russia-Georgia war under France's watch and the teetering and then utter collapse of the Czech government in the middle of its presidency.
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.
Nato rules out military intervention in Syria
ANDREW RETTMAN 30.06.2011 @ 18:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said there will be no military intervention in Syria despite similar levels of government-sponsored violence as in Libya.Speaking in Vienna on Thursday (30 June) after a meeting with foreign minister Michael Spindelegger, the Nato chief told press: We do not foresee any intervention in Syria. In Libya, we are working on the basis of a UN mandate with the support of countries in the region. The conditions on Syria are not similar.
Syrian tanks on Wednesday reportedly killed 11 people in the Turkey border area, with the death count since unrest began three months ago estimated at some 1,500 people.The Syrian military build-up on the Turkish frontier has raised fears of a clash between the two rival powers in the region.Regional tensions intensified further on Thursday following reports that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), an EU-and-US-backed judicial body set up to investigate the assassination of a Lebanese leader in 2005, has indicted four Hezbollah officials.Hezbollah is an ally of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, with analysts saying the guerrilla army could seek a conflict with Israel to distract from the STL process or the Assad repressions.
UK foreign minister William Hague in the British parliament on Wednesday spoke of Lybia and Syria in the same breath as two regimes guilty of brutalities which threaten to destabilise neighbouring states.We can stand up against repression and violence, which we have seen taken to extremes in Libya and Syria, he said.But he noted that a Franco-British draft UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on Syria, which condemns violence but is far softer than UNSC 1973 authorising military strikes in Libya, does not have enough backing to be put to a vote.He also declined to follow France in saying that Syrian leader Bashar Assad should step down.If we are to maintain international unity of pressure on Syria, we must be careful in how we phrase such things, Hague noted.Foreign policy is not conducted in a bunker, where we do not communicate with people with whom we disagree. We [still] havediplomatic relations with Syria,he added.Nato's Rasmussen and Hague in the two seprate fora defended Nato's actions in Libya against accusations that it has overstepped its mandate to protect civilians.Rasmussen said there is no mission creep and ruled out use of ground forces, but noted that operations will continue until Gaddafi is out of power as the only guarantee of a peaceful transition.Reacting to MPs' questions that Nato strikes in Tripoli seem to be aimed at killing Colonel Gaddafi, Hague said: To characterise the campaign as an assassination campaign is wrong ... Our targeting depends on the behaviour of those involved, and it has included the command systems of the Gaddafi regime.Perception that Nato is in the business of regime change in Libya rather than protecting civilians, as mandated by UNSC 1973, is the main reason for opposition to any UN move on Syria in key swing UNSC voters - Brazil, India and South America.
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 brings heavy rain to central Mexico
By MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, Associated Press – Thu Jun 30, 11:47 pm ET
VERACRUZ, Mexico – The Atlantic season's first tropical storm swirled over Mexico's central Gulf coast Thursday, bringing heavy rains to a wide swath of the country but causing little damage.The heart of Tropical Storm Arlene struck land near Cabo Rojo, a cape just off the mainland between the cities of Tampico and Tuxpan. Arlene weakened to a tropical depression late Thursday and was expected to dissipate Friday.
Authorities had worried heavy rains could cause flash floods and mudslides in 13 states.Mexico's National Water Commission said that by Thursday night the depression was on the border between the states of Hidalgo and San Luis Potosi and that heavy to torrential rains were expected there and in nine other states, including Mexico City.Incessant rain fell in the city and its metropolitan area, where the Remedios River, which carries sewage water, overflowed in the suburb of Ecatepec.Ecatepec Mayor Indalecio Rios told the newspaper El Universal that he was urging residents in three neighborhoods that flooded to go to shelters set up by the city.In neighboring Hidalgo state, the rain caused at least six landslides along a highway that connects the state to the Gulf coast city of Tampico, authorities said.The storm was welcomed in northern Tamaulipas state, where rain fell on soil dried out by the most severe drought to hit the area in 50 years.There is nothing to regret and so far the rains have been favorable, Tamaulipas state Civil Protection Secretary Pedro Benavides said.We hope it keeps raining.Coastal towns in Veracruz and Tamaulipas states appeared to have escaped serious damage.
In the port city of Tampico, authorities said there was minor flooding in some low-laying neighborhoods. Beaches in the nearby cities of Madero and Altamira remained closed and small vessels were warned to stay docked.Arlene had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) and was moving inland at 8 mph (13 kph) Thursday evening, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Tree branches fell, water accumulated on some streets and a neighborhood of Tuxpan lost electricity, Veracruz state civil protection authorities reported.There aren't any major problems, (and) we hope Arlene will be out of sight by midday, Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte tweeted Thursday. He credited preparations ahead of the storm.Officials in the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi had guarded against possible flooding by closing schools, mobilizing emergency medical units and preparing evacuation shelters as rain fell on coastal and mountain regions.Mexico's national weather service said 6 inches (150 millimeters) of rain fell over a 24-hour period in northern Veracruz state.Associated Press writers Efrain Klerigan in Ciudad Victoria and Emilio Lopez in Pachuca contributed to this report.
Japan begins power restrictions
– Fri Jul 1, 3:45 am ET
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan on Friday began restricting electricity consumption in the Tokyo and Tohoku regions, more than three months after a tsunami sent nuclear reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.The power-saving drive, which for many began shortly after the huge March 11 quake and tsunami but which became official Friday, will last through the peak summer months to September to cut blackout risks after the loss of capacity.Large companies that violate the decree to cut useage by 15 percent will face fines of up to one million yen ($12,400). Smaller users and households have also been asked to voluntarily cut power use by 15 percent.To cope, Japan has taken its annual summer Cool Biz campaign -- aimed at limiting air conditioner use and encouraging workers to ditch jackets and ties -- to a new level.
Factories have changed shifts to make use of cooler evenings, early mornings and lower-demand weekends, prompting nursery schools to also open weekends to cater for the needs of working parents.Companies such as Sony have brought their business days forward by an hour in order to finish earlier.Railway operators have increased train services in the early morning to coincide with moves by Japanese firms to start the work day earlier.The power-saving restrictions will be in effect through to September 22 in Tokyo Electric's service area and through September 9 in Tohoku Electric's territory.Hospitals providing emergency treatment and shelters for evacuees from the March 11 disaster are exempted. The reduction target will be relaxed to up to 10 percent for medical, nursing-care and transportation service providers.On Wednesday temperatures soared to 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) in Tokyo and air conditioner use pushed consumption to 93 percent of capacity, raising fears that the capital may yet face blackouts as the summer heats up.Even utilities not directly affected by the earthquake and tsunami have not restarted nuclear reactors that were undergoing maintenance at the time, due to objections from local governments amid a wave of anti-nuclear sentiment.Only 19 of Japan's 54 reactors are now operating, with more due to shut down for regular checks. Japan usually generates about 30 percent of its power from nuclear plants.Ratings agency Moody's on Friday said it had downgraded the ratings of nine Japanese utilities, citing increased regulatory uncertainty following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant.There are worries that restrictions on power consumption may slow the country's recovery from recession, after the earthquake and tsunami hammered Japanese production and the economy contracted by an annualised 3.5 percent in January-March.
Royal couple marks Canada day on world debut tour
AFPBy Michel Comte | AFP – JULY 1,11
Princess Catherine on Friday will celebrate Canada's national holiday on her international debut with Prince William as crowds throng to catch a glimpse of Britain's newest royal couple.Packed with pomp and pageantry, the North American tour comes just two months after a radiant Kate Middleton walked down the aisle in a fairytale royal wedding watched by an estimated two billion people worldwide.The couple were to cap off their visit to the capital by joining tens of thousands of revellers outside parliament for musical performances and fireworks to celebrate Canada's national holiday.Canadians turned out en masse for a glimpse or a handshake as Middleton, now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrived in Ottawa on Thursday wearing a navy lace dress by Montreal-born designer Erdem Moralioglu.Welcome to Canada, honeymoon capital of the Commonwealth,said Governor General David Johnston.
The couple's arrival at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa triggered excited screams from an estimated 10,000-strong crowd -- several of the women wearing fascinators, the hair accessory of choice for the duchess.There he is.There's our future king,Pat Snair shouted from the fringes of the crowd as the 29-year-old newlyweds stepped from the cortege to place a bouquet of flowers before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.While Prince William, second in line to the British throne, has plenty of experience at royal duties, Kate is a relative rookie. But it was clearly the elegant woman from Berkshire, southeast England that many in the crowd had come to see.She represents the future of the monarchy, she's excitement and youth,said Denise, in her 60s.William is OK, but Kate is fascinating, added two teenage girls.The princess was cool under fire and showed no outward signs of nerves on her first overseas walkabout, smiling broadly and exchanging polite banter as she shook hands with the crowd for longer than the intended hour.I'm hoping to find romance like theirs,said one wildly-impressed teenage girl.From the war memorial unveiled in 1939 by William's great-grandparents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, who established a tradition with the first royal walkabout, the show then moved on to the official residence of the governor general, the vice-regal representative of Queen Elizabeth II.Catherine and I are so delighted to be here in Canada, William said.
We have been looking forward to this moment for a very long time. Quite separately, before we were married, we had both had a longing to come here, instilled in us by our parents and grandparents.He spoke in both of Canada's official languages, French and English, and to laughs vowed his French would improve over the course of this trip.The geography of this country is world-renowned, as is the hospitality of its peoples,William said.Support for the monarchy hovers above 50 percent in Canada and has risen from last year when Queen Elizabeth II visited, although there is still a vocal anti-monarchist minority planning to protest in Quebec City on Sunday.In addition to official and military ceremonies, the royal schedule has lighter moments planned, such as a cooking class, an aboriginal sports event and a rodeo.Later Thursday, the royals attended a barbecue with 120 young Canadians at the residence of the governor general, where they are spending the night. A downpour, however, forced the event indoors.William, in a buttoned down shirt slightly open at the collar, khakis and brown loafers, put his arm around the princess's waist to guide her around the room, chatting with guests.Kate changed into a black and white dress by Issa for dinner, where a gourmet menu included Quebec cheeses, New Brunswick oysters, Qikiqtarjuaq sea urchins, musk ox prosciutto and potato-crusted Alberta yak tartar.On Saturday they will embark on a countrywide tour, taking a cooking class in Montreal before travelling on to Quebec City, Charlottetown, Yellowknife and Calgary.
Prior to their final stop in Canada, the newlyweds are expected to sneak away on a romantic getaway to a secluded and undisclosed location in the Rocky Mountains.After wrapping up their Canadian tour, they will travel to California for a three-day visit on July 8-10 whose highlight will be a black-tie celebrity reception for British filmmakers in Los Angeles.
Friday, July 01, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
1ST NAMED ATLANTIC STORM ON TRACK
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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
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JUNE 30,2011
09:30 AM +2.07
10:00 AM +117.25
10:30 AM +138.80
11:00 AM +128.13
11:30 AM +139.10
12:00 PM +143.80
12:30 PM +137.67
01:00 PM +132.75
01:30 PM +118.07
02:00 PM +130.70
02:30 PM +125.44
03:00 PM +122.04
03:30 PM +137.30
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
S&P/TSX/60 783.90 +6.60
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
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.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +164 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +164 points at high today.
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 AgustÃn 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)
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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Dow +44 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
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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 AgustÃn 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)
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
FLOTILLA LEADER CLAIMS ISRAEL BLOCKADE
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Netanyahu: Abbas, Just Say the Six Words
by Gil Ronen JUNE 28,11
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to just say six words - I will accept the Jewish state - in his address to the Jewish Agency Board of Governors Tuesday, Palestinian society is split now between those who actively are prepared to use force, violence, terror and war to wipe us out and those who refuse stand up to that first half,he said.That’s basically the division there. This remains the heart of the problem.Nevertheless, he added, I understand that we will have to have a historic compromise which is very painful, so I stood before my people, the people of Israel, and I said numerous times that I will accept a Palestinian state. Now President Abbas must stand before his people and he has to say these six words, I will accept the Jewish State.He has to say it. And I will repeat this over and over and over again because it is the attempt to fudge, it’s the attempt to fudge and evade and obscure this essential component of peace, the removal of this basic obstacle to peace, that is required, and this is what the international community must face up to.Regarding the demilitarization of the future Palestinian state,Netanyahu repeated the formulations he used in his speech to the joint session of Congress.
We don’t want a repeat of what happened when we withdrew from Gaza or from South Lebanon. I believe that this will require for Israel to maintain a long-term military presence along the Jordan River. There will be arguments about sovereignty, about territory, but I think that... demilitarization and a long-term military presence along the Jordan River are essential to guaranteeing any peace. A peace you cannot defend will not hold. A peace you can defend will.Netanyahu said Israel would incorporate within its final borders what are called the settlement blocs, these large, urban communities that are fairly dense and concentrated alongside Greater Tel Aviv and Greater Jerusalem, and other areas of critical, strategic and national importance...We believe also that Jerusalem must remain united, under Israeli sovereignty. It’s the only time in its millennial history that it has assured the free and unfettered access of all three monotheistic religions to their holy places.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Barak Slams Flotilla Organizers: No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza by Elad Benari JUNE 28,11
Defense Minister Ehud Barak slammed on Tuesday the organizers of this year’s planned Freedom Flotilla to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, saying the flotilla intended to go to Gaza is nothing but a provocation.Speaking at a tribute dinner to IDF reservists, Barak said: The facts and figures are clear and visible – there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. If the flotilla organizers are so sensitive to human suffering, they should direct their efforts to ensure the immediate release of Gilad Shalit, or at least work to arrange regular visits with him by the International Red Cross.Hamas terrorists kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit more than five years ago, and have been holding him in Gaza ever since. Since his kidnapping, the terror organization has refused to allow Shalit to have any visits by the Red Cross.Due to Hamas’ refusal to allow Shalit this basic right of a hostage, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said last week he would put an end to the many benefits and privileges enjoyed by Hamas terror prisoners in Israeli prisons.In his remarks on Tuesday, Barak also addressed the Israeli government’s decision to order the IDF to interdict the flotilla.In accordance with the Cabinet’s decision, I instructed the IDF to stop the flotilla if the ships do not comply with the requests to turn to the Ashdod or El Arish ports,he said.We are monitoring the situation continuously, especially due to the realization that there may be violent elements on the ship.
Earlier on Tuesday, there were reports that the activists taking part in the flotilla are planning to kill soldiers using chemical weapons.The activists denied this, saying the charges of plots to kill are simply excuses for the IDF to justify violence.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IDF Delivers Goods to Gaza but Flotilla Leader Claims Blockade by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 28,11
The IDF oversees the shipment of 6,000 tons of food, fuel, merchandise and building material to Gaza every day but flotilla leaders allege a blockade exists. The requests never exceed the transit vehicles' capacity.The daily deliveries never turn into media frenzy, according to IDF spokesmen.In contrast, previous convoys, instigating violent provocations with Israeli or Egyptian forces, rarely delivered substantial amounts of goods into Gaza,the IDF said on its website.Israel maintains a maritime blockade on Hamas-controlled Gaza to allow the Navy to stop the smuggling of missiles and advanced weapons for the use of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations that use Gaza as a launching pad for attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.The IDF noted that aid from European convoys to Gaza has continuously been transferred overland in an orderly way without the violence that characterized last year’s IHH-backed flotilla.
After Navy commandos prevented the ships from sailing to Gaza, the boats were led to the port in Ashdod, where it was discovered that the IHH’s Mavi Marmara ship was not carrying any aid at all.The 2010 Gaza flotilla’s five other ships arrived with only 20 truckloads worth of goods, including expired medication. Before the ships left ports for Gaza, a flotilla organizer said the real aim was to Isolate Israel in the international community.In contrast, the European convoy Miles of Smiles 3 last month arrived at the Rafiah land crossing at the Egyptian border. The convoy’s ten European human rights organizations transferred 30 tons of medical supplies, 12 ambulances, baby food, and wheelchairs to Gaza by coordinating efforts with the Egyptian Red Crescent,the IDF stated.It added, The transfer of goods and materials did not entail violence because the organizers focused on delivering supplies, rather than delegitimizing Israel through a violent confrontation.The IDF explained how to donate to Gaza Arabs by contacting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross.Humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza submit all formal requests to Israel’s COGAT, a governmental body that coordinates civilian policy including humanitarian issues, infrastructure projects and economic projects.Last year, Israel changed its more limited policy and allowed all goods to enter Gaza after being checked, except for dual-use products, which undergo a review to make sure they will not be used for the Hamas terrorist infrastructure and weapons.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Gaza flotilla begins mission despite EU warning
ANDREW RETTMAN 28.06.2011 @ 09:27 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Organisers say one ship is already at sea and 10 are to sail from Greek ports on Wednesday (29 June) or Thursday, after EU countries warned the group not to go ahead.Claude Leostic from the Paris-based Association France Palestine Solidarite (AFPS) told EUobserver that one boat left France at the weekend and is en route to a confidential meeting point in the Mediterranean Sea.The flotilla, which has two MEPs on board and which organisers say is carrying humanitarian and medical supplies, aims to reach Gaza by Sunday.Leostic noted that ships were obstructed in leaving from Spain, Turkey and the UK. The Greek contingent was to sail on Tuesday but several vessels faced last minute problems with official paperwork, putting off the departure until Wednesday or Thursday.When we met with the Greek authorities it was clear they were under heavy pressure. We were even told internally that the Israeli government has warned Greece they would press European countries not to give it financial aid. It's hard to resist that kind of pressure, she said.Greek and Israeli authorities denied the report.That is not true,Greek foreign ministry spokesman Gregoris Delavekouras told this website. We do not expect any impact on our bilateral relations with Israel [if the Greek boats go in the end]. The Gaza flotilla is a very specific issue.A Turkish diplomatic source indicated the Turkish flotilla element was blocked for the sake of bilateral relations, however. We do not want another crisis with the Israelis at this point, the contact said.
Israeli authorities noted the flotilla has no diplomatic support from the EU, the UN or the US. All 27 EU countries in Brussels on Friday signed a statement saying: Humanitarian assistance ... [to Gaza] should be in accordance with the relevant framework and decisions of the UN and should take care not to endanger human lives.A spokeswoman for EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton confirmed that the line should be read as a warning not to go.Israel is preparing for a potentially violent confrontation despite the fact its soldiers last year caused international outrage when they killed nine flotilla members.Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) spokeswoman Avital Leibovich said: We have developed soft power tactics' in order to make use of every possibility before engaging in contact with the illegal passengers. Last week, our navy held a wide training session, simulating a variety of scenarios.With one French flotilla ship carrying national radio, TV and print journalists, Leibovich added that Israel has also made fresh plans to defend itself in the media.Regarding PR, although we embedded journalists last year on [our] navy ship, we intend to do it again - with a larger number of journalists. We also developed a unique system of passing footage from our ships directly to our base on land, so that we will be able to distribute it quickly to the world.For her part, AFPS' Leostic described the project as a form of civil disobedience against both Israel and EU governments.If our governments had done what should be done [take action against Gaza's isolation] we would be sitting quietly at home, she said.It's not that I want to go and be attacked by commandos in the middle of the Mediterranean. But we owe it to everybody. If countries refuse to abide by international law and nobody does anything, it's the duty of citizens to act. It goes beyond Palestine and Israel.The IDF's Leibovich said it has a right to stop the boats under the maritime law, the San Remo convention. She added that three months ago a ship claiming to be carrying food to Gaza, the Victoria, had bullets, mortars and ship-to-shore missiles on board.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (16 June 2011) – There is a 50% chance our mission will be successful, Irish MEP Paul Murphy told EUobserver a week and a half before his departure. He is currently on the Freedom flotilla Saorise. We're a bit delayed now because of Israeli attempts to prevent ships from leaving port, he told EUobserver yesterday (28 June) via twitter. Confident we'll be on way by end of week.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40rfmsy-Gw&feature=player_embedded
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
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JUNE 29,2011
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +15.78
10:30 AM +20.24
11:00 AM +57.21
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12:30 PM +70.84
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04:00 PM +72.73 12,261.42
S&P 500 1307.41 +10.74
NASDAQ 2740.49 +11.18
GOLD 1,509.10 +8.90
OIL 94.90 +2.01
TSE 300 13,188.90 +84.00
CDNX 1892.36 +26.68
S&P/TSX/60 757.30 +4.06
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +38 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -12 points at low today.
Dow +85 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,507.10.OIL opens at $93.16 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -12 points at low today so far.
Dow +85 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -12 points at low today.
Dow +85 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)
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EU to Greece: No more solidarity if you vote No
LEIGH PHILLIPS 28.06.2011 @ 18:13 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - On the eve of perhaps the most significant vote in the Greek parliament since the return of democracy to the country in 1974, the European Commission has warned Greek deputies that if they do not vote the right way, then everything changes as to whether EU solidarity continues.The Greek parliament opened debate on Tuesday (28 June) on a draconian package of public spending cuts, structural reforms and a massive €50 billion sell-off of state assets imposed by international lenders. The Greek parliament is due to vote on the mid-term package on Wednesday and hold a second vote on its implementation on Thursday.In a stern public statement issued the same day, EU economics commissioner Olli Rehn said there are only two options for the country: pass the mid-term package or default.The only way to avoid immediate default is for parliament to endorse the revised economic programme,he said in a communique read out to reporters by his spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj-Tardio.To those who speculate about other options, let me say this clearly: there is no Plan B to avoid default.In recent weeks, a range of commentators, including mainstream and heterodox economists have recommended a range of other paths out of the crisis than those on the table.The EU executive however dismissed such ideas as unrealistic.According to press reports over the last hours, there seems to be an illusion that there will be other plans on our desk, Altafaj-Tardio told reporters.This should be clear in all journalists, politicians and markets' minds.Pressed whether the commissioner's words meant that if the vote is defeated, Greece will be allowed to go bankrupt, the spokesman said: If Greece does everything to take the objectives set a year ago, then EU solidarity continues. If not, then of course everything changes.He refused to answer whether a country can default and still be a member of the eurozone.We are not putting ourselves in a scenario without Greece at this point in time,he said.
However, a eurozone source close to talks on the subject confirmed to EUobserver that there are indeed half-formed ideas about emergency measures to take in the event that the Greek parliament votes down the measures.It would be extremely irresponsible if there were no Plan B. There have been discussions on what to do, a contingency plan in the event that Greece doesn't vote the right way, said the contact.Ideas include a show of public support, possibly with the European Financial Stability Fund directly purchasing Greek government debt - an option that has until now been forbidden.One idea would involve allowing Greece to miss a payment and the EFSF then swooping in and buying up debt at a significantly discounted rate, but with very strict conditions.Another possibility is that Greece could return to the private sector for funding, although such a move would entail borrowing at acutely high rates.A market analyst speaking to this website also confirmed that in theory, there is nothing preventing Athens from selling debt to private creditors, at least for a short period.In the event of a failed vote, Greece could still make the repayments due in July and August by borrowing in the short-term money market, albeit at a very steep interest rate, Sony Kapoor, the director of international economic think-tank Re-Define, told EUobserver.This would buy two more months of negotiation time.In the same statement, the commissioner again told opposition forces to drop their resistance to the mid-term package and forge the necessary political consensus.Rehn appeared to respond to critics alarmed at the unprecedented interference by Brussels in domestic party politics, a phenomenon that has accelerated over the course of the year as the EU has successfully intervened to force cross-party consensus in three member states around election times, in order to prevent results from upsetting the economic apple cart.He stressed that he fully respects the prerogatives and the sovereignty of the Greek parliament. He also insisted, against criticisms from the left that working people, pensioners and the poor are being hit hardest by the austerity measures: This is about social justice, saying that the mid-term package fights tax evasion and supports honest work.
Rolling black-outs
The austerity has provoked furious country-wide resistance to the measures. A two-day general strike was launched on Tuesday.According to on-the-ground reports, industrial action managed to paralyse much of the country although demonstrations were substantially smaller than during the last, one-day general strike, with an estimated 25,000 gathered in front of the parliament building.Flights were largely grounded as air traffic controllers struck, while electric company workers have maintained rolling blackouts throughout the country. Most large private-sector enterprises and public-sector services were shut down, but many small and medium-sized businesses continued to operate as usual, with workers afraid for their jobs if they participate.Meanwhile, violent skirmishes broke out in the capital between police and protesters, with extensive use of tear gas and stun grenades. Some 18 people have been detained, according to police, and four arrested.Trade unions are set to march on the parliament in the evening.
European bankers mull French plan for Greek rollover
LEIGH PHILLIPS 28.06.2011 @ 09:27 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European lenders are considering the first draft of a plan put forward by French banks for a rollover of some 70 percent of the banks' holdings of Greek debt.Unveiled by French President Nicholas Sarkozy on Monday (27 June), the plan would involve private bondholders agreeing to re-invest back in Greece half the amount of their holdings as they matured, swapping the debts for new longer-dated bonds.The maturity on the new bonds remains up for discussion, with some German sources saying the suggested extension to 30 years is too long, but the aim is to partially free the country from having to repay its debts in the near term, relieving some pressure from the insolvent nation.A further 20 percent of debts coming due would be invested in triple-A bonds via a special purpose vehicle.EU nations are hoping to convince private creditors to engage in such voluntary rollovers amounting to around €30 billion, representing just under a third of the amount of a potential second bail-out of the country.The French scheme was considered alongside other options at a meeting in Rome on Monday night of some of the most powerful figures in international banking, with executives flying in to talks with eurozone and European Central Bank representatives regarding the voluntary rollover.Organised by the Institute of International Finance, the world's global association of financial institutions, the meeting was hosted by Vittorio Grilli, the Italian Treasury chief and head of the EU Economic and Finance Committee
EU officials have confirmed that discussions on a voluntary rollover have already been taking place with Belgian, Dutch and German banks.However, other bondholders, including pension funds and central banks would also need to be convinced of rollover plans.Such schemes, however voluntary, may in any case provoke credit ratings agencies to declare a Greek default, as the Fitch agency announced it would do last week.European leaders are confident that they can cobble together a plan that is sufficiently voluntary that such a credit event will not happen.They are confident, not 100 percent, but they think they can pull it off,one EU official told EUobserver.The talks came ahead of a crucial vote in the Greek parliament on a package of €28 billion in cuts and €50 billion in public asset sell-offs. Discussion on the programme begins on Tuesday, with a vote on Wednesday. A second vote on a plan for implementing the programme will be held Thursday.Unions launched a two-day general strike on Tuesday in opposition to the mid-term Greek plan while a number of government deputies began to wobble in public as to whether they would support the measures.The ruling Pasok party has a slim, five-seat majority.
Financial crisis saw massive drop in EU investment
ANDREW RETTMAN 28.06.2011 @ 11:20 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The worldwide financial crisis, which erupted in late 2008, saw foreign investors massively cut their flow of money to the EU.The European Commission put out the figures, covering 2010, on Monday (27 June), on the eve of a vote by Greek MPs on further austerity cuts designed to win credibility among institutional lenders like the International Monetary Fund, and the private sector.
The numbers show that foreign direct investment (FDI) to the EU, which includes investment in foreign businesses but not purchases of sovereign debt, fell from €216 billion in 2009 to €54 billion in 2010.The steepest fall came from offshore financial centres, which injected €46 billion into the EU economy in 2009 and just €4 billion the year after. The biggest overall drop came from the US, from €97 billion to €28 billion. Investment from Switzerland and Russia also plunged. But inflows from Canada (up €16 billion) and China (up €12 billion) went up.Luxembourg - a financial services centre - took a big hit as the EU's largest normal recipient of outside money.The commission report said the overall drop continues the trend of recent years and noted that FDI into the EU was eight times higher in 2007, before the crisis struck, than in 2010.EU investors also tightened their purse strings.
EU investment around the world in 2010 fell from €281 billion to €107 billion. EU companies held back money primarily from offshore investment centres and the US. But investment also plummeted in Switzerland, going from €44 billion in 2009 to a net extraction of €7 billion.EU outward investment was five times lower than in 2007.
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.
Iran fires missiles in second day of war games
ReutersBy Parisa Hafezi | Reuters – JUNE 28,11
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards tested 14 missiles on Tuesday, the second day of war games intended as a show of strength toward enemies Israel and the United States.The Iranian-made surface-to-surface missiles, with a maximum range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles), were fired simultaneously at a single target, the official IRNA news agency reported.Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace division, emphasised Iran's preparedness to retaliate against Israel and U.S. interests in the event of any attack.The range of our missiles has been designed based on American bases in the region as well as the Zionist regime, Hajizadeh told the semi-official Fars news agency.The United States and Israel have said they do not rule out military strikes on Iran if diplomatic means fail to stop it developing nuclear weapons. Tehran says its nuclear program is geared to producing electricity, not atom bombs.IRNA said the Guards fired nine Zelzal missiles, two Shahab-1s, two Shahab-2s and one upgraded Shahab-3 missile. Iranian officials have previously announced that the Shahab 3 can reach targets up to 2,000 km (1,242 miles) away, putting Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf within reach.
In Washington, the U.S. State Department reminded Iran that U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929 bars it from any activity related to ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear weapons, but declined to say if it believed any of those tested were nuclear-capable.That there is a U.N. Security Council resolution that precludes them from any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nukes is an important red line for us, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.A long-time enemy of the United States, Iran has been emboldened by what it perceives as U.S. military defeats in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan. Both countries are still home to large U.S. troop numbers and Washington has other bases in the Gulf that Iran could choose to target.The Americans have reduced our labors, Hajizadeh told Fars. Their military bases in the region are in a range of 130, 250 and maximum 700 km in Afghanistan which we can hit with these missiles.
FINGERS ON THE TRIGGER
Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the Guards, said: We still have our fingers on the trigger, but the number of triggers has increased.The Great Prophet 6 war games, to be carried out on land and sea, are a message of peace and friendship to countries of the region, Hajizadeh said on Monday.Asked whether Iranian missiles were a threat to Europe, Hajizadeh told IRNA that while Iran had the technological capacity to build longer-range missiles, the 2,000-km range had been chosen precisely with Israel and U.S. bases in mind.Except America and the Zionist regime, we do not feel a threat from any other country, he said.Also on Tuesday, Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Hungarian ambassador, whose country holds the European Union's rotating presidency, to protest against sanctions slapped by the bloc on three high-ranking Revolutionary Guards officials.The EU accused the three of supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's suppression of anti-government protests and added their names on Friday to a blacklist that imposes travel restrictions and freezes assets.The Guards also unveiled new underground ballistic missile silos which they said would reduce launch times as missiles would not need to be moved prior to being launched.The silos are a part of the swift reaction unit of the missile brigade, missiles are stored vertically, ready to be launched against pre-determined targets, Fars quoted Hajizadeh as saying.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Iran's military capability was for purely defensive purposes but the country is happy if its show of strength rattles the West.The westerners' concern is a source of delight for us, because we will not allow any country to have a greedy approach toward our country's interests and territorial integrity, Mehmanparast said.If all the regional states had the highest defensive capability the Zionist regime would have never allowed itself to carry out an act of aggression.Mehmanparast also urged Russia to make good on a delivery of S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, saying the system was for defensive purposes and Iran expected Russia to take its bilateral commitments more seriously.Moscow unilaterally suspended the delivery of S-300s after the United States and Israel expressed concern Iran could use the anti-aircraft missiles to shield its nuclear facilities.(Additional reporting by Hossein Jaseb and by Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Writing by Ramin Mostafavi; Editing by Peter Graff and Vicki Allen)
Muslim Mickey' Causes a Furor in Egypt
by David Lev JUNE 28,11
While Hamas had no problem drafting Mickey Mouse – thinly disguised as “Farfur” the mouse – to indoctrinate toddlers in Gaza to join the jihad against Israel, Muslims in Egypt have called a boycott against the Christian Copt owner of a communications company who insulted Islam by dressing Mickey up in Muslim garb.Fifteen lawyers are suing businessman Naguib Sawiris for publicizing a photo of Mickey Mouse wearing a white robe and a beard, together with an image of Minnie Mouse wearing a full-face veil. The lawyers, along with dozens of Muslim clerics, have called for Egyptians to cut their contracts with Sawiris' Mobinil and Orascom cellphone companies.Islamists, many from the ultraconservative Salafi sect, have opened numerous Facebook pages calling for a boycott. If you’re a real Muslim ... boycott his (Sawiris’) products if you love your religion. We have to cut the tongue of any person who attacks our religion,says the page of one group.Other groups, with titles like We Hate You Mickey Sawiris,have garnered thousands of page views for their sites. In a television interview, top Muslim cleric Mazen el-Sersawi accused Sawaris of fomenting tension between Muslims and Coptic Christians, who have clashed on numerous occasions in recent months, leaving dozens wounded and several dead. How can a man like this make fun of Muslims, in a country on the brink of sectarian discord,el-Sersawi said in the interview.
Sawaris, for his part, issued an apology via his Twitter account, writing, I apologize for those who don’t take this as a joke. I just thought it was a funny picture; no disrespect meant! I’m sorry.Speaking Sunday at a meeting of political activists, Sawaris added, We should not limit Islam to a beard or veil.The apology has not calmed tensions, however, and a protest outside Orascom headquarters is planned for later this week. Naguib Sawaris' family is considered one of the wealthiest in Egypt. Sawaris was very active in the campaign to oust Hosni Mubarak; an avowed secularist, he founded the Free Egyptian political party, which plans to run in the upcoming elections.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Israel Tourists Boycotting Turkey
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 28,11
Israeli tourists have gone cold Turkey, avoiding a country which is suffering a 59 percent decrease in visits from Israel to the once-popular vacation spot before Ankara turned a cold shoulder to its former friend.The decrease in the first five months this year compares with a 133 increase in 2010, when compared with the same period the previous year, Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper reported.Only 30,000 Israel tourists visited Turkey between January and May of this year, compared with 72,500 the previous year. The sharp decline accelerated in May, when the decrease was more than 60 percent.Turkey and Israel enjoyed friendly relations until two years ago, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to join international condemnation of Israel for the counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead campaign against Hamas terrorists. Retired Judge Richard Goldstone, who authored a damning report of Israel for the United Nations, has since admitted that many of his accusations were wrong.
Turkish-Israeli relations sank to new depths after the flotilla clash in May 2010, when Turkish members of the terror-linked and Turkish-based IHH group clubbed, shot at and kidnapped Navy commandos who boarded their boat to prevent it from approaching Hamas-controlled Gaza.Nine IHH members were killed in the clash. The angry reaction from Ankara, accompanied by several extremely anti-Semitic presentations on television, has led many Israelis to look for different countries for vacationing.(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 forms in Gulf; heavy rains expected
JUNE 28,11
MIAMI – Forecasters say Tropical Storm Arlene has formed in the Gulf of Mexico but is not likely to threaten the U.S. coast.The government of Mexico on Tuesday issued Tropical Storm warnings for the northeastern coast from Barra De Nautla north to Bahia Algodones. The storm is predicted to hug much of the coast over the next few days.The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., says Arlene is about 280 miles (450 kilometers) east-southeast of Tampico, Mexico. The center had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph). It is the first named storm in the Atlantic this season.
The main threat to Mexico is heavy rains that could cause flash floods and mudslides. Forecasters say extreme south Texas also could get some rain from the system.
More flooding woes along the Missouri, Souris rivers
By Michael Avok – JUNE 28,11
OMAHA, Neb (Reuters) – Missouri River floodwaters lapped at a nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday and have cracked more defenses downstream after weeks of sustained pressure on levees running hundreds of miles.And in Minot, North Dakota's fourth largest city, the roughly 12,000 displaced residents watched Souris River flooding slowly recede and began to look toward recovery.Up and down the Missouri River from North Dakota to Missouri, residents on Tuesday said they were just plain tired -- tired of sandbags, tired of water, tired of worrying.We've just got water. And, it's not going away, said Tony Mangan, 50, whose family has lived in the South Dakota river town and capital of Pierre, since 1987.You sense there is a weariness out there. People are tired.Flood defenses have protected downtown Pierre. Griffin Park and Steamboat Park at the river's edge have flooded, with water running over the amphitheater main stage at Steamboat Park.Across from Yankton, South Dakota, Don Edwards said he has spent thousands of dollars on sandbags and rock material known as rip-rap to keep his Murdo's Aten Resort eatery open in Nebraska barely three miles downstream from Gavins Point Dam.The river is about 2 feet below the deck, Edwards said of the restaurant's wooden deck overlooking the Missouri River.Normally it's about 12-15 feet below the deck.If it comes up any more, we are all in trouble.Several inches of rain over the weekend caused storm sewer backups in Omaha and across the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Some businesses and residents were forced out on the east side of Omaha temporarily.Federal officials said Tuesday they were reinforcing 2.1 miles of levee in Council Bluffs where they had found seepage or sand boils on a dozen sections.
MORE LEVEE BREACHES
At the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station north of Omaha, which has been shut since April for maintenance, officials expect to replace by the end of next week an inflatable barrier that deflated on Sunday sending a rush of water toward the plant.
The breach temporarily interrupted some electrical power but emergency generators restored power later that day and there was no threat to sensitive facilities.
Although the plant is surrounded by water, its flood defenses have nearly eight feet of space from current river levels, officials have said.Record water releases to relieve pressure on six reservoirs from Montana through South Dakota have strained flood defenses and the Missouri River continued to breach levees along the northern Missouri and Kansas border.About 300 or 400 people have been forced from homes in Winthrop, Missouri, and in nearby Lewis and Clark Village since Monday afternoon because of a 150-foot wide levee breach, said Bill Brinton, Buchanan County emergency management director.Water was nearly as high as the eaves Tuesday on some year-round and vacation homes at Sugar Lake due to the breach, Britton said. High water closed the Amelia Earhart Bridge over the Missouri River connecting Missouri to Atchison, Kansas.Downstream, St. Joe Casino and Remington Nature Center in St. Joseph, Missouri, were closed after parking lots flooded.St. Joseph's levees have 10 to 15 feet of room above current river levels, Brinton said.I feel pretty good about our levees but you never know what's going to fail or pop, Brinton said.
SOURIS RIVER SLOWLY RECEDES IN MINOT
In Minot, the Souris River had receded on Tuesday by barely a foot from the weekend crest that smashed a 130-year-old record by nearly four feet. It is forecast to stay above the prior record until the Fourth of July and it could be weeks before residents can survey the heaviest damage.Only about 375 of the roughly 4,100 structures damaged in Minot were covered by flood insurance. City officials have said at least half the structures had extensive damage and there may be high demand for temporary housing.We are looking at about four different tracts of land in town, in this area, that are very good size because the destruction is just unbelievable down in the valley, Minot Mayor Curt Zimbelman told reporters on Tuesday.A few hundred people have stayed in area shelters and many others have stayed with friends, family and neighbors. Officials urged them to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency as it prepares for longer term housing.North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple on Tuesday picked National Guard Major General Murray Sagsveen to coordinate statewide flood recovery efforts. Sagsveen also directed Grand Forks recovery efforts from a devastating 1997 flood.Sagsveen told reporters it would be a long-term process of recovery for North Dakota's flooded communities, but said he believed Grand Forks came out of the 1997 flood a far more beautiful, vibrant city than it was before.This is a disaster, but I am very hopeful that coming out of this, Minot will be even more robust than it is right now, Sagsveen said. I am confident of that.(Additional reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri, and David Bailey in Minneapolis; Editing by Jerry Norton)
Lady Gaga (GOOGOO) accused of fraud in Japan relief efforts JUNE 28,11
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – American pop star Lady Gaga is accused of misrepresenting charitable donations from wristbands sold to benefit tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan earlier this year.The complaint, filed in a Michigan court on Friday by 1800lawfirm, says the star as well as her record label, Universal Music Group, and the Bravado International Group, lacked transparency surrounding the amount of money that was raised from sales of the wristbands and whether those funds were 100% allocated to earthquake and tsunami victims.After the earthquake and tsunami disasters in March 2011 that devastated Japan, Lady Gaga created the rubber wristbands and the singer's website advertised that all proceeds from sales of the wristband would benefit victims.The white rubber bracelets were sold for $5 and inscribed in red with the phrase, We pray for Japan,in English and Japanese.While we commend Lady Gaga for her philanthropic efforts, we want to ensure that claims that all proceeds will be donated to Japan?s earthquake relief efforts are in fact true, said one of the plaintiff's lawyers, Alyson Oliver, in a press release.The suit alleges that the singer and her partners added additional shipping charges in excess of the amount required to ship the wristbands based on their weight, and retained a portion of the shipping charges,according to court documents.This misguided lawsuit is without merit and unfortunately takes attention away from the kind deeds of the fans around the world who are supporting the people of Japan,said Lady Gaga's spokeswoman, Holly Shakoor in an email to AFP.
The entire $5 donation made with the purchase of each bracelet is going to support the disaster relief. No profit is being made on shipping costs. Sales tax charges were made in accordance with local legal requirements,she added.The lawsuit seeks damages,including a return of all amounts paid for the products,according to the press release.According to Japanese media, Lady Gaga has so far donated approximately $3 million to disaster zones in the northeast of Japan, most of that from the sale of the wristbands.The star was in Tokyo last weekend for a charity concert organized by MTV Video Music Aid Japan.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Radioactive water leaks from Japan's damaged plant
– Tue Jun 28, 9:20 am ET
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tons of radioactive water were discovered on Tuesday to have leaked into the ground from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, the latest in a series of leaks at the plant damaged in a March earthquake and tsunami, the country's nuclear watchdog said.More than three months after the disaster, authorities are struggling to bring under control damaged reactors at the power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.About 15 metric tons of water with a low level of radiation leaked from a storage tank at the plant on the Pacific coast, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it was investigating the cause of the leak which was later repaired.Vast amounts of water contaminated with varying levels of radiation have accumulated in storage tanks at the plant after being used to cool reactors damaged when their original cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 disaster.Dealing with that radioactive water has been a major problem for Tepco, which is trying to use a decontamination system that cleans water so it can be recycled to cool the reactors.
But the system has encountered technical glitches and officials have said the water could spill into the Pacific Ocean unless the system was operating properly.The system was halted an hour and a half after it started on Monday because of a water leakage.Tepco fixed the problem and restarted the system on Tuesday afternoon, said Junichi Matsumoto, an official at the utility.(Reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro and Yoko Kubota; Editing by Michael Watson and Robert Birsel)
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
US nuclear material safe despite wildfire: officials
– Tue Jun 28, 3:43 pm ET
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Radioactive material stored at the top US nuclear laboratory is safe despite a threatening wildfire which has closed the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) until Wednesday and forced thousands to evacuate, officials said.All nuclear and hazardous materials, including those at the lab's principal waste storage site known as Area G, are accounted for and protected, authorities said Tuesday on the official New Mexico Fire Information website.Water tanks at the lab's wild land fire helicopter landing pad are re-filled in preparation for today's firefighting activities, they said about the historic lab where the atomic bomb was developed during World War II.The laboratory's website confirmed that the facility would remain closed until at least Wednesday, and that firefighters have ordered thousands to evacuate the nearby town of Los Alamos, where 42 percent of the lab's 11,800 employees live.Only employees on an essential-duties access list will be permitted back onto laboratory property during the closure, as notified by their line management,LANL said.
The Las Conchas fire did not reach lab property Monday night after a small fire on the property was put out earlier that day, and no releases of radiological or other contaminants had been detected by LANL monitoring teams, officials said.We ordered the evacuation yesterday after the fire moved beyond our safety triggers and did a small incursion into LANL property that was aggressively fought by our county personnel with LANL support and the forest service helping us to extinguish the small area restoring our line,Los Alamos Fire Department's assistant chief Michael Thompson told AFP.Today we have predictions of more winds that will carry the fire further in the forest above the community and threaten the line that we have (protecting) LANL. We have had some time to prepare for this and now have the resources ready and will defend against the threat,he added.Radioactive materials are stored at the Laboratory for research purposes and the property also houses radioactive waste.LANL is operated by Los Alamos National Security, a partnership between the University of California, Bechtel National, the Babcock & Wilcox Company, and the Washington division of URS for the US Department of Energy.
Separately, US nuclear authorities were watching floodwaters threatening a nuclear power plant in Nebraska after a protective barrier collapsed.The 2,000-foot (607-meter) long barrier, holding back floodwaters from the Missouri river, collapsed early Sunday, threatening the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant.This allowed floodwaters to surround the auxiliary and containment buildings, which are protected by design to a floodwater level of 1014 mean sea level,the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.The Missouri river was at 1,006.3 feet (306.7 meters), but river levels were not expected to exceed 1,008 feet, it added in a statement. The collapse also allowed floodwaters to surround the main electrical transformers, it said, adding that operators transferred power from offsite sources as a precautionary measure.The plant has been shut down since April 7 for refueling, it said.
Royal visit puts Canada's sense of self to a test
APBy ROB GILLIES - Associated Press | AP – JUNE 28,11
TORONTO (AP) — Decades have passed since Canadians abandoned the Union Jack and replaced God Save the Queen with O Canada, but the royalty-lovers among them are in for a thrill when Britain's newest royal couple come visiting on Thursday.Meanwhile, those who leaf through the government's updated guide to good citizenship will notice that the oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II has been moved from the back of the pamphlet to the front.Royalty seems to be making a comeback of sorts in Canada.Part of it is simply the afterglow of the sumptuous wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton two months ago. But something deeper is afoot than mere stargazing: Prime Minister Stephen Harper is the most pro-monarchy Canadian leader since the 1950s, and his ambition is to foster a national identity that is more conservative and more aware of its historical roots. He has just come out of a general election greatly strengthened, and now he gets to bask in the aura of William and Kate on their first official overseas trip as a married couple.He thinks that emphasizing Canada's monarchical traditions is key to refashioning Canadians' self-image,said Robert Bothwell, a professor at the University of Toronto.
Ordinarily, most Canadians are indifferent to the monarchy, even though 85-year-old Queen Elizabeth II is their titular head of state, is portrayed on their coins and stamps, and has visited them 22 times as head of state. But a royal visit usually brings out the crowds, and Heritage Minister James Moore reckons this one will be the most-watched in Canada's history.The monarchy is part of our fabric, part of our future and it's one of the central institutions to our identity as Canadians, Moore told The Associated Press.Many in the French-speaking province of Quebec disagree, and small groups have taken to the streets on past royal visits to show their displeasure. The visiting couple will be in Quebec City, where a militant French separatist group has vowed to demonstrate, and may face similar protests in Montreal.
The group's spokesman, college student Julien Gaudreau, said The monarchist symbol is a right-wing symbol ... It's not really democratic, it's not representative of the population.Overall, the antiroyal movement in Canada is minuscule, meaning that William, now 29, will almost certainly be king of Canada one day. One reason is that abolishing the monarchy would mean changing the constitution. That's an inherently risky undertaking, given how delicately it is engineered to unite a nation of 34 million that embraces English-speakers, French-speakers, indigenous tribes and a constant flow of new immigrants.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they are formally known, will encounter many of those faces of Canada during their nine days of travel, from the sub-Arctic to oil-rich Calgary, Alberta, from busy Montreal to bucolic Prince Edward Island of Anne of Green Gables fame. They'll sit around a campfire with young people, dress casual for the Calgary rodeo, join a cookout in Quebec City, and hand out flags to newly minted Canadians at a citizenship ceremony.
Harper, five years in office, will meanwhile be pushing ahead with his long-term goal of shifting the country's ideological bearings from center-left to center-right — a project that lays greater stress on such symbols as the monarchy, the military, hockey and the Arctic.When the updated guide for new immigrants was published in 2009, it was widely noted that the monarchy and armed forces overshadowed social programs such as universal health care, the pride of the left-of-center Liberal era typified by the late Pierre Trudeau.Harper harkens back to a 1950s conservative vision of Canada — none of the Trudeau-welfare state stuff, said Lawrence Martin, a political columnist for The Globe and Mail newspaper and author of Harperland: The Politics of Control.That's the type of identity that he's trying to forge here, which is a fair distance from the Liberal way. He likes to use the monarchy as a tool of that because it fits his vision of the country, distinct from the Liberal vision.Gerry Nicholls, who worked under Harper at a conservative think tank, said Harper previously wasn't a staunch monarchist, but that he values it as a conservative symbol.It plays into a larger strategy of creating this conservative ethos for Canada. But we're never going to go back to God Save the Queen, the Union Jack or those kind of things, Nicholls told the AP.Nicholls said the Liberals were often seen as openly hostile to the monarchy, in what people would see as a rejection of our past and our traditions.John Manley, a former foreign minister and deputy Liberal prime minister, is the most prominent Canadian to have suggested, while in office, that the tie be severed. But he as well as the opinion polls acknowledge it's not a hot-button issue.A poll of about 1,000 Canadians taken by Harris/Decima a year ago, just before the queen's last visit, showed 55 percent were aware she was coming. Fifty-two percent of those who were aware of the visit felt the monarchy is an important part of Canadian history, while 44 percent saw it as part of the colonial past. Margin of error was given as 3.1 percent.
In an interview, Manley said Canadians care much more about who wins hockey's Stanley Cup. I suspect that another country, perhaps Australia, is going to deal with this first. Then perhaps Canadians might consider it.Josh Upton, 21, of the Calgary branch of The Monarchist League of Canada, expects the William-and-Kate visit to strengthen Canada's ties with its sovereign.It's the new fresh face on the monarchy, he said. People are going to be more excited about it because they see the future of the monarchy in Canada in the duke and duchess.But Ameya Pendse, born in the U.S. to Indian parents and now a Canadian citizen, belongs to Citizens for a Canadian Republic, an anti-monarchy group.I've talked to many young kids and they say the queen shouldn't have any role in our society whatsoever, said Pendse, 18. We're paying millions of dollars for their stays in Canada and it's really disturbing. It's like paying for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to come visit us here because they are nothing but celebrities.The trip will cost the Canadian government about $1.5 million, Moore, the heritage minister, estimated.Selena Ross in Montreal contributed to this story.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Netanyahu: Abbas, Just Say the Six Words
by Gil Ronen JUNE 28,11
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to just say six words - I will accept the Jewish state - in his address to the Jewish Agency Board of Governors Tuesday, Palestinian society is split now between those who actively are prepared to use force, violence, terror and war to wipe us out and those who refuse stand up to that first half,he said.That’s basically the division there. This remains the heart of the problem.Nevertheless, he added, I understand that we will have to have a historic compromise which is very painful, so I stood before my people, the people of Israel, and I said numerous times that I will accept a Palestinian state. Now President Abbas must stand before his people and he has to say these six words, I will accept the Jewish State.He has to say it. And I will repeat this over and over and over again because it is the attempt to fudge, it’s the attempt to fudge and evade and obscure this essential component of peace, the removal of this basic obstacle to peace, that is required, and this is what the international community must face up to.Regarding the demilitarization of the future Palestinian state,Netanyahu repeated the formulations he used in his speech to the joint session of Congress.
We don’t want a repeat of what happened when we withdrew from Gaza or from South Lebanon. I believe that this will require for Israel to maintain a long-term military presence along the Jordan River. There will be arguments about sovereignty, about territory, but I think that... demilitarization and a long-term military presence along the Jordan River are essential to guaranteeing any peace. A peace you cannot defend will not hold. A peace you can defend will.Netanyahu said Israel would incorporate within its final borders what are called the settlement blocs, these large, urban communities that are fairly dense and concentrated alongside Greater Tel Aviv and Greater Jerusalem, and other areas of critical, strategic and national importance...We believe also that Jerusalem must remain united, under Israeli sovereignty. It’s the only time in its millennial history that it has assured the free and unfettered access of all three monotheistic religions to their holy places.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Barak Slams Flotilla Organizers: No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza by Elad Benari JUNE 28,11
Defense Minister Ehud Barak slammed on Tuesday the organizers of this year’s planned Freedom Flotilla to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, saying the flotilla intended to go to Gaza is nothing but a provocation.Speaking at a tribute dinner to IDF reservists, Barak said: The facts and figures are clear and visible – there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. If the flotilla organizers are so sensitive to human suffering, they should direct their efforts to ensure the immediate release of Gilad Shalit, or at least work to arrange regular visits with him by the International Red Cross.Hamas terrorists kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit more than five years ago, and have been holding him in Gaza ever since. Since his kidnapping, the terror organization has refused to allow Shalit to have any visits by the Red Cross.Due to Hamas’ refusal to allow Shalit this basic right of a hostage, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said last week he would put an end to the many benefits and privileges enjoyed by Hamas terror prisoners in Israeli prisons.In his remarks on Tuesday, Barak also addressed the Israeli government’s decision to order the IDF to interdict the flotilla.In accordance with the Cabinet’s decision, I instructed the IDF to stop the flotilla if the ships do not comply with the requests to turn to the Ashdod or El Arish ports,he said.We are monitoring the situation continuously, especially due to the realization that there may be violent elements on the ship.
Earlier on Tuesday, there were reports that the activists taking part in the flotilla are planning to kill soldiers using chemical weapons.The activists denied this, saying the charges of plots to kill are simply excuses for the IDF to justify violence.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IDF Delivers Goods to Gaza but Flotilla Leader Claims Blockade by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 28,11
The IDF oversees the shipment of 6,000 tons of food, fuel, merchandise and building material to Gaza every day but flotilla leaders allege a blockade exists. The requests never exceed the transit vehicles' capacity.The daily deliveries never turn into media frenzy, according to IDF spokesmen.In contrast, previous convoys, instigating violent provocations with Israeli or Egyptian forces, rarely delivered substantial amounts of goods into Gaza,the IDF said on its website.Israel maintains a maritime blockade on Hamas-controlled Gaza to allow the Navy to stop the smuggling of missiles and advanced weapons for the use of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations that use Gaza as a launching pad for attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.The IDF noted that aid from European convoys to Gaza has continuously been transferred overland in an orderly way without the violence that characterized last year’s IHH-backed flotilla.
After Navy commandos prevented the ships from sailing to Gaza, the boats were led to the port in Ashdod, where it was discovered that the IHH’s Mavi Marmara ship was not carrying any aid at all.The 2010 Gaza flotilla’s five other ships arrived with only 20 truckloads worth of goods, including expired medication. Before the ships left ports for Gaza, a flotilla organizer said the real aim was to Isolate Israel in the international community.In contrast, the European convoy Miles of Smiles 3 last month arrived at the Rafiah land crossing at the Egyptian border. The convoy’s ten European human rights organizations transferred 30 tons of medical supplies, 12 ambulances, baby food, and wheelchairs to Gaza by coordinating efforts with the Egyptian Red Crescent,the IDF stated.It added, The transfer of goods and materials did not entail violence because the organizers focused on delivering supplies, rather than delegitimizing Israel through a violent confrontation.The IDF explained how to donate to Gaza Arabs by contacting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross.Humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza submit all formal requests to Israel’s COGAT, a governmental body that coordinates civilian policy including humanitarian issues, infrastructure projects and economic projects.Last year, Israel changed its more limited policy and allowed all goods to enter Gaza after being checked, except for dual-use products, which undergo a review to make sure they will not be used for the Hamas terrorist infrastructure and weapons.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Gaza flotilla begins mission despite EU warning
ANDREW RETTMAN 28.06.2011 @ 09:27 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Organisers say one ship is already at sea and 10 are to sail from Greek ports on Wednesday (29 June) or Thursday, after EU countries warned the group not to go ahead.Claude Leostic from the Paris-based Association France Palestine Solidarite (AFPS) told EUobserver that one boat left France at the weekend and is en route to a confidential meeting point in the Mediterranean Sea.The flotilla, which has two MEPs on board and which organisers say is carrying humanitarian and medical supplies, aims to reach Gaza by Sunday.Leostic noted that ships were obstructed in leaving from Spain, Turkey and the UK. The Greek contingent was to sail on Tuesday but several vessels faced last minute problems with official paperwork, putting off the departure until Wednesday or Thursday.When we met with the Greek authorities it was clear they were under heavy pressure. We were even told internally that the Israeli government has warned Greece they would press European countries not to give it financial aid. It's hard to resist that kind of pressure, she said.Greek and Israeli authorities denied the report.That is not true,Greek foreign ministry spokesman Gregoris Delavekouras told this website. We do not expect any impact on our bilateral relations with Israel [if the Greek boats go in the end]. The Gaza flotilla is a very specific issue.A Turkish diplomatic source indicated the Turkish flotilla element was blocked for the sake of bilateral relations, however. We do not want another crisis with the Israelis at this point, the contact said.
Israeli authorities noted the flotilla has no diplomatic support from the EU, the UN or the US. All 27 EU countries in Brussels on Friday signed a statement saying: Humanitarian assistance ... [to Gaza] should be in accordance with the relevant framework and decisions of the UN and should take care not to endanger human lives.A spokeswoman for EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton confirmed that the line should be read as a warning not to go.Israel is preparing for a potentially violent confrontation despite the fact its soldiers last year caused international outrage when they killed nine flotilla members.Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) spokeswoman Avital Leibovich said: We have developed soft power tactics' in order to make use of every possibility before engaging in contact with the illegal passengers. Last week, our navy held a wide training session, simulating a variety of scenarios.With one French flotilla ship carrying national radio, TV and print journalists, Leibovich added that Israel has also made fresh plans to defend itself in the media.Regarding PR, although we embedded journalists last year on [our] navy ship, we intend to do it again - with a larger number of journalists. We also developed a unique system of passing footage from our ships directly to our base on land, so that we will be able to distribute it quickly to the world.For her part, AFPS' Leostic described the project as a form of civil disobedience against both Israel and EU governments.If our governments had done what should be done [take action against Gaza's isolation] we would be sitting quietly at home, she said.It's not that I want to go and be attacked by commandos in the middle of the Mediterranean. But we owe it to everybody. If countries refuse to abide by international law and nobody does anything, it's the duty of citizens to act. It goes beyond Palestine and Israel.The IDF's Leibovich said it has a right to stop the boats under the maritime law, the San Remo convention. She added that three months ago a ship claiming to be carrying food to Gaza, the Victoria, had bullets, mortars and ship-to-shore missiles on board.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (16 June 2011) – There is a 50% chance our mission will be successful, Irish MEP Paul Murphy told EUobserver a week and a half before his departure. He is currently on the Freedom flotilla Saorise. We're a bit delayed now because of Israeli attempts to prevent ships from leaving port, he told EUobserver yesterday (28 June) via twitter. Confident we'll be on way by end of week.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40rfmsy-Gw&feature=player_embedded
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
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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Dow +85 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,507.10.OIL opens at $93.16 today.
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Dow -12 points at low today.
Dow +85 points at high today.
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EU to Greece: No more solidarity if you vote No
LEIGH PHILLIPS 28.06.2011 @ 18:13 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - On the eve of perhaps the most significant vote in the Greek parliament since the return of democracy to the country in 1974, the European Commission has warned Greek deputies that if they do not vote the right way, then everything changes as to whether EU solidarity continues.The Greek parliament opened debate on Tuesday (28 June) on a draconian package of public spending cuts, structural reforms and a massive €50 billion sell-off of state assets imposed by international lenders. The Greek parliament is due to vote on the mid-term package on Wednesday and hold a second vote on its implementation on Thursday.In a stern public statement issued the same day, EU economics commissioner Olli Rehn said there are only two options for the country: pass the mid-term package or default.The only way to avoid immediate default is for parliament to endorse the revised economic programme,he said in a communique read out to reporters by his spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj-Tardio.To those who speculate about other options, let me say this clearly: there is no Plan B to avoid default.In recent weeks, a range of commentators, including mainstream and heterodox economists have recommended a range of other paths out of the crisis than those on the table.The EU executive however dismissed such ideas as unrealistic.According to press reports over the last hours, there seems to be an illusion that there will be other plans on our desk, Altafaj-Tardio told reporters.This should be clear in all journalists, politicians and markets' minds.Pressed whether the commissioner's words meant that if the vote is defeated, Greece will be allowed to go bankrupt, the spokesman said: If Greece does everything to take the objectives set a year ago, then EU solidarity continues. If not, then of course everything changes.He refused to answer whether a country can default and still be a member of the eurozone.We are not putting ourselves in a scenario without Greece at this point in time,he said.
However, a eurozone source close to talks on the subject confirmed to EUobserver that there are indeed half-formed ideas about emergency measures to take in the event that the Greek parliament votes down the measures.It would be extremely irresponsible if there were no Plan B. There have been discussions on what to do, a contingency plan in the event that Greece doesn't vote the right way, said the contact.Ideas include a show of public support, possibly with the European Financial Stability Fund directly purchasing Greek government debt - an option that has until now been forbidden.One idea would involve allowing Greece to miss a payment and the EFSF then swooping in and buying up debt at a significantly discounted rate, but with very strict conditions.Another possibility is that Greece could return to the private sector for funding, although such a move would entail borrowing at acutely high rates.A market analyst speaking to this website also confirmed that in theory, there is nothing preventing Athens from selling debt to private creditors, at least for a short period.In the event of a failed vote, Greece could still make the repayments due in July and August by borrowing in the short-term money market, albeit at a very steep interest rate, Sony Kapoor, the director of international economic think-tank Re-Define, told EUobserver.This would buy two more months of negotiation time.In the same statement, the commissioner again told opposition forces to drop their resistance to the mid-term package and forge the necessary political consensus.Rehn appeared to respond to critics alarmed at the unprecedented interference by Brussels in domestic party politics, a phenomenon that has accelerated over the course of the year as the EU has successfully intervened to force cross-party consensus in three member states around election times, in order to prevent results from upsetting the economic apple cart.He stressed that he fully respects the prerogatives and the sovereignty of the Greek parliament. He also insisted, against criticisms from the left that working people, pensioners and the poor are being hit hardest by the austerity measures: This is about social justice, saying that the mid-term package fights tax evasion and supports honest work.
Rolling black-outs
The austerity has provoked furious country-wide resistance to the measures. A two-day general strike was launched on Tuesday.According to on-the-ground reports, industrial action managed to paralyse much of the country although demonstrations were substantially smaller than during the last, one-day general strike, with an estimated 25,000 gathered in front of the parliament building.Flights were largely grounded as air traffic controllers struck, while electric company workers have maintained rolling blackouts throughout the country. Most large private-sector enterprises and public-sector services were shut down, but many small and medium-sized businesses continued to operate as usual, with workers afraid for their jobs if they participate.Meanwhile, violent skirmishes broke out in the capital between police and protesters, with extensive use of tear gas and stun grenades. Some 18 people have been detained, according to police, and four arrested.Trade unions are set to march on the parliament in the evening.
European bankers mull French plan for Greek rollover
LEIGH PHILLIPS 28.06.2011 @ 09:27 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European lenders are considering the first draft of a plan put forward by French banks for a rollover of some 70 percent of the banks' holdings of Greek debt.Unveiled by French President Nicholas Sarkozy on Monday (27 June), the plan would involve private bondholders agreeing to re-invest back in Greece half the amount of their holdings as they matured, swapping the debts for new longer-dated bonds.The maturity on the new bonds remains up for discussion, with some German sources saying the suggested extension to 30 years is too long, but the aim is to partially free the country from having to repay its debts in the near term, relieving some pressure from the insolvent nation.A further 20 percent of debts coming due would be invested in triple-A bonds via a special purpose vehicle.EU nations are hoping to convince private creditors to engage in such voluntary rollovers amounting to around €30 billion, representing just under a third of the amount of a potential second bail-out of the country.The French scheme was considered alongside other options at a meeting in Rome on Monday night of some of the most powerful figures in international banking, with executives flying in to talks with eurozone and European Central Bank representatives regarding the voluntary rollover.Organised by the Institute of International Finance, the world's global association of financial institutions, the meeting was hosted by Vittorio Grilli, the Italian Treasury chief and head of the EU Economic and Finance Committee
EU officials have confirmed that discussions on a voluntary rollover have already been taking place with Belgian, Dutch and German banks.However, other bondholders, including pension funds and central banks would also need to be convinced of rollover plans.Such schemes, however voluntary, may in any case provoke credit ratings agencies to declare a Greek default, as the Fitch agency announced it would do last week.European leaders are confident that they can cobble together a plan that is sufficiently voluntary that such a credit event will not happen.They are confident, not 100 percent, but they think they can pull it off,one EU official told EUobserver.The talks came ahead of a crucial vote in the Greek parliament on a package of €28 billion in cuts and €50 billion in public asset sell-offs. Discussion on the programme begins on Tuesday, with a vote on Wednesday. A second vote on a plan for implementing the programme will be held Thursday.Unions launched a two-day general strike on Tuesday in opposition to the mid-term Greek plan while a number of government deputies began to wobble in public as to whether they would support the measures.The ruling Pasok party has a slim, five-seat majority.
Financial crisis saw massive drop in EU investment
ANDREW RETTMAN 28.06.2011 @ 11:20 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The worldwide financial crisis, which erupted in late 2008, saw foreign investors massively cut their flow of money to the EU.The European Commission put out the figures, covering 2010, on Monday (27 June), on the eve of a vote by Greek MPs on further austerity cuts designed to win credibility among institutional lenders like the International Monetary Fund, and the private sector.
The numbers show that foreign direct investment (FDI) to the EU, which includes investment in foreign businesses but not purchases of sovereign debt, fell from €216 billion in 2009 to €54 billion in 2010.The steepest fall came from offshore financial centres, which injected €46 billion into the EU economy in 2009 and just €4 billion the year after. The biggest overall drop came from the US, from €97 billion to €28 billion. Investment from Switzerland and Russia also plunged. But inflows from Canada (up €16 billion) and China (up €12 billion) went up.Luxembourg - a financial services centre - took a big hit as the EU's largest normal recipient of outside money.The commission report said the overall drop continues the trend of recent years and noted that FDI into the EU was eight times higher in 2007, before the crisis struck, than in 2010.EU investors also tightened their purse strings.
EU investment around the world in 2010 fell from €281 billion to €107 billion. EU companies held back money primarily from offshore investment centres and the US. But investment also plummeted in Switzerland, going from €44 billion in 2009 to a net extraction of €7 billion.EU outward investment was five times lower than in 2007.
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.
Iran fires missiles in second day of war games
ReutersBy Parisa Hafezi | Reuters – JUNE 28,11
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards tested 14 missiles on Tuesday, the second day of war games intended as a show of strength toward enemies Israel and the United States.The Iranian-made surface-to-surface missiles, with a maximum range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles), were fired simultaneously at a single target, the official IRNA news agency reported.Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace division, emphasised Iran's preparedness to retaliate against Israel and U.S. interests in the event of any attack.The range of our missiles has been designed based on American bases in the region as well as the Zionist regime, Hajizadeh told the semi-official Fars news agency.The United States and Israel have said they do not rule out military strikes on Iran if diplomatic means fail to stop it developing nuclear weapons. Tehran says its nuclear program is geared to producing electricity, not atom bombs.IRNA said the Guards fired nine Zelzal missiles, two Shahab-1s, two Shahab-2s and one upgraded Shahab-3 missile. Iranian officials have previously announced that the Shahab 3 can reach targets up to 2,000 km (1,242 miles) away, putting Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf within reach.
In Washington, the U.S. State Department reminded Iran that U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929 bars it from any activity related to ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear weapons, but declined to say if it believed any of those tested were nuclear-capable.That there is a U.N. Security Council resolution that precludes them from any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nukes is an important red line for us, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.A long-time enemy of the United States, Iran has been emboldened by what it perceives as U.S. military defeats in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan. Both countries are still home to large U.S. troop numbers and Washington has other bases in the Gulf that Iran could choose to target.The Americans have reduced our labors, Hajizadeh told Fars. Their military bases in the region are in a range of 130, 250 and maximum 700 km in Afghanistan which we can hit with these missiles.
FINGERS ON THE TRIGGER
Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the Guards, said: We still have our fingers on the trigger, but the number of triggers has increased.The Great Prophet 6 war games, to be carried out on land and sea, are a message of peace and friendship to countries of the region, Hajizadeh said on Monday.Asked whether Iranian missiles were a threat to Europe, Hajizadeh told IRNA that while Iran had the technological capacity to build longer-range missiles, the 2,000-km range had been chosen precisely with Israel and U.S. bases in mind.Except America and the Zionist regime, we do not feel a threat from any other country, he said.Also on Tuesday, Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Hungarian ambassador, whose country holds the European Union's rotating presidency, to protest against sanctions slapped by the bloc on three high-ranking Revolutionary Guards officials.The EU accused the three of supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's suppression of anti-government protests and added their names on Friday to a blacklist that imposes travel restrictions and freezes assets.The Guards also unveiled new underground ballistic missile silos which they said would reduce launch times as missiles would not need to be moved prior to being launched.The silos are a part of the swift reaction unit of the missile brigade, missiles are stored vertically, ready to be launched against pre-determined targets, Fars quoted Hajizadeh as saying.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Iran's military capability was for purely defensive purposes but the country is happy if its show of strength rattles the West.The westerners' concern is a source of delight for us, because we will not allow any country to have a greedy approach toward our country's interests and territorial integrity, Mehmanparast said.If all the regional states had the highest defensive capability the Zionist regime would have never allowed itself to carry out an act of aggression.Mehmanparast also urged Russia to make good on a delivery of S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, saying the system was for defensive purposes and Iran expected Russia to take its bilateral commitments more seriously.Moscow unilaterally suspended the delivery of S-300s after the United States and Israel expressed concern Iran could use the anti-aircraft missiles to shield its nuclear facilities.(Additional reporting by Hossein Jaseb and by Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Writing by Ramin Mostafavi; Editing by Peter Graff and Vicki Allen)
Muslim Mickey' Causes a Furor in Egypt
by David Lev JUNE 28,11
While Hamas had no problem drafting Mickey Mouse – thinly disguised as “Farfur” the mouse – to indoctrinate toddlers in Gaza to join the jihad against Israel, Muslims in Egypt have called a boycott against the Christian Copt owner of a communications company who insulted Islam by dressing Mickey up in Muslim garb.Fifteen lawyers are suing businessman Naguib Sawiris for publicizing a photo of Mickey Mouse wearing a white robe and a beard, together with an image of Minnie Mouse wearing a full-face veil. The lawyers, along with dozens of Muslim clerics, have called for Egyptians to cut their contracts with Sawiris' Mobinil and Orascom cellphone companies.Islamists, many from the ultraconservative Salafi sect, have opened numerous Facebook pages calling for a boycott. If you’re a real Muslim ... boycott his (Sawiris’) products if you love your religion. We have to cut the tongue of any person who attacks our religion,says the page of one group.Other groups, with titles like We Hate You Mickey Sawiris,have garnered thousands of page views for their sites. In a television interview, top Muslim cleric Mazen el-Sersawi accused Sawaris of fomenting tension between Muslims and Coptic Christians, who have clashed on numerous occasions in recent months, leaving dozens wounded and several dead. How can a man like this make fun of Muslims, in a country on the brink of sectarian discord,el-Sersawi said in the interview.
Sawaris, for his part, issued an apology via his Twitter account, writing, I apologize for those who don’t take this as a joke. I just thought it was a funny picture; no disrespect meant! I’m sorry.Speaking Sunday at a meeting of political activists, Sawaris added, We should not limit Islam to a beard or veil.The apology has not calmed tensions, however, and a protest outside Orascom headquarters is planned for later this week. Naguib Sawaris' family is considered one of the wealthiest in Egypt. Sawaris was very active in the campaign to oust Hosni Mubarak; an avowed secularist, he founded the Free Egyptian political party, which plans to run in the upcoming elections.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Israel Tourists Boycotting Turkey
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 28,11
Israeli tourists have gone cold Turkey, avoiding a country which is suffering a 59 percent decrease in visits from Israel to the once-popular vacation spot before Ankara turned a cold shoulder to its former friend.The decrease in the first five months this year compares with a 133 increase in 2010, when compared with the same period the previous year, Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper reported.Only 30,000 Israel tourists visited Turkey between January and May of this year, compared with 72,500 the previous year. The sharp decline accelerated in May, when the decrease was more than 60 percent.Turkey and Israel enjoyed friendly relations until two years ago, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to join international condemnation of Israel for the counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead campaign against Hamas terrorists. Retired Judge Richard Goldstone, who authored a damning report of Israel for the United Nations, has since admitted that many of his accusations were wrong.
Turkish-Israeli relations sank to new depths after the flotilla clash in May 2010, when Turkish members of the terror-linked and Turkish-based IHH group clubbed, shot at and kidnapped Navy commandos who boarded their boat to prevent it from approaching Hamas-controlled Gaza.Nine IHH members were killed in the clash. The angry reaction from Ankara, accompanied by several extremely anti-Semitic presentations on television, has led many Israelis to look for different countries for vacationing.(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 forms in Gulf; heavy rains expected
JUNE 28,11
MIAMI – Forecasters say Tropical Storm Arlene has formed in the Gulf of Mexico but is not likely to threaten the U.S. coast.The government of Mexico on Tuesday issued Tropical Storm warnings for the northeastern coast from Barra De Nautla north to Bahia Algodones. The storm is predicted to hug much of the coast over the next few days.The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., says Arlene is about 280 miles (450 kilometers) east-southeast of Tampico, Mexico. The center had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph). It is the first named storm in the Atlantic this season.
The main threat to Mexico is heavy rains that could cause flash floods and mudslides. Forecasters say extreme south Texas also could get some rain from the system.
More flooding woes along the Missouri, Souris rivers
By Michael Avok – JUNE 28,11
OMAHA, Neb (Reuters) – Missouri River floodwaters lapped at a nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday and have cracked more defenses downstream after weeks of sustained pressure on levees running hundreds of miles.And in Minot, North Dakota's fourth largest city, the roughly 12,000 displaced residents watched Souris River flooding slowly recede and began to look toward recovery.Up and down the Missouri River from North Dakota to Missouri, residents on Tuesday said they were just plain tired -- tired of sandbags, tired of water, tired of worrying.We've just got water. And, it's not going away, said Tony Mangan, 50, whose family has lived in the South Dakota river town and capital of Pierre, since 1987.You sense there is a weariness out there. People are tired.Flood defenses have protected downtown Pierre. Griffin Park and Steamboat Park at the river's edge have flooded, with water running over the amphitheater main stage at Steamboat Park.Across from Yankton, South Dakota, Don Edwards said he has spent thousands of dollars on sandbags and rock material known as rip-rap to keep his Murdo's Aten Resort eatery open in Nebraska barely three miles downstream from Gavins Point Dam.The river is about 2 feet below the deck, Edwards said of the restaurant's wooden deck overlooking the Missouri River.Normally it's about 12-15 feet below the deck.If it comes up any more, we are all in trouble.Several inches of rain over the weekend caused storm sewer backups in Omaha and across the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Some businesses and residents were forced out on the east side of Omaha temporarily.Federal officials said Tuesday they were reinforcing 2.1 miles of levee in Council Bluffs where they had found seepage or sand boils on a dozen sections.
MORE LEVEE BREACHES
At the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station north of Omaha, which has been shut since April for maintenance, officials expect to replace by the end of next week an inflatable barrier that deflated on Sunday sending a rush of water toward the plant.
The breach temporarily interrupted some electrical power but emergency generators restored power later that day and there was no threat to sensitive facilities.
Although the plant is surrounded by water, its flood defenses have nearly eight feet of space from current river levels, officials have said.Record water releases to relieve pressure on six reservoirs from Montana through South Dakota have strained flood defenses and the Missouri River continued to breach levees along the northern Missouri and Kansas border.About 300 or 400 people have been forced from homes in Winthrop, Missouri, and in nearby Lewis and Clark Village since Monday afternoon because of a 150-foot wide levee breach, said Bill Brinton, Buchanan County emergency management director.Water was nearly as high as the eaves Tuesday on some year-round and vacation homes at Sugar Lake due to the breach, Britton said. High water closed the Amelia Earhart Bridge over the Missouri River connecting Missouri to Atchison, Kansas.Downstream, St. Joe Casino and Remington Nature Center in St. Joseph, Missouri, were closed after parking lots flooded.St. Joseph's levees have 10 to 15 feet of room above current river levels, Brinton said.I feel pretty good about our levees but you never know what's going to fail or pop, Brinton said.
SOURIS RIVER SLOWLY RECEDES IN MINOT
In Minot, the Souris River had receded on Tuesday by barely a foot from the weekend crest that smashed a 130-year-old record by nearly four feet. It is forecast to stay above the prior record until the Fourth of July and it could be weeks before residents can survey the heaviest damage.Only about 375 of the roughly 4,100 structures damaged in Minot were covered by flood insurance. City officials have said at least half the structures had extensive damage and there may be high demand for temporary housing.We are looking at about four different tracts of land in town, in this area, that are very good size because the destruction is just unbelievable down in the valley, Minot Mayor Curt Zimbelman told reporters on Tuesday.A few hundred people have stayed in area shelters and many others have stayed with friends, family and neighbors. Officials urged them to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency as it prepares for longer term housing.North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple on Tuesday picked National Guard Major General Murray Sagsveen to coordinate statewide flood recovery efforts. Sagsveen also directed Grand Forks recovery efforts from a devastating 1997 flood.Sagsveen told reporters it would be a long-term process of recovery for North Dakota's flooded communities, but said he believed Grand Forks came out of the 1997 flood a far more beautiful, vibrant city than it was before.This is a disaster, but I am very hopeful that coming out of this, Minot will be even more robust than it is right now, Sagsveen said. I am confident of that.(Additional reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri, and David Bailey in Minneapolis; Editing by Jerry Norton)
Lady Gaga (GOOGOO) accused of fraud in Japan relief efforts JUNE 28,11
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – American pop star Lady Gaga is accused of misrepresenting charitable donations from wristbands sold to benefit tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan earlier this year.The complaint, filed in a Michigan court on Friday by 1800lawfirm, says the star as well as her record label, Universal Music Group, and the Bravado International Group, lacked transparency surrounding the amount of money that was raised from sales of the wristbands and whether those funds were 100% allocated to earthquake and tsunami victims.After the earthquake and tsunami disasters in March 2011 that devastated Japan, Lady Gaga created the rubber wristbands and the singer's website advertised that all proceeds from sales of the wristband would benefit victims.The white rubber bracelets were sold for $5 and inscribed in red with the phrase, We pray for Japan,in English and Japanese.While we commend Lady Gaga for her philanthropic efforts, we want to ensure that claims that all proceeds will be donated to Japan?s earthquake relief efforts are in fact true, said one of the plaintiff's lawyers, Alyson Oliver, in a press release.The suit alleges that the singer and her partners added additional shipping charges in excess of the amount required to ship the wristbands based on their weight, and retained a portion of the shipping charges,according to court documents.This misguided lawsuit is without merit and unfortunately takes attention away from the kind deeds of the fans around the world who are supporting the people of Japan,said Lady Gaga's spokeswoman, Holly Shakoor in an email to AFP.
The entire $5 donation made with the purchase of each bracelet is going to support the disaster relief. No profit is being made on shipping costs. Sales tax charges were made in accordance with local legal requirements,she added.The lawsuit seeks damages,including a return of all amounts paid for the products,according to the press release.According to Japanese media, Lady Gaga has so far donated approximately $3 million to disaster zones in the northeast of Japan, most of that from the sale of the wristbands.The star was in Tokyo last weekend for a charity concert organized by MTV Video Music Aid Japan.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Radioactive water leaks from Japan's damaged plant
– Tue Jun 28, 9:20 am ET
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tons of radioactive water were discovered on Tuesday to have leaked into the ground from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, the latest in a series of leaks at the plant damaged in a March earthquake and tsunami, the country's nuclear watchdog said.More than three months after the disaster, authorities are struggling to bring under control damaged reactors at the power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.About 15 metric tons of water with a low level of radiation leaked from a storage tank at the plant on the Pacific coast, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it was investigating the cause of the leak which was later repaired.Vast amounts of water contaminated with varying levels of radiation have accumulated in storage tanks at the plant after being used to cool reactors damaged when their original cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 disaster.Dealing with that radioactive water has been a major problem for Tepco, which is trying to use a decontamination system that cleans water so it can be recycled to cool the reactors.
But the system has encountered technical glitches and officials have said the water could spill into the Pacific Ocean unless the system was operating properly.The system was halted an hour and a half after it started on Monday because of a water leakage.Tepco fixed the problem and restarted the system on Tuesday afternoon, said Junichi Matsumoto, an official at the utility.(Reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro and Yoko Kubota; Editing by Michael Watson and Robert Birsel)
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
US nuclear material safe despite wildfire: officials
– Tue Jun 28, 3:43 pm ET
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Radioactive material stored at the top US nuclear laboratory is safe despite a threatening wildfire which has closed the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) until Wednesday and forced thousands to evacuate, officials said.All nuclear and hazardous materials, including those at the lab's principal waste storage site known as Area G, are accounted for and protected, authorities said Tuesday on the official New Mexico Fire Information website.Water tanks at the lab's wild land fire helicopter landing pad are re-filled in preparation for today's firefighting activities, they said about the historic lab where the atomic bomb was developed during World War II.The laboratory's website confirmed that the facility would remain closed until at least Wednesday, and that firefighters have ordered thousands to evacuate the nearby town of Los Alamos, where 42 percent of the lab's 11,800 employees live.Only employees on an essential-duties access list will be permitted back onto laboratory property during the closure, as notified by their line management,LANL said.
The Las Conchas fire did not reach lab property Monday night after a small fire on the property was put out earlier that day, and no releases of radiological or other contaminants had been detected by LANL monitoring teams, officials said.We ordered the evacuation yesterday after the fire moved beyond our safety triggers and did a small incursion into LANL property that was aggressively fought by our county personnel with LANL support and the forest service helping us to extinguish the small area restoring our line,Los Alamos Fire Department's assistant chief Michael Thompson told AFP.Today we have predictions of more winds that will carry the fire further in the forest above the community and threaten the line that we have (protecting) LANL. We have had some time to prepare for this and now have the resources ready and will defend against the threat,he added.Radioactive materials are stored at the Laboratory for research purposes and the property also houses radioactive waste.LANL is operated by Los Alamos National Security, a partnership between the University of California, Bechtel National, the Babcock & Wilcox Company, and the Washington division of URS for the US Department of Energy.
Separately, US nuclear authorities were watching floodwaters threatening a nuclear power plant in Nebraska after a protective barrier collapsed.The 2,000-foot (607-meter) long barrier, holding back floodwaters from the Missouri river, collapsed early Sunday, threatening the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant.This allowed floodwaters to surround the auxiliary and containment buildings, which are protected by design to a floodwater level of 1014 mean sea level,the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.The Missouri river was at 1,006.3 feet (306.7 meters), but river levels were not expected to exceed 1,008 feet, it added in a statement. The collapse also allowed floodwaters to surround the main electrical transformers, it said, adding that operators transferred power from offsite sources as a precautionary measure.The plant has been shut down since April 7 for refueling, it said.
Royal visit puts Canada's sense of self to a test
APBy ROB GILLIES - Associated Press | AP – JUNE 28,11
TORONTO (AP) — Decades have passed since Canadians abandoned the Union Jack and replaced God Save the Queen with O Canada, but the royalty-lovers among them are in for a thrill when Britain's newest royal couple come visiting on Thursday.Meanwhile, those who leaf through the government's updated guide to good citizenship will notice that the oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II has been moved from the back of the pamphlet to the front.Royalty seems to be making a comeback of sorts in Canada.Part of it is simply the afterglow of the sumptuous wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton two months ago. But something deeper is afoot than mere stargazing: Prime Minister Stephen Harper is the most pro-monarchy Canadian leader since the 1950s, and his ambition is to foster a national identity that is more conservative and more aware of its historical roots. He has just come out of a general election greatly strengthened, and now he gets to bask in the aura of William and Kate on their first official overseas trip as a married couple.He thinks that emphasizing Canada's monarchical traditions is key to refashioning Canadians' self-image,said Robert Bothwell, a professor at the University of Toronto.
Ordinarily, most Canadians are indifferent to the monarchy, even though 85-year-old Queen Elizabeth II is their titular head of state, is portrayed on their coins and stamps, and has visited them 22 times as head of state. But a royal visit usually brings out the crowds, and Heritage Minister James Moore reckons this one will be the most-watched in Canada's history.The monarchy is part of our fabric, part of our future and it's one of the central institutions to our identity as Canadians, Moore told The Associated Press.Many in the French-speaking province of Quebec disagree, and small groups have taken to the streets on past royal visits to show their displeasure. The visiting couple will be in Quebec City, where a militant French separatist group has vowed to demonstrate, and may face similar protests in Montreal.
The group's spokesman, college student Julien Gaudreau, said The monarchist symbol is a right-wing symbol ... It's not really democratic, it's not representative of the population.Overall, the antiroyal movement in Canada is minuscule, meaning that William, now 29, will almost certainly be king of Canada one day. One reason is that abolishing the monarchy would mean changing the constitution. That's an inherently risky undertaking, given how delicately it is engineered to unite a nation of 34 million that embraces English-speakers, French-speakers, indigenous tribes and a constant flow of new immigrants.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they are formally known, will encounter many of those faces of Canada during their nine days of travel, from the sub-Arctic to oil-rich Calgary, Alberta, from busy Montreal to bucolic Prince Edward Island of Anne of Green Gables fame. They'll sit around a campfire with young people, dress casual for the Calgary rodeo, join a cookout in Quebec City, and hand out flags to newly minted Canadians at a citizenship ceremony.
Harper, five years in office, will meanwhile be pushing ahead with his long-term goal of shifting the country's ideological bearings from center-left to center-right — a project that lays greater stress on such symbols as the monarchy, the military, hockey and the Arctic.When the updated guide for new immigrants was published in 2009, it was widely noted that the monarchy and armed forces overshadowed social programs such as universal health care, the pride of the left-of-center Liberal era typified by the late Pierre Trudeau.Harper harkens back to a 1950s conservative vision of Canada — none of the Trudeau-welfare state stuff, said Lawrence Martin, a political columnist for The Globe and Mail newspaper and author of Harperland: The Politics of Control.That's the type of identity that he's trying to forge here, which is a fair distance from the Liberal way. He likes to use the monarchy as a tool of that because it fits his vision of the country, distinct from the Liberal vision.Gerry Nicholls, who worked under Harper at a conservative think tank, said Harper previously wasn't a staunch monarchist, but that he values it as a conservative symbol.It plays into a larger strategy of creating this conservative ethos for Canada. But we're never going to go back to God Save the Queen, the Union Jack or those kind of things, Nicholls told the AP.Nicholls said the Liberals were often seen as openly hostile to the monarchy, in what people would see as a rejection of our past and our traditions.John Manley, a former foreign minister and deputy Liberal prime minister, is the most prominent Canadian to have suggested, while in office, that the tie be severed. But he as well as the opinion polls acknowledge it's not a hot-button issue.A poll of about 1,000 Canadians taken by Harris/Decima a year ago, just before the queen's last visit, showed 55 percent were aware she was coming. Fifty-two percent of those who were aware of the visit felt the monarchy is an important part of Canadian history, while 44 percent saw it as part of the colonial past. Margin of error was given as 3.1 percent.
In an interview, Manley said Canadians care much more about who wins hockey's Stanley Cup. I suspect that another country, perhaps Australia, is going to deal with this first. Then perhaps Canadians might consider it.Josh Upton, 21, of the Calgary branch of The Monarchist League of Canada, expects the William-and-Kate visit to strengthen Canada's ties with its sovereign.It's the new fresh face on the monarchy, he said. People are going to be more excited about it because they see the future of the monarchy in Canada in the duke and duchess.But Ameya Pendse, born in the U.S. to Indian parents and now a Canadian citizen, belongs to Citizens for a Canadian Republic, an anti-monarchy group.I've talked to many young kids and they say the queen shouldn't have any role in our society whatsoever, said Pendse, 18. We're paying millions of dollars for their stays in Canada and it's really disturbing. It's like paying for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to come visit us here because they are nothing but celebrities.The trip will cost the Canadian government about $1.5 million, Moore, the heritage minister, estimated.Selena Ross in Montreal contributed to this story.
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