STOCK RESULTS JUNE 7,2012

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

IT WAS JUNE 6-10,1967 WHEN ISRAEL RECAPTURED JERUSALEM.THIS IS NOW 45 YEARS LATER AND JESUS WILL SOON BE RULING FROM ISRAELS CAPITAL FOREVER.THIS EVENT STARTED THE FINAL GENERATION COUNTDOWN OF WHICH WE ARE CURRENTLY IN 45 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL RECAPTURED JERUSALEM.
http://xwalk.ca/jerusalem.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE4O6g0Eig8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cehD_pdYDV8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMNxXmOdQus&feature=related

ISLAMIC HATE AGAINST ISRAEL/WEST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krvCQbzPKiI&feature=related

ON JUNE 7,1967 IT WAS THE FIRST FULL DAY THAT JERUSALEM WAS OFFICIALLY IN  ISRAELS HANDS.

 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(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JUNE 07,2012

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +110.73
10:30 AM +105.28
11:00 AM +77.50
11:30 AM +55.60
12:00 PM +80.19
12:30 PM +90.97
01:00 PM +97.37
01:30 PM +116.43
02:00 PM +109.61
02:30 PM +111.63
03:00 PM +108.80
03:30 PM +79.70
04:00 PM +46.17 12,460.96

S&P 500 1314.99 -0.14

NASDAQ 2831.02 -13.70

GOLD 1,590.40 -43.40

OIL 81.18 -0.84

TSE 300 11,592.12 -42.28

CDNX 1296.08 -6.56

S&P/TSX/60 659.45 -0.96

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +120 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +129 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,629.90.OIL opens at $86.79 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +129 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +129 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)

NATURAL GAS-THU

IT SEEMS THE OBAMA MOMMA ADMINISTRATION HAS LEAKED SECRET  DOCUMENTS ABOUT STUXNET AND OBAMAS KILL LIST AS JUST EXAMPLES.IT SEEMS THERES ALL KINDS OF LEAKS COMING FROM THE WHITEHOUSE.CNN NEVER MENTIONED THEIR OBAMAS BELLY TO LEAK THESE DOCUMENTS AS WELL  AS MSNBC.OBAMAS PAID PUPPETS TO GET THE MOUTH OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OUT.THESE 2 MAIN LAMESTREAM MEDIA CNN AND MSNBC.

ECB holds rates, lets crisis squeeze politicians

By DAVID McHUGH | Associated Press – 1 hr 8 mins ago JUNE 6,12

FRANKFURT (AP) — The European Central Bank withheld the stimulus of an interest rate cut Wednesday, keeping up the pressure on eurozone politicians to take decisive action — even as growth predictions worsened and fears intensified that Spain may need help bailing out its banks.The 23-member governing council left its benchmark refinancing rate unchanged Wednesday at a record low 1.0 percent.

ECB President Mario Draghi cited economic growth forecasts for a gradual recovery this year in justifying the decision not to cut rates this time around. Rate cuts are supposed to help growth by lowering business borrowing cost. Some analysts, however, said the bank's expectations of only a 0.1 percent decline over the full year were overly optimistic.Analysts say Draghi's hands-off stance Wednesday was meant to underline the need for action on restructuring the euro by the 17-country eurozone's divided and often slow-moving politicians. He has urged leaders to sketch in a vision of how the economies and financial systems of euro member countries can be better linked ahead of a June 28-29 summit where new ideas to save the euro are to be presented.One reason for not cutting today "was possibly that the ECB sees current market tensions as a way of focusing politicians' minds on reform efforts," said Michael Schubert at Commerzbank.

Investors took the lack of new monetary stimulus in their stride, with most European stock indexes showing modest increases on the day.Yet there is plenty to worry about in Europe. Investors are growing increasingly concerned that Spain will need outside help to bail out a banking system creaking under the weight of bad real estate loans. Greece, which has already stuck creditors with a debt write-down and taken two rounds of bailout loans, faces an uncertain future in the euro ahead of June 17 election. Voters may elect a government that rejects the painful cutbacks demanded by other eurozone countries in return for the bailout loans. If Greece rejects bailout terms, it could go completely bankrupt and be forced out of the euro.

Either a Spanish bailout or debt default, or a Greek exit could hurt growth in the United States and Asia by creating losses and fear among banks, which are key to the functioning of the global economy, and by hurting trade. Many U.S. companies get a sizeable part of their sales and profits from Europe so a recession there would impact companies and economies around the world.Draghi's dilemma is between not doing enough to support a sinking economy, and acting now and taking the heat off politicians. In some ways, the ECB faces a situation similar to that of the U.S. Federal Reserve, which has cut rates to near zero and bought bonds to expand the supply of money in the economy.Yet poor U.S. hiring figures from Friday have suddenly raised the prospect that the Fed too might have to take more steps to support the economy.Several bank-watchers said the ECB's stated economic forecasts were too upbeat and that the bank will move soon. Schubert of Commerzbank predicted a rate cut in the next several months to 0.75 percent. Others saw a cut as soon as the July 5 ECB meeting.Draghi, however, has left himself some room to maneuver, saying that "we'll monitor closely all the developments and we'll stand ready to act" if necessary. He also said some members of the 23-member council advocated a rate cut.He included the possibility that things might be worse than the bank's forecasts had predicted, warning that there were "downside risks" to the forecasts. He noted that data from business confidence surveys "all point in one direction and this one is not upward. " However, other figures such as German growth — which came in at a strong 0.5 percent in the first quarter — were more upbeat, he said.Draghi stressed that eurozone politicians have to come up with a long-term vision for overcoming the problems of the euro: "What we all expect is a clarification of this vision, a path toward this objective with all the conditions that have to be satisfied to achieve this objective."Those measures could include tighter central controls on country's finances to keep them from running up so much debt; added measures to stimulate growth by reducing regulation and emphasizing spending cuts, not tax increases; and common borrowing in which countries would back up each other's debts to eliminate the risk of default.

The euro was launched in 1999 with one central bank but multiple governments, each with its own budget and approach to regulating the economy. The eurozone was unable to keep some countries from building up too much debt and becoming costly, inefficient places to do business.On Wednesday European officials proposed a start on a new system of financial regulations that aims to keep bank failures from costing taxpayers billions and bankrupting governments. Because many European governments are already overburdened with debts, rescuing their failed banks risks bankrupting some of them. Ireland has had to ask for an international bailout for that reason and investors fear Spain may be next.The banks, in turn, own huge amounts of their governments' bonds, which drop in value when investors lose confidence in the country's financial future. The result is that any fall in confidence in either the banks or the government tends to create a downward spiral requiring foreign financial aid.Yet the banking measures will not take full effect until 2018. That means the pressure is still on the ECB as well as the politicians.Marie Diron, senior economic adviser for Ernst & Young, said the ECB should have cut rates and that growth measures were welcome but "such measures take time and time is what the eurozone does not seem to have. "Draghi also downplayed any idea that the bank might offer more long-term cheap loans to banks following two rounds that put €1.019 trillion into the banking system. Those loans have not taken their full effect in the wider economy yet , he said, and some of the eurozone's problems were beyond the reach of central bank action."There is plenty of liquidity in some parts... and shortages in other areas," he said. "Some of these problems in the euro area have nothing to do with monetary policy."

Report: Rampant corruption is aggravating EU crisis

Today @ 19:33 JUNE 6,12

Related

1. Corruption report highlights EU political party funding
2. EU on Greek statistics scandal: 'Never again'
3. EU auditor used public funds to hamper anti-fraud inquiry

1. By Nikolaj Nielsen

BRUSSELS - Corruption and lack of transparency are endemic throughout the EU, with direct links to the economic crisis.The damning conclusion of a major study by the Berlin-based NGO, Transparency International (TI), was put forward at a hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday (6 June)."Europe by and large fails the test," said Corbus de Swardt, managing editor of TI.In Greece and Portugal, corruption is so deeply ingrained it poses a direct threat to democratic legitimacy and jeopardises economic recovery, it said.Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain have "serious deficits in public sector accountability, and deep rooted problems of inefficiency, malpractice and corruption, which are neither sufficiently controlled nor sanctioned," it added.Costas Bakouris, chair of TI Greece, told EUobserver: "Corruption created all the elements of the financial problems in Greece ... [It] has imbued the mentality of the people and the institutions of the country."He said the government has undue influence on the judiciary and the media; laws are riddled with loopholes; companies dodge tax on a vast scale; and the ruling elite treats the state like a cash-cow at the cost of the lower classes.Evangelos Koumentakos, a Greek national and an active member of the Indignados movement who was present at the hearing, agreed with the analysis. "We are on the ground but there is only so much we can do," he said.Meanwhile, TI's chief researcher on Portugal was even harsher.Louis de Souza, chief of TI Portugal, said government statements on anti-corruption measures are "bullshit.""It is in fact easier to send to jail a retired person who has stolen a packet of rice than a banker who has stolen €3 billion ... Portugal is a country of black holes in its public accounts and budget slippages at all government levels," he added.He accused the EU of "neglect" on Portugal, noting that even the so-called troika inspectors who govern its EU-International-Monetary-Fund bail-out, did not mention corrpution in their official memos.TI also slammed the EU institutions on their home turf in Brssels.It pointed out that the European Commission and the EU Council preach transparency, but at the same time they are trying to push through a new regulation to make public access to internal EU documents even harder.Meanwhile, in the European Parliament, MEPs are required to claim trips financed by lobbyists only if hotels costs surpass €300 a night or if they are flown business class."This is ridiculous," Dutch Green MEP, Dennis de Jong, said on the parliament hospitality rules."They [EU institutions] don't have [proper] standards in place," TI's De Swardt told EUobserver.The European Commission plans to release its own report on corruption in the EU in late 2013.

Brussels: 'Banks should pay for banks'

Today @ 14:16 JUNE 6,2012

Related

1. Spain appeals for EU bail-out of struggling banks
2. Spain may speed up EU 'banking union'
3. Spain: ECB cash more important than euro-plans

1. By Honor Mahony

BRUSSELS - The European Commission in Wednesday (6 June) unveiled proposals designed to change the too-big-to-fail rationale that has seen billions of euros of tax payers' money pumped into Europe's ailing banking sector."We are going to break the links between banks and the public sector," said financial services commissioner Michel Barnier announcing the draft legislation. "Banks must pay for banks."Under the proposal banks would be obliged to draw up recovery plans that would kick into place if their finances deteriorate and national authorities could appoint "special managers" to oversee weak institutions.
Each lender would also be obliged to set aside at least 1 percent of the deposits covered by their national guarantees for a special fund to help tide it over if it reaches failure stage.The most headline-grabbing proposal is for senior bondholders to be made liable for the costs of bailing out a lender.This is likely to attract much attention in Ireland - bailed out by the EU and International Monetary Fund in 2010 - where government attempts to make major bondholders pay were blocked by the European Central Bank for fear that markets would panic.The €64 billion bank bill is currently being absorbed by the Irish tax payer.
The commission's new plans are both preventative and for the long-term."In both comedy and tragedy, timing is everything. The bulk of the crisis resolution is long overdue," said UK Liberal MEP Sharon Bowles, who heads up the parliament's economic affairs committee.The bondholder clause would come into effect in 2018; the 1 percent deposit clause by 2024.The commission aims to prevent tax payers being forced to foot the bill in the future, with the EU commission having approved €4.5 trillion (37 percent of EU GDP) in state aid measures to financial institutions between 2008 and 2011.The proposed changes, which need to be agreed by member states and parliament, will not help Spain which urgently needs to recapitalise it banks which have an estimated credit shortfall of up to €100 billion.Madrid has lately started to say its banks should be allowed to tap into the permanent eurozone bailout fund (ESM), due to be up and running at the beginning of July."I cannot say that this will affect the Spanish banks," said Barnier of Wednesday's plans.
On the ESM question, he said: "It's not possible, not today."Wednesday's proposals are also a step towards the fully fledged banking union that high-ranking EU officials such as European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi suggest is needed to protect the eurozone.A full union would include a single European bank regime rather than the new member-state-level rules proposed on Wednesday. It would also include a powerful EU banking supervisor and a European bank deposit guarantee scheme.These ideas are set to be discussed at an EU leaders summit at the end of June.

Draghi: Nobody can force Spain to seek bail-out

Today @ 18:08 JUNE 6,12

Related

1. Spain appeals for EU bail-out of struggling banks
2. France to reach EU decifit targets 'without' austerity
3. Germany's free borrowing is 'destroying Europe'

1. By Valentina Pop

COPENHAGEN - European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi on Wednesday (6 June) did not rule out further cheap loans to struggling euro-banks and said that nobody can force Spain into a bail-out.
After its monthly governing council meeting, the ECB left its key interest rate unchanged at one percent, despite some members asking to lower it."Some of the problems in the euro area have nothing to do with monetary policy," Draghi told a press conference after the meeting, in a bid to keep pressure on southern governments to carry through tough austerity measures.The Italian banker admitted that the situation on the financial markets has become "dysfunctional" again compared to only three weeks ago, but insisted that the situation is nowhere what it was in 2008 after the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers.He said it is not "correct" to talk about a three-month deadline to save the euro, as US financier George Soros and top economist Paul Krugman projected in recent weeks."This is not the right way to cope with these issues," he said.He added that Europe is not the only one to blame for economic problems in China or Brazil."To my knowledge, the US is not a small-scale economy. Countries around the world should first focus on their own reforms before worrying about spillover effects," he said, hinting at increased criticism from Washington that eurozone leaders are dragging their feet and letting the euro-crisis bring the entire world economy down.
When asked if the ECB could inject more cheap loans into eurozone banks and resume its bond purchasing programme for Italy and Spain, Draghi smiled and suggested the journalist already knew the answer: "We never pre-commit."However, he said the ECB could not replace reforms that needed to be implemented by the national governments.As for the Spanish calls for EU money - be it from the ECB or the eurozone bail-out funds, but without Madrid having to be submitted to a full-scale bail-out programme like Greece, Portugal and Ireland - Draghi said one had to wait for exact data on how much money is needed.
"Any funding decision should be based on the realistic assessment of needs to recapitalise banks and the money available to the government without needing to go for external support," he said.A first assessment is due to be presented by the International Monetary Fund next week, with two more independent audits contracted by the Spanish government coming out later this month.Draghi insisted that any decision should be a sovereign one taken by Spain. "Nobody can force them to do anything," he said - a veiled reference to Germany, whose government is reportedly pressuring Madrid to ask for a soft bail-out from the temporary bail-out fund, the Luxembourg-based European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).The EFSF was already used to recapitalise Greek banks as part of its second bail-out.Its bonds can be specifically used to fund ailing banks, but the process has to be steered via the government, which first has to apply for international funding, piling up even more debt on the public balance sheet.Spanish officials would rather see this rule changed, or have the upcoming permanent bail-out fund, the European Stability Mechanism granted the power to recapitalise banks directly.EUobserver understands that neither is possible without legal changes that need to be ratified by all 17 national parliaments in eurozone member states.But France on Wednesday once again threw its weight behind Spain, saying it also wants the €500-billion-strong ESM to be able to fund banks directly."France is in favour of the future ESM being used to directly recapitalise banks with the appropriate conditions for supervision," French finance minister Pierre Moscovici told reporters in Paris.
Speaking in Brussels after meetings at the European Commission, Spanish economy minister Luis de Guindos said he is not applying for any bail-out and that it would first wait for the audits later this month before deciding how to recapitalise the banks."I have absolutely not discussed any intervention in Spain's banks today. I was talking about the economic policy that the Spanish government has been applying ... Of course what we are saying is that with more Europe we would with no doubt get out of this difficult situation, this crisis," he said.A meeting of the world's biggest banks in Copenhagen on Wednesday meanwhile steered clear of any doomsday scenarios in its public sessions.But privately, some participants admitted that there are increased worries that a run on the Spanish banks - as people move their savings outside the country - could aggravate the crisis to the point where "no summit will help anymore.""Many of these [bankers] avoid to talk publicly of what is really going on. It's like the orchestra on the top deck of the Titanic. Everybody is saving face, but once they're in the privacy of their cabin, they are all panicking and looking for the life vest," one Finnish participant told this website.

Merkel: eurozone needs more EU supervision

05.06.12 @ 09:29

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1. Italy chastises Germany for handling of euro crisis
2. Germany's free borrowing is 'destroying Europe'
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1. By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday (4 June) said she supports more integration in the eurozone - a veiled reference to pooling debt provided EU institutions gain more supervisory powers.
"We need more Europe, not less, especially in the eurozone. This means that EU institutions, the EU commission included, should be granted more possibilities to control. Otherwise it would be impossible for a currency union to work," Merkel said alongside EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso who visited her in Berlin ahead of a 28-29 June summit.Recognising that her hard-fought-for treaty on fiscal discipline - signed in March by 25 EU states - is "a first step, but certainly not a sufficient one," Merkel said it was imperative for EU leaders to come up with a plan for the future of the eurozone."The world wants to know how we are picturing the political union matching the monetary union. An answer to this question has to be formulated in the near future and Germany will be a constructive dialogue partner in this regard," she said.She endorsed the so-called banking union - particularly putting big banks under central EU supervision - and re-stated the need for more competitiveness and controls to ensure that every member state sticks to its budget consolidation pledges.Once all these steps towards a fiscal and political union taken, Germany may consider pooling debt with other eurozone countries, her finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, told Handelsblatt in an interview."Before we can talk about joint management of debt, we need the right fiscal union," he said in an interview published on Tuesday (5 June).According to unnamed Berlin officials quoted by the New York Times, the compromise Germany is willing to consider is combining Europe's bad debt into a single fund to be paid off over 25 years, rather than issuing joint debt - which would be unconstitutional under German law.Germany has come under sustained criticism for its handling of the euro-crisis, which has seen it delaying financial assistance until the very last moment. This tactic has increased costs for southern states."Markets remain sceptical that the measures taken thus far are sufficient to secure the recovery in Europe and remove the risk that the crisis will deepen. So we obviously believe that more steps need to be taken," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters on Monday.Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said ministers and central bankers of the United States, Canada, Japan, Britain, Germany, France and Italy (G7) would hold a special conference call on Tuesday, raising pressure on Europe to recapitalise its banks and stem contagion from Greece to Spain and Italy.Madrid so far has been resisting German pressure to ask for financial assistance from the eurozone bail-out fund, arguing for its troubled banks to be rescued directly either by the eurozone fund or by cheap money from the European Central Bank, so as to avoid piling more debt onto the government's books.But in a government statement put out on Monday, Merkel brushed off calls for changing the EFSF rules so as to allow direct recapitalisation of banks: "All the instruments are available to guarantee the safety of banks in the eurozone."

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.

Monsoon arrives; farm output prospects brighten

Reuters – 15 hours ago JUNE 6,12

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's annual monsoon rains have arrived at the southern Kerala coast, a top weather official said on Tuesday, brightening prospects of higher farm output by aiding farmers to plant summer-sown crops such as rice, soybean and cotton on time."It's been raining in Kerala for the past few days, but the parameters suggest that the monsoon has arrived today," B.P. Yadav, a director at the state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) told Reuters.The annual rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth as about 55 percent of the arable land is rain-fed, and farm sector accounts for about 15 percent of a nearly $2-trillion economy, Asia's third-biggest.India is the world's second-biggest producer of rice, wheat, sugar and cotton and also one of the largest consumers, with a population of about 1.2 billion.
Another senior weather office official, who declined to be named, said he expected monsoon rains to make good progress in the western Indian coast - in coffee, tea, rubber and cane areas - in next 2-3 days.
The IMD has forecast average rains in 2012, for the third straight year.Monsoon - actual vs official forecasts http://link.reuters.com/far67sMonsoon and key summer food crops http://link.reuters.com/nez58s
Monsoon rains and sugarcane output http://link.reuters.com/mez58s"We are sticking to our forecast of a normal monsoon," Yadav said, adding, the IMD would review its forecast around June 25 after the rains cover half of the country.The June-September rainy season starts over the Kerala coast and covers the rest of India and neighbouring countries Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal by mid-July.Last week, weather officials said a cyclonic pressure over the Arabian Sea has delayed the rains, give or take 4 days, from its expected June 1 arrival date.In 2011, the IMD had forecast the onset of monsoon on May 31, but the rains arrived two days ahead of the estimate.(Reporting by Ratnajyoti Dutta and Mayanak Bhardwaj; editing by Malini Menon)

Possible tornado leaves 3 dead in SE Missouri

By JIM SALTER | Associated Press – Tue, Jun 5, 2012 1:30 PM EDT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man and his two adult sons died when a sudden, powerful storm obliterated a mobile home in southeast Missouri, officials said Tuesday as weather officials tried to determine if the damage was caused by a tornado.The storm struck Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky late Monday, but hit hardest in the tiny village of Diehlstadt, in Scott County, where the three men were killed.Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said the mobile home was smashed beyond recognition."The frame was probably 100 yards away from where it was sitting," Walter said. "It was just debris everywhere. It just obliterated it."
Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper Clark Parrott identified the deceased as 70-year-old Loy Miller, the owner of the trailer, and his sons, Jasper Miller, 50, and Randy Miller, 48. Parrott said it wasn't clear if the sons also lived in the mobile home."We had a pretty intense, concentrated storm," Parrott said.An 11-year-old St. Louis County girl suffered minor head and arm injuries after being pelted by huge chunks of hail.The gusty storm developed in the St. Louis area Monday afternoon, producing nearly an inch of rain and pingpong-sized hail in some places while leaving others bone dry, National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Sanders said. Hail, about an inch of rain and winds stronger than 50 mph were also reported in parts of southern Illinois and northwestern Kentucky.The storm became particularly intense in southeast Missouri and Diehlstadt, a village of 163 residents about 100 miles south of St. Louis, took the worst of it. Parrott said two other homes and five sheds were damaged, and downed power lines closed Highway 77 for several hours. Power was restored before dawn.A team from the National Weather Service arrived in the Diehlstadt area Tuesday to determine if the damage came from straight-line winds or a tornado, though Walter said indications were it was a twister. Witnesses told him they saw a tornado dip down and strike the trailer, then bounce back up and dip down again elsewhere.The storm was very much hit-and-miss. In the St. Louis area, Chesterfield on the east side of the Missouri River saw a downpour of sideways-blowing rain and hail around 4:30 p.m.; Weldon Spring, on the other side of the river, was virtually dry.Monday's storm was so spotty that it did virtually nothing to relieve moderate to severe drought conditions in the area.
"We need a couple of inches of rain, big-time," Sanders said. "Heading into May we were above normal rainfall, but May just really killed it."

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up,(AT THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY) that the way of the kings(CHINA,NORTH-SOUTH KOREA, 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)

Putin says to push military ties with China

Reuters – 4 hrs ago JUNE 6,12

BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he will boost military cooperation with China, including holding more joint exercises, after the United States announced plans to shift most of its warships to the Asia-Pacific by 2020.Putin referred to recent Sino-Russian joint navy exercises in the Yellow Sea as an example of military cooperation which, he said, would go on.

"We will continue cooperation also between our military," he told Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in Beijing, where he is attending a security summit and meeting his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao.

"Recently joint navy exercises were held in the Yellow Sea, and they were the first of such exercises. We have agreed with Chairman Hu that we will continue such cooperation," Putin said.Chinese and Russian naval forces held six days of exercises in the Yellow Sea off China's east coast in April, with drills including anti-submarine operations and the rescue of hijacked vessels.China deployed 16 ships and two submarines, while Russia sent four warships from its Pacific fleet, according to Chinese state media."We assign an important role to the joint initiative on strengthening security in the Asia-Pacific region and in this context we will maintain the relationship between our militaries," Putin said in an earlier statement."We favor the formation of an open and equal-minded security and cooperation architecture in the region, based on the principles of international law," he said.China and Russia have forged close economic and diplomatic ties following years of hostility and suspicion during a large part of the Cold War, and both have looked askance at U.S. military involvement in what they view as their backyards.U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Saturday the United States would reposition its naval fleet so that 60 percent of its battleships would be in the Asia-Pacific by the end of the decade, up from about 50 percent now.China has long been wary of U.S. intentions, with hawkish voices in the People's Liberation Army saying that the United States was bent on encircling China and crippling its rise.China's fast-modernizing navy has stirred worries among neighbors, including in Southeast Asia, where several countries are in dispute with China over territorial claims in the South China Sea.Under the U.S. plans, Panetta announced the Navy would maintain six aircraft carriers assigned to the Pacific. Six of its 11 carriers are now assigned to the Pacific, but that will fall to five when the USS Enterprise is decommissioned soon.The number will return to six when a new carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, is completed in 2015.The U.S. Navy had a fleet of 282 ships as of March. That is expected to slip to about 276 over the next two years before beginning to rise toward the goal of a 300-ship fleet, according to a 30-year Navy projection released in March.(Reporting by Gleb Bryanski; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Robert Birsel)

No Wonder We're Within an Inch of War in North Korea

By John Hudson | The Atlantic Wire – Tue, Jun 5, 2012

It's been a rough week for the communication staffs of the North Korean military and the U.S. military. Today, a U.S. official was replaced after mentioning a covert operation in North Korea and last night North Korea issued a military threat that is mathematically impossible. For two countries "within an inch of war" of each other, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta put it recently, there sure is a lot of bungled talk going on. RELATED: North Korea Plans 'Satellite' Launch; World Sees Missile Testing

Today, Brigadier General Neil Tolley, the commander of U.S. Special Forces in South Korea, is being replaced after stating that U.S. special forces have been parachuting into North Korea on covert ops missions. Tolley's statements, reported in the Tokyo-based foreign affairs magazine The Diplomat, were initially denied by the military until Tolley issued a statement saying he was accurately quoted but misspoke. (He was trying to discuss hypothetical parachute missions not actual ones, he said.) “In my attempt to explain where technology could help us, I spoke in the present tense," he said. "To be clear, at no time have we sent special operations forces into North Korea.” Officially, the military says the timing of Tolley's replacement is "merely coincidental," but either way, the communication mishap probably didn't cool tensions on the Asian peninsular. RELATED: North Korean Rocket Breaks Apart After Launch, Falls Into the Sea

Following parachute-gate, North Korea issued a wildly confrontational threat to South Korea, threatening a "merciless sacred war" on the country's media companies, which it was aiming its artillery on. "Comments from the General Staff of the Korean People's Army contained an unusually specific mention of the longitude and latitude of the locations of seven media outlets," reported The Associated Press on Monday. North Korea, of course, issues threats to the South constantly but the posting of coordinates was especially spooky. The announcement stated:Officers and men of the army corps, divisions and regiments on the front and strategic rocket forces in the depth of the country are loudly calling for the issue of order to mete out punishment, declaring that they have already targeted Chosun Ilbo at coordinates of 37 degrees 56 minutes 83 seconds North Latitude and 126 degrees 97 minutes 65 seconds East Longitude in the Central District, Seoul, Choongang Ilbo at coordinates of 37 degrees 33 minutes 45 seconds North Latitude and 126 degrees 58 minutes 14 seconds East Longitude in the Central District, Seoul, the Dong-A Ilbo at coordinates of 37 degrees 57 minutes 10 seconds North Latitude and 126 degrees 97 minutes 81 seconds East Longitude in Jongro District, Seoul, KBS, CBS, MBC and SBS, the strongholds of the [South Korean President] Lee [Myung-bak] group orchestrating the new vicious smear campaign.Embarrassingly, The Wall Street Journal reports the coordinates listed above are just plain wrong. "As everyone who has finished third grade knows, the minute and second numbers shouldn’t exceed 60 when it comes to expressing geographic coordinates." writes Evan Ramstad. The inaccurate coordinates were first discovered by the Seoul newspaper Seoul Shinmun and Martyn Williams, a technology journalist on a fellowship at Stanford University, who explains the messup here. RELATED: The More Welcoming Side of the DMZ

Given that North and South Korea are technically at war, and that 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed there, it's a little unsettling that gaffes like this can happen. Then again, the two nations have been at war since 1950 (the conflict was never resolved with a peace treaty), so mistakes will happen over half a century. 

MUSLIM NATIONS

JEREMIAH 30:10-11
10  Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob,(ISRAEL) saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob (ISRAEL) shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11  For I am with thee,(ISRAEL-JERUSALEM) saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee:(GOD-JESUS ALWAYS PROTECTS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM)

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

JEREMIAH 4:6-8
6  Set up the standard toward Zion:(JERUSALEM) retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north,(RUSSIA/MUSLIMS) and a great destruction.(WITH NUKES)
7  The lion is come up from his thicket,(RUSSIA/MUSLIMS) and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8  For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.(AMERICA-NY AND OTHER CITIES)

EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

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,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
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.

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

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)

JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4  Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5  Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6  O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7  How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.

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,(5/6TH OR 750 MILLION DEAD I BELIEVE) 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-MUSLIMS) 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,ARAB,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 spars with West before nuclear talks

By Fredrik Dahl and Isabel Coles | Reuters – 1 hr 48 mins ago JUNE 6,12

VIENNA/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran questioned world powers' readiness for negotiations over its disputed nuclear program and accused the U.N. watchdog on Wednesday of behaving like a Western-manipulated intelligence agency, keeping up its sparring ahead of talks in Moscow.Iranian media said Tehran had written twice to Britain, France, Russia, China, the United States and Germany - otherwise known as the P5+1 - seeking preparatory meetings before the talks due on June 18, but had yet to hear back."The other side's delay in meeting deputies and experts throws doubt and ambiguity on their readiness for successful talks," Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili said in a letter to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, according to the IRNA news agency. Ashton is handling contacts with Iran on behalf of the six powers.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Western powers were seeking to "waste time" and "looking for excuses" by refusing to engage in preparatory talks with Iran.Under the persistent threat of military strikes by Israel and ever tighter economic sanctions from the West, Iran has returned to nuclear talks that had stalled in early 2011.Diplomats say Iranian negotiators were more forthcoming at talks in Baghdad last month than in previous negotiations, and believe Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's highest authority, has given them a freer hand to explore a deal."Of course, the Islamic Republic does not expect the nuclear issue to be resolved in one meeting," IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying on the sidelines of a summit in Beijing.

At the heart of the decade-long standoff is Iran's insistence on the right to enrich uranium and that sanctions should be lifted before it shelves activities that could lead to its achieving the capability to develop nuclear weapons.Western powers insist Tehran must first shut down higher-grade enrichment - beyond that needed for power stations - before sanctions could be eased on the major oil producer.Diplomats say Iran may offer the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency increased cooperation in separate talks on Friday as a bargaining chip in the discussions with world powers.But Iran's IAEA Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh showed little appetite for making concessions, telling reporters in Vienna: "Unfortunately the agency, which is supposed to be an international technical organization, is somehow playing the role of an intelligence agency."

Full transparency and cooperation with the IAEA is one of the elements the world powers are seeking from Iran, which denies Western accusations that it is seeking to develop the means and technologies needed for building atomic bombs.

MILITARY SITE
The U.N. agency aims to seal a framework agreement that would unblock its investigation into suspected nuclear bomb research. It wants to visit a military site, Parchin, where it suspects Iran has carried out explosives tests that could be used to develop nuclear arms.Iran, which says Parchin is a conventional military site, has so far denied access.Western diplomats said Soltanieh's harsh remarks aimed at the IAEA cast further doubt on the chances of a successful outcome in the June 8 talks between Iran and the U.N. nuclear agency.Robert Wood, the acting U.S. envoy to the IAEA, told reporters the attack on the agency was "extremely unfortunate" and he said he was "not optimistic" that there would be a deal signed on Friday.
"Iran needs to stop trying to undermine the integrity of the agency and its work and cooperate with the agency to answer all the outstanding questions with regard to its nuclear program," Wood told reporters.

A European diplomat described Soltanieh's statement as "confrontational" and said it sent a negative signal to this week's talks in Vienna that Iran would not compromise at all.Iran is showing no willingness "to engage on issues of substance" with the IAEA, the diplomat said.It was unclear what Iran aimed to gain from its proposed preparatory talks before meeting world powers.Western diplomats often have accused Tehran of seeking to buy time for its nuclear activities by trying to engage in talks about process rather than substance, without real intention of making any concrete concessions.An adviser to Iran's supreme leader was quoted as saying on Tuesday that the talks could have a positive outcome if the world recognized Iran's "inalienable nuclear rights". Tehran says that as a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it can develop a full nuclear fuel cycle.Washington said on Tuesday Iran had to move first to make its nuclear work compatible with international law and demanded it let U.N. inspectors into the military site that the West believes has been used for weapons-related nuclear research.A spokeswoman for the EU's Ashton said on Wednesday she would contact Jalili before the planned Moscow negotiations but saw no need for further preparatory meetings."We have made it very clear that preparatory work is ongoing and political issues need to be dealt with on political level," she said.(Additional reporting by Andrew Quinn in Washington, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels; Writing by Alison Williams; Editing by Michael Roddy)

Assad names new Syrian PM, army battles rebels

By Oliver Holmes | Reuters – 2 hrs 23 mins ago JUNE 6,12

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad named a Baath Party stalwart to form a new government on Wednesday, signaling no political concessions to a 15-month-old uprising, as the army battled rebel forces near the Mediterranean coast.The appointment of Riyad Hijab, agriculture minister in the outgoing government, as prime minister follows a parliamentary election last month which authorities said was a step towards political reform but which opponents dismissed as a sham."We expected Assad to play a game and appoint a nominal independent but he chose a hardcore Baathist," said opposition campaigner Najati Tayyara. The new government, like its predecessors, would wield no real power, he added.

"The cabinet is just for show in Syria and even more so now, with the security apparatus totally taking over."

Activists said soldiers backed by helicopters and tanks fought rebels in the coastal province of Latakia for a second day on Wednesday, in the heaviest clashes there since the revolt against Assad erupted in March last year.The relentless violence has shredded an eight-week-old ceasefire deal brokered by former United Nations chief Kofi Annan. Rebels, who say they are no longer bound by the accord, have killed more than 100 soldiers this week, according to one monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Russia called for a broad international meeting, including regional powers Turkey and Iran, the Arab League, European Union and permanent U.N. Security Council members, to rescue Annan's plan, but the United States gave the idea short shrift.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has accused Iran of supporting pro-Assad militias, said it was "a little hard to imagine inviting a country that is stage-managing the Assad regime's assault on its people".Clinton was due to discuss the crisis in Syria later on Wednesday with ministers from Turkey and European and Arab states gathered in Istanbul for counter terrorism talks.

The British-based Observatory said rebels seized control of police and intelligence buildings in the Latakia town of Selma overnight, before army reinforcements arrived at dawn.The soldiers killed a rebel captain in Selma and six civilians in Haffeh, a mostly Sunni Muslim area where clashes have been most intense, it said.
Observatory director Rami Adbelrahman said that hospital staff in the cities of Latakia and Banias reported a constant stream of ambulances bringing soldiers to emergency rooms."We have 50 to 60 soldiers injured, some in critical condition," he said by telephone. "There will be rebel casualties, too, but it is hard to know how many." Rebels do not take their wounded to government hospitals for fear of arrest.Local activists provided shaky footage of a Syrian helicopter firing rockets. A member of the rebel Free Syrian Army in Latakia said its lightly-armed fighters faced shellfire."There was heavy fighting all night. In the morning, Syrian forces started shelling Selma and Haffeh," the FSA's Ali al-Raidi told Reuters by telephone.Syria heavily restricts access to international media organizations, which Damascus says have contributed to inciting violence, making it hard to verify reports from either side.More than 35 people were reported killed on Tuesday and Assad's forces also suffered heavy casualties with at least 26 soldiers killed, many in ambushes by insurgents.The clashes were a rare surge of violence in Latakia province, home to several towns inhabited by members of Assad's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, which has been generally hostile to the mostly Sunni-led uprising.

RUSSIA PROPOSES SYRIA MEETING

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for a broad international meeting on the crisis in Syria with the aim of reviving Annan's peace plan, but made clear he believed Assad's opponents were responsible for its failure so far.Western powers also support Annan's peace plan but say pressure must be stepped up against Assad after the massacre of 108 women, children and men in Houla nearly two weeks ago. They hold Assad's forces responsible, a charge Damascus rejects."We believe it is necessary to assemble a meeting of states with real influence on different opposition groups. There are not that many," Lavrov said in Beijing, where he accompanied President Vladimir Putin to a security summit."The goal of such a meeting - different to the Friends of Syria meetings which are devoted to supporting Syria's National Council and its radical demands - would be for all external players to agree, honestly and without double standards, to fulfill Kofi Annan's plan because we all supported it."The Friends of Syria, a loose grouping of mainly Western and Arab countries that want an end to Assad's rule, have held several meetings since February to coordinate steps against him.One of Assad's most vocal Arab critics, Saudi Arabia, said on Tuesday that Gulf Arab States were losing confidence in Annan's plan and called on the Security Council to put it under Chapter 7 of the U.N. charter, a measure that could authorize the use of force.U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, addressing a Friends of Syria sanctions working group, echoed that call saying nations should take actions against Syrian authorities including, if necessary, under Chapter 7.But Putin and his Chinese hosts, both veto-wielding council members, reiterated their opposition to any outside intervention on Wednesday, calling on both sides in Syria to stop violence and start talks without delay.(Additional reporting by Gleb Bryanski in Beijing, Arshad Mohammed in Baku and Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Michael Roddy) 

Scandal-hit Vatican says restoring trust will take time

By Silvia Aloisi | Reuters – 3 hrs ago JUNE 6,12

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - It will take time to restore trust within the walls of the Vatican and ease the pain caused by a leaks scandal that led to the arrest of Pope Benedict's butler, the pontiff's spokesman said on Wednesday."Clearly to restore a climate of serenity and trust is a process, it is not something that can be solved in a few days," said Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's chief spokesman."But we have started and we are moving ahead," he said.Paolo Gabriele, 46, the papal butler arrested on May 23 as part of a investigation into the "Vatileaks" scandal, was questioned by Vatican prosecutor Piero Antonio Bonnet for the second straight day on Wednesday in the tiny city-state's tribunal.At the same time that Bonnet was grilling Gabriele in the tribunal, Pope Benedict was holding his weekly general audience just hundreds of meters (yards) away in St. Peter's Square.Lombardi acknowledged that the scandal had shaken confidence among those who live and work within the walls of the secretive 108-acre city-state, although he said the pope was carrying out his functions "in a normal and efficient way".Gabriele, who was charged with aggravated theft after papal documents were found in his apartment in the Vatican, was questioned in the presence of his two lawyers and of Nicola Picardi, another high-ranking Vatican judicial official known as the "promoter of justice".Bonnet must now decide whether to order Gabriele to stand trial and is also considering a request by Gabriele's lawyers for him to be let out of a "safe room" where he is being held at the Vatican police station and be placed under house arrest.Many Vatican insiders believe the butler, who served the pope his meals, helped him dress and rode in the front seat of the popemobile, could not have acted alone and may be a pawn in a much wider power struggle between cardinals.The leaks scandal began in January and came to a head last month when, in the space of a few days, the head of the Vatican bank was abruptly dismissed, Gabriele was arrested and a book containing a trove of private Vatican correspondence was published.The documents allege corruption in the Vatican's business dealings with Italian companies, which were paid inflated prices for work in the Vatican, rivalries among cardinals and clashes over the management of the Vatican's bank, the IOR.Gabriele, who has been visited in jail by his wife and has been allowed to attend mass, could be held for up to 100 days in pre-trial custody.
Aggravated theft carries a jail sentence of up to six years, but other offences, such as revealing state secrets, could be added to the list of charges during the investigation.Because the Vatican has no jail, Gabriele would serve his sentence in an Italian prison, although most commentators believe the pope would pardon him if he were found guilty.Vatican investigators and a commission of cardinals have been hunting for other informants but Lombardi said that Gabriele remained the only person under investigation so far.(Additional reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

Israel to build 300 new West Bank settlement homes

By JOSEF FEDERMAN | Associated Press – 11 mins ago JUNE 6,12

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Wednesday ordered construction of 300 new homes in a West Bank settlement, a move aimed at placating settler anger over the planned demolition of an illegally built outpost nearby.The decision infuriated the Palestinians, who have refused to conduct peace talks while Israel expands its settlements on occupied land. It also risked drawing an international backlash.

Netanyahu has been grappling with a domestic crisis over the unauthorized settlement outpost of Ulpana. The Supreme Court has ordered the five apartment buildings in the outpost to be removed by July 1 after determining they were built on private Palestinian land.Netanyahu has said he would honor the ruling, while Jewish settlers and their hard-line allies in Netanyahu's government have vowed to resist the order.
Netanyahu announced his decision shortly after parliament rejected an attempt by hard-line lawmakers to prevent the Ulpana demolition. The proposal sought to leave the buildings, home to 30 families, intact and instead compensate the Palestinian landowners. But under pressure from Netanyahu, the parliament resoundingly defeated the measure by a 69-22 vote.Netanyahu opposed the bill, saying it would likely be overturned by the Supreme Court and generate harsh international criticism.In order to blunt settler anger, Netanyahu has come up with a novel solution: Instead of demolishing the buildings, he plans on removing them from their foundations and transferring them to the nearby settlement of Beit El. In addition, he said he would build 300 more homes in Beit El."Israel is a democracy that observes the law, and as prime minister I am obligated to preserve the law and preserve the settlements, and I say here that there is no contradiction between the two," Netanyahu said."This formula strengthens settlements," he added. "''The court ruled what it did, and we respect its decision. In parallel, Beit El will be expanded. The 30 families will stay in Beit El and they will be joined by 300 new families."Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat condemned the new construction. "This is a very grave development, this undermines all efforts to revive the peace making between the two sides," he said.In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the planned construction "undermines peace efforts." He said, "We do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity. And, we want to see both parties refrain from these kinds of actions and to get back into negotiations."An Israeli official said it was unclear how long the Ulpana move would take or how much it would cost. He said the plan is for the homes in Ulpana to be removed from their current location by the July 1 deadline. It is possible the residents will need temporary housing while the buildings are transferred. He spoke on condition of anonymity because final details still need to be worked out.Netanyahu's plan has come under fire from various quarters. Critics say the move is unnecessarily expensive and complicated. Settlers reject any move of the buildings.Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat condemned the new construction. "This is a very grave development, this undermines all efforts to revive the peace making between the two sides," he said.There was no immediate reaction from Washington. The U.S., along with most of the international community, considers the settlements illegitimate.About 2,000 settlers, nearly all of them observant Jews, with men wearing knit skullcaps and females in long skirts, demonstrated outside the parliamentary building ahead of Wednesday's vote, and some activists have begun hunger strikes to protest the planned destruction of Ulpana.Settler leaders have promised to resist the order, though they say their opposition will be peaceful. Police said two arrests were made when young demonstrators scuffled with authorities."The Knesset chose destruction instead of construction. We will not be deterred. We will continue to build," said settler leader Dani Dayan.Jewish settlements are at the heart of the current impasse in Mideast peace efforts.Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians broke down three years ago, and the Palestinians refuse to restart negotiations until Israel freezes settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.The Palestinians claim both areas, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, for a future state. With 500,000 Israelis now living on land claimed by the Palestinians, they say their dream of gaining independence is growing ever more distant.Netanyahu says talks should resume without any preconditions and has rejected calls for a full settlement freeze.