KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
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)
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, said in an interview
published Friday that he does not believe President Barack Obama will
order an attack on Iran, now or in the future, and urged Israel to
attack Iran's nuclear program on its own.Speaking to Maariv's Tzach Yoked, Bolton said that "there is
no way at this stage to prevent Iran from going nuclear without use of
force. It is very unfortunate in my opinion, but I see no possibility
that Obama will use military force, and therefore it falls upon Israel. I
think that even though the Administration says that containment is not
its policy, it will become its policy the day after Iran possesses
nuclear weapons. They won't like it, but they do believe that a nuclear
Iran can be contained, just as we contained the nuclear Soviet Union
during the Cold War.""Iran is not in a race for building one or two bombs," Bolton
continued. "I think they believe that time is on their side and they
will continue with what seems like a well thought-out plan, mostly
because they believe that the United States under Obama's leadership
will do nothing. And of course, they are afraid of Israel, but I think
they trust Obama to pressure Israel not to do anything, and until now
this has proved right.""I think Israel, like any other country, has a legitimate right to self defense," Bolton told Maariv. "Israel has twice attacked enemies that were developing nuclear weapons, and it has the right to do so in this case as well." In a separate interview for the Intermountain Jewish News,
Bolton said he would rather see the U.S. attack Iran: "The US has much
greater [military] capabilities [than Israel]. That’s why Israel wants
the US to do it. I believe the US should do it because we’ll get blamed
anyway. Therefore, we might as well make sure it gets done right."
"I blame not only Obama, but the [G. W.] Bush administration," he added. "Sanctions are only good if they are comprehensive, swiftly applied and rigorously enforced. Obama has met none of those conditions."
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Egyptian President Mohammed
Morsi on Thursday described the two countries as “strategic allies,” PressTV reported.According to the report,
during a meeting with Morsi in Tehran, Ahmadinejad referred to Egypt as
“Iran's strategic ally” and expressed the interest of the Iranian nation
and government in enhancing cooperation and friendly relations with the
Egyptian government and nation.He pointed out that friendly ties between Iran and Egypt will be to
the benefit of the entire Middle East and said, “The Islamic Republic of
Iran is prepared to make its experiences and facilities available to
the Egyptian brothers and [is ready] for the exchange of science,
technology and expertise between the two countries.”Ahmadinejad described Israel and the West’s hegemonic policies as a threat to the region and the world and added,
“The arrogant powers never favor the progress and strength of
independent and justice-seeking nations and their friendship or
animosity toward nations are based on the long-term objectives that they
pursue in the international arena.”He underlined the need for reforms in all the regional countries,
noting that the countries should be cautious about the way reforms are
implemented.Morsi, who visited Tehran to attend the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, said according to PressTV,
“Egypt also considers Iran as its strategic partner and believes that,
with a positive view to the future, everyone should provide suitable
grounds for the regional developments.”He added, “The feeling of friendship and fraternity between the
Iranian and Egyptian people is reciprocal and we always honor the
positions and the constructive forward march of Iranian nation in the
process of growth, development and progress.”Morsi’s visit to Tehran was a cause for concern that he would
solidify the “terror axis” of Iran – Hizbullah, Syria and
Hizbullah-dominated Lebanon in the north and Hamas to the south of
Israel.However, an official with the Muslim Brotherhood claimed this week that the visit is aimed at pressuring Iran to stop supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The movement’s Secretary General Dr. Mahmoud Hussein said that Morsi would raise the Syrian issue in his talks with the Iranian leadership and demand that Iran cease its military, economic and political support of Assad.On Thursday, the Egyptian president called for a collective effort by all the regional countries to settle the existing problems and noted that the Syrian crisis can only be resolved through the mediation and efforts of the key regional players such as Iran.Morsi’s spokesperson Yasser Ali said last week that Egypt and Iran won’t be reinstating normal diplomatic relations any time soon.Ali said that Morsi’s visit to Tehran for the Non-Alignment Summit is protocol, not a sign of changing diplomacy.
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=RYUgVL9PdxM&list=UU4SH8rh0OjYV3zwqnIfqNbA&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPX59y4KxE&feature=related
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI AUGUST 31,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +99.56
10:30 AM +109.61
11:00 AM +90.70
11:30 AM +125.52
12:00 PM +71.26
12:30 PM +84.43
01:00 PM +88.25
01:30 PM +55.42
02:00 PM +90.90
02:30 PM +119.56
03:00 PM +81.96
03:30 PM +92.77
04:00 PM +90.13 13,090.84
S&P 500 1406.58 +7.10
NASDAQ 3066.96 +18.25
GOLD 1,689.90 +32.90
OIL 96.47 +1.84
TSE 300 11,949.26 +62.61
CDNX 1240.86 +22.90
S&P/TSX/60 685.12 +3.94
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +88 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +125 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,663.90.OIL opens at $96.43 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)
OK ITS 10AM AND BERNANKE (HELICOPTER BEN) IS GETTING READY WITH HIS QUANTUM EASEING 3 SPEECH OR BLOW UP THE ECONOMY AND KILL THE DOLLAR FROM 60CENTS ON THE DOLLAR DOWN TO 40CENTS ON THE DOLLAR.CREATE INCREDIBLE INFLATION AND STEAL PEOPLES PROPERTY FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR AFTER THE DOLLAR IS WORTHLESS.WITH THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR ONLY 60 CENTS SINCE THIS FIRST 2 STIMULUS OR QUANTUM EASEING KILL THE ECONOMY LOVE THE EARTH FLYING HIGH TO THE ELITE,HELICOPTER BEN BERNANKE.THE STOCK MARKET AT THE BEGGINING OF HIS SPEECH IS PLUS 70.SEE WHAT HAPPENS AFTER BEN,SAYS NOTHIN.OR VAGUE STATEMENTS.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
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)
Bolton to Israel: Attack, It's Your Right
Former U.S. Ambassador to UN says Obama will not attack Iran, so Israel has to do it.
By Gil Ronen First Publish: 8/31/2012, 1:38 PM
Parchin site -- aerial view
Reuters
"I blame not only Obama, but the [G. W.] Bush administration," he added. "Sanctions are only good if they are comprehensive, swiftly applied and rigorously enforced. Obama has met none of those conditions."
Ahmadinejad and Morsi Hail 'Strategic Partnership'
Ahmadinejad and Morsi described the two countries as “strategic allies” during a meeting in Tehran.
By Elad Benari First Publish: 8/31/2012, 5:43 AM
Ahmadinejad and Morsi
Reuters
The movement’s Secretary General Dr. Mahmoud Hussein said that Morsi would raise the Syrian issue in his talks with the Iranian leadership and demand that Iran cease its military, economic and political support of Assad.On Thursday, the Egyptian president called for a collective effort by all the regional countries to settle the existing problems and noted that the Syrian crisis can only be resolved through the mediation and efforts of the key regional players such as Iran.Morsi’s spokesperson Yasser Ali said last week that Egypt and Iran won’t be reinstating normal diplomatic relations any time soon.Ali said that Morsi’s visit to Tehran for the Non-Alignment Summit is protocol, not a sign of changing diplomacy.
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=RYUgVL9PdxM&list=UU4SH8rh0OjYV3zwqnIfqNbA&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPX59y4KxE&feature=related
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI AUGUST 31,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +99.56
10:30 AM +109.61
11:00 AM +90.70
11:30 AM +125.52
12:00 PM +71.26
12:30 PM +84.43
01:00 PM +88.25
01:30 PM +55.42
02:00 PM +90.90
02:30 PM +119.56
03:00 PM +81.96
03:30 PM +92.77
04:00 PM +90.13 13,090.84
S&P 500 1406.58 +7.10
NASDAQ 3066.96 +18.25
GOLD 1,689.90 +32.90
OIL 96.47 +1.84
TSE 300 11,949.26 +62.61
CDNX 1240.86 +22.90
S&P/TSX/60 685.12 +3.94
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +88 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +125 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,663.90.OIL opens at $96.43 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)
OK ITS 10AM AND BERNANKE (HELICOPTER BEN) IS GETTING READY WITH HIS QUANTUM EASEING 3 SPEECH OR BLOW UP THE ECONOMY AND KILL THE DOLLAR FROM 60CENTS ON THE DOLLAR DOWN TO 40CENTS ON THE DOLLAR.CREATE INCREDIBLE INFLATION AND STEAL PEOPLES PROPERTY FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR AFTER THE DOLLAR IS WORTHLESS.WITH THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR ONLY 60 CENTS SINCE THIS FIRST 2 STIMULUS OR QUANTUM EASEING KILL THE ECONOMY LOVE THE EARTH FLYING HIGH TO THE ELITE,HELICOPTER BEN BERNANKE.THE STOCK MARKET AT THE BEGGINING OF HIS SPEECH IS PLUS 70.SEE WHAT HAPPENS AFTER BEN,SAYS NOTHIN.OR VAGUE STATEMENTS.
HERES SOMETHING I WROTE BACK ON AUGUST 23,12
WELL OBAMA OUTDONE HIMSELF AGAIN.ON CNN I SEEN A STORY THAT SAYS A
NAVY SEAL MEMBER IS WRITTING A BOOK ABOUT THE BIN LADEN RAID.ITS DUE OUT
SEPT 11,12.WELL MAYBE OBAMA WILL RESURRECT BIN LADIN FROM HIS GRAVE IN
THE SO CALLED OCEAN WERE HE SO CALL BURIED THE BODY.WE ALL KNOW BY
PROOF.BIN LADIN DIED BACK IN 2002 ALREADY.NOW WHY WOULD THIS SO CALLED
NAVY SEAL UNDER A PEN NAME (MAYBE PEN NAME BARRY SOETORO) OR AKA BARACK
OBAMA HIMSELF.WHY WOULD HE WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING THAT WAS DREAMPT UP BY
OBAMA TO GET RE-ELECTED.IF OBAMA WANTS TO GET RE-ELECTED,ALL HE HAS TO
DO IS NUKE IRANS SITE.THEN THE OBAMA WORSHIPPERS WOULD GIVE HIM THE VOTE
QUICK.OH THATS OBAMA,OUR FAKE BIN LADIN KILLER.OBAMA JUST TOOK BIN
LADIN OUT OF THE FREEZER WERE HE WAS KEPT SINCE 2002 AND CLAIMED HE
KILLED HIM IN A RAID IN SOME WALLED PLACE.NOW IF OBAMA IS WRITTING THIS
FAKE BOOK,HE CAN MAKE HIMSELF LOOK LIKE SUCH A HERO TO WHOEVER READS
IT.AND WHAT TIPS ME OFF ITS OBAMA WRITTING IT UNDER GUISE OF A SO CALLED
NAVY SEAL.IS, I FIRST SEEN IT ON CNN,OBAMAS MOUTHPIECE WORSHIPPERS TO
THE WORLD.DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
EU commission gears up for banking union legislation
30.08.12 @ 19:29 France and Germany moving towards closer political union By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Legislation to establish a
banking union for the eurozone will be tabled on 12 September, European
Commission President Jose Barroso said in a speech Thursday (30 August).Speaking at the Aspbach Economic Symposium in Austria, President
Barroso described the step, which is expected to see the Frankfurt-based
European Central Bank given extensive powers to supervise and intervene
in the European banking system, as "the next concrete and immediate
deliverable of our vision to generate confidence in the future of the
euro area". However, with Britain and other non-eurozone countries likely to
opt-out of the system, the union is expected to focus on the single
currency areas.At a news briefing in Brussels, Commission spokeswoman Pia Hansen
confirmed that "the banking union will be for the seventeen," although
she added that it would be open to non-eurozone countries. There would
be "an interface for those who would like to join that supervisory
mechanism," she said.The banking union launch had been pencilled in for 11 September but
has now been pushed back by a day, allowing Barroso to unveil the plans
in his annual State of the Union speech to the European Parliament in
Strasbourg.Tentative agreement on establishing a federal banking union was
reached at the June EU summit, as political leaders seek to break the
link between Europe's debt-laden banks and sovereigns. In June Spain was
forced to request a bail-out package of up to €100billion to prop up
its domestic banks which accumulated bad debts totalling an estimated
€60 billion after the collapse of the country's property market.
Meanwhile, high street banks in Germany and France are exposed to
billions of euros in crisis-hit Italy, Greece and Ireland.
However, the passage of the legislation is far from clear. Germany's Angela Merkel has come under domestic pressure from her own CDU party and from Jens Wiedmann, the President of the Bundesbank, to block an expansion of powers for the ECB. On Monday (27 August) Wiedmann attacked the ECB's bond-buying programme, telling Der Spiegal that it amounted to "state financing via the printing press". Fellow Bundesbank executive member Andrea Dombret insisted that giving supervisory powers to the ECB would create "conflicts of interest."Despite this, Merkel is expected to support centralised oversight control of the banking sector before allowing the EU bail-out fund, the European Stability Mechanism, to directly refinance weak banks. While the ECB is expected to be given the "prudential supervision" powers included in the EU treaty, the London-based European Banking Authority is expected to keep its role of monitoring the compliance of European banks with EU financial regulation.The Commission chief also revealed plans to overhaul the EU's Single Market legislation commenting that the Commission would prepare a "Single Market 2" in the coming weeks. Barroso said that the reforms would "build on the momentum" of the twelve bills making up the Single Market Act, currently being discussed by MEPs and governments.
However, the passage of the legislation is far from clear. Germany's Angela Merkel has come under domestic pressure from her own CDU party and from Jens Wiedmann, the President of the Bundesbank, to block an expansion of powers for the ECB. On Monday (27 August) Wiedmann attacked the ECB's bond-buying programme, telling Der Spiegal that it amounted to "state financing via the printing press". Fellow Bundesbank executive member Andrea Dombret insisted that giving supervisory powers to the ECB would create "conflicts of interest."Despite this, Merkel is expected to support centralised oversight control of the banking sector before allowing the EU bail-out fund, the European Stability Mechanism, to directly refinance weak banks. While the ECB is expected to be given the "prudential supervision" powers included in the EU treaty, the London-based European Banking Authority is expected to keep its role of monitoring the compliance of European banks with EU financial regulation.The Commission chief also revealed plans to overhaul the EU's Single Market legislation commenting that the Commission would prepare a "Single Market 2" in the coming weeks. Barroso said that the reforms would "build on the momentum" of the twelve bills making up the Single Market Act, currently being discussed by MEPs and governments.
China urges Germany and France to solve euro-crisis
30.08.12 @ 19:35 By Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - Chinese Prime Minister Wen
Jiabao on Thursday (30 August) offered vague promises to buy bonds from
troubled euro-countries, but said that it is ultimately up to Germany
and France to solve the crisis."The European debt crisis recently has continued to deteriorate,
giving rise to serious concerns in the international community. Frankly,
I am also worried," Wen said during a joint press conference with
German Chancellor Angela Merkel.She had travelled to Beijing with half of her government for a joint
session with the Chinese government, Germany being the only country with
which China holds such meetings.
Despite her reassurances about "absolute political will" to save the euro, Wen expressed concern about the speed of the response.He pointed to the possibility of Spain and Italy also asking for bailouts as well as uncertainty regarding Greece's future in the eurozone. "The solution depends on the will and decisiveness of the big euro-countries, Germany and France, to help them out."China will continue to buy European bonds, Wen said, but he did not make any concrete pledges regarding Italy or Spain and noted that any purchases would require a full risk evaluation.Merkel said she wants Greece to remain in the eurozone and praised Italy and Spain for their reforms. "Both countries are on a very intensive reform path, which I am strongly convinced will bear fruits."The chancellor's display of power - it is the second time this year she meets with top Chinese officials and signs lucrative deals - such as an order for 50 Airbus planes worth €2.8 billion - is in stark contrast with the yearly EU-China summits which produce statements and pledges for cooperation.
A question about freedom of the press, with increasing restrictions by the Communist Party imposed on foreign correspondents, went unanswered by Wen. As for Merkel, she said: "We have a joint conviction that allowing for fair reporting is a basis for our nations to get to know each other better and to cooperate better."
She also played down a dispute over solar panels, with European producers calling on the EU commission to impose tariffs to punish the Chinese competitors for unfair subsidies received from Beijing."Protectionism cannot be the answer for certain difficulties, we have to try to solve existing problems by the way of talks, problems we have in the field of solar energy, for instance," Merkel said."We should endeavour to do so because there is still time and we will discuss with our colleagues in the European Union that we should give it a try."
Despite her reassurances about "absolute political will" to save the euro, Wen expressed concern about the speed of the response.He pointed to the possibility of Spain and Italy also asking for bailouts as well as uncertainty regarding Greece's future in the eurozone. "The solution depends on the will and decisiveness of the big euro-countries, Germany and France, to help them out."China will continue to buy European bonds, Wen said, but he did not make any concrete pledges regarding Italy or Spain and noted that any purchases would require a full risk evaluation.Merkel said she wants Greece to remain in the eurozone and praised Italy and Spain for their reforms. "Both countries are on a very intensive reform path, which I am strongly convinced will bear fruits."The chancellor's display of power - it is the second time this year she meets with top Chinese officials and signs lucrative deals - such as an order for 50 Airbus planes worth €2.8 billion - is in stark contrast with the yearly EU-China summits which produce statements and pledges for cooperation.
A question about freedom of the press, with increasing restrictions by the Communist Party imposed on foreign correspondents, went unanswered by Wen. As for Merkel, she said: "We have a joint conviction that allowing for fair reporting is a basis for our nations to get to know each other better and to cooperate better."
She also played down a dispute over solar panels, with European producers calling on the EU commission to impose tariffs to punish the Chinese competitors for unfair subsidies received from Beijing."Protectionism cannot be the answer for certain difficulties, we have to try to solve existing problems by the way of talks, problems we have in the field of solar energy, for instance," Merkel said."We should endeavour to do so because there is still time and we will discuss with our colleagues in the European Union that we should give it a try."
EU in talks on more international emission deals
29.08.12 @ 19:00 By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - The EU is pressing ahead
with talks on further bi-lateral carbon emissions agreements with a deal
with Australia just announced.Isaac Valero-Ladron, spokesperson for EU Environment Commissioner
Connie Hedegaard, said that talks on new bi-lateral deals on emissions
trading were "underway with South Korea, China, Switzerland and
California".The admission follows the announcement Tuesday (28 August) by
Commissioner Hedegaard and Australian Climate Change minister Greg
Combet of a bi-lateral deal that would create the world's largest
emissions trading market if ratified.Under the deal, Australia, which at 27 tonnes per person is among the
world's biggest carbon polluters per capita, will scrap its AUS $15
floor price (€12.5) intended for 2015, replacing it with EU prices which
are currently being traded at between €8 and €9 per tonne.Australian businesses would have one-way access to EU carbon
allowances to meet 50 percent of their carbon liabilities until 2018.
Provided that agreement can be reached, the two markets would then be
fully integrated from July 2018 allowing European and Australian firms
to use up to 100 percent of each other's allowance.Hedegaard welcomed the deal as "the first full-intercontinental
linking of emission trading system" adding that it would be "further
evidence of strong international co-operation on climate change."The Commission is now seeking the backing of member states and MEPs
to agree a formal trade treaty with Australia with a deadline of
mid-2015. "We don't see why someone would be against more business
opportunities for European companies in the carbon market, said
Valero-Ladron.The passage of the treaty is likely to be tougher in Australia. With
Labour Prime Minister Julia Gillard reliant on three Independent MPs for
her parliamentary majority, the deal could face a difficult path in the
federal parliament.
The deal has already come under attack from Tony Abbott, the leader of Australia's opposition Liberal party. Abbott, whose party opposed the Australian emissions trading scheme established in 2011 by the Labor government's Clean Energy Act, told reporters that brokering the deal was "wrong-headed" adding that "our traders...our competitors are not introducing this tax."Although Gillard's government has a parliament mandate to negotiate with the EU, the country's next federal elections are due in November 2013. With current opinion polls indicating victory for Abbott's Liberal/National coalition, the deal could yet be sunk before it starts.The EU Emissions Trading Scheme was launched in 2005 and will enter its 'Phase III' from January, which for the first time will involve an overall EU cap. If met, this would see a reduction in carbon emissions of almost 10 percent.
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.
By Ellen Wulfhorst and Scott Malone | Reuters – 1 hour 29 minutes ago AUG 31,12
The deal has already come under attack from Tony Abbott, the leader of Australia's opposition Liberal party. Abbott, whose party opposed the Australian emissions trading scheme established in 2011 by the Labor government's Clean Energy Act, told reporters that brokering the deal was "wrong-headed" adding that "our traders...our competitors are not introducing this tax."Although Gillard's government has a parliament mandate to negotiate with the EU, the country's next federal elections are due in November 2013. With current opinion polls indicating victory for Abbott's Liberal/National coalition, the deal could yet be sunk before it starts.The EU Emissions Trading Scheme was launched in 2005 and will enter its 'Phase III' from January, which for the first time will involve an overall EU cap. If met, this would see a reduction in carbon emissions of almost 10 percent.
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.
Isaac's remnants bring headaches but also relief to drought
By Ellen Wulfhorst and Scott Malone | Reuters – 1 hour 29 minutes ago AUG 31,12
NEW
ORLEANS (Reuters) - The remnants of Hurricane Isaac continue to cause
headaches on Friday, bringing heavy rainfall and the threat of flash
flooding to the lower Mississippi Valley as Gulf Coast residents get
ready to start their cleanup efforts.The first hurricane to hit the United States this year
will be remembered for striking New Orleans on the anniversary of 2005's
deadly Hurricane Katrina - and providing a first, successful test of
the city's pricey new flood defenses.New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu concluded that the ring of defenses was "operating as designed."Now a tropical depression, Isaac can still trigger
tornadoes in Mississippi and Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center
said - among the final acts of a storm that punched above its weight in
terms of impact and often confounded forecasters.One bright spot: rain that is expected to reach the
central U.S. Midwest over the weekend, a godsend to farmers suffering
from the worst drought in more than 50 years, even if too late for many
of this season's crops.Isaac caused widespread flooding and property damage in
the U.S. Gulf Coast region, mostly because of its unexpectedly heavy
and persistent rainfall. The system lingered near New Orleans for the
best part of two days, sometimes moving as slowly as five miles an hour
(8 km per hour)."Most of them blow through and are over with. This one
is just hanging around too long," George Dubaz, a New Orleans tour
guide, said during the deluge.
The storm caused anywhere from $700 million to $2 billion in insured onshore losses, disaster modeler AIR Worldwide said late Thursday.That would still leave Isaac, which came onshore as a Category 1 hurricane, well outside the 10 most costly U.S. hurricanes.New Orleans' Audubon Park recorded 18.7 inches of rain in a 24-hour period during Isaac. That exceeded all records dating back to 1871, said Jeff Masters of Weather Underground. Many other locations in Louisiana and Mississippi logged more than 10 inches of rain.
Through it all New Orleans sustained mostly cosmetic damage such as downed trees and street lights. A massive police and National Guard presence - and a dusk-to-dawn curfew, now lifted - also helped keep things calm even as much of the city lost power.The Port of New Orleans and the city's airport were ready to reopen on Friday, authorities said.Surrounding areas, though, without the new protective federal flood barriers, did not fare as well from the relentless rain and huge storm surges brought forth by Isaac.Some of the worst flooding was in Plaquemines Parish, southwest of New Orleans, where flood waters overtopped at least one levee and left many homes under about 12 feet of water.Late on Thursday, local officials confirmed the death of a man and a woman in the parish town of Braithwaite. The pair apparently drowned in their kitchen as flood waters surged in. Earlier, a Mississippi man died after being hit by a falling tree.Isaac killed at least 23 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before taking aim at the United States.Slidell, a town of about 27,000 people northeast of New Orleans, took the brunt of a storm surge from Lake Pontchartrain, which left some neighborhoods under about a foot of water."You'd have never made me believe a Category 1 would dump this much water," said Sam Caruso, 71, a former mayor of Slidell who toured the town in his pickup truck on Thursday.As the flood waters rose, some residents, including Caruso, wondered whether the new federal levee system had shored up New Orleans at the expense of low-lying neighboring parishes outside the system's protection - a debate that is likely to continue.Benchmark crude oil prices slipped on Thursday after major oil facilities on the Gulf of Mexico made it through Isaac mostly unscathed.The smallest of six Louisiana oil refineries began to power back up on Thursday and most other oil and gas companies in the U.S. Gulf Coast region were preparing to restart.Some 700,000 residents and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi were still without electricity on Thursday, down from a peak of over 1 million.
(Additional reporting by Emily Le Coz in Tupelo, Mississippi; Chris Baltimore in Houston; David Adams in Miami; and Sam Nelson in Chicago; Writing by Ros Krasny)
By | Associated Press – 54 minutes ago AUG 31,12
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.
ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
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.
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)
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them;(ATOMIC BOMB) 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.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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.
REVELATION 9:18
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.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
The storm caused anywhere from $700 million to $2 billion in insured onshore losses, disaster modeler AIR Worldwide said late Thursday.That would still leave Isaac, which came onshore as a Category 1 hurricane, well outside the 10 most costly U.S. hurricanes.New Orleans' Audubon Park recorded 18.7 inches of rain in a 24-hour period during Isaac. That exceeded all records dating back to 1871, said Jeff Masters of Weather Underground. Many other locations in Louisiana and Mississippi logged more than 10 inches of rain.
Through it all New Orleans sustained mostly cosmetic damage such as downed trees and street lights. A massive police and National Guard presence - and a dusk-to-dawn curfew, now lifted - also helped keep things calm even as much of the city lost power.The Port of New Orleans and the city's airport were ready to reopen on Friday, authorities said.Surrounding areas, though, without the new protective federal flood barriers, did not fare as well from the relentless rain and huge storm surges brought forth by Isaac.Some of the worst flooding was in Plaquemines Parish, southwest of New Orleans, where flood waters overtopped at least one levee and left many homes under about 12 feet of water.Late on Thursday, local officials confirmed the death of a man and a woman in the parish town of Braithwaite. The pair apparently drowned in their kitchen as flood waters surged in. Earlier, a Mississippi man died after being hit by a falling tree.Isaac killed at least 23 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before taking aim at the United States.Slidell, a town of about 27,000 people northeast of New Orleans, took the brunt of a storm surge from Lake Pontchartrain, which left some neighborhoods under about a foot of water."You'd have never made me believe a Category 1 would dump this much water," said Sam Caruso, 71, a former mayor of Slidell who toured the town in his pickup truck on Thursday.As the flood waters rose, some residents, including Caruso, wondered whether the new federal levee system had shored up New Orleans at the expense of low-lying neighboring parishes outside the system's protection - a debate that is likely to continue.Benchmark crude oil prices slipped on Thursday after major oil facilities on the Gulf of Mexico made it through Isaac mostly unscathed.The smallest of six Louisiana oil refineries began to power back up on Thursday and most other oil and gas companies in the U.S. Gulf Coast region were preparing to restart.Some 700,000 residents and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi were still without electricity on Thursday, down from a peak of over 1 million.
(Additional reporting by Emily Le Coz in Tupelo, Mississippi; Chris Baltimore in Houston; David Adams in Miami; and Sam Nelson in Chicago; Writing by Ros Krasny)
Misery in La. as Isaac flooding leaves power out
By | Associated Press – 54 minutes ago AUG 31,12
NEW
ORLEANS (AP) — Isaac sloshed northwards into the nation's midsection
Friday after flooding stretches of Louisiana and knocking out power,
leaving entire water-logged neighborhoods without lights, air
conditioning or clean water.It will be a few days before the soupy brown water recedes and people forced out of flooded neighborhoods can return home.And
the damage may not be done. Officials were pumping water from a
reservoir to ease the pressure behind an Isaac-stressed dam in
Mississippi on the Louisiana border. In Arkansas, power lines were
downed and trees knocked over as Isaac moved north into the state.
The earthen dam on Lake Tangipahoa could unleash a 17-foot flood crest downstream in Louisiana if it were to give way, which prompted evacuations in small towns and rural areas Thursday. Officials released extra water through the dam and were considering punching a hole in it to lower the rain-swollen reservoir.
New Orleans, spared any major damage, lifted its curfew and returned to its usual liveliness, although it was dampened by heavy humidity."I have a battery-operated fan. This is the only thing keeping me going," said Rhyn Pate, a food services worker who sat under the eaves of a porch with other renters, making the best of the circumstances. "And a fly swatter to keep the bugs off me — and the most important thing, insect repellent."The heat was getting to Marguerite Boudreaux, 85, in Gretna, a suburb of New Orleans."I have a daughter who is an invalid and then my husband is 90 years old, so he's slowing down a lot," she said, red in the face as she stood in the doorway of her house, damp and musky from the lack of air conditioning.
Isaac dumped as much as 16 inches of rain in some areas, and about 500 people had to be rescued by boat or high-water vehicles.At least five deaths were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi.The latest two victims, a man and a woman, were discovered late Thursday in a home in the hard-hit town of Braithwaite, south of New Orleans. Authorities said deputies went to search for the couple after someone reported they had apparently not escaped the flooding. Their names were not immediately released.An unidentified man died in a restaurant blaze in Gretna that firefighters could not control because of Isaac's strong winds Wednesday. Another man died falling from a tree during the storm and a tow truck driver in Mississippi was killed when a tree crushed the cab of his truck.On Grand Isle, a barrier island on the Gulf, the town pumped away water. Sections of the only road to town had washed out.On a street turned river in Reserve, on the east bank of the Mississippi River, two young men ferried their neighbors to the highway in a johnboat, using boards as paddles.Lucien Chopin, 29, was last to leave his house, waiting until his wife and three kids, ages 7, 5 and 1 were safely away.He was finally joining them late Thursday, hoping they would find a shelter.His van was underwater and water flowed waist-high in the house he'd rented for eight months."It's like, everything is down the drain. I lost everything. I've gotta start all over."Chopin was upset that pumps meant to keep the area dry either failed or were shut off."We knew it was coming, but they didn't tell us we had to evacuate. We had no idea it was gonna be like this," he said, a refrain echoed by many.Cisco Gonzales, a heating and air conditioning business owner, said he got his boat and truck and headed for higher ground when he heard the water was rising quickly, from 0 to 6 feet of water in five minutes."I've never seen so much water in my life," said Gonzales, who built a home in Braithwaite, southeast of the city, after his previous home was damaged by Katrina in 2005.He rode out the storm at a ferry landing and when the weather calmed, he went out and rescued about a dozen people."I got back to my house to assess the situation, and it's a mess," he said. "That's all I can say."Isaac hit on the seventh anniversary of Katrina, a hurricane that devastated New Orleans.The two storms had little in common. Katrina came ashore as a Category 3 storm, while Isaac was a Category 1 at its peak. Katrina barreled into the state and quickly moved through. Isaac lingered across the landscape at less than 10 mph and wobbled constantly. Because of its sluggishness, Isaac dumped copious amounts of rain. Many people said more water inundated their homes during this storm than during Katrina.Both storms, however, caused the Mississippi River to flow backward. And both prompted criticism of government officials.In the case of Isaac, officials' calls for evacuations so long after the storm made landfall caused some consternation.Jefferson Parish Council President Chris Roberts said forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami needed a new way of measuring the danger that goes beyond wind speed."The risk that a public official has is, people say, 'Aw, it's a Category 1 storm, and you guys are out there calling for mandatory evacuations,'" Roberts said.Eric Blake, a specialist at the hurricane center, said that although Isaac's cone shifted west as it zigzagged toward the Gulf Coast, forecasters accurately predicted its path, intensity and rainfall. He did say the storm came ashore somewhat slower than anticipated.
Blake cautioned against using Katrina as a benchmark for flooding during other storms."Every hurricane is different," Blake said. "If you're trying to use the last hurricane to gauge your storm surge risk, it's very dangerous."Crews intentionally breached a levee that was strained by Isaac's floodwaters in southeast Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, which is outside the federal levee system. Aerial images showed the water gushing out.In Louisiana alone, the storm cut power to 901,000 homes and businesses, or about 47 percent of the state. That was down to 39 percent, or about 821,000, by Thursday evening, the Public Service Commission said.Entergy Corp., Louisiana's largest power company, said Isaac knocked out power to nearly 770,000 of its customers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. Only three storms have left more customers without power: Hurricanes Katrina (1.1 million), Gustav (964,000) and Rita (800,000), the company said in a news release.More than 15,000 utility workers began restoring power to customers in Louisiana and Mississippi, but officials said it would be at least two days before power was fully restored.
In Mississippi, several coastal communities struggled with all the extra water, including Pascagoula, where a large portion of the city flooded and water blocked downtown intersections.High water also prevented more than 800 people from returning to their homes in Bay St. Louis, a small town that lost most of its business district to Katrina's storm surge.Robbie Daniel, 55, an industrial engineer, and his wife, Kathi, a retired school teacher, live in a house on the Tchoutacabouffa River in Biloxi, and hadn't left home since Tuesday. Their house is on stilts and was surrounded by chest deep water.Kathi saw online Thursday that casinos could be opening so they hopped in a kayak, paddled to their car on higher ground and drove to Island View Casino Resort in Gulfport."Tired of sitting there watching rain," Kathi said.____Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Brian Schwaner and Stacey Plaisance in New Orleans; Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge, La.; Kevin McGill in Houma, La.; Vicki Smith in LaPlace, La.; Holbrook Mohr in Waveland and Pass Christian, Miss.; and Jeff Amy in Pascagoula and Bay St. Louis, Miss.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
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,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
The earthen dam on Lake Tangipahoa could unleash a 17-foot flood crest downstream in Louisiana if it were to give way, which prompted evacuations in small towns and rural areas Thursday. Officials released extra water through the dam and were considering punching a hole in it to lower the rain-swollen reservoir.
New Orleans, spared any major damage, lifted its curfew and returned to its usual liveliness, although it was dampened by heavy humidity."I have a battery-operated fan. This is the only thing keeping me going," said Rhyn Pate, a food services worker who sat under the eaves of a porch with other renters, making the best of the circumstances. "And a fly swatter to keep the bugs off me — and the most important thing, insect repellent."The heat was getting to Marguerite Boudreaux, 85, in Gretna, a suburb of New Orleans."I have a daughter who is an invalid and then my husband is 90 years old, so he's slowing down a lot," she said, red in the face as she stood in the doorway of her house, damp and musky from the lack of air conditioning.
Isaac dumped as much as 16 inches of rain in some areas, and about 500 people had to be rescued by boat or high-water vehicles.At least five deaths were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi.The latest two victims, a man and a woman, were discovered late Thursday in a home in the hard-hit town of Braithwaite, south of New Orleans. Authorities said deputies went to search for the couple after someone reported they had apparently not escaped the flooding. Their names were not immediately released.An unidentified man died in a restaurant blaze in Gretna that firefighters could not control because of Isaac's strong winds Wednesday. Another man died falling from a tree during the storm and a tow truck driver in Mississippi was killed when a tree crushed the cab of his truck.On Grand Isle, a barrier island on the Gulf, the town pumped away water. Sections of the only road to town had washed out.On a street turned river in Reserve, on the east bank of the Mississippi River, two young men ferried their neighbors to the highway in a johnboat, using boards as paddles.Lucien Chopin, 29, was last to leave his house, waiting until his wife and three kids, ages 7, 5 and 1 were safely away.He was finally joining them late Thursday, hoping they would find a shelter.His van was underwater and water flowed waist-high in the house he'd rented for eight months."It's like, everything is down the drain. I lost everything. I've gotta start all over."Chopin was upset that pumps meant to keep the area dry either failed or were shut off."We knew it was coming, but they didn't tell us we had to evacuate. We had no idea it was gonna be like this," he said, a refrain echoed by many.Cisco Gonzales, a heating and air conditioning business owner, said he got his boat and truck and headed for higher ground when he heard the water was rising quickly, from 0 to 6 feet of water in five minutes."I've never seen so much water in my life," said Gonzales, who built a home in Braithwaite, southeast of the city, after his previous home was damaged by Katrina in 2005.He rode out the storm at a ferry landing and when the weather calmed, he went out and rescued about a dozen people."I got back to my house to assess the situation, and it's a mess," he said. "That's all I can say."Isaac hit on the seventh anniversary of Katrina, a hurricane that devastated New Orleans.The two storms had little in common. Katrina came ashore as a Category 3 storm, while Isaac was a Category 1 at its peak. Katrina barreled into the state and quickly moved through. Isaac lingered across the landscape at less than 10 mph and wobbled constantly. Because of its sluggishness, Isaac dumped copious amounts of rain. Many people said more water inundated their homes during this storm than during Katrina.Both storms, however, caused the Mississippi River to flow backward. And both prompted criticism of government officials.In the case of Isaac, officials' calls for evacuations so long after the storm made landfall caused some consternation.Jefferson Parish Council President Chris Roberts said forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami needed a new way of measuring the danger that goes beyond wind speed."The risk that a public official has is, people say, 'Aw, it's a Category 1 storm, and you guys are out there calling for mandatory evacuations,'" Roberts said.Eric Blake, a specialist at the hurricane center, said that although Isaac's cone shifted west as it zigzagged toward the Gulf Coast, forecasters accurately predicted its path, intensity and rainfall. He did say the storm came ashore somewhat slower than anticipated.
Blake cautioned against using Katrina as a benchmark for flooding during other storms."Every hurricane is different," Blake said. "If you're trying to use the last hurricane to gauge your storm surge risk, it's very dangerous."Crews intentionally breached a levee that was strained by Isaac's floodwaters in southeast Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, which is outside the federal levee system. Aerial images showed the water gushing out.In Louisiana alone, the storm cut power to 901,000 homes and businesses, or about 47 percent of the state. That was down to 39 percent, or about 821,000, by Thursday evening, the Public Service Commission said.Entergy Corp., Louisiana's largest power company, said Isaac knocked out power to nearly 770,000 of its customers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. Only three storms have left more customers without power: Hurricanes Katrina (1.1 million), Gustav (964,000) and Rita (800,000), the company said in a news release.More than 15,000 utility workers began restoring power to customers in Louisiana and Mississippi, but officials said it would be at least two days before power was fully restored.
In Mississippi, several coastal communities struggled with all the extra water, including Pascagoula, where a large portion of the city flooded and water blocked downtown intersections.High water also prevented more than 800 people from returning to their homes in Bay St. Louis, a small town that lost most of its business district to Katrina's storm surge.Robbie Daniel, 55, an industrial engineer, and his wife, Kathi, a retired school teacher, live in a house on the Tchoutacabouffa River in Biloxi, and hadn't left home since Tuesday. Their house is on stilts and was surrounded by chest deep water.Kathi saw online Thursday that casinos could be opening so they hopped in a kayak, paddled to their car on higher ground and drove to Island View Casino Resort in Gulfport."Tired of sitting there watching rain," Kathi said.____Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Brian Schwaner and Stacey Plaisance in New Orleans; Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge, La.; Kevin McGill in Houma, La.; Vicki Smith in LaPlace, La.; Holbrook Mohr in Waveland and Pass Christian, Miss.; and Jeff Amy in Pascagoula and Bay St. Louis, Miss.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
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,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Quake of 7.9 magnitude strikes off Philippines: USGS
Reuters – 23 mins ago AUG 31,12
MANILA (Reuters) - An earthquake of 7.9 magnitude struck off the Philippines on Friday and a tsunami warning has been issued for the region, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.The quake was centered off the east coast, 91 miles off
the town of Guiuan in Samar province at a depth of about 20 miles, USGS
said.The tsunami warning was issued for the Philippines,
Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea and other islands in the
Pacific including the U.S. state of Hawaii.(Writing by Robert Birsel; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.
ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
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.
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)
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them;(ATOMIC BOMB) 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.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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.
REVELATION 9:18
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.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
North Korea makes "significant" nuclear reactor progress: IAEA
By Fredrik Dahl | Reuters – 26 mins ago AUG 31,12
VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea
has made significant progress in the construction of a light water
atomic reactor over the past year, a U.N. watchdog report said, a
facility that may extend Pyongyang's capacity to produce material for nuclear weapons.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), citing
satellite images, also said "certain activities" had been observed at
locations where the reclusive Asian state "reportedly" conducted nuclear
tests in 2006 and 2009.But "without access
to the locations the agency is unable to provide a technical assessment
of the purpose of these activities or of whether nuclear material is
being used," the annual report, issued to IAEA member states on Thursday, said.North Korea's
nuclear program is a "matter of serious concern", it said, adding that
the country's statements about uranium enrichment activities and the construction of the reactor "continue to be deeply troubling".North Korea says it needs nuclear power to provide
electricity, but has also boasted of its nuclear deterrence capability
and has traded nuclear technology with Syria, Libya and probably Myanmar
and Pakistan. It is believed to be pushing ahead with plans for a third
nuclear test. {ID:nL4E8JO284]It became the first country to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003 and has denied IAEA
access to its atomic sites, reneging on a February deal to do so after
it announced plans to launch a long-range rocket, in defiance of United
Nations Security Council resolutions.In May, website 38North said North Korea had resumed
construction work on an experimental light water reactor (ELWR) after
stopping in December.
REACTOR WORK "PROGRESSING APACE"
REACTOR WORK "PROGRESSING APACE"
38North - run by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns
Hopkins University and former U.S. State Department official Joel Wit -
said the ELWR, when operational, could produce enough material for an
additional nuclear bomb each year.U.S. expert David Albright
estimated a higher potential production of about 20 kg of weapon-grade
plutonium a year, enough material for four nuclear weapons or more. But
he said it could also produce electricity."I think they do want to pursue this as an electricity
route too, so it is really a question of dual use, and we don't know
what they are going to do. North Korea would be able to do both,"
Albright told Reuters.A highly enriched uranium program running alongside
this could allow North Korea significantly to increase the number of
nuclear devices it could produce, giving it a dual track to nuclear
weapons as it has big reserves of uranium.The IAEA said "significant progress" had been made in
the reactor's construction since its previous report a year ago.Progress included placing a dome on the reactor
containment building and indications that some components may have been
installed inside the building.A system for
pumping water from a river to the reactor for cooling purposes has also
been built, the IAEA report said."However, without access to the site, the agency is
unable to assess either the design features of the LWR or the likely
date for its completion," the Vienna-based agency said.Earlier in August
Albright's think-tank, the Institute for Science and International
Security, said satellite imagery from May and June showed construction
"progressing apace". It said the reactor could be completed in the
second half of 2013.(Editing by Tim Pearce)
Iran doubles underground nuclear capacity: U.N. agency
By Fredrik Dahl | Reuters – 17 hrs ago AUG 31,12
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran
has doubled the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges it has in an
underground bunker, a U.N. report said on Thursday, showing Tehran has continued to expand its nuclear program despite Western pressure and the threat of an Israeli attack.As Israeli politicians increased their talk of air
strikes on Iran's nuclear sites in recent months, the Islamic Republic
was rapidly increasing the enrichment capacity of its Fordow site,
buried deep underground to withstand any such hit.The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency also said in its quarterly report on Iran that buildings had been demolished and earth removed at a military site the IAEA
wants to inspect, in what Western diplomats see as a determined effort
by Tehran to clean up any evidence of illicit nuclear-linked tests.These "extensive activities" at the Parchin complex,
the Vienna-based U.N. agency added, would significantly hamper its
investigation there, if and when inspectors are allowed access.The building, which the IAEA believes is housing a
steel chamber for explosives tests, has now been "shrouded", the report
said, in a possible attempt to hide it from satellite cameras.In another apparent sign of stonewalling of the IAEA's
inquiry, it said "no concrete results" had been achieved in a series of
high-profile meetings with Iran this year aimed at allaying concern
about its nuclear research."Iran's continued enrichment activities ... serve to
taunt all those in the international community concerned by Iran's
nuclear program," a senior Western diplomat said.In Washington, the White House said the United States
had made it clear to Iran that it has a limited window of time to stop
its nuclear activity and diplomatic terms offered by the West would not
remain open indefinitely.
"We are closely studying the details of the report, but broadly speaking it is not surprising that Iran is continuing to violate its obligations," Press Secretary Jay Carney said.The IAEA said the number of centrifuges at Fordow, near the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Qom, about 130 km (80 miles) from the capital Tehran, had more than doubled to 2,140 from 1,064 in May. The new machines were not yet operating, it said.Iran's supreme leader repeated this week that Iran's nuclear program was entirely peaceful. "Our motto is nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for none," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a developing nations summit in Tehran.But the expansion in enrichment infrastructure and the stockpiles of nuclear material revealed in the IAEA's report will do nothing to ease fears or reduce the diplomatic and sanctions pressure on Iran.
PARCHIN "LANDSCAPING"
"We are closely studying the details of the report, but broadly speaking it is not surprising that Iran is continuing to violate its obligations," Press Secretary Jay Carney said.The IAEA said the number of centrifuges at Fordow, near the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Qom, about 130 km (80 miles) from the capital Tehran, had more than doubled to 2,140 from 1,064 in May. The new machines were not yet operating, it said.Iran's supreme leader repeated this week that Iran's nuclear program was entirely peaceful. "Our motto is nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for none," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a developing nations summit in Tehran.But the expansion in enrichment infrastructure and the stockpiles of nuclear material revealed in the IAEA's report will do nothing to ease fears or reduce the diplomatic and sanctions pressure on Iran.
PARCHIN "LANDSCAPING"
The report may
strengthen a belief in Israel - which sees Iran's nuclear program as an
existential threat - that the West's tougher economic sanctions against
Tehran this year are failing to make the major oil producer curb its
program."This report
corroborates what (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu has been
saying for years now," an Israeli official said, referring to his view
that the diplomatic process had only given Iran more time to pursue its
program.Washington says there is still time for diplomatic
pressure to work. It could be drawn into any Iran-Israeli conflict.Cliff Kupchan, a
Middle East analyst at consultancy Eurasia Group, said he did not think
the IAEA's findings represented a "game changer" and he believed any
U.S. president would attack if there was an obvious Iranian bid to build
a nuclear bomb.The IAEA said Iran had produced nearly 190 kg (418
pounds) of higher-grade enriched uranium since 2010, up from 145 kg in
May, although a large part of that had been earmarked for conversion to
reactor fuel. Refined uranium can have both civilian or military uses,
depending on the enrichment level.Iran says it needs the higher-grade material - which is
much purer than fuel needed for electricity generation - for a medical
research reactor, but it also takes it significantly closer to making
potential bomb material.Iran would need about 200-250 kg of uranium refined to
20 percent fissile concentration if it wanted to make one bomb, a
decision it is not believed to have taken yet, experts say."Iran would not
likely want to take the dramatic step of breaking out of the nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) until it has enough material for several
bombs — a point that it will not likely be able to reach for two years
or more," said the Arms Control Association, a U.S. research and
advocacy group.The IAEA expressed
deepening concerns about Parchin, a military site southeast of Tehran
that it wants to inspect for evidence of past nuclear weapons
development tests. "Significant ground scraping and landscaping have
been undertaken over an extensive area at and around the location," it
said.
Five buildings or
other structures had been demolished and power lines, fences and paved
roads removed, it said, activities that would hamper its investigation
if granted access.Iran says Parchin is a conventional military facility and has dismissed the allegations about it as "ridiculous".(Additional reporting by Zahra Hosseinian in Zurich and Allyn Fisher-Ilan in Jerusalem; Editing by Myra MacDonald)Syrian troops shell Lebanese village: officials
AFP – 51 mins ago AUG 31,12
At least 25 shells fired by Syrian troops during the night struck a Lebanese Christian village on the northern border, wounding one person and causing damage, officials said.The border village of Minjez in
the Akkar region was hit by at least 25 shells fired between midnight
and 1:30 am on Friday (22:30 GMT Thursday), Toni Antonios, an elected
official from the Christian community, told AFP, adding that a house was
damaged.
A security official said a member of the security services was wounded by shrapnel."We have been the target for
months of stray bullets and shelling which has displaced families who no
longer dare go home. This is unacceptable," Antonios said."If they (Syrian troops) want to hunt down armed men, they must do it
in their own land, not on our territory," he said, denying that Syrian
rebels were in the village.The border has seen frequent exchanges of fire and the Syrian authorities have placed landmines along the frontier after accusing "terrorists" of infiltrating from Lebanon and groups there of supporting the rebellion by arming insurgents.
The Damascus regime says it thwarts attempts by armed men to infiltrate Syria from Lebanon almost daily.
The UN Security Council on
Thursday warned against attempts to destabilise Lebanon amid concerns of
a possible spillover of the Syrian conflict into its neighbour.Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon in 2005 after 30 years of occupation.More than 150,000 Syrians are
said to have fled to Lebanon where factions for and against Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad's regime have fought deadly clashes, notably
in Tripoli, the largest city in the country's north.
