KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
BELL CANADA OUTSOURCED AND STILL DOES I'M SURE TO INDIA.NOW THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA IS OUTSOURCING TO INDIA.A MUSLIM COUNTRY.DO WE SEE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE TWO BIGGEST COMPANIES IN CANADA.BELL CONTROLS ALL OF CANADAS TELOPHONE,CABLE,INTERNET.AND THE ROYAL IS THE BIGGEST BANK IN CANADA.WHY DO THE 2 BIGGEST COMPANIES IN CANADA OUTSOURCE TO MUSLIM COUNTRIES IS MY QUESTION.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/canadas-rbc-outsourcing-work-to-igate-that-has-operations-in-india/383839-7.html
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 TUE APRIL 09,2013
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +7.00
10:30 AM -2.42
11:00 AM +14.21
11:30 AM +0.53
12:00 PM +6.61
12:30 PM +30.52
01:00 PM +60.59
01:30 PM +89.54
02:00 PM +83.52
02:30 PM +78.50
03:00 PM +100.35
03:30 PM +82.87
04:00 PM +59.98 14,673.46
S&P 500 1568.61 +5.54
NASDAQ 3237.85 +15.60
GOLD 1,586.20 +13.70
OIL 94.15 +0.79
TSE 300 12,484.05 +139.49
CDNX 1054.77 +13.38
S&P/TSX/60 713.79 +7.41
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +29 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -3 points at low today.
Dow +30 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,576.30.OIL opens at $93.21 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -3 points at low today so far.
Dow +100 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -3 points at low today.
Dow +100 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
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 WORLD 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)
By Chana Ya'ar-First Publish: 4/9/2013, 12:15 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
North Korean lead Kim Jong-un is
continuing to take steps towards initiating hostilities with South Korea
and possibly the United States.Pyongyang issued a statement Monday saying it would withdraw its
workers from the Kaesong joint industrial park administered together
with South Korea.However, the North Korean government stopped short of saying it would
permanently withdraw its workers from the site, leaving open the option for a return to normal operations.“It
will temporarily suspend the operations in the zone and examine the
issue of whether it will allow its [continued] existence or close it,”
the North Korean official KCNA news agency said, quoting Kim Yang Gon, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.Meanwhile, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the North that any further nuclear testing would be considered a “provocative measure.”Ban added that North Korea cannot continue “confronting and challenging the authority of the Security Council and directly challenging the whole international community.”
He warned Pyongyang to obey the sanctions against its nuclear development activities, saying that he was offering “an urgent and honest appeal from the international community, including myself.”Ban’s statement came in response to an alert by South Korea that there were signs North Korea was preparing to launch another nuclear test. However, a defense ministry spokesperson in Seoul later said that while activity had indeed been detected at the Punggye-ri underground test site, it appeared to be routine.Israel neutralized a nuclear plant in Syria on September 6, 2007, that appeared to be under construction with the active assistance of North Korea.Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement saying that as a neighbor of North Korea, his country was concerned about the rising tensions. He added that all parties should “calm down... and start to resolve the problems that have piled up for many years there, at the negotiating table,” the BBC reported.
A senior North Korean official, quoted by the official KCNA news agency, said after a visit to Kaesong that authorities would withdraw North Korean workers and then decide on whether it would continue to operate.
"It will temporarily suspend the operations in the zone and
examine the issue of whether it will allow its (continued) existence or
close it," KCNA quoted Kim Yang Gon, secretary of the Central Committee
of the Workers' Party of Korea, as saying.KCNA said leaders in South Korea, a major U.S. ally, were
"running the whole gamut of intrigues to find a pretext for igniting a
war against (North Korea) after reducing the Kaesong Industrial zone to a
theatre of confrontation".Seoul, it said, was trying to "turn the zone into a hotbed of war" against the North.The North last week barred South Koreans from entering the zone
and South Koreans had been leaving the zone gradually in the past week
as raw materials and food begin to run out.Analysts had suggested Pyongyang would continue to allow Kaesong
to operate as it accounted for some $2 billion in annual trade, with
50,000 North Koreans working in the zone making household goods for 123
South Korean companies.It also generates more than $80 million a year in cash in wages - paid to the state rather than to workers.About 475 South Koreans workers remain in Kaesong. Thirteen
factories have stopped operations due to lack of raw materials,
according to the South's Unification Ministry."North Korea's unilateral decision to push ahead with this
measure cannot be justified in any way and North Korea will be held
responsible for all the consequences," the ministry said in a statement."The Korean government will calmly but firmly handle North
Korea's indiscreet action and we will do our best to secure the safety
of our people and the protection of our property."
"PREENING, POSTURING"
Bruce Cumings, a historian and author of "North Korea: Another Country", said in a report Pyongyang was behaving to a pattern."Nothing is more characteristic of this regime than its preening, posturing, overweening desire for the world to pay it attention, while simultaneously threatening destruction in all directions and assuring through draconian repression that its people know next to nothing about that same world," he wrote.
The zone was the last shared link between the two Koreas as the North cut off three telephone "hot lines" and declared it was tearing up the armistice that ended fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War.Earlier on Monday, the South's Defence Ministry denied suggestions that a nuclear arms test was imminent in North Korea, saying reported movements around the reclusive country's atomic site were routine, contradicting earlier government comments.China's Foreign Ministry said it wanted to see nuclear-free peace on the Korean peninsula. Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a Beijing briefing that China "believes that the only way to realize denuclearization is dialogue among all the parties concerned".North Korean authorities told embassies in Pyongyang they could not guarantee their safety from Wednesday - after saying conflict was inevitable amid the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises due to last until the end of the month. No diplomats appear to have left the North Korean capital.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Seoul this week and the North holds celebrations and possibly military demonstrations next Monday to mark the birth date of its founder, Kim Il-Sung - grandfather of the current leader, 30-year-old Kim Jong-un.The turmoil has hit South Korean financial markets, long used to upsets over the North. Shares in Seoul dipped to near a four-month low as the rhetoric prompted selling by foreigners after substantial losses on Friday.
Pyongyang has shown no sign of preparing its 1.2 million-strong army for war, indicating the threats are partly intended for domestic purposes to bolster Kim, the third in his family dynasty to rule North Korea.
But it has moved what appears to be a mid-range Musudan missile to its east coast, according to media reports last week.Japanese public broadcaster NHK showed aerial footage of what it said were ballistic missile interceptors being deployed near Tokyo in response to North Korea's threats and actions.Japan in the past has deployed ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) interceptors, as well as Aegis radar-equipped destroyers carrying Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors in the run-up to North Korean missile launches.Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga declined to comment on the reports.
"Unveiling specific actions by the Self-Defence Forces is tantamount to putting down our cards on the table," Suga told a news conference. "I would like to refrain from commenting."(Additional reporting by Jack Kim and Ju-min Park in Seoul, Terril Yue Jones in Beijing, David Morgan, Aruna Viswanatha and Mark Felsenthal in Washington, Kiyoshi Takenaka in Tokyo and Alexei Anishchuk in Hanover; Writing by Nick Macfie)
BELL CANADA OUTSOURCED AND STILL DOES I'M SURE TO INDIA.NOW THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA IS OUTSOURCING TO INDIA.A MUSLIM COUNTRY.DO WE SEE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE TWO BIGGEST COMPANIES IN CANADA.BELL CONTROLS ALL OF CANADAS TELOPHONE,CABLE,INTERNET.AND THE ROYAL IS THE BIGGEST BANK IN CANADA.WHY DO THE 2 BIGGEST COMPANIES IN CANADA OUTSOURCE TO MUSLIM COUNTRIES IS MY QUESTION.
Canada's RBC outsourcing work to iGate that has operations in India'
Reuters | Posted on Apr 08, 2013 at 08:53am IST
Toronto: Canada is investigating a report that its largest
bank is using temporary foreign workers hired by outsourcing company
iGate, which has most of its operations in India, to effectively replace
existing staff, a situation the government said it would not accept. A
Conservative government minister revealed the probe on Saturday after a
report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.The CBC story said Royal Bank of Canada was planning to eliminate
about 50 employees in its investor services division in Toronto and
have the work done by outsourcing company iGate Corp. RBC said on Sunday
it had not directly hired temporary foreign workers to take over the
work of its current employees.But Zabeen Hirji, the bank's chief human resources officer, said
RBC looked to suppliers like iGate to ensure it complies with existing
Canadian laws. She said she was not sure of the exact visa status of
iGate's employees working at the Canadian offices of the bank.The CBC story said RBC was planning to eliminate about 50 employees and have the work done by outsourcing company iGate Corp."We ask them to undertake that they follow all the rules and
regulations for everything including employment ... at the end of the
day iGate has to answer that question," she told Reuters in a telephone
interview, adding that the bank was seeking further information from
iGate about the status of the workers.The US-incorporated outsourcing company did not immediately
respond to an e-mail seeking comment. Canada's Conservative government
has already said it will review a temporary foreign worker programme
that lets employers fill jobs with non-Canadians when qualified citizens
or permanent residents are not available because of skills and labour
shortages.Labour groups say employers are not doing enough to find Canadians to fill those jobs.In a statement after the CBC report, Human Resources Minister
Diane Finley said late on Saturday that Canadians must always be the
first in line for hiring opportunities. The programme "was never
intended as a means to bring in temporary foreign workers in order to
replace already-employed Canadian workers. This is why we have launched a
review of the program," she said in a statement.The government minister said she instructed staff to work with
citizenship and immigration officials "to determine the next steps" in
the RBC and iGate situation. RBC's Hirji said about 45 workers were
affected by the outsourcing plan. She said so far about 20 of those were
set to find other jobs in the bank or had accepted retirement packages.
She added the hope is a majority will find work somewhere within RBC.Canada's banking industry is dominated by a half dozen major
lenders, which emerged largely unscathed from the global financial
crisis and have repeatedly been ranked among the world's most stable.
Bell Canada may outsource jobs to India: news report
TORONTO:
Canadian telecom giant Bell Canada, a subsidiary of Bell Canada
Enterprises (BCE), is looking for suitable vendors as part of
outsourcing key voice-based projects for its internet, Solo Mobility,
Bell Mobility and satellite TV divisions to India, said a report.Bell Canada plans to outsource these projects via fixed payouts as part
of a deal worth approximately $25 million to $30 million a year, said a
news report attributing the news to market sources.The projects being sent to India will be largely inbound and Bell
Canada is looking at outsourcing the work to a outsourcing partner with
strong competencies in carrying out front-end work for international
clients, it said.Founded in 1880, Montreal-headquartered Bell
Canada is a leading player in the Canadian wireless telecommunication
industry, controlling about 30 per cent of total wireless subscribers in
that country.Wireless, the key revenue driver, makes up roughly 50 per cent of Bell Canada's revenues.Over the last 10 years, Bell Canada's holding company Bell Canada
Enterprises has branched out into complementary business segments such
as cable TV, VoIP, IPTV, broadband internet, and wire line phones.With this, key divisions under Bell Canada include internet services
provider Bell Internet, cellular wireless services provider Bell
Mobility and direct-to-home satellite division Bell TV.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
By Elad Benari-First Publish: 4/8/2013, 6:43 AM-Israelnationalnews
U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry may have offered Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas
incentives to return to the negotiating table - at Israel’s expense.According to PA officials who spoke to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency, following Kerry’s meeting with Abbas on Sunday, the Secretary of State offered Abbas several incentives to return to direct negotiations with Israel.The sources said that Kerry offered to release all PA tax funds and to ensure Israel does not withhold the PA’s tax revenue in the future.
Washington's top diplomat also reportedly offered to extend the Palestinian Authority's jurisdiction, particularly in Area C, the area of Judea and Samaria which is under full Israeli control, according to Ma’an.
Kerry also proposed allowing PA Arabs to build more freely in Area C, the officials said according to the report, which was unconfirmed by other sources.If true, the report is similar to one from several weeks ago, which said that Kerry was planning on offering Israel and the PA an outline which would see Israel releasing terrorists from its prisons and transferring areas from Area B, which is under joint PA-Israeli control under the Oslo Accords, to Area A which is under full PA control.Kerry’s outline would have the PA undertaking a return to the negotiating table and promising not to file lawsuits against Israel with the International Criminal Court.AFP reported earlier that Abbas, who has imposed endless preconditions on peace negotiations, came up with another one, telling Kerry that the release of terrorist prisoners held by Israel was a "top priority" for resuming peace talks. This comes two days after his advisor said that Abbas would demand that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu present a map for a future Palestinian state before any peace talks can resume.The official PA news agency WAFA reported that Abbas told Kerry on Sunday that PA Arabs were a peaceful people who were willing to cooperate with international efforts to achieve peace and a state along the indefensible pre-1967 borders.He told Kerry that Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem could not be tolerated, particularly Israel's planned project in E1, the area which connects Jerusalem and Maale Adumim. This project, Abbas claimed, would divide Judea and Samaria and isolate Jerusalem, according to WAFA.Kerry will Monday join a ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day before meeting PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and then Israeli President Shimon Peres.He will meet Netanyahu on Tuesday morning before leaving for London for a meeting of G8 foreign ministers.
Israel objects to key points, including a return to 1967 borders, the inclusion of Arab East Jerusalem in a Palestinian state and the return Palestinian refugees to what is now Israel.Kerry said he was trying to chip away at the mutual mistrust that has built up during the conflict, whose main issues include borders, the status of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem.
"One of the reasons for these early interventions is to get right at the issue of mistrust," Kerry told reporters traveling with him. "I am convinced that we can break that down but I am not going to do it under ... time limits."This process should not be rushed subject to some sort of external time limit or artificial process because it's too important," he added. "So I am having discussions about those steps that would get at this issue of mistrust."Kerry said in addition to easing the mutual suspicion that has built up during the more-than-six-decade conflict, he is also looking at ways to bolster the economies of the region, something he believes could improve the climate for peace.Economic prospects for Palestinians in the West Bank are limited by Israeli restrictions on trade, and the Palestinian government is deeply dependent on foreign aid and bank credit to pay its bills. Help from abroad has plunged in recent years.
DUSTING OFF 2002 ARAB INITIATIVE
Kerry provided no details, however, on precisely how he hoped to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which collapsed in late 2010 amid a disagreement over Israeli settlement construction on land it seized during a 1967 war.The Palestinians want the land to establish their own state."There is a quiet strategy, which I intend to keep quiet ... in order to have the best chance of trying to get something moving," Kerry said.
Aaron David Miller, a former State Department official now at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington, said in an emailed comment Kerry should not push for speedy talks without agreed terms of reference, guidelines, and a code of conduct."After two decades of failed talks, violence, broken trust, negotiations without direction are not just a key to an empty room, they're destructive and harmful," Miller said. "No negotiations are better than dishonest ones."Hammad, the Palestinian official, said Israel wanted to modify the Saudi-inspired Arab League Initiative so that it took "the form of a regional cooperation or security" accord, saying this was not acceptable to the Palestinians.Israel is wary of the Arab plan partly because it would entail handing back the Syrian Golan Heights, as well as re-dividing Jerusalem, of which Israel annexed the captured Arab eastern part of the city after the 1967 Middle East War.Most Israeli politicians also oppose the return of Palestinian refugees to what is now the Jewish state and want to hold on to major settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank.A senior State Department official who asked not to be named denied Kerry had suggested modifying the Arab initiative.(Additional Reporting by Noah Browning in Ramallah, Crispian Balmer in Jerusalem and Amena Bakr in Doha; Writing By Arshad Mohammed and Crispian Balmer; Editing by Michael Roddy)
The projects being sent to India will be largely inbound and Bell
Canada is looking at outsourcing the work to a outsourcing partner with
strong competencies in carrying out front-end work for international
clients, it said.Founded in 1880, Montreal-headquartered Bell
Canada is a leading player in the Canadian wireless telecommunication
industry, controlling about 30 per cent of total wireless subscribers in
that country.Wireless, the key revenue driver, makes up roughly 50 per cent of Bell Canada's revenues.Over the last 10 years, Bell Canada's holding company Bell Canada
Enterprises has branched out into complementary business segments such
as cable TV, VoIP, IPTV, broadband internet, and wire line phones.With this, key divisions under Bell Canada include internet services
provider Bell Internet, cellular wireless services provider Bell
Mobility and direct-to-home satellite division Bell TV.LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Kerry May Have Offered Abbas Incentives at Israel's Expense
PA
officials: John Kerry offered Abbas to extend the PA's jurisdiction in
Judea and Samaria at the expense of Israeli-controlled areas.
John Kerry-AFP file
Washington's top diplomat also reportedly offered to extend the Palestinian Authority's jurisdiction, particularly in Area C, the area of Judea and Samaria which is under full Israeli control, according to Ma’an.
Kerry also proposed allowing PA Arabs to build more freely in Area C, the officials said according to the report, which was unconfirmed by other sources.If true, the report is similar to one from several weeks ago, which said that Kerry was planning on offering Israel and the PA an outline which would see Israel releasing terrorists from its prisons and transferring areas from Area B, which is under joint PA-Israeli control under the Oslo Accords, to Area A which is under full PA control.Kerry’s outline would have the PA undertaking a return to the negotiating table and promising not to file lawsuits against Israel with the International Criminal Court.AFP reported earlier that Abbas, who has imposed endless preconditions on peace negotiations, came up with another one, telling Kerry that the release of terrorist prisoners held by Israel was a "top priority" for resuming peace talks. This comes two days after his advisor said that Abbas would demand that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu present a map for a future Palestinian state before any peace talks can resume.The official PA news agency WAFA reported that Abbas told Kerry on Sunday that PA Arabs were a peaceful people who were willing to cooperate with international efforts to achieve peace and a state along the indefensible pre-1967 borders.He told Kerry that Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem could not be tolerated, particularly Israel's planned project in E1, the area which connects Jerusalem and Maale Adumim. This project, Abbas claimed, would divide Judea and Samaria and isolate Jerusalem, according to WAFA.Kerry will Monday join a ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day before meeting PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and then Israeli President Shimon Peres.He will meet Netanyahu on Tuesday morning before leaving for London for a meeting of G8 foreign ministers.
U.S. envoy says must fight mistrust for Middle East peace
By Arshad Mohammed | Reuters – 2 hrs 11 mins ago APR 8,13
By Arshad Mohammed
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
said on Monday he is trying to break down mistrust on both sides of the
"festering" conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and would not
rush into a new peace process.Making his third visit to the region in less than three weeks, Kerry met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday night had dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night."I am intensely focused on this issue ... because it is
vital, really, to American interests and to regional interests to try
to advance the peace process and because this festering absence of peace
is used by groups everywhere to recruit and encourage extremism," Kerry
told reporters traveling with him.While Kerry gave no details of his talks, Palestinian officials said he had revisited a 2002 Arab League proposal that offered full Arab recognition of Israel if it gave up land seized in a 1967 war and accepted a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees."The U.S. discussed a renewal of the initiative from the Arab League's part," Abbas aide Nimr Hammad told Reuters.Encouraged by Kerry's Middle East trip, an Arab
ministerial committee on the peace process decided to send a delegation
to Washington on April 29 to push for reviving peace talks stalled since
2010, Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said."The mood of the meeting was very optimistic in light
of Kerry's visit to the region and we hope that means that the U.S.
would support the Palestinian people," an Arab diplomat told Reuters in
Doha after the talks attended by Abbas.Rejected by Israel when it was originally proposed at a
Beirut summit in 2002, the plan has major hurdles to overcome.Israel objects to key points, including a return to 1967 borders, the inclusion of Arab East Jerusalem in a Palestinian state and the return Palestinian refugees to what is now Israel.Kerry said he was trying to chip away at the mutual mistrust that has built up during the conflict, whose main issues include borders, the status of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem.
"One of the reasons for these early interventions is to get right at the issue of mistrust," Kerry told reporters traveling with him. "I am convinced that we can break that down but I am not going to do it under ... time limits."This process should not be rushed subject to some sort of external time limit or artificial process because it's too important," he added. "So I am having discussions about those steps that would get at this issue of mistrust."Kerry said in addition to easing the mutual suspicion that has built up during the more-than-six-decade conflict, he is also looking at ways to bolster the economies of the region, something he believes could improve the climate for peace.Economic prospects for Palestinians in the West Bank are limited by Israeli restrictions on trade, and the Palestinian government is deeply dependent on foreign aid and bank credit to pay its bills. Help from abroad has plunged in recent years.
DUSTING OFF 2002 ARAB INITIATIVE
Kerry provided no details, however, on precisely how he hoped to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which collapsed in late 2010 amid a disagreement over Israeli settlement construction on land it seized during a 1967 war.The Palestinians want the land to establish their own state."There is a quiet strategy, which I intend to keep quiet ... in order to have the best chance of trying to get something moving," Kerry said.
Aaron David Miller, a former State Department official now at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington, said in an emailed comment Kerry should not push for speedy talks without agreed terms of reference, guidelines, and a code of conduct."After two decades of failed talks, violence, broken trust, negotiations without direction are not just a key to an empty room, they're destructive and harmful," Miller said. "No negotiations are better than dishonest ones."Hammad, the Palestinian official, said Israel wanted to modify the Saudi-inspired Arab League Initiative so that it took "the form of a regional cooperation or security" accord, saying this was not acceptable to the Palestinians.Israel is wary of the Arab plan partly because it would entail handing back the Syrian Golan Heights, as well as re-dividing Jerusalem, of which Israel annexed the captured Arab eastern part of the city after the 1967 Middle East War.Most Israeli politicians also oppose the return of Palestinian refugees to what is now the Jewish state and want to hold on to major settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank.A senior State Department official who asked not to be named denied Kerry had suggested modifying the Arab initiative.(Additional Reporting by Noah Browning in Ramallah, Crispian Balmer in Jerusalem and Amena Bakr in Doha; Writing By Arshad Mohammed and Crispian Balmer; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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.
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS
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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 WORLD 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)
Kohl confesses to euro's undemocratic beginnings
Today @ 21:56 APR 8,13
Berlin - Former German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl - the architect of German reunification - admitted he would
never have won a referendum on the adoption of the euro in his country
and said he acted "like a dictator" to see the common currency
introduced.
In an interview from 2002 but published only recently as part of a PhD thesis written by journalist Jens Peter Paul, Kohl said that the idea behind the euro was to avoid another war in Europe."Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other.
A common currency is more than the money you pay with," he said.He recalled French President Francois Mitterand - and other European
leaders of the time - repeatedly urged him to push through the common
currency idea, which was not very popular in Germany.
"They thought - and were right about it - that if Germany doesn't adopt the euro, nobody will. And about the German situation they said: if Helmut Kohl doesn't push it through, nobody else will. Decisions emerged out of this core attitude," Kohl said.One of these decisions was not to step down and let his popular interior minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, become chancellor in the 1994 elections. Schaeuble, who currently serves as finance minister in the government of Angela Merkel, would not have been able to push through the euro, Kohl said."Schaeuble is a very talented man, no doubt about it, but this was not a matter for a newcomer, you needed someone with full authority," Kohl said.Germany's chancellor between 1982 and 1998, Kohl said it took him "years" to build the trust and negotiation skills to convince other European leaders of his ideas and push them through."And it paid off, for instance in the Frankfurt Bank," Kohl said, in reference to the concession made by France and Great Britain to allow the European Central Bank to be based in Frankfurt.With political parties springing up in favour of keeping Deutsche Mark and his own Christian-Democrats lukewarm to the idea of the euro, Kohl said a referendum on the matter would have been a lost cause."I knew that I could never have won a referendum here in Germany. We would have lost any plebiscite about the introduction of the euro. That is very clear. I would have lost it," he said.The odds would have been about seven to three against the euro, Kohl recalled. The Social-Democratic opposition would not have come out against it, but also "not gone to the battlefield in favour of the euro, surely not."In addition, the freshly reunified East Germans, happy to finally have their Deutsche Mark back, would never have voted in favour of abandoning it again for a new European currency."In the end, representative democracy can only be successful if someone stands up and says: this is how it is. I link my existence to this political project. Then you get a whole bunch of people in your own party who say: If he falls, I fall too. And then it is not about the euro - it is a life philosophy.""I wanted to bring the euro because to me it meant the irreversibility of European development... for me the euro was a synonym for Europe going further," Kohl said.But he admitted that in bringing this idea to life he "was like a dictator."Asked if he had to accept the euro in return for French support for German reunification, Kohl replied:"No more war - that was the first message. That was the point for men like Mitterand and Kohl, who in 1984 held hands on the Verdun battlefield. It wasn't about German reunification first and foremost."Kohl paid tribute to Mitterand's wife, Danielle, who told her husband not to ignore east Germans' desire to reunite with their western brothers."On German reunification, Mitterand was torn. The President of the Republic had all the files from Quai d'Orsay [the French foreign ministry] and they were not in favour of German reunification. Better keep them [the Germans] as few as possible," Kohl recalled.In the end, Mitterand's wife prevailed. The Berlin wall fell and Germany reunited in 1990. Kohl was celebrated as the chancellor of German reunification.His other big legacy however - bringing the euro to life without enough public support - remains controversial. That the single currency began as a political project without being backed up by an economic union is seen as at the root of the ongoing crisis in the eurozone.
Also, a threat against Japan could be used to drive a wedge between Tokyo and Washington. North Korea could, for example, fire one or more Rodong missiles toward Tokyo but have them fall short to frighten Japan's leaders into making concessions, stay out of a conflict on the peninsula or oppose moves by the U.S. forces in Japan to assist the South Koreans, lest Tokyo suffer a real attack."Given North Korea's past adventurism, this scenario is within the range of its rational choices," Michishita wrote.Officials stress that simply having the ability to launch an attack does not mean it would be a success. They also say North Korea is not known to have actually deployed any nuclear-tipped missiles.Tokyo and Washington have invested billions of dollars in what is probably the world's most sophisticated ballistic missile defense shield since North Korea sent a long-range Taepodong missile over Japan's main island in 1998. Japan now has its own land- and sea-based interceptors and began launching spy satellites after the "Taepodong shock" to keep its own tabs on military activities inside North Korea.For the time being, most experts believe, North Korea cannot attack the United States with a nuclear warhead because it can't yet fashion one light enough to mount atop a long-range ICBM. But Japanese analysts are not alone in believing North Korea has cleared the "miniaturization" problem for its medium-range weapons.In April 2005, Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that North Korea had the capability to arm a missile with a nuclear device. In 2011, the same intelligence agency said North Korea "may now have" plutonium-based nuclear warheads that it can deliver by ballistic missiles, aircraft or "unconventional means."The Pentagon has since backtracked, saying it isn't clear how small a nuclear warhead the North can produce.But David Albright, a physicist at the Institute for Science and International Security think tank, said in an email he believes the North can arm Rodong missiles with nuclear warheads weighing as much as several hundred kilograms (pounds) and packing a yield in the low kilotons.
That is far smaller than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki but big enough to cause significant casualties in an urban area.Japan also is a better target than traditional enemy South Korea because striking so close to home with a nuclear weapon would blanket a good part of its own population with the fallout.
Regardless of whom North Korea strikes — with a nuclear or conventional weapon — it can be assured of one thing: a counterattack by the United States.
- Helmut Kohl says he would not have won a referendum on the euro (Photo: Christliches Medienmagazin pro)
"They thought - and were right about it - that if Germany doesn't adopt the euro, nobody will. And about the German situation they said: if Helmut Kohl doesn't push it through, nobody else will. Decisions emerged out of this core attitude," Kohl said.One of these decisions was not to step down and let his popular interior minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, become chancellor in the 1994 elections. Schaeuble, who currently serves as finance minister in the government of Angela Merkel, would not have been able to push through the euro, Kohl said."Schaeuble is a very talented man, no doubt about it, but this was not a matter for a newcomer, you needed someone with full authority," Kohl said.Germany's chancellor between 1982 and 1998, Kohl said it took him "years" to build the trust and negotiation skills to convince other European leaders of his ideas and push them through."And it paid off, for instance in the Frankfurt Bank," Kohl said, in reference to the concession made by France and Great Britain to allow the European Central Bank to be based in Frankfurt.With political parties springing up in favour of keeping Deutsche Mark and his own Christian-Democrats lukewarm to the idea of the euro, Kohl said a referendum on the matter would have been a lost cause."I knew that I could never have won a referendum here in Germany. We would have lost any plebiscite about the introduction of the euro. That is very clear. I would have lost it," he said.The odds would have been about seven to three against the euro, Kohl recalled. The Social-Democratic opposition would not have come out against it, but also "not gone to the battlefield in favour of the euro, surely not."In addition, the freshly reunified East Germans, happy to finally have their Deutsche Mark back, would never have voted in favour of abandoning it again for a new European currency."In the end, representative democracy can only be successful if someone stands up and says: this is how it is. I link my existence to this political project. Then you get a whole bunch of people in your own party who say: If he falls, I fall too. And then it is not about the euro - it is a life philosophy.""I wanted to bring the euro because to me it meant the irreversibility of European development... for me the euro was a synonym for Europe going further," Kohl said.But he admitted that in bringing this idea to life he "was like a dictator."Asked if he had to accept the euro in return for French support for German reunification, Kohl replied:"No more war - that was the first message. That was the point for men like Mitterand and Kohl, who in 1984 held hands on the Verdun battlefield. It wasn't about German reunification first and foremost."Kohl paid tribute to Mitterand's wife, Danielle, who told her husband not to ignore east Germans' desire to reunite with their western brothers."On German reunification, Mitterand was torn. The President of the Republic had all the files from Quai d'Orsay [the French foreign ministry] and they were not in favour of German reunification. Better keep them [the Germans] as few as possible," Kohl recalled.In the end, Mitterand's wife prevailed. The Berlin wall fell and Germany reunited in 1990. Kohl was celebrated as the chancellor of German reunification.His other big legacy however - bringing the euro to life without enough public support - remains controversial. That the single currency began as a political project without being backed up by an economic union is seen as at the root of the ongoing crisis in the eurozone.
Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes
By | Associated Press – 5 hrs ago APR 8,13
TOKYO (AP) — It's easy to write off North Korea's
threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as
bluster: it has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile
that could reach the Pacific island of Guam, let alone the mainland U.S.But what about Japan? Though it remains a highly unlikely scenario, Japanese officials
have long feared that if North Korea ever decides to play its nuclear
card it has not only the means but several potential motives for
launching an attack on Tokyo
or major U.S. military installations on Japan's main island. And while a
conventional missile attack is far more likely, Tokyo is taking North
Korea's nuclear rhetoric seriously.On Monday, amid reports North Korea is preparing a missile launch or another nuclear test,
Japanese officials said they have stepped up measures to ensure the
nation's safety. Japanese media reported over the weekend that the
defense minister has put destroyers with missile interception systems on
alert to shoot down any missile or missile debris that appears to be
headed for Japanese territory."We are doing all we can to protect the safety of our nation," said
chief Cabinet spokesman Yoshihide Suga, though he and Ministry of
Defense officials refused to confirm the reports about the naval alert,
saying they do not want to "show their cards" to North Korea.North Korea, meanwhile, issued a new threat against Japan."We once again warn Japan against blindly toeing the U.S. policy,"
said an editorial Monday in the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of
its ruling party. "It will have to pay a dear price for its imprudent
behavior."Following North Korea's third
nuclear test in February, Japanese experts have increasingly voiced
concerns that North Korea may already be able to hit — or at least
target — U.S. bases and major population centers with nuclear warheads loaded onto its medium-range Rodong missiles.
"The threat level has jumped" following the nuclear test, said Narushige Michishita,
a former Ministry of Defense official and director of the Security and
International Studies Program at Tokyo's National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies.Unlike North Korea's still-under-construction intercontinental
ballistic missile, or ICBM, program, its arsenal of about 300 deployed
Rodong missiles has been flight tested and is thought to have a range of
about 1,300 kilometers (800 miles).That is good enough to reach Tokyo
and key U.S. military bases — including Yokota Air Base, which is the
headquarters of the U.S. 5th Air Force; Yokosuka Naval Base, where the
USS George Washington aircraft carrier and its battle group are
home-based; and Misawa Air Base, a key launching point for U.S. F-16
fighters.Michishita, in an analysis published late last year, said a Rodong
missile launched from North Korea would reach Japan within five to 10
minutes and, if aimed at the center of Tokyo, would have a 50-percent
probability of falling somewhere within the perimeter of Tokyo's main
subway system.He said Japan would be a particularly tempting target because it is
close enough to feasibly reach with a conventionally or nuclear-armed
missile, and the persistent animosity and distrust dating back to
Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula in 1910 provides an
ideological motive.Also, a threat against Japan could be used to drive a wedge between Tokyo and Washington. North Korea could, for example, fire one or more Rodong missiles toward Tokyo but have them fall short to frighten Japan's leaders into making concessions, stay out of a conflict on the peninsula or oppose moves by the U.S. forces in Japan to assist the South Koreans, lest Tokyo suffer a real attack."Given North Korea's past adventurism, this scenario is within the range of its rational choices," Michishita wrote.Officials stress that simply having the ability to launch an attack does not mean it would be a success. They also say North Korea is not known to have actually deployed any nuclear-tipped missiles.Tokyo and Washington have invested billions of dollars in what is probably the world's most sophisticated ballistic missile defense shield since North Korea sent a long-range Taepodong missile over Japan's main island in 1998. Japan now has its own land- and sea-based interceptors and began launching spy satellites after the "Taepodong shock" to keep its own tabs on military activities inside North Korea.For the time being, most experts believe, North Korea cannot attack the United States with a nuclear warhead because it can't yet fashion one light enough to mount atop a long-range ICBM. But Japanese analysts are not alone in believing North Korea has cleared the "miniaturization" problem for its medium-range weapons.In April 2005, Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that North Korea had the capability to arm a missile with a nuclear device. In 2011, the same intelligence agency said North Korea "may now have" plutonium-based nuclear warheads that it can deliver by ballistic missiles, aircraft or "unconventional means."The Pentagon has since backtracked, saying it isn't clear how small a nuclear warhead the North can produce.But David Albright, a physicist at the Institute for Science and International Security think tank, said in an email he believes the North can arm Rodong missiles with nuclear warheads weighing as much as several hundred kilograms (pounds) and packing a yield in the low kilotons.
That is far smaller than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki but big enough to cause significant casualties in an urban area.Japan also is a better target than traditional enemy South Korea because striking so close to home with a nuclear weapon would blanket a good part of its own population with the fallout.
Regardless of whom North Korea strikes — with a nuclear or conventional weapon — it can be assured of one thing: a counterattack by the United States.
Analysis: North Korea Continues Steps Towards Hostility
North Korea is continuing to take steps towards initiating hostilities with South Korea and possibly the United States.
Kim Jong-Un-Reuters
He warned Pyongyang to obey the sanctions against its nuclear development activities, saying that he was offering “an urgent and honest appeal from the international community, including myself.”Ban’s statement came in response to an alert by South Korea that there were signs North Korea was preparing to launch another nuclear test. However, a defense ministry spokesperson in Seoul later said that while activity had indeed been detected at the Punggye-ri underground test site, it appeared to be routine.Israel neutralized a nuclear plant in Syria on September 6, 2007, that appeared to be under construction with the active assistance of North Korea.Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement saying that as a neighbor of North Korea, his country was concerned about the rising tensions. He added that all parties should “calm down... and start to resolve the problems that have piled up for many years there, at the negotiating table,” the BBC reported.
North Korea suspends last project with South, Putin cites Chernobyl
By Christine Kim | Reuters – 10 hrs ago APR 8,13
By Christine Kim
PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) - North Korea
suspended its sole remaining major project with the South on Monday,
after weeks of threats against the United States and South Korea, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said any nuclear conflict could make Chernobyl look like a fairy tale.Reclusive North Korea's decision to all but close the Kaesong
industrial park coincided with speculation that it will carry out some
sort of provocative action - another nuclear weapons test or missile
launch - in what has become one of the most serious crises on the
peninsula since the end of the Korean War in 1953.Tension has been rising since the United Nations imposed new
sanctions against the North in response to its third test of a nuclear
weapon in February. Pyongyang has been further angered by weeks of joint
military exercises by South Korean and U.S. forces and threatened both
countries with nuclear attack.Putin said conflict on the peninsula could cause greater devastation than the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986."I would make no secret about it, we are worried about the
escalation on the Korean peninsula, because we are neighbors," he told a
joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a
visit to a trade fair in Germany."And if, God forbid, something happens, Chernobyl which we all
know a lot about, may seem like a child's fairy tale. Is there such a
threat or not? I think there is... I would urge everyone to calm down...
and start to resolve the problems that have piled up for many years
there at the negotiating table."U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said North Korea could not go
on "confronting" the authority of the Security Council and challenging
the international community."I sincerely hope that they will fully comply with the relevant
Security Council resolutions. This is an urgent and earnest appeal from
the international community, including myself."A senior North Korean official, quoted by the official KCNA news agency, said after a visit to Kaesong that authorities would withdraw North Korean workers and then decide on whether it would continue to operate.
"PREENING, POSTURING"
Bruce Cumings, a historian and author of "North Korea: Another Country", said in a report Pyongyang was behaving to a pattern."Nothing is more characteristic of this regime than its preening, posturing, overweening desire for the world to pay it attention, while simultaneously threatening destruction in all directions and assuring through draconian repression that its people know next to nothing about that same world," he wrote.
The zone was the last shared link between the two Koreas as the North cut off three telephone "hot lines" and declared it was tearing up the armistice that ended fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War.Earlier on Monday, the South's Defence Ministry denied suggestions that a nuclear arms test was imminent in North Korea, saying reported movements around the reclusive country's atomic site were routine, contradicting earlier government comments.China's Foreign Ministry said it wanted to see nuclear-free peace on the Korean peninsula. Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a Beijing briefing that China "believes that the only way to realize denuclearization is dialogue among all the parties concerned".North Korean authorities told embassies in Pyongyang they could not guarantee their safety from Wednesday - after saying conflict was inevitable amid the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises due to last until the end of the month. No diplomats appear to have left the North Korean capital.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Seoul this week and the North holds celebrations and possibly military demonstrations next Monday to mark the birth date of its founder, Kim Il-Sung - grandfather of the current leader, 30-year-old Kim Jong-un.The turmoil has hit South Korean financial markets, long used to upsets over the North. Shares in Seoul dipped to near a four-month low as the rhetoric prompted selling by foreigners after substantial losses on Friday.
Pyongyang has shown no sign of preparing its 1.2 million-strong army for war, indicating the threats are partly intended for domestic purposes to bolster Kim, the third in his family dynasty to rule North Korea.
But it has moved what appears to be a mid-range Musudan missile to its east coast, according to media reports last week.Japanese public broadcaster NHK showed aerial footage of what it said were ballistic missile interceptors being deployed near Tokyo in response to North Korea's threats and actions.Japan in the past has deployed ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) interceptors, as well as Aegis radar-equipped destroyers carrying Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors in the run-up to North Korean missile launches.Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga declined to comment on the reports.
"Unveiling specific actions by the Self-Defence Forces is tantamount to putting down our cards on the table," Suga told a news conference. "I would like to refrain from commenting."(Additional reporting by Jack Kim and Ju-min Park in Seoul, Terril Yue Jones in Beijing, David Morgan, Aruna Viswanatha and Mark Felsenthal in Washington, Kiyoshi Takenaka in Tokyo and Alexei Anishchuk in Hanover; Writing by Nick Macfie)
