KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
By Gil Ronen First Publish: 4/2/2013, 1:30 PM-Israelnationalnews
Residents of the outpost community of Esh Kodesh in the Binyamin region are reeling after an early morning raid by police, who arrested five of them.
"We wish to express our severe protest in the face of the despicable way the police treated the residents," an announcement by residents said."There is no logic that justifies arriving this way before dawn, in large forces, as if we are enemies, in order to mess up our homes in contradiction of the rules for conducting searches as written in the warrants, and scare our little children in their beds.""The community of Esh Kodesh is a law-abiding one, which pays taxes and serves in the army and national service," the residents wrote. "The police know that if they had asked the residents who were arrested to show up for questioning, they would have done so. And yet, they decided, for political reasons, to raid the community in the middle of the night in a way that reminds us of our military service and the arrests of terrorists.""We did not see you arresting the marauders who attacked our community, our groves and vineyards, even though the community filed complaints against attackers, photographs and video footage of whom are in our possession and were even published."We hope that the court understands the reality we are facing, and that it will release those of the community's men who were arrested, and deal severely with the Arab marauders attacking us."The Judea and Samaria Police said Tuesday that "following the ongoing conflict between the villagers of Kusra and the residents of the Esh Kodesh outpost" and "mutual attacks," police launched an undercover investigation. This morning, the police added, five residents of the outpost in their 20s were arrested and several weapons were seized, including rifles and handguns.
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 02,2013
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +86.25
10:30 AM +86.21
11:00 AM +99.07
11:30 AM +104.10
12:00 PM +96.38
12:30 PM +97.50
01:00 PM +91.61
01:30 PM +90.90
02:00 PM +96.08
02:30 PM +36.43
03:00 PM +77.77
03:30 PM +72.38
04:00 PM +89.16 14,662.01
S&P 500 1570.25 +8.08
NASDAQ 3254.86 +15.69
GOLD 1,576.10 -24.10
OIL 96.96 -0.11
TSE 300 12,682.10 -13.04
CDNX 1069.10 -20.46
S&P/TSX/60 728.96 +0.29
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +50 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +104 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,582.60.OIL opens at $96.11 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +104 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +104 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up,(AT THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY) that the way of the kings(CHINA,NORTH-SOUTH KOREA, of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
ENRICHMENT
The move to restart the reactor comes as a big blow to China's stated aim of restarting de-nuclearization talks on the Korean peninsula, prompting a foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing to express regret at the decision.As well as restarting the 5MW reactor at Yongbyon, the North's only known source of plutonium for its nuclear weapons program, KCNA said a uranium enrichment plant would also be put back into operation.The nuclear plant's output would be used to solve what KCNA termed an "acute shortage of electricity" and to bolster "the nuclear armed force".After being hit with U.S. sanctions for conducting the February nuclear test and what it has viewed as "hostile" military drills being staged by Seoul and Washington in the South, Pyongyang had threatened a nuclear strike on the United States, missile strikes on its Pacific bases and war with South Korea.Washington, which has said it has not seen any evidence of hostile North Korean troop moves, deployed a warship off the Korean coast overnight.The United States earlier bolstered forces staging joint drills with South Korea with Stealth fighters and has made bomber overflights in a rare show of strength.Much of the rhetoric that has come from Pyongyang in recent weeks has been a repeat of previous bouts of anger, but the length and intensity has been new, leading to concerns that the tensions could spiral into clashes.In Washington, the White House has said the United States takes North Korea's war threats seriously. But White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday: "I would note that despite the harsh rhetoric we are hearing from Pyongyang, we are not seeing changes to the North Korean military posture, such as large-scale mobilizations and positioning of forces."A U.S. defense official said on Monday the USS McCain, an Aegis-class guided-missile destroyer used for ballistic missile defense, was positioned off the peninsula's southwestern coast.It was not immediately clear where the ship was on Tuesday.
MOOD CHANGE
In Pyongyang, the party congress meeting and a subsequent assembly of the country's rubber-stamp parliament reiterated the usual anti-American rhetoric and criticized South Korea, but the mood appeared to have changed.The pariah state has once again started emphasizing economic development as it shifts to the major April 15 celebration of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of the current ruler.
For the young Kim, it appears that cementing control of the party and state had now taken top priority as well as improving living standards in a country whose economy is smaller than it was 20 years ago, according to external assessments.Kim appointed a handful of personal confidants to the party's politburo, further consolidating his grip on power in the second full year of his reign.Former premier Pak Pong-ju, a key ally of the leadership dynasty, was re-appointed to the post from which he was fired in 2007 for failing to implement economic reforms.Pak, believed to be in his 70s, is viewed as a key confidant of Jang Song-thaek, the young Kim's uncle and also a protege of Kim's aunt. Pak is viewed as a pawn in a power game that has seen Jang and his wife re-assert power over military leaders.(Additional reporting by Paul Eckert, Phil Stewart, David Alexander and Jeff Mason in WASHINGTON; Editing by David Chance and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 4/1/2013, 10:28 PM-Israelnationalnews
PARIAH
Once treated as a pariah by many U.S.-allied Arab leaders, Hamas has seen its standing in the region rise on the back of Arab uprisings that have ushered in more sympathetic Islamist governments in Egypt and elsewhere.Israel, the United States and most Western governments view Hamas as a terrorist group for its refusal to recognize the Jewish state or to renounce violence that included suicide bombings in a Palestinian uprising a decade ago."I do not say Europe is going to open up to Hamas tomorrow," said the diplomat, but added that a "real engagement with the West" was possible if Meshaal persuaded Islamist colleagues to change their policies.Palestinian political analyst Hani al-Masri said Meshaal's re-election signaled that Hamas was showing a desire for more moderation in order to build bridges with the West, but "it did not mean that Meshaal was a man who raises a white flag".Meshaal burnished his credentials within Hamas after surviving an Israeli assassination attempt in Jordan in 1997 and succeeded the group's founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in 2004 after Israel assassinated the wheelchair-bound cleric.Hamas, which has close links to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, was founded in 1988 soon after Palestinians launched an uprising against Israel. Yassin was killed during a second revolt.Despite falling out with Syria, Meshaal has sought to maintain ties with Iran, an Assad ally which supplies weapons to Hamas, including rockets the group has fired at Israeli cities.Israel has struck repeatedly at militants in Gaza, attacks that have sometimes caused heavy casualties among civilians in the impoverished, densely-populated coastal territory.Meshaal, who now divides his time between Cairo and Qatar, has tried to overcome his differences with Abbas, who supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.His re-election, said senior Fatah official Mahmoud al-Aloul, "may boost chances of reconciliation (with Abbas), but that does not mean it would be done, given remaining disputes within Hamas".(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah, Ahmed Jadallah Salem in Dubai, Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Alistair Lyon)
Israel braces for massive cyber-offensive
Experts predict major DDoS attack on country’s largest websites in hacking effort coordinated by Anonymous
April 2, 2013, 6:54 am
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Anonymous' Op-Israel banner (photo credit: screenshot)
Hackers around the world are
plotting to strike Israel’s online presence in a coordinated
cyber-attack later this week. The effort, known as “OpIsrael,” which is
being organized by hacktivist group Anonymous, aims to target the 100
largest websites in the country, especially those of banks, credit card
companies, and communications firms.The attack is scheduled to take place Sunday, April 7. That evening, Israel begins to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.According to “Mauritania Attacker,” who leads a
group of hackers called AnonGhost, “the hacking teams have decided to
unite against Israel as one entity, and Israel should be getting
prepared to be ‘erased’ from the Internet.”“Its gonna be the biggest ever operation launched against any country, Its gonna be Huge [sic]!” said Mauritania Attacker in an interview to The Hackers Post.
Shai Blitzblau, CEO of Maglan Information
Defense Technologies Research, told the Hebrew daily Israel Hayom
Tuesday that the attackers’ skills are increasing all the time, but have
yet to reach previously unseen levels.Experts have warned that in addition to
mounting a major Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, similar to
the one that was recently released to the web by hosting company
Cyberbunker and which has caused a worldwide slowdown in Internet speed,
the hackers will also try to plant “Trojan horses” infecting web users
with viruses.Uri Rivner, head of cyber strategy at
BioCatch, recommended that Israelis avoid accessing threatened websites
for a few days, giving their owners time to make sure no malicious codes
were installed.
Hacktivist group Anonymous plans a coordinated attack on Israel’s cyber space Friday, April 7 (photo credit: Twitter)
The first OpIsrael cyber-attacks were launched
by the Anonymous hacktivist group during Israel’s November operation
Pillar of Defense against terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
Anonymous-affiliated hackers attacked over 700 Israeli websites, with
Israel deflecting 44 million cyber-attacks on government websites.
“We are Anonymous. We are legion. We will not
forgive. We will not forget. Israel, it is too late to expect us,” their
message to Israeli authorities read.Last week, Anonymous and affiliates proclaimed they had broken into the Mossad’s servers
and stolen the names and personal details of top IDF officials,
politicians and, especially, Mossad agents. Reports on several hacker
websites said that Anonymous, along with the Turkish group The Red Hack
and the Arab group Sector404, both of which are allied with Anonymous,
managed to break into the Mossad’s public website and steal several
Excel spreadsheets containing the details of over 34,000 “Mossad
agents.” The files ostensibly list names of the alleged agents, email
addresses (private and work), home addresses, and other identification
information.Israel is not the only country in
the Middle East under hack attack; there are plenty of hackers
targeting Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other countries in the
region. Many of the messages on the hacks on Egyptian and Syrian sites
are political, condemning the regimes in those countries for abuses
against their citizens. In Syria, “Zone-h” recorded dozens of hacks
daily, most of them condemning Bashar Assad for his attacks against
civilians in the civil war between his army and rebel forces. But those
attacks leveled off in late November, when Syria announced it was
“closing” the Internet in the country. The few hackers who have managed
to upend sites since then have promised revenge on Assad for cutting off
one of their main forms of protest.
David Shamah contributed to this report.
Outpost Residents: Are We the Enemy?
Residents of Esh Kodesh are reeling after an pre-dawn raid by police, arrests. Police: we seized guns.
Police raid Migron (file)-Israel news photo: Flash 90
"We wish to express our severe protest in the face of the despicable way the police treated the residents," an announcement by residents said."There is no logic that justifies arriving this way before dawn, in large forces, as if we are enemies, in order to mess up our homes in contradiction of the rules for conducting searches as written in the warrants, and scare our little children in their beds.""The community of Esh Kodesh is a law-abiding one, which pays taxes and serves in the army and national service," the residents wrote. "The police know that if they had asked the residents who were arrested to show up for questioning, they would have done so. And yet, they decided, for political reasons, to raid the community in the middle of the night in a way that reminds us of our military service and the arrests of terrorists.""We did not see you arresting the marauders who attacked our community, our groves and vineyards, even though the community filed complaints against attackers, photographs and video footage of whom are in our possession and were even published."We hope that the court understands the reality we are facing, and that it will release those of the community's men who were arrested, and deal severely with the Arab marauders attacking us."The Judea and Samaria Police said Tuesday that "following the ongoing conflict between the villagers of Kusra and the residents of the Esh Kodesh outpost" and "mutual attacks," police launched an undercover investigation. This morning, the police added, five residents of the outpost in their 20s were arrested and several weapons were seized, including rifles and handguns.
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 02,2013
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +86.25
10:30 AM +86.21
11:00 AM +99.07
11:30 AM +104.10
12:00 PM +96.38
12:30 PM +97.50
01:00 PM +91.61
01:30 PM +90.90
02:00 PM +96.08
02:30 PM +36.43
03:00 PM +77.77
03:30 PM +72.38
04:00 PM +89.16 14,662.01
S&P 500 1570.25 +8.08
NASDAQ 3254.86 +15.69
GOLD 1,576.10 -24.10
OIL 96.96 -0.11
TSE 300 12,682.10 -13.04
CDNX 1069.10 -20.46
S&P/TSX/60 728.96 +0.29
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +50 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +104 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,582.60.OIL opens at $96.11 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +104 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +104 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up,(AT THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY) that the way of the kings(CHINA,NORTH-SOUTH KOREA, of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
France and Germany snub Cameron on EU law review
Today @ 09:23 APR 2,13
BRUSSELS - UK Prime Minister David
Cameron's attempt to get other member states to participate in a general
review of EU laws has suffered an embarrassing rebuff from Paris and
Berlin.France and Germany have refused to take part in Cameron's
much-publicised examination of whether some EU powers should be returned
to member states, reports the Financial Times.The paper notes that Paris and Berlin consulted with one another on
the issue before concluding that the exercise - known as the "balance of
competences" - was more to serve Britain's domestic political
interests.Several other member states are also not taking part in the survey,
although Italy and Sweden are among those that have answered London's
questionnaire.The snub comes even though London sent letters to each of the 26
other EU capitals explaining the objective of the exercise and British
diplomats stressed that its approach would be even-handed.The review is the cornerstone of London's EU policy, as Cameron
attempts to have an objective assessment of what in the UK is an emotive
political issue - where to draw the line between national and EU
powers."We have launched our balance of competences review to give us an
informed and objective analysis of where the EU helps and where it
hampers,” he said earlier this year.He wants to use the results to renegotiate the terms of London's EU
membership, something that would eventually form the basis of a
referendum in 2017 on whether to remain in the club.However, most other governments have indicated extreme reluctance to
re-open the EU treaties and it is unclear whether Cameron has enough
political sympathy among his EU partners to engineer a one-off deal for
Britain.The first part of the review, to be published before summer, will
cover the single market, health, development and foreign policy. The
entire review is expected to be finished by autumn next year.In the meantime, with an eye on the 2015 UK election, Cameron has
been seeking to thwart the growing popularity of the right-wing and
eurosceptic UK Independence Party (Ukip).
Last week he gave a speech in which he pledged to put an end to benefit tourism and the "something-for-nothing" culture among EU migrants.The talk came amid increasingly heated debate in tabloid newspapers about "floods" of Bulgarians and Romanians coming to Britain when labour restrictions are lifted at the end of this year.Brussels has reacted strongly to the rhetoric. EU social affairs commissioner Laszlo Andor said: "There is a serious risk of pandering to knee-jerk xenophobia.""Blaming poor people or migrants for hardships at the time of economic crisis is not entirely unknown, but it is not intelligent politics in my view," he told the Observer newspaper.
Last week he gave a speech in which he pledged to put an end to benefit tourism and the "something-for-nothing" culture among EU migrants.The talk came amid increasingly heated debate in tabloid newspapers about "floods" of Bulgarians and Romanians coming to Britain when labour restrictions are lifted at the end of this year.Brussels has reacted strongly to the rhetoric. EU social affairs commissioner Laszlo Andor said: "There is a serious risk of pandering to knee-jerk xenophobia.""Blaming poor people or migrants for hardships at the time of economic crisis is not entirely unknown, but it is not intelligent politics in my view," he told the Observer newspaper.
North Korea to restart nuclear reactor in weapons bid
By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park | Reuters – 1 hr 39 mins ago APR 2,13
By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea announced plans on Tuesday to restart a mothballed nuclear reactor
that has been closed since 2007, but emphasized it was seeking a
deterrent capacity, rather than repeating recent threats to attack South Korea and the United States.The state-owned KCNA news agency said North Korea would restart all nuclear facilities for both electricity and military uses.The announcement
came amid soaring tensions on the Korean Peninsula as the United States
bolstered its forces in the region after a series of threats by Pyongyang to attack U.S. bases in the Pacific and to invade South Korea.North Korea, one of
the most isolated and unpredictable states in the world, conducted its
third nuclear test in February but is believed to be some years away
from developing nuclear weapons, although it claims to have a deterrent.
A speech by the North's young leader Kim Jong-un,
delivered on Sunday but published in full by KCNA on Tuesday, appeared
to dial down the prospects of a direct confrontation with the United
States as he stressed that nuclear weapons would ensure the country's
safety as a deterrent."Our nuclear strength is a reliable war deterrent and a
guarantee to protect our sovereignty," Kim said. "It is on the basis of
a strong nuclear strength that peace and prosperity can exist and so
can the happiness of people's lives."Kim's speech, delivered to the central committee
meeting of the ruling Workers Party of Korea, appeared to signal a small
shift from threats against South Korea and the United States, but it
was some distance from any kind of end to the crisis."The fact that this (speech) was made at the party
central committee meeting, which is the highest policy-setting organ,
indicates an attempt to highlight economic problems and shift the focus
from security to the economy," said Yang Moo-jin of the University of
North Korean Studies in Seoul.But if Pyongyang follows through with its plan to
restart the nuclear facilities, it will have longer-term security
implications for the region.Reactivating the aged Soviet-era reactor at the
Yongbyon nuclear plant will produce plutonium, a tested path to acquire
more fissile material than a uranium enrichment program.It was unclear how quickly the Yongbyon plant, whose
cooling tower was destroyed as part of a de-nuclearization deal, would
take to restart and it was impossible to verify whether it was still
connected to North Korea's antiquated electricity grid at all."It was a reactor that was nearing obsolescence with a
cooling tower that wasn't functioning properly when it was blown up. It
could mean they've been rebuilding quite a few things," said Yoo
Ho-yeol, North Korea specialist at Korea University in Seoul.ENRICHMENT
The move to restart the reactor comes as a big blow to China's stated aim of restarting de-nuclearization talks on the Korean peninsula, prompting a foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing to express regret at the decision.As well as restarting the 5MW reactor at Yongbyon, the North's only known source of plutonium for its nuclear weapons program, KCNA said a uranium enrichment plant would also be put back into operation.The nuclear plant's output would be used to solve what KCNA termed an "acute shortage of electricity" and to bolster "the nuclear armed force".After being hit with U.S. sanctions for conducting the February nuclear test and what it has viewed as "hostile" military drills being staged by Seoul and Washington in the South, Pyongyang had threatened a nuclear strike on the United States, missile strikes on its Pacific bases and war with South Korea.Washington, which has said it has not seen any evidence of hostile North Korean troop moves, deployed a warship off the Korean coast overnight.The United States earlier bolstered forces staging joint drills with South Korea with Stealth fighters and has made bomber overflights in a rare show of strength.Much of the rhetoric that has come from Pyongyang in recent weeks has been a repeat of previous bouts of anger, but the length and intensity has been new, leading to concerns that the tensions could spiral into clashes.In Washington, the White House has said the United States takes North Korea's war threats seriously. But White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday: "I would note that despite the harsh rhetoric we are hearing from Pyongyang, we are not seeing changes to the North Korean military posture, such as large-scale mobilizations and positioning of forces."A U.S. defense official said on Monday the USS McCain, an Aegis-class guided-missile destroyer used for ballistic missile defense, was positioned off the peninsula's southwestern coast.It was not immediately clear where the ship was on Tuesday.
MOOD CHANGE
In Pyongyang, the party congress meeting and a subsequent assembly of the country's rubber-stamp parliament reiterated the usual anti-American rhetoric and criticized South Korea, but the mood appeared to have changed.The pariah state has once again started emphasizing economic development as it shifts to the major April 15 celebration of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of the current ruler.
For the young Kim, it appears that cementing control of the party and state had now taken top priority as well as improving living standards in a country whose economy is smaller than it was 20 years ago, according to external assessments.Kim appointed a handful of personal confidants to the party's politburo, further consolidating his grip on power in the second full year of his reign.Former premier Pak Pong-ju, a key ally of the leadership dynasty, was re-appointed to the post from which he was fired in 2007 for failing to implement economic reforms.Pak, believed to be in his 70s, is viewed as a key confidant of Jang Song-thaek, the young Kim's uncle and also a protege of Kim's aunt. Pak is viewed as a pawn in a power game that has seen Jang and his wife re-assert power over military leaders.(Additional reporting by Paul Eckert, Phil Stewart, David Alexander and Jeff Mason in WASHINGTON; Editing by David Chance and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
Iran's Plan B is Alawite State If Syria’s Assad Falls’
A
Syrian professor says Iran hopes to fragment Syria and create an
Alawite state to maintain power in the region, Today’s Zayman reports.
Syria fighting-Israel news photo: Flash 90
A Syrian expert on Middle Eastern
affairs believes Iran is angling to fragment Syria and create an Alawite
state in order to maintain its power in the region, Today’s Zayman reports.
Professor Murhaf Jouejati opposes the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. A member of the faculty at the National Defense University in Washington D.C., he spoke with the newspaper Monday in an exclusive interview about savage civil war wracking his homeland.The downfall of the Assad regime would strike a lethal blow to the Syria-Iran-Hizbullah axis, Jouejati contended.“Syria is a major stake for Iran. Syria is Iran’s door to Mediterranean and Arab politics. The fall of the regime would be a tremendous loss for Tehran,” he told the newspaper.In order to prevent that loss, Iran is likely to attempt to divide Syria and create an Alawite state – one comprised of Muslims who support Assad.Alawite Islam, a branch of Shi’ite Islam, is practiced by those in power in Tehran and by the Lebanon-based Hizbullah terrorists that have been fighting alongside Syrian government troops.Iran would thus promote its policies in Syria using Hizbullah as its proxy in an Alawite state, Jouejati said. Both Iran and Hizbullah have long been strong supporters of the Assad regime.“We were not talking about the fragmentation of the country before,” Jouejati said. “However, the debate on the fragmentation of Syria is more serious than ever because the crisis in the country has become more sectarianized.“We, Syrians, are against the division of the country which could lead to the establishment of an Alawite state.”
About 15 percent of Syrians are Alawites, as is Assad. Last week a group of Alawites met in Cairo and called for the overthrow of the regime, Jouejati said, publicly distancing their community from the Assad family.
Professor Murhaf Jouejati opposes the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. A member of the faculty at the National Defense University in Washington D.C., he spoke with the newspaper Monday in an exclusive interview about savage civil war wracking his homeland.The downfall of the Assad regime would strike a lethal blow to the Syria-Iran-Hizbullah axis, Jouejati contended.“Syria is a major stake for Iran. Syria is Iran’s door to Mediterranean and Arab politics. The fall of the regime would be a tremendous loss for Tehran,” he told the newspaper.In order to prevent that loss, Iran is likely to attempt to divide Syria and create an Alawite state – one comprised of Muslims who support Assad.Alawite Islam, a branch of Shi’ite Islam, is practiced by those in power in Tehran and by the Lebanon-based Hizbullah terrorists that have been fighting alongside Syrian government troops.Iran would thus promote its policies in Syria using Hizbullah as its proxy in an Alawite state, Jouejati said. Both Iran and Hizbullah have long been strong supporters of the Assad regime.“We were not talking about the fragmentation of the country before,” Jouejati said. “However, the debate on the fragmentation of Syria is more serious than ever because the crisis in the country has become more sectarianized.“We, Syrians, are against the division of the country which could lead to the establishment of an Alawite state.”
About 15 percent of Syrians are Alawites, as is Assad. Last week a group of Alawites met in Cairo and called for the overthrow of the regime, Jouejati said, publicly distancing their community from the Assad family.
Palestinian Hamas Islamists re-elect Meshaal as leader
By Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters – 55 mins ago APR 2,13
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - The Islamist Palestinian Hamas group re-elected the relatively pragmatic Khaled Meshaal as its leader on Tuesday, despite past criticism of him by hardliners in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.A diplomat in the region said Egypt and Qatar had lobbied strongly on behalf of a reluctant Meshaal before the vote in Cairo by about 60 Hamas leaders who had met through the night.Born in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank, Meshaal, 56, has lived in exile for decades
and, like his Hamas comrades, rejects Israel's
right to exist. But he played a vital role in indirect,
Egyptian-mediated talks between Israel and Hamas to secure a truce that
ended an eight-day Gaza war four months ago.And Meshaal drew
criticism last year from Hamas's Gaza-based leadership over what some
officials saw as a personal initiative to heal a rift with
Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose rival Fatah party lost control of the Israeli-blockaded enclave in a brief civil war in 2007.In a terse statement, a Hamas official said only that Meshaal had been re-elected in the Cairo meeting.The diplomat in the region, who asked not to be
identified, said Egypt's Islamist leadership and the wealthy Gulf
emirate of Qatar had backed Meshaal, who had earlier promised to step
down."They saw Meshaal as a moderate and an example of a
leader who saw the world more comprehensively than other (Gaza-based)
hardliners in the group," said the diplomat.Meshaal left Damascus, where Hamas had a headquarters,
about a year ago after the Sunni Islamist militant movement broke with
President Bashar al-Assad over Syria's civil war.In December, Meshaal travelled from Egypt to make his
first visit to Gaza, where he told a rally he would never recognize
Israel and pledged to "free the land of Palestine inch by inch".PARIAH
Once treated as a pariah by many U.S.-allied Arab leaders, Hamas has seen its standing in the region rise on the back of Arab uprisings that have ushered in more sympathetic Islamist governments in Egypt and elsewhere.Israel, the United States and most Western governments view Hamas as a terrorist group for its refusal to recognize the Jewish state or to renounce violence that included suicide bombings in a Palestinian uprising a decade ago."I do not say Europe is going to open up to Hamas tomorrow," said the diplomat, but added that a "real engagement with the West" was possible if Meshaal persuaded Islamist colleagues to change their policies.Palestinian political analyst Hani al-Masri said Meshaal's re-election signaled that Hamas was showing a desire for more moderation in order to build bridges with the West, but "it did not mean that Meshaal was a man who raises a white flag".Meshaal burnished his credentials within Hamas after surviving an Israeli assassination attempt in Jordan in 1997 and succeeded the group's founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in 2004 after Israel assassinated the wheelchair-bound cleric.Hamas, which has close links to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, was founded in 1988 soon after Palestinians launched an uprising against Israel. Yassin was killed during a second revolt.Despite falling out with Syria, Meshaal has sought to maintain ties with Iran, an Assad ally which supplies weapons to Hamas, including rockets the group has fired at Israeli cities.Israel has struck repeatedly at militants in Gaza, attacks that have sometimes caused heavy casualties among civilians in the impoverished, densely-populated coastal territory.Meshaal, who now divides his time between Cairo and Qatar, has tried to overcome his differences with Abbas, who supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.His re-election, said senior Fatah official Mahmoud al-Aloul, "may boost chances of reconciliation (with Abbas), but that does not mean it would be done, given remaining disputes within Hamas".(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah, Ahmed Jadallah Salem in Dubai, Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Alistair Lyon)
Egypt: Nearly 500 students hit with food poisoning
– 43 mins ago APR 2,13
CAIRO (AP) — Nearly 500 students from Cairo's Al-Azhar university have been admitted to hospital with food poisoning, a senior health official said on Tuesday.The official, Khaled el-Khateib,
said that all 479 food poisoning cases came from the university's
dormitories in the capital's Nasr City district. The victims were taken
to several hospitals in Cairo. President Mohammed Morsi visited students being treated in one of them on Tuesday.The poisonings occurred after a meal served at the dormitories on Monday.Food poisoning is not uncommon in Egyptian university dormitories, where basic hygiene standards are often not observed, but the latest outbreak is the biggest in years.On Monday, hundreds of students angered by the incident demonstrated
outside the residence halls, blocking roads and chanting slogans against
the university's management. Al-Azhar students were planning further
protests outside the university's offices on Tuesday.
The university belongs to Al-Azhar mosque, the world's foremost seat of Sunni Muslim learning. Beside religious studies, the university awards degrees in sciences and humanities.Egypt's top prosecutor ordered an investigation into the case.
The university belongs to Al-Azhar mosque, the world's foremost seat of Sunni Muslim learning. Beside religious studies, the university awards degrees in sciences and humanities.Egypt's top prosecutor ordered an investigation into the case.
Syrian forces pound rebel-held areas of Damascus
– 4 mins 7 secs ago APR 2,13
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists are reporting heavy government shelling and air raids in Damascus and its suburbs.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says government troops
have shelled the northern neighborhoods of Jobar, Barzeh and Qaboun of
the capital. It also reported an air raid Tuesday on the Damascus suburb of Mleiha.Maath al-Shami, an activist based in the suburb of eastern Ghouta, says there were several airstrikes in the area.The Observatory also reported heavy shelling of rebel-held areas in
the central city of Homs and the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's
largest and former commercial center.
The U.N. says more than 70,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011.
The U.N. says more than 70,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011.
6,000 Syrians killed in March, deadliest month yet
By | Associated Press – APR 2,13
BEIRUT (AP) — March was the bloodiest month yet in Syria's
2-year-old conflict with more than 6,000 documented deaths, a leading
anti-regime activist group said Monday, blaming the increase on heavier
shelling and more violent clashes.Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the increased toll is likely incomplete because both the Syrian army and the rebel groups fighting President Bashar Assad's government often underreport their dead in the civil war."Both sides are hiding information," Abdul-Rahman
said by phone from Britain, where his group is based. "It is very
difficult to get correct info on the fighters because they don't want
the information to hurt morale."The numbers, while provided by only one group, support the appraisal of the conflict offered by many Syria
watchers: The civil war is largely a military stalemate that is
destroying the country's social fabric and taking a huge toll on
civilians.The increase also reflects the continuing spread of major hostilities
to new parts of Syria. While clashes continue in Aleppo, Damascus and
Homs, Syria's three largest cities, rebels have launched an offensive in
recent weeks to seize towns and army bases in the southern province of
Daraa, largely with the help of an influx of foreign-funded weapons.The Observatory, which works through a network of contacts in Syria,
said those killed in March included similar numbers of combatants on
both sides: 1,486 rebels and army defectors and 1,464 soldiers from the
Syrian army.But the number of civilians killed exceeded them both: 2,080 total for the month, including 298 children and 291 women.In addition, there were 387 unidentified civilians and 588
unidentified fighters, most of them foreigners fighting with the rebels,
bringing the March total to 6,005, Abdul-Rahman said.He criticized the international community for not doing more to stop the bloodshed, which he said could increase."If there is no solution, we think the numbers will get worse in the coming months," he said.The March toll surpassed what had previously been the deadliest
month, August 2012, when airstrikes, clashes and shelling killed more
than 5,400 people, Abdul-Rahman said.His total death toll for the conflict through the end of March was
62,554, a number he acknowledged as incomplete, suggesting the true
figure could be twice as high.Besides the underreporting of dead fighters by both sides, he
mentioned the tens of thousands of missing persons and captives held by
the regime and the rebels. The fate of these people is rarely uncovered,
he said.He also said more than 12,000 pro-government gunmen known as
"shabiha," along with government informers may have been killed by the
opposition and never reported.The constant stream of new reports, in addition to the lack of free
access to much of the country, makes full investigations impossible."Since there are more dying every day, it is very hard to go back and
document those who died before," Abdul-Rahman said, calling for an
independent international investigation inside Syria.The Observatory's numbers are not as high as those given by the United Nations.
On Feb. 18, a U.N.-appointed Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued a 131-page report saying about 70,000 people had been killed in the conflict. The report compiled and corroborated death reports from a number of different sources.The U.N. has not updated its number since.The Syrian government does not provide regular death tolls for the conflict. Syrian officials did not immediately comment on the reported death toll.Assad's regime describes the conflict as a foreign conspiracy to weaken the country carried out by terrorists on the ground.In an attempt to boost that argument and rally regime supporters, Assad's wife, Asma, broke her long silence on the events shaking the country in a video shown on Syrian TV stations over the weekend and posted on the Internet.In the professionally produced 14-minute video, she was seen greeting, hugging and kissing women who were described as the mothers of Syrian soldiers killed in battle.
The video, titled "With Your Soul, Protect the Jasmine," said it was filmed during a reception on Mother's Day, which is celebrated in much of the Arab world on March 21. Asma Assad, dressed casually and speaking in Arabic, thanked the mothers for their sacrifice."Instead of fearing for yourselves, fearing for your lives, you feared for all of Syria," she said. "Instead of your children fearing only for you, they feared for all the mothers in the country. They went to protect the country knowing that Syria, the homeland, is the mother of all."When she finished her speech, a girls' choir broke into a patriotic song.The video, which was posted Friday on the official Facebook page of the president's office, is the first time Asma has spoken out in public since the start of the conflict. Her silence had prompted some to speculate that the British-born first lady disapproved of the regime's violent crackdown on the opposition.She appeared briefly at a pro-regime rally in January 2012, smiling with her children as her husband said the "conspiracy" against Syria was in its final stage.A month later, she accompanied her husband to a polling station during a referendum on a new constitution, but did not speak.In recent weeks, the president's office has published photos of her visiting the children of people killed in the civil war.___Associated Press writer Zeina Karam contributed reporting from Beirut.
On Feb. 18, a U.N.-appointed Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued a 131-page report saying about 70,000 people had been killed in the conflict. The report compiled and corroborated death reports from a number of different sources.The U.N. has not updated its number since.The Syrian government does not provide regular death tolls for the conflict. Syrian officials did not immediately comment on the reported death toll.Assad's regime describes the conflict as a foreign conspiracy to weaken the country carried out by terrorists on the ground.In an attempt to boost that argument and rally regime supporters, Assad's wife, Asma, broke her long silence on the events shaking the country in a video shown on Syrian TV stations over the weekend and posted on the Internet.In the professionally produced 14-minute video, she was seen greeting, hugging and kissing women who were described as the mothers of Syrian soldiers killed in battle.
The video, titled "With Your Soul, Protect the Jasmine," said it was filmed during a reception on Mother's Day, which is celebrated in much of the Arab world on March 21. Asma Assad, dressed casually and speaking in Arabic, thanked the mothers for their sacrifice."Instead of fearing for yourselves, fearing for your lives, you feared for all of Syria," she said. "Instead of your children fearing only for you, they feared for all the mothers in the country. They went to protect the country knowing that Syria, the homeland, is the mother of all."When she finished her speech, a girls' choir broke into a patriotic song.The video, which was posted Friday on the official Facebook page of the president's office, is the first time Asma has spoken out in public since the start of the conflict. Her silence had prompted some to speculate that the British-born first lady disapproved of the regime's violent crackdown on the opposition.She appeared briefly at a pro-regime rally in January 2012, smiling with her children as her husband said the "conspiracy" against Syria was in its final stage.A month later, she accompanied her husband to a polling station during a referendum on a new constitution, but did not speak.In recent weeks, the president's office has published photos of her visiting the children of people killed in the civil war.___Associated Press writer Zeina Karam contributed reporting from Beirut.
