KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
ON THIS NOV 11,13.AT 11AM WE REMEMBER OUR VETS.THE DEAD THAT MADE CANADA A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY.UNTIL THE LAST FEW YEARS. WHEN ITS TURNED INTO A CONTROL FREAK SPY ON ALL ITS CITIZENS COUNTRY.BUT STILL I AM THANKFUL THAT HARPER STICKS UP FOR ISRAEL AT LEAST.UNLIKE OBAMA IN AMERICA.THAT ALWAYS IS THROWING ISRAEL UNDER THE BUS.
WATCH GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN JERUSALEM TODAY STARTING AT 10AM EASTERN
http://www.timesofisrael.com/watch-the-general-assembly-in-jerusalem/
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 ANIMAL 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.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Hours before Typhoon Haiyan hit,
Philippine authorities moved 800,000 people to sturdy evacuation centers
— churches, schools and public buildings. But the brick-and-mortar
structures were simply no match for the jet-force winds and massive
walls of waves that swept ashore Friday, devastating cities, towns and
villages and killing thousands, including many of those who had huddled
in government shelters.The tragedy is another reminder that nature's fury
is sometimes so immense that it can overwhelm even the most diligent
preparations. Combine that with a string of unfortunate circumstances —
some man-made — and the result is the disaster of epic proportions that
the country now faces."Sometimes, no matter how much and
how carefully you prepare, the disaster is just too big," said Zhang
Qiang, an expert on disaster mitigation at Beijing Normal University's
Institute for Social Development and Public Policy.
Some officials estimate that 10,000 or more people were killed by Haiyan, washed away by the churning waters that poured in from the Pacific or buried under mountains of trash and rubble. But it may be days or even weeks before the full extent of the destruction is known.As dire forecasts poured in to predict a storm that would be among the most powerful on record, authorities prepared by evacuating people from flimsy homes along the coast to concrete structures farther inland.Similar tactics had worked only weeks earlier when powerful Cyclone Phailin struck India's eastern shore, killing just 25 people as thousands more sheltered in government evacuation centers away from the sea. And Vietnam appeared to have successfully evacuated some 600,000 people before a weakened Haiyan arrived there early Monday.But Philippine officials had not anticipated the 6-meter (20-feet) storm surges that swept through Tacloban, capital of the island province of Leyte, which saw the worst of Haiyan's damage. And while many perished in shelters, others ignored the evacuation and stayed put in their homes, either out of fear their property would fall prey to looters or because they underestimated the risk."I was talking to the people of Tacloban," said senior presidential aide Rene Alemendras. "They said 'we were ready for the wind. We were not ready for the water.'"We tried our very best to warn everybody," he said. "But it was really just overwhelming, especially the storm surge."While the storm surge proved deadly, much of the initial destruction was caused by winds blasting at 235 kilometers per hour (147 mph) that occasionally blew with speeds of up to 275 kph (170 mph), howling like jet engines.Lt. Col. Fermin Carangan, an air force commander in Leyte, said he was at his base in Tacloban, preparing for the storm with his men when the wind and water started coming in.
"It was 7:30 in the morning," he said. "The rain and wind were so strong and the water surged in fast and rose without letup. We had no time to move elsewhere, so we clambered up the room, about 10 of us.
"Then the roof started to peel off. One by one, we were exposed to the rain and we were just holding to the roof wooden beams. Then the walls of the building started collapsing and each one of us started falling into the water. We were yelling at each other. Then all of us got separated," said Carangan, 45.The 25-year veteran of the air force managed to grab a wooden truss from the roof and clung to it for five hours while being buffeted by waves."The tide was coming from all over ... I had no sense of direction," he said. The waves eased after five hours and he paddled his makeshift lifeboat toward land in a neighboring province. Gashed, cut and bruised, he hit a coconut tree and noticed a boy about 7-year-old floating nearby, clinging to a piece of wood.Carangan got hold of the boy and made it to the nearby village. After handing over the boy to a policeman he limped 7 kilometers (5 miles) to an army outpost.The Philippines, which sees about 20 typhoons per year, is cursed by its geography. On a string of some 7,000 islands, there are only so many places to evacuate people to, unless they can be flown or ferried to the mainland.The Philippines' disaster preparation and relief capacities are also hampered by political factors. It lacks a strong central government and provincial governors have virtual autonomy in dealing with local problems.Contrast this with Vietnam, which sees about a dozen typhoons per year and is similarly poor and densely populated. But a centralized, Communist Party-led government broadcasts clear messages that cannot be ignored by the provinces. Also, because of a clearly defined land mass, unlike the archipelago of the Philippines, it is easy to evacuate people deep inland and to higher ground."This is not the time to judge," said Alemendras, the presidential aide. "The national government and the local government all need to work together not to criticize anyone or not to show that one is better than the other."But even with adequate resources and a robust government authority, forces of nature and the unpredictability of people can scuttle even the best advance planning. The 2011 tsunami in Japan might have killed many more without in-place emergency response measures, but an inadequate response to the nuclear crisis that followed seriously compounded the disaster.Nor are such catastrophes limited to poor countries like the Philippines. When Hurricane Katrina plowed ashore near New Orleans in 2005, more than 1,400 were killed, many of whom ignored orders to evacuate before it hit.
Gwendolyn Pang, the executive director of the Philippine Red Cross, said Haiyan was three times more powerful than Katrina.She said there should be an educational campaign to explain to people the destructiveness of a storm surge, which is like a tsunami."We should really start understanding this and make it our way of life, part of our readiness and preparedness," she added— — -Christopher Bodeen reported from Beijing. Associated Press reporters Jim Gomez in Tacloban and Teresa Cerojano in Manila contributed to this report.
TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon-ravaged Philippine
islands faced an unimaginably huge relief effort that had barely begun
Monday, as bloated bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets
and survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine.Police
guarded stores to prevent people from hauling off food, water and such
non-essentials as TVs and treadmills, but there was often no one to
carry away the dead — not even those seen along the main road from the
airport to Tacloban, the worst-hit city along the country's remote
eastern seaboard.At a small naval base, eight bloated corpses —
including that of a baby — were submerged in sea water brought in by the
storm. Officers there had yet to move them, saying they had no body
bags or electricity to preserve them.Two officials said Sunday
that Friday's typhoon may have killed 10,000 or more people, but with
the slow pace of recovery, the official death toll remained well below
that. The Philippine military confirmed 942 dead, but shattered
communications, transportation links and local governments suggest the
final toll is days away. Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said "we
pray" that the death toll is less than 10,000.Tacloban resembled a garbage dump from the air, punctuated only by a few concrete buildings that remained standing."I
don't believe there is a single structure that is not destroyed or
severely damaged in some way — every single building, every single
house," U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Paul Kennedy said after taking a
helicopter flight over the city. He spoke on the tarmac at the airport,
where two Marine C-130 cargo planes were parked, engines running,
unloading supplies.Authorities said at least 9.7 million people
in 41 provinces were affected by the typhoon, which is called Yolanda in
the Philippines but is known as Haiyan elsewhere in Asia. It's one of
the most powerful recorded typhoons to ever hit land and likely the
deadliest natural disaster to beset this poor Southeast Asian nation.Philippine
soldiers were distributing food and water in Tacloban, and assessment
teams from the United Nations and other international agencies were seen
for the first time. The U.S. military dispatched food, water,
generators and a contingent of Marines to the city, the first outside
help in what will swell into a major international relief mission."Please
tell my family I'm alive," said Erika Mae Karakot, a survivor on
Tacloban's Leyte island, as she lined up for aid. "We need water and
medicine because a lot of the people we are with are wounded. Some are
suffering from diarrhea and dehydration due to shortage of food and
water."Authorities
said they had evacuated some 800,000 people ahead of the typhoon, but
some of the evacuation centers proved to be no protection against the
wind and rising water. The Philippine National Red Cross, responsible
for warning the region and giving advice, said people were not prepared
for a storm surge."Imagine America, which was prepared and very
rich, still had a lot of challenges at the time of Hurricane Katrina,
but what we had was three times more than what they received," said
Gwendolyn Pang, the group's executive director.Emily Ortega, 21
and about to give birth, was among those who had thought she was safe.
But the evacuation center she had fled to was devastated by the 6-meter
(20-foot) storm surge, and she had to swim and cling to a post to
survive. She reached safety at the airport, where she gave birth to a
baby girl. Bea Joy Sagales appeared in good health, and her arrival drew
applause from others in the airport and military medics who assisted in
the delivery.The winds, rains and coastal storm surges
transformed neighborhoods into twisted piles of debris, blocking roads
and trapping decomposing bodies underneath. Ships were tossed inland,
cars and trucks swept out to sea and bridges and ports washed away."In some cases the devastation has been total," said Secretary to the Cabinet Rene Almendras.Residents
have stripped malls, shops and homes of food, water and consumer goods.
Officials said some of the looting smacked of desperation but in other
cases items taken included TVs, refrigerators, Christmas trees and a
treadmill. An Associated Press reporter in the town said he saw around
400 special forces and soldiers patrolling downtown to guard against
further chaos.Brig. Gen. Kennedy said Philippine forces were
handling security well, and that his forces were "looking at how to open
up roads and land planes and helicopters. We got shelter coming in.
(The U.S. Agency for International Development) is bringing in water and
supplies."Those caught in the storm were worried that aid would not arrive soon enough.."We're
afraid that it's going to get dangerous in town because relief goods
are trickling in very slow," said Bobbie Womack, an American missionary
and longtime Tacloban resident from Athens, Tennessee. "I know it's a
massive, massive undertaking to try to feed a town of over 150,000
people. They need to bring in shiploads of food."Womack's
husband, Larry, said he chose to stay at their beachside home, only to
find the storm surge engulfing it. He survived by climbing onto a beam
in the roof that stayed attached to a wall."The roof was lifting
up and the wind was coming through and there were actual waves going
over my head," he said. "The sound was loud. It was just incredible."Marvin
Daga, a 19-year-old student in Tacloban tried to ride out the storm in
his home with his ailing father, Mario, but the storm surge carried the
building away.They clung to each other while the house floated
for a while, but it eventually crumbled and they fell into churning
waters. Marvin grabbed a coconut tree with one hand and his father with
the other, but Mario slipped out of his grasp and sank."I hope
that he survived," Marvin said in an army medic room as tears filled his
eyes. "But I'm not expecting to find him anymore."Philippine
President Benigno Aquino III said in a statement he had a declared a
"state of national calamity," allowing the central government to release
emergency funds quicker and impose price controls on staple goods. He
said the two worst-hit provinces, Leyte and Samar, had witnessed
"massive destruction and loss of life" but that elsewhere casualties
were low.Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippines on
Friday and quickly barreled across its central islands, packing winds of
235 kph (147 mph) that gusted to 275 kph (170 mph). It inflicted
serious damage to at least six islands in the middle of the eastern
seaboard.The storm's sustained winds weakened to 120 kph (74 mph)
as the typhoon made landfall in northern Vietnam early Monday after
crossing the South China Sea, according to the Hong Kong meteorological
observatory. Authorities there evacuated hundreds of thousands of
people, but there were no reports of significant damage or injuries.
It was downgraded to a tropical storm as it entered southern China later Monday, and weather officials forecast torrential rain in the area until Tuesday. No major damage was reported in China, though Xinhua News Agency said heavy winds tore a cargo ship from its moorings in southern China and drove it out to sea, killing at least two crew members.The Philippines, an archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands, is annually buffeted by tropical storms and typhoons, which are called hurricanes and cyclones elsewhere. The impoverished and densely populated nation of 96 million people is in the northwestern Pacific, right in the path of the world's No. 1 typhoon generator, according to meteorologists. The archipelago's exposed eastern seaboard often bears the brunt.Even by the standards of the Philippines, however, Haiyan was an especially large catastrophe. Its winds were among the strongest ever recorded, and it appears to have killed more people than the previous deadliest Philippine storm, Thelma, in which about 5,100 people died in the central Philippines in 1991.The country's deadliest disaster on record was the 1976 magnitude-7.9 earthquake that triggered a tsunami in the Moro Gulf in the southern Philippines, killing 5,791 people.
___Associated Press writers Oliver Teves and Teresa Cerojano in Manila and Minh Tran in Hanoi, Vietnam, contributed to this report.
The leader of Canada's biggest city has been
embroiled in scandal since it emerged that a video held by police
allegedly shows him using the powerful drug, but his predicament has
since been made worse by aired footage.The 44-year-old denies
being an addict but said earlier this week that he had once smoked crack
while in a "drunken stupor" -- a stunning confession after months of
denials, and one that threw his political future into question.The
second video, which has gone viral, shows Ford in an agitated, drunken
state, staggering and making foul-mouthed death threats.Treatment
is "an option he has to consider and he will be considering," Ford's
lawyer, Dennis Morris, told public broadcaster CBC on Friday.Ford's
brother Doug, a Toronto city councilor and arguably his staunchest
supporter, has urged the mayor to take a short break to try and regain
his health, before returning to resume his political career."If
Rob goes away on a little vacation, a week, two weeks, comes back, loses
50 or 60 pounds, and stays on the straight and narrow... it will be
very tough to beat Rob Ford" in the next municipal election in October
2014, he told local radio station AM640.Toronto Deputy Mayor Norm
Kelly told CBC News, meanwhile, that he and others were hearing that
Ford was "prepared to take some downtime, not as much as people would
like, but it's a start."
He also suggested Ford could elaborate on possible plans in a matter of days. "The mayor might make an announcement early next week," Kelly told reporters.Earlier, Ford's sister Kathy insisted the mayor was "not an addict," telling broadcaster CP24 that he "wouldn't be able to function" if he were.She also said Ford did not drink every night, but acknowledged that when he does, "he goes full tilt."In the same interview, Ford's mother Diane called her son's recent behavior "unacceptable."The mayor showed up for work as usual on Friday, attending a closed council meeting and getting a flu shot."I feel good, I feel very good," he told throngs of reporters camped outside his office as he left city hall for the day, adding that he was dealing with a "very serious personal matter" and asking journalists to give him "some time." Ford's mother was said to be undergoing surgery on Friday.Amid the blowback from Ford's crack admission, he said had been "extremely, extremely inebriated" when the second video, published by the daily Toronto Star, was taken.Ford's mother told CP24 she had told her son, "Rob, you need to smarten up a little bit," and that she had urged him to attack his weight problem and "see a counselor, do get help."She insisted, however, that Ford should not step down as long as he continues to have strong public support, even as concern shifted from his drug admission to his excessive drinking."He's strong enough to come out of this and deal with his problems," said his sister Kathy, herself a self-proclaimed recovering addict.A former ally on the city council, Denzil Minnan-Wong, expressed growing impatience with the mayor in a letter to the Toronto Star."This is a human being in agony. As a matter of medical urgency, (Ontario) Premier Kathleen Wynne must step in and be mom," Minnan-Wong wrote."If he can't find the exit, I think we need to show him the door."The council is expected to vote next week on a motion asking Wynne to enter the fray and remove Ford from office.
A local radio station announced that a weekly Sunday radio show featuring the mayor and his brother has been canceled. It was on the NewsTalk1010 broadcast that the mayor last Sunday apologized for "mistakes."Also Friday, media lawyers were in court asking for the release of wiretap evidence and seized videos in the prosecution of a Ford friend for his alleged "extortive efforts to retrieve a recording" of the mayor's antics, and of a third man linked to Ford who is facing separate drug charges.Toronto police have released hundreds of pages of heavily-redacted documents detailing months of police surveillance on Ford and his associates. Ford has not been charged with any crime.
ONAHAMA PORT, Japan (AP) — Japan switched on the first
turbine at a wind farm 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of
Fukushima on Monday, feeding electricity to the grid tethered to the
tsunami-crippled nuclear plant onshore.The wind farm near the
Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant is to eventually have a
generation capacity of 1 gigawatt from 143 turbines, though its
significance is not limited to the energy it will produce. Symbolically,
the turbines will help restore the role of energy supplier to a region
decimated by a population exodus following the multiple meltdowns
triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
"Many people were victimized and hurt by the accident at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, so it is very meaningful to have a new source of energy — renewable energy — based here," said Kazuyoshi Akaba, a vice minister of economy, trade and industry, after the turbine was turned on."It is the government's mission to ensure this project is a success," he said.The project also highlights Japan's aspirations to sell its advanced energy technology around the globe.Trading houses such as Marubeni Corp., which is leading the consortium building the offshore wind farm, are investing aggressively in renewable energy as well as conventional sources, helped by government policies aimed at nurturing favored industries.All of Japan's 50 viable nuclear reactors are offline for safety checks under new regulatory guidelines drawn up after the Fukushima disaster. Utility companies have applied to restart at least 14 reactors under those new guidelines, which include more stringent requirements for earthquake and tsunami protections, among other precautions.
In Japan, the push to tap more renewable sources to help offset lost power capacity, and reduce costs for imported natural gas and oil, also got a boost last year with the implementation of a higher wholesale tariff for energy generated from non-conventional sources.Japan, whose coast is mostly ringed by deep waters, is pioneering floating wind turbine construction, required for seabed depths greater than 50 meters (165 feet). The 2 megawatt downwind floating turbine that began operation Monday was built at a dry dock near Tokyo and towed to its location off the northeastern coast. Six huge chains anchor it to the seabed 120 meters (almost 400 feet) below.The turbine is linked to a 66 kilovolt floating power substation, the world's first according to the project operators, via an extra-high voltage undersea cable.As the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. struggle to clean up from the nuclear disaster and begin the decades-long task of decommissioning Fukushima Dai-Ichi, Japan's energy industry is in the midst of a transition whose outcome remains uncertain.Most leading members of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the powerful business lobbies such as Keidanren, and many experts, argue that wind and other renewables alone simply cannot make up for the steady and huge baseload power produced by nuclear plants."I favor renewables. But it would be irresponsible to create a pie-in-the-sky claim that renewables alone are the answer," said Paul Scalise, a fellow at Tokyo University and expert on Japan's energy industry. "There is no such thing as a perfect power source."He cites figures showing wind power's average generating capacity at 2 watts per square meter versus 20 watts per square meter for solar power — and 1,000 watts per square meter for nuclear.Eventually there could be dozens of wind turbines off Fukushima's scenic but deserted coast. The project is meant to demonstrate the feasibility of locating these towering turbines in offshore regions where the winds are more reliable and there are fewer "not in my backyard" concerns. Bigger turbines that might create noise problems onshore are not an issue so far offshore.Yuhei Sato, the governor of Fukushima Prefecture who has lobbied hard for support following the 2011 disasters, said he expected local businesses to benefit from the wind farm. A research center is planned for Koriyama, a city further inland, and studies are underway on the impact of local fisheries from the floating turbines."We are moving ahead one step at a time. This wind farm is a symbol of our future," Sato said.In theory, Japan has the potential for 1,600 gigawatts of wind power, most of it offshore. About a dozen projects are already in the works, from Kyushu in the south to Hokkaido in the north.But wind power can be notoriously unstable: when the switch was pushed to "on" on Monday, the audience of VIP officials watched tensely as the wind turbine's blades, displayed on a video screen at a tourist center onshore, appeared becalmed. Eventually, though, the blades slowly began rotating.
ON THIS NOV 11,13.AT 11AM WE REMEMBER OUR VETS.THE DEAD THAT MADE CANADA A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY.UNTIL THE LAST FEW YEARS. WHEN ITS TURNED INTO A CONTROL FREAK SPY ON ALL ITS CITIZENS COUNTRY.BUT STILL I AM THANKFUL THAT HARPER STICKS UP FOR ISRAEL AT LEAST.UNLIKE OBAMA IN AMERICA.THAT ALWAYS IS THROWING ISRAEL UNDER THE BUS.
WATCH GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN JERUSALEM TODAY STARTING AT 10AM EASTERN
http://www.timesofisrael.com/watch-the-general-assembly-in-jerusalem/
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 ANIMAL 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.
Palestinians says no Mideast peace deal better than bad deal
2 hours ago-NOV 11,13-Yahoonews
Netanyahu hits back at Kerry in Jerusalem speech
‘I’m continuously updated in detail,’ PM tells Jewish Federations’ General Assembly after secretary implies he isn’t up to date on talks with Iran
November 10, 2013, 11:49 pm
9-The Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu continued his campaign against a deal on Iran’s nuclear
program and his war of words with US Secretary John Kerry Sunday night,
this time at the Jewish Federations’ General Assembly in Jerusalem.“What
is being offered now, and I’m continuously updated in detail,” he said —
it was an allusion to Kerry’s assertion earlier in the day that
Netanyahu may not be aware of the terms of the proposed deal — “What is
being proposed now is a deal in which Iran retains all” of its uranium
enrichment capacity.“Not one centrifuge is dismantled,” he added, “not one.”Netanyahu pointed out that such conditions
didn’t meet any of the UN resolutions and would give Iran the
opportunity to hide its centrifuges and use them to break out toward a
nuclear weapon whenever they so chose.“It makes a minor concession that is
meaningless with today’s technology and with current capacities,” he
said. “In other words, none of the Security Council resolutions which
the P5+1 powers passed are met. But what is being given to them is the
beginning of the rollback of sanctions.”Earlier Sunday, in the wake of a last-minute
breakdown in negotiations between the Iran and world powers on a deal to
halt Iran’s nuclear program, Kerry questioned whether the prime
minister really knew what he was so furiously objecting to over the
weekend.“I’m not sure that the prime minister, who I
have great respect for, knows exactly what the amount or the terms are
going to be because we haven’t arrived at them all yet,” Kerry said on
NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “That’s what we’re negotiating. It is not a
partial deal. Let me make that crystal clear as I have to the prime
minister directly. It is a first step in an effort that will lock the
program in where it is today, in fact set it back, while one negotiates
the full deal.”In his Sunday night speech, Netanyahu also
reiterated his cautious hope that the current round of peace talks would
bear fruit, but said he was not encouraged by signals from the
Palestinians and what he considered an uneven approach by the
international community.“It cannot be that the Palestinians are
forever pampered by the international community,” he said. “It’s time
that the international community, certainly the serious members of the
international community, understand this is a two-way street, because
peace is not a one-way street and it won’t be.“If the Palestinians expect us to recognize a
Palestinian state for Palestinian people, they must recognize a Jewish
state for Jewish people.“Cold peace is better than hot war, but I’m hoping for warm peace,” he said.
Israel will attack Iran if you sign the deal, French MP told Fabius’
Paris legislator Meyer Habib, a friend of Netanyahu, called his FM in Geneva to warn of likely response should accord be signed, Israeli TV reports
November 10, 2013, 8:53 pm
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A French member of parliament
telephoned French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Geneva at the
weekend to warn him that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would attack
Iran’s nuclear facilities if the P5+1 nations did not stiffen their
terms on a deal with Iran, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported Sunday.
“I
know [Netanyahu],” the French MP, Meyer Habib, reportedly told Fabius,
and predicted that the Israeli prime minister would resort to the use of
force if the deal was approved in its form at the time. “If you don’t
toughen your positions, Netanyahu will attack Iran,” the report quoted
Habib as saying. “I know this. I know him. You have to toughen your
positions in order to prevent war.”France’s Fabius is widely reported to have
scuppered the finalizing of the emerging deal late Saturday, leading to
the halting of the negotiations with Iran, and an agreement to reconvene
on November 20.Explaining his concerns to reporters in
Geneva, Fabius said Tehran was resisting demands that it suspend work on
its plutonium-producing reactor at Arak and downgrade its stockpile of
higher-enriched uranium.Habib, the deputy president of the Jewish umbrella organization in France, was elected to the National Assembly in Paris in June, to represent the district of southern Europe, which includes French nationals residing in Israel.“I have known Meyer Habib for many years and he is a good friend to me and to Israel,” Netanyahu said in French
in a video of endorsement posted on YouTube in May. Standing next to
Habib, Netanyahu continued in Hebrew: “He fights a lot for Israel, for
public opinion, and cares intensely about the Land of Israel and
Jerusalem, and he has helped me over the years deepen Israeli-French
relations.”The TV report on Sunday said Jerusalem
believed that Netanyahu’s angry public criticism of the emerging deal,
and his phone conversations with world leaders — including Presidents
Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Francois Hollande, Chancellor Angela
Merkel and Prime Minister David Cameron — had played a crucial role in
stalling the deal, but that Israel was well aware that an agreement
would be reached very soon. Netanyahu himself said Sunday that he was
aware of the “strong desire” for a deal on the part of the P5+1
negotiators, and had asked the various leaders in his calls, “What’s the
hurry?”The report, quoting sources in Jerusalem, said
Netanyahu and ministers close to him were castigating the United States
for its “radical eagerness” in seeking a deal, and saying that
Washington appeared fearful of confrontation with Iran. “This is no way
to run a negotiation,” the sources were quoted as saying. The Americans
“are giving up all of their pressure points, and the Iranians recognize
the Americans’ weakness.”
Meyer Habib (photo credit: screen capture Meyer Habib/YouTube)
At Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Netanyahu
expressed outrage that under the terms of the emerging deal, “not a
single centrifuge would be dismantled, not one.”Israel believes the imminent deal will leave
Iran with uranium enrichment capabilities, and thus enable it to become a
nuclear breakout state at a time of its choosing.
Secretary of State John Kerry hit back at Netanyahu
on Sunday, declaring, “I’m not sure that the prime minister, who I have
great respect for, knows exactly what the amount or the terms are going
to be because we haven’t arrived at them all yet. That’s what we’re
negotiating.”After the talks broke up in Geneva after
midnight Saturday, Kerry complained about critics who were “jumping to
conclusions” about the terms of the accord on the basis of “rumors or other parcels of information that somebody pretends to know.”
Netanyahu on Friday publicly pleaded with Kerry not to rush to sign what he called a “very, very bad deal.”
Jordan sets sights on UN Security Council seat
Hashemite kingdom seeks to fill the vacancy left after Saudi Arabia, in startling move, rejected a spot in the chamber
November 11, 2013, 2:45 pm
0-The Times of Israel
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan is eager
to assume a UN Security Council seat that Saudi Arabia had turned down
in the wake of differences with the United States, the kingdom’s
information minister said Monday.
The
UN General Assembly, which voted on October 17 to give Riyadh the seat
traditionally reserved for an Arab nation on the council, must formally
approve Jordan as a replacement. Since Jordan is almost certain to be
the only candidate, its election is virtually assured.Minister Mohammed Momani, who is also the
government spokesman, said that Jordan is “consulting” with Gulf Arabs,
the US and other governments to help support its bid ahead of another
General Assembly vote whose date is yet to be determined.He said the pro-US kingdom is seeking Saudi
approval for its bid. He said ties between the two monarchies are
“traditionally strong” and that Riyadh “will not be upset” if Jordan
received the seat.Last week, Jordan dropped its bid for a seat
on the UN Human Rights Council, leaving Saudi Arabia a clear path in the
now uncontested election on Tuesday. Some activists accused the two
countries of making a trade.Another Jordanian official said the government
has already received US “blessing and support” during US Secretary of
State John Kerry’s talks with King Abdullah II in Amman last Thursday.
He insisted on anonymity because he is not allowed to make statements to
the press.“Receiving the seat is recognition of Jordan
and the king’s standing as a moderate force in the region,” Momani told
the Associated Press.Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry stunned the
diplomatic world with the announcement that it was rejecting the seat,
less than 24 hours after it was elected. The Saudis issued a scathing
attack on the Security Council’s failures to end the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict and the war in Syria, and to convene a conference on creating a
zone in the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.The rejection appeared largely directed at the country’s longtime ally, the United States.The oil giant and the world’s superpower are
at odds over a number of Mideast issues, including how Washington has
handled some of the region’s crises, particularly in Egypt and Syria. It
also comes as ties between the US and Iran, the Saudis’ regional foe,
appear to be improving somewhat.Jordan, which shares a border with Israel, has
been a key behind-the-scenes player in efforts to end the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Amman also shares a border with Syria and
has become a major destination for refugees fleeing the
two-and-a-half-year civil war, which — according to Syrian activists —
has killed more than 120,000 people.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Haiyan storm surges caught Philippines by surprise
By OLIVER TEVES and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
25 minutes ago
Some officials estimate that 10,000 or more people were killed by Haiyan, washed away by the churning waters that poured in from the Pacific or buried under mountains of trash and rubble. But it may be days or even weeks before the full extent of the destruction is known.As dire forecasts poured in to predict a storm that would be among the most powerful on record, authorities prepared by evacuating people from flimsy homes along the coast to concrete structures farther inland.Similar tactics had worked only weeks earlier when powerful Cyclone Phailin struck India's eastern shore, killing just 25 people as thousands more sheltered in government evacuation centers away from the sea. And Vietnam appeared to have successfully evacuated some 600,000 people before a weakened Haiyan arrived there early Monday.But Philippine officials had not anticipated the 6-meter (20-feet) storm surges that swept through Tacloban, capital of the island province of Leyte, which saw the worst of Haiyan's damage. And while many perished in shelters, others ignored the evacuation and stayed put in their homes, either out of fear their property would fall prey to looters or because they underestimated the risk."I was talking to the people of Tacloban," said senior presidential aide Rene Alemendras. "They said 'we were ready for the wind. We were not ready for the water.'"We tried our very best to warn everybody," he said. "But it was really just overwhelming, especially the storm surge."While the storm surge proved deadly, much of the initial destruction was caused by winds blasting at 235 kilometers per hour (147 mph) that occasionally blew with speeds of up to 275 kph (170 mph), howling like jet engines.Lt. Col. Fermin Carangan, an air force commander in Leyte, said he was at his base in Tacloban, preparing for the storm with his men when the wind and water started coming in.
"It was 7:30 in the morning," he said. "The rain and wind were so strong and the water surged in fast and rose without letup. We had no time to move elsewhere, so we clambered up the room, about 10 of us.
"Then the roof started to peel off. One by one, we were exposed to the rain and we were just holding to the roof wooden beams. Then the walls of the building started collapsing and each one of us started falling into the water. We were yelling at each other. Then all of us got separated," said Carangan, 45.The 25-year veteran of the air force managed to grab a wooden truss from the roof and clung to it for five hours while being buffeted by waves."The tide was coming from all over ... I had no sense of direction," he said. The waves eased after five hours and he paddled his makeshift lifeboat toward land in a neighboring province. Gashed, cut and bruised, he hit a coconut tree and noticed a boy about 7-year-old floating nearby, clinging to a piece of wood.Carangan got hold of the boy and made it to the nearby village. After handing over the boy to a policeman he limped 7 kilometers (5 miles) to an army outpost.The Philippines, which sees about 20 typhoons per year, is cursed by its geography. On a string of some 7,000 islands, there are only so many places to evacuate people to, unless they can be flown or ferried to the mainland.The Philippines' disaster preparation and relief capacities are also hampered by political factors. It lacks a strong central government and provincial governors have virtual autonomy in dealing with local problems.Contrast this with Vietnam, which sees about a dozen typhoons per year and is similarly poor and densely populated. But a centralized, Communist Party-led government broadcasts clear messages that cannot be ignored by the provinces. Also, because of a clearly defined land mass, unlike the archipelago of the Philippines, it is easy to evacuate people deep inland and to higher ground."This is not the time to judge," said Alemendras, the presidential aide. "The national government and the local government all need to work together not to criticize anyone or not to show that one is better than the other."But even with adequate resources and a robust government authority, forces of nature and the unpredictability of people can scuttle even the best advance planning. The 2011 tsunami in Japan might have killed many more without in-place emergency response measures, but an inadequate response to the nuclear crisis that followed seriously compounded the disaster.Nor are such catastrophes limited to poor countries like the Philippines. When Hurricane Katrina plowed ashore near New Orleans in 2005, more than 1,400 were killed, many of whom ignored orders to evacuate before it hit.
Gwendolyn Pang, the executive director of the Philippine Red Cross, said Haiyan was three times more powerful than Katrina.She said there should be an educational campaign to explain to people the destructiveness of a storm surge, which is like a tsunami."We should really start understanding this and make it our way of life, part of our readiness and preparedness," she added— — -Christopher Bodeen reported from Beijing. Associated Press reporters Jim Gomez in Tacloban and Teresa Cerojano in Manila contributed to this report.
Typhoon-hit victims in Philippines plead for aid
By TODD PITMAN and JIM GOMEZ
25 minutes ago-NOV 11,13-Yahoonews
It was downgraded to a tropical storm as it entered southern China later Monday, and weather officials forecast torrential rain in the area until Tuesday. No major damage was reported in China, though Xinhua News Agency said heavy winds tore a cargo ship from its moorings in southern China and drove it out to sea, killing at least two crew members.The Philippines, an archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands, is annually buffeted by tropical storms and typhoons, which are called hurricanes and cyclones elsewhere. The impoverished and densely populated nation of 96 million people is in the northwestern Pacific, right in the path of the world's No. 1 typhoon generator, according to meteorologists. The archipelago's exposed eastern seaboard often bears the brunt.Even by the standards of the Philippines, however, Haiyan was an especially large catastrophe. Its winds were among the strongest ever recorded, and it appears to have killed more people than the previous deadliest Philippine storm, Thelma, in which about 5,100 people died in the central Philippines in 1991.The country's deadliest disaster on record was the 1976 magnitude-7.9 earthquake that triggered a tsunami in the Moro Gulf in the southern Philippines, killing 5,791 people.
___Associated Press writers Oliver Teves and Teresa Cerojano in Manila and Minh Tran in Hanoi, Vietnam, contributed to this report.
Toronto mayor pressured to quit after video rant
By Adrian Lee
12 hours ago-NOV 11,13-Yahoonews
He also suggested Ford could elaborate on possible plans in a matter of days. "The mayor might make an announcement early next week," Kelly told reporters.Earlier, Ford's sister Kathy insisted the mayor was "not an addict," telling broadcaster CP24 that he "wouldn't be able to function" if he were.She also said Ford did not drink every night, but acknowledged that when he does, "he goes full tilt."In the same interview, Ford's mother Diane called her son's recent behavior "unacceptable."The mayor showed up for work as usual on Friday, attending a closed council meeting and getting a flu shot."I feel good, I feel very good," he told throngs of reporters camped outside his office as he left city hall for the day, adding that he was dealing with a "very serious personal matter" and asking journalists to give him "some time." Ford's mother was said to be undergoing surgery on Friday.Amid the blowback from Ford's crack admission, he said had been "extremely, extremely inebriated" when the second video, published by the daily Toronto Star, was taken.Ford's mother told CP24 she had told her son, "Rob, you need to smarten up a little bit," and that she had urged him to attack his weight problem and "see a counselor, do get help."She insisted, however, that Ford should not step down as long as he continues to have strong public support, even as concern shifted from his drug admission to his excessive drinking."He's strong enough to come out of this and deal with his problems," said his sister Kathy, herself a self-proclaimed recovering addict.A former ally on the city council, Denzil Minnan-Wong, expressed growing impatience with the mayor in a letter to the Toronto Star."This is a human being in agony. As a matter of medical urgency, (Ontario) Premier Kathleen Wynne must step in and be mom," Minnan-Wong wrote."If he can't find the exit, I think we need to show him the door."The council is expected to vote next week on a motion asking Wynne to enter the fray and remove Ford from office.
A local radio station announced that a weekly Sunday radio show featuring the mayor and his brother has been canceled. It was on the NewsTalk1010 broadcast that the mayor last Sunday apologized for "mistakes."Also Friday, media lawyers were in court asking for the release of wiretap evidence and seized videos in the prosecution of a Ford friend for his alleged "extortive efforts to retrieve a recording" of the mayor's antics, and of a third man linked to Ford who is facing separate drug charges.Toronto police have released hundreds of pages of heavily-redacted documents detailing months of police surveillance on Ford and his associates. Ford has not been charged with any crime.
Japan starts up offshore wind farm near Fukushima
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
2 hours ago-NOV 11,13-Yahoonews
"Many people were victimized and hurt by the accident at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, so it is very meaningful to have a new source of energy — renewable energy — based here," said Kazuyoshi Akaba, a vice minister of economy, trade and industry, after the turbine was turned on."It is the government's mission to ensure this project is a success," he said.The project also highlights Japan's aspirations to sell its advanced energy technology around the globe.Trading houses such as Marubeni Corp., which is leading the consortium building the offshore wind farm, are investing aggressively in renewable energy as well as conventional sources, helped by government policies aimed at nurturing favored industries.All of Japan's 50 viable nuclear reactors are offline for safety checks under new regulatory guidelines drawn up after the Fukushima disaster. Utility companies have applied to restart at least 14 reactors under those new guidelines, which include more stringent requirements for earthquake and tsunami protections, among other precautions.
In Japan, the push to tap more renewable sources to help offset lost power capacity, and reduce costs for imported natural gas and oil, also got a boost last year with the implementation of a higher wholesale tariff for energy generated from non-conventional sources.Japan, whose coast is mostly ringed by deep waters, is pioneering floating wind turbine construction, required for seabed depths greater than 50 meters (165 feet). The 2 megawatt downwind floating turbine that began operation Monday was built at a dry dock near Tokyo and towed to its location off the northeastern coast. Six huge chains anchor it to the seabed 120 meters (almost 400 feet) below.The turbine is linked to a 66 kilovolt floating power substation, the world's first according to the project operators, via an extra-high voltage undersea cable.As the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. struggle to clean up from the nuclear disaster and begin the decades-long task of decommissioning Fukushima Dai-Ichi, Japan's energy industry is in the midst of a transition whose outcome remains uncertain.Most leading members of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the powerful business lobbies such as Keidanren, and many experts, argue that wind and other renewables alone simply cannot make up for the steady and huge baseload power produced by nuclear plants."I favor renewables. But it would be irresponsible to create a pie-in-the-sky claim that renewables alone are the answer," said Paul Scalise, a fellow at Tokyo University and expert on Japan's energy industry. "There is no such thing as a perfect power source."He cites figures showing wind power's average generating capacity at 2 watts per square meter versus 20 watts per square meter for solar power — and 1,000 watts per square meter for nuclear.Eventually there could be dozens of wind turbines off Fukushima's scenic but deserted coast. The project is meant to demonstrate the feasibility of locating these towering turbines in offshore regions where the winds are more reliable and there are fewer "not in my backyard" concerns. Bigger turbines that might create noise problems onshore are not an issue so far offshore.Yuhei Sato, the governor of Fukushima Prefecture who has lobbied hard for support following the 2011 disasters, said he expected local businesses to benefit from the wind farm. A research center is planned for Koriyama, a city further inland, and studies are underway on the impact of local fisheries from the floating turbines."We are moving ahead one step at a time. This wind farm is a symbol of our future," Sato said.In theory, Japan has the potential for 1,600 gigawatts of wind power, most of it offshore. About a dozen projects are already in the works, from Kyushu in the south to Hokkaido in the north.But wind power can be notoriously unstable: when the switch was pushed to "on" on Monday, the audience of VIP officials watched tensely as the wind turbine's blades, displayed on a video screen at a tourist center onshore, appeared becalmed. Eventually, though, the blades slowly began rotating.
EU-US free trade talks restart in Brussels
Today @ 09:27-NOV 11,13 EUPBSERVER
BRUSSELS - For over a century in the developed world, the concept of free trade was based on the principle of no tariffs.But in 2013 the economic map has changed. Although many countries
still impose tariffs or duties on products entering their markets from
foreign countries, it is "behind the border barriers" which are the real
drag on trade flows.EU and US officials will hold the second round of talks on the
so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - set to
last all week - starting Monday (11 November).Around 50 US officials are expected to be in Brussels from a range of
economic sectors. The meetings are expected to cover services,
investment, energy and raw materials, as well as regulatory issues.
The talks will, largely speaking, not be about tariffs. In fact, duty barriers between the EU and the US are already low - under 3 percent in most cases. The European Commission estimates that a small scale EU-US deal eliminating the remaining tariff barriers would limit the economic benefits to under €25 billion."Regulatory coherence" between the two blocs is seen as the real prize at the end of the TTIP talks.The EU executive estimates that a comprehensive trade deal going beyond tariff barriers and harmonising standards across a variety of sectors could be worth €275 billion per year to the two sides, of which roundly €100 billion per year would be for the EU - equivalent to an additional 0.5 percent of EU GDP.Officials also say that this would create up to 2 million new jobs.But while the potential rewards would be large, the challenge of reaching agreement is much tougher and is likely to take far longer, potentially pushing the timetable for agreeing a deal into 2015."It's going to be difficult to get the US to engage in regulatory talks … but we are optimistic that we can at least get the US to agree on a few principles," says a commission official, who is hoping to put financial services on the negotiating table.However, recent experiences in transatlantic financial regulation are not promising.The EU and US could only reach agreement on how to regulate the multi-trillion dollar derivatives market at the 11th hour following a tense showdown between regulators.The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) agreed to a joint approach with the EU in July, just hours before CFTC rules were due to come into force that would have forced US financial services to comply solely with US swaps rules.The Americans are unwilling to put financial services on the table, fearing that any deal could undermine the so-called Dodd-Frank bill on financial regulation, adopted in 2010 in response to the 2008 financial crisis.Kay Swinburne, a prominent Conservative MEP on the European Parliament's economic affairs committee, told a recent hearing: "We've been told to stop talking about it [financial regulation] because it's not going to happen".In contrast, when it comes to regulation of the chemical industry, it is the EU that fears its own existing rules could be weakened.The so-called Reach legislative package, which re-wrote the EU's rules on chemicals in 2007 and which requires companies to provide information on the contents of over 30,000 substances, was flatly opposed by the US, which prefers a lighter-touch approach.The EU plans to use the Reach rules to reduce the number of potentially dangerous chemicals in circulation in household goods, while the US system in many cases would keep them on the market, so long as they are not used in ways that would harm people.However, the recently-concluded trade talks between the EU and Canada, though not extending into financial services, did see agreement in areas such as public procurement contracts.Under the final deal agreed in October, EU companies will be able to bid for contracts at all levels of the Canadian government.The commission is approaching the TTIP talks with a sense of urgency, and trade commissioner Karel de Gucht is anxious to seal an agreement as soon as possible - preferably before the end of the current legislative term.But if the deal is to go much beyond conventional tariffs, more time and patience will almost certainly be needed.
The talks will, largely speaking, not be about tariffs. In fact, duty barriers between the EU and the US are already low - under 3 percent in most cases. The European Commission estimates that a small scale EU-US deal eliminating the remaining tariff barriers would limit the economic benefits to under €25 billion."Regulatory coherence" between the two blocs is seen as the real prize at the end of the TTIP talks.The EU executive estimates that a comprehensive trade deal going beyond tariff barriers and harmonising standards across a variety of sectors could be worth €275 billion per year to the two sides, of which roundly €100 billion per year would be for the EU - equivalent to an additional 0.5 percent of EU GDP.Officials also say that this would create up to 2 million new jobs.But while the potential rewards would be large, the challenge of reaching agreement is much tougher and is likely to take far longer, potentially pushing the timetable for agreeing a deal into 2015."It's going to be difficult to get the US to engage in regulatory talks … but we are optimistic that we can at least get the US to agree on a few principles," says a commission official, who is hoping to put financial services on the negotiating table.However, recent experiences in transatlantic financial regulation are not promising.The EU and US could only reach agreement on how to regulate the multi-trillion dollar derivatives market at the 11th hour following a tense showdown between regulators.The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) agreed to a joint approach with the EU in July, just hours before CFTC rules were due to come into force that would have forced US financial services to comply solely with US swaps rules.The Americans are unwilling to put financial services on the table, fearing that any deal could undermine the so-called Dodd-Frank bill on financial regulation, adopted in 2010 in response to the 2008 financial crisis.Kay Swinburne, a prominent Conservative MEP on the European Parliament's economic affairs committee, told a recent hearing: "We've been told to stop talking about it [financial regulation] because it's not going to happen".In contrast, when it comes to regulation of the chemical industry, it is the EU that fears its own existing rules could be weakened.The so-called Reach legislative package, which re-wrote the EU's rules on chemicals in 2007 and which requires companies to provide information on the contents of over 30,000 substances, was flatly opposed by the US, which prefers a lighter-touch approach.The EU plans to use the Reach rules to reduce the number of potentially dangerous chemicals in circulation in household goods, while the US system in many cases would keep them on the market, so long as they are not used in ways that would harm people.However, the recently-concluded trade talks between the EU and Canada, though not extending into financial services, did see agreement in areas such as public procurement contracts.Under the final deal agreed in October, EU companies will be able to bid for contracts at all levels of the Canadian government.The commission is approaching the TTIP talks with a sense of urgency, and trade commissioner Karel de Gucht is anxious to seal an agreement as soon as possible - preferably before the end of the current legislative term.But if the deal is to go much beyond conventional tariffs, more time and patience will almost certainly be needed.
