OIL STILL GUSHING AS OF MAY 28,10

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

LIVE BP OIL FEED
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html

ON MAY 26,10 JINDAL SAYS 100 MILES HAVE BEEN CONTAMINATED IN THIS OIL SPILL.D-BILL NELSON SAYS THE ARMY SHOULD COME IN AND TAKE CONTROL OF THE OIL SPILL IF THIS CAPING FAILS.IF THIS CAPING DOES NOT WORK IT COULD BE A FULL BLOWN GUSH OUT OF OIL.NELSON SAYS SOETORO-0BAMA BETTER GET A PERSON INVOLVED AS THE LEADER OF THE PROJECT INSTEAD OF WHO KNOWS WHOS IN CHARGE.EVEN GODLESS D-JAMES CARVILLE IS HOPIN MAD AT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR SITTING ON THEIR HANDS FOR 36 DAYS.

THE PRESSURE IS FINALLY STARTING TO MOUNT ON OBAMA.IF OBAMA WILL NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT OIL HE CAN SEE,HOW CAN HE CAP INVISIBLE GAS(CLIMATE CHANGE-CAP AND TRADE)WHAT HE CAN NOT SEE......CAN YOU SAY-SCAM,MONEY HUNGRY,ENVIROMENTAL CULT WORSHIP.

ITS 4:50PM MAY 27,10 I HEARD ON FOX NEWS THAT BY SHOVING MUD DOWN THE OIL SPOUT IT COULD CAUSE AN EXPLOSION TO OCCUR.IF IT WOULD CAUSE A BIG ENOUGH EXPLOSION I HAVE A FEELING IT COULD CAUSE A GIGANTIC TSUNAMI WHICH COULD THEN DESTROY 1/3RD OF THE SHIPS ON THE GULF LIKE THE PROPHECY SAYS WLL HAPPEN.THIS COULD TURN INTO AN INTERESTING SITUATION I WILL BE WATCHING VERY CLOSELY FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS.THIS COULD GET A LOT WORSE THEN JUST A GIGANTIC OIL SPILL.

ITS MAY 28,10 AND SEE WHAT HAPPENDS IN THE SPILL SITE TODAY.I HAVE A FEELING THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS SETTING UP A TRILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT TO BP TO COVER THE LOSES THAT THEY WILL BE PAYING OUT....JUST WAIT AND SEE.THIS IS SOME KIND OF SCAM TO GIVE BP TOTAL CONTROL OF THE OIL INDUSTRY YOU CAN BET AND ENDING UP BEING CONTROLLED BY THE CHICAGO THUG OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.WE WILL SEE IF MY HUNCH ON THIS IS CORRECT. IN YESTERDAYS OBAMA OIL SPILL CONFERENCE ALL HE DONE WAS DECIEVE AND LIE ABOUT EVERYTHNG...HOW CAN ANYONE BELIEVE A THING OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION SAY,I SURE DON'T..HE DOES NOT PULL THE WOOL OVER MY EYES LIKE THE DUMBDOWN THAT GET DECIEVED BY A SMOOTH TALKER LIKE THIS LIAR OBAMA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoQhH9srELA&feature=player_embedded (LIE)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/27/gulf-oil-spill-exxon-valdez_n_591840.html
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4216379/obama-addresses-oil-spill?playlist_id=86918

THIS IS DAY 39 OF THE SPILL.AMERICAS WORSE EVER SPILL.29 MILLION GALLONS IN THE GULF,ESTIMATED COST SO FAR $1.6 BILLION.EXXON SPILT 11 MILLION GALLONS IN THE WATER AND THAT WAS SUCH A SCANDLE.THIS SPILL IS 29 MILLION AND COUNTING SECOND BY SECOND.

ITS 3:30PM MAY 28,10 EVEN GODLESS CNN IS ADMITTING OBAMA AND THAD ALLEN LIED YESTERDAY WHILE SAYING BP WAS PUTTING MUD IN THE OIL TRAP.MEANWHLE THEY STOPPED FOR 16 HOURS BUT LEAD EVERYONE ON THAT THEY WERE MUDDING THE LEAK.RICK SANCHES IS SAYING WHILE OBAMA WAS DOING HIS OIL SPEECH PRESS CONFERENCE AND WHILE THAD ALLEN WAS DOING HIS SAYING THE MUD WAS BEING INSERTED.GUESS WHAT NO MUD WAS BEING INSERTED...I TOLD YOU THIS IS JUST A LIE AFTER LIE AFTER LIES GOING ON HERE.

ITS 4:45PM MAY 28 AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTACTED CNN AND SAID THE MUD MAY NOT HAVE BEEN GOING BUT THE PLUGGING HAD NOT STOPPED.THIS ADMINISTRATION IS IN PARIL AS OBAMA HAD TO GET DEFENCIVE QUICK ON THIS OIL SPILL TO WATER THE TRUTH DOWN OVIOUSLY.SEE WHAT ELSE THESE CRIMINAL,LIERS COME UP WITH TONIGHT.

WE MAY HAVE A MOTIVE FOR OBAMA GETTING ON THIS SO QUICK.BLITZER SAID BP'S STOCK IS DROPPING QUICK DUE TO THIS SPILL NOW.THIS WOULD MEAN I WAS CORRECT AND OBAMA WOULD HAVE TO BAILOUT AND TAKE OVER BP IF THE BP STOCKS BOMB OUT.GREAT TIP I MUST ADMIT BLITZER.

MAY 28,10 6:45PM NOW CAROL COSTELLO INFORMS US ON CNN THAT WE MAY HAVE PEOPLE FLOWN IN FOR A PHOTO OP POTRAYING THE ADMINISTRATION AS BRINGING PEOPLE IN TO HELP CLEANUP.THIS GETS MORE CRAZY BY THE MINUTE.CAROL ASKED ONE OF THE WORKERS ,WERE ARE YOU FROM,HE REPLIES I CAN NOT SAY ANYTHING.OH MAN NOW THEY BRING IMMIGRINTS IN I FIGURE TO PUT ON A SHOW WHILE OBAMAS AT THE SPILL SITE.THIS JUST TAKES THE CAKE.

SDR AS WORLD CURRENCY
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32090166/GS-SDR-Currencies
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/plunge-protection-team-robbery-sdrs.html
BILL GATES-KILL POPULATION OFF BY 50%-80% BY VACCINES TO SAVE THE EARTH
http://www.scribd.com/doc/31264229/Bill-Gates-Use-Vaccines-to-Lower-Population
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF-fq2Zn7I&feature=player_embedded

READ YESTERDAYS LIES FOR YOURSELF.OR WATCH VIDEO.
VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference

For Immediate Release May 27, 2010 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE GULF OIL SPILL East Room 12:50 P.M. EDT
TO READ QUESTION-TRANSCRIPT
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-gulf-oil-spill

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Before I take your questions, I want to update the American people on the status of the BP oil spill -– a catastrophe that is causing tremendous hardship in the Gulf Coast, damaging a precious ecosystem, and one that led to the death of 11 workers who lost their lives in the initial explosion.Yesterday, the federal government gave BP approval to move forward with a procedure known as a top kill to try to stop the leak. This involves plugging the well with densely packed mud to prevent any more oil from escaping. And given the complexity of this procedure and the depth of the leak, this procedure offers no guarantee of success. But we’re exploring any reasonable strategies to try and save the Gulf from a spill that may otherwise last until the relief wells are finished -– and that's a process that could take months.

The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort. As far as I’m concerned, BP is responsible for this horrific disaster, and we will hold them fully accountable on behalf of the United States as well as the people and communities victimized by this tragedy. We will demand that they pay every dime they owe for the damage they’ve done and the painful losses that they’ve caused. And we will continue to take full advantage of the unique technology and expertise they have to help stop this leak. But make no mistake: BP is operating at our direction. Every key decision and action they take must be approved by us in advance. I’ve designated Admiral Thad Allen -– who has nearly four decades of experience responding to such disasters -– as the National Incident Commander, and if he orders BP to do something to respond to this disaster, they are legally bound to do it. So, for example, when they said they would drill one relief well to stem this leak we demanded a backup and ordered them to drill two. And they are in the process of drilling two. As we devise strategies to try and stop this leak, we’re also relying on the brightest minds and most advanced technology in the world. We’re relying on a team of scientists and engineers from our own national laboratories and from many other nations -– a team led by our Energy Secretary and Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Stephen Chu. And we’re relying on experts who’ve actually dealt with oil spills from across the globe, though none this challenging.

The federal government is also directing the effort to contain and clean up the damage from the spill -– which is now the largest effort of its kind in U.S. history. In this case, the federal, state, and local governments have the resources and expertise to play an even more direct role in the response effort. And I will be discussing this further when I make my second trip to Louisiana tomorrow. But so far we have about 20,000 people in the region who are working around the clock to contain and clean up this oil. We have activated about 1,400 members of the National Guard in four states. We have the Coast Guard on site. We have more than 1,300 vessels assisting in the containment and cleanup efforts. We’ve deployed over 3 million feet of total boom to stop the oil from coming on shore -– and today more than 100,000 feet of boom is being surged to Louisiana parishes that are facing the greatest risk from the oil. So we’ll continue to do whatever is necessary to protect and restore the Gulf Coast. For example, Admiral Allen just announced that we’re moving forward with a section of Governor Jindal’s barrier island proposal that could help stop oil from coming ashore. It will be built in an area that is most at risk and where the work can be most quickly completed.We’re also doing whatever it takes to help the men and women whose livelihoods have been disrupted and even destroyed by this spill -– everyone from fishermen to restaurant and hotel owners. So far the Small Business Administration has approved loans and allowed many small businesses to defer existing loan payments. At our insistence, BP is paying economic injury claims, and we’ll make sure that when all is said and done, the victims of this disaster will get the relief that they are owed. We’re not going to abandon our fellow citizens. We’ll help them recover and we will help them rebuild.

And in the meantime, I should also say that Americans can help by continuing to visit the communities and beaches of the Gulf Coast. I was talking to the governors just a couple of days ago, and they wanted me to remind everybody that except for three beaches in Louisiana, all of the Gulf’s beaches are open. They are safe and they are clean. As we continue our response effort, we’re also moving quickly on steps to ensure that a catastrophe like this never happens again. I’ve said before that producing oil here in America is an essential part of our overall energy strategy. But all drilling must be safe. In recent months, I’ve spoken about the dangers of too much -- I’ve heard people speaking about the dangers of too much government regulation. And I think we can all acknowledge there have been times in history when the government has overreached. But in this instance, the oil industry’s cozy and sometimes corrupt relationship with government regulators meant little or no regulation at all. When Secretary Salazar took office, he found a Minerals and Management Service that had been plagued by corruption for years –- this was the agency charged with not only providing permits, but also enforcing laws governing oil drilling. And the corruption was underscored by a recent Inspector General’s report that covered activity which occurred prior to 2007 -- a report that can only be described as appalling. And Secretary Salazar immediately took steps to clean up that corruption. But this oil spill has made clear that more reforms are needed. For years, there has been a scandalously close relationship between oil companies and the agency that regulates them. That’s why we’ve decided to separate the people who permit the drilling from those who regulate and ensure the safety of the drilling.I also announced that no new permits for drilling new wells will go forward until a 30-day safety and environmental review was conducted. That review is now complete. Its initial recommendations include aggressive new operating standards and requirements for offshore energy companies, which we will put in place.

Additionally, after reading the report’s recommendations with Secretary Salazar and other members of my administration, we’re going to be ordering the following actions: First, we will suspend the planned exploration of two locations off the coast of Alaska. Second, we will cancel the pending lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico and the proposed lease sale off the coast of Virginia. Third, we will continue the existing moratorium and suspend the issuance of new permits to drill new deepwater wells for six months. And four, we will suspend action on 33 deepwater exploratory wells currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. What’s also been made clear from this disaster is that for years the oil and gas industry has leveraged such power that they have effectively been allowed to regulate themselves. One example: Under current law, the Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company. That leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review. They result is, they are continually waived. And this is just one example of a law that was tailored by the industry to serve their needs instead of the public’s. So Congress needs to address these issues as soon as possible, and my administration will work with them to do so. Still, preventing such a catastrophe in the future will require further study and deeper reform. That’s why last Friday, I also signed an executive order establishing the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. While there are a number of ongoing investigations, including an independent review by the National Academy of Engineering, the purpose of this commission is to consider both the root causes of the disaster and offer options on what safety and environmental precautions are necessary. If the laws on our books are inadequate to prevent such a spill, or if we did not enforce those laws, then I want to know. I want to know what worked and what didn’t work in our response to the disaster, and where oversight of the oil and gas industry broke down.

Let me make one final point. More than anything else, this economic and environmental tragedy –- and it’s a tragedy -– underscores the urgent need for this nation to develop clean, renewable sources of energy. Doing so will not only reduce threats to our environment, it will create a new, homegrown, American industry that can lead to countless new businesses and new jobs. We’ve talked about doing this for decades, and we’ve made significant strides over the last year when it comes to investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency. The House of Representatives has already passed a bill that would finally jumpstart a permanent transition to a clean energy economy, and there is currently a plan in the Senate –- a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans –- that would achieve the same goal. If nothing else, this disaster should serve as a wake-up call that it’s time to move forward on this legislation. It’s time to accelerate the competition with countries like China, who have already realized the future lies in renewable energy. And it’s time to seize that future ourselves. So I call on Democrats and Republicans in Congress, working with my administration, to answer this challenge once and for all. I'll close by saying this: This oil spill is an unprecedented disaster. The fact that the source of the leak is a mile under the surface, where no human being can go, has made it enormously difficult to stop. But we are relying on every resource and every idea, every expert and every bit of technology, to work to stop it. We will take ideas from anywhere, but we are going to stop it. And I know that doesn’t lessen the enormous sense of anger and frustration felt by people on the Gulf and so many Americans. Every day I see this leak continue I am angry and frustrated as well. I realize that this entire response effort will continue to be filtered through the typical prism of politics, but that’s not what I care about right now. What I care about right now is the containment of this disaster and the health and safety and livelihoods of our neighbors in the Gulf Coast. And for as long as it takes, I intend to use the full force of the federal government to protect our fellow citizens and the place where they live. I can assure you of that.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/27/94956/full-text-of-president-obamas.html#ixzz0pE3H8K94

BP pushes on with top kill as true slick size emerges by Stephane Jourdain – 4:50AM

VENICE, Louisiana (AFP) – BP pressed on Friday with a risky bid to plug a ruptured oil well it said was going as planned, while new data showed the Gulf of Mexico spill is the worst in US history.Amid the looming environmental catastrophe, there were growing fears for the health of cleanup workers exposed to the crude and chemical dispersants, some of whom had to be airlifted for treatment after falling sick while out at sea. Even if BP's top kill maneuver succeeds in capping the leak, millions of gallons of crude are sloshing about in the Gulf waters, and a visibly angered President Barack Obama moved to clamp down on the oil industry.If nothing else, this disaster should serve as a wake-up call, Obama said at his first formal White House press conference in 10 months, called specifically to address the crisis triggered by an April 20 explosion that rocked a BP-leased drilling rig off the Louisiana coast.My job is to get this fixed, Obama said, a day before his second trip to the Gulf of Mexico to oversee disaster relief efforts.The British energy giant said Friday the oil spill had cost the firm close to one billion dollars while BP's market value has also dropped by billions.The cost of the response to date amounts to about 930 million dollars, including the cost of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling, grants to the Gulf states, claims paid and federal costs, BP said in a statement.

BP said it had paused the top kill for some 16 hours on Thursday to monitor the results, before resuming it again as night fell.Nothing's actually gone wrong or unanticipated," BP chief operations officer Doug Suttles stressed at a press conference on the latest bid to cap the ruptured pipe on the seabed nearly a mile (1,600 meters) below the surface.He said it was important for engineers to keep checking pressures as robotic submarines force-fed heavy drilling fluids into the broken pipe in order to stop the oil flow long enough to plug it with cement.Suttles said he expected to know on Friday or Saturday whether the operation has worked.We are very pleased with the performance of the equipment so far, he told CNN.The spill will have far-reaching implications for the livelihoods of those living in the southern Gulf states, as well as the oil industry in the area.Obama slammed past lax regulation as he laid out steps to bar any new deepwater oil exploration for six months and suspend some permits and lease sales off the vulnerable coasts of Alaska and Virginia.In this instance, the oil industry's cozy and sometimes corrupt relationship with government regulators meant little or no regulation at all, he said.

The president also lashed BP, suggesting it may have sought to downplay the true extent of the economic and ecological disaster now threatening Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.Government scientists meanwhile released data Thursday showing the oil may have been flowing from the burst pipe at a rate up to four times higher than previous estimates by BP and the federal government.The new estimates put the flow rate at 12,000 to 19,000 barrels (504,000 to 798,000 gallons) a day -- much higher than the previous estimate of 5,000 barrels. That would mean between 18.6 million gallons and 29.5 million gallons of oil have seeped into the Gulf -- far more than the roughly 11 million gallons of crude spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska. With 100 miles (160 kilometers) of Louisiana coastline already contaminated, there are fears US officials may order the burning of the state's unique marshlands, home to a variety of endangered birds and mammals. Obama dismissed charges the government response had been too slow, but said it was legitimate to question whether BP was being fully forthcoming about the extent of the damage.US Coast Guard chief Thad Allen, who is coordinating the government's battle against the spill, said the top kill maneuver appeared to be having some success, noting that as long as the mud is going down, the hydrocarbons are not coming up.All 125 commercial fishing boats helping to clean up the oil off Louisiana were recalled after seven workers reported health problems. The cause of the workers' illnesses is under investigation, said BP's Suttles, as he sought to calm public fears over the chemical dispersant used to break down the oil for faster decomposition in the water. As I've stated many times, if there is a less toxic, more effective product (than Corexit), we'll switch to it, without a doubt,he said.

Gulf Coast awaits word that oil flow has stopped By GREG BLUESTEIN and BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writers - MAY 28,10 4:40AM

ROBERT, La. – It could be late Friday or over the Memorial Day weekend before the world knows if BP's latest effort has succeeded in stopping the surge of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that has already surpassed the Exxon Valdez disaster as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.The good news is that so far, BP's latest attempt — which involves pumping drilling mud into the broken well — hasn't made things worse.After an 18-hour delay Thursday to assess its efforts and bring in more materials, BP resumed pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out well 5,000 feet underwater in a procedure known as a top kill.As the world waited, President Barack Obama announced major new restrictions on drilling projects, and the head of the federal agency that regulates the industry resigned under pressure, becoming the highest-ranking political casualty of the crisis so far.BP PLC insisted the top kill was progressing as planned, though the company acknowledged drilling mud was escaping from the broken pipe along with the leaking crude.The fact that we had a bunch of mud going up the riser isn't ideal but it's not necessarily indicative of a problem, spokesman Tom Mueller said.Early Thursday, officials said the process was going well, but later in the day they announced pumping had been suspended 16 hours earlier. BP did not characterize the suspension as a setback, and Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, said the move did not indicate the top kill had failed.

The good news is that they pumped in up to 65 barrels a minute and the thing didn't blow apart, Smith said.It's taken the most pressure it needs to see and it's held together.The top kill is the latest in a string of attempts to stop the oil that has been spewing since the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.If the procedure works, BP will inject cement into the well to seal it permanently. If it doesn't, the company has a number of backup plans. Either way, crews will continue to drill two relief wells, considered the only surefire way to stop the leak.A top kill has never been attempted before so deep underwater. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company is also considering shooting small, dense rubber balls or assorted junk such as golf balls and rubber scraps to stop up a crippled five-story piece of equipment known as a blowout preventer to keep the mud from escaping.The stakes were higher than ever as public frustration over the spill grew and a team of government scientists said the oil has been flowing at a rate 2 1/2 to five times higher than what BP and the Coast Guard previously estimated.Two teams of scientists calculated the well has been spewing between 504,000 and more than a million gallons a day. Even using the most conservative estimate, that means about 18 million gallons have spilled so far. In the worst-case scenario, 39 million gallons have leaked.That larger figure would be nearly four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster, in which a tanker ran aground in Alaska in 1989, spilling nearly 11 million gallons.Now we know the true scale of the monster we are fighting in the Gulf, said Jeremy Symons, vice president of the National Wildlife Federation.BP has unleashed an unstoppable force of appalling proportions.BP officials said the previous estimate of 210,000 gallons a day was based on the best data available at the time and that the company's response was not tied to the estimate.I don't believe at any time we have misled anybody on this,Suttles said.The spill is not the biggest ever in the Gulf. In 1979, a drilling rig in Mexican waters — the Ixtoc I — blew up, releasing 140 million gallons of oil.

In another troubling discovery, marine scientists said they have spotted a huge new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf, stretching 22 miles from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Ala. They fear it could have resulted from using chemicals a mile below the surface to break up the oil. In Washington, Elizabeth Birnbaum stepped down as director of the Minerals Management Service, a job she had held since July. Her agency has been harshly criticized over lax oversight of drilling and cozy ties with industry. An internal Interior Department report released earlier this week found that between 2000 and 2008, agency staff members accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography. Polls show the public is souring on the administration's handling of the catastrophe, and Obama sought to assure Americans that the government is in control and deflect criticism that his administration has left BP in charge. My job right now is just to make sure everybody in the Gulf understands: This is what I wake up to in the morning, and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about. The spill, he said. Obama said he would end the scandalously close relationship between regulators and the oil companies they oversee. He also extended a freeze on new deepwater oil drilling and canceled or delayed proposed lease sales in the waters off Alaska and Virginia and along the Gulf Coast. Fishermen, hotel and restaurant owners, politicians and residents along the 100-mile stretch of Gulf coast affected by the spill are fed up with BP's failures to stop the spill. Thick oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands in Louisiana. Charlotte Randolph, president of Louisiana's Lafourche Parish, one of the coastal parishes affected by the spill, said: I mean, it's wearing on everybody in this coastal region. You see it in people's eyes. You see it. We need to stop the flow.Tourism is dead. Fishing is dead. We're dying a slow death,she added. The Coast Guard approved portions of Louisiana's $350 million plan to ring its coastline with a wall of sand meant to keep out the oil. Associated Press Writers Seth Borenstein, Matthew Brown, Jason Dearen, Andrew Taylor and Matthew Daly contributed to this report.

Arresting images of oil spill help drive story By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer - MAY 28,10 4:30AM

NEW YORK – For many following the news, the Gulf oil spill was an important but abstract story — until live video became widely available showing plumes of oil gushing into the water at a furious pace, hour after hour and day after day.The undersea images were first seen publicly late last week and television news networks have used it more as this week goes on. CNN and MSNBC executives debated internally whether to keep the feed constantly on the corner of their screens, much like they do with menacing maps of approaching hurricanes. On Thursday, the videos allowed experts and laymen alike to evaluate whether BP's latest attempt to plug the leak by shooting mud into the well appeared to be working. It was hard to tell, but also hard to look away.The video has become part of the story, and has increased the attention that news executives and news consumers are paying to the spill, said Bill Wolff, vice president of prime-time programming at MSNBC. The first pictures showed oil blackening the clear water around it like an out-of-control fire churning smoke into a clear sky.It's an amazing, startling, shocking, arresting and upsetting picture that is impossible to ignore, Wolff said.PBS' Newshour converted a video feed from BP to make it work on most Web browsers and has made that available for free. More than 3,000 websites have linked to it. On Thursday alone, more than one million people watched the video through that PBS feed, said Anne Bell, the show's spokeswoman.Subscribers to the Newshour channel on YouTube doubled in 24 hours, she said.

U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, the chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, was instrumental in pushing BP PLC to make the video feed public. He said that has helped to pressure BP to work with more urgency to stop the leak and to own up to the magnitude of the spill. BP spokesman Graham MacEwen denied the pictures had anything to do with making the company work harder to plug the flow of oil.BP didn't make the video available until more than three weeks after the spill. President Barack Obama said Thursday his administration sought the release, but should have pushed them sooner.The company has up to a dozen camera views available from near the leak, with the help of undersea vehicles positioned there. The company's primary concern was to use the images to evaluate what should be done to stop the leak, MacEwen said.I don't think it was a case of us trying to cover it up, he said.Markey's office became aware of the underseas footage through a snippet posted on YouTube that had apparently been provided by BP to government authorities. The first video was publicly released by BP after Markey sent the company a letter May 19.At the same time, CNN was trying with little success to get its own pictures of the spill, said Nancy Lane, senior vice president of editorial for CNN U.S.
Undersea rovers rented by the news organization were prevented by the U.S. Coast Guard from getting close enough for a good view, she said. CNN was able to get close enough to see damage done to coral reefs by the oil, she said.Somebody needed to be the eyes and ears somewhat independent of the story to make a judgment about what is really going on there, Lane said.We kept pressing for access and we keep pressing for access.With television news organizations restricted to showing the after-effects of the spill, Lane said CNN sensed viewers were starting to lose interest in the story.

That has quickly changed. The New York Times' Maureen Dowd called it the plume of doom — a symbol of national impotence.While BP made one camera view of the leak widely available to the public, more extensive views have been limited to congressional offices, prompting CNN to take cameras to these offices to record the images off their computers, she said.BP also said on Tuesday that it would black out video during its latest fix effort this week, but backed down after protest from the Obama administration. It's easy to see why a company already suffering through a public relations crisis wouldn't want these pictures out, said Dan Fagin, head of the environmental journalism program at New York University. The gusher is a powerful image that conveys what's happening in a sense that pictures of oil near marshlands can't, he said. While BP and environmentalists and oceanographers argue about how many gallons are leaking out, a regular viewer can look at this and say, who cares? It's a massive amount of oil and that's all I really need to know,he said.It makes the intangible tangible.

Gulf spill surpasses Valdez; plug try going well By GREG BLUESTEIN and SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press Writers - MAY 27,10

COVINGTON, La. – An untested procedure to plug the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico seemed to be working, officials said Thursday, but new estimates showed the spill has already surpassed the Exxon Valdez as the worst in U.S. history.A team of scientists trying to determine how much oil has been flowing since the offshore rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20 and sank two days later found the rate was more than twice and possibly up to five times as high as previously thought.The fallout from the spill has stretched all the way to Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned Thursday and President Barack Obama insisted his administration, not BP, was calling the shots. His comments marked a change in emphasis from earlier administration assertions that the government was overseeing the operation.As for the spill, even using the most conservative estimate, the leak has grown to nearly 18 million gallons over the past five weeks. In the worst case scenario, if 39 million gallons has spilled, the oil would fill enough jugs to stretch from the Louisiana marshes to Prince William Sound in Alaska. That's where the Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, spilling nearly 11 million gallons.

Now we know the true scale of the monster we are fighting in the Gulf, said Jeremy Symons, vice president of the National Wildlife Federation. BP has unleashed an unstoppable force of appalling proportions.BP and the Coast Guard estimated soon after the explosion that about 210,000 gallons a day was leaking, but scientists who watched underwater video of well had been saying for weeks it was probably more.U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt said two different teams of scientists calculated the well has been spewing between 504,000 and more than a million gallons a day.BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said the previous estimate came from industry experts and scientists based on the best data available at the time. Asked for the company's response to the new numbers, he replied: It does not and will not change the response. We are going all out on our response.

Gulf awaits word on latest bid to plug oil leak By BEN NUCKOLS and GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writers - MAY 27 3:30AM

ROBERT, La. – If oil stops flowing to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials will know that their latest effort to plug a blown-out undersea well off the Louisiana coast was successful.BP PLC was pumping heavy mud into the leaking well, and executives said Wednesday night that there had been no problems so far. Still, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward said engineers would not know until at least Thursday afternoon whether the latest remedy was having some success.The absence of any news is good news, said Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who is overseeing the operation. He added: It's a wait and see game here right now, so far nothing unfavorable.If the risky procedure, known as a top kill, stops the flow, BP would then inject cement into the well to seal it. The top kill has worked above ground but has never before been tried 5,000 feet beneath the sea. BP pegged its chance of success at 60 to 70 percent.We're doing everything we can to bring it to closure, and actually we're executing this top kill job as efficiently and effectively as we can, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said.Fishermen, hotel and restaurant owners, politicians and residents along the coast are fed up with BP's failures to stop the oil that is coating Louisiana's marshes and the wildlife that relies on them. The anger has turned toward President Barack Obama and his administration. Polls show the public is souring on their handling of the catastrophe.Sarah Rigaud, owner of Sarah's Restaurant in Grand Isle is tired and nervous. The oil has to be stopped, she said.The tourists won't come, Rigaud said Wednesday, serving lunch to a half-full restaurant of mostly oil workers and local politicians who are worrying themselves.It makes me very nervous. I have anxiety attacks, she said.Every day I pray that something happens, that it will be stopped and everybody can get back to normal.

The gusher, which has spewed 7 million gallons of crude by the most conservative tallies, began after an offshore drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. Dozens of witness statements obtained by The Associated Press show a combination of equipment failure and a deference to the chain of command aboard the rig impeded the system that should have stopped the gusher before it became an environmental disaster.Additional leaks springing from the top kill solution were a grave risk, said Anil Kulkarni, a mechanical engineering professor at Penn State.One scenario is that it may make things worse, Kulkarni said.If it ruptures all over, then it would be even more difficult to close it.

Suttles said BP had not detected any new leaks as of Wednesday night.

He said within the next day, if oil stops flowing to the surface, then engineers will know the drilling fluid being pumped in was starting to work. Engineers were monitoring the well's pressure readings constantly to determine how much oil was escaping.If not, the company had several backup plans, including sealing the well's blowout preventer with a smaller cap, which would contain the oil. An earlier attempt to cap the blowout preventer failed. BP could also try a "junk shot" — shooting golf balls and other debris into the blowout preventer to clog it up — during the top kill process.Last week, the company inserted a mile-long tube to siphon some of the oil into a tanker. The tube sucked up 924,000 gallons of oil, but engineers had to dismantle it during the top kill.A permanent solution would be to drill a second well to stop the leak, but that was expected to take a couple months.

Some 100 miles of Louisiana coastline had been hit by the oil, the Coast Guard said.

When will they stop the oil and can they? They were questions on the lips of residents in Grand Isle at the bottom tip of Louisiana. Certainly there's hope. But the reality for us is that whether they cap it or not, we're still going to have an ecological and economic disaster down here, one that we don't know whether or not we'll be in a position to recover, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said. In Pass a Loutre, the odor wafting above the oily water was that of an auto shop. There's no wildlife in Pass a Loutre. It's all dead,Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said. Louisiana-raised Democratic strategist James Carville has been critical of the administration response and hoped Obama's visit Friday would change that. I think you're going to see some real action,once the president sees the oiled coast, Carville said. Associated Press writers Brian Skoloff in Grand Isle, La., Mike Kunzelman in New Orleans, Kevin McGill in Venice, Julie Pace in Fremont, Calif., and Seth Borenstein in Washington contributed to this story. Online:
http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam

BP's top kill underway in attempt to plug oil leak By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer - MAY 26 6:25PM

COVINGTON, La. – BP started pumping heavy mud into the leaking Gulf of Mexico well Wednesday, the company's boldest attempt yet to plug the gusher that has spewed millions of gallons of oil over the last five weeks.BP hoped the mud could overpower the steady stream of oil. The company wants to eventually inject cement into the well to permanently seal it.The stakes are high. Fisherman, hotel and restaurant owners, politicians and residents along the coast are fed up with BP's so far ineffective attempts to stop the oil leak that sprang after an offshore drilling rig exploded April 20. Eleven workers were killed, and by the most conservative estimate, 7 million gallons of crude have spilled into the Gulf, fouling Louisiana's marshes and coating birds and other wildlife.The top kill has worked above ground but has never before been tried 5,000 feet beneath the sea. Company officials peg its chance of success at 60 to 70 percent.President Barack Obama said there's no guarantees it will work. The president planned a trip to Louisiana on Friday.We're going to bring every resource necessary to put a stop to this thing, he said.

Meanwhile, dozens of witness statements obtained by The Associated Press show a combination of equipment failure and a deference to the chain of command impeded the system that should have stopped the gusher before it became an environmental disaster.In a handwritten statement to the Coast Guard obtained by the AP, Transocean rig worker Truitt Crawford said: I overheard upper management talking saying that BP was taking shortcuts by displacing the well with saltwater instead of mud without sealing the well with cement plugs, this is why it blew out.At a Coast Guard hearing in New Orleans, Doug Brown, chief rig mechanic aboard the platform, testified that the trouble began at a meeting hours before the blowout, with a skirmish between a BP official and rig workers who did not want to replace heavy drilling fluid in the well with saltwater.The switch presumably would have allowed the company to remove the fluid and use it for another project, but the seawater would have provided less weight to counteract the surging pressure from the ocean depths.Brown said the BP official, whom he identified only as the company man, overruled the drillers, declaring, This is how it's going to be. Brown said the top Transocean official on the rig grumbled,Well, I guess that's what we have those pinchers for,which he took to be a reference to devices on the blowout preventer, the five-story piece of equipment that can slam a well shut in an emergency.A live video stream Wednesday showed pictures of the blowout preventer, as well as the oil gushing out. At other times, the feed showed mud spewing out, but BP said this was not cause for alarm.A weak spot in the blowout preventer could blow under the pressure, causing a brand new leak.Gene Beck, a petroleum engineering professor at Texas A&M in College Station, said the endeavor would likely fail quickly if the mud could not overcome the pressure of the oil.The longer it goes, maybe the better news that is, Beck said.

Frustration with BP and the federal government has only grown since then as efforts to stop the leak have failed.Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, both outspoken critics, led a boat tour around the oil-fouled delta near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Through the Mississippi's South Pass, there were miles-long passages that showed no indication of the oil, and the air smelled fresh and salty. Nearby fish were leaping and tiny seabirds dove into the water.But not far away at Pass a Loutre, the odor wafting above the oily water was that of an auto shop. We have yet to see a plan from the Coast Guard, a plan from BP, a plan to keep it from coming in, a plan to pick it up, Nungesser said of the oil.There's no wildlife in Pass a Loutre. It's all dead,Nungesser said.
Associated Press writers Mike Kunzelman and Kevin McGill in New Orleans, Jeff Donn in Boston, Julie Pace in Fremont, Calif., Ben Nuckols in Covington contributed to this story. Online: http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam

Public opinion turning against Obama on oil spill
MAY 26,10 5PM

The American public is losing its patience with President Obama over his handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill.In the five weeks since an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig sent hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, Obama had largely escaped political fallout. But as BP attempts yet again to seal the leak, a new USA Today/Gallup Poll finds a majority of Americans unhappy with Obama's handling of the spill. According to the poll, 53 percent rate Obama's handling poor or very poor; 43 percent believe Obama is doing a good job.

Yet the poll also finds that the public tends to blame others in the mess more than it blames the White House. Asked broadly about the federal government's role, 60 percent rated the response poor.BP got the lowest marks: 73 percent of Americans gave the company's handling of the spill a poor rating. Still, a whopping 68 percent say BP should remain in charge of the cleanup.More than two-thirds of respondents called the gulf spill a disaster, and of them, 37 percent considered it the worst disaster in 100 years.Yet 52 percent of registered voters still support offshore drilling. That number is slightly down compared with other polls in recent weeks, including an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll this month in which nearly 60 percent of voters still agreed with offshore drilling.What will no doubt give the White House pause is the shifting public sentiment on Obama's handling of the spill. Earlier this month, the president seemed to be escaping most of the public wrath over the disaster. An Associated Press poll released May 13 found mostly good-to-neutral marks for Obama's role in the mess: 42 percent approved, 33 percent disapproved and 21 percent said they were neutral.But with the leak still unplugged and the economic and environmental impact only worsening, the White House has increasingly come under fire for not doing enough to handle the cleanup and control the spill. That includes criticism both from Republicans including Sarah Palin, who tried to make an issue of BP's donations to Obama's presidential campaign, and Democratic allies like James Carville, who slammed Obama for being too hands off.

Broken down along party lines: 63 percent of Democrats believe Obama is doing a good job on the spill, while 68 percent of Republicans rate the president's job as poor. Among independent voters — the voting bloc credited most for Obama's victory in 2008 — 58 percent describe Obama's job on the spill as poor.White House officials aren’t unaware of the shift. In recent days, they’ve stepped up their media strategy in response to the spill. Tomorrow, Obama will hold his first full-fledged news conference in nearly a year to take questions on the issue. And Friday, he is scheduled to make his second visit to the Gulf.Will it be enough to placate an increasingly frustrated public?— Holly Bailey is a senior political writer for Yahoo! News.

AP Exclusive: Workers describe failures on oil rig By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, MIKE BAKER and JEFF DONN, Associated Press Writers - MAY 26,10 6:40PM

NEW ORLEANS – As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned around him, Chris Pleasant hesitated, waiting for approval from his superiors before activating the emergency disconnect system that was supposed to slam the oil well shut at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.The delay may have cost critical seconds. When Pleasant and his co-workers at rig owner Transocean finally got the go-ahead to throw the so-called deadman's switch, they realized there was no hydraulic power to operate the machinery.Five weeks after the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers, the blown-out well continues to gush oil, pouring at least 7 million gallons of crude into the Gulf.Dozens of witness statements obtained by The Associated Press show a combination of equipment failure and a deference to the chain of command impeded the system that should have stopped the gusher before it became an environmental disaster.On Wednesday, BP launched its latest bid to plug the well, force-feeding it heavy drilling mud in a technique known as a top kill. Officials said it could be days before they know if it worked, and President Barack Obama cautioned there are no guarantees.

At a Coast Guard hearing that started earlier this month and continued in New Orleans on Wednesday, Doug Brown, chief rig mechanic aboard the platform, testified that the trouble began at a meeting hours before the blowout, with a skirmish between a BP official and rig workers who did not want to replace heavy drilling fluid in the well with saltwater.The switch presumably would have allowed the company to remove the fluid and use it for another project, but the seawater would have provided less weight to counteract the surging pressure from the ocean depths.

Brown said the BP official, whom he identified only as the company man, overruled the drillers, declaring, This is how it's going to be. Brown said the top Transocean official on the rig grumbled,Well, I guess that's what we have those pinchers for, which he took to be a reference to devices on the blowout preventer, the five-story piece of equipment that can slam a well shut in an emergency.In a handwritten statement to the Coast Guard obtained by the AP, Transocean rig worker Truitt Crawford said: I overheard upper management talking saying that BP was taking shortcuts by displacing the well with saltwater instead of mud without sealing the well with cement plugs, this is why it blew out.

BP declined to comment on his statement.A congressional memo about a BP internal investigation said that tests less than an hour before the well blew out found a buildup of pressure that was an indicator of a very large abnormality. Still, the rig team was satisfied that another test was successful and resumed adding the seawater, said the memo by Reps. Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is investigating.There were other signs of problems, including an unexpected loss of fluid from a pipe known as a riser five hours before the explosion that could have indicated a leak in the blowout preventer.The witness statements show that rig workers talked just minutes before the blowout about pressure problems in the well. At first, nobody seemed too worried, with Transocean chief mate David Young leaving two workers to handle the difficulty on their own and telling them to call when he was needed. The well site leader worked in his office. Then panic set in.Workers called their bosses to report that the well was coming in and that they were getting mud back. The drilling supervisor, Jason Anderson, tried to shut down the well.

It didn't work.

At least two explosions turned the rig into an inferno. Crew members were hurled through walls, doors flew through the air and the living quarters blew apart. Workers stumbled across a bloody, dark deck, trying to pull debris off the injured.
Brown said that as he waited beside a lifeboat for the order to abandon ship, he witnessed complete chaos, mayhem. People were screaming, people were crying. Rig leaders struggled to comprehend the magnitude of what was happening. An emergency generator wouldn't start.Steve Bertone, the chief engineer for Transocean, wrote in his witness statement that he ran up the bridge and heard the captain screaming at a worker for pressing the distress button. Bertone turned to Pleasant, who was manning the emergency disconnect system, and asked whether it had been engaged. Pleasant told Bertone that he needed approval first, according to Bertone's sworn statement. Another manager tried to give the go-ahead, but someone else said the order needed to come from the rig's offshore installation manager. Ultimately who gave the order is a matter of dispute. Donald Vidrine, well site leader for BP, said he did it. But Bertone said it was Jimmy Harrell of Transocean. By the time the workers obtained the approval and got started, Pleasant said he got all the electronic signals but no flow on meters, meaning hydraulic fluid wasn't flowing to close the valves on the blowout preventer. Darryl Bourgoyne, a petroleum engineer at Louisiana State University, said a valve could have been broken or hydraulic fluid could have leaked earlier.

It is not clear whether the delay could have contributed to the system's failure to close off the well and snuff out the fire. The rig burned for two days before finally collapsing in the Gulf. Gene Beck, a petroleum engineer at Texas A&M at College Station, said companies typically have criteria that allow any worker to engage the system if problems get bad enough. It's hard for me to imagine the situation where there's been a fire and an explosion and someone can't make that decision to hit the disconnect on their own, he said. Workers elsewhere on the rig were having problems of their own. Some were told the situation was under control, even though it was absolutely not, said Yancy Keplinger, a senior crew member. Benjamin LaCroix, a tank cleaner, said walls and ceilings were caving in and workers were running for their lives, and yet rig officials wanted to do a roll call. A couple of workers described a debate about whether they should be in lifeboats. Once workers finally started getting into the boats, it took several minutes to persuade officials to start lowering them. Once they did, the operator didn't know how to detach a boat from the rig. It was only by the GRACE OF GOD that we didn't burn to death,LaCroix told investigators. Baker reported from Raleigh, N.C. Donn reported from Boston. Associated Press Writers Greg Bluestein in Covington, La., and Alan Sayre in Kenner, La., contributed to this report.

US-EU BROADLY AGREE ON REFORM

NOW WE FIND OUT THE CORRUPT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION USED THE PUPPET BILL CLINTON TO ASK SESTAK FOR A JOB AND TO QUIT RUNNING AGAINST SPECTER.THIS JUST GETS CRAZIER BY THE SECOND AS THESE CHICAGO THUGS WILL DO ANYTHING FOR DICTATORSHIP AND CONTROL OVER THE AMERICAN CITIZENS.IF THERES A CORRUPT WAY OF DOING ANYTHING THE SOETORO-OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL BE SCHEMING IT UP YOU CAN BE SURE AND COUNT ON THAT.SESTAK ADMITTED THEY WANTED HIM OUT OF THE POLITICAL RACE CLINTON AND RAHM EMMANUEL DID.

Dollar to be Replaced with IMF’s SDR as Reserve Currency?
Zero Hedge May 28, 2010

The new reserve currency?

Jim O’Neill, who did not make any friends within the bear community earlier today, has written an interesting paper on the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights, and whether this hypernational currency can ever become a reserve currency as is, and/or with the CNY as a constituent member. While O’Neill as usual focuses on the angle of the next paradigm BRICs, and how they will increasingly dominate global economics, he does pose an important question: with the dollar likely to suffer the side effects of either hyperdeflation, hyperinflation, or hyperstagflation, will the next reserve currency be a diluted melange of other flawed fiat constructs (i.e., the SDR), or the currency of the one country, which for all its flaws, still has the cleanest balance sheet backing its own fiat construct. On the other hand, the question of whether this analysis is moot to begin with, and the world will revert to the gold standard as the ongoing crisis of confidence in all paper money flares up, is not raised even once… We wonder (not really) what Jim O’Neill would have to say on that particular issue.

Here are the main bullets:

— The issue of the international reserve currency and the possible role of the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR) has moved from obscurity to the centre of discussions about the future.
— Given China’s importance in terms of its share of world trade, the CNY should now be part of the SDR. The case for including it can only become more obvious as this decade progresses.
— However, actually including the CNY as a constituent of the SDR is likely to remain a challenge without the CNY becoming more widely used internationally, including as a reserve asset.
— The case for including other BRIC currencies in the SDR, especially the RUB, is also likely to become stronger over the coming decade.
— Although the Dollar will probably not be as dominant in 2020 as it is today, it is far from clear that it needs to be replaced by the SDR—or by anything else—as the main reserve currency.
— For the SDR to be attractive to private users, it will need to include the CNY and possibly other BRIC currencies. However, this alone would not guarantee that the SDR would be more attractive to private investors.

The paper is a critical follow up to anyone who found Albert Edward’s earlier analysis of collapsing global FX reserves relevant.

Full paper:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32090166/GS-SDR-Currencies
http://www.infowars.com/dollar-to-be-replaced-with-imfs-sdr-as-reserve-currency/

I HAD A FEELING THIS WAS COMING ON MAY 11,10 I PUT ON MY SITE
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/plunge-protection-team-robbery-sdrs.html

Bill Gates: Use vaccines to lower population Billionaire advocates curbing CO2 by reducing earth's inhabitants March 08, 2010 By Chelsea Schilling

One of the world's wealthiest men and the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has suggested vaccines as one method of reducing the world's population. Gates made his remarks to the invitation-only Technology, Entertainment and Design 2010 Conference in Long Beach, Calif. His February address was titled, Innovating to Zero! He presented a speech on global warming, stating that CO2 emissions must be reduced to zero by 2050. Gates said every person on the planet puts out an average of about five tons of CO2 per year. Somehow we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero, he said. It's been constantly going up. It's only various economic changes that have even flattened it at all. So we have to go from rapidly rising to falling, and falling all the way to zero.A video of his presentation follows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF-fq2Zn7I&feature=player_embedded

Gates presented the following equation: CO2 (total population emitted CO2 per year) = P (people) x S (services per person) x E (average energy per service) x C (average CO2 emitted per unit of energy) Bill Gates presented this equation on curbing CO2 emissions at the 2010 Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference in Long Beach, Calif.Let's look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero, he said.Probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero. That's a fact from high-school algebra.Discussing the P, or population portion of the equation, he stated, Let's take a look. First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent[Emphasis added]. Gates continued on to discuss the remaining factors in the equation and prospects for reducing each one to curb CO2 emissions. Gates' comments immediately raised questions in the blogosphere about whether the billionaire was advocating dissemination of sterilization agents.

LifeSiteNews reported that in 1995, UNICEF's anti-tetanus vaccinations were found to contain B-hCG, a pregnancy hormone that can permanently sterilize women. An estimated 3 million women between the ages of 12 and 45 received that vaccine. Another UNICEF polio vaccination campaign in Nigeria was suspected of sterilizing women in 2004. However, according to LifeSite News, the Gates Foundation claims Gates actually advocates using vaccines to decrease child mortality – something he believes would actually serve to decrease population growth. In his 2009 annual letter, he wrote that a surprising but critical fact [is] that reducing the number of [infant] deaths actually reduces population growth.

Gates contends that parents have more children when infant mortality rates are high so they can be sure several children will survive to care for them later in life. And so, if they think having six children is what they need to do to have at least two survive, that's what they'll do,he told CNN in 2008.And amazingly, across the entire world, as health improves, then the population growth actually is reduced. Bill and his wife, Melinda, announced in January that their Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will commit more than $10 billion over the next 10 years to develop and deliver new vaccines to children in the developing world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's global health program focuses on prevention of infectious diseases. According to its website, the foundation also seeks to offer health solutions for family planning, nutrition, maternal, neonatal and child health, tobacco control and vaccine-preventable disease.

Gates is also a partner in the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, or GAVI. Other partners include the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, research agencies and non-government agencies. The GAVI Alliance has vaccinated more than 200 million children.

WND reported in May 2009when Gates joined some of the richest men and women in the world, meeting secretly in New York to conspire on using their vast wealth to bring the world's population growth under control. In addition to Gates, the meeting included some of the biggest names in the billionaires club, according to the London Times – David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. Gates reportedly inspired the meeting at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and president of Rockefeller University. The informal afternoon session was so discreet that some of the billionaires' aides were told they were at security briefings,the Times reported. Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, speculated that the secrecy surrounding the meeting may have been due to concern that they don't want to be seen as a global cabal.According to the Times, the billionaires were each given 15 minutes to present their favorite cause. Over dinner they discussed how they might settle on an umbrella cause that could harness their interests. Taking their cue from Gates, the report said, they agreed population control was the No. 1 issue.
In February 2009, Gates also discussed population control. Official projections say the world's population will peak at 9.3 billion [up from 6.6 billion today] but with charitable initiatives, such as better reproductive health care, we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion,he said. Patricia Stonesifer, former chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said the billionaires would continue to meet in the future. A guest at the meeting said population growth would be addressed as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat. This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers,said the guest. They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming.As to secrecy, the guest said, They wanted to speak rich to rich without worrying anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government.

Bill Gates funds covert vaccine nanotechnology
Mike Adams NaturalNews May 28, 2010

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the foundation is a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man’s scrotum to render him infertile for six months. It might accurately be called a temporary castration technology. Read more about it here: http://www.naturalnews.com/028853_u…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world.Now, the foundation has funded a new sweat-triggered vaccine delivery program based on nanoparticles penetrating human skin. The technology is describes as a way to …develop nanoparticles that penetrate the skin through hair follicles and burst upon contact with human sweat to release vaccines.The research grant money is going to Carlos Alberto Guzman of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany and Claus-Michael Lehr and Steffi Hansen of the Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research.These are both part of the Gates Foundation’s involvement in the Grand Challenges Explorations program which claims to be working to achieve major breakthroughs in global health.…breakthroughs like mass sterilization and nanoparticle vaccines that could be covertly administered even without your knowledge, it turns out. These nanoparticles could be used in a spray mist that’s sprayed on to every person who walks through an airport security checkpoint, for example. Or it could be unleashed through the ventilation systems of corporate office buildings or public schools to vaccinate the masses. You wouldn’t even know you were being vaccinated.This technology is potentially very dangerous to your health freedom. Using it, governments or drug companies (which are all the same thing these days) could create a vaccine skin cream that’s handed out and described as sunscreen.But when you put it on, you’re actually vaccinating yourself as the nanoparticles burrow underneath your skin and burst, releasing foreign DNA inside your body.

A history of covert mass medication

But why would the government medicate people without their knowledge or consent, you ask? They already do it with water fluoridation. Fluoride is a drug, and regional and national governments all over the world are using the water supply as a way to deliver the fluoride drug to people whether they need it or not — and without any proper medical diagnosis or prescription.So if governments are already covertly medicating people with fluoride in the water supply, they’ve set the stage mass-vaccinating people through similar channels, such as the air supply in buildings. And thanks to Bill Gates, this nanotechnology needed to pull this off is now being funded.

Is this really a major breakthrough in global health?

I suppose it is if you believe in covert medicine where you dose people with drugs or vaccines without their knowledge. Western medicine is so offensive to rational people that it can’t even operate out in the open. That’s why it resorts to covert contamination of the water supply in order to force the public to swallow its drugs.

Fluoride and covert medicine

Oh, by the way, to anyone who argues that fluoride is not a drug, remember this: According to the FDA, any chemical substance that has a biological effect on the human body is, by definition, a drug. Therefore fluoride is a drug, too.Even more, fluoride is promoted with outlandish claims about preventing cavities by swallowing it, making it an unapproved drug according to the FDA. So how is it that this unapproved drug can be dripped into the water supply and forced upon hundreds of millions of people without a single diagnosis of fluoride deficiency or even a single prescription from a doctor? The answer is that western medicine is so arrogant that it does not believe it needs to follow any rules, regulations or laws. It is a system of bully medicine where drugs are shoved down your throat by being covertly dripped into the water supply without your consent. So why should we believe vaccines will be any different? If mainstream medicine can find a way to force every person to unknowingly be injected with vaccines, make no mistake they will pursue it! And such efforts will no doubt have the continued financial support of Bill Gates.

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(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

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http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1506569697&play=1

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, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

WATCHING CHINAS REACTION TO N-S KOREA
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1506359524&play=1

SKorean, Chinese leaders meet amid NKorea tension By KELLY OLSEN, Associated Press Writer - MAY 28,10

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea's neighbors ramped up efforts to take Pyongyang to the U.N. Security Council for sinking a South Korean warship, with South Korea's president seeking China's support during a summit Friday.China's backing would be key to any bid to condemn or sanction North Korea for the March 26 torpedo attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors. Beijing, a veto-wielding permanent Security Council member, so far has refrained from committing to Security Council action against Pyongyang, its neighbor and traditional ally.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will lay out the case against North Korea during talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, a South Korean government official said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.Wen and Lee were meeting at the presidential Blue House on Friday afternoon, a day before a three-way summit that will also include Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.Both countries have built a relationship of strategic cooperative partnership, deepened political trust and have maintained various communication regarding the North Korean nuclear issue, Wen said in opening remarks at the meeting.

Lee's spokesman Park Sun-kyu said in a statement that South Korea was fully concentrating on diplomatic efforts to hold North Korea responsible. He said the matter would be discussed Friday, at the weekend summit and at a security meeting in Singapore in early June.A multinational investigation concluded last week that a North Korean submarine fired a torpedo that tore apart and sank the Cheonan in the worst attack on the South Korean military since the Korean War.North Korea has denied responsibility for the attack, and has warned that retaliation or punishment would mean war.Tensions have soared since Lee laid out a series of punitive measures and pledged to haul Pyongyang before the U.N. Security Council. The measures include slashing trade with Pyongyang, resuming anti-North Korean propaganda broadcasts across the border and launching large-scale naval exercises off the western coast. U.S.-South Korean military drills are to follow in the coming months.North Korea threatened Thursday to attack any South Korean ships entering its waters and scrapped an accord meant to prevent naval clashes. The North issued no new threats Friday, but kept up its rhetoric against the South.Seoul's countermeasures will only precipitate its self-destruction as it is nothing but the last-ditch effort of those on the deathbed, the government-run Minju Joson newspaper said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.North Korea has carried out a series of attacks on the South since the Korean War ended in a truce in 1953. South Korea has never retaliated militarily.U.S. Gen. Walter Sharp, the commander of U.N. forces on the peninsula, visited the heavily armed border area Friday to inspect forces and review responsibilities related to the armistice agreement with the commanders, according to a U.N. Command statement.

Any Security Council action would need the backing of key permanent member China. The South Korean official said dozens of nations have offered their support for Security Council action, but there was no indication yet that Beijing would back the South Korean-led bid.He said China, mindful of its relations with both Koreas and the international community, can be expected to act deliberately and quietly. South Korean officials did not expect any Security Council action to happen before the end of the month, he said.Senior U.S. officials said Wednesday that China had indicated it was prepared to hold the North accountable for the torpedo attack and could join in some kind of formal Security Council rebuke.However, asked about Beijing's stance Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu simply called the issue highly complicated and said China's position remained unchanged.Japan has already banned trade with the North and said Friday it will limit the amount of money that can be sent to North Korea without being reported to the government. Tokyo also said it will slash the amount of cash travelers can take into North Korea — an apparent bid to target funds funneled to the North by ethnic Koreans in Japan. Separately, Hatoyama and President Barack Obama jointly condemned the March 26 attack in a phone call and vowed to cooperate with South Korea on Security Council action, the White House said. Meanwhile, a report by U.N. experts said North Korea is exporting nuclear and ballistic missile technology and using multiple intermediaries, shell companies and overseas criminal networks to circumvent U.N. sanctions. A seven-member panel monitoring the implementation of sanctions against Pyongyang said its research indicates that Pyongyang is involved in banned nuclear and ballistic activities in Iran, Syria and Myanmar, according to the report, obtained late Thursday by The Associated Press. Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee and Sangwon Yoon in Seoul, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Shino Yuasa in Tokyo and Christopher Bodeen in Beijing contributed to this report.

US, Japan to keep US military base in Okinawa By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA, Associated Press Writer - MAY 28,10

TOKYO – Washington and Tokyo agreed Friday to keep a contentious U.S. Marine base in the southern island of Okinawa, reaffirming the importance of their security alliance amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula.In a joint statement, the two allies agreed to move the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko, in a less crowded, northern part of the island. The decision is broadly in line with a 2006 deal forged with the previous, conservative Tokyo government, but represents a broken campaign promise on the part of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

Hatoyama came to office last September promising to create a more equal relationship with Washington and move the Marine base off the island, which hosts more than half the 47,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan under a 50-year-old joint security alliance.But after months of searching and fruitless discussions with Washington and Okinawan officials, the prime minister acknowledged earlier this month that the base needed to stay in Okinawa.The joint statement appeared to highlight rising tension surrounding the March sinking of a South Korean ship blamed on a North Korean torpedo. Recent developments in the security environment of Northeast Asia reaffirmed the significance of the Alliance, it said.Hatoyama's decision, which he had pledged to deliver by the end of May, has angered tens of thousand of island residents who complain about base-related noise, pollution and crime, and want Futenma moved off the island entirely.U.S. military officials and security experts argued it is essential that Futenma remain on Okinawa because its helicopters and air assets support Marine infantry units based on the island. Moving the facility off the island could slow the Marines' coordination and response in times of emergency.Under a 1960 security pact, American armed forces are allowed broad use of Japanese land and facilities. In return, the U.S. is obliged to respond to attacks on Japan and protect the country under its nuclear umbrella.

The U.S. and Japan recognized that a robust forward presence of U.S. military forces in japan, including in Okinawa, provides the deterrence and capabilities necessary for the defense of Japan and for the maintenance of regional stability, said the statement, which was issued by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa.Reaffirming the 2006 deal comes as a relief for Washington. In a phone conversation with President Barack Obama Friday morning Japan time, Hatoyama said Obama expressed appreciation that the two countries could reach an agreement.The White House also said Obama and Hatoyama pledged to work closely with South Korea in the wake of the sinking of the Cheonan. North Korea has denied responsibility and has warned that any retaliation would mean war.Hatoyama's Cabinet was struggling to hammer out a statement on Futenma on Friday amid some internal division over the base agreement.Gender Equality Minister Mizuho Fukushima, the leader of a junior coalition party, reiterated her opposition to keeping Futenma in Okinawa, and said she would not sign it, spurring speculation that she could be dismissed, media reports said. A press conference by the prime minister scheduled for 5 p.m. had been delayed.The Futenma move is part of a broader plan to reorganize American troops in Japan that includes moving 8,000 Marines and their 9,000 dependents to the U.S. territory of Guam by 2014. But U.S. officials had said that the other pieces cannot move forward until the Futenma issue was resolved.The two countries said an environmental impact assessment and construction of the replacement facility should proceed without significant delay.The statement called for a logistical study to be completed by the end of August.The base, whose plans call for a 1,800-meter (5,900-feet) runway built partly on reclaimed land off the coast of Henoko, faces intense opposition from residents and environmentalists.The joint statement called for sensitivity to Okinawans' concerns.

The Ministers recognized the importance of responding to the concerns of the people of Okinawa that they bear a disproportionate burden related to the presence of U.S. forces, and also recognized that the more equitable distribution of shared alliance responsibilities is essential for sustainable development of the alliance,they said.
They said they would consider moving military training facilities off of Okinawa, possibly to nearby Tokunoshima, or out of Japan completely. The accord called for more environmental stewardship, through which U.S. bases in Japan might incorporate renewable energy technology.Associated Press Writers Malcolm Foster, Shino Yuasa and Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this report.

USAF vehicle breaks record for hypersonic flight
Thu May 27, 6:21 am ET

WASHINGTON – An experimental aircraft has set a record for hypersonic flight, flying more than 3 minutes at Mach 6 — six times the speed of sound.The X-51A Waverider was released from a B-52 Stratofortress off the southern California coast Wednesday morning, the Air Force reported on its website. Its scramjet engine accelerated the vehicle to Mach 6, and it flew autonomously for 200 seconds before losing acceleration. At that point the test was terminated.The Air Force said the previous record for a hypersonic scramjet burn was 12 seconds.[Related: Secret X-37B space plane spotted by amateur skywatchers]We are ecstatic to have accomplished many of the X-51A test points during its first hypersonic mission, said Charlie Brink, an X-51A program manager with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.We equate this leap in engine technology as equivalent to the post-World War II jump from propeller-driven aircraft to jet engines,Brink said. The Waverider was built for the Air Force by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Boeing Co.

Joe Vogel, Boeing's director of hypersonics, said, This is a new world record and sets the foundation for several hypersonic applications, including access to space, reconnaissance, strike, global reach and commercial transportation.Four X-51A cruisers have been built for the Air Force, and the remaining three will be tested this fall.No test is perfect, Brink said, and I'm sure we will find anomalies that we will need to address before the next flight.

Geithner: US, Europe broadly agree on reform By GEIR MOULSON, Associated Press Writer – Thu May 27, 4:24 pm ET

BERLIN – The United States and Europe broadly agree on the need for reform of the financial system, but global cooperation is needed, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday. He also said countries are working together to balance cutting back deficits with supporting economic growth.Geithner met German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble during a two-day visit to Europe that also took him to Britain and to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.The trip comes amid ongoing market volatility following European nations' agreement this month on a euro750 billion (nearly $1 trillion) loan backstop for governments in danger of defaulting on debt — coupled with efforts to cut budget deficits.Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, pushed that deal through parliament last week. Geithner welcomed Berlin's leadership role in putting together this very strong framework, as well as its speedy action to implement it.He deflected worries that austerity measures could lead to an economic setback. He underlined the need to reduce debt to sustainable levels over the medium term and added that we're going to get there at somewhat different paces.

We are working very closely together to try to make sure that we are strengthening and reinforcing this global recovery, he said.Schaeuble noted that the rules governing the euro are titled the stability and growth pact and said countries would try to do justice to both elements.The eurozone rescue package — preceded by a rescue for Greece that remains unpopular in Germany — has been accompanied by renewed European determination to advance regulatory reform of the financial system. Many on the continent contend that speculative market practices exacerbated the debt crisis.Last week, European Union governments overrode British objections and U.S. worries to tighten rules for hedge funds, and Germany unilaterally announced curbs on traders of government debt and bank stocks — a move that rattled markets.Geithner accentuated areas of trans-Atlantic agreement but stressed the U.S. commitment to a a cooperative global approach leading up to next month's summit of the Group of 20, which combines rich countries with emerging nations such as China and India.The United States and Europe are in broad agreement on the importance of putting in place more conservative constraints on risk-taking, more conservative capital requirements, bringing transparency and disclosure to derivatives markets, making sure that the regulators and supervisors can do their job, Geithner said.

He acknowledged that we're going to have slightly different approaches because we have different systems.But we all agree on the need for a common framework, he added.These are global markets, you need common standards — you don't want to just let risk move outside the scope of regulation.He didn't comment directly on the German ban on so-called naked short-selling and planned legislation to cement it in law.Schaeuble — who acknowledged that the American approach is a somewhat different one — renewed his defense of the move, saying it was justified given recent months' experiences and could be superseded by future European regulation.One area of agreement is the need for a levy on major banks to ensure that they cover the costs of any future banking crisis.In Paris Thursday, one of President Barack Obama's top advisers said it would be a mistake for the U.S. to rapidly wind down stimulus measures to cut its deficit.It would be wrong to tighten fiscal policy immediately, as that would nip the nascent economic recovery in the bud, said Christina Romer, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. She advocated further measures such as fiscal relief for state and local governments and extension of emergency benefits for the long-term unemployed. Both Geithner and Schaeuble argued that it was no problem for countries to take varying approaches. The balance is going to be different in different countries, Geithner said.That's a necessary, desirable thing. We all have slightly different room for maneuver. Schaeuble said European countries with aging populations and lower potential growth have narrower room for maneuver on sustaining deficits than nations such as the U.S. with a strong growth dynamic.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Volcanic ash shuts down Guatemala City airport By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer – Thu May 27, 11:51 pm ET

GUATEMALA CITY – Authorities closed Guatemala's international airport Thursday after the nearby Pacaya volcano showered as much as 3 inches (8 centimeters) of ash over parts of the city.La Aurora airport would be closed at least until noon Friday, and possibly longer, said Angel Perez, a spokesman for the Central American country's Civil Aeronautics Office.The volcano is about 15 miles (25 kilometers) south of the Guatemalan capital.Two to three inches of ash accumulated on streets in some southern parts of the city, and officials imposed limits on trucks and motorcycles to help speed up traffic slowed by the ash.The government urged residents not to leave their homes unless there was an urgent need, and issued a state-of-disaster declaration, making it easier to disburse funds to deal with the problem.Two villages near the peak were evacuated, with dozen of residents taken to shelters or relatives' homes to wait out the eruption, said David de Leon a spokesman for the national disaster committee.Local media reported that volcanic rock fell on the evacuated villages, smashing car windshields. Eruptions began several days ago.The most active of Guatemala's 32 volcanos, Pacaya has been intermittently erupting since 1966, and tourists frequently visit areas near three lava flows formed in eruptions between 1989 and 1991.In 1998, the 8,373-foot (2,552-meter) volcano twice spewed plumes of ash, forcing evacuations and shutting down the airport in Guatemala City.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Major earthquake, aftershocks hit South Pacific
MAY 28,10

PORT VILA (AFP) – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Vanuatu Friday, seismologists said, sparking a tsunami warning which was later cancelled.The quake hit at 4:14 am (1714 GMT Thursday) at a depth of 36 kilometres (22 miles), 214 kilometres northwest of Luganville, or 2,070 kilometres northeast of Brisbane, Australia, according to the US Geological Survey.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued a tsunami warning for areas of the South Pacific including the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.Such warnings mean coastlines near the epicentre can be subject to tidal waves within minutes, but the alert was cancelled less than an hour and a half after the quake.In the six hours after the initial tremor, five aftershocks measuring between 5.0 and 6.4 in magnitude shook the area.A spokeswoman for Vanuatu's National Disaster Management Office said Friday the office had not yet received any reports of major damage from the northern Torba province, which was closest to the quake's centre.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there had been no indication of any tsunami activity generated by the quake.If a tsunami was generated it does not pose a threat to any areas outside the epicentral region. The tsunami warning is now cancelled for all areas covered by this centre.The New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defence issued a tsunami advisory warning people to stay away from the shore but this was withdrawn when it was established there was no risk to New Zealand.Geoscience Australia, which measured the quake at magnitude 7.6, said that no ocean tide gauges it was monitoring had recorded any major activity.

Seismologist Clive Collins said the apparently uninhabited area closest the quake was remote and unlikely to have experienced significant damage.In October last year, three major quakes -- with magnitudes of 7.8, 7.7 and 7.3 -- shook the same region of Vanuatu, sparking a South Pacific-wide tsunami alert.Although no damage was reported, October's warning caused widespread panic throughout region, coming little more than a week after a tsunami devastated parts of Samoa, American Samoa and northern Tonga, killing 186 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, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

2010 hurricane season may be worst on record
Thu May 27, 5:42 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season may be one of the worst on record, US officials warned Thursday, amid fears it could deepen an oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico and bring new misery to Haiti.An active to extremely active hurricane season which starts on June 1 is expected for the Atlantic Basin this year, US officials said.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) predicted 14 to 23 named storms, including eight to 14 hurricanes, three to seven of which were likely to be major storms, with winds of at least 111 mph.This is compared to an average six-month season of 11 named storms, six of which become hurricanes, two of them major.If this outlook holds true, this season could be one of the more active on record, said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco.The greater likelihood of storms brings an increased risk of a landfall. In short, we urge everyone to be prepared, he said.Hurricane fears are particularly acute this year in the Gulf of Mexico, where millions of gallons of oil from a leaking BP undersea well is pushing into ecologically sensitive marshlands.

And in Haiti, hundreds of thousands of people are still living in makeshift camps more than five months after a devastating earthquake.NOAA said the prediction that there will be more and bigger storms this year than average was based on several factors.President Barack Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs said the government is mobilizing for the potential impact of any hurricanes.The president stressed that the government must ensure we consider the effects the BP oil spill could have on storms, response capabilities, and recovery efforts in planning for this year's season, Gibbs said.He added however that those considerations do not change the primary mission of emergency management officials during a response, which is to support state efforts to protect lives and property.Forecasts said that windshear, which helped suppress hurricane activity in 2009 by tearing up storms before they developed, is expected to be weaker this year as the El Nino effect dissipates in the eastern Pacific.El Nino is a cyclical phenomenon that brings unusually warm ocean temperatures to the equatorial Pacific, but cooler temperatures to the Caribbean and the Atlantic.Its opposite is La Nina, when Pacific temperatures are unusually cold. In those years, the US southeast is unusually warm, enabling storms to grow and move.Sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic are already up to four degrees Fahrenheit above average, NOAA said.Whether or not we approach the high end of the predicted ranges depends partly on whether or not La Nina develops this summer, said Gerry Bell, a hurricane forecaster at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

At present we are in a neutral state, but conditions are becoming increasingly favorable for La Nina to develop.And NOAA said the period since 1995 has been one of unusually high storm activity with eight of the last 15 seasons ranking in the top ten for the most named storms. In 2005, there were 28 named storms.

Israel partly opens West Bank road to Palestinians By BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press Writer - MAY 28,10

BEIT SIRA, West Bank – The Israeli military partially opened a West Bank highway to Palestinian drivers on Friday to comply with a ruling of the country's highest court.
The road, known as Highway 443, is a major link between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and is heavily traveled by Israeli commuters. Much of its length runs through the West Bank, one of the territories Palestinians claim for a their hoped-for state and parts of it were paved on land expropriated from Palestinians.The Israeli military, which maintains overall control of the West Bank, banned Palestinian cars in 2002 after a string of Palestinian shooting attacks on the road killed Israeli motorists.

In 2007, with Israeli-Palestinian violence winding down, local Palestinians petitioned Israel's Supreme Court, demanding to be allowed to use the road. The court agreed that the ban was discriminatory and ordered the highway opened, despite the military's argument that the move would endanger Israelis because it could allow militants to easily access the road and escape into Palestinian villages.Military spokesman Peter Lerner said Friday the military had fully complied with the court ruling.But Palestinians and Israeli human rights groups say the opening is insufficient because army checkpoints still effectively restrict Palestinians to a short section of about six miles (nine kilometers) and block access to the cities of Ramallah and Jerusalem.Attorney Dan Yakir of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which filed the court appeal on behalf of the Palestinians, noted at a press conference this week that much of the road was built on land confiscated from Palestinians. He said the only solution to any security problems would be to bar Israelis, not Palestinians, from the road.A small number of Palestinian cars were seen on the road after the reopening Friday, with Israeli soldiers checking each car thoroughly before allowing it onto the highway.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Nuclear treaty talks on brink of failure: diplomats By Louis Charbonneau – Fri May 28, 1:05 am ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Talks on shoring up the global anti-nuclear arms treaty were on the edge of failure on Friday as the United States and its allies clashed with Egypt over a push to pressure Israel to scrap any atom bombs it has.For a month the 189 signatories of the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty have been meeting in New York in hopes of agreeing on a plan to shore up the troubled pact, which analysts say has been hit by Iran's and North Korea's atomic programs and failure by the nuclear powers to disarm.The latest draft of a final declaration for the NPT review conference calls for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to organize a meeting of all Middle Eastern states in 2012 on how to make the region free of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as demanded by a 1995 NPT resolution.The creation of a WMD-free zone would eventually force Israel to abandon any atomic bombs it has. The Jewish state, which like nuclear-armed India and Pakistan never signed the NPT, is presumed to have a sizable nuclear arsenal but neither confirms nor denies it. Israel is not participating in the NPT meeting.

In a radical departure from the previous U.S. administration, President Barack Obama's negotiators had agreed to join the NPT's other four official nuclear powers -- Britain, France, Russia and China -- in backing such a conference while encouraging reluctant Israel to participate.The five permanent U.N. Security Council members and a group of Arab states led by Egypt are close to a deal that would make the 2012 conference happen, delegates say. But the two sides have reached an impasse on the question of whether Israel should be named in the declaration as a problem state.The Egyptians insist the declaration must state explicitly that Israel should join the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state, but the Americans are refusing, diplomats said.

LAST-MINUTE COMPROMISE?

One Western diplomat familiar with the talks described the situation as not looking too hopeful.He said there was a stark choice for the Arabs -- name and shame Israel or have a conference in 2012 to move forward the 1995 promise ... toward a WMD-free zone in the Mideast.My bet is their (the Arabs') short-term political needs will trump their long-term strategic interest, he said.Other delegates confirmed the possibility that the NPT review conference would fail to agree on a final declaration because of disagreements on the Middle East question, repeating what happened at the last NPT review conference in 2005.But diplomats said they hoped the United States and Egypt -- the key players in the Middle East negotiations -- would strike a last-minute compromise that salvaged the conference.We've worked so hard for the past month, one diplomat said. We've got a strong draft that would strengthen all three pillars of the NPT -- disarmament, non-proliferation and peaceful use of nuclear energy. It shouldn't be thrown away.Western diplomats said Israel had reluctantly agreed to attend the 2012 conference but only on condition that it not be named and shamed in the final declaration.Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Tehran's chief delegate, accused the United States of causing the impasse at the NPT talks. Apart from the Middle East WMD-free zone, he said Washington and the other nuclear powers had rejected key demands of Iran and the other non-aligned developing nations.

Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said those demands were for a precise deadline for nuclear powers to disarm, a call for negotiations on a treaty banning the use of atomic arms, and a pledge from the five nuclear powers not to use atomic bombs on states without them, known as a negative security assurance.The nuclear weapon states, particularly the United States, have not cooperated to find a solution for these four main issues, Soltanieh told reporters, adding that the NPT talks had reached a deadlock. If the nuclear powers refuse to compromise,they should be blamed for consequences, Soltanieh said, adding that Tehran was prepared to block a declaration that it viewed as too weak. Since NPT meetings make decisions by consensus, Iran has a virtual veto.(Editing by Bill Trott)

Netanyahu in Paris fetes Israel's OECD entry by Roland Lloyd Parry – Thu May 27, 12:21 pm ET

PARIS (AFP) – Israel officially joined the OECD club of rich economies Thursday, giving a boost to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he heads for talks in Washington on the faltering Middle East peace process.Netanyahu attended a ceremony at the Paris headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as it welcomed Israel along with Estonia, Slovenia and Chile to the 31-nation grouping.We in Israel are deeply honoured by your invitation to join this club,Netanyahu said.We see this not only as recognition of what we have achieved, but as a vote of confidence for the future, he added.OECD member states decided this month to invite Israel to join despite objections from Palestinians, who argued that letting Israel in would be a breach of the Paris-based group's commitment to human rights.The ceremony came as the Israeli leader prepared for a key meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday.OECD membership means Israel's status with foreign investment funds switches from that of an emerging economy to a developed one, opening up new sources of capital.The invitation caps a 16-year campaign waged by Israel for membership and Netanyahu had hailed the decision as one of strategic importance, bringing Israel into the club of the world's elite economies.

Netanyahu began his visit with lunch at the Elysee Palace, posing for the cameras with French President Nicolas Sarkozy before heading into talks on advancing Middle East peace, bilateral relations and Iran.Sarkozy voiced hope that a UN sanctions resolution against Iran that will be the most strongly-worded possible will soon be adopted at the Security Council, Elysee officials said.I think he's been forthright and very clear throughout his presidency about the need to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and I expressed appreciation for that, Netanyahu told reporters following his meeting.France has been at the forefront of western calls for a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its failure to meet demands that it halt uranium enrichment, the main ingredient in nuclear bomb-making.On the Middle East peace track, a significant diplomatic move came on Wednesday when White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel delivered an invitation to Netanyahu from Obama.The Netanyahu-Obama working meeting on Tuesday is to discuss our shared security interests as well as our close cooperation in seeking peace between Israel and its neighbours, Emanuel said after talks with the Israeli leader in Jerusalem.Israeli newspapers described the invitation as a sign that Obama is seeking to turn a new leaf in relations with the Likud leader that have been strained by a dispute over Jewish settlements.Obama has also invited Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to visit in June in his latest bid to revive direct negotiations after an 18-month break.Indirect talks were first agreed in March but the initiative collapsed within days when Israel announced plans to build 1,600 settler homes in east Jerusalem.In France, many in Jewish intellectual circles increasingly see Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace rather than an engaged party.An online petition dubbed the European Jewish Call for Reason or JCall has gathered more than 6,000 signatures, including prominent Jewish figures such as philosophers Bernard-Henri Levy and Alain Finkielkraut. Netanyahu will travel to Canada on Friday before heading to Washington.

Zapatero squeaks austerity package through parliament
ANDREW WILLIS Today MAY 28,10 @ 09:24 CET

The Spanish parliament has passed a package of government-backed austerity measures by the narrowest of margins - just one vote - with the political fallout potentially leading to early elections. A minority Socialist government headed by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero managed to squeak the result through a dubious legislature on Thursday (27 May), thanks in part to the abstention of the Catalan Convergència i Unió party (CiU).Politicians from all sides criticised the €15 billion package of spending cuts that aims to reduce the country's budgetary deficit from 11.2 percent of GDP to 6 percent in 2011.Spanish finance minister Elena Salgado defended the plans in front of MPs, saying the measures were painful but unavoidable. They include a five percent cut in civil servant pay from next month, a pension freeze and reductions in public investment spending.The government hopes the cuts will help take market heat off the southern economy.

An EU-IMF bail-out agreement for Greece last month turned investors' attention towards Spain and Portugal, forcing their administrations to announce additional deficit cutting measures as part of a wider EU agreement to create a €750 billion support mechanism for struggling eurozone governments. In abstaining from Thursday's vote, regional Catalan party spokesman Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida said his party's decision was designed to avoid Spain suffering the same fate as Greece. But he added that Mr Zapatero's time in office was finished.The problem isn't the pensioners or the civil servants or the pharmacies,he said. The problem is you and your government.
Mr Zapatero's administration is due to expire in 2012, but with the CiU indicating they will not support the government's 2011 budget, early elections are looking increasingly likely.Growing civil unrest against the austerity measures is adding to embattled leader's problems, with civil servants already expected to strike next month over the cut in their wages.The main centre-right opposition Popular party justified its opposition to the measures saying they would impact on society's weakest. Yes, let's cut the deficit, said party leader Mariano Rajoy,but not like this.The narrowness of Thursday's decision is unlikely to add to investor confidence, creating doubts over the government's ability to implement the unpopular austerity package.Early elections and the prospect of a new government could also dampen the momentum for reform, said analysts, with a centre-right administration likely to face greater difficulty in winning the support of unions.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

EU's remote islands slam Brussels for ignoring their problems VALENTINA POP
Today MAY 28,10 @ 09:27 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU's outermost islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans say the policies decided in Brussels concerning free trade, agriculture or fisheries take too little consideration of their interests and economic problems.The EU's free-trade agreements with countries in our region often jeopardise our own small producers, who are dependent on a few crops. We need pragmatic policies to make it through until 2014 [when the new multi-annual EU budget starts], Paulino Rivero Baute, the president of the regional government in the Canary islands said on Thursday (27 May). He was speaking in Brussels at the Forum for outermost Europe 2010, hosted by the European Commission and featuring representatives of territories belonging to France, Spain and Portugal, from the time when they were colonial powers.The EU's nine outermost regions are part of the internal market, the eurozone and they hold elections for the European Parliament. France is the governor of the bulk of this grouping with the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthelemy, along with Reunion island in the Indian Ocean and French Guyana, a territory bordering Brazil and Suriname. Spain's Canary islands and Portugal's Azores and Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean are also part of the grouping.

Under a special provision in the Lisbon Treaty, these regions can apply for special exemptions from some policy areas that may impact their economy. Dwindling revenues from tourism, unemployment rates above 25 percent and difficulties in competing with Latin American, Asian and Pacific producers of the same agricultural products are all part of a gloomy mix in the insular communities.We have to ask ourselves if it is fair in these big agreements not to make special arrangements for the outermost regions, if it is fair to have the same market conditions for us and for huge competitive territories, Mr Baute asked, referring to the free-trade agreement the EU has with many countries beyond the bloc.Didier Robert of Reunion said that his island, affected by free-trade agreements with Asian and Pacific countries, did not want to fall a victim to the external policies of the EU.He also urged Brussels to take into account the special marine space available to Reunion when reforming the common fisheries policy. With small, scattered communities, specialised in tourism services and agriculture, but with high transport costs due to their remoteness, most of the islands have a difficult time coping with the effects of the economic crisis.We suffer from poverty too. It is not easier in the sunshine than it is in the snow,Frantz Gumbs, president of territorial council of Saint Martin told the audience. His Carribean island, with some 75,000 inhabitants, suffers from a double insularity, he explained, as it is divided between a French authority in the north and Dutch rule in the south. Only the French part has an EU outermost region status, including the euro as currency, while the Dutch part is using Antillean guilders.

The Dutch half may however join the EU grouping, as it is part of the Dutch Antilles, which in October are expected to ask the Hague for a different constitutional status. According to the Lisbon Treaty, Denmark, the Netherlands and France have reserved their right to add other territories to the outermost regions list, pending approval of all EU member states.Great Britain has not signaled interest in such an arrangement for its overseas territories.

French lobby

France's EU commissioner, Michel Barnier, currently in charge of internal market and financial services, also spoke at the event, in his capacity as a former regional affairs commissioner between 1999 and 2004.He made a point of addressing every regional leader by name and spoke about the difficulty of advancing the cause of the outermost regions in a commission where only three countries out of 27 have such territories.With three out of 27 it is quite different than with three out of 15, as it was last time around I was commissioner, Mr Barnier said, in reference to Spanish commissioner Joaquin Almunia (competition) and the commission's own chief Jose Manuel Barroso from Portugal. He said the current regional affairs commissioner, Johannes Hahn from Austria, is a strong advocate of the cause. Agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos is also seen as open to the islands' plight for his impact assessments of the common agricultural policy on the EU's outermost regions, in terms of the economic, social, and monetary effects.