PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
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
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OBAMA ON OIL SPILL-VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference
PART 1-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html
PART 2-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/p-2-oil-slick-news-nay-29.html
PART 3-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-3-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 4-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p4-oil-spill-news.html
ITS DAY 48 SUNDAY JUNE 6,10 OF THE OIL SPILL.
ITS 11:50 PM JUNE 6,10 THEY CLAIM BY SAVING 10,000 GALLONS FROM GOING INTO THE SEA IS SO GREAT.MEANWHILE 10,000 BARRELS A DAY STILL GO INTO THE SEA WHICH THE GUSHER CAN'T STOP.AND 45-50 MILLION BARRELS ARE IN THE GULF ALREADY AND KILLING AND DESTROYING BUT I GUESS BP AND THE ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASES ARE SAYING THIS IS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH SO WE CAN GET RID OF OIL DRILLING IN THE USA AND BRING IN OUR INVISIBLE GAS TAX TO PAY THE IMF TO PAY FOR THE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
ITS 7:30 AM JUNE 7,10 DAY 49 OF THE OIL SPILL.THE COST OF THE SPILL SO FAR IS $1.25 BILLION DOLLARS.
ITS 11:30 AM JUNE 7,10-THE PROPAGANDA IS ALWAYS ON-NOTICE NOW BP IS SAYS THEY WILL BE PEVENTING 20,000 BARRELS A DAY FROM GOING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO.WHEN IN NEGETIVE STORIES THEY JUST SAY 20,000 GALLONS ARE GOING INTO THE GULF.THIS SHOULD ALL BE BARRELS NOT JUST GALLONS USED TO MAKE IT SEEM LESS OIL GOING IN THE GULF.BY THIS TAKE AT LEAST 40,000 BARRELS ARE POLUTING AND KILLING SEA FISH ETC EVERY DAY.THE MEDIA PROPGANDA IS JUST INCREDIBLE TO HELP BP LOOK BETTER THEN THEY ARE AND TO PROPAGANDIZE THE LESS KILLING AND OIL GOING INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO.
ITS 10:35 AM JUNE 8,10 DAY 50 OF OIL SPILL.BARRY SOETORO-OBAMA CLAIMES WITH WORDS HES ANGRY AT BP,BUT IN HIS USELESS ACTIONS HES HYPOCRITICAL.NOTHING NEW-THIS ILLEGEL FRAUD OBAMA IS ALL TALK AND NO ACTION EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO WANTING TO BAN GUNS,AND BE A CONTROL FREAK IN EVERY AMERICANS LIFE.OBAMA GO BACK TO KENYA AND TRY TO TELL THEM TO STOP BUILDING HOUSES LIKE YOU DEMAND OF ISRAEL AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU BY THE CRIMINALS THERE.CAN YOU PEOPLE NOT SEE HOW MUCH OF A LIER OBAMA IS AND A FORERUNNER OF THE FUTURE EU WORLD DICTATOR.WAKE UP DECIEVED WORLD.
ITS NOW 3:10PM JUNE 8,10-THE CEO OF BP IS A BILDERBERG PARTICIPATER.REPORTS HAVE A 2ND BP SPILL SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE ORIGINAL ONE HAS BEEN LEAKING SINCE APRIL 30,10 AS AN ENVIROMENTAL GROUP HAS BEEN WATCHING THEM SPRAY CHEMICALS TO BREAK UP THE OIL THATS COMING TO THE SURFACE FROM THE 2ND SPILL.ALSO SO CALLED BP WORKERS HIRED BY BP ARE ON THE BEACH,HARDLY WORKING AT ALL,WATCHING WOMEN ON THE BEACH AND HAD A LUNCH BREAK TODAY FROM 10:56AM TILL 1PM.THIS GETS MORE REDICULAS BY THE DAY.
READ LINKS
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Evidence Points To BP Oil Spill False Flag 2:20PM JUNE 8,10
- Sales of shares and stocks in days and weeks beforehand
- Halliburton link, acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion
- BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment
- Government uses disaster to push for Carbon Tax, Nationalization talk
Steve Watson, Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prisonplanet.com
Tuesday, Jun 8th, 2010
Troubling evidence surrounding the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20th suggests that the incident could have been manufactured.On April 12th, just over one week before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Halliburton, the world’s second largest oilfield services corporation, surprised some by acquiring Boots & Coots, a relatively small but vastly experienced oil well control company.The company deals with fires and blowouts on oil rigs and oil wells. It was responsible for putting out roughly one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the Gulf War.The deal itself is still under scrutiny with Boots and Coots facing an ongoing investigation into possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law.Where this information gets really interesting is with the fact that Halliburton is named in the majority of some two dozen lawsuits filed since the explosion by Gulf Coast people and businesses who claim that the company is to blame for the disaster.Halliburton was forced to admit in testimony at a congressional hearing last month that it carried out a cementing operation 20 hours before the Gulf of Mexico rig went up in flames. The lawsuits claim that four Halliburton workers stationed on the rig improperly capped the well.As the New York Times noted on May 26th, BP officials chose, partly for financial reasons, to use a type of casing for the well that the company knew was the riskier of two options,Workers from the rig and company officials have said that hours before the explosion, gases were leaking through the cement, which had been set in place by the oil services contractor, Halliburton. Investigators have said these leaks were the likely cause of the explosion.
According to a 2007 study by Minerals Management Service, cementing was a factor in 18 of 39 rig blowouts in the gulf between 1992 and 2006.Another intriguing connection Boots and Coots has to the Deepwater Horizon explosion comes via Pat Campbell, the man BP has employed to cap the well beneath the ruined rig. Campbell worked for Boots and Coots as general manager for many years.BP has admitted to buying Yahoo and Google keywords in an attempt to control publicly available information in the wake of the catastrophe. It seems that the company is taking all the flack for the spill while the Halliburton link is being roundly ignored.BP’s prepared testimony briefing, which has since leaked online, also intriguingly notes that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified without their knowledge sometime before the explosion.the extent of these modifications is unknown at this time states the report on page 37.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/evidence-points-to-bp-oil-spill-false-flag.html
Possible prior knowledge of the explosion is also evident via huge dumping of stocks and shares in the weeks and days prior to the incident.Goldman Sachs dumped 44% of its shares in BP Oil during the first quarter – shares that subsequently lost 36 percent of their value, equating to $96 million.Other asset management firms also sold huge blocks of BP stock in the first quarter. Though the amounts pale in comparison to Goldman’s holdings, Wachovia, owned by Wells Fargo, sold 98% of its shares in BP and Swiss bank UBS sold 97% of its BP shares.Furthermore, as reported by the London Telegraph on June 5th, Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the spill.In the days before the Deepwater explosion, Obama had announced a new effort to explore for and lease new drilling locations in the deep Gulf and in Alaska. In the wake of the disaster, these plans have been cancelled and BP is taking a PR bashing.All of which has been capitalized on by the Obama administration to reinvigorate talk of a carbon tax and has created the opportunity to reintroduce the idea of nationalizing oil, which the Democratic leadership has long sought.The full story of what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico is yet to emerge, there are rumours of more spills and an ongoing coverup. The site represents a $2.2 trillion source of wealth and power, a motive along with a plethora of suspicious activity that needs to be investigated further.
NOAA: Under water oil plumes confirmed
12:30 PM JUNE 8,10
WASHINGTON – The government says water tests have confirmed underwater oil plumes from the BP oil spill, but that concentrations are very low.NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said that the tests conducted at three sites by a University of South Florida research vessel confirmed oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface 42 miles northeast of the well site. Oil also was found in a sub-surface sample 142 miles southeast of the spill, but further tests showed that oil is not consistent with oil from the spill.Lubchenco said the water analysis indicate there is definitely oil sub surface. It's in very low concentrations of less than 0.5 parts per million. Additional samples from another research vessel are being tested, she said.We remain concerned about the location of oil on the surface and under the sea, said Lubchenco.BP had questioned whether oil actually was forming below water.
(This version CORRECTS Corrects that oil found 142 miles from well not believed to be from spill, though plumes at other sites are; ADDS Lubchenco quote)
Fickle oil slick scatters its threats across Gulf By BILL KACZOR, Associated Press Writer - 4:30 AM JUNE 8,10
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. – In sensitive marshes on the Louisiana coast, oil thick as pancake batter suffocates grasses and traps pelicans. Blobs of tar the size of dimes or dinner plates dot the white sands of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Little seems amiss in Mississippi except a shortage of tourists, but an oily sheen glides atop the sea west of Tampa.The oil spill plaguing the states along the Gulf of Mexico isn't one slick — it's many.We're no longer dealing with a large, monolithic spill, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday at a White House news conference. We're dealing with an aggregation of hundreds of thousands of patches of oil that are going a lot of different directions.Officials reported that a containment cap over the BP gusher at the bottom of the Gulf was sucking up one-third to three-quarters of the oil †but also noted that its effects could linger for years.And as the oil patches flirt with the coastline, slathering some spots and leaving others alone, residents who depend on tourism and fishing are wondering in the here and now how to head off the damage or salvage a season that's nearing its peak.At the Salty Dog Surf Shop in Panama City Beach, near the eastern end of the spill area, manager Glen Thaxton hawked T-shirts, flip-flops and sunglasses with usual briskness Monday, even as officials there warned oil could appear on the sand within 72 hours.It could come to a screeching halt real quick,Thaxton said.So we've been calling vendors and telling them don't ship anything else until further notice.In Mississippi, Gov. Haley Barbour over the weekend angrily blasted news coverage that he said was scaring away tourists at the start of the busy summer season by making it seem as if the whole coast from Florida to Texas is ankle-deep in oil.
Mississippi, he insisted on Fox News Sunday,was clean.That sounded about right to Darlene Kimball, who runs Kimball Seafood on the docks at Pass Christian.Mississippi waters are open, and we're catching shrimp, Kimball said. Still, her business is hurting because of a perception that Gulf seafood isn't safe, she said, and because many shrimpers have signed up to help corral the spill elsewhere.The random, scattered nature of the oil was evident Monday during a trip across the state line between Alabama and Florida.On the Alabama side, clumps of seaweed laden with oil littered beaches for miles. Huge orange globs stained the sand in places.But at Perdido Key, on the Florida side, the sand was white and virtually crude-free. Members of a five-person crew had to look for small dots of oil to pick up, stooping over every few yards for another piece.It's beautiful here today, said Josiah Holmes, of Gulf Shores, Ala. He and his wife, Lydia, had driven across the state line because the beach was such a mess at home.For some who are planning vacations in the region but live elsewhere, the spill's fickle nature is causing confusion.
Adam Warriner, a customer service agent with California-based CSA Travel protection, said the company is getting a lot of calls from vacationers worried the oil will disrupt their trips — even if they're headed to South Carolina, nowhere near the spill area.As of now we haven't included oil into any of our coverage language, and that's not something that I've heard is happening,he said. That kind of misperception worries residents and officials in areas that aren't being hit hard by the oil — and even those in some that are. The daily images of the oil is obviously having an impact,said Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, the state closest to the leak and the one where the oil is having its most insidious effects on wildlife. It's having a heavy, real, very negative impact on our economy.Some of the most enduring images are of pelicans and other wildlife drenched in oil.
In a sweltering metal building in Fort Jackson, workers in biohazard suits were doing the time-consuming task of cleaning oiled brown pelicans and releasing them back into the wild. After getting 192 in the last six weeks, 86 were delivered on Sunday, the biggest rescue since the BP rig exploded on April 20, spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. We did have someone faint today because of the heat, said Jay Holcomb, executive director of the International Bird Rescue Research Center. A table is lined with tubs, bottles and even a microwave. In the tub an enormous pelican, turned almost black by the oil, sits stoically as workers pour a light vegetable oil over it. A process they humorously refer to as marinating, which has to be done before the birds can be washed. They respond really well to the cleaning, said Heather Nevill, the veterinarian overseeing the process.If we get them in time.
At Barataria Bay, La., just west of the mouth of the Mississippi River, large patches of thick oil floated in the still waters Monday. A dead sea turtle caked in brownish-red oil lay splayed out with dragonflies buzzing by. The Barataria estuary, which has become one of the hardest-hit areas, was busy with shrimp boats skimming up oil and officials in boats and helicopters patrolling the islands and bays to assess the state of wildlife and the movement of oil. On remote islands, oil visibly tainted pelicans, gulls, terns and herons.President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans by saying that we will get through this crisis but that it would take dedication. Later, he said he's been talking closely with Gulf Coast fishermen and various experts on BP's catastrophic oil spill and not for lofty academic reasons.
I talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers — so I know whose ass to kick, the president said. The salty words, part of Obama's recent efforts to telegraph to Americans his engagement with the crisis, came in an interview in Michigan with NBC's Today show.This will be contained, Obama said earlier. It may take some time, and it's going to take a whole lot of effort. There is going to be damage done to the Gulf Coast, and there is going to be economic damages that we've got to make sure BP is responsible for and compensates people for.
Obama's prediction of further damage only exacerbated a sense of dread filling residents in places the oil had yet to foul, like Panama City Beach. It just makes me sick to my stomach to think about one morning I could wake up and our beaches would be ruined,said Joseph Carrington, a 39-year-old worker at a scooter rental service who moved five years ago from Chester, N.Y., out of love for the beach. I have nightmares thinking about it on what it would do to us, my job, all of our jobs.
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Tom Raum in Washington; Harry R. Weber in Houston; Ray Henry in New Orleans; Mary Foster in Fort Jackson, La.; Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach, Fla.; Brendan Farrington in Perdido Key, Fla.; Holbrook Mohr in Pass Christian, Miss.; Cain Burdeau in Barataria Bay, La.; Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala.; and Brian Skoloff in Grand Isle, La.
Well cap captures more oil, but outlook's gloomy By HARRY R. WEBER and RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writers - 10:49PM JUNE 7,10
NEW ORLEANS – The cap on the blown-out well in the Gulf is capturing a half-million gallons a day, or anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of the oil spewing from the bottom of the sea, officials said Monday. But the hopeful report was offset by a warning that the farflung slick has broken up into hundreds and even thousands of patches of oil that may inflict damage that could persist for years.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the crisis, said the breakup has complicated the cleanup.Dealing with the oil spill on the surface is going to go on for a couple of months, he said at a briefing in Washington. But long-term issues of restoring the environment and the habitats and stuff will be years.Allen said the containment cap that was installed late last week is now collecting about 460,000 gallons of oil a day out of the approximately 600,000 to 1.2 million gallons believed to be spewing from the well a mile underwater. In a tweet, BP said it collected 316,722 gallons from midnight to noon Monday.The amount of oil captured is being slowly ramped up as more vents on the cap are closed. Crews are moving carefully to avoid a dangerous pressure buildup and to prevent the formation of the icy crystals that thwarted a previous effort to contain the leak. The captured oil is being pumped to a ship on the surface.I think it's going fairly well, Allen said.
BP said it plans to replace the cap — perhaps later this month or early next month — with a slightly bigger one that will provide a tighter fit and thus collect more oil. It will also be designed to allow the company to suspend the cleanup and then resume it quickly if a hurricane threatens the Gulf later this season. The new cap is still being designed.It gives us much better containment than we've got with the existing cap, said BP senior vice president Kent Wells.BP and government officials acknowledged it is difficult to say exactly how much oil is spewing from the well, and thus how much is still flowing into the water. BP spokesman Robert Wine said the figures being discussed are estimates, some of which have been provided by the government.Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University professor of environmental sciences, suggested it is too early for anyone to claim victory. The spill, estimated at anywhere from 23 million gallons to 50 million, is already the biggest in U.S. history, dwarfing the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.We're hopeful the thing is going to work, but hoping and actually working are two different things, Overton said. They may have turned the corner, they may not have. We just don't know right now.He said he doesn't believe BP will have turned the corner until it sees a significant flow from the well stopped. And it is not entirely obvious to me that that is happening,Overton said.I do worry we are not removing as much oil as we ought to be getting, he added.The spillcam video of the leak continued to show a big brown billowing cloud of oil and gas 5,000 feet below the surface.In Washington, President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans that we will get through this crisis.Later, he said he's been talking closely with Gulf Coast fishermen and various experts on BP's catastrophic oil spill and not for lofty academic reasons.I talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers — so I know whose ass to kick,the president said.The salty words, part of Obama's recent efforts to telegraph to Americans his engagement with the crisis, came in an interview in Michigan with NBC's Today show.
This will be contained,he said earlier.It may take some time, and it's going to take a whole lot of effort. There is going to be damage done to the Gulf Coast, and there is going to be economic damages that we've got to make sure BP is responsible for and compensates people for.But in a forecast that was by turns hopeful and gloomy, Allen indicated that cleaning up the mess could prove to be more complex than previously thought. Because what's happened over the last several weeks, this spill has disaggregated itself,Allen said.We're no longer dealing with a large, monolithic spill. We're dealing with an aggregation of hundreds or thousands of patches of oil that are going a lot of different directions.When finished, the new cap would be connected a riser pipe floating about 300 feet below the surface. Engineers say the riser would be deep enough to avoid damage from hurricanes that can roar over the Gulf of the Mexico, but shallow enough to allow returning drill ships to quickly reconnect to the flow. Meanwhile, crews worked furiously to skim, scour and chemically disperse the substance from the water. Tony Wood, the director of the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, said BP's success at containing some of the leaking oil would not dramatically reduce the amount of time it would take to clean up the Gulf. We have a large volume still escaping,he said. Cleanup levels up to twice as large as we have right now will go on for at least a year. He added: The reality is that most of the spill, the vast majority of the spill, is still well offshore.The oil — brick red in places, chocolate brown in others — has washed up on the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.Some of the most enduring images of the disaster are of pelicans and other wildlife drenched in oil.In a sweltering metal building in Fort Jackson, workers in biohazard suits were doing the time-consuming task of cleaning oiled brown pelicans and releasing them back into the wild. After getting 192 in the last six weeks, 86 were delivered on Sunday, the biggest rescue since the BP rig exploded on April 20, spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. We did have someone faint today because of the heat,said Jay Holcomb, executive director of the International Bird Rescue Research Center.But usually they come in about six or seven in the morning and stay until about six or seven at night.A table is lined with tubs, bottles and even a microwave. In the tub an enormous pelican, turned almost black by the oil, sits stoically as workers pour a light vegetable oil over it. A process they humorously refer to as marinating, which has to be done before the birds can be washed. Other than the oil, the pelicans have been healthy, said Heather Nevill, the veterinarian overseeing the process.They respond really well to the cleaning,Nevill said. If we get them in time.
At Barataria Bay, La., just west of the mouth of the Mississippi River, large patches of oil the consistency of pancake batter floated in the still waters. A dead sea turtle caked in brownish-red oil lay splayed out with dragonflies buzzing by. The Barataria estuary, which has become one of the hardest-hit areas, was busy with shrimp boats skimming up oil and officials in boats and helicopters patrolling the islands and bays to assess the state of wildlife and the movement of oil. On remote islands, pelicans, gulls, terns and herons were stained with oil. Jody Haas, a tourist from Aurora, Ill., was among the few walking on tar-stained Pensacola Beach. Haas, who has visited the beach before, said it wasn't the same. It was pristine, gorgeous, white sand,she said.This spot is light compared to some of the other spots farther down and it is just everywhere here. It's just devastating, awful.Harry Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press writers contributing to this story were Tamara Lush in New Orleans, Cain Burdeau in Barataria Bay, La., Mary Foster in Fort Jackson, La., Melissa Nelson in Pensacola, Fla., Mitch Stacy in St. Pete Beach, Fla., Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala., and Tom Raum in Washington.
BP plans to replace containment cap next month By RAY HENRY and HARRY WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 7,10 4:00 PM
NEW ORLEANS – As officials reported a gradual increase in the amount of oil being captured from a spewing wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, BP PLC said it plans to replace the cap collecting the crude with a slightly bigger device next month.The newer cap will provide a better, tighter fit than the current one collecting roughly one-third to three-fourths of the oil gushing daily from the sea floor, company spokesman Robert Wine told The Associated Press.The oil began spewing forth after a BP oil rig explosion April 20 and recently increased after officials cut the pipe carrying the flow as part of the latest containment effort.BP believes the bigger cap will fit over more of the outflow pipe than the current cap, Wine said, but the change will allow the oil now being collected to again spew out into the Gulf during the changeover.Wine acknowledged the frustration people must have when they look at the video feeds from undersea that show a lot of oil still flowing into the sea.We want to capture every drop of oil that is still leaking, he said.We want to protect the coastline and repair the coastline that has been damaged.
Officials say the current cap is collecting more than 460,000 gallons of oil per day. BP continues to drill relief wells in hopes of a permanent solution.
Wine said the estimate of the proportion of gushing oil being collected is based on the government's contention that the containment cap is collecting 466,200 gallons of oil of the roughly 604,800 to 1,260,000 it believes is coming out daily.Cutting the riser likely increased the flow of oil by 20 percent from the 504,000 to 1,050,000 gallons the government contends was coming out previously, Wine said.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the oil spill response, provided the updated oil-collection figure during a news conference earlier Monday at the White House.
Officials: No dead, oiled birds found in Texas
JUNE 7,10
ROBERT, La. – Federal officials responding to a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say no dead, oiled birds have been found in Texas.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Nancy Brown said Monday that an official tally released Sunday was incorrect. She blamed the mistake on a clerical error made while compiling figures from different states.A new report on wildlife harmed by the oil spill will be released later Monday.Texas General Land Office spokesman Jim Suydam (SOO'-dam) says there were no reports of oiled birds in Texas. He says the spill's westernmost limit is about 100 miles east of the Texas-Louisiana border.The April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig off Louisiana triggered the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
BP: Gulf oil spill costs have reached $1.25B
Mon Jun 7, 3:13 am ET
NEW ORLEANS – BP says the cost of the company's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached about $1.25 billion.The company announced the total in a news release Monday. BP says the figure does not include $360 million for a project to build six sand berms meant to protect Louisiana's wetlands from spreading oil.The news comes as the government's point man on the spill warned that the battle to contain the oil is likely to stretch into the fall.Millions of gallons of oil have spilled since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana on April 20, killing 11 workers.
Gulf oil crisis could stretch into the fall By RAY HENRY and JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writers - 11:30 PM JUNE 6,10
NEW ORLEANS – A containment cap was capturing more and more of the crude pouring from a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, but that bit of hope was tempered Sunday by a sharp dose of pragmatism as the federal government's point man warned the crisis could stretch into the fall.The inverted funnel-like cap is being closely watched for whether it can make a serious dent in the flow of new oil. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, overseeing the government's response to the spill, reserved judgment, saying he didn't want to risk offering false encouragement.Instead, he warned on CBS' Face the Nation that the battle to contain the oil is likely to stretch into the fall. The cap will trap only so much of the oil, and relief wells being drilled won't be completed until August. In the meantime, oil will continue to spew out.But even after that, there will be oil out there for months to come, Allen said.This will be well into the fall. This is a siege across the entire Gulf. This spill is holding everybody hostage, not only economically but physically. And it has to be attacked on all fronts, he said.Since it was placed over the busted well on Thursday, the cap has been siphoning an increasing amount of oil. On Saturday, it funneled about 441,000 gallons to a tanker on the surface, up from about 250,000 gallons it captured Friday.But it's not clear how much is still escaping from the well that federal authorities at one point estimated was leaking between 500,000 gallons and 1 million gallons a day. Since the spill began nearly seven weeks ago, roughly 23 million to 49 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf.The prospect that the crisis could stretch beyond summer was devastating to residents along the Gulf, who are seeing thicker globs of oil show up in increasing volume all along the coastline.
In Ruth Dailey's condominium in Gulf Shores, Ala., floors already are smeared with dark blotches of oil, she said, and things are only going to get worse.This is just the beginning, she said.I have a beachfront condo for a reason. With this, no one will want to come.Kelcey Forrestier, 23, of New Orleans, said she no longer trusts the word of either BP or the U.S. government in laying out the extent of the spill. But it is clear to Forrestier, just coming in off the water at Okaloosa Island, Fla., that the spill and its damage will last long into the future.Oil just doesn't go away. Oil doesn't disappear, said Forrestier, who just earned a biology degree.It has to go somewhere and it's going to come to the Gulf beaches.BP chief executive Tony Hayward told the BBC on Sunday that he believed the cap was likely to capture the majority, probably the vast majority of the oil gushing from the well. The gradual increase in the amount being captured is deliberate, in an effort to prevent water from getting inside and forming a frozen slush that foiled a previous containment attempt.Allen was reluctant to characterize the degree of progress, saying much more had to be done.
We need to underpromise and overdeliver,he said.On Sunday, BP said it had closed one of four vents that are allowing oil to escape and preventing that water intake. The company said some of the remaining vents may remain open to keep the cap system stable.Hayward told the BBC that the company hopes a second containment system will be in place by next weekend. Allen told CBS that the oil would stop flowing only when the existing well is plugged with cement once the relief wells have been completed.Once the cap is fully operational, if it is ultimately successful, it could capture a maximum of 630,000 gallons of oil a day. Besides installing the containment cap, BP officials have said they want a second option for siphoning off oil by next weekend. The plan would use lines and pipes that previously injected mud down into the well — one of several failed efforts over the past six-plus weeks to contain the leak — and instead use them to suck up oil and send it to a drilling rig on the ocean surface. BP also wants to install by late June another system to help cope with hurricanes that could roar over the site of the damaged well. When finished, there would be a riser floating about 300 feet below the ocean's surface — far enough below the water so it would not be disturbed by powerful hurricane winds and waves but close enough so ships forced to evacuate could easily reconnect to the pipes once the storm has passed.None of these fixes will stop the well from leaking; they're simply designed to capture what's leaking until the relief wells can be drilled.Since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana on April 20, killing 11 workers, BP PLC has tried and failed a number of efforts to contain the leak. In the past week, increasing quantities of thick oily sludge have been making their way farther east, washing up on some of the region's hallmark white-sand beaches and coating marshes in black ooze. An observation flight spotted a sheen of oil 150 miles west of Tampa, but officials said Sunday they didn't expect it to reach western Florida any time soon.
Already, cleanup crews along the coast were struggling to keep pace with oil washing up thicker and faster by the hour. The sight and smell of oil undermined any consolation offered by reports of progress at the wellhead. Instead, Gulf residents voiced frustration with the apparent holes in cleanup efforts. At Gulf Shores, Dailey walked along a line of oil mixed with seaweed that stretched as far as the eye could see. Collecting bits of the rust-colored oil did nothing to ease her anger. Clumps of seaweed hiding tar balls make the scene appear better than it really is, she said. Pick up a piece of weed and often there's oil underneath. They're lying when they say they're cleaning these beaches, said Dailey, of Huntsville. They're saying that because they still want people to come.Eventually, workers used a big sand-sifting machine to clean the public beach, leaving it spotless, at least for a while. But a couple miles away, workers cleaning a section of sand at a state park finished their work and left their refuse on the beach in the way of the incoming tide.Waves are washing over plastic bags filled with tar and oil. It's crazy, said Mike Reynolds, a real estate agent and director of Share The Beach, a turtle conservation group. At Pensacola Beach, Fla., the turquoise waves also were flecked with floating balls of tar. Buck Langston, who has been coming to the beach to collect shells for 38 years, watched as his family used improvised chopsticks to collect the tar in plastic containers.Yesterday it wasn't like this, this heavy,said Langston, of Baton Rouge, La.I don't know why cleanup crews aren't out here.
As hundreds of cars streamed through the toll booths at the entrance to the beach, a protester stood at the side of the road wearing a gas mask, lab coat, latex gloves and holding a Drill Baby Drill sign with tea bags hanging from the edges. Shawn Luzmoor said he works at a local environmental lab and has been testing the oil and tar that is washing up on the beaches. It's not safe and it's not right what's happening out there, he said. Allen expressed similar frustration, ordering cleanup crews to the Alabama coastline over the weekend after surveying the scene from the air. But he acknowledged the relative futility of their efforts.It's so widespread, and it's intermittent,he said.That's what's so challenging about this. Everyone wants certainty. With an oil spill like this, there isn't any.Reeves reported from Gulf Shores. Associated Press writers Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach and Brendan Farrington in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., contributed to this report.
BP sucking up 10,000 barrels daily from US oil leak by Allen Johnson – Sun Jun 6, 6:07 pm ET
GRAND ISLE, Louisiana (AFP) – BP said Sunday it was capturing some 10,000 barrels of crude a day from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, raising hopes it could be containing most of the worst oil spill in US history.With an environmental catastrophe unfolding on the shores of Louisiana and fears for neighboring southern states, BP chief's executive Tony Hayward said a cap fitted on the leaking pipe a mile (1,600 meters) down on the sea bed appeared to be working.As we speak, the containment cap is producing around 10,000 barrels of oil a day to the surface, he told the BBC.The US official in charge of the government operation, Admiral Thad Allen, agreed with the estimate, but refused to be drawn on what percentage of the leaking oil it represented.Government scientists have estimated that up to 19,000 barrels a day could be spewing into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion sank the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig just off the Louisiana coast.We're not going to know how much oil is coming out until we're able to optimize the production, and that's what they're doing right now, Allen told ABC News This Week.They are slowly raising production. It was 6,000 a day before and it was 10,000 yesterday, he added, also speaking of the anguish being felt by everyone involved in the momentous operation to stop the disaster.I think everybody is anguished over this. You know, I've been working on the water for 39 years. This is just completely distressing, and it's very frustrating, he told CNN.
He warned that the Coast Guard and clean-up teams were fighting an insidious enemy as they battle to keep the oil from reaching the shores, amid fears Florida's beaches could be badly hit with tar balls already washing up in Mississippi and Alabama.The slick has now spread around a 200-mile (320-kilometer) radius from the fractured wellhead, but has broken into thousands of small spills, Allen explained on ABC.This spill is just aggregated over a 200-mile radius around the wellbore, where it's leaking right now, and it's not a monolithic spill. It is literally hundreds of thousands of smaller spills.Ghastly pictures of birds smothered in thick layers of oil have shown the impact of the disaster, amid warnings the situation is getting progressively worse, with millions of gallons of crude now sloshing around in the sea.Massive spreads of boom have been deployed to protect coastlines, with Canada sending another 3,000 meters to the United States on Sunday, but in many places it has proved ineffective.Around 660 kilometers (410 miles) of boom, mostly from private oil company stock, have been deployed to contain the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the most recent US government figures.As of Saturday, 57 visibly oiled birds have been found dead, and another 156 oiled birds have been discovered alive, according to figures from the government and boatmen, biologists and rescuers at Grand Isle on Saturday.Among them are the brown pelican -- the Louisiana state symbol, which was only removed from the endangered list in November.
Bradley Verdin, a local boatman who carried journalists out to the badly-affected Queen Bess rookery, said the situation worsened about three days ago.I'm glad they are trying to save these birds, he said.I didn't think it was that bad until the day before yesterday.Allen warned Sunday that regardless of how much oil is now being contained, the leak will not be completely stopped until BP completes the drilling of two relief wells, sometime in August. There will be oil out there for months to come,he told CBS television. This spill is keeping everybody hostage.The latest containment effort involves a cap placed over a sawn-off pipe, which gathers the oil, allowing it to be siphoned up to a container ship. It was the first maneuver to demonstrate some success at curbing the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf, after a series of embarrassing failures. BP said Sunday it was readying a second containment effort, involving feeding pipes into the leaking blow-out preventer (BOP) that could siphon up additional oil to another container ship.The bid will use much of the same equipment deployed during BP's failed effort to flood the BOP with heavy drilling fluid called mud.Pipes will be attached to what's called the choke and kill lines and instead of pushing mud in we'll be pulling oil out, BP spokesman Mark Proegler told AFP.Hayward said the system could be ready by next week and, despite criticisms of his handling of the disaster, said he had the absolute intention of seeing this through to the end.
Containment cap offers hope even as oil spews on By HOLBROOK MOHR and JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press Writers - 10:30 AM JUNE 6,10
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. – A device sucking some of the oil from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico offered optimism Sunday for a region that has seen its wildlife coated in a lethal oil muck, its fishermen idled and its beaches tarnished by the nation's worst oil spill.The containment cap placed on the gusher near the sea floor trapped about 441,000 gallons of oil Saturday, BP spokesman Mark Proegler said Sunday, up from around 250,000 gallons of oil Friday. It's not clear how much is still escaping; an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily.BP chief executive Tony Hayward told the BBC on Sunday that he believed the cap was likely to capture the majority, probably the vast majority of the oil gushing from the well. The gradual increase in the amount being captured is deliberate, in an effort to prevent water from getting inside and forming a frozen slush that foiled a previous containment attempt.The next step is for BP engineers to attempt to close vents on the cap that allow streams of oil to escape and prevent that water intake, and Hayward told the BBC that the company hopes a second containment system will be in place by next weekend.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's point man for the response, took issue on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday with BP officials who said they were pleased with results of the latest effort. He said progress was being made, but I don't think anybody should be pleased as long as there is oil in the water.While BP plans to eventually use an additional set of hoses and pipes to increase the amount of oil being trapped, the ultimate solution remains a relief well that should be finished by August.
The urgency of that task was apparent along the Gulf Coast nearly seven weeks after a BP rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and rupturing the wellhead a mile below the surface. Since then, millions of gallons of oil have been rising to the surface, spreading out across the sea, washing ashore and killing wildlife.Pelicans are struggling to free themselves from oil that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, their feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge. Seashells are stained crimson.These waters are my backyard, my life, said boat captain Dave Marino, a firefighter and fishing guide from Myrtle Grove, La.I don't want to say heartbreaking, because that's been said. It's a nightmare. It looks like it's going to be wave after wave of it and nobody can stop it.The oil has steadily spread east, washing up in greater quantities in recent days. Government officials estimate that roughly 22 million to 48 million gallons have leaked into the Gulf.A line of oil mixed with seaweed stretched all across the beach Sunday morning in Gulf Shores, Ala. The oil often wasn't visible, hidden beneath the washed-up plants. At a cleaning station outside a huge condominium tower, Leon Baum scrubbed oil off his feet with Dawn dishwashing detergent.Baum had driven with his children and grandchildren from Bebee, Ark., for their annual vacation on Alabama's coast. They had contemplated leaving because of the oil, but they've already spent hundreds of dollars on their getaway.After you drive all this way, you stay,Baum said.At Pensacola Beach, Buck Langston and his family took to collecting globs of tar instead of sea shells on Sunday morning. They used improvised chopsticks to pick up the balls and drop them into plastic containers. Ultimately, the hoped to help clean it all up, Langston said.Yesterday it wasn't like this, this heavy, Langston said.I don't know why cleanup crews aren't out here.With no oil response workers on Louisiana's Queen Bess Island, Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn decided he could wait no longer, pulling an exhausted brown pelican from the oil, slime dripping from its wings.We're in the sixth week, you'd think there would be a flotilla of people out here, Hahn said.As you can see, we're so far behind the curve in this thing.At the mouth of Alabama's Mobile Bay, hundreds of seagulls squawked on a beach dotted with countless small tar balls but not a cleanup crew in sight.Scientists say the wildlife death toll remains relatively modest, well below the tens of thousand of birds, otters and other creatures killed after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound. The numbers have stayed comparatively low because the Deepwater Horizon rig was 50 miles off the coast and most of the oil has stayed in the open sea. The Valdez ran aground on a reef close to land, in a more enclosed setting. Experts say the Gulf's marshes, beaches and coastal waters, which nurture a dazzling array of life, could be transformed into killing fields, though the die-off could take months or years and unfold largely out of sight. The damage could be even greater beneath the water's surface, where oil and dispersants could devastate zooplankton and tiny invertebrates at the base of the food chain.
The Gulf is also home to dolphins and species including the endangered sperm whale. A government report found that dolphins with prolonged exposure to oil in the 1990s experienced skin injuries and burns, reduced neurological functions and lower hemoglobin levels in their blood.It concluded that the effects probably wouldn't be lethal because many creatures would avoid the oil, yet dolphins in the Gulf have been spotted swimming through plumes of crude.Flesher reported from Traverse City, Mich. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Holbrook Mohr on Barataria Bay, La.; Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach, Fla.; Ray Henry in New Orleans; and Jay Reeves in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
1 TRILLION BAILLOUT FOR EU NATIONS
HELENS HATE RANT AGAINST ISRAEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=447ekAh8AOo&feature=player_embedded
WE SEE THAT THE LEBANESE ISRAEL HATER HELEN THOMAS GOT DESTROYED OF HER JOB FOR HATING ISRAEL.GOD WON'T SETTLE FOR GODLESS ISRAEL HATERS TELLING ISRAEL WERE THEY SHOULD GO,WHEN GOD (KING JESUS)PUT THEM IN ISRAEL FOREVER TO BE A LIGHT TO THE NATIONS.LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS IF YOU BLESS ISRAEL YOU WILL BE BLESSED,IF YOU HATE ISRAEL YOU WILL BE DESTROYED.OVIOUSLY A 60 YEAR CAREER IS SHOT TO HELL AND A COVERUP AS A RETIREMENT FOR BEING FIRED FOR HER ANTISEMETIC REMARKS AGAINST ISRAEL.
OBAMA DECEPTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
FALL OF THE REPUBLIC MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LPNRI_6T8&feature=player_embedded
ENDGAME GLOBAL ENSLAVEMENT
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261
POLICE SATE 4-THE RISE OF FEMA MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqv9t1zVww&feature=player_embedded
INVISIBLE EMPIRE MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO24XmP1c5E&feature=player_embedded
BOHEMIAN GROVE NWO OCCULTISTS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-82095917705734983
WITCHCRAFT IN THE WHITE HOUSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmaiX86sUoc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2eILED00s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZARWvlz_yKI&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbh7KrUwawI&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IG0tmvCozU&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgP-SyrooKI&feature=channel
OBAMA SCAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1nmn2zRMc&feature=player_embedded
PHIL BERG - OBAMA CRIMES
http://obamacrimes.com/
LAURIE ROTH SHOW
http://therothshow.com/
DOUG HAGMANN
http://homelandsecurityus.com/
CANADA FREE PRESS-JUDI MCLEOD
http://www.canadafreepress.com/
JUNE 29TH ELLIGABILITY CASE
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=137773
AND THE OTHER ISSUE WE MUST KEEP ON THE TABLE AND IN PEOPLES MEMORY IS THAT BARRY SOETORO IS REALLY BARACK OBAMAS REAL NAME AND HE WAS BORN IN KENYA NOT AMERICA.BARRY SOETORO AKA BARACK OBAMA IS NOT ELLIGABLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT.EVERYTHING HE SIGNS IN BARACK OBAMA IS ILLEGEL,BECAUCE HIS REAL NAME IS BARRY SOETORO.AMERICAS CONSTITUTION WILL BE IN SHAMBLES ONCE THIS SCAM IS FINALLY REVEALED TO THE WORLD.
BY THE TIMELINE IN OBAMAS OWN BOOKS-OBAMA WENT TO PAKISTAN ON HIS INDONESIAN PASSPORT.ANOTHER ISSUE OUT OF 400 PEOPLE AT COLUMBIA THAT GRADUATED THE YEAR OBAMA OR BARRY SOETORO DID,NO ONE COMES FORWARD TO SAY THEY KNEW HIM.HOW COME AT HAWAII HOSPITAL WERE OBAMA CLAIMS HE WAS BORN,NO NURSES OR ANYBODY CAME FORWARD TO SAY THEY WITNESSED OR TOOK PART IN THE BIRTH.THIS BARRY SOETORO OR AKA BARACK OBAMAS LIFE IS A COMPLETE FRAUD.AND AMERICA IS CONNED TO BELIEVE THE LIE.WHY WOULD SOETORO AKA OBAMA SPEND 2 MILLION DOLLARS TO STOP ALL THESE LAWSUITS IF THERES NO COVERUP.HE WOULD JUST SHOW THE PROOF OF EACH EVENT-PLACE OF BIRTH,CERTIFICATE AND REAL NAME BARRY SOETORO INDONESIAN PASSPORT.
The proof is everywhere from statements and affidavits from Government parliament sources and Obama’s own Grandmother who says she saw him born in a hospital in Mombassa Kenya. The former ambassador to Kenya says Obama was born in Mombassa Kenya, so do others. Check out the affidavits at www.obamacrimes.com and join Phil Berg and other concerned citizens for a huge eligibility protest march May 29th 12-4pm.
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.
Oblivious to Oil in Mississippi, Possible Troops in Louisiana
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com June 7, 2010
Mississippi’s governor Haley Barbour is not about to let oil washing up on the state’s beaches ruin the tourism industry. The truth is we have had virtually no oil,Barbour told Fox News Sunday.We’ve had a few tar balls but we have a few every year because of natural seepage in the Gulf of Mexico.It’s all the fault of the damn media, Barbour insists. The biggest negative impact for us has been the news coverage,he grumbled.A sign warning beach-goers on Petit Bois Island, Mississippi.On June 1, however, the media reported that oil from the BP gusher had indeed washed up on Mississippi’s beaches. Oil from the BP Gulf of Mexico gusher hit beaches in Alabama and Mississippi for the first time Tuesday. It’s definitely not the kind of news the states wanted to deliver with the start of the summer beach season newly underway,NPR reported last week.Or rather it is not the sort of news Barbour wants to accept even though he admitted last week Petit Bois Island, a barrier island near the Mississippi-Alabama border, had been hit by the oil. Barbour has compared the slick to the thin sheen of oil commonly found around ski boats. Meanwhile, also on Sunday, the Intel Hub website reported rumors of a federal troop deployment in Louisiana. Shepard Ambellas, who reported on a mass grave site at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2009, reports possible battle hardened troops or National Guard outfitted in full battle gear and body armor have been seen moving into Grand Isle, Louisiana.
Ambellas writes: As of 12:00 PM CST, possible battle hardened troops or National Guard, in full battle gear and body armor with have been seen moving into the area. Fully armored HUMVEES with 50 Cal active gun turrets are reportedly arriving on scene as well. All troops and vehicles are in woodland patterns. Black trucks with red letters displaying Disaster Relief Team have also arrived. FEMA contractors and mobile facilities are present. The Crisis Management Corp. is reportedly present as well. Our reporters see no visible sign that the troops are National Guard at this time. They reported the troops looked battle hardened. Ambellas and the Intel Hub believe the deployment is the first step in a massive coastal evacuation that could potentially disperse 40-50 million people.Rumors concerning a massive evacuation have persisted since the beginning of the oil leak in late April. U.S. Army National Guard B Company 711 receiving instructions for putting Hesco containers along the beaches of Dauphin Island, Alabama, Sunday, May 2, 2010. Maryann Tobin, writing for the the Albuquerque Examiner on May 9, stated FEMA and other government agencies have prepared to evacuate the Tampa Bay area ahead of a controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico.Tobin did not cite sources. On May 4, up to 17,500 U.S. Army National Guard troops were mobilized by the Pentagon to help various states with the oil spill,according to the Associated Press. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has granted requests to send troops of up to 6,000 by Louisiana, 3,000 by Alabama, 2,500 by Florida and 6,000 by Mississippi.It is interesting to note the large number of troops deployed to Mississippi. As noted above, Mississippi’s governor Haley Barbour states oil is not a problem in the state.
1 worker dead in natural gas line blast in Texas By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 7,10
CLEBURNE, Texas – An emergency management official says a utility worker's body has been found several hours after a natural gas line exploded in Texas.Authorities searched for the worker by helicopter Monday afternoon following the massive explosion near Cleburne, about 50 miles southwest of Dallas. They couldn't walk through the entire area until making sure the fire was out and there was no danger.
Hood County Emergency Management Coordinator Brian Fine says the worker's body was found Monday night some distance from the blast site. The man's name was not immediately released.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) — A large natural gas line in north Texas erupted Monday after utility workers accidentally hit the line, sending a massive fireball into the air and leaving one worker missing hours after the blast, officials said.Johnson County Emergency Coordinator Jack Snow said searchers were scouring the charred area around the damaged line looking for the missing person. Thirteen other workers who were also at the site were accounted for, and there were no known fatalities, he said.The missing worker had just gotten down from a machine drilling utility pole holes when the line suddenly exploded. Other workers lost sight of him in the intense smoke, said Roger Harmon, Johnson County's top elected official. Several workers drove themselves to the hospital before emergency crews arrived, so it's possible that the missing man left the scene on his own, Harmon said.I really hope he is at home safe, but we're still searching, he said.Laura Harlin, a resident of nearby Granbury, said around the time of the blast she heard a huge rumbling that initially sounded like thunder and then like a tornado because it lasted so long.For about 10 minutes, it was so loud that it was like there was an 18-wheeler rumbling in your driveway, she said.The explosion caused confusion among officials in its immediate aftermath, with one city official saying three people had been killed. The official, Cleburne City Manager Chester Nolen, later said that after fire officials and the gas line operator extinguished the fire, he was unsure if anyone was killed.Heat from the blast forced firefighters to stay about a half-mile away until the gas flow was shut off.This could have been way worse, said Brian Fine, the Hood County emergency management coordinator who was assisting with the explosion.
At least seven of the workers went to the hospital following the explosion. Gary Marks, CEO of Glen Rose Medical Center, said two people were treated and released, and four others were in stable condition. One patient was taken to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth. Spokeswoman Whitney Jodry did not have person's condition.The gas line is owned by Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP. Spokesman Rick Rainey said Enterprise's control room immediately identified a break in the line near Cleburne, about 50 miles southwest of Dallas. Te 36-inch line was equipped with valves that automatically shut down gas to that section of pipe, and the fire was out about two hours after the explosion.The pipeline helps carry gas from West Texas across the state to utilities, distribution companies and commercial users on the eastern end of the state. Rainey said the company would work with customers to avoid any disruption to their service from the fire.The injured workers were digging for a subcontractor hired by Waco-based Brazos Electric Cooperative, Snow said. A message seeking comment from that company was not immediately returned. A spokesman for the subcontractor, Oklahoma-based C&H Power Line Construction Services, did not immediately respond to a call for comment either.
Snow said officials were investigating whether the gas line was marked. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration were also at the scene. The Texas natural gas blast followed one in West Virginia earlier Monday. Seven workers were burned when a drilling crew hit a pocket of methane gas, triggering an explosion in a rural area about 55 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.Associated Press Writers Jeff Carlton, Schuyler Dixon and Jamie Stengle in Dallas and Mark Williams in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE JUNE 08,2010
09:30 AM +2.85
10:00 AM -12.11
10:30 AM -9.90
11:00 AM -27.17
11:30 AM +17.08
12:00 PM +67.80
12:30 PM +38.93
01:00 PM +68.10
01:30 PM +27.36
02:00 PM -24.03
02:30 PM +55.40
03:00 PM +35.07
03:30 PM +54.27
04:00 PM +123.49 9,939.98
S&P 500 1062.00 +11.53
NASDAQ 2170.57 -3.33
GOLD 1,238.50 -2.30
OIL 72.12 +0.68
TSE 300 11,517.20 +12.40
CDNX 1450.49 -2.83
S&P/TSX/60 676.54 +0.29
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +5 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -14 points at low today.
Dow +40 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,244.70.OIL opens at $71.75 today.
GOLD HIT ALLTIME HIGH THIS MORNING $1,254.20
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -55 points at low today so far.
Dow +85 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -55 points at low today.
Dow +130 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,254.20 (TODAY NOT AT CLOSE)
EU SPAIN #11
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).
Eurozone nations set up $1 trillion bailout fund By AOIFE WHITE, AP Business Writer –Mon Jun 7, 3:42 pm ET
LUXEMBOURG – Eurozone nations on Monday started setting up a massive bailout fund that could rescue any member of Europe's currency union from default, aiming to soothe market jitters that have sent the euro to a new four-month low against the dollar.The shock and awe financial rescue package from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund will total euro750 billion ($1 trillion) — money that can be lent to any indebted eurozone nation risking default, and intended to counter investor fears that Spain, Portugal or others could follow Greece in requiring a bailout to meet debt repayments.The special purpose vehicle to borrow up to euro440 billion ($526 billion) will be ready this month, when countries formalize debt guarantees for some 90 percent of the package, said Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who led Monday's talks between eurozone finance ministers.Another euro60 billion managed by the EU's executive commission is available to cover urgent financial needs were it to arise in the mean time, he said, while the International Monetary Fund will provide another euro250 billion.Germany, which will provide the largest chunk of the EU fund, has pressed other eurozone countries to make big budget cuts to reduce the chances of them needing a bailout.Markets want to see not only actions but deeds to shore up the currency, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to set an example Monday by laying out plans to save euro80 billion through 2014 by reducing handouts to parents, cutting 15,000 government jobs and delaying projects such as construction of a replica of a Prussian palace in Berlin.Juncker said eurozone finance ministers wanted Spain and Portugal to build on current significant and courageous spending cuts with further efforts needed beyond 2011 together with further progress on structural reforms, such as changes to pensions, welfare or labor systems.EU Economy Commissioner Olli Rehn warned that they and others may need to prepare more budget reductions. He did not name which other countries should take action.Eurozone nations said in a joint statement that they would draft bigger cuts and tax increases if they have to and would pursue structural reforms to slim state running costs — such as raising retirement ages to curb pension costs.The International Monetary Fund called in a Monday report for eurozone countries facing market pressure to shun delayed or half-hearted budget cuts and draft more in case they can't make current targets to reduce budget deficits — the gap between government spending and income.Juncker dismissed market volatility in recent days triggered by concern that Hungary — which does not use the euro — could be the next European government to follow Greece by risking a default.Hungarian officials last week warned that the country's deficit is growing and the country is close to default, two years after it received a bailout from the EU and the IMF..Hungary's government has downplayed those comments, which nevertheless kept the euro trading near the four-year lows it hit Friday, when it went below $1.19 for the first time since March 2006.
There is intense pressure on all eurozone countries to make cuts.However, trade unions warn that budget cuts could be going too far and could choke a fragile recovery that so far relies more on exports than domestic demand in European countries where people are still slow to spend and companies are reluctant to hire new workers.Unemployment in the eurozone reached a 10-year high of 10.1 percent in April — adding extra welfare costs to governments struggling with higher outgoings, lower tax revenue and debt that has soared since they paid out hundreds of billions to shore up the region's banking system.Monday's talks between eurozone finance ministers will be followed by a meeting of most EU finance ministers and EU officials who will thrash out plans for long-term ways to avoid a new economic crisis, including a proposal for more EU oversight of national budgets. Associated Press writers Emma Vandore in Luxembourg, Geir Moulson in Berlin and Andrea Federer in Budapest contributed to this story.
Euro ministers add final stitch to debt safety net By Jan Strupczewski and Brian Love – Mon Jun 7, 6:47 pm ET
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Finance ministers from the debt-stricken euro zone sought to restore financial markets' confidence on Monday by agreeing how to deploy a vast anti-contagion program if needed by struggling members.Germany's coalition government agreed in parallel to budget cuts and taxes worth 11.2 billion euros next year -- and more than 80 billion euros by the end of 2014 -- in the latest of a series of austerity plans being hatched across the euro zone.Ministers from the 16 countries that use the euro finalized arrangements for a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to raise up to 440 billion euros ($525.4 billion) to lend to euro zone countries that run into Greek-style payments problems.There is no uncertainty left about the euro zone's capacity to provide conditional aid to countries in fiscal trouble,European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told a news conference after talks in Luxembourg.Jean-Claude Juncker, who chaired the meeting, said the SPV would be operational this month.A statement issued by the ministers said governments would make bigger commitments than first planned to ensure smooth operation and to justify a top credit rating.The SPV is essentially a company that will be able to raise money on markets by issuing bonds thanks to loan guarantees provided by governments of the euro zone. Member states hope it will never be mobilized but that its existence will convince markets that default fears are unfounded.Juncker and Rehn also welcomed additional austerity measures announced in mid-May by Spain and Portugal, which markets see as potential trouble spots after Greece, the first country in the euro zone's 11-year history to require a financial rescue.International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who joined the ministers, said the anti-contagion plan -- a safety net worth up to 750 billion euros once an IMF commitment of 250 billion euros is included -- was a good step forward.
WARNING BY BRITISH PM
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the scale of his country's budget problems was worse than he had anticipated and cited Greece as an example of what happens when countries lose credibility or pretend difficult decisions can be avoided.
Hungary's new center-right rulers, who alarmed markets last week by suggesting the country could face a Greek-style crisis, tried to reassure investors on Monday by pledging to stick to deficit-cutting targets their predecessors agreed with the IMF.
Britain and Hungary are not in the euro zone, but the risk of financial turmoil in wider EU countries is a factor weighing on confidence in the euro and in euro zone banks which have substantial exposure to central and eastern Europe.Juncker said he saw no problem at all with Hungary, adding: I only see the problem that politicians from Hungary talk too much.The finance ministers also discussed ways of tightening surveillance of national budgets and applying earlier and tougher sanctions against countries that breach EU deficit limits or misrepresent their statistics, as Greece did.EU President Herman Van Rompuy said they agreed in principle on the need to subject national budget strategy to greater peer scrutiny and to find more effective penalties for countries with wayward or potentially wayward public finances.
EURO DOWN
Investors fled peripheral euro zone government stocks and bonds last week because of doubts about how the euro rescue mechanism would work and worries about the solvency of European banks exposed to the sovereign debt crisis. World share prices dipped further on Monday. U.S. stocks closed lower in thin volume, and the euro fell below $1.20 for the first time in more than four years. Concern about political stability in Spain, one of the troubled euro zone economies, fed market anxiety. Juncker and Rehn said they were more concerned by the pace of the euro's decline than by the lower exchange rate, and the IMF said a currency long seen by many as too strong was now closer to what economic fundamentals justified. But rigidities, especially in labor and financial markets in some countries, are limiting the necessary restructuring in the aftermath of the global crisis,it said in a report. Germany needs less than others to slow spending but, keen to set an example, will pursue savings of 30 billion euros over four years in welfare, mainly from unemployment benefits, and will cut thousands of federal government jobs. The new savings are unlikely to please some of Germany's partners, including the United States, which pressured Berlin at a G20 meeting in South Korea to stimulate domestic demand. Despite the efforts in Luxembourg to reassure markets, German Chancellor Angela Merkel postponed talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on reforming governance of the euro zone. Officials cited diary problems. The two had been due to patch up their differences over the euro zone and financial regulation, 10 days before an EU summit. The meeting will take place next Monday, German officials said. (Additional reporting by Marcin Grajewski, Sudip Kar-gupta and Brian Rohan in Luxembourg, Krisztina Than in Budapest, Matthias Sobolewski and Dave Graham in Berlin, George Matlock in London; writing by Brian Love and Paul Taylor; Editing by Noah Barkin and Timothy Heritage)
Bernanke says Europe committed to euro's survival
JUNE 7,10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – European leaders are committed to ensuring the survival of the euro and have enough money to meet obligations of heavily indebted member countries, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday.In remarks to the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, Bernanke said a euro stabilization package of nearly $1 trillion was a lot of money and enough to protect Greece, Portugal and Spain from volatile credit markets for a number of years.But he acknowledged that investors were not yet convinced Europe's debt problems would be resolved, and said more European rescue money may be needed.European leadership is strongly committed to doing whatever is necessary to preserve the euro, preserve the euro zone, preserve the European project, and avoid financial problems that would certainly arise, Bernanke said.In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session, Bernanke said a regulatory reform bill which Congress is finalizing contained strong measures to address the problem of financial firms being too big to fail.The acid test of the reform will be, will it control too big to fail? he said, pointing to measures including tougher bank capital rules, resolution authority to safely close failing firms, and living wills that require companies to plan for their own unwinding.
When asked whether he thought the bill was more helpful than harmful, Bernanke replied, Oh yes, I do.He also said the U.S. economy appeared to have enough momentum to avoid a double-dip recession, citing strengthening consumer and business spending.
There are some signs the private sector is picking up the baton, he said.However, Bernanke noted that the pace of recovery was moderate considering the depth of the recession, and unemployment would probably decline only slowly.On China, Bernanke said he was probably the only U.S. official who had attended every Strategic and Economic Dialogue since the enhanced program was started by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson during the financial crisis.He said the new format was particularly useful because it broadened discussions beyond traditional sticking points such as the value of China's currency.He said China recognized that it has a codependency with the United States. China is the largest foreign buyer of U.S. government debt, while the United States is a vital trading partner for China.There is a real desire on both sides to engage,Bernanke said.For me, that is a very important achievement to have those lines of communication be open.(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal, Pedro da Costa and Emily Kaiser; Editing by Gary Hill)
EU agrees controversial peer review of national budgets-Member states could now end up looking at each others' revenue and expenditure plans (Photo: ansik)ANDREW WILLIS Today JUNE 8,10 @ 09:28 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU finance ministers have reached broad agreement on a controversial plan to review each others' national budgets, together with earlier sanctions for member states that break the bloc's fiscal rules. Also meeting in Luxembourg on Monday (7 June), an earlier gathering of euro area finance ministers approved the principle component of the zone's unprecedented €750 billion rescue mechanism.Speaking to journalists after chairing his second taskforce meeting on economic governance with EU27 finance officials, most of them ministers, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said governments had agreed to show their national budgets to each other and to the European Commission before seeking national parliamentary approval. Originally put forward by the commission in May, the pre-vetting of national budgets by Brussels had previously met with stern opposition from a number of capitals including Berlin, London and Stockholm. Under the new system, which still needs final approval from EU leaders, each government will present its broad estimates for growth, inflation, revenue and expenditure levels in the spring, roughly six months before national budgets go through parliaments.Any government planning to run a deficit will have to justify itself to its peers on why this should be allowed, said Mr Van Rompuy, adding that members with debt levels above 60 percent of GDP would come in for even tougher scrutiny.
After the meeting, British officials underlined the primary role of national parliaments however, in an indication that precise details still need to be worked out.
Sanctions
The taskforce, set up by EU leaders in March, also agreed on the need for earlier and more graduated sanctions for states that break the bloc's budgetary rules - known as the Stability and Growth Pact. The pact sets out maximum deficit and debt thresholds of three and 60 percent of GDP, respectively, with possible fines for overspending member states of up to 0.5 percent of GDP, although in practice the fines have never been levied.In future, governments could get into trouble with their peers even before their deficits reached the three percent threshold, said Mr Van Rompuy. Up to now, you only got fined for driving through the red light of the three percent,the former Belgian prime minister told journalists.From now on, you could also be in trouble for crossing the orange light.Recently floated sanctions ideas have ranged from reduced EU funding to a loss of voting rights for ministers attending EU meetings in Brussels. Monday's talks primarily concentrated on financial sanctions, said Mr Van Rompuy, as non-financial sanctions would involve changing the EU treaty. A number of EU states have raised objections to a withdrawal of EU structural funds as a form of punishment, however.We think that if there are to be sanctions, they should be of a universal character. It can't be, for example, taking away structural funds, because these are reserved only for some [of the poorest] EU countries, Poland's Europe minister, Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, told the Polish press agency, PAP, in an exclusive interview.
Eurozone bail-out
Earlier on Monday evening, euro area finance ministers reached an agreement on a €440 billion special purpose vehicle (SPV) - the main component of a massive eurozone support mechanism hastily agreed by EU leaders last month as Greece's debt crisis threatened to spread to other members of the single currency. The SPV will be based in Luxembourg and will issue debt on capital markets, backed by individual guarantees provided by all 16 members of the eurozone. The money raised in this way can then be lent to struggling eurozone administrations, but only after a restructuring programme is agreed. There is no uncertainty left ... about the ability to provide support, EU economy commissioner Olli Rehn said after the meeting, just hours after the euro currency touched another four-year low versus the dollar before gradually recovering.
Germany sets EU example with €80bn austerity package
VALENTINA POP Today JUNE 8,10 @ 09:25 CET
German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday (7 June) announced spending cuts to the tune of €80 billion in the coming four years, in an example to other European economies struggling with deficits.Around €80 billion must be saved until 2014 in order to put our financial future on a solid footing, Ms Merkel told journalists at a press conference in Berlin, after lengthy coalition talks which forced her to postpone a previously scheduled meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.The two leaders were due to co-ordinate their positions ahead of an EU summit on 17 June and to show that the Franco-German EU motor is still working, after a series of disagreements over the multi-billion-euro bailout packages for Greece and the eurozone itself.But in the end, the signal of fiscal discipline was more important for Ms Merkel than the show of Franco-German entente. Germany, as the biggest economy, has the outstanding task of setting a good example. I think recent months have shown, in the case of Greece and other eurozone countries, how extraordinarily important sound finances are, Ms Merkel said.
Germany's budget deficit reached 3.1 percent of GDP last year and is expected to reach five percent by the end of 2010.The cuts proposed by Ms Merkel are based on a constitutional clause capping the country's deficit at 0.35 percent of GDP by 2016, a mechanism she would like to see replicated in all euro-countries.Mr Sarkozy last month announced a similar clause, but without binding targets.The bulk of Germany's planned cuts are taken from social benefits, such as long-term unemployment entitlements and business subsidies, and from the public sector, including axing 10,000 government jobs in the next four years. Military spending will also be reviewed and could see cutbacks of 40,000 posts.Ms Merkel's junior coalition partner, the Liberal Free Democrats (FDP), had pushed against any increases in income tax or VAT. But new levies on nuclear power companies and air passenger taxes may be put in place. The only spending areas left untouched are education and research.These are serious and difficult times,the German chancellor said. We can't afford everything we would like if we want to be able to shape our future.The German opposition has slammed the package as proof of failure. According to Social-Democratic leader Sigmar Gabriel, Ms Merkel's government has been too weak towards its business contacts, failed to tax the rich and is now running austerity measures at the expense of families and the unemployed.Green leader Claudia Roth also criticised the program as being characterised by active protection of wealth.
The proposals still need the approval of the German parliament, likely to come up in the autumn, when some details may change.Several EU countries have announced similar austerity programmes, with Spain agreeing deep cuts last week and Greece having agreed to far-reaching reforms earlier this year when it signed up to an EU-IMF rescue package. In new EU member state Romania, which is also being propped up by an IMF loan, the government slashed 25 percent of wages for state employees and 15 percent of pensions and unemployment benefits.
EU officials distance themselves from Gazprom stunt
VALENTINA POP Today JUNE 8,10 @ 09:23 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Current and former top EU officials on Monday (7 June) denied that they have any connection with Gazprom in a yachting project which has been flying the EU flag for the past six years but which is now sponsored by the Russian firm. The EU-flagged boat Esimit Europa 2 is to be launched on Thursday (10 June) in Cannes at an event hosted by Gazprom chief Alexei Miller and will take part in eight regattas this year. On its inner sail, the logo of the Russian gas company features prominently under the EU flag and the inscription European energy.Gazprom is Russia's largest energy company and is keen to expand in the EU.It has a shady image, however. Run by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's circle of friends with links to the KGB, it is widely seen as a tool of Russian foreign policy. Its public profile was badly damaged by the 2006 and 2009 gas supply crises involving Ukraine. On its website the Esimit project is said to be under the patronage of EU commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.A video clip also includes a spoken testimonial by Pat Cox, a recent president of the European Parliament, who says the spirit of Europe is captured at the heart of this project.Both Mr Cox and Mr Barroso were quick to distance themselves from Gazprom when queried by this website, however.Mr Cox said that the footage dates back to a few years ago, before Gazprom became the main sponsor of the project earlier this year. I was not involved in any negotiations on sponsorships and have no commercial interest in the matter,he said.
He explained that his initial endorsement came about in 2004, when he was still Parliament chief, as an act of good will for the boat scheme, which involves flying the EU flag in various regattas and having a multi-national crew. A few years later, during a visit to Ljubljana, the Slovenian team behind the Esimit project asked him to film the video testimonial. I knew they were looking for sponsors, but I wasn't asked about any sponsor and I have nothing to do with Gazprom, Mr Cox said.A spokesman for the EU commission also said that Mr Barroso endorsed the project before Gazprom came on board. He gave his patronage to this project in November 2006. There was no money involved, it was a simple patronage like so many other EU and national dignitaries do, commission spokesman Mark Gray said. Neither Mr Barroso or Mr Cox are considering withdrawing their support for the project over the Gazprom link, however. Nor have they complained about having their faces and names attached to the Gazprom logo, Gorazd Mauri, the public relations manager for the yachting project, told EUobserver.The European Parliament and Commission's patronage is just for the yacht. It's a written support allowing us to fly under the EU flag. They were informed when Gazprom became sponsor and so we haven't had any complaints about it, Mr Mauri said.Aware of the EU-Gazprom controversies in recent years, Mr Mauri said the sponsorship had no political agenda.Gazprom decided to sponsor us because of the vision it promotes – all Europeans on the same boat. We want to win, we are honoured to be have such a distinguished sponsor, he said. Asked who would benefit the most, Gazprom or the EU, if the yacht won any of the competitions it is to take part in, Mr Mauri pointed to the motto of the project all Europeans together on the same boat.The Esimit sponsorship, worth several million euros, is not the only sports-related Gazprom PR project. The Russian firm is also sponsoring German football club FC Schalke, for which it pays €25 million a year.
EU diplomatic service may be ready in December
HONOR MAHONY 07.06.2010 @ 18:04 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Officials working on the creation of the EU's diplomatic service believe it could be on its feet by 1 December, a symbolic date marking the first anniversary of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, but several months later than the original timetable.The lengthy delay has been due to the difficulties of getting agreement from all the different sides - member states, the European Commission and MEPs - on the new body, which is meant to give coherency to EU foreign policy.The European Parliament is last party still to agree to the blueprint for the corps, first published by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in March and endorsed by the commission and member states the following month.Sources close to the negotiations, due to continue on Tuesday (8 June), believe that MEPs may be ready to signal their broad agreement on Thursday at a meeting of the EU assembly's political leaders.At this stage, what success would look like is some sort of signal from the conference of presidents [on Thursday] that this is the right ball park and these are the grandes lignes of the eventual deal, said the contact, adding that talks have been going well.This would allow Ms Ashton to start advertising some of the senior jobs that are coming up for grabs.These include 32 heads of delegation to be filled in July and a further 22 such jobs, part of the 2011 rotation of delegation heads, to be decided in November.
A decision also has to be taken on the EU's 11 special representatives (EUSRs) to regions such as central Asia and countries such as Sudan. The group's mandate, already extended once, runs out at the end of August. Ms Ashton is keen to rejig the system, keeping some special envoys and creating new ones, but scrapping others where the job could equally be done by the heads of the EU embassies. On a best-case scenario, we would be making senior appointments in September some time and that means ... that you're looking at trying to get a service up and running in some form by the anniversary of the entry into force of the [Lisbon] treaty,the source close to the EU talks said. Three main areas still need to be settled with MEPs before the deal can be put to bed.The questions are who should deputise the busy Ms Ashton in her absence, whether the service should be part of the commission or a stand-alone institution and the wording of a declaration on political accountability.MEPs have won some important concessions in recent months, using their threat of a veto on the legal changes to EU budget and staff rules needed to set up the service. At their behest, the service will no longer have an all-powerful secretary general; more MEPs will have access to secret documents and there will be clearer guarantees on budget accountability.So far MEPs have said they will only agree to the service blueprint as part of a package, including amending the rules on staff, finances and the institutional link to the commission. But beyond the parliament, others imply that MEPs have little political credit left.
EU summit pressure
The pressure is on to have the parliament show its hand and sign up to an agreement even if all elements of the package have not be finally agreed.We do have a European Council coming up [on 17-18 June]. It will have important issues on its agenda and I would think this is not an issue it wants on its agenda. It would want to know that this is still on track, the contact close to the negotiations said.If you get into agreeing a package in autumn, well how long is a piece of string? Then you are in a position which is not good for the European Union as a whole.An European Parliament official close to the talks expressed irritation that parliament is being portrayed as dragging its feet.We only got the 10-point political declaration [on accountability] from [Ms Ashton] three weeks ago when we asked for for it three months ago, said the official.He also noted that while there have been several of these talks at technical level, the EU foreign policy chief has only herself been present once. There are several issues that are important to us still open, he added.
The service, once fully up and running, is expected to have between 6,000 and 7,000 personnel. Between now and 2013, some 850 jobs will be open for applications.
Canada grilled over half-baked fake lake at G20
Mon Jun 7, 6:01 pm ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's government found itself in hot water on Monday after it emerged that the media centre for two international summits this month will feature a C$1.9 million (1.2 million pound) artificial lake, complete with canoes and a bar.
Opposition legislators, already unhappy with the C$1 billion security tab for the Group of Eight and Group of 20 meetings, ridiculed the government's explanation that the lake would impress foreign media.The government's half-baked fake lake takes the cake. What a mistake, Rodger Cuzner of the Liberals told the House of Commons, prompting loud laughter.The official Atlas of Canada says there are 31,752 lakes larger than 3 square km (1.2 sq. mi.) in the country.The Toronto press centre lake is supposed to be a copy of those in the picturesque Huntsville region north of the city where leaders are set to meet for the G8 summit.Tight security means most of the 3,000 accredited reporters will get nowhere near the area. The G20 summit will be held in Toronto -- on the shores of Lake Ontario -- right after the G8 gathering.
We have a government here that has to create an artificial lake when Canada has more lakes than just about any other country in the world. It is the taxpayers who are going to end up at the bottom of the fake lake, said Jack Layton, leader of the left-leaning New Democrats.Federal Transport Minister John Baird said the summits would be an amazing opportunity to market Canada.We want to showcase the very best that this country has to offer, he told the House of Commons.(Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Rob Wilson)
Israel unearths 3,500-year-old religious artifacts By MARIA R. HOWELL, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jun 7, 4:36 pm ET
JERUSALEM – Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of rare, 35-century-old religious artifacts once used in pagan rituals, Israeli officials said Monday.The items were found during an excavation ordered by the Israel Antiquities Authority along the route of a new gas line in the country's north. Excavating a rock hollow, archeologists found more than 100 intact artifacts, including a vessel for burning incense and the sculpted face of a woman that was part of a cup used in a pagan religious ceremony.This is my 42nd excavation in 15 years and the first time I've found more than shards, said Edwin van den Brink, the archaeologist who directed the excavation. He said he expected to find artifacts, but not the amount or quality they uncovered.Some of the small vessels were used to carry precious liquids from Cyprus and Mycenae, Greece, 3,500 years ago. These vessels were replicated by people in those areas, illustrating a link between the regions, van den Brink said.Van den Brink said they might have been used in a nearby temple. They were deposited in the hole either to be preserved from a fire that swept through the region at the end of the Late Bronze Age, or they were buried because they were no longer in use.Yossi Garfinkel, a professor of archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem who was not involved in the dig, said holy articles could not be thrown out and were buried instead.It is quite possible that these artifacts were used in the cultic area and in the temple and they accumulated, and when they ran out of space or they became old, a pit was made to bury them, Garfinkel said.The Antiquities Authority plans to exhibit the artifacts in the coming year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=447ekAh8AOo&feature=player_embedded
WE SEE THAT THE LEBANESE ISRAEL HATER HELEN THOMAS GOT DESTROYED OF HER JOB FOR HATING ISRAEL.GOD WON'T SETTLE FOR GODLESS ISRAEL HATERS TELLING ISRAEL WERE THEY SHOULD GO,WHEN GOD (KING JESUS)PUT THEM IN ISRAEL FOREVER TO BE A LIGHT TO THE NATIONS.LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS IF YOU BLESS ISRAEL YOU WILL BE BLESSED,IF YOU HATE ISRAEL YOU WILL BE DESTROYED.OVIOUSLY A 60 YEAR CAREER IS SHOT TO HELL AND A COVERUP AS A RETIREMENT FOR BEING FIRED FOR HER ANTISEMETIC REMARKS AGAINST ISRAEL.
OBAMA DECEPTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
FALL OF THE REPUBLIC MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LPNRI_6T8&feature=player_embedded
ENDGAME GLOBAL ENSLAVEMENT
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261
POLICE SATE 4-THE RISE OF FEMA MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqv9t1zVww&feature=player_embedded
INVISIBLE EMPIRE MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO24XmP1c5E&feature=player_embedded
BOHEMIAN GROVE NWO OCCULTISTS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-82095917705734983
WITCHCRAFT IN THE WHITE HOUSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmaiX86sUoc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2eILED00s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZARWvlz_yKI&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbh7KrUwawI&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IG0tmvCozU&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgP-SyrooKI&feature=channel
OBAMA SCAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1nmn2zRMc&feature=player_embedded
PHIL BERG - OBAMA CRIMES
http://obamacrimes.com/
LAURIE ROTH SHOW
http://therothshow.com/
DOUG HAGMANN
http://homelandsecurityus.com/
CANADA FREE PRESS-JUDI MCLEOD
http://www.canadafreepress.com/
JUNE 29TH ELLIGABILITY CASE
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=137773
AND THE OTHER ISSUE WE MUST KEEP ON THE TABLE AND IN PEOPLES MEMORY IS THAT BARRY SOETORO IS REALLY BARACK OBAMAS REAL NAME AND HE WAS BORN IN KENYA NOT AMERICA.BARRY SOETORO AKA BARACK OBAMA IS NOT ELLIGABLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT.EVERYTHING HE SIGNS IN BARACK OBAMA IS ILLEGEL,BECAUCE HIS REAL NAME IS BARRY SOETORO.AMERICAS CONSTITUTION WILL BE IN SHAMBLES ONCE THIS SCAM IS FINALLY REVEALED TO THE WORLD.
BY THE TIMELINE IN OBAMAS OWN BOOKS-OBAMA WENT TO PAKISTAN ON HIS INDONESIAN PASSPORT.ANOTHER ISSUE OUT OF 400 PEOPLE AT COLUMBIA THAT GRADUATED THE YEAR OBAMA OR BARRY SOETORO DID,NO ONE COMES FORWARD TO SAY THEY KNEW HIM.HOW COME AT HAWAII HOSPITAL WERE OBAMA CLAIMS HE WAS BORN,NO NURSES OR ANYBODY CAME FORWARD TO SAY THEY WITNESSED OR TOOK PART IN THE BIRTH.THIS BARRY SOETORO OR AKA BARACK OBAMAS LIFE IS A COMPLETE FRAUD.AND AMERICA IS CONNED TO BELIEVE THE LIE.WHY WOULD SOETORO AKA OBAMA SPEND 2 MILLION DOLLARS TO STOP ALL THESE LAWSUITS IF THERES NO COVERUP.HE WOULD JUST SHOW THE PROOF OF EACH EVENT-PLACE OF BIRTH,CERTIFICATE AND REAL NAME BARRY SOETORO INDONESIAN PASSPORT.
The proof is everywhere from statements and affidavits from Government parliament sources and Obama’s own Grandmother who says she saw him born in a hospital in Mombassa Kenya. The former ambassador to Kenya says Obama was born in Mombassa Kenya, so do others. Check out the affidavits at www.obamacrimes.com and join Phil Berg and other concerned citizens for a huge eligibility protest march May 29th 12-4pm.
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.
Oblivious to Oil in Mississippi, Possible Troops in Louisiana
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com June 7, 2010
Mississippi’s governor Haley Barbour is not about to let oil washing up on the state’s beaches ruin the tourism industry. The truth is we have had virtually no oil,Barbour told Fox News Sunday.We’ve had a few tar balls but we have a few every year because of natural seepage in the Gulf of Mexico.It’s all the fault of the damn media, Barbour insists. The biggest negative impact for us has been the news coverage,he grumbled.A sign warning beach-goers on Petit Bois Island, Mississippi.On June 1, however, the media reported that oil from the BP gusher had indeed washed up on Mississippi’s beaches. Oil from the BP Gulf of Mexico gusher hit beaches in Alabama and Mississippi for the first time Tuesday. It’s definitely not the kind of news the states wanted to deliver with the start of the summer beach season newly underway,NPR reported last week.Or rather it is not the sort of news Barbour wants to accept even though he admitted last week Petit Bois Island, a barrier island near the Mississippi-Alabama border, had been hit by the oil. Barbour has compared the slick to the thin sheen of oil commonly found around ski boats. Meanwhile, also on Sunday, the Intel Hub website reported rumors of a federal troop deployment in Louisiana. Shepard Ambellas, who reported on a mass grave site at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2009, reports possible battle hardened troops or National Guard outfitted in full battle gear and body armor have been seen moving into Grand Isle, Louisiana.
Ambellas writes: As of 12:00 PM CST, possible battle hardened troops or National Guard, in full battle gear and body armor with have been seen moving into the area. Fully armored HUMVEES with 50 Cal active gun turrets are reportedly arriving on scene as well. All troops and vehicles are in woodland patterns. Black trucks with red letters displaying Disaster Relief Team have also arrived. FEMA contractors and mobile facilities are present. The Crisis Management Corp. is reportedly present as well. Our reporters see no visible sign that the troops are National Guard at this time. They reported the troops looked battle hardened. Ambellas and the Intel Hub believe the deployment is the first step in a massive coastal evacuation that could potentially disperse 40-50 million people.Rumors concerning a massive evacuation have persisted since the beginning of the oil leak in late April. U.S. Army National Guard B Company 711 receiving instructions for putting Hesco containers along the beaches of Dauphin Island, Alabama, Sunday, May 2, 2010. Maryann Tobin, writing for the the Albuquerque Examiner on May 9, stated FEMA and other government agencies have prepared to evacuate the Tampa Bay area ahead of a controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico.Tobin did not cite sources. On May 4, up to 17,500 U.S. Army National Guard troops were mobilized by the Pentagon to help various states with the oil spill,according to the Associated Press. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has granted requests to send troops of up to 6,000 by Louisiana, 3,000 by Alabama, 2,500 by Florida and 6,000 by Mississippi.It is interesting to note the large number of troops deployed to Mississippi. As noted above, Mississippi’s governor Haley Barbour states oil is not a problem in the state.
1 worker dead in natural gas line blast in Texas By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 7,10
CLEBURNE, Texas – An emergency management official says a utility worker's body has been found several hours after a natural gas line exploded in Texas.Authorities searched for the worker by helicopter Monday afternoon following the massive explosion near Cleburne, about 50 miles southwest of Dallas. They couldn't walk through the entire area until making sure the fire was out and there was no danger.
Hood County Emergency Management Coordinator Brian Fine says the worker's body was found Monday night some distance from the blast site. The man's name was not immediately released.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) — A large natural gas line in north Texas erupted Monday after utility workers accidentally hit the line, sending a massive fireball into the air and leaving one worker missing hours after the blast, officials said.Johnson County Emergency Coordinator Jack Snow said searchers were scouring the charred area around the damaged line looking for the missing person. Thirteen other workers who were also at the site were accounted for, and there were no known fatalities, he said.The missing worker had just gotten down from a machine drilling utility pole holes when the line suddenly exploded. Other workers lost sight of him in the intense smoke, said Roger Harmon, Johnson County's top elected official. Several workers drove themselves to the hospital before emergency crews arrived, so it's possible that the missing man left the scene on his own, Harmon said.I really hope he is at home safe, but we're still searching, he said.Laura Harlin, a resident of nearby Granbury, said around the time of the blast she heard a huge rumbling that initially sounded like thunder and then like a tornado because it lasted so long.For about 10 minutes, it was so loud that it was like there was an 18-wheeler rumbling in your driveway, she said.The explosion caused confusion among officials in its immediate aftermath, with one city official saying three people had been killed. The official, Cleburne City Manager Chester Nolen, later said that after fire officials and the gas line operator extinguished the fire, he was unsure if anyone was killed.Heat from the blast forced firefighters to stay about a half-mile away until the gas flow was shut off.This could have been way worse, said Brian Fine, the Hood County emergency management coordinator who was assisting with the explosion.
At least seven of the workers went to the hospital following the explosion. Gary Marks, CEO of Glen Rose Medical Center, said two people were treated and released, and four others were in stable condition. One patient was taken to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth. Spokeswoman Whitney Jodry did not have person's condition.The gas line is owned by Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP. Spokesman Rick Rainey said Enterprise's control room immediately identified a break in the line near Cleburne, about 50 miles southwest of Dallas. Te 36-inch line was equipped with valves that automatically shut down gas to that section of pipe, and the fire was out about two hours after the explosion.The pipeline helps carry gas from West Texas across the state to utilities, distribution companies and commercial users on the eastern end of the state. Rainey said the company would work with customers to avoid any disruption to their service from the fire.The injured workers were digging for a subcontractor hired by Waco-based Brazos Electric Cooperative, Snow said. A message seeking comment from that company was not immediately returned. A spokesman for the subcontractor, Oklahoma-based C&H Power Line Construction Services, did not immediately respond to a call for comment either.
Snow said officials were investigating whether the gas line was marked. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration were also at the scene. The Texas natural gas blast followed one in West Virginia earlier Monday. Seven workers were burned when a drilling crew hit a pocket of methane gas, triggering an explosion in a rural area about 55 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.Associated Press Writers Jeff Carlton, Schuyler Dixon and Jamie Stengle in Dallas and Mark Williams in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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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EU SPAIN #11
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).
Eurozone nations set up $1 trillion bailout fund By AOIFE WHITE, AP Business Writer –Mon Jun 7, 3:42 pm ET
LUXEMBOURG – Eurozone nations on Monday started setting up a massive bailout fund that could rescue any member of Europe's currency union from default, aiming to soothe market jitters that have sent the euro to a new four-month low against the dollar.The shock and awe financial rescue package from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund will total euro750 billion ($1 trillion) — money that can be lent to any indebted eurozone nation risking default, and intended to counter investor fears that Spain, Portugal or others could follow Greece in requiring a bailout to meet debt repayments.The special purpose vehicle to borrow up to euro440 billion ($526 billion) will be ready this month, when countries formalize debt guarantees for some 90 percent of the package, said Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who led Monday's talks between eurozone finance ministers.Another euro60 billion managed by the EU's executive commission is available to cover urgent financial needs were it to arise in the mean time, he said, while the International Monetary Fund will provide another euro250 billion.Germany, which will provide the largest chunk of the EU fund, has pressed other eurozone countries to make big budget cuts to reduce the chances of them needing a bailout.Markets want to see not only actions but deeds to shore up the currency, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to set an example Monday by laying out plans to save euro80 billion through 2014 by reducing handouts to parents, cutting 15,000 government jobs and delaying projects such as construction of a replica of a Prussian palace in Berlin.Juncker said eurozone finance ministers wanted Spain and Portugal to build on current significant and courageous spending cuts with further efforts needed beyond 2011 together with further progress on structural reforms, such as changes to pensions, welfare or labor systems.EU Economy Commissioner Olli Rehn warned that they and others may need to prepare more budget reductions. He did not name which other countries should take action.Eurozone nations said in a joint statement that they would draft bigger cuts and tax increases if they have to and would pursue structural reforms to slim state running costs — such as raising retirement ages to curb pension costs.The International Monetary Fund called in a Monday report for eurozone countries facing market pressure to shun delayed or half-hearted budget cuts and draft more in case they can't make current targets to reduce budget deficits — the gap between government spending and income.Juncker dismissed market volatility in recent days triggered by concern that Hungary — which does not use the euro — could be the next European government to follow Greece by risking a default.Hungarian officials last week warned that the country's deficit is growing and the country is close to default, two years after it received a bailout from the EU and the IMF..Hungary's government has downplayed those comments, which nevertheless kept the euro trading near the four-year lows it hit Friday, when it went below $1.19 for the first time since March 2006.
There is intense pressure on all eurozone countries to make cuts.However, trade unions warn that budget cuts could be going too far and could choke a fragile recovery that so far relies more on exports than domestic demand in European countries where people are still slow to spend and companies are reluctant to hire new workers.Unemployment in the eurozone reached a 10-year high of 10.1 percent in April — adding extra welfare costs to governments struggling with higher outgoings, lower tax revenue and debt that has soared since they paid out hundreds of billions to shore up the region's banking system.Monday's talks between eurozone finance ministers will be followed by a meeting of most EU finance ministers and EU officials who will thrash out plans for long-term ways to avoid a new economic crisis, including a proposal for more EU oversight of national budgets. Associated Press writers Emma Vandore in Luxembourg, Geir Moulson in Berlin and Andrea Federer in Budapest contributed to this story.
Euro ministers add final stitch to debt safety net By Jan Strupczewski and Brian Love – Mon Jun 7, 6:47 pm ET
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Finance ministers from the debt-stricken euro zone sought to restore financial markets' confidence on Monday by agreeing how to deploy a vast anti-contagion program if needed by struggling members.Germany's coalition government agreed in parallel to budget cuts and taxes worth 11.2 billion euros next year -- and more than 80 billion euros by the end of 2014 -- in the latest of a series of austerity plans being hatched across the euro zone.Ministers from the 16 countries that use the euro finalized arrangements for a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to raise up to 440 billion euros ($525.4 billion) to lend to euro zone countries that run into Greek-style payments problems.There is no uncertainty left about the euro zone's capacity to provide conditional aid to countries in fiscal trouble,European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told a news conference after talks in Luxembourg.Jean-Claude Juncker, who chaired the meeting, said the SPV would be operational this month.A statement issued by the ministers said governments would make bigger commitments than first planned to ensure smooth operation and to justify a top credit rating.The SPV is essentially a company that will be able to raise money on markets by issuing bonds thanks to loan guarantees provided by governments of the euro zone. Member states hope it will never be mobilized but that its existence will convince markets that default fears are unfounded.Juncker and Rehn also welcomed additional austerity measures announced in mid-May by Spain and Portugal, which markets see as potential trouble spots after Greece, the first country in the euro zone's 11-year history to require a financial rescue.International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who joined the ministers, said the anti-contagion plan -- a safety net worth up to 750 billion euros once an IMF commitment of 250 billion euros is included -- was a good step forward.
WARNING BY BRITISH PM
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the scale of his country's budget problems was worse than he had anticipated and cited Greece as an example of what happens when countries lose credibility or pretend difficult decisions can be avoided.
Hungary's new center-right rulers, who alarmed markets last week by suggesting the country could face a Greek-style crisis, tried to reassure investors on Monday by pledging to stick to deficit-cutting targets their predecessors agreed with the IMF.
Britain and Hungary are not in the euro zone, but the risk of financial turmoil in wider EU countries is a factor weighing on confidence in the euro and in euro zone banks which have substantial exposure to central and eastern Europe.Juncker said he saw no problem at all with Hungary, adding: I only see the problem that politicians from Hungary talk too much.The finance ministers also discussed ways of tightening surveillance of national budgets and applying earlier and tougher sanctions against countries that breach EU deficit limits or misrepresent their statistics, as Greece did.EU President Herman Van Rompuy said they agreed in principle on the need to subject national budget strategy to greater peer scrutiny and to find more effective penalties for countries with wayward or potentially wayward public finances.
EURO DOWN
Investors fled peripheral euro zone government stocks and bonds last week because of doubts about how the euro rescue mechanism would work and worries about the solvency of European banks exposed to the sovereign debt crisis. World share prices dipped further on Monday. U.S. stocks closed lower in thin volume, and the euro fell below $1.20 for the first time in more than four years. Concern about political stability in Spain, one of the troubled euro zone economies, fed market anxiety. Juncker and Rehn said they were more concerned by the pace of the euro's decline than by the lower exchange rate, and the IMF said a currency long seen by many as too strong was now closer to what economic fundamentals justified. But rigidities, especially in labor and financial markets in some countries, are limiting the necessary restructuring in the aftermath of the global crisis,it said in a report. Germany needs less than others to slow spending but, keen to set an example, will pursue savings of 30 billion euros over four years in welfare, mainly from unemployment benefits, and will cut thousands of federal government jobs. The new savings are unlikely to please some of Germany's partners, including the United States, which pressured Berlin at a G20 meeting in South Korea to stimulate domestic demand. Despite the efforts in Luxembourg to reassure markets, German Chancellor Angela Merkel postponed talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on reforming governance of the euro zone. Officials cited diary problems. The two had been due to patch up their differences over the euro zone and financial regulation, 10 days before an EU summit. The meeting will take place next Monday, German officials said. (Additional reporting by Marcin Grajewski, Sudip Kar-gupta and Brian Rohan in Luxembourg, Krisztina Than in Budapest, Matthias Sobolewski and Dave Graham in Berlin, George Matlock in London; writing by Brian Love and Paul Taylor; Editing by Noah Barkin and Timothy Heritage)
Bernanke says Europe committed to euro's survival
JUNE 7,10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – European leaders are committed to ensuring the survival of the euro and have enough money to meet obligations of heavily indebted member countries, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday.In remarks to the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, Bernanke said a euro stabilization package of nearly $1 trillion was a lot of money and enough to protect Greece, Portugal and Spain from volatile credit markets for a number of years.But he acknowledged that investors were not yet convinced Europe's debt problems would be resolved, and said more European rescue money may be needed.European leadership is strongly committed to doing whatever is necessary to preserve the euro, preserve the euro zone, preserve the European project, and avoid financial problems that would certainly arise, Bernanke said.In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session, Bernanke said a regulatory reform bill which Congress is finalizing contained strong measures to address the problem of financial firms being too big to fail.The acid test of the reform will be, will it control too big to fail? he said, pointing to measures including tougher bank capital rules, resolution authority to safely close failing firms, and living wills that require companies to plan for their own unwinding.
When asked whether he thought the bill was more helpful than harmful, Bernanke replied, Oh yes, I do.He also said the U.S. economy appeared to have enough momentum to avoid a double-dip recession, citing strengthening consumer and business spending.
There are some signs the private sector is picking up the baton, he said.However, Bernanke noted that the pace of recovery was moderate considering the depth of the recession, and unemployment would probably decline only slowly.On China, Bernanke said he was probably the only U.S. official who had attended every Strategic and Economic Dialogue since the enhanced program was started by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson during the financial crisis.He said the new format was particularly useful because it broadened discussions beyond traditional sticking points such as the value of China's currency.He said China recognized that it has a codependency with the United States. China is the largest foreign buyer of U.S. government debt, while the United States is a vital trading partner for China.There is a real desire on both sides to engage,Bernanke said.For me, that is a very important achievement to have those lines of communication be open.(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal, Pedro da Costa and Emily Kaiser; Editing by Gary Hill)
EU agrees controversial peer review of national budgets-Member states could now end up looking at each others' revenue and expenditure plans (Photo: ansik)ANDREW WILLIS Today JUNE 8,10 @ 09:28 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU finance ministers have reached broad agreement on a controversial plan to review each others' national budgets, together with earlier sanctions for member states that break the bloc's fiscal rules. Also meeting in Luxembourg on Monday (7 June), an earlier gathering of euro area finance ministers approved the principle component of the zone's unprecedented €750 billion rescue mechanism.Speaking to journalists after chairing his second taskforce meeting on economic governance with EU27 finance officials, most of them ministers, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said governments had agreed to show their national budgets to each other and to the European Commission before seeking national parliamentary approval. Originally put forward by the commission in May, the pre-vetting of national budgets by Brussels had previously met with stern opposition from a number of capitals including Berlin, London and Stockholm. Under the new system, which still needs final approval from EU leaders, each government will present its broad estimates for growth, inflation, revenue and expenditure levels in the spring, roughly six months before national budgets go through parliaments.Any government planning to run a deficit will have to justify itself to its peers on why this should be allowed, said Mr Van Rompuy, adding that members with debt levels above 60 percent of GDP would come in for even tougher scrutiny.
After the meeting, British officials underlined the primary role of national parliaments however, in an indication that precise details still need to be worked out.
Sanctions
The taskforce, set up by EU leaders in March, also agreed on the need for earlier and more graduated sanctions for states that break the bloc's budgetary rules - known as the Stability and Growth Pact. The pact sets out maximum deficit and debt thresholds of three and 60 percent of GDP, respectively, with possible fines for overspending member states of up to 0.5 percent of GDP, although in practice the fines have never been levied.In future, governments could get into trouble with their peers even before their deficits reached the three percent threshold, said Mr Van Rompuy. Up to now, you only got fined for driving through the red light of the three percent,the former Belgian prime minister told journalists.From now on, you could also be in trouble for crossing the orange light.Recently floated sanctions ideas have ranged from reduced EU funding to a loss of voting rights for ministers attending EU meetings in Brussels. Monday's talks primarily concentrated on financial sanctions, said Mr Van Rompuy, as non-financial sanctions would involve changing the EU treaty. A number of EU states have raised objections to a withdrawal of EU structural funds as a form of punishment, however.We think that if there are to be sanctions, they should be of a universal character. It can't be, for example, taking away structural funds, because these are reserved only for some [of the poorest] EU countries, Poland's Europe minister, Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, told the Polish press agency, PAP, in an exclusive interview.
Eurozone bail-out
Earlier on Monday evening, euro area finance ministers reached an agreement on a €440 billion special purpose vehicle (SPV) - the main component of a massive eurozone support mechanism hastily agreed by EU leaders last month as Greece's debt crisis threatened to spread to other members of the single currency. The SPV will be based in Luxembourg and will issue debt on capital markets, backed by individual guarantees provided by all 16 members of the eurozone. The money raised in this way can then be lent to struggling eurozone administrations, but only after a restructuring programme is agreed. There is no uncertainty left ... about the ability to provide support, EU economy commissioner Olli Rehn said after the meeting, just hours after the euro currency touched another four-year low versus the dollar before gradually recovering.
Germany sets EU example with €80bn austerity package
VALENTINA POP Today JUNE 8,10 @ 09:25 CET
German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday (7 June) announced spending cuts to the tune of €80 billion in the coming four years, in an example to other European economies struggling with deficits.Around €80 billion must be saved until 2014 in order to put our financial future on a solid footing, Ms Merkel told journalists at a press conference in Berlin, after lengthy coalition talks which forced her to postpone a previously scheduled meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.The two leaders were due to co-ordinate their positions ahead of an EU summit on 17 June and to show that the Franco-German EU motor is still working, after a series of disagreements over the multi-billion-euro bailout packages for Greece and the eurozone itself.But in the end, the signal of fiscal discipline was more important for Ms Merkel than the show of Franco-German entente. Germany, as the biggest economy, has the outstanding task of setting a good example. I think recent months have shown, in the case of Greece and other eurozone countries, how extraordinarily important sound finances are, Ms Merkel said.
Germany's budget deficit reached 3.1 percent of GDP last year and is expected to reach five percent by the end of 2010.The cuts proposed by Ms Merkel are based on a constitutional clause capping the country's deficit at 0.35 percent of GDP by 2016, a mechanism she would like to see replicated in all euro-countries.Mr Sarkozy last month announced a similar clause, but without binding targets.The bulk of Germany's planned cuts are taken from social benefits, such as long-term unemployment entitlements and business subsidies, and from the public sector, including axing 10,000 government jobs in the next four years. Military spending will also be reviewed and could see cutbacks of 40,000 posts.Ms Merkel's junior coalition partner, the Liberal Free Democrats (FDP), had pushed against any increases in income tax or VAT. But new levies on nuclear power companies and air passenger taxes may be put in place. The only spending areas left untouched are education and research.These are serious and difficult times,the German chancellor said. We can't afford everything we would like if we want to be able to shape our future.The German opposition has slammed the package as proof of failure. According to Social-Democratic leader Sigmar Gabriel, Ms Merkel's government has been too weak towards its business contacts, failed to tax the rich and is now running austerity measures at the expense of families and the unemployed.Green leader Claudia Roth also criticised the program as being characterised by active protection of wealth.
The proposals still need the approval of the German parliament, likely to come up in the autumn, when some details may change.Several EU countries have announced similar austerity programmes, with Spain agreeing deep cuts last week and Greece having agreed to far-reaching reforms earlier this year when it signed up to an EU-IMF rescue package. In new EU member state Romania, which is also being propped up by an IMF loan, the government slashed 25 percent of wages for state employees and 15 percent of pensions and unemployment benefits.
EU officials distance themselves from Gazprom stunt
VALENTINA POP Today JUNE 8,10 @ 09:23 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Current and former top EU officials on Monday (7 June) denied that they have any connection with Gazprom in a yachting project which has been flying the EU flag for the past six years but which is now sponsored by the Russian firm. The EU-flagged boat Esimit Europa 2 is to be launched on Thursday (10 June) in Cannes at an event hosted by Gazprom chief Alexei Miller and will take part in eight regattas this year. On its inner sail, the logo of the Russian gas company features prominently under the EU flag and the inscription European energy.Gazprom is Russia's largest energy company and is keen to expand in the EU.It has a shady image, however. Run by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's circle of friends with links to the KGB, it is widely seen as a tool of Russian foreign policy. Its public profile was badly damaged by the 2006 and 2009 gas supply crises involving Ukraine. On its website the Esimit project is said to be under the patronage of EU commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.A video clip also includes a spoken testimonial by Pat Cox, a recent president of the European Parliament, who says the spirit of Europe is captured at the heart of this project.Both Mr Cox and Mr Barroso were quick to distance themselves from Gazprom when queried by this website, however.Mr Cox said that the footage dates back to a few years ago, before Gazprom became the main sponsor of the project earlier this year. I was not involved in any negotiations on sponsorships and have no commercial interest in the matter,he said.
He explained that his initial endorsement came about in 2004, when he was still Parliament chief, as an act of good will for the boat scheme, which involves flying the EU flag in various regattas and having a multi-national crew. A few years later, during a visit to Ljubljana, the Slovenian team behind the Esimit project asked him to film the video testimonial. I knew they were looking for sponsors, but I wasn't asked about any sponsor and I have nothing to do with Gazprom, Mr Cox said.A spokesman for the EU commission also said that Mr Barroso endorsed the project before Gazprom came on board. He gave his patronage to this project in November 2006. There was no money involved, it was a simple patronage like so many other EU and national dignitaries do, commission spokesman Mark Gray said. Neither Mr Barroso or Mr Cox are considering withdrawing their support for the project over the Gazprom link, however. Nor have they complained about having their faces and names attached to the Gazprom logo, Gorazd Mauri, the public relations manager for the yachting project, told EUobserver.The European Parliament and Commission's patronage is just for the yacht. It's a written support allowing us to fly under the EU flag. They were informed when Gazprom became sponsor and so we haven't had any complaints about it, Mr Mauri said.Aware of the EU-Gazprom controversies in recent years, Mr Mauri said the sponsorship had no political agenda.Gazprom decided to sponsor us because of the vision it promotes – all Europeans on the same boat. We want to win, we are honoured to be have such a distinguished sponsor, he said. Asked who would benefit the most, Gazprom or the EU, if the yacht won any of the competitions it is to take part in, Mr Mauri pointed to the motto of the project all Europeans together on the same boat.The Esimit sponsorship, worth several million euros, is not the only sports-related Gazprom PR project. The Russian firm is also sponsoring German football club FC Schalke, for which it pays €25 million a year.
EU diplomatic service may be ready in December
HONOR MAHONY 07.06.2010 @ 18:04 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Officials working on the creation of the EU's diplomatic service believe it could be on its feet by 1 December, a symbolic date marking the first anniversary of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, but several months later than the original timetable.The lengthy delay has been due to the difficulties of getting agreement from all the different sides - member states, the European Commission and MEPs - on the new body, which is meant to give coherency to EU foreign policy.The European Parliament is last party still to agree to the blueprint for the corps, first published by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in March and endorsed by the commission and member states the following month.Sources close to the negotiations, due to continue on Tuesday (8 June), believe that MEPs may be ready to signal their broad agreement on Thursday at a meeting of the EU assembly's political leaders.At this stage, what success would look like is some sort of signal from the conference of presidents [on Thursday] that this is the right ball park and these are the grandes lignes of the eventual deal, said the contact, adding that talks have been going well.This would allow Ms Ashton to start advertising some of the senior jobs that are coming up for grabs.These include 32 heads of delegation to be filled in July and a further 22 such jobs, part of the 2011 rotation of delegation heads, to be decided in November.
A decision also has to be taken on the EU's 11 special representatives (EUSRs) to regions such as central Asia and countries such as Sudan. The group's mandate, already extended once, runs out at the end of August. Ms Ashton is keen to rejig the system, keeping some special envoys and creating new ones, but scrapping others where the job could equally be done by the heads of the EU embassies. On a best-case scenario, we would be making senior appointments in September some time and that means ... that you're looking at trying to get a service up and running in some form by the anniversary of the entry into force of the [Lisbon] treaty,the source close to the EU talks said. Three main areas still need to be settled with MEPs before the deal can be put to bed.The questions are who should deputise the busy Ms Ashton in her absence, whether the service should be part of the commission or a stand-alone institution and the wording of a declaration on political accountability.MEPs have won some important concessions in recent months, using their threat of a veto on the legal changes to EU budget and staff rules needed to set up the service. At their behest, the service will no longer have an all-powerful secretary general; more MEPs will have access to secret documents and there will be clearer guarantees on budget accountability.So far MEPs have said they will only agree to the service blueprint as part of a package, including amending the rules on staff, finances and the institutional link to the commission. But beyond the parliament, others imply that MEPs have little political credit left.
EU summit pressure
The pressure is on to have the parliament show its hand and sign up to an agreement even if all elements of the package have not be finally agreed.We do have a European Council coming up [on 17-18 June]. It will have important issues on its agenda and I would think this is not an issue it wants on its agenda. It would want to know that this is still on track, the contact close to the negotiations said.If you get into agreeing a package in autumn, well how long is a piece of string? Then you are in a position which is not good for the European Union as a whole.An European Parliament official close to the talks expressed irritation that parliament is being portrayed as dragging its feet.We only got the 10-point political declaration [on accountability] from [Ms Ashton] three weeks ago when we asked for for it three months ago, said the official.He also noted that while there have been several of these talks at technical level, the EU foreign policy chief has only herself been present once. There are several issues that are important to us still open, he added.
The service, once fully up and running, is expected to have between 6,000 and 7,000 personnel. Between now and 2013, some 850 jobs will be open for applications.
Canada grilled over half-baked fake lake at G20
Mon Jun 7, 6:01 pm ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's government found itself in hot water on Monday after it emerged that the media centre for two international summits this month will feature a C$1.9 million (1.2 million pound) artificial lake, complete with canoes and a bar.
Opposition legislators, already unhappy with the C$1 billion security tab for the Group of Eight and Group of 20 meetings, ridiculed the government's explanation that the lake would impress foreign media.The government's half-baked fake lake takes the cake. What a mistake, Rodger Cuzner of the Liberals told the House of Commons, prompting loud laughter.The official Atlas of Canada says there are 31,752 lakes larger than 3 square km (1.2 sq. mi.) in the country.The Toronto press centre lake is supposed to be a copy of those in the picturesque Huntsville region north of the city where leaders are set to meet for the G8 summit.Tight security means most of the 3,000 accredited reporters will get nowhere near the area. The G20 summit will be held in Toronto -- on the shores of Lake Ontario -- right after the G8 gathering.
We have a government here that has to create an artificial lake when Canada has more lakes than just about any other country in the world. It is the taxpayers who are going to end up at the bottom of the fake lake, said Jack Layton, leader of the left-leaning New Democrats.Federal Transport Minister John Baird said the summits would be an amazing opportunity to market Canada.We want to showcase the very best that this country has to offer, he told the House of Commons.(Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Rob Wilson)
Israel unearths 3,500-year-old religious artifacts By MARIA R. HOWELL, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jun 7, 4:36 pm ET
JERUSALEM – Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of rare, 35-century-old religious artifacts once used in pagan rituals, Israeli officials said Monday.The items were found during an excavation ordered by the Israel Antiquities Authority along the route of a new gas line in the country's north. Excavating a rock hollow, archeologists found more than 100 intact artifacts, including a vessel for burning incense and the sculpted face of a woman that was part of a cup used in a pagan religious ceremony.This is my 42nd excavation in 15 years and the first time I've found more than shards, said Edwin van den Brink, the archaeologist who directed the excavation. He said he expected to find artifacts, but not the amount or quality they uncovered.Some of the small vessels were used to carry precious liquids from Cyprus and Mycenae, Greece, 3,500 years ago. These vessels were replicated by people in those areas, illustrating a link between the regions, van den Brink said.Van den Brink said they might have been used in a nearby temple. They were deposited in the hole either to be preserved from a fire that swept through the region at the end of the Late Bronze Age, or they were buried because they were no longer in use.Yossi Garfinkel, a professor of archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem who was not involved in the dig, said holy articles could not be thrown out and were buried instead.It is quite possible that these artifacts were used in the cultic area and in the temple and they accumulated, and when they ran out of space or they became old, a pit was made to bury them, Garfinkel said.The Antiquities Authority plans to exhibit the artifacts in the coming year.
BILDERBERGS MAKE POWER DECISIONS FOR WORLD
WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he 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:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
MARKETS TO GET NASTY,GET BARBED WIRE,GUNS-INVESTMENT BANKER
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37549417
BILDERBERG DENIEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqUbz-x9NIs&feature=player_embedded
Former Nato Secretary-General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy - Despite debunkers attempting to claim otherwise, Bilderberg illegally sets the consensus on policies that are subsequently enacted worldwide Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com
Monday, June 7, 2010
Former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes has confounded claims by debunkers that the secret organization which met in Sitges Spain over the last few days does not set policy, admitting during a Belgian radio interview that Bilderberg attendees are mandated to implement decisions that are formulated during the annual conference of power brokers.In a radio interview reported on by the Belgian news website www.zonnewind.be, Claes told host Koen Fillet that Bilderberg does indeed decide policy for the coming year. Claes would certainly be in a position to know, being a two-time Bilderberg attendee as well as the eighth Secretary General of NATO from 1994 until 1995.Claes said that Bilderberg guests are normally given around 10 minutes of talk time, after which a report is compiled of their presentation.The participants are then obviously considered to use this report in setting their policies in the environments in which they affect, stated Claes, according to the translated text.The host asked Claes to repeat this astounding admission, before Claes went on to explain that no two guest are allowed to sit next to each other more than once at Bilderberg, to enable the maximum exchange of views on important subjects.A Dutch-speaking reader sent us the article and confirms that the translation is accurate. This represents a solid confirmation of what we already knew through witnessing Bilderberg’s leaked agenda later play out in the real world time after time – that the elitist organization does verbally set global policy in a completely undemocratic and illegal manner.
However, despite Claes, who personally attended the 1994 Bilderberg meeting in Helsinki when he was Belgium’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, confirming the obvious that Bilderberg does manufacture a consensus amongst its participants, which is then implemented as policy in the real world, during the past few days numerous debunkers have claimed that Bilderberg is just a talking shop that has no impact on the global stage.Iain Hollingshead of the London Telegraph wrote a sophomoric piece in which he dismissed Bilderberg as a group of willy-waggling old men comparing their security details and dreaming of past glories,which is a complete misnomer seeing as Bilderberg is routinely attended by active Presidents and Prime Ministers very much in power and very much in a position to have an impact on current events, such as Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who attended this year’s conference with his country on the verge of becoming the next Greece.Hollingshead claims that because the group is becoming more well known, its allure is on the wane, but fails to mention that this is because of the fine work of activists and real journalists who have spent decades trying to get the castrated corporate media to report on the event while people like Hollingshead either made childish jokes about the whole issue or even denied the very existence of Bilderberg.One such skeptic is Chip Berlet, who works for a group called the Political Research Associates, which is funded in part by the Ford Foundation, founded by Edsel Ford, the son of the notorious Henry Ford, who received awards from Hitler for funding the Nazi war machine with slave labor, which somewhat taints the PRA’s stated objectives, which are apparently to track conspiracy theories and the the right-wing while advancing an open, democratic, and pluralistic society.
The Ford Foundation is little more than an attack dog which transnational elitists use, through its offshoots like PRA, to demonize any criticism of their agenda as extremist and anti-semitic, which is quite rich considering the history of the corporation.Berlet himself has made a career out of characterizing the idea that powerful people might get together and discuss ways of expanding their power as a belief of the lunatic fringe.Little surprise therefore that towards the end of Berlet’s appearance on Russia Today, in which he stumbles through a broken record of excuses claiming Bilderberg has no power, he invokes the tired old cliche that anyone who expresses concern about 200 powerful men gathering in secret with no democratic oversight whatsoever behind a wall of security is probably a closet racist.Berlet claims the American Free Press was founded by one of the biggest anti-semitic, neo-fascist conspiracy theorists in the world,which coincidentally is also a pretty apt description of the man who founded the company that now pays Berlet via the Ford Foundation funding PRA receives to spew his propaganda – Henry Ford – one of Hitler’s biggest supporters.
Watch the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqUbz-x9NIs&feature=player_embedded
Berlet demonizes the notion that the Bilderberg Group has any influence over world affairs or is working towards a new world order as a lot of malarkey, and a hoax carried out by people who believe in an elaborate fairy tale about how power is exercised in the world.He then completely contradicts himself by admitting they talk over policy but then claims the organization itself has no power before stating, The policies that are formulated don’t hold any power within the nation that people who go to the meeting….they go back to their country and say hey I heard this at the Bilderberger meeting what do you think? And the national assembly or the powerful people say I think that’s a lot of malarkey take it back and shove it someplace, so this idea that this is a plot that is carried out to 30 or 40 countries and implemented is baloney.Really? So according to Berlet, the Prime Minister of Spain, his Secretary General, and the Queen of Spain, all of whom attended the Bilderberg meeting this past weekend, go back home and are then told to shove whatever they discussed at Bilderberg by the powerful people. These are the powerful people! These are the people who run the country. Presumably, Berlet believes there are powerful people above the Prime Minister and the Queen of Spain who tell them what to do, which sounds like an even bigger conspiracy theory than the one he is attempting to debunk.Of course in reality, Berlet knows that the most powerful people in the world attend Bilderberg and he is either completely ignorant or deliberately lying by claiming that Bilderberg has no impact on policy.Merely on the face of it the claim that Bilderberg does not have an influence on policy is patently ridiculous. This would be akin to claiming that a four-day gathering of 200 MLB officials would have no impact on the future of baseball. Despite the fact that many politicians shunned Bilderberg this year because of the group’s increasing notoriety as a furtive and insidious front for anti-democratic elitists, just take a look at the list of powerful individuals who did attend.
Top CEO’s like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Eric Schmidt of Google, top bankers like Marcus Agius of Barclays and Peter Sutherland of Goldman Sachs, don’t meet with national Presidents, Prime Ministers, big newspaper owners, members of the European Parliament and officials in the U.S. government to talk about tiddlywinks. They don’t get together for four days and surround themselves with a security ring of steel to discuss the weather or American Idol – they’re at Bilderberg to come to a consensus and then to implement it in their respective spheres of influence, just as Claes confirms in the radio interview.Using bluff and slimy semantics, apologists like Berlet imply that just because no treaties or laws are signed at Bilderberg, that the group has no power. In reality, Bilderberg sets the global consensus for the agenda that is subsequently implemented in the host countries of the Bilderberg members, a process that holds even more power than signing an individual treaty. Bilderberg sets the consensus for a whole gamut of policy areas, from oil, to the environment, to wars, to the economy.This is confirmed not only by former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes in the radio interview we covered earlier, but it is manifestly evident in the policies that have later come to pass after being formulated at Bilderberg.Indeed, Bilderberg chairman Étienne Davignon last year bragged about how the Euro single currency was a brainchild of the Bilderberg Group.A meeting in June in Europe of the Bilderberg Group- an informal club of leading politicians, businessmen and thinkers chaired by Mr. Davignon- could also improve understanding on future action, in the same way it helped create the Euro in the 1990s, he said,reported the EU Observer in March 2009.
The foundations for the EU and ultimately the Euro single currency were laid by the secretive Bilderberg Group in the mid-1950’s. Bilderberg’s own leaked documents prove that the agenda to create a European common market and a single currency was formulated by Bilderberg in 1955.As we first reported in 2003, a BBC investigative team were allowed to access Bilderberg files which confirmed that the EU and the Euro were the brainchild of Bilderberg.The summary report of the 1955 Bilderberg meeting which took place from September 23-25 1955 at the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, talks of the Pressing need to bring the German people, together with the other peoples of Europe, into a common market.The document also outlines the plan, To arrive in the shortest possible time at the highest degree of integration, beginning with a common European market.Just two years later, in 1957, the first incarnation of the European Economic Community (EEC) was born, which comprised of a single market between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The EEC gradually enlarged over the next few decades until it became the European Community, one of the three pillars of the European Union, which was officially created in 1993.The 1955 Bilderberg summary outlines a consensus that, It might be better to proceed through the development of a common market by treaty rather than by the creation of new high authorities. The EEC was duly created via the Treaty of Rome, which was signed on 25 March 1957.Debunkers like Berlet will probably still try and claim that the idea of a common European market was floating around in the early 1950’s and that Bilderberg were merely debating contemporary political ideas.
However, the same cannot be said for the single European currency, which wasn’t even introduced in the form of notes and coins until January 2002, having been first codified in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. The documents prove that Bilderberg members were pushing for its introduction nearly 40 years earlier.A European speaker expressed concern about the need to achieve a common currency, and indicated that in his view this necessarily implied the creation of a central political authority, states the summary document.True to form, the single European currency, the Euro, was not introduced until after the creation of a central political authority – the EU itself.The document also stresses, The necessity to bring the German people into a common European market as quickly as possible, adding that the future was in danger without a United Europe.These proven examples of Bilderberg formulating some of the biggest policies of the 20th century do not even come from leaks obtained by journalists from within the meetings, they come directly from the mouth of Bilderberg’s chairman and Bilderberg’s own internal documents.However, leaks from inside the meetings uncovered by independent journalists have also proven routinely accurate in confirming that Bilderberg has a massive impact on policy decisions.In spring 2002, when war hawks in the Bush administration were pushing for a summer invasion of Iraq, Bilderbergers expressed their desire for a delay and the attack was not launched until March the following year.In 2006, journalists who got leaked information from inside Bilderberg predicted that the U.S. housing market would be allowed to soar before the bubble was cruelly popped, which is exactly what transpired.In June 2008, we learned that Bilderberg were creating the conditions for a financial calamity, which is exactly what began a few months later with the collapse of Lehman Brothers.Bilderberg has habitually flexed its muscles in establishing its role as kingmaker. The organization routinely selects presidential candidates as well as running mates and prime ministers.Despite widespread expectation that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be announced as the first European Union President, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy, was picked for the role just days after he attended a Bilderberg Group dinner meeting.
Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were both groomed by the secretive organization in the early 1990’s before rising to prominence.Barack Obama’s running mate Joe Biden was selected by Bilderberg luminary James A. Johnson, and John Kerry’s 2004 running mate John Edwards was also anointed by the group after he gave a glowing speech at the conference in 2004. Bilderberg attendees even broke house rules to applaud Edwards at the end of a speech he gave to the elitists about American politics. The choice of Edwards was shocking to media pundits who had fully expected Dick Gephardt to secure the position. The New York Post even reported that Gephardt had been chosen and Kerry-Gephardt stickers were being placed on campaign vehicles before being removed when Edwards was announced as Kerry’s number two.A 2008 Portuguese newspaper report highlighted the fact that Pedro Santana Lopes and Jose Socrates attended the 2004 meeting in Stresa, Italy before both going on to become Prime Minster of Portugal.Several key geopolitical decisions were made at the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in Washington DC, again emphasizing the fact that the confab is far more than an informal get-together.As we reported at the time, Bilderberg were concerned that the price of oil was accelerating too fast after it hit $150 a barrel and wanted to ensure that oil prices would probably begin to decline. This is exactly what happened in the latter half of 2008 as oil again sunk below $50 a barrel. We were initially able to predict the rapid rise in oil prices in 2005 when oil was at $40, because Bilderberg had called for prices to rise during that year’s meeting in Munich. During the conference in Germany, Henry Kissinger told his fellow attendees that the elite had resolved to ensure that oil prices would double over the course of the next 12-24 months, which is exactly what happened.Also at the 2008 meeting, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice formalized plans to sign a treaty on installing a U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.
Rice was joined at the meeting by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who reportedly encouraged EU globalists to get behind an attack on Iran. Low and behold, days later the EU threatened Iran with sanctions if it did not suspend its nuclear enrichment program. For the first time, the majority of Bilderberg members expressed their support for an attack on Iran during this year’s meeting in Sitges.There was also widespread speculation that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s secret meeting, which was accomplished with the aid of cloak and dagger tactics like locking journalists on an airplane to keep them from tracking the two down, took place at the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in DC.So as we can see, there are a plethora of examples of Bilderberg setting a consensus on a particular policy area which later comes to pass at both the national and international levels. To claim otherwise is to be completely ignorant of the manifestly provable fact that Bilderberg has immense power in setting agreements on policy and exercises that power on a regular basis.
In light of this, Berlet and Hollingshead are either shoddy journalists who have done no research whatsoever and are merely phoning it in, or they are being paid to deliberately spew biased and completely inaccurate information by the establishment they work for in a futile attempt to convince people that Bilderberg has no power, presumably in an effort to halt growing numbers of protesters who descend on Bilderberg each year, whom Bilderberg members now class as a “threat” to their agenda and secrecy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he 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:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
MARKETS TO GET NASTY,GET BARBED WIRE,GUNS-INVESTMENT BANKER
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37549417
BILDERBERG DENIEL
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Former Nato Secretary-General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy - Despite debunkers attempting to claim otherwise, Bilderberg illegally sets the consensus on policies that are subsequently enacted worldwide Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com
Monday, June 7, 2010
Former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes has confounded claims by debunkers that the secret organization which met in Sitges Spain over the last few days does not set policy, admitting during a Belgian radio interview that Bilderberg attendees are mandated to implement decisions that are formulated during the annual conference of power brokers.In a radio interview reported on by the Belgian news website www.zonnewind.be, Claes told host Koen Fillet that Bilderberg does indeed decide policy for the coming year. Claes would certainly be in a position to know, being a two-time Bilderberg attendee as well as the eighth Secretary General of NATO from 1994 until 1995.Claes said that Bilderberg guests are normally given around 10 minutes of talk time, after which a report is compiled of their presentation.The participants are then obviously considered to use this report in setting their policies in the environments in which they affect, stated Claes, according to the translated text.The host asked Claes to repeat this astounding admission, before Claes went on to explain that no two guest are allowed to sit next to each other more than once at Bilderberg, to enable the maximum exchange of views on important subjects.A Dutch-speaking reader sent us the article and confirms that the translation is accurate. This represents a solid confirmation of what we already knew through witnessing Bilderberg’s leaked agenda later play out in the real world time after time – that the elitist organization does verbally set global policy in a completely undemocratic and illegal manner.
However, despite Claes, who personally attended the 1994 Bilderberg meeting in Helsinki when he was Belgium’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, confirming the obvious that Bilderberg does manufacture a consensus amongst its participants, which is then implemented as policy in the real world, during the past few days numerous debunkers have claimed that Bilderberg is just a talking shop that has no impact on the global stage.Iain Hollingshead of the London Telegraph wrote a sophomoric piece in which he dismissed Bilderberg as a group of willy-waggling old men comparing their security details and dreaming of past glories,which is a complete misnomer seeing as Bilderberg is routinely attended by active Presidents and Prime Ministers very much in power and very much in a position to have an impact on current events, such as Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who attended this year’s conference with his country on the verge of becoming the next Greece.Hollingshead claims that because the group is becoming more well known, its allure is on the wane, but fails to mention that this is because of the fine work of activists and real journalists who have spent decades trying to get the castrated corporate media to report on the event while people like Hollingshead either made childish jokes about the whole issue or even denied the very existence of Bilderberg.One such skeptic is Chip Berlet, who works for a group called the Political Research Associates, which is funded in part by the Ford Foundation, founded by Edsel Ford, the son of the notorious Henry Ford, who received awards from Hitler for funding the Nazi war machine with slave labor, which somewhat taints the PRA’s stated objectives, which are apparently to track conspiracy theories and the the right-wing while advancing an open, democratic, and pluralistic society.
The Ford Foundation is little more than an attack dog which transnational elitists use, through its offshoots like PRA, to demonize any criticism of their agenda as extremist and anti-semitic, which is quite rich considering the history of the corporation.Berlet himself has made a career out of characterizing the idea that powerful people might get together and discuss ways of expanding their power as a belief of the lunatic fringe.Little surprise therefore that towards the end of Berlet’s appearance on Russia Today, in which he stumbles through a broken record of excuses claiming Bilderberg has no power, he invokes the tired old cliche that anyone who expresses concern about 200 powerful men gathering in secret with no democratic oversight whatsoever behind a wall of security is probably a closet racist.Berlet claims the American Free Press was founded by one of the biggest anti-semitic, neo-fascist conspiracy theorists in the world,which coincidentally is also a pretty apt description of the man who founded the company that now pays Berlet via the Ford Foundation funding PRA receives to spew his propaganda – Henry Ford – one of Hitler’s biggest supporters.
Watch the clip.
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Berlet demonizes the notion that the Bilderberg Group has any influence over world affairs or is working towards a new world order as a lot of malarkey, and a hoax carried out by people who believe in an elaborate fairy tale about how power is exercised in the world.He then completely contradicts himself by admitting they talk over policy but then claims the organization itself has no power before stating, The policies that are formulated don’t hold any power within the nation that people who go to the meeting….they go back to their country and say hey I heard this at the Bilderberger meeting what do you think? And the national assembly or the powerful people say I think that’s a lot of malarkey take it back and shove it someplace, so this idea that this is a plot that is carried out to 30 or 40 countries and implemented is baloney.Really? So according to Berlet, the Prime Minister of Spain, his Secretary General, and the Queen of Spain, all of whom attended the Bilderberg meeting this past weekend, go back home and are then told to shove whatever they discussed at Bilderberg by the powerful people. These are the powerful people! These are the people who run the country. Presumably, Berlet believes there are powerful people above the Prime Minister and the Queen of Spain who tell them what to do, which sounds like an even bigger conspiracy theory than the one he is attempting to debunk.Of course in reality, Berlet knows that the most powerful people in the world attend Bilderberg and he is either completely ignorant or deliberately lying by claiming that Bilderberg has no impact on policy.Merely on the face of it the claim that Bilderberg does not have an influence on policy is patently ridiculous. This would be akin to claiming that a four-day gathering of 200 MLB officials would have no impact on the future of baseball. Despite the fact that many politicians shunned Bilderberg this year because of the group’s increasing notoriety as a furtive and insidious front for anti-democratic elitists, just take a look at the list of powerful individuals who did attend.
Top CEO’s like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Eric Schmidt of Google, top bankers like Marcus Agius of Barclays and Peter Sutherland of Goldman Sachs, don’t meet with national Presidents, Prime Ministers, big newspaper owners, members of the European Parliament and officials in the U.S. government to talk about tiddlywinks. They don’t get together for four days and surround themselves with a security ring of steel to discuss the weather or American Idol – they’re at Bilderberg to come to a consensus and then to implement it in their respective spheres of influence, just as Claes confirms in the radio interview.Using bluff and slimy semantics, apologists like Berlet imply that just because no treaties or laws are signed at Bilderberg, that the group has no power. In reality, Bilderberg sets the global consensus for the agenda that is subsequently implemented in the host countries of the Bilderberg members, a process that holds even more power than signing an individual treaty. Bilderberg sets the consensus for a whole gamut of policy areas, from oil, to the environment, to wars, to the economy.This is confirmed not only by former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes in the radio interview we covered earlier, but it is manifestly evident in the policies that have later come to pass after being formulated at Bilderberg.Indeed, Bilderberg chairman Étienne Davignon last year bragged about how the Euro single currency was a brainchild of the Bilderberg Group.A meeting in June in Europe of the Bilderberg Group- an informal club of leading politicians, businessmen and thinkers chaired by Mr. Davignon- could also improve understanding on future action, in the same way it helped create the Euro in the 1990s, he said,reported the EU Observer in March 2009.
The foundations for the EU and ultimately the Euro single currency were laid by the secretive Bilderberg Group in the mid-1950’s. Bilderberg’s own leaked documents prove that the agenda to create a European common market and a single currency was formulated by Bilderberg in 1955.As we first reported in 2003, a BBC investigative team were allowed to access Bilderberg files which confirmed that the EU and the Euro were the brainchild of Bilderberg.The summary report of the 1955 Bilderberg meeting which took place from September 23-25 1955 at the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, talks of the Pressing need to bring the German people, together with the other peoples of Europe, into a common market.The document also outlines the plan, To arrive in the shortest possible time at the highest degree of integration, beginning with a common European market.Just two years later, in 1957, the first incarnation of the European Economic Community (EEC) was born, which comprised of a single market between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The EEC gradually enlarged over the next few decades until it became the European Community, one of the three pillars of the European Union, which was officially created in 1993.The 1955 Bilderberg summary outlines a consensus that, It might be better to proceed through the development of a common market by treaty rather than by the creation of new high authorities. The EEC was duly created via the Treaty of Rome, which was signed on 25 March 1957.Debunkers like Berlet will probably still try and claim that the idea of a common European market was floating around in the early 1950’s and that Bilderberg were merely debating contemporary political ideas.
However, the same cannot be said for the single European currency, which wasn’t even introduced in the form of notes and coins until January 2002, having been first codified in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. The documents prove that Bilderberg members were pushing for its introduction nearly 40 years earlier.A European speaker expressed concern about the need to achieve a common currency, and indicated that in his view this necessarily implied the creation of a central political authority, states the summary document.True to form, the single European currency, the Euro, was not introduced until after the creation of a central political authority – the EU itself.The document also stresses, The necessity to bring the German people into a common European market as quickly as possible, adding that the future was in danger without a United Europe.These proven examples of Bilderberg formulating some of the biggest policies of the 20th century do not even come from leaks obtained by journalists from within the meetings, they come directly from the mouth of Bilderberg’s chairman and Bilderberg’s own internal documents.However, leaks from inside the meetings uncovered by independent journalists have also proven routinely accurate in confirming that Bilderberg has a massive impact on policy decisions.In spring 2002, when war hawks in the Bush administration were pushing for a summer invasion of Iraq, Bilderbergers expressed their desire for a delay and the attack was not launched until March the following year.In 2006, journalists who got leaked information from inside Bilderberg predicted that the U.S. housing market would be allowed to soar before the bubble was cruelly popped, which is exactly what transpired.In June 2008, we learned that Bilderberg were creating the conditions for a financial calamity, which is exactly what began a few months later with the collapse of Lehman Brothers.Bilderberg has habitually flexed its muscles in establishing its role as kingmaker. The organization routinely selects presidential candidates as well as running mates and prime ministers.Despite widespread expectation that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be announced as the first European Union President, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy, was picked for the role just days after he attended a Bilderberg Group dinner meeting.
Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were both groomed by the secretive organization in the early 1990’s before rising to prominence.Barack Obama’s running mate Joe Biden was selected by Bilderberg luminary James A. Johnson, and John Kerry’s 2004 running mate John Edwards was also anointed by the group after he gave a glowing speech at the conference in 2004. Bilderberg attendees even broke house rules to applaud Edwards at the end of a speech he gave to the elitists about American politics. The choice of Edwards was shocking to media pundits who had fully expected Dick Gephardt to secure the position. The New York Post even reported that Gephardt had been chosen and Kerry-Gephardt stickers were being placed on campaign vehicles before being removed when Edwards was announced as Kerry’s number two.A 2008 Portuguese newspaper report highlighted the fact that Pedro Santana Lopes and Jose Socrates attended the 2004 meeting in Stresa, Italy before both going on to become Prime Minster of Portugal.Several key geopolitical decisions were made at the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in Washington DC, again emphasizing the fact that the confab is far more than an informal get-together.As we reported at the time, Bilderberg were concerned that the price of oil was accelerating too fast after it hit $150 a barrel and wanted to ensure that oil prices would probably begin to decline. This is exactly what happened in the latter half of 2008 as oil again sunk below $50 a barrel. We were initially able to predict the rapid rise in oil prices in 2005 when oil was at $40, because Bilderberg had called for prices to rise during that year’s meeting in Munich. During the conference in Germany, Henry Kissinger told his fellow attendees that the elite had resolved to ensure that oil prices would double over the course of the next 12-24 months, which is exactly what happened.Also at the 2008 meeting, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice formalized plans to sign a treaty on installing a U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.
Rice was joined at the meeting by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who reportedly encouraged EU globalists to get behind an attack on Iran. Low and behold, days later the EU threatened Iran with sanctions if it did not suspend its nuclear enrichment program. For the first time, the majority of Bilderberg members expressed their support for an attack on Iran during this year’s meeting in Sitges.There was also widespread speculation that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s secret meeting, which was accomplished with the aid of cloak and dagger tactics like locking journalists on an airplane to keep them from tracking the two down, took place at the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in DC.So as we can see, there are a plethora of examples of Bilderberg setting a consensus on a particular policy area which later comes to pass at both the national and international levels. To claim otherwise is to be completely ignorant of the manifestly provable fact that Bilderberg has immense power in setting agreements on policy and exercises that power on a regular basis.
In light of this, Berlet and Hollingshead are either shoddy journalists who have done no research whatsoever and are merely phoning it in, or they are being paid to deliberately spew biased and completely inaccurate information by the establishment they work for in a futile attempt to convince people that Bilderberg has no power, presumably in an effort to halt growing numbers of protesters who descend on Bilderberg each year, whom Bilderberg members now class as a “threat” to their agenda and secrecy.
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