SPAIN ROYAL MEETS PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT

Top Scientist: Fukushima Meltdown Could Trigger Atomic Explosion
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com April 12, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x415Io8umIs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.infowars.com/top-scientist-fukushima-meltdown-could-experience-atomic-explosion/

A British professor and expert on the health effects of ionizing radiation told Alex Jones today evidence points toward a nuclear explosion occurring at the Fukushima Daiichi complex. Two explosions at the plant in March were described as hydrogen gas explosions by Japanese officials and the corporate media.Professor Chris Busby on the Alex Jones Show, April 12, 2011. Citing data collected by two Russian scientists, Professor Chris Busby told Alex Jones and his audience that the explosions at Fukushima were possibly nuclear. The Russian scientists, Sergey A. Pakhomov and Yuri V. Dubasov of the VG Khlopin Radium Institute in Saint Petersburg, examined data related to the explosion at Chernobyl.Japanese nuclear safety agency raises crisis level of Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7.Using ratios of the radionuclides Xenon 133 and Xenon 133m which they measured by gamma spectrometer, the Russians demonstrated that the Chernobyl explosion was a fission criticality explosion and not principally a hydrogen explosion as has been claimed.

I believe that the explosion of the No 3 reactor may have also involved criticality but this must await the release of data on measurements of the Xenon isotope ratios, he writes in a statement on Fukushima and Chernobyl emailed to Infowars.com.
Busby further notes that the surface contamination and of dose rates 60 kilometers out from the Fukushima site on March 17 exceeded that released at Chernobyl.He explains in his statement that the damaged reactors at Fukushima are now continuing to fission. It is hoped that there will be no separation of plutonium and possible nuclear explosion. I feel that this is unlikely now.Short of an actual plutonium explosion, the reactors remain open to the air and will continue to fission and release radionuclides for years unless something drastic is done.Dr. Busby noted a precedent for the dire scenario now unfolding – a nuclear explosion at a plutonium production reprocessing plant in the former Soviet Union in 1957.The incident at the Mayak facility was the second-worst nuclear accident in history after the Chernobyl disaster. The explosion released 50-100 tonnes of high-level radioactive waste and contaminated a huge territory in the eastern Urals. The Soviets kept the explosion secret for 30 years. According to a report on the accident, about 400,000 people in the region were irradiated following the explosion and other incidents at the plant.
Dr. Busby told Alex Jones that short of actual isotope readings, he cannot definitely state that the explosions at Fukushima were nuclear, although he believes they were. We don’t have evidence of that,he concluded, we would need to have the Xenon isotope ratios.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvybcXK6HRE&feature=player_embedded
Nuclear Nightmare Getting Worse, Yet Propaganda Continues
Mark Sircus Infowars.com April 13, 2011

The troubled nuclear plant… is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential NRC assessment.Japan said it is considering expanding the area covered by a compulsory evacuation order, with no immediate end in sight to the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. At this point we should all sit up and take notice of what is happening and what could all so easily happen.The core at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor has melted through the reactor pressure vessel, Rep. Edward Markey told a House hearing on the disaster. I have been informed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the core has gotten so hot that part of it has probably melted through the reactor pressure vessel. America’s NRC said that some of the core of a stricken Japanese reactor had probably leaked from its steel pressure vessel into the bottom of the containment structure, implying that the damage was even worse than previously thought.Richard Lahey, who was head of safety research for boiling-water reactors at General Electric when the company installed the units at Fukushima, told the Guardian that at least part of the molten core, which includes melted fuel rods and zirconium alloy cladding, seemed to have sunk through the steel lower head of the pressure vessel around reactor no. 2. The indications we have, from the reactor to radiation readings and the materials they are seeing, suggest that the core has melted through the bottom of the pressure vessel in unit two, and at least some of it is down on the floor of the drywell, Lahey said.

On April 5, Times writers James Glanz and William Broad headlined, U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant,saying: American engineers warned that the troubled nuclear plant… is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable,according to a confidential NRC assessment.According to former GE reactor designer Margaret Harding, Exposed/ unprotected spent fuel rods in Units 1, 2, 3 and 4 pose extreme dangers. Moreover, explosions blew nuclear material up to one mile from the units into the atmosphere, indicating much greater damage than previously disclosed. As a result, David Lochbaum from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) believes, This paints a very different picture, and suggests that things are a lot worse. They could still have more damage in a big way if some of these things don’t work out for them… They’ve got a lot of nasty things to (handle), and one missed step could make the situation much, much worse.On March 29, Dr. Chris Busby said, In fact, Fukushima already way exceeds Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and will get increasingly worse ahead as radiation releases continue and spread. I believe that (the array of) phony experts are criminally irresponsible, since their advice will lead to millions of deaths… I hope they are sent to jail where they can have plenty of time to read the scientific proofs (showing) their advice was based on the mathematical analysis of thin air.Dr. Busby cited John Gofman, a senior U.S. Atomic Energy Commission expert who resigned, saying:The nuclear industry is waging a war against humanity. Busby calls it the greatest public health scandal in human history, which can be witnessed in the present as the government and press continue to mislead the public.As radioactive iodine and cesium-137 continue to spread across the northern hemisphere in higher and higher amounts, and is now reported in France, not a word is mentioned about the population’s iodine deficiencies and how that will guarantee that almost everyone’s thyroids will be ever so thirsty sponges for radioactive iodine. Criminal, mass murder and crimes against humanity are all words that come to mind thinking of this. Medical officials are either totally dumb or the meanest rats that ever walked this earth. They are obviously too stupid to realize that the public’s mineral deficiencies are a major factor in calculating vulnerabilities to exposures to radiation.

We have no choice but to prepare our hearts that this catastrophe will go to level seven and beyond releasing unsupportable radiation onto the nation of Japan and into the northern hemisphere—especially North America. And in fact this morning we find the Japanese doing just that, raising the nuclear catastrophe to level 7.It is more than pathetic though that in the announcement about going to level 7 that the same article mentions Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano telling reporters there was no “direct health damage” so far from the crisis. The accident itself is really serious, but we have set our priority so as not to cause health damage.Seems like Japanese ministers are playing God now in their frustration over events that are simply overwhelming them.Hironobu Unesaki, a nuclear physicist at Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, said the revision was not a cause for worry that it had to do with the overall release of radiation and was not directly linked to health dangers. Incredible the press would even print such garbage. Sounds like these gentlemen are like men standing on the shoreline telling the tide not to come in.The really bad news has yet to fall on Tokyo, one of the richest and largest metropolitan areas in the world. Will it succumb to the expanding radiation and become the first major center of civilization to fall? Evacuation orders are currently issued when residents are at risk of receiving radiation of at least 50 millisieverts (with no time rate mentioned in the report), but the government said that arrangement assumed only brief exposure. Chronic and persistent exposures need to be calculated into the far future meaning people are going to have to be removed from wider and wider areas. The standard does not take into account the effects of accumulative exposure,Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said. We are discussing what standards to use for accumulative radiation.You would think that governments in conjunction with the nuclear industry would have had this all figured out by now but they remain in complete denial of the dangerous of radiation at low levels of chronic exposure.

The disaster is hitting the Japanese were it really hurts by destroying their crops and now fish. Japan now has to contemplate having to change thousand-year-old eating habits. For an archipelago that has lived off the ocean since prehistoric times, radioactive fish is a worst-case scenario with possibly economy-wide implications.It is really scary to think about the situation worsening. So far most Japanese reportedly have not been directly affected by the calamity, but the realization that radioactive material has been found in seafood has made many of the nation’s 126 million people nervous, as it should. And those rolling blackouts are certainly having their effects on the population and the industries that have made Japan the great nation it has become.Japan was also the scene of one of the worst public health disasters ever with thousands crippled by mercury poisoning of seafood caused when toxic chemicals were released into the sea in the 1950s and 1960s. Mercury is another invisible poison and has become a disaster running in the background that everyone seems to continue to ignore. This admission in the mainstream of the mercury mishap in Japan opens Pandora’s box—the one where heavy metals, toxic chemicals and radiation mix to create a truly poisoned world.The high priests of this kind of world tell us not to worry as they raise the limits of what is considered safe as they did in Japan—the water is now safe to drink in Tokyo because they moved the goal posts and raised the limits of what is safe. The EPA reportedly also raised the safe limits.

Meanwhile doctors continue to expose their patients to higher and higher levels of radiation but this is going to finally have to stop. Soaring numbers of kids are getting CT scans in emergency rooms. The number of ER visits nationwide in which children were given CT scans surged from about 330,000 in 1995 to 1.65 million in 2008—a five-fold increase.The number of kids’ ER visits didn’t increase measurably during the study, but the percentage of visits involving CT scans climbed from about one percent to almost six percent. Increases in CT scan use have also been found in adults and the cancer industry is desperately fighting to make sure women still get their mammograms even though they too expose women to dangerous radiation, the last thing they need in an increasingly radioactive world.What medical officials, then doctors, will have to discover after they have been hit over the head several times with nuclear two-by-fours, is that every toxic exposure will increase people’s vulnerability to succumb to radiation sickness. Toxic accumulation, whether from heavy metals, chemicals, pesticides, food additives and preservatives, etc. will each take their toll, weakening our resistance or ability to clear radioactive particles from our bodies.

Threat to Wayne Madsen announced
http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/threat-to-wayne-madsen-announced/

April 4, 2011 — White House threats must be taken seriously
In yet another indication that America’s democratic experiment is a thing of the past, this editor has received word from a source in a foreign intelligence agency allied with the United States that there has been talk by some within the Obama White House that this editor is under threat. What particular stories have inflamed the White House are not known but the warning conveyed by the source, who has connections within the White House, was stark in its directness: They want to kill you.It was perfectly clear that the phrase was not being used as a figure of speech.

That this development is being reported on April 4 is even more ironic. On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Kr. was assassinated in Memphis during his mission to support striking sanitation workers in the city. Now, we have our first African-American president and a threat to kill a journalist who is most definitely not one of their favorites has been seriously discussed.Of course, muckraking journalists have been under threat before in America. In 1972, columnist and investigative journalist Jack Anderson had ended up very high on President Richard Nixon’s infamous enemies list. Anderson had long been a burr under the political saddle of Nixon and the president blamed Anderson for exposing a number of Nixon’s corrupt activities, including the exposure in 1956 by Anderson and his boss, Drew Pearson, of a loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon’s brother Donald.In the years before the Watergate scandal broke but at a time when other various scandals in the Nixon administration began to receive the bulldog-like attention of Anderson, who succeeded Pearson as editor of the Washington Merry-Go-Round column in 1969, there were serious discussions among Nixon aides Charles Colson and G. Gordon Liddy, as well as the CIA’s Dr. Edward Gunn, an expert on poisons, about assassinating the troublesome Anderson.

Scenarios included the use of LSD or poison but Anderson’s Mormon religion and the fact that he did not drink ruled out the use of poisons or LSD in his drink. Staging an automobile accident in which Anderson would be incinerated was also an option. Another scenario considered was one which would have appeared to be a random Washington, DC street mugging in which Anderson would be stabbed or have his throat slit. The plot to assassinate Anderson came to an abrupt halt as Liddy, Colson, and E. Howard Hunt, who had also been involved in the action against Anderson, were exposed in the May 1972 break-in at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.Although I have attempted to pattern WMR after Anderson’s and Pearson’s “Merry-Go-Round” column, I do not have the luxury of newspaper syndicators or a Pulitzer Prize, all of which Anderson could rely on as firewalls between him and those in the White House who wanted to kill him.I ran the information about the warning from the foreign intelligence source by some African-Americans in Washington who have worked with Obama White House officials. Their response was less than encouraging. The bottom line is that the White House engages in the type of gangster politics for which their home base of Chicago has become infamous.Although I have taken precautions in covering post-genocide Rwanda, child trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia, the loss of nuclear weapons at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, the gunning down by police of CIA asset Tony Carnaby in Houston, the story of Washington Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey, and BP’s activities on the Gulf Coast in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and President Obama’s and incoming Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s past activities in Chicago, those measures were temporary and lasted for as long as I was in the field.

However, I have absolutely no desire to constantly be in fear of the type of a White House-directed or -tolerated hit like that discussed by Nixon aides on Anderson who had the benefit of a degree of support from his syndicate and the newspapers who carried his column, which included The Washington Post.Preliminary plans are being made to continue the investigative journalism of this website from a safer vantage point abroad and in an environment that provides basic protection for press freedom. Unfortunately, the United States is no longer a safe place for independent journalists. Today, President Obama kicked off his 2012 presidential campaign in a web video message. Without a Democratic primary challenger, it can be safely assumed that the White House will pull out every arrow in its quiver to suppress negative information about Obama. The mere fact that the announcement of Obama’s re-election came on the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King shows that Obama will shamelessly attach himself to the legacy of the much-revered African-American leader with whom he shares no cultural legacy of historical African-Americans with their family histories of slavery in the South and sharecropping. Nor would King, if alive today, approve of any of Obama’s pro-war and pro-corporate policies.With a second Obama term a likelihood, iIt only makes sense, therefore, that the reporting on the new America be conducted from a more secure location.There is an interesting postscript to this story. Not once, during the eight years of the Bush administration, did I ever receive such a credible and direct threat. In fact, after WMR’s stories about marital friction between Bush and First Lady Laura Bush received national media attention, there was a communication from a close friend of Mrs. Bush that if I laid off her marital situation, I would be given a major scoop. Knowing that no one should ever cut a deal with the Bush family or their friends, I kindly declined the offer. But whereas the Bush White House was prepared to offer a carrot, the Obama administration appears to favor the stick or another lethal weapon of choice.in discussion with friends we often comment on how wayne is lucky to be alive with the reports he puts out..and its been noted by the WH it appears..a direct threat on his life..he is leaving the USA..thats how much he believes it to be true..this is the brave new world we live in..may god keep you safe wayne and keep pushing truth..

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Spanish royal meets Palestinian president
– Tue Apr 12, 1:29 pm ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Spanish Crown Prince Felipe restated his nation's support for an independent Palestinian state during talks on Tuesday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, a local news agency said.Prince Felipe, accompanied by his wife, Princess Letizia, met Abbas at his presidential headquarters in Ramallah as part of a tour of Israel and the West Bank.The prince reiterated Spain's position in support of the peace process and the right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent state alongside Israel, said a statement carried by official Palestinian news agency WAFA.For his part, Abbas said the Palestinian Authority remained committed to the peace process, based on legitimate international resolutions and international law, the statement said.Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been on hold since late last year after an Israeli moratorium on settlement building expired. The Palestinians have refused to hold talks while Israel builds on land they want for their future state.Abbas said during Tuesday's meeting that any peace process required clear terms of reference, and stressed that settlement activity in all its forms must stop for negotiations to begin.During the meeting, which was attended by Spain's foreign minister, Abbas offered thanks for the great support he said Spain's king, government and people had offered the Palestinians.

Peres Hosts Spanish Royals
by David Lev APR 12,11

In a sign of growing diplomatic relations between Israel and Spain, the Crown Prince and Princess of Spain, Felipe de Borbon and Letizia Ortiz, were in Israel this week on an official state visit. President Shimon Peres hosted the royal pair. The Prince and Princess are on a royal visit to Israel to mark 25 years of diplomatic relations between Israel and Spain, The visit, which is the first for the Crown Prince to Israel, is a reciprocal one coming after Peres' visit King Juan Carlos I in March.
Peres held an official welcoming ceremony for his guests at the President's House in Jerusalem on Monday morning. Following the ceremony, Peres held a working meeting with his guests, telling them Israel welcomes you warmly and with the expectation that this historic visit will contribute greatly to the strengthening of relations between Spain and Israel in the fields of economy, science, technology, education and culture.Speaking to his visitors at a welcoming ceremony, Peres said I would like to thank your father, the King of Spain, and Queen Sofia, for the warm welcome I received in Spain. King Juan Carlos bravely succeeded to lead Spain to democracy after Franco, strengthening Spain and turning it into an open, peace-loving country.

Although only 24 hours long, Felipe and Letizia managed to pack numerous activities into their visit to Israel, paying a call at Yad Vashem, attending a eception at Tel Aviv University, breakfasting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and touring the Israel Museum. Speaking at Tel Aviv University Monday night, Felipe urged greater technological cooperation between Israel and Spain.On Tuesday afternoon, the two visited Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas before returning home.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Palestinian Authority largely ready to govern state: UN
– Tue Apr 12, 1:24 pm ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) – The Palestinian Authority is now largely ready to govern a state, the office of the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process said in a report on Tuesday.In six areas where the UN is most engaged, governmental functions are now sufficient for a functioning government of a state, said the report, which will be submitted to Palestinian donor nations meeting in Brussels on Wednesday.But the report warned that it would be difficult for the Palestinian Authority to make any additional progress while the Israeli occupation continued and peace talks remained stalled.The key constraints to the existence and successful functioning of the institutions of a potential state of Palestine arise primarily from the persistence of the occupation and the unresolved issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,the report said.The institutional achievements of the Palestinian state-building agenda are approaching their limits within the political and physical space currently available.The Palestinian Authority (PA) has set itself a September 2011 deadline to be ready for statehood, with the hope of pressuring Israel and the international community to recognise a Palestinian state.

Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been on hold since late 2010 over the issue of Jewish settlement in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.But the Palestinians have said they will seek United Nations recognition for a unilateral declaration of statehood if the talks do not resume, and have touted their state-building efforts as evidence of their readiness for statehood.In a statement accompanying the report, UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process Robert Serry, praised Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas and prime minister Salam Fayyad.This is a decisive period, he said, warning that progress could be retarded or even unravelled without more Israeli cooperation and a return to negotiations.No-one should underestimate what is at stake now. What we urgently need are further steps on the ground that can enable a broadening of this progress, he said.I believe Israel needs to roll back measures of occupation to match the PA?s achievements. I also stress the urgent need for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations on a two-state solution to resume.The report also stressed that the continuing divide between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip deprives the PA of the ability to extend its institutional authority.The progress that has been achieved by the PA must be more meaningfully connected to all areas of de jure PA responsibility and to all Palestinian citizens.

Hamas and Abbas's Fatah party, which dominates the Palestinian Authority, are bitter rivals whose antagonism boiled over in 2007, a year after the Islamist group won legislative elections.After fierce street battles, Hamas routed Fatah fighters from Gaza and seized control of the coastal strip, where it remains in charge.It has not participated in the state-building programme championed by Fayyad, and successive rounds of reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah have been unsuccessful.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Blocks Quartet Move to Propose Pro-PA Final Status Plan
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu APR 13,11

The United States on Tuesday blocked a Quartet move to impose on Israel a final status plan for the Palestinian Authority, but foreign media reported that the initiative would re-start the peace process.Britain, France and Germany were behind the initiative for the meeting of the Quartet, comprised of the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union.The final status proposal in effect is an adoption of the PA agenda although the PA agreed several years ago to achieve final status through negotiations with Israel. Instead, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has adopted a strategy of gaining international support for a PA state that would include land on which more than 500,000 Jews now live, in United Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.U.S. President Barack Obama and his advisers accept in principle the PA demands, but an American diplomat told the Associated Press,It wasn't the right time for a meeting. The Obama administration essentially is playing both sides of the fence, opposing a Jewish presence on the land restored to Israel in the Six Day War in 1967 but stalling pro-Arab pressure to force the issue.

European diplomats did not officially react to the American stand against a meeting, but one official told the news agency that the Quartet needs to take the lead from the United States to resume Israeli-PA talks.After reports that the United States blocked the proposal, senior PA negotiator Saeb Erekat warned it would encourage Israel to build more homes for Jews and in a way destroying any chance of peace.Abbas called off direct talks with Israel nearly two years ago, despite Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s unprecedented agreement for a 10-month halt of construction of new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria.Abbas balked at the offer, which was made to meet his condition for talks. Abbas then said it was not extensive enough and should cover all areas in Jerusalem that the PA claims as the seat of its proposed capital of a new Arab country.He has demanded that Prime Minister Netanyahu accept a PA state along the 1949 Armistice Lines but has not clarified what issues are open for negotiation.Despite the conditions set down by Abbas, both AP and the French news agency AFP reported that the European proposal was designed to rejuvenate the peace process, which has become a code word for a Palestinian Authority country based on its demands.AFP reported that the talks ended in late September when Israel refused to extend a moratorium on settlement building in what the news agency refers to as the occupied territories. However, the same report did not note that the direct talks consisted of a one-time, three-hour photo-op meeting orchestrated by President Obama following a year of Abbas’ refusal to sit down with the Netanyahu government.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED APR 13,2011

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +46.46
10:30 AM +34.89
11:00 AM +39.50
11:30 AM +10.29
12:00 PM -5.15
12:30 PM -8.10
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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).

Van Rompuy to Greece: Don't blame Europe
LEIGH PHILLIPS 12.04.2011 @ 18:11 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - As rebellion grows amongst MPs and ministers in Greece's ruling Pasok party, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy on a visit to Athens has told the country it should not blame the European Union for its problems as the austerity and structural changes being imposed should have been done long ago.[The austerity measures] are unavoidable and should have been implemented long ago. Europe is not to be blamed. On the contrary, the Union is helping to preserve Greece's future, he said in remarks made following a meeting with Prime Minister George Papandreou.I know that this message is not always well understood but it is the simple truth.He also warned the Greek government that it needs to stick to its commitments to cuts and privatisation. In recent weeks, popular opposition to such measures has extended to the government, with MEPs and ministers openly criticising reforms.The key is to continue implementing the courageous reforms and privatisations that have been agreed in a timely and effective manner,he said.On fiscal consolidation it is important to stick to the programme objectives.In comments to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, he also said that Belgium, his own country, had undergone similar structural adjustment in the late nineties, before the advent of the eurozone, and had successfully reduced its national debt.

Some of your countrymen resist the reforms, others are anxious about the outcome. And we all understand these feelings. However, I want to share with you my confidence that it can be done, he continued.We in Belgium restored competitiveness by imposing wage restraint. We privatised telecoms and public banks. We asked special powers from the parliament.However, he also said that he was disdainful of discussion of peripheral countries within the EU: Each member state had to face economic problems in its recent history. Most of them made mistakes, whether they belonged to the north or the south, to the east or the west.At the same time, he said other countries had undergone difficult reforms and that he understood the feelings of people who felt Greece was undisciplined. In core eurozone countries in the last year, populist newspapers such as Germany's Bild newspaper whipped up anti-Greek sentiment.People in all 27 countries in our Union ... feel it was bad enough to support their own banks and difficult enough to save jobs in their own country... One can thus understand a feeling that the same rules of discipline must apply to all EU countries.Spokespeople for the president said he did not want to single out any particular actor within Greek society for criticisms of Europe or the austerity programme, but said that criticism is coming from many quarters.President Van Rompuy has in recent months regularly spoken out against euroscepticism.He delivered his message ahead of a grueling few days for the the governing Pasok party, which is tearing itself apart over austerity and privatisation measures.

On Wednesday, the prime minister is to address the party's parliamentary group and try to put an end to the growing rebellion and on Friday, the cabinet is to put the finishing touches on its 2012-15 economic reform plan.On Tuesday last week, finance minister George Papaconstaninou was sharply criticised by deputies from his own party for the scale of austerity imposed and multi-billion-euro support for domestic banks.And at the end of March, a series of MPs came out in favour of an end to the memorandum of understanding signed with the EU-IMF-ECB troika.

Our own problems

But a government spokesman told EUobserver that the EU Council president was not criticising government ministers or MPs. He was addressing us the Greek people, the average Greek, not the government, that the average Greek should stand with us in solving the economic problems of Greece. These are not someone else's problems, they are our problems, Konstantinos Pappas, spokesman for the Greek mission to the EU, told this website.On that, we are are of the same opinion, completely in alignment with the president.There are also some political parties that strongly object to the whole idea of the programme [of austerity], he continued.There are some ministers too with some objections, he conceded.But the government's position is clear.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: 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 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) 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.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Foreign ministers wary of EU military role in Libya
VALENTINA POP 12.04.2011 @ 22:12 CET

EUOBSERVER / LUXEMBOURG - Foreign ministers have endorsed the basic outlines of an EU military-humanitarian mission to Libya, amid concern about putting ground soldiers into a volatile situation. The meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday (12 March) saw ministers approve the so-called concept of operations (Conops) for the Eufor Libya mission, the first step in the planning of any mission which involves military assets.Speaking to EUobserver on his way out of the meeting, Finnish foreign minister Alexander Stubb said that no more official information will come out until the UN makes a formal request for EU military assistance to deliver humanitarian aid or to help get refugees out.We are only in the planning phase now of Eufor Libya. The next step would have to be a request from the UN office for the co-ordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) on opening or maintaining of humanitarian passages. It could be evacuations, but that request hasn't come yet. If that request comes, then we'll have to take more concrete measures. There are no decisions coming out of here today, he said.Earlier in the day, an EU diplomat said France is basically trying to get boots on the ground via an EU humanitarian-military mission. But a lot member states are very reluctant in signing up to that.But speaking after the meeting French foreign minister Alain Juppe ruled out any military role for the EU operation.For her part, foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said In support of humanitarian efforts, military assets are to be used very carefully. She said the wariness of foreign ministers and the UN was not sceptical, it was right.Another EU contact noted that confusion remains on what Eufor Libya will do despite the ministers' three-hours-long lunchtime debate.

Some member states stress more the humanitarian aspects and do not want any reference to the security situation, others say the two are intertwined and press for the two to be mentioned, the source said. It is a very unusual military operation - we don't know what we would be asked to do - so planning is very loose at the moment.The ministers on Tuesday also adopted sanctions on 26 Libyan energy companies and met with representatives of the Libyan National Transition Council (NTC) in Benghazi for a two-hour-long coffee.The NTC foreign affairs representative, Ali Al-Issawi, later told reporters that the EU and other international actors should do more to protect civilians.We ask countries from all over the world to support the [UN] resolution, mainly the protection of civilians. We have now about ten thousand killed by Gaddafi soldiers, we have about 20,000 persons missing whom we believe are prisoners in Gaddafi prisons. We have around 30,000 injured, 7,000 of them fighting between life and death. So we want more efforts regarding the protection of Libyan civilians against this aggression going on on the ground, he said.France's Juppe seized upon the NTC meeting - an Ashton initiative - as an EU-wide signal of recognition for the council. But Sweden, among others, is wary of giving the impression the EU is closed to talks with other opposition players. Juppe went on to criticise Nato for not doing enough to protect civilians, particularly in the port of Misrata, which is under heavy artillery fire by the Gaddafi forces.

Nato is mainly using French assets, as we are the number one contributor at this stage. I hope others will follow suit. I have confidence in [Nato chief Anders Fogh] Rasmussen's capacity to gather all necessary assets. It is unacceptable for Misrata to be still subject to bombings from Gaddafi troops,he said.It certainly doesn't mean to engage in riskier operations, but to exert the maximum military pressure possible and strike military targets. If artillery is firing at Misrata, it means there is artillery which needs to be tracked down and annihilated.Nato meanwhile informed the media that it had destroye four Gaddafi tanks and an ammunition storage depot.We're keeping pressure on to stop the violence, Charles Bouchard, the commander of the Nato-led operations said in a statement.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143524

Over 10,000 Rebels, Civilians Killed in Libya So Far
by David Lev APR 12,11

The revolution in Libya has not been going as smooth as it did in Tunisia and Egypt. Unlike in those countries, anti-government rebels have faced steep losses – with as many as 10,000 people killed, and 20,000 more missing, rebel leaders say. In addition, they say, some 30,000 have been injured – many with serious, life-threatening injuries.The report on rebel losses, released over the weekend, has prompted the International Committee for the Red Cross to investigate. The ICRC will send a team by boat to the western rebel city of Misrata to see for themselves the level of violence being committed against rebels.For now, the rebels say they are in a standoff, and they expect fighting to continue for the foreseeable future. A ceasefire proposed by African diplomats fell apart even before it got off the ground, and fighting broke out again in Misrata, as well as near Ajdabiya, a key eastern town that has changed hands numerous times.Besides violence at the hands of forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, residents of rebel-held cities have been suffering privation and even, in some cases, starvation. A UN World Food Program cargo ship carrying medical supplies, doctors and other aid arrived in Misrata last Thursday. The ship was carrying more 600 metric tons of food, including wheat flour and vegetable oil - enough to feed more than 40,000 people for a month.

In an interview with the BBC, former Libyan Foreign Minister and Intelligence chief Moussa Koussa, warned that Libya could turn into another Somalia – a country run by warlords and violent gangs – if the civil war continued much longer.But rebel leaders dismiss that notion. Speaking to reporters, rebel media spokesman Mustafa Gheriani said,We don't have ethnic groups waging war against each other. We don't have political parties waging war against each other. There are two fronts. There are the people of the country, the Libyan people, and Colonel Qaddafi and his regime and his kids. Gehrani said that the revels would keep fighting as long as needed.

Despite the continued NATO air support against Libyan Army forces, rebel leaders say that more effort was needed to help protect civilians. Speaking to reporters, Ali Al Isawi, a representative of Libya's National Transition Council (NTC), told reporters after a meeting in Luxembourg, We want more efforts regarding protection of civilians against this aggression.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe agreed, and said that NATO should step up its involvement in order to help prevent further civilian casualties in Libya.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

New battles in Libya, strains in NATO campaign
By SEBASTIAN ABBOT, Associated Press - APR 12,11

AJDABIYA, Libya – Moammar Gadhafi's forces fired rockets along the eastern front line and shelled the besieged city of Misrata Tuesday as France and Britain urged their NATO allies, including the United States, to intensify the campaign against the Libyan regime.But hopes for a rebel military victory have faded and diplomatic efforts to find a solution were picking up momentum. On Wednesday, diplomats will gather in the tiny Gulf nation of Qatar for a meeting of the Libya contact group, which aims to coordinate an international response to the conflict.On Monday, African leaders tried to broker a cease-fire but were immediately shot down when the opposition insisted that Gadhafi give up power immediately.For his part, Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim insisted that any talk of Gadhafi stepping down, which has also been suggested by some European officials, was imperialist thinking and he lamented that the rebels had not followed suit in accepting the African proposal.The Libyan rebels have proven to be far weaker and outnumbered by Gadhafi's forces and without NATO airstrikes, they could face a crushing military defeat. So any realistic rebel hopes of unseating Gadhafi now rest firmly on international political pressure combined with sustained NATO airstrikes.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said NATO was not doing enough to ease the pressure on Misrata. He also said the alliance should be firing on the weapons being used by Gadhafi's troops to target civilians in Misrata, the only city in western Libya that is still partially in the hands of rebels. International groups are warning of a dire humanitarian crisis in Misrata, Libya's third-largest city.

Paris lamented the limited U.S. military role in Libya and chided Germany for its lack of involvement. In a dire analysis, France's defense minister acknowledged that without full American participation in the combat operation, the West probably can't stop Gadhafi's attacks on besieged rebel cities.Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague agreed that the allies must intensify their efforts.France has played a particularly aggressive role in Libya in recent weeks, pushing diplomatically for a U.N. resolution to allow the international military operation and firing the first strikes in the campaign. France also was the first to recognize the Libyan opposition and to send a diplomatic envoy to the rebel-held city of Benghazi.A NATO general rejected the criticism and said the alliance is performing well and protecting civilians.Dutch Brig. Gen. Mark Van Uhm said the alliance was successful in enforcing an arms embargo, patrolling a no fly zone and protecting civilians. I think with the assets we have, we're doing a great job, he said.NATO took over command of the operation over Libya from the U.S. on March 31.NATO said Tuesday that its aircraft destroyed four tanks near Zintan, 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Tripoli. A separate strike also destroyed an ammunition storage site southwest of Sirte, a Gadhafi stronghold and home to the Libyan leader's tribe, the military alliance said.British jets patrolling near Misrata also fired missiles and destroyed a tank, according to the U.K. military spokesman Maj. Gen. John Lorimer.

We will continue to strike at the regime's supplies and supply lines and reduce their ability to fight, said the commander of the NATO operation, Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard.In fighting on Tuesday, several rockets struck Ajdabiya, the main gateway town into the rebel-held east. Witnesses also reported shelling in Misrata.
Weeks of fierce government bombardment of Misrata have terrorized the city's residents, killing dozens of people and leaving food and medical supplies scarce, according to residents, doctors and rights groups.Unfortunately, with the long-range war machines of Gadhafi forces, no place is safe in Misrata, a medical official in Misrata told The Associated Press, asking that his name not be published for fear of reprisals. Six people were killed Monday and another corpse was brought in Tuesday, he said.The Libyan government, however, maintained that the problems in Misrata were the work of terrorists and authorities were actually working to succor the populace of the city.The Libyan government is doing its best to help the people of Misrata and the foreign workers trapped there under the conditions imposed by the terrorists, by the armed gangs, said spokesman Ibrahim.Libyan opposition spokesman Ali al-Issawi said Gadhafi's soldiers have killed about 10,000 people throughout the country and injured 30,000, with 7,000 of the injured facing life-threatening wounds. He said another 20,000 people were missing and suspected of being in Gadhafi's prisons. However he did not say how he arrived at those number and there was no way to independently verify them given the restrictions on foreign journalists and international organizations operating inside Libya.

Previous estimates by human rights groups and others had much lower death tolls in the hundreds or a few thousand.On the eve of the Libya contact group meeting in Qatar, the Gulf country confirmed it was behind last week's sale of more than $100 million of crude oil from areas held by Libya's rebels. Though not a surprise, the announcement underscores Qatar's position as the most prominent Arab state supporting opposition forces seeking to topple Gadhafi.Also Tuesday, a British government official said Libya's former Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa is traveling to Qatar to share his insight on the workings of Gadhafi's inner circle.Koussa, who fled to England in late March, is the highest ranking member of Gadhafi's regime to quit so far. He had been a longtime aide throughout Gadhafi's 42-year rule.Koussa has been asked to attend the conference on Libya being held in Doha as a valuable Gadhafi insider, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.MI6 agents stopped questioning Koussa last week, according to the official. Koussa had been staying in a safehouse until late Monday night, according to Noman Benotman, an ex-member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and relative of Koussa who has been in regular contact with the former foreign minister since he fled to Britain.Although Koussa was provided with legal advice, Benotman said he believed he had cleared most of the legal hurdles in the U.K. surrounding his alleged involvement in the Lockerbie bombing and arming the IRA.Britain's Foreign Office confirmed the trip in a statement Tuesday, saying that Koussa was traveling today to Doha to meet with the Qatari government and a range of other Libyan representatives.Associated Press writers Ben Hubbard in Benghazi, Hadeel al-Shalchi in Tripoli, Paisley Dodds and Raphael G. Satter in London, Raf Casert in Luxembourg and Selcan Hacaoglu in Turkey contributed to this report.

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.

Japan equates nuclear crisis severity to Chernobyl By RYAN NAKASHIMA and SHINO YUASA, Associated Press – Tue Apr 12, 12:59 pm ET

TOKYO – Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale — the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation leaks are declining at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.The higher rating is an open acknowledgement of what was widely understood already: The nuclear accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant is the second-worst in history. It does not signal a worsening of the plant's status in recent days or any new health dangers.Still, people living nearby who have endured a month of spewing radiation and frequent earthquakes said the change in status added to their unease despite government efforts to play down any notion that the crisis poses immediate health risks.Miyuki Ichisawa closed her coffee shop this week when the government added her community, Iitate village, and four others to places people should leave to avoid long-term radiation exposure. The additions expanded the 12-mile (20-kilometer) zone where people had already been ordered to evacuate soon after the March 11 tsunami swamped the plant.And now the government is officially telling us this accident is at the same level of Chernobyl, Ichisawa said.It's very shocking to me.Japanese nuclear regulators said the severity rating was raised from 5 to 7 on an international scale overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency due to new assessments of the overall radiation leaks from the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.

According to the Vienna-based atomic energy agency, the new ranking signifies a major accident that includes widespread effects on the environment and people's health. The scale, designed by experts convened by the IAEA and other groups in 1989, is meant to help the public, the technical community and the media understand the public safety implications of nuclear events.The International Atomic Energy Agency said Japan's decision did not mean the disaster had been downplayed previously.
Early actions by Japanese authorities — evacuations, radiation warnings and the work at the plant to contain leaks — showed they realized the gravity of the situation, Denis Flory, an IAEA deputy director general, said.The upgraded status did not mean radiation from the plant was worsening, but rather reflected concern about long-term health risks as it continues to spew into the air, soil and seawater. Most radiation exposures around the region haven't been high enough yet to raise significant health concerns.Workers are still trying to restore disabled cooling systems at the plant, and radioactive isotopes have been detected in tap water, fish and vegetables.Iitate's town government decided Tuesday to ban planting of all farm products, including rice and vegetables, expanding the national government's prohibition on growing rice there.Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, went on national television and urged people not to panic.Right now, the situation of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant has been stabilizing step by step. The amount of radiation leaks is on the decline, he said.But we are not at the stage yet where we can let our guard down.Japanese officials said the leaks from the Fukushima plant so far amount to a tenth of the radiation emitted from Chernobyl, but about 10 times the amount needed to reach the level 7 threshold. They acknowledged the emissions could eventually exceed Chernobyl's, but said the chance that will happen is very small. However, regulators have also acknowledged that a more severe nuclear accident is a distinct possibility until regular cooling systems are restored — a process likely to take months.

Although the Fukushima accident is now at the equal level as Chernobyl, we should not consider the two incidents as the same, said Hiroshi Horiike, professor of nuclear engineering at Osaka University. Fukushima is not a Chernobyl.In Chernobyl, in what is now the Ukraine, a reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing a cloud of radiation over much of the Northern Hemisphere. A zone about 19 miles (30 kilometers) around the plant was declared uninhabitable.Thirty-one men died mostly from being exposed to very high levels of radiation trying to contain the accident. But there is no agreement on how many people are likely to die of cancers caused by its radiation. No radiation exposure deaths have been blamed on the leaks at Fukushima Dai-ichi. Two plant workers were treated for burns after walking in heavily contaminated water in a building there.The tsunami, spawned by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, knocked out cooling systems and backup diesel generators, leading to hydrogen explosions at three reactors and a fire at a fourth that was undergoing regular maintenance and was empty of fuel. Workers have been improvising for weeks with everything from helicopter drops to fire hoses to supply cooling water to the plant.Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, noted that unlike in Chernobyl there have been no explosions of reactor cores, which are more serious than hydrogen explosions. In that sense, this situation is totally different from Chernobyl, he said.NISA officials said they raised the incident level because of the cumulative amount of radioactive particles released into the atmosphere. Other factors included damage to the plant's buildings and accumulated radiation levels for its workers.The revision was based on cross-checking and assessments of data on leaks of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-137. Officials did not say why they skipped level 6 or when exactly the radiation level exceeded the level 7 threshold.

Based on government estimates, the equivalent of 500,000 terabecquerels of radiation from iodine-131 has been released into the atmosphere since the crisis began, well above the several tens of thousands of terabecquerels needed to reach level 7. A terabecquerel equals a trillion becquerels, a measure of radiation emissions. The Chernobyl incident released 5.2 million terabecquerels into the air.We have refrained from making announcements until we have reliable data, Nishiyama said. He also emphasized that no more major leaks are expected from the reactors, though he acknowledged more work is needed to keep the reactors stable.Work to stabilize the plant has been impeded by continued aftershocks, the latest a 6.3-magnitude quake Tuesday that prompted plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, to temporarily pull back workers. Work removing highly radioactive water, a necessary step before cooling systems can be restored, finally resumed around 7:30 p.m.In his televised address, Kan gave the nation a pep talk, telling people to focus on recovering from the disasters that are believed to have killed 25,000 people.Let's live normally without falling into excessive self-restraint, he said.We should eat and drink products from the quake-hit areas as a form of support.Many of the more than 14,500 people still listed as missing from the quake and tsunami are thought to have been swept out to sea. A month after the disaster, more than 145,000 people are still living in shelters.Among them is Kenichi Yomogita, a plumbing contract worker at Fukushima Dai-ichi who was off work the day of the tsunami and has not returned. His hometown of Tomioka is in the evacuation zone, and he thinks it will be at least three years before he can return. For now he is living at a shelter in Koriyama, and said the upgraded crisis level has not improved his hopes.At first the reality of this situation didn't sink in, he said,but this news shows how serious it is.
Associated Press writers Yuri Kageyama, Mari Yamaguchi, Mayumi Saito and Malcolm J. Foster and Noriko Kitano in Tokyo, George Jahn in Vienna and photographer Hiro Komae contributed to this report.

Media Hate Affair with Netanyahu
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu APR 12,11

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s multi-million libel suit on the ’Bibi-tours reportage is only the latest chapter in a long history of media hate for the Prime Minister.The media has been pounding away at Prime Minister Netanyahu ever since he was elected to his first time of office in the last 1990s, eking out a narrow victory over now President Shimon Peres.Peres had gone to bed after the early results indicated victory was in his pocket, but a pre-dawn somersault of returns gave Netanyahu a victory of half a percentage point. Media analysts immediately charged that such a small margin of victory was questionable in a democratic state.

Last year, President Shimon Peres came to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s defense by criticizing the Israeli media for extensive coverage of a lawsuit against Sarah Netanyahu by a former employee who claimed she was abused and exploited by the Prime Minister’s wife.Foreign media also have been unkind to the Prime Minister, whose fluent English and communication skills often have vanquished questioners. During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, he traveled to Britain to speak up for Israel during the Olmert administration. Confronted by David Frost with a question about Israel’s killing civilians during the fighting, Netanyahu suggested, You really don’t want to go down that road.Frost insisted, and Netanyahu reminded viewers of a British aerial strafing in World War II that killed dozens of civilians. A silenced Frost quickly switched the subject.After the Goldstone Report defamed Israel for alleged war crimes in the Operation Cast Lead, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer grilled Netanyahu, although he was not Prime Minister at the time of Cast Lead.Blitzer refused to accept Netanyahu’s explanation that Israel had been under attack for more than eight years by missiles from Gaza, evacuated citizens and soldiers from the area but continued to come under even worse attacks.Blitzer said, You killed a lot of civilians, and Netanyahu replied, We tried to get at the rocketers, those terrorists firing those missiles and rockets who placed themselves, embedded themselves in homes and schools and mosques, and you name it.

Blitzer answered, All right.In Israel, mainstream media also dealt roughly and one-sidedly roughly with Netanyahu while treating other party leaders with kid gloves. During one episode in another campaign, Netanyahu was recorded telling Likud supporters that the media are afraid of the Likud party's popularity. He repeated in cadence, They are afraid,receiving a thunderous echo from his backers.The recording was played over and over against on Voice of Israel government radio, whose analysts compared it to a Nazi-like chant that could be viewed as illegal incitement.In a totally unrelated but parallel ploy, Voice of Israel several years ago accused the Israel Meteorological Bureau of scaring the public by predicting a blizzard three days ahead of time. The radio channel repeatedly broadcast the forecast and then suggested to the forecasters that they were to blame for causing a panic.(Israel NationalNews.com)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Rains pound Grenada, flooding forces evacuations
– Tue Apr 12, 5:45 pm ET

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada – Unseasonable heavy rains have caused landslides on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where officials on Tuesday relocated families away from swollen rivers that flooded homes and destroyed small fishing boats.We should be in the dry season, but we are experiencing so much rain, Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said while he toured the island's northwest region.Flooding turned the small coastal town of Gouyave into a jumble of mud, trees, sand and stones. More than 20 families were left without shelter.Deputy Disaster Coordinator Terrence Walters said no one died or had been reported missing, but residents in the western parishes of St. Mark and St. John lost their belongings. Some 15 fishing boats also were wrecked, he said.Up to six inches of rain fell during the 24 hours through Tuesday morning and more rain was expected, said John Peters at the state meteorological office.

Iowa Town Pulls Together After Devastating Tornado
William Browning – Tue Apr 12, 3:02 pm ET

Mapleton, Iowa, was decimated by an EF3 tornado on Saturday. Like any small town, when tragedy strikes it affects everyone. As many as 15 blocks of Mapleton were destroyed by a tornado measured about three-fourths of a mile wide. Almost half of the city's residents have been displaced due to partial damage to over half the town.
In cases such as this, quick thinking saved many lives. Local authorities and trained spotters gave residents as much as 10 to 15 minutes of warning instead of five minutes with such fast-approaching storms. Houses can be replaced, lives cannot.

The twister was on the ground for over three miles. The Mapleton storm was one of four tornadoes that hit Iowa that night. Many of the trees that gave the town its name caused damage to homes when they were toppled like twigs. Residents have repeated what other small towns echo across tornado alley -- in times like this, we come together.Welcome to tornado season.Those of us in the Midwest are used to this time of year. From April until June, we listen to weather alert radios and if we're outside we listen for the high-pitched wail of tornado sirens. Despite better warning systems, dozens of people die every year in tornadoes. The lowest number of deaths occurred in 1986 when only 15 people were killed because of tornadoes. Even as recent as 2008, there were 125 deaths attributed to the fast-moving storm.The record number of deaths is still 794 during the massive 1925 tornado outbreak. As many Iowans know, when tornadoes approach they should be taken seriously. If only everyone had the moxie of Mapleton's citizens there would be fewer casualties during tornado season.May is the peak time for tornadoes along five states of the Great Plains. South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas brace for the annual spring ritual of taking shelter when warnings are issued.

Like other towns across America, Mapleton will rebuild. It can draw inspiration from Greensburg, Kan. When the entire town was destroyed in 2007, they chose to rebuild the entire city not only with green building practices but also with houses that can withstand tornadic winds.Homes are now more energy efficient, built stronger and the community in Kansas has come together. Mapleton will be no different. Disasters bring people together for one purpose and Mapleton will move on. All of us in tornado alley can take heart that tornadoes may take our physical houses, the people around us are what make our towns a home.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

Earthquake jolts northeast Japan, no tsunami warning
APR 12,11

(Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 hit northeastern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, shaking buildings in capital Tokyo.
The epicenter of the earthquake was at Fukushima prefecture, the agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued.Tokyo Electric Power Co, operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan, said workers had not been evacuated and work at the complex was continuing normally after the quake.
(Reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro)

Japan government downgrades economy view on earthquake
By Kaori Kaneko - APR 12,11

TOKYO (Reuters) - – Japan's government on Wednesday downgraded its assessment of the economy for the first time in six months, saying it is showing weakness after a devastating earthquake and tsunami last month battered the northeast coast.The revision is in line with the Bank of Japan, which also cut its assessment of the economy last week in the wake of the March 11 disaster, saying it would remain under strong downward pressure for some time.The economy is showing weakness recently due to the influence of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the government said in its monthly economic report for April.That compared with the previous month's report that said the pickup in the economy was only weakly self-sustaining and there was concern about the influence of the quake.The government also downgraded its views on key aspects of the economy, including exports, industrial production and private consumption, after the disaster and subsequent nuclear safety crisis disrupted supply chains and triggered power shortages.The condition of the economy is no longer flat or at a standstill, but rather the direction is downward, said Shigeru Sugihara, director of macroeconomic analysts at the Cabinet Office.

The government expects the weakness to continue for the near term but with a pickup resuming along with a recovery in production, reflecting solid overseas economies and the effects of various policy measures.The government also warned of downside risks to the outlook that could stem from power supply constraints, slow progress in restoring supply chains and the impact of rising oil prices.The government also cut its assessment on exports for the first time in four months, saying there are concerns about a decline due to last month's disaster. Previously, it said exports were showing movement toward picking up.The Cabinet Office also cut its assessment on industrial production for the first time in five months, saying manufacturing activity was stagnating.The government's monthly report also cut its view on private consumption for the first time in two months, saying that some weakness was seen recently.(Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

Asian tigers should help poorer neighbors - World Bank
By Emily Kaiser – Tue Apr 12, 6:58 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China and other fast-growing Asian economies that have benefited from global trade have a responsibility to help poorer neighbors enjoy the same opportunities, a top World Bank official said on Tuesday.Sri Mulyani Indrawati, one of three managing directors at the World Bank, said rebalancing the global economy should be about more than just reducing the U.S. trade deficit and trimming China's $2.8 trillion reserves. It should also include lifting up less-developed countries.China's export-driven economy enjoyed 30 years of more or less peaceful growth, without the frequent crises that have plagued many other emerging markets, she said in an interview ahead of the World Bank's twice-yearly meetings this weekend.They used the global market as their export destination, and that's why they could enjoy very rapid growth for a very long time, Indrawati said.Other Asian economies hoping to emulate China's exporting model can no longer rely as heavily on voracious U.S. consumers now that the financial crisis has sapped Americans' wealth and borrowing power.Indrawati, a former finance minister for Indonesia whose name has been floated as a possible presidential candidate, said the crisis has taught smaller emerging economies that globalization can offer opportunities as well as risks.Countries with close trade ties to the United States suffered steeper economic slides when the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy froze global credit markets.

The Group of 20 rich and emerging economies, a club that includes China, India and other Asian leaders, agreed in 2009 to work toward more balanced growth to try to make the world less vulnerable to crisis.Much of the focus has been on China and United States, the two biggest sources of imbalance. But Indrawati thinks the rebalancing effort can provide wider benefits.As China and other large, rapidly developing economies gradually redirect their economies toward domestic demand, they can become a source of support for the entire region's development.If the country is big enough -- you talk about China, India or even Indonesia -- they can create their own domestic demand, she said.You are going to have a more harmonious development of supply and demand so that you can have growth without inflation or ... financial destabilization. That is the art.(Editing by Leslie Adler)

DON''T YOU JUST LOVE TIM HORTONS

TIM HORTONS
http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/index.html
http://www.timhortons.com/ca/locator/locations.html?q_loc=walkerton
TIM HORTON WALKERTON COMPLAINTS
http://www.complaints.com/directory/2004/april/27/17.htm
http://www.mystore411.com/store/view/967350/Canada/Tim-Hortons-Walkerton
TIM HORTONS DEALINGS
http://www.gowlings.com/resources/PublicationPDFs/LevittN_Mar2009.pdf

I THOUGHT I WOULD GO FOR A WALK AND ENJOY A COFFEE AT TIM HORTONS.I GOT TO THE WALKERTON ONTARIO TIM HORTONS.WAITED IN LINE FOR 3 MINUTES LIKE USUAL EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS ONLY 2 OTHER PEOPLE IN LINE AHEAD OF ME.THERE WAS AT LEAST 3 WORKERS BUT ONLY ONE WAS SERVING THE INSIDE CUSTOMERS LIKE USUAL.THE GIRL AHEAD OF ME HAD TO SAY ARE YOU GOING TO SERVE ME YET AND THE CLERK SAID I HAD TO WASH MY HANDS FIRST.SO THE 2 GIRLS AHEAD OF ME WERE SERVED AND I GOT A HOT CHOCOLATE AND SAT DOWN INSIDE WITH IT.

WELL ITS COLD OUTSIDE TONIGHT AND HAVE USE NOTICED WHEN USE ARE IN TIM HORTONS FOR 10MINUTES OR SO,THEY TRY TO GET RID OF YOU BY FREEZING YOU OUT.I WAS SMART TONIGHT I WORE A COAT BECAUSE I KNEW WHAT THEY DO.IT HAPPENS EVERY TIME I GO INTO TIM HORTONS IN WALKERTON OR HANOVER.THEY BLAIR THE AIR CONDITIONING TO GET RID OF YOU.BUT THEY SURE WANT YOUR MONEY AND TO GET YOU INTO TIMS BY PUTTING GIMMICKS LIKE ROLL UP THE RIM TO WIN TO INTICE YOU TO GET RID OF YOUR MONEY THERE.BUT AFTER THEY GRAB YOUR MONEY-AFTER YOU WAIT IN LINE TO BE SERVED FOR 5-10 MINUTES-THEY FREEZE YOU OUT TO GET RID OF YOU.THIS IS A GREAT WAY OF DOING BUSINESS.SO IT WAS JUST ANOTTHER NIGHT AT TIM HORTONS IN WALKERTON ONTARIO CANADA.I ASKED THE CLERK WHILE I WAS LEAVING WHY DO YOU GRAB PEOPLES MONEY AND FREEZE THEM OUT.SHE REPLYED OUR AIR CONDITIONING IS AT 75 DEGREES ONLY.AND I LEFT.LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME THEY HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE FOR 10 MINUTES BEFORE THEY GET SERVED SINCE ONLY 2 CLERKS ARE ON.I THINK THE WOMAN THAT RUNS IT OR OWNS IT HAS 6 OTHER STORES SHE RUNS OR OWNS TO.BUT I'M NOT POSSITIVE ABOUT THIS FACT.

I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT COMPLAINS ABOUT WALKERTON TIM HORTONS.

Tim Hortons #982, Walkterton, Ontario, Canada - told Tim Horton's no longer gives out cups of water Tim Hortons #982, Walkterton, Ontario, Canada - told Tim Horton's no longer gives out cups of water

Tim Hortons #982 Walkerton, Ontario

I have a complaint regarding the consistency of policy at Tom Horton's stores.I am a black coffee drinker and have been ordering my coffee with ice to cool it down enough to drink for years now. Tim Horton's have now taken away that option by taking away the ice! I initially tried to have the server cool my coffee with a little water, however this was not a good fix ,as I found my coffee either too hot or in most cases received a coffee so cold and watered down that it barely tasted like coffee.I tried another approach by ordering a cup of water on the side and cooling the coffee down myself. This fix was working out well for me, although a little inconvenient, as I had to pull over in order to safely perform this ritual, at least I could get a coffee that wasn't going to burn my lips off.This all changed for me on Saturday April 24th at 7:00 am. Whilst ordering my morning coffee (which I have done for several years now) I was told that Tim Horton's no longer gives out cups of water.

I was at the very least, not pleased and was FORCED to buy a bottled water for the soul purpose of using an ounce of it to cool my coffee.Out of curiosity when passing through Kincardine 30 minutes later, I stopped at their local Tim Horton's on Highway 21 and ordered the same order..Large black coffee with a cup of water and was given my order ..no problem.Today when I went to Kincardine I visited the other store located on Queen Street and ordered the same , again no problem.I picked up a complaint form at the Walkerton store on the Saturday I was denied the cup of water, and after receiving my request of water at two other stores was motivated to fill it out.I personally took the complaint in to the Walkerton store, requested to speak with a manager. I was able to speak with a supervisor and communicate my dilemma to her. She was very pleasant, however the answer I received from her was Tim Horton's do not give out cups of water.I challenged her on this stating that in two different Kincardine Tim Horton's, this was not a problem at which time she told me that, that was the policy of that particular store.

First off I think that is what initially I should have been told ,as I was about to boycott all Tim Horton's stores and take my business elsewhere.Secondly..Come on..How much does a cup of water cost people! I mean I know the cup is a couple of cents, but after all I am drinking black coffee! Aren't they saving on the cream and sugar from many black coffee drinkers? Can they not afford to give me a cup of water? Will I be forever forced to buy a bottled water to get that much needed ounce of water to cool my coffee????? Do I need to wait 40 minutes, which incidentally it takes to cool a large black coffee down to the point where it can be drunk.I believe that policy like this should be governed by Tim Horton's Head Office, not by the cheap franchise owners who want to save a couple of cents. They could be costing mega dollars in revenue losses, to other Tim Horton's franchises with poor customer service like this.Any comment from Tim Horton's would be greatly appreciated.Doug D
Date: Wednesday, 28-Apr-04-Complaint #: 100,272

anonymous 11:39 AM on June 2, 2010
Go check out the sites www.timhortonslies.wordpress.com and www.thetdlgroupltd.com after reading this I for one will never spend another dime at Tim Hortons. They are so stupid that they let someone else own the name thetdlgroupltd which is the name of the company that owns and operates Tim Hortons.

Tim Hortons Franchise Facts September 11, 2010 timhortonslies

We have finally secured a News Agency to Reveal the Truth and to Publish the story of how the Iconic Franchisor does Business.

* Buyer beware. Not all locations are successful!!!!
* There is another side to the iconic franchisor that is not publicly known.
* Low volume stores keep being resold as subsequent owners go broke.
* Franchisor profits not only on Rent, Royalty, and Advertising as owner goes broke but profits on resale of equipment and leaseholds.
* NO HELP
* Once franchisee exhausts all sources of cash to keep the business afloat, franchisor mounts a systematic negative evaluation of the operator to use against them in the termination process.
* Franchisor advocates financial aid to struggling owners but this is only lip service.
* Systematic bullying undermines confidence, self worth, and positive outlook needed to motivate staff and build sales.

************ Check back soon as all Financials and Court Related Documents Get Released************Here is our story, with many more being posted to reveal the Lies that Tim Hortons tells Potential Investors.

Categories: Uncategorized Tim Hortons, The Untold Story
May 27, 2010 timhortonslies

How can something be sold, go corporate, be sold, go corporate, be sold yet again and this is considered a success??? This is the second attempt after being shut down, with threats and the use of trademark infringement to stop us from telling our story. This is a story about a franchise. One that was started many years ago with the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Tim Horton and the stores that followed in his name. We will refer to the company as The TDL Group Ltd so we can tell our story, and now we have current store owners to share their experience also. First and foremost, this is not meant to bash or say bad things as the products are good and store owners are doing their very best to try and make a living selling a good product. What this site is about is the current state of this franchise and the laws that are in place that don’t protect the franchisees. We will share our story and the lawsuit that followed so we can help the current store owners so they are fully aware of what will happen to them once their operations fail and the steps the company will take to make them sign a confidentiality agreement and the timeline that it will follow. My family has nothing left to lose and the threats of The TDL Group Ltd do not scare us as the sharing of information is the most important aspect. The only thing The TDL Group Ltd is afraid of is the sharing of information. If every person involved in this company would share what’s happening I’m sure the tactics that they use would stop. The power of everyone coming together is strong and the fact some store owners are being singled out with others being given special deals so they do not join the class action lawsuit. For the store owners who think that the deal they are being given to not join the class action will stay in place forever, you are wrong. When your time is up in the system they will turn on you and you will now be left in a situation where you are truly alone and now this website will be your information booklet. As store owners you have to see how other store owners were treated and see what the outcome will be for you and your family. This is not a story of success but a story of failure and the complete destruction of our family. I thank all store owners who shared their information with us, and we will in turn protect your identity and help build your class action lawsuit to include more store owners and help achieve your goals. Anyone wanting to share information with us can contact us through the site and know your identity will be kept private. We have been overwhelmed with people asking us for our help. The best way we can help you is to share our information and let prospective franchisees get the true information and help guide them with the proper questions to ask and the right lawyer and accountants to see. If you’re just interested and want to know what really goes on, please post a comment and tell us what you think. We all live in a free country here in Canada and we’d like to think that freedom of speech is alive and well and some corporation with deep pockets can’t scare us or a host to shut the site down and prevent the truth from being told. Thank you to everyone for your support and we will in turn be the bridge to bring everyone together and to get the truth out there for the public to see.

We will not sign a confidentiality agreement to let this keep happening. Although our family has lost everything, we have not lost hope and we have not stopped wanting to help others with our experience. Our case was not successful and we ran out of money to continue to pursue this. But a conference was held on franchising and our case was front and centre, and this is what they thought of the judge’s decision;

Canadian Franchise Association Legal Day – March 3, 2009
A. COMMON LAW GOOD FAITH

It appears that in Manitoba, at least, a franchise agreement does not impose obligations of utmost good faith on the parties. The contention that it does was advanced by the franchisees and related parties in The TDL Group Ltd. v. Zabco Holdings Inc. The trial judge refused to follow the decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Machias v. Mr. Submarine , stating that the franchisor-franchisee relationship is an ordinary commercial one that gives rise to the simple duty to perform the contract in good faith, but not to a higher duty than that. Nor was the franchisor a fiduciary of the franchisee. Accordingly, the franchisor did not owe a pre-contractual duty to warn the franchisee about the vicissitudes of carrying on business in Winnipeg; nor did it owe the franchisee a higher duty than to act reasonably and honestly during the performance of the contract.To read all of this report follow this link; http://www.gowlings.com/resources/PublicationPDFs/LevittN_Mar2009.pdf

Take a look around the site and tell us what you think. Take a look at the operation of the store and see that almost everything is a fixed cost in a 24/7 operation. The only thing that changes on a day to day basis is the volume of traffic your store has and the cost of goods to run it. If you’re a current store owner and your cost of goods exceeds the 30-32% range than you simply aren’t making money. The only thing that you need to share with other store owners is your sales and your cost of goods. If they are above this and the only company you purchase goods from is The TDL Group Ltd then you know you are in serious trouble. If your rent or royalties have already been reduced then you are already in serious trouble. Everyone in the system needs to share what deal they get with one another so everyone is on the same playing field. Here in Manitoba every store had a different deal and we will show the transcripts of our trail about the concessions that are required just so you can stay in business. As you can read from the above statement, The TDL Group Ltd does not have to tell you that other stores are in trouble or if they are being resold over and over again. Thank you for visiting and check back often as we will continue to post more and more information for you to view. We appreciate all comments and have some video to show of our parents and how it has affected their health and stolen the best years of their lives….Sincerely John, Irene, Cheryl, and Chris Zaborniak.

Rants fuel Tim Hortons Facebook groups-There seems to be more than coffee brewing at Tim Hortons. Frustrated employees have banded together on the popular social networking site Facebook to give cranky customers the basic rules on how to order their daily fix if they want to get good service.By CanWest News Service January 11, 2008

There seems to be more than coffee brewing at Tim Hortons.Frustrated employees have banded together on the popular social networking site Facebook to give cranky customers the basic rules on how to order their daily fix if they want to get good service.A trip to Tim Hortons is part of the daily routine for many Canadians, but it doesn't necessarily seem to be the warm and fuzzy experience the commercials make them out to be for people on both sides of the counter.Facebook hosts more than 500 groups about Tim Hortons, some appreciative, some definitely not.This is for everyone who gets fed up with people who don't know what they want, and for workers who have to put up with this everyday. If people would just listen to these rules when ordering the world will be a better place, writes Janice Morgan, who identifies herself as the administrator of one group called Tim Hortons Rules of Ordering and More that has some 3,400 members.The 80 rules or so spell out how to make your visit to Tims more efficient: When you want a coffee with no sugar, do not say no sugar it sounds like your saying one sugar, or If you don't say you want anything in your coffee don't expect to get anything in it, we can't read your mind and Stop telling us to stir it well there is no button on the cash register for that.Although somewhat amusing, the rules are from people who identify themselves as Tim Hortons employees and who clearly wish customers would spend a day in their shoes.Almost everyday someone is rude to me and my coworkers, writes someone who identifies herself as Meghan Watts. We try hard to get everyone's order right, but we do make mistakes from time to time. That's no reason to jump down our throats, yelling at us and trying to get free coffee.

In other Facebook groups such as Poor Souls Who've Worked at Tim Hortons, I Survived Making Ice Caps (iced cappuccinos) in the Summer (Tim Hortons employees) and I worked @(at) Tim Hortons and SURVIVED!, cranky workers share horror stories about testy clients.A worked identified as Nick Bolarinho wrote that one customer threw his iced cappuccino in his face and yelled this is s--- Another says that he still has nightmares about his former Tim Hortons job.But the coffee slingers are not the only ones airing their beefs on Facebook. Frustrated clients also have their support groups such as Tim Hortons Screws up my Order Every Time and Tim Hortons Service Sucks.Once I ordered a medium coffee, muffin and a bottle of water and I actually got two apple juices (in a bag), a large hot chocolate, a bagel and a muffin (not the one I asked for). They even charged me for what I did order..., complains a Kristine Julian from Halifax.Someone identified as Rachelle Richards sums it up this way: unhappy employees makes for shitty customer service, and therefore unhappy customers.But there is a silver lining for Tim Hortons employees. Many Facebook groups, like Addicted to Tim Hortons, are very positive and they seem to always have time for Tim Hortons.The public affairs director for Tim Hortons didn't return calls Thursday.CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.

COMPLETE HYDRO-ENVIROMENT TAX SCAM

THIS WINDMILL SCAM IS JUST ANOTHER TAX GRAB ON US LIKE THE CARBON TAX SCAM AND THE ENERGY LIGHT BULB SCAM.THE PLAIN GARBAGE BAG SCAM.THIS ENVIROMENTAL SO CALLED MOVEMENT IS JUST A TAX GRAB TO CHARGE US IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE.OF COURSE ITS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH(WE MUST WORSHIP THE EARTH)(AND BE GOOD SHEEPLE SLAVES)THAT WE MUST BE TAXED BY THE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND PAY SKYROCKETING HYDRO BILLS AND GET SCAMED BY THE ENVIROMENTAL SO CALLED GREEN MOVEMENT IN ANY WAY THAT IS POSSIBLE.

HERES AN EXAMPLE OF THE HYDRO SCAM WE GET SCAMMED BY.2 WESTARIO POWER BILLS THAT ARE $8.13 IN DIFFERENCE.HERES HOW WE GET SCAMMED.COMPARISONS.

BILL #1 $133.62 AND BILL #2 $141.75
ELECTRICITY CHARGES #1 $63.31 - #2 $67.80 (CHARGED $4.49 MORE)
DELIVERY CHARGES #1 $41.47 - #2 $43.24 (CHARGED $1.77 MORE)
REGULATORY CHARGES #1 $7.05 - #2 $7.53 (CHARGED $0.48 MORE)
DEBT RETIREMENT CHARGE #1 $6.42 - #2 $6.87 (CHARGED $0.45 MORE)
HST CHARGE #1 $15.37 - #2 $16.31 (CHARGED $0.94 MORE)

BILL TOTALS #1 $133.62 - #2 $141.75 (SO BILL #2 WHICH IS ONLY $8.00 DIFFERENCE FROM #1 PAYS $8.13 MORE IN TAXES.SEE HOW WE ARE GETTING ROBBED BY OUR HYDRO COMPANIES.THE HIGHER OUR BILLS,THE MORE THE HYDRO COMPANY TAX GRABS AND ROBS US.WE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED AS THIS IS OVIOUSLY HOW ALL HYDRO WORKS.THE SCAM IS REVEALED HOW WE PAY THROUGH OUR NOSES THREW THIS ENERGY WINDMILL-ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASE SCAM.AND THIS DOES NOT EVEN INCLUDE YET THE HIGHER HOURS OF THE SITE METER SCAM WHICH IS NOT FINALIZED YET.JUST THINK AFTER JAN 1,12 HOW MUCH THESE HYDRO BILLS WILL BE WHEN THE PEAK HOURS GET CHARGED WAY MORE,THEN THE REGULAR HOURS.

Energy act one of the biggest boondoggles in history, says critic
By Don Crosby Don Crosby APR 11,11Sun Times correspondent

Michael Trebilcock calls Ontario's wind energy policy one of the biggest boondoggles in the history of the province that seriously affects the economy, the environment and employment.It raises the electricity rates dramatically, defiles some of the most beautiful countryside and kills jobs, Trebilcock told a more than 300 people who packed the Meaford Hall opera house on Saturday.He is the chair of law and economics at the University of Toronto and one of the speakers at a weekend symposium organized by Wind Concerns Meaford.Under the provincial government's feed-in-tariff policy wind energy developers are paid 13.5 cents a kilowatt hour for energy produced by wind turbines whether there is need for the electricity at the time or not. That compares to six cents a kilowatt hour that consumers pay for electricity.Trebilcock predicts that over the next five years hydro rates will climb by 7.9% annually. An average hydro bill of $1,700 in 2010 will soar to $2,800 in 2015 and $4,100 in 2030.He disputes claims that wind energy reduces carbon dioxide emissions. He says most wind turbines produce only about 25% of the amount of energy they are supposedly capable of ; It requires massive numbers of turbines to produce very little electricity.It displaces low cost hydro, nuclear power with no effect on lowering carbon dioxide emissions, Trebilcock said.Trebicock said in 2010 energy minister Brad Duguid said the set back for wind turbines in Lake Ontario should be 5 kilometres because if they were any closer it would spoil the view of home owners along the Scarborough Bluffs while the set backs for wind turbines on land is only 550 metres.Duguid should explain why we should be more tolerant, Trebilcock said to a round of cheers and applause by an appreciative audience.

Trebilcock said the wind energy industry won't come close to creating the 50,000 green jobs as promised by the former energy minister George Smitherman when he introduced wind energy to the province.Instead Trebilcock says skyrocketing hydro promises make small businesses uncompetitive and while it may create a few jobs it will kill many more.Why have these policies been inflicted upon us, Trebilcock said.
In his opinion it's a combination of two forms of greed — the environmental ideologues who say cut CO2 at any cost whether it kills the economy and defiles the environment.The second is the greedy wind developers who have created a feeding frenzy over the guaranteed 20-year contracts that pay huge subsidized rates.That says Trebilcock represent two greeds in an unholy alliance.Trebilcock says it's a truism that government doesn't know how to pick winners but losers sure know how to pick governments.During the upcoming provincial election in October, Trebilcock says the rallying cry should be, tell the losers to get their hands our of pockets and their footprints out of landscape.Tom Adams, an independent energy and environmental advisor and former director of Energy Probe from 1996-2007, said wind energy is unreliable as an energy source. It's too variable throughout the day and during the various seasons of the year. It's expensive to get rid of when there is a surplus of power being produced by other producers and it's not there when you need it.Adams said attempts at deregulating the energy market haven't been successful and getting the economics to work smoothly has been a problem with the consumers ending up suffering the most from constantly rising prices and political interference.

His suggestion is to put the customers back at the top of the pyramid, create an effective costing formula that would simplify things a whole lot, and get the politics out of it, he said.Grey County realtor Mike McMurray said the effect of wind turbines on land prices depends on where they are located.If they are on large tracts of farmland used for cash cropping where the houses are few and far between the farmers will be happy for the added revenue and there will be few complaints. But in residential areas or recreational lands their presence can depress property values anywhere from 20-40% on properties up to two miles away. In some cases where homes are located very close to wind turbines here is a total loss of value.Just the threat of possible wind energy development can depress land values.He predicts the long-term effect will be to destroy rural residential areas and drive away potential buyers. As well, the threat of development pits neighbours against each other.

McMurray defended people who don't want to see wind turbines in their own backyards as being justifiably in favour of nimbyism.When someone accuses you of nimbyism tell them it also means Next In Your Back Yard.Ian Hanna, a Prince Edward County wine merchant, filed an application in October 2009 for a judicial review of four sections of the Green Energy Act specifically those that deal with setbacks of industrial turbines. He was represented by lawyer Eric Gillespie. The case was heard in January 2011 and a decision handed down about a month ago.Although the judge ruled against Hanna and referred the question of setbacks to the Environmental Review Tribunal, Hanna said the decision opened the door to other challenges to the Green Energy Act which was seen as challenge proof because of a clause that was included saying it could not be questioned by the courts.Our application was dismissed. We did lose the case but a number of things did happen as a result of the decision that seem like victories. Rather than the judges ruling on the 550 metres setback, they gave it to Environmental Review Tribunal and we believe that's good for us because the ERT has the ability to look at more evidence and more detail and not less, said Hanna.He argues that the environment ministry in drawing up the Green Energy Act did not follow the precautionary approach which says that where there is scientific evidence that an action could cause serious harm, then the burden of proof goes on the proponent. He says the government didn't consult widely enough to ensure that wind turbines would not cause health effects.Hanna and his lawyer are seeking leave to appeal the ruling of the Divisional Court claiming that the minister of the environment provided no evidence that it consulted any medical experts on the effects of wind turbines on human health.They went to planners, they went to accousticians, they went to engineers but they never consulted a doctor or medical professional and were talking about health problems. We're asking the court of appeal to rule on that, said Hanna.Hanna's lawyer Eric Gillespie was unable to attend due to a last-minute illness in the family.Hanna asked for donations to help fund the legal challenge underway in Chatham Kent where an appeal has been made to the Environmental Review Tribunal which questions the 550-metre setback claiming serious harm to human health from low frequency sound.He said a compelling and unprecedented witness list has been assembled on all sides including the MOE ,the developer Suncor Energy Inc. and the appellant.Most of the witnesses for my case plus a whole bunch more from all over the world were brought in for this ERT hearing. All of the evidence is now in and there will be summations at the end of May and then the ERT will make a ruling, Hanna said.Later this summer Wind Concerns Meaford will screen the documentary film Windfall.It's about a community in New York State that's going through the same struggle that we are and they were able to stop the development compared to another community which embraced it and 50 turbines turned into I believe 200 turbines. It will be a preview of what may be coming here, said Jim Brunow, a spokesperson for Wind Concerns Meaford, the group that organized Saturday's symposium.The movie will be screened Saturday, June 25 at Meaford Hall starting at 3 p.m.Article ID# 3068101

TEPCO PUTS FIRE OUT AT FUKUSHIMA

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).

MAYBE ITALY WILL BE 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES TO GET BOOTED FROM THE EU.

Italian minister questions value of EU membership
VALENTINA POP 11.04.2011 @ 17:44 CET

EUOBSERVER / LUXEMBOURG - A dozen EU states rallied behind France on Monday (11 April) in a dispute with Italy over Rome's granting of temporary residence permits to Tunisian immigrants, warning of the collapse of the Schengen area and the re-introduction of borders.Speaking after a meeting of interior ministers in Luxembourg, Italian minister Roberto Maroni from the anti-immigrant Lega Nord party, said his country had to consider if it is still worth being part of the EU,since nobody wanted to help shoulder the immigration burden.It's fine when Italy contributes to euro bail-outs, to wars, but on this very specific issue of helping us out, EU states are absolutely not willing to show solidarity,he said on his way out of the ministers' meeting.The Italian government last Thursday issued a decree granting temporary residence to the roughly 23,000 Tunisian migrants who arrived via the tiny island of Lampedusa. But the permits are seen as a free pass to France, with the French authorities having already sent back hundreds of Tunisians at the Italian border.Germany, France and Austria, along with other countries such as the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium and Slovakia, view Schengen as a matter of trust among member states. Italy is undermining this basic principle, one diplomat present at the heated debate said.Austria, which shares a land border with Italy, threatened to re-impose borders. Interior minister Maria Fekter warned of the collapse of the Schengen system if Italy's behaviour is tolerated.

What Italy is doing is using a national emergency law for temporary protection in order to politicise the whole Tunisian immigration issue so that everyone in the EU is affected by it. They've succeeded in doing that, but now we expect that they stick to the rules,German interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said during a press briefing in Luxembourg, at the end of a long debate over Mediterranean migration.The issuing of mass permits is a violation of the Schengen spirit. If tens of thousands were to be granted these permits, then it would not be only France, Germany and Austria to re-instate borders, but also countries further away. Then we would lose what we have achieved with Schengen,Friedrich said.The only country supporting Italy in the call for solidarity from other EU countries was Malta, in a similar situation with more than 800 refugees from Libya arriving to the island in the past week. Both Malta and Italy asked the European commission to trigger the activation of a special refugee directive - an EU 2001 law set up after the Kosovo war but never used - for people fleeing the war zone in Libya. The application of the directive would automatically give everyone escaping such an area refugee status right across the EU.

But they were isolated in their call.There was a very strong majority in favour of the fact that this directive can be used, but it is too premature at the moment. There would have to be a massive influx of refugees, home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said during a press briefing. Later on, she insisted that nobody wants Italy to leave the EU, it is a founding member and a great asset.Ministers did agree to alleviate Malta's strained asylum capacities by prolonging a resettlement programme. Several member states offered to relocate some of the mostly sub-Saharan refugees who managed to escape Libya and cross the Mediterranean. Germany offered to take 100 people, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Portugal, Spain and Norway also expressed willingness to help.Ministers were very clear in separating the two issues. Malta's plight with refugees from Libya is one thing - the island is tiny and for them, 800 people is a lot, said one EU diplomat.But they did not agree with Italy, a country of 60 million, to claim that it needs the special protection directive to deal with economic migrants, not refugees,the source added.Maroni was the only one mixing up the two issues - irregular migration, for people with no right to claim asylum and who have to be returned to their home country - and refugees from Somalia, Eritrea and so one, who were stuck in Libya and have managed to escape, but cannot be sent to their home countries.

EU denies energy tax reform will boost diesel prices
ANDREW WILLIS 11.04.2011 @ 17:42 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has said imminent proposals to overhaul EU energy taxation will not automatically result in higher diesel prices for consumers.The plans, to be published on Wednesday (13 April), will call for fuels to be taxed on their energy content and CO2 emissions in future, rather than the volume-based system currently used.The aim is not to increase rates for diesel,commission spokesman David Boublil told journalists on Monday.The plan is that we should put all fuels on the same footing ... It will mean an adjustment to make sure they are taxed in the same way.Informal discussions on overhauling the EU's energy taxation directive have been ongoing since the original document was approved in 2003, with diesel users currently enjoying lower taxation rates than petrol.As a result, much of Europe's commercial transport industry has opted to use the cheaper fuel, including the vast majority of overland haulers.Experts say the minimum diesel tax will rise under the new proposals however, reaching a similar rate to petrol by 2018. Since diesel contains more energy and carbon than petrol, minimum tax rates per litre for diesel are expected to eventually surpass their petrol equivalents.Recent statements suggest EU member states are increasingly in favour of greater taxation on heavily polluting fossil fuels as a means of boosting renewable energy use.The potential for higher diesel prices may prove unpopular with voters however, while questions of European taxation have traditionally raised hackles in Britain and Ireland.But the commission argues that big prices changes are unlikely as many national governments already set diesel taxes which are above the EU minimum.

Reacting to German news reports that the country's diesel prices would rise, Boublil said: The current minimum at the EU level for diesel is €330 per 1000 litres ... [whereas] in Germany the current minimum is €470 per 1,000 litres.The future minimum [based on Wednesday's proposals] will be closer to the current minimum than to what is applied in Germany now.

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
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE APR 12,2011

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -88.40
10:30 AM -120.26
11:00 AM -144.74
11:30 AM -137.55
12:00 PM -123.10
12:30 PM -133.24
01:00 PM -114.89
01:30 PM -126.56
02:00 PM -106.41
02:30 PM -91.01
03:00 PM -110.53
03:30 PM -129.27
04:00 PM -117.53 12,263.58

S&P 500 1314.16 -10.30

NASDAQ 2744.79 -26.72

GOLD 1,453.60 -15.40

OIL 106.11 -3.81

TSE 300 13,801.40 -195.50

CDNX 2303.77 -42.73

S&P/TSX/60 789.66 -10.73

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -77 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -146 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,465.10.OIL opens at $108.29 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -146 points at low today so far.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -146 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,475.30 (NOT AT CLOSE)

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MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

UN Recognizes Organization which Supports Hamas
by Elad Benari APR 12,11

The UN has given special recognition to an organization which supports the Hamas terrorist groups and which has been involved in organizing flotillas to Gaza, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) has reported.The organization in question is the Free Palestine Movement (FPM), a California-based leftist organization whose stated mission, according to its website, is to challenge Israeli policies and actions that deny Palestinians their human rights, and in particular the right of unfettered access to all of Palestine. We adhere to the principles of non-violence in direct actions that exercise Palestinian rights in defiance of restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities. We partner with other organizations in projects that are consistent with our mission statement and points of unity.FPM is headed by Dr. Paul Larudee, an activist who in 2006 was arrested and deported from Israel after he entered the country under a false identity to work with Hamas and then went to Lebanon to assist Hizbullah during the Second Lebanon War.Larudee broke the naval blockade on Gaza and entered the region in 2008, and also took part in the 2010 flotilla as well, having been on board the Sfendoni 8000 boat.In 2009, Larudee received an award for his work from Hamas’ Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh.

According to the report by ITIC, Larudee received a letter from a United Nations committee which deals with the realization of Palestinian rights. The letter stated that his request for recognition (accreditation) had been granted. The letter also stated that FPM was recognized as an NGO acting as a civil society organization to promote the Palestinian cause.ITIC added that following the UN recognition, FPM changed its logo, adding the sentence A United Nations Accredited NGO. ITIC assessed the UN recognition as giving legitimacy to the projects carried out by FPM, especially the flotillas it organizes. The report added that the UN’s recognition letter ended with offering congratulations on the organization’s activities, which the letter claims are for the purpose of achieving a just solution to the Palestinian problem.ITIC also notes that Larudee has previously written an article in which he expressed support and understanding of the motives of suicide bombers. The report adds that Larudee spent large amounts of time in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria between 2002 and 2003, as part of the activities of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), another extremist anti-Israel group which seeks to destroy Israel and with which Larudee works. The award from Hamas PM Haniyeh was given to Larudee in 2009 when he stayed in Gaza, notes the report.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Samaria Woman Survives Road Ambush
by Gil Ronen APR 11,11

Malkah Mahon of Maaleh Levona in Samaria was the victim of an apparent attempt to murder her Sunday afternoon.She had just driven out of Maaleh Levona and began heading toward Ariel, to see her son, when she encountered a vehicle with Palestinian Authority license plates apparently trying to carry out a U-turn in a bend in the road. Two Arabs were standing outside the vehicle. They motioned to her, inviting her to drive past them.Something seemed wrong, however, and Malkah decided to wait for the vehicle to complete its U-turn.At that point the two Arabs approached her vehicle and tried to clamber onto it.I started driving and they started pelting me with rocks and at the same time, the Palestinian car started ramming me several times and tried to knock me off the road,she told Arutz Sheva.

Mahon managed to drive away and to press the distress button in her car. The IDF contacted her and asked her to drive to Eli, where she underwent initial IDF questioning about the event. A representative of the Judea and Samaria police was also present.The attackers apparently fled to the nearby village of Sinjel.Mahon's late son, Evyatar, escaped an attempted abduction at Eli Junction on 2007, and his presence of mind and courage helped security forces arrest the three Hamas terrorists who attacked him. He was killed in a traffic accident a short time later, at age 17.5, on his way back from a trip in the Golan Heights.Residents of Maaleh Levona noted that this is not the first time that Arabs attempted an ambush against the community's inhabitants. Not long ago, a terrorist dressed as a haredi Jew tried to abduct a woman but a malfunction in his car foiled the attempt.Judea and Samaria Police spokesman Gil Elhadad told Arutz Sheva that the attack was very grave and that serious efforts are being made to locate the suspects.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

IHH Organizing Another Flotilla - This Time with an Airplane
by Hillel Fendel APR 11,11

The people who brought you last year’s Turkish IHH ill-fated anti-Israel convoy to Gaza are organizing another one – this time with an airplane.Virulently anti-Israel Bulent Yaldrim, director of the Turkish terrorist-affiliated IHH group, said last week at a monthly event commemorating last year’s Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza that preparations are underway in full force for an even bigger one. We have just one problem, he said,and that is the virus called Zionism. The speech was reported by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC).Last year’s convoy was said to be intended to break Israel’s maritime blockade on Gaza and deliver supplies. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced afterwards that that there had been no humanitarian aid aboard the Mavi Marmara. Instead, terrorists armed with cold ammunition attacked the IDF soldiers who boarded the ship, abducted at least three of them, and attempted to stab and throw others into the sea. The Israeli forces were able to overcome them and killed nine of the attackers.The IHH, which organized the flotilla, is a member of a group of Muslim charities, the Union of Good, which was designated by the U.S. Treasury Department as a terrorist organization and which was created by and strongly supports the Hamas terrorist organization.

The upcoming convoy, to be named Freedom Fleet II, was scheduled to take place around the anniversary of last year’s flotilla, near the end of May. However, Yaldrim said it will probably happen only around late June, partly because he is hoping to purchase an airplane to take part in the anti-Israel convoy campaign.Neither Israel nor the Oslo Accords sanction the landing of airplanes from abroad in Gaza.In his aggressive speech, Yaldrim said, We are not afraid to die as shahids [martyrs]. We won’t retreat until the blockade from Gaza is removed and until we complete the Al Aksa Mosque journey. He added that boats are expected from every country, so that Israel will understand that it does not rule the Mediterranean. The Mawi Marmara is expected to take part again.The previous flotilla was harmful to Israel in that most news reports highlighted the killing of nine supposed civil rights activists, and also worsened already bad relations between Israel and Turkey. In general, it forced Israel to play catch up and explain that its blockade was legal, that its soldiers were nearly lynched, and that the bid to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza was merely a ploy to put Israel on the defensive.

Israel's Blockade is Legal
According to international maritime law, Israel is within its rights in placing a maritime blockade upon an entity with which it is in a state of armed conflict, such as Hamas. When a maritime blockade is in effect, no vessels are permitted to enter the blockaded area, and any vessel that violates or attempts to violate the maritime blockade may be captured or even attacked.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Early warning prevented injuries in Iowa twister By MICHAEL J. CRUMB and GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press – Mon Apr 11, 5:50 pm ET

MAPLETON, Iowa – It seemed like a Mapleton Miracle. A tornado with winds exceeding 130 mph barreled through this small Iowa town, flattening whole blocks and destroying 100 homes.When the storm passed, more than half the town had been leveled. But the most serious injury was a broken leg.Storm spotters who tracked the approaching twister were being credited Monday with giving residents a crucial 15-minute warning, allowing most people to take shelter and preventing the kind of tornado disaster that killed four teens at a Boy Scout camp near here in 2008.Anytime a powerful tornado hits and you don't have any serious injuries or deaths, you're lucky, Monona County Sheriff Jeff Pratt said.We are just very fortunate.On Monday, volunteers from all over Iowa streamed into town to begin cleaning up downed trees and rubble.Tamara Adams, 37, was carrying tree branches to the curb outside her home Sunday when a stranger approached with a chain saw asking if she needed help. It was the closest thing to a magic wand she hoped to receive.Everybody's safe, Adams said. Yeah, people are suffering now. But you've just got to do what you've got to do.Damage-assessment teams began a street-by-street survey in Mapleton, a community of 1,200 about 45 miles southeast of Sioux City. The American Red Cross was offering health services, as well as food and water to emergency responders and volunteers.Townspeople were grateful for the abundant help — and for the extra time they had to escape the storm.Barbara Mayes, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Omaha, Neb., said scientists realized two to three days in advance that there was a strong chance of severe weather. That early notice, combined with the visual sightings and instant weather reports, created a best-case scenario when the twister drew near.This is a good example of the process working like we want it to, Mayes said.About 100 Mapleton homes were destroyed Saturday evening, displacing an estimated 600 people. At least 14 people suffered minor injuries.

The storm also uprooted the huge, centuries-old trees that give the town its name. The trees were wrapped around houses and tossed on top of cars.The weather service said the tornado was on the ground for 3 1/2 miles and measured three-quarters of a mile wide at one point. The twister was measured as an EF3 on the tornado-strength scale, which carries wind speeds of 136 to 165 mph.The limited injuries were especially remarkable considering a high school play was being performed when the storm struck. Sections of the building's roof were peeled off, and windows were shattered.As many as 400 people huddled in the school's basement until the winds died down, Superintendent Steve Oberg said.It's built like a bunker, he said.They were in there safe. Nobody was freaking out or anything. No one in the school was hurt.Classes were canceled Monday so repairs could begin. Students were to return Tuesday following an inspection by an engineer. The school's prom, scheduled for this weekend, will go on as planned, Oberg said. Monday's cleanup brought volunteers from far and wide, including Parkersburg, a northeast Iowa town that was leveled by a tornado in May 2008, the sheriff said.Eight people were killed by that storm, which had winds in excess of 200 mph. A month later, a tornado with winds of 145 mph struck the Little Sioux Boy Scout ranch, about 30 miles southwest of Mapleton. On Saturday, at least nine tornadoes touched down in Iowa, according to the weather service.The same storm that produced the Mapleton twister also spawned six others that touched down in Sac, Pocahontas and Kossuth counties as it moved to the northeast. Damage was reported to numerous homes, farm buildings and power lines. Two tornadoes were also reported in Ida County, including near Galva, where an ethanol plant was damaged.What was interesting about this is we had crossing (damage) paths, said Jeff Johnson, a meteorologist with the weather service in Johnston, Iowa. It was a very complex system. So many things moving in different directions.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

Strong earthquake hits Japan, no tsunami warning issued
– Mon Apr 11, 7:46 pm ET

(Reuters) – A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 hit eastern Japan on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, shaking buildings in the capital Tokyo.The epicenter of the earthquake was off the coast of Chiba prefecture, neighboring Tokyo, the agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued.
(Reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro; Editing by Chris Gallagher)

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.

Reports: Japan to raise alert level of nuke crisis
- APR 11,11

TOKYO – News reports say Japan has decided to raise the severity level of the crisis at its tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant to 7 — the highest level and equal to the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union.Quoting sources at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Kyodo News agency and public broadcaster NHK both said Tuesday that NISA would raise the severity level of the nuclear radiation disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant to 7 from the current 5.NISA spokesman Minoru Oogoda declined to confirm the reports.

Japan's TEPCO puts out fire at damaged nuke plant
– Mon Apr 11, 8:09 pm ET

TOKYO – The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant says workers discovered a small fire near a reactor building at its tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi complex but it was extinguished quickly.Tokyo Electric Power Co. says the fire at a box that contains batteries in a building near the No. 4 reactor was discovered at about 6:38 a.m. Tuesday morning and was put out seven minutes later.It wasn't clear whether the fire was related to a magnitude-6.3 earthquake that shook the Tokyo area Tuesday morning. The cause of the fire is being investigated.The plant was damaged in a massive tsunami that knocked out cooling systems and backup diesel generators on March 11, which led to explosions. Engineers have been able to pump water into several reactors to restore cooling functions.

Japan ups nuke crisis severity to match Chernobyl By YURI KAGEYAMA and RYAN NAKASHIMA, Associated Press - APR 11,11

TOKYO – Japan's nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant Tuesday to rank it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.An official with the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaking on national television, said the rating was being raised from 5 to 7 — the highest level on the international scale.The official, who was not named, said the amount of radiation leaking from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant was around 10 percent of the Chernobyl accident.The level 7 signifies a major accident with wider consequences than the previous level, according to the standards scale.We have upgraded the severity level to 7 as the impact of radiation leaks has been widespread from the air, vegetables, tap water and the ocean, said Minoru Oogoda of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.NISA officials said one of the factors behind the decision was that the total amount of radioactive particles released into the atmosphere since the incident had reached levels that apply to a Level 7 incident.The action lifts the rating to the highest on an international scale designed by an international group of experts in 1989 and is overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

In Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, a reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing a cloud of radiation over much of the Northern Hemisphere. A zone about 19 miles (30 kilometers) around the plant was declared uninhabitable, although some plant workers still live there for short periods and a few hundred other people have returned despite government encouragement to stay away.Meanwhile, setbacks continued at Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear power complex, with workers discovering a small fire near a reactor building Tuesday. The fire was extinguished quickly, the plant's operator said.Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the disabled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, said the fire at a box that contains batteries in a building near the No. 4 reactor was discovered at about 6:38 a.m. Tuesday and was put out seven minutes later.It wasn't clear whether the fire was related to a magnitude-6.3 earthquake that shook the Tokyo area Tuesday morning. The cause of the fire is being investigated.The fire was extinguished immediately. It has no impact on Unit 4's cooling operations for the spent fuel rods, said TEPCO spokesman Naoki Tsunoda.The plant was damaged in a massive tsunami March 11 that knocked out cooling systems and backup diesel generators, leading to explosions at three reactors and a fire at a fourth that was undergoing regular maintenance and was empty of fuel.The magnitude-9.0 earthquake that caused the tsunami immediately stopped the three reactors, but overheated cores and a lack of cooling functions led to further damage.

Engineers have been able to pump water into the damaged reactors to cool them down, but leaks have resulted in the pooling of tons of contaminated, radioactive water that has prevented workers from conducting further repairs.Aftershocks on Monday briefly cut power to backup pumps, halting the injection of cooling water for about 50 minutes before power was restored.

Nasdaq, D.Boerse eye shareholders in NYSE battle By Paritosh Bansal and Jonathan Spicer – Mon Apr 11, 6:00 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nasdaq OMX Group and Deutsche Boerse are wooing major NYSE Euronext shareholders, as both exchanges stand by their bids for the Big Board parent and dig in for a drawn-out battle.Nasdaq and partner IntercontinentalExchange Inc were unbowed on Monday after NYSE Euronext's board rejected their takeover offer in favor of a lower bid from Deutsche Boerse.Shareholders at the center of the increasingly bitter fight were bracing for a bidding war and weighing a stark choice: The short-term gain from Nasdaq's higher but probably riskier offer or leaving cash on the table for what could be a better long-term fit with Deutsche Boerse.While Nasdaq and ICE would carve NYSE Euronext in two, the Deutsche Boerse combination would create the world's top exchange operator. The rival plans face considerable antitrust hurdles in the United States or Europe, complicating things for shareholders.It is really early on in this contest. There's lots of time for mischief, said Thomas Caldwell, chairman and founder of Toronto-based Caldwell Investment Management Ltd.Nasdaq and ICE are not about to walk away from their $11.3 billion unsolicited offer, and they are working behind the scenes to persuade NYSE shareholders to pressure the exchange's directors, according to people familiar with the matter.Deutsche Boerse, which in February struck a $10 billion friendly deal to acquire NYSE Euronext, has no plans to raise its offer, two other sources said. On Sunday, NYSE's board rejected the Nasdaq-ICE bid as strategically unattractive, with unacceptable execution risk.

The maneuvering points to a lengthy and public fight for the parent company of the venerable New York Stock Exchange, which also runs stock and futures markets across Europe.Some shareholders suggested Nasdaq and ICE first need to counter the NYSE board's unanimous and harshly worded rejection of its offer, before they consider raising it.There is also a relatively steep 250 million euro ($361 million) termination fee attached to the Deutsche Boerse-NYSE Euronext plan.The NYSE has taken the first step, and that is casting doubt. Nasdaq has got to convince people that this combined NYSE-Nasdaq combo is going to be a real winner and a powerhouse, said Caldwell, who with the funds his firm manages holds more than $100 million in NYSE Euronext stock.NYSE Euronext is the biggest of the takeover targets now in play as many of the world's exchanges, including the London Stock Exchange and Canada's TMX Group, look to band together.

CIRCLE APRIL 28

After the rejection, Nasdaq and ICE reaffirmed their bid and chided NYSE for not discussing it further with them.They are now trying to influence an annual meeting on April 28 in which NYSE shareholders are set to vote on their directors, said one of the sources, who requested anonymity. They hope institutional shareholders can convince the NYSE board to talk to them about the offer.In response, NYSE Euronext Chief Executive Duncan Niederauer and his Deutsche Boerse counterpart, Reto Francioni, are set to meet key NYSE shareholders this week to promote their plan and to specify its expected cost savings, a person familiar with the plan said.The CEOs plan to emphasize problems with the bid from Nasdaq and ICE, including concerns over too much leverage, a listings monopoly and likely job cuts, said the source.Niederauer -- who has not talked to his counterparts at Nasdaq and ICE since they first informed him of their offer on April 1 -- on Sunday called the bid hollow and undefined.Though NYSE's board argued the all-share Deutsche Boerse tie-up jibes with the company's long-term plan, others argue the higher cash-and-stock bid from Nasdaq and ICE could sway shareholders focusing on a short-term gain.We don't think many investors will find the differences in strategic vision, financial leverage, employment targets, etc, as sufficient reasons to decline the nominally superior Nasdaq ICE offer, Macquarie analyst Edward Ditmire wrote in a note. That offer would give NYSE Euronext's stock, options and technology businesses to Nasdaq, while ICE would get its profitable derivatives operations centered in London.Amid the frenzy, Deutsche Boerse is preparing to file an offer document with regulator BaFin as early as Tuesday, said the two people familiar with the company's thinking.Deutsche Boerse shares rose on Monday as investors saw the chances of a bidding war between rival suitors diminish. The stock was up 0.9 percent in Frankfurt.NYSE Euronext shares fell 2.9 percent and Nasdaq OMX shares slipped 1.5 percent, handing back some of the big gains they made when Nasdaq announced its bid.(Additional reporting by Edward Taylor, Hakan Ersen, Harro Ten Wolde and Anika Ross in Frankfurt; Writing by Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Matthew Lewis, Steve Orlofsky and Tim Dobbyn)

IMF: Turmoil shouldn't derail economic recovery By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer – Mon Apr 11, 2:15 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The world is facing new threats from surging oil prices, Mideast turmoil, higher inflation in China and Europe's debt woes, but the troubles should not be severe enough to derail recovery from the worst global recession since World War II, the International Monetary Fund said Monday.In a new economic forecast, the IMF said the global economy should grow 4.4 percent this year. That compares with global growth of 5 percent last year.The IMF projects industrial countries will grow 2.4 percent while developing countries, a group that includes China, will grow more than twice as fast at 6.5 percent.The world economic recovery is gaining strength, but it is unbalanced, Olivier Blanchard, the IMF's chief economist, told reporters.

He said it would be critical for countries running large government deficits such as the United States to make progress in getting those deficits under control. At the same time, countries with large trade surpluses, such as China, will need to do more to boost domestic demand and not rely so heavily on exports to generate economic growth.The IMF's new growth forecast was prepared for spring meetings of the 185-nation IMF and its sister lending agency, the World Bank.Before those discussions Saturday, finance ministers and central bank presidents of the Group of 20 major industrial and developing nations will hold closed-door talks on Friday.The finance officials will try to assess how big a threat the rise in energy and food prices will be and also what they can do collectively in response to the political turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa.The United States is expected to keep pressing China to move more quickly to allow its currency to rise in value against the dollar as a way of making U.S. goods more competitive in China.China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt, will be seeking assurances that Washington is moving to put in place a credible plan to deal with soaring federal budget deficits.

At their last meeting in Paris in February, the G-20 officials struck a watered-down deal on a group of technical indicators to track global imbalances. But the G-20 left the tricky question of what to do if the balances become dangerous for later discussions.The IMF, in its new World Economic Outlook, left unchanged its January projection that the global economy will grow 4.4 percent this year and 4.5 percent in 2012.In 2009, the global economy shrank by 0.5 percent, its worst downturn since World War II, with growth rebounding in 2010 to 5 percent.The 2.4 percent growth forecast for the advanced economies was down 0.1 percentage point from January. The IMF expects these countries to grow 2.6 percent in 2012.New downside risks are building on account of commodity prices, notably oil, and relatedly, geopolitical uncertainty as well as overheating and booming asset markets in emerging market economies, the IMF said.Growth in the United States was forecast to be 2.8 percent, down 0.2 percentage point from January, reflecting primarily the drag from higher oil prices. The IMF's forecast is in line with private economists.Japan, which was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, was forecast to grow 1.4 percent this year, down 0.2 percentage point from the January forecast. The expectation is that the world's third largest economy will be slowed at first by the natural disasters but then receive a boost from the reconstruction efforts.China, now the world's second largest economy, was projected to grow 9.6 percent this year, a forecast that was unchanged from January. Beijing is raising interest rates to deal with rising inflation risks. All emerging market economies, a group that includes China, India and Brazil, are expected to grow 6.5 percent this year and next year.Developing countries are doing better because they emerged from the recession in much better shape than many industrial countries.Economies that are running behind the global recovery typically suffered large financial shocks during the crisis, often related to housing booms and high external indebtedness, the IMF said.Economic growth in the 17 nations that use the euro including Germany, France and Italy was projected to be 1.6 percent this year and 1.8 percent next year, an anemic recovery that reflects continued worries that debt problems in Greece, Ireland and Portugal will spread to other nations.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html (WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS)

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

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

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

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

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

WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.

MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

Libyan fighting goes on after peace bid fails
By Maria Golovnina - APR 12,11

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – An African Union plan to halt Libya's civil war collapsed, and rebels said the increasingly bloody siege of the city of Misrata by Muammar Gaddafi's troops made talk of a ceasefire meaningless.The Red Cross said it was opening a Tripoli office and would send a team to Misrata to help civilians trapped by fighting, but one of Gaddafi's ministers warned any aid operation involving foreign troops would be seen as a declaration of war.Rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said after talks with the AU delegation in Benghazi in the rebel-held east on Monday:The African Union initiative does not include the departure of Gaddafi and his sons from the Libyan political scene, therefore it is outdated. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif quickly dismissed the idea of his father stepping down.We want new blood, that's what we want for Libya's future. But to talk of (Gaddafi) leaving, that's truly ridiculous, he told French news channel BFM TV.If the West wants democracy, a new constitution, elections, well, we agree. We agree on this point but the West must help us to provide a propitious climate. But all these bombings, this support given to rebel groups, all that is counter-productive.

AIR STRIKES

Libyan television said the colonial and crusader aggressors hit military and civilian sites in Al Jufrah district in central Libya on Monday.Rebels in the coastal city of Misrata, under siege for six weeks, scorned reports that Gaddafi had accepted a ceasefire, saying they were fighting house-to-house battles with his forces, who fired rockets into the city.Western leaders also rejected any deal that did not include Gaddafi's removal, and NATO refused to suspend its bombing of his forces unless there was a credible ceasefire.NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a Brussels news briefing that Gaddafi's government had announced ceasefires in the past, but they did not keep their promises.Any future proposal that does not include this, we cannot accept, he said, accusing Gaddafi of bombing, shelling and shooting civilians.A resident of Misrata told Reuters there was heavy fighting on the eastern approaches and in the center.Rebels told Reuters that Gaddafi's forces had intensified the assault, for the first time firing truck-mounted, Russian-made Grad rockets into the city, where conditions for civilians are said to be desperate.Human Rights Watch accused Gaddafi's forces of indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Misrata which violated international law. It said about 250 people had died.At the front outside the eastern rebel-held town of Ajdabiyah, rebels buried the charred bodies of Gaddafi troops killed in air strikes and said they were advancing westwards.Pro-Gaddafi forces also fired rockets toward the town of Zintan on Monday, a resident called Abdulrahman said.Gaddafi's forces fired four rockets toward Zintan around 16:00 (10 a.m. EST) today. No one was wounded, he said.

Abdulrahman said NATO aircraft could be heard above Zintan on Monday evening, but there were no air strikes. Pro-Gaddafi forces have remained on the outskirts of Zintan, some 160 km (100 miles) southwest of Tripoli, from where they have launched attacks on the town. NATO airstrikes hit weapons depots belonging to pro-Gaddafi forces near Zintan, Abdulrahman said last Friday.

HUMANITARIAN AID

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is already deployed in Libya's rebel-held eastern territory, where it has supplied hospitals, distributed food and visited government soldiers captured during the conflict.Speaking in Tripoli alongside a government spokesman, its regional head Jean-Michel Monod said his team had been officially invited to the capital.Now we will officially be here open for business, he told reporters. Of course it was high time as a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organization that the ICRC would come here as well to conduct discussions with the authorities.Libyan Social Affairs Minister Ibrahim Zarouk al-Sharif said some aid operations had been used as a cover to supply rebels.
If humanitarian aid is brought through humanitarian organizations who specialize in this kind of work then we would welcome it. But if it comes with a military face then we won't accept it, it's basically a declaration of war and might lead to a much bigger conflict.At talks in Luxembourg, Italy quarreled with other European Union governments on how to handle thousands of migrants fleeing the turmoil in Libya and elsewhere in north Africa, while the EU executive urged the bloc to do more for the refugees.NATO attacks outside Ajdabiyah on Sunday helped break the biggest assault by Gaddafi's forces on the eastern front for at least a week. The town is the gateway to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi 150 km (90 miles) north up the Mediterranean coast.Opposition fighters have been overwhelmed by Gaddafi's firepower in western Libya, close to his base of Tripoli, but are increasingly using guerrilla tactics to weaken his hold.Tripoli residents said there had been several attacks on army checkpoints and a police station in the last week and gunfire can be heard at night.

Gaddafi's former foreign minister Moussa Koussa, speaking in Britain where he fled last month, called on everybody, all the parties, to work to avoid taking Libya into a civil war.This will lead to bloodshed and make Libya a new Somalia, he told the BBC. More than that we refuse to divide Libya. The unity of Libya is essential to any solution and any settlement in Libya.(Additional reporting by Alex Dziadosz in Ajdabiyah, Michael Georgy in Benghazi and Christian Lowe in Algiers; writing by Andrew Roche; editing by Michael Roddy)

Syrian opposition says 200 killed in protests
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis - APR 11,11

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria's main human rights movement has said the death toll from less than a month of protests has reached 200 and called on the Arab league to impose sanctions on the ruling hierarchy.Syria's uprising is screaming with 200 martyrs, hundreds of injured and a similar number of arrests, the Damascus Declaration group said in a letter sent on Monday to the secretary general of the Arab League.The regime unleashes its forcers to besiege cities and terrorize civilians, while protesters across Syria thunder with the same chant peaceful peaceful,it added.We ask you to... impose political, diplomatic and economic sanctions on the Syrian regime, which continues to be the faithful guardian of Hafez al-Assad's legacy, the letter said, referring to the iron-fisted rule of President Hafez al-Assad, father of current President Bashar.Bashar, facing unprecedented protests against his 11-year-old rule, has responded with a blend of force -- his security forces have fired at unarmed protesters, according to witnesses -- and vague promises to relax bans on freedoms, such as replacing emergency law with anti-terrorism law.The protests, which erupted in the southern city of Deraa last month before spreading, have demanded freedom of expression and assembly and an end to corruption.The authorities said armed gangs and infiltrators were responsible for the violence and that soldiers and police also have been killed.President Assad has been only giving promises for the last 11 years. Instead of solutions he talks, as the regime usually does, about an outside conspiracy, the letter said.

The Damascus declaration is named for a document signed in 2005 by prominent civic, Islamist and liberal leaders calling for the end of 41 years of Assad family rule and its replacement with a democratic system.The document demanded the lifting of bans on freedom of speech and assembly and the abolition of emergency law, under which Syria has been governed since 1963 when the ruling Baath Party took power in a coup and banned all opposition.Most of its members have spent long periods as political prisoners, including leading opposition figure Raid al-Turk, who spent more than 17 years in solitary confinement under Hafez al-Assad.Fayez Sara, a journalist who was jailed for two-and-a-half years along with 11 Damascus Declaration members and released in 2010, was arrested again on Sunday, rights activists said.The secret police have been rounding up every outspoken figure they can get their hands on. They either call them in for interrogation and keep them, pick them up from the street or break into their homes, one of the rights defenders said.Assad has said the protests are part of a foreign conspiracy to sow sectarian strife. His father used similar language when he crushed leftist and Islamist challenges to his rule in the 1980s, killing thousands.Syrian security forces sealed off the coastal city of Banias on Monday following pro-democracy protests and killings by irregulars loyal to Assad, residents said.(Editing by Michael Roddy)

Latest developments in Arab world's unrest
By The Associated Press – Mon Apr 11, 5:00 pm ET

LIBYA-The rebel ruling council rejected African Union mediation efforts because they did not involve Moammar Gadhafi stepping down, while European leaders expressed their suspicion of the Libyan leader's promises of a ceasefire. The international air campaign, meanwhile broke up government assaults on Ajdabiya, allowing rebels to retake the city and move towards the oil terminal of Brega.

EGYPT-A military tribunal sentence a blogger to three years in prison for insulting the army in a blog posting publicizing the alleged abuses of the institution which took power in the country two months earlier. In a television interview, two generals justified the sentence because criticism of the military was only allowed if carried out in a respectful manner. Protesters continued to occupy parts of downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square demanding the resignation of the defense minister. The Justice Ministry also announced the 15 day detention of regime stalwart Safwat el-Sherif on corruption charges, pending investigations.

SYRIA-European countries condemned the deadly crackdown in Syria that has already claimed at least 170 lives after three weeks of protests calling for reform. Hundreds even protested at Damascus University, in a rare demonstration in the capital, which was dispersed by security forces, killing at least one person.

YEMEN-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has welcomed mediation efforts by the regional bloc of oil-rich Arab nations even as he rejected their calls for him to step down, in a blow to regional efforts to resolve the weeks of turmoil that have been wracking this impoverished Arab nation.

BAHRAIN-Three top editors for the island kingdom's biggest opposition daily, Al-Wasat, have been referred to trial on charges of allegedly publishing fabricated reports about the unrest wracking this Shiite majority country dominated by a Sunni ruling family. The editors have denied the charges, amid a widespread government crackdown in effort to quell the protests.

Iran to build new research reactors
– Mon Apr 11, 2:04 pm ET

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran will need more enriched uranium to fuel the four or five new research reactors it is planning on building, the country's nuclear chief said on Monday.Fereidoun Abbasi told the semi-official ISNA news agency that Iran is planning to build the new research reactors in the next few years to produce medical radioisotopes for patients.To fuel these reactors, Iran needs to continue enriching uranium to 20 percent — something which alarms the West because the process could eventually be used to produce material for a nuclear weapon.Abbasi, a 52-year-old professor of nuclear isotopes at Tehran's Defense Ministry, was appointed Iran's nuclear chief in February after he survived an assassination attempt in November. He was wounded in the bomb attack.Tehran contends its nuclear program is intended only for a civilian power.The United States and its allies suspect is seeking to build nuclear weapons, and the United Nations has laid down four rounds of sanction to force Iran to stop its enrichment program.

In Israel's sights, Hamas charts careful course
by Selim Saheb Ettaba – Mon Apr 11, 6:45 pm ET

GAZA CITY (AFP) – As an uneasy truce with Israel takes hold, Hamas faces the twin pressures of protecting its status as a resistance movement without giving Israel an excuse for a new war.The firing of an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus, which sparked a deadly showdown that saw 18 Palestinians killed and more than 150 rockets rain down on Israel, shows the risks that Hamas's armed wing is willing to take.Last month, a confrontation between Israel and Hamas's armed wing, which began when Israel killed two Hamas militants, ended with a truce on March 26.But this time the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades had no choice but to hit hard, says Mukhaimer Abu Saada, a political scientist at Gaza's Al-Azhar University.Hamas is trying to restore its image as a resistance movement by responding to a wave of Israeli attacks, he said.Hamas feels the pressure but it doesn't want to give Israel an excuse for a new war which could cost it the government in Gaza, he told AFP, suggesting Israel could be trying to force the Islamist movement out of Gaza.

The idea of toppling Hamas has been raised in Israel.On Monday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel should not settle for a truce with Hamas but should seek to topple the Islamist rulers of the coastal strip.The objective must be to force Hamas out of power, said Lieberman, who heads the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu.Over the past two months, Hamas's military capabilities appear to have been targeted in a number of operations attributed to Israel.In February, a Gaza engineer and alleged rocket-designer was snatched from Ukraine and is now on trial in Israel. Two weeks later, the Israeli navy seized a ship carrying 50 tonnes of weapons allegedly heading for Gaza.And last week, two people were killed in a mysterious air strike in Sudan, which targeted a Hamas military chief and has been blamed on Israel.

The Palestinian groups are only defending themselves and our people, said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.We do not intend to inflame the situation but we can not keep quiet when faced with aggression, he added.In a possible indicator of its anxiety about the confrontation spiralling out of control, Hamas announced steps to restore calm just hours after the start of hostilities on Thursday.Hamas's political leadership has also gone out of its way to distance itself from the attack by its military wing on a school bus -- whose yellow colour was a clear indication that it was carrying school children, Israel says.We didn't know that the bus was carrying children. It was driving on a road which is often used by Israeli military vehicles, which is often targeted by armed Palestinian groups, Abu Zuhri said.There is coordination with the political leadership over the bigger picture but on the ground, it is the armed wing which decides the appropriate time to respond to the Israeli aggressions, he said. We give general guidance about what stance to take in response to Israel's position, but the armed wing has freedom of action and decisions made in the field are not the responsibility of the political leadership, he said.But the orders to observe a new truce were likely to be respected, Abu Zuhri said.A truce will be met with a truce, he said, estimating that all Palestinian armed factions would follow Hamas in this regard.Hamas is going to impose the truce on all the Palestinian factions, even those who don't want to observe it, agreed Abu Saada.But a new round of violence is perfectly plausible, Abu Saada warned, given that the Israeli army has reserved the right to launch preventive operations and Palestinian groups have vowed to seek revenge when their members are targeted.