WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Arabs Riot in Jerusalem Over Bin Laden's Demise, Hamas Angry
by Hillel Fendel MAY 2,11
While most of the free world praised the United States for having rid it of arch-terrorist Bin Laden, the Hamas organization - which has recently all but merged with Fatah, headed by Mahmoud Abbas - condemned the act. Similarly, Arabs in the village of Silwan, adjacent to the City of David neighborhood in Jerusalem, rioted Monday night in protest over the elimination of Osama Bin Laden. The rioters threw stones at police and attempted to block roads.The Gaza-based website Al Qassam reports that Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the local Hamas chapter that runs Gaza, told reporters on Monday that Bin Laden was an Arab holy warrior.Meeting with journalists in his office in Gaza City, Haniyeh said, If this news [of Bin Laden's killing] is true, then this means that it is part of the American policy based on the oppression and bloodshed in the Muslim and Arab world.Haniyeh expressed his strong condemnation for the killing or assassination of Bin Laden, whom he referred to as Mujahed - someone in engaged in jihad, holy war against infidels. He said he was praying for mercy for Bin Laden.
Hamas reached a reconciliation agreement with Fatah last week, calling for the formation of a joint interim government in the coming days, and preparations for elections a year from now throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The agreement was hailed by most left-wing and anti-Israel organizations, but even President Shimon Peres, a strong supporter of a two-state solution and the Oslo process, said, Israel would like to see the Palestinian people become united for peace - [but] this is not an agreement, this is a split. Hamas is a recognized terrorist organization. According to this agreement Hamas doesn't have to change their charter that calls for the destruction of Israel, they can continue to shoot at us as they did when firing [last month] on a yellow school bus [and murdering a teenager]. Hamas is a branch of Iran - Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah want a union for war...IsraelNationalNews.com)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143850
Katz: The U.S. Should Choose Israel, Not Pakistan
by Elad Benari MAY 3,11
National Union Chairman MK Yaakov Ketzaleh Katz addressed the relations between the United States and Pakistan on Monday, following the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, which revealed that the arch terrorist had been hiding out in Pakistan and not in Afghanistan as had been believed for quite some time.Katz said that many people of the free world wonder why the U.S. supports, both economically and in terms of security, a radical Islamic state such as Pakistan, whose loyalty to terrorists such as bin Laden is greater than its interests in cooperating with the U.S.Osama bin Laden lived in a luxury neighborhood in Islamabad for five years while the residents of Pakistan helped him out, said Katz.He added that, in his opinion, new thinking by the Americans is required, in which it will support all its friends in the free world, and especially Israel which is a wedge to the radical Islamic terrorism which brings a lack of stability and bereavement to the world.Of course the United States must stop pressuring Israel and pushing it towards the Auschwitz borders [the term used by the late Foreign Minister Abba Eban to describe the so-called 1967 borders -.ed] and right into the hands of the enemies which surround it, added Katz.
Katz’s comments came after more details were revealed on the operation in which bin Laden was killed. Reports said that a U.S. helicopter landed on the roof of bin Laden’s mansion in Pakistan shortly after midnight Saturday, and Navy SEALs (Sea, Air and Land) burst out and surrounded the mansion’s walls, before bin Laden was taken out after a 40-minute firefight. He was shot in the head.Fox News quoted a source who said that bin Laden was given the opportunity to surrender, but other sources said the mission was to eliminate bin Laden and not take him alive.Katz’s comments on the U.S. and Pakistan came on the heels of comments he made earlier on Monday, when he said that Israel has the ability to destroy enemies like Iran and Syria in a second's time.In a session of a Knesset lobby dedicated to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Katz said the greatest revenge against the Germans, who desired to annihilate the Jewish people, is the Jewish nation’s fertility and natural growth.Katz said that Israel should show visiting dignitaries the pinnacles it has reached since the Holocaust and despite it.We must show them that we have the capability to destroy Iran within a second’s time, and Syria in a minute’s time, should they dare lift a hand to us, he said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
US, Iraq, Israel Deny Iran Report IAF Jets are in Iraq
by Gil Ronen MAY 3,11
Israeli jet fighters have been conducting drills at an American military base in Iraq, ahead of a strike against targets inside Iran, Iran's PressTV reported Monday.
Israel flatly denied the report, according to news agencies. So have the U.S. and Iraq.The PressTV report quoted sources close to Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's group as saying a considerable number of Israeli warplanes were seen at al-Assad base in Iraq.The aircraft reportedly included F-15, F-16, F-18 and F-22 jet fighters, as well as KC-10 air-to-air tanker aircraft.U.S. military spokesperson Dave Lapan dismissed the report as ridiculous, and an Iraqi official told reporters that there was no truth to the story, as we in Iraq can never accept launching any military attack against any of the neighboring countries, whether Iran or any other country, from Iraqi lands.The very mention of the F-18 and F-22 models casts doubts on the veracity of the report, since the IAF does not possess these models. Moreover, the American F-22 has yet to take part in U.S. combat sorties and its export is banned.
The warplanes carried out week-long exercises at night, the same source told the Iranian journalists.The drills were reportedly aimed at preparing to strike Iran's air defense systems, disrupt Iran's radar and attack targets deep inside Iran.Iraqi officials had not been notified of the exercises, which were conducted in collaboration with the US military,the agency claimed.(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 TUE MAY 03,2011
09:30 AM -2.25
10:00 AM +4.84
10:30 AM +12.98
11:00 AM -8.02
11:30 AM +19.56
12:00 PM +21.76
12:30 PM +19.94
01:00 PM -0.52
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S&P 500 1356.62 -4.60
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS
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Dow -1- points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -52 points at low today.
Dow +34 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,544.80.OIL opens at $112.73 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -52 points at low today so far.
Dow +34 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -33 points at low today.
Dow +34 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)
EU super-watchdog warns economic crisis far from over
LEIGH PHILLIPS 02.05.2011 @ 18:53 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's economic super-watchdog has warned that many risks remain to the stability of the EU's financial system and that the global crisis will last for many more years to come.The two deputy chairs of the new European Systemic Risk Board - the bloc's new Frankfurt-based supervisor of supervisors tasked with oversight of the financial system within the Union - gave a frank assessment of the state of capitalism in Europe in their first hearing before the European Parliament's economics committee.There are still many risks to the recovery of the European economy, said Mervyn King, the ESRB's first vice-chair and head of the Bank of England.The economic challenges will last for many years ... The financial crisis is very far from over and the impact will be felt for many years to come.He and his fellow vice-chair, Andrea Enria, also the head of the European Banking Authority, said that the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis is not the only danger present.Enria warned that systemic risk still lies outside regulated areas and that financial innovation is happening so rapidly these days that even in the case of appropriate regulation, capital is already able to pick up stakes and move on to another, unregulated area.He said that the ESRB, which opened its doors in January, faced significant challenges both in data collection on systemic risk and on the credibility of that data.King meanwhile said that the board may have to argue for a limiting of credit growth or take on climbing asset prices, recommendations that may not be very popular amongst financial institutions when the going is good.
At times the ESRB will be doing things that are unpopular ... We will need your support,he told the lawmakers. We will need the help of parliament to take on financial institutions that sometimes have enormous lobbying power.He added that banks are capable of winning control of the regulation that is supposed to reign in excesses.Regulatory capture is one of the problems that any system faces in trying to manage financial institutions. The wealth and power they command means we should take regulatory capture very seriously, King said.King also warned against a rise in long-term interest rates given the groaning public and private debt levels in Europe.
The sheer volume of debt is still very large, he said.If the current climate of very low interest rates were to change, and interest rates were to rise, the economic challenges of high levels of indebtedness would become more severe.The pair also said that the results of stress tests on major EU banks are set to be released in June and that governments need to be ready to act immediately once the assessments are made public.Enria warned: Backstop measures need to be there prior to the publication of the stress tests.By the second half of June, governments must be ready to recapitalise banks, his colleague added. It would be most unfortunate if the stress tests were to appear, and there was a gap, King said.However, they also said that the banks' performance in the tests should not be seen as a pass-fail dichotomy, but that there was more a spectrum between being in the clear and having problematic balance-sheet holes revealed.Other forms of action than immediate recapitalisation could be taken in such circumstances, said Enria: The type of actions could be more varied than just raising core capital and raising it very fast.
A window of six months within which we would expect remedial actions to be taken.
Enria also said the ESRB is readying itself to take on the shadow banking sector, with technical work on the area soon to be under way.He described the sector - involving investment banks, hedge funds, money market funds and insurance firms, which are not subject to the same safety regulations as normal banks - as very difficult to bring into a unified framework,however, as the sector was quite diverse across jurisdictions.He said that he was very keen to get to work on shadow banking, which he described as an oxymoron: Everything that is banking should not be in the shadows. It is very much dealing with systemic risk.He went on to say that there were two possible responses to the problem: Bring everything generating risk under the regulatory umbrella or restrict those activities that encourage systemic risk.But it will require time,he added.
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-10 WORLD REGIONS) 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).
Barroso moots return of internal EU borders
ANDREW WILLIS 02.05.2011 @ 09:28 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The re-instatement of European border controls to tackle a wave of immigration from northern Africa is a possibility, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has suggested. Barroso's remarks in a letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday (1 May) come after a period of bickering between the two states, centered on the fate of some 25,000 Tunisian immigrants who have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa since January.The dispute has thrown the spotlight on a 1985 treaty abolishing border posts - known as the Schengen Agreement - which has grown over time to encompass 25 continental states, home to roughly 400 million people.The temporary restoration of borders is one of the possibilities, provided this is subject to specific and clearly defined criteria, that could be an element to strengthen the governance of the Schengen agreement,Barroso wrote.On Wednesday the commission will come forward with a policy document outlining a series of measures to ramp up the bloc's migration policy following a series of recent revolutions in northern Africa. A more strategic approach concerning relations with third countries, together with the completion of the EU's Common European Asylum System are among the measures expected to feature in the document.In his letter, Barroso also said the commission was in favour of strengthening the EU's joint border agency, Frontex.
Against a backdrop of rising far-right political parties across Europe however, proposals to alter the Schengen Agreement are arguably the most controversial, with the passport-free travel zone seen an a key achievement within the EU integration project.The move comes as another of the EU's landmark achievements - the creation of a single currency area - continues to be buffeted by financial markets.Under current rules, only a serious threat to public order or internal security can be used as a justification for a reinstatement of temporary border controls, with renewal of any extraordinary measures needed after 30 days.But an Italian-French summit in Rome on 27 April called for the re-imposition of borders more easily, after an earlier Italian call for EU member states to share the growing number of north African immigrants arriving on its shores was essentially rejected. Prior to the summit, a Franco-Italian spat saw Rome issue the Tunisian boat-people with temporary residence permits, a measure seen as helping them move out of Italy and further west into Europe.France hit back, rounding up thousands of migrants near the border and restricting train travel between the two states.The immigration issue is set to feature prominently on the agenda of a June European summit in Brussels, with Bulgaria and Romania's push to join the Schengen Agreement adding further spice to the mix.Europe's future migration policy must avoid being overly security orientated, which could appear to reject the values on which the European project is based, warned Barroso in the letter.But Europe must also avoid an overly lax management of its inward migration which could spark greater public concerns, added the commission chief.
EU cheers reported killing of Osama bin Laden
VALENTINA POP 02.05.2011 @ 09:25 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A US-ordered strike in Pakistan which reportedly killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has been met with relief and talk of a safer world by EU leaders, despite the bloc's official stance against targeted assassinations. The news that Osama bin Laden is dead will bring great relief to people across the world,said British Prime Minister David Cameron in a statement.Cameron was the first among EU leaders to react to the announcement made on Sunday night (1 May) by US President Barack Obama that he had ordered the operation which killed the top terrorist. A spokesperson for Chancellor Angela Merkel later said the German leader had communicated her relief at the news to the US president.Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt tweeted: A world without Osama Bin Laden is a better world. His hatred was a threat to us all.EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and EU commission chief in a joint statement said: Osama Bin Laden was a criminal responsible for heinous terrorist attacks that cost the lives of thousands of innocent people. His death makes the world a safer place.They also spoke of solidarity with our friends in the Muslim world in combating the scourge of global extremism.The news comes almost 10 years after the 9/11 attacks orchestrated by Bin Laden which killed thousands in New York and Washington.For his art, the EU's ambassador to Afghanistan, Vygaudas Usackas, welcomed the news that Bin Laden has been finally hunted down in the city of Abottabad, some 80 kilometres northeast of Islamabad.
It could be a gamechanger in boosting the morale and confidence of the US and international community that the efforts and sacrifices of almost the past 10 years of involvement in Afghanistan and in the region are not in vain.The killing, according to Usackas will inject the regional players with confidence to move forward with greater cooperation and steps in support of peace and reconciliation.The head of the EU parliament, Jerzy Buzek, chose similar words.We have woken up in a more secure world. Although the fight of the international community against terrorists is not over, an important step has been made in the fight against al Qaeda, to give security to millions of people: Christians, Muslims, all those who believe in peaceful coexistence,he said. But not all members of the EU parliament met the news with similar enthusiasm.Finnish Green MEP Heidi Hautala, chairwoman of the human rights committee in the EU legislature, told this website that it would have been much better if he was brought to justice alive.I am sure the discussion will continue, including in the European Parliament, as to why it was needed for him to be killed. The aim should have been not to wage a war against al Qaeda and countries suspected of giving them protection, but to make terrorism an issue of international criminal justice.
[Comment] Trade off or trade on for the Palestinians?
BERND NILLES 15.04.2011 @ 18:53 CET
EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - On the fringes of a meeting with key donors to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) on Wednesday (13 April), EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced a trade agreement between the EU and the Palestinian Authority.This agreement will give agricultural and fish products from the West Bank and Gaza Strip immediate duty free access to the EU market. This facilitation of Palestinian trade aims at supporting the EU-aided process of building a viable Palestinian state to live alongside Israel in peace and security.The question, however, is how far this agreement can contribute to Palestinian development as long as exports from Gaza and the West Bank continue to be hampered by Israeli restrictions.Members of the international alliance of Catholic development agencies, CIDSE, support both Israeli and Palestinian partners on the ground. They observe that essential elements of the illegal blockade of Gaza (i.e. general bans on export, import of construction materials, and entry and exit of persons), are still in place.The export ban in particular is undermining the revival of industries and employment and keeping many Gazans dependent on aid. Despite Israel's promises in December 2010 to allow more exports from Gaza, products exiting Gaza in the last weeks of March represented less than a mere 2 percent of pre-blockade export levels.
The situation has been worsened by last month's permanent closure of Karni, Gaza's main commercial crossing with a capacity of 1,000 trucks per day, in contrast to Israel's earlier commitment to open further crossings. This leaves Kerem Shalom crossing, with a current capacity of no more than 250 truckloads a day, as the only permanent access point.Although less severe than in Gaza, movement and access restrictions in the West Bank also impede Palestinians' access to markets, both internal and external. Despite some improvement, the UN's humanitarian agency OCHA reports that there are still 516 permanent checkpoints and obstacles to movement in the West Bank, as well as hundreds of ad hoc flying checkpoints.These hinder movement between rural areas and Palestinian towns, which are already fragmented by illegal Israeli settlements and their transport and security infrastructure. This is a serious obstacle for Palestinian farmers trying to access their lands or transport their products to be exported. Access to the Jordan Valley, East Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank beyond the Wall also remains particularly difficult.The EU has taken a significant step for development in the oPt by removing barriers to Palestinian trade. However, Palestinian products will have difficulty reaching our shores in the first place, unless the EU can convince Israel to do the same, in accordance with international humanitarian law.The Palestinians cannot build their future until their economy is truly unlocked.Bernd Nilles is Secretary General of CIDSE, an international alliance of Catholic development agencies.Hautala also said Washington should use the moment to close its detention centre in Cuba where many terrorist suspects have been held for years without trial.
It is not surprising. Perhaps it is also a moment for the US now after they have achieved this to put their own detention policies up to date with international standards and close Guantanamo once and for all, after it caused so much justified anger against the western world,she said.Meanwhile, Usackas also warned that:the fight against international terrorism is not over. The root causes of international terrorism will need to be addressed and it will require resolve and staying power by the US, European Union and broader International Community.With the US and UK quickly issuing an alert for all American and British citizens travelling abroad to be on their guard for possible revenge attacks, the news could also spell added danger to four French citizens currently being held by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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.
Amid mourning, search extends for US storm victims
by Juan Castro Olivera - MAY 2,11
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (AFP) – Search and rescue teams combed through the rubble of destruction from a wave of deadly tornadoes, looking for more victims in a disaster that has already claimed nearly 350 lives in the US south.The grim search continued with more than 400 people unaccounted for following last week's devastation around Tuscaloosa, raising fears that the death toll could mount.Firefighters aided by sniffer dogs sifted through the wreckage of homes, buildings and looked under fallen trees in an area some two kilometers (1.2 miles) wide where a tornado swept through.
We are tracking the whole area. We went from one sector to another with a group of 20 people and 10 dogs, said Stuart Samples of Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue, which has been working with local authorities.Police have been restricting travel around the towns of Holt and Alberta, on the outskirts of Tuscaloosa, as the search for victims and possible survivors is carried out.One team member told AFP that no storm victims were located on Sunday.Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox said the high number of missing may simply be a question of communications being disrupted.My hope and prayer is that the number of missing, which seems so large and incredible, is that all of these are just those that haven't been able to connect with each other,he said, but added that my sense is that we will have more fatalities.Alabama was worst hit, with 250 people killed and 2,219 injured.Mississippi has confirmed 35 deaths, and its emergency management agency touched on the scope of the disaster in reporting 993 homes destroyed and another 2,527 damaged in the state.There were also 34 deaths in Tennessee, 15 in Georgia, eight in Arkansas and five in Virginia.The overall death toll of 347 is exceeded only by a tornado outbreak in March 1925 that left 747 people dead.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it estimated there were 312 tornadoes during the Tuesday-Thursday period.
In the local area around Tuscaloosa, some 5,000 properties have been damaged or destroyed, affecting an estimated 13,000 people.In one area dotted by trailer homes and wood-and-metal structures on stilts, most of the structures were razed, with the tornado sending heavy appliances like refrigerators and washing machines flying in various directions.Here is my stepfather's car, resident Justin Boothe said, pointing to the wreckage of a vehicle dragged 30 meters (100 feet) and crushed under a tree.Jerry Johnson left his home before the tornado hit and could not believe what he saw on his return. His house and everything that was inside blew up the street.
The corner gas station and general store called Lucky Dollar also disappeared. One hour after the tornado I came here and I asked the police: Where's the Lucky Dollar? And he told me, You are standing on the property.Daphne Hart, spokeswoman at the American Red Cross, said relief efforts may be protracted.This operation will take time, she told AFP.The devastation is immense.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pledged the federal government would continue to support the stricken states, helping them come to grips and recover from this really terrible swath of tornadoes that swept through the south.That makes the sense of urgency for us even more acute when we see the type of damage we are seeing here today and the spirit of the people, she told reporters in Smithville, Mississippi, on Sunday. The American Red Cross has opened 16 shelters across Alabama, taking in about 900 of the newly homeless, the organization announced.More unstable weather, meanwhile, was threatening the region.The forecasting service Accuweather said the potential exists for an additional three to five inches of rain in the corridor from northeastern Texas to the Ohio Valley through Tuesday, which could lead to flooding.
U.S. will blow up levee to save Illinois town
By Mary Wisniewski – Mon May 2, 7:48 pm ET
BIRDS POINT, Mo (Reuters) – The government said on Monday it will proceed to blow up a levee on the Mississippi River to relieve flood pressure on other levees along the critical commercial navigation route and save the historic town of Cairo, Illinois.
Carlin Bennett, a commissioner in the rural Missouri county that will bear the brunt of the flooding, estimated the operation will cause $1 billion in property damage. It's going to be like a mini tsunami through here,he said.We can't really imagine it right now.The actual detonation of the protective embankment at Birds Point-New Madrid in Missouri will come between 9 p.m. and midnight local time, the Army Corps of Engineers said.Major General Michael Walsh, the army officer in charge of the operation, said he would have preferred to breach the levee in the daylight on Tuesday with the water rising, the agency could no longer wait.The system is under tremendous stress, Walsh said.This is the right time to operate.By blowing up the levee, the Corps hopes to increase the Mississippi's ability to accommodate the rising waters of the Ohio River, sparing Cairo and other towns.Both rivers have been rising as a result of days of rain and the melt and runoff of heavy winter snowstorms.But the move will flood more than 100,000 acres of farmland in southeast Missouri and that state's attorney general tried unsuccessfully to get several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, to block the move.Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon warned on Monday that the action would unleash a tremendous amount of water and local residents should cooperate with law enforcement officials.
The Corps moved explosives to the levee at Birds Point-New Madrid overnight and officials said the process of detonation would take about three hours.Cairo, an historic town of 2,800 people located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, was largely empty after a mandatory evacuation as the Ohio, swollen by overnight rains, continued to rise to dangerously high record levels.As of 5 p.m., the gauge on the Ohio River at Cairo showed the waters at 61.4 feet and the forecast was that they would crest at 61.5 feet -- 21.5 feet over flood stage and their highest level since 1937.The Corps, the primary flood-fighting agency in the region, had said it would detonate explosives in the levee if the river at Cairo reached 61 feet and was rising.Late Sunday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the plan, saying the Corps had the right to breach the levee, as permitted by a 1928 federal flood control law.I don't have to like it, Walsh said.But we must use everything we have in our possession to prevent a more catastrophic event.Deborah Byrne, a minister in Charleston, Missouri who owns 550 acres of the farmland that will be flooded as a result of the intentional breach, worried it would take years for the county to recover from the controversial operation.It's not just 130,000 acres and rich landowners. There are many families connected with these farms. This land has come down through many generations.Cairo, located at the southern tip of Illinois between two states, Missouri and Kentucky, that permitted slavery prior to abolition, was an important destination for runaway slaves during the Civil War. Its population is more than 60 percent African-American and a third of its residents have incomes below the poverty level.(Additional reporting by Miriam Moynihan; writing by James B. Kelleher)
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.
Fighting rages in Libya's Western Mountains
By Lin Noueihed - MAY 2,11
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi stepped up their onslaught on rebel areas of Libya's Western Mountains late on Monday, rebels said, and refugees said towns in the isolated region were on the brink of starvation.At least 10 Grad rockets landed on the town of Zintan, rebel spokesman Abdulrahman told Reuters by telephone.They were fired by Gaddafi forces positioned north of Zintan,he said.
Berber towns in the Western Mountains, close to the border with Tunisia, have been pounded by government forces after joining the rebellion that erupted two months ago.
If I had stayed there my two little daughters would have been among the dead,Fatma Douri, 35, who has fled the besieged town of Yafran, said in a refugee camp in the Tunisian border town of Dehiba.The siege of the town absolutely has to be lifted, otherwise thousands of children are going to be among the dead in the next few weeks.
Like anti-Gaddafi groups in other parts of Libya, rebels in the Western Mountains want more help from Western warplanes. Asked if NATO air strikes on pro-Gaddafi forces around Zintan had been effective, Abdulrahman said:No. They are better than no strikes at all but they could do much better. The targets are clear. If rebel fighters can see them, surely NATO aircraft are able to spot and destroy them.
MINES BLOCK PORT
Further east, a rebel spokesman in the besieged coastal city of Misrata said fighting took place on Monday near the city's airport, which remains under the control of Gaddafi forces.NATO minesweepers searched the approaches of Misrata harbor on Monday for a drifting mine blocking aid supplies.A NATO statement said the alliance had destroyed two of three mines laid by government forces. It said the mines were small and hard to detect but capable of doing serious damage.The International Organization for Migration said an aid ship was still waiting off Misrata for bombing to stop and mines to be cleared before it tried to deliver supplies and evacuate some 1,000 foreigners and wounded Libyans.The rebel interim National Council's senior spokesman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga urged NATO to step up air strikes on Gaddafi forces near Misrata, saying they were trying to destroy the port.
We would like to see heavier and more intensive bombardment of Gaddafi forces, particularly now that they're building up forces in areas 50 or 60 km outside Misrata,he said.They're building up forces in preparation for attack.A Misrata resident and rebel sympathizer named Ghassan told Reuters hospital records showed 110 civilians and rebels had been killed in the besieged city since April 24, and more than 350 wounded.Crowds chanting support for Gaddafi gathered in Tripoli on Monday for the funeral of his 29-year-old son Saif al-Arab. The government says a NATO air raid on Saturday killed him and three of Gaddafi's young grandchildren.The announcement of the deaths triggered attacks by angry crowds on the British and French embassies and the U.S. diplomatic mission in Tripoli, and accusations from the Libyan officials that NATO had been trying to assassinate Gaddafi.About 2,000 people carrying flags and pictures of Gaddafi turned out for the funeral. They pumped their fists in the air and vowed to avenge the death of Saif al-Arab. We are all with Gaddafi's Libya,read one placard.The coffin, covered in flowers and wrapped in the green flag that has represented Libya since Gaddafi took power in a 1969 coup, was carried through crowds to the grave at Hani cemetery.Gaddafi did not appear to be at the funeral but Saif al-Islam, the most prominent of his seven sons, attended along with his elder half-brother Mohammed.
MILITARY PACE INCREASING
Despite denials from Western leaders that the air raid was an assassination attempt, it has renewed debate on whether the strikes are exceeding a UN mandate to protect civilians.British Foreign Secretary William Hague said NATO would intensify military operations in Libya.Time is not on the side of the Gaddafi regime,he said during a visit to Cairo.The policy is to continue to increase pressure on the Gaddafi regime -- diplomatic, economic and military pressure. We have increased the pace of the military operations under U.N. resolution 1973 and will go on doing so.Switzerland said it had found 360 million Swiss francs ($415 million) of potentially illegal assets linked to Gaddafi and his circle. Some 410 million had been traced to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and 60 million to former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.(Additional reporting by Tarek Amara and Abdelaziz Boumzar in Dehiba, Deepa Babington and Michael Georgy in Benghazi, Maher Nazeh and Larbi Louafi in Tripoli, Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, Mariam Karouny in Beirut and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; writing by Andrew Roche; editing by Tim Pearce)
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
FAMINE
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: 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.
Global poverty at mercy of corn harvest
Bill Gunyon, oneworld Guides – Mon May 2, 6:05 am ET
May 2 (OneWorld.net) - If we have any kind of weather problem in the northern hemisphere, we don't have enough corn. This was the alarming verdict of Alberto Weisser, chief executive of Bunge, during last Thursday's presentation of first quarter results for the US agribusiness and food multinational. Whilst the motive of questions posed by financial analysts on the Bunge conference call was related to profit forecasts, low corn stocks have also been a concern amongst agencies monitoring global food security.We do need good weather, repeated Weisser, without mentioning that the northern hemisphere already has a weather problem. Parts of Europe are experiencing unusually high temperatures and shortage of rain. The UK Met Office has warned that both March and April could be the driest for 50 years. This may be too early to affect the corn crop cycle but does not augur well for a stable summer season.More commonly known as maize in the southern hemisphere, corn influences the price of other grains and food commodities traded on world markets. Its cost and availability impact the volume of food aid that major humanitarian donors are able to source from the US and elsewhere.
Other developments shortly before and after the Bunge press conference illustrate the stark contrast between the ability of rich and poor regions of the world to cope with rising food prices.Newly published US consumer spending figures for March brushed aside the implications of food costs. The average American family spends less than 10% of household income on food.The price of gasoline has instead been the center of public concern. This explains why 40% of the 2011 US corn harvest is expected to be converted into ethanol, despite the stressful repercussions for global food stocks.A very different consumer spending analysis has been released by the Asian Development Bank in advance of its annual meeting which starts tomorrow.
Drawing data from 25 developing countries in the region, the Bank concludes that food inflation of just 10% is enough to push 64.4 million people below the international poverty line. Poor households allocate more than 60% of their consumption to food, explained ADB Chief Economist Changyong Rhee.Annual food inflation to early 2011 is such that the estimated increase in the number of poor due to a 10% increase in domestic food prices may have already occurred,warns the report. The Bank also points out that prices are rising further.Asia accounts for two thirds of world poverty. Africa is the location for the remaining third and is even more vulnerable to price inflation.The implication of the ADB analysis is that global poverty has increased by over 100 million due to the spike in food prices over the last year.Evidence for the added sensitivity in Africa is seen in the simmering risk of public unrest in several countries. What started earlier this month in Uganda as a peaceful walk-to-work protest over rising food prices has provoked a heavy-handed response by President Musoveni's security forces.
Responsibility for monitoring the world's supply and demand for food lies with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The timing of the current crisis is awkward for the FAO due to the forthcoming retirement of its long-serving Director-General, Jacques Diouf.The selection process for his replacement, due to be chosen in July, has now moved a step forward. Six shortlisted candidates have released 4-page statements to promote their credentials.All the candidates are men, not one of them from Africa or South Asia where hunger and malnutrition are most acute. Only the candidate from Iraq included any specific reference to the human right to food in the context of his plans.Another multilateral body with the power to energize global food supplies is the World Trade Organization. Its Doha Development Agenda was devised as a new trade round which would assist poor countries in expanding exports of agricultural products.The process has been moribund for some years. On Friday a fresh attempt at resuscitation expired with WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy lamenting a loss of interest by political leaders in many quarters.Constructive proposals for global food security last week were therefore left to the leading humanitarian agency, Oxfam International, which has released a research report with the pertinent title: Who will feed the world? The report grapples with the apparently irreconcilable differences between 500 million tiny family farms across the developing world and industrial agribusiness, hungry for new markets and land.
The two can co-exist, says Oxfam, by making large investments pro-poor.This requires stringent legal and political safeguards for the rights of poor farmers. However, the report stops short of clarifying how such conditions might be achieved in countries of weak institutional capacity.For now it seems that the only winners from the food crisis are the agribusiness giants such as Bunge, whose profit for three months totalled $232 million. It’s probably our best first quarter ever in agribusiness,said Bunge chief executive Alberto Weisser.
Greece gets tough on tax; appoints terror judge By DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press – Mon May 2, 9:48 am ET
ATHENS, Greece – Greece's cash-strapped government promised Monday to raise an additional euro11.8 billion ($17.5 billion) by the end of 2013 via a crackdown on tax evasion, and indicated it could seek a second extension of its bailout loan repayment.Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou outlined the tax crackdown, which includes the appointment of a former terrorism prosecutor to the effort, a year after Greece was rescued from the brink of bankruptcy by a euro110 billion ($164 billion) bailout package from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.He also suggested Athens would welcome a second extension in the repayment schedule for the loan.I expressed the hope that we could have an even better arrangement regarding the repayment of the euro110 billion, Papaconstantinou said of comments he made in an interview to French newspaper Liberation.In the interview published Monday, the minister said Athens favored that the repayment timetable be pushed back again and that the interest rate be lowered even more.....That way, we could deal with our other deadlines.Greece has already had the repayment time for the bailout loans extended from three to 7 1/2 years and the average interest rate cut by one percentage point to around 4 percent, but with the economy still contracting, the debt burden remains so hefty many observers think the country would be better off looking at ways of how it can cut the overall amount it actually owes.
In the meantime, Greece is trying to raise as much money as it can and its new measures were announced in the week that EU and IMF debt inspectors are due in Athens. They have warned that Greece needs to improve its tax system to end a weak run in state revenues that is threatening the country's fiscal rescue program.
Speaking in a news conference in Athens, Papaconstantinou said Greece was in talks with Swiss authorities to monitor Greek deposits. The deal, he said, would resemble a recent agreement between Britain and Switzerland that allows Britons with Swiss bank accounts to send taxes home while maintaining their privacy.Other measures include creating a speedboat division of fraud inspectors, and appointing a former senior prosecutor who handled terrorism cases to assist with the tax collection effort. Retired prosecutor Yiannis Diotis headed the case against Greece's deadly far-left terror group November 17, that led to the conviction of 15 suspected members in 2003.Tax evasion is a crime against the country, Papaconstantinou said, noting that the measures include tougher penalties for bribing tax officials, a radical reorganization of the tax-office structure, and increased use of online tax services.This is the first time ever that such a systematic effort has been undertaken, the minister said.The country's black economy is worth about one-third of the country's gross domestic product according to estimates by the Greek financial research groups, the EU and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.With the country's debt running at 142.8 percent of GDP last year, or euro328 billion ($487 billion), many analysts and politicians in Europe have said Greece will inevitably have to restructure its debt at some point — a restructuring could involve cutting the total amount of money Greece owes or giving it a lot more time to repay.But the government — and the European Union — are adamant that is not on the cards.Debt restructuring for Greece is not part of our strategy and will not be,the EU's top economic affairs official Olli Rehn said in Brussels Monday.Rehn said proponents of restructuring appear to be unaware of the risks to overall financial stability such a move would entail.European officials have warned that a restructuring of Greece's debt could lead to panic on financial markets similar to the turbulence following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, dragging down banks and other struggling eurozone countries.Papaconstantinou reiterated one more time that the country was not seeking a restructure.We have said repeatedly, and we continue to say: There will be no restructuring of the Greek debt,he said. Elena Becatoros in Athens, Gabriele Steinhauser in Brussels and Jamey Keaten in Paris contributed.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Monday, May 02, 2011
VOTE CONSERVATIVE TODAY CANADA
OK CANADA SMARTEN UP AND VOTE CONSERVATIVE.ITS THE BEST OF THE WORST.IF YOU WANT BABY KILLERS,(ABORTION LOVERS)AND TRANSEXUALS USING ANY WASHROOMS THEY CHOOSE.VOTE LIBERAL,NDP OR ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASE GREENS.IF YOU WANT THE SAME AS WE GOT NOW AT LEAST VOTE HARPER -CONSERVATIVES.EVEN THOUGH HARPER IS A NEW WORLD ORDER GUY.IF WE GET ANYBODY ELSE IN.WE WILL HAVE A COMMUNIST-SOCIALIST TAX IMPOSED ON US IN EVERY AREA OF LIFE SYSTEM-CONTROL FREAK SYSTEM LIKE THAT FRAUD SOETORO-OBAMA MUSLIM GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA.VOTE CONSERVATIVE IS MY VOTE.BUT NOT FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH.FOR THE BEST OF THE WORST IN THIS ELECTION TODAY.
BOOGY MAN FALSE FLAG BIN LADIN DEAD
OLIVE TREE MINISTRIES LATES SHOWS
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_04_30A.mp3
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_04_30B.mp3
BIN LADEN CIA AGENT - BOOGYMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGXVic15ho&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OW4A-yd9BI&feature=player_embedded
BIN LADEN KILLED FOR THE 9TH TIME
http://www.infowars.com/osama-bin-laden-pronounced-dead%e2%80%a6-for-the-ninth-time/
JONES TODAY ON BOOGY BOY BIN LADEN
http://rss.nfowars.net/20110502_Mon_Alex.mp3
THE FALSE FLAG BOOGY MAN BIN LADIN IS OFFICIALLY DEAD.NO MORE WINEING-DINING IN THE PENTEGON AND WHITEHOUSE FOR THIS CIA AGENT.
THERES QUESTIONS ALREADY WHY DID OBAMA SAY BIN LADEN WAS NOT A MUSLIM LEADER BECAUSE HE KILLED OTHER MUSLIMS.WHY NO PICTURES OF THE SO CALLED MURDERED BIN LADEN AS HE WAS QUICKLY BURIED AT SEA(A TYPICAL MUSLIM BURIAL)(BUT BIN LADEN WAS NOT A MUSLIM LEADER SOETORO AKA FRAUD MUSLIM OBAMA CLAIMS.THERES MORE QUESTIONS THEN ANSWERS ALREADY.OBAMA NEEDED THIS FALSE FLAG TO SAVE HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM CERTAIN COLLAPSE.I STILL THINK THIS IS ALL HAPPENING.THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND NOW THE MYSTEROUS BOOGYMAN BIN LADEN DEATH AND QUICK BURIAL AT SEA IS A DISTRACTION OF BERNANKES SPEECH AND THE DEMISE OF THE DOLLAR IN THE BACKROUND BY OBAMA-SOROS AND NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES.
OBAMA MIGHT BE TRYING TO SAVE HIS SKIN FOR RE-ELECTION.BUT I JUST READ HAMAS IS AGAINST THIS BIN LADEN MURDER.WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY HAMAS WILL DO TO AMERICA NOW.OBAMA YOU GOT TERRIBLE TERROR ATTACKS AHEAD OF YOU FOR THINKING OF YOURSELF TO BE RE-ELECTED IN 2012.AND KILLING A CIA MUSLIM HAMAS FAVOURED AGENT.LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS OBAMA PRIDE COMES BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION.YOU DONE IT THIS TIME OBAMA.WATCH OUT FOR HAMAS-IRAN-SYRIA AND RUSSIA AND CHINA TO TEAM UP NOW AGAINST YOU.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel:(AMERICA IN THIS CASE) for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Hamas leader condemns US killing of bin Laden
MAY 2,11
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The leader of the Palestinian militant Hamas government in Gaza has condemned the United States for killing al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh says the operation is the continuation of the American oppression and shedding of blood of Muslims and Arabs.Haniyeh told reporters in Gaza on Monday that although Hamas had its differences with al-Qaida, his group condemns the assassination of a Muslim and Arabic warrior and prays that bin Laden's soul rests in peace.Hamas has repeatedly said it has no ties to al-Qaida and that its violent struggle is directed solely against Israel, and not the West at large.
Source: Al-Qaida head bin Laden dead
By JULIE PACE, Associated Press - MAY 2,11
WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.President Barack Obama was expected to address the nation on the developments Sunday night.It was unclear where how bin Laden was killed and how the U.S. captured his body. Officials have long believed bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.The person spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak ahead of the president.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-N3dJvhgPg&feature=player_embedded
Red Alert: Government Had Osama bin Laden Frozen for Years
Kurt Nimmo and Alex Jones Infowars.com May 1, 2011
CNN and the corporate media report this evening that purported CIA asset Osama bin Laden has been killed by the U.S. military in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-N3dJvhgPg&feature=player_embedded
In an address to the nation, Obama said he ordered the strike that allegedly killed Osama. The remainder of his speech followed the standard war on terror propaganda script.A small team of Americans killed bin Laden in a firefight at a compound in Pakistan, the president said in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House, the Associated Press reported following Obama’s address.Obama said the military took custody of his remains. It remains to be seen if the government will attempt to provide evidence that the remains are indeed those of Osama bin Laden. The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done,said former president Bush. In 2006, Bush admitted that capturing Osama was not a top priority.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o&feature=player_embedded
In February, 2004, Iranian state radio claimed Osama bin Laden had been captured in Pakistan’s border region with Afghanistan a long time ago. Pentagon and Pakistani officials denied the report. Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election, the radio report said. Osama bin Laden died of kidney failure soon after the September 11, 2001, attacks. In 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden had kidney disease, and that he had required a dialysis machine when he lived in Afghanistan. That same year, the FBI’s top counterterrorism official, Dale Watson, said, I personally think he is probably not with us anymore.A Taliban leader told the Pakistan Observer on December 21, 2002, that Bin Laden was suffering from a serious lung complication and died in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief, according to Fox News.Alex Jones was told live on the radio in 2002 by high-level Council on Foreign Relations members that Osama Bin Laden had died of kidney failure in early 2002.I have it from high level [sources] from inside the Bush administration…that bin Laden died of natural causes and that his family has given the body to the CIA, that they’re gonna roll him out right before the election, that he’s on ice right now. They will claim they killed him right before the election,Alex said at the time.Jones gave a caution that the intelligence could be disinformation but claimed that his base in Austin was extremely close to the Bush administration and similar information received in the past had been credible,Paul Joseph Watson wrote in August of 2002.During the 2004 election, CNN reported that Democratic insiders had been told that George W. Bush was going to use the Bin Laden body as an ace-in-the-hole if he thought he was in danger of losing the 2004 election. This confirmed the evidence that Jones had been given by the CFR and others.In 2003, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Fox News Channel analyst Morton Kondracke she suspected Bush knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and was waiting for the most politically expedient moment to announce his capture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0GEX61tgbI&feature=player_embedded
Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide attack at the end of 2007, stated that Osama bin Laden had been killed by Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a man convicted of kidnapping and killing journalist Daniel Pearl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg&feature=player_embedded
Obama’s announcement follows the release of a highly suspicious birth certificate last week. Both events represent psychological operations that possibly portend more significant events in the days ahead as the U.S. dollar continues to lose its reserve status, the economy fails to recover as promised, and wars expand in Libya, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.Obama’s propaganda stunt arrives as the Democrats kick off their leader’s presidential reelection bid against a number of Republicans contenders who have been highly critical of not only his perceived handling of the economy, but also his management of the manufactured war on terror.
Text of President Obama's statement to U.S. people
– Mon May 2, 2:51 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the mastermind of the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people has been killed in Pakistan by U.S.-led forces.
Following is the text of Obama's statement to America:
Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children.It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory. Hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky.The Twin Towers collapsing to the ground. Black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon. The wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania where the actions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction.And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table.Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the feeling of their child's embrace.Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts.
On September 11th, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other and our love of community and country.On that day, no matter where we came from, what god we prayed to or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family. We were also united in our resolve, to protect our nation and to -- to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice.We quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda, an organization headed by Osama bin Laden, which had openly declared war on the United States and was committed to killing innocents in our country and around the globe. And so we went to war against al Qaeda, to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.
Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, we've made great strides in that effort. We've disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defense.In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government which had given bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support. And around the globe, we worked with our friends and allies to capture or kill scores of al Qaeda terrorists including several who were a part of the 9/11 plot.Yet, Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda. Even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle and defeat his network.Then last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain. And it took many months to run this thread to ground.I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside Pakistan.
And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abad Abad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body. For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda's leader and symbol and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies.The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda.And his death does not mark the end of our effort. There's no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad.As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. I've made clear just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11 that our war is not against Islam. Bin laden was not a Muslim leader. He was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries including our own.
So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity. Over the years, I've repeatedly made clear that we would take action within Pakistan if we knew where bin Laden was. That is what we've done. But it's important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding. Indeed, bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan as well and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people.Tonight I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts. They agree that this is a good and historic day for both of our nations. And going forward, it is essential that Pakistan continue to join us in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates.The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens. After nearly 10 years of service, struggle and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war.These efforts weigh on me every time I, as commander in chief, have to sign a letter to a family that has lost a loved one or look into the eyes of a service member who's been gravely wounded.So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda's terror, justice has been done.
Tonight we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who've worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work nor know their names, but tonight they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice.We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country. And they are part of a generation that has borne the heaviest share of the burden since that September day.
Finally, let me say to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, that we have never forgotten your loss, nor wavered in our commitment to see that we do whatever it takes to prevent another attack on our shores.And tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today's achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.The cause of securing our country is not complete, but tonight we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history. Whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality for all our citizens, our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place.Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.(World Desk Americas)
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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Dow +58 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +66 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,555.70.OIL opens at $113.40 today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH TODAY $1,573.50
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Dow +66 points at high today so far.
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Dow -26 points at low today.
Dow +66 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)
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.
Peres: Iran is a Danger to the Entire World
by Elad Benari MAY 02,11
President Shimon Peres, who spoke on Sunday evening at the memorial opening ceremony of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at Yad Vashem, addressed the Iranian threat.Iran’s fanatic leadership is a danger to the entire world, said Peres.It is not only a threat to Israel. It is a threat to any household, anywhere. It is a real risk to the fate of humanity. The nations of the world have declared that they will not accept Iran’s acquiring of nuclear weapons. They now stand the test of their commitment.Peres stressed that even after the Holocaust there is a regime whose leaders are still Holocaust deniers. It should arouse horror in anyone, and shock anyone with a conscience.Peres also spoke of the time period of the Holocaust and said that “We were alone, without our own state. The Allied bombers who passed over Auschwitz-Birkenau did not drop a single bomb on the mass murder facilities. The Holocaust determined that there is no substitute for us other than a home of our own.
Today we have established our own house, continued the President.Today we have a great army that the world has learned to respect. We have a democratic government that knows how to defend itself properly and knows to seek peace as necessary. This is our answer to the enemy. Any enemy.This evening we are not alone. In our hearts live six million of our people. We remember their eyes. We are their voices.Before our tearful eyes we see the Jews in Majdanek who were taken out of the cabins early in the morning and, while the loudspeaker played dance music, they were shot in pits.
Humming in our ears is the dreadful rattle of trains and transports to Treblinka, which contained our mothers, our fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers.We remember Babi Yar, Ponar, Bogdanovka, Jasenovac, Rumbula, and hundreds of other killing pits.
Regarding the State of Israel, Peres said that “all citizens of Israel, regardless of religion and race know that Israel is, was and is committed to be, the most anti-racist country in the world. Israel is an historical memorial to Holocaust victims. It is a ground to achieve their dreams, the dreams of a half million children murdered before they tasted life. Children who were born here, free and standing upright, are fulfilling the dreams of the mothers who were murdered with their children in their arms.Israel will wake up tomorrow to a new day. Buses will travel. Men and women will go to work. Our soldiers will stand in their positions. Children will go to school. The memory will be preserved. The building and defense will intensify, along with our wonderful ability to hope.Peres concluded with the words in the book of 1 Samuel 15:29: Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yeshaker (The Eternity of Israel will not lie), and man will win.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IDF Recognizes 17,000 Holocaust Survivors
by Elad Benari MAY 2,11
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IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz was one of many IDF commanders and soldiers who took part on Sunday in a special project entitled Flower to the Survivor.As part of the project, Gantz, along with the Chairman of the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel, Elazar Stern, visited the home of Judge David Frankel, where he met Motti Yehuda Bok. Both men are Holocaust survivors, and during the meeting Gantz gave them a certificate and a flower, in recognition of their contribution to the establishment of Israel. The meeting, which took part on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), was also attended by Tanya Eliav, widow of long-time politician and educator Aryeh Lova Eliav, who passed away last year and had served as captain of the ship on which Gantz’s parents came to Israel.Being able to take with you the memory of the Holocaust and decide to hold a personal life, a family life, the life of a country and the life of a nation is impressive and appreciated,Gantz told the two survivors during the meeting.As part of the Flower to the Survivor project, commanders and soldiers from all the different divisions in the IDF will meet in the coming month with 17,000 Holocaust survivors in their homes or in nursing homes. During the visits, the soldiers will be exposed to the personal testimony of the survivors and give them on behalf of the IDF and the State of Israel a flower and a certificate as a token of the bond between the IDF and Holocaust survivors.
The IDF’s Bamachane newspaper reported that the project is taking place for the fourth consecutive year and that three years ago, 9,000 survivors participated. According to the report, 10,000 officers and soldiers, including about 32 senior officers with the rank of Brigadier-General or higher, will participate in the project this year.If we do not acknowledge the older generation, the younger generations will not forgive us,said Stern of the project.This year we had a record number of survivors participating. This is proof of our society’s readiness to contribute. Today, more than ever, we must ensure that the survivors live the rest of their lives with the respect that they deserve, being the country’s founders and heroes.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
First African Muslim Convoy to Gaza
by Maayana Miskin MAY 1,11
Two Muslim groups in South Africa are planning the first African convoy to Gaza, in coordination with Hamas and the IHH. One of the organizations, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), is banned in the United States and Israel due to its financial support for terrorism.The convoy plans to travel in June, and pass through many African states, among them Sudan. Israeli security officials have expressed concern that the stop in Sudan could give the Hamas network there a chance to ship weapons to Hamas in Gaza, or to send terrorists with advanced training.Organizers appear to be hoping that the convoy's origin in South Africa, the former apartheid state, will help to stick the apartheid state label on Israel. In addition, they hope to raise support for Hamas among Africans, by stopping at various points along the way and spreading their message.The convoy has been timed to coincide with a planned flotilla to Gaza, which organizers hope will set sail from Europe in late June, and head for Gaza with the aim of breaking through the IDF's naval blockade on Hamas.
The African convoy will send its cargo by sea, but will rejoin the cargo in Egypt and bring the goods into Gaza by land.The second main organization behind the convoy is the South African branch of the Al Quds International Institute, an international Muslim group that strives to promote Jerusalem as a Muslim and Arab city. The Al Quds Institute and MJC have support from several other Muslim groups, among them charitable organizations, universities and schools.The South Africa convoy is also unusual as a convoy to Gaza from a country that suffers a much worse standard of living in many ways. Gaza residents enjoy a much lower mortality rate than their South African counterparts, and overall life expectancy is more than 24 years higher. While Gaza residents are more likely to live below the poverty line, due largely to their much higher natural growth rate, they also receive much more international aid, particularly from the United Nations.Similarly, many of the states through which the convoy will travel in its attempts to raise support, among them Malawi, Zambia, and Sudan, suffer a much higher mortality rate and significantly lower average income than Gaza.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Palestinian diplomats await EU backing for unity government
ANDREW RETTMAN 29.04.2011 @ 09:30 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Palestinian diplomats have said the EU is likely to back a new deal between rival political factions Fatah and Hamas despite Israel's opposition. Speaking to EUobserver on Thursday (28 April) following the surprise announcement of a new Hamas-Fatah national unity government, Xavier Abu Eid, an adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), said the reconciliation pact fits in with stated EU policy.The new Palestinian government will respect all previous PLO agreements, including the Road-map commitment to an end to violence and the Arab Peace Initiative, and it will move toward establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders,he said.How could the EU come out against a government that has the same policies as the EU itself on this region? I don't think that is an option.He indicated the new agreement will trump Hamas' old charter, which supports armed resistance against Israel.Hamas as a movement might have a document calling for armed struggle, but as part of a unity government, it will have to respect the law and it will have to respect the Roadmap, he explained.Israel is saying we have to choose between peace and Hamas. But Hamas is part of Palestinian society, it's part of our people. They must respect the choice of the Palestinian people and see Hamas as part of the solution, not part of the problem.Husam Zomlot, a deputy commissioner in Fatah's international relations commission, told this website that he already has positive signals from the EU side. The signals we are getting is that Europe has learned over the past five years that you should not put obstacles in the path of national reconciliation,he said.
Europe today is not the Europe of 2006 [when it cut off all official contacts with Hamas]. There is a much more co-ordinated position between France, Germany and the UK. Europe is no longer just following the US and Israeli line. It is more active and more aggressive in terms of pursuing its own policy for the region.The national unity agreement was announced in Cairo on Wednesday and is to be formally signed in the post-revolutionary Egyptian capital next week.EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in a preliminary statement on Thursday noted that the EU has consistently called for peace and reconciliation ... leading to an end to the division between the [Fatah-controlled] West Bank and [Hamas-controlled] Gaza.It added:We will study the detail of this agreement and discuss with colleagues in the EU and in the region.
An EU diplomat told this website: Officially we support national reconciliation. But it's not going to be easy - the Israelis have made their opinion very clear and I don't think there will be much flexibility on the American side.He added there is talk in Brussels about taking Hamas off the EU terrorist register: A number of EU countries that deliver humanitarian aid to [Hamas-controlled] Gaza already have contacts with them, even if it's not at the official level. But you don't take such a decision lightly.The US has declined to support or reject the unity plan for now.
But Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, have denounced it. Noting that the US labels Hamas as a terrorist entity, Netanyahu told visiting US congressmen in Israel on Thursday that Hamas is the same type of group as Islamist extremists Al-Qaeda.Israel would not recognise any government in the world that included members from Al-Qaeda,he said. Lieberman added: This agreement crosses a red line ... it has always been known that no talks can be held with groups calling for Israel's destruction.The national unity deal is also troubling for Israel because it increases the likelihood the PLO will in September apply to join the UN as a fully fledged member on the basis of borders established after the 1967 Six-Day War - a move leaving swathes of Israeli settlements on the Palestinian side.EU and Palestinian diplomatic sources said that eight-or-so EU countries already support the September initiative due to the years-long impasse in bilateral Israeli-Palestinian talks on a final settlement.The EU countries are said to include Greece, Ireland, France, Spain and Sweden. Norway, outside the EU, is also on board, with the UK getting close to this point.For her part, Roni Keidar - who helps to run a pro-peace NGO in Sderot, a small Israeli town frequently hit by rockets out of Gaza - voiced openness toward the Palestinian pact.There will be no way for any kind of real solution unless we talk to Hamas as well,she said.The last time there was an escalation in fighting and we had all these rockets, I was frantic. I knew my grandchild was outside and my husband was out in the fields and I was beside myself. I was in a terrible state. We can't go on like this for ever.She warned: Not many here in Sderot think like me. Most people say the only way is to use violence against them.
Libyans burn UK, Italy missions after NATO strike By KARIN LAUB and BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press - MAY 1,11
TRIPOLI, Libya – Angry mobs attacked Western embassies and a U.N. office in Tripoli Sunday after NATO bombed Moammar Gadhafi's family compound in an attack officials said killed the leader's second youngest son and three grandchildren, ages six months to two years.Russia said the Western alliance exceeded its U.N. mandate of protecting Libyan civilians with the strike.The vandalized embassies were empty and nobody was reported injured, but the attacks heightened tensions between the Libyan regime and Western powers, prompting the United Nations to pull its international staff out of the capital.The bombing did not slow the attacks by Gadhafi's forces on rebel strongholds in the western part of Libya that has remained largely under the control of the regime. The rebel port of Misrata, which has been besieged by Gadhafi's troops for two months, came under heavy shelling Sunday and at least 12 people were killed, a medic said.Gadhafi has repeatedly called for a cease-fire, most recently on Saturday, but has not halted his assault on Misrata, a city of 300,000 where hundreds have been killed since the rebellion against Libya's ruler erupted in mid-February.The rebels, who control most of eastern Libya, have been unable to gain an advantage on the battlefield despite weeks of NATO airstrikes. Alliance officials and allied leaders emphatically denied they were hunting Gadhafi to break the stalemate between the better trained government forces and the lightly armed rebels.
Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, who commands NATO's operation in Libya, said that we do not target individuals. However, the leaders of the U.S., Britain and France have said Gadhafi must go, prompting warnings by U.N. Security Council members Russia, China and Brazil against NATO attempts to change the regime.In some of its strongest language, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday accused NATO of a disproportionate use of force and cast doubt on NATO's assertion that it is not targeting Gadhafi or members of his family. Russia called for an immediate cease-fire.NATO warplanes have shifted their focus in the past two weeks from support for rebels on the front lines to attacking the regime's communications centers. Saturday's strike reduced most of the Gadhafi family compound, which takes up an entire block in the residential Garghour neighborhood, to rubble.Officials said it killed 29-year-old Seif al-Arab Gadhafi, who had survived a 1986 U.S. airstrike on his father's Bab al-Aziziya residential compound. Also killed were 2-year-old Carthage, the daughter of Gadhafi's son Hannibal; six-month-old Mastura, daughter of Gadhafi's daughter Aisha; and 15-month-old Seif Mohammed, son of Gadhafi's son Mohammed.Dr. Gerard Le Clouerec, a French orthopedic surgeon who runs a private clinic in Tripoli, inspected the bodies of an adult and two infants at Tripoli's Green Hospital on Sunday.He told reporters that the adult's face was intact and that in relation to a photo we have seen most probably was the son of Gadhafi.He said the adult had a thin mustache and a full beard.The two children had been badly disfigured, the doctor said.The complex targeted Saturday, hidden from view by blast walls and tall trees, contained three one-story buildings and a large yard with lawns, geranium flower beds, a woodshed, a swing and a table soccer game. A dead deer and a twisted bathtub lay on the debris-strewn grass.
A kitchen clock, knocked from the wall, had stopped a 8:08 and 45 seconds, the time of the explosion. Cooking pots with food, including stuffed peppers, noodles and a stew, had been left on the stove, covered with aluminum foil. Thick gray dust covered crates of onions and lemons in the pantry.In one of the living rooms, a pile of video games, including FIFA 10, were scattered on a sofa. In what looked like a children's bedroom, half an apple and a glass container of Nutella chocolate spread stood on a night stand.Foreign ambassadors, many from Africa, were given a tour by government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, who told them that Africans must stick together against attempts at foreign meddling.After news of the air strike spread in Tripoli, angry mobs trashed the embassies of Britain and Italy, a U.S. consular department and a U.N. office, said Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim. The British Foreign Office said only burned shells remained of the British embassy buildings, including the ambassador's residence. The buildings had been ransacked, vandalized and completely destroyed,a spokeswoman said.Britain, which has taken a leading role in supporting the rebels, responded by ordering the expulsion of the Libyan ambassador, saying he must leave by Monday.The Italian embassy in Tripoli was also burned, the Italian Foreign Ministry said, accusing the Gadhafi regime of failing to take measures to protect foreign missions. Italy withdrew its diplomats weeks ago and promised the attack on the embassy will not weaken its determination to continue with its partners in that mission. Kaim said a U.S. consular department was also attacked.A Libyan anti-Gadhafi activist who toured Tripoli said he saw scorch marks outside the building's windows and a green Libyan flag draped over the roof on one side. The windows in the guard shack at the entrance were smashed, said the activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The U.S. evacuated its diplomatic staff at the start of the Libyan crisis, leaving Turkey to represent American interests in the country. In Washington, the State Department said it was aware of the reports of damage.If true, we condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms,the statement said, adding that by failing to protect the diplomatic missions, the regime has once again breached its international responsibilities and obligations.Vandals also entered empty U.N. offices in Tripoli and some vehicles were taken, according to Stephanie Bunker, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Bunker said 12 foreign staffers left for neighboring Tunisia because of the unrest. Bunker told AP Sunday night that the foreign minister personally apologized to the U.N. and promised to compensate any losses and to expedite the U.N.'s return.Kaim said the attacks were regrettable but that police had been outnumbered by angry crowds of hundreds of people. He said Libya would pay compensation for the damage.Rebels celebrated the news of the airstrike that killed Gadhafi's son, although some questioned the veracity of the claim, saying the regime could be trying to discredit the international military campaign.Libyan state TV broadcast footage apparently shot in a morgue showing what appeared to be two bodies, covered by green Libyan flags, lying on metal gurneys. A flower wreath leaned near a wall. Two smaller shapes were covered by white sheets on separate gurneys.Gadhafi and his wife, Safiya, were in the family compound at the time of the attack but escaped unharmed, said Ibrahim, the government spokesman.Seif al-Arab was the second-youngest of Gadhafi's seven sons and brother of the better known Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, who had been touted as a reformist before the uprising began. He also has a biological daughter, Aisha.
The younger Gadhafi had spent much of his time studying and partying in the southern German city of Munich in recent years and was not involved in Libyan power structures as were many of his siblings. Even photos of him are scarce. On Sunday, Ibrahim distributed a headshot showing him with a full black beard and wearing a black shirt.Gadhafi, who has been in power for more than four decades, has fought fiercely to put down an uprising against his regime that began with protests inspired by a wave of Mideast unrest and escalated into an armed rebellion.Misrata, Libya's third-largest city 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli, has emerged as a key battleground as Gadhafi seeks to consolidate his hold in the west.
On Sunday, the Libyan government unleashed two volleys of rockets on Misrata's port, the rebel-held city's only lifeline. Heavy shelling also occurred elsewhere in the city throughout the day, killing 12 people and raising the two-day death toll to 23.
A first round of rockets hit the port early in the morning, while a Maltese aid ship that arrived the night before was unloading its cargo, said Ahmed al-Misrati, a truck driver who was in the port at the time.Al-Misrati said the rockets hit the port area and the water near the boat, which pulled out to sea before it could finish unloading the aid.A second, larger salvo of dozens of rockets struck the port area in the afternoon, causing fires that sent a huge plume of black smoke over the horizon.One rocket hit a makeshift checkpoint outside the port, killing two people, medics said. Associated Press Television News footage showed smoke from a line of rocket strikes along the port road and a man screaming and holding his injured hand while fleeing from the checkpoint. Two bodies lay in the rubble.Strikes also hit inside the port, destroying part of its main road and setting fire to shipping containers on the dock full of aid, said Ahmed al-Jamal, 27, who was slightly injured when the port restaurant was hit.Fighting between rebel fighters and government forces continued in the southwestern neighborhood of al-Gheran.Some 20 rebel fighters who said they were waiting for NATO airstrikes to advance collected in a house there, eating cookies, giving milk to local cats and leaning their rifles on the wall before lining up for Muslim prayers.One fighter flipped through photos of his children on his cell phone when a rocket-propelled grenade hit near the house's open door, causing a boom that shook the walls. Shrapnel shattered the windshield and headlights of a parked ambulance, killing two fighters and injuring four others.Hubbard reported from Misrata, Libya. Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Juergen Baetz in Berlin, Slobodan Lekic in Brussels, Lynn Berry in Moscow and Bouazza ben Bouazza in Tunis, Tunisia, contributed to this report.
Brussels opens anti-trust probes into top investment banks
LEIGH PHILLIPS 29.04.2011 @ 17:52 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission on Friday (30 April) opened two antitrust probes into the world's major investment banks, 16 institutions that dominate the credit default swap market.In the first case, Brussels is to investigate 16 financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole, Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup suspected of collusion and monopolistic behaviour.The second case concerns worries that preferential tariffs granted by ICE Clear Europe, the leading international clearing house for CDS, to nine of the same banks allows ICE to dominate the market.CDS play a useful role for financial markets and for the economy, said EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia in announcing the investigations. Recent developments have shown, however, that the trading of this asset class suffers a number of inefficiencies that cannot be solved through regulation alone.Credit default swaps are essentially insurance a lender takes out to protect against a borrower defaulting on a loan. The market came under attack from critics and regulators in the wake of the global economic crisis for the alleged role the enormous CDS market played in exacerbating the downturn. Between 2000 and 2008, the market for credit default swaps skyrocketed from $900 billion to more than $30 trillion, according to the Bank of International Settlements - roughly half the world's annual GDP.The first probe will examine whether the 16 investment banks and Markit, the leading provider of financial information in the CDS market, have colluded or may hold and abuse their position in order to dominate information on the product.
Brussels believes that the 16 banks that act as dealers in the CDS market restrict information on pricing and indices and other daily data only to Markit. The EU executive says this could be the result of collusion or an abuse of their collective dominance and closes off access to essential raw data to other information service companies.In the second probe, the commission is to inquire into whether clauses that offer preferential fees and profit sharing in contracts negotiated by ICE and nine of these banks in effect lock them into using ICE at the expense of competing firms.The effects of these agreements could be that other clearing houses have difficulties successfully entering the market and that other CDS players have no real choice where to clear their transactions, the commission said in a statement.The list of the 16 institutions involved - most of the world's major players in the CDS market - include some of both the EU and US's biggest names in investment banking: JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Commerzbank, Crédit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, Wells Fargo Bank-Wachovia, Crédit Agricole and Société Générale.Nine of the banks involved in the first investigation are also the focus of the second probe: Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Crédit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and UBS.
EU competition spokeswoman Amelia Torres told reporters that the commission first became aware of the issues during the economic crisis.I hope our investigation will contribute to a better functioning of financial markets and, therefore, to a more sustainable recovery, added Almunia.There is no deadline for the twin investigation, but should firms be found guilty of abuses, they can be fined up to 10 percent of revenues.
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.
Top officials survey storm-ravaged South
By Peggy Gargis - MAY 1,11
PRATT CITY, Alabama (Reuters) – Federal officials vowed urgent support on Sunday for a region devastated by the deadliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina, even as they acknowledged recovery would not be quick or easy.President Barack Obama's administration is trying to show an effective response to the storms and twisters that killed about 350 people last week in seven southern states, reduced neighborhoods to rubble and caused damage expected to run into billions of dollars.
Obama visited Alabama on Friday and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Craig Fugate, toured damage on Sunday.I don't think words can fairly express the level of devastation here. I am not articulate enough, Napolitano said after seeing how killer storm winds had torn through Pratt City, Alabama.Later in Smithville, Mississippi, Napolitano said the visit had offered an acute sense of urgency about the need to help communities come to grips and recover from the disaster.This is not going to be a quick comeback or an immediate one but it will be, in my view, a complete one when all is said and done, she said.Obama's predecessor, former President George W. Bush, was sharply criticized for the federal response after Hurricane Katrina raked the Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans in 2005.The Republican governors of Alabama and Mississippi both spoke highly of Washington's response to the latest disaster.When you see local, state and federal people cooperating like this, it really makes a difference,Alabama Governor Robert Bentley said on CBS's Face the Nation program.But the administration's performance over the storm has not won universal praise. Texas Governor Rick Perry criticized the White House for not responding to a request for disaster aid for his state, where wildfires have scorched nearly 2 million acres.
You have to ask, Why are you taking care of Alabama and other states?' I know our letter didn't get lost in the mail,Perry, a Republican and frequent government critic, said last week.Alabama was the worst-hit state in last week's storms, with 250 people killed. Elsewhere, 101 people died in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana.About 1,700 people were injured in Alabama alone and others were missing after tornadoes crushed homes, flipped cars upside down and tore children from their parents' arms.To help people get back on their feet, the Department of Agriculture will make homes in rural areas available for rent, said Vilsack.The U.S. Small Business Administration announced it would make loans of up to $200,000 available to homeowners and up to $2 million for small businesses. It would also make $80 million available in block grants to states.Katrina devastated New Orleans, killed more than 1,800 people and left thousands of people stranded for days on rooftops, in the open or in chaotic public buildings.FBI officers, FEMA officials, state troopers, police, sheriffs, firefighters, and officials of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service worked with many local volunteers to clear roads and debris on Saturday.My friend and her boy died right over there. This is what I can do for her from my heart, said Carlos Carabez, who was sawing a fallen tree into pieces so it could be hauled away. Bentley declared Sunday a day of prayer in Alabama, a relatively poor and politically conservative state in a region where evangelical churches play a powerful social role.Several churches were torn down by the storms, including Bethel Baptist church, an African American church in Pratt City outside Birmingham with a congregation of 5,000. On Sunday, the church held services at a local convention center.This service is our response to tragedy. It shows that we are not victims. We are victors. We are visible victors,pastor T.L. Lewis said in an interview.The death toll from last week, which is still expected to rise, was the second-highest recorded from tornadoes in U.S. history. In 1925, 747 people were killed after twisters hit the midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.Unlocking federal assistance, Obama on Friday signed major disaster declarations for Mississippi and Georgia, adding to the one already signed for Alabama.(Additional reporting by Tami Chappell in Birmingham, Verna Gates in Phil Campbell; writing by Matthew Bigg; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Waters still rising around evacuated Illinois town
By Miriam Moynihan – Sun May 1, 7:13 pm ET
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – Missouri's attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to intervene and block a proposed federal plan to protect the southern Illinois town of Cairo by blowing up a levee on the Mississippi River.State Attorney General Chris Koster asked the nation's highest court for a temporary injunction to prevent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from intentionally breaching the Birds Point levee, a move that would flood 130,000 acres of farmland and destroy the homes of an estimated 200 people in Missouri.By blowing up the levee, the Corps hopes to increase the Mississippi River's ability to accommodate the rising waters of the Ohio River, relieving Cairo and other towns.Cairo, a historic town of 2,800 people located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, was largely empty after a mandatory evacuation as the Ohio, swollen by overnight rains, continued to rise to dangerously high record levels.Both rivers have been rising as a result of days of rain and the melt and runoff of heavy winter snowstorms.
Heavy rains fell again on Sunday and were expected to continue through Tuesday morning, when National Weather Service forecasts that the Ohio, the largest tributary of the Mississippi River, could crest at 60.5 feet at Cairo, a full foot above the 1937 record.Cairo's mayor, Judson Childs, ordered the mandatory evacuation as of midnight Saturday after meeting with the Corps, the top flood-fighting agency.
There is no count yet on the number of people evacuated, but it's just about a ghost town, Childs told Reuters.But he said some residents were opting to stay behind.
There are some people who will stay, like me, who are going to go down with the ship, so to speak, he said.The Corps has dispatched barges to the Birds Point levee, carrying a slurry mix that could be used to blow up the levee.Right now, there's no news or decision on what the Corps will do regarding the levee, Childs said. Everything can change minute to minute and hour to hour.A federal appeals court said on Saturday the Corps had the right to breach the levee, as permitted by a 1928 law.
The Corps said it would detonate explosives in the levee if the river at Cairo reached 61 feet and was rising. But it could potentially blow up the levee even if the river does not reach 61 feet if there is too much stress on the system.The state of Missouri originally sued to stop the Corps plan, arguing that it would do extensive damage.Illinois and Kentucky took the other side, saying towns in their states could be flooded if the levee were not blown up.A lower court ruled against Missouri on Friday, and the state petitioned to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which denied Missouri the legal relief it sought on Saturday.(Additional reporting by Eric Johnson and Christine Stebbins; Writing by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Diane Craft)
Day of prayer as US south mourns tornado victims
by Juan Castro Olivera - MAY 1,11
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (AFP) – Grieving storm survivors turned to prayer and the good grace of volunteers Sunday across the US south as shattered communities looked to rebuild from the second-worst tornado disaster on record.Churches from Mississippi to Virginia flung open their doors for prayers, some in the very houses of worship destroyed by powerful tornadoes that claimed nearly 350 lives on Wednesday.This is the Bible Belt. Church goes on regardless, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeremy Heidt told AFP.In hardest-hit Alabama, where Governor Robert Bentley declared a state-wide day of prayer, the faithful gathered under open skies, in parking lots and church sites on the first Sunday since the historic disaster wiped several of their churches off the map.In the town of Phil Campbell, congregants erected a makeshift wooden cross and sang hymns on the concrete slab where the Church of God once stood, before some of the most powerful tornadoes on record left it and thousands of homes and businesses in splinters.Today, we will pray for the people affected by this tragedy and for you that have lost your church. And we ask you: don't give up, Pastor Keith Pugh told his congregants. The faithful sang and prayed while holding hands, then embraced each other after the service.
They had gathered in a neighboring town after the tornadoes completely leveled their Open Door Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa.In the devastated town of Smithville, Mississippi -- population 900 -- the Church of Christ has been converted into a food, clothing and medicine distribution center, and the congregation gathered outside for a short open-air service.We're just going to remember the dead and buried by taking the Lord's supper, and give of our means. People come together when the need arises,said church elder Danny Stephenson, 62.Of our six churches, four of them is gone, he said.There ain't nothing left. Just wiped clean, like you took a bulldozer to it all.Sixteen of 18 Smithville businesses were demolished by the killer twisters.Like other communities across the battered region, neighbors helped neighbors, and volunteers conducted search and rescue, cooked meals for victims, and helped haul debris.The whole town has come together," Stephenson said. And I've talked to one family, they're going to rebuild right where they're at.President Barack Obama on Sunday declared a major disaster in Tennessee, to allow for federal aid to the state following disaster declarations for Alabama and parts of Georgia and Mississippi.He dispatched cabinet members to tour the destruction in Birmingham, Alabama, where they spoke with survivors and assured expanded federal aid to help communities recover and rebuild.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pledged the federal government would continue to support the stricken states, helping them come to grips and recover from this really terrible swath of tornadoes that swept through the south.That makes the sense of urgency for us even more acute when we see the type of damage we are seeing here today and the spirit of the people,she told reporters in Smithville.Parts of the south were bracing for another beating after tornado watches were issued again, this time in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, though forecasters warned any new storms were unlikely to be as devastating.The American Red Cross has opened 16 shelters across Alabama, taking in about 900 of the newly homeless, the organization announced.
Obama reiterated his pledge to help the region recover.The scope of the devastation was almost unimaginable, particularly in Tuscaloosa, where Mayor Walter Maddox said 5,731 building have been destroyed or badly damaged and more than 400 people remained unaccounted for, although he acknowledged several of those were likely staying with relatives.Alabama was worst hit, with 250 people killed and 2,219 injured.Mississippi has confirmed 35 deaths, and its emergency management agency touched on the scope of the disaster in reporting 993 homes destroyed and another 2,527 damaged in the state.There were also 34 deaths in Tennessee, 15 in Georgia, eight in Arkansas and five in Virginia.The overall death toll of 347 is exceeded only by a tornado outbreak in March 1925 that left 747 people dead.Fire and rescue teams were going door to door, some with cadaver dogs, in the poor Tuscaloosa neighborhood of Alberta City, where blocks of low-income housing were left in ruins and residents were seen painstakingly combing through the rubble.
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_04_30A.mp3
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_04_30B.mp3
BIN LADEN CIA AGENT - BOOGYMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGXVic15ho&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OW4A-yd9BI&feature=player_embedded
BIN LADEN KILLED FOR THE 9TH TIME
http://www.infowars.com/osama-bin-laden-pronounced-dead%e2%80%a6-for-the-ninth-time/
JONES TODAY ON BOOGY BOY BIN LADEN
http://rss.nfowars.net/20110502_Mon_Alex.mp3
THE FALSE FLAG BOOGY MAN BIN LADIN IS OFFICIALLY DEAD.NO MORE WINEING-DINING IN THE PENTEGON AND WHITEHOUSE FOR THIS CIA AGENT.
THERES QUESTIONS ALREADY WHY DID OBAMA SAY BIN LADEN WAS NOT A MUSLIM LEADER BECAUSE HE KILLED OTHER MUSLIMS.WHY NO PICTURES OF THE SO CALLED MURDERED BIN LADEN AS HE WAS QUICKLY BURIED AT SEA(A TYPICAL MUSLIM BURIAL)(BUT BIN LADEN WAS NOT A MUSLIM LEADER SOETORO AKA FRAUD MUSLIM OBAMA CLAIMS.THERES MORE QUESTIONS THEN ANSWERS ALREADY.OBAMA NEEDED THIS FALSE FLAG TO SAVE HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM CERTAIN COLLAPSE.I STILL THINK THIS IS ALL HAPPENING.THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND NOW THE MYSTEROUS BOOGYMAN BIN LADEN DEATH AND QUICK BURIAL AT SEA IS A DISTRACTION OF BERNANKES SPEECH AND THE DEMISE OF THE DOLLAR IN THE BACKROUND BY OBAMA-SOROS AND NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES.
OBAMA MIGHT BE TRYING TO SAVE HIS SKIN FOR RE-ELECTION.BUT I JUST READ HAMAS IS AGAINST THIS BIN LADEN MURDER.WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY HAMAS WILL DO TO AMERICA NOW.OBAMA YOU GOT TERRIBLE TERROR ATTACKS AHEAD OF YOU FOR THINKING OF YOURSELF TO BE RE-ELECTED IN 2012.AND KILLING A CIA MUSLIM HAMAS FAVOURED AGENT.LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS OBAMA PRIDE COMES BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION.YOU DONE IT THIS TIME OBAMA.WATCH OUT FOR HAMAS-IRAN-SYRIA AND RUSSIA AND CHINA TO TEAM UP NOW AGAINST YOU.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel:(AMERICA IN THIS CASE) for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Hamas leader condemns US killing of bin Laden
MAY 2,11
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The leader of the Palestinian militant Hamas government in Gaza has condemned the United States for killing al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh says the operation is the continuation of the American oppression and shedding of blood of Muslims and Arabs.Haniyeh told reporters in Gaza on Monday that although Hamas had its differences with al-Qaida, his group condemns the assassination of a Muslim and Arabic warrior and prays that bin Laden's soul rests in peace.Hamas has repeatedly said it has no ties to al-Qaida and that its violent struggle is directed solely against Israel, and not the West at large.
Source: Al-Qaida head bin Laden dead
By JULIE PACE, Associated Press - MAY 2,11
WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.President Barack Obama was expected to address the nation on the developments Sunday night.It was unclear where how bin Laden was killed and how the U.S. captured his body. Officials have long believed bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.The person spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak ahead of the president.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-N3dJvhgPg&feature=player_embedded
Red Alert: Government Had Osama bin Laden Frozen for Years
Kurt Nimmo and Alex Jones Infowars.com May 1, 2011
CNN and the corporate media report this evening that purported CIA asset Osama bin Laden has been killed by the U.S. military in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-N3dJvhgPg&feature=player_embedded
In an address to the nation, Obama said he ordered the strike that allegedly killed Osama. The remainder of his speech followed the standard war on terror propaganda script.A small team of Americans killed bin Laden in a firefight at a compound in Pakistan, the president said in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House, the Associated Press reported following Obama’s address.Obama said the military took custody of his remains. It remains to be seen if the government will attempt to provide evidence that the remains are indeed those of Osama bin Laden. The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done,said former president Bush. In 2006, Bush admitted that capturing Osama was not a top priority.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o&feature=player_embedded
In February, 2004, Iranian state radio claimed Osama bin Laden had been captured in Pakistan’s border region with Afghanistan a long time ago. Pentagon and Pakistani officials denied the report. Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election, the radio report said. Osama bin Laden died of kidney failure soon after the September 11, 2001, attacks. In 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden had kidney disease, and that he had required a dialysis machine when he lived in Afghanistan. That same year, the FBI’s top counterterrorism official, Dale Watson, said, I personally think he is probably not with us anymore.A Taliban leader told the Pakistan Observer on December 21, 2002, that Bin Laden was suffering from a serious lung complication and died in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief, according to Fox News.Alex Jones was told live on the radio in 2002 by high-level Council on Foreign Relations members that Osama Bin Laden had died of kidney failure in early 2002.I have it from high level [sources] from inside the Bush administration…that bin Laden died of natural causes and that his family has given the body to the CIA, that they’re gonna roll him out right before the election, that he’s on ice right now. They will claim they killed him right before the election,Alex said at the time.Jones gave a caution that the intelligence could be disinformation but claimed that his base in Austin was extremely close to the Bush administration and similar information received in the past had been credible,Paul Joseph Watson wrote in August of 2002.During the 2004 election, CNN reported that Democratic insiders had been told that George W. Bush was going to use the Bin Laden body as an ace-in-the-hole if he thought he was in danger of losing the 2004 election. This confirmed the evidence that Jones had been given by the CFR and others.In 2003, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Fox News Channel analyst Morton Kondracke she suspected Bush knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and was waiting for the most politically expedient moment to announce his capture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0GEX61tgbI&feature=player_embedded
Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide attack at the end of 2007, stated that Osama bin Laden had been killed by Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a man convicted of kidnapping and killing journalist Daniel Pearl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg&feature=player_embedded
Obama’s announcement follows the release of a highly suspicious birth certificate last week. Both events represent psychological operations that possibly portend more significant events in the days ahead as the U.S. dollar continues to lose its reserve status, the economy fails to recover as promised, and wars expand in Libya, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.Obama’s propaganda stunt arrives as the Democrats kick off their leader’s presidential reelection bid against a number of Republicans contenders who have been highly critical of not only his perceived handling of the economy, but also his management of the manufactured war on terror.
Text of President Obama's statement to U.S. people
– Mon May 2, 2:51 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the mastermind of the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people has been killed in Pakistan by U.S.-led forces.
Following is the text of Obama's statement to America:
Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children.It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory. Hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky.The Twin Towers collapsing to the ground. Black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon. The wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania where the actions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction.And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table.Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the feeling of their child's embrace.Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts.
On September 11th, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other and our love of community and country.On that day, no matter where we came from, what god we prayed to or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family. We were also united in our resolve, to protect our nation and to -- to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice.We quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda, an organization headed by Osama bin Laden, which had openly declared war on the United States and was committed to killing innocents in our country and around the globe. And so we went to war against al Qaeda, to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.
Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, we've made great strides in that effort. We've disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defense.In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government which had given bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support. And around the globe, we worked with our friends and allies to capture or kill scores of al Qaeda terrorists including several who were a part of the 9/11 plot.Yet, Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda. Even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle and defeat his network.Then last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain. And it took many months to run this thread to ground.I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside Pakistan.
And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abad Abad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body. For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda's leader and symbol and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies.The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda.And his death does not mark the end of our effort. There's no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad.As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. I've made clear just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11 that our war is not against Islam. Bin laden was not a Muslim leader. He was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries including our own.
So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity. Over the years, I've repeatedly made clear that we would take action within Pakistan if we knew where bin Laden was. That is what we've done. But it's important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding. Indeed, bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan as well and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people.Tonight I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts. They agree that this is a good and historic day for both of our nations. And going forward, it is essential that Pakistan continue to join us in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates.The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens. After nearly 10 years of service, struggle and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war.These efforts weigh on me every time I, as commander in chief, have to sign a letter to a family that has lost a loved one or look into the eyes of a service member who's been gravely wounded.So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda's terror, justice has been done.
Tonight we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who've worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work nor know their names, but tonight they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice.We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country. And they are part of a generation that has borne the heaviest share of the burden since that September day.
Finally, let me say to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, that we have never forgotten your loss, nor wavered in our commitment to see that we do whatever it takes to prevent another attack on our shores.And tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today's achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.The cause of securing our country is not complete, but tonight we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history. Whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality for all our citizens, our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place.Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.(World Desk Americas)
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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Dow +58 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +66 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,555.70.OIL opens at $113.40 today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH TODAY $1,573.50
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Dow +66 points at high today so far.
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Dow -26 points at low today.
Dow +66 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)
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.
Peres: Iran is a Danger to the Entire World
by Elad Benari MAY 02,11
President Shimon Peres, who spoke on Sunday evening at the memorial opening ceremony of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at Yad Vashem, addressed the Iranian threat.Iran’s fanatic leadership is a danger to the entire world, said Peres.It is not only a threat to Israel. It is a threat to any household, anywhere. It is a real risk to the fate of humanity. The nations of the world have declared that they will not accept Iran’s acquiring of nuclear weapons. They now stand the test of their commitment.Peres stressed that even after the Holocaust there is a regime whose leaders are still Holocaust deniers. It should arouse horror in anyone, and shock anyone with a conscience.Peres also spoke of the time period of the Holocaust and said that “We were alone, without our own state. The Allied bombers who passed over Auschwitz-Birkenau did not drop a single bomb on the mass murder facilities. The Holocaust determined that there is no substitute for us other than a home of our own.
Today we have established our own house, continued the President.Today we have a great army that the world has learned to respect. We have a democratic government that knows how to defend itself properly and knows to seek peace as necessary. This is our answer to the enemy. Any enemy.This evening we are not alone. In our hearts live six million of our people. We remember their eyes. We are their voices.Before our tearful eyes we see the Jews in Majdanek who were taken out of the cabins early in the morning and, while the loudspeaker played dance music, they were shot in pits.
Humming in our ears is the dreadful rattle of trains and transports to Treblinka, which contained our mothers, our fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers.We remember Babi Yar, Ponar, Bogdanovka, Jasenovac, Rumbula, and hundreds of other killing pits.
Regarding the State of Israel, Peres said that “all citizens of Israel, regardless of religion and race know that Israel is, was and is committed to be, the most anti-racist country in the world. Israel is an historical memorial to Holocaust victims. It is a ground to achieve their dreams, the dreams of a half million children murdered before they tasted life. Children who were born here, free and standing upright, are fulfilling the dreams of the mothers who were murdered with their children in their arms.Israel will wake up tomorrow to a new day. Buses will travel. Men and women will go to work. Our soldiers will stand in their positions. Children will go to school. The memory will be preserved. The building and defense will intensify, along with our wonderful ability to hope.Peres concluded with the words in the book of 1 Samuel 15:29: Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yeshaker (The Eternity of Israel will not lie), and man will win.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IDF Recognizes 17,000 Holocaust Survivors
by Elad Benari MAY 2,11
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IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz was one of many IDF commanders and soldiers who took part on Sunday in a special project entitled Flower to the Survivor.As part of the project, Gantz, along with the Chairman of the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel, Elazar Stern, visited the home of Judge David Frankel, where he met Motti Yehuda Bok. Both men are Holocaust survivors, and during the meeting Gantz gave them a certificate and a flower, in recognition of their contribution to the establishment of Israel. The meeting, which took part on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), was also attended by Tanya Eliav, widow of long-time politician and educator Aryeh Lova Eliav, who passed away last year and had served as captain of the ship on which Gantz’s parents came to Israel.Being able to take with you the memory of the Holocaust and decide to hold a personal life, a family life, the life of a country and the life of a nation is impressive and appreciated,Gantz told the two survivors during the meeting.As part of the Flower to the Survivor project, commanders and soldiers from all the different divisions in the IDF will meet in the coming month with 17,000 Holocaust survivors in their homes or in nursing homes. During the visits, the soldiers will be exposed to the personal testimony of the survivors and give them on behalf of the IDF and the State of Israel a flower and a certificate as a token of the bond between the IDF and Holocaust survivors.
The IDF’s Bamachane newspaper reported that the project is taking place for the fourth consecutive year and that three years ago, 9,000 survivors participated. According to the report, 10,000 officers and soldiers, including about 32 senior officers with the rank of Brigadier-General or higher, will participate in the project this year.If we do not acknowledge the older generation, the younger generations will not forgive us,said Stern of the project.This year we had a record number of survivors participating. This is proof of our society’s readiness to contribute. Today, more than ever, we must ensure that the survivors live the rest of their lives with the respect that they deserve, being the country’s founders and heroes.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
First African Muslim Convoy to Gaza
by Maayana Miskin MAY 1,11
Two Muslim groups in South Africa are planning the first African convoy to Gaza, in coordination with Hamas and the IHH. One of the organizations, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), is banned in the United States and Israel due to its financial support for terrorism.The convoy plans to travel in June, and pass through many African states, among them Sudan. Israeli security officials have expressed concern that the stop in Sudan could give the Hamas network there a chance to ship weapons to Hamas in Gaza, or to send terrorists with advanced training.Organizers appear to be hoping that the convoy's origin in South Africa, the former apartheid state, will help to stick the apartheid state label on Israel. In addition, they hope to raise support for Hamas among Africans, by stopping at various points along the way and spreading their message.The convoy has been timed to coincide with a planned flotilla to Gaza, which organizers hope will set sail from Europe in late June, and head for Gaza with the aim of breaking through the IDF's naval blockade on Hamas.
The African convoy will send its cargo by sea, but will rejoin the cargo in Egypt and bring the goods into Gaza by land.The second main organization behind the convoy is the South African branch of the Al Quds International Institute, an international Muslim group that strives to promote Jerusalem as a Muslim and Arab city. The Al Quds Institute and MJC have support from several other Muslim groups, among them charitable organizations, universities and schools.The South Africa convoy is also unusual as a convoy to Gaza from a country that suffers a much worse standard of living in many ways. Gaza residents enjoy a much lower mortality rate than their South African counterparts, and overall life expectancy is more than 24 years higher. While Gaza residents are more likely to live below the poverty line, due largely to their much higher natural growth rate, they also receive much more international aid, particularly from the United Nations.Similarly, many of the states through which the convoy will travel in its attempts to raise support, among them Malawi, Zambia, and Sudan, suffer a much higher mortality rate and significantly lower average income than Gaza.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Palestinian diplomats await EU backing for unity government
ANDREW RETTMAN 29.04.2011 @ 09:30 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Palestinian diplomats have said the EU is likely to back a new deal between rival political factions Fatah and Hamas despite Israel's opposition. Speaking to EUobserver on Thursday (28 April) following the surprise announcement of a new Hamas-Fatah national unity government, Xavier Abu Eid, an adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), said the reconciliation pact fits in with stated EU policy.The new Palestinian government will respect all previous PLO agreements, including the Road-map commitment to an end to violence and the Arab Peace Initiative, and it will move toward establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders,he said.How could the EU come out against a government that has the same policies as the EU itself on this region? I don't think that is an option.He indicated the new agreement will trump Hamas' old charter, which supports armed resistance against Israel.Hamas as a movement might have a document calling for armed struggle, but as part of a unity government, it will have to respect the law and it will have to respect the Roadmap, he explained.Israel is saying we have to choose between peace and Hamas. But Hamas is part of Palestinian society, it's part of our people. They must respect the choice of the Palestinian people and see Hamas as part of the solution, not part of the problem.Husam Zomlot, a deputy commissioner in Fatah's international relations commission, told this website that he already has positive signals from the EU side. The signals we are getting is that Europe has learned over the past five years that you should not put obstacles in the path of national reconciliation,he said.
Europe today is not the Europe of 2006 [when it cut off all official contacts with Hamas]. There is a much more co-ordinated position between France, Germany and the UK. Europe is no longer just following the US and Israeli line. It is more active and more aggressive in terms of pursuing its own policy for the region.The national unity agreement was announced in Cairo on Wednesday and is to be formally signed in the post-revolutionary Egyptian capital next week.EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in a preliminary statement on Thursday noted that the EU has consistently called for peace and reconciliation ... leading to an end to the division between the [Fatah-controlled] West Bank and [Hamas-controlled] Gaza.It added:We will study the detail of this agreement and discuss with colleagues in the EU and in the region.
An EU diplomat told this website: Officially we support national reconciliation. But it's not going to be easy - the Israelis have made their opinion very clear and I don't think there will be much flexibility on the American side.He added there is talk in Brussels about taking Hamas off the EU terrorist register: A number of EU countries that deliver humanitarian aid to [Hamas-controlled] Gaza already have contacts with them, even if it's not at the official level. But you don't take such a decision lightly.The US has declined to support or reject the unity plan for now.
But Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, have denounced it. Noting that the US labels Hamas as a terrorist entity, Netanyahu told visiting US congressmen in Israel on Thursday that Hamas is the same type of group as Islamist extremists Al-Qaeda.Israel would not recognise any government in the world that included members from Al-Qaeda,he said. Lieberman added: This agreement crosses a red line ... it has always been known that no talks can be held with groups calling for Israel's destruction.The national unity deal is also troubling for Israel because it increases the likelihood the PLO will in September apply to join the UN as a fully fledged member on the basis of borders established after the 1967 Six-Day War - a move leaving swathes of Israeli settlements on the Palestinian side.EU and Palestinian diplomatic sources said that eight-or-so EU countries already support the September initiative due to the years-long impasse in bilateral Israeli-Palestinian talks on a final settlement.The EU countries are said to include Greece, Ireland, France, Spain and Sweden. Norway, outside the EU, is also on board, with the UK getting close to this point.For her part, Roni Keidar - who helps to run a pro-peace NGO in Sderot, a small Israeli town frequently hit by rockets out of Gaza - voiced openness toward the Palestinian pact.There will be no way for any kind of real solution unless we talk to Hamas as well,she said.The last time there was an escalation in fighting and we had all these rockets, I was frantic. I knew my grandchild was outside and my husband was out in the fields and I was beside myself. I was in a terrible state. We can't go on like this for ever.She warned: Not many here in Sderot think like me. Most people say the only way is to use violence against them.
Libyans burn UK, Italy missions after NATO strike By KARIN LAUB and BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press - MAY 1,11
TRIPOLI, Libya – Angry mobs attacked Western embassies and a U.N. office in Tripoli Sunday after NATO bombed Moammar Gadhafi's family compound in an attack officials said killed the leader's second youngest son and three grandchildren, ages six months to two years.Russia said the Western alliance exceeded its U.N. mandate of protecting Libyan civilians with the strike.The vandalized embassies were empty and nobody was reported injured, but the attacks heightened tensions between the Libyan regime and Western powers, prompting the United Nations to pull its international staff out of the capital.The bombing did not slow the attacks by Gadhafi's forces on rebel strongholds in the western part of Libya that has remained largely under the control of the regime. The rebel port of Misrata, which has been besieged by Gadhafi's troops for two months, came under heavy shelling Sunday and at least 12 people were killed, a medic said.Gadhafi has repeatedly called for a cease-fire, most recently on Saturday, but has not halted his assault on Misrata, a city of 300,000 where hundreds have been killed since the rebellion against Libya's ruler erupted in mid-February.The rebels, who control most of eastern Libya, have been unable to gain an advantage on the battlefield despite weeks of NATO airstrikes. Alliance officials and allied leaders emphatically denied they were hunting Gadhafi to break the stalemate between the better trained government forces and the lightly armed rebels.
Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, who commands NATO's operation in Libya, said that we do not target individuals. However, the leaders of the U.S., Britain and France have said Gadhafi must go, prompting warnings by U.N. Security Council members Russia, China and Brazil against NATO attempts to change the regime.In some of its strongest language, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday accused NATO of a disproportionate use of force and cast doubt on NATO's assertion that it is not targeting Gadhafi or members of his family. Russia called for an immediate cease-fire.NATO warplanes have shifted their focus in the past two weeks from support for rebels on the front lines to attacking the regime's communications centers. Saturday's strike reduced most of the Gadhafi family compound, which takes up an entire block in the residential Garghour neighborhood, to rubble.Officials said it killed 29-year-old Seif al-Arab Gadhafi, who had survived a 1986 U.S. airstrike on his father's Bab al-Aziziya residential compound. Also killed were 2-year-old Carthage, the daughter of Gadhafi's son Hannibal; six-month-old Mastura, daughter of Gadhafi's daughter Aisha; and 15-month-old Seif Mohammed, son of Gadhafi's son Mohammed.Dr. Gerard Le Clouerec, a French orthopedic surgeon who runs a private clinic in Tripoli, inspected the bodies of an adult and two infants at Tripoli's Green Hospital on Sunday.He told reporters that the adult's face was intact and that in relation to a photo we have seen most probably was the son of Gadhafi.He said the adult had a thin mustache and a full beard.The two children had been badly disfigured, the doctor said.The complex targeted Saturday, hidden from view by blast walls and tall trees, contained three one-story buildings and a large yard with lawns, geranium flower beds, a woodshed, a swing and a table soccer game. A dead deer and a twisted bathtub lay on the debris-strewn grass.
A kitchen clock, knocked from the wall, had stopped a 8:08 and 45 seconds, the time of the explosion. Cooking pots with food, including stuffed peppers, noodles and a stew, had been left on the stove, covered with aluminum foil. Thick gray dust covered crates of onions and lemons in the pantry.In one of the living rooms, a pile of video games, including FIFA 10, were scattered on a sofa. In what looked like a children's bedroom, half an apple and a glass container of Nutella chocolate spread stood on a night stand.Foreign ambassadors, many from Africa, were given a tour by government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, who told them that Africans must stick together against attempts at foreign meddling.After news of the air strike spread in Tripoli, angry mobs trashed the embassies of Britain and Italy, a U.S. consular department and a U.N. office, said Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim. The British Foreign Office said only burned shells remained of the British embassy buildings, including the ambassador's residence. The buildings had been ransacked, vandalized and completely destroyed,a spokeswoman said.Britain, which has taken a leading role in supporting the rebels, responded by ordering the expulsion of the Libyan ambassador, saying he must leave by Monday.The Italian embassy in Tripoli was also burned, the Italian Foreign Ministry said, accusing the Gadhafi regime of failing to take measures to protect foreign missions. Italy withdrew its diplomats weeks ago and promised the attack on the embassy will not weaken its determination to continue with its partners in that mission. Kaim said a U.S. consular department was also attacked.A Libyan anti-Gadhafi activist who toured Tripoli said he saw scorch marks outside the building's windows and a green Libyan flag draped over the roof on one side. The windows in the guard shack at the entrance were smashed, said the activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The U.S. evacuated its diplomatic staff at the start of the Libyan crisis, leaving Turkey to represent American interests in the country. In Washington, the State Department said it was aware of the reports of damage.If true, we condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms,the statement said, adding that by failing to protect the diplomatic missions, the regime has once again breached its international responsibilities and obligations.Vandals also entered empty U.N. offices in Tripoli and some vehicles were taken, according to Stephanie Bunker, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Bunker said 12 foreign staffers left for neighboring Tunisia because of the unrest. Bunker told AP Sunday night that the foreign minister personally apologized to the U.N. and promised to compensate any losses and to expedite the U.N.'s return.Kaim said the attacks were regrettable but that police had been outnumbered by angry crowds of hundreds of people. He said Libya would pay compensation for the damage.Rebels celebrated the news of the airstrike that killed Gadhafi's son, although some questioned the veracity of the claim, saying the regime could be trying to discredit the international military campaign.Libyan state TV broadcast footage apparently shot in a morgue showing what appeared to be two bodies, covered by green Libyan flags, lying on metal gurneys. A flower wreath leaned near a wall. Two smaller shapes were covered by white sheets on separate gurneys.Gadhafi and his wife, Safiya, were in the family compound at the time of the attack but escaped unharmed, said Ibrahim, the government spokesman.Seif al-Arab was the second-youngest of Gadhafi's seven sons and brother of the better known Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, who had been touted as a reformist before the uprising began. He also has a biological daughter, Aisha.
The younger Gadhafi had spent much of his time studying and partying in the southern German city of Munich in recent years and was not involved in Libyan power structures as were many of his siblings. Even photos of him are scarce. On Sunday, Ibrahim distributed a headshot showing him with a full black beard and wearing a black shirt.Gadhafi, who has been in power for more than four decades, has fought fiercely to put down an uprising against his regime that began with protests inspired by a wave of Mideast unrest and escalated into an armed rebellion.Misrata, Libya's third-largest city 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli, has emerged as a key battleground as Gadhafi seeks to consolidate his hold in the west.
On Sunday, the Libyan government unleashed two volleys of rockets on Misrata's port, the rebel-held city's only lifeline. Heavy shelling also occurred elsewhere in the city throughout the day, killing 12 people and raising the two-day death toll to 23.
A first round of rockets hit the port early in the morning, while a Maltese aid ship that arrived the night before was unloading its cargo, said Ahmed al-Misrati, a truck driver who was in the port at the time.Al-Misrati said the rockets hit the port area and the water near the boat, which pulled out to sea before it could finish unloading the aid.A second, larger salvo of dozens of rockets struck the port area in the afternoon, causing fires that sent a huge plume of black smoke over the horizon.One rocket hit a makeshift checkpoint outside the port, killing two people, medics said. Associated Press Television News footage showed smoke from a line of rocket strikes along the port road and a man screaming and holding his injured hand while fleeing from the checkpoint. Two bodies lay in the rubble.Strikes also hit inside the port, destroying part of its main road and setting fire to shipping containers on the dock full of aid, said Ahmed al-Jamal, 27, who was slightly injured when the port restaurant was hit.Fighting between rebel fighters and government forces continued in the southwestern neighborhood of al-Gheran.Some 20 rebel fighters who said they were waiting for NATO airstrikes to advance collected in a house there, eating cookies, giving milk to local cats and leaning their rifles on the wall before lining up for Muslim prayers.One fighter flipped through photos of his children on his cell phone when a rocket-propelled grenade hit near the house's open door, causing a boom that shook the walls. Shrapnel shattered the windshield and headlights of a parked ambulance, killing two fighters and injuring four others.Hubbard reported from Misrata, Libya. Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Juergen Baetz in Berlin, Slobodan Lekic in Brussels, Lynn Berry in Moscow and Bouazza ben Bouazza in Tunis, Tunisia, contributed to this report.
Brussels opens anti-trust probes into top investment banks
LEIGH PHILLIPS 29.04.2011 @ 17:52 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission on Friday (30 April) opened two antitrust probes into the world's major investment banks, 16 institutions that dominate the credit default swap market.In the first case, Brussels is to investigate 16 financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole, Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup suspected of collusion and monopolistic behaviour.The second case concerns worries that preferential tariffs granted by ICE Clear Europe, the leading international clearing house for CDS, to nine of the same banks allows ICE to dominate the market.CDS play a useful role for financial markets and for the economy, said EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia in announcing the investigations. Recent developments have shown, however, that the trading of this asset class suffers a number of inefficiencies that cannot be solved through regulation alone.Credit default swaps are essentially insurance a lender takes out to protect against a borrower defaulting on a loan. The market came under attack from critics and regulators in the wake of the global economic crisis for the alleged role the enormous CDS market played in exacerbating the downturn. Between 2000 and 2008, the market for credit default swaps skyrocketed from $900 billion to more than $30 trillion, according to the Bank of International Settlements - roughly half the world's annual GDP.The first probe will examine whether the 16 investment banks and Markit, the leading provider of financial information in the CDS market, have colluded or may hold and abuse their position in order to dominate information on the product.
Brussels believes that the 16 banks that act as dealers in the CDS market restrict information on pricing and indices and other daily data only to Markit. The EU executive says this could be the result of collusion or an abuse of their collective dominance and closes off access to essential raw data to other information service companies.In the second probe, the commission is to inquire into whether clauses that offer preferential fees and profit sharing in contracts negotiated by ICE and nine of these banks in effect lock them into using ICE at the expense of competing firms.The effects of these agreements could be that other clearing houses have difficulties successfully entering the market and that other CDS players have no real choice where to clear their transactions, the commission said in a statement.The list of the 16 institutions involved - most of the world's major players in the CDS market - include some of both the EU and US's biggest names in investment banking: JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Commerzbank, Crédit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, Wells Fargo Bank-Wachovia, Crédit Agricole and Société Générale.Nine of the banks involved in the first investigation are also the focus of the second probe: Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Crédit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and UBS.
EU competition spokeswoman Amelia Torres told reporters that the commission first became aware of the issues during the economic crisis.I hope our investigation will contribute to a better functioning of financial markets and, therefore, to a more sustainable recovery, added Almunia.There is no deadline for the twin investigation, but should firms be found guilty of abuses, they can be fined up to 10 percent of revenues.
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.
Top officials survey storm-ravaged South
By Peggy Gargis - MAY 1,11
PRATT CITY, Alabama (Reuters) – Federal officials vowed urgent support on Sunday for a region devastated by the deadliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina, even as they acknowledged recovery would not be quick or easy.President Barack Obama's administration is trying to show an effective response to the storms and twisters that killed about 350 people last week in seven southern states, reduced neighborhoods to rubble and caused damage expected to run into billions of dollars.
Obama visited Alabama on Friday and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Craig Fugate, toured damage on Sunday.I don't think words can fairly express the level of devastation here. I am not articulate enough, Napolitano said after seeing how killer storm winds had torn through Pratt City, Alabama.Later in Smithville, Mississippi, Napolitano said the visit had offered an acute sense of urgency about the need to help communities come to grips and recover from the disaster.This is not going to be a quick comeback or an immediate one but it will be, in my view, a complete one when all is said and done, she said.Obama's predecessor, former President George W. Bush, was sharply criticized for the federal response after Hurricane Katrina raked the Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans in 2005.The Republican governors of Alabama and Mississippi both spoke highly of Washington's response to the latest disaster.When you see local, state and federal people cooperating like this, it really makes a difference,Alabama Governor Robert Bentley said on CBS's Face the Nation program.But the administration's performance over the storm has not won universal praise. Texas Governor Rick Perry criticized the White House for not responding to a request for disaster aid for his state, where wildfires have scorched nearly 2 million acres.
You have to ask, Why are you taking care of Alabama and other states?' I know our letter didn't get lost in the mail,Perry, a Republican and frequent government critic, said last week.Alabama was the worst-hit state in last week's storms, with 250 people killed. Elsewhere, 101 people died in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana.About 1,700 people were injured in Alabama alone and others were missing after tornadoes crushed homes, flipped cars upside down and tore children from their parents' arms.To help people get back on their feet, the Department of Agriculture will make homes in rural areas available for rent, said Vilsack.The U.S. Small Business Administration announced it would make loans of up to $200,000 available to homeowners and up to $2 million for small businesses. It would also make $80 million available in block grants to states.Katrina devastated New Orleans, killed more than 1,800 people and left thousands of people stranded for days on rooftops, in the open or in chaotic public buildings.FBI officers, FEMA officials, state troopers, police, sheriffs, firefighters, and officials of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service worked with many local volunteers to clear roads and debris on Saturday.My friend and her boy died right over there. This is what I can do for her from my heart, said Carlos Carabez, who was sawing a fallen tree into pieces so it could be hauled away. Bentley declared Sunday a day of prayer in Alabama, a relatively poor and politically conservative state in a region where evangelical churches play a powerful social role.Several churches were torn down by the storms, including Bethel Baptist church, an African American church in Pratt City outside Birmingham with a congregation of 5,000. On Sunday, the church held services at a local convention center.This service is our response to tragedy. It shows that we are not victims. We are victors. We are visible victors,pastor T.L. Lewis said in an interview.The death toll from last week, which is still expected to rise, was the second-highest recorded from tornadoes in U.S. history. In 1925, 747 people were killed after twisters hit the midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.Unlocking federal assistance, Obama on Friday signed major disaster declarations for Mississippi and Georgia, adding to the one already signed for Alabama.(Additional reporting by Tami Chappell in Birmingham, Verna Gates in Phil Campbell; writing by Matthew Bigg; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Waters still rising around evacuated Illinois town
By Miriam Moynihan – Sun May 1, 7:13 pm ET
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – Missouri's attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to intervene and block a proposed federal plan to protect the southern Illinois town of Cairo by blowing up a levee on the Mississippi River.State Attorney General Chris Koster asked the nation's highest court for a temporary injunction to prevent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from intentionally breaching the Birds Point levee, a move that would flood 130,000 acres of farmland and destroy the homes of an estimated 200 people in Missouri.By blowing up the levee, the Corps hopes to increase the Mississippi River's ability to accommodate the rising waters of the Ohio River, relieving Cairo and other towns.Cairo, a historic town of 2,800 people located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, was largely empty after a mandatory evacuation as the Ohio, swollen by overnight rains, continued to rise to dangerously high record levels.Both rivers have been rising as a result of days of rain and the melt and runoff of heavy winter snowstorms.
Heavy rains fell again on Sunday and were expected to continue through Tuesday morning, when National Weather Service forecasts that the Ohio, the largest tributary of the Mississippi River, could crest at 60.5 feet at Cairo, a full foot above the 1937 record.Cairo's mayor, Judson Childs, ordered the mandatory evacuation as of midnight Saturday after meeting with the Corps, the top flood-fighting agency.
There is no count yet on the number of people evacuated, but it's just about a ghost town, Childs told Reuters.But he said some residents were opting to stay behind.
There are some people who will stay, like me, who are going to go down with the ship, so to speak, he said.The Corps has dispatched barges to the Birds Point levee, carrying a slurry mix that could be used to blow up the levee.Right now, there's no news or decision on what the Corps will do regarding the levee, Childs said. Everything can change minute to minute and hour to hour.A federal appeals court said on Saturday the Corps had the right to breach the levee, as permitted by a 1928 law.
The Corps said it would detonate explosives in the levee if the river at Cairo reached 61 feet and was rising. But it could potentially blow up the levee even if the river does not reach 61 feet if there is too much stress on the system.The state of Missouri originally sued to stop the Corps plan, arguing that it would do extensive damage.Illinois and Kentucky took the other side, saying towns in their states could be flooded if the levee were not blown up.A lower court ruled against Missouri on Friday, and the state petitioned to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which denied Missouri the legal relief it sought on Saturday.(Additional reporting by Eric Johnson and Christine Stebbins; Writing by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Diane Craft)
Day of prayer as US south mourns tornado victims
by Juan Castro Olivera - MAY 1,11
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (AFP) – Grieving storm survivors turned to prayer and the good grace of volunteers Sunday across the US south as shattered communities looked to rebuild from the second-worst tornado disaster on record.Churches from Mississippi to Virginia flung open their doors for prayers, some in the very houses of worship destroyed by powerful tornadoes that claimed nearly 350 lives on Wednesday.This is the Bible Belt. Church goes on regardless, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeremy Heidt told AFP.In hardest-hit Alabama, where Governor Robert Bentley declared a state-wide day of prayer, the faithful gathered under open skies, in parking lots and church sites on the first Sunday since the historic disaster wiped several of their churches off the map.In the town of Phil Campbell, congregants erected a makeshift wooden cross and sang hymns on the concrete slab where the Church of God once stood, before some of the most powerful tornadoes on record left it and thousands of homes and businesses in splinters.Today, we will pray for the people affected by this tragedy and for you that have lost your church. And we ask you: don't give up, Pastor Keith Pugh told his congregants. The faithful sang and prayed while holding hands, then embraced each other after the service.
They had gathered in a neighboring town after the tornadoes completely leveled their Open Door Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa.In the devastated town of Smithville, Mississippi -- population 900 -- the Church of Christ has been converted into a food, clothing and medicine distribution center, and the congregation gathered outside for a short open-air service.We're just going to remember the dead and buried by taking the Lord's supper, and give of our means. People come together when the need arises,said church elder Danny Stephenson, 62.Of our six churches, four of them is gone, he said.There ain't nothing left. Just wiped clean, like you took a bulldozer to it all.Sixteen of 18 Smithville businesses were demolished by the killer twisters.Like other communities across the battered region, neighbors helped neighbors, and volunteers conducted search and rescue, cooked meals for victims, and helped haul debris.The whole town has come together," Stephenson said. And I've talked to one family, they're going to rebuild right where they're at.President Barack Obama on Sunday declared a major disaster in Tennessee, to allow for federal aid to the state following disaster declarations for Alabama and parts of Georgia and Mississippi.He dispatched cabinet members to tour the destruction in Birmingham, Alabama, where they spoke with survivors and assured expanded federal aid to help communities recover and rebuild.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pledged the federal government would continue to support the stricken states, helping them come to grips and recover from this really terrible swath of tornadoes that swept through the south.That makes the sense of urgency for us even more acute when we see the type of damage we are seeing here today and the spirit of the people,she told reporters in Smithville.Parts of the south were bracing for another beating after tornado watches were issued again, this time in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, though forecasters warned any new storms were unlikely to be as devastating.The American Red Cross has opened 16 shelters across Alabama, taking in about 900 of the newly homeless, the organization announced.
Obama reiterated his pledge to help the region recover.The scope of the devastation was almost unimaginable, particularly in Tuscaloosa, where Mayor Walter Maddox said 5,731 building have been destroyed or badly damaged and more than 400 people remained unaccounted for, although he acknowledged several of those were likely staying with relatives.Alabama was worst hit, with 250 people killed and 2,219 injured.Mississippi has confirmed 35 deaths, and its emergency management agency touched on the scope of the disaster in reporting 993 homes destroyed and another 2,527 damaged in the state.There were also 34 deaths in Tennessee, 15 in Georgia, eight in Arkansas and five in Virginia.The overall death toll of 347 is exceeded only by a tornado outbreak in March 1925 that left 747 people dead.Fire and rescue teams were going door to door, some with cadaver dogs, in the poor Tuscaloosa neighborhood of Alberta City, where blocks of low-income housing were left in ruins and residents were seen painstakingly combing through the rubble.
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Parshah Emor - Leviticus 21:1-24:23
SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.
TORAH PORTION FROM MAY 01 2011 6PM - MAY 07 6PM 2011
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LEVITICUS 21:1 - 24:23
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
LEVITICUS 22:1-33
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
11 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,
33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.
LEVITICUS 23:1-44
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
LEVITICUS 24:1-23
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
PROPHETS PORTION
EZEKIEL 44:15-31
15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
NEW TESTAMENT PORTION
MATTHEW 5:38-42
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
GALATIONS 3:26-29
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
TORAH PORTION FROM MAY 01 2011 6PM - MAY 07 6PM 2011
IN CONNECTION TO THIS PARSHAH-READNG 41
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LEVITICUS 21:1 - 24:23
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
LEVITICUS 22:1-33
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
11 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,
33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.
LEVITICUS 23:1-44
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
LEVITICUS 24:1-23
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
PROPHETS PORTION
EZEKIEL 44:15-31
15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
NEW TESTAMENT PORTION
MATTHEW 5:38-42
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
GALATIONS 3:26-29
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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