NEARLY ALL PHONES LEAK PERSONAL DATA

THIS BIN LADEN FRAUD FALSE FLAG WON'T STOP.
Satellite Dish Added To Bin Laden Compound After Dubious Videos Released by White House? http://www.prisonplanet.com/satellite-dish-added-to-bin-laden-compound-after-dubious-videos-released-by-white-house.html
U.S. Navy Map Showing Large Areas Of U.S. Submerged Happening Now?
http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/14/u-s-navy-map-showing-large-areas-of-u-s-submerged-happening-now/
FEMA Prepares for HAARP Earthquake on New Madrid Fault Line BP Hosea 4:1-3 Prophecy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuYJ76t8hkc&feature=youtu.be
Could Saturn's largest moon Titan house a giant underground water ocean?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1384214/Could-Saturns-largest-moon-Titan-house-giant-underground-water-ocean.html#ixzz1MdwlmGO7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz4I5rb3_BM&feature=player_embedded
Fukushima Reactors a Raging Nuclear Inferno
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com May 18, 2011

Professor Christopher Busby, who sits on the European Committee on Radiation Risks, told RT yesterday that the reactors at Fukushima are a raging nuclear inferno and he believes at least one of the reactors is now outside its containment structure and emitting vast amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.The Japanese newspaper Asahi reports today that data reveals meltdowns occurred at the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors. Goshi Hosono, special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, acknowledged the likelihood of meltdowns. We have to assume that meltdowns have taken place, Hosono said at a news conference May 16.Infowars.com and other alternative news sources reported the probability of a nuclear meltdown at the plant, but this was virtually ignored by the corporate media.Soon after an earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant, nuclear experts said meltdowns occurred at all three reactors. TEPCO and the corporate media downplayed the possibility of nuclear meltdown. On April 17, TEPCO released a schedule to reach a cold shutdown at the Fukushima plant within six to nine months, but eventually had to revise the schedule.Nuclear experts indicate more than a decade will be required to remove the melted fuel, eliminate the contamination, and dismantle the reactors.Public release of data on the situation at the plant, which had been kept at the central control room, was delayed because it took time to restore power and remove radioactive materials attached to the papers, according to TEPCO. According to the data, the pressure in the pressure vessel of the No. 2 reactor dropped at 6:43 p.m. on March 15. A similar drop in pressure also took place at the No. 3 reactor at 11:50 p.m. on March 16.We have yet to be able to grasp the entire situation at the plant, a TEPCO official said on May 16.Radioactive technetium was discovered in water in the No. 3 reactor building. The discovery raised speculation that the melted nuclear fuel has breached the pressure vessel and landed in the containment vessel. Technetium is produced when nuclear fuel rods are damaged.

TEPCO: Nuclear meltdown occurred 16 hours after earthquake, more on the way Ethan A. Huff NaturalNews May 18, 2011

The truth has finally come out, as officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) now admit that fuel in Reactor 1 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex melted just 16 hours after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area on March 11, 2011. When asked why it took more than two months to reveal this critical information, TEPCO officials claim that a lack of data left the company unaware of the core’s true condition until only recently — and new reports indicate that other meltdowns could soon follow.According to a recent report from The Mainichi Daily News (MDN) in Japan, TEPCO officials recently announced that, based on new data, water levels in the pressure vessel at Reactor 1 began to drop rapidly within just a few hours after losing power at 3:30 pm on March 11. By 7:30 pm, fuel was fully exposed, and by 9 pm, reactor core temperatures reached an astounding 2,800 degrees Celsius, or 5,072 degrees Fahrenheit. And by 6:50 am the next morning, a full meltdown occurred (http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news…).

So for all the time that electric power was out in multiple reactors, causing the cooling systems to fail, and during the months after it was widely known that water levels were consistently dropping in Reactor 4 due to leaks, TEPCO played the ignorance card, acting as though it had no idea how serious the situation at the plant actually was. Surely the company must know, even without access to a detailed analysis, that when cooling systems fail and fuel rods become fully exposed, a meltdown is sure to follow — even regular folks with no background in nuclear technology can put two-and-two together to figure that one out.But apparently TEPCO thinks it can keep playing dumb, and that the world will simply believe whatever it says. This new revelation, however, proves that the company is greatly underestimating the fallout from the situation at best, and deliberately hiding the truth at worst. Either way, the situation is far more dire than we have all been led to believe.[TEPCO] could have assumed that when the loss of power made it impossible to cool down the reactor, it would soon lead to a meltdown of the core, said Hiroaki Koide, professor of nuclear safety engineering at Kyoto University, to MDN.TEPCO’s persistent explanation that the damage to the fuel had been limited turned out to be wrong.And shortly after the announcement about Reactor 1, The Telegraph reported that two more Fukushima reactors may soon suffer a meltdown as well. Efforts to cool fuel in Reactors 2 and 3 have failed, and experts say that if the reactors cores have not already melted, they soon will (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor…).

Nearly all Android phones leak sensitive personal data, tests show Digital Trends Andrew Couts – MAY 17,11

Google Android LogoGoogle’s privacy woes just got worse. According to a study by researchers at a German university, more than 99 percent of all smartphones that run Google‘s Android operating system can easily be infiltrated by mobile hackers. The attackers can then use the leaked data to impersonate the rightful user, and access online accounts, such as Google Calendar, Twitter and Facebook.According to the University of Ulm researchers, Bastian Konings, Jens Nickels, and Florian Schaub, the Android vulnerability is due to an improper implementation of the ClientLogin protocol, which is used in Android versions 2.3.3 and earlier, reports The Register. Once a user submits his or her login information, ClientLogin receives an authentication token that is sent as a cleartext file. Because the authentication token (authToken) can be used repeatedly for up to 14 days, hackers can access the information stored in the file, and use it to do their nefarious bidding.

We wanted to know if it is really possible to launch an impersonation attack against Google services and started our own analysis, write the researchers on their blog. “The short answer is: Yes, it is possible, and it is quite easy to do so. Further, the attack is not limited to Google Calendar and Contacts, but is theoretically feasible with all Google services using the ClientLogin authentication protocol for access to its data APIs.As bad as this sounds — indeed, is — for Android users, this type of attack can only be waged when the Android device is using an unsecured network, like a Wi-Fi hotspot, to send data. The researchers say hackers could wage such an attack when a device is connected to a network that is under their control.

To collect such authTokens on a large scale an adversary could setup a wifi access point with a common SSID (evil twin) of an unencrypted wireless network, e.g., T-Mobile, attwifi, starbucks,write the researchers. With default settings, Android phones automatically connect to a previously known network and many apps will attempt syncing immediately. While syncing would fail (unless the adversary forwards the requests), the adversary would capture authTokens for each service that attempted syncing.The researchers suggest a number of ways to fix the issue, for app developers, Google and Android users alike. Developers whose apps use ClientLogin should immediately switch to https,the researchers say. And Google should limit the life of the authentication token, and restrict automatic connects to protected networks only. Android users should update their devices to 2.3.4 as soon as possible, they say, as well as turn off automatic sync when connecting with Wi-Fi, or avoid unsecured Wi-Fi networks entirely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiIg3yIYmCE&feature=player_embedded
Is Criminal Behavior a Prerequisite to Get a Job With the TSA? Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com May 18, 2011
http://www.infowars.com/is-criminal-behavior-a-prerequisite-to-get-a-job-with-the-tsa/

Why doesn’t Janet Napolitano’s TSA just start using prison inmates to conduct grope downs and naked porno scans of people traveling through US airports? It would save a lot of time and money, and it wouldn’t be a departure from the fact that TSA workers have worked hard to maintain their reputation as thieves, perverts and criminals.Yet another TSA agent has been caught engaging in criminal behavior. The regularity with which this occurs makes it look like committing felonies is a prerequisite to get a job in airport security.A Transportation Security Administration officer at LAX has been arrested for stealing from a traveler’s suitcase, reports KABC.Ryan Driscoll, 31, was arrested on May 10 at Terminal 6. He faces a felony theft charge.The case is the 14th in just the last three years (which the TSA admits to) of its workers stealing large amounts of cash and other valuables from airport travelers. Back in February, TSA agents Persad Coumar and Davon Webb were arrested for stealing $40,000 dollars from a check-in bag at John F. Kennedy Airport. They were later discovered to have stolen an additional $160,000 in valuables from people’s luggage, mostly laptops and jewelry.

Just days prior to this case, TSA supervisor Michael Arato pleaded guilty in a federal court to multiple counts of theft, as well as admitting to taking bribes and kickbacks from another TSA worker to look the other way, while the agent he was supervising stole more money from travelers at Newark Liberty Airport. Arato stole up to $700 a day from passengers for a staggering eight years before he was caught.
We’ve documented numerous examples where TSA agents have been caught committing crimes both on and off the job, from molesting children, to stealing, to kidnapping, to assault, to drug smuggling. The list of cases is growing to biblical proportions and gets larger with each passing day.The spoof call where a man pretended to be a sex predator while applying for a TSA job (he was treated seriously by the TSA staffer on the other end of the line), is starting to resemble less of a satire and more how the TSA does business.Instead of locking up thieves, sex perverts, rapists and pedophiles at great expense to the American taxpayer, the federal government should just put them straight into a uniform and have them fondling 6-year-old girls and searching baby’s diapers for poop bombs.Efforts by the Texas House of Representatives to make TSA grope downs a felony are not just about protecting our privacy, they’re about protecting us from a sub-human criminal underclass that has been given carte blanche by big government to unleash their predatory sexual and criminal fetishes on the traveling American public.

Settlement Leader to Netanyahu: We Need Much More than Blocs! by Hillel Fendel MAY 17,11

Yesha Council chairman Danny Dayan, responding to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech of Monday night, said Tuesday, His analysis of the geo-political situation was correct, but his conclusions were wrong… Settlement blocs alone do not provide even minimum security for the State of Israel.Dayan, who heads the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, told Arutz Sheva,The Prime Minister was correct in saying that the struggle is not over borders, but over their desire to destroy us… However, when he spoke about his willingness to make painful concessions over parts of our national homeland, there is no such animal. A homeland must be settled, and not given up on.It is clear, Dayan said, that settlement blocs alone are not enough [even from a security standpoint]. For security, we require control over the mountain ridge [in the Shomron], the entire Jordan Valley, and the areas that oversee Ben Gurion International Airport.Dayan says that this coming September, when the PA is expected to make a bid for independence in the United Nations, will be an opportunity for us, and not a crisis. They have overturned the table by going to the UN and forging an alliance with Hamas; we can no longer suffice with a tied game.We have to win.How? First of all,Dayan explained,we must remove the millstone of our consent to a Palestinian state, and then we must apply our sovereignty over the Jewish communities and the unpopulated areas – as preparation for our annexation of all of Judea and Samaria.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Obama: Mideast peace more vital than ever
-MAY 17,11

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says it's more vital than ever for Israel and the Palestinians to restart peace talks.The president says the United States has an enormous stake in the outcome and will continue to try to find an equitable and just solution.The president made his comments after an Oval Office meeting on Tuesday with Jordan's King Abdullah II.They talks come as prospects look exceptionally grim for a Middle East peace that's a long-sought goal of the U.S. and Jordan. Israel is taking a tough line against an emerging Palestinian government and there's been renewed violence.Obama is plunging into an intense week of Middle East diplomacy with a speech planned Thursday on U.S. policy in the region, and a visit Friday from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

I KNOW WHY THE PALESTINIANS ARE PUTTING OFF THE ELECTIONS TILL OCTOBER BECAUSE IN SEPTEMBER THEY WANT TO HAVE THEIR STATE.THEN THER ELECTIONS.

Palestinians postpone local elections to October
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press – MAY 17,11

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday postponed municipal elections by three months until October, saying it needs more time to ensure the vote can be held in both the West Bank and Gaza.The decision was part of a recent reconciliation process between Abbas' Fatah movement and the Islamic militant Hamas group. The two sides have been torn between rival governments for the past four years, with Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in control of Gaza, and only last week they agreed to repair the rift.The municipal elections will be a key test for the Palestinians, providing the first gauge of each side's popularity and giving a strong indicator of whether they can get along. After last week's unity deal, Fatah and Hamas are working on forming a unity government — a process that is expected to take weeks or even months.Abbas' West Bank government said Tuesday it decided to put off the elections from July 9 to Oct. 22, to allow reconciliation to take hold and to provide the proper atmosphere to hold the elections in the entire Palestinian territories.Hamas, which had said it would boycott the vote when elections were first set, has reversed that stand.Hamas will participate in all elections and this is something that has been stated in the reconciliation deal, said Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader. The Palestinians hope to hold national legislative and presidential elections next year.The municipal vote would be the first election in the Palestinian territories since January 2006. In those elections, Hamas defeated Fatah, and the two sides formed a short-lived unity government that ultimately collapsed into heavy fighting. In June 2007, Hamas overran Gaza, causing the deep split the sides are now trying to mend.

It's important for Abbas to present a united front as he prepares to ask the United Nations to recognize an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza, with east Jerusalem as its capital. Abbas is seeking a U.N. vote in September, a month before the elections would take place.In a newspaper opinion article published Tuesday, Abbas acknowledged that U.N. recognition would not change the situation on the ground, but would give him more leverage in negotiations with Israel.Palestine would be negotiating from the position of one United Nations member whose territory is militarily occupied by another ... and not as a vanquished people ready to accept whatever terms are put in front of us, Mahmoud Abbas wrote in The New York Times, presenting his most detailed explanation yet of his reasons for the U.N. bid.He said, for instance, an upgraded status could open the door for legal action against Israel, including at the International Court of Justice.In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Abbas' article was full of inaccuracies, like implying that the Arabs accepted the 1947 U.N. partition plan setting up Israel and a Palestinian state, when in fact Palestinians and Arab nations rejected it and attacked Israel.It can be inferred from these comments that the Palestinian leadership sees the establishment of the Palestinian state as a means to continue its conflict with Israel instead of finishing it, he said in a statement.

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED MAY 18,2011

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -19.21
10:30 AM -5.34
11:00 AM +17.71
11:30 AM +16.08
12:00 PM +23.87
12:30 PM +35.30
01:00 PM +36.44
01:30 PM +51.25
02:00 PM +61.34
02:30 PM +71.74
03:00 PM +54.90
03:30 PM +79.24
04:00 PM +80.60 12,560.18

S&P 500 1340.68 +11.70

NASDAQ 2815.00 +31.79

GOLD 1,495.40 +15.40

OIL 99.72 +2.81

TSE 300 13,607.30 +166.20

CDNX 1992.11 +23.29

S&P/TSX/60 780.32 +9.78

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -17 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -28 points at low today.
Dow +11 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,493.20.OIL opens at $78.79 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -28 points at low today so far.
Dow +100 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -28 points at low today.
Dow +100 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)

CRUDE OIL -15,000 BARRELS
GASOLINE +119,000 BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES -1.16 MILLION BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION

BIBLES WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS

CHINA MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE EAST)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9164005727480680563#docid=-8916004936135366443
RUSSIA ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE NORTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGqS3TDYRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn3T5XIbNk&feature=related
EGYPT ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE SOUTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_KT4irRTM&feature=related
EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE WEST)(NOT THE USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NEyheTDyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzLjhsRrZYw&feature=fvw
ISRAEL MILITARY-GUARENTEED BY EU TO SECURE THEM THE BIBLE SAYS(2 MAIN ENDTIME PLAYERS)(NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF FUULFILLING THE PROPHECIES ON EARTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TDlvIRIMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdalQdtzfY&feature=related
http://euradcom.org/

Iran president takes over oil ministry temporarily
– Mon May 16, 3:25 am ET

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he has temporarily assumed the duties of the oil ministry, as the oil cartel OPEC prepares for a biannual meeting in Vienna.For now, I myself am the caretaker of the oil ministry, Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech late Sunday, without elaborating.On Saturday, Ahmadinejad dismissed oil minister Masoud Mirkazemi, alongside two other ministers, whose portfolios are expected to be merged with other departments as part of a cabinet streamlining.Then on Sunday, he appointed caretakers for the industry and social affairs ministries, but did not name anyone for the oil ministry which is to be integrated with the energy portfolio.His decision to take charge of Iran's most-strategic sector came shortly before the 159th OPEC meeting scheduled for June 8 in Vienna, where the oil producers are represented by their ministers.Mohammad Ali Khatibi, Iran's representative to OPEC, told AFP on Monday that the president would be eligible to chair the meeting.As he is the caretaker of the ministry, he may attend the (ministerial) meeting, he said in a telephone interview.But it is not customary... the president usually takes part in summits, Khatibi said, adding he was expecting the president to appoint a representative for the upcoming meeting.

Iran, the second largest exporter of crude in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, currently holds the presidency of the cartel, a position it is holding for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution.The oil minister's dismissal also comes amid Ahmadinejad's efforts to change the structure his government, which has become the subject of a political showdown with the parliament.
The conservative-dominated Majlis has argued it should be in charge of the streamlining operation, with some lawmakers criticising the disappearance of the oil industry.

WHO blames cuts on global finances, weak dollar
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press – MAY 17,11

GENEVA – The World Health Organization will cut $1 billion from its next budget because of financial problems among rich donor nations and the exchange rate for the weak U.S. dollar, the agency's director said Tuesday.The Geneva-based U.N. health agency supports health ministries around the world, helped eliminate smallpox in the late 1970s and has coordinated worldwide efforts to deal with the swine flu pandemic and other emergencies.Margaret Chan, WHO's director general, told reporters that a drop in voluntary contributions among its top 30 traditional donor nations is just part of the agency's problem. The other part, she said, is that the dollar has fallen to a record low against the Swiss franc, which is now worth about $1.13.

Because of their own financial difficulties, some of them have cut back, she said of the wealthiest nations, many still struggling in the wake of a global financial crisis. We are hit as well by the currency exchange rate. We get our income in U.S. dollars, and we are paying our staff in Swiss francs.The Geneva-based agency previously said it expects a $300 million (euro212 million) deficit this year.Budget documents show that WHO's $4.5 billion biennial budget in 2010 and 2011 dropped by more than $1 billion for 2012 and 2013, because of fewer voluntary contributions from nations, non-governmental organizations and other donors.As a result, WHO is expected to lay off 300 workers — about 12 percent of its local staff. WHO's emergencies unit alone will be cutting about half of its 80 staff.At a news conference alongside multibillionaire Bill Gates, a major donor to global health causes, Chan said many nations are still supportive despite the cutbacks. The pair met with reporters as the world's health ministers gathered for WHO's general assembly this week.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

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

Alberta town burns, wildfires shut oil facilities
By Scott Haggett and Jeffrey Jones – Mon May 16, 5:46 pm ET

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Wildfires whipped by high winds destroyed more than a third of a sizable town in northern Alberta on Monday and forced oil companies in Canada's largest energy-producing province to shut off tens of thousands of barrels of output.Dozens of forest fires flared up across the province during a dry, gusty weekend, forcing the evacuation of several communities, including Slave Lake, a town of 10,000 in northern Alberta, known as a center for oil, gas and forestry.Numerous homes and some public buildings have been destroyed, Slave Lake Mayor Karina Pillay-Kinnee said.She spoke to reporters from a command center in the town, about 200 km (125 miles) northwest of the provincial capital, Edmonton. It was deserted save for emergency personnel.You feel the intense heat, the sharp smell of smoke ... you see some areas still smoking and our fire-fighting crews are trying to contain any spot fires, Pillay-Kinnee said.Two blazes, driven by winds gusting to 100 km per hour (60 mph), converged on Slave Lake on Sunday. Complicating the situation on Monday were winds of up to 50 km per hour (30 mph) in some regions as well as dry conditions.

We're expecting another very active fire day, Alberta information officer Rob Harris said.These conditions make it incredibly difficult for firefighters to contain fires.
Wildfires forced oil companies to shut off production and, in some cases, evacuate workers.Penn West Petroleum Ltd shut 25,000-30,000 barrels a day of heavy oil production from operations in north-central Alberta, Chief Executive Bill Andrew said. All the company's employees are safe, although some have lost homes, he said.
Cenovus Energy Inc said it was ready to halt operations at its 22,000 barrel a day Pelican Lake heavy oil field, 300 km (186 miles) north of Edmonton, due to the outage of a pipeline in the region.Cenovus has enough storage capacity to keep pumping crude until Tuesday, spokeswoman Rhona DelFrari said.Fires also burned near the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, although there were no reports of production being cut.

WORK CAMPS EVACUATED

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd evacuated 1,300 people from two work camps near its Horizon oil sands project. It is watching the fires closely as operations elsewhere in Alberta could be affected, Vice-Chairman John Langille said.Market sources said the situation had yet to move prices for heavy crude, but cautioned lengthy outages could tighten supplies. Western Canada Select heavy blend, a widely traded oil grade, was selling for about $17 a barrel under benchmark West Texas Intermediate for June delivery, similar to Friday.Fires forced the closure of the southern leg of Plains All American Pipeline LP's Rainbow Pipeline on Sunday. The northern leg, running to Nipisi from Zama in northwest Alberta, was shut due to a 28,000 bpd oil spill on April 29.Spill cleanup was suspended on the weekend as the fire threat forced workers to flee the area.Transport was also affected. Canadian National Railway Co said it halted train service in the Slave Lake region and numerous highways were blocked off.West Fraser Timber Co Ltd shut a pulp mill and a wood veneer facility near Slave Lake, but said they had not sustained damage.As of Monday, 113 wildfires were burning in Alberta, 34 of them out of control, the provincial government said. A total of 557 square km (215 square miles) had been burned.The government deployed 1,000 firefighters, 100 helicopters and 20 water bombers to battle the blaze. In addition, 200 more firefighters were expected to arrive from other provinces.(Editing by Rob Wilson and Peter Galloway)

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.

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

U.S. tornadoes could cost insurers $6 billion: RMS
– Tue May 17, 5:50 am ET

LONDON (Reuters) – Tornadoes that swept through southern U.S. states last month could cost the insurance industry up to $6 billion, risk-modeling agency RMS said on Tuesday.The tornadoes, which struck Alabama and neighboring states in late April, will cause insured losses of $3.5-$6.0 billion, according to an initial estimate from RMS.RMS's estimate compared with a projected loss of $3.7-$5.5 billion calculated by rival AIR Worldwide, with Eqecat, another risk-modeling agency, penciling in a loss of $2-$5 billion.Losses from the tornadoes will add to tens of billions of dollars in insurance claims arising from a string of natural disasters over the first three months of the year, including the earthquake that devastated Japan on March 11.The Lloyd's of London insurance market said last week it would take a $3.8 billion hit from earthquakes and floods in the first quarter, outstripping the $2.6 billion in natural disaster claims it paid out in the whole of 2010.(Reporting by Myles Neligan; Editing by Dan Lalor)

Costly Miss. River closure meant to protect levees
By ALAN SAYRE and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press – MAY 17,11

NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard has interrupted shipping along the major artery for moving grain from farms in the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico over fears that the bulging Mississippi River could strain levees that protect hundreds of thousands from flooding. Already, thousands have sought refuge from floodwaters up and down the river.The Coast Guard said it closed the Mississippi River at the port in Natchez, Miss., because barge traffic could increase pressure on the levees. Heavy flooding from Mississippi tributaries has displaced more than 4,000 in the state, about half of them upstream from Natchez in the Vicksburg area.Several barges were idled at Natchez at the time of the closure, and many more could back up along the lower Mississippi. It wasn't clear when the river would reopen, but port officials said the interruption could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of millions of dollars per day.The closure is the latest high-stakes decision made to protect homes and businesses that sit behind levees and floodwalls along the river. To take pressure off levees surrounding heavily populated New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the Army Corps of Engineers opened the key Morganza Spillway, choosing to flood more rural areas with fewer homes. Another spillway near New Orleans was opened earlier, but it doesn't threaten homes.Most residents in the path of the Morganza's floodwaters have heeded the call to leave their homes. Bernadine Turner, who lives in a mandatory evacuation zone near Krotz Springs, La., spent a third day Monday moving her things out. Water from the Morganza opening was not expected to reach the town about 40 miles west of Baton Rouge for several days, but most residents were taking no chances.There's no doubt it's going to come up. We don't have flood insurance, and most people here don't. Man, it would be hard to start all over,she said.

Economic pain from the flooding could be felt far from the South because of the river closure. During the spring, the Mississippi is a highway for towboats pushing barges laden with corn, soybeans and other crops brought down from the Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi river systems. Farm products come down the river to a port near New Orleans to be loaded onto massive grain carriers for export.The Port of South Louisiana is the largest grain port the country, handling about 54 percent of U.S. exports. The port's operations director, Mitch Smith, said the extent of the impact from the Natchez closing will depend on how long it lasts and how many barges are trapped upriver.Definitely, if it is a long closure, we will feel an economic impact, Smith said.At least 10 freight terminals along the lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans have suspended operations because of the high water, said Roy Gonzalez, acting president of the Gulf States Maritime Association. In many cases, their docks are already at water level or going under, he said.
Vessels scheduled to use the terminals will either have to wait out the high water or divert to other terminals or ports. Additional costs for delaying any one vessel routinely run $20,000 to $40,000 per day, port officials say.It's not clear how long it will take for normal operations to return at Natchez and other terminals. The river is expected to crest Saturday in Natchez at 63 feet, down a half-foot than earlier predictions, but almost five feet above a record set in 1937. It could take weeks for the water to recede.All along the Mississippi River, a small army of engineers, deputies and even inmates is keeping round-the-clock watch at the many floodwalls and earthen levees holding the water back. They are looking for any droplets that seep through the barriers and any cracks that threaten to turn small leaks into big problems.The work is hot and sometimes tedious, but without it, the flooding could get much worse.I volunteered for this, said jail inmate Wayne McClinton, who was helping with the sandbagging effort in northern Louisiana's Tensas Parish. It's a chance to get out in the air, to do something different. It's not boring like prison is.Although the job requires 24-hour vigilance, Reynold Minsky, president of a north Louisiana levee district, said there are some places in his mostly rural district of forest and farmland where he will not ask anyone to go after sundown.

Unless we've got a serious situation that we know we've found before dark, we don't ask these people to go into these wooded areas because of the snakes and the alligators,Minsky said while taking a break from helicopter tours of the levees. That's inhumane.Minsky's 5th Louisiana Levee District is plagued these days by sand boils," places where river water has found a way through earthen levees and bubbled up on the dry side like an artesian well. He insists they are no reason for alarm. If the water is clear, as it has been so far, that means the levee is not eroding. Stopping the boil involves ringing it with sandbags.In New Orleans, workers inspect the levees daily when the water is high to look for potential trouble spots. The levees there — which are not among those that failed along canals after Hurricane Katrina — have survived high water before and will survive this latest test, city officials said. The opening of the Morganza has stopped the river's rise at New Orleans, but the relief valve sent water gushing into the mostly rural Atchafalaya River basin.There's no question about it, New Orleans is safe, New Orleans is dry and the system's working as it was designed, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Tuesday morning on CBS' The Early show.For those in the path of waters let loose by the Morganza, a tense waiting game has begun. On Monday, 75-year-old Leif Montin watched a truck tow away a storage pod containing most of the furniture he and his wife have in their home in Butte Larose, a community emptied by residents fleeing the rising waters.I guess you guys are ready to get out of here, the driver said to Montin.Yep. Pretty much,responded Montin.Online:
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/bcarre/missriver.asp
Kunzelman reported from Krotz Springs and Butte LaRose, La. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Kevin McGill in New Orleans.; Mary Foster in Tensas Parish, La.; and Holbrook Mohr and Shelia Byrd in Mississippi.

POISONED WATERS

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

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

POWER OUTAGE

REVELATION 16:10-11
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

Japan sticks with timetable to resolve nuke crisis
– Tue May 17, 8:33 am ET

TOKYO – The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant says a revised roadmap to resolve the crisis will stick with an existing timeline but add new tasks, such as boosting tsunami preparedness and improving conditions for workers.Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto said Tuesday the utility still aims to bring the radiation-leaking Fukushima Dai-ichi complex to a stable cold shutdown within six to nine months as announced in the original April action plan.Muto said the revised plan calls for stepping up precautionary measures for aftershocks and closer monitoring of the amount of radiation in groundwater and elsewhere in the environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45A9W4MN-_c&feature=player_embedded
Globalists’ Secret Weapon Exposed: Tech Kill Chips
TheAlexJonesChannel May 16, 2011
http://www.infowars.com/globalists-secret-weapon-exposed-tech-kill-chips/

As the world is distracted by the royal nuptials and Obama’s ever changing soap opera surrounding CIA asset Osama bin Laden’s death, the technocrats are rolling out the next phase of their global control grid. The foundations of this plan were laid out in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and have been updated each subsequent year.
In addition to Obama’s stranglehold on the Internet, all smart devices have federally-mandated control and kill switches added. This will give the government total control over incoming information to all smart phones regardless of manufacturer. These policies dovetail with the roll out of Smart Meters and the new Google controlled smart homes which will send messages over the power-lines to your appliances to control power consumption or simply cut the power. In addition, new green lighting systems are being installed in government buildings which send and receive data through controlled pulses of light. And now the Pentagon wants the authority to run it all. Wake up and start informing your fellow man.
http://www.infowars.com/google-wants-to-control-your-home/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/fema-to-confiscate-food-from-local-farms-in-emerg…
http://www.infowars.com/cyberwarfare-rules-included-in-defense-bill/
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-05-09/local/29544253_1_cell-phone-quantu…
http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-fights-to-allow-warrantless-gps-…
http://www.infowars.com/in-texas-schools-a-pictures-worth-1000-calories/
http://www.infowars.com/obama-launches-total-takeover-of-media/
http://www.infowars.com/what-else-will-the-governments-special-chip-in-your-c…
http://www.prisonplanet.com/are-you-scared-yet-big-sis-to-beam-terror-warning…
http://www.infowars.com/obama-launches-total-takeover-of-media/

http://www.infowars.com/tsa-responds-to-texas-resistance-is-futile/
TSA Responds To Texas: Resistance is Futile
Steve Watson Infowars.com May 17, 2011

The TSA has issued a laughable response to the news that the state of Texas has passed a bill to officially make it a misdemeanor to pat-down breasts, buttocks, or genitals.The Agency contends, via its blog, that Texas cannot do anything to restrict TSA procedures because, as a federal agency it is protected under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.Blogger Bob, the TSA’s propaganda mouthpiece, writes:What’s our take on the Texas House of Representatives voting to ban the current TSA pat-down? Well, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article. VI. Clause 2) prevents states from regulating the federal government.How ridiculous it is for the TSA to cite the Constitution in its own defense! While citing one section, it is completely ignoring two others – namely the Fourth and Tenth Amendments.The Fourth Amendment protects The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches without probable cause.As far as we can recollect, no where in the Constitution does it say that the federal government has the right to touch Americans’ private parts in the first instance.Therefore, under the Tenth, States have the right to pass their own laws against this abuse of power, because:The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.The TSA’s contention that the Supremacy Clause bars states from regulating the federal government is a total lie. The Supremacy Clause states:This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.

In other words, The constitution is the supreme law and any federal laws made in line with the constitution are supreme. No where does it say that states cannot regulate federal government.But why would we expect the TSA to understand the Constitution when it violates it every hour of every day? The Supremacy Clause, as with every other part of the Constitution, is there to protect against potential federal government abuses of power, not to effectively enable them as the TSA claims. The Constitution protects the rights of the people, not the rights of the federal government.In addition, there is no enumerated power in the Constitution that gives the federal government the authority to regulate local airports. Under the Tenth Amendment, airport operation falls under state jurisdiction.The TSA’s version of the US Constitution, like much of the federal government’s, is a complete perversion of it’s actual meaning.The TSA blog goes on to state:We wish we lived in a world where you could just walk on a plane with no security screening, but that just isn’t the case unfortunately. Aviation security agencies worldwide have been using pat-downs long before TSA was created to prevent dangerous items from getting onto airplanes. The pat-down is a highly effective tool to resolve certain alarms and keep these dangerous items off of planes that could cause catastrophic damage.

Again, this is a pathetic attempt at justification of full on government groping. To claim that Other countries did it first is just plain weak. Other countries do not have a written constitution safeguarding the privacy rights of their citizens. And besides, specifically, what other countries governments are putting their hands inside people’s pants and literally touching their genitals? The Texas House of Representatives passed the legislation on Friday to prohibit intrusive touching when people are seeking access to public buildings and forms of transportation.The bill, sponsored by Republican House member David Simpson, outlaws public servants from “intentionally, knowingly or recklessly touching anyone’s anus, sexual organ, buttocks or breasts, including touching through clothing, and any manner of touching that would be offensive to a reasonable person.Should the bill also pass the Senate and be signed into law, convicted TSA agents could face a $4,000 fine and up to one year in jail.Representative Simpson appeared on the Alex Jones Show Friday to discuss the bill:Texas, and in particular Austin, has been at the forefront of the revolt against the TSA since it began increasing its presence in airports some eighteen months ago. In December, Austin’s Airport Advisory Commission approved a resolution advising the city council to oppose airport body scanners and invasive body searches.The TSA has signaled its intention to install the scanners at Austin, but the date has continually been put back, with the agency saying it could now be as late as 2012 before the devices are activated.Meanwhile, in related news, the revolt against the TSA continues as a House Appropriations Subcommittee last week stripped $76 million out of the TSA budget for 2012. The funds had been designated for the purchase of 275 more naked body scanners. Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said that the body scanners are a nuisance. They’re slow. And they’re ineffective.

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.

Officials: terror groups are joining crime rings
By BARRY HATTON, Associated Press – MAY 17,11

LISBON, Portugal – Terror groups are becoming more deeply involved in international criminal networks to obtain financing for their operations, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday.Officials from the United States and Europe are co-hosting a three-day conference in Lisbon with African and Latin American countries to improve cooperation on cross-border crime, especially trans-Atlantic drug smuggling. Delegates from more than 60 nations attended the meeting which ends Thursday.
President Barack Obama said in a written message to the conference that terrorists increasingly turn to crime and criminal networks for funding.Troels Oerting, assistant director of European law enforcement agency Europol, told The Associated Press authorities are relatively sure that an al-Qaida offshoot in North Africa is involved in smuggling South American cocaine into Europe.Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM, is believed to be active in an area spanning 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers), from Niger to Mauritania. Experts estimate it has several hundred members.Law enforcement agencies have identified West Africa as a key transit region for cocaine shipments from Latin America to Europe.Oerting said authorities do not know fully about the connection between African terror groups and criminal activities because reliable information is hard to find in the region.

North Africa and West Africa is a huge problem area for us because it's weak states ... failed states or states that aren't easy to work with, he told the AP.Europol is making renewed efforts to locate the proceeds of crimes when suspects are captured, Oerting said. He said the Lisbon conference aims to improve collaboration with the West African countries, some of which sent delegates to Portugal.U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield said terror groups' involvement in the drug trade is a troubling combination.Brownfield, a senior anti-narcotics official, told reporters that drug trafficking is becoming intermingled with organizations that are dedicated either to terrorism or more political, ideological or religious agendas.He wouldn't be drawn on details about suspected links between AQIM and drug smuggling routes to Europe. Asked whether there was evidence of that, he said,I have not made that assertion. I would not question anyone else who does.Brownfield, accompanied by Assistant U.S. Attorney General Lanny Breuer and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrator Michele Leonhart, was due to travel later Tuesday to Ghana and Liberia to discuss law enforcement.Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Joao Cravinho said in his opening speech that al-Qaida's presence in northern Africa is burgeoning. He did not elaborate.Apart from the opening session, the conference took place behind closed doors.

Tanks storm southern city as Syria denies mass grave
By Suleiman al-Khalidi – MAY 17,11

AMMAN (Reuters) – Villagers near Syria's southern city of Deraa have found two separate graves containing up to 26 bodies, residents said on Tuesday, and tanks stormed a city in the region, cradle of the uprising against Baathist rule.Syria denied the existence of any mass grave near Deraa, saying such reports were part of campaign of incitement against authorities tackling a two-month wave of protests against President Bashar al-Assad.But state television quoted an Interior Ministry source as saying five bodies had been found near Deraa, the city where unrest first erupted in March and which troops and tanks stormed last month. It said officials were investigating.Four residents told Reuters that villagers had contacted the local civil defense after noticing two mounds of earth in wheatfields just outside Deraa's old city district. Under the mounds were 22 to 26 decomposed corpses, they said.Their reports could not be verified because authorities have barred most international media from operating in Syria.Since Assad sent tanks into Deraa three weeks ago to crush dissent, the army has moved into several other protest centers in the south of the country, around the capital Damascus and on the Mediterranean coast.

U.N. RESOLUTION

Syrian tanks moved overnight into a southern city in the Hauran Plain on Tuesday after encircling it for three weeks, activists said.Soldiers fired machineguns in the air as tanks and armored personnel carriers entered Nawa, a city of 80,000 people 60 km (40 miles) to the north of Deraa, said activists from the region.The troops are now combing neighborhoods in Nawa and arresting scores of men, one activist said.Syrian rights groups say at least 700 civilians have been killed by security forces. The government blames most of the violence on armed groups backed by Islamists and outside powers, saying they have killed more than 120 soldiers and police.The United States has condemned the crackdown as barbaric. Both Washington and the European Union have imposed sanctions on senior Syrian officials, though they have yet to target Assad.The 45-year old president had been partly rehabilitated in the West in the last three years, but the use of force to quell dissent in the last two months has reversed that trend.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday France and Britain were close to getting nine votes for a resolution on Syria at the U.N. Security Council, but Russia and China were threatening to use their veto.We are still threatened by a Chinese and Russian veto, but it seems that a majority of nine votes is being decided as we speak, he said, without specifying what the resolution would entail.

DEAD STREWN IN STREET

Soldiers moved on Saturday into the town of Tel Kelakh, close to Lebanon's northern border.Human rights campaigners said scores of people had been arrested since Monday and that Assad's forces were firing at several neighborhoods in the city of 30,000 people.Citing witnesses, the Local Coordination Committees, an activists' group, said several people were killed in Tuesday's offensive, adding to 12 civilians already killed by army shelling, shooting and sniper fire in the last three days.A Reuters correspondent on the Lebanese side of the border heard shooting and could see smoke rising from the village of Arida, which lies between Tel Kelakh and the border.They destroyed the houses, they cut electricity and water. The wounded are dying in our hands and the dead are strewn on the streets, a Tel Kelakh resident told Reuters by telephone.She said she was hiding in a basement with seven families.
State news agency SANA said security forces clashed with wanted armed terrorist members in Tel Kelakh on Monday, killing several and capturing others, and seizing weapons, ammunition and military uniform. Fifteen members of the security forces were wounded, it quoted a military source as saying.In her stone house just a few meters inside Lebanese land, Umm Fatima said she had sent her nine children to the nearby village of Wadi Khaled for safety.All night and day, there's gunfire. I'm so scared it will reach our homes -- I don't dare leave my home, she said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were also mass arrests in the cities of Homs, Deir al-Zor and Latakia, which security forces had robbed of normality.Assad, who trained as an ophthalmologist, has tried a mixture of reform and repression to stem the protests, inspired by uprisings across the Arab world.Authorities say he intends to launch national dialogue talks, a gesture rejected by opposition leaders and the main activists' protest group who say security forces must first stop shooting protesters and political prisoners must be freed.SANA news agency said Assad met a delegation from Deraa on Monday and discussed implementing reforms.The Facebook page Syria Revolution 2011 called for a general strike across Syria on Wednesday.Let us turn this Wednesday into a Friday,it said, referring to the day when most demonstrations take place after weekly Muslim prayers. It called for mass protests ... no schools (open), no universities, no shops or restaurants, not even taxis.(Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy in Wadi Khaled, Lebanon, and Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Andrew Roche)

NATO helicopter attacks Pakistani army post
By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and HEIDI VOGT, Associated Press – MAY 17,11

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistani troops and a NATO helicopter that crossed into Pakistani territory exchanged fire on Tuesday, wounding two soldiers, local officials said, and Pakistan protested, further straining relations with the West following the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.Also Tuesday, the army said a senior al-Qaida operative had been arrested in the port city of Karachi. In a brief statement, it said Yemeni national Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib Al Makki, had been working directly under al Qaida leaders along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It did not say when he was arrested.An American official said the suspect was a mid-level al-Qaida operative and praised the Pakistani military. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.Pakistan's army and intelligence agencies have faced intense international suspicions since bin Laden was killed on May 2 in an American raid on a large house in the army town of Abbottabad not far from the capital. Many American lawmakers have said bin Laden's location was a strong sign that Pakistan was playing a double game — that is accepting U.S. aid but also protecting terrorists. Pakistan denies that.The army said the arrest was a major development in unraveling the al-Qaida network operating in the region.The NATO firing incident took place in the Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan tribal region, a known sanctuary for Taliban and al-Qaida militants that launch attacks inside Afghanistan as well as Pakistan. It has been targeted repeatedly by covert U.S. drone strikes.

A Western military official in Afghanistan and a NATO spokesman said there was firing at the border, but they did not confirm that Pakistani border troops were the target or had been hit.The Pakistani army, facing internal criticism for failing to detect or stop the unilateral American raid that killed bin Laden, said it lodged a strong protest and demanded a meeting with NATO officials to discuss the incident. NATO said it would investigate.A similar event last year in which two Pakistani soldiers were killed prompted the army to immediately close a key border crossing to NATO supplies heading from Pakistan into landlocked Afghanistan, dramatically exposing the vulnerability of the war effort.The Western military official said a NATO base in Afghanistan took intermittent direct and indirect fire from the Pakistani side of the border. Two helicopters flew into the area, and one fired across the border after twice taking fire from the Pakistani side, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
NATO declined to say which coalition country was involved, but most of the helicopters that fly in that part of Afghanistan are American.Relations between the United States and Pakistan have been tense since the Navy SEALs raid on May 2.The Pakistani government is outraged that the U.S. carried out the operation without telling Pakistan first, and many U.S. officials have expressed disbelief that bin Laden could have lived in Abbottabad for at least five years without the authorities' knowledge.

NATO said it was still trying to determine whether the helicopter crossed in to Pakistani airspace.We're investigating the incident to determine a flight path by examining GPS waypoints in the helicopter computer, to construct a sequence of events and ultimately determine what led to the exchange of fire, said Dorrian, the NATO spokesman.Dorrian said NATO will work with the Pakistani government to determine what happened, saying they expect it will reflect the same good cooperation seen in recent military operations along the border. In recent weeks, NATO and Pakistan have launched coordinated offensives against militants on their respective sides of the border.This is going to be transparently looked into, Dorrian said.The Pakistani army said in a statement that its troops fired on the helicopter after it entered Pakistani airspace in the early hours of the morning. Two of its troops were injured when the helicopter returned fire, it said.The helicopter attack came a day after U.S. Sen. John Kerry wrapped up a 24-hour visit to Islamabad in which he worked to salvage the relationship with Pakistan, but also warned the government that actions, not words were needed to get ties back on track. Kerry was the most high-profile American to visit Pakistan since the raid on bin Laden.Also Tuesday, Pakistani security forces shot and killed four would-be suicide bombers, including three women, when they tried to attack an army checkpoint in the southwestern city of Quetta, said Daood Junejo, the city police chief. A fifth suicide bomber detonated his explosives but did not injure anyone, the police chief said.Security forces stopped the five as they approached the checkpoint in a car, said Junejo. One of the men got out of the car and blew himself up. The other four, who were also wearing suicide vests, were shot when they tried to lob grenades, he said.However, local TV footage showed what appeared to be security forces shooting at two of the women as they were laying on the ground, one of them with her hand raised over her head.Vogt reported from Kabul, Afghanistan. Associated Press writers Sebastian Abbot in Islamabad and Abdul Sattar in Quetta, Pakistan, contributed to this report.

NETANYAHU LAYS DOWN PEACE GUIDELINES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Netanyahu Adds Settlement Blocs to Peace Conditions
by Gil Ronen MAY 16,11

In a speech before the Knesset’s plenum in its special Herzl Day session, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu laid down five conditions for a peace treaty with the Palestinian Authority Arabs. These are:
1-The Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish nation’s state.
2-The treaty must be an end to the conflict.
3-The Arab refugee problem must be solved outside of Israel’s borders.
4-A Palestinian state will have to be demilitarized and a peace treaty must safeguard Israel’s security.
5-The settlement blocs will remain within the state of Israel and Jerusalem will remain its united capital.

Netanyahu’s speech can be seen as an accurate indication of what he intends to say when he addresses the U.S. Congress next Tuesday. It is unlikely that he will go back on any of the principles he laid down, given the venue: a Herzl Day address before the Knesset plenum. Fearing that the prime minister intended to announce concessions in Washington, MKs within Likud had demanded that Netanyahu address Israelis before he goes to the U.S..Based on Monday's speech, the prime minister does not appear to be planning any retreat from previous positions, and may arguably even have toughened his stance somewhat, although this is arguable.By and large, the speech does not depart from the one he delivered at Bar Ilan University in June 2009. In that speech as in the latest one, Netanyahu said that a PA state would be demilitarized, and that Israel would require security arrangements in a peace treaty. He also said that Jerusalem would remain united as Israel’s capital and that Arab refugees would be resettled outside Israel.

The condition added by Netanyahu in this speech is Israel’s retention of the large settlement blocs. In the Bar Ilan speech, Netanyahu said that the territorial issues would be determined in negotiations and that until then, Israel would not be building new settlements or expropriating land in Judea and Samaria.In Monday’s speech he was less defensive and more confident on this issue, raising the ante and announcing that Israel would insist on keeping the large settlement blocs in its possession.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Erekat: Israel No Partner for PA
by Chana Ya'ar MAY 17,11

Former Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat told a conference in Tel Aviv Monday there is no peace partner today in Israel that can work together with the PA. Erekat, currently a member of the Fatah faction's Central Committee, spoke at a conference of the Geneva Initiative.The conference was held to address the current political situation from a Palestinian, Israeli and international perspective, according to the Geneva Accord organization's website. Other speakers included former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and the organization's chairman, Yossi Beilin.The negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are over, Erekat told conference attendees bluntly.I'm tired of the Israelis ignoring me, he claimed. I'm tired of people trying to dictate to me what is good and what is not.Erekat, who served as the PA's chief negotiator for years, resigned that post in February over a scandal involving leaks of PA government documents.Nevertheless, he has retained his position within the faction and continues to wield considerable influence in the PA government as well.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Livni: Netanyahu, Stop Being the No-No Bear
by Gil Ronen MAY 17,11

MK Tzipi Livni (Kadima), who heads the Opposition in the Knesset, demanded Monday in her Herzl Day speech that the prime minister delineate the boundaries to which he is willing to withdraw as part of a deal with the Palestinian Authority.
However, she also mentioned Jerusalem, the settlement blocs and security arrangements, as Netanyahu did.She attacked Netanyahu over his speech, which spelled out five conditions for a treaty. I think that deep down in your heart you know what needs to be done. That, at least, is the excuse offered by those who explain why they still mutter that you will surprise us.Livni quoted Defense Minister Ehud Barak who said Israel must stop being the No-No Bear – an Israeli children’s book character that says no to everything. I have not heard a single yes’ on the podium, she scolded Netanyahu.Livni, who refused to join Netanyahu’s government as anything but an equal partner in a two-headed cabinet, added: I do not know what is worse for Israel – the fact that you know what can save Israel but are unable to reach a decision because of petty political concerns, or that you do not understand the situation. And both options are bad for Israel.I will defend Israel and its right to exist as a national home for the Jewish people,she promised.The same principles of security that will be part of any future arrangement; the blocs that will be part of Israel; Jerusalem – as I did during the negotiations [of the Kadima government with the PA]. But I cannot defend an ongoing failure by this government. And we can still change things. It is still not too late. September is not yet here.(Israel NationalNews.com)

Member states responsible for EU single voice abroad, top official says MEABH MCMAHON AND ANDREW WILLIS 16.05.2011 @ 17:44 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU's ability to speak with one voice on foreign policy is ultimately dependent on member states, with the European External Action Service (EEAS) to act as a facilitator a senior official has said.The comments by EEAS chief operating officer David O'Sullivan come amid intense debate over the organisation's job description, with top official Catherine Ashton recently subject to criticism.At the end of the day, it's the member states that decide whether they want to speak with one voice, and there are moments when there are divergences, O'Sullivan told EUobserver in an interview last week (10 May).The high representative has difficulty expressing a common European view if one doesn't exist.The seasoned EU official, who previously worked under Ashton in the commission's trade department [see video below], said Europe had adopted a more unified voice over the past decade, although the bloc's handling of the Libyan crisis was a notable exception.It is our hope that the service will facilitate this process … we cannot at the end of the day change fundamental disagreements between member states, he said.Others would like to see a more authoritative Ashton however, one that knocked heads together and came up with proposals until a common EU line was agreed.In an email to colleagues on Tuesday, German Green MEP Franziska Brantner said: Cathy Ashton is failing to grasp what her job is.Instead of proactively forging common positions, she passively waits until EU governments have outlined their positions, the lowest common denominator of which she then presents as her proposal.Days earlier, Belgian foreign minister Steven Vanackere spoke of his impatience.

We have always wanted the external action service to be the central axis around which member states can organize. But in the absence of a central axis which makes analysis and draws conclusions quickly, it's the Germans today, and tomorrow the French or the English who take part of this role,he told Le Soir, a Belgian daily.
The foreign minister also called into the question the service's long-term policy planning, describing documents he read during Belgium's recent EU presidency as disappointing.Much of the service's attentions have been necessarily directed towards other matters, with the organisational structure needing to be set up, in order to effectively react to the almost daily crises on the world stage, said O'Sullivan.On top of this, Ashton and the service have taken over the chairing of the foreign affairs council and the EU's political and security committee, and must equally manage the corps' 136 delegations overseas.I think it would be naïve to say after 100 days that we have designed a strategy for the next five to 10 years, because we haven't frankly, conceded O'Sullivan.He predicts this part of the service's activity will really start next spring when the internal structure of the EEAS is fully established.The eventual moving of service staff into a single building on Rond-Point Schuman is also likely to be a turning point, with employees from old commission departments and the council's secretariat currently spread out across Brussels.They are still in the same buildings doing pretty much the same work that they were before the service was created, O'Sullivan said.There isn't even a geographical move to symbolise the bringing together of the service.Watch a day in the life of David O'Sullivan.

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS (10 May 2011) Watch a day in the professional life of David O'Sullivan. Having worked in the European institutions for over 30 years, today the seasoned EU civil servant is the chief operating officer in the EU's diplomatic service, the EEAS. In this video, he talks to EUobserver about his past, his present, his relations with Catherine Ashton and the impact of the EU on his native Ireland.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3oHkvaIQeY&feature=player_embedded

ISRAEL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CONGRESS SUPPORT
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144237

Israelis Wave Flags on Naqba Day
by Hillel Fendel MAY 16,11


While Arabs around the world, and especially in the PA-controlled areas, commemorated Catastrophe Day, many Israelis celebrated the anniversary of Israel’s Declaration of Independence by distributing and waving Israeli flags.Volunteers stood at intersections and gave out the flags to drivers. The initiative was that of Shomron Regional Council head Gershon Mesika and Shomron Residents Council director Benny Katzover.Naqba Day literally means Catastrophe Day, and commemorates the catastrophe of the founding of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948. The Palestinian Authority teaches that had it not been for that event, Arabs would still be living in their homes, and a Palestinian country would have been established on the entirety of their ancestors’ historic homeland. Such a state would have replaced the Jewish population of the time, estimated at over 600,000 - likely leading to large-scale bloodshed. In fact, however, there was no interest among the Arab nations of that time to establish an Arab state in the Holy Land. The Arab League rejected the Partition Plan of 1947, which called for the establishment of such a state. Even after 1948, when Jordan took control of Judea and Samaria, and Egypt grabbed Gaza, those countries did not move to grant Arab independence to these areas.

Only in 1964, in fact, when Jordan still controlled Judea and Samaria, was the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) founded for the purpose of establishing a Palestinian Arab state.Experience has shown that had the Arabs not waged war against Israel in 1948, most of them would still be living in their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, Safed, and elsewhere. In the event, however, the Arab countries declared war on fledgling Israel and called upon the Arab residents to leave - thus becoming refugees until this very day.

End of the Aspiration to Wipe Out Jews
On the other hand, the establishment of the State of Israel did put an end to another Arab aspiration – that which was heard from the throats of many Arabs in various attacks in the decades leading up to 1948 – namely, Itbah al-Yahud (Slaughter the Jews)! Some have even likened Naqba Day to an attempt by former Nazis to mark the end of World War II as their Catastrophe in that it marked the end of their dream to liquidate world Jewry.In an open letter to residents, Mesika gave a different translation to the word Naqba,The Palestinian Authority has chosen to call this day Holocaust Day,and the establishment of the State of Israel as a holocaust.This is no wonder, when we see that the head of this terrorist authority is none other than Holocaust-denier Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas)… In response to the de-legitimization of Israel by our own extremist left, and to the PA’s attempts to frighten us with their Naqba Day violence, I believe that the simple act of waving the Israeli flag on this day will emit a sense of safety and faith in the justness of our cause.

Ayalon: The Real Catastrophe
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called yesterday upon the international community to recognize the real Naqba of 1948 and afterwards – namely, the persecution and eviction of hundreds of thousands of Jews from their homes in Arab countries.While the Arabs in 1948 were involved in hostilities against the Jews, Ayalon said, the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa were not present in a theater of war, yet overnight their citizenship was revoked, their assets stolen and they were expelled or forced to flee.While the Arabs refugees numbered just over half a million, Ayalon added,the Jewish refugees numbered over 900,000. And because they were urban and wealthy, their assets accounted for almost double those of the more rural Arabs.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Israel's Netanyahu takes aim at Hamas
By IAN DEITCH, Associated Press – Mon May 16, 6:37 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday took a tough line toward an emerging Palestinian government ahead of a high-profile trip to Washington, saying "those that want to destroy us are not partners in peace."

Netanyahu reiterated a willingness to agree to a Palestinian state under certain conditions but made clear he did not believe it was possible if the Islamic militant group Hamas, which is set to join a Palestinian unity government with the Western-leaning Fatah movement, does not recognize Israel.I want to make peace with a Palestinian state that wants to end the conflict. I am not willing to accept a Palestinian state that wants to continue it, he said in comments that came a day after a series of deadly clashes with Palestinians demanding that refugees from the time of Israel's creation in 1948 and their descendants be allowed to return to their lost homes.Netanyahu questioned the Palestinian commitment to peace after Sunday's confrontations along Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. He also noted Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's calls for the end of the Zionist enterprise.A Palestinian government, of which half declares daily that it is intent on annihilating Israel, is not a partner for peace, Netanyahu told his parliament Monday.Hamas, a violent Iranian-backed group, is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S, EU and others because it has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks. Hamas' official charter calls for the destruction of Israel.Fatah and Hamas agreed last week to form a unity government to end a four-year rift that has left them with rival governments: a Hamas regime in Gaza and a Fatah-dominated administration in the West Bank. The Palestinians, who hope to establish a state in the two territories, say the new government will fill a caretaker role until new elections can be held next year.

Aides to Netanyahu described Monday's speech as a taste of the message Netanyahu will deliver at the White House on Friday.President Barack Obama is expected to deliver a Mideast policy speech on Thursday, a day before his meeting with Netanyahu.
In his speech Monday, Netanyahu reiterated a long-standing list of demands from the Palestinians. Among them: recognition of Israel as the Jewish homeland, retaining major Jewish settlements in the West Bank and keeping all of Jerusalem under Israel control.Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, retorted that the Palestinians don't have a partner on the Israeli side. Netanyahu has chosen settlements over peace, Erekat said.The Palestinians claim all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war from Jordan, as parts of an independent state. They decline to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, fearing it would undermine their backing of the right of return of Palestinian refugees, a concept Israel rejects.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday declared three days of mourning for 15 people were killed the day before in mass marches toward Israel's borders from Gaza, Syria and Lebanon.Sunday's unrest occurred as the Palestinians marked the nakba, or catastrophe — the term they use to describe their defeat and displacement in the war that followed Israel's founding on May 15, 1948 when Israel overcame the armies of surrounding Arab states as well as local Arabs who attacked after the Jewish state was declared.Israel's U.N. ambassador, Meron Reuben, on Monday sent two letters of complaint about the border incidents to the Security Council.We expect the international community to take action to prevent further provocations," he wrote about the clash on the Lebanon border, warning that such actions carry with them the serious potentional for escalation.The letter charged that the storming of the Syrian border indicated that Syria was seeking such provocations as a cynical distraction from other issues.
Associated Press writer Anita Snow contributed to this report from the United Nations.

NOW THERE SAYING SARKOZY MIGHT HAVE SETUP KAHN OF THE IMF AS A POLITICAL PLOY TO STOP HIM FROM RUNNING AGAINST HIM IN THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

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 17,2011

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -61.98
10:30 AM -54.94
11:00 AM -131.42
11:30 AM -146.10
12:00 PM -151.25
12:30 PM -109.40
01:00 PM -141.83
01:30 PM -100.70
02:00 PM -91.76
02:30 PM -100.34
03:00 PM -64.70
03:30 PM -83.33
04:00 PM -68.79 12,479.58

S&P 500 1328.98 -0.49

NASDAQ 2783.21 +0.90

GOLD 1,483.50 -7.10

OIL 97.14 -0.23

TSE 300 13,441.10 +49.70

CDNX 1968.82 -27.45

S&P/TSX/60 770.54 +4.60

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -78 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -151 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,479.80.OIL opens at $96.43 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -163 points at low today so far.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -163 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Contest for Design of New Banknotes
by Hillel Fendel MAY 16,11


The Bank of Israel has announced a competition for the design of the new series of banknotes.The Bank of Israel says it invites suitable candidates to take part in a competitive proceeding for the selection of a designer for a new series of State of Israel banknotes.It was announced several months ago that the current series of State of Israel banknotes was to be replaced. Currently bearing the likenesses of the late Prime Minister Moshe Sharett, Nobel Literature Prizewinner Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and former Presidents Yitzchak Ben-Tzvi and Zalman Shazar, the new notes will feature writers Rachel the Poetess, Leah Goldberg, Sha’ul Tchernichovsky and Natan Alterman.The replacement of banknotes once every 12–15 years is an accepted practice in advanced economies, the Bank of Israel states, occasioned mainly by the aging of the security features on the banknotes and the development of more advanced anti- counterfeit means.The banknotes in circulation today - the Second Series of the New Israel Shekel, issued in 1999 - will be replaced by redesigned banknotes with advanced security features. The denominations will not change, and will remain NIS 20, 50, 100, and 200.The Public Committee for the Planning of Banknotes and Coins will serve as competition referee, on behalf of the Governor of the Bank of Israel, for the choice of design and designer of the series among the design works that reach the final stage of the proceeding. The Committee will examine the design works from the standpoints of aesthetics, artistic quality, and suitability for successful performance as banknotes.

Monetary prizes will be offered to the top three design works, with 150,000, 100,000 and 50,000 shekels going to the top three finishers, respectively.Only those individuals who satisfy all of the following requirements may take part in the proceeding:A citizen or resident of Israel;Holder of a certificate attesting to the completion of higher studies in design and graphics and at least five years’ proven experience in graphic design work, or alternatively, at least 10 years’ proven experience in graphic design work;Strong proficiency in Hebrew and English;Absence of conviction and/or of investigation regarding an offense that carries moral turpitude, except where the limitations clause under the Criminal Record and Penitence Regulations Law, 1981, applies, and/or the absence of any current legal proceeding or investigation against the candidate that is defined as material in the Bank’s exclusive judgment;Bookkeeping certification.The deadline for the tendering of bids is two months from now, July 17, 2011, at 14:00. Bids may be tendered Sunday–Thursday mornings at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem or at the Bank of Israel branch in Tel Aviv.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

Israel Complains to UN Against Syria and Lebanon
by Elad Benari MAY 17,11

Israel has filed a complaint in the United Nations against Syria and Lebanon, following Sunday’s border incidents, Voice of Israel Radio reported.According to the report, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Meron Reuven, wrote in a letter to the Security Council that Syria allowed protesters to infiltrate Israel from its territory, in order to make what he termed a cynical provocation and to distract attention from the issues within its own territory.He was referring to Sunday’s Nakba Day incident, when nearly 1,000 Syrian Arabs who called themselves Palestinians invaded the Golan Heights. Syrian troops at the border did not prevent the infiltration.The Syrians reached the Druze town of Majdal Shams, located near the border and on the road to the Hermon Mountain range, causing the IDF to try to beat them back into their own territory.Reuven’s letter also complained about Lebanon, over Sunday’s incident in which tens of thousands of Arabs were bused to the Lebanese border, and several hundred or more managed to cross the border briefly until being driven back by the presence of IDF forces.Reuven wrote that such actions can cause a dangerous escalation, and added that Israel expects the international community to act to prevent further provocations.

Voice of Israel Radio also reported of a heated argument in the UN Security Council between the ambassadors of Israel, Syria and Iran, after Reuven said that Syria and Iran support terrorism. According to the report, Reuven made the comments during a hearing on the issue of international terrorism. In response, Iranian ambassador Mohammad Khazaee accused Israel of shooting civilians in Majdal Shams. Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said that Israel is conducting a Holocaust among the Palestinians,said the report.The report added that Reuven said in response that Syria’s security forces have been firing on protesting civilians, and expressed his objection to Jaafari’s contempt for the Holocaust.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:3-6,19-21
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,(U.S.A) and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,(U.S.A) and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,(AMERICA) my people,(CHRISTIANS,JEWS) that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you,(WITH FALSE FLAG TERRORISM) and double unto her double according to her works:(DOUBLE-EMP 1ST,THEN RUSSIA NUKE ATTACKS U.S.A) in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.(PROBABLY A RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACK WILL SET THE WHOLE SITUATION UP AS RUSSIA HACKS THE USA ARMY COMPUTERS.THEN THE EMP,THEN THE NUKE ATTACK)
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.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

ISRAELS NEW SECURITY CHIEF
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144205

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHfZBQyr2Fs&feature=player_embedded
Secret Weather Weapons Can Kill Millions, Warns Top Russian Politican
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com May 16, 2011

A top Duma political leader caused shock waves in a recent television interview when he warned that Russia could deploy an arsenal of new technology to destroy any part of the planet and kill over a hundred million people using secret weather weapons if the United States, the UN or Georgia tried to stop Russia’s entry into the WTO.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky is Vice-Chairman of the Russian State Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the first officially sanctioned opposition party after the fall of communism. The LDPR has deep links with the former KGB and Communist Party and has become a significant force in Russian politics, despite Zhirinovsky himself being branded as a militant neo-fascist.
According to a translation provided by a Russian speaker, during the interview Zhirinovsky went off on a bizarre tangent after he was asked how Russia should treat countries like Georgia and the United States who try and block Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization.Saying that the American government in Washington DC had no future and would collapse,Zhirinovsky cited Russia’s supremacy in space and stated that the country had,Lots of money, resources, and new weapons that no one knows about.With them we will destroy any part of the planet within 15 minutes,he sensationally warned.

Not an explosion, not a ray burst, not some kind of laser, not lightning, but a quiet and peaceful weapon,added Zhirinovsky, warning that whole continents will be put to sleep forever and that 120 million will die if anyone interfered with Russia’s claim on the Kuril Islands, which are the subject of a territorial dispute with Japan.The female presenter of the news program smirked as he made the comments, but Zhirinovsky’s manner was far from jovial.Zhirinovsky made reference to the recent tsunami in Japan, suggesting that the new weapons to which he refers are related to weather control technology, which has been intensely studied by both the U.S. and Russia since the 1950′s and is commonly used today.Threatening to annex Georgia completely, Zhirinovsky warned,And then there will be another tsunami, on the other side of the planet, in the Caucasus. Zhirinovsky’s reference to the Kuril Islands in connection with the devastating tsunami that hit Japan in March is a not so subtle suggestion that Russia had something to do with causing the natural disaster that killed thousands, led to the Fukushima crisis and threatened to derail Japan’s economic recovery.

Zhirinovsky also warned of a coming third world war emerging from the current turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa that would lead to the collapse of current global institutions like the EU and the WTO and the rise of a new international order led by Russia.Moscow has routinely employed the weather control technology of cloud seeding for decades to ensure sunny skies when military parades are taking place on national holidays, but turning the weather into a devastating weapon to be used in warfare is a frightening new prospect.However, as the revelations of weather modification expert Ben Livingston, a former Navy Physicist who briefed President Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather control back in the 1960′s during the Vietnam era, have documented, as far back as the early 1950′s the United States was funneling money into programs aimed at using the weather as a weapon during the cold war. It would be naive to think that the Russians weren’t engaged in similar research.Moreover, in an April 1997 speech to the University of Georgia, Athens, then US Secretary of Defense William Cohen spoke of the threat of an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.For many years, suspicions have circulated around the purpose of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and DARPA. In his underground bestseller Angels Don’t Play This HAARP, author Nick Begich summarizes the evidence that suggests HAARP is involved in weather control for nefarious purposes.Scientists at NASA have discovered A close link between electrical disturbances on the edge of our atmosphere and impending quakes on the ground below, which has led to claims that earthquakes are being artificially induced as a form of modern warfare by HAARP.

The technology to which Zhirinovsky refers is rapidly moving out of the realms of science fiction and into scientific fact as we progress further into the 21st century.While Zhirinovsky is a controversial character in Russia with an incendiary personality, he is nonetheless a major political player. Although Zhirinovsky has been dismissed as a clown and has made many offbeat comments in the past, it would be naive to dismiss him as being on the fringe.As well as being Vice-Chairman of the Russian State Duma and leader of the LDPR, Zhirinovsky is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The deputy Duma speaker has announced his intention to run in the 2012 Russian presidential elections, where he is expected to finish third in the race.Zhirinovsky’s comments have been no less controversial in the past. He once advocated dropping nuclear bombs over the Atlantic Ocean to flood Great Britain.What are we to make of these remarkable comments? Is Zhirinovsky just a crank, or has he truly spilled the beans on Russia’s intention to unleash an arsenal of new weather warfare technology in its bid to dominate the globe?

Abbas Marches w/ Hamas in Ramallah
by Hillel Fendel MAY 16,11

Fatah and Hamas still don't get along that well - unless Yasser Arafat and anti-Israel ceremonies bring out their common denominator, as they did yesterday in Ramallah.Yesterday, for the first time in four years, Abbas and Hamas leaders marched together, and lay a wreath of flowers on the grave of arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat. Hamas does not view Arafat as its leader, but placed the flowers as a goodwill gesture to Fatah.Tens of thousands of Arabs arrived in the city for a Nakba Day parade. Ramallah is located practically adjacent to Beit El, some 25 kilometers north of Jerusalem, and is the headquarters for Abbas’ Fatah government.Also on Sunday, at the Kalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, dozens of Arab rioters threw rocks at IDF soldiers, and violence broke out. Four rioters were arrested. Other Nakba Day flashpoints were in Bethlehem, along the Gaza border, and near Neveh Tzuf in the lower Shomron. It was announced that Fatah and Hamas leaders met in Gaza for talks over the weekend, in preparation for a high-level meeting in Cairo next week. On the agenda was the means to make the reconciliation agreement a success and remove all related obstacles in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.(Israel NationalNews.com)

Fukushima nuclear plant not built to take megaquake
By Mari Saito and Kevin Krolicki – Mon May 16, 10:10 am ET

TOKYO (Reuters) – The magnitude 9 earthquake that struck a Japanese nuclear plant in March hit with almost 30 percent more intensity than it had been designed to withstand, raising withstand, raising the possibility that key systems were compromised even before a massive tsunami hit.Embattled operator Tokyo Electric Power said Monday that partial data recovered from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant showed the ground acceleration during the quake exceeded its design specifications at three of the six reactors.This was clearly a larger earthquake than we had forecast, said Junichi Matsumoto, a Tepco spokesman for nuclear issues. It would have been hard to anticipate this.The March 11 quake and the nearly 15-meter (50-ft) tsunami that followed devastated Japan's northeastern coast and killed more than 15,000 people. Another 9,500 are still missing.The disaster also unleashed the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Some 80,000 residents around the plant some 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo have been evacuated because of the risk from radiation.Japanese officials have previously said the meltdown that took place in three of the reactors at Fukushima was caused by the loss of power to cooling systems when the tsunami knocked out backup diesel generators. Tepco has repeatedly called the combined disaster an event beyond expectations.

But new details released this week have called some of that account into question. At the same time, new data and inspections at the site have shown that the reactors suffered far more serious damage than previously thought and forced officials to abandon their initial approach to bringing the plant to a shutdown.Officials said it was not clear whether the Fukushima plant had been damaged by the quake and said an immediate inspection was impossible because of the all-hands effort to stabilize the reactors.But a finding that the reactors or key safety equipment were damaged by the quake itself could complicate the growing debate on the future of nuclear power in Japan at a time when Tokyo is under pressure to tighten safety standards.Prime Minister Naoto Kan has pledged a blank-slate review of Japan's energy policy in the wake of the accident. Under pressure for his handling of the crisis, Kan has won support for a decision to close a second nuclear plant seen at risk from a major earthquake.

COLD SHUTDOWN

Surveys released Monday showed that two-thirds of voters back Kan's move to call for the Hamaoka nuclear plant in central Japan to be shut down until it can be better defended against a disaster like the quake and tsunami that hit Fukushima.The government and Tepco are set to provide their first formal update on efforts to stabilize the Fukushima plant on Tuesday.Officials have said they will stick with a goal of shutting down the reactors by January. At that point of cold shutdown, the fuel in the reactors would be cool enough so that it would not be at risk of boiling off the water being pumped in as a coolant and radiation barrier.Once workers have gained control of Fukushima, attention could shift to the effort to retrieve the fuel from the site, including the melted uranium in three of the reactors, and send it to a more permanent storage site. Experts have said that could take a decade or more.The most important work is to cool the reactors with water and that is working, said Goshi Hosono, a special advisor to Kan on nuclear power.Japanese officials said this week what many outside experts had expected: that the uranium fuel in reactors Nos. 1, 2 and 3 had melted down hours after the quake. Hosono said outside experts had also told him that the fuel in the No. 1 reactor appeared to have leaked out of the steel vessel designed to contain it at the core.The effort to shut down the plant has also been complicated by the growing pool of radioactive water backing up inside the reactors and attached buildings because of leaks, officials have said.

Japan's government has promised an independent audit of the Fukushima disaster, including whether a faster response or a quicker venting of radioactive steam could have prevented powerful hydrogen explosions and the meltdowns.We can certainly say that if the venting took place a little earlier, we could have prevented the situation from worsening, Nuclear Safety Commission Chairman Haruki Madarame told parliament.In another instance of an apparent error in judgment, Tepco said that a worker may have shut down a cooling system known as the isolation condenser shortly after the earthquake when he saw that the No. 1 reactor was losing temperature quicker than the utility's guidelines allowed.At the time, we could not have known that the tsunami was coming and that we would lose power, Matsumoto said.(Additional reporting by Chisa Fujioka; Editing by Alex Richardson)

WELL NOW GAY BAY ANDERSON COOPER HAS A CNN PATNER FROM THE SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUP DON LEMON.

CNN anchorman Don Lemon comes out as a gay man
– Mon May 16, 7:09 pm ET

NEW YORK – CNN anchor Don Lemon has come out as a gay man in his new book, a disclosure he knows comes at a risk.While Lemon's memoir, titled Transparent, also covers his journalism career, he's prepared for much of the reaction to focus on more personal matters, which include growing up without a father and his revelation that he was sexually abused as a child.In his book, the 45-year-old Lemon writes of having lived with dark, ugly secrets that took him years to bring into the light.

Being black made being gay feel even worse, he said in an interview Monday, because of how the black community perceives a gay person. An African-American male is taught that he has to be masculine.And our community is steeped in religion, with the church preaching against homosexuality. I prayed a lot growing up that I would change, that I would be straight, he said.But no matter how good I was, how much I prayed and denied what I was, it was always there.Lemon says it would be naive to assume that the public won't have strong opinions about what he has written, and he's braced for some people to react negatively.But it's important for everyone to be truthful about who they are, he said, adding that CNN has been very supportive of his decision to go public.Few national television news anchors have publicly acknowledged being gay, with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow perhaps the best known.Lemon, who serves as a correspondent and anchors CNN Newsroom during weekend prime time, joined the network in 2003. Transparent will be released next month.Online:
http://www.cnn.com

BOJ Shirakawa says Japan economy in severe state after By Leika Kihara – MAY 16,11

TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said the country's economy was in a very severe state due to damage from the March earthquake, signaling that the central bank was sticking to its ultra-loose monetary policy bias.
Shirakawa repeated that the BOJ would do its utmost to beat deflation but added that any price rises needed to be driven by solid economic growth, emphasizing the need for policies to boost Japan's potential growth.Deflation is a very serious problem. But the more serious problem is that Japan's economic strength is gradually declining, Shirakawa told a parliamentary committee meeting on Tuesday.Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda told the same committee that beating deflation was a top priority for the government, even as it battles to contain the damage from the devastating earthquake.(Reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Edmund Klamann)