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: Abbas, Just Say the Six Words
by Gil Ronen JUNE 28,11
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to just say six words - I will accept the Jewish state - in his address to the Jewish Agency Board of Governors Tuesday, Palestinian society is split now between those who actively are prepared to use force, violence, terror and war to wipe us out and those who refuse stand up to that first half,he said.That’s basically the division there. This remains the heart of the problem.Nevertheless, he added, I understand that we will have to have a historic compromise which is very painful, so I stood before my people, the people of Israel, and I said numerous times that I will accept a Palestinian state. Now President Abbas must stand before his people and he has to say these six words, I will accept the Jewish State.He has to say it. And I will repeat this over and over and over again because it is the attempt to fudge, it’s the attempt to fudge and evade and obscure this essential component of peace, the removal of this basic obstacle to peace, that is required, and this is what the international community must face up to.Regarding the demilitarization of the future Palestinian state,Netanyahu repeated the formulations he used in his speech to the joint session of Congress.
We don’t want a repeat of what happened when we withdrew from Gaza or from South Lebanon. I believe that this will require for Israel to maintain a long-term military presence along the Jordan River. There will be arguments about sovereignty, about territory, but I think that... demilitarization and a long-term military presence along the Jordan River are essential to guaranteeing any peace. A peace you cannot defend will not hold. A peace you can defend will.Netanyahu said Israel would incorporate within its final borders what are called the settlement blocs, these large, urban communities that are fairly dense and concentrated alongside Greater Tel Aviv and Greater Jerusalem, and other areas of critical, strategic and national importance...We believe also that Jerusalem must remain united, under Israeli sovereignty. It’s the only time in its millennial history that it has assured the free and unfettered access of all three monotheistic religions to their holy places.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Barak Slams Flotilla Organizers: No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza by Elad Benari JUNE 28,11
Defense Minister Ehud Barak slammed on Tuesday the organizers of this year’s planned Freedom Flotilla to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, saying the flotilla intended to go to Gaza is nothing but a provocation.Speaking at a tribute dinner to IDF reservists, Barak said: The facts and figures are clear and visible – there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. If the flotilla organizers are so sensitive to human suffering, they should direct their efforts to ensure the immediate release of Gilad Shalit, or at least work to arrange regular visits with him by the International Red Cross.Hamas terrorists kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit more than five years ago, and have been holding him in Gaza ever since. Since his kidnapping, the terror organization has refused to allow Shalit to have any visits by the Red Cross.Due to Hamas’ refusal to allow Shalit this basic right of a hostage, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said last week he would put an end to the many benefits and privileges enjoyed by Hamas terror prisoners in Israeli prisons.In his remarks on Tuesday, Barak also addressed the Israeli government’s decision to order the IDF to interdict the flotilla.In accordance with the Cabinet’s decision, I instructed the IDF to stop the flotilla if the ships do not comply with the requests to turn to the Ashdod or El Arish ports,he said.We are monitoring the situation continuously, especially due to the realization that there may be violent elements on the ship.
Earlier on Tuesday, there were reports that the activists taking part in the flotilla are planning to kill soldiers using chemical weapons.The activists denied this, saying the charges of plots to kill are simply excuses for the IDF to justify violence.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IDF Delivers Goods to Gaza but Flotilla Leader Claims Blockade by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 28,11
The IDF oversees the shipment of 6,000 tons of food, fuel, merchandise and building material to Gaza every day but flotilla leaders allege a blockade exists. The requests never exceed the transit vehicles' capacity.The daily deliveries never turn into media frenzy, according to IDF spokesmen.In contrast, previous convoys, instigating violent provocations with Israeli or Egyptian forces, rarely delivered substantial amounts of goods into Gaza,the IDF said on its website.Israel maintains a maritime blockade on Hamas-controlled Gaza to allow the Navy to stop the smuggling of missiles and advanced weapons for the use of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations that use Gaza as a launching pad for attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.The IDF noted that aid from European convoys to Gaza has continuously been transferred overland in an orderly way without the violence that characterized last year’s IHH-backed flotilla.
After Navy commandos prevented the ships from sailing to Gaza, the boats were led to the port in Ashdod, where it was discovered that the IHH’s Mavi Marmara ship was not carrying any aid at all.The 2010 Gaza flotilla’s five other ships arrived with only 20 truckloads worth of goods, including expired medication. Before the ships left ports for Gaza, a flotilla organizer said the real aim was to Isolate Israel in the international community.In contrast, the European convoy Miles of Smiles 3 last month arrived at the Rafiah land crossing at the Egyptian border. The convoy’s ten European human rights organizations transferred 30 tons of medical supplies, 12 ambulances, baby food, and wheelchairs to Gaza by coordinating efforts with the Egyptian Red Crescent,the IDF stated.It added, The transfer of goods and materials did not entail violence because the organizers focused on delivering supplies, rather than delegitimizing Israel through a violent confrontation.The IDF explained how to donate to Gaza Arabs by contacting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross.Humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza submit all formal requests to Israel’s COGAT, a governmental body that coordinates civilian policy including humanitarian issues, infrastructure projects and economic projects.Last year, Israel changed its more limited policy and allowed all goods to enter Gaza after being checked, except for dual-use products, which undergo a review to make sure they will not be used for the Hamas terrorist infrastructure and weapons.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Gaza flotilla begins mission despite EU warning
ANDREW RETTMAN 28.06.2011 @ 09:27 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Organisers say one ship is already at sea and 10 are to sail from Greek ports on Wednesday (29 June) or Thursday, after EU countries warned the group not to go ahead.Claude Leostic from the Paris-based Association France Palestine Solidarite (AFPS) told EUobserver that one boat left France at the weekend and is en route to a confidential meeting point in the Mediterranean Sea.The flotilla, which has two MEPs on board and which organisers say is carrying humanitarian and medical supplies, aims to reach Gaza by Sunday.Leostic noted that ships were obstructed in leaving from Spain, Turkey and the UK. The Greek contingent was to sail on Tuesday but several vessels faced last minute problems with official paperwork, putting off the departure until Wednesday or Thursday.When we met with the Greek authorities it was clear they were under heavy pressure. We were even told internally that the Israeli government has warned Greece they would press European countries not to give it financial aid. It's hard to resist that kind of pressure, she said.Greek and Israeli authorities denied the report.That is not true,Greek foreign ministry spokesman Gregoris Delavekouras told this website. We do not expect any impact on our bilateral relations with Israel [if the Greek boats go in the end]. The Gaza flotilla is a very specific issue.A Turkish diplomatic source indicated the Turkish flotilla element was blocked for the sake of bilateral relations, however. We do not want another crisis with the Israelis at this point, the contact said.
Israeli authorities noted the flotilla has no diplomatic support from the EU, the UN or the US. All 27 EU countries in Brussels on Friday signed a statement saying: Humanitarian assistance ... [to Gaza] should be in accordance with the relevant framework and decisions of the UN and should take care not to endanger human lives.A spokeswoman for EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton confirmed that the line should be read as a warning not to go.Israel is preparing for a potentially violent confrontation despite the fact its soldiers last year caused international outrage when they killed nine flotilla members.Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) spokeswoman Avital Leibovich said: We have developed soft power tactics' in order to make use of every possibility before engaging in contact with the illegal passengers. Last week, our navy held a wide training session, simulating a variety of scenarios.With one French flotilla ship carrying national radio, TV and print journalists, Leibovich added that Israel has also made fresh plans to defend itself in the media.Regarding PR, although we embedded journalists last year on [our] navy ship, we intend to do it again - with a larger number of journalists. We also developed a unique system of passing footage from our ships directly to our base on land, so that we will be able to distribute it quickly to the world.For her part, AFPS' Leostic described the project as a form of civil disobedience against both Israel and EU governments.If our governments had done what should be done [take action against Gaza's isolation] we would be sitting quietly at home, she said.It's not that I want to go and be attacked by commandos in the middle of the Mediterranean. But we owe it to everybody. If countries refuse to abide by international law and nobody does anything, it's the duty of citizens to act. It goes beyond Palestine and Israel.The IDF's Leibovich said it has a right to stop the boats under the maritime law, the San Remo convention. She added that three months ago a ship claiming to be carrying food to Gaza, the Victoria, had bullets, mortars and ship-to-shore missiles on board.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (16 June 2011) – There is a 50% chance our mission will be successful, Irish MEP Paul Murphy told EUobserver a week and a half before his departure. He is currently on the Freedom flotilla Saorise. We're a bit delayed now because of Israeli attempts to prevent ships from leaving port, he told EUobserver yesterday (28 June) via twitter. Confident we'll be on way by end of week.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40rfmsy-Gw&feature=player_embedded
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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Dow +38 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -12 points at low today.
Dow +85 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,507.10.OIL opens at $93.16 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
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Dow +85 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -12 points at low today.
Dow +85 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)
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EU to Greece: No more solidarity if you vote No
LEIGH PHILLIPS 28.06.2011 @ 18:13 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - On the eve of perhaps the most significant vote in the Greek parliament since the return of democracy to the country in 1974, the European Commission has warned Greek deputies that if they do not vote the right way, then everything changes as to whether EU solidarity continues.The Greek parliament opened debate on Tuesday (28 June) on a draconian package of public spending cuts, structural reforms and a massive €50 billion sell-off of state assets imposed by international lenders. The Greek parliament is due to vote on the mid-term package on Wednesday and hold a second vote on its implementation on Thursday.In a stern public statement issued the same day, EU economics commissioner Olli Rehn said there are only two options for the country: pass the mid-term package or default.The only way to avoid immediate default is for parliament to endorse the revised economic programme,he said in a communique read out to reporters by his spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj-Tardio.To those who speculate about other options, let me say this clearly: there is no Plan B to avoid default.In recent weeks, a range of commentators, including mainstream and heterodox economists have recommended a range of other paths out of the crisis than those on the table.The EU executive however dismissed such ideas as unrealistic.According to press reports over the last hours, there seems to be an illusion that there will be other plans on our desk, Altafaj-Tardio told reporters.This should be clear in all journalists, politicians and markets' minds.Pressed whether the commissioner's words meant that if the vote is defeated, Greece will be allowed to go bankrupt, the spokesman said: If Greece does everything to take the objectives set a year ago, then EU solidarity continues. If not, then of course everything changes.He refused to answer whether a country can default and still be a member of the eurozone.We are not putting ourselves in a scenario without Greece at this point in time,he said.
However, a eurozone source close to talks on the subject confirmed to EUobserver that there are indeed half-formed ideas about emergency measures to take in the event that the Greek parliament votes down the measures.It would be extremely irresponsible if there were no Plan B. There have been discussions on what to do, a contingency plan in the event that Greece doesn't vote the right way, said the contact.Ideas include a show of public support, possibly with the European Financial Stability Fund directly purchasing Greek government debt - an option that has until now been forbidden.One idea would involve allowing Greece to miss a payment and the EFSF then swooping in and buying up debt at a significantly discounted rate, but with very strict conditions.Another possibility is that Greece could return to the private sector for funding, although such a move would entail borrowing at acutely high rates.A market analyst speaking to this website also confirmed that in theory, there is nothing preventing Athens from selling debt to private creditors, at least for a short period.In the event of a failed vote, Greece could still make the repayments due in July and August by borrowing in the short-term money market, albeit at a very steep interest rate, Sony Kapoor, the director of international economic think-tank Re-Define, told EUobserver.This would buy two more months of negotiation time.In the same statement, the commissioner again told opposition forces to drop their resistance to the mid-term package and forge the necessary political consensus.Rehn appeared to respond to critics alarmed at the unprecedented interference by Brussels in domestic party politics, a phenomenon that has accelerated over the course of the year as the EU has successfully intervened to force cross-party consensus in three member states around election times, in order to prevent results from upsetting the economic apple cart.He stressed that he fully respects the prerogatives and the sovereignty of the Greek parliament. He also insisted, against criticisms from the left that working people, pensioners and the poor are being hit hardest by the austerity measures: This is about social justice, saying that the mid-term package fights tax evasion and supports honest work.
Rolling black-outs
The austerity has provoked furious country-wide resistance to the measures. A two-day general strike was launched on Tuesday.According to on-the-ground reports, industrial action managed to paralyse much of the country although demonstrations were substantially smaller than during the last, one-day general strike, with an estimated 25,000 gathered in front of the parliament building.Flights were largely grounded as air traffic controllers struck, while electric company workers have maintained rolling blackouts throughout the country. Most large private-sector enterprises and public-sector services were shut down, but many small and medium-sized businesses continued to operate as usual, with workers afraid for their jobs if they participate.Meanwhile, violent skirmishes broke out in the capital between police and protesters, with extensive use of tear gas and stun grenades. Some 18 people have been detained, according to police, and four arrested.Trade unions are set to march on the parliament in the evening.
European bankers mull French plan for Greek rollover
LEIGH PHILLIPS 28.06.2011 @ 09:27 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European lenders are considering the first draft of a plan put forward by French banks for a rollover of some 70 percent of the banks' holdings of Greek debt.Unveiled by French President Nicholas Sarkozy on Monday (27 June), the plan would involve private bondholders agreeing to re-invest back in Greece half the amount of their holdings as they matured, swapping the debts for new longer-dated bonds.The maturity on the new bonds remains up for discussion, with some German sources saying the suggested extension to 30 years is too long, but the aim is to partially free the country from having to repay its debts in the near term, relieving some pressure from the insolvent nation.A further 20 percent of debts coming due would be invested in triple-A bonds via a special purpose vehicle.EU nations are hoping to convince private creditors to engage in such voluntary rollovers amounting to around €30 billion, representing just under a third of the amount of a potential second bail-out of the country.The French scheme was considered alongside other options at a meeting in Rome on Monday night of some of the most powerful figures in international banking, with executives flying in to talks with eurozone and European Central Bank representatives regarding the voluntary rollover.Organised by the Institute of International Finance, the world's global association of financial institutions, the meeting was hosted by Vittorio Grilli, the Italian Treasury chief and head of the EU Economic and Finance Committee
EU officials have confirmed that discussions on a voluntary rollover have already been taking place with Belgian, Dutch and German banks.However, other bondholders, including pension funds and central banks would also need to be convinced of rollover plans.Such schemes, however voluntary, may in any case provoke credit ratings agencies to declare a Greek default, as the Fitch agency announced it would do last week.European leaders are confident that they can cobble together a plan that is sufficiently voluntary that such a credit event will not happen.They are confident, not 100 percent, but they think they can pull it off,one EU official told EUobserver.The talks came ahead of a crucial vote in the Greek parliament on a package of €28 billion in cuts and €50 billion in public asset sell-offs. Discussion on the programme begins on Tuesday, with a vote on Wednesday. A second vote on a plan for implementing the programme will be held Thursday.Unions launched a two-day general strike on Tuesday in opposition to the mid-term Greek plan while a number of government deputies began to wobble in public as to whether they would support the measures.The ruling Pasok party has a slim, five-seat majority.
Financial crisis saw massive drop in EU investment
ANDREW RETTMAN 28.06.2011 @ 11:20 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The worldwide financial crisis, which erupted in late 2008, saw foreign investors massively cut their flow of money to the EU.The European Commission put out the figures, covering 2010, on Monday (27 June), on the eve of a vote by Greek MPs on further austerity cuts designed to win credibility among institutional lenders like the International Monetary Fund, and the private sector.
The numbers show that foreign direct investment (FDI) to the EU, which includes investment in foreign businesses but not purchases of sovereign debt, fell from €216 billion in 2009 to €54 billion in 2010.The steepest fall came from offshore financial centres, which injected €46 billion into the EU economy in 2009 and just €4 billion the year after. The biggest overall drop came from the US, from €97 billion to €28 billion. Investment from Switzerland and Russia also plunged. But inflows from Canada (up €16 billion) and China (up €12 billion) went up.Luxembourg - a financial services centre - took a big hit as the EU's largest normal recipient of outside money.The commission report said the overall drop continues the trend of recent years and noted that FDI into the EU was eight times higher in 2007, before the crisis struck, than in 2010.EU investors also tightened their purse strings.
EU investment around the world in 2010 fell from €281 billion to €107 billion. EU companies held back money primarily from offshore investment centres and the US. But investment also plummeted in Switzerland, going from €44 billion in 2009 to a net extraction of €7 billion.EU outward investment was five times lower than in 2007.
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.
Iran fires missiles in second day of war games
ReutersBy Parisa Hafezi | Reuters – JUNE 28,11
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards tested 14 missiles on Tuesday, the second day of war games intended as a show of strength toward enemies Israel and the United States.The Iranian-made surface-to-surface missiles, with a maximum range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles), were fired simultaneously at a single target, the official IRNA news agency reported.Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace division, emphasised Iran's preparedness to retaliate against Israel and U.S. interests in the event of any attack.The range of our missiles has been designed based on American bases in the region as well as the Zionist regime, Hajizadeh told the semi-official Fars news agency.The United States and Israel have said they do not rule out military strikes on Iran if diplomatic means fail to stop it developing nuclear weapons. Tehran says its nuclear program is geared to producing electricity, not atom bombs.IRNA said the Guards fired nine Zelzal missiles, two Shahab-1s, two Shahab-2s and one upgraded Shahab-3 missile. Iranian officials have previously announced that the Shahab 3 can reach targets up to 2,000 km (1,242 miles) away, putting Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf within reach.
In Washington, the U.S. State Department reminded Iran that U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929 bars it from any activity related to ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear weapons, but declined to say if it believed any of those tested were nuclear-capable.That there is a U.N. Security Council resolution that precludes them from any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nukes is an important red line for us, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.A long-time enemy of the United States, Iran has been emboldened by what it perceives as U.S. military defeats in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan. Both countries are still home to large U.S. troop numbers and Washington has other bases in the Gulf that Iran could choose to target.The Americans have reduced our labors, Hajizadeh told Fars. Their military bases in the region are in a range of 130, 250 and maximum 700 km in Afghanistan which we can hit with these missiles.
FINGERS ON THE TRIGGER
Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the Guards, said: We still have our fingers on the trigger, but the number of triggers has increased.The Great Prophet 6 war games, to be carried out on land and sea, are a message of peace and friendship to countries of the region, Hajizadeh said on Monday.Asked whether Iranian missiles were a threat to Europe, Hajizadeh told IRNA that while Iran had the technological capacity to build longer-range missiles, the 2,000-km range had been chosen precisely with Israel and U.S. bases in mind.Except America and the Zionist regime, we do not feel a threat from any other country, he said.Also on Tuesday, Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Hungarian ambassador, whose country holds the European Union's rotating presidency, to protest against sanctions slapped by the bloc on three high-ranking Revolutionary Guards officials.The EU accused the three of supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's suppression of anti-government protests and added their names on Friday to a blacklist that imposes travel restrictions and freezes assets.The Guards also unveiled new underground ballistic missile silos which they said would reduce launch times as missiles would not need to be moved prior to being launched.The silos are a part of the swift reaction unit of the missile brigade, missiles are stored vertically, ready to be launched against pre-determined targets, Fars quoted Hajizadeh as saying.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Iran's military capability was for purely defensive purposes but the country is happy if its show of strength rattles the West.The westerners' concern is a source of delight for us, because we will not allow any country to have a greedy approach toward our country's interests and territorial integrity, Mehmanparast said.If all the regional states had the highest defensive capability the Zionist regime would have never allowed itself to carry out an act of aggression.Mehmanparast also urged Russia to make good on a delivery of S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, saying the system was for defensive purposes and Iran expected Russia to take its bilateral commitments more seriously.Moscow unilaterally suspended the delivery of S-300s after the United States and Israel expressed concern Iran could use the anti-aircraft missiles to shield its nuclear facilities.(Additional reporting by Hossein Jaseb and by Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Writing by Ramin Mostafavi; Editing by Peter Graff and Vicki Allen)
Muslim Mickey' Causes a Furor in Egypt
by David Lev JUNE 28,11
While Hamas had no problem drafting Mickey Mouse – thinly disguised as “Farfur” the mouse – to indoctrinate toddlers in Gaza to join the jihad against Israel, Muslims in Egypt have called a boycott against the Christian Copt owner of a communications company who insulted Islam by dressing Mickey up in Muslim garb.Fifteen lawyers are suing businessman Naguib Sawiris for publicizing a photo of Mickey Mouse wearing a white robe and a beard, together with an image of Minnie Mouse wearing a full-face veil. The lawyers, along with dozens of Muslim clerics, have called for Egyptians to cut their contracts with Sawiris' Mobinil and Orascom cellphone companies.Islamists, many from the ultraconservative Salafi sect, have opened numerous Facebook pages calling for a boycott. If you’re a real Muslim ... boycott his (Sawiris’) products if you love your religion. We have to cut the tongue of any person who attacks our religion,says the page of one group.Other groups, with titles like We Hate You Mickey Sawiris,have garnered thousands of page views for their sites. In a television interview, top Muslim cleric Mazen el-Sersawi accused Sawaris of fomenting tension between Muslims and Coptic Christians, who have clashed on numerous occasions in recent months, leaving dozens wounded and several dead. How can a man like this make fun of Muslims, in a country on the brink of sectarian discord,el-Sersawi said in the interview.
Sawaris, for his part, issued an apology via his Twitter account, writing, I apologize for those who don’t take this as a joke. I just thought it was a funny picture; no disrespect meant! I’m sorry.Speaking Sunday at a meeting of political activists, Sawaris added, We should not limit Islam to a beard or veil.The apology has not calmed tensions, however, and a protest outside Orascom headquarters is planned for later this week. Naguib Sawaris' family is considered one of the wealthiest in Egypt. Sawaris was very active in the campaign to oust Hosni Mubarak; an avowed secularist, he founded the Free Egyptian political party, which plans to run in the upcoming elections.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Israel Tourists Boycotting Turkey
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 28,11
Israeli tourists have gone cold Turkey, avoiding a country which is suffering a 59 percent decrease in visits from Israel to the once-popular vacation spot before Ankara turned a cold shoulder to its former friend.The decrease in the first five months this year compares with a 133 increase in 2010, when compared with the same period the previous year, Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper reported.Only 30,000 Israel tourists visited Turkey between January and May of this year, compared with 72,500 the previous year. The sharp decline accelerated in May, when the decrease was more than 60 percent.Turkey and Israel enjoyed friendly relations until two years ago, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to join international condemnation of Israel for the counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead campaign against Hamas terrorists. Retired Judge Richard Goldstone, who authored a damning report of Israel for the United Nations, has since admitted that many of his accusations were wrong.
Turkish-Israeli relations sank to new depths after the flotilla clash in May 2010, when Turkish members of the terror-linked and Turkish-based IHH group clubbed, shot at and kidnapped Navy commandos who boarded their boat to prevent it from approaching Hamas-controlled Gaza.Nine IHH members were killed in the clash. The angry reaction from Ankara, accompanied by several extremely anti-Semitic presentations on television, has led many Israelis to look for different countries for vacationing.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
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.
Tropical Storm forms in Gulf; heavy rains expected
JUNE 28,11
MIAMI – Forecasters say Tropical Storm Arlene has formed in the Gulf of Mexico but is not likely to threaten the U.S. coast.The government of Mexico on Tuesday issued Tropical Storm warnings for the northeastern coast from Barra De Nautla north to Bahia Algodones. The storm is predicted to hug much of the coast over the next few days.The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., says Arlene is about 280 miles (450 kilometers) east-southeast of Tampico, Mexico. The center had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph). It is the first named storm in the Atlantic this season.
The main threat to Mexico is heavy rains that could cause flash floods and mudslides. Forecasters say extreme south Texas also could get some rain from the system.
More flooding woes along the Missouri, Souris rivers
By Michael Avok – JUNE 28,11
OMAHA, Neb (Reuters) – Missouri River floodwaters lapped at a nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday and have cracked more defenses downstream after weeks of sustained pressure on levees running hundreds of miles.And in Minot, North Dakota's fourth largest city, the roughly 12,000 displaced residents watched Souris River flooding slowly recede and began to look toward recovery.Up and down the Missouri River from North Dakota to Missouri, residents on Tuesday said they were just plain tired -- tired of sandbags, tired of water, tired of worrying.We've just got water. And, it's not going away, said Tony Mangan, 50, whose family has lived in the South Dakota river town and capital of Pierre, since 1987.You sense there is a weariness out there. People are tired.Flood defenses have protected downtown Pierre. Griffin Park and Steamboat Park at the river's edge have flooded, with water running over the amphitheater main stage at Steamboat Park.Across from Yankton, South Dakota, Don Edwards said he has spent thousands of dollars on sandbags and rock material known as rip-rap to keep his Murdo's Aten Resort eatery open in Nebraska barely three miles downstream from Gavins Point Dam.The river is about 2 feet below the deck, Edwards said of the restaurant's wooden deck overlooking the Missouri River.Normally it's about 12-15 feet below the deck.If it comes up any more, we are all in trouble.Several inches of rain over the weekend caused storm sewer backups in Omaha and across the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Some businesses and residents were forced out on the east side of Omaha temporarily.Federal officials said Tuesday they were reinforcing 2.1 miles of levee in Council Bluffs where they had found seepage or sand boils on a dozen sections.
MORE LEVEE BREACHES
At the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station north of Omaha, which has been shut since April for maintenance, officials expect to replace by the end of next week an inflatable barrier that deflated on Sunday sending a rush of water toward the plant.
The breach temporarily interrupted some electrical power but emergency generators restored power later that day and there was no threat to sensitive facilities.
Although the plant is surrounded by water, its flood defenses have nearly eight feet of space from current river levels, officials have said.Record water releases to relieve pressure on six reservoirs from Montana through South Dakota have strained flood defenses and the Missouri River continued to breach levees along the northern Missouri and Kansas border.About 300 or 400 people have been forced from homes in Winthrop, Missouri, and in nearby Lewis and Clark Village since Monday afternoon because of a 150-foot wide levee breach, said Bill Brinton, Buchanan County emergency management director.Water was nearly as high as the eaves Tuesday on some year-round and vacation homes at Sugar Lake due to the breach, Britton said. High water closed the Amelia Earhart Bridge over the Missouri River connecting Missouri to Atchison, Kansas.Downstream, St. Joe Casino and Remington Nature Center in St. Joseph, Missouri, were closed after parking lots flooded.St. Joseph's levees have 10 to 15 feet of room above current river levels, Brinton said.I feel pretty good about our levees but you never know what's going to fail or pop, Brinton said.
SOURIS RIVER SLOWLY RECEDES IN MINOT
In Minot, the Souris River had receded on Tuesday by barely a foot from the weekend crest that smashed a 130-year-old record by nearly four feet. It is forecast to stay above the prior record until the Fourth of July and it could be weeks before residents can survey the heaviest damage.Only about 375 of the roughly 4,100 structures damaged in Minot were covered by flood insurance. City officials have said at least half the structures had extensive damage and there may be high demand for temporary housing.We are looking at about four different tracts of land in town, in this area, that are very good size because the destruction is just unbelievable down in the valley, Minot Mayor Curt Zimbelman told reporters on Tuesday.A few hundred people have stayed in area shelters and many others have stayed with friends, family and neighbors. Officials urged them to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency as it prepares for longer term housing.North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple on Tuesday picked National Guard Major General Murray Sagsveen to coordinate statewide flood recovery efforts. Sagsveen also directed Grand Forks recovery efforts from a devastating 1997 flood.Sagsveen told reporters it would be a long-term process of recovery for North Dakota's flooded communities, but said he believed Grand Forks came out of the 1997 flood a far more beautiful, vibrant city than it was before.This is a disaster, but I am very hopeful that coming out of this, Minot will be even more robust than it is right now, Sagsveen said. I am confident of that.(Additional reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri, and David Bailey in Minneapolis; Editing by Jerry Norton)
Lady Gaga (GOOGOO) accused of fraud in Japan relief efforts JUNE 28,11
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – American pop star Lady Gaga is accused of misrepresenting charitable donations from wristbands sold to benefit tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan earlier this year.The complaint, filed in a Michigan court on Friday by 1800lawfirm, says the star as well as her record label, Universal Music Group, and the Bravado International Group, lacked transparency surrounding the amount of money that was raised from sales of the wristbands and whether those funds were 100% allocated to earthquake and tsunami victims.After the earthquake and tsunami disasters in March 2011 that devastated Japan, Lady Gaga created the rubber wristbands and the singer's website advertised that all proceeds from sales of the wristband would benefit victims.The white rubber bracelets were sold for $5 and inscribed in red with the phrase, We pray for Japan,in English and Japanese.While we commend Lady Gaga for her philanthropic efforts, we want to ensure that claims that all proceeds will be donated to Japan?s earthquake relief efforts are in fact true, said one of the plaintiff's lawyers, Alyson Oliver, in a press release.The suit alleges that the singer and her partners added additional shipping charges in excess of the amount required to ship the wristbands based on their weight, and retained a portion of the shipping charges,according to court documents.This misguided lawsuit is without merit and unfortunately takes attention away from the kind deeds of the fans around the world who are supporting the people of Japan,said Lady Gaga's spokeswoman, Holly Shakoor in an email to AFP.
The entire $5 donation made with the purchase of each bracelet is going to support the disaster relief. No profit is being made on shipping costs. Sales tax charges were made in accordance with local legal requirements,she added.The lawsuit seeks damages,including a return of all amounts paid for the products,according to the press release.According to Japanese media, Lady Gaga has so far donated approximately $3 million to disaster zones in the northeast of Japan, most of that from the sale of the wristbands.The star was in Tokyo last weekend for a charity concert organized by MTV Video Music Aid Japan.
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.
Radioactive water leaks from Japan's damaged plant
– Tue Jun 28, 9:20 am ET
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tons of radioactive water were discovered on Tuesday to have leaked into the ground from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, the latest in a series of leaks at the plant damaged in a March earthquake and tsunami, the country's nuclear watchdog said.More than three months after the disaster, authorities are struggling to bring under control damaged reactors at the power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.About 15 metric tons of water with a low level of radiation leaked from a storage tank at the plant on the Pacific coast, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it was investigating the cause of the leak which was later repaired.Vast amounts of water contaminated with varying levels of radiation have accumulated in storage tanks at the plant after being used to cool reactors damaged when their original cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 disaster.Dealing with that radioactive water has been a major problem for Tepco, which is trying to use a decontamination system that cleans water so it can be recycled to cool the reactors.
But the system has encountered technical glitches and officials have said the water could spill into the Pacific Ocean unless the system was operating properly.The system was halted an hour and a half after it started on Monday because of a water leakage.Tepco fixed the problem and restarted the system on Tuesday afternoon, said Junichi Matsumoto, an official at the utility.(Reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro and Yoko Kubota; Editing by Michael Watson and Robert Birsel)
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.
US nuclear material safe despite wildfire: officials
– Tue Jun 28, 3:43 pm ET
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Radioactive material stored at the top US nuclear laboratory is safe despite a threatening wildfire which has closed the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) until Wednesday and forced thousands to evacuate, officials said.All nuclear and hazardous materials, including those at the lab's principal waste storage site known as Area G, are accounted for and protected, authorities said Tuesday on the official New Mexico Fire Information website.Water tanks at the lab's wild land fire helicopter landing pad are re-filled in preparation for today's firefighting activities, they said about the historic lab where the atomic bomb was developed during World War II.The laboratory's website confirmed that the facility would remain closed until at least Wednesday, and that firefighters have ordered thousands to evacuate the nearby town of Los Alamos, where 42 percent of the lab's 11,800 employees live.Only employees on an essential-duties access list will be permitted back onto laboratory property during the closure, as notified by their line management,LANL said.
The Las Conchas fire did not reach lab property Monday night after a small fire on the property was put out earlier that day, and no releases of radiological or other contaminants had been detected by LANL monitoring teams, officials said.We ordered the evacuation yesterday after the fire moved beyond our safety triggers and did a small incursion into LANL property that was aggressively fought by our county personnel with LANL support and the forest service helping us to extinguish the small area restoring our line,Los Alamos Fire Department's assistant chief Michael Thompson told AFP.Today we have predictions of more winds that will carry the fire further in the forest above the community and threaten the line that we have (protecting) LANL. We have had some time to prepare for this and now have the resources ready and will defend against the threat,he added.Radioactive materials are stored at the Laboratory for research purposes and the property also houses radioactive waste.LANL is operated by Los Alamos National Security, a partnership between the University of California, Bechtel National, the Babcock & Wilcox Company, and the Washington division of URS for the US Department of Energy.
Separately, US nuclear authorities were watching floodwaters threatening a nuclear power plant in Nebraska after a protective barrier collapsed.The 2,000-foot (607-meter) long barrier, holding back floodwaters from the Missouri river, collapsed early Sunday, threatening the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant.This allowed floodwaters to surround the auxiliary and containment buildings, which are protected by design to a floodwater level of 1014 mean sea level,the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.The Missouri river was at 1,006.3 feet (306.7 meters), but river levels were not expected to exceed 1,008 feet, it added in a statement. The collapse also allowed floodwaters to surround the main electrical transformers, it said, adding that operators transferred power from offsite sources as a precautionary measure.The plant has been shut down since April 7 for refueling, it said.
Royal visit puts Canada's sense of self to a test
APBy ROB GILLIES - Associated Press | AP – JUNE 28,11
TORONTO (AP) — Decades have passed since Canadians abandoned the Union Jack and replaced God Save the Queen with O Canada, but the royalty-lovers among them are in for a thrill when Britain's newest royal couple come visiting on Thursday.Meanwhile, those who leaf through the government's updated guide to good citizenship will notice that the oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II has been moved from the back of the pamphlet to the front.Royalty seems to be making a comeback of sorts in Canada.Part of it is simply the afterglow of the sumptuous wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton two months ago. But something deeper is afoot than mere stargazing: Prime Minister Stephen Harper is the most pro-monarchy Canadian leader since the 1950s, and his ambition is to foster a national identity that is more conservative and more aware of its historical roots. He has just come out of a general election greatly strengthened, and now he gets to bask in the aura of William and Kate on their first official overseas trip as a married couple.He thinks that emphasizing Canada's monarchical traditions is key to refashioning Canadians' self-image,said Robert Bothwell, a professor at the University of Toronto.
Ordinarily, most Canadians are indifferent to the monarchy, even though 85-year-old Queen Elizabeth II is their titular head of state, is portrayed on their coins and stamps, and has visited them 22 times as head of state. But a royal visit usually brings out the crowds, and Heritage Minister James Moore reckons this one will be the most-watched in Canada's history.The monarchy is part of our fabric, part of our future and it's one of the central institutions to our identity as Canadians, Moore told The Associated Press.Many in the French-speaking province of Quebec disagree, and small groups have taken to the streets on past royal visits to show their displeasure. The visiting couple will be in Quebec City, where a militant French separatist group has vowed to demonstrate, and may face similar protests in Montreal.
The group's spokesman, college student Julien Gaudreau, said The monarchist symbol is a right-wing symbol ... It's not really democratic, it's not representative of the population.Overall, the antiroyal movement in Canada is minuscule, meaning that William, now 29, will almost certainly be king of Canada one day. One reason is that abolishing the monarchy would mean changing the constitution. That's an inherently risky undertaking, given how delicately it is engineered to unite a nation of 34 million that embraces English-speakers, French-speakers, indigenous tribes and a constant flow of new immigrants.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they are formally known, will encounter many of those faces of Canada during their nine days of travel, from the sub-Arctic to oil-rich Calgary, Alberta, from busy Montreal to bucolic Prince Edward Island of Anne of Green Gables fame. They'll sit around a campfire with young people, dress casual for the Calgary rodeo, join a cookout in Quebec City, and hand out flags to newly minted Canadians at a citizenship ceremony.
Harper, five years in office, will meanwhile be pushing ahead with his long-term goal of shifting the country's ideological bearings from center-left to center-right — a project that lays greater stress on such symbols as the monarchy, the military, hockey and the Arctic.When the updated guide for new immigrants was published in 2009, it was widely noted that the monarchy and armed forces overshadowed social programs such as universal health care, the pride of the left-of-center Liberal era typified by the late Pierre Trudeau.Harper harkens back to a 1950s conservative vision of Canada — none of the Trudeau-welfare state stuff, said Lawrence Martin, a political columnist for The Globe and Mail newspaper and author of Harperland: The Politics of Control.That's the type of identity that he's trying to forge here, which is a fair distance from the Liberal way. He likes to use the monarchy as a tool of that because it fits his vision of the country, distinct from the Liberal vision.Gerry Nicholls, who worked under Harper at a conservative think tank, said Harper previously wasn't a staunch monarchist, but that he values it as a conservative symbol.It plays into a larger strategy of creating this conservative ethos for Canada. But we're never going to go back to God Save the Queen, the Union Jack or those kind of things, Nicholls told the AP.Nicholls said the Liberals were often seen as openly hostile to the monarchy, in what people would see as a rejection of our past and our traditions.John Manley, a former foreign minister and deputy Liberal prime minister, is the most prominent Canadian to have suggested, while in office, that the tie be severed. But he as well as the opinion polls acknowledge it's not a hot-button issue.A poll of about 1,000 Canadians taken by Harris/Decima a year ago, just before the queen's last visit, showed 55 percent were aware she was coming. Fifty-two percent of those who were aware of the visit felt the monarchy is an important part of Canadian history, while 44 percent saw it as part of the colonial past. Margin of error was given as 3.1 percent.
In an interview, Manley said Canadians care much more about who wins hockey's Stanley Cup. I suspect that another country, perhaps Australia, is going to deal with this first. Then perhaps Canadians might consider it.Josh Upton, 21, of the Calgary branch of The Monarchist League of Canada, expects the William-and-Kate visit to strengthen Canada's ties with its sovereign.It's the new fresh face on the monarchy, he said. People are going to be more excited about it because they see the future of the monarchy in Canada in the duke and duchess.But Ameya Pendse, born in the U.S. to Indian parents and now a Canadian citizen, belongs to Citizens for a Canadian Republic, an anti-monarchy group.I've talked to many young kids and they say the queen shouldn't have any role in our society whatsoever, said Pendse, 18. We're paying millions of dollars for their stays in Canada and it's really disturbing. It's like paying for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to come visit us here because they are nothing but celebrities.The trip will cost the Canadian government about $1.5 million, Moore, the heritage minister, estimated.Selena Ross in Montreal contributed to this story.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
STOCK RESULTS JUNE 28,11
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 JUNE 28,2011
09:30 AM +2.25
10:00 AM +65.77
10:30 AM +115.19
11:00 AM +106.87
11:30 AM +112.43
12:00 PM +119.25
12:30 PM +114.66
01:00 PM +120.52
01:30 PM +123.56
02:00 PM +120.30
02:30 PM +127.07
03:00 PM +135.59
03:30 PM +130.70
04:00 PM +145.13 12,188.69
S&P 500 1296.67 +16.57
NASDAQ 2729.31 +41.03
GOLD 1,501.00 +4.60
OIL 92.86 +2.25
TSE 300 13,105.00 +138.50
CDNX 1865.68 -2.04
S&P/TSX/60 753.22 +8.48
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +41 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +124 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,499.10.OIL opens at $91.45 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +145 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +145 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)
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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CAYLEE ANTHONY MURDER TIMELINE
TODAY ROY KRONK WHO DISCOVERED CAYLEES REMAINS IS POSSIBLY ON THE STAND.POSSIBLY THE 1ST WITNESS AT 9AM.
HERE IS JUNE 15-21,08 TIMELINE OF CAYLEE-CASEY
June 15 – Caylee visits her great-grandfather at an assisted living facility. A video is later produced in an attempt to verify the sighting.Cindy and Caylee allegedly go swimming in the Anthony's pool. Afterwards, Cindy takes the ladder away from the pool and closes the gate.
June 16 – At or about 12:30 p.m., George Anthony allegedly sees Casey and Caylee leave with backpacks on their shoulders.At 2:30 p.m., George Anthony leaves for work.
Between 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Casey allegedly makes numerous calls, lasting anywhere from a few seconds to a minute, to her parents and several friends.
MY TAKE ON IT IS.CASEY WENT TO SOMEONES PLACE AT 12:30PM WITH CAYLEE-PROBABLY THE BOY FRIENDS PLACE OR AMYS PLACE.MOST LIKELY AMYS PLACE TO LEAVE CAYLEE WITH HER WHILE SHE GOES BACK TO GEORGE AND CINDYS PLACE FOR HER CAR.CASEY AND AMY PROBABLY MADE PLANS TO GO TO SOME NIGHT CLUB THAT NIGHT AROUND 9PM.EITHER CASEY GOT THE CAR BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM AND WENT WITH CAYLEE THEN TO THE BOY FRIENDS PLACE AND PUT CAYLEE TO SLEEP WITH CHLOROFORM AND PUT HER IN THE TRUNK TO SLEEP WHILE SHE HAD SEX WITH HER BOY FRIEND AND SHE LATER THIS DAY DISCOVERED SHE HAD OVERDOSED AND KILLED CAYLEE ON CHLOROFORM BY 3PM AND WAS FRANTICALLY TRYING TO PHONE FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO TELL THEM WHAT HAPPENED OR WHAT I BELIEVE MOST LIKELY HAPPENED.AT 1PM CASEY GOT THE CAR FROM GEORGES PLACE AS AMY WATCHED CAYLEE.CASEY AND AMY MADE PLANS TO GO NIGHT CLUBBING THAT NIGHT AROUND 9 OR 10PM.CASEY ASKED AMY IF SHE COULD WATCH CAYLEE FROM 1PM TILL 2:30PM AS SHE WENT TO HER BOY FREINDS FOR TALKING AND SEX.AROUND 2:30PM SHE WENT BACK TO AMYS PLACE AND FROM 3PM TO 7:30PM WHILE AT AMYS-CASEY WAS TRYING TO CONTACT FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO GET SOMEONE TO LOOK AFTER CAYLEE SO SHE COULD GO WITH AMY AND HER BOY FRIEND TO THE NIGHT CLUB.BY 7:30PM CASEY REALIZED SHE COULD GET NO ONE TO LOOK AFTER CAYLEE THAT NIGHT FOR HER.SO CASEY MADE A FAKE PHONE CALL TO MISS INVISIBLE-PROBABLY THE NANNY SHE TOLD AMY.SHE TOLD AMY SHE WOULD BE BACK BY 9PM TO PICK HER AND THE BOY FRIEND UP TO GO TO THE CLUB.SHE ALSO TOLD AMY SHE WOULD VISIT WITH THE NANNY AND CAYLEE TILL 9PM.THIS WAS AROUND 7:45PM.SO CASEY GOES SOMEWHERE WITH CAYLEE PRIVATE SO NO ONE CAN SEE HER GIVE CAYLEE CHLOROFORM TO PUT HER TO SLEEP.AND CASEY AFTER SHE CHLOROFORMED CAYLEE,PUT HER IN THE TRUNK TO SLEEP SO SHE COULD GO CLUBBING.CASEY THEN GOES BACK TO AMYS PLACE AT 9PM AND PICKS AMY AND THE BOY FRIEND UP AND WENT TO THE NIGHT CLUB.AT SOME POINT DURING THE NIGHT CASEY WENT OUT TO CHECK SEE IF CAYLEE WAS AWAKE.BUT CAYLEE WAS STILL A SLEEP.BUT TO MAKE SURE CAYLEE WOULD SLEEP TILL 2 OR 3AM IN THE MOURNING-CASEY GAVE HER MORE CHLOROFORM.OR HERE IS WERE SHE MADE THE DECISON THAT SHE(CASEY)WANTED TO SOMEHOW GET RID OF CAYLEE SO SHE CASEY COULD BE FREE TO DO WHAT SHE WANTED AND SHE WOULD NOT HAVE TO TRY TO GET PEOPLE TO LOOK AFTER CAYLEE FOR HER ANYMORE.SO CASEY AS WELL AS CHLOROFORMING CAYLEE SEEN THERE WAS DUCK TAPE IN HER TRUNK.SHE THEN PUT 1 PIECE OVER CAYLEES NOSE AND MOUTH.AND 2 PIECES AROUND HER CHIN UP TO HER HAIR TO MAKE SURE CAYLEE WOULD SMOTHER TO DEATH.SHE THEN FELT FREE FINALLY AND WENT BACK IN TO PARTY.AFTER SHE WAS DONE CLUBBING SHE TOOK AMY HOME AND CASEY SLEPT AT HER BOY FRIENDS PLACE.THIS WAS PROBABLY AROUND 2 OR 3AM ON JUNE 17,2008.SHE WOULD TRY TO GET RID OF CAYLEE IN HER MIND SOMETIME TODAY MEANING JUNE 17,08.
June 17 – Someone fills out a card at the Sawgrass Apartments. The signature on the card reads Zenaida Hernandez-Gonzalez.The Anthony's allegedly notice that the gate to the swimming pool is open and the ladder is next to the pool.Casey allegedly posts a message for a friend named Amy on a social networking Web site. The message reads:Cheer up me lady! I love you and can't wait to finally get you moved in.
June 18 – Casey allegedly borrows a shovel from a neighbor. Later that same day she is seen backing her car up to her parents garage.
June 20 to June 21 – Casey allegedly hangs out at a club in Orlando.
June 24 РCasey's ex-fianc̩ calls her in the afternoon to tell her he has resigned from the Orlando Police Department. He later tells deputies that he heard Casey reprimand Caylee for climbing on a table. He also claims he heard the young girl's voice in the background. Update - Casey's ex-fianc̩ now claims he is not certain if he heard Caylee.George Anthony calls the Orange County Sheriff's Office and reports that someone broke into his storage shed and stole 2 gas cans with about $50.00 worth of gas in them.Later that day Casey allegedly shows up alone at her parent's house to pick up some clothes. When her father looks in the trunk of her car he allegedly finds the missing gas cans.
June ? – Casey reportedly gets a tattoo in honor of Caylee that reads Bella Vida. The English translation of the Italian phrase means Beautiful Life.
June 27 – Casey leaves her car, a 1998 white Pontiac with Florida tag G63XV, in the parking lot of an Amscot Financial store at Colonial Drive and Goldenrod RoadAmscot Financial store at Colonial Drive and Goldenrod Road.
June 27 to June 28 РCasey and her Ex-fianc̩e, Jesse Grund, allegedly go to the beach together.
June 30 – Casey's car is towed from Amscot Financial store. Her purse is found on the front seat and a childs car seat is found on the back seat.
July 3 – Casey's mother, Cindy Anthony, allegedly posts the following message to her MySpace blog:
Subject: My Caylee is missing
Current mood: Distraught
She came into my life unexspectedly, just as she has left me. This precious little angel from above gave me strength and unconditional love. Now she is gone and I don’t know why. All I am guilty of is loving her and providing her a safe home. Jealousy has taken her away. Jealousy from the one person that should be thankfull for all of the love and support given to her. A mother’s love is deep, however there are limits when one is betrayed by the one she loved and trusted the most. A daughter comes to her mother for support when she is pregnant, the mother says without hesitation it will be ok. And it was. But then the lies and betrayal began. First it seemed harmless, ah, love is blind. A mother will look for the good in her child and give them a chance to change. This mother gave chance after chance for her daughter to change, but instead more lies more betrayal. What does the mother get for giving her daughter all of these chances? A broken heart. The daughter who stole money, lots of money, leaves without warning and does not let her mother now speak to the baby that her mother raised, fed, clothed, sheltered, paid her medical bills, etc. Instead tells her friends that her mother is controlling her life and she needs her space. No money, no future. Where did she go? Who is now watching out for the little angel? [sic throughout].The message has been deleted.
July 4 – Casey allegedly spends the day partying and hanging out with friends.
July 4 Weekend – A new concrete slab is allegedly poured in the backyard at Casey's parents’ house.
July 7 – Casey allegedly posts a message on her MySpace blog. The message, titled Diary of Days, read:On the worst of worst days, remember the words spoken.Trust no one, only yourself.With great power, comes great consequence.What is given can be taken away.Everyone Lies.Everyone Dies.
July 15 – Amy Huizenga tells Cindy Anthony where her daughter is staying. Amy later accuses Casey of stealing checks and $700.Cindy picks up Casey and places three calls to 911, telling authorities that she wants her daughter arrested for stealing money and a car. Casey had allegedly stolen her mother's credit card when she moved out and, using the card, had run up thousands of dollars in bills. Cindy also tells the dispatcher that her granddaughter is missing.During the third 911 call, Cindy tells the dispatcher:There is something wrong. I found my daughter's car today [and] it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car.
July 16 – Investigators discover Casey has been lying about her place of employment and other details regarding her daughter's disappearance. As a result, Casey is arrested and charged with child neglect, making false official statements, and obstructing an investigation.Based on the repetitive lies that the defendant has told, we do not know with whom the child is or even if the child is alive,Corporal Yuri Melich wrote in the arrest affidavit. He added,It should be noted that at no time during any of the above interviews did the defendant show any obvious emotion as to the loss of her child.The car Casey had been driving is picked up from the wrecker company, and police question a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez, who claims she does not know Casey Anthony.While behind bars, Casey calls her family and talks with her mother, Cindy, brother, Lee Anthony, and a friend, identified only as Kristina. Casey uses profanity during the 13-minute conversation and appears to be angry about comments her mother had made to the media regarding Casey's involvement in the case.
July 17 – Casey appears in court, during which time the judge denies bond, saying she showed a woeful disregard for the welfare of her child.The Sheriff’s Office searches the car Casey had been driving and bagged several items as evidence, including dirt, samples of hair deemed to be the same color and length as Caylee’s, and a carpet sample that investigators have called questionable.
July 21 – Casey's attorney sends a letter to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, which states that they are willing to cooperate fully with law enforcement.The Never Lose Hope Foundation donates office space for volunteers to coordinate search efforts. In addition, a local business owner offers a combined reward of $125,000 for information that leads to finding Caylee. The offer is set to expire in 90 days.
I BELIEVE SOMETIME BETWEEN JULY 21 AND AUGUST 10.08.SOMEONE OVER HEARS CASEY TELL BAEZ SHE KILLED CAYLEE AND DUMPED HER AT HER FAVORITE SECRET PLACE A MILE FROM HER HOUSE IN A WOODED ARE.SOMEHOW ROY KRONKS WIFE WHO WORKS AT THE JAIL WERE CASEY IS HOUSED FINDS OUT FROM SOMEBODY THERE THAT CASEY REVEALED TO BAEZ THAT SHE KILLED AND DUMPED CAYLEES BODY AT HER FAVORITE SECRET PLACE WERE SHE BURRIED ANIMALS AND PUT HEART STICKERS ON THEM WHEN SHE WAS LITTLE.ROYS WIFE THEN SAYS TO HERSELF,WOW,IF I WOULD TELL ROY ABOUT WERE CAYLEE IS BURRIED AND HE WOULD FIND HER BODY WE COULD GET 255,000 CASH REWARD.SO WHEN SHE GOT HOME THAT NIGHT SHE TELLS ROY KRONK WERE TO LOOK FOR THE BODY SO THEY COULD GET THE REWARD MONEY.
2008 Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico names-T.S.=tropical storm; H.=hurricane at some time during its life. ST.S=subtropical storm.
H. Bertha July 3 - 20 120 mph
T.S. Cristobal July 18 - 23 65 mph
H. Dolly July 20 - 24 100 mph
T.S. Edouard Aug. 3 - 5 65 mph
T.S. Fay Aug. 18 60mph
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
August 11 – A second motion to lower Casey's bond is denied.Casey's brother, Lee Anthony, cancels a scheduled visit with her.
August 12 – George Anthony tells the media he is certain that Caylee was kidnapped..
August 13 – A psychic tells the media that she is going to help find Caylee.
ROY KRONK KNEW ABOUT CAYLEES BODY BEFORE AUGUST 13,08 WHEN THE PSYCHIC CAME ON THE SCENE.SO THEY WERE NOT WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE REWARD MONEY.
August 14 – Casey accepts a visit from her parents.
Casey's attorney files a subpoena to obtain information about the cadaver dogs that were used during the searches.
August 15 – A detective with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office tells Fox News that all future video's of Casey's jail visits will be withheld due to a criminal investigative exemption.
August 17 – Leonard Padilla, a bail bondsman from Sacramento, California, arrives in Orlando after making arraignments to pay Casey Anthony's $500,000 bail. Padilla tells the media he has been following the case closely and is convinced that Caylee will not be found as long as Casey Anthony is behind bars.
Bondsman Arrives In Florida To Bail Out Casey Anthony
August 18 – Padilla works on meeting the bond requirements for Casey's release.
August 19 – Padilla is told he incorrectly filled out the bond paperwork. He fixes the errors and resubmits the forms.
August 20 – Casey's bond is posted.
August 21 – Casey is released from the Orange County jail at approximately 10:30 a.m.
August 29 – Casey Anthony is back in jail after being arrested on three new charges: uttering a forged instrument, fraudulent use of personal information and petty theft.
August 30 – Bail agent revokes Casey Anthony's bond: Yesterday, bounty hunter Leonard Padilla told the media that Casey Anthony's bond would not be revoked. Since that time, Padilla either changed his mind AGAIN or his nephew, Tony Padilla, made the decision without him.
September 15 – Casey Anthony is back in jail again. Anthony was taken into custody this afternoon when she turned herself in for forging a check, fraudulent use of identification, and petty theft.
September 16 – Despite her most recent charges, Casey Anthony is released from custody once again, this time on $1,250 bond.
Oct. 01 – Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, enters a not guilty plea on behalf of his client in response to her check fraud charges. According to the court docket, Anthony is scheduled for an arraignment on those charges later this month.Meanwhile, the Orange County Sheriff's Office officially changes Anthony's status from person of interest to suspect in the disappearance of her missing two-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony.
Oct. 08 – According to sources close to the investigation, the Florida State Attorney's Office is planning on presenting its case against Casey Anthony to a grand jury on October 14. If that happens, it will then be up to the grand jury to determine if there is enough evidence to charge Anthony in the murder of her missing 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony.Meanwhile, investigators release check fraud documents and footage from surveillance cameras, which show Casey Anthony using stolen checks at several Orlando area stores, where she purchased groceries, clothing and lingerie. The footage also shows Anthony cashing a check at a Bank of America.
Oct. 08 – According to a source close to the investigation, prosecutors now have enough forensic evidence to ask a grand jury to indict Anthony for her daughter's murder. That evidence allegedly proves that Caylee's body was in the trunk of the car Casey Anthony was driving and at one point in the backyard of the Anthony family home.ID has learned that Casey Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, voluntarily provided investigators with DNA samples, which are currently being compared to hairs found in the trunk of the car. Anthony's brother, Lee Anthony, initially refused to provide investigators with a sample; however he later submitted to that request when investigators served him with a search warrant.Investigators are convinced that Caylee was murdered on or about June 17. Cell phone records show that from June 16 to June 18, Anthony mostly went about her normal routine - traveling to and from her parents and boyfriend's house - however, pings have also placed her near Blanchard Park and the Econ Trail, an isolated area south of Lake Underhill. Both those areas were searched by David Lohr and Texas EquuSearch; however given the high waters and thick underbrush it is possible that evidence could have gone overlooked.
ct. 15 – Casey Anthony, mother of missing two-year-old, Caylee Anthony, made her initial court appearance before Judge John Jordan today, on charges that she murdered her daughter.Anthony said nothing during the hearing, which lasted less than 2 minutes. Jordan read the charges against her and then ordered her held without bond.Also today, Casey Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, made another appearance on NBC's Today show. She has this to say during the segment: I know my daughter. I know my daughter's relationship with Caylee and I know that there's nothing in this world that could make me think Casey did anything to Caylee. There's never been any child neglect, child abuse or anything. This young lady loves her child more than I love Casey. I'll tell you that right now. And my love for Casey is stronger every day. My love for my granddaughter is stronger every day and I know Caylee is alive. There's a lot of people out there who have seen Caylee.
Oct. 27 – Casey Anthony was arraigned on charges of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter and four counts of lying to investigators. Anthony had already entered a written not guilty plea, so she was not required to be present during the proceeding. Judge Stan Strickland set Jan. 5 as the opening day for Anthony's trial. If convicted, Anthony could face life in prison or the death penalty.
Dec. 11 – Human child remains found by the Anthony house.Sources close to the investigation say that remnants of duct tape were found on both the skull and the trash bag. Those items are compared to tape and bags that had previously been collected from the car Casey Anthony was driving at the time of her daughter's disappearance.Investigators hold a media briefing on the discovery of the remains. Police confirm that the skull does appear to be that of a small child; however they caution that further tests are needed to confirm the age and gender.Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office seek a warrant to search the home of Casey Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony.Authorities obtain the warrant and the Anthony family home is taped off with crime scene tape.
In October 2008, Dr. Maurice Godwin used his Predator computerized system to identify specific areas of interest in the search for Caylee Anthony. Copies of the report were given to law enforcement and Texas EquuSearch. According to Godwin, the remains could have been found sooner if his analysis of the case had been utilized. Click here for more details.
Dec. 12 – Investigators conducting the search of the Anthony home remove enough items to fill up at least three vehicles. The search, which began the previous day, continues into the early morning hours. Click here for more details.Casey Anthony's defense team is denied access to the autopsy on the child skeletal remains. In issuing the ruling, Judge Stan Strickland said that the pathologist needed to make the identification without interference from outside parties.Anthony's defense team holds a press conference regarding their motion.Criminal profiler Pat Brown shares her thoughts on the discovery of the remains.Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin weighs in on Casey Anthony.Authorities release the 911 call about the skull discovery.
Dec. 15 – Jose Baez, lead attorney for Casey Anthony, assembles a seasoned team of defense attorneys and forensic experts for his client's impending first-degree murder trial.
Dec. 16 – Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland hears a series of emergency motions that were filed by Jose Baez. Upon reading the ruling and hearing arguments from both sides, Strickland continues the autopsy request. In regard to a defense request to oversee the crime scene, Strickland says it is not a requirement by law.I can't assist you in interfering with a murder investigation,Strickland said.They're entitled to continue until they get what it is they need to get.In response to a request for the crime scene photos, Ann Marie Delahunty, attorney for the Sheriff's Department, said that the department would not release photographs of the skull of this little girl to then be broadcast all over the news before the body has even been identified, before the parents have been notified.Delahunty said that the sheriff's department would only release select photographs to the defense.We are not in a position to release every photograph that's been taken out there,she said. That would be completely inappropriate at this time.The court agrees.
Dec. 18 – During a press conference, a sheriff's office spokesperson says that the utility worker who discovered child skeletal remains had also contacted authorities on Aug. 11, 12 and 13, to provide tips in the case. Click here for more details.
Dec. 19 – Authorities hold another press conference, during which Dr. Jan Garavaglia announces her findings. With regret, I am here to inform you that the skeletal remains found on December 11 are those of the missing toddler Caylee Anthony,Garavaglia said.Jose Baez, holds a small press conference, during which he expresses anger towards the Orange County Sheriff's Office - specifically, for the way his client was notified that remains had been positively identified as Caylee.
TODAY WILL BE THE MOST INTERESTING AS KRONK IS HARASSED BY BAEZ AND THEN CROSS EXAMINED BY THE PROSECUSION.
ROY KRONK PUT UP A GREAT FACE ON THE STAND TODAY AND MASON WAS THE ONE GETTING REALLY UPSET FOR THE DEFENCE.YUP KRONK WON BATTLE 1 UNLESS HES CALLED TO THE STAND AGAIN.ROY KRONK CLEARLY OUT CLASSES THE DEFENCE LAWYERS
HERE IS JUNE 15-21,08 TIMELINE OF CAYLEE-CASEY
June 15 – Caylee visits her great-grandfather at an assisted living facility. A video is later produced in an attempt to verify the sighting.Cindy and Caylee allegedly go swimming in the Anthony's pool. Afterwards, Cindy takes the ladder away from the pool and closes the gate.
June 16 – At or about 12:30 p.m., George Anthony allegedly sees Casey and Caylee leave with backpacks on their shoulders.At 2:30 p.m., George Anthony leaves for work.
Between 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Casey allegedly makes numerous calls, lasting anywhere from a few seconds to a minute, to her parents and several friends.
MY TAKE ON IT IS.CASEY WENT TO SOMEONES PLACE AT 12:30PM WITH CAYLEE-PROBABLY THE BOY FRIENDS PLACE OR AMYS PLACE.MOST LIKELY AMYS PLACE TO LEAVE CAYLEE WITH HER WHILE SHE GOES BACK TO GEORGE AND CINDYS PLACE FOR HER CAR.CASEY AND AMY PROBABLY MADE PLANS TO GO TO SOME NIGHT CLUB THAT NIGHT AROUND 9PM.EITHER CASEY GOT THE CAR BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM AND WENT WITH CAYLEE THEN TO THE BOY FRIENDS PLACE AND PUT CAYLEE TO SLEEP WITH CHLOROFORM AND PUT HER IN THE TRUNK TO SLEEP WHILE SHE HAD SEX WITH HER BOY FRIEND AND SHE LATER THIS DAY DISCOVERED SHE HAD OVERDOSED AND KILLED CAYLEE ON CHLOROFORM BY 3PM AND WAS FRANTICALLY TRYING TO PHONE FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO TELL THEM WHAT HAPPENED OR WHAT I BELIEVE MOST LIKELY HAPPENED.AT 1PM CASEY GOT THE CAR FROM GEORGES PLACE AS AMY WATCHED CAYLEE.CASEY AND AMY MADE PLANS TO GO NIGHT CLUBBING THAT NIGHT AROUND 9 OR 10PM.CASEY ASKED AMY IF SHE COULD WATCH CAYLEE FROM 1PM TILL 2:30PM AS SHE WENT TO HER BOY FREINDS FOR TALKING AND SEX.AROUND 2:30PM SHE WENT BACK TO AMYS PLACE AND FROM 3PM TO 7:30PM WHILE AT AMYS-CASEY WAS TRYING TO CONTACT FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO GET SOMEONE TO LOOK AFTER CAYLEE SO SHE COULD GO WITH AMY AND HER BOY FRIEND TO THE NIGHT CLUB.BY 7:30PM CASEY REALIZED SHE COULD GET NO ONE TO LOOK AFTER CAYLEE THAT NIGHT FOR HER.SO CASEY MADE A FAKE PHONE CALL TO MISS INVISIBLE-PROBABLY THE NANNY SHE TOLD AMY.SHE TOLD AMY SHE WOULD BE BACK BY 9PM TO PICK HER AND THE BOY FRIEND UP TO GO TO THE CLUB.SHE ALSO TOLD AMY SHE WOULD VISIT WITH THE NANNY AND CAYLEE TILL 9PM.THIS WAS AROUND 7:45PM.SO CASEY GOES SOMEWHERE WITH CAYLEE PRIVATE SO NO ONE CAN SEE HER GIVE CAYLEE CHLOROFORM TO PUT HER TO SLEEP.AND CASEY AFTER SHE CHLOROFORMED CAYLEE,PUT HER IN THE TRUNK TO SLEEP SO SHE COULD GO CLUBBING.CASEY THEN GOES BACK TO AMYS PLACE AT 9PM AND PICKS AMY AND THE BOY FRIEND UP AND WENT TO THE NIGHT CLUB.AT SOME POINT DURING THE NIGHT CASEY WENT OUT TO CHECK SEE IF CAYLEE WAS AWAKE.BUT CAYLEE WAS STILL A SLEEP.BUT TO MAKE SURE CAYLEE WOULD SLEEP TILL 2 OR 3AM IN THE MOURNING-CASEY GAVE HER MORE CHLOROFORM.OR HERE IS WERE SHE MADE THE DECISON THAT SHE(CASEY)WANTED TO SOMEHOW GET RID OF CAYLEE SO SHE CASEY COULD BE FREE TO DO WHAT SHE WANTED AND SHE WOULD NOT HAVE TO TRY TO GET PEOPLE TO LOOK AFTER CAYLEE FOR HER ANYMORE.SO CASEY AS WELL AS CHLOROFORMING CAYLEE SEEN THERE WAS DUCK TAPE IN HER TRUNK.SHE THEN PUT 1 PIECE OVER CAYLEES NOSE AND MOUTH.AND 2 PIECES AROUND HER CHIN UP TO HER HAIR TO MAKE SURE CAYLEE WOULD SMOTHER TO DEATH.SHE THEN FELT FREE FINALLY AND WENT BACK IN TO PARTY.AFTER SHE WAS DONE CLUBBING SHE TOOK AMY HOME AND CASEY SLEPT AT HER BOY FRIENDS PLACE.THIS WAS PROBABLY AROUND 2 OR 3AM ON JUNE 17,2008.SHE WOULD TRY TO GET RID OF CAYLEE IN HER MIND SOMETIME TODAY MEANING JUNE 17,08.
June 17 – Someone fills out a card at the Sawgrass Apartments. The signature on the card reads Zenaida Hernandez-Gonzalez.The Anthony's allegedly notice that the gate to the swimming pool is open and the ladder is next to the pool.Casey allegedly posts a message for a friend named Amy on a social networking Web site. The message reads:Cheer up me lady! I love you and can't wait to finally get you moved in.
June 18 – Casey allegedly borrows a shovel from a neighbor. Later that same day she is seen backing her car up to her parents garage.
June 20 to June 21 – Casey allegedly hangs out at a club in Orlando.
June 24 РCasey's ex-fianc̩ calls her in the afternoon to tell her he has resigned from the Orlando Police Department. He later tells deputies that he heard Casey reprimand Caylee for climbing on a table. He also claims he heard the young girl's voice in the background. Update - Casey's ex-fianc̩ now claims he is not certain if he heard Caylee.George Anthony calls the Orange County Sheriff's Office and reports that someone broke into his storage shed and stole 2 gas cans with about $50.00 worth of gas in them.Later that day Casey allegedly shows up alone at her parent's house to pick up some clothes. When her father looks in the trunk of her car he allegedly finds the missing gas cans.
June ? – Casey reportedly gets a tattoo in honor of Caylee that reads Bella Vida. The English translation of the Italian phrase means Beautiful Life.
June 27 – Casey leaves her car, a 1998 white Pontiac with Florida tag G63XV, in the parking lot of an Amscot Financial store at Colonial Drive and Goldenrod RoadAmscot Financial store at Colonial Drive and Goldenrod Road.
June 27 to June 28 РCasey and her Ex-fianc̩e, Jesse Grund, allegedly go to the beach together.
June 30 – Casey's car is towed from Amscot Financial store. Her purse is found on the front seat and a childs car seat is found on the back seat.
July 3 – Casey's mother, Cindy Anthony, allegedly posts the following message to her MySpace blog:
Subject: My Caylee is missing
Current mood: Distraught
She came into my life unexspectedly, just as she has left me. This precious little angel from above gave me strength and unconditional love. Now she is gone and I don’t know why. All I am guilty of is loving her and providing her a safe home. Jealousy has taken her away. Jealousy from the one person that should be thankfull for all of the love and support given to her. A mother’s love is deep, however there are limits when one is betrayed by the one she loved and trusted the most. A daughter comes to her mother for support when she is pregnant, the mother says without hesitation it will be ok. And it was. But then the lies and betrayal began. First it seemed harmless, ah, love is blind. A mother will look for the good in her child and give them a chance to change. This mother gave chance after chance for her daughter to change, but instead more lies more betrayal. What does the mother get for giving her daughter all of these chances? A broken heart. The daughter who stole money, lots of money, leaves without warning and does not let her mother now speak to the baby that her mother raised, fed, clothed, sheltered, paid her medical bills, etc. Instead tells her friends that her mother is controlling her life and she needs her space. No money, no future. Where did she go? Who is now watching out for the little angel? [sic throughout].The message has been deleted.
July 4 – Casey allegedly spends the day partying and hanging out with friends.
July 4 Weekend – A new concrete slab is allegedly poured in the backyard at Casey's parents’ house.
July 7 – Casey allegedly posts a message on her MySpace blog. The message, titled Diary of Days, read:On the worst of worst days, remember the words spoken.Trust no one, only yourself.With great power, comes great consequence.What is given can be taken away.Everyone Lies.Everyone Dies.
July 15 – Amy Huizenga tells Cindy Anthony where her daughter is staying. Amy later accuses Casey of stealing checks and $700.Cindy picks up Casey and places three calls to 911, telling authorities that she wants her daughter arrested for stealing money and a car. Casey had allegedly stolen her mother's credit card when she moved out and, using the card, had run up thousands of dollars in bills. Cindy also tells the dispatcher that her granddaughter is missing.During the third 911 call, Cindy tells the dispatcher:There is something wrong. I found my daughter's car today [and] it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car.
July 16 – Investigators discover Casey has been lying about her place of employment and other details regarding her daughter's disappearance. As a result, Casey is arrested and charged with child neglect, making false official statements, and obstructing an investigation.Based on the repetitive lies that the defendant has told, we do not know with whom the child is or even if the child is alive,Corporal Yuri Melich wrote in the arrest affidavit. He added,It should be noted that at no time during any of the above interviews did the defendant show any obvious emotion as to the loss of her child.The car Casey had been driving is picked up from the wrecker company, and police question a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez, who claims she does not know Casey Anthony.While behind bars, Casey calls her family and talks with her mother, Cindy, brother, Lee Anthony, and a friend, identified only as Kristina. Casey uses profanity during the 13-minute conversation and appears to be angry about comments her mother had made to the media regarding Casey's involvement in the case.
July 17 – Casey appears in court, during which time the judge denies bond, saying she showed a woeful disregard for the welfare of her child.The Sheriff’s Office searches the car Casey had been driving and bagged several items as evidence, including dirt, samples of hair deemed to be the same color and length as Caylee’s, and a carpet sample that investigators have called questionable.
July 21 – Casey's attorney sends a letter to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, which states that they are willing to cooperate fully with law enforcement.The Never Lose Hope Foundation donates office space for volunteers to coordinate search efforts. In addition, a local business owner offers a combined reward of $125,000 for information that leads to finding Caylee. The offer is set to expire in 90 days.
I BELIEVE SOMETIME BETWEEN JULY 21 AND AUGUST 10.08.SOMEONE OVER HEARS CASEY TELL BAEZ SHE KILLED CAYLEE AND DUMPED HER AT HER FAVORITE SECRET PLACE A MILE FROM HER HOUSE IN A WOODED ARE.SOMEHOW ROY KRONKS WIFE WHO WORKS AT THE JAIL WERE CASEY IS HOUSED FINDS OUT FROM SOMEBODY THERE THAT CASEY REVEALED TO BAEZ THAT SHE KILLED AND DUMPED CAYLEES BODY AT HER FAVORITE SECRET PLACE WERE SHE BURRIED ANIMALS AND PUT HEART STICKERS ON THEM WHEN SHE WAS LITTLE.ROYS WIFE THEN SAYS TO HERSELF,WOW,IF I WOULD TELL ROY ABOUT WERE CAYLEE IS BURRIED AND HE WOULD FIND HER BODY WE COULD GET 255,000 CASH REWARD.SO WHEN SHE GOT HOME THAT NIGHT SHE TELLS ROY KRONK WERE TO LOOK FOR THE BODY SO THEY COULD GET THE REWARD MONEY.
2008 Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico names-T.S.=tropical storm; H.=hurricane at some time during its life. ST.S=subtropical storm.
H. Bertha July 3 - 20 120 mph
T.S. Cristobal July 18 - 23 65 mph
H. Dolly July 20 - 24 100 mph
T.S. Edouard Aug. 3 - 5 65 mph
T.S. Fay Aug. 18 60mph
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
August 11 – A second motion to lower Casey's bond is denied.Casey's brother, Lee Anthony, cancels a scheduled visit with her.
August 12 – George Anthony tells the media he is certain that Caylee was kidnapped..
August 13 – A psychic tells the media that she is going to help find Caylee.
ROY KRONK KNEW ABOUT CAYLEES BODY BEFORE AUGUST 13,08 WHEN THE PSYCHIC CAME ON THE SCENE.SO THEY WERE NOT WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE REWARD MONEY.
August 14 – Casey accepts a visit from her parents.
Casey's attorney files a subpoena to obtain information about the cadaver dogs that were used during the searches.
August 15 – A detective with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office tells Fox News that all future video's of Casey's jail visits will be withheld due to a criminal investigative exemption.
August 17 – Leonard Padilla, a bail bondsman from Sacramento, California, arrives in Orlando after making arraignments to pay Casey Anthony's $500,000 bail. Padilla tells the media he has been following the case closely and is convinced that Caylee will not be found as long as Casey Anthony is behind bars.
Bondsman Arrives In Florida To Bail Out Casey Anthony
August 18 – Padilla works on meeting the bond requirements for Casey's release.
August 19 – Padilla is told he incorrectly filled out the bond paperwork. He fixes the errors and resubmits the forms.
August 20 – Casey's bond is posted.
August 21 – Casey is released from the Orange County jail at approximately 10:30 a.m.
August 29 – Casey Anthony is back in jail after being arrested on three new charges: uttering a forged instrument, fraudulent use of personal information and petty theft.
August 30 – Bail agent revokes Casey Anthony's bond: Yesterday, bounty hunter Leonard Padilla told the media that Casey Anthony's bond would not be revoked. Since that time, Padilla either changed his mind AGAIN or his nephew, Tony Padilla, made the decision without him.
September 15 – Casey Anthony is back in jail again. Anthony was taken into custody this afternoon when she turned herself in for forging a check, fraudulent use of identification, and petty theft.
September 16 – Despite her most recent charges, Casey Anthony is released from custody once again, this time on $1,250 bond.
Oct. 01 – Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, enters a not guilty plea on behalf of his client in response to her check fraud charges. According to the court docket, Anthony is scheduled for an arraignment on those charges later this month.Meanwhile, the Orange County Sheriff's Office officially changes Anthony's status from person of interest to suspect in the disappearance of her missing two-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony.
Oct. 08 – According to sources close to the investigation, the Florida State Attorney's Office is planning on presenting its case against Casey Anthony to a grand jury on October 14. If that happens, it will then be up to the grand jury to determine if there is enough evidence to charge Anthony in the murder of her missing 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony.Meanwhile, investigators release check fraud documents and footage from surveillance cameras, which show Casey Anthony using stolen checks at several Orlando area stores, where she purchased groceries, clothing and lingerie. The footage also shows Anthony cashing a check at a Bank of America.
Oct. 08 – According to a source close to the investigation, prosecutors now have enough forensic evidence to ask a grand jury to indict Anthony for her daughter's murder. That evidence allegedly proves that Caylee's body was in the trunk of the car Casey Anthony was driving and at one point in the backyard of the Anthony family home.ID has learned that Casey Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, voluntarily provided investigators with DNA samples, which are currently being compared to hairs found in the trunk of the car. Anthony's brother, Lee Anthony, initially refused to provide investigators with a sample; however he later submitted to that request when investigators served him with a search warrant.Investigators are convinced that Caylee was murdered on or about June 17. Cell phone records show that from June 16 to June 18, Anthony mostly went about her normal routine - traveling to and from her parents and boyfriend's house - however, pings have also placed her near Blanchard Park and the Econ Trail, an isolated area south of Lake Underhill. Both those areas were searched by David Lohr and Texas EquuSearch; however given the high waters and thick underbrush it is possible that evidence could have gone overlooked.
ct. 15 – Casey Anthony, mother of missing two-year-old, Caylee Anthony, made her initial court appearance before Judge John Jordan today, on charges that she murdered her daughter.Anthony said nothing during the hearing, which lasted less than 2 minutes. Jordan read the charges against her and then ordered her held without bond.Also today, Casey Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, made another appearance on NBC's Today show. She has this to say during the segment: I know my daughter. I know my daughter's relationship with Caylee and I know that there's nothing in this world that could make me think Casey did anything to Caylee. There's never been any child neglect, child abuse or anything. This young lady loves her child more than I love Casey. I'll tell you that right now. And my love for Casey is stronger every day. My love for my granddaughter is stronger every day and I know Caylee is alive. There's a lot of people out there who have seen Caylee.
Oct. 27 – Casey Anthony was arraigned on charges of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter and four counts of lying to investigators. Anthony had already entered a written not guilty plea, so she was not required to be present during the proceeding. Judge Stan Strickland set Jan. 5 as the opening day for Anthony's trial. If convicted, Anthony could face life in prison or the death penalty.
Dec. 11 – Human child remains found by the Anthony house.Sources close to the investigation say that remnants of duct tape were found on both the skull and the trash bag. Those items are compared to tape and bags that had previously been collected from the car Casey Anthony was driving at the time of her daughter's disappearance.Investigators hold a media briefing on the discovery of the remains. Police confirm that the skull does appear to be that of a small child; however they caution that further tests are needed to confirm the age and gender.Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office seek a warrant to search the home of Casey Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony.Authorities obtain the warrant and the Anthony family home is taped off with crime scene tape.
In October 2008, Dr. Maurice Godwin used his Predator computerized system to identify specific areas of interest in the search for Caylee Anthony. Copies of the report were given to law enforcement and Texas EquuSearch. According to Godwin, the remains could have been found sooner if his analysis of the case had been utilized. Click here for more details.
Dec. 12 – Investigators conducting the search of the Anthony home remove enough items to fill up at least three vehicles. The search, which began the previous day, continues into the early morning hours. Click here for more details.Casey Anthony's defense team is denied access to the autopsy on the child skeletal remains. In issuing the ruling, Judge Stan Strickland said that the pathologist needed to make the identification without interference from outside parties.Anthony's defense team holds a press conference regarding their motion.Criminal profiler Pat Brown shares her thoughts on the discovery of the remains.Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin weighs in on Casey Anthony.Authorities release the 911 call about the skull discovery.
Dec. 15 – Jose Baez, lead attorney for Casey Anthony, assembles a seasoned team of defense attorneys and forensic experts for his client's impending first-degree murder trial.
Dec. 16 – Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland hears a series of emergency motions that were filed by Jose Baez. Upon reading the ruling and hearing arguments from both sides, Strickland continues the autopsy request. In regard to a defense request to oversee the crime scene, Strickland says it is not a requirement by law.I can't assist you in interfering with a murder investigation,Strickland said.They're entitled to continue until they get what it is they need to get.In response to a request for the crime scene photos, Ann Marie Delahunty, attorney for the Sheriff's Department, said that the department would not release photographs of the skull of this little girl to then be broadcast all over the news before the body has even been identified, before the parents have been notified.Delahunty said that the sheriff's department would only release select photographs to the defense.We are not in a position to release every photograph that's been taken out there,she said. That would be completely inappropriate at this time.The court agrees.
Dec. 18 – During a press conference, a sheriff's office spokesperson says that the utility worker who discovered child skeletal remains had also contacted authorities on Aug. 11, 12 and 13, to provide tips in the case. Click here for more details.
Dec. 19 – Authorities hold another press conference, during which Dr. Jan Garavaglia announces her findings. With regret, I am here to inform you that the skeletal remains found on December 11 are those of the missing toddler Caylee Anthony,Garavaglia said.Jose Baez, holds a small press conference, during which he expresses anger towards the Orange County Sheriff's Office - specifically, for the way his client was notified that remains had been positively identified as Caylee.
TODAY WILL BE THE MOST INTERESTING AS KRONK IS HARASSED BY BAEZ AND THEN CROSS EXAMINED BY THE PROSECUSION.
ROY KRONK PUT UP A GREAT FACE ON THE STAND TODAY AND MASON WAS THE ONE GETTING REALLY UPSET FOR THE DEFENCE.YUP KRONK WON BATTLE 1 UNLESS HES CALLED TO THE STAND AGAIN.ROY KRONK CLEARLY OUT CLASSES THE DEFENCE LAWYERS
Monday, June 27, 2011
CANADA-MAIL DELIVERY BY TUESDAY
Canadian Senate moves to end postal shutdown
JUNE 26,11
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadians could begin receiving mail again within two days after the Senate on Sunday endorsed back-to-work legislation ending the labor dispute that shut down the postal service.The Senate held a rare weekend session to approve the government measure that was passed by the House of Commons on Saturday after a 58-hour filibuster by opposition MPs who said the bill was unfair to the workers.
Canada Post locked out the nearly 48,000 workers June 15 after more than a week of rotating strikes that the company said had caused mail deliveries to drop by nearly 50 percent.The Conservative government said it had no choice but to intervene because contract negotiations between the company and union had failed, and a prolonged dispute posed a threat to the national economy.Mail deliveries could resume Tuesday, officials said.The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said its members will return to work as ordered, but warned that the order does not resolve the issues that lead to the dispute. It may challenge the legislation in court.
In addition to wages and pensions, the company and union are at odds over how the system should adjust to technological changes that seen customers drop traditional mail in favor of writing emails and using the Internet to pay bills.The legislation provides for an arbitrator to pick between the offers made by the union or Canada Post, but it includes a controversial measure that sets the pay increase at less than the company had already offered the union.If the arbitrator accepts Canada Post's offer, the company would also be allowed to offer new hires lower salaries, pensions and vacations than its existing workers now get.(Reporting Allan Dowd, editing by Anthony Boadle)
Canada Post promises mail delivery Tuesday-Employees head back to work over next 48 hours CBC News Last Updated: Jun 26, 2011 10:13 PM ET
Canadian homes and businesses will start receiving mail again Tuesday now that legislation forcing 48,000 postal workers back to their jobs has become law, Canada Post says.Post offices that were closed during the labour dispute will start to reopen Tuesday as well, while mailboxes will be unsealed starting Monday, the Crown corporation said.The announcement came Sunday night, shortly after the government's back-to-work-bill received royal assent.The bill imposing a labour contract on the Canadian Union of Postal Workers was passed by the House of Commons on Saturday and the Senate on Sunday.Just when Canadians can expect mail service to be back to normal isn’t clear, Canada Post suggested in a news release.With unprocessed mail in the system and accumulated mail received from other countries that has not yet entered our system, it will take some time to stabilize our operations and to return to our normal delivery standards,the release said.The postal workers were locked out June 17 after 12 days of rotating strikes. They’ll all be called back within the next 24 to 48 hours, Canada Post said.
Senators question witnesses
In a rare Sunday sitting, the Senate spent more than seven hours studying the back-to-work bill and questioning witnesses before voting 53-26 in favour.Union president Denis Lemelin told senators the union would respect the legislation if it passed, although it raises difficulties for employees, who weren't consulted about the provisions.I'm happy to be working for Canada post, but I want to be treated fairly for the work I do,postal worker Pierre Brisson of Montreal said after the bill was enacted.The law imposes a four-year contract on the workers, specifies pay increases and leaves other disputed issues to binding arbitration.The House of Commons gave the bill final reading Saturday night after a filibuster by the Opposition NDP.Although the mail disruption might not have bothered Canadians heavily reliant on technology, the government argued the economy would lose millions of dollars a week. Small business and organizations were hit hard, Conservative MPs said.That was always the intent of the bill — to restore the mail service, to make sure that the economy will be held intact,Labour Minister Lisa Raitt said.Individuals also looked forward to the return of snail mail.I still remember how to write letters, and I do write letters and put stamps on them,said Randolph Ianniruberto of Alliston, Ont., who uses Canada Post to pay his bills and for correspondence.
Bill described as sledgehammer
In the Senate, Liberal James Cowan said Bill C-6 gutted the collective bargaining process and he accused Prime Minister Harper of using a sledgehammer approach to solving the dispute.His solution was clear: break the monopoly of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.The senator read a quotation from Harper from 1997, in which he stated that ending the monopoly in the postal service will ensure that Canadians are never held hostage by another postal strike.
P.O.V.:
Do you agree with the House's decision to pass the back-to-work bill?
Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra told senators the Crown corporation wants to welcome back employees in a special manner and begin long-term healing.Faced with the prospect of stiff fines for violating the back-to-work measures, CUPW vice-president George Floresco said the union would comply with the legislation. But Floresco insisted the union would carry on the struggle for a just collective agreement and just working conditions.We'll deliver the mail, but this isn't the end of it, Floresco told CBC News from Ottawa. We'll continue to work with our allies who have been out on the street with us and supporting true negotiations, and we're not going to let this die.
Hizbollah members confess to spying for CIA
8:54PM BST 24 Jun 2011
In the first such acknowledgement of infiltration since the group's founding in the 1980s, Nasrallah refused to disclose the identities of the two party members but said a third case was under investigation, slamming the US embassy in Lebanon as a den of spies.When the Israeli enemy failed to infiltrate Hizbollah, it turned to the most powerful intelligence agency, Nasrallah said in a television speech broadcast in Lebanon, referring to the Central Intelligence Agency.Our investigation has found that ... intelligence officers (in the CIA) have recruited two of our members separately, whom we shall not name out of respect for the privacy of their families, he added.The first confessed he was recruited five months ago ... while the second confessed he had been recruited even before that, he said, adding that the recruiters were CIA agents posing as diplomats at the US embassy east of Beirut.
Nasrallah also said the group was investigating whether the third member of the party had been recruited by the CIA, Israel's Mossad or the intelligence service of a European country.The Shiite leader, whose party is blacklisted as a terrorist group by the United States, insisted however that the alleged agents had not been involved in the 2008 assassination of top Hizbollah operative Imad Mughnieh in Damascus.Hizbollah has openly accused Israel of the bombing that killed Mughnieh and vowed to avenge his death. The Jewish state has denied responsibility.The Syrian- and Iranian-backed Shiite movement last fought a devastating war with Israel in 2006.
The month-long fighting killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mainly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mainly soldiers, and destroyed much of Lebanon's major infrastructure.
Israel's Vatican envoy backs off WWII pope praise
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press – Sun Jun 26, 10:28 am ET
VATICAN CITY – Israel's ambassador to the Vatican on Sunday backed off his praise of Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope blamed by some Jews and historians for having failed to speak out enough against the Holocaust.Ambassador Mordechai Lewy said in a statement that his personal judgment about the role of Pius, the Vatican and Catholic Church during the war had been premature since the issue is still being researched.Lewy made headlines last week when he praised Pius and the Catholic Church in general for having given refuge to Roman Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Italian capital. The Vatican newspaper ran his speech on the front page, giving the brief but significant remarks high visibility.But some Jewish groups balked, saying Lewy's comments were morally wrong, historically inaccurate and hurtful to Holocaust survivors.Pope Benedict XVI is keen to see Pius beatified, the first step to sainthood, and a concerted campaign is under way among Pius' supporters to correct what they say has been an unfair and incorrect judgment passed on Pius.As a result, Lewy's remarks in praise of Pius — unusual for a Jew much less an Israeli official — were significant in that they indicated a slight shift in the historic judgment of a man the Vatican considers worthy of one of the church's greatest honors but who many Jews consider a moral coward.
Pius was pope from 1939-1958. Before his election he served as the Vatican's No. 2 and before that papal nuncio to Germany. Given his deep involvement in the Vatican's diplomatic affairs with the Nazis, what Pius did or didn't do during the war has become the single most divisive issue in Vatican-Jewish relations.The Vatican insists Pius used quiet diplomacy and that speaking out more publicly and critically against the Nazis would have resulted in more Jewish deaths. Critics argue he could have and should have said and done more.And so eyebrows were raised when Lewy told a ceremony awarding a Righteous of the Nations medal in honor of Gaetano Piccini, an Italian priest who sheltered Jews, that Piccini wasn't alone in saving Jewish lives in Rome.It would be an error to declare that the Catholic Church, the Vatican or the pope himself opposed actions aimed at saving Jews, Lewy said June 23.The contrary is actually true: they helped wherever they could.He said the fact that the Vatican couldn't stop the deportation of Jews from Rome's ghetto on Oct. 16-18, 1943 only increased the will, on the part of the Vatican, to offer its own sites as refuges for the Jews.He said Jews were traumatized by the deportation and expected much more from the pope.Fine, we all know what happened, but we also must recognize that the train that left on Oct. 18, 1943 was the only one that the Nazis managed to organize from Rome to Auschwitz, he said.On Sunday, Lewy said he wanted to make a clarification to his remarks, noting that his praise of Piccini's good deeds were embedded in a broader historical context.Given the fact that this context is still under the subject of ongoing and future research, passing my personal historical judgment on it was premature,the statement said.Elan Steinberg, vice president of the group American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said he appreciated Lewy's clarification.It takes courage to admit a mistake, said Steinberg, who had initially criticized Lewy for his comments.Jewish leaders have asked that the Vatican not beatify Pius until the complete set of Vatican archives is opened to scholars, which is not expected for several more years. Pius' supporters argue that a good chunk of the documents are already available and that few scholars ever consult them.(This version corrects last name to Lewy instead of Levy.)
EU leaders call US bluff on 1967 borders in Israel
ANDREW RETTMAN 25.06.2011 @ 08:44 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU countries have called on the US to get behind an initiative to revive Middle East peace talks based on a format disliked by Israel.
The EU leaders in a communique at the summit in Brussels on Friday (24 June) said they fully support the high representative's call for the Quartet to create a credible perspective for the re-launching of the peace process as a matter of urgency.The line refers to EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton's appeal to hold a meeting of the four parties - the EU, Russia, the UN and the US - in Washington in the first half of July.The communique did not explicitly say the credible perspective or blueprint for talks should involve Israel pulling back to lines held before the 1967 war, but it welcome[d] President Obama's recent proposals, in line with previous EU positions on the subject.US leader Barack Obama in a speech on 19 May said Israel should go back to 1967 borders. The proposal, which would involve Israel extracting armed extremist settlers from occupied land, was immediately attacked by Israel and by the US congress, with the US administration going quiet on the idea ever since.The Israeli foreign minister earlier this month also told Ashton it is not a good moment to try to restart talks because the world should be concentrating on Syria instead.An EU diplomat said Poland did a good job of overcoming reluctance about the EU statement among pro-Israeli countries in central and eastern Europe, such as the Czech republic.
Asked by EUobserver what Israel thinks of the EU summit appeal, Mark Regev, the spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel is ready for talks if the Palestinian Fatah movement abandons a unity government deal with Hamas, a militant Palestinian group listed as a terrorist entity by the EU and US.The Israeli side wants to see peace talks resume and has called on the Palestinian leadership to annul their pact with Hamas and to re-enter talks,Regev said.A comparison of a draft version of the EU summit text circulating on Friday morning with the official version adopted a few hours later shows that two pro-Irsaeli changes were made in the final stage.The official text contains a new line calling for the organisers of an upcoming aid flotilla to Hamas-controlled Gaza to back off, saying the move could endanger human lives, even though it was Israeli commandos who shot dead several flotilla members last year. It also contains an appeal to Hamas to release Israeli hostage Gilad Shilat.Elsewhere, the EU communique took a hard line on Syria but a soft one on Bahrain, which is part of an EU-US-Saudi-Arabia alliance.
Published on a day when Syrian troops killed 15 more protesters, the EU text said the regime is calling its legitimacy into question and threatened President Bashar Assad's people with the international tribunal in The Hague, adding:Those responsible for crimes and violence against civilians shall be held accountable.On Bahrain, which handed out life sentences to eight pro-democracy protesters the day before the EU summit and which stands accused of systematic murder and torture of dissidents, EU leaders said they are concerned and encouraged respect for rights.For his part, French leader Nicolas Sarkozy in the post-summit press conference took a swipe at outgoing US defence chief Robert Gates over recent remarks that EU countries are not pulling their weight in fighting in Afghanistan and Libya.Obviously Robert Gates was about to step down and go into retirement and he was obviously not very happy about this and possibly this explains his rather bitter words,the Frenchman said.
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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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.
Typhoon batters Korean peninsula, at least 9 dead
– JUNE 26,11
SEOUL (Reuters) – At least nine people have been killed, mostly drowned in flooding, after a typhoon battered South Korea, a disaster official said on Monday, while impoverished North Korea braced for huge waves and torrential rain.Lee Gon-hee of the Central Disaster and Safety Control Center in Seoul said a further three people were missing after.Typhoon Meari skirted the west coast of South Korea at the weekend.Meari, the Korean word for echo, was due to make landfall in North Korea early on Monday.The North's KCNA state news agency warned residents in the coastal areas of South Hamgyong Province and Kangwon Province to be ready for tidal waves.
Dozens of domestic flights were canceled in South Korea on Sunday and ships ordered to stay in port. Authorities said international flights were not affected.The historic Chilgok bridge in North Gyeongsang, built to honor soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, partially collapsed at the weekend after the Nakdong River flooded.The same typhoon left nearly 30 people dead or missing in the Philippines and Vietnam last week.(Reporting by Jeremy Laurence and Seongbin Kang; Editing by Alex Richardson)
Nebraska residents shrug off flood risk to nuclear plant By Michael Avok – Sun Jun 26, 5:02 pm ET
BROWNVILLE, Neb (Reuters) – Residents near a nuclear plant on the rain-swollen Missouri River were largely unconcerned about any potential safety risks from flooding ahead of a nuclear regulator's visit on Sunday.Gregory Jaczko, the chair of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will monitor flood preparations during a visit to the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville.The plant is located about 80 miles south of Omaha, where snow melt and heavy rains have forced the waters of the Missouri River over its banks, although they have not flooded the plant and receded slightly on Sunday.I just don't think the water is going to get that high, said Brownville resident Kenny Lippold, a retired carpenter who has been following each step of the flood preparations in this riverside village of 148 residents.They claim that they are going to keep operating, Lippold said, adding that he will not flee his home of 29 years even though it is less than a mile from the Cooper reactor.
Jaczko will be briefed on Sunday by NRC resident inspectors -- the agency staff who work on-site every day -- plant officials and executives, said Mark Becker, a spokesman at the Nebraska Public Power District, the agency that runs the plant.Water levels there are down after upstream levees failed, Becker said, relieving worries that water will rise around the Brownville plant as it has at another nuclear plant north of Omaha in Fort Calhoun.Local shop owner Katy Morgan, 28, said her fears have been assuaged by information she has received via plant officials, who give out emergency radio equipment to residents within a 10-mile radius of the Cooper plant.I know everybody freaks out when they talk about nuclear, said Morton, who runs a boutique on Brownville's main thoroughfare.I suppose if there was a drastic increase in the river I would be concerned. If they say evacuate then I would be concerned, Morton said.Jaczko will also visit on Monday the Fort Calhoun plant in the town of Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, about 20 miles north of Omaha, an agency official said.Flood water up to 2-feet deep is standing on the site of the 478-megawatt Fort Calhoun plant, which will stay shut down until the water recedes, the NRC said.On Sunday afternoon, workers accidentally deflated an auxiliary berm at the plant, said Omaha Public Power District spokesman Jeff Hanson.Hanson said the aqua dam was a supplemental measure that provided workers more freedom but was not essential to keeping the plant dry.The plant itself is still protected, Hanson said. Floodwater would need to rise over 7 feet to flow over the berms and enter the plant, Hanson said, adding that the supplemental dam was not in original flood prevention plans.An NRC inspection at Fort Calhoun two years ago indicated deficiencies in the flood preparation area, which have now been remedied, the agency said.(Writing by Eric Johnson; Editing by Tim Gaynor)
As water ebbs in Minot, thoughts of recovery
By DALE WETZEL and JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press – Sun Jun 26, 7:41 pm ET
MINOT, N.D. – The Souris River began a long, slow retreat in Minot on Sunday, leaving behind an arduous rebuilding job for more than 4,000 homeowners and hundreds of business operators, most of whom lack insurance to pay for it.Because they don't have coverage, federal assistance could amount to as little as a few thousand dollars apiece. Loan and grant programs will provide some help, as will an emergency relief fund just being set up.Still, there was at least one ray of hope: State lawmakers might be able to lend a hand, thanks in large part to North Dakota's oil boom, which generates $1 billion a year in tax money and has helped shield the state from the worst of the recession.Few people in Minot carried flood insurance — only 375 homes in the flooded areas, said John Ashton, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.Mike and Jodi Picard checked with neighbors when moving into their house less than two years ago and found that just one had flood insurance. The river was a quarter-mile away, and the prevailing opinion was that we were not in a floodplain anymore after a 1969 flood led to construction of levees and straightening of the river channel.Now you really kick yourself for not having it,said Jodi Picard.The Souris topped out Sunday nearly 2 feet below projections heading into the weekend, and it appeared damage might not extend beyond the homes and businesses that took on water Friday. Officials warned against overconfidence until the river fell enough to take the pressure off levees. The National Weather Service projected the river would decline 2 feet by midweek.
The Picards stood on a bridge overlooking the swollen river, straining for a glimpse of their house in a distant cul-de-sac. It appeared water was knee-deep on the main floor.The couple was staying with relatives in the area but said they were determined to return home. After the water recedes, they'll pump the basement dry, tear out drywall and insulation and make needed repairs.State lawmakers will probably consider offering flood relief during a special session this fall. They have $386 million in a rainy-day fund, as well as another $136 million in a school-aid fund that could be diverted to the many communities touched by floodwaters this year. Both funds are fattened by state oil revenues.I think we're going to look at Bismarck, Minot, the whole statewide flooding issue, and look at them all together,said Senate Majority Leader Bob Stenehjem, a Republican from Bismarck.When it comes to paying for rebuilding, FEMA has approved individual assistance for Burleigh (home to the capital of Bismarck) and Ward counties, where Minot is located. Gov. Jack Dalrymple is pushing to expand it to 20 other counties and the Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Spirit Lake Sioux reservations.We know that we have a tremendous recovery effort coming, and even as we talk about how to beat this water back over the next few days, we have already started talking about how the recovery will be managed and organized,the governor said.The FEMA assistance is capped at a little more than $30,000, but Sen. Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, said a more realistic figure is $7,000 to $8,000 — the typical amounts provided to victims of severe flooding in Nashville, Tenn., a year ago.FEMA and the federal Small Business Administration will offer loan and grant programs, too. The Bank of North Dakota, the nation's only state-owned bank, already offers low-interest loans up to $500,000 to business people, farmers and ranchers living in areas that the president has declared a disaster area.
The bank and the state's Public Finance Authority also have made low-interest loans available to local governments while they wait to collect expected federal aid after they make repairs on their public works.Eric Hardmeyer, the Bank of North Dakota's president, said the bank learned valuable lessons about administering disaster aid from the epic Red River Valley floods of 1997, which swamped the city of Grand Forks, knocked out its sewer and water systems and forced the evacuation of more than 50,000 people.We found that we needed to let the federal programs get in and do their business before we found out where we should play, Hardmeyer said.Their pockets are deeper, and they're more experienced at that than we are.Pat Owens, who was mayor of Grand Forks when the flood hit in April 1997, said federal agencies were critical to the city's recovery. They set up a one-stop shop for aid programs in Grand Forks' Civic Auditorium.That was a salvation, Owens told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Sunday.People would not know how to even begin trying to bring their lives back, and that gave them a place to go.Les Younger, a retired Air Force veteran who maintained aircraft weapons systems at Minot Air Force Base, and his wife, Jacque, a seamstress, said they did not buy flood insurance because they thought their home was far enough from the river.Jacque Younger said the couple's recovery is going to be very tough, because we don't have a lot of savings. But they tried to put the best face on it by thinking of how they might change things in rebuilding.You have to look on the bright side, because if you look on the dull side, it gets you down,Jacque Younger said.
China's Wen sees struggle to control inflation
JUNE 26,11
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – Premier Wen Jiabao signaled for the first time that China would struggle to meet its 4 percent inflation target this year.Wen, who is traveling in Europe, was quoted by Hong Kong media on Monday as saying that while he sees the Chinese economy growing above 8-9 percent this year, it was hard for China to keep inflation under 4 percent in 2011.China's financial situation will still be among the best in the world this year, with economic growth kept above 8-9 percent, and CPI controlled under 5 percent, Wen told Hong Kong television media during the England leg of his Europe tour.Although Wen's latest comments are not as upbeat as his remarks on Friday when he said China's inflation is firmly under control this year and should cool steadily, they are unlikely to alter investor bets on China's monetary policy outlook.Many economists have long expected China to breach its inflation target for the year given that the inflation rate is well above the 4 percent mark since January, and is expected to peak at 6 percent in June or July.
A Reuters poll of economists in June showed a median forecast for China to increase benchmark lending and deposit rates by another 25 and 50 basis points respectively this year.Copper prices lost ground on Monday on concern that inflation pressures may prompt top buyer China to tighten credit further and persistent worries about the euro zone debt crisis.Judging by a recent stream of comments from Beijing, the market's bias toward tighter policy in China appears to be in step with that of the Chinese government.Vice Premier Li Keqiang said on Saturday that fighting inflation is still China's top priority, effectively rebutting arguments among some investors that China may hurt its growth if it over-tightens policy at a time when its economy is already easing.Wen also took a stab at worries that China's economy risks a hard landing on Friday when he said China is fully capable of keeping its economy growing briskly.Writing in an opinion piece in the Financial Times, Wen said: There is concern as to whether China can rein in inflation and sustain its rapid development. My answer is an emphatic yes.China's central bank on its part has made clear that its focus is squarely on inflation.It raised banks' required reserve ratio to a record 21.5 percent earlier this month, hours after official data showed China's inflation quickened to a 34-month high of 5.5 percent in May.(Reporting by Victoria Bi and Donny Kwok in HONG KONG, Koh Gui Qing in BEIJING; Editing by Ramya Venugopal)
Bulls ready to charge into wall of worry
By Rodrigo Campos – Sun Jun 26, 12:13 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A bounce could be the cards for stocks this week as bulls defend a key technical level and portfolio managers buy the quarter's winners to prop up their books.But gains coming from healthcare, staples or other defensive sectors that have outperformed the market in the last several months would only support the notion that the U.S. stock market needs to complete its correction phase and panic selling must occur before a more sustained comeback develops.We want to see more fear, said Ari Wald, equity strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York.Be careful what you wish for.The problems that have driven the recent decline, including Greece's slow march toward a default on its debt, weak U.S. economic data and the creeping deadline to lift the U.S. debt ceiling, are far from being resolved.
HOLDING THE 200-DAY SHOWS THE WAY
Despite a drop that dragged the S&P 500 as much as 8.2 percent below its three-year high hit in early May, the index held above its 200-day moving average -- a major line in the sand as the bulls and bears battle for control of the market.The slide had been telegraphed for weeks and the market's by-the-book performance -- pulling back to a widely followed level -- seems too well choreographed for some analysts.
The fact that we went to the 200-day ... seems just a little too perfect, said Marc Pado, U.S. market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co in San Francisco.He said the timing of the move was supportive, as the market creates a technical base before resuming its upward move on the back of strong earnings.You might get an attempt at a shakeout move, Pado said.But sometimes the majority is right.Even if they are right, they don't seem too convinced. So far this quarter -- on track to be the first in the red for the S&P 500 in the last year -- daily volume on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Amex and Nasdaq has averaged 7.22 billion shares.That is down from the 7.94 billion shares traded daily during the first quarter, when the S&P 500 gained 5.4 percent. Commitment to the market has waned. The frantic selling, the flushing down of day traders seems absent so far in this corrective phase.Despite holding above that level, the market has not cleared the danger zone of dipping under its 200-day average. The curve has a steep slope, as the S&P 500 took roughly two years to notch a 100 percent advance from its March 2009 lows.The 200-day moving average now stands at 1,263.47, less than 0.4 percent below the S&P 500's close on Friday.
Every time you test a resistance or support level, you make it weaker, said Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist of the ConvergEx Group in New York.It's almost like a piece of metal. Every time you hit it, it grows more fragile and that's why people are really worried the third or fourth time.After three straight days of declines, the S&P 500 fell 0.24 percent for the week and finished on Friday at 1,268.45 -- its seventh decline in the last eight weeks.The Dow industrials (.DJI) lost 0.58 percent for the week, closing on Friday at 11,934.58, while the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) rose 1.39 percent for the week to end at 2,652.89. The Nasdaq is just fractionally higher for the year, while the Dow and the S&P 500 are both still solidly in the black for 2011.The next two weeks, before quarterly earnings season starts in earnest, could be marked by wild swings like the ones seen recently. On Thursday, after a market-friendly headline out of Greece, the S&P 500 posted its strongest comeback in almost a year, on days when the benchmark has fallen more than 1 percent.
From its session low on Thursday, the S&P 500 climbed more than 20 points into the close. The Dow's swing covered 233.79 points from its intraday low to session high on Thursday.But buying interest waned on Friday. Aside from doubts about the passage in Athens' Parliament of higher taxes and service cuts, weak Italian banks also are scaring investors.The Federal Reserve on Wednesday gave a bleak outlook on the economy, lowering its forecasts for GDP growth for both 2011 and 2012. And Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke found it hard to explain the sources of a so-called economic soft patch that seems to have become pervasive.
SUMMER STORM OF DATA
Besides the weekly jobless claims numbers, housing and manufacturing data will attract the most attention this week.The S&P Case-Shiller April home prices index on Tuesday and the National Association of Realtors May pending home sales index on Wednesday could confirm the housing market's double dip.Factory activity grew in May at its slowest pace since September 2009, according to the Institute for Supply Management, and Friday's ISM number for June is expected to drop to 51.9, indicating an even slower rate of growth.New applications for unemployment insurance on Thursday are expected to land above 400,000 for a 12th straight week, according to economists polled by Reuters.Personal income and consumption, out Monday, are expected to tick higher in May. Consumer confidence, out Tuesday from the Conference Board, is forecast at a June reading of 60.5, just a touch lower than May's 60.8, a Reuters poll showed. Despite a recent string of weak data in May, a sharp drop in crude oil prices is expected to buoy consumer confidence.(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Additional reporting by Edward Krudy; Editing by Jan Paschal)
Probably inevitable a country will exit euro: Soros
– Sun Jun 26, 8:28 am ET
VIENNA (Reuters) – Billionaire investor George Soros thinks a country will eventually exit the euro zone and urged policymakers on Sunday to come up with a plan B that could rescue the European Union from looming economic collapse.Soros, famous for making $1 billion by betting against the British pound in 1992, did not name any country he thought might exit the currency, but speculation is mounting about the fate of Greece as its politicians struggle to agree more austerity measures demanded by international lenders as the price for staving off bankruptcy.
Soros reiterated his view in a panel discussion in Vienna that the euro had a basic flaw from the start in that the currency was not backed by political union or a joint treasury.The euro had no provision for correction. There was no arrangement for any country leaving the euro, which in the current circumstances is probably inevitable,he said.While he called survival of the European Union a vital interest to all, he said the EU needed structural changes to halt a process of disintegration.
There is no plan B at the moment. That is why the authorities are sticking to the status quo and insisting on preserving the existing arrangements instead of recognizing there are fundamental flaws that need to be corrected.With a debt crisis in some peripheral members testing the EU's cohesiveness at a time of popular disquiet in wealthier countries over bailouts, he said leaders had to adopt measures now to remedy the situation.Let's face it: we are on the verge of an economic collapse which starts, let's say, in Greece but could easily spread. The financial system remains extremely vulnerable...We are on the edge of collapse and that is the time to recognize the need for change.Some steps the EU could adopt included creating a larger central budget; directing some of the income from value-added tax or a levy on financial transactions to Brussels; having a European institution guarantee banks, and tripling the size of its bailout fund by topping it up with tax revenue, he said.(Reporting by Michael Shields; editing by Sophie Walker)
World Bank to take stock as Egypt scraps IMF loan
– Sun Jun 26, 6:12 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank said on Sunday it would have to take stock of plans to lend to Egypt after the International Monetary Fund confirmed the authorities no longer wanted an IMF-backed loan program.Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan said on Saturday Egypt would not borrow from the World Bank and the IMF after revising its budget and cutting the deficit target to 8.6 percent of gross domestic product from 11 percent.A World Bank spokesperson said it was not informed of the decision.As far as we are aware these discussions are ongoing and we have heard nothing from the government to suggest the contrary, a World Bank spokesperson said.If there is no IMF program, we will have to take stock, the spokesperson added.
The IMF said Egypt had scrapped plans for a $3 billion IMF loan agreed last month. The World Bank and other international donors usually look to the IMF as a seal of approval to lend to governments.World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on May 24 the poverty-fighting institution would make available $4.5 billion over the next 24 months for Egypt. The funding included $1 billion this year in budget support and another $1 billion next year to help cover a huge budget shortfall after the economy was plunged into turmoil by mass protests that drove Hosni Mubarak from office on February 11.The World Bank program was also aimed at improving transparency and boosting employment, which were part of demands of the protesters.Radwan said Qatar had provided Egypt with $500 million for budgetary support in the past week, and Saudi Arabia had offered a similar amount.(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; editing by Anthony Boadle)
U.S. gas prices dip slightly to near $3.63/gallon
– Sun Jun 26, 4:27 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. average retail gasoline prices fell over the past two weeks and could ease a bit more in coming weeks due in part to the release of crude oil from the U.S. strategic energy reserve, according to the latest nationwide Lundberg survey.The national average price for self-serve regular unleaded gas was $3.6283 a gallon on June 24, a decline of about 11 cents in the past two weeks, according to the survey of about 2,500 gas stations.A year ago, the price was $2.6613.At $3.32 a gallon, Jackson, Mississippi had the lowest average price for self-serve regular unleaded gas, while Chicago had the highest price at $4.06, the survey found.Gas prices will continue to fall in part because the International Energy Agency (IEA) said it will release 60 million barrels in July, which caused the price of crude oil to drop, survey editor Trilby Lundberg said.The IEA, made up of industrialized oil consumer nations including the United States, announced the release of 60 million barrels of oil from strategic government stockpiles in a bid to push down crude prices and underpin the global economy. About one-half of the total will come from the U.S.Even before the announcement, gas prices were slipping because poor economic news in the U.S. and Europe had been causing pessimism about petroleum demand.Unless there was a very severe disruption in the supply of crude, it's safe to say we won't see prices of crude coming back any time soon, Lundberg said.If crude oil prices stay at their current level, gas prices could fall another five to 10 cents by mid-July, Lundberg said. If crude prices fall further, gas prices could dip as much as 20 cents to 25 cents.Brent crude prices fell 2 percent on Friday, while U.S. crude ended slightly higher after seesawing and briefly dipping below $90 a barrel.
Israel: Journalists on flotilla face expulsion
By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press – Sun Jun 26, 4:13 pm ET
JERUSALEM – Israel said Sunday that any foreign journalist caught on board a Gaza-bound flotilla could face deportation and a 10-year ban from the country, in a move that threatened to worsen the nation's already strained relationship with the international media.Journalists said they should be allowed to cover a legitimate news story, but Israel said the media would be complicit in an illegal breach of its naval blockade of a hostile territory ruled by a terrorist group.The announcement reflected Israeli jitters about the international flotilla, which comes just more than a year after a similar mission ended with the deaths of nine Turkish activists in clashes with Israeli naval commandos who intercepted them. Each side blamed the other for the violence.Israel is eager to avoid a repeat of last year's raid, which drew heavy international condemnation and prompted Israel to ease its blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.Many Israelis believe that the media's coverage of the bloodshed contributed to their country's image problems.In a letter to foreign journalists, the Government Press Office's director, Oren Helman, called the flotilla a dangerous provocation that is being organized by western and Islamic extremist elements to aid Hamas.He warned journalists that taking part in the flotilla is an intentional violation of Israeli law and is liable to lead to participants being denied entry into the State of Israel for 10 years, to the impoundment of their equipment and to additional sanctions, Helman said.The letter, he added, was reviewed and approved by Israel's attorney general.
The Foreign Press Association, which represents hundreds of journalists working for international news organizations in Israel and the Palestinian territories, condemned the Israeli decision and urged the government to cancel the order.The government's threat to punish journalists covering the Gaza flotilla sends a chilling message to the international media and raises serious questions about Israel's commitment to freedom of the press, the FPA said in a statement.The association's lawyer, Gilead Sher, sent a letter to Helman demanding that the threat be rescinded.The state of Israel must make a clear distinction between those who carry out an action and those who cover it (as journalists), Sher said in his note. Israel's local journalists association also condemned the government's letter.Israel sees the flotilla as a provocation aimed at stirring up trouble and says that it has standard channels for delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.Israel imposed its land and naval embargo on Gaza after Hamas, an Iranian-backed group that rejects peace with Israel, overran the territory in 2007. Under international pressure, Israel eased the land blockade after last year's flotilla raid, but the naval closure remains intact.Israel says the blockade is justified on internationally accepted legal grounds because it is effectively in a state of war with Hamas, which has fired thousands of rockets into Israel and killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks.
Critics say that while Israel is entitled to stop arms smuggling, the blockade has amounted to collective punishment and caused widespread suffering among Gaza's 1.6 million people.The pro-Palestinian organizers of the flotilla say the mission is necessary to draw attention to the Gazans' plight.It remains unclear when the current flotilla will actually set sail, but organizers have hinted it could be as soon as this week.Organizers have said 10 boats, including two cargo vessels carrying aid supplies, will participate in the flotilla and that hundreds of people, including activists, journalists, politicians, writers and religious figures, will be on board.About two dozen activist groups, many of them based in Europe, are organizing the journey. Among them are IHH, a Turkish Islamic charity that helped organize last year's flotilla and is outlawed in Israel.There are already growing signs that this flotilla will be different.The Turkish boat that clashed with the Israeli navy has dropped out of this year's flotilla. After a year of tensions, both Turkey and Israel have signaled that they are interested in repairing strained ties.
Greece has also urged Greek citizens and Greek-registered vessels not to participate, noting the risk of violence. Activists on The Audicity of Hope,an American boat in the flotilla that plans to sail from a Greek port, said police declared they could not leave because of questions about the vessel's seaworthiness. In a statement, the activists speculated the delay stemmed from Israeli and U.S. pressure.Manuel Tapial, a Spanish activist, said a Spanish vessel in the flotilla planned to depart for Gaza this week in coordination with other aid boats and would be carrying 11 journalists, most of them Spanish. He criticized Israel's warning to reporters, saying Israel did not want witnesses to what they can do to us on the water.Associated Press writer Christopher Torchia contributed to this report from Athens.
Asian markets slip on Europe debt fears
By PAMELA SAMPSON, AP Business Writer – JUNE 26,11
BANGKOK – Asian markets dropped early Monday amid fears of a spreading European debt crisis after a ratings agency placed Italian banks on a review for a possible downgrade.Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 0.9 percent to 9,595.18. South Korea's Kospi lost 0.9 percent to 2,072.87, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng slipped 0.6 percent to 22,041.21.
Technology shares were among those facing the biggest slumps. South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, one of the world's leading computer chip makers, was 3.9 percent down. Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory slipped 2.1 percent, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing lost 1.4 percent.Benchmarks in Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and Taiwan were also lower. Mainland Chinese shares were higher.On Friday, Italian banks were down sharply on the Milan stock exchange after ratings agency Moody's said it was considering downgrading their credit worthiness.Moody's Investors Service placed the long-term debt and deposit ratings of 16 Italian banks and two Italian government-related financial institutions on review for possible downgrade.
On Wall Street, stocks fell Friday after poor earnings reports from two major technology companies suggested that companies invested less in new technology as the economic recovery slowed.Fears of a spreading European debt crisis also weighed on markets. Italian bank stocks plunged and trading in some of them was halted after Moody's warned that it might downgrade their credit ratings.The Dow Jones industrial average fell 1 percent to 11,934.58. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1.2 percent to 1,268.45. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.3 percent to 2,652.89.The decline erased all of this week's gains for the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P index. The broad stock market has now fallen for seven of the last eight weeks, largely because of concerns that the U.S. economy is slowing and that Europe's debt problems may lead to another financial crisis. The S&P 500 is down 7 percent since it hit a high for the year on April 29.Technology stocks were broadly lower. Micron Technology Inc. fell 14.5 percent after the company said lower sales of computer chips hurt its earnings, which were far less than analysts had expected. Oracle Corp. fell 4 percent after its sales of computer hardware fell sharply. Cisco Systems Inc. fell 3.5 percent, and Microsoft Corp. lost 1.3 percent.The U.S. economy has cooled since late April. Recent reports on housing, employment, manufacturing and retail sales all have been weak. The debt crisis in Greece and fears that China's growth is slowing have also pushed markets lower.In energy trading, benchmark crude for August delivery dropped 58 cents to $90.58 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract settled at $91.16 per barrel on the Nymex on Friday.In currencies, the euro weakened $1.4130 from $1.4171 on Friday in New York. The dollar ticked up to 80.72 yen from 80.52 yen.
THIS IS THE WRONG MOVE FOR NEW YORK TO DO SINCE NY HAS THE 2ND MOST ISRAELIS IN THE WORLD.I WONDER HOW MANY HURRICANES WILL HIT NEW YORK THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF THIS LEGELIZING SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS.
Gay marriage backers: NY vote has national impact
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer – Sun Jun 26, 2:49 am ET
NEW YORK – Many obstacles still lie ahead for supporters of same-sex marriage, and eventually they will need Congress or the Supreme Court to embrace their goal. For the moment, though, they are jubilantly channeling the lyrics of New York, New York.Now that we've made it here, we'll make it everywhere, said prominent activist Evan Wolfson, who took up the cause of marriage equality as a law student three decades ago.With a historic vote by its Legislature late Friday, New York became the sixth — and by far the most populous — state to legalize same-sex marriage since Massachusetts led the way, under court order, in 2004.With the new law, which takes effect after 30 days, the number of Americans in same-sex marriage states more than doubles. New York's population of 19 million surpasses the combined total of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa, plus the District of Columbia.The outcome — a product of intensive lobbying by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo — will have nationwide repercussions. Activists hope the New York vote will help convince judges and politicians across the country, including a hesitant President Barack Obama, that support of same-sex marriage is now a mainstream viewpoint and a winning political stance.New York sends the message that marriage equality across the country is a question of when, not if,said Fred Sainz, a vice president of the Human Rights Campaign.Wolfson, president of the advocacy group Freedom to Marry, said the goal is attainable by 2020, or sooner,if we do the work and keep making the case.The work — as envisioned by leading activists — is a three-pronged strategy unfolding at the state level, in dealings with Congress and the Obama administration, and in the courts where several challenges to the federal ban on gay marriage are pending.
This will be a big boost to our efforts nationally, said Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights.It will help in the pending court cases to show that more states are adopting same-sex marriage, and it will help in the court of public opinion.The New York bill cleared the Republican-controlled Senate by a 33-29 margin, thanks to crucial support from four GOP senators who joined all but one Democrat in voting yes. The Democratic-led Assembly, which previously approved the bill, passed the Senate's stronger religious exemptions in the measure, and Cuomo swiftly signed it into law.Gay rights activists have been heaping praise on Cuomo for leading the push for the bill, seizing on an issue that many politicians of both parties have skirted. Yet the Senate vote marked the first time a Republican-controlled legislative chamber in any state has supported same-sex marriage, and several prominent Republican donors contributed to the lobbying campaign on behalf of the bill.For those engaged in the marriage debate nationally, recent months have been a political rollercoaster.Bills to legalize same-sex marriage failed in Maryland and Rhode Island despite gay rights activists' high hopes. However, Illinois, Hawaii and Delaware approved civil unions, joining five other states — California, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington — that provide gay couples with extensive marriage-like rights.Adding those eight states to the six that allow gay marriage, more than 35 percent of Americans now live in states where gay couples can effectively attain the rights and responsibilities of marriage. Just 11 years ago, no states offered such rights.For now, gay couples cannot get married in 44 states, and 30 of them have taken the extra step of passing constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. Minnesota's Republican-controlled Legislature has placed such an amendment on the 2012 ballot.
Brian Brown, president of the conservative National Organization for Marriage, vowed to seek defeat of the New York Republicans who helped the marriage bill pass. He also predicted victory for the amendment to ban gay marriage next year in Minnesota, and said this would belie the claims that the same-sex marriage campaign would inevitably prevail nationwide.We've won every free, fair vote of the people, Brown said Saturday.Backroom deals in Albany are not an indication of what people in this country think about marriage.Efforts may surface in some states to repeal the existing marriage bans, but the prospect of dismantling all of them on a state-by-state basis is dim. In Mississippi, for example, a ban won support of 86 percent of the voters in 2004.Thus, looking long term, gay marriage advocates see nationwide victory coming in one of two ways — either congressional legislation or a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that would require all states to recognize same-sex marriages.
The way you do that is creating a critical mass of states and a critical mass of public opinion — some combination that will encourage Congress and the Supreme Court, Wolfson said.By winning New York, we add tremendous energy to the national conversation that grows the majority.Shorter term, gay rights activists and their allies in Congress would like to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal recognition to same-sex marriages. The act is being challenged in several court cases, and Obama ordered his administration in February to stop defending the law on the grounds it is unconstitutional.Democrats in Congress have introduced a bill to repeal the law, while the Republican leadership in the House has pledged to defend it.Obama, when elected, said he supported broadening rights for gay couples but opposed legalizing same-sex marriage. More recently, he has said his position is evolving, and he asked gay activists at a New York City fundraiser Thursday for patience.Nonetheless, frustrations are mounting. Freedom to Marry says more than 112,000 people have signed its Say I Do appeal to the president, and gay marriage supporters have launched an EvolveAlready campaign on Twitter.We hope that, through this public pressure, we'll be able to move the president to understand that he's falling behind the majority of Americans who see marriage equality as a key civil right,said Robin McGehee of the advocacy group GetEqual.Several recent opinion polls — by Gallup and The Associated Press, among others — have shown that a majority of Americans now approve of same-sex marriage, which a decade ago lagged below 40 percent support. Particularly strong backing for gay marriage among young people, who've grown up watching gay friendly films and TV programs, has prompted many analysts across the political spectrum to suggest the trend is irreversible.
Some conservatives, however, say the opinion polls are belied in the voting booth and point to the steady stream of approvals of state-level bans on same-sex marriage.
The opposition has created an illusion of momentum but not a real base of support or track record of victory in the courts,said Brian Raum, senior counsel with the conservative Alliance Defense Fund.Mary Bonauto would disagree.An attorney with Boston-based Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, she has spent two decades battling for legal recognition of same-sex relationships. She helped win the landmark court rulings that led to civil unions in Vermont in 2000 and same-sex marriage in Massachusetts in 2004.Even in the 1990s, she recalled thinking the cause eventually would prevail nationwide.I could see attitudes change, she said. Eventually we have to have one standard of justice in this country and establish that sexual orientation is not a basis for discrimination.She recalled setbacks just a few years ago in New York — a 2006 Court of Appeals ruling that there was no constitutional right to same-sex marriage in the state, and the decisive defeat of a same-sex marriage bill in the state Senate in 2009.The switch this time tells us there's a lot of momentum pointing toward marriage equality, Bonauto said.Vermont lawyer Beth Robinson, now counsel for Gov. Peter Shumlin, worked with Bonauto in the late 1990s on the case that led to the state's pioneering civil union law. She expects the move toward nationwide same-sex marriage will be bumpy but inexorable.
As people get to know their gay and lesbian neighbors, friends and family, the notion of denying those families equal rights becomes untenable,she said.For New York to go there, on a vote rather that a court order, is huge ... It's a victory not just for New York, but for the whole country.Robinson said Vermont, which legalized same-sex marriage in 2009, offered a lesson to wary Americans in other states.It isn't that the sky isn't falling — it's more positive than that, she said. Vermont is a better place for it. Each of us has the opportunity to be our best selves.Among the New Yorkers who will now get that opportunity are Richard Dorr, 84, and John Mace, 91, who have been partners for 61 years while pursuing successful careers as voice teachers in Manhattan.We thought about getting married in Massachusetts, but it just didn't seem to jibe right, said Dorr.It should be in the state where you live.They plan to seek a marriage license as swiftly as possible but don't envision a lavish ceremony.Just a couple of witnesses and a justice of the peace, Dorr said.When they fell in love, back in 1950, marriage never crossed our mind,he added.It was just that we had to be together. We could not stay away.
JUNE 26,11
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadians could begin receiving mail again within two days after the Senate on Sunday endorsed back-to-work legislation ending the labor dispute that shut down the postal service.The Senate held a rare weekend session to approve the government measure that was passed by the House of Commons on Saturday after a 58-hour filibuster by opposition MPs who said the bill was unfair to the workers.
Canada Post locked out the nearly 48,000 workers June 15 after more than a week of rotating strikes that the company said had caused mail deliveries to drop by nearly 50 percent.The Conservative government said it had no choice but to intervene because contract negotiations between the company and union had failed, and a prolonged dispute posed a threat to the national economy.Mail deliveries could resume Tuesday, officials said.The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said its members will return to work as ordered, but warned that the order does not resolve the issues that lead to the dispute. It may challenge the legislation in court.
In addition to wages and pensions, the company and union are at odds over how the system should adjust to technological changes that seen customers drop traditional mail in favor of writing emails and using the Internet to pay bills.The legislation provides for an arbitrator to pick between the offers made by the union or Canada Post, but it includes a controversial measure that sets the pay increase at less than the company had already offered the union.If the arbitrator accepts Canada Post's offer, the company would also be allowed to offer new hires lower salaries, pensions and vacations than its existing workers now get.(Reporting Allan Dowd, editing by Anthony Boadle)
Canada Post promises mail delivery Tuesday-Employees head back to work over next 48 hours CBC News Last Updated: Jun 26, 2011 10:13 PM ET
Canadian homes and businesses will start receiving mail again Tuesday now that legislation forcing 48,000 postal workers back to their jobs has become law, Canada Post says.Post offices that were closed during the labour dispute will start to reopen Tuesday as well, while mailboxes will be unsealed starting Monday, the Crown corporation said.The announcement came Sunday night, shortly after the government's back-to-work-bill received royal assent.The bill imposing a labour contract on the Canadian Union of Postal Workers was passed by the House of Commons on Saturday and the Senate on Sunday.Just when Canadians can expect mail service to be back to normal isn’t clear, Canada Post suggested in a news release.With unprocessed mail in the system and accumulated mail received from other countries that has not yet entered our system, it will take some time to stabilize our operations and to return to our normal delivery standards,the release said.The postal workers were locked out June 17 after 12 days of rotating strikes. They’ll all be called back within the next 24 to 48 hours, Canada Post said.
Senators question witnesses
In a rare Sunday sitting, the Senate spent more than seven hours studying the back-to-work bill and questioning witnesses before voting 53-26 in favour.Union president Denis Lemelin told senators the union would respect the legislation if it passed, although it raises difficulties for employees, who weren't consulted about the provisions.I'm happy to be working for Canada post, but I want to be treated fairly for the work I do,postal worker Pierre Brisson of Montreal said after the bill was enacted.The law imposes a four-year contract on the workers, specifies pay increases and leaves other disputed issues to binding arbitration.The House of Commons gave the bill final reading Saturday night after a filibuster by the Opposition NDP.Although the mail disruption might not have bothered Canadians heavily reliant on technology, the government argued the economy would lose millions of dollars a week. Small business and organizations were hit hard, Conservative MPs said.That was always the intent of the bill — to restore the mail service, to make sure that the economy will be held intact,Labour Minister Lisa Raitt said.Individuals also looked forward to the return of snail mail.I still remember how to write letters, and I do write letters and put stamps on them,said Randolph Ianniruberto of Alliston, Ont., who uses Canada Post to pay his bills and for correspondence.
Bill described as sledgehammer
In the Senate, Liberal James Cowan said Bill C-6 gutted the collective bargaining process and he accused Prime Minister Harper of using a sledgehammer approach to solving the dispute.His solution was clear: break the monopoly of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.The senator read a quotation from Harper from 1997, in which he stated that ending the monopoly in the postal service will ensure that Canadians are never held hostage by another postal strike.
P.O.V.:
Do you agree with the House's decision to pass the back-to-work bill?
Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra told senators the Crown corporation wants to welcome back employees in a special manner and begin long-term healing.Faced with the prospect of stiff fines for violating the back-to-work measures, CUPW vice-president George Floresco said the union would comply with the legislation. But Floresco insisted the union would carry on the struggle for a just collective agreement and just working conditions.We'll deliver the mail, but this isn't the end of it, Floresco told CBC News from Ottawa. We'll continue to work with our allies who have been out on the street with us and supporting true negotiations, and we're not going to let this die.
Hizbollah members confess to spying for CIA
8:54PM BST 24 Jun 2011
In the first such acknowledgement of infiltration since the group's founding in the 1980s, Nasrallah refused to disclose the identities of the two party members but said a third case was under investigation, slamming the US embassy in Lebanon as a den of spies.When the Israeli enemy failed to infiltrate Hizbollah, it turned to the most powerful intelligence agency, Nasrallah said in a television speech broadcast in Lebanon, referring to the Central Intelligence Agency.Our investigation has found that ... intelligence officers (in the CIA) have recruited two of our members separately, whom we shall not name out of respect for the privacy of their families, he added.The first confessed he was recruited five months ago ... while the second confessed he had been recruited even before that, he said, adding that the recruiters were CIA agents posing as diplomats at the US embassy east of Beirut.
Nasrallah also said the group was investigating whether the third member of the party had been recruited by the CIA, Israel's Mossad or the intelligence service of a European country.The Shiite leader, whose party is blacklisted as a terrorist group by the United States, insisted however that the alleged agents had not been involved in the 2008 assassination of top Hizbollah operative Imad Mughnieh in Damascus.Hizbollah has openly accused Israel of the bombing that killed Mughnieh and vowed to avenge his death. The Jewish state has denied responsibility.The Syrian- and Iranian-backed Shiite movement last fought a devastating war with Israel in 2006.
The month-long fighting killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mainly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mainly soldiers, and destroyed much of Lebanon's major infrastructure.
Israel's Vatican envoy backs off WWII pope praise
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press – Sun Jun 26, 10:28 am ET
VATICAN CITY – Israel's ambassador to the Vatican on Sunday backed off his praise of Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope blamed by some Jews and historians for having failed to speak out enough against the Holocaust.Ambassador Mordechai Lewy said in a statement that his personal judgment about the role of Pius, the Vatican and Catholic Church during the war had been premature since the issue is still being researched.Lewy made headlines last week when he praised Pius and the Catholic Church in general for having given refuge to Roman Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Italian capital. The Vatican newspaper ran his speech on the front page, giving the brief but significant remarks high visibility.But some Jewish groups balked, saying Lewy's comments were morally wrong, historically inaccurate and hurtful to Holocaust survivors.Pope Benedict XVI is keen to see Pius beatified, the first step to sainthood, and a concerted campaign is under way among Pius' supporters to correct what they say has been an unfair and incorrect judgment passed on Pius.As a result, Lewy's remarks in praise of Pius — unusual for a Jew much less an Israeli official — were significant in that they indicated a slight shift in the historic judgment of a man the Vatican considers worthy of one of the church's greatest honors but who many Jews consider a moral coward.
Pius was pope from 1939-1958. Before his election he served as the Vatican's No. 2 and before that papal nuncio to Germany. Given his deep involvement in the Vatican's diplomatic affairs with the Nazis, what Pius did or didn't do during the war has become the single most divisive issue in Vatican-Jewish relations.The Vatican insists Pius used quiet diplomacy and that speaking out more publicly and critically against the Nazis would have resulted in more Jewish deaths. Critics argue he could have and should have said and done more.And so eyebrows were raised when Lewy told a ceremony awarding a Righteous of the Nations medal in honor of Gaetano Piccini, an Italian priest who sheltered Jews, that Piccini wasn't alone in saving Jewish lives in Rome.It would be an error to declare that the Catholic Church, the Vatican or the pope himself opposed actions aimed at saving Jews, Lewy said June 23.The contrary is actually true: they helped wherever they could.He said the fact that the Vatican couldn't stop the deportation of Jews from Rome's ghetto on Oct. 16-18, 1943 only increased the will, on the part of the Vatican, to offer its own sites as refuges for the Jews.He said Jews were traumatized by the deportation and expected much more from the pope.Fine, we all know what happened, but we also must recognize that the train that left on Oct. 18, 1943 was the only one that the Nazis managed to organize from Rome to Auschwitz, he said.On Sunday, Lewy said he wanted to make a clarification to his remarks, noting that his praise of Piccini's good deeds were embedded in a broader historical context.Given the fact that this context is still under the subject of ongoing and future research, passing my personal historical judgment on it was premature,the statement said.Elan Steinberg, vice president of the group American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said he appreciated Lewy's clarification.It takes courage to admit a mistake, said Steinberg, who had initially criticized Lewy for his comments.Jewish leaders have asked that the Vatican not beatify Pius until the complete set of Vatican archives is opened to scholars, which is not expected for several more years. Pius' supporters argue that a good chunk of the documents are already available and that few scholars ever consult them.(This version corrects last name to Lewy instead of Levy.)
EU leaders call US bluff on 1967 borders in Israel
ANDREW RETTMAN 25.06.2011 @ 08:44 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU countries have called on the US to get behind an initiative to revive Middle East peace talks based on a format disliked by Israel.
The EU leaders in a communique at the summit in Brussels on Friday (24 June) said they fully support the high representative's call for the Quartet to create a credible perspective for the re-launching of the peace process as a matter of urgency.The line refers to EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton's appeal to hold a meeting of the four parties - the EU, Russia, the UN and the US - in Washington in the first half of July.The communique did not explicitly say the credible perspective or blueprint for talks should involve Israel pulling back to lines held before the 1967 war, but it welcome[d] President Obama's recent proposals, in line with previous EU positions on the subject.US leader Barack Obama in a speech on 19 May said Israel should go back to 1967 borders. The proposal, which would involve Israel extracting armed extremist settlers from occupied land, was immediately attacked by Israel and by the US congress, with the US administration going quiet on the idea ever since.The Israeli foreign minister earlier this month also told Ashton it is not a good moment to try to restart talks because the world should be concentrating on Syria instead.An EU diplomat said Poland did a good job of overcoming reluctance about the EU statement among pro-Israeli countries in central and eastern Europe, such as the Czech republic.
Asked by EUobserver what Israel thinks of the EU summit appeal, Mark Regev, the spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel is ready for talks if the Palestinian Fatah movement abandons a unity government deal with Hamas, a militant Palestinian group listed as a terrorist entity by the EU and US.The Israeli side wants to see peace talks resume and has called on the Palestinian leadership to annul their pact with Hamas and to re-enter talks,Regev said.A comparison of a draft version of the EU summit text circulating on Friday morning with the official version adopted a few hours later shows that two pro-Irsaeli changes were made in the final stage.The official text contains a new line calling for the organisers of an upcoming aid flotilla to Hamas-controlled Gaza to back off, saying the move could endanger human lives, even though it was Israeli commandos who shot dead several flotilla members last year. It also contains an appeal to Hamas to release Israeli hostage Gilad Shilat.Elsewhere, the EU communique took a hard line on Syria but a soft one on Bahrain, which is part of an EU-US-Saudi-Arabia alliance.
Published on a day when Syrian troops killed 15 more protesters, the EU text said the regime is calling its legitimacy into question and threatened President Bashar Assad's people with the international tribunal in The Hague, adding:Those responsible for crimes and violence against civilians shall be held accountable.On Bahrain, which handed out life sentences to eight pro-democracy protesters the day before the EU summit and which stands accused of systematic murder and torture of dissidents, EU leaders said they are concerned and encouraged respect for rights.For his part, French leader Nicolas Sarkozy in the post-summit press conference took a swipe at outgoing US defence chief Robert Gates over recent remarks that EU countries are not pulling their weight in fighting in Afghanistan and Libya.Obviously Robert Gates was about to step down and go into retirement and he was obviously not very happy about this and possibly this explains his rather bitter words,the Frenchman said.
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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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.
Typhoon batters Korean peninsula, at least 9 dead
– JUNE 26,11
SEOUL (Reuters) – At least nine people have been killed, mostly drowned in flooding, after a typhoon battered South Korea, a disaster official said on Monday, while impoverished North Korea braced for huge waves and torrential rain.Lee Gon-hee of the Central Disaster and Safety Control Center in Seoul said a further three people were missing after.Typhoon Meari skirted the west coast of South Korea at the weekend.Meari, the Korean word for echo, was due to make landfall in North Korea early on Monday.The North's KCNA state news agency warned residents in the coastal areas of South Hamgyong Province and Kangwon Province to be ready for tidal waves.
Dozens of domestic flights were canceled in South Korea on Sunday and ships ordered to stay in port. Authorities said international flights were not affected.The historic Chilgok bridge in North Gyeongsang, built to honor soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, partially collapsed at the weekend after the Nakdong River flooded.The same typhoon left nearly 30 people dead or missing in the Philippines and Vietnam last week.(Reporting by Jeremy Laurence and Seongbin Kang; Editing by Alex Richardson)
Nebraska residents shrug off flood risk to nuclear plant By Michael Avok – Sun Jun 26, 5:02 pm ET
BROWNVILLE, Neb (Reuters) – Residents near a nuclear plant on the rain-swollen Missouri River were largely unconcerned about any potential safety risks from flooding ahead of a nuclear regulator's visit on Sunday.Gregory Jaczko, the chair of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will monitor flood preparations during a visit to the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville.The plant is located about 80 miles south of Omaha, where snow melt and heavy rains have forced the waters of the Missouri River over its banks, although they have not flooded the plant and receded slightly on Sunday.I just don't think the water is going to get that high, said Brownville resident Kenny Lippold, a retired carpenter who has been following each step of the flood preparations in this riverside village of 148 residents.They claim that they are going to keep operating, Lippold said, adding that he will not flee his home of 29 years even though it is less than a mile from the Cooper reactor.
Jaczko will be briefed on Sunday by NRC resident inspectors -- the agency staff who work on-site every day -- plant officials and executives, said Mark Becker, a spokesman at the Nebraska Public Power District, the agency that runs the plant.Water levels there are down after upstream levees failed, Becker said, relieving worries that water will rise around the Brownville plant as it has at another nuclear plant north of Omaha in Fort Calhoun.Local shop owner Katy Morgan, 28, said her fears have been assuaged by information she has received via plant officials, who give out emergency radio equipment to residents within a 10-mile radius of the Cooper plant.I know everybody freaks out when they talk about nuclear, said Morton, who runs a boutique on Brownville's main thoroughfare.I suppose if there was a drastic increase in the river I would be concerned. If they say evacuate then I would be concerned, Morton said.Jaczko will also visit on Monday the Fort Calhoun plant in the town of Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, about 20 miles north of Omaha, an agency official said.Flood water up to 2-feet deep is standing on the site of the 478-megawatt Fort Calhoun plant, which will stay shut down until the water recedes, the NRC said.On Sunday afternoon, workers accidentally deflated an auxiliary berm at the plant, said Omaha Public Power District spokesman Jeff Hanson.Hanson said the aqua dam was a supplemental measure that provided workers more freedom but was not essential to keeping the plant dry.The plant itself is still protected, Hanson said. Floodwater would need to rise over 7 feet to flow over the berms and enter the plant, Hanson said, adding that the supplemental dam was not in original flood prevention plans.An NRC inspection at Fort Calhoun two years ago indicated deficiencies in the flood preparation area, which have now been remedied, the agency said.(Writing by Eric Johnson; Editing by Tim Gaynor)
As water ebbs in Minot, thoughts of recovery
By DALE WETZEL and JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press – Sun Jun 26, 7:41 pm ET
MINOT, N.D. – The Souris River began a long, slow retreat in Minot on Sunday, leaving behind an arduous rebuilding job for more than 4,000 homeowners and hundreds of business operators, most of whom lack insurance to pay for it.Because they don't have coverage, federal assistance could amount to as little as a few thousand dollars apiece. Loan and grant programs will provide some help, as will an emergency relief fund just being set up.Still, there was at least one ray of hope: State lawmakers might be able to lend a hand, thanks in large part to North Dakota's oil boom, which generates $1 billion a year in tax money and has helped shield the state from the worst of the recession.Few people in Minot carried flood insurance — only 375 homes in the flooded areas, said John Ashton, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.Mike and Jodi Picard checked with neighbors when moving into their house less than two years ago and found that just one had flood insurance. The river was a quarter-mile away, and the prevailing opinion was that we were not in a floodplain anymore after a 1969 flood led to construction of levees and straightening of the river channel.Now you really kick yourself for not having it,said Jodi Picard.The Souris topped out Sunday nearly 2 feet below projections heading into the weekend, and it appeared damage might not extend beyond the homes and businesses that took on water Friday. Officials warned against overconfidence until the river fell enough to take the pressure off levees. The National Weather Service projected the river would decline 2 feet by midweek.
The Picards stood on a bridge overlooking the swollen river, straining for a glimpse of their house in a distant cul-de-sac. It appeared water was knee-deep on the main floor.The couple was staying with relatives in the area but said they were determined to return home. After the water recedes, they'll pump the basement dry, tear out drywall and insulation and make needed repairs.State lawmakers will probably consider offering flood relief during a special session this fall. They have $386 million in a rainy-day fund, as well as another $136 million in a school-aid fund that could be diverted to the many communities touched by floodwaters this year. Both funds are fattened by state oil revenues.I think we're going to look at Bismarck, Minot, the whole statewide flooding issue, and look at them all together,said Senate Majority Leader Bob Stenehjem, a Republican from Bismarck.When it comes to paying for rebuilding, FEMA has approved individual assistance for Burleigh (home to the capital of Bismarck) and Ward counties, where Minot is located. Gov. Jack Dalrymple is pushing to expand it to 20 other counties and the Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Spirit Lake Sioux reservations.We know that we have a tremendous recovery effort coming, and even as we talk about how to beat this water back over the next few days, we have already started talking about how the recovery will be managed and organized,the governor said.The FEMA assistance is capped at a little more than $30,000, but Sen. Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, said a more realistic figure is $7,000 to $8,000 — the typical amounts provided to victims of severe flooding in Nashville, Tenn., a year ago.FEMA and the federal Small Business Administration will offer loan and grant programs, too. The Bank of North Dakota, the nation's only state-owned bank, already offers low-interest loans up to $500,000 to business people, farmers and ranchers living in areas that the president has declared a disaster area.
The bank and the state's Public Finance Authority also have made low-interest loans available to local governments while they wait to collect expected federal aid after they make repairs on their public works.Eric Hardmeyer, the Bank of North Dakota's president, said the bank learned valuable lessons about administering disaster aid from the epic Red River Valley floods of 1997, which swamped the city of Grand Forks, knocked out its sewer and water systems and forced the evacuation of more than 50,000 people.We found that we needed to let the federal programs get in and do their business before we found out where we should play, Hardmeyer said.Their pockets are deeper, and they're more experienced at that than we are.Pat Owens, who was mayor of Grand Forks when the flood hit in April 1997, said federal agencies were critical to the city's recovery. They set up a one-stop shop for aid programs in Grand Forks' Civic Auditorium.That was a salvation, Owens told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Sunday.People would not know how to even begin trying to bring their lives back, and that gave them a place to go.Les Younger, a retired Air Force veteran who maintained aircraft weapons systems at Minot Air Force Base, and his wife, Jacque, a seamstress, said they did not buy flood insurance because they thought their home was far enough from the river.Jacque Younger said the couple's recovery is going to be very tough, because we don't have a lot of savings. But they tried to put the best face on it by thinking of how they might change things in rebuilding.You have to look on the bright side, because if you look on the dull side, it gets you down,Jacque Younger said.
China's Wen sees struggle to control inflation
JUNE 26,11
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – Premier Wen Jiabao signaled for the first time that China would struggle to meet its 4 percent inflation target this year.Wen, who is traveling in Europe, was quoted by Hong Kong media on Monday as saying that while he sees the Chinese economy growing above 8-9 percent this year, it was hard for China to keep inflation under 4 percent in 2011.China's financial situation will still be among the best in the world this year, with economic growth kept above 8-9 percent, and CPI controlled under 5 percent, Wen told Hong Kong television media during the England leg of his Europe tour.Although Wen's latest comments are not as upbeat as his remarks on Friday when he said China's inflation is firmly under control this year and should cool steadily, they are unlikely to alter investor bets on China's monetary policy outlook.Many economists have long expected China to breach its inflation target for the year given that the inflation rate is well above the 4 percent mark since January, and is expected to peak at 6 percent in June or July.
A Reuters poll of economists in June showed a median forecast for China to increase benchmark lending and deposit rates by another 25 and 50 basis points respectively this year.Copper prices lost ground on Monday on concern that inflation pressures may prompt top buyer China to tighten credit further and persistent worries about the euro zone debt crisis.Judging by a recent stream of comments from Beijing, the market's bias toward tighter policy in China appears to be in step with that of the Chinese government.Vice Premier Li Keqiang said on Saturday that fighting inflation is still China's top priority, effectively rebutting arguments among some investors that China may hurt its growth if it over-tightens policy at a time when its economy is already easing.Wen also took a stab at worries that China's economy risks a hard landing on Friday when he said China is fully capable of keeping its economy growing briskly.Writing in an opinion piece in the Financial Times, Wen said: There is concern as to whether China can rein in inflation and sustain its rapid development. My answer is an emphatic yes.China's central bank on its part has made clear that its focus is squarely on inflation.It raised banks' required reserve ratio to a record 21.5 percent earlier this month, hours after official data showed China's inflation quickened to a 34-month high of 5.5 percent in May.(Reporting by Victoria Bi and Donny Kwok in HONG KONG, Koh Gui Qing in BEIJING; Editing by Ramya Venugopal)
Bulls ready to charge into wall of worry
By Rodrigo Campos – Sun Jun 26, 12:13 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A bounce could be the cards for stocks this week as bulls defend a key technical level and portfolio managers buy the quarter's winners to prop up their books.But gains coming from healthcare, staples or other defensive sectors that have outperformed the market in the last several months would only support the notion that the U.S. stock market needs to complete its correction phase and panic selling must occur before a more sustained comeback develops.We want to see more fear, said Ari Wald, equity strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York.Be careful what you wish for.The problems that have driven the recent decline, including Greece's slow march toward a default on its debt, weak U.S. economic data and the creeping deadline to lift the U.S. debt ceiling, are far from being resolved.
HOLDING THE 200-DAY SHOWS THE WAY
Despite a drop that dragged the S&P 500 as much as 8.2 percent below its three-year high hit in early May, the index held above its 200-day moving average -- a major line in the sand as the bulls and bears battle for control of the market.The slide had been telegraphed for weeks and the market's by-the-book performance -- pulling back to a widely followed level -- seems too well choreographed for some analysts.
The fact that we went to the 200-day ... seems just a little too perfect, said Marc Pado, U.S. market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co in San Francisco.He said the timing of the move was supportive, as the market creates a technical base before resuming its upward move on the back of strong earnings.You might get an attempt at a shakeout move, Pado said.But sometimes the majority is right.Even if they are right, they don't seem too convinced. So far this quarter -- on track to be the first in the red for the S&P 500 in the last year -- daily volume on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Amex and Nasdaq has averaged 7.22 billion shares.That is down from the 7.94 billion shares traded daily during the first quarter, when the S&P 500 gained 5.4 percent. Commitment to the market has waned. The frantic selling, the flushing down of day traders seems absent so far in this corrective phase.Despite holding above that level, the market has not cleared the danger zone of dipping under its 200-day average. The curve has a steep slope, as the S&P 500 took roughly two years to notch a 100 percent advance from its March 2009 lows.The 200-day moving average now stands at 1,263.47, less than 0.4 percent below the S&P 500's close on Friday.
Every time you test a resistance or support level, you make it weaker, said Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist of the ConvergEx Group in New York.It's almost like a piece of metal. Every time you hit it, it grows more fragile and that's why people are really worried the third or fourth time.After three straight days of declines, the S&P 500 fell 0.24 percent for the week and finished on Friday at 1,268.45 -- its seventh decline in the last eight weeks.The Dow industrials (.DJI) lost 0.58 percent for the week, closing on Friday at 11,934.58, while the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) rose 1.39 percent for the week to end at 2,652.89. The Nasdaq is just fractionally higher for the year, while the Dow and the S&P 500 are both still solidly in the black for 2011.The next two weeks, before quarterly earnings season starts in earnest, could be marked by wild swings like the ones seen recently. On Thursday, after a market-friendly headline out of Greece, the S&P 500 posted its strongest comeback in almost a year, on days when the benchmark has fallen more than 1 percent.
From its session low on Thursday, the S&P 500 climbed more than 20 points into the close. The Dow's swing covered 233.79 points from its intraday low to session high on Thursday.But buying interest waned on Friday. Aside from doubts about the passage in Athens' Parliament of higher taxes and service cuts, weak Italian banks also are scaring investors.The Federal Reserve on Wednesday gave a bleak outlook on the economy, lowering its forecasts for GDP growth for both 2011 and 2012. And Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke found it hard to explain the sources of a so-called economic soft patch that seems to have become pervasive.
SUMMER STORM OF DATA
Besides the weekly jobless claims numbers, housing and manufacturing data will attract the most attention this week.The S&P Case-Shiller April home prices index on Tuesday and the National Association of Realtors May pending home sales index on Wednesday could confirm the housing market's double dip.Factory activity grew in May at its slowest pace since September 2009, according to the Institute for Supply Management, and Friday's ISM number for June is expected to drop to 51.9, indicating an even slower rate of growth.New applications for unemployment insurance on Thursday are expected to land above 400,000 for a 12th straight week, according to economists polled by Reuters.Personal income and consumption, out Monday, are expected to tick higher in May. Consumer confidence, out Tuesday from the Conference Board, is forecast at a June reading of 60.5, just a touch lower than May's 60.8, a Reuters poll showed. Despite a recent string of weak data in May, a sharp drop in crude oil prices is expected to buoy consumer confidence.(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Additional reporting by Edward Krudy; Editing by Jan Paschal)
Probably inevitable a country will exit euro: Soros
– Sun Jun 26, 8:28 am ET
VIENNA (Reuters) – Billionaire investor George Soros thinks a country will eventually exit the euro zone and urged policymakers on Sunday to come up with a plan B that could rescue the European Union from looming economic collapse.Soros, famous for making $1 billion by betting against the British pound in 1992, did not name any country he thought might exit the currency, but speculation is mounting about the fate of Greece as its politicians struggle to agree more austerity measures demanded by international lenders as the price for staving off bankruptcy.
Soros reiterated his view in a panel discussion in Vienna that the euro had a basic flaw from the start in that the currency was not backed by political union or a joint treasury.The euro had no provision for correction. There was no arrangement for any country leaving the euro, which in the current circumstances is probably inevitable,he said.While he called survival of the European Union a vital interest to all, he said the EU needed structural changes to halt a process of disintegration.
There is no plan B at the moment. That is why the authorities are sticking to the status quo and insisting on preserving the existing arrangements instead of recognizing there are fundamental flaws that need to be corrected.With a debt crisis in some peripheral members testing the EU's cohesiveness at a time of popular disquiet in wealthier countries over bailouts, he said leaders had to adopt measures now to remedy the situation.Let's face it: we are on the verge of an economic collapse which starts, let's say, in Greece but could easily spread. The financial system remains extremely vulnerable...We are on the edge of collapse and that is the time to recognize the need for change.Some steps the EU could adopt included creating a larger central budget; directing some of the income from value-added tax or a levy on financial transactions to Brussels; having a European institution guarantee banks, and tripling the size of its bailout fund by topping it up with tax revenue, he said.(Reporting by Michael Shields; editing by Sophie Walker)
World Bank to take stock as Egypt scraps IMF loan
– Sun Jun 26, 6:12 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank said on Sunday it would have to take stock of plans to lend to Egypt after the International Monetary Fund confirmed the authorities no longer wanted an IMF-backed loan program.Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan said on Saturday Egypt would not borrow from the World Bank and the IMF after revising its budget and cutting the deficit target to 8.6 percent of gross domestic product from 11 percent.A World Bank spokesperson said it was not informed of the decision.As far as we are aware these discussions are ongoing and we have heard nothing from the government to suggest the contrary, a World Bank spokesperson said.If there is no IMF program, we will have to take stock, the spokesperson added.
The IMF said Egypt had scrapped plans for a $3 billion IMF loan agreed last month. The World Bank and other international donors usually look to the IMF as a seal of approval to lend to governments.World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on May 24 the poverty-fighting institution would make available $4.5 billion over the next 24 months for Egypt. The funding included $1 billion this year in budget support and another $1 billion next year to help cover a huge budget shortfall after the economy was plunged into turmoil by mass protests that drove Hosni Mubarak from office on February 11.The World Bank program was also aimed at improving transparency and boosting employment, which were part of demands of the protesters.Radwan said Qatar had provided Egypt with $500 million for budgetary support in the past week, and Saudi Arabia had offered a similar amount.(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; editing by Anthony Boadle)
U.S. gas prices dip slightly to near $3.63/gallon
– Sun Jun 26, 4:27 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. average retail gasoline prices fell over the past two weeks and could ease a bit more in coming weeks due in part to the release of crude oil from the U.S. strategic energy reserve, according to the latest nationwide Lundberg survey.The national average price for self-serve regular unleaded gas was $3.6283 a gallon on June 24, a decline of about 11 cents in the past two weeks, according to the survey of about 2,500 gas stations.A year ago, the price was $2.6613.At $3.32 a gallon, Jackson, Mississippi had the lowest average price for self-serve regular unleaded gas, while Chicago had the highest price at $4.06, the survey found.Gas prices will continue to fall in part because the International Energy Agency (IEA) said it will release 60 million barrels in July, which caused the price of crude oil to drop, survey editor Trilby Lundberg said.The IEA, made up of industrialized oil consumer nations including the United States, announced the release of 60 million barrels of oil from strategic government stockpiles in a bid to push down crude prices and underpin the global economy. About one-half of the total will come from the U.S.Even before the announcement, gas prices were slipping because poor economic news in the U.S. and Europe had been causing pessimism about petroleum demand.Unless there was a very severe disruption in the supply of crude, it's safe to say we won't see prices of crude coming back any time soon, Lundberg said.If crude oil prices stay at their current level, gas prices could fall another five to 10 cents by mid-July, Lundberg said. If crude prices fall further, gas prices could dip as much as 20 cents to 25 cents.Brent crude prices fell 2 percent on Friday, while U.S. crude ended slightly higher after seesawing and briefly dipping below $90 a barrel.
Israel: Journalists on flotilla face expulsion
By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press – Sun Jun 26, 4:13 pm ET
JERUSALEM – Israel said Sunday that any foreign journalist caught on board a Gaza-bound flotilla could face deportation and a 10-year ban from the country, in a move that threatened to worsen the nation's already strained relationship with the international media.Journalists said they should be allowed to cover a legitimate news story, but Israel said the media would be complicit in an illegal breach of its naval blockade of a hostile territory ruled by a terrorist group.The announcement reflected Israeli jitters about the international flotilla, which comes just more than a year after a similar mission ended with the deaths of nine Turkish activists in clashes with Israeli naval commandos who intercepted them. Each side blamed the other for the violence.Israel is eager to avoid a repeat of last year's raid, which drew heavy international condemnation and prompted Israel to ease its blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.Many Israelis believe that the media's coverage of the bloodshed contributed to their country's image problems.In a letter to foreign journalists, the Government Press Office's director, Oren Helman, called the flotilla a dangerous provocation that is being organized by western and Islamic extremist elements to aid Hamas.He warned journalists that taking part in the flotilla is an intentional violation of Israeli law and is liable to lead to participants being denied entry into the State of Israel for 10 years, to the impoundment of their equipment and to additional sanctions, Helman said.The letter, he added, was reviewed and approved by Israel's attorney general.
The Foreign Press Association, which represents hundreds of journalists working for international news organizations in Israel and the Palestinian territories, condemned the Israeli decision and urged the government to cancel the order.The government's threat to punish journalists covering the Gaza flotilla sends a chilling message to the international media and raises serious questions about Israel's commitment to freedom of the press, the FPA said in a statement.The association's lawyer, Gilead Sher, sent a letter to Helman demanding that the threat be rescinded.The state of Israel must make a clear distinction between those who carry out an action and those who cover it (as journalists), Sher said in his note. Israel's local journalists association also condemned the government's letter.Israel sees the flotilla as a provocation aimed at stirring up trouble and says that it has standard channels for delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.Israel imposed its land and naval embargo on Gaza after Hamas, an Iranian-backed group that rejects peace with Israel, overran the territory in 2007. Under international pressure, Israel eased the land blockade after last year's flotilla raid, but the naval closure remains intact.Israel says the blockade is justified on internationally accepted legal grounds because it is effectively in a state of war with Hamas, which has fired thousands of rockets into Israel and killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks.
Critics say that while Israel is entitled to stop arms smuggling, the blockade has amounted to collective punishment and caused widespread suffering among Gaza's 1.6 million people.The pro-Palestinian organizers of the flotilla say the mission is necessary to draw attention to the Gazans' plight.It remains unclear when the current flotilla will actually set sail, but organizers have hinted it could be as soon as this week.Organizers have said 10 boats, including two cargo vessels carrying aid supplies, will participate in the flotilla and that hundreds of people, including activists, journalists, politicians, writers and religious figures, will be on board.About two dozen activist groups, many of them based in Europe, are organizing the journey. Among them are IHH, a Turkish Islamic charity that helped organize last year's flotilla and is outlawed in Israel.There are already growing signs that this flotilla will be different.The Turkish boat that clashed with the Israeli navy has dropped out of this year's flotilla. After a year of tensions, both Turkey and Israel have signaled that they are interested in repairing strained ties.
Greece has also urged Greek citizens and Greek-registered vessels not to participate, noting the risk of violence. Activists on The Audicity of Hope,an American boat in the flotilla that plans to sail from a Greek port, said police declared they could not leave because of questions about the vessel's seaworthiness. In a statement, the activists speculated the delay stemmed from Israeli and U.S. pressure.Manuel Tapial, a Spanish activist, said a Spanish vessel in the flotilla planned to depart for Gaza this week in coordination with other aid boats and would be carrying 11 journalists, most of them Spanish. He criticized Israel's warning to reporters, saying Israel did not want witnesses to what they can do to us on the water.Associated Press writer Christopher Torchia contributed to this report from Athens.
Asian markets slip on Europe debt fears
By PAMELA SAMPSON, AP Business Writer – JUNE 26,11
BANGKOK – Asian markets dropped early Monday amid fears of a spreading European debt crisis after a ratings agency placed Italian banks on a review for a possible downgrade.Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 0.9 percent to 9,595.18. South Korea's Kospi lost 0.9 percent to 2,072.87, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng slipped 0.6 percent to 22,041.21.
Technology shares were among those facing the biggest slumps. South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, one of the world's leading computer chip makers, was 3.9 percent down. Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory slipped 2.1 percent, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing lost 1.4 percent.Benchmarks in Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and Taiwan were also lower. Mainland Chinese shares were higher.On Friday, Italian banks were down sharply on the Milan stock exchange after ratings agency Moody's said it was considering downgrading their credit worthiness.Moody's Investors Service placed the long-term debt and deposit ratings of 16 Italian banks and two Italian government-related financial institutions on review for possible downgrade.
On Wall Street, stocks fell Friday after poor earnings reports from two major technology companies suggested that companies invested less in new technology as the economic recovery slowed.Fears of a spreading European debt crisis also weighed on markets. Italian bank stocks plunged and trading in some of them was halted after Moody's warned that it might downgrade their credit ratings.The Dow Jones industrial average fell 1 percent to 11,934.58. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1.2 percent to 1,268.45. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.3 percent to 2,652.89.The decline erased all of this week's gains for the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P index. The broad stock market has now fallen for seven of the last eight weeks, largely because of concerns that the U.S. economy is slowing and that Europe's debt problems may lead to another financial crisis. The S&P 500 is down 7 percent since it hit a high for the year on April 29.Technology stocks were broadly lower. Micron Technology Inc. fell 14.5 percent after the company said lower sales of computer chips hurt its earnings, which were far less than analysts had expected. Oracle Corp. fell 4 percent after its sales of computer hardware fell sharply. Cisco Systems Inc. fell 3.5 percent, and Microsoft Corp. lost 1.3 percent.The U.S. economy has cooled since late April. Recent reports on housing, employment, manufacturing and retail sales all have been weak. The debt crisis in Greece and fears that China's growth is slowing have also pushed markets lower.In energy trading, benchmark crude for August delivery dropped 58 cents to $90.58 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract settled at $91.16 per barrel on the Nymex on Friday.In currencies, the euro weakened $1.4130 from $1.4171 on Friday in New York. The dollar ticked up to 80.72 yen from 80.52 yen.
THIS IS THE WRONG MOVE FOR NEW YORK TO DO SINCE NY HAS THE 2ND MOST ISRAELIS IN THE WORLD.I WONDER HOW MANY HURRICANES WILL HIT NEW YORK THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF THIS LEGELIZING SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS.
Gay marriage backers: NY vote has national impact
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer – Sun Jun 26, 2:49 am ET
NEW YORK – Many obstacles still lie ahead for supporters of same-sex marriage, and eventually they will need Congress or the Supreme Court to embrace their goal. For the moment, though, they are jubilantly channeling the lyrics of New York, New York.Now that we've made it here, we'll make it everywhere, said prominent activist Evan Wolfson, who took up the cause of marriage equality as a law student three decades ago.With a historic vote by its Legislature late Friday, New York became the sixth — and by far the most populous — state to legalize same-sex marriage since Massachusetts led the way, under court order, in 2004.With the new law, which takes effect after 30 days, the number of Americans in same-sex marriage states more than doubles. New York's population of 19 million surpasses the combined total of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa, plus the District of Columbia.The outcome — a product of intensive lobbying by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo — will have nationwide repercussions. Activists hope the New York vote will help convince judges and politicians across the country, including a hesitant President Barack Obama, that support of same-sex marriage is now a mainstream viewpoint and a winning political stance.New York sends the message that marriage equality across the country is a question of when, not if,said Fred Sainz, a vice president of the Human Rights Campaign.Wolfson, president of the advocacy group Freedom to Marry, said the goal is attainable by 2020, or sooner,if we do the work and keep making the case.The work — as envisioned by leading activists — is a three-pronged strategy unfolding at the state level, in dealings with Congress and the Obama administration, and in the courts where several challenges to the federal ban on gay marriage are pending.
This will be a big boost to our efforts nationally, said Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights.It will help in the pending court cases to show that more states are adopting same-sex marriage, and it will help in the court of public opinion.The New York bill cleared the Republican-controlled Senate by a 33-29 margin, thanks to crucial support from four GOP senators who joined all but one Democrat in voting yes. The Democratic-led Assembly, which previously approved the bill, passed the Senate's stronger religious exemptions in the measure, and Cuomo swiftly signed it into law.Gay rights activists have been heaping praise on Cuomo for leading the push for the bill, seizing on an issue that many politicians of both parties have skirted. Yet the Senate vote marked the first time a Republican-controlled legislative chamber in any state has supported same-sex marriage, and several prominent Republican donors contributed to the lobbying campaign on behalf of the bill.For those engaged in the marriage debate nationally, recent months have been a political rollercoaster.Bills to legalize same-sex marriage failed in Maryland and Rhode Island despite gay rights activists' high hopes. However, Illinois, Hawaii and Delaware approved civil unions, joining five other states — California, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington — that provide gay couples with extensive marriage-like rights.Adding those eight states to the six that allow gay marriage, more than 35 percent of Americans now live in states where gay couples can effectively attain the rights and responsibilities of marriage. Just 11 years ago, no states offered such rights.For now, gay couples cannot get married in 44 states, and 30 of them have taken the extra step of passing constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. Minnesota's Republican-controlled Legislature has placed such an amendment on the 2012 ballot.
Brian Brown, president of the conservative National Organization for Marriage, vowed to seek defeat of the New York Republicans who helped the marriage bill pass. He also predicted victory for the amendment to ban gay marriage next year in Minnesota, and said this would belie the claims that the same-sex marriage campaign would inevitably prevail nationwide.We've won every free, fair vote of the people, Brown said Saturday.Backroom deals in Albany are not an indication of what people in this country think about marriage.Efforts may surface in some states to repeal the existing marriage bans, but the prospect of dismantling all of them on a state-by-state basis is dim. In Mississippi, for example, a ban won support of 86 percent of the voters in 2004.Thus, looking long term, gay marriage advocates see nationwide victory coming in one of two ways — either congressional legislation or a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that would require all states to recognize same-sex marriages.
The way you do that is creating a critical mass of states and a critical mass of public opinion — some combination that will encourage Congress and the Supreme Court, Wolfson said.By winning New York, we add tremendous energy to the national conversation that grows the majority.Shorter term, gay rights activists and their allies in Congress would like to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal recognition to same-sex marriages. The act is being challenged in several court cases, and Obama ordered his administration in February to stop defending the law on the grounds it is unconstitutional.Democrats in Congress have introduced a bill to repeal the law, while the Republican leadership in the House has pledged to defend it.Obama, when elected, said he supported broadening rights for gay couples but opposed legalizing same-sex marriage. More recently, he has said his position is evolving, and he asked gay activists at a New York City fundraiser Thursday for patience.Nonetheless, frustrations are mounting. Freedom to Marry says more than 112,000 people have signed its Say I Do appeal to the president, and gay marriage supporters have launched an EvolveAlready campaign on Twitter.We hope that, through this public pressure, we'll be able to move the president to understand that he's falling behind the majority of Americans who see marriage equality as a key civil right,said Robin McGehee of the advocacy group GetEqual.Several recent opinion polls — by Gallup and The Associated Press, among others — have shown that a majority of Americans now approve of same-sex marriage, which a decade ago lagged below 40 percent support. Particularly strong backing for gay marriage among young people, who've grown up watching gay friendly films and TV programs, has prompted many analysts across the political spectrum to suggest the trend is irreversible.
Some conservatives, however, say the opinion polls are belied in the voting booth and point to the steady stream of approvals of state-level bans on same-sex marriage.
The opposition has created an illusion of momentum but not a real base of support or track record of victory in the courts,said Brian Raum, senior counsel with the conservative Alliance Defense Fund.Mary Bonauto would disagree.An attorney with Boston-based Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, she has spent two decades battling for legal recognition of same-sex relationships. She helped win the landmark court rulings that led to civil unions in Vermont in 2000 and same-sex marriage in Massachusetts in 2004.Even in the 1990s, she recalled thinking the cause eventually would prevail nationwide.I could see attitudes change, she said. Eventually we have to have one standard of justice in this country and establish that sexual orientation is not a basis for discrimination.She recalled setbacks just a few years ago in New York — a 2006 Court of Appeals ruling that there was no constitutional right to same-sex marriage in the state, and the decisive defeat of a same-sex marriage bill in the state Senate in 2009.The switch this time tells us there's a lot of momentum pointing toward marriage equality, Bonauto said.Vermont lawyer Beth Robinson, now counsel for Gov. Peter Shumlin, worked with Bonauto in the late 1990s on the case that led to the state's pioneering civil union law. She expects the move toward nationwide same-sex marriage will be bumpy but inexorable.
As people get to know their gay and lesbian neighbors, friends and family, the notion of denying those families equal rights becomes untenable,she said.For New York to go there, on a vote rather that a court order, is huge ... It's a victory not just for New York, but for the whole country.Robinson said Vermont, which legalized same-sex marriage in 2009, offered a lesson to wary Americans in other states.It isn't that the sky isn't falling — it's more positive than that, she said. Vermont is a better place for it. Each of us has the opportunity to be our best selves.Among the New Yorkers who will now get that opportunity are Richard Dorr, 84, and John Mace, 91, who have been partners for 61 years while pursuing successful careers as voice teachers in Manhattan.We thought about getting married in Massachusetts, but it just didn't seem to jibe right, said Dorr.It should be in the state where you live.They plan to seek a marriage license as swiftly as possible but don't envision a lavish ceremony.Just a couple of witnesses and a justice of the peace, Dorr said.When they fell in love, back in 1950, marriage never crossed our mind,he added.It was just that we had to be together. We could not stay away.
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