SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.
TORAH PORTION FROM JULY 03,2011 6PM - JULY 09,6PM 2011
NUMBERS 22:2 - 25:9
2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.
37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.
40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
NUMBERS 23:1-30
1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.
14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
27 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
NUMBERS 24:1-25
1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.
12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
NUMBERS 25:1-9
1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
PROPHETS PORTION
MICAH 5:5 - 6:8
5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
NEW TESTAMENT PORTION
2 PETER 2:1-21
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
JUDE 11
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
REVELATION 2:14-15
14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Friday, July 01, 2011
POLAND HEADS THE EU STARTING TODAY
THE PATHETIC DEFENCE RESTED YESTERDAY IN THE CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL.A BRIEF REBUTTLE TODAY AND BY TOMORROW THE JURY SHOULD BE DECIDING CASEY ANTHONYS FATE FOR THE ALLEDGED MURDER OF POOR LITTLE CAYLEE MARIE ANTHONY WHO WAS THROWN IN THE WOODS 15 HOUSES FROM THE ANTHONYS.
HAPPY JULY 1,11 CANADA DAY
DOUG AND LAURIE FRI'S 6-9 PM EST ABOUT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY
http://www.usaradio.com/listen_live_usa2.php
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/may-2011/
HAGMANN & HAGMANN-JUDI MCLEOD REPORT SAT'S 8-10PM ON BLOGTALK RADIO
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cfp-radio
LAURIE ROTHS SITE
http://therothshow.com/
DOUG HAGMANNS SITES
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https://hagmann-pi.com/Home.html
http://theneinblog.blogspot.com/
CANADA FREE PRESS-JUDI MCLEOD
http://www.canadafreepress.com/
OLIVE TREE MINISTRIES LATES SHOWS
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_05_22A.mp3
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_05_22B.mp3
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html (WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS)
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
About The Ongoing Iranian Missile Tests…
June 30, 2011 By Sean Osborne
http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/5025
30 June 2010: For quite a few years now I’ve watched and kept track of OSINT reports regarding Iran’s development-in-depth of numerous ballistic missile systems. Just for reference sake you can read them HERE, HERE and HERE.My assessment has always held that there is only one purpose for such development – placing a nuclear warhead onto a distant target. Recently the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) told us point blank what has always been assumed, that being the Iranian warhead’s targets are American military bases and Israeli cities. The difference between my earlier assessments on Iranian nuclear missile capabilities then and now is that now iran can launch these missiles from hardened siloes with little or no warning. Within a day of the IRGC announcement British Foreign Secretary William Hague publicly confirmed the secret nature of the testing as well as the testing in the ongoing Great Prophet Six exercises the IRGC is executing.
Have you heard or read anything of a similar nature coming from Foreign Secretary Hague’s American counterpart, SECSTATE Hillary Clinton? How about a word from her boss in the White House? That’s right, you’ve gotten exactly zero, zip, nada from them about this. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a single American corporate news article on this subject or Foreign Secretary Hague’s accusations. Instead the White House and the U.S. State Department have been downplaying the accelerating Iranian regime’s progress in the field of precipitating a non-existent al-Mahdi-hastening Armageddon scenario. Yet at her SECSTATE swearing in ceremony Hillary Clinton was keen to lecture those in attendance how we’re going to have to be smarter about how we do what we must for our country.As for Barry Soetoro, his most recent State of the Union address did not have so much as a single mention of the Iranian threat. Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea all merited a mention, but not Iran. My best guess is that he doesn’t see the Iranian threat as a problem in need of fixing. Well, so much for Barry’s defeating determined enemies wherever they are comment in that address. I guess Iran is one very real threat that Barry has missed altogether. Would somebody please bring his morning briefer up to speed. Thanks in advance.
Israel and the west in the cross hairs
Posted on June 29, 2011 by Laurie Roth
While we find ourselves stuck in the election Disneyland primary rides, some folks are screaming, some are fainting with fear, many are puking and others watch from the sides. We have only just begun the election madness on all sides and see the theatre of the absurd while other critical things unfold before our distracted eyes.While Obama promises the world and emases more money from known and mystery donors, it is easy not to notice endless elephants running through the living room destroying everything in site. While the Middle East continues to melt down and leadership gets challenged by internal and more radically funded and organized groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran flexes its muscle and flips off the West and Israel.Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired off 14 missiles this week that can strike targets in the U.S. and all of Israel. Naturally, we heard one of their leaders, Brigadier General Amir Hajizadeh, state that Europe was completely safe. These weren’t for them but rather they were simply to provide a defense against Israel and America. You know….because we have forces in the gulf. Iran’s missiles are not small fry. They can travel a range of 1,250 miles and others can travel 2,000 miles. We all know that Iran’s missile program is a huge part of their bold and defiant goal to launch nuclear weapons, where they can easily strike the U.S. and Israel.
Naturally, Tehran denies all this, in fact they are playing politically correct in their lying statements. They said that their latest exercise was really a ‘message of peace and friendship.’ Isn’t that special? Were they studying our politically correct ‘stuck on stupid crowd’ Jimmy Carter, unemployed movie stars and media here? We all know that shooting off missiles and planning to attach nuclear weapons to them, per their own words over the years, is about peace and kindness. I feel the love, don’t you? I’m a little distracted by the body parts and blood in Israel and the US but oh….the friendship of it all.Some say that by August Iran will have Nuclear capability. The threats to Israel and the west have been in place for several years. While the threats have leaked out here and there from the Madi seeking mouth of Ahmadinejad, they play the Saul Alinsky play book of distraction so the UN, Israel and U.S. stay out of their face. It seems to be working beautifully with Obama.The UN, America and Israel knows that Ahmadinejad has a terrorist past and has threatened us all, but pretends that he won’t be a danger once the nuclear path is secure and complete. The whole time we have looked the other way, Iran has morphed dramatically closer to becoming nuclear and completing their attack strategy. How beautiful for Ahmadinejad. While the west is attacking in Libya and election madness is building, media and leaders aren’t looking at me, my evil plans and nuclear development.Is Ahmadinejad simply exercising his sovereign rights as the leader of his country?
I would normally say yes, except for his terrorist, kidnapping, and torturing past. Then there are his chronic and continuous threats to the west and Israel with demonstrated insanity and out of touch reality. Remember, he has hosted international conferences with many speakers talking of how the Holocaust never happened and the Jews were never murdered by the Nazis in WW11. Never mind the hundreds of thousands of witnesses who were there, many still alive, some of whom I have talked to myself.Ahmadinejad, is an anti-Semitic, Christian and freedom hating Islamic who dreams of the Madi coming out of the well and he knows this can’t happen until an end of days battle. He believes he is the conduit and method for that happening. No danger here letting him go nuclear. It’s all about friendship and providing energy.My one suggestion for Ammedinajad is that he jump in the well and wait for the Madi to come out. My other suggestion is for American to wake up and us put a real leader in the White House who will get away from the mirror and actually defend us.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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EU states object to transparency in law-making-
LEIGH PHILLIPS 30.06.2011 @ 18:13 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU member states are set to launch an appeal of a lower court decision with the European Court of Justice hoping to prevent greater transparency in decision-making - even about transparency rules themselves.Anxious that a recent landmark court ruling could radically open up to public scrutiny decision-making in the Council of Ministers - the European Union's upper house, or the institution representing the member states - a full 20 EU countries have jumped aboard an appeal of the decision.According to EU law, the result of all legislative votes in the Council must be made public. But long before this stage of the process, most of the real negotiations happen at a working-group level - and the secrecy of positions at this stage are jealously guarded by all those involved.Earlier this year, Access Info, a Spanish transparency NGO that aids journalists and citizens in making freedom of information requests across Europe, got wind that some member states in a Council working group in late 2008 had proposed amendments to water down existing EU transparency rules.Their request for the document naming the countries pushing in this direction was effectively denied - it was released but with all the country names blacked out - and the group appealed the decision with the EU General Court in Luxembourg. The UK and Greece intervened in the case arguing against greater openness.
In March, the court ruled that the Council must indeed reveal the identities of the member states taking these positions.EUobserver has since learnt that a clear majority of EU countries are now to appeal the ruling to the European Court of Justice, frightened that it sets a precedent that would force the Council to release the names of member states and the positions they take in all working groups.Such a development would radically roll back the diplomatic secrecy that has been the norm in the Council since its origins with the European Coal and Steel Community in 1957.
An EU source told EUobserver that potentially the positions of states on all subjects and discussions at the level of working group could be opened up for public scrutiny: The decision-making process as established, the 'space to think' must be protected. This is what is at stake.An April Council document minuting discussions on the subject notes A clear majority of delegations indicated their support for an appeal,and one source close the matter told EUobserver that a full 20 member states are backing the legal action.Finland however, abstained from voting on whether to mount an appeal, and told its fellow EU states that it is happy to see the positions of the country released.The Nordic country has a tradition of freedom of governmental information legislation dating back as far as 1766, when it was still a Swedish-governed territory.Helen Darbishire, the director of Access Info explained to this website why it is the identities of countries taking positions in the working groups that counts, rather than the final vote that is meaningful.There are hundreds of working groups, but there is no public list of their members. They don't keep minutes and this is where the real negotiations are made,she said. Some 85 percent of all EU laws are decided in the 150 working groups and committees consisting of delegates from the member states.The vote at the end is frankly just a bit of theatre. It doesn't show you anything about the process that has gone on. By the end, most decisions are unanimous, so you have no idea about who is responsible, who is taking different positions.
What you read on the Council website about transparency is really misleading to the public because that only represents a fraction of the process, not where the debate about future legislation takes place.Founded as a formation essentially involving negotiations between diplomats from the foreign affairs departments of the different member states, the EU and the Council working methods in particular have had more in common with the secret bargaining in matters of war, defence and peace-making than the openness of parliamentary tradition for other matters of law, say critics of EU decision-making.EU diplomats for their part argue that they need to protect this secrecy to enable freer discussion than would be permitted if there were greater public scrutiny of the process.We believe that disclosing the delegation that has put forward certain proposals would limit member states' opportunity for frank and candid policy discussion,one diplomat told EUobserver.Explaining why the Council and a majority of member states will be appealing the case, the source said the legal action is necessary in order to prevent its decision-making processes from being undermined.The member states have indicated that if they lose the case, they will simply switch to verbal agreements and limiting what is committed to paper so that such documents cannot be released as they would not exist.During the initial case before the General Court, pressed by judges to explain how the decision-making process is harmed by disclosure, [the Council] said that if these documents are to be made public, we'll just have to stop putting things in writing,according to Darbishire.
Italian cabinet passes austerity package
HONOR MAHONY Today JULY 1,11 @ 09:16 CET
The Italian cabinet on Thursday passed a series of austerity measures aimed at balancing the budget by 2014 and stopping the eurozone crisis spreading.The package, containing €47 billion of deficit cuts, curbs the budgets of government ministries and local authorities. It will have to be passed by parliament within two months.With today's measures we completed our path towards a balanced budget,said finance minister Giulio Tremonti while presenting the package.Credit rating agencies, which have been toying with the idea of downgrading Italy, will be closely watching how the debate and ensuing vote play out with Italy in the past struggling to get reforms agreed.The reforms are needed to boost growth in the eurozone's most sluggish economy. Growth is needed if Italy is to have any chance of cutting its massive public debt, lying at 120 percent of GDP.But analysts have already criticised the fact that most of the measures will only take place in 2013 and 2014.
On the same day Portugal announced a one-off levy on incomes and said it would speed up reforms to meet the terms of its €78bn EU-IMF bailout.Portuguese prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho made the announcement before parliament after the National Statistics Institute published worse-than-expected data for the first part of this year.The institute said that the deficit fell to 8.7 percent of GDP at the end of the first quarter. But under the terms of its bailout it has to cut its deficit to 5.9 percent of GDP this year and to 3 percent in 2013.Meanwhile, the EU watched with relief as the Greek parliament on Thursday agreed a law to implement a further round of austerity and privatisation measures.The vote paves the way for an emergency meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Sunday where they have to agree to release €8.7bn to Greece, part of last year's EU-IMF €110bn bailout.Agreement on the IMF tranche is expected next week. The Sunday meeting is also expected to discuss the broad outline for a second bailout for the debt-stricken country.While the unpopular measures have regularly caused strikes and protests in Greece and Portugal, non-eurozone Britain was also hit by a large public sector walk out as thousands of teachers and civil servants protested planned pension cuts.Some 104,000 civil servants went on strike while about 27 percent of schools were closed. However, the government was quick to point out that this was less than had been predicted by trade unions.
A short guide to the Polish presidency
HONOR MAHONY 07.01.2011 @ 11:15 CET
With Poland taking over the presidency of the European Union on 1 July, EUobserver presents a short non-exhaustive guide:Calendar restraints - Being a second-half-of-the-year presidency, Warsaw will fall afoul of the EU's famously extended holiday period. Most of the Brussels EU elite starts disappearing in July. The EU capital re-emerges as a complete political city only around the beginning of September. The same Brussels evacuation starts to take place around the middle of December, too. So, the period for getting things done is short.Polling day - And while the effective calendar months are short, so may the attention span of Polish politicians be. National elections will be held in October. Polish officials promise otherwise, but the call of the local constituency will likely prove more alluring than that of Brussels. Meanwhile, a win for the opposition Jaroslaw Kaczynski will see politicians, in handover mode, distracted for the remainder of the six-month stint too. And, in that case, everyone else will be wondering whether it means a return to the abrasive politics of previous administrations.
Defence - It might seem an inauspicious time to want to start talking about EU defence, what with the EU's less-than-exemplary display of unity over Libya, but Poland is going to persevere anyway. If we had civilian and military planning capacity we would have been much effective at the outset of the crisis in Libya, says Europe minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz.Warsaw is neither naive about EU defence of afraid to start a conversation about it. (The it includes battlegroups and a permanent military headquarters). And to be fair, no one else is rushing to talk about defence at the moment. It falls to EU top diplomat Catherine Ashton. But she is too busy trying to do several other jobs at once. And Poland has a point when it says is the only country with any military credibility to hold the presidency since France and the only one for quite some time into the future. This is not a debate Denmark and Cyprus can kick off.Eastern Partnership - This is where Poland has a chance to shine. The recognised lead member state when it comes to countries on the EU's eastern borders, it wants to see real progress - on association agreements - with Ukraine and Moldova. An Eastern Partnership Summit in September in Warsaw is meant to give the policy – which has fallen down the political agenda - a boost. Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt recently said the initiative is as significant as the Lisbon Treaty. The problem is getting other bigger member states - read France and Germany - to think like that. More cash would be good too. See below.
EU budget talks - The European Commission will this summer publish its first proposals for the EU's 2014-2020 budget, a moment that marks the traditional beginning of table-thumping disagreement until the thing is signed and sealed, usually at the last possible minute about two years later. Poland - very keen on seeing the EU's cohesion funds maintained - is shackled to a neutral position because it is the presidency country. But it hopes to project its budgetary views well beyond its presidency by producing a serious paper for discussion in 2012. It plans 12 technical meetings and two ministerial meetings on the budget.Energy security - This is a biggie for the Poles. They want the EU to be energy-independent of Russia. And they particularly want Poland to be energy-independent of Russia. This has resulted in some near-evangelical talk about Shale - the unconventional gas apparently in great quantities in Poland and which Warsaw has indicated it would like to exploit. If commercial exploitation is possible - and it remains a big if - the gas would both eventually end the country's heavy reliance on the dirtier coal and on Russia. Environmentalists are sceptical. But expect more talk anyway.
The economy - Poland is outside the eurozone - though looking to come in - and so lacks clout here. It is not automatically privy to discussions on economic governance or competitiveness, something brought home in March.However it has an ace up its sleeve: its economy is doing relatively well and the only country in the EU at no point to have tipped into recession during the recent economic crisis. So even if it is not inside the room, it can feel somewhat superior outside it. And its finance minister will chair ecofin - the full complement of EU finance ministers - meetings. Warsaw's main focus will be on implementing the new Single Market Act. It also wants to try and achieve something more ephemeral - economic optimism. According to Dowgielewicz, Point two on our to-do list as a presidency is to try to create a better narrative about the European economy.Arguably a task that alone would be tricky enough for any single presidency.One to watch - On the high-flying foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, opinions are divided. Some say that he has no interest in Poland's EU presidency and so will not help more committed members of the administration to make it a success. Others point to the fact that he has been quick to carve out a role for himself alongside Cathy Ashton. Sikorski is keen to take the lead on eastern neighbourhood issues. But Poland also sees its approach to its eastern neighbourhood as a model for the EU to take towards countries in its southern neighbourhood. This gave Sikorski the perfect excuse to pay a highly publicised visit to Libya in May - the first Western foreign minister to go the country since the uprising began. Sikoroski points out that the trip was agreed with Ashton beforehand. Nevertheless, his interactions with Ashton - weakened by internal criticism - throughout the presidency will be something to keep an eye on.
Stress test - Poland will take over the presidency with the EU creaking at the seams. Centre-right MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski puts it thus: All other presidencies have had difficult challenges but none of them have had such a culmination of difficulties. The Union is undergoing a stress test in terms of the euro, in terms of schengen, in terms of ESDP and in terms of [its] neighbourhood. All that put together makes this presidency extremely challenging. More and more, Poland sees that new member states will have take upon their shoulders the defence of the acquis of the old [member states].Logo - There is a long and proud tradition of EU presidency logos. It is not really clear why they are needed (especially in these post-Lisbon mini-presidency times) but they are always unveiled with a something of a flourish. They also usually attract more interest than the presidency programmes themselves. Past star logos include Belgium's 2001 showing with Magritte's hat, while Italy's 2003 effort was something of a flop, where it remained something of a small mystery as to why the E of EU was backwards. Poland's logo meanwhile is inspired by the by the iconic flag of Solidarnosc and was designed by the very artist who designed that movement's symbol so many years ago.The last word - And according to the somewhat ominous words of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, presidency countries can never be too prepared.My message to the Polish presidency is: Be prepared, because something may happen.Famous events of past presidencies include the Russia-Georgia war under France's watch and the teetering and then utter collapse of the Czech government in the middle of its presidency.
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.
Nato rules out military intervention in Syria
ANDREW RETTMAN 30.06.2011 @ 18:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said there will be no military intervention in Syria despite similar levels of government-sponsored violence as in Libya.Speaking in Vienna on Thursday (30 June) after a meeting with foreign minister Michael Spindelegger, the Nato chief told press: We do not foresee any intervention in Syria. In Libya, we are working on the basis of a UN mandate with the support of countries in the region. The conditions on Syria are not similar.
Syrian tanks on Wednesday reportedly killed 11 people in the Turkey border area, with the death count since unrest began three months ago estimated at some 1,500 people.The Syrian military build-up on the Turkish frontier has raised fears of a clash between the two rival powers in the region.Regional tensions intensified further on Thursday following reports that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), an EU-and-US-backed judicial body set up to investigate the assassination of a Lebanese leader in 2005, has indicted four Hezbollah officials.Hezbollah is an ally of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, with analysts saying the guerrilla army could seek a conflict with Israel to distract from the STL process or the Assad repressions.
UK foreign minister William Hague in the British parliament on Wednesday spoke of Lybia and Syria in the same breath as two regimes guilty of brutalities which threaten to destabilise neighbouring states.We can stand up against repression and violence, which we have seen taken to extremes in Libya and Syria, he said.But he noted that a Franco-British draft UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on Syria, which condemns violence but is far softer than UNSC 1973 authorising military strikes in Libya, does not have enough backing to be put to a vote.He also declined to follow France in saying that Syrian leader Bashar Assad should step down.If we are to maintain international unity of pressure on Syria, we must be careful in how we phrase such things, Hague noted.Foreign policy is not conducted in a bunker, where we do not communicate with people with whom we disagree. We [still] havediplomatic relations with Syria,he added.Nato's Rasmussen and Hague in the two seprate fora defended Nato's actions in Libya against accusations that it has overstepped its mandate to protect civilians.Rasmussen said there is no mission creep and ruled out use of ground forces, but noted that operations will continue until Gaddafi is out of power as the only guarantee of a peaceful transition.Reacting to MPs' questions that Nato strikes in Tripoli seem to be aimed at killing Colonel Gaddafi, Hague said: To characterise the campaign as an assassination campaign is wrong ... Our targeting depends on the behaviour of those involved, and it has included the command systems of the Gaddafi regime.Perception that Nato is in the business of regime change in Libya rather than protecting civilians, as mandated by UNSC 1973, is the main reason for opposition to any UN move on Syria in key swing UNSC voters - Brazil, India and South America.
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 brings heavy rain to central Mexico
By MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, Associated Press – Thu Jun 30, 11:47 pm ET
VERACRUZ, Mexico – The Atlantic season's first tropical storm swirled over Mexico's central Gulf coast Thursday, bringing heavy rains to a wide swath of the country but causing little damage.The heart of Tropical Storm Arlene struck land near Cabo Rojo, a cape just off the mainland between the cities of Tampico and Tuxpan. Arlene weakened to a tropical depression late Thursday and was expected to dissipate Friday.
Authorities had worried heavy rains could cause flash floods and mudslides in 13 states.Mexico's National Water Commission said that by Thursday night the depression was on the border between the states of Hidalgo and San Luis Potosi and that heavy to torrential rains were expected there and in nine other states, including Mexico City.Incessant rain fell in the city and its metropolitan area, where the Remedios River, which carries sewage water, overflowed in the suburb of Ecatepec.Ecatepec Mayor Indalecio Rios told the newspaper El Universal that he was urging residents in three neighborhoods that flooded to go to shelters set up by the city.In neighboring Hidalgo state, the rain caused at least six landslides along a highway that connects the state to the Gulf coast city of Tampico, authorities said.The storm was welcomed in northern Tamaulipas state, where rain fell on soil dried out by the most severe drought to hit the area in 50 years.There is nothing to regret and so far the rains have been favorable, Tamaulipas state Civil Protection Secretary Pedro Benavides said.We hope it keeps raining.Coastal towns in Veracruz and Tamaulipas states appeared to have escaped serious damage.
In the port city of Tampico, authorities said there was minor flooding in some low-laying neighborhoods. Beaches in the nearby cities of Madero and Altamira remained closed and small vessels were warned to stay docked.Arlene had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) and was moving inland at 8 mph (13 kph) Thursday evening, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Tree branches fell, water accumulated on some streets and a neighborhood of Tuxpan lost electricity, Veracruz state civil protection authorities reported.There aren't any major problems, (and) we hope Arlene will be out of sight by midday, Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte tweeted Thursday. He credited preparations ahead of the storm.Officials in the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi had guarded against possible flooding by closing schools, mobilizing emergency medical units and preparing evacuation shelters as rain fell on coastal and mountain regions.Mexico's national weather service said 6 inches (150 millimeters) of rain fell over a 24-hour period in northern Veracruz state.Associated Press writers Efrain Klerigan in Ciudad Victoria and Emilio Lopez in Pachuca contributed to this report.
Japan begins power restrictions
– Fri Jul 1, 3:45 am ET
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan on Friday began restricting electricity consumption in the Tokyo and Tohoku regions, more than three months after a tsunami sent nuclear reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.The power-saving drive, which for many began shortly after the huge March 11 quake and tsunami but which became official Friday, will last through the peak summer months to September to cut blackout risks after the loss of capacity.Large companies that violate the decree to cut useage by 15 percent will face fines of up to one million yen ($12,400). Smaller users and households have also been asked to voluntarily cut power use by 15 percent.To cope, Japan has taken its annual summer Cool Biz campaign -- aimed at limiting air conditioner use and encouraging workers to ditch jackets and ties -- to a new level.
Factories have changed shifts to make use of cooler evenings, early mornings and lower-demand weekends, prompting nursery schools to also open weekends to cater for the needs of working parents.Companies such as Sony have brought their business days forward by an hour in order to finish earlier.Railway operators have increased train services in the early morning to coincide with moves by Japanese firms to start the work day earlier.The power-saving restrictions will be in effect through to September 22 in Tokyo Electric's service area and through September 9 in Tohoku Electric's territory.Hospitals providing emergency treatment and shelters for evacuees from the March 11 disaster are exempted. The reduction target will be relaxed to up to 10 percent for medical, nursing-care and transportation service providers.On Wednesday temperatures soared to 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) in Tokyo and air conditioner use pushed consumption to 93 percent of capacity, raising fears that the capital may yet face blackouts as the summer heats up.Even utilities not directly affected by the earthquake and tsunami have not restarted nuclear reactors that were undergoing maintenance at the time, due to objections from local governments amid a wave of anti-nuclear sentiment.Only 19 of Japan's 54 reactors are now operating, with more due to shut down for regular checks. Japan usually generates about 30 percent of its power from nuclear plants.Ratings agency Moody's on Friday said it had downgraded the ratings of nine Japanese utilities, citing increased regulatory uncertainty following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant.There are worries that restrictions on power consumption may slow the country's recovery from recession, after the earthquake and tsunami hammered Japanese production and the economy contracted by an annualised 3.5 percent in January-March.
Royal couple marks Canada day on world debut tour
AFPBy Michel Comte | AFP – JULY 1,11
Princess Catherine on Friday will celebrate Canada's national holiday on her international debut with Prince William as crowds throng to catch a glimpse of Britain's newest royal couple.Packed with pomp and pageantry, the North American tour comes just two months after a radiant Kate Middleton walked down the aisle in a fairytale royal wedding watched by an estimated two billion people worldwide.The couple were to cap off their visit to the capital by joining tens of thousands of revellers outside parliament for musical performances and fireworks to celebrate Canada's national holiday.Canadians turned out en masse for a glimpse or a handshake as Middleton, now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrived in Ottawa on Thursday wearing a navy lace dress by Montreal-born designer Erdem Moralioglu.Welcome to Canada, honeymoon capital of the Commonwealth,said Governor General David Johnston.
The couple's arrival at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa triggered excited screams from an estimated 10,000-strong crowd -- several of the women wearing fascinators, the hair accessory of choice for the duchess.There he is.There's our future king,Pat Snair shouted from the fringes of the crowd as the 29-year-old newlyweds stepped from the cortege to place a bouquet of flowers before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.While Prince William, second in line to the British throne, has plenty of experience at royal duties, Kate is a relative rookie. But it was clearly the elegant woman from Berkshire, southeast England that many in the crowd had come to see.She represents the future of the monarchy, she's excitement and youth,said Denise, in her 60s.William is OK, but Kate is fascinating, added two teenage girls.The princess was cool under fire and showed no outward signs of nerves on her first overseas walkabout, smiling broadly and exchanging polite banter as she shook hands with the crowd for longer than the intended hour.I'm hoping to find romance like theirs,said one wildly-impressed teenage girl.From the war memorial unveiled in 1939 by William's great-grandparents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, who established a tradition with the first royal walkabout, the show then moved on to the official residence of the governor general, the vice-regal representative of Queen Elizabeth II.Catherine and I are so delighted to be here in Canada, William said.
We have been looking forward to this moment for a very long time. Quite separately, before we were married, we had both had a longing to come here, instilled in us by our parents and grandparents.He spoke in both of Canada's official languages, French and English, and to laughs vowed his French would improve over the course of this trip.The geography of this country is world-renowned, as is the hospitality of its peoples,William said.Support for the monarchy hovers above 50 percent in Canada and has risen from last year when Queen Elizabeth II visited, although there is still a vocal anti-monarchist minority planning to protest in Quebec City on Sunday.In addition to official and military ceremonies, the royal schedule has lighter moments planned, such as a cooking class, an aboriginal sports event and a rodeo.Later Thursday, the royals attended a barbecue with 120 young Canadians at the residence of the governor general, where they are spending the night. A downpour, however, forced the event indoors.William, in a buttoned down shirt slightly open at the collar, khakis and brown loafers, put his arm around the princess's waist to guide her around the room, chatting with guests.Kate changed into a black and white dress by Issa for dinner, where a gourmet menu included Quebec cheeses, New Brunswick oysters, Qikiqtarjuaq sea urchins, musk ox prosciutto and potato-crusted Alberta yak tartar.On Saturday they will embark on a countrywide tour, taking a cooking class in Montreal before travelling on to Quebec City, Charlottetown, Yellowknife and Calgary.
Prior to their final stop in Canada, the newlyweds are expected to sneak away on a romantic getaway to a secluded and undisclosed location in the Rocky Mountains.After wrapping up their Canadian tour, they will travel to California for a three-day visit on July 8-10 whose highlight will be a black-tie celebrity reception for British filmmakers in Los Angeles.
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WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html (WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS)
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
About The Ongoing Iranian Missile Tests…
June 30, 2011 By Sean Osborne
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30 June 2010: For quite a few years now I’ve watched and kept track of OSINT reports regarding Iran’s development-in-depth of numerous ballistic missile systems. Just for reference sake you can read them HERE, HERE and HERE.My assessment has always held that there is only one purpose for such development – placing a nuclear warhead onto a distant target. Recently the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) told us point blank what has always been assumed, that being the Iranian warhead’s targets are American military bases and Israeli cities. The difference between my earlier assessments on Iranian nuclear missile capabilities then and now is that now iran can launch these missiles from hardened siloes with little or no warning. Within a day of the IRGC announcement British Foreign Secretary William Hague publicly confirmed the secret nature of the testing as well as the testing in the ongoing Great Prophet Six exercises the IRGC is executing.
Have you heard or read anything of a similar nature coming from Foreign Secretary Hague’s American counterpart, SECSTATE Hillary Clinton? How about a word from her boss in the White House? That’s right, you’ve gotten exactly zero, zip, nada from them about this. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a single American corporate news article on this subject or Foreign Secretary Hague’s accusations. Instead the White House and the U.S. State Department have been downplaying the accelerating Iranian regime’s progress in the field of precipitating a non-existent al-Mahdi-hastening Armageddon scenario. Yet at her SECSTATE swearing in ceremony Hillary Clinton was keen to lecture those in attendance how we’re going to have to be smarter about how we do what we must for our country.As for Barry Soetoro, his most recent State of the Union address did not have so much as a single mention of the Iranian threat. Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea all merited a mention, but not Iran. My best guess is that he doesn’t see the Iranian threat as a problem in need of fixing. Well, so much for Barry’s defeating determined enemies wherever they are comment in that address. I guess Iran is one very real threat that Barry has missed altogether. Would somebody please bring his morning briefer up to speed. Thanks in advance.
Israel and the west in the cross hairs
Posted on June 29, 2011 by Laurie Roth
While we find ourselves stuck in the election Disneyland primary rides, some folks are screaming, some are fainting with fear, many are puking and others watch from the sides. We have only just begun the election madness on all sides and see the theatre of the absurd while other critical things unfold before our distracted eyes.While Obama promises the world and emases more money from known and mystery donors, it is easy not to notice endless elephants running through the living room destroying everything in site. While the Middle East continues to melt down and leadership gets challenged by internal and more radically funded and organized groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran flexes its muscle and flips off the West and Israel.Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired off 14 missiles this week that can strike targets in the U.S. and all of Israel. Naturally, we heard one of their leaders, Brigadier General Amir Hajizadeh, state that Europe was completely safe. These weren’t for them but rather they were simply to provide a defense against Israel and America. You know….because we have forces in the gulf. Iran’s missiles are not small fry. They can travel a range of 1,250 miles and others can travel 2,000 miles. We all know that Iran’s missile program is a huge part of their bold and defiant goal to launch nuclear weapons, where they can easily strike the U.S. and Israel.
Naturally, Tehran denies all this, in fact they are playing politically correct in their lying statements. They said that their latest exercise was really a ‘message of peace and friendship.’ Isn’t that special? Were they studying our politically correct ‘stuck on stupid crowd’ Jimmy Carter, unemployed movie stars and media here? We all know that shooting off missiles and planning to attach nuclear weapons to them, per their own words over the years, is about peace and kindness. I feel the love, don’t you? I’m a little distracted by the body parts and blood in Israel and the US but oh….the friendship of it all.Some say that by August Iran will have Nuclear capability. The threats to Israel and the west have been in place for several years. While the threats have leaked out here and there from the Madi seeking mouth of Ahmadinejad, they play the Saul Alinsky play book of distraction so the UN, Israel and U.S. stay out of their face. It seems to be working beautifully with Obama.The UN, America and Israel knows that Ahmadinejad has a terrorist past and has threatened us all, but pretends that he won’t be a danger once the nuclear path is secure and complete. The whole time we have looked the other way, Iran has morphed dramatically closer to becoming nuclear and completing their attack strategy. How beautiful for Ahmadinejad. While the west is attacking in Libya and election madness is building, media and leaders aren’t looking at me, my evil plans and nuclear development.Is Ahmadinejad simply exercising his sovereign rights as the leader of his country?
I would normally say yes, except for his terrorist, kidnapping, and torturing past. Then there are his chronic and continuous threats to the west and Israel with demonstrated insanity and out of touch reality. Remember, he has hosted international conferences with many speakers talking of how the Holocaust never happened and the Jews were never murdered by the Nazis in WW11. Never mind the hundreds of thousands of witnesses who were there, many still alive, some of whom I have talked to myself.Ahmadinejad, is an anti-Semitic, Christian and freedom hating Islamic who dreams of the Madi coming out of the well and he knows this can’t happen until an end of days battle. He believes he is the conduit and method for that happening. No danger here letting him go nuclear. It’s all about friendship and providing energy.My one suggestion for Ammedinajad is that he jump in the well and wait for the Madi to come out. My other suggestion is for American to wake up and us put a real leader in the White House who will get away from the mirror and actually defend us.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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EU states object to transparency in law-making-
LEIGH PHILLIPS 30.06.2011 @ 18:13 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU member states are set to launch an appeal of a lower court decision with the European Court of Justice hoping to prevent greater transparency in decision-making - even about transparency rules themselves.Anxious that a recent landmark court ruling could radically open up to public scrutiny decision-making in the Council of Ministers - the European Union's upper house, or the institution representing the member states - a full 20 EU countries have jumped aboard an appeal of the decision.According to EU law, the result of all legislative votes in the Council must be made public. But long before this stage of the process, most of the real negotiations happen at a working-group level - and the secrecy of positions at this stage are jealously guarded by all those involved.Earlier this year, Access Info, a Spanish transparency NGO that aids journalists and citizens in making freedom of information requests across Europe, got wind that some member states in a Council working group in late 2008 had proposed amendments to water down existing EU transparency rules.Their request for the document naming the countries pushing in this direction was effectively denied - it was released but with all the country names blacked out - and the group appealed the decision with the EU General Court in Luxembourg. The UK and Greece intervened in the case arguing against greater openness.
In March, the court ruled that the Council must indeed reveal the identities of the member states taking these positions.EUobserver has since learnt that a clear majority of EU countries are now to appeal the ruling to the European Court of Justice, frightened that it sets a precedent that would force the Council to release the names of member states and the positions they take in all working groups.Such a development would radically roll back the diplomatic secrecy that has been the norm in the Council since its origins with the European Coal and Steel Community in 1957.
An EU source told EUobserver that potentially the positions of states on all subjects and discussions at the level of working group could be opened up for public scrutiny: The decision-making process as established, the 'space to think' must be protected. This is what is at stake.An April Council document minuting discussions on the subject notes A clear majority of delegations indicated their support for an appeal,and one source close the matter told EUobserver that a full 20 member states are backing the legal action.Finland however, abstained from voting on whether to mount an appeal, and told its fellow EU states that it is happy to see the positions of the country released.The Nordic country has a tradition of freedom of governmental information legislation dating back as far as 1766, when it was still a Swedish-governed territory.Helen Darbishire, the director of Access Info explained to this website why it is the identities of countries taking positions in the working groups that counts, rather than the final vote that is meaningful.There are hundreds of working groups, but there is no public list of their members. They don't keep minutes and this is where the real negotiations are made,she said. Some 85 percent of all EU laws are decided in the 150 working groups and committees consisting of delegates from the member states.The vote at the end is frankly just a bit of theatre. It doesn't show you anything about the process that has gone on. By the end, most decisions are unanimous, so you have no idea about who is responsible, who is taking different positions.
What you read on the Council website about transparency is really misleading to the public because that only represents a fraction of the process, not where the debate about future legislation takes place.Founded as a formation essentially involving negotiations between diplomats from the foreign affairs departments of the different member states, the EU and the Council working methods in particular have had more in common with the secret bargaining in matters of war, defence and peace-making than the openness of parliamentary tradition for other matters of law, say critics of EU decision-making.EU diplomats for their part argue that they need to protect this secrecy to enable freer discussion than would be permitted if there were greater public scrutiny of the process.We believe that disclosing the delegation that has put forward certain proposals would limit member states' opportunity for frank and candid policy discussion,one diplomat told EUobserver.Explaining why the Council and a majority of member states will be appealing the case, the source said the legal action is necessary in order to prevent its decision-making processes from being undermined.The member states have indicated that if they lose the case, they will simply switch to verbal agreements and limiting what is committed to paper so that such documents cannot be released as they would not exist.During the initial case before the General Court, pressed by judges to explain how the decision-making process is harmed by disclosure, [the Council] said that if these documents are to be made public, we'll just have to stop putting things in writing,according to Darbishire.
Italian cabinet passes austerity package
HONOR MAHONY Today JULY 1,11 @ 09:16 CET
The Italian cabinet on Thursday passed a series of austerity measures aimed at balancing the budget by 2014 and stopping the eurozone crisis spreading.The package, containing €47 billion of deficit cuts, curbs the budgets of government ministries and local authorities. It will have to be passed by parliament within two months.With today's measures we completed our path towards a balanced budget,said finance minister Giulio Tremonti while presenting the package.Credit rating agencies, which have been toying with the idea of downgrading Italy, will be closely watching how the debate and ensuing vote play out with Italy in the past struggling to get reforms agreed.The reforms are needed to boost growth in the eurozone's most sluggish economy. Growth is needed if Italy is to have any chance of cutting its massive public debt, lying at 120 percent of GDP.But analysts have already criticised the fact that most of the measures will only take place in 2013 and 2014.
On the same day Portugal announced a one-off levy on incomes and said it would speed up reforms to meet the terms of its €78bn EU-IMF bailout.Portuguese prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho made the announcement before parliament after the National Statistics Institute published worse-than-expected data for the first part of this year.The institute said that the deficit fell to 8.7 percent of GDP at the end of the first quarter. But under the terms of its bailout it has to cut its deficit to 5.9 percent of GDP this year and to 3 percent in 2013.Meanwhile, the EU watched with relief as the Greek parliament on Thursday agreed a law to implement a further round of austerity and privatisation measures.The vote paves the way for an emergency meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Sunday where they have to agree to release €8.7bn to Greece, part of last year's EU-IMF €110bn bailout.Agreement on the IMF tranche is expected next week. The Sunday meeting is also expected to discuss the broad outline for a second bailout for the debt-stricken country.While the unpopular measures have regularly caused strikes and protests in Greece and Portugal, non-eurozone Britain was also hit by a large public sector walk out as thousands of teachers and civil servants protested planned pension cuts.Some 104,000 civil servants went on strike while about 27 percent of schools were closed. However, the government was quick to point out that this was less than had been predicted by trade unions.
A short guide to the Polish presidency
HONOR MAHONY 07.01.2011 @ 11:15 CET
With Poland taking over the presidency of the European Union on 1 July, EUobserver presents a short non-exhaustive guide:Calendar restraints - Being a second-half-of-the-year presidency, Warsaw will fall afoul of the EU's famously extended holiday period. Most of the Brussels EU elite starts disappearing in July. The EU capital re-emerges as a complete political city only around the beginning of September. The same Brussels evacuation starts to take place around the middle of December, too. So, the period for getting things done is short.Polling day - And while the effective calendar months are short, so may the attention span of Polish politicians be. National elections will be held in October. Polish officials promise otherwise, but the call of the local constituency will likely prove more alluring than that of Brussels. Meanwhile, a win for the opposition Jaroslaw Kaczynski will see politicians, in handover mode, distracted for the remainder of the six-month stint too. And, in that case, everyone else will be wondering whether it means a return to the abrasive politics of previous administrations.
Defence - It might seem an inauspicious time to want to start talking about EU defence, what with the EU's less-than-exemplary display of unity over Libya, but Poland is going to persevere anyway. If we had civilian and military planning capacity we would have been much effective at the outset of the crisis in Libya, says Europe minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz.Warsaw is neither naive about EU defence of afraid to start a conversation about it. (The it includes battlegroups and a permanent military headquarters). And to be fair, no one else is rushing to talk about defence at the moment. It falls to EU top diplomat Catherine Ashton. But she is too busy trying to do several other jobs at once. And Poland has a point when it says is the only country with any military credibility to hold the presidency since France and the only one for quite some time into the future. This is not a debate Denmark and Cyprus can kick off.Eastern Partnership - This is where Poland has a chance to shine. The recognised lead member state when it comes to countries on the EU's eastern borders, it wants to see real progress - on association agreements - with Ukraine and Moldova. An Eastern Partnership Summit in September in Warsaw is meant to give the policy – which has fallen down the political agenda - a boost. Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt recently said the initiative is as significant as the Lisbon Treaty. The problem is getting other bigger member states - read France and Germany - to think like that. More cash would be good too. See below.
EU budget talks - The European Commission will this summer publish its first proposals for the EU's 2014-2020 budget, a moment that marks the traditional beginning of table-thumping disagreement until the thing is signed and sealed, usually at the last possible minute about two years later. Poland - very keen on seeing the EU's cohesion funds maintained - is shackled to a neutral position because it is the presidency country. But it hopes to project its budgetary views well beyond its presidency by producing a serious paper for discussion in 2012. It plans 12 technical meetings and two ministerial meetings on the budget.Energy security - This is a biggie for the Poles. They want the EU to be energy-independent of Russia. And they particularly want Poland to be energy-independent of Russia. This has resulted in some near-evangelical talk about Shale - the unconventional gas apparently in great quantities in Poland and which Warsaw has indicated it would like to exploit. If commercial exploitation is possible - and it remains a big if - the gas would both eventually end the country's heavy reliance on the dirtier coal and on Russia. Environmentalists are sceptical. But expect more talk anyway.
The economy - Poland is outside the eurozone - though looking to come in - and so lacks clout here. It is not automatically privy to discussions on economic governance or competitiveness, something brought home in March.However it has an ace up its sleeve: its economy is doing relatively well and the only country in the EU at no point to have tipped into recession during the recent economic crisis. So even if it is not inside the room, it can feel somewhat superior outside it. And its finance minister will chair ecofin - the full complement of EU finance ministers - meetings. Warsaw's main focus will be on implementing the new Single Market Act. It also wants to try and achieve something more ephemeral - economic optimism. According to Dowgielewicz, Point two on our to-do list as a presidency is to try to create a better narrative about the European economy.Arguably a task that alone would be tricky enough for any single presidency.One to watch - On the high-flying foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, opinions are divided. Some say that he has no interest in Poland's EU presidency and so will not help more committed members of the administration to make it a success. Others point to the fact that he has been quick to carve out a role for himself alongside Cathy Ashton. Sikorski is keen to take the lead on eastern neighbourhood issues. But Poland also sees its approach to its eastern neighbourhood as a model for the EU to take towards countries in its southern neighbourhood. This gave Sikorski the perfect excuse to pay a highly publicised visit to Libya in May - the first Western foreign minister to go the country since the uprising began. Sikoroski points out that the trip was agreed with Ashton beforehand. Nevertheless, his interactions with Ashton - weakened by internal criticism - throughout the presidency will be something to keep an eye on.
Stress test - Poland will take over the presidency with the EU creaking at the seams. Centre-right MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski puts it thus: All other presidencies have had difficult challenges but none of them have had such a culmination of difficulties. The Union is undergoing a stress test in terms of the euro, in terms of schengen, in terms of ESDP and in terms of [its] neighbourhood. All that put together makes this presidency extremely challenging. More and more, Poland sees that new member states will have take upon their shoulders the defence of the acquis of the old [member states].Logo - There is a long and proud tradition of EU presidency logos. It is not really clear why they are needed (especially in these post-Lisbon mini-presidency times) but they are always unveiled with a something of a flourish. They also usually attract more interest than the presidency programmes themselves. Past star logos include Belgium's 2001 showing with Magritte's hat, while Italy's 2003 effort was something of a flop, where it remained something of a small mystery as to why the E of EU was backwards. Poland's logo meanwhile is inspired by the by the iconic flag of Solidarnosc and was designed by the very artist who designed that movement's symbol so many years ago.The last word - And according to the somewhat ominous words of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, presidency countries can never be too prepared.My message to the Polish presidency is: Be prepared, because something may happen.Famous events of past presidencies include the Russia-Georgia war under France's watch and the teetering and then utter collapse of the Czech government in the middle of its presidency.
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.
Nato rules out military intervention in Syria
ANDREW RETTMAN 30.06.2011 @ 18:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said there will be no military intervention in Syria despite similar levels of government-sponsored violence as in Libya.Speaking in Vienna on Thursday (30 June) after a meeting with foreign minister Michael Spindelegger, the Nato chief told press: We do not foresee any intervention in Syria. In Libya, we are working on the basis of a UN mandate with the support of countries in the region. The conditions on Syria are not similar.
Syrian tanks on Wednesday reportedly killed 11 people in the Turkey border area, with the death count since unrest began three months ago estimated at some 1,500 people.The Syrian military build-up on the Turkish frontier has raised fears of a clash between the two rival powers in the region.Regional tensions intensified further on Thursday following reports that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), an EU-and-US-backed judicial body set up to investigate the assassination of a Lebanese leader in 2005, has indicted four Hezbollah officials.Hezbollah is an ally of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, with analysts saying the guerrilla army could seek a conflict with Israel to distract from the STL process or the Assad repressions.
UK foreign minister William Hague in the British parliament on Wednesday spoke of Lybia and Syria in the same breath as two regimes guilty of brutalities which threaten to destabilise neighbouring states.We can stand up against repression and violence, which we have seen taken to extremes in Libya and Syria, he said.But he noted that a Franco-British draft UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on Syria, which condemns violence but is far softer than UNSC 1973 authorising military strikes in Libya, does not have enough backing to be put to a vote.He also declined to follow France in saying that Syrian leader Bashar Assad should step down.If we are to maintain international unity of pressure on Syria, we must be careful in how we phrase such things, Hague noted.Foreign policy is not conducted in a bunker, where we do not communicate with people with whom we disagree. We [still] havediplomatic relations with Syria,he added.Nato's Rasmussen and Hague in the two seprate fora defended Nato's actions in Libya against accusations that it has overstepped its mandate to protect civilians.Rasmussen said there is no mission creep and ruled out use of ground forces, but noted that operations will continue until Gaddafi is out of power as the only guarantee of a peaceful transition.Reacting to MPs' questions that Nato strikes in Tripoli seem to be aimed at killing Colonel Gaddafi, Hague said: To characterise the campaign as an assassination campaign is wrong ... Our targeting depends on the behaviour of those involved, and it has included the command systems of the Gaddafi regime.Perception that Nato is in the business of regime change in Libya rather than protecting civilians, as mandated by UNSC 1973, is the main reason for opposition to any UN move on Syria in key swing UNSC voters - Brazil, India and South America.
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 brings heavy rain to central Mexico
By MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, Associated Press – Thu Jun 30, 11:47 pm ET
VERACRUZ, Mexico – The Atlantic season's first tropical storm swirled over Mexico's central Gulf coast Thursday, bringing heavy rains to a wide swath of the country but causing little damage.The heart of Tropical Storm Arlene struck land near Cabo Rojo, a cape just off the mainland between the cities of Tampico and Tuxpan. Arlene weakened to a tropical depression late Thursday and was expected to dissipate Friday.
Authorities had worried heavy rains could cause flash floods and mudslides in 13 states.Mexico's National Water Commission said that by Thursday night the depression was on the border between the states of Hidalgo and San Luis Potosi and that heavy to torrential rains were expected there and in nine other states, including Mexico City.Incessant rain fell in the city and its metropolitan area, where the Remedios River, which carries sewage water, overflowed in the suburb of Ecatepec.Ecatepec Mayor Indalecio Rios told the newspaper El Universal that he was urging residents in three neighborhoods that flooded to go to shelters set up by the city.In neighboring Hidalgo state, the rain caused at least six landslides along a highway that connects the state to the Gulf coast city of Tampico, authorities said.The storm was welcomed in northern Tamaulipas state, where rain fell on soil dried out by the most severe drought to hit the area in 50 years.There is nothing to regret and so far the rains have been favorable, Tamaulipas state Civil Protection Secretary Pedro Benavides said.We hope it keeps raining.Coastal towns in Veracruz and Tamaulipas states appeared to have escaped serious damage.
In the port city of Tampico, authorities said there was minor flooding in some low-laying neighborhoods. Beaches in the nearby cities of Madero and Altamira remained closed and small vessels were warned to stay docked.Arlene had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) and was moving inland at 8 mph (13 kph) Thursday evening, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Tree branches fell, water accumulated on some streets and a neighborhood of Tuxpan lost electricity, Veracruz state civil protection authorities reported.There aren't any major problems, (and) we hope Arlene will be out of sight by midday, Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte tweeted Thursday. He credited preparations ahead of the storm.Officials in the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi had guarded against possible flooding by closing schools, mobilizing emergency medical units and preparing evacuation shelters as rain fell on coastal and mountain regions.Mexico's national weather service said 6 inches (150 millimeters) of rain fell over a 24-hour period in northern Veracruz state.Associated Press writers Efrain Klerigan in Ciudad Victoria and Emilio Lopez in Pachuca contributed to this report.
Japan begins power restrictions
– Fri Jul 1, 3:45 am ET
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan on Friday began restricting electricity consumption in the Tokyo and Tohoku regions, more than three months after a tsunami sent nuclear reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.The power-saving drive, which for many began shortly after the huge March 11 quake and tsunami but which became official Friday, will last through the peak summer months to September to cut blackout risks after the loss of capacity.Large companies that violate the decree to cut useage by 15 percent will face fines of up to one million yen ($12,400). Smaller users and households have also been asked to voluntarily cut power use by 15 percent.To cope, Japan has taken its annual summer Cool Biz campaign -- aimed at limiting air conditioner use and encouraging workers to ditch jackets and ties -- to a new level.
Factories have changed shifts to make use of cooler evenings, early mornings and lower-demand weekends, prompting nursery schools to also open weekends to cater for the needs of working parents.Companies such as Sony have brought their business days forward by an hour in order to finish earlier.Railway operators have increased train services in the early morning to coincide with moves by Japanese firms to start the work day earlier.The power-saving restrictions will be in effect through to September 22 in Tokyo Electric's service area and through September 9 in Tohoku Electric's territory.Hospitals providing emergency treatment and shelters for evacuees from the March 11 disaster are exempted. The reduction target will be relaxed to up to 10 percent for medical, nursing-care and transportation service providers.On Wednesday temperatures soared to 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) in Tokyo and air conditioner use pushed consumption to 93 percent of capacity, raising fears that the capital may yet face blackouts as the summer heats up.Even utilities not directly affected by the earthquake and tsunami have not restarted nuclear reactors that were undergoing maintenance at the time, due to objections from local governments amid a wave of anti-nuclear sentiment.Only 19 of Japan's 54 reactors are now operating, with more due to shut down for regular checks. Japan usually generates about 30 percent of its power from nuclear plants.Ratings agency Moody's on Friday said it had downgraded the ratings of nine Japanese utilities, citing increased regulatory uncertainty following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant.There are worries that restrictions on power consumption may slow the country's recovery from recession, after the earthquake and tsunami hammered Japanese production and the economy contracted by an annualised 3.5 percent in January-March.
Royal couple marks Canada day on world debut tour
AFPBy Michel Comte | AFP – JULY 1,11
Princess Catherine on Friday will celebrate Canada's national holiday on her international debut with Prince William as crowds throng to catch a glimpse of Britain's newest royal couple.Packed with pomp and pageantry, the North American tour comes just two months after a radiant Kate Middleton walked down the aisle in a fairytale royal wedding watched by an estimated two billion people worldwide.The couple were to cap off their visit to the capital by joining tens of thousands of revellers outside parliament for musical performances and fireworks to celebrate Canada's national holiday.Canadians turned out en masse for a glimpse or a handshake as Middleton, now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrived in Ottawa on Thursday wearing a navy lace dress by Montreal-born designer Erdem Moralioglu.Welcome to Canada, honeymoon capital of the Commonwealth,said Governor General David Johnston.
The couple's arrival at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa triggered excited screams from an estimated 10,000-strong crowd -- several of the women wearing fascinators, the hair accessory of choice for the duchess.There he is.There's our future king,Pat Snair shouted from the fringes of the crowd as the 29-year-old newlyweds stepped from the cortege to place a bouquet of flowers before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.While Prince William, second in line to the British throne, has plenty of experience at royal duties, Kate is a relative rookie. But it was clearly the elegant woman from Berkshire, southeast England that many in the crowd had come to see.She represents the future of the monarchy, she's excitement and youth,said Denise, in her 60s.William is OK, but Kate is fascinating, added two teenage girls.The princess was cool under fire and showed no outward signs of nerves on her first overseas walkabout, smiling broadly and exchanging polite banter as she shook hands with the crowd for longer than the intended hour.I'm hoping to find romance like theirs,said one wildly-impressed teenage girl.From the war memorial unveiled in 1939 by William's great-grandparents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, who established a tradition with the first royal walkabout, the show then moved on to the official residence of the governor general, the vice-regal representative of Queen Elizabeth II.Catherine and I are so delighted to be here in Canada, William said.
We have been looking forward to this moment for a very long time. Quite separately, before we were married, we had both had a longing to come here, instilled in us by our parents and grandparents.He spoke in both of Canada's official languages, French and English, and to laughs vowed his French would improve over the course of this trip.The geography of this country is world-renowned, as is the hospitality of its peoples,William said.Support for the monarchy hovers above 50 percent in Canada and has risen from last year when Queen Elizabeth II visited, although there is still a vocal anti-monarchist minority planning to protest in Quebec City on Sunday.In addition to official and military ceremonies, the royal schedule has lighter moments planned, such as a cooking class, an aboriginal sports event and a rodeo.Later Thursday, the royals attended a barbecue with 120 young Canadians at the residence of the governor general, where they are spending the night. A downpour, however, forced the event indoors.William, in a buttoned down shirt slightly open at the collar, khakis and brown loafers, put his arm around the princess's waist to guide her around the room, chatting with guests.Kate changed into a black and white dress by Issa for dinner, where a gourmet menu included Quebec cheeses, New Brunswick oysters, Qikiqtarjuaq sea urchins, musk ox prosciutto and potato-crusted Alberta yak tartar.On Saturday they will embark on a countrywide tour, taking a cooking class in Montreal before travelling on to Quebec City, Charlottetown, Yellowknife and Calgary.
Prior to their final stop in Canada, the newlyweds are expected to sneak away on a romantic getaway to a secluded and undisclosed location in the Rocky Mountains.After wrapping up their Canadian tour, they will travel to California for a three-day visit on July 8-10 whose highlight will be a black-tie celebrity reception for British filmmakers in Los Angeles.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
1ST NAMED ATLANTIC STORM ON TRACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o95oj1rs0BI&feature=player_embedded
Second Sabotaged Ship Bows Out of Flotilla
by Gil Ronen JUNE 30,11
An Irish ship, the MV Saoirse, will not take part in the planned flotilla in support of the murderous and rapacious Hamas regime in Gaza. The ship has been sabotaged, according to one of its intended passengers.Speaking with the Irish Times last night from the Turkish port of Göcek, Fintan Lane of Irish Ship to Gaza organization said that the ship could not sail because it had been dangerously sabotaged.He said that the ship’s captain noticed that there was something wrong with it Monday. Divers subsequently found that a piece was missing from one of the propeller shafts.This was the type of sabotage that endangered human life, Lane told the Times.They put divers under the boat who cut a piece out of the propeller shaft. That means that the damage would have happened gradually and what would have happened eventually is that the propeller would have come up through the bottom of the boat, caused a flood in the engine room and would have caused the boat to sink.
Six of the 20-plus crew who had been due to set sail on the boat intend to join an Italian-based vessel instead. These include Lane, former Ireland rugby player Trevor Hogan, Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy, Libyan-born Irish citizen Hussein Hamed and Derry-based Sinn Féin councilor Gerry MacLochlainn.Lane said the damage to the ship was similar to that caused to the Swedish ship the Juliano, which flotilla organizers claim was sabotaged in the Greek port of Piraeus by hostile divers.There are eight other vessels that plan to sail to Gaza in the flotilla, which claims to be humanitarian in its outlook but which, in fact, supports the right of Hamas child-killers to import arms without Israeli interference.According to the organizers, the Italian ship Stefano Chiarim will carry the most passengers with 65 people; Canadian ship Tahrir will carry 48 passengers and an American vessel, which is currently detained in Greece, will carry 40 passengers.An additional five ships are expected to depart from Spain, France, Greece, Sweden and Norway. Organizers expect 292 participants and 36 members of the press.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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CNBC VIDEOS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JUNE 30,2011
09:30 AM +2.07
10:00 AM +117.25
10:30 AM +138.80
11:00 AM +128.13
11:30 AM +139.10
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12:30 PM +137.67
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02:30 PM +125.44
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04:00 PM +152.77 12,414.19
S&P 500 1320.62 +13.21
NASDAQ 2773.52 +33.03
GOLD 1,502.70 -7.70
OIL 95.11 +0.34
TSE 300 13,300.90 +111.90
CDNX 1904.14 +11.75
S&P/TSX/60 783.90 +6.60
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +44 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +164 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,510.00.OIL opens at $94.90 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +164 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +164 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)
Asian stocks rise as Greece nears debt resolution
APBy PAMELA SAMPSON - AP Business Writer | AP – JUNE 30,11
BANGKOK (AP) — World markets moved higher Thursday as investors await Greece's final stamp of approval on a package of harsh austerity measures aimed at preventing the heavily indebted country from defaulting.Oil prices hovered above $94 a barrel while the dollar sank against the euro and the yen.European shares were higher in early trading. Britain's FTSE 100 was 0.7 percent higher at 5,896.51 and Germany's DAX rose 0.2 percent to 7,311.88. In Paris, the CAC-40 was up 0.4 percent at 3,938.93.
Wall Street was set for a higher opening, with Dow Jones industrial futures 0.2 percent higher at 12,239 and S&P 500 futures 0.2 percent up at 1,306.10.Asian markets closed higher, with Japan's Nikkei 225 rising 0.2 percent to close at 9,816.09. Electronics giant Sony Corp. jumped 3 percent and Mazda Motor Corp. added 1.9 percent.Hiroshima-based Mazda launched sales of its Demio, known as Mazda2 overseas, in Japan on Thursday, offering a version packed with Skyactiv technology. The Skyactiv Demio gets as much as 30 kilometers a liter (71 miles per gallon), according to Mazda.South Korea's Kospi rose 0.3 percent to 2,100.69 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was 1.5 percent higher to 22,398.10. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 1.7 percent to 4,608.00.
Banking shares in Asia followed their U.S. counterparts higher. Hong Kong-listed Agricultural Bank of China, the country's biggest rural lender, rose 2.3 percent. China Construction Bank Corp. gained 1.9 percent. National Australia Bank Ltd. was 1.8 percent higher and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. climbed 2.1 percent.
Greece's approval on Wednesday of austerity measures needed to avert default next month was a decisive step for the country to get the next batch of bailout loans from international creditors and was met with relief in markets. Another bill has to be passed Thursday for the government to secure the money.Investors are going to the market to pick up good bargains that have surfaced over the past few days of selling,said Lee Kok Joo, head of research at Phillip Securities in Singapore.Mainland Chinese shares rose as investors interpreted the upbeat news from overseas as cause for an improved outlook for the Chinese economy.The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.2 percent to 2,762.08. The Shenzhen Composite Index gained 1.4 percent to 1,155.89. Shares in coal, steel and insurance led the gains.Trading volume rose today and the rally could last a few days. I am bullish on the market in the short term, said Peng Yunliang, an analyst based in Shanghai.Shanxi Coal International Energy Group Co. gained 4.5 percent while China Life Insurance, China's biggest insurance company, gained 2.1 percent.Shares in Shenzhen were buoyed by the strong performance of BYD Co., a Chinese battery and auto maker whose shares gained 41 percent in their debut in the smaller mainland market Thursday.MidAmerican Energy, a subsidiary of billionaire investor's Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, holds a 9.9 percent stake in BYD.
On Wall Street, stocks closed higher for the third day in a row Wednesday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.6 percent to close at 12,261.42. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.8 percent to 1,307.41. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.4 percent, to 2,740.49.Financial companies in the S&P 500 rose 2.1 percent after Bank of America Corp. reached an $8.5 billion settlement with investors over claims it sold them bad loans. The investors said Bank of America violated agreements with them by selling them low-quality mortgage-backed securities that lost value when the housing market collapsed. Much of the losses stem from BofA's 2008 purchase of the troubled lender Countrywide.Bank stocks also got a lift from news that the Federal Reserve plans to limit the fees banks can charge retailers for swiping debit cards to 21 cents. That's higher than the 12 cents the Fed first proposed.Benchmark crude for August delivery was 32 cents lower at $94.45 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract settled at $94.77 per barrel on the Nymex on Wednesday.The euro rose to $1.4484 from $1.4428 late Wednesday. The dollar weakened to 80.40 yen from 80.91 yen.
Brussels seeks financial tax in new EU budget
ANDREW WILLIS Today JUNE 30,11 @ 09:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Future EU spending is set to increase, focusing marginally less on agriculture and more on research, education and transport, according to European Commission proposals for the next seven-year budgetary period (2014-2020).
The draft budget also includes controversial proposals for EU own resources, including a tax on financial transactions and an EU-wide value-added tax (VAT).
Presenting the document in Brussels late on Wednesday evening after an all-day negotiation with colleagues, European Commission President Jose President Jose Manuel Barroso hit out at early objections from member states.This is an extremely serious, credible proposal, and to say no to something which was only adopted two or three hours ago is not serious or credible,he told reporters.Shortly beforehand, a spokesman for the British government blasted the budget proposals as unrealistic after Britain, France and Germany last December called for a nominal freeze in future EU spending to match national austerity measures. Denmark and Sweden were also quick to criticise the plans.Under the commission blueprint, EU spending would rise to €971.52 billion over the seven-year period, with €1,025 billion pledged in commitments. This compares with €925.5 billion and €975.77 billion under the current period (2007-2013), although there is little change in terms of gross national income (GNI).Strongly defended by French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a recent trip to Brussels, the budget for the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) is set to remain largely the same, although its share of the multi-annual financial framework (MFF) would decrease from 39.4 percent to 36.2 percent.The current two-pillar structure of the CAP will be maintained, with €281.8 billion pencilled in for direct payments to EU farmers (pillar 1), and €89.9 billion for rural development projects (pillar 2). Critics say the policy is wasteful and prevents developing countries from exporting agricultural produce to the EU on a level playing field, while supporters say it helps maintains the high quality of European products and protects the social fabric of rural areas.
EU funding makes it less expensive than 27 national agricultural policies, said Barroso, stressing the added value of the EU budget in general. A further €376 billion would go to boosting underdeveloped areas under the commission plans, with co-financing requirements relaxed for countries receiving funding support such as Greece.The main winners under the draft plans are transport, energy and information technology projects, together with research and education. The European Neighbourhood Policy is also to be boosted in the wake of the Arab Spring, with the commission pledging to maintain overseas development ahead as the clock ticks towards a 2015 deadline for completion of the Millennium Development Goals.The proposal places funding for an international nuclear fusion project (ITER) outside the main financial framework. ITER was a programming headache, said EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski.It is an international commitment with explosive costs, so it should be a commitment of member states.
Own Resources
As well as changes to the expenditure side, the commission documents also include two options to increase EU 'own resources', controversial in some member states who fear it will curb their control over the EU institutions.Lewandowsk said a tax on European financial transactions could enable the EU to raise up to 40 percent of its own revenue by 2020. While Germany and France have backed the move, Britain fears it would cause an exodus of activity from the London's financial heartland unless implemented at a global level.But Barroso insisted that the EU should not wait any longer, arguing that a unilateral European initiative would increase the chances of agreement at G20 level. The fact that some banks continued to pay huge bonuses was simply out of line with reality and unfair for society, he said.A second option would see the creation of a EU-wide sales tax. The new VAT would be levied at a fixed percentage by governments and transferred directly to EU coffers. Current member state contributions based on VAT would be abolished.The commission also said that it wanted to simplify the rebate system through a new practice of annual lump-sum reductions for Germany, Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands.After a legendary battle with other member states, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher won an annual adjustment in 1984 to compensate for the fact that Britain paid more into EU coffers than it received. The cheque is currently worth over €3 billion a year.Wednesday's proposals are only the start of a lengthy negotiation between member states and the European Parliament over the future EU spending plan, with a final agreement expected at some point in 2012.MEPs have already insisted that they want a five percent increase in the long-term budget, with the incoming Polish EU presidency planning to hold a meeting between all parties late this autumn.
Commission unveils austerity package for EU officials
ANDREW RETTMAN Today JUNE 30,11 @ 09:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has proposed to get rid of 5 percent of EU officials and to make remaining staff work longer in a show of fraternal feeling with crisis-hit member states.The proposals come as part of Brussels' blueprint for the EU budget for the 2012 to 2020 period, out on Wednesday (29 June).
Commenting on the plan commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said: European institutions should ... show solidarity with European citizens, in an era where rigorous cost savings and maximum efficiency are demanded at all levels.The 5 percent cut would see around 2,500 fonctionnaires pensioned off or let go when their contracts expire over a five year period from 2013 onward.The other 47,500-or-so staff will be made to work at least 40 hours per week instead of the current 37.5 hours with no extra pay. Their retirement age will also go up from 63 to 65 years and the number of special holidays designed for officials to visit their home countries will go down from six days a year to two.Administration commissioner Maros Sefcovic said the measures will save an extra €1 billion. No-one will be dismissed or forced to retire,he added.The commission proposal is a launching pad for talks with member states which normally take over a year to reach agreement.EU officials expect capitals to push for a 10 percent or more reduction in EU staff. Some believe this would force the EU to close peripheral institutions, like the Committee of the Regions. But others say there is enough general flab to remove. We could get rid of 10 percent or even more without really affecting the way parliament works, a European Parliament contact said.
Press literature accompanying the budget proposal attacked myths about the EU, such as the notion that the EU costs too much.Salaries are paid to staff delivering and managing valuable EU policies that have a direct positive impact on citizens. Think of air traffic liberalisation, passenger rights or cheaper roaming charges, it said.
Senior EU civil servants can trouser over €16,000 a month while paying a nominal internal tax.But trade unions note that many junior staff earn just €1,400 or less and work on short-term contracts, with EU jobs becoming less appealing to top talent in member states.The commission on Wednesday said EU administration costs, including the cost of running and leasing EU buildings, will be €62.6 billion in 2011. Just over €10 billion will go on pensions for retired officials and €1.3 billion or so will pay for European schools, which educate children of EU staff.
Opposition leader stirs up trouble for Polish EU presidency ANDREW RETTMAN 29.06.2011 @ 18:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has depicted the Polish government as being grossly incompetent and dangerously close to Russia in its handling of the Smolensk tragedy.A parliamentary committee dominated by Kaczynski MPs will on Thursday (30 June) publish a first draft of its report into the 2010 plane crash which claimed the life of Jaroslaw's brother, Lech, the then Polish president, and 95 officials and family members.The report conclusions - seen by EUobserver - speak of gross negligence and even hint at Polish collusion in a Russian plot to put the plane in danger and then to cover up what really happened.
It ultimately blames Russia for not closing the Smolensk airport despite thick fog.
But it also says Polish PM Donald Tusk gave Lech Kaczynski a faulty plane which had been tinkered with by a Russian firm with links to the Kremlin. It notes that a Polish spy arranged the ill-fated trip, which had low-level security. And it accuses Tusk of letting Russia destroy evidence and then of lying about it to press and to parliament.The intensity [of the disinformation campaign] and all that was linked to its wide dissemination shows an element of some kind of preparation, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said at a press conference in Warsaw on Wednesday.The Kaczynski attack is aimed at scoring points in the Polish general election in October and comes at a sensitive moment for the Tusk administration.The Smolensk findings are being released one day before Poland takes over the rotating EU presidency on 1 July. The Kaczynski press conference had simultaneous English translation and was web-streamed to a room in the European Parliament in Brussels, where Kaczynski MEPs invited every reporter in town.Mateusz Kochanowski, a Kaczynski party spokesman in the EU assembly, told EUobserver the publication of the report had nothing to do with the presidency. Kaczynski himself on the day wished the presidency success and said Poles should stand together in the international arena.For their part, Polish officials say the report is part of normal democratic debate, which can in any country spill into international fora.The Smolensk assault is not an isolated incident and Warsaw is not as blase as it makes out, however.When Kaczynski MEPs last week invited Roman Catholic radio-evangelist Tadeusz Rydzyk, a political ally, to the EU parliament, the priest said that Tusk's Poland is becoming an uncivilised and totalitarian country.The Polish foreign ministry reacted by sending a note to the Vatican asking it to make sure, in the words of ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki, that they will prevent these kinds of statements in future.Speaking to the Polish parliament on Tuesday about the importance of the EU presidency to Poland in reputational terms, foreign minister Radek Sikorski said: We are fully aware that every one of our mistakes, whether of substance or organisation, will be painfully visible and could have more important consequences than in normal times, outside the presidency, both for the reputation of Poland and our position vis-a-vis our European partners.
EU holds on to IMF chairmanship
ANDREW WILLIS 29.06.2011 @ 09:19 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - French finance minister Christine Lagarde has been appointed as the new chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at a time of unprecedented economic turmoil in the eurozone.The Washington-based institution's 24-member board maintained a tradition begun after World War II by picking the European candidate over Mexican central bank governor AgustÃn Carstens. The appointment of a woman to run the IMF for the first time in its history is a novelty, however.The results are in: I am honoured and delighted, Lagarde said via twitter on Tuesday evening (28 June). She will start her five-year term next Tuesday, taking over from her compatriot, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned amid rape allegations.
The congratulations began pouring on Tuesday.
US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner praised Lagarde's exceptional talent and broad experience ... at a critical time for the global economy.European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said the 55-year-old French lawyer is an excellent choice.Mexico's Carstens won the support of Australia and Canada. With the eurozone and the Greek debt crisis set to dominate the IMF agenda for the foreseeable future, he had questioned whether Lagarde's appointment would amount to a conflict of interest.Emerging nations including Brazil and China, as well as Russia, threw their weight behind Lagarde following her diplomatic tour of the globe, however.Lagarde in her acceptance statement acknowledged concerns that the IMF has an overly euro-centric policy, a source of grumbling even before Strauss-Kahn's forced departure.I will make it my overriding goal that our institution continues to serve its entire membership, she said.In an interview with French television shortly afterwards, the minister focused on EU issues and called on the Greek opposition to support the government's austerity package during a parliamentary vote on Wednesday.
Reports suggest that recent weeks have seen growing disquiet inside the IMF over the its lending to Greece, as anti-austerity protests increase in the embattled European state.Despite a €110 billion EU-IMF aid package for Athens last year, the centre-left government is widely expected to ask for a second bail-out if it survives Wednesday's vote.Tackling the financial implications of the Arab Spring and simmering tensions over global exchange rates are also among the issues to tackle early into Lagarde's term.Faced with a daunting set of tasks, Lagarde indicated that she is keen to meet with the fallen Strauss-Kahn.I want to have a long talk with him, because a successor should talk with their predecessor,she told French television channel TF1.I can learn things from what he has to say about the IMF and its teams.
Nationalist Critics: Mayor Nir Barkat has Turned to the Left by David ben Yacov JUNE 30,11
The Chairman of the East Jerusalem Public Complaints Bureau, Aryeh King, affiliated with the National Union-National Religious Party, castigated the decision of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to appoint left-wing Meretz party council member Meir Margalit to handle the ultra-sensitive East Jerusalem file in the municipality.It has become clear that the Mayor is a dangerous left-wing supporter. This disproves any attempts to paint him orange [the color theme of the secular and religious activity against the Gush Katif expulsion, ed.] or associate him with the right-wing. Anyone who appoints a Meretz representative is not in the right-wing.King warns that Barkat may yet endanger the city. He is of the dangerous type, like Olmert and Sharon, like those who pose as innocent. Barkat has swerved to the left, and has therefore appointed a Meretz rep.According to King, Barkat acts on behalf of the Arabs in Jerusalem:Barkat will not sign East Jerusalem demolition orders against illegal construction. He refuses to allocate funds to bring tourists to the Mount of Olives. The Mayor cancels construction plans at the North Jerusalem Atarot industrial zone. The system is helmed in by the [now] left activist, Nir Barkat. He belongs to the Peace Now camp, and wants to divide the city with the Palestinians. It’s time we learn from getting constantly slapped in the face, and stop believing leaders who don a skullcap before elections and embrace rabbis.
Aryeh King has recently opposed the legalizationof 95% of some 200 illegal Arab structures in the East Jerusalem Silwan neighborhood. he has also opposed the construction of a commercial center on the Mount of Olives, in the heart of biblical Jerusalem, and the construction of a large mosque near the gravesite of the late PM Menachem Begin which has been suspended as a result.Municipal Council member, lawyer Yair Gabbai, and the Jerusalem municipality representative on the Planning and Zoning District Committee, calls upon the city’s religious Zionist voters to boycott Barkat after his decision:He has broken all of his pre-election promises. This appointment was to go to right-wing rep Yakir Segev, but Barkat signed a coalition deal with Meretz and intends to appoint Dr. Meir Margalit to the position instead.
Gabbai claims that Margalit belongs to the extreme left-wing:He leads the Committee against the Demolishing of Homes, an organization that supports a boycott of Israel, and rebuilds East Jerusalem court-order demolished homes. He will be in a position to approve or deny demolishing in East Jerusalem, and this is a severe conflict of interests. From now on, the municipality representative on any possible forum will be a Meretz man in favor of the division of the city. He has been defaming the State of Israel for years, and will now decide on East Jerusalem projects. The Mayor has made a left turn, and the public should relate to him accordingly.The Meretz left-wing party that Dr. Meir Margalit belongs to, supports a Palestinian state, the dismantling of most of the Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria, and the division of Jerusalem.The Mayor has defended the unity of Jerusalem in the past, especially with regard to the building freeze insisted upon by US President Obama. The Mayor’s office has not yet issued a response to the council members critique.(Israel NationalNews.com)
Beware of PA Leaders Bearing Gifts?
by David ben Yacov JUNE 30,11
A member of the Palestinian Authority recently placed a surprising order at a retail outlet of the Hatzorfim silver Judaica ornament factory, according to Arutz Sheva Hebrew site..He requested two prestigious gifts of silver and crystal, saying that one was chosen as a farewell gift to ex-ISA (Israel Security Agency) head Yuval Diskin, and one as a welcoming gift for the new ISA head Yoram Cohen, courtesy of PA Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas.The PA purchaser added dedications to the gifts, thanking Diskin for his cooperation, and looking forward to future cooperation with Cohen.The ISA told Arutz Sheva in response that Since the ISA does not divulge details of agency relations with foreign entities, we cannot relate to the issue.Relating to the gifts, the ISA said, The agency is acting in accordance with the Public Service Law on Gifts -1979.Cohen assumed the position of ISA head six weeks ago. He was assistant ISA head between 2005-2008, and is the first religious head of the ISA. He was born in 1960, and is married with 5 children. He has been a resident of Jerusalem since 1983, and was raised and educated in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Medrashiat Noam Yeshiva High school in Pardes Chana, and served in the IDF in the Golani brigade.Yuval Diskin, born 1956, began his career at the ISA in 1978. He was responsible for security coordination over a number of years, is deeply acquainted with the heads of the Palestinian security services, and has been responsible for an uncompromising war against terror and terrorist infrastructures throughout Judea and Samaria.During the worst years of terrorism, he headed the operational region responsible for destroying Hamas military infrastructure throughout Judea and Samaria. He was appointed head of the ISA in February 2005.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
GE and Partners Invest in Israeli Water Tech Company
by Elad Benari JUNE 30,11
An American company will help fund an Israeli company that uses microbial fuel cells to turn waste water into an energy source, Greenbang.com reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, Energy Technology Ventures, a joint venture of GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips, has decided to invest an undisclosed amount in the Israeli company Emefcy Ltd. This is Energy Technology Ventures’ first investment in a non-U.S.-based company and is also its first investment related to water.Emefcy was founded in early 2008 by serial water technology entrepreneurs Eytan Levy and Ronen Shechter. The company is marked as one of the most promising water technology start-up companies and has received technology leadership awards such as The Guardian’s Cleantech 100, Global Water Technologies top 10, Artemis Top 50 and more.
Emefcy’s technology uses the principle of a fuel cell to generate electricity directly from the water. Its electrogenic bioreactor features an anaerobic anode chamber connected to a cathode chamber by an ion exchange membrane, produces electricity as organic matter in waste water decays and drives a current through the fuel cell.This is different from other systems which use aerobic processes or anaerobic digestion to produce methane (natural gas) from the decomposition of organic material in waste water.The technology generates electricity and also produces treated water as a by-product. The result transforms waste water treatment from an energy-intensive, cost-intensive and carbon-intensive process, into an energy-generating and carbon-reducing process.Emefcy expects to apply its process initially for waste water treatment in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and chemical industries.We will use Energy Technology Ventures’ investment to continue development of our technology into full-scale commercial implementation by the end of this year for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, said Levy.Energy Technology Ventures is a company which focuses on the development of next-generation energy technologies. It invests in and offers commercial collaboration opportunities to companies in the renewable power generation, smart grid, energy efficiency, oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, emission controls, water and biofuels sectors. The three companies behind Energy Technology Ventures intend to help start-ups develop next-generation energy technology.General Electric recently announced that it would be building a research and development center in Israel, its eighth in the country.The new center, which will be built near its GE Healthcare subsidiary in Haifa, will focus on medical devices, water and CleanTech.GE previously has worked with Israeli companies such as the Better Place electric car initiative as well as with companies dealing with medical devices and CleanTech.(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 Arlene makes landfall in Mexico
JUNE 30,11
MIAMI – Tropical Storm Arlene made landfall early Thursday on Mexico's central Gulf coast near Cabo Rojo with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph).Authorities in the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi prepared for possible flooding as rain began falling along the coast Wednesday. Officials warned residents about impending winds and rain.Officials said 6 inches (150 millimeters) of rain were possible in northern Veracruz state. Some isolated mountainous areas inland could get up to 15 inches (375 millimeters) of rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.Forecasters said extreme south Texas also could get rain.Arlene, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to weaken later Thursday and dissipate on Friday, the hurricane center said.Early Thursday, the storm was centered about 35 miles (55 kilometers) north of Tuxpan, Mexico, and moving west near 9 mph (15 kph).The main threat to Mexico comes from heavy rains that could cause flash floods and mudslides in 13 states, the government said.If heavy rains hit the state of Tamaulipas, they would fall on soil dried out by the most severe drought to hit the area in 50 years. There was still unrepaired damage from Hurricane Alex, which struck the area as a Category 2 hurricane last year.
First named Atlantic storm eyes Mexican coast
– Wed Jun 29, 6:59 pm ET
XALAPA, Mexico (AFP) – Mexico's Gulf coast was on high alert Wednesday as the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season took aim at a region still recovering from the worst floods on record last year.Tropical Storm Arlene was packing sustained winds of 60 miles (95 kilometers) per hour and heavy rains, and the Miami-based US National Hurricane Center forecast it would strengthen before making landfall early Thursday near the border of Tamaulipas and Veracruz states.The state of Veracruz is on red alert, the region's Civil Protection director Laura Gurza told a news conference.The northeast state of Tamaulipas was on a slightly less urgent orange alert.Gurza said however that forecasters were expecting Arlene not to strengthen to a hurricane, but instead make landfall as a tropical storm.State-run oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) had also issued an alert for its facilities on the Gulf of Mexico, ensuring that safety measures were implemented for its platforms and that all transport and delivery ships were secured.Arlene was some 150 miles (240 kilometers) east of the town of Tampico at 5:30 pm (2230 GMT) and churning westward at five miles (seven kilometers) per hour, the NHC said.
The storm was forecast to dump between four and eight inches (10-20 centimeters) of rain over Tamaulipas and Veracruz, with isolated maximum amounts of 15 inches (38 centimeters) over mountainous terrain.These rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, the NHC warned in a bulletin, adding that the coastline could be battered by large and destructive waves.The northeast coast from Barra de Nautla northward to Bahia Algones was under a storm warning, and tropical storm conditions were expected to hit the coast beginning later Wednesday.Mexico was lashed last year by what the government described as the wettest rainy season on record. Several tropical storms and hurricanes caused flooding and mudslides that left dozens of people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Earthquake hits northwestern Japan, no tsunami warning issued – Wed Jun 29, 7:44 pm ET
TOKYO (Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit central Japan on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.The epicenter of the earthquake was in Nagano prefecture, the agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued.(Reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro; Editing by Chris Gallagher)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti By JONATHAN M. KATZ - Associated Press,TRENTON DANIEL - Thu, Jun 30, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Evidence strongly suggests that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says.The study is the strongest argument yet that newly-arrived Nepalese peacekeepers at a base near the town of Mirebalais brought with them the cholera, which spread through the waterways of the Artibonite region and elsewhere in this impoverished Caribbean country.The disease has killed more than 5,500 people and sickened more than 363,000 others since it was discovered in October, according to the Haitian government.Our findings strongly suggest that contamination of the Artibonite (river) and 1 of its tributaries downstream from a military camp triggered the epidemic, said the report in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The article says there is an exact correlation in time and place between the arrival of a Nepalese battalion from an area of its South Asian homeland that was experiencing a cholera outbreak and the appearance of the first cases in the Meille river a few days later.The remoteness of the Meille river in central Haiti and the absence of other factors make it unlikely that the cholera strain could have come to Haiti in any other way, the report says.
In an email U.N. mission spokeswoman Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg didn't comment on the findings of the article published in the CDC journal, referring only to a study released in May by a U.N.-appointed panel.That panel's report found that the cholera outbreak was caused by a South Asian strain imported by human activity that contaminated the Meille river where the U.N. base of the Nepalese peacekeepers is located. The study also found that bad sanitation at the camp would've made contamination of the water system possible.But the U.N. report refrained from blaming any single group for the outbreak. While no other potential source of the bacteria itself was named, the report attributed the outbreak to a confluence of circumstances, including a lack of water infrastructure in Haiti and Haitians' dependence on the river system.The panel's report was ordered by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as anti-U.N. protests spread in Haiti and mounting circumstantial evidence pointed to the troops.Before that, for nearly two months after the outbreak last October, the United Nations, CDC and World Health Organization refused to investigate the origin of the cholera, saying that it was more important to treat patients than to try to figure out the source.The article published in the CDC journal comes as health workers in Haiti wrestle with a spike in the number of cholera cases brought on by several weeks of rainfall. The aid group Oxfam said earlier this month that its workers were treating more than 300 new cases a day, more than three times what they saw when the disease peaked in the fall.
Cholera is caused by a bacteria that produces severe diarrhea and is contracted by eating or drinking contaminated food or water.The disease has spread to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where more than 36 deaths have been reported since November.Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux, the lead author of the CDC journal article, was initially sent by the French government in late 2010 to investigate the origins of Haiti's outbreak. He authored a report for U.N. and Haitian officials that said the Nepalese peacekeepers likely caused the outbreak, a copy of which was obtained at the time by the AP.The latest study was more complete and its methodology was reviewed by a group of scientists.The new study argues it is important for scientists to determine the origin of cholera outbreaks and how they spread in order to eliminate accidentally imported disease.Moreover, the study says, figuring out the source of a cholera epidemic would help health workers better treat and prevent cholera by minimizing the distrust associated with the widespread suspicions of a cover-up of a deliberate importation of cholera.It also argues that demonstrating an imported origin would compel international organizations to reappraise their procedures.After cholera surfaced last fall, many Haitians believed the Nepalese peacekeepers were to blame, straining relations between the population and U.N. personnel and sparking angry protests. On the streets, cholera has become slang for something that must be banished from Haiti.The new study is acknowledged in a commentary by a pair of public health experts affiliated with the CDC.However it occurred, there is little doubt that the organism was introduced to Haiti by a traveler from abroad, and this fact raises important public health considerations, wrote Scott Dowell, director of the CDC's Division of Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response, and Christopher Braden, a medical epidemiologist with the CDC.Associated Press writer Trenton Daniel reported this story from Port-au-Prince and Jonathan M. Katz reported from Mexico City.Trenton Daniel can be followed at http://twitter.com/trentondaniel; Jonathan M. Katz can be followed at http://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth.
Kim cancelled Russia trip on security worry: report
Reuters By Guy Faulconbridge JUNE 30,11
Jun (Reuters) - MOSCOW, June 30 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il canceled a visit to Russia this week because of worries about security following media reports about the trip, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday.Russian authorities in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, 130 km (80 miles) from the North Korean border, had been making preparations for a possible visit by the secretive North Korean leader, a local official said this week.But the unannounced plans for a summit between Kim and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev were abandoned at the last minute and the Kremlin said on Wednesday that Medvedev had no meetings scheduled with Kim.Kommersant cited unidentified Kremlin sources as saying that Pyongyang had asked for a meeting but that Kim had canceled because the North Korean authorities were worried about security after media reports appeared about the trip.We were prepared for it (a meeting) because we use every opportunity for contact, a Kremlin source was quoted as saying.The media reports that a summit could take place played a significant part in the change of mind by the North Korean authorities,the source was quoted as saying.Russia is a member of the long-stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, though diplomats say Moscow has less influence with Kim than China.Kim has made no public visit to Russia since 2002, when he met with then-President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok. The North Korean leader has made several trips to China, Pyongyang's closest big power ally, in recent years.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
Second Sabotaged Ship Bows Out of Flotilla
by Gil Ronen JUNE 30,11
An Irish ship, the MV Saoirse, will not take part in the planned flotilla in support of the murderous and rapacious Hamas regime in Gaza. The ship has been sabotaged, according to one of its intended passengers.Speaking with the Irish Times last night from the Turkish port of Göcek, Fintan Lane of Irish Ship to Gaza organization said that the ship could not sail because it had been dangerously sabotaged.He said that the ship’s captain noticed that there was something wrong with it Monday. Divers subsequently found that a piece was missing from one of the propeller shafts.This was the type of sabotage that endangered human life, Lane told the Times.They put divers under the boat who cut a piece out of the propeller shaft. That means that the damage would have happened gradually and what would have happened eventually is that the propeller would have come up through the bottom of the boat, caused a flood in the engine room and would have caused the boat to sink.
Six of the 20-plus crew who had been due to set sail on the boat intend to join an Italian-based vessel instead. These include Lane, former Ireland rugby player Trevor Hogan, Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy, Libyan-born Irish citizen Hussein Hamed and Derry-based Sinn Féin councilor Gerry MacLochlainn.Lane said the damage to the ship was similar to that caused to the Swedish ship the Juliano, which flotilla organizers claim was sabotaged in the Greek port of Piraeus by hostile divers.There are eight other vessels that plan to sail to Gaza in the flotilla, which claims to be humanitarian in its outlook but which, in fact, supports the right of Hamas child-killers to import arms without Israeli interference.According to the organizers, the Italian ship Stefano Chiarim will carry the most passengers with 65 people; Canadian ship Tahrir will carry 48 passengers and an American vessel, which is currently detained in Greece, will carry 40 passengers.An additional five ships are expected to depart from Spain, France, Greece, Sweden and Norway. Organizers expect 292 participants and 36 members of the press.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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Asian stocks rise as Greece nears debt resolution
APBy PAMELA SAMPSON - AP Business Writer | AP – JUNE 30,11
BANGKOK (AP) — World markets moved higher Thursday as investors await Greece's final stamp of approval on a package of harsh austerity measures aimed at preventing the heavily indebted country from defaulting.Oil prices hovered above $94 a barrel while the dollar sank against the euro and the yen.European shares were higher in early trading. Britain's FTSE 100 was 0.7 percent higher at 5,896.51 and Germany's DAX rose 0.2 percent to 7,311.88. In Paris, the CAC-40 was up 0.4 percent at 3,938.93.
Wall Street was set for a higher opening, with Dow Jones industrial futures 0.2 percent higher at 12,239 and S&P 500 futures 0.2 percent up at 1,306.10.Asian markets closed higher, with Japan's Nikkei 225 rising 0.2 percent to close at 9,816.09. Electronics giant Sony Corp. jumped 3 percent and Mazda Motor Corp. added 1.9 percent.Hiroshima-based Mazda launched sales of its Demio, known as Mazda2 overseas, in Japan on Thursday, offering a version packed with Skyactiv technology. The Skyactiv Demio gets as much as 30 kilometers a liter (71 miles per gallon), according to Mazda.South Korea's Kospi rose 0.3 percent to 2,100.69 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was 1.5 percent higher to 22,398.10. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 1.7 percent to 4,608.00.
Banking shares in Asia followed their U.S. counterparts higher. Hong Kong-listed Agricultural Bank of China, the country's biggest rural lender, rose 2.3 percent. China Construction Bank Corp. gained 1.9 percent. National Australia Bank Ltd. was 1.8 percent higher and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. climbed 2.1 percent.
Greece's approval on Wednesday of austerity measures needed to avert default next month was a decisive step for the country to get the next batch of bailout loans from international creditors and was met with relief in markets. Another bill has to be passed Thursday for the government to secure the money.Investors are going to the market to pick up good bargains that have surfaced over the past few days of selling,said Lee Kok Joo, head of research at Phillip Securities in Singapore.Mainland Chinese shares rose as investors interpreted the upbeat news from overseas as cause for an improved outlook for the Chinese economy.The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.2 percent to 2,762.08. The Shenzhen Composite Index gained 1.4 percent to 1,155.89. Shares in coal, steel and insurance led the gains.Trading volume rose today and the rally could last a few days. I am bullish on the market in the short term, said Peng Yunliang, an analyst based in Shanghai.Shanxi Coal International Energy Group Co. gained 4.5 percent while China Life Insurance, China's biggest insurance company, gained 2.1 percent.Shares in Shenzhen were buoyed by the strong performance of BYD Co., a Chinese battery and auto maker whose shares gained 41 percent in their debut in the smaller mainland market Thursday.MidAmerican Energy, a subsidiary of billionaire investor's Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, holds a 9.9 percent stake in BYD.
On Wall Street, stocks closed higher for the third day in a row Wednesday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.6 percent to close at 12,261.42. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.8 percent to 1,307.41. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.4 percent, to 2,740.49.Financial companies in the S&P 500 rose 2.1 percent after Bank of America Corp. reached an $8.5 billion settlement with investors over claims it sold them bad loans. The investors said Bank of America violated agreements with them by selling them low-quality mortgage-backed securities that lost value when the housing market collapsed. Much of the losses stem from BofA's 2008 purchase of the troubled lender Countrywide.Bank stocks also got a lift from news that the Federal Reserve plans to limit the fees banks can charge retailers for swiping debit cards to 21 cents. That's higher than the 12 cents the Fed first proposed.Benchmark crude for August delivery was 32 cents lower at $94.45 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract settled at $94.77 per barrel on the Nymex on Wednesday.The euro rose to $1.4484 from $1.4428 late Wednesday. The dollar weakened to 80.40 yen from 80.91 yen.
Brussels seeks financial tax in new EU budget
ANDREW WILLIS Today JUNE 30,11 @ 09:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Future EU spending is set to increase, focusing marginally less on agriculture and more on research, education and transport, according to European Commission proposals for the next seven-year budgetary period (2014-2020).
The draft budget also includes controversial proposals for EU own resources, including a tax on financial transactions and an EU-wide value-added tax (VAT).
Presenting the document in Brussels late on Wednesday evening after an all-day negotiation with colleagues, European Commission President Jose President Jose Manuel Barroso hit out at early objections from member states.This is an extremely serious, credible proposal, and to say no to something which was only adopted two or three hours ago is not serious or credible,he told reporters.Shortly beforehand, a spokesman for the British government blasted the budget proposals as unrealistic after Britain, France and Germany last December called for a nominal freeze in future EU spending to match national austerity measures. Denmark and Sweden were also quick to criticise the plans.Under the commission blueprint, EU spending would rise to €971.52 billion over the seven-year period, with €1,025 billion pledged in commitments. This compares with €925.5 billion and €975.77 billion under the current period (2007-2013), although there is little change in terms of gross national income (GNI).Strongly defended by French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a recent trip to Brussels, the budget for the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) is set to remain largely the same, although its share of the multi-annual financial framework (MFF) would decrease from 39.4 percent to 36.2 percent.The current two-pillar structure of the CAP will be maintained, with €281.8 billion pencilled in for direct payments to EU farmers (pillar 1), and €89.9 billion for rural development projects (pillar 2). Critics say the policy is wasteful and prevents developing countries from exporting agricultural produce to the EU on a level playing field, while supporters say it helps maintains the high quality of European products and protects the social fabric of rural areas.
EU funding makes it less expensive than 27 national agricultural policies, said Barroso, stressing the added value of the EU budget in general. A further €376 billion would go to boosting underdeveloped areas under the commission plans, with co-financing requirements relaxed for countries receiving funding support such as Greece.The main winners under the draft plans are transport, energy and information technology projects, together with research and education. The European Neighbourhood Policy is also to be boosted in the wake of the Arab Spring, with the commission pledging to maintain overseas development ahead as the clock ticks towards a 2015 deadline for completion of the Millennium Development Goals.The proposal places funding for an international nuclear fusion project (ITER) outside the main financial framework. ITER was a programming headache, said EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski.It is an international commitment with explosive costs, so it should be a commitment of member states.
Own Resources
As well as changes to the expenditure side, the commission documents also include two options to increase EU 'own resources', controversial in some member states who fear it will curb their control over the EU institutions.Lewandowsk said a tax on European financial transactions could enable the EU to raise up to 40 percent of its own revenue by 2020. While Germany and France have backed the move, Britain fears it would cause an exodus of activity from the London's financial heartland unless implemented at a global level.But Barroso insisted that the EU should not wait any longer, arguing that a unilateral European initiative would increase the chances of agreement at G20 level. The fact that some banks continued to pay huge bonuses was simply out of line with reality and unfair for society, he said.A second option would see the creation of a EU-wide sales tax. The new VAT would be levied at a fixed percentage by governments and transferred directly to EU coffers. Current member state contributions based on VAT would be abolished.The commission also said that it wanted to simplify the rebate system through a new practice of annual lump-sum reductions for Germany, Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands.After a legendary battle with other member states, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher won an annual adjustment in 1984 to compensate for the fact that Britain paid more into EU coffers than it received. The cheque is currently worth over €3 billion a year.Wednesday's proposals are only the start of a lengthy negotiation between member states and the European Parliament over the future EU spending plan, with a final agreement expected at some point in 2012.MEPs have already insisted that they want a five percent increase in the long-term budget, with the incoming Polish EU presidency planning to hold a meeting between all parties late this autumn.
Commission unveils austerity package for EU officials
ANDREW RETTMAN Today JUNE 30,11 @ 09:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has proposed to get rid of 5 percent of EU officials and to make remaining staff work longer in a show of fraternal feeling with crisis-hit member states.The proposals come as part of Brussels' blueprint for the EU budget for the 2012 to 2020 period, out on Wednesday (29 June).
Commenting on the plan commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said: European institutions should ... show solidarity with European citizens, in an era where rigorous cost savings and maximum efficiency are demanded at all levels.The 5 percent cut would see around 2,500 fonctionnaires pensioned off or let go when their contracts expire over a five year period from 2013 onward.The other 47,500-or-so staff will be made to work at least 40 hours per week instead of the current 37.5 hours with no extra pay. Their retirement age will also go up from 63 to 65 years and the number of special holidays designed for officials to visit their home countries will go down from six days a year to two.Administration commissioner Maros Sefcovic said the measures will save an extra €1 billion. No-one will be dismissed or forced to retire,he added.The commission proposal is a launching pad for talks with member states which normally take over a year to reach agreement.EU officials expect capitals to push for a 10 percent or more reduction in EU staff. Some believe this would force the EU to close peripheral institutions, like the Committee of the Regions. But others say there is enough general flab to remove. We could get rid of 10 percent or even more without really affecting the way parliament works, a European Parliament contact said.
Press literature accompanying the budget proposal attacked myths about the EU, such as the notion that the EU costs too much.Salaries are paid to staff delivering and managing valuable EU policies that have a direct positive impact on citizens. Think of air traffic liberalisation, passenger rights or cheaper roaming charges, it said.
Senior EU civil servants can trouser over €16,000 a month while paying a nominal internal tax.But trade unions note that many junior staff earn just €1,400 or less and work on short-term contracts, with EU jobs becoming less appealing to top talent in member states.The commission on Wednesday said EU administration costs, including the cost of running and leasing EU buildings, will be €62.6 billion in 2011. Just over €10 billion will go on pensions for retired officials and €1.3 billion or so will pay for European schools, which educate children of EU staff.
Opposition leader stirs up trouble for Polish EU presidency ANDREW RETTMAN 29.06.2011 @ 18:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has depicted the Polish government as being grossly incompetent and dangerously close to Russia in its handling of the Smolensk tragedy.A parliamentary committee dominated by Kaczynski MPs will on Thursday (30 June) publish a first draft of its report into the 2010 plane crash which claimed the life of Jaroslaw's brother, Lech, the then Polish president, and 95 officials and family members.The report conclusions - seen by EUobserver - speak of gross negligence and even hint at Polish collusion in a Russian plot to put the plane in danger and then to cover up what really happened.
It ultimately blames Russia for not closing the Smolensk airport despite thick fog.
But it also says Polish PM Donald Tusk gave Lech Kaczynski a faulty plane which had been tinkered with by a Russian firm with links to the Kremlin. It notes that a Polish spy arranged the ill-fated trip, which had low-level security. And it accuses Tusk of letting Russia destroy evidence and then of lying about it to press and to parliament.The intensity [of the disinformation campaign] and all that was linked to its wide dissemination shows an element of some kind of preparation, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said at a press conference in Warsaw on Wednesday.The Kaczynski attack is aimed at scoring points in the Polish general election in October and comes at a sensitive moment for the Tusk administration.The Smolensk findings are being released one day before Poland takes over the rotating EU presidency on 1 July. The Kaczynski press conference had simultaneous English translation and was web-streamed to a room in the European Parliament in Brussels, where Kaczynski MEPs invited every reporter in town.Mateusz Kochanowski, a Kaczynski party spokesman in the EU assembly, told EUobserver the publication of the report had nothing to do with the presidency. Kaczynski himself on the day wished the presidency success and said Poles should stand together in the international arena.For their part, Polish officials say the report is part of normal democratic debate, which can in any country spill into international fora.The Smolensk assault is not an isolated incident and Warsaw is not as blase as it makes out, however.When Kaczynski MEPs last week invited Roman Catholic radio-evangelist Tadeusz Rydzyk, a political ally, to the EU parliament, the priest said that Tusk's Poland is becoming an uncivilised and totalitarian country.The Polish foreign ministry reacted by sending a note to the Vatican asking it to make sure, in the words of ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki, that they will prevent these kinds of statements in future.Speaking to the Polish parliament on Tuesday about the importance of the EU presidency to Poland in reputational terms, foreign minister Radek Sikorski said: We are fully aware that every one of our mistakes, whether of substance or organisation, will be painfully visible and could have more important consequences than in normal times, outside the presidency, both for the reputation of Poland and our position vis-a-vis our European partners.
EU holds on to IMF chairmanship
ANDREW WILLIS 29.06.2011 @ 09:19 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - French finance minister Christine Lagarde has been appointed as the new chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at a time of unprecedented economic turmoil in the eurozone.The Washington-based institution's 24-member board maintained a tradition begun after World War II by picking the European candidate over Mexican central bank governor AgustÃn Carstens. The appointment of a woman to run the IMF for the first time in its history is a novelty, however.The results are in: I am honoured and delighted, Lagarde said via twitter on Tuesday evening (28 June). She will start her five-year term next Tuesday, taking over from her compatriot, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned amid rape allegations.
The congratulations began pouring on Tuesday.
US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner praised Lagarde's exceptional talent and broad experience ... at a critical time for the global economy.European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said the 55-year-old French lawyer is an excellent choice.Mexico's Carstens won the support of Australia and Canada. With the eurozone and the Greek debt crisis set to dominate the IMF agenda for the foreseeable future, he had questioned whether Lagarde's appointment would amount to a conflict of interest.Emerging nations including Brazil and China, as well as Russia, threw their weight behind Lagarde following her diplomatic tour of the globe, however.Lagarde in her acceptance statement acknowledged concerns that the IMF has an overly euro-centric policy, a source of grumbling even before Strauss-Kahn's forced departure.I will make it my overriding goal that our institution continues to serve its entire membership, she said.In an interview with French television shortly afterwards, the minister focused on EU issues and called on the Greek opposition to support the government's austerity package during a parliamentary vote on Wednesday.
Reports suggest that recent weeks have seen growing disquiet inside the IMF over the its lending to Greece, as anti-austerity protests increase in the embattled European state.Despite a €110 billion EU-IMF aid package for Athens last year, the centre-left government is widely expected to ask for a second bail-out if it survives Wednesday's vote.Tackling the financial implications of the Arab Spring and simmering tensions over global exchange rates are also among the issues to tackle early into Lagarde's term.Faced with a daunting set of tasks, Lagarde indicated that she is keen to meet with the fallen Strauss-Kahn.I want to have a long talk with him, because a successor should talk with their predecessor,she told French television channel TF1.I can learn things from what he has to say about the IMF and its teams.
Nationalist Critics: Mayor Nir Barkat has Turned to the Left by David ben Yacov JUNE 30,11
The Chairman of the East Jerusalem Public Complaints Bureau, Aryeh King, affiliated with the National Union-National Religious Party, castigated the decision of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to appoint left-wing Meretz party council member Meir Margalit to handle the ultra-sensitive East Jerusalem file in the municipality.It has become clear that the Mayor is a dangerous left-wing supporter. This disproves any attempts to paint him orange [the color theme of the secular and religious activity against the Gush Katif expulsion, ed.] or associate him with the right-wing. Anyone who appoints a Meretz representative is not in the right-wing.King warns that Barkat may yet endanger the city. He is of the dangerous type, like Olmert and Sharon, like those who pose as innocent. Barkat has swerved to the left, and has therefore appointed a Meretz rep.According to King, Barkat acts on behalf of the Arabs in Jerusalem:Barkat will not sign East Jerusalem demolition orders against illegal construction. He refuses to allocate funds to bring tourists to the Mount of Olives. The Mayor cancels construction plans at the North Jerusalem Atarot industrial zone. The system is helmed in by the [now] left activist, Nir Barkat. He belongs to the Peace Now camp, and wants to divide the city with the Palestinians. It’s time we learn from getting constantly slapped in the face, and stop believing leaders who don a skullcap before elections and embrace rabbis.
Aryeh King has recently opposed the legalizationof 95% of some 200 illegal Arab structures in the East Jerusalem Silwan neighborhood. he has also opposed the construction of a commercial center on the Mount of Olives, in the heart of biblical Jerusalem, and the construction of a large mosque near the gravesite of the late PM Menachem Begin which has been suspended as a result.Municipal Council member, lawyer Yair Gabbai, and the Jerusalem municipality representative on the Planning and Zoning District Committee, calls upon the city’s religious Zionist voters to boycott Barkat after his decision:He has broken all of his pre-election promises. This appointment was to go to right-wing rep Yakir Segev, but Barkat signed a coalition deal with Meretz and intends to appoint Dr. Meir Margalit to the position instead.
Gabbai claims that Margalit belongs to the extreme left-wing:He leads the Committee against the Demolishing of Homes, an organization that supports a boycott of Israel, and rebuilds East Jerusalem court-order demolished homes. He will be in a position to approve or deny demolishing in East Jerusalem, and this is a severe conflict of interests. From now on, the municipality representative on any possible forum will be a Meretz man in favor of the division of the city. He has been defaming the State of Israel for years, and will now decide on East Jerusalem projects. The Mayor has made a left turn, and the public should relate to him accordingly.The Meretz left-wing party that Dr. Meir Margalit belongs to, supports a Palestinian state, the dismantling of most of the Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria, and the division of Jerusalem.The Mayor has defended the unity of Jerusalem in the past, especially with regard to the building freeze insisted upon by US President Obama. The Mayor’s office has not yet issued a response to the council members critique.(Israel NationalNews.com)
Beware of PA Leaders Bearing Gifts?
by David ben Yacov JUNE 30,11
A member of the Palestinian Authority recently placed a surprising order at a retail outlet of the Hatzorfim silver Judaica ornament factory, according to Arutz Sheva Hebrew site..He requested two prestigious gifts of silver and crystal, saying that one was chosen as a farewell gift to ex-ISA (Israel Security Agency) head Yuval Diskin, and one as a welcoming gift for the new ISA head Yoram Cohen, courtesy of PA Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas.The PA purchaser added dedications to the gifts, thanking Diskin for his cooperation, and looking forward to future cooperation with Cohen.The ISA told Arutz Sheva in response that Since the ISA does not divulge details of agency relations with foreign entities, we cannot relate to the issue.Relating to the gifts, the ISA said, The agency is acting in accordance with the Public Service Law on Gifts -1979.Cohen assumed the position of ISA head six weeks ago. He was assistant ISA head between 2005-2008, and is the first religious head of the ISA. He was born in 1960, and is married with 5 children. He has been a resident of Jerusalem since 1983, and was raised and educated in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Medrashiat Noam Yeshiva High school in Pardes Chana, and served in the IDF in the Golani brigade.Yuval Diskin, born 1956, began his career at the ISA in 1978. He was responsible for security coordination over a number of years, is deeply acquainted with the heads of the Palestinian security services, and has been responsible for an uncompromising war against terror and terrorist infrastructures throughout Judea and Samaria.During the worst years of terrorism, he headed the operational region responsible for destroying Hamas military infrastructure throughout Judea and Samaria. He was appointed head of the ISA in February 2005.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
GE and Partners Invest in Israeli Water Tech Company
by Elad Benari JUNE 30,11
An American company will help fund an Israeli company that uses microbial fuel cells to turn waste water into an energy source, Greenbang.com reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, Energy Technology Ventures, a joint venture of GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips, has decided to invest an undisclosed amount in the Israeli company Emefcy Ltd. This is Energy Technology Ventures’ first investment in a non-U.S.-based company and is also its first investment related to water.Emefcy was founded in early 2008 by serial water technology entrepreneurs Eytan Levy and Ronen Shechter. The company is marked as one of the most promising water technology start-up companies and has received technology leadership awards such as The Guardian’s Cleantech 100, Global Water Technologies top 10, Artemis Top 50 and more.
Emefcy’s technology uses the principle of a fuel cell to generate electricity directly from the water. Its electrogenic bioreactor features an anaerobic anode chamber connected to a cathode chamber by an ion exchange membrane, produces electricity as organic matter in waste water decays and drives a current through the fuel cell.This is different from other systems which use aerobic processes or anaerobic digestion to produce methane (natural gas) from the decomposition of organic material in waste water.The technology generates electricity and also produces treated water as a by-product. The result transforms waste water treatment from an energy-intensive, cost-intensive and carbon-intensive process, into an energy-generating and carbon-reducing process.Emefcy expects to apply its process initially for waste water treatment in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and chemical industries.We will use Energy Technology Ventures’ investment to continue development of our technology into full-scale commercial implementation by the end of this year for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, said Levy.Energy Technology Ventures is a company which focuses on the development of next-generation energy technologies. It invests in and offers commercial collaboration opportunities to companies in the renewable power generation, smart grid, energy efficiency, oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, emission controls, water and biofuels sectors. The three companies behind Energy Technology Ventures intend to help start-ups develop next-generation energy technology.General Electric recently announced that it would be building a research and development center in Israel, its eighth in the country.The new center, which will be built near its GE Healthcare subsidiary in Haifa, will focus on medical devices, water and CleanTech.GE previously has worked with Israeli companies such as the Better Place electric car initiative as well as with companies dealing with medical devices and CleanTech.(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 Arlene makes landfall in Mexico
JUNE 30,11
MIAMI – Tropical Storm Arlene made landfall early Thursday on Mexico's central Gulf coast near Cabo Rojo with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph).Authorities in the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi prepared for possible flooding as rain began falling along the coast Wednesday. Officials warned residents about impending winds and rain.Officials said 6 inches (150 millimeters) of rain were possible in northern Veracruz state. Some isolated mountainous areas inland could get up to 15 inches (375 millimeters) of rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.Forecasters said extreme south Texas also could get rain.Arlene, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to weaken later Thursday and dissipate on Friday, the hurricane center said.Early Thursday, the storm was centered about 35 miles (55 kilometers) north of Tuxpan, Mexico, and moving west near 9 mph (15 kph).The main threat to Mexico comes from heavy rains that could cause flash floods and mudslides in 13 states, the government said.If heavy rains hit the state of Tamaulipas, they would fall on soil dried out by the most severe drought to hit the area in 50 years. There was still unrepaired damage from Hurricane Alex, which struck the area as a Category 2 hurricane last year.
First named Atlantic storm eyes Mexican coast
– Wed Jun 29, 6:59 pm ET
XALAPA, Mexico (AFP) – Mexico's Gulf coast was on high alert Wednesday as the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season took aim at a region still recovering from the worst floods on record last year.Tropical Storm Arlene was packing sustained winds of 60 miles (95 kilometers) per hour and heavy rains, and the Miami-based US National Hurricane Center forecast it would strengthen before making landfall early Thursday near the border of Tamaulipas and Veracruz states.The state of Veracruz is on red alert, the region's Civil Protection director Laura Gurza told a news conference.The northeast state of Tamaulipas was on a slightly less urgent orange alert.Gurza said however that forecasters were expecting Arlene not to strengthen to a hurricane, but instead make landfall as a tropical storm.State-run oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) had also issued an alert for its facilities on the Gulf of Mexico, ensuring that safety measures were implemented for its platforms and that all transport and delivery ships were secured.Arlene was some 150 miles (240 kilometers) east of the town of Tampico at 5:30 pm (2230 GMT) and churning westward at five miles (seven kilometers) per hour, the NHC said.
The storm was forecast to dump between four and eight inches (10-20 centimeters) of rain over Tamaulipas and Veracruz, with isolated maximum amounts of 15 inches (38 centimeters) over mountainous terrain.These rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, the NHC warned in a bulletin, adding that the coastline could be battered by large and destructive waves.The northeast coast from Barra de Nautla northward to Bahia Algones was under a storm warning, and tropical storm conditions were expected to hit the coast beginning later Wednesday.Mexico was lashed last year by what the government described as the wettest rainy season on record. Several tropical storms and hurricanes caused flooding and mudslides that left dozens of people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Earthquake hits northwestern Japan, no tsunami warning issued – Wed Jun 29, 7:44 pm ET
TOKYO (Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit central Japan on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.The epicenter of the earthquake was in Nagano prefecture, the agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued.(Reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro; Editing by Chris Gallagher)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti By JONATHAN M. KATZ - Associated Press,TRENTON DANIEL - Thu, Jun 30, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Evidence strongly suggests that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says.The study is the strongest argument yet that newly-arrived Nepalese peacekeepers at a base near the town of Mirebalais brought with them the cholera, which spread through the waterways of the Artibonite region and elsewhere in this impoverished Caribbean country.The disease has killed more than 5,500 people and sickened more than 363,000 others since it was discovered in October, according to the Haitian government.Our findings strongly suggest that contamination of the Artibonite (river) and 1 of its tributaries downstream from a military camp triggered the epidemic, said the report in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The article says there is an exact correlation in time and place between the arrival of a Nepalese battalion from an area of its South Asian homeland that was experiencing a cholera outbreak and the appearance of the first cases in the Meille river a few days later.The remoteness of the Meille river in central Haiti and the absence of other factors make it unlikely that the cholera strain could have come to Haiti in any other way, the report says.
In an email U.N. mission spokeswoman Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg didn't comment on the findings of the article published in the CDC journal, referring only to a study released in May by a U.N.-appointed panel.That panel's report found that the cholera outbreak was caused by a South Asian strain imported by human activity that contaminated the Meille river where the U.N. base of the Nepalese peacekeepers is located. The study also found that bad sanitation at the camp would've made contamination of the water system possible.But the U.N. report refrained from blaming any single group for the outbreak. While no other potential source of the bacteria itself was named, the report attributed the outbreak to a confluence of circumstances, including a lack of water infrastructure in Haiti and Haitians' dependence on the river system.The panel's report was ordered by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as anti-U.N. protests spread in Haiti and mounting circumstantial evidence pointed to the troops.Before that, for nearly two months after the outbreak last October, the United Nations, CDC and World Health Organization refused to investigate the origin of the cholera, saying that it was more important to treat patients than to try to figure out the source.The article published in the CDC journal comes as health workers in Haiti wrestle with a spike in the number of cholera cases brought on by several weeks of rainfall. The aid group Oxfam said earlier this month that its workers were treating more than 300 new cases a day, more than three times what they saw when the disease peaked in the fall.
Cholera is caused by a bacteria that produces severe diarrhea and is contracted by eating or drinking contaminated food or water.The disease has spread to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where more than 36 deaths have been reported since November.Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux, the lead author of the CDC journal article, was initially sent by the French government in late 2010 to investigate the origins of Haiti's outbreak. He authored a report for U.N. and Haitian officials that said the Nepalese peacekeepers likely caused the outbreak, a copy of which was obtained at the time by the AP.The latest study was more complete and its methodology was reviewed by a group of scientists.The new study argues it is important for scientists to determine the origin of cholera outbreaks and how they spread in order to eliminate accidentally imported disease.Moreover, the study says, figuring out the source of a cholera epidemic would help health workers better treat and prevent cholera by minimizing the distrust associated with the widespread suspicions of a cover-up of a deliberate importation of cholera.It also argues that demonstrating an imported origin would compel international organizations to reappraise their procedures.After cholera surfaced last fall, many Haitians believed the Nepalese peacekeepers were to blame, straining relations between the population and U.N. personnel and sparking angry protests. On the streets, cholera has become slang for something that must be banished from Haiti.The new study is acknowledged in a commentary by a pair of public health experts affiliated with the CDC.However it occurred, there is little doubt that the organism was introduced to Haiti by a traveler from abroad, and this fact raises important public health considerations, wrote Scott Dowell, director of the CDC's Division of Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response, and Christopher Braden, a medical epidemiologist with the CDC.Associated Press writer Trenton Daniel reported this story from Port-au-Prince and Jonathan M. Katz reported from Mexico City.Trenton Daniel can be followed at http://twitter.com/trentondaniel; Jonathan M. Katz can be followed at http://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth.
Kim cancelled Russia trip on security worry: report
Reuters By Guy Faulconbridge JUNE 30,11
Jun (Reuters) - MOSCOW, June 30 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il canceled a visit to Russia this week because of worries about security following media reports about the trip, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday.Russian authorities in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, 130 km (80 miles) from the North Korean border, had been making preparations for a possible visit by the secretive North Korean leader, a local official said this week.But the unannounced plans for a summit between Kim and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev were abandoned at the last minute and the Kremlin said on Wednesday that Medvedev had no meetings scheduled with Kim.Kommersant cited unidentified Kremlin sources as saying that Pyongyang had asked for a meeting but that Kim had canceled because the North Korean authorities were worried about security after media reports appeared about the trip.We were prepared for it (a meeting) because we use every opportunity for contact, a Kremlin source was quoted as saying.The media reports that a summit could take place played a significant part in the change of mind by the North Korean authorities,the source was quoted as saying.Russia is a member of the long-stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, though diplomats say Moscow has less influence with Kim than China.Kim has made no public visit to Russia since 2002, when he met with then-President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok. The North Korean leader has made several trips to China, Pyongyang's closest big power ally, in recent years.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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