ARABS/MUSLIMS AROUND ISRAEL ALL RILED UP-RIOTS EVERYWHERE

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

Israel to be First in World with F-35 Fighter Jets

Lockheed Martin Aircraft announces Israel will be the first nation to receive its F-35 stealth fighter jets.

By Chana Ya'ar-First Publish: 6/20/2013, 8:56 AM-Israelnationalnews

F-35 Evader-Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin Aircraft Industries has announced that Israel will be the first nation to receive its F-35 stealth fighter jets, the most expensive weapon in U.S. history.The company’s vice president, Steve O’Bryan, made the announcement Tuesday at the Paris Air Show.The F-35 is a fifth-generation aircraft capable of evading radar and integrated air defense systems.There has been great competition for purchase of the aircraft, with South Korea, Canada and other nations in the potential customer lineup.But an article published Wednesday in Britain’s The Globe and Mail newspaper has raised the specter of cyber espionage in connection with theft of the design data for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.Chinese military hackers have targeted U.S. government and big business programs repeatedly over the past several years, a major security issue that has only recently come under serious scrutiny by the White House. And China is among those nations currently developing its own fifth generation fighter jets. Russia is another.If in fact hackers managed to penetrate Lockheed Martin’s tight security net and stole the sensitive design data for the new F-35 stealth fighter jet, rival firms will have a major advantage over the U.S. in the market, Pentagon defense acquisitions chief Frank Kendall told a Senate hearing on Wednesday."I’m not at all confident that our unclassified information is [as] well-protected," he told the lawmakers. "A lot of that is being stolen right now and it’s a major problem for us."

Ex-President Carter Seeks Weakened Sanctions on Terror Groups

Former President Jimmy Carter is spearheading an effort to convince the United States to weaken sanctions on terrorist groups.

By Rina Tzvi-First Publish: 6/21/2013, 12:34 PM-Israelnationalnews

Former President Jimmy Carter-AFP/File

Former President Jimmy Carter is spearheading an effort to convince the United States to weaken sanctions on terrorist groups, The Hill reported.  Carter and other foreign policy experts sent a petition to Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday, asking him to exempt peace groups from policies that make it a crime to offer negotiation training and humanitarian law classes to terror groups.“The Secretary of State can, and should, exempt peacebuilding activities from this counterproductive application of the law,” says the petition, initiated by The Charity and Security Network, which, according to its website claims “to protect civil society’s ability to carry out peacebuilding projects, humanitarian aid, and development work effectively and in a manner consistent with human rights principles and democratic values.”“Doing so would open the door for professional peacebuilders to fully engage in helping to end armed conflicts and suffering around the world, while making the U.S. safer,” the petition continues.The organization told The Hill that in the past, efforts to build bridges with the Taliban, Hamas and leftist guerillas in Colombia have all been thwarted.A 2011 report by the UK-based Overseas Development Institute said anti-terrorism laws passed in the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks have created bureaucratic red tape and fostered an atmosphere of “fear” and “confusion” that has endangered the lives of aid workers, The Hill reported.“Rigid and over-zealous application of counter-terrorism laws to humanitarian action in conflict not only limits its reach in that context,” the report concluded, “but undermines the independence and neutrality of humanitarian organisations in general, and could become an additional factor in the unravelling of the legitimacy and acceptance of humanitarian response in many of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.”
According to The Hill, the petition has been signed by more than two dozen groups and former officials, including Mercy Corps; Andrew Natsios, former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development under President George W. Bush; retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Director of Policy Planning at the State Department from 2009-2011.

Analysis: Palestinian leader faces stark choices

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Associated Press – JUNE 21,13

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is being propelled toward a stark choice that could come as soon as next week, define his legacy and set the course for his people in a decades-old conflict with Israel.Abbas' aides fear he's being pushed by the U.S. into dropping his conditions for negotiating with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That includes a stop in Israeli settlement construction or acceptance that the basis of a future border is Israel's frontier before it captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in a 1967 war.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is returning next week for meetings with Abbas and Netanyahu, his fifth since taking office this year. It's not clear if he'll present U.S. ground rules for negotiation at that time. The sense in Palestinian leadership circles is that there is no significant pressure on Netanyahu to adopt the framework for talks accepted by his predecessor and that a high-stakes choice cannot be delayed much longer.At the heart of the Palestinian dilemma is that despite the American eagerness for talks and their own desire to end Israel's 46-year-old occupation, they have low expectations of negotiations with Netanyahu. Most Palestinians consider the Israeli leader a hard-line ideologue who intends to drag out the process and never agree to anything close to terms they could live with.Israel's current leaders "never believed in the two-state solution ... and will do everything on the ground to make it impossible to achieve," said Abbas aide Nabil Shaath, a veteran negotiator with Israel.Public opinion complicates the situation: Fifty-six percent of Palestinians oppose a return to talks under Israel's terms, said Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki, citing results from a yet-to-be-published survey. Shikaki's polls are based on more than 1,200 respondents, with an error margin of 3 percentage points.Signaling the apprehension, top Abbas aides are already working on a day-after strategy for fighting attempts to hold Abbas responsible for a failure of the U.S. initiative. And a top think tank in the West Bank has run through a dozen scenarios in the aftermath of an inadvertent collapse of the Palestinian Authority, Abbas' self-rule government, which some consider possible if the status quo continues.Netanyahu has said he supports the idea of Palestinian statehood, but stripped of east Jerusalem and key areas of the West Bank, and with a series of restrictions — parameters the Palestinians reject and which fall far short of previous Israeli proposals under Netanyahu's predecessors.Kerry's peace proposal is expected to include financial aid to the Palestinians, security guarantees to Israel and assurances to the Palestinians that talks will be substantive.
There were hints this week that Abbas won't budge. The president's office said members of his Fatah movement urged him not to succumb to pressure. In that meeting, Fatah also prepared for damage control, naming four senior members to devise a plan to deflect expected international blame for saying "no" to Kerry.
International Mideast envoy Tony Blair warned this week that if Kerry's mission fails, the window of opportunity for a deal "could close forever."Such warnings have been sounded repeatedly over 20 years of intermittent negotiations, but there's a growing sense that the door may really be closing.U.S. mediation is key to success, but presidents from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush and now Barack Obama have held off any serious push until their second terms, when they were less concerned about re-election. If Kerry fails, the next opportunity might only come around in eight years.By that time, a partition of the land may no longer be possible. Nearly 600,000 Israelis already live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and Netanyahu has refused to stop building. Instead, there's been a record number of housing starts in settlements this year and thousands more apartments are in the pipeline, some deep in the West Bank.The issue is deeply controversial in Israel itself, where Netanyahu critics believe partition is essential for Israel's own survival, because without it Jews will not for long be a majority in the areas Israel controls.Last month, a group of mid-level Fatah activists, disillusioned after two decades of failed negotiations, urged Abbas to pursue a single state for Israelis and Palestinians between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River — essentially asking Israel to annex war-won lands. Israel withdrew troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005, but Palestinians consider it still occupied because Israel controls access.Palestinians must start pushing for equal rights in such a state, said Radi Jerayi, an ex- Fatah official.Abbas has warned Israelis they might end up with a bi-national state — but that's been meant scare them into serious negotiations.The single state idea hasn't caught on, largely because it runs counter to nationalism on both sides. Even with the lure of equal rights within the entirety of historical Palestine, only 30 percent of Palestinians would prefer that option, Shikaki said.For Abbas, dropping the two-state option would mean conceding defeat to his nemesis, the Islamic militant Hamas, which seized Gaza from him in 2007, dismisses negotiations as foolish and wants to swallow up Israel in an Islamic state.
The Palestinians have said that without negotiations they would move against Israel at the U.N. Last year, the General Assembly recognized a state of Palestine in the 1967 lines, overriding U.S. and Israeli objections and giving the Palestinians a largely symbolic victory.Earlier this month, Abbas aide Saeb Erekat said the Palestinians might pursue war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court, in connection with settlement building, if negotiations don't resume.Going to the ICC is Abbas' most popular option, even if Israel and the U.S. Congress retaliate by cutting funding to the Palestinian Authority, Shikaki said."Almost three-quarters (of respondents) say, go to the ICC, regardless of what happens, even if it leads to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority," Shikaki said. "It is one way they can shake the status quo, which they reject."The self-rule government, which feeds hundreds of thousands of Palestinians as the largest employer in the West Bank, would find it hard to survive without foreign aid and millions of dollars in taxes Israel collects for the Palestinians every month.Shikaki's think tank, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, recently hosted a dozen workshops with experts to look at the aftermath of a collapse of the self-rule government. Participants predicted tremendous poverty, mass emigration, chaos and a return to the gang rule of the previous decade.Yet they also noted an upside, Shikaki said: "This then becomes an Israeli problem."___Laub, chief correspondent for the Palestinian territories, has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1987. Daraghmeh, based in Ramallah, has covered the West Bank since 1996.

Israeli police: Jewish man shot dead at holy site

By TIA GOLDENBERG | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago JUNE 21,13

JERUSALEM (AP) — A private security guard shot and killed a Jewish man at a key Jerusalem holy site Friday, Israeli police said, after the man reportedly shouted in Arabic.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the guard "fired a number of shots" at the man, a 46-year-old Israeli, who appeared suspicious. The guard told police the man shouted "Allahu Akbar" — "God is great!" in Arabic — and had his hands in his pockets. Arab militants often shout that phrase before carrying out an attack.The guard said he opened fire because he suspected the man had a weapon in his pocket and thought he may be about to launch an attack, the police spokesman said. When asked if a weapon was found on the man's body, Rosenfeld said he had no more details.Police identified the man as an Israeli Jew but did not release his name.Rosenfeld told The Associated Press that the guard was questioned after the shooting, and he was scheduled to appear in court later Friday to determine whether he will remain in police custody.Israel Radio reported the guard was 25 years old and that he worked as a security guard for more than a year.The incident at the Western Wall highlighted smoldering tensions in the area. The site is an outside wall of a disputed hilltop compound that has been a flashpoint for clashes between Israelis and Palestinians, although in recent years that violence has been relatively muted.The hilltop is one of the region's most sensitive sites. It is revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, where the two biblical Jewish Temples stood. The Western Wall, a remnant of Temple compound, is the holiest site where Jews can pray. Muslims call the compound the Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, marking the place where they believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.
Israeli media said the man was a regular visitor to the holy site, describing him as an "eccentric" who was known to act strangely."I don't understand why he was shot. Everyone here knows him and his behavior. He has often acted nervously. What happened here isn't normal," David Dahan, who was at the site at the time of the shooting, told the Israeli news site YNet.The incident unfolded at the rear of the large plaza in front of the Western Wall, away from worshippers.

MUSLIM NATIONS (SLAUGHTERED BY NUKES FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)

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,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
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;(ISRAEL) 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,(OIL IS IN 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.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
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,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) 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.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3  And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12  And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

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)

JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4  Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5  Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6  O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7  How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.

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.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) 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.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
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.

JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)

Putin criticizes arms supplies to Syrian rebels

Reuters – 30 mins ago JUNE 21,13

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Friday defended Russian arms supplies to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and said the West should not deliver weapons to rebel forces because they include "terrorist" groups."If the United States ... recognizes one of the key Syrian opposition organizations, al-Nusra, as terrorist ... how can one deliver arms to those opposition members?" Putin said in an appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a Russian economic forum."Where will (those weapons) end up? What role will they play?" he said.France proposed in May that the United Nations declare the al-Nusra Front a terrorist organization, to differentiate it from other Syrian rebel groups. The United States did so last year and says the group is little more than a front for al Qaeda.U.S. President Barack Obama decided a week ago to provide military aid to rebels trying to overthrow Assad, citing use of chemical weapons by government forces.Russia has been Assad's most powerful foreign protector during a conflict that has killed at least 93,000 people since it began in March 2011.Putin reiterated Russia's statement that it is violating no laws by providing arms to a standing government and suggested it was foreign supporters of Syrian rebels who were doing that."It's clear that without deliveries from abroad, what is happening in Syria now would simply be impossible. Money is going in, weapons are going in, and well trained armed groups are going in," Putin said.(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Steve Gutterman and Robin Pomeroy)

Rocket strikes valley near Lebanese capital

Associated Press – 34 mins ago JUNE 21,13

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army says a rocket has slammed into a valley near the Lebanese capital in an attack that raises fears that violence related to the civil war in neighboring Syria could be spreading from the border area.An army statement says the rocket landed in the Jamhour area, south of Beirut. Two rocket launchers still holding one rocket were found about 10 miles (15 kilometers) to the north of the city.The explosion reverberated across large parts of the capital and surrounding areas early Friday.Last month, two rockets slammed into a Hezbollah stronghold south of Beirut, wounding four. The rockets struck hours after the Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah vowed in a speech to help propel Assad to victory in Syria's civil war.

Lebanese army seals parliament after protests, Syria-linked tension

By Dominic Evans | Reuters – 1 hr 26 mins ago JUNE 21,13

By Dominic Evans

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese army sealed off Beirut's parliamentary district with razor wire and threatened stern action against violence on Friday after a night of unrest stoked by the war in Syria and political paralysis at home.Around 100 protesters, angered by the postponement of June's parliamentary election until next year, scuffled with police on Thursday night near parliament. Twenty camped out overnight outside the ring of barbed wire, vowing to maintain the protest.As the largely peaceful demonstration unfolded in central Beirut, protesters blocked roads with burning tires elsewhere in the capital and in Bekaa Valley towns in eastern Lebanon.Demonstrators said they were acting in solidarity with residents of the Sunni Muslim Bekaa town of Arsal, which they say has been cut off by security forces investigating the shooting of four Shi'ite Muslim men on Sunday.Sectarian violence has intensified across Lebanon and particularly in the Bekaa region because of the conflict raging across the border in Syria, where Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hezbollah and Lebanese Sunni gunmen have joined opposing sides of the 27-month-old civil war.Rockets from suspected Syrian rebel positions have hit Shi'ite towns in Lebanon since Hezbollah intervened decisively to recapture the Syrian border town of Qusair for President Bashar al-Assad's forces earlier this month.

The army also discovered a rocket launcher in an area east of Beirut on Friday. The rocket was still in place, and apparently had not gone off due to a technical fault, a security source said.The fighting in Syria has already driven half a million Syrian refugees into Lebanon and worsened a political stalemate which forced the election delay and held up efforts to form a new government. Former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, a Sunni leader, warned this week of the potential for "state collapse".President Michel Suleiman has appealed to Hezbollah to bring its fighters home from Syria, saying that further entanglement there by the Iranian-backed movement will fuel instability in Lebanon, still scarred by its own 1975-1990 civil war.

ARMY WILL CONFRONT "OUTLAWS"
The army said several military posts and patrols were targeted on Thursday night by protesters, some of them armed, and four soldiers were wounded in exchanges of gunfire.Security sources said at least two demonstrators were hurt in a protest near the main border crossing with Syria at Masnaa."The army leadership again urges citizens to be calm and not to follow rumors and sectarian emotions," the military said in a statement. "It will not be lenient in confronting with force any outlaws or those who harm the armed forces."The statement said gunmen fired on army posts in three towns close to the Masnaa border crossing early on Friday. The army returned fire and arrested 22 suspects in raids following the incidents.Travelers trying to reach Lebanon from Syria on Friday morning said the frontier was closed for several hours due to the skirmishes, but reopened later in the day.Army commander General Jean Kahwaji was quoted by the local As-Safir newspaper as saying the military would not tolerate any threats to Lebanon's security during what he described as "very critical and very difficult" times.In central Beirut, activists said they would keep up their protest against the 17-month extension of parliament, agreed by politicians after they failed to break a deadlock over planned changes to the electoral law."We called for a protest yesterday against the extension and against the violation on Lebanon's democracy," protester Marwan Maalouf said. "This is a new coup against the republic."Security forces used force against the protesters so we decided to set up tents here in a peaceful way to protest the extension. There is a year and a half, we won't let them rest."
(Editing by Alistair Lyon)

Thousands rally for 'legitimate' Mursi in Cairo

By Tom Perry and Alastair Macdonald | Reuters – 2 hrs 10 mins ago JUNE 21,13

By Tom Perry and Alastair Macdonald

CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Islamist supporters of Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi gathered in Cairo after Friday prayers to show support for the elected head of state ahead of protests his opponents hope can force him from office.Crowds converged on a mosque in the suburb of Nasser City, many waving the national flag, some carrying pictures of the bearded president, in what is intended to demonstrate the Islamists' strength of numbers ahead of opposition rallies set for June 30, the first anniversary of Mursi's inauguration."Yes to respecting the will of the people!" read banners."There are people seeking a coup against the lawful order," said demonstrator Gaber Nader, 22, his head protected from the burning early afternoon sun by a green banner from Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, the movement whose organizational strength won it successive elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak."Dr. Mursi won in free and fair elections like in any state in the world," Nader said, shrugging off concerns among the less well organized opposition that the Brotherhood is aiming for a monopoly of power and to install Islamic rule and social order."The secular parties are eating the democracy that God gave them," he added. "The secularists are not respecting democracy."Secular groups say they have gathered some 13 million signatures - almost equal to the number of votes that elected Mursi a year ago - on a petition calling on him to step down.They plan mass rallies across Egypt on June 30 and have attracted support from many Egyptians less politically motivated but exasperated by economic stagnation under Mursi and the Islamist-led legislature.Reflecting a sense their electoral success is under siege from unelected institutions and vested interests rooted in the Mubarak-era, when their party was banned, some in Friday's crowd - mostly men, with a few women, heavily veiled - chanted for "A purge of the judiciary!" and "A purge of the media!"There was no trouble evident around the crowd of well over 10,000 in Cairo, but state newspaper al-Ahram carried a report on its website from the second city of Alexandria saying there had been some violence between pro- and anti-Mursi factions.
OPPOSITION FRUSTRATION
Opposition groups range from the young liberals who first took to Tahrir Square in January 2011 to challenge Mubarak, to conservatives yearning for the stability of army rule. Many in Egypt's 10-percent Christian minority also fear the Islamists.Mohamed ElBaradei, the former top U.N. diplomat who is a leader of the opposition "Rebel!" campaign, told Al-Hayat newspaper that economic problems, including power cuts as summer heat takes hold, were fuelling support for a movement which he said hoped to end the "total polarization in Egypt".ElBaradei said a united opposition push could bring an early presidential election that would unseat Mursi, though he himself would not run: "The division of the opposition put Mursi in power and I believe it has realized this mistake," he said.Tensions between Mursi's supporters and opponents spilled over into violence outside Cairo this week. Around 100 people have been injured in scattered skirmishes triggered by Mursi's decision to appoint more Islamists as provincial governors.Rhetoric has grown more toxic in recent days: one Islamist cleric referred to Mursi's opponents as "infidels" during a rally attended by the president last week. The opposition are billing it as Mursi's last days in office, hoping for a repeat of the uprising that toppled Mubarak two and half years ago.But Egypt's biggest Salafi Islamist force, the Nour Party, is not taking part. It warns of "an imminent collision" between Egyptians and called on both sides to give ground - Mursi by appointing a cabinet for national unity and the opposition by switching its focus to elections from street protests.(Additional reporting by Shadia Nasralla, writing by Alastair Macdonald)

Iran state TV lauds new president's nuke stance

Associated Press – 20 mins ago JUNE 21,13

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president-elect believes it's possible to strike a deal that would allow the country to keep enriching uranium while assuring the West it will not produce a nuclear weapon.That's according to remarks by Hasan Rowhani from an interview recorded four months ago and rerun on Iranian state TV on Friday.In the interview, Rowhani said his government would look for a win-win deal to resolve the disputes with the United States.He also suggested that under his presidency, Iran would seek to convince the U.S. and its allies that dialogue and not sanctions are the way forward.The broadcast appears to be intended to underline Rowani's pledge to follow a "path of moderation" and pursue greater openness over Iran's nuclear program.He is set to take office in August.

Brazil leaders to meet as protests, violence grow

By JENNY BARCHFIELD and BRADLEY BROOKS | Associated Press – 1 hr 18 mins ago JUNE 21,13

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil awoke Friday to city centers still smoldering after a night that shocked the nation: 1 million protesters took to the streets in scores of cities, with clusters clashing violently with police during anti-government demonstrations.President Dilma Rousseff, a standoffish leader who has been virtually mute in the face of the most violent protests in recent memory, called a meeting with top Cabinet members. She faced sharp criticism in Brazil's media for what many called her lack of any leadership.

It was not clear what action her government might take or if she would appear before the nation to give an address. There were growing calls on social media and in emails for a general strike next week.Standing before the battered government building he presides over, Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said he "was very angry" that protesters attacked a structure "that represents the search for understanding through dialogue." Patriota called for protesters "to convey their demands peacefully""I believe that the great majority of the protesters are not taking part in this violence and are instead looking to improve Brazil's democracy via legitimate forms of protest," Patriota said.Despite the violence, the majority of protesters have been peaceful. In massive demonstrations through this week, as small groups began to vandalize, crowds would often turn and start to chant, "No violence! No violence!"But the pattern in cities across this continent-sized nation has been that once night falls, the violence begins. Protesters and police clashed in several cities into the early hours Friday, as people vented anger over a litany of complaints, from high taxes to corruption to rising prices.At least one protester was killed in Sao Paulo state when a car rammed into a crowd of demonstrators after the driver apparently became enraged about being unable to drive along a street.

In Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators poured into the seaside city's central area, running clashes played out between riot police and clusters of mostly young men with T-shirts wrapped around their faces. But peaceful protesters were caught up in the fray, too, as police fired tear gas canisters into their midst and at times indiscriminately used pepper spray.Thundering booms echoed off stately colonial buildings as rubber bullets and gas were fired at fleeing crowds.At least 40 people were injured in Rio, including protesters like Michele Menezes, a wisp of a woman whose youthful face and braces belie her 26 years. Bleeding and with her hair singed from the explosion of a tear gas canister, she said she and others took refuge from the violence in an open bar, only to have a police officer toss the canister inside.The blast ripped through Menezes' jeans, tearing two coin-sized holes on the back of her thighs, and peppered her upper arm with a rash of small holes."I was leaving a peaceful protest and it's not the thugs that attack me but the police themselves," said Menezes, removing her wire-rim glasses to wipe her bloodshot eyes.She later took refuge in a hotel, along with about two dozen youths, families and others who said they had been repeatedly hit with pepper spray by motorcycle police as they also sheltered inside a bar.Protesters said they would not back down."I saw some pretty scary things, but they're not going to shake me. There's another march on the 22nd and I'm going to be there," said 19-year-old university student Fernanda Szuster.
Asked if her parents knew she was joining in the protests, Szuster said: "They know and they're proud. They also protested when they were young. So they think it's great."She added, though, that she wouldn't tell her father the details of the police violence. "If he knew, he would never let me leave the house again."In Brasilia, the national capital, police struggled to keep hundreds of protesters from invading the Foreign Ministry and the crowd set a small fire outside. Other government buildings were attacked around the city's central esplanade. There, too, police used tear gas and rubber bullets trying to scatter demonstrators.Clashes were also reported in the Amazon jungle city of Belem, Porto Alegre in the south, the university town Campinas north of Sao Paulo and the northeastern city of Salvador."This was meant to be a peaceful demonstration and it is," artist Wanderlei Costa, 33, said in Brasilia. "It's a shame some people cause trouble when there is a much bigger message behind this movement. Brazil needs to change, not only on the government level, but also on the grass-roots level. We have to learn to demonstrate without violence."The protests took place one week after a violent police crackdown on a much smaller demonstration against an increase in bus and subway fares in Sao Paulo galvanized Brazilians to take their grievances to the streets.The unrest is hitting the nation as it hosts the Confederations Cup soccer tournament, with tens of thousands of foreign visitors in attendance. It also comes one month before Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Brazil, and ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, raising concerns about how Brazilian officials will provide security.Mass protests have been rare in this country of 190 million people in recent years, and the mushrooming demonstrations of the past week caught Brazilian government officials by surprise while delighting many citizens."I think we desperately need this, that we've been needing this for a very, very long time," said Paulo Roberto Rodrigues da Cunha, a 63-year-old clothing store salesman in Rio.Despite the energy on the street, many protesters said they were unsure how the movement would win real political concessions. People in the protests have held up signs asking for everything from education reforms to free bus fares while denouncing the billions of public dollars spent on stadiums in advance of the World Cup and the Olympics."We pay a lot of money in taxes, for electricity, for services, and we want to know where that money is," said Italo Santos, a 25-year old student who joined a rally by 5,000 protesters at Salvador's Campo Grand Square."This is the start of a structural change in Brazil," said Aline Campos, a 29-year-old publicist in Brasilia. "People now want to make sure their money is well spent, that it's not wasted through corruption."___Brooks reported from Sao Paulo. Associated Press writers Marco Sibaja in Brasilia, Stan Lehman in Sao Paulo and Ricardo Zuniga in Salvador contributed to this report.

In Turkey's pious heartland, protests seem world away

By Jonathon Burch | Reuters – 4 mins 25 secs ago JUNE 21,13

By Jonathon Burch

KONYA, Turkey (Reuters) - "This Nation Is With You" declares a small billboard in the center of this conservative central Turkish city, the words emblazoned on an image of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and a sea of his flag-waving supporters.Cosmopolitan Istanbul or the avenues of the capital Ankara, rattled by weeks of anti-government protest, seem a world away from Konya, an industrial city in Turkey's pious Anatolian heartland, where support for the premier appears resolute.The wave of riots has highlighted an underlying tension in Turkish society between a modern, secular middle-class, many living in Istanbul or on the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, and a more conservative, religious population that forms the bedrock of support for Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party.Konya, a city of 1.1 million with a dynamic economy steeped in Islamic tradition, epitomizes Erdogan's reformist vision.Few restaurants serve alcohol, the Islamic headscarf is more in evidence than in the main cities, and tourists are drawn to the tomb of Rumi, a 13th century Sufi mystic, rather than to any wild nightlife.But it is also modernizing fast. One of the "Anatolian Tigers", cities whose small industries have flourished under a decade of AK Party rule, Konya's highways have been widened and a fast train line has put Ankara less than two hours away.There is little sympathy here for the protesters of Istanbul, Ankara or Izmir, the country's three biggest cities and the main centers of unrest."There is no other party to vote for but the AK Party. Eighty percent of Konya thinks the same as me, go and ask them," said Yasar Bilen, a central heating salesman who has seen business thrive over the past ten years.A pious self-made entrepreneur, Bilen, in his 60s, has prospered like many of Erdogan's grassroots supporters."I have changed the car I drive, I have changed the house I live in, I have changed my lifestyle, I have changed the education of my children, I have changed the shoes and clothes I wear," he said, a black and white picture on his wall of himself with a young Erdogan in 1974."The AKP has worked hard and lifted us out of a quagmire."
ECONOMIC BOOM
Erdogan could hardly have put it better himself.His forceful, emotional style and common touch have won him unprecedented support in the conservative heartland, enabling him to dominate Turkish politics like no leader since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded the modern republic 90 years ago.He has made many democratic reforms, taming a military that toppled four governments in four decades, starting entry talks with the European Union and forging peace talks with Kurdish rebels to end a near 30-year war.Per capita income has tripled in nominal terms and business boomed, with the Anatolian Tigers reaping much of the benefit.On the electoral map, nearly all of Turkey - apart from the Aegean coast, the mainly Kurdish southeast corner and a small region on the European continent - is AK Party orange.So Erdogan takes the protests as a personal affront.But even in AK strongholds, his domineering leadership style and what is seen as his meddling in private lives is beginning to grate - from his declaration of a non-alcoholic yoghurt as the national drink over the potent aniseed spirit raki, to his suggestion that women should bear three children.
There were two or three small protests in Konya in the early days of the unrest, but unlike demonstrations elsewhere, the police stepped in not to break the group up but to protect the protesters from stick-wielding gangs."Am I completely happy with Erdogan? Of course not," said Sinasi Celik, 46, a waiter in the city of Nevsehir, some 200 km (120 miles) east of Konya. "I don't like his 'I do what I want' style ... There's been too much pressure over personal things like how many kids we should have."But I'll tell you, the election outcome here, it wouldn't change. Because before, there were no roads, no proper hospitals. It's different now, people are better off."
OVERBEARING
A small-scale environmental protest in late May over government plans to develop an Istanbul park quickly spread into the broadest show of public defiance against Erdogan's government during his decade in power.
Police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse stone-throwing protesters night after night in cities including Istanbul and Ankara, unrest in which four people died and some 7,500 suffered injuries ranging from cuts to breathing difficulties, according to the Turkish Medical Association.The protesters saw his plan to build a replica Ottoman-era barracks on one of central Istanbul's few remaining green spaces as symptomatic of an arrogant and overbearing government, the final straw after restrictions on alcohol sales and a police show of force to prevent May Day demonstrations a month earlier.Those who took to the streets were from all walks of life - doctors and lawyers to leftists and nationalists - but they were predominantly young, often too young to remember the series of military coups and crumbling coalition governments that preceded the AK Party, when Turkey was an economic backwater."They want to take our nation back to the dark ages," said Naci, a 77-year old retired civil servant and resident of Nevsehir, a smaller central Anatolian town."I want to ask those protesters: let's say Erdogan is gone. Who will replace him? That (Kemal) Kilicdaroglu? He can't even manage a building, let alone govern a nation," he said of the leader of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).It is a question even the Istanbul protesters have struggled to answer. The AK Party's dominance derives, at least in part, from a lack of robust opposition. The center-left CHP has been largely sidelined from government since the 1970s and now holds just 134 seats in the 550-seat parliament.
For the protesters of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, that leaves the AK Party free to impose its will, which many fear includes an agenda of creeping Islamisation.In Konya, there is little sense of such a threat. Instead, many see in Erdogan a liberator after decades of militantly secularist rule in a nation of 76 million people, the overwhelming majority of whom are Muslims."If there's interference in anyone's life then it is the Muslims of this country that have suffered ... Headscarved girls could not go to university, bearded men could not get employment in state institutions. On the other side, anyone wearing a mini skirt and high heels, no-one said a word," said Bilen."Those that say there is oppression are lying."(Additional reporting by Humeyra Pamuk in Nevsehir; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Peter Graff)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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:(CONFISCATED) 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.

Indebted countries see borrowing costs edge up

Associated Press – 56 mins ago JUNE 21,13

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe's indebted countries could face higher borrowing costs after the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated it would start phasing out its stimulus program.Low interest rates and creation of new money by the Fed helped push down rates on bonds around the world — including those of Portugal, Italy and Spain. The fear is that the end of stimulus will reverse that.Higher interest costs could make it harder for governments to reduce the debts that have plagued Europe.Borrowing rates edged higher Thursday as the Fed's new message made stocks and bonds plunge worldwide, but they steadied Friday.
Even though analysts say it's hard to predict how much rates might rise, borrowing costs remain far below last year's levels when people feared the eurozone might break up.

Eurozone bailout fund to prop up banks from 2014

Today @ 08:45 JUNE 21,13

By Benjamin Fox

BRUSSELS - The eurozone's bailout fund will be able to directly prop up weak banks from next year, after ministers reached agreement on Thursday night (20 June)Under the deal agreed by the bloc's finance ministers in Luxembourg, €60 billion out of the European Stability Mechanism's €500 billion lending capacity will be allocated to bank recapitalization.Klaus Regling, the German managing director of the ESM, indicated that the direct recap instrument would be ready in the second quarter of 2014, in time for the next round of 'stress tests' on Europe's banks and before the European Central Bank assumes its new duties as supervisor of the eurozone banking sector. He described the €60 billion as "more than sufficient".Member states seeking to utilise the new instrument would have to stump up 20 percent of the recapitalization costs. Governments would also be required to inject extra funds to bring banks up to the 4.5 percent minimum capital buffer.
The formal guidelines for the recap instrument will be drawn up on the basis of the rules on bank recovery and resolution currently under discussion with ministers and MEPs.Ministers agreed "one of the building blocks of banking union," said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chairs the Eurogroup, at the press conference following the talks.He also left open the prospect of the eurozone's four bailout countries being allowed to use the new facility."It will have to be decided case-by-case and by mutual agreement," he said, adding that "it's up to the member states to apply for it."The agreement brings a close to a year of tortuous negotiations on one of the main tools in breaking the links between indebted banks and governments. Ireland and Spain were pushed to the point of bankruptcy as a result of guaranteeing the debts accrued by their private banks.
German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaueble, who had led resistance to allowing the bailout fund to directly support banks, called the move an "important step on the way to the banking union by agreeing on the main points for a future regime for direct bank recapitalization."For his part, EU economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn welcomed what he described as "serious progress on direct bank recap"."We have taken another step to…break the vicious link between banks and sovereigns by diluting the link between them," he added.
Ministers also backed Latvia's bid to become the eighteenth member of the single currency in January 2014, with EU leaders expected to confirm the decision at next week's summit.

Deal on EU budget in doubt

20.06.13 @ 16:51

By Honor Mahony

BRUSSELS - A tentative agreement on the EU's long term budget (2014-2020) has been thrown into doubt less than 12 hours after it was supposedly agreed, as MEPs line up to suggest that the Irish EU presidency has overplayed its hand.No sooner had Irish deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore released a statement saying that negotiations had been "concluded" were MEPs rushing to twitter and their press offices to denounce what they saw as an attempt to steamroller them into a deal.Reimer Boege, a German centre-right deputy on the parliament's negotiating team, went so far as to resign.He issued a statement early on Thursday morning (20 June) referring to an "alleged agreement" and said he could not offer his "binding support for, let alone defence of, the present texts.""That is why I decided to lay down my post as rapporteur for the multi-annual financial framework, a position I held since 2004," he said.Austrian Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda referred to "blackmail" by the EU presidency, representing member states, and said there had not been enough progress on one of the MEPs' key demands - flexibility to allow unspent money to be used elsewhere rather than flowing back to member states.Guy Verhofstadt, a Belgian liberal MEP, said "there is still no agreement" and criticised the scope of the proposed budget revision clause, saying parliament does not want to be locked into a "straitjacket."Negotiations were carried out with the Irish presidency and the parliament's main budget MEPs, including the lead negotiator Alain Lamassoure, a French centre-right deputy.Ireland's Gilmore was careful to say that the agreement had been reached with Lamassoure.
"It's he who reached agreement with the Irish presidency last night," said one contact. "It's up to him to go and present to the rest of MEPs now."Ivailo Kalfin, a Bulgarian Socialist and one of the negotiators present at the lengthy talks on Wednesday, told this website that “at one point” the Irish presidency said it “could go no further.”“What was on the table was also beyond our mandate,” said Kalfin. He added that Lamassoure was of the “personal opinion” that the compromise should be accepted.Lamassoure, for his part, was careful in how he presented the deal.He told AFP that "certain members of the European parliament's delegation have serious reservations, so that is why I could not give the agreement of the whole parliament."Matters are set to come to a head next Tuesday (25 June). By then political groups are to decide whether to give the green light to the compromise and put it on the voting agenda for plenary in July - where a majority (375) of MEPs have to give their consent.Gilmore wants an answer before he presents the deal to his counterparts at a meeting in Luxembourg.Kalfin, for his part, said he was “unsure” whether the socialists will be able to decide by then.MEPs' chief complaints - aside from arguing that the overall sum of €960 billion is too small - is that the budget is too inflexible and focused on the wrong policy areas.One contact noted that it was difficult to tell how MEPs will vote: "After all my years here, I find it difficult to read the parliament. There are so many different groups and issues involved."

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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

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.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.


ITS NOW REPORTED 1,000 PLUS MIGHT BE DEAD FROM THE INDIAN EARLY MONSOON.

21 June 2013 Last updated at 11:25 ET

India floods: Death toll in Uttarakhand 'passes 500'

Pilgrims are rescued in Uttarakhand state

The death toll from flooding and landslides following heavy monsoon rains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand has passed 500.The state's Chief Minister, Vijay Bahuguna, said 556 bodies had been seen floating or buried in "slush", and that the army was working to recover them.The charity Action Aid says 5,000 people are missing in the area.Many of those stranded in the mountainous region are Hindu pilgrims visiting local shrines.The worst affected area is around the holy town of Kedarnath.The Indian Army is leading rescue efforts. The authorities say troops have yet to reach some remote mountain areas.Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said more than 33,000 pilgrims had been rescued in the past few days, but at least 50,000 people were still stranded.

The state capital Dehradun is the base for relief efforts

Earlier on Friday, 40 bodies were recovered from the river Ganges in the temple town of Haridwar, according to local police official Rajiv Swaroop.Haridwar is downstream from the region where heavy rains on Sunday night triggered flash floods and landslides.Flood-related deaths have also been reported in Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states and neighbouring Nepal.The monsoon season generally lasts from June to September, bringing rain which is critical to farming, but this year the rain in the north of India and parts of Nepal has been far heavier than usual.'Shocked'State Agriculture Minister Harak Singh Rawat, who had visited the Kedarnath area, described the floods as the "worst tragedy of the millennium"."It will take us at least five years to recover from the extensive damages caused to the entire infrastructure network in the Kedarnath area which is the worst affected," the Press Trust of India quoted him as saying.Mr Rawat said he was "shocked" to see the extent of the damage caused to the buildings and area adjoining the shrine.
"The centre of faith has turned into a burial ground. Bodies are scattered in the area. Only the sanctum sanctorum is intact," he added.Officials say the rains in Uttarakhand have been the heaviest in 60 years and the floods have flattened hotels and homes and washed away roads and dozens of bridges.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the situation there as "distressing" and announced a 10bn rupee ($170m; £127m) aid package for the state.

Bodies pulled from Ganges as India monsoon toll rises

By Manan Vatsyayana | AFP – 1 hour 39 minutes ago JUNE 21,13

Rescue workers recovered scores of bodies from the Ganges river in northern India on Friday, as the death toll from flash floods and landslides topped 200, with thousands of mainly pilgrims and tourists still stranded.

Helicopters and thousands of soldiers have been deployed to rescue more than 50,000 people from religious sites, almost one week after floods and landslides from torrential monsoon rains struck the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, a government minister said.More than 200 people have been killed in the disaster after raging rivers swept away houses, buildings and even entire villages, and destroyed bridges and narrow roads leading to pilgrimage towns high in the mountains, the minister said.But the death toll is likely to rise, as flood waters recede showing the extent of the devastation and rescue workers reach more isolated areas of the state, known as the "Land of the Gods" for its revered Hindu shrines and temples."So far, 207 people have lost their lives. But the toll may go up as debris in many areas is yet to be cleared," said Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in New Delhi.Another 17 people have been killed in the neighbouring state of Himachal Pradesh, a senior government official said. Floods and landslides from monsoon rains have also struck across the border in Nepal, leaving at least 39 people dead, the government there said.In Uttarakhand, police said they have recovered 40 bodies floating in the Ganges near the pilgrimage town of Hardwar.
"We have recovered some 40 bodies which floated downstream and the process of identification is on," Hardwar police chief Rajeev Swaroop told AFP by phone.The military operation, involving some 43 helicopters and more than 10,000 soldiers, was concentrating on reaching those stranded in the holy town of Badrinath after earlier finding widespread devastation in the Kedarnath temple area."Village after village has been buried in the debris and people who got in the way of the waters have been washed away," Uttarakhand disaster relief minister Yashpal Arya told AFP.Rescue workers who have managed to reach those stranded are racing to cut down trees and clear vegetation to allow military helicopters to land and evacuate those most in need, a state official said."Thousands of tourists are waiting in the dense forests. They had all taken refuge in the jungle after hotels and other buildings collapsed," said the state's principal secretary Rakesh Sharma."We are trying all possible ways to rescue them. Roads are totally destroyed," he said.Some of those stranded in mountain areas are trying to walk to safer ground, with photos showing pilgrims, aided by soldiers, using ropes and makeshift ladders to climb down cliffs and cross rivers.Soldiers have also reached some of the villages in lower-lying areas by boat, ferrying women clutching babies, children and elderly men to safety. Video footage shows only roofs of the houses visible above the water line.
Relatives of those missing faced an anxious wait in the Uttarakhand capital Dehradun, where military helicopters and other aircraft were landing carrying some of those rescued.Distraught relatives clutching photographs of missing family members were waiting outside Dehradun airport for news, an AFP photographer on the scene said.Amit Thakur, 40, said his 11-year-old nephew has been missing since their family-run hotel collapsed last week."I just hope the army will trace our little boy. I have been standing outside the airport for the last three days to get any information about him," Thakur told AFP.Army field hospitals have also been set up throughout the state, with the elderly seen on canvas beds awaiting medical attention.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh late on Thursday described the situation as "distressing" and announced a 170-million-dollar aid package and an online appeal for funds, asking "all citizens of India to stand with our distressed fellow countrymen" and "donate generously". 

Calgary floods: What you need to know now

Schools closed, emergency rooms open in Calgary

CBC News Posted: Jun 21, 2013 1:54 AM MT

View a map of the evacuated areasSchools in Calgary, one of the hardest-hit areas in massive flooding in Alberta this week, will be closed today as a precaution amid concerns about rising waters.The situation in the city is evolving as officials try to assess how high water levels will rise, so expect changes as the day goes on.CBC is tracking what's open and what's closed, and will bring you the latest information as it becomes available.

EVACUATION ORDERS

For a comprehensive list of affected city services, including a list of neighbourhoods under evacuation orders, check the city of the Calgary blog here: http://www.calgarycitynews.com/
"If you are in an identified area, please self-evacuate immediately," the city's blog says. As of 6:29 a.m. MT Friday, parts of the following neighbourhoods were under evacuation orders:

• Beltline.
• Bonnybrook.
• Bowness.
• Bridgeland Industrial Area.
• Chinatown/Eau Claire.
• Cliff Bungalow.
• Deer Run.
• Discovery Ridge.
• Douglasdale
• Downtown/East Village.
• Elbow Park.
• Erlton.
• Inglewood.
• Hillhurst.
• Mission.
• Montgomery.
• Quarry Park.
• Rideau.
• Riverbend.
• Riverdale.
• Roxboro.
• Stanley Park/Elboya.
• Sunnyside.
• Victoria Park.
• Westmount.
• Windsor Park.

SHELTERS

The city says evacuees who have no place to go will be provided with food, shelter, bedding and other essential services at one of these reception centres:

• Village Square Leisure Centre, 2623 56th Street N.E.
• South Fish Creek Recreation Centre, 333 Shawville Blvd. S.E. (access through west doors).

The Southland Leisure Centre, 2000 Southland Drive S.W. and Acadia Recreation Complex A, 240 90th Ave S.E. are at capacity.Centre Street Church, 3900 - 2nd Street N.E. is open as a day resource.
As of about 9:30 a.m. MT city officials said 1,500 people were being sheltered. There is capacity for 2,500 evacuees.SAIT Polytechnic's residence buildings have also been opened to flooding evacuees. About 200 people have been taken in.People can take pets to the Animal Service Centre, 2201 Portland St. S.E. or the Calgary Humane Society, 4455 110th Ave S.E., if they can't find an alternative place for them.

SCHOOLS

The University of Calgary is closed on Friday. Students, faculty and staff are being asked to stay at home. Mount Royal University is also closed for the day.SAIT Polytechnic — which is hosting CBC Calgary during the flood evacuations — is open with limited resources. Exams scheduled for apprentice students will run as usual and accomodations will be made for students unable to attend.The city says all schools for both the Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District will be closed Friday, citing "ongoing flooding issues in Calgary and region."The city says: "The Calgary Board of Education schools are contained within the limits of the city boundaries. The Calgary Catholic School District includes the communities of Chestermere, Airdrie and Cochrane. Catholic schools in these communities will also be closed on Friday June 21"Check here for the latest from the Calgary Board of Education: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/default.asp Check here for the latest from the Calgary Catholic School District: http://www.cssd.ab.ca/

HOSPITALS

AHS says all emergency services departments in Calgary were open as of 10:30 p.m. MT Thursday, but the Sheldon M. Chumir Urgent Care Centre is closed and will "remain closed until further notice."AHS clinics at the Holy Cross building in Mission are closed. All appointments scheduled for Friday have been postponed. Cancer treatments at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in northwest Calgary are not affected.For a list of which health-care centres are affected by flooding in other cities, including High River, Canmore and Sundre, click here: http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/8644.asp

TRANSIT

Calgary Transit was reporting several weather-related detours as of 8:30 a.m. MT. Friday http://www.calgarytransit.com/html/rainfall_detours.html
C-Train service in the downtown core has been suspended. Trains 201 and 202 outside of the core have limited service.About 20 bus routes have been detoured, affecting most of the inner city.For the latest on transit service, follow@calgarytransit or check for service updates at www.calgarytransit.com

ROAD CLOSURES

The city is providing updates on road closures on its blog. Here is the latest information as of 6:29 a.m. MT Friday: http://www.cocnmp.com

WEATHER

In the last 48 hours, 160 mm of rain has fallen in the Calgary area.
More rain is in the forecast with an additional 15 to 30 millimetres possible Friday as well as an additional 5 to 10 mm Friday night through to Saturday morning, CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland said. The highest amounts are expected west of Calgary and just north of Canmore. Showers are also forecast this weekend, he said.

EMERGENCY ALERTS

For a list of emergency alerts in Calgary and Alberta, check here: http://emergencyalert.alberta.ca/

MILITARY RESPONSE

A Canadian Forces Immediate Response Unit (IRU) has deployed with about 600 soldiers on the ground and another 600 ready to go from 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group based in Edmonton.Their priorities will be humanitarian aid, search and rescue and helping people get back in their homes when it's safe.The soldiers so far include troops from 1 Combat Engineer Regiment and 1 and 3 Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The IRU is commanded by tankers from the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadian).Military reconnaissance parties are moving into Cochrane, High River and Calgary.
There are thousands more soldiers available in Edmonton, should the need arise, officials said.There are also several reserve regiments in Calgary that could be called out. As of now, the city has said they have enough resources to deal with the emergency.

2 KILLED IN QUEBEC FIREWORKS BUILDING EXPLOSION

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

AND ALSO IN CALGY THERES A SOUR-GAS PIPELINE LEAK.AND THE PLACE WERE IT IS OCCURRING THE PEOPLE ARE BEING EVACUATED.

Sour gas pipeline rupture forces evacuation of Alberta homes

CBC News Posted: Jun 20, 2013 11:30 AM MT Last Updated: Jun 20, 2013 11:25 AM MT

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An emergency alert has been issued for a hazardous materials release that is threatening life and the environment in Turner Valley, Alta.
A sour gas pipeline rupture has caused a release of H2S in the town located southwest of Calgary.
Emergency crews have evacuated buildings in the affected areas and will continue to monitor the situation.
Officials are advising people to move indoors and stay inside, but also be prepared to relocate.
Also, officials suggest people seek medical attention if they are experiencing breathing difficulties.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

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

Quebec fireworks explosion: 2 killed in blast

Quebec provincial police are investigating a massive explosion at a fireworks factory west of Montreal.

Graham Hughes / THE CANADIAN PRESS

A plume of smoke rises from the B.E.M. fireworks factory, about 60 kilometres southwest of Montreal.

By: The Canadian Press, Published on Thu Jun 20 2013

COTEAU-DU-LAC, QUE. — Two people were killed in a massive explosion at a fireworks warehouse that rattled homes and sent up a cloud of smoke that could be seen for kilometres outside Montreal.

The subsequent inferno prompted a shutdown of the adjacent highway, causing a huge traffic jam, and an evacuation of surrounding homes and a campground.Provincial police said two bodies were found in the wreckage.The initial explosion at B.E.M. Fireworks occurred just before 9 a.m. Thursday and completely destroyed the building, which was reduced to charred scraps.A series of sparkly blasts followed.A plume of thick, dark smoke emanated from the blast site, located near Valleyfield, Que., roughly 60 kilometres southwest of Montreal. The vibrations could be felt for kilometres and the smoke could also be seen from neighbouring municipalities.“We got really, really, really scared,” said Ginette Liboiron, who runs a convenience store across the highway overpass.“I thought my store was falling to the ground. It shook like you can't imagine ... We all went outside to see and saw the big, incredible smoke.“Then the fireworks went off.”According to its website, B.E.M. has been designing and manufacturing pyrotechnics and fireworks for 25 years.One area resident said the explosion scared her cats. Another said his dog slammed into a wall.

The two panicked felines went scampering under the bed. Madeleine Boucher said she watched the explosion from her window 700 metres away.“It was impressive,” she said, joking that the incident would have prettier at night.“Wasn't very pleasant, though ... I wouldn't say I was scared for myself, no, but I'd have been scared if I lived closer.”Another man, whose dog slammed into the wall, was about to have breakfast with his wife.Roland Desforges says his wife thought the explosion might have been a plane crash or an act of war. But he says he instantly suspected it might be the neighbouring fireworks plant.He says he went to the overpass to get a look.He believes the initial explosion occurred in the middle of three buildings on the compound: in the production plant, which he says is centred between the fireworks store and its storage facility.“In seconds there was nothing left,” Desforges, 68, said of the plant.The company occupies a sprawling property near Highway 20 that includes a store and warehouse. According to the Quebec business registry, the company employs between six and 10 people.Liboiron said she has run the nearby store for 37 years and had never worried about being next to the fireworks factory.That indifference went up in a cloud of smoke.“It was gigantic,” she said of the smoke.“It went high up in the air, then it became black, black, black.”

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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

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.

2 people missing in Alberta's heavy rains

Emergencies declared in Canmore, Bragg Creek, High River, Black Diamond

CBC News Posted: Jun 20, 2013 6:12 AM MT Last Updated: Jun 20, 2013 11:30 AM MT

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RCMP are searching for two adults in the rain-swelled Highwood River after their trailer capsized near Longview, Alta., 85 kilometres south of Calgary.The heavy rain prompted officials in the mountain town of Canmore, west of Calgary, to declare a local state of emergency after the banks of a creek that runs through the community became unstable.About 40 homes south of the pedestrian bridge over Cougar Creek were evacuated at 2 a.m. MT on Thursday, Canmore Mayor John Borrowman said.“The situation is actually bad and getting worse,” he said. “Now some of the smaller creeks are starting to flood.”The evacuees were taken in at the town’s civic centre and at two local hotels.Other residents are being alerted to be ready to move if necessary.Power is out at various locations throughout the town, officials said.Both the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 1A are closed to eastbound and westbound traffic at Cougar Creek.
“We do not advise travel this way," said Canmore RCMP Const. Jeff Jantz. “Don’t come.”Crews are using heavy machinery to try to redirect some of the water surging into the Bow River, he said.John E. Marriott, a photographer who lives along Cougar Creek, said the raging torrent is now four metres from his house.
A Canmore resident watches the rising Cougar Creek early Thursday morning. (Courtesy John E. Marriott)“The little tiny creek that is behind our house … has gone from being two inches deep and about three metres wide to being 150 metres wide and about five metres deep,” he said.Another 50 to 60 millimetres of rain is forecast in the area before the skies are expected to clear later on Friday.

Calgary, other towns, in state of emergency

Canmore is about 100 kilometres west of Calgary, where city officials also declared a state of local emergency late Thursday morning "based on the potential severity of the incoming high river flows in conjunction with expected heavy rainfall," the city siad in release.City officials are implementing flood response plans including deployment of sandbags and temporary dams at key locations.High River, about 70 kilometres south of Calgary, also declared a state of emergency early Thursday morning after the Highwood River started overflowing its banks.
The Elbow River is spilling over its banks in Bragg Creek. (Tara Weber/CBC)Officials are encouraging residents in the Wallaceville area of town to leave their homes. Campers in George Lane Park have also been told to leave.The town’s emergency operations centre is open, and crews have been called in to begin sandbagging.A flood warning has also been issued for Kananaskis Country west and south of Calgary, as the Sheep River threatens to burst its banks in the Okotoks area.That river also flows through the towns of Turner Valley and Black Diamond, where some residents of low-lying areas are being told to leave their homes.The Oilfields Arena in Black Diamond is being has been opened as a reception centre.The hamlet of Bragg Creek, 44 km west of Calgary on the edge of K-Country, is also in a state of emergency as the Elbow River surges over its banks.Just downstream in the townsite of Redwood Meadows, administration manager Pat Evans said the water is higher than it was during the last big flood in 1995.In southwest Alberta, parts of the Crowsnest Pass are being evacuated because of high water levels.
Some residents of Blairmore, about 240 km southwest of Calgary, are being asked to leave their homes.
A reception centre has been set up at the sports complex in the neighbouring community of Coleman.

BERNANKE STOPS THE FREE PRINTING PRESSESS NO FREE CASH TO BANKS/BIG COMPANIES

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

Israeli PM criticises EU decision on Hezbollah

Today @ 13:36 JUNE 20,13

By EUOBSERVER

Israeli PM Netanyahu told EU foreign policy chief Ashton in Jerusalem on Thursday that EU countries are wrong not to blacklist Lebanese group Hezbollah. "If Hezbollah isn't a terrorist organisation, I don't know what is a terrorist organisation ... They're murdering civilians without letup, including on European soil," he said.

EU countries block blacklisting of Hezbollah

Today @ 09:28 JUNE 20,13

By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS
- A small group of EU countries has again blocked Britain's bid to blacklist Lebanese group Hezbollah.Diplomatic sources said Austria and the Czech republic led opposition at a meeting of EU countries' counter-terrorism specialists in Brussels on Wednesday (19 June).Ireland, Italy and Poland also voiced concerns.Objections centre around shaky evidence that Hezbollah bombed a bus containing Jewish tourists in Bulgaria last year.The Bulgarian foreign ministry told EUobserver on Wednesday its investigation is incomplete. Its spokesman, Dimitar Yaprakov, said Sofia is still waiting for "replies to the current judicial requests in connection with the Bulgarian investigation from our foreign partners."Some of the naysayers are worried the move might destabilise Lebanon, where Hezbollah is a popular political party.The details of the British proposal - to blacklist Hezbollah's military wing, but not its political branch - are also posing problems."The Czech position is that it's impossible to separate the military arm [of Hezbollah] from the civilian one," an EU source said.The talks are set to continue.But Britain plans to kick them up a level, leaving aside the security specialists and turning to senior EU diplomats or foreign ministers instead.EU foreign policy heavyweights France, Germany and the Netherlands back London.Another EU diplomat said Wednesday's talks saw more countries fall into the pro-sanctions camp."More member states came round to the view that Hezbollah needs to be listed … This was only the second meeting on the subject and there is a clear momentum towards listing the group. But now it will have to be discussed at a more senior level," the contact said.If the UK gets its way, pro-Hezbollah sympathisers in Europe will find it more difficult to donate money.It will also stigmatise Israel's fiercest enemy in the Middle East."We have been saying for a long time that the EU needs to take this, maybe bold, but necessary step," Yoel Mester, the spokesman for the Israeli mission to the EU, said.

Health Officials: Arab 'Traffic' Puts Israel At Risk for MERS

Israeli health officials said they were keeping a close eye on the spread of a new virus in the Middle East

By David Lev-First Publish: 6/20/2013, 4:51 PM-Israelnationalnews

Allenby crossing-Flash 90

Israeli health officials said they were keeping a close eye on the potential spread of a new virus that has been spreading throughout the Middle East, and were ready with plans to present an epidemic in Israel. The existence of the new disease, MERS – Middle East Respiratory Syndrome – has been known to scientists for some weeks, but its existence was publicized Thursday in the New York Times.Similar to SARS, MERS spreads quickly, but is more deadly than SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. SARS has been since 2003, but there is no specific vaccine for it, and scientists said that that was likely to be true for MERS as well.Doctors have been observing the symptoms associated with MERS in a growing number of patients for the past year, but only in the past month or so has it become clear that a specific virus was responsible. Nearly all the cases so far have been seen in Saudi Arabia, with several others seen in Gulf countries, Tunisia, and Jordan. In addition, the disease has been seen in Arab populations in Italy, Britain, and France
Many of the cases have been spread in hospitals, but doctors are not sure what the mechanism for spreading – suh as sneezing, physical contact, etc. - is. What frightens researchers is the extremely high fatality rate; out of sixty established cases, 38 people died, for a fatality rate of 65%. At its worst in 2003, the fatality rate for SARS was about 8%.Israeli health officials said that they were increasing their vigilance at hospitals, and were preparing to isolate patients who displayed the symptoms. The officials said that due to the ongoing traffic of Arabs between Israel and Jordan, and from their to the rest of the Arab world, Israel was at a “significant risk” of experiencing an outbreak.

06/19/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

100 days of Francis: Reality and expectations

Pope Francis

A summary of what’s new in Francis’ papacy, his most important messages and the changes introduced

Andrea Tornielli vatican city Now that the Pope has completed 100 days in office, analysts are beginning to weigh up changes, the first criticisms and the attempts by some to pigeonhole the new Pope as either a liberal or a conservative and the increasingly spasmodic expectations of new appointments and reforms.In his first 100 days as Pope, Benedict XVI nominated the American William Levada as his successor at the helm of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Similarly, Francis nominated Mario Aurelio Poli as his successor to the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. Benedict XVI also promoted Wojtyla’s former secretary Stanislao Dziwisz as Archbishop of Krakow, sending him away from Rome and the Roman Curia. But no changes were made to the Secretariat of State leadership within the first 100 days or even the first year of Ratzinger’s pontificate, despite the fact Cardinal Angelo Sodano was over 75.After his election, Benedict XVI “nominated His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Sodano as Secretary of State” and confirmed that cardinals and archbishops who were heads of dicasteries would continue in their positions  donec aliter provideatur, "until other provisions are made”. The Substitute and the Secretary for Relations with States’ positions were also confirmed and the secretaries of Curia dicasteries had their positions confirmed for a further five years. Francis’ steps have been less bold: he “expressed the desire that the Heads and members of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia, as well as their Secretaries, continue provisionally in their respective positions” until further notice.  The emphasis on the “provisional” nature of these positions implies that the Pope intends to change the Secretary of State and the heads of other dicasteries and offices in the future.As suspense builds over the appointment of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone’s successor and the announced reform in the Roman Curia, the risk is that all that has happened during Francis’ first 100 days in office will fade into the background.One of the new elements of Francis’ papacy are the daily private or semi public morning masses celebrate din St. Martha’s House. Some have criticised these as quick and sweet spiritual messages that lack theological depth. But these homilies, together with his first improvised public speeches represent a spiritual programme in themselves. Francis has taken themes addressed during the previous pontificate and communicated them with greater vigour. For example the importance of mercy, the condemnation of careerism, the diminution of the Church to a company or a self-referential community. He has also sent out new messages of his own: going out into the “geographical and existential peripheries.” Those who claim he has not done anything worthy of note so far, obviously referring to important nominations and structural reforms, risks becoming blind to what has already been done or started.Francis’ sober style, his decision to get around without packs of bodyguards and the hours he spends among the crowds, embracing children and the sick, showing the world what is really important in life, shows he is light years away from the classical bishop’s figure and born again clericalism. Even before making any nominations or deciding to streamline the Curia, Bergoglio has sent out some unequivocal signs of renewal which cannot be ignored.The Pope has received criticisms both in and outside the Curia, for acting too much like a parish priest, speaking too much and desacralizing the figure of Pope. Some have been examining every single word uttered by the new Pope, to see is they are Catholic enough, in the context of non-negotiable values for example. Websites that are loyal to certain popes remain an enigmatic phenomenon. After discrediting John Paul II to exalt Benedict XVI some are now using sarcasm to attack Francis’ every move, for the same reason, or they attack Bergoglio’s predecessor to glorify him. The general impression is that these types of criticisms have no basis in reality.What is clear is that 100 days after Bergoglio’s election to the Throne of Peter, the public’s perception has certainly changed. After years of focusing on the scandals surrounding the Vatican, media attention is now concentrated on the sense of change which the Argentinean pope represent: his message, his language and the references he makes.

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

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)

France's Fabius wants more talks with Syria rebels before arming

By John Irish | Reuters – 1 hr 31 mins ago JUNE 20,13

By John Irish

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Thursday it needed more talks with Syrian rebels before it could supply them with heavy weapons and said recent gains by Syrian government forces did not mean President Bashar al-Assad was heading for a "complete victory."Foreign ministers from the Friends of Syria anti-Assad alliance, which includes the United States, France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, will meet on Saturday in the Qatari capital Doha to discuss assistance for the Free Syrian Army.France, which has actively supported the rebels in its former colony, has not yet chosen to arm them since pushing, along with Britain, to have an EU arms embargo lifted. It says it will not make a decision before August 1."As far as weapons go, there is no question of delivering weapons in conditions that we aren't sure about and that means we won't deliver weapons so that they are turned against us," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters during a visit to the annual Paris Airshow."It's one of the reasons why we need more consultations with General Salim Idriss who is the commander on the ground."Saturday's conference follows a high-level Friends of Syria meeting in Ankara last week among diplomats and intelligence officers during which Idriss discussed his needs ranging from tent pegs and intelligence to anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, according to diplomatic sources.Syria's 27-month conflict appears to be reaching a turning point after Assad's forces backed by Iran and Lebanese militia Hezbollah captured Qusair, in central Homs province near the Lebanese border, earlier this month.Assad's troops have since turned their attention to retake Aleppo, the Damascus suburbs and parts of the south of the country where they have been mired in a bloody stalemate with rebels for nearly a year.
"DICTATOR"
"It isn't possible that just like that Assad achieves a complete victory. Anyway he remains a dictator," Fabius said.With rebels struggling to push back advances by forces loyal to Assad, Paris argues that something must be done urgently to change the balance of power.At a summit of the Group of Eight nations in Northern Ireland this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin harshly criticized the Western talks about arming the rebels while defending his own supplies of arms for Assad.French sources said a "political decision" among the 11-strong core group of nations to help Idriss has been made, but that states still had to "tick boxes" for what they would offer."We have discussed with Idriss to see how we could help him collectively and in a complimentary way," said one source. "Some people can provide certain things and others different things, and all that fairly quickly."Paris has so far given non-lethal aid including bullet proof vests, night vision goggles and communications equipment to Idriss. It is ready to widen the scale of equipment and provide "technical assistance" such as sophisticated weapons training and intelligence."If we want Idriss to have absolute control of all opposition fighting brigades then we'll be waiting a long time," said the source."We need to do something dynamic to strengthen his command structure quickly and progressively to have an impact."
(Editing by Gareth Jones)

Rebels hang on near Damascus, hope for deal on arms from Jordan

By Erika Solomon | Reuters – 1 hr 25 mins ago JUNE 20,13

By Erika Solomon

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels besieged in the outskirts of Damascus say they are facing a slow but steady advance by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, and are pinning their hopes on an anticipated influx of weapons from the Jordanian border.Opposition fighters once threatened Assad's dominance of Damascus but are now struggling to repel his forces, who have been emboldened by winning a strategic border town further north and have help from Lebanese Hezbollah militants and Shi'ite Iraqi fighters."The regime's goal is to slowly bleed us until we are forced to surrender. They are advancing slowly to preserve their fighting force," said Amran, an activist speaking by Skype from the ring of suburbs known as the Eastern Ghouta.
Rebel prospects for reversing Assad's gains in Damascus may now hinge on military support from Western and Arab backers."We can survive for a long time, because our fighters know the terrain, but until we get weapons we cannot repel the advance," Amran said.The rebels believe a recent U.S. decision to give them military support will re-open an arms pipeline from Jordan that was shut down as the United States and Russia negotiated a planned "Geneva 2" peace conference.But this week's G8 meeting saw no narrowing of the differences between Moscow, Assad's main arms supplier, and Washington, which wants Assad to step down in any transition.Despite Washington's reluctance to define what kind of help it is willing to give, the mostly Sunni Muslim rebels expect Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia to step up support to help them fight Assad. He is backed by Riyadh's regional Shi'ite rival Iran in a two-year conflict that has become increasingly regionalized."We had several meetings in Jordan and Ankara and discussed opening the weapons pipeline to the Damascus rebels from Jordan. I expect good news soon ... We will be getting advanced weaponry but I cannot say what kind," said Abu Moaz al-Agha, a spokesman and commander from the Ansar al-Islam brigades in Damascus.Rebels want anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to challenge the dominance of Assad's air force, which has allowed him to keep rebels on the defensive even in their own territories through daily air strikes."We still need time to plan out the system for delivering the weapons. But I am hoping that within 30 days there will be changes on the ground," Agha said, speaking by Skype.Over the past two months, rebels around Damascus lost nearly all their supply lines and are struggling to get enough food, let alone weapons, into the eastern and southern outskirts of the capital.There has been a slow increase in weapons supplies in recent days, particularly to the north, where Assad's forces are also planning a slow encroachment on rebel strongholds in Aleppo.
WAITING FOR REBEL SUPPORT
As well as getting arms over the southern border, the Damascus rebels need opposition forces in neighboring Deraa province to alleviate the blockade from outside."We are trapped inside al-Ghouta and there is absolutely no route into the area if the mujahideen (holy warriors) in the south do not come to open the front," said activist Amran.But infighting and rivalries have long plagued the rebels - it is what made Western powers hesitant to back their fractious forces and has also sabotaged many rebel efforts to unite against Assad offensives across the country.In the Ghouta region, mistrust and greed has prevented fighters blocking advances as they await help, some rebels say."The regime is advancing on the Marj area and has taken several towns in a critical part of the rebel base here. Unfortunately the blame for this lies on us as much as them," said a fighter speaking by Skype, who asked not to be named."Some of the biggest brigades here are focusing on cementing their control on specific towns, to loot factories and seize all the supplies. They've ignored the wider cause," he said.Assad's forces are also advancing on the Sayyeda Zainab district, which houses an important Shi'ite shrine and has been used as a rallying call for Shi'ite fighters.Syria's conflict has killed more than 93,000 people and has descended from a popular protest movement against four decades of Assaf family rule into a civil war with sectarian overtones.The country's Sunni majority and has enjoyed rising but inconsistent support from Sunni countries, including a flow of radical Islamist fighters. Assad has relied on minorities, particularly his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, and a staunchly loyal support system from Hezbollah and Iran.An activist working with the rebels in Damascus said that while he believed the rebels had a good chance of holding out until a weapons pipeline was made from Jordan, the chance of seizing Sayyeda Zainab has likely been lost."Our own men here betrayed the cause," he said. "Now our only help is our brothers from outside."(Editing by Philippa Fletcher)

New Palestinian prime minister offers resignation: official

Reuters – 1 hr 0 mins ago JUNE 20,13

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas just two weeks after taking office, an official in his press office told Reuters on Thursday.It was not immediately clear whether Abbas would accept the resignation by Hamdallah, an academic and political independent whose cabinet only met for the first time last week.The government source told Reuters that Hamdallah made the abrupt, unexpected move because of a "dispute over his powers".Hamdallah's cabinet consists overwhelmingly of members of the Fatah party led by Abbas, and political commentators immediately questioned how much room he would have to maneuver.His predecessor, American-educated economist Salam Fayyad, resigned in April after six years in power defined by tough economic challenges and rivalries with Fatah politicians, who were eager to get their hands on the levers of power.Since a brief civil war in 2007 between the Western-backed secular Fatah party and the Islamist group Hamas, Palestinians have had no functioning parliament or national elections.Abbas exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank while Hamas, which won 2006 legislative polls, has its own prime minister in the Gaza Strip.(Reporting by Hamoudeh Hassan, Noah Browning, Writing by Ori Lewis in Jerusalem, Editing by Jeffrey Heller)

Egyptian court frees Mubarak-era prime minister Nazif

By Tom Perry | Reuters – 30 mins ago JUNE 20,13

By Tom Perry

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court ordered the release of former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on Thursday because of a limit on pre-trial detention in a corruption case for which he had been held since the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.Nazif, who still faces a retrial, is the highest-profile Mubarak-era official to be freed in corruption cases which have failed to produce convictions that stick - prompting frustrated opponents of the old regime to criticize the justice system.The court accepted an appeal lodged by Nazif, who was prime minister from 2004 until Mubarak replaced him during the uprising in January 2011 in an effort to appease public opinion.A lawyer for Nazif, Mohamed Salah al-Buheiri, said he expected his client to leave prison by Saturday at the latest after two years and two months in detention.Mubarak, a general who ruled for 30 years, is also in pre-trial detention: the life sentence he received last year for complicity in the murder of protesters was overturned in January on appeal.The release order for Nazif, 60, is likely to fuel anger among opposition groups which are mobilizing for protests aimed at forcing President Mohamed Mursi from office one year since the Muslim Brotherhood politician took office on June 30.
"The problem is that they are being tried in the ordinary judicial system, according to laws made by Mubarak and his group," said Osama Diab at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, an independent rights organization."They were in control of the auditing agencies and had the ability to hide evidence," he added.
Nazif was sentenced to three years in jail in September for the unlawful possession of property and for making illegal profits from a public-interest company. Prosecutors accused him of making some $10 million from corrupt dealings. But that conviction was overturned in February and a retrial ordered.In 2011, as protesters swarmed Cairo's Tahrir Square demanding change, Mubarak fired Nazif, who had worked closely with the president's son Gamal Mubarak in a program of liberal economic reforms. But that failed to defuse public fury."The court ruled that he be released as long as he is not wanted in other cases, and Dr. Ahmed is not wanted in other cases. He will be released, God willing, either today or Saturday," Buheiri said. Friday is Egypt's weekly holiday.(Editing by Alastair Macdonald and Alistair Lyon)

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Obama’s ‘firing’ of Fed chief Bernanke strikes a nerve

June 19, 2013, 9:54 AM

Like the subject of his comments, President Obama’s sparse words to Charlie Rose about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke were almost uncanny in their ability to send Fed watchers into a state of convulsion.

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In an interview that aired Tuesday morning, Obama said of the economist who’s led the U.S. central bank since 2006: “He’s already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to.” And later that day, former Fed governor Laurence Meyer provided his commentary: “He essentially fired Ben Bernanke on the spot and gave him a fairly tepid testimonial afterward.”Whether or not that’s true, the reactions to Obama’s comments certainly struck a nerve, and that speaks to the lack of certainty over the economy after Bernanke’s departure. (Learn about seven top candidates to succeed Bernanke as Fed chief.) Bernanke’s likely exit has been on the radar for some time, but Tuesday’s developments forced Fed watchers to start seriously considering a post-Bernanke era.Pimco’s Mohamed El-Erian tackled the issue of life after Bernanke in a commentary Tuesday. He noted that the next Fed chair won’t have a lack of challenges on his plate:“He leaves his successor with a set of unprecedented and unresolved problems to contend with, from weaning the economy off life support to navigating the consequences of an unusually large balance sheet. And with so much uncertainty about the success of the Bernanke way, econ textbooks and quarterly unemployment figures just don’t hold enough answers to how his stewardship of the U.S. economy will play itself out in the years ahead.”As such, Bernanke will need to lay a firm foundation for his successor, El-Erian writes:“But let’s hope that he is also remembered for having built the foundation that enabled his successor, working with a more functional political system, to guide the United States back to the path of high economic growth, robust job creation, low inflation, and greater wealth equality. That would be a new normal we could all get behind.”It also didn’t take long for the twitterati to get talking about Bernanke’s legacy, and who will succeed him:

Markets roiled by Bernanke's exit strategy

By PAN PYLAS | Associated Press – 46 mins ago JUNE 20,13

LONDON (AP) — Financial markets were roiled Thursday by a clear signal from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that the central bank may be done with its monetary stimulus by next year. While stocks and commodities took a pounding on the news, the dollar surged.For nearly five years, the Fed has been pursuing an aggressive monetary policy to shore up the U.S. economy, which was battered by the financial crisis in 2008. Now that the U.S. economy has shown signs of improvement, Bernanke said the Fed is considering when it should start normalizing its policy.In the latest round of its monetary stimulus program — known as quantitative easing, or QE — the Fed has been buying $85 billion worth of financial assets each month to keep long-term interest rates low. This, it hopes, will boost borrowing and spending. After the Fed's decision to keep the policy unchanged, Bernanke confirmed that the central bank's purchases will likely slow down this year and end next year. When the reduction — so-called tapering — begins will hinge on the U.S. economic data, though.That prompted some concern among investors who have grown used to the Fed's active involvement in the financial markets — the Dow tumbled over 200 points Wednesday while oil and gold prices slid — even though the remarks signal a healthier U.S. economic outlook. Much of the reason why a number of assets, including stocks around the world, have advanced over the past few years is that the money created by central banks through QE has found itself in financial markets."With an unexpectedly upbeat assessment of the U.S.'s economic prospects, an exit path from quantitative easing was duly mapped out," said Mike Ingram, market strategist at BGC Partners. "I was clearly not alone in being caught off guard; markets worldwide have plunged in response. The tide of red now engulfing my screens is indeed impressive in its breadth-if not yet depth. Virtually every financial asset has been sold. Equity, credit, bonds, commodities; all have suffered."In Europe's stock markets, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares slid 2.4 percent at 6,199 while Germany's DAX dropped 2.5 percent to 7,991. The CAC-40 in France was 2.6 percent lower at 3,739.In the U.S., stocks were down again, with the Dow Jones industrial average 1.1 percent lower at 14,951 and the broader S&P 500 index down the same rate at 1,610.
Earlier, stocks in Asia tanked too, with stocks further negatively impacted by a private survey showing a slowdown in manufacturing in China in June. Among Asia's markets, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 fell 1.7 percent to 13,014.58 while Hong Kong's Hang Seng tumbled 2.9 percent to 20,382.87.It's not just stocks that have responded to the developments with the Fed. U.S. Treasuries have slid, and the yield on the country's benchmark ten-year bond has risen to 2.39 percent, its highest level since October 2011.In the currency markets, the dollar has pushed higher as the prospect of new Fed money has diminished in light of Bernanke's statement. The euro was down a further 0.6 percent at $1.3191 while the dollar rose 1.1 percent to 97.75 yen.The dollar's surge is having a particular impact on commodities, which are priced in the currency.The benchmark New York oil price was down $2.40 at $96.08 a barrel, while the gold price slid 5.7 percent, or a little little under $79, to three-year lows of $1,294.50 an ounce.Michael Hewson, senior market analyst at CMC Markets, said gold, for so long a preferred investment for the risk-averse, could fall further now that the $1,300 level has been breached."While the timeline for the Fed exit strategy is very much data dependent and based on a whole host of economic indicators between now and next summer, gold prices have slid sharply as the dollar goes sharply bid across the board," said Hewson.