MONTHS TO STOP RADIATION LEAK - JAPAN OFF

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

POISONED WATERS

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

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

NUCLEAR LEVEL METER
7-MAJOR ACCIDENT
6-SERIOUS ACCIDENT - JAPAN AT THIS LEVEL CURRENTLY
5-ACCIDENT WITH WIDER CONSEQUENCES
4-ACCIDENT WITH LOCAL CONSEQUENCES
3-SERIOUS INCEDENT
2-INCIDENT
1-ANOMALY

RADIATION NETWORK
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
LOW LEVEL RADIATION CAMPAIGN-Christopher Busby
http://llrc.org/
WEATHER MODEL-WINDSTREAM
http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=npac_250

Fukushima Plant Leaking Radiation Into Sea
by Gavriel Queenann APR 3,11

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday that water near an outlet of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is contaminated with radiation exceeding 1,000 millisierverts per hour, Reuters reported.TEPCO said the shaft, which stores supply cables, had a crack 20 centimeters long in the concrete that was allowing radiation to be leaked into the sea.Workers have begun pouring concrete into the shaft to seal the crack shortly after it was detected, TEPCO added.The spread of radioactive iodine in the sea presents no immediate danger to human health. However, the detection shows that contamination by radioactive substances has spread widely in the ocean off the Japan coast.Officials say contamination by radioactive iodine, which had been confirmed around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, has spread to southern sea areas due to north-south ocean currents.The officials also said the government is preparing to inject nitrogen into reactor buildings to prevent explosions caused by hydrogen leaking from the reactors.TEPCO resumed spraying of liquid synthetic resins in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant compound on Saturday to prevent radioactive dust and particles from becoming airborne.The synthetic resins were initially developed to prevent sand and other materials from becoming airborne at construction sites. According to Kurita Water Industries Ltd., which manufactures the resins, they become solid in half a day when the weather is good and are effective for six to 12 months.

Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Energy said Friday that up to 70 percent of the large nuclear fuel stockpile at the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and up to one-third of the No. 2 reactor of the plant is damaged.In Ishiro Honda's 1954 atomic horror classic Godzilla, the eponymous daikaiju (Japanese movie monster) came from the sea to attack Japan after radiation from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings contaminated the sea. While the original Godzilla was a metaphor for the bombings themselves he would, over his 28-film career, also be depicted as a protector of the world from environmental destruction. No one then imagined a made-in-Japan nuclear disaster that would overshadow the WWII bombings and whose environmental damage the world has yet to measure.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Japan says it may take months to end radiation leaks
By Chizu Nomiyama and Yoko Nishikawa - APR 3,11

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's government warned on Sunday it may take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, as more bodies were recovered in devastated areas of northeast Japan.An aide to embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the government's priority was to stop radiation leaks which were scaring the public and hindering work on cooling overheated nuclear fuel rods.We have not escaped from a crisis situation, but it is somewhat stabilized, said Goshi Hosono, a ruling party lawmaker and aide to Kan.How long will it take to achieve (the goal of stopping the radiation leakage)? I think several months would be one target, Hosono said on a nationwide Fuji TV programme on Sunday.Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) found a crack in a concrete pit at its No.2 reactor in the Fukushima Daiichi complex at the weekend, generating readings of 1,000 millisieverts of radiation per hour in the air inside.The leaks did not stop after concrete was poured into the pit, and TEPCO turned to water-absorbent polymers to prevent any more contaminated water from going out.The latest effort to staunch the flow of radioactive water into the Pacific started on Sunday afternoon. Workers then topped the polymers with more concrete.We were hoping the polymers would function like diapers but are yet to see a visible effect, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director general of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.Officials believe the crack could be one source of the radiation leaks that have hobbled efforts to control the six-reactor complex and sent radiation levels in the sea soaring to 4,000 times the legal limit.The battle to cool overheated reactors and avoid dangerous meltdowns of the highly radioactive fuel rods has seen workers hose saltwater into reactors, but this has left the facility awash with contaminated saltwater, preventing workers getting closer to the reactors.Nishiyama said fresh water was now being pumped into No. 1, 2 and 3 reactors using external power, which was more stable than the emergency diesel generators previously being used.He said the three reactors were now generally stable.

PM UNDER PRESSURE

The 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami on March 11 has left nearly 28,000 people dead or missing and Japan's northeast coast a splintered wreck. The disaster has hit economic production and left a damages bill which may top $300 billion.After a three day intensive air and sea search by thousands of U.S. and Japanese forces another 77 bodies were recovered, Kyodo news agency said on Sunday.Prime Minister Kan is under intense pressure to steer Japan through its worst crisis since World War Two, but after three weeks many Japanese are angry that the humanitarian disaster seems to have taken a back seat to the nuclear crisis.Unpopular and under pressure to quit or call a snap poll before the disaster, Kan has been criticized for his crisis management.When Kan visited the devastated fishing port of Rikuzentakata on Saturday, survivors struggling to rebuild their lives complained that he had not visited them earlier. More than 163,710 people are living in shelters, with more than 70,000 people evacuated from a 20 km (12 mile) no-go zone area the nuclear plant, and another 136,000 people living a further 10 km out have been told to leave or stay indoors.Harrowing stories are still emerging of just what happened on the fateful afternoon of March 11.Civil servant Takako Suzuki, 40, narrowly escaped when water rose to within a few inches from the ceiling of an evacuation center she had rushed to. I was thinking if the water rises a little bit, I'm finished - but fortunately the water suddenly stopped rising and began receding,she said. Suzuki spent a night huddled with 11 other survivors in the deep water, bodies floating around them.

MOVES TO STOP POWER BLACKOUTS

The world's third largest economy has seen manufacturing slump to a two-year low as a result of power outages and quake damage hitting supply chains and production.
General Electric Co, which helped build the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will help TEPCO supply electricity in the coming summer months when power demand soars.Demand for power jumps in Japan in summer due to heavy usage of air-conditioners.The government has said it will restrict maximum power usage by companies during the hotter months in an effort to avoid further blackouts.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the Japanese economy would take a short-term hit and it could not rule out further intervention for the yen.Farmers in the countryside surrounding the reactor are fretting that consumers in Japan will reject their crops.Grown in Fukushima" has become a warning label for those nervous of radiation which has already been found in some vegetables close to the nuclear plant.There is no way we will be able to sell anything, said 73-year-old farmer Akio Abiko.People in Tokyo are just too sensitive about this kind of thing.A group of farmers came to Tokyo from Fukushima at the weekend, using Geiger counters to show their produce was safe.(Additional reporting by Shinichi Saoshiro and Yoko Kubota in Tokyo, David Dolan in Fukushima and Damir Sagolj in Rikuzentakata; Writing by Michael Perry and Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Andrew Marshall)

Japan battles to stop radiation leak into sea
by Shingo Ito - APR 3,11

SENDAI, Japan (AFP) – Workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant struggled on Sunday to stop a radioactive water leak into the Pacific, as the government warned the facility may spread contamination for months.Along the tsunami-ravaged coast, 25,000 Japanese and US military and rescue crew completed a massive three-day search for bodies, more than three weeks after the catastrophe struck.While cherry blossoms opened in Tokyo, temperatures plunged again, leaving tens of thousands of homeless shivering in evacuation camps along the ravaged northeast coast of Japan's main Honshu island.There was no quick end in sight for the world's worst nuclear emergency since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, warned a government lawmaker who has advised Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the crisis at the six-reactor plant.This is going to be a long battle, said Goshi Hosono, who highlighted the threat from 4.5 metre (15 foot) long spent fuel rods that remain volatile for months and need to be cooled in pools with circulating water.The biggest challenge at this plant is that there are more than 10,000 spent fuel rods, Hosono said on Fuji TV. It will take a very long time to reprocess them, and we sincerely apologise for that.It is unacceptable that radioactive substances keep being released, causing anxiety among the people. Probably it will take several months before we reach the point where all radiation leaks stop, he said.Outside the headquarters of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), about 100 protesters, outnumbered by police, shouted: No more nuclear plants! and TEPCO, government -- be responsible! This accident has burdened the socially weak, the farmers and fishermen,said Mitsue Matsuda, 47, from tsunami-hit Iwate prefecture, who said she had friends living near the Fukushima plant.The land will stay contaminated for decades or more.The health ministry said its latest tests of regional vegetables, fruit and marine products had found radioactive caesium and iodine in some, but within the limits set under the food sanitation law.

Authorities have stressed there is no immediate public health threat from seafood because fishing within a 20-kilometre (12 mile) radius is banned, arguing that ocean currents will quickly dilute the contaminants.At the crippled plant, workers, troops and firefighters have pumped water into reactors whose cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 tsunami, sparking partial meltdowns and chemical explosions.A second US military barge carrying fresh water for pumping on Saturday docked off the plant, where cement boom pumps have been pouring in water, a task that was initially handled by helicopter water drops and then fire engines.Radiation leaked into the air, soil and ocean, and the emergency water pumping itself has increased the environmental contamination.The run-off from the plant has measured more than 1,000 millisieverts and is believed to be the source of radioactive iodine-131 readings in ocean waters of more than 4,000 times the legal limit.TEPCO workers were using a polymer and even newspapers to try to close off pipes through which the water has flowed into a cracked concrete pit, from where it has run into the sea. An earlier attempt to seal the crack with cement failed to stop the leak.From the afternoon, the workers began pouring polymeric powder, sawdust, newspaper -- things we could think of to clog up the holes, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the nuclear safety agency.So far, there has not been any clear indication that the volume of leaking water has been reduced.In a grim discovery, the remains of two TEPCO workers killed in the tsunami have been recovered in the facility, the operator said.

The huge earthquake and resulting tsunami on March 11 killed 12,020 people and left 15,512 missing, according to the latest national police count. Some 18,000 Japanese military personnel and 7,000 US forces, as well as police, firefighters and coastguard rescue and dive teams, carried out a three-day search for victims along the disaster-ravaged coast.But the massive operation, which ended on Sunday, suggested that many of the missing will never be found. Japan's military said only 306 bodies were newly recovered in coastal and inland areas.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

BIBLES WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS

CHINA MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE EAST)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9164005727480680563#docid=-8916004936135366443
RUSSIA ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE NORTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGqS3TDYRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn3T5XIbNk&feature=related
EGYPT ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE SOUTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_KT4irRTM&feature=related
EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE WEST)(NOT THE USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NEyheTDyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzLjhsRrZYw&feature=fvw
ISRAEL MILITARY-GUARENTEED BY EU TO SECURE THEM THE BIBLE SAYS(2 MAIN ENDTIME PLAYERS)(NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF FUULFILLING THE PROPHECIES ON EARTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TDlvIRIMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdalQdtzfY&feature=related
ANGEL 2 TO DR DOCTORIAN
The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

Gaddafi forces shell town as rebels name crisis team
By Maria Golovnina - APR 3,11

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi shelled the besieged western town of Misrata on Sunday where doctors say hundreds have been killed despite two weeks of Western airstrikes meant to put a stop to civilian deaths.The popular uprising has turned into a civil war pitting Gaddafi's troops, tanks and artillery against an enthusiastic, but chaotic rebel force backed by Western air power. Neither side has for now been able to gain the upper hand.The rebels are, however, attempting to put their house in order, naming a crisis team with the former interior minister as the armed forces chief of staff, to try to run parts of Libya it holds and reorganizing their military force.But that offers respite for Misrata which, like many cities, rose up against Gaddafi's rule in mid-February. It is now surrounded by government troops after a violent crackdown put an end to protests elsewhere in the west of the country.The shelling of Misrata on Sunday hit a building that had been used to treat wounded in Libya's third largest city and killed at least one person and wounded more, a resident said.A doctor who gave his name as Ramadan told Reuters by telephone from the city that 160 people, mostly civilians, had been killed in fighting in Misrata over the past seven days.Ramadan, a British-based doctor who said he arrived in Misrata three days ago on a humanitarian mission, had no figure for the total toll since fighting began six weeks ago.But every week between 100 or 140 people are reported killed -- multiply this by six and our estimates are 600 to 1,000 deaths since the fighting started, he said.

REBELS REORGANISING

After weeks of shelling and encirclement, Gaddafi's forces appear to be gradually loosening the rebels' hold on Misrata. Rebels say they still control the city center and the port, but government troops have pushed into the center.One Benghazi-based rebel said food supplies were acutely low in Misrata.There are severe food shortages and we call on humanitarian organizations to help, said the rebel called Sami, who said he was in regular contact with a Misrata resident.Accounts from Misrata cannot be independently verified because Libyan authorities are not allowing journalists to report freely from the city, 200 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli.As well as laying siege to Misrata, Gaddafi's troops have reversed a rebel advance in the east and are mopping up resistance in the mountainous southwest of Tripoli.Government forces shelled the small town of Yafran, southwest of the capital on Sunday, killing two people, Arabiya television reported, quoting a witness.But in the east. the rebels said they had restructured their forces to end the pendulum swing of their euphoric advance in the wake of Western air strikes followed by chaotic headlong retreat in the face of government artillery.We are reorganizing our ranks. We have formed our first brigade. It is entirely formed from ex-military defectors and people who've come back from retirement, Former Air Force Major Jalid al-Libie told Reuters in Benghazi.Asked about numbers, he said he could not reveal that, but added, it's quality that matters.The aim was for the trained force to steel resistance of the many volunteers so the rebel army could hold ground.

Before the end of the week you will see a different kind of fighting and that will tip the balance, said Libie, a former fighter pilot.The rebel leadership called for NATO-led air assault to continue despite 13 rebel fighters being killed in a strike as they tried to take control of the eastern oil town of Brega.A Reuters correspondent visiting the scene of Friday's air strike saw at least four burned-out vehicles, including an ambulance, by the road near the eastern entrance to Brega. Men prayed at freshly dug graves covered by the rebel red, black and green flag nearby.Most blamed a Tripoli agent for drawing the friendly fire.But some gave a different account. The rebels shot up in the air and the alliance came and bombed them. We are the ones who made the mistake, said a fighter who did not give his name.A rebel spokesman, Mustafa Gheriani, told Reuters the leadership still wanted and needed allied air strikes.You have to look at the big picture. Mistakes will happen. We are trying to get rid of Gaddafi and there will be casualties, although of course it does not make us happy.

CRISIS TEAM

Hundreds of mostly young, inexperienced volunteers were seen fleeing east from Brega toward the town of Ajdabiyah after coming under heavy mortar and machinegun fire. A contingent of more experienced and better organized rebel units initially held their ground in Brega, but with most journalists forced east, it was unclear whether they had remained inside the town or had pulled back into the desert.NATO has conducted 363 sorties since taking over command of the Libya operations on March 31, and about 150 were intended as strike missions, but NATO has not confirmed hitting any targets.In Benghazi, the rebel council named its crisis team on Saturday to administer parts of the country it controls.Omar Hariri is in charge of the military department, with General Abdel Fattah Younes al Abidi, a long serving officer in Gaddafi's armed forces, as his chief of staff.Younes, a former Libyan interior minister, changed sides at the start of the uprising in mid-February but is distrusted by many in the rebel camp because of his past ties to Gaddafi. (Additional reporting by Alexander Dziadosz east of Brega, Angus MacSwan in Benghazi, Christian Lowe in Algiers, Tom Pfeiffer in Cairo, Joseph Nasr in Berlin, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace Now Worried Jews May Build on Jewish-Owned Land
by Gavriel Queenann APR 3,11

Peace Now complains an Israeli landowner is seeking to sell lots for 30 homes in Jerusalem's Ras al-Amud neighborhood, the Associated Press reports. The neighborhood, in the eastern section of Jerusalem, is already home to 117 Jewish families.A century ago, the property where Ras al-Amud stands today was purchased from the Ottoman government by Nissan Bak and Moshe Wittenburg, who leased the land to build Jewish seminaries there in 1928. During the British Mandate, the authorities in Jerusalem refused to issue the necessary permits to build. Instead, the land was leased to Arab farmers for the purpose of raising wheat for the production of Passover matza.During the Jordanian occupation of eastern, southern and northern Jerusalem, the land Ras al-Amud sits on was held in trust for the Jewish owners by the Jordanian government. In 1964, an Arab tenant farmer claimed ownership of the land, but the Hashemite land registration authority rejected this claim because the title was still held by the Jewish Bak and the Wittenberg families.

In 1967, the land was transferred to the Israel Lands Administration which placed it under the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem Municipality. In 1984, the municipality sold it to American millionaire Irving Moskowitz.Modern legal records aside, Ras al-Amud has an ancient Jewish heritage. An archaeological excavation in Ras al-Amud prior to the construction of a school for Arab girls by the Jerusalem Municipality found remains dating to the late First Temple period (8th-7th centuries BCE), including a jar handle inscribed with the Hebrew name Menachem.Peace Now spokeswoman Hagit Ofran bemoaned the fact that, although the landowner has said he will sell to the highest bidder irrespective of ethnicity, the outcome will most likely be more Jews moving into the neighborhood.We know the owner...he is a settler himself, Ofran complained to the Associated Press. If the Palestinians can put up enough money they may be taking it, but settlers want it also, so I believe that it's more likely to go to the settlers.Ofran did not explain how Peace Now's position accounted for the established Jewish provenance of land ownership in the neighborhood - or ancient Jewish roots therein.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Abbas: Israel Must Release All Prisoners; Hamas: So Must Abbas
by Gavriel Queenann APR 3,11

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday declared the issue of prisoners to be a top priority, saying there would be no peace agreement with Israel until the issue was resolved, the Maan News Agency reports.There will be no peace until all Palestinian prisoners are freed from Israeli jails,Abbas announced.Abbas' new precondition for talks with Israel comes as he seeks reconciliation with Fatah's archival Hamas. The Islamist movement Hamas and Abbas' Fatah organization have been at loggerheads since Hamas unexpectedly defeated Fatah in 2006 legislative elections.

The feud erupted into violence in the Gaza in June 2007, when in a week of bloodletting, Hamas routed Fatah loyalists and sent the Palestinian Authority packing as it seized full control of security installations there.New efforts to reconcile Fatah and Hamas began again on March 16, when Abbas accepted an invitation from Hamas Primer Minister Ismail Haniyeh to visit Gaza. But that trip was subsequently cancelled when Hamas said it would not guaranteee Abbas' safety during the visit - a statement Fatah leaders took to be a threat.According to Maan, several Hamas lawmakers and leaders in PA administered areas have since received invitations to meet with Abbas in Ramallah in order to start dialogue about negotiations for a unity government.Abbas has gone so far as to say he will forego U.S. dollars to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority for the sake of unity with Hamas.In an ironic twist, however, Abbas finds himself confronted with the same demand not from Israel, but from Hamas concerning imprisoned terrorists. Hamas says Abbas must release all of its fighters held in PA jails before discussing unity between the feuding factions, Maan reports.Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida issued the demand in response to Abbas' initiative reconcile with Hamas. Abu Obeida insisted national unity could only succeed if Abbas released political prisoners in PA jails and stopped coordinating with Israel in accordance with the Oslo Accords.For its part, Israel has made it clear it will not deal with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority if it brings Hamas into the government, a senior Israeli official said Saturday night, a few hours after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met in Ramallah with a senior Hamas delegation for conciliation talks.Abbas has to choose whether he wants peace with Israel or peace with Hamas,the official said.He can't have both. If he chooses peace with Hamas it will bury the peace process [with Israel].(Israel NationalNews.com)

Egypt's army rulers to meet Palestinian president
– Sat Apr 2, 12:01 pm ET

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's military rulers will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to seek ways to ease tension between his Fatah movement and its rival Hamas, Egypt's state news agency said on Saturday.Reconciling the rival movements running Palestinian affairs is seen as vital to any prospect of Palestinian statehood based on peace with Israel.Abbas will hold important talks with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Egyptian state news agency MENA said.Fatah took part in U.S.-sponsored direct talks with Israel last year, drawing condemnation from Hamas which seized Gaza from Fatah in 2007 and is hostile to the Jewish state.Israel tightened a blockade on Gaza after Hamas took control there.Egypt sponsored six months of talks between Hamas and Fatah in 2009 that led to a draft pact to form a national unity government.Fatah signed the pact but Hamas refrained, demanding guarantees for international recognition.Abbas, whose movement still runs affairs in self-ruled areas of the West Bank, said last week he was ready to visit Gaza to end divisions and kick-start a comprehensive dialogue.Delegations from Fatah and Hamas visited Cairo last week, meeting with officials from Egypt's intelligence agency, the foreign ministry and the Arab League.The army now runs Egypt after an uprising ousted President Hosni Mubarak on February 11.(Writing by Marwa Awad)

Israel demands retraction of UN Gaza report
by Charly Wegman - APR 3,11

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel demanded on Sunday that the United Nations bin a report critical of its deadly 2008-2009 offensive on Gaza after the author said he had been wrong to say it had targeted civilians.South African judge Richard Goldstone had faced down enormous criticism in Israel at the time over the report which accused both Israel and the Hamas rulers of Gaza of potential war crimes during the 22-day conflict.But in a surprise about-turn on Saturday, he said that information he had received since indicated that Israel had not deliberately targeted civilians during the campaign, a key charge of the report.He said his assessment had also been changed by the fact that whereas Israel had thoroughly investigated the concerns raised by his panel, Hamas had not.If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document, he wrote in a commentary piece in the Washington Post.The report's findings had set the tone for widespread international condemnation of the Israeli assault on Hamas-ruled Gaza in which more than 1,400 people lost their lives, the vast majority of them Palestinians.Israeli officials said the United Nations now needed to set the record straight.This is an extremely important development and right now we are multiplying our efforts to get this report rescinded, Defence Minister Ehud Barak told army radio on Sunday.I am going to give the issue my personal commitment, Barak said, adding that he deeply regretted the harm already done.

Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would set up a team of legal experts and diplomats to find concrete ways to turn the clock back and try to lessen the enormous damage of this train of vilification against the state of Israel.Goldstone himself has just confirmed what we all knew all along... I think our soldiers and army behaved according to the highest international standards, the premier said during a brief televised address on Saturday.In his opinion piece in the Post, Goldstone said he now concurred with Netanyahu that the council had a history of bias against Israel.A UN committee of independent experts that followed up on the Goldstone Report's recommendations found that Israel has dedicated significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza.In contrast, Hamas leaders have not conducted any investigations into the rocket and mortar attacks against Israel that were its grounds for going to war.In Gaza, Hamas said it was surprised by Goldstone's comments and said he did not now have the right to come and change the findings.It is not Goldstone's private property, as a team of international judges as well as Goldstone participated in developing it -- apart from the fact that it relies on a number of documents and eyewitness testimony which increases the report's strength and credibility.The statement from spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri did not respond to Goldstone's assertion that Hamas had not investigated charges levelled against it in the report of deliberately targeting civilians with rocket fire.Goldstone said allegations of intentionality by Israel were based on the death and wounding of civilians in situations where his fact-finding mission could not reach any other reasonable conclusion.

He said that while some incidents were validated in cases involving individual soldiers, Israeli investigations found that civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy. Goldstone recalled one of the most serious incidents his team investigated -- without Israel's cooperation due to its allegations that the investigators were biased -- when Israeli shelling of a Gaza home killed 29 members of the Al-Samouni family.He noted that Israel's investigation into the attack found it was apparently due to a commander's misinterpretation of a drone image and that an officer was under investigation for having ordered the shelling. I regret that our fact-finding mission did not have such evidence explaining the circumstances in which we said civilians in Gaza were targeted, because it probably would have influenced our findings about intentionality and war crimes,Goldstone wrote.

Brazil A Resort For Terror Movers and Shakers
by Gavriel Queenann APR 3,11

At least 20 terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda, Hizbullah and Hamas have been hiding out in Brazil planning attacks, raising money, and recruiting operatives, according to Veja Magazine.The report on Saturday ressurects fears the oil-rich South American nation is serving as a terror resort for Islamic militants.Veja, citing Brazilian police and US government reports, said these operatives have been raising money and working to incite attacks abroad. No details of these operations were included in the article.The United States has said Islamic militants have been operating in the border region between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.For sure, members, facilitators, and sympathizers of Islamic terrorist organizations are present in our hemisphere, Adm. Jim Stavridis, head of the U.S. Southern Command, wrote in the Americas Quarterly journal.We consider Latin America and the Caribbean as being highly likely bases for future terrorist threats to the U.S. and others.The Lebanon-based Hizbullah was the most prominent group in Latin America, Stavridis wrote. Most of its activity appeared to be fund-raising but there are indications of an operational presence and the potential for attacks.Stavridis said security threats posed by local terror operatives were partly the result of poverty, inequality and corruption — problems he inists must be addressed for a lasting solution to defeat terror.

He noted that analysts and polls said anti-U.S. sentiment was growing and that the Bush administration had ignored Latin America. This has allowed leaders such as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to whip up opposition to the United States.Anti-U.S. leaders are creating tensions and suspicions that exacerbate what is already a difficult mission, he said.Brazilian authorities have long insisted it has no indication of terrorist cells in the tri-border region, although they have admitted being aware of financial contributions to groups such as Hizbullah, which Brazil does not classify as a terrorist organization.Relations between Brazil and the United States since President Dilma Rousseff took office in January have warmed, however. Rousseff has sought closer US ties after her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, angered the United States with attempts to mediate over Iran's nuclear program.Veja reported that Khaled Hussein Ali of Lebanese origin, who has lived in Brazil since 1998, is an important member of al Qaeda's propaganda machine and coordinates with extremists in 17 countries.Ali was briefly detained by authorities in Brazil in March 2009 after a police investigation discovered videos and texts intended for Al Qaeda followers. One email found on his computer and which was sent as spam to email addresses in the United States incited hatred against Jews and blacks, Veja said.He spent 21 days in prison on charges of racism, inciting crime and gang formation, but he was set free because prosecutors did not pursue the charges in court, according to the magazine.Some observers speculate the arrest may herald a shift in position by Brazilian authorities vis-a-vis their classification of terror groups.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror,(ISM) consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

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.

Quran protests spread to turbulent Afghan east
By RAHMAT GUL and RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press - APR 3,11

JALALABAD, Afghanistan – Demonstrators battled police in southern Afghanistan's main city on Sunday and took to the streets in the turbulent east for the first time as Western pleas failed to halt the third day of rage over a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran.Officers and protesters skirmished for the second straight day in the city of Kandahar, leaving two officers and 18 civilians hurt, provincial health director Qayum Pokhla told The Associated Press.In Jalalabad, the largest city in the east, hundreds of people blocked the main highway for three hours, shouting for U.S. troops to leave, burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and stomping on a drawing of a U.S. flag. More than 1,000 people set tires ablaze to block the highway in eastern Parwan province for about an hour, provincial police chief Sher Ahmad Maladani said.Resentment has been building for years here over the operations of Western military forces, blamed for killing and mistreating civilians, and international contractors, seen by many as enriching themselves and fueling corruption at the expense of ordinary Afghans.

Coverage of the ongoing trial of a group of U.S. soldiers' charged with killings of Afghan civilians and the publication of photos of some posing with dead bodies fueled that anger, which violently erupted Friday in a protest over the little-publicized destruction of the Quran last month.Thousands of demonstrators in the previously peaceful northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif poured into the streets after Friday prayers and overran a U.N. compound, killing three U.N. staff members and four Nepalese guards.On Saturday, hundreds of Afghans holding copies of the Quran over their heads marched in Kandahar before starting to attack cars and businesses. Security forces opened fire and nine protesters were killed but the governor of Kandahar said officers had only fired into the air. He said 81 were wounded and 17 people, including seven armed men, had been arrested.Military commander Gen. David Petraeus and the top NATO civilian representative in Afghanistan, Mark Sedwill, said that they hope the Afghan people understand that the actions of a small number of individuals, who have been extremely disrespectful to the Holy Quran, are not representative of any of the countries of the international community who are in Afghanistan to help the Afghan people.The Taliban said in a statement emailed to media outlets that the U.S. and other Western countries had wrongly excused the burning of the Quran on March 20 as freedom of speech and that Afghans cannot accept this un-Islamic act.Afghan forces under the order of the foreign forces attacked unarmed people during the protests, killing them and arresting some, saying there were armed people among these protesters, which was not true,the Taliban said.The governor of Kandahar said he and the main leaders of the protests in the southern city had reached an agreement that would end the demonstrations. He did not provide details.Associated Press writer Mirwais Khan contributed to this report from Chaman, Pakistan.

Spain socialists need quick fix on leader: analyst
- APR 3,11

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain's ruling Socialist Party needs to resolve its leadership succession soon to dispel any market doubts over the government's commitment to reforms to meet European Union deficit targets, analysts say.In the transition period, it will be vital that Spain continues to differentiate itself from other periphery economies, particularly neighboring Portugal, to avoid renewed speculative attacks on its sovereign debt.Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, his popularity hammered by the euro zone's highest jobless rate, said on Saturday he would not seek a third term in 2012 elections his party is expected to lose.There needs to be no doubts over how the economy will be managed in the coming months, said Emilio Ontiveros, chairman of International Financial Analysts.Zapatero's move triggers primaries for a new party leader after May 22 local polls, with popular Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba shown as still the preferred candidate, according to the latest Metroscopia poll published by El Pais newspaper on Sunday.The euro zone's fourth largest economy came under attack in bond markets after a real estate bubble burst in 2008, causing a deep recession and 20 percent unemployment. Spain's recovery has lagged behind the rest of Europe.But Zapatero said he would serve out the remainder of his term and focus on carrying out his programme of economic reforms, a decision which some analysts say could minimize the impact of the succession issue.I don't think Zapatero not standing a third term will prejudice Spain's position with Brussels. He has said he will carry on with economic reforms,said Carlos Berzosa, economics expert and rector at Madrid Complutense University.(Reporting by Judy MacInnes; editing by David Cowell)

Spain's prime minister won't seek 3rd term
By HAROLD HECKLE, Associated Press – Sat Apr 2, 7:18 am ET

MADRID – Spain's embattled prime minister announced Saturday he will not seek re-election at general elections in 2012 as his country grapples with debt, high unemployment and a faltering economy badly hit by the international financial crisis.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told a party meeting he would limit his time in office to two terms, opening a process of primaries to elect his successor at the helm of the Socialist Party.I will not be a candidate in the forthcoming general elections, he said, adding it was the right decision for the country, his party and his family.
Zapatero, 50, was elected to office in 2004 in the wake of terror attacks on Madrid's trains that left 191 dead and 1,800 injured, and a wave of public disapproval at the previous government's involvement in the Iraq war.At the time, Spain's economy was one of the most dynamic in Europe having recorded continuous growth for around a decade.But the credit crunch and subsequent financial crisis has dogged Zapatero's second term and immersed Spain in debt and a eurozone-high unemployment rate of 20 percent.The Socialist Party faces regional and municipal elections on May 22 and then must build toward nationwide general elections with a new leader.The most likely candidates are current Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba and Defense Minister Carme Chacon, who would become Spain's first female premier if elected.A tired-looking Zapatero said he had been convinced that two terms as leader of the government was enough seven years ago when he first took office, and he remained convinced of that decision today.The Socialists must choose their new candidate in March 2012 for national elections at an as-yet unspecified date later that year.

Rubalcaba, 59, is seen by many as a very experienced politician who has acted as Zapatero's hard man against the violent Basque separatists of ETA.At 40, Chacon cuts a youthful dash but has gained considerable respect in charge of the nation's defense, overseeing Spain's troops in Afghanistan and as part of the international effort to enforce a no fly zone over and a naval blockade off Libya.The conservative opposition Popular Party used its Twitter web feed network to call on the government to hold early general elections.

IMF denies pressing Greece to restructure debt
– Sat Apr 2, 6:59 pm ET

WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund on Saturday denied a report in German magazine Der Spiegel that it was privately pressing Greece to restructure its debt.As we have said consistently, the IMF supports the Greek government's position of no debt restructuring and its determination to fully service its debt obligations. Any reports claiming otherwise are wrong, an IMF spokeswoman told Reuters.Without citing any sources, Der Spiegel reported that the IMF had reversed its previous opposition to the idea of a Greek restructuring and now believed one was necessary soon.It wrote that senior IMF officials were recommending this to European governments because Greece's debt mountain was now roughly one-and-a-half times its annual economic output.Early in March, IMF European Director Antonio Borges told reporters he was confident that Greek debt is sustainable, adding that the Greeks had made quite a bit of progress on their banks as well.But since the IMF now believes current measures no longer suffice, it would like to see interest rates on Greek sovereign debt lowered, maturities extended or the amount of principal which Greece has to repay cut, Der Spiegel said.

European governments and the IMF are jointly contributing to and administering Greece's 110 billion euro ($155 billion) bailout, so a split between them on policy could be damaging to Greece's prospects for recovery.Greek and European officials have long insisted that Greece can recover without restructuring its debt, and that even discussing a restructuring now would be counter-productive by damaging banks across Europe and causing panic in markets.Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, speaking to Reuters at a conference in Italy on Saturday, responded to the Der Spiegel report by saying: There is absolutely no chance of a restructuring of Greek debt.He added,People (who talk about a restructuring) fail to understand that the costs would much outweigh the benefits.European Commission spokesman Jens Mester said: All support measures are in place, and there is no reason now to start thinking of this possibility of restructuring Greece's debt.Der Spiegel reported that the IMF was still not willing to call openly for a Greek restructuring out of fear this could increase market pressure on Portugal. Portuguese bond yields have soared in the last several weeks because investors think Lisbon may soon be forced to seek a bailout.Many investors and analysts think an eventual Greek restructuring may be inevitable. Cutting its credit rating of Cyprus on Wednesday, Standard and Poor's cited an increasing likelihood that the Greek government will restructure its debt.Former European Central Bank chief economist Otmar Issing told Der Spiegel last month that Greece's sovereign debt would have to be restructured as soon as other euro zone countries were out of danger.Before any restructuring, however, Greece may try another strategy. Papaconstantinou said on Wednesday that Athens might use some proceeds from state asset sales to buy back outstanding bonds from the market; since market prices of its debt have dropped sharply below face value, this could have the effect of a restructuring in lightening Greece's debt load without requiring Athens to conduct difficult talks with creditors.(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton, Christiaan Hetzner, Renee Maltezou, Valentina Za and Charlie Dunmore; Writing by Andrew Torchia; Editing by Ron Askew)

Irish and Greek debts sustainable: EU rescue fund chief
– Sat Apr 2, 7:52 am ET

DUBLIN (Reuters) – European authorities and the International Monetary Fund believe Ireland and Greece can sustain their debts while it is up to Portugal whether it joins them in seeking help, the head of Europe's rescue fund said. Fears Ireland will not be able to shoulder the burden of one of the world's most costliest bank bailouts have overshadowed the government's pledge to recapitalize its financial system by 24 billion euros and draw a line under its woes.Klaus Regling, head of the European Financial Stability Facility, said last week that there were risks to the assumption that Greece would pay back its debts, but he did not identify any similar risks to Ireland in an interview with the Irish Times on Saturday.The assessment of the three institutions that have the task to make this kind of assessment -- the IMF, the European Commission and the ECB -- is that these countries will reach a sustainable debt situation at the end of their programmes, Regling told the newspaper.

Portugal is struggling internally whether they should ask for assistance or not, we shall see, it's their decision. It's these three countries that will have serious problems for a while, but not the euro area as a whole.Spain overall is in much better shape. There's no programme, no need for financial emergency assistance in Spain.Regling, who was speculated last month as being Germany's candidate for the presidency of the European Central Bank, repeated that he was happy in his current job and not a candidate.I am not a candidate and I'm happy to be here to manage the EFSF and to prepare the ESM,Regling said.(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Ron Askew)

Report critical of pay practices at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
– Fri Apr 1, 1:21 am ET

(Reuters) – The heads of bailed-out mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB) were paid fat salaries without proper written procedures or analysis, according to a report published by the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA-OIG).Also, the housing regulator Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has not considered the factors that might have possibly resulted in reduced executive compensation costs, the review report said.The heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were paid a total of $17.1 million in 2009 and 2010 -- the two full years of government ownership.The top six executives at the housing giants were paid $35.4 million over the two years, according to the report that was posted on the agency's website.The Inspector General said FHFA has not developed written procedures to evaluate the recommended executive compensation levels each year.FHFA also does not provide sufficient transparency to the public of the Enterprises' executive compensation program, the Office of Inspector General said in the evaluation report.The report recommended that FHFA should establish ongoing review and analysis process to determine the compensation levels for the top executives of mortgage finance giants.The mortgage firms have taken more than $130 billion in direct taxpayer aid since 2008 and the U.S. government indicated in February that total cost could peak at $169 billion by late next year before beginning to shrink as they slowly repay taxpayers.Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters outside regular U.S. business hours.(Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

Parshah Metzora - Leviticus 14:1-15:33

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION FROM APR 03 2011 6PM - APR 09 6PM 2011

LEVITICUS 14:1 - 15:33
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:
17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.
30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;
31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.
32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

LEVITICUS 15:1-33
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean.
10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
12 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:
15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

PROPHETS PORTION

2 KINGS 7:3-20
3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

MATTHEW 9:20-26
20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
23 And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
24 He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
25 But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
26 And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.

MARK 5:24-34
24 And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.
25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.
28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?
31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

LUKE 8:42-48
42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.

HEBREWS 13:4
4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

CONSERVATIVES EDGE TOWARD MAJORITY IN CANADA

Japan PM enters nuclear exclusion zone By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Chisa Fujioka - APR 2,11

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's prime minister made his first visit to the country's tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered a nuclear exclusion zone to meet workers grappling to end the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.Prime Minister Naoto Kan spoke with refugees living in a makeshift camp in the fishing village of Rikuzentakata, decimated by the tsunamis which struck on March 11 when Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake, leaving 28,000 dead and missing.It will be kind of a long battle, but the government will be working hard together with you until the end. I want everyone to do their best, too, Kan told one survivor in a school that was now an evacuation shelter.Despite its tsunami-seawalls, Rikuzentaka was flattened into a wasteland of mud and debris and most of its 23,000 population killed or injured, many swept away by the waves.A person that used to have a house near the coast told me Where am I supposed to build a house after this?, so I encouraged this person and said the government will provide support until the end, Kan told reporters.Unpopular and under pressure to quit or call a snap poll before the disaster, Kan has been criticized for his management of Japan's humanitarian and nuclear crisis and his leadership remains in question.There are some evacuation centers that lack electricity and water. There are people who can't even go look for the dead. I want him to pay attention to them, said Kazuo Sato, a 45-year-old fisherman.Kan later entered the 20 km (12 mile) evacuation zone on Saturday and visited J-village just inside the zone, a sports facility serving as the headquarters for emergency teams trying to cool the six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi plant.

ECONOMIC FALLOUT

After three weeks, operators of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are no closer to regaining control of the damaged reactors, as fuel rods remain overheated and high levels of radiation continue to flow into the sea.Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), Asia's largest power company, has seen its shares lose 80 percent -- $32 billion in market value -- since the disaster.Japan is facing a damages bill which may top $300 billion -- the world's biggest from a natural disaster.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday the Japanese economy would take a short-term hit and it could not rule out further intervention for the yen.The IMF is set to cut its 2011 forecast for Japanese growth when it unveils updated figures on April 11 in its World Economic Outlook, said IMF Japan mission chief Mahmood Pradhan.Japan's central bank is expected to revise down its economic assessment when it meets on April 6-7 in the wake of the crisis.The economic fallout in the world's third largest economy has already seen manufacturing slump to a two-year low with power outages and quake damage hitting supply chains and production.

There has been growing talk of a coalition between the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) and the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party to deal with the aftermath of the crisis.But there has been no agreement on one and the Yomiuri newspaper said opposition parties would likely insist Kan step down first.The government has already been battling the opposition to get laws in place to make the new budget, from April 1, workable. Kan wants an extra budget soon for post-quake reconstruction which would also need help from opposition parties to function.

RADIATION BATTLE CONTINUES

Hundreds of thousands of Japanese remain homeless, sheltering in evacuation centers, as the death toll from the disaster continues to rise. Thousands of Japanese and U.S. soldiers on Saturday conducted a massive search for bodies using dozens of ships and helicopters to sweep across land still underwater along the northeast coast. The teams hope when a large spring tide recedes it will make it easier to spot bodies.Radiation 4,000 times the legal limit has been detected in seawater near the Daiichi plant and a floating tanker was scheduled to be towed to Fukushima to store contaminated seawater, but until the plant's internal cooling system is reconnected radiation will continue flowing from the plant.We are trying to employ as many measures as possible (to put the plant under control). We are holding high hopes (for this storage), said a TEPCO official.In its attempt to bring the plant under control, TEPCO is looking for jumpers -- workers who, for payment of up to $5,000 a shift, will rush into highly radioactive areas to do a quick task before racing out as quickly as possible.My company offered me 200,000 yen ($2,500) per day, one subcontractor, unidentified but in his 30s, told Japan's Weekly Post magazine. Ordinarily I'd consider that a dream job, but my wife was in tears and stopped me, so I declined.TEPCO was also spraying resin onto radioactive dust in an attempt to stop it from being carried in the wind.We sprayed 2,000 liters over 500 square meters of land. We plan to evaluate the result of the test spraying on April 2nd and 3rd. It takes about 24 hours for this scattering-prevention solution to get dried, said the official.It could take years, possibly decades, to make safe the area around the plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.With its president, Masataka Shimizu, in hospital, an enormous compensation bill looming and mounting criticism of both its handling of the crisis and prior safety preparations, TEPCO may need state help, according to media reports.Kan has all but ruled out nationalizing TEPCO but some sort of injection of public funds looks inevitable.

Standard & Poor's on Friday cut its long-term rating on TEPCO by three notches to BBB+, in its second downgrade on the electric utility in as many weeks.We expect TEPCO's operating performance to remain weak, and we believe it will take a prolonged period of time for it to recover, the credit ratings agency said in a statement.(Additional reporting by Terril Jones in Tokyo, Damir Sagolj in Rikuzentakata and Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Writing by Michael Perry; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)

EU travel advice gives insight into Arab revolutions
ANDREW RETTMAN 01.04.2011 @ 18:01 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Yemen in considered the most at risk of violent upheaval according to travel advice from EU foreign ministries. Syria is lower down the list, while Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are considered the most safe.A list of travel advisory warnings from the 27 EU countries as published on Friday (1 April) on a recently-launched European Commission consular website shows a clear ranking of the current levels of volatility in Arab countries. Yemen tops the list of unsafe countries for EU citizens, coming ahead even of war-torn Libya in second place and followed by Iraq, Bahrain, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Israel.The rest of the ranking - put together by EUobserver on the basis of advice from different member states - covers places where only some areas are considered at-risk or where general caution is advised. The ranking continues with Morocco, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, Oman and - the most safe - the UAE.

Tens of thousands of people came out onto the streets of Yemen on Friday calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. More than 100 people have been killed in recent weeks of unrest, with both France and the UK issuing fresh warnings for citizens to leave if possible due to a rapid deterioration in the security situation.
Fresh protests also erupted in Damascus, Deraa, Qamishli and Hassakeh in Syria on Friday, with reports of three people shot dead in Damascus, bringing the recent death toll to over 60.Analysts believe Yemen is much more likely to see a revolution than Syria, and point out the dangers to Western travelers from al-Qaeda-affiliated groups on top of the political unrest. In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad is being propped up by Iran and has been assured of non-intervention by the US and France, while European visitors are normally welcomed by local people. Bahrain, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia come surprisingly high in the league table, given the efficiency with which security forces have kept down dissent or given the absence of any recent unrest in the case of Lebanon.Daniel Korski, a near East analyst for the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank, said: There is a large foreign [Saudi and Qatari] force in Bahrain putting down Shia unrest and nobody knows where this is going to go.On Lebanon, he added: If Assad is toppled in Syria, it would put [Lebanon-based militants] Hezbollah under extreme pressure. It would increase the risk of a border conflict with Israel. But it's quite safe to go there for now.An EU official dealing with consular safety matters said on Saudi Arabia:There is a risk that terrorist attacks could happen at any minute. There is also a risk that if you do something that you consider perfectly normal at home, like taking photographs, you could get into serious trouble with the authorities.The risk of Syria contagion, as well as recent skirmishes with Hamas in Gaza and a bomb in Jerusalem, see Israel rate high, the experts said. Iran is in a similar position to Saudi Arabia, with a high risk of terrorist attacks and police harassment.

Korski explained that travel warnings should not be used as a substitute for political analysis because they relate to a mixed bag of issues, including old conflicts (the Sahel in Morocco, Iraq) or residual anti-Western feeling and lawlessness (Algeria), as well as current affairs.Returning to Europe on Friday from a trip to eastern Libya and post-revolutionary Egypt on Friday, he added that the travel advice is not always up to date. I wouldn't go to Libya as a tourist but you would be quite safe away from the conflict zone. I would recommend a holiday in Cairo to anybody just now, he said. He added that the UK and Denmark, due to heightened sensitivity following the Mohammed cartoons affair, give the best advice on near East travel.The EU expert noted that EU members who have large expat populations in third countries tend to have the best intelligence but tend to downplay dangers because if they raise the alarm they could spark a mass exodus. The intelligence culture in the Union today is such that no country would keep information about a clear and present danger to itself. It would have far-reaching consequences if they did,the contact said.The source added that there is a class of traveler which flocks to conflict zones rather than fleeing them: It's like a gold rush. They think that in a risk period they can really do business, that anything is possible because people are desperate for money and outside help. Like the Chinese, they go especially in periods where there is instability.Speaking on the safest country on the list, the UAE, Korski noted: There's not even a flicker of unrest there. It has the feeling of a post-prandial nap ... But you never know.

Samaria: Bibi's Gesture is Mockery
by Maayana Miskin APR 1,11

The Samaria Regional Council, which represents Israelis in Samaria, has expressed disappointment with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's gesture to the town of Itamar. Weeks after the massacre of five members of a local family at the hands of PA terrorists, Netanyahu has promised to authorize part of a city plan for Itamar, allowing for the construction of school buildings, including a permanent home for the yeshiva in which Rabbi Udi Fogel was a teacher.The promise was made in a conversation with MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), who met with Netanyahu this week.The rest of the city plan for Itamar will not be authorized, such that any new residential structures would continue to face illegal status.The gesture is nothing more than a repetition of promises Netanyahu has made in the past, said council head Gershon Mesika. This is a mockery, it's approaching fraud. It's recycling a small portion of the building plan, that relates to just some of the educational facilities in the town, Mesika explained.Mesika has spent the past several days in Knesset, pushing the authorization of the town plan for all of Itamar. Forty-five MKs from both the coalition and opposition, including several from the left-leaning Kadima party, have expressed support for its authorization, he said.

Mesika described the current situation. The Defense Minister refuses to sign the town plan for purely political reasons, then prevents the construction of homes, the establishment of effective security and healthy town development, arguing that the town plan has not been signed... Residents of the town, which was established with the government's agreement, are sentenced to a life of deprivation due only to the lack of an authorized town plan.The Samaria Council, backed by many MKs, is also demanding that the government immediately provide funding for Itamar's security. The goal is to put an end to the intolerable situation in which legalism and bureaucracy lead to unbearable loss of life, and in which the residents are forced to fund the high cost of their own defense.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Storm officials say 9 tornados raked Tampa Bay
APR 2,11

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The National Weather Service has confirmed that nine tornados raked through the Tampa Bay region on Thursday.As many as 18,000 residents remained without power Friday, a day after the vicious storms destroyed dozens of homes, flooded road and toppled trucks and small planes.The weather service says the tornados struck Polk, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties Thursday packing winds from 86 to 110 mph.In Lakeland, a tent collapsed and injured seven people gathered for the annual Sun n Fun aviation festival. A few small planes had flipped over at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater Airport.There were multiple reports of small tornadoes across the region. Strong winds blew a Carnival cruise ship from its dock at Cape Canaveral.

NATO says its forces repel attack on Kabul base
APR 2,11

KABUL, Afghanistan – NATO says its forces have successfully repelled an attack on one of its bases on the outskirts of the Afghan capital and killed at least two insurgents firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.The coalition told The Associated Press in an email that three of its soldiers were wounded in Saturday's attack, but that their injuries were not serious. NATO said at least one attacker was possibly wearing a suicide vest. It added that the attack had ended.Kabul provincial Police chief Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi said there were reports of three attackers involved and that two died when their vests detonated. He said a third was shot.

Ireland wants to hit bank creditors, ECB says no By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press – Fri Apr 1, 9:53 am ET

DUBLIN – Ireland still wants to force foreign bondholders to bear losses in debt-crippled banks but is being blocked by the European Central Bank, which has the lenders on life support, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said Friday.Ireland's bank-bailout bill officially surged Thursday by euro24 billion to euro70.5 billion ($100 billion) as part of a new round of ECB-ordered stress tests. Ireland then unveiled plans to slash its largely nationalized banking sector down to just two: Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks.Ratings agency Standard & Poor's the next day said the tests' assumptions were robust, that the worst was over, and the economy is now set to recover gradually.Although it downgraded Ireland's credit rating by one notch, citing increased risks for bondholders under new EU rules to come into effect in 2013, it expects the country to recover faster than Greece or Portugal — Europe's other two worst debt offenders.It added it didn't expect any more downgrades soon, though S&P rival Fitch warned soon after that it may cut its own BBB+ rating on Ireland soon as it assesses the stress tests and other developments since its last downgrade in December.In stock markets, traders reacted to the stress tests by chasing higher the shares of the two bank survivors, while shares of Ireland's only other publicly listed bank, Irish Life & Permanent, plunged to a record low on news it will be broken up.But as experts digested the test results, the issue of how far to push losses on the banks' bondholders remained the focus.

Noonan said Ireland intends to force at least euro5 billion ($7 billion) in losses on the most junior class of bank bondholders as part of its surging bailout bill. That represents a small concession by the ECB, which had until this week opposed such a move.But Noonan said hopes of forcing billions more in losses on senior bondholders — chiefly British, German and American banks — were again vetoed by a majority of ECB governors during negotiations that ran right up to Thursday's announcements.Noonan said Ireland would not act unilaterally against the orders of the ECB, which along with the European Commission has been against forcing losses on bondholders since Ireland's banking crisis erupted in 2008. European financial chiefs made protection of senior bondholders a condition of its November bailout agreement with Ireland's previous government, which was ousted from office three weeks ago amid voter fury over the terms of the deal.Noonan expressed frustration with Europe's plans to introduce burden-sharing — forcing the creditors of failing banks to cover some debt-restructuring costs — under new rules after 2013, too late for Ireland. He contrasted that with U.S. policies that hit bondholders early in its own banking crisis.The American way of doing things is to have burden sharing and to make creditors share in the pain. The European way is different, Noonan said.Noonan said a minority of governors at the Frankfurt-based ECB, notably Germany's Axel Weber, agree with the Irish and American position, and he still hoped it would prevail in the medium term. But he said Ireland had to give up its hopes of greater burden-sharing for now because the ECB is the key source of short-term funds for all of Ireland's banks, none of which is able to borrow on open markets.The bank in Frankfurt is supplying almost euro200 billion ($280 billion) of liquidity to the Irish banking system. We said we wanted burden-sharing but we would not do it unilaterally. We would only do it with the agreement of Frankfurt and we didn't get the agreement,Noonan told Irish state broadcasters RTE.

He said if Ireland burned any bondholders against ECB instructions, it would risk a loan cut-off and financial chaos. He said, instead, Ireland received the best we could hope for when the ECB pledged Thursday night to keep loaning Ireland's banks money regardless of whether their credit ratings are slashed further.Did we risk the liquidity flow of 200 billion (euros) being cut off, particularly when we expect a downgrade of Irish bank paper? he said.The ECB has already permitted Ireland to impose heavy haircuts on the junior bondholders at Ireland's most disastrously managed bank, Anglo Irish. It was the first to be nationalized in 2009, has cost the state more than euro25 billion ($35 billion), and is being dismantled.In October, Anglo offered its creditors holding euro3.5 billion in subordinated bonds a deal that they could be repaid a fraction of their investment, between 5 percent and 20 percent — or refuse the offer and forfeit even more. The Central Bank of Ireland last month said Ireland's six banks still have nearly euro7 billion in outstanding subordinated bonds, which is debt that gets repaid in the event of bankruptcy only after senior bondholders get their money back.Those bondholders are next in line for brutal haircuts, according to Noonan.But ECB policy means Ireland cannot impose cuts on euro16.4 billion in senior bonds that are unsecured and outside the scope of Ireland's bank insurance. Nor can the Irish prune any of the euro19 billion in secured but unguaranteed bank bonds.Secured bonds are debt backed by collateral that can be handed over in case the debt goes unpaid.Noonan said Ireland reserves the right to push the ECB for approval to discount all remaining bonds at Anglo and Irish Nationwide, should any major bondholders there seek to cash in their positions early.Like Anglo, Irish Nationwide has already been fully nationalized, forced to transfer its deposit base to surviving banks, and is being wound down. The Educational Building Society is also fully state-owned and will be merged into Allied Irish.In midafternoon trade on the Irish Stock Exchange, Bank of Ireland was 40 percent higher at euro0.31 ($0.44), Allied Irish 16 percent higher at euro0.22 ($0.31). Irish Life & Permanent fell to an all-time low of euro0.11 before rebounding to euro0.18 ($0.25), still down 54 percent on the day.

Fighting flares in Libya as Kadhafi spurns truce
by Imed Lamloum - APR 1,11

TRIPOLI (AFP) – Fighting flared around the rebel-held city of Misrata and air strikes were reported elsewhere in Libya late Friday, after Moamer Kadhafi's regime rejected a rebel offer of a ceasefire.The US military was poised to withdraw its combat jets and Tomahawk cruise missiles from the air campaign against Libya's regime starting this weekend, as NATO allies take the lead in bombing Kadhafi's forces.The move follows pledges by President Barack Obama to quickly shift command of the operation to NATO, with the US military playing a supporting role -- providing planes for mid-air refueling, jamming and surveillance.Coalition forces, meanwhile, strafed positions held by loyalist forces in the Al Khums and Al Rojban regions east and southwest of the capital Tripoli late Friday, according to Libyan state television.An Al Khums resident told AFP he heard explosions coming from a local naval base, about 120 kilometres (70 miles) east of the capital, which had been bombed by coalition forces earlier.Al Rojban is southwest of Tripoli and several towns in the mountainous area are controlled by rebel forces.Forces loyal to Kadhafi also attacked the rebel-held city of Misrata with tanks and rocket fire, a rebel spokesman said.In the rebel bastion of Benghazi, Transitional National Council leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil said the opposition was ready for a truce, provided Kadhafi's forces end their assaults on rebel-held cities.But government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim rejected the offer, saying Kadhafi's forces would not withdraw from towns they control.The rebels never offered peace. They don't offer peace, they are making impossible demands, Ibrahim told reporters, calling the truce offer a trick.

We will not leave our cities. We are the government, not them, he said, adding however that the government was always ready to negotiate and wanted peace.Asked about the truce offer, White House spokesman Jay Carney appeared to indicate that President Barack Obama's administration did not want the conflict in Libya to end with Kadhafi still in power.Abdul Jalil's offer came two days after rebels were driven out of a string of key oil terminals in eastern Libya they had twice seized during the weeks-old revolt aimed at toppling Kadhafi's 41-year-old regime.We agree on a ceasefire on the condition that our brothers in the western cities have freedom of expression and that the forces besieging the cities withdraw, he told reporters after meeting UN special envoy Abdul Ilah Khatib.He added, however, that the revolution still aimed to topple the regime.Khatib said he had met top officials of Kadhafi's government in Tripoli on Thursday to call for a ceasefire, lifting the siege of the western cities and access for humanitarian aid.He called for a real ceasefire that must be credible, effective and verifiable.After weeks of near anarchy, the Benghazi-based leaders of the insurrection appeared intent on cleaning up their act -- keeping civilians and raw recruits away from the frontlines in an attempt to combat the better-organised Kadhafi loyalists. At the western entrance to Ajdabiya, 54-year-old reservist Abdelkarim Mansouri explained the new tactic.We don't want any more kids to die. War is not a game. These are the orders of the military council, he said.

Since the conflict began, the rebel ranks have been a motley crew of undisciplined brawlers, held together only by the lone desert highway.One rebel said that since Thursday night, vital reinforcements and heavy weaponry from all over eastern Libya have been heading for the frontline.Rebels prevented reporters and civilians from leaving the strategic town of Ajdabiya for Brega, a key oil town about 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the west where fighting erupted early Friday, but it was unclear exactly where the frontline was or who controlled the refinery town.Three days of fighting around Brega have left 11 people dead, including eight civilians, according to estimates.A doctor and a manager at the hospital in Ajdabiya reported five civilians killed on Wednesday, three more on Thursday and three rebels died on Friday.The rebels had been beaten back by heavy shelling from Kadhafi's forces when they launched a counter-offensive at Brega in a bid to resume their march on Tripoli, started soon after the uprising began on February 15.Rebel commanders called for more air strikes by coalition forces enforcing a UN-mandated no-fly zone over Libya, but the US military's top officer said bad weather was hampering the air campaign.Without air support, the ill-equipped rebels were pushed back 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the key oil hub of Ras Lanuf on Wednesday all the way east of Brega, where they regrouped on Thursday for the counter-offensive.The rebels' call for heavy armaments to match the superior firepower of Kadhafi's army, meanwhile, have been greeted with little enthusiam by western powers.US Defence Secretary Robert Gates asserted the rebels needed training more than guns but suggested other nations do that job.His French counterpart Gerard Longuet said providing weapons was not part of the UN mandate, and NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen also ruled out such a move.We are there to protect the Libyan people, not to arm people, Rasmussen said.

The rebels said they have signed a deal with Qatar to market their crude oil abroad in exchange for food, medicine and -- they hope -- weapons.Ali al-Tarhoni, a senior member of the Transitional National Council in charge of oil and finance, said that under a barter deal aimed at circumventing international sanctions, Qatar would market the oil and buy humanitarian supplies for the rebels.The rebels hoped to use oil revenues to procure weapons -- any kind of arms we can get to, he added.

Hamas warns Israel of consequences after air strike
- APR 2,11

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Hamas on Saturday warned Israel of consequences after its latest air strike on Gaza killed three members of the radical Islamist group's armed wing.Medical staff and witnesses said earlier one Palestinian was also wounded in the air strike in the southern Gaza Strip.They said the target was a car driving between the town of Khan Yunis and the Deir al-Balah refugee camp.

Witnesses said they saw three charred bodies dragged from the burnt-out vehicle.An Israeli military spokesman said the raid, planned jointly with the Shin Bet domestic security agency, was a preemptive strike against militants planning to kidnap Israelis during the coming Jewish festival of Passover.An Israel Air Force aircraft hit a Hamas terror cell... planning to carry out kidnapping attacks in the Sinai Peninsula and in Israel during the Passover holiday, he told AFP.The Sinai coast of neighbouring Egypt is a popular destination for Israelis during the week-long holiday which begins on April 18 and commemorates the biblical Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.Hamas said in a statement the three dead were members of the Islamist group's Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.Hamas identified them as Ismael Lubbad, Abdallah Lubbad and Mohammed Eldayah.The air strike is a serious escalation and Israel will bear all the consequences, the Brigades warned.Israeli public opinion is still inflamed over the capture by militants of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid into Israel in 2006.Shalit is still missing, believed held somewhere in the Gaza Strip.On Wednesday an Israeli air strike on southern Gaza killed an Islamic Jihad militant and wounded another, but generally the past few days have seen a return to relative calm after a spate of Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel and Israeli counterstrikes on Gaza.

The spate of tit-for-tat violence began on March 16 when a rocket fired from Gaza landed in an open area in southern Israel, without causing casualties or damage.
Within hours, the Israeli air force hit back, killing two militants from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in what some saw as a disproportionate response.Two days later, Hamas militants responded, firing a barrage of around 50 mortar shells at the southern Israeli city of Beersheva in the fiercest bombardment in two years.On Sunday the Israeli military made a trial deployment outside Beersheva of the first batteries of its Iron Dome short-range missile defence system.But officials said that the multi-million dollar system, the first of its kind in the world, could not yet provide complete protection from all the rockets and mortar bombs fired from Gaza into Israel. Each battery comprises detection and tracking radar, state-of-the-art fire control software and three launchers, each with 20 interceptor missiles, military sources said.Despite the spike in tensions, both Israel and the militant Islamic Hamas, which rules Gaza, appear reluctant to be dragged into another bloody confrontation along the lines of the December 2008-January 2009 war, which killed more than 1,400 people, the vast majority Palestinians.

Conservatives edges closer to majority
– Fri Apr 1, 7:54 am ET

TORONTO (Reuters) – Support for the Conservative Party edged closer to a coveted majority before the May 2 federal election, according to a poll released on Friday.

The Nanos Research tracking poll of results over three days of surveys put support for the Conservatives at 39.4 percent, up 0.3 percentage points and 7.7 points ahead of the opposition Liberals. Liberal support slipped 1 point from Thursday's tracking poll to 31.7 percent.Under Canada's electoral system, a party needs around 40 percent of the vote to win a majority of the 308 seats in the House of Commons.
Among the other parties, the left-leaning New Democrats garnered 16.1 percent support, a 0.2 percentage point gain, while support for the Bloc Quebecois was at 8.5 percent, marginally down from 8.7 percent. The Green Party held 4.4 percent of support, up from 3.7 percent.The poll was a random telephone survey that Nanos conducts daily throughout the campaign, with the latest coming from a random sample of 953 decided Canadians surveyed between March 29 and March 31, with an accuracy of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.Support for all the parties has generally stayed within the margin of error, Nanos said.(Reporting by Solarina Ho)

LIZAMOON INFECTS MILLIONS OF COMPUTERS

LIZAMOON EXPLAINED-VIDEO
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http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2011/03/31/update-on-lizamoon-mass-injection.aspx

Opinion
Millions of sites hit with mass-injection cyberattack
By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal April 1, 2011 10:37 AM ET

PC World - Hundreds of thousands -- and possibly millions -- of websites have been hit with a cyberattack that some are calling one of the biggest mass-injection attacks we've ever seen.The attack was discovered on March 29 by security firm WebSense, and the injected domain was called lizamoon.com -- thus, the name of the mass-injection is LizaMoon.According to WebSense, LizaMoon uses SQL Injection to add malicious script to compromised sites. While the first injected domain was lizamoon.com, additional URLs have since been injected in the attack (WebSense has a full list here).
http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2011/03/31/update-on-lizamoon-mass-injection.aspx

The method of using an injected script redirects users to a rogue AV site, which tries to get people to install a fake anti-virus program called Windows Stability Center.When WebSecurity discovered the attack on March 29, 28,000 URLs had been compromised. The number quickly grew to 226,000, including many iTunes URLs (though the malicious code is neutralized by Apple).The good thing is that iTunes encodes the script tags, which means that the script doesn't execute on the user's computer, WebSense security blogger Patrik Runald wrote on Tuesday, So good job, Apple.The number of infected sites now appears to be over 1.5 million (at the time of this blog post, a quick Google Search shows 1.53 million infected URLs) -- but WebSense is quick to point out that a Google Search is an inaccurate metric. Google search spits back unique URLs, not unique hosts. Thus, there are likely less than 1.5 million infected sites, but WebSense says it's safe to say that the number is in the hundreds of thousands.The attack continues to rampage across the Internet, and currently doesn't show any signs of slowing down. So don't install any web-based anti-virus software that claims your computer is full of bugs.Follow Sarah on Twitter (@geeklil) or at sarahpurewal.wordpress.com and Today @ PCWorld on Twitter.

LizaMoon mass-injection attack reaches epidemic proportions-FacebookiTune URLs and 380,000 other pages poisoned By John Leyden Posted in Malware, 31st March 2011 10:35 GMT

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Malware writers are using website vulnerabilities to inject malicious scripts into thousands of websites as part of an ambitious attack ultimately designed to redirect surfers to a site pimping rogue anti-virus packages.The so-called LizaMoon mass-injection attack uses SQL injection trickery to inject a line of malicious code into compromised pages, as explained in an advisory by net security firm Websense here. According to a Google Search, over 380,000 URLs have been compromised, including several web locations associated with iTunes URLs, as part of the attack.The count only looks at unique URLs, not infected hosts, a more meaningful metric. Even so the assault still counts as among the most widespread mass-injection attacks on record. The assault, first spotted on Tuesday, started off using the domain lizamoon.com, but since then other domains have been deployed in the attack.The domains linked to the attack host basic JavaScript code that redirects surfers towards a well-known rogue anti-virus site. This trick only worked in cases where surfers first visited a compromised site. Downloading podcasts or music via iTunes was never a risk thanks to the architecture of Apple's service.

Patrick Runald, of Websense Security Labs, explained: iTunes downloads RSS/XML feeds from the publisher to update the podcast and list of available episodes. We believe these RSS/XML feeds have been compromised with the injected code. The good thing is that iTunes encodes the script tags, which means that the script doesn't execute on the user's computer.®