WITH SILVER ALMOST $40.00 AN OUNCE.AND THE GOAL OF $50.00 TO BREAK JP MORGAN IS WITHIN VIEW.MAX KEISER IS WELL ON HIS WAY TO BANKRUPTING JP MORGAN DUE TO NOT HAVING THE SILVER ON HAND TO PAY FOR THE BILLIONS IN PAPER THEY WILL OWE.THEN THEY GOT TO GO ON THE MARKET AND BUY THE REAL SILVER TO COVER THE PAPER.AND IF SILVER GOES TO $50.00 AN OUNCE,JP MORGAN GOES BANKRUPT.HERES MAXES SILVER LIBERATON CAMPAIGN.
http://silverliberationarmy.com/
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.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
EU Challenges Israel's Claim to Jerusalem
Reported: 13:54 PM - Apr/06/11
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday that she is disappointed by Israel's plans to build new Jewish homes in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.I am deeply disappointed by the approval of 942 new housing units in the Israeli settlement of Gilo, Ashton said. The EU is also closely following upcoming plans for settlements on the Mount Scopus Slopes, in Har Homa C and in Pisgat Z'ev.Ashton specifically named Jerusalem neighborhoods liberated from Jordan during the 1967 Six Day War that nearly the entire Israeli public views as rightfully Jewish but the international community hopes to tear away from Israel.
Arab turmoil to affect energy markets for years
By CAMILLE RUSTICI, Associated Press - APR 6,11
PARIS – Algeria's former energy minister warned Wednesday the ongoing political and social turmoil in the Arab world will have dramatic implications for energy markets in coming years.While the outcome of the Arab revolutions is by no means certain, it is already evident that important changes are in progress that are likely to impact energy markets in the long term, Nordine Ait-Laoussine said.Ait-Laoussine made the comments as he opened a daylong conference of representatives of oil and gas producing countries, including Iraq and Nigeria, and industry executives to discuss changes in the energy sector.Unrest in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the region has sent shock waves through global oil markets, pushing price of a barrel above $108, the highest price since 2008.Libya's entire capacity of 1.6 million barrels a day has been shut down since February.Western oil company departures, the military intervention and sanctions will severely curtail oil exports from Libya in the months ahead, said Didier Houssin, director of energy markets at the International Energy Agency.Events like the Arab revolutions, Japan's earthquake and tsunami, and other rare, so-called black swan events seem to be on the rise, said Mark Williams, downstream director at Dutch oil giant Shell.The scientist in me says they aren't, but it sure seems like they are, Williams said.Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, highlighted the uncertainty that these events have raised for world oil markets.We don't know yet about the long term consequences of the instability in the Middle East, about the catastrophe in Japan, about the explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. That can affect future projections for oil demand, al-Shahristani said.
Finding ways to minimize disruption from rising and volatile oil prices is a priority for France's leadership of this year's G-20 group of industrialized nations, industry minister Eric Besson said.The answers to the quick increase of oil prices will be collective, Besson said.Consumers countries, producers countries and oil companies must work together.Price volatility makes the signals more difficult for consumers and investors to read, Shell's Williams said. He said improved market transparency and an improved balance between supply and demand, partly achievable through greater investment in new energy sources such as biomass, will help stabilize the price trend.Total Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie took a reassuring tone, saying for now there is nothing to be worried about, even if the price is high.His firm is investing $5 billion by 2020 to develop new energy sources, mainly solar power and biomass, De Margerie said.De Margerie also said Total is ready to restart operations in Libya as soon as we can.He said Total was ready to begin buying Libyan crude immediately,if it is respecting laws and respecting the embargo.In a step toward getting more money for weapons and other needs, a tanker arrived Tuesday near the eastern city of Tobruk to load up Libyan rebels' first shipment of oil for export in nearly three weeks. The tanker can carry 1 million barrels of oil, less than the 1.6 million barrels Libya produced every day on average before the crisis. Analysts viewed the delivery as a symbolic step forward for a country that had been 17th among the world's oil producers. Associated Press business writer Greg Keller contributed to this report.
What Is a Pregnant Arab Woman Doing in a Terrorist Tunnel?
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu APR 6,11
The IDF bombed two terrorist tunnels in Gaza overnight, but foreign media rely on Hamas sources that two women, one of them pregnant, were wounded.An army spokeswoman told Israel National News that Israeli aircraft scored direct hits on the tunnels in northern Gaza following another Kassam rocket attack on the western Negev Tuesday night. No one was injured.Terror tunnels in northern Gaza are often built to allow terrorists to enter a Jewish community and either kill or kidnap civilians and soldiers.However, the French news agency AFP, in its lead paragraph, reported on the alleged wounded women, quoting Palestinian medics and witnesses who also said the targets were a group of militants and a plastics factory.Hamas routinely claims that pregnant women, handicapped people, mentally retarded civilians and elderly men are the victims of Israeli counterterrorist operations. Confirmation rarely is provided, but foreign agencies report the claims as fact.On Monday, the same news agency reported that an armed civilian, killed by soldiers after refusing to halt his approach to the security fence, simply was an innocent person collecting gravel.AFP told its readers that locals often risk injury or death to enter the no-go zone in search of gravel which they can sell, but the report did not make any mention of the frequent bombs planted on the patrol road.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
One-Third of PA Arabs Support Massacre of Fogels
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu APR 6,11
One-third of Palestinian Authority Arabs have expressed support for the brutal massacre of the Fogel family in Itamar last month, according to a poll conducted by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah.Arab terrorists slaughtered five members of the family, including the parents and a three-month old baby, while they were in their bedrooms on a Friday night, on the Jewish Sabbath.The results of the survey cast further doubt on the likelihood of the PA being a peace partner for Israel. Evidence continues to pile up that the PA has sanctioned the incitement of the Arab community to carry out violent attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.Concerning the chances of a copy-cat uprising that has spread throughout out Arab countries, there is little chance of it happening here, according to the respondents.Two-thirds of the PA Arabs and almost three-quarters of Israelis said that demonstrations would not be capable of causing the erasure of a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.However, slightly more than half of the PA Arabs feel a need for Gaza Arabs to organize protests against the de facto Hamas government.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Breaking the Silence: Rights Group Cites PA Attacks on Reporters
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu APR 6,11
The Palestinian Authority is becoming notorious for assaulting and intimidating journalists and causing some self-censorship by local reporters, according to the Human Rights Watch organization.The report may partially explain media bias against Israel.Human Rights Watch, which traditionally has focused on allegation of rights abuses in Israel, stated that Palestinian Authority intimidation has caused many reporters not to write all of what they know.Hamas has frequently been cited for violence against reporters, most notably the kidnapping of BBC journalist Alan Johnston three years ago. He was released after more than three months in captivity.
The report on abuses in the Palestinian Authority, heavily backed financially and diplomatically by the United States and European Union, includes seven cases. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, urged Western countries to condition aid to the PA on the halt to interference with press freedom.Hamas also was cited for two cases of abuse, but an official of the terrorist organization said the incidents were mistakes, according to the Associated Press. The number of physical attacks and confiscation of journalists’ equipment soared by 45 percent in 2010 compared with the previous year and abuse of journalists rose by 79 percent, the rights group said.One of the cases that was cited involved filmmaker Mohammed Salahat, arrested by Palestinian Authority security services and kept in custody for more than three weeks.The PA also repeatedly detained freelance journalist Khalid Amayreh after he began reporting about torture in Palestinian Authority prison. He was placed in solitary confinement part of the time and was forced to sleep next to a toilet.Human Rights Watch said that although PA leaders may not have specifically ordered the violence against journalists, The utter failure of the PA leadership to address the prevailing culture of impunity for such abuses suggests that they reflect government policy.Last year, reporters covering protests in Gaza complained they were harassed and physically assaulted by Hamas.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED APR 06,2011
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +35.16
10:30 AM +35.72
11:00 AM +54.45
11:30 AM +27.32
12:00 PM +14.42
12:30 PM +19.83
01:00 PM +20.93
01:30 PM +21.43
02:00 PM +23.77
02:30 PM +25.02
03:00 PM +33.11
03:30 PM +35.61
04:00 PM +32.85 12,476.25
S&P 500 1335.54 +2.91
NASDAQ 2799.82 +8.63
GOLD 1,461.00 +8.50
OIL 108.60 +0.26
TSE 300 14,202.70 -67.90
CDNX 2363.43 +9.09
S&P/TSX/60 812.90 -4.75
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +43 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +64 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,460.10.OIL opens at $108.50 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +64 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +64 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,462.00 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL +2 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE -357,000 BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +195,000 BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION
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
Japan's Radiation Leak Plugged But Problems Persist
by Chana Ya'ar APR 6,11
At least one leak into the Pacific Ocean of radioactive water from Japan's stricken nuclear complex has been plugged, according to the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). But the good news is being overshadowed by the fact that nearby coastal waters have already been contaminated.A sample of seawater near the facility was found to contain iodine 131 at 7.5 million times the legal limit. Other samples contained radioactive cesium at 1.1 million times the legal limit. A fish caught Tuesday about 43 miles from the plant was discovered to contain high levels of radioactive iodine 131, according to Japanese government officials. Prior to that, fish caught Friday before the company began flushing thousands of tons of low-level radioactive water into the Pacific was found to contain 4,080 becquerels of iodine 131 per kilogram. The flushed water contains about 100 times the legal radiation limit.Fishing has been banned near the nuclear plant and in fact, most fishing in the region has ended due to earthquake and tsunami damage to the boats and ports. Company financial compensation could run into the billions of dollars, as the market for fish consumption drops dramatically with fears of radioactive contamination.
The flushing makes room for engineers to flood storage containers with more highly contaminated runoff water used to cool off overheated reactors and spent fuel rod pools. This more contaminated water contains approximately 10,000 times the legal radiation limit, government officials told reporters.A confidential assessment by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission obtained by The New York Times has also given a grim warning that some threats from the plant could persist, possibly indefinitely. The report, dated March 26, was prepared for the commission's Reactor Safety Team and was based on the most recent available data from TEPCO, the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, the U.S. Dept. of Energy, General Electric (the type of reactor used in Japan) and the Electric Power Research Institute.It noted there is increased stress being placed on the containment structures around the reactors as they fill with cooling water. This makes them even more vulnerable to rupture in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent aftershocks. Moreover, the release of hydrogen and oxygen inside the containment structures from seawater that was used to cool the reactors could also lead to explosions. In addition, the salt buildup from the seawater, and partially melted fuel rods, are blocking the flow of freshwater intended to cool the reactor cores.
Israelis Bringing Relief
Meanwhile, an Israeli delegation is bringing relief in a number of ways. Aid includes humanitarian supplies, medical expertise and food shipments – but IDF personnel are also working with the children as well.The IDF aid delegation to Japan took a quick break over the weekend to entertain local children from Minamisanriku who have experienced deep losses from the disaster.Delegation members used the international language of soccer to play a game with the children that cheered up both teams. Other IDF aid team members colored drawings with younger Japanese youth.
Prior to and following the games, the IDF officers helped transfer the area's residents from residential population aid centers to temporary housing. The residents will stay in the temporary units until their homes, which were destroyed by the tsunami, are completely rebuilt.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Sea radiation is another blow to Japan's fishermen By MALCOLM FOSTER and RYAN NAKASHIMA, Associated Press – Tue Apr 5, 7:47 pm ET
TOKYO – Fishermen who lost their homes and boats in Japan's tsunami now fear radioactive water that had been gushing into the Pacific Ocean from a crippled nuclear plant could cost them their livelihoods.The contaminated water raised concerns about the safety of seafood in the country that gave the world sushi, prompting the government to set limits for the first time on the amount of radiation permitted in fish.Authorities insisted the radioactive water would dissipate and posed no immediate threat to sea creatures or people who might eat them. Most experts agreed.Still, Japanese officials adopted the new standards as a precaution. And the mere suggestion that seafood from Japan could be at any risk stirred worries throughout the fishing industry.Even if the government says the fish is safe, people won't want to buy seafood from Fukushima, says Ichiro Yamagata, a fisherman who lived in the shadow of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.We probably can't fish there for several years.Fukushima is not a major fishing region, and no fishing is allowed in the direct vicinity of the plant. But experts estimate the coastal areas hit by the massive wave account for about a fifth of Japan's annual catch.In a rare bit of good news, the utility that owns the crippled nuclear plant about 140 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo said highly radioactive water that had been leaking into the ocean from a crack discovered over the weekend had stopped early Wednesday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesperson Naoki Tsunoda said the company's attempt to stem the leak by injecting 1,500 liters (400 gallons) of water glass, or sodium silicate, and another agent near a seaside pit where the water had been leaking appeared to have been successful.The new limits on radioactivity in fish were imposed after TEPCO announced water tested near the plant Saturday contained levels of radioactive iodine 7.5 million times the legal limit. That level had dropped to 5 million two days later.Japan said some fish caught last week about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the plant would have exceeded the new safety limits, which may change as circumstances do.Fears of radiation contamination prompted India to announce Tuesday that it was halting food imports from Japan. Few countries have gone so far, but India's three-month ban reflected the unease created by the nuclear crisis among consumers. India said the ban would last three months or until the risk subsides. It planned to review the situation weekly.Yamagata, whose home is within the 12-mile (20-kilometer) evacuation zone around the plant, is staying in a Tokyo soccer stadium with his wife and about 140 other refugees. He expects his fishing days are over.After the magnitude-9.0 earthquake on March 11, he ran outside and watched the second floor of his house collapse, then fled with his family when tsunami warnings sounded.Since then, he hasn't been allowed to return to check on the 5-ton boat he used to troll for flounder. He assumes it's gone, too. The tsunami killed up to 25,000 people and left tens of thousands homeless as it swamped about 250 miles (400 kilometers) of the northeastern coast and knocked out power to the plant.
Workers there have been desperately trying to cool down overheated reactors, but the effort has required spraying large amounts of water and allowing it to gush out wherever it can escape, sometimes into the sea.Radioactivity will continue spewing into the air and water until cooling systems are restored.The radiation standards for fish will be the same as for vegetables. After spinach and milk exceeded safety limits following the quake, health experts said people would still have to eat enormous quantities of tainted produce or dairy before getting even the amount of radiation contained in a CT scan.Japan imports far more fish than it exports, but it sent the world $2.3 billion worth of seafood last year. Some people were undaunted. At Sushizanmai, a sushi bar just outside Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market, customers were still eating Japan's famed raw fish delicacies Tuesday night.But chef Seiichiro Ogawa said the fuss over radiation could hurt business. His restaurant is trying to get more fish from the western part of Japan, which has not been affected by the nuclear crisis.Japanese customers are especially sensitive to this kind of thing, so I'm worried they'll stop eating sushi, said Ogawa, who has already seen his business drop 50 percent after foreigners stopped visiting the city after the quake. We need this nuclear problem to be resolved.TEPCO also said this week it is purposely dumping more than 3 million gallons of low-level radioactive water into the sea to make room in a storage tank for more highly contaminated water that it needs to remove before workers can restore important cooling systems.That announcement angered Fukushima's federation of fisheries groups, which sent the company a letter of protest.Our prefecture's fisherman have lost their lives, fishing boats, piers and buildings due to the Great Eastern Japan Disaster, federation chairman Tetsu Nozaki said in the letter. This low-level contaminated water has raised fears among fishermen that they will never be able to fish in our prefecture's waters again, and we absolutely want you to stop.TEPCO's reputation has taken a serious hit in the crisis. On Tuesday, its stock dropped 80 yen — the maximum daily limit, or 18 percent — to just 362 yen ($4.30), falling below its previous all-time closing low of 393 yen from December 1951. Since the quake, the share price has plunged 80 percent.
In what could be an effort to counter the bad publicity, Takashi Fujimoto, TEPCO's vice president, said it was offering 20 million yen ($240,000) in apology money to each town or city affected by the mandatory evacuation zone around the plant.That's likely to be little comfort to fisherman Yamagata and his wife, Chiharu, who are angry with TEPCO over the situation.All we heard was that the plants were safe, safe, safe, she said.I feel like they were hiding things from us. Now that radiation is seeping out, it's too late.Ichiro Yamagata, who is 50, said he would like to return to his home and his job, but he sees no way that could happen. Nearly 17,000 boats have already been reported damaged in three hardest-hit prefectures, and that's just a partial tally.Some fishing boats that left the harbor immediately after the quake got far enough out to sea that they were safe from the tsunami, Yamagata said, but others were swept away.For now, the Yamagatas are passing their days at the soccer stadium, sleeping on mats in large rooms sectioned off with blue, knee-high dividers. They have no possessions — Ichiro Yamagata doesn't even have his driver's license — and only enough cash in the bank to last six months.After that, I'm going to have to find some kind of work, he said.But fishermen can't be salarymen. I can only do simple jobs.Associated Press writers Yuri Kageyama and Noriko Kitano contributed to this report.
EU plans tougher radiation limits for Japanese food
ANDREW WILLIS Today APR 6,11
@ 09:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union is preparing to tighten radiation limits on Japanese food and animal feed imports, as low-level radioactive seawater used for cooling reactors at the crisis-stricken Fukushima plant is returned to the sea. The lower permissible thresholds will bring the EU into line with tougher domestic limits in Japan, and are likely to be agreed by member states this Friday (8 April). Speaking to MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso described the measures as purely precautionary. The commission believes it would be correct to amend the present levels in force since March 25 as an additional safeguard measure, Barroso told the euro-deputies. He noted that Europe's current thresholds were agreed following Ukraine's 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl.We have decided that on a transitional basis we are going to implement the standards of Japan (where) the levels permitted are lower, he explained. The tougher limits would see caesium-134 and caesium-137 thresholds reduced from 1,250 becquerels per kilogramme at present to 500 becquerels per kilogramme.The new limit for iodine-131 would be 2,000 becquerels per kilogramme and for strontium-90 it would be 750 becquerels per kilogramme, a spokesman for European consumer affairs commissioner John Dalli told AFP.I should like to underline here that all the checks carried out up to now by member states... demonstrate negligible levels of radioactivity which are significantly below current Japanese and European standards, underlined Barroso.Seafood products make up a significant portion of the EU's relatively small level of imports from Japan, although the EU-27 sources over 99 percent of its seafood imports from other countries.
We are very concerned about the spread of radioactivity in the sea waters, EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki told members of parliament's fisheries committee on Monday, amid reports of contaminated water entering the sea near the Fukushima plant.Tokyo Electric Power which runs the plant announced this week that it still needs to pump some 11,500 tonnes of low-level radioactive seawater into the sea because of a lack of storage space.In a sign of the long-lasting contamination effects, environmental group Greenpeace on Sunday said milk and other staples such as mushrooms and berries are still contaminated in parts of Ukraine, 25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.Roughly a week ago, air monitoring stations in several EU member states announced that the minutest levels of radioactive iodine had been detected in the air. Health experts have stressed however that both air and sea pollution levels are too weak to pose a threat to human health.As well as discussing the ongoing Japanese crisis, MEPs sitting in plenary on Tuesday were also critical of plant decommissioning efforts in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia. Delays, lack of coordination and too much money going to unrelated energy projects, were among the criticisms highlighted by MEPs in a resolution.
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 using human shields to curb air strikes: NATO
By Alexander Dziadosz - APR 6,11
AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi is using human shields to foil air strikes on his forces, NATO officials said on Wednesday as rebels angry at alleged Western inaction battled anew to advance on the key coast road.In their eastern heartland, the ragged, ill-trained rebels set out again to recapture terrain lost in a headlong retreat from Gaddafi's superior firepower, reporting heavy fighting west of their frontline town of Ajdabiyah as both sides sought to end a seesaw stalemate in the oil-producing state's civil war.Mohamed el-Masrafy, a member of a rebel special forces unit, said clashes broke out at 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) after government forces were resupplied with ammunition and rumbled eastwards out of the oil port of Brega, 80 km (50 miles) from Ajdabiyah.NATO dismissed rebel complaints that its air strike campaign was slackening off, saying relieving the siege of Misrata, a rebel enclave in the west, remained the priority but conceding that Gaddafi's army was proving a resourceful, elusive target.The situation on the ground is constantly evolving. Gaddafi's forces are changing tactics, using civilian vehicles, hiding tanks in cities such as Misrata and using human shields to hide behind, spokeswoman Carmen Romero said in Brussels.Western air power has fashioned a rough military balance in Libya, preventing Gaddafi troops from overrunning the motley rebel force dominating the east -- but not forceful enough for the insurgents to advance solidly hundreds of kilometers along the Mediterranean coast to the capital Tripoli in the west.Masrafy told Reuters that the front line was about 20 km (12 miles) east of Brega, the focus of a weeklong to-and-fro battle. A sustained government assault on Tuesday drove rebels about halfway back to Ajdabiyah, gateway to their Benghazi powerbase.
Tuesday's pullback wasn't a full withdrawal, it's back and forth, said Hossam Ahmed, a defector from Gaddafi's army as pick-ups loaded with machineguns and rocket launchers rolled westwards while several families fleeing the fighting in cars packed with their belongings passed in the opposite direction.Journalists were banned on Wednesday from heading west from Ajdabiyah, making it difficult to assess the fighting.Like other rebels, Ahmed expressed frustration at what he called NATO's hesitant approach.There have been no air strikes. We hear the sound, but they don't bomb anything.
WHAT IS NATO WAITING FOR?
Said Emburak, an Ajdabiyah resident, chimed in: What is NATO waiting for? We have cities that are being destroyed. Ras Lanuf, Bin Jawad, Brega, and Gaddafi is destroying Misrata completely.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said NATO operations were at risk of getting bogged down due to the fact that Gaddafi's forces were frequently deploying close to civilians as tactical protection against air strikes.He told France Info radio that he would address the issue shortly with the head of NATO, adding that Misrata's ordeal cannot go on but that the situation is unclear.Admiral Edouard Guillaud, France's armed forces chief, told Europe 1 radio: I would like things to go faster but ... protecting civilians means not firing anywhere near them. That is precisely the difficulty.He said NATO's six-day-old air campaign was concentrating on Misrata, where rebels were holding the port zone.Misrata, under daily shelling, tank and sniper fire, is the only big population center in western Libya -- about 200 km (120 miles) east of Tripoli -- where a two-month-old popular revolt against Gaddafi has not been stamped out.The inconclusive battlefield situation, defections from Gaddafi's coterie and the plight of civilians ensnared in fighting or running out of food and fuel has spurred a flurry of diplomacy in pursuit of a peaceful solution. But such efforts have made little headway, with the rebels adamant that Gaddafi step down while the government, aware of the limitations of Western intervention, has offered concessions hinting at democratization but insists he stay in power.
LIMITED MISSION
NATO's air strikes are targeting Gaddafi's military infrastructure but only to protect civilians, not to provide close air support for rebels, while enforcing a no-fly zone and an arms embargo under a U.N. Security Council mandate.Abdel Fattah Younes, head of Libya's rebel army accused NATO of being too slow to order air strikes to shield civilians, allowing Gaddafi's forces to slaughter the people of Misrata.NATO blesses us every now and then with a bombardment here and there, and is letting the people of Misrata die every day. NATO has disappointed us, he told reporters in the insurgents eastern stronghold city of Benghazi on Tuesday.The conflict in the oil-producing North African state ignited in February when Gaddafi tried to crush pro-democracy rallies against his 41-year rule inspired by uprisings that have toppled or endangered other autocrats across the Arab world.NATO has denied rebel assertions hat the pace of air strikes has abated since it took over the task from a smaller big power coalition of the United States, Britain and France on March 31.The assessment is that we have taken out 30 percent of the military capacity of Gaddafi, Brigadier General Mark van Uhm, a senior NATO staff officer, said in Brussels on Tuesday.Younes said rebels were considering referring what he said was slow decision-making by NATO to the U.N. Security Council. NATO has become our problem,he said, and in the meantime Misrata is being subjected to a full extermination.A U.S. envoy has arrived in Benghazi to get to know the opposition and discuss possible financial and humanitarian assistance, a U.S. official said. The visit by Chris Stevens, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, reflects a U.S. effort to deepen contacts with the insurgents.Turkey, whose status as a secular Muslim state positioned between Europe and the Middle East gives it unusual mediating potential, also sent a special envoy to Benghazi for talks with the opposition, its foreign minister said.(Additional reporting by Brian Love and Nick Vinocur in Paris, Daren Butler in Istanbul, Angus Macswan in Benghazi, Arshad Mohammed and Mark Hosenball in Washington; writing by Mark Heinrich; editing by Giles Elgood)
Standing Up to Iran: Gulf Alliance Flexes Its Muscles
By CHARLES MCDERMID / ABU DHABI TIME -APR 6,11
Pilots winging over raging Libyan battlefields in Mirage and F-16 fighter jets. A convoy of troops and tanks rumbling to the aid of an embattled partner. Defiant words for a regional bully bent on meddling in domestic affairs.These are just some of the hallmarks of the new-look Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - the bloc of six Arab nations that is shedding its image as a somnolent, oil-rich cartel and propelling itself forward in the role of hands-on military campaigner in the uprisings that are reshaping the region. It has already intervened - mainly with member Saudi Arabia's troops - in the rebellion in GCC compatriot Bahrain. This is the GCC 2.0 and the world, and most especially Iran, is watching. (See the latest scenes from the unrest in Libya.)The unprecedented show of force has so far boosted pan-Arab pride, brought accolades from Western allies and reinforced a bulwark against ever expanding Iranian influence. This level of involvement just sets an incredible precedent, says John L. Esposito, professor of religion and Islamic studies at Georgetown University and author of The Future of Islam. These governments usually use diplomacy or write a check. Now, [the GCC member states] have taken the opportunity to step out front in other countries on issues that are domestically driven.
It began with the GCC's deployment in March of some 1,500 Saudi-led security forces and armored vehicles - part of the Peninsula Shield force. The move helped put down a mostly Shi'ite revolt on the streets of Manama. It was a controversial gambit by a group mainly composed of Sunni monarchies, one that was denounced by Shi'ite-ruled Iran and Iraq (Baghdad is the current head of the Arab League). On BBC Arabic on March 26, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned that the GCC intervention risked setting off a regionwide sectarian war.It's potentially very important. It's certainly a crossroads, a potential flash point between Sunni and Shia. This engages a lot of people's interests - Saudi, Iraq and Iran. The demonstrations and the ferocity of the response caught everyone by surprise - and so has the GCC reaction, says Kenneth Pollack, director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and former staff member of the U.S. National Security Council.
The GCC power play continued with Qatar and the U.A.E. committing military muscle - including Qatari pilots and a dozen combat planes - to the punishing air strikes that the Western-led coalition hopes will protect Libyan rebels and civilians from the army of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. General Jean-Paul Palomeros, commander of the French air force, described the GCC states' involvement as a turning point in history. It really shows the courage [of Qatar] to enlist at our sides.But in terms of what the experts consider the greatest potential conflict in the region - the rivalry between the Gulf states and Tehran - the GCC's gloves really came off on Sunday. Following a late-night meeting of foreign ministers in Riyadh, the GCC blasted Iran's flagrant interference in the region and blamed Iran for actively destabilizing and violating the sovereignty of their countries. The meeting came after the Iranian government's foreign-affairs and security committee said Thursday that Saudi Arabia, the GCC's most populous member, should know it's better not to play with fire in the sensitive region of the Persian Gulf. That only slightly veiled threat was not taken lightly by the GCC, now fresh off two recent military maneuvers and possibly banking on long-standing military ties with the U.S.What has ensued from these back-and-forth barbs has been a full-on verbal battle that has brought in the ongoing conflicts in Bahrain, Yemen and Kuwait as well as threats of diplomatic action and fears of sectarian war. In its statement, the GCC severely condemned Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Bahrain, which is in violation of international pacts. The bloc also criticized the blatant Iranian interference in [GCC member] Kuwait through planting spy cells on its territory, in reference to a Kuwaiti court case last week in which two Iranians and a Kuwaiti were sentenced to death for their roles in an alleged Iranian spy network. The two countries recalled their ambassadors and expelled diplomats.
The GCC said Iran's playing with fire salvo had the potential to fuel sectarianism between the region's Shi'ite and Sunni, and the meeting condemned the baseless accusations by the Iranian parliament regarding Saudi Arabia and considers it a hostile stand and provocative interference. The statement concluded with a call for Tehran to stop these hostile policies and respect the rules of good neighborliness ... so as to preserve the security and stability in this region, which is key for the entire world.It took only hours for Iran to respond; its Foreign Ministry said Sunday that the tension between Tehran and the GCC was the result of Western and Zionist conspiracy aimed at sowing discord between Islamic countries.We advise regional governments to heed the demands of their people in order to stop such conspiracies,Ramin Mehmanparast, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, told reporters, while insisting unity among Muslims was the key issue for Iran.The vitriol remains at the diplomatic level. Even so, the tone of the GCC's rebuttal to Iran has raised the standard for defiance. The verbal standoff between a reinvigorated GCC and a typically bellicose Tehran is best described as a regional war of words - at least for now.
EU presidents: We're not dismantling the welfare state
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today APR 6,11 @ 09:34 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU chiefs Herman van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso defended their austerity-focussed response to the bloc's economic crisis against criticisms of MEPs who accused the leaders of taking an unbalanced approach.Some people fear this work is about dismantling the welfare states and social protection, European Council President Van Rompuy told deputies in Strasbourg. Not at all ... It is to save these fundamental aspects of the European model.We want to make sure that our economies are competitive enough to create jobs and to sustain the welfare of all our citizens and that's what our work is about.European Commission President Barroso, who was delivering a report back from an EU summit at the end of March dedicated to delivering a comprehensive response to the crisis, also said that his institution had tried to push for a more social response but laid the blame at the the foot of the member states for blocking proposals from the EU executive.The commission did fight hard to have more emphasis on social aspects and education [in the Europe 2020 strategy, its ten-year plan for growth], he said, adding that a Europeanisation of public debt has long been a goal, saying eurobonds were proposed 30 years ago.On making banks pay their share of the burden, he said: I defended the financial transaction tax in the G20 ... [but] this was rejected by a huge number of our G20 partners. Now we are discussing it at the European level.Let's be honest once again. Several member states are fundamentally opposed to it. They will not agree.He also said that it was the commission that has pushed for lower interest rates to be paid on the Greek and Irish bail-outs.I am proud of the fact that the commission and myself have supported the idea to reduce the interest rate which is being paid by Greece and we are now doing the same for Ireland because this is fair.
We cannot impose costs which are very difficult for Greek or Irish citizens to pay.He did however concede that he is worried that Europe is splitting between the haves and have-not states.He said he wants to avoid a Europe divided on north-south or centre-periphery lines.He was responding in particular to criticisms from the centre and left of the house.During the debate, Socialist leader Martin Schulz attacked Barroso for the bloc's failure to make public investments at the same time as pushing for cuts to public spending.He also accused Barroso's political party, the centre-right Portuguese Social Democrats, of bringing down the government for implementing the policies that you and the Commission demanded.On Tuesday, credit rating agency Moody's downgraded Portugal's debt while Portuguese bankers are also demanding the country's caretaker government request an interim loan from the EU until after the general election.Political analysts have said that the caretaker government does not have the mandate to request a bail-out and negotiate the attendant package of austerity measures that come tied to such a lifeline.
EU in race to digitise economy
HONOR MAHONY 05.04.2011 @ 16:46 CET
EUOBSERVER / DIGITAL AGENDA - The EU is trying to drag all of its member states into the digital age. In the not-too-distant future, all EU citizens should have internet access, most should routinely shop online, their medical records will be stored in a data cloud, they will plan trips using smart technology, access art and culture electronically and pay bills, return tax forms and interact with government all online.The bid to see virtually all facets of life conducted electronically by the end of this decade is part of the EU's much-vaunted Digital Agenda. The ultimate economic aim is to make sure that the 27-nation bloc is still among those that count - along with China and the US - by 2020.Digital technology ... will provide Europeans with a better quality of life through better health care, safer and more efficient transport solution, cleaner environment, new media opportunities and easier access to public services and cultural commitment, says the European Commission.Digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes says that broadband internet access is a type of digital oxygen essential for our prosperity and our wellbeing.
By 2013, all EU citizens should have broadband internet coverage. Two years later, half of them should be buying online (and 20 percent buying cross border online) while 50 percent should be partaking in e-government. Meanwhile, a series of public services such as 'e-justice' should be available across borders by 2015 and a single telecoms market should mean that there is almost no difference in price between making a mobile phone call at home and calling while in another EU country.But while the targets are relatively straightforward on paper, the regulatory, societal, security and privacy implications are staggeringly complex.
Access
The most basic issue is internet access. Some 25 percent of Europeans - mostly poorer and elderly - have never even used the internet. There are vast differences among member states. While Denmark has at 37.3 percent a broadband penetration rate that is amongst the highest in the world, according to 2008 figures, Bulgaria comes in bottom of the EU league table with 11 percent. And Europe is a long way off in place ultra-fast fibre-based networks - 100 times faster than regular broadband - already at 15 percent penetration in world leader South Korea but languishing at just one percent in the EU.On top of this, there is little interoperability in the digital market – common standards need to be set if all EU citizens are to equally benefit from such things as e-health, e-transport and e-government. The telecoms market is fragmented. Too few Europeans are skilled in ICT and member states are reluctant to raise R&D spending. This last fault is compounded by the sharp economic downturn across the bloc.For consumers, a number of practical problems remain. They do not know what their rights are if they buy abroad and something goes amiss – that is if they are allowed to use their credit card at all. Electronic payments and e-invoicing still tends to stop at the physical border. A single European number for a company to deal with customer queries is a good idea, but a long way from reality.
In terms of online content, copyright remains as contentious an issue as ever. An online pan-European music store would have to deal with rights issues in 27 member states, for example, while it is not clear where the law stands on orphan works, whose copyright has expired. The borderless nature of the internet has raised profound questions for musicians and rights management agencies that collect royalties.When people start to treat the internet as something that is no longer limited by borders, this makes life difficult both for consumers and for companies, says Fabian Zuleeg, chief economist at the European Policy Centre.
A slew of proposals
The European Commission is due to publish a slew of proposals to tackle just this issue later this year. They include a review of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, legislation on orphan works and on collective rights management (the agencies that collect royalties for musicians). It is also evaluating the 2000 e-commerce law because of the slow-take up in shopping online among European consumers. Meanwhile the European Parliament recently agreed a new law that improve the rights of online buyers including setting down rules governing returns and digital downloads.EU internal market Michel Barnier's diary is a good indication of the range of the scope of the issue. On a single day in March, he met the CEO of the online trading giant ebay, the presidents of the independent music association Impala and Naive, as well as the head of Kiala, a parcel business.Aside from regulatory and spending issues, fundamental to the success of the EU's digital agenda is making citizens believe that carrying out more and more aspects of their daily lives online is safe.Trust comes by foot and leaves on horseback, remarked EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy explaining the difficulties of building up online confidence.Fears about security issues already prevents many people from shopping online. According to EU statistics, over a third of people say they do not buy online because of payment security concerns. This fear is closely followed by privacy and trust concerns.As activities such as e-voting or e-petitions or e-governance become more prevalent, the potential for abuse by authorities grows with it, while companies are keen to closely track consumers online moves so they can better target advertising.A broader underlying issue for the Digital Agenda is funding. Mr Zuleeg notes that next-generation broadband and smart grids mean huge investments.Public finances are very constrained. It is very difficult to see that this major push is going to come from the member states especially when we're talking about cross-border projects. The majority has to be done through private funding, suggests Mr Zuleeg.The European Commission is already talking up public-private partnerships as a way to get around empty public coffers. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso emphasised the importance of the idea in his State of the Union speech last year.It is also pushing the idea of EU 'project bonds' to help pull billions in investment needed for smart grids and other infrastructure.Mr Zuleeg suggests that the Digitial Agenda programme is realistic but to succeed it will need cross-sectoral from all the relevant departments in the commission.The key issue is to have a coherent list of recommendation – a programme that cuts across a number of DGs jointly but at a very high level.Read more in the EUobserver April FOCUS on Digital Agenda.
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.
Storms fell trees, crush homes in South, killing 9 By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press – Tue Apr 5, 8:21 pm ET
JACKSON, Ga. – An enormous tree limb that crashed through a Georgia family's bedroom killed a father and the young son he was holding in his arms Tuesday as a fast-moving storm system pounded the South with tornadoes, hail and spectacular lightning. At least nine people were killed around the region, including several who died on roads made treacherous by downed trees and power lines.Paramedics found the 4-year-old boy, Alix Bonhomme III, wrapped in the arms of his father, Alix Bonhomme Jr., in a sight so wrenching that even grizzled rescuers wept. Miraculously, a younger son in the bedroom wasn't hurt, nor was Bonhomme's fiancee, Marcie Moorer, who was sleeping in another room.Moorer, who was still in pajamas hours later, said she still couldn't fathom what happened when the storm rumbled through Jackson, a town about 45 miles south of Atlanta. Her 3-year-old son Iysic rode his tricycle around a relative's front yard as she looked on.I'm still in shock. It hasn't hit me yet, said a bleary-eyed Moorer, who was planning to marry Bonhomme in July.Later in the day, she added: I'm just happy I have Iysic. That's all I can think about.The storms were part of a system that cut a wide swath from the Mississippi River across the Southeast to Georgia and the Carolinas on Monday and early Tuesday. Drivers dodged debris during the morning commute in Atlanta, where one person was killed when a tree fell on his car. Georgia officials estimated the damage at $32 million but that it would likely climb.
The National Weather Service had confirmed at least eight of the nearly two-dozen possible tornadoes it was investigating in several states, though the damage in Jackson was blamed on 60 mph winds that weren't part of a twister. The system that also knocked out power to hundreds of thousands had moved over the Atlantic Ocean by late morning. Crews were restoring power to many.In Augusta, Ga., a practice round for the Masters golf tournament was delayed by 45 minutes while workers cleaned up debris. One of Augusta National Golf Club's famed magnolia trees was destroyed by the storm.In rural south Georgia, authorities said 45-year-old Christopher McNair was found dead under debris after a mobile home in Dodge County was ripped from its foundation by a tornado. Authorities say his body was thrown about 100 yards from the trailer, and three other people in the structure were injured.A relative, Ricky McNair, described a desperate search for the man in an interview with WMAZ-TV.Oh my God, I was hollering at the top of my voice, hoping that he could hear me and hoping that I could hear him answer me, McNair said, choking back tears.And when I found him, I just, I just broke down.An unidentified Irwin County man was killed when a tree struck his home, according to emergency officials. And 56-year-old Ronnie Taylor, a Colquitt County road worker, was killed when he struck a large oak tree in the middle of the road as he was driving to work early Tuesday.Memphis fire officials said an 87-year-old man found dead in his home Monday was electrocuted by a downed power line. In southern Mississippi, a 21-year-old man was killed when his car struck a tree that had fallen across a road, Copiah County coroner Ellis Stuart said.The Georgia Department of Corrections said Robert Kincaid Jr., a state inmate being housed in the Colquitt County Prison, was killed Tuesday morning during storm cleanup when a tree fell on him.Elsewhere, emergency officials were thankful the storm didn't do greater damage. And it wasn't limited to the South. In Ohio at least three tornadoes were confirmed.
Strong winds ripped off part of the roof of an Ashland City, Tenn., elementary school gymnasium, but officials said no children were injured. Seven people working at a plant in western Kentucky were injured Monday when a possible tornado hit, but dozens others were spared because they were on break at the time.We're fortunate not to have any serious injuries or death, Christian County Emergency Management Director Randy Graham said.In Jackson, the mayor estimated it would take weeks — or longer — to clean the wreckage.Some residents say they saw the sky turn an eerie green hue as the storm struck. Bennie Battle, Moorer's stepfather, said he remembers the sky lighting up as the worst of the weather hit.It was just a lot of wind and lightning, said Battle, who lives down the street from Moorer.It was like being in the middle of a laser show.Bonhomme Jr., a New York native whose accent made him stand out, worked two jobs to support his family at the Family Dollar and Little Caesars, both a short walk from their modest duplex. Friends and neighbors said he was a devoted father who was always quick to strike up a conversation.He was a hard-working kid and a family man, said Tray Head, a neighbor. He was always in his yard playing with the kids. He was just about the nicest guy I ever met.Firefighters swarmed Bonhomme's house after the storm passed, trying to save the father and son. Head saw some rescuers cry after they uncovered the bodies.You never see them cry because they're used to seeing everything, he said.But when they saw that, they started bawling.By Tuesday morning, the skies had cleared and the winds had died down. And temperatures throughout the South were expected to dip in the 30s overnight though they're expected to quickly rebound.Tae Brannon, a relative of Moorer, surveyed the damage as tears welled in her eyes. A toy truck her nephew once played with was crushed under one of the limbs. A tie-dyed soccer ball, a stuffed animal and a car seat base were strewn throughout the yard.
She and her son were saved by the grace of God, she said, shaking her head.I guess you never know, but the lord knows best. He didn't put us here forever, and there's going to be a time when you have to leave.Marcie's brother Jonathan Moorer, who rushed to the house clutching a picture of her family, burst into tears when he saw what remained. When he was asked how the community could help, he could only muster two words.Just pray.Associated Press writers Lenny Pallats and Jeff Martin in Atlanta contributed to this report.
Severe storms in Southeast states cause deaths, damage
By David Beasley – Tue Apr 5, 11:25 am ET
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Severe storms blowing across the Southeast killed at least five people in Georgia early on Tuesday, and also were to blame for deaths in two other states, authorities said.In Jackson, Georgia, about 40 miles south of Atlanta, a tree fell on a duplex apartment killing a father and his 3-year-old son, said David Dunn, a fire captain.They were in bed together and a tree fell, said Dunn.There was another child in bed with them who escaped unharmed.The mother, who was in another bedroom, also was uninjured, Dunn said.In Dodge County, about 140 miles south of Atlanta, winds lifted a doublewide home off its foundation, killing one man inside, said Sheriff's Department spokesman Captain Tony Winborn.The mobile home was ripped apart by the strong winds and scattered throughout a field, said Winborn.Christopher McNair, 45, was found dead beneath the debris, said Winborn, who said it was not yet known whether the damage was caused by a tornado or high winds.There were also storm-related deaths in Atlanta and in Colquitt County, according to media reports.Early Tuesday, 132,000 Georgia Power Co. customers were without power, including 48,000 in metro Atlanta, said utility spokeswoman Carol Boatwright.Winds, hail and tornadoes were reported across the Southeast, toppling trees, downing power lines and damaging buildings.A driver was killed Monday evening in southern Mississippi after running into a tree that had fallen across a road during the storms, said Rick Stevens, emergency operator for Copiah County.
In Memphis, Tennessee, an 87-year-old man died after being electrocuted by a downed power line that he picked up while clearing debris around his home, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency officials said.Officials said 75,000 customers in Nashville and 60,000 customers in Memphis were without power during the peak of the storm Monday night, and many still didn't have power on Tuesday.Some schools in counties around Nashville were closed on Tuesday. One high school west of Nashville sustained damage from winds that reportedly reached 80 to 85 miles per hour.(Additional reporting by Colleen Jenkins and Timothy Ghianni; Editing by Jerry Norton)
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Ozone layer faces record 40 pct loss over Arctic
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press – Tue Apr 5, 7:01 pm ET
GENEVA – The protective ozone layer in the Arctic that keeps out the sun's most damaging rays — ultraviolet radiation — has thinned about 40 percent this winter, a record drop, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.The Arctic's damaged stratospheric ozone layer isn't the best known ozone hole — that would be Antarctica's, which forms when sunlight returns in spring there each year. But the Arctic's situation is due to similar causes: ozone-munching compounds in air pollutants that are chemically triggered by a combination of extremely cold temperatures and sunlight.
The losses this winter in the Arctic's fragile ozone atmospheric layer strongly exceeded the previous seasonal loss of about 30 percent, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization in Geneva said.It blamed the combination of very cold temperatures in the stratosphere, the second major layer of the Earth's atmosphere, just above the troposphere, and ozone-eating CFCs from aerosol sprays and refrigeration.This is pretty sudden and unusual, said Bryan Johnson, an atmospheric chemist who works in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.Atmospheric scientists concerned about global warming focus on the Arctic because that is a region where the effects are expected to be felt first.The Arctic stratosphere continues to be vulnerable to ozone destruction caused by ozone-depleting substances linked to human activities, the U.N. weather agency's secretary-general Michel Jarraud said.Although the thinner ozone means more radiation can hit Earth's surface, the ozone levels in the Arctic remain higher than in other regions such as in the equatorial regions, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose recent Arctic findings mirror those of the U.N. agency.Ozone losses occur over the polar regions when temperatures drop below -78 degrees Celsius (-108 Fahrenheit) and iridescent ice clouds form. Sunlight on icy surfaces triggers the ozone-eating reactions in chlorine and bromine that comes from air pollutants such as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, once widely used as refrigerants and flame retardants in household appliances.
As sunlight returns, it all comes together to trigger significant thinning of the ozone, Johnson explained.Mostly the concern, for the Arctic ozone depletion, is for people that live in northern regions, more towards Iceland, northern Norway, the northern coast of Russia, he added, saying they should be more careful outside, wearing sunscreen and sunglasses.As of late March, the U.N. said, the thinning ozone was shifting away from the pole and was covering Greenland and Scandinavia.For the planet, Johnson said, there's the concern that if this were to happen every year — even though the ozone naturally regenerates itself — you might see a trending downward of the atmospheric ozone layer.After scientists raised warnings in the early 1970s — later earning a Nobel Prize — virtually all the world's nations agreed to the 1987 treaty called the Montreal Protocol to cut back on CFCs used in air conditioning, aerosol sprays, foam packaging and other products.But the compounds have long atmospheric lifetimes, so it takes decades for their concentrations to subside to the pre-1980 levels agreed to in the Montreal Protocol. The ozone layer outside the polar regions isn't expected to recover to pre-1980 levels until sometime between 2030 and 2040.The ozone treaty also encourages industries to use replacement chemicals less damaging to ozone.Some scientists say if that treaty hadn't been adopted, two-thirds of the world's protective ozone layer would be gone about a half-century from now and the CFCs, which also are long-lived potent greenhouse gases, would have pushed the world's temperature up an extra few degrees.
Arctic ozone conditions vary more than the seasonal ozone hole that forms high in the stratosphere near the South Pole each winter and spring, and the temperatures are always warmer in the Arctic than over Antarctica. Because of the changing weather and temperatures that some Arctic winters experience, there have been times where there is almost no ozone loss, and others when the exceptionally cold stratospheric conditions has led to substantial ozone depletion, U.N. scientists say.This year, the Arctic winter was warmer than average at ground level but colder in the stratosphere than normal. Average Arctic temperatures in January range from about -40 to 0 C (-40 to 32 F) and in July from about -10 to 10 C (14 to 50 F). U.N. officials say the latest losses — unprecedented, but not entirely unexpected — were detected in satellite observations and weather balloons that show at what altitudes the ozone loss is occurring.Online:
WMO: http://www.wmo.int/pages/index_en.html
UN ozone: http://ozone.unep.org/
Deutsche Boerse can bide its time with NYSE bid: analysts
by Etienne Balmer – Tue Apr 5, 1:21 pm ET
FRANKFURT (AFP) – German market operator Deutsche Boerse could stand by its offer for the New York Stock Exchange and hope a rival bid by Nasdaq OMX falls apart owing to heavy debt and other risks, analysts say.The cash-and-share offer by Nasdaq OMX announced on Friday for NYSE Euronext represents a premium of about 19 percent over one from Deutsche Boerse, at $11.3 billion.But the head of the German operator, Reto Francioni has not indicated that he will up the ante.We will not get involved in a bidding war, a source close to the Deutsche Boerse boss told the German daily Die Welt.Christian Muschick at the German investment bank Silvia Quandt said: We expect Deutsche Boerse to stick to a take it or leave it approach.That could be a winning strategy if faults in the all-American Nasdaq/NYSE plan widen under the pressure of Nasdaq OMX's heavy debt.The second biggest US market operator already has debt of $2.3 billion, almost three times its 2010 core operating profit.And since one third of its offer is in cash, Nasdaq would have to borrow more, not to mention the fact it would have to take on debt held by NYSE Euronext, which would bring the total to $6.5 billion.
That has prompted international ratings agencies Standard and Poor's and Moody's to voice doubt about Nasdaq OMX's solvency in the event it manages to snag NYSE Euronext.The amount of expected savings is also open to question, analysts said.
Nasdaq and its ally ICE have estimated annual savings of $740 million after three years, far more than the 300 million euros ($425 million) mooted by Deutsche Boerse from its own offer.These cost synergies are incredibly high, and are very provisional figures, almost shots in the dark, LBBW analyst Martin Peter told AFP.
Meeting such cost savings would imply losts of unemployment on Wall Street, which could hamper a deal, he added.A massive US stock market entity could also be nipped in the bud by competition watchdogs owing to a quasi monopoly on US stock transactions.If such concerns caused the value of Nasdaq's own shares to fall,its offer would lose some of its lustre for NYSE Euronext shareholders, since most of the offer is based on equity, said Andreas Plaesier at the M.M. Warburg bank.The cash component is certainly very interesting on the other hand but shareholders should consider the long-term aspects, he added.Deutsche Boerse insists meanwhile that its plan represents the best possible combination for investors on both sides of a deal.But that project is subject to scrutiny by competition authorities as well because it would combine dominant positions from both sides, especially in derivatives trading. And success is not only a question of size,noted Martin Peter at LBBW.He suggested that Deutsche Boerse would do better to create alliances with alternative trading platforms that offer lower transaction charges and have been nibbling away at the big guy's market shares.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
2ND GAZA FLOTILLA WANTS EU COVER
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Van Rompuy: EU should take credit for Libya action
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 4,11 @ 19:13 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy has said the Union should take credit for international action which prevented a bloodbath in Libya, amid a downgrading of the bloc's common security policy to a food-and-blankets aid mission. Speaking to MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday (5 April), the Belgian politician said that British, French and UK strikes on Gaddafi targets on 19 March would not have been possible without the clear position taken on Libya at an EU summit one week earlier.Noting that Germany voiced strong disapproval of military action at the time, he said a massive bloodbath has been avoided ... This is the most important result and deserves the highest attention, more so than the decision-making process.
From the beginning of the crisis, the European Union was at the forefront: the first to impose tough sanctions; the first to impose a travel ban on leading figures in the regime; the first to freeze Libyan assets; the first to recognise the Interim Transitional National Council as a valid interlocutor,he went on.Without European leadership there would have been massacres ... We acted in time and without Europe nothing would have been done at the global level or at the UN level.The Van Rompuy speech comes amid US surprise at the lack of ambition showed by the Union on its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in the context of the Libya conflict.The Lisbon Treaty says: The common security and defence policy shall be an integral part of the common foreign and security policy. It shall provide the Union with an operational capacity drawing on civilian and military assets. The Union may use them on missions outside the Union for peace-keeping, conflict prevention and strengthening international security.It also talks of the progressive framing of a common defence policy that might lead to a common defence.The US has not made public statements on the issue. But senior US officials were privately dismayed by an op-ed penned by EU foreign and defence policy chief Catherine Ashton on the eve of coalition strikes in which she signaled that EU-level involvement would be limited to post-conflict kitchen-sink issues such as economic support.Speaking of the three M's - money, market access and mobility in the International Herald and Tribune on 18 March, Ashton noted: I readily concede that this agenda lacks glamour.
The EU on 1 April agreed to launch a CSDP mission called Eufor in Libya, to be commanded by an Italian admiral out of Rome. Worth a modest €8 million, the mission will see soldiers from EU states help move around aid supplies and refugees if asked to by the UN.Some confusion exists as to the parameters of the Eufor operation. Ashton spokesman Michael Mann told EUobserver it would be limited strictly to Libya and would begin work only after hostilities end. It's logistical support. It's not people with guns firing,he said.An EU diplomat said the mission could involve protecting refugee camps. But he added there is no appetite at EU level to go into Libya for now and predicted that it will go to Egypt and Tunisia in the name of helping Libya instead.We are talking about Libya, but we are thinking of Egypt and Tunisia, he said.With Gaddafi envoys and defectors by turn flying on bilateral missions to Athens and London rather than to Brussels, and with Ashton playing third fiddle in the new Qatar-chaired Libya Contact Group, Mann defended his superior's role in the post-intervention diplomacy.The high representative is in regular contact with her counterparts to make sure all member states are singing from the same hymn sheet,he told press in Brussels on Monday.Ashton is playing a vital role to bring together the world community on this.Ashton in her boldest statement to date on Yemen on Tuesday all-but called for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down after his forces shot dead another 15 protesters. I re-iterate my call for an orderly political transition to begin without delay,she said.Speaking at a European Parliament hearing in late March, her top diplomat on the Middle East, Hugues Mingarelli, admitted the EU has little influence in the region, however. To be realistic, the instruments at our disposal, the opportunities we have, are fairly restricted,he said.
Second Gaza flotilla seeks EU political cover
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 4,11 @ 09:25 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The organisers of a second flotilla aiming to break Israel's siege on Gaza are seeking EU diplomatic protection after Israeli commandos killed nine people and injured 52 during their first trip in 2010.Speaking to EUobserver from Paris on Monday (4 April), Claude Leostic from Association France Palestine Solidarite (AFPS) said the group will next week send letters to top EU officials Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton urging them to threaten Israel with economic sanctions if there is a repeat of last year's violence. The EU has been saying for a long time that the blockade is against international law. It has the means to apply economic pressure, to cancel its economic agreement with Israel. If they are serious about their position, they could send such a message. This would be a really good move,she explained.The NGOs behind the project also expect several MPs from EU countries and MEPs from Brussels to join them when they set sail in late May.Huseyin Oruc from the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a Turkish NGO, said: There will be many MPs on board. I don't think Israel will attack us. They did so much damage to their international reputation last time that I don't think they will repeat the same actions again.Plans for the new project will be finalised at a meeting in Athens next week.AFPS and IHH said delegations from around 75 countries numbering two to three people each aim to take part. The new flotilla will carry activists from Algeria, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, the Philippines and Turkey but is to have a more Western composition than in 2010.Delegates are also expected from Canada, the US, Switzerland, the Nordic countries, Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Nobody from the former Communist EU member states or from Iran and Syria will be involved.
Around 15 boats are to set sail from a number of ports in the Mediterranean including Cyprus, Italy, Malta, Turkey and Tunisia. The route will avoid the Nato naval blockade on Libya and Israeli territorial waters, aiming to unload humanitarian supplies in Gaza and, later on, to sell the boats and donate funds to charities working in the strip.The cost of the French boat alone is around €400,000, with money collected from charity fund-raiser events and internet-based donations.
Israel has offered to let the boats disembark in the Israeli port of Ashdod instead. The IHH's Oruc said organisers are willing to let the UN, or an international group including Israeli experts, search the boats for weapons or other illicit materials but not the Israelis on their own.Ashton spokesman Michael Mann declined to comment on whether she will back the project or not.We'll see what they say [in the letter] and then we'll respond, he said. Mann read out the latest EU ministers' conclusions urging Israel to lift the Gaza blockade, adding: All the parties involved are already exerting diplomatic pressure [on Israel].An Israeli diplomat told this website that EU governments should discourage nationals from taking part.We're getting ready ... they should advise them not to embark. We're talking about a conflict situation between Gaza and Israel. To go ahead and sail into such an area is in a way to look for trouble. Our expectation is that European governments will make people understand the risks involved,he said.The contact declined to rule out fresh military action, adding: They are trying to initiate a clash with Israeli forces for PR reasons.An internal Israeli enquiry, the Turkel Commission, last year exonerated Israel's use of deadly force but Israel declined to allow an independent probe despite Turkish appeals.The Israeli diplomat cited the 1994 international agreement, the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, as saying merchant vessels believed on reasonable grounds to be breaching a blockade may be captured and that merchant vessels which, after prior warning, clearly resist capture may be attacked.Noting the current turmoil in the region due to the Arab uprisings, he said: It makes this attempt to make the situation in Gaza look like the most important thing happening in the Middle East even more out of place than before.Maybe they should send the flotilla to Syria instead - I'm sure it's more needed there.
Greece readies fresh round of austerity worth €25bn
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today APR 4,11 @ 09:24 CET
The Greek government is readying a raft of fresh austerity measures aiming to raise some €25 billion over the next four years.According to Greek daily Kathemerini, the measures will focus on tax hikes rather than cuts to social services this time, with an increase in road tax, the extension of excise duties to non-alcoholic beverages and a boost in the VAT rate from 13 percent to 23 percent on certain items.A number of public bodies will be closed down and a restructuring of wage frameworks in the civil service will be ramped up.However, public sector wages and pensions will see no further reductions. A detailed announcement is expected sometime before 15 April. The additional austerity measures aim to bring the country's deficit to below three percent of GDP, as required under the terms of a €110 EU-IMF bail-out.The move comes atop a separate round of privatisations of state assets including real estate that the government hopes will raise €50 billion in new money.Meanwhile, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has rubbished claims that his organisation backs a restructuring of Greek debt.Over the weekend, Der Spiegel reported that the international lender was pushing Athens to accept some form of restructuring, with the scale of its debt pile increasingly viewed as unmanageable despite the EU-IMF bail-out.We are supporting the Greek government in its position that it doesn't want a restructuring of the debt, he said at an event in Washington, agencies report.Representatives of the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank arrived in the Greek capital on Monday for the latest check-up on the state of the country's efforts to meet budget targets.Separately on Monday, Portugal saw the yield on its five-year bonds climb to 9.91 percent, a rate above that experienced by Ireland ahead of its bail-out last November.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Van Rompuy: EU should take credit for Libya action
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 4,11 @ 19:13 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy has said the Union should take credit for international action which prevented a bloodbath in Libya, amid a downgrading of the bloc's common security policy to a food-and-blankets aid mission. Speaking to MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday (5 April), the Belgian politician said that British, French and UK strikes on Gaddafi targets on 19 March would not have been possible without the clear position taken on Libya at an EU summit one week earlier.Noting that Germany voiced strong disapproval of military action at the time, he said a massive bloodbath has been avoided ... This is the most important result and deserves the highest attention, more so than the decision-making process.
From the beginning of the crisis, the European Union was at the forefront: the first to impose tough sanctions; the first to impose a travel ban on leading figures in the regime; the first to freeze Libyan assets; the first to recognise the Interim Transitional National Council as a valid interlocutor,he went on.Without European leadership there would have been massacres ... We acted in time and without Europe nothing would have been done at the global level or at the UN level.The Van Rompuy speech comes amid US surprise at the lack of ambition showed by the Union on its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in the context of the Libya conflict.The Lisbon Treaty says: The common security and defence policy shall be an integral part of the common foreign and security policy. It shall provide the Union with an operational capacity drawing on civilian and military assets. The Union may use them on missions outside the Union for peace-keeping, conflict prevention and strengthening international security.It also talks of the progressive framing of a common defence policy that might lead to a common defence.The US has not made public statements on the issue. But senior US officials were privately dismayed by an op-ed penned by EU foreign and defence policy chief Catherine Ashton on the eve of coalition strikes in which she signaled that EU-level involvement would be limited to post-conflict kitchen-sink issues such as economic support.Speaking of the three M's - money, market access and mobility in the International Herald and Tribune on 18 March, Ashton noted: I readily concede that this agenda lacks glamour.
The EU on 1 April agreed to launch a CSDP mission called Eufor in Libya, to be commanded by an Italian admiral out of Rome. Worth a modest €8 million, the mission will see soldiers from EU states help move around aid supplies and refugees if asked to by the UN.Some confusion exists as to the parameters of the Eufor operation. Ashton spokesman Michael Mann told EUobserver it would be limited strictly to Libya and would begin work only after hostilities end. It's logistical support. It's not people with guns firing,he said.An EU diplomat said the mission could involve protecting refugee camps. But he added there is no appetite at EU level to go into Libya for now and predicted that it will go to Egypt and Tunisia in the name of helping Libya instead.We are talking about Libya, but we are thinking of Egypt and Tunisia, he said.With Gaddafi envoys and defectors by turn flying on bilateral missions to Athens and London rather than to Brussels, and with Ashton playing third fiddle in the new Qatar-chaired Libya Contact Group, Mann defended his superior's role in the post-intervention diplomacy.The high representative is in regular contact with her counterparts to make sure all member states are singing from the same hymn sheet,he told press in Brussels on Monday.Ashton is playing a vital role to bring together the world community on this.Ashton in her boldest statement to date on Yemen on Tuesday all-but called for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down after his forces shot dead another 15 protesters. I re-iterate my call for an orderly political transition to begin without delay,she said.Speaking at a European Parliament hearing in late March, her top diplomat on the Middle East, Hugues Mingarelli, admitted the EU has little influence in the region, however. To be realistic, the instruments at our disposal, the opportunities we have, are fairly restricted,he said.
Second Gaza flotilla seeks EU political cover
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 4,11 @ 09:25 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The organisers of a second flotilla aiming to break Israel's siege on Gaza are seeking EU diplomatic protection after Israeli commandos killed nine people and injured 52 during their first trip in 2010.Speaking to EUobserver from Paris on Monday (4 April), Claude Leostic from Association France Palestine Solidarite (AFPS) said the group will next week send letters to top EU officials Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton urging them to threaten Israel with economic sanctions if there is a repeat of last year's violence. The EU has been saying for a long time that the blockade is against international law. It has the means to apply economic pressure, to cancel its economic agreement with Israel. If they are serious about their position, they could send such a message. This would be a really good move,she explained.The NGOs behind the project also expect several MPs from EU countries and MEPs from Brussels to join them when they set sail in late May.Huseyin Oruc from the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a Turkish NGO, said: There will be many MPs on board. I don't think Israel will attack us. They did so much damage to their international reputation last time that I don't think they will repeat the same actions again.Plans for the new project will be finalised at a meeting in Athens next week.AFPS and IHH said delegations from around 75 countries numbering two to three people each aim to take part. The new flotilla will carry activists from Algeria, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, the Philippines and Turkey but is to have a more Western composition than in 2010.Delegates are also expected from Canada, the US, Switzerland, the Nordic countries, Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Nobody from the former Communist EU member states or from Iran and Syria will be involved.
Around 15 boats are to set sail from a number of ports in the Mediterranean including Cyprus, Italy, Malta, Turkey and Tunisia. The route will avoid the Nato naval blockade on Libya and Israeli territorial waters, aiming to unload humanitarian supplies in Gaza and, later on, to sell the boats and donate funds to charities working in the strip.The cost of the French boat alone is around €400,000, with money collected from charity fund-raiser events and internet-based donations.
Israel has offered to let the boats disembark in the Israeli port of Ashdod instead. The IHH's Oruc said organisers are willing to let the UN, or an international group including Israeli experts, search the boats for weapons or other illicit materials but not the Israelis on their own.Ashton spokesman Michael Mann declined to comment on whether she will back the project or not.We'll see what they say [in the letter] and then we'll respond, he said. Mann read out the latest EU ministers' conclusions urging Israel to lift the Gaza blockade, adding: All the parties involved are already exerting diplomatic pressure [on Israel].An Israeli diplomat told this website that EU governments should discourage nationals from taking part.We're getting ready ... they should advise them not to embark. We're talking about a conflict situation between Gaza and Israel. To go ahead and sail into such an area is in a way to look for trouble. Our expectation is that European governments will make people understand the risks involved,he said.The contact declined to rule out fresh military action, adding: They are trying to initiate a clash with Israeli forces for PR reasons.An internal Israeli enquiry, the Turkel Commission, last year exonerated Israel's use of deadly force but Israel declined to allow an independent probe despite Turkish appeals.The Israeli diplomat cited the 1994 international agreement, the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, as saying merchant vessels believed on reasonable grounds to be breaching a blockade may be captured and that merchant vessels which, after prior warning, clearly resist capture may be attacked.Noting the current turmoil in the region due to the Arab uprisings, he said: It makes this attempt to make the situation in Gaza look like the most important thing happening in the Middle East even more out of place than before.Maybe they should send the flotilla to Syria instead - I'm sure it's more needed there.
Greece readies fresh round of austerity worth €25bn
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today APR 4,11 @ 09:24 CET
The Greek government is readying a raft of fresh austerity measures aiming to raise some €25 billion over the next four years.According to Greek daily Kathemerini, the measures will focus on tax hikes rather than cuts to social services this time, with an increase in road tax, the extension of excise duties to non-alcoholic beverages and a boost in the VAT rate from 13 percent to 23 percent on certain items.A number of public bodies will be closed down and a restructuring of wage frameworks in the civil service will be ramped up.However, public sector wages and pensions will see no further reductions. A detailed announcement is expected sometime before 15 April. The additional austerity measures aim to bring the country's deficit to below three percent of GDP, as required under the terms of a €110 EU-IMF bail-out.The move comes atop a separate round of privatisations of state assets including real estate that the government hopes will raise €50 billion in new money.Meanwhile, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has rubbished claims that his organisation backs a restructuring of Greek debt.Over the weekend, Der Spiegel reported that the international lender was pushing Athens to accept some form of restructuring, with the scale of its debt pile increasingly viewed as unmanageable despite the EU-IMF bail-out.We are supporting the Greek government in its position that it doesn't want a restructuring of the debt, he said at an event in Washington, agencies report.Representatives of the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank arrived in the Greek capital on Monday for the latest check-up on the state of the country's efforts to meet budget targets.Separately on Monday, Portugal saw the yield on its five-year bonds climb to 9.91 percent, a rate above that experienced by Ireland ahead of its bail-out last November.
STOCK RESULTS APR 5,11
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE APR 05,2011
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -42.43
10:30 AM +4.92
11:00 AM +2.27
11:30 AM +6.97
12:00 PM +27.70
12:30 PM +21.61
01:00 PM +26.15
01:30 PM +36.10
02:00 PM +21.69
02:30 PM +27.93
03:00 PM +8.48
03:30 PM +6.25
04:00 PM -6.13 12,393.90
S&P 500 1332.63 -0.24
NASDAQ 2791.19 +2.00
GOLD 1,455.50 +22.50
OIL 107.86 -0.61
TSE 300 14,270.50 +52.22
CDNX 2354.34 +30.82
S&P/TSX/60 817.65 +2.23
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -24 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -49 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,434.50.OIL opens at $107.92 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -49 points at low today so far.
Dow +28 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -49 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,450.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)
WITH GOLD AT $1,450.50 AND SILVER AT $39.05 YOU CAN BE SURE THAT JONES AND TED ON THE SHOW TODAY WILL BE SCAMMING THE PEOPLE OF THEIR CASH UNDER THE GUISE OF WE-JONES & TED-WANT ALL TO HAVE GOLD AND SILVER IN THEIR POSSESSION.TEDS ALWAYS ON WHEN GOLD AND SILVER IS HIGH,BUT WHEN GOLD IS DOWN $20-30 YOU NEVER HEAR HIM ON THE SHOW WANTING TO GIVE THE PEOPLE (THE SO CALLED DEALS OF A LIFETIME)(MUST HAVE).THIS SCAM IS STEALING ALL KINDS OF MONEY FROM LIBERTARIANS WHO BELIEVE TED & JONES AND DON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE.WELL THESE SUCKERS WILL SEE WHEN GOLD IS CONFISCATED AND COINS WILL BE USELESS AND WORTHLESS.WE WILL SEE HOW GREAT OF A DEAL THAT SCAM ARTIST TED DOES WHEN PROPHECY COMES TO PASS,GOLD CONFISCATED AND COINS WORTHLESS.
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE APR 05,2011
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -42.43
10:30 AM +4.92
11:00 AM +2.27
11:30 AM +6.97
12:00 PM +27.70
12:30 PM +21.61
01:00 PM +26.15
01:30 PM +36.10
02:00 PM +21.69
02:30 PM +27.93
03:00 PM +8.48
03:30 PM +6.25
04:00 PM -6.13 12,393.90
S&P 500 1332.63 -0.24
NASDAQ 2791.19 +2.00
GOLD 1,455.50 +22.50
OIL 107.86 -0.61
TSE 300 14,270.50 +52.22
CDNX 2354.34 +30.82
S&P/TSX/60 817.65 +2.23
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -24 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -49 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,434.50.OIL opens at $107.92 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -49 points at low today so far.
Dow +28 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -49 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,450.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)
WITH GOLD AT $1,450.50 AND SILVER AT $39.05 YOU CAN BE SURE THAT JONES AND TED ON THE SHOW TODAY WILL BE SCAMMING THE PEOPLE OF THEIR CASH UNDER THE GUISE OF WE-JONES & TED-WANT ALL TO HAVE GOLD AND SILVER IN THEIR POSSESSION.TEDS ALWAYS ON WHEN GOLD AND SILVER IS HIGH,BUT WHEN GOLD IS DOWN $20-30 YOU NEVER HEAR HIM ON THE SHOW WANTING TO GIVE THE PEOPLE (THE SO CALLED DEALS OF A LIFETIME)(MUST HAVE).THIS SCAM IS STEALING ALL KINDS OF MONEY FROM LIBERTARIANS WHO BELIEVE TED & JONES AND DON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE.WELL THESE SUCKERS WILL SEE WHEN GOLD IS CONFISCATED AND COINS WILL BE USELESS AND WORTHLESS.WE WILL SEE HOW GREAT OF A DEAL THAT SCAM ARTIST TED DOES WHEN PROPHECY COMES TO PASS,GOLD CONFISCATED AND COINS WORTHLESS.
Monday, April 04, 2011
BIG DATA BREACH GROWS
JAN MARKELL & GUESTS
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_04_02A.mp3
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_04_02B.mp3
JOHN LOEFFLER-HOW ISRAEL GETS DESTROYED-SOUNDS LIKE WHAT I SAID MARCH 29TH-MUST LISTEN TO-DR STEVE CAROL.
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-loeffler-steel-on-steel-toward.html#links
READ WHAT I WROTE HERE AND WHAT STEVE CAROL SAYS ABOUT THE MIDEAST AND ISRAEL ON JOHN LOEFFLER-WOW MY SUM UP SOUNDS HAND IN GLOVE TO HIS RESULTS.THE CONVERSATION STARTS AT 33 MINUTES OF THE SHOW TO 1 HR 08 MINUTES.I GO BY THE BIBLE,HE GOES BY WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE MIDEAST.MY TAKE MAR 29,11 BELOW.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE THIS TIME THE NWO NOW HAVE THE EU ARMY TO ATTACK WHICH EVER COUNTRY DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT IDEAS.THEY CAN SANCTION THAT COUNTRY,THEN ATTACK WITH THE NATO RAPID REACTION FORCE LEAD BY THE EU.THIS WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE EU AND ARAB COUNTRIES COMPLAINING ABOUT ISRAEL USING FORCE ON THE PALESTINIANS AND TELLING THE USELESS U.N. TO MAKE A RESOLUTION AGAINST ISRAEL IF THEY DO NOT DIVIDE JERUSALEM WITH THE PALESTINIANS,GIVING THEM THEIR OWN STATE,WE THE WORLD GOVERNMENT LEADER EU WILL SANCTION ISRAEL AND USE OUR NATO WORLD GOVERNMENT RAPID REACTION TROOPS AGAINST YOU.OR WE WILL GIVE YOU A 2ND CHOICE:WE THE EU WILL GUARENTEE YOUR SECURITY BY PUTTING OUR NEW WORLD ORDER TROOPS IN ISRAEL AND GAZA TO PROTECT YOU FROM TERRORIST ATTACKS FROM THE PALESTINIANS.LET YOU REBUILD THE 3RD TEMPLE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT BUT NOT AT THE DOME OF THE ROCK BUT BY THE DOME OF THE SPIRITS.WE WILL PLACE OUR NATO TROOPS ON THE MOUNT TO GUARENTEE YOUR SECURITY SO USE CAN SACRIFICE TO GOD.BUT YOU MUST GIVE THE PALESTINIANS THE EASTERN HALF OF JERUSALEM AND THE LAND FROM THE 1967 TAKIN.WE WILL GUARENTEE YOUR SECURITY FOR A 7 YEAR PERIOD SO WE CAN FINALISE THE JERUSALEM HASSLE AND DIVIDE THE LAND BETWEEN YOU AND THE PALESTINIANS PROPERLY.
I BELIEVE WHEN NATO AND THE NWO TRY TO TAKE OVER SYRIA LIKE LIBYA.IT BACKFIRES AND NATO ENDS UP TOTALLY DESTROYING DAMASCUS BEFORE THEY FINALLY PUT THEIR PUPPET IN.OBAMA AND NATO WILL PROBABLY DO THIS WITH A FEW MIDEAST COUNTRIES TO GET THE BUGS OUT.MAYBE GO AFTER IRAN.BUT THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO TRAP(FORCE) ISRAEL INTO DIVIDING ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM UNDER THE NEW WORLD ORDER-EU'S CONTROL.AND THE MUSLIMS, RUSSIA, CHINA WILL ALL BE WORKING TO THIS END ALSO.
WELL NOW WE HAVE AND IDEA WHY THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT CREW WANTS THIS CHAOS IN THE MIDEAST UNDER THEIR NATO TROOPS TO RAPIDLY ATTACK COUNTRIES,END UP WITH THE OIL,PAY FOR THE ATTACKS WITH THE MONEY CONFISCATED FROM THE LEADER OF THE COUNTRY.GET RID OF THE COUNTRIES LEADER BY FORCE(FALSE FLAG)AL-QUIDA ARMIES AND INSTALL THEIR PUPPET LEADER.TTHE ULTIMATE GOAL IS CONTROL OR DESTROY ISRAEL LIKE GLENN BECK MENTIONED.
Israel to Become a Religious State in 19 Years
by Maayana Miskin APR 4,11
Professor Arnon Sofer, chair of Geo-strategy at the University of Haifa, has published a report predicting a religious majority in Israel by 2030.Professor Sofer sees this as a negative development.His study assumes natural growth of 6-7% in the hareidi-religious sector, which would lead to a hareidi population of more than one million by 2030. The national religious sector, which is involved actively in all spheres of Israeli productivity, is not given separate treatment, leading to a skewing of the predicted outcomes.In one possible outcome, says Professor Sofer, the secular majority would band together in time to create a secular revolution.If not, Sofer said, the second outsome would be the rise of a religious majority that would force the secular minority to learn to live in a religious world.A third possible outcome would be the annexation of Judea and Samaria, which Sofer feels would lead to the continued weakening of democracy in the face of anti-democratic forces, a Knesset that does not function, and growing anarchy.Sofer assumes that the hareidi-religious population would continue to have relatively low employment despite demographic changes and despite statistics that show a rapidly increasing enrollment of hareidi students in work training programs.As the hareidi population grows, so does the gap between the hareidi population and the rest of the country, and greater sums are necessary in order to close that gap. The difference in participation in the work force not only creates a complete dependency on the working class, but also a growing inequality, dissatisfaction, bitterness... among tax-payers, he declared.
Other changes Sofer predicted in case of a religious majority: a school system that teaches Torah, a justice system based in Jewish law (halakha), and the disappearance of many of today's popular entertainment programs. The changes would lead many secular Israelis to leave the country, he said.He called to prevent the scenarios he predicted by forcing all schools to teach democratic and Western values.If the decision-makers do not wake up, the Zionist vision will reach a tragic end with the people of Israel's return to exile, to again face anti-Semitism and assimilation, was his far-reaching conclusion.Professor Sofer has published similarly gloomy predictions in the past, including a famous 1987 claim that by 2000 Israel would no longer be a Jewish state. Israel maintains a strong Jewish majority of 80%, similar to the situation when Sofer's prediction was made.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143323
More customers exposed as big data breach grows
By Jonathan Spicer and Maria Aspan – Sun Apr 3, 7:27 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a computer hacker penetrated online marketer Epsilon.
In what could be one of the biggest such breaches in U.S. history, a diverse swath of companies that did business with Epsilon stepped forward over the weekend to warn customers some of their electronic information could have been exposed.Drugstore Walgreen, Video recorder TiVo Inc, credit card lender Capital One Financial Corp and teleshopping company HSN Inc all added their names to a list of targets that also includes some of the nation's largest banks.The names and electronic contacts of some students affiliated with the U.S.-based College Board -- which represents some 5,900 colleges, universities and schools -- were also potentially compromised.No personal financial information such as credit cards or social security numbers appeared to be exposed, according to the company statements and e-mails to customers.
Epsilon, an online marketing unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp, said on Friday that a person outside the company hacked into some of its clients' customer files. The vendor sends more than 40 billion e-mail ads and offers annually, usually to people who register for a company's website or who give their e-mail addresses while shopping.We learned from our e-mail provider, Epsilon, that limited information about you was accessed by an unauthorized individual or individuals, HSN, also an e-commerce operator, said in an e-mail to customers on Sunday.This information included your name and e-mail address and did not include any financial or other sensitive information. We felt it was important to notify you of this incident as soon as possible.Citigroup customer names and some credit card customers' e-mail addresses -- but no account information -- were part of the data breach, the third-largest U.S. bank said on Saturday.The College Board, which administers the SAT admissions tests, on Saturday warned students about the breach and asked them to be cautious about receiving links or attachments from unknown third parties, according to two e-mails reviewed by Reuters.The not-for-profit organization is in contact with more than 7 million students, according to its website. It did not immediately return calls for comment.
PROBING FOR ANSWERS
Law enforcement authorities are investigating the breach, though it was unclear on Sunday how many customers or students had been exposed. Epsilon is also looking into what went wrong.While we are cooperating with authorities and doing a thorough investigation, we cannot say anything else, said Epsilon spokeswoman Jessica Simon.We can't confirm any impacted or non-impacted clients, or provide a list (of companies) at this point in time.Capital One, which also runs a bank, and Walgreens, the largest U.S. drugstore, said the Epsilon hacker accessed its customer e-mail addresses, but no personally identifiable information.TiVo, a maker of digital video recorders, said the information that was obtained was limited to e-mail addresses and clients' first names.The incident comes three years after hackers penetrated Heartland Payment Systems, a credit and debit card processor, in one of the biggest identity-theft cases in U.S. history.In that case, notorious hacker Albert Gonzalez led a ring that stole more than 40 million payment card numbers, and was later sentenced to 20 years in prison. On Friday, JPMorgan Chase & Co, the second-largest U.S. bank, and Kroger Co, the biggest U.S. supermarket operator, said that some customers were exposed as part of the Epsilon data breach.Citigroup announced that it had been affected on Saturday evening. Spokesman Sean Kevelighan said the bank started informing its customers of the breach on Friday through a link on its website.Some of Epsilon's other clients include Verizon Communications Inc, Blackstone Group LP's Hilton Hotels, Kraft Foods Inc, and AstraZeneca.(Reporting by Jonathan Spicer and Maria Aspan, editing by Maureen Bavdek, Diane Craft and Gunna Dickson)
Interpublic Facebook stake valued at $200-$300 million: report
– Sun Apr 3, 8:40 pm ET
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Advertising group Interpublic Group owns a stake in Facebook that could be valued at roughly $200 million to $300 million, The Financial Times reported.The exact size of the stake has not been disclosed, but people close to Interpublic say it owns slightly less than a half percent of Facebook, the newspaper said in its electronic edition. Interpublic paid less than $5 million for the stake in 2006, the newspaper said.Interpublic's stake of 0.4 percent would be worth $200 million, based on a Facebook valuation of about $50 billion, the newspaper said.Interpublic could not be immediately reached for comment.(Reporting by Jessica Hall; Editing by Dhara Ranasinghe)
Israeli Leftist Journalist to Head Netanyahu's Advisers
by Maayana Miskin APR 3,11
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has assembled a team to advise him in advance of the next national elections, to be held in November 2013. Likud spokeswoman Noga Rapaport explained that the team will help the Prime Minister with political-media strategy.The team will be headed by Orit Galili-Zucker, formerly a journalist with the radical left-wing Haaretz paper. She was adviser to Defense Minister Ehud Barak prior to the 2009 elections.Galili-Zucker recently accused Jewish leaders in Judea and Samaria of dealing in blood following the murder of five members of the Fogel family of Itamar. She accused the Yesha (Judea and Samaria) Council in particular of being devoid of rational arguments, full of messianic-spiritual rhetoric, and pathetically obsessed with measuring the number of inches and the smear of the pornographic color red in media reporting on the attack.She praised Netanyahu for quieting the settlers with measured building in response to the attack.The team's task will be to pull together the most up-to-date information on political campaigns for the Prime Minister, and to integrate a female point of view, which was missing until now, in the team accompanying the Prime Minister,Rapaport said.Netanyahu is remaining true to the standard practice in Western democracies, in which leaders begin to worry about reelection after completing half of their term, she added.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
More Smuggling into Gaza Since Egypt Upheaval
by Gil Ronen APR 3,11
Since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the level of security and control over the Sinai has decreased, and there is more smuggling and a greater probability of terror attempts, the head of Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, told the Cabinet Sunday.Maj.-Gen. Kochavi gave a lengthy description of the recent events in the Middle East, their background and their implications for Israel. He said that the changes in the region were historical ones and will continue to affect the Middle East for years to come. For the first time, he added, Arab leaders find that they need to take public opinion into account. The current leadership in Egypt, as well as the top contenders for future leadership in the country, see strategic importance in the peace treaty with Israel, he determined.Hamas is the central force in Gaza, Kochavi said, but recently Islamic Jihad has gained strength. Hamas prefers to exert control over the [other terror] organizations through dialogue and not through force, he explained.Iran and the radical camp in the Middle East gained confidence at the start of the Middle East upheaval, but are now more worried about the dangers from home and are concerned that events in Syria could weaken a central link in the radical axis.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON APR 04,2011
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +12.66
10:30 AM +20.97
11:00 AM +10.67
11:30 AM +11.13
12:00 PM +21.19
12:30 PM +23.69
01:00 PM +8.71
01:30 PM +18.81
02:00 PM +1.40
02:30 PM +1.86
03:00 PM +10.29
03:30 PM +15.06
04:00 PM +23.31 12,400.03
S&P 500 1332.87 +0.46
NASDAQ 2789.19 -0.41
GOLD 1,434.60 +5.70
OIL 108.42 +0.48
TSE 300 14,218.30 +88.20
CDNX 2323.72 +25.32
S&P/TSX/60 815.37 +4.88
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +8 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -5 points at low today.
Dow +23 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,437.80.OIL opens at $107.93 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today so far.
Dow +31 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today.
Dow +31 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,444.00 (NOT AT CLOSE)
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
Engineers pin hopes on polymer to stop nuke leak By RYAN NAKASHIMA and MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press - Sun Apr 3, 11:46 am ET
TOKYO – Engineers pinned their hopes on chemicals, sawdust and shredded newspaper to stop highly radioactive water pouring into the ocean from Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant Sunday as officials said it will take several months to bring the crisis under control, the first time they have provided a timetable.Concrete already failed to stop the tainted water spewing from a crack in a maintenance pit, and the new mixture did not appear to be working either, but engineers said they were not abandoning it.The Fukushima Da-ichi plant has been leaking radioactivity since the March 11 tsunami carved a path of destruction along Japan's northeastern coast, killing as many as 25,000 people and knocking out key cooling systems that kept it from overheating. People living within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of the plant have been forced to abandon their homes.The government said Sunday it will be several months before the radiation stops and permanent cooling systems are restored. Even after that happens, there will be years of work ahead to clean up the area around the complex and figure out what to do with it.It would take a few months until we finally get things under control and have a better idea about the future, said Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama.We'll face a crucial turning point within the next few months, but that is not the end.His agency said the timetable is based on the first step, pumping radioactive water into tanks, being completed quickly and the second, restoring cooling systems, being done within a matter of weeks or months.Every day brings some new problem at the plant, where workers have often been forced to retreat from repair efforts because of high radiation levels. On Sunday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced it had found the bodies of two workers missing since the tsunami.Radiation, debris and explosions kept workers from finding them until Wednesday, and then the announcement was delayed several days out of respect for their families.
TEPCO officials said they believed the workers ran down to a basement to check equipment after the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that preceded the tsunami. They were there when the massive wave swept over the plant.It pains us to have lost these two young workers who were trying to protect the power plant amid the earthquake and tsunami, TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata said in a statement.On Saturday, workers discovered an 8-inch (20-centimeter) crack in a maintenance pit at the plant and said they believe water from it may be the source of some of the high levels of radioactive iodine that have been found in the ocean for more than a week.This is the first time they have found radioactive water leaking directly into the sea. A picture released by TEPCO shows water shooting some distance away from a wall and splashing into the ocean, though the amount is not clear. No other cracks have been found.The radioactive water dissipates quickly in the ocean but could be dangerous to workers at the plant.Engineers tried to seal the crack with concrete Saturday, but that effort failed.So on Sunday they went farther up the system and injected sawdust, three garbage bags of shredded newspaper and a polymer — similar to one used to absorb liquid in diapers — that can expand to 50 times its normal size when combined with water.The polymer mix in the passageway leading to the pit had not stopped the leak by Sunday night, but it also had not leaked out of the crack along with the water, so engineers were stirring it in an attempt to get it to expand. They expected to know by Monday morning if it would work.Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people are still living in shelters, 200,000 households do not have water, and 170,000 do not have electricity.Running water was just restored in the port city of Kesennuma on Saturday, and residents lined up Sunday to see a dentist who had flown in from the country's far north to offer his services. Many were elderly and complaining of problems with their dentures. Overhead and throughout the coastal region, helicopters and planes roared by as U.S. and Japanese forces finished their all-out search for bodies.The effort, which ended Sunday, is probably the final hope for retrieving the dead, though limited operations may continue. It has turned up nearly 50 bodies in the past two days.In all, more than 12,000 deaths have been confirmed, and another 15,500 people are missing. Associated Press writers Mayumi Saito, Noriko Kitano and Shino Yuasa in Tokyo and Jay Alabaster in Kesennuma contributed to this report.
Factbox: Japan's disaster in figures
– Sun Apr 3, 8:17 pm ET
(Reuters) – The following lists the impact of the earthquake and tsunami that rocked the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 and the subsequent crisis at a nuclear power plant.
DEATH TOLL
* A total of 12,087 people were confirmed dead by Japan's National Police Agency as of 1100 GMT on Sunday, while 15,552 were missing.
NUMBER OF PEOPLE EVACUATED
* More than 161,600 people were in shelters around the country as of 1100 GMT on Sunday following evacuation, the National Police Agency said.The government has set up an evacuation area around a quake-stricken nuclear plant in the northeast with a 20-km (12-mile) radius. More than 70,000 people lived in a largely rural area within the 20 km zone. It is unclear how many of them have been evacuated, but most are believed to have left.Another 136,000 people were within a zone extending a further 10 km in which residents are recommended to leave or stay indoors.
HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
* A total of 167,700 households in the north were without electricity as of 0700 GMT on Sunday, Tohuku Electric Power Co said.
HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT WATER
* At least 200,000 households in eight prefectures were without running water as of early on Sunday, the Health Ministry said.
NUMBER OF BUILDINGS DAMAGED
* 45,777 buildings have been completely destroyed, washed away or burned down, the National Police Agency of Japan said as of 1100 GMT on Sunday.
IMPACT ON ECONOMY
The government has said it estimated damage from the earthquake and tsunami at 16 trillion to 25 trillion yen ($190 billion-$297 billion). The top estimate would make it the world's costliest natural disaster.The estimate covers damage to roads, homes, factories and other infrastructure, but excludes lost economic activity from power outages and costs arising from damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, as well as the impact of swings in financial markets and business sentiment.The yen spiked to a record high against the dollar after the quake, prompting the first joint intervention by the Group of Seven rich nations in 11 years to help shield Japan's export-reliant economy.Japanese shares have shed more than 5 percent since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and a subsequent nuclear safety crisis, triggered the biggest two-day rout in the market since 1987. Japan's reconstruction spending will almost certainly exceed that of the 1995 quake in Kobe, when the government needed extra budgets of more than 3 trillion yen.The government may need to spend more than 10 trillion yen in emergency budgets for post-quake disaster relief and reconstruction, with part of them possibly covered by new taxes, Deputy Finance Minister Mitsuru Sakurai signaled on Thursday.
NUMBER OF COUNTRIES OFFERING AID
According to the Foreign Ministry, 134 countries and 39 international organisations have offered assistance. ($1 = 84.06 Japanese Yen)(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDVt_hSo_EU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m4LCc7Mim4&feature=player_embedded
Former CIA officer blows lid off libya fraud live on CNN
The American Dream April 4, 2011
Every once in a while, establishment control of the mainstream media cracks for a moment. In an effort to achieve higher ratings, mainstream news programs will invite guests on that promise to be interesting, but then they will say something that is not part of the script and the entire system will go into a state of chaos for a moment. One example of this happened recently when two CNN infobabes interviewed former CIA officer Michael Scheuer about the situation on the ground in Libya. They asked Scheuer some questions regarding the role of the CIA in Libya, but the interview rapidly moved in some directions that the infobabes were not anticipating. Instead of sticking to the Republican or the Democrat script, Scheuer ripped both parties and he detailed many of the reasons why we should have never gone into Libya at all.The infobabes grew increasingly uncomfortable as Scheuer described how large numbers of the resistance fighters in Libya have fought against U.S. troops in the Balkans, in Afghanistan and in Iraq. They did not seem pleased at all when Scheuer declared that the civil war in Libya is none of our business and that to the rest of the world this conflict looks like Americans killing Muslims for oil all over again.The funniest part of the interview was when Scheuer accused one of the infobabes of carrying the water for Mr. Obama. After that statement, the female anchor that Scheuer was addressing was visibly flustered and quickly went to a commercial.
Video of this CNN interview with Michael Scheuer is posted below. This is a video that should be shared with everyone you know….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDVt_hSo_EU&feature=player_embedded
Wasn’t that hilarious?
When a big time establishment news network such as CNN goes off script it can be a beautiful thing to watch.Of course Scheuer was exactly right. We never should have gotten involved in the civil war in Libya. It was none of our business. When the rebels picked up arms and started shooting at government forces, they should not have been surprised when Gadhafi’s forces started shooting back.Over the past few decades, there have been some very real genocides happening all over Africa, but the U.S. never seemed to care about any of those.But now the mainstream media has been trying really hard to spin the civil war in Libya into a great humanitarian crisis.
Well, that might fool some of the American people, but as Scheuer aptly pointed out, the rest of the world sees this as just another U.S. war in the Middle East for oil (and banking).But instead of getting a balanced view of the war in Libya, most of the time the corporate media has focused on an endless parade of establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats that fully endorse the war. Of course the Republicans all try to score some political points by questioning how Obama is going about doing things, but in the end most Republicans and most Democrats are fully on board with what is going on in Libya.Nearly everyone in the mainstream media seems to be fully on board with this war as well.
Why?
Well, because virtually all of the major media outlets are owned by the establishment, and the establishment wants this war.Have you ever noticed that the news seems to have the same flavor no matter what channel you turn to? There is a very good reason for that.In an article that I previously authoried entitled Who Owns The Media?, I explained that six incredibly dominant corporations control most of the news that we see today….Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don’t even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest. Most Americans don’t really seem to care about who owns the media. But they should. The truth is that each of us is deeply influenced by the messages that are constantly being pounded into our heads by the mainstream media. The average American watches 153 hours of television a month. In fact, most Americans begin to feel physically uncomfortable if they go too long without watching or listening to something. Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely addicted to news and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and entertainment that we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands each year.
The six corporations that collectively control U.S. media today are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. Together, the big six absolutely dominate news and entertainment in the United States.Yes, there are always some minor differences in news broadcasts, and in recent years we have seen outlets such as Fox News attempt to become the establishment Republican news and outlets such as MSNBC attempt to become the establishment Democrat news, but at the end of the day the kind of news that we get from all of them is pretty much the same.But sometimes there are moments when establishment control of the news crumbles for just a moment.Another example of this happened recently when Donald Trump made an appearance on The View. Not that Donald Trump is a huge rebel, but apparently he has not gotten the message that you are not supposed to question Barack Obama’s birth certificate on television.The following is video footage of Trump’s absolutely chaotic recent appearance on The View….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m4LCc7Mim4&feature=player_embedded
In the United States today, if you want to get into college or if you want to apply for a good job usually you have to give a great deal of information about your background and produce a whole host of documentation about your past. For many jobs, applicants actually must be willing to submit to a very thorough formal background check.Whatever you may think about Obama, you have to admit that what he has been able to accomplish is rather extraordinary. He applied for the most important job in the world, and yet he kept vast sections of his background a complete and total secret. He did not produce his birth certificate, he did not produce his Columbia University transcript (or much information at all regarding his educational background), there are quite a few years of his life that really can’t be accounted for at all and there are very serious questions about his Social Security number.Yet in spite of all that he convinced the American people to make him the president of the United States.That has got to make Barack Obama one of the greatest con men in U.S. history.Hopefully in the future a law will be passed or the American people will demand that all politicians disclose at least the most basic information about their backgrounds.For Obama to be able to get this far while keeping vast portions of his background a complete and total secret is absolutely mind blowing.In any event, it has been refreshing to see some cracks appear in the control of the mainstream news lately.Whether it is the war in Libya or whether it is Barack Obama’s background, the truth is that we should all be free to ask the important questions.Our founding fathers believed very strongly in freedom of speech for a reason. Free speech shines light in dark places and it holds people accountable. Free speech protects our freedoms and it keeps tyranny at bay.Free speech is very precious and it is easily lost. Once free speech is gone it is incredibly difficult to get back. Let us cling to free speech and cherish it deeply, because it is absolutely central to who we are as a nation.
Libyan envoy takes Gaddafi message to Greece
By Maria Golovnina - APR 4,11
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A Libyan government envoy has begun a trip to Europe to discuss an end to fighting, but gave no sign of any major climbdown in a war that has ground to a stalemate between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi flew to Athens on Sunday carrying a personal message from Gaddafi to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou that Libya wanted the fighting to end, a Greek government official told Reuters.It seems that the Libyan authorities are seeking a solution, Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas told reporters, adding Obeidi was next due to due travel to Malta and Turkey.But there was no indication on what Tripoli might be ready to offer -- beyond a willingness to negotiate -- to end a war that has become bogged down on a frontline in the eastern oil town of Brega, while leaving civilians trapped by Gaddafi's forces in the west.
Underlining the plight of civilians in western Libya, a Turkish ship that sailed into the besieged city of Misrata to rescue some 250 wounded had to leave in a hurry after crowds pressed forward on the dockside hoping to escape.It's a very hard situation ... We had to leave early, said Turkish consular official Ali Akin after the ship stopped to pick up more wounded in the eastern rebel stronghold Benghazi.
Turkey's foreign minister ordered the ship into Misrata after it spent four days waiting in vain for permission to dock.It arrived under cover from 10 Turkish air force F-16 fighter planes and two navy frigates, Akin told Reuters.
STALEMATE IN BREGA
The U.N.-mandated military intervention that began on March 19 was meant to protect civilians caught up in fighting between Gaddafi's forces and the rebels.Neither Gaddafi's troops nor the disorganised rebel force have been able to gain the upper hand on the frontline, despite Western air power in effect aiding the insurgents.
After chasing each other up and down the coast road linking the oil ports of eastern Libya with Gaddafi's tribal heartland further west, they have become bogged down in Brega, a sparsely populated settlement spread over more than 25 km (15 miles).Yet Western countries, wary of becoming too entangled in another war after campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, have ruled out sending ground troops to help the rebels.The United States, which has handed over command of the operation to NATO, said it had agreed to extend the use of its strike aircraft into Monday because of poor weather last week.But it has stressed its desire to end its own involvement in combat missions, and shift instead to a support role in areas such as surveillance, electronic warfare and refuelling.Stephen Dalton, the head of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF), was quoted as telling Monday's Guardian newspaper that the RAF was planning to continue its operations in Libya for at least six months. He said Britain would need planes for a number of months rather than a number of days or weeks.The stalemate on the frontline and the plight of civilians caught in fighting or facing food and fuel shortages has prompted a flurry of diplomatic contacts to find a way out.Papandreou had been talking by phone with officials in Tripoli as well as the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Britain over the past two days. Greece has enjoyed good relations with Gaddafi for a number of years.One diplomat cautioned, however, that any diplomatic compromise -- for example one in which Gaddafi handed over power to one of his sons -- could lead to the partition of Libya.That was a possibility ruled out by Western countries before the air strikes were launched.
Various scenarios are being discussed, said the diplomat.Everyone wants a quick solution.
REORGANISING REBEL RANKS
The rebels, meanwhile, are working to impose discipline among the ranks of their many inexperienced volunteers in order to not only hold their positions but push forward.If there were eventually to be a ceasefire leading to the partition of Libya, control of revenues from the oil ports, including Brega and Ras Lanuf to the west, would be crucial.The rebels named a crisis team with Gaddafi's former interior minister as their armed forces chief of staff, and attempted to stiffen their enthusiastic but untrained volunteer army by putting professional soldiers at its head.We are reorganising 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.Without a backbone of regular forces, the lightly armed volunteer caravan has spent days dashing back and forth along the coast road on Brega's outskirts, scrambling away in pick-ups when Gaddafi's forces attack with rockets.In the west, Gaddafi's forces continued to besiege Misrata, shelling a building that had been used to treat wounded, a resident said, killing one person and wounding more.Misrata, Libya's third city, rose up with other towns against Gaddafi's rule in mid-February, but it is now surrounded by government troops after a violent crackdown put an end to most protests elsewhere in the west of the country.It is very, very bad. In my street, Gaddafi bombed us, said Ibrahim al-Aradi, 26, one of the evacuees on board the Turkish ship that brought the wounded from Misrata.We have no water, no electricity. We don't have medicine. There are snipers everywhere,he told Reuters.
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 are pressing in.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.Gaddafi's troops are also mopping up resistance southwest of Tripoli. Government forces shelled the small town of Yafran, killing two people, Arabiya television reported, quoting a witness. They also shelled the city of Zintan, a resident said.(Additional reporting by Renee Maltezou in Athens, Alexander Dziadosz in Brega, Angus MacSwan in Benghazi, Christian Lowe in Algiers, Tom Pfeiffer in Cairo, Joseph Nasr in Berlin, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels; Karolina Tagaris in London; Writing by Myra MacDonald; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Alison Williams)
US extends airstrike role in Libya through Monday By RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press - APR 3,11
WASHINGTON – The U.S. agreed to NATO's request for a 48-hour extension of American participation in coalition airstrikes against targets in Libya and U.S. lawmakers cautioned Sunday the allies need to know more about the rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces before providing them with weapons.Two weeks into the assault on Gadhafi, Republican lawmakers expressed concern that a stalemate could leave him in control of portions of Libya and with access to stockpiles of chemical weapons.The U.S. is shifting the combat role to Britain, France and other NATO allies, but American air power is still in demand. Air Force AC-130 gunships and A-10 Thunderbolts and Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers will continue to attack Gadhafi's troops and other sites through Monday evening. These aircraft are among the most precise in the American arsenal.After Saturday, no U.S. combat aircraft were to fly strike missions over Libya unless NATO officials specifically asked and authorities in Washington gave their approval. NATO assumed full control last week from the U.S.-led international force for all aspects of the operation in Libya as authorized by U.N. resolutions that include an arms embargo, enforcing the no-fly zone, and protecting civilians from Gadhafi's forces.In an emailed statement, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said Sunday that poor weather conditions over the last few days were the reason the alliance made the request. She would not elaborate. This is a short-term extension which expires on Monday,she said.A senior U.S. military official said heavy cloud cover over Libya late last week curtailed allied airstrikes. Gadhafi took advantage of the lull, pushing east into the port cities of Ras Lanouf and Brega, the official said on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military planning. The 48-hour extension is intended to roll back the progress made by Gadhafi's army, the official said.A decision yet to be made by the Obama administration is whether to arm the rebels with the firepower they need to take and hold ground against Gadhafi's forces.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said there may be strains of al-Qaida within the rebel ranks and that the coalition should proceed with caution before arming them.We know they're against Moammar Gadhafi remaining in power, but we don't know what they are for, Rogers said.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid advocated a wait and see approach to giving the opposition forces weapons.I think at this stage we really don't know who the leaders of this rebel group are, said Reid, D-Nev.But Rogers also warned that if there were a stalemate in Libya, a cornered Gadhafi might resort to extreme measures against the opposition forces, such as the use of chemical weapons. Rogers said he has been to Libya and seen Gadhafi's chemical weapons.I think you have to worry that he's a terrorist threat, Rogers said.Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the coalition needs to take the air war to Libya's capital where Gadhafi and his inner circle are located. Striking targets in Tripoli will further fracture Gadhafi's government and push the Libyan leader from power, he said.The way to end this war is to have Gadhafi's inner circle to crack, Graham said.The way to get his inner circle to crack is to go after them directly.Like Rogers, Graham said he's concerned over the prospect of a stalemate in Libya. A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he faulted President Barack Obama for putting the U.S. into a supporting role and shifting the main combat burden to Britain, France and other NATO allies.To take the best air force in the world and park it during this fight is outrageous,Graham said. When we called for a no-fly zone, we didn't mean our planes.Allied military operations against Gadhafi's forces began March 19 with missiles and bombs targeting Libya's air defenses, communications networks, and ground forces. Obama has ruled out the use of U.S. ground troops in Libya. But the opposition lacks the proper organization and equipment to push back Gadhafi's army on its own.
Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said failing to arm the rebels could allow Gadhafi to maintain control over large swaths of Libya.We are concerned that regional support will waver if Western forces are perceived as presiding over a military deadlock, McCain and Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, wrote Friday in The Wall Street Journal.We cannot allow Gadhafi to consolidate his grip over part of the country and settle in for the long haul.Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in congressional testimony on Thursday that as few as 1,000 among the rebels are former members of Gadhafi's military.The rest are simply guys with guns, said James Dubik, a retired Army three-star general who says they need American or NATO advisers and trainers to be effective. They need help, Dubik wrote in an assessment for the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank in Washington.In an interview taped Sunday for ABC's Good Morning America, former President Bill Clinton said he wouldn't shut the door to arming the Libyan rebels. But Clinton, husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was quick to emphasize that he was not speaking for the Obama administration.Rogers appeared Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. Reid and Graham appeared on CBS's Face The Nation.Associated Press writer Robert Burns contributed to this report.
Gulf bloc strongly condemns Iran over Bahrain
– Sun Apr 3, 4:59 pm ET
CAIRO – Bahrain's state-run news agency says the Gulf's main political bloc has condemned Iran, accusing the Shiite country of trying to promote sectarian divisions in Bahrain.The statement comes after an emergency meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday. Members discussed the tense situation in Bahrain, where mostly Shiite demonstrators are demanding the fall of the island's Sunni monarchy.The also discussed an alleged Iranian spy network in Kuwait.Bahrain's news agency says the Gulf bloc expressed its deep concern over the continuing Iranian intervention in the internal matters of GCC countries by conspiring against their national security.The mostly Sunni Gulf bloc is traditionally suspicious of Iran. Tensions have flared over regional events.
Latest developments in Arab world's unrest
By The Associated Press – Sun Apr 3, 3:48 pm ET
A look at the latest developments in political unrest across the Middle East on Sunday:
LIBYA-The vice chairman of the Libyan rebels' council tells AP that their goal is to set up a parliamentary democracy in all of Libya once ruler Moammar Gadhafi is overthrown. The new regime would not accept extremism and terrorism, he says, and vows not to negotiate with Gadhafi.
SYRIA-Hundreds march in a suburb of Damascus to honor demonstrators killed while protesting against the government. President Bashar Assad appoints a former agriculture minister, a respected academic, to form a new government in an effort to satisfy the protesters.
YEMEN-Security forces fire tear gas at thousands of demonstrators in southern Yemen demanding the immediate resignation of their president. About 200 suffer from the effects of the gas, and three suffer minor injuries. Women started the protest march, and men joined after police attacked.
OMAN-Authorities release 57 demonstrators detained during the last week in an attempt to calm protesters, out of more than 100 who were detained in demonstrations around the country pushing for more job opportunities and greater political freedom.
BAHRAIN-The government lifted its ban on the main opposition newspaper after the editor resigned. The one-day ban was the latest step in a crackdown against protests rocking the tiny, strategic island kingdom. The paper, Al-Wasat, was expected to appear again on Monday. Majority Shiite Muslims are leading the protests against a Sunni dynasty that has ruled for two centuries.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Strong earthquake hits off Indonesia's main island
By ALI KOTARUMALOS, Associated Press - APR 4,11
JAKARTA, Indonesia – A strong earthquake hit off Indonesia's main island of Java early Monday, prompting authorities to briefly issue a tsunami warning that sent thousands of residents fleeing to higher ground.There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.Following the tsunami warning, many in the town of Cilacap, closest to the quake's epicenter, poured into the grand mosque. When word finally came that the threat of a big wave had passed, they erupted in cheers, embraced one another or fell to their knees in thanks.We were very scared after seeing what happened in Japan — and also Aceh, of course, said Sukitno, a resident.But God listened to our prayers. He spared us! The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.7 quake that hit just after 3 a.m. was centered 200 miles (318 kilometers) off southern Java and 15 miles (24 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor.Both Indonesia and Japan are prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.A 2004 tsunami off Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations. Officials fear up to 25,000 may have died after last month's earthquake and tsunami in Japan.Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta.
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_04_02A.mp3
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_04_02B.mp3
JOHN LOEFFLER-HOW ISRAEL GETS DESTROYED-SOUNDS LIKE WHAT I SAID MARCH 29TH-MUST LISTEN TO-DR STEVE CAROL.
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-loeffler-steel-on-steel-toward.html#links
READ WHAT I WROTE HERE AND WHAT STEVE CAROL SAYS ABOUT THE MIDEAST AND ISRAEL ON JOHN LOEFFLER-WOW MY SUM UP SOUNDS HAND IN GLOVE TO HIS RESULTS.THE CONVERSATION STARTS AT 33 MINUTES OF THE SHOW TO 1 HR 08 MINUTES.I GO BY THE BIBLE,HE GOES BY WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE MIDEAST.MY TAKE MAR 29,11 BELOW.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE THIS TIME THE NWO NOW HAVE THE EU ARMY TO ATTACK WHICH EVER COUNTRY DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT IDEAS.THEY CAN SANCTION THAT COUNTRY,THEN ATTACK WITH THE NATO RAPID REACTION FORCE LEAD BY THE EU.THIS WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE EU AND ARAB COUNTRIES COMPLAINING ABOUT ISRAEL USING FORCE ON THE PALESTINIANS AND TELLING THE USELESS U.N. TO MAKE A RESOLUTION AGAINST ISRAEL IF THEY DO NOT DIVIDE JERUSALEM WITH THE PALESTINIANS,GIVING THEM THEIR OWN STATE,WE THE WORLD GOVERNMENT LEADER EU WILL SANCTION ISRAEL AND USE OUR NATO WORLD GOVERNMENT RAPID REACTION TROOPS AGAINST YOU.OR WE WILL GIVE YOU A 2ND CHOICE:WE THE EU WILL GUARENTEE YOUR SECURITY BY PUTTING OUR NEW WORLD ORDER TROOPS IN ISRAEL AND GAZA TO PROTECT YOU FROM TERRORIST ATTACKS FROM THE PALESTINIANS.LET YOU REBUILD THE 3RD TEMPLE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT BUT NOT AT THE DOME OF THE ROCK BUT BY THE DOME OF THE SPIRITS.WE WILL PLACE OUR NATO TROOPS ON THE MOUNT TO GUARENTEE YOUR SECURITY SO USE CAN SACRIFICE TO GOD.BUT YOU MUST GIVE THE PALESTINIANS THE EASTERN HALF OF JERUSALEM AND THE LAND FROM THE 1967 TAKIN.WE WILL GUARENTEE YOUR SECURITY FOR A 7 YEAR PERIOD SO WE CAN FINALISE THE JERUSALEM HASSLE AND DIVIDE THE LAND BETWEEN YOU AND THE PALESTINIANS PROPERLY.
I BELIEVE WHEN NATO AND THE NWO TRY TO TAKE OVER SYRIA LIKE LIBYA.IT BACKFIRES AND NATO ENDS UP TOTALLY DESTROYING DAMASCUS BEFORE THEY FINALLY PUT THEIR PUPPET IN.OBAMA AND NATO WILL PROBABLY DO THIS WITH A FEW MIDEAST COUNTRIES TO GET THE BUGS OUT.MAYBE GO AFTER IRAN.BUT THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO TRAP(FORCE) ISRAEL INTO DIVIDING ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM UNDER THE NEW WORLD ORDER-EU'S CONTROL.AND THE MUSLIMS, RUSSIA, CHINA WILL ALL BE WORKING TO THIS END ALSO.
WELL NOW WE HAVE AND IDEA WHY THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT CREW WANTS THIS CHAOS IN THE MIDEAST UNDER THEIR NATO TROOPS TO RAPIDLY ATTACK COUNTRIES,END UP WITH THE OIL,PAY FOR THE ATTACKS WITH THE MONEY CONFISCATED FROM THE LEADER OF THE COUNTRY.GET RID OF THE COUNTRIES LEADER BY FORCE(FALSE FLAG)AL-QUIDA ARMIES AND INSTALL THEIR PUPPET LEADER.TTHE ULTIMATE GOAL IS CONTROL OR DESTROY ISRAEL LIKE GLENN BECK MENTIONED.
Israel to Become a Religious State in 19 Years
by Maayana Miskin APR 4,11
Professor Arnon Sofer, chair of Geo-strategy at the University of Haifa, has published a report predicting a religious majority in Israel by 2030.Professor Sofer sees this as a negative development.His study assumes natural growth of 6-7% in the hareidi-religious sector, which would lead to a hareidi population of more than one million by 2030. The national religious sector, which is involved actively in all spheres of Israeli productivity, is not given separate treatment, leading to a skewing of the predicted outcomes.In one possible outcome, says Professor Sofer, the secular majority would band together in time to create a secular revolution.If not, Sofer said, the second outsome would be the rise of a religious majority that would force the secular minority to learn to live in a religious world.A third possible outcome would be the annexation of Judea and Samaria, which Sofer feels would lead to the continued weakening of democracy in the face of anti-democratic forces, a Knesset that does not function, and growing anarchy.Sofer assumes that the hareidi-religious population would continue to have relatively low employment despite demographic changes and despite statistics that show a rapidly increasing enrollment of hareidi students in work training programs.As the hareidi population grows, so does the gap between the hareidi population and the rest of the country, and greater sums are necessary in order to close that gap. The difference in participation in the work force not only creates a complete dependency on the working class, but also a growing inequality, dissatisfaction, bitterness... among tax-payers, he declared.
Other changes Sofer predicted in case of a religious majority: a school system that teaches Torah, a justice system based in Jewish law (halakha), and the disappearance of many of today's popular entertainment programs. The changes would lead many secular Israelis to leave the country, he said.He called to prevent the scenarios he predicted by forcing all schools to teach democratic and Western values.If the decision-makers do not wake up, the Zionist vision will reach a tragic end with the people of Israel's return to exile, to again face anti-Semitism and assimilation, was his far-reaching conclusion.Professor Sofer has published similarly gloomy predictions in the past, including a famous 1987 claim that by 2000 Israel would no longer be a Jewish state. Israel maintains a strong Jewish majority of 80%, similar to the situation when Sofer's prediction was made.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143323
More customers exposed as big data breach grows
By Jonathan Spicer and Maria Aspan – Sun Apr 3, 7:27 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a computer hacker penetrated online marketer Epsilon.
In what could be one of the biggest such breaches in U.S. history, a diverse swath of companies that did business with Epsilon stepped forward over the weekend to warn customers some of their electronic information could have been exposed.Drugstore Walgreen, Video recorder TiVo Inc, credit card lender Capital One Financial Corp and teleshopping company HSN Inc all added their names to a list of targets that also includes some of the nation's largest banks.The names and electronic contacts of some students affiliated with the U.S.-based College Board -- which represents some 5,900 colleges, universities and schools -- were also potentially compromised.No personal financial information such as credit cards or social security numbers appeared to be exposed, according to the company statements and e-mails to customers.
Epsilon, an online marketing unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp, said on Friday that a person outside the company hacked into some of its clients' customer files. The vendor sends more than 40 billion e-mail ads and offers annually, usually to people who register for a company's website or who give their e-mail addresses while shopping.We learned from our e-mail provider, Epsilon, that limited information about you was accessed by an unauthorized individual or individuals, HSN, also an e-commerce operator, said in an e-mail to customers on Sunday.This information included your name and e-mail address and did not include any financial or other sensitive information. We felt it was important to notify you of this incident as soon as possible.Citigroup customer names and some credit card customers' e-mail addresses -- but no account information -- were part of the data breach, the third-largest U.S. bank said on Saturday.The College Board, which administers the SAT admissions tests, on Saturday warned students about the breach and asked them to be cautious about receiving links or attachments from unknown third parties, according to two e-mails reviewed by Reuters.The not-for-profit organization is in contact with more than 7 million students, according to its website. It did not immediately return calls for comment.
PROBING FOR ANSWERS
Law enforcement authorities are investigating the breach, though it was unclear on Sunday how many customers or students had been exposed. Epsilon is also looking into what went wrong.While we are cooperating with authorities and doing a thorough investigation, we cannot say anything else, said Epsilon spokeswoman Jessica Simon.We can't confirm any impacted or non-impacted clients, or provide a list (of companies) at this point in time.Capital One, which also runs a bank, and Walgreens, the largest U.S. drugstore, said the Epsilon hacker accessed its customer e-mail addresses, but no personally identifiable information.TiVo, a maker of digital video recorders, said the information that was obtained was limited to e-mail addresses and clients' first names.The incident comes three years after hackers penetrated Heartland Payment Systems, a credit and debit card processor, in one of the biggest identity-theft cases in U.S. history.In that case, notorious hacker Albert Gonzalez led a ring that stole more than 40 million payment card numbers, and was later sentenced to 20 years in prison. On Friday, JPMorgan Chase & Co, the second-largest U.S. bank, and Kroger Co, the biggest U.S. supermarket operator, said that some customers were exposed as part of the Epsilon data breach.Citigroup announced that it had been affected on Saturday evening. Spokesman Sean Kevelighan said the bank started informing its customers of the breach on Friday through a link on its website.Some of Epsilon's other clients include Verizon Communications Inc, Blackstone Group LP's Hilton Hotels, Kraft Foods Inc, and AstraZeneca.(Reporting by Jonathan Spicer and Maria Aspan, editing by Maureen Bavdek, Diane Craft and Gunna Dickson)
Interpublic Facebook stake valued at $200-$300 million: report
– Sun Apr 3, 8:40 pm ET
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Advertising group Interpublic Group owns a stake in Facebook that could be valued at roughly $200 million to $300 million, The Financial Times reported.The exact size of the stake has not been disclosed, but people close to Interpublic say it owns slightly less than a half percent of Facebook, the newspaper said in its electronic edition. Interpublic paid less than $5 million for the stake in 2006, the newspaper said.Interpublic's stake of 0.4 percent would be worth $200 million, based on a Facebook valuation of about $50 billion, the newspaper said.Interpublic could not be immediately reached for comment.(Reporting by Jessica Hall; Editing by Dhara Ranasinghe)
Israeli Leftist Journalist to Head Netanyahu's Advisers
by Maayana Miskin APR 3,11
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has assembled a team to advise him in advance of the next national elections, to be held in November 2013. Likud spokeswoman Noga Rapaport explained that the team will help the Prime Minister with political-media strategy.The team will be headed by Orit Galili-Zucker, formerly a journalist with the radical left-wing Haaretz paper. She was adviser to Defense Minister Ehud Barak prior to the 2009 elections.Galili-Zucker recently accused Jewish leaders in Judea and Samaria of dealing in blood following the murder of five members of the Fogel family of Itamar. She accused the Yesha (Judea and Samaria) Council in particular of being devoid of rational arguments, full of messianic-spiritual rhetoric, and pathetically obsessed with measuring the number of inches and the smear of the pornographic color red in media reporting on the attack.She praised Netanyahu for quieting the settlers with measured building in response to the attack.The team's task will be to pull together the most up-to-date information on political campaigns for the Prime Minister, and to integrate a female point of view, which was missing until now, in the team accompanying the Prime Minister,Rapaport said.Netanyahu is remaining true to the standard practice in Western democracies, in which leaders begin to worry about reelection after completing half of their term, she added.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
More Smuggling into Gaza Since Egypt Upheaval
by Gil Ronen APR 3,11
Since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the level of security and control over the Sinai has decreased, and there is more smuggling and a greater probability of terror attempts, the head of Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, told the Cabinet Sunday.Maj.-Gen. Kochavi gave a lengthy description of the recent events in the Middle East, their background and their implications for Israel. He said that the changes in the region were historical ones and will continue to affect the Middle East for years to come. For the first time, he added, Arab leaders find that they need to take public opinion into account. The current leadership in Egypt, as well as the top contenders for future leadership in the country, see strategic importance in the peace treaty with Israel, he determined.Hamas is the central force in Gaza, Kochavi said, but recently Islamic Jihad has gained strength. Hamas prefers to exert control over the [other terror] organizations through dialogue and not through force, he explained.Iran and the radical camp in the Middle East gained confidence at the start of the Middle East upheaval, but are now more worried about the dangers from home and are concerned that events in Syria could weaken a central link in the radical axis.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON APR 04,2011
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +12.66
10:30 AM +20.97
11:00 AM +10.67
11:30 AM +11.13
12:00 PM +21.19
12:30 PM +23.69
01:00 PM +8.71
01:30 PM +18.81
02:00 PM +1.40
02:30 PM +1.86
03:00 PM +10.29
03:30 PM +15.06
04:00 PM +23.31 12,400.03
S&P 500 1332.87 +0.46
NASDAQ 2789.19 -0.41
GOLD 1,434.60 +5.70
OIL 108.42 +0.48
TSE 300 14,218.30 +88.20
CDNX 2323.72 +25.32
S&P/TSX/60 815.37 +4.88
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +8 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -5 points at low today.
Dow +23 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,437.80.OIL opens at $107.93 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today so far.
Dow +31 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today.
Dow +31 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,444.00 (NOT AT CLOSE)
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
Engineers pin hopes on polymer to stop nuke leak By RYAN NAKASHIMA and MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press - Sun Apr 3, 11:46 am ET
TOKYO – Engineers pinned their hopes on chemicals, sawdust and shredded newspaper to stop highly radioactive water pouring into the ocean from Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant Sunday as officials said it will take several months to bring the crisis under control, the first time they have provided a timetable.Concrete already failed to stop the tainted water spewing from a crack in a maintenance pit, and the new mixture did not appear to be working either, but engineers said they were not abandoning it.The Fukushima Da-ichi plant has been leaking radioactivity since the March 11 tsunami carved a path of destruction along Japan's northeastern coast, killing as many as 25,000 people and knocking out key cooling systems that kept it from overheating. People living within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of the plant have been forced to abandon their homes.The government said Sunday it will be several months before the radiation stops and permanent cooling systems are restored. Even after that happens, there will be years of work ahead to clean up the area around the complex and figure out what to do with it.It would take a few months until we finally get things under control and have a better idea about the future, said Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama.We'll face a crucial turning point within the next few months, but that is not the end.His agency said the timetable is based on the first step, pumping radioactive water into tanks, being completed quickly and the second, restoring cooling systems, being done within a matter of weeks or months.Every day brings some new problem at the plant, where workers have often been forced to retreat from repair efforts because of high radiation levels. On Sunday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced it had found the bodies of two workers missing since the tsunami.Radiation, debris and explosions kept workers from finding them until Wednesday, and then the announcement was delayed several days out of respect for their families.
TEPCO officials said they believed the workers ran down to a basement to check equipment after the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that preceded the tsunami. They were there when the massive wave swept over the plant.It pains us to have lost these two young workers who were trying to protect the power plant amid the earthquake and tsunami, TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata said in a statement.On Saturday, workers discovered an 8-inch (20-centimeter) crack in a maintenance pit at the plant and said they believe water from it may be the source of some of the high levels of radioactive iodine that have been found in the ocean for more than a week.This is the first time they have found radioactive water leaking directly into the sea. A picture released by TEPCO shows water shooting some distance away from a wall and splashing into the ocean, though the amount is not clear. No other cracks have been found.The radioactive water dissipates quickly in the ocean but could be dangerous to workers at the plant.Engineers tried to seal the crack with concrete Saturday, but that effort failed.So on Sunday they went farther up the system and injected sawdust, three garbage bags of shredded newspaper and a polymer — similar to one used to absorb liquid in diapers — that can expand to 50 times its normal size when combined with water.The polymer mix in the passageway leading to the pit had not stopped the leak by Sunday night, but it also had not leaked out of the crack along with the water, so engineers were stirring it in an attempt to get it to expand. They expected to know by Monday morning if it would work.Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people are still living in shelters, 200,000 households do not have water, and 170,000 do not have electricity.Running water was just restored in the port city of Kesennuma on Saturday, and residents lined up Sunday to see a dentist who had flown in from the country's far north to offer his services. Many were elderly and complaining of problems with their dentures. Overhead and throughout the coastal region, helicopters and planes roared by as U.S. and Japanese forces finished their all-out search for bodies.The effort, which ended Sunday, is probably the final hope for retrieving the dead, though limited operations may continue. It has turned up nearly 50 bodies in the past two days.In all, more than 12,000 deaths have been confirmed, and another 15,500 people are missing. Associated Press writers Mayumi Saito, Noriko Kitano and Shino Yuasa in Tokyo and Jay Alabaster in Kesennuma contributed to this report.
Factbox: Japan's disaster in figures
– Sun Apr 3, 8:17 pm ET
(Reuters) – The following lists the impact of the earthquake and tsunami that rocked the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 and the subsequent crisis at a nuclear power plant.
DEATH TOLL
* A total of 12,087 people were confirmed dead by Japan's National Police Agency as of 1100 GMT on Sunday, while 15,552 were missing.
NUMBER OF PEOPLE EVACUATED
* More than 161,600 people were in shelters around the country as of 1100 GMT on Sunday following evacuation, the National Police Agency said.The government has set up an evacuation area around a quake-stricken nuclear plant in the northeast with a 20-km (12-mile) radius. More than 70,000 people lived in a largely rural area within the 20 km zone. It is unclear how many of them have been evacuated, but most are believed to have left.Another 136,000 people were within a zone extending a further 10 km in which residents are recommended to leave or stay indoors.
HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
* A total of 167,700 households in the north were without electricity as of 0700 GMT on Sunday, Tohuku Electric Power Co said.
HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT WATER
* At least 200,000 households in eight prefectures were without running water as of early on Sunday, the Health Ministry said.
NUMBER OF BUILDINGS DAMAGED
* 45,777 buildings have been completely destroyed, washed away or burned down, the National Police Agency of Japan said as of 1100 GMT on Sunday.
IMPACT ON ECONOMY
The government has said it estimated damage from the earthquake and tsunami at 16 trillion to 25 trillion yen ($190 billion-$297 billion). The top estimate would make it the world's costliest natural disaster.The estimate covers damage to roads, homes, factories and other infrastructure, but excludes lost economic activity from power outages and costs arising from damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, as well as the impact of swings in financial markets and business sentiment.The yen spiked to a record high against the dollar after the quake, prompting the first joint intervention by the Group of Seven rich nations in 11 years to help shield Japan's export-reliant economy.Japanese shares have shed more than 5 percent since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and a subsequent nuclear safety crisis, triggered the biggest two-day rout in the market since 1987. Japan's reconstruction spending will almost certainly exceed that of the 1995 quake in Kobe, when the government needed extra budgets of more than 3 trillion yen.The government may need to spend more than 10 trillion yen in emergency budgets for post-quake disaster relief and reconstruction, with part of them possibly covered by new taxes, Deputy Finance Minister Mitsuru Sakurai signaled on Thursday.
NUMBER OF COUNTRIES OFFERING AID
According to the Foreign Ministry, 134 countries and 39 international organisations have offered assistance. ($1 = 84.06 Japanese Yen)(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDVt_hSo_EU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m4LCc7Mim4&feature=player_embedded
Former CIA officer blows lid off libya fraud live on CNN
The American Dream April 4, 2011
Every once in a while, establishment control of the mainstream media cracks for a moment. In an effort to achieve higher ratings, mainstream news programs will invite guests on that promise to be interesting, but then they will say something that is not part of the script and the entire system will go into a state of chaos for a moment. One example of this happened recently when two CNN infobabes interviewed former CIA officer Michael Scheuer about the situation on the ground in Libya. They asked Scheuer some questions regarding the role of the CIA in Libya, but the interview rapidly moved in some directions that the infobabes were not anticipating. Instead of sticking to the Republican or the Democrat script, Scheuer ripped both parties and he detailed many of the reasons why we should have never gone into Libya at all.The infobabes grew increasingly uncomfortable as Scheuer described how large numbers of the resistance fighters in Libya have fought against U.S. troops in the Balkans, in Afghanistan and in Iraq. They did not seem pleased at all when Scheuer declared that the civil war in Libya is none of our business and that to the rest of the world this conflict looks like Americans killing Muslims for oil all over again.The funniest part of the interview was when Scheuer accused one of the infobabes of carrying the water for Mr. Obama. After that statement, the female anchor that Scheuer was addressing was visibly flustered and quickly went to a commercial.
Video of this CNN interview with Michael Scheuer is posted below. This is a video that should be shared with everyone you know….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDVt_hSo_EU&feature=player_embedded
Wasn’t that hilarious?
When a big time establishment news network such as CNN goes off script it can be a beautiful thing to watch.Of course Scheuer was exactly right. We never should have gotten involved in the civil war in Libya. It was none of our business. When the rebels picked up arms and started shooting at government forces, they should not have been surprised when Gadhafi’s forces started shooting back.Over the past few decades, there have been some very real genocides happening all over Africa, but the U.S. never seemed to care about any of those.But now the mainstream media has been trying really hard to spin the civil war in Libya into a great humanitarian crisis.
Well, that might fool some of the American people, but as Scheuer aptly pointed out, the rest of the world sees this as just another U.S. war in the Middle East for oil (and banking).But instead of getting a balanced view of the war in Libya, most of the time the corporate media has focused on an endless parade of establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats that fully endorse the war. Of course the Republicans all try to score some political points by questioning how Obama is going about doing things, but in the end most Republicans and most Democrats are fully on board with what is going on in Libya.Nearly everyone in the mainstream media seems to be fully on board with this war as well.
Why?
Well, because virtually all of the major media outlets are owned by the establishment, and the establishment wants this war.Have you ever noticed that the news seems to have the same flavor no matter what channel you turn to? There is a very good reason for that.In an article that I previously authoried entitled Who Owns The Media?, I explained that six incredibly dominant corporations control most of the news that we see today….Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don’t even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest. Most Americans don’t really seem to care about who owns the media. But they should. The truth is that each of us is deeply influenced by the messages that are constantly being pounded into our heads by the mainstream media. The average American watches 153 hours of television a month. In fact, most Americans begin to feel physically uncomfortable if they go too long without watching or listening to something. Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely addicted to news and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and entertainment that we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands each year.
The six corporations that collectively control U.S. media today are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. Together, the big six absolutely dominate news and entertainment in the United States.Yes, there are always some minor differences in news broadcasts, and in recent years we have seen outlets such as Fox News attempt to become the establishment Republican news and outlets such as MSNBC attempt to become the establishment Democrat news, but at the end of the day the kind of news that we get from all of them is pretty much the same.But sometimes there are moments when establishment control of the news crumbles for just a moment.Another example of this happened recently when Donald Trump made an appearance on The View. Not that Donald Trump is a huge rebel, but apparently he has not gotten the message that you are not supposed to question Barack Obama’s birth certificate on television.The following is video footage of Trump’s absolutely chaotic recent appearance on The View….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m4LCc7Mim4&feature=player_embedded
In the United States today, if you want to get into college or if you want to apply for a good job usually you have to give a great deal of information about your background and produce a whole host of documentation about your past. For many jobs, applicants actually must be willing to submit to a very thorough formal background check.Whatever you may think about Obama, you have to admit that what he has been able to accomplish is rather extraordinary. He applied for the most important job in the world, and yet he kept vast sections of his background a complete and total secret. He did not produce his birth certificate, he did not produce his Columbia University transcript (or much information at all regarding his educational background), there are quite a few years of his life that really can’t be accounted for at all and there are very serious questions about his Social Security number.Yet in spite of all that he convinced the American people to make him the president of the United States.That has got to make Barack Obama one of the greatest con men in U.S. history.Hopefully in the future a law will be passed or the American people will demand that all politicians disclose at least the most basic information about their backgrounds.For Obama to be able to get this far while keeping vast portions of his background a complete and total secret is absolutely mind blowing.In any event, it has been refreshing to see some cracks appear in the control of the mainstream news lately.Whether it is the war in Libya or whether it is Barack Obama’s background, the truth is that we should all be free to ask the important questions.Our founding fathers believed very strongly in freedom of speech for a reason. Free speech shines light in dark places and it holds people accountable. Free speech protects our freedoms and it keeps tyranny at bay.Free speech is very precious and it is easily lost. Once free speech is gone it is incredibly difficult to get back. Let us cling to free speech and cherish it deeply, because it is absolutely central to who we are as a nation.
Libyan envoy takes Gaddafi message to Greece
By Maria Golovnina - APR 4,11
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A Libyan government envoy has begun a trip to Europe to discuss an end to fighting, but gave no sign of any major climbdown in a war that has ground to a stalemate between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi flew to Athens on Sunday carrying a personal message from Gaddafi to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou that Libya wanted the fighting to end, a Greek government official told Reuters.It seems that the Libyan authorities are seeking a solution, Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas told reporters, adding Obeidi was next due to due travel to Malta and Turkey.But there was no indication on what Tripoli might be ready to offer -- beyond a willingness to negotiate -- to end a war that has become bogged down on a frontline in the eastern oil town of Brega, while leaving civilians trapped by Gaddafi's forces in the west.
Underlining the plight of civilians in western Libya, a Turkish ship that sailed into the besieged city of Misrata to rescue some 250 wounded had to leave in a hurry after crowds pressed forward on the dockside hoping to escape.It's a very hard situation ... We had to leave early, said Turkish consular official Ali Akin after the ship stopped to pick up more wounded in the eastern rebel stronghold Benghazi.
Turkey's foreign minister ordered the ship into Misrata after it spent four days waiting in vain for permission to dock.It arrived under cover from 10 Turkish air force F-16 fighter planes and two navy frigates, Akin told Reuters.
STALEMATE IN BREGA
The U.N.-mandated military intervention that began on March 19 was meant to protect civilians caught up in fighting between Gaddafi's forces and the rebels.Neither Gaddafi's troops nor the disorganised rebel force have been able to gain the upper hand on the frontline, despite Western air power in effect aiding the insurgents.
After chasing each other up and down the coast road linking the oil ports of eastern Libya with Gaddafi's tribal heartland further west, they have become bogged down in Brega, a sparsely populated settlement spread over more than 25 km (15 miles).Yet Western countries, wary of becoming too entangled in another war after campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, have ruled out sending ground troops to help the rebels.The United States, which has handed over command of the operation to NATO, said it had agreed to extend the use of its strike aircraft into Monday because of poor weather last week.But it has stressed its desire to end its own involvement in combat missions, and shift instead to a support role in areas such as surveillance, electronic warfare and refuelling.Stephen Dalton, the head of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF), was quoted as telling Monday's Guardian newspaper that the RAF was planning to continue its operations in Libya for at least six months. He said Britain would need planes for a number of months rather than a number of days or weeks.The stalemate on the frontline and the plight of civilians caught in fighting or facing food and fuel shortages has prompted a flurry of diplomatic contacts to find a way out.Papandreou had been talking by phone with officials in Tripoli as well as the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Britain over the past two days. Greece has enjoyed good relations with Gaddafi for a number of years.One diplomat cautioned, however, that any diplomatic compromise -- for example one in which Gaddafi handed over power to one of his sons -- could lead to the partition of Libya.That was a possibility ruled out by Western countries before the air strikes were launched.
Various scenarios are being discussed, said the diplomat.Everyone wants a quick solution.
REORGANISING REBEL RANKS
The rebels, meanwhile, are working to impose discipline among the ranks of their many inexperienced volunteers in order to not only hold their positions but push forward.If there were eventually to be a ceasefire leading to the partition of Libya, control of revenues from the oil ports, including Brega and Ras Lanuf to the west, would be crucial.The rebels named a crisis team with Gaddafi's former interior minister as their armed forces chief of staff, and attempted to stiffen their enthusiastic but untrained volunteer army by putting professional soldiers at its head.We are reorganising 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.Without a backbone of regular forces, the lightly armed volunteer caravan has spent days dashing back and forth along the coast road on Brega's outskirts, scrambling away in pick-ups when Gaddafi's forces attack with rockets.In the west, Gaddafi's forces continued to besiege Misrata, shelling a building that had been used to treat wounded, a resident said, killing one person and wounding more.Misrata, Libya's third city, rose up with other towns against Gaddafi's rule in mid-February, but it is now surrounded by government troops after a violent crackdown put an end to most protests elsewhere in the west of the country.It is very, very bad. In my street, Gaddafi bombed us, said Ibrahim al-Aradi, 26, one of the evacuees on board the Turkish ship that brought the wounded from Misrata.We have no water, no electricity. We don't have medicine. There are snipers everywhere,he told Reuters.
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 are pressing in.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.Gaddafi's troops are also mopping up resistance southwest of Tripoli. Government forces shelled the small town of Yafran, killing two people, Arabiya television reported, quoting a witness. They also shelled the city of Zintan, a resident said.(Additional reporting by Renee Maltezou in Athens, Alexander Dziadosz in Brega, Angus MacSwan in Benghazi, Christian Lowe in Algiers, Tom Pfeiffer in Cairo, Joseph Nasr in Berlin, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels; Karolina Tagaris in London; Writing by Myra MacDonald; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Alison Williams)
US extends airstrike role in Libya through Monday By RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press - APR 3,11
WASHINGTON – The U.S. agreed to NATO's request for a 48-hour extension of American participation in coalition airstrikes against targets in Libya and U.S. lawmakers cautioned Sunday the allies need to know more about the rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces before providing them with weapons.Two weeks into the assault on Gadhafi, Republican lawmakers expressed concern that a stalemate could leave him in control of portions of Libya and with access to stockpiles of chemical weapons.The U.S. is shifting the combat role to Britain, France and other NATO allies, but American air power is still in demand. Air Force AC-130 gunships and A-10 Thunderbolts and Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers will continue to attack Gadhafi's troops and other sites through Monday evening. These aircraft are among the most precise in the American arsenal.After Saturday, no U.S. combat aircraft were to fly strike missions over Libya unless NATO officials specifically asked and authorities in Washington gave their approval. NATO assumed full control last week from the U.S.-led international force for all aspects of the operation in Libya as authorized by U.N. resolutions that include an arms embargo, enforcing the no-fly zone, and protecting civilians from Gadhafi's forces.In an emailed statement, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said Sunday that poor weather conditions over the last few days were the reason the alliance made the request. She would not elaborate. This is a short-term extension which expires on Monday,she said.A senior U.S. military official said heavy cloud cover over Libya late last week curtailed allied airstrikes. Gadhafi took advantage of the lull, pushing east into the port cities of Ras Lanouf and Brega, the official said on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military planning. The 48-hour extension is intended to roll back the progress made by Gadhafi's army, the official said.A decision yet to be made by the Obama administration is whether to arm the rebels with the firepower they need to take and hold ground against Gadhafi's forces.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said there may be strains of al-Qaida within the rebel ranks and that the coalition should proceed with caution before arming them.We know they're against Moammar Gadhafi remaining in power, but we don't know what they are for, Rogers said.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid advocated a wait and see approach to giving the opposition forces weapons.I think at this stage we really don't know who the leaders of this rebel group are, said Reid, D-Nev.But Rogers also warned that if there were a stalemate in Libya, a cornered Gadhafi might resort to extreme measures against the opposition forces, such as the use of chemical weapons. Rogers said he has been to Libya and seen Gadhafi's chemical weapons.I think you have to worry that he's a terrorist threat, Rogers said.Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the coalition needs to take the air war to Libya's capital where Gadhafi and his inner circle are located. Striking targets in Tripoli will further fracture Gadhafi's government and push the Libyan leader from power, he said.The way to end this war is to have Gadhafi's inner circle to crack, Graham said.The way to get his inner circle to crack is to go after them directly.Like Rogers, Graham said he's concerned over the prospect of a stalemate in Libya. A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he faulted President Barack Obama for putting the U.S. into a supporting role and shifting the main combat burden to Britain, France and other NATO allies.To take the best air force in the world and park it during this fight is outrageous,Graham said. When we called for a no-fly zone, we didn't mean our planes.Allied military operations against Gadhafi's forces began March 19 with missiles and bombs targeting Libya's air defenses, communications networks, and ground forces. Obama has ruled out the use of U.S. ground troops in Libya. But the opposition lacks the proper organization and equipment to push back Gadhafi's army on its own.
Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said failing to arm the rebels could allow Gadhafi to maintain control over large swaths of Libya.We are concerned that regional support will waver if Western forces are perceived as presiding over a military deadlock, McCain and Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, wrote Friday in The Wall Street Journal.We cannot allow Gadhafi to consolidate his grip over part of the country and settle in for the long haul.Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in congressional testimony on Thursday that as few as 1,000 among the rebels are former members of Gadhafi's military.The rest are simply guys with guns, said James Dubik, a retired Army three-star general who says they need American or NATO advisers and trainers to be effective. They need help, Dubik wrote in an assessment for the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank in Washington.In an interview taped Sunday for ABC's Good Morning America, former President Bill Clinton said he wouldn't shut the door to arming the Libyan rebels. But Clinton, husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was quick to emphasize that he was not speaking for the Obama administration.Rogers appeared Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. Reid and Graham appeared on CBS's Face The Nation.Associated Press writer Robert Burns contributed to this report.
Gulf bloc strongly condemns Iran over Bahrain
– Sun Apr 3, 4:59 pm ET
CAIRO – Bahrain's state-run news agency says the Gulf's main political bloc has condemned Iran, accusing the Shiite country of trying to promote sectarian divisions in Bahrain.The statement comes after an emergency meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday. Members discussed the tense situation in Bahrain, where mostly Shiite demonstrators are demanding the fall of the island's Sunni monarchy.The also discussed an alleged Iranian spy network in Kuwait.Bahrain's news agency says the Gulf bloc expressed its deep concern over the continuing Iranian intervention in the internal matters of GCC countries by conspiring against their national security.The mostly Sunni Gulf bloc is traditionally suspicious of Iran. Tensions have flared over regional events.
Latest developments in Arab world's unrest
By The Associated Press – Sun Apr 3, 3:48 pm ET
A look at the latest developments in political unrest across the Middle East on Sunday:
LIBYA-The vice chairman of the Libyan rebels' council tells AP that their goal is to set up a parliamentary democracy in all of Libya once ruler Moammar Gadhafi is overthrown. The new regime would not accept extremism and terrorism, he says, and vows not to negotiate with Gadhafi.
SYRIA-Hundreds march in a suburb of Damascus to honor demonstrators killed while protesting against the government. President Bashar Assad appoints a former agriculture minister, a respected academic, to form a new government in an effort to satisfy the protesters.
YEMEN-Security forces fire tear gas at thousands of demonstrators in southern Yemen demanding the immediate resignation of their president. About 200 suffer from the effects of the gas, and three suffer minor injuries. Women started the protest march, and men joined after police attacked.
OMAN-Authorities release 57 demonstrators detained during the last week in an attempt to calm protesters, out of more than 100 who were detained in demonstrations around the country pushing for more job opportunities and greater political freedom.
BAHRAIN-The government lifted its ban on the main opposition newspaper after the editor resigned. The one-day ban was the latest step in a crackdown against protests rocking the tiny, strategic island kingdom. The paper, Al-Wasat, was expected to appear again on Monday. Majority Shiite Muslims are leading the protests against a Sunni dynasty that has ruled for two centuries.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Strong earthquake hits off Indonesia's main island
By ALI KOTARUMALOS, Associated Press - APR 4,11
JAKARTA, Indonesia – A strong earthquake hit off Indonesia's main island of Java early Monday, prompting authorities to briefly issue a tsunami warning that sent thousands of residents fleeing to higher ground.There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.Following the tsunami warning, many in the town of Cilacap, closest to the quake's epicenter, poured into the grand mosque. When word finally came that the threat of a big wave had passed, they erupted in cheers, embraced one another or fell to their knees in thanks.We were very scared after seeing what happened in Japan — and also Aceh, of course, said Sukitno, a resident.But God listened to our prayers. He spared us! The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.7 quake that hit just after 3 a.m. was centered 200 miles (318 kilometers) off southern Java and 15 miles (24 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor.Both Indonesia and Japan are prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.A 2004 tsunami off Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations. Officials fear up to 25,000 may have died after last month's earthquake and tsunami in Japan.Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta.
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