EASTER OUR SAVIOR KING JESUS THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE WORLD.
ROMANS 5:18
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
JACK VAN IMPE APR 8TH SHOW (EASTER)
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THE FACE OF CHRIST
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JESUS IS GOD
MICAH 5:2
2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
JOHN 1:1,14
1 In the beginning was the Word,(JESUS)and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word(JESUS)was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
ROMANS 9:5
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
1 TIMOTHY 3:16
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
HEBREWS 1:8
8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
1 JOHN 5:20
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
MATTHEW 2:1-2
1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
PROVERBS 30:4
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
VIRGIN BIRTH
ISAIAH 7:14
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
JEREMIAH 31:22
22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.(A WOMAN WILL CARRY A MAN)(THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL INFILL THE WOMAN AND MAKE A VIRGIN BIRTH OF JESUS).
MATTHEW 1:23
23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
LUKE 1:34-35
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? (HAVE NOT HAD INTERCOURSE WITH A MAN)
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.(VIRGIN BIRTH)
JESUS SACRIFICIAL ATONEMENT
LEVITICUS 17:11
11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
REVELATION 13:8
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
PSALMS 22:16
16 For dogs(GENTILES,ROMANS)have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
ISAIAH 53:4-6
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
RESURRECTION
PSALMS 16:10
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
JOB 19:25-26
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
RETURN TO EARTH JESUS
ZECHERIAH 2:10
10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
PSALMS 2:6
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
ZECHARIAH 14:4-6
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
JESUS ONLY WAY TO SALVATION (NO OTTTTTTTHER PERIOD)
JOHN 1:12
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
JOHN 3:16,36
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
JOHN 5:40
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
JOHN 6:47
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
JOHN 8:12,24
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
JOHN 10:9
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
JOHN 11:25
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
JOHN 12:32
32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
JOHN 14:6
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
ACTS 4:12
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
ROMANS 1:16
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
ROMANS 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
ROMANS 10:13
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-4
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
GALATIONS 3:26
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
1 JOHN 5:11-13
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
DEATH OF JESUS ON GOOD FRIDAY.
THE FACE OF JESUS
ISAIAH 52:14
14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
ISAIAH 53:1-5
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
THE LAST WEEK OF JESUS EARTHLY LIFE.
LUKE 19:28-47
28 And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
29 And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
30 Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
31 And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
32 And they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had said unto them.
33 And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?
34 And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
36 And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way.
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
LUKE 20:1-47
1 And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
3 And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:
4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not? 6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet. 7 And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was. 8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
9 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
10 And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
11 And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
12 And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
19 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:
22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?
23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.
25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.
26 And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.
30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.
32 Last of all the woman died also.
33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.
34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.
40 And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.
41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son?
42 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
43 Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
44 David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?
45 Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,
46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
LUKE 21:1-38
1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
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; the sea and the waves roaring;
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.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives. 38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.
LUKE 22:1-71 King James Bible
1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
9 And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.
11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.
13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.
15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
21 But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.
22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
23 And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.
24 And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.
34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
39 And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.
40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
46 And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
47 And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
48 But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?
49 When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?
50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
51 And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
52 Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
56 But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.
59 And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.
60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
63 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
65 And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
67 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:
68 And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.
70 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.
71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.
LUKE 23:1-56
1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
6 When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.
7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.
8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
9 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.
10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.
11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
12 And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
13 And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
17 (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
20 Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
21 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
23 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
32 And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
48 And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Friday, April 10, 2009
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PASSOVER DAY 1 IN ISRAEL TODAY
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EXODUS 12:21-51
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
NUMBERS 28:16-25
16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
PASSOVER PROPHECIES OF JESUS (THE JEWSH JESUS LAMB OF GOD).
ZECHARIAH 9:9 MESSIAH COMES MEEKLY TO JERUSALEM
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
PSALMS 118:25-26
25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
ISAIAH 35:4-5
4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
MALACHI 3:1
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
ISAIAH 56:7
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
MARK 13:2
2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
PSALMS 41:9
9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
ZECHARIAH 11:12-13
12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
PSALMS 118:27
27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
EXODUS 33:12-34:26
12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
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PASSOVER VIDEOS
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PASSOVER WEEK LONG AND A DAY SCRIPTURES
http://www.jewfaq.org/holidaya.htm
http://www.jewfaq.org/seder.htm
http://www.jewfaq.org/kfpfood.htm
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2007/04/passover-in-israel-today.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2007/04/china-sudan-military-ties.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2007/04/iran-to-set-free-hostages.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2007/04/eritrea-bans-female-circumcision.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2007/04/passover-for-christians-today.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2007/04/pestilence-in-iraq-again.html
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EXODUS 12:21-51
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
NUMBERS 28:16-25
16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
PASSOVER PROPHECIES OF JESUS (THE JEWSH JESUS LAMB OF GOD).
ZECHARIAH 9:9 MESSIAH COMES MEEKLY TO JERUSALEM
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
PSALMS 118:25-26
25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
ISAIAH 35:4-5
4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
MALACHI 3:1
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
ISAIAH 56:7
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
MARK 13:2
2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
PSALMS 41:9
9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
ZECHARIAH 11:12-13
12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
PSALMS 118:27
27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
EXODUS 33:12-34:26
12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING CHEMTRAILS
I GUESS THESE DICTATORS AT GOOGLE,MICROSOFT,AP,BELL ETC DON'T LIKE MY TRUTHS BECAUSE SINCE I PUT THE AP COMPLAINT ON MY SITE YESTERDAY MY COMPUTER HAS BEEN ACTING UP BIGTIME TODAY. I SEE THESE DICTATORS DON'T WANT ME REVEALING TRUTH TO OTHER CHRISTIANS AND ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO WARN PEOPLE OF THESE DICTATOR NEW WORLD ORDER SCHEMES TO TAKE WORLD CONTROL LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WILL HAPPEN.
Jews in Israel and worldwide prepare for Passover By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Wed Apr 8, 8:32 am ET
JERUSALEM – Jews around the world made last-minute preparations Wednesday ahead of the spring festival of Passover, cleaning houses, cars and offices, cooking furiously and getting ready for a week without leavened bread.The holiday, which marks the Hebrews' exodus from slavery in Egypt as recounted in the Bible, begins Wednesday night with a special meal known as the seder.Beyond being an opportunity for extended families to get together, the seder is focused on recounting the story of the exodus, especially to children, so the tradition is preserved from generation to generation.
The history of the Jewish people begins with the exodus from Egypt,said Rabbi David Rosen, interfaith director at the American Jewish Committee.Passover, he said, is the root of Jewish understanding of marginalization and vulnerability, and the emphasis on sensitivity to the widow, the stranger, those who are different from you.You have to know oppression to know redemption,Rosen said.The biblical story recounts that God killed the first-born of Egypt after Pharaoh refused to release the children of Israel from bondage, but passed over the houses of the Hebrews. That's the root of the holiday's name.After that divine blow, Pharaoh gave in and let the Hebrews go. They were then given the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai and wandered in the desert for 40 years before arriving in the Land of Israel, according to the Bible.The tradition of eating matza, the unleavened bread identified with Passover, comes from the Bible's account that the Jews left Egypt in such a hurry that their bread did not have time to rise. It is also considered the bread of the poor, meant to remind Jews of their ancestors' hardships. Leavened bread is banned and burned ceremonially before the holiday starts.
Even the country's cows have been eating special Passover food, the wheat in their diet replaced by corn, peas and alfalfa so their milk can be consumed. For several weeks, rabbinical authorities have visited barns to ensure the laws are being enforced.Their owners are not allowed to have leaven in their possession. There is also concern that a grain of wheat could mistakenly get in the milk and render it non-kosher.One self-appointed watchdog group has assigned informants to spy on restaurants and bakeries to make sure they do not serve leavened bread during the holiday. The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel said it would relay its findings to police, municipal authorities and the Interior Ministry.The Jewish character of the state of Israel is at stake,the group's chairman, Nachi Eyal, told the Jerusalem Post. A 1986 law bans the public display of leavened products, though it has been difficult to enforce.The holiday is also an occasion for a thorough spring cleaning. There is a yearly pre-holiday rush on cleaning products at supermarkets, and long lines formed at car-washes as the festival approached.At sunrise Wednesday, Jews also performed a ritual done once every 28 years, when tradition holds the sun returns to its place at the time of creation.Tens of thousands of people greeted the sunrise at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray. The worshippers said a blessing expressing thanks to God for creating the world.
The prayer is not connected to Passover but happened to coincide with the holiday.
Because of concerns that Palestinian militants could take advantage of the holiday to carry out attacks inside Israel, the military clamped a closure on the West Bank for the duration of Passover. No Palestinians will be allowed to cross into Israel except those needing medical care, according to a military statement. Israel also renewed a travel warning urging tourists not to go to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, citing threats of militant attacks. The Sinai is a popular destination for Israeli travelers, despite past attacks on Israeli and Western targets there.
Americans Denounced As Terrorists While Criminals Embraced
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, April 9, 2009
While federal agencies across the country write dossiers on how some of the most patriotic people in America are terrorists and criminals, the Obama administration is set to embark on a push to legalize the estimated 20 million immigrants who have already broken the law by entering the country illegally.The New York Times reports today that Obama is set to launch a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. The real number of illegal immigrants in America is estimated at around the 20 million mark.But forgive us for pointing out that illegal immigrants, whether they are white, black, brown, or pink with polka dots, are criminals who have broken the law by entering the country illegally - no doubt that Obama kool-aid drinking liberal blogs will now claim that the mere mention of such a thought crime means we are virulently racist and have legions of cop-killing followers.
Indeed, it’s perfectly reasonable for the government to reward criminals who have already broken the laws of the land while training police forces across the nation that American citizens, of whatever race or color, are a threat to society because they have a political bumper sticker, support a third party candidate or are somewhat knowledgeable about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.The infamous MIAC report has now been superceded by a new document, The 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment, produced by the Virginia Fusion Center.The report smears anyone who is anti-government,anti-abortion,as potential terrorists, equates people who enjoy rifle shooting practice and hunting with terrorists, and demonizes the use of the Internet and websites like You Tube, Fark and Slashdot as terrorist tools. The use of e-protests is also talked about in the context of terrorism.The document also discusses special interest groups who incorporate a political message in its section about domestic terrorists, which could be defined as any mildly political organization whatsoever. Despite the report listing political groups that it admits do not espouse violence nor have ever engaged in violence, it defines being confrontational during demonstrations within the context of domestic terrorism.
The report also identifies people who identify themselves as sovereign citizens and carry documents proclaiming their status as sovereign citizens, as domestic terrorists and links them with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.SInce the Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment doesn’t stretch as far as to equate a sitting member of Congress with terrorists, it might not go the same way as the MIAC report, where it should, and end up in the trash can.However, it’s yet another clear indication that the government is completely out of control and desperate to send a chill down the spine of millions more Americans who are thinking of joining the burgeoning liberty movement, by smearing members of peaceable political movements as criminals and potentially violent terrorists, while equating them with racist extremists.Meanwhile, the tens of millions of real criminals who have already broken the law by entering the country illegally are not even mentioned in the Threat Assessment as being a threat - and are in fact set to be rewarded by the government with legal status and all the privileges that go with it.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
FAITH UNDER FIRE Crosses, Bibles banned from hospital chapel,Officials cite respect after new Muslim prayer room opened April 08, 2009 10:22 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily
Administrators at a hospital in Australia have thrown the crosses, crucifixes and Bibles out of their chapel to comply with new rules that followed the construction of a special prayer room for Muslims. According to a report in the Mosman Daily, the change has been made at the Royal North Shore Hospital in St. Leonards. The move, according to senior members of the hospital staff quoted by the newspaper, was made to avoid offending Muslims or Hindus who may be at the hospital. The newspaper cited a hospital spokeswoman who said the ban was imposed after the chapel was enhanced with the provision of a Muslim prayer space in the loft area.At that time the decision was made to display the symbols of each faith, for example the chapel's cross and Bible, during specific services and ceremonies only,the spokeswoman said. This decision was made out of respect for the many faiths that make up both the hospital and also the modern Australian community.Hospital staff members told the newspaper while the chapel was built for Christians, the goal apparently now is to create a neutral space. WND reported a case in the United States when the president of the College of William & Mary decided abruptly to remove a donated cross from the historic Wren Chapel on the school's campus to make the space less faith-specific.
The historic Wren Chapel
University President Gene Nichol eventually left his post, following an effort on the part of a coalition of alumi calling for the school's Board of Visitors to not renew Nichol's contract. Nichol has betrayed our trust by creating a call of silence, elevating personal pursuits above the good of the college and deceitful lawyerly posturing,said Nina Hartley, a 1975 graduate in the group. In the Australian case, Mosman Mayor Dom Lopez told his local newspaper the decision left him outraged.North Shore Liberal MP Jillian Skinner described the maneuver as bureaucratic madness.On the newspaper's forum, one participate said, So if I find myself in hospital in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Afghanistan, Pakistan or even Indonesia, do they remove all islamic symbols so that I as a non muslim are not offended? On the JihadWatch website, Robert Spencer posted a report that generated a long list of reactions: Why would a person of one faith be offended by seeing the religious symbols of another faith? The only reason could be that their own faith is intolerant of others,wrote one. The monumental hypocrisy is again evident for all to see. On one hand they claim to be a tolerant peaceful faith while with the other they try and dismantle all other faiths. Sometimes this is through sleight of hand though most times it is at gunpoint,said another.I am offended by the very sight of mosques. These should be removed,wrote another.In a report in the Daily Telegraph, a spokesman for the Islamic Friendship Society said there now were concerns about a backlash against Muslims. The Wren cross at the College of William and Mary originally was taken out of the chapel after Nichol reported he received a complaint about it. But alumni and students launched a website campaign called Save The Wren Cross and collected more than 18,000 names demanding the cross be restored.
As the number of names on the petition rose, Nichol at first admitted he acted too quickly and should have consulted more broadly and dictated that a plaque would be installed in the chapel.The move failed to satisfy those who wanted the donated bronze cross restored to the historic chapel, and the university eventually assembled a special committee to deal with the crisis. The college later confirmed the antique cross would be placed in a glass display case at the front of the chapel, which was done.WND had broken the story that Nichol had created a furor by arbitrarily ordering the cross – donated by Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in the 1930s – into storage so that the chapel would be less faith-specific.That argument hit even Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as unusual.I'm just struck by the fact that it is a chapel and has always been a chapel and that's a part of William and Mary, and I think continuing in that way certainly wouldn't bother me,he said.
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.
Western storminess leads to severe storms AccuWeather James Wilson – Wed Apr 8, 6:06 pm ET
A storm impacting the West with rain and mountain snow will bring a variety of impacts to the Central and Eastern States by Thursday and Friday. Showers will dot the central to northern California with snow in the Sierra Nevada through tonight. Much of this activity will then spread to the Rockies overnight into Thursday. Winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories are posted in the mountains of Utah and northwest Colorado. As much as 10 to 20 inches may fall from this storm in the northern Wasatch of Utah. Thrusday through Saturday, this storm will bring more active weather to portions of the Central and Eastern States. Rain and thunderstorms will spread from out of the Central Plains to the mid-Mississippi Valley, lower-Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley Thursday into Thursday night. Friday, showers and thunderstorms area expected in the Ohio Valley and Southeast with some showers pushing into portions of the Mid-Atlantic, southern New York and Southern New England. Severe thunderstorms will initially be possible on Thursday afternoon and evening in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Some severe storms will be possible into Thursday overnight across southern Missouri, Arkansas, northern Mississippi, southern Illinois, and western portions of Kentucky and Tennessee. Isolated severe storms may develop farther south in eastern Texas and Louisiana. Large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes will be possible. Friday, the chance for severe storms will increase and spread from near the Ohio River and Kentucky south through the Tennessee Valley and to the Gulf Coast. There will be a threat for gusty winds, large hail, and tornadoes with this system. Dr. Greg Forbes TWC's Severe Weather Expert is watching this storm threat closely and advises you pay close attention on Friday for the potential severe storms. The storm will have a wintry side in portions of the Northern High Plains Thursday. Just enough cold air will interact with moisture in portions of western South Dakota and western Nebraska to bring a mixture of rain and snow changing to wet snow in these areas. Some locations may pick up 3 or more inches. Behind the storm, strong winds and dry air will punch into parts of central and western Oklahoma and Texas. This may cause some areas of blowing dust and a extreme high fire danger Thursday.
U.S. forecaster lowers Atlantic hurricane prediction By Jim Loney – Wed Apr 8, 12:39 pm ET
MIAMI (Reuters) – Citing cooler seas and the prospect of a weak El Nino, Colorado State University's hurricane team lowered its 2009 Atlantic forecast on Tuesday to 12 tropical storms, of which six could become hurricanes.The research team, founded by storm forecasting pioneer William Gray, said the season could see two major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. Hurricanes of that magnitude have sustained winds of more than 110 miles per hour (177km per hour).In its December forecast, the CSU team predicted 14 storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes in the 2009 season, which begins on June 1 and lasts six months.The researchers said sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean had cooled in recent months. Hurricanes draw energy from warm sea water, so cooler water could diminish hurricane activity.In addition, the eastern Pacific Ocean could see the current weak La Nina conditions change to neutral, or even weak El Nino, by June, the researchers said. El Nino is a warm water phenomenon that can suppress Atlantic hurricane formation.If El Nino conditions develop for this year's hurricane season, it would tend to increase levels of vertical wind shear and decrease levels of Atlantic hurricane activity,Gray said.
Bill Read, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, downplayed the impact of El Nino, noting there have been active hurricane seasons during similar phases of the El Nino cycle. But he said cooler water could have an influence.Some of my forecasters have pointed out to me that the tropical Atlantic waters at this time of the year this year are somewhat cooler than the last several seasons,he said in an interview with Reuters at the National Hurricane Conference in Austin, Texas. If that continues that may be a more important factor on this season.While disaster management experts say long-range hurricane forecasting helps raise public awareness, many note it is an inexact science. Some forecasters, including the Colorado State team, have been well off target in recent years.Colorado State predicted 15 tropical storms for the 2005 season, but a record 28 formed.You're talking trying to discern weather events from a climate-type forecast. Therein lies a huge difficulty right there,Read said.That science is still in its infancy.
FORECASTS CLOSELY WATCHED
The forecasts are closely watched by energy, commodities and insurance markets, particularly since the devastating 2005 season, when a series of hurricanes rolled through Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and Hurricane Katrina, the costliest in U.S. history, swamped New Orleans.Colorado State predicted a 31 percent chance that a major hurricane would hit the U.S. Gulf coast this year, compared to a 30 percent long-term average. For the U.S. East Coast, the probability was 32 percent, compared to 31 percent long-term.The 2008 Atlantic season was one of the busiest on record, with 16 tropical storms, of which eight became hurricanes. Five were of Category 3 or higher.Cuba bore the brunt of last season's destructive storms. Three major hurricanes hit the Caribbean island, causing an estimated $10 billion damage.The long-term average for the Atlantic hurricane season is about 10 tropical storms and six hurricanes. But experts said a period of heightened Atlantic hurricane activity started around 1995 and was expected to last 25 to 40 years.London-based Tropical Storm Risk on Monday forecast 15 tropical storms, 7.8 hurricanes and 3.6 major hurricanes.(Additional reporting by Erwin Seba in Austin, Texas, editing by Chris Wilson)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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.
SoCal quake swarm continues near San Andreas Fault APR 8,09
BOMBAY BEACH, Calif. – A small earthquake has struck near the southern San Andreas Fault, the latest in a swarm that began two weeks ago.The magnitude-3.5 earthquake hit shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday and was centered 2 miles south of the small Imperial County town of Bombay Beach.More than 400 quakes have rattled the desert of southeastern California since mid-March, including 13 larger than magnitude-3. The strongest was a magnitude-4.8 quake on March 24 that woke up residents but did not cause damage.Seismic activity in the Bombay Beach area has tamped down in the past week.Seismologist Kate Hutton of the California Institute of Technology says it will take a fair amount of quiet time before scientists can declare a swarm over.
Quake strikes off Kuril Islands, no tsunami warning AP Tue Apr 7, 3:41 am ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.O on the Richter scale struck off Russia's Pacific coast on Tuesday about 182 miles northeast off Kurilsk in the Kuril Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake, which struck at 12:24 a.m. EDT, was at a depth of 24.3 miles, USGS said.There was no immediate tsunami warning from the quake, the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center website said.Russia's Emergency Services Ministry said the impact on land had been minimal.There were no casualties or damage caused. There is no tsunami warning,a ministry spokeswoman said.In the nearest towns they felt a tremor of magnitude 3-4.In the largest nearby city of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, on one of the southern Kuril islands, resident Gennady Berezyuk said he did not even feel the earthquake.We are used to tremors here, but I didn't feel the quake or any aftershocks,he told Reuters by telephone.The islands lie north of Hokkaido, Japan and south of Kamchatka, Russia. Seismic activity in the region is common.Japan's Meteorological Agency Web site said only a minor tremor was recorded in the northeast of Hokkaido, and no risk was seen of a tsunami in Japan.
(Reporting by Washington, Singapore world desks and Ludmila Danilova)
Quake funerals begin in Italy as more bodies found By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer APR 9,09
L'AQUILA, Italy – Bells tolled in hilltowns across central Italy on Wednesday as the first funerals got under way for victims of the country's devastating earthquake. The Vatican granted a dispensation so a funeral Mass for most of the 272 dead could be celebrated on Good Friday.As more bodies were pulled from the rubble, some of the 28,000 homeless spent another day lining up for food and water at some of the 20 tent camps that have sprouted up around this quake-devastated city.
Pope Benedict XVI said he would visit the area soon.
Rescue efforts continued for the 15 people still missing, but officials began discussing rebuilding the stricken region and reopening schools. They stressed it would take a month or two to have a clear idea of the extent of the damage.For now the needs are basic. The people in the camps, they don't have toothbrushes, they don't have toothpaste,said Massimo Cialente, mayor of the hard-hit city of L'Aquila. You can't find a place to buy cigarettes or get a coffee.The magnitude-6.3 quake hit L'Aquila and several towns covering 230 square miles (600 square kilometers) in central Italy early Monday, leveling buildings and reducing entire blocks to piles of rubble. It was the worst quake to hit Italy in three decades.The death toll stood at 272, six of whom hadn't been identified, the ANSA news agency reported, citing carabinieri police. Sixteen of the dead were children, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said.
Of the injured, 100 remained in serious condition, he said.
One 98-year-old survivor, rescued by firemen in the hamlet of Tempera 30 hours after quake, said in an interview on private Italia Uno TV network, that while she lay in her bed, surrounded by pieces of fallen plaster, she passed the time by crocheting.
Maria D'Antuono said that when firefighters arrived to help her out of her home, she ate some crackers then told her rescuers, At least let me comb my hair before she was brought outside.Two people were arrested for suspected looting Wednesday in the nearly leveled town of Onna, the ANSA news agency said, citing police. They were freed after proving to police the euro80,000 ($105,000) they had on them was theirs, ANSA said.Berlusconi said looting in the quake zone was on the rise and that the government was considering an increase in penalties. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told reporters that anti-looting police patrols would also be stepped up.Madonna pledged $500,000 in quake relief, said Fernando Caparso, the mayor of Pacentro, the mountainside village where two of the pop star's grandparents were born.On Wednesday, the first funerals got under way for the victims, including for Giuseppe Chiavaroli, 24, a football player in a lower-division team who was killed along with his girlfriend in Monday's quake.As churchbells tolled and onlookers applauded in the typical Italian gesture of mourning, players from his team carried his casket, his sky-blue soccer jersey draped on top.
We will try to be strong,his father Tomasso Chiavaroli said.The Vatican's No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was to celebrate a funeral Mass for the bulk of the victims on Friday, Vatican officials said.The Vatican granted a special dispensation for the Mass to be celebrated since Good Friday, which marks Jesus' death by crucifixion, is the only day in the year in which Mass in not celebrated in the Roman Catholic church. The funeral is expected to be held in an outdoor square at a police training school in L'Aquila, the Vatican said. At the moment, there is no church in L'Aquila which can be used,because they are all so damaged, said Vatican spokesman the Rev. Ciro Benedettini.On Wednesday, two bodies were pulled from the partially collapsed dormitory in L'Aquila, ANSA reported. The Israeli Embassy confirmed one of the bodies recovered was an Israeli student from Galilee. Two others were pulled from the wreckage of a building where a 20-year-old woman was rescued late Tuesday, ANSA said.
The Vatican said Benedict would visit the affected area sometime after Easter Sunday and that he does not want to interfere with relief operations. The pope praised the aid operations as an example of how solidarity can help overcome even the most painful trials.As soon as possible I hope to visit you,Benedict said Wednesday at the Vatican.Of the 28,000 people homeless, 17,700 were being housed in tent cities, spending much of their time on line — waiting for food and to use the bathrooms. They spent a second night in chilly mountain temperatures, sometimes without heat in their tents and being jolted by aftershocks. After two days of largely clear skies, conditions were expected to worsen by Thursday, when rain and thunderstorms were forecast for the quake area, AccuWeather.com reported. In addition, an additional 10,000 people were housed in hotels along the coast, bringing the overall number of homeless to almost 28,000, Berlusconi said.Since the quake early Monday, some 430 aftershocks have rumbled through the region, including some strong ones, said Marco Olivieri of the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology in Rome. I slept so badly because I kept feeling the aftershocks,said Daniela Nunut at one of the tent camps. The 46-year Romanian-born woman said she and her companion plan to stay in the tent for now. What can you do? You can't go into the building.A supermarket, though, is expected to open on Wednesday and officials were trying to make sure a doctor was available in pharmacies to write prescriptions, Cialente, the mayor, said.
In another indication that officials were trying to look beyond the immediate crisis, Berlusconi said he was considering asking each of Italy's 100 provinces to pick a reconstruction project around the region to take charge of. He also said a new town could be built on L'Aquila's outskirts, primarily to house young people. He stressed it would not be an alternative to rebuilding L'Aquila, but rather to add to the city's housing stock.AIR Worldwide, a specialist in estimating catastrophe risks, said Wednesday that insured losses to residential, commercial and industrial buildings and contents from the earthquake could be as high as euro400 million ($530 million).Interior Minister Maroni said the rescue efforts would likely continue until Easter Sunday, beyond the period originally indicated by Berlusconi. Associated Press Writers Nicole Winfield, Alessandra Rizzo and Frances D'Emilio contributed to this report.
OZONE DEPLETION
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, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, 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 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.
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.
CHEMTRAIL VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dyZ7AR55Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvioxJUL6C0&feature=related
CHEMTRAILS INFO
http://educate-yourself.org/ct/
DON'T TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER 16 VIDEOS CHEMTRAILS
http://www.truthring.org/2008/10/dont-talk-about-the-weather/
WE DON'T WANT TO KILL OUR PATIENTS AUDIO
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94376
NY SKYWATCH VIDEOS ON CHEMTRAILS
http://newyorkskywatch.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IcYtGX64P0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWowhvuPHhs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.cfr.org/project/1364/geoengineering.html
The Government Is Already Geo-Engineering The Environment
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The Associated Press reports today that the Obama administration has held discussions regarding the possibility of geo-engineering the earth’s climate to counter global warming by shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays.However, such programs are already being conducted by government-affiliated universities, government agencies, and on a mass scale through chemtrail spraying.The AP report states that Obama’s science advisor John Holdren is pushing for radical terra forming programs to be explored such as creating an artificial volcano. Despite Holdren’s admission that such measures could have grave side effects,he added that,we might get desperate enough to want to use it.Holdren, a 65-year-old physicist, is far from alone in taking geoengineering more seriously. The National Academy of Science is making climate tinkering the subject of its first workshop in its new multidiscipline climate challenges program. The British parliament has also discussed the idea,reports AP.The American Meteorological Society is crafting a policy statement on geoengineering that says “it is prudent to consider geoengineering’s potential, to understand its limits and to avoid rash deployment.
However, a study of past and ongoing upper atmosphere aerosol programs confirms that the government has been active in this field for years.The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was created in 1989 with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is sponsored by the DOE’s Office of Science and managed by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research.One of ARM’s programs, entitled Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC), is aimed at measuring cloud simulations and aerosol retrievals.Another program under the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Science Program is directed towards, developing comprehensive understanding of the atmospheric processes that control the transport, transformation, and fate of energy related trace chemicals and particulate matter.
The DOE website states that, The current focus of the program is aerosol radiative forcing of climate: aerosol formation and evolution and aerosol properties that affect direct and indirect influences on climate and climate change.U.S. government scientists are already bombarding the skies with the acid-rain causing pollutant sulphur dioxide in an attempt to fight global warming by geo-engineering the planet, despite the fact that injecting aerosols into the upper atmosphere carries with it a host of both known and unknown dangers.The proposal to disperse sulphur dioxide in an attempt to reflect sunlight was discussed in a September 2008 London Guardian article entitled, Geoengineering: The radical ideas to combat global warming, in which Ken Caldeira, a leading climate scientist based at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, California, promoted the idea of injecting the atmosphere with aerosols.One approach is to insert scatterers into the stratosphere,states the article.Caldeira cites an idea to deploy jumbo jets into the upper atmosphere and deposit clouds of tiny particles there, such as sulphur dioxide. Dispersing around 1m tonnes of sulphur dioxide per year across 10m square kilometres of the atmosphere would be enough to reflect away sufficient amounts of sunlight.
Experiments similar to Caldeira’s proposal are already being carried out by U.S. government -backed scientists, such as those at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, S.C, who last year began conducting studies which involved shooting huge amounts of particulate matter, in this case porous-walled glass microspheres, into the stratosphere.The project is closely tied to an idea by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, who proposed sending aircraft 747s to dump huge quantities of sulfur particles into the far-reaches of the stratosphere to cool down the atmosphere.Such programs merely scratch the surface of what is likely to be a gargantuan and overarching black-budget funded project to geo-engineer the planet, with little or no care for the unknown environmental consequences this could engender.What is known about what happens when the environment is loaded with sulphur dioxide is bad enough, since the compound is the main component of acid rain, which according to the EPA Causes acidification of lakes and streams and contributes to the damage of trees at high elevations (for example, red spruce trees above 2,000 feet) and many sensitive forest soils. In addition, acid rain accelerates the decay of building materials and paints, including irreplaceable buildings, statues, and sculptures that are part of our nation’s cultural heritage.The health effects of bombarding the skies with sulphur dioxide alone are enough to raise serious questions about whether such programs should even be allowed to proceed.The following health effects are linked with exposure to sulphur.
- Neurological effects and behavioral changes
- Disturbance of blood circulation
- Heart damage
- Effects on eyes and eyesight
- Reproductive failure
- Damage to immune systems
- Stomach and gastrointestinal disorder
- Damage to liver and kidney functions
- Hearing defects
- Disturbance of the hormonal metabolism
- Dermatological effects
- Suffocation and lung embolism
According to the LennTech website, Laboratory tests with test animals have indicated that sulfur can cause serious vascular damage in veins of the brains, the heart and the kidneys. These tests have also indicated that certain forms of sulfur can cause foetal damage and congenital effects. Mothers can even carry sulfur poisoning over to their children through mother milk. Finally, sulfur can damage the internal enzyme systems of animals.Fred Singer, president of the Science Environmental Policy Project and a skeptic of man-made global warming theories, warns that the consequences of tinkering with the planet’s delicate eco-system could have far-reaching dangers.If you do this on a continuous basis, you would depress the ozone layer and cause all kinds of other problems that people would rather avoid,said Singer.Even Greenpeace’s chief UK scientist - a staunch advocate of the man-made global warming explanation - Doug Parr has slammed attempts to geo-engineer the planet as outlandish and dangerous.
Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, who recently proposed a bizarre plan to send spaceships into the upper atmosphere that would be used to block out the Sun, admits that geo-engineering could cause conflicts between nations if geoengineering projects go wrong.Given all the immediate dangers associated with bombarding the atmosphere with sulphur dioxide, along with the unknown dangers of other geo-engineering projects, many people are concerned that chemtrails are a secret component of the same agenda to alter the Earth’s eco-system.This graphic proposes, Spraying aluminum powder and barium oxide into high levels of the atmosphere, again delivered by aircraft, to increase planetary reflectance (albedo) and cloud cover. High levels of barium have been found in substances associated with chemtrails.
Reports of chemtrails, jet plumes emitted from planes that hang in the air for hours and do not dissipate, often blanketing the sky in criss-cross patterns, have increased dramatically over the last 10 years. Many have speculated that they are part of a government program to alter climate, inoculate humans against certain pathogens, or even to toxify humans as part of a population reduction agenda.In conducting Google searches, one finds discussion, such as this example, of using sulphur dioxide as a jet fuel additive to be dispersed over the world during routine commercial flights.I suggest that both the sulphur dioxide and the silica particles could be delivered into the stratosphere by dissolving an additive in jet aviation fuel,writes engineer John Gorman, who has conducted experiments to test the feasibility of such a scenario.We would want to burn fuel containing the additive specifically when the aircraft was cruising in the lower stratosphere,he adds.
Earlier this year, KSLA news investigation found that a substance that fell to earth from a high altitude chemtrail contained high levels of Barium (6.8 ppm) and Lead (8.2ppm) as well as trace amounts of other chemicals including arsenic, chromium, cadmium, selenium and silver. Of these, all but one are metals, some are toxic while several are rarely or never found in nature.The newscast focuses on Barium, which its research shows is a hallmark of chemtrails. KSLA found Barium levels in its samples at 6.8 ppm or more than six times the toxic level set by the EPA.The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality confirmed that the high levels of Barium were very unusual,but commented that proving the source was a whole other matter in its discussion with KSLA.KSLA also asked Mark Ryan, Director of the Poison Control Center, about the effects of Barium on the human body. Ryan commented that short term exposure can lead to anything from stomach to chest pains and that long term exposure causes blood pressure problems.The Poison Control Center further reported that long-term exposure, as with any harmful substance, would contribute to weakening the immune system, which many speculate is the purpose of such man-made chemical trails.
Indeed, barium oxide has cropped up repeatedly as a contaminant from suspected geoengineering experimentation.KSLA also put aerosolized-chemical testing in its historical context, citing a voluminous number of unclassified tests exposed in 1977 Senate hearings. The tests included experimenting with biochemical compounds on the public. KSLA reports that 239 populated areas were contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969.One of the accepted truisms of scientific study is the fact that if scientists are proposing an idea, then those scientists with access to the bottomless pit of black-budget secret government funding are already doing it.
It is highly likely that chemtrails are merely one manifestation of geo-engineering that is taking place without proper debate, notification or any form of legality, and with a callous disregard for the potential dangers to both our health and our environment.
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS CHEMTRAILS
http://www.cfr.org/project/1364/geoengineering.html
Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Directors: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland Jay Apt, Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University May 5, 2008 - Washington, DC
Workshop briefing notes: Unilateral Geoengineering (PDF, 546K) M. Granger Morgan: Unilateral Geoengineering: A few basic ideas about the science to start our discussions (PDF, 4.56MB)
Meetings
Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: The Science and Technology of Geoengineering Roundtable Meeting May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Introductory Speaker: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations Speakers: M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Ken Caldeira, Chemical Oceanographer, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington Ralph J. Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences David Keith, Director, ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems, University of Calgary
Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: Framing the Foreign Policy Problem-Avoiding and Regulating Unilateral Geoengineering Roundtable Meeting
May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Speakers: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland David D. Doniger, Policy Director, Climate Center, National Resources Defense Council Daniel Bodansky, Woodruff Chair of International Law, School of Law, University of Georgia
Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: Planning for Next Steps
Roundtable Meeting May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Speakers: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations Jay Apt, Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: Geoengineering and the Challenge of Global Governance Roundtable Meeting May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Speakers: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations Ralph J. Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences
M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland.
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, 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/
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU APR 09,2009
09:30 AM +4.86
10:00 AM +205.65
10:30 AM +198.32
11:00 AM +180.08
11:30 AM +165.19
12:00 PM +165.27
12:30 PM +181.04
01:00 PM +178.09
01:30 PM +194.66
02:00 PM +204.61
02:30 PM +192.48
03:00 PM +228.83
03:30 PM +221.90
04:00 PM +246.27 8083.38
S&P 500 856.56 +31.40
NASDAQ 1652.54 +61.88
GOLD 882.70 -3.20
OIL 52.04 +2.66
TSE 300 9173.31 +204.03
CDNX 968.71 +18.01
S&P/TSX/60 559.33 +12.53
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
GOLD AT OPEN TODAY $880.10.OIL AT OPEN TODAY $52.27.
Dow +145 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +4 points at low today so far.
Dow +208 points at high today so far.
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -10.70%
S&P -8.65%
Nasdaq +0.86%
TSX Advances 861,declines 623,unchanged 298,Volume 1,925,793,878.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 327,Declines 350,Unchanged 359,Volume 178,779,103.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +4 points at low today so far.
Dow +234 points at high today so far.
DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 3,083,declines 522,unchanged 53,New Highs 10,New Lows 54.
Volume 3,223,522,605.
NASDAQ Advances 2,143,declines 443,unchanged 101,New highs 16,New Lows 14.
Volume 821,530,584.
TSX Advances 948,declines 380,unchanged 234,Volume 1,077,585,560.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 279,Declines 202,Unchanged 260,Volume 80,011,413.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +4 points at low today.
Dow +248 points at high today.
Dow +3.14% today Volume 462,029,806.
Nasdaq +3.89% today Volume 2,036,036,036.
S&P 500 +3.81% today Volume N/A
RECORD LOWS DOW
-Sept 30,1996 5,882.17
-Oct 30,1996 5,993.23
-Nov 6,1996 6,177.71
-Dec 16,1996 6,268.35
-Apr 15,1997 6,587.16
-Apr 21,1997 6,660.21
-Apr 28,1997 6,783.02
-May 1,1997 6,976.48
-May 7,1997 7,085.65
RECORD LOWS S&P 500
-Sept 5,1996 649.44
-Sept 6,1996 655.68
-Sept 11,1996 667.28
-Sept 12,1996 671.13
-Oct 1,1996 689.08
-Oct 28,1996 697.26
-Nov 4,1996 706.73
-Nov 5,1996 714.14
-Dec 17,1996 726.04
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE,WEEKENDER
Dow -7.90%
S&P -5.17%
Nasdaq +4.79%
CANADAS WEEK ENDING STATS
TSX Advances 1,100,Declines 465,Unchanged 254 Volume 2,346,750,070.
TSX Venture Advances 434,Declines 307,Unchanged 350 Volume 195,725,524.
Yuan trade settlement gets the nodBy Wang Xu (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-04-09 07:35
Five major trading cities have got the nod from the central government to use the yuan in overseas trade settlement - seen as one more step in China's recent moves to expand the use of its currency globally.Shanghai and four cities in the Pearl River Delta - Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan and Zhuhai - have been designated for the purpose, said a State Council meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday. The Pearl River Delta boasts the country's largest cluster of export-oriented manufacturing operations.The move is aimed at reducing the risk from exchange rate fluctuations and giving impetus to declining overseas trade, according to a statement posted on the government website.Analysts said the experimental use of the yuan in trade settlement also reflects policymakers' rising concern over the shaky prospects of the US currency, of which China has large reserves from previous trade growth, and their willingness to gradually expand the yuan's use globally.The trial is the latest move toward making the yuan an international currency, Huang Weiping, professor of economics at Renmin University of China, said.The prospect of a weaker US dollar is making the transition more imperative for China.The mainland is trying to promote the use of the yuan among trade partners and, in the past four months, has signed 650 billion yuan ($95 billion) worth of swap agreements with Argentina, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Belarus and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The agreements allow them to use their yuan reserves to directly trade with the Chinese mainland within a set limit in volume.Stephen Green, head of China Research of Standard Chartered Bank, said the swap deals would help encourage the use of the yuan as the currency of choice for international trade.
In the longer term, if countries around the region and beyond start pricing their trade in yuan, this will also lead to increased internationalization and status for China's currency,Green said.China now uses the US dollar to settle most of its international trade but the drastic swings in the greenback have become a risk for Chinese exporters in recent years.Dong Xian'an, economist with China Southwest Securities, said: For many exporters, the dollar's fluctuation is a serious concern. The ability to settle trade in the yuan would reduce such risk,he said.Chen Xianbin, chairman of Guangxi Sanhuan Enterprise Group, told China Daily that his company lost more than 150 million yuan in the past three years from international trade due to the exchange rate changes between the yuan and the greenback. Chen's company, a ceramic tableware exporter, relies on Southeast Asian markets for 15 percent of total sales.China's foreign trade has been on a continuous decline amid the current global financial crisis. Exports plunged 25.7 percent year on year in February, one of the sharpest falls ever, while imports dived 24.1 percent.Analysts said the US Federal Reserve's decision to buy long-term Treasuries, which means printing new money, may also lead to a depreciation of the US dollar. That is also one reason for China to reduce the use of the dollar in trade so that the value of its US1.95 trillion foreign exchange reserves does not depreciate.Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank governor, said last month that in the long run, it may be ideal to replace the dollar with a new international reserve currency under the mechanism of the International Monetary Fund.
The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency,The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 3:45PM BST 07 Apr 2009
A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order. We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity,it said. SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund that has lain dormant for half a century.
G20 summit: leaders on brink of $1 trillion rescue dealIn effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF's power to create money and begin global quantitative easing. In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body. Conspiracy theorists will love it. It has been a good summit for the IMF. Its fighting fund for crises is to be tripled overnight to $750bn. This is real money. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director, said in February that the world was already in Depression and risked a slide into social disorder and military conflict unless political leaders resorted to massive stimulus.
He has not won everything he wanted. The spending plan was fudged. While Gordon Brown talked of $5 trillion in global stimulus by 2010, this is mostly made up of packages already under way. But Mr Strauss-Kahn at least has resources fit for his own task. He will need them. The IMF is already bailing out Pakistan, Iceland, Latvia, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, Bosnia and Romania. This week Mexico became the first G20 state to ask for help. It has secured a precautionary credit line of $47bn. Gordon Brown said it took 15 years for the world to grasp the nettle after Great Crash in 1929.This time I think people will agree that it has been different,he said.
President Barack Obama was less dramatic.I think we did OK,he said. Bretton Woods in 1944 was a simpler affair.Just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that's an easy negotiation, but that's not the world we live in.There will be $250bn in trade finance to kick-start shipping after lenders cut back on Letters of Credit after September's heart attack in the banking system. Global trade volumes fell at annual rate of 41pc from November to January, according to Holland's CPB institute – the steepest peacetime fall on record. Euphoria swept emerging markets yesterday as the first reports of the IMF boost circulated. Investors now know that countries like Mexico can arrange a credit facility able to cope with major shocks – and do so on supportive terms, rather than the hair-shirt deflation policies of the old IMF. Fear is receding again. The Russians had hoped their idea to develop SDRs as a full reserve currency to challenge the dollar would make its way on to the agenda, but at least they got a foot in the door. There is now a world currency in waiting. In time, SDRs are likely evolve into a parking place for the foreign holdings of central banks, led by the People's Bank of China. Beijing's moves this week to offer $95bn in yuan currency swaps to developing economies show how fast China aims to break dollar dependence.French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the summit had achieved more than he ever thought possible, and praised Gordon Brown for pursuing the collective interest as host rather than defending Anglo-Saxon interests. This has a double-edged ring, for it suggests that Mr Brown may have traded pockets of the British financial industry to satisfy Franco-German demands. The creation of a Financial Stability Board looks like the first step towards a global financial regulator. The devil is in the details. Hedge funds deemed systemically important will come under draconian restraints. How this is enforced will determine whether Mayfair's hedge-fund industry – 80pc of all European funds are there – will continue to flourish.
It seems that hedge funds have been designated for ritual sacrifice, even though they played no more than a cameo role in the genesis of this crisis. It was not they who took on extreme debt leverage: it was the banks – up to 30 times in the US and nearer 60 times for some in Europe that used off-books conduits to increase their bets. The market process itself is sorting this out in any case – brutally – forcing banks to wind down their leverage. The problem right now is that this is happening too fast.But to the extent that this G20 accord makes it impossible for the shadow banking to resurrect itself in the next inevitable cycle of risk appetite, it may prevent another disaster of this kind. The key phrase is new rules aimed at avoiding excessive leverage and forcing banks to put more money aside during good times.This is more or less what the authorities agreed after the Depression. Complacency chipped away at the rules as the decades passed. It is the human condition, and we can't change that.
EU governments committed €3 trillion for bank bailouts
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today APR 9,09 @ 09:16 CET
EU governments have committed €3 trillion to bail out banks with guarantees or cash injections in the wake of the global financial crisis, the European Commission said on Wednesday (8 April).The money has been spent on guarantee umbrellas, risk shields and recapitalisation measures for the financial sector,Brussels said in a report.
Some €2.3 trillion went to financial guarantee schemes, some €300 billion to recapitalisation schemes, and around €400 billion were spent on other rescue and restructuring programmes.The commission data also shows that while most member states have offered their banks some special guarantees, many central and eastern European states – including Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Bulgaria – have not.Analysts note that although these countries are as exposed to the crisis as the rest of the member states, their banks are mostly owned by western European ones and their governments do not have enough money for bail outs.The past six months have shown state aid control plays a key role in tackling the challenges of the economic crisis in a coordinated way across Europe,EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes stated.She also insisted that despite these aids, EU state aid rules had been respected all along.The EU's tried and tested state aid rules have clearly been part of the solution. Our intervention and – sometimes tough – conditions have prevented member states from falling into the trap of protectionism and exporting their problems to other member states, while allowing [them] to avoid financial meltdown, Ms Kroes said.The responsibility now lies with the financial sector to clean up their balance sheets and restructure to ensure a viable future,she added.Since September, when the financial crisis began to worsen in Europe, the EU's executive arm has relaxed its rules, starting notably to judge aid packages faster.It has taken more than 50 decisions on state aid since then, and had by 31 March approved 23 measures in 18 member states.
EU officials warned to be careful about email content
HONOR MAHONY Today APR 9,09 @ 08:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - New rules on public access to EU documents have prompted one of the European Commission's key departments to circulate a memo warning officials to be careful about what they write in emails and advising them on how to narrowly interpret requests for information.The 15-page handbook was circulated in January to officials working in the commission directorate for trade, one of the EU's most important policy areas affecting millions of people both within and beyond the bloc.
It reminds DG trade employees that all documents, including emails, are in principle subject to disclosure and asks them to think of the regulation when they are producing documents.Each official must be aware that all his/her documents, including meeting reports and e-mails can potentially be disclosed. You should keep this in mind when writing such documents. This is particularly the case for meeting reports and emails with third parties (e.g. industry), which are favourite targets of requests for access to documents, especially by NGOs,reads the memo.It asks officials to draft documents with the utmost care while telling them to avoid making references to informal contacts, such as meals or drinks, with lobbyists.Don't refer to the great lunch you have had with an industry representative privately or add a PS asking if he/she would like to meet for a drink.The document also tips off officials on how to narrow down the interpretation of a request for information. It points to a past example where a request referred to DG trade meetings with individual companies, meaning the department could avoid making public its contacts with business lobbyists.
Separating the factual from the subjective
Recent cases concern requests for information about meetings with individual companies on our FTAs [Free Trade Agreements] which have allowed us to exclude business federations on the same points, or about meetings with DG Trade officials which have allowed us to exclude meetings on the same point with the Commissioner or the cabinet,it notes.As a way of avoiding officials having to blank out parts of documents they release to the public, the transparency guide suggests writing two accounts of meetings, a factual or neutral one that can be released to the public and a more personal/subjective one with assessments and recommendations for follow up that need not be disclosed.It also explains that briefings should not be made public if still considered newsworthy – a derogation allowed under the regulation for documents concerning a decision still in progress – with DG Trade working on a series of key issues including making free trade agreements with poor countries (something NGOs are always keen to have an insight into) and sensitive WTO decisions.DG Trade's take on the transparency regulation which MEPs recently voted to expand to cover all documents, including electronic ones, has come in for criticism.Corporate Europe Observatory, a transparency NGO, said the instructions appear to directly contravene the spirit and content of the regulation.
Scandalous
It is a scandalous attempt to legitimise DG Trade's recurrent attempts to shield evidence of its liaisons with corporate lobbyists from information requests,said CEO campaigner Pia Eberhardt.For its part, the European Commission defended the memo. A spokesperson told EUobserver: Actually we think these are good instructions. It makes clear that no category of documents is excluded [from the regulation].The spokesperson also said that the instructions make it easier to get reports out and avoid having to go through blanking out documents.The transparency regulation dates from 2001 but the commission recently proposed to overhaul it after complaints from the EU ombudsman and several court cases. Following MEPs' vote last month the regulation has gone back to committee for discussion on sensitive issues such as the extent to which commercial data can be excused from disclosure.The updated law is expected to be approved in the second half of this year, under the Swedish EU presidency.
Anti-Saakashvili protests kick off peacefully,The opposition has pledged to continue its protests until Mikheil Saakashvili resigns (Photo: EUobserver)
VALENTINA POP Today APR 9,09 @ 19:17 CET
EUOBSERVER / TBILISI – Some 50,000 people gathered peacefully Thursday (9 April) afternoon in front of the Georgian parliament asking for president Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation. Misha, go home! and Protect Georgia from tyranny were some of the slogans shouted by protesters gathered by 13 opposition parties who pledged to stay on the streets until the president resigns. Some protesters blamed the president for widespread unemployment and poor pensions, waving the Soviet flag Georgia used to have before the Rose Revolution, which saw Mr Saakashvili sweep into power in 2003.
Young protesters were contemptuous of the way he managed the August war, which saw most of the country invaded by the Russian army. After three hours of political speeches on a podium, most of the protesters started walking back home, as a cold wind swept the streets in the evening. Demonstrators showed up in far smaller numbers than projected by the opposition, who counted on some 150,000 people. According to independent European experts, the crowd was estimated at 53,000, while the government floated the figure 25,000. Some 500 protesters also gathered in the Black Sea port of Batumi, according to deputy interior minister Eka Zguladze.Although calm and friendly, some of the people said they were willing to fight with riot police if it came down to it. I am here with my wife and daughter and we will all fight. Mr Saakashvili has to step down, he has not delivered on his promises,one 40-year old demonstrator told this website.Opposition leaders at the rally called on president Saakashvili to resign and said they would wait for a response over the next 24 hours and then announce what their next moves would be.Several hundred people were still milling in front of the parliament late Thursday evening meaning some incidents could occur during the night, with some carrying long sticks which were initially used for the flags. Others were wondering, half jokingly, how to enter the Parliament, where riot police was massed.Unlike the protests in November 2007, when riot police was deployed on the streets, firing rubber bullets and tear gas, the government has decided to place the law enforcement officers only inside the public institutions, in order to avoid clashes with protesters.
Protests and then what?
Several EU diplomats suggested that the opposition's strategy is heading for a cul-de-sac as they have refused to negotiate at all with the government so long as Mr Saakashvili remains in office.EU special envoy to the Caucasus Peter Semneby echoed these concerns during a press briefing and called for a meaningful dialogue between opposition and government, stressing that constitutional problems cannot be solved in the streets, but only at the negotiating table.He added that EU diplomats were in close contact with both the government and the opposition and there were some European experts observing activities at the Ministry of Interior.Czech ambassador Ivan Jestrab, speaking on behalf of the EU presidency, said that member states were paying close attention to the events. We are stressing the need for more dialogue between opposition and government and calling for a political solution to the open questions your country is facing.Deputy interior minister Eka Zguladze rejected speculation about Russian attempts to influence the protests, saying that from the government's point of view, there was no link between increased deployment of Russian military equipment both in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the demonstrations. We do not bring any link between the question mark that we have about the Russian behaviour with the demonstrations. We will deal with the demonstrations as if Russia did not exist. There are two very separate developments,she said.
FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT Obama's G20 plan kisses off Declaration of Independence New international board to intervene in decisions about U.S. companies April 08, 2009 8:32 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily
Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium online newsletter published by the current No. 1 best-selling author, WND staff writer and columnist. Subscriptions are $99 a year or $9.95 per month for credit card users. Annual subscribers will receive a free autographed copy of The Late Great USA,a book about the careful deceptions of a powerful elite who want to undermine our nation's sovereignty.At the G20 meeting in London, President Obama agreed to create of an international board with authority to intervene in U.S. corporations by dictating executive compensation and approving or disapproving business management decisions, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.Political consultant Dick Morris said that by agreeing to create the Financial Stability Board, Obama is a willing accomplice to a decision that effectively repealed the U.S. Declaration of Independence and abrogated the sovereignty of the United States.
The final communiqu̩s coming out of the G20 meeting in London April 2 included a document entitled Declaration on Strengthening the Financial System.By agreeing to the stipulations in this document, President Obama gave the blessing of the United States to the G20 decision to elevate the Financial Stability Forum into the Financial Stability Board,Corsi wrote.The United States has only one vote in the newly constituted Financial Stability Board, a group that will be largely controlled by European central bankers.The new global regulator now has the authority to examine all U.S. banks, brokerage firms and corporations Рincluding non-financial companies such as the Big Three automakers Рto examine operations and determine risk. The Financial Stability Board then has the international authority to set policies in these corporations, including compensation packages the private boards of directors in the examined companies decide to pay top executives and senior managers. Morris charged that the Obama administration, by agreeing to create the Financial Stability Board, has gone beyond nationalizing U.S. corporations, to internationalize U.S.-based corporations under the control of this new global regulator. While the G20 focused on regulating risks in hedge funds and derivatives, the authority of the Financial Stability Board extends to any banking, brokerage or business practice by a major U.S. corporation that the Financial Stability Board on its own authority determines is unduly risky. Under the premise that the IMF and the Financial Stability Board would have the ability to make loans to important U.S. corporations, the IMF and the Financial Stability Board become the effective global regulators over the corporate world, superseding all U.S. governmental authorities, including the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a host of corporate regulators, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Red Alert's author, whose books The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, said no appeal procedure to any U.S. court or regulator is specified by the G20 communiqué as recourse for a U.S. company that wants to contest a decision by the Financial Stability Board as incorrect, unfounded or otherwise overreaching. Corsi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks. In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines. For more information on internationalizing U.S.-based corporations and for financial guidance during difficult times, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, The Obama Nation.
EU proposes to speed up aid for poor countries
ELITSA VUCHEVA 08.04.2009 @ 17:18 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Commission on Wednesday (8 April) presented a series of actions aimed at boosting aid for developing countries in the wake of the global financial crisis, but without putting additional money on the table.Instead of adding new aid, Brussels is suggesting ways to speed up the delivery of the existing funds and to make it more efficient.This year, the commission will accelerate the payment of €3 billion from the budget support to African, Pacific and Caribbean (ACP) countries, as well as make available a further €800 million from a fund aimed at combating hunger in poor countries and set up in December.We have not come here to announce to you additional colossal measures,EU development commissioner Louis Michel said at a press conference in Brussels.But in two years, we will have mobilised 72 percent of what was supposed to be provided as budgetary support for 2008 – 2013,he added.The commissioner also urged EU member states to be more co-ordinated, arguing this would substantially increase the money available for developing countries.We just recently had figures from a study which we commissioned talking about the cost of non-Europe – bad coordination among donors, bad coordination of our rules. The cost of not having Europe is quite amazing, horrifying according to the initial figures of that study,commissioner Michel said.Better or more effective coordination between commission and the 27 member states would release about €7 billion per year, or €35 billion between now and 2015.This whole package is a plea to have more Europe, he added.In 2000, 189 countries worldwide agreed eight goals aimed to reduce global poverty by 2015 – referred to as the Millennium Development Goals.
The EU's own goal is to spend 0.7 percent of its GDP on development aid by then.
Also speaking at Wednesday's press conference, commission president Jose Manuel Barroso urged EU states to stick to this goal, underlining however that the perspectives for the upcoming years seem rather preoccupying.We are now more than half way to the 2015 deadline for reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals and some of the gains achieved so far risk being forfeited leaving poor countries worse off than before the crisis,Mr Barroso said.The 27-nation bloc spent €49 billion on development aid in 2008, making it the largest donor in the world.The recession must not, cannot, will not be used as an excuse for going back on our promises to keep on increasing aid,he added.
Nothing new
However, the commission's announcements were met with scepticism by development NGOs, slamming Brussels's proposals for a lack of substance.As nothing outwardly new has been announced today, we're not clear on how Europe is actually going to soften the blow of the financial crisis in poor countries, Alexandre Polack, head of European policy division at ActionAid, was quoted as saying by AFP.We have not seen any useful ideas coming out of this package on how to support developing countries in dealing with climate change, on stopping tax evasion or on coping with the effects of trade policies,he added.Hetty Kovac from Oxfam International echoed this statement, saying: We fear that with no new money, poor countries will suffer in years to come, when aid dries up. Europe needs to dig deep to help prevent this crisis from becoming a humanitarian disaster.
Ireland unveils tough budget as nation faces challenge of its life
HONOR MAHONY 08.04.2009 @ 09:08 CET
The Irish government on Tuesday (7 April) unveiled a tough new budget including a series of tax hikes and spending cuts in a bid to get the country's public finances, the worst in Europe, back under control by 2013.Income levies were the main point of the budget, unveiled by finance minister Brian Lenihan, with a doubling of the rates introduced in autumn last year and a lowering of the thresholds of when they apply.
The country's low corporate tax (12.5%) - one of the main reasons for Ireland's phenomenal economic growth in recent years - will remain the same but capital gains and capital acquisitions tax have been raised to 25 percent.Mr Lenihan said the measures mean a new budget deficit target of 10.75 percent of GDP for this year, with previous forecasts predicting that the deficit would clock in at almost 13 percent, over four times the limit allowed under the eurozone rules.The European Commission has given Ireland until 2013 to get its finances in order, which means bringing the budget deficit down to 3 percent or less.We are now facing the challenge of this nation's life," Brian Lenihan told parliament, with the budget described in Irish newspapers as being the harshest in living memory.The problem is our expenditure base is too high and our revenue base is too low. If we fail, refuse or neglect to address this structural problem we will condemn our generation and the next to the folly of excessive borrowing,Mr Lenihan said.The minister said that in 2010 he would look for a further €1.75 billion from taxation and another €1.5 billion the following year.
Getting this extra revenue could take the form of property tax, a carbon tax or taxation of child benefits.We have to change the way we operate as a country and we cannot let it sap our confidence,said prime minister Brian Cowen, speaking after the budget was revealed.This recession will pass and the world will recover. The consensus is that the world economy will recover in 2010. That will bring a return of growth in Ireland in 2011,he added.Dublin also plans to set up an asset management agency to buy bank's bad debts in a bid to restore international confidence in the country's finance sector.Having ridden high for so many years, Ireland's small open economy has been strongly hit by the global financial crisis which punctured the property bubble and left the country facing double digit unemployment figures and a sharp contraction in economic growth and consumer spending.Its problems and how it deals with them are being closely followed in the rest of Europe, particularly Brussels.Ireland's announcement came the same day as new figures showed that the eurozone economy shrank by 1.6 percent in the last three months of 2008, instead of the 1.5 percent contraction that had been predicted.The drop in GDP came as a result of falling exports and lower investment.
SEC offers short sale curbs, traders irked By Rachelle Younglai and Karey Wutkowski Rachelle Younglai And Karey Wutkowski – Wed Apr 8, 6:15 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators floated five new proposals to curb short selling, drawing fire from short sellers who feel they are being made scapegoats for the financial crisis and stock market plunge.The five-member Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to seek 60 days of comment on the proposals, including bringing back an uptick rule -- allowing bets that a stock will fall only when the last sale price was higher than the previous price.Another proposal would allow shorting only if the best available bid on a stock was higher than the last bid. Three other proposed restrictions would be triggered by a steep slide in the price of a security.The SEC could combine some of the proposals but not all five could work together. Commissioners would have to meet again to decide on any final rule.Traders and asset managers said short sellers were being targeted unfairly for the plunge in stock prices that occurred as the housing market bubble burst and exposed risky bets by financial institutions.The problem is that the managements of the banks and brokers screwed themselves up, short sellers did not, said hedge fund manager Doug Kass, who heads Seabreeze Partners Management.
Commissioners such as Kathleen Casey were generally skeptical of linking the 2007 abolition of the uptick rule to the last 18 months of stock market declines.But SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro acknowledged the intense pressure on the agency to address short selling, telling Wednesday's meeting that no other issue had generated as many emails and comments since she took the position in January.The commission is keenly aware of the need to balance the potential benefits of its proposed rules against the costs,she said.Commissioner Luis Aguilar said he feared that even if the SEC adopted more short sale restrictions, the rules may not be effective, because investors who engaged in abusive short selling could shift to unregulated financial products.
Short interest on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market had fallen from highs in July until February, when it climbed back along with a rise in stock prices.
The SEC will hold a roundtable discussion of the issues on May 5. Any final action is at least two to three months away.
CONGRESSIONAL PRESSURE
The uptick rule was first adopted after the 1929 stock market crash but was abolished in 2007 after the SEC concluded that advances in the marketplace had rendered the rule ineffective and obsolete.With the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index (.SPX) down roughly 45 percent since the start of 2008, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) down more than 40 percent over the same period, members of Congress and others have pressed for restoration of the rule.We are pleased that the SEC has begun action against abusive short selling,said Senators Edward Kaufman, a Democrat, and Johnny Isakson, a Republican, who have introduced a bill requiring the SEC to reinstate the uptick rule and regulate abusive short selling activities.The SEC last year adopted a number of rules to curb abuses of short selling, including one that requires investors to deliver their shares within three days of shorting a stock. Another rule requires big investors such as hedge funds to disclose their short positions to the agency.Both rules are set to expire at the end of July and the SEC will have to decide on their future. SEC staff and commissioners said the delivery rule has helped weed out some abusive forms of short selling; investors believe the agency should do more. Billionaire investor George Soros said on Monday that he favored a reintroduction of some kind of rule to restrict short selling. You do need to provide some protection against effectively the bear raids,Soros told Reuters Financial Television in an interview. Short sellers argue that their trading helps keep markets liquid and prevents stocks from becoming overvalued. They also criticize last year's temporary ban on short sales of hundreds of financial stocks. I am surprised that regulators have not learned from the (short-sale ban) fiasco where it ultimately reduced liquidity in the securities,said Ron Geffner, a partner at law firm Sadis & Goldberg LLP who advises hedge funds.
Market makers are not explicitly exempted under the rules proposed on Wednesday.
We believe that exemptions are vital to proper and legitimate market makers that add liquidity,a NYSE spokesman said, adding the exchange will discuss the issue with the SEC. The SEC said it would likely include several exceptions to the rules,these exceptions would be limited to activities that promote liquidity and foster the workability of the proposed rules without undermining the effectiveness of the proposals.
SEC STAFF PREFER BID TEST
Erik Sirri, the SEC's trading and markets director, told reporters that the bid test made more sense as the tick test has a problem with getting an accurate tick given how quickly stocks trade. Three other possible measures would use a circuit breaker approach to trigger either a temporary suspension of short selling in a particular stock, or temporary application of the uptick or bid rule in a security. The SEC is proposing that a 10 percent decline trigger the circuit breakers but is seeking comment on other thresholds. The country's largest exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market and BATS exchange, support a circuit breaker approach where shorting would only be allowed if the price was higher than the best available bid. The head of BATS exchange, Joe Ratterman, said he was disappointed the SEC had failed to narrow the range of ideas. He told Reuters the agency had failed to put a stake in the ground on a highly political issue. Casey, one of the commissioners who voted to abolish the uptick rule, said she had not yet been persuaded that its repeal had anything to do with the economic and market conditions of the past 18 months. She also warned fellow commissioners that the courts could overturn a new SEC rule unless there was credible empirical evidence to demonstrate the repeal of the uptick rule, or abusive short selling, drove down the price of any security.(Reporting by Rachelle Younglai and Karey Wutkowski; additional reporting by Jennifer Ablan and Jonathan Spicer in New York; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
North Korea celebrates launch, makes new threat By Jon Herskovitz – Wed Apr 8, 5:42 pm ET
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean soldiers on Wednesday celebrated the nation's defiant launch of a rocket in a mass rally, while Russia's foreign minister said any new measures to punish Pyongyang could be counter-productive.The United States, Japan and South Korea said the North's launch on Sunday was a disguised test of a long-range missile designed to carry warheads to U.S. territory and deserved punishment because it violated U.N. resolutions.North Korea warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday it would take strong steps if the 15-nation body took any action in response to the launch. On Wednesday, the Communist-ruled country gathered its top party and military officials for a celebration of the launch broadcast on its state TV and monitored in Seoul.The reclusive state has threatened to boycott six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium. It also warned on Wednesday of military action if anyone tried to retrieve debris from the rocket.U.S. and South Korean military officials said the missile, known as the Taepodong-2, crashed into the Pacific Ocean and that no satellite was deployed during its 3,200 km (2,000 mile) flight over Japan, as Pyongyang has said.The North's KCNA news agency quoted a military spokesman as saying Japan's attempt to find booster stages off its coasts was an intolerable military provocative act of infringing upon its (North Korea's) sovereignty and would prompt a response.
DEADLOCK AT U.N.
Diplomats in New York said negotiations on a Security Council response to the launch were deadlocked. The five permanent council members -- United States, Britain, France, China and Russia -- and Japan have failed to break the impasse in several meetings.The United States and Japan would like a legally binding resolution expanding existing financial sanctions and an arms embargo against North Korea. Critics have said the sanctions lacked enforcement.But U.N. diplomats say the Chinese would prefer that the council either do nothing or issue a non-binding statement to the media that stops far short of condemning the launch. Japan and the three Western powers have rejected that idea.U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters on Wednesday there are some differences of opinion when asked why the Council had not yet responded to the launch.It's going to take time, he said about the negotiations in New York.I can't put a timeframe on it.Concerned about the stability of its unpredictable neighbor, Beijing has said any U.N. reaction must be cautious and proportionate.China is sometimes viewed as North Korea's only major ally.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the threat of sanctions against North Korea was counter-productive.North Korea said it had the right to deploy a satellite, which it says is circling the globe playing revolutionary songs, as a part of a peaceful space program.Analysts said North Korea went ahead with the launch knowing it would not suffer serious repercussions, while its leader, Kim Jong-il, would see an enormous boost at home for the defiant act.The successful launching of the satellite ... is not a mere fruition of wisdom and talent but a fierce confrontation with those who disliked it,KCNA said in a separate report.Kim is expected to ride a wave of patriotic fervor generated by the launch at the annual meeting of the North's rubber stamp parliament on Thursday. The Supreme People's Assembly meeting, where a new pecking order for communist party cadres will be unveiled, is expected to show that Kim, 67, has recovered from a suspected stroke and is fully in control of Asia's only communist dynasty. In its only previous missile test in 2006, the rocket exploded seconds after launch. Despite a technical failure the recent launch showed that the impoverished North had greatly increased the range of its missiles but may be years away from building one to threaten the United States, analysts said. (Additional reporting by Chisa Fujioka in Tokyo, Kim Junghyun in Seoul, Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow, Deborah Charles in Washington and Louis Charbonneau at the United Nations; Editing by Paul Tait and Paul Simao)
Navy warship arrives where captain held off Somalia By Daniel Wallis and JoAnne Allen APR 8,09
NAIROBI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy warship arrived on Thursday off the Somali coast, where the captain of a U.S.-flagged freighter has been taken hostage by pirates, the shipping line said.The ship was briefly hijacked by pirates on Wednesday but the crew of 20 Americans had retaken control of the vessel and were trying to negotiate their captain's release, second mate Ken Quinn told CNN. The captain was being held on a lifeboat.The Danish-owned freighter's operator, Maersk Line Ltd, said the U.S. Navy destroyer Bainbridge arrived on the scene before dawn on Thursday. Spokesman B.J. Talley said the company was in touch with its ship and was also talking with the Navy.
Talley declined comment on what action, if any, the Navy might take.
CNN reported the lifeboat where the captain was being held was very near the Maersk Alabama. The Alabama crew can see the Navy destroyer and has been in contact with the Navy, CNN said. A U.S. defense official in Washington would say only that there were U.S. assets in the area.Maersk earlier confirmed that the U.S. crew had regained control of the 17,000-tonne Maersk Alabama after the pirates left the ship with one hostage.The seizure was the latest in an escalation in pirate attacks off the lawless Horn of Africa country of Somalia.A spokesman for the company said no injuries had been reported for the rest of the crew left aboard.We are just trying to offer them whatever we can, food, but it is not working too good,Quinn told CNN of efforts to secure the freedom of the captain. He said the four pirates were holding the captain hostage on the ship's lifeboat.Maritime officials said the Maersk Alabama was carrying food aid for Somalia and Uganda from Djibouti to Mombasa, a Kenyan port, when it was seized far out in the Indian Ocean.We can confirm that our crew has control of the ship. The pirates have departed the ship and they have taken one crew member with them as a hostage,the Maersk Line spokesman said, but could not confirm whether the hostage was the captain.The ship seizure, about 300 miles off Somalia, was the first time Somali pirates have seized U.S. citizens.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was very worried by the hijacking and called for world action to end the scourge of piracy.We are deeply concerned and we are following it very closely,Clinton told reporters in Washington.Specifically, we are now focused on this particular act of piracy and the seizure of the ship that carries 21 American citizens. More generally, we think the world must come together to end the scourge of piracy.
CREW TIE UP PIRATE
Second mate Quinn said the four pirates sank their own boat when they boarded the container ship. However, the captain talked them into getting off the freighter and into the ship's lifeboat with him.The crew then overpowered one of the pirates and sought to exchange him for the captain, Quinn told CNN. We kept him for 12 hours. We tied him up,Quinn said. The crew released their captive to the other pirates, but the exchange did not work and the captain was still being held by the pirates on the lifeboat, he told CNN. They are not aboard. We are controlling the ship, he said.
Maersk Line president and chief executive John Reinhart told reporters he had received a cell phone call from the crew at about 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) saying they were all safe.He said company protocol advised the U.S. sailors not to attempt to retake the ship once hijackers were on board. Once boarded, the crew has safe rooms and they are not to take on active engagement because they have no weapons. It would be a risk to their lives,Reinhart said. Maersk Line is a Norfolk, Virginia-based subsidiary of Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's biggest container shipper.
Among the ship's cargo were 400 containers of food aid, including 232 containers belonging to the U.N.'s World Food Program that were destined for Somalia and Uganda.
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said a thorough policy debate on piracy off Somalia is long overdue. I plan to hold hearings to further examine the growing threat of piracy and all the policy options that need to be on the table before the next fire drill becomes an international incident with big implications,Kerry said in a statement. The seizure was the latest in a wave of pirate attacks. Gunmen from Somalia seized a British-owned ship on Monday after hijacking another three vessels over the weekend.In the first three months of 2009 just eight ships were hijacked in the strategic Gulf of Aden, which links Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to Europe via the Suez Canal. Last year, heavily armed Somali pirates hijacked dozens of vessels, took hundreds of sailors hostage -- often for weeks -- and extracted millions of dollars in ransoms. Foreign navies sent warships to the area in response and reduced the number of successful attacks. The Seafarers International Union, which has 12 members aboard, said the Maersk Alabama was enrolled in the U.S. Maritime Security Program (MSP), a fleet of militarily useful, privately owned vessels.(Additional reporting by Edward McAllister, Anthony Boadle, Jim Wolf, JoAnne Allen and Sue Pleming in Washington and Rasmus Jorgensen in Copenhagen; Writing by Daniel Wallis and Anthony Boadle; editing by Todd Eastham)
Jews in Israel and worldwide prepare for Passover By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Wed Apr 8, 8:32 am ET
JERUSALEM – Jews around the world made last-minute preparations Wednesday ahead of the spring festival of Passover, cleaning houses, cars and offices, cooking furiously and getting ready for a week without leavened bread.The holiday, which marks the Hebrews' exodus from slavery in Egypt as recounted in the Bible, begins Wednesday night with a special meal known as the seder.Beyond being an opportunity for extended families to get together, the seder is focused on recounting the story of the exodus, especially to children, so the tradition is preserved from generation to generation.
The history of the Jewish people begins with the exodus from Egypt,said Rabbi David Rosen, interfaith director at the American Jewish Committee.Passover, he said, is the root of Jewish understanding of marginalization and vulnerability, and the emphasis on sensitivity to the widow, the stranger, those who are different from you.You have to know oppression to know redemption,Rosen said.The biblical story recounts that God killed the first-born of Egypt after Pharaoh refused to release the children of Israel from bondage, but passed over the houses of the Hebrews. That's the root of the holiday's name.After that divine blow, Pharaoh gave in and let the Hebrews go. They were then given the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai and wandered in the desert for 40 years before arriving in the Land of Israel, according to the Bible.The tradition of eating matza, the unleavened bread identified with Passover, comes from the Bible's account that the Jews left Egypt in such a hurry that their bread did not have time to rise. It is also considered the bread of the poor, meant to remind Jews of their ancestors' hardships. Leavened bread is banned and burned ceremonially before the holiday starts.
Even the country's cows have been eating special Passover food, the wheat in their diet replaced by corn, peas and alfalfa so their milk can be consumed. For several weeks, rabbinical authorities have visited barns to ensure the laws are being enforced.Their owners are not allowed to have leaven in their possession. There is also concern that a grain of wheat could mistakenly get in the milk and render it non-kosher.One self-appointed watchdog group has assigned informants to spy on restaurants and bakeries to make sure they do not serve leavened bread during the holiday. The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel said it would relay its findings to police, municipal authorities and the Interior Ministry.The Jewish character of the state of Israel is at stake,the group's chairman, Nachi Eyal, told the Jerusalem Post. A 1986 law bans the public display of leavened products, though it has been difficult to enforce.The holiday is also an occasion for a thorough spring cleaning. There is a yearly pre-holiday rush on cleaning products at supermarkets, and long lines formed at car-washes as the festival approached.At sunrise Wednesday, Jews also performed a ritual done once every 28 years, when tradition holds the sun returns to its place at the time of creation.Tens of thousands of people greeted the sunrise at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray. The worshippers said a blessing expressing thanks to God for creating the world.
The prayer is not connected to Passover but happened to coincide with the holiday.
Because of concerns that Palestinian militants could take advantage of the holiday to carry out attacks inside Israel, the military clamped a closure on the West Bank for the duration of Passover. No Palestinians will be allowed to cross into Israel except those needing medical care, according to a military statement. Israel also renewed a travel warning urging tourists not to go to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, citing threats of militant attacks. The Sinai is a popular destination for Israeli travelers, despite past attacks on Israeli and Western targets there.
Americans Denounced As Terrorists While Criminals Embraced
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, April 9, 2009
While federal agencies across the country write dossiers on how some of the most patriotic people in America are terrorists and criminals, the Obama administration is set to embark on a push to legalize the estimated 20 million immigrants who have already broken the law by entering the country illegally.The New York Times reports today that Obama is set to launch a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. The real number of illegal immigrants in America is estimated at around the 20 million mark.But forgive us for pointing out that illegal immigrants, whether they are white, black, brown, or pink with polka dots, are criminals who have broken the law by entering the country illegally - no doubt that Obama kool-aid drinking liberal blogs will now claim that the mere mention of such a thought crime means we are virulently racist and have legions of cop-killing followers.
Indeed, it’s perfectly reasonable for the government to reward criminals who have already broken the laws of the land while training police forces across the nation that American citizens, of whatever race or color, are a threat to society because they have a political bumper sticker, support a third party candidate or are somewhat knowledgeable about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.The infamous MIAC report has now been superceded by a new document, The 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment, produced by the Virginia Fusion Center.The report smears anyone who is anti-government,anti-abortion,as potential terrorists, equates people who enjoy rifle shooting practice and hunting with terrorists, and demonizes the use of the Internet and websites like You Tube, Fark and Slashdot as terrorist tools. The use of e-protests is also talked about in the context of terrorism.The document also discusses special interest groups who incorporate a political message in its section about domestic terrorists, which could be defined as any mildly political organization whatsoever. Despite the report listing political groups that it admits do not espouse violence nor have ever engaged in violence, it defines being confrontational during demonstrations within the context of domestic terrorism.
The report also identifies people who identify themselves as sovereign citizens and carry documents proclaiming their status as sovereign citizens, as domestic terrorists and links them with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.SInce the Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment doesn’t stretch as far as to equate a sitting member of Congress with terrorists, it might not go the same way as the MIAC report, where it should, and end up in the trash can.However, it’s yet another clear indication that the government is completely out of control and desperate to send a chill down the spine of millions more Americans who are thinking of joining the burgeoning liberty movement, by smearing members of peaceable political movements as criminals and potentially violent terrorists, while equating them with racist extremists.Meanwhile, the tens of millions of real criminals who have already broken the law by entering the country illegally are not even mentioned in the Threat Assessment as being a threat - and are in fact set to be rewarded by the government with legal status and all the privileges that go with it.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
FAITH UNDER FIRE Crosses, Bibles banned from hospital chapel,Officials cite respect after new Muslim prayer room opened April 08, 2009 10:22 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily
Administrators at a hospital in Australia have thrown the crosses, crucifixes and Bibles out of their chapel to comply with new rules that followed the construction of a special prayer room for Muslims. According to a report in the Mosman Daily, the change has been made at the Royal North Shore Hospital in St. Leonards. The move, according to senior members of the hospital staff quoted by the newspaper, was made to avoid offending Muslims or Hindus who may be at the hospital. The newspaper cited a hospital spokeswoman who said the ban was imposed after the chapel was enhanced with the provision of a Muslim prayer space in the loft area.At that time the decision was made to display the symbols of each faith, for example the chapel's cross and Bible, during specific services and ceremonies only,the spokeswoman said. This decision was made out of respect for the many faiths that make up both the hospital and also the modern Australian community.Hospital staff members told the newspaper while the chapel was built for Christians, the goal apparently now is to create a neutral space. WND reported a case in the United States when the president of the College of William & Mary decided abruptly to remove a donated cross from the historic Wren Chapel on the school's campus to make the space less faith-specific.
The historic Wren Chapel
University President Gene Nichol eventually left his post, following an effort on the part of a coalition of alumi calling for the school's Board of Visitors to not renew Nichol's contract. Nichol has betrayed our trust by creating a call of silence, elevating personal pursuits above the good of the college and deceitful lawyerly posturing,said Nina Hartley, a 1975 graduate in the group. In the Australian case, Mosman Mayor Dom Lopez told his local newspaper the decision left him outraged.North Shore Liberal MP Jillian Skinner described the maneuver as bureaucratic madness.On the newspaper's forum, one participate said, So if I find myself in hospital in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Afghanistan, Pakistan or even Indonesia, do they remove all islamic symbols so that I as a non muslim are not offended? On the JihadWatch website, Robert Spencer posted a report that generated a long list of reactions: Why would a person of one faith be offended by seeing the religious symbols of another faith? The only reason could be that their own faith is intolerant of others,wrote one. The monumental hypocrisy is again evident for all to see. On one hand they claim to be a tolerant peaceful faith while with the other they try and dismantle all other faiths. Sometimes this is through sleight of hand though most times it is at gunpoint,said another.I am offended by the very sight of mosques. These should be removed,wrote another.In a report in the Daily Telegraph, a spokesman for the Islamic Friendship Society said there now were concerns about a backlash against Muslims. The Wren cross at the College of William and Mary originally was taken out of the chapel after Nichol reported he received a complaint about it. But alumni and students launched a website campaign called Save The Wren Cross and collected more than 18,000 names demanding the cross be restored.
As the number of names on the petition rose, Nichol at first admitted he acted too quickly and should have consulted more broadly and dictated that a plaque would be installed in the chapel.The move failed to satisfy those who wanted the donated bronze cross restored to the historic chapel, and the university eventually assembled a special committee to deal with the crisis. The college later confirmed the antique cross would be placed in a glass display case at the front of the chapel, which was done.WND had broken the story that Nichol had created a furor by arbitrarily ordering the cross – donated by Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in the 1930s – into storage so that the chapel would be less faith-specific.That argument hit even Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as unusual.I'm just struck by the fact that it is a chapel and has always been a chapel and that's a part of William and Mary, and I think continuing in that way certainly wouldn't bother me,he said.
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.
Western storminess leads to severe storms AccuWeather James Wilson – Wed Apr 8, 6:06 pm ET
A storm impacting the West with rain and mountain snow will bring a variety of impacts to the Central and Eastern States by Thursday and Friday. Showers will dot the central to northern California with snow in the Sierra Nevada through tonight. Much of this activity will then spread to the Rockies overnight into Thursday. Winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories are posted in the mountains of Utah and northwest Colorado. As much as 10 to 20 inches may fall from this storm in the northern Wasatch of Utah. Thrusday through Saturday, this storm will bring more active weather to portions of the Central and Eastern States. Rain and thunderstorms will spread from out of the Central Plains to the mid-Mississippi Valley, lower-Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley Thursday into Thursday night. Friday, showers and thunderstorms area expected in the Ohio Valley and Southeast with some showers pushing into portions of the Mid-Atlantic, southern New York and Southern New England. Severe thunderstorms will initially be possible on Thursday afternoon and evening in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Some severe storms will be possible into Thursday overnight across southern Missouri, Arkansas, northern Mississippi, southern Illinois, and western portions of Kentucky and Tennessee. Isolated severe storms may develop farther south in eastern Texas and Louisiana. Large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes will be possible. Friday, the chance for severe storms will increase and spread from near the Ohio River and Kentucky south through the Tennessee Valley and to the Gulf Coast. There will be a threat for gusty winds, large hail, and tornadoes with this system. Dr. Greg Forbes TWC's Severe Weather Expert is watching this storm threat closely and advises you pay close attention on Friday for the potential severe storms. The storm will have a wintry side in portions of the Northern High Plains Thursday. Just enough cold air will interact with moisture in portions of western South Dakota and western Nebraska to bring a mixture of rain and snow changing to wet snow in these areas. Some locations may pick up 3 or more inches. Behind the storm, strong winds and dry air will punch into parts of central and western Oklahoma and Texas. This may cause some areas of blowing dust and a extreme high fire danger Thursday.
U.S. forecaster lowers Atlantic hurricane prediction By Jim Loney – Wed Apr 8, 12:39 pm ET
MIAMI (Reuters) – Citing cooler seas and the prospect of a weak El Nino, Colorado State University's hurricane team lowered its 2009 Atlantic forecast on Tuesday to 12 tropical storms, of which six could become hurricanes.The research team, founded by storm forecasting pioneer William Gray, said the season could see two major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. Hurricanes of that magnitude have sustained winds of more than 110 miles per hour (177km per hour).In its December forecast, the CSU team predicted 14 storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes in the 2009 season, which begins on June 1 and lasts six months.The researchers said sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean had cooled in recent months. Hurricanes draw energy from warm sea water, so cooler water could diminish hurricane activity.In addition, the eastern Pacific Ocean could see the current weak La Nina conditions change to neutral, or even weak El Nino, by June, the researchers said. El Nino is a warm water phenomenon that can suppress Atlantic hurricane formation.If El Nino conditions develop for this year's hurricane season, it would tend to increase levels of vertical wind shear and decrease levels of Atlantic hurricane activity,Gray said.
Bill Read, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, downplayed the impact of El Nino, noting there have been active hurricane seasons during similar phases of the El Nino cycle. But he said cooler water could have an influence.Some of my forecasters have pointed out to me that the tropical Atlantic waters at this time of the year this year are somewhat cooler than the last several seasons,he said in an interview with Reuters at the National Hurricane Conference in Austin, Texas. If that continues that may be a more important factor on this season.While disaster management experts say long-range hurricane forecasting helps raise public awareness, many note it is an inexact science. Some forecasters, including the Colorado State team, have been well off target in recent years.Colorado State predicted 15 tropical storms for the 2005 season, but a record 28 formed.You're talking trying to discern weather events from a climate-type forecast. Therein lies a huge difficulty right there,Read said.That science is still in its infancy.
FORECASTS CLOSELY WATCHED
The forecasts are closely watched by energy, commodities and insurance markets, particularly since the devastating 2005 season, when a series of hurricanes rolled through Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and Hurricane Katrina, the costliest in U.S. history, swamped New Orleans.Colorado State predicted a 31 percent chance that a major hurricane would hit the U.S. Gulf coast this year, compared to a 30 percent long-term average. For the U.S. East Coast, the probability was 32 percent, compared to 31 percent long-term.The 2008 Atlantic season was one of the busiest on record, with 16 tropical storms, of which eight became hurricanes. Five were of Category 3 or higher.Cuba bore the brunt of last season's destructive storms. Three major hurricanes hit the Caribbean island, causing an estimated $10 billion damage.The long-term average for the Atlantic hurricane season is about 10 tropical storms and six hurricanes. But experts said a period of heightened Atlantic hurricane activity started around 1995 and was expected to last 25 to 40 years.London-based Tropical Storm Risk on Monday forecast 15 tropical storms, 7.8 hurricanes and 3.6 major hurricanes.(Additional reporting by Erwin Seba in Austin, Texas, editing by Chris Wilson)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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.
SoCal quake swarm continues near San Andreas Fault APR 8,09
BOMBAY BEACH, Calif. – A small earthquake has struck near the southern San Andreas Fault, the latest in a swarm that began two weeks ago.The magnitude-3.5 earthquake hit shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday and was centered 2 miles south of the small Imperial County town of Bombay Beach.More than 400 quakes have rattled the desert of southeastern California since mid-March, including 13 larger than magnitude-3. The strongest was a magnitude-4.8 quake on March 24 that woke up residents but did not cause damage.Seismic activity in the Bombay Beach area has tamped down in the past week.Seismologist Kate Hutton of the California Institute of Technology says it will take a fair amount of quiet time before scientists can declare a swarm over.
Quake strikes off Kuril Islands, no tsunami warning AP Tue Apr 7, 3:41 am ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.O on the Richter scale struck off Russia's Pacific coast on Tuesday about 182 miles northeast off Kurilsk in the Kuril Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake, which struck at 12:24 a.m. EDT, was at a depth of 24.3 miles, USGS said.There was no immediate tsunami warning from the quake, the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center website said.Russia's Emergency Services Ministry said the impact on land had been minimal.There were no casualties or damage caused. There is no tsunami warning,a ministry spokeswoman said.In the nearest towns they felt a tremor of magnitude 3-4.In the largest nearby city of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, on one of the southern Kuril islands, resident Gennady Berezyuk said he did not even feel the earthquake.We are used to tremors here, but I didn't feel the quake or any aftershocks,he told Reuters by telephone.The islands lie north of Hokkaido, Japan and south of Kamchatka, Russia. Seismic activity in the region is common.Japan's Meteorological Agency Web site said only a minor tremor was recorded in the northeast of Hokkaido, and no risk was seen of a tsunami in Japan.
(Reporting by Washington, Singapore world desks and Ludmila Danilova)
Quake funerals begin in Italy as more bodies found By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer APR 9,09
L'AQUILA, Italy – Bells tolled in hilltowns across central Italy on Wednesday as the first funerals got under way for victims of the country's devastating earthquake. The Vatican granted a dispensation so a funeral Mass for most of the 272 dead could be celebrated on Good Friday.As more bodies were pulled from the rubble, some of the 28,000 homeless spent another day lining up for food and water at some of the 20 tent camps that have sprouted up around this quake-devastated city.
Pope Benedict XVI said he would visit the area soon.
Rescue efforts continued for the 15 people still missing, but officials began discussing rebuilding the stricken region and reopening schools. They stressed it would take a month or two to have a clear idea of the extent of the damage.For now the needs are basic. The people in the camps, they don't have toothbrushes, they don't have toothpaste,said Massimo Cialente, mayor of the hard-hit city of L'Aquila. You can't find a place to buy cigarettes or get a coffee.The magnitude-6.3 quake hit L'Aquila and several towns covering 230 square miles (600 square kilometers) in central Italy early Monday, leveling buildings and reducing entire blocks to piles of rubble. It was the worst quake to hit Italy in three decades.The death toll stood at 272, six of whom hadn't been identified, the ANSA news agency reported, citing carabinieri police. Sixteen of the dead were children, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said.
Of the injured, 100 remained in serious condition, he said.
One 98-year-old survivor, rescued by firemen in the hamlet of Tempera 30 hours after quake, said in an interview on private Italia Uno TV network, that while she lay in her bed, surrounded by pieces of fallen plaster, she passed the time by crocheting.
Maria D'Antuono said that when firefighters arrived to help her out of her home, she ate some crackers then told her rescuers, At least let me comb my hair before she was brought outside.Two people were arrested for suspected looting Wednesday in the nearly leveled town of Onna, the ANSA news agency said, citing police. They were freed after proving to police the euro80,000 ($105,000) they had on them was theirs, ANSA said.Berlusconi said looting in the quake zone was on the rise and that the government was considering an increase in penalties. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told reporters that anti-looting police patrols would also be stepped up.Madonna pledged $500,000 in quake relief, said Fernando Caparso, the mayor of Pacentro, the mountainside village where two of the pop star's grandparents were born.On Wednesday, the first funerals got under way for the victims, including for Giuseppe Chiavaroli, 24, a football player in a lower-division team who was killed along with his girlfriend in Monday's quake.As churchbells tolled and onlookers applauded in the typical Italian gesture of mourning, players from his team carried his casket, his sky-blue soccer jersey draped on top.
We will try to be strong,his father Tomasso Chiavaroli said.The Vatican's No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was to celebrate a funeral Mass for the bulk of the victims on Friday, Vatican officials said.The Vatican granted a special dispensation for the Mass to be celebrated since Good Friday, which marks Jesus' death by crucifixion, is the only day in the year in which Mass in not celebrated in the Roman Catholic church. The funeral is expected to be held in an outdoor square at a police training school in L'Aquila, the Vatican said. At the moment, there is no church in L'Aquila which can be used,because they are all so damaged, said Vatican spokesman the Rev. Ciro Benedettini.On Wednesday, two bodies were pulled from the partially collapsed dormitory in L'Aquila, ANSA reported. The Israeli Embassy confirmed one of the bodies recovered was an Israeli student from Galilee. Two others were pulled from the wreckage of a building where a 20-year-old woman was rescued late Tuesday, ANSA said.
The Vatican said Benedict would visit the affected area sometime after Easter Sunday and that he does not want to interfere with relief operations. The pope praised the aid operations as an example of how solidarity can help overcome even the most painful trials.As soon as possible I hope to visit you,Benedict said Wednesday at the Vatican.Of the 28,000 people homeless, 17,700 were being housed in tent cities, spending much of their time on line — waiting for food and to use the bathrooms. They spent a second night in chilly mountain temperatures, sometimes without heat in their tents and being jolted by aftershocks. After two days of largely clear skies, conditions were expected to worsen by Thursday, when rain and thunderstorms were forecast for the quake area, AccuWeather.com reported. In addition, an additional 10,000 people were housed in hotels along the coast, bringing the overall number of homeless to almost 28,000, Berlusconi said.Since the quake early Monday, some 430 aftershocks have rumbled through the region, including some strong ones, said Marco Olivieri of the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology in Rome. I slept so badly because I kept feeling the aftershocks,said Daniela Nunut at one of the tent camps. The 46-year Romanian-born woman said she and her companion plan to stay in the tent for now. What can you do? You can't go into the building.A supermarket, though, is expected to open on Wednesday and officials were trying to make sure a doctor was available in pharmacies to write prescriptions, Cialente, the mayor, said.
In another indication that officials were trying to look beyond the immediate crisis, Berlusconi said he was considering asking each of Italy's 100 provinces to pick a reconstruction project around the region to take charge of. He also said a new town could be built on L'Aquila's outskirts, primarily to house young people. He stressed it would not be an alternative to rebuilding L'Aquila, but rather to add to the city's housing stock.AIR Worldwide, a specialist in estimating catastrophe risks, said Wednesday that insured losses to residential, commercial and industrial buildings and contents from the earthquake could be as high as euro400 million ($530 million).Interior Minister Maroni said the rescue efforts would likely continue until Easter Sunday, beyond the period originally indicated by Berlusconi. Associated Press Writers Nicole Winfield, Alessandra Rizzo and Frances D'Emilio contributed to this report.
OZONE DEPLETION
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, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, 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 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.
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.
CHEMTRAIL VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dyZ7AR55Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvioxJUL6C0&feature=related
CHEMTRAILS INFO
http://educate-yourself.org/ct/
DON'T TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER 16 VIDEOS CHEMTRAILS
http://www.truthring.org/2008/10/dont-talk-about-the-weather/
WE DON'T WANT TO KILL OUR PATIENTS AUDIO
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94376
NY SKYWATCH VIDEOS ON CHEMTRAILS
http://newyorkskywatch.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IcYtGX64P0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWowhvuPHhs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.cfr.org/project/1364/geoengineering.html
The Government Is Already Geo-Engineering The Environment
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The Associated Press reports today that the Obama administration has held discussions regarding the possibility of geo-engineering the earth’s climate to counter global warming by shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays.However, such programs are already being conducted by government-affiliated universities, government agencies, and on a mass scale through chemtrail spraying.The AP report states that Obama’s science advisor John Holdren is pushing for radical terra forming programs to be explored such as creating an artificial volcano. Despite Holdren’s admission that such measures could have grave side effects,he added that,we might get desperate enough to want to use it.Holdren, a 65-year-old physicist, is far from alone in taking geoengineering more seriously. The National Academy of Science is making climate tinkering the subject of its first workshop in its new multidiscipline climate challenges program. The British parliament has also discussed the idea,reports AP.The American Meteorological Society is crafting a policy statement on geoengineering that says “it is prudent to consider geoengineering’s potential, to understand its limits and to avoid rash deployment.
However, a study of past and ongoing upper atmosphere aerosol programs confirms that the government has been active in this field for years.The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was created in 1989 with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is sponsored by the DOE’s Office of Science and managed by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research.One of ARM’s programs, entitled Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC), is aimed at measuring cloud simulations and aerosol retrievals.Another program under the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Science Program is directed towards, developing comprehensive understanding of the atmospheric processes that control the transport, transformation, and fate of energy related trace chemicals and particulate matter.
The DOE website states that, The current focus of the program is aerosol radiative forcing of climate: aerosol formation and evolution and aerosol properties that affect direct and indirect influences on climate and climate change.U.S. government scientists are already bombarding the skies with the acid-rain causing pollutant sulphur dioxide in an attempt to fight global warming by geo-engineering the planet, despite the fact that injecting aerosols into the upper atmosphere carries with it a host of both known and unknown dangers.The proposal to disperse sulphur dioxide in an attempt to reflect sunlight was discussed in a September 2008 London Guardian article entitled, Geoengineering: The radical ideas to combat global warming, in which Ken Caldeira, a leading climate scientist based at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, California, promoted the idea of injecting the atmosphere with aerosols.One approach is to insert scatterers into the stratosphere,states the article.Caldeira cites an idea to deploy jumbo jets into the upper atmosphere and deposit clouds of tiny particles there, such as sulphur dioxide. Dispersing around 1m tonnes of sulphur dioxide per year across 10m square kilometres of the atmosphere would be enough to reflect away sufficient amounts of sunlight.
Experiments similar to Caldeira’s proposal are already being carried out by U.S. government -backed scientists, such as those at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, S.C, who last year began conducting studies which involved shooting huge amounts of particulate matter, in this case porous-walled glass microspheres, into the stratosphere.The project is closely tied to an idea by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, who proposed sending aircraft 747s to dump huge quantities of sulfur particles into the far-reaches of the stratosphere to cool down the atmosphere.Such programs merely scratch the surface of what is likely to be a gargantuan and overarching black-budget funded project to geo-engineer the planet, with little or no care for the unknown environmental consequences this could engender.What is known about what happens when the environment is loaded with sulphur dioxide is bad enough, since the compound is the main component of acid rain, which according to the EPA Causes acidification of lakes and streams and contributes to the damage of trees at high elevations (for example, red spruce trees above 2,000 feet) and many sensitive forest soils. In addition, acid rain accelerates the decay of building materials and paints, including irreplaceable buildings, statues, and sculptures that are part of our nation’s cultural heritage.The health effects of bombarding the skies with sulphur dioxide alone are enough to raise serious questions about whether such programs should even be allowed to proceed.The following health effects are linked with exposure to sulphur.
- Neurological effects and behavioral changes
- Disturbance of blood circulation
- Heart damage
- Effects on eyes and eyesight
- Reproductive failure
- Damage to immune systems
- Stomach and gastrointestinal disorder
- Damage to liver and kidney functions
- Hearing defects
- Disturbance of the hormonal metabolism
- Dermatological effects
- Suffocation and lung embolism
According to the LennTech website, Laboratory tests with test animals have indicated that sulfur can cause serious vascular damage in veins of the brains, the heart and the kidneys. These tests have also indicated that certain forms of sulfur can cause foetal damage and congenital effects. Mothers can even carry sulfur poisoning over to their children through mother milk. Finally, sulfur can damage the internal enzyme systems of animals.Fred Singer, president of the Science Environmental Policy Project and a skeptic of man-made global warming theories, warns that the consequences of tinkering with the planet’s delicate eco-system could have far-reaching dangers.If you do this on a continuous basis, you would depress the ozone layer and cause all kinds of other problems that people would rather avoid,said Singer.Even Greenpeace’s chief UK scientist - a staunch advocate of the man-made global warming explanation - Doug Parr has slammed attempts to geo-engineer the planet as outlandish and dangerous.
Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, who recently proposed a bizarre plan to send spaceships into the upper atmosphere that would be used to block out the Sun, admits that geo-engineering could cause conflicts between nations if geoengineering projects go wrong.Given all the immediate dangers associated with bombarding the atmosphere with sulphur dioxide, along with the unknown dangers of other geo-engineering projects, many people are concerned that chemtrails are a secret component of the same agenda to alter the Earth’s eco-system.This graphic proposes, Spraying aluminum powder and barium oxide into high levels of the atmosphere, again delivered by aircraft, to increase planetary reflectance (albedo) and cloud cover. High levels of barium have been found in substances associated with chemtrails.
Reports of chemtrails, jet plumes emitted from planes that hang in the air for hours and do not dissipate, often blanketing the sky in criss-cross patterns, have increased dramatically over the last 10 years. Many have speculated that they are part of a government program to alter climate, inoculate humans against certain pathogens, or even to toxify humans as part of a population reduction agenda.In conducting Google searches, one finds discussion, such as this example, of using sulphur dioxide as a jet fuel additive to be dispersed over the world during routine commercial flights.I suggest that both the sulphur dioxide and the silica particles could be delivered into the stratosphere by dissolving an additive in jet aviation fuel,writes engineer John Gorman, who has conducted experiments to test the feasibility of such a scenario.We would want to burn fuel containing the additive specifically when the aircraft was cruising in the lower stratosphere,he adds.
Earlier this year, KSLA news investigation found that a substance that fell to earth from a high altitude chemtrail contained high levels of Barium (6.8 ppm) and Lead (8.2ppm) as well as trace amounts of other chemicals including arsenic, chromium, cadmium, selenium and silver. Of these, all but one are metals, some are toxic while several are rarely or never found in nature.The newscast focuses on Barium, which its research shows is a hallmark of chemtrails. KSLA found Barium levels in its samples at 6.8 ppm or more than six times the toxic level set by the EPA.The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality confirmed that the high levels of Barium were very unusual,but commented that proving the source was a whole other matter in its discussion with KSLA.KSLA also asked Mark Ryan, Director of the Poison Control Center, about the effects of Barium on the human body. Ryan commented that short term exposure can lead to anything from stomach to chest pains and that long term exposure causes blood pressure problems.The Poison Control Center further reported that long-term exposure, as with any harmful substance, would contribute to weakening the immune system, which many speculate is the purpose of such man-made chemical trails.
Indeed, barium oxide has cropped up repeatedly as a contaminant from suspected geoengineering experimentation.KSLA also put aerosolized-chemical testing in its historical context, citing a voluminous number of unclassified tests exposed in 1977 Senate hearings. The tests included experimenting with biochemical compounds on the public. KSLA reports that 239 populated areas were contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969.One of the accepted truisms of scientific study is the fact that if scientists are proposing an idea, then those scientists with access to the bottomless pit of black-budget secret government funding are already doing it.
It is highly likely that chemtrails are merely one manifestation of geo-engineering that is taking place without proper debate, notification or any form of legality, and with a callous disregard for the potential dangers to both our health and our environment.
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS CHEMTRAILS
http://www.cfr.org/project/1364/geoengineering.html
Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Directors: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland Jay Apt, Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University May 5, 2008 - Washington, DC
Workshop briefing notes: Unilateral Geoengineering (PDF, 546K) M. Granger Morgan: Unilateral Geoengineering: A few basic ideas about the science to start our discussions (PDF, 4.56MB)
Meetings
Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: The Science and Technology of Geoengineering Roundtable Meeting May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Introductory Speaker: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations Speakers: M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Ken Caldeira, Chemical Oceanographer, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington Ralph J. Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences David Keith, Director, ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems, University of Calgary
Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: Framing the Foreign Policy Problem-Avoiding and Regulating Unilateral Geoengineering Roundtable Meeting
May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Speakers: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland David D. Doniger, Policy Director, Climate Center, National Resources Defense Council Daniel Bodansky, Woodruff Chair of International Law, School of Law, University of Georgia
Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: Planning for Next Steps
Roundtable Meeting May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Speakers: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations Jay Apt, Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: Geoengineering and the Challenge of Global Governance Roundtable Meeting May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Speakers: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations Ralph J. Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences
M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland.
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, 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/
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU APR 09,2009
09:30 AM +4.86
10:00 AM +205.65
10:30 AM +198.32
11:00 AM +180.08
11:30 AM +165.19
12:00 PM +165.27
12:30 PM +181.04
01:00 PM +178.09
01:30 PM +194.66
02:00 PM +204.61
02:30 PM +192.48
03:00 PM +228.83
03:30 PM +221.90
04:00 PM +246.27 8083.38
S&P 500 856.56 +31.40
NASDAQ 1652.54 +61.88
GOLD 882.70 -3.20
OIL 52.04 +2.66
TSE 300 9173.31 +204.03
CDNX 968.71 +18.01
S&P/TSX/60 559.33 +12.53
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
GOLD AT OPEN TODAY $880.10.OIL AT OPEN TODAY $52.27.
Dow +145 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +4 points at low today so far.
Dow +208 points at high today so far.
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -10.70%
S&P -8.65%
Nasdaq +0.86%
TSX Advances 861,declines 623,unchanged 298,Volume 1,925,793,878.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 327,Declines 350,Unchanged 359,Volume 178,779,103.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +4 points at low today so far.
Dow +234 points at high today so far.
DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 3,083,declines 522,unchanged 53,New Highs 10,New Lows 54.
Volume 3,223,522,605.
NASDAQ Advances 2,143,declines 443,unchanged 101,New highs 16,New Lows 14.
Volume 821,530,584.
TSX Advances 948,declines 380,unchanged 234,Volume 1,077,585,560.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 279,Declines 202,Unchanged 260,Volume 80,011,413.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +4 points at low today.
Dow +248 points at high today.
Dow +3.14% today Volume 462,029,806.
Nasdaq +3.89% today Volume 2,036,036,036.
S&P 500 +3.81% today Volume N/A
RECORD LOWS DOW
-Sept 30,1996 5,882.17
-Oct 30,1996 5,993.23
-Nov 6,1996 6,177.71
-Dec 16,1996 6,268.35
-Apr 15,1997 6,587.16
-Apr 21,1997 6,660.21
-Apr 28,1997 6,783.02
-May 1,1997 6,976.48
-May 7,1997 7,085.65
RECORD LOWS S&P 500
-Sept 5,1996 649.44
-Sept 6,1996 655.68
-Sept 11,1996 667.28
-Sept 12,1996 671.13
-Oct 1,1996 689.08
-Oct 28,1996 697.26
-Nov 4,1996 706.73
-Nov 5,1996 714.14
-Dec 17,1996 726.04
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE,WEEKENDER
Dow -7.90%
S&P -5.17%
Nasdaq +4.79%
CANADAS WEEK ENDING STATS
TSX Advances 1,100,Declines 465,Unchanged 254 Volume 2,346,750,070.
TSX Venture Advances 434,Declines 307,Unchanged 350 Volume 195,725,524.
Yuan trade settlement gets the nodBy Wang Xu (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-04-09 07:35
Five major trading cities have got the nod from the central government to use the yuan in overseas trade settlement - seen as one more step in China's recent moves to expand the use of its currency globally.Shanghai and four cities in the Pearl River Delta - Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan and Zhuhai - have been designated for the purpose, said a State Council meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday. The Pearl River Delta boasts the country's largest cluster of export-oriented manufacturing operations.The move is aimed at reducing the risk from exchange rate fluctuations and giving impetus to declining overseas trade, according to a statement posted on the government website.Analysts said the experimental use of the yuan in trade settlement also reflects policymakers' rising concern over the shaky prospects of the US currency, of which China has large reserves from previous trade growth, and their willingness to gradually expand the yuan's use globally.The trial is the latest move toward making the yuan an international currency, Huang Weiping, professor of economics at Renmin University of China, said.The prospect of a weaker US dollar is making the transition more imperative for China.The mainland is trying to promote the use of the yuan among trade partners and, in the past four months, has signed 650 billion yuan ($95 billion) worth of swap agreements with Argentina, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Belarus and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The agreements allow them to use their yuan reserves to directly trade with the Chinese mainland within a set limit in volume.Stephen Green, head of China Research of Standard Chartered Bank, said the swap deals would help encourage the use of the yuan as the currency of choice for international trade.
In the longer term, if countries around the region and beyond start pricing their trade in yuan, this will also lead to increased internationalization and status for China's currency,Green said.China now uses the US dollar to settle most of its international trade but the drastic swings in the greenback have become a risk for Chinese exporters in recent years.Dong Xian'an, economist with China Southwest Securities, said: For many exporters, the dollar's fluctuation is a serious concern. The ability to settle trade in the yuan would reduce such risk,he said.Chen Xianbin, chairman of Guangxi Sanhuan Enterprise Group, told China Daily that his company lost more than 150 million yuan in the past three years from international trade due to the exchange rate changes between the yuan and the greenback. Chen's company, a ceramic tableware exporter, relies on Southeast Asian markets for 15 percent of total sales.China's foreign trade has been on a continuous decline amid the current global financial crisis. Exports plunged 25.7 percent year on year in February, one of the sharpest falls ever, while imports dived 24.1 percent.Analysts said the US Federal Reserve's decision to buy long-term Treasuries, which means printing new money, may also lead to a depreciation of the US dollar. That is also one reason for China to reduce the use of the dollar in trade so that the value of its US1.95 trillion foreign exchange reserves does not depreciate.Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank governor, said last month that in the long run, it may be ideal to replace the dollar with a new international reserve currency under the mechanism of the International Monetary Fund.
The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency,The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 3:45PM BST 07 Apr 2009
A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order. We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity,it said. SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund that has lain dormant for half a century.
G20 summit: leaders on brink of $1 trillion rescue dealIn effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF's power to create money and begin global quantitative easing. In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body. Conspiracy theorists will love it. It has been a good summit for the IMF. Its fighting fund for crises is to be tripled overnight to $750bn. This is real money. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director, said in February that the world was already in Depression and risked a slide into social disorder and military conflict unless political leaders resorted to massive stimulus.
He has not won everything he wanted. The spending plan was fudged. While Gordon Brown talked of $5 trillion in global stimulus by 2010, this is mostly made up of packages already under way. But Mr Strauss-Kahn at least has resources fit for his own task. He will need them. The IMF is already bailing out Pakistan, Iceland, Latvia, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, Bosnia and Romania. This week Mexico became the first G20 state to ask for help. It has secured a precautionary credit line of $47bn. Gordon Brown said it took 15 years for the world to grasp the nettle after Great Crash in 1929.This time I think people will agree that it has been different,he said.
President Barack Obama was less dramatic.I think we did OK,he said. Bretton Woods in 1944 was a simpler affair.Just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that's an easy negotiation, but that's not the world we live in.There will be $250bn in trade finance to kick-start shipping after lenders cut back on Letters of Credit after September's heart attack in the banking system. Global trade volumes fell at annual rate of 41pc from November to January, according to Holland's CPB institute – the steepest peacetime fall on record. Euphoria swept emerging markets yesterday as the first reports of the IMF boost circulated. Investors now know that countries like Mexico can arrange a credit facility able to cope with major shocks – and do so on supportive terms, rather than the hair-shirt deflation policies of the old IMF. Fear is receding again. The Russians had hoped their idea to develop SDRs as a full reserve currency to challenge the dollar would make its way on to the agenda, but at least they got a foot in the door. There is now a world currency in waiting. In time, SDRs are likely evolve into a parking place for the foreign holdings of central banks, led by the People's Bank of China. Beijing's moves this week to offer $95bn in yuan currency swaps to developing economies show how fast China aims to break dollar dependence.French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the summit had achieved more than he ever thought possible, and praised Gordon Brown for pursuing the collective interest as host rather than defending Anglo-Saxon interests. This has a double-edged ring, for it suggests that Mr Brown may have traded pockets of the British financial industry to satisfy Franco-German demands. The creation of a Financial Stability Board looks like the first step towards a global financial regulator. The devil is in the details. Hedge funds deemed systemically important will come under draconian restraints. How this is enforced will determine whether Mayfair's hedge-fund industry – 80pc of all European funds are there – will continue to flourish.
It seems that hedge funds have been designated for ritual sacrifice, even though they played no more than a cameo role in the genesis of this crisis. It was not they who took on extreme debt leverage: it was the banks – up to 30 times in the US and nearer 60 times for some in Europe that used off-books conduits to increase their bets. The market process itself is sorting this out in any case – brutally – forcing banks to wind down their leverage. The problem right now is that this is happening too fast.But to the extent that this G20 accord makes it impossible for the shadow banking to resurrect itself in the next inevitable cycle of risk appetite, it may prevent another disaster of this kind. The key phrase is new rules aimed at avoiding excessive leverage and forcing banks to put more money aside during good times.This is more or less what the authorities agreed after the Depression. Complacency chipped away at the rules as the decades passed. It is the human condition, and we can't change that.
EU governments committed €3 trillion for bank bailouts
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today APR 9,09 @ 09:16 CET
EU governments have committed €3 trillion to bail out banks with guarantees or cash injections in the wake of the global financial crisis, the European Commission said on Wednesday (8 April).The money has been spent on guarantee umbrellas, risk shields and recapitalisation measures for the financial sector,Brussels said in a report.
Some €2.3 trillion went to financial guarantee schemes, some €300 billion to recapitalisation schemes, and around €400 billion were spent on other rescue and restructuring programmes.The commission data also shows that while most member states have offered their banks some special guarantees, many central and eastern European states – including Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Bulgaria – have not.Analysts note that although these countries are as exposed to the crisis as the rest of the member states, their banks are mostly owned by western European ones and their governments do not have enough money for bail outs.The past six months have shown state aid control plays a key role in tackling the challenges of the economic crisis in a coordinated way across Europe,EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes stated.She also insisted that despite these aids, EU state aid rules had been respected all along.The EU's tried and tested state aid rules have clearly been part of the solution. Our intervention and – sometimes tough – conditions have prevented member states from falling into the trap of protectionism and exporting their problems to other member states, while allowing [them] to avoid financial meltdown, Ms Kroes said.The responsibility now lies with the financial sector to clean up their balance sheets and restructure to ensure a viable future,she added.Since September, when the financial crisis began to worsen in Europe, the EU's executive arm has relaxed its rules, starting notably to judge aid packages faster.It has taken more than 50 decisions on state aid since then, and had by 31 March approved 23 measures in 18 member states.
EU officials warned to be careful about email content
HONOR MAHONY Today APR 9,09 @ 08:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - New rules on public access to EU documents have prompted one of the European Commission's key departments to circulate a memo warning officials to be careful about what they write in emails and advising them on how to narrowly interpret requests for information.The 15-page handbook was circulated in January to officials working in the commission directorate for trade, one of the EU's most important policy areas affecting millions of people both within and beyond the bloc.
It reminds DG trade employees that all documents, including emails, are in principle subject to disclosure and asks them to think of the regulation when they are producing documents.Each official must be aware that all his/her documents, including meeting reports and e-mails can potentially be disclosed. You should keep this in mind when writing such documents. This is particularly the case for meeting reports and emails with third parties (e.g. industry), which are favourite targets of requests for access to documents, especially by NGOs,reads the memo.It asks officials to draft documents with the utmost care while telling them to avoid making references to informal contacts, such as meals or drinks, with lobbyists.Don't refer to the great lunch you have had with an industry representative privately or add a PS asking if he/she would like to meet for a drink.The document also tips off officials on how to narrow down the interpretation of a request for information. It points to a past example where a request referred to DG trade meetings with individual companies, meaning the department could avoid making public its contacts with business lobbyists.
Separating the factual from the subjective
Recent cases concern requests for information about meetings with individual companies on our FTAs [Free Trade Agreements] which have allowed us to exclude business federations on the same points, or about meetings with DG Trade officials which have allowed us to exclude meetings on the same point with the Commissioner or the cabinet,it notes.As a way of avoiding officials having to blank out parts of documents they release to the public, the transparency guide suggests writing two accounts of meetings, a factual or neutral one that can be released to the public and a more personal/subjective one with assessments and recommendations for follow up that need not be disclosed.It also explains that briefings should not be made public if still considered newsworthy – a derogation allowed under the regulation for documents concerning a decision still in progress – with DG Trade working on a series of key issues including making free trade agreements with poor countries (something NGOs are always keen to have an insight into) and sensitive WTO decisions.DG Trade's take on the transparency regulation which MEPs recently voted to expand to cover all documents, including electronic ones, has come in for criticism.Corporate Europe Observatory, a transparency NGO, said the instructions appear to directly contravene the spirit and content of the regulation.
Scandalous
It is a scandalous attempt to legitimise DG Trade's recurrent attempts to shield evidence of its liaisons with corporate lobbyists from information requests,said CEO campaigner Pia Eberhardt.For its part, the European Commission defended the memo. A spokesperson told EUobserver: Actually we think these are good instructions. It makes clear that no category of documents is excluded [from the regulation].The spokesperson also said that the instructions make it easier to get reports out and avoid having to go through blanking out documents.The transparency regulation dates from 2001 but the commission recently proposed to overhaul it after complaints from the EU ombudsman and several court cases. Following MEPs' vote last month the regulation has gone back to committee for discussion on sensitive issues such as the extent to which commercial data can be excused from disclosure.The updated law is expected to be approved in the second half of this year, under the Swedish EU presidency.
Anti-Saakashvili protests kick off peacefully,The opposition has pledged to continue its protests until Mikheil Saakashvili resigns (Photo: EUobserver)
VALENTINA POP Today APR 9,09 @ 19:17 CET
EUOBSERVER / TBILISI – Some 50,000 people gathered peacefully Thursday (9 April) afternoon in front of the Georgian parliament asking for president Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation. Misha, go home! and Protect Georgia from tyranny were some of the slogans shouted by protesters gathered by 13 opposition parties who pledged to stay on the streets until the president resigns. Some protesters blamed the president for widespread unemployment and poor pensions, waving the Soviet flag Georgia used to have before the Rose Revolution, which saw Mr Saakashvili sweep into power in 2003.
Young protesters were contemptuous of the way he managed the August war, which saw most of the country invaded by the Russian army. After three hours of political speeches on a podium, most of the protesters started walking back home, as a cold wind swept the streets in the evening. Demonstrators showed up in far smaller numbers than projected by the opposition, who counted on some 150,000 people. According to independent European experts, the crowd was estimated at 53,000, while the government floated the figure 25,000. Some 500 protesters also gathered in the Black Sea port of Batumi, according to deputy interior minister Eka Zguladze.Although calm and friendly, some of the people said they were willing to fight with riot police if it came down to it. I am here with my wife and daughter and we will all fight. Mr Saakashvili has to step down, he has not delivered on his promises,one 40-year old demonstrator told this website.Opposition leaders at the rally called on president Saakashvili to resign and said they would wait for a response over the next 24 hours and then announce what their next moves would be.Several hundred people were still milling in front of the parliament late Thursday evening meaning some incidents could occur during the night, with some carrying long sticks which were initially used for the flags. Others were wondering, half jokingly, how to enter the Parliament, where riot police was massed.Unlike the protests in November 2007, when riot police was deployed on the streets, firing rubber bullets and tear gas, the government has decided to place the law enforcement officers only inside the public institutions, in order to avoid clashes with protesters.
Protests and then what?
Several EU diplomats suggested that the opposition's strategy is heading for a cul-de-sac as they have refused to negotiate at all with the government so long as Mr Saakashvili remains in office.EU special envoy to the Caucasus Peter Semneby echoed these concerns during a press briefing and called for a meaningful dialogue between opposition and government, stressing that constitutional problems cannot be solved in the streets, but only at the negotiating table.He added that EU diplomats were in close contact with both the government and the opposition and there were some European experts observing activities at the Ministry of Interior.Czech ambassador Ivan Jestrab, speaking on behalf of the EU presidency, said that member states were paying close attention to the events. We are stressing the need for more dialogue between opposition and government and calling for a political solution to the open questions your country is facing.Deputy interior minister Eka Zguladze rejected speculation about Russian attempts to influence the protests, saying that from the government's point of view, there was no link between increased deployment of Russian military equipment both in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the demonstrations. We do not bring any link between the question mark that we have about the Russian behaviour with the demonstrations. We will deal with the demonstrations as if Russia did not exist. There are two very separate developments,she said.
FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT Obama's G20 plan kisses off Declaration of Independence New international board to intervene in decisions about U.S. companies April 08, 2009 8:32 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily
Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium online newsletter published by the current No. 1 best-selling author, WND staff writer and columnist. Subscriptions are $99 a year or $9.95 per month for credit card users. Annual subscribers will receive a free autographed copy of The Late Great USA,a book about the careful deceptions of a powerful elite who want to undermine our nation's sovereignty.At the G20 meeting in London, President Obama agreed to create of an international board with authority to intervene in U.S. corporations by dictating executive compensation and approving or disapproving business management decisions, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.Political consultant Dick Morris said that by agreeing to create the Financial Stability Board, Obama is a willing accomplice to a decision that effectively repealed the U.S. Declaration of Independence and abrogated the sovereignty of the United States.
The final communiqu̩s coming out of the G20 meeting in London April 2 included a document entitled Declaration on Strengthening the Financial System.By agreeing to the stipulations in this document, President Obama gave the blessing of the United States to the G20 decision to elevate the Financial Stability Forum into the Financial Stability Board,Corsi wrote.The United States has only one vote in the newly constituted Financial Stability Board, a group that will be largely controlled by European central bankers.The new global regulator now has the authority to examine all U.S. banks, brokerage firms and corporations Рincluding non-financial companies such as the Big Three automakers Рto examine operations and determine risk. The Financial Stability Board then has the international authority to set policies in these corporations, including compensation packages the private boards of directors in the examined companies decide to pay top executives and senior managers. Morris charged that the Obama administration, by agreeing to create the Financial Stability Board, has gone beyond nationalizing U.S. corporations, to internationalize U.S.-based corporations under the control of this new global regulator. While the G20 focused on regulating risks in hedge funds and derivatives, the authority of the Financial Stability Board extends to any banking, brokerage or business practice by a major U.S. corporation that the Financial Stability Board on its own authority determines is unduly risky. Under the premise that the IMF and the Financial Stability Board would have the ability to make loans to important U.S. corporations, the IMF and the Financial Stability Board become the effective global regulators over the corporate world, superseding all U.S. governmental authorities, including the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a host of corporate regulators, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Red Alert's author, whose books The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, said no appeal procedure to any U.S. court or regulator is specified by the G20 communiqué as recourse for a U.S. company that wants to contest a decision by the Financial Stability Board as incorrect, unfounded or otherwise overreaching. Corsi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks. In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines. For more information on internationalizing U.S.-based corporations and for financial guidance during difficult times, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, The Obama Nation.
EU proposes to speed up aid for poor countries
ELITSA VUCHEVA 08.04.2009 @ 17:18 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Commission on Wednesday (8 April) presented a series of actions aimed at boosting aid for developing countries in the wake of the global financial crisis, but without putting additional money on the table.Instead of adding new aid, Brussels is suggesting ways to speed up the delivery of the existing funds and to make it more efficient.This year, the commission will accelerate the payment of €3 billion from the budget support to African, Pacific and Caribbean (ACP) countries, as well as make available a further €800 million from a fund aimed at combating hunger in poor countries and set up in December.We have not come here to announce to you additional colossal measures,EU development commissioner Louis Michel said at a press conference in Brussels.But in two years, we will have mobilised 72 percent of what was supposed to be provided as budgetary support for 2008 – 2013,he added.The commissioner also urged EU member states to be more co-ordinated, arguing this would substantially increase the money available for developing countries.We just recently had figures from a study which we commissioned talking about the cost of non-Europe – bad coordination among donors, bad coordination of our rules. The cost of not having Europe is quite amazing, horrifying according to the initial figures of that study,commissioner Michel said.Better or more effective coordination between commission and the 27 member states would release about €7 billion per year, or €35 billion between now and 2015.This whole package is a plea to have more Europe, he added.In 2000, 189 countries worldwide agreed eight goals aimed to reduce global poverty by 2015 – referred to as the Millennium Development Goals.
The EU's own goal is to spend 0.7 percent of its GDP on development aid by then.
Also speaking at Wednesday's press conference, commission president Jose Manuel Barroso urged EU states to stick to this goal, underlining however that the perspectives for the upcoming years seem rather preoccupying.We are now more than half way to the 2015 deadline for reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals and some of the gains achieved so far risk being forfeited leaving poor countries worse off than before the crisis,Mr Barroso said.The 27-nation bloc spent €49 billion on development aid in 2008, making it the largest donor in the world.The recession must not, cannot, will not be used as an excuse for going back on our promises to keep on increasing aid,he added.
Nothing new
However, the commission's announcements were met with scepticism by development NGOs, slamming Brussels's proposals for a lack of substance.As nothing outwardly new has been announced today, we're not clear on how Europe is actually going to soften the blow of the financial crisis in poor countries, Alexandre Polack, head of European policy division at ActionAid, was quoted as saying by AFP.We have not seen any useful ideas coming out of this package on how to support developing countries in dealing with climate change, on stopping tax evasion or on coping with the effects of trade policies,he added.Hetty Kovac from Oxfam International echoed this statement, saying: We fear that with no new money, poor countries will suffer in years to come, when aid dries up. Europe needs to dig deep to help prevent this crisis from becoming a humanitarian disaster.
Ireland unveils tough budget as nation faces challenge of its life
HONOR MAHONY 08.04.2009 @ 09:08 CET
The Irish government on Tuesday (7 April) unveiled a tough new budget including a series of tax hikes and spending cuts in a bid to get the country's public finances, the worst in Europe, back under control by 2013.Income levies were the main point of the budget, unveiled by finance minister Brian Lenihan, with a doubling of the rates introduced in autumn last year and a lowering of the thresholds of when they apply.
The country's low corporate tax (12.5%) - one of the main reasons for Ireland's phenomenal economic growth in recent years - will remain the same but capital gains and capital acquisitions tax have been raised to 25 percent.Mr Lenihan said the measures mean a new budget deficit target of 10.75 percent of GDP for this year, with previous forecasts predicting that the deficit would clock in at almost 13 percent, over four times the limit allowed under the eurozone rules.The European Commission has given Ireland until 2013 to get its finances in order, which means bringing the budget deficit down to 3 percent or less.We are now facing the challenge of this nation's life," Brian Lenihan told parliament, with the budget described in Irish newspapers as being the harshest in living memory.The problem is our expenditure base is too high and our revenue base is too low. If we fail, refuse or neglect to address this structural problem we will condemn our generation and the next to the folly of excessive borrowing,Mr Lenihan said.The minister said that in 2010 he would look for a further €1.75 billion from taxation and another €1.5 billion the following year.
Getting this extra revenue could take the form of property tax, a carbon tax or taxation of child benefits.We have to change the way we operate as a country and we cannot let it sap our confidence,said prime minister Brian Cowen, speaking after the budget was revealed.This recession will pass and the world will recover. The consensus is that the world economy will recover in 2010. That will bring a return of growth in Ireland in 2011,he added.Dublin also plans to set up an asset management agency to buy bank's bad debts in a bid to restore international confidence in the country's finance sector.Having ridden high for so many years, Ireland's small open economy has been strongly hit by the global financial crisis which punctured the property bubble and left the country facing double digit unemployment figures and a sharp contraction in economic growth and consumer spending.Its problems and how it deals with them are being closely followed in the rest of Europe, particularly Brussels.Ireland's announcement came the same day as new figures showed that the eurozone economy shrank by 1.6 percent in the last three months of 2008, instead of the 1.5 percent contraction that had been predicted.The drop in GDP came as a result of falling exports and lower investment.
SEC offers short sale curbs, traders irked By Rachelle Younglai and Karey Wutkowski Rachelle Younglai And Karey Wutkowski – Wed Apr 8, 6:15 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators floated five new proposals to curb short selling, drawing fire from short sellers who feel they are being made scapegoats for the financial crisis and stock market plunge.The five-member Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to seek 60 days of comment on the proposals, including bringing back an uptick rule -- allowing bets that a stock will fall only when the last sale price was higher than the previous price.Another proposal would allow shorting only if the best available bid on a stock was higher than the last bid. Three other proposed restrictions would be triggered by a steep slide in the price of a security.The SEC could combine some of the proposals but not all five could work together. Commissioners would have to meet again to decide on any final rule.Traders and asset managers said short sellers were being targeted unfairly for the plunge in stock prices that occurred as the housing market bubble burst and exposed risky bets by financial institutions.The problem is that the managements of the banks and brokers screwed themselves up, short sellers did not, said hedge fund manager Doug Kass, who heads Seabreeze Partners Management.
Commissioners such as Kathleen Casey were generally skeptical of linking the 2007 abolition of the uptick rule to the last 18 months of stock market declines.But SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro acknowledged the intense pressure on the agency to address short selling, telling Wednesday's meeting that no other issue had generated as many emails and comments since she took the position in January.The commission is keenly aware of the need to balance the potential benefits of its proposed rules against the costs,she said.Commissioner Luis Aguilar said he feared that even if the SEC adopted more short sale restrictions, the rules may not be effective, because investors who engaged in abusive short selling could shift to unregulated financial products.
Short interest on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market had fallen from highs in July until February, when it climbed back along with a rise in stock prices.
The SEC will hold a roundtable discussion of the issues on May 5. Any final action is at least two to three months away.
CONGRESSIONAL PRESSURE
The uptick rule was first adopted after the 1929 stock market crash but was abolished in 2007 after the SEC concluded that advances in the marketplace had rendered the rule ineffective and obsolete.With the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index (.SPX) down roughly 45 percent since the start of 2008, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) down more than 40 percent over the same period, members of Congress and others have pressed for restoration of the rule.We are pleased that the SEC has begun action against abusive short selling,said Senators Edward Kaufman, a Democrat, and Johnny Isakson, a Republican, who have introduced a bill requiring the SEC to reinstate the uptick rule and regulate abusive short selling activities.The SEC last year adopted a number of rules to curb abuses of short selling, including one that requires investors to deliver their shares within three days of shorting a stock. Another rule requires big investors such as hedge funds to disclose their short positions to the agency.Both rules are set to expire at the end of July and the SEC will have to decide on their future. SEC staff and commissioners said the delivery rule has helped weed out some abusive forms of short selling; investors believe the agency should do more. Billionaire investor George Soros said on Monday that he favored a reintroduction of some kind of rule to restrict short selling. You do need to provide some protection against effectively the bear raids,Soros told Reuters Financial Television in an interview. Short sellers argue that their trading helps keep markets liquid and prevents stocks from becoming overvalued. They also criticize last year's temporary ban on short sales of hundreds of financial stocks. I am surprised that regulators have not learned from the (short-sale ban) fiasco where it ultimately reduced liquidity in the securities,said Ron Geffner, a partner at law firm Sadis & Goldberg LLP who advises hedge funds.
Market makers are not explicitly exempted under the rules proposed on Wednesday.
We believe that exemptions are vital to proper and legitimate market makers that add liquidity,a NYSE spokesman said, adding the exchange will discuss the issue with the SEC. The SEC said it would likely include several exceptions to the rules,these exceptions would be limited to activities that promote liquidity and foster the workability of the proposed rules without undermining the effectiveness of the proposals.
SEC STAFF PREFER BID TEST
Erik Sirri, the SEC's trading and markets director, told reporters that the bid test made more sense as the tick test has a problem with getting an accurate tick given how quickly stocks trade. Three other possible measures would use a circuit breaker approach to trigger either a temporary suspension of short selling in a particular stock, or temporary application of the uptick or bid rule in a security. The SEC is proposing that a 10 percent decline trigger the circuit breakers but is seeking comment on other thresholds. The country's largest exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market and BATS exchange, support a circuit breaker approach where shorting would only be allowed if the price was higher than the best available bid. The head of BATS exchange, Joe Ratterman, said he was disappointed the SEC had failed to narrow the range of ideas. He told Reuters the agency had failed to put a stake in the ground on a highly political issue. Casey, one of the commissioners who voted to abolish the uptick rule, said she had not yet been persuaded that its repeal had anything to do with the economic and market conditions of the past 18 months. She also warned fellow commissioners that the courts could overturn a new SEC rule unless there was credible empirical evidence to demonstrate the repeal of the uptick rule, or abusive short selling, drove down the price of any security.(Reporting by Rachelle Younglai and Karey Wutkowski; additional reporting by Jennifer Ablan and Jonathan Spicer in New York; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
North Korea celebrates launch, makes new threat By Jon Herskovitz – Wed Apr 8, 5:42 pm ET
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean soldiers on Wednesday celebrated the nation's defiant launch of a rocket in a mass rally, while Russia's foreign minister said any new measures to punish Pyongyang could be counter-productive.The United States, Japan and South Korea said the North's launch on Sunday was a disguised test of a long-range missile designed to carry warheads to U.S. territory and deserved punishment because it violated U.N. resolutions.North Korea warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday it would take strong steps if the 15-nation body took any action in response to the launch. On Wednesday, the Communist-ruled country gathered its top party and military officials for a celebration of the launch broadcast on its state TV and monitored in Seoul.The reclusive state has threatened to boycott six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium. It also warned on Wednesday of military action if anyone tried to retrieve debris from the rocket.U.S. and South Korean military officials said the missile, known as the Taepodong-2, crashed into the Pacific Ocean and that no satellite was deployed during its 3,200 km (2,000 mile) flight over Japan, as Pyongyang has said.The North's KCNA news agency quoted a military spokesman as saying Japan's attempt to find booster stages off its coasts was an intolerable military provocative act of infringing upon its (North Korea's) sovereignty and would prompt a response.
DEADLOCK AT U.N.
Diplomats in New York said negotiations on a Security Council response to the launch were deadlocked. The five permanent council members -- United States, Britain, France, China and Russia -- and Japan have failed to break the impasse in several meetings.The United States and Japan would like a legally binding resolution expanding existing financial sanctions and an arms embargo against North Korea. Critics have said the sanctions lacked enforcement.But U.N. diplomats say the Chinese would prefer that the council either do nothing or issue a non-binding statement to the media that stops far short of condemning the launch. Japan and the three Western powers have rejected that idea.U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters on Wednesday there are some differences of opinion when asked why the Council had not yet responded to the launch.It's going to take time, he said about the negotiations in New York.I can't put a timeframe on it.Concerned about the stability of its unpredictable neighbor, Beijing has said any U.N. reaction must be cautious and proportionate.China is sometimes viewed as North Korea's only major ally.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the threat of sanctions against North Korea was counter-productive.North Korea said it had the right to deploy a satellite, which it says is circling the globe playing revolutionary songs, as a part of a peaceful space program.Analysts said North Korea went ahead with the launch knowing it would not suffer serious repercussions, while its leader, Kim Jong-il, would see an enormous boost at home for the defiant act.The successful launching of the satellite ... is not a mere fruition of wisdom and talent but a fierce confrontation with those who disliked it,KCNA said in a separate report.Kim is expected to ride a wave of patriotic fervor generated by the launch at the annual meeting of the North's rubber stamp parliament on Thursday. The Supreme People's Assembly meeting, where a new pecking order for communist party cadres will be unveiled, is expected to show that Kim, 67, has recovered from a suspected stroke and is fully in control of Asia's only communist dynasty. In its only previous missile test in 2006, the rocket exploded seconds after launch. Despite a technical failure the recent launch showed that the impoverished North had greatly increased the range of its missiles but may be years away from building one to threaten the United States, analysts said. (Additional reporting by Chisa Fujioka in Tokyo, Kim Junghyun in Seoul, Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow, Deborah Charles in Washington and Louis Charbonneau at the United Nations; Editing by Paul Tait and Paul Simao)
Navy warship arrives where captain held off Somalia By Daniel Wallis and JoAnne Allen APR 8,09
NAIROBI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy warship arrived on Thursday off the Somali coast, where the captain of a U.S.-flagged freighter has been taken hostage by pirates, the shipping line said.The ship was briefly hijacked by pirates on Wednesday but the crew of 20 Americans had retaken control of the vessel and were trying to negotiate their captain's release, second mate Ken Quinn told CNN. The captain was being held on a lifeboat.The Danish-owned freighter's operator, Maersk Line Ltd, said the U.S. Navy destroyer Bainbridge arrived on the scene before dawn on Thursday. Spokesman B.J. Talley said the company was in touch with its ship and was also talking with the Navy.
Talley declined comment on what action, if any, the Navy might take.
CNN reported the lifeboat where the captain was being held was very near the Maersk Alabama. The Alabama crew can see the Navy destroyer and has been in contact with the Navy, CNN said. A U.S. defense official in Washington would say only that there were U.S. assets in the area.Maersk earlier confirmed that the U.S. crew had regained control of the 17,000-tonne Maersk Alabama after the pirates left the ship with one hostage.The seizure was the latest in an escalation in pirate attacks off the lawless Horn of Africa country of Somalia.A spokesman for the company said no injuries had been reported for the rest of the crew left aboard.We are just trying to offer them whatever we can, food, but it is not working too good,Quinn told CNN of efforts to secure the freedom of the captain. He said the four pirates were holding the captain hostage on the ship's lifeboat.Maritime officials said the Maersk Alabama was carrying food aid for Somalia and Uganda from Djibouti to Mombasa, a Kenyan port, when it was seized far out in the Indian Ocean.We can confirm that our crew has control of the ship. The pirates have departed the ship and they have taken one crew member with them as a hostage,the Maersk Line spokesman said, but could not confirm whether the hostage was the captain.The ship seizure, about 300 miles off Somalia, was the first time Somali pirates have seized U.S. citizens.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was very worried by the hijacking and called for world action to end the scourge of piracy.We are deeply concerned and we are following it very closely,Clinton told reporters in Washington.Specifically, we are now focused on this particular act of piracy and the seizure of the ship that carries 21 American citizens. More generally, we think the world must come together to end the scourge of piracy.
CREW TIE UP PIRATE
Second mate Quinn said the four pirates sank their own boat when they boarded the container ship. However, the captain talked them into getting off the freighter and into the ship's lifeboat with him.The crew then overpowered one of the pirates and sought to exchange him for the captain, Quinn told CNN. We kept him for 12 hours. We tied him up,Quinn said. The crew released their captive to the other pirates, but the exchange did not work and the captain was still being held by the pirates on the lifeboat, he told CNN. They are not aboard. We are controlling the ship, he said.
Maersk Line president and chief executive John Reinhart told reporters he had received a cell phone call from the crew at about 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) saying they were all safe.He said company protocol advised the U.S. sailors not to attempt to retake the ship once hijackers were on board. Once boarded, the crew has safe rooms and they are not to take on active engagement because they have no weapons. It would be a risk to their lives,Reinhart said. Maersk Line is a Norfolk, Virginia-based subsidiary of Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's biggest container shipper.
Among the ship's cargo were 400 containers of food aid, including 232 containers belonging to the U.N.'s World Food Program that were destined for Somalia and Uganda.
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said a thorough policy debate on piracy off Somalia is long overdue. I plan to hold hearings to further examine the growing threat of piracy and all the policy options that need to be on the table before the next fire drill becomes an international incident with big implications,Kerry said in a statement. The seizure was the latest in a wave of pirate attacks. Gunmen from Somalia seized a British-owned ship on Monday after hijacking another three vessels over the weekend.In the first three months of 2009 just eight ships were hijacked in the strategic Gulf of Aden, which links Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to Europe via the Suez Canal. Last year, heavily armed Somali pirates hijacked dozens of vessels, took hundreds of sailors hostage -- often for weeks -- and extracted millions of dollars in ransoms. Foreign navies sent warships to the area in response and reduced the number of successful attacks. The Seafarers International Union, which has 12 members aboard, said the Maersk Alabama was enrolled in the U.S. Maritime Security Program (MSP), a fleet of militarily useful, privately owned vessels.(Additional reporting by Edward McAllister, Anthony Boadle, Jim Wolf, JoAnne Allen and Sue Pleming in Washington and Rasmus Jorgensen in Copenhagen; Writing by Daniel Wallis and Anthony Boadle; editing by Todd Eastham)
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