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Alaska volcano spews 25,000 feet-high ash plume Wed Apr 1, 9:09 am ET

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Observatory officials say Alaska's Mount Redoubt has spewed steam and ash up to 25,000 feet high.Alaska Volcano Observatory geophysicist John Power says the volcano had been spewing ash about 15,000 feet into the air before it erupted Tuesday afternoon.A broad layer of haze that could contain ash has extended from the Matanuska-Susitna Valley north of Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula.The eruption prompted Alaska Airlines to cancel 18 flights in and out of Anchorage, which is roughly 100 miles northeast of the volcano.The volcano has been active since March 23. The last time it erupted was during a four-month period in 1989-90.

EU could do more for peace, Ahtisaari says
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today APR 2,09 @ 09:16 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU should be more active in peace mediation and boost its expertise in that field, former Finnish president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari said on Wednesday (1 April), suggesting that setting up a European Institute for Peace could be one way to do this.I have been a bit surprised that the EU has been less pro-active than others in the field of international peace mediation, although it is a political machinery of negotiation and mediation,Mr Ahtisaari said at a debate in the European Parliament in Brussels.The EU's ability to broker deals is something it should in particular make full use of, according to the diplomat.Very often I face the argument that the EU is not impartial, but I have to argue against that notion, because of course we have our values, our policies, but I argue that the EU can be an honest broker – I think that to be its strength,he said.

In some areas of peace mediation, however, the EU still lacks the needed expertise, he added.We have to develop professional expertise in mediation and also in mediation support, like the other actors in this field are doing – like the UN at the moment. And of course we have to get our decision-making working faster than it does at the moment,he said.We need to act quickly and swiftly, we need to [also] have technical expertise, we have to have necessary logistical support and we have to use much more reflective practices rather than conferences,he added.Mr Ahtisaari, 71, was president of Finland from 1994 to 2000 and a UN diplomat and mediator both before and after his time as head of the Finnish state.He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts, contributing to a more peaceful world and to fraternity between nations.

Learn from past mistakes

According to Mr Ahtisaari, one way for the EU to boost its mediation capacities, would be to follow the US example and create an Institute for Peace.When I look at the US system, they have created the US Institute of Peace endeavours. And I sometimes wonder why we are not yet thinking about the setting up of a European Institute for Peace,the Finnish diplomat said.The US Institute of Peace was set up in 1984 as an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress aiming to prevent and resolve international conflicts, as well as increase conflict management capabilities and promote post-conflict development.In addition to boosting its expertise, a European Institute for Peace could push the EU to finally start learning from its mistakes, according to Mr Ahtisaari.Actually to reflect on our lessons learnt – something the EU is not particularly good at at the moment, at least in the foreign policy domain – it is interesting to note that so far we could not come up with one single ‘lessons learned' paper in terms of mediation or specific peace purposes. A European Institute for Peace could do something like this, he argued.He explained that such an institute would be a welcome extension and a logistical development of the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) – a Paris-based agency of the EU, working to find a common security culture for the EU, to help develop and project the common foreign and security policy, and to enrich Europe's strategic debate.The EUISS also works as a think-tank, researching security issues relevant to the EU.

Proud of Kosovo work

Mr Ahtisaari, whose many missions throughout the world also included trying to find a mutual agreement between Belgrade and Pristina to the issue of Kosovo's independence, said he was proud of his work in Kosovo.Did I open the Pandora's box? No. I am still very proud about my team's work on Kosovo. If we hadn't done what we did, I would hate to be a European,Mr Ahtisaari said.Mr Ahtisaari was appointed as the UN's special envoy to Kosovo in 2005. He favoured independence for the then breakaway Serbian province, but could not get the two sides to agree on his proposal, with Belgrade categorically opposing an independent Kosovo to this day.Kosovo eventually declared unilateral independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, with the plan put forward by Mr Ahtisaari in February 2007 largely seen as having opened the way for this to happen.On Wednesday, the diplomat again stressed that it was clear from the first moment when he started working on Kosovo that its return to Serbia was not a viable option.

Blair: Mideast peace process in jeopardy.By ROBERT WIELAARD, Associated Press Writer Wed Apr 1, 9:23 am ET

BRUSSELS – Middle East envoy Tony Blair said Wednesday the peace process was in jeopardy and Israel must fully support the goal of living in peace next to an independent Palestinian state.He said a period of political inactivity caused by Israeli elections and the change of administration in Washington has harmed the peace process. The hiatus coincided with the launch of Israel's Gaza offensive in December to try to halt years of rocket fire at Israeli towns and cripple Hamas.We face a situation of very great jeopardy for the peace process in 2009, said Blair after talks at EU headquarters with Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU external relations commissioner.We need a combination of strong political negotiations toward a two-state solution and major change on the ground.The next six months actually will be completely critical in determining whether this process can move forward or whether it will slip back,he added.He spoke a day after Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's new leader, promised to seek peace with Jerusalem's Arab neighbors but remained silent about a Palestinian state living next to Israel in peace — which has long been the goal of the international community on whose behalf Blair speaks.Netanyahu is observed with trepidation in European capitals. He favors pressing ahead with construction in West Bank settlements. His new foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, is an ultranationalist and several of his cabinet members oppose territorial compromises with Palestinians.Now that we have a new administration in place in the United States, now that we have a new government in place in Israel this is the time when we have to make 2009 a year of progress,said Blair.

New Israeli FM criticizes peace efforts By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer – Wed Apr 1, 1:28 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israel's new hard-line foreign minister delivered a scathing critique of Mideast peace efforts Wednesday, rejecting the past year of U.S.-led negotiations and telling a room crowded with cringing diplomats that concessions to the Palestinians only invite war.Avigdor Lieberman's first speech since taking office, along with accusations by the moderate Palestinian president that the new Israeli government opposes peace, signaled tough times ahead for the Obama administration's regional diplomacy.Whoever thinks that concessions ... will achieve something is wrong. He will bring pressures and more wars,Lieberman said.What we have to explain to the world is that the list of priorities must change.The appointment of Lieberman, head of the ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu, has raised international concerns because of his hard-line positions on peace and an election campaign that was widely seen as racist.Lieberman's campaign proposal to strip the citizenship of people who do not pledge loyalty to the state and slogan that only Lieberman understands Arabic were viewed as thinly veiled swipes at Israel's Arab minority.His speech at the Foreign Ministry only added to Palestinian trepidation over the new government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In his first term as prime minister a decade ago, Netanyahu took a tough line in peace talks and frequently clashed with his Palestinian counterparts.Netanyahu, who took office Wednesday, has tried to portray a softer image this time around, saying he will seek a final peace agreement with the Palestinians. But he has not outlined how that deal might look, and conspicuously refused to accept the Palestinian demand for an independent state on lands occupied by Israel.Middle East envoy Tony Blair on stressed Wednesday that Palestinian statehood remains the key to peace in the region and warned of the consequences if negotiations are not vigorously pursued.We face a situation of very great jeopardy for the peace process,he told reporters in Brussels.We need a combination of strong political negotiations toward a two-state solution and major change on the ground.

Establishment of a Palestinian state was endorsed by former President George W. Bush and is a cornerstone of the Obama administration's Mideast policy.U.S. officials did not comment directly on Lieberman's speech but the White House also emphasized the statehood issue.The President has said many times that we are committed to the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security,said Mike Hammer, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking for the first time about the new Israeli government, urged the international community to put heavy pressure on Netanyahu.We want to tell the world that this man doesn't believe in peace and therefore we cannot deal with him,Abbas told an Arab summit in Qatar. His comments were reported by the official Palestinian news agency.As Israel's face to the outside world, the brash, Moldovan-born Lieberman, who still speaks with a Russian accent, could have a difficult time changing minds about the government's intentions.In his speech, Lieberman harshly criticized the U.S.-led peace talks launched by Bush in Annapolis, Maryland in 2007, saying the agreement has no bearing.Nobody ever authorized Annapolis,he said.Instead, Lieberman said he would reluctantly accept an earlier peace plan known as the road map.The road map promoted a phased approach to peacemaking and never got off the ground as Israel and the Palestinians accused each other of failing to meet their obligations. The Annapolis process tried to get over this hump by jumping directly to all final status issues surrounding Palestinian independence.We will never agree to ... go straight to the final cause, which is negotiations for a final agreement. No. These concessions bring nothing,Lieberman said.

Officials in Netanyahu's office did not return messages seeking comment.

Lieberman spoke at a handover ceremony attended by his predecessor, Tzipi Livni, who was Israel's chief negotiator in the Annapolis talks. Livni grimaced throughout his speech, and at one time spoke up to disagree with him. Diplomats in the room shifted uncomfortably as he spoke.He came here with a clear political program and he now exposed what it was. This is what it's going to be,said Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.Lieberman has generated controversy for more than a decade in politics.

Last October, he said that Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, could go to hell because of his refusal to visit Israel. But in Wednesday's speech, he said Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace agreement with Israel, was an important ally. I would definitely like to visit Egypt and I would be happy for Egyptian leaders to visit here,he said.

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
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.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

WORLD GOVERNMENT

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
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.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
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.

REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

LINKS TO STORY
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=62661
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/g20-summit-gordon-brown-china-recession
http://www.infowars.com/financial-times-editorial-admits-agenda-for-dictatorial-world-government/

World Bank President Admits Agenda For Global Government
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, April 1, 2009

World Bank President and Bilderberg elitist Robert Zoellick openly admitted the plan to eliminate national sovereignty and impose a global government during a speech on the eve of the G20 summit.Speaking about the agenda to increase not just funding but power for international organizations on the back of the financial crisis, Zoellick stated, If leaders are serious about creating new global responsibilities or governance, let them start by modernising multilateralism to empower the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank Group to monitor national policies.In other words, give global institutions the power to regulate national policy as part of the creation of global government.What Zoellick is outlining is essentially the end of national sovereignty and the reclassification of national governments as mere subordinates to a global authority that is completely unaccountable to the voting public of any country.The more cynical amongst us would call this a global dictatorship. Zoellick couches the plan in flowery rhetoric of helping the poor and alleviating poverty, but as we have documented for years, the global elite’s goal of world government has little to do with saving the planet and everything to do with creating a global fascist state.Zoellick, former Executive Vice President of Fannie Mae and advisor to Goldman Sachs, is a top elitist who was intimately involved in the Enron scandal and the 2000 presidential election debacle. He was also a signatory to the Project For A New American century document that called for invading Iraq as part of implementing a brutal world empire in 1998. He was later a foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush.

As to be expected, Zoellick is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. He also attended the annual invitation-only conferences of the Bilderberg Group in 1991, 2003, 2006 and 2007.Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will use the G20 summit in London to extend an olive branch to China, offering them a central role in the construction of a new world order and a global government, according to reports.Brown will hold talks with Hu Jintao, China’s president, following discussions with Barack Obama, amid signs that developing countries see the G20 summit as a chance to impose a new world order and end the era of Anglo-European dominance,reports the Guardian.Under the proposal, China will vastly increase its IMF funding in return for more voting rights.A central focus of the G20 summit will be the proposal to supplant the dollar with a new global currency. Both the IMF and the United Nations threw their weight behind the implementation of a new global reserve currency system to replace the dollar, in the same week that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CFR globalists that he was open to the idea.China and Russia brought the issue to the forefront of this week’s G20 when they jointly called for a new global reserve currency a week ago.Brown has consistently called for global regulation of the financial system as a means towards global governance.In a speech at St Paul’s Cathedral in London yesterday he again called for a new global society.

G20: Gordon Brown woos China with offer of greater voting powersPatrick Wintour, political editor The Guardian, Wednesday 1 April 2009

Gordon Brown will enter talks with China today to see if it would be willing to commit extra funds to fighting a world recession in return for greater voting powers on multilateral institutions, including the IMF and World Bank.Brown will hold talks with Hu Jintao, China's president, following discussions with Barack Obama, amid signs that developing countries see the G20 summit as a chance to impose a new world order and end the era of Anglo-European dominance. Brown regards the remaking of global financial institutions as a key part of the summit and is optimistic that the Chinese will find extra money, even though Beijing believes western banking and morality have damaged the world economy. British diplomats see China's willingness to participate in the big international institutions as one of the few gains of the world recession. The Chinese have nearly $2trillion in foreign exchange reserves, and have become increasingly concerned at the security of their loans to the US.Brown has said he hopes to increase funding for the IMF to at least $500bn from $250bn. The EU has promised to lend an extra $75bn and Japan an extra $100bn. Obama, with whom Brown spoke on the phone yesterday on his plane trip to London, has offered an extra $100bn, so the Chinese, along with the Saudis, may make up the shortfall. The draft summit communique leaked at the beginning of the week was silent on how much extra funding should go to the IMF from bilateral borrowing, nor did it engage with how much extra money should go to multilateral development banks or how much extra money would be given over the next two years to support trade finance through export credit and investment agencies.In return for funding, the Chinese have been seeking more IMF voting rights, and the summit will agree to a review of these next year with the work completed by January 2011, earlier than previously planned. Similarly the World Bank will complete reforms to shareholding, voting and internal governance by next spring.

The US has also agreed that the financial stability forum, a group of largely western finance ministers and bank governors, should be expanded to include all G20 countries and give it a stronger mandate as the financial stability board. The new membership will include Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and China.Robert Zoellick, the World Bank's president, emphasised the need to give multilateral bodies new powers, rather than just extra financing. In a speech in London yesterday Zoellick said: If leaders are serious about creating new global responsibilities or governance, let them start by modernising multilateralism to empower the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank Group to monitor national policies.Bringing sunlight to national decision-making would contribute to transparency, accountability and consistency across national policies.

As a first step, the G20 should endorse a WTO monitoring system to advance trade and resist economic isolationism, while working to complete the Doha negotiations to open markets, cut subsidies, and resist backsliding.

Brown DOES do God as he calls for new world order in sermon at St Paul's
By James Chapman Last updated at 1:54 AM on 01st April 2009

Gordon Brown has made an overtly religious call for a new world order based on the deep moral sense shared by all faiths. Making the first speech by a serving Prime Minister at St Paul's Cathedral in London, he quoted scripture as he urged people to unite to forge a new global society. The Prime Minister argued that through all faiths, traditions and heritages runs a single powerful modern sense demanding responsibility from all and fairness to all. He quoted the Christian doctrine of do to others what you would have them do unto you and highlighted similar principles in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism.They each and all reflect a sense that we share the pain of others, and a sense that we believe in something bigger than ourselves - that we cannot be truly content while others face despair, cannot be completely at ease while others live in fear, cannot be satisfied while others are in sorrow,he said.

We all feel, regardless of the source of our philosophy, the same deep moral sense that each of us is our brother and sisters' keeper . . . we cannot and will not pass by on the other side when people are suffering and when we have it within our power to help.He went on to suggest the world economy and society should be rebuilt around a Zulu word for hope - themba - which is also an acronym for there must be an alternative. The speech was an extraordinary break from his predecessor Tony Blair, whose spin doctor Alastair Campbell famously declared that we don't do God. At Westminster it was also seen as high risk for a Government mired in allegations of sleaze to put morality and faith at the centre of its political and economic message.
Mr Brown, with Australian PM Kevin Rudd in the historic cathedral, in the week that world leaders meet for the G20 summit Mr Brown, asked about his decision to discuss religion so openly, declared: I think politicians have got to be very careful that they don't turn out to try to be bishops.But what we do and what we say reflects the views that we have, the belief we hold, the faith we were brought up in and the faith we believe in.

Mr Brown, whose father was a minister in the Church of Scotland, is not a regular churchgoer, but aides said last night that he believed in God. The Prime Minister, on a platform with his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd and the Bishop of London Richard Chartres, admitted unsupervised financial markets had crossed moral boundaries.He said market forces should be replaced by those of the heart because it was now clear they could become the enemy of the good society. Brown: We cannot and will not pass by the side when people are suffering.We can now see that markets cannot self-regulate but they can self-destruct,he added. Critics said Mr Brown undermined his high moral tone by injecting some low politics into his address.
He claimed those that would do nothing and let the recession run its course - his traditional attack on the Tories - demean our humanity. The Prime Minister also raised eyebrows by claiming he had been arguing for some time that there are limits to markets. For more than a decade, Labour enthusiastically championed the light touch' regulation of the City, now blamed for letting bankers take massive risks.
Speaking to a congregation of 2,000 faith and City leaders, charity workers and schoolchildren, Mr Brown again dodged calls to apologise for his role in the financial crisis.I have always said I take full responsibility for my actions,he declared.But I also know that this crisis is global in source and global in scale. I believe that unsupervised globalisation of our financial markets did not only cross national boundaries - it crossed moral boundaries too.The Prime Minister said financial institutions and markets must in future operate around the enduring virtues' of everyday life.Our financial system must be founded on the very same values that are at the heart of our family lives,he said.

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 02,2009

09:30 AM +10.05
10:00 AM +193.78
10:30 AM +196.65
11:00 AM +224.61
11:30 AM +274.31
12:00 PM +252.72
12:30 PM +302.03
01:00 PM +286.26
01:30 PM +262.60
02:00 PM +246.87
02:30 PM +274.47
03:00 PM +279.01
03:30 PM +276.46
04:00 PM +216.48 7978.08

S&P 500 834.38 +23.30

NASDAQ 1602.63 +51.03

GOLD 905.00 -22.70

OIL 52.45 +4.06

TSE 300 9064.13 +122.31

CDNX 978.27 +8.18

S&P/TSX/60 550.49 +6.66

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -11.56%
S&P -10.20%
Nasdaq -1.61%
TSX Advances 982,declines 519,unchanged 248,Volume 2,403,583,800.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 372,Declines 341,Unchanged 324,Volume 176,198,726.
$12.8 TRILLION WASTED BY THE ROBBER BANKERS SO FAR,SO WHOS GETTING RICH FOLKS?
EQUALS $42,105 FOR EVERY MAN,WOMAN,CHILD IN THE USA.
NEARLY AS MUCH AS THE USA ENTIRE GDP:$14.2 TRILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dow +163 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +10 points at low today.
Dow +281 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $907.00.OIL opens at $51.94 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +10 points at low today so far.
Dow +281 points at high today so far.
THIS IS THE BEST DAY FOR DOW TRANSPORTS SINCE 1939 OR CLOSE TO IT TODAY SO FAR.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 3,250,declines 408,unchanged 59,New Highs 11,New Lows 63.
Volume 3,548,420,679.
NASDAQ Advances 2,195,declines 424,unchanged 85,New highs 21,New Lows 16.
Volume 1,071,056,624.
TSX Advances 929,declines 395,unchanged 232,Volume 1,573,617,950.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 301,Declines 250,Unchanged 258,Volume 113,346,931.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +10 points at low today.
Dow +312 points at high today.
Dow +2.79% today Volume 442,749,635.
Nasdaq +3.29% today Volume 2,147,483,648.
S&P 500 +2.87% 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
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U.S. sees G20 accord, Europeans demand tough rules By Lesley Wroughton and Caren Bohan – Wed Apr 1, 8:42 pm ET

LONDON (Reuters) – France and Germany joined forces on Wednesday to demand world leaders deliver on pledges of tough financial market regulation at a crisis summit, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy saying this is not negotiable.Keen to secure a confidence-boosting message for voters and frazzled financial markets as the world succumbs to the deepest downturn since the Great Depression, U.S. President Barack Obama said there were no substantive differences with Europe.Washington wanted tougher regulation too, he told a news conference with Britain's Gordon Brown, summit host.It was not clear whether the flashpoint, which appeared to focus primarily on Sarkozy's demands for blacklisting of tax havens, would be enough to sour the mood and compromise the outcome.Several hundred demonstrators clashed with riot police and smashed bank windows in London's finance center ahead of the summit.Police said one person died during the protest. More protests were planned for Thursday, the main day of a summit involving the world's biggest economies, developed and up-and-coming.

Global economic output will contract more in 2009 than any year since World War Two, says the International Monetary Fund, and IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn says the Great Recession could cause 50 million job losses worldwide.G20 leaders were preparing a major expansion in resources available through the IMF, possibly including a tripling of its war chest to $750 billion, G7 sources said.Egypt's finance minister issued a stark warning -- people will die in the world's poorest countries if rich nations push them aside in the scramble to escape the global economic crisis.Developed countries are borrowing heavily on international markets to fire up their economies, meaning poorer countries are increasingly unable to do so, said Youssef Boutros-Ghali, who heads the IMF's policy committee.

MOBILISING TRILLIONS

The G20 leaders hope around two trillion dollars governments are pumping into the economy in tax cuts, building projects and green investments will limit the depth and duration of recession and maybe create 20 million or so new jobs.They were also looking to drum up more than $500 billion and maybe substantially more in funding the IMF can use to bail out economies which head into balance of payments troubles.As the leaders dined with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace, officials were hammering away at details of what they would announce the following day.Paris and Berlin fear the summit will fall short of the mark on regulation of tax havens, hedge funds and markets in general, and went in gunning for concrete announcements on that front.

Any regulations we don't agree here, won't be agreed for the next five years,Merkel told a joint news conference with her French counterpart.The summit is not about horsetrading between regulation and economic growth programs.In the results, we want the principle of new regulation to be a major objective ... This is not negotiable, Sarkozy added.Obama, making his first official visit to Europe, said G20 nations were not going to agree on every point but brushed aside suggestions the summit would falter because countries were split over the importance of regulation versus new stimulus packages.The core notion that government has to take some steps to deal with a contracting global market place and that we should be promoting growth -- that's not in dispute,Obama said.On the regulatory side, this notion that somehow there are those who are pushing for regulation and those who are resisting regulation is belied by the facts.The stakes are high, more so in the developing world.Mexico's central bank said it had asked to tap a $47 billion International Monetary Fund credit line, the latest Latin American country to seek help from the multilateral lender in an effort to navigate the global economic crisis.

World stock prices meanwhile built on a recent recovery, but worries over banks and growth continued to haunt markets in Europe and analysts said many investors remained on the sidelines, edgy over what message the summit would generate. French President Sarkozy earlier threatened to disassociate himself from any false compromises at the summit, the second such meeting of world leaders to try to tackle the problems created by the downturn and credit crunch, which in turn began when the U.S. housing market collapsed over two years ago. In a further sign of division, Japan criticized the German approach. Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso was quoted as saying that Germany did not understand the importance of fiscal stimulus. Brown stuck to an upbeat note, though. We are within a few hours, I think, of agreeing a global plan for economic recovery and reform and I think the significance of this is that we are looking at every aspect,he said.(Writing by Brian Love and Keith Weir, editing by Mike Peacock)

G20 leaders craft crisis response By David Ljunggren and Lesley Wroughton APR 1,09

LONDON (Reuters) – World leaders are set to declare an end to unfettered capitalism at a G20 summit on Thursday after France and Germany demanded they act fast on promises to prevent a repeat of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.A communique drafted for release at a G20 summit in London, obtained by Reuters, signaled that leaders would submit large hedge funds to supervision for the first time and enhance regulation through a new agency and a beefed-up International Monetary Fund.It included a pledge to deliver the scale of sustained effort necessary to restore growth without making any commitments beyond the trillions being spent to stabilize banks, shore up demand and limit job losses.Keen to secure a confidence-boosting message for voters and frazzled financial markets as the world succumbs to recession, U.S. President Barack Obama said there were no substantive differences with Europe, despite the hardball stances taken by the French and German leaders.

Washington wanted tougher regulation too, he told a news conference on Wednesday with Britain's Gordon Brown, summit host, saying he was at the summit not just to lecture but to listen and to help lead the way out of trouble.It was not clear whether the flashpoint, which appeared to focus primarily on Sarkozy's demands for blacklisting of tax havens, would be enough to derail a message of unity from the meeting.The draft communique said tax havens would be identified and sanctions could be deployed.

The era of banking secrecy is over,it declared.

ONE DEAD AT PROTESTS

Several hundred demonstrators clashed with riot police and smashed bank windows in London's financial center ahead of the summit on Wednesday.Police said one person died during the protest. The man was found in a street near the central bank where he had fallen down and stopped breathing at around 7:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. EDT), they said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the man's death and a police source said he likely died from a medical condition, although that would not be confirmed until after a post-mortem.More protests were planned for Thursday, the main day of a summit involving the world's biggest economies, developed and up-and-coming, in all accounting for more than 80 percent of world trade and economic output.Global economic output is expected to contract more in 2009 than any year since World War Two, dropping between 0.5 and 1.0 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund, whose head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is calling it a Great Recession.The International Labour Organization says the crisis could cost 50 million jobs by the end of the year.G20 leaders were preparing a major expansion in resources available through the IMF, possibly including a tripling of its war chest to $750 billion, officials familiar with negotiation of the issue said.The draft communique contained a pledge by the G20 nations to allow candid, even-handed and independent surveillance of their economies and financial sectors by the IMF.It also unveiled a Financial Stability Board to work with the IMF to identify economic and financial risks and measures needed to address them, revamping an existing body called the Financial Stability Forum.

MOBILISING TRILLIONS

The G20 leaders hope around two trillion dollars governments are pumping into the economy in tax cuts, building projects and green investments, according to summit host Gordon Brown, will limit the depth and duration of recession and maybe create 20 million or so new jobs. Paris and Berlin, fearing the summit would fall short of the mark on regulation of tax havens, hedge funds and markets in general, went in gunning for concrete announcements. Any regulations we don't agree here, won't be agreed for the next five years, Merkel told a joint news conference with her French counterpart on Wednesday.The summit is not about horse-trading between regulation and economic growth programs.In the results, we want the principle of new regulation to be a major objective ... This is not negotiable, French President Nicolas Sarkozy added. Obama, making his first official visit to Europe, said G20 nations were not going to agree on every point but brushed aside suggestions the summit would falter because countries were split over the importance of regulation versus new stimulus packages.

The core notion that government has to take some steps to deal with a contracting global market place and that we should be promoting growth -- that's not in dispute, Obama said.On the regulatory side, this notion that somehow there are those who are pushing for regulation and those who are resisting regulation is belied by the facts.
Sarkozy earlier threatened to disassociate himself from any false compromises at the summit, the second such meeting of world leaders to try to tackle the problems created by the downturn and credit crunch, which in turn began when the U.S. housing market collapsed over two years ago.(Writing by Brian Love and Keith Weir, editing by Mike Peacock)

Obama, Brown say G-20 deal will fight recession By JANE WARDELL, AP Business Writer APR 1,09

LONDON – Doggedly optimistic in the face of doubts, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted Thursday's emergency G-20 economic summit would produce a significant global deal to tackle the deepening worldwide recession. Others weren't so sure.France warned on Wednesday that neither it nor Germany would agree to false compromises that soft-pedal a need for tougher financial regulation to curb abuses that contributed to the spreading chaos. And outside the carefully scripted meetings, protesters smashed bank windows and pelted police with eggs and fruit.Thousands surged into London's financial district, blockading the Bank of England and breaking into a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Elsewhere, however, inside the meetings, Obama said differences among the presidents and prime ministers of the Group of 20 rich and emerging countries, were vastly overstated.

I am absolutely confident that this meeting will reflect enormous consensus about the need to work in concert to deal with these problems,said Obama, who is under pressure to make a good showing in his first major international appearance.With economic chaos spreading, Brown, the host of the summit, predicted agreement on a coordinated strategy, including a possible $100 billion fund to finance global trade, tighter financial rules and action to support economic growth and job creation.G-20 leaders are also in general agreement on a plan to double the money available to the International Monetary Fund, to some $500 billion, to help emerging countries.

Consensus on further measures is by no means clear.

Brown initially trumpeted the gathering as a new Bretton Woods — a new financial architecture for the years ahead.But the meeting so far bears little similarity to the 1944 New Hampshire conference where the eventual winners of World War II gathered to set postwar global monetary and financial order.Washington has eased off on its push for other governments to pump more money into economic stimulus programs after heavy opposition from European countries, who contend their bigger social safety nets make more spending unnecessary.Germany and France have instead campaigned for tougher rules to restrain financial market excesses.That disagreement has lowered expectations for the London summit and weakened confidence in the world's ability to quickly pull out of the downturn.Global trade is plummeting, protectionism is beginning to make inroads and unemployment is rising.French leader Nicolas Sarkozy, who had earlier implied he might walk out if key demands on tighter regulation were not met, presented a more conciliatory stance at a joint London news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying he had confidence in Obama.He still warned, however, that France nor Germany would reject false compromises and considered concrete steps on tax havens, hedge funds and ratings agencies crucial.Paris and Berlin want definitive agreements on a crackdown on tax havens and action on other regulatory issues, rather than simple commitments to reform. The summit is also expected to consider lightly regulated hedge funds and how to clear bank balance sheets of shaky securities.

Sarkozy said that without new regulation there will be no confidence. it's a major non-negotiable objective.Merkel said both she and Sarkozy had come to London in a very constructive mood.But she said, We do not want results that have no impact in practice.Even free trade remains the subject of potentially bitter dispute. In their meeting in November, the G-20 members vowed to avoid protectionism that could stifle trade. But since then, 17 have acted to pass subsidies to protect their own industries or limit imports, according to the World Bank. On Wednesday, leaders met in a series of bilateral meetings behind closed doors to try close the gap on key issues. They assembled for a formal dinner Wednesday evening before business meetings on Thursday. Another growing concern for the conference is the plight of developing countries, amid growing fears that the heavy toll exacted by the global economic crisis on those nations could come with a heavy human and political toll. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to leaders to urge them to approve a $1 trillion stimulus plan for developing countries and urge the G-20 countries to back away from damaging anti-trade policies. It remains to be seen if the leaders will be able to avoid a repeat of the last time that London hosted a world economic summit — the 1933 World Economic Conference that tried to agree to plans to revive the global economy in the midst of the Great Depression. Many commentators blame the collapse of that gathering — torpedoed in part by the recalcitrance of new President Franklin D. Roosevelt to make agreements that would restrict his freedom to act on the U.S. economy — for the subsequent erection of international trade barriers, continued competitive currency devaluation and rising unemployment.

Analysis: Global leaders try not to rattle markets By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer – Wed Apr 1, 4:20 pm ET

LONDON – Global leaders are keeping a nervous eye on world markets as they try to fix their ailing economies. From New York to Tokyo, investors stand ready to instantly grade the summit of the world's 20 biggest economic powers.As leaders gathered, the U.S. recession that triggered the global crisis entered its 17th month on Wednesday, making it the longest downturn since the decade-long Great Depression. It has now surpassed two previous postwar U.S. recessions that each lasted 16 months, in 1973-75 and 1981-82.After the Dow Jones industrials' worst first quarter in 70 years, Wall Street finished higher in trading on Wednesday and major indexes closed higher in Europe. But markets could sink fast if world leaders fail to present a united front at their meeting on Thursday.Usually, leaders at international forums care little about what markets are doing and markets pay little attention to such forums. Their predictable and vaguely written communiques rarely move the numbers.And after all, who can predict market movements? Gauging how markets might react can be a futile exercise.But in this case, plunging stock markets around the world are not only a symptom of the larger problem, they are part of the problem.Trillions of dollars of wealth have disappeared from pensions, endowments, nest eggs and home values. The market slides have sapped consumer confidence and spending in developed countries and slammed developing ones that rely heavily on their exports.In the United States, nearly half of households own securities, either directly or indirectly through 401(k) and other retirement plans. That's more than ever before in a time of severe economic downturn. Stock ownership also is up in other industrialized nations.

Summit partners don't want to unnecessarily spook the markets. And that injects an additional degree of caution into their deliberations.Failure to reach some acceptable level of accord at Thursday's G-20 summit could obviously have a very negative effect on markets,sowing seeds of further protectionism that in turn would further impact shares of major corporations,said Joseph Lampel, a professor at Cass Business School at City University in London.A vicious circle could accelerate.

There's no way to tell what markets might view as acceptable accomplishments. And since much of the present global decline is caused by lack of confidence, markets are looking for signs of returning confidence.

And this is one of the places they're looking.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama both sought to show cautious confidence at their joint news conference on Wednesday.Obama urged Americans, and consumers across the globe, to show confidence in the ability of the global economy to recover. Don't short change the future because of fear in the present, that I think is the most important message we can send — not just in the United States, but around the world,Obama said.Said Brown: It will get worse if people do not act.But tensions simmered just beneath the surface.Hours before the leaders were to sit down for dinner, French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to keep fighting for stronger international financial regulation, especially of tax havens, saying in an interview with Europe 1 radio that he would not associate himself with false compromises.Later, Sarkozy was asked about tensions between Europe and the United states and threats that he might walk out of the meeting. I have confidence in Obama, he told reporters. I am sure that he will help us and that he will understand us.Few expect the gathering to endorse either the bold stimulus spending that the U.S. and Britain have advocated nor the tough new international financial regulation that France, Germany and some other European countries want. Instead, the gathering was expected to endorse a mix of measured steps, including increased coordination in regulation, more money for the International Monetary Fund and a modest amount of stimulus spending, much of it already announced. My sense is that it will be a credible and legitimate package of steps both on the restoring-growth side and on the regulatory-reform side. And how the market reacts to that remains to be seen,said Mike Froman, a White House international economics adviser.

Markets hate uncertainty.

When Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner first outlined the Obama administration's bank-rescue plan in early February, the Dow Jones industrials plunged 300 points, mainly over the plan's lack of details. When he later filled in the blanks with a detailed plan, it soared nearly 500 points. And Geithner briefly unsettled currency markets a week ago when he appeared willing to entertain a Chinese proposal that an international currency replace the U.S. dollar as the world's main reserve currency — a notion he quickly dispelled.

Recent reports suggest the world economy is weakening, not strengthening.

The world economy is in the midst of its deepest and most synchronized recession in our lifetimes,wrote Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, chief economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in a report this week predicting the world economy would shrink this year for the first time since World War II, by 2.75 percent. He also wrote that trade would further contract sharply. Of course, if markets hate uncertainty, there can also be the certainty of low expectations.

What if the summit is viewed as a flop?

I think flop is pretty well built into expectations,said David Wyss, chief economist of Standard and Poor's in New York. Nearly everybody involved in the process expects more international coordination and regulation,it's just a matter of how much,Wyss said.As to possible market reaction, Wyss said that while the G-20 summit won't accomplish much, it's a good first step. And it's better than canceling the meeting.
EDITOR'S NOTE — Tom Raum has covered Washington for The Associated Press since 1973, frequently reporting on the economy.

Bank of Canada softens tone on further stimulus By Scott Haggett – Wed Apr 1, 5:34 pm ET

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada signaled on Wednesday there is no guarantee it will cut rates further or use unconventional policies to combat the recession, despite an economy that it said may be shrinking at the fastest pace in at least half a century.Governor Mark Carney said in a speech that Canada's recession could extend through the second half of this year, backing away from an earlier forecast that growth would return in the third quarter.The economy likely contracted in the first quarter at its sharpest rate since record-keeping began in 1961, Carney said.Even so, he signaled that investors should not assume the bank will use additional tools at its disposal -- including an interest rate cut or unorthodox measures -- to stimulate growth with the central bank's benchmark rate already near zero.It all depends what works best to achieve the bank's 2 percent inflation target, he said.Whatever type of stimulus, whether an additional reduction of interest rates or use of credit or quantitative easing, will solely be determined by achieving that target, Carney told reporters in a news conference after his speech to a business audience in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.He hinted that the bank could provide the stimulus the economy needs simply by holding down rates -- now at a historic low of 0.5 percent -- for an extended period of time, without cutting further.Duration matters. By keeping rates low for longer, additional stimulus can be provided,he said.Carney reiterated that he would outline a framework on April 23 for credit and quantitative easing, which analysts believe could involve printing money to buy securities outright in the market.The U.S. Federal Reserve last month unveiled bold measures to inject an additional $1 trillion into the U.S. economy, partly by buying government bonds for the first time since the 1960s. Central banks in Japan, Britain and Switzerland have taken similar moves.But Carney emphasized that that the Bank of Canada won't necessarily take this route.To be absolutely clear, outlining a framework does not necessarily imply that these policy options will be deployed,he said.

Quite simply, the bank will only venture into using these new policies if economic developments persuade it more stimulus is needed, he said.That would be the trigger to moving to the next set of tools.The suite of tools used would depend on the severity of the market conditions and the Bank of Canada is in virtually daily contact with other central banks on this subject.We have to look on the credit easing side in terms of where are there challenges ... dislocations in markets and is there something we can do in an efficient way to impact those,he said.

CURRENCY LITTLE CHANGED

The speech may have disappointed a significant minority of the market that thought Carney would offer further detail on quantitative easing and move the idea forward, said Mark Chandler, fixed-income strategist at RBC Capital Markets.It doesn't appear that the comprehensive plan that will come out on the 23rd will be an action plan that would soon be implemented.The Canadian dollar was little changed following the speech, trading around C$1.26, or 79.37 U.S. cents. Bond prices were generally firmer.Carney was basically downplaying expectations left, right and center for further easing, as well as the prospect of a near-term economic recovery, said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist BMO Capital Markets. The bank has cut its overnight rate by 4 percentage points since December 2007 and that, combined with the government's stimulus package, will begin to gain traction in the second half and help Canada recover faster than most other major economies, Carney said. In January, the bank projected a return to growth in the third quarter of this year, followed by 3.8 percent growth in 2010.But Carney now sees the recession lingering longer. The Canadian economy could continue to contract into the second half of this year,he said.Canada's economy shrank 0.7 percent in January, following a 3.4 percent contraction, annualized, in the fourth quarter of last year.(Reporting by Scott Haggett; writing by Louise Egan; Editing by Jeffrey Hodgson)

Canada sees U.S. rejecting global regulator at G20 Wed Apr 1, 10:12 am ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada believes that the U.S. and some emerging markets will not accept a global financial regulator, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Sky News in an interview on Wednesday ahead of a G20 summit in London.I don't think the Americans and some of the emerging markets will accept a global regulator. These are, after all, sovereign countries, so I think we've got a system that's workable and respects sovereignty,he said.Harper said a compromise solution for G20 leaders who appear to be split over the issue of financial regulation would be for strengthened systems of domestic regulation complemented by international peer reviews of those regulations.

This is the only realistic approach,he said.France and Germany issued warnings against weak compromises from G20 leaders at their meeting on Thursday as they seek an accord to haul the world out of recession and tighten regulations.But Harper downplayed the potential for discord between the U.S. on the one hand, and some of the European leaders calling for stricter regulations.Based on the conversations I've had, I think there's more convergence than has been let on in the media,he said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Harper called on the G20 leaders to overact and take dramatic action.I think there would be a risk of underacting. Let's assume that we need dramatic action, let's do it,he said.(Reporting by Louise Egan in Ottawa and David Ljunggren in London; Editing by Theodore d'Afflisio)

Brussels could recommend visa-free travel for Balkan countries
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EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Commission could in the first half of this year recommend lifting visa requirements for the Balkan countries that have carried out sufficient reforms, EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn said on Tuesday (31 March).

Maybe this year we will be able to get concrete results as regards visa-free travel, Mr Rehn said at a conference organised by the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) think-tank.We analyse the reports for the moment and we will consider recommendations still before the end of the Czech EU presidency [in July] so that the Council [the EU member states] could in the course of this year…take a decision on visa-free travel for the most advanced countries of the western Balkans in terms of meeting the requirements and conditions,he added.Visa requirements were imposed on the western Balkan countries in the aftermath of the 1990s Yugoslav war, with the EU promising as far back as 2003 to start talks with the countries' governments to lift these obligations.Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro are currently the most advanced in that respect, according to Brussels' assessment reports from November last year, while Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina are the least prepared.If the commission recommends scrapping the heavy visa obligations, a qualified majority of EU member states would have to back the measure for it to go through. Visa liberalisation is clearly our priority this year,Mr Rehn told MEPs from the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee later on Tuesday.The commissioner also urged the EU not to use the global financial crisis as an excuse to slow down the enlargement process.

Let's not make enlargement the scapegoat of economic recession, since it has not deserved this and it is not responsible for our social ills in the EU,Mr Rehn said.
Our economic troubles are not the fault of a Serbian worker or a Croatian civil servant, rather they stem from the systemic errors of financial capitalism and originate from Wall Street, not from main street in Zagreb or Belgrade.

Slovenia and Croatia should avoid blame games

Commenting on the border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, which has seen Ljubljana block Zagreb's EU talks since December, Mr Rehn urged the two countries to adopt a constructive approach in order to solve the issue, rather than blame each other for the stalemate.I am quite worried about the media and the media climate in both countries …Let's stop nationalistic rhetoric,he said.The commissioner has proposed setting up a mediation group chaired by former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari to help solve the border dispute.Mr Rehn declined to confirm whether he had received a reply to his proposal from the two countries, or whether Mr Ahtisaari would participate in a meeting between himself and Croatia's and Slovenia's foreign ministers on Wednesday in a bid to break the deadlock.He reaffirmed however that Zagreb was still on track to conclude EU accession talks by the end of this year, despite the current stalemate.Croatia opened EU accession talks in 2005 and wants to become the bloc's 28th member state in 2011.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU New Israeli leader hints at Iran attack,Netanyahu takes office, warns of possible confrontation with Tehran April 01, 2009 1:50 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2009 WorldNetDaily

Benjamin Netanyahu
JERUSALEM – Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially took office in a Jerusalem ceremony today, stressing upon his installation the need to confront Iran on that country's suspected nuclear weapons development program. We will have to roll up our sleeves and start working straightaway, as soon as we step out of this office, Netanyahu said at the ceremony. In an interview with the Atlantic magazine just before his swearing in ceremony, Netanyahu hinted the Jewish state may need to attack Iran.You don't want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs, Netanyahu said, referring to Iran. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is happening in Iran.He then told the Atlantic that in the past, Israeli preemptive strikes were necessary against regimes threatening the Jewish state's existence. He was referring to Israel's 1981 attack against Iraq's nuclear reactor and a 2007 bombing raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear site purportedly being constructed with aid from North Korea. Speaking from the White House at about the same time Netanyahu's remarks were made, President Obama affirmed Iran has the right to a civilian nuclear program. While we recognize that under the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) Iran has the right to a civilian nuclear program, Iran needs to restore confidence in its exclusively peaceful nature,Obama announced in a joint statement with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ahead of their first sit-down.

Back in Jerusalem, Netanyahu praised outgoing leader Ehud Olmert, calling him one of Israel's most talented prime ministers,while wishing him success on future endeavors.

Olmert announced his resignation last year amid multiple criminal corruption and bribery investigations described by police officials as serious. His legacy is mired by Israel's perceived failure to defeat the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon in 2006, as well as the Jewish state's recent 22-day confrontation with Hamas in Gaza that left the terrorist organization largely in tact and much less isolated internationally.

Netanyahu to evacuate West Bank?

It was unclear what Netanyahu's policies would be toward the Palestinians or Syria.
New Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman today announced Israel is committed to every aspect of the Road Map, but is not obligated by the Annapolis process. The Road Map calls for the Palestinians to defeat terrorism before moving on to negotiations to create a Palestinian state, while the Annapolis process stressed immediate talks to form a state.According to sources close to Netanyahu speaking to WND, the prime minister is planning to continue negotiations with the Palestinians toward an Israeli withdrawal from the majority of the West Bank. With regard to Syria, Netanyahu has stated he will talk to Damascus. As a candidate, however, he visited the strategic Golan Heights and vowed never to relinquish the territory, which looks down on Israeli population centers and twice was used by Damascus to mount ground invasions into Israel.Sources close to Netanyahu said the new leader already sent messages to Syria expressing his willingness to conduct negotiations toward an accommodation on the Golan. The sources did not say if Netanyahu was willing to go as far as any Israeli withdrawal from that territory.News media accounts routinely billed the Golan as undisputed Syrian territory until Israel captured the region in 1967. In actuality, the Golan has been out of Damascus' control for far longer than the 19 years it was within its rule, from 1948 to 1967. Even when Syria shortly held the Golan, some of it was stolen from Jews. Tens of thousands of acres of farmland on the Golan were purchased by Jews as far back as the late 19th century. The Turks of the Ottoman Empire kicked out some Jews around the turn of the century. But some of the Golan was still farmed by Jews until 1947 when Syria first became an independent state. Just before that, the territory was transferred back and forth between France, Britain and even Turkey, before it became a part of the French Mandate of Syria. When the French Mandate ended in 1944, the Golan Heights became part of the newly independent state of Syria, which quickly seized land that was being worked by the Palestine Colonization Association and the Jewish Colonization Association. A year later, in 1948, Syria, along with other Arab countries, used the Golan to attack Israel in a war to destroy the newly formed Jewish state.The Golan, steeped in Jewish history, is connected to the Torah and to the periods of the First and Second Jewish Temples. The Golan Heights was referred to in the Torah as Bashan; the word Golan apparently derived from the biblical city of Golan in Bashan.The book of Joshua relates how the Golan was assigned to the tribe of Menasheh. Later, during the time of the First Temple, King Solomon appointed three ministers in the region, and the area became contested between the northern Jewish kingdom of Israel and the Aramean kingdom based in Damascus. The book of Kings relates how King Ahab of Israel defeated Ben-Hadad I of Damascus near the present-day site of Kibbutz Afik in the southern Golan, and the prophet Elisha foretold that King Jehoash of Israel would defeat Ben-Hadad III of Damascus, also near Kibbutz Afik. The online Jewish Virtual Library has an account of how in the late 6th and 5th centuries B.C., the Golan was settled by Jewish exiles returning from Babylonia, modern day Iraq. In the mid-2nd century B.C., Judah Maccabee's grandnephew, the Hasmonean King Alexander Jannai, added the Golan Heights to his kingdom.The Golan hosted some of the most important houses of Torah study in the years following the Second Temple's destruction and subsequent Jewish exile; some of Judaism's most revered ancient rabbis are buried in the territory. The remains of some 25 synagogues from the period between the Jewish revolt and the Islamic conquest in 636 have been excavated. The Golan is dotted with ancient Jewish villages.

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN Saudi aid to Taliban killing U.S. soldiers?
Kingdom could be source of mischief in Pakistan March 31, 2009 8:49 pm Eastern
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While the United States places great hope and expectation in Saudi Arabia to help with the Middle East, the oil-rich kingdom may be working at odds with the U.S. in backing and financing the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. This development comes even though the U.S. has asked Saudi Arabia to work with the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan to split with al-Qaida and deny it safe haven in both countries. A report developed by the private global intelligence firm Stratfor suggests that if the kingdom were to persuade the Taliban to split from al-Qaida, then the U.S. would consider that the U.S. war with transnational jihadists would end.The report cites a visit by Taliban officials to Saudi Arabia and the visit by Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdel-Aziz to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Keep in touch with the most important breaking news stories about critical developments around the globe with Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence news source edited and published by the founder of WND.The report adds, however, that if the Saudis were to help the U.S. and Pakistan against the jihadists, its interests also may be attacked. The interests include the Saudi Embassy and Saudi airline facilities in Pakistan.But the Saudis may have other motives apart from aiding the U.S. in its dilemma of how to get out of its war with jihadists.

Being Sunni, Saudi Arabia may in fact want to work with the Taliban and continue to pay extortion money to al-Qaida to prevent it from launching further attacks inside the kingdom. Both the Taliban and al-Qaida are Sunni. After all, the Saudis helped support the creation of al-Qaidain the 1980s and the Taliban in the 1990s. The Saudis will want to continue providing financial help to the Taliban to offset any potential Shiite Iranian influence into Afghanistan. And that influence is growing.For that, the Saudis will need to continue secretly nurturing the Taliban as well as al-Qaida, even though its continued support helps them kill American soldiers.

SKorea seeks united front against NKorea launch By JAE-SOON CHANG, Associated Press Writer APR 1,09

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's president sought Wednesday to galvanize support from world leaders to pursue U.N. Security Council punishment for North Korea if it proceeds with a rocket launch that is suspected to be a cover for a missile test.In one-on-one meetings in London on the eve of the G-20 summit, President Lee Myung-bak stressed the need for a united response among world leaders after Pyongyang carries out what it has said will be a satellite launch some time from Saturday to following Wednesday.As world leaders prepared a response to the launch, CNN television reported that the North's own preparations were continuing. The network said on its Web site that Pyongyang has begun fueling the rocket, citing an unidentified senior U.S. military official. South Korea's Defense Ministry said it was aware of the report but declined to comment.The U.S., South Korea and Japan believe the reclusive country is really testing its long-range missile technology, and they warn Pyongyang would face sanctions under a U.N. Security Council resolution that bans the country from any ballistic activity.North Korea has refused to back down and issued warnings of its own, telling the U.S. it will shoot down any spy planes that intrude into its territory and threatening Japan that any effort to intervene in the launch would be considered an act of war.If the brigandish U.S. imperialists dare to infiltrate spy planes into our airspace to interfere with our peaceful satellite launch preparations, our revolutionary armed forces will mercilessly shoot them down,South Korea's Unification Ministry quoted North Korean radio as saying.It is unclear what capability the North Korea has to shoot down high-flying Boeing RC-135s, which can reach altitudes of nearly 10 miles (15 kilometers).U.S. military officials in Seoul declined to comment on the spying allegations or the North's threat.Lee and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, meanwhile, reaffirmed their intention to take North Korea to the Security Council after the launch.

A launch by North Korea would be a clear violation of a U.N. resolution,Aso told Lee on Wednesday, according to Osamu Sakashita, Aso's deputy Cabinet secretary for public relations. On this issue, Japan, Korea and the United States need to work closely together,Aso said.Lee assured Aso that South Korea supports Tokyo's right to take action to defend itself, Sakashita said. He said Japan has every right to take measures to protect its citizens. Korea recognizes this,he said.Japan has deployed battleships with antimissile systems off its northern coast and stationed Patriot missile interceptors around Tokyo to shoot down any wayward rocket debris that North Korea has said might litter the area.The North has warned it would consider any interception the start of Japan's war of re-invasion.Japan says it is only protecting its territory and has no intention of trying to shoot down the rocket itself.In Washington, 16 Republican lawmakers urged President Barack Obama to shoot down the rocket if it endangers the United States or its allies.Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a TV interview aired Sunday that the U.S. had no plans to intercept the North Korean rocket but might consider it if an aberrant missile were headed to Hawaii or something like that.Obama is expected to join the push for a joint response when he meets with the South Korean leader Thursday. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have already sided with Lee, saying the North's launch would violate the U.N. resolution. But it will be harder to convince President Hu Jintao of China, the North's only major ally, on Friday.Beijing and Moscow — veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council — could object to an attempt to seek U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang, citing legal uncertainty over the wording of the resolution because it makes no mention of launches relating to peaceful outer space activities,the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said in a report.

China and Russia might argue with at least equal plausibility that the resolution relates only to military missile launches and programs, the group said. U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials have stressed that missile and satellite launches use the same technology and differ only in payload, so a successful liftoff means the North has a way to launch nuclear warheads. North Korea's weapons of mass destruction combined with its ability to deliver something at a long range is a problem, regardless of what is mounted at the top of the rocket, Wi Sung-lac, Seoul's top nuclear envoy, said after returning from talks in Washington with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts. Amid the tensions over the rocket launch, North Korea has said it will indict and try two American journalists — Laura Ling and Euna Lee of former Vice President Al Gore's Current TV media venture — for allegedly crossing the border illegally from China on March 17 and engaging in hostile acts.In Seoul, meanwhile, North and South Korea faced off again in another arena: the soccer pitch. South Korea beat North Korea 1-0 in a World Cup qualifier Wednesday that drew frenzied cheers from hometown fans waving the South Korean flag. I hope we (South and North Korea) can step closer toward peace with this soccer game,said Kwon Jin-won, 21. Associated Press writer Jae Hee Suh contributed to this report.

EU anti-discrimination bill gets the green light
HONOR MAHONY Today APR 2,09 @ 14:50 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Parliament on Thursday (2 April) passed a bill banning discrimination against people on the basis of age, disability, sexual orientation, belief or religion in the areas of education, social security, health care and goods and services.The draft law was passed on Thursday (2 April) by 363 votes in favour and 226 against after the left wing and liberal MEPs clubbed together to back the legislation. Many centre-right MEPs were against the proposal saying it would lead to too much red tape.Despite the obvious benefits of greater equality in all areas of society, it has taken months of hard work to win support for the new legislation in the European Parliament,said the author of the report, Dutch green MEP Kathalijne Buitenweg.Dutch liberal MEP Sophie in ´t Veld said: Today the European Parliament will emphasize that it does not matter if you are black or white, gay or heterosexual, religious, disabled, young or old. Europe will protect your freedom and will make sure that you will get all the possibilities you deserve to make something of your life.Expressing doubts about the legislation in the run-up to the vote, German conservative MEP Manfred Weber said the parliament's centre-right faction fears the additional red-tape which would be generated by this new directive. Many of its regulations are not favourable to all parties involved, including disabled people,he added.The bill covers areas such as banking, transport and health but transactions between private individuals that are not commercial or professional are excluded.The European Union has since 2000 prohibited these forms of discrimination at work, but legal protection in the realms of public services, buying products or making use of commercial services was not covered. The bill is expected to come before member states in the second half of this year, with the forthcoming Swedish EU presidency recently saying it plans to prioritise the issue.It needs the approval of all 27 governments if it is to come into force in the EU.

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G20 must produce the goods, says EU
ANDREW WILLIS Today APR 1,09 @ 06:45 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Prominent figures within the European Union have upped the ante with increasingly tough rhetoric as they prepare to negotiate solutions to the economic crisis at a meeting in London this Thursday (2 April).We are there for results,European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told journalists in Brussels on Tuesday. It is a question of now or never.Someone said a crisis is a terrible thing to waste,and I think it is a very good expression. This is a crisis, so we should use it to change what is wrong.On the same day, French finance minister Christine Lagarde told British radio that France would walk away from the negotiations if the deliverables are not there.Her comments echo those of French President Nicholas Sarkozy who recently told French ministers: If things don't move forward in London, it will be the empty chair. I will get up and leave,reports French daily Le Figaro. French fears that the leaders from the Group of 20 industrial nations will backtrack on verbal commitments to improve global financial regulation are shared by Mr Barroso. Some of those who speak very often about the need for more effective regulation, afterwards when they have to agree on a precise proposal, they are not so ambitious,he said in reference to a recently agreed EU deal on regulation of the insurance sector. He said the package agreed by EU ministers, known as Solvency II, had been significantly watered down from the original commission proposal.However, Mr Barroso declined to say whether he would walk out with Mr Sarkozy if the debate turns into a talking shop while admitting that Thursday's meeting was unlikely to be the last of its kind.

G20 to become dominant forum?

I think it would be useful to have another [G20] summit this year, said Mr Barroso. I think the London summit should produce concrete results, but obviously it will be an ongoing process.Already, leaders are jockeying to succeed Britain's Gordon Brown as the host of the next G20 meeting as they seek to boost their statesman-like credentials and portray themselves as international deal-brokers. The inaugural G20 meeting of finance ministers took place in 1999 and has worked on a rotating basis since then. South Korea is due to hold the chair in 2010. Upgrading the meeting to the level of heads of state and government appears to have thrown the cat amongst the pigeons however, with Italy, France, Japan and South Korea amongst countries reportedly vying to take over the chair of the next meeting.Asked on Monday what the UK prime minister's reaction was regarding a suggestion that the Sardinian G8 summit in July could effectively become a G20 meeting, his spokesperson said that No.10 would see merit in further meetings of the G20.The response underlines the increasingly strong feeling in political circles that the G20 is the natural forum to resolve the world's problems as its members represent 80 percent of the world's GNP and two thirds of the world's population.

With so many disparate voices around the table however and an EU-US tug-of-war over whether economic stimulus or financial regulation should take preference still rumbling in the background, Mr Brown is likely to have his work cut out as he strives to secure a meaningful deal on Thursday. Aware of this, Mr Barroso said his top priority for the meeting is unity,stressing that G20 leaders needed to tackle a range of issues and not simply concentrate on one or the other. As well as stimulus spending and financial regulation, global governance structures such as the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Forum should be strengthened, he said.Likewise, leaders must focus on rejecting protectionism and continuing the development agenda by meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets to improve the life of people in the world's poorest nations by 2015.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS AT G-20
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Quotations from world leaders in the days before the London Summit:

Barack Obama, President, United States
30 March. Interview with the Financial Times. 'The most important task for all of us is to deliver a strong message of unity in the face of crisis. All the participating countries recognise that in the face a severe global contraction we have to each take steps to promote economic growth and trade; that means a robust approach to stimulus, fighting off protectionism.'

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, United Kingdom. Chair, London Summit
24 March. European Parliament. Starting at our debate today as we prepare for the London summit next week, I propose that we as Europe take a central role replacing what was called the old Washington consensus with a new consensus for our times. I am confident that at the London summit we can build on the action that the European Council and G20 ministers agreed a few days ago: that we will do whatever it takes to create the growth and the jobs we need.

Hu Jintao, President , China
7 March. Beijing. Challenge and opportunity always come together. Under certain conditions, one could be transformed into the other.

Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, India
31 March. New Delhi. The G20 has an important role to play in addressing the global economic and financial slowdown by taking coordinated and purposeful action. It is important and necessary for the Summit to take credible decisions which will help to halt and reverse the current slowdown and to instil a sense of confidence in the global economy.

Nicolas Sarkozy, President, France
24 March. The London summit should not be purely mechanical, moreover it should be a political summit where we question whether to reform capitalism or leave the field clear for those who want to destroy it. We know where anti-capitalism leads. Surely we do not want to recreate the dramas of the past? Now let us not delay any longer. The current attitude of excess and drifting along must come to an end.

Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Germany
27 March. Interview with the Financial Times. We are coming together to make joint decisions, not to compete against each other,she said. We all want the same thing: to put the world economy back on its feet as fast as possible and to prevent such a crisis from happening again.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President, Argentina
18 February. Buenos Aires. We are going to discuss how to address the globalisation avalanche which has led to the collapse of sacred icons and totems which had been enshrined and about which nobody could discuss or question without the risk of being considered a heretic.

Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister, Australia
29 March. The Andrew Marr Show, BBC TV. Given that this is a global economic challenge, only the G20 has the global economic reach to provide the response necessary to begin to mend this global economic recession and to support the restoration of jobs around the world.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President, Brazil
16 March. New York. Protectionism at this point would, in my opinion, make the economic crisis worse. If we shut off international commerce it would be like taking a fish out of water, it's going to lack air.

Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister, The Netherlands
30 March. Fighting the current economic and financial crisis demands resolve and commitment. We need to act, and we need to act together.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister, Spain
30 March. The G20 Summit must represent a new stage in the international community's efforts to overcome the financial and economic crises… The key challenge of the G20 is to link the short-term response to the crisis with the task of fundamental reform. We need to build a robust institutional framework to underpin, not only globalisation, but also to address market failures.

Taro Aso, Prime Minister, Japan
22 January. Tokyo. I have renewed confidence that the world's largest and the second-largest economies can work together by joining hands.

Felipe Calderon, President, Mexico
12 March. Mexico City. We always believe that, particularly in difficult times, protectionism is not the correct answer is the wrong answer. If something can be learned from the crisis of the mid-30 is that the imposition of protectionist measures and encouraging slows the recovery of the Mexican economy.

Dmitry Medvedev, President, Russia
15 March. Russian Government website. If you ask what we are proposing, it is simply a more equitable international financial system. In principle all states are talking about this. The issue is where to put the emphasis and whether we want to move forward or simply remain stuck in the situation we have today. Our position is that we need to move forward. I hope that this position will be well-received by our partners during my visit to London for the G20 summit.

Lee Myung-bak, President, Republic of Korea
4 March. Interview with The Australian. The recovery of the global economy will depend on actions the US Government takes. It's very important for us to strengthen international co-operation so that global economies can co-ordinate large fiscal stimulus packages and we can recover together.

King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia
29 November. Interview with Al-Siyassah. What they are in need, as they say, is the restoration of confidence. I think that if the big world economies get acquainted with means of cooperation among them, then they will become capable of surpassing the crisis as they surpassed previous crises.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister, Turkey
27 March on CNN Turk.I will meet with the managing director of the Fund during the G-20 Summit in London on April 1-2. After completing the talks process, we will sign an agreement. If we cannot agree with IMF officials, then we keep on preserving current conjuncture.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President, Indonesia
5 March. Bandar Lampung. I attend the G-20 meeting in order to discuss leaders of major countries on how to jointly overcome the global crisis [and] voice Indonesia's interest, so that our economy could be managed and our people could be protected, though there are obstacles.

Kgalema Motlanthe, President, South Africa
11 March. Johannesburg. No country can respond to the global financial crisis in isolation. South Africa's banking system will play a key role in ensuring that we come out of the global economic recession. We have what it takes to ensure we pull out of this difficult pattern.

Key achievements ahead of the London Summit APR 1,09

The objective of the London Summit is to bring the world's biggest economies together to help restore global economic growth through enhanced international coordination. To achieve this requires three commitments by world leaders:

First, to take whatever action is necessary to stabilise financial markets and enable families and businesses to get through the recession.
Second, to reform and strengthen the global financial and economic system in order to restore confidence and trust.
Third, to put the global economy on track for sustainable growth, high levels of employment and poverty reduction.
In the four months since the Washington Summit, international events such as the World Economic Forum in Davos have provided forums for discussion of possible solutions to the global economic crisis. Countries and regional groups from around the world have also been working closely together to find practical policies to meet all three commitments. Several governments – including Spain and Russia – have set out their own agendas following publication by the UK of its plan for recovery – The Road to the London Summit.

In the run-up to the London Summit, several preparatory meetings have made considerable progress in reaching agreement on some of the key issues. At the recent meeting of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, the following were agreed:

A commitment to fight all forms of protectionism and maintain open trade
A pledge to deliver the scale of sustained effort necessary to restore growth
A promise that central banks will maintain expansionary policies as long as is needed
A recognition of the urgent need to increase the resources of the International Monetary Fund
Action to restore bank lending through measures such as liquidity support, recapitalisation and dealing with impaired assets
Appropriate regulation and oversight of all systemically important financial institutions, markets and instruments – and registration of hedge funds or their managers
Stronger regulation reinforced by macro-prudential oversight to prevent the build-up of systemic risk
Changes to international banking regulations to ensure they dampen rather than amplify economic cycles
Supervisory colleges, with strengthened international cooperation to prevent and resolve crises
Regulatory oversight of all credit rating agencies whose ratings are used for regulatory purposes
Identification of non-cooperative jurisdictions – and a tool-box of effective counter-measures
Sound practice principles for compensation
Enhancement of the governance of international financial institutions to strengthen their effectiveness and legitimacy - including open, merit-based selection processes for their heads.
Ahead of the G20 preparatory meeting, the Financial Stability Forum agreed to increase its membership to include all the G20 countries, in order to enhance its ability to contribute to improving the international financial system. At the same meeting in London, the FSF also agreed on action to improve banking regulation, get rid of bankers' bonuses that encourage excessive risk-taking and strengthen cross-border crisis management.

A number of countries have also taken independent policy that helps to deliver London Summit aims. These actions include:banking recapitalisation - for example the US has injected $236bn into banks fiscal stimulus policies - among many others, China has implemented discretionary measures which the IMF estimates amount to 2 per cent of GDP this year expansionary monetary policy - for example, the ECB has significantly lowered the benchmark interest rate to 1.5 per cent, a record low.Japan has agreed to lend the IMF $100bn, even before agreement is reached on a figure for the increase in its resources. Europe’s leaders agreed to provide an extra €75bn to the IMF at the meeting of the European Council on 19th and 20th March. The IMF has approved an overhaul of its lending framework that should make it easier and more attractive for emerging market economies to seek the Fund’s support during the global crisis. Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg have followed Hong Kong, Singapore, Andorra and Liechtenstein in taking steps to improve the exchange of tax information with other countries in line with international standards drawn up by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.Others will follow suit in the days ahead, as the final measures needed to complete the global deal to be reached in London on 2nd April are agreed.

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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.

More blizzard woes in Dakotas; hailstorm in Texas Tuesday AccuWeather Tue Mar 31, 3:32pm ET

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A huge weather system stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico piled more deep snow on parts of the Dakotas on Tuesday and battered parts of Texas with damaging hail.The second major storm in a week dumped more than a foot of snow on sections of South Dakota.By early afternoon, the state Department of Public Safety had reopened Interstate 90 from the Wyoming border to Murdo. But the route remained closed from Murdo to Mitchell. A small section of I-90 remained closed in Wyoming. Parts of Interstate 29, which runs north-south along the eastern edge of the Dakotas, also were closed because of ice and blowing snow.In North Dakota, 17 inches of new snow fell in Bismarck. That puts the central North Dakota city an inch shy of its record season total of 101.6 inches set in 1996-1997.Blowing snow created whiteout conditions in the Nebraska Panhandle, and some roads and schools closed across the northern part of the state.The storm's stiff wind threatened to create high waves that could batter levees along the swollen Red River at Fargo, N.D. The dikes were holding but authorities were concerned about runoff that will result when the latest snowfall melts in the weeks ahead.On the southern Plains, hail damaged roofs and cars in suburbs of Dallas late Monday. No injuries were reported. The National Weather Service warned of the potential for severe storms later in the day Tuesday in southern Mississippi, which was struck by tornadoes last week.

Storms roll again over flooded, soggy Southeast AccuWeather By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer MAR 31,09

GENEVA, Ala. – Thunderstorms accompanied by the threat of tornadoes rolled across the already soaked Southeast on Tuesday, raising new worries for residents still recovering from a weekend deluge that flooded hundreds of homes, washed out roads and forced evacuations.Tornado warnings were issued for points in southeast Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and Georgia, and the National Weather Service forecast more thunderstorms in the region Wednesday and Thursday.Southern Mississippi residents were still cleaning up from tornadoes and flooding as disaster officials warned them to brace for another round of potentially severe storms that could fatten swollen rivers. In southeast Alabama, volunteers and Houston County jail inmates filled more than 2,500 sandbags for people to place in front of their homes to keep out water.

We've had more than 300 houses flooded countywide,sheriff's Lt. Jeff Carlisle said. It's everywhere, even in places where it's never flooded before. Every low-lying area in the county is flooded.Schools were closed in one Mississippi county and more than a dozen residents in Alabama were staying at a motel. The problems could worsen.In their 40-plus years running Stinson's Grocery in Geneva, Ann and Lloyd Stinson said they've never seen so much rain in such a short time. Their store is on a small hill across from the Pea River, which overflowed its banks and washed out a road that runs next to it.Their son's photography studio downtown was soaked with about a foot of flood waters over the weekend.Saturday afternoon people were pulling out carpets and cleaning up all over downtown,Ann Stinson said.What's so frustrating is to think they're going to have to do it all over again.The area could receive about a foot of rain by this weekend.The National Weather Service called Tuesday for as much as three to five inches across south Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and Georgia. Those amounts are expected to increase with new storms spreading rain throughout the area later in the week.Parts of the Southeast have seen rainfall between five and 11 inches in recent days, and some isolated areas had upward of 17 inches.Water is going down in some areas, but the forecast has emergency officials on alert.We're seeing estimates of 6 to 12 inches more by the end of the weekend,Carlisle said.

At least 30 people were forced from their homes over the weekend in Houston County, Ala. Dothan Red Cross executive director Susan Holmes said 14 evacuees remained in city motels Tuesday.In Mobile, Red Cross executive director Leisle Mims said her agency helped find temporary shelter for 29 families, or about 60 people, displaced by flooding in Mobile and Baldwin counties, but most had returned to their homes by Tuesday.The weekend thunderstorms caused an estimated $1.25 million in flood damage in Houston County, one of 11 counties Gov. Bob Riley declared in a state of emergency.

In Geneva County, Emergency Management Agency Director Margaret Mixon said the reinforced levee protecting the city of Geneva from the rising Pea and Choctawhatchee rivers was holding. But Mixon said three retention ponds are near capacity.With about 4,300 residents, the city of Geneva is dry, but it is surrounded by floodwaters that are expected to rise against the levee, she said.We're in for a lot more rain. We're just giving out sandbags and hoping for the best,she said. Mixon said about 300 homes in the rural county on the Florida line were flooded by the weekend storms and a number still have water. We've got tarps ready in case people need them, said Baldwin County EMA Director Leigh Ann Ryals.The severe weather has killed one person in Florida and injured 30 in Mississippi. In Florida, the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office reported the death of an Alabama man whose pickup truck washed off a roadway and sank in floodwaters on Sunday.

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New Israeli PM says extremist Islam trying to destroy his MAR 31,09

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that extremist Islam is trying to bring us down through terrorism from north and south as his Cabinet prepared to take office.Benjamin Netanyahu, top left, presents his government in the Israeli parliament Tuesday in Jerusalem.Netanyahu and his Cabinet were sworn in later in the day, after the Israeli parliament confirmed his new government in a 69-45 vote.The prime minister offered an olive branch of sorts to Palestinians but did not hold out the promise of their own state.In order for there to be peace, our Palestinian allies and partners also have to fight terrorism, he said.They must bring up their children in the spirit of tolerance and peace. In the last two decades, six heads of government in Israel have failed to achieve a peace settlement, but they were not at fault. I say to the leaders of the Palestinian Authority: If you really want peace, then peace can be achieved.We don't want to control another people, Netanyahu said of Israel's military control of Palestinian territory, which dates to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.We don't want to control the Palestinians. In a final a settlement, the Palestinians will have all the rights to rule themselves except those which threaten Israel's ability to protect itself.

A senior Palestinian official immediately responded that Israel must end its occupation of Palestinian land if it wants peace.I hope that Mr. Netanyahu will openly accept the two-state solution, negotiation on all core issues without exception, and stop the settlement activity, including natural growth, so we can have a partner in peace-making,said Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestinian Authority.Netanyahu described Israel's neighbors as moderate, but, like Israel, threatened by radical Islam.

Netanyahu reaches out to Palestinians
Labor votes to join Netanyahu's coalition
Israel strives to achieve full peace with the Arab and Islamic world, and this is entirely the case today as the Arab and Islamic world -- which is moderate -- faces extremist Islam,he said.Netanyahu, leader of the center-right Likud Party, will lead a mostly right-leaning coalition that includes the hardline Yisrael Beytenu Party and the center-left Labor Party.His Cabinet is the largest in Israeli history, with 30 ministers and deputy ministers.Opposition leader Tzipi Livni ridiculed the size of the government.The Israeli public is a skinny person who today has had the swollen, overweight government placed on its head. It has ministers for nothing with all sorts of ridiculous titles,said Livni, the Kadima Party leader and former foreign minister who refused to join the Netanyahu coalition. CNN's Kevin Flower and Shira Medding contributed to this report.

Gaza Terrorists Greet Netanyahu’s Government with Rocket Fire
Nisan 6, 5769, 31 March 09 04:40by Avraham Zuroff

(IsraelNN.com) Terrorists fired a Kassam rocket, which exploded in an open field near a kibbutz (agricultural settlement) within the Shaar HaNegev region shortly after 3:30p.m. Tuesday. No injuries or damage were reported in the attack.It was the fourth rocket fired at the western Negev during the day. One of the other rockets came down in another part of the Sha'ar Hanegev region. Two others exploded in unpopulated areas of Sdot Hanegev. No injuries or damage from the rockets were reported. However, a 55-year-old woman who was alarmed by the Color Red early warning alert system that sounded in Sderot fell and broke her hip. In addition, a girl suffered emotional trauma from the alert. The two were evacuated for treatment.The attack followed Israel's elimination of two terrorists and the wounding of three others along the Gaza security fence near Kissufim earlier Tuesday after they tried to plant an explosive device there. Two heavily armed terrorists were eliminated and three more wounded when a Golani patrol unit spotted them trying to plant the explosives. The patrol summoned a helicopter, which fired on the terrorists. An Israeli soldier suffered light to moderate wounds in the ensuing clash. The soldier, who was hit by shrapnel, was airlifted to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva.

Responding to a question about this morning's elimination of the two terrorists, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that it was good the IDF stood prepared and alert to defend the border.The Hamas terrorist organization that rules Gaza did not claim responsibility for the terrorist cell; however, the group did claim that its operatives had fired 18 mortar shells at the IDF unit during the confrontation.
In the past seven days, there have been at least two days in which there were rocket attacks launched from Gaza on communities in southern Israel. There were no reports of physical injuries or damage in any of the attacks.IsraelNationalNews.com

Arab States: Ultimatum to Israel Nisan 5, 5769, 30 March 09 01:41by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) The Arab League is formulating an ultimatum to be issued Monday warning Israel that it must accept the League's terms for an Arab-Israel agreement. If Israel refuses, the Arab League statement indicates, the offer will be off the table. Meanwhile, the Arab League is hosting a leader charged with racist massacres of non-Arabs in his own country.If approved by the Arab leaders attending the Arab League meeting in Qatar on Monday, the statement will declare that the proposed agreement, credited to Saudi Arabia, will soon be rescinded if Israel fails to accept it. The draft was composed by Arab foreign ministers meeting ahead of the summit.
The 2002 Saudi Initiative, as it has come to be known, calls for: 1) full Israeli withdrawal from all lands under Jewish sovereignty since 1967, including Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and all of Judea and Samaria; 2) Israeli agreement to accept Arab war refugees; 3) Israeli acceptance of a Palestinian Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, with Jerusalem as its capital. In exchange, the Arab states would agree to enter into a peace agreement with Israel, and consider the Arab-Israeli conflict ended.

Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi, head of the Arab Renewal Movement faction, will be attending some Arab League meetings. According to the Hebrew-language Ha'aretz newspaper, Tibi is pushing for the Arab League to call on the international community to force Israel to accept the creation of a Palestinian state.Aside from the ultimatum, the Arab leaders will be discussing a roster of 26 items. Of these, a separate agenda item is devoted to Syria's claims on the Golan Heights. The League will also hold sessions on the incoming Israeli government and the situation in southern Lebanon, as well as the issue of Hamas-Fatah clashes in the Palestinian Authority. Other topics include the international financial crisis, the situation in Iraq and Somalia, as well as the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Sudan's leader Omar al-Bashir - who will be at the Qatar meeting despite the warrant. Bashir is charged with facilitating the mass killings of Sudanese non-Arabs in Darfur.
A key Arab leader, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, will not be attending the Arab League Summit, according to the Arabic media, because of what he sees as Qatar's interference in negotiations over the return of abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. In addition, Egypt is incensed at Qatar's intention to host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Arab League Summit, as well as what Mubarak sees as ongoing criticism of Egypt on the Al-Jazeera network, hosted in Qatar.IsraelNationalNews.com.

EU: Summit with Israel unlikely soon Mar. 31, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST

The EU has said it is unlikely to hold a summit with Israel in the near future as planned due to its dissatisfaction with Israeli construction in east Jerusalem and the continued blockade on the Gaza Strip, , Reuters reported Tuesday.Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, whose nation currently holds the rotating EU presidency, told his country's Lidove Noviny newspaper that the union was not happy with some of the steps of the Israeli government, namely construction works close to Jerusalem but also access to Gaza, which is today very limited.The new Israeli government has not raised much excitement either,he added.The EU's foreign ministers in December approved a significant upgrade in the union's diplomatic relationship with Israel, despite Palestinian opposition and some calls in Europe that this should be linked to developments on the ground.The decision called for ad hoc summit meetings between Israel's prime minister and all EU heads of government, something that has never taken place before.It also called for Israel's foreign minister to meet with all 27 EU foreign ministers three times a year. It called for a strategic dialogue to discuss issues such as Iran, the diplomatic process and Syria. It also called for the inclusion of Israel in EU peacekeeping forces, and for an EU commitment to help Israel better integrate into UN agencies.

Meanwhile in Prague, President Shimon Peres met with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek Tuesday and warned him that it would be a mistake on the EU's part to give Israel the cold shoulder and delay the planned upgrade of EU-Israel relations due to our war on terror.Israel is at the forefront of the war on terror,he said.This is a war that we fight not only for our people, but for the entire world. Today terror is in Israel and tomorrow terror will be in Europe.In response, Topolanek said the Czech Republic would continue to take a friendly and supportive stance with Israel.During my visit to Israel with European leaders at the end of [Operation Cast Lead], we maintained a strong and resolute stance against Hamas and terrorism, and I plan to continue leading this position,he said.Herb Keinon contributed to this report.

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 WED APR 01,2009

09:30 AM -9.40
10:00 AM -106.02
10:30 AM +8.68
11:00 AM +53.28
11:30 AM +52.32
12:00 PM +62.09
12:30 PM +102.42
01:00 PM +70.64
01:30 PM +91.35
02:00 PM +122.89
02:30 PM +140.26
03:00 PM +153.16
03:30 PM +118.59
04:00 PM +152.68 7761.60

S&P 500 811.08 +13.21

NASDAQ 1551.60 +23.01

GOLD 926.80 +1.80

OIL 48.43 -1.23

TSE 300 8941.82 +221.43

CDNX 970.09 +13.28

S&P/TSX/60 543.83 +15.15

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -13.30%
S&P -11.67%
Nasdaq -3.07%
TSX Advances 1,091,declines 517,unchanged -,Volume 2,289,593,796.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 426,Declines 343,Unchanged 351,Volume 210,995,566.

Dow -112 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -123 points at low today.
Dow -9 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $931.90.OIL opens at $48.33 today.
Stocks down on GM concerns & disappointing ADP report.
Oil stocks down as oil falls this morning.
Mortgage rates continue to drop,but purchase applications do not.
Donic Automotive posts large loss,provides no guidance.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -125 points at low today so far.
Dow +123 points at high today so far.

EIA INVENTORIES
Crude Oil Inventories +2.8 MILLION Barrels.
Gasoline Inventories +2.2 MILLION Barrels.
Distillate Inventories +300,000 Barrels.
Refinery Utilization -0.3% to 81.7%
At least 4,000 gather at G-20 in LONDON to protest peacefully.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,365,declines 1,209,unchanged 93,New Highs 5,New Lows 51.
Volume 3,861,144,181.
NASDAQ Advances 1,498,declines 1,121,unchanged 128,New highs 6,New Lows 23.
Volume 1,241,257,405.
TSX Advances 742,declines 542,unchanged 265,Volume 1,446,630,291.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 282,Declines 256,Unchanged 289,Volume 100,842,991.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -125 points at low today.
Dow +183 points at high today.
Dow +2.01% today Volume 361,257,576.
Nasdaq +1.51% today Volume 2,125,793,522.
S&P 500 +1.66% today Volume N/A
$12.2 TRILLION WAISTED TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER BANKS SO FAR AND COUNTING. THE 10 WORLD REGIONS ARE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FOLKS GET READY.

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

RABBI MILITARY OBJECTIVES BEFORE POLITICS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um3xCIxFguo&feature=player_embedded
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5420868867378967978&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhvEVPGgseY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtE34e3nDd0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/865890/jewish/Solar-Energy.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWbWcYKnj5s&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUTVEDB-Iag&feature=player_embedded

Chavez promotes petro-currency over dollar By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 31, 2:59 pm ET

DOHA, Qatar – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tried Tuesday to court Arab support for another swipe at America as its economy stumbles: a proposal for a new, oil-backed currency to challenge the global prominence of the dollar.The idea never reached the full agenda of a summit of leaders from South America and the Arab League — and has little hope of gaining any momentum among the U.S. allies in the Middle East. But it managed to reflect broader sentiments at the gathering: That Western financial leadership has been deeply eroded by the economic meltdown.Chavez set the tone moments after arriving in Qatar, proposing a petro-currency that would have the backing of oil-rich nations such as Venezuela and its Arab partners in OPEC. Chavez has tried before, with little success, to undercut the dollar's role as the world's leading commercial currency.

The dollar, however, is facing real pressures elsewhere.

China has struck deals — most recently this week with Argentina — to conduct trade in currencies other than the dollar, and Beijing's central bank governor has proposed creating a new reserve currency comprising a basket of global currencies controlled by the International Monetary Fund.Iran has proposed replacing the dollar with the euro or other currencies to set worldwide oil prices, and other nations are swapping some foreign currency reserves in favor of the euro.Venezuela supports ... efforts to find an alternative reserve currency,Chavez told the summit.Chavez plans stops in both Iran and China — in addition to Japan — after the one-day gathering, which focused heavily on trade issues but also touched on Arab worries about rival Iran's growing influence in Latin America.The global economic crisis erupted outside our regions, but nevertheless effect our economies, said a statement by business envoys from the two regions, who called for a new international financial system that includes greater influence from outside the West.OPEC members — including Venezuela and many Arab Leagues states — have been hit hard by falling oil prices, which dipped below $48 a barrel on Tuesday.Chavez predicted oil prices to rise and called $80 a barrel a fair level, according to a government statement. On Monday, Qatar's oil minister, Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, said his nation was OK with crude oil at $50 a barrel this year.Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told the gathering that the economic crisis is having deep repercussions on all economies, but it offers an opportunity to correct the financial system and restore balance to global trade.

Delegates also encouraged expanding technology exchanges, including nuclear engineering. Argentina helped build one of Egypt's nuclear reactors and hopes to continue civil nuclear cooperation.The summit's closing statement demanded that all countries of the region, without exception join the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and open unclear facilities to U.N. inspection. It also appealed for nuclear weapons to be banned from the Middle East.The message cited no specific nation, but many Arab leaders share Western worries that Iran could uses it nuclear program to develop atomic weapons, setting off a regional arms race. Iran says it only seeks reactors to produce electricity.Meanwhile, Israel has two nuclear reactors — ostensibly for research and scientific purposes — but is widely believed to have developed nuclear weapons. Israel does not comment on its arms capabilities.For Arab leaders, commercial ties are a direct way to counter Iran's increasing footholds in Latin America, particularly Tehran's connections to Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales. The estimated $21 billion trade includes oil and gas from the Middle East and steel and agricultural products from South America.The final statement from the summit gave no mention of the Arab League's declaration Monday rejecting the International Criminal Court's charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes in Darfur.Chile's President, Michelle Bachelet, gave no details the South American refusal to join the Arab denunciation but suggested it reflected the need to acknowledge the rights of the ethnic African rebels fighting the Arab-led government in Khartoum.We, in South America, especially after suffering from several political dictatorships, understand very well that the struggle of people for their rights,she said.Associated Press Writer Ian James in Caracas, Venezuela, contributed to this report.

Argentina, China sign tentative currency swap deal By JEANNETTE NEUMANN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Mar 30, 10:23 pm ET

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina and China have tentatively agreed to swap $10 billion worth of their currencies to enable South America's second-largest economy to avoid using dollars in trade between the nations, banking officials said Monday.It is the first such swap between China and a Latin American country, and allows Argentine businesses to buy Chinese imports directly in yuans. The move aims to help Argentina by cutting trading costs, giving it access to hard currency and strengthening its financial position as it is battered by the global financial crisis, analysts say.

China — which has been pushing to end the dollar's international dominance as a currency — has stuck similar deals to bypass the U.S. currency with South Korea, Malaysia, Belarus and Indonesia, the Xinhua News Agency reported.The Argentina deal was announced by Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, at the Inter-American Development Bank meeting in Medellin, Colombia. A source with the Argentine Central Bank confirmed it Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the announcement was not yet official.Analysts said the swap could be an example of China's growing economic influence in Latin America.China may be trying to exert and deepen their global influence,said Win Thin, senior currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York.They've been investing in countries no one else really wants to touch — such as mineral-rich countries in Africa and now Argentina.

Argentina primarily imports electronics, computers and chemical products from China, while the South American country exports agricultural commodities such as wheat, soy and corn, said Ernesto Fernandez Taboada, executive director of the Argentine Chinese Chamber of Production, Industry and Trade.While the tentative deal could signal increasing Chinese interest in Argentina, its trade is far greater with neighboring Brazil. Brazil, the region's largest economy, represents 42 percent of Latin America's trade with China, while Argentina represents only 12 percent, Taboada said.

Argentine officials presented the tentative currency swap between the countries as a contingency plan to be turned to when necessary in order to shore up liquidity.The swap would help Argentina by eliminating intermediate administrative steps required to exchange Argentine pesos for dollars and by shoring up liquidity in an indebted nation.It's the first time that China is helping liquidity here in Latin America, said Marcos Mollica, a Latin America fixed income strategist with UBS AG in San Pablo, Brazil said.It could be the first of other, broader roles for China.

Hannity, Morris Agree with Conspiracy People About New World Order
Kurt Nimmo Infowars March 31, 2009

In the video here, the former Clintonite Dick Morris, who is now a darling of Fox News, tells Sean Hannity the globalists will put the American economy under international regulation and those people who have been yelling, oh, the UN is going to take over… they’ve been crazy, but now they’re right.Former Clintonite Dick Morris declares those people who have been yelling, oh, the UN is going to take over… they’ve been crazy, but now they’re right.Those conspiracy people, Sean Hannity interjects, had suggested that for years… you’re not wrong.It’s the international regulation of the financial institutions we have to worry about, warns Dick Morris. It will happen under IMF control… Remember, the IMF is run by the Europeans and backed by Americans.It’s too bad Mr. Morris didn’t give us the rest of the story. The IMF is a loan sharking operation created by the bankers under the Bretton Woods scheme and its primary purpose to date has been to get third world nations into hock so they can be more effectively looted. It is now poised, as Morris eludes, to embark on a far more ambitious bankster scam — to initiate something called global quantitative easing by printing billions of dollars worth of a global super-currency, deceptively billed as a way to address the economic crisis manufactured by the global elite.

Alistair Darling and senior figures in the US Treasury have been encouraging the Fund to issue hundreds of billions of dollars worth of so-called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) in the coming months as part of its campaign to prevent the recession from turning into a global depression,the Telegraph reported on March 16.SDRs are now based on four currencies — the US dollar, the Japanese yen, the euro and the British pound. They are used largely as a unit of account by the IMF and other international organizations.Read between the lines and you get to the bottom of the real reason for the issuance of SDRs — to push for a world currency. Recall a few days ago Zhou Xiaochuan, China’s central bank’s governor, calling for the IMF to forge a new world reserve currency.China demands a settlement system between the SDRs and other currencies so that they can be used in international trade and financial transactions. The IMF would manage these SDRs and they would gradually replace existing reserve currencies.As envisioned by our rulers, a world super-currency will ultimately require a world government. Morris blames the Europeans for this and he is only partially right — it is a scam long ago devised by international bankers primarily based in Europe and Britain and backed, as Morris admits, by the American financial elite.The issuance of paper SDRs would please the plutocratic international bankers to no end, writes Robert Bradshaw, and this move would allow them a golden opportunity to print fiat paper money in huge quantities to flood the world. We can be sure that the fat cats [the bankers] would love to have a new paper world currency in their greedy little hands. Since they already control the IMF and most world central banks, such a new global currency would definitely fit into their plans for world rule.It is hardly surprising that SDRs and world currency will be on the agenda at the G20 this week. The globalist George Soros has urged Obama to push the SDR agenda and has warned that if a world currency is not established and the global economy collapses (as planned) the United States shall cease to be the dominant financial power and China is liable to come up ahead.” Soros is merely running a time-tested shell game in an effort to get the U.S. to pony up for what will ultimately be its demise, again as planned. China is the model to be used for our totalitarian future.Dick Morris and the disinfo operative Sean Hannity may indeed be alarmed by this obvious push for world government. It is interesting to note that Hannity has only lately come around to the existence of the New World Order — formerly in the realm of crazy conspiracy theories — now that Obama is in the White House and the Democrats in control of Congress. Hannity and Morris are simply reading from a provided script.Point is, the New World Order wants you to know what they have in mind for you. It tickles them to give you a preview of things to come now that the New Savior is in office and enjoying high popularity — a one world government with a high-tech control grid overlay designed to usher in a brave new world of hellish serfdom and eventually the dream of our eugenicist rulers: a mass culling of the herd who are considered little more than useless eaters.

EU welcomes US move on CO2 amid climate change worries
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 1,09 @ 16:32 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A new US bill on cutting CO2 emissions will help clinch a global deal in Copenhagen later this year, the European Commission said on Wednesday (1 April), while proposing to use money from CO2 cap-and-trade to finance Europe's response to climate change. Democrat congressmen Henry Waxman and Ed Markey on Tuesday put forward a new legal initiative to cut US emissions by 20 percent by 2020 compared to 2005 levels, in a sign that the Obama administration plans to make good on election campaign promises on the environment.The Waxman-Markey bill is less ambitious than the EU's existing promise to cut CO2 by 20 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels.The EU and US initiatives come ahead of a major UN conference in Copenhagen in December on global emissions targets after the current worldwide Kyoto Protocol deal expires in 2012.We welcome this. It's very encouraging, EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas said on the draft US law. It's not exactly what we have in the EU and what science is saying is necessary ...[but] this will send a very strong message to Copenhagen and facilitate an agreement.A UN scientific panel in March updated predictions that on present trends global sea levels will rise by up to 59 cm by 2100, saying the increase could exceed 1 metre. EU research indicates that the most climate-change vulnerable areas in the EU are in southern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, the Arctic region and the Alps, densely-populated floodplains, islands and coastal regions. Extreme weather events are likely to cause crop failures as well as human tragedy. Unseasonal heatwaves are to impact the energy industry. Rural irrigation will need to be restructured. Lack of snow could see ski-related tourism collapse in Alpine areas.

Mr Dimas in a white paper on Wednesday unveiled commission proposals to find out more about how the EU needs to adapt to climate change in future.The commission wants to create by 2012 a new data base to co-ordinate member states' information on climate change-related risks and to set up a climate change adaptation steering group composed of EU and member state officials.The group will present its first report in spring 2010 in preparation for a comprehensive climate change adaptation strategy to kick in after 2013.Brussels is yet to calculate how much it will cost to bail out climate-affected industries, renovate buildings and infrastructure and support new social schemes for people fleeing the worst effects of the coming changes.

Show me the money

A report by UK economist Lord Stern in 2006 indicated that investment in new buildings and infrastructure alone will cost the combined EU27 countries between €6 billion and €58 billion in the coming years. For the cost, we don't yet have the data,Mr Dimas said.The white paper suggests that the bloc may in future need to launch EU-level insurance schemes for buildings or businesses located in flood-risk zones that the private insurance sector refuses to touch.It also indicates that post-2013, up to 50 percent of EU states' income from the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) - the EU's CO2 cap-and-trade programme - will need to be channelled into climate adaptation measures.When we have a recession, the ETS reflects the economic circumstances and the installations covered pay a lower price. When there is an upturn, they pay more,he said on the ETS' capacity to generate climate change adaptation funding.I hope the recession will be gone in a few months or a year or so.

EU pushes male all-body shaving as response to crisis
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today APR 1,09 @ 08:02 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission will on Wednesday (1 April) propose to spend €80 million to encourage European men to purchase all-body electric shavers.
The funds form a fresh stimulus move to encourage development of what the commission is calling an innovative and green new product market.Market research shows that in tough times, disposable razors appeal to consumers, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told EUobserver in advance of the announcement. There is a real danger that such a shift could exacerbate Europe's land-fill problem. As I have said over and over, we cannot let the economic crisis undermine our environmental targets.

At the same time, we need to be smart in where we apply stimulus funds, encouraging new, green innovation that can help Europe exit the crisis while making the shift to a low-carbon, low-resource-intensive economy,he added.Given the accusations of protectionism that appeared following member state announcements for support for domestic car industries made earlier this year, the commission is keen that the funds, which will come from unspent sheep-shearing subsidies, be distributed at EU level.The Netherlands, home to electrical goods manufacturer Philips - the owner of the Philishave brand, and Germany, home to Braun, are believed to be highly supportive of the commission's proposed scheme.The shaving industry for its part believes men to be a virtually untapped but rapidly expanding new market for depilatory equipment, and says that the EU plan could create upwards of 12,000 new jobs.According to Philips, male grooming is one of the fastest growing segments within the personal care market - up 24 percent in 2008, while male all-body electric shavers grew a startling 53 percent year-on-year.Under the plan, male European citizens between the ages of 25 and 49 would be offered a €23 coupon to trade in their disposable razors for any EU-produced electric body shaver. The funds target this particular age bracket because the commission believes all younger men are already in the habit of shaving their back, chest and legs.

Bob Geldof

The inspiration for the move came when Mr Barroso was sharing a pint of Guinness in Kitty O'Shea's, an Irish pub opposite the commission's Brussels headquarters, with pop star Bob Geldof on St. Patrick's Day earlier in the month to discuss market-friendly solutions to poverty in Africa.I was in the gents, because you know these large half-litre-glasses, er, pints, go straight through you, and I noticed that the young men in the Philishave advertisements above the urinals had no hair under their armpits or on their legs,said the president.And then there's the one with the clean-shaven kiwi fruit.So when I came back to the bar, I asked my dear friend Bob what this was all about, he continued, and he told me: The lads are shaving just about every thing these days - armpits, legs, everything.Meanwhile, according to manufacturers, older men already prefer electric shavers to disposable razors, and so those that have face-oriented shavers as well as those 50 and older are instead to be offered a €5 coupon for an adapter that enables their existing devices to trim other parts.US shaving giants Gillette and Remington have immediately attacked the scheme, saying that the EU is engaging in protectionist, Buy EU beggar-thy-neighbour policies and that they are considering levelling a complaint over the matter with the WTO.However, a source close to the American manufacturers said that no decision on such action had yet been taken, and that, privately, senior executives thought that the EU move could yet do a lot to boost the overall market and even give them an opening to pressure their own government for similar subsidies.Luxembourgeois Green MEP Claude Turmes, a keen cyclist, cautiously welcomed the new monies.

I had not initially thought of the men's grooming product market as a potential recipient of stimulus funds, and we certainly didn't include it alongside energy efficiency and public transport spending in the launch of our Green New Deal manifesto for the June elections, but perhaps we should have done,he said.So long as the electricity used to power the shavers comes from genuinely renewable sources such as wind and solar power and not nuclear or biofuels, there's almost no environmental downside. Barroso makes a compelling point.I'm not about to shave off my ponytail, however,he warned.

High-level expert group

Lobbying transparency activists nevertheless were scathing about the announcement, and accused the commission of caving in to heavy lobbying from the shaving industry.
It's no coincidence that the announcement is made on the same day as the corporate-financed International Day for the Prevention of Hairy Backs,said Olivier Hoedeman of Alter-EU, a transparency pressure group.In the lead-up to the announcement, Alter-EU found that a commission high-level expert group on New Directions in Male Grooming Habits was stacked with representatives of Philishave, Braun, a Hungarian animal clipper firm and Speedo.And only a single representative from the non-shaving community,which he defined as: You know, hippies.

Air Canada stock sinks as restructuring weighed By Jeffrey Jones MAR 31,09

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Air Canada shares sank 22 percent on Tuesday as analysts speculated that the resignation of its CEO, and the naming of a replacement known for his restructuring expertise, may signal the airline's second filing for creditor protection in six years.Montie Brewer, who has led the airline through the industry downturn and has had to scramble to raise cash while competing with rival WestJet Airlines Ltd, will be replaced as chief executive on Wednesday by Calin Rovinescu, a key figure in Air Canada's last corporate revamp under bankruptcy protection.Air Canada's class B shares fell 26 Canadian cents to 89 Canadian cents on the Toronto Stock Exchange, representing a drop of more than 90 percent in the past year. Its class A shares fell 24 Canadian cents to 84 Canadian cents.Rovinescu is a lawyer who was Air Canada's vice-president of corporate development and strategy from 2000 to 2004, a period that included the airline's last restructuring and emergence from creditor protection. He subsequently co-founded Genuity Capital Markets, a Canadian investment bank.While the challenges in front of us are large, we will continue to build upon the successes of the airline to date and deliver a quality product for our customers, employees and shareholders,Rovinescu said in a statement.There were more changes in the executive suite on Tuesday, as Chief Operating Officer Bill Bredt announced he too is stepping down, to be replaced by Duncan Dee.Air Canada shares have tumbled as the industry downturn that first took hold in the United States spilled into Canada.The airline has cut capacity by 7 percent, which meant 2,000 layoffs, and has been feverishly working to raise capital to shore up its balance sheet.It also faces a pension deficit and brisk competition on fares and routes from Calgary-based WestJet.Analyst Jacques Kavafian said Rovinescu's appointment signals another restructuring because of his legal experience and his unpopularity with the carrier's unions.

In fact, we believe that his resignation from Air Canada in 2004 was a condition for union acceptance of wage concessions,Kavafian said in a note.Bringing him on just as new labor agreements are to be negotiated does not square with the unions' historical sentiments.Kavafian also took note that Rovinescu will take up his post six years to the day after Air Canada last filed for creditor protection.Airline spokeswoman Angela Mah declined to comment on what might be in the cards for Air Canada, beyond what was in the statement issued late on Monday.

It made no mention of plans to seek creditor protection.

Suddenly and dramatically, bringing in someone like Mr. Rovinescu ... speaks to the extreme turmoil currently taking place at Air Canada,Ben Cherniavsky, an analyst at Raymond James, wrote in a research note.Cherniavsky has pegged the chances of Air Canada's survival at 50/50, at best.Transport Minister John Baird said he is concerned with the mounting financial problems at the flagship carrier.So it has my active attention,Baird told reporters in Ottawa.I met with one of the unions this morning. I was in touch with management last evening, and we'll be watching the issue very closely.The Canadian Auto Workers union, which represents more than 5,000 Air Canada employees, called Rovinescu's re-entry into the airline disturbing.The union said it feared its members would be threatened with cuts to pension benefits under another restructuring effort. It had opposed parent company ACE Aviation Holdings Inc's sale in recent years of Air Canada's affiliates, such as its frequent flier program and regional feeder carrier.(Additional reporting by Scott Haggett and Randall Palmer; editing by Rob Wilson)

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

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)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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

REVELATION 9:18
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.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Expert: NKorea has several nuclear warheads By PAUL ALEXANDER, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 31, 10:42 am ET

SEOUL, South Korea – Nuclear-armed North Korea warned Japan on Tuesday that intervening in Pyongyang's impending rocket launch would be considered an act of war.

North Korea says it will send a communications satellite into orbit on a multi-stage rocket between April 4 and 8. The U.S., South Korea and Japan think the communist regime is using the launch to test long-range missile technology, and they warn Pyongyang would face sanctions under a U.N. Security Council resolution banning the country from ballistic activity.Japan has deployed battleships and Patriot missile interceptors off its northern coast to shoot down any rocket debris that the North has said might fall over the area.Tokyo has said it is only protecting its territory and has no intention of trying to shoot down the rocket itself, but North Korea said it is not convinced and accused Japan of inciting militarism at home to justify developing a nuclear weapons program of its own.If Japan tries to intercept the satellite, the North's army will consider this as the start of Japan's war of re-invasion more than six decades after the Second World War and mercilessly destroy all its interceptor means and citadels with the most powerful military means,the North's official Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday.China, North Korea's neighbor and often-estranged ally, continued to appeal for all the powers in the region to show restraint and refrain from any action that would further complicate the situation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters in Beijing.But Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said he is ready to pursue punishment by the Security Council if North Korea fires the rocket, which already is on the launch pad.It would be crucial for the international community to make concerted action, Aso told a news conference after both houses of Japan's parliament passed a resolution strongly urging the North to forego the launch.

Daniel Pinkston — a Seoul-based expert for the International Crisis Group think tank, which provides detailed analysis about North Korea — said the communist nation has two underground nuclear warhead storage facilities near bases for its medium-range Rodong missiles, which are capable of striking Japan. The North is believed to have five to eight warheads, he said.But he stressed it is unclear if the communist nation has mastered the technology necessary to miniaturize the warheads and put them on Rodong missiles, which have a range of 620 to 930 miles (1,000 to 1,500 kilometers).

The National Intelligence Service, South Korea's main spy agency, said it could not confirm Pinkston's claims.Pinkston said he obtained the information from intelligence officials from a country or countries that he wouldn't identify.Their assessment is that North Korea has deployed and assembled nuclear warheads for Rodong missiles, Pinkston told The Associated Press.Kim Tae-woo, a missile expert at the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul, said the North has been focusing on efforts to mount nuclear warheads on the Rodongs because the long-range Taepodong series has not been fully deployed yet.Rodong is the most likely weapon to be mounted with nuclear warheads,Kim said. He said it's also natural for the North to try to put a nuclear warhead on a missile with a longer range.Two U.S. destroyers are believed to have departed from South Korea to monitor the rocket launch. South Korea is also dispatching its Aegis-equipped destroyer, according to a Seoul military official who asked not to be named, citing department policy.North Korea claimed Tuesday that the U.S. and South Korea have conducted about 190 spy flights over its territory in March, including over the sea off the launch site on its northeast coast.Further fueling tensions, hundreds of U.S. and South Korean troops conducted an air assault exercise Tuesday that the two countries have claimed is unrelated to the rocket launch. Pyongyang has strongly condemned similar joint drills in the South as preparations to invade the North. The two allies conducted large-scale annual exercises for 12 days in March, prompting angry reaction from Pyongyang, including threats to South Korean passenger planes and repeated halts in cross-border traffic.

Adding to the complexity of the situation, the North announced Tuesday it will indict and try two American journalists accused of crossing the border illegally from China on March 17 and engaging in hostile acts.The North may try to use the detentions as a bargaining tool after the rocket launch, said Yang Moo-jin, an analyst at Seoul's University of North Korean Studies.Associated Press writers Jae-soon Chang and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, and Shino Yuasa in Tokyo, contributed to this report.

YOU GOT YOUR GOVERNMENTS,YOU GOT YOUR SHADOW GOVERNMENTS-NEW WORLD ORDER CRUE,YOU GOT SATAN BEHIND THIS NEW WORLD ORDER CRUE,THEN YOU GOT KING JESUS THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WORLD BEHIND EVERYONE WATCHING AND CONTROL THE WORLD THROUGH SATANS PUPPETS AND FULFILLING THE PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE THROUGH SATAN AND HIS GODLESS NEW WORLD ORDER.

JUST REMEMBER YOU PROUD NEW WORLD ORDER CRUE GOD (KING JESUS) WILL FULFILL HIS WORDS OF THE BIBLE THROUGH USE TO WIN SOULS FOR HIS KINGDOM,USE WOULD BE SMART NOW TO REPENT AND ASK JESUS INTO YOUR HEARTS BEFORE WW3 GOBBLES USE UP AND THE BIRDS EAT YOUR DEAD FLESH AND DRINK YOUR BLOOD.

G20 Terrorist Plot Exposed As Teenagers With Plastic Guns And Fireworks
Steve Watson Infowars.net Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Yesterday’s reports of a foiled terrorist plot in relation to the G20 protests in London have been scaled back after it was revealed that the house raided by police contained only plastic guns and fireworks.The three men, aged 25, 19 and 16, and two women, both 20, all live in Plymouth and the surrounding area,reported The Guardian.

They are political activists unaffiliated to any terrorist organisation, and were arrested at addresses in Plymouth. They are being held under terrorism legislation. The explosive devices were made from simple fireworks, police said.Nevertheless, police have called in Royal Navy bomb disposal experts to deal with the weapons.The police have also said that they recovered allegedly extremist materials, without further expanding on what they might be.At a press conference at Crownhill police station in Plymouth, Assistant Chief Constable Paul Netherton said the investigation was sparked when a 25-year-old man was arrested for spray-painting on a wall in Plymouth city centre - but would not comment on the nature of the graffiti,reported the Press Association.It has since come to light that the graffiti read Antifa which is the name of an anti-racist movement that advocates the use of violence against extreme right-wing groups.The youths, who were initially arrested on drug charges, are now being held under the terrorism act.Meanwhile, fresh reports have emerged alleging that anarchists are planning to pose as peaceful protesters as a cover to seed chaos in the capital.Hundreds of activists are hoping to fool police by pretending to be part of legitimate demonstrations, before breaking off and storming city banks, according to the London Evening Standard which says it infiltrated an anarchist leaders meeting yesterday.Other reports have revealed that the SAS is being readied to react to any terrorist activity.Rather bizarrely, it has also been revealed an entire network of central London’s wireless CCTV cameras will be turned off during the protests because they have been deemed to be illegal.

Obama loves Queen, avoids own goal on football
APR 1,09

LONDON (AFP) — Barack Obama said Wednesday he loved Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, but knew better than to be drawn into the sporting minefield represented by England's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine.Some British commentators took offence at the US president's treatment of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Washington last month, and Obama seemed to go out of his way to show respect for the US-Britain special relationship.Asked what he liked about Britain, Obama mentioned the people and said: There is just a extraordinary affinity and kinship that we have.We owe so much to England; that when you come here there's that sense of familiarity, as well as difference, that makes it just a special place,he said during a press conference with Brown at the Foreign Office.But offered a chance to pick the winner of the big football match at Wembley on Wednesday, Obama demurred, noting the stir whipped up in the United States over his picks for the annual college basketball tournament.

The last thing I'm going to do is wade into European football,Obama said, at least using the correct local term for the game Americans call soccer.That would be a mistake. I didn't get a briefing on that, but I sense that would be a mistake.Then, as an afterthought at the end of the press conference in a room dripping with gold trimmings, Obama offered a few thoughts about the Queen, who he was due to meet later on Wednesday at Buckingham Palace.There's one last thing that I should mention that I love about Great Britain, and that is the Queen,Obama said.I'm very much looking forward to meeting her for the first time later this evening. And as you might imagine, Michelle has been really thinking that through,he said, in a reference to his wife.I think in the imagination of people throughout America, I think what the Queen stands for and her decency and her civility, what she represents, that's very important.