I GUESS THESE DICTATORS AT GOOGLE,MICROSOFT,AP,BELL ETC DON'T LIKE MY TRUTHS BECAUSE SINCE I PUT THE AP COMPLAINT ON MY SITE YESTERDAY MY COMPUTER HAS BEEN ACTING UP BIGTIME TODAY. I SEE THESE DICTATORS DON'T WANT ME REVEALING TRUTH TO OTHER CHRISTIANS AND ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO WARN PEOPLE OF THESE DICTATOR NEW WORLD ORDER SCHEMES TO TAKE WORLD CONTROL LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WILL HAPPEN.
Jews in Israel and worldwide prepare for Passover By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Wed Apr 8, 8:32 am ET
JERUSALEM – Jews around the world made last-minute preparations Wednesday ahead of the spring festival of Passover, cleaning houses, cars and offices, cooking furiously and getting ready for a week without leavened bread.The holiday, which marks the Hebrews' exodus from slavery in Egypt as recounted in the Bible, begins Wednesday night with a special meal known as the seder.Beyond being an opportunity for extended families to get together, the seder is focused on recounting the story of the exodus, especially to children, so the tradition is preserved from generation to generation.
The history of the Jewish people begins with the exodus from Egypt,said Rabbi David Rosen, interfaith director at the American Jewish Committee.Passover, he said, is the root of Jewish understanding of marginalization and vulnerability, and the emphasis on sensitivity to the widow, the stranger, those who are different from you.You have to know oppression to know redemption,Rosen said.The biblical story recounts that God killed the first-born of Egypt after Pharaoh refused to release the children of Israel from bondage, but passed over the houses of the Hebrews. That's the root of the holiday's name.After that divine blow, Pharaoh gave in and let the Hebrews go. They were then given the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai and wandered in the desert for 40 years before arriving in the Land of Israel, according to the Bible.The tradition of eating matza, the unleavened bread identified with Passover, comes from the Bible's account that the Jews left Egypt in such a hurry that their bread did not have time to rise. It is also considered the bread of the poor, meant to remind Jews of their ancestors' hardships. Leavened bread is banned and burned ceremonially before the holiday starts.
Even the country's cows have been eating special Passover food, the wheat in their diet replaced by corn, peas and alfalfa so their milk can be consumed. For several weeks, rabbinical authorities have visited barns to ensure the laws are being enforced.Their owners are not allowed to have leaven in their possession. There is also concern that a grain of wheat could mistakenly get in the milk and render it non-kosher.One self-appointed watchdog group has assigned informants to spy on restaurants and bakeries to make sure they do not serve leavened bread during the holiday. The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel said it would relay its findings to police, municipal authorities and the Interior Ministry.The Jewish character of the state of Israel is at stake,the group's chairman, Nachi Eyal, told the Jerusalem Post. A 1986 law bans the public display of leavened products, though it has been difficult to enforce.The holiday is also an occasion for a thorough spring cleaning. There is a yearly pre-holiday rush on cleaning products at supermarkets, and long lines formed at car-washes as the festival approached.At sunrise Wednesday, Jews also performed a ritual done once every 28 years, when tradition holds the sun returns to its place at the time of creation.Tens of thousands of people greeted the sunrise at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray. The worshippers said a blessing expressing thanks to God for creating the world.
The prayer is not connected to Passover but happened to coincide with the holiday.
Because of concerns that Palestinian militants could take advantage of the holiday to carry out attacks inside Israel, the military clamped a closure on the West Bank for the duration of Passover. No Palestinians will be allowed to cross into Israel except those needing medical care, according to a military statement. Israel also renewed a travel warning urging tourists not to go to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, citing threats of militant attacks. The Sinai is a popular destination for Israeli travelers, despite past attacks on Israeli and Western targets there.
Americans Denounced As Terrorists While Criminals Embraced
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, April 9, 2009
While federal agencies across the country write dossiers on how some of the most patriotic people in America are terrorists and criminals, the Obama administration is set to embark on a push to legalize the estimated 20 million immigrants who have already broken the law by entering the country illegally.The New York Times reports today that Obama is set to launch a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. The real number of illegal immigrants in America is estimated at around the 20 million mark.But forgive us for pointing out that illegal immigrants, whether they are white, black, brown, or pink with polka dots, are criminals who have broken the law by entering the country illegally - no doubt that Obama kool-aid drinking liberal blogs will now claim that the mere mention of such a thought crime means we are virulently racist and have legions of cop-killing followers.
Indeed, it’s perfectly reasonable for the government to reward criminals who have already broken the laws of the land while training police forces across the nation that American citizens, of whatever race or color, are a threat to society because they have a political bumper sticker, support a third party candidate or are somewhat knowledgeable about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.The infamous MIAC report has now been superceded by a new document, The 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment, produced by the Virginia Fusion Center.The report smears anyone who is anti-government,anti-abortion,as potential terrorists, equates people who enjoy rifle shooting practice and hunting with terrorists, and demonizes the use of the Internet and websites like You Tube, Fark and Slashdot as terrorist tools. The use of e-protests is also talked about in the context of terrorism.The document also discusses special interest groups who incorporate a political message in its section about domestic terrorists, which could be defined as any mildly political organization whatsoever. Despite the report listing political groups that it admits do not espouse violence nor have ever engaged in violence, it defines being confrontational during demonstrations within the context of domestic terrorism.
The report also identifies people who identify themselves as sovereign citizens and carry documents proclaiming their status as sovereign citizens, as domestic terrorists and links them with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.SInce the Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment doesn’t stretch as far as to equate a sitting member of Congress with terrorists, it might not go the same way as the MIAC report, where it should, and end up in the trash can.However, it’s yet another clear indication that the government is completely out of control and desperate to send a chill down the spine of millions more Americans who are thinking of joining the burgeoning liberty movement, by smearing members of peaceable political movements as criminals and potentially violent terrorists, while equating them with racist extremists.Meanwhile, the tens of millions of real criminals who have already broken the law by entering the country illegally are not even mentioned in the Threat Assessment as being a threat - and are in fact set to be rewarded by the government with legal status and all the privileges that go with it.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
FAITH UNDER FIRE Crosses, Bibles banned from hospital chapel,Officials cite respect after new Muslim prayer room opened April 08, 2009 10:22 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily
Administrators at a hospital in Australia have thrown the crosses, crucifixes and Bibles out of their chapel to comply with new rules that followed the construction of a special prayer room for Muslims. According to a report in the Mosman Daily, the change has been made at the Royal North Shore Hospital in St. Leonards. The move, according to senior members of the hospital staff quoted by the newspaper, was made to avoid offending Muslims or Hindus who may be at the hospital. The newspaper cited a hospital spokeswoman who said the ban was imposed after the chapel was enhanced with the provision of a Muslim prayer space in the loft area.At that time the decision was made to display the symbols of each faith, for example the chapel's cross and Bible, during specific services and ceremonies only,the spokeswoman said. This decision was made out of respect for the many faiths that make up both the hospital and also the modern Australian community.Hospital staff members told the newspaper while the chapel was built for Christians, the goal apparently now is to create a neutral space. WND reported a case in the United States when the president of the College of William & Mary decided abruptly to remove a donated cross from the historic Wren Chapel on the school's campus to make the space less faith-specific.
The historic Wren Chapel
University President Gene Nichol eventually left his post, following an effort on the part of a coalition of alumi calling for the school's Board of Visitors to not renew Nichol's contract. Nichol has betrayed our trust by creating a call of silence, elevating personal pursuits above the good of the college and deceitful lawyerly posturing,said Nina Hartley, a 1975 graduate in the group. In the Australian case, Mosman Mayor Dom Lopez told his local newspaper the decision left him outraged.North Shore Liberal MP Jillian Skinner described the maneuver as bureaucratic madness.On the newspaper's forum, one participate said, So if I find myself in hospital in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Afghanistan, Pakistan or even Indonesia, do they remove all islamic symbols so that I as a non muslim are not offended? On the JihadWatch website, Robert Spencer posted a report that generated a long list of reactions: Why would a person of one faith be offended by seeing the religious symbols of another faith? The only reason could be that their own faith is intolerant of others,wrote one. The monumental hypocrisy is again evident for all to see. On one hand they claim to be a tolerant peaceful faith while with the other they try and dismantle all other faiths. Sometimes this is through sleight of hand though most times it is at gunpoint,said another.I am offended by the very sight of mosques. These should be removed,wrote another.In a report in the Daily Telegraph, a spokesman for the Islamic Friendship Society said there now were concerns about a backlash against Muslims. The Wren cross at the College of William and Mary originally was taken out of the chapel after Nichol reported he received a complaint about it. But alumni and students launched a website campaign called Save The Wren Cross and collected more than 18,000 names demanding the cross be restored.
As the number of names on the petition rose, Nichol at first admitted he acted too quickly and should have consulted more broadly and dictated that a plaque would be installed in the chapel.The move failed to satisfy those who wanted the donated bronze cross restored to the historic chapel, and the university eventually assembled a special committee to deal with the crisis. The college later confirmed the antique cross would be placed in a glass display case at the front of the chapel, which was done.WND had broken the story that Nichol had created a furor by arbitrarily ordering the cross – donated by Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in the 1930s – into storage so that the chapel would be less faith-specific.That argument hit even Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as unusual.I'm just struck by the fact that it is a chapel and has always been a chapel and that's a part of William and Mary, and I think continuing in that way certainly wouldn't bother me,he said.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Western storminess leads to severe storms AccuWeather James Wilson – Wed Apr 8, 6:06 pm ET
A storm impacting the West with rain and mountain snow will bring a variety of impacts to the Central and Eastern States by Thursday and Friday. Showers will dot the central to northern California with snow in the Sierra Nevada through tonight. Much of this activity will then spread to the Rockies overnight into Thursday. Winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories are posted in the mountains of Utah and northwest Colorado. As much as 10 to 20 inches may fall from this storm in the northern Wasatch of Utah. Thrusday through Saturday, this storm will bring more active weather to portions of the Central and Eastern States. Rain and thunderstorms will spread from out of the Central Plains to the mid-Mississippi Valley, lower-Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley Thursday into Thursday night. Friday, showers and thunderstorms area expected in the Ohio Valley and Southeast with some showers pushing into portions of the Mid-Atlantic, southern New York and Southern New England. Severe thunderstorms will initially be possible on Thursday afternoon and evening in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Some severe storms will be possible into Thursday overnight across southern Missouri, Arkansas, northern Mississippi, southern Illinois, and western portions of Kentucky and Tennessee. Isolated severe storms may develop farther south in eastern Texas and Louisiana. Large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes will be possible. Friday, the chance for severe storms will increase and spread from near the Ohio River and Kentucky south through the Tennessee Valley and to the Gulf Coast. There will be a threat for gusty winds, large hail, and tornadoes with this system. Dr. Greg Forbes TWC's Severe Weather Expert is watching this storm threat closely and advises you pay close attention on Friday for the potential severe storms. The storm will have a wintry side in portions of the Northern High Plains Thursday. Just enough cold air will interact with moisture in portions of western South Dakota and western Nebraska to bring a mixture of rain and snow changing to wet snow in these areas. Some locations may pick up 3 or more inches. Behind the storm, strong winds and dry air will punch into parts of central and western Oklahoma and Texas. This may cause some areas of blowing dust and a extreme high fire danger Thursday.
U.S. forecaster lowers Atlantic hurricane prediction By Jim Loney – Wed Apr 8, 12:39 pm ET
MIAMI (Reuters) – Citing cooler seas and the prospect of a weak El Nino, Colorado State University's hurricane team lowered its 2009 Atlantic forecast on Tuesday to 12 tropical storms, of which six could become hurricanes.The research team, founded by storm forecasting pioneer William Gray, said the season could see two major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. Hurricanes of that magnitude have sustained winds of more than 110 miles per hour (177km per hour).In its December forecast, the CSU team predicted 14 storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes in the 2009 season, which begins on June 1 and lasts six months.The researchers said sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean had cooled in recent months. Hurricanes draw energy from warm sea water, so cooler water could diminish hurricane activity.In addition, the eastern Pacific Ocean could see the current weak La Nina conditions change to neutral, or even weak El Nino, by June, the researchers said. El Nino is a warm water phenomenon that can suppress Atlantic hurricane formation.If El Nino conditions develop for this year's hurricane season, it would tend to increase levels of vertical wind shear and decrease levels of Atlantic hurricane activity,Gray said.
Bill Read, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, downplayed the impact of El Nino, noting there have been active hurricane seasons during similar phases of the El Nino cycle. But he said cooler water could have an influence.Some of my forecasters have pointed out to me that the tropical Atlantic waters at this time of the year this year are somewhat cooler than the last several seasons,he said in an interview with Reuters at the National Hurricane Conference in Austin, Texas. If that continues that may be a more important factor on this season.While disaster management experts say long-range hurricane forecasting helps raise public awareness, many note it is an inexact science. Some forecasters, including the Colorado State team, have been well off target in recent years.Colorado State predicted 15 tropical storms for the 2005 season, but a record 28 formed.You're talking trying to discern weather events from a climate-type forecast. Therein lies a huge difficulty right there,Read said.That science is still in its infancy.
FORECASTS CLOSELY WATCHED
The forecasts are closely watched by energy, commodities and insurance markets, particularly since the devastating 2005 season, when a series of hurricanes rolled through Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and Hurricane Katrina, the costliest in U.S. history, swamped New Orleans.Colorado State predicted a 31 percent chance that a major hurricane would hit the U.S. Gulf coast this year, compared to a 30 percent long-term average. For the U.S. East Coast, the probability was 32 percent, compared to 31 percent long-term.The 2008 Atlantic season was one of the busiest on record, with 16 tropical storms, of which eight became hurricanes. Five were of Category 3 or higher.Cuba bore the brunt of last season's destructive storms. Three major hurricanes hit the Caribbean island, causing an estimated $10 billion damage.The long-term average for the Atlantic hurricane season is about 10 tropical storms and six hurricanes. But experts said a period of heightened Atlantic hurricane activity started around 1995 and was expected to last 25 to 40 years.London-based Tropical Storm Risk on Monday forecast 15 tropical storms, 7.8 hurricanes and 3.6 major hurricanes.(Additional reporting by Erwin Seba in Austin, Texas, editing by Chris Wilson)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
SoCal quake swarm continues near San Andreas Fault APR 8,09
BOMBAY BEACH, Calif. – A small earthquake has struck near the southern San Andreas Fault, the latest in a swarm that began two weeks ago.The magnitude-3.5 earthquake hit shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday and was centered 2 miles south of the small Imperial County town of Bombay Beach.More than 400 quakes have rattled the desert of southeastern California since mid-March, including 13 larger than magnitude-3. The strongest was a magnitude-4.8 quake on March 24 that woke up residents but did not cause damage.Seismic activity in the Bombay Beach area has tamped down in the past week.Seismologist Kate Hutton of the California Institute of Technology says it will take a fair amount of quiet time before scientists can declare a swarm over.
Quake strikes off Kuril Islands, no tsunami warning AP Tue Apr 7, 3:41 am ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.O on the Richter scale struck off Russia's Pacific coast on Tuesday about 182 miles northeast off Kurilsk in the Kuril Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake, which struck at 12:24 a.m. EDT, was at a depth of 24.3 miles, USGS said.There was no immediate tsunami warning from the quake, the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center website said.Russia's Emergency Services Ministry said the impact on land had been minimal.There were no casualties or damage caused. There is no tsunami warning,a ministry spokeswoman said.In the nearest towns they felt a tremor of magnitude 3-4.In the largest nearby city of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, on one of the southern Kuril islands, resident Gennady Berezyuk said he did not even feel the earthquake.We are used to tremors here, but I didn't feel the quake or any aftershocks,he told Reuters by telephone.The islands lie north of Hokkaido, Japan and south of Kamchatka, Russia. Seismic activity in the region is common.Japan's Meteorological Agency Web site said only a minor tremor was recorded in the northeast of Hokkaido, and no risk was seen of a tsunami in Japan.
(Reporting by Washington, Singapore world desks and Ludmila Danilova)
Quake funerals begin in Italy as more bodies found By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer APR 9,09
L'AQUILA, Italy – Bells tolled in hilltowns across central Italy on Wednesday as the first funerals got under way for victims of the country's devastating earthquake. The Vatican granted a dispensation so a funeral Mass for most of the 272 dead could be celebrated on Good Friday.As more bodies were pulled from the rubble, some of the 28,000 homeless spent another day lining up for food and water at some of the 20 tent camps that have sprouted up around this quake-devastated city.
Pope Benedict XVI said he would visit the area soon.
Rescue efforts continued for the 15 people still missing, but officials began discussing rebuilding the stricken region and reopening schools. They stressed it would take a month or two to have a clear idea of the extent of the damage.For now the needs are basic. The people in the camps, they don't have toothbrushes, they don't have toothpaste,said Massimo Cialente, mayor of the hard-hit city of L'Aquila. You can't find a place to buy cigarettes or get a coffee.The magnitude-6.3 quake hit L'Aquila and several towns covering 230 square miles (600 square kilometers) in central Italy early Monday, leveling buildings and reducing entire blocks to piles of rubble. It was the worst quake to hit Italy in three decades.The death toll stood at 272, six of whom hadn't been identified, the ANSA news agency reported, citing carabinieri police. Sixteen of the dead were children, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said.
Of the injured, 100 remained in serious condition, he said.
One 98-year-old survivor, rescued by firemen in the hamlet of Tempera 30 hours after quake, said in an interview on private Italia Uno TV network, that while she lay in her bed, surrounded by pieces of fallen plaster, she passed the time by crocheting.
Maria D'Antuono said that when firefighters arrived to help her out of her home, she ate some crackers then told her rescuers, At least let me comb my hair before she was brought outside.Two people were arrested for suspected looting Wednesday in the nearly leveled town of Onna, the ANSA news agency said, citing police. They were freed after proving to police the euro80,000 ($105,000) they had on them was theirs, ANSA said.Berlusconi said looting in the quake zone was on the rise and that the government was considering an increase in penalties. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told reporters that anti-looting police patrols would also be stepped up.Madonna pledged $500,000 in quake relief, said Fernando Caparso, the mayor of Pacentro, the mountainside village where two of the pop star's grandparents were born.On Wednesday, the first funerals got under way for the victims, including for Giuseppe Chiavaroli, 24, a football player in a lower-division team who was killed along with his girlfriend in Monday's quake.As churchbells tolled and onlookers applauded in the typical Italian gesture of mourning, players from his team carried his casket, his sky-blue soccer jersey draped on top.
We will try to be strong,his father Tomasso Chiavaroli said.The Vatican's No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was to celebrate a funeral Mass for the bulk of the victims on Friday, Vatican officials said.The Vatican granted a special dispensation for the Mass to be celebrated since Good Friday, which marks Jesus' death by crucifixion, is the only day in the year in which Mass in not celebrated in the Roman Catholic church. The funeral is expected to be held in an outdoor square at a police training school in L'Aquila, the Vatican said. At the moment, there is no church in L'Aquila which can be used,because they are all so damaged, said Vatican spokesman the Rev. Ciro Benedettini.On Wednesday, two bodies were pulled from the partially collapsed dormitory in L'Aquila, ANSA reported. The Israeli Embassy confirmed one of the bodies recovered was an Israeli student from Galilee. Two others were pulled from the wreckage of a building where a 20-year-old woman was rescued late Tuesday, ANSA said.
The Vatican said Benedict would visit the affected area sometime after Easter Sunday and that he does not want to interfere with relief operations. The pope praised the aid operations as an example of how solidarity can help overcome even the most painful trials.As soon as possible I hope to visit you,Benedict said Wednesday at the Vatican.Of the 28,000 people homeless, 17,700 were being housed in tent cities, spending much of their time on line — waiting for food and to use the bathrooms. They spent a second night in chilly mountain temperatures, sometimes without heat in their tents and being jolted by aftershocks. After two days of largely clear skies, conditions were expected to worsen by Thursday, when rain and thunderstorms were forecast for the quake area, AccuWeather.com reported. In addition, an additional 10,000 people were housed in hotels along the coast, bringing the overall number of homeless to almost 28,000, Berlusconi said.Since the quake early Monday, some 430 aftershocks have rumbled through the region, including some strong ones, said Marco Olivieri of the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology in Rome. I slept so badly because I kept feeling the aftershocks,said Daniela Nunut at one of the tent camps. The 46-year Romanian-born woman said she and her companion plan to stay in the tent for now. What can you do? You can't go into the building.A supermarket, though, is expected to open on Wednesday and officials were trying to make sure a doctor was available in pharmacies to write prescriptions, Cialente, the mayor, said.
In another indication that officials were trying to look beyond the immediate crisis, Berlusconi said he was considering asking each of Italy's 100 provinces to pick a reconstruction project around the region to take charge of. He also said a new town could be built on L'Aquila's outskirts, primarily to house young people. He stressed it would not be an alternative to rebuilding L'Aquila, but rather to add to the city's housing stock.AIR Worldwide, a specialist in estimating catastrophe risks, said Wednesday that insured losses to residential, commercial and industrial buildings and contents from the earthquake could be as high as euro400 million ($530 million).Interior Minister Maroni said the rescue efforts would likely continue until Easter Sunday, beyond the period originally indicated by Berlusconi. Associated Press Writers Nicole Winfield, Alessandra Rizzo and Frances D'Emilio contributed to this report.
OZONE DEPLETION
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
CHEMTRAIL VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dyZ7AR55Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvioxJUL6C0&feature=related
CHEMTRAILS INFO
http://educate-yourself.org/ct/
DON'T TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER 16 VIDEOS CHEMTRAILS
http://www.truthring.org/2008/10/dont-talk-about-the-weather/
WE DON'T WANT TO KILL OUR PATIENTS AUDIO
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94376
NY SKYWATCH VIDEOS ON CHEMTRAILS
http://newyorkskywatch.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IcYtGX64P0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWowhvuPHhs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.cfr.org/project/1364/geoengineering.html
The Government Is Already Geo-Engineering The Environment
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The Associated Press reports today that the Obama administration has held discussions regarding the possibility of geo-engineering the earth’s climate to counter global warming by shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays.However, such programs are already being conducted by government-affiliated universities, government agencies, and on a mass scale through chemtrail spraying.The AP report states that Obama’s science advisor John Holdren is pushing for radical terra forming programs to be explored such as creating an artificial volcano. Despite Holdren’s admission that such measures could have grave side effects,he added that,we might get desperate enough to want to use it.Holdren, a 65-year-old physicist, is far from alone in taking geoengineering more seriously. The National Academy of Science is making climate tinkering the subject of its first workshop in its new multidiscipline climate challenges program. The British parliament has also discussed the idea,reports AP.The American Meteorological Society is crafting a policy statement on geoengineering that says “it is prudent to consider geoengineering’s potential, to understand its limits and to avoid rash deployment.
However, a study of past and ongoing upper atmosphere aerosol programs confirms that the government has been active in this field for years.The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was created in 1989 with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is sponsored by the DOE’s Office of Science and managed by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research.One of ARM’s programs, entitled Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC), is aimed at measuring cloud simulations and aerosol retrievals.Another program under the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Science Program is directed towards, developing comprehensive understanding of the atmospheric processes that control the transport, transformation, and fate of energy related trace chemicals and particulate matter.
The DOE website states that, The current focus of the program is aerosol radiative forcing of climate: aerosol formation and evolution and aerosol properties that affect direct and indirect influences on climate and climate change.U.S. government scientists are already bombarding the skies with the acid-rain causing pollutant sulphur dioxide in an attempt to fight global warming by geo-engineering the planet, despite the fact that injecting aerosols into the upper atmosphere carries with it a host of both known and unknown dangers.The proposal to disperse sulphur dioxide in an attempt to reflect sunlight was discussed in a September 2008 London Guardian article entitled, Geoengineering: The radical ideas to combat global warming, in which Ken Caldeira, a leading climate scientist based at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, California, promoted the idea of injecting the atmosphere with aerosols.One approach is to insert scatterers into the stratosphere,states the article.Caldeira cites an idea to deploy jumbo jets into the upper atmosphere and deposit clouds of tiny particles there, such as sulphur dioxide. Dispersing around 1m tonnes of sulphur dioxide per year across 10m square kilometres of the atmosphere would be enough to reflect away sufficient amounts of sunlight.
Experiments similar to Caldeira’s proposal are already being carried out by U.S. government -backed scientists, such as those at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, S.C, who last year began conducting studies which involved shooting huge amounts of particulate matter, in this case porous-walled glass microspheres, into the stratosphere.The project is closely tied to an idea by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, who proposed sending aircraft 747s to dump huge quantities of sulfur particles into the far-reaches of the stratosphere to cool down the atmosphere.Such programs merely scratch the surface of what is likely to be a gargantuan and overarching black-budget funded project to geo-engineer the planet, with little or no care for the unknown environmental consequences this could engender.What is known about what happens when the environment is loaded with sulphur dioxide is bad enough, since the compound is the main component of acid rain, which according to the EPA Causes acidification of lakes and streams and contributes to the damage of trees at high elevations (for example, red spruce trees above 2,000 feet) and many sensitive forest soils. In addition, acid rain accelerates the decay of building materials and paints, including irreplaceable buildings, statues, and sculptures that are part of our nation’s cultural heritage.The health effects of bombarding the skies with sulphur dioxide alone are enough to raise serious questions about whether such programs should even be allowed to proceed.The following health effects are linked with exposure to sulphur.
- Neurological effects and behavioral changes
- Disturbance of blood circulation
- Heart damage
- Effects on eyes and eyesight
- Reproductive failure
- Damage to immune systems
- Stomach and gastrointestinal disorder
- Damage to liver and kidney functions
- Hearing defects
- Disturbance of the hormonal metabolism
- Dermatological effects
- Suffocation and lung embolism
According to the LennTech website, Laboratory tests with test animals have indicated that sulfur can cause serious vascular damage in veins of the brains, the heart and the kidneys. These tests have also indicated that certain forms of sulfur can cause foetal damage and congenital effects. Mothers can even carry sulfur poisoning over to their children through mother milk. Finally, sulfur can damage the internal enzyme systems of animals.Fred Singer, president of the Science Environmental Policy Project and a skeptic of man-made global warming theories, warns that the consequences of tinkering with the planet’s delicate eco-system could have far-reaching dangers.If you do this on a continuous basis, you would depress the ozone layer and cause all kinds of other problems that people would rather avoid,said Singer.Even Greenpeace’s chief UK scientist - a staunch advocate of the man-made global warming explanation - Doug Parr has slammed attempts to geo-engineer the planet as outlandish and dangerous.
Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, who recently proposed a bizarre plan to send spaceships into the upper atmosphere that would be used to block out the Sun, admits that geo-engineering could cause conflicts between nations if geoengineering projects go wrong.Given all the immediate dangers associated with bombarding the atmosphere with sulphur dioxide, along with the unknown dangers of other geo-engineering projects, many people are concerned that chemtrails are a secret component of the same agenda to alter the Earth’s eco-system.This graphic proposes, Spraying aluminum powder and barium oxide into high levels of the atmosphere, again delivered by aircraft, to increase planetary reflectance (albedo) and cloud cover. High levels of barium have been found in substances associated with chemtrails.
Reports of chemtrails, jet plumes emitted from planes that hang in the air for hours and do not dissipate, often blanketing the sky in criss-cross patterns, have increased dramatically over the last 10 years. Many have speculated that they are part of a government program to alter climate, inoculate humans against certain pathogens, or even to toxify humans as part of a population reduction agenda.In conducting Google searches, one finds discussion, such as this example, of using sulphur dioxide as a jet fuel additive to be dispersed over the world during routine commercial flights.I suggest that both the sulphur dioxide and the silica particles could be delivered into the stratosphere by dissolving an additive in jet aviation fuel,writes engineer John Gorman, who has conducted experiments to test the feasibility of such a scenario.We would want to burn fuel containing the additive specifically when the aircraft was cruising in the lower stratosphere,he adds.
Earlier this year, KSLA news investigation found that a substance that fell to earth from a high altitude chemtrail contained high levels of Barium (6.8 ppm) and Lead (8.2ppm) as well as trace amounts of other chemicals including arsenic, chromium, cadmium, selenium and silver. Of these, all but one are metals, some are toxic while several are rarely or never found in nature.The newscast focuses on Barium, which its research shows is a hallmark of chemtrails. KSLA found Barium levels in its samples at 6.8 ppm or more than six times the toxic level set by the EPA.The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality confirmed that the high levels of Barium were very unusual,but commented that proving the source was a whole other matter in its discussion with KSLA.KSLA also asked Mark Ryan, Director of the Poison Control Center, about the effects of Barium on the human body. Ryan commented that short term exposure can lead to anything from stomach to chest pains and that long term exposure causes blood pressure problems.The Poison Control Center further reported that long-term exposure, as with any harmful substance, would contribute to weakening the immune system, which many speculate is the purpose of such man-made chemical trails.
Indeed, barium oxide has cropped up repeatedly as a contaminant from suspected geoengineering experimentation.KSLA also put aerosolized-chemical testing in its historical context, citing a voluminous number of unclassified tests exposed in 1977 Senate hearings. The tests included experimenting with biochemical compounds on the public. KSLA reports that 239 populated areas were contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969.One of the accepted truisms of scientific study is the fact that if scientists are proposing an idea, then those scientists with access to the bottomless pit of black-budget secret government funding are already doing it.
It is highly likely that chemtrails are merely one manifestation of geo-engineering that is taking place without proper debate, notification or any form of legality, and with a callous disregard for the potential dangers to both our health and our environment.
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS CHEMTRAILS
http://www.cfr.org/project/1364/geoengineering.html
Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Directors: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland Jay Apt, Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University May 5, 2008 - Washington, DC
Workshop briefing notes: Unilateral Geoengineering (PDF, 546K) M. Granger Morgan: Unilateral Geoengineering: A few basic ideas about the science to start our discussions (PDF, 4.56MB)
Meetings
Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: The Science and Technology of Geoengineering Roundtable Meeting May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Introductory Speaker: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations Speakers: M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Ken Caldeira, Chemical Oceanographer, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington Ralph J. Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences David Keith, Director, ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems, University of Calgary
Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: Framing the Foreign Policy Problem-Avoiding and Regulating Unilateral Geoengineering Roundtable Meeting
May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Speakers: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland David D. Doniger, Policy Director, Climate Center, National Resources Defense Council Daniel Bodansky, Woodruff Chair of International Law, School of Law, University of Georgia
Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: Planning for Next Steps
Roundtable Meeting May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Speakers: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations Jay Apt, Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Workshop on Unilateral Planetary-Scale Geoengineering: Geoengineering and the Challenge of Global Governance Roundtable Meeting May 5, 2008
Related Project: Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering
Speakers: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations Ralph J. Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences
M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU APR 09,2009
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Volume 821,530,584.
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WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
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-Apr 28,1997 6,783.02
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RECORD LOWS S&P 500
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-Sept 6,1996 655.68
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-Oct 1,1996 689.08
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-Nov 4,1996 706.73
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-Dec 17,1996 726.04
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE,WEEKENDER
Dow -7.90%
S&P -5.17%
Nasdaq +4.79%
CANADAS WEEK ENDING STATS
TSX Advances 1,100,Declines 465,Unchanged 254 Volume 2,346,750,070.
TSX Venture Advances 434,Declines 307,Unchanged 350 Volume 195,725,524.
Yuan trade settlement gets the nodBy Wang Xu (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-04-09 07:35
Five major trading cities have got the nod from the central government to use the yuan in overseas trade settlement - seen as one more step in China's recent moves to expand the use of its currency globally.Shanghai and four cities in the Pearl River Delta - Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan and Zhuhai - have been designated for the purpose, said a State Council meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday. The Pearl River Delta boasts the country's largest cluster of export-oriented manufacturing operations.The move is aimed at reducing the risk from exchange rate fluctuations and giving impetus to declining overseas trade, according to a statement posted on the government website.Analysts said the experimental use of the yuan in trade settlement also reflects policymakers' rising concern over the shaky prospects of the US currency, of which China has large reserves from previous trade growth, and their willingness to gradually expand the yuan's use globally.The trial is the latest move toward making the yuan an international currency, Huang Weiping, professor of economics at Renmin University of China, said.The prospect of a weaker US dollar is making the transition more imperative for China.The mainland is trying to promote the use of the yuan among trade partners and, in the past four months, has signed 650 billion yuan ($95 billion) worth of swap agreements with Argentina, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Belarus and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The agreements allow them to use their yuan reserves to directly trade with the Chinese mainland within a set limit in volume.Stephen Green, head of China Research of Standard Chartered Bank, said the swap deals would help encourage the use of the yuan as the currency of choice for international trade.
In the longer term, if countries around the region and beyond start pricing their trade in yuan, this will also lead to increased internationalization and status for China's currency,Green said.China now uses the US dollar to settle most of its international trade but the drastic swings in the greenback have become a risk for Chinese exporters in recent years.Dong Xian'an, economist with China Southwest Securities, said: For many exporters, the dollar's fluctuation is a serious concern. The ability to settle trade in the yuan would reduce such risk,he said.Chen Xianbin, chairman of Guangxi Sanhuan Enterprise Group, told China Daily that his company lost more than 150 million yuan in the past three years from international trade due to the exchange rate changes between the yuan and the greenback. Chen's company, a ceramic tableware exporter, relies on Southeast Asian markets for 15 percent of total sales.China's foreign trade has been on a continuous decline amid the current global financial crisis. Exports plunged 25.7 percent year on year in February, one of the sharpest falls ever, while imports dived 24.1 percent.Analysts said the US Federal Reserve's decision to buy long-term Treasuries, which means printing new money, may also lead to a depreciation of the US dollar. That is also one reason for China to reduce the use of the dollar in trade so that the value of its US1.95 trillion foreign exchange reserves does not depreciate.Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank governor, said last month that in the long run, it may be ideal to replace the dollar with a new international reserve currency under the mechanism of the International Monetary Fund.
The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency,The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 3:45PM BST 07 Apr 2009
A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order. We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity,it said. SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund that has lain dormant for half a century.
G20 summit: leaders on brink of $1 trillion rescue dealIn effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF's power to create money and begin global quantitative easing. In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body. Conspiracy theorists will love it. It has been a good summit for the IMF. Its fighting fund for crises is to be tripled overnight to $750bn. This is real money. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director, said in February that the world was already in Depression and risked a slide into social disorder and military conflict unless political leaders resorted to massive stimulus.
He has not won everything he wanted. The spending plan was fudged. While Gordon Brown talked of $5 trillion in global stimulus by 2010, this is mostly made up of packages already under way. But Mr Strauss-Kahn at least has resources fit for his own task. He will need them. The IMF is already bailing out Pakistan, Iceland, Latvia, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, Bosnia and Romania. This week Mexico became the first G20 state to ask for help. It has secured a precautionary credit line of $47bn. Gordon Brown said it took 15 years for the world to grasp the nettle after Great Crash in 1929.This time I think people will agree that it has been different,he said.
President Barack Obama was less dramatic.I think we did OK,he said. Bretton Woods in 1944 was a simpler affair.Just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that's an easy negotiation, but that's not the world we live in.There will be $250bn in trade finance to kick-start shipping after lenders cut back on Letters of Credit after September's heart attack in the banking system. Global trade volumes fell at annual rate of 41pc from November to January, according to Holland's CPB institute – the steepest peacetime fall on record. Euphoria swept emerging markets yesterday as the first reports of the IMF boost circulated. Investors now know that countries like Mexico can arrange a credit facility able to cope with major shocks – and do so on supportive terms, rather than the hair-shirt deflation policies of the old IMF. Fear is receding again. The Russians had hoped their idea to develop SDRs as a full reserve currency to challenge the dollar would make its way on to the agenda, but at least they got a foot in the door. There is now a world currency in waiting. In time, SDRs are likely evolve into a parking place for the foreign holdings of central banks, led by the People's Bank of China. Beijing's moves this week to offer $95bn in yuan currency swaps to developing economies show how fast China aims to break dollar dependence.French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the summit had achieved more than he ever thought possible, and praised Gordon Brown for pursuing the collective interest as host rather than defending Anglo-Saxon interests. This has a double-edged ring, for it suggests that Mr Brown may have traded pockets of the British financial industry to satisfy Franco-German demands. The creation of a Financial Stability Board looks like the first step towards a global financial regulator. The devil is in the details. Hedge funds deemed systemically important will come under draconian restraints. How this is enforced will determine whether Mayfair's hedge-fund industry – 80pc of all European funds are there – will continue to flourish.
It seems that hedge funds have been designated for ritual sacrifice, even though they played no more than a cameo role in the genesis of this crisis. It was not they who took on extreme debt leverage: it was the banks – up to 30 times in the US and nearer 60 times for some in Europe that used off-books conduits to increase their bets. The market process itself is sorting this out in any case – brutally – forcing banks to wind down their leverage. The problem right now is that this is happening too fast.But to the extent that this G20 accord makes it impossible for the shadow banking to resurrect itself in the next inevitable cycle of risk appetite, it may prevent another disaster of this kind. The key phrase is new rules aimed at avoiding excessive leverage and forcing banks to put more money aside during good times.This is more or less what the authorities agreed after the Depression. Complacency chipped away at the rules as the decades passed. It is the human condition, and we can't change that.
EU governments committed €3 trillion for bank bailouts
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today APR 9,09 @ 09:16 CET
EU governments have committed €3 trillion to bail out banks with guarantees or cash injections in the wake of the global financial crisis, the European Commission said on Wednesday (8 April).The money has been spent on guarantee umbrellas, risk shields and recapitalisation measures for the financial sector,Brussels said in a report.
Some €2.3 trillion went to financial guarantee schemes, some €300 billion to recapitalisation schemes, and around €400 billion were spent on other rescue and restructuring programmes.The commission data also shows that while most member states have offered their banks some special guarantees, many central and eastern European states – including Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Bulgaria – have not.Analysts note that although these countries are as exposed to the crisis as the rest of the member states, their banks are mostly owned by western European ones and their governments do not have enough money for bail outs.The past six months have shown state aid control plays a key role in tackling the challenges of the economic crisis in a coordinated way across Europe,EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes stated.She also insisted that despite these aids, EU state aid rules had been respected all along.The EU's tried and tested state aid rules have clearly been part of the solution. Our intervention and – sometimes tough – conditions have prevented member states from falling into the trap of protectionism and exporting their problems to other member states, while allowing [them] to avoid financial meltdown, Ms Kroes said.The responsibility now lies with the financial sector to clean up their balance sheets and restructure to ensure a viable future,she added.Since September, when the financial crisis began to worsen in Europe, the EU's executive arm has relaxed its rules, starting notably to judge aid packages faster.It has taken more than 50 decisions on state aid since then, and had by 31 March approved 23 measures in 18 member states.
EU officials warned to be careful about email content
HONOR MAHONY Today APR 9,09 @ 08:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - New rules on public access to EU documents have prompted one of the European Commission's key departments to circulate a memo warning officials to be careful about what they write in emails and advising them on how to narrowly interpret requests for information.The 15-page handbook was circulated in January to officials working in the commission directorate for trade, one of the EU's most important policy areas affecting millions of people both within and beyond the bloc.
It reminds DG trade employees that all documents, including emails, are in principle subject to disclosure and asks them to think of the regulation when they are producing documents.Each official must be aware that all his/her documents, including meeting reports and e-mails can potentially be disclosed. You should keep this in mind when writing such documents. This is particularly the case for meeting reports and emails with third parties (e.g. industry), which are favourite targets of requests for access to documents, especially by NGOs,reads the memo.It asks officials to draft documents with the utmost care while telling them to avoid making references to informal contacts, such as meals or drinks, with lobbyists.Don't refer to the great lunch you have had with an industry representative privately or add a PS asking if he/she would like to meet for a drink.The document also tips off officials on how to narrow down the interpretation of a request for information. It points to a past example where a request referred to DG trade meetings with individual companies, meaning the department could avoid making public its contacts with business lobbyists.
Separating the factual from the subjective
Recent cases concern requests for information about meetings with individual companies on our FTAs [Free Trade Agreements] which have allowed us to exclude business federations on the same points, or about meetings with DG Trade officials which have allowed us to exclude meetings on the same point with the Commissioner or the cabinet,it notes.As a way of avoiding officials having to blank out parts of documents they release to the public, the transparency guide suggests writing two accounts of meetings, a factual or neutral one that can be released to the public and a more personal/subjective one with assessments and recommendations for follow up that need not be disclosed.It also explains that briefings should not be made public if still considered newsworthy – a derogation allowed under the regulation for documents concerning a decision still in progress – with DG Trade working on a series of key issues including making free trade agreements with poor countries (something NGOs are always keen to have an insight into) and sensitive WTO decisions.DG Trade's take on the transparency regulation which MEPs recently voted to expand to cover all documents, including electronic ones, has come in for criticism.Corporate Europe Observatory, a transparency NGO, said the instructions appear to directly contravene the spirit and content of the regulation.
Scandalous
It is a scandalous attempt to legitimise DG Trade's recurrent attempts to shield evidence of its liaisons with corporate lobbyists from information requests,said CEO campaigner Pia Eberhardt.For its part, the European Commission defended the memo. A spokesperson told EUobserver: Actually we think these are good instructions. It makes clear that no category of documents is excluded [from the regulation].The spokesperson also said that the instructions make it easier to get reports out and avoid having to go through blanking out documents.The transparency regulation dates from 2001 but the commission recently proposed to overhaul it after complaints from the EU ombudsman and several court cases. Following MEPs' vote last month the regulation has gone back to committee for discussion on sensitive issues such as the extent to which commercial data can be excused from disclosure.The updated law is expected to be approved in the second half of this year, under the Swedish EU presidency.
Anti-Saakashvili protests kick off peacefully,The opposition has pledged to continue its protests until Mikheil Saakashvili resigns (Photo: EUobserver)
VALENTINA POP Today APR 9,09 @ 19:17 CET
EUOBSERVER / TBILISI – Some 50,000 people gathered peacefully Thursday (9 April) afternoon in front of the Georgian parliament asking for president Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation. Misha, go home! and Protect Georgia from tyranny were some of the slogans shouted by protesters gathered by 13 opposition parties who pledged to stay on the streets until the president resigns. Some protesters blamed the president for widespread unemployment and poor pensions, waving the Soviet flag Georgia used to have before the Rose Revolution, which saw Mr Saakashvili sweep into power in 2003.
Young protesters were contemptuous of the way he managed the August war, which saw most of the country invaded by the Russian army. After three hours of political speeches on a podium, most of the protesters started walking back home, as a cold wind swept the streets in the evening. Demonstrators showed up in far smaller numbers than projected by the opposition, who counted on some 150,000 people. According to independent European experts, the crowd was estimated at 53,000, while the government floated the figure 25,000. Some 500 protesters also gathered in the Black Sea port of Batumi, according to deputy interior minister Eka Zguladze.Although calm and friendly, some of the people said they were willing to fight with riot police if it came down to it. I am here with my wife and daughter and we will all fight. Mr Saakashvili has to step down, he has not delivered on his promises,one 40-year old demonstrator told this website.Opposition leaders at the rally called on president Saakashvili to resign and said they would wait for a response over the next 24 hours and then announce what their next moves would be.Several hundred people were still milling in front of the parliament late Thursday evening meaning some incidents could occur during the night, with some carrying long sticks which were initially used for the flags. Others were wondering, half jokingly, how to enter the Parliament, where riot police was massed.Unlike the protests in November 2007, when riot police was deployed on the streets, firing rubber bullets and tear gas, the government has decided to place the law enforcement officers only inside the public institutions, in order to avoid clashes with protesters.
Protests and then what?
Several EU diplomats suggested that the opposition's strategy is heading for a cul-de-sac as they have refused to negotiate at all with the government so long as Mr Saakashvili remains in office.EU special envoy to the Caucasus Peter Semneby echoed these concerns during a press briefing and called for a meaningful dialogue between opposition and government, stressing that constitutional problems cannot be solved in the streets, but only at the negotiating table.He added that EU diplomats were in close contact with both the government and the opposition and there were some European experts observing activities at the Ministry of Interior.Czech ambassador Ivan Jestrab, speaking on behalf of the EU presidency, said that member states were paying close attention to the events. We are stressing the need for more dialogue between opposition and government and calling for a political solution to the open questions your country is facing.Deputy interior minister Eka Zguladze rejected speculation about Russian attempts to influence the protests, saying that from the government's point of view, there was no link between increased deployment of Russian military equipment both in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the demonstrations. We do not bring any link between the question mark that we have about the Russian behaviour with the demonstrations. We will deal with the demonstrations as if Russia did not exist. There are two very separate developments,she said.
FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT Obama's G20 plan kisses off Declaration of Independence New international board to intervene in decisions about U.S. companies April 08, 2009 8:32 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily
Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium online newsletter published by the current No. 1 best-selling author, WND staff writer and columnist. Subscriptions are $99 a year or $9.95 per month for credit card users. Annual subscribers will receive a free autographed copy of The Late Great USA,a book about the careful deceptions of a powerful elite who want to undermine our nation's sovereignty.At the G20 meeting in London, President Obama agreed to create of an international board with authority to intervene in U.S. corporations by dictating executive compensation and approving or disapproving business management decisions, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.Political consultant Dick Morris said that by agreeing to create the Financial Stability Board, Obama is a willing accomplice to a decision that effectively repealed the U.S. Declaration of Independence and abrogated the sovereignty of the United States.
The final communiqu̩s coming out of the G20 meeting in London April 2 included a document entitled Declaration on Strengthening the Financial System.By agreeing to the stipulations in this document, President Obama gave the blessing of the United States to the G20 decision to elevate the Financial Stability Forum into the Financial Stability Board,Corsi wrote.The United States has only one vote in the newly constituted Financial Stability Board, a group that will be largely controlled by European central bankers.The new global regulator now has the authority to examine all U.S. banks, brokerage firms and corporations Рincluding non-financial companies such as the Big Three automakers Рto examine operations and determine risk. The Financial Stability Board then has the international authority to set policies in these corporations, including compensation packages the private boards of directors in the examined companies decide to pay top executives and senior managers. Morris charged that the Obama administration, by agreeing to create the Financial Stability Board, has gone beyond nationalizing U.S. corporations, to internationalize U.S.-based corporations under the control of this new global regulator. While the G20 focused on regulating risks in hedge funds and derivatives, the authority of the Financial Stability Board extends to any banking, brokerage or business practice by a major U.S. corporation that the Financial Stability Board on its own authority determines is unduly risky. Under the premise that the IMF and the Financial Stability Board would have the ability to make loans to important U.S. corporations, the IMF and the Financial Stability Board become the effective global regulators over the corporate world, superseding all U.S. governmental authorities, including the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a host of corporate regulators, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Red Alert's author, whose books The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, said no appeal procedure to any U.S. court or regulator is specified by the G20 communiqué as recourse for a U.S. company that wants to contest a decision by the Financial Stability Board as incorrect, unfounded or otherwise overreaching. Corsi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks. In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines. For more information on internationalizing U.S.-based corporations and for financial guidance during difficult times, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, The Obama Nation.
EU proposes to speed up aid for poor countries
ELITSA VUCHEVA 08.04.2009 @ 17:18 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Commission on Wednesday (8 April) presented a series of actions aimed at boosting aid for developing countries in the wake of the global financial crisis, but without putting additional money on the table.Instead of adding new aid, Brussels is suggesting ways to speed up the delivery of the existing funds and to make it more efficient.This year, the commission will accelerate the payment of €3 billion from the budget support to African, Pacific and Caribbean (ACP) countries, as well as make available a further €800 million from a fund aimed at combating hunger in poor countries and set up in December.We have not come here to announce to you additional colossal measures,EU development commissioner Louis Michel said at a press conference in Brussels.But in two years, we will have mobilised 72 percent of what was supposed to be provided as budgetary support for 2008 – 2013,he added.The commissioner also urged EU member states to be more co-ordinated, arguing this would substantially increase the money available for developing countries.We just recently had figures from a study which we commissioned talking about the cost of non-Europe – bad coordination among donors, bad coordination of our rules. The cost of not having Europe is quite amazing, horrifying according to the initial figures of that study,commissioner Michel said.Better or more effective coordination between commission and the 27 member states would release about €7 billion per year, or €35 billion between now and 2015.This whole package is a plea to have more Europe, he added.In 2000, 189 countries worldwide agreed eight goals aimed to reduce global poverty by 2015 – referred to as the Millennium Development Goals.
The EU's own goal is to spend 0.7 percent of its GDP on development aid by then.
Also speaking at Wednesday's press conference, commission president Jose Manuel Barroso urged EU states to stick to this goal, underlining however that the perspectives for the upcoming years seem rather preoccupying.We are now more than half way to the 2015 deadline for reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals and some of the gains achieved so far risk being forfeited leaving poor countries worse off than before the crisis,Mr Barroso said.The 27-nation bloc spent €49 billion on development aid in 2008, making it the largest donor in the world.The recession must not, cannot, will not be used as an excuse for going back on our promises to keep on increasing aid,he added.
Nothing new
However, the commission's announcements were met with scepticism by development NGOs, slamming Brussels's proposals for a lack of substance.As nothing outwardly new has been announced today, we're not clear on how Europe is actually going to soften the blow of the financial crisis in poor countries, Alexandre Polack, head of European policy division at ActionAid, was quoted as saying by AFP.We have not seen any useful ideas coming out of this package on how to support developing countries in dealing with climate change, on stopping tax evasion or on coping with the effects of trade policies,he added.Hetty Kovac from Oxfam International echoed this statement, saying: We fear that with no new money, poor countries will suffer in years to come, when aid dries up. Europe needs to dig deep to help prevent this crisis from becoming a humanitarian disaster.
Ireland unveils tough budget as nation faces challenge of its life
HONOR MAHONY 08.04.2009 @ 09:08 CET
The Irish government on Tuesday (7 April) unveiled a tough new budget including a series of tax hikes and spending cuts in a bid to get the country's public finances, the worst in Europe, back under control by 2013.Income levies were the main point of the budget, unveiled by finance minister Brian Lenihan, with a doubling of the rates introduced in autumn last year and a lowering of the thresholds of when they apply.
The country's low corporate tax (12.5%) - one of the main reasons for Ireland's phenomenal economic growth in recent years - will remain the same but capital gains and capital acquisitions tax have been raised to 25 percent.Mr Lenihan said the measures mean a new budget deficit target of 10.75 percent of GDP for this year, with previous forecasts predicting that the deficit would clock in at almost 13 percent, over four times the limit allowed under the eurozone rules.The European Commission has given Ireland until 2013 to get its finances in order, which means bringing the budget deficit down to 3 percent or less.We are now facing the challenge of this nation's life," Brian Lenihan told parliament, with the budget described in Irish newspapers as being the harshest in living memory.The problem is our expenditure base is too high and our revenue base is too low. If we fail, refuse or neglect to address this structural problem we will condemn our generation and the next to the folly of excessive borrowing,Mr Lenihan said.The minister said that in 2010 he would look for a further €1.75 billion from taxation and another €1.5 billion the following year.
Getting this extra revenue could take the form of property tax, a carbon tax or taxation of child benefits.We have to change the way we operate as a country and we cannot let it sap our confidence,said prime minister Brian Cowen, speaking after the budget was revealed.This recession will pass and the world will recover. The consensus is that the world economy will recover in 2010. That will bring a return of growth in Ireland in 2011,he added.Dublin also plans to set up an asset management agency to buy bank's bad debts in a bid to restore international confidence in the country's finance sector.Having ridden high for so many years, Ireland's small open economy has been strongly hit by the global financial crisis which punctured the property bubble and left the country facing double digit unemployment figures and a sharp contraction in economic growth and consumer spending.Its problems and how it deals with them are being closely followed in the rest of Europe, particularly Brussels.Ireland's announcement came the same day as new figures showed that the eurozone economy shrank by 1.6 percent in the last three months of 2008, instead of the 1.5 percent contraction that had been predicted.The drop in GDP came as a result of falling exports and lower investment.
SEC offers short sale curbs, traders irked By Rachelle Younglai and Karey Wutkowski Rachelle Younglai And Karey Wutkowski – Wed Apr 8, 6:15 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators floated five new proposals to curb short selling, drawing fire from short sellers who feel they are being made scapegoats for the financial crisis and stock market plunge.The five-member Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to seek 60 days of comment on the proposals, including bringing back an uptick rule -- allowing bets that a stock will fall only when the last sale price was higher than the previous price.Another proposal would allow shorting only if the best available bid on a stock was higher than the last bid. Three other proposed restrictions would be triggered by a steep slide in the price of a security.The SEC could combine some of the proposals but not all five could work together. Commissioners would have to meet again to decide on any final rule.Traders and asset managers said short sellers were being targeted unfairly for the plunge in stock prices that occurred as the housing market bubble burst and exposed risky bets by financial institutions.The problem is that the managements of the banks and brokers screwed themselves up, short sellers did not, said hedge fund manager Doug Kass, who heads Seabreeze Partners Management.
Commissioners such as Kathleen Casey were generally skeptical of linking the 2007 abolition of the uptick rule to the last 18 months of stock market declines.But SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro acknowledged the intense pressure on the agency to address short selling, telling Wednesday's meeting that no other issue had generated as many emails and comments since she took the position in January.The commission is keenly aware of the need to balance the potential benefits of its proposed rules against the costs,she said.Commissioner Luis Aguilar said he feared that even if the SEC adopted more short sale restrictions, the rules may not be effective, because investors who engaged in abusive short selling could shift to unregulated financial products.
Short interest on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market had fallen from highs in July until February, when it climbed back along with a rise in stock prices.
The SEC will hold a roundtable discussion of the issues on May 5. Any final action is at least two to three months away.
CONGRESSIONAL PRESSURE
The uptick rule was first adopted after the 1929 stock market crash but was abolished in 2007 after the SEC concluded that advances in the marketplace had rendered the rule ineffective and obsolete.With the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index (.SPX) down roughly 45 percent since the start of 2008, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) down more than 40 percent over the same period, members of Congress and others have pressed for restoration of the rule.We are pleased that the SEC has begun action against abusive short selling,said Senators Edward Kaufman, a Democrat, and Johnny Isakson, a Republican, who have introduced a bill requiring the SEC to reinstate the uptick rule and regulate abusive short selling activities.The SEC last year adopted a number of rules to curb abuses of short selling, including one that requires investors to deliver their shares within three days of shorting a stock. Another rule requires big investors such as hedge funds to disclose their short positions to the agency.Both rules are set to expire at the end of July and the SEC will have to decide on their future. SEC staff and commissioners said the delivery rule has helped weed out some abusive forms of short selling; investors believe the agency should do more. Billionaire investor George Soros said on Monday that he favored a reintroduction of some kind of rule to restrict short selling. You do need to provide some protection against effectively the bear raids,Soros told Reuters Financial Television in an interview. Short sellers argue that their trading helps keep markets liquid and prevents stocks from becoming overvalued. They also criticize last year's temporary ban on short sales of hundreds of financial stocks. I am surprised that regulators have not learned from the (short-sale ban) fiasco where it ultimately reduced liquidity in the securities,said Ron Geffner, a partner at law firm Sadis & Goldberg LLP who advises hedge funds.
Market makers are not explicitly exempted under the rules proposed on Wednesday.
We believe that exemptions are vital to proper and legitimate market makers that add liquidity,a NYSE spokesman said, adding the exchange will discuss the issue with the SEC. The SEC said it would likely include several exceptions to the rules,these exceptions would be limited to activities that promote liquidity and foster the workability of the proposed rules without undermining the effectiveness of the proposals.
SEC STAFF PREFER BID TEST
Erik Sirri, the SEC's trading and markets director, told reporters that the bid test made more sense as the tick test has a problem with getting an accurate tick given how quickly stocks trade. Three other possible measures would use a circuit breaker approach to trigger either a temporary suspension of short selling in a particular stock, or temporary application of the uptick or bid rule in a security. The SEC is proposing that a 10 percent decline trigger the circuit breakers but is seeking comment on other thresholds. The country's largest exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market and BATS exchange, support a circuit breaker approach where shorting would only be allowed if the price was higher than the best available bid. The head of BATS exchange, Joe Ratterman, said he was disappointed the SEC had failed to narrow the range of ideas. He told Reuters the agency had failed to put a stake in the ground on a highly political issue. Casey, one of the commissioners who voted to abolish the uptick rule, said she had not yet been persuaded that its repeal had anything to do with the economic and market conditions of the past 18 months. She also warned fellow commissioners that the courts could overturn a new SEC rule unless there was credible empirical evidence to demonstrate the repeal of the uptick rule, or abusive short selling, drove down the price of any security.(Reporting by Rachelle Younglai and Karey Wutkowski; additional reporting by Jennifer Ablan and Jonathan Spicer in New York; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
North Korea celebrates launch, makes new threat By Jon Herskovitz – Wed Apr 8, 5:42 pm ET
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean soldiers on Wednesday celebrated the nation's defiant launch of a rocket in a mass rally, while Russia's foreign minister said any new measures to punish Pyongyang could be counter-productive.The United States, Japan and South Korea said the North's launch on Sunday was a disguised test of a long-range missile designed to carry warheads to U.S. territory and deserved punishment because it violated U.N. resolutions.North Korea warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday it would take strong steps if the 15-nation body took any action in response to the launch. On Wednesday, the Communist-ruled country gathered its top party and military officials for a celebration of the launch broadcast on its state TV and monitored in Seoul.The reclusive state has threatened to boycott six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium. It also warned on Wednesday of military action if anyone tried to retrieve debris from the rocket.U.S. and South Korean military officials said the missile, known as the Taepodong-2, crashed into the Pacific Ocean and that no satellite was deployed during its 3,200 km (2,000 mile) flight over Japan, as Pyongyang has said.The North's KCNA news agency quoted a military spokesman as saying Japan's attempt to find booster stages off its coasts was an intolerable military provocative act of infringing upon its (North Korea's) sovereignty and would prompt a response.
DEADLOCK AT U.N.
Diplomats in New York said negotiations on a Security Council response to the launch were deadlocked. The five permanent council members -- United States, Britain, France, China and Russia -- and Japan have failed to break the impasse in several meetings.The United States and Japan would like a legally binding resolution expanding existing financial sanctions and an arms embargo against North Korea. Critics have said the sanctions lacked enforcement.But U.N. diplomats say the Chinese would prefer that the council either do nothing or issue a non-binding statement to the media that stops far short of condemning the launch. Japan and the three Western powers have rejected that idea.U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters on Wednesday there are some differences of opinion when asked why the Council had not yet responded to the launch.It's going to take time, he said about the negotiations in New York.I can't put a timeframe on it.Concerned about the stability of its unpredictable neighbor, Beijing has said any U.N. reaction must be cautious and proportionate.China is sometimes viewed as North Korea's only major ally.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the threat of sanctions against North Korea was counter-productive.North Korea said it had the right to deploy a satellite, which it says is circling the globe playing revolutionary songs, as a part of a peaceful space program.Analysts said North Korea went ahead with the launch knowing it would not suffer serious repercussions, while its leader, Kim Jong-il, would see an enormous boost at home for the defiant act.The successful launching of the satellite ... is not a mere fruition of wisdom and talent but a fierce confrontation with those who disliked it,KCNA said in a separate report.Kim is expected to ride a wave of patriotic fervor generated by the launch at the annual meeting of the North's rubber stamp parliament on Thursday. The Supreme People's Assembly meeting, where a new pecking order for communist party cadres will be unveiled, is expected to show that Kim, 67, has recovered from a suspected stroke and is fully in control of Asia's only communist dynasty. In its only previous missile test in 2006, the rocket exploded seconds after launch. Despite a technical failure the recent launch showed that the impoverished North had greatly increased the range of its missiles but may be years away from building one to threaten the United States, analysts said. (Additional reporting by Chisa Fujioka in Tokyo, Kim Junghyun in Seoul, Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow, Deborah Charles in Washington and Louis Charbonneau at the United Nations; Editing by Paul Tait and Paul Simao)
Navy warship arrives where captain held off Somalia By Daniel Wallis and JoAnne Allen APR 8,09
NAIROBI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy warship arrived on Thursday off the Somali coast, where the captain of a U.S.-flagged freighter has been taken hostage by pirates, the shipping line said.The ship was briefly hijacked by pirates on Wednesday but the crew of 20 Americans had retaken control of the vessel and were trying to negotiate their captain's release, second mate Ken Quinn told CNN. The captain was being held on a lifeboat.The Danish-owned freighter's operator, Maersk Line Ltd, said the U.S. Navy destroyer Bainbridge arrived on the scene before dawn on Thursday. Spokesman B.J. Talley said the company was in touch with its ship and was also talking with the Navy.
Talley declined comment on what action, if any, the Navy might take.
CNN reported the lifeboat where the captain was being held was very near the Maersk Alabama. The Alabama crew can see the Navy destroyer and has been in contact with the Navy, CNN said. A U.S. defense official in Washington would say only that there were U.S. assets in the area.Maersk earlier confirmed that the U.S. crew had regained control of the 17,000-tonne Maersk Alabama after the pirates left the ship with one hostage.The seizure was the latest in an escalation in pirate attacks off the lawless Horn of Africa country of Somalia.A spokesman for the company said no injuries had been reported for the rest of the crew left aboard.We are just trying to offer them whatever we can, food, but it is not working too good,Quinn told CNN of efforts to secure the freedom of the captain. He said the four pirates were holding the captain hostage on the ship's lifeboat.Maritime officials said the Maersk Alabama was carrying food aid for Somalia and Uganda from Djibouti to Mombasa, a Kenyan port, when it was seized far out in the Indian Ocean.We can confirm that our crew has control of the ship. The pirates have departed the ship and they have taken one crew member with them as a hostage,the Maersk Line spokesman said, but could not confirm whether the hostage was the captain.The ship seizure, about 300 miles off Somalia, was the first time Somali pirates have seized U.S. citizens.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was very worried by the hijacking and called for world action to end the scourge of piracy.We are deeply concerned and we are following it very closely,Clinton told reporters in Washington.Specifically, we are now focused on this particular act of piracy and the seizure of the ship that carries 21 American citizens. More generally, we think the world must come together to end the scourge of piracy.
CREW TIE UP PIRATE
Second mate Quinn said the four pirates sank their own boat when they boarded the container ship. However, the captain talked them into getting off the freighter and into the ship's lifeboat with him.The crew then overpowered one of the pirates and sought to exchange him for the captain, Quinn told CNN. We kept him for 12 hours. We tied him up,Quinn said. The crew released their captive to the other pirates, but the exchange did not work and the captain was still being held by the pirates on the lifeboat, he told CNN. They are not aboard. We are controlling the ship, he said.
Maersk Line president and chief executive John Reinhart told reporters he had received a cell phone call from the crew at about 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) saying they were all safe.He said company protocol advised the U.S. sailors not to attempt to retake the ship once hijackers were on board. Once boarded, the crew has safe rooms and they are not to take on active engagement because they have no weapons. It would be a risk to their lives,Reinhart said. Maersk Line is a Norfolk, Virginia-based subsidiary of Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's biggest container shipper.
Among the ship's cargo were 400 containers of food aid, including 232 containers belonging to the U.N.'s World Food Program that were destined for Somalia and Uganda.
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said a thorough policy debate on piracy off Somalia is long overdue. I plan to hold hearings to further examine the growing threat of piracy and all the policy options that need to be on the table before the next fire drill becomes an international incident with big implications,Kerry said in a statement. The seizure was the latest in a wave of pirate attacks. Gunmen from Somalia seized a British-owned ship on Monday after hijacking another three vessels over the weekend.In the first three months of 2009 just eight ships were hijacked in the strategic Gulf of Aden, which links Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to Europe via the Suez Canal. Last year, heavily armed Somali pirates hijacked dozens of vessels, took hundreds of sailors hostage -- often for weeks -- and extracted millions of dollars in ransoms. Foreign navies sent warships to the area in response and reduced the number of successful attacks. The Seafarers International Union, which has 12 members aboard, said the Maersk Alabama was enrolled in the U.S. Maritime Security Program (MSP), a fleet of militarily useful, privately owned vessels.(Additional reporting by Edward McAllister, Anthony Boadle, Jim Wolf, JoAnne Allen and Sue Pleming in Washington and Rasmus Jorgensen in Copenhagen; Writing by Daniel Wallis and Anthony Boadle; editing by Todd Eastham)
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
BLESSING OF THE SUN PASSOVER EVE TODAY
TODAY ON THE EVE OF PASSOVER THE ISRAELIS PRAY FOR THE BLESSING OF THE SUN A ONE IN A 28 YEAR EVENT CYCLE.
Here comes the Blessing of the Sun
By David Kalb March 25, 2009 RELIGION NOTEBOOK
NEW YORK (JTA) -- I have this internal iPod in my head that provides theme music for my life. Lately my theme song is Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. Not only is it my theme song, but this year it is the theme song of the entire Jewish people. Why? On the 14th of Nissan (April 8), the morning before erev Pesach (as if we do not have enough to do that day), we will be reciting Birkat Hachamah, the Blessing of the Sun. The blessing, recited every 28 years, marks the time that the sun is in the exact place it was in when the world was created (Brachot 59b).It may seem strange to recite a blessing that relates to the sun since Jewish observance generally is more oriented toward the moon. Rosh chodesh, Judaism’s celebration of each new month, is based on the new moon and creates the foundation for the Jewish calendar.
So why this Blessing of the Sun? What is the importance of celebrating the anniversary of its creation?
The Torah describes the sun’s creation in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1, lines 14 to 19. We recite these lines from the Torah as part of the Birkat Hachamah service. In lines 14 and 15, God creates two lights that appear to be equal in strength and are responsible for separating day and night, as well as marking holidays, days and years. The Torah does not name these lights, but one can assume that the light of the night is the moon and the light of the day is the sun.In line 16, however, something happens: The Torah makes a distinction between the lights. God pronounces the light of the day (the sun) to be the greater light and the light of the night (the moon) to be the lesser light.What causes the change from the apparent equality of sun and moon in lines 14-15 to the dominance of the sun in line 16? Why this dominance of the sun when it simply is simply not the case in Judaism? While both the sun and moon play an equal role in separating day and night, the moon as noted plays a more dominant role in marking holidays and determining the calendar. Why, then, does God pronounce the sun to be dominant over the moon? The Rabbis of the Talmud tell us a story intimately connected to these lines from the Torah (Chullin 60b). When the sun and moon were created, the Rabbis tell us, they indeed were equal. But the moon asked God, Is it possible for two kings to utilize the same crown? There cannot be two lights that rule the sky; one must be dominant.
In the story, God seems to have heard the question as a display of the moon’s arrogance and punished the moon by having the moon diminish itself. The moon responded,Is it fitting that because I said a correct thing before You that I must diminish myself? The moon explained that it was not being arrogant and simply was stating a fact: There cannot be two kings.God, heeding the moon’s words, rescinded the punishment and made the moon more dominant than the sun in determining the calendar and holidays. God also instructed the Jewish people to prepare a chaparah, an atonement sacrifice, on God’s behalf. In other words, according to the Talmud, God acknowledged that God committed a sin against the moon. The sacrifice was offered every rosh chodesh and is fulfilled today by offering the Musaf prayer (the additional prayer) on rosh chodesh.Perhaps in telling this story, the Rabbis of the Talmud wished to present a new way of looking at God. The story portrays a God who can commit a sin and do teshuvah (repentance), a startling new way to look at God and, certainly, an awesome model for our own practice of teshuvah.While the Blessing of the Sun marks the anniversary of the creation of the sun, it also may be viewed as the anniversary of this Talmudic story. The Rabbis told the story to embellish the description of the creation of the sun and the moon in the Torah. Their embellishment created a moment in time in which the Jewish people could look at God in a different way. That moment is commemorated by Birkat Hachamah.On a more general level, think about the way the sun renews itself each day. This can be seen as a model for the way we might renew our relationship with God. Every day the sun rises and sets; so, too, every day we need to renew our understanding of God. Birkat Hachamah is a unique extension of this idea. Thus I believe that when we recite Birkat Hachamah, we must strive to renew our understanding of God, to re-envision God.
Let me share what will be going on in my mind -- my internal iPod -- when I recite Birkat Hachamah this year. Recently I met someone who told me that he had experienced a series of tragedies. He could not reconcile these tragedies with his vision of God, a vision in which God is directly involved in the events of the world. This posed a difficult challenge to his faith in God.Asked for guidance, I tried to help this individual re-envision God. I explained that it is possible to envision a God who is not directly involved in the events of the world. This is not to say that the vision of God being directly involved in the events of the world is incorrect; God is infinite. Therefore we are able to, and perhaps need to, utilize as many visions of God as possible.In a vision of God where God is not directly involved in the events of the world, God gives us hope when all we feel is despair, strength when all we feel is weakness and love when all we feel is hate. God gives us these blessings, and with these blessings we have the ability to make miracles happen.As we recite Birkat Hachamah this year, let us use each day’s new light of the sun to continue to look at God in new ways. In so doing, together with God, we renew creation.(David Kalb is the rabbi of Minyan Yavneh on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the head of academic fellowships at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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THIS MURDERER TORTURED, BEHEADED, MUTILATED AND EVEN ATE THIS MOTHERS SON IN THE 5 HOUR SADISTIC KILLING OF THIS WOMANS SON.THIS GUY WAS DEMON POSSESSED FOR SURE. AND NOW HE MIGHT BE FREED FROM THE LUNNY BIN,INSTEAD OF GETTING THE ELECTRIC CHAIR TO HELL. LISTEN TO ALEX JONES (APR 7,09)AS THE MOTHER WAS ON THE SHOW IN THE LAST HOUR I THINK IT WAS EXPLAINING THE TOTURE AT THE HANDS OF THIS DEMON POSSESSED PERSON.
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Vigil for bus-tragedy victimNo deliberate taker of life should ever be freed: momBy: Ian Hitchen 28/02/2009 1:00 AM
Carol de Delley fights tears looking at pictures of son Tim McLean at vigil Friday. (TIM SMITH / BRANDON SUN)BRANDON -- With tears in her eyes, Carol de Delley kissed her hand and pressed her fingers to a photograph of her slain son, Tim McLean.It was a tender, vulnerable moment during a candlelight vigil held Friday afternoon to honour her son who was killed on a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie last summer.
But minutes earlier, de Delley's voice had been firm as she called for legislative changes to prevent killers who are declared not criminally responsible from being released into the community following a stay in a mental facility.This is what's wrong with the not criminally responsible defence and this is what we need to change, de Delley said during the vigil at Brandon City Hall. I will not allow my son's death to be for nothing.McLean, 22, was stabbed and beheaded aboard a Greyhound bus last July.Vincent Li is charged with second-degree murder in connection with the killing and is scheduled to stand trial in Winnipeg, beginning Tuesday morning.The court is expected to hear from psychologists who reportedly agree Li should be sent to hospital instead of prison.A judge could decide that Li is not criminally responsible (NCR) due to his mental state at the time of the killing.Li would be spared a criminal record and go to a mental health facility.A provincial review board would then examine his case annually to determine if he has responded to treatment well enough to be released into the community.There'd be no minimum period that Li would have to serve in a mental health facility.It's that possibility of release that concerns de Delley, who said she believes that killers should be kept in custody for life, whether they're mentally ill or not.I believe that there should be treatment and punishment, not treat and release,de Delley told about 35 people at the vigil.
Black Tim's Law T-shirts and badges printed with the slogan, Death Penalty for Revenge. Tim's Law for Justice were for sale at the ceremony.The money from their sale is to go to the De Delley Foundation for Life.Tim's Law refers to de Delley's call for legislative changes that would mean anyone who voluntarily takes another person's life would lose their freedom for the rest of their natural life, whether they're declared NCR or not.To that end, she's established the De Delley Foundation for Life to raise money to support lobbying efforts.Friday's vigil was also held to honour McLean, to ensure that he isn't forgotten next week as Li becomes the focus of attention during his trial.De Delley remembered her son as an energetic, adventurous young man who commanded attention when he entered a room. Timothy was probably the most alive person I have ever known,she said.The vigil was held in Brandon because many of McLean's relatives and friends live here.
Mandi Nagy of Brandon was moved to tears at the vigil.
A former co-worker at North American Midway Entertainment, Nagy said she'd known McLean for a couple of years and travelled with him to fairs.She now treasures a picture of him she snapped the last time she saw him.I look at the picture every day now because it brings back those memories and his voice, said Nagy who wore a T-shirt with McLean's picture printed on it.ihitchen@brandonsun.com
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Italy seeks survivors, prepares to bury quake dead By Deepa Babington and Antonella Cinelli APR 7,09
L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – Rescuers searched by lamplight in freezing temperatures for a second night for survivors of a quake which killed at least 235 people in central Italy, while relatives prepared to bury the first of the dead.Thousands of survivors of Italy's worst quake in three decades passed a fitful night in tent villages as a series of strong aftershocks hit the mountainous region of Abruzzo, hampering rescue efforts and causing at least one more death.The strongest tremor since Monday's quake toppled buildings, including parts of the basilica and the station, as the sun set on the historic mountain city of L'Aquila, which bore the brunt of the disaster in the early hours of Monday.L'Aquila's mayor said the 5.6 magnitude aftershock left one resident dead while in Rome, 100 km (60 miles) to the west, furniture shook in the upper floors of buildings. A 76-year-old Roman man was reported to have died of a heart-attack.In the last two nights, I've slept three hours at most. I feel physically and mentally tired from the lack of sleep and the fear,said Ilaria Ciani, 35, spending the night in a large blue tent at a survivors camp in a sports field near L'Aquila.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has declared a national emergency and sent troops to the area, set up 20 tent camps and 16 field kitchens to provide hot food and accommodation for 14,000 people.Hundreds of emergency workers, many of them volunteers, used mechanical diggers and their bare hands to remove piles of rubble in L'Aquila and nearby villages devastated by the quake.The death toll rose steadily throughout the day but rescuers burst into applause when a 20-year-old girl was found alive 42 hours after the quake in the ruins of a four-storey building.A rescue like this is worth six months work,said Claudio, a fireman from Venice.At least 235 bodies were being stored in a makeshift mortuary at a school for Italy's Finance Police outside L'Aquila, local media reported.The first funeral of a victim was due to take place on Wednesday, in the town of Loreto Aprutino, led by the archbishop of Pescara. Some 1,000 people remain injured, about 100 seriously, and fewer than 50 were missing.
Many of the victims were students at L'Aquila's university. A fireman from the port of Pescara who came to help rescue efforts collapsed in tears after unearthing the body of his stepdaughter, who was studying there.Working by floodlight, rescuers used a crane to gradually dismantle a ruined university dormitory in the hope of finding survivors. As darkness fell, workers dragged out the bodies of two of the four students still missing.
FOREIGN SOLIDARITY
Authorities estimate 17,000 people have lost their homes, leaving them facing a grim Easter weekend. With many local churches badly damaged, people prepared to celebrate the feast in makeshift chapels in the tent villages.Berlusconi, whose government already faces a huge public debt, said he would try to access hundreds of millions of euros in EU disaster funds to rebuild Abruzzo within two years.Shows of solidarity came from home and abroad, with U.S. President Barack Obama and Russia's Vladimir Putin among the leaders calling Berlusconi to express sympathy and offer aid.The prime minister has said Italy did not require foreign aid, but opposition leaders have urged him to reconsider, in the first sign of political divisions over the disaster.Italian soccer teams said revenue from this weekend's matches would be sent to help victims. Universities and newspapers throughout the country took collections, while hotels provided thousands of cheap rooms for survivors and rescuers. Officials said the quake would severely affect the region's economy, much of which is based on tourism, agriculture and small, family-run businesses. Police increased their patrols on the streets amid reports of looting of homes and shops. Some residents and experts expressed anger that even supposedly earthquake-proof modern buildings had collapsed.
In California, an earthquake like this one would not have killed a single person, said Franco Barberi, head of a committee assessing quake risks at the Civil Protection Agency.Monday's quake was particularly lethal because it struck shortly after 3:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) as residents slept. Flattening houses, centuries-old churches and other buildings in 26 cities and towns, it was the worst since November 1980, when some 2,735 people died in southern Italy.(Writing by Daniel Flynn; additional reporting by Rome bureau; Editing by Matthew Jones)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
U.S. forecaster lowers Atlantic hurricane prediction AccuWeather By Jim Loney Jim Loney – Tue Apr 7, 5:39 pm ET
MIAMI (Reuters) – Citing cooler seas and the prospect of a weak El Nino, Colorado State University's hurricane team lowered its 2009 Atlantic forecast on Tuesday to 12 tropical storms, of which six could become hurricanes.The research team, founded by storm forecasting pioneer William Gray, said the season could see two major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. Hurricanes of that magnitude have sustained winds of more than 110 miles per hour (177km per hour).In its December forecast, the CSU team predicted 14 storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes in the 2009 season, which begins on June 1 and lasts six months.The researchers said sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean had cooled in recent months. Hurricanes draw energy from warm sea water, so cooler water could diminish hurricane activity.In addition, the eastern Pacific Ocean could see the current weak La Nina conditions change to neutral, or even weak El Nino, by June, the researchers said. El Nino is a warm water phenomenon that can suppress Atlantic hurricane formation.If El Nino conditions develop for this year's hurricane season, it would tend to increase levels of vertical wind shear and decrease levels of Atlantic hurricane activity,Gray said.Bill Read, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, downplayed the impact of El Nino, noting there have been active hurricane seasons during similar phases of the El Nino cycle. But he said cooler water could have an influence.Some of my forecasters have pointed out to me that the tropical Atlantic waters at this time of the year this year are somewhat cooler than the last several seasons,he said in an interview with Reuters at the National Hurricane Conference in Austin, Texas. If that continues that may be a more important factor on this season.While disaster management experts say long-range hurricane forecasting helps raise public awareness, many note it is an inexact science. Some forecasters, including the Colorado State team, have been well off target in recent years.Colorado State predicted 15 tropical storms for the 2005 season, but a record 28 formed.You're talking trying to discern weather events from a climate-type forecast. Therein lies a huge difficulty right there,Read said. That science is still in its infancy.
FORECASTS CLOSELY WATCHED
The forecasts are closely watched by energy, commodities and insurance markets, particularly since the devastating 2005 season, when a series of hurricanes rolled through Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and Hurricane Katrina, the costliest in U.S. history, swamped New Orleans.Colorado State predicted a 31 percent chance that a major hurricane would hit the U.S. Gulf coast this year, compared to a 30 percent long-term average. For the U.S. East Coast, the probability was 32 percent, compared to 31 percent long-term.The 2008 Atlantic season was one of the busiest on record, with 16 tropical storms, of which eight became hurricanes. Five were of Category 3 or higher.Cuba bore the brunt of last season's destructive storms. Three major hurricanes hit the Caribbean island, causing an estimated $10 billion damage.The long-term average for the Atlantic hurricane season is about 10 tropical storms and six hurricanes. But experts said a period of heightened Atlantic hurricane activity started around 1995 and was expected to last 25 to 40 years.London-based Tropical Storm Risk on Monday forecast 15 tropical storms, 7.8 hurricanes and 3.6 major hurricanes.(Additional reporting by Erwin Seba in Austin, Texas, editing by Chris Wilson)
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
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED APR 08,2009
09:30 AM +4.88
10:00 AM +45.16
10:30 AM -3.19
11:00 AM +6.37
11:30 AM +34.49
12:00 PM +42.45
12:30 PM +48.42
01:00 PM +84.34
01:30 PM +79.49
02:00 PM +59.73
02:30 PM +12.90
03:00 PM -1.76
03:30 PM -2.85
04:00 PM +47.55 7837.11
S&P 500 825.16 +9.61
NASDAQ 1590.66 +29.05
GOLD 881.40 -1.90
OIL 49.38 +0.93
TSE 300 8933.81 +109.06
CDNX 950.70 -1.78
S&P/TSX/60 544.59 +7.41
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
GOLD AT OPEN TODAY $887.90.OIL AT OPEN TODAY $48.23.
Dow +30 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -16 points at low today so far.
Dow +99 points at high today so far.
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -11.24%
S&P -9.71%
Nasdaq -0.98%
TSX Advances 576,declines 933,unchanged 258,Volume 2,071,293,019.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 306,Declines 429,Unchanged 358,Volume 183,585,966.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -16 points at low today so far.
Dow +99 points at high today so far.
DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,648,declines 934,unchanged 95,New Highs 4,New Lows 44.
Volume 3,243,814,713.
NASDAQ Advances 1,817,declines 788,unchanged 127,New highs 6,New Lows 16.
Volume 1,056,030,816.
TSX Advances 773,declines 555,unchanged 286,Volume 1,236,043,115.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 278,Declines 302,Unchanged 301,Volume 110,295,360.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -38 points at low today so far.
Dow +99 points at high today so far.
Dow +0.61% today,Volume 255,307,389.
S&P +1.18% today,Volume N/A.
Nasdaq +1.86% today,Volume 1,714,707,164.
FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT America for sale … to China? Leading economist requests dollar protection larger than U.S. homes April 06, 2009 10:54 am Eastern 2009WorldNetDaily
Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium online newsletter published by the current No. 1 best-selling author, WND staff writer and columnist. Subscriptions are $99 a year or $9.95 per month for credit card users. Annual subscribers will receive a free autographed copy of The Late Great USA, a book about the careful deceptions of a powerful elite who want to undermine our nation's sovereignty.A high profile Chinese economist has begun circulating a new plan under which the U.S. government would guarantee foreign investments, so foreign nations with large dollar holdings in U.S. Treasury debt could convert that debt into equity to buy and own U.S. assets or invest in the nation's infrastructure without risk of loss, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports. In the process, much of U.S. industry and infrastructure would be sold to the Chinese.
In the Financial Times of London, Yu Qiao, a professor of economics in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsighua University in Beijing, proposed a plan for the U.S. government to guarantee foreign investments in the United States. Corsi noted that while WND has reported that the Internet rumors Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had given China an eminent domain claim on U.S. homes and property were untrue, the plan advanced by Yu Qiao must be interpreted as a proposal the Chinese government wants the U.S. to give serious consideration. Secretary Clinton may not have pledged American homes to China, but the Obama administration may be willing to grant a financial guarantee as an incentive for China to convert U.S. debt into Chinese direct equity investment to establish Chinese ownership in U.S. successful corporations and potentially profitable infrastructure projects,Corsi wrote. The Obama administration is now willing to put the U.S. up for sale to China to induce China to keep financing U.S. government deficit spending.As WND has reported, the U.S. Treasury is preparing to borrow $2.5 trillion this year and another $4 trillion in 2010, an amount that would increase by 65 percent in two years the $10 trillion in national debt accumulated since George Washington was president. WND has also reported the U.S. government faces more than $65 trillion in unfunded Social Security and Medicare benefits scheduled to be paid out largely to baby boomer retirees in coming decades. Foreign nations now hold $1.6 trillion of U.S. government debt, with Asia, including China and Japan, holding half of the outstanding public-owned U.S. Treasury bonds.
China now directly or indirectly holds more than $1.2 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds.
If the U.S. dollar were to collapse under the weight of Obama's trillion dollar budget deficits, holders of U.S. debt could face substantial losses that the Financial Times estimated would devastate Asians' hard-earned wealth and terminate economic globalization.The basic idea is to turn Asian savings, China's in particular, into real business interests rather than let them be used to support U.S. over-consumption,Yu Qiao wrote, reflecting themes commonly suggested by Chinese government officials. Red Alert's author, whose books The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, said the plan to convert Chinese debt to equity investments in the United States could easily add another $1 trillion to outstanding Obama administration guarantees issued in the current economic crisis. Corsi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks. In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines.For more information on China's push to acquire U.S. assets and for financial guidance during difficult times, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, The Obama Nation.
Cities Collapsing throughout the USA
The Coming Depression April 7, 2009
With enough abandoned lots to fill the city of San Francisco, Motown is 138 square miles divided between expanses of decay and emptiness and tracts of still-functioning communities and commercial areas. Close to six barren acres of an estimated 17,000 have already been turned into 500 mini- farms,demonstrating the lengths to which planners will go to make land productive.The city, like the automakers, has to shrink to match what’s left, said June Thomas, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.The issue is how,she said.There’s no vision.
People are moving out of the city, trying to find work,said David Martin of Wayne State University’s Urban Safety Program. Those who stay can’t afford to move out.
Property abandonment is getting so bad in Flint that some in government are talking about an extreme measure that was once unthinkable — shutting down portions of the city, officially abandoning them and cutting off police and fire service.[Mayor] Brown said that as more people abandon homes, eating away at the city’s tax base and creating more blight, the city might need to examine shutting down quadrants of the city where we (wouldn’t) provide services.He did not define what that could mean — bulldozing abandoned areas, simply leaving the vacant homes to rot or some other idea entirely.Cul-de-sac neighborhoods once filled with the sound of backyard barbecues and playing children are falling silent. Communities like Elk Grove, Calif., and Windy Ridge, N.C., are slowly turning into ghost towns with overgrown lawns, vacant strip malls and squatters camping in empty homes.In its depth and suddenness, the U.S. economic and financial crisis is shockingly reminiscent of moments we have recently seen in emerging markets (and only in emerging markets): South Korea (1997), Malaysia (1998), Russia and Argentina (time and again).But there’s a deeper and more disturbing similarity: elite business interests—financiers, in the case of the U.S.—played a central role in creating the crisis, making ever-larger gambles, with the implicit backing of the government, until the inevitable collapse. More alarming, they are now using their influence to prevent precisely the sorts of reforms that are needed, and fast, to pull the economy out of its nosedive. The government seems helpless, or unwilling, to act against them.
GM in intense preparations for bankruptcy: source By Chelsea Emery and Soyoung Kim Chelsea Emery And Soyoung Kim – Tue Apr 7, 4:48 pm ET
NEW YORK/DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Corp is in intense and earnest preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing, a source familiar with the company's plans told Reuters on Tuesday.A plan to split the corporation into a new company made up of the most successful units, and an "old" one of its less-profitable units, is gaining momentum and is seen as the most sensible configuration, said another source familiar with the talks.If the plan goes through, the new GM would be expected to assume some previous creditor debt from bankruptcy proceedings, such as secured debt, said the second source, adding that GM bondholders were likely to lose substantial value in bankruptcy.Certain GM dealer and litigation claims would also be hurt if the new company structure is used as part of a company bankruptcy, said the second source.
The sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.GM declined to comment.Shares of GM fell almost 12 percent on the New York Stock Exchange to end at $2.00.GM bonds were mixed in afternoon trading, with GM's benchmark 8.375 percent note up less than 1 cent on the dollar to 11.75 cents, yielding more than 70 percent, versus about 11 cents with a 75 percent yield on Monday, according to MarketAxess data. The bond had slipped in earlier trading.Two other GM notes were slightly lower in late afternoon trading.
OPTIONS FOR GM
GM, operating on $13.4 billion of government loans since the start of the year, has until June 1 to complete a reorganization plan. The government has warned that the alternative would be bankruptcy.The company is under pressure to cut unsecured debt by two-thirds, turn half its remaining payments into a union healthcare trust in the form of equity rather than cash, and reduce hourly wages and benefits to match those paid by foreign automakers.Chrysler, owned by Cerberus Capital Management LP, is also facing possible bankruptcy. The automaker has until April 30 to complete an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat.Moody's Investor Service said in a note dated Monday that it maintains its view for a 70 percent risk of bankruptcy for Detroit's three automakers given the difficulty of restructuring out of court.GM Chief Executive Fritz Henderson has said the company prefers to restructure out of court but that it could go to court if needed.If a company of this size files for bankruptcy, they have to be preparing for it now as time is running out and bankruptcy becomes more real, said Van Conway, a turnaround expert at Conway MacKenzie.But I think they should attempt to avoid it because emerging out of bankruptcy would be very difficult. Given its very large, global operations and various stakeholders, the process will take a lot longer than what people think,Conway said.
BANKRUPTCY NOT EASY
Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement said on Tuesday that the Canadian government must be prepared for GM or Chrysler to enter bankruptcy protection. Some bankruptcy experts say a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing could help GM reorganize by allowing it to restructure its debt and force changes to contracts with dealers, unions and suppliers. But the process could be disruptive, or derailed, said Patrick Carothers, a partner at Thorp, Reed & Armstrong LLP. For example, if auto-parts makers lose the ability to collect money owed, the industry as a whole could suffer. In addition, GM could lose control over its restructuring as the formation of a new company would be in the hands of a bankruptcy judge, not corporate executives or their advisers. The dangers of a bankruptcy are significant,said Carothers, who has parts suppliers and car dealers as clients.I don't believe a bankruptcy is inevitable. There's still a lot of political pressure to save it.Last month, GM offered bondholders 8 cents on the dollar in cash, 16 cents on the dollar in new unsecured debt, and a 90 percent stake in the automaker, one person with knowledge of the term sheet told Reuters.
(Reporting by Chelsea Emery in New York and Soyoung Kim in Detroit; Additional reporting by Dena Aubin, Walden Siew in New York; Editing by Derek Caney, Matthew Lewis and Toni Reinhold)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Centre-left not set for major gains in EU poll
HONOR MAHONY 07.04.2009 @ 16:17 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The economic crisis is not expected to result in a major swing to the left in the European elections, new statistics predict, while the nature of the European Parliament is expected to be changed by an increase in eastern European politicians in the biggest political group.A new website, using national opinion polls and previous European election results, suggests that the group spread in the EU parliament will remain largely the same after June, with the centre-right EPP in the lead, followed by the socialists and the liberals.Concretely, the EPP is expected to clock in with 249 seats (down from 288), the socialists 209 seats (down from 217) and the liberals 87 seats (down from 100 seats), with the overall parliament downsizing to 736 MEPs from the current 785-strong house.Presenting the research on Tuesday (7 April), Professor Simon Hix, a political scientist at the London School of Economics, said that while the combined forces of the centre-right are currently larger than the combined forces of the centre-left, in the new parliament the centre-left and the centre-right will be evenly balanced.Some socialists have suggested that the ongoing economic crisis, largely seen as being the result of laissez-faire right wing policies, would see them cash in at the ballot boxes in June.However, the research suggests this will not happen due to the predicted results in the EU's six largest member states – Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Spain and Poland, accounting for 56 percent of the seats in the parliament – where the centre-left is not expected to do well.
Less of the protest vote
The prediction means the centre-right will continue to top the results despite the announced defection of the British Conservatives (27 MEPs) to form another party.
Eurosceptic and far-right parties are not expected to profit from the economic discontent among EU citizens, either, and are set to retain their current number of seats (about 45). Meanwhile, Libertas, a pan-European Party campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty, is not expected to gain any seats with citizens voting on issues closer to home, such as the effects of recession.That protest [vote] is going to different parties. Five years ago, it seemed to go more to the anti-Europeans,said the political scientist.The economic crisis is making this even more of a national election than usual as voters look to their governments and ask how are you going to address this economic crisis? As a whole, the London professor predicted that the progressive bloc – in reference to issues such as immigration and the environment - in the parliament would be slightly bigger while the economically liberal bloc would be slightly smaller.
Changing influence of eastern MEPs
Inside the parliament, the politics between groups and MEPs is to be shaken up however. This is due in part to the fact that the EPP is expected to be a lot less German and a lot more Polish something that may change the colour or nature of politics in the EPP.Currently, MEPs from the new member states are marginalised according to the academic, and do not hold many positions of power in the EU assembly, such as committee chairs.Another factor shaking up the way the parliament works is the likely formation of a new group, the European Conservatives, by the British Conservatives. It is expected to host the Czech Civic Democrats and some of the parties of the nationalist UEN group, which is not expected to survive after June.
The European Conservatives are expected to be the fourth biggest group in the parliament with 58 seats, followed by the leftist GUE group with 48 seats (up from the current 41), the Greens with 39 seats (down from 43) while the current eurosceptic Independence/Democracy group is also expected to fizzle out after June, getting only 17 seats, less than the threshold needed to form a political group.
Professor Hix, whose research with Professor Michael Marsh from Trinity College Dublin was commissioned by PR firm Burson-Marsteller, admitted that predicting elections is a pretty mad thing to do and noted that if the average turnout is much lower than in previous years (it reached a low of 45.47% in 2004) everything is up for grabs and his predictions could change enormously.A significantly higher turnout, meanwhile, will likely mean governing parties will do better.The research has already come in for criticism. The UK Independence Party said the figures are skewed and based on false data while the Party of Europea Socialists said it was too early to make predictions about the vote outcome and insisted its aim is to be the biggest group in the parliament.
NKOREA LAUNCH ROOM PICTURE OF MISSLE
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Iranian nuke plot vaporized in the city: NY banks unwittingly aided in material transfers, says DA BY Melissa Grace DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, April 7th 2009, 1:03 PM
The Manhattan district attorney's office has smashed a sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks, the Daily News has learned.Officials plan to unseal a 118-count indictment Tuesday accusing a Chinese national of setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran. This case will cut off a major source of supply to Iran and it shows how they are going ahead full steam to get a nuclear bomb. Long-range missiles they pretty much have already,a law enforcement source close to the case said. We think it is one of the largest suppliers of weapons of mass destruction to Iran.Experts say Iran, under the leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, appears close to amassing enough nuclear material to make an atom bomb. A United Nations embargo bans Iran from acquiring the high-tech metals needed to make a long-range nuclear weapon a reality. The indictment will outline the financial conspiracy behind 58 different transactions, including shipments of various banned materials from China to Iran between 2006 and late 2008.
Among them:
33,000 pounds of a specialized aluminum alloy used almost exclusively in long-range missile production.
66,000 pounds of tungsten copper plate, which is used in missile guidance systems.
53,900 pounds of maraging steel rods, a superhard metal used in uranium enrichment and to make the casings for nuclear bombs.
The recipient is believed to have been a subsidiary of the Iranian Defense Ministry.
The suspect, who is not believed to be in the U.S., set up four bogus import-export companies that did business with six Iranian shell firms, one source said.
They took elaborate steps to conceal the identity of the shipper and the recipient, the source said. The deals went through several New York banks, which cooperated when the alleged plot was uncovered. The New York banks were completely unaware, the source said. Authorities first stumbled over the scheme seven months ago in an unrelated probe into Iranian money-laundering through Lloyd's, a British bank. In January, Lloyd's paid a $350 million fine to settle accusations it stripped information from Iranian money transfers to New York banks, hiding where the cash came from.Officials said they suspected that money was also used to finance Iran's nuke program.The important thing is to put sunlight on these deals,the law enforcement source said.mgrace@nydailynews.com
Obama praises Islam, calls for Mideast peace By Caren Bohan and Paul de Bendern – Tue Apr 7, 9:07 am ET
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama ended his trip to Muslim Turkey on Tuesday by calling for peace and dialogue with Islam and the creation of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel.In his first trip as president to the Muslim world, Obama sought to rebuild ties after anger at the invasion of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and accusations his predecessor George W. Bush was biased in favor of Israel.I came to Turkey because I am deeply committed to rebuilding a relationship between the United States and the people of the Muslim world, one that is grounded in mutual interest and mutual respect, Obama said.I believe we can have a dialogue that is open, honest, vibrant...And I want you to know that I am personally committed to a new chapter of American engagement,he said at a meeting with Turkish youngsters.Obama's visit, in which he said America will never be at war with Islam, marks a strong shift in U.S. policy after his predecessor Bush upset Muslims with his backing for Israel, invasion of Iraq and branding of Iran as part of an axis of evil.
Obama will now need to flesh out, through policies, his promises to engage the Muslim world.
Amr El-Choubaki, an Egyptian political analyst with the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said Obama differed fundamentally from Bush's world view and lacked his high-handedness toward Arabs and Muslims.He pleased Muslims with his call to push aggressively for a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, in a challenge to the new Israeli government of right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu.I believe that peace in the Middle East is possible. I think it will be based on two states side by side, a Palestinian state and a Jewish state,Obama said.I think in order to achieve that, both sides are going to have to make compromises. I think we have a sense of what those compromises should be and will be. Now what we need is political will and courage on the part of leadership.
HOPE AND CHANGE
Meeting with the youth symbolizes the expectation of hope and change, because the previous administration had a problem with its image in the Muslim world,said Salih Altundere, 23, studying international relations at Bogazici University.Obama rejected critics who said his speech in Prague on nuclear disarmament, his calls for Middle East peace and engagement with Iran were too idealistic.My attitude is that all these things are hard. I am not naive. If it would be easy it would already be done, he said.Moving the ship of state is a slow process. States are like big tankers. They are not like speedboats. You can't just whip them around and go in a new direction. Instead, you slowly move it and eventually you end up in a very different place.
He admitted America had made mistakes.
When it comes to Iraq, I opposed the war in Iraq. I thought it was a bad idea. Now that we're there, I have the responsibility to make sure that, as we bring troops out, that we do so in a careful enough way that you don't see a complete collapse into violence,Obama said.Respecting Muslim sensitivity, he said he would like to wrap up the youth meeting before the call to prayer.(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick, Ayla Jean Yackley; Alexandra Hudson and Daren Butler; Writing by Paul de Bendern; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
Virginia Fusion Center Releases Homegrown Terrorism Document Infowars April 8, 2009 Lori Price of Citizens for a Legitimate Government posts the following:
The Lowlights:
Spanning 39,598 square miles, Virginia has a population of almost 7.5 million residents. Roughly half of these residents are concentrated in the northern Virginia, central Virginia, and Hampton Roads regions. All three of these regions feature ethnically diverse populations with cultural ties to the Middle East, the horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and other areas heavily impacted by terrorist activities.
Virginia’s network of colleges and universities also represent a potential avenue of entry for terrorist operatives and a possible forum for recruitment of sympathizers.
In addition to reviewing information directly reported to the VFC, surveys were sent to all Virginia local law enforcement agencies to determine the extent of terrorism activities throughout the state. Information of interest included not only event-specific data, but also suspicious traffic stops or activities consistent with pre-operational attack planning. Assessments of the overall threat posed by specific terror and extremist groups or movements were completed utilizing the Project SLEIPNIR: Revised Long Matrix for Criminal Extremism utilized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
OVERVIEW OF TERRORIST AND EXTREMIST DATA IN VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM THREAT
Al-Qa’ida
Al-Shabaab
HAMAS
Hizballah
Jama’at al-Tabligh
Jama’at ul Fuqra
Lashkar-e Tayyiba
Muslim Brotherhood
DOMESTIC TERRORISM THREAT
Anarchist Extremists
Black Separatist Extremists
Homegrown Islamic Extremism
Lone Wolf Extremists
Militia Extremists
Special Interest Extremism
White Nationalist Extremism
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of the 2009 Terrorism Threat Assessment is to convey potential terrorism threats affecting the Commonwealth of Virginia. Terrorism, for the purpose of this report, is defined as politically motivated violence or threat of violence designed to coerce action or to prevent others from taking intended actions. While there is no intelligence that indicates terrorists are currently planning attacks in Virginia, the presence of extremists, evidence of trends linked to terrorism, and the abundance of potential targets, suggests that the potential for Virginia to be targeted remains significant.As with previous years, the threat from terrorist and extremist groups can be categorized as international or domestic threats. Each of these groups holds particular values and political goals and thus represents a different type of threat to Virginia and the U.S. The international terrorism threat to Virginia and the nation as a whole stems from several radical Islamic militant groups. The domestic terrorist threat is comprised of a wide variety of groups, to include special interest groups, anarchists, race-based groups, including black separatists and white supremacists, militias and sovereign citizens, and homegrown extremists.In Virginia, identified activities have been limited primarily to non-violent acts and crimes committed to raise funds to finance group activities. Some activities also relate to criminal endeavors generally used by extremists to further operational planning. The Virginia Fusion Center monitors international, national, and regional trends relating to terrorism and criminal extremism for indicators of emerging activity in the Commonwealth. Terrorism trends of greatest concern in 2009 include terrorism tradecraft, recruitment, and radicalization, terrorist use of technology, and terrorism financing.
As terrorists adapt and evolve to offset existing counterterrorism measures, they have successfully exploited available technology and modified their tactics to ensure successful operations. While several of the trends noted are applicable to all terrorist and extremist groups, increasing linkages are noted to specific critical infrastructure and key resources. As such, this product highlights, where possible, connections noted between groups, their behaviors, and potentially targeted infrastructure.Based on the information gathered, the Commonwealth of Virginia could be potentially targeted for terrorist attack due to its location and proximity to Washington, D.C., its concentration of critical infrastructure, and the amount of extremist activity documented in Virginia. In order to detect and deter terrorist attacks, it is essential that information regarding suspected terrorists and suspicious activity in Virginia be closely monitored and reported in a timely manner. Additionally, it remains important to determine the extent of existing trends and to collect, analyze, and disseminate this information to law enforcement partners in Virginia.
OVERVIEW
The 2009 Terrorism Threat Assessment, in keeping with the Virginia Fusion Center (VFC) mission of integrating threat information from public and private sector agencies to prevent terrorist attacks, is designed to afford law enforcement, homeland security, and policy making officials terrorism threat intelligence of relevance to Virginia. Included in this assessment is an overview of identified groups, individuals, or activities; known or suspected trends; and critical infrastructure or key resources with significant U.S. or Virginia reporting within the past five years. While there is no intelligence that indicates terrorists are planning attacks in Virginia, the abundance of potential targets provides terrorists with many possibilities and opportunities throughout the Commonwealth. Information contained in this Threat Assessment is current as of February 2009 and will be
reviewed and updated on an annual basis. In addressing the terrorism threat to Virginia, it is important to define terrorism and the scope of activities included. Terrorism can be defined as politically motivated violence or threat of violence designed to coerce others into actions they would not otherwise undertake or to refrain from actions they desired to take. Terrorism is generally directed against civilian targets and is intended to produce effects beyond immediate physical damage, to produce long-term psychological repercussions, especially fear, on a particular target audience. For the purposes of this Threat Assessment, terrorism is divided into two categories: international and domestic terrorism. International terrorism involves threats emanating primarily from the international jihad movement, foreign terrorist organizations, and state sponsors of terrorism. Domestic terrorism includes threats from special interest groups, white supremacists, black separatists, and anti-government groups. Terrorism trends included in this assessment are activities, such as recruitment, financing, training, and planning, conducted in furtherance of terrorism.Terrorism remains a threat to Virginia, not only because of its proximity to the nation’s capitol, but also due to the volume of significant infrastructure. Such infrastructure includes military installations such as the Pentagon; two nuclear power plants; and a major East Coast seaport. Virginia is also home to a wide range of transportation sector targets of interest, including interstate highways with high-traffic bridges and tunnels; railways and subways; and aviation and port facilities. While other infrastructure sectors, such as water, energy, and information technology could be targeted, it is also possible that terrorist attention could be directed toward law enforcement at the local, state, and federal levels.
Spanning 39,598 square miles, Virginia has a population of almost 7.5 million residents. Roughly half of these residents are concentrated in the northern Virginia, central Virginia, and Hampton Roads regions. All three of these regions feature ethnically diverse populations with cultural ties to the Middle East, the horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and other areas heavily impacted by terrorist activities. While the vast majority of these individuals are law-abiding, this ethnic diversity also affords terrorist operatives the opportunity to assimilate easily into society, without arousing suspicion. Virginia’s network of colleges and universities also represent a potential avenue of entry for terrorist operatives and a possible forum for recruitment of sympathizers. Additionally, Virginia’s correctional system remains an attractive venue for recruitment and radicalization relating to terror organizations and hate groups. The VFC has compiled information from local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as open sources to create this Threat Assessment. In addition to reviewing information directly reported to the VFC, surveys were sent to all Virginia local law enforcement agencies to determine the extent of terrorism activities throughout the state. Information of interest included not only event-specific data, but also suspicious traffic stops or activities consistent with pre-operational attack planning. Assessments of the overall threat posed by specific terror and extremist groups or movements were completed utilizing the Project Sleipnir: Revised Long Matrix for Criminal Extremism utilized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Although the primary objective of this report is to share valuable terrorism intelligence with public safety agencies in Virginia, a secondary goal is to highlight the types of data needed from local, state, and federal partners of the VFC. While every effort was made to ensure accurate, thorough reporting of the terrorist threat, it is expected that not every incident of possible terrorist activity will be reported or forwarded to the VFC.
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I CAN'T BELIEVE BECK CLAIMING HES A CHRISTIAN,YET LIES AND COVERS UP FEMA CAMPS , INCREDIBLE. BECK IS A NEW WORLD ORDER BUY OUT CHRISTIANS LOOKOUT.
BECKS COVERUP OF FEMA CAMPS
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OLI NORTH
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Glenn Beck’s Lame Attempt to Debunk FEMA Camps
Kurt Nimmo Infowars April 7, 2009
Disinfo operative Glenn Beck’s shabby and comical attempt to “debunk” FEMA camps was theater of the absurd at its most revealing. Recall Beck a few weeks ago trying to bait us with a promise to investigate the camps. He came off as alarmed over the prospect of internment camps and this set the hook. Stay tuned, folks, he teased, we’ll get to the bottom of this.Glenn Beck, the seasoned operative, never intended a serious exposé. He planned to make those of us who know FEMA camps exist look like fools and churls. In order to do this he enlisted the retread James Meigs, editor-in-chief of the washed-up Hearst publication, Popular Mechanics. Back in 2005, Meigs spearheaded an effort to debunk the 9/11 truth movement with a Popular Mechanic cover story. Meigs and his crew of supposed debunkers approached the science of 9/11 very selectively and were more interested in ad hominem attacks leveled against researchers. Meigs concluded his diatribe by stating that those who peddle fantasies that this country encouraged, permitted or actually carried out the attacks are libeling the truth — and disgracing the memories of the thousands who died that day.
Meigs turned his fact checking (through omission) into a book — Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts. It was published by Hearst, the media corporation famous for its association with the expression yellow journalism. Hearst told the illustrationist Frederic Remington during the Spanish-American War: You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.Nothing much as changed since 1895.
In the video here, Beck says Meigs heads up the independent group he assigned the task of debunking the conspiracy nuts who believe in the existence of FEMA camps. As evidence the nutters are way out in left field, Meigs dissects a widely discredited video of a Beech Grove, Indiana, Amtrak facility filmed by the Indianapolis attorney Linda Thompson.You may recall Thompson’s earlier video about the government siege and subsequent incineration of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. She made a series of absurd claims about the siege, for instance insisting the BATF and FBI used flame throwers mounted on tanks against the Davidians. It didn’t take long for Soldier of Fortune Magazine to discredit Thompson’s accusations. She mysteriously vanished into the ether after people began asking if she might be a government operative.Meigs and Beck say nothing about this. This footage, which appears in multiple videos on YouTube, is from a documentary filmed 15 years ago,explains Beck’s Fox News web page. Yet today, it’s been viewed nearly 1.5 million times online. The woman who made the video, Linda Thompson, was one of the pioneers of the militia movement in the United States — except she was so extreme, she embarrassed even her fellow militants. Far from a death camp, Beech Grove is the primary maintenance facility for Amtrak’s long-distance trains, overhauling and repairing approximately 700 passenger cars a year. Company officials, who’ve heard these theories for years, welcomed our film crew, and the superintendent of the facility showed us anything we wanted to see.Beck does not bother to mention the fact serious FEMA camp researchers discarded the video years ago. Meigs and Beck are more interested in linking the video to Thompson and the militia movement (created as a scary bogeyman by the corporate media in the 1990s) and connecting that up with the ugly specter of the Timothy McVeigh — the same McVeigh photographed at Camp Grafton, North Dakota (the base specializes in demolitions training) in 1993, a mere 18 months before the Oklahoma City bombing. The FBI insisted he was not in the military at the time.In the second installment of this definitive debunking, Beck and his sidekick Meigs show us a satellite photo of a real concentration camp the conspiracy theorists supposedly claim is a FEMA camp. As Alex Jones called it when the photo was used as a teaser at the close of the first installment the previous evening, the camp is located in North Korea (because only communists operate concentration camps, never mind the forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans by Roosevelt during World War 2, a criminal act lavishly defended by the neocon darling Michelle Malkin, a regular on Fox News).
After “debunking” Camp Grayling, Michigan, where there is a mock camp complete with barbed wire and watch towers for National Guard training, Beck and Meigs begin talking about how the conspiracy theorists are out of touch with reality and refuse to accept the obvious truth there are no camps and our loving government would never do such a thing, not like the evil communists in North Korea (or the evil mullahs in Iran, although our intrepid investigators do not mention the latter).As expected, Beck’s long awaited debunking does not bother to cover more substantial territory and instead relies on old discredited video footage and photos that look good on television.Beck and his protégé completely ignore solid and irrefutable evidence that does not look good on television and might prompt bored viewers to switch over to the Comedy Channel or actually turn off the idiot tube and read a book.No mention of the contract awarded in January of 2006 to Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, to build temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement) Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs,(emphasis added) according to Fox News.It was said Rex-84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was also about rounding up and detaining illegal immigrants. The Rex 84 Program was originally established on the reasoning that if a mass exodus of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA,notes Allen L Roland.In fact, Rex-84 Alpha Explan (as it was also known) was cooked up by FEMA and 34 other federal civil departments and agencies (with a few NATO nations to boot) for the express purpose of detaining large numbers of American citizens.The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major demonstrations and strikes that would affect continuity of government and/or resource mobilization. To fight subversive activities, there was authorization for the military to implement government ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, the arrest of certain unidentified segments of the population, and the imposition of martial law,Diana Reynolds writes (The Rise of the National Security State: FEMA and the NSC).No mention of master military contingency plan Operation Garden Plot developed in response to the civil disorders of the 1960s and still operational under the control of the U.S. Northern Command. Garden plot was last activated (as Noble Eagle) to provide military assistance to civil authorities following September 11, 2001. The Pentagon also activated it to restore order during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Operation Garden Plot is the program to control the population.Rex 84, Operation Garden Plot and its sister program Operation Cable Splicer were not enough for the control freaks in government, so in May, 2007, George Bush signed executive new orders NSDP51 (also known as PDD 51) and HSDP20 to replace Rex 84. Bush’s orders established that the executive would take over all state and local governments during a national state of emergency.More recently the National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645 was introduced in Congress. It mandates the establishment of national emergency centers to be located on military installations for the purpose of to providing temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster, according to the bill (see Paul Joseph Watson: New Legislation Authorizes FEMA Camps In U.S.). Ominously, the bill also states that the camps can be used to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security,an open ended mandate which many fear could mean the forced detention of American citizens in the event of widespread rioting after a national emergency or total economic collapse,writes Watson.
None of this was mentioned by Beck or Meigs.
Or did they mention the long list of executive orders establishing draconian mechanisms for martial law and detention and work camps, all in violation of Article 4Section 4 of the United States Constitution (see Establishing martial law in the United States).Finally, Beck and Meigs don’t want you to know about and would certainly never cover the U.S. Army’s Civilian Inmate Labor Program under Army Regulation 210–35.Maybe in the future Glenn Beck will commission another investigation into the existence of not only FEMA camps but the plans formulated by government to impose martial law in the United States.I’m not going to hold my breath in the meantime.
Here comes the Blessing of the Sun
By David Kalb March 25, 2009 RELIGION NOTEBOOK
NEW YORK (JTA) -- I have this internal iPod in my head that provides theme music for my life. Lately my theme song is Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. Not only is it my theme song, but this year it is the theme song of the entire Jewish people. Why? On the 14th of Nissan (April 8), the morning before erev Pesach (as if we do not have enough to do that day), we will be reciting Birkat Hachamah, the Blessing of the Sun. The blessing, recited every 28 years, marks the time that the sun is in the exact place it was in when the world was created (Brachot 59b).It may seem strange to recite a blessing that relates to the sun since Jewish observance generally is more oriented toward the moon. Rosh chodesh, Judaism’s celebration of each new month, is based on the new moon and creates the foundation for the Jewish calendar.
So why this Blessing of the Sun? What is the importance of celebrating the anniversary of its creation?
The Torah describes the sun’s creation in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1, lines 14 to 19. We recite these lines from the Torah as part of the Birkat Hachamah service. In lines 14 and 15, God creates two lights that appear to be equal in strength and are responsible for separating day and night, as well as marking holidays, days and years. The Torah does not name these lights, but one can assume that the light of the night is the moon and the light of the day is the sun.In line 16, however, something happens: The Torah makes a distinction between the lights. God pronounces the light of the day (the sun) to be the greater light and the light of the night (the moon) to be the lesser light.What causes the change from the apparent equality of sun and moon in lines 14-15 to the dominance of the sun in line 16? Why this dominance of the sun when it simply is simply not the case in Judaism? While both the sun and moon play an equal role in separating day and night, the moon as noted plays a more dominant role in marking holidays and determining the calendar. Why, then, does God pronounce the sun to be dominant over the moon? The Rabbis of the Talmud tell us a story intimately connected to these lines from the Torah (Chullin 60b). When the sun and moon were created, the Rabbis tell us, they indeed were equal. But the moon asked God, Is it possible for two kings to utilize the same crown? There cannot be two lights that rule the sky; one must be dominant.
In the story, God seems to have heard the question as a display of the moon’s arrogance and punished the moon by having the moon diminish itself. The moon responded,Is it fitting that because I said a correct thing before You that I must diminish myself? The moon explained that it was not being arrogant and simply was stating a fact: There cannot be two kings.God, heeding the moon’s words, rescinded the punishment and made the moon more dominant than the sun in determining the calendar and holidays. God also instructed the Jewish people to prepare a chaparah, an atonement sacrifice, on God’s behalf. In other words, according to the Talmud, God acknowledged that God committed a sin against the moon. The sacrifice was offered every rosh chodesh and is fulfilled today by offering the Musaf prayer (the additional prayer) on rosh chodesh.Perhaps in telling this story, the Rabbis of the Talmud wished to present a new way of looking at God. The story portrays a God who can commit a sin and do teshuvah (repentance), a startling new way to look at God and, certainly, an awesome model for our own practice of teshuvah.While the Blessing of the Sun marks the anniversary of the creation of the sun, it also may be viewed as the anniversary of this Talmudic story. The Rabbis told the story to embellish the description of the creation of the sun and the moon in the Torah. Their embellishment created a moment in time in which the Jewish people could look at God in a different way. That moment is commemorated by Birkat Hachamah.On a more general level, think about the way the sun renews itself each day. This can be seen as a model for the way we might renew our relationship with God. Every day the sun rises and sets; so, too, every day we need to renew our understanding of God. Birkat Hachamah is a unique extension of this idea. Thus I believe that when we recite Birkat Hachamah, we must strive to renew our understanding of God, to re-envision God.
Let me share what will be going on in my mind -- my internal iPod -- when I recite Birkat Hachamah this year. Recently I met someone who told me that he had experienced a series of tragedies. He could not reconcile these tragedies with his vision of God, a vision in which God is directly involved in the events of the world. This posed a difficult challenge to his faith in God.Asked for guidance, I tried to help this individual re-envision God. I explained that it is possible to envision a God who is not directly involved in the events of the world. This is not to say that the vision of God being directly involved in the events of the world is incorrect; God is infinite. Therefore we are able to, and perhaps need to, utilize as many visions of God as possible.In a vision of God where God is not directly involved in the events of the world, God gives us hope when all we feel is despair, strength when all we feel is weakness and love when all we feel is hate. God gives us these blessings, and with these blessings we have the ability to make miracles happen.As we recite Birkat Hachamah this year, let us use each day’s new light of the sun to continue to look at God in new ways. In so doing, together with God, we renew creation.(David Kalb is the rabbi of Minyan Yavneh on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the head of academic fellowships at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
CAROL ON ALEX JONES PRISONPLANET.TV
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THIS MURDERER TORTURED, BEHEADED, MUTILATED AND EVEN ATE THIS MOTHERS SON IN THE 5 HOUR SADISTIC KILLING OF THIS WOMANS SON.THIS GUY WAS DEMON POSSESSED FOR SURE. AND NOW HE MIGHT BE FREED FROM THE LUNNY BIN,INSTEAD OF GETTING THE ELECTRIC CHAIR TO HELL. LISTEN TO ALEX JONES (APR 7,09)AS THE MOTHER WAS ON THE SHOW IN THE LAST HOUR I THINK IT WAS EXPLAINING THE TOTURE AT THE HANDS OF THIS DEMON POSSESSED PERSON.
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Vigil for bus-tragedy victimNo deliberate taker of life should ever be freed: momBy: Ian Hitchen 28/02/2009 1:00 AM
Carol de Delley fights tears looking at pictures of son Tim McLean at vigil Friday. (TIM SMITH / BRANDON SUN)BRANDON -- With tears in her eyes, Carol de Delley kissed her hand and pressed her fingers to a photograph of her slain son, Tim McLean.It was a tender, vulnerable moment during a candlelight vigil held Friday afternoon to honour her son who was killed on a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie last summer.
But minutes earlier, de Delley's voice had been firm as she called for legislative changes to prevent killers who are declared not criminally responsible from being released into the community following a stay in a mental facility.This is what's wrong with the not criminally responsible defence and this is what we need to change, de Delley said during the vigil at Brandon City Hall. I will not allow my son's death to be for nothing.McLean, 22, was stabbed and beheaded aboard a Greyhound bus last July.Vincent Li is charged with second-degree murder in connection with the killing and is scheduled to stand trial in Winnipeg, beginning Tuesday morning.The court is expected to hear from psychologists who reportedly agree Li should be sent to hospital instead of prison.A judge could decide that Li is not criminally responsible (NCR) due to his mental state at the time of the killing.Li would be spared a criminal record and go to a mental health facility.A provincial review board would then examine his case annually to determine if he has responded to treatment well enough to be released into the community.There'd be no minimum period that Li would have to serve in a mental health facility.It's that possibility of release that concerns de Delley, who said she believes that killers should be kept in custody for life, whether they're mentally ill or not.I believe that there should be treatment and punishment, not treat and release,de Delley told about 35 people at the vigil.
Black Tim's Law T-shirts and badges printed with the slogan, Death Penalty for Revenge. Tim's Law for Justice were for sale at the ceremony.The money from their sale is to go to the De Delley Foundation for Life.Tim's Law refers to de Delley's call for legislative changes that would mean anyone who voluntarily takes another person's life would lose their freedom for the rest of their natural life, whether they're declared NCR or not.To that end, she's established the De Delley Foundation for Life to raise money to support lobbying efforts.Friday's vigil was also held to honour McLean, to ensure that he isn't forgotten next week as Li becomes the focus of attention during his trial.De Delley remembered her son as an energetic, adventurous young man who commanded attention when he entered a room. Timothy was probably the most alive person I have ever known,she said.The vigil was held in Brandon because many of McLean's relatives and friends live here.
Mandi Nagy of Brandon was moved to tears at the vigil.
A former co-worker at North American Midway Entertainment, Nagy said she'd known McLean for a couple of years and travelled with him to fairs.She now treasures a picture of him she snapped the last time she saw him.I look at the picture every day now because it brings back those memories and his voice, said Nagy who wore a T-shirt with McLean's picture printed on it.ihitchen@brandonsun.com
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Italy seeks survivors, prepares to bury quake dead By Deepa Babington and Antonella Cinelli APR 7,09
L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – Rescuers searched by lamplight in freezing temperatures for a second night for survivors of a quake which killed at least 235 people in central Italy, while relatives prepared to bury the first of the dead.Thousands of survivors of Italy's worst quake in three decades passed a fitful night in tent villages as a series of strong aftershocks hit the mountainous region of Abruzzo, hampering rescue efforts and causing at least one more death.The strongest tremor since Monday's quake toppled buildings, including parts of the basilica and the station, as the sun set on the historic mountain city of L'Aquila, which bore the brunt of the disaster in the early hours of Monday.L'Aquila's mayor said the 5.6 magnitude aftershock left one resident dead while in Rome, 100 km (60 miles) to the west, furniture shook in the upper floors of buildings. A 76-year-old Roman man was reported to have died of a heart-attack.In the last two nights, I've slept three hours at most. I feel physically and mentally tired from the lack of sleep and the fear,said Ilaria Ciani, 35, spending the night in a large blue tent at a survivors camp in a sports field near L'Aquila.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has declared a national emergency and sent troops to the area, set up 20 tent camps and 16 field kitchens to provide hot food and accommodation for 14,000 people.Hundreds of emergency workers, many of them volunteers, used mechanical diggers and their bare hands to remove piles of rubble in L'Aquila and nearby villages devastated by the quake.The death toll rose steadily throughout the day but rescuers burst into applause when a 20-year-old girl was found alive 42 hours after the quake in the ruins of a four-storey building.A rescue like this is worth six months work,said Claudio, a fireman from Venice.At least 235 bodies were being stored in a makeshift mortuary at a school for Italy's Finance Police outside L'Aquila, local media reported.The first funeral of a victim was due to take place on Wednesday, in the town of Loreto Aprutino, led by the archbishop of Pescara. Some 1,000 people remain injured, about 100 seriously, and fewer than 50 were missing.
Many of the victims were students at L'Aquila's university. A fireman from the port of Pescara who came to help rescue efforts collapsed in tears after unearthing the body of his stepdaughter, who was studying there.Working by floodlight, rescuers used a crane to gradually dismantle a ruined university dormitory in the hope of finding survivors. As darkness fell, workers dragged out the bodies of two of the four students still missing.
FOREIGN SOLIDARITY
Authorities estimate 17,000 people have lost their homes, leaving them facing a grim Easter weekend. With many local churches badly damaged, people prepared to celebrate the feast in makeshift chapels in the tent villages.Berlusconi, whose government already faces a huge public debt, said he would try to access hundreds of millions of euros in EU disaster funds to rebuild Abruzzo within two years.Shows of solidarity came from home and abroad, with U.S. President Barack Obama and Russia's Vladimir Putin among the leaders calling Berlusconi to express sympathy and offer aid.The prime minister has said Italy did not require foreign aid, but opposition leaders have urged him to reconsider, in the first sign of political divisions over the disaster.Italian soccer teams said revenue from this weekend's matches would be sent to help victims. Universities and newspapers throughout the country took collections, while hotels provided thousands of cheap rooms for survivors and rescuers. Officials said the quake would severely affect the region's economy, much of which is based on tourism, agriculture and small, family-run businesses. Police increased their patrols on the streets amid reports of looting of homes and shops. Some residents and experts expressed anger that even supposedly earthquake-proof modern buildings had collapsed.
In California, an earthquake like this one would not have killed a single person, said Franco Barberi, head of a committee assessing quake risks at the Civil Protection Agency.Monday's quake was particularly lethal because it struck shortly after 3:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) as residents slept. Flattening houses, centuries-old churches and other buildings in 26 cities and towns, it was the worst since November 1980, when some 2,735 people died in southern Italy.(Writing by Daniel Flynn; additional reporting by Rome bureau; Editing by Matthew Jones)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
U.S. forecaster lowers Atlantic hurricane prediction AccuWeather By Jim Loney Jim Loney – Tue Apr 7, 5:39 pm ET
MIAMI (Reuters) – Citing cooler seas and the prospect of a weak El Nino, Colorado State University's hurricane team lowered its 2009 Atlantic forecast on Tuesday to 12 tropical storms, of which six could become hurricanes.The research team, founded by storm forecasting pioneer William Gray, said the season could see two major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. Hurricanes of that magnitude have sustained winds of more than 110 miles per hour (177km per hour).In its December forecast, the CSU team predicted 14 storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes in the 2009 season, which begins on June 1 and lasts six months.The researchers said sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean had cooled in recent months. Hurricanes draw energy from warm sea water, so cooler water could diminish hurricane activity.In addition, the eastern Pacific Ocean could see the current weak La Nina conditions change to neutral, or even weak El Nino, by June, the researchers said. El Nino is a warm water phenomenon that can suppress Atlantic hurricane formation.If El Nino conditions develop for this year's hurricane season, it would tend to increase levels of vertical wind shear and decrease levels of Atlantic hurricane activity,Gray said.Bill Read, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, downplayed the impact of El Nino, noting there have been active hurricane seasons during similar phases of the El Nino cycle. But he said cooler water could have an influence.Some of my forecasters have pointed out to me that the tropical Atlantic waters at this time of the year this year are somewhat cooler than the last several seasons,he said in an interview with Reuters at the National Hurricane Conference in Austin, Texas. If that continues that may be a more important factor on this season.While disaster management experts say long-range hurricane forecasting helps raise public awareness, many note it is an inexact science. Some forecasters, including the Colorado State team, have been well off target in recent years.Colorado State predicted 15 tropical storms for the 2005 season, but a record 28 formed.You're talking trying to discern weather events from a climate-type forecast. Therein lies a huge difficulty right there,Read said. That science is still in its infancy.
FORECASTS CLOSELY WATCHED
The forecasts are closely watched by energy, commodities and insurance markets, particularly since the devastating 2005 season, when a series of hurricanes rolled through Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and Hurricane Katrina, the costliest in U.S. history, swamped New Orleans.Colorado State predicted a 31 percent chance that a major hurricane would hit the U.S. Gulf coast this year, compared to a 30 percent long-term average. For the U.S. East Coast, the probability was 32 percent, compared to 31 percent long-term.The 2008 Atlantic season was one of the busiest on record, with 16 tropical storms, of which eight became hurricanes. Five were of Category 3 or higher.Cuba bore the brunt of last season's destructive storms. Three major hurricanes hit the Caribbean island, causing an estimated $10 billion damage.The long-term average for the Atlantic hurricane season is about 10 tropical storms and six hurricanes. But experts said a period of heightened Atlantic hurricane activity started around 1995 and was expected to last 25 to 40 years.London-based Tropical Storm Risk on Monday forecast 15 tropical storms, 7.8 hurricanes and 3.6 major hurricanes.(Additional reporting by Erwin Seba in Austin, Texas, editing by Chris Wilson)
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 08,2009
09:30 AM +4.88
10:00 AM +45.16
10:30 AM -3.19
11:00 AM +6.37
11:30 AM +34.49
12:00 PM +42.45
12:30 PM +48.42
01:00 PM +84.34
01:30 PM +79.49
02:00 PM +59.73
02:30 PM +12.90
03:00 PM -1.76
03:30 PM -2.85
04:00 PM +47.55 7837.11
S&P 500 825.16 +9.61
NASDAQ 1590.66 +29.05
GOLD 881.40 -1.90
OIL 49.38 +0.93
TSE 300 8933.81 +109.06
CDNX 950.70 -1.78
S&P/TSX/60 544.59 +7.41
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
GOLD AT OPEN TODAY $887.90.OIL AT OPEN TODAY $48.23.
Dow +30 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -16 points at low today so far.
Dow +99 points at high today so far.
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -11.24%
S&P -9.71%
Nasdaq -0.98%
TSX Advances 576,declines 933,unchanged 258,Volume 2,071,293,019.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 306,Declines 429,Unchanged 358,Volume 183,585,966.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -16 points at low today so far.
Dow +99 points at high today so far.
DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,648,declines 934,unchanged 95,New Highs 4,New Lows 44.
Volume 3,243,814,713.
NASDAQ Advances 1,817,declines 788,unchanged 127,New highs 6,New Lows 16.
Volume 1,056,030,816.
TSX Advances 773,declines 555,unchanged 286,Volume 1,236,043,115.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 278,Declines 302,Unchanged 301,Volume 110,295,360.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -38 points at low today so far.
Dow +99 points at high today so far.
Dow +0.61% today,Volume 255,307,389.
S&P +1.18% today,Volume N/A.
Nasdaq +1.86% today,Volume 1,714,707,164.
FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT America for sale … to China? Leading economist requests dollar protection larger than U.S. homes April 06, 2009 10:54 am Eastern 2009WorldNetDaily
Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium online newsletter published by the current No. 1 best-selling author, WND staff writer and columnist. Subscriptions are $99 a year or $9.95 per month for credit card users. Annual subscribers will receive a free autographed copy of The Late Great USA, a book about the careful deceptions of a powerful elite who want to undermine our nation's sovereignty.A high profile Chinese economist has begun circulating a new plan under which the U.S. government would guarantee foreign investments, so foreign nations with large dollar holdings in U.S. Treasury debt could convert that debt into equity to buy and own U.S. assets or invest in the nation's infrastructure without risk of loss, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports. In the process, much of U.S. industry and infrastructure would be sold to the Chinese.
In the Financial Times of London, Yu Qiao, a professor of economics in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsighua University in Beijing, proposed a plan for the U.S. government to guarantee foreign investments in the United States. Corsi noted that while WND has reported that the Internet rumors Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had given China an eminent domain claim on U.S. homes and property were untrue, the plan advanced by Yu Qiao must be interpreted as a proposal the Chinese government wants the U.S. to give serious consideration. Secretary Clinton may not have pledged American homes to China, but the Obama administration may be willing to grant a financial guarantee as an incentive for China to convert U.S. debt into Chinese direct equity investment to establish Chinese ownership in U.S. successful corporations and potentially profitable infrastructure projects,Corsi wrote. The Obama administration is now willing to put the U.S. up for sale to China to induce China to keep financing U.S. government deficit spending.As WND has reported, the U.S. Treasury is preparing to borrow $2.5 trillion this year and another $4 trillion in 2010, an amount that would increase by 65 percent in two years the $10 trillion in national debt accumulated since George Washington was president. WND has also reported the U.S. government faces more than $65 trillion in unfunded Social Security and Medicare benefits scheduled to be paid out largely to baby boomer retirees in coming decades. Foreign nations now hold $1.6 trillion of U.S. government debt, with Asia, including China and Japan, holding half of the outstanding public-owned U.S. Treasury bonds.
China now directly or indirectly holds more than $1.2 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds.
If the U.S. dollar were to collapse under the weight of Obama's trillion dollar budget deficits, holders of U.S. debt could face substantial losses that the Financial Times estimated would devastate Asians' hard-earned wealth and terminate economic globalization.The basic idea is to turn Asian savings, China's in particular, into real business interests rather than let them be used to support U.S. over-consumption,Yu Qiao wrote, reflecting themes commonly suggested by Chinese government officials. Red Alert's author, whose books The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, said the plan to convert Chinese debt to equity investments in the United States could easily add another $1 trillion to outstanding Obama administration guarantees issued in the current economic crisis. Corsi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks. In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines.For more information on China's push to acquire U.S. assets and for financial guidance during difficult times, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, The Obama Nation.
Cities Collapsing throughout the USA
The Coming Depression April 7, 2009
With enough abandoned lots to fill the city of San Francisco, Motown is 138 square miles divided between expanses of decay and emptiness and tracts of still-functioning communities and commercial areas. Close to six barren acres of an estimated 17,000 have already been turned into 500 mini- farms,demonstrating the lengths to which planners will go to make land productive.The city, like the automakers, has to shrink to match what’s left, said June Thomas, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.The issue is how,she said.There’s no vision.
People are moving out of the city, trying to find work,said David Martin of Wayne State University’s Urban Safety Program. Those who stay can’t afford to move out.
Property abandonment is getting so bad in Flint that some in government are talking about an extreme measure that was once unthinkable — shutting down portions of the city, officially abandoning them and cutting off police and fire service.[Mayor] Brown said that as more people abandon homes, eating away at the city’s tax base and creating more blight, the city might need to examine shutting down quadrants of the city where we (wouldn’t) provide services.He did not define what that could mean — bulldozing abandoned areas, simply leaving the vacant homes to rot or some other idea entirely.Cul-de-sac neighborhoods once filled with the sound of backyard barbecues and playing children are falling silent. Communities like Elk Grove, Calif., and Windy Ridge, N.C., are slowly turning into ghost towns with overgrown lawns, vacant strip malls and squatters camping in empty homes.In its depth and suddenness, the U.S. economic and financial crisis is shockingly reminiscent of moments we have recently seen in emerging markets (and only in emerging markets): South Korea (1997), Malaysia (1998), Russia and Argentina (time and again).But there’s a deeper and more disturbing similarity: elite business interests—financiers, in the case of the U.S.—played a central role in creating the crisis, making ever-larger gambles, with the implicit backing of the government, until the inevitable collapse. More alarming, they are now using their influence to prevent precisely the sorts of reforms that are needed, and fast, to pull the economy out of its nosedive. The government seems helpless, or unwilling, to act against them.
GM in intense preparations for bankruptcy: source By Chelsea Emery and Soyoung Kim Chelsea Emery And Soyoung Kim – Tue Apr 7, 4:48 pm ET
NEW YORK/DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Corp is in intense and earnest preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing, a source familiar with the company's plans told Reuters on Tuesday.A plan to split the corporation into a new company made up of the most successful units, and an "old" one of its less-profitable units, is gaining momentum and is seen as the most sensible configuration, said another source familiar with the talks.If the plan goes through, the new GM would be expected to assume some previous creditor debt from bankruptcy proceedings, such as secured debt, said the second source, adding that GM bondholders were likely to lose substantial value in bankruptcy.Certain GM dealer and litigation claims would also be hurt if the new company structure is used as part of a company bankruptcy, said the second source.
The sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.GM declined to comment.Shares of GM fell almost 12 percent on the New York Stock Exchange to end at $2.00.GM bonds were mixed in afternoon trading, with GM's benchmark 8.375 percent note up less than 1 cent on the dollar to 11.75 cents, yielding more than 70 percent, versus about 11 cents with a 75 percent yield on Monday, according to MarketAxess data. The bond had slipped in earlier trading.Two other GM notes were slightly lower in late afternoon trading.
OPTIONS FOR GM
GM, operating on $13.4 billion of government loans since the start of the year, has until June 1 to complete a reorganization plan. The government has warned that the alternative would be bankruptcy.The company is under pressure to cut unsecured debt by two-thirds, turn half its remaining payments into a union healthcare trust in the form of equity rather than cash, and reduce hourly wages and benefits to match those paid by foreign automakers.Chrysler, owned by Cerberus Capital Management LP, is also facing possible bankruptcy. The automaker has until April 30 to complete an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat.Moody's Investor Service said in a note dated Monday that it maintains its view for a 70 percent risk of bankruptcy for Detroit's three automakers given the difficulty of restructuring out of court.GM Chief Executive Fritz Henderson has said the company prefers to restructure out of court but that it could go to court if needed.If a company of this size files for bankruptcy, they have to be preparing for it now as time is running out and bankruptcy becomes more real, said Van Conway, a turnaround expert at Conway MacKenzie.But I think they should attempt to avoid it because emerging out of bankruptcy would be very difficult. Given its very large, global operations and various stakeholders, the process will take a lot longer than what people think,Conway said.
BANKRUPTCY NOT EASY
Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement said on Tuesday that the Canadian government must be prepared for GM or Chrysler to enter bankruptcy protection. Some bankruptcy experts say a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing could help GM reorganize by allowing it to restructure its debt and force changes to contracts with dealers, unions and suppliers. But the process could be disruptive, or derailed, said Patrick Carothers, a partner at Thorp, Reed & Armstrong LLP. For example, if auto-parts makers lose the ability to collect money owed, the industry as a whole could suffer. In addition, GM could lose control over its restructuring as the formation of a new company would be in the hands of a bankruptcy judge, not corporate executives or their advisers. The dangers of a bankruptcy are significant,said Carothers, who has parts suppliers and car dealers as clients.I don't believe a bankruptcy is inevitable. There's still a lot of political pressure to save it.Last month, GM offered bondholders 8 cents on the dollar in cash, 16 cents on the dollar in new unsecured debt, and a 90 percent stake in the automaker, one person with knowledge of the term sheet told Reuters.
(Reporting by Chelsea Emery in New York and Soyoung Kim in Detroit; Additional reporting by Dena Aubin, Walden Siew in New York; Editing by Derek Caney, Matthew Lewis and Toni Reinhold)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Centre-left not set for major gains in EU poll
HONOR MAHONY 07.04.2009 @ 16:17 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The economic crisis is not expected to result in a major swing to the left in the European elections, new statistics predict, while the nature of the European Parliament is expected to be changed by an increase in eastern European politicians in the biggest political group.A new website, using national opinion polls and previous European election results, suggests that the group spread in the EU parliament will remain largely the same after June, with the centre-right EPP in the lead, followed by the socialists and the liberals.Concretely, the EPP is expected to clock in with 249 seats (down from 288), the socialists 209 seats (down from 217) and the liberals 87 seats (down from 100 seats), with the overall parliament downsizing to 736 MEPs from the current 785-strong house.Presenting the research on Tuesday (7 April), Professor Simon Hix, a political scientist at the London School of Economics, said that while the combined forces of the centre-right are currently larger than the combined forces of the centre-left, in the new parliament the centre-left and the centre-right will be evenly balanced.Some socialists have suggested that the ongoing economic crisis, largely seen as being the result of laissez-faire right wing policies, would see them cash in at the ballot boxes in June.However, the research suggests this will not happen due to the predicted results in the EU's six largest member states – Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Spain and Poland, accounting for 56 percent of the seats in the parliament – where the centre-left is not expected to do well.
Less of the protest vote
The prediction means the centre-right will continue to top the results despite the announced defection of the British Conservatives (27 MEPs) to form another party.
Eurosceptic and far-right parties are not expected to profit from the economic discontent among EU citizens, either, and are set to retain their current number of seats (about 45). Meanwhile, Libertas, a pan-European Party campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty, is not expected to gain any seats with citizens voting on issues closer to home, such as the effects of recession.That protest [vote] is going to different parties. Five years ago, it seemed to go more to the anti-Europeans,said the political scientist.The economic crisis is making this even more of a national election than usual as voters look to their governments and ask how are you going to address this economic crisis? As a whole, the London professor predicted that the progressive bloc – in reference to issues such as immigration and the environment - in the parliament would be slightly bigger while the economically liberal bloc would be slightly smaller.
Changing influence of eastern MEPs
Inside the parliament, the politics between groups and MEPs is to be shaken up however. This is due in part to the fact that the EPP is expected to be a lot less German and a lot more Polish something that may change the colour or nature of politics in the EPP.Currently, MEPs from the new member states are marginalised according to the academic, and do not hold many positions of power in the EU assembly, such as committee chairs.Another factor shaking up the way the parliament works is the likely formation of a new group, the European Conservatives, by the British Conservatives. It is expected to host the Czech Civic Democrats and some of the parties of the nationalist UEN group, which is not expected to survive after June.
The European Conservatives are expected to be the fourth biggest group in the parliament with 58 seats, followed by the leftist GUE group with 48 seats (up from the current 41), the Greens with 39 seats (down from 43) while the current eurosceptic Independence/Democracy group is also expected to fizzle out after June, getting only 17 seats, less than the threshold needed to form a political group.
Professor Hix, whose research with Professor Michael Marsh from Trinity College Dublin was commissioned by PR firm Burson-Marsteller, admitted that predicting elections is a pretty mad thing to do and noted that if the average turnout is much lower than in previous years (it reached a low of 45.47% in 2004) everything is up for grabs and his predictions could change enormously.A significantly higher turnout, meanwhile, will likely mean governing parties will do better.The research has already come in for criticism. The UK Independence Party said the figures are skewed and based on false data while the Party of Europea Socialists said it was too early to make predictions about the vote outcome and insisted its aim is to be the biggest group in the parliament.
NKOREA LAUNCH ROOM PICTURE OF MISSLE
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Iranian nuke plot vaporized in the city: NY banks unwittingly aided in material transfers, says DA BY Melissa Grace DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, April 7th 2009, 1:03 PM
The Manhattan district attorney's office has smashed a sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks, the Daily News has learned.Officials plan to unseal a 118-count indictment Tuesday accusing a Chinese national of setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran. This case will cut off a major source of supply to Iran and it shows how they are going ahead full steam to get a nuclear bomb. Long-range missiles they pretty much have already,a law enforcement source close to the case said. We think it is one of the largest suppliers of weapons of mass destruction to Iran.Experts say Iran, under the leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, appears close to amassing enough nuclear material to make an atom bomb. A United Nations embargo bans Iran from acquiring the high-tech metals needed to make a long-range nuclear weapon a reality. The indictment will outline the financial conspiracy behind 58 different transactions, including shipments of various banned materials from China to Iran between 2006 and late 2008.
Among them:
33,000 pounds of a specialized aluminum alloy used almost exclusively in long-range missile production.
66,000 pounds of tungsten copper plate, which is used in missile guidance systems.
53,900 pounds of maraging steel rods, a superhard metal used in uranium enrichment and to make the casings for nuclear bombs.
The recipient is believed to have been a subsidiary of the Iranian Defense Ministry.
The suspect, who is not believed to be in the U.S., set up four bogus import-export companies that did business with six Iranian shell firms, one source said.
They took elaborate steps to conceal the identity of the shipper and the recipient, the source said. The deals went through several New York banks, which cooperated when the alleged plot was uncovered. The New York banks were completely unaware, the source said. Authorities first stumbled over the scheme seven months ago in an unrelated probe into Iranian money-laundering through Lloyd's, a British bank. In January, Lloyd's paid a $350 million fine to settle accusations it stripped information from Iranian money transfers to New York banks, hiding where the cash came from.Officials said they suspected that money was also used to finance Iran's nuke program.The important thing is to put sunlight on these deals,the law enforcement source said.mgrace@nydailynews.com
Obama praises Islam, calls for Mideast peace By Caren Bohan and Paul de Bendern – Tue Apr 7, 9:07 am ET
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama ended his trip to Muslim Turkey on Tuesday by calling for peace and dialogue with Islam and the creation of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel.In his first trip as president to the Muslim world, Obama sought to rebuild ties after anger at the invasion of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and accusations his predecessor George W. Bush was biased in favor of Israel.I came to Turkey because I am deeply committed to rebuilding a relationship between the United States and the people of the Muslim world, one that is grounded in mutual interest and mutual respect, Obama said.I believe we can have a dialogue that is open, honest, vibrant...And I want you to know that I am personally committed to a new chapter of American engagement,he said at a meeting with Turkish youngsters.Obama's visit, in which he said America will never be at war with Islam, marks a strong shift in U.S. policy after his predecessor Bush upset Muslims with his backing for Israel, invasion of Iraq and branding of Iran as part of an axis of evil.
Obama will now need to flesh out, through policies, his promises to engage the Muslim world.
Amr El-Choubaki, an Egyptian political analyst with the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said Obama differed fundamentally from Bush's world view and lacked his high-handedness toward Arabs and Muslims.He pleased Muslims with his call to push aggressively for a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, in a challenge to the new Israeli government of right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu.I believe that peace in the Middle East is possible. I think it will be based on two states side by side, a Palestinian state and a Jewish state,Obama said.I think in order to achieve that, both sides are going to have to make compromises. I think we have a sense of what those compromises should be and will be. Now what we need is political will and courage on the part of leadership.
HOPE AND CHANGE
Meeting with the youth symbolizes the expectation of hope and change, because the previous administration had a problem with its image in the Muslim world,said Salih Altundere, 23, studying international relations at Bogazici University.Obama rejected critics who said his speech in Prague on nuclear disarmament, his calls for Middle East peace and engagement with Iran were too idealistic.My attitude is that all these things are hard. I am not naive. If it would be easy it would already be done, he said.Moving the ship of state is a slow process. States are like big tankers. They are not like speedboats. You can't just whip them around and go in a new direction. Instead, you slowly move it and eventually you end up in a very different place.
He admitted America had made mistakes.
When it comes to Iraq, I opposed the war in Iraq. I thought it was a bad idea. Now that we're there, I have the responsibility to make sure that, as we bring troops out, that we do so in a careful enough way that you don't see a complete collapse into violence,Obama said.Respecting Muslim sensitivity, he said he would like to wrap up the youth meeting before the call to prayer.(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick, Ayla Jean Yackley; Alexandra Hudson and Daren Butler; Writing by Paul de Bendern; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
Virginia Fusion Center Releases Homegrown Terrorism Document Infowars April 8, 2009 Lori Price of Citizens for a Legitimate Government posts the following:
The Lowlights:
Spanning 39,598 square miles, Virginia has a population of almost 7.5 million residents. Roughly half of these residents are concentrated in the northern Virginia, central Virginia, and Hampton Roads regions. All three of these regions feature ethnically diverse populations with cultural ties to the Middle East, the horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and other areas heavily impacted by terrorist activities.
Virginia’s network of colleges and universities also represent a potential avenue of entry for terrorist operatives and a possible forum for recruitment of sympathizers.
In addition to reviewing information directly reported to the VFC, surveys were sent to all Virginia local law enforcement agencies to determine the extent of terrorism activities throughout the state. Information of interest included not only event-specific data, but also suspicious traffic stops or activities consistent with pre-operational attack planning. Assessments of the overall threat posed by specific terror and extremist groups or movements were completed utilizing the Project SLEIPNIR: Revised Long Matrix for Criminal Extremism utilized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
OVERVIEW OF TERRORIST AND EXTREMIST DATA IN VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM THREAT
Al-Qa’ida
Al-Shabaab
HAMAS
Hizballah
Jama’at al-Tabligh
Jama’at ul Fuqra
Lashkar-e Tayyiba
Muslim Brotherhood
DOMESTIC TERRORISM THREAT
Anarchist Extremists
Black Separatist Extremists
Homegrown Islamic Extremism
Lone Wolf Extremists
Militia Extremists
Special Interest Extremism
White Nationalist Extremism
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of the 2009 Terrorism Threat Assessment is to convey potential terrorism threats affecting the Commonwealth of Virginia. Terrorism, for the purpose of this report, is defined as politically motivated violence or threat of violence designed to coerce action or to prevent others from taking intended actions. While there is no intelligence that indicates terrorists are currently planning attacks in Virginia, the presence of extremists, evidence of trends linked to terrorism, and the abundance of potential targets, suggests that the potential for Virginia to be targeted remains significant.As with previous years, the threat from terrorist and extremist groups can be categorized as international or domestic threats. Each of these groups holds particular values and political goals and thus represents a different type of threat to Virginia and the U.S. The international terrorism threat to Virginia and the nation as a whole stems from several radical Islamic militant groups. The domestic terrorist threat is comprised of a wide variety of groups, to include special interest groups, anarchists, race-based groups, including black separatists and white supremacists, militias and sovereign citizens, and homegrown extremists.In Virginia, identified activities have been limited primarily to non-violent acts and crimes committed to raise funds to finance group activities. Some activities also relate to criminal endeavors generally used by extremists to further operational planning. The Virginia Fusion Center monitors international, national, and regional trends relating to terrorism and criminal extremism for indicators of emerging activity in the Commonwealth. Terrorism trends of greatest concern in 2009 include terrorism tradecraft, recruitment, and radicalization, terrorist use of technology, and terrorism financing.
As terrorists adapt and evolve to offset existing counterterrorism measures, they have successfully exploited available technology and modified their tactics to ensure successful operations. While several of the trends noted are applicable to all terrorist and extremist groups, increasing linkages are noted to specific critical infrastructure and key resources. As such, this product highlights, where possible, connections noted between groups, their behaviors, and potentially targeted infrastructure.Based on the information gathered, the Commonwealth of Virginia could be potentially targeted for terrorist attack due to its location and proximity to Washington, D.C., its concentration of critical infrastructure, and the amount of extremist activity documented in Virginia. In order to detect and deter terrorist attacks, it is essential that information regarding suspected terrorists and suspicious activity in Virginia be closely monitored and reported in a timely manner. Additionally, it remains important to determine the extent of existing trends and to collect, analyze, and disseminate this information to law enforcement partners in Virginia.
OVERVIEW
The 2009 Terrorism Threat Assessment, in keeping with the Virginia Fusion Center (VFC) mission of integrating threat information from public and private sector agencies to prevent terrorist attacks, is designed to afford law enforcement, homeland security, and policy making officials terrorism threat intelligence of relevance to Virginia. Included in this assessment is an overview of identified groups, individuals, or activities; known or suspected trends; and critical infrastructure or key resources with significant U.S. or Virginia reporting within the past five years. While there is no intelligence that indicates terrorists are planning attacks in Virginia, the abundance of potential targets provides terrorists with many possibilities and opportunities throughout the Commonwealth. Information contained in this Threat Assessment is current as of February 2009 and will be
reviewed and updated on an annual basis. In addressing the terrorism threat to Virginia, it is important to define terrorism and the scope of activities included. Terrorism can be defined as politically motivated violence or threat of violence designed to coerce others into actions they would not otherwise undertake or to refrain from actions they desired to take. Terrorism is generally directed against civilian targets and is intended to produce effects beyond immediate physical damage, to produce long-term psychological repercussions, especially fear, on a particular target audience. For the purposes of this Threat Assessment, terrorism is divided into two categories: international and domestic terrorism. International terrorism involves threats emanating primarily from the international jihad movement, foreign terrorist organizations, and state sponsors of terrorism. Domestic terrorism includes threats from special interest groups, white supremacists, black separatists, and anti-government groups. Terrorism trends included in this assessment are activities, such as recruitment, financing, training, and planning, conducted in furtherance of terrorism.Terrorism remains a threat to Virginia, not only because of its proximity to the nation’s capitol, but also due to the volume of significant infrastructure. Such infrastructure includes military installations such as the Pentagon; two nuclear power plants; and a major East Coast seaport. Virginia is also home to a wide range of transportation sector targets of interest, including interstate highways with high-traffic bridges and tunnels; railways and subways; and aviation and port facilities. While other infrastructure sectors, such as water, energy, and information technology could be targeted, it is also possible that terrorist attention could be directed toward law enforcement at the local, state, and federal levels.
Spanning 39,598 square miles, Virginia has a population of almost 7.5 million residents. Roughly half of these residents are concentrated in the northern Virginia, central Virginia, and Hampton Roads regions. All three of these regions feature ethnically diverse populations with cultural ties to the Middle East, the horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and other areas heavily impacted by terrorist activities. While the vast majority of these individuals are law-abiding, this ethnic diversity also affords terrorist operatives the opportunity to assimilate easily into society, without arousing suspicion. Virginia’s network of colleges and universities also represent a potential avenue of entry for terrorist operatives and a possible forum for recruitment of sympathizers. Additionally, Virginia’s correctional system remains an attractive venue for recruitment and radicalization relating to terror organizations and hate groups. The VFC has compiled information from local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as open sources to create this Threat Assessment. In addition to reviewing information directly reported to the VFC, surveys were sent to all Virginia local law enforcement agencies to determine the extent of terrorism activities throughout the state. Information of interest included not only event-specific data, but also suspicious traffic stops or activities consistent with pre-operational attack planning. Assessments of the overall threat posed by specific terror and extremist groups or movements were completed utilizing the Project Sleipnir: Revised Long Matrix for Criminal Extremism utilized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Although the primary objective of this report is to share valuable terrorism intelligence with public safety agencies in Virginia, a secondary goal is to highlight the types of data needed from local, state, and federal partners of the VFC. While every effort was made to ensure accurate, thorough reporting of the terrorist threat, it is expected that not every incident of possible terrorist activity will be reported or forwarded to the VFC.
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BECKS COVERUP OF FEMA CAMPS
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Glenn Beck’s Lame Attempt to Debunk FEMA Camps
Kurt Nimmo Infowars April 7, 2009
Disinfo operative Glenn Beck’s shabby and comical attempt to “debunk” FEMA camps was theater of the absurd at its most revealing. Recall Beck a few weeks ago trying to bait us with a promise to investigate the camps. He came off as alarmed over the prospect of internment camps and this set the hook. Stay tuned, folks, he teased, we’ll get to the bottom of this.Glenn Beck, the seasoned operative, never intended a serious exposé. He planned to make those of us who know FEMA camps exist look like fools and churls. In order to do this he enlisted the retread James Meigs, editor-in-chief of the washed-up Hearst publication, Popular Mechanics. Back in 2005, Meigs spearheaded an effort to debunk the 9/11 truth movement with a Popular Mechanic cover story. Meigs and his crew of supposed debunkers approached the science of 9/11 very selectively and were more interested in ad hominem attacks leveled against researchers. Meigs concluded his diatribe by stating that those who peddle fantasies that this country encouraged, permitted or actually carried out the attacks are libeling the truth — and disgracing the memories of the thousands who died that day.
Meigs turned his fact checking (through omission) into a book — Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts. It was published by Hearst, the media corporation famous for its association with the expression yellow journalism. Hearst told the illustrationist Frederic Remington during the Spanish-American War: You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.Nothing much as changed since 1895.
In the video here, Beck says Meigs heads up the independent group he assigned the task of debunking the conspiracy nuts who believe in the existence of FEMA camps. As evidence the nutters are way out in left field, Meigs dissects a widely discredited video of a Beech Grove, Indiana, Amtrak facility filmed by the Indianapolis attorney Linda Thompson.You may recall Thompson’s earlier video about the government siege and subsequent incineration of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. She made a series of absurd claims about the siege, for instance insisting the BATF and FBI used flame throwers mounted on tanks against the Davidians. It didn’t take long for Soldier of Fortune Magazine to discredit Thompson’s accusations. She mysteriously vanished into the ether after people began asking if she might be a government operative.Meigs and Beck say nothing about this. This footage, which appears in multiple videos on YouTube, is from a documentary filmed 15 years ago,explains Beck’s Fox News web page. Yet today, it’s been viewed nearly 1.5 million times online. The woman who made the video, Linda Thompson, was one of the pioneers of the militia movement in the United States — except she was so extreme, she embarrassed even her fellow militants. Far from a death camp, Beech Grove is the primary maintenance facility for Amtrak’s long-distance trains, overhauling and repairing approximately 700 passenger cars a year. Company officials, who’ve heard these theories for years, welcomed our film crew, and the superintendent of the facility showed us anything we wanted to see.Beck does not bother to mention the fact serious FEMA camp researchers discarded the video years ago. Meigs and Beck are more interested in linking the video to Thompson and the militia movement (created as a scary bogeyman by the corporate media in the 1990s) and connecting that up with the ugly specter of the Timothy McVeigh — the same McVeigh photographed at Camp Grafton, North Dakota (the base specializes in demolitions training) in 1993, a mere 18 months before the Oklahoma City bombing. The FBI insisted he was not in the military at the time.In the second installment of this definitive debunking, Beck and his sidekick Meigs show us a satellite photo of a real concentration camp the conspiracy theorists supposedly claim is a FEMA camp. As Alex Jones called it when the photo was used as a teaser at the close of the first installment the previous evening, the camp is located in North Korea (because only communists operate concentration camps, never mind the forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans by Roosevelt during World War 2, a criminal act lavishly defended by the neocon darling Michelle Malkin, a regular on Fox News).
After “debunking” Camp Grayling, Michigan, where there is a mock camp complete with barbed wire and watch towers for National Guard training, Beck and Meigs begin talking about how the conspiracy theorists are out of touch with reality and refuse to accept the obvious truth there are no camps and our loving government would never do such a thing, not like the evil communists in North Korea (or the evil mullahs in Iran, although our intrepid investigators do not mention the latter).As expected, Beck’s long awaited debunking does not bother to cover more substantial territory and instead relies on old discredited video footage and photos that look good on television.Beck and his protégé completely ignore solid and irrefutable evidence that does not look good on television and might prompt bored viewers to switch over to the Comedy Channel or actually turn off the idiot tube and read a book.No mention of the contract awarded in January of 2006 to Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, to build temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement) Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs,(emphasis added) according to Fox News.It was said Rex-84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was also about rounding up and detaining illegal immigrants. The Rex 84 Program was originally established on the reasoning that if a mass exodus of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA,notes Allen L Roland.In fact, Rex-84 Alpha Explan (as it was also known) was cooked up by FEMA and 34 other federal civil departments and agencies (with a few NATO nations to boot) for the express purpose of detaining large numbers of American citizens.The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major demonstrations and strikes that would affect continuity of government and/or resource mobilization. To fight subversive activities, there was authorization for the military to implement government ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, the arrest of certain unidentified segments of the population, and the imposition of martial law,Diana Reynolds writes (The Rise of the National Security State: FEMA and the NSC).No mention of master military contingency plan Operation Garden Plot developed in response to the civil disorders of the 1960s and still operational under the control of the U.S. Northern Command. Garden plot was last activated (as Noble Eagle) to provide military assistance to civil authorities following September 11, 2001. The Pentagon also activated it to restore order during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Operation Garden Plot is the program to control the population.Rex 84, Operation Garden Plot and its sister program Operation Cable Splicer were not enough for the control freaks in government, so in May, 2007, George Bush signed executive new orders NSDP51 (also known as PDD 51) and HSDP20 to replace Rex 84. Bush’s orders established that the executive would take over all state and local governments during a national state of emergency.More recently the National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645 was introduced in Congress. It mandates the establishment of national emergency centers to be located on military installations for the purpose of to providing temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster, according to the bill (see Paul Joseph Watson: New Legislation Authorizes FEMA Camps In U.S.). Ominously, the bill also states that the camps can be used to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security,an open ended mandate which many fear could mean the forced detention of American citizens in the event of widespread rioting after a national emergency or total economic collapse,writes Watson.
None of this was mentioned by Beck or Meigs.
Or did they mention the long list of executive orders establishing draconian mechanisms for martial law and detention and work camps, all in violation of Article 4Section 4 of the United States Constitution (see Establishing martial law in the United States).Finally, Beck and Meigs don’t want you to know about and would certainly never cover the U.S. Army’s Civilian Inmate Labor Program under Army Regulation 210–35.Maybe in the future Glenn Beck will commission another investigation into the existence of not only FEMA camps but the plans formulated by government to impose martial law in the United States.I’m not going to hold my breath in the meantime.
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