ITS 4:35PM FEB 03,2011 AND AN UPDATE ON THIS STORY.THE CRTC IS REVIEWING THIS DECISION OF BEING CONTROL FREAKS WITH THE INTERNET.AND CHARGING PEOPLE WAY MORE FOR UNLIMITED INTERNET USE.
Harper Conservatives to quash CRTC decision killing unlimited Internet
By Mark Kennedy, Postmedia News February 3, 2011 11:56 AM - The Harper government is expected to quash a CRTC ruling forbidding flat-fee unlimited Internet.
OTTAWA — The Harper government will overrule a recent decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that effectively kills unlimited Internet-pricing packages — unless the telecommunications regulator backs down first, Postmedia News has learned.The CRTC should be under no illusion. The prime minister and the minister of industry will reverse this decision unless the CRTC does it itself, a senior government source, speaking only on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday evening.Industry Minister Tony Clement confirmed that the government will overrule the CRTC late Wednesday night on his Twitter account, saying that the CRTC must go back to the drawing board.The ultimatum sets the stage for an awkward appearance before a parliamentary committee Thursday by Konrad von Finckenstein, chairman of the CRTC, who will now be making his public remarks with a threat hanging over his head.
Last week, the CRTC ruled that usage-based billing, the model used by large Internet providers such as Bell Canada and Rogers Communications to charge customers extra for exceeding monthly download limits, will apply to smaller providers too. Until now, those smaller providers could offer unlimited Internet packages; the ruling means they no longer can. Clement had previously hinted that the federal government may quash the controversial ruling, and the prime minister has asked for a review of it. But the government’s blunt ultimatum to the CRTC suggests any review would be pro forma.It’s also another slap to the face for von Finckenstein’s agency delivered by the Tory government. In 2009, the government decided to let Globalive Wireless Management Corp. set up cellphone service in Canada even the CRTC blocked the bid because of foreign-ownership rules. Von Finckenstein and CRTC vice-chair Len Katz were slated to appear before the House of Commons industry committee Thursday to answer questions about the CRTC ruling.Large companies that employ usage-based billing say customers who stream movies or games on the Internet use too much extra bandwidth and the billing model helps the companies manage this use.Opponents of usage-based billing say preventing companies from offering unlimited access stifles competition and innovation.(c) Postmedia News -Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/Harper+Conservatives+quash+CRTC+
decision+killing+unlimited+Internet/4214199/story.html#ixzz1CvyzKGQn
CRTC backtracks on controversial Internet-billing decision
Steven Chase Globe and Mail Update Thursday, Feb. 03, 2011 4:20PM EST
Increase text size Canada’s embattled telecom regulator has announced it will review its controversial decision to effectively end unlimited access Internet plans in the wake of complaints from consumers and the Harper government threat to reverse the ruling.In light of these requests and the evident concerns expressed by Canadians, the Commission has decided to delay the implementation of usage-based billing for wholesale customers by at least 60 days,CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein told a Commons committee on Thursday.CRTC to review Net-billing ruling [We will] launch, of our own motion, a review of our decision.His announcement comes less than one day after the Industry Minister delivered an ultimatum to the CRTC, warning Ottawa will scrap its decision if the regulator doesn’t rescind it itself.Tony Clement made the surprise announcement late Wednesday night via his Twitter account.
The Conservative government has taken a keen interest in the CRTC ruling that's sparked a massive consumer backlash and caught the attention of all political parties in Ottawa.Prime Minister Stephen Harper personally intervened on the file to signal his displeasure this week.Reversing the CRTC decision would mean that independent Internet service providers would not be forced to switch to per-byte billing from unlimited access accounts.It would not prevent the big Internet providers from continuing to use metered billing as they have for years. But the fact that smaller providers could offer unlimited accounts has likely acted as a competitive check on the market and helped keep prices from rising.Mr. Clement and the Harper cabinet have overturned the CRTC before, of course, by striking down the regulator's ruling that Globalive, which now operates Wind Mobile, couldn't launch service in the regulated sector because of foreign financial backing.On Tuesday, Mr. Harper himself took the unusual step of intervening in the controversy, putting more heft behind Mr. Clement's move to review the CRTC ruling – a strong sign of the Conservatives' displeasure with the regulator's decision.
THIS IS OUR LOVING BELL CANADA HERE IN CANADA THATS RIPPING OFF THE CUSTOMERS AND SINCE WIGHTMAN INTERNET DOES NOT HAVE THESE RESTRICTONS-I CAN SEE WIGHTMAN GETTING ALOT OF INTERNET CUSTOMERS FROM EX BELL CUSTOMERS.ALL SWITCH OVER TO WIGHTMAN FOLKS.SHOW BELL THEY CAN NOT BE AN INTERNET DICTATOR HERE IN CANADA.I PHONED WIGHTMAN MY SELF AND THEY SAID IT WAS ONLY BELL THAT WAS DOING THIS.WIGHTMAN HAS NO RESTRICTIONS SHE TOLD ME.
WIGHTMANS TELOPHONE NUMBER IF YOU WANT TO SWITCH FROM BELL
1-888-477-2177
WIGHTMAN INTERNET SITE
http://www.wightman.ca/residential/internet/internet-fibre.php
CTV ON DOWNLOAD LIMITS
http://www.ctv.ca/consumer/#TopVideoAn
Unlimited Internet packages see drastic cut with new rules
By QMI AGENCY JAN 31,2011 Brantford Expositor
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2011/01/31/todays-uproar-draconian-internet-bandwidth-caps-in-canada/
Unlimited Internet packages are quickly becoming a thing of the past as usage-based billing for Internet services is set to take effect in March.TekSavvy customers -- accustomed to unlimited Internet packages-- received an e-mail Saturday notifying them that their Internet usage would be capped beginning March 1.From March 1 on, users of the up to 5Mbps packages in Ontario can expect a usage cap of 25Gb (60Gb in Quebec), substantially down from the 200Gb or unlimited deals TekSavvy was able to offer before the CRTC's decision to impose usage based billing, the e-mail to customers read.The cut in service stems from a Jan. 25 decision by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission -- Canada's regulator for all things television, radio and Internet -- which granted the country's Internet providers the right to charge wholesale buyers of Internet service their normal retail rates, at a 15% discount.
The move has widely drawn the ire of consumers.What can I do with 25Gb/ month shared between two people? asked Samuel Pikelin, a student in Ottawa. I basically can't use the Internet anymore. The move is also dangerous for businesses, including U.S. firm Netflix, which recently launched in Canada to offer unlimited streaming video on-demand for $8 a month.For Daniel Bader, a Torontobased technology journalist and editor-in-chief of thecellularguru.com,the CRTC's decision to crack down on companies like TekSavvy is poorly thought out.This is a stark and stifling enterprise and will only negatively affect Canadian business productivity and lower the amount that people are willing to invest in exploring the web. I cannot justify spending $8/ month on Netflix when I have to worry merely about my surfing habits causing me to go over my monthly allotment, he said.In order to run a business, and to facilitate a non-cable dominated home entertainment system, one needs access to bandwidth, he added. Whatever inroads the television networks had made to streaming video will be negated overnight. An online petition, run by OpenMedia.ca,has gathered more than 100,000 signatures from people hoping to have the policy overturned. Signatories to that petition include several municipal mayors.Concerns expressed through the petition include the future of companies that offer cloud-based computing services, online gaming through systems like Xbox Live, online backup services and others.The CRTC decision argues that usage-based billing is a way to effectively manage Internet traffic so that high-activity users do not hamper the experience for lower-activity users.
Detractors argue that the policy negates the efficiencies and consumer choice offered by allowing third-party companies like TekSavvy the chance to by wholesale bandwidth from larger service providers.TekSavvy is also asking its customers to fight the change.Like our customers, and Canadian Internet users everywhere, we are not happy with this new development. We will continue our efforts to fight the imposition of exorbitant bandwidth charges on usage, they wrote to customers. We will keep you informed of our efforts and look to you for your help.Article ID# 2954077
Usage-based billing comes increasingly under fire by all sides
INTERNET By QMI Agency Last Updated: January 31, 2011 2:07pm
StoryCommentsEmail StoryPrintSize A A AReport Typo.Unlimited Internet packages are quickly becoming a thing of the past as usage-based billing for Internet services is set to take effect in March.TekSavvy customers -- accustomed to unlimited Internet packages -- received an e-mail Saturday notifying them their Internet usage would be capped beginning March 1.From March 1 on, users of the up to 5Mbps packages in Ontario can expect a usage cap of 25Gb (60Gb in Quebec), substantially down from the 200Gb or unlimited deals TekSavvy was able to offer before the CRTC's decision to impose usage based billing, the e-mail to customers read.The cut in service stems from a Jan. 25 decision by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission -- Canada's regulator for all things television, radio and Internet -- which granted the country's Internet providers the right to charge wholesale buyers of Internet service their normal retail rates, at a 15% discount.The move has widely drawn the ire of consumers. What can I do with 25Gb/month shared between two people? asked Samuel Pikelin, a student in Ottawa. I basically can't use the Internet anymore.
The move is also dangerous for businesses, including U.S. firm Netflix which recently launched in Canada to offer unlimited streaming video on-demand for $8 a month.For Daniel Bader, a Toronto-based technology journalist and editor-in-chief of thecellularguru.com, the CRTC's decision to crack down on companies like TekSavvy is poorly thought out.This is a stark and stifling enterprise and will only negatively affect Canadian business productivity and lower the amount people are willing to invest in exploring the web. I cannot justify spending $8 per month on Netflix when I have to worry merely about my surfing habits causing me to go over my monthly allotment, he said. In order to run a business, and to facilitate a non-cable dominated home entertainment system, one needs access to bandwidth, he added. Whatever inroads the television networks had made to streaming video will be negated overnight.An online petition, run by OpenMedia.ca, has gathered more than 100,000 signatures from people hoping to have the policy overturned. Signatories to that petition include several municipal mayors.Concerns expressed through the petition include the future of companies that offer cloud-based computing services, online gaming through systems such as X-Box Live, online backup services and others.The CRTC decision argues usage-based billing is a way to effectively manage Internet traffic so high-activity users do not hamper the experience for lower-activity users. Detractors argue the policy negates the efficiencies and consumer choice.
HERES A GOOD EXCUSE FOR LIMITED INTERNET I MUST SAY.THE NWO ONE WORLD GOVERNMENTERS WILL TRY ANYTHING TO CONTROL US.
Is the Internet running out of addresses?
CTV.ca News Staff Date: Tuesday Feb. 1, 2011 11:18 AM ET
The Internet is one step closer to running out of addresses on Tuesday, after the international organization tasked with handing out Internet protocol addresses assigned two of the seven remaining blocks. Early on Tuesday, the organization that oversees net addresses in the Asia Pacific region, the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), requested two blocks of Internet protocol (IP) addresses, each comprising about 16 million, from the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA). Foreseeing the decline of addresses, the IANA had reserved five blocks, known as /8s, which will now be handed out to five regional agencies across the world in mid-March. The registries will then be able to hand out domain names as they see fit.This means the Internet could run out of addresses as early as Sept. 2011, Axel Pawlik, the managing director of European IP Addresses (RIPE), the organization charged with overseeing Internet registries in Europe told the BBC.
The Internet was developed on version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) and was designed in 1986 by Vint Cerf, who in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald said it was his fault that addresses on the world's biggest network are dwindling. I thought it was an experiment and I thought that 4.3 billion [addresses] would be enough to do an experiment, Cerf told The Sydney Morning Herald. Cerf, who now works for Google as its chief Internet evangelist, said he didn't know his experiment wouldn't end. The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), one of five not-for-profit internet registries, urged all members of the Internet industry in a press release Tuesday to move forward with a new registry system to sustain the growth of the Internet.APNIC reiterates that IPv6 is the only means available for the sustained ongoing growth of the Internet, and urges all Members of the Internet industry to move quickly towards its deployment.The IPv6 registry system, which will get a 24 hour test drive on June 8, 2011 by companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo is meant to urge the rest of the world to update their services to the IPv6 system before an official transition period.Lorenzo Colitti, a network engineer for Google, calmed fears in a blog post saying most Internet users won't need to do anything special to prepare for the switch and that 99.95 per cent of users will be unaffected when IPv6 goes mainstream.However, there could be problems with connectivity, said Colitti, if home network devices are not configured properly.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
MUBARAK PULLS A FALSE FLAG EVENT
Obama’s Blocking Of New Power Plants Triggers Nationwide Blackouts - Fury as hospitals hit with outages while post-industrial collapse of America accelerates
Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, February 3, 2011
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obamas-blocking-of-new-power-plants-triggers-nationwide-blackouts.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPM9H_tI6g&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aTf5gjvNvo&feature=player_embedded
The rolling blackouts now being implemented in Texas and across the country as record cold weather grips the United States are a direct consequence of the Obama administration’s agenda to lay siege to the coal industry, launch a takeover of infrastructure under the contrived global warming scam, and help usher in the post-industrial collapse of America.Planned power outages conducted by utility companies have caused outrage amongst officials at four major hospitals in Texas, at Parkland, Baylor, Methodist and Presbyterian Dallas.Because of the sensitive life-saving equipment, hospitals are considered critical care facilities, and supposed to be exempt from rolling blackouts, reports CBS 11. That’s exactly what Presbyterian Dallas was led to believe. We were of the understanding that hospitals and other critical-care providers were not supposed to be affected by planned outages,said hospital spokesman Stephen O’Brien.As well as hospitals, nursing homes, fire stations, police stations, other emergency response facilities have also been hit with outages as demand soars due to freezing temperatures. Many places in Texas now rely on Mexico to supply their power.Mexico’s state electricity company on Wednesday started supplying electricity to the US state of Texas, where demand shot up amid unusually cold temperatures and caused power outages,reports AFP.
Hospitals are supposed to be exempt from the blackouts which hit yesterday, with power company Oncor attributing the outages to a mistake, but there were no such mistakes when it came to supplying power to Cowboys Stadium. The government has ensured that the blackouts will not affect Super Bowl venues, a decision that has left residents furious.Street lights and traffic lights have also been hit by the outages, causing traffic build-ups and other hazards more typically associated with a decrepit underdeveloped country, and not with the supposed leading light of the prosperous first world.The inability of power companies to meet demand is almost exclusively a consequence of the Obama administration’s publicly stated goal to bankrupt the coal industry and in turn ram through the de-industrialization of America under the guise of the phony global warming mantra.Even as China and Mexico are allowed to build dozens of new power plants every year, the United States is barely permitted to construct a handful, as the Environmental Protection Agency takes control of refineries and power plants under the completely fraudulent pretext of preventing global warming even as the country experiences some of the coldest weather seen for decades.Texas has been the epicenter in a battle over the Obama administration’s drive to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Texas is the only state that has refused to implement a permit process.Austin said it would not establish such a scheme for greenhouse gas emissions because the US Environmental Protection Agency had no authority to regulate them as of January 2, reported the Financial Times.Twelve other states are mounting a legal challenge to the federal government’s authority but they, unlike Texas, are implementing the new measures while the dispute makes its way through the courts.
Local environmental officials in Texas were again involved in a fight with the EPA after the, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality last week approved an air permit for the $3.2 billion Las Brisas Energy Center despite a formal EPA request that the commission delay issuing the permit until EPA’s concerns about the plant’s emissions impacts are fully addressed.The Obama administration is conducting industrial warfare against the United States. Obama’s 2008 promise to bankrupt the coal industry by placing suffocating restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions even as China and other countries are given free reign to pollute at will is now coming to fruition. This is all part of the post-industrial revolution that the global elite have promised to enforce as a means of turning the United States into a decaying banana republic.It’s also about the federal government’s drive to seize infrastructure and sell it to the highest foreign bidder by gradually squeezing the ability of local independent utility companies to meet demand in American communities.The shortage of power plants to meet the demands of Texans and other Americans in areas across the country is down to the EPA holding local utility companies hostage and blocking them from building desperately needed new power plants.Obama’s January greenhouse gas rules restricted the amount of emissions allowable for new power plants, while giving an exemption to General Electric, an intimate administration insider.Although local coal companies are the ones suffering, the transnational power giants are in on the scam. Knowing that they can move production offshore and produce energy with far fewer costs and restrictions in places like Mexico and China, huge oil companies are constantly contriving artificial scarcity as a means of driving up prices and eliminating competition from smaller utility companies.
As internal memos from the mid-1990′s that were leaked in 2005 show, oil giants like Mobil, Chevron and Texaco are deliberately reducing refining capacity to drive, independent refiners out of business in an effort to increase prices.Large oil companies have for a decade artificially shorted the gasoline market to drive up prices,said FTCR president Jamie Court. Oil companies know they can make more money by making less gasoline.
ISAIAH 19:1-15
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.(ETHNIC TRIBE AGAINST ETHNIC TRIBE)
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.(THEY WILL SEEK MEDIUMS-OCCULTISTS)
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? (THESE LAST VERSES SEEM TO SAY THAT EGYPT IS DECIEVED BY THE ISLAMIC RELIGION TO ME)(VERSES 11-14)
12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.(NO WORK-THATS WHY THESE RIOTS IN EGYPT NOW)
WELL NOW WE FIND OUT MUBARAK SET FREE THE CAPTIVES FROM JAILS THE LAST FEW DAYS AND YESTERDAY THEY CAME RIDING ON CAMELS AND HORSES TO THE SQUARE AND STARTED BEATING AND WHIPPING PEACEFUL PROTESTORS.THIS WAS A TYPICAL FALSE FLAG EVENT SO EGYPTS CITIZENS WOULD CALL ON MUBARAK TO SAVE THEM FROM THE MUBARAK SUPPORTED CRIMINALS. UNFORTUNATELY FOR MUBARAK THIS FALSE FLAG NEVER WORKED AND EGYPTS CITIZENS STILL WANT HIM OUT IMMEDIATELY.
AND WHILE WERE ON THE ODDITY OF HORSES AND CAMELS BEING USED AS WAR CHARIOTS OF WAR AGAIN.HERES A FEW SCRIPTURES ABOUT TRIBULATION HAPPENINGS.AND GUESS WHAT THE HORSES SCRIPTURES TALK ABOUT.MUSLIM COUNTRIES...SURPRISE...SURPRISE.AND ALL THE ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES MENTIONED IN THESE SCRIPTURES ARE CURRENTLY OR ON THE VERGE OF BEING OVERTHROWN.PROPHECY IS LITERALLY COMING TO PASS QUICKLY.
MUBARAKS FALSE FLAG SETUP
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353128/Egypt-crisis-Secret-police-blamed-peace-protesters-gunned-Cairo.html
REVELATION 9:7-10
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
EZEKIEL 38:4-7
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
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Heavy gunfire rings out in Cairo protest square By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press - FEB 03,11
CAIRO – Bursts of heavy gunfire rained into Cairo's Tahrir Square before dawn Thursday, killing at least three anti-government demonstrators among crowds still trying to hold the site after an assault by supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, according to a protest organizer.Sustained bursts of automatic weapons fire and powerful single shots rattled into the square starting at around 4 a.m., and was continuing more than an hour later.Protest organizer Mustafa el-Naggar said he saw the bodies of three dead protesters being carried toward an ambulance. He said the gunfire came from at least three locations off in the distance and that the Egyptian military, which has ringed the square with tank squads for days to try to keep some order, did not intervene.Footage from AP Television News showed two bodies being dragged from the scene. The health minister did not answer a phone call seeking confirmation of the deaths.Throughout Wednesday, Mubarak supporters charged into the square on horses and camels brandishing whips while others rained firebombs from rooftops in what appeared to be an orchestrated assault against protesters trying to topple Egypt's leader of 30 years. Three people died in that earlier violence and 600were injured.The protesters accused Mubarak's regime of unleashing a force of paid thugs and plainclothes police to crush their unprecedented nine-day-old movement, a day after the 82-year-old president refused to step down. They showed off police ID badges they said were wrested from their attackers. Some government workers said their employers ordered them into the streets.
Mustafa el-Fiqqi, a top official from the ruling National Democratic Party, told The Associated Press that businessmen connected to the ruling party were responsible for what happened.The notion that the state may have coordinated violence against protesters, who had kept a peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square for five days, prompted a sharp rebuke from the Obama administration.If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.The clashes marked a dangerous new phase in Egypt's upheaval: the first significant violence between government supporters and opponents. The crisis took a sharp turn for the worse almost immediately after Mubarak rejected the calls for him to give up power or leave the country, stubbornly proclaiming he would die on Egyptian soil.His words were a blow to the protesters. They also suggest that authorities want to turn back the clock to the tight state control enforced before the protests began.Mubarak's supporters turned up on the streets Wednesday in significant numbers for the first time. Some were hostile to journalists and foreigners. Two Associated Press correspondents and several other journalists were roughed up in Cairo. State TV had reported that foreigners were caught distributing anti-Mubarak leaflets, apparently trying to depict the movement as foreign-fueled.
After midnight, 10 hours after the clashes began, the two sides were locked in a standoff at a street corner, with the anti-Mubarak protesters hunkered behind a line of metal sheets hurling firebombs back and forth with government backers on the rooftop above. The rain of bottles of flaming gasoline set nearby cars and wreckage on the sidewalk ablaze.The scenes of mayhem were certain to add to the fear that is already running high in this capital of 18 million people after a weekend of looting and lawlessness and the escape of thousands of prisoners from jails in the chaos.
Soldiers surrounding Tahrir Square fired occasional shots in the air throughout the day but did not appear to otherwise intervene in the fierce clashes and no uniformed police were seen. Most of the troops took shelter behind or inside the armored vehicles and tanks stationed at the entrances to the square.Why don't you protect us? some protesters shouted at the soldiers, who replied they did not have orders to do so and told people to go home.The army is neglectful. They let them in, said Emad Nafa, a 52-year-old among the protesters, who for days had showered the military with affection for its neutral stance.Some of the worst street battles raged near the Egyptian Museum at the edge of the square. Pro-government rioters blanketed the rooftops of nearby buildings and hurled bricks and firebombs onto the crowd below — in the process setting a tree ablaze inside the museum grounds. Plainclothes police at the building entrances prevented anti-Mubarak protesters from storming up to stop them.
The two sides pummeled each other with chunks of concrete and bottles at each of the six entrances to the sprawling plaza, where 10,000 anti-Mubarak protesters tried to fend off more than 3,000 attackers who besieged them. Some on the pro-government side waved machetes, while the square's defenders filled the air with a ringing battlefield din by banging metal fences with sticks. In one almost medieval scene, a small contingent of pro-Mubarak forces on horseback and camels rushed into the anti-government crowds, trampling several people and swinging whips and sticks. Protesters dragged some riders from their mounts, throwing them to the ground and beating their faces bloody. The horses and camels appeared to be ones used to give tourists rides around Cairo.Dozens of men and women pried up pieces of the pavement with bars and ferried the piles of ammunition in canvas sheets to their allies at the front. Others directed fighters to streets needing reinforcements.The protesters used a subway station as a makeshift prison for the attackers they managed to catch. They tied the hands and legs of their prisoners and locked them inside. People grabbed one man who was bleeding from the head, hit him with their sandals and threw him behind a closed gate.Some protesters wept and prayed in the square where only a day before they had held a joyous, peaceful rally of a quarter-million, the largest demonstration so far.Egyptian Health Minister Ahmed Sameh Farid said three people died and at least 611 were injured in Tahir Square. One of those killed fell from a bridge near the square; Farid said the man was in civilian clothes but may have been a member of the security forces.Farid did not say how the other two victims, both young men, were killed. It was not clear whether they were government supporters or anti-Mubarak demonstrators.
After years of tight state control, protesters emboldened by the uprising in Tunisia took to the streets on Jan. 25 and mounted a once-unimaginable series of demonstrations across this nation of 80 million. For the past few days, protesters who camped out in Tahrir Square reveled in a new freedom — publicly expressing their hatred for the Mubarak regime.After our revolution, they want to send people here to ruin it for us, said Ahmed Abdullah, a 47-year-old lawyer in the square. Another man shrieked through a loudspeaker: Hosni has opened the door for these thugs to attack us.The pressure for demonstrators to clear the square mounted throughout the day, beginning early when a military spokesman appeared on state TV and asked them to disperse so life in Egypt could get back to normal.It was a change in attitude by the army, which for the past few days had allowed protests to swell with no interference and even made a statement saying they had a legitimate right to demonstrate peacefully.Then the regime began to rally its supporters in significant numbers for the first time, demanding an end to the protest movement. Some 20,000 Mubarak supporters held an angry but mostly peaceful rally across the Nile River from Tahrir, responding to calls on state TV.They said Mubarak's concessions were enough. He has promised not to run for re-election in September, named a new government and appointed a vice president for the first time, widely considered his designated successor.They waved Egyptian flags, their faces painted with the black-white-and-red national colors, and carried a large printed banner with Mubarak's face as police officers surrounded the area and directed traffic. They cheered as a military helicopter swooped overhead.
They were bitter at the jeers hurled at Mubarak.I feel humiliated, said Mohammed Hussein, a 31-year-old factory worker. He is the symbol of our country. When he is insulted, I am insulted.Sayyed Ramadan, a clothing vendor said: Eight days with no security, safety, food or drink. I earn my living day by day. The president didn't do anything. It is shame that we call him a dog.Emad Fathi, 35, works as a delivery boy but since the demonstrations, he has not gone to work.I came here to tell these people to leave, he said. The mosques were calling on people to go and support Mubarak, he said.The anti-Mubarak movement has vowed to intensify protests to force him out by Friday.State TV said Vice President Omar Suleiman called on the youth to heed the armed forces' call and return home to restore order. From the other side, senior anti-Mubarak figure Mohamed ElBaradei demanded the military intervene immediately and decisively to stop this massacre.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Suleiman to condemn the violence and urge Egypt's government to hold those responsible for it accountable, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.Protesters had maintained a round-the-clock, peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square since Friday night, when the military was first deployed and police largely vanished from the streets.
After celebrating their biggest success yet in Tuesday's demonstration, the crowd thinned out overnight. By morning a few thousand protesters remained. Mubarak supporters began to gather at the edges of the square a little after noon, and protesters formed a human chain to keep them out.In the early afternoon, around 3,000 pro-government demonstrators broke through and surged among the protesters, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.They tore down banners denouncing the president, fistfights broke out, and protesters grabbed Mubarak posters from the hands of the supporters and ripped them to pieces.From there, it escalated into outright street battles as hundreds poured in to join each side. The battle lines at each of the entrances surged back and forth for hours. Each side's fighters stretched across the width of the four-lane divided boulevard, hiding behind abandoned trucks and holding sheets of corrugated metal as shields from the hail of stones.At the heart of the square, young men with microphones sought to keep up morale. Stand fast, reinforcements are on the way, said one. Youth of Egypt, be brave. Groups of bearded men lined up to recite Muslim prayers before taking their turn in the line of fire.Bloodied young men staggered or were carried into makeshift clinics set up in mosques and alleyways by the anti-government side.Women and men stood ready with water, medical cotton and bandages as each wave returned. Scores of wounded were carried to a makeshift clinic at a mosque near the square and on other side streets, staffed by doctors in white coats. One man with blood coming out of his eye stumbled into a side-street clinic.As night fell, some protesters went to get food, a sign they plan to dig in for a long siege. Hundreds more people from the impoverished district of Shubra showed up later as reinforcements.
Wednesday's events suggest the regime aims to put an end of the unrest to let Mubarak shape the transition as he chooses over the next months. Mubarak has offered negotiations with protest leaders over democratic reforms, but they have refused any talks until he steps down.As if to show the public the crisis was ending, the government began to reinstate Internet service after days of an unprecedented cutoff. State TV announced the easing of a nighttime curfew, which now runs from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. instead of 3 p.m. to 8 a.m.AP correspondents Sarah El Deeb, Hamza Hendawi, Diaa Hadid, Lee Keath, Michael Weissenstein and Maggie Michael contributed to this report.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU FEB 03,2011
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -13.01
10:30 AM -41.13
11:00 AM -22.15
11:30 AM -18.75
12:00 PM -3.89
12:30 PM -9.65
01:00 PM -6.31
01:30 PM -3.51
02:00 PM -8.77
02:30 PM -1.21
03:00 PM +17.90
03:30 PM +28.30
04:00 PM +20.29 12,062.26
S&P 500 1307.10 +3.07
NASDAQ 2753.88 +4.32
GOLD 1,354.30 +22.50
OIL 90.59 -0.27
TSE 300 13,841.30 +161.10
CDNX 2383.91 +39.74
S&P/TSX/60 794.33 +9.16
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -17 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -59 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,335.30.OIL opens at $91.24 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -59 points at low today so far.
Dow +30 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -59 points at low today.
Dow +30 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,427.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NATURAL GAS -189 BCF
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.
Australian coastal towns wind- and wave-battered By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press - FEB 02,2011
TULLY, Australia – The most powerful storm in a century ripped across Australia's northeast coast early Thursday, blasting apart houses, laying waste to banana crops and leaving boats lying in the streets of wind- and wave-swept towns.Authorities said they were surprised to learn at daybreak that no one had been reported killed by Cyclone Yasi, but cautioned that bad news could eventually emerge from communities still cut off after the overnight storm, which left several thousand people homeless.It was really terrifying, but we were safe, said Barbara Kendall, who spent a sleepless night in a basement parking garage with her husband and four cats after being evacuated from their coastal home at Kurrimine Beach. It's a terrifying sound. It's really hard to describe. All I could hear was the screeching of the wind.Emergency services fanned out as to assess damage across a disaster zone stretching more than 190 miles (300 kilometers) in Queensland state, using chain saws to cut through debris blocking roads.The main coastal highway was a slalom course of downed trees and power lines, surrounded by scenes of devastation: Roofs peeled back from houses, fields of sugar cane and banana shredded and flattened, once-green expanses stripped to brown soil.Cyclone Yasi was moving inland and losing power Thursday. But drenching rains were still falling, adding woes to a state where Australia's worst flooding in decades has killed 35 people since late November.
Hundreds of thousands of people had spent the night huddled in evacuation centers or bunkered in their homes as the cyclone hit, packing howling winds gusting to 186 mph (300 kph) and causing tidal surges that swamped coastal areas.Nothing's been spared. The devastation is phenomenal, like nothing I've ever experienced, David Brook, the manager of a resort at Mission Beach, where the core of the storm hit the coast around midnight, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.Vegetation has been reduced to sticks, said Sgt. Dan Gallagher, a Mission Beach police officer.At Tully, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) inland along the storm's path, the main street was littered with twisted pieces of metal that were once house roofs and jagged shards of glass from shattered shopfront windows. Queensland state Premier Anna Bligh said one in three houses in the town of 3,500 people either were demolished by the storm or had the roof ripped off.Tully and Mission Beach were among a handful of towns in a relatively narrow band that bore the brunt of Yasi's fury as it stormed ashore.
Further south, emergency workers had cut their way into the coastal community of Cardwell on Thursday morning and found older houses wrecked and boats pushed up into the town, she said. The entire community was believed to have evacuated before the storm.Along the coastal highway, tidal floodwaters periodically cut the highway, temporarily stranding convoys of people trying to return home to see what was left.
Kendall, from Kurrimine Beach, sat stranded in her car next to her meowing cats Loly, Blossom, Spingle and Junior on her way back from the evacuation center in Innisfail. The trunk of her car was filled with her most essential items: photographs, heirlooms and precious jewelry.Electricity supplies were cut to more than 180,000 houses in the region — a major fruit and sugarcane-growing area and also considered a tourist gateway to the Great Barrier Reef — and police warned people to stay inside until the danger from fallen power lines and other problems was past.As the day wore on, authorities allowed more than 10,000 people to leave the 20 evacuation centers where they stayed overnight.I'm very relieved this morning, but I do stress these are very early reports, Bligh said of the information that no one had been killed overnight.It's a long way to go before I say we've dodged any bullets.Ahead of the storm, Bligh and other officials said the storm was more powerful than any that had struck the coast since 1918, and warned the country to expect widespread and destruction and likely deaths.Amid the chaos, a bit of happy news: a baby girl was born at a Cairns evacuation center just before dawn with the help of a British midwife on holiday, councilor Linda Cooper said.The largest towns in the path of the cyclone, including Cairns and Townsville, were spared the worst of the fierce winds. Trees were knocked down, but few buildings were damaged, authorities said. But Townsville was suffering widespread flooding.
Officials said it was too early to cite a total cost of the damage, but it was sure to add substantially to the $5.6 billion the government says already was caused by the earlier flooding.Queensland officials had warned people for days to stock up on bottled water and food, and to board or tape up their windows. People in low-lying or exposed areas were told to evacuate. Bligh credited the preparations with saving lives.Australia's huge, sparsely populated tropical north is battered annually by about six cyclones — called typhoons throughout much of Asia and hurricanes in the Western hemisphere. Building codes have been strengthened since Cyclone Tracy devastated the city of Darwin in 1974, killing 71 in one of Australia's worst natural disasters.Online: Bureau of Meteorology: http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/index.shtml
Blizzard spreads snowy shroud over nearly half US By DON BABWIN and MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press - 11PM FEB 02,11
CHICAGO – A fearsome storm spread a smothering shroud of white over nearly half the nation Wednesday, snarling transportation from Oklahoma to New England, burying parts of the Midwest under 2 feet of snow and laying down dangerously heavy ice in the Northeast that was too much for some buildings to bear.Tens of millions of people stayed home. The hardy few who ventured out faced howling winds that turned snowflakes into face-stinging needles. Chicago's 20.2 inches of snow was the city's third-largest amount on record. In New York's Central Park, the pathways resembled skating rinks.The storm that resulted from two clashing air masses was, if not unprecedented, extraordinarily rare for its size and ferocious strength.A storm that produces a swath of 20-inch snow is really something we'd see once every 50 years — maybe, National Weather Service meteorologist Thomas Spriggs said.Across the storm's path, lonely commuters struggled against drifts 3 and 4 feet deep in eerily silent streets, some of which had not seen a plow's blade since the snow started a day earlier. Parkas and ski goggles normally reserved for the slopes became essential for getting to work.This is probably the most snow I've seen in the last 34 years, joked 34-year-old Chicagoan Michael George. I saw some people cross-country skiing on my way to the train. It was pretty wild.Although skies were beginning to clear by mid-afternoon over much of the nation's midsection, the storm promised to leave a blast of bitter cold in its wake. Overnight temperatures in the upper Midwest were expected to fall to minus 5 to minus 20, with wind chills as low as minus 30.The system was blamed for the deaths of at least a dozen people, including a homeless man who burned to death on New York's Long Island as he tried to light cans of cooking fuel and a woman in Oklahoma City who was killed while being pulled behind a truck on a sled that hit a guard rail.
Airport operations slowed to a crawl nationwide, and flight cancellations reached 13,000 for the week, making this system the most disruptive so far this winter. A massive post-Christmas blizzard led to about 10,000 cancellations.In the winter-weary Northeast, thick ice collapsed several structures, including a gas station canopy on Long Island and an airplane hangar and garages near Boston. In at least two places, workers heard the structures beginning to crack and narrowly escaped.In Middletown, Conn., the entire third floor of a building failed, littering the street with bricks and snapping two trees. Acting Fire Marshal Al Santostefano said two workers fled when they heard a cracking sound.It's like a bomb scene, Santostefano said. Thank God they left the building when they did.More than a half-dozen states began digging out from up to a foot of snow that made roads treacherous and left hundreds of thousands of homes without power.Chicago public schools canceled classes for a second straight day. And the city's iconic Lake Shore Drive remained shut down, nearly a day after drivers abandoned hundreds of snowbound vehicles.
The famous freeway appeared as if rush hour had been stopped in time, with three lanes of cars cluttering the pavement amid snow drifts that stood as high as the windshields. Bulldozers worked to clear the snow from around the cars, which were then plucked out by tow trucks one by one.As the storm built to full strength Tuesday evening, 26-year-old Lindsey Wilson sat for hours on a stranded city bus. She eventually joined other passengers who tried to walk home. She made it about 100 feet before she couldn't see anything around her, including the bus she'd just left.
Fearing she would be swallowed by mounting snow drifts, Wilson turned back and spent the night on the bus.I thought if I fall over, what would happen if I got buried under a pile of snow? she said.Some motorists came away angry, frustrated that city didn't close the crucial thoroughfare earlier. Others were mad at themselves for going out during the storm or not using another route.In 31 years with the city, I haven't experienced anything like we did at Lake Shore Drive, said Raymond Orozco, chief of staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley. Hundreds of people were very inconvenienced, and we apologize for that.Orozco took responsibility for the decision not to close the drive as soon as snow began to fall Tuesday, but insisted he stood by the choice. He also hinted that his boss wasn't satisfied.I think the mayor knows we can always do better, Orozco said.At dusk Wednesday, more than 200 cars remained on the drive, and city workers planned to work through the night to remove them. But it wasn't clear whether the job would be done in time for the morning rush.Elsewhere, utility crews raced to restore power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where freezing rain and ice brought down electrical lines.Rolling blackouts were implemented across Texas, including in Super Bowl host city Dallas, due to high demand during a rare ice storm. The outages would not affect Cowboys Stadium in suburban Arlington, said Jeamy Molina, a spokeswoman for utility provider Oncor. But other Super Bowl facilities, such as team hotels, were not exempt, she said.
The storm derived its power from the collision of cold air sweeping down from Canada and warm, moist air coming up from the south.The atmosphere doesn't like that contrast in temperature. Things get mixed together and you have a storm like this, said Gino Izzo, another weather service meteorologist.The jet stream up in the atmosphere was like the engine and the warm air was the fuel.The contrasts were most dramatic in Texas earlier in the week, when one part of the state reported temperatures in the single digits and another part had temperatures in the 70s, with near-tropical humidity.That was the breeding ground for this storm, Izzo said. Louis Uccellini, director of the government's National Centers for Environmental Prediction, said the storm also drew strength from the La Nina (la NEEN'-ya) condition currently affecting the tropical Pacific Ocean.La Nina is a periodic cooling of the surface temperatures of the tropical Pacific Ocean, the opposite of the better-known El Nino (el NEEN'-yoh) warming. Both can have significant impacts on weather around the world by changing the movement of winds and high and low pressure systems.Still, some people in the storm's wake shrugged off the weather — and nearly the whole season.It's winter. It should have snow and ice. It's the way it is, said Vincent Zuza of Chatham, N.J., who was waiting for a flight to Salt Lake City for a ski trip after his first flight was canceled Wednesday. You can't get too upset about it, and you can't control it. You just have to make the best of it.
For some of those battered by the storm, there was one whimsical ray of hope: The world's most famous weather forecaster — with four legs — predicted an early spring.
Punxsutawney Phil's handlers told Groundhog Day revelers at Gobbler's Knob, a tiny hill in Punxsutawney, Pa., that the groundhog had not seen his shadow, meaning winter will end within six weeks, according to tradition.Associated Press writers Deanna Bellandi, Karen Hawkins, and Barbara Rodriguez and photographer Kii Sato in Chicago; Jim Salter in St. Louis; Patrick Walters in Philadelphia; Ula Ilnytzky in New York City and Adam Pemble in Newark, N.J., contributed to this report.
Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, February 3, 2011
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obamas-blocking-of-new-power-plants-triggers-nationwide-blackouts.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPM9H_tI6g&feature=player_embedded
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The rolling blackouts now being implemented in Texas and across the country as record cold weather grips the United States are a direct consequence of the Obama administration’s agenda to lay siege to the coal industry, launch a takeover of infrastructure under the contrived global warming scam, and help usher in the post-industrial collapse of America.Planned power outages conducted by utility companies have caused outrage amongst officials at four major hospitals in Texas, at Parkland, Baylor, Methodist and Presbyterian Dallas.Because of the sensitive life-saving equipment, hospitals are considered critical care facilities, and supposed to be exempt from rolling blackouts, reports CBS 11. That’s exactly what Presbyterian Dallas was led to believe. We were of the understanding that hospitals and other critical-care providers were not supposed to be affected by planned outages,said hospital spokesman Stephen O’Brien.As well as hospitals, nursing homes, fire stations, police stations, other emergency response facilities have also been hit with outages as demand soars due to freezing temperatures. Many places in Texas now rely on Mexico to supply their power.Mexico’s state electricity company on Wednesday started supplying electricity to the US state of Texas, where demand shot up amid unusually cold temperatures and caused power outages,reports AFP.
Hospitals are supposed to be exempt from the blackouts which hit yesterday, with power company Oncor attributing the outages to a mistake, but there were no such mistakes when it came to supplying power to Cowboys Stadium. The government has ensured that the blackouts will not affect Super Bowl venues, a decision that has left residents furious.Street lights and traffic lights have also been hit by the outages, causing traffic build-ups and other hazards more typically associated with a decrepit underdeveloped country, and not with the supposed leading light of the prosperous first world.The inability of power companies to meet demand is almost exclusively a consequence of the Obama administration’s publicly stated goal to bankrupt the coal industry and in turn ram through the de-industrialization of America under the guise of the phony global warming mantra.Even as China and Mexico are allowed to build dozens of new power plants every year, the United States is barely permitted to construct a handful, as the Environmental Protection Agency takes control of refineries and power plants under the completely fraudulent pretext of preventing global warming even as the country experiences some of the coldest weather seen for decades.Texas has been the epicenter in a battle over the Obama administration’s drive to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Texas is the only state that has refused to implement a permit process.Austin said it would not establish such a scheme for greenhouse gas emissions because the US Environmental Protection Agency had no authority to regulate them as of January 2, reported the Financial Times.Twelve other states are mounting a legal challenge to the federal government’s authority but they, unlike Texas, are implementing the new measures while the dispute makes its way through the courts.
Local environmental officials in Texas were again involved in a fight with the EPA after the, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality last week approved an air permit for the $3.2 billion Las Brisas Energy Center despite a formal EPA request that the commission delay issuing the permit until EPA’s concerns about the plant’s emissions impacts are fully addressed.The Obama administration is conducting industrial warfare against the United States. Obama’s 2008 promise to bankrupt the coal industry by placing suffocating restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions even as China and other countries are given free reign to pollute at will is now coming to fruition. This is all part of the post-industrial revolution that the global elite have promised to enforce as a means of turning the United States into a decaying banana republic.It’s also about the federal government’s drive to seize infrastructure and sell it to the highest foreign bidder by gradually squeezing the ability of local independent utility companies to meet demand in American communities.The shortage of power plants to meet the demands of Texans and other Americans in areas across the country is down to the EPA holding local utility companies hostage and blocking them from building desperately needed new power plants.Obama’s January greenhouse gas rules restricted the amount of emissions allowable for new power plants, while giving an exemption to General Electric, an intimate administration insider.Although local coal companies are the ones suffering, the transnational power giants are in on the scam. Knowing that they can move production offshore and produce energy with far fewer costs and restrictions in places like Mexico and China, huge oil companies are constantly contriving artificial scarcity as a means of driving up prices and eliminating competition from smaller utility companies.
As internal memos from the mid-1990′s that were leaked in 2005 show, oil giants like Mobil, Chevron and Texaco are deliberately reducing refining capacity to drive, independent refiners out of business in an effort to increase prices.Large oil companies have for a decade artificially shorted the gasoline market to drive up prices,said FTCR president Jamie Court. Oil companies know they can make more money by making less gasoline.
ISAIAH 19:1-15
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.(ETHNIC TRIBE AGAINST ETHNIC TRIBE)
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.(THEY WILL SEEK MEDIUMS-OCCULTISTS)
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? (THESE LAST VERSES SEEM TO SAY THAT EGYPT IS DECIEVED BY THE ISLAMIC RELIGION TO ME)(VERSES 11-14)
12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.(NO WORK-THATS WHY THESE RIOTS IN EGYPT NOW)
WELL NOW WE FIND OUT MUBARAK SET FREE THE CAPTIVES FROM JAILS THE LAST FEW DAYS AND YESTERDAY THEY CAME RIDING ON CAMELS AND HORSES TO THE SQUARE AND STARTED BEATING AND WHIPPING PEACEFUL PROTESTORS.THIS WAS A TYPICAL FALSE FLAG EVENT SO EGYPTS CITIZENS WOULD CALL ON MUBARAK TO SAVE THEM FROM THE MUBARAK SUPPORTED CRIMINALS. UNFORTUNATELY FOR MUBARAK THIS FALSE FLAG NEVER WORKED AND EGYPTS CITIZENS STILL WANT HIM OUT IMMEDIATELY.
AND WHILE WERE ON THE ODDITY OF HORSES AND CAMELS BEING USED AS WAR CHARIOTS OF WAR AGAIN.HERES A FEW SCRIPTURES ABOUT TRIBULATION HAPPENINGS.AND GUESS WHAT THE HORSES SCRIPTURES TALK ABOUT.MUSLIM COUNTRIES...SURPRISE...SURPRISE.AND ALL THE ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES MENTIONED IN THESE SCRIPTURES ARE CURRENTLY OR ON THE VERGE OF BEING OVERTHROWN.PROPHECY IS LITERALLY COMING TO PASS QUICKLY.
MUBARAKS FALSE FLAG SETUP
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353128/Egypt-crisis-Secret-police-blamed-peace-protesters-gunned-Cairo.html
REVELATION 9:7-10
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
EZEKIEL 38:4-7
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
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Heavy gunfire rings out in Cairo protest square By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press - FEB 03,11
CAIRO – Bursts of heavy gunfire rained into Cairo's Tahrir Square before dawn Thursday, killing at least three anti-government demonstrators among crowds still trying to hold the site after an assault by supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, according to a protest organizer.Sustained bursts of automatic weapons fire and powerful single shots rattled into the square starting at around 4 a.m., and was continuing more than an hour later.Protest organizer Mustafa el-Naggar said he saw the bodies of three dead protesters being carried toward an ambulance. He said the gunfire came from at least three locations off in the distance and that the Egyptian military, which has ringed the square with tank squads for days to try to keep some order, did not intervene.Footage from AP Television News showed two bodies being dragged from the scene. The health minister did not answer a phone call seeking confirmation of the deaths.Throughout Wednesday, Mubarak supporters charged into the square on horses and camels brandishing whips while others rained firebombs from rooftops in what appeared to be an orchestrated assault against protesters trying to topple Egypt's leader of 30 years. Three people died in that earlier violence and 600were injured.The protesters accused Mubarak's regime of unleashing a force of paid thugs and plainclothes police to crush their unprecedented nine-day-old movement, a day after the 82-year-old president refused to step down. They showed off police ID badges they said were wrested from their attackers. Some government workers said their employers ordered them into the streets.
Mustafa el-Fiqqi, a top official from the ruling National Democratic Party, told The Associated Press that businessmen connected to the ruling party were responsible for what happened.The notion that the state may have coordinated violence against protesters, who had kept a peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square for five days, prompted a sharp rebuke from the Obama administration.If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.The clashes marked a dangerous new phase in Egypt's upheaval: the first significant violence between government supporters and opponents. The crisis took a sharp turn for the worse almost immediately after Mubarak rejected the calls for him to give up power or leave the country, stubbornly proclaiming he would die on Egyptian soil.His words were a blow to the protesters. They also suggest that authorities want to turn back the clock to the tight state control enforced before the protests began.Mubarak's supporters turned up on the streets Wednesday in significant numbers for the first time. Some were hostile to journalists and foreigners. Two Associated Press correspondents and several other journalists were roughed up in Cairo. State TV had reported that foreigners were caught distributing anti-Mubarak leaflets, apparently trying to depict the movement as foreign-fueled.
After midnight, 10 hours after the clashes began, the two sides were locked in a standoff at a street corner, with the anti-Mubarak protesters hunkered behind a line of metal sheets hurling firebombs back and forth with government backers on the rooftop above. The rain of bottles of flaming gasoline set nearby cars and wreckage on the sidewalk ablaze.The scenes of mayhem were certain to add to the fear that is already running high in this capital of 18 million people after a weekend of looting and lawlessness and the escape of thousands of prisoners from jails in the chaos.
Soldiers surrounding Tahrir Square fired occasional shots in the air throughout the day but did not appear to otherwise intervene in the fierce clashes and no uniformed police were seen. Most of the troops took shelter behind or inside the armored vehicles and tanks stationed at the entrances to the square.Why don't you protect us? some protesters shouted at the soldiers, who replied they did not have orders to do so and told people to go home.The army is neglectful. They let them in, said Emad Nafa, a 52-year-old among the protesters, who for days had showered the military with affection for its neutral stance.Some of the worst street battles raged near the Egyptian Museum at the edge of the square. Pro-government rioters blanketed the rooftops of nearby buildings and hurled bricks and firebombs onto the crowd below — in the process setting a tree ablaze inside the museum grounds. Plainclothes police at the building entrances prevented anti-Mubarak protesters from storming up to stop them.
The two sides pummeled each other with chunks of concrete and bottles at each of the six entrances to the sprawling plaza, where 10,000 anti-Mubarak protesters tried to fend off more than 3,000 attackers who besieged them. Some on the pro-government side waved machetes, while the square's defenders filled the air with a ringing battlefield din by banging metal fences with sticks. In one almost medieval scene, a small contingent of pro-Mubarak forces on horseback and camels rushed into the anti-government crowds, trampling several people and swinging whips and sticks. Protesters dragged some riders from their mounts, throwing them to the ground and beating their faces bloody. The horses and camels appeared to be ones used to give tourists rides around Cairo.Dozens of men and women pried up pieces of the pavement with bars and ferried the piles of ammunition in canvas sheets to their allies at the front. Others directed fighters to streets needing reinforcements.The protesters used a subway station as a makeshift prison for the attackers they managed to catch. They tied the hands and legs of their prisoners and locked them inside. People grabbed one man who was bleeding from the head, hit him with their sandals and threw him behind a closed gate.Some protesters wept and prayed in the square where only a day before they had held a joyous, peaceful rally of a quarter-million, the largest demonstration so far.Egyptian Health Minister Ahmed Sameh Farid said three people died and at least 611 were injured in Tahir Square. One of those killed fell from a bridge near the square; Farid said the man was in civilian clothes but may have been a member of the security forces.Farid did not say how the other two victims, both young men, were killed. It was not clear whether they were government supporters or anti-Mubarak demonstrators.
After years of tight state control, protesters emboldened by the uprising in Tunisia took to the streets on Jan. 25 and mounted a once-unimaginable series of demonstrations across this nation of 80 million. For the past few days, protesters who camped out in Tahrir Square reveled in a new freedom — publicly expressing their hatred for the Mubarak regime.After our revolution, they want to send people here to ruin it for us, said Ahmed Abdullah, a 47-year-old lawyer in the square. Another man shrieked through a loudspeaker: Hosni has opened the door for these thugs to attack us.The pressure for demonstrators to clear the square mounted throughout the day, beginning early when a military spokesman appeared on state TV and asked them to disperse so life in Egypt could get back to normal.It was a change in attitude by the army, which for the past few days had allowed protests to swell with no interference and even made a statement saying they had a legitimate right to demonstrate peacefully.Then the regime began to rally its supporters in significant numbers for the first time, demanding an end to the protest movement. Some 20,000 Mubarak supporters held an angry but mostly peaceful rally across the Nile River from Tahrir, responding to calls on state TV.They said Mubarak's concessions were enough. He has promised not to run for re-election in September, named a new government and appointed a vice president for the first time, widely considered his designated successor.They waved Egyptian flags, their faces painted with the black-white-and-red national colors, and carried a large printed banner with Mubarak's face as police officers surrounded the area and directed traffic. They cheered as a military helicopter swooped overhead.
They were bitter at the jeers hurled at Mubarak.I feel humiliated, said Mohammed Hussein, a 31-year-old factory worker. He is the symbol of our country. When he is insulted, I am insulted.Sayyed Ramadan, a clothing vendor said: Eight days with no security, safety, food or drink. I earn my living day by day. The president didn't do anything. It is shame that we call him a dog.Emad Fathi, 35, works as a delivery boy but since the demonstrations, he has not gone to work.I came here to tell these people to leave, he said. The mosques were calling on people to go and support Mubarak, he said.The anti-Mubarak movement has vowed to intensify protests to force him out by Friday.State TV said Vice President Omar Suleiman called on the youth to heed the armed forces' call and return home to restore order. From the other side, senior anti-Mubarak figure Mohamed ElBaradei demanded the military intervene immediately and decisively to stop this massacre.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Suleiman to condemn the violence and urge Egypt's government to hold those responsible for it accountable, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.Protesters had maintained a round-the-clock, peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square since Friday night, when the military was first deployed and police largely vanished from the streets.
After celebrating their biggest success yet in Tuesday's demonstration, the crowd thinned out overnight. By morning a few thousand protesters remained. Mubarak supporters began to gather at the edges of the square a little after noon, and protesters formed a human chain to keep them out.In the early afternoon, around 3,000 pro-government demonstrators broke through and surged among the protesters, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.They tore down banners denouncing the president, fistfights broke out, and protesters grabbed Mubarak posters from the hands of the supporters and ripped them to pieces.From there, it escalated into outright street battles as hundreds poured in to join each side. The battle lines at each of the entrances surged back and forth for hours. Each side's fighters stretched across the width of the four-lane divided boulevard, hiding behind abandoned trucks and holding sheets of corrugated metal as shields from the hail of stones.At the heart of the square, young men with microphones sought to keep up morale. Stand fast, reinforcements are on the way, said one. Youth of Egypt, be brave. Groups of bearded men lined up to recite Muslim prayers before taking their turn in the line of fire.Bloodied young men staggered or were carried into makeshift clinics set up in mosques and alleyways by the anti-government side.Women and men stood ready with water, medical cotton and bandages as each wave returned. Scores of wounded were carried to a makeshift clinic at a mosque near the square and on other side streets, staffed by doctors in white coats. One man with blood coming out of his eye stumbled into a side-street clinic.As night fell, some protesters went to get food, a sign they plan to dig in for a long siege. Hundreds more people from the impoverished district of Shubra showed up later as reinforcements.
Wednesday's events suggest the regime aims to put an end of the unrest to let Mubarak shape the transition as he chooses over the next months. Mubarak has offered negotiations with protest leaders over democratic reforms, but they have refused any talks until he steps down.As if to show the public the crisis was ending, the government began to reinstate Internet service after days of an unprecedented cutoff. State TV announced the easing of a nighttime curfew, which now runs from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. instead of 3 p.m. to 8 a.m.AP correspondents Sarah El Deeb, Hamza Hendawi, Diaa Hadid, Lee Keath, Michael Weissenstein and Maggie Michael contributed to this report.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU FEB 03,2011
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -13.01
10:30 AM -41.13
11:00 AM -22.15
11:30 AM -18.75
12:00 PM -3.89
12:30 PM -9.65
01:00 PM -6.31
01:30 PM -3.51
02:00 PM -8.77
02:30 PM -1.21
03:00 PM +17.90
03:30 PM +28.30
04:00 PM +20.29 12,062.26
S&P 500 1307.10 +3.07
NASDAQ 2753.88 +4.32
GOLD 1,354.30 +22.50
OIL 90.59 -0.27
TSE 300 13,841.30 +161.10
CDNX 2383.91 +39.74
S&P/TSX/60 794.33 +9.16
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -17 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -59 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,335.30.OIL opens at $91.24 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -59 points at low today so far.
Dow +30 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -59 points at low today.
Dow +30 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,427.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NATURAL GAS -189 BCF
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LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Australian coastal towns wind- and wave-battered By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press - FEB 02,2011
TULLY, Australia – The most powerful storm in a century ripped across Australia's northeast coast early Thursday, blasting apart houses, laying waste to banana crops and leaving boats lying in the streets of wind- and wave-swept towns.Authorities said they were surprised to learn at daybreak that no one had been reported killed by Cyclone Yasi, but cautioned that bad news could eventually emerge from communities still cut off after the overnight storm, which left several thousand people homeless.It was really terrifying, but we were safe, said Barbara Kendall, who spent a sleepless night in a basement parking garage with her husband and four cats after being evacuated from their coastal home at Kurrimine Beach. It's a terrifying sound. It's really hard to describe. All I could hear was the screeching of the wind.Emergency services fanned out as to assess damage across a disaster zone stretching more than 190 miles (300 kilometers) in Queensland state, using chain saws to cut through debris blocking roads.The main coastal highway was a slalom course of downed trees and power lines, surrounded by scenes of devastation: Roofs peeled back from houses, fields of sugar cane and banana shredded and flattened, once-green expanses stripped to brown soil.Cyclone Yasi was moving inland and losing power Thursday. But drenching rains were still falling, adding woes to a state where Australia's worst flooding in decades has killed 35 people since late November.
Hundreds of thousands of people had spent the night huddled in evacuation centers or bunkered in their homes as the cyclone hit, packing howling winds gusting to 186 mph (300 kph) and causing tidal surges that swamped coastal areas.Nothing's been spared. The devastation is phenomenal, like nothing I've ever experienced, David Brook, the manager of a resort at Mission Beach, where the core of the storm hit the coast around midnight, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.Vegetation has been reduced to sticks, said Sgt. Dan Gallagher, a Mission Beach police officer.At Tully, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) inland along the storm's path, the main street was littered with twisted pieces of metal that were once house roofs and jagged shards of glass from shattered shopfront windows. Queensland state Premier Anna Bligh said one in three houses in the town of 3,500 people either were demolished by the storm or had the roof ripped off.Tully and Mission Beach were among a handful of towns in a relatively narrow band that bore the brunt of Yasi's fury as it stormed ashore.
Further south, emergency workers had cut their way into the coastal community of Cardwell on Thursday morning and found older houses wrecked and boats pushed up into the town, she said. The entire community was believed to have evacuated before the storm.Along the coastal highway, tidal floodwaters periodically cut the highway, temporarily stranding convoys of people trying to return home to see what was left.
Kendall, from Kurrimine Beach, sat stranded in her car next to her meowing cats Loly, Blossom, Spingle and Junior on her way back from the evacuation center in Innisfail. The trunk of her car was filled with her most essential items: photographs, heirlooms and precious jewelry.Electricity supplies were cut to more than 180,000 houses in the region — a major fruit and sugarcane-growing area and also considered a tourist gateway to the Great Barrier Reef — and police warned people to stay inside until the danger from fallen power lines and other problems was past.As the day wore on, authorities allowed more than 10,000 people to leave the 20 evacuation centers where they stayed overnight.I'm very relieved this morning, but I do stress these are very early reports, Bligh said of the information that no one had been killed overnight.It's a long way to go before I say we've dodged any bullets.Ahead of the storm, Bligh and other officials said the storm was more powerful than any that had struck the coast since 1918, and warned the country to expect widespread and destruction and likely deaths.Amid the chaos, a bit of happy news: a baby girl was born at a Cairns evacuation center just before dawn with the help of a British midwife on holiday, councilor Linda Cooper said.The largest towns in the path of the cyclone, including Cairns and Townsville, were spared the worst of the fierce winds. Trees were knocked down, but few buildings were damaged, authorities said. But Townsville was suffering widespread flooding.
Officials said it was too early to cite a total cost of the damage, but it was sure to add substantially to the $5.6 billion the government says already was caused by the earlier flooding.Queensland officials had warned people for days to stock up on bottled water and food, and to board or tape up their windows. People in low-lying or exposed areas were told to evacuate. Bligh credited the preparations with saving lives.Australia's huge, sparsely populated tropical north is battered annually by about six cyclones — called typhoons throughout much of Asia and hurricanes in the Western hemisphere. Building codes have been strengthened since Cyclone Tracy devastated the city of Darwin in 1974, killing 71 in one of Australia's worst natural disasters.Online: Bureau of Meteorology: http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/index.shtml
Blizzard spreads snowy shroud over nearly half US By DON BABWIN and MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press - 11PM FEB 02,11
CHICAGO – A fearsome storm spread a smothering shroud of white over nearly half the nation Wednesday, snarling transportation from Oklahoma to New England, burying parts of the Midwest under 2 feet of snow and laying down dangerously heavy ice in the Northeast that was too much for some buildings to bear.Tens of millions of people stayed home. The hardy few who ventured out faced howling winds that turned snowflakes into face-stinging needles. Chicago's 20.2 inches of snow was the city's third-largest amount on record. In New York's Central Park, the pathways resembled skating rinks.The storm that resulted from two clashing air masses was, if not unprecedented, extraordinarily rare for its size and ferocious strength.A storm that produces a swath of 20-inch snow is really something we'd see once every 50 years — maybe, National Weather Service meteorologist Thomas Spriggs said.Across the storm's path, lonely commuters struggled against drifts 3 and 4 feet deep in eerily silent streets, some of which had not seen a plow's blade since the snow started a day earlier. Parkas and ski goggles normally reserved for the slopes became essential for getting to work.This is probably the most snow I've seen in the last 34 years, joked 34-year-old Chicagoan Michael George. I saw some people cross-country skiing on my way to the train. It was pretty wild.Although skies were beginning to clear by mid-afternoon over much of the nation's midsection, the storm promised to leave a blast of bitter cold in its wake. Overnight temperatures in the upper Midwest were expected to fall to minus 5 to minus 20, with wind chills as low as minus 30.The system was blamed for the deaths of at least a dozen people, including a homeless man who burned to death on New York's Long Island as he tried to light cans of cooking fuel and a woman in Oklahoma City who was killed while being pulled behind a truck on a sled that hit a guard rail.
Airport operations slowed to a crawl nationwide, and flight cancellations reached 13,000 for the week, making this system the most disruptive so far this winter. A massive post-Christmas blizzard led to about 10,000 cancellations.In the winter-weary Northeast, thick ice collapsed several structures, including a gas station canopy on Long Island and an airplane hangar and garages near Boston. In at least two places, workers heard the structures beginning to crack and narrowly escaped.In Middletown, Conn., the entire third floor of a building failed, littering the street with bricks and snapping two trees. Acting Fire Marshal Al Santostefano said two workers fled when they heard a cracking sound.It's like a bomb scene, Santostefano said. Thank God they left the building when they did.More than a half-dozen states began digging out from up to a foot of snow that made roads treacherous and left hundreds of thousands of homes without power.Chicago public schools canceled classes for a second straight day. And the city's iconic Lake Shore Drive remained shut down, nearly a day after drivers abandoned hundreds of snowbound vehicles.
The famous freeway appeared as if rush hour had been stopped in time, with three lanes of cars cluttering the pavement amid snow drifts that stood as high as the windshields. Bulldozers worked to clear the snow from around the cars, which were then plucked out by tow trucks one by one.As the storm built to full strength Tuesday evening, 26-year-old Lindsey Wilson sat for hours on a stranded city bus. She eventually joined other passengers who tried to walk home. She made it about 100 feet before she couldn't see anything around her, including the bus she'd just left.
Fearing she would be swallowed by mounting snow drifts, Wilson turned back and spent the night on the bus.I thought if I fall over, what would happen if I got buried under a pile of snow? she said.Some motorists came away angry, frustrated that city didn't close the crucial thoroughfare earlier. Others were mad at themselves for going out during the storm or not using another route.In 31 years with the city, I haven't experienced anything like we did at Lake Shore Drive, said Raymond Orozco, chief of staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley. Hundreds of people were very inconvenienced, and we apologize for that.Orozco took responsibility for the decision not to close the drive as soon as snow began to fall Tuesday, but insisted he stood by the choice. He also hinted that his boss wasn't satisfied.I think the mayor knows we can always do better, Orozco said.At dusk Wednesday, more than 200 cars remained on the drive, and city workers planned to work through the night to remove them. But it wasn't clear whether the job would be done in time for the morning rush.Elsewhere, utility crews raced to restore power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where freezing rain and ice brought down electrical lines.Rolling blackouts were implemented across Texas, including in Super Bowl host city Dallas, due to high demand during a rare ice storm. The outages would not affect Cowboys Stadium in suburban Arlington, said Jeamy Molina, a spokeswoman for utility provider Oncor. But other Super Bowl facilities, such as team hotels, were not exempt, she said.
The storm derived its power from the collision of cold air sweeping down from Canada and warm, moist air coming up from the south.The atmosphere doesn't like that contrast in temperature. Things get mixed together and you have a storm like this, said Gino Izzo, another weather service meteorologist.The jet stream up in the atmosphere was like the engine and the warm air was the fuel.The contrasts were most dramatic in Texas earlier in the week, when one part of the state reported temperatures in the single digits and another part had temperatures in the 70s, with near-tropical humidity.That was the breeding ground for this storm, Izzo said. Louis Uccellini, director of the government's National Centers for Environmental Prediction, said the storm also drew strength from the La Nina (la NEEN'-ya) condition currently affecting the tropical Pacific Ocean.La Nina is a periodic cooling of the surface temperatures of the tropical Pacific Ocean, the opposite of the better-known El Nino (el NEEN'-yoh) warming. Both can have significant impacts on weather around the world by changing the movement of winds and high and low pressure systems.Still, some people in the storm's wake shrugged off the weather — and nearly the whole season.It's winter. It should have snow and ice. It's the way it is, said Vincent Zuza of Chatham, N.J., who was waiting for a flight to Salt Lake City for a ski trip after his first flight was canceled Wednesday. You can't get too upset about it, and you can't control it. You just have to make the best of it.
For some of those battered by the storm, there was one whimsical ray of hope: The world's most famous weather forecaster — with four legs — predicted an early spring.
Punxsutawney Phil's handlers told Groundhog Day revelers at Gobbler's Knob, a tiny hill in Punxsutawney, Pa., that the groundhog had not seen his shadow, meaning winter will end within six weeks, according to tradition.Associated Press writers Deanna Bellandi, Karen Hawkins, and Barbara Rodriguez and photographer Kii Sato in Chicago; Jim Salter in St. Louis; Patrick Walters in Philadelphia; Ula Ilnytzky in New York City and Adam Pemble in Newark, N.J., contributed to this report.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
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IF THE CIA AND MI5 IN BRITAIN ARE IN CONTROL OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LIKE JONES CLAIMES.THEN OBAMA IS SETTING UP ALL THESE MUSLIM COUNTRIES UP TO FALL AND GET CONTROLLED BY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD WHICH IN TURN WILL TEAM UP WITH RUSSIA AND ALL THE MUSLIM-ARAB COUNTRIES AND WILL THEN GO AGAINST ISRAEL LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WILL HAPPEN.IF JONES IS RIGHT ABOUT THIS.OBAMA WANTS ISRAEL DESTROYED BY A DECEPTIVE MEANS OF BRINGING IN THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO CONTROL ALL THE ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND THEN ALL ATTACK ISRAEL.IF THIS IS OBAMAS PLAN IT WILL BACKFIRE ON HIM AS AMERICA WILL BE NUKED BY RUSSIA.THIS WILL BE GODS WAY OF GETTING BACK AT AMERICA FOR SETTING UP FALSE DEMOCRACY MUSLIM-ARAB NATIONS TO ELIMINATE ISRAEL.OVIOUSLY RUSSIA WILL GO WITH OBAMA AT THE BEGGINING AND LEAD THE ARAB-MUSLIMS AGAINST ISRAEL.BUT BECAUSE OF OIL,GAS AND MINERAL RICHES IN ISRAEL.RUSSIA WILL BACKSTAB AMERICA AND NUKE IT ON THE WAY TO ISRAEL.WE KNOW 5/6TH OF THE RUSSIA-ARAB-MULIMS DIE ON THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL.SO AMERICA AND RUSSIA WILL BOTH BE DECIEVED TO GO AGAINST ISRAEL ONLY TO COME TO THEIR DEMISES AT THE HAND OF ISRAELS NUKES LEAD BY GOD.REMEMBER WORLD YOU CAN'T TOUCH ISRAEL AND NOT EXPECT TO BE DESTROYED.WE HAVE A KING IN WAITING READY TO TAKE HIS THRONE IN JERUSALEM(KING JESUS)AND RULE FROM THERE FOREVER.SO JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED SCHEMERS AGAINST ISRAEL AND HATERS OF GOD(KING JESUS) AND ISRAEL.
EPHESIANS 2:2-3
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,(SATAN)the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:(NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES)
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
EPHESIANS 5:6
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.(NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES)
MATHHEW 13:49-50
49 So shall it be at the end of the world:(AGE OF GRACE) the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire:(WICKED)there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Obama quietly builds ties with Muslim Brotherhood Back-door talks with movement vowing end of West, rule of Islam February 01, 2011 9:02 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein 2011 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – President Obama and top administration officials have an extended history of reaching out to the organization representing the main opposition now in Egypt's unrest, quietly building ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and its worldwide allies. Even today, as throngs are flooding the streets of Egyptian cities targeting the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, the White House seemingly has been championing the protests.The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to spread Islam around the world, in large part using nonviolent means. Hamas and al-Qaida are violent Brotherhood offshoots.Muslim Brotherhood members reportedly were invited to attend President Obama's 2009 address to the Muslim world from Cairo. Khaled Hamza, editor of the Muslim Brotherhood website, confirmed at the time that 10 members of the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc received official invitations to attend Obama's historic speech.Also in 2009, the Egyptian daily newspaper Almasry Alyoum ran a report claiming Obama had met with U.S. and European-based representatives of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood that year According to the report, the Brotherhood members requested that news of the meeting not be publicized. They expressed to Obama their support for democracy and the war on terror.
The newspaper also reported Brotherhood members communicated to Obama their position that the Muslim Brotherhood would abide by all agreements Egypt has signed with foreign countries, implying that if they took power in Egypt they would continue that country's peace treaty with Israel.Besides contact with the Muslim Brotherhood itself, there have been multiple reports the past two years of behind-the-scenes contact with Hamas, which was founded as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas maintains a close alliance with the Brotherhood; in fact, the Brotherhood's new leader, Muhammad Badi, serves as a de facto lead spiritual guide for Hamas.
Multiple top leaders of Hamas in Gaza claimed to WND several times they passed messages to Obama through dignitaries who visited the Gaza Strip, including Jimmy Carter and Sen. John Kerry – both of whom have a close relationship with the White House.Kerry, for example, reportedly accepted a letter for Obama from Hamas leaders in Gaza during a February 2009 visit to U.N. installations in the coastal territory.
Karen Abu Zayd, the U.N. relief agency chief in Gaza, told the BBC the Hamas letter had been received by his agency and passed on to an unnamed American official.In November 2008, WND first quoted Hamas officials stating they would be sending a letter to Obama.Immediately after that month's elections, Ahmed Yousef , Hamas' chief political adviser in Gaza, called Obama's win a historic victory for the world and told WND that Hamas was sending a letter of congratulations to the president-elect.
Obama ties to Brotherhood’s U.S. allies
It is not just Obama's reported contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood and the group's allies in the Middle East that have raised questions.The Obama administration also has evidenced a working relationship with several U.S.-based Islamist organizations that are listed by the Brotherhood as likeminded organizations.One such group is the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, a radical Muslim group that was an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to raise money for Hamas.ISNA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document – An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America – as one of the Brotherhood's likeminded organizations of our friends who shared the common goal of transforming countries into Muslim nations.The White House relationship with the ISNA began even before Obama took office. One week before the presidential inauguration, Sayyid Syeed, national director of the ISNA Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, was part of a delegation that met with the directors of Obama's transition team. The delegation discussed a request for an executive order ending torture.ISNA President Ingrid Mattson represented American Muslims at Obama's inauguration, where she offered a prayer during the televised event.Mattson also has represented ISNA at Obama's annual Ramadan dinners, including the last such event in which Obama announced support for the rights of Muslims to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks.
In June 2009, Obama's top aide, Valerie Jarrett, invited Mattson to work on the White House Council on Women and Girls, which Jarrett leads.That July, the Justice Department sponsored an information booth at an ISNA bazaar in Washington, D.C.
Also that month, Jarrett addressed ISNA's 46th annual convention. According to the White House, Jarrett attended as part of Obama's outreach to Muslims.It was an ISNA-sponsored event that held a February 2010 question and answer session with Obama's top adviser on counter-terrorism, John Brennan, who came under fire for controversial remarks he made at that session, which was addressed to Muslim law students at New York University.Another Muslim Brotherhood likeminded organization that was welcome at the White House was the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.
Egypt blames White House for fomenting uprising
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters today thronged Cairo's Tahrir Square ahead of a million man march protest due to take place later in the day to mark seven days of anti-government demonstrations in the country.WND quoted a senior Egyptian diplomat stating the Egyptian government suspects elements of the current uprising there, particularly political aspects, are being coordinated with the U.S. State Department and Obama administration.The senior Egyptian diplomat told WND the Mubarak regime suspects the U.S. has been aiding protest planning by Mohamed ElBaradei, who is seen as one of the main opposition leaders in Cairo.ElBaradei, former International Atomic Energy Agency chief, has reinvented himself as a campaigner for reform in Egypt. He is a candidate for this year's scheduled presidential elections.ElBaradei arrived in Cairo just after last week's protests began and is reportedly being confined to his home by Egyptian security forces.
He is seen as an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood.
This past weekend, the London Telegraph reported the U.S. Embassy in Cairo in 2008 helped a young dissident attend a U.S.-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.The Telegraph would not identify the dissident, but said he was involved in helping to stir the current protests. The report claimed the dissident told the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that an alliance of opposition groups had a plan to topple Mubarak'sgovernment.The disclosures, contained in U.S. diplomatic dispatches released by the WikiLeaks website, show American officials pressed the Egyptian government to release other dissidents who had been detained by the police.The White House has been almost openly championing the unrest in Egypt.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Obama both reportedly voiced support for an orderly transition in Egypt that is responsive to the aspirations of Egyptians.Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough, speaking in a White House webcast, also urged the government and protesters in Egypt to refrain from violence.Egyptian officials speaking to WND, however, warned the Muslim Brotherhood has the most to gain from any political reform.
Worldwide Islamist revolution
The Obama administration's support for the unrest is strikingly reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's support of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, which marked the birth of modern Islamist expansion now seemingly sweeping the Mideast.In fact, some Muslim clerics already are calling the riots in Egypt simply an extension of 1979's Islamist conquests.Thirty-one years after the victory of the Islamic Republic, we are faced with the obvious fact that these movements are the aftershocks of the Islamic Revolution, said Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, as reported by Iran's Radio Zamaneh. The fate of those who challenge [our] religion is destruction.
Speaking of media and government leaders, Khatami added, They want to highlight the labor, liberal and democratic issues, but the most important issue, which is the religious streak of these protests, [is] being denied.The leader of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, Hammam Saeed, warned that the unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast until Arabs succeed at toppling leaders allied with the United States. The Americans and Obama must be losing sleep over the popular revolt in Egypt, Saeed said at a sympathy protest held outside the Egyptian Embassy in Amman. Now, Obama must understand that the people have woken up and are ready to unseat the tyrant leaders who remained in power because of U.S. backing.And on the Internet, the Middle East Media Research Institute reports, prominent Salafi cleric Abu Mundhir Al-Shinqiti issued a fatwa in the website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad encouraging the protests in Egypt, claiming Islamist jihadis are now on the verge of a historic moment in the history of the Islamic nation, an earthquake he likened to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City.
Brotherhood declares war on U.S.
Multiple prominent U.S. commentators also have been claiming the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate organization and denying any Islamist plot to seize power.In November, the Brotherhood's new supreme guide, Muhammad Badi, delivered a sermon entitled, How Islam Confronts the Oppression and Tyranny.Resistance is the only solution, stated Badi. The United States cannot impose an agreement upon the Palestinians, despite all the power at its disposal. [Today] it is withdrawing from Iraq, defeated and wounded, and is also on the verge of withdrawing from Afghanistan because it has been defeated by Islamist warriors.Badi went on to declare the U.S. is easy to defeat through violence, since it is experiencing the beginning of its end and is heading toward its demise.Read more: Obama quietly builds ties with Muslim Brotherhood http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=258397#ixzz1ColDaJkg
Wikileaks Bombshell Points To 9/11 Stand Down
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com February 2, 2011
Newly released Wikileaks documents concerning the activities of three Qatari men who conducted surveillance of the World Trade Center and boarded flights on the eve of the 9/11 attacks adds to the plethora of evidence that at the very least US authorities were aware of the plot and deliberately stood down.The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, reports the Daily Telegraph.Secret documents reveal that the three Qatari men conducted surveillance on the targets, provided support to the plotters and had tickets for a flight to Washington on the eve of the atrocities.Ten days later they flew to Los Angeles, where they stationed themselves in a hotel near the airport which the FBI has now established was paid for by a convicted terrorist, who also paid for their airline tickets.Hotel staff have told investigators they saw pilot uniforms in their room along with computer print outs detailing pilot names, flight numbers and times and packages addressed to Syria, Afghanistan, Jerusalem and Jordan.
The revelation that these men may have been involved in the pre-planning for 9/11 again highlights the fact that the plot was known ahead of time. Whether they were double agents laying a trail for the attack to be later blamed on Muslim patsies or they were genuinely part of the plot is immaterial, the fact that their behavior, amidst a myriad of other obvious indications that an attack was imminent, was not acted upon by US authorities, provides yet more evidence of a stand down.The US Special Operations Command’s Able Danger program identified the hijackers and their accomplices long before 9/11, but when the head of the program, Colonel Anthony Shaffer, tried to pass the information on to the 9/11 Commission, he was gagged and slandered and the vital information his team had passed on was ignored and buried.
Curt Weldon, Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, documented how the US government tracked the hijackers’ movements before 9/11.Louai al-Sakka, the man who trained six of the hijackers, was a CIA informant. A number of the other alleged hijackers were trained at US air bases. In the months prior to 9/11, alleged hijackers Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi were renting rooms in a house owned and lived in by an FBI informant.In a 2002 article entitled The Hijackers We Let Escape, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman documented how, The CIA tracked two suspected terrorists to a Qaeda summit in Malaysia in January 2000, then looked on as they re-entered America and began preparations for September 11.The fact that there were numerous Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists involved in the pre-planning stages of 9/11 is unsurprising given former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds’ testimony that Bin Laden was working for the US right up until the day of 9/11.On the very morning of 9/11, the money man behind the alleged hijackers, Pakistan’s ISI Chief Mahmoud Ahmad, was meeting with U.S. government and intelligence officials.Indeed, even after 9/11, the so-called spiritual leader of the very hijackers who allegedly slammed Flight 77 into the Pentagon, Anwar al-Awlaki, was himself invited to dine with Pentagon top brass mere months after the attack.
Al-Awlaki was later involved in directing the underwear bomber, who was allowed to board the plane by order of the US State Department aided by a well-dressed man who got Abdulmutallab on the airliner despite the fact that he was on a terror watch list and had no passport. Eyewitness and Delta 253 passenger Kurt Haskell subsequently blew the whistle to state that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was given the bomb by the US government to create a pretext for the implementation of naked body scanners and boost the TSA’s budget.While there has been plenty of focus on possible connections between other Muslim terror suspects and the alleged 9/11 hijackers, little has been said about the role of the infamous dancing Israelis who brazenly displayed their foreknowledge of the plot after they were witnessed setting up camera equipment pointed at the World Trade Center before the attack unfolded.When the planes slammed into the towers, the men were seen dancing, cheering and congratulating each other.The details of these new Wikileaks documents only serve to confirm that there were numerous drills and preparatory actions taking place immediately prior to 9/11 indicating that an attack was imminent. What the Telegraph and the rest of the establishment media will refuse to mention in any of these reports is the confirmed fact that through Able Danger and other intelligence operations, these events were being closely tracked by US authorities.Add to this the complete reversal of standard operating procedure on the day of 9/11 in relation to NORAD’s failure to intercept any of the hijacked airliners, and the evidence for a government and military stand down which at the very least allowed the attack to take place is abundant.
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Latest Round of Wikileaks Docs Hype Manufactured Terror Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com February 2, 2011
It is now obvious Wikileaks is an intelligence operation and its frontman Julian Assange is a useful idiot. The latest round of documents are like the worst sort of neocon propaganda in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The corporate media today is chock full of stories about the latest round of supposed diplomatic documents purloined by a low level Army intelligence analyst. According to the documents, the CIA asset al-Qaeda has managed to acquire workable and efficient biological and chemical weapons and the West stands on the brink of a nuclear 9/11. It is said the documents detail a 2009 NATO meeting where security chiefs briefed member states that al-CIA-duh was readying dirty radioactive IEDs to be used against British troops in Afghanistan.
Corporate media sings praise for Assange and his disinfo campaign.Dirty bombs were debunked years ago and it is surprising the folks behind the fake diplomatic cables are attempting to pawn this fantasy off on us again as they did in 2002 when former Chicago gangbanger Jose Padilla was arrested and paraded in the corporate media as the face of al-Qaeda in America.Once again, Pakistan figures prominently in this scary fairy tale. Senior British defense officials have raised deep concerns that a rogue scientist in the Pakistani nuclear program could gradually smuggle enough material out to make a weapon, according to a document detailing official talks in London in February 2009,the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday.Left out of the equation is the fact Pakistan would not have nuclear weapons if not for the United States.Back in 1979, as the CIA was in the process of cobbling together the Afghan Mujahideen that would later become al-Qaeda, the globalist and Rockefeller minion Zbigniew Brzezinski forged a new policy toward the formerly pariah Islamic state. Brzezinski said that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our nonproliferation policy.Reagan also didn’t see a problem. I just don’t think it’s any of our business,he remarked when quizzed about Pakistan’s nuclear ambitions.
Moreover, the supposed smuggling of nuclear material out of Pakistan would face difficulty due to the fact the country’s nukes are locked down.Over the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million on a highly classified program to help Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, secure his country’s nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior administration officials, the New York Times reported on November 17, 2007. The secret program was designed by the Energy Department and the State Department, and it drew heavily from the effort over the past decade to secure nuclear weapons, stockpiles and materials in Russia and other former Soviet states. Much of the money for Pakistan was spent on physical security, like fencing and surveillance systems, and equipment for tracking nuclear material if it left secure areas.In addition to dirty bombs, terrorists are planning to blow up commercial airliners with teddy bears, according to the Wikileaks documents. Airport security staff are being urged to examine children’s articles after US intelligence concluded that terrorists were plotting to fill them with explosive chemicals, reports the Daily Telegraph.Terrorists are attempting to manufacture nitrocellulose, a chemical which can become highly explosive if tightly packed. Details of how to prepare the chemical, which cannot be detected by airport X-ray machines, have been found in al-Qaeda training manuals. You may remember the original al-Qaeda training manual. It was located in Manchester, England, and brought to our attention with much absurd fanfare. It was later revealed that the document was penned in the 1980s around the same time the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI were collaborating in Afghanistan, well before the CIA decided to create al-Qaeda from a database of Mujahideen warriors.
In short, more sexual molestation and naked body porno scanners will be required at airports if we are going to stop al-CIA-duh as it continues to plan sensationalistic terror events that either never occur or are executed by mentally impaired operatives and dim-witted patsies.The Wikileaks documents are also designed to rekindle the hysteria manufactured by the government after September 11, 2001. According to the documents, a group of Qataris conducted surveillance on the targets of 9/11 and provided support for the phantom hijackers who were trained at U.S. military bases. Details of the unknown 9/11 alleged plotters has never previously been disclosed, reports the Daily Telegraph.Here is a detail that has been previously disclosed (although assiduously ignored by the corporate media) – Osama bin Laden and the Taliban shared intimate relations with the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence right up until the morning of September 11, 2001, according to the most gagged woman in America, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds.The CIA groomed manufactured enemies from China to Chechnya, Albania, and Kosovo, Edmonds revealed, but you won’t find that in Assange’s mass of documents.For all its dutiful work in the service of the globalist empire, Wikileaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian politician Snorre Valen, who said the shady outfit played an instrumental role in freedom of speech.WikiLeaks is one of this century’s most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency, the NTB news agency quoted Valen as saying today.It also played a role in perpetuating cover stories used by government as pretexts to further erode our liberties and engage in wanton mass murder around the world.
Minority Report: Companies Push For Ubiquitous Iris Scanning - Expiring technology patent insures that you will soon have your eyes scanned everywhere you go Place eyes here for secure entry citizen Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Wednesday, Feb 2nd, 2011
http://www.prisonplanet.com/minority-report-companies-push-for-ubiquitous-iris-scanning.html
The impending expiration of a key technology patent is paving the way for a scramble amongst scores of biometrics research and development companies, all desperate to make their own brand of iris scanning technology commonplace, effectively creating a real life Minority Report society, where everyone is linked into an identification database.As detailed in a Bloomberg News report today, the patent for recording the unique characteristics of the Iris as a form of identification was granted to two eye doctors in 1987, who then approached a Cambridge University professor to develop a way of automating iris identification. That further patent was granted in 1994, but it expires this year, opening a door for a slew of technological nightmares to come pouring through.Leading marketing companies believe that within the next five years, iris recognition technology will create over $2 billion in revenue by becoming a routine part of everyday life.The technology is already being used for screening employees of Bank of America, travelers at London’s Heathrow Airport and New York City prisoners.The Department of Homeland Security has tested iris scanners at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing standards for the technology’s use.
One company, Hoyos Corp., wants to make the technology ubiquitous, according to the Bloomberg report. Chief Development Officer Jeff Carter says the company foresees iris scanners on mobile phones and computers, and even on ATMs, to be used as a replacement for bank cards.Last year the company, then known as Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI), based out of headquarters in New York, announced that it was using the technology to create what it claims will be the most secure city in the world” in Leon, one of Mexico’s largest cities.So called eye swipe machines, which come in a variety of different shapes and sizes, are to be hooked up to a huge iris database created in conjunction with Leon law enforcement authorities.Leon is effectively a testing ground for the mass rollout of the technology.
In the future, whether it’s entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris, Carter explained to tech website FastCompany.com.According to the article,Criminals will automatically be enrolled, their irises scanned once convicted. Law-abiding citizens will have the option to opt-in.Yet Carter seems confident that everyone, whether a criminal or not will soon be hooked into the database:Every person, place, and thing on this planet will be connected [to the iris system] within the next 10 years, he says.In Carter’s hideous control freak vision of the future, anyone withdrawing cash, paying for items in a store or simply catching a bus will have to stare directly into the beast system while Police officers will monitor these scans and track the movements of watch-listed individuals.Carter even alludes to Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report, noting that the system will operate to a degree even more controlling than in the cult classic dystopian story.Not even the dead eyeballs seen in Minority Report could trick the system, he says. If you’ve been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you’re a known shoplifter, for example, you won’t be able to go into a store without being flagged. For others, boarding a plane will be impossible.
The technology is also evolving rapidly. Newer scanners are able to capture the Iris from a distance of ten feet. Future devices might read irises from more than 30 feet, said Tim Meyerhoff, North American business development director for Iris ID Systems Inc.,, another of the 20 or so companies set to push iris scanning into everyday life.The newest machines are also able to process hundreds of iris scans per minute, meaning they can be used effectively in crowded public places.One of the Hoyos mobile iris scanners is demonstrated in the video below:
There isn’t even any pretence of a benign agenda behind this – it is a bold in your face admission of a plan to force every human being into a big brother system by hooking it up to the essential amenities and infrastructure of the city. The stated aim is to monitor everyone, everywhere, all the time – the perfect technological matrix-like prison system.This system is the ultimate perversion of humanity, taking what makes us all unique and using it to catalogue every one of us as if we are sheep or cattle on a plantation. It represents the screaming death knell of freedom.
Mr Carter and Hoyos Corp. don’t care about that though, they would like you to believe that your privacy and your basic freedoms were long ago completely extinguished , so resistance is futile:The banks already know more about what we do in our daily life–they know what we eat, where we go, what we purchase–our deepest secrets, he says. We’re not talking about anything different here–just a system that’s good for all of us.Hoyos CEO and founder, Hector Hoyos, echoes Carter’s pronouncement, noting You really can’t control technology. Oppenheimer and Einstein said it. The cat’s out of the bag. You can try to put certain protocols in place and hope that people who get their hands on technology abide by your protocols. That’s all you can do.Essentially, Hoyos is saying that if the bad guys get their hands on the technology, tough luck. Of course, it’s easier to live with that potential scenario if you’re sitting on a sizeable chunk of the $2 billion a year and rising revenue than if you’re one of the slaves in the database having their eyes scanned everywhere they go.Carter also has a warning for any sheep who think they can stray from the flock:When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in.Carter even speaks of tailoring the technology to enable advertisers to track behavior and emotion by scanning people’s eyes from when they look at a billboard to when they enter a store and purchase the product.
The Minority Report was written as a stark warning of what may happen in the future should society be engulfed by invasive technology and begin to regard privacy and civil liberties as antiquated. Yet increasingly it, and other works like it, have become the handbooks for those who would gladly see the planet fully transformed into a giant fascist control grid if it means they can swim in the filthy meaningless lucre and revel in the pathetic soulless power trip it will generate for them.This technology is here now – it is not some paranoid geek’s frightening description of a distant future. it is time to wake up, take note of what our society is being transformed into and ensure our freedoms are not completely wiped out before it is too late.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Powerful cyclone strikes Australia's northeast
FEB 2,11
CAIRNS, Australia – The destructive core of a massive cyclone battered Australia's northeastern coast early Thursday, wrenching roofs off buildings and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes.Australian officials have warned that Cyclone Yasi was expected to cause substantial damage and probably some deaths, though they would have little idea of the scale of the disaster until the worst had passed. The storm was packing winds up to 186 mph (300 kph) and will take several hours to blow through any given area.The storm will compound misery in Queensland, which has already been hit by months of flooding that killed 35 people and inundated hundreds of communities. Yasi hit north of the main waterlogged area, but emergency services across the state are already stretched.The Bureau of Meteorology said in a statement that the storm's large and destructive core has started crossing the coast near the small town of Mission Beach in northern Queensland state.Dozens of other cities and towns were being whipped by winds that forecaster said could gust up to 186 mph (300 kph).Witnesses reported seeing roofs ripped off buildings and trees flattened, and officials said power had been cut to at least 90,000 homes.
Australia braces for worst ever storm
by Torsten Blackwood - FEB 2,11
INNISFAIL, Australia (AFP) – A terrifying cyclone barrelling towards Australia strengthened to the most dangerous threat level Wednesday, shaping up as one most lethal storms in the country's history.As the winds whipped up by Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi began wreaking havoc along Queensland coast, state Premier Anna Bligh warned the region's one million residents it was too late to escape the most catastrophic storm to ever hit our coast.Yasi, the worst storm in a century, was expected to slam into the coast around midnight on Wednesday (1400 GMT), the Bureau of Meteorology said, after it was upgraded early in the day to a category five storm from category four. This impact is likely to be more life-threatening than any experienced during recent generations, it said in an ominous warning ahead of the first category five storm to hit the area since 1918.Wild advance winds tore the roof off a building near where 500 people were taking shelter in Innisfail, which lies directly in Yasi's path, Mayor Bill Shannon said.The eye is five hours away and it's already causing damage so it's pretty worrying, he told the AAP news agency as Yasi churned 175 kilometres northeast of the town.Power lines and trees were felled along the coast by early gusts, with an offshore weather station clocking 185 kilometres an hour winds before it was destroyed.
Yasi, which measures up to 800 kilometres (500 miles) across, was on course to hit the area between Innisfail, south of the tourist hub of Cairns, and Cardwell, 100 kilometres south of Innisfail.Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Yasi looked like the worst cyclone in Australian history and said the nation was with Queenslanders as they faced many, many dreadful, frightening hours waiting for it to strike.This is probably the worst cyclone that our nation has ever seen. In the hours of destruction that are coming to them, all of Australia is going to be thinking of them, she said.Yasi was expected to generate highly destructive winds of up to 295 kilometres per hour, up to 700 millimetres (27.5 inches) of rain and storm surges that are threatening to flood towns and tourist resorts.The storm is so enormous that it would almost cover the United States or large parts of Europe, News Ltd newspapers reported.Locals further from the seafront who did not evacuate were told to batten down and prepare a safe room, like a bathroom or a basement, with mattresses, pillows, a radio, food and water supplies to wait out the cyclone.
Thousands of people have already fled the area and seaside residents were urged to desert their homes ahead of a dangerous storm surge of between 2.3 and seven metres (eight to 23 feet) that was likely to cause major flooding.Two hospitals in Cairns were evacuated and shuttered, their patients were airlifted on military planes to the city of Brisbane.Airports and ports in Cairns and other cities along the coast were shut to traffic Wednesday as winds gathered strength.The streets of Cairns, usually bustling with holidaymakers and diving enthusiasts, were eerily deserted.
More than 10,000 people were sheltering in 20 evacuation centres across the region -- some so packed that people were turned away -- while tens of thousands more were staying with family and friends.Anticipating a massive relief operation, the military was readying supply ships with aircraft landing capability to help with search and rescue once the storm passed.We're just hoping and praying we can all get through the night, said Ross Sorbello, from the endangered town of Tully as residents looked down the barrel of approaching Yasi.The storm's size and power dwarfs Cyclone Tracy, which hit the northern Australian city of Darwin in 1974, killing 71 people and flattening more than 90 percent of its houses.It is also twice the size and far stronger than the category four Cyclone Larry that caused Aus$1.5 billion ($1.5 billion) of damage after hitting agricultural areas around Innisfail, just south of Cairns, in 2006.Forecasters said Yasi could be "horrific" and take 24 hours to weaken after it makes landfall.
Powerful cyclone strikes Australia's northeast
FEB 2,11
CAIRNS, Australia – The destructive core of a massive storm is crossing Australia's northeastern coast, wrenching roofs off buildings and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes.Officials say that Cyclone Yasi was expected to cause substantial damage and probably some deaths, though they would have little idea of the scale of the disaster until the worst had passed.The Bureau of Meteorology said in a statement that the storm's large and destructive core has started crossing the coast near the small town of Mission Beach in northern Queensland state.Dozens of other cities and towns were being whipped by winds that forecaster said could gust up to 186 mph (300 kph).Witnesses reported seeing roofs ripped off buildings and trees flattened.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
CAIRNS, Australia (AP) — Strong winds and driving rain began buffeting northeast Australia as one of the country's biggest storms bore down Wednesday while residents huddled in evacuation centers or hid at home in bathrooms behind piles of blankets and mattresses.Australian leaders issued dire warnings of potential devastation for cities and towns dotted along a stretch of coast more than 190 miles (300 kilometers) long in north Queensland state, in an area considered the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.The storm will compound misery in Queensland, which has already been hit by months of flooding that killed 35 people and inundated hundreds of communities. Cyclone Yasi is due to hit north of the main waterlogged area, but emergency services are already stretched and the whole state is flood-weary.This is a cyclone of savagery and intensity, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a nationally televised news conference as the storm moved toward the coast. People are facing some really dreadful hours in front of them.The first winds began howling throughout Cairns as night fell Wednesday, with the storm expected to make landfall sometime around midnight.Dozens of guests at a Cairns waterfront hotel took cover in the central ballroom as lights throughout the building flickered. Staff members pinned curtains shut over windows that were in danger of shattering and handed out flashlights to everyone.Barbara Maskei, a 49-year-old tourist from Germany, lay on the ballroom floor under a sheet reading a book, as her 20-year-old daughter Annette and husband Peter dozed beside her. For her, there will be no sleep tonight. I like to keep my eyes open, she said as the wind roared outside.
Winds at the center of the storm were gusting up to 186 mph (300 kph), and the front was about 300 miles (500 kilometers) across. The worst of the winds were expected to last up to four hours on the coast, though blustery conditions and heavy rain could last for 24 hours.In Innisfail, a town about 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Cairns that is nearly in the direct path of the storm, Mayor Bill Shannon said he saw the roof torn off a building near the local government building where some 500 people are sheltering.We're just hoping and praying we can all get through the night, Shannon said.At a briefing about two hours before the storm's scheduled landfall, state disaster coordinator Ian Stewart said just one emergency call had been received — from six people in their 60s who feared their apartment in the resort town of Port Hinchinbrook would be swamped by a storm surge. They were told it was too dangerous for emergency workers to try to reach them, and they would have to wait it out, Stewart said.Power was cut to some 90,000 houses as the wind knocked out lines, and that number was expected to rise. Still, many in the storm's path were stoic. Cairns resident Jane Alcorn banned those who planned to shelter with her in the garage of her apartment complex from panicking.There's no crying, no hysterics, said Alcorn, 42.It's going to be loud, it's going to be scary. But we've got each other.The storm was forecast to push huge volumes of sea water inland in extremely dangerous movements called storm surges that would almost certainly flood some coastal communities, the Bureau of Meteorology said. Up to 28 inches (700 millimeters) of rain could fall within hours in some areas.
The bureau said most at risk was a band about 150 miles (240 kilometers) long between Cairns and the sugar cane-growing town of Ingham. The storm was forecast to continue inland at cyclone strength for two days. It was unclear what the damage to the Great Barrier Reef would be, experts said.Queensland officials warned people for days to stock up on bottled water and food, and to board or tape up their windows. People in low-lying or poorly protected areas were told to move in with family or friends on safer ground or move to evacuation centers.It's such a big storm — it's a monster, killer storm, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said, adding that the only previous storm measured in the state at such strength was in 1918.This impact is likely to be more life threatening than any experienced during recent generations.
More than 10,000 people were sheltering in 20 evacuation centers, including one set up in a shopping mall in downtown Cairns, a city with a population of some 165,000. People huddled in hallways with blankets, camping chairs and snacks.Earlier Wednesday, police told people to get off the streets of Cairns. Everyone's gotta go now, one officer told pedestrians strolling near the waterfront. The water is coming NOW.Warnings stretched as far away as Townsville, which is slightly larger than Cairns and about 190 miles (300 kilometers) to the south, and Mount Isa, some 500 miles (800 kilometers) inland.People were told to move to rooms at the center of their houses — usually the bathroom — as they were structurally safest and usually had no windows that could shatter. People should bring mattresses and other items to hide behind in case of flying debris, sturdy shoes, and raincoats in case roofs are ripped off.Carla Jenkins, a 23-year-old Cairns resident, threw her belongings into a suitcase, taped up the windows of her house and fled to her grandmother's sturdier apartment complex with her sister and her dog, Elmo. The women had a stash of candles, flashlights, water and tinned food, and planned to spend the night huddled in the bathroom away from the windows.I can't see many Cairns people sleeping tonight, she said.Tonight's going to be a very scary night.The timing of Yasi's expected landfall, just after high tide, meant high storm surges of at least 6.5 feet (two meters) were likely to flood significant areas along the coast, the weather bureau said.Australia's huge, sparsely populated tropical north is battered each year by about six cyclones — called typhoons throughout much of Asia and hurricanes in the Western hemisphere. Building codes have been strengthened since Cyclone Tracy devastated the city of Darwin in 1974, killing 71 people, in one of Australia's worst natural disasters. Online: Bureau of Meteorology: http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/index.shtml
Dangerous winter storm hits Ontario-Weather system originating in Texas causes school closures, flight cancellations Last Updated: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 | 8:24 AM ET CBC News
A massive winter storm is hitting southwestern Ontario and is expected to make its way east as Environment Canada warns parts of the province to brace for blizzard conditions.Snow is falling in Toronto, Hamilton, London and Sarnia, while Windsor is being pounded by ice pellets just before the morning commute. The massive weather system originated in Texas and made its way through the midwestern United States, where cancelled flights have left travellers stranded.In the Toronto area, thousands of schoolchildren are in for a snow day as classes were cancelled at all Toronto public and Catholic schools. Public schools were also closed in Peel, Halton and Hamilton-Wentworth regions.While public schools were still open in York and Durham regions early Wednesday, there is no bus service.More than 300 flights at Pearson International Airport were cancelled between Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET and midnight Thursday. Travellers are advised to check with the Greater Toronto Airport Authority before heading to the airport.All Porter Airlines flights out of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport have been cancelled until noon.A stretch of the Gardiner Expressway between Kipling Avenue and Lakeshore Boulevard was being reopened at around 7:30 a.m. after a two-hour closure due to downed hydro wires.Dave Phillips, a senior climatologist for Environment Canada, predicted the storm will be the worst in Ontario in three years.Gusting winds and blowing snow will obscure visibility and make travel dangerous, said Phillips.It's a dangerous storm, it's huge, it's going to have a major impact. What makes it worse is the heavy amounts of snow, something we haven't seen in a long while.
Strongest storm of the season
The snow will be accompanied by winds of 50 to 70 km/h at their strongest, Environment Canada said. The high in Toronto is forecast to reach –5 C on Wednesday and the low will dip to –9 C.It will be the strongest storm of the season for urbanized areas like Toronto that are outside the Ontario snowbelt.The weather agency had upgraded a winter storm watch in southern Ontario, stretching from Windsor to Kingston, to a winter storm warning.Environment Canada added the blizzard warning for London, St. Catharines, Sarnia and Hamilton just after 3:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday.By the time the storm finishes Wednesday, large swaths of southern Ontario could have snowfall accumulations of between 15 and 25 centimetres, the agency predicted.It is expected to track eastward through Kingston and Ottawa, into upstate New York later Wednesday and then to New England, Environment Canada said.
Eastern Canada will likely be hit by the storm on Thursday.
Silvana Aceto, a spokeswoman with the Canadian Automobile Association, said 3,000 assistance calls are normal on a typical winter day, but that total can more than double during a storm as severe as the one hitting Wednesday. During a snowstorm in 2008, the Toronto CAA fielded close to 10,000 calls in one day, Aceto said.It's going to be messy on the roads, said Aceto. Drivers need to plan ahead, be prepared and check that weather forecast.The CAA is also advising motorists to avoid the roads or give themselves extra travel time, as well as carry:Myles Currie, Toronto's transportation services director, said the city is stepping up its regular plowing plan.Earlier this year we've primarily done salting, Currie told CBC News. With 30 centimetres expected, it will be a plowing operation for us.
Join the conversation Currie said plow crews will first focus on expressways, before turning to arterial roadways along streetcar lines, followed by side streets.Via Rail Canada, meanwhile, warned travellers to expect heavy demand in the Ontario-Quebec corridor, although it did not expect any cancellations. GO Transit says it will be running an adjusted schedule because of the storm, and is advising commuters to check its website for details.McMaster University in Hamilton and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo are among the post-secondary schools closed in Ontario, as well as Toronto's York University, Humber College, Centennial College, Seneca College and Sheridan College.In the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, eight states had blizzard conditions, with Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma the hardest hit. There were warnings, watches and advisories in 30 other states.Kansas, Oklahoma and Illinois declared emergencies, as did Missouri, where National Guard troops were called to help out in the storm. Airlines cancelled thousands of flights and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport closed due to an ice storm.Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2011/02/02/ontario-winter-storm.html#ixzz1CoOPOcVO
Epic winter storm hits central US by Mira Oberman - FEB 2,11
CHICAGO (AFP) – The central United States was caught in the grip of a historic winter storm Wednesday, buried by drifting snow and sleet that ground air and road travel to a halt.The storm -- one of the largest winter storms since the 1950s, according to NASA -- stretched for more than 3,000 kilometers (2,000 miles) from Texas to the northeastern state of Maine, and forecasters warned trying to get around could be deadly.Do not travel!,the National Weather Service warned.Blizzard, winter storm and freezing rain warnings were issued for more than half of the 50 US states, and thunderstorms and driving rain drenched the warmer, southern end of the storm in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Officials warned the public to stay at home rather than try to brave the crippling and potentially record-breaking storm.Travel will be dangerous and life-threatening due to dramatically reduced visibilities and bitter cold wind chills, the National Weather Service warned.If you become stranded expect to spend the entire night in your vehicle as rescuers likely will not be able to reach you.High winds and freezing rain turned roads into deadly ice rinks and knocked down trees and power lines.Television footage showed the fierce winds made even walking difficult, with pedestrians blown off their feet as they braved white-out conditions and tried to cross icy roads.Downed power lines and ice led to widespread power cuts, with 95,000 people without electricity in Illinois, 50,000 in Indiana and another tens of thousands around Cleveland, Ohio.The residents waking without power faced another layer of danger, as coming in behind the storm was a blast of frigid air.Lurking behind this impressive winter storm is a powerful shot of Arctic air as a frigid surface high drops down from central Canada, the weather service warned.For example, Bismark, North Dakota was an icy -30 degrees Celsius at 0930 GMT, with wind that could cause frost bite on exposed skin in less than five minutes.Wind chills were forecast to drop to 30 to 50 below in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, the Dakotas, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and even parts of Texas.States of emergency were declared in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Oklahoma and the National Guard was called out to help rescue stranded motorists.
Thousands of schools and government offices were closed and many businesses shuttered.FlightAware reported that airlines grounded more than 6,700 flights on Tuesday -- about 20 percent of US commercial flights -- and had cancelled more than 4,500 before dawn Wednesday.Most of the airlines at Chicago's O'Hare airport -- one of the busiest in the world -- stopped operating after the blizzard set in Tuesday afternoon and said they will have limited or no operations Wednesday, the airport said.Chicago was expected to be among the hardest hit with 14.5 inches (37 centimeters) of snow already piled up at Midway Airport as of 1030 GMT and up to two feet (50 centimeters) predicted.Illinois State police said much of the state's highway system was snow covered with large stretches impassible.In Missouri, where at least one woman was reported killed after losing control of her car, the state closed Interstate 70, a major highway, from one end of the state to the other. The National Weather Service also warned that shoveling sidewalks during such a significant snowfall can be deadly, noting that more than 40 people died of heart attacks in the aftermath of a 1999 blizzard in Chicago.Do not underestimate the task at hand,it said.
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was reported at a near standstill after a record 14 inches (35.5 centimeters) of snow was blown into deep drifts and collapsed the roof of a Hard Rock casino.There are hundreds and hundreds of cars stranded in the city, from private to emergency vehicles, Paul Strizek of the city's public works department told the Tulsa World, which announced that for the first time in its history, it would not publish a newspaper on Wednesday.A coating of ice and freezing rain could not deter revellers, however, from awaiting word from the weather-predicting groundhog, Phil. In an annual Groundhog Day tradition, Phil was due to emerge from his hole Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and if he sees his shadow, determine whether or not there will be six more weeks of winter.
Blizzard keeps Midwest cattle ranchers busy By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press – Wed Feb 2, 3:58 am ET
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. – Wind gusts of up to 40 mph whipped western Kansas on Tuesday as cattleman Jerry Byrd drove his pickup back and forth between his home and the pens a mile away where dozens of his pregnant cows were waiting in frigid temperatures to give birth. The snow on was only an inch or so deep, but Byrd was keeping a close watch because the cold could kill a wet, newborn calf.Without space to bring all the pregnant animals in at once, Byrd was keeping them close to his son's barn. A rock wall and trees provided shelter, and he had birthing stalls ready for any animal that seemed about to give birth. His son too was keeping watch over the animals about to have their first calves, checking them every two hours, day and night.When it gets this cold you have to check them, you have to bring them into the barn, said Byrd, who lives in Dighton. They have good protection, but the wind chill is 36 below zero.The winter storm that paralyzed cities across the Midwest has made life harder for exhausted ranchers like Byrd. Even those whose cows aren't ready to give birth have been busy trying to keep their water from freezing, putting out extra rations to make sure the animals maintain their weight and watching for signs of frostbite.Feedlots in the Texas Panhandle lost cattle several years ago when temperatures plummeted unexpectedly. The animals just flat froze, standing in the lot, said Bill Hyman, executive director of the Independent Cattlemen's Association in Texas. While widespread deaths aren't common, Hyman said it's not usual to lose some animals to frostbite or freezing.In 2007, more than 1,000 cattle died during a winter storm that struck 44 Kansas counties that were home to 3.7 million cows.
That's one reason preparations for this week's blizzard started long before the storm hit Terry Handke's feedlot in Muscotah in northeast Kansas. Workers put chains on the wheels of the feed truck and loader so they wouldn't get stuck in snowdrifts while tending to the several thousand cattle on the lot. Hanke said he didn't expect to lose any animals to the storm but it would cost him quite a bit of money. Cattle consume more feed in severe cold and can still lose weight as they struggle to maintain their body temperatures.Some of these cattle eat $3 to $4 a day of feed, Handke said.If they are not gaining, you are talking big dollars real fast.Outside Conway in central Arkansas, temperatures were expected to drop into the teens and lower for the next few nights. Rancher Bill Wallace said his cows tend to be fine in cold weather because they're just like a big fermentation vat.All the feed that goes into them kind of rolls around and ferments and puts out a lot of heat, Wallace said.
Calves, however, are another story. He had one cow give birth a few days ago when the temperature was milder and hoped the others would hold off until after the storm passed.A cow having a calf during that period of time, if it's not sheltered, you might see a calf's ears freeze off, Wallace said. There's not a lot of circulation in a calf's ears.Rancher Ken Grecian moved his cows from an open field to one with more trees for shelter and began giving them extra feed when he heard the weather forecast. A good area where trees provide shelter from the wind is better for adult animals than putting them in a barn, where humidity and condensation can cause other problems, he said.The biggest challenge Tuesday, Grecian said, was keeping the animals water from freezing. He put heaters in the water tanks and has been checking the cattle that drink from running streams to make sure they have an open space in the ice where they can get to the water.The other thing when it is this cold, you find all the weaknesses in your machinery that you feed with. Things just don't work as well as they should when it's cold, said Grecian, who woke up Tuesday morning to find he had no water in his house in Palco, Kan., after the pipes in his well froze. The temperature on his farm was minus 10 degrees, with winds of 35 mph.Dale Spencer said the temperature dropped to about zero Tuesday on his ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills near Brewster.His roughly 600 cattle were handling the cold OK, he said, but the same couldn't be said for his tractor or the furnace in his house. Spencer said he had to drive 70 miles Monday to pick up a new water pump that he installed in the tractor Tuesday afternoon while waiting for a furnace repairman to arrive.
The National Weather Service warned that wind chills in central Nebraska could drop as low as 40 degrees below zero overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. Spencer said he expected to be working from sunrise to sunset to keep things going.It's not a lot of fun,he said,but it's a task we take on because it's part of the job.Associated Press writers Tom Parsons in Little Rock, Ark.; Paul Weber in San Antonio, Texas; and Josh Funk in Omaha, Neb., contributed to this report.
Floods kill four in Philippines
– Wed Feb 2, 2:49 am ET
MANILA (AFP) – Heavy rain swamping the southern Philippines has left four people dead and affected 250,000 others, according to officials.The rains over the past five days have flooded entire towns and caused landslides across vast areas of the mainly rural south, with more bad weather forecast for the rest of the month.What we are having now is a creeping disaster, the head of the state weather service, Graciano Yumul, on Wednesday told reporters in Manila.Yumul said Surigao, a city of 120,000 people, had received 1.8 metres (nearly six feet) of rain in one day.Two farmers drowned on Monday and another on Friday when they were swept away while crossing swollen rivers near Surigao, June Parada, spokesman for the provincial government of Surigao del Norte, told AFP.A seven-year-old boy also drowned in a neighbouring southern province, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in Manila.The government was rushing rescue equipment and emergency aid to nearly a quarter million people affected by the floods and landslides, it added.It was the second time the region had been hit by torrential rains this year.Flooding across the southern and central Philippines last month claimed 75 lives, according to the disaster council.
LUKE 21:25
25 and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
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Protesters, Mubarak supporters fight in Cairo square
By Shaimaa Fayed and Yasmine Saleh - FEB 2,11
CAIRO (Reuters) – Opponents and supporters of President Hosni Mubarak fought with fists, stones and clubs in Cairo on Wednesday in what appeared to be a move by forces loyal to the Egyptian leader to end protests calling for him to quit.Protesters said some of the Mubarak supporters were members of the hated police force in plain clothes. Some rode into the crowd on horses and camels and in carriages, wielding whips and sticks.People fought while troops surrounding the vast Tahrir (Liberation) Square made no attempt to intervene. Reuters correspondents saw dozens of injured. Many people fled in panic.Anti-Mubarak protesters said they would not leave the square until Mubarak quits.Khalil, a man in his 60s holding a stick, blamed Mubarak supporters and undercover security men for the clashes.But we will not leave, he told Reuters.Everybody stay put.
The Interior Ministry denied police were involved.
The fighting broke out as international pressure grew on Mubarak to quit and his closest ally, the United States, told him bluntly that a political transition must begin immediately.After Mubarak went on national television on Tuesday night to say he would not stand in elections scheduled for September, the armed forces said the protesters' demands had been heard and it was time for them to clear the streets.
Soon after several hundred pro-Mubarak supporters entered Tahrir (Liberation) Square, where a few thousand protesters had gathered, and the clashes broke out, witnesses said.Opposition figurehead Mohammed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace laureate, accused the government of using scare tactics.This is yet another symptom, or another indication, of a criminal regime using criminal acts, ElBaradei told the BBC.
It was the ninth day of protests that broke out last week as public frustration with corruption, oppression and economic hardship under 30 years of rule by Mubarak boiled over.An opposition coalition, which includes Islamist organization the Muslim Brotherhood, responded to the army warning by calling for more protests.It said it would only negotiate with Vice President Omar Suleiman, a former intelligence chief appointed by Mubarak at the weekend, once Mubarak stepped down.Mubarak's offer to leave in September was his latest gambit in the crisis. At the weekend he reshuffled his cabinet and promised reform but it was not enough for protesters.One million people took to the streets of Egyptian cities on Tuesday calling for him to quit.
Wednesday's violence was the worst in the crisis since Friday, when police and protesters fought running street battles. At least 140 people are estimated to have been killed so far.
CUT AND CUT CLEAN
International backing for Mubarak, for three decades a stalwart of the West's Middle East policy and styled as a bulwark against the spread of militant Islam, has crumbled as he tried to brazen out the crisis. President Barack Obama spoke to Mubarak for half an hour by telephone on Tuesday night after the 82-year-old announced his plan to step down in September.What is clear and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now, Obama said after speaking to him.Pressure also came from Turkey, an important diplomatic voice in the Muslim world. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Mubarak's plan to step down in seven months time did not meet the people's expectations and the change should begin sooner.France, Germany and Britain also called for a speedy transition.
The transition needs to be rapid and credible and it needs to start now, British Prime Minister David Cameron told the UK parliament.Some of the few words of encouragement for him have come from oil-giant Saudi Arabia, a country seen by many analysts as vulnerable to a similar outbreak of discontent.Israel, which signed a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979, is also watching the situation in its western neighbor nervously, weighing the possibility that anti-Israeli Islamists might gain a share of power.
YEMEN, JORDAN FEEL THE HEAT
Many analysts see the army as trying to ensure a transition of power that would allow it to retain much of its influence.Hani Sabra, a Eurasia Group analyst, said Mubarak's announcement he would stand in the election in September marked the start a long, messy negotiation process between the government and the opposition.In the medium term, these negotiations will likely produce an Egypt best described as a hybrid democracy, combining a strong military with a more pluralistic electoral system, he said.Mubarak's speech was formulated to superficially display his resolve. Mubarak also declared that he would die in Egypt, a direct reference to protestors who have demanded his departure.The uprising was inspired in part by a popular revolt in Tunisia last month which overthrew long-ruling President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The mood is spreading across the region.King Abdullah of Jordan replaced his prime minister on Tuesday after protests there.Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key U.S. ally in the fight against al Qaeda, said on Wednesday he would not seek to extend his presidency, a move that would end his three-decade rule in 2013.Oil prices fell back from 28-month highs, but North Sea Brent crude was still more than $101 a barrel on worries that unrest in Egypt could trigger regime change across the Middle East and North Africa.But with Mubarak pledging to go, foreign investors have begun to show renewed interest in Egyptian bonds and stocks and the cost of insuring Egyptian debt against default fell.(Additional reporting by Andrew Hammond, Patrick Werr, Dina Zayed, Marwa Awad, Shaimaa Fayed, Alexander Dziadosz, Yasmine Saleh, and Alison Williams in Cairo; Writing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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EPHESIANS 2:2-3
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,(SATAN)the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:(NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES)
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
EPHESIANS 5:6
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.(NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES)
MATHHEW 13:49-50
49 So shall it be at the end of the world:(AGE OF GRACE) the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire:(WICKED)there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Obama quietly builds ties with Muslim Brotherhood Back-door talks with movement vowing end of West, rule of Islam February 01, 2011 9:02 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein 2011 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – President Obama and top administration officials have an extended history of reaching out to the organization representing the main opposition now in Egypt's unrest, quietly building ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and its worldwide allies. Even today, as throngs are flooding the streets of Egyptian cities targeting the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, the White House seemingly has been championing the protests.The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to spread Islam around the world, in large part using nonviolent means. Hamas and al-Qaida are violent Brotherhood offshoots.Muslim Brotherhood members reportedly were invited to attend President Obama's 2009 address to the Muslim world from Cairo. Khaled Hamza, editor of the Muslim Brotherhood website, confirmed at the time that 10 members of the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc received official invitations to attend Obama's historic speech.Also in 2009, the Egyptian daily newspaper Almasry Alyoum ran a report claiming Obama had met with U.S. and European-based representatives of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood that year According to the report, the Brotherhood members requested that news of the meeting not be publicized. They expressed to Obama their support for democracy and the war on terror.
The newspaper also reported Brotherhood members communicated to Obama their position that the Muslim Brotherhood would abide by all agreements Egypt has signed with foreign countries, implying that if they took power in Egypt they would continue that country's peace treaty with Israel.Besides contact with the Muslim Brotherhood itself, there have been multiple reports the past two years of behind-the-scenes contact with Hamas, which was founded as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas maintains a close alliance with the Brotherhood; in fact, the Brotherhood's new leader, Muhammad Badi, serves as a de facto lead spiritual guide for Hamas.
Multiple top leaders of Hamas in Gaza claimed to WND several times they passed messages to Obama through dignitaries who visited the Gaza Strip, including Jimmy Carter and Sen. John Kerry – both of whom have a close relationship with the White House.Kerry, for example, reportedly accepted a letter for Obama from Hamas leaders in Gaza during a February 2009 visit to U.N. installations in the coastal territory.
Karen Abu Zayd, the U.N. relief agency chief in Gaza, told the BBC the Hamas letter had been received by his agency and passed on to an unnamed American official.In November 2008, WND first quoted Hamas officials stating they would be sending a letter to Obama.Immediately after that month's elections, Ahmed Yousef , Hamas' chief political adviser in Gaza, called Obama's win a historic victory for the world and told WND that Hamas was sending a letter of congratulations to the president-elect.
Obama ties to Brotherhood’s U.S. allies
It is not just Obama's reported contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood and the group's allies in the Middle East that have raised questions.The Obama administration also has evidenced a working relationship with several U.S.-based Islamist organizations that are listed by the Brotherhood as likeminded organizations.One such group is the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, a radical Muslim group that was an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to raise money for Hamas.ISNA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document – An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America – as one of the Brotherhood's likeminded organizations of our friends who shared the common goal of transforming countries into Muslim nations.The White House relationship with the ISNA began even before Obama took office. One week before the presidential inauguration, Sayyid Syeed, national director of the ISNA Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, was part of a delegation that met with the directors of Obama's transition team. The delegation discussed a request for an executive order ending torture.ISNA President Ingrid Mattson represented American Muslims at Obama's inauguration, where she offered a prayer during the televised event.Mattson also has represented ISNA at Obama's annual Ramadan dinners, including the last such event in which Obama announced support for the rights of Muslims to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks.
In June 2009, Obama's top aide, Valerie Jarrett, invited Mattson to work on the White House Council on Women and Girls, which Jarrett leads.That July, the Justice Department sponsored an information booth at an ISNA bazaar in Washington, D.C.
Also that month, Jarrett addressed ISNA's 46th annual convention. According to the White House, Jarrett attended as part of Obama's outreach to Muslims.It was an ISNA-sponsored event that held a February 2010 question and answer session with Obama's top adviser on counter-terrorism, John Brennan, who came under fire for controversial remarks he made at that session, which was addressed to Muslim law students at New York University.Another Muslim Brotherhood likeminded organization that was welcome at the White House was the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.
Egypt blames White House for fomenting uprising
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters today thronged Cairo's Tahrir Square ahead of a million man march protest due to take place later in the day to mark seven days of anti-government demonstrations in the country.WND quoted a senior Egyptian diplomat stating the Egyptian government suspects elements of the current uprising there, particularly political aspects, are being coordinated with the U.S. State Department and Obama administration.The senior Egyptian diplomat told WND the Mubarak regime suspects the U.S. has been aiding protest planning by Mohamed ElBaradei, who is seen as one of the main opposition leaders in Cairo.ElBaradei, former International Atomic Energy Agency chief, has reinvented himself as a campaigner for reform in Egypt. He is a candidate for this year's scheduled presidential elections.ElBaradei arrived in Cairo just after last week's protests began and is reportedly being confined to his home by Egyptian security forces.
He is seen as an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood.
This past weekend, the London Telegraph reported the U.S. Embassy in Cairo in 2008 helped a young dissident attend a U.S.-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.The Telegraph would not identify the dissident, but said he was involved in helping to stir the current protests. The report claimed the dissident told the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that an alliance of opposition groups had a plan to topple Mubarak'sgovernment.The disclosures, contained in U.S. diplomatic dispatches released by the WikiLeaks website, show American officials pressed the Egyptian government to release other dissidents who had been detained by the police.The White House has been almost openly championing the unrest in Egypt.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Obama both reportedly voiced support for an orderly transition in Egypt that is responsive to the aspirations of Egyptians.Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough, speaking in a White House webcast, also urged the government and protesters in Egypt to refrain from violence.Egyptian officials speaking to WND, however, warned the Muslim Brotherhood has the most to gain from any political reform.
Worldwide Islamist revolution
The Obama administration's support for the unrest is strikingly reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's support of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, which marked the birth of modern Islamist expansion now seemingly sweeping the Mideast.In fact, some Muslim clerics already are calling the riots in Egypt simply an extension of 1979's Islamist conquests.Thirty-one years after the victory of the Islamic Republic, we are faced with the obvious fact that these movements are the aftershocks of the Islamic Revolution, said Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, as reported by Iran's Radio Zamaneh. The fate of those who challenge [our] religion is destruction.
Speaking of media and government leaders, Khatami added, They want to highlight the labor, liberal and democratic issues, but the most important issue, which is the religious streak of these protests, [is] being denied.The leader of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, Hammam Saeed, warned that the unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast until Arabs succeed at toppling leaders allied with the United States. The Americans and Obama must be losing sleep over the popular revolt in Egypt, Saeed said at a sympathy protest held outside the Egyptian Embassy in Amman. Now, Obama must understand that the people have woken up and are ready to unseat the tyrant leaders who remained in power because of U.S. backing.And on the Internet, the Middle East Media Research Institute reports, prominent Salafi cleric Abu Mundhir Al-Shinqiti issued a fatwa in the website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad encouraging the protests in Egypt, claiming Islamist jihadis are now on the verge of a historic moment in the history of the Islamic nation, an earthquake he likened to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City.
Brotherhood declares war on U.S.
Multiple prominent U.S. commentators also have been claiming the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate organization and denying any Islamist plot to seize power.In November, the Brotherhood's new supreme guide, Muhammad Badi, delivered a sermon entitled, How Islam Confronts the Oppression and Tyranny.Resistance is the only solution, stated Badi. The United States cannot impose an agreement upon the Palestinians, despite all the power at its disposal. [Today] it is withdrawing from Iraq, defeated and wounded, and is also on the verge of withdrawing from Afghanistan because it has been defeated by Islamist warriors.Badi went on to declare the U.S. is easy to defeat through violence, since it is experiencing the beginning of its end and is heading toward its demise.Read more: Obama quietly builds ties with Muslim Brotherhood http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=258397#ixzz1ColDaJkg
Wikileaks Bombshell Points To 9/11 Stand Down
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com February 2, 2011
Newly released Wikileaks documents concerning the activities of three Qatari men who conducted surveillance of the World Trade Center and boarded flights on the eve of the 9/11 attacks adds to the plethora of evidence that at the very least US authorities were aware of the plot and deliberately stood down.The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, reports the Daily Telegraph.Secret documents reveal that the three Qatari men conducted surveillance on the targets, provided support to the plotters and had tickets for a flight to Washington on the eve of the atrocities.Ten days later they flew to Los Angeles, where they stationed themselves in a hotel near the airport which the FBI has now established was paid for by a convicted terrorist, who also paid for their airline tickets.Hotel staff have told investigators they saw pilot uniforms in their room along with computer print outs detailing pilot names, flight numbers and times and packages addressed to Syria, Afghanistan, Jerusalem and Jordan.
The revelation that these men may have been involved in the pre-planning for 9/11 again highlights the fact that the plot was known ahead of time. Whether they were double agents laying a trail for the attack to be later blamed on Muslim patsies or they were genuinely part of the plot is immaterial, the fact that their behavior, amidst a myriad of other obvious indications that an attack was imminent, was not acted upon by US authorities, provides yet more evidence of a stand down.The US Special Operations Command’s Able Danger program identified the hijackers and their accomplices long before 9/11, but when the head of the program, Colonel Anthony Shaffer, tried to pass the information on to the 9/11 Commission, he was gagged and slandered and the vital information his team had passed on was ignored and buried.
Curt Weldon, Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, documented how the US government tracked the hijackers’ movements before 9/11.Louai al-Sakka, the man who trained six of the hijackers, was a CIA informant. A number of the other alleged hijackers were trained at US air bases. In the months prior to 9/11, alleged hijackers Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi were renting rooms in a house owned and lived in by an FBI informant.In a 2002 article entitled The Hijackers We Let Escape, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman documented how, The CIA tracked two suspected terrorists to a Qaeda summit in Malaysia in January 2000, then looked on as they re-entered America and began preparations for September 11.The fact that there were numerous Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists involved in the pre-planning stages of 9/11 is unsurprising given former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds’ testimony that Bin Laden was working for the US right up until the day of 9/11.On the very morning of 9/11, the money man behind the alleged hijackers, Pakistan’s ISI Chief Mahmoud Ahmad, was meeting with U.S. government and intelligence officials.Indeed, even after 9/11, the so-called spiritual leader of the very hijackers who allegedly slammed Flight 77 into the Pentagon, Anwar al-Awlaki, was himself invited to dine with Pentagon top brass mere months after the attack.
Al-Awlaki was later involved in directing the underwear bomber, who was allowed to board the plane by order of the US State Department aided by a well-dressed man who got Abdulmutallab on the airliner despite the fact that he was on a terror watch list and had no passport. Eyewitness and Delta 253 passenger Kurt Haskell subsequently blew the whistle to state that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was given the bomb by the US government to create a pretext for the implementation of naked body scanners and boost the TSA’s budget.While there has been plenty of focus on possible connections between other Muslim terror suspects and the alleged 9/11 hijackers, little has been said about the role of the infamous dancing Israelis who brazenly displayed their foreknowledge of the plot after they were witnessed setting up camera equipment pointed at the World Trade Center before the attack unfolded.When the planes slammed into the towers, the men were seen dancing, cheering and congratulating each other.The details of these new Wikileaks documents only serve to confirm that there were numerous drills and preparatory actions taking place immediately prior to 9/11 indicating that an attack was imminent. What the Telegraph and the rest of the establishment media will refuse to mention in any of these reports is the confirmed fact that through Able Danger and other intelligence operations, these events were being closely tracked by US authorities.Add to this the complete reversal of standard operating procedure on the day of 9/11 in relation to NORAD’s failure to intercept any of the hijacked airliners, and the evidence for a government and military stand down which at the very least allowed the attack to take place is abundant.
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Latest Round of Wikileaks Docs Hype Manufactured Terror Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com February 2, 2011
It is now obvious Wikileaks is an intelligence operation and its frontman Julian Assange is a useful idiot. The latest round of documents are like the worst sort of neocon propaganda in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The corporate media today is chock full of stories about the latest round of supposed diplomatic documents purloined by a low level Army intelligence analyst. According to the documents, the CIA asset al-Qaeda has managed to acquire workable and efficient biological and chemical weapons and the West stands on the brink of a nuclear 9/11. It is said the documents detail a 2009 NATO meeting where security chiefs briefed member states that al-CIA-duh was readying dirty radioactive IEDs to be used against British troops in Afghanistan.
Corporate media sings praise for Assange and his disinfo campaign.Dirty bombs were debunked years ago and it is surprising the folks behind the fake diplomatic cables are attempting to pawn this fantasy off on us again as they did in 2002 when former Chicago gangbanger Jose Padilla was arrested and paraded in the corporate media as the face of al-Qaeda in America.Once again, Pakistan figures prominently in this scary fairy tale. Senior British defense officials have raised deep concerns that a rogue scientist in the Pakistani nuclear program could gradually smuggle enough material out to make a weapon, according to a document detailing official talks in London in February 2009,the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday.Left out of the equation is the fact Pakistan would not have nuclear weapons if not for the United States.Back in 1979, as the CIA was in the process of cobbling together the Afghan Mujahideen that would later become al-Qaeda, the globalist and Rockefeller minion Zbigniew Brzezinski forged a new policy toward the formerly pariah Islamic state. Brzezinski said that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our nonproliferation policy.Reagan also didn’t see a problem. I just don’t think it’s any of our business,he remarked when quizzed about Pakistan’s nuclear ambitions.
Moreover, the supposed smuggling of nuclear material out of Pakistan would face difficulty due to the fact the country’s nukes are locked down.Over the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million on a highly classified program to help Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, secure his country’s nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior administration officials, the New York Times reported on November 17, 2007. The secret program was designed by the Energy Department and the State Department, and it drew heavily from the effort over the past decade to secure nuclear weapons, stockpiles and materials in Russia and other former Soviet states. Much of the money for Pakistan was spent on physical security, like fencing and surveillance systems, and equipment for tracking nuclear material if it left secure areas.In addition to dirty bombs, terrorists are planning to blow up commercial airliners with teddy bears, according to the Wikileaks documents. Airport security staff are being urged to examine children’s articles after US intelligence concluded that terrorists were plotting to fill them with explosive chemicals, reports the Daily Telegraph.Terrorists are attempting to manufacture nitrocellulose, a chemical which can become highly explosive if tightly packed. Details of how to prepare the chemical, which cannot be detected by airport X-ray machines, have been found in al-Qaeda training manuals. You may remember the original al-Qaeda training manual. It was located in Manchester, England, and brought to our attention with much absurd fanfare. It was later revealed that the document was penned in the 1980s around the same time the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI were collaborating in Afghanistan, well before the CIA decided to create al-Qaeda from a database of Mujahideen warriors.
In short, more sexual molestation and naked body porno scanners will be required at airports if we are going to stop al-CIA-duh as it continues to plan sensationalistic terror events that either never occur or are executed by mentally impaired operatives and dim-witted patsies.The Wikileaks documents are also designed to rekindle the hysteria manufactured by the government after September 11, 2001. According to the documents, a group of Qataris conducted surveillance on the targets of 9/11 and provided support for the phantom hijackers who were trained at U.S. military bases. Details of the unknown 9/11 alleged plotters has never previously been disclosed, reports the Daily Telegraph.Here is a detail that has been previously disclosed (although assiduously ignored by the corporate media) – Osama bin Laden and the Taliban shared intimate relations with the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence right up until the morning of September 11, 2001, according to the most gagged woman in America, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds.The CIA groomed manufactured enemies from China to Chechnya, Albania, and Kosovo, Edmonds revealed, but you won’t find that in Assange’s mass of documents.For all its dutiful work in the service of the globalist empire, Wikileaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian politician Snorre Valen, who said the shady outfit played an instrumental role in freedom of speech.WikiLeaks is one of this century’s most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency, the NTB news agency quoted Valen as saying today.It also played a role in perpetuating cover stories used by government as pretexts to further erode our liberties and engage in wanton mass murder around the world.
Minority Report: Companies Push For Ubiquitous Iris Scanning - Expiring technology patent insures that you will soon have your eyes scanned everywhere you go Place eyes here for secure entry citizen Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Wednesday, Feb 2nd, 2011
http://www.prisonplanet.com/minority-report-companies-push-for-ubiquitous-iris-scanning.html
The impending expiration of a key technology patent is paving the way for a scramble amongst scores of biometrics research and development companies, all desperate to make their own brand of iris scanning technology commonplace, effectively creating a real life Minority Report society, where everyone is linked into an identification database.As detailed in a Bloomberg News report today, the patent for recording the unique characteristics of the Iris as a form of identification was granted to two eye doctors in 1987, who then approached a Cambridge University professor to develop a way of automating iris identification. That further patent was granted in 1994, but it expires this year, opening a door for a slew of technological nightmares to come pouring through.Leading marketing companies believe that within the next five years, iris recognition technology will create over $2 billion in revenue by becoming a routine part of everyday life.The technology is already being used for screening employees of Bank of America, travelers at London’s Heathrow Airport and New York City prisoners.The Department of Homeland Security has tested iris scanners at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing standards for the technology’s use.
One company, Hoyos Corp., wants to make the technology ubiquitous, according to the Bloomberg report. Chief Development Officer Jeff Carter says the company foresees iris scanners on mobile phones and computers, and even on ATMs, to be used as a replacement for bank cards.Last year the company, then known as Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI), based out of headquarters in New York, announced that it was using the technology to create what it claims will be the most secure city in the world” in Leon, one of Mexico’s largest cities.So called eye swipe machines, which come in a variety of different shapes and sizes, are to be hooked up to a huge iris database created in conjunction with Leon law enforcement authorities.Leon is effectively a testing ground for the mass rollout of the technology.
In the future, whether it’s entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris, Carter explained to tech website FastCompany.com.According to the article,Criminals will automatically be enrolled, their irises scanned once convicted. Law-abiding citizens will have the option to opt-in.Yet Carter seems confident that everyone, whether a criminal or not will soon be hooked into the database:Every person, place, and thing on this planet will be connected [to the iris system] within the next 10 years, he says.In Carter’s hideous control freak vision of the future, anyone withdrawing cash, paying for items in a store or simply catching a bus will have to stare directly into the beast system while Police officers will monitor these scans and track the movements of watch-listed individuals.Carter even alludes to Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report, noting that the system will operate to a degree even more controlling than in the cult classic dystopian story.Not even the dead eyeballs seen in Minority Report could trick the system, he says. If you’ve been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you’re a known shoplifter, for example, you won’t be able to go into a store without being flagged. For others, boarding a plane will be impossible.
The technology is also evolving rapidly. Newer scanners are able to capture the Iris from a distance of ten feet. Future devices might read irises from more than 30 feet, said Tim Meyerhoff, North American business development director for Iris ID Systems Inc.,, another of the 20 or so companies set to push iris scanning into everyday life.The newest machines are also able to process hundreds of iris scans per minute, meaning they can be used effectively in crowded public places.One of the Hoyos mobile iris scanners is demonstrated in the video below:
There isn’t even any pretence of a benign agenda behind this – it is a bold in your face admission of a plan to force every human being into a big brother system by hooking it up to the essential amenities and infrastructure of the city. The stated aim is to monitor everyone, everywhere, all the time – the perfect technological matrix-like prison system.This system is the ultimate perversion of humanity, taking what makes us all unique and using it to catalogue every one of us as if we are sheep or cattle on a plantation. It represents the screaming death knell of freedom.
Mr Carter and Hoyos Corp. don’t care about that though, they would like you to believe that your privacy and your basic freedoms were long ago completely extinguished , so resistance is futile:The banks already know more about what we do in our daily life–they know what we eat, where we go, what we purchase–our deepest secrets, he says. We’re not talking about anything different here–just a system that’s good for all of us.Hoyos CEO and founder, Hector Hoyos, echoes Carter’s pronouncement, noting You really can’t control technology. Oppenheimer and Einstein said it. The cat’s out of the bag. You can try to put certain protocols in place and hope that people who get their hands on technology abide by your protocols. That’s all you can do.Essentially, Hoyos is saying that if the bad guys get their hands on the technology, tough luck. Of course, it’s easier to live with that potential scenario if you’re sitting on a sizeable chunk of the $2 billion a year and rising revenue than if you’re one of the slaves in the database having their eyes scanned everywhere they go.Carter also has a warning for any sheep who think they can stray from the flock:When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in.Carter even speaks of tailoring the technology to enable advertisers to track behavior and emotion by scanning people’s eyes from when they look at a billboard to when they enter a store and purchase the product.
The Minority Report was written as a stark warning of what may happen in the future should society be engulfed by invasive technology and begin to regard privacy and civil liberties as antiquated. Yet increasingly it, and other works like it, have become the handbooks for those who would gladly see the planet fully transformed into a giant fascist control grid if it means they can swim in the filthy meaningless lucre and revel in the pathetic soulless power trip it will generate for them.This technology is here now – it is not some paranoid geek’s frightening description of a distant future. it is time to wake up, take note of what our society is being transformed into and ensure our freedoms are not completely wiped out before it is too late.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Powerful cyclone strikes Australia's northeast
FEB 2,11
CAIRNS, Australia – The destructive core of a massive cyclone battered Australia's northeastern coast early Thursday, wrenching roofs off buildings and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes.Australian officials have warned that Cyclone Yasi was expected to cause substantial damage and probably some deaths, though they would have little idea of the scale of the disaster until the worst had passed. The storm was packing winds up to 186 mph (300 kph) and will take several hours to blow through any given area.The storm will compound misery in Queensland, which has already been hit by months of flooding that killed 35 people and inundated hundreds of communities. Yasi hit north of the main waterlogged area, but emergency services across the state are already stretched.The Bureau of Meteorology said in a statement that the storm's large and destructive core has started crossing the coast near the small town of Mission Beach in northern Queensland state.Dozens of other cities and towns were being whipped by winds that forecaster said could gust up to 186 mph (300 kph).Witnesses reported seeing roofs ripped off buildings and trees flattened, and officials said power had been cut to at least 90,000 homes.
Australia braces for worst ever storm
by Torsten Blackwood - FEB 2,11
INNISFAIL, Australia (AFP) – A terrifying cyclone barrelling towards Australia strengthened to the most dangerous threat level Wednesday, shaping up as one most lethal storms in the country's history.As the winds whipped up by Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi began wreaking havoc along Queensland coast, state Premier Anna Bligh warned the region's one million residents it was too late to escape the most catastrophic storm to ever hit our coast.Yasi, the worst storm in a century, was expected to slam into the coast around midnight on Wednesday (1400 GMT), the Bureau of Meteorology said, after it was upgraded early in the day to a category five storm from category four. This impact is likely to be more life-threatening than any experienced during recent generations, it said in an ominous warning ahead of the first category five storm to hit the area since 1918.Wild advance winds tore the roof off a building near where 500 people were taking shelter in Innisfail, which lies directly in Yasi's path, Mayor Bill Shannon said.The eye is five hours away and it's already causing damage so it's pretty worrying, he told the AAP news agency as Yasi churned 175 kilometres northeast of the town.Power lines and trees were felled along the coast by early gusts, with an offshore weather station clocking 185 kilometres an hour winds before it was destroyed.
Yasi, which measures up to 800 kilometres (500 miles) across, was on course to hit the area between Innisfail, south of the tourist hub of Cairns, and Cardwell, 100 kilometres south of Innisfail.Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Yasi looked like the worst cyclone in Australian history and said the nation was with Queenslanders as they faced many, many dreadful, frightening hours waiting for it to strike.This is probably the worst cyclone that our nation has ever seen. In the hours of destruction that are coming to them, all of Australia is going to be thinking of them, she said.Yasi was expected to generate highly destructive winds of up to 295 kilometres per hour, up to 700 millimetres (27.5 inches) of rain and storm surges that are threatening to flood towns and tourist resorts.The storm is so enormous that it would almost cover the United States or large parts of Europe, News Ltd newspapers reported.Locals further from the seafront who did not evacuate were told to batten down and prepare a safe room, like a bathroom or a basement, with mattresses, pillows, a radio, food and water supplies to wait out the cyclone.
Thousands of people have already fled the area and seaside residents were urged to desert their homes ahead of a dangerous storm surge of between 2.3 and seven metres (eight to 23 feet) that was likely to cause major flooding.Two hospitals in Cairns were evacuated and shuttered, their patients were airlifted on military planes to the city of Brisbane.Airports and ports in Cairns and other cities along the coast were shut to traffic Wednesday as winds gathered strength.The streets of Cairns, usually bustling with holidaymakers and diving enthusiasts, were eerily deserted.
More than 10,000 people were sheltering in 20 evacuation centres across the region -- some so packed that people were turned away -- while tens of thousands more were staying with family and friends.Anticipating a massive relief operation, the military was readying supply ships with aircraft landing capability to help with search and rescue once the storm passed.We're just hoping and praying we can all get through the night, said Ross Sorbello, from the endangered town of Tully as residents looked down the barrel of approaching Yasi.The storm's size and power dwarfs Cyclone Tracy, which hit the northern Australian city of Darwin in 1974, killing 71 people and flattening more than 90 percent of its houses.It is also twice the size and far stronger than the category four Cyclone Larry that caused Aus$1.5 billion ($1.5 billion) of damage after hitting agricultural areas around Innisfail, just south of Cairns, in 2006.Forecasters said Yasi could be "horrific" and take 24 hours to weaken after it makes landfall.
Powerful cyclone strikes Australia's northeast
FEB 2,11
CAIRNS, Australia – The destructive core of a massive storm is crossing Australia's northeastern coast, wrenching roofs off buildings and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes.Officials say that Cyclone Yasi was expected to cause substantial damage and probably some deaths, though they would have little idea of the scale of the disaster until the worst had passed.The Bureau of Meteorology said in a statement that the storm's large and destructive core has started crossing the coast near the small town of Mission Beach in northern Queensland state.Dozens of other cities and towns were being whipped by winds that forecaster said could gust up to 186 mph (300 kph).Witnesses reported seeing roofs ripped off buildings and trees flattened.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
CAIRNS, Australia (AP) — Strong winds and driving rain began buffeting northeast Australia as one of the country's biggest storms bore down Wednesday while residents huddled in evacuation centers or hid at home in bathrooms behind piles of blankets and mattresses.Australian leaders issued dire warnings of potential devastation for cities and towns dotted along a stretch of coast more than 190 miles (300 kilometers) long in north Queensland state, in an area considered the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.The storm will compound misery in Queensland, which has already been hit by months of flooding that killed 35 people and inundated hundreds of communities. Cyclone Yasi is due to hit north of the main waterlogged area, but emergency services are already stretched and the whole state is flood-weary.This is a cyclone of savagery and intensity, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a nationally televised news conference as the storm moved toward the coast. People are facing some really dreadful hours in front of them.The first winds began howling throughout Cairns as night fell Wednesday, with the storm expected to make landfall sometime around midnight.Dozens of guests at a Cairns waterfront hotel took cover in the central ballroom as lights throughout the building flickered. Staff members pinned curtains shut over windows that were in danger of shattering and handed out flashlights to everyone.Barbara Maskei, a 49-year-old tourist from Germany, lay on the ballroom floor under a sheet reading a book, as her 20-year-old daughter Annette and husband Peter dozed beside her. For her, there will be no sleep tonight. I like to keep my eyes open, she said as the wind roared outside.
Winds at the center of the storm were gusting up to 186 mph (300 kph), and the front was about 300 miles (500 kilometers) across. The worst of the winds were expected to last up to four hours on the coast, though blustery conditions and heavy rain could last for 24 hours.In Innisfail, a town about 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Cairns that is nearly in the direct path of the storm, Mayor Bill Shannon said he saw the roof torn off a building near the local government building where some 500 people are sheltering.We're just hoping and praying we can all get through the night, Shannon said.At a briefing about two hours before the storm's scheduled landfall, state disaster coordinator Ian Stewart said just one emergency call had been received — from six people in their 60s who feared their apartment in the resort town of Port Hinchinbrook would be swamped by a storm surge. They were told it was too dangerous for emergency workers to try to reach them, and they would have to wait it out, Stewart said.Power was cut to some 90,000 houses as the wind knocked out lines, and that number was expected to rise. Still, many in the storm's path were stoic. Cairns resident Jane Alcorn banned those who planned to shelter with her in the garage of her apartment complex from panicking.There's no crying, no hysterics, said Alcorn, 42.It's going to be loud, it's going to be scary. But we've got each other.The storm was forecast to push huge volumes of sea water inland in extremely dangerous movements called storm surges that would almost certainly flood some coastal communities, the Bureau of Meteorology said. Up to 28 inches (700 millimeters) of rain could fall within hours in some areas.
The bureau said most at risk was a band about 150 miles (240 kilometers) long between Cairns and the sugar cane-growing town of Ingham. The storm was forecast to continue inland at cyclone strength for two days. It was unclear what the damage to the Great Barrier Reef would be, experts said.Queensland officials warned people for days to stock up on bottled water and food, and to board or tape up their windows. People in low-lying or poorly protected areas were told to move in with family or friends on safer ground or move to evacuation centers.It's such a big storm — it's a monster, killer storm, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said, adding that the only previous storm measured in the state at such strength was in 1918.This impact is likely to be more life threatening than any experienced during recent generations.
More than 10,000 people were sheltering in 20 evacuation centers, including one set up in a shopping mall in downtown Cairns, a city with a population of some 165,000. People huddled in hallways with blankets, camping chairs and snacks.Earlier Wednesday, police told people to get off the streets of Cairns. Everyone's gotta go now, one officer told pedestrians strolling near the waterfront. The water is coming NOW.Warnings stretched as far away as Townsville, which is slightly larger than Cairns and about 190 miles (300 kilometers) to the south, and Mount Isa, some 500 miles (800 kilometers) inland.People were told to move to rooms at the center of their houses — usually the bathroom — as they were structurally safest and usually had no windows that could shatter. People should bring mattresses and other items to hide behind in case of flying debris, sturdy shoes, and raincoats in case roofs are ripped off.Carla Jenkins, a 23-year-old Cairns resident, threw her belongings into a suitcase, taped up the windows of her house and fled to her grandmother's sturdier apartment complex with her sister and her dog, Elmo. The women had a stash of candles, flashlights, water and tinned food, and planned to spend the night huddled in the bathroom away from the windows.I can't see many Cairns people sleeping tonight, she said.Tonight's going to be a very scary night.The timing of Yasi's expected landfall, just after high tide, meant high storm surges of at least 6.5 feet (two meters) were likely to flood significant areas along the coast, the weather bureau said.Australia's huge, sparsely populated tropical north is battered each year by about six cyclones — called typhoons throughout much of Asia and hurricanes in the Western hemisphere. Building codes have been strengthened since Cyclone Tracy devastated the city of Darwin in 1974, killing 71 people, in one of Australia's worst natural disasters. Online: Bureau of Meteorology: http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/index.shtml
Dangerous winter storm hits Ontario-Weather system originating in Texas causes school closures, flight cancellations Last Updated: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 | 8:24 AM ET CBC News
A massive winter storm is hitting southwestern Ontario and is expected to make its way east as Environment Canada warns parts of the province to brace for blizzard conditions.Snow is falling in Toronto, Hamilton, London and Sarnia, while Windsor is being pounded by ice pellets just before the morning commute. The massive weather system originated in Texas and made its way through the midwestern United States, where cancelled flights have left travellers stranded.In the Toronto area, thousands of schoolchildren are in for a snow day as classes were cancelled at all Toronto public and Catholic schools. Public schools were also closed in Peel, Halton and Hamilton-Wentworth regions.While public schools were still open in York and Durham regions early Wednesday, there is no bus service.More than 300 flights at Pearson International Airport were cancelled between Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET and midnight Thursday. Travellers are advised to check with the Greater Toronto Airport Authority before heading to the airport.All Porter Airlines flights out of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport have been cancelled until noon.A stretch of the Gardiner Expressway between Kipling Avenue and Lakeshore Boulevard was being reopened at around 7:30 a.m. after a two-hour closure due to downed hydro wires.Dave Phillips, a senior climatologist for Environment Canada, predicted the storm will be the worst in Ontario in three years.Gusting winds and blowing snow will obscure visibility and make travel dangerous, said Phillips.It's a dangerous storm, it's huge, it's going to have a major impact. What makes it worse is the heavy amounts of snow, something we haven't seen in a long while.
Strongest storm of the season
The snow will be accompanied by winds of 50 to 70 km/h at their strongest, Environment Canada said. The high in Toronto is forecast to reach –5 C on Wednesday and the low will dip to –9 C.It will be the strongest storm of the season for urbanized areas like Toronto that are outside the Ontario snowbelt.The weather agency had upgraded a winter storm watch in southern Ontario, stretching from Windsor to Kingston, to a winter storm warning.Environment Canada added the blizzard warning for London, St. Catharines, Sarnia and Hamilton just after 3:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday.By the time the storm finishes Wednesday, large swaths of southern Ontario could have snowfall accumulations of between 15 and 25 centimetres, the agency predicted.It is expected to track eastward through Kingston and Ottawa, into upstate New York later Wednesday and then to New England, Environment Canada said.
Eastern Canada will likely be hit by the storm on Thursday.
Silvana Aceto, a spokeswoman with the Canadian Automobile Association, said 3,000 assistance calls are normal on a typical winter day, but that total can more than double during a storm as severe as the one hitting Wednesday. During a snowstorm in 2008, the Toronto CAA fielded close to 10,000 calls in one day, Aceto said.It's going to be messy on the roads, said Aceto. Drivers need to plan ahead, be prepared and check that weather forecast.The CAA is also advising motorists to avoid the roads or give themselves extra travel time, as well as carry:Myles Currie, Toronto's transportation services director, said the city is stepping up its regular plowing plan.Earlier this year we've primarily done salting, Currie told CBC News. With 30 centimetres expected, it will be a plowing operation for us.
Join the conversation Currie said plow crews will first focus on expressways, before turning to arterial roadways along streetcar lines, followed by side streets.Via Rail Canada, meanwhile, warned travellers to expect heavy demand in the Ontario-Quebec corridor, although it did not expect any cancellations. GO Transit says it will be running an adjusted schedule because of the storm, and is advising commuters to check its website for details.McMaster University in Hamilton and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo are among the post-secondary schools closed in Ontario, as well as Toronto's York University, Humber College, Centennial College, Seneca College and Sheridan College.In the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, eight states had blizzard conditions, with Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma the hardest hit. There were warnings, watches and advisories in 30 other states.Kansas, Oklahoma and Illinois declared emergencies, as did Missouri, where National Guard troops were called to help out in the storm. Airlines cancelled thousands of flights and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport closed due to an ice storm.Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2011/02/02/ontario-winter-storm.html#ixzz1CoOPOcVO
Epic winter storm hits central US by Mira Oberman - FEB 2,11
CHICAGO (AFP) – The central United States was caught in the grip of a historic winter storm Wednesday, buried by drifting snow and sleet that ground air and road travel to a halt.The storm -- one of the largest winter storms since the 1950s, according to NASA -- stretched for more than 3,000 kilometers (2,000 miles) from Texas to the northeastern state of Maine, and forecasters warned trying to get around could be deadly.Do not travel!,the National Weather Service warned.Blizzard, winter storm and freezing rain warnings were issued for more than half of the 50 US states, and thunderstorms and driving rain drenched the warmer, southern end of the storm in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Officials warned the public to stay at home rather than try to brave the crippling and potentially record-breaking storm.Travel will be dangerous and life-threatening due to dramatically reduced visibilities and bitter cold wind chills, the National Weather Service warned.If you become stranded expect to spend the entire night in your vehicle as rescuers likely will not be able to reach you.High winds and freezing rain turned roads into deadly ice rinks and knocked down trees and power lines.Television footage showed the fierce winds made even walking difficult, with pedestrians blown off their feet as they braved white-out conditions and tried to cross icy roads.Downed power lines and ice led to widespread power cuts, with 95,000 people without electricity in Illinois, 50,000 in Indiana and another tens of thousands around Cleveland, Ohio.The residents waking without power faced another layer of danger, as coming in behind the storm was a blast of frigid air.Lurking behind this impressive winter storm is a powerful shot of Arctic air as a frigid surface high drops down from central Canada, the weather service warned.For example, Bismark, North Dakota was an icy -30 degrees Celsius at 0930 GMT, with wind that could cause frost bite on exposed skin in less than five minutes.Wind chills were forecast to drop to 30 to 50 below in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, the Dakotas, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and even parts of Texas.States of emergency were declared in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Oklahoma and the National Guard was called out to help rescue stranded motorists.
Thousands of schools and government offices were closed and many businesses shuttered.FlightAware reported that airlines grounded more than 6,700 flights on Tuesday -- about 20 percent of US commercial flights -- and had cancelled more than 4,500 before dawn Wednesday.Most of the airlines at Chicago's O'Hare airport -- one of the busiest in the world -- stopped operating after the blizzard set in Tuesday afternoon and said they will have limited or no operations Wednesday, the airport said.Chicago was expected to be among the hardest hit with 14.5 inches (37 centimeters) of snow already piled up at Midway Airport as of 1030 GMT and up to two feet (50 centimeters) predicted.Illinois State police said much of the state's highway system was snow covered with large stretches impassible.In Missouri, where at least one woman was reported killed after losing control of her car, the state closed Interstate 70, a major highway, from one end of the state to the other. The National Weather Service also warned that shoveling sidewalks during such a significant snowfall can be deadly, noting that more than 40 people died of heart attacks in the aftermath of a 1999 blizzard in Chicago.Do not underestimate the task at hand,it said.
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was reported at a near standstill after a record 14 inches (35.5 centimeters) of snow was blown into deep drifts and collapsed the roof of a Hard Rock casino.There are hundreds and hundreds of cars stranded in the city, from private to emergency vehicles, Paul Strizek of the city's public works department told the Tulsa World, which announced that for the first time in its history, it would not publish a newspaper on Wednesday.A coating of ice and freezing rain could not deter revellers, however, from awaiting word from the weather-predicting groundhog, Phil. In an annual Groundhog Day tradition, Phil was due to emerge from his hole Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and if he sees his shadow, determine whether or not there will be six more weeks of winter.
Blizzard keeps Midwest cattle ranchers busy By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press – Wed Feb 2, 3:58 am ET
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. – Wind gusts of up to 40 mph whipped western Kansas on Tuesday as cattleman Jerry Byrd drove his pickup back and forth between his home and the pens a mile away where dozens of his pregnant cows were waiting in frigid temperatures to give birth. The snow on was only an inch or so deep, but Byrd was keeping a close watch because the cold could kill a wet, newborn calf.Without space to bring all the pregnant animals in at once, Byrd was keeping them close to his son's barn. A rock wall and trees provided shelter, and he had birthing stalls ready for any animal that seemed about to give birth. His son too was keeping watch over the animals about to have their first calves, checking them every two hours, day and night.When it gets this cold you have to check them, you have to bring them into the barn, said Byrd, who lives in Dighton. They have good protection, but the wind chill is 36 below zero.The winter storm that paralyzed cities across the Midwest has made life harder for exhausted ranchers like Byrd. Even those whose cows aren't ready to give birth have been busy trying to keep their water from freezing, putting out extra rations to make sure the animals maintain their weight and watching for signs of frostbite.Feedlots in the Texas Panhandle lost cattle several years ago when temperatures plummeted unexpectedly. The animals just flat froze, standing in the lot, said Bill Hyman, executive director of the Independent Cattlemen's Association in Texas. While widespread deaths aren't common, Hyman said it's not usual to lose some animals to frostbite or freezing.In 2007, more than 1,000 cattle died during a winter storm that struck 44 Kansas counties that were home to 3.7 million cows.
That's one reason preparations for this week's blizzard started long before the storm hit Terry Handke's feedlot in Muscotah in northeast Kansas. Workers put chains on the wheels of the feed truck and loader so they wouldn't get stuck in snowdrifts while tending to the several thousand cattle on the lot. Hanke said he didn't expect to lose any animals to the storm but it would cost him quite a bit of money. Cattle consume more feed in severe cold and can still lose weight as they struggle to maintain their body temperatures.Some of these cattle eat $3 to $4 a day of feed, Handke said.If they are not gaining, you are talking big dollars real fast.Outside Conway in central Arkansas, temperatures were expected to drop into the teens and lower for the next few nights. Rancher Bill Wallace said his cows tend to be fine in cold weather because they're just like a big fermentation vat.All the feed that goes into them kind of rolls around and ferments and puts out a lot of heat, Wallace said.
Calves, however, are another story. He had one cow give birth a few days ago when the temperature was milder and hoped the others would hold off until after the storm passed.A cow having a calf during that period of time, if it's not sheltered, you might see a calf's ears freeze off, Wallace said. There's not a lot of circulation in a calf's ears.Rancher Ken Grecian moved his cows from an open field to one with more trees for shelter and began giving them extra feed when he heard the weather forecast. A good area where trees provide shelter from the wind is better for adult animals than putting them in a barn, where humidity and condensation can cause other problems, he said.The biggest challenge Tuesday, Grecian said, was keeping the animals water from freezing. He put heaters in the water tanks and has been checking the cattle that drink from running streams to make sure they have an open space in the ice where they can get to the water.The other thing when it is this cold, you find all the weaknesses in your machinery that you feed with. Things just don't work as well as they should when it's cold, said Grecian, who woke up Tuesday morning to find he had no water in his house in Palco, Kan., after the pipes in his well froze. The temperature on his farm was minus 10 degrees, with winds of 35 mph.Dale Spencer said the temperature dropped to about zero Tuesday on his ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills near Brewster.His roughly 600 cattle were handling the cold OK, he said, but the same couldn't be said for his tractor or the furnace in his house. Spencer said he had to drive 70 miles Monday to pick up a new water pump that he installed in the tractor Tuesday afternoon while waiting for a furnace repairman to arrive.
The National Weather Service warned that wind chills in central Nebraska could drop as low as 40 degrees below zero overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. Spencer said he expected to be working from sunrise to sunset to keep things going.It's not a lot of fun,he said,but it's a task we take on because it's part of the job.Associated Press writers Tom Parsons in Little Rock, Ark.; Paul Weber in San Antonio, Texas; and Josh Funk in Omaha, Neb., contributed to this report.
Floods kill four in Philippines
– Wed Feb 2, 2:49 am ET
MANILA (AFP) – Heavy rain swamping the southern Philippines has left four people dead and affected 250,000 others, according to officials.The rains over the past five days have flooded entire towns and caused landslides across vast areas of the mainly rural south, with more bad weather forecast for the rest of the month.What we are having now is a creeping disaster, the head of the state weather service, Graciano Yumul, on Wednesday told reporters in Manila.Yumul said Surigao, a city of 120,000 people, had received 1.8 metres (nearly six feet) of rain in one day.Two farmers drowned on Monday and another on Friday when they were swept away while crossing swollen rivers near Surigao, June Parada, spokesman for the provincial government of Surigao del Norte, told AFP.A seven-year-old boy also drowned in a neighbouring southern province, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in Manila.The government was rushing rescue equipment and emergency aid to nearly a quarter million people affected by the floods and landslides, it added.It was the second time the region had been hit by torrential rains this year.Flooding across the southern and central Philippines last month claimed 75 lives, according to the disaster council.
LUKE 21:25
25 and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
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Protesters, Mubarak supporters fight in Cairo square
By Shaimaa Fayed and Yasmine Saleh - FEB 2,11
CAIRO (Reuters) – Opponents and supporters of President Hosni Mubarak fought with fists, stones and clubs in Cairo on Wednesday in what appeared to be a move by forces loyal to the Egyptian leader to end protests calling for him to quit.Protesters said some of the Mubarak supporters were members of the hated police force in plain clothes. Some rode into the crowd on horses and camels and in carriages, wielding whips and sticks.People fought while troops surrounding the vast Tahrir (Liberation) Square made no attempt to intervene. Reuters correspondents saw dozens of injured. Many people fled in panic.Anti-Mubarak protesters said they would not leave the square until Mubarak quits.Khalil, a man in his 60s holding a stick, blamed Mubarak supporters and undercover security men for the clashes.But we will not leave, he told Reuters.Everybody stay put.
The Interior Ministry denied police were involved.
The fighting broke out as international pressure grew on Mubarak to quit and his closest ally, the United States, told him bluntly that a political transition must begin immediately.After Mubarak went on national television on Tuesday night to say he would not stand in elections scheduled for September, the armed forces said the protesters' demands had been heard and it was time for them to clear the streets.
Soon after several hundred pro-Mubarak supporters entered Tahrir (Liberation) Square, where a few thousand protesters had gathered, and the clashes broke out, witnesses said.Opposition figurehead Mohammed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace laureate, accused the government of using scare tactics.This is yet another symptom, or another indication, of a criminal regime using criminal acts, ElBaradei told the BBC.
It was the ninth day of protests that broke out last week as public frustration with corruption, oppression and economic hardship under 30 years of rule by Mubarak boiled over.An opposition coalition, which includes Islamist organization the Muslim Brotherhood, responded to the army warning by calling for more protests.It said it would only negotiate with Vice President Omar Suleiman, a former intelligence chief appointed by Mubarak at the weekend, once Mubarak stepped down.Mubarak's offer to leave in September was his latest gambit in the crisis. At the weekend he reshuffled his cabinet and promised reform but it was not enough for protesters.One million people took to the streets of Egyptian cities on Tuesday calling for him to quit.
Wednesday's violence was the worst in the crisis since Friday, when police and protesters fought running street battles. At least 140 people are estimated to have been killed so far.
CUT AND CUT CLEAN
International backing for Mubarak, for three decades a stalwart of the West's Middle East policy and styled as a bulwark against the spread of militant Islam, has crumbled as he tried to brazen out the crisis. President Barack Obama spoke to Mubarak for half an hour by telephone on Tuesday night after the 82-year-old announced his plan to step down in September.What is clear and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now, Obama said after speaking to him.Pressure also came from Turkey, an important diplomatic voice in the Muslim world. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Mubarak's plan to step down in seven months time did not meet the people's expectations and the change should begin sooner.France, Germany and Britain also called for a speedy transition.
The transition needs to be rapid and credible and it needs to start now, British Prime Minister David Cameron told the UK parliament.Some of the few words of encouragement for him have come from oil-giant Saudi Arabia, a country seen by many analysts as vulnerable to a similar outbreak of discontent.Israel, which signed a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979, is also watching the situation in its western neighbor nervously, weighing the possibility that anti-Israeli Islamists might gain a share of power.
YEMEN, JORDAN FEEL THE HEAT
Many analysts see the army as trying to ensure a transition of power that would allow it to retain much of its influence.Hani Sabra, a Eurasia Group analyst, said Mubarak's announcement he would stand in the election in September marked the start a long, messy negotiation process between the government and the opposition.In the medium term, these negotiations will likely produce an Egypt best described as a hybrid democracy, combining a strong military with a more pluralistic electoral system, he said.Mubarak's speech was formulated to superficially display his resolve. Mubarak also declared that he would die in Egypt, a direct reference to protestors who have demanded his departure.The uprising was inspired in part by a popular revolt in Tunisia last month which overthrew long-ruling President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The mood is spreading across the region.King Abdullah of Jordan replaced his prime minister on Tuesday after protests there.Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key U.S. ally in the fight against al Qaeda, said on Wednesday he would not seek to extend his presidency, a move that would end his three-decade rule in 2013.Oil prices fell back from 28-month highs, but North Sea Brent crude was still more than $101 a barrel on worries that unrest in Egypt could trigger regime change across the Middle East and North Africa.But with Mubarak pledging to go, foreign investors have begun to show renewed interest in Egyptian bonds and stocks and the cost of insuring Egyptian debt against default fell.(Additional reporting by Andrew Hammond, Patrick Werr, Dina Zayed, Marwa Awad, Shaimaa Fayed, Alexander Dziadosz, Yasmine Saleh, and Alison Williams in Cairo; Writing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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