STOCK RESULTS APR 26,2011

ON SATURDAY APR 23,11 I GOT MY VOTE IN FOR THE CONSERVATIVES.(I ADVANCE VOTED)ITS THE BEST OF THE WORST IN THESE 2011 MAY 2 ELECTIONS HERE IN CANADA.

Toronto key to majority for Canada's Conservatives
By Julie Gordon and Claire Sibonney - APR 26,11

BRAMPTON, Ontario (Reuters) – The Toronto region is where the 2011 federal election will probably be decided as the Conservatives hunt for the extra seats they need to turn their minority government into a safe majority one.In the city of Toronto, which has a reputation for being a fortress for the opposition Liberals, the Conservatives have the aging populations of affluent electoral districts in their sights, with a special nod to Jewish voters who like the government's pro-Israel stance.And in the suburbs, where visible minorities now make up a rising share of voters, they are targeting the ethnic vote.Their objective is to position themselves as the natural governing party for the 21st century in Canada, said Christian Leuprecht, an associate professor of politics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.That clearly means making inroads with those population groups that are growing rapidly.The Conservatives, in power since 2006, are using their record on the economy and family-centric traditional values to appeal to voters in the suburbs of Canada's largest city, home to 10 of the tightest races for the May 2 election.

Three of the hottest ridings, or electoral districts, are in Brampton, just northwest of Toronto, where half the residents are immigrants, and one in three is from South Asia. Buoyed by an immigrant vote that has traditionally backed them, the Liberals won here in the last election, but only just.Now, the immigrant vote isn't necessarily Liberal.Brampton's population has risen more than four-fold since the 1970s, transforming a once picturesque town into a suburban sprawl of townhouses and strip malls. Sikh men in turbans chat on street corners, while children play road hockey in front of cookie-cutter homes.Brampton is a microcosm about how this country has changed,Leuprecht said.If you can make inroads in this sort of a riding, I think you're also sending a signal that you're keeping up with the times.The province of Ontario, of which Toronto is capital, has a third of the seats in Parliament. That makes it the key electoral battleground for the Conservatives, who are targeting voters in traditional Liberal strongholds, while defending their position against the left-leaning New Democratic Party, which has soared in the polls in the last two weeks of the campaign.The Conservatives hold 143 seats in Parliament and need 12 more for a majority. They won minority governments in the 2006 and 2008 elections.They realized that if they focused on these ridings and work hard, they can win it,said Rajinder Saini, a Punjabi-language radio host and an influential voice within that community.If they go to Conservatives, I will not be surprised.

THE TORONTO FORTRESS

The party may also have an opportunity to break the strong Liberal position within Toronto itself, notably in the diverse riding of Eglinton-Lawrence, where the population has Jewish, Italian and Filipino roots.Here, the Conservatives are benefiting from their clear message as a defender of Israel and the threat of another near-term election if no party wins an outright majority in this one.In the last election, Conservative candidate Joe Oliver narrowed the gap against the Liberal incumbent -- who has held the seat since 1988 -- from 23 percent to 4.7 percent.Now, it's closer, Oliver told Reuters.This still remains an uphill fight but the messages that we're talking about are resonating.But Tariq Amin-Khan, an associate professor of politics at Ryerson University in Toronto, said that the Conservative strategy of targeting voters based on race or ethnic origin could backfire. This targeting of the ethnic vote has really angered quite a few people within the broader South Asian community who see themselves as people who are just being exploited to gain votes,he said.Amin-Khan said a well-publicized gaffe in which a Conservative campaign worker asked community members to wear ethnic costumes for a photo opportunity with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and the accidental release of documents that characterized certain ridings as very ethnic, may have hurt the Conservatives with some voters.They would like their voices heard, and they would also not like to be treated as ethnics,said Amin-Khan.In other words they want to be part of the Canadian mosaic.(Reporting by Julie Gordon and Claire Sibonney; editing by Janet Guttsman and Peter Galloway)

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Busby: Fukushima Explosion Was Nuclear Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com April 26, 2011

British scientist Christopher Busby, a researcher on the negative health effects of ionizing radiation, told Russia Today that one of the explosions at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan was a nuclear explosion, not a hydrogen explosion as widely reported in the media.Busby said the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 was also a nuclear explosion. The Chernobyl nuclear accident dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. Busby told RT the crisis at Fukushima is far worse than Chernobyl.He said the explosion did not originate in the reactor core, but the tanks where spent plutonium MOX fuel rods are stored. MOX fuel contains plutonium blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium. The explosion vaporized the plutonium rods and ejected a large amount of radiation into the atmosphere.Takeshi Tokuda, a member of the Lower House of the Japanese Diet, also believes the first explosion at Fukushima was nuclear. Tokuda talked with a doctor Oikawa of the Minami Soma City General Hospital.

Oikawa told the government representative that materials ejected from the plant after the explosion registered high radiation levels.When the hospital checked the radiation level on the people who escaped from around the nuke plant after the explosion, there were more than 10 people whose radiation level exceeded 100,000 cpm [counts per minute], beyond what could be measured by the geiger counter the hospital had, Tokuda wrote.100,000 cpm is the new level that the Japanese government set that requires decontamination. Before the Fukushima accident, the level was 6,000cpm.The EPA has attempted to downplay the fact that plutonium is now bombarding the United States and much of the Northern Hemisphere. According to Lucas Hixton Whitefield, an EPA RADNet report shows increased levels of plutonium in the atmosphere. Whitefield found information on the plutonium in a RADnet dataset.

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Netanyahu Denies Report He Caved In on Temple Mount
by Gil Ronen APR 26,11

The Prime Minister's Office issued a statement Tuesday bluntly denying a report that Binyamin Netanyahu intends to cave in to extreme Arab demands over Jerusalem and demographics.A Kuwaiti newspaper, Al Jarida, reported that Netanyahu will present a diplomatic plan next month that includes Israeli acquiescence to a preliminary Palestinian with eastern Jerusalem as its capital. The paper also claimed that Netanyahu agreed to hand over the Temple Mount and other holy places to international sovereignty.Netanyahu also supposedly consented to let Arab refugees into Israel, in accordance with a plan to annihilate the Jewish state demographically, known as the right of return.Al Jarida said that these concessions were detailed by Israeli delegate Attorney Yitzchak Molcho in a secret meeting with Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erikat, ahead of Netanyahu's upcoming major policy speeches in Washington.There was never any secret meeting between Attorney Yitzchak Molcho and Saeb Erikat,the PMO said, "and therefore it is also clear that the alleged contents of the meeting have no basis in reality.The Kuwaiti newspaper claimed that the United Nations, United States and Russia were involved in the plan to turn over the holy sites to international hands. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

Uzi Dayan: Give Jews Free Access to Joseph's Tomb
by Aryeh Ben Hayim APR 26,11

Major General (reserves) Uzi Dayan called upon the government to open the Tomb of Joseph to Jewish worshipers on a daily basis. We cannot give up these places, he said.The former head of Israel's National Security Council and of the IDF's Central Command expressed his conviction that the IDF would apprehend the Palestinian Authority policemen who murdered Ben Yosef Livnat at Joseph's Tomb. This Passover we made two Passover sacrifices, Daniel Viflic who was murdered by rocket fire from the Hamas terrorists in Gaza as well as Ben Yosef Livnat.In referring to the opinion that neither side was innocent in the shooting at Joseph's Tomb, Dayan replied, There are those who make light of the matter and even call this an incident rather than a terrorist attack. So apparently Hebrew is a beautiful language but this was a terrorist attack. Policemen fired on Jewish worshipers, and this is murder. True, they did not coordinate their entry but here we are talking about the eve of a holiday.In his opinion, the IDF occasionally forgets its proper role. Our job is not to make explanations for the Palestinians but to apprehend those responsible. There must be an exhaustive investigation; one should punish those responsible. It's clear to everyone that the Palestinian police are going to do nothing, especially in light of the fact that we are even providing them with excuses. One must not rely on them. When I was the head of Central Command after the events of the Western Wall Tunnel [1996] we drew up a blacklist of all Palestinian policemen that we suspected of involvement in the terrorist attacks, we went over the list, we arrested those whom we had to and we eliminated those whom we had to.

Dayan concludes that the current situation at Joseph's tomb is insufferable. Following the events that led to the killing of [the Druze Army soldier] Madhat Yusuf at Joseph's Tomb [in October 2000, upon the outbreak of the Second Intifada, aka The Oslo War] the Tomb has been burnt; a mosque was built there, and then the tomb was again repaired. It's legitimate to debate whether to station troops there or not but it's not legitimate that [the PA] won't allow Jews to pray there. It's necessary that people should arrive at Joseph's Tomb every day as well as to the Peace on Israel Synagogue in Jericho. Of course one has to coordinate, but one must again open up these places, otherwise we are de facto giving up on them.To my sorrow the media, that does not always remember all the details, sets the agenda. They deal all the time, and justifiably so, with Gilad Shalit, but don't recall those who were killed in that incident [a reference to two soldiers from Shalit's crew who were killed simultaneously with his abduction, ed.]. Also, in the Joseph's Tomb attack they mention that Ben Yoseph Livnat was murdered, but it's necessary to mention also all those who were wounded and are fighting for their lives. It is necessary to follow the security agenda rather than the media agenda,he added. (Israel National News.com)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE APR 26,2011

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +47.53
10:30 AM +64.48
11:00 AM +56.27
11:30 AM +103.57
12:00 PM +110.29
12:30 PM +113.94
01:00 PM +116.29
01:30 PM +102.66
02:00 PM +105.73
02:30 PM +112.12
03:00 PM +118.82
03:30 PM +116.13
04:00 PM +115.49 12,595.37

S&P 500 1347.24 +11.99

NASDAQ 2847.54 +21.66

GOLD 1,501.60 -7.50

OIL 112.06 -0.22

TSE 300 13,909.10 +1.88

CDNX 2232.50 -27.55

S&P/TSX/60 795.72 +0.97

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +21 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +120 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,503.20.OIL opens at $112.05 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today so far.
Dow +125 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +125 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,515.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Berlusconi and Sarkozy to seek tightening of EU border controls
HONOR MAHONY Today APR 26,11 @ 09:23 CET

The leaders of France and Italy are meeting in Rome today (26 April) to discuss measures to tighten EU border controls amid rising tensions over how to deal with the thousands of migrants fleeing revolutions in north Africa.French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi are expected to use this 29th bilateral summit to call for a partial reintroduction of border controls, a move that would undermine one of the most significant integration steps of the European Union.Europe is not the free movement of illegal immigrants, Laurent Wauquiez, French European affairs minister told Journal du Dimanche. France wants to study the possibility of restoring border controls if there is a major influx at the gates of the Union,he said.Referring to the EU's agreement on abolishing internal borders, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told daily Il Sole 24 Ore: All treaties inevitably grow old. The Berlin wall of North Africa has come down and the context in which these treaties and I think also the Lisbon treaty, were written has changed radically.

The Franco-Italian meeting comes as the influx of some 25,000 Africans over recent weeks has exposed the fragility of Europe's approach to dealing with immigration. Italy, as the landing country for the vast majority of the immigrants, has complained bitterly about the what it is says is a lack of solidarity in dealing with the migrants from the rest of the EU.With its complaints falling on deaf ears, it then infuriated fellow member states - particularly France - by granting Tunisians six-month resident permits allowing them to travel freely within the countries belonging to the Schengen Zone. Many Tunisians, often French-speakers, started to make their way to France, prompting Paris to search trains coming from Italy. Under EU rules, residency permits - Italy has so far granted around 8000 - can only be granted if the person has the means to support themselves.Although France has said it does not want to suspend the Schengen Agreement but just review it, the mere fact that it is being discussed at all is of significant symbolic importance.The 1995 agreement, allowing passport-free travel in 25 European countries and affecting 400 millions citizens, is seen as one of the deepest integration moves in the EU's history, breaking the down national borders and resting on trust between member states.However, the highly visible migration from Africa in recent weeks - where migrants often reach the tiny and ill-equipped Italian island of Lampedusa first - has seen member states defend the domestic line rather than one of EU solidarity.

It also comes amid internal political pressure as national politicians take a hard line on immigration, taking on board some of the policies of rising populist and anti-immigration parties. Sarkozy himself, facing election next year, is under pressure from an increasingly popular far-right National Front party while Berlusconi's government is dependent on the strongly anti-immigrant Lega Nord.Any Franco-Italian agreement reached on Tuesday would have to be agreed by the rest of the EU, with interior ministers meeting on 12 May to discuss immigration.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Iranian Nuclear Program Hit By Second Cyber Missile Virus
by Gavriel Queenann APR 26,11

Iranian civil defense commander Gholamreza Jalali said Monday the Islamic Republic's nuclear program has fallen prey to a computer virus called Stars, Reuters reports.
The Stars virus is the second in the cyber war against Iran's bid for nuclear capability, following after the much-reported Stuxnet virus,Jalalai said the introduction of the new virus is being investigated while admitting Stuxnet still posed a risk. We should know that fighting the Stuxnet virus does not mean the threat has been completely tackled, because viruses have a certain life span and they might continue their activities in another way,Jalali said.The revelation that Stuxnet is still hampering Iran's nuclear program runs counter to previous claims by Iranian officials that the destructive virus had been dealt with and buttresses Saudi concerns that Iran's intention to activate the Bushehr plant in May could lead to a second Fukushima.Saudi concerns were based on reports attributed to a Russian engineer working at the site that metal shards were found in the coolant intakes for the reactor.Iranian officials blamed Israel and the United States -- which believe Iran is seeking nuclear weapons -- for the Stuxnet virus, which some expert shave described as the first guided cyber missile, aimed at Iran's atomic program.

Stars,experts speculate, is the second.Fortunately,Jalali told Iran's press. Our young experts have been able to discover this virus and the Stars virus is now in the laboratory for more investigations,Jalali was quoted as saying. He did not specify the target of Stars or its intended impact.The particular characteristics of the Stars virus have been discovered. The virus is congruous and harmonious with the [computer] system and in the initial phase it does minor damage and might be mistaken for some executive files of government organizations.Bushehr is still not operational, having missed several start-up deadlines since the Stuxnet virus was introduced.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Kremlin chief wants new nuclear rules post-Chernobyl
By Denis Dyomkin and Pavel Polityuk - APR 26,11

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday called on the world community to tighten safety rules at nuclear plants and tell the truth when there were accidents like those at Chernobyl and Fukushima.Medvedev spoke alongside Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich at a solemn ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine when a reactor exploded, sending radiation billowing across Europe.The ceremony, at which the two leaders paid homage to the clean-up workers and victims of the 1986 accident, took on added significance amid efforts by Japan to control the crisis at its Fukushima plant, damaged by an earthquake and tsunami.A jarring note came from Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko whose country suffered as badly as Ukraine from the Chernobyl disaster.Touring border areas in his own country affected by the Chernobyl accident, Lukashenko described Yanukovich as a lousy leader for leaving him out of Chernobyl anniversary events at the behest of European Union leaders.The crisis at Fukushima and what happened at Chernobyl 25 years ago meant new rules had to be developed on the peaceful use of nuclear energy and safety, Medvedev said.Today, I sent proposals to (world) leaders ... aimed at guaranteeing the necessary development of nuclear energy in the world while preventing at the same time catastrophic global consequences,the Russian leader said.

But Medvedev, who may run for a second term in the Kremlin in an election next March, also put the emphasis on the need for governments to come clean in the event of a nuclear accident.The duty of a state is to tell the truth to its people. It must be acknowledged that the (Soviet) state did not always behave correctly, he said.In order for such tragedies never to be repeated we must all be honest, we must provide absolutely exact information about what is going on ..., he said.His words amounted to an acknowledgement of wrong-doing by Moscow since the Soviet Union, of which Ukraine was then a part, delayed announcement of the full scale of the Chernobyl accident for some days.But they could equally be taken as veiled criticism of Japan's handling of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant which was hit by a March 11 earthquake followed by a tsunami.On April 26 1986, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded and caught fire after a safety test experiment went badly wrong. The blast sent radiation billowing across Europe.A total of 31 people died immediately but many more died of radiation-related sicknesses such as cancer, many of them in what is today Belarus.Tens of thousands were evacuated, never to return, from Prypyat, the town closest to the site which then had a population of 50,000.

550 MILLION EUROS PLEDGED

Last week the world community, spurred by the nuclear crisis in Japan, pledged 550 million euros ($780 million) to help build a new containment shell over the stricken reactor at the Chernobyl site to replace a makeshift one that has begun to leak radiation.Chernobyl was a challenge of planetary dimensions. The answer to this challenge can be provided only by the world community,Yanukovich said. In Chernobyl, he thanked Medvedev for Russia's donation of 45 million euros ($65.38 million).
Tuesday's anniversary saw anti-nuclear protests in several European countries. About 120,000 people took part in anti-nuclear rallies across Germany on Monday, the largest Easter Monday protests in many years, ahead of the anniversary.There were 80 rallies across Germany, the largest outside the Grohnde nuclear reactor, one of 17 plants in Germany, where 20,000 took part. About 15,000 also took part in rallies outside reactors at Biblis and Grafenrheinfeld.In Romania, scores of anti-nuclear protesters gathered near government headquarters in Bucharest on Tuesday, and protests were also planned in Vienna after a rally on Monday.Chernobyl is now the benchmark for nuclear accidents.On April 12, Japan raised the severity rating at Fukushima to seven, the same level as that of Chernobyl.(Writing by Richard Balmforth, Editing by Janet Lawrence)

Syria a Bigger Headache for Turkey than Libya
by Aryeh Ben Hayim APR 26,11

Kol Yisrael has just reported that a Turkish citizen was shot in the head crossing into Jordan from Syria. As it is Assad's security forces who hold the weapons, the incident may force Ankara's hand.The Turkish opposition has begun to make hay over the issue by accusing the ruling AKP – Justice and Development Party – of employing a double standard in terms of Syria. A column in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet complained that the government, which is eager to bash Israel on every occasion over Gaza, has very little to say in the face of the images of brutality coming out of Syria and Libya. In the meantime, no one in the party is openly accusing Gaddafi or Assad of murdering their citizens…. those pro-AKP organizations are quick to gather outside the Israeli embassy in protest [but] are not to be seen outside the Libyan or Syrian embassies.How could a Muslim party ignore the fate of the Muslims in these countries, questioned the columnist. He also predicted that the insurgents would remember Turkey's cowardly stance when they came to power.We also saw how the opponents of Gaddafi, who we believe will be successful in the end, turned against Turkey. The same thing could easily happen in Syria if the AKP government continues to go softy softly on Assad.

Syria is more of an issue for Turkey than Libya because of the common border. Turkey fears that the current crackdown could stimulate tides of Syrian refugees crossing the border with Turkey. The Turkish Foreign Ministry is already running through scenarios. A destabilized Syria would also exacerbate Turkey's Kurdish problem.The United States has been in close contact with the Turks and is playing good cop bad cop with Ankara. Officer Obama has been the good cop calling Turkish Premier Erdoganto express appreciation for Turkey's ongoing humanitarian efforts in Libya and its participation in the NATO No-Fly Zone and Arms Embargo operations.The bad cop was being played by David S. Cohen, Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Treasury Department, who is visiting Ankara this week to emphasize the requirement that Turkey comply with the sanctions against Iran and Libya.Cohen will warn the Turks that if they trade with Iran and Gaddafi's Libya, they will find the U.S. financial system barred to them. Now that Washington has reluctantly moved to economic sanctions against Syria, one can expect similar pressure on Ankara in that direction as well.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

European mercenaries fighting for Gaddafi, expert says
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 26,11 @ 08:08 CET

EUOBSERVER / PARIS - Between 300 and 500 European soldiers of fortune, including EU nationals, are working for Colonel Gaddafi in Libya, a leading criminologist has said.The European mercenaries are mostly specialists in heavy weapons, helicopter technology and tactics and command fees of several thousand US dollars a day. The majority come from Belarus, Serbia and Ukraine. There is a significant amount of Polish helicopter experts. Belgian, British, French and Greek nationals are also involved.The Europeans come on top of much larger numbers of hired fighters from the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Mali and Somalia, who are paid up to $2,000 a day. The men come and go via the 15-or-so still-operational military airports in southern Libya.Gaddafi's official army has just 25,000 or so soldiers left due to desertions. But his sons also command three units of well-equipped militia, numbering between 35,000 and 50,000 men in total.The information comes from Michel Koutouzis, a Greek expert on organised crime, whose French-registered company, Lotophages Consulting, does research on security issues for the EU institutions, the UN and the French government, and who spent February and March travelling in north Africa.In Libyan society, there is a taboo against killing people from your own tribal group. This is one reason why Gaddafi needs foreign fighters, Koutouzis told this website.

A contact linked to the rebel authorities, the Transitional National Council in Benghazi, told EUobserver that Algerian, Russian and Syrian serving military officers have also been helping Gaddafi.They began coming after the first US bombardment. Gaddafi changed his tactics - he brought in hundreds of four-by-four trucks from Algeria and stopped relying on tanks,the source said.The Algerians and the Syrians are worried that Libya could set a bad example.He added that Gaddafi uses mercenaries because he does not trust Libyans.There have been almost constant coups against him over the past 40 years. His personal bodyguard are all foreigners. In terms of his inner circle, the loyalists who really believe in him, it's about 10 people, and one of them [foreign minister Moussa Koussa] has defected.For its part, Human Rights Watch, which has three people on the front lines in Libya, cast doubt on the reports.The group's Peter Bouckaert referred to sources in South African mercenary circles, saying they have not heard of any Europeans, South Africans or Zimbabweans going to fight for Gaddafi ... these networks are in touch with each other, so they would have heard.He added that rebels tend to treat any sub-Saharan Africans they come across as mercenaries but that most of them are migrant workers. Bouckaert saw just one confirmed case of a hired fighter from Chad during four weeks in the field. An EU security official and a Nato contact said they have not seen any internal reports about mercenaries. But the Nato source pointed to a press report about Colombian snipers in Misrata.Looking at the history of mercenary activity in Africa, Alex Vines, a researcher at the Chatham House think-tank in London, said: European mercenaries were a problem in the 1960s and then again in the 1990s after the Cold War ended. But it has become much more Africanised since then.He added: The definition of mercenary is also an issue. What you more often have is individuals who are involved in selling weapons and then providing a bit of advice and training before disappearing.A UN convention in 1989 defined a mercenary as any person who is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict; is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and ... is neither a national of a party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a party to the conflict ... [or] has not been sent by a state which is not a party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.The convention obliges participating countries to take criminal proceedings against nationals caught in such activity.Out of the 33 participants, just three EU states - Belgium, Cyprus and Italy - are on the list.

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.

Tornado, floods kill 7 in central US: officials
APR 26,11

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Severe storms that ripped through the central US left at least seven people dead in the state of Arkansas, officials said Tuesday, as flash flood warnings prompted mass evacuations in neighboring Missouri.Strong storm winds and torrential downpours have slammed a swath of central US states in recent weeks, leaving river levels precariously high.Authorities Tuesday had begun evacuating 1,000 people along the swollen Black River near the Missouri town of Poplar Bluff, home to some 17,000 people.The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flash flood warning for three counties in the southwest of the state.The levee along the Black River from Poplar Bluff... remains compromised in several locations,the NWS warned in an advisory.The river is near its crest... which is maximizing the potential of an eventual failure of the levee system.Flash flood warnings were also issued by the NWS in Arkansas, as a tornado that slammed the central town of Vilonia late Monday that has claimed the lives of four people, Arkansas Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Renee Presslar confirmed to AFP.Search and rescue crews were assessing the damage to the town ahead of fresh storms expected to reach the region later in the day.

Three other people were killed when their vehicles were swept from the road in severe flooding in the state's northwest, Presslar added.Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe declared a state of emergency for his state late Monday night in response to the severe storms and flooding that have impacted Arkansas,also warning that there is also a strong possibility of additional severe storms Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Police: Levee protecting Mo. town holds overnight
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press - APR 26,11

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. – A levee protecting a southeast Missouri town from major flooding held up overnight, although the swollen river pouring over in several spots is threatening to burst through the structure and has already forced the evacuation of about 1,000 area homes, a police official said.Poplar Bluff deputy police chief Jeff Rolland said early Tuesday that the Black River overran the levee in about 30 locations between Poplar Bluff and the nearby town of Qulin.How that hasn't broken through yet, it's a miracle,Rolland said.Tuesday brought the promise of more showers and thunderstorms to the area, where river swollen rivers are threatening towns in a vast swath of the nation's midsection.Crews rescued 59 people in 1 1/2 hours late Monday after water spilled over the dam and inundated a section of Poplar Bluff, a town of 17,000 residents that is 130 miles south of St. Louis.Some 1,000 homes have been evacuated in the area, but in the worst case scenario, a levee breach would force the evacuation of some 6,000 homes from Poplar Bluff to Qulin and destroy or severely damage 500 homes in Poplar bluff and its outskirts, Rolland said. Already, 23 small businesses in the area's flood plain have taken on water, he said.

The hotels in town filled up quickly, and 300 people took shelter at the Black River Coliseum, the 500-seat concert venue in town, Rolland said. No deaths or serious injuries have been reported.Families forced to flee their homes Monday watched as murky floodwater began creeping into their yards and homes. If the levee were to give way, many of those homes would be left uninhabitable. Sandbagging wasn't an option — the river, spurred on by 10 inches or more of rain since last week, simply rose too quickly.By the time we realized what was happening it was too dangerous to sandbag, Butler County Presiding Commissioner Ed Strenfel said.Severe storms that began early last week have hammered the nation's midsection without letup. Again Monday, powerful storms ravaged Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee and other states. Authorities said at least seven people were killed in Arkansas — three of them when floodwaters swept two vehicles off of roadways and four when a likely twister tore through the small town of Vilonia.The storm system was expected to move into Illinois and Wisconsin on Tuesday, said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist with the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. At the same time, a second storm system was expected to start along the same path, bringing several more days of rain, he said.

Governors in Arkansas and Kentucky declared states of emergency. In Kentucky, record flooding is expected over the next few days, partly because of a double-whammy — both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers significantly above flood stage. Several dozen residents were evacuated from the area of Cairo, Ill., where the rivers converge.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was considering the extraordinary step of intentionally breaching the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri, just downriver of the confluence, in a bid to reduce the amount of water moving down the Mississippi. The move would soak 130,000 acres of farmland, and Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon objected to the idea. A decision was expected Tuesday.Missouri was still cleaning up from tornado damage in the St. Louis area — 2,700 buildings, including Lambert Airport, were damaged in the Friday night twister — when spring flooding went from bad to far worse Monday.A dam in St. Francois County was in jeopardy of bursting, with a few dozen homes potentially in harm's way. Levees were stressed along the Mississippi River in Pike and Lincoln counties, north of St. Louis.But by far the biggest concern was Poplar Bluff. The Missouri National Guard sent 200 guardsmen and rescue equipment to the area. Several people had to be rescued by boat, including some who don't live in the flood plain, as heavy rain flooded several streets Monday night.

Police officers spent Monday going door-to-door in the southwest part of town, telling residents to get out. Not everyone did.Along one road near the levee, children played knee-deep in water. Adults gathered on the porches, seemingly enjoying nature's show. I'm not worried. This is my favorite time of the year,20-year-old Brandon Andrews said, pledging to ride out the flood in his trailer home, even as water lapped against its sides. He didn't have a boat and the water was already too high to drive through, but Andrews said he had been to the store and stocked up on hot dogs, chili and necessities.Police Chief Danny Whiteley was hoping the water would recede soon enough that flooding would mostly be limited to basements. He wasn't optimistic.I guess you'd call it a perfect storm: It's just all come together at once,Whiteley said.Pinky Mehta reported from Louisville, Ky., Kristi Eaton and Ken Miller in Oklahoma City, Jeannie Nuss in Little Rock, Nomaan Merchant in Vilonia, Ark., and Hasan Dudar in Indianapolis contributed to this report.

PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Rebuilding Japan's disaster-hit towns may take a decade
By Shinichi Saoshiro - APR 26,11

TOKYO (Reuters) – The reconstruction of Japanese towns and cities devastated by a deadly earthquake and tsunami last month could take a decade, an advisory panel to the government tasked with coming up with a blueprint for rebuilding said on Tuesday.
The March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which left a large swathe of Japan's northeast in ruins, killed at least 13,000 people, forced about 130,000 into shelters and is estimated to have caused $300 billion worth of damage.The first three years would be needed for tasks like rebuilding roads and constructing temporary housing, said Jun Iio of Japan's Reconstruction Design Council, formed after the quake to advise the government's rebuilding efforts.Iio, a political science professor, told a news conference that another four years may be necessary to rebuild towns, and it could take even longer to achieve full recovery.We have to bear in mind that the area afflicted by the disaster is much larger than Kobe, Iio said, referring to the Japanese city ravaged by a powerful earthquake in 1995.

The council, comprising scholars, local governors, business executives and even a Buddhist priest, have also said the challenges of rebuilding after the March disaster have been made greater by a crisis at a tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant.Tens of thousands of residents around the Fukushima Daiichi plant have been ordered to evacuate after the tsunami knocked out the plant's cooling functions, leading to leaks in radiation in the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.The government's ratings are down as evacuees complain about the slow pace of temporary housing availability, while farmers and fishermen affected by radiation leaks from the Fukushima plant are clamoring for a compensation plan from the government and the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.Hundreds of farmers, wearing green scarves and accompanied by two cows, protested at the headquarters of Tokyo Electric on Tuesday, waving lettuces and cabbages into the air and shouting Pay compensation! and Give us back our homeland! Just from spinach, we've had a loss of 22 million yen ($268,800), said a farmer from Ibaraki prefecture, standing next to crates stuffed with spinach. The government has banned shipments of spinach from some areas of Ibaraki, south of Fukushima, after radiation checks.The government has said it would compensate farmers and fishermen affected by shipment restrictions, but it has not said by how much, while those whose goods have not been restricted are also demanding compensation after a plunge in sales.Around 100 anti-nuclear protesters later gathered separately in front of the Tokyo Electric office to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, carrying candles in paper cups written with No Nukes and We Love Fukushima.We don't need another Chernobyl and we don't need the Fukushima plant,said Ryota Souno, 29, a part-time worker, as protesters made speeches to the sound of drums and guitars.

BEYOND POLITICS

Members of the reconstruction council called for greater regional autonomy to deal more smoothly with rebuilding and also said the huge work ahead had to transcend political divisions in a country where a fragile political truce inspired by the disaster has collapsed.Reconstruction efforts go beyond political issues. We can invite opinion from opposition parties as well as the ruling party, said Makoto Iokibe, the council's head and president of Japan's National Defense Academy, told the news conference.Japan's cabinet last week approved almost $50 billion of initial spending for post-earthquake rebuilding but ruling and opposition parties are bickering over how to finance subsequent extra budgets.The next packages are likely to involve a mix of taxes as well as borrowing in the bond market, which could strain Japan's debt-laden economy. Opposition parties, who can block legislation in Japan's divided parliament, have shown little sign of cooperating with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, while lawmakers in Kan's own party are adding pressure on him to resign, although he is unlikely to step down any time soon.(Additional reporting by Chisa Fujioka, Chiaki Kawase; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)

Fed starts meeting, seen signaling no rush to exit
– APR 26,11

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve kicked off a two-day meeting on Tuesday that is expected to conclude with a signal that it is in no hurry to scale back its massive support for the economic recovery.The U.S. central bank, which began meeting at 10:30 a.m., is expected to use a post-meeting statement to confirm that it will complete its $600 billion bond-buying program by the end of June and renew its commitment to maintain rock-bottom borrowing costs for an extended period.The statement is expected at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday.Following the announcement, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold the first-ever regularly scheduled news conference by a Fed chief. The news conference, which starts at 2:15 p.m. (1815 GMT) and is expected to last about 45 minutes, will be broadcast live. Bernanke will open with a brief statement and then take questions.In another new development aimed at improving public understanding of the Fed's policies, policy-makers will issue their quarterly forecasts for growth, employment, and inflation as the news conference begins. Those forecasts were formerly released as part of the minutes of Fed meetings, which are published three weeks after policy meetings.(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Neil Stempleman)

Gasoline rises to $3.87 per gallon
By CHRIS KAHN, AP Energy Writer - APR 26,11

NEW YORK – Gas pump prices continue to climb, hitting $3.87 per gallon on Tuesday, though experts say the national average should fall eventually as Americans drive less.Retail gasoline prices have increased for 35 straight days, adding 32.2 cents per gallon since March 22. They're above $4 per gallon in California, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Alaska and Hawaii.Pump prices, which have followed oil higher this year, got another boost on Tuesday after three Texas refineries lost power. Authorities said they're still looking for the cause of the outage at the Valero, BP and Marathon Oil refineries in Texas City. A Dow Chemical plant also lost power.Gasoline futures increased 2 cents to $3.3003 per gallon in morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.Oil analyst Tom Kloza said the shutdowns may have halted 300,000 barrels of daily gasoline production. It'll take time to get those refineries back in order Kloza said. Refineries are finicky. It's not like turning the lights back on.Kloza thinks gas will start to fall eventually as more consumers drive less and demand falls. But the news will probably get worse before it gets better. He expects pump prices will soon hit a national average of $4 per gallon.MasterCard SpendingPulse has reported that motorists have cut back on gasoline purchases for seven straight weeks. Another SpendingPulse survey is expected Tuesday.

Meanwhile, benchmark crude for June delivery was little changed. It lost 16 cents at $112.12 per barrel on the Nymex.Investors are waiting to hear what the Federal Reserve will have to say about the nation's economy and interest rates. The Fed meets Tuesday and Wednesday. The expectation is that the central bank will keep interest rates where they are now, near zero.In other Nymex trading for May contracts, heating oil gained 2.23 cents at $3.2212 per gallon and natural gas lost 3.5 cents to $4.354 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude rose 24 cents to $123.90 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

WAYNE MADSEN OBAMA WANTS ME OFFED FOR TALKING ABOUT HIS CIA CONNECTION
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Trump: Obama wasn't qualified for Ivy League
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press - Mon Apr 25, 10:00 pm ET

NEW YORK – Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.Obama's 2008 campaign did not release his college transcripts, and in his best-selling memoir, Dreams From My Father,Obama indicated he hadn't always been an academic star. Trump told the AP that Obama's refusal to release his college grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about himself.I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard, Trump said. We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president.Katie Hogan, a spokeswoman for Obama's re-election campaign, declined to comment.

Trump, a wealthy businessman and reality TV host, has risen to the top of many polls in part by his outspoken call for Obama to release his long form birth certificate. The state of Hawaii has released a certificate of live birth indicating Obama was born there on August 4, 1961, but that has not quelled critics who believe Obama was born outside the United States and is therefore not qualified to be president.The so-called birther controversy has dominated the early stage of the 2012 GOP nominating contest, with Trump leading the charge.I have more people that are excited about the fact that I reinvigorated this whole issue,Trump said, adding the last guy (Obama) wants to run against is Donald Trump.Trump is scheduled to travel to the early primary states of New Hampshire and Nevada this week and said he will make a final decision about a presidential bid by June.

Also in the AP interview, Trump:

-Said Republicans had made a mistake by embracing a budget proposal crafted by Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan that included deep cuts in Medicare. The seniors are afraid. The plan Paul Ryan put forth has made the Democrats so happy,Trump said.
-Declined to disclose his net worth, saying he'll do so if he decides to run. You'll see what it is, possibly, very likely, in the next 4 weeks. I don't want to say because I don't want to ruin the press conference,he said.
-Expressed surprise that the 2008 GOP nominee, John McCain, had suggested Trump's effort was a publicity stunt. I congratulate him for getting the attention he's getting,McCain told NBC's Meet the Press Sunday.Trump said he had been a big supporter of McCain.I would find it hard to believe he would say anything bad because I raised a fantastic amount of money for him,Trump said.

Poll: What kind of president would Donald Trump make?
By Susan Page, USA APR 26,11

WASHINGTON — Republicans may be ready for a fling with Donald Trump, but a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows they have reservations about installing him in the White House.The real estate developer and reality TV star, who scores at the top in polls of the GOP field these days, falls to fourth when Republicans are asked to rate who among the contenders would be a good or great president in office.Fifty percent of Americans, including 31% of Republicans, say Trump would make a poor or terrible president.Trump is filling a huge void in the Republican Party right now, and he’s gathering a protest vote: protest against the way Washington works; protest with the establishment Republicans,says Scott Reed, manager for Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign.The jury is still out whether Trump can translate that into a real candidacy for president.His possible bid faces broad resistance: 63% of Americans, including 46% of Republicans, say they definitely will not vote for Trump for president. In comparison, 46% of Americans say they definitely will not vote for President Obama — significantly lower but itself a hurdle to winning the 2012 election.Though Trump initially got attention by expressing doubts whether Obama was born in the USA, that issue is not driving his support. Among those who say they definitely or might vote for Trump, only about a third question whether the president was born in the USA.Support from the birthers is stronger for Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. The issue has persisted even though Hawaii has released an official Certificate of Live Birth showing Obama was born there, a fact confirmed in non-partisan investigations by FactCheck.org and others.Still, in the USA TODAY poll, only 38% of Americans say Obama definitely was born in the USA, and 18% say he probably was. Fifteen percent say he probably was born in another country, and 9% say he definitely was born elsewhere.

USA TODAY/Gallup Poll
Views already are polarized about President Obama and some major Republican candidates for 2012.Source: USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 1,013 adults. April 20-23. Margin of error +/-4 percentage points. Republicans are inclined to say the president was born abroad by 43%-35%.For what it’s worth, not everyone is convinced Trump was born in the USA either: 43% say he definitely was born here, and 20% say he probably was; 7% say he definitely or probably was born in another country. Nearly three in 10 say they don’t know enough to say.The poll of 1,013 adults, taken Wednesday to Saturday, has a margin of error of +/–4 percentage points.

CERN plays down claims of Higgs particle discovery
APR 26,11

GENEVA – Officials at the world's biggest particle physics lab are playing down claims of a major discovery after a leaked internal memo sparked excitement among science enthusiasts that the elusive Higgs-boson God particle has been found.A spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says the observation by scientists working at the $10-billion Large Hadron Collider is probably nothing.The brief note published anonymously on a Columbia University physics blog last week claims unexpected measurements from high-energy particle collisions mark the first definitive observation of physics beyond the standard model.CERN spokesman James Gillies says such results show up frequently but can often be dismissed after further scrutiny.

GOVERNMENT ORDERED SPYING ON US OVER CELLPHONES

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GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK ,RELIGION&RULERS
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LORD MONCKTON ON WORLD GOVERNMENT
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INSIDE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS
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UNDERSTANDING WORLD GOVERNMENT
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BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT PRESS
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BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS PAPER 17 REGIONAL AREAS OF THE WORLD AND CURRENCIES
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BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS SITE
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G-10 PRESS RELEASES FROM BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS
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BIS ANNUAL REPORTS
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CENTRAL BANKERS SPEECHES
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BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS-NEW WORLD ORDER-JULY 10,10 HOURS 1 & 2
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THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS IS THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE WORLD THAT LENDS ONLY TO CENTRAL BANKERS AROUND THE GLOBE.THE IMF LENDS TO THE COUNTRIES BANKS OF THE WORLD.BETWEEN THIS BANK AND THE IMF I BELIEVE WILL BE THE BANKS OF THE WORLD.THE IMF THE WORLD BANK AND THE POLICEMAN OF THE IMF THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS WHERE WE PAY OUT CAP & TRADE,CLIMATE,ENERGY SCAM TAXES TOO TO PAY FOR THE WORLD GOVERNMENT.THE GLOBAL CURRENCY WILL BE THE SDRS OR SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS UNTILL THE EU INVENTS THE WORLD MICROCHIP IMPLANT SYSTEM THEN THE EU WILL MAKE ALL TAKE THE IMPLANT OR BE MURDERED.

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

ENDGAME GLOBAL ENSLAVEMENT
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Oct. 1, 2001 (8:50 am) By: admi
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/automatic-gps-on-your-cellphone-2001101/

Sprint is offering the U.S.'s first cellphone equipped for GPS-enhanced services today, making it the only company to meet the FCC's mobile phone location detection deadline–and only partially at that. Sprint will sell the Samsung SPH-N300 phone for US$149.99 (though it's not on the Sprint phones Web page yet), and it comes with the GPS (Global Positioning System) location functionality mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.Because cellphone calls to 911 (estimated at around 140,000 per year) do not give the 911 operator location information, the FCC mandated that wireless companies be able to locate 67 percent of callers to 911 within 50 meters that elect the handset solution while those using network technology must be able to locate the caller within 100 meters. Wireless companies must also have one-quarter of the new cellphones they offer equipped to provide that location information by the end of the year, and all new cellphones so equipped by the end of next year.

Verizon, Cingular, AT&T, and other major carriers all requested delays and have nothing to offer at this point–the FCC will review those requests in the next few days. Sprint also filed a delay request because it is only offering the location service in Rhode Island, and not until next month. Sprint confidently predicts its lead in GPS-enhanced services will be maintained, however, and plans to roll the service out to other locations soon, along with location-based commercial services for cellphone customers, like driving directions, traffic services and entertainment information.For more information, please see the Reuters item. You can also check out the SAM'S OPINION

While I understand the FCC's decision to require automatic location information for 911 calls, I am not happy about wireless carriers and the government being able to pinpoint me whenever I use my cellphone. I guess it's possible that the automatic GPS feed could be blocked when you're not calling 911, but I would be very surprised if that's going to be the case. Basically, we're just going to have to trust our wireless carriers not to watch where we're making calls from. Here's a related news item from August warning of the slippery slope from having that information available for emergency purposes to constant location monitoring every time you use the phone. Yes, the obvious answer is that if you're worried about the privacy infringement you should just do without the cellphone's convenience, but I guess that's not a good enough answer for me–I want to be able to enjoy technology's benefits without having to worry about another piece of my life being recorded on a mainframe somewhere. Ah, the burdens of modernity. In the long run, I guess most people won't let the tracking capabilities bother them (as I won't if I really want a cellphone), but it's important to be aware of them.As for the fact that none of the major wireless carriers are ready for this FCC mandate (Sprint's compliance is only minimal, and it's weird that the phone still isn't showing up on the website, nor at Samsung Electronics' site), I have a feeling there won't be any penalties imposed. If it were just one or two companies that weren't ready it would be a different story, but the fact that none of the big folks had the phones or the infrastructure in place means that the October 1 deadline was unrealistic, whether that's because the phonemakers couldn't get the right chips or whether the big companies didn't take the deadline seriously.

Researcher: iPhone Location Data Already Used By Cops BLOOMBERG BUSINESS-The news that iPhones and iPads keep track of where you go has been known in forensic circles for some time By Bobbie Johnson APR 25,11

When British programmers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden took the stage at the Where 2.0 conference to unveil their work on iPhone location tracking, it was clear they had some big news on their hands. The duo outlined what they called the discovery that your iPhone and 3G iPad [are] regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file.Their findings started a firestorm of media coverage.But as the details came to light, one researcher was left scratching his head—because he'd already made the same discovery last year.Alex Levinson, 21, works at the Rochester Institute of Technology in western New York, and he has been studying forensic computing and working with Katana Forensics, which makes tools for interrogating iOS devices.In a post on his blog, he explains that the existence of the location database—which tracks the cellphone towers your phone has connected to—has been public in security circles for some time.While it's not widely known, that's not the same as not being known at all.In fact, he has written and presented several papers on the subject and even contributed a chapter on the location data in a book that covers forensic analysis of the iPhone.(One blogger reviewing the book in January mentioned the cell-tower data and says, more and more you realize how much information Apple's mobile devices could contain and how valuable this could be for your investigation.)

Ignoring the Obvious
In his post, Levinson takes issue with the claim of discovery.In fact, he told me by e-mail that Allan and Warden had apparently missed a whole area of existing research conducted by forensic analysts.It was a shock to me when this came out labeled as a discovery,he explains. I watched the video, and they don't appear to be interested in the forensic side of this, which is honestly where the research lies.Part of it seems to be a failure of researchers across different disciplines to plug into each others' work. As Levinson put it, They basically built a bridge without turning to the civil engineers—I'm not the only one familiar with this stuff.Bad communication among researchers, however, isn't the only culprit. Levinson adds that the press missed the story first time around and now seems more focused on the horror of data storage than the reality (for example, there's no evidence, at least at the moment, that the data are sent back to Apple).I do blame the press somewhat for sensationalizing [this] without recourse, he says.I e-mailed 20 of the top media outlets [that] covered this, linking them to my side—none of them replied, except a famous blogger who cursed me.Sometimes this is the case with research, and just because it's not new to you, doesn't mean it's not news. Sometimes the people credited with breakthroughs are the ones who have been able to communicate their ideas to the right people. And clearly Allan and Warden's presentation is having a lot of impact, not least because they have released the tools to make the data obvious to users.

Just an Internal Log?
The truth is, there may be more important things to consider than the issue of who discovered what. Levinson's revelations are more important than that, because he explains that the location data are already being put to use. In his blog post he says (my emphasis):This hidden file is nether new nor secret. It's just moved. Location services have been available to the Apple device for some time. Understand what this file is—log generated by the various radios and sensors located within the device. This file is utilized by several operations on the device that actually are what make this device pretty smart.Through my work with various law enforcement agencies, we've used h-cells.plist on devices older than iOS 4 to harvest geolocational evidence from iOS devices.That's very interesting. It's not that people in some circles already knew about the location data; in fact, the data are actively being used by law enforcement agencies as part of their investigations. Levinson declined to divulge the names of those agencies but told me he had worked with multiple state and federal agencies both in the U.S. and internationally.So when Allan and Warden say, Don't panic … there's no immediate harm that would seem to come from the availability of this data,you have to ask whether that's the case. No court orders are needed to track your location history via an iPhone, since the devices are relatively open. All the investigator needs is the device itself.

Investigation: Government Ordered Cellphone Companies to Spy on Users
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars April 25, 2011

The controversy generated as a result of computer researchers discovering a hidden file that allows Apple to track the location of iPhone and iPad users has been treated as a shocking revelation by the media, and yet since October 2001, the FCC has mandated that all wireless carriers track the location of their users down to within 50 feet.Stunned iPhone and iPad owners have only just found out that all of their movements are tracked and stored in a hidden iOS file which gets synced to their PC every time they connect the phone, reports Gadgets and Gizmos. The name of the file is Consolidated.db and it uses the Apple devices’ GPS function to record your location and the time you were there.The secret file was found by computer experts and made public at the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.The Wall Street Journal expanded on the revelations surrounding Apple on Friday by reporting that Google’s Android smart phones also, Regularly transmit their locations back to…Google, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data.

Technology writers are seemingly baffled as to why top smart phone producers like Apple and Google are tracking the movements of their users, while lawmakers have also begun asking questions of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.A bizarre initial reaction to the story from some quarters of the media and industry centered around the suggestion that the hidden file was actually a bug which Apple should be looking to fix,a theory dismissed almost instantly after it was confirmed other smart phone manufacturers were also tracking their users and that such efforts were clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations.Indeed, as much as a year ago Apple admitted to the fact that it intermittently collects location data, including GPS coordinates, of many iPhone users and nearby Wi-Fi networks and transmits that data to itself every 12 hours, according to a letter the company sent to U.S. Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas),reports the WSJ.Google’s HTC Android phones collect location data every few minutes and transmit that information directly to Google several times an hour, including the unique phone identifier, meaning that Google can keep tabs on the movement of a known individual almost constantly. Since people now ubiquitously carry their cellphones everywhere they go, this is akin to having a tracking microchip implanted in your forehead.However, far from being a recent phenomenon, as the media would have us believe, tracking of individuals via their cellphones has been going on for almost ten years at least.Under the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the FCC mandated that by October 1, 2001 a quarter of all new cellphones be equipped with GPS functionality that would allow authorities to track the location of users. By the end of 2002, this became a mandatory requirement of all new cellphones.

As Geek.com reported back in October 2001, Because cellphone calls to 911 (estimated at around 140,000 per year) do not give the 911 operator location information, the FCC mandated that wireless companies be able to locate 67 percent of callers to 911 within 50 meters that elect the handset solution while those using network technology must be able to locate the caller within 100 meters.Wireless companies must also have one-quarter of the new cellphones they offer equipped to provide that location information by the end of the year, and all new cellphones so equipped by the end of next year.As a PC World article written in August 2001, two months before the first phase of the new FCC rules were enacted, asked, The FCC requires cell phone companies to track you, in order to find you when you call 911–but what about your privacy? Cell phone tracking was propelled by the Federal Communications Commission, which adopted enhanced 911 rules to cover wireless services. For E911′s first phase, cellular carriers must be able to pinpoint, to the nearest cell tower, the location of someone calling 911. For Phase II, carriers must be able to pinpoint a 911 caller’s location to within 50 to 300 meters,states the article.Your cellphone has been tracking you in real time for the lion’s share of the last decade, so why has it taken the media nearly 10 years to notice? Because in 2001, when such measures could have been made illegal, there was no iPhone, there was no app store, and the smart phones being used were extremely crude compared to today’s models, which are no less than mini-laptops.In 2001, cellphones did little else than make calls and send text messages – these services didn’t require GPS technology. People weren’t addicted to their cellphones like they are today, they didn’t use them to catalogue, record and process every aspect of their existence.The likes of Apple have worked hard over the last decade to make hundreds of millions of people dependent on their gadgets, creating an army of addicts who couldn’t care less that their cellphone is transmitting their every move directly to Steve Jobs. In their eyes, the choice between sacrificing their privacy and sacrificing their precious apps is an easy one to make. Privacy can’t book a table at a restaurant in a few taps of a finger, nor can it tell you the weather forecast or where the nearest ATM is located.If the debate had been allowed to run its course in 2001, when cellphone tracking was first being adopted, the outcome may have been different. But since cellphone companies have been tracking their users for the best part of a decade, in line with government mandates, the recent controversy is merely part of the acclimatization process to achieve calm subservience and acceptance of the fact that true privacy is dead, and as Henry Blodget explains, Apple’s omnipresent brainwashing campaign has helped keep the outrage to a minimum.

IT’S OFFICIAL: Apple Has Brainwashed The Whole Country — How Else To Explain The Lack Of Outrage Over Apple’s Secret Location Tracking? Henry Blodget
Business Insider April 23, 2011

Your iPhone has been secretly tracking and recording everywhere you go for the past several years.Read that again.Your iPhone has been secretly tracking and recording everywhere you go for the past several years.That’s right. Apple built this feature into your iPhone and hid it from you. By doing so, Apple made it possible for anyone who gets ahold of your iPhone or Mac (or any other device synced with either) to figure out exactly where you were when.That is absolutely outrageous.If any other company had done this, America’s privacy zealots would be demanding the CEO’s resignation. There would be threats. There would be lawsuits. There would, at the very least, be incessant demands for the company to acknowledge the behavior, explain it, and apologize for it.And yet, because the company is Apple, there have been none of those things.

Instead, Apple fans like John Gruber have suggested that the secret feature is a bug.And there have been mainstream media stories suggesting that it must be some kind of mistake.Bug? Mistake? Apple built a system into your iPhone that secretly tracks and records everywhere you go. This system records your exact location and the exact time you were there–down to the second.Anyone who gets ahold of your phone or computer can tell exactly where you were when: Police, people suing you, your husband/wife, your employer, private investigators, the government–anyone. And Apple didn’t tell you that! Please explain, with a straight face, how that could possibly be a bug or mistake.And let’s say hypothetically that it actually was a mistake. That Apple didn’t mean to build that system that tracks and records everywhere you go and then keep it a secret. Let’s say, hypothetically, that it was some rogue Apple engineer who built that system into iOS without telling his or her superiors and that Apple has only recently discovered it.Well, then, Apple should already have come forward, apologized profusely, explained that the engineer has now been summarily dismissed, and offered a software update that eliminates the tracking system forever.Has Apple done that? Heck no! Apple hasn’t even acknowledged the problem, let alone apologize for it or do something about it.This alone should make clear to everyone that it wasn’t a mistake.Again: Your Apple iPhone has been secretly tracking and recording everywhere you go for the past several years.If that news doesn’t outrage you and make you furious at Apple–both for doing it in the first place and then for not acknowledging that they’re doing it and explaining why–there’s only one explanation for why it doesn’t.Apple has so mesmerized you that you live in the reality distortion field.

Apple: We must have comprehensive user location data on April 23, 2011 5:35 PM EDT

Security researchers unveiled this week that Apple's iPhone was actively logging the whereabouts of users, storing location data into an easily assessible file on the device.Customers queue up outside the new Apple Store at Pudong Lujiazui in Shanghai July 10, 2010. Security researchers unveiled this week that Apple's iPhone was actively logging the whereabouts of users, storing location data into an easily assessable file on the device. But it's not just iPhone's that are keeping track of their users.But it's not just iPhones that are keeping track of their users.

Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, and iPad models are also keeping track of consumers whereabouts. Mac computers running Snow Leopard and even Windows computers running Safari 5 are being watched.

The question is why?

The company has remained silent after researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden revealed this Wednesday that the iPhone was storing logs of users' geographic coordinates in a hidden file. We're not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it's clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations,the security experts wrote in their blogs.While Apple has since remained tight-lipped on the matter, not responding to any media-inquires, another privacy snafu last year gives insight into what the company is doing with the information.In June 2010, Congressmen Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas wrote a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs inquiring about Apple's privacy policy and location-based services.In response the company's general counsel Bruce Sewall wrote a letter explaining its practice, and shedding light on the rationale the company uses to monitor users.To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to the comprehensive location-based information,Sewall told Congress in the letter.After emphasizing Apple's commitment to users' privacy, Sewall said that to provide these location-based services, Apple, its partners and licensees, may collect, use and share customers' precise location data, including GPS information, nearby cell towers and neighboring Wi-Fi networks.

While the security researchers Allan and Warden did not confirm whether the devices were actively sending data back to Apple, Sewall said that it was within Apple's right to do so.By using any location-based services on your iPhone, you agree and consent to Apple's and its partners' and licensees' transmission, collection, maintenance, processing and use of your location data to provide such products and services,Sewall's letter reads, citing Apple's End User Agreement.But he added that the information is collected anonymously and the devices give users controls for disabling the features.In addition to giving Apple customers the ability to turn off all location features with one on/off toggle switch, Apple requires applications to get explicit customer approval when it asks for location information for the first time.Apple also stores the location information in a database only accessibly to Apple, the letter says. This may be the case for data sent to Apple, but Allan and Warden were able to create a program that accessed and mapped user locations from un-encrypted data on the iPhones they examined.But though Apple says that its location data practices support the services its customers want, analysts and activists say the practice still raises serious questions.Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/137432/20110423/apple-we-must-have-comprehensive-user-location-data-on-you.htm#ixzz1KYcdwGoI

Will Big Brother Track You by Cell Phone? The FCC requires cell phone companies to track you, in order to find you when you call 911--but what about your privacy? By Cameron Crouch, PCW Aug 2, 2001 4:00 am

Your next cell phone may be able to tell your mobile carrier--and possibly others--exactly where you are and where you've been. Starting in October, new cell phones will contain Global Positioning System units for use with location services offering emergency help, traffic and shopping aids, and more. But the questions of what such services do with the data they gather on you and who can access it raise a host of privacy concerns that are far from resolved.

You Are Here
Cell phone tracking was propelled by the Federal Communications Commission, which adopted enhanced 911 rules to cover wireless services. For E911's first phase, cellular carriers must be able to pinpoint, to the nearest cell tower, the location of someone calling 911. For Phase II, carriers must be able to pinpoint a 911 caller's location to within 50 to 300 meters.FCC requirements mandate that the first phones equipped with Phase II capabilities appear this October; nearly all cell phones are supposed to comply by 2005. Thus far, Sprint PCS is the only major carrier that claims to be on schedule to ship some location-enabled phones this fall.Naturally, vendors want to take advantage of the mandated location features to offer you something beyond emergency help--and more targeted than the info on nearby ATMs and movies you can already get. All major carriers have plans, but none have released specifics. As a result, various issues--costs, exactly how the services will work, and whether your location will be broadcast the moment you turn your phone on (a battery drain) or only on request--remain unresolved.

Advertisers are eager to use location services to alert you when you pass near a store that might be of interest. Such services are likely in some form, but carriers are proceeding cautiously. They're aware you may not want to see ads for McDonalds every time you pass by the golden arches. Carriers don't want to annoy users because it's so easy to switch providers, says Allen Nogee, a senior analyst at Cahners In-Stat Group.The GPS units required for location services should add less than $50 to phone costs according to Cahners In-Stat. Carriers may cover costs or pass them on as part of fee-based service plans. You'll probably have to buy a new phone to get the services, but companies such as Airbiquity are designing batteries containing built-in GPS units you could add to certain existing phones.

Eye On You
As cell phones with tracking abilities come to market, myriad privacy concerns loom.
For example, should government agencies, including law enforcement, have unfettered access to your GPS data? If your provider--or any third-party company it contracts with--stores your location info, government agents could access it fairly easily.
Also, will you soon have to contend with mega-marketing databases that keep tabs on where and how often you shop, and with cell phone spam? Letting consumers opt out is one answer to these concerns. The Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999 states that without express prior authorization, a user shall not be considered to have approved access to location information from commercial mobile services. A bill now in a House of Representatives subcommittee would go further, explicitly requiring customer consent to the provision of wireless call location information. A similar new bill in the Senate would require providers to notify users when the service tracks them, and prohibit providers from disclosing or selling data without getting customer consent.The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, which represents handset makers and carriers, has also acted. It petitioned the FCC to set up common rules for carriers governing how to notify users and obtain consent for location services, as well as to establish privacy and security standards for user data. CTIA also asked the FCC to allow a safe harbor for those following FCC rules.Carriers have an economic incentive to protect your privacy, but location technology providers that some carriers use may not, Nogee warns.As services roll out, both consumers and providers will start working through these thorny issues. Still to be determined: whether users bite and are willing to pay at all.

THOUSANDS PROTEST JAPAN NUCLEAR POWER

SILVER IS AT $48.27 AS OF 9:35AM APR 25,11.AND IF MAX KEISER IS CORRECT SILVER IS AT THE BREAKING POINT TO BANKRUPT J P MORGAN.WE WILL SEE IF JP MORGAN IS IN THE NEWS FOR HAVING BIG TROUBLE WITH COVERING THE PAPER SILVER WITH ACTUAL SILVER TODAY.

Want JP Morgan to crash? Buy silver-The campaign to buy silver and force JP Morgan into bankruptcy could work, because of the liabilities accrued by its short-selling Max Keiser guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 December 2010 12.30 GMT

For decades, the world's banking system has been on a fiat currency standard that has led to banks that are too big to fail. They have overreached their remit of providing loans and have leeched into the political system, using our money to change the political agenda in ways that boost bank management's compensation over the interests of their depositors.Deborah Hargreaves on how Eric Cantona's bank protest would hurt us all Over the past 11 years, the Gata (Gold Anti-Trust Action) committee has worked to reveal the silver/gold price suppression scheme; thanks to whistleblower Andrew Maguire in London, an investigation has been opened. As part of the ongoing exposé, it has now become clear that JP Morgan is sitting on what is estimated to be 3.3bn ounce short position in silver (which they have sold short, meaning they don't own it to begin with) in an attempt to keep the price artificially low in order to keep the relative appeal of the dollar and other fiat currencies high. The potential liability for JP Morgan has been an open secret for a few years.On my show, Keiser Report, I recently invited Michael Krieger, a regular contributor of Zero Hedge (the WikiLeaks of finance). We posited that if 5% of the world's population each bought a one-ounce coin of silver, JP Morgan would be forced to cover their shorts – an estimated $1.5tn liability – against their market capital of $150bn, and the company would therefore go bankrupt. A few days later, I suggested on the Alex Jones show that he launch a Google bomb with the key phrase crash jp morgan buy silver.

Within a couple of hours, it went viral and hundreds of videos have been made to support the campaign.Right now, silver eagle sales for the month of November hit an all-time record high and the availability of silver on a wholesale level is drying up. The most important indicator is the price itself – holding just under a 30-year high. With each uptick JP Morgan gets closer to going bust or requiring a bailout.
Here's how the campaign works: wealth tied to a fiat currency is easily overwhelmed by wealth tied to silver and gold. And the world is waking up to the fact that they have the ability, without government assistance or other interference, to create a new precious metals-based backed currency system by simply converting their fiat paper into real money.This campaign has 100% chance of working; it falls into the category of a self-fulfilling prophecy. As more individuals buy silver and gold, all attempts to replenish the system with more paper money will only cause the purchasing power of the silver and gold to increase – thus prompting more people to buy more. Any attempts to bail out JP Morgan would have the same effect. If the US Fed was to flood the system with bailout money for JP Morgan to cover their silver short position (as they did after the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management), more inflation will ensue and the price of silver and gold will rise more, triggering more purchases. A virtuous circle is born.If anyone is interested in helping to crash JP Morgan, buy silver. In the end, it's about transferring wealth back to the people from where it came.

London Source - Asian Buyers Will Take Silver Over $100

KWN’s London source has updated King World News on the massive Asian buyers which have been accumulating gold and silver. The London source stated, $3 to $4 dollar days in silver will become common, from now on $2 days will be considered slow. There will be a great deal of volatility going forward, but more often than not silver will close near the highs.April 25, 2011.The London Source continues:Right now the silver shorts are being flushed out in Asian trading on light volume and we have options expiration ahead of us. 38,000 silver contracts are in the money and the question is how many will ask for delivery? As I mentioned to you previously, the Asians have also been taking delivery of silver out of SLV and will continue to do so. You have to understand that these Asian buyers are planning to take delivery of all of the available phyiscal silver they can get their hands on and will continue doing so for the foreseeable future.When asked at what price the Chinese will stop buying silver the London source replied, The Chinese want out of dollars and they will continue aggressively purchasing both gold and silver in order to diversify. They don’t care whether silver is $50, $60 or $100, they will just continue accumulating. The Chinese may be patient buyers, accumulating on weakness, but you can bet that their relentless purchases of physical silver will eventually push the price well over $100 an ounce.As Dan Norcini and I discussed this weekend on the KWN Weekly Metals Wrap, the Asians are steering the bus in the silver market as the paper shorts lost control some time ago.Eric King-KingWorldNews.com

Will governments confiscate gold?
2011-APR-24

As concerns mount that there is another financial crisis in the offing and the gold price rises, American investors worry increasingly about whether the US government will confiscate their gold. The precedent was set by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who in 1933 forced all of America’s gold owners to sell their bullion to the Federal government at the official price.However, the situation today is very different from that of 78 years ago. At that time, gold was the primary currency, the dollar being tied to it at $20.67 per ounce. But today, the Fed and European central banks strongly deny that gold has any monetary role at all, and argue instead that it’s just a hangover from the past: that barbarous relic as Keynes called it. Its confiscation would be an embarrassing admission that gold, after all, is money.Nevertheless, as paper currencies continue to lose credibility, the temptation for any government to seize its citizens’ gold to enhance official holdings must be growing. Americans today, however, are unlikely to meekly accept confiscation the way they did under Roosevelt. And nowadays, you may be American, but your gold is not necessarily held at an American bank: it is just as likely to be in London, Zurich or Hong Kong.

The wording of a compulsory order is all-important. Confiscation requires the gold itself to be surrendered, which presumably would be the objective if a government is to add to official holdings. If gold ownership is merely banned, it is a different matter. A bullion bank holding gold in an unallocated account would almost certainly be unable to deliver physical gold if required to do so by the American government, but it would be able to close out the account for cash. And there is the thorny question of derivatives, which hardly existed in the 1930s. All futures and options trading would cease, and contracts for forward delivery would be cancelled, possibly with serious financial consequences.The international nature of gold would probably require all G10 or even G20 members to agree to similar actions against their own citizens. It seems unlikely that all governments would agree to this, unless they all had their backs hard against the wall. Switzerland, an associate member of the G10, would almost certainly face a referendum and be unable to comply. The G20 also includes China, India, Saudi Arabia and Russia. It is extremely unlikely that these countries will be prepared to confiscate their citizens’ gold to appease the Americans.Just the mention of these names alerts us to the dangers of a confiscatory move by the US. It would make the Chinese and Indian middle classes instantly wealthier than the average American, measured by gold ownership – an interesting thought when paper currencies are losing credibility. On balance, a repeat of the Roosevelt confiscation seems unlikely. But there is one thing we can be certain of, and that is that the risk of silver confiscation is more remote, so perhaps that is the safer metal to own.Author: Alasdair Macleod.

Don't Like a Weak Dollar? Might as Well Get Used to It
Published: Thursday, 21 Apr 2011 | 2:26 PM ET Text Size By: Jeff Cox
CNBC.com Staff Writer

Weakness in the US dollar, which is causing everything to go up—including gas prices, food and stocks—is unlikely to go away soon as a selling frenzy hits the currency market.The greenback is approaching pre-financial crisis lows and threatening to smash through its all-time low when measured against the world's predominant national currencies.A combination of factors accounts for the weakness, with the Federal Reserve's easy-money policies, huge national debts and deficits and the consequential possibility of a debt downgrade because of the financial mess in Washington leading the way.In short, as trader Dennis Gartman noted Thursday,the rout of the US dollar is in full effect.Panic dollar selling is setting in, Gartman, a hedge fund manager and author of The Gartman Letter, wrote in his daily commentary. This may carry farther than any of us dream of or, worse, have nightmares of.

How low can it go?

Rick Bensignor, chief market strategist at Dahlman Rose in New York, said the dollar index [.DXY 74.02 -0.09 (-0.12%) ], which measures the greenback against a basket of select other global currencies, has scant technical support that has any meaning between its present level and the historical low of 70.70.That's a widely shared view, even as currency pros wonder how the dollar could be falling against the euro considering the near certainty of sovereign debt defaults in smaller European Union nations.Gartman described the dollar as being in serious jeopardy because of its status against the euro, which was defended recently as European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet announced a rate hike in the zone.No such defense is being offered in the US, where neither Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke nor most of the rest of the central bank's Open Market Committee seems much in the mood to raise rates despite the anemic dollar. Though the Fed is ostensibly apolitical, there is no pressure as well from the Obama administration to boost the dollar's value.If things were to somehow go into freefall or there were disorderly markets, or if it is associated with a rise in interest rates, there could be some concerns there,said Josh Feinman, chief global economist at Deutsche Bank Advisors.But that's not happening at all. Rates in the US are still very, very low. At the margin, (a weak dollar) is a slight easing in financial conditions.

Weak Dollar = $6 Gas? Greenback Still FallingHow to Trade a Weakening Dollar
That, of course, is not the case for consumers buying food and energy. Some economists believe that a weak dollar is contributing heavily to the surge in prices at the pump, with one speculating that gas could reach $6 a gallon or beyond by summertime, given certain conditions.Food prices also are on a steady climb higher. In both cases, a weak dollar is at least somewhat to blame as it drives commodities, which are priced in dollars and therefore cheaper and more attractive to speculators in the global marketplace.But the stock market has enjoyed the weak dollar.The Standard & Poor's 500 [.SPX 1335.89 -1.49 (-0.11%) ] and the dollar have had almost a perfectly inverse relationship this year, with the stock index gaining just over 6 percent in 2011 and the dollar losing 6.5 percent.At the margins it helps US exporters, and the US importers probably also increase profits as they're repatriated,said David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities in New York. I don't see the dollar as having a significant intermediate-run effect on the performance of the economy.With Wall Street shaking off the dangers of a possible downgrade from S&P, the market is likely to prevail against any thought that it's time to start enacting policies that defend the currency.The only thing on the horizon that appears to be dollar-friendly is the end of the second leg of the Fed's quantitative easing program—or QE2—in June.Even then, the central bank is likely only to stop its $600 Treasury-buying operations. There are no indications that the Fed will be selling back into the marketplace any of the securities it has purchased, so a rise in rates is unlikely until inflation becomes more widespread and indicated through government economic metrics.That's probably just a warm-up for a QE 3 program later on. All these things are undermining the fundamentals for the dollar,said Sean Hyman, currency director for World Currency Watch.It doesn't help anything that commodities keep going through the roof. There are a few dynamics working in a concerted effort all at once, and that's killing it.

Brett Arends ROI April 25, 2011, 8:57 a.m. EDT
IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end

BOSTON (MarketWatch) — The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed.For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the Age of America will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China.The Obama deficit tourThe Wall Street Journal editorial page’s Steve Moore critiques the president's speeches attacking Republican budget plans.And it’s a lot closer than you may think.According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China’s economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 — just five years from now.Put that in your calendar.

It provides a painful context for the budget wrangling taking place in Washington, D.C., right now. It raises enormous questions about what the international security system is going to look like in just a handful of years. And it casts a deepening cloud over both the U.S. dollar and the giant Treasury market, which have been propped up for decades by their privileged status as the liabilities of the world’s hegemonic power.According to the IMF forecast, whomever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy.Most people aren’t prepared for this. They aren’t even aware it’s that close. Listen to experts of various stripes, and they will tell you this moment is decades away. The most bearish will put the figure in the mid-2020s. China’s economy will be the world’s largest within five years or so.But they’re miscounting. They’re only comparing the gross domestic products of the two countries using current exchange rates.That’s a largely meaningless comparison in real terms. Exchange rates change quickly. And China’s exchange rates are phony. China artificially undervalues its currency, the renminbi, through massive intervention in the markets.

The comparison that really matters
The IMF in its analysis looks beyond exchange rates to the true, real terms picture of the economies using purchasing power parities.That compares what people earn and spend in real terms in their domestic economies.Under PPP, the Chinese economy will expand from $11.2 trillion this year to $19 trillion in 2016. Meanwhile the size of the U.S. economy will rise from $15.2 trillion to $18.8 trillion. That would take America’s share of the world output down to 17.7%, the lowest in modern times. China’s would reach 18%, and rising.Just 10 years ago, the U.S. economy was three times the size of China’s.Naturally, all forecasts are fallible. Time and chance happen to them all. The actual date when China surpasses the U.S. might come even earlier than the IMF predicts, or somewhat later. If the great Chinese juggernaut blows a tire, as a growing number fear it might, it could even delay things by several years. But the outcome is scarcely in doubt.

This is more than a statistical story. It is the end of the Age of America. As a bond strategist in Europe told me two weeks ago, We are witnessing the end of America’s economic hegemony.We have lived in a world dominated by the U.S. for so long that there is no longer anyone alive who remembers anything else. America overtook Great Britain as the world’s leading economic power in the 1890s and never looked back.And both those countries live under very similar rules of constitutional government, respect for civil liberties and the rights of property. China has none of those. The Age of China will feel very different.Victor Cha, senior adviser on Asian affairs at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, told me China’s neighbors in Asia are already waking up to the dangers.The region is overwhelmingly looking to the U.S. in a way that it hasn’t done in the past,he said. They see the U.S. as a counterweight to China. They also see American hegemony over the last half-century as fairly benign. In China they see the rise of an economic power that is not benevolent, that can be predatory. They don’t see it as a benign hegemony.The rise of China, and the relative decline of America, is the biggest story of our time. You can see its implications everywhere, from shuttered factories in the Midwest to soaring costs of oil and other commodities. Last fall, when I attended a conference in London about agricultural investment, I was struck by the number of people there who told stories about Chinese interests snapping up farmland and foodstuff supplies — from South America to China and elsewhere.This is the result of decades during which China has successfully pursued economic policies aimed at national expansion and power, while the U.S. has embraced either free trade or, for want of a better term, economic appeasement.There are two systems in collision,said Ralph Gomory, research professor at NYU’s Stern business school.They have a state-guided form of capitalism, and we have a much freer former of capitalism.What we have seen, he said, is “a massive shift in capability from the U.S. to China. What we have done is traded jobs for profit. The jobs have moved to China. The capability erodes in the U.S. and grows in China. That’s very destructive. That is a big reason why the U.S. is becoming more and more polarized between a small, very rich class and an eroding middle class. The people who get the profits are very different from the people who lost the wages.The next chapter of the story is just beginning.

U.S. spending spree won’t work
What the rise of China means for defense, and international affairs, has barely been touched on. The U.S. is now spending gigantic sums — from a beleaguered economy — to try to maintain its place in the sun. See: Pentagon spending is budget blind spot .
It’s a lesson we could learn more cheaply from the sad story of the British, Spanish and other empires. It doesn’t work. You can’t stay on top if your economy doesn’t.
Equally to the point, here is what this means economically, and for investors. Some years ago I was having lunch with the smartest investor I know, London-based hedge-fund manager Crispin Odey. He made the argument that markets are reasonably efficient, most of the time, at setting prices. Where they are most likely to fail, though, is in correctly anticipating and pricing big, revolutionary, paradigm shifts — whether a rise of disruptive technologies or revolutionary changes in geopolitics. We are living through one now.The U.S. Treasury market continues to operate on the assumption that it will always remain the global benchmark of money. Business schools still teach students, for example, that the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury bond is the risk-free rate on money. And so it has been for more than a century. But that’s all based on the Age of America.No wonder so many have been buying gold. If the U.S. dollar ceases to be the world’s sole reserve currency, what will be? The euro would be fine if it acts like the old deutschemark. If it’s just the Greek drachma in drag ... not so much.The last time the world’s dominant hegemon lost its ability to run things singlehandedly was early in the past century. That’s when the U.S. and Germany surpassed Great Britain. It didn’t turn out well.Brett Arends is a senior columnist for MarketWatch and a personal-finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal.

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON APR 25,2011

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -20.66
10:30 AM -47.95
11:00 AM -50.75
11:30 AM -51.20
12:00 PM -36.03
12:30 PM -35.27
01:00 PM -34.40
01:30 PM -33.72
02:00 PM -30.20
02:30 PM -25.35
03:00 PM -23.80
03:30 PM -33.87
04:00 PM -26.11 12,479.88

S&P 500 1335.25 -2.13

NASDAQ 2825.88 +5.72

GOLD 1,506.90 +3.10

OIL 112.18 -0.11

TSE 300 13,907.30 -64.77

CDNX 2280.05 -21.99

S&P/TSX/60 794.75 -4.47

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -13 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -60 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,513.90.OIL opens at $113.03 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -60 points at low today so far.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -60 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,513.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)

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EU Panel Chooses Passover to Approve Anti-Semitic Food Labeling
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu APR 24,11

A European Union food safety committee chose the first day of Passover to approve a proposal designed to steer consumers away from buying meat from animals slaughtered according to Jewish ritual by labeling it as meat from slaughter without stunning.The proposal will be presented to the EU parliament in July and differs from a decision two years ago by the European Union Council of Agricultural Ministers, which officially recognized shechita – Jewish kosher slaughter.The new draft proposal does not restrict the sale of meat that is slaughtered according to Jewish law but highlights the lack of stunning, which animal rights activists claim is a more humane method for killing animals.Rabbi Aryeh Goldberg, Deputy Director of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE), decried the timing of the vote with the first day of the Passover holiday and vowed to convince EU legislators to defeat the proposal, the European Jewish Press reported.

It is inconceivable that members of the European Parliament, representing Jewish communities across Europe, could not have chosen another day to vote on such a tendentious issue that gravely affects European Jewry,Rabbi Goldberg said.The laws themselves appear to discriminate against the Jewish community as no other method of slaughter will be mentioned.However, just as we learn in the Passover story that the Jewish people will overcome adversity, so we will overcome this as well and the RCE will use all its efforts to defeat this when it comes for the official vote.The draft legislation, if adopted, could lead to a massive drop in non-Jewish sales and a subsequent substantial rise in the price of kosher meat. Many non-Jews consider kosher food, including meat, safer and healthier than non-kosher food and purchase it. Kosher slaughterhouses also sell non-Jewish stores the parts of the animal that are not allolwed to be eaten by observant Jews even if the animal is killed by ritual slaughter, the stoppage of which would mean a tremendous loss.According to the RCE, the draft legislation runs contrary to the European Union’s own guidelines, not only about freedom of religion, but also the fact that shechita has been proven to be one of the most humane ways of animal slaughter.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Rights group: EU must end faustian pact with Syria
ANDREW RETTMAN 23.04.2011 @ 10:33 CET

EUOBSERVER / BEIRUT - With the death count in Syria jumping up drastically, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said the EU should impose sanctions on the al-Assad regime or risk missing a historic opportunity to shape events in the Middle East. Syrian rights activists inside the country report that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's forces killed at least 70 more people during protests on Friday (22 April), bringing the number of deaths since violence began six weeks ago to some 270.HRW no longer has staff in Syria, but its sources speak of systematic use of live ammunition against unarmed crowds, night-time snatch squads and torture of detainees.HRW analyst Nadim Houry told EUobserver in his office in Beirut, in neighbouring Lebanon, that the EU reaction so far - statements by foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urging restraint and public silence from EU countries' embassies in Lebanon and Syria - is doing nothing to make al-Assad change track.Given the level of violence, the EU should impose targeted sanctions against key figures in the regime. Visa bans, asset freezes - no more business as usual, no more glossy spreads in Vogue about Louboutin shoes, Houry said, referring to a recent article on al-Assad's wife.He must be given a stark choice - either you keep going down the path of repression and you become an international pariah, and it will be very costly for you economically, or you make real reforms and the European Union will give you all the support you need to do that.He added that Ashton's job should be to persuade Mediterranean rim EU powers - France, Italy and Spain - as well as the US and EU-aspirant Turkey to give explicit backing to the tough new line.

Houry, a 33-year-old Lebanese lawyer, said that recent events have exposed a flaw in EU foreign policy.EU-Syria diplomacy has up to now neglected the rights of Syrian people for the sake of strategic objectives, such as seeking al-Assad's support for the Middle East peace process or maintaining stability in Lebanon. But the uprisings in Syria and beyond show that ordinary Arabs are better partners for any attempts to bring change the region.It's time for Europe to stop making faustian pacts with repressive regimes and to realign its foreign policy with its ideals, Houry said.These are historic events that no-one could have predicted. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a relationship with a new wave in Arab society.Looking more closely at Syria, he said people have broken through the wall of fear that maintained order.He added that al-Assad could still become a transitional leader, but only if he dismantles his hated secret police, the al-Mukhabarat, and makes his security chiefs accountable for crimes.Meanwhile, the atmosphere in Lebanon is calm. People in Beirut are partying on Easter weekend and there is no visible difference apart from extra security on the Syrian side of the border. There are nerves below the surface, however. The largest military power in Lebanon, Hezbollah, is an ally of al-Assad and could get involved if the situation escalates.If we move to a civil war in Syria, it will have a huge impact on Lebanon,Houry said.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

St. Louis airport slowly reopens after tornado
– Sun Apr 24, 7:22 am ET

CHICAGO (AFP) – The airport in the US city of St. Louis was expected to resume most of its operations Sunday after tornadoes and high winds tore through the Midwestern city, cutting a swath of destruction at the key transportation hub.Lambert-St. Louis International Airport was to reopen at about 70 percent capacity after restoration of power and clearing the debris, authorities said.We're not going to have the prettiest airport,airport director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge told The St. Louis Post Dispatch.But we will have an operating airport. And that's a really good thing for us.Four Southwest Airlines flights already landed at the airport Saturday, the newspaper reported. Other carriers are ferrying in planes to resume service.Five people were hospitalized late Friday after being hurt by flying glass when the storms ripped off the roof of the main terminal and blew out windows and doors.The National Weather Service said the tornado that shook the airport and its nearby suburbs ranked as a minimum EF4 storm on the one-to-five Enhanced Fujira tornado-strength scale.

The rating meant the tornado had caused extreme damage that had completely leveled solid and whole frame houses, with winds of up to 200 miles (320 kilometers) per hour.Hamm-Niebrugge said the five injured people have been released from hospital after treatment.When you look at the devastation around, it really is a miracle that there were no fatalities and certainly very minor injuries. So, we're grateful for that,she added.The storms, and an apparent tornado, struck the airport in the early evening Friday, forcing airport officials to herd hundreds of travelers into safer areas.We had a vacuum effect, when the wind sucked anything that moved down the concourse,airport spokesman Jeff Lea said. The main terminal suffered much damage, with part of its roof ripped off, and half of the windows of Concourse C were blown out.Staff spent the night mopping up, but the airport, which handles more than 15 million passengers a year, was still running on its back-up generators on Saturday. The runways were scattered with debris, such as crushed cars and wrecked signs, while nearby houses had been ripped apart.Carl Lawrence was standing by the baggage carousel area when the strong wind hit. It rushed through the door and threw everybody against the wall,Lawrence told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency as officials reported some injuries and widespread damage in neighborhoods around St. Louis.The state of Missouri is ready to assist at every stage of this emergency to keep Missouri families safe and help communities recover,Nixon said in a statement.

Fire officials said about 50 homes in a subdivision just off the Airport Road were damaged. No one was hurt but several people had to be helped to escape their damaged homes.It was boom, boom, boom,Alicia Braggs said, recalling the storm.It seemed like there was some kind of terrible pressure on my roof, and I could feel the wind.The National Weather Service has also issued flood warnings for the area, saying the heavy rains will likely cause rivers to burst their banks.Powerful tornadoes struck several southern and central US states earlier this month, killing 44 people and reducing whole neighborhoods to rubble.

Japan to launch massive search for quake bodies
By SHINO YUASA, Associated Press – Sun Apr 24, 5:59 am ET

TOKYO – Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers backed by boats and aircraft into its disaster zone Monday on an intensive land-and-sea mission to recover the bodies of those killed by last month's earthquake and tsunami, the military said.Agriculture officials also plan to send a team of veterinarians into the evacuation zone around a stricken nuclear plant to check on hundreds of thousands of abandoned cows, pigs and chickens, many of which are believed to have died of starvation and neglect. The government is considering euthanizing some of the dying animals, officials said.

About 14,300 people have been confirmed dead so far in the catastrophic March 11 tsunami and earthquake. Another 12,000 remain missing and are presumed killed. Some of their bodies were likely swept out to sea, while others were buried under the mass of rubble.Cleanup crews have discovered some remains as they gingerly removed rotting debris to clear the area for rebuilding.But the two-day military search operation will be far more extensive, Defense Ministry spokesman Ippo Maeyama said Sunday.We will do our utmost to recover bodies for bereaved families,he said.A total of 24,800 soldiers will scour the rubble, backed by 90 helicopters and planes, he said. Another 50 boats, along with 100 navy divers, will search the waters up to 20 kilometers off the coast, he said. Police, coast guard and U.S. troops will also take part.It's been very difficult and challenging to find bodies because the areas hit by tsunami are so widespread,he said.Many bodies also have been swept away by the tsunami.The operation will be the third intensive military search for bodies since the disaster last month. With the waters receding, Maeyama hopes the teams will have more success.The search was complicated by the decomposition of some of the corpses, he said. Some had already turned into skeletons.You have to be very careful in touching the bodies because they quickly disintegrate. We cannot tell the bodies' gender anymore, let alone their age,he said.

The searches will continue, however,as long as families want us to look for their loved ones,Maeyama said.Meanwhile, the government in the Fukushima prefecture will send a team of six veterinarians into the 12-mile (20-kilometer) evacuation zone around the radiation-leaking Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to survey the livestock there.Farmers in the area were estimated to have left 3,000 cows, 130,000 pigs and 680,000 chickens behind when they hurriedly fled the area last month when the nuclear crisis started.With no time for burials, veterinarians who find dead livestock will spray lime over them to prevent them from spreading disease, agricultural officials said.The government is also considering euthanizing dying animals, but only after getting permission from their owners, said Yutaka Kashimura, an agricultural official in Fukushima.Killing animals is the very last resort,he said.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Thousands march against nuclear power in Japan
-APR 24,11

TOKYO (AFP) – Thousands of people marched in Tokyo on Sunday to demand an end to nuclear power in Japan and a switch to alternative energy after the crisis at an atomic plant hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.Brandishing placards bearing the slogan: Bye Bye Genpatsu (Goodbye Nuclear Power), demonstrators -- including many young people and families -- walked along a route from Yoyogi Park in the centre of the capital.

Organisers estimated 5,000 took part.

We are worried. Before Fukushima, I wasn't thinking about it but now we must act, we must do it for our children,said Hiroshi Iino, 43, who joined the Energy shift parade with his wife and two boys, aged five and nine.Schoolteacher Yoko Onuma, 48, said she was demonstrating for the second time since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant where radiation leaks have forced the evacuation of some 80,000 people within 20 kilometres (13 miles) of the site.Before, I wasn't aware of the dangers of nuclear power,she said.But now we have to mobilise many people, as has happened in other countries, such as Germany.Greenpeace Japan director Junichi Sato, one of the organisers of the protest, said until now few had protested about nuclear power following the quake-tsunami disaster which left more than 26,000 dead or missing.

Over the past month, everybody was focusing on the victims of the tsunami ... on how to end the crisis,Sato said.Outside (in other countries), they jumped directly on the energy issue,he said.But mobilisation is going to increase in Japan.Around 2,000 people took part in a separate anti-nuclear demonstration under the slogan Anti-TEPCO,referring to the operator of the atomic plant, held simultaneously a few kilometres away at Shiba Park.The issue of possibly phasing out nuclear power is now openly debated on the political scene in Japan.We cannot do without nuclear energy, but we have to think about the way nuclear plants are built and the speed of their construction,Katsuya Okada, secretary general of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party of Japan, said Friday.Before the tsunami which led to the shutdown of a dozen reactors, nearly 30 percent of Japan's electricity was generated from nuclear power.
Resource-poor Japan is highly dependent on Middle Eastern oil but its high-tech companies are also world leaders in many environmental and energy-saving technologies.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Thousands call for Assad overthrow at Syria funeral
By Suleiman al-Khalidi - APR 24,11

AMMAN (Reuters) – Thousands of Syrians called for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad Sunday at a funeral for protesters killed by security forces in the southern town of Nawa, a witness said.Long live Syria. Down with Bashar! the mourners chanted, their calls audible in a telephone call during the funeral.Leave, leave. The people want the overthrow of the regime.The witness said four people were killed Saturday in Nawa, about 25 km (15 miles) north of the city of Deraa where demonstrations against Assad's authoritarian rule first erupted, when they gathered to protest earlier shootings.At least 100 people were killed in Syria Friday, the highest toll in five weeks of unrest, when security forces shot protesters demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption in their country, ruled for 41 years by the Assad dynasty.Activists described Friday's killings as a turning point which exposed the hollowness of Assad's announcement that he was lifting a 48-year state of emergency and abolishing a hated state security court.At least 12 more people were killed Saturday at mass funerals for the slain protesters, and rights campaigners said secret police raided homes near Damascus just after midnight on Sunday, arresting activists in the area.

Assad assumed power when his father died in 2000 after ruling Syria for 30 years. The hostile chants in Nawa Sunday reflect a steady hardening of the demands of protesters who first called for greater freedoms but now seek his overthrow.Despite deepening his father Hafez al-Assad's anti-Israel alliance with Iran, clawing back Syrian influence in Lebanon and backing militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas, Assad has kept Syria's front line with Israel quiet and held indirect peace talks with the Jewish state.International condemnation of Assad has also intensified. Western criticism was initially muted because of lingering hopes that Assad might implement genuine reform and because revolution in Syria would reshape the political map in the Middle East.I deplore the increasing violence in Syria, and am appalled by the killing of demonstrators by Syrian security forces,British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday, advising all British nationals to leave Syria.U.S. President Barack Obama urged Assad Friday to stop the outrageous use of violence to quell protests.Syrian authorities, who blame the violence on armed groups, dismissed Obama's comments.

NATIONWIDE PROTESTS

The weekend protests stretched from the port city of Latakia to Homs, Hama, Damascus, its suburbs and southern towns. The death toll rose to around 350, with scores of missing since the demonstrations broke out on March 18, rights campaigners said.An eminent jurists' group said Sunday the United Nations Security Council must investigate mass killings by the security forces which it said may warrant prosecution by the International Criminal Court.Those ordering and carrying out these attacks, including those firing live rounds into crowds, must be held criminally accountable, said Wilder Tayler, Secretary General of the International Commission of Jurists.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens of people were arrested by security forces after the demonstrations Friday, including nine in Idlib province, four in Syria's second city of Aleppo and five in eastern Raqqa province.The violence in Nawa, a town of 60,000 residents in the southern Hauran Plain which was the cradle of Syria's uprising, broke out when residents tried to gather in protest Saturday, the witness at the funeral said.Security forces opened fire on protesters, who overran headquarters of the state and military security branches. Residents said four protesters were killed. The official SANA news agency, apparently referring to the same clashes, said seven army soldiers were killed by criminal armed groups.Assad has ejected most foreign media from the country, so independent reports of the violence are difficult to verify.Demonstrators have been using the Internet to get out pictures of the violence, many of which have been explicit.

One video posted on Internet site YouTube showed a crowd marching near Abbasside square in Damascus, purportedly on Friday, chanting the people want the overthrow of the regime,before the sound of gunfire was heard. Demonstrators raised their hands to show that they were unarmed. The fire intensified. One youth fell, with blood spurting from his head and back. His comrades lifted him but dropped his body when the sound of bullets resumed.In a move unthinkable in Syria just five weeks ago, two Deraa lawmakers in Syria's rubberstamp parliament resigned on Saturday to protest against the killings of protesters.(Additional reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Maria Golovnina)

Libya's Misrata comes under heavy bombardment: rebels
By Alexander Dziadosz - APR 24,11

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata on Sunday, a day after rebels celebrated the pullback of government troops from the western Libyan city, a rebel spokesman said.The situation is very dangerous,rebel spokesman Abdelsalam said by telephone from Misrata.Gaddafi's brigades started random bombardment in the early hours of this morning. The bombardment is still going on.Captured government troops said on Saturday they had been ordered to retreat from Misrata -- the only major rebel-held city in western Libya -- after a siege of nearly two months, and rebels fighting to overthrow Gaddafi had claimed victory.But on Sunday, government forces bombarded three residential areas and the city center, including Tripoli Street, the thoroughfare which has been the scene of intense fighting in recent weeks, Abdelsalam said. Another rebel spokesman, Ahmed Hassan, said at least one person was killed and 12 wounded.Hundreds have been killed in the fighting for Misrata, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis in the besieged city.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov phoned Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi on Saturday to urge Tripoli to implement United Nations Security Council resolutions and end attacks on civilians.Lavrov said that the most important issue now is to stop the bloodshed and sufferings of the civilian population,the Russian foreign ministry said on its website on Sunday.

But rebels in their eastern stronghold Benghazi said they had no expectations of an early end to fighting in Misrata.I don't think this is a real withdrawal, rebel military spokesman Ahmed Bani told Reuters.He suggested government loyalists may be trying to stoke tensions between Misrata and neighboring towns, and that Gaddafi's troops might return to the city later under the guise of intervening to protect local tribes from the rebels.Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said on Friday the army would leave it to the tribes and the people around Misrata to deal with the situation whether by using force or using negotiations.British Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC he doubted Gaddafi's forces were really going to withdraw. This may be cover for using more insurgent type warfare without any uniforms and without tanks.

REBELS SAY THEY NEED WEAPONS

Britain and France have been leading air strikes against Gaddafi's forces in an operation mandated by the U.N. Security Council on March 17 to protect civilians in Libya.The United States has also deployed Predator drones, using the unmanned plane for the first time on Saturday to attack the site of a multiple rocket launcher near Misrata.Rebels have so far, however, been unable to advance from the east as they fight back-and-forth battles with Gaddafi's troops on the coastal road between the towns of Ajdabiyah and Brega.Rebel spokesman Bani said the rebels in the east were still outmatched by the superior firepower of Gaddafi's troops.If we obtain weapons, I think we would be able to solve this problem in maximum one month,he said. Western countries, reluctant to be further dragged into a conflict in a third Muslim country after wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, have been unwilling to arm the rebels. But Britain and France have said they will send military advisors and Italy is considering sending military trainers.Western powers have been bombing Libyan positions for more than a month. The United States, Britain and France say they will not stop their air war until Gaddafi leaves office.Given the stalemate in the east, the announcement that Gaddafi's troops were pulling out of Misrata was the first suggestion in weeks of a shift in the balance of the war.

On Saturday, rebels in Misrata celebrated their success.Misrata is free, the rebels have won. Of Gaddafi's forces, some are killed and others are running away,a rebel spokesmen said by telephone from the city.One government soldier, Khaled Dorman, among a group of 12 being brought to hospital for treatment in Misrata, told Reuters that, We have been told to withdraw. We were told to withdraw yesterday.But the mood of victory among the rebels appeared to be short-lived. By late on Saturday, Al Jazeera television reported that heavy fighting continued around a hospital in western Misrata being used as a base by Gaddafi's forces.

DIPLOMACY

Libya's official JANA news agency said on Saturday Prime Minister Mahmoudi held separate telephone conversations with Russia's Lavrov and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.While speaking with Papandreou he reiterated Libya's commitment to United Nations resolutions,JANA said.The Libyan government has repeatedly made calls for ceasefires but rebels say they are not matched by its actions.Russia, which has criticized Western air strikes, is prepared to work with the African Union and the U.N. to move the situation to political and diplomatic channels,the Russian foreign ministry said.Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi crossed into Tunisia on Saturday and then flew to the capital Tunis, a Tunisian security source said. It was not clear where Obeidi, who held talks in Cyprus earlier this month, would go next. Cypriot officials denied he was heading their way.(Additional reporting by Tim Castle in London and Lin Nouehid in Tripoli, writing by Myra MacDonald, editing by Jon Boyle)