02 April 2013/21 Jumada l-Ula 1434/13 Farvardin 1391/22 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The United Nations passed the precedent setting international gun control law, known as Arms Trade Treaty.
Three countries voted against it, 23 countries abstained. 154 countries voted for it, including the United States.
02 April 2013/21 Jumada l-Ula 1434/13 Farvardin 1391/22 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Health officials in Jiangsu Province reporting one man and three women now infected with H7N9.
Jiangsu Province borders Shanghai, where two men died from the new bird flu. Anhui Province, where a women infected with H7N9 is in critical condition, also borders Jiangsu Province.
Chinese national health officials have now ordered emergency monitoring. Of concern is a growing number of pneumonia cases that seem to have no cause. The city of Shanghai has ordered that all unexplainable pneumonia cases be reported!
To show you how big this could be, Jiangsu Province has designated 16 hospitals as H7N9 hospitals. The four people who are sick are all in critical condition. They all live in different areas of the province. Health officials suspect they got infected sometime in the middle of March. They were hospitalized by the end of March. Test results were in by 01 and 02 April, confirming H7N9.
One woman is known to be a poultry culler. Health officials are also monitoring people who’ve been in recent contact with the four new cases.
02 April 2013/21 Jumada l-Ula 1434/13 Farvardin 1391/22 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
“The normalization of relations between Turkey and Israel was an important bilateral step……Israel will maintain its close relations with Cyprus, and continue strengthening them as we have done the last few years.”-Shani Cooper, Israeli deputy ambassador to Cyprus, 24 March 2013
According to the Cyprus Mail, U.S. President Barack Obama’s push to get Turkey and Israel to kiss and make up was part of the takeover of Cyprus.
You see, the real reason that Turkey, long the only regional ally of Israel, called Israel a new enemy was because of disagreements over how to handle the projected huge outflows from the massive Levant Basin Province petroleum fields in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. (officially Turkey said it was because Israel refused to apologize for killing Turkish citizens)
In steps Barack Obama three years later, on his first trip to Israel, suddenly Israel apologizes and Turkey accepts!
U.S. based Noble Energy, and Israeli Delek Energy are the main investors in Block 12 of the Leviathan/Levant fields. Cyprus sits along Block 12 (Cypriots call it Aphrodite). Noble Energy and Delek Energy want to sell that Block 12 natural gas to Turkey.
Israel and Turkey had considered a pipeline between their two countries, but Lebanon and Syria are in the way, and the western backed civil war failed to have the quick results they expected.
The current options are build a pipeline from gas fields in Israeli controlled water, around Lebanese and Syrian controlled water, trough Cyrpus’ water on its way to turkey. Or, build a pipeline directly from Cyprus’ Block 12 to Turkey. At this point the cheapest option is the Cyprus to Turkey route.
“You’ve got a 25-year project. Are you comfortable having Turkey being your best friend for that length of time? ……The key is to find enough gas to make it commercial. And if you can add gas from the nearby Israeli gas field Leviathan, even better.”-unnamed industry insider
There is also speculation that even more petroleum reserves will be found in Cyprus’ territorial water.
“It is naive not to think that they will put everything in one basket in the future: the Cyprus problem, hydrocarbons, Erdogan’s water pipeline project. All of this will come to a head. With Cyprus’ gas reserves, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but let’s hope it’s not a train.”-unnamed Cypriot diplomat
The recent financial takeover of Cyprus, which will hurt Russian investors, might have been a preemptive strike: “The whole project could provide very robust and meaningful amounts of money that would be coming into the country. If the Russians want to make a killing they will have very high fees, making LNG very costly, and as a result, Cyprus won’t make a big profit. If they’re reasonable, it could work. But you don’t want someone not totally trustworthy having their hand around your throat.”-unnamed industry insider
What the Israelis said about Leviathan/Levant!
02 April 2013/21 Jumada l-Ula 1434/13 Farvardin 1391/22 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
After two people in Shanghai died from a new H7N9 bird flu, the Shanghai Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center tested 34 of the thousands of dead pigs that filled the Huangpu River. No bird flu was found in the tested pigs.
Of more concern is that the three human cases of H7N9 are not related. The two men that died in Shanghai were not connected. One was 87 years old, the other was 27.
The third person, a 35 years old woman now in critical condition, lives in a different province (Chuzhou city of Anhui Province). This means the H7N9 jumped from birds to humans in different locations at about the same time. The fear is that it will start jumping human to human.
Back in Shanghai city, 100 monitoring operations are located in hospitals and clinics, to report any new SARS or human bird flu cases. Since November last year the only cases have been the two H7N9 deaths.
H7N9 in humans is so new that little is known about how it works.
“….an axis of Greece, Cyprus and Israel and possibly more countries which will offer an anchor of stability.”-Uzi Landau, Israel’s Energy Minister, March 2012
“We believe the natural gas finds in Israel, which were duplicated in Cyprus, will also be duplicated in Greece.”-Gideon Tadmor, Israel’s Delek Energy, March 2012
Notice that Greece is now destabilized and Cyprus has been taken over by the IMF and ECB. This could be because those two countries failed to sign deals with Israel over Levant/Leviathan.
Ever since the first Tamar field was discovered by a U.S. company in 2009, more discoveries are being made, making it look as if the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea is one big petroleum field. Each new find seems to be bigger than the previous find. There are now Tamar, Dalit, Leviathan, Mari-B and other areas known as Blocks (Cyprus sits on Block 12).
One commentator said back in 2010, about the possibilities of the Levant Basin Province, that “…God has a sick sense of humor.”
Cyprus, Leviathan’s Block 12 and Israel!
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I’ve been pointing to a possible connection between the financial take over of Cyprus and the recently discovered massive Leviathan/Levant Basin Province petroleum fields in the Mediterranean Sea. On 31 March 2013, Israel began pumping out natural gas from their Tamar fields (which is part of the larger Levant Basin Province).
At last report the Israeli company Delek Energy is planning to send some of that gas to Cyprus, then on to South Korea. The Israeli government told Delek Energy to hold off on its export plans, just prior to the financial takeover of Cyprus.
The U.S. based Noble Energy owns 36% of the Tamar operations.
Control over Leviathan/Levant Basin is the real reason behind the U.S., European and Israeli backed insurgency in Syria and Lebanon, and efforts to keep Egypt destabilized, as well as Tunis and Libya.
Libya, Tunis, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Greece border, or are strategically located near Levant Basin Province. If you look at a map of the Mediterranean, then draw a line straight south from Greece to Libya, the area under the Sea east of that line has become of extreme importance to western governments.
Cyprus borders an area known as Block 12 of the Levant fields. Noble Energy, and Delek Energy have been working a deal to work the Cyprus side of Block 12. Block 12A (Aphrodite) is estimated to have 7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Other areas of Cyprus’s Block 12 are still being explored, but have already attracted investment from France, Italy and South Korea.
According to the latest reports in the Cyprus Mail, the whole financial takeover of Cyprus is about who gets to control the money that will be made from Block 12 of Leviathan/Levant. Even Russia backed off of bailing out Cyprus because they realized their ‘investors’ could make more money off Block 12 than off their Cypriot bank accounts.
01 April 2013/20 Jumada l-Ula 1434/12 Farvardin 1391/21 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
“In this historic agreement, Abbas reiterated that the king is the custodian of holy sites in Jerusalem and that he has the right to exert all legal efforts to preserve them, especially al-Aqsa mosque. It is also emphasizing the historical principles agreed by Jordan and Palestine to exert joint efforts to protect the city and holy sites from Israeli Judaisation attempts.”-official statement from Royal Palace of King Abdullah II
On 31 March 2013, the Hashemite King of Jordan, Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein, made a promise to the Palestinians, to defend Al Quds from Israeli zionists! In return Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) declared the King of Jordan the official protectorate of Al Quds!
Palestinian Minister for Religious Affairs, Mahmud Habbash, said that not only are Islamic sites in need of protection, but so are Christian sites, as Israel has been attacking both. Just this past western Christian Easter Sunday (eastern Christians celebrate Easter in May) Israelis stopped Palestinian Christians from taking part in Easter celebrations, even though many live just five miles from Al Quds.
According to U.S. President Barack Obama, Israelis are not racists!
Here’s what many Palestinian Christians are saying about the non-racist Israelis:
“For us, the Palestinian suffering started in 1948. Jesus was condemned to death, and we were condemned to nonexistence! I’m against permits. I don’t even think we should ask for permits. Do they [Jews] need permits to pray? Why do Muslims and Christians who wish to worship pose a threat while they don’t?”-Nora Carmi, member of interdenominational Christian group Kairos
“There should not even be a question of needing permits to visit one’s own city! East Jerusalem is the occupied capital of the Palestinian people and freedom of worship is a basic human right for all of our Christian and Muslim citizens, a right which is being systematically and increasingly denied by a foreign [Israeli] occupying force.”-Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian Christian and politician/activist (whenever she appears in U.S. media they fail to mention she is not Muslim)
“Last year we had buses from all the parishes, around 17 to 18. This year only eight buses came. Some places, like Jenin, did not get any permits and while we had four buses last year from Bethlehem, there was only one this year!”-Ashraf Khatib
“This day can be long and dark, and give us hopelessness as the peace process is not moving. But Easter gives me hope that no oppression or injustice will last.”-Bishop Mounib Younan, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan
In the past Israelis have blamed the oppression of Palestinian Christians on Muslims, but that is countered by the fact that many Palestinian Christians are members of the Palestinian Liberation Organization!
Why hasn’t the Israeli controlled U.S. main streamer media reported any of this? Oh yeah…
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“It was not a bailout. It was a collective punishment. The amount of money that Cyprus required could have allowed a more gradual approach to addressing the economic structure problems. With these policies, not only the Cypriot financial system has suffered a serious blow, but the economy as well. And I have no doubt, that this will have also a fallout effect on the Eurozone on the whole…….Cyprus is doing much better than countries like Germany. And I think this issue about money laundering, it was an excuse…….it was reported that agents from German banks were coming to attract funds from Cyprus. Let me also say that what has happened to Cyprus is also related with a perverted image that they have created about Cyprus in the last few years. For example, it’s a place with money laundering, especially from Russia. And also that Cyprus is a headache to the rest of Europe. And that’s not true.”-Andreas Theophanous, economist University of Nicosia
The Bank of Cyprus has closed offices in the country of Romania! The ten branches will be closed for one week to prevent Romanians trying to take all their money out of their accounts.
It’s also been revealed the bank will be sold off!
The family of Cypriot President, Nicos Anastasiades, is being outed by Cypriot media, because it turns out they took millions of euros out of bank accounts just a few days before the IMF/ECB bailout went into effect.
According to local media reports, the president’s son-in-law co-ownes a company called A.Loutsios & Sons. That company transferred $27 million USD worth of promissory notes from Laiki Bank to a bank in London, U.K.
The Laiki (Popular) Bank was shut down as part of the undemocratic bailout (undemocratic because the IMF & ECB somehow circumvented the Cypriot Parliament).
President Anastasiades responded today by saying the country’s new high court judges will “….be given a mandate to investigate everything that is possibly related to me, including those relatives linked to me by marriage.”
It also turns out that some Cypriot politicians had their debts forgiven as part of the bailout (is that how the IMF & ECB circumvented the parliament?).
On 31 March, the leader of the Cypriot Orthodox Christian church demanded that the financial leaders of the country resign! He says the country’s problems are not economic: “If we [the government of Cyprus] had spent within our means, we would not have the results we see today….This misfortune that has occurred to our country seems like an economic problem but it isn’t, at its core you will find sin!”-Archbishop Chrysostomos II
Russia just announced they will not help individual Russians who have money in Cypriot banks, but they will help Russian companies.
Also, I noticed Russian media reports now linking the Cyprus bailout to a “war” over control of petroleum rights. I’ve been saying that from the beginning (check my past Cyprus postings). It’s known as Leviathan.
01 April 2013/20 Jumada l-Ula 1434/12 Farvardin 1391/21 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Iran has just defeated the United States in the Guinness World Record for biggest ‘cup’ of ice cream.
In 2005 Baskin Robbins won the title with a container of ice cream that weighed a little more than four U.S. (short) tons. Iran has just taken the title with a container of chocolate ice cream weighing five tons!
I’m disappointed because my favorite Iranian ice cream is rose water, yet chocolate has become the favorite of many Iranians. Mmmm, time for me to make my home made rose water ice cream!
01 April 2013/20 Jumada l-Ula 1434/12 Farvardin 1391/21 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Maybe you should shell out the bucks to have your favorite health supplement/vitamin tested at a local lab. Make sure they test it for human flesh!!!
South Korean customs officials are reporting that health supplements seized at the Incheon International Airport contain human meat!
This didn’t happen just one time, but in 1715 inspections since May 2012! A total of 468 kilograms (1032 pounds) of human babies has been found in the stuff that’s supposed to make you a better person!
The Korea Customs Service believes most of the human in the supplements are from infants! They confirmed using DNA testing. And there’s other nasties in there as well; dog, toads and even scarecrows.
This is not the first time. In May 2012, South Korean officials revealed large amounts of health supplements, even viagra like pills, coming from China were made with things like dried human baby meat. They said they began their pill inspections in August 2011. Most confiscated pills are being found in the luggage of tourists.
(isn’t it ironic that some pills meant to increase sexual activity are being made with baby meat?)