WTO BILL ON FREE TRADE ZONES

Story 1-WTO bill on free trade zones. Story 2-8 scorpians found in Jerusalem.3-EU States issue biometric passports with chips in them.4-Israel holiday Feast of weeks (Giving of Torah to Israelis).

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(EU) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(10 World blocs).
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

Serbia: Bill on free trade zones presented

12:43 - 01 June 2006 - Serbian Assistant Minister of Finance Vesna Hreljac-Ivanovic said that the new bill on free trade zones, drafted under World Trade Organisation (WTO) and EU standards, removes limiting factors which existed in this area so far. In a press conference Hreljac-Ivanovic presented new bills on free trade zones and foreign currency operations that the government approved in its last session. She noted that the founder makes a decision to set up a free trade zone, after which the company for managing the zone is established and a request is sent to state authorities, reports SMT.

The founder can establish only one company for managing a zone so as to prevent a monopoly, she explained adding that the company needs to submit evidence on technical and economic conditions. She also said that a special commission will be in charge of grading these conditions and added that the company will also have to submit a report on free trade zone feasibility. There will be tax incentives for setting up free trade zones, Hreljac-Ivanovic said. According to her, a report on operations will be submitted once a year. She also added that there are three zones in Serbia at the moment: in Subotica, Zrenjanin and Pirot, which are obliged to submit demands for new licences within 90 days after the law comes into effect. However, these three zones will not be obliged to submit new reports, she added. Assistant Minister responsible for foreign currency inspection Lidija Smiljanic said that the bill on foreign currency operations was drafted in cooperation with the National Bank of Serbia (NBS).

This law will liberalise financial transactions and will allow the purchase of securities issued by foreign issuers, she said. The new regulations on financial transactions should put an end to foreign currency operations by presenting fake invoices, Smiljanic said expressing hope that the bill will be passed by parliament in June. Source: Serbia & Montenegro Today.

Scorpion-like creatures isolated in cave for aeonsJerusalem,June 2, 2006

AdvertisementScientists have discovered crustaceans and scorpion-like invertebrates living in an underground cave that has been sealed off from the rest of the world for millions of years.Geologists from Jerusalem's Hebrew University made the discovery at a quarry near Ramla in central Israel after opening passages to a cave containing a lake and a unique ecosystem 100 metres below ground.Biologists found white crustaceans resembling prawns and invertebrates similar to scorpions. The cave also contained bacteria that served as food.

So far eight species were found in the cave, all of them unknown to science," biologist Hanan Dimantman said. Every species examined had no eyes, so they lost their sight due to evolution. Apart from the scorpions, all are alive. The scorpions are dead but we are sure live scorpions are to be found under boulders.The cave, with a maze of passages that extend about two kilometres, is sealed off from surface water and nutrients by a layer of chalk. The scientists said the lake's temperature and salinity indicated it drew its water from deep underground. The cave's ecosystem began forming about 5 million years ago, when part of Israel was covered by the Mediterranean Sea.- GUARDIAN

The chips are in the cards now but will be placed in peoples skin to keep track of everyone on earth.

REVELATION 13:7-8,16-18
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

EU nations to issue biometric passports Thu Jun 1, 11:03 AM ET

LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations will have to start issuing new secure biometric passports with a chip containing facial features by the end of August, EU officials said Thursday, and prepare to add fingerprint data to the travel documents by 2009. By Aug. 26 of this year member states will need to be able ... to include a facial image in a chip," said Friso Roscam Abbing, spokesman for EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini. He said Frattini would present plans to EU justice and interior ministers for adding fingerprints to the new biometric passports in two to three weeks time.

Roscam Abbing said the new biometric features, which reduce patterns of fingerprints, faces and irises to mathematical algorithms stored on a chip, would go beyond security standards demanded by the United States.EU nations participating in the American visa-waiver program were given until October this year to comply with U.S. standards to have either a digital photo or a chip containing biometric data in their passports if they wanted to continue visa-free travel to the U.S.

Shavuot/Sabbath Holiday: Thurs. Night to Sat.NightBy Hillel Fendel (Arutz 7 news)

The holiday of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks), one of the three Biblical pilgrimage-to-Jerusalem festivals, marks the Jewish People's receiving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai 3,318 years ago. Tens of thousands are expected to arrive at the Western Wall throughout Thursday night and Friday morning, in commemoration of the Biblical commandment to visit Jerusalem on this holiday. The commandment, like some others in the Torah, is not binding when the Holy Temple is not in place.

The Shavuot holiday of 1967 (5727), which followed the Six-Day War and the liberation of Jerusalem by only a few days, was the first holiday in 1,900 years in which masses of Jews congregated at the Western Wall.

Shavuot also marks the day after the 49-day Sefirat HaOmer counting period, which begins on the Passover holiday. The counting denotes the fact that the ultimate purpose of the Exodus from Egypt was for the Jewish People to receive the Torah and begin its national/spiritual existence as the People of the Book.

Shavuot is celebrated for one day by those who live in the Land of Israel, as originally prescribed by the Torah. However, outside Israel, in accordance with rabbinic tradition because of the lack of calendric certainty, the holiday is celebrated for two days.

Features of the Shavuot holiday include:
* remaining awake all night to study Torah;
* the bringing of the Bikurim (First Fruits) to the Holy Temple;
* the time of the wheat harvest;
* the public reading of the Book of Ruth;
* a wide-spread custom of eating dairy foods on Shavuot.
For more details on the holiday, see the sites listed at jr.co.il/hotsites.