DOOM FOR ROTORUA

1-Strong earthquake rattles El Salvador. 2-Quake coming, experts warn: Doom for Rotorua, Taupo and Whakatane? 3-Tropical wave heads for Caribbean, eclipsing Debby. 4-Israel Readies Homefront For Next War. 5-EU struggles to hammer out troop contributions for Lebanon force. 6-Lebanon plays down Israel-Syria dispute over troops.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

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

Strong earthquake rattles El Salvador Tue Aug 22, 10:30 PM ET

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A strong earthquake rattled El Salvador on Tuesday, but no injuries or serious damages were immediately reported.

The 5.7-magnitude quake was centered about 20 miles off the country's Pacific coast, off Playa El Espino in Usulutan province, according to the country's seismological service.Emergency services did not report any victims or damages.

The quake, however, was felt by residents of the capital and in the eastern part of the country.

DR SAMUEL DOCTORIAN

And then the angel showed me all of Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya and down to Australia and New Zealand.Strong winds will be looked like has never happened before. A great part shall be shaken and destroyed. Earthquakes will take place all over Asia and the sea will cover the earth.The earth will fall into the sea, I heard the angel say, part of Australia will be shaken. Australia will be divided, and a great part will go under the ocean.

Quake coming, experts warn: Doom for Rotorua, Taupo and Whakatane?
24.08.2006 ,By KELLY MAKIHA

Rotorua, Taupo and Whakatane are set to be wiped out in a massive overdue earthquake, say geologists.The shocking prediction has been made at a Natural Hazards Management Conference in Christchurch.Geology experts Tim Davies and Mauri McSaveney have predicted that an alpine fault earthquake is overdue, and would result in the East Cape ripping away from New Zealand, destroying the plateau that Rotorua is based on and taking Taupo and Whakatane with it.The pair say the earthquake will strike out of the blue and cause widespread death, shut down power generators, create tsunamis within New Zealand and overwhelm emergency services.The most likely time [for the quake] is now. The next most likely time for it to happen is tomorrow,Associate Professor Davies, of Canterbury University, told the conference.

It will occur with no recognisable warning. We can't manage it - we have to adapt to it.The pair have outlined a nightmarish scenario in the aftermath of the quake and are urging people to be prepared as best they can. Overseas help would be needed when the quake struck.Shaking damage and land instability will disrupt surface transport for months, tourists will be trapped, and distribution of vital supplies (eg, food, fuel) will be limited. Hydro stations will shut down immediately and may be slow to restart, power reticulation will be damaged. Only satellite phones will remain in use.No services will be as normal.The pair say the Alpine fault quake is a certainty. It is only a matter of when.The interval since the last event (in 1717) is longer than any interval between known earlier events.Rotorua historian Don Stafford said the experts' predictions were probably right and residents should be prepared.Who else could you listen to other than an expert.

They have their reasons for why they believe they are worth listening to.Mr Stafford said historically there had been major eruptions and earthquakes in the Central North Island, with the most recent being Mt Tarawera in 1886.Lake Rotorua was a gigantic eruption 230,000 years ago. There have been gigantic eruptions for thousands of years. The historic massive eruption of Lake Taupo was recorded in China, Rome and Italy.Mr Stafford said the Central North Island had been relatively quiet during the past few decades.We have had it pretty sweet and I don't doubt for one minute that there will be more big eruptions. ... We would be foolish to presume that it won't happen just because we are living here.

Rotorua Civil Defence emergency management co-ordinator Pauline Hitchcock said the experts' predictions were news to her.

But they seem to say it's going to happen now and to stay indoors we have heard nothing about this from the Ministry (of Civil Defence and Emergency Management). I'll be finding out more about this today,she said.additional reporting APN

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;
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.

Tropical wave heads for Caribbean, eclipsing Debby 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A strong tropical wave approaching the Windward Islands could strengthen into a tropical depression or tropical storm Thursday, eclipsing Tropical Storm Debby, which was spinning in the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. National Hurricane
Center said.

NHC said in a tropical weather outlook the wave was well-organized and heavy squalls were beginning to spread over the islands. The Windward Islands include Martinique, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent, The Grenadines, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Conditions appear to be favorable for a tropical depression or a tropical storm to form later today,NHC said early Thursday.The center scheduled an Air Force Reserve reconnaissance aircraft to investigate the system in the afternoon.All of the major weather models showed the wave entering the Caribbean Sea over the next day or so.Four models put the storm in the waters south of Cuba near Jamaica within five days. Another model had the storm crossing the Dominican Republic before approaching the Bahamas over the next five days or so.If the wave gets into the Gulf of Mexico, it could disrupt the U.S. oil and natural gas producing and refining facilities, damaged last year by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Meanwhile all of the weather models, including the NHC model, projected Debby would not hit land as it continued to move northwest for a couple more days before turning northeast toward Europe later this week.The NHC expects Debby to strengthen into
the season's first hurricane in about three days.

If Debby becomes a hurricane, the center projected it would be a weak Category 1 hurricane. Category 1 hurricanes have wind speeds of 74 to 95 mph.Debby, with winds near 45 mph, was located about 845 miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands.

Israel Readies Homefront For Next War
By: David Bedein, Special To The Evening Bulletin,08/23/2006

Jerusalem - Israel Security Cabinet member Rafi Eitan has issued a call to prepare all the shelters and protected rooms throughout the country immediately in order to prepare for a possible conflict with Iran. Eitan said yesterday during a tour of the north that if there is an escalation in the relationship between the United States and Iran, the first one to be attacked with Iranian missiles will be Israel.

The Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Raanan Dinur revealed that he intended to submit to Prime Minister Olmert at the cabinet meeting on Sunday recommendations for how to prepare the home front for the next war.Dinur refused to define the geographical
area that would be part of the home front in the next war.

Dinur said that he envisioned a possibility that prior to the next war the Home Front Command would be subsumed by the Defense Ministry, while the local authorities would be required to maintain the emergency equipment. I admit that I, like many others, was not truly cognizant of the possibility that a war would erupt on us in the north this summer,Dinur said.

Olmert Looks For Solutions

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his government's plans for the future are the subject of great attention in the Israeli media today.

The current top priority in the Prime Minister's Office appears to be to invest heavily in expanding the protection available to Israeli civilians in times of war, particularly given the threat of heavy rocket attacks on civilian targets, and to restructure the bureaucracy to allow for more effective service to the civilian population in times of war. Olmert was the recipient of a great deal of criticism from local authority officials with whom he met in northern Israel yesterday. He urged them, and others, to desist from lashing out at the Israeli Army or its performance in the second Lebanon War, promising them that a commission of inquiry will be formed. In Kiryat Shmona the prime minister found himself the target of angry residents who felt that the state bureaucracy was treating them poorly.

The wretchedness that was laid bare here reminds me of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, said one of the deputy mayors of Kiryat Shmona. The home front was forsaken, the government disappeared, there were only volunteer non-profit organizations, said one of them. Aharon Valensi, the Upper Galilee Regional Council head, said that the state's duty to take care of its citizens is a basic duty. The war that just ended was only the coming attractions. The big war is still before us.Some of the people in attendance demanded that a commission of inquiry be formed.

Olmert tried to cool tempers and gave assurances that a commission of inquiry will be formed.Moreover, he said, I've decided to invest most of my energy and the government's energy in rehabilitating the north. But I won't take part in this punch-trading game of self-flagellation and of lashing out at the Israeli Defense Forces. Who is the IDF? They are our children, our people. Who are the commanders? Those are our best sons, first and foremost the chief of staff. What will we do with them? Line them up and slap them so that they won't be able to prepare for the future and then we'll take them to task again? Meanwhile, throughout Monday and yesterday, hundreds of Israeli reservists and other demonstrators launched a vigil outside of the Israeli Prime Minister's office, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Olmert, Defense Minister Peretz and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz.

IDF Forces Increase State Of Alert

The IDF has increased the state of alert among its forces in southern Lebanon out of concern that Hezbollah will respond to the incident in which three Hezbollah guerrillas were killed.On Monday night, an Israeli paratrooper force encountered three Hezbollah guerrillas in the village Shamaa in the western sector, approximately five miles north of the border with Israel. The armed terrorists
emerged from a cave located within dense underbrush, the force identified them and opened fire on them. The three guerrillas were killed on the spot; the IDF had no casualties in the incident. In recent days the IDF has reduced its forces operating in southern Lebanon. The reserve forces have departed and the regular forces deployed in the area has been diminished. IDF sources estimate that within ten days it will be possible to withdraw its forces to a more distant line, to less than two miles north of the border.

Italian PM: Italy Ready To Lead Interim Force

Italian Prime Minister Prodi said that Italy is ready to lead the reinforced United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon troops in the region. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will receive a final decision on the matter within the next several days. Before then, sources in Beirut said that the Lebanese government has accepted Rome's proposal to send 2,000 troops to the force. Lebanon's communications minister called upon France to increase its involvement in forming the force because of the historical connection between the two countries.

U.S. Will Ask Security Council To Approve New Resolution

The U.S. will ask the Security Council to approve a new resolution calling for the disarmament of Hezbollah. U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said, however, that the resolution will not delay the deployment of the UNIFIL troops, and added that the deployment is vital, since the cease-fire is fragile.

More Egyptian Troops On The Border

Egypt has stationed an additional 1,300 troops at the Rafah crossing for fear that Palestinians might try to break through the border. Security sources in Egypt said that the reinforcement of the police officers is required because it has become clear that armed Palestinians have congregated on the Palestinian side of the crossing. The latest influx of police officers join 750 Egyptian border police soldiers already stationed there.

Proposed Rules Of Engagement Allow Self-Defense

Proposed rules of engagement for an expanded U.N. force in southern Lebanon would allow troops to open fire in self-defense, protect civilians and back up the Lebanese army in preventing foreign forces or arms from crossing the border, according to a U.N. document obtained yesterday.The 20-page draft was circulated to potential troop-contributing countries last week by the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations. The rules of engagement for the expanded force have held back some potential troop contributors because of concerns that their soldiers would be required to disarm Hezbollah, which has controlled southern Lebanon.
The Associated Press Contributed to this report.©The Evening Bulletin 2006

DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING
BLOCKS)

EU struggles to hammer out troop contributions for Lebanon force by Catherine Triomphe Wed Aug 23, 4:11 PM ET

BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU members struggled to shed light on who is to play what role in an enlarged UN force in southern Lebanon, ahead of a special meeting of foreign ministers and the United Nations. EU ambassadors and military experts met for more than four hours in Brussels to prepare for an extraordinary meeting on Friday of ministers and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who wants Europeans to play the lead role in the force.One EU source said that all participants agreed on the urgency to send troops, although member states did not provide specific numbers about how many they were willing to contribute.

The meeting also triggered a positive dynamic that prepares the way for talks among ministers on Friday, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.With the Friday meeting with Annan looming, pressure is growing on the bloc's members to overcome indecision on how many troops they are willing to provide and under what conditions, especially after France offered far fewer than originally expected.(EU foreign policy chief Javier) Solana has spoken from the start about 4,000 European soldiers, that seems a good target, that will represent a very important presence in the international force,Solana's spokeswoman Cristina Gallach said.

However, that would be far fewer than the force of 15,000 troops that the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is expected to eventually reach.With 2,000 soldiers already on the ground, the additional troops would serve to bolster 15,000 Lebanese soldiers that have been deploying in southern Lebanon to act as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.Encouraged by Britain, Israel, Lebanon and the United States, Rome has offered to play the leading role in the force.In addition to being ready to lead the force, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has offered some 3,000 troops, although he insisted a new UN Security Council resolution was needed to clearly define the peacekeepers' role.While EU ambassadors were meeting, Italian special envoy Ricardo Sessa was in Beirut for talks with Lebanese leaders and Hezbollah officials about Italy's participation in the UN peacekeeping force.France has come under criticism for sending just 200 soldiers to the expanded force to join the 200 French soldiers already incorporated into UNIFIL under its previous mandate.

France, tipped to retain command of UNIFIL and co-author of the resolution with the United States, had been expected to send between 2,000 and 3,000 troops.Paris was unhappy that the UN mandate allows UNIFIL to use force only in circumstances of direct self-defence, and not to enforce the resolution as it had sought.After meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Paris, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said France was willing to go further.

Today we're the country that's the most committed and present on the ground. We want to go further once conditions are fulfilled,Villepin said.It is extremely important for France -- with our strong experience in Lebanon, with international experience in other arenas -- that all guarantees can be supplied for an effective deployment of UNIFIL on the ground.

France's concerns about UNIFIL's mandate are shared with other EU countries. Solana's spokeswoman stressed: Military people are not going to recommend going there if there is not any clarity.

Lebanon plays down Israel-Syria dispute over troops By Alaa Shahine
1 hour, 50 minutes ago

BEIRUT (Reuters) Lebanon undertook on Thursday to stop smuggling from Syria, playing down a dispute between Syria and Israel over whether U.N. forces should help the Lebanese army stop arms shipments to Hizbollah guerrillas. It did not rule out
asking U.N. troops to help the army with its border task under a truce between Israel and Hizbollah, but Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said no decision had been taken.Syria threatened on Wednesday to close the border if the United Nations deployed troops there as part of its mission to enforce the truce, which came into effect 10 days ago.But Israel says it will not lift a sea and air blockade of Lebanon unless a reinforced U.N. peacekeeping force helps the Lebanese army control the border so that no new weapons reach Hizbollah in the south.The dispute has the Lebanese government caught in the middle. Its priority is to reopen the country to the world but it has limited influence over Syria and Israel.

Culture Minister Tareq Mitri, who led the Lebanese delegation in truce talks at the United Nations this month, said: The Lebanese government is working hard to secure the border and lift the (Israeli) blockade.The Lebanese stance is clear. The sovereignty of any state includes securing its border crossings, preventing any smuggling attempts, and this is what the Lebanese state is planning to do,he told Voice of Lebanon radio.Salloukh played down the urgency of taking a decision, noting that the Lebanese army has many troops on the border.

When we see that this issue deserves discussion, the cabinet will discuss it. If the Lebanese government sees it needs to resort to international forces, it will do that. It's up to the government to decide,he told reporters.

GAZA DEATHS

The truce ended a month of war in which nearly 1,200 in Lebanon, mostly civilians, were killed. Hizbollah killed 157 Israelis, mostly soldiers. The war erupted after Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12.In parallel, conflict has continued between Israeli forces and Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel is trying to free another captured soldier. On Thursday, Israelis killed three Palestinians and seized a senior member of the Hamas movement, Younis Abu Daqqa. One of those killed was Abu Daqqa's brother.

The ceasefire in Lebanon is fragile and witnesses said that Israeli warplanes flew over the Bekaa valley in the east on Thursday -- an act Lebanon considers a truce violation.A squad of Israeli troops returned to the Lebanese border village of Houla, security sources said. Israel had withdrawn from Houla after the truce came into effect.

The Lebanese army has started to deploy along parts of the Syrian border but the United Nations is finding it hard to muster more troop contingents to strengthen UNIFIL.Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht visited Beirut on Thursday and promised to take part in the force.He informed me that Belgium will contribute to the UNIFIL force in the south, but the numbers and the mechanism depend on the (European Union) meeting in Brussels tomorrow,Salloukh told reporters at a joint news conference with Gucht.

European Union president Finland said it hoped to see reinforcements deployed in Lebanon in a week. President Jacques Chirac of France, which has sent a contingent of 200 to Lebanon and was originally expected to lead the force, will announce French plans for Lebanon on Thursday. The U.N. resolution setting the terms for the ceasefire calls for the removal from south Lebanon of armed personnel other than those of UNIFIL and the Lebanese army. But one of the two Hizbollah members of the cabinet, Labor Minister Trad Hamadeh, was quoted as saying that disarming Hizbollah was not the immediate priority. Hizbollah's arms are defensive. Once a national plan of defense for Lebanon is laid out, we will talk about arms,he told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo in an interview.