NBC CUTS OUT MOCKING CHRIST SCENE

1-Quake strikes off Kermadec Islands. 2-Small quake rattles northern Thailand. 3-Moderate quake shakes northwest Turkey. 4-Light earthquake shakes Northern California. 5-Tropical depression forms near Mexico. 6-AFA forces NBC to cancel scene mocking crucifixion of Christ. 7-First Anti-Pride Protest Held in Jerusalem. 8-Palestinians flock to Jerusalem. 9-Syria needs billions of dollars in investment to avert water crisis. 10-Antarctic ozone hole biggest on record, U.S. reports. 11-NKorea, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon,Syria shun chemical weapons ban.

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.

Quake strikes off Kermadec Islands Sat Oct 21, 9:04 AM ET

WELLINGTON (AFP) - A moderate 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Kermadec Islands in the south Pacific. The quake hit 193 kilometres (120 miles) north east of the main Raoul Island at 5:23 pm (0523 GMT), the United States Geological Survey said Saturday.There were no initial reports of casualties or serious damage.The quake struck 746 kilometres south west of Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, at a depth of 10 kilometres.The Kermadecs, New Zealand's largest marine reserve, are uninhabited apart from conservation officers and volunteers on Raoul Island, according to the New Zealand Department of Conservation website.

GNS Science, New Zealand's geological agency, records 14,000 earthquakes in and around New Zealand every year as the country is positioned on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. Most of these quakes are small with only 150 on average felt by New Zealand residents.

Small quake rattles northern Thailand Sat Oct 21, 8:08 AM ET

BANGKOK (AFP) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale struck northern Thailand, but there were no reports of casualties or damage.The quake hit the northern province of Chiang Rai, along the border of Myanmar and Laos, 790 kilometers (483 miles) north of Bangkok, the department said Saturday.The epicenter was located 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of Chiang Rai, but the department did not have a figure for its depth.

Moderate quake shakes northwest Turkey Fri Oct 20, 5:09 PM ET

ANKARA, Turkey - An earthquake shook northwestern Turkey on Friday, prompting some residents of Istanbul to flee their homes, officials and news reports said. There were no immediate reports of injury or significant damage. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0, was centered near a lake at the Manyas nature reserve in Balikesir province about 260 miles west of the capital Ankara, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The quake, which struck at 2:15 p.m. EDT, was felt in Istanbul, some 250 miles north.Balikesir police chief Celal Uzunkaya said there were no reports of any injuries.People in Balikesir and Istanbul rushed out of their homes when the quake struck, CNN-Turk television and the government-owned Anatolia news agency reported.Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which lies on active fault lines. Two devastating earthquakes hit northwestern Turkey in 1999, killing some
18,000 people.

Light earthquake shakes Northern California Fri Oct 20, 2:29 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A light earthquake of 4.5 magnitude shook part of Northern California on Friday morning about 74 miles northwest of the state capital, Sacramento, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no reports of injuries or damage from the mild event in the surrounding area, James Bauman, chief deputy for the Lake County Sheriff's department, told Reuters.The tremor hit at 10 a.m. (1 p.m. EDT/1700 GMT) and was centered near the Lake County hamlet of Cobb at a depth of 2.6 miles below the surface, according to the USGS

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.

Tropical depression forms near Mexico Sat Oct 21, 6:52 AM ET

MEXICO CITY - A tropical depression formed off Mexico's west coast early Saturday and forecasters said it could turn into a hurricane within a few days.

Tropical Depression 17-E was located about 260 miles south-southwest of the coastal city of Manzanillo, said Dan Mundell, a meteorologist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.The depression is forecast to intensify into a tropical storm in the next 12-24 hours and become a small hurricane within three days, Mundell said. It is moving westward at 11.5 mph with maximum sustained winds of 34.5 mph.Its sustained winds must reach at least 39 mph to be considered a tropical storm and 74 mph to be classified as a hurricane.The system is forecast to turn northward toward the southern Baja peninsula over the next few days, Mundell said.

AFA forces NBC to cancel scene mocking crucifixion of Christ

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AFA supporters have won a great victory!

The efforts of AFA Online supporters has forced NBC to cancel a scene in the upcoming Madonna special in which she mocks the crucifixion of Christ! More than 750,000 AFA supporters emailed NBC asking for the scene to be deleted from the special which is scheduled to air in November. NBC saw a potential loss of $25,000,000 and decided to edit out the scene.

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1 CORINTHIANS 6:9
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,(HARDENED HOMOSEXUALS) nor abusers of themselves with mankind

2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXTUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good

GENESIS 19:5
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

First Anti-Pride Protest Held in Jerusalem
By Hillel Fendel(INN) Oct 20,06

Thousands of hareidi-religious Jews protested Wednesday against the gay pride march scheduled for the Holy City next month and say they will be out in force if the police don't cancel the march.The protest cut off all traffic through Sabbath Square in the Me'ah She'earim neighborhood of Jerusalem. Some of the speeches were in Yiddish, but were translated into Hebrew for our Sephardic brothers,NFC reported.One of the speakers said, Everyone whom G-d has blessed with children must check the level of modesty in his own home. You can't say, I don't know about this, I'm not involved in it. We must all unite against this plot that has fallen on us, and fight against it. All of us together will fight against this scheme.Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the head of the Eidah Hareidit Rabbinical Court, delivered a fiery speech, promising total dedication to the goal of stopping the march in accordance with the rabbis' rulings. He quoted traditional Jewish sources saying that righteous people die because they fail to protest abominations.

We must protest against the filth [coming to] Jerusalem,he said.

Rabbi Sternbuch arned that the march could lead, Heaven forbid, to the death of tens of thousands... We don't need a public inquiry to know why the war in Lebanon occurred and why we failed: Because of the abominations in the Holy Land. The gay pride march was originally scheduled for August, and was postponed because of the war. We have no intention of clashing with the police, Rabbi Sternbuch said, but they should know in advance that if the march is held, we will arrive en-masse, with our rabbis and teachers out in front.Hevron residents Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir wrote a letter to Jerusalem Police Chief Ilan Franco, asking him to cancel the march because of the fear of violence that will certainly erupt.They wrote that they themselves have been banned from certain places, such as the Temple Mount, for fear that they would incite violence.

Many march opponents note that adding to the desecration is the fact that it is scheduled to be held on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass that presaged the Holocaust. On November 9-10 in 1938, gangs of Nazi youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods in Germany, breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting.

Over 90 Jews were killed, almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, 101 synagogues were destroyed and 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.Jerusalem City Councilwoman Mina Fenton (National Religious Party) told Arutz-7 Hebrew radio that the nation must not be silent. The march is to be held,she said, because of a compromise reached between the Jerusalem Open House [a homosexual center that is organizing the gay march] and the police despite the strong objections of the mayor, the vast majority of the City Council, and many city residents. We must all fight to have this thing canceled not just postponed.

Before the parade was postponed this past summer, Fenton worked to gather tens of thousands of signatures against the parade many of them from non-Jews. The Jews are against it, the Moslems are against it, and so are the Christians, she said, and yet the police still approved it. The public cannot be trampled upon in the name of freedom of expression.Fenton notes the provocative way in which the organizers have gone about preparing for the march including the use of the Jerusalem municipal symbol of a lion in a provocative manner.They're not simply demanding equal rights, said IsraelNationalRadio's Tamar Yonah in a show on the topic several months ago, which could be understandable. They're actually showing pride in their sexual choice, and based on photos from other parades, they dress very scantily and exhibit physical erotic contact on the streets. Is this what we want on the streets of Jerusalem?

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 have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

JOEL 2:20,30-31
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.

Palestinians flock to Jerusalem By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer
Fri Oct 20, 6:50 AM ET

QALANDIA, West Bank - Thousands of Palestinians surged through the main Israeli crossing point from the northern West Bank, braving Israeli restrictions to worship on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a major Islamic site in Israeli-ruled Jerusalem. Women and children were among those pouring through the Qalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Men under 45, deemed a security risk by Israel, were barred from crossing though some had traveled for hours to in hopes of praying at the Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third-holiest site.The worshippers were initially told that only men over 50 would be allowed through, but an officer later announced through a megaphone that the age limit had been dropped to 45 years.Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that between 175,000 and 200,000 worshippers were expected to take part in midday prayers at Al-Aqsa, from where tradition says the Prophet Muhammad, Islam's founder, ascended to heaven.

Prayer in Al Aqsa is different from praying in any other mosque and Jerusalem is different from any other place, said Walid Rommaneh, a 47-year-old man from Ramallah who was waiting in the crush at Qalandia for his turn to pass through. His wife, teenage daughter and young son had been admitted earlier.Dozens of younger and more agile men scaled the nearby walls of Israel's West Bank separation barrier and scattered into the neighboring Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Police rounded up several and sent them back.Border police manning the crossing pushed back Palestinians trying to shove through the turnstiles but no serious use of force was seen at Qalandia, and Rosenfeld said there were no reports of any serious incident inside Jerusalem.

Last Friday Israeli forces used tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse Palestinians whose anger and frustration at entry restrictions erupted in disturbances at several checkpoints around Jerusalem.

Dr Samuel Doctorian and Angel 2 the Mideast

I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come. The angel said, The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God.I saw fires rising to heaven. The angel said,This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East.

Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries.The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

Syria needs billions of dollars in investment to avert water crisis
Friday, October 20, 2006

DAMASCUS: Billions of dollars of investment are required over the next decade if Damascus is to avert a critical water crisis, according to a leading development agency. The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the development agency of the Japanese government, has taken a lead role in tackling Syria's growing water shortages. Kazuhide Nagasawa, resident representative of JICA in Syria, recently told IRIN that over the past 20 years the level of ground water in the Barada basin, on which Damascus sits, retreated from 50 meters to 200 meters underground, leading to supply shortages and tap water in dry summer months.

In another 20 years, the water table could be down to 400 meters [below ground level] while the population of Damascus could have risen from its current figure of 4 to 5 million, to 10 million,Nagasawa said. At that point it will be difficult to survive on the limited water resources. The Syrian government will have to decide whether they want to transfer water to Damascus from the coast, or from the Euphrates,he added.Mufak Khalouf, head of the Damascus Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DELTA), said that the Syrian government was pressing ahead with a feasibility study for a project with a Swiss company to pump water from the Euphrates River which flows from Turkey through Syria to Iraq to Damascus.The project is estimated to cost $2 billion, and was previously believed to have been scrapped due to insufficient funding. The study is due to be finished before the end of the first quarter of next year, said Khalouf. In the meantime Damascus can extract water supplies from the ground water, and we are working on rationalizing water use among residents.
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However, international specialists warn it will not be long before the ground water upon which much of Damascus and its surrounding countryside rely, dries up almost completely.The over extraction of ground water has left it in a very serious decline, said Noriyuki Mori, a technical expert in water resource management at JICA. If this continues, it will become so low that farmers and residents of Damascus will no longer be able to extract it.

Damascus uses an average of 215 million cubic meters of water per year according to Khaled Shalak, Deputy General Director of DELTA. At present, the available water in the capital is 200 million cubic meters a year. An additional 45 million cubic meters is already needed, and that figure will have risen again by 2010, Khallouf said.Because of water supply not meeting rising demands in Damascus, water is currently being rationed to 13 hours a day.

Even in the mainly urbanized Damascus basin around 80 percent of available water is used in agriculture, with outdated irrigation methods. Across Syria as a whole, only 16 percent of farmers use modern irrigation systems, according to JICA's Mori, and yet, the agricultural sector is set to grow by some 40 percent over the next 20 years. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks

OZONE DEPLETION

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

Antarctic ozone hole biggest on record, U.S. reports
Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:40pm ET,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This year's ozone hole over Antarctica is bigger and deeper than any other on record, U.S. scientists reported on Thursday.The ozone layer shields Earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, and the layer thins out over the South Pole each year, primarily because human-made compounds release ozone-eating chlorine and bromine gases into the stratosphere.

From September 21 to 30, the average area of the ozone hole was the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million square miles ,said Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center outside Washington.If the stratospheric weather conditions had been normal, the ozone hole would be expected to reach a size of about 8.9 million to 9.3 million square miles, about the surface area of North America, NASA said in a statement.

THE 21st CENTURY IN PICTURES

Scientists measure the total amount of ozone from the ground to the upper atmosphere in Dobson Units, and a NASA satellite detected a low level of 85 Dobson Units on October 8 of the East Antarctic ice sheet.

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used balloon-borne instruments to measure ozone right over the South Pole, and by October 9 the total ozone in a column from the ground to the upper atmosphere had dropped to 93 DU from about 300 DU in mid-July.Temperature variations in the Antarctic stratosphere causes the severity of the ozone hole to vary from year to year. Colder temperatures result in larger and deeper ozone holes, while warmer temperatures lead to smaller ones. This year, the lower stratosphere was about 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) cooler than average.

Concentrations of ozone-depleting chemicals in the lower atmosphere have been declining since 1995, and scientists estimate the ozone hole will be completely recovered by about 2065.

N Korea, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria shun chemical weapons ban Sat Oct 21, 1:21 AM ET

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - North Korea, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Syria are unfairly refusing to join the convention banning chemical weapons, which has been signed by 180 countries, the head of the body monitoring the treaty has said. It is very unfair to other countries if a few countries retain for themselves the privilege of producing chemical weapons when all the others are transparent in this field, said Rogelio Pfirter of Argentina, director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).The convention, signed in 1993, entered into force in 1997 and mandated the OPCW to eliminate chemical weapons, including deadly nerve gases, forever and to verify the destruction of the declared chemical weapons stockpiles within stipulated deadlines.

Pfirter, who briefed the General Assembly, bemoaned the fact that North Korea has spurned calls to join the treaty, despite allegations of the potential existence of stockpiles.Last week, the UN Security Council unanimously agreed to slap sanctions on North Korea over its first-ever atom-bomb test and demanded that Pyongyang scrap all its weapons of mass destruction.Pfirter also took Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria to task for refusing to join the chemical weapons ban treaty.He said there could be no moral, strategic or legal excuse to remain outside the convention, which given the number of signatories, is considered international law.

Having even a single state outside the convention provided a major loophole that allowed the manufacture of very deadly weapons at the expense of humanity, he noted.Each OPCW member state is mandated to declare if it is in possession of chemical weapons. If so, it must undertake a commitment to destroy all stockpiles by a particular deadline, initially 2007, with an ultimate deadline of 2012.Pfirter told a press conference that while his organization, based in The Hague, was totally totally independent and technically not a part of the United Nations, it was guided by the same aspiration for peace and security.