WARMING COULD BRING 1930S HAVOC

1-Thousands still without power in Ontario, Quebec. 2-Wind, snow leave nearly 41,000 homes without power. 3-Heavy rains kill at least 17 in Somali capital 4-15 die as typhoon lashes Philippines 5-Abbas gives Hamas 2 weeks to join gov't. 6-5,000 Egyptian troops deployed near Gaza Strip border following Israeli threat. 7-Syria calls for more active EU role in Mideast peace process. 8-Iran criticizes U.S.-led nuke exercise. 9-Globalisation must embrace Greater Mideast. 10-Merkel says Germany will not solve EU constitution limbo. 11-Hard-line party joins Israel’s government. 12-Defiant Iran Scents World Split On Nuclear Issue. 13-Iran lauds Russia, China for opening nuclear splits 14-Warming could bring 1930s havoc.

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.

Thousands still without power in Ontario, Quebec
Updated Mon. Oct. 30 2006 8:24 AM ET,CTV.ca News Staff

Thousands of Canadians are still without power Monday in Quebec and Ontario, a day after violent windstorms blew across parts of the country, causing damage and knocking down power lines.

Sunday's storm system left as many as 200,000 homes and businesses without electricity in Central and Eastern Canada and parts of the U.S. as the region was blasted with winds gusting to more than 90 kilometres per hour. Hydro Quebec says more than 10,000 customers in Montreal, Quebec City, the Laurentians region north of Montreal and the Lac St.-Jean area were still without power on Monday morning.The storm left almost 49,000 people in the province without power Sunday.

In Ontario, Hydro One said Monday it has made significant progress in restoring power across the central part of the province. Spokesperson Laura Cooke told The Canadian Press that about 5,400 customers remain in the dark, meaning about 21,000 others now have their power back.Cooke says the vast majority of those still without hydro are in the Penetang (3,400) and Parry Sound (1,200) areas.It's estimated those areas will get their power back late this afternoon or early this evening. Scattered power outages were also reported in Toronto, where a west-end home under construction collapsed due to the wind. In New Brunswick, about 40 people in rural areas were still without power, according to the New Brunswick Power Corporation. At one point, the outages affected up to 3,000 N.B. Power customers in southeastern New Brunswick.Meanwhile, 40 forestry workers who were stranded when heavy snow hit northern B.C. and Alberta on Friday were finally rescued Sunday after surviving two nights in freezing temperatures.

West Fraser Timber company helicopters dropped 13 workers off in near Tumbler Ridge in B.C., about 190 kilometres northeast of Prince George, Friday morning.

Another 27 were dropped nearby on the Alberta side of the border. The workers were supposed to be picked up Friday night, but heavy snow prevented helicopters from returning for them until Sunday morning. The men are being treated for minor hyperthermia. The outages in Quebec, Ontario and B.C. followed on the heels of a storm system that hit Atlantic Canada, leaving 3,000 customers in southeastern New Brunswick without power Sunday. Isolated power outages were also reported around Halifax in Nova Scotia. The same wind and rain storm system that hit Atlantic Canada also left hundreds of thousands of people in the northeastern United States without power, as trees toppled and brought down power lines from Maine to New Jersey.

A quarter of a million people in the New York City area were in the dark Sunday, while 30,000 residences in Massachusetts went black.In western Canada, a snowfall warning was issued for East Kootenay in B.C. A weather system that brought snow to much of Alberta on Saturday is expected to move out of the province Sunday night, with five cm of snow expected for areas south of Canmore as the system pulls out. A snowfall warning is in place for Crowsnest Pass, Pincher Creek and Waterton Park in the province's southwest.A low pressure system now in northern Montana is expected to bring 10 cm of snow to south Saskatchewan by Monday.Southern Manitoba is expected to receive about 15 cm from the same weather system. With files from The Canadian
Press

Wind, snow leave nearly 41,000 homes without power
October 29,2006

(Albany, NY - AP) - Wind gusts and heavy snowfall in parts of upstate New York downed trees and left nearly 41,000 homes without power today. Officials at the National Weather Service say parts of central and northern New York got heavy snowfall today, with nine inches reported in Old Forge. Up to 18 inches of snow are expected at higher elevations. Between six and ten inches were expected for Oswego, Jefferson and Lewis counties by tonight. Downed trees and power lines are making driving conditions hazardous. Winds were expected to reach up to 70 miles per hour at higher elevations in the Adirondacks, Catskills, Berkshires and southern Green Mountains. A National Grid spokesman says 36,700 customers were without power around 4 p-m, mostly along the eastern shores of lakes Erie and Ontario and in the Tug Hill region. He said power was expected to be restored by midnight.

Another 4500 customers of Rochester Gas and Electric were without power.

Heavy rains kill at least 17 in Somali capital by Mustafa Haji Abdinur
Sun Oct 29, 10:27 AM ET

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Torrential rains have killed at least 17 people in the Somali capital overnight, bringing the death toll to 27 as a result of floods across the shattered African nation in the past week, officials and witnesses said. They said the victims, mainly children and the elderly, died after their mud-walled houses collapsed under heavy rain that pummelled several Mogadishu districts late Saturday, leaving hundreds homeless and destroying property of unknown value.Medics said relatives recovered more bodies from the the drenched debris after the overnight downpour.

The death toll has now reached 17. Some people have been recovered from houses that collapsed last night,said Abdullahi Sheikh Ali, nurse in the capital's Arafat hospital on Sunday.A pharmacist who treated injured victims said that a woman and one child were killed in the city's northern Suuq-Bacad district while five children were found dead inside a collapsed house in a nearby neighbourhood.It was a tragedy, said pharmacist Omar Mohamed Ali. I treated four family members but the mother and a three-year-old child had died by the time I arrived at the scene.The rain was so heavy and their house was old and collapsed,he added.The bodies of five children were recoved from another house in Wardhigley district south of Mogadishu.Abdulahi Shirwa Nur, a relative of the dead children, told AFP the walls of the house had caved in.

A neighbour, Amino Abduweli Rage, said: It was about 8:30 pm (1730 GMT) when I was awoken by people shouting help. I rushed to the scene and found people digging a collapsed part of a house and they recovered bodies of five children.Three of the casualties were among the elderly living in a displaced people's camp in northern Mogadishu.In this camp, three people were drowned. All of them were elder people, said Sheikh Nur Hilowle, the chairman of the camp. Mogadishu is home to at least 250,000 people displaced by the conflict that has raged across the Horn of Africa nation for the past 15 years.Residents said that at least 61 houses were destroyed by the heavy seven-hour downpour.

In August, thousands of Mogadishu residents were forced to flee to higher ground by flooding which destroyed dozens of makeshift homes.Last week, heavy rains also killed at least 10 people in the country's southern Gedo region, which was recently hit by a scorching drought that put millions on people on the verge of starvation.

The latest deaths came amid heightened tension between increasingly powerful Somali Islamists and the fragile government over territorial control. Several bouts of fighting has forced thousands to flee into neighbouring Kenya from the southern region.Humanitarian workers fear that the health of the displaced civilians would be affected since host aid agencies, including the United Nations, have pulled out of the country owing to deteroriating security.Somalia, a nation of about 10 million, has lacked any disaster response mechanism since the country plunged into bloodletting after the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

15 die as typhoon lashes Philippines By PAUL ALEXANDER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 1 minute ago,Oct 30

MANILA, Philippines - A powerful typhoon swept across the northern Philippines on Monday, killing more than 15 people in a barrage of landslides, uprooted trees and flooding.

Cimaron, the second major typhoon to hit the north in as many months, had maximum winds of 109 miles per hour and gusts of up to 130 mph when it came ashore. The storm stalled over the Philippines and was expected to stay in the area until Tuesday afternoon.Five people were reported drowned or killed by falling trees and 15 were injured in the coastal town of Dinapigue in Isabela province. Mayor Renato Candido said 90 percent of the houses were damaged in the town of 5,000 residents.Police in Isabela, about 210 miles northeast of Manila, also reported a 29-year-old farmer drowned when his boat overturned amid strong currents.

Four people drowned in Neuva Vizcaya province, while landslides killed a 4-year-old girl in Bugias, a mountain town in Benguet province, and a 53-year-old man in nearby Kalinga province. The Kalinga landslide injured 11 people, including seven children.
A woman and her 6-year-old son drowned Sunday night in Aurora province when their hut atop a riverbank was swept away by strong currents at the height of the typhoon's fury, said village leader Tito Padua. One man in the province was killed by a falling tree.President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, on a visit to China, called for prayers Sunday as she ordered schools and government work suspended. Domestic flights to the north were canceled.Although Cimaron which means wild ox in the Philippine language did not appear to be drenching the mudslide-prone area as badly as feared, rising rivers made at least five bridges impassable. Officials said
water was released from at least one major dam to prevent overflowing.

The typhoon threatened commemorations for All Saints Day on Wednesday, a public holiday when millions travel to cemeteries to remember their dead, some leaving days in advance for outlying provinces. Officials warned people to cancel trips to threatened areas.Last month, Typhoon Xangsane left 230 people dead and missing as it ripped through Manila and neighboring provinces.

About 20 typhoons and tropical storms lash the country each year.Associated Press writers Teresa Cerojano, Hrvoje Hranjski and Jim Gomez contributed to this report.

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.

Abbas gives Hamas 2 weeks to join gov't (AP)

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he'll replace the Hamas-led government in two weeks if the militant group doesn't agree to govern with his party.The moderate Palestinian president has raised the idea before but promised not to force it on a reluctant Hamas. His new position signaled a willingness to take a stronger stance in an effort to ease Western sanctions designed to force the Islamic group to moderate its militantly anti-Israel ideology.Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said Hamas was unaware of a two-week deadline cited by Abbas. I don't think it is wise of [him] to aggravate this crisis, Barhoum said.

5,000 Egyptian troops deployed near Gaza Strip border following Israeli threat Posted: 29-10-2006 , 07:11 GMT

Up to 5,000 Egyptian troops deployed near the Egypt-Gaza Strip border Saturday following reports of a possible Israeli smart bomb attack on suspected smuggling tunnels, security officials said. According to the AP, troops fanned out across the northern Sinai peninsula, patrolling roads in and out of border towns and setting up checkpoints, an Egyptian interior ministry official said in Cairo. Police were launching raids on suspected hideouts as well, he added. Last week, Israel said it had located 15 tunnels burrowed under the Egypt-Gaza Strip border.Tel Aviv-based newspaper Maariv reported Friday that Israel planned to use precision-guided weapons to destroy the tunnels. But the Egyptian interior ministry official denied the deployment of soldiers was in response to the report.This is considered a security precaution in Sinai, and it does not have anything to do with the latest media reports, he said.(www.albawaba.com)

DANIEL 7:23-24
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.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

UPDATED: 09:12, October 29, 2006
Syria calls for more active EU role in Mideast peace process

Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal on Saturday called on the European Union (EU) to play a more active and influential role in establishing peace in the Middle East, the official SANA news agency reported. During a meeting with a visiting media delegation from Spain, Bilal said the EU was able to play such a role through pressuring Israel to abide by international resolutions and the resume the peace process. He blamed the existing problems in the region on the Israeli occupation of the Arab lands and the invasion of Iraq.

As a former Syrian ambassador to Spain, Bilal also briefed the delegation his country's position on regional issues, especially on Lebanon and Iraq. He described the Syrian-Lebanese relations as fraternal and historical which could not be affected by any factors while praising the role of the Lebanese resistance in confronting continuous Israeli aggressions. As for Iraq, the minister indicated that Syria had tightened security measures and supervision of the joint borders with Iraq despite the absence of cooperation from the other side. For their parts, the delegation said they came to Syria to get acquainted with the political, economic and social life here and would convey these facts to their audience abroad. Source: Xinhua

Oct. 29, 2006, 2:17PM
Iran criticizes U.S.-led nuke exercise
By JIM KRANE Associated Press Writer ,Associated Press

DOHA, Qatar A naval training exercise led by the U.S. and aimed at blocking smuggling of nuclear weapons began Sunday in the Persian Gulf, the first of its kind since North Korea's atomic bomb test and the renewed U.S. drive for sanctions against Iran's nuclear program.Iran called the two-day maneuvers adventurist, but the Foreign Ministry said the Islamic Republic's response would be rational and wise.We are watching their movements very carefully, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in Tehran, adding that the exercises would not improve security in the gulf, through which about 20 percent of the world's oil transits.

The maneuvers were taking place under the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative, which is designed to counter trafficking in weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems and related materials, the U.S. Navy said.Two previous exercises have taken place in this region under the 75-nation initiative, among two dozen held around the world since such maneuvers began in 2003.

It is the first such drill since North Korea exploded a nuclear device Oct. 9. Observers believe the PSI program could be used to halt North Korean weapons traffic in accordance with U.N. sanctions.South Korea, which has balked at joining the initiative, sent an observer delegation to the gulf but declined to participate.

We have not (fully) participated in the PSI because there is a high possibility of armed clashes if the PSI is carried out in waters around the Korean peninsula,South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan told parliament Friday.The exercise comes as the United States seeks support for U.N. sanctions against Iran. On Friday, Iran stepped up its uranium enrichment in defiance of a Security Council demand that for a suspension in such work until Tehran eases suspicions it is trying to develop atomic weapons.

Iran insists its program has peaceful aims, saying it is intended only to produce fuel for nuclear reactors that will be used to generate electricity. The Iranians contend Washington seeks to punish them for opposing U.S. policies.A U.S. Coast Guard cutter is the only American ship among the nine vessels in the Leading Edge exercise. The ships are being commanded at sea from an Italian frigate, said Lt. Cmdr. Charlie Brown, spokesman for the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet.

The exercise was set in the crowded international waters off Bahrain, an island kingdom and U.S. ally that lies across the Persian Gulf about 120 miles from Iranian territorial waters.Brown said the exercise was not openly aimed at any country and would not affect Iranian vessels or ships heading to Iran.Two U.S.-led multinational task forces already intercept and search suspicious ships in the gulf and nearby waters but focus on shipments headed to Iraq, not Iran.But a U.S. State Department official speaking on condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of the topic, said PSI members can halt and board Iran-bound ships if they are suspected of carrying banned shipments.Washington has sought deeper cooperation from its Arab allies in halting nuclear-related shipments to Iran, but many governments are loath to be seen publicly backing the Americans.

Sunday's training scenario focused on surveillance, with teams in 16 countries tracking a ship suspected of carrying outlawed weapons components, Brown said. A tanker from Britain's Royal Navy played the role of the suspicious vessel.On Monday, sailors on eight other ships are expected to stop, board and search the suspect ship, Brown said.Countries taking part are Italy, France, Australia, United States and Britain, with one ship each, and Bahrain with three vessels.Bahrain's participation marks the first time an Arab nation has joined an exercise under the three-year-old PSI.Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, three Arab countries on the gulf, offered a measure of support as observers. Saudi Arabia, the largest of the gulf countries, has not joined them.

AP writer Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.

Globalisation must embrace Greater Mideast,Reuters

The world's failure to bring countries from the Greater Middle East into the global trade system has helped fuel unrest in Arab nations, a former top US diplomat said.The WTO must address the single most destabilising gap in international trade, and that is the Middle East,Charlene Barshefsky, US Trade Representative from 1996 to 2001, told a forum in Beijing.This is the single greatest failure of the global system and is critical to put on the agenda in a real way.The 57 countries in what Barshefsky termed the Greater Middle East including places like former Soviet central Asia made up 10 per cent of the world population but accounted for just one per cent of global trade.Its unemployment rates are double the world average. This is precisely the economic structure, above all when laid into the region's political tension and isolation, that produces rage and violence,Ms Barshefsky said.

The isolation of the Middle East, its reliance on oil alone, the absence of manufacturing trade and investment, its basic failure to develop, is not only the global economy's single greatest failure, it is the greatest risk to world peace.

Though regional heavyweights like Saudi Arabia and Egypt are World Trade Organisation members, countries with large energy resources and populations such as
Iran, Iraq, Algeria and Uzbekistan are not.It is up to the region, first and foremost, to solve its own problems, but their problems are all of our problems, and it is up to the great powers the US, Europe, Japan and China to rectify the situation by bringing these countries in, she said.

Merkel says Germany will not solve EU constitution limbo
30.10.2006 - 09:29 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - German chancellor Angela Merkel has said that her country's EU presidency in the first half of next year will not solve the problem of the shelved EU constitution, following discussions on the charter with Dutch leader Jan Peter Balkenende. Ms Merkel on a visit to The Hague on Friday (27 October) made some of her most downbeat statements so far on Berlin's chances of reviving the EU constitution.The German presidency will certainly not solve this problem, she said after talks with Mr Balkenende whose country rejected the charter in a popular referendum last year. German-Dutch ties over the issue are seen as problematic with Ms Merkel having frequently vowed to save as much of the existing text of the constitution as possible despite the Dutch no.

But after her meeting with Mr Balkenende, Ms Merkel highlighted the consensus between the two countries on the need for reform of the current EU treaty, while avoiding to call the EU constitution by name.I believe we find ourselves together here, because we agree that the Nice Treaty is not sufficient, that we need something that shows our further European commitment, she said. A quick-fix solution to the constitutional deadlock would be hard to find given the French and Dutch no votes, she explained. We had better not make too many prognoses given the situation in Europe at the moment, also considering the failed referenda in France and the Netherlands we better work a bit more intensively behind the scenes. But this problem will drag on for a while and will not be solved during the German presidency.

The comments suggest that Ms Merkel views the failed referenda in France and the Netherlands as a major political problem, despite officials in The Hague previously blaming her for not fully understanding the true impact of the two no votes.

When Ms Merkel took office in November last year, she vowed to push the adoption of the constitution as a whole, saying that the French and Dutch no votes should by no means lead to the idea of the constitution being given up.EU leaders in June tasked the German presidency, kicking off next January, to design a roadmap to overcome the constitutional stalemate which should lead to a consensus on a new EU treaty under the French presidency in the second half of 2008. Mr Balkenende, meanwhile, is in the midst of an election campaign with the latest polls suggesting he might win the 22 November elections.I believe we should draw lessons from the referendum, he said after the talks with Ms Merkel. Whatever the result of next month's elections will be there are several lessons one can draw. People want to be sure that we don't try and make a superstate out of Europe. People want to participate more in Europe. They want improved transparency, and they want to be good at areas which are of real importance, such as energy, security, environment and immigration.These are the points of departure in the discussion about the revision of the treaties, he said.

Hard-line party joins Israel’s government
Yisrael Beiteinu party opposes ceding land to Arabs
Updated: 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

JERUSALEM - The Cabinet voted overwhelmingly Monday to bring into the government a hawkish party that opposes ceding territory to the Palestinians and wants to redraw Israel’s borders to exclude many Israeli Arabs.The vote, which still needs parliamentary approval, gives Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s coalition a commanding majority in parliament. But the inclusion of the hard-line Yisrael Beiteinu party likely puts an end to Olmert’s election campaign promise to pull out of much of the West Bank.

Weakened badly by last summer’s war in Lebanon, Olmert agreed last week to bring in Yisrael Beiteinu to shore up his shaky coalition. The party’s blunt-talking leader, Avigdor Lieberman, will be deputy prime minister in charge of strategic threats, primarily how to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

The ministers voted 22-1 to accept Yisrael Beiteinu into the government.

In a final stamp of approval, the full parliament was expected to follow suit in a vote later in the day.With Yisrael Beiteinu’s 11 lawmakers on board, Olmert is expanding his parliamentary majority to 78 of 120 seats, bringing some much-needed stability to a coalition riven by infighting after the Lebanon war.Important that we act.However, Olmert appears to have little interest in reviving his West Bank withdrawal plan, which was put on hold after the Lebanon war, and does not appear close to reviving long-stalled peace efforts with the Palestinians.Olmert said Monday that Lieberman’s presence in the government would not result in any policy changes.

I think it is important that we act in the diplomatic arena, he told lawmakers in his Kadima party.This includes the Palestinian issue first and foremost.Israel has boycotted the Palestinian Authority since Hamas militants won legislative elections early this year and formed a Cabinet. Olmert has expressed willingness to talk to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a moderate rival of Hamas, but the two sides have been unable to agree on even a limited agenda.

Olmert also said the government will focus on keeping the peace with Lebanon after last summer’s monthlong war against Hezbollah guerrillas and blocking Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Israel accuses Iran of trying to develop a nuclear bomb. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.Lieberman, 48, became a national figure a decade ago as a top aide to then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A powerful behind-the-scenes mover, he became widely feared for his strong-arm tactics.He has grown into a potent political force since then, thanks to the support of Israel’s large community of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Lieberman, a former bar bouncer, immigrated to Israel from the Soviet republic of Moldova in 1978.

Absence of a political process

His comments about Arabs have made him a divisive figure.At the height of fighting against Palestinians in 2002, Lieberman, then a Cabinet minister, called for the bombing of Palestinian gas stations, banks and commercial centers.More recently, he called for trading Israeli Arab towns for West Bank settlements in effect stripping Israeli Arabs of citizenship and executing Israeli Arab lawmakers who met with leaders of the Palestinians’ Hamas rulers, who are sworn to Israel’s destruction.His comments have drawn accusations of racism.Israel’s No. 1 fascist has been upgraded to deputy prime minister and minister, said Ahmed Tibi, an Arab Israeli lawmaker. He said Lieberman’s appointment was a message to the entire Arab world that this government advocates rejectionism and the absence of a political process.Despite earlier misgivings about Lieberman, Olmert’s main coalition partner, the centrist Labor Party, decided Sunday to remain in the government, concluding it could serve as a counterweight to Lieberman more effectively inside the government than from the opposition.Labor Cabinet minister Ophir Pines-Paz was the lone dissenter in onday’s vote.Associated Press.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:20,30
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.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES

NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Defiant Iran Scents World Split On Nuclear Issue
by Staff Writers (Space War)

Tehran (AFP) Oct 29, 2006 Iran Sunday remained defiant over its nuclear programme despite the threat of sanctions, saying it was detecting splits between world powers on whether to punish Tehran for intensifying atomic work. With world powers locked in talks in New York over a draft resolution that would impose sanctions over Iran's failure to halt uranium enrichment, Tehran has defiantly expanded work on the process at a key nuclear plant.But Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini did not appear concerned that sanctions were imminent, saying there was a split between the stances of China and Russia on one hand and Europe and the US on the other.Splits between the parties are very visible, that is to say between the United States and the Europeans on one side and Russia and China on the other, foreign ministry spokesman told reporters.These two countries have completely different positions to the Europeans. Russia does not want sanctions and does not want to close the path of negotiations, and the Chinese have a similar position, he added.

The United Nations Security Council's five veto-wielding members Britain, China, France, Russia and the US as well as Germany have been discussing a draft resolution on sanctions put forward by European countries.But in a sign of the difficulty in reaching an agreement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected the proposed sanctions, arguing that they did not advance objectives agreed on by the six world powers.The Chinese stance has yet to become clear, although Beijing like Moscow is an economic ally of Iran and traditionally reluctant to use sanctions as diplomatic leverage.Hosseini meanwhile played down Iran's move to start enriching uranium from a second cascade of 164 centrifuges at its nuclear plant at Natanz in the centre of the country, a decision greeted with suspicion by the West.

The second cascade is part of the research activities of the country which are in line with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,he said.There is nothing new. It is the continuation of legal activities under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and there is no deviation, Hosseini added.Iran vehemently rejects US allegations that its nuclear programme is aimed at making nuclear weapons, saying the drive is solely aimed at providing energy for civilians.

Enriched uranium lies at the centre of the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme, as it can be used both to make nuclear fuel and, in highly refined form, the core of a nuclear bomb.Iran would need thousands more such centrifuges to enrich uranium on an industrial scale and its current uranium enrichment work is on a research level only.Officials have said that uranium was successfully enriched from the second cascade of centrifuges to a level of 3-5 percent and has now been put into storage.

To make a nuclear bomb, the uranium needs to be enriched to around 90 percent, far above the level needed for nuclear fuel.

The text drafted by Britain, France and Germany in consultations with Washington calls on UN member states to slap ballistic missile-related and nuclear sanctions on Iran.It provides for a freeze of assets related to Iran's nuclear and missile programmes and travel bans on scientists involved.

Iran lauds Russia, China for opening nuclear splits

Tehran (AFP) Oct 29 - Iran on Sunday applauded China and Russia for their stance on its nuclear programme, saying they had created a gaping split with Europe and the US over the imposition of UN sanctions against Tehran.

Splits between the parties are very visible, that is to say between the United States and the Europeans on one side and Russia and China on the other, foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters.These two countries have completely different positions to the Europeans. Russia does not want sanctions and does not want to close the path of negotiations, and the Chinese have a similar position, he added.The United Nations Security Council's five veto-wielding members Britain, China, France, Russia and the US as well as Germany have been discussing a draft resolution on sanctions put forward by European countries.

But in a sign of the difficulty in reaching an agreement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected the proposed sanctions, arguing that they did not advance objectives agreed on by the six world powers.The Chinese stance has yet to become clear, although Beijing like Moscow is an economic ally of Iran and traditionally reluctant to use sanctions as diplomatic leverage.

Hosseini meanwhile played down Iran's decision to start enriching uranium from a second cascade of 164 centrifuges at its nuclear plant at Natanz in the centre of the country, a move greeted with suspicion by the West.The second cascade is part of the research activities of the country which are in line with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, he said.There is nothing new. It is the continuation of legal activities under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and there is no deviation, Hosseini added.Iran vehemently rejects US allegations that its nuclear programme is aimed at making nuclear weapons, saying the drive is solely aimed at providing energy for civilians.

Major powers set for hard bargaining on Iran sanctions

Six major powers were set next week to resume what is expected to be tough and drawn-out bargaining on proposed sanctions against Iran which pressed ahead with uranium enrichment work in defiance of UN resolutions.Envoys from the UN Security Council's five veto-wielding members Britain, China, France, Russia and the US and Germany held a first private meeting Thursday on a draft resolution urging nuclear and missile-related sanctions against Tehran over its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear fuel work.US Ambassador John Bolton said the six would resume deliberations, probably Monday, for a chance to talk about specifics.The text drafted by Britain, France and Germany in consultations with Washington calls on UN member states to slap nuclear and ballistic missile-related sanctions on Iran. It provides for a freeze of assets related to Iran's nuclear and missile programs and travel bans on scientists involved in those programs.

According to some diplomats, the US had pressed for a tougher draft resolution, including a call for an end to Moscow's help building Iran's Bushehr nuclear power station.But the draft put forward by the European trio specifically exempts Russian aid to Bushehr from the proposed sanctions.While one Western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was optimistic that the major powers would eventually be able to find common ground, others said agreement on an acceptable text was likely to take weeks.China and Russia, which have significant economic interests in Iran, are reluctant to slap tough measures on Tehran.

In a sign that tough negotiations lie ahead, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected the proposed sanctions, arguing that they do not advance objectives agreed earlier by the six powers.In Tehran, Iran confirmed Saturday it had successfully enriched uranium from a new cascade at a nuclear plant, hailing the move as a step towards industrial-scale enrichment.Enrichment, carried out in lines of centrifuges called cascades, is used to make fuel for civilian nuclear reactors. In highly refined form, however, the product can also serve as the raw material for atomic weapons.

The Iranian announcement triggered strong reactions from the United States and France.US President George W. Bush said Friday that the world community needed to work harder to stop Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and French President Jacques Chirac said the time may have come for sanctions.Bush said the idea of a nuclear-armed Iran was unacceptable while Chirac, on an official visit to China, said Friday that Iran should face sanctions if a solution cannot be found through dialogue.However Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said he was unfazed by reports that Iran has taken a new step in uranium enrichment, saying it was still a long way from building a military capability.I do not share these fears. Iran has started a second cascade of centrifuges under total control of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) for scientific purposes, he told journalists.

It is premature to speak of weapons-grade uranium,he said, underlining the need for Iran's nuclear work to take place under IAEA supervision.

Western countries suspect that Iran's enrichment program is designed to supply material for a nuclear weapon, while Tehran insists its fuel processing is for peaceful purposes.Meanwhile the State department said Friday that Australia,Bahrain, Britain, France, Italy and the United States would Monday take part in naval maneuvers in the Gulf off Iran's west coast to simulate inspection of ships carrying illicit weapons-related materials.However, a US official insisted that the joint maneuvers were planned months ago and not timed with the new pressure on Iran over its nuclear program.Source: Agence France-Presse

Warming could bring 1930s havoc
POSTED: 1033 GMT (1833 HKT), October 30, 2006

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Britain wants tighter limits on greenhouse gases by Europe and other rich countries as a first step toward establishing a global carbon trading system to help reduce the cost of climate change.The main argument of a British report published on Monday is that the benefits of determined worldwide steps to tackle global warming will massively outweigh the costs.

But the report's author, former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern, concludes that ignoring climate change could lead to economic upheaval on the scale of the 1930s depression.British Prime Minister Tony Blair described the findings as a wake up call to every country in the world.

The report is clear: We are heading towards catastrophic tipping points in our climate unless we act, Blair wrote in an article for the Sun newspaper. Creating cleaner energy whilst using less has to be the key.Finance minister Gordon Brown will argue at the launch of the report that harnessing the power of markets is the best way to find new methods to curb the output of polluting gases, Treasury officials said.Sharing a platform with Blair and Stern, Brown will propose a new EU-wide target for emissions reductions of 30 percent by 2020 and 60 percent by 2050 and expansion of the carbon trading scheme to cover more than 50 percent of emissions.Stern's report sees climate change as a global challenge that demands a global solution. The truth is we must tackle climate change internationally or we will not tackle it at all, Brown will say.Brown wants the EU scheme which sets overall limits for carbon emissions but then allows businesses to trade their quotas to be linked with Australia, California, Japan, Norway and Switzerland with a view to setting a global price for carbon that fixes a clear cost for pollution.

Gore role

Brown will also announce on Monday that former U.S. Vice President Al Gore who created a stir this year with his climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, will become an adviser to him on environmental issues, Treasury officials said.Stern said that, on current trends, average global temperatures will rise by 2-3 degrees centigrade within the next 50 years or so, compared with temperatures in 1750-1850.If emissions continue to grow, the earth could warm by several more degrees, with severe consequences. Poor countries would be hit most as melting glaciers initially increase flood risk and then reduce water supplies eventually threatening one-sixth of the world's population.U.S. President George W. Bush pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol which obliges 35 rich nations to cut carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars in part because he said it hit jobs.

But the Stern report estimates stabilizing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will cost about 1 percent of annual global output by 2050. Inaction, however, could cut global consumption per person by between five and 20 percent.Our actions over the coming few decades could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, later in this century and in the next, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century, the report says.

It precedes U.N. climate talks, starting in Nairobi on Nov. 6, focusing on finding a successor to Kyoto which ends in 2012.Britain is pushing for a post-Kyoto framework that would include the United States the world's biggest producer of greenhouse gases that cause climate change as well as major developing countries such as China and India.Brown will also set out proposals to back the development of bio-fuels and signal the government's commitment to give statutory backing to reduction targets through a new bill.