VOTE REPUBLICANS AMERICA

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Heavy rains cause floods in Portugal, disrupt rail and road travel. 3-MY VOTE IS REPUBLICAN. 4-Pope Benedict says he's very worried about worsening situation in Gaza . 5-Germany's power cut marches across Europe. 6-PLO head in Boulder to discuss Mideast. 7-European Union shows strain at the seams.

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.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Mon Nov 6 10:00 AM EDT

NOV 06,2006
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.6 PORTLAND URBAN AREA, OREGON
MAP 4.7 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.2 MYANMAR
MAP 2.7 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

NOV 05,2006
MAP 2.5 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 TYRRHENIAN SEA
MAP 2.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.8 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 4.8 AZORES ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 WESTERN INDIAN-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
MAP 3.1 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.5 JAVA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.6 EL SALVADOR
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.3 ALASKA PENINSULA

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.

Heavy rains cause floods in Portugal, disrupt rail and road travel 2 hours, 39 minutes ago

LISBON (AFP) - Heavy rains have caused localized flooding in central and southern Portugal that damaged several homes, killed livestock, cut roads and disrupted rail travel.There were no reports of injuries but nine people had to be removed from their homes near the southern town of Odemira when the Mira River overflowed, Odemira firefighting commander Nazario Viana told the Lusa news agency on Monday.An undetermined number of sheep and other farm animals drowned in the floodwaters which also submerged the railway station in the nearby town of Saboia, he added.Rail travel between Lisbon and Faro, the capital of Portugal's southernmost province of Algarve, was interrupted because parts of the track were flooded, said railway management firm Refer spokesman Rui Reis.

The rail line linking Lisbon to the north of the country, which closed on Sunday near the central town of Caxarias due to flooding, reopened on Monday but trains could only travel in the area at speeds of 10 kilometres (six miles) an hour, he added.Several roads were cut in the Algarve, one of Europe's top tourist destinations, and the province of Alentejo, local officials said.The national
weather office predicts the heavy rains will continue to fall until Tuesday.Two of Portugal's 18 districts were placed on orange alert, the second-highest in a scale that goes from green, the lowest, to red, the highest, while 11 others were put on yellow alert, the third-highest alert.

MY VOTE IS REPUBLICAN

Even though 2 Republicans have fallin to Homosexuality, Foley and the Pastor, we can't let this hurt the Republicans. We must get behind the Republicans and vote them in. If the lukewarm Democrats and Liberals win, America will be in deep....Deeep trouble. If the GODLESS get the upper hand AMERICA and ISRAEL will be in big trouble. VOTE REPUBLICAN AMERICA, we need a chance to keep on Gods good side, If Democrats win, Judgements will come upon America. PLEASE I BEG YOU AMERICA VOTE
REPUBLICAN, NOT DEMOCRATS.

We have our Elections in Canada here in a weeks time November 13,2006, my VOTE here will be for a Christian leader. One is running from my former Church I will be VOTING for Brent Jeffries. We must get some local Christians leaders here in our City also.

CANADA VOTE CONSERVATIVES ON NOVEMBER 13, forget about lukewarm Liberals, Democrates,Greens or who ever is up against the conservatives. We need Christians in Governments around the world to get GOD back in state and Government. Forget about separation of Church and state, we need GODLY LEADERS in Government, so GOD can be uplifted again. THANKS MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT AMERICA AND CANADA,VOTE REPUBLICAN IN AMERICA AND CONSERVATIVE IN CANADA.

Pope Benedict says he's very worried about worsening situation in Gaza

VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict says he's very worried about the grave deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip and is calling on all sides to work to stop the bloodshed.The pope urged the faithful at St. Peter's today to join him in praying for God to illuminate Israeli and Palestinian officials, and the leaders of other nations who he says have a special responsibility to the region. And he expressed what he described as his closeness to the civilian population suffering from acts of violence.Israel moved into the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun (bayt ha-NOON) last week to try to halt rocket fire on southern Israeli towns. Palestinian officials say at least 45 Palestinians have been killed.Associated Press.

REVELATION 16:10-11
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

Germany's power cut marches across Europe
David Crossland, Berlin .November 07, 2006

A FAULT in the German power grid plunged millions of people into darkness across Western Europe and provided areminder of the fragility of the continent's energy supply as it heads into winter.The power cut was believed to have been caused by technical problems with German power lines, which led to achain reaction of energy shortfalls across Europe. The failure occurred just after 10pm on Saturday, local time, and lasted for up to 90 minutes in some areas, halting trains and affecting households from northern Germany to Morocco.German company E.ON, one of the biggest utility groups in Europe, said the problem may have arisen when it switched off a power line over the river Ems, in the north of the country, to allow a large ship to pass underneath safely.

A 380,000-volt line was turned off to let the Norwegian Pearl, a newly built cruise ship, pass on its way from the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg to the North Sea. The loss of power may have overstretched other power lines. Such switch-offs have been undertaken repeatedly in the past without any problems, E.ON said in a statement. It is still unclear where and how the acute fault occurred half an hour after the switch-off. E.ON is working flat out to obtain a detailed analysis.

Germany Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said the blackout showed that power companies urgently needed to expand their network capacity and replace old lines. They need to invest their profits in the electricity network, he said. We need effective networks in the European power market.

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said the blackout indicated that Europe needed its own electricity supervisory authority.My first impression is that there is a contradiction between having European (power) links and not having one European (power) authority, Mr Prodi said. We depend on each other with being able to help each other, without a central authority.

The power cut swept through large parts of western Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Austria, The Netherlands and Croatia. About 100 trains in Germany were brought to a standstill, causing nationwide delays. In France, five million people were affected in the country's biggest blackout in 30 years, according to a spokesman for the CGT trade union. Regions in the north of the country were affected, as were districts of Paris and Lyon. Firefighters in Paris responded to nearly 40 calls from people stuck in lifts.

More than 100,000 people were affected in Italy, mainly in Turin.

We have a combined European grid, so a power failure can indeed have far-reaching consequences in several countries,said Theo Horstmann, a spokesman for RWE Rhein-Ruhr, the German regional energy provider. Pierre Bornard, a management board member of French power supplier RTE, said the sudden loss of power in Germany had thrown the power grid in Europe out of balance and caused computer systems to switch off power for some customers to prevent a complete blackout. He described it as a house of cards phenomenon.The Times

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

A 10 year hudna — or a 10-year cease-fire is what arabs or muslims make with an enemy when the enemy has the upper hand, but as soon as the muslims or Arabs can take advantage of the situation, they instantly break the contract and try to totally destroy the enemy. So a Hudna is a temporary peace because the Enemy is to strong at the time. Oh I forgot the Muslims can lie also if the enemy has the upper hand, so don't ever make a 10 yr contract with the Muslim world.

Maybe this is why the future contract is 7 years, the Muslims will still break it in the future, being 7 or 10 years, but the one that counts has to be a 7 yr contract of Peace between Arabs - Jews and many to fulfill Daniel 9:27. If its a 10 yr contract it will not fulfill Prophecy.

Publish Date: 11/5/2006
PLO head in Boulder to discuss Mideast
By Katherine Michalske ,The Daily Times-Call

BOULDER — While tailgate parties for the University of Colorado at Boulder football game were in full swing Saturday morning, a group of people gathered to learn about a much graver topic than the Buffaloes losing streak.Afif Safieh, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) mission to the United States, spoke about the conflict between Israel and Palestine in the Glenn Miller Ballroom on the Boulder campus.Our cry for freedom out of captivity and bondage should be heard in America, Safieh said.

The Christian Palestinian has worked as ambassador to the U.K. and the Vatican. Although the U.S. does not officially recognize Palestine, Safieh acts as the equivalent of an ambassador. Safieh spoke at four locations in Boulder and Denver over the weekend, spreading his message on behalf of the Palestinian people.I believe from Israel, we will not have a proposal that is minimally acceptable to us. We need that third party intervention, Safieh said, invoking America to step in and begin an externally engineered peace process.I’m not inviting America to sacrifice its traditional friend Israel. We’re offering you an additional one Palestine, Safieh said.

Although Safieh didn’t have time to discuss the complete history of the conflict during his 40 minutes at the podium, he touched on Hamas’ rise to power.I do not belong to the theoretical consensus that the election of Hamas was a blow to the peace process. What peace process? Safieh said.Hamas’ election should have served as a wake-up call to the rest of the world that the current system is not working, he said.Although Ahmed Yousef, a senior Hamas adviser to P.A. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, recently offered Israelis a hudna or a 10-year cease-fire, Hamas is still considered a terrorist organization by many in the international community for condoning violence.We have two courses of action. We either trigger a credible peace process and try to engage the majority from Hamas to join in, or we rob them of their victory, Safieh said.

Safieh received nods of approval from the audience when he advocated a collective non-violent strategy to work with the key players in the conflict.While the audience was full of supporters and people with direct ties to Palestine, members of the Jewish community also came to hear what Safieh had to say.We hear from our parents and our friends about the conflict, but we’ve never heard the Palestinian side, said Preston Alexander, a member of the Boulder chapter of the Jewish fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu.Although he came for another perspective, Alexander said he left the speech somewhat unsatisfied.He didn’t speak about how much Israel has to sacrifice to make Palestine happy and feel like they’ve been treated justly, Alexander said.

The topics Safieh did speak on moved other audience members deeply.He is what modern Palestinians are represented by. He is a voice of soberness, he is a voice of moderation, and he is a voice of peace, said Ziad Mughrabi, a Palestinian-born research consultant in Boulder.Whether the public agreed or disagreed with him, the point of his visit was to open a dialogue and spread awareness, said Carolyn Brinski of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.I think there’s a lack of dialogue on the issue.

We’re trying to increase people’s awareness on what can be done, said Julia Blechar, also with the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center. The center collaborated with the Colorado Arab Network, Colorado Jews for a Just Peace and KGNU radio to organize and sponsor the event.In order for something to change, people have to be inspired to contact their elected representatives, said Blechar.Safieh will speak today at 3 p.m. at the University of Denver and at 5:30 p.m. at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver.

Katherine Michalske can be contacted at 303-684-5336 or tcnewsintern1 @times-call.com.

European Union shows strain at the seams
By Andrew Borowiec,THE WASHINGTON TIMES,November 5, 2006

NICOSIA, Cyprus Confusion and disappointment are rising across the European Union amid the Continent's lack of a common foreign policy and a growing clash of national ambitions.

The planned admission of Bulgaria and Romania in January to the present 25-member union apparently has stretched the EU's ability to integrate. In addition to the chasm between rich and poor members and unfettered emigration from post-communist Eastern Europe, there is a significant challenge to Turkey's pending membership application. We now have to say who is a European and who is not, said Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading French presidential hopeful.

Leaving this question unanswered is no longer possible.

We need to draft a new text to put things in order, added Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, considered by many to be a euroskeptic despite the millions of dollars his county has received from the European Union. The emergence of potentially
destabilizing problems has shaken the EU leadership, which so far lacks answers. Incongruously, the political class in the old member countries is frequently out of sync with the feelings of their electorates.

Euro awareness

A typical example is Turkey's EU membership application, generally supported by most governments but, according to opinion polls, opposed by its electorate. Such a situation affects particularly the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, an EU member since 2004.This is a time of a euro awareness on the divided island before Cyprus converts its currency to the euro, a decision many residents fear will increase the cost of living. The equivalent of Cyprus pounds in euros has already appeared on telephone and supermarket bills. Although Cyprus is 500 miles from the European continent, compared to 150 miles from Syria and 60 miles from Turkey, it is now officially a part of Europe. It counts on Europe for help with its main problem: the split between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, and the presence of the Turkish army in the north of the island.

This Cyprus problem is compounding the European Union's difficulties, with the bloc likely to freeze its accession negotiations with Turkey because it refuses to recognize the Greek Cypriot government and bars Greek Cypriot ships and aircraft from Turkish harbors and airports. Some eurocrats in Brussels, the EU capital, now feel that admitting a divided country such as Cyprus was a serious mistake. The Cyprus problem is the last thing Europe needs, they say.Turkey warned Turkey's opposition to Cyprus and the slow and inadequate pace of Turkish reforms prompted Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, to warn of a possible traumatic stop in current accession talks.

Things are going badly, Mr. Barroso said. The reforms in Turkey are proceeding very slowly and today I don't see the progress I had hoped for.Turkey's candidacy is only one of the divisive problems faced by the European Union, where eight of the latest 10 members are still recovering from years of communist mismanagement and political oppression. At the same time, the European Union's largest former communist countries are plagued by political difficulties blamed variously on transition fatigue and lack of concrete economic guidelines, or on a revival of obstructive nationalism. Bowing to opponents of further expansion, Mr. Barroso has announced that the accession of two Balkan countries Bulgaria and Romania will be the last stage of enlargement. We are not in a position to integrate Europe without further institutional reform. There are limits to our absorption capacity.He did not say how this would affect Turkey's long-standing membership application.

Inner blocs emerge

Meanwhile, the emergence of inner blocs within the EU has created concern in both its eastern and western parts, confirming the bloc's divisions, which some of its founders now consider to be unwieldy.

The periodic summit meetings between France and Germany, and particularly their efforts to forge a special relationship with Russia, are regarded in Britain as undermining the Continent's hoped for common foreign policy. East of the former Iron Curtain, Poland and the Czech Republic see the specter of an unholy alliance, possibly at their expense. By this autumn it was generally felt in Europe that Russian President Vladimir Putin was playing Europe off against the United States, using Germany as a strategic partner. German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to be receptive, despite her electoral campaign promise that Germany would not deal over Poland's head.

Officialdom in Brussels and in several Western governments had feared a strong and united stand from the east against the European Union's comfortable relationship with Moscow.

Little has happened as the eight former communist countries seem incapable of consensus and found it easier to concentrate on internal problems and regional quarrels. Even the so-called Vishegrad group consisting of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has turned out to be somnolent despite a promising start.

Focus on local woes

Remarked Peter Balazsan, an analyst at the Central European University in Hungary: The governments have no capacity to deal with foreign policy issues. They are obsessed with their domestic problems. And these domestic problems are becoming less and less comfortable to deal with after the achievement of such great goals as membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union.Political disarray has set in, particularly affecting the most populous eastern members. In Slovakia, ruled by a coalition that includes ultranationalists, pressure is growing to limit the rights of the Hungarian minority of about 600,000.

Hungary was recently shaken by riots after the disclosure of lies on the economic situation by Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, during which police were accused of unprecedented brutality.

The Czech Republic has been struggling for several months without an effective government, although the country's democratic basis does not appear to have been damaged. Still, according to one assessment from Prague: The romance appears to be over.

Now politics is more professional, and that means corruption and the dirty side of politics too. In Poland, with 39 million inhabitants the most populous of the new members, problems have increased since the creation of a ruling coalition that includes the extreme nationalist Self-Defense League, led by Andrzej Lepper, a former communist.

Poles may alienate

Some analysts feel that with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of President Lech Kaczynski, as prime minister, and with Mr. Lepper's strong nationalism, Poland is likely to alienate its European partners.

Poland will become a more extreme, a more anti-European and a more xenophobic country, said Bronislaw Komorowski of the opposition Civic Platform party. Indeed, observers note signs such as the resignation from the Solidarity union of Lech Walesa, its founder and former champion, because of its support for the regime, and the refusal of the Israeli government to cooperate with Poland's Education Ministry. Disregarding its tarnished international reputation, the Kaczynski government is pursuing a sweeping purge of former communist officials, requiring special certificates from thousands of Poles, including diplomats, judges, journalists and police officers, stipulating that they did not collaborate with the communist regime. The extent of any such collaboration is judged by special commissions.Regarding Poland's economy, the picture is mixed. Although some Western analysts feel that Poland's transition to free enterprise was carried out with a minimum of friction, the Poles themselves tend to be critical.

High unemployment

Poland's unemployment stands at 18 percent of the work force, the highest in the European Union and the main factor responsible for the departure over the past two years of 1.12 million people ,3 percent of the population ,mainly from the ranks of skilled workers. Most of them ended up in Britain, where the presence of an estimated 600,000 Poles, while apparently helping the economy, has put added strain on housing, education and other social services. In addition to the Poles, recent immigrants include Czechs, Slovaks and citizens of the Baltic states.Sociologists worry about the future links of the emigrants with their home countries and the future of their children.For the time being, such considerations have been dwarfed by the economic transition from communist orthodoxy, prompting the Warsaw weekly Polityka to headline: The end of capitalism.The weekly pointed out that although there are 3.5 million private firms (not counting farms) registered in Poland, half of them have not shown any activity, and 60 percent employ only one person.Concluding that the average Pole prefers a government job with guaranteed pay rather than the risks of free enterprise, the weekly declared: The steam has gone out of our capitalist revolution.

Britain limits immigrants

Faced with the approaching EU membership of Bulgaria and Romania, Britain has reacted by imposing quotas on immigrants from the two countries, causing outcries in Sofia and Bucharest. Initially, only three EU countries Britain, Ireland and Sweden opened their doors to unrestricted immigration, while other members favored skilled foreign workers with short contracts. Last week in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, the interior ministers of the six most populous EU countries pledged to cooperate against various forms of crime, including terrorism, human trafficking and illegal migration. The decision by the six, representing 75 percent of the EU population, was seen as setting a rare common agenda for the bloc.