IRAN SHARE NUKE IMFORMATION

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-2 minor earthquakes hit near Coalinga. 3-Earthquake rocks Taiwan. 4-N'west Storm Kills Northwest Struggles to Stay Warm After Storm Leaves More Than 1.5M Without Power, Kills 6. 5-Nine New Zealanders Injured While Fighting Fires in Australia. 6-Temple Israel adds light to Hanukkah,Hourlong celebration focuses on fun for families. 7-Turkey and Israel agree on pipeline project. 8-Iran warns of painful revenge if sanctions imposed. 9-Iran Prez: I'll Share My Nuke Technology. 10-Abbas seeks early vote to end standoff.

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 Dec 18 12:06

DEC 18,2006
MAP 4.5 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 ALASKA PENINSULA

DEC 17,2006
MAP 2.5 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.5 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.8 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.8 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.3 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.7 TONGA
MAP 5.0 TONGA
MAP 5.0 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.6 GUERRERO, MEXICO
MAP 2.8 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

DEC 16,2006
MAP 2.9 NEVADA
MAP 4.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.8 CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.3 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 3.1 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA

2 minor earthquakes hit near Coalinga,The Fresno Bee12/16/06

A minor earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 rumbled near Coalinga on Friday morning.The temblor erupted just before 11:22 a.m., according to the California Integrated Seismic Network. It was located about four miles from Coalinga.Coalinga police Sgt. Chris Simons was in the department's records area when the quake struck. He described it as a real quick jolt.The department received calls from the public after the quake, but Simons said there were no reports of damage or injuries. We got real lucky, he said. It's kind of tough on the dispatchers, but they get through.Another light earthquake was reported at 10:15 p.m. near Coalinga on Friday night.The U.S. Geological Survey reported the 4.3-magnitude quake struck about four miles east and northeast of Coalinga and 11 miles west of Huron. Police officials in both communities said they had no immediate reports of damage.

Earthquake rocks Taiwan Thu Dec 14, 7:48 AM ET

TAIPEI (AFP) - An undersea earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale has rocked Taiwan, seismologists said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The tremor struck at 19:10 pm (1110 GMT) with its epicenter 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) northeast of Ilan on the eastern coast on Thursday. It originated 29 kilometers under the sea.Taiwan, which lies near the junction of two tectonic plates, is regularly shaken by earthquakes. The country's worst, a 7.6-magnitude quake, killed some 2,400 people in September 1999.

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.

N'west Storm Kills Northwest Struggles to Stay Warm After Storm Leaves More Than 1.5M Without Power, Kills 6 DEC 16,2006,By GENE JOHNSON

SEATTLE Dec 16, 2006 (AP)— Residents of the Pacific Northwest struggled to stay warm Saturday after the worst windstorm in more than a decade knocked out power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses and killed at least six people. More than 600,000 customers in Washington and Oregon still had no power Saturday, and utilities said some might have to wait into next week for their lights to go back on. Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire declared a state of emergency, and with temperatures expected to drop over the weekend, officials warned people not to use outdoor grills, propane heaters or other carbon monoxide-producing equipment indoors.Firefighters in Kent found 33 people from four families suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning Friday night, fire Capt. Kyle Ohashi said. They had taken their barbecues inside to cook or heat their apartments as temperatures dipped into the 30s.All were expected to survive after treatment, Ohashi said.

In Oregon, a family of six was sickened by carbon monoxide from a generator set up in a garage in Gresham, police said. Three children were hospitalized in critical condition late Friday, while one child and both parents were listed in good condition. Wind gusted to a record 69 mph early Friday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, breaking the old mark of 65 mph set in 1993. Wind was clocked at 113 mph near Mount Rainier.Power was knocked out at one of the airport's concourses, canceling dozens of flights. Flights were also canceled at Portland International Airport in Oregon, and Amtrak canceled service between Seattle and Portland because downed trees and mudslides blocked the tracks. Two people were killed in Washington in traffic accidents involving windblown trees, while one died after getting trapped in her flooded basement. A fourth person was killed in his sleep by a tree that fell on his home. On the Oregon coast, an elderly couple died in a fire caused by candles they were using for light. Puget Sound Energy, Washington's largest private utility, had restored power to about 200,000 customers overnight but 500,000 were still without power Saturday, company spokeswoman Dorothy Bracken said.

It would be several days definitely through the weekend, before everyone was restored, PSE spokeswoman Martha Monfried said. The utility had lost more than half of its transmission system, and crews struggled in the mountains to reach downed lines that carry the electricity from Columbia River dams. More than 60,500 customers of Seattle City Light remained without power Saturday, down from a peak of 175,000, and 15,000 were still blacked out in the Snohomish County Public Utility District north of Seattle. In Oregon, Portland General Electric said it had about 82,000 customers without power Saturday morning, while Pacific Power had said late Friday it was down to 53,000. The storm was the most intense to hit the region since the Inauguration Day storm of Jan. 20, 1993, which killed five people and caused about $130 million in damage, said Clifford F. Mass, a University of Washington atmospheric sciences professor.The Associated Press.

Nine New Zealanders Injured While Fighting Fires in Australia
By Tracy Withers

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Nine New Zealand firefighters are recovering after being caught in a bushfire yesterday in Australia's Victoria state, the Department of Sustainability and Environment said. The nine are part of a contingent of 47 New Zealanders who have joined local crews battling fires in the northeast and eastern regions of the state. Four men were seriously injured and airlifted to Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, the department said in a statement faxed to Bloomberg News. The others were treated locally for minor injuries. About 3,000 firefighters are battling the blazes, which have burned about 600,000 hectares (1.5 million acres) in the state, The fires are located in national parks and state forest areas, some of which have been closed to motorists. The New Zealanders were combating a spot fire away from the main blaze, when the main fire increased in intensity, the department said. The group took evasive action and the nine, who decided they couldn't escape, took shelter in a ditch. The men were experienced firefighters and two had experience with bushfires in the state in 2003, the department said. An investigation will be conducted into the incident, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported on its Web site. To contact the reporter on this story: Tracy Withers in Wellington at twithers@bloomberg.net.

Sat, Dec. 16, 2006
Temple Israel adds light to Hanukkah,Hourlong celebration focuses on fun for families
By Connie Bloom,Beacon Journal staff writer

The rabbi wore a dress, the service was projected in PowerPoint and eBay appeared in the lyrics of the Dreidel Song.The ancient story of Hanukkah unfurled in a decidedly 21st-century celebration at Temple Israel Friday night.I love this holiday so much, Janet Fox said. I love it because it's the Festival of Lights. I love the warmth of the lights, the children singing, the smell of the latkes. My children are big now and I still get excited.The hourlong gathering of about 350 was more of a show than a service, Rabbi David Lipper said.He billed it as a Mishpachapalooza, a Yiddish twist meaning family-palooza.It's a family-friendly show, he said. We'll have some worship, light our menorahs and celebrate the holiday. Our goal is to make it as fun for families as possible.The words to the songs, random photographs and prayers appeared like magic in a colorful screen presentation designed for the kids. ``I have a little dreidel, I made it out of steel, I sold it on eBay, I got an awesome deal, they sang of the traditional children's toy top.

Hanukkah commemorates the victory of the Maccabees, the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple and the miracle of the oil that burned for eight days. It is a celebration of the redemption of a people faced with oppression, Lipper said. The message is of religious freedom.... It's a message of light over darkness.The holiday is customarily observed in Jewish households by lighting a candle at sundown on each of the festival's eight nights.Hanukkah is really a home-centered celebration, not an organized religious celebration, as in other times of the year with special liturgy, Lipper said. So much of what happens at Hanukkah happens in the home.Since the holiday fell on the Sabbath, families flocked to the temple and two sets of candles were lighted.Tonight is out of the box, Lipper said. He dressed as Judah Maccabee and rented his costume from Mr. Fun to tell one of three stories in the program.

It's a tan dress, an Arab dress from biblical times.... The story I'm telling is a true story that comes from the Holocaust.... It's a message of hope.Meanwhile, a feast with latkes -- potato pancakes -- and traditional Jewish delicacies was waiting in the banquet rooms.I never compared Hanukkah to Christmas, Fox said, yet they embody the same joyful happy feelings.You can reach Connie Bloom at 330-996-3568 or cbloom@ thebeaconjournal.com.

Turkey and Israel agree on pipeline project
Seen linking Black and Red seas to route energy exports from Russia and the Caspian basin to markets across Asia Dec. 16, 2006. 01:00 AM,ORHAN COSKUN,REUTERS NEWS AGENCY

ANKARA—Turkey and Israel have agreed to build a pipeline linking the Black and Red seas, Turkey's energy minister said yesterday, in a move that will boost the Jewish state's energy security and Turkey's role as an energy hub.The pipeline will transport oil, natural gas, electricity and water, Hilmi Guler, told reporters.Turkey, a candidate for European Union membership, aspires to become a hub for energy exports from Russia and the Caspian basin to markets in Europe and beyond.Turkey is also one of the few Muslim countries to foster strong trade and security ties with the Jewish state.Guler gave no price for the project but said Turkey was in talks with Russia and other countries on participation in it.The project's feasibility study will be completed in six months and then implementation will begin, Guler said.

The pipeline is an extension of a 550-kilometre line that will link Turkey's Black Sea port of Samsun and Ceyhan on its Mediterranean coast. Guler gave no details about the route of the pipeline beyond Ceyhan, but Turkey's Radikal newspaper said it would extend to Israel's Ashkelon, joining up there with an existing pipeline to the Israeli Red Sea port of Eilat.Officials have previously said the pipeline would be undersea, avoiding a land route through Syria and Lebanon.Calling the Black Sea-Red Sea link the project of the century, Radikal said this would allow the long-term export of oil via the Red Sea to Asian markets.It would open up a cheaper export route to Asia for Russia's Urals crude from the Black Sea, which currently has to pass through the costly shipping choke points of the Bosphorous and the Suez Canal on its way to refiners in the east.The pipeline's feasibility will depend on the transit cost and how much crude can be exported east. Jordan and the Palestinian Territories are potential customers for water, Guler said.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

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)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
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.

Iran warns of painful revenge if sanctions imposed Fri Dec 15, 12:51 PM ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) -Iran will exact painful revenge on countries opposed to its nuclear program if the U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions on Tehran, the country's chief nuclear negotiator said on Friday.Imposing sanctions on Iran will not help resolve the issue, Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told reporters.If they want to deprive Iran of its nuclear work they are making a big mistake. If they want to act in a way to decrease our capabilities through sanctions we will be obliged to use painful methods in return, he said without elaborating.Iran has previously said its retaliation against a punitive U.N. resolution could range from reviewing cooperation with the U.N.'s atomic watchdog to restricting its crude oil exports.Iran says its nuclear program will be used only for peaceful ends, such as electricity generation, and not to make bombs. It has refused to obey U.N. Security Council demands that it halt all sensitive nuclear work, such as uranium enrichment.After weeks of talks permanent Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany are close to agreement on a draft U.N. resolution against Iran.

The draft resolution includes a ban on exports or imports of materials and technology related to uranium enrichment as well as ballistic missile weapons delivery systems.Diplomats say Russia, which along with China has blocked U.S. and European efforts to impose tougher sanctions on Iran, still wants some changes to the draft, particularly clauses imposing a travel ban on some Iranian officials.Larijani played down the impact of the sanctions being contemplated by the six world powers.These sanctions include sensitive missile and nuclear equipment which we don't have and we are not after ... This is mainly a psychological war, he said.

Iran Prez: I'll Share My Nuke Technology
TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 16, 2006

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The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to transfer to regional states its valuable experience and achievements in the field of peaceful nuclear technology as a clean energy source and as a replacement for oil.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

(AP) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday during a meeting with top Kuwaiti envoy that Iran is ready to transfer its nuclear technology to neighboring countries, state-run television reported. The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to transfer to regional states its valuable experience and achievements in the field of peaceful nuclear technology as a clean energy source and as a replacement for oil, the state quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Mohammed Zefollah Shirar, a top advisor to Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.The broadcast said Shirer is carrying a written message from the Emir to Ahmadinejad but didn't elaborate on the contents of the message. The television said Ahmadinejad also welcomed a decision by Iran's Arab neighbors to the south to pursue peaceful nuclear technology programs.

Such a technological transfer would be legal as long as it is between signatory-states to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and as long as the International Atomic Energy Agency that monitors the treaty was informed of the transfer. Iran is currently at odds with the United States and its European allies who accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons. Iran insists its nuclear program is aimed solely at the peaceful production of nuclear energy, not bomb. United Nations Sanctions Closer To Resolution Meanwhile, on Friday Britain said that a deal is emerging on a U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, but Russia remains opposed to a European- and U.S.-backed travel ban on senior Iranian officials.

Ambassadors from six key nations drafting the resolution — Britain, France, Germany, the US, Russia and China — reported some progress at the latest round of closed-door talks on Friday. Britain's U.N. Ambassador, Emyr Jones Parry, said he thinks a deal is developing. On all of the elements that were contentious, there is now a way through them. It's a question of consolidating the progress we made this afternoon, he said. He said he expects the resolution to be finalized by Tuesday, but Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said things are not ready yet to put into a final form. We have made some modest progress, but there are some things to be discussed, Churkin said. So we are going back to the capitals and meeting Monday morning.

The latest draft would order all countries to ban the supply of specified materials and technology that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs and impose a travel ban and asset freeze on top figures in the country's nuclear and missile programs. They have been named on a U.N. list. Churkin said earlier this week that Moscow believes the travel ban is unnecessary.
Acting U.S. ambassador Alejandro Wolff said on Friday that the United States is still fighting for a travel ban which he called a top priority.He said the United States also wants the resolution adopted as soon as possible. The six countries offered Iran a package of economic incentives and political rewards in June if it agreed to consider a long-term moratorium on uranium enrichment and commit to a freeze on enrichment before talks on its nuclear programme. But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly and defiantly said his country would continue enrichment and is not intimidated by the possibility of sanctions.

Iran insists its nuclear programme is aimed solely at the peaceful production of nuclear energy, but the United States and Europeans suspect Tehran's ultimate goal is the production of nuclear weapons. With Iran refusing to comply with a Security Council deadline of August 31, 2006, to stop enrichment, Britain and France circulated a draft sanctions resolution in late October.
The draft has been revised to specify in greater detail exactly what materials and technology would be prohibited from being supplied to Iran and to name those individuals and companies that would be affected. The revised draft also removed, to meet Russian and Chinese concerns that the initial resolution was too broad, reference to a nuclear facility being built by the Russians at Bushehr, Iran. The facility, expected to go on line in late 2007, would be Iran's first atomic power plant. The Associated Press.

World News Abbas seeks early vote to end standoff
APAP - DEC 16,2006

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Saturday for elections to end his violent standoff with Hamas a gamble that Palestinians will back him as he seeks to weaken the Islamic militants, avoid civil war and keep momentum for peace overtures with Israel.