IS THAT CASH OR MICROCHIP IMPLANT

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Earthquake shakes Cochrane area. 3-School closings take city by storm. 4-52,000 Residents Still without Power from Winter Storms in Ill., Mo. 5-Violent storms savage France. 6-Long-range Weather Forecast (farmers Almanac). 7-Forest fires cause bedlam in Australia. 8-Hamas-led government wlll not recognize Israel, Haniyeh vows. 9-Bush, Blair Agree Mideast Peace Needs Arab-Israeli Pact. 10-Arab League chief calls for re-launching Mideast peace process. 11-Europeans Limit Scope of Iran Nuclear Resolution. 12-Pakistan successfully test-fires ballistic missile. 13-US Congress passes landmark Indian nuclear deal. 14-Al-Zarqawi said Shiites most dangerous. 15-Ariane sends satellites to orbit. 16-Ebola kills over 5,000 gorillas. 17-Microchip Implants Vs Cash - The Race Is On.

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 = Sun Dec 10 12:02 AM EDT

DEC 10,2006
MAP 2.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.4 STATE OF YAP, FED. STATES OF MICRONESIA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 4.7 FIJI REGION

DEC 09,2006
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.2 OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.7 NORTHWEST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.8 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.4 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 3.1 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.4 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.6 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.3 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
MAP 4.8 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 4.9 OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP 3.5 MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Earthquake shakes Cochrane area
Tb News Source,12/7/2006 7:48:46 PM
Another earthquake shook northern Ontario late Wednesday night.

The quake struck just before midnight and was centred about 60 kilometres northwest of Cochrane. It was primarily felt in the nearby town of Smooth Rock Falls, but people as far as Timmins reported tremors.A similar quake Nov. 29 that shook the Sudbury area is being blamed on mining activity in the region. Experts say while the two temblors were similar, they're not connected.I think it's a matter of coincidence, said Janet Drysdale, a seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada. We normally have earthquakes in both regions regularly, not that often, but they certainly have occurred in the past.Drysdale said both earthquakes measured a little more than four on the Richter scale, happened close to populated areas and were felt by area residents.Drysdale said mining-related earthquakes in the Sudbury area are fairly common, but that last week's incident was a little larger than usual.

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.

School closings take city by storm,Sat, December 9, 2006
By KATE DUBINSKI, LONDON FREE PRESS EDUCATION REPORTER

Finally, city schoolkids caught a break that only their country cousins usually get. London schoolchildren woke up to their first-ever snow day yesterday. Snow days that cancel school are a rite of passage in many rural areas, but rare in cities where kids can often still get to school when rural counterparts are snowed in. But the storm that walloped London yesterday brought a dream come true for city kids the city's first snow day in more than 25 years. We've been urging kids to help their parents shovel the driveway, joked Chris Dennett of the Thames Valley District school board. My son's in Grade 12 and this is his first snow day, said John Boles of the London District Catholic school board.It was the first time the area's school system had shut down on a scheduled school day in more than a decade.

It was also the first board-wide snow day since the public and Catholic school boards in Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford counties merged in the 1990s with their London counterparts to form the region's two massive boards. We think this is the first time since 1978 that the whole system has been shut down, Boles said. It's pretty rare that we shut everything down. It has to be something huge.For many students, young and old, it was the first time in their lives school was cancelled due to snow. But few were complaining, including students at Fanshawe College and the University of Western Ontario, where the first day of exams was nixed due to the tough time students would have getting to campus. The plug was pulled because buses couldn't get around in the city or rural areas, and teachers and other staff faced a tough time getting to work, Dennett said.

City crews said that helped them plow streets quicker, because there was less traffic. Fanshawe cancelled some exams and urged students to monitor its website for updates. At Western, where exams were to start yesterday, about 7,000 students got an extra study day. The campus closed down for only the third time in the last 10 years, with only essential staff called in. Exam -rescheduling updates will be posted on the UWO registrar's website, but officials say today's exams will go ahead as scheduled.

UWO's affiliated colleges, Brescia, Huron and King's, also were shut down. We don't close very often, said Western's David Estok. We're pretty confident that we can be back on for (today).

52,000 Residents Still without Power from Winter Storms in Ill., Mo.
December 9, 2006

High winds overnight and into Thursday increased the number of Ameren Corp. electric utility customers without power in Missouri and Illinois to more than 52,000, the majority of those in Illinois, Ameren spokeswoman Susan Gallagher said. Crews likely would be working into Friday and perhaps Saturday to restore power, she said. The storm plowed through the Midwest late last week, dropping snow and coating the region with ice before carrying the wind and thunderstorms into the Northeast. At least 18 deaths have been blamed on the storm in Illinois and Missouri. The Illinois Commerce Commission announced Wednesday that it had asked staff to develop recommendations for an investigation into Ameren's preparedness and response to the storm. The plan is to be reviewed at the next public meetings of the state's utility regulator, scheduled for Dec. 19-20.

Without prejudging the company's response, we think it's fair to examine the situation and ask the hard questions for the public we serve, commissioner Kevin Wright said in an agency release.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich has declared 49 Illinois counties state disaster areas, helping the Illinois Emergency Management Agency coordinate resources to support local communities with storm recovery efforts. In Missouri, Gov. Matt Blunt is hopeful of getting a presidential declaration of disaster based on damage reported in all 114 counties, said Blunt spokesman Brian Hauswirth. That would free up funds for reimbursement. Calls by Insurance Journal to State Farm to determine the number of Insurance Claims related to the storms in the two states were not returned.Illinois Insurance Department spokesperson, Susan Hofer said it was too early to have claims numbers and suggested consumers go to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to access tips on how to file a claim and protect your property. Associated Press.

Vol XXIX NO. 264 Saturday 9th December 2006
Violent storms savage France

PARIS: Violent storms packing hurricane-force winds lashed France yesterday, leaving one person dead and several injured, cutting power to 300,000 homes and disrupting international flights.The victim, a man in his fifties, was struck dead on a busy high street Paris's central 10th district, when the wind brought a billboard crashing down onto him, police said. Two other people were injured in the accident.At the top of the Eiffel Tower, wind speeds hit 137kmph, prompting Paris City Hall to close down all parks, cemeteries and ice rinks and advise people to stay indoors if possible.At Paris's main international airport Charles de Gaulle a dozen flights, from San Francisco, Bologna, Madrid and Geneva were rerouted to other French airport, Brussels and London.

Most other incoming and outgoing flights suffered 90-minute delays, with traffic returning to normal later in the evening.Fallen trees disrupted high-speed rail traffic between Paris and Nantes on the Atlantic coast, one of the worst hit areas, and a main bridge near Nantes was closed after three trucks were knocked over by the wind.Off the west coast, a Dutch cargo ship listing heavily in the wind lost part of its cargo at sea and had to be escorted towards the nearby port of Brest.Winds of more than 140kmph were recorded along the west coast, where more than 150,000 homes were left without power, as well as in the Massif Central mountain range.Power was cut to another 150,000 households around the country, mostly in the centre and southeast, but had been restored in most places by nightfall, the electricity provider EDF said.Firemen were called out to hundreds of accident scenes across France, caused by falling trees and flying roof tiles, and a young man was seriously injured in the southeastern Rhone region when his car was crushed by a tree.The storm, described as very serious by the weather forecasting agency Meteo France, had swept east towards the Netherlands by evening, with calm returning to most of the country.

Long-range Weather Forecast (farmers Almanac)
Southern Ontario,Annual Weather Summary,November 2006 to October 2007

Detailed 2007 Long-Range Forecast for the Southern Ontario Region Winter will be slightly colder than normal, on average, with below-normal precipitation. The coldest periods will be in early and late December, early and mid- to late January, and early and late February. Snowfall will be slightly above normal in southwest Ontario and slightly below normal in most other areas. The heaviest snowfalls will occur in early and mid-February.April and May will be much warmer than normal from southwest Ontario to Toronto, with unseasonably hot temperatures in early to mid-May.

Temperatures will be near normal elsewhere. Rainfall will be slightly above normal in the west and below normal elsewhere.Summer will be slightly cooler and drier than normal, on average, with the hottest temperatures in mid- August.September and October will be cooler than normal, on average, with precipitation near normal in the east and below normal in the west.

Detailed Forecast for the Next Two Months, Our detailed 2007 Long-Range Forecast covers,November 2006 to October 2007

December 2006
Avg. Temperature: -7°C (2° below avg.)
Precipitation: 20mm (20mm below avg.)
Dec. 1-3: Snow showers
Dec. 4-9: Snow, then sunny, very cold
Dec. 10-19: Snow, then sunny, seasonable
Dec. 20-25: Snow showers, cold
Dec. 26-31: Snow and ice

January 2007
Avg. Temperature: -11°C (2° below avg.)
Precipitation: 35mm (5mm below avg.)
Jan. 1-4: Snow showers, then sunny
Jan. 5-8: Rain and snow showers, mild
Jan. 9-12: Rain to snow, then sunny
Jan. 13-17: Snow, then sunny, cold
Jan. 18-20: Sunny, then rain; mild
Jan. 21-26: Snow, then sunny, very cold
Jan. 27-31: Snow, then sunny, mild

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

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.

Forest fires cause bedlam in Australia
Dec 9, 2006, 4:35 GMT

A blanket of bushfires smoke hundreds of kilometres long hangs as seen from above the Maryborough region in central Victoria, Friday, 08 December 2006. Eighteen fires are currently burning across state forests and the Alpine National Park in the north east and Gippsland region, blackening about 150,000 hectares. EPA/JULIAN SMITH Sydney Smoke from forest fires ravaging Australia's south east corner set off alarms and delayed some flights Saturday at Melbourne airport to start what authorities have billed as a horror weekend because of extreme heat and high winds.

Soldiers have been called up to bolster a mostly volunteer firefighting force of almost 3,000, including a contingent from New Zealand. Smaller fires that have already burned 170,000 hectares of forest began linking up into a monster fire that Victorian Premier Steve Bracks said could exhaust even the massive resources in
place to fight it. This is going to be probably one of the worst fire periods we have seen in Victoria in the history of this state,Bracks said. Probably the only comparable time would go back to 1939, Black Friday, when we saw a similar fire activity go through the alpine area and go through to the coast as well.

The Black Friday fires blackened 2 million hectares of forest and killed 71 people.

Firefighters backed up by water-bombing aircraft are trying to hold off a 150-kilometre fire front that authorities fear could engulf 600,000 hectares of forests and farms in alpine country. With rugged terrain making firefighting very difficult, some residents have left their properties to whatever fate may bring.I think really there is not a lot of point staying, said a Maffra West resident, identified only as Debbie by national broadcaster ABC. I really don't expect the brigade to be able to get up here and defend our property.

Authorities urged those without experience to flee the fire front and those whose properties were in danger to prepare their defences. If people are going to stay and defend, that's fine, but if people are unsure and not prepared, well then, they need to be making that decision now and leaving, fire manager Peter Farrell said. In Woods Point, half the town's 40 residents have left. The rest, along with a similar number of firefighters, have stayed to try to save their houses.

If the fire overruns the Woods Point containment lines, the contingency plan is to shelter in an abandoned gold mine until the fire has passed overhead. The shaft has been fitted with oxygen, food, water and other supplies. Farrell said that dense smoke was making it difficult for pilots to spot the precise location of fires. Visibility is down to a few hundred metres, rendering Water-bombing a hit-and-miss affair.Typically, forest fires rage during the southern hemisphere summer, peaking in December, January and February. Four years ago, seven people were killed, 500 houses razed and 3 million hectares of forest blackened - an area three times the size of Britain. Bushfires cost Australia an average of 77 million Australian dollars (58 million US dollars) a year in damage to property, stock and crops.Global warming means that worse firestorms are in prospect with a longer bushfire season in recent years and conflagrations covering greater areas. dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

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.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

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.

Hamas-led government wlll not recognize Israel, Haniyeh vows
Associated Press DEC 08,2006

TEHRAN, IRAN The Palestinian prime minister vowed that his Hamas-led government will never recognize Israel and will fight for Jerusalem, telling a crowd at an Iranian mosque on Friday that he will resist U.S. pressure to moderate.Ismail Haniyeh's sermon came on the first day of his visit to an increasingly influential ally of the Hamas movement. Iran has given $120 million to the Hamas-led government, which is starved for funds because of a financial blockade by the West.The United States and other Western countries are pressing Hamas, which took over the Palestinian government after winning January elections, to recognize Israel and renounce violence.Haniyeh said he would do no such thing, adopting his hosts label of the world arrogance to refer to the U.S. during his sermon to thousands of Friday prayer worshippers at Tehran University.The world arrogance and Zionists ... want us to recognize the usurpation of the Palestinian lands and stop jihad and resistance and accept the agreements reached with the Zionist enemies in the past, he said.We will never recognize the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihad-like
movement until the liberation of Jerusalem, he said.

Bush, Blair Agree Mideast Peace Needs Arab-Israeli Pact
By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service
Dec 8, 2006 - 3:25:44 PM

Blackanthem Military News, WASHINGTON, D.C. – There has to be peace between Israel and the Palestinians as part of a greater solution in the Middle East, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said during a White House news conference this morning. Blair will soon travel to the region to work on bringing Israel and the Palestinian state forward, he said. Democracy in the Middle East is a threat to insurgents and terrorists in the region, Bush said. One of the reasons why there hasn't been instant success is because radicals and extremists are trying to stop the advance of a Palestinian state, he said. Why? Because democracy is a defeat for them. The U.S. and British goal is to strengthen the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and strengthen the Palestinian Authority's security forces. Now the fundamental question is, can we help the moderates prevail?

Bush said. And make no mistake about it, radicals and extremists will kill in order to stop the progress, and ... that's what's difficult. But it should be a signal to those of us who have got the comfort of liberty to understand the consequences of this ideological struggle we're fighting. One of the consequences is the denial of a Palestinian state, which is ironic, isn't it? I think it is, and it's sad. Before the parties can reach a peaceful resolution, Blair said, those holding Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit must release him. Palestinian militants abducted Shalit through an underground tunnel into Israel on June 25. Two Israeli soldiers were killed and four others wounded in the attack. His captors have since confirmed he is alive. Shalit's safe return would allow Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to release many Palestinian prisoners, Blair said. We are prepared to take the peace process forward and get into a process of negotiation, but we need a government on both sides that is committed to the basic principles of that negotiation. The current Hamas government will not form a national unity government on the Palestinian side. Hamas does not recognize Israel's right to exist, Blair said. That's the difficulty, he said. It's not a kind of technical point. It's absolutely at the heart of it. If all sides take this very basic position, Blair said, you could move this forward quickly. I don't think there's any doubt at all that if you could get an empowered Palestinian government able to negotiate, Israel has made it clear it is prepared to negotiate, he said. I'm not saying there aren't very tricky issues there are things like Jerusalem, the right of return, which are very difficult. But actually, it's not beyond our wit to put it together. We could put it together. But you need to get these initial steps taken.

08:44, December 09, 2006
Arab League chief calls for re-launching Mideast peace process

Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa has called for re-launching the Mideast peace process with a timescale, saying that the Mideast peace process is still moribund, Egypt's MENA news agency reported on Friday.

Moussa made the call at a forum at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies that was also attended by Arab and foreign ambassadors and intellectuals, MENA said. At the occasion, the AL chief noted that the Arab world is passing through a very sensitive stage full of fateful issues and the Arab-Israeli conflict would determine the direction of the Mideast peace process. The U.S. administration still has time to correct its policies in Iraq, in particular, and in the Mideast, in general, Moussa said, while warning of the tense situation in Lebanon Talking on a recent report released by the U.S. bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG), or the Baker-Hamilton commission, Moussa lauded its recommendation for talks with Iran and Syria on the situation in Iraq, asserting that isolating any country would not resolve any problem.

He called for holding an Iraqi national reconciliation conference in Baghdad within four months. On the Palestine issue, Moussa held that there was a chance for forming a national unity government in the territories as the current governing Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) approved establishing a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders while the Israeli side has said that it was ready to accept the Arab peace initiative floated by the Beirut Summit. Source: Xinhua

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.

Europeans Limit Scope of Iran Nuclear Resolution
By WARREN HOGE,December 9, 2006

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 8 Europeans produced a revised draft of a Security Council resolution on Iran on Friday, and said they would formally introduce it on Monday in the hope of obtaining a speedy vote on much-delayed action to curb Tehran’s nuclear program.The text was drawn up after weeks of meetings in European capitals among the three nations drafting the measure, Britain, France and Germany, in consultation with the United States. It is aimed at meeting persistent objections from China and Russia.

The revised language narrows the scope of prohibition and punishment to activities that are clearly associated with making a nuclear weapon. Iran has argued that it is pursuing nuclear power for peaceful purposes, while the United States and the Europeans have contended that Iran’s real purpose is to build bombs.It also removes restrictions in earlier drafts on the construction, supplying and operation of an $800 million light-water reactor that Russia is building at Bushehr in southern Iran.

Iran ignored an Aug. 31 United Nations deadline to suspend uranium enrichment, which can produce fuel for both nuclear plants and weapons. Since then, the United States and the Europeans have been pressing for sanctions, but China and Russia have stalled action, saying broad punishment would be counterproductive.Iran has said that a sanctions resolution would be a threat to its national security. The proposed sanctions still include travel restrictions, an asset freeze and bans on providing nuclear program goods, but in the new text they are now more focused on people and material linked to suspected weapons-building activities.

The new text has two goals, said one European diplomat involved in its preparation. First, to keep it firm I think it is a strong text and at the same time to have the Chinese and Russians on board.A second European diplomat was asked whether the Europeans planned to drive the matter to a vote, even if China and Russia, both veto-bearing permanent members, continued to object or threatened to abstain. The intention and the wish is to remain unified and get this agreed, he said.But it is three months since Iran ignored the deadline, and we are not saying unanimity at any price.

Neither diplomat would speak on the record before the text was officially presented to the members of the Council. In Washington, Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, said that he sensed that the differences over the resolution were starting to narrow.

Pakistan successfully test-fires ballistic missile
www.chinaview.cn 2006-12-09 13:35:27

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Saturday conducted a successful launch of the Short Range Ballistic Missile, the army said.The Hataf-III (Ghaznavi) Missile has a range of 290 km, a statement from the army's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.This was the third launch of a ballistic missile by the Strategic Missile Group (SMG) in as many weeks as part of the training exercises of the Pakistan Army's Strategic Force Command (ASFC), according to the statement.Two other SMGs had earlier conducted successful launches of the Ghauri and Shaheen-I ballistic missiles last month.The launch came at the culmination phase of the training exercise, which validated the operational readiness of the Strategic Missile Group (SMG) equipped with Ghaznavi Missiles, the statement said. Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed and alarge number of senior military officers, scientists and engineers of the strategic organizations witnessed the launch exercise, it added.Editor: Feng Tao

US Congress passes landmark Indian nuclear deal DEC 09,06


WASHINGTON (AFP) The US Congress early Saturday gave its final approval to landmark legislation allowing export of civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India for the first time in 30 years. The US Senate passed the bill by voice vote during an all-night session. The US House of Representatives approved it by a vote of 330-59 late Friday.

Al-Zarqawi said Shiites most dangerous by OMAR SINAN, Associated Press Writer Sat Dec 9, 12:15 AM ET

CAIRO, Egypt - The slain terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi purportedly believed that Iraq's Shiite Muslims were more dangerous than U.S. forces and more evil than dictator Saddam Hussein, according to a posthumous interview published Friday on the Internet. The 33-page interview, conducted sometime before a U.S. fighter bomber killed the former al-Qaida in Iraq leader in June, could not be immediately authenticated. It was posted on a Web site known to be a clearing-house for al-Qaida material.The posting, which comes amid ongoing sectarian violence in Iraq, said the interview had been kept in al-Qaida's archive but did not explain why the terror group had decided to release it six months after his death.In the interview, al-Zarqawi is quoted as saying the leader of Iraq's Shiites, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, is a satan who publicly tells Shiites to stay above the violence but secretly tells them to attack.

Al-Sistani has ordered his followers not to fight the Americans ... and yet they hit Sunnis with assassinations, forcing them to flee their homes and attacking their mosques, said al-Zarqawi, a Sunni from Jordan. For us, the Shiites are far more dangerous than the Americans.The mass graves that Saddam perpetrated, and all his other crimes over the past decades, do not amount to one-tenth of what the Shiites have done in the last three years, al-Zarqawi is quoted as saying.Earlier this week, a bipartisan commission in the United States warned the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating" and recommended fundamentally different U.S. policies to combat the sectarian violence roiling the country.The Iraq Study Group report also concluded that al-Qaida in Iraq is now largely made up of Sunni Arabs. Some 1,300 foreign fighters are believed to support the group or be available to carry out suicide bombings, the study found.

In the interview, Al-Zarqawi condemns the attacks of Iraq's Shiite Muslim militiamen on the country's Sunni Muslim community. Yet it was al-Zarqawi who had fomented Shiite-Sunni strife as the best way to scuttle the U.S. plans to rebuild Iraq as a democratic state after Saddam's overthrow.Al-Zarqawi, whose real name was Ahmad Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh, was responsible for the most vicious of the wave of attacks that occurred in the first years of the Iraqi insurgency. He is believed to have personally beheaded at least two American hostages. The U.S. had put a $25 million bounty on his head, the same amount as for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.In the interview, al-Zarqawi also rails against the leader of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, implicitly accusing Sheik Hassan Nasrallah of being in league with Israel.Al-Zarqawi accuses Nasrallah of being two-faced in his opposition to Israel and suggests it is not an accident that Israeli aircraft have not killed him as they have killed several leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.Hassan Nasrallah sits for hours at a military parade and Israeli aircraft don't bomb him. Who is he kidding?

al-Zarqawi is quoted as saying.

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

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.

Friday, 8 December 2006, 23:59 GMT
Ariane sends satellites to orbit

The Ariane rocket took off from French Guiana The European heavy-lift rocket Ariane 5 has been launched from French Guiana to put two satellites into orbit. One of the satellites, WildBlue, will provide broadband internet access to rural areas of the US and Canada. The second, from telecoms company SES Americom will provide communications to the US and western hemisphere.

The launch, the 30th for the Ariane rocket, was the final one of the year from the European Kourou launch pad off in French Guiana. The rocket launched on schedule at 1908 local time (2208 GMT). The WildBlue satellite was released 27 minutes after take-off, five minutes ahead of the SES American satellite, AMC-18. The Ariane launch was the 174th mission since the European space consortium, Arianespace, was formed in 1980.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Ebola kills over 5,000 gorillas

Scientists fear Ebola and hunting combined could wipe out gorillas.More than 5,000 gorillas may have died in recent outbreaks of the Ebola virus in central Africa, a study says. Scientists warn that, coupled with the commercial hunting of gorillas, it may be enough to push them to extinction. The study, published in the US journal Science, looked at gorilla colonies in Republic of Congo and Gabon. Ebola is also blamed for many chimpanzee deaths. One of the most virulent viruses known, Ebola has killed more than 1,000 people since it was first recorded in 1976. Ebola causes viral haemorrhagic fever - massive internal and external bleeding - which can kill up to 90% of those infected. Scientists are still working on a vaccine and there is no known cure.

Ape-to-ape transmission

The latest study, carried out by an international team, has confirmed previous concerns about how badly the virus is affecting gorillas.

EBOLA

One of the most virulent viral diseases.Damages blood vessels and can cause extensive bleeding, diarrhoea and shock.Killed more than 240 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1995.Transmitted by infected body fluids .Kills up to 90% of victims, depending on the strain.There is no cure.Add commercial hunting to the mix, and we have a recipe for rapid ecological extinction, the report says. Ape species that were abundant and widely distributed a decade ago are rapidly being reduced to remnant populations. The researchers, led by Magdalena Bermejo of the University of Barcelona, focused on western gorillas, one of two gorilla species. The other is the eastern gorilla. In 2002 and 2003, several outbreaks of Ebola flared up in human populations in Gabon and Congo. The researchers found a massive die-off in gorillas in Congo's Lossi Sanctuary between 2002 and 2004.

The Lossi outbreak killed about as many gorillas as survive in the entire eastern gorilla species, the study says. The researchers concluded that the apes were not only infected by other species, such as fruit bats, but were also transmitting the virus among themselves. Ebola was passing from group to group of the endangered animals, they found, and appeared to be spreading faster than in humans. Outbreaks of the disease in humans have sometimes been traced to the bushmeat trade. According to World Health Organization figures, Ebola killed 1,200 people between the first recorded human outbreak in 1976 and 2004.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

Microchip Implants Vs Cash - The Race Is On
Wednesday 6th December 2006

Shoppers could soon pay for goods using a microchip implanted under the skin, according to a report in The Times newspaper recently. Mal FletcherThe idea, says the report, is already catching on with today's iPod generation, with one study showing that one in 10 teenagers and one in 20 adults already willing to have a microchip implanted to pay shop bills and help to prevent identity fraud.

The VIP Baja Beach Club in Barcelona already uses implanted human body chips to identify its exclusive clientele ostensibly because wearing bikinis and shorts leaves nowhere to carry wallets and purses. Members use the chip to gain access and to pay for services. Made by the VeriChip Corporation, the chip is a glass capsule which sits under the skin. It carries a ten-digit personal number that can be linked to a person's bank account. For decades, certain prophets of our time both Christian and secular have warned that we're rapidly moving into a dangerously uncertain, cashless world.

For centuries, cash money ruled the world: a world where most people traded on a local scale and where nation-states could govern their own economies and produce their own currencies. Today's world is very different. International trading pacts drive macro economies and everything is linked to everything else all across the globe. A financial sneeze in one major trading centre can cause whole nations to catch cold on the other side of the world.

To serve this new economic landscape, we've invented digital alternatives to cash.

The first step in the move toward a digital economy was the introduction of the now ubiquitous credit card. The process took a giant leap forward, though, when computer chips were added to those cards. Meanwhile, the mobile phone market offered hungry
companies a hot new way to offer digital cash services. Phones have three great advantages over cards. They have keys; they have transmitters; and they have enough memory and power to handle big processors and software for encryption and accounting. The mobile phone is an amazing banking technology, because it's so convenient for the user. The big new developments in the digital cash world are driven by tools such as Radio Frequency ID tags (RFIDs for short).Each one of these tiny devices is basically a radio barcode. It's smaller than a grain of sand, yet it contains hardware, software, permanent memory, an operating system, and the ability to write and receive data. It transmits over small distances using short bursts of electromagnetic radiation and its built-in power generators could last up to 100 years. (Ed: For more on this, watch Mal Fletcher's interview with futurist Dr. Patrick Dixon).Before we dump cash altogether, we should take a long, deep breath and consider a few facts.

Shoppers could soon pay for goods using a microchip implanted under the skin, according to a report in The Times newspaper recently.First, despite all the bells-and-whistles technologies on offer, using cash still has its advantages: it doesn't require any special equipment, it's anonymous and there are no transaction costs. Yes, digital money has the advantage of being able to handle large transactions instantly, even over long distances, but using it requires complex electronic systems. Transactions are not anonymous; they can be traced back to the user. What's more, several studies have shown that when people with credit card debt are confronted with their spending in terms of cold, hard cash, they are shocked. They've never been able to weigh their spending against their earnings while money is nothing more than numbers on a screen. It's only when they feel the cash in hand that they're able to attribute value to their earnings and their spending. There are even bigger human issues at stake, though; issues as fundamental as freedom.

Despite the relative merits of digital money, it's not hard to imagine how bankers and others are using it to slowly eliminate cash altogether.

Twenty years ago, that would have sounded far-fetched, but not any more. Multi-national companies are building global networks of interconnected computerdatabases. That's the reason we can bank, buy, receive social benefits and even pay our taxes electronically. Real money is being replaced with virtual money and this may very well be sowing the seeds of eventual electronic enslavement. Our reliance on cards is actually a reliance on chips and it is already leading to unacceptable invasions of privacy. As we grow more and more familiar with a microchip culture, the easier it gets for someone to centralise all the information contained on our cards. One chip can easily contain all the relevant information about our health, banking details, buying habits, voting preferences and so on. The technology is already in place what's missing is the public acceptance.

Once money becomes nothing more than numbers on a screen, our material wealth can easily be manipulated by other people. Yes, cash can be stolen, but when it is, fraudsters can't use it to steal your identity as well - as they can with cards. Stealing your cash does not give thieves access to personal information about you.And the drive for a cashless society may well lead to sinister attempts to control individuals and even entire populations. Already, miniature chip technologies are being used to turn us into an extension of our bank accounts - in a world where numbers, not individuals, rule. Cash, though far from a perfect means of trade, equals freedom. If cash is eliminated, or downgraded even further, the stage is set for companies, national governments or even global bodies to monitor and manipulate our behaviour. The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those held by Cross Rhythms.