1-Flood claims two lives in southeast Turkey. 2-Thousands feared displaced in Ethiopian floods. 3-Drought persists in parts of Spain after storms. 4-FLOODS CHAOS CLEAR-UP BEGINS. 5-Colo. Winter Storms Cause Kansas Tornadoes. 6-Deadly fires in California. 7-Israel may bomb along border with Egypt. 8-Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to US- Middle East Understanding. 9-Spain plans new Middle East peace conference. 10-Mediterranean leaders to push for relaunch of peace process. 11-Egypt to develop roadmap plan with specific timetable: FM. 12-Israel snubs EU delegation due to far-Right MP. 13-Experts Warn Israel to Prepare for War. 14-Mubarak to ask China for help with nuclear program.
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.
Flood claims two lives in southeast Turkey Sat Oct 28, 10:28 AM ET
ANKARA (AFP) - A wife and a husband were killed in the mainly Kurdish province of Sanliurfa in Turkey's southeast as floods caused by torrential rain hit the region. The bodies of the victims, who went missing overnight, were recovered by the security forces in a stream near the village of Sarikuyu on Saturday, Anatolia news agency reported on Saturday.The floods damaged many homes, shops, roads and bridges across the impoverished province and dozens of livestock perished, Anatolia reported.Electricity and telephone services were cut in several villages, it said, adding that civil defense teams and security forces were dispatched to help residents.
Thousands feared displaced in Ethiopian floods 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Thousands of people may be displaced in southeast Ethiopia after raging floods washed away their homes in the wake of torrential rains that have pounded the region in recent days. Sesay Tadesse, spokesman for the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA) said that up to 10,000 people may have been displaced in one area in the Kibre Dehar region, about 700 kilometres (435 miles) southeast of the capital Addis Ababa.We received the reports about the toll of this river flooding, but we need to confirm with our organisation in the region of Kibre Dehar, Sesay told AFP Saturday.He said they had sent a team to the region to assess the situation after the River Wabe Shabelle breached its banks.
We are following up carefully the situation. We have a regional office there and they will verify and monitor the situation and check the figures, he said.According to our team there, which has not yet been able to go on the ground to check, an estimated 10,000 people could be affected only in Kelafo,Sesay said, in reference to one of the affected areas in the region.In addition, he said they were preparing to send some 1,800 tonnes of food supplies to those affected.At least 639 people were killed when unusually heavy rains sparked massive flooding in the country's eastern, northern and southern regions in August, at the height of the July to September rainy season.And a total of 357,000 people were affected by those floods, said to be the the worst in decades, according to the United Nations humanitarian agency.
Ethiopia, home to some 70 million people, has faced heavy floods and droughts in recent years along with other countries in the Horn of Africa which have endured cycles of deadly weather for decades.
Drought persists in parts of Spain after storms
Oct 27, 2006 — MADRID (Reuters) - Even after 10 days of rainstorms across the country, four regions of Spain are still suffering a severe drought, the government said on Friday, after ministers approved an emergency transfer of water to some of them.Reservoirs at the head of the Tagus river, which are themselves low, will send 12 cubic hectometers of water to the Segura basin in the southeast, which is even worse off, to provide drinking water for towns there. A cubic hectometer a cube with 100 meter (yard) sides is roughly the size of a football stadium.
Two years of drought, the first of them the worst ever recorded, have left many of Spain's autonomous regions short of water and bickering about any transfers the central government tries to impose.
Farming regions in central Spain, like Castilla-La Mancha, are increasingly unwilling to send water to the southeast coast to cover the needs of new homes, golf courses or fruit farmers. The Castilla-La Mancha government this week won agreement from the two main political parties to stop transfers from the Tagus to the Segura river for good in 2015. The government said it had invested more than 600 million euros ($760 million) since the drought began in emergency measures to avoid water restrictions to homes.
The Socialists threw out the previous government's plan to divert water from the Ebro river to the dry southeast and is instead building desalination plants all along the Mediterranean and investing heavily in improvements to farm irrigation systems. Despite the recent rain, the situation is still very different from one basin to another. While some areas are suffering from flooding, the drought is still concentrated in the Jucar and Segura basins, it said in a statement. Those rivers run through the regions of Valencia and Murcia.
Climate change models show Spain is likely to get less rain overall in the future and that what does fall will be more unevenly distributed.
28 October 2006(Glasco Daily record)
FLOODS CHAOS CLEAR-UP BEGINS
AHUGE clear-up operation was launched yesterday after storms wreaked havoc in the Highlands. Torrential rain and gale-force winds battered the north-east on Thursday, causing the worst flooding in the area for 70 years. The storms cut off power to 50,000 homes. Yesterday, 8000 were still blacked out. Several roads, including stretches of the A9, remained closed by flood water, fallen trees and landslides. Ross-shire, Caithness, Moray, Aberdeenshire and the Northern Isles were hit. Dingwall and the nearby village of Evanton were worst affected, with the floodwater 6ft deep in places.
Yesterday, residents who had been evacuated overnight returned home to chaotic scenes. James Kelt, 50, of Dingwall, said the downstairs of his home had been destroyed by floodwater. He added: I've never seen anything like this before. The water is away, but everything has turned to sludge. Everything is ruined. We've no power, so we can't get anyone in to fix things. The Dingwall to Thurso railway line was still closed yesterday following a landslide. Northern Constabulary declared a major incident on Thursday morning and by last night they had dealt with 338 incidents. To add to their woes, four wartime shells were found at the A9 at Alness, Ross-shire. Army bomb disposal experts closed part of the road and carried out two controlled explosions. Yesterday, forecasters said the worst of the weather was over, with only light winds and rain expected today and tomorrow.
Colo. Winter Storms Cause Kansas Tornadoes(AP)
POSTED: 1:00 pm EDT October 27, 2006
ULYSSES, Kan. Forecasters said Friday that the same weather system that dumped heavy snow in Colorado is responsible for two-dozen tornadoes in southwest Kansas.Most of them were weak, but one tore part of the roof off the hospital Thursday in the town of Ulysses, and nine patients had to be moved to other rooms.Some fences and sheds also were knocked down by the storms.No injuries were reported.
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.
Deadly fires in California
Firefighters die in California blaze,Oct 28, 2006
Thick smoke and hot winds hampered firefighters as they battled a deadly wildfire in mountains near Palm Springs, California, while the reward for information on those who started it was quadrupled.Four firefighters died and a fifth was on life support with 90% burns after being engulfed by the 9,700 hectare blaze, still out of control on its second day.Fire officials are treating the fire as arson and the deaths as murder but have not detailed their reasons. A reward rose to $400,000 on Friday after contributions from the local Morongo Indian tribe and California state coffers.The Los Angeles Times on Friday quoted local residents as saying they had seen teenagers smoking marijuana around midnight Thursday near where the fire is thought to have started about 27 kilometres northwest of Palm Springs.
Weather forecasters expected at least one more day of seasonal Santa Ana winds, gusting up to 72 kph, throughout tinder dry southern California.The 24km wall of flames was expected to take days to bring under control. When the Santa Ana winds blow, all bets are off and it is very difficult to predict,Riverside County Fire Dept. Chief John Hawkins told KCAL9 television.Billowing clouds of acrid smoke made it difficult for water tankers and helicopters to operate and for officials to accurately assess the size and scope of damage on the ground.
The wind and Mother Nature is one thing we can't control out there,said Riverside County Fire Department spokeswoman Julie Hutchinson.Doctors said the prognosis for the injured fireman, Pablo Cerda, 23, was poor. Cerda has 90% burns, kidney failure and severe lung damage.His degree of burns is one of the most severe I have seen,Dr David Wong, chief trauma specialist at the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, told reporters.
Meanwhile more than 700 people who were forced to flee on Thursday waited anxiously with friends or at rescue centres for news of their homes. At least 10 buildings have been destroyed but the number was expected to rise.Some watched on television as their houses burned to the ground. It was a real sinking feeling,said Duane Sage. I was thinking about remodelling, but not quite like this,he told ABC7 television.About 100 people were roused from their beds as the fire briefly threatened a community near the town of Banning in the early hours of Friday.Another 400 to 1,000 people spent a tense night trapped in a recreational vehicle park in the San Jacinto mountains. Firefighters were hoping to get them out on Friday.The blaze has yet to wreak the destruction of October 2003, when wildfires burned for days in mountains outside Los Angeles and near San Diego, killing 24 people, destroying more than 3,000 homes and burning some 300,000 hectares.Source: Reuters
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Israel may bomb along border with Egypt: paper Fri Oct 27, 8:21 AM ET
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel may soon use smart bombs on the narrow border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to destroy tunnels used to smuggle weapons into the Palestinian territory, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. Maariv daily said the precision-guided weapons would be used to penetrate deep underground in the hope of destroying the tunnel network that Israel says riddles the narrow border area.The border strip, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, is 11 km long (6.5 miles) and approximately 100 metres wide.The plan (as it was presented) includes detailed reference to the proximity to the Egyptian border and the surrounding civilian population,Maariv said.
An Israeli army spokesman declined to comment on the report, saying that private discussions of the army chief of staff could not be disclosed.Egyptian officials were unavailable for comment.Israel says it has been unable to control weapons smuggling into Gaza since it withdrew its forces from the coastal strip last year.The decision to use smart bombs may be a substitute to reoccupying the entire region, the newspaper said.Egyptian police recently seized 195 crates of automatic weapons and ammunition meant to be smuggled across the border.Israel estimates that tons of munitions, including advanced shoulder-fire missiles, have been smuggled into Gaza through the tunnels, though they have presented scarce evidence that such weaponry is being used by Gaza militants.
The Israeli army said its troops discovered 15 tunnels along the border during the past week.Maariv said the air force was given the green light to drop bombs after a similar campaign successfully destroyed tunnels along the northern Gaza border with Israel.The army began targeting underground passages in Gaza after Palestinian militants tunneled into Israel and abducted one of its soldiers in a raid on June 25.Israel has since launched an expanded offensive to retrieve the captured soldier. More than 250 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting, about half of them civilians.
Thank goodness Christians don't burn down Mosques and riot because of bad press unlike others do. We leave our revenge in Gods (KING JESUS) hands, through prayer and speaking out.
Friday October 27, 2006
Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to US- Middle East Understanding
By The Council for the National Interest
Christian Zionism, a belief that paradise for Christians can only be achieved once Jews are in control of the Holy Land, is gathering strength in the United States and forging alliances that are giving increasingly weird shape to American policy toward the Middle East. The nature of the movement and its detrimental impact on policy was the subject of the 22nd Capitol Hill public hearing presented by the Council for the National Interest yesterday.
A new Zogby International poll commissioned by the CNI Foundation shows that 31 percent of those surveyed in the national poll strongly believe or somewhat believe in the ideas behind Christian Zionism, defined as the belief that Jews must have all of the promised land, including all of Jerusalem, to facilitate the second coming of the messiah.Other polls bear similar messages, that 53% of Americans believe that Israel was given by God to the Jews, and that 59% of the American public believes the prophecies contained in the Book of Revelations will come true
The international implications of such beliefs are profound, as an increasing number of Americans believe that God sets foreign policy goals. Rev. Robert O. Smith, Lutheran pastor at the University of Chicago, one of the speakers at the hearing, discussed the development of this belief that dates to the 19th century and how it has received a powerful new impetus with the founding this year of a new group of the Christian right called Christians United for Israel (CUFI).
And yet while it works closely with Jewish Zionist organizations in the US, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, to promote the continued occupation of Palestine by the Israel (land God has given the Jews), it works just as effectively in dehumanizing the original inhabitants of the Holy Land, both Muslims and Christians.
Another speaker, Rammy Haija, who teaches at Radford University, drew attention to the necessity in the Christian Zionist dogma for the Israelis to retain control not only of the whole of the occupied territory but also all of Jerusalem. Christian Zionists have pushed the militarist policies of both Israel and the U.S. in an effort to secure the Holy Land in preparation for the coming of the promised land. As part of this strategy, the U.S. occupation of Iraq is deemed absolutely necessary.
The irony of the alliance between Christian Zionists and Jewish Zionists is that the one ideology promotes the ultimate destruction of the other. As Smith pointed out, the Christians United for Israel is all about Israel, not about the Israelis, and only a little surface digging into Christian Zionism shows how anti-Semitic it really is. So much so that Abraham Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, one of the ceaseless champions of Zionism in this country, has called the Christian right one of the direst threats to American Jews.
This has not prevented top Israeli officials from paying homage to the Christian right, including Ariel Sharon (before he descended into a comatose state brought on by the withdrawal of the settlers from Gaza, Pat Robertson opined), the Israeli ambassador Daniel Ayalon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, and a host of others. The ability of CUFI and other far right Christian religious leaders like Jerry Farwell and Pat Robertson to raise money for Israel, including Israeli settlements, is well documented.
Christian Zionism, Smith concluded, has a fundamental lack of earthly concerns, is divorced from reality, and undermines the work of politics. Its practical impact is the killing of people in the Holy Land. The recent statement by the Christian religious leaders of Jerusalem that warned against Christian Zionism's policies of racist intolerance and perpetual war was much needed, but it should have come from America's religious leaders.(www.cnionline.net)
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.
SPAIN #11 IN THE EU
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Spain plans new Middle East peace conference
MADRID — Spain plans to float the idea of a Mideast peace conference, similar to that held in Madrid in 1991, at a meeting this week of ministers from Mediterranean countries, diplomatic sources said yesterday. The suggestion could be made at the Mediterranean Forum (Foromed) meeting in Alicante in southeast Spain being held and attended by ministers from 11 states. The forum is a consultative body associated with the so-called Barcelona Euro-Mediterranean process, a framework for political, economic and social relations in the region.
A declaration is due to be issued at the end of the meeting, to be attended by foreign ministers or their deputies from Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Tunisia. Libya has observer status. Spain’s Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told the country’s parliament this week that the roadmap for a search for peace in the Middle East was no longer adequate and that a major initiative, of the type of the 1991 Madrid conference, now appeared necessary. The October 1991 Madrid conference was attended by Israel and Arab states under the aegis of the United States and the Soviet Union.
It set out a framework for a Middle East peace process and opened the way to the 1993 Oslo accords on Palestinian self-rule. Moratinos knows the region well, has been a European Union special envoy and visited the area frequently recently. He told the Spanish parliament that it was still too early to say where or in what framework a new conference might be held. — AFP
Last update - 05:39 28/10/2006
Mediterranean leaders to push for relaunch of peace process
By The Associated Press
ALICANTE, Spain - Top diplomats from 11 countries bordering the Mediterranean will produce a new batch of proposals for reviving the Middle East peace process at a two-day meeting in Spain beginning Friday, a leading Spanish diplomat said.
The annual informal gathering of the so-called Foromed group comes after Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, a leading European voice on the Middle East, said Tuesday he felt the road map peace plan no longer provided the answers to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He urged the European Union to take the lead in pushing for a fresh approach.Israeli and Palestinian officials said Moratinos was overly pessimistic and expressed their continuing faith in the road map.
The Foromed group will issue a closing declaration Saturday offering a new vision of how things are going in the Middle East, said a Spanish foreign ministry diplomat involved in organizing the meeting. He stressed that the declaration would not oppose the road map.It's not that the road map is of no use, but it's not enough.
A lot more needs to be done, more proposals need to be made, said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity because ministry ground rules forbid him to be identified.Described as a group of like-minded countries, Foromed was formed on the initiative of Egypt and France in 1994 to boost political, economic and cultural cooperation in the Mediterranean region long hindered by the Middle East conflict. Neither Israel nor the Palestinians are represented in the group.
The Spanish official did not rule out the possibility that Foromed would call for the staging of another Middle East summit along the lines of the Madrid summit in 1991, as has been mooted by Moratinos.EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, meanwhile, is touring the Middle East to sound out countries on reviving the peace process.Joining Moratinos at the meeting in the Spanish Mediterranean port city will be the foreign ministers for Egypt, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal and Turkey. Algeria, France and Tunisia were to send state secretaries.The group will hold a working dinner late Friday followed by a meeting Saturday before Moratinos presents the declaration to reporters at an early-afternoon news conference.
Moratinos has long offered to have Spain play a role in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, but has had little response from either side in recent years.Madrid hosted a landmark conference in 1991, bringing together Israel and many of its Arab enemies for the first time. Those talks helped lay the foundation for the Oslo peace process, which resulted in the establishment of the Palestinian Authority.Moratinos argues that any new talks should involve Syria - a longtime foe of Washington and that Iran's nuclear program would also need to be addressed at such a conference.
UPDATED: 10:08, October 28, 2006
Egypt to develop roadmap plan with specific timetable: FM
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said Friday that Egypt was seeking to develop the roadmap peace plan in order to reach means of putting the plan into effect with a specific timetable, the official news agency MENA reported. The top Egyptian diplomat made the remarks before leaving for Alicante in southeast Spain, where he would attend the Mediterranean Forum meeting along with foreign ministers from Spain, Algeria, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Turkey and Tunisia. Libya, which has an observer status, is taking part in the forum for the first time. Abul Gheit was quoted as saying that talks at the Mediterranean Forum meeting will focus on the situation in the Mideast, noting that the forum meeting would tackle Mideast issues including the Palestinian issue along with the situation in Lebanon and Syria. He said that Spain had a certain view in this regard, asserting that Egypt would highlight the importance of pushing forward the Mideast peace process.
According to MENA, the forum meeting will address the Middle East peace process, especially the roadmap plan initiated by the international Quartet of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations. Launched in 2003, the roadmap peace plan was aimed to establish a viable Palestinian state living alongside Israel in peace by 2005. Egypt, as a regional power long since playing a mediating role between Israel and the Palestinians, has since May urged the roadmap plan to be revised.
Talks of the forum will also take up the dialogue among civilizations, said Abul Gheit, warning of the dangers of a clash of civilizations. He called for peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding among various civilizations, a matter that would positively affect future relations.About the Darfur crisis and Sudan's expulsion of the United Nations envoy, Abul Gheit said that the Sudanese government rejected certain statements by UN envoy Jan Pronk.
He said he believed that the UN will send another envoy to Sudan for cooperation between the international organization and the Sudanese government to continue. He stressed that there was no place for deterioration in UN- Sudanese relations in light of the current situation in Darfur. The attendees of the forum could reach an agreement if negotiated on the basis of keeping the African troops in Darfur and reinforcing them with UN forces, according to Abul Gheit.
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry on Oct. 22 ordered Pronk to leave the country in three days. Earlier, the Sudanese army announced that Pronk was not welcomed in this country for his flagrant interference in the army's affairs. The Sudanese side also accused the UN top envoy in Sudan of launching a psychological war on the Sudanese army by spreading fabricated false information doubting the army's capability to maintain the security and stability of the country. The UN Security Council adopted resolution 1706 on Aug.
31, calling for the deployment of more than 20,000 international peacekeepers to replace the 7,800 AU forces in Darfur. But the Sudanese government has rejected the mission transfer, saying it was a violation of Sudan's sovereignty and an effort by the West to re-colonize the African oil producing country. Egypt has been firmly supporting Sudan's stance on the deployment of UN forces, insisting any deployment should first get approval from the Sudanese government. Source: Xinhua
Israel snubs EU delegation due to far-Right MP
Foreign Ministry says will not welcome delegation of EU parliamentarians due to inclusion of Marine Le Pen of France. FM spokesperson: Le Pen member of racist party that denies Holocaust Reuters Published:
10.27.06, 21:47 Israel said on Friday it would not welcome a delegation of European Union parliamentarians planning to visit the country this week if it included a far-right French member.The Foreign Ministry said Israel objected to the inclusion of Marine Le Pen, daughter of far-right French leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the delegation.A spokesman for the European Parliament said the delegation had postponed the trip.
The delegation contained a senior member (Marine Le Pen) of a political party which, unfortunately, is both racist and a Holocaust denier,Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said. For that reason we said that if such a delegation with such a composition would come to Israel they would not receive official meetings,he added. The delegation was scheduled to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories between October 28 and November 4. It was expected to meet Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.We wanted to receive delegations from the European parliament, but the composition of the delegation made that impossible,Regev said. A spokeswoman for the European Parliament said it was a postponement due to technical problems that could affect the success of the mission, but a parliamentary source confirmed it was due to Israel's refusal to accept Le Pen.
Jean-Marie Le Pen said Israel's refusal to meet his daughter ran contrary to diplomatic traditions and basic democracy. Le Pen, who caused an upset in France's 2002 presidential election when he finished second, was convicted and fined in 1990 for inciting racial hatred and for saying in 1996 that the gas chambers used by the Nazis were merely a detail in the history of the Second World War.Marine Le Pen, who is seen as the most likely successor to her 78-year-old father, told Reuters last week that her planned trip to Israel would be an opportunity to clear up a certain number of misunderstandings.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) 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.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
TCV News
Experts Warn Israel to Prepare for War
October 28, 2006 07:18 AM EST
By Sher Zieve - Founder of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Boaz Ganor warns that Israel will face threats from multiple sources by 2007. Ganor also advised that one of the threats will be from an alliance between Iran and terrorist Hezbollah, which will cause a terrible deterioration along Israel’s northern border.Speaking to YnetNews.com, Ganor said: The year 2007 is going to be a critical year, as the international arena will do its utmost to narrow down the nuclear capabilities of Iran. It could be done by using more affirmative sanctions, or even a military campaign. And the ramification of such an attempt, even if it's only sanctions, will cause a terrible deterioration of the situation on the northern border, where Iran will use its proxy Hizbullah to retaliate against Israel, and make clear that Israel has to pay for any activities against Iran.
In a prepared report, expert on Islamic history Professor Moshe Sharon wrote: Hizbullah is the immediate enemy. No one will disarm it because it has no intention of disarming and there is no one to coerce it to do so. The UN is collaborating with Hizbullah and none of its member nations has any interest in dealing with it. The Shiite of Hizbullah has taken control of Lebanon with the generous help of Iran and Syria and it will not relinquish it even if this means bringing about its total destruction. Lebanon will gradually be emptied of its remaining Christian population and zealous Islam will have achieved an important objective: One of the only two non-Muslim countries in the Middle East will just disappear.
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Mubarak to ask China for help with nuclear program
Egyptian president to visit China, Russia and Kazakhstan, expected to appeal to China for help on nuclear energy program.
Egyptian official: We could also benefit from Russia's nuclear knowledge Roee Nahmias Published: 10.28.06, 13:49. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak set out this week for a series of meetings in China, Russia and Kazakhstan. Mubarak will meet leaders of the three nations and speak with them on financial issues including trading areas, joint investments and even collaboration on a nuclear energy program.Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told the Ahbar al Yom Egyptian paper that during Mubarak's visit, he would discuss the country's program for Nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Mubarak is also expected to sign agreements with China regarding technological information sharing. While in Beijing, the president will take part in a ceremony honoring half a century of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The Egyptian ambassador to Moscow Ezzat Saad said in an interview to government-affiliated newspaper al-Ahram that Egypt could benefit a great deal from Russian knowledge of peace-oriented nuclear energy, in preparation for building power stations to produce electricity.Over a month ago, Mubarak surprised the world by declaring that his state wished to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.The announcement came days after his son Jamal's statement that he wished to utilize the existing knowledge in the country to advance technological development. In a speech that concluded the fourth meeting this year of the National Democratic Party the nation's ruling party Mubarak emphasized that nuclear energy was intended to compensate for Egypt's lack of oil and natural gas reserves. Several days later, the a-Sharq al-Awsat paper reported that Egypt had formally declared its intention to build three nuclear reactors for the purpose of providing electricity. The Egyptian Energy Ministry decided that the reactors would be built in the northwest part of the country, along the Mediterranean. The reactors would theoretically be able to provide 1800 megawatts of electricity jointly (600 megawatts each). The reactors would be built according to western models, which are considered very safe.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Friday, October 27, 2006
PHILIPPINE MUSLIMS AGAINST TERRORISM
1-26 - Earthquakes jolt Bicol. 2-Earthquake rattles Peruvian coast. 3-Flooding brings chaos to region's roads, 4-Tropical Storm Paul floods Mexico. 5-Officials seek arsonist responsible for Cabazon blaze. 6-Iran fires up nuclear processors. 7-Text: Draft Sanctions Resolution on Iran (Steve). 8-Israel will continue flying over Lebanon, minister says. 9-EU six agree to fight terrorism and illegal immigration. 10-Muslim Leaders in The Philippines Call for Rejecting Terror.
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.
26 - Earthquakes jolt Bicol
Thursday, October 26 2006 @ 06:35 PM BST
Provincial
The Bicol provinces were shaken by three consecutive earthquakes Thursday morning, government seismologists said, but no damage or casualties were reported.Similar events also affected Mindoro and Mindanao areas during the past few days where at least seven more earthquakes were recorded.The latest was a magnitude 5 earthquake (intensity 3.6) which shook the island province of Masbate and the other parts of Bicol region at around 8:41 a.m. Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. Its depth was 36 kilometers or 21.7 miles beneath the ground.Margina Ramos, Phivolcs Science Research Analyst, said that the other events were recorded at 7:40 and 8:40 a.m. She explained that the three earthquakes were not aftershocks of previous earthquakes but rather 'series' of tectonic origins.
The same earthquakes were also felt slightly in Legazpi, Albay, Calbayog, Samar and Manila. Its origin was tectonic in nature and the center was plotted at 12.394 degrees north and 123.897 degrees east.The epicenter was traced 35 kilometers east of Masbate, or 85 kilometers south of Legazpi. The institute said that the earthquakes were also felt 90 kilometers west-northwest of Calbayog, Samar and as far as 400 kilometers southeast of Manila.Ramos said the 7:40 a.m. event was intensity 2 at the epicenter while the 8:40 a.m. episode was recorded at intensity 3. The scientist explained that the 8:41 a.m. event was the strongest with intensity 3.6 or magnitude 5.
On the other hand, the worldwide seismic monitoring networks have reported that at least ten earthquakes were felt in different areas of the country from October 20 until the 26th of the month alone.Six of them (magnitudes ranging from 4.2 to 5.8) occurred in Mindoro Island originating from depths ranging from 10 kilometers to as deep as 35 kilometers below the surface.Other episodes were previously felt in Metro Manila and two others in Mindanao with magnitude range of 4.2 to 4.7 at depth range of 35 to 63 kilometers below the ground.There had been no reports of damage to life and properties so far but various disaster coordinating councils have activated their communication centers to make sure there are no casualties. (PNA)
Earthquake rattles Peruvian coast Thu Oct 26, 11:27 PM ET
LIMA, Peru - A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 rattled Peru's southern coast Thursday, sending residents of one city scurrying into the streets but apparently causing no damage or injuries. The quake struck at 6:54 p.m. inn the Pacific Ocean, 94 miles southeast of Lima, almost the same location where a powerful magnitude-6.7 quake hit six days earlier, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.Apartment buildings and commercial towers shook in Lima for several seconds, but no damage was reported.The earthquake caused the most alarm in Ica, a coastal city 165 miles to the southeast, where local radio reports said panicked residents rushed from their homes into streets and parks.
Peruvians have been on edge during the last week because of several aftershocks from the Oct. 20 quake, including a 4.2- magnitude temblor that made Lima shudder late Wednesday.We have registered more than 280 earthquakes, a process that concerns us, but which we also know is expected after the strong quake we felt last Friday, Hernando Tavera, director of the Geophysics Institute of Peru, told The Associated Press.
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.
Flooding brings chaos to region's roads
Kate O'Hara
NON-STOP rain brought flooding to several parts of Yorkshire yesterday, and traffic ground to a halt on motorways and roads around the region as motorists struggled with terrible driving conditions.Weather experts reported more than an inch-and-a-half of rain in Bingley before 6pm and West Yorkshire Fire Service was inundated with reports of flooding.A spokesman for weather forecasters the Meteo Group said Bingley had had the highest rainfall in Yorkshire – about a third of the amount in 12 hours that it would normally have in the whole month of October.We expect those levels to rise steeply too, because they are quite early rainfall levels. We won't be giving another reading until tomorrow, but we expect most of Yorkshire will have had at least an inch or an inch-and -a-half of rain by the end of the night, but Bingley is looking like it could be heading to two-and-a-half or three inches of rain..
The Highways Agency said there had been horrendous congestion on the region's roads throughout the day, and that traffic had practically ground to a halt in parts of Leeds during the evening rush hour.The M621, M62 and main arterial routes into and out of the city were particularly badly affected. A spokesman said: We can't even give any particular reason for it, apart from perhaps the weather. There haven't been any major accidents but traffic has certainly been particularly bad today.There was a three-car accident on the M1 southbound early in the evening between junctions 34 and 35, but nobody was injured.And on the East Coast Coastguards were involved in a search off the North Bay at Scarborough. Battling against terrible weather conditions and high seas the Scarborough Lifeboat scoured the area after North Yorkshire Police reported an unattended bicycle on the shore.The search began at about 6.30pm but was called off at around 9pm when no-one was reported missing. It is thought the bike may have been there since early in the afternoon.kate.o'hara@ypn.co.uk,26 October 2006
Tropical Storm Paul floods Mexico By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 27, 12:22 AM ET
SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico - The remnants of Tropical Storm Paul made landfall on Mexico's mainland Thursday, triggering floods that caused mostly superficial damage to 5,000 houses, officials said. An elderly woman died in a car crash on a rainy road and officials were investigating whether the death was directly connected to the storm, said Jorge Tallaeche, a spokesman for the civil protection service of the Pacific state of Sinaloa, where the storm hit land.Paul, which had been a hurricane earlier in the week, weakened to a tropical depression before making landfall near the Sinaloan town of La Reforma. After hitting land it quickly dissipated.However, it unleashed floods that forced more than 5,000 families to evacuate their homes, Tallaeche said. Most of the damage was superficial, with the houses' structures left intact, he said.Gov. Jesus Aguilar Padilla said he would ask the federal government to declare the zone a disaster area.
Some of the worst flooding was in the village of Villa Juarez, where a canal overflowed and sent more than 3 feet of water into the streets.On Monday, Paul neared Category 3 hurricane status, with winds reaching 110 mph.In September, Hurricane John battered Baja California, killing five people and destroying 160 homes. Later that month, Hurricane Lane threatened the resort region but ended up hitting the resort town of Mazatlan, causing relatively minor damage.San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas are popular with sports fishermen and celebrities and famous for its deep-sea fishing, golf courses and beaches flanked by cactus-dotted deserts.
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.
Yesterday this fire burned 800 Acres, as of today so far the winds are stirring up 24,000 of burnage and only 5% contained.
Officials seek arsonist responsible for Cabazon blaze
By Michael Muskal, Scott Martelle and Maeve Reston, Times Staff Writers
3:31 PM PDT, October 26, 2006
Four firefighters were killed today when a fast-moving arson fire fed by Santa Ana winds churned through the rugged wild terrain of Riverside County, destroying homes and forcing hundreds of residents to flee.The Esperanza fire burned more than 10,000 acres near Cabazon, some 90 miles east of Los Angeles and about 20 miles northwest of Palm Springs.Fueled by dry wood, high temperatures and winds gusting to more than 30 mph, the blaze burned out of control as more than 700 firefighters fought to tame the fire that was reported at 1:12 a.m.This is an arson fire. This is a deliberately set arson fire, fire Chief John Hawkins told reporters at an afternoon news conference. Hawkins oversees fire operations in Riverside County.A deliberately set arson fire that leads to the death of anyone constitutes murder,he said.The county will establish a $100,000 reward to find the arsonist, officials said.Turn that scum in, said Riverside County Supervisor Marion Ashley, one of many angry officials who vowed to find and prosecute those who started the blaze.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated and will stay overnight at community shelters or with friends.But as many as 2,000 people were trapped in a park for recreation vehicles. The people are safe in a protected area, Hawkins said.The fire raced through the terrain, outpacing officials' ability to keep track of the damage. This morning, there were just 800 acres charred. Within eight hours, the damage had increased more than tenfold despite firefighters' efforts and the usual assortment of land and air equipment.It was on one of those rescue efforts that a crew of firefighters were trapped in their vehicle as the rapidly moving fire simply devoured their attempt at shelter from the firestorm.The U.S. Forest Service reported the three deaths, initially saying that two firefighters were critically injured. One of the injured died later at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, according to Cheri Patterson, a spokeswoman for the Riverside County Fire Department and the CDF. The other firefighter remains in the facility in critical condition.
The firefighters were trapped when high winds suddenly pushed the flames over them, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Pat Boss told the Associated Press.The engine was in the area and with the wind conditions like they were, the fire just overtakes and burns the entire engine,said Pat Boss, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman. They were trapped within the engine.The deaths took place near the end of Gorgonio View Road, about 10 miles from Twin Pines Road. The fire crew was trying to protect a home in an inaccessible area.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger briefed reporters this morning outside the student union on the Cal State Fresno campus.So far, 700 people have been evacuated, he said. We have 700 firefighters battling the fire right now to contain it. My, and my wife's, all of our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those firefighters who were killed in this fire.
One major firefighting effort was to protect as many as 2,000 people in the Silent Valley RV Park who are in the hills directly south of Banning near Poppet Flats, according to CDF Fire Capt. Rick Griggs, who has been on the fire line since 4 a.m.We are having to protect structures to save lives,he said. They are well protected there.But the fire, he said, is all around them.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran fires up nuclear processors
POSTED: 1149 GMT (1949 HKT), October 27, 2006
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran has resumed its uranium enrichment program by building a second cascade of centrifuges and injecting gas into the system over the past few weeks despite threats of U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program, Iran's semi-official news agency ISNA reported on Friday.The news comes almost two months after Tehran ignored an August 31 U.N. Security Council deadline demanding it halt its nuclear program.Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has repeatedly said uranium enrichment is his country's right and will not be abandoned, despite Western fears that Iran's goal is to build nuclear weapons.
ISNA reported the International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general Mohamed ElBaradei is fully aware of the injection of gas and the agency's inspectors are currently present in Iran.ElBaradei reportedly said the second cascade has already produced its product but no uranium has been introduced into the new system yet. However, it could be added into the system in upcoming days, he is quoted as saying.Iran had been conducting a small-scale research enrichment program using 164 centrifuges at its Natanz facilities and has now doubled its capacity, ISNA reported. The news agency also said the country's centrifuges are projected to number 3,000 by March 2007.The news of Iran's resumed program comes while six major powers have been meeting at the United Nations to review a draft Security Council resolution mandating sanctions against the Islamic republic over its flaunting of the U.N. deadline.
Text: Draft Sanctions Resolution on Iran (Steve) October 27, 2006 8:54 AM
The text of the Draft Sanctions Resolution on Iran makes clear exception to anything related to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant construction, currently under contract with Russia for completion.
14. Decides, with regard to the construction of Bushehr I Civil Nuclear Power Plant and on the condition that activities set out in subparagraphs (a) to (d) below are notified to the Committee within ten days of taking place, that;
(a.) the measures imposed by paragraph 4 and 5 above shall not apply to supplies of items, materials, equipment, goods and technology, nor to the provision of technical assistance or training, financial assistance, investment, brokering or other services, and the transfer of financial resources, related to the construction of Bushehr I, where these are being provided directly by the Russian Federation,
(b.) the measures imposed by paragraph 7 above shall not apply where such travel, directly between Iran and the Russian Federation, is necessary for the construction of Bushehr I,
(c.) the measures imposed by paragraph 9 above shall not apply to funds, other financial assets or economic resources payable to the Russian Federation by Iran, related to the construction of Bushehr I,
(d.) the measures imposed by paragraph 13 above shall not apply to assistance provided solely to Iran by the IAEA, related to the construction of Bushehr I,
(e.) all other activities related to Bushehr I which are covered by the measures in paragraphs 4, 5, 7, 9 and 13 above must be approved in advance and on a case by case basis by the Committee;
The rest of the text - as proposed but unaffirmed - spells out the restrictions sought to be placed on Iran, including but not limited to travel of those involved in Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, the sale of items that can be used for the programs, and the refusal of training abroad in related fields.
Such restrictions are logical as presented. Yet, as Paragraph 14 above clearly states, the logic stops at Bushehr.
With a draft proposal [made available here] that calls for the cessation of all enrichment activities including ceasing construction of Iran’s heavy water reactor at Arak the wisdom of an exception in all restrictions for the Islamic Republic’s largest nuclear reactor is more than questionable. The reasons for it are clear: Consensus requires Russian approval, and Putin’s Russia has a greater interest in a partnership with the Iranian regime than countering the potential acquisition of nuclear weapons by the world’s primary state sponsor of international terrorism.
Glasnost should be officially declared dead.
It should be recalled that during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, Russian advisors were in Baghdad, feeding intelligence and, some say, directing Hussein’s military defense against American forces.With the Hussein regime gone, Iran represents Russia’s primary seat of influence at the Middle Eastern power table. The Bushehr sanctions exception both recognizes and solidifies this.
Israel will continue flying over Lebanon, minister says (Roundup)
Oct 26, 2006, 17:10 GMT
Tel Aviv - Israel will continue to fly over Lebanese territory, Defence Minister Amir Peretz said Thursday, two days after Israeli planes buzzed a German naval vessel close to the Israel- Lebanon border. Meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Peretz said that the Israeli flights over Lebanon would continue so long as two Israeli soldiers snatched by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas were not released, and so long as there was no organized supervision of the Syrian-Lebanon border. Israel has said Hezbollah is receiving arms across that border, in defiance of United Nations resolution 1701, which ended 33 days of fighting between Israel and the guerrilla group sparked by the abduction of the two Israeli soldiers on July 12.
Reports from the Peretz-Solana meeting said the two men also discussed Teheran's nuclear programme, which Israel sees as particularly alarming, given President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated statements that the Jewish state should be destroyed and dismantled. Consequently, the Iran issue was raised in the other meetings Solana held Thursday with Israeli officials. Foreign Minister Tipi Livni called for sanctions against Iran to prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms, telling a joint news conference with the European envoy after their morning meeting in Tel Aviv that 'the Iranians are trying to win time. We are not asking the world to help us, we are asking the world to help itself, she said. Vice Premier Shimon Peres, who met with Solana in the early afternoon, accused Europe of not doing enough to forestall a nuclear Iran. Iran is not strong, Peres said. The reaction to Iran is weak, and that is what strengthens Iran.
Solana, for his part, concentrated his remarks on the Israel- Palestinian conflict, telling the news conference with Livni that Israel had to fulfil its obligations under the stalled international road map peace plan and uproot unauthorized Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank.He said the road map was still alive and Israel should remember that it too had commitments under it. Calling for a relaunch of the stalled peace plan, which was initiated three years ago by the EU, United States, Russia and United Nations but has been bogged down ever since, he said: We don't push enough to get it moving, too get the train out of the station. We have to have the road map on to the road and to the end of the road,he said, adding that end was very clear two states living side by side in peace and security.
Later, meeting with Peres, he accused Israel of imposing collective punishment on the Palestinians, and thus increasing despair and poverty in the Palestinian areas. Peres replied that Israel was first and foremost committed to the security of its citizens, and would not open the passages to the Gaza Strip, or undertake any other gestures, so long as Palestinian militants continued firing makeshift rockets from the Strip at Israeli communities bordering the salient. Solana arrived in Israel Wednesday and first met with the head of the hardline Israel Beitenu party, Avigdor Lieberman, who is due to enter the government as a minister dealing with strategic threats facing Israel. Later he also met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose office released no details of the meeting Solana was scheduled to travel to Ramallah later Thursday for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the evening. © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
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DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
EU six agree to fight terrorism and illegal immigration
27.10.2006 - 09:27 CET | By Helena Spongenberg,Eu observer
The EU's six largest countries have agreed to work together on fighting terrorism, organised crime and illegal immigration after a two-day informal meeting hosted by the UK.The interior ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK known as the G6 met in Stratford-upon-Avon and agreed to crack down on tax fraud that could fund terrorism, to fight human trafficking, share more information about terrorist threats and make joint moves toward African countries to curb illegal migration routes.The important thing is to keep this at the top of the European agenda, because it is at the top of the concerns of the populations of every country which is represented here: organised crime, counter-terrorism, managed migration, UK home secretary John Reid said after the meeting, according to Reuters.
Although agreements do not lead to any formal decisions, compromises reached by the G6 who represent three quarters of the EU population help set the agenda of meetings at the EU level.The ministers were also concerned about alienation of European Muslims and sought to engage Muslim minorities in the fight against extremism, seeking to counter anger at what they see as unfair treatment by the authorities.The fears were highlighted by the overnight violence in the suburbs of Paris, where youths many from immigrant families - set four buses on fire ahead of the one-year anniversary of major riots across France.
Hostile environment for terrorists
The G6 said close contact between the countries in the 25-nation bloc was needed in order to properly fight terrorism.The six also agreed to increase cooperation on explosives and the technologies that could be used to trace them. In particular the emerging threat from liquid explosives, which British police believe were at the heart of an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic passenger jets last August.They said improved co-operation in monitoring and analysing internet use by radicals for organising and recruiting terrorists was required, to make what Mr Reid called a more hostile operating environment for terrorists.
Immigration
French minister Nicolas Sarkozy emphasized the importance of a common EU-wide policy on granting asylum and said Europe should negotiate as a bloc with African countries on limiting routes used by illegal migrants.There are voices around this table from the right and from the left who are united in seeing the subject of immigration not as a thing of politics but of human drama, he said according to Reuters. His Spanish counterpart Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said according to El Pais that we have approved a very important initiative. The final document of the meeting will be presented to EU interior and justice ministers meeting on 9-10 December.The G6 was set up in 2003 by France and the UK to provide an informal forum for big European Union countries to discuss issues of law and order and immigration
Now this is the way, some Muslims speak out against violence and Terrorism.
Muslim Leaders in The Philippines Call for Rejecting Terror
Santosh Digal
COTABATO CITY, THE PHILIPPINES (ANS) -- Filipino Muslim Religious leaders urged fellow Muslims to shun terrorism in any form in the world.In a khutba (sermon) Ustadz Abdulrauf Guialani, a member of the Assembly of Philippine Da’rul Ifta (Apdi or Houses of Opinion), declared senseless violence haram three times and terrorism is intrinsically is haram (unlawful).The congregational prayers were held in observance of Eid’l Fitr (Feast of Charity). Eid’l Fitr marks the end of the Muslim fasting month.To mark the occasion, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared on Oct 24 a national holiday in the largely Roman Catholic country.
Allah has made it haram to kill children; Allah has made it haram to kill women; Allah has made it haram to kill elderly people, Guialani said.A similar teaching was delivered in open field prayers elsewhere in the country, particularly in the areas of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), Ustadz Esmael Ebrahim, a senior member of the Apdi, said.The ARMM is composed of the predominantly Muslim provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and Marawi City.
This year marked the first time in many years that political and religious leaders had unanimously agreed on a common date to celebrate Eid’l Fitr.ARMM Governor Zaldy Uy Ampatuan and his father, Maguindanao Governor Datu Andal Ampatuan, were the first to declare Monday a day of Eid’l Fitr prayers.The regional governor made the declaration through a religious deputy, Ustadz Mohamad Farid Adas, the ARMM madaris education undersecretary.Governors Wahab Akbar and Abolais Manalao made similar declarations in Basilan and Lanao del Sur.Ramadan begins with the moon sighting on the ninth lunar month of the Arabic Hijra calendar and ends with the appearance of the crescent moon on the tenth month.
Adas invoked the Islamic concept of government officials as being the imam (leader) of the people clothed with authority to declare what is to be followed in matters pertaining to secular and religious affairs.The Apdi also issued a statement condemning the renewed violence that had prompted a heightened terror alert level following recent bombing incidents in Mindanao, southern Philippines.In a public statement, Adas said terror was among the worst forms of evil.He said he had twice witnessed what tragedies terrorism could cause, on June 23 in Shariff Aguak and on Dec. 24, 2002, in Datu Piang, both in Maguindanao.In the first incident, seven people were killed while in the second, 14 died, including Mayor Saudi Uy Ampatuan, the brother of the regional governor.
The late mayor’s son and namesake, now himself the mayor of a town named after his father, said it was unfortunate that people had the misimpression that Muslims generally were not the targets of, or were spared (from) terror attacks.But look at what’s happening in Iraq. Many of the victims of terrorism are Muslims, said Mayor Saudi Ampatuan Jr.In their common sermons, the muftis said the Muslims finest role in a collective jihad (struggle) was that of maintaining good relationships among humanity and with other creations of God.
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.
26 - Earthquakes jolt Bicol
Thursday, October 26 2006 @ 06:35 PM BST
Provincial
The Bicol provinces were shaken by three consecutive earthquakes Thursday morning, government seismologists said, but no damage or casualties were reported.Similar events also affected Mindoro and Mindanao areas during the past few days where at least seven more earthquakes were recorded.The latest was a magnitude 5 earthquake (intensity 3.6) which shook the island province of Masbate and the other parts of Bicol region at around 8:41 a.m. Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. Its depth was 36 kilometers or 21.7 miles beneath the ground.Margina Ramos, Phivolcs Science Research Analyst, said that the other events were recorded at 7:40 and 8:40 a.m. She explained that the three earthquakes were not aftershocks of previous earthquakes but rather 'series' of tectonic origins.
The same earthquakes were also felt slightly in Legazpi, Albay, Calbayog, Samar and Manila. Its origin was tectonic in nature and the center was plotted at 12.394 degrees north and 123.897 degrees east.The epicenter was traced 35 kilometers east of Masbate, or 85 kilometers south of Legazpi. The institute said that the earthquakes were also felt 90 kilometers west-northwest of Calbayog, Samar and as far as 400 kilometers southeast of Manila.Ramos said the 7:40 a.m. event was intensity 2 at the epicenter while the 8:40 a.m. episode was recorded at intensity 3. The scientist explained that the 8:41 a.m. event was the strongest with intensity 3.6 or magnitude 5.
On the other hand, the worldwide seismic monitoring networks have reported that at least ten earthquakes were felt in different areas of the country from October 20 until the 26th of the month alone.Six of them (magnitudes ranging from 4.2 to 5.8) occurred in Mindoro Island originating from depths ranging from 10 kilometers to as deep as 35 kilometers below the surface.Other episodes were previously felt in Metro Manila and two others in Mindanao with magnitude range of 4.2 to 4.7 at depth range of 35 to 63 kilometers below the ground.There had been no reports of damage to life and properties so far but various disaster coordinating councils have activated their communication centers to make sure there are no casualties. (PNA)
Earthquake rattles Peruvian coast Thu Oct 26, 11:27 PM ET
LIMA, Peru - A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 rattled Peru's southern coast Thursday, sending residents of one city scurrying into the streets but apparently causing no damage or injuries. The quake struck at 6:54 p.m. inn the Pacific Ocean, 94 miles southeast of Lima, almost the same location where a powerful magnitude-6.7 quake hit six days earlier, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.Apartment buildings and commercial towers shook in Lima for several seconds, but no damage was reported.The earthquake caused the most alarm in Ica, a coastal city 165 miles to the southeast, where local radio reports said panicked residents rushed from their homes into streets and parks.
Peruvians have been on edge during the last week because of several aftershocks from the Oct. 20 quake, including a 4.2- magnitude temblor that made Lima shudder late Wednesday.We have registered more than 280 earthquakes, a process that concerns us, but which we also know is expected after the strong quake we felt last Friday, Hernando Tavera, director of the Geophysics Institute of Peru, told The Associated Press.
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.
Flooding brings chaos to region's roads
Kate O'Hara
NON-STOP rain brought flooding to several parts of Yorkshire yesterday, and traffic ground to a halt on motorways and roads around the region as motorists struggled with terrible driving conditions.Weather experts reported more than an inch-and-a-half of rain in Bingley before 6pm and West Yorkshire Fire Service was inundated with reports of flooding.A spokesman for weather forecasters the Meteo Group said Bingley had had the highest rainfall in Yorkshire – about a third of the amount in 12 hours that it would normally have in the whole month of October.We expect those levels to rise steeply too, because they are quite early rainfall levels. We won't be giving another reading until tomorrow, but we expect most of Yorkshire will have had at least an inch or an inch-and -a-half of rain by the end of the night, but Bingley is looking like it could be heading to two-and-a-half or three inches of rain..
The Highways Agency said there had been horrendous congestion on the region's roads throughout the day, and that traffic had practically ground to a halt in parts of Leeds during the evening rush hour.The M621, M62 and main arterial routes into and out of the city were particularly badly affected. A spokesman said: We can't even give any particular reason for it, apart from perhaps the weather. There haven't been any major accidents but traffic has certainly been particularly bad today.There was a three-car accident on the M1 southbound early in the evening between junctions 34 and 35, but nobody was injured.And on the East Coast Coastguards were involved in a search off the North Bay at Scarborough. Battling against terrible weather conditions and high seas the Scarborough Lifeboat scoured the area after North Yorkshire Police reported an unattended bicycle on the shore.The search began at about 6.30pm but was called off at around 9pm when no-one was reported missing. It is thought the bike may have been there since early in the afternoon.kate.o'hara@ypn.co.uk,26 October 2006
Tropical Storm Paul floods Mexico By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 27, 12:22 AM ET
SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico - The remnants of Tropical Storm Paul made landfall on Mexico's mainland Thursday, triggering floods that caused mostly superficial damage to 5,000 houses, officials said. An elderly woman died in a car crash on a rainy road and officials were investigating whether the death was directly connected to the storm, said Jorge Tallaeche, a spokesman for the civil protection service of the Pacific state of Sinaloa, where the storm hit land.Paul, which had been a hurricane earlier in the week, weakened to a tropical depression before making landfall near the Sinaloan town of La Reforma. After hitting land it quickly dissipated.However, it unleashed floods that forced more than 5,000 families to evacuate their homes, Tallaeche said. Most of the damage was superficial, with the houses' structures left intact, he said.Gov. Jesus Aguilar Padilla said he would ask the federal government to declare the zone a disaster area.
Some of the worst flooding was in the village of Villa Juarez, where a canal overflowed and sent more than 3 feet of water into the streets.On Monday, Paul neared Category 3 hurricane status, with winds reaching 110 mph.In September, Hurricane John battered Baja California, killing five people and destroying 160 homes. Later that month, Hurricane Lane threatened the resort region but ended up hitting the resort town of Mazatlan, causing relatively minor damage.San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas are popular with sports fishermen and celebrities and famous for its deep-sea fishing, golf courses and beaches flanked by cactus-dotted deserts.
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.
Yesterday this fire burned 800 Acres, as of today so far the winds are stirring up 24,000 of burnage and only 5% contained.
Officials seek arsonist responsible for Cabazon blaze
By Michael Muskal, Scott Martelle and Maeve Reston, Times Staff Writers
3:31 PM PDT, October 26, 2006
Four firefighters were killed today when a fast-moving arson fire fed by Santa Ana winds churned through the rugged wild terrain of Riverside County, destroying homes and forcing hundreds of residents to flee.The Esperanza fire burned more than 10,000 acres near Cabazon, some 90 miles east of Los Angeles and about 20 miles northwest of Palm Springs.Fueled by dry wood, high temperatures and winds gusting to more than 30 mph, the blaze burned out of control as more than 700 firefighters fought to tame the fire that was reported at 1:12 a.m.This is an arson fire. This is a deliberately set arson fire, fire Chief John Hawkins told reporters at an afternoon news conference. Hawkins oversees fire operations in Riverside County.A deliberately set arson fire that leads to the death of anyone constitutes murder,he said.The county will establish a $100,000 reward to find the arsonist, officials said.Turn that scum in, said Riverside County Supervisor Marion Ashley, one of many angry officials who vowed to find and prosecute those who started the blaze.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated and will stay overnight at community shelters or with friends.But as many as 2,000 people were trapped in a park for recreation vehicles. The people are safe in a protected area, Hawkins said.The fire raced through the terrain, outpacing officials' ability to keep track of the damage. This morning, there were just 800 acres charred. Within eight hours, the damage had increased more than tenfold despite firefighters' efforts and the usual assortment of land and air equipment.It was on one of those rescue efforts that a crew of firefighters were trapped in their vehicle as the rapidly moving fire simply devoured their attempt at shelter from the firestorm.The U.S. Forest Service reported the three deaths, initially saying that two firefighters were critically injured. One of the injured died later at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, according to Cheri Patterson, a spokeswoman for the Riverside County Fire Department and the CDF. The other firefighter remains in the facility in critical condition.
The firefighters were trapped when high winds suddenly pushed the flames over them, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Pat Boss told the Associated Press.The engine was in the area and with the wind conditions like they were, the fire just overtakes and burns the entire engine,said Pat Boss, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman. They were trapped within the engine.The deaths took place near the end of Gorgonio View Road, about 10 miles from Twin Pines Road. The fire crew was trying to protect a home in an inaccessible area.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger briefed reporters this morning outside the student union on the Cal State Fresno campus.So far, 700 people have been evacuated, he said. We have 700 firefighters battling the fire right now to contain it. My, and my wife's, all of our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those firefighters who were killed in this fire.
One major firefighting effort was to protect as many as 2,000 people in the Silent Valley RV Park who are in the hills directly south of Banning near Poppet Flats, according to CDF Fire Capt. Rick Griggs, who has been on the fire line since 4 a.m.We are having to protect structures to save lives,he said. They are well protected there.But the fire, he said, is all around them.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran fires up nuclear processors
POSTED: 1149 GMT (1949 HKT), October 27, 2006
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran has resumed its uranium enrichment program by building a second cascade of centrifuges and injecting gas into the system over the past few weeks despite threats of U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program, Iran's semi-official news agency ISNA reported on Friday.The news comes almost two months after Tehran ignored an August 31 U.N. Security Council deadline demanding it halt its nuclear program.Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has repeatedly said uranium enrichment is his country's right and will not be abandoned, despite Western fears that Iran's goal is to build nuclear weapons.
ISNA reported the International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general Mohamed ElBaradei is fully aware of the injection of gas and the agency's inspectors are currently present in Iran.ElBaradei reportedly said the second cascade has already produced its product but no uranium has been introduced into the new system yet. However, it could be added into the system in upcoming days, he is quoted as saying.Iran had been conducting a small-scale research enrichment program using 164 centrifuges at its Natanz facilities and has now doubled its capacity, ISNA reported. The news agency also said the country's centrifuges are projected to number 3,000 by March 2007.The news of Iran's resumed program comes while six major powers have been meeting at the United Nations to review a draft Security Council resolution mandating sanctions against the Islamic republic over its flaunting of the U.N. deadline.
Text: Draft Sanctions Resolution on Iran (Steve) October 27, 2006 8:54 AM
The text of the Draft Sanctions Resolution on Iran makes clear exception to anything related to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant construction, currently under contract with Russia for completion.
14. Decides, with regard to the construction of Bushehr I Civil Nuclear Power Plant and on the condition that activities set out in subparagraphs (a) to (d) below are notified to the Committee within ten days of taking place, that;
(a.) the measures imposed by paragraph 4 and 5 above shall not apply to supplies of items, materials, equipment, goods and technology, nor to the provision of technical assistance or training, financial assistance, investment, brokering or other services, and the transfer of financial resources, related to the construction of Bushehr I, where these are being provided directly by the Russian Federation,
(b.) the measures imposed by paragraph 7 above shall not apply where such travel, directly between Iran and the Russian Federation, is necessary for the construction of Bushehr I,
(c.) the measures imposed by paragraph 9 above shall not apply to funds, other financial assets or economic resources payable to the Russian Federation by Iran, related to the construction of Bushehr I,
(d.) the measures imposed by paragraph 13 above shall not apply to assistance provided solely to Iran by the IAEA, related to the construction of Bushehr I,
(e.) all other activities related to Bushehr I which are covered by the measures in paragraphs 4, 5, 7, 9 and 13 above must be approved in advance and on a case by case basis by the Committee;
The rest of the text - as proposed but unaffirmed - spells out the restrictions sought to be placed on Iran, including but not limited to travel of those involved in Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, the sale of items that can be used for the programs, and the refusal of training abroad in related fields.
Such restrictions are logical as presented. Yet, as Paragraph 14 above clearly states, the logic stops at Bushehr.
With a draft proposal [made available here] that calls for the cessation of all enrichment activities including ceasing construction of Iran’s heavy water reactor at Arak the wisdom of an exception in all restrictions for the Islamic Republic’s largest nuclear reactor is more than questionable. The reasons for it are clear: Consensus requires Russian approval, and Putin’s Russia has a greater interest in a partnership with the Iranian regime than countering the potential acquisition of nuclear weapons by the world’s primary state sponsor of international terrorism.
Glasnost should be officially declared dead.
It should be recalled that during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, Russian advisors were in Baghdad, feeding intelligence and, some say, directing Hussein’s military defense against American forces.With the Hussein regime gone, Iran represents Russia’s primary seat of influence at the Middle Eastern power table. The Bushehr sanctions exception both recognizes and solidifies this.
Israel will continue flying over Lebanon, minister says (Roundup)
Oct 26, 2006, 17:10 GMT
Tel Aviv - Israel will continue to fly over Lebanese territory, Defence Minister Amir Peretz said Thursday, two days after Israeli planes buzzed a German naval vessel close to the Israel- Lebanon border. Meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Peretz said that the Israeli flights over Lebanon would continue so long as two Israeli soldiers snatched by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas were not released, and so long as there was no organized supervision of the Syrian-Lebanon border. Israel has said Hezbollah is receiving arms across that border, in defiance of United Nations resolution 1701, which ended 33 days of fighting between Israel and the guerrilla group sparked by the abduction of the two Israeli soldiers on July 12.
Reports from the Peretz-Solana meeting said the two men also discussed Teheran's nuclear programme, which Israel sees as particularly alarming, given President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated statements that the Jewish state should be destroyed and dismantled. Consequently, the Iran issue was raised in the other meetings Solana held Thursday with Israeli officials. Foreign Minister Tipi Livni called for sanctions against Iran to prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms, telling a joint news conference with the European envoy after their morning meeting in Tel Aviv that 'the Iranians are trying to win time. We are not asking the world to help us, we are asking the world to help itself, she said. Vice Premier Shimon Peres, who met with Solana in the early afternoon, accused Europe of not doing enough to forestall a nuclear Iran. Iran is not strong, Peres said. The reaction to Iran is weak, and that is what strengthens Iran.
Solana, for his part, concentrated his remarks on the Israel- Palestinian conflict, telling the news conference with Livni that Israel had to fulfil its obligations under the stalled international road map peace plan and uproot unauthorized Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank.He said the road map was still alive and Israel should remember that it too had commitments under it. Calling for a relaunch of the stalled peace plan, which was initiated three years ago by the EU, United States, Russia and United Nations but has been bogged down ever since, he said: We don't push enough to get it moving, too get the train out of the station. We have to have the road map on to the road and to the end of the road,he said, adding that end was very clear two states living side by side in peace and security.
Later, meeting with Peres, he accused Israel of imposing collective punishment on the Palestinians, and thus increasing despair and poverty in the Palestinian areas. Peres replied that Israel was first and foremost committed to the security of its citizens, and would not open the passages to the Gaza Strip, or undertake any other gestures, so long as Palestinian militants continued firing makeshift rockets from the Strip at Israeli communities bordering the salient. Solana arrived in Israel Wednesday and first met with the head of the hardline Israel Beitenu party, Avigdor Lieberman, who is due to enter the government as a minister dealing with strategic threats facing Israel. Later he also met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose office released no details of the meeting Solana was scheduled to travel to Ramallah later Thursday for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the evening. © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
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DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
EU six agree to fight terrorism and illegal immigration
27.10.2006 - 09:27 CET | By Helena Spongenberg,Eu observer
The EU's six largest countries have agreed to work together on fighting terrorism, organised crime and illegal immigration after a two-day informal meeting hosted by the UK.The interior ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK known as the G6 met in Stratford-upon-Avon and agreed to crack down on tax fraud that could fund terrorism, to fight human trafficking, share more information about terrorist threats and make joint moves toward African countries to curb illegal migration routes.The important thing is to keep this at the top of the European agenda, because it is at the top of the concerns of the populations of every country which is represented here: organised crime, counter-terrorism, managed migration, UK home secretary John Reid said after the meeting, according to Reuters.
Although agreements do not lead to any formal decisions, compromises reached by the G6 who represent three quarters of the EU population help set the agenda of meetings at the EU level.The ministers were also concerned about alienation of European Muslims and sought to engage Muslim minorities in the fight against extremism, seeking to counter anger at what they see as unfair treatment by the authorities.The fears were highlighted by the overnight violence in the suburbs of Paris, where youths many from immigrant families - set four buses on fire ahead of the one-year anniversary of major riots across France.
Hostile environment for terrorists
The G6 said close contact between the countries in the 25-nation bloc was needed in order to properly fight terrorism.The six also agreed to increase cooperation on explosives and the technologies that could be used to trace them. In particular the emerging threat from liquid explosives, which British police believe were at the heart of an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic passenger jets last August.They said improved co-operation in monitoring and analysing internet use by radicals for organising and recruiting terrorists was required, to make what Mr Reid called a more hostile operating environment for terrorists.
Immigration
French minister Nicolas Sarkozy emphasized the importance of a common EU-wide policy on granting asylum and said Europe should negotiate as a bloc with African countries on limiting routes used by illegal migrants.There are voices around this table from the right and from the left who are united in seeing the subject of immigration not as a thing of politics but of human drama, he said according to Reuters. His Spanish counterpart Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said according to El Pais that we have approved a very important initiative. The final document of the meeting will be presented to EU interior and justice ministers meeting on 9-10 December.The G6 was set up in 2003 by France and the UK to provide an informal forum for big European Union countries to discuss issues of law and order and immigration
Now this is the way, some Muslims speak out against violence and Terrorism.
Muslim Leaders in The Philippines Call for Rejecting Terror
Santosh Digal
COTABATO CITY, THE PHILIPPINES (ANS) -- Filipino Muslim Religious leaders urged fellow Muslims to shun terrorism in any form in the world.In a khutba (sermon) Ustadz Abdulrauf Guialani, a member of the Assembly of Philippine Da’rul Ifta (Apdi or Houses of Opinion), declared senseless violence haram three times and terrorism is intrinsically is haram (unlawful).The congregational prayers were held in observance of Eid’l Fitr (Feast of Charity). Eid’l Fitr marks the end of the Muslim fasting month.To mark the occasion, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared on Oct 24 a national holiday in the largely Roman Catholic country.
Allah has made it haram to kill children; Allah has made it haram to kill women; Allah has made it haram to kill elderly people, Guialani said.A similar teaching was delivered in open field prayers elsewhere in the country, particularly in the areas of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), Ustadz Esmael Ebrahim, a senior member of the Apdi, said.The ARMM is composed of the predominantly Muslim provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and Marawi City.
This year marked the first time in many years that political and religious leaders had unanimously agreed on a common date to celebrate Eid’l Fitr.ARMM Governor Zaldy Uy Ampatuan and his father, Maguindanao Governor Datu Andal Ampatuan, were the first to declare Monday a day of Eid’l Fitr prayers.The regional governor made the declaration through a religious deputy, Ustadz Mohamad Farid Adas, the ARMM madaris education undersecretary.Governors Wahab Akbar and Abolais Manalao made similar declarations in Basilan and Lanao del Sur.Ramadan begins with the moon sighting on the ninth lunar month of the Arabic Hijra calendar and ends with the appearance of the crescent moon on the tenth month.
Adas invoked the Islamic concept of government officials as being the imam (leader) of the people clothed with authority to declare what is to be followed in matters pertaining to secular and religious affairs.The Apdi also issued a statement condemning the renewed violence that had prompted a heightened terror alert level following recent bombing incidents in Mindanao, southern Philippines.In a public statement, Adas said terror was among the worst forms of evil.He said he had twice witnessed what tragedies terrorism could cause, on June 23 in Shariff Aguak and on Dec. 24, 2002, in Datu Piang, both in Maguindanao.In the first incident, seven people were killed while in the second, 14 died, including Mayor Saudi Uy Ampatuan, the brother of the regional governor.
The late mayor’s son and namesake, now himself the mayor of a town named after his father, said it was unfortunate that people had the misimpression that Muslims generally were not the targets of, or were spared (from) terror attacks.But look at what’s happening in Iraq. Many of the victims of terrorism are Muslims, said Mayor Saudi Ampatuan Jr.In their common sermons, the muftis said the Muslims finest role in a collective jihad (struggle) was that of maintaining good relationships among humanity and with other creations of God.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
ISRAEL - SYRIA ON ALERT
1-Major Colorado snow storm. 2-Rising Seas and Stronger Storms Threaten New York City. 3-Peres Warns EU Minister Regarding Iranian Nuclear Weapon. 4-EU Demanding Compliance With Roadmap Plan. 5-Israel en route to defense pact? 6-3-D vision of solar storms. 7-Israel, Syria heighten alert for possible war. 8-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 9-EU's Solana: Mideast Road Map Peace Plan
Stalled.
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.
Major Colorado snow storm W. Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
Thu Oct 26, 6:36 AM ET
West
A significant snow storm is taking shape over central Colorado this morning. Snow, heavy at times, has been developing, as a storm system deepens and pulls in colder air. Winds will begin to increase over the area as well, and this in combination with the snow, will result in blizzard conditions in a few locations. Blizzard and winter storm warnings have been posted for parts of central Colorado through today. During the afternoon, the storm system will begin to move into the central Plains, allowing temperatures to warm over Colorado. This will result in snow mixing with, and changing over to rain in a few spots, before ending later today.
Conditions will significantly improve by Friday and the weekend, as high pressure builds across the area. Meanwhile, offshore winds will continue to be strong over southern California, continuing the threat for fires there. A new storm system will generate a few showers over the Pacific Northwest.
South
A storm system will move out into the central Plains today, deepen, and continue moving east. Abundant Gulf moisture will be pulled northward resulting in widespread rain, heavy at times, across the Mid-South, and Mississippi Valley today. There will be a potential for flooding, particularly across the Lower Mississippi River Valley, as the heavy rains move over areas where rivers are still running high, or still at flood from previous rains. High pressure should hold most of the rain west of the Southeastern states today, but overnight tonight, and into Friday, heavy rain will spread eastward. The storm system will begin to track northeast toward the Mid-Atlantic by Saturday, pushing a cold front east through the southern states. This will clear the rain out, and allow for cooler conditions. By early next week, a warming trend will be in store for the south.
Midwest
A disturbance moving across the Middle Mississippi and Lower Ohio River Valleys this morning has been triggering rain. This wave of rain will push north and east, while a strong system advances into the central Plains, bringing more rain back into the area. Rain, heavy at times, will cover much of the Midwest and central Plains. Winds will also increase over the central Plains, with gusts possibility reaching over 40 mph in a few locations. The northern Plains, and Upper Midwest should remain rain free, as the storm system will remain south of that area. The threat for rain will shift east of the area by the weekend, as high pressure builds across the area. More rain will be in the forecast, mainly for the northern tier, as a new storm system approaches.
Northeast
High pressure will dominate most of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast today, with partly cloudy skies and cool afternoon highs in the middle 40s to lower 50s. The only exception will be northern New England where a few rain and snow showers may occur. Changes are on the way, as clouds will gradually increase later today, moving up the Ohio River Valley, as a new storm system advances toward the area. Rain will overspread parts of the Mid-Atlantic, including Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Washington by Friday, then the rest of the Northeast by Saturday. This will be a strong storm system, with heavy rainfall possible, along with increasing winds, especially over New England. This storm system should move out of the area by the start of next week, allowing cooler conditions to filter in.
Rising Seas and Stronger Storms Threaten New York City Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer,LiveScience.com ,Wed Oct 25, 5:15 PM ET
Global warming could substantially raise sea levels around New York City over the next century and put the Big Apple at greater risk of being flooded by hurricane waves, a new computer model predicts.Sea level around the city could jump 15 to 19 inches by 2050 and by more than three feet by 2080, according to the model.With sea levels at these higher levels, flooding by major storms would inundate many low-lying neighborhoods and shut down the entire metropolitan transportation system with much greater frequency, said study team member Vivien Gornitz of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University in New York.
Hurricane risk
While rare, hurricanes have hit New York City before. The strongest was a Category 4 hurricane at its peak in the Caribbean, which made landfall at Jamaica Bay on Sept. 3, 1821 with a 13-foot storm surge that flooded much of lower Manhattan. Also, the Category 3 Great Hurricane of 1938 tore through central Long Island and ripped into southern New England on Sept. 21, 1938. The storm, which killed at least 600 people, pushed a wall of water up to 35 feet high in front of it, sweeping away protective barrier dunes and buildings.Officials have long warned that a similar storm striking Manhattan would be devastating today. Of particular concern: massive subway flooding.
Frightening future
If sea levels rise as predicted, New York City would face an increased risk of flooding by hurricane storm surge, the researchers say. Storm surge is an above normal rise in sea level caused by a hurricane. The new model used data collected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Hurricane Center to calculate the amount of damage hurricane-induced storm surges would inflict on the city. A previous study in 1995 predicted that a Category 3 hurricane could create surges of up to 25 feet at JFK Airport, 21 feet at the Lincoln Tunnel entrance, 24 feet at the Battery and 26 feet at La Guardia Airport. The estimates did not include the effects of tides or boosted wave heights on top of the surge.Even an increase of as little as 1.5 inches in normal sea level could contribute to flooding many parts of the city if a Category 3 hurricane were to strike, said Gornitz and fellow researcher Rosemary Rosenzweig. Hurricanes are ranked from 1 to 5, with 5 being the strongest and most destructive.
Areas that could potentially be flooded [image], the researchers said, include the Rockaways, Coney Island, much of southern Brooklyn and Queens, portions of Long Island City, Astoria, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, lower Manhattan and eastern Staten Island, from Great Kills Harbor north to the Verrazano Bridge.The findings will be presented this week at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Philadelphia.
Already rising
Sea levels around the world have been rising steadily, by fractions of an inch, during most of the 20th century, but the rate of increase has nearly doubled, to 0.12 inches per year, within the last decade. Scientists believe warming of the world's oceans and melting glaciers caused by global warming are to blame.
A 2001 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that a global warming of 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius (2.5 to 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit) could raise sea levels 4 inches to 3 feet by the end of the century.Recent studies have also linked human-caused global warming to increases in hurricane strength and duration, but some scientists attribute the changes to natural cycles in global weather patterns.
Peres Warns EU Minister Regarding Iranian Nuclear Weapon
15:35 Oct 26, '06 / 4 Cheshvan 5767
(IsraelNN.com) Vice Premier Shimon Peres in a meeting in Israel with European Union (EU) Foreign Minister Javier Solana that if Iran successfully develops a nuclear weapon, it will find its way into terrorist hands.Peres warned that stern measures must be taken to prevent the continuation of the Iranian nuclear program. Solana will be leaving Israel on Thursday evening, traveling to PA (Palestinian Authority) autonomous areas to meet with leaders. In Israel, Solana met earlier on Thursday with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
EU Demanding Compliance With Roadmap Plan
13:31 Oct 26, '06 / 4 Cheshvan 5767
(IsraelNN.com) Meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem on Thursday, European Union (EU) Foreign Minister Javier Solana stated that from the EU’s perspective, America’s Roadmap Plan is still relevant and the EU expects compliance from Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority).Solana expressed concern over the government’s inactive policy regarding the removal of unauthorized Yesha outposts.The crisis surrounding Iran’s ongoing nuclear program was also discussed.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
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 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; 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 JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) 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 with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) 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.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Israel en route to defense pact?
Israeli membership in NATO has advantages and disadvantages
Uzi Arad Published: 10.25.06, 19:13 (Ynet)
On October 16th, Israel and NATO established a new cooperation agreement. Israel is the first non-European nation which NATO has chosen to work with in the frame of its Individual Cooperation Program (ICP).
The program specifies 27 areas of cooperation including response to terrorism, intelligence sharing, political dialogue, and a host of military and civilian issues including search and rescue operations.The boost in cooperation provides an opportunity to further enhance the relations that evolved in the past year, and comes just weeks ahead of NATO's upcoming summit in Riga. As part of the burgeoning NATO-Israel relationship, NATO's Secretary General visited Israel last year, and his deputy concluded a visit to the area Tuesday. Addressing the Atlantic Forum of Israel, the latter noted that with the new agreement, the bilateral relationship has acquired a strategic value in its own right.
Both parties have been advancing the upgrade in their relations gradually and cautiously. The trend however, is clear: Israel wants an official partnership with the organization. NATO has two basic forms of associations partnership and membership. As an alliance, NATO membership is first and foremost a mutual and collective defense pact. In the past, partnership served as an interim phase towards membership.
End goal: Membership?
The question is whether Israel's aspirations for a partnership signal an end goal or an interim phase after which Israel will pursue membership in NATO. The answer to this is based on an assessment of the efficacy of a formal alliance. This can be achieved bilaterally with the United States or multilaterally with NATO. These options reveal Israeli considerations and misgivings, since mutual defense pacts have both advantages and disadvantages, such as the limiting of one's freedom of action. Israeli membership in NATO entails an American formal defense guarantee and renders superfluous a bilateral defense pact. There are those in the US who contend that Israel must strive for a relationship similar to that of the US-UK special relationship NATO allies that maintain a parallel strategic bilateral relationship governed by written and implicit arrangements and understandings.Israel can of course concentrate on achieving a defense pact with the US alone, perhaps even without delay, utilizing the last term of the friendly Bush administration. Conversely, considering the misgivings of a defense pact, it is also possible to forego both possible NATO membership and a defense pact with the US.
There are Americans, such as Dr. Ronald Asmus, or Europeans, such as former Prime Minister of Spain José Maria Aznar, who contend that it is in NATO's interests to achieve a pact with Israel in order to tackle jointly global threats and to maintain regional stability.
Assessing the benefits
Israel will assess the efficacy of joining the Alliance considering what it foresees in the geopolitical arena, as well as threats stemming from the possible nuclearization of Iran.If Israel reaches the conclusion that an alliance will provide it with an additional layer of deterrence above and beyond its current level it will then have to decide whether to pursue the multilateral option (with NATO) or the bilateral one (with the US), or perhaps even both. In any case, either option will require a considerable Israeli effort to overcome misgivings and inhibitions, as well as active, energetic and sophisticated statecraft leveraging its capabilities to obtain its goals. If these goals prove to be out of reach, or if Israel opts to be satisfied merely with advanced levels of cooperation, then a
deepening of relations within the existing frameworks must be realized to its fullest potential, either with NATO and the new ICP or with the United States, or both.It is worthy to note that the last generation of Israeli prime ministers, at times discreetly and at times overtly, aspired to achieve a formal defense pact and alliance with the US. It seems that within the anticipated strategic reality, it is
wise to consider such an upgrade.
Operatively speaking, it would be most appropriate to utilize the final two years of the responsive Bush administration to achieve a defense pact with the United States. But if such an option will not come to fruition, because of practical political reasons or otherwise, then the NATO route will be the one to pursue.Prof. Arad of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya chairs the Atlantic Forum of Israel
LUKE 21:25
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations,
3-D vision of solar storms
Thursday 26 October 2006, 8:21 Makka Time, 5:21 GMT
The US has launched a space mission to study potentially disruptive solar storms by taking three-dimensional pictures of the Sun.The rocket carrying the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or Stereo a pair of solar probes lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday.Stereo will take pictures of the solar outbursts so that scientists can, for the first time, pinpoint where the storms are heading.The eruptions, called coronal mass ejections, can shut down communications and navigational satellites, affect aircraft and disrupt electricity supplies as billions of tonnes of charged particles are sent streaming into space.
Part of one of the solar probes during assembly (Nasa)
Right now we can only see the Sun, essentially, in just two dimensions, said Terry Kucera, Stereo's deputy project scientist. We can't tell in some cases whether coronal mass ejections are moving towards us or away from us. That's pretty fundamental.With 3-D, we'll be able to tell basic things like how fast is it going, is it speeding up or slowing down? These are important things that we need to know if we're going to be able to predict what the impact of a particular event is going to be.The satellites were launched on a Boeing-built Delta rocket, which lifted off at 8:52pm local time (0052 GMT).They were placed in a temporary, looping orbit around the Earth. On December 15, lunar gravity will slingshot the first spacecraft into a solar orbit just ahead of Earth's path.
The transport cannister will carry both probes into orbit (Nasa)
The second satellite will be flung into an orbit lagging Earth on January 21. From the perspective of the Sun, the spacecraft will orbit 45 degrees apart, providing enough distance to work like a pair of human eyes that can see in three dimensions.A massive solar storm in 1989 damaged a power grid in Canada, shutting off electricity for six million residents. Three years ago, Japan lost contact with a satellite after a series of solar eruptions.In terms of space-weather forecasting, we're where weather forecasters were in the 1950s, said Michael Kaiser, a Stereo project scientist. They didn't see hurricanes until the rain clouds were right above them.
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Israel, Syria heighten alert for possible war
Military presence boosted as Assad warns of looming conflict over Golan
Posted: October 26, 2006,9:55 a.m. Eastern,By Aaron Klein,© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
GOLAN HEIGHTS /Israel has visibly beefed up its military presence here in the Golan Heights while neighboring Syria reportedly has placed its army on high alert and has warned it is preparing for a possible war with the Jewish state. The Israeli Defense Forces yesterday carried out the second in a series of scheduled military exercises in the Golan. IDF chief of staff Dan Halutz earlier this week made a surprise visit to the mountainous territory, which the army here said was intended to test the operational readiness and capabilities of local divisions. Since the end of Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in August, Syrian President Bashar Assad has given a series of interviews in which he warned of possible confrontations with Israel. He has stated several times he views Hezbollah's victory over Israel as proof military tactics bring results.
In recent weeks, Assad said the Syrian army was preparing for war, claiming he was worried Israel would attack his country first. We must remain ready at all times.
We have begun preparations within the framework of our options, Assad told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anba. He said Israel could attack Syria at any moment and that Israeli leaders have abandoned the peace process and are seeking a war.Yossi Beyditz, head of research for the IDF's intelligence branch, told the Israeli cabinet last week the Jewish state has indications Assad is preparing his army for a confrontation with Israel. Assad has not returned the army to its pre-Lebanon war positions,Beyditz said.
Israeli officials here claim the IDF alert level in the Golan Heights has not been raised in response to Assad's recent statements and to the new Israeli intelligence estimates. They say Israel has maintained the same heightened state of alert in the Golan Heights that has been in effect since clashes with Hezbollah broke out July 12. But a tour of the Golan Heights finds multiple new army positions local residents and soldiers stationed here say were established within the past three weeks. More tanks have been patrolling the area, with several tanks setting up shop in strategic positions, according to soldiers. Makeshift military outposts have
been erected and Golan checkpoints fortified. A fence that runs along parts of the Golan-Syrian border also has been fortified, with a series of surveillance cameras newly installed. Residents in one border town told WND the new cameras were installed along the border fence two weeks ago.
Syria has noticed the beefed up IDF presence and in response has heightened its own alertness even more, according to yesterday's edition of the Qatari newspaper, Al-Watan. The newspaper said Syrian Defense Minister Hassan Turkmani ordered troops in the area to be on the ready. Syrian sources said Damascus was closely monitoring IDF activity in the Golan. The Golan Heights is strategic mountainous territory captured by the Jewish state after Syria used the terrain to attack Israel in 1967 and again
in 1973. The Heights looks down on major Syrian and Israeli population centers. Military officials here have long maintained returning the Golan Heights to Syria would grant Damascus the ability to mount an effective ground invasion of the Jewish state.
Damascus prepping public for war
Security officials here told WND there have been indications the past few weeks Syria is seeking to launch a provocation. Besides Assad's statements, the officials say state-run Syrian media have been broadcasting regular warlike messages unseen since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which Syria and Egypt launched invasions from the Golan and the Sinai desert. The tone [in Syria] is one of preparing the public for a war,said a senior security official. He said any Syrian provocation would likely be coordinated with Iran. Tehran and Damascus, which both support Hezbollah, have signed several military pacts. Reuven Erlich, a Syrian expert and director of the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies, told WND Assad's threats are to be taken seriously. Assad's support for terrorism, for the insurgency in Iraq, for Hezbollah and his alliance with Iran are all indication of the direction in which Syria is headed. Assad needs to demonstrate he is willing to sue for peace, but everything seems to indicate the opposite. Especially following the war in Lebanon,Erlich said.
Reports: Syria to form own Hezbollah
In July, WND first reported Syria is forming its own Hezbollah-like guerrilla organization to attack Israeli positions in the Golan Heights, according to a senior Baath party official. The Baath official told WND Syria learned from Hezbollah's military campaign against Israel that fighting is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory. Hezbollah claims its goal is to
liberate the Shebaa Farms, a small, 12-square-mile bloc situated between Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The cease-fire resolution accepted by Israel to end its military campaign in Lebanon calls for negotiations leading to Israel's relinquishing of the Shebaa Farms. The official told WND Syria's new Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights was formed in June and that the group consists of Syrian volunteers, many from the Syrian border with Turkey and from Palestinian refugee camps near Damascus. He said Syria held registration for volunteers to join the Front in June.
One week after the WND article detailing the claimed group was published, state-run Al-Alam Iranian television featured an interview with a man who identified himself as the leader of the new Front for the Liberation of the Golan. The man, whose features were blocked out, said his new group consists of hundreds of fighters who are training for guerrilla-like raids against Israeli positions in and near the Golan. He claimed the Front has opened several training camps inside Syria. Last month, Amos Yadlin, head of the IDF's intelligence branch, told the Knesset Syria is in the early stages of forming a Hezbollah-like group.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 26, 2006
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
In the past couple of weeks, I've been asked about the implications of North Korea's test of a nuclear weapon. I'm convinced it represents a significant threat to free nations around the world, including Israel. Let's look at the facts. It is well-known that North Korea supplies weapons to terrorists and terror supporting countries worldwide. One of these is Israel's neighbor, Iran, whose leader, president Ahmadinejad, repeatedly calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. For this reason, Israel which understands fully the threat posed by a nuclear Iran has been working hard to rally opposition to North Korea, knowing that a strong response could deter Iran from its deadly pursuit of nuclear weapons, while a weak one could embolden it. There is another piece to this puzzle. Just as North Korea supplies Iran, Iran regularly funnels arms and provides financial aid and training to terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. These in turn launch their attacks against Israel from her own back yard that is, Gaza and Lebanon. The threat of newer, more powerful, even nuclear, weapons in the hands of the terrorists next door poses a grave danger to Israel's security.
Today, the threat from North Korea and Iran extends beyond Americans concern for Israel, one of its closest allies. For a long time, Americans felt immune from attack on our own soil. But 9/11 changed all that. While some question whether a North Korean missile could reach the U.S., in this day and age such a strike wouldn't even be necessary the same thing could be accomplished by having terrorists infiltrate the U.S with a portable nuclear weapon. The horrors of 9/11 would pale in comparison to such a deadly attack.
In light of these sobering realities, I ask you today to continue your prayers for the peace of Jerusalem, America and the entire world. Even as government officials work through diplomatic channels to alleviate the threats of North Korea and Iran, and our armies stand poised to protect us, let us remember none can give us more protection than the true Guardian of Israel, God Himself the One of whom it is said, He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:4).
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
EU's Solana: Mideast Road Map Peace Plan Stalled
By Jim Teeple ,26 October 2006
Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief held talks Thursday with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Mr. Solana says Mideast peace efforts are stalled. Javier Solana urged Israeli leaders to stop building illegal settlements in the West Bank, reopen a crucial border crossing, and expressed concern over comments made to him by an Israeli politician about the permanence of West Bank settlements. The EU foreign policy chief says there is no question that mideast peace efforts are now stalled. As far as the Israeli Palestinian peace process, we have the feeling that it is now stalled, he said. We would very much to see if we can with cooperation of all the parties to see if some movement can be put in place to give not only hope for the people but also realities on the ground.
Solana urged Israel to reopen the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which Israel has closed for security reasons. He also said he is concerned about comments made to him by member of the Israeli cabinet who reportedly told the EU diplomat that Israel has no plans to remove West Bank settlements or outposts, as called for under the road map peace plan. Solana was apparently referring to Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of a far right political party that advocates annexing the settlements and expelling large numbers of Israeli Arab citizens. Lieberman who held talks with Solana on Wednesday joined Israel's cabinet this week. Under the road map plan, Israel is to stop building settlements and Palestinians are to stop terrorist attacks against Israelis measures aimed at leading to negotiations toward a two-state solution.Solana's comments came at a news conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who said Israel is still committed to the road map peace plan, but Israelis are increasingly concerned about whether they will ever have a reliable partner for peace in the Palestinian territories.
Unfortunately the situation on the ground in the Gaza Strip sends the wrong message to Israelis to those who supported disengagement I believe those Palestinians who want to live in a state of their own and who believe in a two-state solution should take responsibility and act in order to help us and help all those moderates in the region,she said. Following his talks with Israeli officials, Solana traveled to the West Bank city of Ramallah for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Aides traveling with the EU diplomat said he would urge the Palestinian leader to move forward with plans to create a Palestinian unity government which could begin to receive international aid. Nearly all international aid to the Palestinians has been suspended since Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, took control of the Palestinian Authority following parliamentary elections earlier this year.
Stalled.
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.
Major Colorado snow storm W. Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
Thu Oct 26, 6:36 AM ET
West
A significant snow storm is taking shape over central Colorado this morning. Snow, heavy at times, has been developing, as a storm system deepens and pulls in colder air. Winds will begin to increase over the area as well, and this in combination with the snow, will result in blizzard conditions in a few locations. Blizzard and winter storm warnings have been posted for parts of central Colorado through today. During the afternoon, the storm system will begin to move into the central Plains, allowing temperatures to warm over Colorado. This will result in snow mixing with, and changing over to rain in a few spots, before ending later today.
Conditions will significantly improve by Friday and the weekend, as high pressure builds across the area. Meanwhile, offshore winds will continue to be strong over southern California, continuing the threat for fires there. A new storm system will generate a few showers over the Pacific Northwest.
South
A storm system will move out into the central Plains today, deepen, and continue moving east. Abundant Gulf moisture will be pulled northward resulting in widespread rain, heavy at times, across the Mid-South, and Mississippi Valley today. There will be a potential for flooding, particularly across the Lower Mississippi River Valley, as the heavy rains move over areas where rivers are still running high, or still at flood from previous rains. High pressure should hold most of the rain west of the Southeastern states today, but overnight tonight, and into Friday, heavy rain will spread eastward. The storm system will begin to track northeast toward the Mid-Atlantic by Saturday, pushing a cold front east through the southern states. This will clear the rain out, and allow for cooler conditions. By early next week, a warming trend will be in store for the south.
Midwest
A disturbance moving across the Middle Mississippi and Lower Ohio River Valleys this morning has been triggering rain. This wave of rain will push north and east, while a strong system advances into the central Plains, bringing more rain back into the area. Rain, heavy at times, will cover much of the Midwest and central Plains. Winds will also increase over the central Plains, with gusts possibility reaching over 40 mph in a few locations. The northern Plains, and Upper Midwest should remain rain free, as the storm system will remain south of that area. The threat for rain will shift east of the area by the weekend, as high pressure builds across the area. More rain will be in the forecast, mainly for the northern tier, as a new storm system approaches.
Northeast
High pressure will dominate most of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast today, with partly cloudy skies and cool afternoon highs in the middle 40s to lower 50s. The only exception will be northern New England where a few rain and snow showers may occur. Changes are on the way, as clouds will gradually increase later today, moving up the Ohio River Valley, as a new storm system advances toward the area. Rain will overspread parts of the Mid-Atlantic, including Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Washington by Friday, then the rest of the Northeast by Saturday. This will be a strong storm system, with heavy rainfall possible, along with increasing winds, especially over New England. This storm system should move out of the area by the start of next week, allowing cooler conditions to filter in.
Rising Seas and Stronger Storms Threaten New York City Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer,LiveScience.com ,Wed Oct 25, 5:15 PM ET
Global warming could substantially raise sea levels around New York City over the next century and put the Big Apple at greater risk of being flooded by hurricane waves, a new computer model predicts.Sea level around the city could jump 15 to 19 inches by 2050 and by more than three feet by 2080, according to the model.With sea levels at these higher levels, flooding by major storms would inundate many low-lying neighborhoods and shut down the entire metropolitan transportation system with much greater frequency, said study team member Vivien Gornitz of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University in New York.
Hurricane risk
While rare, hurricanes have hit New York City before. The strongest was a Category 4 hurricane at its peak in the Caribbean, which made landfall at Jamaica Bay on Sept. 3, 1821 with a 13-foot storm surge that flooded much of lower Manhattan. Also, the Category 3 Great Hurricane of 1938 tore through central Long Island and ripped into southern New England on Sept. 21, 1938. The storm, which killed at least 600 people, pushed a wall of water up to 35 feet high in front of it, sweeping away protective barrier dunes and buildings.Officials have long warned that a similar storm striking Manhattan would be devastating today. Of particular concern: massive subway flooding.
Frightening future
If sea levels rise as predicted, New York City would face an increased risk of flooding by hurricane storm surge, the researchers say. Storm surge is an above normal rise in sea level caused by a hurricane. The new model used data collected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Hurricane Center to calculate the amount of damage hurricane-induced storm surges would inflict on the city. A previous study in 1995 predicted that a Category 3 hurricane could create surges of up to 25 feet at JFK Airport, 21 feet at the Lincoln Tunnel entrance, 24 feet at the Battery and 26 feet at La Guardia Airport. The estimates did not include the effects of tides or boosted wave heights on top of the surge.Even an increase of as little as 1.5 inches in normal sea level could contribute to flooding many parts of the city if a Category 3 hurricane were to strike, said Gornitz and fellow researcher Rosemary Rosenzweig. Hurricanes are ranked from 1 to 5, with 5 being the strongest and most destructive.
Areas that could potentially be flooded [image], the researchers said, include the Rockaways, Coney Island, much of southern Brooklyn and Queens, portions of Long Island City, Astoria, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, lower Manhattan and eastern Staten Island, from Great Kills Harbor north to the Verrazano Bridge.The findings will be presented this week at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Philadelphia.
Already rising
Sea levels around the world have been rising steadily, by fractions of an inch, during most of the 20th century, but the rate of increase has nearly doubled, to 0.12 inches per year, within the last decade. Scientists believe warming of the world's oceans and melting glaciers caused by global warming are to blame.
A 2001 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that a global warming of 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius (2.5 to 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit) could raise sea levels 4 inches to 3 feet by the end of the century.Recent studies have also linked human-caused global warming to increases in hurricane strength and duration, but some scientists attribute the changes to natural cycles in global weather patterns.
Peres Warns EU Minister Regarding Iranian Nuclear Weapon
15:35 Oct 26, '06 / 4 Cheshvan 5767
(IsraelNN.com) Vice Premier Shimon Peres in a meeting in Israel with European Union (EU) Foreign Minister Javier Solana that if Iran successfully develops a nuclear weapon, it will find its way into terrorist hands.Peres warned that stern measures must be taken to prevent the continuation of the Iranian nuclear program. Solana will be leaving Israel on Thursday evening, traveling to PA (Palestinian Authority) autonomous areas to meet with leaders. In Israel, Solana met earlier on Thursday with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
EU Demanding Compliance With Roadmap Plan
13:31 Oct 26, '06 / 4 Cheshvan 5767
(IsraelNN.com) Meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem on Thursday, European Union (EU) Foreign Minister Javier Solana stated that from the EU’s perspective, America’s Roadmap Plan is still relevant and the EU expects compliance from Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority).Solana expressed concern over the government’s inactive policy regarding the removal of unauthorized Yesha outposts.The crisis surrounding Iran’s ongoing nuclear program was also discussed.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
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 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; 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 JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) 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 with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) 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.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Israel en route to defense pact?
Israeli membership in NATO has advantages and disadvantages
Uzi Arad Published: 10.25.06, 19:13 (Ynet)
On October 16th, Israel and NATO established a new cooperation agreement. Israel is the first non-European nation which NATO has chosen to work with in the frame of its Individual Cooperation Program (ICP).
The program specifies 27 areas of cooperation including response to terrorism, intelligence sharing, political dialogue, and a host of military and civilian issues including search and rescue operations.The boost in cooperation provides an opportunity to further enhance the relations that evolved in the past year, and comes just weeks ahead of NATO's upcoming summit in Riga. As part of the burgeoning NATO-Israel relationship, NATO's Secretary General visited Israel last year, and his deputy concluded a visit to the area Tuesday. Addressing the Atlantic Forum of Israel, the latter noted that with the new agreement, the bilateral relationship has acquired a strategic value in its own right.
Both parties have been advancing the upgrade in their relations gradually and cautiously. The trend however, is clear: Israel wants an official partnership with the organization. NATO has two basic forms of associations partnership and membership. As an alliance, NATO membership is first and foremost a mutual and collective defense pact. In the past, partnership served as an interim phase towards membership.
End goal: Membership?
The question is whether Israel's aspirations for a partnership signal an end goal or an interim phase after which Israel will pursue membership in NATO. The answer to this is based on an assessment of the efficacy of a formal alliance. This can be achieved bilaterally with the United States or multilaterally with NATO. These options reveal Israeli considerations and misgivings, since mutual defense pacts have both advantages and disadvantages, such as the limiting of one's freedom of action. Israeli membership in NATO entails an American formal defense guarantee and renders superfluous a bilateral defense pact. There are those in the US who contend that Israel must strive for a relationship similar to that of the US-UK special relationship NATO allies that maintain a parallel strategic bilateral relationship governed by written and implicit arrangements and understandings.Israel can of course concentrate on achieving a defense pact with the US alone, perhaps even without delay, utilizing the last term of the friendly Bush administration. Conversely, considering the misgivings of a defense pact, it is also possible to forego both possible NATO membership and a defense pact with the US.
There are Americans, such as Dr. Ronald Asmus, or Europeans, such as former Prime Minister of Spain José Maria Aznar, who contend that it is in NATO's interests to achieve a pact with Israel in order to tackle jointly global threats and to maintain regional stability.
Assessing the benefits
Israel will assess the efficacy of joining the Alliance considering what it foresees in the geopolitical arena, as well as threats stemming from the possible nuclearization of Iran.If Israel reaches the conclusion that an alliance will provide it with an additional layer of deterrence above and beyond its current level it will then have to decide whether to pursue the multilateral option (with NATO) or the bilateral one (with the US), or perhaps even both. In any case, either option will require a considerable Israeli effort to overcome misgivings and inhibitions, as well as active, energetic and sophisticated statecraft leveraging its capabilities to obtain its goals. If these goals prove to be out of reach, or if Israel opts to be satisfied merely with advanced levels of cooperation, then a
deepening of relations within the existing frameworks must be realized to its fullest potential, either with NATO and the new ICP or with the United States, or both.It is worthy to note that the last generation of Israeli prime ministers, at times discreetly and at times overtly, aspired to achieve a formal defense pact and alliance with the US. It seems that within the anticipated strategic reality, it is
wise to consider such an upgrade.
Operatively speaking, it would be most appropriate to utilize the final two years of the responsive Bush administration to achieve a defense pact with the United States. But if such an option will not come to fruition, because of practical political reasons or otherwise, then the NATO route will be the one to pursue.Prof. Arad of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya chairs the Atlantic Forum of Israel
LUKE 21:25
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations,
3-D vision of solar storms
Thursday 26 October 2006, 8:21 Makka Time, 5:21 GMT
The US has launched a space mission to study potentially disruptive solar storms by taking three-dimensional pictures of the Sun.The rocket carrying the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or Stereo a pair of solar probes lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday.Stereo will take pictures of the solar outbursts so that scientists can, for the first time, pinpoint where the storms are heading.The eruptions, called coronal mass ejections, can shut down communications and navigational satellites, affect aircraft and disrupt electricity supplies as billions of tonnes of charged particles are sent streaming into space.
Part of one of the solar probes during assembly (Nasa)
Right now we can only see the Sun, essentially, in just two dimensions, said Terry Kucera, Stereo's deputy project scientist. We can't tell in some cases whether coronal mass ejections are moving towards us or away from us. That's pretty fundamental.With 3-D, we'll be able to tell basic things like how fast is it going, is it speeding up or slowing down? These are important things that we need to know if we're going to be able to predict what the impact of a particular event is going to be.The satellites were launched on a Boeing-built Delta rocket, which lifted off at 8:52pm local time (0052 GMT).They were placed in a temporary, looping orbit around the Earth. On December 15, lunar gravity will slingshot the first spacecraft into a solar orbit just ahead of Earth's path.
The transport cannister will carry both probes into orbit (Nasa)
The second satellite will be flung into an orbit lagging Earth on January 21. From the perspective of the Sun, the spacecraft will orbit 45 degrees apart, providing enough distance to work like a pair of human eyes that can see in three dimensions.A massive solar storm in 1989 damaged a power grid in Canada, shutting off electricity for six million residents. Three years ago, Japan lost contact with a satellite after a series of solar eruptions.In terms of space-weather forecasting, we're where weather forecasters were in the 1950s, said Michael Kaiser, a Stereo project scientist. They didn't see hurricanes until the rain clouds were right above them.
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Israel, Syria heighten alert for possible war
Military presence boosted as Assad warns of looming conflict over Golan
Posted: October 26, 2006,9:55 a.m. Eastern,By Aaron Klein,© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
GOLAN HEIGHTS /Israel has visibly beefed up its military presence here in the Golan Heights while neighboring Syria reportedly has placed its army on high alert and has warned it is preparing for a possible war with the Jewish state. The Israeli Defense Forces yesterday carried out the second in a series of scheduled military exercises in the Golan. IDF chief of staff Dan Halutz earlier this week made a surprise visit to the mountainous territory, which the army here said was intended to test the operational readiness and capabilities of local divisions. Since the end of Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in August, Syrian President Bashar Assad has given a series of interviews in which he warned of possible confrontations with Israel. He has stated several times he views Hezbollah's victory over Israel as proof military tactics bring results.
In recent weeks, Assad said the Syrian army was preparing for war, claiming he was worried Israel would attack his country first. We must remain ready at all times.
We have begun preparations within the framework of our options, Assad told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anba. He said Israel could attack Syria at any moment and that Israeli leaders have abandoned the peace process and are seeking a war.Yossi Beyditz, head of research for the IDF's intelligence branch, told the Israeli cabinet last week the Jewish state has indications Assad is preparing his army for a confrontation with Israel. Assad has not returned the army to its pre-Lebanon war positions,Beyditz said.
Israeli officials here claim the IDF alert level in the Golan Heights has not been raised in response to Assad's recent statements and to the new Israeli intelligence estimates. They say Israel has maintained the same heightened state of alert in the Golan Heights that has been in effect since clashes with Hezbollah broke out July 12. But a tour of the Golan Heights finds multiple new army positions local residents and soldiers stationed here say were established within the past three weeks. More tanks have been patrolling the area, with several tanks setting up shop in strategic positions, according to soldiers. Makeshift military outposts have
been erected and Golan checkpoints fortified. A fence that runs along parts of the Golan-Syrian border also has been fortified, with a series of surveillance cameras newly installed. Residents in one border town told WND the new cameras were installed along the border fence two weeks ago.
Syria has noticed the beefed up IDF presence and in response has heightened its own alertness even more, according to yesterday's edition of the Qatari newspaper, Al-Watan. The newspaper said Syrian Defense Minister Hassan Turkmani ordered troops in the area to be on the ready. Syrian sources said Damascus was closely monitoring IDF activity in the Golan. The Golan Heights is strategic mountainous territory captured by the Jewish state after Syria used the terrain to attack Israel in 1967 and again
in 1973. The Heights looks down on major Syrian and Israeli population centers. Military officials here have long maintained returning the Golan Heights to Syria would grant Damascus the ability to mount an effective ground invasion of the Jewish state.
Damascus prepping public for war
Security officials here told WND there have been indications the past few weeks Syria is seeking to launch a provocation. Besides Assad's statements, the officials say state-run Syrian media have been broadcasting regular warlike messages unseen since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which Syria and Egypt launched invasions from the Golan and the Sinai desert. The tone [in Syria] is one of preparing the public for a war,said a senior security official. He said any Syrian provocation would likely be coordinated with Iran. Tehran and Damascus, which both support Hezbollah, have signed several military pacts. Reuven Erlich, a Syrian expert and director of the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies, told WND Assad's threats are to be taken seriously. Assad's support for terrorism, for the insurgency in Iraq, for Hezbollah and his alliance with Iran are all indication of the direction in which Syria is headed. Assad needs to demonstrate he is willing to sue for peace, but everything seems to indicate the opposite. Especially following the war in Lebanon,Erlich said.
Reports: Syria to form own Hezbollah
In July, WND first reported Syria is forming its own Hezbollah-like guerrilla organization to attack Israeli positions in the Golan Heights, according to a senior Baath party official. The Baath official told WND Syria learned from Hezbollah's military campaign against Israel that fighting is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory. Hezbollah claims its goal is to
liberate the Shebaa Farms, a small, 12-square-mile bloc situated between Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The cease-fire resolution accepted by Israel to end its military campaign in Lebanon calls for negotiations leading to Israel's relinquishing of the Shebaa Farms. The official told WND Syria's new Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights was formed in June and that the group consists of Syrian volunteers, many from the Syrian border with Turkey and from Palestinian refugee camps near Damascus. He said Syria held registration for volunteers to join the Front in June.
One week after the WND article detailing the claimed group was published, state-run Al-Alam Iranian television featured an interview with a man who identified himself as the leader of the new Front for the Liberation of the Golan. The man, whose features were blocked out, said his new group consists of hundreds of fighters who are training for guerrilla-like raids against Israeli positions in and near the Golan. He claimed the Front has opened several training camps inside Syria. Last month, Amos Yadlin, head of the IDF's intelligence branch, told the Knesset Syria is in the early stages of forming a Hezbollah-like group.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 26, 2006
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
In the past couple of weeks, I've been asked about the implications of North Korea's test of a nuclear weapon. I'm convinced it represents a significant threat to free nations around the world, including Israel. Let's look at the facts. It is well-known that North Korea supplies weapons to terrorists and terror supporting countries worldwide. One of these is Israel's neighbor, Iran, whose leader, president Ahmadinejad, repeatedly calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. For this reason, Israel which understands fully the threat posed by a nuclear Iran has been working hard to rally opposition to North Korea, knowing that a strong response could deter Iran from its deadly pursuit of nuclear weapons, while a weak one could embolden it. There is another piece to this puzzle. Just as North Korea supplies Iran, Iran regularly funnels arms and provides financial aid and training to terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. These in turn launch their attacks against Israel from her own back yard that is, Gaza and Lebanon. The threat of newer, more powerful, even nuclear, weapons in the hands of the terrorists next door poses a grave danger to Israel's security.
Today, the threat from North Korea and Iran extends beyond Americans concern for Israel, one of its closest allies. For a long time, Americans felt immune from attack on our own soil. But 9/11 changed all that. While some question whether a North Korean missile could reach the U.S., in this day and age such a strike wouldn't even be necessary the same thing could be accomplished by having terrorists infiltrate the U.S with a portable nuclear weapon. The horrors of 9/11 would pale in comparison to such a deadly attack.
In light of these sobering realities, I ask you today to continue your prayers for the peace of Jerusalem, America and the entire world. Even as government officials work through diplomatic channels to alleviate the threats of North Korea and Iran, and our armies stand poised to protect us, let us remember none can give us more protection than the true Guardian of Israel, God Himself the One of whom it is said, He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:4).
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
EU's Solana: Mideast Road Map Peace Plan Stalled
By Jim Teeple ,26 October 2006
Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief held talks Thursday with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Mr. Solana says Mideast peace efforts are stalled. Javier Solana urged Israeli leaders to stop building illegal settlements in the West Bank, reopen a crucial border crossing, and expressed concern over comments made to him by an Israeli politician about the permanence of West Bank settlements. The EU foreign policy chief says there is no question that mideast peace efforts are now stalled. As far as the Israeli Palestinian peace process, we have the feeling that it is now stalled, he said. We would very much to see if we can with cooperation of all the parties to see if some movement can be put in place to give not only hope for the people but also realities on the ground.
Solana urged Israel to reopen the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which Israel has closed for security reasons. He also said he is concerned about comments made to him by member of the Israeli cabinet who reportedly told the EU diplomat that Israel has no plans to remove West Bank settlements or outposts, as called for under the road map peace plan. Solana was apparently referring to Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of a far right political party that advocates annexing the settlements and expelling large numbers of Israeli Arab citizens. Lieberman who held talks with Solana on Wednesday joined Israel's cabinet this week. Under the road map plan, Israel is to stop building settlements and Palestinians are to stop terrorist attacks against Israelis measures aimed at leading to negotiations toward a two-state solution.Solana's comments came at a news conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who said Israel is still committed to the road map peace plan, but Israelis are increasingly concerned about whether they will ever have a reliable partner for peace in the Palestinian territories.
Unfortunately the situation on the ground in the Gaza Strip sends the wrong message to Israelis to those who supported disengagement I believe those Palestinians who want to live in a state of their own and who believe in a two-state solution should take responsibility and act in order to help us and help all those moderates in the region,she said. Following his talks with Israeli officials, Solana traveled to the West Bank city of Ramallah for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Aides traveling with the EU diplomat said he would urge the Palestinian leader to move forward with plans to create a Palestinian unity government which could begin to receive international aid. Nearly all international aid to the Palestinians has been suspended since Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, took control of the Palestinian Authority following parliamentary elections earlier this year.
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