FEAR - ANGER - DISTRESS GRIPS IRAQIS

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Solar pulses suggest heavy Australia rain: scientist. 3-Soaking Midwest rains today; cold Northeast.4-Mud, rocks rush from New Zealand volcano. 5-Poll: Fear, anger, stress grip Iraqis. 6-US, NKorea reach sanctions deal as nuclear talks begin. 7-EU begins countdown to 50th birthday carnival. 8-UN plans force on Syrian border to stop arms smuggling.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Tue Mar 20 12:00 AM EDT

MAR 19,07
MAP 3.6 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.7 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.9 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.9 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

MAR 18,07
MAP 2.5 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.5 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.2 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.1 ATACAMA, CHILE
MAP 5.0 TIMOR REGION
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 6.3 SOUTH OF PANAMA
MAP 5.6 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

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.

Solar pulses suggest heavy Australia rain: scientist Mon Mar 19, 1:06 AM ET

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Links between the sun's magnetic pulse and Earth's climatic systems point to heavy rainfall later this year and in 2008, which could break Australia's worst drought in 100 years, new scientific research says. The theory, which has been submitted for publication in the journal Solar Terrestrial Physics, is based on correlations between Australian rainfall and 11-year peaks in the sun's
magnetic emissions, and switches in the sun's poles, which also occur every 11 years. The last flip occurred in 2001.The sun is now in a similar position in terms of its magnetic field as it was in the 1920s, Associated Professor Robert Baker of the University of New England said.Eastern Australia this year and next is seen following a similar path to the particularly wet years of 1924 and 1925.

If it keeps tracking...we would therefore expect average and above rainfall for eastern Australia, Baker said.The sunspots are starting to increase again and as it increases over the year historically that's been a time of above average rainfall, he said.According to Baker's theory, 2009 would be the next period of potential drought in Australia.Baker produced his theory from work on physical models of
sunspot behavior, which showed correlations between sunspot minimums and eastern Australian droughts over the last 100 years.It just went from there... It's just asking good questions.Baker says that weather effects of changes in the sun are additional to the impact of flavor of the month climate change from greenhouse gases.The theory opens the way for better predictions of droughts and floods, Baker said.

After the present cycle of increased sunspot activity, the following cycle will be dominated by the lowest activity from sunspots and magnetic activity in 100 years. This raised the possibility of widespread drought again, in the 2020s.

The last time that happened was the Federation Drought of around 1900, Baker said.The link between sunspots, solar magnetic activity and increased rain occurs through interaction by solar activity with Earth's atmosphere to increase cloud formation.In following established patterns of pulses in the sun, the theory is hoped to lead to increased forecasting certainty and management of water resources.

Soaking Midwest rains today; cold Northeast Mark Avery, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Mon Mar 19, 4:56 AM ET

Midwest

Showers and thunderstorms will be prevalent across the Midwest today, particularly near the Ohio River.

Areas of heavy rain are possible from Paducah, Kentucky, up the Ohio River to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Farther north near the Great Lakes, snow is possible today. Accumulations should remain light, generally between one to three inches. Later today into tonight, more thunderstorms are expected to develop over the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas which will move into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys on Tuesday. Rain will spread back northward across most of the region on Wednesday and Thursday, with thunderstorms possible from the Central Plains to the Mid-Mississippi Valley. Cooler than average high temperatures will be confined to the Red River Valley and the Great Lakes today, with the Dakotas warming on Tuesday. By Wednesday through the weekend, afternoon highs will stay above average.

Northeast

The interior Northeast will have a chance of snow showers later this afternoon, with the best chance of precipitation being tonight. Snowfall amounts will generally be light, between one to three inches, with a few isolated locations picking up more. After a few snow showers again in the interior Northeast on Tuesday, much of the region will remain dry on Wednesday before some light rain showers move into the interior Northeast on Thursday and closer to the Megalopolis on Friday. Much of the region will see below average afternoon highs through Thursday before temperatures rebound just in time for the weekend.

West

The record-setting heat has one more day to heat up the West before cooler temperatures start making an earnest comeback.

71 record highs were set on Sunday, with more records in jeopardy today. In the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, rain (with mountain snow) will move into the region mainly later this afternoon and this evening along with an upper level low that will help usher in cooler temperatures all across the West over the next several days. The West Coast will be below average on Tuesday while the Interior West stays above average, continuing to threaten record highs.

By Wednesday, much of the West will be near or below average. By late week, afternoon highs will begin to rebound and much of the West, except for the Four Corners, will be back above average.

South

The South will enjoy warming temperatures today, particularly in the Southeast. The only rainfall in the region will be in the Ozarks in northern Arkansas eastward into the Tennessee Valley. Showers will develop again tonight in the Ozarks and track through the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday, with some scattered afternoon showers over Florida. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible over the Southern Plains from Wednesday through the weekend. Afternoon highs will remain above average for the remainder of the week, with the exception of Virginia and North Carolina where temperatures will cool on Wednesday before warming back up on Thursday through the weekend.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
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 (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Mud, rocks rush from New Zealand volcano By RAY LILLEY, Associated Press Writer MAR 19,07

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A mix of mud, acidic water and rocks tore down the slope of a volcano in New Zealand on Sunday, bursting through a 23-foot wall of volcanic ash and sand built up in an eruption 12 years ago. The mud flow — also known as a lahar — broke through the rubble wall atop Mount Ruapehu's crater lake Sunday morning, triggering an early warning alarm, local authorities said.Police and civil defense workers immediately closed roads and the nation's main trunk rail near the southern base of the mountain on New Zealand's North Island.The island's main north-south highway, some 30 miles from the mountain's base, also was closed and two passenger trains with 200 people on board were halted some distance from the mountain.

A lahar that tore down the same volcano in 1953 killed 151 people when it washed away a rail bridge, plunging a passenger train into the raging torrent of liquid mud.On Sunday, millions of gallons of acidic water breached the naturally occurring wall of volcanic ash and sand known as tephra, regional council chairman Gary Murfitt said.More than 130 feet of the tephra's wall was washed away — a dozen years after it had built up in Ruapehu's 1995 eruption, said Dr. Harry Keys, a lahar expert with the Conservation Department.Farmer Josh Wallace said the lahar carried rocks, mud and trees down the Whangaehu River that runs through his property.The water was a concrete color ... it was so gray.

You could feel the rocks in the water hitting the bank, he told National Radio.There were no immediate reports of damage, apart from flooding on some farmland near the base of the mountain.There was also no threat to human life. Scientists had been able to predict the lahar's passage and the early warning system had worked as planned, Conservation Minister Chris Carter said.

In the 1953 lahar, the bodies of some of the dead were washed high into trees as the torrent spewed down river valleys to the sea, some 125 miles away. Many of the victims were never found.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION)
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.

Poll: Fear, anger, stress grip Iraqis By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer MAR 19,07

WASHINGTON - The optimism that helped sustain Iraqis during the first few years of the war has dissolved into widespread fear, anger and distress amid unrelenting violence, a survey found. The poll the third in Iraq since early 2004 by ABC News and media partners draws a stark portrait of an increasingly pessimistic population under great emotional stress.

Among the findings of this survey for ABC News, USA Today, the BBC and ARD German TV: The number of Iraqis who say their own life is going well has dipped from 71 percent in November 2005 to 39 percent now.About three-fourths of Iraqis report feelings of anger, depression and difficulty concentrating.More than half of Iraqis have curtailed activities like going out of their homes, going to markets or other crowded places and traveling through police checkpoints.Only 18 percent of Iraqis have confidence in U.S. and coalition troops, and 86 percent are concerned that someone in their household will be a victim of violence.

Slightly more than half of Iraqis 51 percent now say that violence against U.S. forces is acceptable up from 17 percent who felt that way in early 2004. More than nine in 10 Sunni Arabs in Iraq now feel this way.

While 63 percent said they felt very safe in their neighborhoods in late 2005, only 26 percent feel that way now.The major cause for this sharp reversal in Iraqi attitudes is the continuing violence bombings, attacks by roving gunmen and kidnappings that has overwhelmed the country since the U.S. invasion four years ago this week.Eighty percent of Iraqis surveyed reported some kind of violence nearby, according to the nationally representative survey conducted Feb. 25 to March 5 among 2,212 Iraqis, including oversamples in Anbar province, the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Basra and Kirkuk. Results were subject to a sampling error margin of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. The survey was done by D3 Systems, a pollster specializing in conflict countries Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated at more than 54,000, possibly much higher. More than half of Iraqis surveyed said a friend or relative has been hurt or killed in the violence, while almost nine in 10 worried that a loved one will be hurt.The levels of stress soar outside relatively peaceful Kurdistan, especially in Baghdad and the Sunni-dominated Anbar province, the poll found.Fewer than half in the country, 42 percent, said that life in Iraq now is better than it was under Saddam Hussein, the late dictator accused of murdering tens of thousands during a brutal regime.Iraqis pessimism about safety spills over into their views of most aspects of life the economy, basic needs like power and clean water, even the risks of sending their children to school.But views of the U.S. military presence are contradictory among Iraqis just as they are in this country.About four in five Iraqis oppose the presence of U.S. troops but only a third want those U.S. troops to leave Iraq immediately.Conducting the face-to-face poll was a difficult ordeal in such a violent country. More than 100 Iraqi interviewers conducted the poll and some reported seeing bombings, beatings and even a mass kidnapping.

Several teams of interviewers were detained by police but every interviewer made it home safely.

US, NKorea reach sanctions deal as nuclear talks begin by Hiroshi Hiyama and Jun Kwanwoo MAR 19,07

BEIJING (AFP) - The United States said Monday it has struck a deal to release 25 million dollars of frozen North Korean assets, paving the way for progress in talks on ending the regime's nuclear weapons programme.

The move was announced as envoys from six nations met in Beijing to resume round-table negotiations that had been stymied by a long-running dispute over the US financial sanctions.Chief US envoy Christopher Hill said all the money would be released from the Macau-based bank where it had been frozen since 2005 amid accusations of money laundering and counterfeiting.We feel this matter has been resolved and now we can move on to the next problems, of which there are many, Hill told reporters after the US Treasury Department announced the deal.

Later Monday, the Macau Monetary Authority confirmed in a statement that the funds would be released.Pyongyang had insisted it would not implement a six-nation deal reached on February 13 until the sanctions dispute was resolved.Under that deal, North Korea -- which carried out its first atomic weapons test in October last year -- would get badly needed energy aid and diplomatic concessions in return for shutting down its nuclear programmes.North Korea was given 60 days from the agreement to close its main reactor at Yongbyon and allow UN International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors back into the country to supervise.In return, the impoverished state would initially receive 50,000 tonnes of heavy fuel, rising up to one million tonnes of that or equivalent energy if it permanently disbanded its atomic weapons programme.Chief North Korean envoy Kim Kye-Gwan said as Monday's talks got underway that Pyongyang would close Yongbyon once it got the 25 million dollars back, according to China's official Xinhua news agency and an official involved.

Nuclear activities will stop at Yongbyon if the sanctions are fully lifted, the official, speaking on condition of anonymity said, with Xinhua reporting similar comments.Hill said he expected Yongbyon to be shut down and IAEA inspectors allowed into the facility by mid-April, as scheduled.My sense is that we will be in good shape for the first 60-day obligations, Hill told journalists.The DPRK has an
obligation to make sure they are shutting down and sealing the Yongbyon complex within 60 days.

Deputy Assistant US Treasury Secretary Daniel Glaser, who had overseen the negotiations on the sanctions, earlier said the 25 million dollars would not go back into the pockets of the North Korean elite.North Korea has pledged ... that these funds will be used solely for the betterment of the North Korean people, including for humanitarian and educational purposes, Glaser told reporters.Hill said the latest round of six-party talks, which involved the two Koreas, China, the United States, Japan and Russia, was expected to last three days.South Korea, which has already said it would provide the initial batch of 50,000 tonnes of fuel oil, welcomed Monday's development.

Since the issue has been resolved, there will be no big obstacles ... during the initial 60-day stage for disabling North Korea's nuclear facilities, chief South Korean envoy Chun Yung-Woo told reporters. Japan's chief envoy, Kenichiro Sasae, expressed similar optimism but also cautioned that the focus should remain on the much tougher task of permanently putting an end to North Korea's nuclear programme.

We must work by holding a broad view, a long-term view. We must not be caught up on day-to-day movements, he told reporters. Chief Chinese envoy Wu Dawei said conditions remained favourable for further progress, but much work remained to be done. We still face a lot of difficulties and obstacles on the way ahead, Wu said in his opening remarks to the chief envoys.

I HOPE EVERYONE KNOWS THE TREATY OF ROME MEANS THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE ROMANS WOULD MAKE THE FINAL 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY BETWEEN ISRAEL - ARABS AND MANY. THATS WHY THIS CELEBRATION IS SO IMPORTANT FOR EUROPE, THIS TREATY SIGNED IN ROME (REVIVED ROME) IS 50 YEARS SINCE THE FIRST SIGNING IN 1957.

EU begins countdown to 50th birthday carnival
19.03.2007 - 09:29 CET | By Honor Mahony

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Member states are gearing themselves to varying degrees of festivity this week as the EU approaches its 50th birthday, with projects ranging from a Franco-German love film to prayers for the bloc.

With Germany currently running the EU, Berlin will be putting on the biggest show to mark the half century anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome planning a big cultural programme including all night openings of some of the city's famous museums.At the city's clubs, meanwhile, people will be able to dance on the occasion of the EU's birthday with 27 venues throwing an all-night rave from Saturday to the early hours of Sunday morning.EU leaders, also in Berlin for the birthday celebrations, will hear Beethoven's 5th Symphony by the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.

They will then have a banquet on the Saturday evening set to be overloaded at the dessert end of the meal when 54 birthday cakes will be on display - two traditional cakes from each member state, including sheep's cheese strudel from Bulgaria, Ireland's Auntie Florence's Orange Cake and waffles from Belgium.

There should be enough apple cake for all though as it features in some variation in the traditional gateaux from Romania, Estonia, Luxembourg and Denmark. Away from Berlin and cake eating, there will also be several other events going on.Rome will be host to a youth summit. A gathering of 200 young people, who plan to hold their own European Council to mirror the one in Berlin, but are likely to indulge in less bickering in the run up to the summit on what the state of the union is.Brussels, as the capital of the EU, will gather jazz musicians from around Europe to play all day on Sunday while for the night before it seems to have organised a line-up of Europe's best ageing stars for a memorable pop music concert. Among those playing include Nana Mouskouri, Kim Wilde and The Scorpions.

And the rest

Several projects fall into what could be called the other category such as France's Franco-German romance film - about after war and the European construction; a mix of great History and romance.In Luxembourg, there will be an 8km European walk while in Ireland and the Netherlands church services will mark the Treaty of Rome.Slovakia is to plant trees to celebrate the EU; in Slovenia people will jump out of planes using parachutes with EU symbols and in Spain's Madrid a giant puzzle of Europe will be built.And there must be some mention of the projects that didn't make it.
A proposal for an EU-wide dance was dropped for its cringe potential but also because new member states said it reminded them of Soviet times. And some have already taken place, including the UK's football match last week between Manchester United and a 'Europe Team.' 'Europe' narrowly lost (4-3) to United.

Nothing will work until the EU BRINGS THEIR TROOPS into ISRAEL and area, the Bible clearly says it has to be Revived Rome or the Eu of today that Guarentees ISRAELS SECURITY.

UN plans force on Syrian border to stop arms smuggling: ReportSunday 18 March 2007

The United Nations recently proposed to Lebanon the deployment of a force under civilian authority along its border with Syria to stop arms smuggling to the Hezbollah guerrilla organization, the Israeli Ha'aretz daily reported Sunday.

Quoting senior officials at the UN, the daily said the intention is to establish an international force of unarmed observers, and that the Lebanese government has not
rejected the idea. Israel has long complained that, since the end of its conflict with Hezbollah last July and August, the Shiite group has been rearming with weapons smuggled over the border, in defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the fighting. Resolution 1701 includes a pledge to enforce an arms embargo on the Syrian border but this has not been done, mainly due to opposition from Syria and Hezbollah. According to the authoritative Israeli daily, UN representatives presented the plan for the new observer group to Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr a few weeks ago. Senior UN officials say Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora will not oppose the plan and Syrian consent is not required because the new body will not be armed. Under the plan, the UN will employ former UN workers and those of other international organizations in the new force. Germany recently sent a technical team to the area of the Syria-Lebanon border to check out the possibility for deploying observers there, Ha'aretz said. dpa jab ch.