CREATION MUSEUM CAUSES UPROAR

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Hail piles up 4 inches deep in Denver. 3-Experts Forecast Scorching Summer Temperatures. 4-Heat plus alcohol causes spate of Moscow drownings. 5-Help educate the media about what's really going on in Israe. 6-First Round of Labor Party Primaries Goes to Barak. 7-High Court Bans New Muslim Burial Site Next to Temple Mount. 8-Secretive Bilderberg meeting set for Turkey 9-Olmert Forced to Explain Position to Knesset, Netanyahu Responds. 10-EU in drive to make Brussels more political. 11-Council on Foreign Relations Pushes for Three Regional Currencies in the World. 12-House rejects microchip implants for violent criminals 13-Museum opens to defend biblical creation account. 14-Crowds wowed by Creation Museum grand opening.

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 = Wed May 30 12:00 AM EDT

MAY 30,07
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.1 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 2.5 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.8 EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

MAY 29,07
MAP 3.2 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.2 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 ARKANSAS
MAP 5.3 SULAWESI, INDONESIA
MAP 5.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 5.1 TONGA
MAP 5.3 KEPULAUAN OBI, INDONESIA
MAP 4.7 KEPULAUAN OBI, INDONESIA
MAP 3.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.6 KEPULAUAN OBI, INDONESIA
MAP 6.1 KEPULAUAN OBI, INDONESIA
MAP 2.7 STRAIT OF GEORGIA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.8 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 5.2 VANUATU
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.7 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 6.1 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

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.

Hail piles up 4 inches deep in Denver By CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press Writer Tue May 29, 8:29 PM ET

DENVER - Grape-size hail pummeled the city on Tuesday, blanketing downtown streets, startling drivers and pedestrians, and piling up 4 inches deep at an amusement park. Motorists scurried under bridges or into garages and pedestrians scrambled for cover to avoid being pelted.Brazil Redd, 21, was outside when the rain and hail began, her car being towed after a hit-and-run collision.It hurt. I probably got bruises. It was huge, she said. I got soaked.At Elitch Gardens amusement park, the hail broke lights and toppled small trees, prompting the park to close several hours early, spokeswoman Brooke Gabbert said.Visitors were led to shelters and then moved out of the park after the storm passed.

With the severe hail, we have to recheck all the rides. It would've been a while before we would have been able to reopen, Gabbert said.Drivers were caught in up to 3 feet of water in some intersections, but no serious injuries were reported, Denver Fire Department spokesman Phil Champagne said.Marty Thrall plodded through a half-inch of hail in a short-sleeved T-shirt, shorts and sandals.I didn't know

it was going to be this icy, he said.Heavy rain soaked the Plains states from Colorado up to Minnesota Tuesday, causing minor flooding in some places. The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for Elbert County, 60 miles southeast of Denver, and for Lincoln County in southwestern Nebraska.Associated Press writer Eric Bolin contributed to this report.

OZONE DEPLETION

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

World News Desk – May 29, 2007
Posted/Updated: 2007-05-29 12:16:04
WEATHER & ENVIRONMENT
Experts Forecast Scorching Summer Temperatures

As early summer temperatures begin to sizzle across the northern hemisphere, experts warn that possible spikes in warm weather could leave most of the western United States and Canada in danger of severe drought and susceptible to an increase in wildfires.In its latest seasonal assessment, forecasters at the National Weather Service predict the ongoing drought that has plagued the southeast will continue into the summer, resulting in serious wildfire outbreaks, especially in states such as Georgia and Florida, where water restrictions have already been imposed in some cities.

In Atlanta, where water usage has been drastically curtailed, desperate residents have even begun to turn one another over to the authorities because of violations.
However, forecasters caution that even with rain, certain areas experiencing deficits of more than a foot will not be able to compensate for the unnaturally low rainfall. Southwest Florida is already 6.77 inches behind for the year and experiencing an unusually high number of wildfires due to dry conditions.We can honestly say this is one of the most severe droughts that we have dating back to
when records started in the early 1900s, said Randy Smith, spokesman for the South Florida Water Management District (Associated Press).In the west, the situation remains bleak for farmers. The drought area stretching from California into the Great Basin is not expected to experience relief, nor is Montana, Wyoming, the western Dakotas and western Nebraska.Even the U.S.’s cooler neighbor to the north, Canada, is bracing for scorching temperatures, which could bring treacherous weather, including tornadoes and hailstorms. Inherent in these is the danger of lightning strikes, one of the leading causes of wildfires, which in turn cause extensive property damage for Canadian residents.

According to NASA scientists, these types of long-term patterns are not expected to change—at least not for another 70 years. Recent research by NASA suggests that normal summer temperatures will be more than 10 degrees warmer by 2080—not only resulting in higher temperatures, but drier weather, said Leonard Druyan, of Columbia University and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who co-authored the study. Using the established link between rainy and cooler weather and hot and drier weather, the study was able to forecast certain increases in temperature for cities across the United States and Canada.It’s going to get a lot hotter, said Barry Lynn, now a scientist at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who also co-authored the study. It’s going to be a lot more dangerous for people who are not in the best of health (CBSNews).

Heat plus alcohol causes spate of Moscow drownings Wed May 30, 7:39 AM ET

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twenty-eight people, many of them drunk, have drowned in the Russian capital this month as Muscovites cool off from a record heatwave in ponds, fountains and canals, rescue services said on Wednesday. The main reason for the deaths is that people bathe in places were they are not supposed to ... but at the same time 75 percent of them are not sober, said Vladimir Plyasunov, the head of Moscow's lifeguards.Because of the unusually high temperatures all our lifeguards have been put on high alert, Plyasunov told the Vesti-24 news channel.Moscow has been sweltering this week in temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit). Meteorologists said Monday was the hottest May day in the city since records began.

The electricity system has shifted into emergency mode to cope with soaring demand, largely from people using air conditioning, and outages due to sub-stations overheating.An employee in one Moscow company said building managers had been going round offices on Tuesday ordering staff to turn off lights to save energy.

Help educate the media about what's really going on in Israel MAY 30,07
Dear Stan

An Israeli woman was just killed by a Palestinian rocket from Gaza. If you haven't heard about this tragedy, you're not alone. Since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, Palestinian terrorists have fired more than 1,300 rockets into Israel on a recent Tuesday alone, 24 rockets hit Israel, wounding 30 people.Yet these attacks go largely unreported by the international media. We know that the media usually decides that if it bleeds, it leads to good news is no news.The body count in Iraq and Lebanon is high and tragic. Yet how many more Israeli women need to be killed and how many more Israeli children wounded before the press starts to report on these unprovoked attacks? Thats why I am writing you today.The Israel Project (TIP) needs your help to educate the media about what is really going on in Israel, Gaza and the Palestinian territories.

Last week, as rockets fell onto Sderot, Calev Ben-David, who heads our office in Israel, was there on the ground with a bus full of journalists who heard and saw the effects first-hand. The stories they reported reflected the terrible reality of the situation.

Meanwhile, Leah Soibel, one of our in-house terrorism experts, worked out of a Sderot bomb shelter emailing facts to journalists around the world.At the same time, with me in New York, Jennifer Packer, Michal Slawny, and others from our staff and board hosted Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, at a press luncheon with more than 80 reporters. Ambassador Gillerman gave reporters the facts and context they needed to get the story right.

TIP's French and German speaking staff went into overdrive to make sure that reporters in Europeân frontline area of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism had the facts they needed to accurately cover the Sderot story.

During the Second Lebanon War, TIP set up media centers in Northern Israel to provide journalists with sources, press briefings, background research, transportation, information on lodging and anything else they needed. Press coverage of the war was seen worldwide. And according to public opinion research, Israel was portrayed as defending herself and her citizens. Support for Israel in the United States increased. But with harmful media coverage, that support can once again wane.

Today we need to do much more in Sderot, the town being bombarded by rockets from Hamas, an Iranian-backed organization openly bent on Israels destruction. We need to act now to make sure Israel is again seen as defending her citizens against terror from the sky. International support is critical to Israels security.Almost daily, Sderot suffers under a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza into civilian centers. But the world is mostly unaware because they don;t hear about these attacks on the news. Yet, when Israel does take action to defend herself, its on the front page of the paper and breaking news on television. If the world doesn't know about the relentless terror attacks on Israeli civilians, then Israel will be seen as an aggressor and will once again be unfairly judged. Israel has learned this hard lesson too many times. We must not allow that to happen again.

We need to immediately get new media services set up in Sderot and around the world. But we can't do it without you.Your gift of $1,000, $500, $360, $100, or whatever you can afford, to The Israel Project will make a difference. Your gift will allow The Israel Project to get this story out and educate the worlds media. www.theisraelproject.org/sderot

Sincerely,

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Founder and President
The Israel Project

First Round of Labor Party Primaries Goes to Barak
by Hana Levi Julian (INN) MAY 29,07

Defense Minister Amir Peretz has lost his chance to retain his leadership of the Labor Party after former Prime Minister Ehud Barak won the most votes in Monday's primary election for the chairmanship.

The victory was not complete however, since none of the candidates managed to garner the 40 percent win required to prevent a runoff election.A second round of voting will therefore be held on June 12th in a runoff between Mr. Barak and former General Security Services (Shin Bet) chief Ami Ayalon.The race ran as a dead heat between the two men for most of Monday's election day, and it was not until the wee hours of Tuesday morning that the results became clear.

Mr. Barak edged out his closest competitor by a mere 5 percent; the final tally showed the former PM winning 35.6 percent, Mr. Ayalon with 30.6 percent. DM Peretz was left far behind in the race, finishing with 22.4 percent of the votes. The other two contenders, Knesset Members Ophir Pines-Paz and Danny Yatom, trailed with 8 percent and 2.7 percent respectively. Mr. Peretz took a philosophical stance on his loss, saying he still had enough support within the ranks to influence some of its moves. He is meeting with former PM Barak Tuesday morning to discuss the runoff.

High Court Bans New Muslim Burial Site Next to Temple Mount
by Hana Levi Julian (INN) MAY 29,07

The High Court of Justice has upheld a decision by Public Security Minister Avi Dichter to ban Muslim burials on the grounds immediately southeast of the Temple Mount.The area, which borders the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, is believed to contain important archaeological artifacts from the First Temple era and is designated as part of a national park. It is an extremely sensitive area in that the Temple Mount is considered Judaism's holiest site and the third holiest place in Islam.A petition was filed in court by the Committee for the Prevention of the Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount when it was discovered that Muslims were using the site as a burial ground.Supporters of the committee and its petition included left-wing author A.B. Yehoshua, Hebrew University Jewish philosophy professor Avi Ravitsky, former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Shomron and senior archaeologists such as Gabriel Barkai, Eilat Mazar, Ehud Netzer, Ronny Reich and Ephraim Stern.

Muslim burial on the site, which was never a cemetery in the past, could end any possibility of excavating the area in the future, as has been done at the foot of the southern wall and the bottom part of the Western Wall.

Police have been blocking Muslims from burying their dead at the site for several months, having identified dozens of plots sold by Silwan elders, who did not own the area, to Muslim families for their departed loved ones. At least 21 of the graves are occupied, 39 are empty and 35 other plots have not yet been opened. The committee has demanded in its petition that the unused gravesites be filled in. Muslim burial on the site, which was never a cemetery in the past, could end any possibility of excavating the area in the future, as has been done at the foot of the southern wall and the bottom part of the Western Wall explained archaeologist Gabriel Barkai in the petition to block the burials.

An Islamic burial ground does exist outside the walls of the Temple Mount compound, at its southeast foot, but apparently Muslims had begun to extend their cemetery into the area defined as a national park. Police had initially feared that stopping the burials would spark riots and other violence by Muslims. Jerusalem Police Chief Ilan Franco admitted to the court he had iniitially refused to escort city inspectors to hang up notices prohibiting use of the site after Muslims continued to build mausoleums, fearing the reaction by Islamic worshippers.

Repairs being made to a footbridge leading to the entrance of the Temple Mount at the Rambam (Mughrabi) Gate ignited days of violent protests across the country and massive demonstrations in Muslim communities worldwide.

Muslims dumped tons of soil containing priceless artifacts into a riverbed in 1999 while digging a huge pit in the Temple Mount to build an entrance to Solomons Stables. The police did not act to stop the illegal digs despite numerous petitions and court orders to halt any such activity.The area forms a seamline between construction from the Hasmonean and Herodian eras. Remains from the First Temple and 8th century B.C.E. sealing rings stamped For the King have been found in past excavations at the site, including one by British archaeologist Charles Warren 140 years ago.

Secretive Bilderberg meeting set for Turkey
Kissinger, Rockefeller, media moguls among those scheduled to attend
May 30, 2007 - WorldNetDaily.com

Henry Kissinger

The super-secret Bilderberg Group, an organization of powerful international elites, is set to meet this week somewhere in Turkey – but even the precise location is a mystery. The meeting begins Thursday and continues through Sunday. Those expected to attend include Donald Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of the Washington Post, Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, John Vinocur, senior correspondent of the International Herald Tribune, Paul Gigot, editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, Nicholas Beytout, editor-in-chief of Le Figaro, George David, chairman of Coca-Cola, Martin Feldstein, president and chief executive officer of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Timothy F. Geithner, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Vernon Jordan, senior managing director of Lazard Freres & Co., Anatole Kaletsky, editor at large of the Times of London and General William Luti, the new war czar.According to reports from Turkey, Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions and global energy issues will be on the agenda but only invitees know for sure. Welcome to the mysterious world of secret societies.

Did someone say secret societies?

Most people don't realize they exist because their minds have been conditioned to reject any thought of such organizations, explains Dr. Stanley Monteith, a medical doctor by training, who set out on a mission to research groups like the Bilderbergers 40 years ago.

The results of his startling research is a little book called Brotherhood of Darkness,in which he exposes the global agenda of organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. How important are events like this weekend's Bilderberg conference? It may not make any difference now, but in 2004, according to the New York Times, it was the standout performance of Sen. John Edwards at the super-secret Bilderberg meeting in Italy that sealed the deal on his nomination as John Kerry's vice presidential running mate.

Since 1954, the Bilderberg group has convened government, business, academic and journalistic representatives from the U.S., Canada and Europe with the express purpose of exploring the future of the North Atlantic community. The first meeting was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands thus the name. According to sources that have penetrated the high-security meetings in the past, the Bilderberg meetings emphasize a globalist agenda and promote the idea that the notion of national sovereignty is antiquated and regressive. It's officially described as a private gathering, noted a BBC report in 2003, but with a guest list including the heads of European and American corporations, political leaders and a few intellectuals, it's one of the most influential organizations on the planet.

And according to a BBC report on 2004's conference in Stresa: Not a word of what is said at Bilderberg meetings can be breathed outside. No reporters are invited in and while confidential minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted. The shadowy aura extends further the anonymous answerphone message, for example; the fact that conference venues are kept secret. The group, which includes luminaries such as Henry Kissinger and former UK chancellor Kenneth Clarke, does not even have a website.But, counter participants, the secrecy is not evidence of a grand conspiracy, but only an opportunity to speak frankly with other world leaders out of the limelight of press coverage and its inevitable repercussions. There's absolutely nothing in it, argues the UK's Lord Denis Healey, one of the four founders of Bilderberg. We never sought to reach a consensus on the big issues at Bilderberg, he told the BBC. It's simply a place for discussion.

Olmert Forced to Explain Position to Knesset, Netanyahu Responds
by Ezra HaLevi (INN) MAY 30,07

Following the Winograd Committee's scathing criticism of his performance in the Second Lebanon War, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was compelled to explain his decision not to resign to the Knesset Tuesday.

Olmert took the podium for the first time since the publication of the Winograd Committees interim report and explained why he believes he should remain prime minister, as well as his oft-repeated view that the results of Second Lebanon War were positive for Israel. The special session was held after a petition submitted by the Likud and Meretz parties was signed by 46 Knesset members. The prime ministers main claim was that whereas Hizbullah used to hold positions along the border, they are no longer there. Two weeks ago, I visited the northern border, and at each spot I was shown the positions Hizbullah terrorists used to hold, he said. Residents who were once faced, every hour and every minute, with a Hizbullah man pointing his rifle at them no longer face this situation.

The Prime Minister also cited New York Times columnist Thomas Friedmans assessment of the situation as proof of his successes. Olmert focused on the question of whether the decision to go to war was a good one, rather than on the handling of the war once that decision was made.

I believed then as I believe now: that the decision to go to war was the necessary one under the circumstances, the PM explained. It is true that the Lebanon war, like all wars to date, came at a high price. This is the part of the high price that the State of Israel has been paying for six decades for its desire to live in peace, security and independence.

The Wars Objectives

Olmert outlined the objectives he says guided the war effort. The government I headed had goals when we went to war[which were] the implementation of [UN] Resolution 1559 the removal of Hizbullah, the deployment of the Lebanese army, a complete cease-fire and the return of the captives.

The prime minister explained that he knew from the start that recovering kidnapped IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev was not a sure-thing, But that did not stop us taking daring steps to that end.We could not have expected the UN, in the Security Councils decision, as well as the G-8 conference in Rome, to place the return of the captives at the top of their agenda had we not declared that they are at the top of ours, he said.

Everyone Supported Decisions at the Time

Olmert then lashed out at members of the government and opposition alike who have called for his resignation. I brought all recommendations before the full Cabinet, which after it heard all the details voted unanimously and even approved an announcement defining the goals of Israel's response, he said. I remember well the support given by [the Knesset] to the government's July 12 decision [to launch the offensive]. Then, you stood up one after the other and saluted the government's actions and its obligation to respond even given the knowledge that this strike would lead to strikes against the Israeli home front.The PM referred specifically to opposition leader MK Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud), who offered his full and unconditional support and told me that he would do the same thing.

Winograd Interim Findings Allow Govt to Rehabilitate

The members of the Winograd Commission explained to me that they had submitted a partial report before completing their work because they saw the urgency of fixing the failures, Olmert said of the committee he appointed to look into the wars results. Any sensible person understood that the committee was saying yes to fixing the failures and no to making heads roll.

The government honored the committee's practical approach - rolled up its sleeves and began implementing. The IDF is in the midst of an unusual period of achievement, and we are closely following the implementation of the lessons.Olmert summed up: The overall responsibility lies first and foremost with the government that I head. I take full responsibility for the failures - but also for the great achievements. Those who really care about the implementation of the Winograd Commission report should read all of it, the good and the bad.The government I head will continue to lead the people of Israel to security, welfare, success, national reconciliation and, with G-d's help, also peace.

Netanyahu Responds

Former Prime Minister and Opposition Chief Binyamin Netanyahu took the podium following PM Olmert, saying that although he agreed with the decision to go to war, the way which it was carried out eroded Israels deterrence.[The Opposition] offered the government its full support to achieve the [stated] goals, but [the government] failed to do so, Netanyahu said, citing the failure to disarm Hizbullah and return the captives as two examples. In my opinion, the greatest failure is that as a result of the war, Israel's deterrent capability has been severely harmed.

One Front Has Become Three

Netanyahu outlined the security situation today, tying it to the wars results. During the war we faced one front, now we face three fronts, he said. In Lebanon, Hizbullah has increased the weaponry it had before the war. In Gaza, there has been a change since the war transforming it into a second Lebanon including tunnels and bunkers. The Philadelphi Corridor has become an expressway of weapons smuggling. Netanyahu also said war with Syria is much more likely due to Israels loss of deterrence.

Withdrawal Policies Led Here

Netanyahu rejected the governments attempt to blame many of the failures on the IDF. The loss of deterrence is not the army's problem, but first and foremost due to the weakness of the governments policies, he said, going on to blame all the prime ministers who succeeded his term. It started with [Ehud Baraks] unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon and the creation of an armed Iranian enclave, the Winograd report addresses this, and then continued with [Ariel Sharons] unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. Before the Disengagement, intelligence estimated that over the course of a single year, one ton of explosives was smuggled into Gaza from Sinai. Two months after the Disengagement, that grew to six tons and the current estimate sets the amount of explosives brought into Gaza during 2006 at 30 tons.

The Government is the Problem

Addressing Olmerts statements that the current government should be tasked with fixing the mistakes, Netanyahu said: You say you can fix it? How can you fix it when you are the malfunction? Now you will use judgment?

Now you have acquired the vast knowledge that you lacked? Now you will demonstrate the necessary care? What have you done in the past year? What have you done to stop the massive flow of arms to Hizbullah and Gaza? What have you done to reinforce [homes] in the Galilee? What have you done to provide Sderot with shelters? This was a wasted year. You did not learn any lessons because you are the lesson that must be learned.Netanyahu raised his voice and said that the Winograd Committees entire report can be summarized in one statement: The Government of Israel is shell shocked - and every day that passes with this government reduces Israel's deterrent capability and endangers its security. This government must go to the people. This government must go!

EU in drive to make Brussels more political 29.05.2007 - 17:42 CET | By Honor Mahony

EUOBSERVER /BRUSSELS The European Commission next month is to announce plans to
establish European political foundations to spice up the tone of political discourse at the EU level and entice voters to ballot boxes after a series of poor turnouts at the European elections.

According to an EU official closely involved in the proposal, the idea is to give European parties such as the European People's Party, the European socialists or the European liberals greater ability to develop networks on European issues.These foundations which would be ideologically linked to a political party would contribute to a European political culture by observing, analysing and contributing to the debate on European public policy issues and the process of European integration.They would also support European seminars and serve as a framework for national think tanks, political foundations and academics to work together at [the] European level, says a preliminary paper on the issue, seen by EUobserver.

Proper European debate

At the moment, European parties - there are currently ten - occupy an undefined public space. They are trans-European but lack the link to citizens as national parties are affiliated rather than individual members. On top of this, they have difficulty making EU political campaigns, hampered by language barriers and different political traditions in the 27 member states. The move to up their profile is the brainchild of EU communications commissioner Margot Wallstrom who wants to introduce a proper European debate, with the current European political discussion seen as taking place in a Brussels bubble dominated by political elites.As yet, it is unclear how much money will go towards the scheme EU officials have previously spoken of €1 million - but 15 percent of the money will be divided equally between all of the foundations while the remaining 85 percent will be distributed according to how many MEPs a party has.

The commission is also to leave the touchy question of setting out criteria for foundations entitled to receive the money up to the parliament saying only that they should respect fundamental European values.The June proposal is part of the updating of an EU law on funding EU political parties this law currently states that the parties have to observe the principles upon which the European Union is founded as well as be represented in at least one quarter of member states.

Although political foundations are well established in Germany, where the major parties have ideologically associated foundations - Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, CDU or Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, SPD and there is a budget line for them in the German parliament, they are not common elsewhere.

Controversy

Ms Wallstrom, who recently said the EU could do with a bit of diversity and controversy to make it register more with citizens, took charge of the communications portfolio in 2004 - a year that saw record low turnouts in the European elections in central and eastern European member states who had only just joined the bloc.Three years on little has changed. European elections last week in Bulgaria, a member of the EU since January, saw a turnout of just 29 percent.The commission is trying to bring about a visible difference in the next European election in mid-2009. This is the time by which most EU leaders want to have agreed a new EU treaty for the bloc - one likely to give much more co-legislation powers to MEPs.Meanwhile, the European Commission is also planning on publishing a separate proposal next month on how better to communicate with citizens.The paper is likely to contain proposals to give EU officials more leeway to talk to the media and extend the scope of Brussels' audiovisual services.

Council on Foreign Relations Pushes for Three Regional Currencies in the WorldBy James Newcomb MAY 24,07

Create a global lending institution that weakens the economy of wealthy nations, enslaves Third World countries, and prevents those nations from rising out of their impoverished conditions. Blame that institution for creating a plethora of global financial crises over the past fifty years. Then offer a solution of consolidating all of the economies of the world into three different regions, each of which will use one type of currency.Were that scenario to be played out in the latest issue of Mad Magazine, it might be good for a laugh or two. But when it is published by the most influential foreign policy journal in the world, it is cause for more than a little concern. Foreign Affairs is considered by many to be the playbook that our nation's leaders use in creating foreign policy. It unabashedly promotes the concept of globalism, which is a softball term used to describe a utopian one world government.

Regardless of the political party in power, our government has worked to implement the journal's agenda for many years.Benn Steil, the CFR's Director of International Economics, argues that the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) practice of lending money to poor countries causes them to give up a portion of their sovereignty. The IMF is funded by the wealthy nations of the world, the U.S., Britain and Japan, to name a few.

However, since the dollar is the currency of choice for much of the world, the lion's share of funds in the IMF and World Bank are made up of U.S. dollars. The United States, having the fortunate position of possessing the money that the rest of the world has faith in, will then sell government bonds to foreign governments that have just borrowed from the IMF to offset the deficit spending (such as funding the IMF) that Congress approves.

To use an analogy, it is like buying a suit from a tailor and then receiving that same money back the next day in the form of a loan. Because of this process, he rightly calls the dollar an absurdity supported only by blind (or stupid) faith in man's wisdom.The logical answer from the perspective of a free marketer is for the U.S. to return to the gold standard, which is what gave the dollar a worldwide prominence in the first place. Not according to Steil, who says: A revived gold standard is out of the question. In the nineteenth century, governments spent less than ten percent of national income in a given year. Today, they routinely spend half or more, and so they would never subordinate spending to the stringent requirements of sustaining a commodity-based monetary system.There we have it. Since those governments have become more socialist in nature, they must be emancipated from the restraints a hard metal currency would place on them from spending us all into paradise.

What does Steil propose as an alternative solution? He writes: Since economic development outside the process of globalization is no longer possible, countries should abandon monetary nationalism.

Governments should replace national currencies with the dollar or the euro or, in the case of Asia, collaborate to produce a new multinational currency over a comparably large and economically diversified area.But didn't he just called the dollar an absurdity that is supported only by faith? Why the supposed turnaround? Who will control the dollar in this scenario, the IMF or the United States government? Were Steil and his cohorts honest, they could simply say, we created the problem, now we're offering the solution ... and the American taxpayers have and will pay for both.Most readers of Foreign Affairs believe they are getting the cream of the crop when it comes to global developments.

What they don't realize is that the problem to which Steil presents this preposterous solution was caused exclusively by members of the CFR. Their members have run the Federal Reserve System for decades. And it was CFR member Harry Dexter White who served as the first Executive Director for the United States at the IMF. British Fabian Socialist John Maynard Keynes was the mastermind behind the conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where the IMF and World Bank came into
existence in 1944.

The stated goal of the two newly created institutions was to lend money to nations who were torn apart by war or other calamities. That is exactly what they did and have done. After CFR member Richard Nixon signed an executive order abolishing the gold standard in America's currency in 1971, it gave the Fed a virtually unlimited supply of money to lend and an unlimited amount of power over the hapless nations who are suckered into borrowing.Always remember the golden rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules. This solution is nothing more than a piecemeal approach to a global economy operated by the United Nations.History shows that only when an economy uses a commodity, such as gold, to back up its currency, is it ever successful. Americans are not rich; they are incredibly broke and they don't even realize it. It is not the wisdom of men that made America great; it was the application of wisdom gleaned from thousands of years of history that made it prosperous and free.America's role as the world's policeman and the world's welfare provider has come at a great expense to her citizens. Let's try non-intervention and sound economics and see how that works for a change.http://www.jbs.org/node/4023

House rejects microchip implants for violent criminals By Tim Talley Associated Press Writer MAY 30,07

OKLAHOMA CITY(AP)Legislation that would authorize microchip implants in people
convicted of violent crimes was sent back to a committee for more work Wednesday after state House members questioned whether the proposal would violate constitutional civil liberties.The measure, approved by the Senate, authorizes microchip implants for persons convicted of one or more of 19 violent offenses who have to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence, including murder, rape and some forms of robbery and burglary, while prohibiting government from requiring microchips implants in anyone else.The tiny electronic implants are commonly used to keep track of pets and livestock, but several House members questioned whether their forced use in people would be unconstitutionally invasive.

We are going down that slippery slope, said Rep. Ed Cannaday, D-Porum.Lawmakers never voted on the measure. During debate, its author, Rep. Sue Tibbs, R-Tulsa, asked that it be sent back to a joint House-Senate conference committee where the exception for violent offenders was inserted.

Cannaday and others said the measure may violate the Fourth, Fifth And Fourteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, the Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment contains the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses.

THE GODLESS EVOLUTIONISTS ARE CRYING BIGTIME NOW THAT THERE IS A CREATION MUSEUM. CLAIMING ITS CHILD ABUSE FOR THE TRUTH OF CREATIONISM TO BE TAUGHT. AND ALSO THE GODLESS CALL IT A MYTH AND A LIE THIS CREATION MUSEUM.

WELL THIS JUST PROVES GODS WORD THAT SAYS THESE DELUTED PEOPLE WILL TURN AWAY FROM THE TRUTH TO FABLES. EVOLUTION IS JUST A FABLE, NOT TRUTH. AND BILLIONS BELIEVE THE LIE.

Museum opens to defend biblical creation account
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow.com - May 28, 2007

A museum defending the Biblical account of creation has opened in Northern Kentucky. The Creation Museum , a project of the apologetics ministry, Answers in Genesis, opened with a special sneak preview for media, charter members and invited guests.Gary Moore is Judge Executive of Boone County . He said the museum will impact much more than just the local area. We know that the message that you will promote here and that you will teach here is a message that our world needs to hear today, Moore said. And I thank you for that.The 60 thousand square foot museum features a walk-through exhibit of Biblical history, including a model of a portion of Noah's Ark, animatronic dinosaurs and a planetarium.Answers in Genesis co founder Ken Ham told the overflow crowd that the opening of the museum is the culmination of a 20 year dream. He described the opening day as a historic event in Christendom.A facility like this, right now, with the technology, to take on a particular paradigm that's permeating the world, and to do it with a foundational level, and to do it in a gracious way, but to do it in a way to challenge people concerning the truth of God's Word and the Gospel, Ham said. That's what the museum is all about. American Family News Network.

Crowds wowed by Creation Museum grand opening
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow.com - May 28, 2007

First time visitors to Creation Museum say they're impressed with the attention to detail and God honoring exhibits. The 60,000 square foot museum features animatronic displays, a replica of a portion of Noah's Ark and a planetarium, all designed to bring the Bible to life.Ohio resident Nancy Mary said the museum exceeded her expectations. I like the way they wove the quotes from the Bible through the exhibits. And the exhibits just illustrate what is stated so plainly in Scripture. That's what really stood out to me, she said.Michigan residents Ray Ogden and his son Alex were also impressed.

Mainly I think what was impressive was the extreme focus on the Gospel message as the core meaning of the whole operation and not just meant to wow you with special effects, but to get across the message that the Bible is God's Word and there's a purpose for existence.It's probably the best place I've been to in my entire life, 10-year-old Alex Ogden said. The animatronic dinosaurs looked really real.Ministry officials expect more than 250 thousand visitors annually to the Creation Museum.
American Family News Network.

Comments (4)

chuck childers:
wow, this is one the greatest happenings in modern American and world history !
Posted by chuck childers | May 28, 2007 7:58 AM

Posted on May 28, 2007 07:58
DvF: Justification
A question for Ken Ham:

How do you justify the expense of the museum? According to my research, $27 million could feed over 600,000 starving people in Sierra Leone (listed as the world's poorest). Is the need to entertain evangelicals that great? Yes we have megachurches with rock bands, fog machines, etc., but do we REALLY need them? Scienceaside, how many peopleare really being helped here?
Posted by DvF | May 28, 2007 1:57 PM

Posted on May 28, 2007 13:57
Randall Hughes:

We need more of these Creation Museums throughout the country... There is a great need to put the truth of God's creation on display in a scientific way as a counter to the evolution Great Lie that as deceived so many... As the science of creation evolves, (pardon the pun), the truth of creation will become more and more visible as biologic, geologic, archeologic, and anthropologic data is accumulated and correlated with the biblical record... Then when agnostics, skeptics, and misinformed believers in God compare creation science's data structure with that of the contrived scheme or organized error of evolutionists, they will have to reassess their way of thinking...

Believing in the reality of God demands that we must trust in His word as being true concerning creation, and work to find the facts that ultimately are there for the finding, because they are the result of that absolute truth...Some would say that creationists are skewing their interpretation of data by their presupposition of creation... But the same argument can be made for evolutionists who are also skewing their interpretation of data by the presupposition of either No-God or a BenignUninterested God that allows one to claim eons of time was the recipe for life...

There really are only two choices for one to presuppose... (1) The evolutionist's: Which requires that either God is non-existant or benignly uninterested in His creation... Which would make me ask any believer in God who also believes in evolution, If God is uninterested in His creation, then why do you even bother to pray to Him?... He is just going to yawn and let nature take it's course anyways,
right?... And(2) The creationist's: Which requires that God exists and is actively interested in His creation, and has revealed His interest in His creation by means of a written historical record... This record was then given to man who was set in dominion over His creation...Whichever presupposition you believe, just remember... There is no compromise of presuppositions concerning the interpretation of historical data... God is not two-faced, nor is He a liar... But I am inclined to think, because of his track-record, that man is highly capable of un-truth... Nuff saidPosted by Randall Hughes | May 28, 2007 2:01 PM

Posted on May 28, 2007 14:01
troy martin:

about time.i am most grateful that this museum is now a reality. the secular, anti-god dogma of the atheist scientific community must be countered, not just with stylish, high-tech displays and exhibits, but also by the underlying facts/truths on display. i have been an avid dilettante of of all things origins-related, and firmly believe that any mechanism that can bring a sleeping,listless society to critical thought on these issues can only be helpful.my great hope is that thedarwinist establishment comes at this ministry with all guns blazing.maybe then we can finally have a real conversion - and not merely a one-sided propaganda barrage- on the darwinist/creation science issue. thank you.
Posted by troy martin | May 28, 2007 3:02 PM