NO ONE IS STOPPING IRAN , ISRAEL

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Undersea quake strikes Indonesia. 3-Rain puts parts of Kansas under water 4-WILDFIRES UPDATE. 5-Body found in Iraq is Calif. soldier. 6-Israel grabs Hamas leaders in West Bank. 7-Are you ready Book to buy. 8-Catholic League blasts HBO's Bill Maher for his comments about Falwell. 9-North American union plan headed to Congress in fall. 10-Concern in Israel: No One is Stopping Iran!

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 = Fri May 25 10:00 PM EDT

MAY 25,07
MAP 3.9 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.5 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 3.3 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 5.2 BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.5 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 4.1 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 3.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.6 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 4.7 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 CHUKOTKA, RUSSIA
MAP 3.1 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.9 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.9 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.5 SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA

MAY 24,07
MAP 4.7 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.6 GULF OF MEXICO
MAP 4.8 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 3.6 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 3.2 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.4 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.4 MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.6 NEAR ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.4 NEW MEXICO
MAP 2.8 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.7 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.4 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

Undersea quake strikes Indonesia
POSTED: 0221 GMT (1021 HKT), May 24, 2007

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A strong undersea earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Thursday, briefly triggering a tsunami alert, the country's meteorological and geophysics agency said. Indonesian scientists gave the quake a preliminary magnitude of 6.5. The United States Geological Survey said its initial estimate was a more modest 5.5. Such discrepancies are common in the immediate aftermath of a quake.

There were no immediate reports of damage as a result of the quake 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Sumbawa island, said Muhammad Yusuf, a staffer at Indonesia's meteorological and geophysics agency.The agency initially said the quake had the potential to cause a tsunami and issued a warning to coastal towns close to the epicenter. It lifted the warning an hour later, saying no waves had hit shorelines.

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.In December 2004, a massive earthquake struck off Sumatra island and triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, including 160,000 people in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh alone. A tsunami off Java island last year killed nearly 5,000.

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.

Rain puts parts of Kansas under water Thu May 24, 11:28 AM ET

HUTCHINSON, Kan. - Torrential rainfall hit parts of the Plains and Midwest, flooding towns in Kansas Thursday, toppling trees and power lines and pelting the countryside with hail. Some central Kansas towns recorded as much as 7 inches of rain in some places up to 2 inches per hour starting Wednesday.The deluge closed dozens of roads, some flooded for the second time in three weeks, said Dean Speaks, deputy emergency management director for Saline County.It's taken out the roads that we fixed (after the first flooding), Speaks said. Numerous government facilities, homes and businesses in the Salina area were flooded.

Everyone in the Saline County towns of Bavaria and Hedville — about 80 people — evacuated their homes overnight. Fifty homes in Ogden, near Fort Riley, were being voluntarily evacuated as area creeks rose.In Hutchinson, many motorists had to be helped from their cars as water flooded streets.

In some places, there are people with water up to their porches, Hutchinson Fire Chief Kim Forbes said. Fire trucks were used to help move people to higher ground or to shelters.The storms also spawned tornadoes and funnel clouds, but no significant tornado damage was reported. Toppled trees and power lines were reported in Minnesota and Wisconsin.The National Weather Service posted a flood warning for the Big Nemaha River in southeastern Nebraska. It was expected to crest three feet over flood stage late Thursday evening or night, and rain was forecast through midafternoon.

May 24, 2007 WILDFIRES UPDATE

Firefighters continue to make progress on the 14 large fires in Georgia and Florida. Fire crews in Florida are working to improve fireslines and mop-up within the perimeter. In Georgia, wildland fires have burned more than 571 square miles, an area more than four times the size of Atlanta. Current information about road closures in Georgia is available through the Georgia Department of Transportation (404-656-5267). In Florida, dial 511 from a cell phone or visit the Florida Highway
Patrol web site. Weather Discussion: Gusty winds and low relative humidity will continue over southern Georgia and northern Florida. Winds will decrease across northern California with generally warmer and drier weather across California, Arizona and the Great Basin. Central Alaska will be partly cloudy and not as windy.

Daily statistics 5/23/07
Number of new large fires 4 States currently reporting large fires:
Number of active large fires 18 California (1)
Florida (7)
Georgia (7)
North Carolina (1)
Nevada (1)
Tennessee (1)
Acres from active fires 574,028
Number of Wildland Fire Use (WFU) fires 0
Number of Wildland Fire Use (WFU) acres 0
Fires contained on 5/22/07 2
Year-to-date large fires contained 314
Year-to-date statistics
2007 (1/1/07 - 5/23/07) Fires: 34,314 Acres: 1,087,696
2006 (1/1/06 - 5/23/06) Fires: 40,732 Acres: 2,503,742
2005 (1/1/05 - 5/23/05) Fires: 22,189 Acres: 348,163
2004 (1/1/04 - 5/23/04) Fires: 30,893 Acres: 499,319
2003 (1/1/03 - 5/23/03) Fires: 20,206 Acres: 384,685
2002 (1/1/02 - 5/23/02) Fires: 29,512 Acres: 715,875
2001 (1/1/01 - 5/23/01) Fires: 32,038 Acres: 611,178
2000 (1/1/00 - 5/23/00) Fires: 40,297 Acres: 1,026,401
8-year average
2000 - 2007 Fires: 31,007 Acres: 828,614

Source: National Interagency Coordination Center

REVELATION 9:14-18
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
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.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARY) 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.
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)

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WW3 BEGINS AT THE EUPHRATES RIVER. WHETHER IT WAS THE US INVASION OF IRAQ. THE MOSQUE BOMBING LAST YEAR NEAR THE EUPHRATES OR MAYBE THIS MURDER IN THE EUPHRATES THAT MIGHT BE THE KICKOFF TO WW3. ONLY GOD KNOWS BUT THE BIBLE SAYS 1/3 OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE IN WW3 STARTED AT THE EUPHRATES RIVER.

Body found in Iraq is Calif. soldier By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer MAY 24,07

BAGHDAD - Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops fanned out across the fields of southern Iraq in scorching temperatures Thursday as the military said it remained determined to find two missing U.S. soldiers after the body of a third was pulled from a river. Also Thursday, a car bomb targeting a funeral procession in the turbulent city of Fallujah killed at least 26 people, police and medical officials
said.The military confirmed that the body found Wednesday in the Euphrates River south of Baghdad was that of Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., of Torrance, Calif., who had been missing since militants ambushed his unit nearly two weeks ago.

A commanding officer identified the remains recovered from the river, but DNA tests were still pending, military officials told Anzack's family.They told us, 'We're sorry to inform you the body we found has been identified as Joe, said the soldier's aunt, Debbie Anzack. I'm in disbelief.Anzack, 20,vanished along with the two other soldiers after their combat team was ambushed May 12 about 20 miles outside Baghdad. Five others, including an Iraqi, were killed in the ambush, subsequently claimed by al-Qaida.The attack triggered a massive search operation in the area south of Baghdad known as the triangle of death for the insurgent activity there.On Thursday, soldiers proceeded with their mission, despite Anzack's death. One unit searched chicken coops and trudged through mud, canals and tall reeds in the brutal heat.The search continues, said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman.

Members of Anzack's platoon choked back tears at news of his death and said they would not stop looking for the other two missing soldiers.We can't leave them behind. I just hope that they have enough faith to keep them going. What they're going through right now, I can't imagine, said Pfc. Sammy Rhodes, 25, of Albuquerque, N.M.Spc. Daniel Seitz, 22, of Pensacola, Fla., said he was trying to stay strong and push ahead with the search.It just angers me that it's just another friend I've got to lose and deal with, because I've already lost 13 friends since I've been here and I don't know if I can take any more of this, he said.Lt. Col. Josslyn Aberle denied reports that a second body had been found and was being examined to determine if it was that of another of the missing soldiers. The reports of a second set of remains being found is a false report, the spokeswoman said.

The U.S. military also said two U.S. soldiers were killed Wednesday during combat operations in Iraq's volatile Anbar province. Those deaths, along with the deaths of nine other troopers announced Wednesday, brought the American death toll for the month to at least 82.

Last month, 104 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq.The increase in U.S. deaths come at a difficult moment for Washington, where the Bush administration and congressional Democrats have been wrangling for weeks on how long American troops should stay.On Thursday, President Bush said he supports a $120 billion Iraq war spending bill on track to pass Congress later in the day. The bill funds the war through September as Bush wanted and does not set a date for troop withdrawals. In exchange for dropping restrictions on the military, Bush agreed to some $17 billion in spending added by Democrats to fund domestic and military-related projects.By voting for this bill, members of both parties can show our troops and the Iraqis and the enemy that our country will support our service men and women in harm's way, Bush said in a Rose Garden news conference.

While the measure does not include a timetable on the war, it does threaten to withhold U.S. aid dollars for Iraq if Baghdad fails to make progress on political and security reforms. The president, however, could waive that restriction. Bush said Iraq's ability to meet the benchmarks outlined in the bill would be difficult. It's going to be hard work for this young government, he said. After all, the Iraqis are recovering from decades of brutal dictatorship.In other violence, a parked car bomb exploded Thursday morning in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, as a funeral procession passed by for a man who worked against al-Qaida in Iraq. The blast killed 26 people and wounded 45 others, police and medical officials said. The funeral was being held for Alaa Zuwaid, a 60-year-old restaurant owner who was part of a tribe that had formed an alliance with other tribal leaders against al-Qaida.

Zuwaid was killed earlier Thursday when unknown militants shot him in front of his house, police said. His 25-year-old son was killed by militants nearly a month ago as he walked down the street. On the outskirts of Baghdad, gunmen ambushed a minibus near the Shiite-dominated district of al-Hussainya, killing 11 passengers, police said. The attackers then planted a bomb on the bus, which blew up when police arrived, injuring four of them, police said. A suicide bomber detonated a bomb aboard another minibus driving through Baghdad, killing three civilians and injuring eight others, police said. In Sulaiman Bek, 75 miles south of the northern city of Kirkuk, a roadside bomb an Iraqi police convoy killed six police officers Thursday morning, Iraqi police said. Nationwide, at least 104 people were killed in sectarian violence or found dead Wednesday, including 32 who died in suicide bombings.

Insurgents in Baghdad also attacked a convoy of U.S. diplomats and their military escort with small arms fire on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Apache helicopters fired at several of the armed attackers, the military said. U.S. troops then arrived to secure the area and allow the convoy to leave, the military said.

Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi forces have been involved in the search for the soldiers ambushed and captured May 12. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said the remains, later identified as those of Anzack, were recovered by Iraqi police. Witnesses said police using civilian boats searched for other bodies on the river in Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, and U.S. troops intensified their presence on a nearby bridge as helicopters flew overhead, witnesses said. Hassan al-Jibouri, 32, said he saw the body with head wounds and whip marks on its back floating on the river Wednesday. He and others then alerted police. The remaining missing soldiers are Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich. At Jimenez's father's home, a yellow ribbon also was tied on the front door. Ramon Jimenez, who speaks Spanish, said through a translator in a cell phone conversation that he has been helped by the support of friends and family. The hope is very high that God is going to give Alex back to him, said Wendy Luzon, a family friend who translated and has been serving as a spokeswoman. AP writers Maya Alleruzzo in Youssifiyah, Iraq, Lolita Baldor in Washington, Glen Johnson in Lawrence, Mass., David Aguilar in Commerce Township, Mich., and Jeremiah Marquez in Torrance, Calif., contributed to this report.

Israel grabs Hamas leaders in West Bank By ALI DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer MAY 24,07

NABLUS, West Bank - Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn Thursday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian president condemned the arrests, saying they would hinder his efforts to restore a truce with Israel, while Hamas threatened to retaliate with attacks inside the Jewish state.The arrests reflected an Israeli decision to target the Hamas political leadership — but not necessarily with the lethal airstrikes it has staged over the past week on Hamas targets.On Thursday, Israel carried out several airstrikes in Gaza, all directed at Hamas training bases and command posts. A huge plume of black smoke rose over Gaza City after an afternoon attack, but there were no serious injuries, Palestinian medics said.At sundown, two mortar shells fired from Gaza exploded at Erez, the main crossing for people between the Palestinian territory and Israel. No was hurt, but there was considerable damage to two of the processing lanes, and Israel closed the crossing, the military said.

More than 40 Palestinians died in Israeli air raids over the past 10 days, and a rocket killed an Israeli woman Monday. The rocket barrages have severely disrupted life in the southern Israel area near Gaza, and thousands of frightened residents have fled.Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said the arrests in the West Bank were part of Israel's attempt to neutralize Hamas and lessen the bloodshed.

Arrests are better than shooting, he told Israeli Army Radio. The arrest of these Hamas leaders sends a message to the military organizations that we demand that this (rocket) firing stop.But Hamas remained defiant: We will chase the occupation soldiers and the settlers in every inch of our occupied land, and we announce that we give free hand to our cells to strike against the enemy in every place in Palestine a term the Islamic group uses to include Israel.The office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a member of Hamas, demanded the immediate release of the detainees and urged the United Nations and European Union to impose sanctions on Israel.

The EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and called for both sides to halt the violence. The rockets and the Israeli response have to stop, he told reporters after the meeting.Abbas, a moderate in the Fatah movement, said that the arrests by Israel hurt peace efforts and that airstrikes weren't stopping the rocket salvos.But he also condemned what he called the absurd rocket fire by Palestinian extremists and said he was trying to persuade militant groups to halt. They must stop so we can reach a truce with Israel, Abbas said.Just after the meeting, Israeli aircraft carried out two more attacks, hitting an empty Hamas base in Gaza City and a base in central Gaza, Palestinian security officials said. The Israeli military said only that it struck Hamas emplacements. Four civilians suffered slight injuries from flying glass and debris in the Gaza City attack, medics said. No one was hurt in the second strike.

The most prominent Hamas leader arrested overnight was Education Minister Nasser Shaer, considered a pragmatist. His wife, Huda, said soldiers knocked on the door of their home in Nablus and took him away, along with his computer. Israel also detained Shaer for a month last year, before a judge ordered his release.Israel already held 40 Palestinian lawmakers from Hamas, including parliament speaker Abdel Aziz Duaik. They were detained after Hamas-linked gunmen abducted an Israeli soldier last June. The idea was to trade the lawmakers for the soldier, but no deal took place.

Also among those rounded up Thursday were former Cabinet minister Abdel Rahman Zeidan, legislators Hamed Bitawi and Daoud Abu Ser, the mayors of the towns of Nablus, Qalqiliya and Beita, and the head of the main Islamic charity in Nablus. Israel has failed to quell rocket fire over the years, despite large-scale ground offensives that caused multiple casualties and widespread damage in areas used by militants. Abbas' security forces have made few visible efforts to halt rocket salvos.

Instead, the rocket attacks diminish when Palestinian militants decide to lower the flame. Intentionally or not, the latest flare-up with Israel stopped a month of bloody internal clashes between Hamas and Fatah security forces in Gaza. Israel's military said Hamas fired six rockets into Israel on Thursday, though Hamas claimed firing 14, still less than previous days. Alone Ben-David, military analyst for Israel's Channel 10 TV, said the decrease in rocket fire was a hint that Hamas might have achieved its goals and was ready to wind down the crisis. Ben-David added, however, that firing would likely escalate if Israel killed a top Hamas commander in an airstrike.

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JUDE 14-16
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them (Bill Maher, Rosie Odonnell) of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.(JESUS)
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

THIS BILL MAHER IS THE GODLESS OF THE GODLESS LEFT. GET HIM OFF THE AIR.

Catholic League blasts HBO's Bill Maher for his comments about Falwell
Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com May 25, 2007

A Catholic civil rights organization is absolutely outraged at recent comments made by entertainer Bill Maher following the death of Dr. Jerry Falwell. During his May 18 broadcast of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, the host said, Now I know you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but I think we can make an exception. Kiera McCaffrey with the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights notes, The absolute hate that Bill Maher shows is just unbelievable. I mean, it's not surprising that just a couple days after Jerry Falwell's death, [Maher] goes on and is mocking his death, laughing about it, saying he's glad about it.McCaffrey says following his comments about Falwell, Maher launched into a vile assault on Catholicism, including mocking and profane references to the Virgin Mary, Mass, and the Eucharist. She believes Maher would never have said such things about Muslims.

Absolutely this would not happen to Muslims because there would be a violent reaction, the Catholic spokeswoman insists. And it would not happen to other groups, she asserts, because with Jews and blacks, there would be a quicker outcry from people saying, That's not fair. In the United States, however, most people don't even react when this happens to Christians.The really unfortunate thing, however, is that a lot of Christians don't react either, McCaffrey observes. They think, 'Oh well, it's Christian to turn the other cheek. But Christians should not have to tolerate this sort of behavior, she insists. McCaffrey says her organization has sent letters to all 14 board members of Time Warner, HBO's parent company, asking whether Bill Maher's highly offensive attack on Jesus Christ merits the same punishment afforded Don Imus for his racist remark about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.American Family News Network

North American union plan headed to Congress in fall
Powerful think tank prepares report on benefits of integration between U.S., Mexico, Canada May 24, 2007 - WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc.

The final report, published in English, Spanish and French, is scheduled for submission to all three governments by Sept. 30, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies. CSIS boasts of playing a large role in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 – a treaty that set in motion a political movement many believe resembles the early stages of the European
Community on its way to becoming the European Union.

The results of the study will enable policymakers to make sound, strategic, long-range policy decisions about North America, with an emphasis on regionalintegration, explains Armand B. Peschard-Sverdrup, director of CSIS' Mexico Project.

Specifically, the project will focus on a detailed examination of future scenarios, which are based on current trends, and involve six areas of critical importance to the trilateral relationship: labor mobility, energy, the environment, security, competitiveness and border infrastructure and logistics.

The data collected for the report is based on seven secret roundtable sessions involving between 21 and 45 people and conducted by CSIS. The participants are politicians, business people, labor leaders and academics from all three countries with equal representation.

All of this is described in a CSIS report, North American Future 2025 Project.The free flow of people across national borders will undoubtedly continue throughout the world as well as in North America, as will the social, political and economic challenges that accompany this trend, says the report. In order to remain competitive in the global economy, it is imperative for the twenty-first century North American labor market to possess the flexibility necessary to meet industrial labor demands on a transitional basis and in a way that responds to market forces.As WND reported last week, the controversial Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007, which would grant millions of illegal aliens the right to stay in the U.S. under certain conditions, contains provisions for the acceleration of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a plan for North American economic and defense integration with remarkable similarities to the CSIS plan.

The bill, as worked out by Senate and White House negotiators, cites the SPP agreement signed by President Bush and his counterparts in Mexico and Canada March 23, 2005 – an agreement that has been criticized as a blueprint for building a European Union-style merger of the three countries of North America.

It is the sense of Congress that the United States and Mexico should accelerate the implementation of the Partnership for Prosperity to help generate economic growth and improve the standard of living in Mexico, which will lead to reduced migration, the draft legislation states on page 211 on the version time-stamped May 18, 2007 11:58 p.m. Since agreement on the major provisions of the bill was announced late last week, a firestorm of opposition has ignited across the country.

Senators and representatives are reporting heavy volumes of phone calls and e-mails expressing outrage with the legislation they believe represents the largest amnesty program ever contemplated by the federal government.

Meanwhile, while many continue to express skepticism about a plot to integrate North America along the lines of the European Union, WND reported last week that 14 years ago, one of world's most celebrated economists and management experts said it was already on the fast track – and nothing could stop it. Peter F. Drucker, in one of his dozens of best-selling books, Post Capitalist Society, published in 1993, wrote that the European Community, the progenitor of the European Union, triggered the attempt to create a North American economic community, built around the United States but integrating both Canada and Mexico into a common market. So far this attempt is purely economic in its goal, wrote the Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree. But it can hardly remain so in the long run.Drucker describes in his book the worldwide trends toward globalization that were evident back then – the creation and empowerment of transnational organizations and institutions, international environmental goals regarding carbon dioxide and agreements to fight terrorism long
before 9/11.

Concern in Israel: No One is Stopping Iran!
by Hillel Fendel (MAY 24,07 INN)

The International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA) released a report on Wednesday showing that not only has Iran not fulfilled its international demands, but it has also expanded the scope of its uranium enrichment. Iran is speeding towards a nuclear bomb, lamented an unnamed senior Israeli diplomatic figure, and no one is stopping her. So reported Maariv. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni responded to the report with a show of diplomatic concern: The international community must concentrate on preventing Iran from attaining nuclear weapons. The report shows that the time element is critical, and the entire world must be united in understanding that we must not stray from this goal.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert assumed a more undaunted pose. Iran's continued uranium enrichment is a source of concern, according to a statement from Prime Minister Olmert's Bureau, even though it is insufficient to indicate that Iran has already achieved an industrial-level enrichment capability.The statement expressed Israel's regret at Iran's systematic and open violation of the resolutions of the UN Security Council and the IAEA... We view with utmost gravity the continuing deterioration in the level of Iranian cooperation with the IAEA's inspectors.

IRNA, the Iranian press agency, reported today that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran, backed by its nation, has no fear of enemies' hue and cry and psychological warfare. We have got closer to our final goals with the grace of Allah, he told commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. The report reveals that instead of freezing the uranium enrichment program, Iran has widened its scope, with 1,300 centrifuges in operation in various nuclear facilities
throughout the country. Less than a year ago, an Iranian opposition group warned that hundreds of centrifuges could be operative by the following year [2007] if steps were not taken by the international community. We believe they pretty much have the knowledge about how to enrich, IAEA chief Mohammed El-Baradei told The New York Times almost two weeks ago. From now on, it is simply a question of perfecting that knowledge. People will not like to hear it, but thats a fact. Today, however, he backed off a bit, saying that Iran is still three to eight years away from achieving nuclear arms.Transportation Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, formerly Israel's Defense Minister, is scheduled to begin a round of talks in Washington on the matter in two weeks' time. A UN-imposed ultimatum demanding that Iran suspend its nuclear plans expires tomorrow, Friday.