PERES FOR ISRAEL PRESIDENT

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Seven feared missing as storms batter eastern Australia. 3-Severe storms pound Upper Midwest. 4-Flooding threat eases in parts of Western Canada. 5-Report: Olmert signals on Golan Heights. 6-European equities sink amid global equities downturn. 7-Syria ceded part of Golan to Israel in peace talks: Netanyahu. 8-Evangelicals denounce CNN faith and politics forum. 9-Shas Sages Decide: Shimon Peres for President.

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 = Sat Jun 9 12:01 AM EDT

JUNE 8,07
MAP 3.1 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.9 SOUTHERN EAST PACIFIC RISE
MAP 4.9 MID-INDIAN RIDGE
MAP 2.5 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 MARIANA ISLANDS REGION

JUNE 7,07
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 SOUTHERN GREECE
MAP 2.8 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.5 LAOS
MAP 2.8 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.7 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 4.7 MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.3 FIJI REGION
MAP 4.5 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
MAP 6.2 BISMARCK SEA

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.

Seven feared missing as storms batter eastern Australia Fri Jun 8, 5:51 AM ET

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian emergency services on Friday said seven people were feared missing as fierce storms hit the country's east coast, with five swept away when a highway collapsed in torrential rain. The wild weather, including strong winds that forced a huge freighter to run aground north of Sydney, brought flash floods to areas of New South Wales state, cutting roads and resulting in thousands of calls for assistance.The NSW Ambulance Service said a car carrying two adults and two children was swept away when a section of Old Pacific Highway on the Central Coast collapsed after being undermined by a rain-swollen creek.A would-be rescuer who rushed to help was also believed to have been carried away by the raging waters, police said.

In a separate incident, an elderly couple were believed to have been in a car swept off a bridge in the lower Hunter Valley, also north of Sydney.Police said late Friday that they had been forced to call off the search for the couple until daybreak due to bad weather and darkness.

The storms dumped up to 200 millimetres (7.9 inches) of rain and packed winds exceeding 90 km/h (56 mph), with forecasters predicting conditions would worsen Saturday.With Australia entering a holiday long weekend, the NSW State Emergency Services warned motorists against taking to the roads, advising them to cancel non-essential travel.It said 60,000 homes were without power and it was receiving about 250 calls for assistance every hour.

Severe storms pound Upper Midwest By ROBERT IMRIE, Associated Press Writer JUNE 8,07

WAUSAU, Wis. Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes tore through the Upper Midwest on Thursday, damaging homes and a resort, producing baseball-size hail and dropping more than 6 inches of rain in some areas. A twister devastated the Bear Paw Resort near Langlade in northern Wisconsin, and nearby homes might also have been damaged, the Langlade County Sheriff's Department said.The rustic resort, which runs along the Wolf River, allows camping and includes cabins and a kayaking business. There was a report of a kayak slicing through a pine tree.The resort was leveled, said Gina Panzica of Langlade County Rural Fire Control.At least five tornadoes were reported in Wisconsin, and the storms injured at least four people, none seriously, officials said.Hailstones 4 inches wide fell in Wisconsin Rapids, knocking out the windshield of a police car, said Karen Ryun, a dispatcher.

A tornado damaged several lake homes near Elizabeth, in western Minnesota, said Judy Siggerud, dispatch supervisor for Otter Tail County. No injuries were reported.My husband was pulling some lawn furniture off of our deck, when all of a sudden a black cloud came out right in front of us, said Claudia Boelter, who took cover in a neighbor's house. We ran next door, and I looked out their living room window. I could see this cloud that was down on the lake, rotating and pulling water up.
Hail the size of golf balls was reported in parts of Minnesota. Gusty winds knocked out power in parts of the Twin Cities.In North Dakota, where the storms began late Wednesday, heavy rain washed out roads. Bowman County emergency manager Dean Pearson said he had reports of 1 1/2 to 6 1/4 inches of rain overnight.We've got some roads that are washed out and some areas that are still running over the roadway, Pearson said. It's been slow getting started (to assess the damage) because it's so muddy that it's hard to get around.Most of the rain stayed to the west or north of Fargo, which was fighting back the rising Red River, said Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker. The Red River flows northward.Strong winds whipped across Chicago on Thursday, snarling air travel. About 400 flights at O'Hare International Airport were canceled Thursday evening, according to Wendy Abrams, spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Aviation.Associated Press writer Dave Kolpack in Fargo, N.D., contributed to this report.

Flooding threat eases in parts of Western Canada Thu Jun 7, 7:13 PM ET

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian forecasters said flooded rivers in northwest British Columbia rose again on Thursday, but officials said the threat of major problems on the Fraser River east of Vancouver had eased.

Officials said the mountain snow pack that threatened to cause major spring flooding along the Fraser and Thompson rivers has now largely melted, but they remain concerned about potential problems if there are heavy rains.The unusually heavy winter snows had kept British Columbia on edge about flooding for weeks, but only the high levels of the Skeena and Buckley rivers in the northwestern area of the Pacific coast province have caused major problems.

Melting snow has produced the biggest waterflow in the Buckley since officials started keeping records more than 70 years ago, and water levels in both it and the Skeena were expected to continue rising through the weekend.Flooding closed the only major highway through the region to the port city of Prince Rupert, and prompted evacuation orders and alerts in several communities.High water also caused Canadian National Railway Co. to stop service to Prince Rupert, which handles both grain and coal exports. The railway said it was talking to the Canadian Grain Commission about diverting traffic to Vancouver.Passenger rail service along the CN line has also been halted.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Report: Olmert signals on Golan Heights By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 8, 4:25 AM ET

JERUSALEM - Israel sent secret messages to Syria recently signaling willingness to give up the captured Golan Heights in return for a peace deal that would require Syria to distance itself from Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had German and Turkish diplomats relay to Syrian President Bashar Assad that Israel is willing to hold direct peace negotiations and give up the strategic plateau, seized in the 1967 Mideast war, the Yediot Ahronot
daily said, quoting officials close to Olmert.Syria did not respond to Olmert's messages, the report said.Assad has recently urged Israel to return to the negotiating table. But he has not publicly indicated a willingness to accommodate Israel's oft-stated insistence that there could be no talks unless Damascus scaled back its ties with Iran, its main ally in the region, and stopped backing Lebanese and Palestinian militants committed to Israel's destruction.Olmert's office had no comment on the Yediot report.

Yediot said President Bush gave Olmert the green light for negotiations with Syria in an hourlong phone conversation last month. The two leaders will further discuss the possibility of talks during their scheduled meeting at the White House on June 19, the report said.A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv was not immediately available for comment on the newspaper report.In the past, Israeli and U.S. officials have said privately that Washington does not want Israel to engage Syria, because of its ties to radical elements and meddling in Lebanon, a former proxy. But the Bush administration is also under pressure from allies, lawmakers and advisers who think Washington should warm ties with Syria in an effort to isolate Iran.Israel and Syria have tried several times in the past to reach a peace accord, which both sides understand would require an Israeli pullout from the Golan. The last round of talks broke down in 2000 over the scope of the withdrawal, and Israel's demand for normalized relations.Relations have steadily deteriorated since.

Syria backed Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas in their war with Israel last summer, and harbors the leadership of the militantly anti-Israel Hamas, which shares power in the Palestinian government.After the Lebanon war, Assad offered to renew negotiations, but Israel dismissed his overtures as a tactic to ease his regime's isolation in the West. But abruptly last week, a senior Israeli official said Olmert
was assessing prospects for renewed talks.It is not clear what drove this change. The flawed war made Olmert too politically weak at home to advance his proposed withdrawal from large swaths of the West Bank. New negotiations with Syria could help to dispel the widespread image in Israel that he has no political agenda.

Alternatively, he might have reached the conclusion that Syria is serious about making peace, or that Israel should not, in principle, rebuff peace overtures.
Reports about possible diplomatic movement on the Syrian front have proliferated over the past week in an atmosphere charged by a recent Syrian military buildup and military preparations on both sides of the border. On Wednesday, Olmert, seeking to ease the volatility, said Israel was interested in peace with Damascus and had no belligerent intentions.Giving back the Golan, which Israel annexed in 1981, is not a popular concept in Israel. The heights dominate much of northern Israel, are adjacent to Israel's largest source of drinking water, and are home to wineries and popular tourism sites.

Olmert's weak domestic standing could make it even more difficult to push a withdrawal ahead if the current diplomatic feelers evolved into something more substantial.A poll by the Teleseker company published in the Maariv newspaper on Friday showed that 84 percent of the 500 Israelis surveyed oppose a full withdrawal from the Golan. Forty-four percent opposed any Golan pullback, according to the poll, which had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

European equities sink amid global equities downturn JUNE 8,2007

LONDON (AFP) - European stocks sank again on Friday after a sharp round of losses earlier in Asia and overnight in New York, as fears mounted that the global economy could face higher interest rates, dealers said. The falls came as worries over rising inflation and higher credit costs re-focused attention on economic growth and corporate profits, they added.In early European deals on Friday, London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares shed 0.19 percent to 6,492.70 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 lost 0.45 percent to 7,584.32 and in Paris the CAC 40 dipped 0.39 percent to 5,867.35.In the foreign exchange market, the euro dived as low as 1.3352 dollars -- last seen April 10 -- as inflation jitters also prompted investors to consider a possible US rate hike later this year, analysts said.

Wall Street had taken a pounding on Thursday as global interest rate and inflation worries roiled the market, traders said.Japanese share prices also slumped on Friday, slipping below the 18,000-point mark, also after disappointing machinery orders data.Investors track interest rate movements closely because higher borrowing costs increase companies' loan repayments, and they slash the amount of spare cash available for consumers to spend.Interest rates are creeping higher, particularly in the eurozone, where the European Central Bank lifted borrowing costs this week to 4.00 percent.While the Bank of England paused rates at 5.50 percent on Thursday, analysts expect another rate hike in Britain is around the corner.

And although the Federal Reserve has so far kept US interest rates unchanged for a year, it has warned that it stands ready to raise rates if inflation pressures mount.In London on Friday, the mining sector was hit by falling metals prices.Shares in Vedanta Resources plunged 3.19 percent to 1,455 pence, Antofagasta plummeted 1.96 percent to 550.25 pence and BHP Billiton sank 2.0 percent to 1,260.26 pence.In Frankfurt, German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp fell 1.02 percent to 42.67 euros.

In US deals on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down a dramatic 1.48 percent at 13,266.73, marking the third straight day of steep losses.The Nasdaq composite shed a notable 1.77 percent to 2,541.38 and the Standard Poor's 500 index slumped a heavy 1.76 percent to a close of 1,490.72.

Bond prices also took a hit as the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond jumped above five percent amid worries that higher interest rates could squeeze market liquidity.In Asia on Friday, the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei-225 index of leading shares tumbled 1.52 percent to close at 17,779.09 points. Hong Kong's key Hang Seng index closed down 1.40 percent at 20,509.15.

Syria ceded part of Golan to Israel in peace talks: Netanyahu Thu Jun 7, 3:04 PM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad said during secret peace talks in the 1990s he was ready to leave a strategic Golan Heights stronghold under Israeli control, ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. People don't know that Assad ceded the Hermon, Netanyahu told the private Radius 100FM radio station, referring to a strategic mountain in the northern Golan plateau which Israel captured 40 years ago during the Six Day War and annexed in 1981.I told him I have a pre-condition, that's what I told him, I have a pre-condition -- the Hermon.

He asked me 'why do need this pre-condition? and I said 'because the Iranian threat... there is a threat from Iran, and I need to have eyes looking east. And he gave me the Hermon, the hawkish MP said. Netanyahu held indirect peace talks with Assad -- the father of current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad -- between 1998 and 1999, but they did not materialise into a peace treaty.Syria has demanded Israel's complete withdrawal to pre-1967 borders in any peace agreement.US-brokered peace talks between Israel and Syria later collapsed in 2000 after the sides failed to agree on the extent of Israel's withdrawal from the Golan.Netanyahu's statements came amid heightened tensions between Israel and Syria, with both sides declaring their willingness to hold peace talks but also warning of possible war.Earlier on Thursday, a Syrian official said Damascus would like to resume peace negotiations with Israel, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said it did not want to go to war with its arch-foe.

The lukewarm left Democrats and CNN are trying to make the GODLESS Democrats seem like Christians so they get the Christian vote. Don't get conned into this bias malarky.

Evangelicals denounce CNN faith and politics forum
Jim Brown OneNewsNow.com June 7, 2007

Conservative evangelicals are criticizing a recent forum that featured Democratic presidential candidates John Edwards, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. The head of the National Clergy Council says the CNN special, sponsored by the group Sojourners, tried to portray the three Democrats as being compatible with evangelical beliefs, practices, and politics.

A day after the Faith, Values and Politics forum on Monday, Pastor Rob Schenck moderated a roundtable discussion at the National Press Club called Evangelicals in '08: United or Divided? The event featured panelists who presented historical Christian positions on social and moral issues -- individuals such as theologian Dr. Norm Geisler, Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver, and constitutional attorney Bernard Reese.

In contrast, Schenck contends that the Sojourners panelists who asked questions of Edwards, Obama, and Clinton do not hold mainstream evangelical values.Through carefully crafted questions and the responses -- mostly rehearsed -- of the candidates, the sponsoring group hoped to convince who knows who' that issues like world poverty and corporate CEO compensation packages trump the sanctity of human life, the sanctity of marriage and the family, and the public acknowledgement of God, Schenck declared.

Schenck said CNN and Sojourners conspired to create a fictional class of Christians -- so-called liberal evangelicals.Sojourners and their favorite candidates want us to change, to adapt, to a more popular, more acceptable, more congenial list of priorities, the National Clergy Council leader stated.

But Jesus warned, woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets.Schenck sarcastically referred to the Sojourners forum as the religious revival with Brother Barack, Sister Hillary, and Deacon John.American Family News Network

IF PERES GETS ELECTED FOR SURE PROPHECY OF LAND FOR PEACE WILL BE DONE AND JERUSALEM WILL BE DIVIDED WHICH WILL BRING IN THE LAST 7 YRS OF DANIELS 9:24-27 PROPHECY. AND HELL ON EARTH AS THE EU DICTATOR CONTROLS THE WORLD FOR THE LAST HALF OF THE 7 YEAR TREATY. HES A FALSE PEACE MAKER FOR THE 1ST HALF OF THE 7 YR TREATY.

Shas Sages Decide: Shimon Peres for President
by Hana Levi Julian (INN) JUNE 8,07

The Council of Torah Sages leading the Sephardic religious Shas Party decided Thursday night, in a unanimous vote, to throw its support behind Kadima’s Vice Premier Shimon Peres in his run to become the next president of Israel. The party’s spiritual leader, former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, is joined on the Council by three other rabbis: Rabbis Shalom Cohen, Shimon Baadani and Moshe Maya. The latter two were unable to appear in person and voted instead by phone. The Shas Party Chairman and Minister of Industry and Trade, Eli Yishai, and cabinet minister Ariel Atlas were also present. Rabbi Yosef had been pressured by various people in recent days to support Peres's main opponent in the race, ex-Knesset Speaker Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin, who is also a close friend of the party leadership. The statement issued by the Council following the meeting reflected the dilemma: The High Council has decided to support the Vice Premier. We instruct all Shas faction MKs to vote for Mr. Shimon Peres as president of the state and we wish him luck in his position for the State of Israel. We also honor and respect our dear friend Reuven Rivlin and appreciate him, and wish for him to rise upwards and upwards.That honor and respect does not extend to choosing him as president, however.

Sources said that several Shas MKs have quietly expressed their intent to vote according to their conscience, and not necessarily with the party line. At the end of the day, said one, who asked not to be named, the vote is carried out by secret ballot. I will do what I have to do, and so will others.

Many hareidi-religious communities are fiercely opposed to any support for Mr. Peres. A group called The Committee for Jewish Holiness has plastered hareidi religious neighborhoods in numerous communities with posters listing anti-Jewish statements made by Mr. Peres in the past. A list of those, plus several others, includes:

- The economic and social situation in Israel is outstanding. (Israel Radio interview, March 17, 2007)

- [Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is] one of the best prime ministers that there has been. (Israel Radio interview, March 17, 2007)

- We see eye to eye with [Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud] Abbas, because he is really for peace… (Media With Conscience interview, January 31, 2007)

- What King David did was not Jewish. (Yediot Acharonot, February 15, 1994)

- I believe it is fitting that the [Nobel Peace] prize has been awarded to [PLO Chairman and arch terrorist] Yasser Arafat. His quitting the path of confrontation in favor of the path of dialogue has opened the way to peace between ourselves and the Palestinian people… (Speech upon accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1994)

- The rabbis are deceivers. (Yediot Acharonot, April 15, 1990)

- There is nothing to be proud of in Jewish history. (UNESCO conference 1990)

Thursday night's statement of support for Mr. Pers by the Shas Council of Torah Sages included a line that said the party’s rabbinical leadership had chosen Mr. Peres for his contributions to Judaism.