FLOODS - HEATWAVE HITS USA

TEXAS GETS ANOTHER 5 INCHES OF RAIN LAST NIGHT. AND HEATWAVES IN CALIFORNIA, NEVADA AND OTHER STATES IN THE USA. WELL THE BIBLE WARNS US IF THE DAYLIGHT HOURS WOULD NOT BE SHORTENED IN THE FUTURE BY GOD ALL FLESH WOULD DIE, BUT FOR ISRAELS SAKE THE DAYLIGHT HOURS WILL BE SHORTENED TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM HEAT DESTRUCTION. THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS THE SUN WILL BE 7 TIMES (OR POSSIBLE 7 DEGREES HOTTER) DURING THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.

Jul 5, 2007 11:00 am US/Central
More Rain Threatens Waterlogged Plains
CBS News Interactive: Floods And Droughts

CBS) OKLAHOMA CITY Flooding slowly subsided in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, but forecasters said an approaching storm system could hamper efforts to clean up after weeks of heavy rain damaged homes, businesses and roads. Unfortunately, more downpours are likely today, and it's not just in one area, as this rain is falling over a large part of Texas, says CBS News meteorologist George Cullen. Concerns also eased Thursday that a full Lake Texoma along the Oklahoma-Texas line would send floodwaters into the Red River. Ross Adkins, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said water could spill over the Denison Dam, possibly Thursday, but no major damage to homes was anticipated. The last major flood was nearly five feet over the spillway in 1990. This year's level is expected to crest at one foot over the spillway.

Still, residents, particularly those living in farm areas near the river, were warned to take precautions. (We're) warning residents along the Red River to move all livestock, equipment and other necessary belongings to higher ground, Bryan County Emergency Management Director James Dalton said. We are also urging residents to have an initial evacuation plan, should conditions threaten homes in the area.
Floodwaters were ebbing in several northeastern Oklahoma communities, but meteorologists predicted more problems because lakes and reservoirs were already filled to capacity. The worst flood damage was in Miami, Okla., where the Neosho River crested at about 29 feet, its highest stage since 1951. The river was not expected to be back within its banks until late Sunday. We're starting to see an average drop of about a half-inch every hour, City Manager Mike Spurgeon said. A shelter set up in the city housed about 55 people, and flood damage was expected to affect about 600 homes and businesses, Spurgeon said. More than 30 roads in and out of the city of 13,500 were still closed Thursday due to flooding. Spurgeon estimated it could take six months to a year to rebuild in the parts of town most heavily damaged. It's going to take a while for some of these people to get back on their feet, said Joyce Heeney, working at the First Baptist Church of Miami, one of the overflow shelters in town. We had one family that left (their home) with nothing. U.S. Rep. Dan Boren took an aerial tour to assess the damage with representatives from the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

Boren, D-Okla., promised to do whatever he could to secure federal assistance for the victims. About 50 Oklahoma Army National Guard troops worked 12-hour shifts providing security in flood-ravaged neighborhoods. In Texas, locally heavy rain spread across wide areas of the state on Wednesday, causing minor street flooding.
We have a put a lot of work into it, to make it livable and now we don't have anything, Wichita Falls, Texas, resident Veronica Gallegos told CBS News. A total of 148 of the state's 254 counties were under flash flood watches, flash flood warnings, flood warnings or a combination of watches and warnings Wednesday night.
The Trinity River in the Dallas-Fort Worth area crested Wednesday evening at 36.93 feet, about 7 feet above flood stage. Corpus Christi recorded nearly 3½ inches of rain by Wednesday evening on top of 10 inches that fell on Monday. The weather has been blamed for 11 deaths in Texas in the past two weeks and the death of a 16-year-old girl in Missouri. South of Houston, the search was continuing for a 6-year-old boy swept by high river waters into the Gulf of Mexico, reports CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenavasan.

In Kansas, water was receding in the community of Osawatomie as drainage structures were opened on the Pottawatomie River, and power had been restored to about 60 homes, allowing those residents to return, Miami County officials said. At least 1,000 people were out of their homes throughout southeast Kansas, said Sharon Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas adjutant general. In northeastern Oklahoma, the Caney River began slowly falling after cresting at 34.18 feet, according to the National Weather Service. The river, which forced hundreds of residents near Bartlesville from their homes this week, wasn't expected to fall below flood stage until Sunday night, the weather service said. Meanwhile, a 42,000-gallon crude oil slick that spilled into the Verdigris River during a flash flood in Coffeyville, Kan., had mostly dissipated, and there was no indication the oil went into Oklahoma's Lake Oologah, a water source for Tulsa, officials said Wednesday.
Coffeyville Resources said oil had stopped leaking from the refinery. Officials were trying to determine what caused the spill and were assessing damage to the plant.

Former COS Yaalon: Pal. State No Longer Practical or Relevant
by Ezra HaLevi JUL 5,07 INN

We have to replace the conception of a two-state solution – it is not relevant anymore, former Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Yaalon told Army Radio Thursday morning. This is not pessimism, but realism. It is not practical to keep assuming it is the answer. We are trying to find answers for the situation in Gaza without diagnosing the problem, the previous IDF chief said. What we are witnessing in Gaza is the establishment of a Jihadist Islamic society. Yaalon says that any talk of negotiations and withdrawing to the 1967 borders pushes peace farther away. These are movements that are not interested in territorial issues between us and the Palestinians, but in other issues altogether. This was proven with the Disengagement and now is our opportunity to look and learn. It was a victory in their eyes for the global Jihad and gave strength to Hizbullah, Hamas and all the other Islamist groups.

Maybe we should therefore strengthen the moderates? Army Radio’s Yael Dann asked Yaalon. I am not saying to sit and do nothing…but in the face of the wave of Jihad, any discussions of agreements are not relevant. Any talk like this distances us further from peace rather than bringing us closer…It is a kind of blindness to continue to pursue these policies. How do you explain our blindness during Oslo and now during the era of Hamastan, Dann asked. We are always looking for a solution - we want peace now and it blinds us. We blame ourselves, changing the government and the prime minister. Asked if he would be joining Binyamin Netanyahu on the eve of elections, Yaalon said: Right now I am not entering politics.

Iranian Missiles Could Threaten Israel from Syria
by Hillel Fendel JUL 5,07 INN

Iran is planning to deploy, in Syria, missiles that can hit Israel, as a deterrent against a Western anti-nuclear strike upon Iran. It could happen soon, the British newspaper Telegraph reports. An agreement to this effect was signed two years ago between Iranian President Ahmedinajad and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. The rockets in question are the Shihab-3, Scud-B, and Scud-C, which can reach any part of the State of Israel. They can be fired from mobile launchers. Ahmedinajad announced earlier this year that if his country feels threatened regarding its nuclear program, Israel will become its first military counter-target. The Shihab-3 is a medium-range ballistic missile with a range of over 2,000 kilometers. It has the ability to change its trajectory more than once in mid-course, protecting it significantly against Israel's anti-ballistic missile Arrow system. The Scud missiles have a range of 300 to 600 kilometers, and are less accurate than the Shihab.

MK Ephraim Sneh (Labor), a two-time Deputy Defense Minister who was succeeded this week by Matan Vilnai, warned at his farewell ceremony that Israel is not prepared for the dangers Iran presents. He charged the Olmert government with not providing enough funding, saying he is not satisfied with the funding being allocated to the defense establishment to deal with the Iranian threat. Without going into specifics, he said that some projects are progressing too slowly because they have been financially diluted. Sneh also nixed the notion that there is coordination on an operational level between the Israel and US militaries against Iran, saying no such coordination exists.

European Parliament president calls for international Mideast peace conference By Yossi Lempkowicz Updated: 04/Jul/2007 16:36

BRUSSELS (EJP)---The President of the European Parliament has called for the convening of an international Middle East peace conference under the ageis of the Quartet. I am convinced that in the current situation, we need a multilateral approach to solve the Mideast conflict, Hans-Gert Poettering said at a conference organized by the Socialist group of the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday.

Poettering, who visited several Mideast countries last month, urged Israel to support Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and to avoid previous failures to drive him into a corner. Israel must give Abbas the chance to regain the confidence of 65 percent of the Palestinians who elected him as president in 2006, he said. He also called on Israel to release the Palestinian legislators and other politicians arrested by Israel but made no reference to the fate of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Find its own voice

The two-day conference, entitled “Moving towards an international peace conference for the Middle East, was attended by politicians, academics and high-level experts.
Pasqualina Napoletano, vice-president of the Socialist group in charge of international relations, said The EU should find its own voice, including in the framework of the Quartet, in efforts aimed at restarting genuine negotations on the various tracks of the peace process.

In a communiqué issued at the end of the conference, the Socialist group said talks between Palestinians should be urgently revived to allow the formation of a new government in the spirit of reconciliation and national unity. International support for President Abbas should be accompanied by a concrete and realistic political plan leading to a permanent status agreement and an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian state living side by side with Israel, the statement added.

False hopes of peace
No point in pursuing deal with Palestinians, who won’t honor it anyway
by Gilad Sharon 7/4/2007

The common thread tying our Palestinian neighbors together is their hatred towards us and their desire to see us harmed, and this is not sufficient to turn them into a nation. It can be surmised, therefore, that if the State of Israel had never existed, a Palestinian state would not have existed just as it never has: Egypt would have moved further north, Syria would have moved a little to the south, and the whole matter would have been over and done with. It is reasonable to assume that Jordan and Lebanon wouldn't have existed either.

It is no coincidence that a Palestinian state was never established prior to Israel's foundation; it is no coincidence that the Partition Plan was rejected by the Palestinians; it is also no coincidence that for the almost 20 years that had elapsed between the War of Independence and the Six Day War, no such state was established in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. Even recently, when it still seemed to many of us that there was a central government among the Palestinians, they chose not to establish a state of their own, even though such a state would have been recognized by the world at large, including Israel.

The truth of the matter is that Palestinian nationalism is the byproduct of our Zionism. This is the way it is, whether they like this fact or not. Namely, this is not sufficient to become a nation that shares a history, a culture and a common vision. The terrible scenes of brutality among the Palestinians are nothing new. Such battles over local interests, clan wars and power struggles have always accompanied the Palestinians, even during their struggles against Israel. This was the case during the War of Independence when the Palestinians were also preoccupied with the battles between the Nashashibi and Husseini clans.

Futile talk

Why should all this be of interest to us? Because it impacts the way we should conduct ourselves. There is no point - as it has been demonstrated over and over again during the past 13 years - in reaching an agreement with any key Palestinian element. This is futile. It suffices to look at the vast number of ceasefire agreements the Palestinians have signed among themselves during the infighting in Gaza (they even signed the Mecca Deal, which was supposed to give it some religious validity.) Every one of the agreements was breached even before the ink had dried on the documents they signed. If this is the value they attribute to agreements among themselves, what then is the value of agreements signed with us, which of course were never adhered to? There is also no point to the choir of voices here calling to bolster Mahmoud Abbas, so that the murderers of his camp can defeat another murderous camp in their midst. Such talk is futile. Drawing from my long-term experience of working with animals, I know that even if a chick is fed and cared for, its feathers will never turn into a lion's mane, but only into feathers at the most.

We should do what's best for us and not depend on any Palestinian element to do anything. There is no point in discussing an exchange deal with them, because there is no such exchange. We evacuated the Gaza Strip, for example, because we are better off not being there, as per the opinion of the vast majority and leadership.
Let's imagine that we had left Gaza with an agreement, which would have obviously been immediately breached, could we then have flaunted something imaginary in return? Our goal is to live in safety and calm. If we have to reach a local understanding to achieve this objective, that's quite alright. There is no point in trying to force a western central government on the Palestinians or to force our values on them. This reeks of arrogance and patronage, and it won't work. Gilad Sharon is the son of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
July 3, 2007

Dear Friend of The Fellowship,

On Independence Day, Americans will gather to celebrate the great blessings of freedom. First and foremost, of course, this is a day to give thanks for our country, to pay our respects to our Founding Fathers, and to remember the many who died to secure our freedom – and those who, this very day, put their lives on the line so that we may continue to live in liberty. As you know, I call both Chicago and Jerusalem home. So, for me, this day has an added dimension. At this time of year, perhaps it is natural that I find myself reflecting on the unique and enduring relationship between the U.S. and Israel.

Since Israel’s founding in 1948, Israel and the United States have been dependable friends. While the U.S.-Israel relationship has been strained at times, it has never broken. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that both nations are democracies that grant to their citizens certain fundamental rights the Declaration of Independence states that all American citizens have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, while the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel declares that all Israeli citizens shall be granted freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture. These similarities create broad areas of agreement on key principles, meaning that Israel and the U.S. more often than not stand united on important issues.

Moreover, just as the U.S. and Israel enjoy a strong friendship on the national level, it should not come as a surprise that polls consistently show that the American people, too, support Israel. As columnist Jeff Jacoby once put it, Americans stand for Israel because Americans like Israel. Americans instinctively sympathize with Israel's fight for survival in one of the world's most dangerous neighborhoods. And we are further drawn together by what he calls our kinship of common values. We all know what those values are. We share faith in God, based on a common Judeo-Christian heritage, and trust in the institutions built upon that heritage. We share a love of freedom, and a belief that freedom is best secured through a democratic political system. And, as the threat of Islamic terrorism becomes greater, we know that we are facing a common foe, and recognize the importance of standing in solidarity.

Former President Ronald Reagan said it well: The people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side. So, as Americans take time to celebrate the blessings of freedom and to give thanks for the fighting men and women who secure that freedom, I hope we will all take a moment to reflect upon the many blessings of the great and longstanding friendship between the U.S. and its historic partner, Israel. And, as you pray for America, please continue to pray, too, for the peace of Jerusalem.

With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President

Strengthening Links Between Old and New Jerusalem
by Hillel Fendel JULY 4,07 INN

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Municipality has opened a new road to the Old City.The new road, opened Monday in the presence of dignitaries, is expected to reduce traffic and ease the drive to the Western Wall and Dung Gate area.The road, previously a dirt path for most of its route, runs from Sultan's Pool, southward to the Ben Hinnom Valley, through Silwan (the City of David), and then meets up with the existing Hativat Yerushalayim St. to Dung Gate. It can also be accessed from the Abu Tor neighborhood.Present for the ceremony were Transportation Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, Tourism Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky, and Gideon Shamir of the East Jerusalem Development Company (EJDC).

The 20-million shekel project included the removal of tens of thousands of tons of garbage, the building of a walkway along the road, the marking of paths for hikers, and the refurbishing of cemeteries and burial caves. Cemeteries for Karaites, Catholics, and Protestants exist in the area.An EJDC official told Arutz-7 that the company has two more projects in the works in the same area:

* The development of the Vadi Hilwe road, which is a straight (southward) continuation of the route leading out of the Old City through Dung Gate

* The development of Maalot Ir David, a road just to the east of Vadi Hilwe.

Both these projects will help, among others, the more than 40 Jewish families living in the City of David neighborhood, below the Old City.

Expert: Nuke terror better than even bet Attack likely to exploit existing network of cross-border human, drug traffickers July 6, 2007 - WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – A nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S. is better than an even bet in the next 10 years, says a former assistant secretary of defense and author of a book on the subject. Based on current trends, a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States is more likely than not in the decade ahead, says Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and author of Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.
Allison, who has testified before Congress on the subject, says the illicit economy for narcotics and illegal alien trafficking has built up a vast infrastructure that terrorists could exploit in delivering a nuclear weapon to its target in the U.S.
Al-Qaida, which has threatened to launch an American Hiroshima attack on the U.S., remains Allison's No. 1 suspect to pull off such a mission.

Former CIA Director George J. Tenet wrote in his memoirs that al-Qaida's leadership has remained singularly focused on acquiring WMD weapons of mass destruction and willing to pay whatever it would cost to get their hands on fissile material,Allison wrote in an opinion piece appearing in the Baltimore Sun prior to Independence Day.
Allison says there are several viable options open to terrorists determined to secure nuclear weapons. They could acquire an existing bomb from one of the nuclear weapons states or construct an elementary nuclear device from highly enriched uranium made by a state, he wrote. Theft of a warhead or material would not be easy, but attempted thefts in Russia and elsewhere are not uncommon.

Allison says terrorists are capable of building their own nuclear weapons if they can simply secure the fissile material. Once a terrorist group acquires about 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium, it could conceivably use publicly available documents and items commercially obtainable in any technologically advanced country to construct a bomb such as the one dropped on Hiroshima, he states. The threat is imminent, says Allison. If terrorists bought or stole a nuclear weapon in good working condition, they could explode it today, he explains. If the weapon had a lock, detonation would be delayed for several days. If terrorists acquired 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium, they could have a working elementary nuclear bomb in less than a year. WND first broke the story of Osama bin Laden's plans for a nuclear terrorist attack on multiple cities in the U.S.

President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the 9/11 commission have all concluded a nuclear terrorist attack is not only the nation's No. 1 nightmare but also something of an inevitability at some time in the future. Earlier this year, WND reported how the most extensive study of the effects of nuclear detonations in four major U.S. cities paints a grim picture of millions of deaths, overwhelmed hospitals and loss of command-and-control capability by government. But the three-year study by researchers at the Center for Mass Destruction Defense at the University of Georgia says a concerted effort to teach civilians what to do in the event of a nuclear attack is the best – perhaps only – thing that could save an untold number of lives that will otherwise be needlessly lost. If a nuclear detonation were to occur in a downtown area, the picture would be bleak there, said Cham Dallas, director of the program and professor in the college of pharmacy. But in urban areas farther from the detonation, there actually is quite a bit that we can do. In certain areas, it may be possible to turn the death rate from 90 percent in some burn populations to probably 20 or 30 percent and those are very big differences simply by being prepared well in advance.

Arlene Kushner July 5, 2007
Appeasement

It has made it to the news in certain circles and to blogs: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's response to the most recent terrorist threat to the UK. He has forbidden his ministers to use the word Muslim in connection with terrorist, as if Britain is dealing with any terrorists who are not Muslim. And, in an attempt to achieve a more consensual tone, he has banned the term war on terror too. This is all about not offending Muslims in Britain. Hopefully, I imagine, so that they will then become more peace loving.

This is disgusting. And self-defeating. The terrorism that Britain, and the Western world more broadly, is facing is a direct facet of a radical Muslim vision for controlling the world. It is not a coincidence that these terrorists are Muslim; rather, their ideology goes to the very heart of the matter. To deny this and look the other way is nonsense. Mr. Brown is refusing to name the enemy.

Certainly there are Muslims who are not terrorist, and some who are peace loving. It falls to them to be at the forefront of criticism of those radicals who speak for their religion today. And the reality is that a solid percentage of Muslims in Britain have not assimilated into British society and absorbed liberal Western values; a significant number of them cling unapologetically to values that challenge what Britain has stood for. By pretending that this is not the case, and that there is not a serious battle to be drawn, Brown is giving them strength.

THESE PEOPLE BETTER GET IT STRAIGHT ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD ITS THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE, THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER AS JESUS RULES FROM HIS THRONE IN JERUSALEM FOREVER, WORLD WITHOUT END. WE PRAY COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS THE GOD OF ISRAEL.

World's Last Chance Released a Bible Study Alleging U.S. and Vatican will Trigger the Apocalyptic Events Thu Jul 5, 3:01 AM ET

The Bible contains a prophecy of a last global crisis which will lead to the end of our world. World's Last Chance released Bible studies identifying the U.S. and Vatican to be the two main players in this final global crisis before the second coming of Christ. They assert that these two powers will play a key role in enforcing the 'mark of the beast' globally.

Cairo, Egypt (PRWEB) July 5, 2007 -- The Bible contains a prophecy of a last global crisis which will lead to the end of our world. World's Last Chance released Bible studies identifying the U.S. and Vatican to be the two main players in this final global crisis before the second coming of Christ. They assert that these two powers will play a key role in enforcing the mark of the beast globally.The Bible, in Revelation, chapter 13, unfolds the prophecy of the global crisis which will precede the end of civilization. Researchers at World's Last Chance insist that the USA and the Vatican are clearly identified in Bible prophecy as two major players in the final global crisis before the second coming of Christ. They claim that these two powers will play a key role in globally enforcing the mark of the beast. On their website, World's Last Chance (www.WorldsLastChance.com) further documentation is made by citing the speeches of Pope John Paul II and former US President George Bush.

Bible prophecies serve a double purpose - to impress on our minds the existence of a God who is in control of all events and to warn us of future crises, stated Dahlia Doss of World's Last Chance. Many of the Bible predictions have already come true to the very date foretold and world history confirms this. This compels us to take yet to be fulfilled prophecies seriously. It is only logical to assume that God would not warn us of the mark of the beast without providing sufficient evidence whereby we can identify what it is and which powers will be responsible for implementing the mark of the beast on the world, and more importantly how to avoid receiving it. Our loving God would not subject us to guesswork when our eternal destiny is at stake.
The researchers at World's Last Chance are raising the alarm that the Bible's most frightening forecast is yet to be fulfilled. They urge people worldwide to get prepared for this crisis.

The team at World's Last Chance do not identify themselves with any existing denomination, or church. They emphasize reliance on the Bible as their source of information. To read about the US in Bible prophecy The Last Nation Noticed in Prophecy click on the following link: http://www.worldslastchance.com/chapter53.php
To read about the Vatican in Bible prophecy The First Symbol of Revelation 13 click on the following link: http://www.worldslastchance.com/chapter54.php

For further information, the article New World Order explains how the U.S. and Vatican will be the super powers involved in soon-coming events and how to avoid receiving the 'mark of the beast'. To read it, click on the following link: http://www.worldslastchance.com/full_article.php

About World's Last Chance
World's Last Chance (www.WorldsLastChance.com) is a ministry that was founded in 2004. It is operated by a small team of volunteers dedicated to sharing the last message of mercy given in the Bible and the wonderful news of the soon second coming of Christ.