500 DEAD IN PERU QUAKE

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.

Relatives search bodybags in Peru quake as death toll tops 500
Fri Aug 17, 5:23 AM - By Jeanneth Valdivieso

PISCO, Peru (AP) - Rescuers combed rubble for survivors and distraught relatives wept as they searched rows of bodybags for loved ones killed when a powerful earthquake devastated southern Peru. Officials said the death toll across the region hit by the magnitude-8 temblor topped 500 late Thursday night. In the gritty port city of Pisco, searchers at San Clemente church pulled at least 60 bodies out of the ruins and lined them up on the plaza. Doctors struggled to help more than 1,500 injured, including hundreds who waited on cots in the open air, fearing more aftershocks would send buildings crashing down. Peru's fire department said the death toll from the quake had risen to 510, and rescuers were still digging through ruins of collapsed adobe homes in cities and hamlets. Destruction from Wednesday's quake was centred in Peru's southern desert, near the oasis city of Ica and nearby Pisco, about 200 kilometres southeast of the capital of Lima. Hundreds had gathered in the pews of the San Clemente church on Wednesday - the day Roman Catholics celebrate the Virgin Mary's rise into heaven - for a special mass marking one month since the death of a Pisco man.

With minutes left in the mass, the church's ceiling began to break apart. The shaking lasted for an agonizing two minutes, burying 200 people, according to the town's mayor. On Thursday, only two stone columns and the church's dome rose from a giant pile of stone, bricks, wood and dust. Rescuers laid out the dust-covered dead beneath bloodstained sheets in the city's plaza. Civil defence workers then arrived and zipped them into body bags. But relatives searching desperately for the missing unzipped the bags, crying hysterically each time they recognized a familiar face.
Few in the traumatized crowds would talk with journalists. One man shouted at the bodies of his wife and two small daughters as they were pulled from the rubble: Why did you go? Why?

Pisco Mayor Juan Mendoza told Lima radio station CPN, sobbing: The dead are scattered by the dozens on the streets. We don't have lights, water, communications. Most houses have fallen. Churches, stores, hotels - everything is destroyed.As dusk fell, Health Minister Carlos Vallejos said finding survivors seemed increasingly unlikely. We keep losing hope of finding someone alive after 24 hours have passed since the quake struck, Vallejos told The Associated Press outside of the church.
Felipe Gutierrez, 82, sat in his pyjamas - his only clothing - in front of what was his Pisco home. The quake reduced it to rubble and he, his 74-year-old wife, their two children and three grandchildren sat staring at the ruins, a tangle of adobe, straw and all of their belongings. Yesterday we slept on a mattress, and now we'll have to set up a tent, because we have no where to live, he said. The deputy chief of Peru's fire department, Roberto Ognio, presented a report late Thursday saying the death toll from the quake had risen to 510. The previous total had been 450 and he did not say where the additional deaths had occurred. The earthquake's magnitude was raised from 7.9 to eight on Thursday by the U.S. Geological Survey. At least 14 aftershocks of magnitude five or greater caused renewed anxiety, though there were no reports of additional damage or injuries. President Alan Garcia flew by helicopter to Ica, a city of 120,000 where a quarter of the buildings collapsed, and declared a state of emergency. Government doctors called off their national strike for higher pay to handle the emergency. There has been a good international response even without Peru asking for it, and they've been very generous, Garcia said during a stop in Pisco. The help includes cash from the United States, Canada United Nations, Red Cross and European Union as well as tents, water, medicine and other supplies. The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort, equipped with a staff of 800 and 12 operating rooms, is in Ecuador and could quickly sail to Peru if asked, U.S. officials said. In Washington, President George W. Bush offered condolences and said his administration was studying how best to send help. One American died in the quake, according to the State Department. Canada pledged $2 million for relief and recovery efforts, Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier and International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda said in a statement Thursday. There are no reports of Canadian injuries.

Electricity, water and phone service were down in much of southern Peru. The government rushed police, soldiers and doctors to the area, but traffic was paralyzed by giant cracks and fallen power lines on the Panamerican Highway. In Chincha, a small town near Pisco only 40 kilometres from the quake's epicentre, an AP Television News cameraman counted 30 bodies on a hospital patio. The face of one victim was uncovered, her eyes open. The feet of another stuck out from under a blanket. Hundreds of injured lay side-by-side on cots on walkways and in gardens outside hospital buildings. Our services are saturated and half of the hospital has collapsed, Dr. Huber Malma said as he single-handedly attended to dozens of patients.

In Lima, 153 kilometres from the epicentre, only one death was recorded. But the furious two minutes of shaking prompted thousands to flee into the streets and sleep in public parks. Scientists said the quake was a megathrust - a type of earthquake similar to the catastrophic Indian Ocean temblor in 2004 that generated deadly tsunami waves. Megathrusts produce the largest earthquakes on the planet, USGS geophysicist Paul Earle said. In general, magnitude eight quakes are capable of causing tremendous damage. Quakes of magnitude 2.5 to three are the smallest generally felt, and every increase of one number on the magnitude scale means that the quake's magnitude is 10 times as great. The temblor occurred in one of the most seismically active regions in the world at the boundary where the Nazca and South American tectonic plates meet. The plates are moving together at a rate of more than seven and a half centimetres a year, Earle said.

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.

Sarkozy calls for more market monitoring after recent turmoil
17.08.2007 - 09:27 CET | By Honor Mahony

Nicolas Sarkozy has called on G7 governments to work with the International Monetary Fund and central banks on financial transparency following a week of turbulence on world markets over US mortgage sector problems.The French president said he thought it essential that as heads of state we should draw the consequences and lessons of the events that are affecting the markets.It seems essential to me that we monitor the transparency of the markets' operations and their ability to finance the world economy in a stable and effective way, he said according to AP news agency.The comments were made in a letter to German chancellor Angela Merkel, current head of the G8 group of industrialised nations which also includes the G7.The letter calls on G7 finance ministers to draw up a set of proposals on greater transparency to be discussed at their next meeting in October.The proposal is likely to be a boost to Germany's aims - it is currently G8 president - to get greater transparency over hedge funds by getting a code of conduct established for them - a push that failed during the last G8 meeting in June.

The scrutiny is set to increase elsewhere too. The European Commission on Thursday (16 August) said it was looking into whether rating agencies had done enough to alert investors about the possible dangers of the US sub-prime mortgage sector.
Subprime loans are loans given to people with a poor credit history. It was the recent sharp increase in defaults on repayments on these loans that prompted the market panic and credit crunch over the last week.The European Central Bank over the past days pumped over €200 billion into the markets to fend off a credit crunch. Other central banks around the world also made cash injections.Brussels' investigation, to be headed by internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy, is to look into how ratings agencies are financed and whether there is any possible conflict of interest.At the moment, ratings agencies are paid by the concerns that they are rating, a system that Mr McCreevy and his officials are taking a close look at.

The commission is to examine concerns we have to their slowness with regard to market deterioration since mid-2006, said a spokeswoman on Thursday, with reference to the fact that it has been known since last year that there were problems with the US mortgage sector.However, the commission is unlikely to take any action before April next year, said the spokeswoman, when the Committee of European Securities Regulators is due to produce a separate report looking at how the ratings agencies are run.

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THERE WILL BE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT HEADED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION.

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

East Africa: EAC States Beat Deadline On Key Trade Pact With EU
Business Daily (Nairobi) -15 August 2007 - Allan Odhiambo

East African states have agreed on key aspects of a regional Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to be signed with the European Union, removing the threat of a looming fallout over failure to beat the December 31 deadline.Member states have decided to formally endorse part of the text that had been agreed upon instead of starting the process afresh under the East African Community (EAC) platform. EAC member states have agreed on more than 75 per cent of the text.The agreement reached in Arusha means the five member states can sign a new trade deals as a single Customs Union and beat the December 31 deadline and save members, especially Kenya, the consequences of paying duty for its exports to Europe.In the absence of a new trade pact, commercial relations between Kenya and the EU would have reverted to a General System of Preferences (GSP) platform that would have made its exports eligible for a duty of between 8.5 per cent and 15.7 per cent.

EU regulations demand that all developing countries that fail to land new EPAs on time automatically revert to the GSP scheme unless waivers are granted.It is true we have reached a consensus to sign a deal under the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) platform that has made significant progress with the EU, said Mr Nalo.We have agreed on a pact dubbed EAC-EPA Plus which gives us room to enter into a pact with the EU even if non EAC countries choose to stay out.People familiar with international trade agreements said this open arrangement could favour other ESA member nations who are not linked to any customs union. The move is expected to restore calm among EAC member states who have been fighting over the choice of a platform on which to negotiate with the EU.

Though some member states had wanted EAC to start their own negotiations with the EU, a group led by Kenya opposed the move, citing time limitations.All EAC member states - save for Tanzania which has been negotiating under the Southern Africa Development Community - have been negotiating a new trade pact with the EU under ESA.
These differences in negotiating platforms are linked to the fact that ESA is backed by Comesa from which Tanzania pulled out in 2000.Since April this year, frosty relations with SADC saw Tanzania fall back to its EAC partners seeking a new deal under the regional bloc.In June the EAC heads of state acceded to the Tanzanian demands and allowed its officials to negotiate with the EU as a regional bloc.

In an official report on entering fresh talks under the EAC/EPA option, Kenya warned that more that Sh100 billion in trade and investment would be at stake should the parties fail to reach an agreement by end of year.With only four months to the December deadline, starting afresh EPA configuration is rather ambitious. Experience in all configurations that are currently negotiating EPAs shows that a minimum of three to six months is required to agree on negotiation mandate, structure and procedure, the Ministry of Trade report said.The report says Kenya stands to lose more than Sh69 billion in trade with the EU. Analysts further warned that should the country opt for EAC/EPA talks and fail to reach a deal on time, it would not be possible for the country to ask for a waiver from the World Trade Organization (WTO) within the remaining four months.

Sources close to the talks said Kenya was also keen on sticking to the ESA platform because Tanzania and EAC which are classified as a Least Developed Country (LCD) have a privilege position to opt to negotiate for an Everything But Arms (EBA) with the EU.In trade circles, EPAs are preferred because they contain provisions for special gestures such as technical assistance schemes for developing nations.

The Independence of the European Central Bank
Wednesday 15 August 2007 - Pietro De Matteis

One of the results of the Treaty of Maastricht was the creation of the European Monetary Institute (EMI) chaired by Wim Duisenberg. In 1998 when the third stage of the Economic and Monetary Union began, the EMI was replaced by the European Central Bank (ECB) whose primary objective, according to the treaties, is to maintain price stability.In order to do so, 2% target inflation has been settled (i.e. below but close to 2%). Several issues have been raised regarding both the 2% target itself and, on a wider perspective, whether inflation should be the main ECB target.

ECB’s competences

Until now the ECB has exclusive competence for Monetary Policy and work in concert with the European System of Central Banks ( composed by the 27 EU National Central Banks) and with the Eurosystem (composed by the National Central Banks of the countries that adopted the Euro) to achieve its price stability objective.Without prejudice to this first objective the ECB defines its policy in order to boost employment and growth. The main reasoning is that since the European Union does not have a federal budget and has within its borders economies under both different economical cycles and stages of development, the main result that can be achieved is to promote price stability. This is a necessary condition for both job growth and job creation (although not sufficient on its own) and allows a higher degree of certainty for the economic operators as well as lower interest rates.

These days the ECB is in the spotlight for two reasons: its important role in order to avoid a financial crisis in the EU following the lack of liquidity in the bank system and the development linked to the draft Reform Treaty.

ECB’s independence undermined

As for the latter issue the Portuguese presidency has rephrased the articles regarding the ECB with respect to what was proposed during the 2004 Intergovernmental Conference. In particular the ECB has been listed together with other EU institutions and the sentence “The European Central Bank is an institution” has been removed. President J.C. Trichet is clearly concerned about these developments and especially sees that this could lead to a lower degree of independence of the ECB from other European institutions and especially from national governments.French President Nicolas Sarkozy has already shown on several occasions his wish to have an ECB taking more into account the European economic situation while setting its monetary policy objectives, and in particular would like to have a bigger say on the setting of the exchange rate with the US dollar and on the inflation target.

Conclusion

Of course lowering the degree of independence of the ECB is a serious risk as it could lead to a less credible monetary policy. Moreover, if political pressure was to be allowed, smaller countries might end up with an EU monetary policy more synchronized with the cycle of the biggest EU economies instead of a neutral pro-EU development one. In the worst scenario the ECB could be even pushed to follow the political or electoral cycles of the biggest EU countries.

New EU treaty may force UK or France to give up UN seat: Think tank

London, Aug.16 : The fine print of a new European Union treaty may force the exit of Britain from the UN Security Council, a leading European think-tank has warned.
According to the Skeptika Group, there is a paragraph in the treaty, signed by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which provides for the exit of either Britain or France.The excerpt quoted by Skeptika says that the EU would take the place of Britain and France - the only two European states who are permanent members of the Security Council - in cases where it had set out a common position.

The Daily Mail quoted Lee Rotherham of Skeptika as saying, The new treaty makes clear that Britain will have to give up its seat on the Security Council on issues where the EU has taken a common position. This is an extraordinary surrender of national sovereignty.The Foreign Office insisted the UK would not lose its seat. It has listed on its website that this is one of 10 myths about the constitution. A spokesman said: The UN Charter does not allow international organisations like the EU to hold a seat on the Security Council. Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague has described the moves as clearly the thin end of the wedge for an EU takeover of our only seat. --- ANI

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

We're ready to compromise with Palestine: Israel
Friday, August 17, 2007 at 1656 hours IST

Jerusalem, August 17: Concerned over continued violence in the Middle East, Israel has urged international community, including India, to help strengthen moderate forces in the region and said it was ready to compromise with Palestinians. We understand the need of compromise. The dialogue is important not only to Israel but also for the Palestinian people and their leadership, Israel's Vice Prime Minister Tzipi Livni said during an interaction with a delegation of Indian Muslim leaders on Thursday evening. While stating the general perception that those who compromise are perceived as weak, Livni sought support of the Arab and Muslim world for the Palestinian moderates and also for Israel, saying that it will legitimise talks between the two sides.

Total reconciliation is based on understanding of mutual cooperation, she said, adding any implementation of peace needs to be accorded the guarantee of Israel's security. The idea of two-state solution was adopted not only by the Israel government but also by the people, she noted. Livni, also the Foreign Minister, described the relationship between India and Israel as very good and said that it can also be effective in sending a right political message to strengthen the moderate forces in Palestine by telling them that they are doing the right thing.
Expressing fears over the rise of extremist forces in the region, she said there is a gap between understanding of leaders and the public opinion. This gap or misunderstanding is being used by the extremists, she added.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

Russia, China, Iran warn U.S. at summit By LEILA SARALAYEVA, Associated Press Writer Thu Aug 16, 2:56 PM ET

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - The leaders of Russia, China and Iran said Thursday that Central Asia should be left alone to manage its stability and security — an apparent warning to the United States to avoid interfering in the strategic, resource-rich region. The veiled warning came at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and on the eve of major war games between Russia and China.The SCO was created 11 years ago to address religious extremism and border security in Central Asia, but in recent years, with countries such as Iran signing on as observers, it has grown into a bloc aimed at defying U.S. interests in the region.Stability and security in Central Asia are best ensured primarily through efforts taken by the nations of the region on the basis of the existing regional associations, the leaders said in a statement at the end of the organization's summit in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attending the summit for the second consecutive year, criticized U.S. plans to put parts of a missile defense system in Eastern Europe as a threat to the entire region.These intentions go beyond just one country. They are of concern for much of the continent, Asia and SCO members, he said.Washington has said the system would help protect against potential Iranian missiles.Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't mention the United States in his speech, but he said that any attempts to solve global and regional problems unilaterally are hopeless.He also called for strengthening a multi-polar international system that would ensure equal security and opportunities for all countries comments echoing Russia's frequent complaints that the United States dominates world affairs.Moscow has also bristled at Washington's plans to deploy the anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic, saying the system would threaten Russian security.

Putin and Hu Jintao of China were set to attend Friday's military exercises in the Chelyabinsk region in Russia's Ural Mountains. Some 6,000 Russian and Chinese troops, dozens of aircraft and hundreds of armored vehicles and other heavy weapons will participate — the first such joint drills on Russia's territory.China hosted the first-ever joint maneuvers in August 2005, which included a mock assault on the beaches of northern China and featured Russia's long-range bombers.Moscow and Beijing have developed what they dubbed a strategic partnership after the Soviet collapse, cemented by their perceptions that the United States dominates global affairs.In 2005, the SCO called for a timetable to be set for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from two member countries, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Uzbekistan evicted American forces later that year, but Kyrgyzstan still hosts a U.S. base, which supports operations in nearby Afghanistan.

Russia also maintains a military base in Kyrgyzstan.

The SCO, whose members are some of the world's biggest energy producers and consumers, also discussed ways to enhance energy cooperation. Washington has supported plans for new pipelines that would carry the region's oil and gas to the West and bypass Russia, while Moscow has pushed strongly to control the export flows.
A further sign of the group's intention to influence energy markets was the participation in the Bishkek summit of Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, whose country is the second-largest producer of natural gas in the former Soviet Union after Russia. Turkmenistan is not an SCO member; the president was attending as a guest.Associated Press writer Bagila Bukharbayeva in Moscow contributed to this report.

Nonpartisan Group Calls for Three-State Split in Iraq
Think Tank Report Says Country Is Near Total Collapse
By Robin Wright - Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 17, 2007; 11:16 AM

In a report to be released next week, the Fund for Peace calls for the managed break-up of Iraq into three separate states with their own governments and representatives to the United Nations, but continued economic cooperation in a larger entity modeled on the European Union.Prospects of Iraqi leaders being able to establish a multiethnic democracy are now fanciful, the nonpartisan Washington think tank says in its report titled A Way Out: The Union of Iraqi States. Based on data tracked monthly since before the U.S. invasion in 2001, the report authored by Fund president Pauline Baker concludes that Iraq is now near total collapse.

While there may be pockets of improvement from the surge, these are transitory and limited achievements that are about four years too late . . . Rather than fight fragmentation, it would be better to manage the trend with a view toward establishing an entirely new political order, the report concludes.The report is one of several official and unofficial Iraq assessments coming over the next month, culminating with the Bush administration's own much-awaited evaluation of Iraq's security and political progress due on Sept. 15.The military campaign underway with Gen. David H. Petraeus might have worked after the 2003 invasion, during a security vacuum and before militias emerged, but the Iraqi government's lack of political will and inability to broker reconciliation have divided the country in irretrievable ways, the report concludes.

The Fund has monitored twelve indicators -- ranging from the economy to political factionalization and the rule of law -- and concludes that all have deteriorated significantly since before the war. Working out a transition that divides political power while continuing to allow Iraq's three major communities -- Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds -- to share economic wealth may be the only way to bring U.S. troops home in the near future, the report concludes.This is the best, and possibly the last, chance to end the war, limit spillover and reduce U.S. troop presence, while leaving something constructive behind, Baker writes.The idea of an economic union would bypass the problem of dividing up current and future oil resources. There are a number of alternatives for Baghdad, the multiethnic capital, including making it the Brussels of Iraq as the headquarters for the new Union of Iraqi Sates, the report says

Guest Comment: These are our Leaders? - Gary Cooperberg AUG 17,07

Ever since the reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel began in 1948, the Arab nations have done all in their power to destroy it. It is a principle of Islam to maintain its sovereignty over all lands in the Middle East, and its eventual aim is for complete world dominance. Given the fact that most Arab leaders are religious Moslems, it is an act of futility to assume that they will willingly alter their religious beliefs even for peace. One would hope that Israel would have leaders that would never make negotiations that would compromise Jewish principles. Unfortunately our leaders appear to have no principles and are prepared to rewrite the Torah [Hebrew Scriptures] to please our enemies. This is the crux of our problems and the reason why we will never see peace result from holding human ideology above that of our Creator.

Mr. Olmert may think that he is advancing the cause of peace by suggesting a willingness to give away Jewish Land to our enemies. He may think that he is taking bold new initiatives. The fact is that Israel has been trying to give away the miracle of 1967 ever since 1967. For forty years our leaders have been dreaming of making peace by undoing miracles. Yet every attempt to make peace by giving away parts of our homeland has resulted in further bloodshed and terror. The most successful attempt yet to part from our obligatory birthright, the evacuation of Gaza and turning it over to the PLO as a gesture to encourage our enemies to make peace with us only resulted in increasing the danger to the Jewish State by allowing the Arabs to build a powerful terror network there. To this day missiles are launched upon the Jewish State from this folly. And to this day not only are no plans being considered to undo the mistake, rather further mistakes are being planned for the future. It is like a gambler who has lost a fortune, borrowing money to go back to the roulette wheel in order to get rich.

It is uncanny how the one man who has most influenced all of our peace blunders is now occupying the seat of President of Israel [i.e. Shimon Peres] and again engineering proposals to emasculate our country in a futile search for a peace that clearly will never result from such stupidity.Jewish tradition tells us that the Messiah will come only when most people have given up hope for our survival. Looking at our situation from a political stance we clearly have reached a stage of hopelessness. Simple logic tells us that the days of Israel's existence are extremely limited. It is just a matter of time until either our enemies destroy us, or we do it for them.

Fortunately for us, this is the only country in the world where logic has no place. Bush and Olmert and Peres may have plans for us, but the Creator of the Universe has His own plans which were drawn up even before the world was created. Can one imagine that those plans can be altered... even by the President of the United States? [Many Americans do not realize the intense political pressure the US is putting upon Israel to give up their land.] When given the choice to decide between trusting our own eyes and ears or to accept the words of our Torah and prophets, most people seem to prefer their own eyes and ears. This is logical. But it is a mistake. Were logic to have ruled here, the State of Israel never would have come into existence, much less to have continued to exist and thrive over the last nearly sixty years.

For all these years our leaders have been promulgating the nonsense, Give Peace a Chance, which they interpreted as giving away our homeland to our enemies in the hope that peace would result. Time and time again experience proved that this concept was ridiculous. Yet they continue to follow the path of death and destruction. Olmert once said that he is tired of winning wars… Can one imagine anyone being so stupid? Yet these are the leaders we have been blessed with.

The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.

Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie