GREAT COSMIC NOTHINGNESS

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Korea to Send Draft Proposal on FTA with EU AUG 26,07

The government will soon deliver a draft proposal to the European Union in preparation for a third round of free trade negotiations. According to Trade Ministry officials in Seoul, the proposal is expected to include a time frame for Korea to eliminate tariffs on cars and industrial goods. It will also specify when and how much Korea is willing to open its agricultural sector, the most sensitive area in free trade talks. The EU has so far demanded that 95 percent of commodity tariffs be removed within three years. Korea meanwhile wants rice and 250 other products to be exempt from market opening or at least subject to longer-term tariff removal.

Jordan's king hails EU role in Mideast
ParliamentForeign Relations
27 August 2007 - Issue : 744

The President of the Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly, Rene van der Linden, held talks in Amman August 19 with Jordans King Abdullah II, who expressed appreciation for Europes role in reinvigorating the Middle East peace process.
The monarch underlined the importance of the European support to US President George W Bushs call for an international conference later this year to discuss ways for spurring the peace process, a royal court statement said.

King Abdullah also urged a continuation of European economic assistance to the Palestinian areas, saying such aid has a positive impact on the living conditions of the Palestinian people, the statement added. During the meeting, Linden extended an invitation to King Abdullah to deliver a speech before the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, the statement said. Linden also held talks with Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit, who explained Jordans stand toward the latest developments in the Palestinian Territories, Iraq and other parts of the region, an official statement said.

Bakhit said that the Arab peace initiative provided a real opportunity for achieving progress in resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. The prime minister expressed the conviction that the United States, with the expansion of its experiment in the region, now realiSes that finding a solution to the Palestinian question will prompt a retreat in other conflicts in the region, particularly the phenomenon of international terrorism, the statement said. Linden arrived in Amman earlier in the day in the course of a Middle East tour.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) 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.(3 1/2 YRS)

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 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; 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 JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) 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 with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) 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.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

France tells EU: Improve defenseStory Highlights
Sarkozy has urged EU nations to accept greater share of defense spending

Says U.S. has nothing to fear from EU efforts to promote own defense 75 percent of budget currently carried by four richest European nations, Says will push for a European security plan during France's 2008 EU presidency

PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged European Union nations Monday to accept a greater share of defense spending to cope with escalating global threats.Sarkozy wants some of the EU's smaller countries to contribute more to Europe's defenceHe said the United States had nothing to fear from European efforts to promote its own defense and called for a rationalization of existing arms programs in Europe's fragmented 200 billion euro ($270 billion) defense industry.We can't carry on with four countries paying for the security of all the rest, Sarkozy told France's overseas ambassadors in a foreign policy speech.France's defense procurement budget is the second biggest in Europe behind Britain.

Together with Germany and Italy, Europe's four largest economies accounted for 75 percent of European defense spending in 2005, according to the European Defense Agency.Unlike Germany and Italy, however, Britain and France spend more than 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense, which is a NATO benchmark, according to EDA figures.In the face of multiplying crises, there is not a surplus but a shortage of (defense) capacity (in Europe), Sarkozy said.I would like Europeans to assume their full role and responsibilities for their own security and for the security of the world. That means we need to boost our planning and operational capacity and develop a European arms industry with new programs and by rationalizing existing ones.In France's recent election campaign, Sarkozy pledged to keep French defense spending at 2 percent of gross domestic product and to press ahead with costly plans for a new aircraft carrier.

Sarkozy pledges new era of change

Bush calls on NATO to increase troops in Afghanistan
Defense analysts blame a proliferation of overlapping projects in Europe on the refusal of France and others to share out sensitive projects that guarantee thousands of jobs.Sarkozy sought to reassure the United States over European Union efforts to boost the region's defense capabilities, saying these should be seen as complementing rather than rivaling the 58-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization.Putting the EU in opposition to NATO doesn't make any sense because we need both. Better still, I am convinced it is in the well-understood interests of the United States that the EU should gather its forces, rationalize its capabilities and organize its own defense in an independent way.Sarkozy said France would push for a European security strategy to be adopted during its EU presidency next year.

France has traditionally highlighted the importance of the EU building up its defense capability and has been suspected by some NATO allies of holding back the 26-member alliance in its efforts to create a new post-Cold War role for itself.But many French commentators say that Sarkozy, a self-proclaimed Atlanticist, leans more towards Washington than his predecessor Jacques Chirac, a fellow conservative who clashed with U.S. President George Bush over Iraq. E-mail to a friend .2007 Reuters.

EC debates cross-border crisis force as Greek forests burn
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:39:03 GMT - DPA

Brussels - The European Commission is debating the creation of a European cross-border crisis-response force, officials confirmed Monday as teams from across the EU battled forest fires in Greece. The EC is looking at ways to increase the EU's capacity to intervene in moments of crisis, both by boosting the speed of cross-border reaction and by increasing the EU-wide pool of disaster-response teams, EC spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich told journalists. The suggestion for a cross-border disaster-response force comes in the wake of the catastrophic forest fires in Greece which have claimed at least 61 lives since breaking out on Friday. Europe already has a centralized disaster-response agency, the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), which serves as a coordinating point between countries seeking emergency assistance and those EU member states with the capacity to supply it.

On Friday, Greece asked MIC to pass on a request for fire-fighting aircraft to other member states. By Monday, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Austria had sent aircraft or firefighting teams to the stricken zone.
This is the biggest effort ever by EU member states to come to the aid of another member state since MIC was set up in 2001, Helfferich said. EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas had called the firefighters' work heroic, she added. But with fires still raging across the Peloponnese, the Commission is now looking for ways to both increase the EU's supply of disaster- response teams, and to speed up the process whereby teams from one member state can be sent to deal with a crisis in another. Eleven key modules, or networks of personnel and equipment geared to natural and man-made disasters such as floods, fires, and terror attacks, were being discussed, an EC press release said.

While some observers have suggested that the EU should have its own disaster-response force, Helfferich stressed that current suggestions were based on the competences of individual member states. The goal is to see to it that the existing capacity to react is bolstered so we can intervene more quickly and more material is available ... We are not talking about a Brussels-based EU force, she said. The forest fires broke out in Greece on Friday during one of the hottest summers in recent years. By Monday, 61 people were reported to have died, with rumours rife that some at least of the fires had been started by arsonists.

Israel: Olmert and Abbas to meet in Jerusalem AUG 27,07

Jerusalem, 27 August (AKI) - Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas will meet in Jerusalem on Tuesday for another round of peace talks in the Middle East.The talks are expected to focus on the creation of a Palestinian state and also focus on principles for discussion at a regional conference in Washington to be held later in the year. It will be the first time the two leaders have met since Olmert became the first Israeli leader to visit Palestine when he met Abbas in the town of Jericho amid tight security on 6 August. Tomorrow's meeting will be the fourth since the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas assumed control of the Gaza Strip in June.

After the last meeting between the two leaders, Abbas reassured Palestinians that there would be improvements in their quality of life. But there are reported to be four core issues that remain unresolved related to: the borders of a Palestinian state; a division of Jerusalem; removal of Israeli settlements and the fate of Palestinian refugees.In a bid to strengthen Abbas' fragile political situation, Israel released 250 Palestinian prisoners in early August and resumed the transfer of Palestinian tax money.

Mubarak says Mideast peace summit lacks framework Sat Aug 25, 5:43 PM ET

CAIRO (Reuters) - A Middle East peace conference called by U.S. President George W. Bush lacks a framework, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying on Saturday. Consensus on issues including the principles of Palestinian statehood should be reached before the meeting, semi-official newspaper Akhbar al-Youm quoted Mubarak as saying.Egypt supports the necessity of consensus around all the outstanding cases for political settlement before the international meeting called for by President Bush is held, Mubarak said.Issues including whether or not Syria would participate in the meeting had not yet been finalized, Mubarak said.Until now the framework of what will be discussed has not been specified, Mubarak was quoted as saying.Arab officials say the United States has given few details about the agenda for the conference, expected in October or November, leaving little time for a concerted effort to help Israelis and Palestinians bridge the chasm on issues such as final borders, Jerusalem, and the fate of Palestinian refugees.

Bush called in July called for a Middle East peace conference to include Israel, the Palestinian Authority and their neighbors.Egypt, a long-time U.S. ally and one of only two Arab states to make peace with Israel, played a facilitating role in past Israeli-Palestinian talks that failed to end the conflict.Last month Arab foreign ministers said the conference must include all the parties concerned, must aim to revive negotiations between Israel and all its neighbors and must be built on previous peace talks.

Who's in charge in the West Bank?
By Yehuda Bauer AUG 28,07

It is impossible for a modern state to exist without a monopoly over military, police or other power, and over its use in accordance with the law. When an alternative center of power is established, causing a significant number of citizens to stop recognizing the government's authority, the government is undermined.

The democratic government has monopoly power in Israel, within the Green Line border. Within the West Bank, Israeli security forces have control in the sense that, with marked success, they protect Israel?s interests in the face of the armed resistance of Palestinian terrorist groups. The price of success is a severely oppressive regime to which Arab residents of the West Bank are subject.
But Israel does not control the several hundred thousand Jewish settlers in the West Bank. They accept Israeli rule only to the extent that it works in their favor. When they think it does not, then in the best-case scenario they ignore it; otherwise, they succeed in resisting it. The police, security services and army are under the constant threat of active resistance on the settlers' part, and they submit to that threat. The necessary monopoly over this power no longer exists. There are two states; one committed to a Western democratic government, and the other committed to extremist, messianic religious rule.

Here is a completely imaginary scenario:

Under the pressure of the Quartet and others, the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority reach an agreement. Israel is to withdraw to the 1967 borders. A Palestinian state will be established involving an exchange of territory that will leave most West Bank settlements in Israeli hands. Israel agrees, after Knesset approval and a national referendum, to evacuate within 10 to 15 years tens of thousands of settlers from communities that are not included in these land swaps. Jerusalem is to be divided, with free trade between both sections. The Temple Mount will be transferred to Waqf control, and everyone will be assured access to it, under efficient international supervision. Palestinian refugees will be absorbed by the Palestinian state, and only a very small number will be able to enter Israeli territory in the framework of family unification. A third party will ensure adherence to the financial side of the deal. Arab states, aside from Syria and Lebanon, will recognize Israel and commit to normal financial ties with it.

Under this imaginary scenario, does anyone think that the tens of thousands of settlers slated for evacuation will leave their homes while singing Hatikva and dancing? It's clear that the resistance will be violent, and the hilltop youth are liable to become armed militias. The Israel Defense Forces, if no changes take place, will be sensitive in its dealings with the settlers rather than resolute, because the government has lost its monopoly over the use of power in accordance with the law. There is no truth to the well-known tradition that the Second Temple was destroyed due to baseless hatred or internecine rivalry. The Temple was destroyed because religious, messianic extremists forced the nation to rebel against a global empire that it had no chance of defeating. This time there may be a scenario (an imaginary one) in which a radical religious minority thwarts peace because the fanatic political assassins of the Second Temple period have found worthy successors. The author is a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

Middle East turmoil could cause world war: U.S. envoy
Reuters - Monday, August 27, 2007; 6:57 AM

VIENNA (Reuters) - Upheaval in the Middle East and Islamic civilization could cause another world war, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was quoted as saying in an Austrian newspaper interview published on Monday.Zalmay Khalilzad told the daily Die Presse the Middle East was now so disordered that it had the potential to inflame the world as Europe did during the first half of the 20th century.John C. Davis III, 24, of East Baltimore is leaving for basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., shortly after working out with Staff Sgt. Brian Grotz. The bonus prompted him to sign up quickly. (Ricky Carioti -- The Washington Post).The (Middle East) is going through a very difficult transformation phase. That has strengthened extremism and creates a breeding ground for terrorism, he said in remarks translated by Reuters into English from the published German.

Europe was just as dysfunctional for a while. And some of its wars became world wars. Now the problems of the Middle East and Islamic civilization have the same potential to engulf the world, he was quoted as saying.Khalilzad, interviewed by Die Presse while attending a foreign policy seminar in the Austrian Alps, said the Islamic world would eventually join the international mainstream but this would take some time.They started late. They don't have a consensus on their concept. Some believe they should return to the time (6th-7th century) of the Prophet Mohammad, he was quoted as saying.It may take decades before some understand that they can remain Muslims and simultaneously join the modern world.Khalilzad was also quoted as saying Iraq would need foreign forces for security for a long time to come.Iraq will not be in a position to stand on its own feet for a longer period, he said in the interview.

Asked whether that could be 10-20 years, he said: Yes, indeed, it could last that long. What form the help takes will depend a lot on the Iraqis. Up to now there is no accord between Iraq and the United States about a longer military presence. Khalilzad said the chaos in Iraq since U.S.-led forces overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003 was not unavoidable but arose from mistakes in the initial period of occupation.
Historians are discussing now whether we should have sent more troops to Iraq to preserve law and order, if it was right to dissolve the Iraqi army, if we should have built an Iraqi government quicker, if there should have been such a sweeping de-Baathification program (removing Saddam-era officials).

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

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

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Iran defense chief says new bomb would be used on our enemies
By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press | August 27, 2007

TEHRAN -- Iran vowed yesterday to use a new 2,000-pound smart bomb against its enemies and unveiled mass production of the new weapon, state television reported.
The government first announced development of the long-range guided bomb Thursday, saying it could be deployed by the country's aging US-made F-4 and F-5 fighter jets.
We will use these [bombs] against our enemies when the time comes, Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on state television yesterday.Iran often announces new weapons for its arsenal, but the United States maintains that while the Islamic Republic has made some strides, many of these statements are exaggerations.The broadcast included a brief clip of a fighter jet apparently dropping one of the bombs, which destroyed a target on the ground.The defense minister continued his threats as state television showed him unveiling a mass production line for the weapon in Tehran.We will use this weapon where we want to . . . hit the enemy's strategic and defense targets, Najjar said. This will be used against our enemies, against those who violate our land and airspace.Israel said the televised announcement underlines its concerns over Iran's arms buildup.All countries of the Middle East, Israel included, are concerned about expansionist Iranian policies, and about their aggressive military arms buildup, said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry. There is no doubt that the regime in Tehran poses a very real threat to the peace and security of the region.The United States and Israel accuse Iran of developing nuclear bombs, a charge Tehran denies. Iran's president has said Israel should be wiped off the map; Israel considers Iran its main enemy.
Emanuel Winston, a Middle East analyst at the Houston-based Freeman Center for Strategic Studies, said Thursday that an Iranian smart bomb would be less dangerous than a missile development program, given the limited range of the country's aircraft.Najjar had boasted that the bomb remarkably increases Iran's defense capabilities.Iran launched its arms development program during its 1980-88 war with Iraq in response to a US-led arms embargo. Since 1992, the country has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, and missiles.2007 Globe Newspaper Company.

Mystery deaths hit Saudi camels AUG 26,07

Camels are traded for thousands of dollars.Nearly 2,000 camels have died in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia due to suspected poisoned animal feed. So far this month 1,982 camels have died. Symptoms include sweating, excitability, vomiting and fainting. The country's Agriculture Ministry has said tests suggested the deaths were caused by animal feed which was contaminated by insecticide. Owners have been promised compensation by King Abdullah. Camels are big business in Saudi Arabia.
The animals began dying in the Dawasir Valley south of the capital Riyadh but other camel deaths have been recorded from Mecca to the border of Yemen. Camels are traded by Bedouin tribes for thousands of dollars each. The animals are used for racing and are also eaten. Agriculture Minister Fahd Bilghoneim told a news conference: Veterinary experts say the symptoms indicate cases of poisoning and not an infectious disease, and this accords with what camel owners have said about animal feed they bought.

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

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.

Great cosmic nothingness found AUG 26,07

The result comes from a sky survey by the VLA in New Mexico
It's hard to picture

Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across. It is empty of both normal matter - such as galaxies and stars - and the mysterious dark matter that cannot be seen directly with telescopes. The hole is located in the direction of the Eridanus constellation and has been identified in data from a survey of the sky made at radio wavelengths. The discovery will be reported in a paper in the Astrophysical Journal. Previous sky surveys that have traced the large-scale structure of the nearby Universe have long shown, for example, how the clustering of galaxies is strung into vast filaments and sheets that are separated by great gaps. But the void discovered by a University of Minnesota team is about 1,000 times the volume of what would be expected in typical cosmic gaps. It's hard even for astronomers to picture how big these things are, conceded Minnesota's Professor Lawrence Rudnick. If you were to travel at the speed of light, it would take you several years to get to the nearest stars in our own Milky Way galaxy; but if you were to go to this hole and enter one side, you'd have to travel for a billion years before you would get to the other side, he told BBC News. The void is roughly 6-10 billion light-years away and takes a sizeable chunk out of the visible Universe in its direction.

Dark evidence

The team used data from the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory's VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) to make its discovery. The VLA - which stands for Very Large Array - is a collection of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico. The finding is said to fit neatly with observations of the Universe's oldest light - the famous Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, the study of which has earned several scientists the Nobel Prize. This is the radiation that comes from just 380,000 years after the Big Bang when the Universe had cooled to such a degree that hydrogen atoms could exist. Before that time, scientists say, the Universe would have been so hot that matter and light would have been coupled - the cosmos would have been opaque.

THE CMB - OLD AND COLD

Nasa Probes have mapped the Cosmic Microwave Background which is all around us in space.This radiation from the infant Universe shines at weak radio (microwave) wavelengths.The maps show up tiny temperature fluctuations - the mottled colours above.These fluctuations correspond to the early distribution of matter in the fledgling cosmos.Nasa's WMap satellite sees a cold spot lying in the path of the newly found void

Ancient light takes Nobel

Today, this light shines at microwave wavelengths at a frigid -270C; and observations of the CMB made by Nasa's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe show a particular cold spot in the direction of the newly identified void. The explanation for this may lie in the enigmatic dark energy that scientists know so little about but which is said to be accelerating the expansion of the Universe. Light particles passing through the void would be expected to lose a little more energy than those passing through space cluttered with matter - if dark energy is stretching the Universe apart at a faster and faster rate. Scientists refer to this as the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect and a corresponding warm spot in the CMB associated with an area of space dominated by a supercluster of galaxies was identified some years ago. In essence, this latest study gives us a very elegant demonstration of the existence of dark energy in a way which is very convincing, commented Professor Carlos Frenk, the director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, UK. We keep getting evidence for dark energy, this component of the Universe which is so dominant, and yet we still have only a tiny glimmer of what it could be.The reason the void exists is not known. That's going to be a challenge for people that work on the development of structure in the Universe. It's a very hot topic in the cosmology right now, said Professor Rudnick.