HURRICANE DEAN IN MEXICO

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Hurricane Dean races to Mexico's Gulf By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer AUG 21,07

FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO, Mexico - Hurricane Dean slammed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two decades. It lashed remote Mayan villages as it raced across the Yucatan Peninsula to the heart of Mexico's oil industry. Dean's path was a stroke of luck for Mexico: After killing 13 people in the Caribbean, it made landfall along a sparsely populated coastline, well to the south of the major resorts where 50,000 tourists had been evacuated.It weakened to a Category 1 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, but was expected to grow back into a powerful hurricane as it draws fuel from the warm waters of the lower Gulf of Mexico, where more than 100 offshore oil platforms were evacuated ahead of the storm.

We often see that when a storm weakens, people let down their guard completely. You shouldn't do that, said Jamie Rhome, a hurricane specialist. This storm probably won't become a Category 5 again, but it will still be powerful.When Dean first struck land near the cruise port of Majahual, it had sustained winds near 165 mph and gusts that reached 200 mph — faster than the takeoff speed of many passenger jets. It had an expected storm surge of 12 to 18 feet above normal tides and dumped huge amounts of rain on low-lying areas where thousands of Mayan Indians live in stick huts in isolated communities.With the storm still screaming, there were no immediate reports of deaths, injuries or major damage, Quintana Roo Gov. Felix Gonzalez told Mexico's Televisa network, though officials had not been able to survey the area.Soldiers evacuated more than 250 small communities, but some turned away soldiers with machetes and refused to leave or hid when the army evacuated the area, said Jorge Acevedo, a spokesman for the state of Quintana Roo. Their fate was unknown.

The eye passed directly over the state capital of Chetumal, where residents were ordered to stay home until 10 a.m. Tuesday after a harrowing night with windows shattering and heavy water tanks flying off of rooftops. Sirens wailed constantly as the storm battered the city for hours, hurling billboards down streets. All electricity was down.Just across the border in Belize, trees fell and debris flew through the air. The government evacuated Caye Caulker and Ambergris Caye — both popular with American tourists — and ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew from Belize City north to the Mexican border.In the largely Mayan town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, about 30 miles north of the eye's westward path, people stared from their porches at broken tree limbs and electrical cables crisscrossing streets flooded with ankle-deep water.Tin roofing ripped from houses clunked hollowly as it bounced in the wind whistling through town.

We began to feel the strong winds about 2 in the morning and you could hear that the trees were breaking and some tin roofs were coming off, said Miguel Colli, a 36-year-old store employee. Everyone holed up in their houses. Thank God that the worst is over.In the Belizean town of Corozal, about nine miles south of Chetumal, Dean flipped over a residential trailer, detached roofs from houses, ripped plywood off windows and spread floodwaters as high as 3 feet. No deaths or major injuries were reported there or in Belize City, where thousands evacuated to higher ground.By 1 p.m. EDT, Dean had weakened to a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 85 mph. It was about 45 miles southeast of Campeche and was moving west at 18 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Dean's path takes it directly through the Cantarell oil field, Mexico's most productive, with dozens of oil rigs and three major ports. All were shut down just ahead of the storm, resulting in a production loss of 2.7 million barrels of oil and 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day. The path also veers toward Mexico's only nuclear plant, where a state official said 2,000 buses were brought in to evacuate personnel if necessary.The Laguna Verde nuclear plant, which is more than 20 years old and has endured other severe weather with no problems, implemented emergency procedures and remains online, said Estefano Conde, spokesman for Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission. I can assure you that everything is well taken care of, he said.Dean was to expected slam into the central Mexican coast as a major hurricane Wednesday afternoon about 400 miles south of the Texas border. The United States was expected to see few effects from the storm.President Felipe Calderon was cutting short his trip in Canada where he met with President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper so that he could travel Tuesday to the hardest-hit areas. Bush offered U.S. assistance and expressed his concern for the citizens of Mexico and elsewhere whose lives were effected.

We stand ready to help, Bush said with Calderon at his side. The American people care a lot about the human condition in our neighborhood and when we see human suffering we want to do what we can.The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour landed a day early Tuesday, its mission cut short by the initial possibility that Dean could pose a threat to Mission Control in Houston. The storm picked up strength after brushing Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and became a monstrous Category 5 hurricane Monday. Jamaica postponed Aug. 27 general elections in order to survey damage, which was extensive in the capital and the island's east. Dean is the first Category 5 to make landfall in the Atlantic region since Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida in 1992.
Insured losses from the storm are likely to range between $750 million and $1.5 billion, most of it Jamaica, according to latest estimates by Risk Management Solutions, which calculates hurricane damage for the insurance industry. Cancun's tourist strip is still marked with cranes used to repair the damage from 2005's Hurricane Wilma, which caused $3 billion in losses. Associated Press writers contributing to this report included John Pain and Jennifer Kay in Miami; Karla Heusner Vernon in Ladyville, Belize; Greg Bull in Campeche, Mexico; Lisa Adams in Mexico City.

Floods in US midwestern states kill 12: reports
Aug 20 08:22 AM US/Eastern

Flooding from torrential rain killed at least 12 people in two US states, washing away roads and homes and prompting dramatic rescues of those trapped on roofs and in cars, reports said Monday. Six died in the north midwestern state of Minnesota as a result of the flooding, the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis said, updating an earlier toll of four. In Oklahoma, in the central midwest, local authorities said slow moving storms had left six dead, as the remnants of tropical storm Erin dumped heavy rain there and triggered flooding, The Oklahoman daily reported. US television showed dramatic pictures of people perched helplessly atop a sinking truck and hanging from a rescue helicopter after being hauled out of the vast brown flood waters. The dead in Oklahoma included a woman who drowned in her cellar which filled with water overnight, as well as a man who apparently drowned in his truck and three women who were in a van that was swept into fast-moving waters, the newspaper said.

In Minnesota Sunday more than one car plunged into a 30-feet (nine metres) deep pit after rain washed away a road overnight in the small town of Witoka, Bob Reinert, the administrator of southern Winona County, told AFP Sunday. Railroad bridges, houses and buildings were all swept away in the flooding with six to eight inches of rain falling in some areas. More rain was expected overnight Monday to Tuesday.
While the weakening storm drifted across Oklahoma, powerful Hurricane Dean battered Jamaica later on Sunday and could later strike the southern US coast in Texas.

WORLD TRAVEL AND KNOWLEDGE INCREASED

DANIEL 12:4
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,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)

Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years
Aug 19 11:52 PM US/Eastern - By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of wet artificial life.
It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it, said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways—in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict.That first cell of synthetic life—made from the basic chemicals in DNA—may not seem like much to non-scientists. For one thing, you'll have to look in a microscope to see it.

Creating protocells has the potential to shed new light on our place in the universe, Bedau said. This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role.And several scientists believe man-made life forms will one day offer the potential for solving a variety of problems, from fighting diseases to locking up greenhouse gases to eating toxic waste. Bedau figures there are three major hurdles to creating synthetic life:

—A container, or membrane, for the cell to keep bad molecules out, allow good ones, and the ability to multiply.

—A genetic system that controls the functions of the cell, enabling it to reproduce and mutate in response to environmental changes.

—A metabolism that extracts raw materials from the environment as food and then changes it into energy.

One of the leaders in the field, Jack Szostak at Harvard Medical School, predicts that within the next six months, scientists will report evidence that the first step—creating a cell membrane—is not a big problem. Scientists are using fatty acids in that effort. Szostak is also optimistic about the next step—getting nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, to form a working genetic system. His idea is that once the container is made, if scientists add nucleotides in the right proportions, then Darwinian evolution could simply take over. We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened, Szostak said. In Gainesville, Fla., Steve Benner, a biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution is attacking that problem by going outside of natural genetics. Normal DNA consists of four bases—adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine (known as A,C,G,T)—molecules that spell out the genetic code in pairs. Benner is trying to add eight new bases to the genetic alphabet.

Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could run amok, but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem. When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab, he said. But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen.(This version CORRECTS Bedau quote to shed new light).

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.

Russia Supplies New Missile System to Syria
5 Elul 5767, August 19, '07

(IsraelNN.com) Russia has delivered 10 batteries of advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Syria as part of the $900 million arms deal between the two nations, with more on the way, according to Russian military sources quoted Friday by the Russian Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Nonetheless, two unnamed moderate Arab nations have sent messages to Jerusalem claiming that Syria does not plan to attack Israel.

The missiles are part of the Pantsyr-S1 (code-named by NATO as SA-22) system purchased by Syria, which includes portable short-range surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), with launchers that can be mounted on vehicles and moved along the border.
Israel is concerned that the weapons may make their way to Hizbullah terrorists in southern Lebanon, to be used against the Jewish State. The terrorist group has completely replenished its supplies of rockets and other materiel since the end of the Second Lebanon War last summer, with the aid of smugglers crossing the border into Lebanon from Syria.

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).

THE EU DICTATOR

REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
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.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
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.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
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.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
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.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
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:

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.

Brown under pressure over EU treaty
20.08.2007 - 09:22 CET | By Honor Mahony

UK prime minister Gordon Brown could lose up to a quarter of voters from his own labour party if he does not put the new EU treaty to a popular vote, a new survey has suggested.The ICM poll for the Daily Mail said that 24 percent of labour supporters may not support Mr Brown in general elections if he does not take the referendum path for the EU Reform Treaty, set to be finalised by the end of the year.
The poll also showed that 82 percent of voters as whole - and 80 percent of labour voters - want a referendum on whether to accept the treaty or not.The EU treaty issue has barely left the news pages in the UK since its outline was agreed by EU leaders in June.The outline maintains many of the features of the original EU constitution, rejected by the French and the Dutch in 2005.

The labour government under Tony Blair had promised to have a referendum on the old constitution but now argues that the revised treaty is sufficiently different and that Britain secured enough opt-outs - including in the justice areas and a human rights charter - to make this step unnecessary.But the opposition Conservatives have mounted a strong campaign to get a referendum arguing the new treaty is very similar to the rejected constitution.The ICM poll, which questioned 1,004 people in mid August, comes at crucial time for Mr Brown with British media speculating whether he will call early general elections to take advantage of his popularity ratings since taking over from Mr Blair in late June.The rest of the EU is also carefully watching the UK on this issue. So far, only Ireland has said it will hold a referendum on the new European treaty.But a British referendum – aside from the high chances of a No vote – would also put pressure on other countries to take a similar path.This is exactly what politicians in other member states were hoping to avoid.

Informal talks in Portugal

German centre-right MEP Elmar Brok, who is representing the European Parliament in the current negotiations to finalise the EU treaty, warned Britain against a referendum.Gordon Brown's government has said there is no justification for a referendum and the UK should stick to this commitment, said Mr Brok, according to the Daily Telegraph.It would be very unfair of the UK if, having more or less got what it wanted in the new treaty, it would then turn round and put this to a popular vote, he added, saying it would undermine the talks on the treaty.The talks, taking place at a technical level, will take off once again next week after the summer recess.The experts are expecting to have made the first legal sweep of the text by the first week of September.The treaty issue is set to move from the technical back to the political stage on 7 September when EU foreign ministers are expected to tackle the topic at informal talks in Portugal.

EU constitution timeline
By Martina Smit - 3:05pm BST 20/08/2007

Since its conception, the constitution of European Union has suffered much opposition - yet Britain's Government continues to refuse the public a chance to vote on the controversial document.

July 2003: The final draft of the first Constitution of the European Union is published.

April 2004: In one of the biggest about-turns of his career, Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the Commons that the public will have the final say on the EU Constitution.

June 2004: A summit of European Union member states, under the presidency of Bertie Ahern, agrees on the final wording of the document.

Oct 2004: The Constitution is signed in Rome, but can only come into force once it has been ratified by all 25 member states.

Feb 2005: In a Spanish referendum, 77% of voters come out in favour of the Constitution. Luxembourg also backs the document in a national vote in July that year.

Sixteen other states - starting with Lithuania - ratify or nearly ratify the document by a parliamentary or other high political process, which does not involve a public vote.

May 2005: The French vote non in a referendum. Three days later, the Dutch follow suit. In the light of this, the seven remaining member states cancel or postpone their ratifications.

June 2007: The European Council meeting negotiates on a Reform Treaty as a replacement.

Mr Blair claims he secured opt-outs to protect key British interests, but he surrendered Britain’s right to veto EU decisions in more than 40 other areas of policy.

The Opposition steps up calls for a referendum after it emerges the pledge is not legally binding.

Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, says the treaty is 90 per cent the same as the constitution.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, says the fundamentals of the constitution was retained in the treaty. Jose Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, says the treaty captured a great part of the constitution.

July 2007: Gordon Brown, Britain's new Prime Minister, rules out a British referendum on the treaty.

Senior EU officials say Britain's opt-out is worthless, as the charter would apply to the 75% or more of British law that is derived from EU legislation.

Aug 2007: A Tory analysis shows the treaty contains only 10 changes to the 250 proposals outlined in the original constitution.

More than 50,000 people sign a Daily Telegraph petition calling for a referendum on the treaty. A survey shows more than eight out of 10 Britons want to vote on the treaty.