CHINA RUSSIA SPYING ON US

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.

East China braces for fierce typhoon SEPT 18,07

SHANGHAI, China - China's commercial center of Shanghai was evacuating 200,000 people on Tuesday ahead of the expected arrival of Typhoon Wipha, potentially the most destructive storm to hit the city in a decade, local media reported. Whipping up waves up to 36 feet high, Wipha was moving northwest across the sea north of Taiwan and was forecast to make landfall south of Shanghai early Wednesday, weather reports said.The typhoon is very likely to develop into the worst one in recent years. We are still observing it. It's hard to say at this moment, said a man who answered the phone at the city's meteorological bureau. As is common with Chinese officials, the man identified himself only by his surname, Fu.At 9 a.m. (9 p.m. EDT) Tuesday, Wipha's center was located about 137 miles east of Taiwan's capital, Taipei, according to the Hong Kong Observatory's Web site.Shanghai and the coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian to the south issued typhoon warnings requiring all vessels to return to shore or change course to avoid the storm, the official Xinhua News Agency said.State-run newspapers reported that some 200,000 people living in coastal or low-lying rural areas of Shanghai were being evacuated as a precaution, although the city was only experiencing intermittent showers early Tuesday.A worker was killed and another seriously injured Tuesday when scaffolding collapsed at a highway construction site in Taipei, Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center reported.

Schools, offices and the stock market in northern Taiwan were ordered closed as a precaution and flights from Taiwan to Japan, South Korea and a few other Asian countries were canceled, officials said.The storm was upgraded from a tropical storm on Monday afternoon. Wipha is a woman's name in Thai.The deadliest storm to hit the China coast in recent years was Typhoon Winnie in 1997, which killed 236 people. Typhoon Rananim, with winds of more than 100 mph, was the strongest typhoon to hit the Chinese mainland since 1956, killing nearly 200 people.

Fears mount over more Africa rain, floods By Jeremy Clarke
Mon Sep 17, 3:51 PM ET

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Fears mounted on Monday that downpours which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods. Our estimates show the floods are likely to worsen or remain at the same level up to October or early November, said U.N. World Food Programme Uganda representative Tasema Negash.Experts say the rising waters may hit as yet unaffected areas in the coming days, such as Uganda's central regions.We are calling on the international community to come to their rescue before it is too late," said Musa Ecweru, minister for disaster preparedness in Uganda, where 300,000 people have already been affected and at least nine killed.Scores have died in more than a dozen countries often ravaged by droughts, but now inundated by torrential downpours destroying settlements and sweeping away crops and livestock -- cornerstones of Africa's developing economies.Across the continent, uprooted communities shelter in abandoned schools, churches and under plastic sheeting.Schoolboys carrying books above their heads wade through flooded fields, while villagers stand on the muddy wreckage of homes searching for missing family.Across east Africa, more than 90 people have now died from floods and the waterborne diseases that have followed -- at least 63 in Ethiopia alone.In west Africa, the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA says floods have affected half a million people. The International Federation of the Red Cross says 87 people have been killed in the past two months, mostly in Nigeria.But those figures are rough estimates as hailstorms, mudslides and collapsed bridges wreak havoc with relief efforts.

HUGE IMPACT

In Kenya, 20,000 people driven from their homes in the largely agricultural southwest left behind a wilderness of wasted crops and drowned livestock.These people affected depend their lives on agriculture ... the floods will have a huge economical impact in Kenya, said Elena Velilla, Medecins Sans Frontieres' head of mission.The U.N. World Food Programme says it needs $29 million in Uganda to fight the crisis in a country already burdened by thousands of refugees from neighboring Congo and more than a million people living in war displacement camps in the north.
With camps for the displaced fast swelling in countries across the centre of the world's poorest continent, experts say the threat of disease is mounting quickly.

We need medicines because we expect outbreaks of diarrhea and cholera, Ben Brown, regional co-coordinator of Ghana's National Disaster Management Organization, told Reuters.Northern Ghana has been particularly badly hit, and the authorities there have appealed for international help to feed, clothe and house tens of thousands uprooted by rising waters that have killed at least 18.Malaria may be expected because we have stagnant waters and mosquitoes will breed, Brown said. Last week in neighboring Togo, where at least 20 people have died since last month, the authorities delayed the start of the new academic year for a month after 46 schools were damaged.And in already impoverished Mali and Niger, swarms of crop-eating locusts are now feared, OCHA said. (Additional reporting by Francis Kwera in Kampala, Orla Ryan in Accra and John Zodzi in Lome)

Florida tornado damages dozens of homes Mon Sep 17, 1:07 PM ET

CAPE CORAL, Fla. - As many as 150 homes were damaged by a powerful tornado that swept off the Gulf of Mexico and plowed into this southwest Florida city, officials said Monday. One person suffered minor injuries from flying debris. Thunderstorms that spawned the tornado hit Cape Coral around 6:30 p.m. Sunday.Water was pouring in through the windows, it soaked everything, said Jessica Gibson, whose apartment building roof was partly torn off.Daniel Noah at the National Weather Service said the tornado started as a water spout over Fort Myers Beach and moved north into Cape Coral. He estimated the winds speeds were between 90 and 110 mph.One minor injury from flying debris was reported after the tornado, which damaged dozens of houses, apartments and other buildings, city spokeswoman Connie Barron said. Cape Coral's chief inspector, Bill Selvia, told the News-Press of Fort Myers on Monday that the final damage estimate could be in the millions of dollars.At the Silver Sands Resort, the tornado toppled a tiki bar and tore the roof off two units, owner Tom Groves said.It threw all the chairs into the pool — just made a general mess, Groves said.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
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 (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Cooler weather aids fight against SoCal wildfires
SEPT 17,07

FAWNSKIN, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters kept an eye on the winds Monday as they made progress in surrounding two wildfires that have chewed through more than 16,000 acres of dry brush in San Bernardino and San Diego counties.Cooler temperatures and light winds overnight helped prevent the spread of the Butler 2 fire, which has charred 15,433 acres — or more than 24 square miles — in the San Bernardino National Forest.About 340 residents of the Fawnskin area remained evacuated but another 1,200 who voluntarily left their homes in Green Valley Lake had returned, officials said.

Actress Shirley Jones and her husband, producer Marty Ingels, evacuated their 17-acre hilltop estate in the town of Fawnskin.Jones said flames could be seen just a few hundred yards from their property.It's all up to God and the shifting winds, she said in a prepared statement. This is a real nailbiter.Extra firefighters were on duty to protect structures and prevent flames from pushing into Fawnskin. The fire, which burned several outbuildings at a campground, was 12% contained.Despite the progress, crews were concerned about the winds, which were expected to blow from the west at up to 15 mph.The weather is a concern today because if we get any winds from the west, it could push the fire into Fawnskin, said Robin Prince, fire information officer with the U.S. Forest Service.Stretches of highways 18 and 38 remained closed. Six schools in the Bear Valley Unified School District canceled classes as a precaution, affecting 3,200 students.In eastern San Diego County, a wildfire northeast of Julian had burned 850 acres and was 70% surrounded. The Angel Fire, which authorities said was started by an illegal campfire, was expected to be fully contained by Wednesday.The blaze led to the evacuation of about 400 people from the nearby subdivision of Whispering Pines. Residents in the southern part of the subdivision were allowed back in their homes.One vacation home was destroyed and five outbuildings were damaged.

SCOFFERS MOCKING CHRISTS LITERAL 2ND COMING TO EARTH BODILY.

2 PETER 3:3-7
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
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.

JUDE 14-16
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.(JESUS)(GOD)
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

LETS SEE WHO WINS IN THE FUTURE WHEN THIS GUY MEETS GOD (JESUS) AT THE JUDGEMENT, WE WILL SEE WHAT THE KING (JESUS)(GOD) HAS TO SAY ABIUT THIS LAWSUIT.

Nebraska state senator sues God By NATE JENKINS, Associated Press Writer
SEPT 18,07

LINCOLN, Neb. - The defendant in a state senator's lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He's everywhere. State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another lawsuit he considers frivolous, Chambers says he's trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody.Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants.

The Omaha senator, who skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often criticizes Christians, also says God has caused fearsome floods ... horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes.He's seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty.Chambers said the lawsuit was triggered by a federal suit filed against a judge who recently barred words such as rape and victim from a sexual assault trial.
The accuser in the criminal case, Tory Bowen, sued Lancaster District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront, claiming that he violated her free speech rights.Chambers said Bowen's lawsuit is inappropriate because the Nebraska Supreme Court has already considered the case and federal courts follow the decisions of state supreme courts on state matters.This lawsuit having been filed and being of such questionable merit creates a circumstance where my lawsuit is appropriately filed, Chambers said. People might call it frivolous but if they read it they'll see there are very serious issues I have raised.U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf, in an order last week, expressed doubts about whether Bowen's lawsuit has any legal basis whatsoever and said sanctions may be imposed against Bowen and her attorneys if they fail to show cause for the lawsuit.The Associated Press usually does not identify accusers in sex-assault cases, but Bowen has allowed her name to be used publicly because of the issue over the judge's language restrictions.Cheuvront declared a mistrial in the sexual assault trial in July, saying pretrial publicity made it impossible to gather enough impartial jurors.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

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.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

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.

Stocks fall as Fed decision looms By MADLEN READ, AP Business Writer
Mon Sep 17, 6:30 PM ET

NEW YORK - Wall Street fell moderately Monday as investors anxiously awaited the Federal Reserve's impending decision on interest rates. The market is betting on a rate cut from the Fed when the central bank meets Tuesday, but investors are not completely sure what it will do and what it will say in its accompanying economic statement. Furthermore, with the major brokerages' third-quarter results yet to be released, investors are uncertain about how badly the summer's stock downturn, souring home loans, and credit squeeze hit the banking industry.Adding to the uneasiness, Northern Rock PLC, Britain's fifth-largest mortgage lender, saw its stock plunge and customers withdraw billions of dollars after it issued a profit warning Friday and requested emergency funds from the Bank of England. That gave U.S. investors an added impetus to pare their stock holdings, particularly in the financial sector.Talk from former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan of the possibility of a recession amid high inflationary pressures also elevated Wall Street's jitters, as did job cuts at Merrill Lynch & Co.'s First Franklin Financial Corp.It's possible the Fed won't go through with a rate cut at all if it believes the economy is still growing moderately and that inflation remains a threat, but most investors expect the Fed to cut the bench mark federal funds rate, now at 5.25 percent, by at least a quarter-point. And because negative economic data have trickled in over the last couple weeks — such as a decrease of 4,000 jobs in August and weaker-than-expected retail sales — some anticipate a half-point rate cut.

A quarter-point is going to be disappointing. It's already priced in, said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research. But the Fed probably won't want to lower rates by more than that, he said, and the central bank may not indicate in its statement that more reductions are in the offing.The big issue is gold and oil have been spiking higher, which people could argue is inflationary, but economic data has been weak. The Fed's in a tough place. Higher interest rates prevent costs from rising; lower rates fuel growth but also tend to accelerate inflation.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 39.10, or 0.29 percent, to 13,403.42.

Broader stock indicators showed somewhat steeper losses. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 7.60, or 0.51 percent, to 1,476.65, and the Nasdaq composite index lost 20.52, or 0.79 percent, to 2,581.66. The Russell 2000 index, which tracks small company stocks, fell 7.68, or 0.98 percent, to 775.81.Bonds rose modestly, pushing the yield on the 10-year Treasury note down to 4.47 percent from 4.48 percent late Friday.Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was among the lightest of any day this year, indicating that many market participants were staying on the sidelines ahead of the Fed's decision. Consolidated volume totaled 2.47 billion shares compared with 2.65 billion traded Friday.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers by more than 2 to 1 on the NYSE.

Last week, stocks saw sizable gains, due largely to high expectations of a rate cut. The Dow ended up 2.51 percent, the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 2.11 percent, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 1.42 percent. The Dow is just 4 percent below its all-time high of 14,000.41, reached in July before fears escalated about bad home loans and excessive leveraged debt.

The prospect of a recession has been keeping the markets volatile.

Greenspan said in an interview with NBC before the markets opened Monday that the risk of a recession is higher than it was at the beginning of the year, but not by much.Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in Paris that regulators should not rush to impose new rules on the market because of the recent tightening in credit.There's tremendous growth going on in many parts of our world economy, and that's driving a lot of business here in the U.S., said Rob Lutts, chief investment officer of Cabot Money Management, noting that the markets are focused on the U.S. housing market right now. I'm not going to say let's not worry, but let's put it in perspective.

The dollar was mixed against other major currencies while gold jumped.

Crude oil prices rose $1.47 to settle at a record $80.57 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude closed over $80 for the first time last week; oil futures also set a trading record Monday, moving as high as $80.70. In Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 fell 1.69 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.24 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 1.80 percent. Japanese markets were closed Monday for a holiday. China's volatile Shanghai Composite Index rose 2.1 percent to a record, but most Asian stocks fell. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index declined 1.20 percent. Later in the week the major investment banks — Bear Stearns Cos., Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — release their fiscal third-quarter results. On Monday, Bear Stearns fell $1.81 to $115.38; Lehman fell 88 cents to $58.62; Morgan Stanley fell $1.20 to $64.91; and Goldman fell $2.98 to $187.61. Merrill fell $1.80, or 2.4 percent, to $72.85, after saying it was eliminating an undisclosed number of jobs.
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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.

Rice heads to Mideast as peace process shows signs of life by Sylvie Lanteaume SEPT 18,07

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to Jerusalem on Wednesday planning to capitalize on signs of life in Israeli-Palestinian dialogue to accelerate a Middle East peace conference. US President George W. Bush has called for the international conference, expected to be held in November, to jump-start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.Although November is fast-approaching, the chief US diplomat has remained reticent on her goals for her sixth visit to the Middle East of this year.The previous trips raised expectations of a breakthrough that were never realized, and this time the State Department is being coy about whether Rice will hold a three-way meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and embattled Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.This time around, I think we will focus on having parallel meetings, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch said Monday, while not ruling out a broader meeting with the main players.Israeli and Palestinian sources said Rice was due to meet Olmert on Wednesday, and Abbas on Thursday.Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP: We are attaching great importance to this visit.

President Abbas stresses that the roadmap and the Arab peace initiative are the framework (for the peace summit), and wants all the parties concerned to take part, he added.Olmert and Abbas have both reaffirmed their commitment to a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, on the lines of the roadmap to peace envisaged by a quartet of diplomatic players including the United States.Washington is keen on getting Saudi Arabia -- its most influential ally in the Arab world -- to participate in the planning international gathering.Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel, so having representatives of both sides in the same room would be a diplomatic coup for Rice.Riyadh has revived a plan first floated in 2002 for Arab states to recognize Israel, in return for the Jewish state returning all territories seized in the 1967 Six-Day War.Ahead of the Rice trip, a senior Israeli government official said that both sides would work very intensely in the coming weeks to try to reach an understanding, preferably before the summit.

But Abbas last week denied media reports that he and Olmert had been drafting an accord of principles ahead of the US-sponsored peace conference.According to an alleged copy of the Hebrew-language document, published on the Palestinian Maan news agency's website, a demilitarized Palestinian state would be created within 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as capital.In Washington, Welch said the US government had been encouraged by the appointment last week by Abbas and Olmert of negotiating teams ahead of the planned peace conference.This is a very important moment and we think we can make some progress here, he said, previewing Rice's visit to the region.
I think for the first time here for quite some time, I do feel there is an opportunity, with a little hard work... we can get in a way that looks a little bit better, the State Department official said. The peace process appears to have perked up since the Western-shunned Hamas movement took control of Gaza, leaving Abbas's fractured government based in the West Bank. The glue for a revived partnership is the understanding that the alternative is Hamas, which threatens Israelis and Palestinians alike, commented David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. But writing in Newsday, he warned that unrealistically high expectations for the November meeting could tragically trample whatever moves the parties do make.

Palestinian government seen needing $1.6 bln a year By Adam Entous
SEPT 18,07

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Western-backed government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas estimates that it will need at least $1.62 billion in donor assistance per year to close its soaring budget gap, the World Bank said. In a bleak report to donors obtained by Reuters on Tuesday, the international lending agency said local revenues were not enough to sustain the government's wage bill and that there was little chance of improvement as long as Israel refused to lift restrictions on Palestinian travel and trade.The World Bank said 94 percent of the foreign aid needed by the Palestinian Authority would be used to cover recurring expenditures, including salaries, utility bills and social payments, leaving little money to fund development.The World Bank report was prepared for next week's meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, a major Palestinian donors' group. The meeting, which will lay the groundwork for a donors' conference in December, is part of a U.S.-led effort to bolster Abbas and the government he appointed in the occupied West Bank following Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip in June.

Western diplomats said Abbas's government, led by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, would be able to cover this year's budget gap by using foreign aid and frozen tax revenues recently released by Israel.But the diplomats questioned Fayyad's ability to cover a fiscal hole estimated at $1.6 billion per year in the absence of a political breakthrough that will revive the Palestinian economy and bring in larger amounts of Arab aid.It's huge and we don't see how the Palestinian Authority can finance it, said one diplomat who monitors its funds.

PEACE CONFERENCE

U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to convene a conference on Palestinian statehood in November but it is unclear what will result from it.In April, Fayyad estimated that the Palestinian Authority would need at least $1.3 billion in international aid in 2007. Fayyad was serving at the time as finance minister of a unity government between Hamas and Abbas's secular Fatah faction.While foreign aid and tax funds started flowing again to the Palestinian Authority after the unity government ended in June, Western sanctions remain in place against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where economic conditions have deteriorated.Despite some initial steps by Fayyad to rein in spending, the World Bank said the government wage bill would exceed total revenues even after taking into account Israel's decision in June to hand over frozen tax funds.Fayyad's government has sought to reduce payroll by not paying workers hired by the Hamas-led government, but the World Bank said the prime minister may find it politically challenging to reduce the work force any further.It is unclear how Fayyad will be able to cover the government's energy and infrastructure needs long-term.

In Hamas-controlled Gaza, the economic crisis is more acute. Gaza's main border crossings have been closed to all but humanitarian supplies, prompting the suspension of up to 90 percent of the coastal territory's industrial operations.
The impacts of these closures will become more difficult to reverse, said the World Bank. It estimated that unemployment could reach the unprecedented level of 44 percent.Despite the embargo, Israeli, Palestinian and Western officials say Hamas has been able to bring in tenq of millions of dollars to fund its military and social programs.

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.

Iran criticizes French war warning SEPT 18,07

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian media lashed out at France on Monday for raising the rhetoric in the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program, a day after the French foreign minister said the world should be prepared for war if Iran obtains nuclear weapons.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his administration have taken a tougher line against Iran's controversial nuclear program than his predecessor, Jacques Chirac, who left the Elysee presidential palace in May.The occupants of the Elysee have become translators of the White House policies in Europe and have adopted a tone that is even harder, even more inflammatory and more illogical than that of Washington, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency wrote in an editorial Monday posted on its Web site.The U.S. and many of its allies, including France, have been pressuring Iran to suspend its controversial nuclear program, which they believe is cover for weapons development — a charge Iran denies. President Bush has refused to take military action off the table if Iran does not comply.

On Sunday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned that war could break out if Iran obtains nuclear weapons and said European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against the Islamic country.Kouchner, speaking on RTL radio, said that if such a bomb is made ... we must prepare ourselves for the worst, specifying that could mean a war.French Prime Minister Francois Fillon sought to play down Kouchner's comments on Monday, saying everything must be done to avoid war.France's role is to lead the way to a peaceful solution, he said.Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema also attempted to shift attention from Kouchner's remark, saying on the sidelines of a peace conference in Turin that before talking about war, we have to give political and diplomatic initiatives necessary time.IRNA also accused the French government of trying to derail a recent agreement between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, to answer outstanding questions about Tehran's nuclear activities.While the issue of Iran's nuclear case is close to being resolved, thanks to the measures taken by Iran and the IAEA, the extremism of the French leaders is creating an obstacle in this path, the editorial said.The U.S. and its Western allies suspect that Iran is using the pact to deflect attention from its continued defiance of a U.N. Security Council ban on uranium enrichment, a pathway to nuclear arms as well as civilian reactor fuel.

Abizaid: World could abide nuclear Iran By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
SEPT 18,07

WASHINGTON - Every effort should be made to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but failing that, the world could live with a nuclear-armed regime in Tehran, a recently retired commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Monday.
John Abizaid, the retired Army general who headed Central Command for nearly four years, said he was confident that if Iran gained nuclear arms, the United States could deter it from using them.Iran is not a suicide nation, he said. I mean, they may have some people in charge that don't appear to be rational, but I doubt that the Iranians intend to attack us with a nuclear weapon.The Iranians are aware, he said, that the United States has a far superior military capability.I believe that we have the power to deter Iran, should it become nuclear, he said, referring to the theory that Iran would not risk a catastrophic retaliatory strike by using a nuclear weapon against the United States.

There are ways to live with a nuclear Iran, Abizaid said in remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank. Let's face it, we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with (other) nuclear powers as well.He stressed that he was expressing his personal opinion and that none of his remarks were based on his previous experience with U.S. contingency plans for potential military action against Iran.Abizaid stressed the dangers of allowing more and more nations to build a nuclear arsenal. And while he said it is likely that Iran will make a technological breakthrough to obtain a nuclear bomb, it's not inevitable.Iran says its nuclear program is strictly for energy resources, not to build weapons.Abizaid suggested military action to pre-empt Iran's nuclear ambitions might not be the wisest course.War, in the state-to-state sense, in that part of the region would be devastating for everybody, and we should avoid it — in my mind — to every extent that we can, he said. On the other hand, we can't allow the Iranians to continue to push in ways that are injurious to our vital interests.He suggested that many in Iran — perhaps even some in the Tehran government — are open to cooperating with the West. The thrust of his remarks was a call for patience in dealing with Iran, which President Bush early in his first term labeled one of the axis of evil nations, along with North Korea and Iraq.

He said there is a basis for hope that Iran, over time, will move away from its current anti-Western stance.

Abizaid's comments appeared to represent a more accommodating and hopeful stance toward Iran than prevails in the White House, which speaks frequently of the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions. The administration says it seeks a diplomatic solution to complaints about Iran's alleged support for terrorism and its nuclear program, amid persistent rumors of preparations for a U.S. military strike.Abizaid expressed confidence that the United States and the world community can manage the Iran problem.I believe the United States, with our great military power, can contain Iran — that the United States can deliver clear messages to the Iranians that makes it clear to them that while they may develop one or two nuclear weapons they'll never be able to compete with us in our true military might and power, he said.

He described Iran's government as reckless, with ambitions to dominate the Middle East.We need to press the international community as hard as we possibly can, and the Iranians, to cease and desist on the development of a nuclear weapon and we should not preclude any option that we may have to deal with it, he said. He then added his remark about finding ways to live with a nuclear-armed Iran. Abizaid made his remarks in response to questions from his audience after delivering remarks about the major strategic challenges in the Middle East and Central Asia — the region in which he commanded U.S. forces from July 2003 until February 2007, when he was replaced by Adm. William Fallon. The U.S. cut diplomatic relations with Iran shortly after the 1979 storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Although both nations have made public and private attempts to improve relations, the Bush administration labeled Iran part of an axis of evil, and Iranian leaders still refer to the United States as the Great Satan.

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.

Spy chief: China, Russia spying on US By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer SEPT 18,07

WASHINGTON - China and Russia are spying on the United States nearly as much as they did during the Cold War, according to the top U.S. intelligence official. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, says in testimony prepared for a Tuesday congressional hearing that a law passed last month expanding the U.S. government's eavesdropping power is needed to protect not just against terrorists but also against more traditional potential adversaries, such as those two Cold War foes.China and Russia's foreign intelligence services are among the most aggressive in collecting against sensitive and protected U.S. systems, facilities and development projects, and their efforts are approaching Cold War levels, McConnell says in his testimony. Foreign intelligence information concerning the plans, activities and intentions of foreign powers and their agents is critical to protect the nation and preserve our security.The new law will also enable the intelligence agencies to identify sleeper cells of terrorists in the United States, according to McConnell's statement to the House Judiciary Committee.

Congress last month hastily adopted the Protect America Act just before it went on summer vacation, propelled by McConnell's warnings of a need to close a dangerous gap in U.S. intelligence law.Some lawmakers are now having second thoughts as the complicated law — intended to make it easier for the government to intercept foreign calls and e-mails — has come under attack by civil liberties and privacy advocates who contend it gives the government broader powers than intended.The Protect America Act allows the government to listen in, without a court order, on all communications conducted by a person reasonably believed to be outside the United States, even if an American is on one end of the conversation.Such surveillance was generally prohibited under the original Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and it is one of the more controversial aspects of the new law.But McConnell's prepared testimony says one of the most important new powers granted by the law is the possibility of obtaining a call or e-mail from a foreign terrorist outside the United States to a previously unknown 'sleeper' or coconspirator inside the United States.While some Democrats are angling to roll back what they consider the excesses of the new law, McConnell and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein are pushing Congress to make even more changes to FISA.Among the changes they seek is a new definition for electronic surveillance. The legal definition includes not just which technologies are used to conduct the surveillance, but also whom is targeted, what communications are collected, where the target is and where the eavesdropping takes place. The definition is critical because it limits the government's power. FISA generally requires court orders for any activity deemed to be electronic surveillance.