CANADIANS CALL FOR NAU VOTE

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

IN THE FUTURE THE GREATEST QUAKE IN HISTORY OCCURS WHEN JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH BODILY TO RULE AND REIGN FROM DAVIDS THRONE.

ZECHARIAH 14:4
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Mini-Earthquake Sets Off Predictions of a Larger One
by Hillel Fendel OCT 15,07

(IsraelNN.com) The Patzael region in the central Jordan Valley, just 20 kilometers north of Jericho, was touched by a small earthquake on Saturday night, registering 3.0 on the Richter scale. A similar quake occurred in the same area two months ago.
On Sunday morning, researchers at Tel Aviv University presented a new study on the timeline of earthquakes throughout history. No precise future earthquake dates can be extrapolated from the data, of course, but the researchers say one is on the way - as no major quake has hit the danger area between the Dead Sea and the Kineret in centuries.

It's like the first winter rain, said Dr. Shmuel Marko, who took part in the study. The longer the dry summer lasts, the closer the first rain is. Here, as well: The quiet is worrisome. The longer we go without a large quake, the more we can expect one.On the other hand, experts have said that Israel's earthquakes are in general less frequent than those in other quake-prone regions such as California, Japan and Turkey. Israel is located along the Syria-Africa rift, a friction point between two subterranean plates and is therefore considered earthquake-prone. In 1927, some 250 people were killed in an earthquake that hit Jericho and central Israel. In November 1995, a 6.2 quake caused injuries to several people in Eilat. A minor quake, 5.0 on the Richter scale, hit Israel in February 2004, shaking buildings in many cities and even causing damage to the Knesset building. No one was reported hurt. The northern city of Tzfat was hit by two earthquakes in recent centuries, in 1759 and in 1837. The latter one killed at least 2,000 people, when residents were buried under the ruins of their homes and help did not arrive for days.

PREMEDITATED MERGER
Canadians call for vote on SPP
Activists demand national referendum on continental divide
October 15, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - By Jerome R. Corsi
2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Canadian activists are demanding Prime Minister Stephen Harper fulfill a promise and submit the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America to a national referendum for an up or down vote. The Prime Minister of Canada and his cabinet in both Liberal and Conservative regimes support the unification of North America as witnessed by the fact of [former Prime Minister] Paul Martin and [current Prime Minister] Stephen Harper being signatories to the SPP process, said Connie Fogal, leader of the Canadian Action Party. Fogal rejects the idea that the vote on SPP should be taken solely in the Canadian Parliament.

A decision about the restructuring of Canada into an integrated North America is not a decision for parliament, but for the citizens of Canada, Fogal says. What every Parliamentarian should do is call for a no confidence vote on this issue to cease unification of Canada, the USA and Mexico, and then run a campaign on the life of Canada not its death.Maude Barlow, the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, agrees. So far, only 30 CEOs from North America's richest corporations, including Lockheed Martin, Bank of Nova Scotia, Chevron, Power Corporation and Merck, have had any meaningful input, a news release on Barlow's website proclaims. Only they have been invited to annual closed-door meetings of SPP leaders and ministers, such as the one that took place in Montebello, Quebec, in August.As WND previously reported, the North American Competitiveness Council, or NACC, dominated the SPP closed-door meetings with the SPP trilateral working groups, the trilateral cabinet members in attendance and President Bush, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, and Harper at the third annual SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec, on Aug. 20-21.

WND has also reported the NACC is a shadowy council of 30 top North American multinational corporations self-appointed by the Chambers of Commerce in each of the three countries to constitute the sole outside advisory to the SPP. The 30 companies composing the NACC are listed on a memo posted on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website. In the United States, the companies on the NACC are: Campbell Soup Company,Chevron Corporation,Ford Motor Corporation,FedEx Corporation,General Electric Company,General Motors Corporation,Kansas City Southern,Lockheed Martin Corporation
Merck & Co., Inc.Mittal Steel USA,New York Life Insurance Company
Procter & Gamble,UPS,Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Whirlpool Corporation

No union leaders, public interest groups, environmental advocates or news media have ever attended the closed-door of the NACC with the SPP. According to a document on the Commerce Department's SPP website, the organization of the NACC was agreed upon by the three leaders on March 31, 2006. We are pleased to announce the creation of a North American Competitiveness Council, the White House announced the same day. The Council will comprise members of the private sector from each country, the White House said, and will provide us recommendations on North American competitiveness, including, among others, areas such as automotive and transportation, steel, manufacturing, and services. The Council will meet annually with security and prosperity Ministers and will engage with senior government officials on an ongoing basis.On Sept. 25, Harper made a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York where he again endorsed SPP. In a transcript archived on the CFR website, Harper referred to the NACC, saying: At the North American summit that Canada hosted in Montebello last month, I was struck by the power of the message sent to us by the leaders from the American and Canadian private sectors. They appealed to us to see the connection between security and prosperity, Harper continued. They told us that without the and we won't have either.
The CFR website also has archived a video of Harper's Sept. 25 remarks.

Mayors From Around the World to Gather in Jerusalem
by Hillel Fendel OCT 15,07

(IsraelNN.com) The City as Capital and Metropolitan Center is the name of the 25th Jerusalem Conference of Mayors taking place this week in Jerusalem, sponsored by the American Jewish Congress Council for World Jewry. Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski will host the event, which is co-sponsored by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.Mayors from 40 cities are taking part in the five-day event, including Kiev, London, Dublin, Addis Ababa, Leipzig (Germany), Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Zagreb (Croatia), Tbilisi (the former USSR republic of Georgia), and others. The South American cities of Lima (Peru), Montevideo (Uruguay), Quito (Ecuador), and La-Paz (Bolivia) will also be represented. Participating US cities include Cincinnati (Ohio), Baton Rouge (Louisiana), Providence (Rhode Island), Madison (Wisconsin), and others.

The mayors will participate in round-table sessions exploring various challenges facing modern metropolitan areas. Among the topics to be discussed are the concept of metropolis and capital city as government centers, intercultural and economic challenges facing cities, the role of mayors in the international arena, and more. They will also tour various sights of Jerusalem and meet with local businessmen and volunteers.The visiting mayors will also meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski predicted that the conference will be the beginning of future cooperation between the cities, and especially with Jerusalem.

In sponsoring this annual gathering of mayors from around the world, Council for World Jewry Chairman Jack Rosen said, we hope to give them a fresh outlook of Jerusalem, and a new understanding of Israel and its achievements. Mayors Conference alumni are among Israel's best ambassadors of good will.The Council for World Jewry is a body that seeks, inter alia, to narrow the gaps between peoples of different backgrounds and faiths, combat world-wide anti-Semitism, and support Israel.Previous such conferences have been held under banners such as Excavating the Future: Tradition and Technology in the City, The Role of Mayor in Times of Crisis, and Mobilizing the Past for a Better Economic Future.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Rice: No Jewish building in eastern city
Says she'll push Israel to divide capital, blame Olmert if he doesn't comply - October 15, 2007 - By Aaron Klein
2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Condoleezza Rice

JERUSALEM – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in the region to prepare for an Israeli-Palestinian summit next month, told Palestinian officials yesterday she would pressure Israel against initiating any Jewish construction in eastern sections of Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian negotiator involved in talks with Rice told WND. The Palestinian negotiator stated Rice singled out Jerusalem areas as becoming part of a future Palestinian state and told his negotiating team she would publicly blame Israel for the failure of next month's U.S.-sponsored summit slated to be held in Maryland if the Jewish state didn't agree to evacuate eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods. The information follows a flurry of media reports last week Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was contemplating handing over sections of Jerusalem to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization. Vice Premier Haim Ramon, a member of Olmert's ruling Kadima party, last week reportedly mapped out a future partition of Jerusalem under a deal with the Palestinians.

Ramon was quoted by the popular Ynet Israeli website as writing in a letter to Jerusalem City Councilman Nir Barkat that under his plan, The Jewish neighborhoods (of Jerusalem) will be recognized as Israeli and under Israeli sovereignty. Accordingly, the Arab neighborhoods will be recognized as Palestinian. Passages between the Israeli neighborhoods will be open and secure – accordingly the same will be true for the Palestinian neighborhoods.According to Ramon's reported plan, There will be special sovereignty over the holy sites, taking into account Israel's unique interests in overseeing them. Within this framework, the Western Wall, the Jewish Quarter and other holy sites in the Jerusalem vicinity will remain under Israeli rule forever.Ramon's letter as quoted did not single out the fate of the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site.
Knesset Member Otniel Schneller, a Kadima party colleague of Olmert and Ramon known for his close relationship to the prime minister, claimed the plan violated the Kadima's platform. But WND first reported in 2006 it was Schneller who first floated a Kadima plan for dividing Jerusalem.

The Old City, Mount Scopus, the Mount of Olives, the City of David, Sheikh Jarra will remain in our hands, but [regarding] Kafr Akeb, Abu-Ram, Shuafat, Hizma, Abu-Zaim, Abu-Tur, Abu Dis, in the future, when the Palestinian state is established, they will become its capital, said Schneller at the small Jerusalem debate in May 2006, covered by WND. Days later, Schneller gave an interview to the Associated Press in which he stated We will not divide Jerusalem, we will share it.The Kadima lawmaker told AP most Jerusalem neighborhoods with large Arab populations would be given to the Palestinians. Those same neighborhoods will, in my assessment, be central to the makeup of the Palestinian capital ... al-Quds, said Schneller, calling Jerusalem by its Arabic name. Rice arrived in the region yesterday reportedly to help the Israeli and Palestinian sides formulate a joint statement ahead of November's conference. Palestinian leaders want the statement to specifically outline a Palestinian state including the Gaza Strip, West Bank and parts of Jerusalem, while Olmert officials have been quoted in recent days stating they prefer more vague commitments.

Olmert will forfeit Temple Mount

According to senior Palestinian negotiators, Olmert's team expressed willingness multiple times to divide Jerusalem and place the Temple Mount under pan-Arab control. WND in August quoted PA sources stating Olmert's office presented the Palestinians a formal plan in which the Jewish state would forfeit the Temple Mount to Muslim control under the joint management of Egypt, Jordan and the PA. The sources said Olmert's plan called for the entire Temple Mount plaza to fall under Arab sovereignty; Jerusalem's Old City holy sites near the Mount to be governed by a Jewish, Christian and Muslim task force; and the Western Wall plaza below the Mount to be controlled by Israel. David Baker, a spokesman for Olmert, would neither confirm nor deny the prime minister offered the Temple Mount.

Olmert hints Jerusalem could be shared
Signal to Palestinians comes as Rice visits region ahead of summit
OCT 15,07

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday raised questions about Israel's control of Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, the first time he has openly signaled readiness to share control of the city with the Palestinians. Control of Jerusalem is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel claims all of the city, including east Jerusalem, which it captured in the 1967 Mideast war, as its capital. The Palestinians want the eastern sector for the capital of a future independent state. In a speech, Olmert noted that Israel has built a series of thriving Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, but signaled that Israel's control of Arab areas is not necessary. Was it necessary to also join the Shuafat refugee camp, Sawakra, Walaje and other villages and define them as part of Jerusalem? he asked. With that, I must confess it is possible to ask legitimate questions.

His comments came as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza visited the region, saying Monday that President Bush has decided to make ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict one of the highest priorities of his administration.An international peace conference expected to take place in Annapolis, Md., in the fall has to be serious and substantive, Rice said at a news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. We frankly have better things to do than invite people to Annapolis for a photo op, she said.
Israelis and Palestinians, Rice observed, are making their most serious effort in years to resolve the conflict. Frankly, it's time for the establishment of a Palestinian state, she added.

The two sides are trying to work out an outline for a final peace deal ahead of the Annapolis conference. But tensions arose on Sunday when Olmert told his Cabinet that he didn't regard that outline as a prerequisite for the conference to go ahead. The Palestinians said that without such a document, they wouldn't attend the meeting. Israel has been pushing for a vaguely worded document while the Palestinians want a detailed outline, complete with a timetable for establishing a Palestinian state.

Livni to lead Israel, Qureia for Palestinians

Israel said Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni would lead negotiations with the Palestinian team led by Ahmed Qureia, a former prime minister. Ahead of her meetings, Rice delivered a rare warning to Israel not to take any steps that might erode confidence in the peace process. This is a very delicate time, she said. It’s just a time to be extremely careful.Her comments referred to the renewal of a road project that Palestinians fear is intended to tighten Israeli control over strategic West Bank areas near Jerusalem. Israel says construction is not imminent and is meant to ease Palestinian movement. But those assertions did little to ease concerns. Shortly after she landed, Israeli officials said they had decided to resume an archaeological dig near a hotly disputed Jerusalem holy site, drawing more Palestinian charges that Israel is trying to scuttle the conference. Rice also met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who later issued a statement saying the military’s freedom of movement in the West Bank was a fundamental principle that must be demanded in the future as well.
The comments from Barak, who later headed to Washington for talks with the Bush administration, came despite long-standing Palestinian demands for a reduced Israeli presence in the West Bank.

Rice is on her third trip to the region since June, when the United States began to try to revive peace efforts after the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip. That takeover has left the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in control of just the West Bank. His expulsion of Hamas from the government has, in U.S. eyes, freed him to pursue a peace deal that would create a Palestinian state. To build Arab support for the conference, Rice plans stops in Egypt on Tuesday to see President Hosni Mubarak and in Britain on Thursday, where she will see King Abdullah of Jordan. The participation of the those countries, the only major Arab nations to have signed peace deals with Israel, along with Saudi Arabia is considered key to the success of the conference. All three have expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the meeting. MSNBC.com,AP