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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.

Californians reminded of danger to come By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 31, 9:05 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO - The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay area in years was a seismic throat-clearing of sorts, compared with the magnitude-7.0 quake that experts anticipate will hit the region in the next 25 years. Tuesday's magnitude-5.6 quake, centered about 9 miles northeast of San Jose, shook nerves and reminded residents of the seven major earthquake faults that run through the region.The quake and the more than three dozen aftershocks that followed — the largest registering magnitude 3.7 on Wednesday afternoon — produced no reports of serious injury or damage, officials said. Tuesday's quake was felt as far away as Santa Rosa, Sacramento and Monterey.Even so, it paled in comparison to the larger one that experts anticipate. That quake will hit one of the seven major faults and pack 60 times the force of Tuesday's quake, said Tom Brocher, a senior U.S. Geological Survey seismologist.Tuesday's quake originated along the Calaveras Fault, which is not thought to be as dangerous as a fault it intersects, the Hayward Fault. Scientists estimate the Hayward Fault has a 27 percent chance of causing a quake of magnitude 6.7 or greater. Historically, severe quakes have occurred on the Hayward Fault every 151 years, give or take 23 years. The last one to hit was in 1868, meaning another could strike soon.

The Association of Bay Area Governments estimates a powerful Hayward quake would wipe out about 155,000 housing units, 37,000 in San Francisco alone.Tuesday's quake, which struck shortly after 8 p.m., raised questions about whether a quake hitting the Hayward Fault was now more likely.Under certain circumstances, a quake on one fault can transfer energy to another, adding instability and potentially triggering events on the other fault, seismologists said.By Wednesday morning, a consensus emerged at the U.S. Geological Survey that the previous night's quake did not significantly elevate the likelihood of a dreaded Hayward Fault quake. Tuesday's quake sent ripples of energy largely to the south, while the Hayward Fault extends north from the epicenter, Brocher said.Still, state officials issued an alarming warning.
The California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, a panel of scientists that advises the governor on earthquake forecasts, warned that Tuesday's earthquake has significantly increased the probability above the normal level for a damaging earthquake along the Calaveras and/or Hayward faults within the next several days.
However, the panel said, the overall likelihood of such an event is still low.In addition to the seven major faults, hundreds of smaller faults form a latticework of cracks beneath the region, perhaps a dozen of which could snap and generate moderate quakes, said David P. Schwartz, chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's Bay Area Earthquake Hazards Project.A hypothetical trench dug around the Bay Area would reveal hundreds of these small fissures, Schwartz said.The Earth's crust, which has been around for millions of years, has been pushed and pulled in all different directions, and is very broken up, he said. It's literally cracked up.Meanwhile, state and local inspectors examined sections of California's extensive levee system on Wednesday. Experts said the earthquake's center was too far from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to threaten the state's water supply.

Last night's jolt was not large enough to cause extensive damage, but it's a reminder of what will come, said Les Harder, deputy director of the state Department of Water Resources. A massive levee failure in the delta would cripple California's water supply system, which relies on the inland river delta to feed fresh water from the state's northern rivers to 750,000 acres of farmland and 25 million people in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay area. In an effort to prepare, California voters last November passed nearly $5 billion in bond money to strengthen the delta's levees and improve flood control throughout the state. (This version CORRECTS that there are seven major faults in the region, instead of eight.)

Powerful earthquake hits Pacific islands Wed Oct 31, 9:46 AM ET

TOKYO - A powerful earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean near the Marianas Islands, Japan's weather agency said Wednesday, adding that there was no threat of a tsunami. The Meteorological Agency initially said the quake's magnitude was 7.5 but later revised it to 7.0 after analyzing the data. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude was 7.2.The quake struck about 12:30 p.m. and occurred at a depth of about 150 miles, the Meteorological Agency said.The agency said the temblor's epicenter was in the northernmost reaches of the island chain in the northwest Pacific.
The islands lie along the Pacific Basin's Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines where quakes are frequent.(This version CORRECTS that the Marianas are in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, sted South Pacific.)

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.

Death toll mounts from Tropical Storm Noel By German Marte
Wed Oct 31, 9:33 PM ET

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Two rivers burst their banks and swept away a Dominican Republic village, taking the death toll from Tropical Storm Noel's downpours on the Caribbean country and neighboring Haiti above 90 on Wednesday. Local politicians and residents said the El Duey and Haina rivers swelled after days of rain and drowned at least 25 people, left 50 to 100 missing and made dozens of families homeless in Villa Altagracia, about 26 miles outside the capital, Santo Domingo.Survivors said most of the 200 houses were swept away. There were a lot of dead, said Luis Melo.Dominican lawmaker Marino Mendoza said he had seen between 25 and 30 bodies strewn on the banks of the rivers.

Dominican President Leonel Fernandez declared a national emergency. The country's official toll rose to 56 deaths with 27 missing, as rescue teams reached villages cut off by raging rivers and inundated by chest-high floods. Unofficial reports put the dead much higher.A least 25,540 people were homeless and 6,300 homes had been destroyed, said Luis Luna Paulino, head of the Dominican Republic's emergency operations. He appealed to boat owners to help rescue people trapped in cut-off villages.Several bridges had collapsed, mudslides blocked roads and at least 39 communities were cut off by floods, he said.Noel strengthened a little over water after emerging off Cuba's northern shore, but was not expected to become a hurricane as it headed for the Bahamas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Forecasters projected the 14th named storm of the 2007 Atlantic storm season would veer northeast over the Bahamas on Thursday, away from Florida and well clear of U.S. oil and gas installations in the Gulf of Mexico.But a storm watch was issued for parts of the southeast Florida coast as the storm's interaction with a high pressure zone over the eastern United States kicked up a fierce surf and brought strong winds and whipping rains to the peninsula.

CUBA DOUSED

Thousands of people were evacuated from vulnerable areas but no casualties were reported in Cuba, which boasts one of the most effective civil protection operations in the region.The storm dumped 6 inches of rain in just six hours over Baracoa in Cuba, causing floods and cutting off roads at the already waterlogged eastern tip of the island.We are getting a constant downpour and strong gusts of wind. The sea is very rough, said Hector Rodriguez, a hotel worker in Cayo Coco, an island resort on the north coast of central Cuba.In Haiti, the most vulnerable of Caribbean countries to flash floods and mudslides because most of its trees have been chopped down to make charcoal, at least 24 people died, said national Civil Protection Office Director Alta Jean-Baptiste.About 3,400 people were staying in emergency shelters and around 400 houses had been destroyed.In Jamaica, one person died when a house collapsed in the heavy rain, the disaster preparedness agency said.The storm's center was located about 160 miles south-southwest of Nassau in the Bahamas, and 230 miles (370 km) south-southeast of Miami at 8 p.m. (0000 GMT Thursday), the hurricane center said. Noel was expected to continue drifting slowly northward for the next 24 hours, the hurricane center said. Its top sustained winds increased to near 60 mph (95 km per hour), some way short of the 74 mph (119 kph) at which tropical storms become hurricanes. (Additional reporting by Joseph Guyler Delva in Port-au-Prince and Anthony Boadle in Havana)

Tens of thousands flee Mexico flooding By LISA J. ADAMS, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 31, 8:55 PM ET

MEXICO CITY - A week of heavy rains unleashed massive flooding Wednesday in southeastern Mexico, where tens of thousands fled the rising waters for shelters in Tabasco and Chiapas states. At least 20,000 people had sought shelter in Tabasco's oil-rich capital of Villahermosa, where floodwaters reached the rooftoops of homes, and Gov. Andres Granier was urging residents to evacuate.If they do not leave, I'm going to order them out by force, Granier told reporters in an interview broadcast on the Televisa television network.The flooding, which is not related to Tropical Storm Noel, also apparently caused the soil supporting a 10-inch natural gas pipeline to give way and spring a leak, officials from the state-owned company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said. Tabasco state officials said the pipeline had exploded, but that there were no deaths or injuries.Water also crept up around the huge stone heads of an Olmec Indian archaeological site in Tabasco.

President Felipe Calderon flew to the area Wednesday and offered all help humanly possible to the more than 300,000 people of the state whose homes were flooded, damaged or cut off.In the southern state of Chiapas, 7,000 people were evacuated due to floods, the daily newspaper El Universal reported.In Villahermosa, rooftops barely jutted above the surface of brackish waters flooding the city's streets after at least one major river overflowed its banks.
Tabasco (normally) has water on 34 percent of its territory, but I can tell you that now, it's more than 70 percent water, Granier said Tuesday, according to a transcript of his comments posted on the state government's Web site. In 48 hours, our state has been devastated, totally devastated.The site did not indicate how many people had been evacuated. Telephones at Tabasco state offices rang busy all day Wednesday.Heavy rains started swelling rivers on Sunday.Associated Press Writer Mark Stevenson contributed to this report.

Israel says Hezbollah can hit Tel Aviv By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 31, 8:16 PM ET

UNITED NATIONS - Israel alleges that Hezbollah militants in Lebanon have rearmed with new long-range rockets capable of hitting Tel Aviv and tripled their arsenal of land-to-sea missiles since last summer's war, the United Nations secretary-general said in a report Wednesday. Ban Ki-Moon said the reports of Hezbollah's rearming are a cause of great concern for the stability of Lebanon.
Israel has stated that the nature and number of weapons in Hezbollah's control constitutes a strategic threat to its security and the safety of its citizens, he said.Israel claims Hezbollah's long-range rocket force is stationed in areas north of the Litani River and that most of the new rockets, including hundreds of Zilzal and Fajr generation rockets, have a range of 155 miles, enabling them to reach Tel Aviv and points further south, the report said.

Israel also claims that Hezbollah has tripled its shore-to-sea C-802 missiles and have established an air defense unit armed with ground-to-air missiles, Ban said.While Israel has not provided the United Nations with specific intelligence due to the sensitivity of the sources, Ban said several speeches by Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah in the past few months seem to confirm these Israeli claims.Senior Hezbollah officials have said Nasrallah's comments were made to serve as a deterrent to aggression rather than as threats to Israel, Ban said.Reports of rearming are a cause of great concern which pose serious challenges for the sovereignty, stability and independence of Lebanon, he added.
Ban said Israel's contention that Hezbollah has rearmed to a level higher than before last year's war — and that arms continue to be smuggled across the Lebanon-Syria border despite Syrian denials — raise serious concerns about implementation of the U.N. resolution that ended the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah.Under the Security Council resolution, weapons transfers to the Iranian- and Syrian-backed militants are banned. Ban warned during a visit to Lebanon in March that arms smuggling threatened the Aug. 14, 2006 cease-fire. The resolution calls for the disarming of all militias.

Ban said there has been no progress the disarmament of Hezbollah and other militias, although he sees this as essential to fully restoring government authority throughout the country. The current political crisis in Lebanon has hindered efforts to implement the resolution.Ban has said the Chebaa Farms, captured by Israel during the 1967 war, remains a key issue in implementing the 2006 resolution. The United Nations determined that the area is Syrian. But Lebanon claims Chebaa Farms — a claim backed by Syria — and Hezbollah continues to fight over the disputed land, arguing that Israel's occupation justifies its resistance.The report for the first time publishes the provisional definition of the Chebaa Farms area, which was prepared by a senior U.N. cartographer.Ban said he is encouraged by the Lebanese government's first strides to enhance the control of its borders. He again urged Syria to demarcate its border with Lebanon and establish formal diplomatic relations with its neighbor.He criticized Israel for failing to provide Lebanon with the exact location, quantity and type of cluster munitions utilized during last summer's conflict which has led to an increasing number of deaths and injuries of Lebanese civilians.Israel's continued violations of Lebanese airspace not only constitute repeated violations of Security Council resolutions but also undermine the credibility of the U.N. ... and damage efforts to reduce tension, build confidence and stabilize the situation in southern Lebanon, Ban said.

Israel, Palestinians hold new talks ahead of Mideast meet Wed Oct 31, 3:51 PM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qorei held talks in Jerusalem late Wednesday ahead of the planned Middle East meeting in the United States. Saeb Erakat, a member of the negotiating team, told AFP the two sides met for more than two hours and could reconvene in the coming days, but that work had not started on drawing up a joint document.So far we haven't started to draw up the document. The Palestinian side has asked that we start putting down on paper the ideas that will allow the joint document to be written down, he said.The Palestinian and Israeli teams are trying to draft a joint document outlining the parameters for an agreement to be discussed at the meeting.Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on Tuesday for a six-month deadline for a final status deal with Israel following the international peace meeting due later this year.The joint document must... set an adequate timeframe to complete negotiations on a final resolution after the next meeting, Abbas told journalists.

We have proposed a maximum timeframe of six months. Until now, we haven't reached an agreement with the Israelis or the Americans on this timeframe but we feel it is sufficient, he said.Six months is enough time to discuss and agree on the problems of the final phase, he said, adding that we will not accept leaving these questions open forever.Both sides hope to have the document ready before the convening of the meeting aimed at reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and expected to take place in Annapolis, Maryland.Israel refuses to commit to a timeframe for a peace deal, demanding that the Palestinians first crack down on militants.
Qorei has said the two sides have not yet touched on issues relating to the final status (agreement) of the Palestinian territories, including borders, the political status of Jerusalem, and the fate of refugees.

Hamas setting stage for West Bank seizure - Leader vows U.S.-backed Fatah will fall in a matter of weeks at most November 1, 2007 -1:00 a.m. Eastern - By Aaron Klein -2007 WorldNetDaily.com

[breaking] WorldNetDaily Exclusive While Israeli leader expected to give away strategic territory WND Hamas is setting the stage for a takeover of the West Bank similar to the coup in which the terror group seized control of the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli and Palestinian security officials. Hamas leaders confirmed to WND they are planning a West Bank takeover. Fatah will fall in a matter of weeks at most, and the Islamic resistance (Hamas) will reign in the West Bank just as we do in Gaza, said Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' so-called resistance department. The West Bank borders Jerusalem and is within rocket range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, slated to arrive here next week for her second visit this month, has been serving as mediator for an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian summit later this month. At the meeting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is widely expected to outline a Palestinian state in most of the West Bank, ultimately handing the strategic territory to security forces associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah militias.

But Israeli security officials are warning Abbas' forces are not strong enough to contend with controlling the West Bank without the aid of the Israel Defense Forces. Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet Security Services, estimated during a Knesset meeting earlier his week that if control of the West Bank were handed over to Abbas, Israel would suffer a significant threat to its security.Palestinian security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, admitted to WND they cannot control the West Bank without Israeli intervention. According to the officials, Fatah's intelligence apparatus routinely hands the IDF lists of Hamas militants that threaten Fatah rule, requesting that Israel make arrests. Israeli and Palestinian security officials told WND they have specific information Hamas is quietly setting the stages for an imminent West Bank takeover attempt. The officials said that among other things, Hamas has been acquiring weaponry in the West Bank and has set up a sophisticated system of communication between cells for a seizure attempt. In what is considered the most threatening Hamas move, according to the officials, the terror group is thought to have heavily infiltrated all major Fatah forces in the West Bank and has been attempting to buy off Fatah militia members, many times successfully. According to Palestinian sources, Hamas has, among other things, recruited important members of Fatah's declared military wing, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The terror group particularly has targeted those who were against a deal this past summer in which Olmert extended amnesty to Brigades members as a gesture to Abbas.

The Brigades, along with the Islamic Jihad terror group, has taken responsibility for every suicide bombing in Israel the past three years along with thousands of shootings and rocket firings against Jewish civilian population centers. According to the Palestinian sources, a West Bank shooting against a Jewish vehicle last week carried out by the Brigades was planned by Hamas. The shooting, in which a man was seriously wounded at a major junction near the Jewish community of Ariel, was perpetrated by a Brigades cell calling itself the Army of al-Boraq, named after the Muslim prophet Muhammad's horse. The cell used weapons given by Hamas, the sources said. The issue of Hamas infiltration of Fatah was thought to have been the Achilles heel that led to the terror group's takeover last summer of the entire Gaza Strip, including dozens of major, U.S.-backed Fatah security compounds there. Hamas' seizure is thought to be a partial consequence of Israel evacuating Gaza in 2005. Hamas' infiltration of Fatah was so extensive, according to top Palestinian intelligence sources speaking to WND, it included the chiefs of several prominent Fatah security forces, including Yussef Issa, director of the Preventative Security Services, the main Fatah police force. Issa regularly coordinated security with the U.S. and Israel. WND first reported Hamas' infiltration of Fatah in April, quoting a high-ranking Palestinian intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stating Fatah is extensively infiltrated by Hamas.

A senior Abbas aide, Nabil Amr, admitted Fatah security forces are in a state of infiltration by Hamas. Hamas' Abu Abdullah told WND Fatah in the West Bank is heavily infiltrated by Hamas. Fatah hasn't yet touched the extent of our infiltration [of their groups] in the West Bank.Muhammad Abdel-El, spokesman for the Hamas-allied Popular Resistance Committees terror group, told WND his group and Hamas have infiltrated very deep in Fatah. We already are planning to obtain American weapons and take over the West Bank like we did in Gaza with help from the Palestinian resistance, including elements in Fatah, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Fatah Security Services. The Committees and Hamas has infiltrated very deep in Fatah, Abdel-El said. Top Hamas leaders vowed to stage soon a coup in the West Bank. Earlier this week, Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas leader, stated Hamas will soon control Abbas' office in the West Bank. In the autumn, Hamas supporters will be praying in the Muqata compound in Ramallah (the site of Abbas' presidential office), he said. We are now praying at the presidential compound in Gaza, just as we said we would. Abbas' regime will fall like a leaf come autumn.

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.

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER Law of the Sea Treaty sails ahead Senate panel overwhelmingly passes measure empowering U.N.October 31, 2007 11:09 p.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

The United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of the 70 percent of the planet under its oceans, is now headed to the full Senate for ratification. The measure passed the Senate Foreign Relations committee today by a 17-4 vote. If you want a U.N. on steroids, you want the Law of the Sea Treaty, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., has said. I am absolutely convinced it undermines U.S. sovereignty. A two-thirds vote is required for approval, meaning only 34 no votes can kill it. This is not the first time LOST has come up. International negotiators drafted it in 1982 in an attempt to establish a comprehensive legal regime for international management of the seas and their resources. President Ronald Reagan, however, refused to sign LOST because he realized that the treaty doesn't serve U.S. interests. In 1994, however, President Clinton signed a revised version of the treaty and forwarded it to the Senate. The record shows the Senate was not convinced the 1994 changes corrected the problems, and it has deferred action on the treaty ever since.

The Heritage Foundation warns the treaty would have unintended consequences for U.S. interests – including a threat to sovereignty. The conservative think tank says bureaucracies established by multilateral treaties often lack the transparency and accountability necessary to ensure that they are untainted by corruption, mismanagement or inappropriate claims of authority. The LOST bureaucracy is called the International Seabed Authority Secretariat, which has a strong incentive to enhance its own authority at the expense of state sovereignty.For example, this treaty would impose taxes on U.S. companies engaged in extracting resources from the ocean floor, wrote Heritage fellows Baker Spring and Brett D. Schaefer. This would give the treaty's secretariat an independent revenue stream that would remove a key check on its authority. After all, once a bureaucracy has its own source of funding, it needs answer only to itself.The United States should be wary of joining sweeping multilateral treaties negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations, say Spring and Schaefer of Heritage. Specifically, the benefit to U.S. national interests should be indisputable and clearly outweigh the predictable negative consequences of ratification.Other critics fear the treaty will be used as a back-door to implement policies against global warming without any accountability to the American people. Parts of the treaty, they say, mandate international regulation of U.S. economic and industrial activities on land. With that in mind, critics of the treaty believe so-called greenhouse gases could be viewed as ocean pollutants. In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing recently, Bush administration officials were repeatedly embarrassed by tough questioning from Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who also has led opposition to ratification. For instance, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte testified the U.N. body established by the treaty has no jurisdiction over marine pollution disputes involving land-based sources.Why is there a section entitled pollution from land-based sources? questioned Vitter.

Vitter also questioned who decides what is considered military activity under the treaty. We will decide that. We consider that within our sovereign prerogative, said Negroponte. Where does the treaty say that we decide that and an arbitral body does not decide that? questioned Vitter. Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England answered: My understanding – and I'll ask my lawyer behind me – that that's in the treaty that we make that determination and that's not subject to review by anyone else.It's not in the treaty because I point to Article 298 1b where it simply says disputes concerning military activities are not subject to dispute resolution, explained Vitter. But it doesn't say who decides what is and what is not a military activity.England conceded the point.
We say it is up to us, but nobody else in the world says it is up to us, Vitter said. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said the United States had special military and commercial interests as the globe's only superpower, interests that the treaty did not take into account. He said many of the concerns over loss of national sovereignty that surfaced in the recent debate over immigration reform were surfacing once again in the Law of the Sea debate. This is not a good time to be bringing something like this before the American people, he said.

The battle over the Law of the Sea Treaty first began 25 years ago, eventually being torpedoed by President Reagan. It resurfaced in 2004 under the sponsorship of Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and was defeated by then Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
Then a short time ago President Bush announced his intention to seek reintroduction of LOST for ratification to a small group of trusted Republican grass-roots organizers – an announcement that was met with horror and scorn. Eagle Forum leader Phyllis Schlafly, Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney, Leadership Institute President Morton Blackwell, Free Congress Foundation founder Paul Weyrich and leaders of the Heritage Foundation were quick to denounce the idea in forceful terms, calling on their members to begin lobbying the White House immediately. LOST has long had the support of environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council. It would establish rules governing the uses of the of the world's oceans – treating waters more than 200 nautical miles off coasts as the purview of a new international U.N. bureaucracy, the International Seabed Authority The ISA would have the authority to set production controls for ocean mining, drilling and fishing, regulate ocean exploration, issue permits and settle disputes in its own new court.Companies seeking to mine or fish would be required to apply for a permit, paying a royalty fee. Critics also point out the new U.N. agency would have the right to compete directly with private companies in those profit-making activities. The U.S. would have only one vote of 140 – and no veto power as it has on the U.N. Security Council. The Bush administration claims the initiative for reintroduction of the treaty comes from the military, which likes the 12-mile territorial limits it places on national claims to waters. Yet, critics point out international law already protects non-aggressive passage, including non-wartime activities of military ships.

One of the main authors of LOST not only admired Karl Marx but was an ardent advocate of the Marxist-oriented New International Economic Order. Elisabeth Mann Borgese, a socialist who ran the World Federalists of Canada, played a critical role in crafting and promoting LOST, as WND reported in 2005. Borgese was hailed by her U.N. supporters as the Mother of the Oceans or First Lady of the Oceans. She died in 2002. In an article co-authored with an international lawyer, Borgese noted how LOST stipulates that the oceans shall be reserved for peaceful purposes and that any threat or use of force, inconsistent with the United Nations Charter, is prohibited.She argued LOST prohibits the ability of nuclear submarines from the U.S. and other nations to rove freely through the world's oceans.

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.(TRADE 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).

Will secret clubs pick next prez? CFR, Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission insiders usually run for, win White House, shows new book - November 1, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com - WASHINGTON – It started in 1952.

Nearly every person elected as president of the United States since then – and nearly every opponent – has belonged to a secretive, globalism-oriented organization known as the Council on Foreign Relations. Some presidents and their challengers have belonged to additional clubs of internationalists – the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission. Running mates, too, more often than not have had ties to the groups. That the groups exert enormous influence on public policy is indisputable. What is disputed is whether such groups are, as adherents and members argue, just discussion forums for movers and shakers, or, as critics have long alleged, secret societies shaping a new world order from behind the scenes. On that last point at least, no one could challenge the critics: All these groups operate in considerable secrecy, away from the scrutiny of the American public. Regardless of how one characterizes them, the fact that virtually all presidents belong to the same secret clubs prompts the author of a new book to wonder if the 2008 election will also be a contest between globalist insiders. Judging from the list of frontrunners of each party, Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, may be on to something.

According to a variety of sources, the following presidential candidates are either members of one of the groups or have strong ties: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Fred Thompson, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson. Mike Huckabee, though not a member, spoke to the CFR in September. Since then, his political star has risen to the point that he has become a top-tier candidate. So often throughout recent history it has been the case. Ever since Democrat Adlai Stevenson challenged Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, the odds have significantly favored those with membership in the elite groups. In 1960, both John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon were members. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson was not a member. Neither was his opponent, Barry Goldwater. But Johnson had already staffed his administration with plenty of insiders. In 1968, it was Nixon versus club member Hubert H. Humphrey. In 1972, it was Nixon again against Democratic Party CFR member George McGovern. In 1976, it was CFR Republican Gerald Ford losing to CFR Democrat Jimmy Carter.

In 1980, Ronald Reagan was not a member, but his running mate, George H.W. Bush, was. So were both of his opponents – Carter and independent John Anderson. Assuming office, however, Reagan quickly named 313 CFR members to his team. In 1984, another CFR member, Walter Mondale, was nominated by the Democratic Party to challenge Reagan. In 1988, CFR member Bush took on CFR member Michael Dukakis. In 1992, Bush was challenged by an obscure governor from Arkansas, Bill Clinton, who won the trifecta by being a member of the CFR, Trlateral Commission and Bilderberg Group. He was also a Rhodes scholar – another favored credential of the worldwide elite. In 1996, Clinton was challenged by CFR member Bob Dole. In 2000, CFR member Al Gore ran against non-member George W. Bush, but his running mate, Dick Cheney, was. In 2004, Bush was challenged by CFR member John Kerry. David Rockefeller, whose family financed the CFR, is a common denominator among these parallel groups, writes Estulin. Not only is he the CFR chairman emeritus, but he also continues to provide financial and personal support to the TC, CFR and Bilderberg Group.
What is the agenda behind these groups, which Estulin says are comprised of self-interested elitists protecting their wealth and the investments of multinational banks and corporations in the growing world economy at the expense of developing nations and Third World countries?

The policies they develop, he writes, benefit them as well as move us towards a one-world government.Those questioning Estulin's conclusion as mere speculation need only recall organizational financer David Rockefeller's own words as recorded in his Memoirs. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will, he wrote. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.With regard to insider roles in recent U.S. presidential races, two of the most interesting were 1976 and 1992. In the spring of 1972, a high-profile group of men gathered for dinner with W. Averell Harriman, the grand old man of the Democratic Party, a Bilderberger and a member of the CFR, writes Estulin. Also present were Milton Katz, a CFR member and director of international studies at Harvard, Robert Bowie, who would later become deputy director of the CIA, George Franklin, David Rockefeller's coordinator for the Trilateral Commission, and Gerald Smith, U.S. ambassador-at-large for non-proliferation matters. The focus of their discussion was the not-too-distant 1976 presidential elections. Harriman suggested that if the Democrats wanted to recapture the White House, we had better get off our high horses and look at some of those southern governors. Several names cropped up. Among them were Ruben Askew, governor of Florida, and Terry Sanford, former governor of North Carolina and, at the time, president of Duke University.Katz reportedly informed David Rockefeller of the viability of Jimmy Carter, then governor of Georgia. According to the author, he could be sold politically to the American people. At a dinner in London, recorded by the London Times, Rockefeller got acquainted with Carter and became convinced he could become the next U.S. president. Carter was invited to join the Trilateral Commission and quickly accepted. Later, U.S. News and World Report would have this to say about the Carter administration: The Trilateralists have taken charge of foreign policy-making in the Carter administration, and already the immense power they wield is sparking some controversy. Active or former members of the Trilateral Commission now head every key agency involved in mapping U.S. strategy for dealing with the rest of the world.

In 1992, Estulin concludes Bill Clinton was similarly anointed for the presidency at the 1991 Bilderberg Conference in Baden-Baden. Following the meeting, Clinton immediately took a trip to Russia to meet with Soviet Interior Minister Vadim Balatin, then serving Mikhail Gorbachev. Later, when Boris Yeltsin won the presidential election, Bakatin became the new chief of the KGB. The meeting went unnoticed in most of the press, with the exception of the Arkansas Democrat, whose headline told the story: Clinton has powerful buddy in U.S.S.R – New head of KGB.Estulin's book, first written in 2005 in Spain, has been translated into 24 languages, most recently this English edition. He has covered the Bilderberg Group as a journalist for more than 15 years.