CYCLONE KILLS 41

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.

15,000 homeless in Chile quake By FEDERICO QUILODRAN, Associated Press Writer NOV 15,07

TOCOPILLA, Chile - Strong aftershocks from a powerful earthquake hit northern Chile on Thursday as the government erected a working military hospital and promised hundreds of other portable dwellings for 15,000 left homeless by the quake. Government and army workers scrambled to distribute tons of food, water and medicine after the 7.7 magnitude quake struck near the desert village of Quillagua in the foothills of the Andes on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 150.Major aftershocks shook the region Thursday, including one of magnitude 6.2 and another of magnitude 6.8, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of further damage or injuries.

The earthquake destroyed or damaged 4,000 houses and the local hospital, blocking roads, crushing cars and knocking out power across northern Chile, officials said.This port city of 27,000 and the nearby mining town of Maria Elena were the hardest hit, and presidential spokesman Ricardo Lagos Weber said both would be declared disaster areas to expedite aid delivery.Four Cabinet ministers were in the area coordinating recovery and aid efforts. President Michelle Bachelet also flew there Thursday morning.
Housing Minister Patricia Poblete said many structures cannot be saved, and firefighters and other workers began demolishing the most severely damaged homes. Dr. Cristian Castillo told The Associated Press 80 percent of our hospital is useless.Two women were killed in Tocopilla, 25 miles from the epicenter, when their houses collapsed, authorities said. Hospital director Juan Urrutia said at least 117 people were treated there for injuries or panic.

In tiny Quillagua, with a population of around 100, one person suffered minor injuries and 15 houses were damaged.Electricity was restored in large areas of Tocopilla. Army trucks were distributing water to residents as supply was still cut off in most of the city.In Maria Elena, 1,200 homes were damaged — or 70 percent of the city's total, authorities said. Residents were still without running water and electricity late Wednesday.Lagos Weber said about 170 people were taken to hospitals across the region, but that many of the injuries were not serious. About 10 road workers who had been trapped near Tocopilla when a section of a tunnel they were repairing collapsed were all rescued in good condition Thursday.Hundreds of residents slept in cars or tents in front of their houses. Schools were being used as shelters for those left homeless by the quake.But officials said many are refusing to go to shelters, fearing their homes will be looted if left unattended.We slept in the car, because we have to care for whatever the quake didn't destroy, resident Luis Porcel told the AP.Chile's largest copper mines are in the quake area, and production was halted as electric power was cut for several hours Wednesday before being restored. The nation is the world's largest copper producer.At a badly damaged restaurant Wednesday night, a dozen men drank beer by candlelight.What else can I do? I lost everything. So I'll just have a few drinks, said Samuel Araya, a 57-year-old miner in this town of 7,000 people.

Blanca Pizarro said she took refuge under her kitchen table when the quake struck and seconds later the roof collapsed on the table. I'm alive by a miracle, she said. The quake struck around midday Wednesday 780 miles north of the capital, Santiago, and was followed by several aftershocks, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was so strong it shook Santiago and was felt on the other side of the continent in Sao Paulo, Brazil — 1,400 miles to the east. It was incredible. I thought my last day had come when I saw the mountain shaking under a large cloud of dust, said Maria Ines Palete, a resident of Quillagua. The quake occurred in one of the most seismically active regions in the world, where the Nazca tectonic plate is shoving itself beneath the South American plate.
A 1939 quake in Chile killed 28,000 people and in 1960, a magnitude-9.5 quake — the strongest recorded in the 20th century — killed 5,700 people. On June 13, 2005, a magnitude-7.8 quake near Tarapaca in northern Chile killed 11 people and left thousands homeless.

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.

Most of U.S. to have above-normal Dec-Feb temps: Gov't NOV 15,07

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most of the United States, including the Northeast heating oil market except for Maine, will see above-normal temperatures from December through February, government forecasters predicted Thursday. In its 90-day outlook, the National Weather Service said there were equal chances of above-normal and below-normal temperatures in the West, in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and the northern half of Nevada and California.The agency projected below-normal precipitation in much of the southern half of the United States in a large area stretching from Virginia down through Georgia and across through Texas to California.Above-normal precipitation was forecast for the Pacific Northwest and for a large area from the Great Lakes down to northern Alabama and Mississippi from December through February.(Reporting by Tom Doggett; Editing by John Picinich)

DR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD 1
Strong winds will be looked like has never happened before. A great part shall be shaken and destroyed. Earthquakes will take place all over Asia and the sea will cover the earth.

Bangladesh cyclone kills 41 By SHEIKH DIDARUL ALAM, Associated Press Writer NOV 15,07

KHULNA, Bangladesh - A cyclone packing 150 mph winds slammed Bangladesh's southeast coast late Thursday, killing at least 41 people and forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes, officials said. Cyclone Sidr leveled numerous homes as it sent driving rains and high waves across the lowland coastal areas before weakening to a tropical storm by Friday morning, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.Local government officials across the region said that at least 41 people had been killed, mainly from collapsing homes and falling debris, and 650,000 people had been evacuated.Storm surges nearly 4 feet high inundated low-lying areas and some offshore islands in the 15 coastal districts in the cyclone's path. Communications with remote forest areas and offshore islands were temporarily lost.

Torrential rain late Thursday and early Friday flooded some streets in the capital, Dhaka, while strong winds sent billboards flying through the air.In the coastal districts of Barguna, Bagerhat, Barisal and Bhola, residents said the storm flattened thousands of flimsy straw and mud huts, flooded low-lying areas, destroyed crops and fish farms, uprooted trees, electric and telephone poles. Road, rail and river transport also suffered.

Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation, is prone to seasonal cyclones and floods that cause huge losses of life and property. The coastal area borders eastern India and is famous for the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, a world heritage site that is home to rare Royal Bengal Tigers.Thousands of coastal villagers moved to cyclone shelters — concrete buildings on raised pilings, or sought refuge inside mud forts — mud walls built along the coast to resist tidal surges. Schools, mosques and other public buildings were also turned into makeshift shelters.At least 650,000 people had so far moved into official shelters, where they were being given emergency rations, Ali Imam Majumder, a senior government official, told reporters in Dhaka.Authorities dispatched dry foods, medicines, tents and blankets to the affected areas, he said.Associated Press writers Sheikh Didarul Alam in Khulna and Akhter Faruk in Barisal contributed to this report.

EVIL INVENTIONS ARE PREDICTED IN THE BIBLE.

ROMANS 1:29-32
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

POSSIBLE ROBOT OR CLONE

DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

REVELATION 13:13-15
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

REVELATION 14:9-11
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Monkey clones unlikely to bring new care By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Thu Nov 15, 12:26 AM ET

NEW YORK - Gleaning stem cells from cloned monkey embryos, as a team of Oregon researchers has done, is an impressive step. But it probably won't lead to medical treatments any time soon. One hurdle is ethical and political. Human embryos have to be destroyed to produce stem cells. That has aroused opposition to human embryonic stem cell research, and it led the Bush administration to restrict federal funding for it. Scientists say that has slowed science in this effort.Another hurdle is the inefficiency of the process. Even if the method described by scientists Wednesday works in humans, it would demand too much of a precious resource — women's unfertilized eggs.The promise of producing stem cells by cloning is that they can be genetically matched to a particular patient. So theoretically, doctors should be able to transplant tissue created from them into that person without tissue rejection. And presumably, such transplants could help treat such conditions as diabetes and spinal cord injury.

The process used in the new experiment is quite inefficient, Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Portland told reporters Wednesday.He and his colleagues reported getting two batches of stem cells that required using about 150 monkey eggs apiece. That's far too many if one hopes to use human unfertilized eggs, which are cumbersome to obtain from women.If further work can get that down to maybe five to 10 eggs per stem cell batch, we will be closer to clinical applications, Mitalipov said.I am quite sure it will work in humans, he added.
But then there's another issue — showing that such stem cells really can be used to treat diseases safely. Mitalipov said he plans to do diabetes studies in monkeys.

For now, he and other scientists said, the new work is valuable for showing that stem cells can be produced through cloning in monkeys. It's been done in mice, but scientists had long been frustrated in their attempts in primates, where the research would be more relevant to humans.The new work was published online Wednesday by the scientific journal Nature. The success was reported earlier this year at a research meeting in Australia, where it received limited media coverage. The results were given new attention Tuesday by a London newspaper, The Independent.
Dr. George Daley of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, who was familiar with the work, told The Associated Press in an e-mail that it was a a very important demonstration that the process is feasible in primates.Mitalipov's team merged skin cells of a 9-year-old rhesus macaque male with unfertilized monkey eggs that had the DNA removed. The eggs, now operating with DNA from the skin cells, grew into early embryos in the laboratory. Stem cells were recovered from these embryos.

The researchers have applied for a patent on their procedure.

Mitalipov said separate experiments obtained monkey stem cells from a different process called parthenogenesis, in which an egg grows into an early embryo without any genetic contribution from a male. The stem cells were genetic matches to the females that produced the eggs, he said, and early experiments suggest stem cells derived this way may someday prove useful for treating disease in women.Nature took the unusual step of asking a separate group of scientists to verify Mitalipov's cloning results, and it published the verification along with Mitalipov's paper.In an e-mail, the journal cited the highly publicized 2004 fraud that came out of South Korea, where researchers led by Hwang woo-Suk claimed to have produced stem cells from a cloned human embryo.The journal said the research to verify Mitalipov's findings didn't signal mistrust, but noted that questions would likely be raised, and we view this as a relatively straightforward way of putting these questions to rest.The verification study, by David Cram and others at the Monash University in Australia, used DNA analysis of the male macaque, the two monkeys whose eggs were used to create embryos, and the stem cells. The result demonstrates beyond any doubt that the stem cells came from cloned embryos, the Australians wrote in their Nature paper. On the Net:
Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature

Palestinian leader refuses to be drawn on Jewish Israel NOV 15,07

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday refused to be drawn on a demand by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that Palestinians recognise the Jewish nature of Israel.
Historic Palestine will be divided into two states -- Israel and Palestine, he told reporters in the West Bank political capital of Ramallah.We do not discuss the character of one or the other. That's all I have to say on the matter, Abbas said at a joint news conference with visiting Ukraine President Victor Yushchenko.

On Wednesday during talks with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Olmert said that the starting point for negotiations with the Palestinians following the Annapolis meeting will be recognition of the state of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.Israel and the Palestinians are expected to enter into US-sponsored talks at Annapolis in Maryland before the end of November in a bid to kickstart the dormant Middle East peace process.The prime minister made it clear that from Israel's point-of-view. this issue is not subject to either negotiations or discussion, Olmert's office said.But Israel's demand has already been rejected by the Palestinians as unacceptable because it would mean them effectively renouncing the right of return for refugees ousted when the state of Israel was created in 1948.The fate of those refugees and their descendants -- estimated at 4.5 million people -- is a key issue in the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.Israel refuses to countenance talk of their return, saying this would threaten its very existence and make the country's six million Jews a minority.There are 1.3 million Arab-Israeli citizens, 20 percent of the population, who are descended from the 160,000 Palestinians who stayed when Israel was proclaimed 59 years ago.

Abbas wants Hamas ousted on road to peace with Israel by Nasser Abu Bakr NOV 15,07

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday urged the people of Gaza to oust his Islamist rivals who seized control of the territory in June, as he seeks a lasting peace with Israel. We must get rid of this clique that took control of the Gaza Strip by force and which is exploiting the suffering and tragedies of our people, he said in a televised speech from his Ramallah office to mark the 19th anniversary of the symbolic declaration of a Palestinian state.Hamas routed secular Fatah forces loyal to Abbas in mid-June after a week of deadly violence in Gaza, resulting in the fall of the Hamas-led unity government and a new Western-backed government being formed in the West Bank.The feuding has split the Palestinians into two separate entities, with Hamas ruling the roost in Gaza and Abbas's Palestinian Authority administering over parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Abbas denounced what he called criminal acts by lawless gangs in Gaza where they opened fire in cold blood on crowds commemorating the third anniversary of the death of the martyr Yasser Arafat.Eight people were killed in Gaza City on Monday when Hamas police shot at demonstrators after a mass rally to remember the late Palestinian leader who died in a Paris hospital on November 11, 2004.Abbas's comments were slammed by Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement).

Hamas is a pillar of the Palestinian people and not a clique that one can simply remove, it said in a statement.Abbas also used his speech to reach out to Israel ahead of a peace meeting in the United States expected later this month.I address the Israeli people and government directly and say that we are determined to agree a real peace with them in the interests of both our future generations, he said.The occupation brings security to nobody. Peace and good neighbourly relations based on equality and respect will bring an end to decades of war, suffering and the spilling of blood.He said the planned meeting in Annapolis, Maryland must mark a serious and decisive departure point to arrive at a just settlement that would guarantee the rights of our people, who aspire to liberty and independence.Our people are determined to create their own state which, with the grace of God, will one day see our territory with Jerusalem as its capital.The two sides have been struggling to thrash out an agreed joint document for the conference that would serve as the basis for future negotiations aimed at creating a Palestinian state.Palestinians want the document to address core issues -- borders, the fate of refugees, settlements, and the status of Jerusalem -- while Israel prefers a more general statement of shared principles.Abbas said colonisation of the West Bank by Jewish settlers must cease completely, the siege must be lifted, prisoners must be allowed home and the cycle of violence and assassinations must become a thing of the past.We are capable of building our state alongside Israel for it to become a haven of peace and stability.However at a joint news conference later with visiting Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko, Abbas refused to be drawn on a demand by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that Palestinians recognise the Jewish nature of Israel. Historic Palestine will be divided into two states -- Israel and Palestine, he said. We do not discuss the character of one or the other.

On Wednesday, Olmert presented this Jewish identity demand as a precondition for progress, with his office saying the issue is not subject to either negotiations or discussion.Meanwhile, a senior Israeli official signalled that Olmert would announce a freeze in West Bank settlement expansion as a goodwill gesture. And on Thursday, Israeli police said they had evicted a dozen settlers and right-wing militants from a wildcat settlement in the northern West Bank. The official said Abbas will also announce freedom for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, but only those who have not been involved in killing Israelis. Olmert is also likely to authorise the transport of goods out of the impoverished Gaza Strip to strengthen Gaza's economy in a way that will clearly give the credit to Abbas, the official said.