IRAN BRAGS 3000 CENTRIFUGES

A MESSAGE OF HOPE FROM DR. JACK VAN IMPE NOV 7,07

The next event on God's prophetic clock is the Rapture, a word that is derived from the Latin word rapturo, meaning, a snatching away. The Rapture is that dramatic moment when the Lord Jesus Christ comes in clouds of glory to remove from this world all who have died in Christ along with the living from the Day of Pentecost until Christ comes to snatch His children upward and home in the twinkling of an eye. I Thessalonians 4:16-18 teaches: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.This event will occur at breakneck speed - in the twinkling of an eye. Scientists have measured the twinkling in a human being's eye, and it amounts to eleven-one hundredths of a second. Those left on the earth will not know what hit them. A business colleague will suddenly be gone. A schoolteacher will no longer stand before his or her desk as the chalk falls to the floor. A doctor will not show up for his rounds. There will be no nurses at many hospitals to administer medicine, take pulses, or follow doctors' orders. Dirty dishes will be left in the sink as a housewife disappears from the view of her stunned family. The Rapture will precipitate the greatest traffic jams in history as cars suddenly become driverless and pedestrians run for cover. It will be that moment in history, when, without warning, the Lord says, Come up hither (Revelation 4:1). It will be the greatest escape in the history of the world.

There are those who say that the pretribulational viewpoint began in 1830 and was propagated by Edward Irving, J. N. Darby, and Margaret McDonald, a retarded girl. But as we shall see, that is not so.St. Victorinus, the bishop of Pettau, wrote a commentary on the book of Revelation in AD 270. he said he saw another great and wonderful sign: Seven angels having the last seven plagues, for in them is completed the indignation of God. And these shall be in the last time when the church shall have gone out of the midst. St. Victorinus was talking about the Rapture.Here is more powerful documentation on a pretrib Rapture. The early Christian writer and poet Ephraem the Syrian (who lived from AD 306 to 373) was a major theologian of the early Byzantine Eastern Church. To this day, his hymns and homilies are used in the liturgy of the Greek Orthodox and Middle Eastern Nestorian Churches. He also wrote a large number of commentaries that have never been translated in English. Concerning a pretrib Rapture he stated: All the saints and Elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins.

Thus, this teaching is not a present-day innovation but a doctrinal statement dating back seventeen centuries to St. Victorinus, and twenty centuries back to Jesus and Paul. However, there is more. In the sixteenth century there were also those who expressed absolute assurance of the Rapture. Hugh Latimer, burned at the stake for his faith in 1555, said, "It may come in my days, old as I am, or in my children's days, the saints shall be taken up to meet Christ in the air and so shall come down with him again." Joseph Mede, the great sixteenth-century literalist, understood I Thessalonians 4:13-18 to teach the catching up of the saints and even used the word Rapture. This was also 250 years before Irving, Darby, and McDonald.While the Rapture is not taught in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, you will find it mentioned twice in the Gospel of John. This is important to remember: Any other time you read about Christ's return in the Gospels, it is not referring to the Rapture. Instead, these are references to the second phase of Christ's return, when He physically comes back to earth to rule over the earth after a seven-year tribulation period.

Where are the two Rapture texts found in the Gospel of John? John 14:1-3: Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. This is not His coming to the earth, but a time when Jesus receives us unto Himself at the great Rapture - the snatching away - to be with Him in heaven as the seven years of torment play out their unbridled fury on the earth.The second reference to the Rapture is in John 11:25-26. I must confess that I quoted the passage for years and did not really understand it. Christ said: I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? Jesus is contrasting those who experience death and live again (the dead in Christ shall rise first I Thessalonians 4:16) with those who never experience death (because we which are alive and remain are caught up without dying, I Thessalonians 4:17).

In the upcoming weeks, we will direct our attention to those events that are leading up to the Rapture, the Rapture itself, and what happens once God's chosen are caught away to be with the Lord. The Rapture is not science fiction. It's a coming reality. The good news for the person who is prepared is - when the Rapture comes, believers will go home to be with the Lord and evade earth's horrendous seven years of Tribulation. The believer in the Lord Jesus Christ will, at long last, be the recipient of that blessed hope. There will be no more tears, no more suffering, and no more dying for those who have received their new, glorified bodies without sin or sickness for all eternity. It is from this perspective - the pretribulation point of view - that I approach this subject with godly reverence.

THE CARMEL ALERT
By David and Josie Silver

Israel is facing the most decisive 2 months of its modern history. If the proposed November peace summit comes to pass and the anti Israel plans of Bush & Rice are initiated, the country as we know it will be destroyed and the return of Yeshua to an undivided Jewish Jerusalem will be seriously delayed. As believers we are called to hasten the day of His return ( 2 Pet 3:12 ) by praying for the full restoration of Israel. Therefore until the November summit is cancelled or fails, I will be focusing on this issue in the Carmel Alert. Please follow these articles carefully and please pray fervently for the total cancellation / failure of the Bush / Rice initiative. - David

David's Comment: Why We Need to Pray for Cancellation of the Annapolis Summit
2 Peter 3:11-12 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat ? (NKJ)

Just in case any of our readers are not sure whether we should be praying to stop the planned Peace Summit in Annapolis, lets look at the issues involved.First of all we all want peace in the Middle East and everywhere else in the world. That is especially true for the Jewish people living in Israel. Having said that, we need to be very careful not to seek peace at the expense of God's plans and purposes. Ever since the Hippie revolution of the late 1960's peace has become a mantra, at least in the Western nations. Many of the people who ride the peace train, have very little, or no understanding of the reality of the circumstances behind the many conflicts that continue to cause violence, war and terrorism, causing so much pain, death and destruction all around the world.

When dealing with the likes of Islamic fundamentalists, intent on Israel's total destruction, peace can not be negotiated, but peace must be won and held by military force. The Israeli army is called the IDF - the Israel Defence Force, not the IAF - Israel Attack Force. It used to be that Israel's leaders were prepared to stand and defend the right of the Jewish people to live in the land that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob gave to Abraham in an everlasting blood sealed covenant. That does not seem to be true today. Since the return of the Sinai peninsular in 1975 Israel's leaders seemed to have lost the Zionistic spirit and are ready to give away God's land at the drop of a hat for the promise of peace.The latest and most tragic example was the Gaza withdrawal in 2005. The promised peace lasted for a very brief time, then the terrorists began to use the land that was handed over to launch daily barrages of rockets at Israeli towns. When dealing with the so called Palestinians, land for peace is nothing more than a one-sided Jewish dream.

Here are the reasons why I believe we need to pray the stop or bring about the failure of the Annapolis summit ....

1/ It is land that God promised to Abraham as an everlasting possession
2/ It is not any human beings land to give away - it is God's land
3/ The promised of peace is an empty one - the Muslims will just keep demanding more until there is no more Israel or make war to get their own way
4/ The return of the Messiah is absolutely dependant on the Jewish people living in Israel with Jerusalem as the undivided capital under full Jewish control
5/ True peace in the Middle East and elsewhere is only possible when the Prince of Peace returns to establish it
6/ We are commanded to pray for the peace of Jerusalem ( Psalm 122 ) and to give the Lord no rest until HE makes Jerusalem a praise in all of the Earth (Isaiah 62:6 & 7)
7/ If the Israeli government submits to the demands of Bush & Rice, there will be a bloodbath of IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens, and many will die on the other side too. ( more on the bloodbath next week )

SO if you really want to see true peace on this planet, then it is IMPERATIVE & URGENT to pray for the cancellation or total failure of the Annapolis Summit.

Here are some verses we recommend to pray - Psalm 83:1 - 18, Psalm 2:1 - 12,
and please pray for Israel to turn back to God Psalm 81:13 & 14, Jeremiah 4:1

The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF. For those of you who want to have a better understanding of the history of the unceasing attack against Israel we want to recommend this excellent presentation Israel's War History http://www.israel-catalog.com/product.asp?Product=11385&kbid=1715

Also for so,me lighter but educating entertainment check out Israel Aerial Odyssey
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Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie

EU to Add Nine Countries to Passport-Free Travel Zone (Update1) By James G. Neuger

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Nine mostly eastern European countries will join the European Union's passport-free travel zone in December, in the bloc's latest step to overcome the continent's divisions.
Car, train and boat passengers between the eastern countries and most of western Europe will no longer need to show passports as of Dec. 21, the EU said today. Passport checks on air passengers will cease when the summer flight schedule takes effect in March.

Praising tremendous efforts by the eastern countries, the EU said the member states concerned have on the whole shown that they are sufficiently prepared. EU interior ministers will finalize the decision at a Nov. 8 meeting in Brussels. The move expands the freedom to travel for 75 million citizens in eight former communist countries -- Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia -- and the Mediterranean island of Malta, which all joined the EU in 2004.
Eastern governments have spent millions of euros upgrading controls on frontiers with non-EU countries, answering western concerns that illegal immigrants and criminals would slip through porous borders. Thirteen other EU states plus non-EU members Norway and Iceland take part in the no-passport program. Cyprus, which also joined the EU in 2004, and non-member Switzerland are slated to be added in 2008. Travelers will still need to show passports when entering and leaving Britain, Ireland, Bulgaria and Romania. To contact the reporter on this story: James G. Neuger in Brussels at jneuger@bloomberg.net

THIS STORY IS IMPORTANT FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT REASONS SINCE THE EU CONTROLS ALL THE WORLD AND ALSO 13 MAIN COUNTRIES OF THE EU MUST HEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT TILL THE DICTATOR COMES ON THE SCENE AND BOOTS OUT 3 COUNTRIES TO END UP AT 10 MAIN EU COUNTRIES.

EU should create part membership option, says Juncker
07.11.2007 - 09:24 CET | By Honor Mahony

Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested that EU member states should have the possibility to become just part members of the bloc.Speaking in Berlin on Tuesday (6 November), the veteran politician noted that without being fully conscious of the move, Britain is already moving towards this status.It must be possible not only to be a full member, said Mr Juncker, according to Austrian news agency APA.Without noticing it, the British are on their way to becoming part members, he noted, with London not taking part in the single European currency or the EU's borderless zone, the Schengen area, and lately having opted out of key areas in the new EU treaty, such as police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

Mr Juncker, who also heads the 13-nation eurozone, said that he believed the EU should develop a core of EU countries. Other countries who do not want to fully take part in all policies should be able to circle around this core and should be able to integrate to a greater or lesser extent in various areas.In his opinion, the EU is heading towards a crash if it does not develop in this way.This is not the first time that EU politicians have spoken about a core centre of countries that push ahead with integration leaving others to decide whether they want to join at a later date.The main idea has taken various names include two-speed Europe, multi-speed Europe, Europe à la carte, a Europe of variable geometry, a concentric Europe and a core Europe.However, in the past, ad hoc suggestions for greater co-operation among some countries have given rise to strong criticism with some member states fearing it will mean a directoire run by big states such as France and Germany, or that it would eventually lead to the break up of the EU.The new EU reform treaty, supposed to come into force by early 2009, contains the means for pro-integration states to move ahead however, so long as there is a minimum of nine states involved.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

European Union Compliance: Intelleflex Announces EU-Compliant RFID Product Availability 11/6/2007

Intelleflex Corporation, the leader in Extended Capability RFID, recently announced the upcoming availability of its line of battery-assisted RFID products for the European Union. In an effort to continue expanding Intelleflex worldwide, the availability of its RFID tags, readers and antennas positions Intelleflex at the forefront of the European market, where there is an increasing demand for RFID technology. Intelleflex's battery-assisted passive RFID technology extends the limited range of ordinary passive tags to 50 meters, providing extremely reliable reads in challenging real-world environments such as metal, liquids and outdoor locations. The extended on-tag memory provides 60Kb rewriteable storage for data such as asset ID, status and history or e-manifest, enabling real-time access to information. The product line will be optimized to operate in the 865-868 MHz frequency range used in Europe, RoHS and CE compliant, and will undergo TUV emissions certification.

We are excited to continue our expansion into new markets, and Europe is the perfect next step as it continues to flourish with large-scale RFID implementations moving from pilot testing to roll-out, said Steve Smith, SVP of Worldwide Sales for Intelleflex. We already have active customer interest in our Extended Capability solution from the Czech Republic, United Kingdom and Germany.
Partnering with Intelleflex, we can now offer extended capability RFID tracking solutions to the European market, said John Corry, Director of IntrfID Limited. Intelleflex’s product line fills a void in the market where standard passive RFID falls short, but the cost of active RFID is too high. Intelleflex’s battery-assisted RFID tags are rugged, compact products designed for a wide variety of applications. The tags provide exceptionally high read/write accuracy and long range operation. Intelleflex’s multi-protocol RFID readers can interoperate with a wide variety of RFID tags, and can read EPC-compliant passive tags, as well as next-generation battery-assisted Class 3 tags. The general purpose antennas are optimized for Intelleflex's RFID system and compliment the outstanding performance and range offered by their readers and tags. Intelleflex’s line of battery-assisted products will be available for preview at RFID Journal Live! Europe this week in Amsterdam. For additional information on its products, please visit http://www.intelleflex.com/Products.asp.

About Intelleflex Corporation

Intelleflex is the leader in Extended Capability RFID solutions, products and technologies. Our Intelligent RFID Platform, comprising high performance multi-protocol tags and readers, enables solutions for asset tracking, vehicle / yard management, manufacturing WIP control, supply chain automation, parts maintenance, access control and other applications. It features range, reliability, memory capacity and security far beyond standard passive RFID, and at a fraction of the cost of active.
For more information on Intelleflex Corporation and solutions, please visit www.intelleflex.com.

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.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

Stocks pull back as dollar stumbles By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer NOV 7,07

NEW YORK - Stocks fell sharply and bonds jumped Wednesday after the dollar sank further amid speculation that China will seek to diversify some of its foreign currency stockpiles beyond the greenback. The Dow Jones industrial average at times fell more than 150 points. Unease about the dollar dogged stock markets worldwide and in the U.S. comes a day after stocks continued their recent zigzagging to finish with sizable gains.The 13-nation euro hit a fresh record against the dollar — rising to $1.4729 — before falling back. The dollar fell not only against the euro but in Asia following a report that a senior Chinese political figure said China should diversify its $1.43-trillion foreign exchange reserves into the euro and other strong currencies.The euro's rally put it well above the $1.4554 the currency bought late Tuesday in New York. The previous record high, also set Tuesday, was $1.4571.The swooning dollar for a time sent oil above $98 per barrel and also pushed gold higher.In midmorning trading, the Dow fell 155.58, or 1.14 percent, to 13,505.36. On Tuesday, the Dow gained about 117 points as some investors looked to snap up bargains despite overhanging concerns about the banking industry's exposure to bad debt.Broader stock indicators also pulled back Wednesday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 19.41, or 1.28 percent, to 1,500.86, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 33.47, or 1.18 percent, to 2,791.71.

Government bonds jumped as the dollar sank. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite the price, fell to 4.35 percent from 4.37 percent late Tuesday.Light, sweet crude rose 89 cents to $97.59 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Investors awaited a weekly goverment read on domestic inventories due Wednesday morning.

December gold surged $16.10 to $839.50 an ounce on the Nymex.

Economic data arriving Wednesday appeared to offer some upbeat news, although investors remained concerned about the faltering dollar and rising prices for oil and gold. The Labor Department reported that worker productivity surged at an annual rate of 4.9 percent in the summer, the fastest pace in four years, while wage pressures eased.Figures on U.S. wholesale inventories showed a greater-than-expected increase in September but that demand also held up.Some corporate news didn't offer Wall Street much reason for cheering. General Motors Corp. reported a $39 billion loss for the third quarter due to an accounting shift. The company warned late Tuesday it would book a $38.6 billion noncash charge largely related to establishing a valuation allowance. A valuation allowance is taken when the future benefit of the deferred tax assets is less likely to be realized.GM's loss came to $68.85 per share, compared with a loss of $147 million, or 26 cents per share, in the third quarter a year earlier. The stock fell $1.32, or 3.7 percent, to $34.84.In other corporate news, media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. posted a 53 percent decline in its third-quarter earnings from a year earlier when results benefited from tax and investment gains. Results from the parent of HBO, Warner Bros., Time Warner Cable and Time magazine were in line with estimates of analysts polled by Thomson Financial. The stock rose 10 cents to $18.43. Foster Wheeler Ltd. rose $11.21, or 8.3 percent, to $146.52 after the provider of engineering and construction services said growth abroad helped boost quarterly profits 70 percent.Fluor Corp., an engineering-services company, posted third-quarter profits and revenue that fell short of Wall Street's expectations amid an absence of lucrative goverment contracts that boosted results a year earlier. The stock fell $5.63, or 3.7 percent, to $148.19.Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 5 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 360.2 million shares. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 13.40, or 1.67 percent, to 788.37. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average closed down 0.94 percent. In afternoon trading, Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.92 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.06 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 0.53 percent. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

Oil prices stall in climb toward $100 By JOHN WILEN, AP Business Writer NOV 7,07

NEW YORK - Oil prices stalled in their climb toward $100 a barrel Wednesday after a government report said oil inventories fell less than expected last week while refinery utilization remained flat.
Light, sweet crude for December delivery rose 19 cents to $96.89 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, but alternated between gains and losses. Before the report's release, prices rose as high as $98.62, a new record.December gasoline futures rose 0.35 cents to $2.4385 a gallon on the Nymex, but December heating oil futures fell 0.1 cent to $2.6068 a gallon. December natural gas futures fell 17.3 cents to $7.69 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, December Brent crude rose $1.36 to $94.62 a barrel, supported by severe weather in the North Sea, which has shut down several oil platforms.At the pump, meanwhile, the national average price of a gallon of gas rose 1.9 cents overnight to $3.043, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Prices are up nearly 29 cents since mid-October and are 85 cents higher than a year ago.

The EIA reported Wednesday that crude supplies fell by 800,000 barrels during the week ended Nov. 2, half the 1.6 million barrel decline analysts surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires, on average, had expected. A larger than expected drop would most certainly have propelled oil past $100 a barrel for the first time.Supplies at the much-watched Nymex delivery terminal in Cushing, Okla., fell by 1.7 million barrels last week.Refinery utilization remained flat at 86.2 percent of capacity. Analysts had expected an increase of 0.8 percentage point.Gasoline inventories fell by 800,000 barrels last week, countering analyst expectations for an increase of 200,000 barrels. Inventories of distillates, which include heating oil and diesel fuel, rose by 100,000 barrels last week. Analysts had expected a decline of 500,000 barrels.Imports of crude oil rose by an average of 275,000 barrels a day last week to 9.7 million barrels a day. Gasoline imports rose by 107,000 barrels last week to an average of 1.1 million barrels a day. Demand for gasoline rose slightly last week, by about 12,000 barrels, the EIA said. Over the last four weeks, demand is up about 0.8 percent over the same period last year.

LUKE 21:25
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations.

China plans to launch space station Wed Nov 7, 5:47 AM ET

BEIJING - China said its lunar probe had entered its final orbit around the moon Wednesday, but an official backed away from reports of launching a space station by 2020. The probe — called Chang'e 1 after a mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon — made final adjustments at the end of a two-week journey and entered its final working orbit of 125 miles from the moon Wednesday where it will explore its surface for the next year.
The first photo of the moon should be sent back later this month, officials said. By early next year the probe will have measured the whole surface of the moon at least once, officials said.
China attaches great prestige to its ambitious space program, seeing it as a way to validate its claims to being one of the world's leading scientific nations. The country has sent astronauts into space twice in the past four years and launched its moon probe about a month after rival Japan. In 2003, China became only the third country in the world after the United States and Russia to send a human into orbit.

But officials denied state media reports Wednesday that China was planning a space station by 2020.So far, according to the plans already published, there are no plans for a space station, Li Guoping, spokesman of the China National Space Administration, said at a news conference.The China Daily newspaper, said China's planned space station would be a small-scale, 20-ton space workshop, quoting Long Lehao, a leading designer of the Long March 3A rocket that carried the Chang'e 1 into space.Chinese space officials have said previously they wanted to build a space station in the next 10 or 15 years, but the target date of 2020 was the first time a schedule has been made public, Long told China Daily.The report did not say how many people the station would be able to hold. But its weight is about one-tenth that of the International Space Station, which currently has six people on board.The probe's launch raised the prospect of a space rivalry between China and Japan, with India possibly joining in if it carries through on a plan to send its own lunar probe into space in April.But Chinese officials have played down talk of a space race, saying Beijing wanted to use its program to work with other countries.Li said China was willing to participate in the International Space station, joining the 16 countries involved.
China has not participated in the project in part because of U.S. unease about allowing a communist dictatorship a place aboard.

Hope grows for Mideast peace By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Writer Tue Nov 6, 7:36 PM ET

LISBON, Portugal - Israel's foreign minister said Tuesday that an upcoming peace conference in the United States offers a crucial opportunity for progress, amid growing optimism that this time — just maybe — momentum for peace is real and sustainable. But despite the signs of hope, a slew of obstacles remain: Syria may not come to the Annapolis, Md., meeting, Saudi Arabia has yet to endorse the emerging peace framework, and the Israeli, Palestinian and U.S. leaderships all find themselves in weakened political states.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Tuesday that the Annapolis conference would be during the last week of November, and that the Americans would issue the invitations in the coming days. Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia said the conference would convene on Nov. 26, citing a date for the first time.

And in Portugal, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni voiced unflinching support for the U.S.-backed road map for peace, which she called the only agreed plan in town — in the world.She praised the Palestinians for making the right steps on the ground, an apparent reference to security measures taken by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.Livni's comments came at the end of an EU-Mideast summit in the Portuguese capital, part of an intensified diplomatic push by Washington and the European Union to lay the groundwork for the Annapolis meeting.Livni said the U.S. peace talks — which are expected to bring together Israel, the Palestinians and other Middle Eastern powers — offered an important opportunity, but were just one more step on a long road.
We believe in the need to take this opportunity to find common ground with Palestinian leaders, she said. Annapolis is part of a process. ... No less important is the day after Annapolis.Livni said the Arab world must support the moderate Palestinians.We expect them to support the process, to support any compromise the Palestinians need to take in order to achieve peace with Israel, and not to dictate the outcome, she said.

That peace is even a possibility is nothing short of remarkable.

Olmert, who is battling corruption allegations and the fallout from Israel's less-than-successful summer 2006 war in Lebanon, has seen his popularity plummet; Abbas has been weakened by the Islamic hardline group Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip; and President Bush is in the twilight of an unpopular presidency.

Great things are seldom achieved by governments in such positions.

But optimists say the leaders' woes could actually be a boon to the process, with all three hoping to remake their legacies by bringing concrete results where those before them failed.With just a few weeks to go before the conference, much is left to be ironed out.Syria, which is among the countries likely to be invited, said it would attend only if discussions included the return of the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed. The position has been rejected by Israel, even though a peace deal involving a return of the Golan was close in the 1990s.Saudi Arabia, a crucial powerbroker, has been reluctant to endorse the meeting until there are clear signs that major issues will be addressed seriously there.

And then there is the reality on the ground.

On Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak expressed doubts about peace efforts while the Hamas militant group controls the Gaza Strip. Hamas — which has never retracted calls for Israel's destruction — overran the territory in June, routing troops loyal to Abbas. Barak said Israel could not begin implementing a peace agreement until Abbas disarmed Hamas in Gaza, a demand that could hamper peace efforts because Abbas has little control over Gaza.
Barak has been saying for weeks that it was only a matter of time before Israel launched a large-scale military incursion in Gaza, but on Tuesday said he did not want to jeopardize the Mideast conference, saying Israel had no plans to invade in the near future to halt rocket attacks out of the area on southern Israel.
Israel and the Palestinians are yet to agree on a written set of principles outlining a future peace agreement ahead of the conference, and negotiators say they have made little progress. The Palestinians want the document to address core issues in the conflict: future borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state, the status of disputed Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees and their descendants.

Israel wants a much vaguer document.

But Olmert has said he is prepared to discuss these issues after the conference — and he sounded determined to make progress in a speech this week in which he said that there is no reason to suffer the same foot-dragging which previously characterized our discussions.At the Lisbon gathering, European officials at the Lisbon gathering said that after years of false starts, they sensed things were different this time around. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said there was a new hope, a new optimism about the prospects for peace, while Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado said the talks in Lisbon revealed an enormous convergence of positions between the Israelis and Palestinians about how the negotiations are proceeding. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European Union's commissioner for external relations, told the closed-door meeting that she hoped the world was on the brink of making progress toward settling this terrible, long-standing conflict, according to a transcript of her remarks. She acknowledged that there was a long way to go before peace could be achieved, but added hopefully that an Asian proverb teaches that: A journey of one thousand miles begins with the first step. Associated Press writer Barry Hatton in Lisbon and Laurie Copans in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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).

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

Israel may become full OECD member within two years Sun Nov 4, 10:18 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel could become a full member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in less than two years, the OECD secretary general said Sunday. The membership process is under way. Things are going well and Israel could become a full member in under two years time, Angel Gurria told AFP.He was speaking at the end of a visit to Israel, where he attended Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's export and international cooperation conference in Tel Aviv last week.Israel already has observer status and takes full part in a series of working groups and OECD committees, the secretary general said.Gurria said discussions on full Israeli membership were taking place in good conditions but declined to specify on which points the two parties have yet to agree.

The OECD invited Israel, along with Chile, Estonia, Russia and Slovenia, to begin negotiations on membership in May.It has 30 member countries, including most of the developed world, and tries to coordinate economic policies among industrialised countries.
When founded in 1961, OECD membership represented 75 percent of global wealth. Today it accounts for 60 percent and efforts are being made to enlarge membership to incorporate rapidly growing economic powers.

Livni Chides Nations Who Link Progress with Conflict

(IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has chided European countries for linking economic cooperation with solution of the conflict with the Palestinian Authority (PA). Speaking on Tuesday to the European Union Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Meeting of Foreign Affairs in Lisbon, she said not enough significant results have been achieved since Israel became a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership 12 years ago.We have not found full fledged partners to projects [because] unfortunately there are those who link the regional progress to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and by so doing, prevent progress on the regional level, she added. The Foreign Minister explained that bilateral issues of environmental preservation and improving the quality of life should not be delayed because of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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)

Israeli warns Iran could have nukes soon Tue Nov 6, 8:43 AM ET

JERUSALEM - Iran could have nuclear weapons in two years if its nuclear ambitions are not curbed, a senior Israeli intelligence official said Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Yossi Baidatz, head of research for military intelligence, warned parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Iran was getting steadily closer to developing a weapon.If nothing stops Iran, the worst-case scenario is that by the end of 2009, Iran will have a nuclear weapon, a participant in the closed session quoted Baidatz as saying.Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful, but the U.S. and others are skeptical. The program has especially rattled Israel because Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for the Jewish state's destruction.Israel has mounted a diplomatic offensive to try to build international support for tougher U.N. sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran to abandon its nuclear program.

Israeli officials met with all permanent members of the U.N. Security Council last month to push for new sanctions. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a snap trip to Moscow followed by a trip to London and Paris. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni made the case to officials in China. Russia and China, both veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, are at the forefront of resistance to new sanctions on Iran.

Iran's Boast: We Have 3,000 Active Uranium-Enriching Centrifuges by Hillel Fendel NOV 7,07

(IsraelNN.com) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bragged that his country's nuclear program is irreversible, in a nationally-televised speech on Wednesday.Today, we've reached 3,000 centrifuges, he said - two months after announcing that his country had more than 3,000 centrifuges working... with more being installed every week. Maariv's NRG website reports that the latest reference is to full-time activation of the centrifuges
Israel's mini-cabinet convened Wednesday morning to discuss the upcoming report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and how to counter it. The IAEA report is expected to conclude that diplomatic activity is still the strategy of choice to fight Iran's nuclear plans. If the IAEA so concludes, the UN Security Council is expected to wait over four months before imposing further sanctions on Iran.The eight members of the Israeli ministerial forum are attempting to formulate a campaign to convince the UN not to accept IAEA chief Mohammed El-Baradei's approach.

Minister of Strategic Threats Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu/Israel Our Home) has said that Al-Baradei's approach arouses many question marks regarding his intentions and whether he truly desires to deal with Iran's race for nuclear armament. Foreign Ministry Director-General Aharon Abramovitch was more blunt: Instead of overseeing to ensure that Iran does not receive nuclear powers, he allows the Iranians to stall for time. Deep inside him, Al-Baradei identifies personally with the Iranians.
Lieberman says Israel has a variety of non-military options, such as using the internet, which is widely used in Iran, to appeal directly to the Iranian public to convince their leaders to stop before it is too late.Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Foreign Ministers from the European Union this week that tougher sanctions are necessary: The way to stop Iran is via stronger and more significant sanctions, seeing as we have not been able to stop them via diplomatic contacts.

Uranium Enrichment

Iran's centrifuges are used to enrich uranium, which can then, after further processing, provide material for nuclear bombs. The IAEA confirmed in August that Iran had 12 cascades of 164 centrifuges, for a total of 1,968, running simultaneously to enrich uranium, in addition to hundreds more under construction or being tested. They are located at an underground nuclear facility at Natanz in central Iran. Experts differ as to how close Iran actually is to full nuclear capabilities. Some Western experts say that 3,000 centrifuges operating at optimum conditions for a year could produce enough uranium for an atom bomb.

Western Sanctions

The U.S. has been pressuring other Western nations to impose a new round of sanctions against Iran. Ahmadinejad recently warned European countries not to do so. Just this week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel hinted that she would support tougher sanctions on Iran. Just days before she is to visit the U.S., Merkel told an audience in Berlin that she felt a moral duty to protect Israel and would stand firm in the face of Iran's nuclear ambitions and its threats to erase Israel.