TREATY SIGNING TODAY

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.

Earthquake of 4,1 points hit Kuriles, no casualties reported 12.12.2007, 08.26

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, December 12 (Itar-Tass) - Two earthquakes measuring 4.7 and 3.4 points on the Richter scale were registered near the Simushir Island of the Kuriles chain on Tuesday. According to a duty officer of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry’s main department for the Sakhalin region, the earth tremors occurred with an interval of 10 minutes. The first earthquake was registered 186 kilometres northeast of Simushir at a depth of 80- kilometres. Ten minutes later the second tremor with a magnitude of 3.4 points occurred 200 kilometres to the northeast. The earthquakes were not felt in the region’s territory and no casualties, destruction or tsunami threat have been reported. Since a powerful earthquake that occurred here on November 15, 2006, a total of 868 aftershocks have been registered in the Simushir area.

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.

Storm damage cost rises to $138 million
December 12, 2007 08:45am

THE violent hailstorms that hit Sydney and the Central Coast on Sunday have so far led to 24,000 claims worth an estimated $138 million.The estimate is a dramatic increase on the 8000 claims, estimated at $65 million, lodged up to yesterday.Insurance Council of Australia chief executive Kerrie Kellyber says insurers are working around the clock to ensure claims are attended to as quickly as possible.Motor vehicles account for 61 per cent of all claims received to date and property accounts for 39 per cent of all claims, Ms Kellyber said.The Insurance Council encourages all policyholders to contact their insurers as a matter of priority in order to have their claims registered and assessed by their insurer quickly.Another Sydney suburb was last night added to the natural disaster zone declared after Sunday's violent storms that hit the city's west and north-west with hailstones up to the size of cricket balls.

NSW Emergency Services Minister Nathan Rees says a recovery committee will hold its first on-the-ground meeting in the city's battered west today.Mr Rees said Penrith had been added to the Blacktown, Baulkham Hills and Hornsby council areas already covered by the natural disaster declaration.This declaration provides a range of assistance for residents, business owners and councils whose properties were damaged in the storms, he said.The minister said the Western Sydney Recovery Co-ordination Committee was established to co-ordinate the clean-up operation.Acting Assisting Police Commissioner Bob Redfern will chair the committee and the Department of Premier and Cabinet's Regional Coordinator Robert Lennon will handle the recovery co-ordination.It will also include representatives of the State Emergency Service (SES), fire and ambulance authorities, affected councils, government departments, energy suppliers and Telstra.

The first official meeting will be in Blacktown today.

Mr Rees said the SES had received more than 3100 calls for assistance after the storms, and extra SES crews would arrive today to join 500 emergency workers who are in affected areas and surrounding districts.

Tropical Storm Olga Soaks Caribbean
By RAMON ALMANZAR – 16 hours ago

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tropical Storm Olga began to weaken slightly as it crossed the Dominican Republic and headed toward Haiti Wednesday, but heavy rains continued to drench the island shared by the two countries and forced the evacuation of low-lying areas.The rare December cyclone had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, and forecasters warned it could trigger dangerous floods by dumping as much as 10 inches of rain on the island.Olga struck nearly two weeks after the official end of the Atlantic hurricane season. It is only the 10th named storm to develop in the month of December since record keeping began in 1851, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.It's not completely unusual to have a storm form in December, said Daniel Brown, a hurricane specialist at the center, who noted that three named storms have formed after Nov. 30 since 2003.

At 1 a.m. EST, Olga was centered about 65 miles east-northeast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, and nearing the Haitian border, the hurricane center said.The storm threatened the southwestern areas of the Dominican Republic that were hardest hit by Tropical Storm Noel six weeks ago. At least 87 fatalities in the country were blamed on Noel, the deadliest storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season.Authorities evacuated 22 communities in eastern provinces to prepare for the storm.Every civil defense agency has been activated, emergency services spokesman Luis Luna Paulino said.In neighboring Haiti, the government earlier had warned people in coastal areas to prepare for evacuations and urged fishermen to remain in port, said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of the country's civil protection department.Olga was tracking westward at about 15 mph. Forecasters predicted it would gradually weaken into a tropical depression as its center crosses Haiti and continues across the Caribbean between Cuba and Jamaica.The storm passed Puerto Rico on Tuesday night, knocking out electrical service to 79,000 people and water to 144,000.A tropical storm warning was in effect for the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, meaning tropical storm conditions are expected there within 24 hours.Olga will be included in the tally for the 2007 hurricane season, bringing the number of named storms to 15, including six hurricanes. The next season begins June 1.

US Plains ice storm leaves 800,000 without power
Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:23am EST

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NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - More than 800,000 customers in the U.S. Central Plains remained without power Tuesday morning after ice storms Sunday and Monday damaged power lines, electric companies said.In Oklahoma, the hardest-hit state, OGE Energy Corp's (OGE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Oklahoma Gas & Electric unit said the storm was the worst in the company's history, leaving more than 285,000 customers without power.OG&E estimated it would take between seven and 10 days to restore power to all customers.American Electric Power Co Inc's (AEP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Public Service Co of Oklahoma reported 252,000 customers without service.Both utilities said they were pulling in repair crews to help with the restoration.The weekend storm entered Oklahoma early Sunday, bringing freezing rain that caused significant ice accumulation on trees and overhead power lines. The weight of the ice pulled down tree branches and power lines, cutting power.

That system later moved across Kansas, Missouri and Illinois.

Other utilities with significant outages included Westar Energy Inc (WR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) with 59,000 in Kansas, Empire District Electric Co (EDE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) with about 58,000 in Kansas, Aquila Inc (ILA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) with about 54,000 in Missouri, Great Plains Energy Inc (GXP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) with about 27,000 in Missouri and Ameren Corp (AEE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) with 27,000 in Missouri and 17,000 in Illinois. (Reporting by Scott DiSavino, editing by Matthew Lewis)

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.(TR 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).

Merkel Lauds EU Reform Treaty as Historic Success DEC 12,07

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Europe's leader will sign the treaty at Lisbon's Jeronimos monastery on Thursday
Chancellor Merkel praised the EU reform treaty she was largely responsible for keeping on track. She will attend the document's signing. But amid calls for a referendum, another EU leader's absence will be conspicuous.Set to be signed by the leaders of the bloc's 27 member states on Thursday, Dec. 13, Merkel said on Wednesday that the EU's reform treaty would bring about breakthrough for Europe.I really am not inclined to exaggerated euphoria -- but I think we can declare that this day marks a historic success, a success for Europe, she said in an address to the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament. It will perhaps be seen later as a decisive milestone for a greater ability to act in Europe.She added that the agreement, to be called the Lisbon Treaty, lays the groundwork for a new European Union in the 21st century.Merkel said she hoped the treaty would be ratified by May 2008. European politicians are pushing for the text, which requires unanimous approval before going into effect, to be in place before European Parliament elections in 2009.

Referendum riddles

The pair of constitutional no votes threw the EU into year-long period of near inaction.British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be a notable absentee at the signing ceremony in Lisbon. He's said that a scheduling conflict will keep him from attending the morning ceremony, but he added he would sign the document later in the day. The nonattendance has led to domestic accusations of a semi-detached attitude to Europe.The reform treaty is the successor to the union's proposed constitution, which was rejected by voters in France and the Netherlands in 2005. Many governments, including the French and Dutch, have said there will be no need for national referendums to ratify the reform treaty.The treaty does not transfer sovereignty to the EU ... and there is no judicial reason to resort to a referendum, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday.In order to avoid a British referendum, London was granted key policy opt-outs, thereby securing its cherished red lines on foreign policy, labor rights, the common law and the tax and social security systems.Only Ireland is constitutionally bound to put the issue to a vote, something which Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said he would like to see take place next May or June.

Constitutional similarities

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been floated as a potential EU foreign policy leader.The new reform text will implement many of the changes suggested by the failed constitution, including the creation of a foreign policy chief and more permanent presidency to replace the current six-month rotating presidency system.The treaty also calls for cuts to the size of the European Parliament, freezes the number of seats on the EU Commission and institutes a double majority voting system that reduces the types of decision single nations can veto. Attached to the new treaty is an EU charter of fundamental rights which enshrines the rights of dignity, freedoms, equality, solidarity, citizens' rights and justice, although Britain and Poland are opting out of making that binding.At the charter's signing Wednesday at the European Parliament, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates signed the document amid noisy protests from right and left-wing parliamentarians calling for national referenda on the reform treaty.DW staff (sms)

Europe News
PREVIEW: Party time in Lisbon as EU leaders sign long-awaited treaty Dec 12, 2007, 2:08 GMT

Brussels/Lisbon - The 27 leaders of the European Union gather in Lisbon on Thursday to sign their long-awaited Reform Treaty, which as from that day will formally come to be known as the Lisbon Treaty. Prime ministers and heads of state will assemble in the morning in the city's Jeronimos Monastery, where they will be entertained by the melodious music of Dulce Pontes, one of Portugal's most renowned singer. After signing the document, they will toast with a glass of port wine and board the city's traditional 'eletrico' trams, which will take them to a festive lunch at the National Coach Museum. The party caps a gruelling year of intense discussions among prime ministers and heads of state. And rarely were such discussions more fraught with difficulty than when they addressed the shake-up of their now 50-year-old union. The Reform Treaty seeks to simplify and speed up the decision- making process of an organization that, since its foundation in 1957, has expanded to accommodate 27 countries and nearly 500 million people.

The treaty, which had to be renegotiated after French and Dutch voters rejected its previous 'constitutional' version in referenda held in 2005, also seeks to give the EU more clout on the international stage. All of the bloc's leaders are planning to attend the ceremony, though not all of them took part in the full negotiating process. German Chancellor Angela Merkel certainly played a starring role in getting the treaty talks back on track in June and will be expected to receive plenty of pats on the back in Lisbon. France's energetic new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, will also expect to be thanked, as he claims that the so-called 'mini-treaty' was his idea. And the host of the occasion, Portugal's silver-haired Prime Minister Jose Socrates - nicknamed the George Clooney of Europe - is also likely to receive applause for steering negotiations to a successful conclusion in October.

Even Gordon Brown, appointed British premier only in June, managed to squeeze the ceremony into his busy parliamentary agenda, despite negotiating extensive opt-out clauses on behalf of his euro-sceptic electorate.

Some countries face a bit of an embarrassment, however.

Latvia, for instance, does not have a government and will have to send its president, Valdis Zatlers, instead. And Belgium, which has been without a government since June, will be represented by outgoing premier Guy Verhofstadt. One premier who will certainly revel in the Lisbon party is Donald Tusk. The new Polish premier ousted the combative Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose nationalistic posturing threatened to torpedo the final text, just days after a deal was reached. And Tusk now says his country plans to be one of the first to ratify the treaty. Though the ceremony will bring together some of the planet's most important leaders, security does not appear to be a major concern in Lisbon. According to local daily Correio da Manha, there will be fewer law enforcing agents than the 3,000 who protected a recent EU-Africa summit in the same city. And there are no plans to bring in additional forces from other districts. Even close-by restaurants have not yet been asked to remain shut for the day.

Ministers are set to arrive at the Jeronimos Monastery at 1015 local time and be welcomed by the suave Socrates and his equally well-groomed foreign minister, Luis Amado. The signing process will start about one hour later and will be accompanied by speeches from the EU's Portuguese Commission chief, Jose Manuel Barroso, Socrates and the president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pottering The monastery is one of Lisbon's most prominent monuments and a powerful symbol of Portugal's might during the Age of Discovery. King Manuel I launched its construction in 1502 on the site of a hermitage where explorer Vasco da Gama had prayed on his last night before setting off on a world-changing sea voyage to India. Classified as a World Heritage Site by Unesco, the monastery once served as a house of prayer for seamen and contains the tombs of da Gama, King Manuel, and other prominent figures of Portuguese history. After lunch, the leaders will either head home or fly to Brussels, where a traditional end-of-year summit awaits them on the next day. Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

EU at crossroads as it marks 50th anniversary
www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-12 10:30:18

BEIJING, Dec. 12 -- The European Union (EU) celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. Through half a century's volatilities, it has enlarged to 27 countries, and expanded gradually from Western Europe to Central and Eastern Europe. Today's EU has a total population of 480 million, and a combined GNP exceeding 10 trillion euros ($14.7 trillion). The EU has traveled a path that has never been smooth sailing. Today, it is at a new crossroads.

It needs to set out a blueprint that is both realistic and forward-looking to get out of the stalemate and regain vigor and vitality.
At the 50th anniversary celebrations, leaders of the 27 EU members issued the joint Berlin Declaration, promising to break the constitutional deadlock by 2009 and be united in our aim of placing the EU on a renewed common basis. At the summit held in June, leaders of the EU member countries endorsed the roadmap proposed by Germany after lengthy negotiations and reached agreement on the draft of a new treaty to replace the European Constitution. The draft kept such important measures in the European Constitution as improving the EU's decision-making mechanism and strengthening foreign policy coordination. The qualified majority voting rules will be used in the Council of the European Union, which means new legislation will have to be passed if it gets a 55 percent vote of all member countries and a 65 percent majority of EU citizens.

To coordinate EU external relations, the posts of European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will be merged into a High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. To reform the organizational structure, the new treaty has abolished the existing system of rotating the presidency and has appointed a permanent president. However, the new treaty has dropped state-like features such as the EU flag and anthem, and the name European Constitution will not be used anymore. The EU was able to overcome this crisis mainly because it decided to move with the times. The world's forces are now undergoing profound changes. With China, India and other major developing countries rising, the focus of the world is gradually shifting toward Asia. Based on energy advantages, Russia's reinvigoration is also gaining momentum. The EU has realized that only when it becomes stronger and more effective and seeks strength through unity, can its members better uphold their own interests in a world that is becoming increasingly multi-polarized.

First names floated for Sarkozy's EU 'reflection' group
12.12.2007 - 09:29 CET | By Lucia Kubosova

The first names for who should head a 'reflection group' on the EU's future have started to be floated, with the ex-president of Latvia tipped as the hottest candidate.The new group is expected to be given the green light at an EU leaders summit on Friday (14 December).It is the brainchild of French president Nicolas Sarkozy who made the setting up of such a group a condition for Paris letting Turkey proceed with its EU accession negotiations.Mr Sarkozy had wanted the group to focus on a number of contentious issues, including the final borders of Europe.But the mandate of the reflection group has been severely watered down so that it will not touch upon the future borders of Europe and further enlargement or institutional and budgetary issues. We have first decided what we definitely do not want the group to discuss, so the remaining scope has ended up as quite weak, one EU diplomat commented.

Some member states wanted to make sure that the reflection group would not send a negative message to countries that want to join the EU, while others, such as the UK, did not want the group to create the impression that the bloc is planning to push for more political integration or re-open debate on its institutional set-up.The reflection group is expected to set out its ideas on the EU's challenges for 2020 to 2030 in mid 2010.This timetable is so that it will not interfere with the French EU presidency in the second half of 2008, which is due to reflect on the future reform of the bloc's budget.According to French daily Le Monde, following a specific request by the French government, Portugal, the current EU presidency, is planning to hold a debate during Friday's summit in order to get agreement on who should chair the wise group.

So far, four names have been floated among diplomats – former Latvian president Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Jorna Ollila, chairman of Nokia, Felippe Gonzales, the former Spanish prime minister and Pat Cox, ex-president of the European Parliament.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (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.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: 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 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; 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 JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) 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 with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) 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.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Cautiously positive assessment of NATO from FIIA
Institute of International Affairs avoids taking direct stand on membership

A report by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) takes a cautiously positive assessment of the NATO alliance.avoids taking a direct stand on whether or not Finland should join NATO. FIIA, which currently works under the Finnish Parliament, says that the report gives a real-time and comprehensive picture of NATO.Helsingin Sanomat has learned that the report notes that Finland and all other countries will have to make decisions on NATO on the basis of incomplete information, because NATO is in a constant state of change.NATO's position as a military alliance of collective defence will nevertheless remain unchanged, FIIA reports. The common European defence is to be organised in the future through NATO alone, alongside national decisions. Not even the countries that are members of both the EU and NATO have proposed organising defence through the European Union, because the EU would not be able to implement security guarantees in reality.

The report repeats the common view that NATO's more recent activities in crisis management will be tested in Afghanistan, which the alliance cannot afford to leave. Finland currently has about 100 soldiers in the NATO-led ISAF forces in Afghanistan.
Joining NATO would not cause permanent damage to Finland's relations with Russia, the report finds, even though membership would probably affect defence planning in the northwest of Russia.
The FIIA researchers deduce that Finland's relationship with NATO will change regardless of whether or not Finland joins the alliance.FIIA drew up its NATO report at the same time that the Ministry for Foreign Affairs was drafting a report of its own. The two projects appear to be unrelated.The Foreign Ministry is scheduled to release its report after it has been presented to the foreign policy committee of the President and the government later this month.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

From correspondents in Brussels
December 13, 2007 03:21am

NATO expressed deep regret overnight that Russia had suspended a key Soviet-era arms pact, but underlined that the military alliance would not take any retaliatory action.NATO allies deeply regret that the Russian Federation has proceeded with its intention to unilaterally 'suspend' implementation of CFE Treaty obligations as of 12 December 2007, it said. Russia's foreign ministry announced that participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty was suspended from midnight in Moscow (8am AEST Wednesday).Signed in 1990 and modified in 1999, the CFE places precise limits on the stationing of troops and heavy weapons from the Atlantic coast to Russia's Ural mountains - a mammoth agreement that helped resolve the Cold War standoff.

NATO said the 26 member nations expressed willingness to resolve differences with Russia over the treaty and said that they planned to continue, for the moment, to abide by it.They have therefore chosen not to respond in kind at this stage to the Russian Federation's political decision to 'suspend' its legal obligations and NATO allies will continue to meet theirs, without prejudice to any future action they might take, NATO said. Russia attributes its freeze to the failure of NATO members to ratify a revised 1999 version of the treaty but Moscow has also been riled by US plans to deploy an anti-missile shield in two former Soviet satellite states. NATO countries have said they will only ratify the CFE treaty once Moscow lives up to a pledge made in 1999 to pull its troops out of former Soviet republics Georgia and Moldova.However NATO said it continued to place the highest value on the treaty in its entirety and underlined that the nations see it as a cornerstone of Euro-Atlantic security. The alliance insisted that it wanted to continue talks with Russia to resolve the outstanding issues. The allies urged Russia to respond to these efforts, including by implementing existing obligations in full, and not to take further steps that would undermine the future of the CFE regime.NATO officials have said that the CFE treaty has no mechanism for suspension, only a method for parties to withdraw from the pact altogether. We note that the Russian Federation's suspension is a unilateral measure not provided for under the terms of the CFE Treaty, NATO said after a meeting with Russian ambassadors in Brussels. This step does not contribute to the long-term viability of the CFE Treaty and we urge the Russian Federation to rescind its decision.NATO allies will carefully monitor the Russian Federation's compliance with its treaty obligations, it said, adding that an opportunity to do so would arise this week during an annual exchange of information on the treaty.