SATTELITE FALLING TO EARTH

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.

China battles winter weather chaos ahead of holiday By Chris Buckley Sun Jan 27, 4:37 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Sunday ordered urgent steps to fight transport chaos and threats to energy and food supplies caused by brutal winter weather that forecasters said will continue as the nation heads into a major holiday. The cold spell has lashed central, eastern and southern China in recent days, bringing heavy snow and sleet to provinces used to milder winters. Dozens of people have died, and many roads, railways and airports have been paralyzed.Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the chaotic weather was threatening lives and straining supplies of fresh food, coal, oil and electricity ahead of holidays marking the Lunar New Year, which starts on February 7.Urgently mobilize and work as one to wage this tough battle against disaster, Wen told officials, according to the transcript on the government Web site (www.gov.cn). Ensure that the people enjoy a joyful and auspicious Spring Festival.He and other senior officials announced steps aimed at softening the economic blow from the bad weather.

Provinces must share coal and electricity, officials would waive some transport charges for farm goods and they would keep a close eye on price hikes. Train services must also be able to cope with tens of millions of passengers heading home for the holidays, while more coal must be found for power plants.But the government's chief weather forecaster, Yang Guiming, said the harsh weather was likely to continue, the China News Service reported.There's no room for optimism about this abnormal rain and snow weather across the country over the next week, he said.And Wen warned that energy strains could also worsen as power plants' coal reserves run dangerously low.The tense situation for coal, electricity, oil and transport nationwide is continuing to develop and could intensify, Wen said. The most difficult phase has not passed.Ma Kai, the head of the National Development and Reform Commission, which steers industrial policy, ordered officials to create conditions for reopening small coal mines earlier shut down and reorganized for safety violations.

DEATHS, SHUTDOWNS AND CROWDS

The snow and ice have collapsed homes, snapped power lines and destroyed crops.In mountainous Guizhou province in the southwest, three people had been killed, 877 buildings had collapsed and there had been widespread blackouts, Xinhua news agency reported.In Hunan province in the south, accidents sparked by icy rains and cold had killed five people. In neighboring Hubei province, six died on Saturday night in a collision between a truck and a long-distance bus that might have been at least partly due to icy roads.Several regional airports were shut by the weather, including at Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province. State television also showed highways crowded with trucks paralyzed by the snow.The national forecasting authority said the freezing weather would continue to pummel provinces from west to east over the next week, with heavy snows possible in Shanghai and neighboring provinces -- powerhouses of business and manufacturing.On Sunday, Chinese television news showed railway stations choked with tens of thousands of delayed passengers. In Guangzhou in the far south, more than 100,000 people crammed the main railway station, many of them rural migrant workers eager to return home for the traditional Lunar New Year holiday. Police closed roads around the station and pulled passengers from the dangerous crush of people inside, the Guangzhou Daily reported. Safety is always the top priority, Premier Wen said earlier. The bad weather also threatens to stoke price rises that already had the government worried. Wen warned officials and businesses to keep prices in check as consumer demand rises for the Lunar New Year celebrations. (Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by David Fogarty)

3rd avalanche victim found in California JAN 27,08

LOS ANGELES - Winter storms continued to soak Southern California on Sunday and meteorologists warned that wetter weather was on its way. Up to 2 inches of rain fell overnight in valley and coastal areas and about double that in the mountains, National Weather Service specialist Stewart Seto said.The rain appeared not to have triggered any major mudslides, but Seto said thunderstorms were likely later in the day, bringing a threat of torrential rain, tornadoes and an increased likelihood of slides in areas denuded by last year's wildfires.Officials from Los Angeles County and Orange County fire departments were on standby for flash floods and slides but said Sunday there was little damage to report.

Flash flood watches remained in effect through Sunday night for Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties.The storm system also soaked parts of Northern California and the weather service posted winter storm warnings for parts of the Sierra Nevada.A series of fierce storms has caused deadly avalanches, flooded streets and set off mud and rock slides in recent days. Some areas have received more moisture in a week than during the entire rainy season last year.Three skiers were killed Friday by a trio of avalanches that swept through canyons outside the trails of Mountain High ski resort at Wrightwood, northeast of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Mountains.A fourth man escaped the avalanches. Snowboarder Oscar Gonzales Jr., 24, of Westminster, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that he got lost when he left marked ski trails at the resort. I made the wrong decision about going out of bounds, he said. I hit a rock.Gonzales said he was not hurt but walked at least 13 miles during the night to keep warm. He eventually found an old airplane fuselage and slept there until he was rescued Saturday by the crew of a sheriff's helicopter.Avalanches are unusual in the San Gabriel Mountains, but the peaks had been hit by 3 feet or more of new snow this past week, drawing thousands of skiers and snowboarders.

Bangladesh cyclone survivors struggle with cold, rain Sun Jan 27, 3:47 AM ET

DHAKA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people living in tents since a cyclone devastated the southern Bangladesh coast in November are now battling cold and rain, local officials and residents said on Sunday. No deaths had yet been reported from the cold snap, but the number of people lining up at health centers with ailments is rising in the worst-affected Bagerhat and Swarankhola districts, following four days of low temperatures and rain.The pain is no less now than what we went thorough in the aftermath of cyclone, said Delwar Munshi of Bagerhat over telephone.Most of us were living in the shelters made of polythene and plastic sheets, but that too have gone now with the rain and wind, he added.Cyclone Sidr, the worst in Bangladesh since 1991, struck on November 15 with winds of 250 kph (155 mph) and a five-meter sea surge, killing more than 3,300 people.Nearly half a million people are estimated to be living in temporary shelters such as tents made of polythene.

We don't really know where to go. Many of us are now living virtually under the open sky, said Ismail Hossain, a villager in Swarankhola.Officials said they were sending new polythene sheets to the affected areas.The storm in November also washed away around 1 million tons of rice, caused serious damage to Sundarbans, a World Heritage site and the home of Royal Bengal Tigers.The lowest temperature recorded so far is 12 degree Celsius but it may drop to seven degrees in the days ahead, an official said.(Reporting by Azad Majumder; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

Mozambique to forcibly evacuate 10,000 from floods
Sun Jan 27, 1:19 PMBy Charles Mangwiro

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique will forcibly evacuate 10,000 people who have defied calls to leave areas at risk of flooding, the government said on Sunday as an advancing tropical cyclone threatened to swell floodwaters.They want to look after their livestock and property, said Joao Ribeiro, deputy director of the National Institute for Disaster Management. Our mission is to remove everybody from any flooded area or those at risk.Floods in the southern African country have already cost at least 18 lives and destroyed homes, livestock and crops. The government says 92,000 people have been rescued. Mozambique said early this month that 200,000 were at risk.Authorities said on Sunday that the Fame storm system had intensified into a full-scale cyclone. Its centre was just off the coast and it was expected to hit flooded river valleys and bring heavy rains to the north and centre.The flooding has put pressure on aid agencies to provide shelter, sanitation and water. It has also heightened fears of cholera and malaria in the country of over 20 million where the average life expectancy at birth is little more than 40 years.Ribeiro told Reuters some families in the central Zambezia and Sofala provinces and in the northern Tete province had refused to abandon flooded homes.

The peak of the rainy season is just two weeks ahead and this is not the time to raise awareness. We will forcibly remove anyone in those areas we declared risky, Ribeiro told Reuters.Men risk their lives in order to save goats and chickens along the Zambezi valley which they treasure as their wealth, but our mission is to save their lives, he said.The United Nations has said the current floods in Mozambique could be worse than those of 2000-2001, which caused the deaths of 700 people.Mozambique's National Emergency Operational Centre warned provincial authorities about the cyclone and advised them to stockpile food and clean water.Keep calm and in a state of alert, the agency said in a statement.(Editing by Muchena Zigomo and Matthew Tostevin)

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Rain forces culling halt as India battles worst bird flu outbreak Thu Jan 24, 6:44 AM

MURSHIDABAD, India (AFP) - India's battle against its worst-ever outbreak of bird flu suffered a new blow Thursday as rain forced a halt to culling in West Bengal, an official said.The virus has already spread to over half the state and the government there has declared the outbreak a crisis, having already admitted it was falling behind in its fight against the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu.Culling has been stopped for the time-being because of the rain -- it will start immediately after the rains cease, state animal resources minister Anisur Rahaman told AFP in Murshidabad, 230 kilometres (140 miles) north of the state capital Kolkata.

Doctors and veterinarians from neighbouring states were arriving in Kolkata to join the culling teams fanning out across the state, the minister said.But rains, which began early Thursday, had turned many of the rural dirt roads into mud rivers, complicating the battle against the outbreak -- the third and by far the worst to hit India.Although India has so far not had any human cases of bird flu, Rahaman said he feared the disease would spread to humans with hundreds of people reporting flu symptoms and children playing with chickens in affected villages.Shops and market stalls that previously were selling chicken were now selling vegetables in affected areas, witnesses reported.Culling teams initially faced resistance from locals but villagers started handing over their poultry Wednesday after the government began giving out immediate compensation for the dead birds.But farmers still feared deep financial hardship.We have never heard of bird flu, but it has destroyed the economy of the village, said middle-aged poultry farmer Safirul Islam in Margram, 240 kilometres northwest of Kolkata.It's a disaster that has taken away everything from us.

Ten out of West Bengal's 19 districts have been affected by bird flu -- representing more than half of the eastern state of 80 million people.We were not prepared for a such disaster, we're now getting ready to combat the crisis. We've asked human and veterinary doctors in government hospitals to join the culling as well as private doctors, minister Rahaman added.We're on a war-footing, he said from Murshidabad, which is near the border with Bangladesh.It is from Bangladesh that the bird flu is believed to have come from, and authorities there say it has been erupting sporadically since last February.We have targeted the culling of at least 2.2 million chickens, Rahaman said. We have now 650 teams involved in the culling operations. We're trying to get more teams to speed up the culling.People typically catch bird flu by coming into direct contact with infected poultry. Experts fear a pandemic if the H5N1 strain mutates into a form easily transmissible between humans.

METEORS HIT THE EARTH

REVELATION 6:12-17
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

REVELATION 8:12-13
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels,which are yet to sound!

THIS IS AN INTERESTING STORY, THE BIBLE MENTIONS SOMETHING ON FIRE FALLING FROM HEAVEN AND POISONING 1/3rd of THE WATERS, I WONDER COULD IT BE RADIATION FROM THESE FALLING SATELLITES THAT POISONS THE WATERS IN THE FUTURE, AS EARLY AS FEBRUARY, WE WILL SOON SEE.

Disabled spy satellite threatens Earth By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer Sat Jan 26, 6:31 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials said Saturday. The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where on the planet it might come down, they said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is classified as secret.

Appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation, said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, when asked about the situation after it was disclosed by other officials. Numerous satellites over the years have come out of orbit and fallen harmlessly. We are looking at potential options to mitigate any possible damage this satellite may cause.He would not comment on whether it is possible for the satellite to be perhaps shot down by a missile. He said it would be inappropriate to discuss any specifics at this time.A senior government official said that lawmakers and other nations are being kept apprised of the situation.Such an uncontrolled re-entry could risk exposure of U.S. secrets, said John Pike, a defense and intelligence expert. Spy satellites typically are disposed of through a controlled re-entry into the ocean so that no one else can access the spacecraft, he said.Pike also said it's not likely the threat from the satellite could be eliminated by shooting it down with a missile, because that would create debris that would then re-enter the atmosphere and burn up or hit the ground.

Pike, director of the defense research group GlobalSecurity.org, estimated that the spacecraft weighs about 20,000 pounds and is the size of a small bus. He said the satellite would create 10 times less debris than the Columbia space shuttle crash in 2003.As for possible hazardous material in the spacecraft, Pike said it might contain beryllium, a light metal with a high melting point that is used in the defense and aerospace industries. Breathing beryllium can lead to chronic, incurable respiratory problems.Jeffrey Richelson, a senior fellow with the National Security Archive, said the spacecraft likely is a photo reconnaissance satellite. Such eyes in the sky are used to gather visual information from space about adversarial governments and terror groups, including construction at suspected nuclear sites or militant training camps. The satellites also can be used to survey damage from hurricanes, fires and other natural disasters.The largest uncontrolled re-entry by a NASA spacecraft was Skylab, the 78-ton abandoned space station that fell from orbit in 1979. Its debris dropped harmlessly into the Indian Ocean and across a remote section of western Australia.

In 2000, NASA engineers successfully directed a safe de-orbit of the 17-ton Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, using rockets aboard the satellite to bring it down in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.In 2002, officials believe debris from a 7,000-pound science satellite smacked into the Earth's atmosphere and rained down over the Persian Gulf, a few thousand miles from where they first predicted it would plummet.Associated Press writers Pamela Hess and Deb Riechmann contributed to this report.

MURDER

GENESIS 4:8-11 (THE FIRST MURDER)
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

GENESIS 6:11-13 (EARTH DESTROYED BECAUSE OF TERRORISM,MURDERS)
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

LUKE 21:25
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(OZONE DEPLETION) and in the moon,(FIRST MAN ON MOON) and in the stars;(JUPITER BOMBARDED ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;
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.

Kenya death toll near 800 in a month By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer JAN 27,08

NAIVASHA, Kenya - Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800. Sunday marked exactly one month since the Dec. 27 disputed president election which sparked the violence that has transformed this once-stable African country, pitting longtime neighbors against each other and turning towns where tourists used to gather for luxury holidays into no-go zones.It also complicated the task of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the latest international mediator trying to promote talks between President Mwai Kibaki and his chief rival, opposition leader Raila Odinga. The two met Thursday for the first time since the election.
Kibaki and Odinga remain far apart on how to resolve the crisis, the worst the country has seen since its 1963 independence from Britain. Kibaki has said he is open to direct talks with Odinga, but that his position as president is not negotiable. Odinga says Kibaki must step down and new elections are the only alternative.

The clashes have mainly pitted other ethnic groups, which support the opposition because they feel marginalized, against Kibaki's Kikuyu people.Kikuyus were the main victims in the initial eruption of violence, with hundreds killed and more than half of those driven from their homes belonging to Kibaki's tribe. Now, however, it appears the Kikuyus are looking for revenge.We have moved out to avenge the deaths of our brothers and sisters who have been killed, and nothing will stop us, said Anthony Mwangi, hefting a club in the western town of Naivasha. For every one Kikuyu killed, we shall avenge their killing with three.The fighting spread Sunday to Naivasha, 55 miles northwest of Nairobi, a previously quiet tourist town with a stunning freshwater lake.At least 22 people were killed in the town over the weekend, said district commissioner Katee Mwanza. At least five of them were burned to death in their homes, said Willy Lugusa, a police official. Others were hacked to death with machetes, a local reporter told The Associated Press.Kikuyus torched the homes of Luo rivals in the center of Navaisha. Police, apparently overwhelmed, did not intervene. Gunshots rang out into the evening.Looters used iron bars to smash the windows of shops belonging to non-Kikuyu businesspeople, and made off with television sets, groceries and clothing.One woman came screaming down the road from a blazing house.

They set it on fire, they are killing my brother and sister, Alice Okoth said.Mike Aringo, a 27-year-old resident, said hundreds of men swarmed the area Sunday morning.They told us if you are a Luo, you will be killed today, Aringo said. Odinga is a Luo.Soldiers and police reinforcements arrived late Sunday afternoon, firing tear gas and live bullets. Downtown Naivasha quickly became deserted, but on the outskirts, gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs engaged in running battles with police who chased them down alleyways.In the city of Nakuru, the provincial capital of Kenya's fertile Rift Valley where ethnic clashes erupted late Thursday, some 55 bodies were counted Sunday at the morgue, said a morgue attendant who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.Bodies were still arriving Sunday, although the running battles had largely cooled off. A local newspaper reporter saw another five bodies Sunday in two slums on the outskirts of Nakuru. The latest deaths brought the toll in a month of violence to nearly 800 killed. Odinga met with Annan on Sunday and opposition spokesman Salim Lone said they were asked to name three negotiators for talks, which he said he would hopefully start within a week.

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.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Rising Anti-Americanism in Russia By Alastair Gee
Tue Jan 22, 3:06 PM ET

MOSCOW--Vladimir Dobrovinsky, 33, a teacher at a design school in Moscow, says he's not interested in politics. But bring up America and the well-traveled, university-educated Dobrovinsky holds forth. He criticizes Washington's crude interference in world affairs. He complains that Russia is not treated as an important partner by the Bush administration. A lot of Russians, he says, are angry that America deals with us like we're Thailand.Dobrovinsky is hardly alone in such sentiments. Russia is witnessing a revival of the anti-Americanism that had dissipated with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Taking their cues from President Vladimir Putin and the state-controlled media, almost half of Russians now believe America's objective is the complete destruction of Russia, according to a recent survey by the independent Levada Center. And a poll by the state-owned Russian Public Opinion Research Center suggests that Russians consider the United States to be Russia's greatest enemy (and China its greatest friend). In the last six or seven years, anti-Americanism has been getting worse and worse. It's staggering, says Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international relations at the New School in New York and the granddaughter of Cold War-era Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

While there are echoes of old Soviet-style antagonisms in the Putin-era anti-Americanism, there are differences. Earlier, the clash was in large part ideological and seemed to herald a fight to the death--We will bury you, Khrushchev warned western nations in 1956. Today, Putin is using anti-American rhetoric to boost his own popularity, tapping into widespread resentment of western-backed economic reforms made during the rapacious 1990s as well as of U.S. foreign policy. Borrowing from the same playbook as Hugo Ch�vez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he has accused the Bush administration of trying to tilt the outcome of parliamentary elections, and he blames Washington for all manner of misdeeds including plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts.This attitude has carried over into Russia's foreign policy, and the compliant partner that Washington had hoped for has become a belligerent opponent that fosters ties with Iran and China. The Kremlin's opposition to Washington's proposed European missile defense system and its hosting of Hamas leaders in Moscow early last year may provoke ire in the United States, though they improve Putin's ratings at home. It's a far cry from the warm U.S.-Russia relations that seemed in store in 2001, when Bush met Putin for the first time and said, I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.

As the repressive Soviet regime crumbled in the late 1980s, antipathy to America fell away. There was a belief that if we opted for western values and civil liberties, life would become better, says Masha Lipman, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. After western-backed economic shock therapy reforms, however, when Soviet-era price and currency controls were removed, inflation rocketed and people's savings were wiped out. Oligarchs close to Boris Yeltsin later bought up Russia's prime assets at fire-sale prices. The United States, as well as Russia's liberal parties, have consequently lost face.In its foreign policy, meanwhile, Washington is seen as marginalizing Russia. Russia opposed the war in Iraq and resents the proposed missile system and the expansion of NATO into eastern Europe as an encroachment on its strategic backyard. The U.S. views these as its zones of interest, but for Russia they're vitally important, argues Mikhail Leontyev, the anchor of a political talk show on one of Russia's most popular television channels.Putin has cultivated Russians' resentments, making strident nationalism and bitter anti-westernism a regular part of his public addresses. Before the parliamentary elections, he said in a nationally televised speech that his liberal opponents scavenge like jackals at foreign embassies. Meanwhile, billboards around Moscow proclaimed that Putin's Plan Is Russia's Victory. His message is reinforced by Russia's state-owned television channels, which dominate the airwaves, and many of Russia's major papers. The enlargement of NATO, America's actions in Iraq and Georgia--they irritate people, and they want an explanation, explains Andrei Baranov, a political editor at Putin-friendly Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of Russia's largest papers.

Russians are evidently sympathetic to Putin. His United Russia party took a landslide 64 percent of the parliamentary vote with a 63 percent turnout, an election his party would have won easily even without repressing his opponents, judging by opinion polls. He has attracted a devoted, nationalistic following among students--Kremlin-linked youth groups supervised the December voting to prevent a feared U.S.-funded revolution.If there's any consolation for Washington, it's that, as bitter as it may be, this sentiment is not universal. It is in part fostered by Putin, and, as Condoleezza Rice suggested on a visit to Moscow last year, talk of a new Cold War seems premature. Russia may have withdrawn in July from a 1990 treaty limiting military-force numbers in Europe, but it continues to cooperate with Washington on counterterrorism, among other issues. Americans and Russians have more in common than differences, says Alexander Lebedev, a former Duma deputy and billionaire part owner of the airline Aeroflot. They're not facing each other across the Berlin Wall any more.Moreover, Russia's presidential elections take place in March, and the politician backed by Putin as his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is considered to be sympathetic toward the West (he is expected to win). Medvedev has said Russia should position itself as part of Europe and that confrontation with the United States is unnecessary. At any rate, if Russia does have a change of heart, it would not be unprecedented. The Russian mentality is of dashing from one extreme to another, says Khrushcheva. The embrace of the West turns into the embrace of anti-Americanism and back again.

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

Microchips everywhere: A future vision By TODD LEWAN, AP National Writer Sat Jan 26, 12:16 PM ET

Here's a vision of the not-so-distant future: Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allowing retailers and law enforcement to track consumer items — and, by extension, consumers — wherever they go, from a distance.A seamless, global network of electronic sniffers will scan radio tags in myriad public settings, identifying people and their tastes instantly so that customized ads, live spam, may be beamed at them.In Smart Homes, sensors built into walls, floors and appliances will inventory possessions, record eating habits, monitor medicine cabinets — all the while, silently reporting data to marketers eager for a peek into the occupants' private lives.

Science fiction?

In truth, much of the radio frequency identification technology that enables objects and people to be tagged and tracked wirelessly already exists — and new and potentially intrusive uses of it are being patented, perfected and deployed.Some of the world's largest corporations are vested in the success of RFID technology, which couples highly miniaturized computers with radio antennas to broadcast information about sales and buyers to company databases.
Already, microchips are turning up in some computer printers, car keys and tires, on shampoo bottles and department store clothing tags. They're also in library books and contactless payment cards (such as American Express' Blue and ExxonMobil's Speedpass.)

Companies say the RFID tags improve supply-chain efficiency, cut theft, and guarantee that brand-name products are authentic, not counterfeit. At a store, RFID doorways could scan your purchases automatically as you leave, eliminating tedious checkouts.At home, convenience is a selling point: RFID-enabled refrigerators could warn about expired milk, generate weekly shopping lists, even send signals to your interactive TV, so that you see personalized commercials for foods you have a history of buying. Sniffers in your microwave might read a chip-equipped TV dinner and cook it without instruction.We've seen so many different uses of the technology, says Dan Mullen, president of AIM Global, a national association of data collection businesses, including RFID, and we're probably still just scratching the surface in terms of places RFID can be used.The problem, critics say, is that microchipped products might very well do a whole lot more.With tags in so many objects, relaying information to databases that can be linked to credit and bank cards, almost no aspect of life may soon be safe from the prying eyes of corporations and governments, says Mark Rasch, former head of the computer-crime unit of the U.S. Justice Department.By placing sniffers in strategic areas, companies can invisibly rifle through people's pockets, purses, suitcases, briefcases, luggage — and possibly their kitchens and bedrooms — anytime of the day or night, says Rasch, now managing director of technology at FTI Consulting Inc., a Baltimore-based company.

In an RFID world, You've got the possibility of unauthorized people learning stuff about who you are, what you've bought, how and where you've bought it ... It's like saying, Well, who wants to look through my medicine cabinet? He imagines a time when anyone from police to identity thieves to stalkers might scan locked car trunks, garages or home offices from a distance. Think of it as a high-tech form of Dumpster diving, says Rasch, who's also concerned about data gathered by spy appliances in the home.It's going to be used in unintended ways by third parties — not just the government, but private investigators, marketers, lawyers building a case against you ...Presently, the radio tag most commercialized in America is the so-called passive emitter, meaning it has no internal power supply. Only when a reader powers these tags with a squirt of electrons do they broadcast their signal, indiscriminately, within a range of a few inches to 20 feet. Not as common, but increasing in use, are active tags, which have internal batteries and can transmit signals, continuously, as far as low-orbiting satellites. Active tags pay tolls as motorists to zip through tollgates; they also track wildlife, such as sea lions.

Retailers and manufacturers want to use passive tags to replace the bar code, for tracking inventory. These radio tags transmit Electronic Product Codes, number strings that allow trillons of objects to be uniquely identified. Some transmit specifics about the item, such as price, though not the name of the buyer. However, once a tagged item is associated with a particular individual, personally identifiable information can be obtained and then aggregated to develop a profile, the U.S. Government Accountability Office concluded in a 2005 report on RFID. Federal agencies and law enforcement already buy information about individuals from commercial data brokers, companies that compile computer dossiers on millions of individuals from public records, credit applications and many other sources, then offer summaries for sale. These brokers, unlike credit bureaus, aren't subject to provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970, which gives consumers the right to correct errors and block access to their personal records.

That, and the ever-increasing volume of data collected on consumers, is worrisome, says Mike Hrabik, chief technology officer at Solutionary, a computer-security firm in Bethesda, Md. Are companies using that information incorrectly, and are they giving it out inappropriately? I'm sure that's happening. Should we be concerned? Yes.Even some industry proponents recognize risks. Elliott Maxwell, a research fellow at Pennsylvania State University who serves as a policy adviser to EPCglobal, the industry's standard-setting group, says data broadcast by microchips can easily be intercepted, and misused, by high-tech thieves. As RFID goes mainstream and the range of readers increases, it will be difficult to know who is gathering what data, who has access to it, what is being done with it, and who should be held responsible for it, Maxwell wrote in RFID Journal, an industry publication.

The recent growth of the RFID industry has been staggering: From 1955 to 2005, cumulative sales of radio tags totaled 2.4 billion; last year alone, 2.24 billion tags were sold worldwide, and analysts project that by 2017 cumulative sales will top 1 trillion —generating more than $25 billion in annual revenues for the industry. Heady forecasts like these energize chip proponents, who insist that RFID will result in enormous savings for businesses. Each year, retailers lose $57 billion from administrative failures, supplier fraud and employee theft, according to a recent survey of 820 retailers by Checkpoint Systems, an RFID manufacturer that specializes in store security devices. Privacy concerns, some RFID supporters say, are overblown. One, Mark Roberti, editor of RFID Journal, says the notion that businesses would conspire to create high-resolution portraits of people is simply silly.Corporations know Americans are sensitive about their privacy, he says, and are careful not to alienate consumers by violating it. Besides, All companies keep their customer data close to the vest ... There's absolutely no value in sharing it. Zero.Industry officials, too, insist that addressing privacy concerns is paramount. As American Express spokeswoman Judy Tenzer says, Security and privacy are a top priority for American Express in everything we do.But industry documents suggest a different line of thinking, privacy experts say. A 2005 patent application by American Express itself describes how RFID-embedded objects carried by shoppers could emit identification signals when queried by electronic consumer trackers. The system could identify people, record their movements, and send them video ads that might offer incentives or even the emission of a scent.

RFID readers could be placed in public venues, including a common area of a school, shopping center, bus station or other place of public accommodation, according to the application, which is still pending — and which is not alone. In 2006, IBM received patent approval for an invention it called, Identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items. One stated purpose: To collect information about people that could be used to monitor the movement of the person through the store or other areas.Once somebody enters a store, a sniffer scans all identifiable RFID tags carried on the person, and correlates the tag information with sales records to determine the individual's exact identity. A device known as a person tracking unit then assigns a tracking number to the shopper to monitor the movement of the person through the store or other areas.But as the patent makes clear, IBM's invention could work in other public places, such as shopping malls, airports, train stations, bus stations, elevators, trains, airplanes, restrooms, sports arenas, libraries, theaters, museums, etc. (RFID could even help follow a particular crime suspect through public areas.)

Another patent, obtained in 2003 by NCR Corp., details how camouflaged sensors and cameras would record customers' wanderings through a store, film their facial expressions at displays, and time — to the second — how long shoppers hold and study items. Why? Such monitoring allows one to draw valuable inferences about the behavior of large numbers of shoppers, the patent states. Then there's a 2001 patent application by Procter & Gamble, Systems and methods for tracking consumers in a store environment. This one lays out an idea to use heat sensors to track and record where a consumer is looking, i.e., which way she is facing, whether she is bending over or crouching down to look at a lower shelf.The system could space sensors 8 feet apart, in ceilings, floors, shelving and displays, so they could capture signals transmitted every 1.5 seconds by microchipped shopping carts. The documents raise the hair on the back of your neck, says Liz McIntyre, co-author of Spychips, a book that is critical of the industry. The industry has long promised it would never use this technology to track people. But these patent records clearly suggest otherwise.Corporations take issue with that, saying that patent filings shouldn't be used to predict a company's actions. We file thousands of patents every year, which are designed to protect concepts or ideas, Paul Fox, a spokesman for Procter & Gamble, says. The reality is that many of those ideas and concepts never see the light of day.And what of his company's 2001 patent application? I'm not aware of any plans to use that, Fox says.

Sandy Hughes, P&G's global privacy executive, adds that Procter & Gamble has no intention of using any technologies — RFID or otherwise — to track individuals. The idea of the 2001 filing, she says, is to monitor how groups of people react to store displays, not individual consumers.NCR and American Express echoed those statements. IBM declined to comment for this story. Not every element in a patent filing is necessarily something we would pursue...., says Tenzer, the American Express spokeswoman. Under no circumstances would we use this technology without a customer's permission.

McIntyre has her doubts.

In the marketing world of today, she says, data on individual consumers is gold, and the only thing preventing these companies from abusing technologies like RFID to get at that gold is public scrutiny.RFID dates to World War II, when Britain put transponders in Allied aircraft to help radar crews distinguish them from German fighters. In the 1970s, the U.S. government tagged trucks entering and leaving secure facilities such as the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and a decade later, they were used to track livestock and railroad cars. In 2003, the U.S. Department of Defense and Wal-Mart gave RFID a mammoth push, mandating that suppliers radio tag all crates and cartons. To that point, the cost of tags had simply been too high to make tagging pallets — let alone individual items —viable. In 1999, passive tags cost nearly $2 apiece. Since then, rising demand and production of microchips — along with technological advances — have driven tag prices down to a range of 7 to 15 cents. At that price, the technology is well-suited at a case and pallet level, says Mullen, of the industry group AIM Global. John Simley, a spokesman for Wal-Mart, says tracking products in real-time helps ensure product freshness and lowers the chances that items will be out of stock. By reducing loss and waste in the supply chain, RFID allows us to keep our prices that much lower.Katherine Albrecht, founder of CASPIAN, an anti-RFID group, says, Nobody cares about radio tags on crates and pallets. But if we don't keep RFID off of individual consumer items, our stores will one day turn into retail 'zoos' where the customer is always on exhibit. So, how long will it be before you find an RFID tag in your underwear? The industry isn't saying, but some analysts speculate that within a decade tag costs may dip below a penny, the threshold at which nearly everything could be chipped. To businesses slammed by counterfeiters — pharmaceuticals, for one — that's not a bad thing. Sales of fake drugs cost drug makers an estimated $46 billion a year. In 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended that RFID be incorporated throughout the supply chain as a way of making sure consumers get authentic drugs.

In the United States, Pfizer has already begun chipping all 30- and 100-count bottles of Viagra, one of the most counterfeited drugs.
Chips could be embedded in other controlled or potentially dangerous items such as firearms and explosives, to make them easier to track. This was mentioned in IBM's patent documents. Still, the idea that tiny radio chips might be in their socks and shoes doesn't sit well with Americans. At least, that's what Fleishman-Hillard Inc., a public-relations firm in St. Louis, found in 2001 when it surveyed 317 consumers for the industry. Seventy-eight percent of those queried reacted negatively to RFID when privacy was raised. More than half claimed to be extremely or very concerned, the report said, noting that the term Big Brother was used in 15 separate cases to describe the technology.It also found that people bridled at the idea of having Smart Tags in their homes. One surveyed person remarked: Where money is to be made the privacy of the individual will be compromised.In 2002, Fleishman-Hillard produced another report for the industry that counseled RFID makers to convey (the) inevitability of technology, and to develop a plan to neutralize the opposition, by adopting friendlier names for radio tags such as Bar Code II and Green Tag.And in a 2003 report, Helen Duce, the industry's trade group director in Europe, wrote that the lack of clear benefits to consumers could present a problem in the real world, particularly if privacy issues were stirred by negative press coverage.

(Though the reports were marked Confidential, they were later found archived on an industry trade group's Web site.) The Duce report's recommendations: Tell consumers that RFID is regulated, that RFID is just a new and improved bar code, and that retailers will announce when an item is radio tagged, and deactivate the tags at check-out upon a customer's request. Actually, in the United States, RFID is not federally regulated. And while bar codes identify product categories, radio tags carry unique serial numbers that — when purchased with a credit card, frequent shopper card or contactless card — can be linked to specific shoppers. And, unlike bar codes, RFID tags can be read through almost anything except metal and water, without the holder's knowledge. EPCglobal, the industry's standard-setting body, has issued public policy guidelines that call for retailers to put a thumbnail-sized logo — EPC, for Electronic Product Code — on all radio tagged packaging. The group also suggests that merchants notify shoppers that RFID tags can be removed, discarded or disabled. Critics say the guidelines are voluntary, vague and don't penalize violators. They want federal and state oversight — something the industry has vigorously opposed — particularly after two RFID manufacturers, Checkpoint Systems and Sensormatic, announced last year that they are marketing tags designed to be embedded in such items as shoes.

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says, I don't think there's any basis ... for consumers to have to think that their clothing is tracking them.
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