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EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
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 (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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 shakes central New Zealand
www.chinaview.cn 2008-03-17 08:30:35

WELLINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake centered 70 km north of Picton shook central parts of New Zealand late Sunday, causing no damage or casualties, GNS Science said. The quake, at a depth of 100 km, registered 4.6 on the Richter scale. It was felt in the top of the South Island and the bottom of the North Island. The quake occurred at 11:20 pm local time Sunday (1020 GMT Sunday). The GNS science website, GeoNet, recorded that 125 households had felt and reported the quake overnight. Editor: Du Guodong.

Quake Hits Off Western Indonesia MAR 16,08

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake struck nearly 200 miles off western Indonesia late Saturday. There were no reports of injuries or damage.The magnitude 6.2 quake was centered 190 miles southwest of Banda Aceh on the island of Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheavals due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.In December 2004, a massive earthquake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, including 160,000 people in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh.

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.

Massive storm headed for Newfoundland
Mon Mar 17, 9:29 AM

People in Newfoundland are preparing for the third winter storm in one week.More than 30 centimetres of snow and winds up to 120 km/h are expected to hit the Avalon peninsula Monday evening and Tuesday.

The blizzard comes as people across the island dig out from a storm Sunday, and a two-day blizzard Thursday and Friday, when more than 50 centimetres of snow fell in parts of central Newfoundland, shutting down entire communities.Rob Carroll, meteorologist with Environment Canada's weather office in Gander, told CBC News Monday morning that the third blizzard is expected to be a big one.It's not looking too good right now. We're watching a pretty major storm,Carroll said.The weather system is stalled just south of Sable Island and Carroll said it is expected to hang around in that area for three days.The precipitation associated with that should spread to the Avalon by this afternoon in the form of snow, heavy snow at times and blowing snow, Carroll said. That will spread to much of the island overnight tonight.So we could see some pretty hefty amounts over the next three days.Snow is expected to begin Monday afternoon in eastern Newfoundland and continue west across the island overnight.Based on current predictions, the blizzard is not expected to hit Labrador.

Heavy rain and severe weather James Wilson
Mon Mar 17, 8:15 PM ET

Low pressure over Texas will be riding up to the northeast overnight through Tuesday. An associated cold front will swing through Texas and the lower Mississippi Valley. The result will be the development of strong to severe thunderstorms and a few tornadoes. Things get quite dicey Tuesday across eastern Texas (including Houston), western Louisana, southwest Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma. There is a threat of severe thunderstorms, some with damaging winds, and large hail. A few tornadoes are likley, as well. Parts of the Plains and Midwest will see plenty of rain and flooding is likely to occur. Heavy rain should fall from the Ohio Valley south to northeastern Texas through Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Widespread rain amounts of 2 to 4 inches are expected across this area with localized amounts up to 7 inches possible. Flood watches have been posted from extreme northwest Ohio southwest to central Texas in anticipation of the heavy rain. Flooding is already occurring on some rivers in Illinois and Indiana. To the north, some light snow is likely overnight over parts of northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Mozambican government seeks urgent food aid after cyclone
Mon Mar 17, 3:26 PM

MAPUTO (AFP) - The Mozambican government has made an urgent appeal to the UN World Food Programme to help more than 60,000 people left destitute when cyclone Jokwe hit northern and central parts of the country.The government has made an urgent appeal to the WFP for food to feed people who were affected by cyclone Jokwe, Joao Ribeiro, the deputy national director of Mozambique's government-run national disaster management institute (INGC) told AFP by telephone Monday.He said the INGC was working with non-governmental organizations, local and international, to assess the situation in the cyclone-hit Zambezia and Nampula provinces.So far, at least 60,000 people -- many of them living in areas also affected by flooding earlier in the year -- were thought to be in need of urgent food aid, said Ribeiro.The WFP said in a statement it would begin distributing food to needy Mozambican communities early next week using stocks that had been earmarked for other relief operations.WFP needs 550,000 US dollars (350,000 euros) to replenish these stocks as soon as possible, the United Nations food aid agency said.Ribeiro said the number of people requiring food aid could increase after the assessment.People were also receiving donated tents, clothes and materials to rebuild the homes they lost in the cyclone, he said.

Cyclone Jokwe, packing winds of 140 kilometres (87 miles) per hour, hit the Nampula province on March 8, killing at least 17 people, injuring scores and leaving thousands homeless as trees and electric pylons fell on houses.This prompted the government to declare a red alert along the Zambezi River.But as Jokwe turned for Madagascar last Friday, the Mozambican government downgraded the cyclone to a tropical depression, keeping the coastal regions on yellow alert in case it regained momentum.

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
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.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Female suicide bomber kills 43 in Iraq By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer Mon Mar 17, 6:21 PM ET

BAGHDAD - A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 43 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques. The blast was the deadliest in a series of attacks that left at least 72 Iraqis dead, including six youths killed when mortar rounds slammed into a soccer field in eastern Baghdad.Two U.S. soldiers also were killed Monday in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad, bringing the American death toll closer to 4,000 as the U.S.-led war enters its sixth year. At least 3,990 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.The violence marred overlapping trips by Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain to Baghdad. Their visits were aimed at touting recent security gains and stressing Washington's long-term commitment to fighting insurgents in Iraq.

The U.S. Embassy and military issued a joint statement blaming al-Qaida in Iraq for the Karbala attack.The bomber struck after the worshippers had gathered at a sacred historical site about half a mile from the golden domed shrine of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who was killed in a seventh-century battle.

A police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information, said the attacker was a woman — as did a witness.The U.S. military described the attack as a suicide operation but put the casualty toll at 40 Iraqis killed and 65 wounded. The U.S. statement said the identity of the bomber remained unknown.Brig. Gen. Raed Shakir Jawdat, Karbala's police chief, said 43 people were killed and 73 wounded. He denied it was a suicide attack, saying a bomb had been planted in the area. The discrepancies could not immediately be resolved.Karim Khazim, the city's chief health official, said seven of those killed were Iranian pilgrims who had traveled to the holy site.

AP Television News footage showed a man carefully picking up pieces of flesh and wires apparently from a fuse as evening prayer services were broadcast from loudspeakers nearby.The witness, who did not identify himself, told AP Television News that a woman in the crowd had blown herself up.If true, it would be among the deadliest attacks carried out by women during the Iraq conflict.

Female suicide bombers have been involved in at least 20 attacks or attempted attacks since the war began, including the grisly bombings of two pet markets in Baghdad that killed nearly 100 people last month.The U.S. military has warned that insurgents are using female attackers because they can more easily avoid checkpoint searches and can hide the explosives under traditional all-encompassing black Islamic robes.Police closed the area around the twin golden dome mosques and blocked all roads leading to the sites, which include tombs of Imam Hussein and his half brother, also a Shiite saint.Ali Hassan, 30, a clothing merchant who was wounded in the blast, said he was standing near his stall when I heard a big explosion and I felt strong fire throwing me in the air.
The only thing I know is there was a big explosion and I saw bodies flying in the air, said Hassan Khazim, 36, who was wounded in the face. All the tight security measures designed to protect us were in vain.The predominantly Shiite city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, enjoys tight security. Monday's attack was the deadliest in Karbala since a suicide car bomber killed at least 63 people on April 28, 2007. Explosions also struck earlier Monday not far from the capital's heavily fortified Green Zone, shortly after Cheney arrived. Helicopter gunships circled central Baghdad. Despite several high-profile bombings, violence levels have dropped sharply in recent months with a U.S. troop buildup, a Sunni revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq and a cease-fire by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia. But noting the fragility of the security gains, Cheney warned against large drawdowns of American troops, saying it is very important that we not quit before the job is done.McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who has linked his political future to military success in Iraq, also promised to uphold a long-term military commitment to the country so long as al-Qaida in Iraq is not defeated. Both men met in back-to-back meetings with Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose government has been accused of failing to make sufficient political progress. Al-Maliki said he and the vice president discussed ongoing negotiations over a long-term security agreement between the two countries that would replace the U.N. mandate for foreign troops set to expire at the end of the year. This visit is very important. It is about the nature of the relations between the two countries, the future of those relations and the agreement in this respect,the prime minister told reporters. We also discussed the security in Iraq, the development of the economy and reconstruction and terrorism.McCain stressed it was important to maintain the U.S. commitment in Iraq, where a U.S.-Iraq operation is under way to clear al-Qaida in Iraq from what the military says is the terror group's last urban stronghold of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. We recognize that al-Qaida is on the run, but they are not defeated, McCain said after meeting al-Maliki. Al-Qaida continues to pose a great threat to the security and very existence of Iraq as a democracy. So we know there's still a lot more of work to be done.McCain, who arrived in Iraq on Sunday, told reporters that he also discussed with the Shiite leader the need for progress on political reforms, including laws on holding provincial elections and the equitable distribution of Iraq's oil riches. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., speaking to reporters from Kuwait after a visit to Iraq, said Iraq should begin picking up more of the bills. We're paying for things that Iraqis clearly should be paying for, Levin said. They have the capability, the surplus funds to do their own reconstruction, and to do their own weapons purchases and other things which we're paying for and they need to pay for.Associated Press writers Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.

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 widely mixed on Bear Stearns news By MADLEN READ, AP Business Writer Mon Mar 17, 6:12 PM ET

NEW YORK - Wall Street ended a temperamental session widely mixed Monday after investors grappled with JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s government-backed buyout of the stricken investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. The Dow Jones industrials recovered from an initial drop of nearly 200 points to finish up about 21 points. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq composite indexes ended lower as investors bailed out of investment banks and small-cap stocks and fled instead to large companies apt to be reliable during a weak economy.You move to the defensive names in times of market uncertainty — safer, consumer names, said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research.The buyout of Bear Stearns was certainly more appealing than the alternative: letting the investment bank collapse and causing huge losses for anyone linked to it. And some unprecedented moves by the Federal Reserve gave investors a bit of solace on what many predicted would be a day of precipitous losses in the stock market.Besides supporting the buyout, the Fed lowered the rate it charges to loan directly to banks by a quarter-point on Sunday night — two days before its scheduled meeting Tuesday. The central bank also set up a lending option for firms, including many non-bank financial services firms, to secure short-term loans for a broad range of collateral.

The Fed appears to be pledging to do everything in its power to keep the credit crisis from decimating the financial industry and the economy. Policy makers at the central bank are expected to reduce the target fed funds rate — the rate banks charge each other for overnight loans — by at least a half-point on Tuesday, and perhaps even a full point.But the market remained extremely volatile. The sale of Bear Stearns — at a minuscule $2.21 a share as of Monday's close, or a total of $260.5 million — stirred fear among investors worldwide about other banks' exposure to the troubled credit markets.The market has absolutely no idea what's going on, said Dan Alpert, managing director of Westwood Capital. Some people have accused them of whistling past the graveyard — I don't think they even know where the graveyard is.He added that short-covering — the unwinding of bets that stocks will fall — ahead of Tuesday's Fed meeting contributed to the market's atypical movements.The Dow rose 21.16, or 0.18 percent, to 11,972.25, after falling nearly 200 and rising more than 100. The blue chip index was supported partially by JPMorgan, by far the biggest gainer among the 30 component stocks. JPMorgan rose $3.77, or 10.3 percent, to $40.31.The Dow got a lift as investors aimed for large-cap stocks such as AT&T Inc., up 76 cents at $35.79, Verizon, up 79 cents at $34.61, and pharmaceutical maker Johnson & Johnson, up $1.39 at $64.04.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 11.54, or 0.90 percent, to 1,276.60. The Nasdaq composite index, heavily populated by small and high-tech companies, fell 35.48, or 1.60 percent, to 2,177.01. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 12.42, or 1.87 percent, to 650.48.Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 5 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange. Consolidated volume came to 5.69 billion shares, up from 5.18 billion Friday.Bond prices rose. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.30 percent from 3.44 percent late Friday.The simple fact that Bear Stearns was valued at around $2 a share heightened investors' worries about how much of a blow the credit markets are dealing the financial industry. How widespread is it? Nobody knows, Detrick said.The pain for stockholders in Bear Stearns, which succumbed to losing bets on souring mortgages for borrowers with poor credit, will be sizable. JPMorgan is buying Bear, including its midtown Manhattan headquarters, for about 1 percent of the investment bank's worth little more than two weeks ago. Bear Stearns' buyout arrives after a short-term bailout Friday organized by the Fed and involving JPMorgan.Bear Stearns shares fell 86 percent to $4.10 — still above the buyout price, implying that some shareholders believe the deal terms might change.Some investors worry Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. might be next to fall. Lehman — the investment bank considered most similar to Bear Stearns — and other major investment banks are slated this week to report quarterly results. DBS Group Holdings Ltd., Southeast Asia's largest bank, reportedly instructed traders in an e-mail early Monday not to do business with the bank. According to Dow Jones Newswires, DBS Group later told traders to disregard the earlier e-mail. Lehman denied there were any problems with DBS.

Lehman fell $7.51, or 19 percent, to $31.75.

While investors focused on the financial sector, fresh economic news offered little solace. The Fed said output at the country's factories, mines and utilities fell by 0.5 percent in February, the biggest decline last October. Many analysts had been expecting a slight increase of one-tenth of one percent. The Commerce Department also said Monday the current account deficit, the broadest measure of foreign trade, fell slightly in 2007 as stronger growth in U.S. exports offset a spiking foreign oil bill.

The dollar sank to a record low against the euro and hit a 12 1/2 year low against the Japanese yen, while gold prices rose to another record high. Crude oil plunged from record levels by $4.53 to settle at $105.68 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 3.71 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 5.18 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 3.86 percent, Germany's DAX index dropped 4.18 percent, and France's CAC-40 lost 3.51 percent. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com . Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Cocaine may cause heart attack symptoms By JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press Writer Mon Mar 17, 11:05 PM ET

DALLAS - Younger ER patients with heart attack symptoms should be asked if they've recently used cocaine, which can cause similar chest pain, the American Heart Association warns doctors. For these patients, honesty can be a matter of life or death: Some heart attack treatments can be deadly to someone using cocaine. New guidelines published online Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation say that emergency room doctors need to be aware that symptoms of a heart attack in younger patients with no heart disease risk factors may be caused by cocaine use.The drug can cause chest pain, shortness of breath, anxiety, palpitations, dizziness, nausea and heavy sweating — all symptoms of a heart attack.Not knowing what you are dealing with and giving the wrong therapies could mean death rather than benefit, said Dr. James Reiffel, professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital.

The number of cocaine-related users visiting ERs rose 47 percent from 1995 to 2002, increasing from 135,711 to 199,198, according to the government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (That's a tiny percentage of the more than 100 million patient visits to emergency rooms each year.)The symptoms that they get with the cocaine are very similar to a heart attack, said Dr. James McCord, who chaired the statement writing committee.

Cocaine can cause a heart attack, but only about 1 percent to 6 percent of patients with cocaine-associated chest pain actually have a heart attack, the statement says. Still, doctors say it's important for anyone with chest pain to get it checked out.Cocaine increases blood pressure and the heart rate, constricting arteries into the heart, said McCord, cardiology director of the chest pain unit for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.Your heart rate goes up because your heart needs more oxygen, then it shrinks the arteries to the heart, McCord said.The statement says that since most cocaine-associated chest pain isn't a heart attack, such patients should be monitored instead of being admitted to the hospital. They would have an electrocardiogram and other tests to rule out a heart attack.If you admit everyone to hospital with chest pain, you use valuable resources, said Reiffel.Two typical heart attack treatments can be dangerous to those using cocaine:

Clot-busting drugs carry an extra risk of bleeding into the brain in patients whose blood pressure is high due to cocaine use.

Betablockers that can lower blood pressure without constricting arteries in typical heart attack patients have the opposite effect in cocaine users, raising blood pressure and squeezing cocaine-narrowed arteries.

Reiffel said doctors should explain why it's important to know if a patient is using cocaine. He said that admitting use of an illegal substance is confidential information that won't be reported to law enforcement. The caregiver is not here to judge.

The statement also recommends that cocaine users who do have a coronary artery blockage get a bare metal stent instead of a drug-coated one since chronic drug users may not reliably take the medication needed to prevent new blockages.McCord said that the drug counseling available in observation units varies among hospitals, and that more could to improve the counseling cocaine-using patients get.I think an ideal scenario would be someone whose job is to talk to them about this — explain the extent of the health problems, give them information about resources to help them quit cocaine, McCord said. On the Net: American Heart Association, http://www.americanheart.org

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).

WHO: Progress in fighting TB slows By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer Mon Mar 17, 6:32 PM ET

LONDON - The fight against the global tuberculosis epidemic has slowed to a crawl, the World Health Organization said in a report Monday. The worldwide rate of TB infection has been declining for several years. But between 2005 and 2006, the rate of new cases fell by less than 1 percent, far less than the annual decrease of 5 to 7 percent sought by health officials. At the same time, drug-resistant TB is growing faster than ever, the WHO said last month.

Independent health experts criticized the WHO's TB policy as too passive, and urged a more proactive strategy.WHO conceded the most recent decline in the overall infection rate is very modest, and is not as fast as we would like it to be, said Dr. Marcos Espinal, executive secretary of the organization's Stop TB Partnership.

Without new tools, we will not be able to break the back of this epidemic, he said, citing a lack of vaccines, outdated drugs, obsolete diagnostic tests and overwhelmed health systems as contributing to the slowdown against TB.In 2006, there were an estimated 9.2 million new tuberculosis cases and 1.5 million deaths, the WHO said in its report, which was based on government data from 202 countries and regions.India and China have the most cases, followed by Indonesia, South Africa and Nigeria, the report said.By region, Asia has 55 percent of all TB cases, and Africa has 31 percent.WHO acknowledged its treatment programs have not yet had a major impact on TB transmission and incidence, according to the report, which assessed the WHO's efforts for the past 12 years.

WHO primarily works by recommending how governments and donors can best fight TB, and it is up to individual countries to decide how to spend funds. Last year, countries and donors spent about $2.3 billion on TB control. This year, WHO estimates that $3.1 billion will be needed to identify and treat TB patients.The report said TB infection rates were stable in Europe, and declined about 3 percent in the United States.In Africa, however, they were still increasing as the AIDS epidemic fuels transmission. TB in Africa has increased at least fivefold since the 1990s.The report said 30 million people — or 84.7 percent of identified TB patients — have been cured through treatment.Espinal acknowledged that WHO may not have enough evidence to show that its treatment strategy reduces transmission. The strategy works to cure people, he said, not necessarily to reduce the disease's spread.Other experts countered that if treatment rates were as high as WHO claimed, there would be less drug-resistant tuberculosis.Last month, WHO said drug-resistant TB was spreading faster than ever. Globally, there are about 500,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB every year, about 5 percent of the 9 million new TB cases, WHO said.Independent experts also criticized the WHO's reporting, saying it did not take into account those who are infected but not diagnosed, and was gathered from governments without being verified independently.This is a compilation of what the countries want to show, said Dr. Francis Varaine, coordinator of Medecins Sans Frontieres' tuberculosis working group. Some of these data are too good to be true.In developing countries, WHO's main tuberculosis treatment program depends on patients volunteering to be tested, instead of doctors seeking out patients. WHO's Espinal estimated that only about 60 percent of infected patients are diagnosed.

By the time a TB patient turns up, they have been coughing for weeks and have probably infected most of their family, friends, work mates and anyone else they were in contact with, said Ruth McNerney, a TB expert at London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She said WHO's strategy was like shutting the door after the horse has bolted.

REVELATION 1:5-85 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

IN THE FUTURE WHEN JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH BODILY WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS, THE WHOLE WORLD WILL SEE THIS ON A GLOBAL TV NETWORK, COULD THIS MOBILE TV BE THAT ONE TO FULFILL THIS PROPHECY.

EU picks mobile TV standard By AOIFE WHITE, AP Business Writer
Mon Mar 17, 4:50 PM ET

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union on Monday chose a mobile TV broadcast standard and suggested that its member governments now ask cell carriers to favor it. EU commissioners chose DVB-H, or Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds, the most widely used mobile TV format in Europe, over rival standards such as Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO and another known as DMB that is favored by Chinese and South Korean manufacturers.DVB-H is supported by the world's largest handset maker, Nokia, as well as Motorola, Philips, Sagem, Sony, Ericsson, Samsung and major European cell phone operators Vodafone, O2 and T-Mobile. By contrast, Qualcomm's technology has signed up the two biggest players in the United States — Verizon Wireless and AT&T.The European Commission said it had to order EU nations to favor DVB-H to create economies of scale and get the nascent technology off the ground.They can do that by labeling, they can do that by promoting it in attributing licenses and so on, said EU spokesman Martin Selmayr.

The EU called on other nations to follow its example.

The EU's executive is entitled to make decisions on some technical standards on behalf of member governments, which it did, for instance, in pushing the Global System for Mobile communications, or GSM, for mobile phones.That decision is recognized as leading Europeans to switch to cell phones faster than people in the United States have.Selmayr said the European Commission believed it was important to forestall a war on standards that could have held back mobile broadcasting in Europe.The impact of the EU's choice is limited: EU nations can choose to avoid making decisions favoring the format and are under no obligation to eliminate other standards.

Ovum analyst Matthew Howett said the development and use of other technologies is still possible although EU backing for one standard creates some certainty for operators planning mobile broadcasting services and manufacturers making phones and chips.The EU cited research forecasts of a steep increase in demand for mobile TV in 2009, with the worldwide market reaching $31 billion in sales by 2011.

REVELATION 9:1-6
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

IN THE FUTURE DEMONIC LOCUSTS WILL TORTURE SINNERS FOR 5 MONTHS.

Millions of bees close California highway after truck flips over Mon Mar 17, 12:44 AM By The Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects flipped over on a California highway. The California Highway Patrol says eight million to 12 million bees escaped Sunday from the crates in which they were stored and swarmed over an area of Highway 99 and stung officers, firefighters and tow truck drivers trying to clear the accident. CHP Officer Michael Bradley says a tractor trailer flipped over while entering the highway on its way to Yakima, Wash. The flatbed was carrying bee crates each filled with up to 30,000 bees. Bradley says several beekeepers driving by the accident stopped to assist in the bee wrangling. The bees had been used in the San Joaquin Valley to pollinate crops.

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).

Gaddafi says Med Union risks running into sand
Sat 15 Mar 2008, 8:45 GMT

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi welcomed the idea of deeper cooperation between Mediterranean countries but said a planned north-south partnership endorsed by European Union leaders on Friday risked going nowhere.French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented a plan for a Mediterranean Union at an EU summit in Brussels earlier on Friday, but the outline was far more modest than a grand design initially proposed by Paris.Germany feared the original project for a smaller grouping of Mediterranean coastal states with nine new agencies and a bank would have split the EU and siphoned off common funds for the benefit of a few members and their former colonies.Gaddafi said the Union in its new form risked going the way of the Barcelona Process, an attempt to boost north-south ties, nudge southern economies to more economic growth and democracy and establish a free trade that appears to have lost steam.

The idea of true cooperation between the countries located around one sea on the lines of President Sarkozy's initiative deserves support, Gaddafi said in a statement carried by state news agency JANA. For my part, I was very enthusiastic about it but it now appears the idea has been aborted or put off.It might follow the same trend as the Barcelona Process which failed and died, although it was not buried.He said that to succeed the new union must show material benefits for its members and should only include the countries that adjoin the Mediterranean.It must avoid referring to the hateful maps of the old empires, such as the Ottoman, Roman, Carthage and Muslim empires, and the maps of modern colonialism, Gaddafi said.

Finally, he said, it must be a common project designed from the start by all the union's members.There is a clear ignorance of the will and voice of the south, Gaddafi added.The project presented on Friday would take the form of a regular summit of EU and Mediterranean countries with a joint presidency and a small secretariat. Reuters 2008.

The two-president vision By Haaretz ediorial MAR 16,08

What does the visit to France by President Shimon Peres, whom Nicolas Sarkozy chose as the first leader to be received by him in an official state ceremony, really symbolize: a second honeymoon, or merely the illusion of one? Admiration for a leader who symbolizes the golden age of Israeli-French relations, or a salute to a popular country that is now celebrating its 60th anniversary? Or perhaps it was nothing but a bear hug meant to hasten the establishment of a Palestinian state? Gerard Araud, currently Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's political director and previously the French ambassador to Israel, believes that if this is a honeymoon, it is a lengthy one. The wedding, he says, was celebrated back in 2002, during the tenure of Sarkozy's predecessor as president, Jacques Chirac. Peres' visit crowned six years of a renewed and happy marriage, he said. Simone Veil, former president of the European Parliament and a former health minister of France, told Haaretz, The relationship has indeed deepened in recent years, but President Peres' visit was different from all previous state visits.She expressed pleasure over the second honeymoon for France and Israel, adding: Today, the two presidents have identical visions.Long live Israel, long live France and long live the friendship between France and Israel, is how Sarkozy ended his speech at the gala dinner he hosted for Peres. The French media preferred to emphasize the home truths that Sarkozy included in his speech: At least three times - in different formulations - he reiterated the motto that Israel's security depends on establishing a Palestinian state and halting the settlements. Le Monde wrote in its editorial that during his 10 months in office, Sarkozy has conducted a very active pro-Arab policy, and the principal change during his tenure is one of atmosphere, not content.

But however one interprets Sarkozy's policies, it does nothing to reduce Peres' impressive achievement: He enlisted France - one of the world's most important countries - behind his visions of the Dead Sea Canal and the Peace Valley; he extracted a pledge from Sarkozy to make the issue of upgrading Israel's relationship with the European Union one of his priorities during his term as the EU's rotating president, which begins in July; he obtained a French commitment to fight Iran's nuclearization; and he was told of its complete solidarity with Israel's war on terror and its intention to continue working for the release of Israel's kidnapped soldiers.

Settlements and a Palestinian state? As Peres himself told Israeli journalists in Paris, in the end, French policy on this issue is based on adherence to the principles adopted by the Quartet, which Israel also signed off on. In this sense, Peres seconded Simone Veil's statement about a shared vision. Sarkozy, along with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and, especially, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will be visiting Israel this week, create a constellation of broad support for Israel in the three key European capitals. In these rare circumstances, all that remains for Israel to do is to prove to its supporters that its president's words and its vision of a Palestinian state - which naturally entails a halt to settlement and the dismantling of illegal outposts - is indeed identical to their vision.

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)

NATO, EU should pool defence resources: Scheffer
15 March 2008, 23:14 CET

(BRUSSELS) - NATO and the European Union should pool defence resources to cut costs and ensure that equipment and troops can be found when needed, NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Saturday.

I would like to see much more pooling of our capabilities, especially in areas such as vital enablers -- transport, helicopters, or in research and development, or in harmonising force structures and training methods, he said.It is absolutely critical that all of the capabilities that we are able to generate from this pool of forces are equally available to both NATO and the European Union, Scheffer said at the Brussels Forum conference.

If we duplicate, or worse go off in different directions, we will both fail, he said.Twenty-one EU nations are also members of NATO, and many have been stretched by military commitments in security and peacekeeping operations in places like Afghanistan, Kosovo and Chad.Helicopters -- both attack and transport -- are notoriously hard to find.We need to exploit the opportunities of common capabilities -- strategic airlift, logistics -- far more energetically, Scheffer said, and look for more synergies with the European Union.Scheffer said that NATO nations must also increase defence spending to match their security ambitions, with very few of the allies spending the target two percent of gross domestic product.I think that NATO nations are soon going to have to increase NATO's budget to match the growing list of responsibilities he said.Our resources have to match our priorities, and you cannot reconcile forever more performance with a zero growth budget.2008 AFP. 2008 EUbusiness Ltd.

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.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

Egypt army to tackle bread crisis MAR 17,08

President Mubarak said all bread queues must be eliminated
Egypt's president has ordered the army to increase the production and distribution of bread, in an attempt to cope with serious shortages. Rising prices and alleged corruption have sparked recent clashes at bakeries in poorer neighbourhoods, leading to several deaths. Hosni Mubarak said eradicating bread queues was imperative.

The army and interior ministry control numerous bakeries normally used to supply bread for troops and police. Mr Mubarak issued his order to the army at a meeting of cabinet ministers on Sunday that was called to address the growing crisis, his spokesman said. Bread should be provided to the citizens and the lines should disappear, Suleiman Awwad quoted Mr Mubarak as saying. The price of wheat has more than tripled on international markets since last summer. Mr Mubarak has ordered the government to use some foreign reserves to buy additional wheat from the international market, the spokesman said. Many of Egypt's 70m population, about half of whom live below the poverty line, survive on subsidised bread. Unsubsidised bread is 10-12 times more expensive than the subsidised five-piaster loafs (less that $0.01).

OZONE DEPLETION

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

Glaciers suffer record shrinkage MAR 17,08

Some glaciers in Europe have suffered significant losses
The rate at which some of the world's glaciers are melting has more than doubled, data from the United Nations Environment Programme has shown. Average glacial shrinkage has risen from 30 centimetres per year between 1980 and 1999, to 1.5 metres in 2006. Some of the biggest losses have occurred in the Alps and Pyrenees mountain ranges in Europe. Experts have called for immediate action to reverse the trend, which is seen as a key climate change indicator.

Estimates for 2006 indicate shrinkage of 1.4 metres of water equivalent compared to half a metre in 2005. Achim Steiner, Under-Secretary General of the UN and executive director of its environment programme (UNEP), said: Millions if not billions of people depend directly or indirectly on these natural water storage facilities for drinking water, agriculture, industry and power generation during key parts of the year. There are many canaries emerging in the climate change coal mine. The glaciers are perhaps among those making the most noise and it is absolutely essential that everyone sits up and takes notice.

Litmus test

He said that action was already being taken and pointed out that the elements of a green economy were emerging from the more the money invested in renewable energies. Mr Steiner went on: The litmus test will come in late 2009 at the climate convention meeting in Copenhagen. Here governments must agree on a decisive new emissions reduction and adaptation-focused regime. Otherwise, and like the glaciers, our room for manoeuvre and the opportunity to act may simply melt away.Dr Ian Willis, of the Scott Polar Research Institute, said: It is not too late to stop the shrinkage of these ice sheets but we need to take action immediately.The findings were compiled by the World Glacier Monitoring Service which is supported by UNEP. Thickening and thinning is calculated in terms of water equivalent. laciers across nine mountain ranges were analysed.

Glaciers have been monitored for more than a century

Dr. Wilfried Haeberli, director of the service, said: The latest figures are part of what appears to be an accelerating trend with no apparent end in sight. This continues the trend in accelerated ice loss during the past two and a half decades and brings the total loss since 1980 to more than 10.5 metres of water equivalent.
During 1980-1999, average loss rates had been 0.3 metres per year. Since the turn of the millennium, this rate had increased to about half a metre per year. The record annual loss during these two decades - 0.7 metres in 1998 - has now been exceeded by three out of the past six year (2003, 2004 and 2006). On average, one metre water equivalent corresponds to 1.1 metres in ice thickness. That suggests a further shrinking in 2006 of 1.5 actual metres and since 1980 a total reduction in thickness of ice of just over 11.5 metres or almost 38 feet. In its entirety, the research includes figures from around 100 glaciers, with data showing significant shrinkage taking place in European countries including Austria, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Norway's Breidalblikkbrea glacier thinned by almost 3.1 metres in one of the largest reductions.

Monday March 17, 11:22 PM
Vatican to issue conciliatory note to Jews: sources

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict has approved a conciliatory statement for Jews upset by a Good Friday prayer that many saw as a call for their conversion, Catholic and Jewish sources said on Monday.The statement, likely to take the form of a letter from Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to the chief rabbi of Israel, is expected to be released soon but perhaps not in time for this Good Friday on March 21.Bertone is second only to the Pope in the Vatican hierarchy, meaning the clarification is coming from the highest levels, as had been requested by the Jews, the sources said.The Vatican last month revised a contested Latin prayer used by a traditionalist minority on Good Friday, the day marking Jesus Christ's crucifixion, removing a reference to Jewish blindness over Christ and deleting a phrase asking God to remove the veil from their hearts.Jews criticized the new version because it still says they should recognize Jesus Christ as the savior of all men. It asks that all Israel may be saved and Jews say it keeps an underlying call to conversion that they had wanted removed.

But Cardinal Bertone will say in the letter that the new prayer is not a call for conversion or proselytism and that there was no turning back on dialogue between the two religions.The letter is expected to stress the concept that all salvation, including that of Israel, is in God's hands and that the prayer is not a call for missionary activity.Jewish groups complained last year when the Pope issued a decree allowing wider use of the old-style Latin Mass and a missal, or prayer book, that was phased out after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which met from 1962 to 1965.They protested against the re-introduction of the old prayer for conversion of the Jews and asked the Pope to change it.Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Jewish Committee and the International Jewish Committee on Inter-religious Consultations criticized the new version of the Good Friday prayer.According to sources familiar with drafts of the letter, it will say that the Vatican still takes as its reference point the landmark 1965 declaration Nostra Aetate (In our time).

This repudiated the concept of collective Jewish guilt for the killing of Christ and urged dialogue with Jews.Rabbis around the world had asked the Vatican to clarify the new prayer. Italy's Jewish community was particularly tough, saying the new prayer was a serious step backward that posed a fundamental obstacle to continued Catholic-Jewish relations.Sources on both sides said they hoped Bertone's letter to the chief rabbi would end the controversy.

They said it would say that the Church had no intention of returning to what one source called the language of contempt it had used in the past and wanted to stress mutual respect.The prayer will be heard only by a tiny minority of Catholics who attend services on Good Friday that are held in Latin rather than in their local languages as usual.(Reporting by Philip Pullella, editing by Tim Pearce)

Vatican plans to open church in Saudi Arabia
By Malcolm Moore in Rome 2:37am GMT 18/03/2008

The Vatican is in negotiations with Saudi Arabia to open the first Catholic church in the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia's camel love affair

Archbishop Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates said talks had started a few weeks ago, in the wake of King Abdullah’s visit to Pope Benedict last November. Currently, all Saudi citizens are required by law to be Muslim, and the Mutaween, or religious police, strictly prohibits the public practice of non-Muslim religions. The last Christian priest was expelled from the kingdom in 1985.

However, the Vatican’s relationship with the Muslim world is improving rapidly, and Qatar opened its first Catholic church on Sunday. Mgr El-Hachem said a church in Saudi Arabia would be an important sign of reciprocity between the faiths.Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican's head of relations with Islam, has established a permanent body for dialogue between the religions.

However, he criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury for going too far in suggesting elements of Sharia law would inevitably be incorporated into the British legal system.