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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.

Freak Wave Wipes Out Cars, Pedestrians
3/14/2008 4:49:51 PM

http://video.nbc5i.com/player/?id=229136 (FREAK WAVE - VIDEO)

Cyclone Jokwe calms to a tropical depression Fri Mar 14, 7:06 AM

VILANKULO, Mozambique (AFP) - Cyclone Jokwe, which has wreaked havoc in Mozambique, was downgraded Friday to a tropical depression, allaying fears of a damaging hit to the tourism town of Vilankulo.However the cyclone, now heading towards Madagascar, still had Mozambique's coastal regions on yellow alert in case it regained momentum, said Joao Ribeiro, national disaster management institute deputy director.I think the cyclone's pressure has decreased due to a cold front on the Mozambican Channel, Ribeiro said.We are waiting for official information from the national meteorological services department in order to reclassify the cyclone properly, he told AFP.He warned the pressure on the cyclone could build up and return to affect coastal parts of Mozambique.

Weather experts were predicting Jokwe would hit Mozambique's southern coastal areas on Friday after it changed course on Thursday and returned to central part of the Mozambican channel. This prompted fears among residents of Vilankulo, the country's main tourist spot, of a repeat of the extensive damage caused by cyclone Favio in 2007.Cyclone Jokwe has resulted in the deaths of at least 17 people and displaced thousands more since it hit the southern African country last Saturday.

Snow, ice building up on roofs may pose problem
Fri Mar 14, 5:18 AM

TORONTO (CBC) - Toronto homeowners and business are being advised to check and remove any heavy snow from their roofs before it's too late. Steve Meltz, a roofer, said he's been busy all winter dealing with collapsed roofs, caved-in ceilings and indoor leaks.He said there is an easy way to tell if a roof is bearing too much weight.

Normally engineers, what they will do is they will build into the design when the roof gets too much weight something that will show telltale signs inside the house, and that's usually cracks in your ceiling, he said.So as soon as you see that, you know you have too much weight load on your roof.Homeowner Janine Thaler said getting rid of the snow and reinforcing her flat roof was the smartest thing she could have done, especially after the tragic roof collapse earlier this week in Quebec in which three women died.

We were so lucky

Just the other day, I told my husband we were so lucky, we called the right person and they came and fixed the problem, she said.With the snow we had on Saturday, it builds up to many, many, many feet, particularly if it's windy, because it drifts, said Mike Crellin, another Toronto roofer.Every hundred square feet [of] snow, just two feet deep, weighs half a tonne. If you have a couple inches of ice in addition, it's another half tonne, he said.Meltz said he's never been as busy as he is this winter.He just finished a big repair job, fixing the roof of a large grocery store. The company noticed signs of stress and realized there was too much snow the roof.He recommends anyone seeing signs of heavy snow to have their roof checked.

Warnings for spring flooding issued in N.B.
Thu Mar 13, 6:36 AM

NEW.BRUNSWICK (CBC) - New Brunswick's Emergency Measures Organization is warning that the winter's heavy snowfalls will likely lead to hazardous flooding conditions this spring.Officials are concerned about ice jams that will come when the Saint John River begins to break up in coming weeks, said Andy Morton, deputy director of public safety.But the real problems for the province may be later in the spring when the snow's meltwater ends up in the river system, Morton said.Once the ice is out of the system, there's usually a bit of a lull and then we'll see the impact from the snow melt, he said. That's when we'll see what we call the open water season where open water flooding will occur.Morton said there is concern about that period of time as the flood waters will have the potential of covering a large area.In 1998, there was widespread flooding from St. George to Sussex Corner in the province's south.There are more than 134 centimetres of snow on the ground in the province's northwest. It is the most snow in the region's recorded weather history.The province can still expect to get about 20 centimetres more in snowfall accumulation before the winter weather is over, said Claude C?t?, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.We're not going to get much melting of the snow pack we have right now until early to mid-April, C?t? said.

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)

High wheat prices raise grocery costs By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press Writer MAR 14,08

LUBBOCK, Texas - If you think the cost of gassing up your car is outrageous, wait until you need to restock your pantry. The price of wheat has more than tripled during the past 10 months, making Americans' daily bread — and bagels and pizza and pasta — feel a little like luxury items. And baked goods aren't the only ones getting more expensive: Experts expect some 80 percent of grocery prices will spike, too, because wheat and other grains are used to feed cattle, poultry and dairy cows.It's going to affect everything ... impact on every section of the grocery store, said Michael Bittel, senior vice president of King Arthur Flour Co. in Norwich, Vt.Consumers such as Maria Cardena feel trapped by the prices. She said the bread she buys has jumped from 69 cents a loaf to $1.09 in recent weeks.You have to buy it, said the 29-year-old mother from Lubbock, Texas. You can't go without it. Everything has gone up.The wheat market has been pushed higher by a combination of agricultural, financial and energy issues.Poor wheat harvests in Australia and parts of Europe and the U.S. have caused China and other Asian countries to buy up more American crops, which are especially attractive because of the weak U.S. dollar.

At the same time, the American crop is shrinking because of federal incentives to grow corn for ethanol. And skyrocketing gas prices make it costlier to get any wheat to market. Those same pressures have also made it more expensive to supply feed grains for livestock.At Bob's Red Mill flour company, wheat flour has typically been subject to retail price adjustments every five years. Now those increases are happening almost monthly.You look at the price and you say, Oh, my gosh,said Dennis Gilliam, executive vice president of sales and marketing for the company in Milwaukie, Ore. It keeps climbing every day.Wheat historically trades at $3 to $7 a bushel.But this week, futures of spring wheat — which produces the flour used in hearth breads, rolls, croissants, bagels and pizza crust — were close to $18 a bushel on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. They climbed as high as $24 in late February.

Consumers pay an additional penny on wheat products for each dollar the price-per-bushel increases. It's a huge impact, said Steve Mercer, spokesman for U.S. Wheat Associates, an industry group. White bread cost an average of 85 cents a pound in 1998 and $1.03 in February 2006. The price rose to $1.32 a pound last month, according to federal data.And that's on top of overall food price increases of 4 percent last year and an additional 3.5 to 4.5 percent expected this year, according to federal data. Most years see 2.5 percent increases.During the past few months, the price of cereals and baked goods has risen nearly 6 percent over the same time last year, federal officials reported.Consumers can try to minimize costs by buying fewer wheat products, but the nation's bakers, pizzerias and other flour-dependent industries don't have that luxury.Panera Bread Company is paying more than double what it paid for wheat in 2007 — an additional $26.5 million this year, according to its latest earnings report. At Kraft Foods Inc., producer of Ritz crackers and Chips Ahoy cookies, the cost of commodities including wheat were up 9 percent last year, or about $1.3 billion. Spokeswoman Lisa Gibbons called that unprecedented and said the company doesn't expect prices to ease anytime soon.

The company has offset most of those costs by finding savings elsewhere, such as switching its Miracle Whip sandwich spread from glass to cheaper plastic bottles. At the online baked goods retailer 1-800-Bakery.com, the price of wheat has meant a hiring freeze and curbing low-profit products. So far, those measures have been enough to avoid price increases. But Stephen Pazyra, the company's chief executive, said prices will go up unless there is relief soon. Sometimes the only option is to bake less. Four months ago, Tony's Old Fashioned Bakery in Midland, Texas, was paying $7.50 for a 25-pound bag of flour. This week the cost was $23 a bag — for a company that uses 25 to 30 bags a week. To stretch their dollar and flour, Carmina Aguilar said her family's bakery is making fewer pastries for display and stopped taking many last-minute orders. Meanwhile, some consumers are taking the opposite path — baking more. King Arthur's Bittel said that while store-bought bread is running between $3 and $5, a home baked loaf will cost about 60 cents. That's up from 40 cents from a year ago, but Bittel said his company nevertheless has seen growing sales of bread-making machines. Some experts said wheat prices may be close to topping out. But whether prices come down, and when, is a guessing game.

Global wheat stocks have hit a 30-year low following seven of eight years in which world consumption exceeded production. Federal projections show America's supplies at their lowest levels since the late 1940s. Earlier this week, representatives of the U.S. baking industry went to Washington to ask the Bush administration and Congress to address the record wheat prices. Lee Sanders, senior vice president of the American Bakers Association, said her group isn't asking for a wheat export moratorium, which countries such as Ukraine, Russia and Argentina have enacted. But the industry does want export policies reviewed to ensure domestic bakers have enough affordable flour.

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).

PREMEDITATED MERGER Inside the hush-hush North American Union confab State Department talks open borders, EU links March 13, 2008 1:00 am Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi 2008 WorldNetDaily

U.S. State Department

WASHINGTON -- A largely unreported meeting held at the State Department discussed integration of the U.S., Mexico and Canada in concert with a move toward a transatlantic union, linking a North American community with the European Union.The meeting was held Monday under the auspices of the Advisory Committee onInternational Economic Policy, or ACIEP. WND obtained press credentials and attended as an observer. The meeting was held under Chatham House rules that prohibit reporters from attributing specific comments to individual participants.The State Department website noted the meeting was opened by Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Daniel S. Sullivan and ACIEP Chairman Michael Gadbaw, vice president and senior counsel for General Electric's International Law & Policy group since December 1990.

WND observed about 25 ACIEP members, including U.S. corporations involved in international trade, prominent U.S. business trade groups, law firms involved with international business law, international investment firms and other international trade consultants.

No members of Congress attended the meeting.

The agenda for the ACIEP meeting was not published, and State Department officials in attendance could not give WND permission under Chatham House rules to publish the agenda.The meeting agenda included topics reviewing the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, and the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council, or TEC.The SPP, declared by the U.S., Canada and Mexico at a summit meeting in 2005, has 20 trilateral bureaucratic working groups that seek to integrate and harmonize administrative rules and regulations on a continental basis.Several participants said the premise of the SPP is to create a North American business platform to benefit North America-based multi-national companies the way the European Union benefits its own.Others noted the premise of the TEC is to create a convergence of administrative rules and regulations between Europe and North America, anticipating the creation of a Transatlantic Economic Union between the European Union and North America.Participants pointed out that transatlantic trade is currently 40 percent of all world trade. They argue that trade and non-trade barriers need to be further reduced to maintain that market share as a framework is put in place to advance transatlantic economic integration.Still, some participants argued that many corporations in North America already have moved beyond a North American focus to adopt a global perspective that transcends even the Transatlantic market.

Supply chains and markets are everywhere, one participant asserted. What's to stop global corporations from going after the cheapest labor available globally, wherever they can find it, provided the cost of transporting goods globally can be managed economically?
Other participants argued regional alliances were still important, if only to put in place the institutional bases that ultimately would lead to global governance on uniform global administrative regulations favorable to multi-national corporations.North America should be a premiere platform to establish continental institutions, a participant said. That's why we need to move the security perimeters to include the whole continent, especially as we open the borders between North American countries for expanding free trade.One presentation on the agenda identified four reasons why administrative rules and regulations need to be integrated by SPP in North America and by the Transatlantic Economic Council, bridging together European Union and North American markets:

Standardization – to keep prices low and productivity high;

Investment – for every $1 traded, $4 is invested; right now 75 percent of investment in the U.S. comes from the EU, and 52 percent of the investment in the EU comes from the U.S.; Productivity Improvements – to lower production costs and stimulate trade; and
Open Borders – to facilitate the free movement of labor to markets where employment opportunities are available. The discussion pointed out the SPP trilateral working groups and the Transatlantic Economic Council were being supported by top-level Cabinet officers and the heads of state in both the EU and in North America.

Progress in EU-U.S. regulatory integration was noted in financial market coordination, investment rule cohesion, trade security measures and efforts undertaken recently to preserve intellectual property rights.Before the meeting began, concerns were raised informally by participants worried that the Ohio Democratic Party primary had prompted both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to talk of renegotiating NAFTA.Participants at the State Department meeting pointed out U.S. political candidates could be expected to argue protectionist themes opposed to global economic integration as a tactic, without necessarily being committed to taking aggressive steps once in office.The political dialogue misses the point of economic reality, one participant argued. There is a J-curve correlation between when a currency like the U.S. dollar depreciates and when exports kick in to increase. We should accelerate the J-curve and our discussion about it, to help the local politics catch up with the international reality.Part of the discussion was devoted to concerns that national regulators in North America and Europe were too reluctant to abandon provincial regulatory advantages.Regulators by nature are advocates, and they are hard to move, one participant grumbled. What we need is more diplomats and negotiators to identify solutions, otherwise the bureaucrats will bog down the progress we need to see coming out of the SPP and TEC.North America is already an integrated continental economy and a continental-wide business platform, another said. What we need now is more regulatory convergence. Harmonized should mean that once approved, the same set of administrative regulations and procedures ought to be ready throughout NAFTA, SPP and the TEC.

As WND previously reported, the Transatlantic Economic Council, or TEC, was created by President Bush at an April 30 summit meeting at the White House with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the current president of the European Council, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.WND also reported the Transatlantic Policy Network, a non-governmental organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels and advised by a bi-partisan congressional policy group chaired by Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, has called for the creation of a Transatlantic Common Market between the U.S. and the European Union by 2015.A complete membership list of the current 60-person Advisory Committee on International Policy is published on the State Department website.ACIEP members include corporate officers from General Electric, Exxon Mobil, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Archer Daniels Midland, United Parcel Service, Citibank, Proctor & Gamble, Hunt Oil, CMS Energy, Boeing, 3M, Goldman Sachs and Cargill.The most recent Summary of Discussions published on the Department of State website was for the Dec. 18 ACIEP meeting.A published article on the State Department website includes photographs of the Dec. 18 ACIEP meeting, listing by name several participants who were photographed in attendance.

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

Dollar demise: 111 per barrel of oil and 1,000 per ounce of gold 14.03.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru

The euro reached another high in London – 1.5624 per dollar. The demise of the dollar accelerated after Carlyle Capital Corp. said that it defaulted on $16.6 billion of its debts. The fear of new losses from the mortgage crisis and the declining dollar rate led to the collapse of stock markets. The cost of gold reached the level of $1,000 per ounce for the first time in history. Crude oil prices set another record too: West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for April delivery was up to $110 and then $100 dollars per barrel.

Japan’s Nikkei index dropped by 3.3 percent on March 13, Britain’s FTSE 100 – by 1.5 percent, Europe’s DJ Stoxx – by 1.3 percent, Russia’s RTS – by 1 percent. According to The Wall Street Journal, many chief financial officers of US companies believe that the recession in the US economy has already started. They say that the economic situation in the United States will not improve in 2008. A survey conducted by Duke University showed that more and more finance chiefs tend to become pessimistic about the US economy. The survey also revealed that the current recession in the USA would be more serious than the previous two recessions, each of which lasted eight months. Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at the Bank of New York, said he expects the dollar to keep dropping ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting next week. Speculation has been growing that the Fed might cut rates by as much as three-quarters of a percentage point. Other currencies have rallied too far, too fast, Woolfolk said. The Fed has turned a blind eye to inflation, and as the expectations fall for the U.S. economy and global equities, we will continue to see that undermine the dollar.The yen's strength is bad news for Japan's economy, which has been showing signs of weakening, because it makes exporters' products more expensive abroad and erodes the value of their overseas earnings, the AP reports. Japanese leaders quickly cautioned against instability in currency markets, but made no mention of any intervention to stem the dollar's slide. Prepared by Dmitry Sudakov
Pravda.ru

Stocks retreat on credit fears By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer MAR 14,08

NEW YORK - Wall Street plunged anew Friday after a near meltdown at Bear Stearns Cos. handed investors the unwelcome confirmation that the credit market's troubles are far from over. Word that the investment bank needed rescuing touched off a wave of selling that left each of the major indexes down more than 1.5 percent on the day; the Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 200 points. The plan by the New York Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co. offers Bear Stearns relief from a sudden liquidity crunch that analysts surmised could have felled the investment bank. But the company's position on the precipice of financial disaster left many investors shaken and spoiled some hopes that troubles in the moribund credit market are on the mend.Stocks showed moderate increases in the early going after a Labor Department report showed the Consumer Price Index remained flat for February. Wall Street has been expecting inflation would show an increase. But the gains quickly disappeared after investors learned about the severity of troubles at Bear Stearns.

This is another chapter in a book rather than a one-act play, said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors. He said the market is worried that further trouble in the credit markets will emerge and that the ramifications of the credit strains and a slowing economy could result in recession.
Investors thought they are probably more than norm than the exception and maybe this is the tip of the iceberg, he said, referring to Bear Stearns. Our sense is that this is sort of an amoeba here and this is sort of a broadly spreading situation.The Dow fell 194.65, or 1.60 percent, to 11,951.09. The Dow had been down as much as 313 points.Broader stock indicators also declined but pulled off their lows. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 27.34, or 2.08 percent, to 1,288.14, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 51.12, or 2.26 percent, to 2,212.49.

For the week, the major indexes were mixed, with the Dow showing a modest gain, the Standard & Poor's 500 index slipping and the Nasdaq composite index showing no change, finishing exactly where it began.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 16.81, or 2.47 percent, to 662.90.Bond prices jumped as stocks retreated. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.42 percent from 3.53 percent late Thursday.

Elisa Parisi, economic analyst at RGE Monitor.com, contends the bond market has recently shown more concern about the economy.The stock market is increasingly catching up with signals from the bond market. Somehow the stock market could delude itself into thinking that they have nothing to do with the mortgage fallout, she said.

Comments from the Fed might have helped corral some of investors' nervousness Friday. The central bank said it voted unanimously to sign off on the arrangement between JPMorgan and Bear Stearns and that it is ready to provide further resources to stave off further credit troubles. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke also said Friday he would do what was possible to aid struggling homeowners.Still, investors remained nervous. The Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility index, known as the VIX, and often referred to as the fear index, jumped 18.7 percent.Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 5 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.86 billion shares compared with 1.84 billion shares traded Thursday.The Bear Stearns news reversed the early positive sentiment from the inflation data, said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Avalon Partners. There had been nervousness about Bear Stearns for some time and now the market's concerns about the company have been proven true.Friday's stock market pullback comes a day after an anxious stock market rebounded from an early plunge following a Standard & Poor's prediction that financial companies are nearing the end of the massive asset write-downs that have pummeled the stock and credit markets for months. The S&P projection had given investors some hope that the seemingly unrelenting losses from the mortgage and credit crisis could have been bottoming out.Bear Stearns woes rekindled investors' nervousness about the troubles in the financial sector. The company's shares skidded $27, or 47 percent, to $30, while JP Morgan fell $1.57, or 4.1 percent, to $36.54. Other financial names declined as well. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. fell $6.73, or 15 percent, to $39.26 and Merrill Lynch & Co. slid $2.75, or 5.9 percent, to $43.51. Stock market investors Friday were also eyeing the dwindling dollar and events in the soaring commodities market. Gold prices touched another fresh record Friday. Light, sweet crude, which set a fresh record Thursday, fell 12 cents to $110.21 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil came close to its record of $111 set Thursday. The market's fall Friday caps a big week for the markets. On Monday, stocks continued a sell-off from last week, falling more than 1 percent as oil again moved into record territory. Then, on Tuesday, stocks surged after the Fed said it would put up $200 billion to loosen tight credit markets. The Dow surged nearly 417 points, its biggest one-day percentage gain in five years. Stocks posted more modest losses and gains Wednesday and Thursday as investors speculated over how much help the Fed's plan would ultimately provide. On top of Friday's concerns, Wall Street remains anxious for Tuesday's Fed meeting at which the central bank is still expected to lower interest rates. While Wall Street would welcome cheaper access to cash to help consumers and businesses, the freer flow of money could would likely fan inflation concerns and could further weaken the dollar.

The rate reductions make the dollar less attractive to investors than, for example, the higher-yield euro. On Thursday new consumer price data from the euro zone left many observers saying the European Central Bank will not soon reduce rates. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average finished down 1.54 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 closed down 1.07 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.75 percent, and France's CAC-40 lost 0.82 percent. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com

WE WILL SOON SEE IF OBAMA IS FOR ISRAEL OR NOT WHEN HE GETS IN POWER.

Obama tries to allay Jewish concerns By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 14, 7:57 AM ET

CLEVELAND - Barack Obama has a solid Senate record in support of Israel. He sings the praises, too, of Jewish civil rights workers who fought for blacks' rights in the U.S. And he says he wants to patch up a historically powerful bond between the African-American and Jewish communities.Yet there is unease among some Jewish voters about the Illinois senator and Democratic presidential contender.

Why?

Part of it is a division between blacks and Jews that's been growing for years, a split that Obama has challenged fellow blacks to confront.Another element is the praise Obama has received from Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, whose disparaging comments about Judaism are toxic to many voters. Obama's own pastor has a history of supporting Palestinian causes.And there are questions about Obama advisers who some U.S. Jews see as less than ardent advocates of Israel.Finally, there are rumors and outright lies about the candidate that have gained an audience through repetition in e-mails and on Web sites.Obama is working hard to win over this vocal, powerful and reliably Democratic voting bloc.Jews have accounted for about 4 percent of Democratic primary voters so far this year, and Clinton has held a 52-46 percent edge over Obama among them, according to exit polls.

On the day of the Mississippi primary this week, Obama took time to call Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to express condolences over the deadly terrorist attack on a rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem. He also reaffirmed his support for Israel's right to defend itself and for its commitment to negotiations with Palestinians and underscored the need to stop Iran from supporting terrorism or getting nuclear weapons.The effort by the candidate and his advisers to calm disquiet among Jewish voters began more than a year ago.The Jewish community cannot be taken for granted, said Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida, one of Obama's chief surrogates before Jewish audiences. Wexler sent an e-mail last March to supporters urging them not to be swayed by rumors, a message he repeated during a recent forum in Cleveland.Obama used a speech in January at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church in Atlanta to chastise blacks for latent anti-Semitism. And during a recent debate, Obama alluded to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, one black and two Jewish civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964 as they worked together on a campaign to register black voters.You know, I would not be sitting here were it not for a whole host of Jewish-Americans who supported the civil rights movement and helped to ensure that justice was served in the South, Obama said. And that coalition has frayed over time around a whole host of issues, and part of my task in this process is making sure that those lines of communication and understanding are reopened.

Still, there remains some nervousness over Senator Obama among Jewish voters, said Rabbi Joshua Skoff, who attended a private meeting with Obama in Cleveland last month. The rumors still have some legs.At the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, President Howard Friedman said Obama's Senate record on Israel has given his critics no reason to doubt him.But that record is thin. Just a little over three years ago, Obama was a state legislator in Illinois. Right now, Obama's big problem with the Jewish community is similar to his problem with other communities: He's just not clearly defined among any voter groups, said Kenneth Wald, director of Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida-Gainesville. The fact he has a name that sounds Muslim and has a Muslim father underlines questions about what we do and what we do not know about him.Some critics on the Internet have gone far beyond raising questions. Contrary to some e-mails, Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. He took his oath of office on the family Bible, not a Quran. There has been a concerted effort, largely out of the conservative Web sites and anonymous e-mails, says Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, which set up a Stop The Smears Web site to correct the rumors. I don't think it moves tons and tons of votes, but at the fringes, if left unchecked, it could move a few, he said.

In the private meeting in Cleveland with 100 Jewish leaders last month, Obama talked about his 2005 trip to Israel, his views on a Palestinian state and regional Middle East security. He was quickly questioned about his own pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and an award his church magazine gave last year that said Farrakhan truly epitomized greatness.Farrakhan is intolerable to Jewish voters because of a history of anti-Semitic remarks, like calling Judaism a gutter religion.Obama, who has rejected support from Farrakhan, assured voters his Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago does not endorse such messages. I have never heard an anti-Semitic (remark) made inside of our church. I have never heard anything that would suggest anti-Semitism on the part of the pastor, Obama said in a transcript of his remarks released later. He (Wright) is like an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with. And I suspect there are some of the people in this room who have heard relatives say some things that they don't agree with — including, on occasion, directed at African-Americans.Obama took the title of his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope from a Wright sermon. But last year, he asked Wright not to offer a prayer at his campaign's kickoff in Springfield, Ill. The questioners in Cleveland also raised Obama's use of foreign policy advisers the doubters say are foes of Israel, including former President Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Obama replied that Brzezinski is an informal, not a key, adviser, and I do not share his views with respect to Israel.He said he has other foreign policy advisers from the Clinton administration who share his belief that Israel has to remain a Jewish state with special ties to the U.S. and that the Palestinians have been irresponsible. And he said critics' e-mails never mention Lester Crown, a member of his national finance committee who is considered about as hawkish and tough when it comes to Israel as anybody in the country.

This is where I get to be honest, and I hope I'm not out of school here, Obama told Jewish leaders at the private meeting. I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering, pro-Likud approach to Israel that you're anti-Israel, and that can't be the measure of our friendship with Israel.On the Net: National Jewish Democratic Council:
http://njdc.typepad.com/stopthesmears/

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)

EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK)

REVELATION 18:10
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.

USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic 13.03.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru

The US administration has been conducting secret talks on the deployment of a mobile radar of its missile defense system in another European country – Turkey. The USA may start official negotiations on the matter during the NATO summit. For the time being it is known that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates touched upon the issue during his recent visit to Turkey. The new plans of the US administration may seriously aggravate its relations with Moscow. USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic.

The fact of USA’s negotiations with Turkey has been officially confirmed only on March 13, 2008. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters of Gates’s recent visit to Ankara, the capital of Turkey. US and Turkish officials discussed the military operation of the Turkish Army in Iraq. In addition, Morrell said, the parties discussed plans on the establishment of the missile defense system in Turkey. John Rood, acting Undersecretary of State, previously rejected the fact of the negotiations. Rood particularly stated in Washington that the USA was not planning any missile defense talks with any countries other than Poland and the Czech Republic. As it turns out, Robert Gates urged Turkey to cooperate in the creation of the third center of the missile defense system. The Pentagon head promised to render financial help to Turkey in terms of army modernization. According to Gates, investments in Turkey’s defense sector may reach one billion dollars. The US-based Missile Defense Agency intends to deploy a mobile radar system in Turkey, the Austrian newspaper Die Presse wrote. For the time being, the USA uses only one such radar, which is located in California. Apparently, the systems, which the USA intends to build in Poland and the Czech Republic, will not be able to protect all allies. Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey may suffer from a possible missile attack from Iran, US officials believe. The NATO summit is to discuss the problem at a meeting in Bucharest, in April. Translated by Dmitry Sudakov Pravda.ru

I DON'T KNOW WHY AMERICA WON'T KEEP ITS NOSE OUT OF ISRAELIS BUSINESS. THEY WILL PAY IN THE FUTURE.

US mediates first Mideast peace meeting By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer MAR 14,08

JERUSALEM - The Bush administration's Mideast envoy pushed Israel and the Palestinians to speed up peace negotiations Friday at the first meeting the U.S. has attended since talks resumed nearly four months ago. Lt. Gen. William Fraser III took a hands-off approach during his first few months on the job, preferring to let moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert negotiate on their own.But the talks stalled after an upsurge in violence between the sides last month, and Fraser came from Washington to oversee the meeting at Jerusalem's King David Hotel between Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Amos Gilad, a lower-level Israeli Defense Ministry official.We examined areas where the parties are not meeting their commitments and the reasons why, and explored ways to accelerate the process, Fraser said in a statement released through the U.S. consulate.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that not enough has been done by the Israelis or the Palestinians to demonstrate their commitment to peace.I have not hidden the fact that I think that there is a lot of room for improvement on both sides concerning both their obligations, Rice said in Santiago, Chile, during a two-day visit to Latin America.Frankly, not nearly enough has happened to demonstrate that the Israelis and Palestinians Without following 'road map' obligations and without improvements on the ground, it's very hard to sustain this process.Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians have fulfilled their obligations under the road map peace plan promoted by President Bush, who called a regional summit in Annapolis, Md. in November with the goal of seeing a deal struck by the time he leaves office.In the plan's first stage, the Palestinians were to dismantle armed groups. The Israelis were to freeze construction in West Bank settlements and remove some of the more than 100 unauthorized outposts set up by settlers since the 1990s.Israel recently announced several new building projects in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, areas the Palestinians want for their future state. The Israeli moves angered the Palestinians and were criticized by the U.S. and the international community.Israeli defense officials said they were concerned Fraser might reprimand Israel at Friday's meeting. Instead, his statement spoke of failings by both the Palestinians and Israelis.A statement from Fayyad's office said he was frustrated by Israel's failure to implement a settlement moratorium.

A freeze on settlement activity is crucial to preserving the possibility of a Palestinian state, the statement quoted him as saying. By freeze, I mean not one more brick.It went on to praise Fraser, saying he showed seriousness and commitment.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Israel's decision to send Gilad to deal with Fayyad rather than Defense Minister Ehud Barak himself showed a lack of respect.It would have been very appropriate for Barak to go. Maybe Barak couldn't go because he is busy planning more (settlement construction) and more incursions, Erekat said.

Israel's Defense Ministry released no official statement after the meeting, but Israel Radio quoted Barak aides as saying that his attendance never had been scheduled and there was no slight intended.Palestinian militants launched another four rockets from Gaza into Israel Friday, causing no injuries, the Israeli military said. Palestinians said an Israeli helicopter attacked a rocket launching site in northern Gaza, but caused no casualties. The military confirmed a strike but gave no details. During the strike the Israeli aircraft was hit by Palestinian gunfire, Hamas said. Israeli security officials said the chopper suffered only light damage and landed safely in Israel with its crew unharmed. AP writer Anne Flaherty reporting from Santiago, Chile, contributed to this article.

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.

READ VERSE 38:6 WHOS IN WITH THE RUSSIA - MUSLIMS WHEN THEY MARCH BUT GERMANY..

Germany to host conference on help for Palestinians MAR 14,08

BERLIN (AFP) - Berlin will host an international conference on assistance to the Palestinian police and judiciary at the start of June, a German foreign ministry spokesman said Friday. According to a statement from the ministry, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has welcomed the idea of the conference, which will look at ways to help authorities in the Palestinian territories prepare themselves for statehood.German Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the conference to help establish the rule of law in the Palestinian territories. Foreign ministers from Europe, the United States and Russia and UN and Arab delegates are invited.Merkel is due to visit Israel on Sunday and on Friday she talked to Abbas by telephone. The Palestinian leader briefed her on the state of the peace process between his authority and the Israeli government, the ministry said.Abbas asked the chancellor to bring up with Israel the question of Jewish settlement building, which considerably complicates bilateral negotiations and the application of the road map,according to the statement.The so-called road map was drawn up by Israel and the Palestinians under the auspices of the Quartet -- the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia -- as a guide towards a two-state solution to their crisis.

It forsees an end to Palestinian militant attacks on Israel and an end to Israeli raids and settlement building on Palestinian land, but has seen scant progress since it was drawn up in 2003 amid ongoing violence.The peace process was further complicated when the radical Islamist group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip after fighting with Abbas' Fatah movement. Hamas and Israel do not recognise each other.Merkel in turn promised to brief Abbas on her return from the visit, which will be a first of its kind to involve several senior German ministers taking part in direct intergovernmental discussions, the statement continued.The chancellor will become the first German leader to address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.

Islamic summit seeks dialogue with Christian world By Daniel Flynn and Lamine Ghanmi MAR 14,08

DAKAR (Reuters) - World Muslim leaders on Friday condemned extremism and terrorism as incompatible with Islam and proposed a high-level international meeting to promote a dialogue of civilizations with the Christian world. Leaders of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which represents 1.5 billion Muslims from across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, made the Dakar Declaration after a two-day summit in Senegal's capital.

We continue to strongly condemn all forms of extremism and dogmatism which are incompatible with Islam, a religion of moderation and peaceful coexistence, the declaration said.We believe that it is important to plan along such lines a preparatory phase by organizing a major international gathering on Islamic-Christian dialogue that involves governments among other players, it said.The Muslim body condemned acts of terrorism committed in the name of Islam, one of the biggest preoccupations of the international community since the September 11, 2001 attacks by al Qaeda in the United States.But, in an apparent reference to the Palestinian fight against Israel, it said terrorism should be differentiated from legitimate resistance against foreign occupation.As is customary at an Islamic summit, leaders of the OIC -- the second largest inter-governmental bloc after the United Nations -- had harsh words for Israel, condemning it for war crimes against Palestinian civilians.The conference denounces the current and increasing Israeli military campaign against the Palestinian people and the serious violation of human rights and war crimes including the killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians, an OIC statement said.It called Israel's collective punishment of civilians a violation of international human rights law and said the occupying forces must be held responsible for these war crimes.

The body also expressed concern over what it called increasing pressure on Iran in its nuclear dispute with the West, which it said should be resolved peacefully. It also called for Iraq's sovereignty and security to be respected.

PROGRESSIVE PATH

The summit denounced economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. government against Syria for supporting anti-U.S. groups in the Middle East. But this was the only anti-U.S. public statement.The U.S. envoy to the OIC, Sada Cumber, said he saw the Islamic body moving to defuse a potential clash of civilizations stoked by Western fears over Islamic terrorism and Muslims' anger at perceived insults against their faith.The Islamic Ummah (community) is moving in a moderate direction and almost on a progressive path, we're all moving in the same path, said Cumber, who was appointed by President George W. Bush last month.Cumber said the risk from religious bigotry and extremism came not so much from a clash of civilizations, as from a clash of ignorance on the part of Muslims to learn more about America and us, the Americans, to learn more about Islam.Muslim leaders acknowledged the challenge.We the Kings and heads of state and governments of the OIC renew our pledge to work harder to make sure Islam's true image is better projected the world over ... to combat an Islamophobia with designs to distort our religion, their communique said.The summit called on wealthy member states to finance a $10 billion solidarity fund aimed at fighting poverty, especially in Africa. Only $2.6 billion has been contributed so far, to the disappointment of African leaders.

If it's true that we belong to the same community ... then we should be showing more solidarity to each other, Guinea's prime minister, Lansana Kouyate, told reporters. But the summit approved a project to build a railway stretching across the continent from Senegal to Sudan. One success on the sidelines of the summit was a peace agreement between Sudan and Chad, meant to end cross-border rebel attacks in a region that includes Sudan's war-torn Darfur. But Chadian rebels said they would fight on regardless. After days of difficult negotiations, OIC leaders approved a new charter to give a more active role to the body, which has in the past been accused of failing to back up words with actions. (Additional reporting by Alistair Thomson, Emmanuel Braun and Gabriela Matthews; Writing by Nick Tattersall and Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Jon Boyle) (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/)

TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
Hamas terrorists brag of hiding behind kids Palestinian people have developed methods of death and death-seeking' March 13, 2008
10:19 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily

Hamas MP Fathi Hammad

A prominent member of Hamas, a recognized terrorist group, has been captured on video boasting of using women, children and the elderly as human shields in its firefights with Israeli soldiers.WND reported at the time, just two weeks ago that the Israeli government had described Hamas' use of human shields as Israel pressed ahead with its battles against rocket-fire from Gaza into Israel.Israel launched ground and air assaults on Hamas positions in Gaza following massive rocket bombardments of Jewish cities by Palestinian terrorists at the end of February and early March.Hamas had been firing long-range Grad rockets at the strategic port city of Ashkelon, home to about 125,000 Israelis. Ashkelon houses a major electrical plant that powers most of the Gaza Strip.During the fighting, focused largely on the minor Hamas infrastructure in the city of Jabaliya about one mile into the Gaza Strip, an Israeli commander speaking to WND Jerusalem Bureau Chief Aaron Klein from inside Gaza said Hamas has been drawing Israeli forces into populated civilian areas, shooting at Jewish fighters from occupied civilian homes while women and children were inside.Now a video posted by the Middle East Media Research Institute revealS Hamas MP Fathi Hammad boasting of using such human shields.

The video, which was aired on Al-Aqsa TV on Feb. 29, revealed Hammad saying the enemies of Allah do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land.The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine, he continued. It is as if they were saying to the Zionest enemy: We desire death like you desire life.
WND earlier reported on once case in which Hamas sent a 10-year old boy into the battlefield in full view of the Israeli military to remove a gun from a felled terrorist and then pass the weapon to another terrorist. The commander at the scene said he ordered his troops to halt their fire as the Israeli military watched the boy remove and then transfer the weapon to another gunman.Another commander speaking to WND said Hamas snipers used the windows of a Jabiliya house that was clearly occupied by women and children to shoot at his unit.The aim is to draw us into killing civilians to bring about international pressure to end our operation, the commander said, speaking on condition his name be withheld due to Israeli military restrictions on media interviews by fighting forces.MEMRI is an independent, non-profit organizations that translates and analyzes the media of the Middle East.

LIKE I ALWAYS SAY ISLAM IS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION THAT THEY ABUSE THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. SOME PEACEFUL RELIGION.

WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
DEATH CULT How radical Islam abuses women and children March 06, 2008 11:00 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily

Almost everyone agrees that there's nothing more beautiful than a young child – the brightness of spirit, the innocence, the natural intelligence are breathtaking.What, then, possesses an angelic little girl to chant confidently in front of television cameras: When I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber? Or a little boy to exclaim: We will destroy the chair of the despots, so they will taste the flame of death? What has happened to these children in their earliest, most vulnerable and tender years to poison their souls and set many on the path ultimately to madness and murder? What goes on in their homes, schools and mosques that induces them to strap on explosive belts and kill themselves and countless unsuspecting innocents in a pizza parlor?

How, after growing up in a home with a mother and father and brothers and sisters, can a young man suddenly stab his own sister to death – knifing her not just once or twice, but dozens and dozens of times, like a maniacal serial murderer – just because she supposedly held hands or was seen in public with a male who wasn't a relative? In a spine-straightening investigative report titled CHILD SACRIFICE, WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine shines a 1,000-watt spotlight on the mind-numbing barbarism of radical Islam.

Subtitled, How the Islamist death cult is destroying a generation of youth, this groundbreaking edition unveils shocking insight into what's really behind:Reports of children's television programs that feature demonic clones of Mickey Mouse, Sesame Street characters and other kids' favorites, in which the lovable stars teach children lies, hatred and murder.Reports of rape victims being flogged and imprisoned, as when a Saudi court recently sentenced a 20-year-old female victim, who had been gang-raped by seven men, to 200 lashes and six months in prison for the crime of being in a car with a man not her husband, brother, or father. (Thanks to intense international pressure, Saudi King Abdullah finally pardoned the rape victim.)Reports of sermons delivered by top Islamic clerics openly calling for mass murder, such as this one by Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabita, former acting rector of the Islamic University in Gaza: O brother believers, the criminals, the terrorists, are the Jews, who have butchered our children, orphaned them, widowed our women and desecrated our holy places and sacred sites. They are the terrorists. They are the ones who must be butchered and killed, as Allah the Almighty said: Fight them: Allah will torture them at your hands, and will humiliate them and will help you to overcome them, and will relieve the minds of the believers ... Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them …

Reports – perhaps 5,000 every year, according to the U.N. – of honor killings in which fathers, brothers or mothers brutally murder their own daughter/sister merely for being seen in public with a male or similar offense. For example, two Jordanian brothers used axes to hack to death their two sisters, aged 20 and 27, in an honor killing after the older sister left home to marry a man without her family's permission. Her younger sister later ran away to join her. It was a brutal scene, one official said, according to the Jordan Times. One victim's head was nearly cut clean off.

Reports of young girls tortured and raped into converting to Islam. Mary, an 18-year-old Egyptian girl, was brutally abducted, raped and held captive for nine months by Islamic kidnappers who poured sulfuric acid on her wrist to remove the tattooed cross she wore as a statement of her Christian faith. Along with enduring the sexual abuse, she was required to fast, pray and memorize portions of the Quran. Though at first she refused to wear the traditional Islamic veil, Mary later told reporters, They warned me that if I removed it they would throw acid on my face. Eventually, under unbearable pressure and abuse from her captors, she signed official papers of conversion to Islam. Reports of maniacal religious police, such as those in Saudi Arabia who on March 11, 2002, allowed 15 young girls to die horrible deaths when a fire broke out in their school in Mecca. The religious police literally stopped firefighters from saving the girls because they weren't dressed in the proper Islamic way for girls and women to be seen outdoors. With helpless firemen watching, the religious police literally beat the girls – those who were not wearing their headscarves or abayas – back into the inferno.

This is full-fledged, criminally pathological madness, says WND and Whistleblower Managing Editor David Kupelian. It's rooted in a lethal combination of hatred and insane philosophy, both so deeply implanted and so massively reinforced that there is barely a person reading these words that can even begin to comprehend such extreme child abuse.

Issue highlights include:No more Islamo-fascist terror states! by Joseph Farah.Palestinian kids raised for war, documenting how children are taught to hate and desire to kill Jews through Sesame Street-type TV shows.Kindergarteners choose death for the sake of Allah – depicting how armed 5-year-old boys in camouflage and ski masks declare devotion to jihad. 6-year-old recruited as suicide bomber.Mickey Mouse promotes jihad, in which the Disney character's evil twin teaches kids to fight for Islam's world domination. Kids' hate letters win contest – profiling a competition rewarding the angriest hate-letters written by Palestinian school children. Pentagon sees 5 million child terrorists in Iraq – shocking report shows the next generation of children could join jihad if reconstruction efforts fail.Al-Qaida training young boys as terrorists – newly captured propaganda tapes reveal debauched strategy of recruiting, training children.Hi, my name is Ahmed and I want to be a suicide bomber by Aaron Klein, in which a recruited suicide bomber talks about serving Allah by blasting unbelievers to hell

Toddler terrorist touted by jihadis.Mom of martyr: Sacrifice more of my children.Understanding the Islamist death cult by David Kupelian, who explains why devout jihadists sacrifice their own children.Palestinian official: Women must martyr themselves, in which Islamic authorities praise females who make Jews – the brothers of apes and pigs – taste the bitterness of death.Mother sad daughter didn't carry out bombing, a shocking interview with the mother of a 21-year-old Palestinian arrested on her way to carry out suicide attack at hospital.Female suicide bombers: Why they do it by Marylou Barry.Honor killing survivor describes ordeal by Jamie Glazov, a heart-rending profile of the author of Burned Alive, who tells how her own family tried repeatedly to kill her

A tender story of death by stoning by Yagmur Dursun, a stunning eyewitness account of her own sister's execution by stoning for the crime of getting pregnant out of wedlock.Islam's abuse of women by Parvin Darabi, a devastating look at Islam's barbaric and inhumane treatment of the fairer sex.