EU PROJECT - BIOMETRICS IVITED TO

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.

Warm weather means flood warnings across Ontario
Tue Apr 1, 8:27 AM

CALGARY (CBC) - The return of spring warmth has prompted warnings of another weather concern - flooding.Toronto is expected to reach a high on Tuesday of 14 C, and with a significant snow pack still on the ground, provincial officials say that could mean heavy flooding in watershed near London, Ont., Peterborough, right across eastern Ontario and stretching as far north as Elliot Lake and North Bay.Ian Cameron, a specialist at the Surface Water Monitoring Centre in Peterborough, said the combination of warm weather and rain is the worst.We could be into flooding this weekend, if the temperatures are going to be in the mid-teens and we get rainfall with that, he said.The centre uses 600 remote sensors to monitor river and lake levels, and Minister of Natural Resources Donna Cansfield said those cameras should be able to give people 48 hours notice of a flood threat.We want to ensure they have good, accurate solid information, so they can make some good decisions about whether they should evacuate or what they can do, said Cansfield.

Thunderstorms cause wind damage and outages in parts of Oklahoma and Louisiana Mon Mar 31, 11:43 AM By The Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY - Strong storms that may have included tornadoes caused scattered damage and power outages in parts of Oklahoma early Monday. No injuries were reported. The National Weather Service posted severe thunderstorm watches and warnings for parts of Oklahoma and Kansas. A tornado watch was issued for much of Oklahoma, including the Tulsa and Oklahoma City areas, and flash flood watches were issued because of heavy rain. The weather service said it hadn't confirmed yet whether the early morning Oklahoma damage was caused by tornadoes or by high wind. There were scattered reports of roof damage and several roads in northwest Oklahoma County were closed because of high water. Oklahoma Gas & Electric says several thousand customers were blacked out and dozens of utility poles were toppled. A storm in northwest Louisiana on Sunday afternoon damaged a mobile home park at the town of Provencal. Two people were injured. Also on Sunday, one man drowned in southeastern Texas when an overflowing creek swept a car off a highway near San Augustine. The weather service reported up to 30 centimetres of rain fell on the area over a two-day period.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)

ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.

The World's Greatest Treasure Hunt Chris Mitchell
CBN News Mideast Bureau Chief April 1, 2008

CBNNews.com - In 1981, Indiana Jones made his big-screen debut re-igniting world-wide interest in history's most hunted relic: the Ark of the Covenant.That same year, two real-life raiders went on their own search for the Ark. There were no Nazis and no snake pits - like the movie.Just two renegade Rabbis on a mission. Their search came to an end in Jerusalem.God signed, like with a pen, the location where the Ark of the Covenant was located. You can see it today even, on the rock, said Gershon Salomon, Founder of Temple Mount Faithful.

Masada and Dead Sea

Designed by God, created by Moses, and revered by the Israelites, from the Sinai Desert to the Temple of Solomon, the Ark of the Covenant was the place of meeting between God and man.In 586 B.C., Israel was conquered by the Babylonians. The Temple was raided by Nebuchadnezzar's army and the Ark disappeared from the pages of history.What happened, why did this most dramatic instrument of God's glory and power in human history suddenly vanish?, questioned Joel Rosenberg, Author of Dead Heat.All what we know is legends, said Archaeologist Gabriel Barkay who believes the legends are what makes so many people interested in finding the Ark.Those legends stretch all over the ancient world - starting with Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon.The Ark of the Covenant was made of wood and it was gold plated. Such an amount of gold would be melted down at the time of war immediately after it was captured, Barkay told CBN.When asked if he thought the Ark itself was destroyed at that time, Barkay told CBN that is what he believed.Jewish writings say the prophet Jeremiah hid the Ark on Mount Nebo in Jordan. Another legend claims it was smuggled to Ethiopia by the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.In Israel, most Rabbis agree that when it comes to the Ark all roads lead back to Jerusalem. They say the Ark never left the city. To them, the so-called Lost Ark was never really lost.

On June 7, 1967, Israeli troops recaptured Jerusalem in the Six-day War. The Western Wall was in Jewish hands and those hands were ready to dig.Archaeologists exposed parts of the wall that had been buried for 2000 years. Not all of the digging was done legally. In 1981, two of Israel's highest-ranking Rabbis, Shlomo Goren and Yehuda Getz picked up their pick-axes and started chiseling their way under the Temple Mount.And he knew that at the end of the gate he will come to the secret room where the ark of covenant is located, said Salomon, who was also one of the paratroopers who liberated the Western Wall in 1967.Salomon was there 14 years later the night Rabbi Getz opened a secret passage in the Wall and remembers their conversation.It was after midnight. And he called me and said to me, Gershon, come immediately, don't wait, your dream is going to be fulfilled. What happened?, I told him. The Messiah came? And he told me, He is coming almost.What came next was a subterranean slugftest according to Salomon.Arab demonstrations, you know? The Israelis are coming to build their temple underneath the dome of the rock.At the end of the day, the passage to the Temple Mount was permanently sealed by Israeli Police.No doubt, I tell you. No doubt, we needed just two days more to come to the place where the ark of the covenant is located, Salomon explained.

The work was done without archaeological supervision and when I was the official archaeologist of Jerusalem, I decided to stop the work, said Archaeologist Dan Bahat, who directed the excavation of the Western Wall tunnels.According to him, the search for the Ark stops with Jeremiah 3:16.Prophet Jeremiah says, there will come a day when the ark of the covenant will not be seen, nor will it be visited which means that somehow, he sees the days when it will not be there. In other words, this was a hint from God. Don't look for the Ark of the Covenant! Scholars may not agree on the fate of the Ark but many of them agree on one thing: it's discovery could set in motion another event that's been 2000 years in the making - the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple.Perhaps when it's time to build the third temple, the second temple treasures will be found. Why? Because in Ezra and Nehemiah the Bible indicated that when it was time to build the second temple, God restored the treasures from the first temple which of course have been carted off to Babylon, said Rosenberg.When it's time to build a third temple, the second temple's treasures would be found. Wouldn't that be dramatic?, he concluded.It is soon to come, I tell you, I promise you, and you check me. Test me. It will be in our lifetime, added Salomon.

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).

Poettering elected new president of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly by: Yossi Lempkowicz Updated: 31/Mar/2008 18:24

Regarding the Middle East, Hans-Gert Poettering (picture) called for a lasting solution for the conflict based on respect for human life, the achievement of security through reconciliation, and compliance with international law.Photo: European Parliament

ATHENS (EJP)---The head of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering, was elected the new president of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) during its annual plenary meeting in Athens on Friday. Poettering, a German Christian-Democrat, takes over the presidency for a period of one year on behalf of the European Parliament until March 2009.With Romania and Bulgaria joining the EU in 2007, the Assembly has expanded from 240 Members to 260 in total. 130 MPs now represent the European Union (49 MEPs and 81 MPs appointed by the parliaments of the 27 EU Member States) and 130 represent the national parliaments of the non-EU Mediterranean partners: Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.

In his address, Poettering said the political priorities of his mandate will be the peace process in the Middle East and intercultural dialogue.Regarding the Middle East he called for a lasting solution for the conflict based on respect for human life, the achievement of security through reconciliation, and compliance with international law. He recalled the initiatives that have taken place in the European Parliament, including the solemn sessions with relevant personalities, his official visits to Arab countries and Israel, and the setting up of a Working Group on the Middle East.He also suggested that an extraordinary plenary meeting of the Assembly could take place in the Middle East region in the autumn. It would be devoted to the peace process as well as to concrete regional cross-border cooperation on concrete issues like water and energy.

Union for the Mediterranean

Earlier this month, European Union leaders backed a French plan to forge closer political ties with Europe's North African and Mideast neighbors along the Mediterranean Sea, called Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean.The project foresees the involvement of 39 partners, the 27-nation EU in addition to a dozen Mediterranean countries - from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Syria and Turkey.

France is scheduled to hold a summit on the issue in July when it takes over the six-month rotating EU presidency. The original EU’s Euromed programme, was launched in 1995 in Barcelona to foster economic, political and social reforms in the Middle East and North Africa. It aimed at creating a Euro-Mediterranean free trade area by 2010 but progress has been slow due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the refusal of many Arab states to abide by international human rights standards. I think it is undeniable that the major single issue that has held us back is the enduring Middle East conflict, Jose-Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, said. We need to move from intentions to deliver, we need a Euro-Med of results, he added. Barroso said the region is faced with major challenges in achieving peace, security and prosperity.

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

Monday, Mar. 31 2008
PRECISE BIOMETRICS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN EU PROJECT

LUND, SWEDEN, Mar 31, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Precise Biometrics has been invited to participate in the EU financed research project, TURBINE (TrUsted Revocable Biometric IdeNtitiEs). The project aims to develop an advanced identity management solution that combines fingerprint biometrics and cryptography. During the course of the project Precise Biometrics will be awarded research funding amounting to approximately SEK 5.7 million.

Precise Biometrics has been chosen to participate in the TURBINE project due to its expertise when it comes to fingerprint recognition and Match-on-Card technology. The project will benefit Precise Biometrics when it comes to Research and Development, which in return will have a long-term positive impact on future products and solutions.The authentication method that the TURBINE Project aims to develop during a three-year period is based on advanced fingerprint recognition technology and complex cryptographic techniques. The outcome of the project is intended to meet usage requirements for various market segments. During the project, several representatives from a range of sectors such as banking, eGovernment, eHealth and the aviation industry will be advised and the end-result will be tested in a live airport environment.

Precise Biometrics will mainly contribute with its expertise within fingerprint recognition technology and further developments concerning methods of extracting fingerprint information as well as evaluation. The project as a whole was awarded SEK 60.2 million from the European Union 7th Framework Programme for Research. Precise Biometrics will receive SEK 5.7 million to meet several research objectives.Besides the acknowledgement of competence, Precise Biometrics' CEO Thomas Marschall sees numerous advantages with the company's participation in the TURBINE project,; We have earlier successfully participated in EU projects like this and consider TURBINE a great opportunity to strengthen our relation to other Identity Management players. In addition it will give us a chance to advance our position on the European market, which in return may give us additional advantages in upcoming European national ID card procurements says Thomas Marschall.Precise Biometrics has successfully been involved in EU financed projects earlier, such as the Omom@topic+ that came to an end at the turn of the year. Onom@topic+ combined functions of smart biometric EU citizen cards and mobile applications aiming to leverage eGovernment services to both fixed and mobile platforms. The project was awarded the Jean-Pierre Noblanc Excellence Award for its innovation and sustainability.

The TURBINE project will last during three years, starting in February 2008 and finishing in January 2011. Together with Precise Biometrics, the TURBINE project includes the project coordinator Sagem Securite, Philips Research Europe, SAGEM-ORGA, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Gjovik University College, Cryptolog, 3D-GAA S.A. and ARTTIC.

For further information, please contact
Thomas Marschall, President & CEO, Precise Biometrics AB.
Telephone +46 46 31 11 00

E-mail thomas.marschall@precisebiometrics.comPrecise Biometrics AB is an innovative company offering solutions for fingerprint recognition to prove people's identities. With top-of-the-line expertise in fingerprint verification, Precise Biometrics offers fast, accurate and secure authentication of a person. Our core product Precise BioMatch(TM: 102.89, +2.00, +1.98%) integrates into ID and bank card programs and secure chips, as well as systems for access control to buildings, computers and networks. We act on a global market and our technology is licensed to more than 78 million users all over the world. The Precise Biometrics group has subsidiaries in Sweden (with group headquarters in Lund), Great Britain, Hong Kong and USA, and a joint venture agreement in China. Precise Biometrics is listed on the small cap list at the Nordic Exchange in Sweden (symbol:PREC). For more information, please visit http://www.precisebiometrics.com/http://hugin.info/131387/R/1204570/247296.pdf Hugin AS 2008.SOURCE: Precise Biometrics AB
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Spain Holds Staff From EU Kosovo Mission APR 01,08

Angel Moratinos 31 March 2008 Pristina - Spain will not send personnel to the EU’s law and order mission in Kosovo, until legal questions over how it will replace the UN administration are answered. Spanish Foreign Minister Angel Moratinos told a meeting of European Union Foreign Ministers in Slovenia over the weekend that Madrid will not send its contingent of 15-20 staff to the 2,000-strong EULEX mission until there has been a formal transfer of powers from the United Nations.Madrid says the agreed EU text setting out the conditions for the mission states that there should be a direct transfer from the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, to the EU.But UNMIK has been slow to respond amid protests from Belgrade, and key ally Russia.Serbia has branded EULEX illegal, claiming that under UN Security Council Resolution 1244 passed at the end of the 1998-1999 conflict between Serb forces and Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority, only the UN has the right to administer Kosovo on Serbia’s behalf.

Most EU states are prepared to deploy their police personnel on the basis of an invitation from the Kosovo government, but that would be awkward for Spain and potentially for other countries that have not recognised Kosovo.Spain is one of nine EU countries which has not recognised Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leaders February 17 declaration of independence from Serbia.Spain is home to various national groups, including Basques and Catalans and claims Kosovo’s independence sets a precedent for other separatist movements worldwide..EULEX will have a mostly advisory function but also includes some anti-riot units and is set to start by mid-June as planned.

Bush backs NATO bids by Ukraine, Georgia By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent APR 01,08

KIEV, Ukraine - President Bush said Tuesday that Russia will not wield veto power over Ukraine's aspirations to join the NATO military alliance, but countries such as France and Germany stand ready to block the former Soviet republic, fearful of further straining ties with Moscow. Visiting Ukraine ahead of a NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, Bush told President Viktor Yushchenko the U.S. strongly supports your request and a similar effort by Georgia.

Those Russian neighbors want to begin the process by learning what they would need to do to gain membership. Russia is not a NATO member and holds no veto authority over the alliance's decisions. But all NATO actions require a consensus, meaning any one of the 26 nations can blackball a potential new member. Greece, for example, is threatening to block Macedonia's membership application because of a dispute over Macedonia's name.Bush's purpose in Kiev appeared to be intended to congratulate Ukraine on its democratic reforms and promise that someday it will join NATO, created 59 years ago to confront the Soviet Union and its expansionist goals.Bush and Yushchenko held a news conference at the presidential secretariat, sitting behind a low credenza and a floral arrangement that included red and yellow roses.Bush said it was a misperception that the United States might soften its push to get Ukraine and Georgia into NATO if Russia were to ease opposition to Washington's plan for a missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic.

There's no trade-offs. Period, Bush said, adding that is exactly what he told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent telephone call.Bush and Putin, whose successor takes over in May, are meeting Sunday in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. White House officials have expressed hopes the leaders could end months of sharp disagreements and strike a deal.As if to give a last reminder of Russia's wishes, Putin's deputy foreign minister, Grigory Karasin, said Ukraine's accession to NATO would cause a deep crisis in relations with Ukraine and the West.Nevertheless, Bush said he would go to NATO carrying a banner of support for the Ukraine and Georgia.He pledged to make America's position clear at the NATO summit. My stop here should be a clear signal to everybody that I mean what I say: It's in our interest for Ukraine to join, Bush said after talks with Yushchenko.Nine former Soviet bloc countries are in NATO, and Russia opposes Ukraine and Georgia even starting the process, fearing a further loss of influence among the former Soviet sphere. Russia's position has found backing even among U.S allies.France will not give its green light to the entry of Ukraine and Georgia, the French prime minister, Francois Fillon, said in a radio interview. He said their potential NATO membership could upset the balance of power between Europe and Russia.Bush, however, praised Ukraine's democratic and military reforms, and noted that Ukraine is the only non-NATO nation supporting every NATO mission. Ukraine has sent troops to Afghanistan, Kosovo and Iraq.A positive decision, Bush said, is in the interests of our organization.Bush's forceful backing sets up an internal showdown in the alliance. The president said he and his top aides would continue to lobby all NATO members.Every nation has told me Russia will not have a veto over what happens in Bucharest. I take their word for it, he said, adding later: I wouldn't prejudge the outcome just yet, the vote will be taken in Bucharest.

The pro-western Yushchenko said he was optimistic his country would get the nod from NATO, and he discounted opposition from some in Ukraine. I am sure that we will receive a positive signal in Bucharest and that's the spirit that we are going there with, he said, sitting beside Bush at a news conference in a narrow room with a high ceiling decorated with ornate molding. Despite differences on new NATO members, Bush showed optimism about winning Moscow's approval for a missile defense system in Europe.

Obviously, we've got a lot of work to do to allay suspicions and old fears, but I think we're making pretty good progress along those lines, he said. He repeated his stance that the missile defense plan is meant to counter a threat from the Middle East and poses no threat to Russia. Still, Putin has heard that many times before and remains wary. For months, Putin has stepped up anti-American rhetoric, demanding that the U.S. abandon the plan to base missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic, one-time Soviet satellites. He has complained it would upset the balance of power and was aimed at weakening Russia; the U.S. denies the charges.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. and Russia are closer to an accommodation on the issue and he expressed hope for an agreement on new steps at the Bush-Putin meeting. Overcoming Russian objections could help ease concerns among U.S. allies in Europe about Russia's public threats to retaliate if the bases are installed, Gates said in Denmark. Ukraine long has flirted with joining NATO. It started taking real steps toward meeting the alliance's military and political standards only after Yushchenko became president in the wake of 2004 street protests, called the Orange Revolution. Since then, Ukraine has gained a vibrant opposition, a robust media and has held a series of clean elections. and early elections over the past years. In my opinion, there are no alternatives to the idea of collective security and I believe that collective responsibility for security policy, or defense policy, is the best response to the challenges that currently exist in society and in the international system, Yushchenko said. On the Net: NATO summit site: http://tinyurl.com/3yuwr2 White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/nato/

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)

Oil slips below $100 on dollar gains By JOHN WILEN, AP Business Writer APR 01,08

NEW YORK - Oil futures extended their slide Tuesday, dipping below $100 at times as the dollar gained ground, making commodities such as energy futures less attractive to investors seeking a hedge against inflation. Retail gas prices, meanwhile, slipped slightly from the record they set one day earlier.Investors who previously bought commodities such as oil as a haven against inflation and a falling dollar were selling Tuesday as the greenback strengthened against the euro and other currencies. The stronger dollar also made oil more expensive to overseas investors.Many analysts believe oil investors have taken most of their price cues in recent months from gyrations in the dollar.The dollar's stronger, and (therefore) oil's weaker, said Brad Samples, an analyst with Summit Energy Services Inc., in Louisville, Ky.Light, sweet crude for May delivery fell $1.73 to $99.85 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil futures fell $4.04 a barrel on Monday.While the dollar was driving oil prices on Tuesday, Samples and other analysts believe the market is also beginning to focus more closely than it has in months on fundamentals such as rising supplies and falling demand. The second quarter of the year, which began Tuesday, is typically the weakest for petroleum demand. The country's appetite for oil and gasoline have fallen sharply since January, and oil supplies have mostly risen in recent weeks.

Weak demand in the U.S. is one of the primary reasons that the fundamentals may be on the verge of taking center stage as the primary driver of prices, said Addison Armstrong, director of market research at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Conn., in a research note.Economic data also weighed on oil prices Tuesday. The Institute for Supply Management reported that manufacturing continued to weaken in February, and the Commerce Department said overall construction activity fell last month for the 24th straight month.Many analysts have long argued that dollar-induced buying has driven oil prices far beyond levels that can be justified by supply and demand or economic conditions. However, few are willing to call an end to crude's bull run, noting that prices have dipped below $100 several times in recent months, only to rebound and surge higher.Soaring crude prices have sent fuel prices higher, despite falling demand. At the pump, the national average price of a gallon of gas slipped 0.1 cent Tuesday to $3.286 a gallon, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. While that's a slight retreat from Monday's record, gas prices remain 60 cents higher than a year ago, and are expected to rise as high as $3.50 or $4 a gallon this spring as suppliers stock up in advance of peak summer driving season.Other energy futures also fell Tuesday. In other Nymex trading, May heating oil futures fell 4.37 cents to $2.8624 a gallon while May gasoline futures fell 2.01 cents to $2.607 a gallon. May natural gas futures fell 20.9 cents to $9.892 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, May Brent crude rose $1.09 to $99.21 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

NY, NJ trees treated for killer beetles By BRAD HAYNES, Associated Press Writer Mon Mar 31, 5:18 PM ET

NEWARK, N.J. - Nearly 80,000 trees in New Jersey and New York are being treated to protect them from a deadly beetle infestation. The Asian longhorned beetle has destroyed more than 30,000 trees since it arrived in the country about a decade ago. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said treatments began last week around New York City. They'll start April 21 on Staten Island and in New Jersey's Middlesex and Union Counties, where the beetles were discovered in 2002.If unchecked, the invasive species could threaten the nation's lumber, maple syrup and tourism industries, according to the Agriculture Department.The Asian longhorned beetle first appeared in New York City in 1996, after apparently hitching a ride from China in the wood of shipping crates. Subsequent infestations in New Jersey were discovered in 2002 and 2004.Agriculture Department spokeswoman Suzanne Bond said the agency has been treating trees since 2001 to eradicate the beetle from the continent.

The beetles measure about one to one-and-a-half inches long and have a shiny black exterior with white spots. They attack hardwood trees like maple, willow, ash, poplar and elm, usually in the early summer when the female makes an indentation in the bark and plants eggs.To kill off the beetles, workers inject tree trunks and soil during the spring with an insecticide called imidacloprid, which is also used to kill lawn grubs and pet fleas. The chemical makes its way into the leaves during the summer, which are eaten by newborn beetles emerging from the bark.

Israel to consider opening Gaza By LAURIE COPANS, Associated Press Writer APR 01,08

JERUSALEM - Israel's defense minister said he would consider reopening Gaza's border crossings if violence from the territory ceases, but defense officials warned Tuesday that such a move is a long way off. The officials said Ehud Barak's statement was aimed at bolstering the moderate Palestinian government of President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. Barak has previously opposed opening Gaza's borders since the Hamas militant group, which often fires rockets into southern Israel, violently seized control of the area last June.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter with the media.The officials said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Barak during a visit this week to consider easing Israel's blockade of Gaza, which has caused widespread economic hardship in the territory of 1.4 million Palestinians.When conditions have matured in the future for an end to the rockets, the terror and the reduction of the weapons' smuggling, we will be willing to consider easements in the Gaza crossings through cooperation with representatives of (Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam) Fayyad's government, Barak said.The defense officials said Israel would not be fully opening the crossings in the near future since the violence has persisted.Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group and closed Gaza's crossings after the Islamic militant group overran Gaza. It has only let in limited humanitarian supplies since.

In new violence Tuesday, Israeli troops shot and killed two Hamas gunmen during a raid on the central Gaza Strip, Hamas said. The army said the gunmen approached troops operating against rocket launching squads.Also Tuesday, a Palestinian mortar attack wounded two civilians in a southern Israeli farming community, the army said.Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah terminal on the Egypt-Gaza border for a single day to let around 350 Egyptians stuck in the Gaza Strip for two months to return home, an Egyptian security official said.

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.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child,(ISMAEL FATHER OF MUSLIMS-ARABS) 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.

OH BUT I THOUGHT ISLAM WAS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION, THEY WOULD NEVER TELL THEIR KIDS TO MURDER NONE MUSLIMS......RIGHT.

Bush stabbed in TV puppet show APR 01,08

View GalleryBRANDISHING the sword of Islam, a Palestinian boy stabbed US President George W Bush to death in a new puppet show for children. The show was aired by Hamas-owned television in the Gaza Strip.The hand-held puppet proclaimed: You are a criminal, Bush, a despicable man. You made me an orphan.The full article contains 59 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.Last Updated: 01 April 2008 1:51 PM

Anti-Islam film back on LiveLeak website Agence France-Presse First Posted 07:20:00 04/01/2008

THE HAGUE—The anti-Islamic film Fitna by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders was back on Liveleak.com Monday three days after the British-based Internet site removed it following threats to staff.

In a statement dated Sunday and posted on the website, LiveLeak.com says it has been working on upgrading all security measures and offering better protection for staff and their families.With these measures in place we have decided to once more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules, the website said.The film has already been seen by millions of viewers and is online in whole or in part on several other websites including YouTube.Liveleak was the first to release the film on Thursday. It has since provoked widespread condemnation, with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling it offensively anti-Islamic.Featuring shocking imagery of the attacks on New York in 2001 and Madrid in 2004 combined with quotes from the Koran, Islam's holy book, it has drawn outrage in some Muslim countries.Over the weekend there were protests in Indonesia and Pakistan and calls for a boycott of Dutch products in Jordan and Malaysia.

China, Syria steadily promote bilateral cooperation
March 31, 2008

The upcoming visit to Syria by Li Changchun, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), will consolidate and promote the traditionally friendly bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Invited by the ruling Baath Arab Socialist Party, Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC's Central Committee, will visit Syria on April 1-3to become the highest-level CPC official to visit the country in nearly five years. Since China and Syria formally established diplomatic relations on Aug. 1, 1956, the two countries have been enjoying mutual understanding and support in the international arena. While opposing any attempt to undermine the reunification of China, the Syrian government firmly pursues the one-China policy and has no official contacts with the Taiwan authorities.

China, for its part, supports Syria as an important party in the Middle East peace process to play a significant role in regional affairs as well as Syria's legitimate right to restore its sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights. The two countries also share similar views on the human rights issue, resolutely opposing some Western countries' attempts to use it as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of developing countries. Since Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad as Syrian president in July 2000, high-level contacts between the two sides have grown in depth as Syria puts developing a strategic partnership with China as a priority in its diplomatic relations.

In January 2001, Hu Jintao, then vice president of China, paid a visit to Syria, which opened a new chapter in China-Syria relations. In June 2004, Assad carried out the first visit to China by a Syrian president. During his stay, the two sides signed a package of cooperation agreements which boosted bilateral relations to a new level. Since then, the two countries have maintained high level exchanges in all fields. In 2006, a series of special festivities were held both in Beijing and Damascus to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Syria. Meanwhile, both countries attach great importance to their economic and trade cooperation which has also achieved fruitful results. In 2007, the bilateral trade volume reached 1.87 billion U.S. dollars, up 32.9 percent compared with that in 2006, of which China's exports to Syria reached 1.862 billion dollars, an increase of 37.3 percent than 2006. China has thus become Syria's largest importer. China and Syria also carried out effective cooperation in various fields such as oil, electricity, transport and telecommunications. Well-known Chinese enterprises, such as China National Petroleum Corporation, ZTE and Huawei, have contracted important projects in Syria and China's automobile sales in Syria exceed 10,000 vehicles annually. Furthermore, the China Import and Export Fair in Guangzhou attracts hundreds of Syrian businessmen every year and Made in China can be seen everywhere in the Syrian market.

In June 2007, Syria officially recognized China's full market economy status during meetings of the Third Sino-Syrian Joint Committee, which lifted bilateral economic cooperation to new horizons. During the meetings, the two sides expressed their belief in the great potential of the cooperation, hoping to increase bilateral trade volume to 3 billion dollars in the next five years while endeavoring to balance the two-way trade. Along with the close political and economic ties, the friendly civil contacts between China and Syria have also been promoted. In 2005, China and Syria signed a tourism agreement, making Syria a tourist destination for the Chinese people. Syria, a significant country on the ancient Silk Road with its long history, profound culture and rich exotic flavor, is attracting more and more Chinese tourists.
Source: Xinhua.