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.
FAMILY WE LOST EVERYTHING
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Mo.FLOOD VICTIM REBUILD 3RD-TIME
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Levee breaks as Midwest flood damage mounts By Nick Carey
JUNE 17,08
QUINCY, Illinois (Reuters) - Hundreds of volunteers on the surging Mississippi River piled sandbags atop strained levees on Tuesday as the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years delivered a blow to the U.S. economy and world food prices. A levee broke in Gulfport, Illinois, sending muddy waters from the most important U.S. waterway cascading into nearby farmland and a few homes. No one was injured but authorities closed the bridge across the river to Burlington, Iowa.Corn and soybean prices stayed near record levels as millions of acres of cropland have been lost or damaged in the world's largest grain exporter. Meat prices also soared, in line with the costs for feeding cattle, hogs and chickens.We've faced some pressure this year, but there could be greater pressure next year on food inflation when protein prices start to increase, said Bill Lapp, a food industry consultant and former chief economist at Conagra Inc.U.S. President George W. Bush promised aid to the stricken region, where billions of dollars in farm and business losses in the heart of the U.S. grain belt looked set to increase inflation pressures on prices for food, fuel and other goods.
I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president, Bush said after a briefing on the flooding.But Sen. Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, said little had been done to prevent flooding and Bush had learned nothing from Hurricane Katrina and other disasters.President Bush has asserted that investing in America's needs is somehow wasteful and his budget, which does not add one thin dime for a boost in levee funding, reflects this sentiment Byrd said.In Quincy, most of which sits on a bluff overlooking the river, officials organized a major effort to gird against what was expected to be a record crest later this week. Across the river in 1993, a sabotaged levee triggered massive flooding.We have quite a wall of water coming our way, Mayor John Spring said. Flooding is all part of life along the river ... but this time we are better prepared for it.Roger Sutter, who was in charge of sandbagging and levee building, said the sandbags and levee work done should provide around a foot and a half (half a meter) of protection above the level the river is predicted to crest.Hundreds of National Guard troops, prison inmates and volunteers participated in the sandbagging efforts that have been repeated across the Midwest -- often without success.What we have to do now is keep an eye on it and make sure we don't have any breaches, Sutter added.
FINANCIAL LOSSES MOUNT, COMMERCE DISRUPTED
Comparisons have been made to the major 1993 flooding that caused more than $20 billion in damage and 48 deaths in the Midwest. This month's flooding has caused few deaths, with Iowa hardest hit. But the damage has yet to be toted up.Corn prices at the Chicago Board of Trade soared above $8 a bushel for the first time on Monday and stayed near there on Tuesday in fears Midwest farmers will not be able to grow anything on as many as 5 million acres.It's the uncertainty. We don't know how many acres we have, we don't know what the yields are going to be on the acres, said Roy Huckabay, grain analyst with The Linn Group.The closing of the mid-Mississippi River to barge traffic is costing carriers $1 million or more per day. In 1993, there were months of delays, said Larry Daily, president of Alter Barge Line Inc in Bettendorf, Iowa. "This time, it's going to be shut down two weeks if we don't get any more rain -- longer if it rains again.The Mississippi River is the main channel for grain flowing from Midwest farms to export terminals at the Gulf of Mexico. It shipped 68 million tonnes of farm goods in 2006. The problems add up to more food inflation for not just U.S. consumers, but also dozens of countries that buy U.S. grain. The United States exports 54 percent of the world's corn, 36 percent of soybeans and 23 percent of wheat. Fortunately for residents, the weather was cooperating, with only a slight chance for thunderstorms in southeast Iowa on Wednesday and few scattered showers forecast through the weekend for most flooded areas of the Midwest. Thousands of residents of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were barred from their flooded homes even as the waters receded there with the drier weather. Officials warned of dangers from sinkholes, unstable foundations, missing manhole covers and hazardous waste from the flood waters.(Additional reporting by Lisa Shumaker, Peter Bohan and Christine Stebbins in Chicago, and David Alexander in Washington; writing by Andrew Stern; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
FLOODING IN CHINA LEAVES 171 DEAD
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MILLION FLEE CHINESE FLOODS
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Floodwaters start receding in southern China By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 17, 11:11 AM ET
GUANGZHOU, China - Floodwaters began receding Tuesday in parts of southern China after killing at least 63 people, swamping 2.5 million acres of farmland and causing billions of dollars in damage, the government said. But heavy rain forecast for the next few days in central China had officials worrying about flooding on the Yellow River, the country's second-longest waterway, which flows through some of the most populous and poorest provinces.
Although farms were submerged in the South, swollen rivers largely spared the tens of thousands of factories in the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province — a huge producer of computers, shoes, toys and a wide range of other products for the global market.In many cities in hard-hit Guangdong, people began the arduous task of cleaning the watery brown muck from their homes and shops. Local television showed employees in Huizhou in south-central Guangdong using brooms to push the mud out of the bank where they worked. Health officials wearing surgical masks walked through the streets spraying disinfectant.At least 1.66 million people were evacuated from their homes, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said. Some said they realized it was time to move from flood-prone areas but they couldn't afford a new home.One middle-aged farmer, who wasn't named, told Hong Kong's TVB he was afraid his brick house was ready to collapse in the district of Sanshui, about an hour's drive west of Guangzhou.There's nothing I can do even if I'm afraid, he said. If I had money, I'd immediately buy a flat and move. What can I do without money?
Rising vegetable prices were another problem in the wake of the flood. Even before rivers began rising earlier this week, shoppers were complaining about inflation. Now the latest disaster was expected to drive up prices even higher.Long worried that inflation could spark social unrest, the central government ordered inspectors Tuesday to be alert to price gouging at markets and to immediately report offenders.In Jiangxi province to the north, waterlogged hillsides gave way, covering houses and roads and flipping a tanker trailer on its side, state broadcaster CCTV said. The report gave no word of casualties in the area.One of the biggest concerns for the government was the potential for a new round of flooding on the Yellow River, often called China's Sorrow because of its long history of shifting or spilling over its banks and causing massive disasters.The Meteorological Administration warned that flood prevention efforts were entering a crucial phase because heavy rain in the next few days would raise the threat of flooding on the Yellow River, the state-run China Daily reported on its front page. Provinces on the lower and middle parts of the river, including Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and Shandong were most at danger.We must keep a sharp mind about the seriousness of the devastating floods and the challenging relief work, said Vice Premier Hui Liangyu in comments posted on the Web site of the state flood prevention headquarters.
But the flooding in the South hasn't been as severe as in 2005 when at least 536 people died nationwide. In 1998, flooding during China's summer season killed 4,150.Still, the disaster took a big toll on a country still reeling from last month's monster earthquake in Sichuan province that killed nearly 70,000. The southern region — which usually enjoys moderate weather — was also ravaged by freakish blizzards that wiped out crops and paralyzed transport systems in February.Chinese state media has given relatively little attention to the floods, instead keeping the focus firmly on Sichuan quake relief.In a sign the dual disasters were straining resources, flood evacuees in Guangxi were forced to shelter in old, worn-out tents because the regional disaster relief bureau had shipped all its newer ones to Sichuan, according to the Web site of the Communist Party's official People's Daily.The death toll for the latest round of flooding was 63 and 13 people were missing, the Civil Affairs Ministry said on its Web site. The hardest-hit provinces were Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan. About 2.5 million acres of farmland were swamped by the flood, the ministry said. At least 1.66million people were evacuated, and 67,000 homes collapsed, the ministry said. The economic loss was valued at $2.1 billion, the ministry said. Associated Press writer Dikky Sinn in Hong Kong contributed to this report.
Rising Mississippi disrupts bridge travel By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER, Associated Press Writer JUNE 17,08
GULFPORT, Ill. - The rising Mississippi River interrupted travel on two bridges between Iowa and Illinois and threatened thousands of acres of farmland Tuesday. People stacked millions of sandbags near 27 levees the federal government said were in danger of overflowing. The river blew a massive hole in a levee near the farming community of Gulfport at about 5 a.m., covering at least 5,000 acres of farmland by late Tuesday morning, Henderson County Chief Deputy Donald Seitz said.The whole town will be under water, Seitz said, calling the levee break very devastating for the small agricultural community near the Illinois-Iowa line. More than 10,000acres could eventually flood, he said.The break forced the closure of the Great River Bridge that connects Gulfport to Burlington, Iowa, via U.S. Highway 34. Two people who were working on the levee were rescued by boat, said Henderson County Sheriff Mark Lumbeck.
Three other people were lifted by helicopter from a rooftop, and seven others climbed onto a 4-wheeler and sped down a railroad track as the levee gave way, Lumbeck said.The town of about 200 remains dry but was evacuated because of concerns about a second levee to the north where seepage was discovered, Lumbeck said. Two residents in the town refused to leave and stayed behind, the sheriff said.The Illinois governor's office originally reported more than a dozen people had to be rescued by helicopter. But Patti Thompson, a spokeswoman with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, later said the number could not be confirmed and to rely on local officials' accounts.About 20 miles down the river from Gulfport, the BNSF Railway Co. swing span bridge was closed early Tuesday to car traffic at Fort Madison, Iowa, near the Iowa-Illinois line, Lee County emergency management director Steve Cirinna said. The bridge hadn't closed to trains, BNSF Railway Co. spokesman Steve Forsberg said.Near the Gulfport, 83-year-old Lois Russell watched the floodwaters that surrounded her home about a mile away. She said she evacuated her home because of flooding in 1965 and again in 1993, and returned each time — but that she wouldn't return again.It was a good placed to raise my seven kids, she said, crying. I know I haven't lost anything that feels important because I have a big family.The federal government predicted that 27 levees could potentially overflow along the river if the weather forecast is on the mark and a massive sandbagging effort fails to raise the level of the levees, according to a map obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
Officials placed millions of sandbags on top of the levees in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri to prevent overflowing. There was no way to predict whether these levees will break, said Ron Fournier, a spokesman with the Army Corps of Engineers in Iowa.Amtrak service was disrupted between Burlington and St. Paul, Minn., because of the flooding. The disruptions affected the California Zephyr, Southwest Chief and Amtrak Empire Builder routes.A sandbagging operation at the Oakville Apostolic Church was moved south to the outskirts of Burlington after floodwaters streamed across Iowa Highway 99.The church is now an island, said Carly Wagenbach, who was shuttling food to levee workers.Officials were concerned about spot spots in a levee that protects a drainage area south of Oakville.It's outrageous, said Steve Poggemiller. We're hanging on by a thread — or a sandbag.Jeff Campbell, a farmer carrying sandbags on his 4-wheeler, said he spotted hogs swimming away from a flooded hog operation near Oakville. They were climbing a levee, poking holes in the plastic that covered it, he said. One tired pig was lying at the bottom of the levee like a pink sandbag, Campbell said. Donna Dubberke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Davenport, Iowa, said the river level would gradually begin to rise again once the flooded areas fill up, but that crest projections could be lowered by several inches. At Burlington, the crest forecast was lowered to 25.8 feet, down from the earlier projection of 26.1 feet. That was welcome news to volunteers fighting to save a levee north of Burlington. Nobody knows how close it was, said Brian Wiegand, 48, of Oakville. It was by a whisker.
Two more deaths were reported Monday in Iowa, bringing the state's death toll to five. On Tuesday, there were signs that much of Iowa was starting to return to normalcy: Interstate 80 reopened near Iowa City for the first time in days, with Interstate 380 to the north scheduled to reopen early Tuesday. On the University of Iowa campus, officials began to take stock of the damage. In Cedar Rapids, where 24,000 people were evacuated when floodwater covered about 1,300 city blocks, more people were being allowed to return to their homes Tuesday. The water has continued to recede, so we've moved those barricades in and there's now a large section of the city where residents are allowed to go back in, said Dave Koch, a city spokesman. On Monday, broken gas lines, sink holes and structural problems caused officials to stop taking residents into homes, said Dave Koch, a city spokesman. Officials hoped to allow residents in soon. Where floodwaters remained, they were a noxious brew of sewage, farm chemicals and fuel. LeRoy Lippert, chairman of emergency management and homeland security in nearby Des Moines County, warned people to avoid drinking floodwaters. Mixed in are pesticides, herbicides and fertilizer from Iowa's vast stretches of farmland. The American Red Cross said Monday its disaster relief fund has been completely spent, and the agency is borrowing money to help flood victims throughout the Midwest. Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed in Oakville, Iowa, Jim Suhr in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Jim Salter in Iowa City, Iowa; Amy Lorentzen, Henry C. Jackson, David Pitt and James Beltran in Des Moines, Iowa; and Eileen Sullivan in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report. (This version CORRECTS number rescued by helicopter, based on interview with local authorities.)
FAMINE
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
US breadbasket state Iowa faces crop losses from flooding by Marie Julien Tue Jun 17, 12:38 PM ET
NEW YORK (AFP) - Battered by torrential rains, the US breadbasket state of Iowa is battling flooding that could be devastating for this year's grain harvest, producers say. The damages are very extreme, said Don Roose, president of US Commodities, a research and brokerage firm based near the Iowa capital of Des Moines.With 83 of the state's 99 counties declared a disaster area, Iowa, the leading US corn and soybean producing state, is the most hard-hit of nine central states pounded by days of heavy rains.The deluge and a subsequent series of tornadoes and storms have stymied planting this year, forcing farmers to wait to plant or to replant fields that are flooded.According to the Iowa Department of Agriculture, the wet weather as of last week had either prevented planting or drowned out nine percent of the state's corn crop and 20percent of soybean crop.That represents between 400,000 to 600,000 hectares (1.0 and 1.5 million acres) of corn and about 800,000 hectares (two million acres) of soybeans.Iowa Governor Chet Culver estimated crop damage at one billion dollars.At this time of year, Roose said, planting should have been completed by now. He said the delay could cost crop-yield productivity.The calendar is working against farmers, said David Miller, director of research and commodity services at the Iowa Farm Bureau.In the northern part of the state, we probably are really close to a stage where it makes no sense to plant corn because it will not mature before frost, Miller said.In the southern parts of the state, we can probably go until June 25 ... but typically it takes about seven to 10 days for the ground to dry adequately to be planted.More than a third of Miller's already planted farm in the Des Moines region is currently under water.For soybeans, planting can continue until early July. The later we go the more probability that frost or summer problems damage those crops and yield definitely will be affected, he said.
Miller predicted the final tally of up to 20 percent of Iowa grain crops lost to floods.Roose called that forecast severe, and said he saw a more modest loss of probably close to 10 percent. When the waters recede, farmers will try to plant crops but it will be late.
Investors in the Chicago commodity futures market already have priced in a smaller harvest.Since early June, the price of a bushel (25 kilograms) of corn has climbed more than 1.50 dollars to a record high of seven dollars. Soybean futures have seen a similar surge and are trading at more than 15 dollars.
FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Astronomers find batch of super-Earths Mon Jun 16, 7:53 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three super-Earths orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well. They said their findings, presented at a conference in France, suggest that Earth-like planets may be very common.Does every single star harbor planets and, if yes, how many? asked Michel Mayor of Switzerland's Geneva Observatory. We may not yet know the answer but we are making huge progress towards it, Mayor said in a statement.The trio of planets orbit a star slightly less massive than our Sun, 42 light-years away towards the southern Doradus and Pictor constellations. A light-year is the distance light can travel in one year at a speed of 186,000 miles a second, or about 6 trillion miles.The planets are bigger than Earth -- one is 4.2 times the mass, one is 6.7 times and the third is 9.4 times.They orbit their star at extremely rapid speeds -- one whizzing around in just four days, compared with Earth's 365 days, one taking 10 days and the slowest taking 20 days.Mayor and colleagues used the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher or HARPS, a telescope at La Silla observatory in Chile, to find the planets.More than 270 so-called exoplanets have been found. Most are giants, resembling Jupiter or Saturn. Smaller planets closer to the size of Earth are far more difficult to spot.
None can be imaged directly at such distances but can be spotted indirectly using radio waves or, in the case of HARPS, spectrographic measurements. As a planet orbits, it makes the star wobble very slightly and this can be measured.With the advent of much more precise instruments such as the HARPS spectrograph ... we can now discover smaller planets, with masses between 2 and 10 times the Earth's mass, said Stephane Udry, who also worked on the study.The team also said they found a planet 7.5 times the mass of Earth orbiting the star HD 181433 in 9.5 days. This star also has a Jupiter-like planet that orbits every three years.Another solar system has a planet 22 times the mass of Earth, orbiting every four days, and a Saturn-like planet with a 3-year period.Clearly these planets are only the tip of the iceberg, said Mayor.The analysis of all the stars studied with HARPS shows that about one third of all solar-like stars have either super-Earth or Neptune-like planets with orbital periods shorter than 50 days.(Reporting by Maggie Fox; Editing by John O'Callaghan)
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
Stocks fall as data show drag of higher oil By MADLEN READ, AP Business Writer JUNE 17,08
NEW YORK - Stocks tumbled Tuesday as a troubling reading on wholesale inflation underscored the drag of high energy prices on the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 100 points. Tuesday's economic data illustrated how the steep run-up in energy costs this year is affecting businesses. The Labor Department said its index of producer prices jumped 1.4 percent in May — the largest increase since November.The core producer price index, which strips out often volatile food and energy prices, rose by a mild 0.2 percent. But Wall Street remains concerned that companies are having to swallow ballooning costs — and may soon be forced to pass them on to already strapped customers. Although crude dipped to about $134 a barrel Tuesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, it remains near record levels.Subodh Kumar, global investment strategist at Subodh Kumar & Assoc. in Toronto, said inflation concerns are weighing on stocks as investors try to readjust their models to factor in the effects of energy prices staying high. The price of oil has doubled in the past year, prompting some investors to call it a bubble, but others say a pullback in prices would only lessen — not eliminate — the pricing pressure.The market and bonds are recalibrating themselves lower because of inflation, Kumar said.
Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs — despite posting a tamer-than-expected 11 percent decline in quarterly profit — aggravated jitters by releasing a downbeat report on the broader banking industry. The report estimated that credit losses from deterioration in the mortgage and lending markets will not peak until early 2009, and that U.S. banks, having already raised about $120 billion in capital, will need to raise an additional $65 billion.We're back in the mode where people are guessing how many more billions of financial institution write-offs there are going to be. ... That, and what's going to happen with inflation, said Scott Wren, equity strategist for Wachovia Securities.
The Dow fell 108.78, or 0.89 percent, to 12,160.30.
Broader stock indicators also declined. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 9.21, or 0.68 percent, to 1,350.93, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 17.05, or 0.69 percent, to 2,457.73.Bond prices rose on sluggish economic data. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 4.21 percent from 4.27 percent late Monday.Besides the rise in wholesale inflation, the government reported a 3.3 percent decline in May home construction and a 1.3 percent dip in building permits — signs of persistent weakness in the struggling housing market. Another report showed a 0.2 percent dip in industrial production in May, following a 0.7 percent decline in the previous month.The worst-performing stocks among the 30 Dow companies were financial companies: American International Group Inc., American Express Co. and Bank of America Corp.AIG fell $1.73, or 5.1 percent, to $32.28, as A.M. Best Co., which specializes in rating insurance companies, downgraded its financial strength ratings on AIG. The agency said that AIG's decision Sunday to replace its CEO suggests a deeper level of systemic challenges facing AIG.Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the world's largest investment bank, posted a better-than-expected profit of $2.05 billion during its second fiscal quarter. But along with the rest of the financial sector, Goldman shares slid $2.65 to $179.44.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. trimmed its capital spending forecast for fiscal 2009, saying it plans to build fewer so-called supercenters amid a slowdown in the U.S. economy. The stock, one of the 30 that comprise the Dow industrials, declined 62 cents to $58.69.Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 3 to 2 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.09 billion shares.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies dropped 4.17, or 0.56 percent, to 736.57.Light, sweet crude for July delivery fell 60cents to settle at $134.01 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The dollar fell against most other major currencies, while gold prices rose. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0.04 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 closed up 1.16 percent, Germany's DAX index advanced 0.98 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 0.61 percent. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com
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EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
European defence remains a French priority, says Sarkozy
Defence issues are set to feature strongly over the next six months (Photo: SHAPE)HONOR MAHONY Today JUNE 17,08 @ 17:07 CET
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has reaffirmed his intention to make European defence a major theme during his country's six-month stint at running the European Union, beginning in less that two week's time.In a key address before French military brass on Tuesday (17 June), Mr Sarkozy said building European defence is our priority and that whatever the future of the Treaty of Lisbon he would not change his mind.Last week Irish voters rejected the Lisbon Treaty, a new set of institutional rules for the bloc that makes some significant changes in the defence area. These includes an article on the progressive framing of a common union defence policy, an article on mutual assistance and the possibility for permanent structured co-operation between countries that are politically willing and military capable.The French president also renewed calls for a modern, flexible European force of 60,000 soldiers that could be deployed anywhere in the world for up to a year.
Rapid Reaction Force
EU member states in 1999 committed themselves to achieving a Rapid Reaction Force of this size, deployable within 60 days. The goal was meant to be realised in 2003 but has suffered from flagging enthusiasm, lack of resources and duplication problems with NATO.
Mr Sarkozy said he wants to make defence and security policy an example of a concrete Europe, of a Europe that responds to the needs of its citizens.I very much hope that the French presidency of the European Union (…) will be the first step in a veritable relaunch of European defence for the coming years, he said, according to AP.But he noted that national armies would remain so as they cannot be integrated into a supranational army.Mr Sarkozy also said that the Europe's vocation is to embody an ideal of peace and liberty.I am of the conviction that it is France's vocation to carry this ideal of peace and liberty. It is Europe's ideal to embody it in the current world. For Europe, whatever its institutional ups and downs, has overcome its divisions, its historic confrontations, to create, with an ever closer union, a unique model of cooperation between our nations.
Rejoining NATO
The French president also restated France's wish to rejoin NATO's integrated military command, which it left in 1966 and announced a streamlining of the French army.The country's defence white book recommends the cutting of 54,000 military posts from the current 330,000 within the next six years, making its smaller and more mobile.France is to spend €377 billion from 2009 to 2020 on defence including €200 billion on new equipment, said Mr Sarkozy, with an increase in the military budget foreseen from 2012. The announcements are part of the first overhaul of French defence in 14years. In the run-up to the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty some of the discussion had focussed on whether Ireland's traditional neutrality would be eroded.The anti-treaty side claimed that publication of the French defence paper had been delayed until after the referendum in case it gave weight to these neutrality fears - a claim given credence in French newspapers but denied by the Elysee Palace.
Ireland's commissioner under fire for poor EU treaty campaign LUCIA KUBOSOVA Today JUNE 17,08 @ 18:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / STRASBOURG - The leader of the Socialists in the European Parliament, Martin Schultz, has accused Irish EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy of arrogance for his public revelations that he had not read the Lisbon Treaty and for a visit to the US just ahead of the referendum in Ireland.Commissioner McCreevy has been criticised for doing little to boost support for the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland (Photo: ec.europa.eu)We have to ask Mr Barroso what kind of people he has in his commission, particularly if you have someone acting as the deregulation Pope in Europe who then goes home and says he hasn't read the treaty and doesn't understand it, Mr Schultz told reporters on Tuesday (17 June).He was reacting to several statements of Mr McCreevy, who is in charge of internal market in the 27-member-strong European Commission, ahead of the only popular vote on the new EU reform treaty in Ireland held last week, in which the Irish rejected the document.
The commissioner admitted a lack of knowledge of details of the treaty in an interview with the EUobserver, saying he had only read most of a summary of the document.I would predict that there won't be 250 people in the whole of the 4.2 million population of Ireland that have read the treaties cover-to-cover. I further predict that there is not 10 percent of that 250 that will understand every section and subsection, he said.But is there anything different about that? said the commissioner, adding: Does anyone read the finance act? referring to the lengthy documents he drew up when he was finance minister in Ireland.Mr Schultz said he was particularly disappointed by such remarks, as well as by Mr McCreevy's visit to the States four days before the vote. That is an arrogance that we cannot put up with, he added.Moreover, the German Socialist leader criticised the EU executive for tabling proposals on rising oil prices the day after - rather than before - the referendum in Ireland, saying he was amazed that it had happened.There is little passion for European integration, [but] there is passion against Europe. The pro-Europeans need to look to themselves. You cannot allow the No to win because the Yes is not doing anything.Both the commission and Slovenia, which currently holds the six-month rotating EU presidency, will on Wednesday brief MEPs on the expected proceedings at summit of the bloc's leaders. The summit, which begins on Thursday, is to give the first initial response to what impact the Irish No will have on the Union's further proceedings.In his own reaction to the verdict delivered by his fellow Irish citizens, commissioner McCreevy said: We should remember that Ireland is not alone in being unable to secure a popular endorsement of a European Treaty. As politicians this is something we need to learn from.
EU mulls Lisbon Treaty sweeteners for Ireland
RENATA GOLDIROVA Today JUNE 17,08 @ 08:43 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - As EU foreign ministers try to breathe life back into the Lisbon Treaty, the charter of institutional reforms rejected by Irish voters last week, Dublin is likely to be offered stronger guarantees in the sensitive areas of taxation, defence and family policies. According to the Financial Times, explanatory protocols should explicitly state that the document does not affect Ireland's ability to set its own tax rates, the country's neutrality status or its abortion policy. Although the Lisbon Treaty does not undermine Irish powers in these three areas, they all featured prominently in the pre-referendum debate, with the No camp citing them as reasons to not support the document. A similar solution was found in 2002 after Irish voters ditched the current Nice Treaty a year before. Another solution being floated involves a legal assurance that Ireland will never lose its seat at the European Commission table, the Irish Times reports. The Lisbon Treaty enables EU leaders to put the reduction of the size of the commission on ice. Either scenario is expected to be agreed at the first top-level meeting of EU leaders under the French EU presidency in October.
The best is to find common ground with the Irish, Luxembourg's prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, was cited as saying by the FT. He added that the second best option would involve enhanced co-operation in which Ireland would not take part and would not block the others.
The EU is not in a crisis, ministers say
But EU foreign ministers, kicking off a week of emergency talks on Monday (16 June), fell short of spelling out an official fix to the situation. In order to understand this referendum well, we need to take some time to reflect upon it, some time for analysis, for consultations and for studying of this problem, Dimitrij Rupel, speaking on behalf of the Slovene EU presidency, said after the meeting. The Slovene foreign minister was quick to add that the European Union is not in a crisis and that the Lisbon Treaty is still alive.I am convinced that sooner or later these reforms will see the light of day, Mr Rupel said, but stopped short of outlining a concrete way out of the deadlock. How we will find a solution on the next step is another question.Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin, for his part, also stressed that it was far too early to start coming up with solutions. The thorny question is to be the main topic on the agenda when EU leaders meet in Brussels at the end of the week (19-20 June). But whether it wants to confront the issue or not, the EU is likely to find itself under pressure to deal with practical consequences of the treaty rejection.
Irish No will not put brakes on EU enlargement
Aside from the size of the next European Commission - now capped by the current EU rules - a question mark hangs over the 27-nation bloc's capacity to absorb new members. The Nice Treaty is tailored to no more than 27 member states. When asked about the prospects of EU hopefuls' accession to the EU, Mr Rupel excluded any changes to the process. The outcome of the Irish referendum in no way changes enlargement policy...The EU unanimously decided to invited the countries of the Western Balkans to take membership so there is no doubt about that, the minister said, but added: How we will carry that out that is another question.Minister Rupel's line was quickly backed by EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn. The union cannot take time out from [its] consolidated and carefully managed accession policy.But not all politicians are singing from the same hymn sheet, with Germany's Angela Merkel spelling out some stark realities on her visit to Gdansk, Poland on Monday.We need this treaty in order to think about further EU enlargement, she said, Polish daily Rzeczpospolita reports. Speaking during a visit to the Czech Republic, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said: In order to open up to the Balkans, to Croatia, we need the treaty of Lisbon.
Ms Merkel and Mr Tusk in Gdansk reiterated last week's call for the ratification process to continue, with the chancellor saying I am sure we will develop a solution for Ireland.But Polish media say German diplomats aired worries that the Irish No could spark fresh ratification problems in the UK, the Czech Republic and Poland, where the president, eurosceptic Lech Kaczynski, has yet to sign the text.
Poland's Eastern Partnership set for summit approval
PHILIPPA RUNNER Today JUNE 17,08 @ 09:27 CET
German chancellor Angela Merkel has backed Poland's plan to enhance EU relations with five eastern European states, putting the Eastern Partnership scheme on track for formal agreement at this week's EU summit. On Friday (20 June), we will ask the European Commission for concrete proposals so that this initiative does not give rise to mere titles, but to concrete projects, the chancellor said during a trip to Gdansk on Monday, Polish press agency PAP reports.
I received unequivocal backing for this from the chancellor, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said, after getting similar endorsements from the leaders of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia earlier the same day.The Eastern Partnership will be a new multilateral forum between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, forging closer economic and political links and leading to visa-free travel deals.It has no official tie-in to EU enlargement policy, but Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski recently explained the partnership would make future accession natural once EU enlargement fatigue passes.We have been working for years with chancellor Merkel for a membership perspective for Ukraine, Mr Tusk added in Gdansk.Poland sees the Eastern Partnership as a diplomatic triumph after two years out in the cold in Brussels under the eurosceptic Kaczynski twins. But the agreement will play third fiddle to discussions of the wounded Lisbon Treaty at this week's summit.One Polish analyst suggested the partnership will do little to change EU enlargement plans and ignores problems such as Russia's monopoly on gas supplies to the EU's eastern wing.We got backing for the Eastern Partnership because it's not a controversial project, Polish ex-diplomat Marek Cichocki told the Rzeczpospolita daily. Its acceptance costs Germany nothing.
Bosnia signs EU pre-accession deal
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today JUNE 17,08 @ 07:53 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Bosnia and Herzegovina signed a pre-accession deal with the EU on Monday (16 June) in Luxembourg after weeks of delay, with the move representing important progress in the Balkan country's EU integration process.The EU welcomed the signing of the so-called Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) - a pre-accession tool designed as a first step for the Western Balkan towards eventual EU membership.EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn called it a milestone that marks a new stage in our relations and a gateway for [EU] candidacy.For his part, Miroslav Lajcak, international High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia, added: It's certainly a day to remember the same country only 13 years back and also the day to celebrate.
Bosnia and Herzegovina – which has two autonomous regions, the Muslim-Croat federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Serb-inhabited Republika Srpska – was 13 years ago just emerging from the bloody war that followed the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in 1992 – 1995.But the signing of the SAA now opens the door for the country to join the rest of Europe and leave the past behind, Bosnia's prime minister Nikola Spiric said.The EU however added a cautious note with Mr Rehn underlining that there is still much work to do to implement the agreement and before thinking about full membership of the 27-nation bloc.For his part, Mr Lajcak also stressed that the road to EU membership could be long and would depend primarily on Bosnia's efforts.
The European Union has just offered Bosnia its European perspective. We have entered the process but it's up to Bosnia and Herzegovina how long the process will take and when [it] will be able to be rewarded with membership in the European Union, he said according to Reuters.Before joining the EU, Sarajevo has been asked, among other things, to increase its political stability, strengthen its institutions, as well as to improve its judicial system and the fight against corruption.Bosnia is the last country from the Western Balkan region, except for Kosovo, to sign an SAA after the adoption of a controversial police reform by the Bosnian parliament in April – set as a condition by Brussels – cleared the way for this to happen.The document was not signed in April as initially planned because of technical issues concerning the translation of the lengthy document into the EU's 23, as well as Bosnia's three, official languages.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
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.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
EU strengthens Israel ties despite Palestine objections
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today JUNE 17,08 @ 09:06 CET
The European Union is to boost its ties with Israel, despite objections from the Palestinian Authority and other Arab governments over continued illegal settlement building in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Today we mark a new phase in the relations between Israel and the EU, said Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni speaking to reporters alongside Dimitrij Rupel, his Slovenian counterpart, whose country currently holds the six-month rotating EU presidency.Israel's foreign minister Tzipi Livni was in Brussels on Monday (Photo: Slovenian EU Presidency)
Mr Rupel said the EU and Israel were elevating our relations to a new level of more intense, more fruitful, more influential cooperation, according to AFP.EU foreign ministers made the decision at their annual bilateral meeting with the Jewish state, the EU-Israel Association Council, which took place on Monday (16 June) in Luxembourg.As a result, Israel has won three key advances: increased diplomatic co-operation with the 27-state bloc, participation in European agencies and the establishment of a working group to investigate the country's integration into the European single market.The advance in relations comes without reference to complaints from the Palestinian Authority that no such moves should be made so long as Israel continues allow the construction of settlements in the occupied territories, an activity which is a violation of international law.Last week, Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayad lobbied EU capitals to not expand relations with Israel unless settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem were halted. Other Arab governments made similar appeals, in particular Egypt.
In a letter to the 27 member states, the prime minister wrote that no new ties should be established until after Israel implements all of its commitments, especially those related to halting all settlement activities and other violations of human rights in Palestine.Additionally, some EU national diplomats have been worried that such an agreement endangers the success of the first meeting of the Union for the Mediterranean – the proposed grouping that is intended to strengthen relations with all of Europe's southern neighbours.Israel has been invited to the meeting – to take place next month in Paris – alongside North African nations, Turkey, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Syria.
Specifically, the agreement establishes a joint working group that will explore the ways in which Israel can integrate into the European single market, with a view to further improvements in relations at a later date.In the field of diplomatic co-operation, the sides will now see an institutionalisation of dialogue, with regular annual high-level meetings.Israel will also be permitted to join European agencies and programmes.
Hamas says Gaza cease-fire reached with Israel By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer JUNE 17,08
JERUSALEM - The Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas militant group said Tuesday it has reached a cease-fire with Israel meant to halt a cycle of deadly Palestinian rocket attacks that rained hundreds of rockets on Israel in the past year and Israeli reprisals that have killed hundreds of Palestinians. The accord, set to go into effect at 6 a.m. Thursday (11 p.m. EDT Wednesday), has the bigger aim of ending Israel's yearlong economic blockade of Gaza and bringing home a captive Israeli soldier.But the phased approach is prone to pitfalls, and past truces have quickly broken down. Israel cautiously promised a new reality if the rocket fire ends.
The announcement capped months of Egyptian-brokered negotiations that have been repeatedly marred by violence. The deal was first announced in Cairo by Egypt's state-run news agency and quickly confirmed by Hamas. However, Hamas said it would respond to any Israeli attacks.Underscoring the fragile situation, Israeli aircraft attacked three targets in southern Gaza, killing six Palestinian militants, Gaza medical officials said. In response, Palestinian militants fired seven rockets into Israel, the Israeli military said.Still, after months of fighting, both sides seemed interested in a period of calm.Israel wants to halt the incessant rocket and mortar attacks on its southern communities that have killed seven Israelis over the past year. Israeli reprisals have killed more than 400 Palestinians, many of them civilians, according to an Associated Press tally based on figures from hospital officials.Israel also wants an end to Hamas arms smuggling into Gaza from Egypt, and the return of Cpl. Gilad Schalit, the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas-linked militants in a cross-border raid two years ago.Hamas wants Israel to lift its crippling blockade of Gaza, which has led to widespread shortages of fuel, electricity and basic goods. Israeli imposed the sanctions after Hamas violently seized control of Gaza last year, and has tightened the blockade recently in response to increased rocket fire.Gaza Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said all the armed factions in Gaza are on board with the truce. Speaking after another Hamas official outlined details of the truce at a news conference, Zahar said Hamas will not put down its weapons, because he did not believe Israel would implement the cease-fire. We don't trust them, but let's see, he said.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday that no deal was in place yet. It is too soon to announce a truce, and even when it begins, if it does, it is hard to evaluate how long it would last, he said, adding, The Israeli military is ready for any development.
Past informal cease-fires with Hamas, most recently in November 2006, lasted only for several weeks. They were never formally signed because Hamas and Israel do not recognize each other. Israel and the Palestinians declared a truce in February 2005. Hamas, which killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings, largely abided by the cease-fire until June 2006.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a rival of Hamas, welcomed the accord. President Abbas considers the (truce) as a national interest for our people, said a statement from his West Bank office.In Washington, the State Department said it was supportive of efforts to bring calm to Gaza and southern Israel while insisting that Hamas remained a terrorist organization.
We believe that establishing calm in Gaza and elsewhere is a good thing and we're supportive of Egyptian efforts and other efforts to achieve this, deputy spokesman Tom Casey said.But saying you have a loaded gun to my head but you are not going to fire it today is far different than taking the gun down, locking it up and saying you're not going to use it again, he said. Even if this is in fact a true report, it hardly takes Hamas out of the terrorism business.The state-run Egyptian news agency MENA cited an unidentified high-level Egyptian official as saying a mutual and simultaneous calm would take effect Thursday. It described the calm as the first phase of a wider deal.Egyptian, Israeli and Hamas officials all said the talks would quickly move to the larger issues of the blockade and Schalit, the captive soldier. An Egyptian official told The Associated Press that after three days, Israel would begin to open Gaza's border crossings to let more supplies into the area. A week later, he said, Israel planned to allow in additional goods.
In a final phase, the official said, Israel would consider approval of the reopening of Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt. He said the idea is for the truce to last six months. The Rafah crossing, the main gateway for Gaza's 1.4 million people to travel abroad, has been sealed since the Hamas takeover of Gaza. The closure has prevented people from traveling for medical care, studies and family visits. In January, Hamas blew up the border wall between Egypt and Gaza, allowing people to move in and out of Egypt for nearly two weeks before it was resealed. A Hamas official said the issues of Rafah and Schalit would be linked, and he expected talks to begin within days. Israeli defense officials said they expected negotiations on Schalit to begin Sunday. The officials all spoke on condition of anonymity, because they were not permitted to speak for the record with the information. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev would not confirm a deal, but voiced hope for its success. If there is a total absence of terror attacks from Gaza into Israel, and if there is an end to arms buildup in Gaza Strip and movement on the hostage Gilad Schalit, that will indeed be a new reality, he said.
Many obstacles threaten the latest deal.
Israel is suspicious of Hamas' motives since the group has said it wants to use the lull to rearm. And negotiations on Schalit are sure to be complicated. Israel has balked at Hamas demands that it release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including people convicted in the deaths of Israelis, in exchange for him. There is also the constant threat of an outbreak in violence, as Tuesday's fighting demonstrated. Gaza's landscape includes Islamic Jihad and other tiny armed groups that sometimes act independently of Hamas.
For now, Hamas appears to be relying on calls for Palestinian unity to maintain the truce. It made sure to include Islamic Jihad in the consultations with Egypt. On Tuesday, Islamic Jihad said it would honor the agreement as long as Israel didn't attack. An improvement in living conditions in Gaza could also strengthen the calm. Gaza is suffering from dire shortages of fuel, cement and other basic goods. If residents feel relief, it is likely to build public support for the quiet. Iranian-backed Gaza militants have been bombarding southern Israel with rockets and mortars for seven years. The rate of fire increased after Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of Gaza in 2005 and was stepped up further last year after Hamas wrested power from forces loyal to Abbas. Associated Press writers Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, and Salah Nasrawi in Cairo, Egypt, contributed to this report.
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
WORLD GOVERNMENT
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Corporations Plan To Pull Plug On The Free Internet
Web users naive about agenda to turn Internet into regulated cable TV model Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Thursday, June 12, 2008.
The Internet is the last true unregulated outpost of freedom of speech but moves are afoot to stifle, suffocate, control and eventually pull the plug on the world wide web as we know it. These threats are not hidden nor are they hard to deduce and yet a significant number of Internet users remain naive as to their scope.
Despite many questioning the authenticity of a report that claimed ISP's had resolved to restrict the Internet to a TV-like subscription model http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2008/061108_kill_internet.htm where users will be forced to pay to visit selected corporate websites by 2012, while others will be blocked, the march towards regulation of the web is clear and documented.
We have been warning about the plan to let the old Internet die and replace it with a restricted and controlled Internet 2 for years. In 2006, we published an article about how the RIAA were attempting to broaden intellectual property distinctions to a point whereby merely linking to external content is judged as copyright infringement.At the time, the article was met with a mixed response. Many were aware of the imminent dangers that threaten to change the face of the Internet but others were more hostile to the supposition that the world wide web could be devastated by landmark copyright case rulings as well as plans to develop Internet 2.Some accused us of yellow journalism and scaremongering yet the warning that the Elektra vs. Barker case http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ could criminalize the very mechanism that characterizes the Internet was not concocted by Alex Jones or Paul Joseph Watson, it was a statement made by the very lawyer fighting the case, Ray Beckerman.It was a danger also reported on by one of the UK's biggest technology news websites, the Inquirer, which also highlighted the frightening development in an article entitled, RIAA wants the Internet shut down.The RIAA's argument was that defendant Tenise Barker downloaded music files and made them available for distribution by placing them in a shared folder. Though Barker paid for the files and downloaded them legally, and the files were not copied by anyone, the RIAA's motion states that simply making the files available constitutes copyright infringement.As Beckerman points out, the entire Internet is nothing more than a giant network of hyperlinks making files available to other people. If we link to CNN.com, we are making the file that constitutes the CNN homepage available to other users. We don't own the copyright to any of CNN's material therefore if the RIAA's argument is accepted, by simply making that CNN file available from our website, even if no one clicks on the link, we are committing a breach of copyright.
At no point in our article did we suggest that the ruling definitely would shut down the Internet, we highlighted the fact that hundreds of transnational corporations like Amazon.com who solely rely on Internet trade would scream bloody murder. But what the ruling would grease the skids for is the move towards a strictly regulated Internet whereby government permission would be required to run a website and that website would be subject to censoring and deletion if it violated any terms of use.This wouldn't be much of a problem to giant transnational corporations, because their websites would remain accessible for everyone. Yet for thousands of political websites and blogs, the plug could be effectively pulled.
After a long legal fight, Elektra vs. Barker http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080331-new-ruling-may-grease-the-... was decided largely in Elektra's favor, after a federal judge essentially validated the RIAA's position that having songs available in a KaZaA shared folder violates the distribution right under the Copyright Act.The example that we cite in discussing what life would be like under Internet 2 was that running a blog would be like having a You Tube account - any politically sensitive or controversial information that the owners dislike would immediately be removed as it is frequently on You Tube.In addition, the slide towards a licensed Internet that will be sold using fear of identity and credit card fraud could lead to mandatory biometric thumb or finger scanning simply to access the world wide web.
This is hardly a stretch of the imagination, since numerous public services and functions of society are increasingly accessible only through providing some form of biometric identification. Credit passes for travel, ATM terminals and access to theme parks like Disneyland are just a few of the many services we use that are shifting towards mandatory biometric gate keeping.Furthermore, Pay By Touch Online http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0... and other companies have already developed and launched keyboard biometric finger scanning terminals that require users to submit their biometric print before they can access the Internet or buy online.Piggybacking the net neutrality debate, Internet 2 is being shaped to replace the old Internet, which will be allowed to self-destruct as it labors under the pressures of being relegated to slower and slower pipes and users will simply desert a painstaking system.More than two years ago in an article entitled, The End of the Internet?, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester The Nation magazine reported,
The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out.Internet 2 is being billed as the next generation of the world wide web and it has already set global speed records in terms of data transfer, far outstripping the old Internet.One of the fathers of the Internet, David Clark, who served as chief protocol architect for the government's internet development initiative in the 1980s, has been given $200,000 by the National Science Foundation to covertly work on a whole new infrastructure to replace today's global network, according to Wired Magazine. http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,68004,00.html
Clark has vowed to create a brave new world in designing the new Internet, characterizing what he wanted for the new network to be a coherent security architecture.Dovetailing the onset of Internet 2 are government propaganda campaigns to demonize the existing Internet as a wild backwater for hate crime, child pornography and a terrorist recruiting ground.Establishment kingpins and their cheerleaders have increased their level of vitriolic rhetoric against the Internet in recent years , as legislation in both the U.S. and Europe to regulate, stifle and license the Internet moves forward.The White House's own recently de-classified strategy for winning the war on terror targets http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/september2006/070906terroristre... Internet conspiracy theories as a recruiting ground for terrorists and threatens to diminish their influence.
In addition, the Pentagon recently announced its effort to infiltrate the Internet and propagandize for the war on terror. http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Raw_obtains_CENTCOM_email_to_bloggers_...In an October 2006 speech, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/171006Web.htm as a terror training camp, through which disaffected people living in the United States are developing radical ideologies and potentially violent skills.Chertoff pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.The European Union, led by former Stalinist and potential future British Prime Minister John Reid, http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/october2006/261006targetsblogge... has also vowed to shut down terrorists who use the Internet to spread propaganda.The dangers to the freedom and very existence of the Internet as we know it are all too real and the way to counteract these developments is to get involved and get the word out. Simply burying our heads in the sand and being apathetic and naive about the threat is only going to aid those who wish to see the last outpost of freedom of speech shut off forever.
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
Secret Bilderberg Agenda To Microchip Americans Leaked
Elitists want to microchip Americans in name of fighting terrorism,
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Sources from inside the 2008 Bilderberg meeting have leaked the details of what elitists were discussing in Chantilly Virginia last week and the talking points were ominous - a plan to microchip Americans under the pretext of fighting terrorist groups which will be identified as blonde haired, blue eyed westerners. Veteran Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker relies on sources who regularly attend Bilderberg as aides and assistants but who are not Bilderberg members themselves. The information they provided this year is bone-chilling for those who have tracked the development of the plan to make the general public consider implanted microchips as a convenience as routine as credit cards. Under the heading of resisting terrorism there were points made about how the terrorist organizations are recruiting people who do not look like terrorists - blonde, blue eyed boys - they're searching hard for those types to become the new mad bombers, said Tucker. As we have documented, the blue eyed blonde haired Al-Qaeda line is a familiar talking point that has been pushed on Fox News and within other Neo-Con circles in an attempt to turn the anti-terror apparatus around to target dissidents, protesters and the American people in general.
Ominously, Tucker's source also told him that Bilderberg were discussing the microchipping of humans on a mass scale, which would be introduced under the pretext of fighting terrorism whereby the good guys would be allowed to travel freely from airports so long as their microchip could be scanned and the information stored in a database. Tucker said the idea was also sold on the basis that it would help hospital staff treat a patient in an emergency situation because a scan of the chip would provide instantaneous access to health details. Tucker underscored that Bilderberg were talking about subdermally implanted chips and not merely RFID chips contained in clothing. The discussion took place in a main conference hall and was part of the agenda, not an off-hand remark in the hotel bar. Such a bizarre concept may seem unbelievable to some, but over the last ten years there have been dozens of examples of people accepting implanted chips for a variety of different reasons. In 2004, Mexico's attorney general and 160 of his office staff were implanted with tracker chips to control access to to secure areas of their headquarters. The Baja Beach Club in Barcelona and other nightclubs around the world are already offering implantable chips to customers who want to pay for drinks with the wave of a hand and also get access to VIP areas of the club lounge.
Bilderberg skeptical of attack on Iran
Tucker's source told him that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates did attend Bilderberg despite him not appearing on the official list.
Tucker said that his sources told him Gates was in attendance to present his case for war with Iran, but that the majority of Bilderberg members were against an attack at this time. The Europeans were generally opposed to an invasion of Iran - Gates made the regular war propaganda drill about how Iran is a nuclear threat to everybody, said Tucker, adding that European Bilderbergers made snide comments about where such nuclear weapons actually were being kept and at one point joking that they were possibly in Saddam Hussein's tomb. Despite Bilderberg opposition, Tucker said that the administration was still considering an attack before Bush leaves office in January. At least 90 per cent of the Europeans oppose a war, probably closer to 100 per cent, said Tucker, adding, most of the Americans were passive and deferential to the Secretary of Defense and Condoleezza Rice's pitch in so far as Iran is concerned. Tucker said that most Americans present at the meeting were opposed to attacking Iran but dare not be as visible and loud in their opposition as the Europeans.
Energy and oil prices
One of the Bilderberg boys raised this question - should we put a lid on the rise in oil prices, are we reaching the point of diminishing returns, said Tucker, adding that Bilderberg noted how Americans were trading in their SUV's in record numbers for small and more fuel efficient cars and using more public transport to combat high gas prices. Tucker's source said that Bilderberg were predicting $5 for a gallon of gas by the end of this summer and oil over $150 dollars a barrel, but that this was a ceiling and oil prices would probably begin to decline thereafter because they thought the acceleration had happened too quickly. As we previously reported, Bilderberg called for oil prices to soar in 2005 when oil was a mere $40 a barrel. During the conference in Germany, Henry Kissinger told his fellow attendees that the elite had resolved to ensure that oil prices would double over the course of the next 12-24 months, which is exactly what happened. During their 2006 meeting in Ottawa Canada, Bilderberg agreed to push for $105 a barrel before the end of 2008. With that target having been smashed months ago, the acceleration towards $150 is outstripping even Bilderberg's goal, which is why the elitists expressed a desire to cool prices at least in the short term. Just two days after he left Bilderberg, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, George W. Bush and others expressed support for a strong dollar and Bernanke hinted that interest rates could rise, which immediately caused oil prices to drop in line with Bilderberg's consensus.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.
ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
Speech at the Concert in Central Park, New York City
June 1st, 2008 Rabbi David Algaze dlalgaze@gmail.com
I have come to ask a question, a simple question, one that has been forgotten in all the talk about peace in Israel.
Who does this Land belong to?
We have an answer and it is the only answer. Let us say it out loud, let the whole world hear it. Let no one, not even us, have any doubt about it:This land is my land, it’s your land it’s our land.It’s the land of our fathers, it is the land for our children.
This is the simple truth we are being asked to forget and ignore. But we won't forget it, we won't betray our land. We say today and every day: If I forget thee Jerusalem let my right hand be paralyzed….There is a reason why this land is called the promised land. And do you know why? Because it is promised to our fathers and it is promised to our children.How can we give it away? We do not have the right to give it away.G-d said to our father Abraham over and over again: this is your land, I have given it to you. How can we forget this? It is reported that President Truman, the first U.S. President to recognize and support the State of Israel, often cited the verse in Deuteronomy (1:8) Behold, I have given the land before you, go in and take possession of the land which the Lord has sworn unto your fathers through Abraham, through Isaac and through Jacob.
Truman remembered, many Christian preachers remember, dare we be the ones to forget? We created the World Committee for the Land of Israel just to spread that simple truth that the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people and we will not part with it. This is our land and we will not barter it away. Period.The rebirth of Israel in its land is an event hard to understand. The world has never seen something like it. The story of our return is without parallel. Jews never left Israel voluntarily and they returned when they could. We never abandoned the land entirely either, there were Jews throughout history in the land. It is a miracle and as with all miracles we need to believe it to see it.
Let us be clear: the Jews have returned to our land.
We did not come as conquerors. We displaced no one. The return was mandated by the nations of the world. although they have since many times rescinded and diminished their assurance, the return has been legal and moral.The land was a desert before the Jews returned. Churchill once remarked that the land belonged to the Jews because the Arabs destroyed the land, whereas Jews create the land.This is a love story between a people and its land like no other. No other nation ever created a State in the land, and the Jews never created a national homeland outside of it. The land once flowing with milk and honey, when the Jews parted, refused to give its fruits. The beautiful land became a wasteland. Waiting for her children.We are the children of the land and the land smiled upon us when we returned. Would anyone desert their mother? Can we think of leaving the land voluntarily in the hands of strangers?
This is our land, and we will not betray her.
The story of Gush Katif proves this. The land the Arabs called “accursed,” as soon as the Jews came, began to yield the most beautiful fruits, flowers and plants. The tiny portion of land in Gaza yielded at one time most of the agricultural exports of Israel. Yet, when the Jews left, the land became useless again. Even the insects participated. The vegetables that had been once famously bug-free, began to develop bugs. The thriving businesses of Gush Katif languished in the hands of the Arabs. Even the same managers who had worked under the Jews and had all the expertise to make it go, could not do it. Why? The land did not cooperate.
The land was loyal to the Jews, are we going to be faithful to the land? There is a new campaign in the Jewish people, a dangerous and inexplicable dementia. It is called land for peace it was tried in Oslo, it was tried in Wye, it was tried in Taba, and nothing worked. Things are getting worse. When time after time a problem is not resolved, is it not reasonable to suspect that it may be irresolvable? At least in the manner it is planned? Yet there is a campaign afoot involving all major Jewish organizations to give the land away. When we give away Judea and Samaria we are giving away the core of our land, the holy places where our history evolved. We are giving up only Judea? What would Jews be called if we give up Judea? And those intruders who will occupy Judea, would they not have the right to be called Judeans as well? When we give up the land, we give up our history, we give our identity and we give up our soul.
We have come to stop this madness. To say to them:
We are tired of expulsions, we are tired of pogroms, we are tired of suicide bombers and indiscriminate murder in the streets. We are not going to speak of the rights of others, we are going to speak of our legitimate and inalienable rights. We will not endanger our people with foolish dreams that have been tried and discredited over and over again.There is a spirit of feebleness among us. Our leaders have lost the way. They know that there is no hope for a peaceful Arab state in the land of Israel. But they insist because they have forgotten the essential: this land belongs to us. They failed and yet they keep trying without remorse and without shame.
To them we tell them: enough. Enough Oslos, enough Wyes, enough lifting of roadblocks, enough risking the lives of our innocent people, enough of Sderot, enough! In our long history we witnessed the destruction of Jewish communities before. But this time is worse, much worse. This time we want to help the destruction along.
After Hitler, we vowed never again but today our leaders, our Rabbis, our major Jewish organizations are saying over and ever again.
We need to rise and tell them NO!
The current government in Israel with the aid of weak-minded Jewish leaders in the Diaspora has embarked upon a program that may signal the destruction of the State of Israel. With a blend of haste and submissiveness, with deceit and self-deception, the present leadership of the Jewish people has succeeded where its most bitter foes have failed. They are endangering the accomplishments of the Zionist enterprise that were attained with a sacrifice and dedication unparalleled in history. Our leaders are plagued with an irresponsible shortsightedness and are rushing headlong into accords with partners they know are deceitful.We protest. The World Committee for the Land of Israel has come to object and refuse these plans of the demented and the pathetic.We need to repudiate any plan that involves betraying our land. We must oppose any program that puts our population within the range of the kassam. We have to stand against any suggestion that places our children at risk. We did not return to Israel to relive the tragedy of Poland and Germany. If our leaders are tired, let them step aside. If they feel exhausted and drained, let them make room for a new generation that remembers the dream of Abraham and has the courage to fight in our defense.This is not to say that we do not want peace. We should be zealous in the pursuit of peace, but we should be no less fierce in the defense of our land.We extend our hand in peace towards all our neighbors. our hands contain no rancor, nor hatred nor war. But they also contain no land. We offer peace, a real genuine peace. Nevertheless, our peace is not the peace of beggars. It does not give away our cherished land. What other nation in the world gives away its land? We will not give away our land no matter who counsels it or who profits from this betrayal!
Our first father Abraham had to undergo ten trials. The last of which was to bury his dear wife Sara. The trial was that although G-d had promised him the entire land of Israel, he did not have even a place in which to bury Sarah. Yet, he, the owner of the entire land, did not complain. He had no land now but he still kept the hope. It is ironic that our father Abraham, when he did not have the land, kept the hope and we who possess the land are thinking of giving it away.The World committee for the Land of Israel calls upon the Jews of the world to rally around our beautiful mother, the land of Israel. When established Jewish organizations are pathetically accepting and even calling for the establishment of an Arab state in the land of Israel-- it is time for us to say no!
If they have been brainwashed or worse, we will not allow to being brainwashed. The giving away of land to create another Arab state, this one in the land of Israel is wrong. It was wrong when the Arabs wanted it, it was wrong when Jesse Jackson suggested it, it was wrong when our enemies suggest it and it is still wrong!
Hashem oz le’amo yiten, Hashem yevarech ..
G-d should grant us the strength to stand up to our enemies. If we do, then we will merit that he blesses us with lasting peace.
I call upon all Jews and good people everywhere to rally around Eretz Israel, the land of our forefather and our grandchildren. Do not leave her, do not betray her. This land can become the rallying point for all Jews, regardless of their religious preference. let us all be brothers and sisters and in the defense of our land we will become one nation again.When all Jews are united, no force on earth will ever conquer us. Let us unite, brothers and sisters, and let us have the hope of Abraham that this land is our land now and forever.
Oversight Board : Pastor Mike Fryer, Sid Roth - Messianic Vision, Motte Sircus The CARMEL ALERT June 13 2008 A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.
David's Comment: Turmoil Ahead ! - What in the World is Going On ?
Revelation 6:12-17 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand? (NKJ)
The last few weeks have been like no other period of time - at least in recent history ! A massive storm and flood in Burma, a major earthquake in China, daily spiralling gasoline prices that must be one of the key factors in the also spiralling food prices, resulting in shortages of rice and other staple foods in many countries. Then there is the US Dollar which has lost more than 25% of its value over the last 12 months. What in the world is going on ?
Surely we are witnessing end time events beginning to take place on Planet Earth. Can you recall two major natural disasters that took more than 50,000 lives each, occurring back to back ? Looks to me exactly like the scenario Yeshua described in Matthew 24.
If we look at the food crisis, we see rice has risen by more than 50% in a few weeks. Here in Israel, most food items have risen about 40% at the supermarket. From all reports this is a world wide trend, and it seems more likely than not, to continue. And shortages of bread and rice begin to look like the devastating famine of Revelation chapter 6.
From information I have received the food shortages and price hikes are partially caused by bad weather destroying rice crops, and also by the fact that farmers are using fields that previously grew wheat to grow sugar cane for the production of bio-synthetic fuels. Which brings us to the oil supply and prices.
A great deal of the blame for the rise of oil from $70 a barrel 12 months ago, to almost double at $135, lies at the feet
of the Middle East oil producing countries - members of OPEC. Their production costs have not risen, and yet the price of a barrel of oil rises by the day, if not by the hour. After the Six Day War of 1967, a barrel of oil cost just over $3 cents. Then after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and the Arab Oil Embargo the price rose to $10 a barrel. And it has been rising ever since, reaching today's staggering price of $135 - and still rising.
What do the already filthy rich oil producing Muslim Arab countries do with all the money ? They were already so rich they dont know what to do with all of their oil dollars, apart from indulging themselves with huge palaces, private jets, and stables of exotic cars. They even order their cars covered with gold and diamonds instead of paint, in a futile attempt to burn up some of the fortune paid by the west for their oil. Now that they are earning twice as much per barrel as they were last year, the mind boggles as to the figures involved. The average combined Middle East output is a mind-blowing 30 million barrels a day - multiply that by $135 - that is more than 4000 million dollars a day. Not all of that is profit of course, but the mind boggles at the money pouring into Muslim hands !
The real issue is that the Western World is dependent on Muslim Arab oil. Oil based plastic is a huge part of our lives today and everything that moves, including food, depends on the oil. Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iran are holding the world over a barrel - literally ! Unless they halt the price rise and drop oil back down to a realistic price, our lives will be seriously affected. But then that is exactly what the Bible prophecies will happen at the end of this age. The Western World may well be at the threshold of its demise. All of the other great empires fell - what makes ours any different ?
Many would blame Israel for the way the Muslim Arab world treats the Western nations. Israel is not to blame, but the conflict over the land of Israel is a major part of the cause. The Muslim Arabs realise that their oil gives them power to manipulate the West, particularly the oil desparate USA. Saudi Arabia is no friend of the West and yet the US administration does all it can to keep the Saudis happy.
Turning back to Israel, Bush and Rice continue to push the Israeli government into dividing God's land. Israeli PM Omert is very close to being removed from office due to corruption charges against him. An election may well see right wing Benjamin Netanyahu return to the PM office. That will throw a spanner in the US peace plan - hopefully. That will cause an increase of tension in the Middle East. An imminent and necessary military campaign in Gaza to stop the daily rocket attacks on southern Israel
Unless the situation changes ( highly unlikely ) expect to see much more turmoil in the weeks and months ahead. And then there is nature, which of course is controlled by God. According to Revelation 6:12-17 the Heavens and the Earth will soon be seriously shaken. Are we ready for that shaking when it begins ? Now is the time to prepare. The writing is on the wall. To quote Messianic leader Joel Chernoff Failing to prepare is preparation to fail. Its time to press in to the Lord brothers and sisters.
To close on a positive note, lets remember when we see these things coming to pass we ought to be looking up, because our redemption is drawing near - Messiah Yeshua is at the door - HALLELU YAH !!!
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.
Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie
SAME-SEX MARRY IN CALIFORNIA
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LEGAL ANALYST ON GAY WEDDINGS
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Gay couples rush to get married in California By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer JUNE 17,08
SAN FRANCISCO - County clerk offices across California opened for their first full day of same-sex marriages Tuesday, with hundreds of happy gay and lesbian couples ready to take the plunge in what in some cities was a party atmosphere. A gay men's chorus was singing on the front steps of San Francisco City Hall, brightened up by rainbow flags and supporters handing out cupcakes to happy couples.Helen Zia and Lia Shigemura sang The Chapel of Love as they walked to the city attorney's office to get married. The couple, clad in beige jackets and slacks, exchanged vows with Zia's mother by their side.This is the most meaningful day of my life. I've always wanted to get married, Shigemura said. I just never thought it'd be possible.From San Diego to Eureka, couples readied their formal wear, local licensing clerks expanded their staffs and conservative groups warned of a backlash as the nation's most populous state joined Massachusetts in sanctioning gay unions.Some couples were from out of state. Unlike Massachusetts, which legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, California has no residency requirement for marriage licenses.The May 15 California Supreme Court ruling that overturned the state's bans on same-sex marriage became final at 5:01 p.m. Monday, and clerks in at least five counties extended their hours to mark the occasion.Already, dozens of same-sex couples have seized the opportunity to make their relationships official in the eyes of the law.
In West Hollywood, more than 100 people, wearing everything from T-shirts to tuxedoes, were in line Tuesday morning in front of an auditorium that was turned into a licensing center in the city's main park. Six white cabanas with chandeliers and silk flowers were ready for weddings.Among those getting marriage licenses were actor and gay rights activist George Takei and his longtime partner, Brad Altman; they are planning a September wedding.Today we are all here to give flesh and blood reality to that ruling. We are going to make history, said Takei, who played Sulu in the Star Trek television series and movies. Congratulations to all of us and may equality live long and prosper.Every county was required to start issuing new gender-neutral marriage licenses Tuesday with spaces for Party A and Party B where bride and groom used to be.Am I Party A or Party B? Contra Costa County Clerk Stephen Weir jokingly asked his partner of 18 years, John Hemm.They were the first to marry at Weir's office Tuesday morning. Outside, three opponents of gay marriage from the Westboro Baptist Church picketed, carrying signs with sayings such as God is your enemy.Members of the sect are most often seen at military funerals in demonstrations claiming U.S. combat deaths are God's punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.The protesters were easily outnumbered by about three dozen supporters of gay marriage, who held signs that read Hate is not a family value and My marriage is not threatened by theirs, why is yours? Police vehicles lined up near the demonstrators.On Monday, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who helped start the series of lawsuits that led the court to strike down California's one-man-one-woman marriage laws, presided at the wedding of Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 83.Newsom picked the couple for the only ceremony Monday in City Hall to recognize their 55-year relationship and their status as pioneers of the gay rights movement. More than 650 same-sex couples have made appointments to get marriage licenses in San Francisco before the end of the month.
Newsom called officiating the wedding this extraordinary and humbling gift. After the mayor pronounced Martin and Lyon spouses for life, the couple kissed, then emerged to a crowd of well-wishers who showered them with rose petals. The celebrations are tempered by the reality that in a few months, Californians will go to the ballot box to vote on an initiative that would overturn the high court ruling and again ban gay marriage. On Monday, three lawmakers and a small group of other same-sex-marriage opponents gathered outside the Capitol to criticize the Supreme Court decision. They urged voters to approve the ballot measure. This is an opportunity to take back a little bit of dignity ... for kids, for all of us in California, Republican Assemblyman Doug LaMalfa said. It really disturbs me that the will of the people was overridden by four members of the Supreme Court.In both San Francisco and Beverly Hills, where two women became the first same-sex couple in Los Angeles County to marry legally, small groups of protesters waved signs with sayings like Repent or Perish. They were outnumbered by supporters waving rainbow-striped flags. Groups that oppose same-sex marriage have pursued several legal avenues to stop the weddings. On Monday, just hours before the ruling went into effect, a conservative legal group asked a Sacramento court to order the California agency that oversees marriages to stop issuing gender-neutral marriage licenses.
A hearing was set for Tuesday.
About a dozen protesters gathered across the street from the Sacramento County clerk's office in the morning, carrying signs that read, Marriage 1 man + 1 woman and Resist Judicial Tyranny.
Juliya Lyubezhanina, 16, came to protest with about 10 other teens from the Slavic Trinity Church. They claim to be Christians, but they apparently just don't read the Bible because it's all in there, she said. It's something to just pray about. It's not a time to be joyful.A UCLA study issued last week estimated that if the ballot measure is rejected, half of California's more than 100,000 same-sex couples will get married over the next three years, and 68,000 out-of-state couples will travel here to exchange vows.
Associated Press writers Laura Davis in West Hollywood, Eliott Spagat in San Diego, Juliana Barbassa in San Francisco, Don Thompson in Sacramento, Malia Wollan in Martinez and Jeff Wilson in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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