AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE IKE

I HAVE GOT A GREAT AMERICAN TO VOTE FOR IN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY IN STEAD OF OBAMA OR MCCAIN.

HIS NAME IS DAVID JON SPONHEIM. HE HAS A BLOGTV SITE CALLED AMERICASTHIRDPARTY.
http://www.blogtv.com/People/AmericasThirdParty

I WAS IN HIS SITE LAST NIGHT AND ASKED HIM SOME QUESTONS.

I ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT WOULD HE DIVIDE JERUSALEM. HE SAID HE WOULD NOT, AND SAID HE WOULD GET OUT OF THE PEACE PROCESS ALTOGETHER. THIS IS THE MAN AMERICA NEEDS AS THEIR PRESIDENT, HE WOULD LET THE EUROPEAN UNION CONTROL THE PEACE PROCESS.

HE ALSO SAID HE WOULD WORK CLOSELY WITH NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION TO PROTECT AMERICA.

I SAID TO HIM I BELIEVE THE NEXT WARS WILL BE FOUGHT OVER WATER INSTEAD OF OIL, HE AGREES TOTALLY, HE WOULD HAVE FRESH WATER PIPELINES FROM THE SINAI TO THE GAZA STRIP. AND ALL OVER AMERICA.

HES INTO OTHER ENERGY SOURSES THEN OIL ALSO. I ALSO SAID IF HE WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT HE SHOULD FIRE EVERY MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT AND BRING IN CONSERVATIVES INSTEAD. AND ABOUT THE JUDGES I SAID HE SHOULD CAN ALL THE LIBERAL JUDGES AND PUT CONSERVATIVES IN. HE SAID THAT AMERICA DOES HAVE TOO MANY LIBERAL JUDGES MAKING BAD LAWS AGAINST THE PEOPLE.

AMERICA I PUT MY SUPPORT FOR DAVID JON SPONHEIM OF THE AmericasThirdParty AND I WOULD SUGGEST USE DO TO FOR ISRAEL AND AMERICAS SAKE.

HES ON BLOGTV EVERY NIGHT NOW TILL THE ELECTIONS, GO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS HE GETS TO THE MEAT OF HIS ANSWERS UNLIKE THE 2 CURRENT CANDIDATES. HERES HIS SITE TO GO TO, WE (AMERICA)NEEDS DAVID AS PRESIDENT OF THE USA. GOVERNMENT.
http://www.blogtv.com/People/AmericasThirdParty

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.

Weakened Ike moves on after battering Gulf coast By Chris Baltimore
SEPT 14,08 10:45 AM UPDATE

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Rescuers made their way through piles of debris and water-filled streets in Texas seaside towns on Sunday after Hurricane Ike flooded hundreds of miles of U.S. coastline, cut power to millions and pummeled the oil hub of Houston.

A weakened Ike pushed northward after slamming into the Texas coast as a giant Category 2 hurricane on Saturday, leaving extensive devastation in its wake.

Officials have barely begun to assess the damage, which early estimates put in the billions of dollars. There were no confirmed reports of deaths from the hurricane.

Ike, which idled a quarter of U.S. crude oil production and refining capacity, swamped the island city of Galveston and hammered Houston, the fourth most populous U.S. city.The sea wall protecting the coastal barrier island of Galveston, where Ike crashed ashore, was piled high with the detritus of wrecked buildings, boats and other debris.Wreckage and floodwaters have hampered rescuers attempt to search all 32 miles of Galveston, where about 10,000 people ignored a mandatory evacuation order.

Heavy rains falling across Houston on Sunday threatened more flooding, which could impede search and rescue efforts.In Houston, 50 miles inland, Ike shattered the windows of skyscrapers, showering streets with glass and debris, tore apart bus shelters and ripped metal sheets off buildings.Officials on Sunday extended a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for Houston, citing lack of electricity and downed power lines. Some 30 people have been arrested for looting, police said.This hurricane has caused devastation across areas of Texas and Louisiana, David Paulison, administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Saturday.According to an early computer-model estimate of damage by the insurance industry, Ike could lead to $8 billion to $18 billion in claims. Federal and state officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, are set to tour storm-damaged areas on Sunday.

U.S. President George W. Bush will visit Texas to view the devastation on Tuesday.

RESOURCES ARE STRETCHED

About 2 million people evacuated before Ike made landfall early on Saturday. Officials urged residents to stay away for now, but many have returned to survey the damage despite widespread power outages and gasoline shortages.About 4.5 million people could face weeks of power outages.David Smith, mayor of Friendswood in Galveston County, urged residents not to come back to stay until electricity was restored. Resources are stretched. There's no power.Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Saturday noted very heavy damage to the power grid.In Beaumont, Texas, authorities said damage was so extensive that it could be more than a month before power is restored. The storm weakened to a tropical depression early on Sunday as it moved across western Arkansas, heading north on a path expected to bring heavy rains over an area stretching as far as Canada. The vital Houston Ship Channel was not hit as hard as expected by a storm surge that could have swamped refineries. Ike triggered the biggest disruption to U.S. energy supplies in at least three years and sent gasoline prices higher at the pumps. Oil traders will have a chance to react during an electronic trading session on Sunday. Ike was bigger than Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, but its impact was not as devastating. Chertoff said at least 940 people had been rescued, but he had no confirmation of any storm-related deaths.

(Additional reporting by Tim Gaynor, Eileen O'Grady, Erwin Seba and Bruce Nichols in Texas; Carey Gillam in Kansas City; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

Millions without power in Texas after Hurricane Ike
Anna Driver Chris Baltimore And Anna Driver SEPT 13,08 10:15 UPDATE

CNN HOUSTON (Reuters) – Hurricane Ike slammed the Texas and Louisiana coast on Saturday with ferocious winds and a wall of water that flooded hundreds of miles, cut power to millions and caused billions of dollars in damage.But relieved officials and residents said Ike may not have caused the catastrophe they had feared in the densely populated region.The storm, which idled about a quarter of U.S. crude oil production and fuel refining capacity, swamped the island city of Galveston and paralyzed Houston, the country's fourth-largest city, shattering skyscraper windows and showering streets with debris.There were unconfirmed reports of a few deaths from Ike, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said. He cited significant surges -- high seas pushed ashore by hurricanes -- and damage in Texas and Louisiana.

But Galveston and the Houston Ship Channel were not hit as hard as expected. Emergency officials had predicted a 20-foot (six-meter) storm surge that could have caused far greater damage and swamped refineries.Fortunately the worst case scenario that was spoken about, that was projected in some areas, did not occur, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told a briefing in Austin. But he said there had been very heavy damage to the power grid. About 4.5 million people could face weeks of power outages.Ike came ashore at Galveston as a strong Category 2 storm early on Saturday with heavy rains and sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph), the National Hurricane Center said.

It had weakened to a tropical storm by mid-afternoon as it barreled northward on a path expected to bring heavy rains across a swath of the country stretching to Canada.The storm flooded Galveston, sending waves over a 17-foot (5-metre) sea wall built to protect the city after a 1900 hurricane killed at least 8,000 people.More than half the city's 60,000 residents fled before the storm. There were no reports yet of any deaths among those who stayed behind.It was not clear how bad the damage was in Galveston, but the first aerial pictures showed homes surrounded by sea water.

FRANTIC RESCUE CALLS

In Bridge City, a small community along the upper Texas coast, frantic calls for rescue overwhelmed emergency workers.We just received one call from a guy in his attic and the water is rising and he can't get out, said Orange County spokeswoman Jill Frillou. There were a lot of people that did not leave and just did not expect water to come that high.Chertoff refused to say whether he expected the death toll to rise. If someone stayed in an area predicted to be largely flooded, they put their lives at risk, he said.Ike triggered the biggest disruption to U.S. energy supplies in at least three years and sent gasoline prices higher at the pumps.Oil refineries along the western shore of Galveston Bay and Port Arthur may have been spared the worst of the flooding, said Brad Penisson, a spokesman for the joint operations of southeast Texas emergency management agencies.At NASA's Johnson Space Center, there was no major flooding but a portion of the Mission Control Center roof was damaged. All systems supporting the International Space Station continue to function normally, the agency said. Ike could lead to $8 billion to $18 billion in insurance claims, according to an early insurance industry computer-modeled estimate of damage. Ike was the biggest storm to hit a U.S. city since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. Houston is home to 2.2 million people and a metropolitan area of 5.6 million residents. Unlike much of the United States, it has a booming economy thanks to demand for energy. Officials there could hardly conceal their relief although most of the city lacked power and clean water. It's been miraculous in many ways, said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett. The truth of the matter is, we have survived.But authorities were cautious about early confidence over the limited damage, especially after the Katrina experience, when levees broke under the floodwaters long after the storm. President George W. Bush, who was strongly criticized for the slow federal response to Katrina, declared a major disaster in his native Texas and in Louisiana, and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in the storm area. Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said 17 buildings had collapsed on Galveston Island, the downtown was flooded and the causeway linking the island to the mainland had buckled. Ike also flooded coastal communities and forced rescuers out to save stranded residents in parts of Louisiana. (Additional reporting by Tim Gaynor in League City; Eileen O'Grady, Erwin Seba and Bruce Nichols in Houston and Jim Forsyth in San Antonio; Richard Cowan and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Jessica Rinaldi in Galveston, and Lilla Zuill and Richard Valdmanis in New York; Writing by Patricia Zengerle; editing by Mary Milliken and Chris Wilson)

By air, boat and truck, search on for Ike victims By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and PAULINE ARRILLAGA, Associated Press Writers SEPT 13,08 7:20 PM UPDATE

HOUSTON - Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks set out across the flood-stricken Texas coast Saturday in a monumental effort to reach tens of thousands of people who stubbornly ignored warnings of certain death and tried to ride out Hurricane Ike. The storm roared ashore hours before daybreak with 110 mph winds and towering waves, smashing houses, flooding thousands of homes, blowing out windows in Houston's skyscrapers, and cutting off power to more than 3 million people, perhaps for weeks.By evening, it appeared that Ike was not the single calamitous stroke that forecasters had feared. But the full extent of the damage — or even a rough sense of how many people may have perished — was still unclear, in part because many roads were impassable.Some authorities feared that this could instead become a slow-motion disaster, with thousands of victims trapped in their homes, waiting for days to be rescued.We will be doing this probably for the next week or more. We hope it doesn't turn into a recovery, said Sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Marlow in Orange County, where more than 300 people had to be rescued from flooded homes. He said that was only a drop in the bucket compared with the number still stranded.By some estimates, more than 140,000 of the 1 million or so people who had been ordered to evacuate the coast as Ike drew near may have tried to tough it out. Many of them evidently realized the mistake too late, and pleaded with authorities in vain to save them overnight.Ronnie Sharp, 65, and his terrier-mix Princess, had to be rescued from his trailer in Orange County when water reached his knees. I was getting too many snakes in the house, otherwise I would have stayed, Sharp said. He said he lost everything in the flood but his medicine and some cigarettes.After the storm had passed, National Guardsmen, members of the Coast Guard, FEMA representatives and state and local law enforcement authorities mobilized for what Gov. Rick Perry pronounced the largest search-and-rescue operation in the history of the state of Texas.Some emergency officials were angry and frustrated that so many people ignored the warnings.

When you stay behind in the face of a warning, not only do you jeopardize yourself, you put the first responders at risk as well, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said. Now we're going to see this play out.Steve LeBlanc, Galveston's city manager, said: There was a mandatory evacuation, and people didn't leave, and that is very frustrating because now we are having to deal with everybody who did not heed the order. This is why we do it, and they had enough time to get out.Because Ike was so huge — some 500 miles across, making it nearly as big as Texas itself — hurricane winds pounded the coast for hours before and after the storm's center came ashore. Ike soon weakened to a tropical storm as it made its way inland, but continued to pound the state with 60 mph winds and rain.Officials were encouraged to learn that the storm surge topped out at only 15 feet — far lower than the catastrophic 20-to-25 foot wall of water forecasters had feared.Preliminary industry estimates put the damage at at least $8 billion.Damage to the nation's biggest complex of refineries and petrochemical plants appeared to be slight, but gasoline prices shot up for fear that the supply would be interrupted by power outages and the time necessary to restart a refinery. In some parts of the country, gas prices surged briefly to $5 a gallon.As the day wore on, hundreds of people were rescued from their flooded-out homes, in many cases by emergency crews that had to make their way through high water and streets blocked by peeled-away roofs, wayward yachts and uprooted trees.But the day was already half over before the winds died down enough for authorities to begin the rescue, and the search was almost certain to be suspended before dark because of the dangers posed by downed power lines and flooded roads. A portion of hard-hit Galveston had yet to be examined.The storm, which killed more than 80 in the Caribbean before reaching the U.S., was blamed for at least two lives in Texas. A woman was killed in her sleep when a tree fell on her home near Pinehurst. A 19-year-old man slipped off a jetty near Corpus Christi and was apparently washed away. Louisiana officials said a 16-year-old boy drowned Saturday after falling out of a fishing boat in Ike-flooded Bayou Dularge. Lisa Lee spent hours on the roof of her Bridge City home with her husband, John, her 16-year-old brother, William Robinson, and their two dogs. They dove into 8-foot floodwaters and swam to safety after a sheriff's deputy arrived in a truck and drove as close to their home as he could. Their dogs paddled to safety behind them.

It was like a dream, said William Robinson, while his sister shivered in a blanket at a shelter set up at a Baptist church in Orange. A convoy of search-and-rescue teams from Texas and California drove into Galveston — where the storm came ashore at 3:10 a.m. EDT — after bulldozers cleared away mountains of debris. Interstate 45, the only road onto the island, was littered with large overturned yachts, dead pelicans and twisted debris from homes and docks. Homes and other buildings in Galveston and homes burned unattended during the height of Ike's fury; 17 collapsed because crews couldn't get to them to douse the flames. There was no water or electricity on the island, and the main hospital, the University of Texas Medical Branch, flew critically ill patients to other medical center. Sedonia Owen, 75, and her son, Lindy McKissick, stayed to shoo off looters. She was armed with a shotgun, watching floodwaters recede from her front porch. My neighbors told me, You've got my permission. Anybody who goes into my house, you can shoot them, Owen said.

President Bush declared a major disaster in his home state of Texas and ordered immediate federal aid. In downtown Houston, shattered glass rained down on the streets below the JPMorgan Chase Tower, the state's tallest building at 75 stories. Trees were uprooted in the streets, road signs mangled by wind. I think we're like at ground zero, said Mauricio Diaz, 36, as he walked along Texas Avenue across the street from the Chase building. Metal blinds from the tower dotted the street, along with red seat cushions, pieces of a wood desk and office documents marked highly confidential.Southwest Louisiana was spared a direct hit, but Ike's surge of water penetrated some 30 miles inland, flooding thousands of homes, breaching levees and soaking areas still recovering from Labor Day's Hurricane Gustav. Officials said the flooding was worse than it was during 2005's Hurricane Rita, which hit the Louisiana-Texas line. But there was good news: A stranded freighter with 22 men aboard made it through the storm safely, and a tugboat was on the way to save them. And an evacuee from Calhoun County gave birth to a girl in the restroom of a shelter with the aid of an expert in geriatric psychiatry who delivered his first baby in two decades.

In Surfside Beach, retired carpenter and former Marine Ray Wilkinson became something of a celebrity for a day: He was the lone resident in the town of 805 to defy the order to leave. Authorities found him Saturday morning, drunk. I consider myself to be stupid, Wilkinson, 67, said through a thick, tobacco-stained beard. I'm just tired of running from these things. If it's going to get you, it's going to get you.He added: I didn't say I had all my marbles, OK? Pauline Arrillaga reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Juan A. Lozano in Galveston, Jay Root in Austin, Michael Kunzelman in Orange, Brian Skoloff in West Palm Beach, Fla., April Castro, Mark Williams and Andre Coe in College Station, and Allen G. Breed in Surfside Beach contributed to this report.

Ike Now a Tropical Storm But Still Potent Tim Ballisty SEPT 13,08 7:20 PM UPDATE

Hurricane Ike Ike made landfall at 2:10 a.m. CDT at Galveston, Texas, with maximum sustained winds near 110 miles per hour. Its minimum pressure was 951.6 millibars, reported by the barometer at the Galveston Pleasure Pier when the center passed overhead. As of 4 p.m. CDT, Ike was located 105 miles SW of Texarkana, Arkansas, with maximum sustained winds at 45 mph. It was downgraded to a tropical storm at 2 p.m. It is heading north at 18 mph with a turn to the north-northeast expected later today. Ike was a hurricane for 9 days and 21 hours. View the weather.com. You can follow along with the latest news and stats concerning Hurricane Ike weather.com.

Typhoon slams into Taiwan, at least two missing SEPT 14,08

TAIPEI (AFP) - A powerful typhoon pounded Taiwan on Sunday with fierce winds and torrential rains, leaving at least two people missing and 17 others injured, officials said. Traffic was severely disrupted as Typhoon Sinlaku made landfall in northeastern Ilan county early Sunday, packing winds of up to 173 kilometres (107 miles) per hour, the Central Weather Bureau said.TV reports said two small cars carrying an unknown number of people had been washed away by a river after a bridge collapsed in central Taiwan.Hundreds of domestic and international flights have been cancelled on the island, and around 500 passengers were stranded in Kinmen airport, a Taiwan-controlled offshore island near the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen.

Traffic on 20 highways was interrupted by landslides caused by heavy rains, which have accumulated to up to 1,000 millimetres (40 inches) in some remote mountainous areas over the weekend.Power and telephone services were also disrupted to nearly 100,000 households as trees were uprooted by the strong winds.Some 250 residents in northern mountain villages were evacuated to safety, said the National Fire Agency which coordinates Taiwan's rescue missions.The typhoon lost momentum after making landfall but weather forecasters warned residents that heavy rain would continue.The typhoon kept losing force over the past three hours, said a weather bureau official. It packed gusts of 119 kilometres (71.4 miles) per hour, down from 124 kilometres recorded earlier in the day.However, people must not relax their vigilance as the typhoon is expected to spark more rains in the day to come, he said.A worker was washed away by flash floods while fixing a power system in the central Nantou county. A 69-year-old farmer was reported missing in the central Changhua county when visiting his paddy field, the National Fire Agency said.Seventeen people were injured, including two hit by debris, while four were hurt when their bus crashed in southern Taiwan, it said.At 1000 GMT, the centre of the typhoon was 40 kilometres west of the northern city of Keelung. With a radius of 250 kilometres, Typhoon Sinlaku was moving northeast towards Japan.On the southeastern coast of mainland China, more than 170,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying coastal regions in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.Sinlaku evoked painful memories of Typhoon Nari, which hit Taiwan in September 2001, leaving 94 people dead and causing severe flooding.Two tropical storms pounded the island in July, leaving at least 22 people dead and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to agriculture.

Typhoon hits Taiwan, causing landslides Sat Sep 13, 5:25 AM ET

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A typhoon pounded Taiwan on Saturday, bringing torrential rains and triggering landslides in the central and northern part of the island, the national fire agency said. One person was reported injured. At 3 a.m. EDT, typhoon Sinlaku was 90 km (55 miles) east of Ilan on the northeast coast, packing winds of up to 209 kph (130 mph), the island's Central Weather Bureau and local media reported.Schools and offices in the capital, Taipei, were ordered closed on Saturday. Surrounding areas have faced strong weather warnings since late Friday.

Television images showed heavy seas and pouring rain in a coastal part of Hualien, where some trees had been uprooted. Most flights at the island's airports have also been cancelled.Up to now, we just know one person was injured and we also see some landslides but repair works are under way, an official at the agency told Reuters.

The category 3 storm was expected to blanket the island before moving on towards Japan, possibly gathering strength, the Central News Agency and the forecasting website Tropical Storm Risk (www.tropicalstormrisk.com) said.The Xinhua news agency, meanwhile, said Sinlaku was expected to make landfall in eastern China on Sunday morning, battering the coastal provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang.Taiwan government officials advised people staying away from schools and workplaces to avoid flying debris. The weather bureau said people should stay away from beaches and mudslide-prone mountains.Sinlaku will be the fourth typhoon to hit Taiwan this year. On July 18, typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 20 people and caused extensive flooding, landslides and crop damage in the south and central part of the island.Across the Taiwan Strait, heavy rains were forecast in northeastern Fujian and central and eastern parts of Zhejiang over the next two days. In parts of Zhejiang the rain could be torrential, Xinhua said.Typhoons regularly reach China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Japan from August until the end of the year, gathering strength from the warm waters of the Pacific or the South China Sea before weakening over land.
(Reporting by Ralph Jennings and Baker Li; editing by Matthew Jones and Roger Crabb)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

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.

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU U.S. to guarantee Palestinian state Letter meant to bind Israel, PA, next administration in Washington September 11, 2008 11:40 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – The U.S. is planning to issue a letter guaranteeing the country will back agreements reached during current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at creating a Palestinian state before President Bush leaves office in January, WND has learned.The move is intended to ensure any agreements reached by the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority, and spelled out in a joint document, will be recognized by the next U.S. administration and binding for Israel and the PA.The information comes as Jacob Walles, the U.S. consul-general, stated in an interview with a major Palestinian newspaper yesterday that Israel and the PA agreed to negotiate Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley area leading to the Dead Sea.In response to the report, the State Department issued a statement claiming the U.S. government has not taken a position on the borders of a future Palestinian state and denying Jerusalem is being discussed.But Israeli and Palestinian sources intimately familiar with the current talks tell WND Jerusalem is being negotiated, with Palestinian officials claiming the talks are in advance stages.The sources also said the U.S. recently floated a plan to divide Jerusalem.According to informed Israeli and Palestinian sources, officials from the State Department this year presented both negotiating sides with several proposals for consideration regarding the future status of Jerusalem. It was unclear whether the U.S. proposals were accepted.One U.S. plan for Jerusalem obtained by WND was divided into timed phases and, among other things, called for Israel eventually to consider forfeiting parts of the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site.

According to the first stage of the U.S. proposal, Israel initially would give the PA some municipal and security sovereignty over key Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. The PA would be allowed to open some official institutions in Jerusalem, could elect a mayor for the Palestinian side of the city and would deploy some kind of so-called basic security force to maintain law and order. The specifics of the force were not detailed in the plan.The initial stage also calls for the PA to operate Jerusalem municipal institutions, such as offices to oversee trash collection and maintenance of roads.After five years, if both sides keep specific commitments called for in a larger principal agreement, according to the U.S. plan, the PA would be given full sovereignty over agreed-upon eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods and discussions would be held regarding an arrangement for the Temple Mount. The plan doesn't specify which parts of the Temple Mount could be forfeited to the Palestinians or whether an international force may be involved.The PA also could deploy official security forces in Jerusalem separate from a non-defined basic force after the five-year period and also could open major governmental institutions, such as a president's office, and offices for the finance and foreign ministries.The U.S. plan leaves Israel and the PA to negotiate which Jerusalem neighborhoods would become Palestinian.According to top diplomatic sources, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who visited the region last month, pressed Israel to sign a document by the end of the year that would include Jerusalem by offering the Palestinians a state in Israel's capital city as well as in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The Israeli team rather would conclude an agreement on paper by the end of the year that would give the Palestinians a state in the West Bank, Gaza and some Israeli territory, leaving conclusions on Jerusalem for a later date, the informed diplomatic sources told WND.The sources said the Palestinian team has been pushing to conclude a deal by January on all core issues, including Jerusalem, and has been petitioning the U.S. to pressure Israel into signing an agreement on paper that offers the Palestinians eastern Jerusalem.Rice, the sources said, has asked Israeli leaders to bend to what the U.S. refers to as a compromise position, concluding an Israeli-Palestinian agreement by the end of the year that guarantees sections of Jerusalem to the Palestinians. But Israel would not be required to withdraw from Jerusalem for a period of one to five years.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Mass U.S. student protest against Palestinian state Organizers frustrated with Jewish groups failing to mount any opposition September 11, 2008 8:40 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – A grassroots coalition of U.S. Jewish students is planning a nationwide protest next week against the Israeli government's ongoing negotiations with the Palestinian Authority – talks aimed at creating a Palestinian state, at least on paper, before President Bush leaves office in January.The demonstration, scheduled for Sept. 18, also opposes what organizers state is the failure of mainstream American Jewish groups, including Orthodox-oriented organizations, to mount any opposition to the Israeli government's negotiations and its purported willingness to forfeit strategic territory.The religious Jewish establishment will not speak out about the planned division of the land of Israel. They are remaining silent just as they did three years ago, before the Gaza retreat, Yosef Rabin, director of the United Jewish Student Council, told WND.Rabin's group has sent flyers to U.S. Jewish schools calling for students to protest on the 18th, starting 10 minutes before the first class, comprising the first lesson of the day.The suggested format of the protest includes reading of Psalms and other prayers for Israel. Demonstrators are urged to invite the local media and bring cameras and video recorders to later post the protests on YouTube.Rabin said so far students and parents in Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Ohio have signed onto the protest and are working to organize students from their schools.Israel has been negotiating with the PA in line with talks initiated at last November's U.S.-backed Annapolis summit.Media reports say Israel is willing to cede the majority of the strategic West Bank to the Palestinians and that the Jewish state is negotiating Jerusalem.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denied Jerusalem is up for negotiation. But Israeli and Palestinian sources intimately familiar with the current talks tell WND Jerusalem is being negotiated, with Palestinian officials claiming the talks are in advance stages.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

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

Brussels in frightening grab for personal information .Civil liberties and privacy are being eroded at a breathtaking rate by European Union governments, according to a report. By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Editor 1:13AM BST 11 Sep 2008

Civil liberties watchdog Statewatch criticised the EU's post-9/11 security strategy as a frightening grab for every aspect of individual information.The 60-page report - published on the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington - said that the EU now saw data privacy and judicial scrutiny of police surveillance tactics as obstacles to efficient law enforcement co-operation, rather than rights to be safeguarded.The report, The Shape Of Things To Come, described a so-called EU Future Group preparing a new five-year security strategy as shadowy.

It said that plans to co-operate with the US on extremely controversial techniques and technologies of surveillance and enhanced co-operation.The group is accused of trying to harness a digital tsunami to aid law enforcement.The Statewatch report quotes an EU Council of Ministers document on justice and security which declared: Every object the individual uses, every transaction they make and almost everywhere they go will create a detailed digital record.This will generate a wealth of information for public security organisations, and create huge opportunities for more effective and productive public security efforts.The report responds: The implications of this statement are breath-taking. Across the EU, governments have, or are, adopting national laws for the mandatory retention of everyone's communications data - all forms of communication (phone calls, faxes, mobile calls including locations) which will be extended to keeping a record of all internet usage from 2009 - even though few are aware this is happening.This allows law enforcement and security agencies to get access to all traffic data - in the UK access is already automated.The report goes on: When traffic data including internet usage is combined with other data held by the state or gathered from non-state sources (tax, employment, bank details, credit card usage, biometrics, criminal record, health record, use of e-government services, travel history etc) a frightening detailed picture of each individual's everyday life and habits can be accessed at the click of a button.

The report adds: The harnessing of the digital tsunami by public security organisations means that expected behaviour can be assessed by machines on the basis of which directions are given to state officials on the spot.Statewatch says that, ever since 9/11, Washington has got its way on security policy to the detriment of privacy and protection data about EU citizens.Statewatch director Tony Bunyan said: EU standards have been by-passed or undermined and the USA has steadfastly refused to offer Europeans the equivalent level of privacy protection to US citizens.On plans for the EU and Washington to now develop even closer co-operation across the entire justice and security policy area, he said: It is hard to think of a greater danger to our privacy and civil liberties.He called for a meaningful debate about the direction of EU justice and security policy, but warned: "There is now only a slim chance that the political elites in the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, national governments, the law enforcement agencies and the multinationals will change course - they have already invested too much to allow a meaningful public debate to take place.Mr Bunyan said: The national and European states require unfettered powers to access and gather masses of personal data on the everyday life of everyone in order so that we can all be safe and secure from perceived threats.But how are we to be safe from the state itself, from its uses and abuses of the data they hold on us?

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

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

WILL GOVERNMENT BAILOUTS SPELL END OF DOLLAR
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Ike may push gas prices close to $4 By JOHN PORRETTO and MARK WILLIAMS, AP Business Writers SEPT 13,08

HOUSTON - Hurricane Ike created a wave of price spikes at gas stations across the country Saturday. Fears that the massive storm would cut off supply lent to wide disparities in prices state by state, and even block by block.Ike, coming two weeks after Hurricane Gustav, struck the Texas coast, a region thick with oil refineries that produce millions of gallons of gasoline for the country.The storm shut down 14 Texas refineries with a total capacity of 3.8 million barrels of crude a day.Gas prices soared as high as $4.99 in Knoxville, Tenn., sparking a run on gasoline stations.One of our local gasoline chains called a local TV station Thursday, sometime during the day and said, We're running out of gas. We're going up 80 cents a gallon, said Sharon Cawood, an account executive. It caused a major scare in Knoxville.By the time it hit 6 o'clock news and 11 o'clock news it was like snow was falling and milk and bread were flying off the shelves. There were lines at the gas station.The average cost for a gallon of gas nationwide could head back toward all-time highs of $4-per-gallon, reached over the summer when oil prices neared $150 a barrel.In the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, gasoline jumped from $3.55 early in the week to $3.79. Gasoline at Chicago-area stations was closing in on $4.50.Geoff Sundstrom, AAA's fuel price analyst in Orlando, Fla., said Ike has disrupted supply at the wholesale level in the Gulf Coast, where prices struck $4.85 a gallon Friday.

A number of state's were taking action to prevent price gouging.

There were 186 gouging complaints in Florida by Saturday, according to the Attorney General's Office. There were reports of gas as high as $5.50 a gallon in Tallahassee, said spokeswoman Sandi Copes.Refineries may remain shut-in for days, even if there was no serious wind damage or flooding, as workers must go though extensive procedures to restart the massive complexes.The reality is, we're facing a temporary shortage in wholesale gasoline, Sundstrom said.Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and high wind. Thousands of homes and government buildings are flooded, roads are washed out, and power outages were at 2.6 million customers from Houston into Louisiana.Ike was about twice the size of Hurricane Gustav, which rammed into the Louisiana shore two weeks ago. The last refinery shut down by Gustav restarted Thursday.The storm surge was less severe than what had been predicted. Wilson Shaffer, chief of the National Weather Service's evaluation division, said Saturday morning that the highest surge so far was seen at Sabine Pass in Texas, at about 13.5 feet, according to tidal gauges.

Forecasters had predicted a surge of up to 25 feet, which would have been the highest in recorded history in Texas, above 1961's Hurricane Carla, a storm that brought a 22-foot wall of water, with some 15 feet rushing inland up shipping channels. The Sabine Pipe Line, a crucial natural gas conduit, has been shut down, according to the CME Group, parent of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The CME made a finding of force Majeure for all remaining delivery obligations for September natural gas contracts. Refineries along the upper Texas Gulf Coast account for about one-fifth of the nation's refining capacity. Exxon Mobil's refinery in Baytown, outside Houston, is the nation's largest. Valero's refineries at Houston, Texas City and Port Arthur remain shut down, and all three have lost power. The company said it was unable to provide a damage assessment. Valero's other Gulf Coast refineries remain in operation at planned rates. The U.S. Minerals Management Service said there were two confirmed reports of drilling rigs adrift in the central Gulf of Mexico. Spokeswoman Eileen Angelico said Saturday the unidentified rigs are about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. She said her agency, industry experts and the Coast Guard are monitoring the paths of the rigs. Regional director Lars Herbst said the rigs have been relatively stationary for several hours. He says they expect tugs to approach to secure the rigs when sea conditions allow. Retail prices for gas may not reach as high as wholesale, with anti-gouging laws in some stakes kicking into effect, Sundstrom said.

In other instances, gas stations have long-term price contracts with oil companies. There could be instances where gas stations on the same street have big disparities in price because of the price they paid for fuel, he said. You may find stations that are out of gasoline, not because it's not available, but because they don't want to pay the price, he said. At a Sunoco station in Arlington, Va., Friday night, gas was selling for $3.55 a gallon while a BP station a block away had gas for $3.75 a gallon. Sundstrom said the increase in prices may be for just a short time. Prices also spiked after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Shell said supplies at Shell stations and terminals is adequate throughout Texas, and that extra tanker trucks have been called in from other areas to make sure motorists have adequate supplies after the storm. Ben Brockwell, director of data, pricing and information services for the Oil Price Information Service in Wall, N.J., said prices could climb sharply in the Gulf Coast region — 50 cents a gallon perhaps — if wholesale prices remain at inflated levels for a sustained period. That question still needs to be resolved, he said. This is panic-buying in advance of a storm that we don't know what's going to do.With the storm still pounding southeast Texas, oil refiners were expected to get an idea of any damage they may have sustained later Saturday. CenterPoint Energy, the main utility in Houston, reported 1.3 million outages Saturday. There were 219,000 customers without power in Louisiana. Entergy reported more than 60,000 customer outages remaining from Gustav in plus an additional 129,360 customers without power due to Ike for a total of 189,946. Approximately 29,000 additional customers are reported without power across other Louisiana utilities and cooperatives. These numbers are expected to climb. Royal Dutch Shell said it would fly over its facilities in the Gulf Saturday or Sunday to assess damage, particularly at its 39,000-ton Auger platform because of its proximity to Ike. The Auger platform is 3,280 feet above the sea floor, and is one of five such platforms for Shell in the deep Gulf waters. Auger was designed to simultaneously withstand hurricane force waves of 71 feet and winds of 140 mph. Exxon Mobil said it had been unable to access damages because of the storm. Mark Williams reported from Bryan, Texas. Associated Press writer Brian Skoloff in West Palm Beach, Fla., contributed to this report.

DISEASES

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

Wild elephants kill six people in Nepal: police Sat Sep 13, 10:23 AM

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) - At least six people have been killed in southern Nepal in rampages by wild elephants in the last two days, police said Saturday.Five people were trampled to death overnight while one was killed on Friday morning in the villages of Saptari and neighbouring Siraha districts, police officer Bhoj Narayan Shrestha told AFP.Police said three wild elephants entered the villages from the jungles bordering India and attacked people as they slept.We believe the elephants come inside Nepal from (neighbouring) India. They disappear inside the jungle during the day and come to attack villagers at night, Shrestha said.The officer said a team of police had been mobilised to chase away the elephants, which are protected as an endangered species under Nepali law.Shrinking forests and encroachment on elephant territory has forced the animals to stray into human settlements looking for food, often resulting in attacks, experts say.

Palin says war with Russia could be NATO option
VALENTINA POP 12.09.2008 @ 09:29 CET

US Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has backed Georgia's NATO membership in a television interview, while leaving open the option of war with Russia if it were to attack a NATO ally.In an interview with ABC News, Ms Palin was asked whether the United States would have to go to war with Russia if it invaded Georgia, and the country was part of NATO, Ms Palin said: Perhaps so.Republican vice-presidential candiate Sarah Palin has outlined her hawkish views on Russia and the Caucasus (Photo: Republican National Convention and Reflections Photography)I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally - if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help, she explained in her first television interview since becoming Republican John McCain's running mate two weeks ago.Ms Palin, currently governor of Alaska, said she supported NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia - a move Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin strongly opposes. It was America's responsibility to be vigilant against a larger power invading smaller democracies, she said, while stressing: We will not repeat a Cold War.

NATO-Georgia Commission on Monday

Georgia is currently a NATO partner, but was not granted a Membership Action Plan (MAP) - as official membership candidate status is termed - at this year's NATO summit in Bucharest. However, following the Russian invasion, NATO decided on 19 August to establish a new NATO-Georgia Commission, which will inaugurate its work in Tbilisi on Monday with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and ambassadors from the 26 Alliance's member states. We won't supply arms to the Georgians, but we will help them develop their own military potential," NATO spokesperson James Appathurai said, Gazeta Wyborcza reports, adding that the ambassadors will fly there using a Polish government plane.

Russian threats against Europe

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday (11 September) in Sochi that tensions between Russia and the EU may well worsen if the planned US missile defense shield is deployed in Poland, threatening yet once more to point Russian missiles at European targets. On the same day, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met his Polish counterpart in Warsaw, saying that Poland is not a threat to Russia, but we can't ignore the fact it's an integral part of the US strategic system.Mr Putin fiercely defended Russia's invasion of Georgia, accusing the West of anti-Russian hysteria and saying that if this military operation had not been carried out, it would have been like Russia getting a bloody nose and hanging its head down.Russia wanted a constructive relationship with the European Union, but only if the new realities were taken into account, he said.Mr Putin accused the Bush administration of not doing anything about stopping the conflict, a feeling he got when speaking to the US president at the Olympic Games in China and which prompted him to send tanks into Georgia.In Beijing, he had already raised the question of Russia recognising Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent territories with the Chinese government, and told them Russia did not expect Chinese support, which suggests Moscow was already planning to recognise the two enclaves, the BBC reports. Putin also made clear that Russia could easily have occupied the Georgian capital and toppled its president, Mikhail Saakashvili, despite earlier claims of the Russian army being close to the Georgian capital as an exaggeration in the Western media. Our forces were 15 kilometres from Tbilisi. It would have taken four hours to capture Tbilisi. We didn't have that goal, he said.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Israel releases terrorist ... terrorist threatens U.S.American embassy and citizens are not secure.September 13, 2008 6:25 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

Samir Kuntar

JERUSALEM – A convicted child-killing terrorist recently freed by Israel in a controversial prisoner exchange deal yesterday issued a threat against the U.S.If there will be an Israeli attack against Lebanon in the future, American citizens and the American embassy in Lebanon will not be secure, said Samir Kuntar, who led a protest yesterday outside the U.S. embassy in Beirut.Kuntar was release in July along with four other Lebanese convicts in a deal with the Hezbollah terror group that saw the remains of two Israeli soldiers returned to Israel. He was serving multiple life sentences in an Israeli prison for murdering three Israelis, including smashing to death a 4-year-old girl with the butt of his rifle.In Lebanon, Kuntar now chairs the Lebanese Committee for Solidarity with Cuba, which is an organization that petitions for the international community to normalize relations with Cuba.

Kuntar organized a protest outside the U.S. embassy to petition for the release of Cuban prisoners being held in American prisons. There, he also called for solidarity with Venezuela and applauded the anti-American stances of Cuba and Venezuela.

Kuntar's rally attracted only a handful of protestors. It was covered by local media outlets.His threats against the U.S. embassy in Beirut may have particular resonance for some since it was the site of a massive Islamist suicide bombing in 1983 that killed over 60 people, mostly embassy staff members and U.S. Marines and sailors. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time.On April 22, 1979, Kuntar led a group of four terrorists who entered Israel from Lebanon by boat. The four murdered a policeman who discovered them when they first entered Israeli territory.The terrorists then raided an Israeli border town, breaking into an apartment and taking hostage 28-year-old Danny Haran along with his 4-year-old daughter, Einat. The mother, Smadar Haran, was able to hide in a crawl space above the bedroom with her 2-year-old daughter, Yael, and a neighbor.Smadar accidentally smothered her daughter to death while trying to mute her cries. Kuntar shot Danny Haran to death and then beat to death Haran's daughter with his rifle.Over the years, Kuntar became a hero in Lebanon and in the Palestinian territories. His freedom was one of Hezbollah's declared goals when the group raided Israel's border in 2006, nabbing the bodies of two Israeli soldiers and prompting the Jewish state's war that year in Lebanon.