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EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Quake in Iran kills 3, sends tremors across Gulf By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Assocaited Press Writer SEPT 10,08

TEHRAN, Iran - A strong earthquake rocked southern Iran on Wednesday, killing three people and sending tremors across the Persian Gulf to the skyscrapers of Dubai. The country's seismological center said the magnitude 6 quake struck at 3:30 p.m., with the epicenter about 850 miles south of the capital Tehran in the province of Hormozgan. The region's main city, Bandar Abbas, is one of Iran's key ports and home to a large oil refinery that primarily serves the domestic market.The quake, which was followed by 10 aftershocks, knocked out power and caused minor damage on the Gulf island of Qeshm. State television reported three people were killed and 26 injured.The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the initial quake's strength at magnitude 6.1.Abdolkarim Setareh, a local official in the epicenter town of Bandar-e-Khamir said extensive damage was unlikely.Houses in this region have been built in recent years and are resistant to earthquakes. Only minor damage has been reported from a dozen villages so far, he told The Associated Press by telephone.Across the Persian Gulf in Dubai, the tremors sent office workers rushing out of high-rises in the city-state's commercial center.My bed was hitting against the wall, said Rheanne Anderson, a Canadian teacher living in the nearby emirate of Ras al-Khaimah. There was definitely some shaking.Iran is located on seismic fault lines and averages at least one slight earthquake every day.In February 2005, a magnitude 6.4 quake in southern Iran killed 612 people. A magnitude 6.6 quake flattened the historic city of Bam in the same region in December 2003, killing 26,000 people.Associated Press writers Barbara Surk and Adam Schreck in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.

Quake rocks Chile; no major damage seen SEPT 10,08

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A magnitude-5.8 earthquake rocked northern Chile on Wednesday, causing landslides that blocked highways but no immediate reports of victims or major damage.The quake hit at 12:12 a.m. Wednesday in Chile's northernmost province of Tarapaca, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.The Seismological Institute of the University of Chile said the quake was centered near the town of Pica, outside the coastal city of Iquique. It was felt hundreds of miles away.The government's Emergency Bureau said the quake caused some landslides that blocked highways, but there were no immediate reports of victims or damage, though officials were seeking word from small Andean towns.The U.S. earthquake center said the epicenter was located 4.8 miles below ground, while Chilean seismologists said it was much deeper.

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.

Ike gains strength over Gulf, aims for Texas By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer SEPT 10,08

HAVANA - Hurricane Ike barreled across the warm, energizing waters of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday on its way toward the Texas coast after crashing through Cuba's tobacco country and toppling aging Havana buildings. Forecasters said the Category 1 storm was already strengthening over open waters after leaving Cuba and could grow into a massive Category 3 storm before slamming into Texas or northern Mexico on Saturday.Ike has already killed at least 80 people in the Caribbean, and Texas put 7,500 National Guard members on standby and urged coastal residents to stock up on supplies.The U.S. Federal Emergency Management agency still was uncertain about the timing of evacuations along the coast.Cuban state television said some 2.6 million people — nearly a fourth of the island's population — sought refuge from Ike, which killed four people and shredded hundreds of homes as it swept across the country. Power was still spotty in Havana on Wednesday morning.As it left Cuba, Hurricane Ike delivered a punishing blow to towns such as Los Palacios, which already suffered a direct hit from a Category-4 Hurricane Gustav on Aug. 30.In a poor neighborhood along the train tracks, the combined fury of Ike and Gustav left nearly two-thirds of the wooden homes leveled or without roofs.The first one left me something, but this one left me nothing, said Olga Atiaga, a 53-year-old housewife. Gustav obliterated her roof and some walls. Then Ike blew away a mattress and smashed the kitchen sink.I don't even have anything to sleep on, she said.Odalis Cruz, a 45-year-old housing inspector, said she evacuated to a shelter in the town's rice mill when it became clear Ike was following Gustav's path through Pinar del Rio, the westernmost province where Cuba produces tobacco used in its famous cigars.

She surveyed the damage to her home Tuesday.

We repaired the roof two days ago and this one took the new one, she said. I'm ready to move to Canada! We have spent eight days drying out things, cleaning everything, sleeping on the floor, and now we are hit again.Gustav damaged at least 100,000 homes but didn't kill anyone because of massive evacuations. Cubans were ordered to evacuate for Ike as well, with those in low-lying or wooden homes seeking safety with friends or relatives in sturdier structures. Others were taken to government shelters.State television said two men were killed removing an antenna from a roof, a woman died when her home collapsed and a man was killed by a falling tree.

Evacuations are not mandatory except for pregnant women and small children, but in an authoritarian state, few people ignore the government's advice.In Havana, towering waves broke over the seaside Malecon promenade as downpours soaked historic but crumbling buildings in the capital's picturesque older areas. Some of the most dilapidated structures collapsed, including four houses on a single block.Police told 21-year-old Niyel Rodriguez she had to move to a shelter with her 19-day-old daughter Chanel. She huddled Tuesday with 109 expectant and new mothers and their children in a wing of an Old Havana maternity hospital.They came looking for me yesterday and brought me here in a patrol car, Rodriguez said. I probably would have been scared to stay at home with my little one, and here they take good care of us.

Elsewhere in Cuba, officials evacuated about 10,000 tourists from vulnerable seaside hotels, mostly from Varadero beach, east of Havana. While Ike was expected to strengthen before making landfall again, oil prices closed below US$104 a barrel for the first time since early April, in part because traders were betting Ike would miss critical Gulf Coast oil installations. Mexican officials warned that unrelated heavy rains in the northern part of the country had caused more than a dozen dams to reach capacity or spill over. If Ike brings more rain to the area, evacuations may be needed. Ike was centered about 145 miles (230 kilometers) north of the western tip of Cuba Wednesday morning and about 430 miles (695 kilometers) southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. It was moving northwest at 8 mph (13 kph). Maximum sustained winds remained near 85 mph (140 kph), still at Category 1 storm.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Lowell has weakened to a tropical depression off Mexico's Pacific coast and it was expected to move across the Baja California Peninsula Wednesday night or Thursday morning. It had maximum sustained of near 35 mph (55 kph). Associated Press writers Andrea Rodriguez and Anita Snow in Havana, and Kathy Corcoran in Mexico City contributed to this report.

Some 140,000 Entergy customers still without power Tue Sep 9, 7:36 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 140,000 customers in Entergy Corp's service area in Louisiana remained without power Tuesday, more than a week after Hurricane Gustav hit the coast on September 1 and caused massive damage to the company's transmission system. Over the past week, Entergy has restored power to more than 789,000 of the 964,000 customers who lost service in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.The remaining outages are in the hardest hit parts of Louisiana. Entergy predicted its team of 13,000 restoration workers would return power to most customers by the end of the week. Some homes and businesses, however, may have to wait until the end of the month.As Entergy restores power from Hurricane Gustav, the company said it is monitoring Hurricane Ike and planning for the possibility of Ike impacting its territory later this week.Although the forecast track can change, Ike, which is beating up Cuba, is now forecast to hit South Texas near the Mexico border - far from Entergy's service area.Gustav cut power to more than 1.8 million homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast and shut more than a dozen oil refineries and numerous oil and natural gas pipelines and other energy facilities.Entergy said it restored power to all 12 of the oil refineries and petrochemical plants affected by the storm. Even with power it still takes days or weeks for a refinery to ramp up to normal production, depending on the damage.Hurricane Gustav caused the second largest number of outages in Entergy's 95-year history behind only Hurricane Katrina, which left 1.1 million out in 2005.Both of Entergy's nuclear power reactors in Louisiana remained out of service Tuesday morning. Entergy shut the 1,152 MW Waterford 3 reactor before Gustav hit and the 967 MW River Bend reactor after the storm hit.

One MW powers about 500 homes in Entergy's service territory.Entergy, of New Orleans, owns and operates about 30,000 MW of generating capacity, markets energy commodities, and transmits and distributes power to 2.7 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; editing by Jim Marshall)

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

China raises death toll from mine mudslide to 128 SEPT 10,08

BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from a massive mudslide caused by the collapse of a mine waste reservoir after heavy rain two days ago has risen to 128 people, state television said on Wednesday.The wall of mud roared through homes and a market, submerging some buildings up to their roofs. Sludge blanketed fields and houses for several kilometers below the Tashan mine, where about 2,200 people were still searching for survivors, the report said.(Reporting by Yu Le; Writing by Emma Graham-Harrison; Editing by David Fogarty)

Oil barely budges as traders parse OPEC decision By ADAM SCHRECK, AP Business Writer SEPT 10,08

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Oil prices edged just slightly higher Wednesday after OPEC vowed to abide by its quotas but decided not to take the more dramatic step of slashing production targets. Prices rose by more than a dollar after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting ended in the pre-dawn hours in Vienna, Austria, but quickly eased as investors digested the significance of the cartel's decision.Expectations that Hurricane Ike would pose little serious threat to U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas installations also helped keep prices in check.

Light, sweet crude for October delivery rose 8 cents to $103.34 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by afternoon in Dubai. The contract fell $3.08 overnight to settle at $103.26, the lowest close since April 1.

An OPEC statement issued after oil ministers ended their meeting said the organization had agreed to produce 28.8 million barrels a day. OPEC President Chakib Khelil said that quota in effect meant that member countries had agreed to cut back 520,000 barrels a day of excess production.OPEC members regularly churn out oil above the organization's overall quota, last set in November at 27.3 million barrels a day. The new production limit is above that November quota, and the statement said it reflected adjustments to include new members Angola and Ecuador and exclude Iraq, as well as Indonesia, which is withdrawing from the cartel.The move was viewed as a compromise meant to avoid new turmoil in crude markets while seeking to prevent prices from falling too far. But it also left investors scrambling to decipher the implications of the surprise announcement.Indonesia leaving OPEC but the formal inclusion of Angola and Ecuador is making for a statement clear as mud and for wide interpretations as to the desired level of OPEC production, analyst Olivier Jakob of Swiss trade advisory and risk management firm Petromatrix said in a note to investors.Despite the confusion, a number of analysts said they did not expect the output decision to spark a sustained rally in oil prices, as investors remain concerned over slowing economic growth in the U.S, Europe and Japan.All they're saying is: we've been cheating for the past year. ... I don't think the market's going to take it that seriously, analyst and trader Stephen Schork said by phone from Vienna. I think the general mood is we are heading lower.David Dugdale, a London-based energy analyst with MFC Global Investment Management, said he agreed that prices could continue to ease in the coming days because any tightening of supply to match OPEC quotas would take time to trickle down through the world's oil supply.OPEC's compromise move, he added, could be read as either bullish for prices in that members are tightening the spigots, or bearish in the sense that the group could be anticipating a further drop-off in demand.Keeping a lid on oil prices were expectations Hurricane Ike would veer to the west of the oil refineries and offshore drilling platforms of the Louisiana coast region.

Early Wednesday, Ike was about 95 miles west of Havana, Cuba, moving west-northwest at 10 mph with sustained winds near 75 mph. It was expected to cross the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening to a Category 3 with winds of up to 130 mph.Forecasters said that it could hit on Saturday morning about anywhere along the Texas coast, with the most likely spot close to Corpus Christi.Just a few days ago it looked like it was heading for New Orleans and the coast of Louisiana, said John Vautrain, an energy analyst at consultancy Purvin & Gertz in Singapore. . Now Ike has come off the radar screen some and the market is discounting the threat of hurricane damage.Investors are also waiting for the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration to release its report on U.S. oil stocks for the week ended Sept. 5 later in the day. The petroleum supply report was expected to show that oil stocks fell 3.9 million barrels, according to the average of analysts' estimates in a survey by energy information provider Platts.The Platts survey also showed that analysts projected gasoline inventories fell 4.7 million barrels and distillates went down 2.3million barrels during last week. In other Nymex trading, heating oil futures rose 0.4 cents to $2.9289 a gallon, while gasoline prices gained 2.24 cents to $2.675 a gallon. Natural gas for October delivery fell 17 cents to $7.365 per 1,000 cubic feet. In London, October Brent crude rose 46 cents to $100.80 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange. Associated Press Writer Alex Kennedy in Singapore contributed to this report.

MURDER

GENESIS 4:8-11 (THE FIRST MURDER)
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

GENESIS 6:11-13 (EARTH DESTROYED BECAUSE OF TERRORISM,MURDERS)
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

LUKE 21:25
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(OZONE DEPLETION) and in the moon,(FIRST MAN ON MOON) and in the stars;(JUPITER BOMBARDED ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;
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.

Shooting death on Highway 401 creates traffic chaos Tue Sep 9, 11:25 PM

Traffic ground to a halt on a stretch of Highway 401 in Toronto Tuesday afternoon as police investigated a shooting that ended with a body being dumped from a moving vehicle.Toronto police Const. Tony Vella said it appeared the victim had been shot before being pushed onto the eastbound collector lanes of Highway 401 at about 2:45 p.m.There is a body there, Vella said in an interview. It appears that someone has been shot ... It's been reported the victim was pushed out of the car.He said police were investigating a report that the suspected shooter was female.A person was taken into custody for questioning, Vella said, without identifying the individual or providing any other details.The shooting closed the eastbound collector lanes of the 401 near Keele Street, and by 4 p.m. ET, traffic was backed up for kilometres. Congestion also spilled over onto Highway 400 as commuters headed into the rush-hour period.Local television footage showed fire trucks, ambulances and police cruisers gathered at the scene where a body lay on the road covered by a tarp.The CBC's John Lancaster said he saw emergency officials trying to perform CPR on a man. The victim, whose name has not been released, was later pronounced dead at the scene, Vella said.At a news conference Tuesday night, Det. Mike Barsky said the cause of death would be released following an autopsy Wednesday.The identification of the male is not going to be released at this point, Barsky added.Police said the victim's body had been riddled with multiple bullets.Yellow police tape cordoned off the collector lanes while Toronto police and the Ontario Provincial Police investigated, work that was expected to take hours.What normally is a very busy stretch of highway is now been transformed into a crime scene, Lancaster said, adding that there were reports the man had perhaps been chased along the side of the highway before being shot.

He said police are investigating the possibility that Tuesday's shooting was connected to a fatal shooting Monday, in which a man was gunned down at a bus stop on Eglinton Avenue West.The victim of that shooting has been identified as Stephen Barton, 18, police said in a statement released Tuesday.A champagne-coloured Lexus seen fleeing from Tuesday's crime scene, reportedly with a woman at the wheel, is registered to the same Eglinton Avenue West complex where Monday's murder victim lived, Lancaster said.Police are saying they are looking into the possibility this was a revenge shooting, a tit-for-tat shooting after an 18-year-old man was shot not far from here yesterday, Lancaster said, reporting from the scene of the Highway 401 shooting.A Lexus with the same licence plate as the one speeding away from Tuesday's crime scene was later discovered in a parking lot near Albion and Weston Roads. It had been set on fire but was still intact when police arrived.Officers, including those from the forensic identification unit, were searching the grounds of the neighbouring Humber Valley Golf Club for a suspect early Tuesday evening. Adding to the traffic woes Tuesday was an accident in the westbound lanes of the 401 that happened shortly before the shooting.With files from the Canadian Press.

WE WILL ONLY KNOW ITS CLOSE (JESUS RETURN)BY ALL THE SIGNS HAPPENING ON EARTH. WE ARE COMMANDED TO WATCH FOR THE SIGNS SO WERE NOT CAUGHT LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT OFF GUARD. WE WILL NOT KNOW THE DAY OR HOUR WHEN JESUS RETURNS IN THE CLOUDS FOR THE CHRISTIANS AT THE RAPTURE. BUT WE WILL KNOW EXACTLY WHEN JESUS WILL RETURN TO EARTH TO RULE AND REIGN FOR 1000 YEARS , THEN FOREVER. THE VERY DAY THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR SIGNS THE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27, YOU KNOW EXACTLY 7 YEARS LATER JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH BODILY TO REIGN FOREVER.

MATTHEW 24:36,33-35
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.(WHEN JESUS RETURNS IN THE CLOUDS AT THE RAPTURE)
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things,(ALL THE SIGNS HAPPENING ON EARTH AT THE SAME TIME) know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

JESUS RETURN IN THE CLOUDS FOR THE RAPTURE.

MARK 13:29-37
29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
34 For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

JESUS RETURNS AT END OF 7 YR TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27 AFTER WW3 OCCURRS.

MATTHEW 24:27
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.(YOU WILL KNOW WHEN JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH BODILY, LIGHTNING FROM EAST TO WEST,AFTER WW3 HAS OCCURRED, BECAUSE IN THE NEXT VERSE IT TALKS ABOUT BIRDS EATING FLESH, THIS OCCURRS WHEN JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH BODILY AND GIVES THE BIRDS A FEAST ON THE WORLDS ARMIES WHO COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL TO DESTROY THEM.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is,(WW3) there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

MARK 13:23-26
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

REVELATION 19:11-21
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

JUDE 14-16
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YRS EARLIER)
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.(JESUS AND THE BIBLE)
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

Want to know day of Jesus' return? New video series on Feasts of the Lord makes bold prediction September 09, 2008 9:39 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily

Would you like to know the specific day of the Lord's return?

Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries believes he knows – the exact day, if not the specific year.It is laid out in a series of two DVD teachings produced by WND Videos called The Feasts of the Lord.The spring feasts – or appointed times – were fulfilled by the first coming of Yeshua, the Hebrew name of Jesus, which means Salvation, explains Biltz. The fall feasts will be fulfilled by His Second Coming – in the very near future, he relates in an engaging, informative and entertaining series of teachings you will want to watch again and again and share with your friends, relatives and fellow believers.Biltz emphasizes that these feasts, described in Leviticus, were not intended for the Jewish people alone. They are repeatedly referred to in the Bible as the Lord's feasts – meaning they are for all people. They are meant to be observed as well as to serve as signs of the times in which we live – reminders of the greatest events of the past and foreshadowings of the future to come.Biltz says much of the church is asleep – unaware of the significance of the feasts in God's holy time clock. The feasts were not intended to be abandoned by believers after the coming of Jesus. His followers observed them in the First Century. It's time to rediscover them again as the hour of His return approaches.

Just as the spring feasts were the dress rehearsals for Messiah's first coming, the fall feasts are the dress rehearsals for His Second Coming, says Biltz, a Hebraic roots teacher.The video series pinpoints the specific day on the Hebrew calendar for the return of Jesus. The only unknown, according to Biltz, is which year that return will occur – though he makes the case it is very near.Biltz says most of the church is unaware of this very specific prophetic time clock offered by God to the human race in the Bible. Because of this, he believes many Christians will be surprised rather than watching with anticipation and hope, as the Bible commands.I think most believers will be stunned by what they see in The Feasts of the Lord teachings, says Joseph Farah, who produced the two-DVD set. Their faith will be renewed or heightened to new limits. These are powerful videos – unlike anything ever produced before.

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

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.

Largest particle collider conducts successful test By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer SEPT 10,08

GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider passed its first major test by firing a beam of protons around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:26 a.m. (0826 GMT) indicating that the protons had traveled the full length of the 4 billion Swiss franc (US$3.8 billion) Large Hadron Collider — described as the biggest physics experiment in history.There it is, project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap.Champagne corks popped in labs as far away as Chicago, where contributing and competing scientists watched the proceedings by satellite. Physicists around the world now have much greater power to smash the components of atoms together in attempts to learn about their structure.Well done, everybody, said Robert Aymar, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, to cheers from the assembled scientists in the collider's control room at the Swiss-French border.The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, began firing the protons — a type of subatomic particle — around the tunnel in stages less than an hour earlier, with the first beam injection at 9:35 a.m. (0735 GMT).Now that the beam has been successfully tested in a clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe.My first thought was relief, said Evans, who has been working on the project since its inception in 1984. This is a machine of enormous complexity. Things can go wrong at any time. But this morning has been a great start.

He didn't want to set a date, but said that he expected scientists would be able to conduct collisions for their experiments within a few months.The collider is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel.Scientists hope to eventually send two beams of protons through two tubes about the width of fire hoses, speeding through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space. The paths of these beams will cross, and a few protons will collide. The collider's two largest detectors — essentially huge digital cameras weighing thousands of tons — are capable of taking millions of snapshots a second.The CERN experiments could reveal more about dark matter, antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — which is sometimes called the God particle because it is believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.The supercooled magnets that guide the proton beam heated slightly in the morning's testing, leading to a pause to recool them before trying the opposite direction.The start of the collider came over the objections of some who feared the collision of protons could eventually imperil the Earth by creating micro-black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.It's nonsense, said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN.CERN was backed by leading scientists like Britain's Stephen Hawking , who declared the experiments to be absolutely safe.

Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.Nothing of the sort occurred Wednesday, though the accelerator is still probably a year away from full power. The project organized by the 20 European member nations of CERN has attracted researchers from 80 nations. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country that contributed US$531 million. Japan, another observer, also is a major contributor. Some scientists have been waiting for 20 years to use the LHC. The complexity of manufacturing it required groundbreaking advances in the use of supercooled, superconducting equipment. The 2001 start and 2005 completion dates were pushed back by two years each, and the cost of the construction was 25 percent higher than originally budgeted in 1996, Luciano Maiani, who was CERN director-general at the time, told The Associated Press. Maiani and the other three living former directors-general attended the launch Wednesday. Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Less than 100 years ago scientists thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but in stages since then experiments have shown they were made of still smaller quarks and gluons and that there were other forces and particles. On the Net: CERN: http://www.cern.ch The U.S. at the LHC: http://www.uslhc.us/ Large Hadron Rap http://www.youtube.com/watch?vf6aU-wFSqt0

Hawking bets CERN mega-machine won't find God's Particle Tue Sep 9, 3:55 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - Renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has bet 100 dollars (70 euros) that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science, he said Tuesday. In the most complex scientific experiment ever undertaken, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be switched on Wednesday, accelerating sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light before smashing them together.The LHC will increase the energy at which we can study particle interactions by a factor of four. According to present thinking, this should be enough to discover the Higgs particle, Hawking told BBC radio.I think it will be much more exciting if we don't find the Higgs. That will show something is wrong, and we need to think again. I have a bet of 100 dollars that we won't find the Higgs, added Hawking, whose books including A Brief History of Time have sought to popularise study of stellar physics.On Wednesday the first protons will be injected into a 27-kilometre (16.9-mile) ring-shaped tunnel, straddling the Swiss-French border at the headquarters of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).Physicists have long puzzled over how particles acquire mass. In 1964, a British physicist, Peter Higgs, came up with this idea: there must exist a background field that would act rather like treacle.

Some scientists were however more optimistic.

Hubert Reeves, the French astrophysician, told the Swiss daily Le Matin that the invention could bring unexpected results that would change the world of particle physics forever.This machine will probably bring unexpected results that could turn particle physics on its head, Reeves said.It's a really impressive tool. It can go as deep underground as the length of a cathedral, he said.Particles passing through it would acquire mass by being dragged through a mediator, which theoreticians dubbed the Higgs Boson.The standard quip about the Higgs is that it is the God Particle -- it is everywhere but remains frustratingly elusive.While questioning the likelihood of finding Higgs Bosons, Hawking said the experiment could discover superpartners, particles that would be supersymmetric partners to particles already known about.Their existence would be a key confirmation of string theory, and they could make up the mysterious dark matter that holds galaxies together, he told the BBC.Whatever the LHC finds, or fails to find, the results will tell us a lot about the structure of the universe, he added.Hawking, the 66-year-old Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, was diagnosed with the muscle-wasting motor neuron disease at the age of 22.He is in a wheelchair and speaks with the aid of a computer and voice synthesiser.

Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy Earth? Clara Moskowitz
LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Tue Sep 9, 10:35 PM ET

The potential for the world's largest atom smasher to destroy Earth is one question weighing on the minds of some lay people as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) prepares to go online Wednesday. Don't worry, say the experts, who are more concerned with whether the 17 mile-long particle accelerator underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland, will work as planned and, perhaps, reveal the existence of the so-called God particle. All that in mind, here are answers to several questions buzzing around on the eve of the LHC's inaugural run:

So, will a black hole consume the planet?

Some people have suggested that a microscopic black hole, spawned by the powerful crash of subatomic particles racing through the LHC's tunnels, could potentially suck up the Earth. But physicists say these fears are unfounded. For one, creating a black hole at LHC is extremely unlikely based on the laws of gravity alone, CERN officials say. But even if it did happen, as a few highly speculative theories suggest, the miniscule black hole would be so unstable it would disintegrate immediately before it had time to gobble up any of the matter on Earth.

Will a strangelet destroy us?

Another wild idea: The LHC might produce something called a strangelet that could convert our planet into a lump of dead strange matter.This hypothesis is equally unlikely, experts say, because the same worries were raised eight years ago before the opening of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. Since RHIC has been operating safely for years, and it's set-up made it even more likely to produce strangelets if such creation were possible, then the LHC poses little risk of converting us into strangelings. Although worrywarts have gone so far as to file suit in Federal District Court in Hawaii and in the European Court of Human Rights to stop the LHC (as they also did before RHIC), the project will go ahead as planned. The LHC will enable us to study in detail what nature is doing all around us, said CERN Director General Robert Aymar. The LHC is safe, and any suggestion that it might present a risk is pure fiction.

Just how big is this thing?

The LHC is an underground ring about 17 miles (27 kilometers) long, running through parts of both Switzerland and France. Inside are 9,300 magnets guiding two beams of particles around the circle in opposite directions until they smash into each other, spewing out loads of energy and hopefully some new and exciting particles.

How fast will the particles go?

The speeding particles will travel the full LHC ring 11,245 times a second, travelling at 99.99 percent the speed of light. At this rate, some 600 million collisions will take place every second. Don't we already have a bunch of atom smashers? What's so special about this one? The LHC will be the mother of all atom smashers: the largest, the most powerful, with the biggest and most sophisticated detectors ever built. Although there are a number of particle accelerators around the world, each was built for a unique purpose. Scientists are hoping the LHC will be able to answer some of our most puzzling outstanding questions about the nature of the universe, including how stuff gets mass, what makes up dark matter, and why the universe is made up of matter and not anti-matter.

How much does it cost?

The facility cost $8 billion, $531 million of which was contributed by the United States. More than 8,000 scientists from almost 60 countries will collaborate on LHC experiments.

How long have they been working on this?

The green light for the project was given 14 years ago, though some physicists have been planning the LHC since the 1980s.

Why does it have to be underground?

The planet shields the accelerator from radiation that could interfere with the experiments. Not to mention buying that much land aboveground would have been really expensive!

By the way, what's a hadron?

Hadrons are particles made up of bound quarks. A quark is a building block of larger particles such as protons and neutrons. The LHC will manipulate two kinds of hadrons - either protons or lead ions - because a) they are charged (this allows them to be accelerated by the electromagnetic forces created in the machine) and b) they do not decay and are heavy so they will not lose too much energy as they are accelerated along the ring.

And what's a God particle?

The God particle is the nickname given to the theoretical Higgs boson, a particle thought to explain why some things are more massive than others. The Higgs is one of the holy grails of physics, though its existence has yet to be proven.

Will the LHC find the God particle?

While many are hoping that Higgs bosons will pop out of the powerful collisions created by the LHC, the famous British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is betting it won't. He's wagered $100 (70 euros) that LHC won't produce the elusive God particle and physicists will have to go back to the drawing board. I think it will be much more exciting if we don't find the Higgs, Hawking told BBC radio. That will show something is wrong, and we need to think again.

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

Former German president bashes EU court
VALENTINA POP Today Sept 10,08 @ 09:29 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Court of Justice needs to be stopped from undermining national jurisdiction, former German President Roman Herzog and Lüder Gerken, the director of the Centre for European Policy, have warned in a comment published by the EUobserver.The sharp words come in the wake of similar arguments coming from Denmark and Austria accusing the court of stepping beyond its bounds.

Several cases analysed by Mr Herzog prove, in his view, that the European Court of Justice systematically ignores fundamental principles of the Western interpretation of law, that it ignores the will of the legislator, or even turns it into its opposite and invents legal principles serving as grounds for later judgements.One key judgement, known as the Mangold case, is set to be analysed by the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and will set the tone for future relations between the ECJ and national courts, writes Mr Herzog.Mr Mangold, a 56-year-old lawyer, was employed in June 2003 on a permanent contract, in compliance with a temporary provision to the German labour law, which lowered the minimum age for temporary contracts from 58 to 52 years, in an attempt to encourage employers to hire more older workers.Mr Mangold argued that this particular piece of German legislation contravened the principles within the EU's Equal Treatment Framework Directive adopted in 2000, as it was clearly age discriminatory.The ECJ ruled in November 2005 that the provisions of the German labour market reform were indeed infringing the directive, although it accepted that member states still had until December 2006 to transpose it into national law. However, according to the ECJ ruling, in the period leading up to the transposition of the directive, member states must refrain from taking any measures liable to seriously compromise the attainment of the result prescribed by that directive.Mr Herzog argues however that both labour market policy and social policy are under the jurisdiction - or in Brussels jargon - core competences of the member states: This case clearly demonstrates to what extent EU regulation and EU jurisdiction nevertheless interfere in the governing of these core competences.In order to justify its judgement, the ECJ also resorted to a somewhat adventurous construction, that a ban on age discrimination was included in the constitutional traditions common to the member states and various international treaties, notes the former German president.However, this was a fabrication, he believes, as only in two of the then 25 member states - Finland and Portugal - was there any reference to a ban on age discrimination, and no international treaty mentions this at all.

To put it bluntly, with this construction, which the ECJ more or less pulled out of a hat, they were acting not as part of the judicial power but as the legislature, he says.The former German president proposes the setting up of an independent EU court to deal with competence questions, since the ECJ is not appropriate to watch over the subsidiarity principle and the matters of member states. The ECJ was created with the aim of providing a arbitrator to mediate in the interests of the EU and those of the member states, but on the other hand, it is bound by the EU Treaty to act towards achieving a closer Union, and therefore it is no wonder it overrides national competences, he argues.Thus, he says, it is necessary for the German Constitutional Court to reject the ruling in the Mangold case, and to restrain the ECJ, otherwise it will be much more difficult to control the ECJ in the future.

Court under fire in Denmark, Austria

Mr Herzog's comments come amid growing frustration amongst Danish leaders that a ruling by the court regarding Irish legislation covering the residency rights of non-EU citizens who are spouses of citizens, is having a knock-on effect on similar Danish legislation.In July, Ralf Pittelkow, an adviser to former Social Democratic Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, used language similar to that of Mr Herzog to describe the court.The judges are crafting a lot of policies because the politicians allow them the margin to do so, he said, writing in the Jyllands-Posten. Political decisions that ought to be the responsibility of elected representatives are left with the court.In 2006, former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel also attacked the European Court of Justice after it forced Austrian universities to open its doors to more foreign students, arguing that the court was interfering in education, a clear national competence, he said at the time.

Ukraine's borders non-negotiable, EU says
PHILIPPA RUNNER Today Sept 10,08 @ 09:39 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU leaders underlined their support for Ukraine's territorial integrity at the EU-Ukraine summit in Paris on Tuesday (9 September), as the Russian-backed partitioning of Georgia continues to raise fears of instability further afield.In the eyes of Europe, [the status of Ukraine] is absolutely non-negotiable, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said at the Paris meeting, which he attended after flying in from Russia. In the discussions that we held yesterday in Moscow, there was nothing that would allow me to think that this was a problem. The phrase respect for the principle of territorial integrity was used three times in the joint political declaration signed at the summit, with the brief text devoting a whole page to the EU and Ukraine's common policy on Georgia.The meeting also saw the EU promise to sign an Association Agreement with Ukraine in mid-2009, open long-term talks on a visa-free dialogue and rhetorically paint Ukraine as standing closer to the EU bloc than the old post-Soviet sphere.We say solemnly that Ukraine is a European country that shares a common history and values with European Union countries, Mr Sarkozy said.In the light of Russia's newly assertive foreign policy, Ukraine diplomats had hoped for a clear statement that Ukraine has an EU enlargement perspective, with the title of the Association Agreement itself offering no promise of future accession.

But despite the disappointment, Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko gave the deal a strong pro-enlargement spin.When we look at the enlargement of the EU, just looking back in the 1990's, there were 15 association agreements with countries that pursued the process and ultimately became members of the EU,he said. So this is why I am saying that today we are starting a very ambitious plan that should ultimately lead us to victory.

Georgia ripples

Events in Georgia - where the Russian army invaded to protect Russian passport holders - have stirred fears in Ukraine, where 25 percent of people are ethnic Russians, rising to 60 percent on the Crimea peninsula.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in April warned that Ukraine's drive to join NATO would lead to a disintegration of the country, while Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last month pledged to increase Russia's influence in regions of privileged interest.Moscow on Tuesday said it plans to keep 7,600 soldiers indefinitely in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, which it has recognised as independent states, citing the EU and US' backing for Kosovo as precedent.But Nicaragua remains the only other country to also reognise the two Georgian territories, while China - which faces its own separatist problems in Xinjiang, Tibet and Taiwan - has voiced concern over the Russian move.Analysts say the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia could embolden separatists inside Russia, which crushed uprisings in Chechnya in 1994and 1999, but faces increasing violence and governance problems in Ingushetia and Dagestan and renewed talk of independence in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.We do have some separatist movements, some extremist elements, especially in the northern Caucasus, but they are very minor, Vladimir Putin's spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, told the International Herald Tribune.

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)

EU TROOPS IN CHAD NOT SOLVING ANYTHING
http://euobserver.com/9/26716

EU MUST DEMONSTRATE LEADERSHIP IN BOSNIA
http://euobserver.com/9/26715

Europeans worry about Russia, increasingly support NATO
VALENTINA POP Today Sept 10,08 @ 14:04 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – European support for NATO and for closer ties with the US is increasing, while concerns about Russia as an energy provider and in relationship to its neighbours are on the rise, shows a survey released on Wednesday (10 September) by an American think-tank. Some 57 percent of Europeans agreed that NATO is still essential to their country's security, an increase of four percentage points since 2007, according to the new poll published by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.European attitudes towards NATO are warming up, according to an American survey (Photo: nato.int)The survey marks a halt to an earlier trend of declining support for NATO in Germany and Poland - the first such up-tick since 2002. French support for NATO has climbed back to its 2002 levels, the survey also shows.

Support for strengthening relations with the US rose by four percent among EU member states and Turkey, with the highest rates occuring in Romania (52 percent), Poland (45 percent) and Italy (37 percent).Based on common values and shared interests ... Americans and Europeans want closer relations, said Craig Kennedy, president of the Fund upon the release of its annual Transatlantic Trends survey, conducted in 11 EU countries, Turkey and the US. As EU-Russia relations reach a straining point, the survey, which was conducted prior to the conflict in Georgia, reveals that Europeans continue to express concern about Russia's behaviour toward its neighbours.Europeans are also more willing than Americans to provide security assistance for neighbouring democracies such as Ukraine and Georgia (67% as opposed to 58%, respectively) and to desire increased support for democratic forces inside Russia (65% against 61%).

However, Europeans are less willing than Americans to sup­port restricting co-operation with Russia in international organizations (38% against 47%). Germany showed the highest concern amongst those polled over Russia's role as an energy provider, the behaviour toward its neighbours, the Balkans and its role in providing weapons to the Middle East. Italy, the UK and the US also showed substantial majorities that were concerned about such matters. However, concern over Russia was lowest in Bulgaria, Slovakia and Turkey. I think Germans are quite concerned about Russia, even though their leadership does not speak with one voice on this issue, John Glenn, the lead author of the survey told EUobserver. While Chancellor Merkel has criticised Russia, foreign minister Steinmeier - who is to run against her in next year's elections on behalf of the Social Democratic Party - has adopted a more conciliatory line towards Moscow, Mr Glenn said. It makes me wonder whether the Social Democrats are really in line with the views of the public, he added.

Turkey not part of the West

For the first time since 2004, Turkey's cooling trend towards the EU has reversed, registering an increase by seven degrees in warmth, with 33 percent viewing the bloc favourably. The feelings towards the US remain coldish, up three degrees to 14, the survey reveals.On the other hand, however, 57 percent of Europeans and 55 percent of Turks agreed that Turkey has such different values that it is not really part of the West, with the highest agreement with the statement found in Germany (76%), France (68%), and Italy (61%). Americans nonetheless did not share this view, with the largest percentage of respondents (41%) feeling that Turkish values are sufficiently in common in common with the West to be considered part of the privileged club.Some 48 percent of Turkish respondents felt that, on international matters, Turkey should act alone, compared with 20 percent who felt it should act with the countries of the European Union. Just three percent felt the country should act in concert with the US, while 11 percent favoured a partnership with the countries of the Middle East.

Turkish views of transatlantic relations do not appear to differ markedly with religious practice. There is little difference in the desirability of EU leadership among those who pray five times a day regularly (21%), sometimes (23%), and never (24%). The undesirability of US leadership is also common across the secular-religious divide. Support for the US among those who pray five times a day regularly was just 6 percent, while for those who sometimes prayed (9%), and never prayed (7%) also viewed Washington with a sceptical eye, on nine and seven percent respectively.