RUSSIA DEFENDS NUCLEAR ARSENAL

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.

Vietnam floods kill 19, capital Hanoi under water Fri Oct 31, 4:26 am ET

HANOI (AFP) – Floods have killed at least 19 people in central Vietnam, emergency services said Friday, as heavy rains also lashed the capital Hanoi and left many streets under one metre (three feet) of water.Central Ha Tinh province -- where muddy waters inundated buildings and hundreds of hectares of rice and other crops -- reported seven deaths, said the National Flood and Storm Prevention Committee.A 48-year-old man was swept away after feeding his buffalo and a 19-year-old man was killed on the way to husk rice, said the committee's online report, adding that three of the victims were children.Nghe An province reported eight deaths, four of them children aged between eight and 12 years old.The children were swept away in strong currents on their way home from school, the provincial disaster office said in a report.More deaths were reported from Quang Ngai and Quang Nam provinces.A week of heavy rains has swollen rivers and triggered flash floods and landslides in the region, where downpours continued Friday.In northern Vietnam, the capital Hanoi was also hit by heavy rains that turned streets into rivers and caused traffic chaos, leaving many people stranded as flood waters soaked their motorcycle engines.Vietnam gets lashed by typhoons, tropical storms and heavy rains every year. According to government figures, floods and landslides in Vietnam last year left 435 people dead and missing.

Australia opens national tsunami warning center By ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 31, 3:54 am ET

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia became an integral link in a network of tsunami warning hubs across the Indian and Pacific oceans with the official opening of a national monitoring center Friday.The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Center that opened in the southern city of Melbourne joins India as a "tsunami watch provider" for 29 countries on the Indian Ocean rim that are prone to the killer waves, said Ray Canterford, head of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's disaster mitigation office.Work on the 69 million Australian dollar ($46 million) center developed by the government was launched six months after the catastrophic 2004 tsunami.It will provide essential sea level and seismic data to the Pacific warning network to Southwest Pacific island nations. This data is critical to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii and the Japanese Meteorological Agency in Tokyo, Canterford said.Eventually, there will be a network of several countries on the Indian Ocean rim with their own tsunami warning centers sharing scientific data, he said.We're actually enhancing the capabilities of other countries in the Pacific and in the Indian Ocean, he said.The center relies on high-tech deep sea buoys, five of which are located northwest of Australia below Indonesia, one in northeast of Australia in the Coral Sea and two in the Tasman Sea off the southeast coast.Indonesia, which bore the brunt of the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people, is expected to have its own national warning center fully operational by the end of the year, Canterford said.

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.

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.

North Texas has 3.0 magnitude earthquake 2008 The Associated Press Oct. 31, 2008, 5:19AM

DALLAS — A 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook parts of North Texas, but no significant damage was immediately reported.The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake, reported at 12:01 a.m. Friday, was centered in an area about 10 miles west of Dallas.

The federal agency also says the impact area was about 20 miles east-northeast of Fort Worth.An April 7 earthquake in South Texas had a 3.7 magnitude.On the Net:
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/last_event_states/states_texas.html

Pakistan earthquake death toll crosses 300 Friday, 31 October , 2008, 01:04

Islamabad: The toll in the devastating earthquake that struck Pakistan's Balochistan province sharply rose to over 300 on Thursday as thousands of people left homeless grappled with freezing temperatures amidst a series of powerful aftershocks. Health official Ayub Kakar and Dilawar Khan Kakar, the mayor of Ziarat district which was hit hardest by Wednesday's quake, told state media that more than 300 people had died thus far and about 1,000 others were injured. Residents of village in Ziarat, located close to the epicentre of the 6.5-magnitude quake, said they feared the causalities might be over 400. Local officials said up to 40,000 people had been left homeless. Some 200 houses were completely destroyed in 30 villages in Ziarat, they said. A string of aftershocks added to panic among survivors, many of whom spent Wednesday night in the open. Rescue workers put up tents for survivors but only 3,000 people could be accommodated in one relief camp. Landslides in some parts of the quake-hit mountainous areas blocked roads and hampered relief operations. Aid workers said the toll could rise further as they expected more bodies would be dug out of the rubble of mud brick homes that collapsed in Ziarat and Pishin districts.

Outgoing Israeli PM wants to renew Syria peace talks Fri Oct 31, 11:30 am ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is considering resuming indirect peace talks with Syria during his remaining three months in office, a senior official said on Friday.The Turkish-mediated peace talks were put on hold shortly after the premier announced on July 30 he would step down over a corruption scandal. Olmert will remain at the head of a transitional government until the February general elections.The prime minister is considering the possibility of renewing the indirect talks with Syria, the official told AFP.

According to another official, Olmert has asked the Turkish government to present the Syrians with the proposal. Olmert made the request during a meeting with visiting Turkish Defence Minister Vacdi Gonulto on Thursday.Olmert's spokesman Mark Regev said that the prime minister sees importance in continuing the dialogue and talks on the Syrian track.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said last month that the talks require more time and effort.The two sides have so far held four rounds of Turkish-brokered discussions. A fifth round had been scheduled for October 30 but was postponed at Israel's request.Direct negotiations were frozen eight years ago after Israel baulked at Syrian demands for the return of the whole of the occupied Golan Heights, right down to the Sea of Galilee, its main water source.Israel seized the Golan in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move never recognised by the international community.

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

Brown heads to Gulf for talks on world economy Fri Oct 31, 10:07 pm ET

LONDON (AFP) – Gordon Brown is heading for a tour of oil-rich Gulf states, hoping to persuade them to give extra funds to help countries hit by the world economic turmoil.Brown will spend four days in the region holding talks with leaders as he pursues his efforts to help coordinate the global response to the world economy's dramatic plunge.Earlier this week, he said he wanted the International Monetary Fund's 250 billion dollar bailout fund for countries hit by the financial crisis to be extended to prevent contagion spreading to other nations.The former finance minister, who has seen his struggling premiership boosted by his handling of the economic woe, added that he wanted Gulf states and China to be among the biggest donors to an expanded scheme.It's the countries that have got substantial reserves, the oil-rich countries and others who are going to be the biggest contributors to this fund, he said Tuesday.I am going to the Gulf at the weekend and it is one of the items that will be in the discussions with all the international leaders.The trip comes ahead of a meeting of G20 leaders in Washington including Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on November 15 which will discuss a restructuring of the world financial system, including the IMF.Brown said he has discussed the plan with IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, as well as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.The IMF is set to bail out Hungary, Ukraine and Iceland, while Pakistan is reportedly poised to apply for IMF assistance over its balance of payments crisis.But Brown could face a struggle to persuade the Gulf states, despite strong historic and trade links with Britain.The states, whose main economic driver is oil, have been hit by its price dropping below 60 dollars a barrel this week from record highs of nearly 150 dollars in July on fears of falling demand because of the slowdown.And Brown clashed with leading oil producing countries last week over its emergency cut in production.

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), whose top producer is Saudi Arabia and which counts the UAE and Qatar as members, says it sees no reason why it should bail out a crisis which originated in the United States.OPEC's Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri said Tuesday it was surprising that OPEC countries, which produce around 40 percent of the world's crude, were being asked to help by keeping prices down.

Evidence of a recession piles higher with new data By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer NOV 1,08

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AP – Wall street broker Michael Kilkenny works the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after … WASHINGTON – Evidence of a recession piled ever higher Friday, with new figures showing Americans are spending less and gloomy about the economy, while the government signaled it won't buy stock in the financing arms of auto companies to prop them up. The Commerce Department reported consumer spending dropped a sharp 0.3 percent in September while their incomes, the fuel for future spending, managed only a small 0.2 percent gain.That followed a report a day earlier that the U.S. economy shrank by 0.3 percent in the third quarter. The accepted definition of a recession is two straight quarters of a shrinking economy.

Closing out the worst October in 21 years but one of the best weeks ever, investors did some bargain shopping on Wall Street, snapping up stocks that have plunged in value. The Dow Jones industrial average gained nearly 145 points.Meanwhile, the outgoing Bush administration sent signals to automakers and other industries hoping for government purchases of their stock that they probably won't qualify for the program.Administration officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the program is still being put together, said it was unlikely the auto companies would be able to qualify for direct government purchases of stock in their auto-financing arms as part of the $250 billion stock purchase program.They could still be eligible for government purchases of bad assets, such as auto loans, under a separate program that is expected to spend $100 billion initially. The government plans to buy stock in banks and lift bad assets on their books as part of the financial system bailout.

The wrangling over the broader rescue program continued, with Democrats stressing Congress wants the package to be used to pump new loans into the economy, not diverted to stockholders or executives or to buy other banks.I am deeply disappointed that a number of financial institutions are distorting the legislation that Congress passed, said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass. He announced hearings on the rescue package Nov. 12 and 18.The Treasury Department said it would extend a Nov. 15 deadline for banks that do not have publicly traded stock to apply for the government stock-purchasing plan — a plan that could extend to 6,000 banks.The bank rescue is intended to shore up financial companies and get lending, the lifeblood of the economy, going again.Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a speech that whatever system is constructed following the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must have better safeguards to make sure it can work during times of stress.Bernanke said the credit crisis had exposed serious deficiencies in areas beyond home loans.The boom in subprime mortgage lending was only part of a much broader credit boom characterized by underpricing of risk, excessive leverage and the creation of complex and opaque financial instruments that proved fragile under stress, Bernanke said.As the nation learns more about what went wrong, the economy grows ever bleaker. The Commerce Department report that consumer spending fell by 0.3 percent in September followed two months in which spending was essentially flat.

A separate survey released Friday by the University of Michigan and Reuters showed consumer confidence in October fell to 57.6, the biggest one-month drop in the survey's history, which dates to 1978.And economists expect Americans to cut back further. The nation's financial outlook is dimming just as the critical holiday shopping season looms, and stores are bracing for one of the worst on record.David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York, said he believed the recession could turn out to be the longest in the post World War II period.Things are still looking soft and the light at the end of the tunnel is a long way off, Wyss said. In a separate report, the Labor Department said the wages and benefits of U.S. workers rose by a modest 0.7 percent in the third quarter, the same as in the first and second quarters. The spending report showed that an inflation gauge tied to spending edged up just 0.1 percent in September. But prices over the past year are up by more than 4 percent, and inflation is outside the Fed's comfort zone.

Still, the central bank is expected to focus on fighting to keep the country out of a severe recession — not raising rates to fight inflation. The Fed cut a key interest rate by a half-point on Wednesday to 1 percent, tying the lowest level in the past half-century. Analysts said if the economy remains weak, the Fed could well cut rates again at their last meeting of the year on Dec. 16. Associated Press Writers Jennifer Loven and Christopher Rugaber in Washington contributed to this report.

Another bombing of Canadian natural gas facility Fri Oct 31, 9:37 pm ET

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – An explosion damaged a natural gas wellhead on Friday in the same area of northeast British Columbia where two pipelines have been bombed this month, Canadian police said on Friday.The midday explosion at the EnCana Corp facility near the village of Tomslake, British Columbia caused a small leak that was being contained and did not pose a threat the public, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.(Reporting Allan Dowd, Editing by Bernard Orr)

LUKEWARM CHURCHES

REVELATION 3:15-19
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue (VOMIT) thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Canadian Anglicans sit on fence over gay marriages By Randall Palmer Fri Oct 31, 1:47pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's Anglican bishops sidestepped a request from the worldwide Anglican Communion to stop blessing gay marriages for now, despite warnings that failure to do so would imperil Anglican unity.The bishops issued a statement on Friday saying a large majority of them could affirm a continued commitment to the greatest extent possible to a moratorium on the blessing of same-sex unions until the Canadian church's general synod in 2010.But the statement did not commit the entire Anglican Church of Canada to agreeing to the request made in August by the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference of global Anglican leaders.That conference had asked for moratoriums on same-sex blessings, the ordination of gay bishops and on conservative bishops making cross-border interventions in other countries.Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leader of the global Anglican church, had warned that the 80-million-member communion would be in grave peril if the request for moratoriums were ignored.

Lambeth's request on gay bishops was primarily addressed at the Episcopal Church of the United States, which has a gay bishop in New Hampshire.The request on same-sex blessings was aimed at both the U.S. and Canadian churches, while the request on cross-border interventions was aimed at Latin American and African bishops.The British Columbian diocese of New Westminster caused an outcry among conservative Anglicans around the world in 2003 when it started authorizing some parishes to bless gay unions.The decision-making synods in four more Canadian dioceses have asked their bishops in the past year to do the same. The bishop of Montreal said last week that he would start drafting liturgy for blessing same-sex marriages, and the bishop of Ottawa said last week he intended to authorize one parish to bless gay marriages.Canada is one of the few countries in the world that has legalized gay marriage, although churches are not compelled to perform gay weddings.Some congregations have left the Anglican Church of Canada because of its tolerance in some regions toward gay marriages, and put themselves under the care of Anglican churches in Latin America or Africa.

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).

Commission hails Turkey's role in regional stability
ELITSA VUCHEVA 31.10.2008 @ 09:15 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Turkey's role as promoter of regional stability has improved in the last year, Brussels says in a draft report on Turkey and the western Balkans' progress towards the EU, while stressing that Ankara still has a lot to do in a number of areas before being judged fit to join the EU club.Turkey has played a constructive role in its neighbourhood and the wider Middle East through active diplomacy, reads the draft of the annual report seen by EUobserver.Following the crisis in Georgia, [Turkey] proposed a Caucasus Stability and Co-operation Platform to promote dialogue between the countries of that region. [Turkish] President Gul paid a visit to Yerevan, the first visit ever of a Turkish president since the independence of Armenia. Turkey undertook efforts as a mediator between Israel and Syria and conducted a dialogue with Iran on the nuclear issue, the draft report goes on.Ankara has itself been stressing its role in maintaining regional stability and has been multiplying initiatives in that respect lately - including setting up the Caucasus Platform in the aftermath of the Russia-Georgia conflict.It says the platform's objective is to establish regional conflict resolution mechanisms and broader economic co-operation among the five countries involved - Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.The EU has always insisted that good neighbourly relations are an important pre-condition for any EU hopeful.Additionally, the development in the southern Caucasus also highlighted Turkey's strategic significance for the EU energy security, particularly by diversifying supply routes, and underlined the importance of closer energy co-operation between Turkey and the EU, the commission says.Nabucco - the EU-backed planned natural gas pipeline designed to reduce energy dependency on Russia by transporting natural gas from Turkey to Austria, via Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary - is a key element for this, Brussels underlines.

Same problems remain

Turkey has been an official candidate to join the EU since 1999 and opened accession negotiations with the bloc in 2005.But besides the progress noted, the commission says Ankara still has a lot to do in many areas in order to be ready for EU membership.Notably, there has been no progress towards normalisation of bilateral relations with the Republic of Cyprus. Turkey has not fully implemented the Additional Protocol to the Association Agreement and has not removed all obstacles to free movement of goods, including restrictions on direct transport links with Cyprus.In 2005 Ankara signed a protocol to extend its customs union with the EU to the 10 states that joined the bloc in 2004 - but still refuses to open its ports to Cypriot ships. Several negotiations chapters with the EU remain suspended because of this.Turkey does not recognise the Greek government in the southern part of the divided island, while at the same time is the only country to recognise its northern Turkish section.Earlier this year, commission President Barroso called the issue the main obstacle for significant progress in Turkey's accession process.In addition, reads the report, the country has still a lot to do to fight corruption and organised crime. It has made no progress on alignment with European standards as regards minority rights and it needs to push administrative and political reforms further.Full civilian supervisory functions and parliamentary oversight of defence expenditures need to be ensured. Senior members of the armed forces have continued to make statements on issues going beyond their remit, Brussels also says. The central role of the military in Turkish society is often raised as a concern by the EU executive.The final version of the report will be presented by the commission on 5November.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Russia defends security of nuclear arsenal
The Associated Press Published: October 31, 2008

MOSCOW: Russia on Friday defended the security of its nuclear arsenal, rejecting U.S. allegations that tens of thousands of aging Soviet weapons might not be fully accounted for.The Russian Foreign Ministry responded Friday to remarks by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said there were uncertainties about the old Soviet arsenal. Russia said those remarks were groundless insinuations.The ministry stressed that all nuclear weapons in Russia have been under reliable protection since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.Despite all the difficulties our country faced in the beginning of the 1990s, standards of security and physical protection of Russian nuclear arsenals remained high, the ministry said in a statement. There have been no leaks of nuclear weapons.The tone of the statement reflected a growing chill in ties between Russia and the United States. Relations have been strained over U.S. plans for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, by the Russian war with Georgia in August and other issues.

Gates made his comments this week at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, expressing worries that some Russian nuclear weapons from the old Soviet arsenal may not be fully accounted for.I have fairly high confidence that no strategic or modern tactical nuclear weapons have leaked" beyond Russian borders, Gates said. What worries me are the tens of thousands of old nuclear mines, nuclear artillery shells and so on, because the reality is the Russians themselves probably don't have any idea how many of those they have or, potentially, where they are.

Libyan leader visits Moscow
Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya arrived Friday in Moscow for talks focusing on energy and weapons trade, The Associated Press reported.A Kremlin official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks, said Russia and Libya would consider cooperating in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. He also said that negotiations would address prospective Russian arms supplies to Libya, which was a major buyer of Soviet weapons during the Cold War.During a trip to Libya in April, then President Vladimir Putin agreed to write off $4.5 billion in Libyan debt in exchange for lucrative energy and arms deals. At the same time, Russia's state gas monopoly, Gazprom, signed a deal to develop six prospective oil and gas fields in Libya.

Morningstar.com China and Russia to Cooperate on Energy Supply
Friday October 31, 6:00 pm ET By Dan Su

China and Russia this week agreed to build an oil pipeline linking Siberia to China's northeastern borders. The pipeline, to be built by Russia's Transneft and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC, the parent company of PetroChina (NYSE:PTR - News)), is expected to carry about 15 million tons of oil per year (290,000 barrels per day). The construction cost is estimated at $800 million. In return for this strategic long-term energy supply agreement, China is in talks with Russia to provide $20 billion to $25 billion in loans to help Russian corporations through the current credit crisis, according to various media reports.This is a major step that energy-hungry China has taken to secure long-term oil supply. Due to political reasons and geological constraints, China has yet to tap into the rich reserve of its northern neighbor; currently, Russia is not among the top three crude oil exporters to China. Because the Chinese and Russian economies are complementary in many ways, we will likely see a broader range of cooperations after some initial success.

Market Recap
While rallies in Asian stock markets helped buoy the market in China, major indexes still finished in the negative territory. For the past five days, the Shanghai Composite Index retreated 6.0% to 1,728.79, while the Shenzhen Composite Index dropped 5.2% to 5,839.33.China Cuts Lending and Saving Rates by 27 Basis Points
After the central bank's third rate cut in two months, the benchmark one-year lending and saving rates stood at 6.66% and 3.60%, respectively. The aggressive moves indicate China's determination to steer clear of a significant economic slowdown. China's monetary tightening policies in the past two years have given the country some room to further lower its rates, and there will likely be several more rate cuts in the coming year.

Alipay to Make Utility-Bill Payment Easy
Alipay, China's equivalent of Paypal and a subsidiary of e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, has launched a new service to offer a one-stop payment solution for utility bills. The service is available to both registered members and nonmembers. Previously, consumers needed to stand in queues at the banks to pay those bills.

China Southern Airlines (NYSE:ZNH - News) to Build Aviation Hub in Northeast China
The airline, ranked as Asia's largest by passenger numbers, will invest $1.5 billion in Liaoning Airport, which is located in China's traditional heavy industrial base in northeastern China. In recent years, China has made it a priority to rejuvenate the economy in this so-called rust belt region.Iris Tan, Peter Liu, and Feliz Li contributed to this article.

Russia humiliating EU over Georgia: Lithuanian president Fri Oct 31, 2:40 pm ET

VILNIUS (AFP) – Russia's failure to fully respect an EU-brokered ceasefire in its war with Georgia is a humiliation for the European Union, Lithuania's President Valdas Adamkus said Friday.Not all the efforts of President Sarkozy to guarantee Georgia's territorial integrity have been implemented, Adamkus told reporters during a visit by his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili.This is a humiliation for the entire European Union, he added.In August French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who holds the rotating presidency of the 27-nation EU, brokered a ceasefire with his Russian opposite number Dmitry Medvedev to end Moscow's brief war with its neighbour Georgia.Lithuania, like Georgia, was part of the Soviet Union until the communist bloc collapsed in 1991.The Baltic state is now firmly anchored in the west, having joined the EU and NATO in 2004, and is a vocal supporter of Georgia's drive to become part of the club.The issue of Georgia is due to be discussed at a summit next month between the leaders of the EU and Russia.There, Adamkus said, Lithuania would ask a question of principle: are there values for which European Union's members stand united, and which must be respected? Adamkus pledged to draw the attention of the heads of state to the current situation and spotlight the dangers threatening Europe.The Georgia conflict left the EU deeply split, with some western member states anxious not to anger Russia with a tough stance, and others, notably ex-Soviet republics such as Lithuania, seeking a hard line.

EU members eventually agreed to suspend talks launched in July with Russia on a new pact to reinforce ties between the bloc and the resurgent energy giant.Lithuania earlier this week sharply criticised a proposal by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to unfreeze these negotiations at next month's EU-Russia summit.Russia moved into Georgia on August 8 to repel a Georgian military attempt to retake South Ossetia.The breakaway region's administration had long enjoyed extensive support from Moscow and its troops, stationed there as peacekeepers since the Soviet Union fell apart.Russian forces have left the buffer zones they seized in Georgia and pulled back into South Ossetia and fellow-separatist Abkhazia, under the terms of the ceasefire agreement.But Lithuania argues that Moscow was also meant to reduce troop numbers within both regions, which Moscow has recognised as independent states, and to give free international observers unfettered access.On Tuesday, a Lithuania official said Russian troop numbers had risen and pointed out that observers had not been allowed into the separatist regions.