ISRAEL BUILDS - ARABS COMPLAIN AS USUAL

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.

Winter weather leaves behind flooding concerns By TIMBERLY ROSS, Associated Press Writer – Sun Dec 27, 6:14 am ET

OMAHA, Neb. – Snow and rain storms that have battered much of the country for days have started subsiding, leaving behind concerns about flooding in some areas.Storms from Texas to the Upper Midwest dumped 23.9 inches of snow in Grand Forks, N.D., and 18 inches near Norfolk, Neb. In the East, higher temperatures and rains have started melting and washing away last week's record-setting snowfalls, threatening the region with flooding.The National Weather Service also issued flood warnings for parts of the South and Midwest, and winter weather advisories were in effect in sections of Nebraska, Illinois Indiana and Michigan through Sunday.A woman and her teenage daughter in Middletown, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, were rescued from a rain-swollen creek after their SUV went off the road Saturday. Rescue workers found the 14-year-old clinging to a log; her mother was trapped in the vehicle.Authorities in southeast Missouri were searching for a woman who washed away in a ditch on Christmas Eve as heavy rains showered the region. Witnesses saw her in the water west of Powe, Mo., and tried to assist her, said Sgt. Jody Laramore of the state Highway Patrol.

In Chicago, one of the nation's busiest travel hubs, snow and ice along with rain on the East Coast canceled or delayed more than 450 flights Saturday.Shannon Fullmer drove two hours from his home in Freeport, Ill., to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Saturday to pick up his 12-year-old son. But the flight from New Jersey was delayed more than three hours.The 38-year-old waited in a long line to get through security so that he could wait by the gate where his son's plane was expected to arrive about 7:30 p.m. CST.Fullmer said he would wait as long as I have to.It doesn't do any good to get angry, he said.A few dozen flights were delayed and a few canceled Saturday afternoon in southern Wisconsin. Three to five inches of snow was expected by Sunday morning.Flights also were delayed at the three major airports in the New York area, which was getting rain and patchy fog. Some travelers arriving at Newark Liberty International had delays of nearly 2 1/2 hours.Most New York area delays were weather-related but some were worsened by stricter security precautions after an airplane bombing attempt in Detroit, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the area's airports.In South Dakota, state troopers assisted 182 people who were stranded in their vehicles or needed help getting through snowy roads, Col. Dan Mosteller said.In the East, rain and higher temperatures helped to melt snow in areas where as much as 2 feet fell last weekend. But freezing temperatures were expected overnight in parts of New England. A freezing rain advisory was extended through 6 a.m. Sunday for parts of western Massachusetts.In New Jersey, rain that began falling Christmas night was expected to continue through Sunday morning. Flood warnings were in effect for most of southern New Jersey and the Philadelphia area through the late afternoon.Winter weather has been blamed for more than 20 deaths across the country in the past week. One of the latest was an 81-year-old Iowa man whose body was found in a ditch Friday after his pickup truck got stuck in the snow and he tried to walk home.Associated Press writers Carrie Antlfinger in Milwaukee, Verena Dobnik in New York, M.L. Johnson and Karen Hawkins in Chicago, Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Mo., Kathy Matheson in Philadelphia, Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J., and Bob Salsberg in Boston contributed to this report. On the Net:
National Weather Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS 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 (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

EU air passengers face extra restrictions after US bomb attempt
ANDREW RETTMAN Today DEC 28,09 @ 09:26 CET

Europeans flying to US airports in the wake of the failed Christmas Day aeroplane bomb attempt are facing minor disruptions due to extra security measures. Travellers have reported delays of between one and two hours following the introduction of full body searches for all passengers and more stringent checks on hand-luggage, especially liquids, such as baby milk.Some airlines have prevented passengers from carrying any more than one bag on board, including duty-free purchases.Passengers have been prevented from using the toilet during the one hour before landing in the US and have been asked to stow all items, including pens, blankets and computers, during the pre-landing period.In-flight information has also been affected, with some carriers no longer indicating the geographical position of the aircraft while en route in case it could be useful to an attacker.The ad-hoc measures have affected only flights to the US in what has been a light-touch response so far by US and EU security authorities.These measures are designed to be unpredictable, so passengers should not expect to see the same thing everywhere, US Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said in a statement on Friday (25 December).A British-educated Nigerian man tried to detonate a liquid and powder-based bomb on Friday on a flight bound from Amsterdam to Detroit.The spectre of trans-Atlantic attacks had receded since the last high-profile plot using liquid bombs in 2006.

The period of calm has seen a renewed emphasis on passengers' rights, with European protests over US calls for extra security data or delays to visa waiver programmes for former Communist EU states.The EU has also avoided the introduction of new body scanners because they invade people's privacy by showing them nude.The US and UK governments have said they will launch a more in-depth security review following the Christmas Day scare. But one pilots' union has warned against splashing out on new technology while ignoring the basics, such as staff training.Fundamentally we should talk about the technology and the processes per se, but initially we should also talk about staff training, Georg Fongern, the deputy head of the German pilots' trade body, IFALPA, told German news agency DPA. It's crucial to ask what we can we expect from somebody carrying out the checks on minimal wages.

Christmas Day bomber was on UK watch list
MON DEC 28,2009

LONDON (AFP) – The Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a US airliner had been placed on a UK watchlist and barred from entering Britain earlier this year, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said on Monday.Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, Johnson confirmed 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been placed on a watch list in May after applying for a visa to study at a bogus college.

Abdulmutallab, who has been charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane over Detroit on Christmas Day, had previously been living in London between 2005-2008 on a student visa while reading mechanical engineering at University College London (UCL).He was a legitimate UK student on a legitimate student visa -- he hasn't been in this country for 14 months, he told the programme.In May, he made an application for a fresh student visa which was refused.As soon as that happened, he was on our watchlist. If someone's refused a visa, they automatically go on our UK watchlist, Johnson said.If you are on our watch list then you do not come into this country. You can come through this country if you are in transit to another country but you cannot come into this country.Police and MI5 officials were looking into a number of issues, including whether he had been radicalised while studying at UCL, Johnson said.What happened when he was in this country? Was he radicalised in this country, was there any association with whoever may have been behind this plot?

We don't know yet whether it was a single-handed plot or (if there were) other people behind it -- I suspect it's the latter rather than the former,he said.All information regarding people on the UK watchlist was routinely shared with the US authorities and Johnson said he would be very surprised if there had been any hiccup in procedures.Washington has said Abdulmutallab was added to a watchlist of some 550,000 names last month after his father warned US officials in Abuja about his son's increasing radicalism.But he was not added to the no-fly list, meaning he was able to secure a valid US visa with which he flew from Lagos to Amsterdam, then on to Detroit on Christmas Day.

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

Israel to build 700 apartments in east Jerusalem By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer - DEC 28,09

JERUSALEM – Israel said Monday that it will build nearly 700 new apartments in east Jerusalem, drawing tough criticism from both the Palestinians and the United States, which denounced the plan as an obstacle to peacemaking.The dispute over east Jerusalem is the most intractable — and explosive — in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state and consider Jewish neighborhoods there to be settlements. Israel claims all of the city as its eternal capital.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a slowdown in West Bank settlement construction several weeks ago in hopes of bringing the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. But the order did not include construction in east Jerusalem, home to sensitive Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites.We make a distinction between the West Bank and Jerusalem. Jerusalem is our capital and remains such, said government spokesman Mark Regev.The Housing Ministry said it had approved a total of 692 new apartments in three existing Jewish neighborhoods already inhabited by tens of thousands of people.Israel does not consider its east Jerusalem neighborhoods to be settlements. It captured the city's eastern sector in the 1967 Mideast war and immediately annexed the area. The international community does not recognize the annexation.We condemn this Israeli policy of continuing settlement activities, and we hope this will be an eye opener for the U.S. administration and other members of the international community, said Palestinian official Saeb Erekat.The Palestinians have refused to reopen peace talks, which broke down a year ago, until Netanyahu halts all settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. For months, the United States has been trying to bring the sides together.

An Israeli official said the government had informed the Obama administration about the latest planned construction. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with the media.However, a U.S. official said the construction was another blow to peace efforts.We feel that unilateral actions make it harder for people to get back together at the table, and that's what our goals are, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity pending a formal reaction from Washington.We also have mentioned in the past ... that we consider all the Israeli settlements to be beyond the pale of what we wish to see going on, and are not helpful, again, to getting the two sides back to the table, he said.
Netanyahu announced the settlement slowdown last month in a bid to rekindle peace talks with the Palestinians. But the Palestinians have rebuffed that overture because the order does not affect east Jerusalem and or block construction that is already under way on 3,000 settlement apartments.

Settlement construction became the key sticking point in resuming negotiations after U.S. President Barack Obama demanded a total cessation shortly after taking office. He has since softened his stance, but the Palestinians have not.On Monday, Netanyahu told a group of Israeli ambassadors that Israel wants peace.It's time to resume the diplomatic process and launch peace talks between us and the Palestinians, he said.

News of the east Jerusalem construction plans was disclosed as a former Israeli lawmaker reported that Netanyahu was hammering out an agreement with the Americans on a framework for relaunching peace talks. Retired lawmaker Yossi Beilin said the framework would include negotiations on borders, the status of Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees. However, Netanyahu has not accepted the key Palestinian demand of basing a final settlement on the borders before the 1967 war.

The Palestinians have insisted on a clear framework as a condition for restarting negotiations. Beilin, an architect of Israeli-Palestinian peace accords in the 1990s, would not say where he got his information. But he remains in touch with government officials and weeks ago, he was the first to report Netanyahu's plans for a 10-month slowdown in West Bank settlement slowdown. Regev, the government spokesman, said that Beilin speaks for himself, definitely not for the prime minister.Washington's special Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, is due back in the region on Jan. 7 to try to prod peacemaking ahead, a Palestinian official said. He spoke on customary condition of anonymity when discussing U.S. officials' timetables.

Palestinians condemn planned Jerusalem settler homes
Mon Dec 28, 3:55 am ET

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – The Western-backed Palestinian Authority on Monday condemned Israeli plans to build new homes for settlers in east Jerusalem and said they were incompatible with peace efforts.The Palestinian Authority strongly condemns the new decision to build in east Jerusalem and wonders whether there is a freeze of settlement activity or an intensification of it, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP.The American administration needs to realise that the policies of the Israeli government embody settlements and not peace and that their choice is settlements and not peace, he added.Israel's Channel 10 television reported Sunday that Israel has invited tenders for the building of some 692 new homes in three settlements in mostly Arab east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians have demanded as the capital of their promised state.There are already some 200,000 Jewish settlers living alongside 270,000 Arab residents in east Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in the 1967 Six Day War and annexed later in a move not recognised by the international community.The Palestinians have refused to restart peace negotiations suspended a year ago during the Gaza war unless Israel halts all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem.Israel has agreed to a 10-month moratorium on building starts in the West Bank excluding public buildings and projects already underway. The partial freeze does not include east Jerusalem.On November 16, Israel gave its approval for 900 new housing units in another east Jerusalem settlement in a move that drew a strong rebuke from its US ally, which has been pressing both sides to restart peace talks.

Israeli defense chief: Iran can build bomb by 2011
DEC 28,2009

JERUSALEM – Iran will possess the technology to build a nuclear bomb by early 2010 and be able to produce one the following year, Israeli media quoted Israel's defense minister as saying Monday.Defense Minister Ehud Barak delivered his assessment before the Israeli parliament's defense and foreign affairs committee. It broadly matches assessments from other nations including the U.S., which estimates that Tehran could produce a nuclear weapon between 2010 and 2015.The Defense Ministry said it could not confirm the reports and a Barak spokesman wasn't immediately available for comment. The radio and newspaper Web site reports did not identify the source of their information, but participants in the committee meetings routinely brief reporters on the proceedings.Earlier this month, Israel's military intelligence chief said Iran was close to an unspecified technological breakthrough that would enable it to build nuclear weapons. He did not elaborate on the breakthrough or say when exactly he expected Iran to have weapons-making capability.

Israel, like the West, disputes Tehran's claims that its nuclear program is designed to produce energy, not bombs. It has lobbied for tough sanctions against Iran and has not ruled out a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.The international community must act, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a separate gathering of Israeli diplomats.If sanctions aren't imposed now, if true pressure isn't applied now — then when will they do it? A U.N.-drafted proposal aims to ease concerns that Iran could build a nuclear weapon by reducing its stockpile of low-enriched uranium. Under the proposal, the uranium would be shipped to France and Russia in exchange for more highly enriched fuel rods that are not suitable for use in weapons.Iran has not formally responded to the U.N. proposal, but recently proposed Turkey as a possible venue for exchanging nuclear material with the West.

Israel: 16,200 Jewish immigrants arrived in 2009
Sun Dec 27, 1:37 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities say 16,200 Jews moved to the country in 2009, the first yearly increase in a decade.The quasi-governmental Jewish Agency handles immigration to Israel. In a statement, it said in 2008, almost 14,000 Jews came to live in Israel.The statement said 7,120 immigrants came from the former Soviet Union this year, and 5,300 came from English-speaking countries. Both increased over 2008.

The overall number of new arrivals has been dropping since immigration from the former Soviet Union peaked in the 1990s. Sunday's statement said a total of 221,000 Jews immigrated over the past decade.Israel offers automatic citizenship to Jews who move there. About 80 percent of the nation's 7 million residents are Jewish. Most of the rest are Arabs.

Russia warns EU of oil cuts over Ukraine row By Gleb Bryanski And Martin Santa – 6 mins ago DEC 28,2009

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has warned the European Union of oil supply cuts because of a fresh row between Moscow and Kiev, the Slovak government said on Monday, hours after Russia played down worries about a new gas row with Ukraine.The Slovak Economy Ministry said Russia has warned the European Union that Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic could experience oil supply cuts. A European Union source said oil stocks in those countries were adequate to withstand cuts.Europe, which receives the lion's share of its oil and gas needs from Russia, closely tracks Russian disputes with its neighbors after EU gas supplies were cut in the dead of winter in 2006 and 2009 due to disputes between Moscow and Kiev.Another key transit state, Belarus, cut Russian oil flows to Europe via the Druzhba pipeline in January 2007, also due to a pricing row, which further undermined the image of Russia, the world's top oil and gas producer, as a reliable energy supplier.The earlier cuts occurred amid strained political relations between Moscow and its neighbors. Ukraine will hold a presidential election in January and analysts have said that if a relatively pro-Russian leader is elected, Moscow is likely to take a more accommodating stance in future energy negotiations.On Monday, the head of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, Alexei Miller, said he expected Ukraine to pay its December gas bill in full and that he saw no repeat of gas rows -- backtracking from remarks made last week.

But he spoke only a few hours before the head of another Russian monopoly -- oil pipeline company Transneft -- accused Ukrainian politicians of setting new unacceptable terms for oil transit via the Black Sea port of Yuzhny.Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev told Reuters Ukraine had asked Russia to pay more for transit and raised additional conditions concerning minimal volume guarantees, adding that oil supplies would be cut if no deal was quickly reached.We cannot and are not accepting tough terms. The (negotiation) process is continuing and I hope we will solve it before the New Year. But if they insist on their terms, we will also review the prospects of supplies, he said.Asked about the cause of the dispute, Tokarev said:These are purely political issues there (in Ukraine).The demand for higher fees from Ukraine comes as the International Monetary Fund has rejected Kiev's request for a $2 billion loan to help the recession-strapped country meet financial obligations by year's end.A senior official of Ukraine's central bank said last week it had enough foreign currency reserves to manage its finances until the end of the year.

DRUZHBA PIPELINE IN FOCUS

Traders told Reuters on Friday Transneft had told them it would scrap the initial January program for Yuzhny consisting of 0.5 million tonnes, in a move that would effectively damage the Mediterranean oil market.Yuzhny remains the last Ukrainian port through which Russia sends transit crude to the West after it stopped exporting crude via another outlet, Odessa, earlier this year.Ukraine is also a major transit route for crude flowing to Eastern Europe via the Druzhba pipeline and Russia sent its warning to the European Union fearing a repeat of the January 2007 dispute with Belarus.From the EU point of view, the early warning systems have worked, said a EU source, referring to a recent deal under which Russia has to warn the continent about potential supply problems.U.S. crude oil rose to above $79 a barrel on Monday, the highest in more than a month, largely because of colder weather across the major energy market the United States. The tensions involving Russia provided additional support. The Druzhba pipeline supplies Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic via Ukraine with more than 300,000 barrels per day of crude while another spur goes via Belarus to Germany and Poland shipping some 800,000 bpd. The two latter states also have no guarantees of smooth supplies after the New Year as Moscow and Minsk struggle to agree on volumes of duty-free Russian oil for Belarus. Russia's top energy official Igor Sechin said on Monday he hoped the deal with Belarus would be signed on December 30-31. If no deal is reached then we will have to apply full fees from January 1,he told reporters. In 2007, Minsk suspended supplies along Druzhba after failing to clinch a deal on crude supplies for its domestic plants and agreeing on fees.(Additional reporting by Luke Baker; writing by Dmitry Zhdannikov, editing by Anthony Barker)

Oil holds near $78 a barrel in Asia By Eileen Ng, Associated Press Writer – Mon Dec 28, 3:53 am ET

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Oil prices held near $78 a barrel Monday in Asia ahead of inventory figures later in the week that could send it through the $80 mark.

Benchmark crude for February delivery was flat at $78.05 at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Trading was thin due to the holiday season.The contract rose $1.38 to settle at $78.05 on Thursday, the first time in more than a month that it closed above $78. Oil markets were closed on Friday for Christmas.Inventory figures from the Energy Information Administration later this week will determine if oil prices can end the year above $80 a barrel, said Clarence Chu, a trader with Hudson Capital Energy in Singapore.The government last week reported a crude stocks drawdown of five million barrels and if inventories continue to decline — suggesting improved demand — it will be a boost to crude prices.Improved employment figures in the U.S. last week also buoyed sentiment and raised expectations of stronger consumer spending.There is an upside bias and oil can close the year above $80 a barrel but fundamentals are still weak and don't support oil at this level, Chu said.He expects crude inventories to build up again in January, which could easily drag oil prices back down to $70.In other Nymex trading in January contracts, heating oil rose 1.1 cents to $2.05 while gasoline rose 1.1 cents to $2. Natural gas added 13.9 cents to $5.78 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude for February delivery rose 18 cents to $76.49 on the ICE Futures exchange.

Stocks edge higher following retail sales data By SARA LEPRO, AP Business Writer DEC 28,09

NEW YORK – Stocks edged higher in early trading Monday as investors returning from a long holiday weekend were heartened by good news on retail sales.Shares of major retailers rose after data showed shoppers opened their wallets more this holiday season, a good sign that consumers are feeling better about the economy.Figures from MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse, which track all forms of payment, show retail sales rose 3.6 percent from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24, compared with a 2.3 percent drop a year ago. Adjusting for an extra shopping day between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the number was closer to a 1 percent gain.Consumer spending is one of the biggest drivers of economic growth and is vital to a sustained recovery.Commodities prices rose as the dollar fell, giving a boost to energy and materials stocks. Bond prices fell ahead of an auction of two-year notes.

Keeping the market's gains in check, airline stocks fell after two security incidents on Northwest flights this weekend.Stocks are currently at their highest levels of the year, and in the absence of any bad news, analysts say the market is likely to drift higher during the final days of 2009. Trading volume has been extremely light due to the holidays, which can exaggerate price swings. Markets were closed on Friday for Christmas and will be closed again this Friday for New Year's Day.The Dow Jones industrial average rose 9.44, or 0.1 percent, to 10,529.54. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.48, or 0.04 percent, to 1,126.96, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 4.35, or 0.2 percent, to 2,290.04.Major stock indexes ended a holiday-shortened session Thursday at new 2009 highs following upbeat reports on unemployment and durable goods orders. This week, readings on home prices and consumer confidence are among the few economic reports expected.Stocks have managed to grind higher this month despite lingering concerns about the economic recovery. But the gains have been more subdued than in recent months as investors have held back on taking risks heading into the end of the year. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 66.5 percent since hitting 12-year lows in March.Bond prices fell, pushing yields higher ahead of a fresh round of government auctions. The Treasury Department will issue $44 billion of two-year notes later Monday, followed by $42 billion of five-year notes on Tuesday and $32 billion of seven-year notes on Wednesday. Investors often sell bonds heading into auctions in an effort to command higher yields.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.85 percent from 3.80 percent Thursday.Commodities prices rose as the dollar fell. Commodities are priced in U.S. dollars, so when the greenback is weak they become more attractive to foreign buyers.The ICE Futures U.S. dollar index, which measures the dollar against other major currencies, slipped 0.2 percent. Oil prices gained 62 cents to $78.67 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold prices also rose.Among retail stocks, Macy's Inc. rose 45 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $18.02. JCPenney & Co. added 44 cents to $27.46.Shares of Delta Air Lines Inc., which owns Northwest, fell 27 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $11.50. A failed attack on a Northwest flight on Christmas Day and another incident on the same flight to Detroit from Amsterdam on Sunday raised security concerns over the weekend.About five stocks rose for every four that fell on the New York Stock Exchange where volume came to a low 137.6 million shares.In other trading, the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies slipped 0.42, or 0.1 percent, to 633.65. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 1.3 percent to its highest close since late August, boosted by encouraging news on factory production. In afternoon trading, Germany's DAX index rose 0.7 percent, while France's CAC-40 rose 0.8 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 was closed for a holiday.

PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS

JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME

PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).

WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Parents pray for missionary thought held in NKorea By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer – Mon Dec 28, 4:11 am ET

SAN MARCOS, Calif. – An American missionary believed to be detained when he stepped into North Korea on Christmas didn't inform his parents of his plans but they had a hunch he would visit the communist nation.We had a sense, Pyong Park, the missionary's father, told The Associated Press late Sunday.We told him to continue what you're doing in South Korea.About 100 people held candles Sunday night at Palomar Korean Church in San Marcos, a north San Diego suburb, to commend Park for going to North Korea.Robert is doing what God called on him to do, the Rev. Madison Shockley told the crowd.We call this speaking truth to power.Robert Park, 28, slipped across the frozen Tumen River into the North from China carrying a letter calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to shut down the country's political prison camps. There has been no word from him since.Park's parents last heard from their son Dec. 23 in an e-mail that predicted upheaval in North Korea.Know that I am the happiest in all my life, his e-mail read. Incredible miracles are happening in the liberation of North Koreans right now ... We are going to see a big and beautiful change in Korea and in the World this year! Park was born in Los Angeles to Pyong and Helen Park, Korean immigrants who met in the United States. He spent much of his childhood in Tucson, Ariz., where he stayed after his parents moved to the San Diego area about four years ago.

His parents say he has devoted himself to church work since 2000, making regular Saturday runs to the slums of Nogales, Mexico, where he distributed food and did missionary work.He planned to visit South Korea for about a month in June 2008 but ended up staying because he was deeply moved by the poverty of North Koreans, his mother said.He felt their pain so much, she said.Park was in China, near the North Korean border, for about two months last summer to provide food and shelter to refugees, his parents said. He gave that up because he knew China would deport any refugees who got caught, exposing them to harsh punishment back home.He helped a lot of people, said Manchul Cho, an uncle. Neither Cho nor his parents knew how many refugees Park helped.Back in Seoul, South Korea, Park worked with other organizations pressing for peaceful change in the communist nation. Pyong Park, 68, said his son wanted quicker results.

He wanted to do a bigger thing, he said.The Parks, who live in the north San Diego suburb of Encinitas, said they are in daily contact with the State Department. North Korea has not acknowledged Park is in the country.He was not afraid to die, Pyong Park said.What he wanted was the whole world to know of North Korea's situation.His only sibling, Paul, 38, also lives in the San Diego area.