START TREATY WILL FAIL EVEN IF PASSED

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)

EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
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.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
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.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

THIS START TREATY WILL NOT WORK WITH RUSSIA AS THESE PROPHECY SCRIPTURES REAVEAL.RUSSIA SNEAK NUKE ATTACKS AMERICA SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE.

US poised to approve nuclear arms pact with Russia By DESMOND BUTLER, Associate Press - DEC 22,10

WASHINGTON – The Senate is poised to approve a nuclear arms pact with Russia, handing President Barack Obama a huge victory on his top foreign policy priority.
Passage of the New START treaty appeared assured after 11 Republicans joined Democrats in a vote Tuesday to end debate on the pact. That signaled that Obama should have the two-thirds majority he needs when the Senate votes on final approval Wednesday.The approval would mark a big comeback for Obama's arm controls efforts after the treaty appeared all but dead just weeks ago. It also would allow Obama to continue efforts to improve relations with Russia.Ratification would mark a third recent major political victory for Obama, even though his Democratic party was trounced in last month's congressional elections. In recent days he won passage of a bipartisan tax deal and a vote ending the ban on gays openly serving in the military.

We are on the brink of writing the next chapter in the 40-year history of wrestling with the threat of nuclear weapons, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, a Democrat, said after the vote.The treaty would limit each country's strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550, down from the current ceiling of 2,200. It also would establish a system for monitoring and verification. U.S. weapons inspections ended last year with the expiration of a 1991 treaty.The administration was adamant that it be ratified this year because the Democrats' majority in the Senate is set to shrink by five in January and waiting could have meant months of delay or defeat.

Republicans accused Democrats of rushing approval of the treaty for political reasons. They have asserted it would limit U.S. missile defense options and argued it has insufficient procedures to verify Russia's adherence.When Jon Kyl, the leading Republican on negotiations over the treaty, suggested a delay last month, Obama appeared unlikely to find the nine Republican votes needed for passage.But he and top members of his administration lobbied intensely, with Obama postponing his Christmas vacation in Hawaii. They enlisted support from top military officials and big-name Republicans from past administrations who argued the treaty was essential for U.S. national security.In the end, they persuaded enough Republicans to defy the party's top two leaders in the Senate and support the pact.We know when we've been beaten, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch told reporters hours before Tuesday's vote.Even the Senate's No. 3 Republican, Lamar Alexander, endorsed the accord, saying he was assured U.S. defenses would not be weakened.The treaty will leave the United States with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to kingdom come, Alexander said on the Senate floor.

Republicans had tried to kill the treaty by forcing changes in its language that would have sent it back for negotiations with Moscow. Democrats were working to appease some Republican senators by letting them raise these issues in legislation accompanying the treaty that would not directly affect the treaty.

Most Republicans remained opposed.

The administration did not negotiate a good treaty, Kyl said. They went into the negotiations it seems to me with the attitude with the Russians just like the guy who goes into the car dealership and says, I'm not leaving here until I buy a car.
Though Kyl looks likely to vote on the losing side of the debate over the treaty, in his negotiations with the administration he did win Obama's commitment to modernize the remaining nuclear arsenal with projected spending of $85 billion over 10 years.
Some of that money is now in the pipeline, contained in a stopgap government funding bill that cleared Congress on Tuesday. The measure would finance the government, mostly at current levels, through March 4.It makes an exception for nuclear security programs, allowing the government to spend money to modernize the United States' nuclear arsenal at a rate equal to Obama's $624 million request.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.

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.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 47:13-23,48:1-35

Hareidi Religious Jews to Join Rally for Judea and Samaria
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu DEC 22,10

Thousands of hareidi religious Jews are expected to turn out at a Jerusalem rally Thursday in support of Judea and Samaria. The 7:00 p.m. rally at Zion Square in the center of the capital will be staged against a defacto building freeze and as a salute to Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem residents. Popular singers Ariel Zilber, Yishai Lapidot, Mendy Jerufi and Gadi Elbaz will perform.Support for nationalists by the hareidi religious community, which was less common several years ago, provides an additional and strong ally for Land of Israel activists.One sticker that will be distributed to people will be written in Yiddish, the first language of tens of thousands of people in religious communities, and states, The Land of Israel is ours.
The Halamish organization, which is organizing the rally, stated, We must stop the government from expelling more Jews, and Jewish law, as determined by a council of sages, forbids giving land to non-Jews.

Halamish pointed out that although there is no official building freeze in Judea and Samaria, there is a de facto freeze that it said is a contributing factor to a severe housing shortage. Communities that have been affected include the hareidi religious cities of Beitar Illit, located in western Gush Etzion, Modi'in Illit, located in Samaria and near the city of Modi’in, and Emanuel, east of Kfar Saba and near the Jewish communities of Ginot Shomron and Kedumim in central Samaria.
Organizers, relying on a statement from hareidi religious sages, said that the Holy Land is the foundation for building the truth, and it is forbidden to separate the Land from the Torah because they are one. They noted that the blessings recited after food thank the Creator for the land…the exodus from Egypt…and the Torah.Organizers recalled that before the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif in 2005, they distributed pamphlets to hareidi religious synagogues in Ashdod warning them that the expulsion would be followed by missile attacks.They laughed at such extremist views, but then asked, Who would have thought missiles would explode in Ashkelon, Ashdod, Be’er Sheva and Kiryat Gat? All saw after the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif that the meaning of a peace agreement for terrorists is missiles and rockets. The missile attacks proved it is impossible to make peace with terrorists.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Israel moving tank defense system near Gaza AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press - DEC 22,10

JERUSALEM – Israeli defense officials say the army will deploy tanks equipped with a miniature missile defense system near the Gaza border now that Palestinians are using a tank-piercing missile.The officials allege the Kornet missiles the militants possess came from Iran. They provided no proof.The officials spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss such matters.At a time of rising violence along the Gaza border, Israel's military chief disclosed Tuesday that militants fired a Kornet for the first time earlier this month, puncturing an Israeli tank.As a result, the defense officials say Israel has decided to move dozens of tanks equipped with the new Israeli-developed system, which detects incoming projectiles and shoots them down before they reach the armored vehicles.

Israel complains to UN over Gaza rockets
DEC 22,10

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel has called on the Security Council to issue a clear and resolute message against rockets fired into its territory from the Gaza Strip, in a letter to the United Nations body that was made public on Wednesday.The December 21 letter, made public by Israel's foreign ministry, comes amid rising tensions on Israel's border with the coastal enclave.On Tuesday, Israel launched a series of airstrikes against what it said were tunnels, training sites and weapons facilities in the Gaza Strip, in response to a salvo of mortar shells on Monday and rocket fire on Tuesday morning.A Kassem rocket landed just metres (yards) away from a kindergarten in a southern Israeli kibbutz, wounding a teenage girl.The incidents of the past several days are part of an escalation of terrorist attacks emanating from Gaza that target Israeli civilians, towns, and military personnel, said the letter signed by Meron Reuben, Israel's UN ambassador.Israel holds the de facto authority in the Gaza Strip completely responsible for all of these incidents, which are carried out in clear violation of international law. In response to such attacks, Israel has exercised and will continue to exercise its right to self-defence.

The letter is addressed to US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, the current chair of the Security Council, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.It says three rockets and 18 mortars have been fired into parts of southern Israel from Gaza since December 19 alone.The Security Council, the Secretary-General, and the international community must send a clear and resolute message that these attacks are unacceptable, Reuben wrote.In addition, the Security Council must give appropriate attention to the smuggling of arms into Gaza, which continues to fuel violence and instability in our region.On Tuesday, Israeli army chief Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi warned that the relative calm that has prevailed since Israel's devastating Gaza offensive at the end of 2008 could quickly end.The situation is tense and fragile and could easily deteriorate, particularly if a rocket lands in a populated area, he told a parliamentary committee.Between December 2008 and January 2009, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, in response to hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza into the Jewish state.The war cost the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers.Since then, the number of rocket attacks has dropped considerably, but the army says more than 200 rockets or shells have been fired this year.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

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)

France and Germany oppose newcomers to border-free area
VALENTINA POP Today DEC 22,10 @ 08:56 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - France and Germany sent a joint letter to the EU on Tuesday (21 December) describing Bulgaria and Romania's entry into Europe's border-free Schengen area in March as "premature" and urging more progress in the fight against corruption and organised crime. The move was slammed as an act of discrimination by Bucharest.French interior minister Brice Hortefeux and his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere raised their objections in a joint letter to the EU commission, according to AFP.The ministers said it was premature to let the two countries join Schengen in March - the current date aimed for by the two countries - and recommended that the EU wait for irreversible progress in the fight against corruption and organised crime instead.Back in Berlin, a spokesman for Germany's interior ministry said that lack of progress by Romania and Bulgaria in reforming their judiciaries could have grave consequences for the European Union's security and raised concerns about an overly swift adhesion to the Schengen area, AP reported.

Romanian President Traian Basescu reacted to the letter saying it was an act of discrimination against Romania which his country would not tolerate, even if it comes from EU's most powerful countries.In practice there is little Bucharest can do, as the decision has to be agreed unanimously among Schengen members - 22 EU states plus Norway, Switzerland and Iceland - meaning that France and Germany have veto powers.Meanwhile, a more compliant Bulgarian foreign ministry spokeswoman said her country would do the utmost to remove any doubts, including in the areas of the judicial system and society as a whole.The two newcomers had so far painfully tried to avoid a link between a unique EU monitoring system put in place after they joined the bloc in 2007 and evaluating their fight against crime and corruption, with their bid to become members of the border-free area.So far, the EU commission had maintained that the two processes are not linked and that Schengen enlargement has its own evaluation system, but has also conceded that it is a matter of trust with other states in the area, which will depend on the newcomers to secure their common borders.Experts evaluating the readiness of the countries two have so far given them a green light, with a final report due in January.

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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) 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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED DEC 22,2010

09:30 AM +2.25
10:00 AM +2.34
10:30 AM +3.93
11:00 AM +10.02
11:30 AM +8.96
12:00 PM +13.16
12:30 PM +32.50
01:00 PM +12.26
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04:00 PM +26.33 11,599.49

S&P 500 1258.84 +4.24

NASDAQ 2671.48 +3.87

GOLD 1,384.60 -4.20

OIL 90.53 +0.71

TSE 300 13,380.70 +15.60

CDNX 2187.34 +11.51

S&P/TSX/60 764.66 +1.99

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -1 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -1 points at low today.
Dow +13 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,387.80.OIL opens at $90.26 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today so far.
Dow +36 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +36 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,427.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)

CRUDE OIL -5.3 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +2.4 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE -600,000 BARRELS

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.

Japan 7.4 seabed quake sparks tsunami scare
by Harumi Ozawa – Wed Dec 22, 12:52 am ET

TOKYO (AFP) – Scores of villagers on a remote Japanese island chain in the Pacific scrambled for higher ground early Wednesday after a major 7.4-magnitude offshore quake sparked a tsunami alert.The seabed tremor struck at 2:19 am local time (1719 GMT Tuesday), jolting people out of bed as loudspeakers blared across the Ogasawara islands and authorities warned of the risk of a two-metre (six-foot) high local tsunami.The tsunami alert was later downgraded and all warnings were lifted five hours after the quake hit near the islands, some 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) south of Tokyo. No injuries or damage were reported.But about 120 people temporarily evacuated to higher ground on Chichi-shima island and some 50 people on Haha-shima island, Koji Watanabe, a village official on Chichi-shima, said overnight.It was the biggest earthquake I have ever felt, said Masae Nagai, a hotel owner on Chichi-shima, part of the remote archipelago also called the Bonin islands, which has a population of about 2,300.

We were awakened by the quake. It was scary, she told AFP by telephone around sunrise, but she added that the walls of her hotel were not cracked and that things have returned to normal.Local authorities on the Ogasawara islands, near Iwo Jima, said they had set up five shelters for residents but had closed them before sunrise in the absence of damage reports.The jolts were relatively stronger than those we have felt in the past, Kenichi Mochida, another Chichi-shima official, told AFP. But there was no panic as people acted in an orderly manner.Yoshihiro Ikeda, vice principal of the Ogasawara Elementary School with 123 pupils in Chichi-shima, said: We were worried about our students as the jolt was quite strong and lasted very long.

But we were relieved to confirm that none of our students were injured and no facilities were damaged. I guess we were quite lucky, considering the size of the quake.The quake hit at a shallow depth of 14 kilometres, 153 kilometres (95 miles) east of Chichi-shima, and was followed by a series of aftershocks measuring between 5.3 and 5.6 which continued into the morning.About three hours after the quake, a 60 centimetre (two feet) wave was monitored 700 kilometres away at Hachijo-jima, part of the Izu island chain that runs south of Tokyo, the meteorological agency said.
Waves of up to 20 centimetres also reached the southwestern Japanese main islands, the agency said.The Ogasawara chain, made up of more than 30 subtropical and tropical islets some 240 kilometres north of Iwo Jima, were put under the control of the United States after World War II, and returned to Japan in 1968.The remote islands have preserved their unique biological habitats and have been dubbed the Galapagos of the Orient.The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said after sounding the initial alert there was no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami and no nearby islands were thought to be in the tsunami danger zone.But it warned in a bulletin shortly after the quake: "Earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within 100 kilometres of the earthquake epicentre.When a massive 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the most powerful on record, struck off Chile's coast in February, Japan issued its top tsunami alert and ordered more than half a million people to evacuate seaside areas.

Authorities later apologised after a wave of 120 centimetres hit and caused no injuries.Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes strike Japan, which sits on the Ring of Fire surrounding the Pacific Ocean.In 1995 a magnitude-7.2 quake in the port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people. But high building standards, regular drills and a sophisticated tsunami warning system mean that casualties are often minimal.

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.

Biggest storm yet heads for Calif; homes evacuated By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press - DEC 22,10

LOS ANGELES – After days of relentless rain, Southern California is awaiting the most intense storm system yet, with evacuations ordered, rescue crews on standby and residents anxiously eyeing already saturated mountainsides denuded by wildfires.

Forecasters expected more rain across the state Wednesday, but the focus clearly was on Southern California where a monster storm was expected to bring torrential rain, thunderstorms, flooding, hail and possible tornadoes and water spouts. Forecasters warned of possible rainfall rates of .75 inch to 1 inch an hour and thunderstorm rates of 2 inches an hour in the region.Steady rain began falling late Tuesday and was expected to intensify into early Wednesday.It's going to be a three-ring circus, said National Weather Service spokesman Bill Hoffer. There's going to be a six-hour time frame in the early morning when it's really going to be dumping on us.Officials on Tuesday ordered evacuation of 232 homes in La Canada Flintridge and La Crescenta, foothill suburbs of Los Angeles below steep hillsides that burned in 2009 and where mudslides inundated homes and backyards in February.Walt Kalepsch said his backyard filled up with mud and debris last winter, but he planned to stay the night with his wife and daughter.If it gets really terrible, we'll leave. But we've been evacuated so many times, it's like the city's crying wolf, he said. "During the rest of the year, it's absolutely gorgeous. It was just one big wildfire that changed everything.

As the Pineapple Express system swept Pacific Ocean moisture across Nevada, Arizona and Utah, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in six counties.
The huge and powerful low pressure system off the West Coast pushed precipitation right into the Great Basin.It takes a lot of energy to push that moisture over the mountains, said NWS meteorologist Dave Bruno. This kind of storm could march right across the country and create a lot of bad weather along the way. It could affect the Southern Plains on Thursday and Friday. If it sticks together it'll hit Florida by Saturday.With rain falling up and down the state, Sierra Nevada ski resorts boasted of record-breaking December snowfall, with the storms bringing a total of 10 1/2 to 15 1/2 feet to Mammoth Mountain.Rescuers had to pluck some stranded motorists from rain-swollen creeks. Shoppers dodged puddles while buying last-minute Christmas gifts. Disney resorts canceled a plan to shower visitors with artificial snow.In Orange County, four hikers missing overnight in a flooded canyon in the Cleveland National Forest were rescued Tuesday morning by helicopter after their car was trapped along swollen Trabuco Creek. Rescuers used a bulldozer to retrieve five other people who became stranded by the creek.Downtown Los Angeles received more than a third of its annual average rainfall in less than a week.Parts of the San Gabriel Mountains got more than 18 inches of rain since Friday, with coastal cities like Santa Monica and Long Beach getting more than six inches, the National Weather Service said.Mudslides are a significant risk for three years after a fire and are especially likely anytime the rainfall rate reaches or exceeds one inch per hour, said Susan Cannon, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.That's a likely scenario Wednesday in the area burned by last year's Station Fire, which charred 250 square miles above the suburbs tucked below the San Gabriel Mountains.

It means that once the heaviest rains start, it should be a very active time up there, Cannon said.For all the perils of the torrential rains, there was a silver lining: The water is expected to help ease the effects of years of drought. Thursday is expected to be dry, with sunshine. There will be light rain on Christmas Day in parts of California.Water content in the snow pack in California's mountains was at 197 percent of normal and 169 percent of the average measurement for April 1 — traditionally the date when the snow's water content is at its peak, said Ted Thomas, spokesman for the California Department of Water Resources.As the snow melts, that water will run off into reservoirs that feed the state's extensive agriculture and city water systems.Associated Press writers Garance Burke in Fresno; Don Thompson in Sacramento; and Sue Manning, Robert Jablon, John Antczak and Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

4 empty homes destroyed by flooding in northern AZ By FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press – Tue Dec 21, 11:15 pm ET

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Flood waters on Tuesday ripped through a retirement community in northwestern Arizona, washing away four unoccupied homes and threatening to destroy others.Meanwhile, evacuation orders were lifted in a small Utah town about 60 miles away after a dam feared close to breaking was declared safe.But flood warnings and emergency declarations remained in place in some Utah, Nevada and Arizona counties, and more rain was expected overnight.In Arizona, flood waters cut through a group of houses in the rural communities of Beaver Dam and Littlefield, sweeping away four homes after saturating the soil beneath them and causing them to collapse.None of the wood-framed houses was inhabited, although a man was getting ready to move into one of them, said Jeff Hunt, Beaver Dam/Littlefield Fire District chief. The man and workers were putting finishing touches on the home but were able to gather their belongings before flood waters carried it away, Hunt said.

Hunt said about a dozen other homes in the two communities, which share a zip code, were still in danger of being destroyed as flood waters seeped into the ground. About 200 feet of roadway was washed away.I think that through the night we'll lose potentially several more, especially if we get the flows increasing, he said. If we get more velocity, it will pick them off one at a time.Mohave County declared an emergency Tuesday because of flooding in the area — which also was hit by flood waters in 2005, when some homes and a bridge over the Beaver Dam Wash were destroyed.

Authorities began warning area residents late Monday that they should evacuate if heavy runoff from nearby mountains continued. Few people initially did so, but more heeded the warning Tuesday.In Utah, evacuation orders for the town of Rockville, population 247, were lifted Tuesday evening after authorities determined the Trees Ranch Dam on the Virgin River was stable. Suspected leaking from the earthen dam was actually just saturated soil, said Kirk Best, regional engineer with the Utah Division of Water Rights.The potential of the dam breaking led officials to issue evacuation orders for all of Rockville earlier in the day.Nearby Zion National Park also was evacuated and shut down. Park officials said in a news release that they evacuated an unspecified number of people, including guests staying at the Zion Lodge and campers in the park.Daniel McArthur, mayor of St. George, Utah, declared a state of emergency for his city about 40 miles southwest of the park due to flooding. Food waters also wiped out one of two bridges to the southern Utah town of Gunlock, the Washington County sheriff's office said.A flood warning was issued for Utah's Washington and Kane counties through Thursday, and the Virgin and Santa Clara rivers were expected to crest again Wednesday afternoon.In southern Nevada, a state of emergency was ordered after rain-swollen creeks closed some roads in the Las Vegas area and snow disrupted electricity to about 300 customers on nearby Mount Charleston.County crews were expected to work through the night to clear roads so workers could restore power in the mountain area buried under 2 feet of snow.

Threats of flooding across Las Vegas prompted Clark County Manager Virginia Valentine to issue the emergency declaration Tuesday afternoon. She urged visitors to stay away from Mount Charleston, a popular tourist destination, until the storm passed.The National Weather Service said more bad weather was expected overnight.
We're still going to have largespread areas of rain but also the chance of thunderstorms, said meteorologist Jim Harrison of Las Vegas weather bureau. There's going to be additional flooding concerns then.A northwestern Arizona weather station recorded at least 10 inches of rain Tuesday, while rainfall ranged from 10 to 14 inches in southwestern Utah, Harrison said.In Beaver Dam and Littlefield, many residents placed sandbags around homes and built dirt berms to try to control the flood waters. Others gathered things out of their houses, in close view of the homes that were swept into the Beaver Dam Wash and likely ended up in Lake Mead in Nevada, Hunt said.That's kind of the mentality in the rural area here — you build your own, you protect your own, Hunt said. So they're doing their best.One man with a history of heart problems went into cardiac arrest while working on a neighbor's home, but medical responders were able to control the situation and transported the man to the hospital.Hunt said the man was in critical condition, but no other injuries were reported.Associated Press writers Josh Loftin in Salt Lake City and Cristina Silva in Las Vegas contributed to this report.

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

South Korea army to hold huge drill, North silent
By Jack Kim and Sylvia Westall – Wed Dec 22, 1:52 am ET

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea announced land and sea military exercises on Wednesday including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea just as tension on the peninsula was beginning to ease after Pyongyang's attack on a southern island.The land drill, involving artillery, fighter jets and the largest number of personnel in a peace-time exercise, will take place on Thursday, after the South's live-fire artillery exercise on Monday on the island of Yeonpyeong, and is bound to infuriate the North.We'll be sure to deal a punishing blow if the North tries to repeat the kind of situation like the artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong," Brigadier General Ju Eun-shik said in a statement.There was no immediate reaction from Pyongyang, with the local KCNA agency running stories about leader Kim Jong-il's visit to a power station.South Korea is also holding three days of live-firing naval drills off the peninsula's east coast starting on Wednesday, a media official at the Defense Ministry said.He would not provide details. Yonhap news agency said the drills were taking place 100 km (60 miles) south of the maritime border with North Korea and involved at least six naval boats.North Korea this week offered to re-admit U.N. inspectors concerned about its nuclear-weapon programme, leading to speculation of a resumption of six-party disarmament talks and a general sigh of relief around the world that the crisis had passed.Yes, it will be a show of force against that, an army officer said when asked if the shelling of Yeonpyeong last month was a factor in the land drill's planning.He said similar drills had been staged previously on more than 50 occasions, but the scale this time was unprecedented.

The scale of mechanized assets taking place is enormous. When we would normally have 6 K-9 mechanized artillery, we'll have 36. We'll have the F-15 jets firing. We'll have choppers. You can say most of the mechanized assets taking part will be firing live ammunition.It will take place in Pocheon region, less than 50 km (30 miles) north of downtown Seoul.The latest crisis peaked when North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong, just south of the disputed maritime border, killing four people -- including two civilians -- in the worst attack on South Korean territory since the end of the civil war in 1953.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has suffered widespread domestic criticism for his response to North Korean attacks, with critics saying he was indecisive and failed to keep the public informed.The South carried out live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong on Monday, which provoked only a verbal reaction from the North. It had vowed to strike back if the South went ahead with the drills, prompting fears of all-out war.China, North Korea's only major ally, has urged dialogue to resolve the crisis and urged Pyongyang to follow through on its offer to allow U.N. inspectors into the country.The Chinese Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment on the planned drill.

FAMILY RULE

Analysts say the North is unlikely to undertake another act of aggression like this year's attack on South Korea's Cheonan warship, blamed on the North by the United States and the South, and the Yeonpyeong shelling, at least not in the near term.
Its most likely next move would be to conduct live-fire artillery drills or possibly a short-range missile test into its waters off the west coast. Analysts have said its recent militaristic acts have served to bolster family rule as ailing leader Kim Jong-il grooms his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, as his successor. North Korea likes to step toward the brink and then away from it again, said Brian Myers, an expert on the North at South Korea's Dongseo University.The news from Pyongyang in the past few days indicates that the Kim Jong-il regime is now in the backing-off part of its usual cycle.He said the North probably did not expect the South to carry through with live-fire exercises on Monday.If it had, it would not have made such loud threats of reprisal in its domestic media. After the exercises took place, the Kim regime had to tell its own people that the South's provocation was not worth responding to, a flip-flop it cannot afford to repeat in just a few days. I don't expect the North to be quite as vocal about the next round of exercises.South Korean Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun, speaking before the announcement of the drill, said domestic financial markets had weathered the crisis and the South Korean economy, Asia's fourth-largest, stayed on a growth track.But he warned that the tension could still dent consumer spending with a key sentiment measure due on Friday.South Korean markets were unaffected by the tensions with foreign investors buying into stocks and bond futures. Traders said earlier that the won currency was generally being affected more by concern over the euro zone.Consumers and businesses in South Korea say they have lived with tension on the divided peninsula for years and markets do not always react although the recent crisis had rattled global markets and remained an underlying risk.(Additonal reporting by Yoo Choonsik; Editing by Nick Macfie)

SINS OF PEOPLE

ISAIAH 5:20-25
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous 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.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.

2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

MORE SIN SIGNS

EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Al-Qaida in Iraq threatens attacks on Christians
DEC 22,10

BAGHDAD – Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq is threatening more attacks against the country's Christians unless two women it claims Egypt's Coptic Church is holding captive are released.The Islamic State of Iraq issued the warning in a message posted late Tuesday on a website frequented by Islamist extremists.The group has made similar threats in the past linked to claims of Egypt's Muslim extremists that the country's Coptic Church is holding women captive for converting to Islam. The church denies the allegations.

The message was addressed to Iraq's Christian community to pressure Egypt.The Islamic State of Iraq was behind a recent series of attacks, including the siege of a Baghdad church that left 68 people dead. Some 1,000 Christian families have fled Iraq since then, according to the U.N.

Oil rises above $90 amid US crude supply drop By Alex Kennedy, Associated Press – DEC 22,10

SINGAPORE – Oil prices rose above $90 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after a report showed U.S. crude supplies dropped more than expected for a second week, which suggests demand is improving.Benchmark oil for February delivery was up 19 cents to $90.01 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 45 cents to settle at $89.82 on Tuesday.

The American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday that crude inventories fell 5.8 million barrels last week while analysts surveyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., had forecast a drop of 2.4 million barrels. Inventories of gasoline decreased 2.9 million barrels and distillates rose slightly, the API said.

The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reports its weekly supply data later Wednesday. The EIA said last week that supplies dropped 9.9 million barrels the previous week, the biggest drop in eight years.Oil prices, which rose to a two-year high above $90 earlier this month, have been supported by rallying stock markets. Meanwhile, a strengthening U.S. dollar, which makes crude more expensive for investors with other currencies, has weighed on oil.A steady-higher stock market continues to provide a major counter against a likely renewed weakening in the euro, Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report. A choppy, sideways trade could persist through the balance of this year.In other Nymex trading in January contracts, heating oil rose 0.4 cent to $2.52 a gallon, gasoline futures added 1.5 cents to $2.41 a gallon and natural gas advanced 0.9 cent to $4.07 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude rose 30 cents to $93.50 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.