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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

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ISAIAH 19:1-8
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.(ETHNIC TRIBE AGAINST ETHNIC TRIBE)
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.(THEY WILL SEEK MEDIUMS-OCCULTISTS)
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

Egypt's aura spills across the Arab world By Brian Murphy, Associated Press – Tue Feb 1, 6:02 am ET

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – There was nothing random about the White House picking Cairo for President Barack Obama's goodwill outreach to the Muslim world in 2009. It understood what Arabs know in their bones: few places resonate so profoundly in Islam's heartland.Egypt — with Cairo as its centerpiece — is so intertwined with the modern Arab consciousness that it can seem at times that the entire region is Nile-fed. Egypt has, at various moments, been lionized as a beacon for Arab pride, ostracized for swinging from war to peace with Israel and idolized as a cultural crucible from slapstick movies to the Nobel-winning literature of Naguib Mahfouz.

Although Egypt's aura has been somewhat eclipsed by Dubai and the rest of the gleaming Gulf in the past decade, it still retains an old school stature in the popular Arab imagination — now captivated by the uprising on Egypt's streets with a sense of shared destiny.Egypt has been the political, cultural and social lighthouse for the Arab people, said Hadi Jalo, a political analyst in Baghdad, which was replaced as the Arab world's center of gravity centuries ago.Speaking to the pan-Arab network Al-Jazeera, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, called Egypt the epicenter for both Arab political trends and the West's ability to interact with them. Qatar University's Ibrahim Arafat called Egypt the Middle East's cornerstone country.In his June 2009 address at Cairo University, Obama began by touching on some of the region's most self-scrutinized scars, including the shortcomings of past colonial masters and the proxy political battles during the Cold War. Indirectly, he was also reaching back to the beginnings of Egypt's emergence as a shaper of the contemporary Arab soul.The Muslim Brotherhood — perhaps the strongest link in the opposition against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak — was founded by a primary school teacher in 1928 at the apex of British colonial power. It began as a call to reject Western influences and embrace Islam's traditions.

The group's message has morphed over the decades. Its makeovers included a renunciation of violence in the 1990s and efforts to reach a shaky accommodation with Egyptian authorities, who gave the group some limited political breathing space even though it remained officially banned.But the Brotherhood also looms large in the wider Arab narrative of struggle against injustice — particularly the fight by a prominent follower, Sayyid Qutb, who was hanged by Egyptian authorities in 1966 and whose works are cited by groups as diverse as Muslim charities and al-Qaida.Egypt's other political giant from the 1960s, President Gamal Abdel Nasser, is seen as the patriarch of the idea of an Arab identity that transcends tribal allegiances and political borders. His reputation as a leader for all Arabs was battered by the stinging defeat of Egyptian-led forces in 1967's Six-Day War with Israel, but few Arab figures have yet to match his mystique.It is impossible to speak about a healthy situation in the Arab world if Egypt is sick, wrote Ghassan Charbel, chief-in-chief of the pan-Arab Al-Hayat newspaper in an editorial on Sunday.

Still, it's an opinion coated with some nostalgia.Egypt was further nudged from the Arab mainstream with its peace pact with Israel in 1979 by President Anwar Sadat, whose assassination two years later opened the way for Mubarak's rise. Then in the 1990s, Arab attention also became increasingly drawn to anti-Israel militias such as Hezbollah and the economic tug of the Gulf boomtowns.In Jerusalem, a Palestinian scholar sees another challenge to Egypt's old-line prominence coming from outside the Arab fold. Increasingly, the non-Arab states of Iran and Turkey are gaining reputations as greater champions of Arab causes, including aid to embattled Gaza, than the birthplace of Nasser's pan-Arab spirit.For the man in the street, whether he's in the Gulf or in the Mediterranean, Egypt always has been the leader. But this has been weakened by two regional components: Turkey and Iran, said Mahdi Abdul-Hadi, chairman of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs. Turkey and Iran moved in on certain battles to speak on behalf of Arab national pride.Beyond politics, however, Egypt's cultural light burns brightly. It's particularly vivid for the Arab generations that came of age before the Internet and followed Egyptian cinema as their own Hollywood-style star factory that produced, among others, Omar Sharif.Arabic channels today still dig into the huge catalog of Egyptian films ranging from campy love stories to the celebrated 1958 noir classic Cairo Station that — at the time — was a daring portrayal of the city's desperately poor underclass.And the songs of Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, who died in 1975, remain as much part of current Arab culture as Elvis in the West. Egypt for Arabs is like the pyramids to the world,said Odai Rasheed, an Iraqi film director. The pyramids still stand, weather-beaten, after thousands of years and have survived all the invaders and looters. With Arabs, this is the case with Egypt.Associated Press writers Sameer Yacoub in Amman, Jordan; Ben Hubbard in Ramallah, West Bank; Bassem Mroue in Beirut and Hamid Ahmed in Baghdad contributed to this report.

Israel worried about Islamic takeover in Egypt By Aron Heller, Associated Press – Mon Jan 31, 5:50 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israel's prime minister said Monday his country's primary concern in Egypt is that the current crisis could create a void in which Islamic militants step in and endanger decades of peaceful relations between the two countries.Speaking at a joint news conference with visiting German chancellor Angela Merkel, Benjamin Netanyahu gave his most detailed assessment yet of the Egyptian unrest that threatens to topple President Hosni Mubarak, Israel's strongest ally in the Arab world.In a state of chaos, an organized Islamic group can take over a country. It has happened. It happened in Iran, Netanyahu said. A takeover of oppressive regimes of extreme Islam violates human rights, grinds them to dust ... and in parallel also pose a terrible danger to peace and stability.It was Netanyahu's most direct comment about the crisis in Egypt, which has triggered concerns about stability there and elsewhere in the region. Before, Netanyahu said only that he is anxiously following the situation, while stressing Israel's commitment to peace with Cairo.

Egypt became the first Arab nation to sign a peace accord with Israel in 1979 and has strictly honored it. Mubarak has close ties to Israeli leaders and has acted as a bridge between Israel and the Palestinians to the broader Arab world.Merkel also expressed concern about the deteriorating situation in Egypt. Dialogue is necessary, freedom of thought is necessary, peaceful treatment of demonstrators is necessary, she said.Merkel and nine of her Cabinet ministers were in Israel for a special joint session, highlighting the two nations' strong bond six decades after the Holocaust, when Nazi Germany killed 6 million Jews.Monday's session was the third such annual meeting since the countries signed a special arrangement.

Netanyahu said that at this time it is important for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to resume. He noted that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' office is just a few miles from his, implying that there is no need for mediators.The talks broke down just three weeks after President Barack Obama restarted them in September over a dispute concerning construction in Israeli settlements. Netanyahu refused to extend a 10-month freeze on new construction in the West Bank, while the Palestinians demanded a halt to all construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem before talks can resume.Merkel called on Israel to halt its West Bank settlement construction and pointed to the need to resume the peace negotiations. The halt is not a sustainable solution, she said at the news conference.During Merkel's two-day visit, Germany and Israel are set to sign agreements on joint projects including industrial research and development, as well as cooperation in providing aid to developing countries.

Israel and Germany have become close allies following their reconciliation after the Holocaust of World War II. Germany agreed to pay millions of dollars in reparations to Holocaust survivors and aid the newborn Jewish state.Israeli and German governments plan to hold joint Cabinet sessions once a year in the future. Germany has such arrangements with five other nations.Germany is Israel's third largest business partner in terms of imports and its eighth largest partner in terms of exports. During 2010, imports to Israel from Germany totaled $ 3.6 billion, while Israeli exports to that country amounted to $1.7 billion.

Ex-chief UN nuke inspector Egypt's democratic hope By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press – Mon Jan 31, 7:10 pm ET

VIENNA – Thrust to the forefront as Egypt's democratic hope, Mohamed ElBaradei is no stranger to high-octane public roles. As the chief U.N. nuclear inspector, he stood up to Washington by disputing claims Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was trying to make atomic arms and grappled vainly to end Iran's and North Korea's nuclear defiance.

Critics suggest that with most of his professional life spent out of Egypt as a top U.N. bureaucrat, the austere ElBaradei may be too out of touch with Egypt's politics and people to act as the public face of the revolution attempting to sweep President Hosni Mubarak out of office.Since his return to Egypt, ElBaradei has reinvigorated a youth movement that reached out to him as a leader for their calls for reform because they saw him as independent, untainted by state corruption and a figure who represents international success.Some supporters who want him to lead Egypt call him the Twitter president because he has relied on the website to communicate with Egyptians.But his frequent travels outside of Egypt and his sober intellectual air kept him from reaching the hearts of many.He said he won't act as a savior to the Egyptian people, but wants to see young Egyptians working to teach and learn about democracy.We need to move from a system that we are used to for 7,000 years, based on personality cult, into a system based on institutions and people to understand that the president works for the people as an employee, employed by the people, and not the other way around, ElBaradei told The Associated Press when he first returned to Egypt.

ElBaradei has reinvented himself before. The lawyer turned director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency moved out of the shadows of the IAEA as a midlevel official and into the corridors of U.N. power for a turbulent 12-year tenure that included winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for himself and his organization.In parting comments to his staff last year, ElBaradei said he was grateful to be leaving at a moment when the agency has reached such prominence in contributing to international security and development.Still, his record is mixed, with most of the issues that threw the spotlight on him and the IAEA still unresolved.Iran continues to defy four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions as it expands nuclear activities that the international community fears could be turned from producing reactor fuel to making the fissile core of warheads. Syria is resisting IAEA attempts to act on U.S. and Israeli intelligence that it was secretly building a nuclear reactor geared to producing plutonium. And North Korea, which renounced the IAEA-monitored Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 2002 and then quit the agency, exploded its second nuclear test weapon last year and regularly rattles the nuclear saber to get its way.There's no question the former Egyptian diplomat has backbone, as demonstrated by his willingness to stand up to the United States over Iraq, when President George W. Bush's administration argued that Saddam had a secret nuclear weapons program as a key rationale for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. No such program was ever found.His independence on Iran further irked Washington, which considered him soft on Tehran — and led to attempts by the Americans to have him removed from his IAEA post.

The push was abandoned just before ElBaradei won the Nobel Peace Prize, but it left the IAEA chief even more critical of the U.S., at least until the change of White House leadership following Barack Obama's election in 2008.William H. Tobey, a former senior nonproliferation official in the U.S. Department of Energy, said at the time that ElBaradei left the IAEA that the adversarial relationship ... was not productive, suggesting it emboldened Tehran in forging ahead with its nuclear program.From his winner's perch on the issue of Iraq and nuclear weapons, ElBaradei argued against the U.S.-led push to harshly punish Tehran, noting there was no proof for American assertions that the Islamic Republic had hidden nuclear weapons aspirations.He moved closer to the White House view late in his tenure, after the U.S. shifted from isolating the Islamic Republic to trying to negotiate nuclear differences and in the face of continued Iranian intransigence to his attempts to ease tensions.ElBaradei earned a bachelor's degree in law in 1962 at the University of Cairo. After a stint in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he received a doctorate in International Law at the New York University School of Law in 1974, and later became an adjunct professor there before moving to the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear agency. ElBaradei was appointed IAEA director general in 1997, and began leading what had been an obscure organization within the U.N. chain into the limelight. First came North Korea, and Iraq — and the man who once stumbled before television cameras started to speak in sound bites.

Reporters who covered ElBaradei over the next few years on missions to Tehran and elsewhere recall him swapping his suit jacket for a dark blue woolen sweater once his flight was in the air and then inviting them to the seat next to him for interviews. ElBaradei freely exchanged jokes and anecdotes back then. But after his Nobel Prize win he became progressively remote.He was essentially unapproachable to all but a handful of closest advisers, said one agency official of ElBaradei's final years. He demanded anonymity because of the sensitivity of his comments.ElBaradei himself told The New York Times he viewed himself as a secular pope whose mission is to make sure, frankly, that we do not end up killing each other.ElBaradei, who is Muslim, sometimes cited his favorite Christian prayer when speaking of his role on the world stage. Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, it begins: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.In Egypt, he has also quoted India's independence leader, Mohandas K. Gandhi, to emphasize his peaceful opposition to the government.In the last months of his term, the U.S. and its Western allies publicly lined up in praise of the austere former Egyptian diplomat.Glyn Davies, the chief U.S. delegate to the IAEA, described him back then as often controversial, sometimes exasperating ... (but) always, in all things, a committed man of peace.Typically, say those who attended, his parting comments to his staff were inspirational.Carry forward the torch! ElBaradei told the gathering, urging them to sustain their 100 percent commitment to preserving and expanding peace, freedom, justice, and human dignity.
Associated Press reporter Sarah El Deeb contributed to this report from Cairo.

Israeli rabbi: EU should talk to religious leaders in Egypt
ANDREW RETTMAN Today FEB 1,11 @ 09:28 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Rabbi David Rosen, a prominent commentator on religious affairs, has said that EU diplomats should start talking to Islamic faith leaders in Egypt in order to keep the revolution on a peaceful path.Speaking to EUobserver on Monday (31 January) by phone from Israel, which faces a grave security threat from the turbulence in Egypt, Rabbi Rosen welcomed EU engagement but said EU institutions are guilty of remarkable ignorance about Arab society in leaving religious leaders out of the diplomatic process.If I was speaking to [EU foreign relations chief] Catherine Ashton, I would say: In addition to whatever people you are meeting, make sure you meet with religious leaders, to strengthen relations with enlightened, responsible religious authorities, because if you don't strengthen that voice, all you are doing is playing into the hands of extremists,he warned.The rabbi noted that EU diplomatic structures are modeled on the French idea of secularist state authorities which do not fit with the reality of how Arab countries work.Even Arabs that call themselves secular are not detached from their religious roots. To think you can serve your purpose by ignoring the religious dimension is a fallacy and will ultimately serve as a boomerang, he added. Look at Palestine - all the [EU] attempts to improve relations here have ignored the religious dimension.

The rabbi mentioned Sheikh Ali Goma'a, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, as one potential interlocutor, but said there are many others in Egypt's Al-Azhar University, which he described as the fountainhead of Sunni Islam learning.There's no shortage of responsible, enlightened and influential Muslim voices in Egypt, and not just in Egypt. We contribute to the illusion that all Muslim leadership is extreme because we focus only on the negative ones, he said.Rabbi Rosen is the director for inter-religious affairs at the influential NGO, the American Jewish Committee, and president of the World Conference of Religions for Peace, a body which works with the UN to promote peace-building around the world.He said the eruption of pro-democratic protests in north Africa in recent weeks is linked to the region's contiguity to Europe and its consumption of Western media.The modern media has exposed north Africa and Arab, Muslim society more generally to many of the good things and the bad things in Western society, he explained. One of the better aspects of Western modernity is respect for the individual, which is a hallmark of democratic society. Information about democracy and individual human dignity is spilling over into the Arab world.The Arab world doesn't like it when the West tries to impose its norms. When people try to twist their arms. But that doesn't mean there is no desire for democratic development."

He predicted that the wave of change in north Africa will not influence Iran and Syria, however.The systems in Iran and Syria are examples of where authoritarian regimes have managed to effectively limit the possibility of insurrections. Probably for the time being there is not the will or the capacity to follow Tunisia and Egypt, he said.Israel on Monday beefed up security on its border with Egypt amid fears that African refugees, Sinai Bedouin and terrorist gunmen will try to cross the frontier en masse if instability worsens in Egypt and Tunisia or beyond.An Israeli diplomatic source told EUobserver that Egyptian stability under President Hosni Mubarak has been a cornerstone of Israeli security for the past 30 years. For his part, Rabbi Rosen added: There's extreme excitement and apprehension [in Israel], seeing what is happening in Egypt as both good and bad. It's good for the Egyptian people. In the end, democracy is always better for society at large. But in the short term, the democratic conquest of Egypt by Islamic extremist elements which are seriously hostile to Israel could jeopardise its security.

Dodging question of Mubarak resignation, EU calls for transitional government
LEIGH PHILLIPS 31.01.2011 @ 21:01 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union has called for the Egyptian authorities to begin an orderly transition in the wake of the upheaval seen on the streets of the north African nation over the past week, but has stressed that it is not up to the EU to call on leader Hosni Mubarak to step down.EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels for their monthly meeting on Monday agreed to urge the Egyptian authorities to embark on an orderly transition through a broad-based government leading to a genuine process of substantial democratic reform ... paving the way for free and fair elections.Just how broad-based however remains up in the air.Using wording that some could interpret as suggesting the exclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt's large Islamist opposition group - from such an administration, the bloc said it wants the regime to begin a serious and open dialogue with all political forces, but only those ready to abide by democratic norms.

However, according to one EU source, there was considerable debate amongst ministers on the question of whether the EU should be emphasising backing individual people or backing institutions. Notably, some states are more receptive to Mohamed ElBaradei than others, while some have very acute concerns about the popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood.German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle, having just flown back from Tel Aviv, pressed his concerns about the potential hijacking of the uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood.But the position that won the day was to support a process of reform with a majority of EU states opposed to picking favourites at this point. The EU says it is not making moves behind the scenes to give encouragement to any one group or individual.It is not for us to get involved in internal discussions, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told reporters when asked whether Mr Mubarak should step down. Notably, in the same press conference discussing other foreign affairs issues, she called on Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president who refused to concede defeat in last November's election, to step down.

Questioned whether opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei was a credible interlocutor, she said: ElBaradei has joined demos. He appear to be leading with the opposition parties. The important thing is to engage in dialogue.Let Egyptians decide who they will vote for and afterward the EU has a choice whether to engage with them.We cannot export revolution, said Luxemburgish foreign minister Jean Asselborn. I'm certain the EU today will signal to people of good will in Egypt and Tunisia that we're ready to help organise elections, but not to interfere.The Danish foreign minister reportedly compared the situation to that of the 2006 elections in the Palestinian territories, saying that the EU had waited to see how elections would go and when voters picked Hamas, the EU subsequently decided isolate them.The final consensus was that the EU should wait to see what Egyptians do with their democracy before deciding how to respond.Also dividing the states was the question of what direction the uprising will take.Italian foreign minister and former EU commissioner Franco Frattini for his part raised concerns that Iran had cheered on the revolt. The Iranian foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, has described the events as part of a regional Islamic awakening.Vigilant regional nations inspired by religious teachings and Islamic awakening are seeking to free themselves of the domination of hegemonic powers and gain real independence, he said on Sunday, according to an Iranian foreign ministry statement.Other EU states were more sanguine, with some officials noting the lack of involvement of the Brotherhood up to now.

Said one member-state official concerning intelligence on the balance of forces: What we're picking up on the ground is that it is not going to be as swift as Tunisia.The ministers also called on both the government and demonstrators to show restraint and avoid further violence and demanded an immediate end to looting.The emphasis throughout has been on the maintenance of stability.The [Foreign Affairs] Council reiterates its support for a democratic, pluralist and stable Egypt as a key partner of the EU, mindful of its important regional role and sharing the goal of building stability, peace and prosperity in the ... region.

Jihad TV? Leftist US Press Loves It!
by Gil Ronen FEB 1,11

Egypt is in a state of chaos, the Middle East is destabilized, and experts in Israel and abroad lay much of the blame on incessant incitement by Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based television network. However, the leftist-liberal American press is heaping praise upon the institution, which has been referred to as jihad TV by its detractors. There have been reports that the channel is largely a project undertaken by Muslim Brotherhood leaders who were exiled from Egypt and made their home in Qatar.Under the header Al Jazeera English Finds an Audience, the New York Times appeared to openly advocate Monday that the channel be allowed to broadcast to a US audience. White House officials have turned to Al Jazeera English among other television channels to monitor the mounting protests in Egypt. But most Americans lack the same ability to tune in to the broadcaster, which is based in Qatar, because cable and satellite companies in the United States have largely refused its requests to be carried, the paper's reporter complains.The Times glowingly reported that the network’s indisputably unique coverage of the Egypt crisis is drawing praise and quoted Al Jazeera executives who said that they planned to renew their lobbying to be carried on cable systems across the United States.The channel has won some American fans in recent days because of its live stream on the Internet, which has garnered more than 1.6 million views in the United States.

The other networks have noticed, the Times informed its readers. On the roundtable portion of ABC’s This Week' on Sunday, Sam Donaldson looked at an Al Jazeera reporter and said, Thank you for what you’re doing.The enthusiasm for Al-Jazeera that is evident in the New York Times report and in statements by Donaldson and others seems to involve some amnesia regarding the channel's past. During the first month after the September 11 massacre, Al-Jazeera rebroadcast excerpts from a 1998 statement with terrorist leader Osama bin Laden dozens of times - sometimes several times in one day. In the statement, Bin Laden called on Muslims to kill Americans, Christians and Jews. The continuous re-broadcasting of the Bin Laden statement prompted US Secretary of State Colin Powell to administer an unusual public scolding to Sheik Hamad bin-Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, when he visited Washington on Oct. 8, 2001. The emir dismissed the criticism, citing the channel as part of his plan for democratization of Qatar.In January, 2007, Judea Pearl, whose son Daniel was kidnapped and executed by terrorists, wrote an article named Another Perspective, or Jihad TV? in the New York Times. Al Jazeera’s editors choreograph a worldview in which an irreconcilable struggle rages between an evil-meaning Western oppressor and its helpless, righteous Arab victims, Pearl explained. Most worrisome, perhaps, it often reports on supposed Western conspiracies behind most Arab hardships or failings, thus fueling the sense of helplessness, humiliation and anger among Muslim youths and helping turn them into potential recruits for terrorist organizations.

The question is, to what extent will this pathological worldview infiltrate Al Jazeera’s English channel, which is still trying to find its voice, Pearl expounded. [W]ith the growing number of social misfits in society, and the growing confusion between 'information' and deception in the news media, the danger of fueling combustible anger in some viewers cannot be ignored, especially when pumped subliminally by well-respected Western anchors.Let’s face it: when a terrorist attack is described as a martyrdom in a thick Middle Eastern accent, it can be dismissed by Americans as a peculiarity of cultural differences. But imagine the effect of the word if spoken in David Frost’s cultured British tones. This is why, even if Al Jazeera English waters down its alarmist content, it should still be seen as a potential threat: it will bestow respectability upon the practices of its parent network in Qatar...On March 13, 2008, the Israeli government announced it would cease cooperating with Al Jazeera, after its slanted coverage of the Israeli Gaza counter-terror operation. Al Jazeera broadcast close-up shots of children's corpses in Gaza, while completely ignoring the attacks by Gaza terrorists on Israel. At the end of the fighting, Hamas's Mahmoud Al-Zahar thanked Al Jazeera for its assistance during the war.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

400 Israelis Rescued from Egypt
by Chana Ya'ar JAN 31,11

The night winds were especially cold in Egypt Sunday night as hundreds of Israelis waited silently for two El Al planes to take them home.For more than 16 hours, in fact, 400 Israelis waited in the Cairo airport before the two aircraft were able to lift off the tarmac safely.By Monday morning, the ordeal had ended with both planes landing at Ben Gurion International Airport.The United States meanwhile had just begun its own evacuations, with about 900 American citizens waiting in the airport amid growing concerns about the rising protests.A million-man march was slated to take place in the capital on Tuesday, planned by opposition forces who remained determined to oust President Hosni Mubarak from his 30-year reign.Many cruise lines and airlines have cancelled their flights to and from Cairo indefinitely, among them EgyptAir and Delta, which both fly the New York route.According to a tweet from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, more than 2,400 American citizens have requested evacuation assistance. At present there are some 52,000 U.S. citizens in Egypt.

The Associated Press reported Monday that a U.S. military plane arrived from Egypt at Lanarca Airport in Cyprus carrying 42 American Embassy officials and their families. At least one more aircraft was expected with another 180 people. Two more flights were also headed to Athens, each carrying 177 passengers, according to the New York Times.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

More than 200,000 in Cairo demand Mubarak quit By Alexander Dziadosz And Shaimaa Fayed – FEB 1,11

CAIRO (Reuters) – More than 200,000 Egyptian men and women, from students and doctors to the urban poor, rallied in central Cairo on Tuesday in the biggest demonstration so far in an uprising against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.
Waving Egyptian flags and banners saying Bye-Bye Mubarak, the protesters rejected promises of reform to his authoritarian rule and demanded that he quit. About 20,000 gathered in Suez, chanting: Leave, leave ... revolution, revolution everywhere.
Opposition figurehead Mohamed ElBaradei said Mubarak, 82, must leave the country before the reformist opposition would start talks with the government on the future of the Arab world's most populous nation.There can be dialogue but it has to come after the demands of the people are met and the first of those is that President Mubarak leaves, he told Al Arabiya television, saying dialogue would cover transitional arrangements and dissolving parliament.Mubarak's grip looked increasingly tenuous after the army pledged on Tuesday night not to confront protesters, effectively handing over the streets to them after they pledged to bring out one million people for anti-Mubarak rallies across the country.

Soldiers in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, that has become a rallying point to protest about poverty and repression, erected barbed wire barricades but made no attempt to interfere with protesters. Tanks daubed with anti-Mubarak graffiti stood by.We have done the difficult part. We have taken over the street, said protester Walid Abdel-Muttaleb, 38. Now it's up to the intellectuals and politicians to come together and provide us with alternatives.Effigies of Mubarak hang from traffic lights and some protesters carried a mock coffin.The crowd included lawyers and other professionals as well as workers and students, showing the breadth of opposition to Mubarak. Women and men stood together holding hands.The uprising of a population fed up with corruption, oppression and economic hardship broke out eight days ago and quickly spiraled to a crisis unprecedented during 30 years of rule enforced by ruthless security forces.The disintegration of Mubarak's power structure would usher in a new era in modern Egyptian history and reconfigure the geopolitical map of the Middle East, with huge ramifications for Washington and allies from Israel to oil giant Saudi Arabia.The army, a powerful and respected force in Egypt, dealt a possibly fatal blow to Mubarak on Monday night when it said troops would not open fire on protesters and that they had legitimate grievances and a right to peaceful protest.

Mubarak's new vice president, Omar Suleiman, appointed to show the government was willing to bring in reforms, offered to open a dialogue with the opposition.But the measure, along with the dismissal of his cabinet and the promise of reform, appeared to be too little, too late.

U.S. SENDS ENVOY

The succession is already under way, said Steven Cook at the Council on Foreign Relations.The important thing now is to manage Mubarak's exit, which must be as graceful as possible at this point. For honor's sake, the brass won't have it any other way.U.S. special envoy Frank Wisner, a former ambassador to Cairo, has been sent to Egypt to meet leaders. The United States and other Western allies watched at first in confusion as thousands demanded the downfall of a stalwart ally who has been a key figure in Middle East peace moves.As the crisis grew, Washington called for reforms and free elections but it is also concerned that Islamists could gain a slice of power should Mubarak be forced out.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also expressed concern on Monday that Egypt could end up with a radical Islamic government like in Iran. He said he hoped Israel's 1979 peace treaty with Egypt would survive any changes that took place.But pressure on Mubarak came from elsewhere in the region. Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Mubarak should listen to the demands of his people.Erdogan, whose country is often held up as a model for democracy in Muslim nations, said the solution to political problems lay in the ballot box.

The U.N. human rights chief, Navi Pillay, said Tuesday's protest could be a pivotal moment in Egypt's transition to democracy and called for restraint by the army and police.Protesters were inspired in part by a revolt in Tunisia which toppled its president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on January 14. But years of repression have left few obvious civilian leaders able to fill any gap left by Mubarak's departure. The military, which has run Egypt since it toppled King Farouk in 1952, will be the key player in deciding who replaces him. Some analysts expect it to retain significant power while introducing enough reforms to defuse the protests.ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has offered to act as a transitional leader to prepare Egypt for democratic elections.Many Egyptians, however, have said they had reservations about the Nobel peace laureate who has spent much of his recent career outside the country.

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD EMERGES

Among the more organized in the opposition is the hitherto banned Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood. It stayed in the background early in the uprising but is now raising its profile, seeking to tie up with ElBaradei.The Brotherhood said on Monday it was calling for protests until the whole establishment departed -- including the president, his party, his ministers and his parliament.At least 140 people have died since demonstrations began last Tuesday, most in clashes between protesters and the hated police forces. Violence also broke out in Suez, Alexandria and other cities.
Foreign governments have taken steps to evacuate nationals trapped by the unrest, including thousands of tourists. Companies also pulled out staff as the confrontation brought economic life to a halt.In global markets, investors shifted focus from worrying about Egypt as improved economic data and corporate results in the developed world lifted stocks.The price of oil, the most sensitive indicator of market unease about Egypt, eased although Brent crude was still a few cents above $100 a barrel.The Egyptian crisis has prompted bursts of risk aversion on financial markets over the past few days. The main concern is the prospect of the unrest spreading to the autocratic oil-producing Gulf nations.(Additional reporting by Andrew Hammond, Patrick Werr, Dina Zayed, Marwa Awad, Shaimaa Fayed, Yasmine Saleh, and Alison Williams in Cairo, writing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Peter Millership)

COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL

EZEKIEL 38:10-19
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.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

OVIOUSLY JORDAN WILL EITHER BE OVERTHROWN OR WILL KEEP PEACE WITH ISRAEL SINCE WHEN THE HEAVY PERSECUSSION COMES AGAINST ISRAEL THEY ARE PROTECTED FOR 3 1/2 YEARS IN PETRA JORDAN.

Jordan's king sacks Cabinet amid street protests
FEB 1,11

AMMAN, Jordan – Jordan's Royal Palace says the king has sacked his government in the wake of street protests and has asked an ex-army general to form a new Cabinet.King Abdullah's move comes after thousands of Jordanians took to the streets — inspired by the regime ouster in Tunisia and the turmoil in Egypt — and called for the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai who is blamed for a rise in fuel and food prices and slowed political reforms.

The Royal Palace says Rifai's Cabinet resigned on Tuesday.Abdullah also nominated Marouf al-Bakhit as his prime minister-designate. No other details were immediately available.

Jordan's king appoints new prime minister after protests
FEB 1,11

AMMAN (Reuters) – King Abdullah of Jordan, a close U.S. ally, Tuesday replaced his prime minister after protests over food prices and poor living conditions, naming a former premier with a military background to head the government.A Jordanian official said the monarch officially accepted the resignation of Samir Rifai, a wealthy politician and former court adviser, and asked Marouf Bakhit to form a new cabinet.Demonstrators inspired by mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt had called for Rifai's dismissal.(Bakhit) is a former general and briefly ambassador to Israel who has been prime minister before. He's someone who would be seen as a safe pair of hands, said Rosemary Hollis, professor of Middle East policy studies at London's City University.I wouldn't see it as a sign of liberalization. With his previous premiership, he talked the talk of reform but little actually happened, she said.

Under fire from an enraged public over high food prices, Rifai announced wage increases two weeks ago to civil servants and the military in an attempt to restore calm.Protests have spread across Jordan in the last few weeks, with demonstrators blaming corruption spawned by free-market reforms for the plight of the country's poor.Many Jordanians hold successive governments responsible for a prolonged recession and rising public debt that hit a record $15 billion this year in one of the Arab world's smallest economies, heavily dependent on foreign aid.(Writing by Suleiman al-Khalidi, editing by Mark Trevelyan)

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.

EU ministers in discord on Christianity and persecution
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 1,11 @ 09:26 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A row over specific references to Christianity has prevented EU foreign ministers from agreeing a joint declaration condemning religious persecution, despite a recent spate of attacks on minorities in Iraq and Egypt.
Instead, a draft text which called on EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to come up with concrete proposals to boost freedom of religion was sent back to the drawing board on Monday evening (31 January).Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini led opposition to the text which firmly condemned the acts of terrorism targeting places of worship, claiming the document showed an excess of secularism.

The final text didn't include any mention of Christians, as if we were talking of something else, so I asked the text to be withdrawn, he told reporters in Brussels.
France reportedly backed Italy on the need to include references to specific minorities, including Christians and Shi'ite Muslims.A number of Nordic countries and the UK were uncomfortable with references to specific religions however, fearing a clash of civilisations, one diplomat told AFP.Ms Ashton said the 27 ministers had agreed to go back and reflect on how the bloc could make sure we recognise individual communities of whatever religion who find themselves being harassed.France, Italy, Hungary and Poland were among EU states that had called for Monday's discussion on the persecution of Christians after a number of recent attacks appeared to target the religious group.The bombing of a church in Baghdad in October killed 46 people and an apparent suicide attack against a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt in December that left 21 dead.Six people were killed in attacks on two Christian churches in northeastern Nigeria over the Christmas festival, while six were wounded when a bomb exploded in a Roman Catholic Church on the island of Jolo in the Philippines.The Vatican has said the attacks and restrictions on Christians in countries such as Saudi Arabia are driving members of the faith out of the Middle East.

Jews and Arabs Cooperate in Gush Etzion
by Elad Benari FEB 1,11

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development, Silvan Shalom, toured Gush Etzion on Sunday.During the tour, Shalom visited the local branch of the successful supermarket chain belonging to Israeli entrepreneur Rami Levy (who recently made headlines after his successful bid to take over development of the Nof Zion project). After meeting with Levy, Shalom observed the area of Bat Ayin and met with the Mukhtar (Arabic for the head of a village or neighborhood) of the nearby village of Khirbet Zakaria.During the meeting Shalom learned of the excellent relations and cooperation between local Jews and Arabs, a relationship headed by Gush Etzion Mayor Shaul Goldstein and the Mukhtar. Following the tour, Goldstein said that Gush Etzion is the perfect place for one to actually be able to find long-standing stability and regional cooperation between Jews and Arabs.Gush Etzion is glad to be a bridge between Jews and Arabs,” said Goldstein. This comes from our deep connection to our land, which was received after much bloodshed for thousands of years of history. It is precisely the connection to our land and not a disengagement from it which allows for such regional stability.

During the tour, Shalom said: For years the instability in the Middle East was blamed on the State of Israel, due to the ongoing conflict with the Arabs. The processes we see today in various countries such as Lebanon, Egypt and Tunisia, show that these statements have no basis. The instability in the areas around us proves once again that the State of Israel must ensure its security and have strong and stable security arrangements, in order that at any time and in any situation we can ensure the security of Israeli citizens.Shalom concluded his tour with a visit to the Makor Chaim yeshiva in Kfar Etzion, where he participated in a ceremony marking one student’s finishing the study of the Talmud.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Grad Rockets Hit Southern Israel
by Elad Benari JAN 31,11

A Grad rocket which was fired on Monday evening from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory exploded in the southern Israel town of Netivot.The rocket hit a parked car. There were no reports of casualties but four people were treated for shock, the Negev District Police said. Residents in the area reported that the red alert alarm that is usually heard before a rocket explosion did not work this time.Several minutes after the rocket attack on Netivot, a second Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in the city of Ofakim. There were no reports of injuries or damage as a result of the attack.Two weeks ago, a Qassam rocket exploded in an open area in the Negev Regional Council. There were no reports of injuries or damage.On Sunday, Hamas closed the Rafah border crossing with Egypt due to the unrest in the country, the Palestinian Authority-based Ma’an News Agency reported. Hamas officials announced that the crossing would be closed for several days, which would prevent hundreds of PA Arabs from crossing into Egypt.According to the Ma’an report, Hamas has bolstered its forces along the border and has deployed hundreds of troops. The report added that due to the unrest in Egypt, Hamas has shut down the activity in the underground tunnels that connect the Gaza Strip and Egypt.(Israel National News.com)

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.

AT LEAST 30 OF THE 50 STATES IN AMERICA ARE UNDER WEATHER WATCH CONDITIONS.IF PEOPLE CAN NOT TELL JUDGEMENT HAS COME ON THE WORLD BECAUSE OF GOD (KING JESUS) AND ISRAEL HATING THEN THEY ARE DECIEVED AND DELUTED BIGTIME.WORLD WE MUST REPENT AND ASK JESUS TO FORGIVE US OF MURDERING HIS INNOCENT CREATED BABBIES BY ABORTION.BY ALLOWING HOMOSEXUALS TO GET THE UPPER HAND ON GODS LAW OF MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN ONLY.NOT ADAM AND STEVE.WORLD WE HAVE TO GET ON OUR KNEES AND ASK KING JESUS OUR GOD AND SAVIOUR TO FORGIVE US OF ALL THE SINS WE ARE COMMITING AGAINST HIM BY EARTH,ENVIROMENTAL AND SATANIC WORSHIPPING ALSO.KING JESUS WE ALL NEED YOU,PLEASE FORGIVE US CITIZENS OF THE WORLD AND HEAL OUR LANDS.

Massive storm begins trek across Midwest By Jim Salter, Associated Press – FEB 1,11

ST. LOUIS – Midwesterners accustomed to dealing with snow, sleet and ice readied themselves for a monster winter storm that could be the biggest many cities have seen in years.Despite dire warnings of a potentially deadly storm predicted to affect a third of the country, some people seemed even a little excited Monday at the prospect of dealing with the kind of weather that has pounded the Northeast in one of that region's most brutal winters. Others headed to stores to pick up everything from snow shovels and backup generators to bottled water and bread as the first flakes and freezing rain began to fall on parts of the region.I'm looking forward to it. I'm a school teacher, and we'll probably get a snow day — and it'll be the first time in a couple of years, said Katy Berman, 58, of the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Ill. It doesn't faze me as long as I'm home.As the storm began its trek across the Midwest, it brought a bit of everything: ice, sleet and snow — even tornadoes were possible. School districts, universities and legislatures closed; airlines canceled thousands of flights; and residents rushed to gather supplies, anticipating they might have to dig out or hunker down.I've never seen a prediction of what have you — rain, snow, ice, whatever — where people reacted so quickly to it, Jack Runyon, co-owner of Runyon Equipment Rental in Carmel, Ind., where customers snapped up all of the store's small emergency generators.

Cities including St. Louis, Kansas City and Milwaukee could be hardest hit, with expected midweek snowfalls of up to 2 feet and drifts piled 5 to 10 feet. Even hardy Chicago could be in for its third-worst blizzard since record-keeping began, with forecasts calling for up to 20 inches of snow in the city and waves whipping off Lake Michigan.At Edele and Mertz Hardware just a few blocks from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, customers lined up by 7 a.m. Monday waiting for the store to open. Snow shovels, ice melt and salt were all big sellers.Freaking out is a great way of putting it, employee Steve Edele said. The icing — that's what scares people.

In St. Louis and much of Missouri, residents braced for a particularly hazardous mix: up to an inch of ice, followed by 3 to 4 inches of sleet, then perhaps a half-foot of snow or more. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and activated 600 members of the National Guard.Drivers were already sliding off slick roads even before the worst of the storm had arrived, with deadly accidents reported in Minnesota and Kansas.With the storm expected to affect a huge swath of the country, the National Weather Service suggested any Green Bay Packers fans planning to drive from Wisconsin to Dallas for the Super Bowl avoid leaving before Wednesday afternoon, when authorities hope to have cleaned up the worst of the mess along the route.As long as I have 18 hours, I'm going to get there, said 68-year-old Don Zuidmulder, who planned to fly out on Thursday. I'll crawl if I have to.In Arkansas, communities anticipated lesser snow totals, but the weather service warned severe thunderstorms could generate freezing rain, hail and isolated tornadoes.If the forecasts for Chicago hold true, it would be the city's third-biggest snowstorm, overshadowed only by the 21.6 inches in 1999 and the mother of all Chicago snowstorms, the 23 inches of snow that fell in 1967.Paula Lawson, a 59-year-old community organizer from suburban Glencoe, said she remembered the big storm in 1967, which really did stop the world for days.

Will the latest storm do the same? If we get 20 inches, maybe, Lawson said at a downtown rail station. But around here, 12 inches, it doesn't stop us.Sue Carroll, a retired mail carrier from northern Illinois, was looking forward to a big snowfall and said she planned to stay indoors by the fireplace.I'm retired. I used to work outside. I'm all for it, the 56-year-old from Polo, Ill., said. Winter used to mean something different. Now I smile when it's white outside.But in South Bend, Ind., where nearly 75 inches of snow already has fallen this winter, the prospect of a huge storm left people more resigned than pleased.My back is still recovering from shoveling out from the last one, said retiree Mel Goralski.After burying the Midwest, the storm was expected to sweep into the Northeast, parts of which already are on track for record snowfall this winter.Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Mo.; Rick Callahan in Indianapolis; Murray Evans in Oklahoma City; Dinesh Ramde in Green Bay, Wis.; Corey Williams in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; and Barbara Rodriguez in Chicago contributed to this report.

Australians evacuate as cyclone aims for NE coast By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press - FEB 1,11

SYDNEY, Australia – Military helicopters evacuated hospital patients Tuesday as authorities ordered thousands of people to flee a powerful, life-threatening cyclone roaring toward waterlogged northeast Australia.Cyclone Yasi was forecast to directly hit the far northern city of Cairns late Wednesday with damaging wind gusts up to 155 miles per hour (250 kilometers per hour), the Bureau of Meteorology said. Up to three feet (one meter) of rain could fall on communities in Queensland state already saturated from months of flooding.This storm is huge and it is life-threatening, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said.I know many of us will feel that Queensland has already borne about as much as we can bear when it comes to disasters and storms, but more is being asked of us — and I am confident that we are able to rise to this next challenge.More than 9,000 people in low-lying and coastal parts of Cairns have been ordered to evacuate their homes as the sea is expected to surge at least 6.5 feet (two meters) and flood significant parts of the city.

Bligh said the military would airlift 250 patients from the waterfront Cairns Base and Cairns Private hospitals to Brisbane, the state capital. Elderly care homes were also being evacuated.Many people in the city of 164,000 were deciding on their own to leave, said Ian Stewart, the state's disaster coordinator.In reality, we would like people to get as far south as possible, as quickly as possible, without of course breaking the rules, he told reporters.Airlines were arranging extra flights Tuesday night, with the airport due to close Wednesday morning until further notice. Tourists who had been evacuated from beach resorts cut short their holidays and flew home.Another storm, Cyclone Anthony, hit Queensland early Monday but quickly weakened and did little more than uproot some trees and damage power lines.The Queensland floods killed 35 people since November, damaged or destroyed 30,000 homes and businesses and left Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city, under water for days.Yasi's forecast path is farther north, sparing Brisbane and towns worst-hit by the past floods. Still, Bligh said the storm's path could change and residents up and down the coast needed to prepare.We could see very powerful flash flooding that will be dangerous and potentially deadly, she said.Stewart said residents should be prepared with flashlights, food and water.Please make no mistake: this storm is a deadly event, Stewart said. Now is the time to act.In Cairns, residents stocked up on food and supplies ahead of the storm.Mayor Val Schier said some people were running behind with their preparations, despite the warnings.Some people have left it very late, she said. They were complacent and didn't heed the warnings.Online:
Bureau of Meteorology: http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/index.shtml

Worst winter in decades threatens NKorea crops
– Tue Feb 1, 4:43 am ET

SEOUL, South Korea – A news report says that North Korea is suffering the harshest winter in decades, raising concerns about food production this year.The pro-Pyongyang, Japan-based Choson Sinbo newspaper reported Tuesday that temperatures in North Korea has stayed below zero for 40 consecutive days this winter — the longest cold snap since 1945.It says that the chill has frozen soil much deeper than last year, causing farmers to worry about this year's grain production.The paper is considered as a mouthpiece for the communist North Korean government in Pyongyang.
North Korea has relied on outside assistance to feed many of its 24 million people since a famine is believed to have killed as many as 2 million in the 1990s.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Huckabee: Israel can build in West Bank, Jerusalem By JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press – Mon Jan 31, 7:46 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Potential 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told Jewish settlers Monday that attempts to prevent them from building in east Jerusalem are as outrageous as housing discrimination in the United States.I cannot imagine, as an American, being told I could not live in certain places in America because I was Christian, or because I was white, or because I spoke English, he said.Huckabee dismissed the notion that Jewish settlements on land the Palestinians want for a future state are obstacles to peace. Instead, he backed the settlers' view that they have the right to build anywhere in the place that God gave them.Most of the international community — including President Barack Obama — considers the settlements illegal because they are built on occupied land. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and a serious contender for president in 2008, is expected to seek the Republican nomination to run against Obama in 2012.An evangelical minister and Fox News host, Huckabee makes frequent trips to Israel to voice support for Jewish development throughout the biblical Land of Israel. On his last trip in August 2009, he rebuffed Washington by opposing a Palestinian state.Huckabee spoke Monday at the dedication of a new Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as the capital of a future independent state, but Huckabee referred to the area as part of Israel's eternal capital. He also met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of Israel's parliament.The Jerusalem Reclamation Project, a group that promotes settlements in an attempt to bolster a Jewish presence in mostly Arab areas, hosted Huckabee and actor Jon Voight on the first day of their three-day visit.Huckabee visited the Shepherd Hotel, the former residence of the mufti of Jerusalem that was destroyed in early January to make way for Jewish homes. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had rebuked Israel for knocking down the hotel — a position Huckabee brushed off.I think we ought to be more concerned about Iran building bombs than Israelis building bedrooms, Huckabee said.

Palestinians to hold municipal elections
FEB 1,11

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Western-backed Palestinian government in the West Bank says it will hold local council elections as soon as possible.The move appears to be a response to unrest in Egypt, where demonstrators have staged days of rallies against the authoritarian government. The Palestinian Authority has not held elections since 2006.Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Cabinet said Tuesday it will set dates for the vote next week.Fayyad hopes to hold elections in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. But in reality, Gaza will likely not participate since it is controlled by the rival Hamas militant group.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas canceled local elections in the West Bank in 2009 when it appeared that his Fatah movement would lose to independents.