RABBI SUPPORTS PA STATE BOOOOOOOO

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.

Tekoa Rabbi Supports PA's Statehood Bid-Rabbi Menachem Froman of Tekoa meets PA President Abbas, tells him that establishing a Palestinian state would benefit peace.
by Elad Benari First Publish: 9/1/2011, 1:05 AM

One of the leading rabbis in Judea and Samaria on Wednesday expressed his support of the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral bid for statehood in the United Nations on September 20.According to a report in the PA-based WAFA news agency, Rabbi Menachem Froman of Tekoa supported and expressed his and other Israeli rabbis’ wishes for success to the PA bid to gain full United Nations membership of a Palestinian state.
The report said Rabbi Froman made the comments during a meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.Froman said that establishing a Palestinian state benefits the peace process and Israel and also works to achieve comprehensive, just peace and stability for the region and the world.For his part, Abbas reiterated his commitment to the peace process with Israel and claimed that the PA’s statehood bid is a result of Israel’s refusal to abide by international law and agreements.WAFA said Rabbi Froman congratulated Abbas on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Islamic holiday which marks the end of Ramadan.Rabbi Froman also reportedly offered to establish a committee made up of both Arab and Israeli religious figures to stop mutual instigation.Establishing a Palestinian state in cooperation with the State of Israel is good for peace and for Israel and it will inspire the building of a just and lasting peace and stability in the region and the world, Rabbi Froman was quoted as saying.

He warned, however, that resistance by Israel on the one hand and the establishment of the Palestinian state contrary to Israel’s position on the other hand, will harm Israel, the Palestinians and the establishment of peace in the region and such a state would very quickly become an Iranian state.Meanwhile on Wednesday, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren said the PA statehood bid would likely jeopardize all existing agreements between the PA and Israel.In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine, Oren said the move would render invalid economic treaties, including export, import and water sharing, as well as security cooperation agreements.Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said Wednesday the statehood bid at the United Nations is a greater threat to Israel than terrorism.This Palestinian initiative represents a more serious threat than that posed by Hamas,Steinitz told Voice of Israel radio.

Sarkozy Wants EU Consensus on PA Statehood-Amid the EU debt crisis and a push for PA trade, France's Nicolas Sarkozy wants a single European position on PA statehood.by Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 8/31/2011, 10:41 PM

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday he wants a united European Union voice on the issue of the Palestinian Authority statehood bid at the United Nations in September.The role of the US is uncontested and irreplaceable, but everybody sees that it is not enough. We have to widen the circle of negotiation, think of the role and the pertinence of the Quartet.Sarkozy added that the world could not continue to leave the Israeli-PA peace process frozen while the Arab Spring causes change elsewhere in the region.Up until now most EU countries have refrained from committing on how they would vote on the resolution, saying it would depend on the text of the resolution itself. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is scheduled to convene an informal meeting of the EU’s 27 foreign ministers to discuss the issue on September 2.Sarkozy's comments have been criticized by some commentators as being driven by a desire for Arab trade - and to silence nations who dissent from his views - rather than principle, amid fears that France's triple-A credit rating could come under threat if the European sovereign debt crisis worsens.

The European Parliament's International trade committee voted 27-0 to fully open markets to farm and fish products from PA enclaves in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. The vote paved the way for full parliamentary approval for a deal later this year.This deal is enormously important. It gives more power to the Palestinians to trade directly with the EU. And it's a signal of good will from the international community that comes at an important time,said Maria Eleni Koppa, a Greek socialist lawmaker who led the committee's discussion on the issue.The full European Parliament is due to vote on the trade agreement in late September.As part of an economic agreement between Israel and the European Union (EU) to avoid total boycotting, labels distinguish between products made in pre-1967 Israel and products made in parts of Israel liberated during the Six Day War. Products made by Jews in Judea and Samaria are subject to higher tariffs.While it is widely expected the trade agreement will be approved, Sarkozy's desire for consensus on the PA statehood bid among member nations - some of whom are on friendly terms with Israel - may prove unrealistic.

Abbas Cooperating on Limiting September Riots-PA security forces will contain September demonstrations so that they do not turn into a war, say security sources.by Gil Ronen First Publish: 8/31/2011, 9:06 PM

Israel's security forces and the Palestinian Authority are cooperating on containing the riots expected in September, when the PA asks the United Nations for recognition as a full-fledged state. This – according to a report in IsraelDefense.com's Hebrew edition. The PA security forces are preparing to keep possible riots from deteriorating into mass assaults on Israeli communities, or a third intifada.PA security forces have largely been trained and funded by the United States. They play a double game, cooperating with Israel on containing Hamas but also committing terror themselves as the PA leadership frees Hamas prisoners. Abbas has reportedly given instructions to keep riots in Judea and Samaria on a low flame in September. PA forces are supposed to prevent rioters from crossing certain red lines around IDF bases and Jewish communities. There have also been reports that PA security chiefs are concerned that a declaration of a statehood would force them to exert sovereignty in areas where the IDF is in control, leading to a direct armed conflict with Israel which they would be bound to lose.

Oren: PA Statehood Jeopardizes Oslo-Israeli Ambassador to the United States says Israel has no agreements with a Government of Palestine.by Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 8/31/2011, 8:58 PM

Israel's Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren said Tuesday the PA statehood bid at the United Nations would likely jeopardize all existing agreements between the PA and Israel.In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine, Oren said, We have a lot of agreements with the Palestinian Authority, we have no agreements with a Government of Palestine.It's just a fact – we have no agreements with a Government of Palestine.It puts us in a different realm, said Oren.Oren added the move would render invalid economic treaties, including export, import and water sharing, as well as security cooperation agreements.America is a cosignatory to the Oslo Accord and this would seriously undermine it...Unilateral steps would have legal, economic, and political ramifications for us and for America as a cosignatory,Oren added.

According to Oren, the statehood declaration will provide the Palestinian Authority with lawfare against Israel in the international arena, which will further diminish the chances for reaching a negotiated agreement.We want to be able to negotiate but we won't be able to negotiate if they are attacking our legitimacy in every international court. We're not going to negotiate under fire and it's a mistake for the Palestinians to think that we would,the ambassador said.Oren warned that in the absence of a negotiated solution, Israel's support for the creation of a PA state might be jeopardized. The Palestinians risk all that has been achieved if they go forward with this ... and that would be a great tragedy.Oren's comments on the heels of Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz telling reporters the PA Statehood Bid was more dangerous than Hamas and would force Israel to respond.Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has already said a unilateral declaration of statehood by the PA would render the Oslo Accords 'null and void' and would result in a diplomatic eye for an eye on Israel's part.Earlier, Florida's Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced she is advancing a measure to block US funding to any UN member or group that supports the PA bid.

US State Dept Slams Congress Funding Block of PA at UN-The US State Dept. has slammed efforts by a Florida lawmaker to block the PA from seeking United Nations membership as a new country.by Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 8/31/2011, 11:55 AM

The U.S. State Department has slammed a Florida lawmaker for trying to block the Palestinian Authority from seeking recognition as a new country and membership in the United Nations in September.U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen announced Tuesday she had advanced a measure to block U.S. funding to any U.N. member or group that supports an upgrade to the PA's diplomatic status next month.State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters the Republican Congresswoman's proposed measure would seriously undermine our international standing and dangerously weaken the U.N. as an instrument to advance U.S. national security goals.The measure is actually a clause folded into a larger proposed bill that would transform the U.S. portion of United Nations funding into a voluntary contribution, one conditional upon American agreement on each funding target.We believe in U.N. reform, added Nuland,[but] we just don't think that this is the right way to go about it.The Obama administration warned long before Ros-Lehtinen submitted her proposal that the president would oppose it, according to the Reuters news agency.The Congresswoman said her efforts were aimed not only at preventing the PA from gaining recognition as a new country, but also at stopping the entity from achieving a second option in lieu of the first – upgrading its current status from that of a U.N. observer to a non-member state.

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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IMF sees 200 billion euro capital gap at European banks Reuters – AUG 31,11

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund has estimated European banks could face a capital shortfall of 200 billion euros ($287 billion), a European source said on Wednesday.The figure has prompted a fierce response from European officials who said the analysis was misleading, according to the Financial Times.
The newspaper, citing two officials, said the 200 billion euro figure was one estimate of the impact of marking sovereign bonds to market.The IMF will publish the analysis in its regular Global Financial Stability Report ahead of the IMF and World Bank fall meetings of global finance leaders in late September. The FT cautioned that the figure was in a draft that could change.The IMF vision is biased, Elena Salgado, Spain's finance minister, told the FT, adding that the fund had been mistaken in looking only at potential losses without taking account of holdings of German Bunds, which have risen in price.IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde drew criticism from European policymakers this week after she called for a mandatory recapitalization of European banks.

Finland on Greek collateral: It's not about the money
Today AUG 31,11 @ 14:31 By Andrew Rettman

Finnish minister Alexander Stubb has said his country's demand for Greek collateral is meant to defend the eurozone principle of financial responsibility. But he admitted that Finnish eurosceptics have played their part in the initiative.Speaking to EUobserver by phone on Wednesday (31 August), EU affairs and trade minister Alexander Stubb said the wealthy northern country's demand for Greece to give guarantees for Finland's part in the second Greek bailout is not down to fear of losing money.It isn't a question of the money. It's a question of principle. It reflects a sentiment that we have that you should not be rewarded for lax public finances. That's the whole point of being in the euro ... people have to be responsible about their public finances,he said.He noted that Helsinki's motivation is not entirely pure, however.The anti-EU True Finns party won 20 percent of votes in recent elections after bashing Helsinki's earlier pay outs to Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Eurosceptic sentiment also led the Social Democrat party, which shares power with Stubb's National Coalition party, to promise voters it would get collateral for any fresh Greek loan.Our domestic agenda is part of our election result, which gave us a mixed bag. Unfortunately there are forces surrounding the True Finns which have influenced general thinking and political thinking in the way we have seen here,Stubb explained.

Helsinki believes that its demand for guarantees falls within the letter of a July eurozone agreement on the new rescue package.But its tough line has prompted Austria, Malta, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Slovenia to insist that if Finland gets guarantees, then they should get them as well. With financial markets watching the talks for any sign of new risk to euro stability, the dispute threatens to delay plans to implement the new bailout by the end of September.Stubb said he is confident and optimistic that a compromise can be reached. But he added: If we don't find a deal, then we'll see what happens ... We understand the demand our government has posed is not easy for others to accept.As previously reported by EUobserver, Helsinki has abandoned its original pact with Greece, under which Athens was to put around €600 million of cash into an escrow account in case it defaults.Sources in eurozone finance ministries told this website the new deal is likely to see all 16 eurozone lenders get the option to ask for collateral if they want. The guarantees could be in the form of Greek Central Bank gold reserves or state-owned shares in banks.One contact said lenders will be discouraged from taking advantage of the option by being forced to pay a related cost if they do.Another source said there could be a gentleman's agreement that few, if any, countries actually trigger the option. I have the feeling that this [the collateral dispute] is beginning to go away and is becoming less important. What we are looking for is a face-saving solution for everybody involved,the source noted.Senior finance ministry officials from the 17 euro-using countries are currently holding almost-daily telephone conferences on the subject. A contact from a large eurozone country said there is hope of a breakthrough early next week, when treasury chiefs from all 27 EU members come to Brussels for the first post-vacation meeting of the Economic and Financial Committee.

Italy defends bid to delay EU oil ban on Syria
31.08.11 @ 11:33 By Andrew Rettman

Italy has said that delaying the EU oil embargo on Syria will not make any difference to the regime. But fellow member states believe there is not a day to lose.Assad poster in Damascus. Massari said the oil embargo is not designed to create regime change from the outside but to help home-grown protesters bring in reforms (oliverlaumann).Italian foreign ministry spokesman Maurizio Massari told EUobserver on Wednesday (31 August) that Rome wants the oil ban to come into force on 30 November instead of mid-October, as agreed by most other EU countries.He explained the delay will not affect Syrian President Bashar Assad's income because European oil importers have paid up-front for oil deliveries until the November date.

We only ask for them to come into force one and a half months later to help the expiration of the contracts of oil supply from Syria for several European companies, Massari said. The contracts have already been paid for by Western European countries including Italy ... This flexibility with the time frame does not alter the strength of the political message that we want to send.Italian ports in July handled 50 percent of Syrian crude exports to the EU, with some of the oil going to refineries run by Italian firms Eni, IES Italiana and Saras.Fellow EU members believe the level of violence merits more urgent action, however.Since oil exports are 30 percent of the regime's revenue, the sooner you cut this the better, when you see what's happening on the ground - people being killed each day, a diplomat from a large EU country said. Maybe this is just Italian spin to say We are the big boys. We are important [in terms of EU foreign policy in the Middle East].Amnesty International in a report out Wednesday noted that 78 men and 10 boys were murdered in Syrian prisons in the past five months on top of the 2,200 people killed in the streets. Torture - including genital mutilation and burns - played a part in 52 of the prison deaths. Some of the worst atrocities are being committed by irregular militias, the shabiha, whose members are reportedly paid between $40 and $200 a day, but but which are threatening to go on strike because money is running out.Italy has joined EU appeals for Assad to step down and recalled its ambassador from Damascus. But its close relations with Syria mirror its ties with pre-revolutionary Libya.Italy in 2009 licenced its top arms firm Finmeccanica to sell 286 parts and 600 hours' worth of technical assistance for Turms targeting equipment, which is mounted on Syria's Soviet-made tanks. Turms is a top performance tank fire control/sighting system, including stabilised day-night sight for the gunner and panoramic stabilised day-night periscope for the commander,the company blurb says.

Asked if Italy has stopped arms shipments to Syria, Massari said: I am almost certain, yes.Meanwhile, the EU oil ban risks doing more harm than good according to Peter Harling, a Damascus-based analyst for the International Crisis Group think-tank.The sanctions, due to be agreed by EU foreign ministers in Poland this week, may backfire because the regime will pin economic woes on an international conspiracy he said in an op-ed for Foreign Policy magazine on Wednesday.For his part, Michel Koutouzis, a Middle East expert whose French company, Lotophages Consulting, advises the EU diplomatic service, said water is more effective than oil in stopping Assad.Turkey is very pissed off [with Syria] and it has the possibility to apply real pressure. After all its work on dams, it can cut off Syria's water from one day to the next,he told this website. Recalling events back in 1998, he added: When [Kurdish separatist leader] Ocalan and [Kurdish militants] the PKK were in Damascus, the Turks got the result they wanted - they got them thrown out pretty quick.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

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

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

Iran leader: West cannot confiscate Arab Spring
AP By ALI AKBAR DAREINI - Associated Press | AP – AUG 31,11

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's top leader warned the Arab world Wednesday not to allow Western powers and Israel to confiscate the region's pro-reform uprisings, in comments that appear to reflect the Islamic republic's unease about their standing in a profoundly altered Middle East.Iran has tried to walk two paths since the pro-democracy rebellions began in February — lauding the popular revolts as modern-day heirs to Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, while maintaining relentless pressure on opposition groups at home.But Iran is at risk of serious political setbacks. Iran's main Mideast ally, Syria's Bashar Assad, is under growing international pressure for his fierce crackdown on anti-government protests.Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a speech broadcast on Iran's state TV to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, reflected the added worries that the West and its allies could gain ground in the Arab Spring.Muslim nations in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen or other countries need vigilance today. They should not allow enemies confiscate the victories they've achieved,Khamenei said. They should not forget that those who have come to the scene in Libya (U.S. and NATO) today and consider themselves owners of the uprising are the same people who used to sit and drink with those who once suppressed the Libyan nation.Iran's supreme leader, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, urged Libyans not to allow the U.S. and its allies to dominate their country.

On Tuesday, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said his country secretly provided humanitarian supplies to Libya's rebel National Transitional Council. Salehi said Iran had sent four medicine and food shipments to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.Today they (U.S. and its allies) seek to take advantage of the situation. Nations must be vigilant and wakeful, said Khamenei.But he made no mention of Syria, where Assad's regime is struggling to contain opposition forces.In Iran's view, collapse of pro-U.S. governments in Egypt and Tunisia were strong blows to U.S. influence in the region and a new Islamic awakening.Who thought American and Zionist agents in the region would fall one after the other? Khamenei said. This is the powerful hand of the Islamic nations,Iran has supported Arab uprisings, saying change of governments in North Africa shows a new Middle East is emerging that will doom Israel and break free of American interference.Iran has sought to portray the popular uprisings as a replay of its 1979 Islamic Revolution which toppled the pro-U.S. shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and brought hardline clerics to power.

Iran warns against US taking lead in Arab protests
AFP – AUG 31,11

A handout picture released by the official website of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows Khamenei delivering a speech at Tehran University in the Iranian capital. Khamenei on Wednesday warned against the United States taking control of the uprisings that have swept the Arab world, state television reportedA handout picture released by the official website of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah …
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday warned against the United States taking control of the uprisings that have swept the Arab world, state television reported.The events currently taking place in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and elsewhere are key (events) for Muslim people, the television's website quoted Khamenei as saying.If the Muslim nations stand against those who interfere in their internal affairs, these nations will experience progress, he told a group of officials and people.But if the world of oppression and world Zionism -- including the oppressive regime of the United States -- take control (of the movements), the Muslim world will experience major problems for decades,Khamenei said.Tehran has supported the protests in all Arab countries except Syria, its main Arab ally. It has has repeatedly criticised interference by the United States and the West, particularly in Libya but also in Bahrain.

Libyan rebels: Gadhafi son offers to surrender
AP By BEN HUBBARD - Associated Press | AP – AUG 31,11

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi's son al-Saadi is trying to negotiate the terms of his own surrender, the rebel commander in Tripoli told The Associated Press on Wednesday in what would be a major blow to the Libyan leader's crumbling regime.
The commander, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, said al-Saadi first called him Tuesday and asked whether his safety could be guaranteed. We told him Don't fear for your life. We will guarantee your rights as a human being, and will deal with you humanely, said Belhaj, confirming a report on Al-Jazeera television. Belhaj added that al-Saadi would be turned over to Libyan legal authorities after his surrender.If the offer is confirmed — the rebels have previously claimed to have captured Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam, who later turned up free — the surrender would give the rebels a significant boost as they try to consolidate their hold over the country with the longtime dictator and several sons and aides still at large.Opposition fighters have been pressing toward Gadhafi's key remaining stronghold, his hometown of Sirte, and loyalists now only control a handful of areas, including Bani Walid to the west.

Belhaj said Al-Saadi told him he had not killed anyone, and that he was not against the people.I told him This is good. What is important for us is not to shed Libyan blood. For the members of the regime to surrender is the best way to do this, said Belhaj.The commander said al-Saadi had called back Wednesday morning, but that he had missed the call. He said he knows al-Saadi's whereabouts, but prefers to negotiate a surrender. He gave no further details.Belhaj's comments came hours after Gadhafi's chief spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, called the AP headquarters in New York, reiterating the senior Gadhafi's offer to send al-Saadi to negotiate with the rebels and form a transitional government. The rebels have previously rejected such offers.
Ibrahim also rejected a rebel ultimatum for loyalists in Sirte to surrender by Saturday or face an attack.No dignified honorable nation would accept an ultimatum from armed gangs,he said.There has been speculation that Gadhafi is seeking refuge in Sirte or one of the other remaining regime strongholds, among them Bani Walid or the southern town of Sabha. Top rebel officials say they have a good idea where Gadhafi is hiding, but haven't given any details.Belhaj said the rebels have set up an operations room to collect any information about the elder Gadhafi's whereabouts, gathering tips from rebels and captured regime fighters.He said most of the information indicated Gadhafi was somewhere outside Tripoli, but he refused to give any further details, saying the search for the former dictator was of utmost importance.Gadhafi's wife, Safiya, sons Mohammed and Hannibal and daughter Aisha fled to Algeria on Monday. Rebel authorities have called on Algeria to send them back, saying they want Gadhafi and his family to be tried in Libya.

But international human rights activists are urging the rebels to turn the dictator over to the International Criminal Court for trial. Leading the calls is the court's Argentine prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who has charged Gadhafi and his son Seif al-Islam and the regime's intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Sanoussi, with unleashing a campaign of murder and torture since February to try to crush anti-government protests.Human Rights Watch also urged diplomats meeting Libyan rebels in Paris on Thursday to push for Gadhafi's surrender to The Hague-based international court if he is captured.In Tripoli, meanwhile, Libyans wept over the graves of those killed in their six-month war against Gadhafi, then celebrated their newfound freedom with morning prayers and joyous chants in the main square — bittersweet rituals marking the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.Men in their holiday finest — white robes and gold-striped vests — knelt in neat prayer rows in Martyrs' Square, the plaza formerly known as Green Square, where Gadhafi supporters massed nightly during the uprising.The prayer leader urged the crowd not to seek retribution against Gadhafi loyalists. No to revenge, yes to the law that rules between us and those who killed our brothers,he said.Let there be forgiveness and mercy among us.Women in black robes ululated, rebel fighters fired guns in the air and people burst into spontaneous chants of Hold your head high, Libya is free! In one corner, five rebel fighters formed a reception line, like at a wedding, and civilians walked up to them, shaking their hands in gratitude. In another area of the square, people crowded around a thick metal pole decorated with political cartoons, one depicting Gadhafi as a pig and another as a monster on a psychiatrist's couch. Thursday will be the 42nd anniversary of the coup that brought Gadhafi to power.At Tripoli's Bin-Shir cemetery, dozens of concrete graves had been poured for those killed in the uprising against Gadhafi, particularly the bloody week of battles for control of Tripoli that began Aug. 20.Many of the cement grave covers were unmarked, while a few had names scribbled on them. One of those buried, Mustafa Usta, was killed by sniper fire in his neighborhood of Souk al-Jumma last week, said his brother, Adnan, 61.Adnan Usta, a civil servant in the Libyan foreign ministry, said he only learned of his brother's death five days after he was shot, and his brother was buried before the family was informed. Despite his pain, Usta said he was looking toward the future.We are free now,he said.Associated Press writers Hadeel al-Shalchi and Karin Laub in Tripoli contributed reporting.

Bush on 10th Anniversary of 9/11: I Was a Wartime President-Former President Bush in a special interview about the September 11 attacks: I realized on September 11 I was a wartime president.by Elad Benari First Publish: 9/1/2011, 3:57 AM

In just a few days, Americans will mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.Then-president George W. Bush recently gave an interview to a National Geographic TV documentary of the September 11 events. During the interview Bush recalls that fateful day, his feelings when learning about America being attacked, and the subsequent decisions he made.I started my morning off with a morning run, Bush recalls in the interview.I got back and got my security briefing and I remember clearly how normal it seemed. There was nothing out of the ordinary.Bush, who was in a Florida classroom when he received word of the attacks, says, My first reaction was anger.We didn’t know if there were other planes that had been hijacked,he adds. So the first decision I made, on Air Force One, was to give our Air Force orders to shoot down commercial aircraft that did not respond. I was informed that a fourth plane, Flight 93, went down in a field in rural Pennsylvania and for a moment I thought that plane might have gone down because of the order I had given.Bush also admits in the interview that I didn’t have a strategy. I was living day-by-day. I realized on September 11 I was a wartime president. On September 12, I acted in my duties as a wartime president.

In the interview Bush also recalls the telephone call he received almost four months ago from his successor in the White House, Barack Obama, who told him that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks, had been killed by U.S. forces.I was in a restaurant in Dallas, eating dinner with Laura, Bush says. The Secret Service told me I had a phone call from the White House coming in. President Obama called me and told me that Osama bin Laden had been killed.I was grateful,Bush recalls. I didn’t feel a great sense of happiness or jubilation. I felt a sense of closure and I felt a sense of gratitude that justice had been done.

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WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html (WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS)

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) 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)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

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

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)

China, Vietnam plan defence hotline: report
AFP – AUG 31,11

China and Vietnam plan to set up a defence hotline as part of closer military links, official media reported on Wednesday, in the latest effort to publicly ease tensions after a maritime dispute.The two sides agreed to promote bilateral defence cooperation at their second annual security dialogue held in Beijing, the English-language Vietnam News reported after the weekend talks.The newspaper said China and Vietnam would expand ties to new fields, among them the exchange of military delegations, including military students, as well as establishing the hotline between their defence ministries.It did not elaborate on whether the line would be for the ministers themselves.A few years ago, the communist party secretary-generals of Vietnam and China also established a hotline.And in 2009, the foreign ministries signed an agreement to create a similar link between the neighbours' leaders, although its status is unclear.In the latest talks, involving Vietnam's deputy defence minister and China's deputy chief of general staff, Beijing said it would share experiences in United Nations peacekeeping, Vietnam News reported.Hanoi has not yet contributed to UN missions but has expressed interest to do so.The neighbours have a long-standing dispute over sovereignty of the potentially oil-rich Paracel and Spratly island groups, which straddle vital commercial shipping lanes in the South China Sea.

Relations sank to their lowest point in years in May and June when Vietnam said Chinese vessels twice interfered with its oil survey ships inside the country's exclusive economic zone.Both countries then staged naval drills, and Vietnamese citizens took to the streets in a series of unprecedented demonstrations objecting to the Chinese invasion, although recently Hanoi ordered an end to the rallies.
Vietnamese bitterly recall 1,000 years of Chinese occupation and routinely express dislike of China.

China says aircraft carrier attained objectives
AFP – AUG 31,11

China's first aircraft carrier attained the anticipated objectives during its maiden sea trial earlier this month, the country's defence ministry said Wednesday, state media reported.The carrier was back at its shipyard where refurbishment and testing would be carried out, Xinhua cited a ministry spokesman as saying.But no further information was given on the objectives, the agency added.The 300-metre (990-foot) ship docked in the northeastern port of Dalian earlier this month after five days of trials that sparked international concern about the country's widening naval reach.
The carrier tests came amid heightened tensions over a number of maritime territorial disputes involving China, notably in the South China Sea, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas and is claimed at least in part by several countries.Xinhua said spokesman Yang Yujun told a news briefing that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy's inshore defense strategy and the defensive nature of the country's national defence policy will not change despite the country's development of advanced weaponry.The PLA -- the world's largest active military -- is extremely secretive about its defence programmes, which benefit from a huge and expanding military budget boosted by the nation's runaway economic growth.Earlier this year, China announced military spending would rise 12.7 percent to 601.1 billion yuan ($91.7 billion) in 2011.In January it revealed it was developing its first stealth fighter jet. It is also working on an anti-ballistic missile capable of piercing the defences of even the most sturdy US naval ships.Japan recently expressed concern about what it called the opaqueness of China's military budget, and the US State Department has called on the country to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier.

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.

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Waters recede but storm victims suffer in East
Reuters By Brendan McDermid and Scott Malone – Wed Aug 31, 5:38 pm ET

PATERSON, N.J./BRATTLEBORO, Vermont (Reuters) – Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the U.S. northeast devastated by Hurricane Irene but many communities were still under water on Wednesday as relief workers battled cut-off roads and raging rivers to deliver emergency supplies.The storm battered the East Coast with up to 15 inches of rain on Saturday and Sunday, setting river level records in 10 states, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Wide swathes of New Jersey, upstate New York and Vermont experienced the worst flooding in decades, and while many disaster areas began to see waters recede other rivers had not yet crested, the USGS said.Some 1.7 million homes and business were still without power after as many as 6.7 million had lost electricity.With damage in the billions of dollars -- Standard & Poor's estimated the national total at $20 billion, though others have put the number at half that -- homeowners were also battling insurance companies that exclude flood damage coverage.Adding to the anxiety, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it had to put long-term projects on hold and focus on rushing immediate relief to battered states because it had only $800 million left in its disaster relief fund.The White House said President Barack Obama on Sunday planned to visit the hard-hit New Jersey city of Paterson, one of many places where residents and businesses suffered personal and economic catastrophe.

In Little Falls, New Jersey, Sean Mathews could only wait for floodwaters to recede along Williams Street, where he owns a two-story home that was swamped in four to five feet of water.I figure I've got about $20,000 in damage, Mathews said, adding that floods typically leave dead rats, snakes and garbage strewn through the house. I can deal with snakes. But the sewage smell -- the smell.Mathews, who installs sheet metal for a living, said moving would be nearly impossible after four major floods in five years wrecked property values.We think about moving all the time, but how are you going to sell the house? he said.Street after street in Little Falls was flooded, and many were nearly abandoned. Police hung signs saying No scavenging.New York state alone suffered $1 billion in damage with 600 homes destroyed, six towns inundated and 150 major highways and 140,000 acres of farmland damaged, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.Sometimes the bottom line is the bottom line. We need help on the economics,Cuomo said.Disaster relief has reignited Washington's budget battles, with some Republicans saying additional spending to help these communities should be offset by cuts elsewhere in the budget.New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican who gained national prominence for cutting budgets, broke with elements of the small-government wing of his party by calling for immediate aid.We don't have time to wait for folks in Congress to figure out how they want to offset this stuff with other budget cuts. Our people are suffering now and they need support now. ... That's not a Republican or Democratic issue,Christie told a news conference in Lincoln Park.

FLOATING REFRIGERATORS

In Paterson, where hundreds of people had to be rescued from the raging floodwaters by boat or truck, the Passaic River reached its highest level since 1903, officials said.Once an industrial powerhouse, Paterson has since declined in wealth relative to neighboring towns. Many of its factories were powered by the Great Falls of the Passaic River, the second largest waterfall by volume on the East Coast.From a helicopter overhead, mist could be seen rising at least 200 feet above the waterfall, making it resemble Niagara Falls.An entire neighborhood upriver was covered by water, drowning at least two schools, three gas stations and much of the city's industrial area, whose chemicals left a visible sheen on the river. Down the debris-strewn river, two bridges were submerged.Passaic floodwaters were receding on Wednesday, said James Furtak, acting emergency management director of Bergen County. He said towns such as Wallington, population 11,000, were starting to recover, thanks in part to volunteer firefighters who left their own families to help others.

You had couches floating, refrigerators floating, Furtak said.It flooded streets that never got flooded before. Some people lost everything. Their lives.In Vermont, relief teams worked around the clock to repair washed out roads, drop off emergency supplies to stranded residents and restore electricity.Vermont had four of its National Guard helicopters in the air and borrowed two from Illinois to send in drinking water, food, medical supplies and diapers, officials said.In Brattleboro, where the Connecticut River and Whetstone Brook burst their banks, the Whetstone Arts Center was sagging over the brook after a portion of its first floor was undermined by the flood.The hardest thing is the mud, that takes a long time to clean up, said Alan Washburn, who had a crew of four people working to clean out his fire sprinkler business.Despite losing an estimated $20,000 worth of power tools and materials, Washburn was relieved his business did not take more damage.It's amazing, the destruction in some of these places.(Additional reporting by Paul Thomasch in Little Falls, Grant McCool in Millburn, Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Boston, Dave Warner in Philadelphia, Jon Oatis and Selam Gebrekidan in New York and Tabassum Zakaria in Washington; Writing by Daniel Trotta, Editing by Jackie Frank)

Katia almost a hurricane; storm fears in Gulf
Reuters AUG 31,11 10PM

MIAMI (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Katia was expected to strengthen into a hurricane over the Atlantic on Wednesday, while another mass of thunderstorms that could become a named storm this week triggered evacuations of some oil workers from the Gulf of Mexico.Katia had sustained winds of 70 miles per hour and would become the second hurricane of the June-through-November Atlantic hurricane season if winds reach 74 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.The Miami-based center said Katia was forecast to become a major hurricane with winds over 111 mph on Sunday, but it was still too early to tell whether it would threaten land.At 5 p.m. (2100 GMT), Katia was about 1,285 miles east of the Caribbean's Leeward Islands. It was moving rapidly west-northwest and was forecast to turn northwest in a couple of days on a course that would keep it away from the Caribbean islands.Hurricane Irene rampaged up the U.S. East Coast over the weekend and authorities on the U.S. Atlantic seaboard are keeping an eye on Katia to see which path it takes.Long-range computer models, which can be off by hundreds of miles, show Katia nearing the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda in about a week. Several models turned it north, away from the U.S. East Coast.

The Atlantic hurricane season typically brings 11 or 12 named storms. Katia is already the 11th, and with half of the season still ahead, it is shaping up to be the unusually busy year that was predicted.Energy companies with oil and natural gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico were keeping watch on a mass of thunderstorms over the northwest Caribbean Sea and eastern Gulf.In an advisory issued later on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said the disturbed weather system had a high chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next two days.BP on Wednesday became the first major oil producer to say it was already evacuating some workers from offshore platforms in the Gulf because of the weather system, which would be dubbed Lee if it becomes a named storm.Anadarko Petroleum Corp said later it was also evacuating non-essential workers from some Gulf platforms and Royal Dutch Shell said it was preparing for some evacuations as well.Interests along the entire northern Gulf of Mexico coast should monitor the progress of this disturbance,the hurricane center said.(Reporting by Jane Sutton and by Kristin Hays and Edwin Seba in Houston; Editing by Tom Brown and Peter Cooney)

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Wildfires again rage through Texas and Oklahoma
Reuters By Marice Richter | Reuters – AUG 31,11
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/wildfire-roars-dry-trees-near-possum-kingdom-lake-photo-000127846.html

DALLAS (Reuters) - Wildfires raged through Texas and Oklahoma again on Wednesday, threatening homes and buildings and charring thousands of acres of parched, dry land.
The Texas Forest Service has declared this to be the worst fire season in the state's history. Forest service officials, along with firefighters in communities across the state have responded to 20,155 fires that have burned a record 3.5 million acres since last November 15.Six of the 10 largest wildfires recorded in Texas occurred in April and 20 of the 40 largest were recorded this year, according to the forest service. Fires this year have destroyed 3,000 structures, including 679 homes.The danger is not over as new fires continued to break out due to hot, dry weather and extreme drought that persists throughout most of the state.In North Texas, firefighters were still trying to control a massive fire that erupted in a lakefront community west of Fort Worth on Tuesday.Central Oklahoma remained under a red flag fire warning on Wednesday, the day after a wildfire destroyed 33 homes in northeast Oklahoma City.Evacuations at Possum Kingdom Lake, about 75 miles west of Fort Worth, resumed Wednesday afternoon when the wind picked up and fanned the flames that firefighters had some success in containing overnight.As soon as the wind picked up, the fires started spreading quickly again, said John Nichols, a spokesman for the Texas Forest Service.The fire destroyed at least 39 homes and buildings and burned more than 6,200 acres by Wednesday evening. Property owners in several neighborhoods around the lake were evacuated by boat to a hotel on another area on Tuesday because roads were cutoff by the flames.

But as the fire again quickly spread on Wednesday, those evacuees were again forced to flee, along with others from neighborhoods that were unaffected on Tuesday.
Fortunately we were able to move our car yesterday before it got too bad, said resident Laura Kirklen. We heard a local church was sending a bus for some of those who had no other way out.Firefighters were battling the fast-moving fire from the ground and air. Heavy air tankers, single-engine aircraft and helicopters were dumping water on the fires. Possum Kingdom Lake was the sight of the state's fifth largest recorded wildfire in April, when more than 160 homes were destroyed and over 126,000 acres were burned during two weeks.This is very unusual to have been hit twice like this in one year, said Steve Anderson, owner of a real estate company at Possum Kingdom, which is keeping residents up-to-date on the fire through social media. We've had some small grass fires in the past few years, but nothing major.

Weather conditions were also to blame for 17 smaller fires that started in other parts of the state on Wednesday, including a fire near Lake Bridgeport, about 50 miles northwest of Fort Worth, which burned about 100 acres.The ground is so dry because of the drought that one welding spark or a cigarette tossed could easily ignite a fire, said Jesse Moore, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. The high temperatures, low humidity and wind gusts quickly cause fire to spread.Similar weather conditions, with highs approaching 105, are again forecast for Thursday, he said.In Oklahoma, the fire, fueled by dry vegetation and fanned by southerly winds, burned a 12-square-mile area and also destroyed a church, 21 barns and other outbuildings and 45 vehicles.The fire smoldered most of the day Wednesday but flared up again in the late afternoon, just as another fire broke out on the southeast side of the city near Tinker Air Force Base. The fire near the base forced a portion of Interstate 40 to be closed to traffic due to smoke.Other fires broke out around the state, including one near Lawton that forced the closure of the H.E. Bailey Turnpike due to heavy smoke, while other wildfires burned hundreds of acres near Tecumseh, Crowder and Seminole, the Oklahoma Forestry Services said Wednesday.

Oklahoma has been under a state of emergency since July 20 because of the extreme drought conditions and high fire danger.Some radio stations have begun broadcasting a public service announcement taped by Governor Mary Fallin that reminded Oklahomans that discarded cigarettes and parking on dried grass often spark wildfires.
(Additional reporting by Steve Olafson in Oklahoma City; Editing by Greg McCune)

Stop Honor Killing of Innocent Women and Girls Around the World Human Rights, Petitions — By Jenn Bale on May 21, 2011 1:43 pm

Target: U.S. Congress, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (The Honorable Navanethem Pillay), American Islamic Congress Executive Director (Ms. Zainab Al-Suwaij), Chairman, American Islamic Forum for Democracy (M. Zuhdi Jasser)

Goal: Stop the killing of innocent women and girls around the world.

Honor killing, or the murder of an individual by a family member because she was believed to have brought “shame” to the family, takes place most often in Muslim communities, though it can also occur in Hindu and some other non-Muslim areas. The victim is most often female and the murderer is most often a father, brother, uncle, or other male relative. However, female family members often take part in the decision to murder the victim and sometimes even participate in the killing as well. Some of the reasons a girl or woman may be killed can include wearing clothing that may be considered too revealing, being in a romantic relationship with someone of a different religious or cultural background, or even being the victim of a rape. She may be murdered in a gruesome and horrific way, such as by decapitation, being burned alive, or being stoned to death.Though it is thought to mostly occur in third world countries, sadly it also takes place right here in the United States, as well as Europe. One such case included that of two Texas teenage girls, Amina and Sarah Said, who were shot to death by their father, Yassir Said, in a taxi cab on New Year’s Day of 2008 because they were dating non-Muslim boys.Said also had a history of emotionally, physically, and sexually abusing the girls.Something needs to be done immediately to stop so many more innocent girls and women from being killed, even though they have not committed any crime. Some actions that should be imposed include convicting more people who take part in honor killings, giving the perpetrators longer jail sentences, and conducting education programs in areas where there are high occurrences of honor killings to show that this crime is completely unacceptable.

PETITION LETTER:

Dear Sir or Madame,
Honor killing, or the practice of killing a family member because she was believed to have brought shame to the family, takes place most often in Muslim communities and in both in third-world and developed countries, such as North America and Europe. Most often the victim is a girl or young woman who had not committed any actual crime.The victim may be tortured and killed in a horrific manner, such as by decapitation, being burned alive, and being stoned to death. The only acts she may have done to deserve such a terrible death may have been wearing clothing that was considered too revealing, dating someone outside of the family’s religion or culture, and even being the victim of a rape.These terrible and senseless killings against girls and women should not still be taking place today. In order to attempt to combat this severe problem, more people around the world need to be convicted of honor killings and be given longer jail sentences. In addition, education programs need to be conducted around the world that teach that honor killings are wrong and unacceptable no matter what religion one participates in or area the individual lives in.
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