1-6.0 quake jolts Aleutian Islands. 2-Earthquake hits near Papua New Guinea. 3-Montserrat volcano spews ash and steam. 4-Ernesto power outages climb. 5-India rush troops, helicopters to flooded desert state. 6-Iran: We won't give up nuclear program.7-Israel, U.S. React to Continuing Iranian Uranium Enrichment. 8-Foreign ministers set for tough talks on Middle East, Iran. 9-Devil in the detail: Vatican exorcises Harry Potter.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
6.0 quake jolts Aleutian Islands Fri Sep 1, 10:33 AM ET
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A strong earthquake jolted the central Aleutian Islands early Friday. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, but the quake had a magnitude of 6.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and it could be felt in Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island and Akutan Island. It occurred at 4:04 a.m. about 12 miles northeast of Unalaska Island.The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Center said the earthquake quake did not pose a tsunami risk.
Earthquake hits near Papua New Guinea Fri Sep 1,
CANBERRA, Australia - A powerful earthquake struck Friday under the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea, but there were no reports of damage on land and there was no major tsunami threat, authorities said. The magnitude 6.7 quake struck 38 miles south of the island province of Bougainville and 33 miles beneath the seabed at 6:19 a.m. EDT, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake did not pose a major tsunami threat, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Montserrat volcano spews ash and steam Thu Aug 31,
OLVESTON, Montserrat - Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano blasted ash and steam into the air on Thursday, and authorities warned the Caribbean island could see heightened activity in coming days. The eruption did not affect the northern side of the island, where all of Montserrat's 5,000 residents live, but the Montserrat Volcano Observatory raised the alert status.The volcano is extremely active, observatory director Sue Loughlin.Thurday's blasts sounded like jets flying over the tiny British territory, much of which was buried by an eruption in 1997 that killed 19 people.
The volcano's dome collapsed partially on June 30. It wasn't clear what would result from the latest activity, which included rock falls.It's really the uncertainty that causes us to put the alert level up,Loughlin said. We expect something to happen but we don't know exactly what it might be.More than half of Montserrat's 12,000 inhabitants have moved away since the volcano sprang to life in 1995.Access to the deserted southern zone was closed Thursday.On the Net:Montserrat Volcano Observatory: http://www.mvo.ms/
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.
Ernesto power outages climb Fri Sep 1, 6:35 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ernesto, downgraded to a tropical depression after a Thursday night landfall in North Carolina, left more than 243,000 utility customers from North Carolina to New Jersey without power late Friday. Utilities in the trail of Ernesto's wind and rain began restoring electricity on Friday while companies still in its path in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey stood by to begin work after the storm moves through.In Virginia, the storm hit the Dominion Resources service territory in the Tidewater area the hardest, a spokesman said. About 155,000 customers lacked electric service late Friday, down from 270,000 earlier in the day.
Crews began restoring power in the south as the storm moved northward.The worst of the weather is behind us,said Dominion spokesman Dan Genest.Dominion, like other utilities, starts restoring service to emergency facilities, critical infrastructure and locations that can return the largest numbers of customers first.Pepco Holdings Inc., which serves mid-Atlantic states, reported nearly 29,000 customers in Maryland and the District of Columbia without power late Friday due to Ernesto. More than 35,000 in Delaware and 5,000 in New Jersey were without power, according to utility Web sites.Exelon Corp.'s Pennsylvania unit, PECO, was bracing for outages overnight, the company said.Progress Energy Inc. said 19,000 customers were still without service in North Carolina late Friday. At its peak, Ernesto knocked out service to about 63,000 Progress customers in North Carolina.
India rush troops, helicopters to flooded desert state Fri Sep 1, 2:04 PM ET
JAIPUR, India (AFP) - Troops and helicopters were deployed to India's northern desert state of Rajasthan to rescue trapped residents as monsoon rains flooded yet another district, officials said. Helicopters also dropped aid parcels to residents cutoff by road after heavy rains lashed the state's normally arid Jahalawar district in the desolate Thar desert, officials said.More than 150 people have already died and thousands left homeless in nearby Jodhpur and Barmer districts.Four villages are inundated and hence helicopters are now been deployed because of the distances here,an army spokesman said.Soldiers on powerboats were called in to the region to scour for residents who might need evacuating to higher ground as helicopters dropped food, milk and medicines to others.
He said the task was difficult given the huge size of the state's districts and isolation of some of its villages.Thirty-five people who clamored atop a hillock to escape the fast-rising waters were rescued Friday, state relief secretary R. K. Meena said in the state capital of Jaipur.The flood situation is grim but under control and there has been no human losses in Jahalawar,Meena said.
However he warned the state should remain on alert as dams threatened to overflow and rivers continued to burst their banks.
Lakes as wide as 10 kilometres (six miles) have formed, cutting sand dunes in half, amid warnings Rajasthan's non-porous gypsum rockbed could lead to an ecological catastrophe as accumulated water would not seep into the earth for months.
It's already a nightmare as we see from the geological point of view,said a spokesman from the state-run Central Arid Zone Research Institute, based in the flood-hit district of Jodhpur.The flash floods, caused by 10 days of heavy monsoon rains, have also killed tens of thousands of animals, whose bloated carcasses have raised fears of water-borne diseases, another state official said.
Flooding also damaged the Munnabao railway station, from where India's only train to Pakistan departs.The state's public works minister, Rajendra Singh Rathore, has put Rajasthan's financial losses at four billion rupees (86 million dollars).In Barmer, which had suffered a drought for the last six years, the rains initially brought cheer to parched villages, but now residents stranded on sand dunes are mourning lost family members and homes.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Iran: We won't give up nuclear program By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writers Fri Sep 1, 9:01 AM ET
TEHRAN, Iran -Iran underlined its disregard Friday for the U.N. deadline to halt uranium enrichment — now expired — when its president vowed never to give up its nuclear program and accused the West of misrepresenting Tehran's nuclear activities. Iran had until midnight Thursday to halt its enrichment activities or face the possibility of economic sanctions under a United Nations Security Council resolution passed July 31.Although the U.N. nuclear watchdog reported Thursday that Iran has not halted enrichment, thereby opening the way for punitive measures, U.S. and other officials said no action would be sought before a key European diplomat meets with Tehran's atomic chief next week to seek a compromise.
On Friday, in the first comments by an Iranian official since the deadline passed, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told a rally, Exploitation of peaceful nuclear energy is our obvious right. We will never give up our legal right.The West's claim that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons is a sheer lie,state TV quoted him as telling the gathering in Maku, northwestern Iran.
The West basically opposes progress by Iran.Striking a more conciliatory note, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi urged the West to desist from taking hasty action, saying that the current situation underlined the need for talks with the Security Council's permanent members plus Germany, state TV reported Friday.
John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the Security Council would wait to consider possible actions until European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, met Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, sometime in the middle of next week.The EU reiterated on Friday its commitment to a diplomatic resolution.
For the EU, diplomacy remains the No. 1 way forward,said Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the EU presidency.He said this is not the time or place for the international community to hit Iran with sanctions. Tuomioja spoke at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Finland.U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan also was expected to raise the issue during a visit to Tehran this weekend.But council permanent member Russia signaled its impatience with Iran Friday, saying it regrets Tehran's decision not to halt uranium enrichment by the deadline, according to reports by Russian news agencies.We share the position of (the International Atomic Energy Agency) and express our regret that Iran has not fulfilled Resolution 1696 by the designated date and refused to stop work on uranium enrichment, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin was quoted as saying.
Russia and fellow veto-wielding council member China have generally taken a back seat to other council members in the push to get tough with Iran on its nuclear programs. Trade sanctions could cut off badly needed oil exports to China and Iran is building a reactor with assistance from Russia.In the aftermath of the deadline, comments by a conservative Iranian cleric implied that Tehran may be counting on divisions within the council to avert sanctions.The U.S. supports sanctions, but we hope others will use their wisdom,Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said during his Friday prayer sermon. He described Russia and China as independent and said that Europe should be independent and not follow the U.S.
U.S. and European diplomats have said they are focusing on low-level punishment at first to win backing from Russia and China. Proposals include travel bans on Iranian officials or a ban on the sale of dual-use technology to Iran. Russia and China are expected to resist heavier measures, like trade sanctions.
Ahmadinejad denounced the United States Thursday, accusing it of applying a double standard to its foreign policy. They claim to be supporting freedom but they support the most tyrannical governments in the world to pursue their own interests, he told a crowd of thousands in the northwestern town of Orumiyeh. The Iranian nation will not succumb to bullying, invasion and the violation of its rights,Ahmadinejad said. In a report Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Tehran had not halted uranium enrichment and said three years of IAEA probing had been unable to confirm the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program because of lack of cooperation from Tehran. Iran denies it is trying to acquire atomic weapons in violation of its commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Tehran insists its nuclear program is peaceful, with the sole aim of producing electricity with nuclear reactors.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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.
REVELATION 9:18
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.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES
NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Israel, U.S. React to Continuing Iranian Uranium Enrichment
21:53 Aug 31, '06 / 7 Elul 5766
by Hana Levi Julian(INN)
Israeli officials met Thursday night and U.S. President George W. Bush had harsh words for Iran’s defiance to comply with the United Nations Security Council deadline to cease nuclear development. The United States called for the sanctions threatened by the U.N. Security Council earlier in the year to be imposed on Iran as the deadline ran out. It is time for Iran to make a choice,said United States President George W. Bush. Speaking at an American Legion veterans’ conference, President Bush said We’ve made our choice.
We will continue to work closely with our allies to find a diplomatic solution, but there must be consequences for Iran’s defiance. We must not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
There was dissention among the ranks of the U.N, with most other member nations reluctant to commit to the course they threatened months ago.The European Union continues to maintain that only through diplomatic relations will Iran be persuaded to end its race toward nuclear energy. Russia and China have also expressed reservations about imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.President Ahmadinejad reiterated earlier in the week that the country’s lofty program would continue, ignoring the U.S.-led threats of international sanctions.In response, Bush said, We know the depth of suffering that Iran's sponsorship of terrorists has brought. And we can imagine how much worse it would be if Iran were allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
Ahmadinejad has consistently said Iran’s uranium enrichment program is intended to produce nuclear energy solely for domestic purposes. Opposition factions in the country, however, maintain the goal is quite different, and IAEA inspectors have agreed.
The IAEA officials have continued to warn that some nuclear activities in Iran have nothing to do with domestic use. This includes the detection of experimentation with polonium-210, a substance used only in deep-space exploration and production of nuclear weapons. Iran does not have a deep space program.
LAND FOR PEACE
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.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING
BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Foreign ministers set for tough talks on Middle East, Iran
01.09.2006 - 09:51 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / LAPPEENRANTA - EU foreign ministers are gathering in a Finnish lakeside fortress to discuss strategy on the Middle East and Iran amid fresh and controversial plans by the Finnish EU presidency to open contact with the Palestinian Hamas movement. Ministers will arrive for a two-day informal meeting in the town of Lappeenranta on Friday afternoon (1 September), with the most contentious topic - the bloc's line on the Middle East on the agenda first.
Just before the talks on Thursday, Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja proposed a major EU policy change towards the Islamist Hamas movement which has been leading
the Palestinian government since earlier this year but which also figures on the EU's list of terrorist groups.
Hamas is not the same party it was before the elections, Mr Tuomioja told German daily FT Deutschland. We have to be able to talk to anyone who is relevant,he added.There are many ways of having contact ...nobody will start with press conferences and photo opportunities.The proposal is likely to face criticism from states which traditionally support Israel, such as Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. The public EU line on Hamas has so far been that official contacts with the group would be established only if Hamas recognises Israel, renounces violence and respects past agreements.
EU failure on Lebanon?
Strong exchanges of view are also expected on the EU's handling of the Lebanon crisis, following France's criticism of the bloc's failure to give EU foreign policy representative Javier Solana a stronger mandate to intervene. Europe was insufficiently active in the Lebanese crisis, although France had recommended on a number of occasions that the high representative be given a mandate to speak out on behalf of the 25 member countries, as he is doing on the Iranian issue,said French president Jacques Chirac earlier this week.
Helsinki has also signalled that it is not fully happy with the way the EU operated, with Mr Tuomioja writing to colleagues ahead of the Lappeenranta talks that I believe that it would be timely to evaluate the EU's role and our own working methods in order to see whether there is something we can do to enhance our impact.
Iran's defiance
On Saturday, foreign policy chief Solana will update ministers on the Iranian nuclear issue, ahead of a key meeting he is set to hold with Teheran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in Berlin next week. Mr Solana's fresh attempts to find a diplomatic solution to the standoff comes despite Iran's failure to meet Thursday's UN Security Council deadline to suspend its uranium enrichment programme which international powers suspect is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. After next week's Solana-Larijani meeting, the permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, the UK, France, China and Russia - as well as Germany will discuss possible sanctions against Teheran in Berlin on Thursday, with US president George W. Bush threatening consequences to Iran's defiance.
During the Lappeenranta meeting, ministers will try and define a common EU position on the sanctions option, strongly pushed for by Washington but disliked in Moscow and Beijing.
Russia: Finnish pragmatism
On Saturday afternoon, EU-Russia relations are on the agenda in Lappeenraanta, which itself is very near the Russian border and has shop signs in Russian, petrol trains running in from St Petersburg and old World War II-period fortifications against a Soviet invasion. Presidency sources said discussions will focus on Russia's development in the medium and long term, with Helsinki promoting a pragmatic and co-operative line vis-a-vis Moscow.The Finns share a long border with Russia and believe they have a unique historical experience in dealing with Moscow having been neutral in the Cold War. But Helsinki understands that other EU members, such as the Baltic states, have other experiences with the Russians which make it perhaps more difficult for them to co-operate.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5,13
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Devil in the detail: Vatican exorcises Harry Potter
Email Print Normal font Large font Linda Morris Religious Affairs Writer
September 1, 2006
THE Vatican has never been a fan of Harry Potter, but its chief exorcist has gone one step further and condemned J. K. Rowling's fictional boy wizard as downright evil.Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil, says Father Gabriele Amorth, the Pope's caster-out of demons.The books contained numerous positive references to the satanic art, falsely drawing a distinction between black and white magic, he told the Daily Mail in London. In the same interview, Father Amorth said he was convinced that Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler were possessed by the devil.
Last year the Pope, who was then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, described Harry Potter as a potentially corrupting influence.The Vatican's criticism comes as two Australian academics suggested a new generation of spiritual seekers was using popular fiction and medieval myth to reinsert magic and enchantment into their lives.Dr Lynne Hume and Kathleen McPhillip, editors of a collection of academic essays on popular spiritualities, said sacred religious texts were being superseded by medieval myths, comics and fantasy literature.J. R. R.Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Terry Pratchett's Discworld series had all inspired interest in spiritual spin-offs.Pagans had borrowed from the Discworld series peopled by dwarfs, witches and fairies, while young men had shaped their living fantasies on comic book heroes and Star Wars narratives. Role-playing games of the 1990s such as Dungeons and Dragons spurred interest in acting out fictional characters and events.
The vampire subculture - bigger in the US than in Australia and splintering from the Goth movement of the 1970s - borrows more from Anne Rice's broody, immortal and powerful figure of Lestat in the Vampire Chronicles than Bram Stoker's figure of old. That subculture, Dr Hume said, consisted of vampire role players, but also people who believed they were vampires.Adam Possamai, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Western Sydney, said the two-in-one figure of Clark Kent and Superman was attractive because it mirrored conflicting impulses to conform or stand apart.Dr Hume said in the vampire subculture reality blurred with fiction.
Instead of making more attempts to fit in to society at large, many vampire fans exaggerate their difference.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Friday, September 01, 2006
ENCOURAGING ISLAMIST ZEALOTRY
1-Moderate quake hits Tokyo. 2-John dumps heavy rain on Mexican coast. 3-USAF planes to check typhoon damage. 4-Hurricane watch issued for the Carolinas. 5-Wind strong as Mont. wildfire grows. 6-World's youngest queen yearns for Mideast peace. 7-Armed Palestinian Infiltrates British Embassy in Israel. 8-EU's Solana, Iran's Larijani to hold talks soon. 9-Encouraging IslamistZealotry.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Moderate quake hits Tokyo Thu Aug 31, 8:19 AM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - A moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale has jolted Tokyo, just one day before nationwide drills to mark the anniversary of the city's collossal 1923 tremor. The quake hit at 5:18 pm (0818 GMT) in Tokyo Bay at a depth of 70 kilometers (43 miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Thursday.The tremor was felt in the heart of the Japanese capital, although there were no reports of damage.The meteorological agency said the quake was felt most strongly in Kanagawa prefecture facing the bay. There was no danger of tsunami waves.Japan lies at the junction of four tectonic plates and endures about 20 percent of the world's powerful earthquakes, frequently jolting Tokyo and other major cities.
Another moderate quake later struck near the Russian-ruled Kuril Islands off Japan's northern coast, which Moscow seized at the end of World War II.The earthquake, measuring 5.1 on the Moment Magnitude scale, struck 45 kilometers (28 miles) below the surface at 0941 GMT, according to the US National Earthquake Information Center.A Japan Meteorological Agency spokesman said it had no information on the quake due to its location in Russian-controlled territory but that there were no reports of damage in Japan.The tremors come one day before the anniversary of Tokyo's last major earthquake in 1923, which left more than 142,000 people dead or unaccounted for. Japan holds nationwide disaster preparation drills each September 1.Japan is on constant guard for another Big One and designs buildings to withstand tremors.
A study by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in March said an earthquake of 7.3 on the Richter scale at 6:00 pm would kill 5,600 people, damage 440,000 buildings and leave thousands of other people trapped in elevators.Leading companies have come out with new technology to help residents better prepare for earthquakes on the anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.
Electronics company Hitachi will put on line Friday a free website which gives Tokyo residents advice on where to place furniture, where people should position themselves and which escape routes to rely on during an earthquake.Developed by a researcher at Nagoya University in central Japan, the site, www.hitachi-to.co.jp/bousai, relies on data of tectonic plate movements in the Tokyo region and historical information on past earthquakes and tsunamis.Separately, mobile phone operator KDDI announced Tuesday it would start a new service based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite technology which will help people return home in the event of a natural disaster.KDDI's rival NTT DoCoMo has said it is setting up its third-generation system to filter voice and data traffic so as to improve the reliability of communication during an earthquake.
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.
John dumps heavy rain on Mexican coast By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ,
Associated Press Writer ,43 minutes ago
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico - Hurricane John churned along Mexico's Pacific Coast on Thursday, lashing beaches with winds and rain but staying just far enough offshore to prevent major damage. The storm was expected to make a direct hit Friday in the resorts of Los Cabos, where government officials rushed to prepare.Fifteen shelters to house up to 15,000 people were being opened in Cabo San Lucas, and officials were stocking up on water and food, but no evacuations have been ordered, said Red Cross spokeswoman Teresa Ortiz.In the resort of Puerto Vallarta, officials urged residents and tourists to take precautions, but emergency shelters were mostly empty under cloudy but dry skies.The Category 3 hurricane had yet to pass Puerto Vallarta on its march up the coast. Thursday morning, it was about 110 miles to the southwest, with top sustained winds of 125 mph and stronger gusts capable of damaging small buildings and ripping off roofs.
Most of its fury was felt out to sea, with the most damaging winds failing to touch the mainland.John was expected to strengthen Thursday, and Mexico issued hurricane warnings for about 300 miles of coast, from the port of Manzanillo to the fishing and shipping community of San Blas, an area encompassing the bay that holds Puerto Vallarta. The warning also included Cabo San Lucas' twin resort town of San Jose del Cabo.The storm was moving northwest at 14 mph and aimed directly at the tip of the Baja California peninsula.With the storm still a day away, it was sunny in Los Cabos, and while some fishermen tied down their boats, there were few signs of other preparations. Cabo San Lucas Port Captain Everardo Jimenez said he had ordered a tourist boat out of the water.
Forecasters at the U.S. National Weather Center in Miami warned John could drop up to 18 inches of rain in some places and create up to a 5-foot storm surge. The weather center warned of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides in mountain areas.
Forecasters said John wasn't likely to affect the United States — cooler Pacific waters tend to diminish storms before they reach California.In Puerto Vallarta, skies were cloudy but no rain was falling as local residents walked to work and a handful of tourists strolled along the waterfront promenade in front of a calm sea.Officials postponed the arrival of a Carnival cruise ship, prohibited tours of the bay and closed public schools. Mayor Gustavo Gonzales said 50 shelters were ready.Most businesses along the waterfront were closed, and employees moved merchandise away from the windows, but only a few bothered to board up or tape over their storefronts. As a precaution, however, civil protection authorities urged people to leave the waterfront avenue by late morning.
Still, most remained calm.
We have tornados in Iowa. This can't be worse than that,said Hal Nissen, 75, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as he walked along the oceanfront with his wife.Some coastal communities in Jalisco state, where Puerto Vallarta is located, were being evacuated because of their proximity to two dams, state authorities said.Meanwhile, a new hurricane formed farther west. Hurricane Kristy, with winds of nearly 75 mph, was 690 miles away from John, but forecasters said some interaction was possible. If that happened, Kristy would likely be absorbed by the larger John, forecasters said. On the Net: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
USAF planes to check typhoon damage By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
HONOLULU - The Air Force plans to fly planes over Wake Island after Typhoon Ioke passes, to see how much damage the storm inflicted on the mid-Pacific U.S. military refueling outpost. Air Force planes evacuated all 200 of the island's residents on Monday in preparation for what forecasters are calling the most powerful central Pacific tropical storm in a decade.Visual reconnaissance planes will head out after Ioke clears, said Maj. Clare Reed, spokeswoman for the 15th Airlift Wing at Hickam Air Force Base.
We're hoping everything turns out well,Reed said. But she said senior Air Force officers would decide what to do with the facility if Ioke causes so much destruction that troops and workers couldn't return immediately.Forecasters have predicted the storm would submerge the 2.5-square-mile island and demolish any non-concrete structures.
This thing is so strong that it's just going to clean things out, unfortunately,said Tim Craig, National Weather Service lead forecaster in Honolulu.The typhoon has lost little of its strength in recent days, packing winds of 155 mph and gusts of 190 mph as it headed toward Wake Island Wednesday.Ioke was expected to pass closest to the isle around 8 p.m. Thursday. Hurricane force winds will likely start battering the island several hours before.Forecasts called for the storm to head northwest toward Japan over the open ocean after it passes over Wake Island. It is likely to gradually lose some of its power in coming days. No populated islands lie in Ioke's immediate path.Wake Island, 2,300 miles west of Honolulu and 1,510 miles east of Guam, is a U.S. military refueling outpost run by the Air Force.Ioke is the first Category 5 hurricane to develop in the central Pacific since record keeping began in the early 1960s.It also is the most powerful storm to pass through the central Pacific since hurricanes Emilia and Gilma, both in July 1994.
Hurricane watch issued for the Carolinas 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
MIAMI (Reuters) - A hurricane watch was issued on Thursday for a portion of the East Coast as Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthened on a path toward the Carolinas, threatening to bring heavy rains and large waves. Ernesto, which sloshed its way feebly through Florida on Wednesday after having briefly become the Atlantic storm season's first hurricane near Haiti, was not actually expected to regain hurricane strength with 74 mph (119 kph) winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.But the Miami-based center posted a precautionary hurricane watch from South Santee River, in South Carolina, to Cape Lookout, in North Carolina, noting that predicting a storm's intensity was difficult.Ernesto had at one point been forecast to reach Florida as a potential Category 3 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, and its arrival south of Miami as a weak tropical storm puzzled meteorologists.
There was little to clean up in Florida, where Ernesto proved a far cry from hurricanes Wilma and Katrina of last year.Wilma knocked out power to millions in Florida in October and caused $12 billion in damage. Katrina caused more than $500 million in insured losses in Florida before slamming into the U.S. Gulf coast last August 29, where it killed about 1,500 people, swamped New Orleans and caused $80 billion in damage.By 11 a.m. (1500 GMT), Ernesto was located around 105 miles south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, and expected to come ashore later on Thursday.Its winds had reached 60 mph (95 kph) and the hurricane center said it did not expect any significant further strengthening.North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley activated 150 National Guard soldiers and said two rescue helicopters were standing by in case of flooding. Neighboring South Carolina activated 240 National Guard troops on Tuesday.
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.
Wind strong as Mont. wildfire grows 41 minutes ago
BIG TIMBER, Mont. - Firefighters faced strong winds but cooler temperatures Thursday as they battled a wildfire in southern Montana that nearly doubled in size and prompted officials to urge several hundred of residents to leave their homes. The evacuation orders cover about 250 homes in Stillwater and Sweet Grass counties, fire information officer Pat Cross said Thursday. The wildfire was about 100,000 acres, or about 156 square miles.Some structures have burned, but authorities don't know if they were homes or outbuildings, said Dixie Dees, another fire information officer.The temperature Thursday was expected to stay in the 60s and low 70s, much cooler than Wednesday's windy 80-degree weather, but wind gusts around 20 mph were possible.
The good news is that it is cooler, finally,Cross said. So we hope the burning will be a little less active.The Stillwater Mine called off its night shift Wednesday and Thursday day shift for about 200 workers because of smoke from the fire and concern about traveling conditions. Interstate 90 was temporarily closed between Livingston and Columbus.The fire camp used as a base of operations was evacuated at 4 p.m. Wednesday because of encroaching flames, Cross said.People who had not already left Wednesday were being called by emergency services and told that the situation was deteriorating, Sweet Grass County officials said.We're not going to take you out in handcuffs,Undersheriff Jerry Mahlum told residents at a public meeting. We are going to ask you to sign a waiver that you've been warned and to let us know the next-of-kin you want notified.
Weather conditions were better at a wildfire in Washington.
Wet and cool weather helped slow the growth of a large wildfire in southeastern Washington and winds spawned by a cold front helped push some smaller fires back on themselves, but a windy forecast may make the reprieve short-lived.Rainfall was reported Wednesday near a 67,000-acre fire complex in the Blue Mountains. The fire was 20 percent contained, and 1,175 firefighters were on the job. But a warmer, drier weather forecast, with highs rising into the 90s by Sunday, could refuel the blaze.In California, firefighters made progress Thursday in battling a 2,000-acre wildfire in the San Bernardino National Forest.About 1,230 firefighters took advantage of mild winds and an increase in humidity overnight by building lines and setting backfires.The pre-dawn weather conditions really helped slow down the fire,said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Carol Beckley.The blaze was 60 percent contained Thursday morning, with full containment predicted by early Friday evening.
World's youngest queen yearns for Mideast peace
AMMAN: Jordan's elegant, yet hip Queen Rania- the world's youngest queen who turns 36 today said the best gift she could get is peace in the Middle East. As I turn 36, my hopes echo those of the people of our region, she told The Associated Press. More than anything, we need peace.The striking brunette said this year has been tinged with sadness and reflection following conflict in Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories. Rania, who is known for her humanitarian work globally, launched a national campaign in Jordan collecting money and goods for Lebanese and Palestinians after their homes were destroyed in summer fighting with Israel. The drive saw this working monarch and mother of four helping volunteers load the donations for delivery to the war torn areas.
My heart is heavy for each and every parent who has lost a child, and for each and every child who has lost the safety and stability of a home and community,she said. An ardent advocate of women and children's issues, Rania and other prominent women activists mounted a worldwide public awareness campaign in June to reverse high maternal and infant mortality rates and increase girls' access to education. The United Nations estimates a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth every minute somewhere in the world, and that 22,000 infants die each day. Some 100 million school-aged children have no education, and the majority of them are girls. Rania's birthday wish for the year reflects her work to promote tolerance and coexistence in the world's most hostile area. To achieve that, we need a renewed global commitment to dialogue, moderation and mutual respect. These are the prerequisites of peace and a hopeful future for us all.-- AP
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 and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Armed Palestinian Infiltrates British Embassy in Israel
By VOA News ,31 August 2006
Police in Israel say an armed Palestinian has breached security at Britain's embassy in Tel Aviv and is demanding asylum.
Israeli media reports say the man, from the West Bank town of Ramallah, infiltrated the embassy's parking lot Thursday and threatened to kill himself if Britain does not grant him asylum. Israeli security forces have taken up positions around the embassy.
News reports say the man claims to have been an informer for Israel's security service, Shin Bet. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinians say Israeli troops killed a commander of the Palestinian al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades during a brief firefight in Nablus early Thursday.
In other news, the Israeli army says it is withdrawing from the outskirts of Gaza City. Palestinian witnesses say at least 18 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes and artillery fire since Israeli forces entered the area Saturday. The army said on Wednesday that searches in a section of the city turned up a 150-meter-long underground tunnel leading to the Karni crossing point into Israel.
Also on Wednesday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for an end to Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, which began in late June. Mr. Annan spoke after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.
EU's Solana, Iran's Larijani to hold talks soon
Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:04am ET
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, agreed on Thursday to meet soon to discuss Iran's response to incentives to curb its nuclear activities, Solana's spokeswoman said.
Today they spoke by telephone. They agreed they will have a face-to-face meeting soon,Cristina Gallach said, adding the exact date and venue were undecided.Gallach said the conversation lasted about 30 minutes but she gave no further information on it, or any indication as to whether Larijani had raised the possibility of Iran halting uranium enrichment.
She said Solana would brief European Union foreign ministers on his contacts with Larijani at their meeting in Finland starting on Friday.They will discuss among themselves how they see the way forward,she said.The U.N. Security Council has given Tehran until Thursday to suspend its uranium enrichment program, suspected by the West of being part of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, or face possible sanctions. Iran has shown no sign that it will halt enrichment.EU diplomats, however, have said the bloc is prepared to keep talking to Iran beyond that deadline.A European Union diplomat said France, Germany and Spain were among the EU countries that are worried the United States wants to rush into sanctions before making a last effort aimed at avoiding an escalation of the crisis.
Another western diplomat said the meeting with Solana is intended to slow things down a bit to see whether sanctions can be avoided and the Iranians can be made to accept the incentives offer.© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Encouraging Islamist Zealotry
By: Joseph Farah
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
It pains me to write this. But it is becoming increasingly clear to me that Israel, in so many ways on the front lines in the fight against Islamo-fascism, is actually a force promoting it.At least the misguided, corrupt governments of Israel have managed this mission impossible. I don’t make this statement rashly. I’ve considered what I’m saying for a long time. I’ve hesitated to say it before because I have endeavored to give the Jewish state the benefit of every possible doubt.Many in the Arab and Muslim worlds consider me an outright apologist for Israel. I have been caricatured as a Zionist apparatchik. I have been accused of being a Mossad disinformation specialist. So, when I criticize Israel, what I say ought to be at least considered – especially by Israelis and Jews.
It is not just Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s bizarre behavior and irrational policies with respect to Iran-directed Hizbullah attacks from Lebanon. But I will concede that my efforts at trying to comprehend the incomprehensible in this case led inescapably to this conclusion.Like it or not, Israel is fostering Islamo-fascism.It is not doing so because of its aggressiveness, as some claim. It is not doing so because of its retaliations against attacks, as some claim. It is not doing so because of its heavy-handedness or brutality, as some claim.On the contrary, it is doing so by sending all the wrong signals to its mortal enemies.This is not a new phenomenon. I’ve written about it frequently. We witnessed it just last year with Ariel Sharon’s forced disengagement from Gaza. We witnessed it years earlier with Ehud Barak’s unilateral, middle-of-the-night withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
And we witnessed it 40 years ago at the conclusion of the 1967 Six-Day War – reborn Israel’s crowning military achievement, a miraculous drubbing of its imposing enemies who outnumbered the Jews in the region about 100 to one.What happened at the conclusion of that war in which Israel conquered the Golan Heights from Syria, Judea and Samaria from Jordan, Gaza and Sinai from Egypt and, most important of all, the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, from Jordan? The Israeli government gave the Temple Mount, inarguably the most holy site in Judaism, back to the hostile Muslim Arabs to administer – effectively agreeing to ban Jews and other non-Muslims from a religious site of deep significance to Christians as well. This may not have been the first example of Israeli enabling of Islamo-fascism, but to me it is the biggest, the worst, the most egregious, the least forgivable.
A mere 12 years later, in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran, an event seen by many as the birth of the modern Islamo-fascist movement. While that is overstating the case, it is absolutely true that the mullahs in Iran and the other radical Islamists around the globe watched what happened in June 1967 in Jerusalem in awe and amazement.First they saw their hated enemies, the Jews, overpower and overrun much bigger armies in convincing fashion. Then they saw a rabbi ascend to the top of the Western Wall of the newly captured Temple Mount and blow the shofar, or traditional ram’s horn. Many Jews believed these developments signaled the imminent coming of the Messiah. These events made the Islamo-fascists question – at least momentarily – what was happening to them. Was Allah abandoning them? Had they been unfaithful? Was it a judgment? How was it possible that the Jews’ faith was being rewarded while their faith was being denied?Then Moshe Dayan announced that the Temple Mount would be handed over to the Muslim authorities to administer.
It was the ultimate appeasement. Oh, he had his religious justifications for the move. Some rabbis insisted Jews could not step foot on the Temple Mount for fear of contaminating the Holy of Holies. Presumably they had no fears the place where the glory of God is manifested physically would be contaminated by the control of Muslims who denied the historic fact that a Jewish temple ever existed on the mount.Such an unexpected turnaround was perceived as it could only be understood in the Islamic world. It was both an Israeli capitulation – the first of many – and an act of Allah.No matter how hard the Israelis try to demonstrate such random suicidal acts of compassion, they will only be rewarded with more hatred, more violence and more intransigence. What they are doing is reaffirming the Muslim zealots’ faith in Allah. They are reaffirming the Koran’s contempt for Jews and other infidels.
Israel may have won three major wars in its 60-year history, but it will be lucky to survive another decade of morally bankrupt leadership. It’s not just former prime minister Ariel Sharon who is comatose. It seems the whole current Israeli government is brain dead.
How else can one explain Israel’s agreement to Lebanon cease-fire terms that amount to unconditional surrender? Let’s review what Israel has done:It launched a war on Iran-directed Hizbullah terrorists after they kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, killed eight others and rocketed northern Israel towns. From the beginning, Israel demanded the return of its troops and the disarming of the terrorists. What did Israel get in the cease-fire deal? No return of the kidnapped troops and Hizbullah terrorists remain under arms. How can you ask soldiers to kill and die for a simple objective that is later abandoned without explanation or reason?Does Olmert not understand what his surrender means? It means he has given aid and comfort to Israel’s enemies. He has handed Hizbullah its biggest victory since former prime minister Ehud Barak unilaterally withdrew from Lebanon, handing the southern part of the country to Iran’s proxy army and positioning it to claim it had defeated the Jewish state.
He has also proved to Israel’s other terrorist enemies – those in Hamas and the Palestinian Authority – that rocket attacks, assassinations and kidnappings are winning tactics against the Jewish state. Prepare to see more of them under the terms of this cease-fire.Hizbullah has won. That’s the unimaginable bottom line after this conflict. The terrorists have won – not in the battlefield, mind you. But they won before the war ever began because weak-kneed, cowardly, morally unfit leaders in Jerusalem would never permit Israel to win.With Hizbullah’s victory, Iran and Syria have been emboldened as well. This is bad news not just for Israel, but for the entire world.If you think I overstate the case, ask yourself this fundamental question: Is Israel more secure after abandoning its conflict in Lebanon or less secure?You know the answer. Everyone knows the answer.
Israel may have one of the greatest military machines in the world. It may have an intelligence apparatus that is the envy of superpowers. It may even have right on its side. But Israel is being led by men unworthy of its history, unworthy of its sacrifices, unworthy of its hard-fought victories of the past and unworthy of God’s sovereign promises to bless the Jewish state forever.It’s clear the only enemy that could ever destroy Israel is the kind of internal moral rot we are witnessing today in Jerusalem. Israel has just one shot at surviving its terminal illness – cutting out the cancer that is the Olmert government.
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of World Net Daily and a nationally syndicated columnist. His latest book is Taking America Back.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Moderate quake hits Tokyo Thu Aug 31, 8:19 AM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - A moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale has jolted Tokyo, just one day before nationwide drills to mark the anniversary of the city's collossal 1923 tremor. The quake hit at 5:18 pm (0818 GMT) in Tokyo Bay at a depth of 70 kilometers (43 miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Thursday.The tremor was felt in the heart of the Japanese capital, although there were no reports of damage.The meteorological agency said the quake was felt most strongly in Kanagawa prefecture facing the bay. There was no danger of tsunami waves.Japan lies at the junction of four tectonic plates and endures about 20 percent of the world's powerful earthquakes, frequently jolting Tokyo and other major cities.
Another moderate quake later struck near the Russian-ruled Kuril Islands off Japan's northern coast, which Moscow seized at the end of World War II.The earthquake, measuring 5.1 on the Moment Magnitude scale, struck 45 kilometers (28 miles) below the surface at 0941 GMT, according to the US National Earthquake Information Center.A Japan Meteorological Agency spokesman said it had no information on the quake due to its location in Russian-controlled territory but that there were no reports of damage in Japan.The tremors come one day before the anniversary of Tokyo's last major earthquake in 1923, which left more than 142,000 people dead or unaccounted for. Japan holds nationwide disaster preparation drills each September 1.Japan is on constant guard for another Big One and designs buildings to withstand tremors.
A study by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in March said an earthquake of 7.3 on the Richter scale at 6:00 pm would kill 5,600 people, damage 440,000 buildings and leave thousands of other people trapped in elevators.Leading companies have come out with new technology to help residents better prepare for earthquakes on the anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.
Electronics company Hitachi will put on line Friday a free website which gives Tokyo residents advice on where to place furniture, where people should position themselves and which escape routes to rely on during an earthquake.Developed by a researcher at Nagoya University in central Japan, the site, www.hitachi-to.co.jp/bousai, relies on data of tectonic plate movements in the Tokyo region and historical information on past earthquakes and tsunamis.Separately, mobile phone operator KDDI announced Tuesday it would start a new service based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite technology which will help people return home in the event of a natural disaster.KDDI's rival NTT DoCoMo has said it is setting up its third-generation system to filter voice and data traffic so as to improve the reliability of communication during an earthquake.
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.
John dumps heavy rain on Mexican coast By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ,
Associated Press Writer ,43 minutes ago
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico - Hurricane John churned along Mexico's Pacific Coast on Thursday, lashing beaches with winds and rain but staying just far enough offshore to prevent major damage. The storm was expected to make a direct hit Friday in the resorts of Los Cabos, where government officials rushed to prepare.Fifteen shelters to house up to 15,000 people were being opened in Cabo San Lucas, and officials were stocking up on water and food, but no evacuations have been ordered, said Red Cross spokeswoman Teresa Ortiz.In the resort of Puerto Vallarta, officials urged residents and tourists to take precautions, but emergency shelters were mostly empty under cloudy but dry skies.The Category 3 hurricane had yet to pass Puerto Vallarta on its march up the coast. Thursday morning, it was about 110 miles to the southwest, with top sustained winds of 125 mph and stronger gusts capable of damaging small buildings and ripping off roofs.
Most of its fury was felt out to sea, with the most damaging winds failing to touch the mainland.John was expected to strengthen Thursday, and Mexico issued hurricane warnings for about 300 miles of coast, from the port of Manzanillo to the fishing and shipping community of San Blas, an area encompassing the bay that holds Puerto Vallarta. The warning also included Cabo San Lucas' twin resort town of San Jose del Cabo.The storm was moving northwest at 14 mph and aimed directly at the tip of the Baja California peninsula.With the storm still a day away, it was sunny in Los Cabos, and while some fishermen tied down their boats, there were few signs of other preparations. Cabo San Lucas Port Captain Everardo Jimenez said he had ordered a tourist boat out of the water.
Forecasters at the U.S. National Weather Center in Miami warned John could drop up to 18 inches of rain in some places and create up to a 5-foot storm surge. The weather center warned of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides in mountain areas.
Forecasters said John wasn't likely to affect the United States — cooler Pacific waters tend to diminish storms before they reach California.In Puerto Vallarta, skies were cloudy but no rain was falling as local residents walked to work and a handful of tourists strolled along the waterfront promenade in front of a calm sea.Officials postponed the arrival of a Carnival cruise ship, prohibited tours of the bay and closed public schools. Mayor Gustavo Gonzales said 50 shelters were ready.Most businesses along the waterfront were closed, and employees moved merchandise away from the windows, but only a few bothered to board up or tape over their storefronts. As a precaution, however, civil protection authorities urged people to leave the waterfront avenue by late morning.
Still, most remained calm.
We have tornados in Iowa. This can't be worse than that,said Hal Nissen, 75, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as he walked along the oceanfront with his wife.Some coastal communities in Jalisco state, where Puerto Vallarta is located, were being evacuated because of their proximity to two dams, state authorities said.Meanwhile, a new hurricane formed farther west. Hurricane Kristy, with winds of nearly 75 mph, was 690 miles away from John, but forecasters said some interaction was possible. If that happened, Kristy would likely be absorbed by the larger John, forecasters said. On the Net: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
USAF planes to check typhoon damage By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
HONOLULU - The Air Force plans to fly planes over Wake Island after Typhoon Ioke passes, to see how much damage the storm inflicted on the mid-Pacific U.S. military refueling outpost. Air Force planes evacuated all 200 of the island's residents on Monday in preparation for what forecasters are calling the most powerful central Pacific tropical storm in a decade.Visual reconnaissance planes will head out after Ioke clears, said Maj. Clare Reed, spokeswoman for the 15th Airlift Wing at Hickam Air Force Base.
We're hoping everything turns out well,Reed said. But she said senior Air Force officers would decide what to do with the facility if Ioke causes so much destruction that troops and workers couldn't return immediately.Forecasters have predicted the storm would submerge the 2.5-square-mile island and demolish any non-concrete structures.
This thing is so strong that it's just going to clean things out, unfortunately,said Tim Craig, National Weather Service lead forecaster in Honolulu.The typhoon has lost little of its strength in recent days, packing winds of 155 mph and gusts of 190 mph as it headed toward Wake Island Wednesday.Ioke was expected to pass closest to the isle around 8 p.m. Thursday. Hurricane force winds will likely start battering the island several hours before.Forecasts called for the storm to head northwest toward Japan over the open ocean after it passes over Wake Island. It is likely to gradually lose some of its power in coming days. No populated islands lie in Ioke's immediate path.Wake Island, 2,300 miles west of Honolulu and 1,510 miles east of Guam, is a U.S. military refueling outpost run by the Air Force.Ioke is the first Category 5 hurricane to develop in the central Pacific since record keeping began in the early 1960s.It also is the most powerful storm to pass through the central Pacific since hurricanes Emilia and Gilma, both in July 1994.
Hurricane watch issued for the Carolinas 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
MIAMI (Reuters) - A hurricane watch was issued on Thursday for a portion of the East Coast as Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthened on a path toward the Carolinas, threatening to bring heavy rains and large waves. Ernesto, which sloshed its way feebly through Florida on Wednesday after having briefly become the Atlantic storm season's first hurricane near Haiti, was not actually expected to regain hurricane strength with 74 mph (119 kph) winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.But the Miami-based center posted a precautionary hurricane watch from South Santee River, in South Carolina, to Cape Lookout, in North Carolina, noting that predicting a storm's intensity was difficult.Ernesto had at one point been forecast to reach Florida as a potential Category 3 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, and its arrival south of Miami as a weak tropical storm puzzled meteorologists.
There was little to clean up in Florida, where Ernesto proved a far cry from hurricanes Wilma and Katrina of last year.Wilma knocked out power to millions in Florida in October and caused $12 billion in damage. Katrina caused more than $500 million in insured losses in Florida before slamming into the U.S. Gulf coast last August 29, where it killed about 1,500 people, swamped New Orleans and caused $80 billion in damage.By 11 a.m. (1500 GMT), Ernesto was located around 105 miles south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, and expected to come ashore later on Thursday.Its winds had reached 60 mph (95 kph) and the hurricane center said it did not expect any significant further strengthening.North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley activated 150 National Guard soldiers and said two rescue helicopters were standing by in case of flooding. Neighboring South Carolina activated 240 National Guard troops on Tuesday.
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.
Wind strong as Mont. wildfire grows 41 minutes ago
BIG TIMBER, Mont. - Firefighters faced strong winds but cooler temperatures Thursday as they battled a wildfire in southern Montana that nearly doubled in size and prompted officials to urge several hundred of residents to leave their homes. The evacuation orders cover about 250 homes in Stillwater and Sweet Grass counties, fire information officer Pat Cross said Thursday. The wildfire was about 100,000 acres, or about 156 square miles.Some structures have burned, but authorities don't know if they were homes or outbuildings, said Dixie Dees, another fire information officer.The temperature Thursday was expected to stay in the 60s and low 70s, much cooler than Wednesday's windy 80-degree weather, but wind gusts around 20 mph were possible.
The good news is that it is cooler, finally,Cross said. So we hope the burning will be a little less active.The Stillwater Mine called off its night shift Wednesday and Thursday day shift for about 200 workers because of smoke from the fire and concern about traveling conditions. Interstate 90 was temporarily closed between Livingston and Columbus.The fire camp used as a base of operations was evacuated at 4 p.m. Wednesday because of encroaching flames, Cross said.People who had not already left Wednesday were being called by emergency services and told that the situation was deteriorating, Sweet Grass County officials said.We're not going to take you out in handcuffs,Undersheriff Jerry Mahlum told residents at a public meeting. We are going to ask you to sign a waiver that you've been warned and to let us know the next-of-kin you want notified.
Weather conditions were better at a wildfire in Washington.
Wet and cool weather helped slow the growth of a large wildfire in southeastern Washington and winds spawned by a cold front helped push some smaller fires back on themselves, but a windy forecast may make the reprieve short-lived.Rainfall was reported Wednesday near a 67,000-acre fire complex in the Blue Mountains. The fire was 20 percent contained, and 1,175 firefighters were on the job. But a warmer, drier weather forecast, with highs rising into the 90s by Sunday, could refuel the blaze.In California, firefighters made progress Thursday in battling a 2,000-acre wildfire in the San Bernardino National Forest.About 1,230 firefighters took advantage of mild winds and an increase in humidity overnight by building lines and setting backfires.The pre-dawn weather conditions really helped slow down the fire,said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Carol Beckley.The blaze was 60 percent contained Thursday morning, with full containment predicted by early Friday evening.
World's youngest queen yearns for Mideast peace
AMMAN: Jordan's elegant, yet hip Queen Rania- the world's youngest queen who turns 36 today said the best gift she could get is peace in the Middle East. As I turn 36, my hopes echo those of the people of our region, she told The Associated Press. More than anything, we need peace.The striking brunette said this year has been tinged with sadness and reflection following conflict in Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories. Rania, who is known for her humanitarian work globally, launched a national campaign in Jordan collecting money and goods for Lebanese and Palestinians after their homes were destroyed in summer fighting with Israel. The drive saw this working monarch and mother of four helping volunteers load the donations for delivery to the war torn areas.
My heart is heavy for each and every parent who has lost a child, and for each and every child who has lost the safety and stability of a home and community,she said. An ardent advocate of women and children's issues, Rania and other prominent women activists mounted a worldwide public awareness campaign in June to reverse high maternal and infant mortality rates and increase girls' access to education. The United Nations estimates a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth every minute somewhere in the world, and that 22,000 infants die each day. Some 100 million school-aged children have no education, and the majority of them are girls. Rania's birthday wish for the year reflects her work to promote tolerance and coexistence in the world's most hostile area. To achieve that, we need a renewed global commitment to dialogue, moderation and mutual respect. These are the prerequisites of peace and a hopeful future for us all.-- AP
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 and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Armed Palestinian Infiltrates British Embassy in Israel
By VOA News ,31 August 2006
Police in Israel say an armed Palestinian has breached security at Britain's embassy in Tel Aviv and is demanding asylum.
Israeli media reports say the man, from the West Bank town of Ramallah, infiltrated the embassy's parking lot Thursday and threatened to kill himself if Britain does not grant him asylum. Israeli security forces have taken up positions around the embassy.
News reports say the man claims to have been an informer for Israel's security service, Shin Bet. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinians say Israeli troops killed a commander of the Palestinian al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades during a brief firefight in Nablus early Thursday.
In other news, the Israeli army says it is withdrawing from the outskirts of Gaza City. Palestinian witnesses say at least 18 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes and artillery fire since Israeli forces entered the area Saturday. The army said on Wednesday that searches in a section of the city turned up a 150-meter-long underground tunnel leading to the Karni crossing point into Israel.
Also on Wednesday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for an end to Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, which began in late June. Mr. Annan spoke after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.
EU's Solana, Iran's Larijani to hold talks soon
Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:04am ET
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, agreed on Thursday to meet soon to discuss Iran's response to incentives to curb its nuclear activities, Solana's spokeswoman said.
Today they spoke by telephone. They agreed they will have a face-to-face meeting soon,Cristina Gallach said, adding the exact date and venue were undecided.Gallach said the conversation lasted about 30 minutes but she gave no further information on it, or any indication as to whether Larijani had raised the possibility of Iran halting uranium enrichment.
She said Solana would brief European Union foreign ministers on his contacts with Larijani at their meeting in Finland starting on Friday.They will discuss among themselves how they see the way forward,she said.The U.N. Security Council has given Tehran until Thursday to suspend its uranium enrichment program, suspected by the West of being part of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, or face possible sanctions. Iran has shown no sign that it will halt enrichment.EU diplomats, however, have said the bloc is prepared to keep talking to Iran beyond that deadline.A European Union diplomat said France, Germany and Spain were among the EU countries that are worried the United States wants to rush into sanctions before making a last effort aimed at avoiding an escalation of the crisis.
Another western diplomat said the meeting with Solana is intended to slow things down a bit to see whether sanctions can be avoided and the Iranians can be made to accept the incentives offer.© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Encouraging Islamist Zealotry
By: Joseph Farah
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
It pains me to write this. But it is becoming increasingly clear to me that Israel, in so many ways on the front lines in the fight against Islamo-fascism, is actually a force promoting it.At least the misguided, corrupt governments of Israel have managed this mission impossible. I don’t make this statement rashly. I’ve considered what I’m saying for a long time. I’ve hesitated to say it before because I have endeavored to give the Jewish state the benefit of every possible doubt.Many in the Arab and Muslim worlds consider me an outright apologist for Israel. I have been caricatured as a Zionist apparatchik. I have been accused of being a Mossad disinformation specialist. So, when I criticize Israel, what I say ought to be at least considered – especially by Israelis and Jews.
It is not just Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s bizarre behavior and irrational policies with respect to Iran-directed Hizbullah attacks from Lebanon. But I will concede that my efforts at trying to comprehend the incomprehensible in this case led inescapably to this conclusion.Like it or not, Israel is fostering Islamo-fascism.It is not doing so because of its aggressiveness, as some claim. It is not doing so because of its retaliations against attacks, as some claim. It is not doing so because of its heavy-handedness or brutality, as some claim.On the contrary, it is doing so by sending all the wrong signals to its mortal enemies.This is not a new phenomenon. I’ve written about it frequently. We witnessed it just last year with Ariel Sharon’s forced disengagement from Gaza. We witnessed it years earlier with Ehud Barak’s unilateral, middle-of-the-night withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
And we witnessed it 40 years ago at the conclusion of the 1967 Six-Day War – reborn Israel’s crowning military achievement, a miraculous drubbing of its imposing enemies who outnumbered the Jews in the region about 100 to one.What happened at the conclusion of that war in which Israel conquered the Golan Heights from Syria, Judea and Samaria from Jordan, Gaza and Sinai from Egypt and, most important of all, the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, from Jordan? The Israeli government gave the Temple Mount, inarguably the most holy site in Judaism, back to the hostile Muslim Arabs to administer – effectively agreeing to ban Jews and other non-Muslims from a religious site of deep significance to Christians as well. This may not have been the first example of Israeli enabling of Islamo-fascism, but to me it is the biggest, the worst, the most egregious, the least forgivable.
A mere 12 years later, in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran, an event seen by many as the birth of the modern Islamo-fascist movement. While that is overstating the case, it is absolutely true that the mullahs in Iran and the other radical Islamists around the globe watched what happened in June 1967 in Jerusalem in awe and amazement.First they saw their hated enemies, the Jews, overpower and overrun much bigger armies in convincing fashion. Then they saw a rabbi ascend to the top of the Western Wall of the newly captured Temple Mount and blow the shofar, or traditional ram’s horn. Many Jews believed these developments signaled the imminent coming of the Messiah. These events made the Islamo-fascists question – at least momentarily – what was happening to them. Was Allah abandoning them? Had they been unfaithful? Was it a judgment? How was it possible that the Jews’ faith was being rewarded while their faith was being denied?Then Moshe Dayan announced that the Temple Mount would be handed over to the Muslim authorities to administer.
It was the ultimate appeasement. Oh, he had his religious justifications for the move. Some rabbis insisted Jews could not step foot on the Temple Mount for fear of contaminating the Holy of Holies. Presumably they had no fears the place where the glory of God is manifested physically would be contaminated by the control of Muslims who denied the historic fact that a Jewish temple ever existed on the mount.Such an unexpected turnaround was perceived as it could only be understood in the Islamic world. It was both an Israeli capitulation – the first of many – and an act of Allah.No matter how hard the Israelis try to demonstrate such random suicidal acts of compassion, they will only be rewarded with more hatred, more violence and more intransigence. What they are doing is reaffirming the Muslim zealots’ faith in Allah. They are reaffirming the Koran’s contempt for Jews and other infidels.
Israel may have won three major wars in its 60-year history, but it will be lucky to survive another decade of morally bankrupt leadership. It’s not just former prime minister Ariel Sharon who is comatose. It seems the whole current Israeli government is brain dead.
How else can one explain Israel’s agreement to Lebanon cease-fire terms that amount to unconditional surrender? Let’s review what Israel has done:It launched a war on Iran-directed Hizbullah terrorists after they kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, killed eight others and rocketed northern Israel towns. From the beginning, Israel demanded the return of its troops and the disarming of the terrorists. What did Israel get in the cease-fire deal? No return of the kidnapped troops and Hizbullah terrorists remain under arms. How can you ask soldiers to kill and die for a simple objective that is later abandoned without explanation or reason?Does Olmert not understand what his surrender means? It means he has given aid and comfort to Israel’s enemies. He has handed Hizbullah its biggest victory since former prime minister Ehud Barak unilaterally withdrew from Lebanon, handing the southern part of the country to Iran’s proxy army and positioning it to claim it had defeated the Jewish state.
He has also proved to Israel’s other terrorist enemies – those in Hamas and the Palestinian Authority – that rocket attacks, assassinations and kidnappings are winning tactics against the Jewish state. Prepare to see more of them under the terms of this cease-fire.Hizbullah has won. That’s the unimaginable bottom line after this conflict. The terrorists have won – not in the battlefield, mind you. But they won before the war ever began because weak-kneed, cowardly, morally unfit leaders in Jerusalem would never permit Israel to win.With Hizbullah’s victory, Iran and Syria have been emboldened as well. This is bad news not just for Israel, but for the entire world.If you think I overstate the case, ask yourself this fundamental question: Is Israel more secure after abandoning its conflict in Lebanon or less secure?You know the answer. Everyone knows the answer.
Israel may have one of the greatest military machines in the world. It may have an intelligence apparatus that is the envy of superpowers. It may even have right on its side. But Israel is being led by men unworthy of its history, unworthy of its sacrifices, unworthy of its hard-fought victories of the past and unworthy of God’s sovereign promises to bless the Jewish state forever.It’s clear the only enemy that could ever destroy Israel is the kind of internal moral rot we are witnessing today in Jerusalem. Israel has just one shot at surviving its terminal illness – cutting out the cancer that is the Olmert government.
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of World Net Daily and a nationally syndicated columnist. His latest book is Taking America Back.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
US HOUSING SLUMP FUELS CRASH FEARS
1-Hurricane John menaces Mexican resorts. 2-Feeble Ernesto headed for Carolinas. 3-Chavez vows solidarity with Syria against U.S., Israel. 4-Israel First in Multiple Births; Moslem Births - Down. 5-EU suffering from 'general fatigue', says France. 6-US housing slump fuels crash fears.
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.
Hurricane John menaces Mexican resorts By Karina Tejada
Wed Aug 30, 3:34 PM ET
ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane John grew into a dangerous Category 4 storm just off Mexico's Pacific coast on Wednesday, threatening beach resorts with heavy rain and searing winds and blowing down trees in Acapulco. Home to some 1 million people, Acapulco had sea surges of up to 10 feet. Emergency workers were on alert for mudslides and flash floods as John trekked along the coast, packing winds of 135 mph (215 kph), with higher gusts.The Miami-based National Hurricane Center upgraded John to Category 4, the second-strongest hurricane grade and capable of extensive damage if it hits the coast directly.
It said John had drifted slightly closer to the coast and could gain even more punch over the next 24 hours.Emergency workers were most immediately worried about Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo and Manzanillo, which are popular with U.S. and Canadian sailfish fishermen.
Nadya Velas of the civil protection agency in Guerrero state, said there were no plans to evacuate tourists or residents for the moment.But we are ready for any scenario.On its current track, John could slam directly into the plush beach and golf resort of Los Cabos on the tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula later this week.We're watching it real closely. Everyone's taking it very seriously,said Minerva Saenz, who charters boats out to tourists in Los Cabos for deep sea fishing trips.Although there has been no major damage so far, hotels warned guests of the possible dangers.
REFUGEES
If a hurricane comes, they are no longer guests, they are refugees,said Jean Louis Magron, the resident manager of the Dreams Los Cabos Suites, a big hotel on the beach.Last October, Hurricane Wilma smashed up Cancun and other beach resorts on Mexico's Caribbean coast, causing massive damage, sucking away large stretches of beach and stranding tens of thousands of tourists in makeshift shelters for several days.A hurricane warning was in effect on Wednesday from the steel-making port of Lazaro Cardenas to Cabo Corrientes, further northwest.While the center of John is forecast to remain just offshore, hurricane force winds are still expected to reach the coast within the warning area,the National Hurricane Center said.John was moving slowly northwest parallel to the coast on Wednesday afternoon, about 70 miles southwest of Lazaro Cardenas.
Category 4 hurricanes can destroy mobile homes, deal major damage to lower floors of structures close to the shore. Land lower than 10 feet above sea level may be flooded and require massive evacuations.Rainfall of 4 to 8 inches, with isolated deluges of 12 inches, was possible along the coast in the warning areas.The U.S. hurricane center warned that rain could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides over areas of mountainous terrain. The storm formed on Monday and became a Category 1 hurricane early on Tuesday before being upgraded two notches inside a few hours. (Additional reporting by Chris Aspin and Gunther Hamm)
Feeble Ernesto headed for Carolinas By Jim Loney
1 hour, 8 minutes ago
MIAMI (Reuters) - Ernesto plodded across Florida on Wednesday, soaking a state relieved that the once-menacing cyclone had fizzled a year after destructive Hurricane Katrina. With its winds flagging as it limped northward over the Florida peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center stripped Ernesto of tropical-storm status and downgraded it to a tropical depression.Ernesto, the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season's fifth storm, could regain some strength when it moves off northeast Florida into the Atlantic Ocean.
Forecasters expected it to curve back into land along the South Carolina coast on Thursday.A tropical storm warning was in effect from central Florida to Cape Lookout, North Carolina, but a hurricane watch for coastal areas of the Carolinas was lifted as the storm appeared incapable of regaining the 74 mph (119 kph) winds needed for hurricane status.At 5 p.m. (2100 GMT), Ernesto's sustained winds were about 35 mph (56 kph), the hurricane center said. The center of the system was still over Florida, about 55 miles south-southwest of Cape Canaveral.
Ernesto has the potential to regain tropical storm strength on Thursday over the Atlantic,the hurricane center said.North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley activated 150 National Guard soldiers and said two rescue helicopters were standing by in case of flooding.
Neighboring South Carolina activated 240 National Guard troops on Tuesday.One of the greatest dangers will be flooded roads, Easley said.Do not drive in flood waters. Most deaths from flooding occur in automobiles.
FAR CRY FROM KATRINA
There appeared to be little cleanup needed in Florida. Tourists were allowed to return to the Florida Keys on Wednesday and state parks were reopened.Florida Power & Light, the state's largest electric company, said it had 7,500 customers without power and had restored service to 10,000 others. Schools across the region were set to reopen on Thursday.It was a far cry from encounters with hurricanes Wilma and Katrina last year. Wilma knocked out power to more than 90 percent of south Florida residents in October and caused $12 billion in damage.Katrina caused more than $500 million in insured losses in Florida before slamming into the Gulf coast on August 29, where it killed about 1,500 people, swamped New Orleans and caused $80 billion in damage.Ernesto's weakened state as it hit Florida was a puzzle to forecasters, who had predicted it could become a hurricane over the warm waters of the Florida Straits after bashing Cuba.
Despite sophisticated computers, storm-tracking aircraft, satellites and radar, forecasting the intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes lags 10 or 15 years behind forecasting a storm's future track, National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield said.
The intensity forecast is almost like putting a million-piece jigsaw puzzle together and some of those pieces to the puzzle don't have any color on them and some of those pieces are missing, he said. It's very, very difficult.Before hitting Cuba and Florida, Ernesto lashed Haiti, where officials blamed it for two deaths.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Chavez vows solidarity with Syria against U.S., Israel By Khaled Yacoub Oweis Wed Aug 30, 12:32 PM ET
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged solidarity on Wednesday with Syria in its struggle against Israel and the United States and predicted the demise of U.S. imperialism. Chavez, a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy, also said he would seek a front-row seat if President George W. Bush accepted an invitation from Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a televised debate, adding he would be cheering on the Iranian president.Syria and Venezuela share the same firm positions and a resistance to imperialism and imperialist aggression,Chavez told a news conference after talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, speaking in Spanish through an Arab interpreter.This age will witness the end of American imperialism,he said, pointing a laser pen at a map of the world showing countries where Washington has intervened militarily or whose governments it has helped to topple over the last 50 years.
Chavez denounced what he called Israel's Nazi crimes in Lebanon during the recent war and said the Jewish state should pull its remaining troops out of that country and also out of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967.Nothing equals the Nazi crimes Israel has committed in Lebanon and against the Palestinians, said Chavez, who arrived in Syria on Tuesday evening from Malaysia.Chavez's popularity shot up across the Arab world after he ordered Venezuela's envoy to Israel home earlier this month to protest Israel's military offensive against Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. Many civilians died in the fighting.He has threatened to break off diplomatic ties with Israel.
FIGHTING IMPERIALISM
Commenting on Iranian President Ahmadinejad's challenge to Bush on Tuesday to discuss the world's problems in a televised debate, Chavez said: I wish I could be sitting at the front row and watch Ahmadinejad deal Bush a knock-out blow.The White House has called the proposal a diversion.The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until Thursday to suspend its uranium enrichment program or possibly face sanctions.Ahmadinejad has shocked the West with his calls for Israel to be wiped off the map. He and Chavez established a warm rapport when the Venezuelan leader visited Tehran last month.Chavez, a robust ex-paratrooper, has courted other anti-U.S. leaders from Belarus to Cuba in recent months as he tries to build a broad global coalition against imperialism.After Chavez's talks on Wednesday with Assad at a hilltop palace overlooking both Damascus and the Golan Heights, the two countries signed a raft of deals on cooperation in sectors ranging from agriculture to oil.The United States imposed sanctions on Syria in 2004 for allegedly backing terrorism. Damascus shrugged off calls by Washington, Israel's chief ally, to pressure Hizbollah to accept Israel's demands during the recent war.
Israel First in Multiple Births; Moslem Births - Down
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
The Central Bureau of Statistics has found that some 100,000 Jewish babies were born in Israel in 2005, maintaining a steady rate, while some 34,000 Moslems were born - a drop of some 5.6%.
Other findings:
Israel is in first place in the world in multiple-baby births, largely because of the high rate of fertility treatments in the country. In 2003, 5% of all Jewish babies were born in multiple-baby births, compared with only 3.4% of Moslems. The number of such babies born in Israel has risen 29% over the past decade.
Moslem Births - Down
Of the 143,913 babies born in Israel in 2005, 70% were born to Jewish mothers, 24% - Moslem, 2% - Druze, and 1% - Christian Arab. The nearly 1% drop in births from the previous year was largly due to the 5.6% drop in Moslem births. After remaining at a
steady 4.6 or 4.7 births per Moslem woman for some 15 years, this rate has dropped sharply over the past five years to 4. The Jewish sector has remained steady for more than a decade at around 2.6-2.7 births per woman. The number of Druze births has dropped over the past 15 years from an average of 4.1 babies per woman to 2.6. The number of Christian births dropped from 2.7 per woman in 1996 to 2.2 last year.
Single Mothers
Among the Jewish births, 5.5%, or 5,498, were born to single mothers. In 2004, there were 6.6 births for every 1,000 single women, up from 3.6 fifteen years ago.
More Boys
For every 200 baby girls born in 2005, 211 male babies were born.
Young Mothers
In the past decade, the fertility of mothers under the age of 20 dropped by 19%, to a total of just over 4,100 births.In the past decade, the average age in Israel of a mother at her first birth rose by 17 months, to 26.6 years old.
REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM
SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN
CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.
EU suffering from 'general fatigue', says France
30.08.2006 - 09:54 CET | By Honor Mahony(EU OBSERVER)
France's Europe minister has given a strongly pessimistic view of the state of the European Union suggesting it is suffering from general fatigue.Speaking at the annual gathering of French ambassadors on Tuesday (29 August), Catherine Colonna said the functioning of the union – and more generally the state of the union – appears worrying to me.It is not that there is a crisis, that is not the case, the European Union is rather suffering from a sort of illness of apathy, from general fatigue.
She went on to say that this does not augur well for its future capacity to respond to the needs of its people.Nobody can understand why the Europeans are unable to help one another in an organised fashion in fighting forest fires or in coordinating the evacuations of their nationals from Lebanon,she pointed out.Ms Colonna, who used to be president Jacques Chirac's spokesperson, suggested three reasons for Europe's current situation.
Enlargement and globalisation
The first is the bloc's enlargement to take on countries from central and eastern Europe which has profoundly changed…the nature of the European project.She said that member states are happy to continue to pretend that the same European project is being pursued but just with more countries.Ms Colonna also highlighted globalisation – being a destabilising element for the classic European model – as another reason and a change in what is expected from the EU as the third reason.
There is practically no problem that arises that does not result in people turning towards Europe to see what it can do to resolve it,said the minister adding that the EU is not ready to respond.Can the European Union carry on at this pace for long? Can Europe even take crucial decisions any more,she asked before concluding: We need a more fundamental start, if we are to avoid the risk of the European Union
collapsing.Ms Colonna's warning comes just a day after president Chirac criticised Europe's foreign policy saying that it failed when it came to its response to Lebanon.The future of the European project is today predicated on Europe's ability to be a leading political player, the president told the same audience of ambassadors.
France's role in the EU
Their words also reflect a greater unease and lack of satisfaction with France's overall role in Europe.A founding member of the EU, it has been perplexed by the addition of the economically liberal new member states making it have to fight to preserve the French social model.It has also seen a decline in its overall influence as the EU expanded and a reduction in the use of the French language - which is strongly tied to the perception of the country's status.French voters last year also rejected the European Constitution, with fears about jobs and job security - embodied in an EU law on opening up the services market - seen as a large contributing factor to the vote.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
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.
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.
US housing slump fuels crash fears
Foundering American property market could spark global slowdown worse than dotcom collapse Heather Stewart, economics correspondent,Sunday August 27, 2006,The Observer
The downturn in the US housing market will force businesses to slash 73,000 jobs a month in the new year and could be more damaging to the world economy than the dotcom crash, economists have warned.After official figures last week showed that the number of new homes sold in July was 22 per cent lower than a year earlier, while prices were almost flat, fears are mounting that the 'orderly' housing slowdown predicted by the Federal Reserve will become a full-blown crash.Things do seem to be getting worse very quickly. Freefall is a strong word, but I think it's the right one to use here,' said Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital
Economics.House prices have been rising at unprecedented double-digit rates in recent years, giving homeowners massive windfalls and supporting a wave of investment in new construction. However, the number of unsold new homes is now at a 10-year high.
Ashworth reckons 30 per cent of all the jobs created since the end of the last recession in 2001 - 1.4 million - have been in sectors related to the housing market boom, from construction to DIY stores. As the boom runs out of steam, Capital calculates that 73,000 jobs a month will be lost.The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for the first time in 18 meetings earlier this month, as chairman Ben Bernanke weighed the risks of high inflation and the threat to growth from the long-expected housing market crunch.
Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, predicts that the property slowdown will shave at least 2 percentage points off GDP growth next year, taking the US perilously close to recession, as construction spending plummets and homeowners lose the cushion of extra wealth that comes from rapid price rises.For a wealth-dependent US economy, the bursting of another major asset bubble is likely to be a very big deal,he said, warning that, with US fiscal and trade imbalances now larger than five years ago, the fallout for the rest of the world could be more devastating than the aftermath of the dotcom boom. A bursting of the property bubble
poses equally serious risks for America's key trading partners and for the rest of an increasingly integrated global economy,he added.
Anxieties about the fragile US housing sector come as analysts in the UK debate whether this month's rise in interest rates will dent prices here. Property website Hometrack will warn tomorrow that the so-called mini-boom that has buoyed the market in London over the past few months will be snuffed out by higher mortgage costs.Fionnuala Earley, group economist at Nationwide, said she believed the market could ride out the rate hike, but expects it to slow going into the new year. There are supportive factors: buy-to-let figures are strong, and immigration suggests there's going to be tenant demand, and there are property supply constraints,she said. 'But if the MPC's raising rates, it's a warning shot, and people are going to think again about whether they should move and whether they should stretch themselves.
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.
Hurricane John menaces Mexican resorts By Karina Tejada
Wed Aug 30, 3:34 PM ET
ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane John grew into a dangerous Category 4 storm just off Mexico's Pacific coast on Wednesday, threatening beach resorts with heavy rain and searing winds and blowing down trees in Acapulco. Home to some 1 million people, Acapulco had sea surges of up to 10 feet. Emergency workers were on alert for mudslides and flash floods as John trekked along the coast, packing winds of 135 mph (215 kph), with higher gusts.The Miami-based National Hurricane Center upgraded John to Category 4, the second-strongest hurricane grade and capable of extensive damage if it hits the coast directly.
It said John had drifted slightly closer to the coast and could gain even more punch over the next 24 hours.Emergency workers were most immediately worried about Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo and Manzanillo, which are popular with U.S. and Canadian sailfish fishermen.
Nadya Velas of the civil protection agency in Guerrero state, said there were no plans to evacuate tourists or residents for the moment.But we are ready for any scenario.On its current track, John could slam directly into the plush beach and golf resort of Los Cabos on the tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula later this week.We're watching it real closely. Everyone's taking it very seriously,said Minerva Saenz, who charters boats out to tourists in Los Cabos for deep sea fishing trips.Although there has been no major damage so far, hotels warned guests of the possible dangers.
REFUGEES
If a hurricane comes, they are no longer guests, they are refugees,said Jean Louis Magron, the resident manager of the Dreams Los Cabos Suites, a big hotel on the beach.Last October, Hurricane Wilma smashed up Cancun and other beach resorts on Mexico's Caribbean coast, causing massive damage, sucking away large stretches of beach and stranding tens of thousands of tourists in makeshift shelters for several days.A hurricane warning was in effect on Wednesday from the steel-making port of Lazaro Cardenas to Cabo Corrientes, further northwest.While the center of John is forecast to remain just offshore, hurricane force winds are still expected to reach the coast within the warning area,the National Hurricane Center said.John was moving slowly northwest parallel to the coast on Wednesday afternoon, about 70 miles southwest of Lazaro Cardenas.
Category 4 hurricanes can destroy mobile homes, deal major damage to lower floors of structures close to the shore. Land lower than 10 feet above sea level may be flooded and require massive evacuations.Rainfall of 4 to 8 inches, with isolated deluges of 12 inches, was possible along the coast in the warning areas.The U.S. hurricane center warned that rain could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides over areas of mountainous terrain. The storm formed on Monday and became a Category 1 hurricane early on Tuesday before being upgraded two notches inside a few hours. (Additional reporting by Chris Aspin and Gunther Hamm)
Feeble Ernesto headed for Carolinas By Jim Loney
1 hour, 8 minutes ago
MIAMI (Reuters) - Ernesto plodded across Florida on Wednesday, soaking a state relieved that the once-menacing cyclone had fizzled a year after destructive Hurricane Katrina. With its winds flagging as it limped northward over the Florida peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center stripped Ernesto of tropical-storm status and downgraded it to a tropical depression.Ernesto, the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season's fifth storm, could regain some strength when it moves off northeast Florida into the Atlantic Ocean.
Forecasters expected it to curve back into land along the South Carolina coast on Thursday.A tropical storm warning was in effect from central Florida to Cape Lookout, North Carolina, but a hurricane watch for coastal areas of the Carolinas was lifted as the storm appeared incapable of regaining the 74 mph (119 kph) winds needed for hurricane status.At 5 p.m. (2100 GMT), Ernesto's sustained winds were about 35 mph (56 kph), the hurricane center said. The center of the system was still over Florida, about 55 miles south-southwest of Cape Canaveral.
Ernesto has the potential to regain tropical storm strength on Thursday over the Atlantic,the hurricane center said.North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley activated 150 National Guard soldiers and said two rescue helicopters were standing by in case of flooding.
Neighboring South Carolina activated 240 National Guard troops on Tuesday.One of the greatest dangers will be flooded roads, Easley said.Do not drive in flood waters. Most deaths from flooding occur in automobiles.
FAR CRY FROM KATRINA
There appeared to be little cleanup needed in Florida. Tourists were allowed to return to the Florida Keys on Wednesday and state parks were reopened.Florida Power & Light, the state's largest electric company, said it had 7,500 customers without power and had restored service to 10,000 others. Schools across the region were set to reopen on Thursday.It was a far cry from encounters with hurricanes Wilma and Katrina last year. Wilma knocked out power to more than 90 percent of south Florida residents in October and caused $12 billion in damage.Katrina caused more than $500 million in insured losses in Florida before slamming into the Gulf coast on August 29, where it killed about 1,500 people, swamped New Orleans and caused $80 billion in damage.Ernesto's weakened state as it hit Florida was a puzzle to forecasters, who had predicted it could become a hurricane over the warm waters of the Florida Straits after bashing Cuba.
Despite sophisticated computers, storm-tracking aircraft, satellites and radar, forecasting the intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes lags 10 or 15 years behind forecasting a storm's future track, National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield said.
The intensity forecast is almost like putting a million-piece jigsaw puzzle together and some of those pieces to the puzzle don't have any color on them and some of those pieces are missing, he said. It's very, very difficult.Before hitting Cuba and Florida, Ernesto lashed Haiti, where officials blamed it for two deaths.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Chavez vows solidarity with Syria against U.S., Israel By Khaled Yacoub Oweis Wed Aug 30, 12:32 PM ET
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged solidarity on Wednesday with Syria in its struggle against Israel and the United States and predicted the demise of U.S. imperialism. Chavez, a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy, also said he would seek a front-row seat if President George W. Bush accepted an invitation from Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a televised debate, adding he would be cheering on the Iranian president.Syria and Venezuela share the same firm positions and a resistance to imperialism and imperialist aggression,Chavez told a news conference after talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, speaking in Spanish through an Arab interpreter.This age will witness the end of American imperialism,he said, pointing a laser pen at a map of the world showing countries where Washington has intervened militarily or whose governments it has helped to topple over the last 50 years.
Chavez denounced what he called Israel's Nazi crimes in Lebanon during the recent war and said the Jewish state should pull its remaining troops out of that country and also out of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967.Nothing equals the Nazi crimes Israel has committed in Lebanon and against the Palestinians, said Chavez, who arrived in Syria on Tuesday evening from Malaysia.Chavez's popularity shot up across the Arab world after he ordered Venezuela's envoy to Israel home earlier this month to protest Israel's military offensive against Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. Many civilians died in the fighting.He has threatened to break off diplomatic ties with Israel.
FIGHTING IMPERIALISM
Commenting on Iranian President Ahmadinejad's challenge to Bush on Tuesday to discuss the world's problems in a televised debate, Chavez said: I wish I could be sitting at the front row and watch Ahmadinejad deal Bush a knock-out blow.The White House has called the proposal a diversion.The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until Thursday to suspend its uranium enrichment program or possibly face sanctions.Ahmadinejad has shocked the West with his calls for Israel to be wiped off the map. He and Chavez established a warm rapport when the Venezuelan leader visited Tehran last month.Chavez, a robust ex-paratrooper, has courted other anti-U.S. leaders from Belarus to Cuba in recent months as he tries to build a broad global coalition against imperialism.After Chavez's talks on Wednesday with Assad at a hilltop palace overlooking both Damascus and the Golan Heights, the two countries signed a raft of deals on cooperation in sectors ranging from agriculture to oil.The United States imposed sanctions on Syria in 2004 for allegedly backing terrorism. Damascus shrugged off calls by Washington, Israel's chief ally, to pressure Hizbollah to accept Israel's demands during the recent war.
Israel First in Multiple Births; Moslem Births - Down
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
The Central Bureau of Statistics has found that some 100,000 Jewish babies were born in Israel in 2005, maintaining a steady rate, while some 34,000 Moslems were born - a drop of some 5.6%.
Other findings:
Israel is in first place in the world in multiple-baby births, largely because of the high rate of fertility treatments in the country. In 2003, 5% of all Jewish babies were born in multiple-baby births, compared with only 3.4% of Moslems. The number of such babies born in Israel has risen 29% over the past decade.
Moslem Births - Down
Of the 143,913 babies born in Israel in 2005, 70% were born to Jewish mothers, 24% - Moslem, 2% - Druze, and 1% - Christian Arab. The nearly 1% drop in births from the previous year was largly due to the 5.6% drop in Moslem births. After remaining at a
steady 4.6 or 4.7 births per Moslem woman for some 15 years, this rate has dropped sharply over the past five years to 4. The Jewish sector has remained steady for more than a decade at around 2.6-2.7 births per woman. The number of Druze births has dropped over the past 15 years from an average of 4.1 babies per woman to 2.6. The number of Christian births dropped from 2.7 per woman in 1996 to 2.2 last year.
Single Mothers
Among the Jewish births, 5.5%, or 5,498, were born to single mothers. In 2004, there were 6.6 births for every 1,000 single women, up from 3.6 fifteen years ago.
More Boys
For every 200 baby girls born in 2005, 211 male babies were born.
Young Mothers
In the past decade, the fertility of mothers under the age of 20 dropped by 19%, to a total of just over 4,100 births.In the past decade, the average age in Israel of a mother at her first birth rose by 17 months, to 26.6 years old.
REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM
SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN
CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.
EU suffering from 'general fatigue', says France
30.08.2006 - 09:54 CET | By Honor Mahony(EU OBSERVER)
France's Europe minister has given a strongly pessimistic view of the state of the European Union suggesting it is suffering from general fatigue.Speaking at the annual gathering of French ambassadors on Tuesday (29 August), Catherine Colonna said the functioning of the union – and more generally the state of the union – appears worrying to me.It is not that there is a crisis, that is not the case, the European Union is rather suffering from a sort of illness of apathy, from general fatigue.
She went on to say that this does not augur well for its future capacity to respond to the needs of its people.Nobody can understand why the Europeans are unable to help one another in an organised fashion in fighting forest fires or in coordinating the evacuations of their nationals from Lebanon,she pointed out.Ms Colonna, who used to be president Jacques Chirac's spokesperson, suggested three reasons for Europe's current situation.
Enlargement and globalisation
The first is the bloc's enlargement to take on countries from central and eastern Europe which has profoundly changed…the nature of the European project.She said that member states are happy to continue to pretend that the same European project is being pursued but just with more countries.Ms Colonna also highlighted globalisation – being a destabilising element for the classic European model – as another reason and a change in what is expected from the EU as the third reason.
There is practically no problem that arises that does not result in people turning towards Europe to see what it can do to resolve it,said the minister adding that the EU is not ready to respond.Can the European Union carry on at this pace for long? Can Europe even take crucial decisions any more,she asked before concluding: We need a more fundamental start, if we are to avoid the risk of the European Union
collapsing.Ms Colonna's warning comes just a day after president Chirac criticised Europe's foreign policy saying that it failed when it came to its response to Lebanon.The future of the European project is today predicated on Europe's ability to be a leading political player, the president told the same audience of ambassadors.
France's role in the EU
Their words also reflect a greater unease and lack of satisfaction with France's overall role in Europe.A founding member of the EU, it has been perplexed by the addition of the economically liberal new member states making it have to fight to preserve the French social model.It has also seen a decline in its overall influence as the EU expanded and a reduction in the use of the French language - which is strongly tied to the perception of the country's status.French voters last year also rejected the European Constitution, with fears about jobs and job security - embodied in an EU law on opening up the services market - seen as a large contributing factor to the vote.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
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.
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.
US housing slump fuels crash fears
Foundering American property market could spark global slowdown worse than dotcom collapse Heather Stewart, economics correspondent,Sunday August 27, 2006,The Observer
The downturn in the US housing market will force businesses to slash 73,000 jobs a month in the new year and could be more damaging to the world economy than the dotcom crash, economists have warned.After official figures last week showed that the number of new homes sold in July was 22 per cent lower than a year earlier, while prices were almost flat, fears are mounting that the 'orderly' housing slowdown predicted by the Federal Reserve will become a full-blown crash.Things do seem to be getting worse very quickly. Freefall is a strong word, but I think it's the right one to use here,' said Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital
Economics.House prices have been rising at unprecedented double-digit rates in recent years, giving homeowners massive windfalls and supporting a wave of investment in new construction. However, the number of unsold new homes is now at a 10-year high.
Ashworth reckons 30 per cent of all the jobs created since the end of the last recession in 2001 - 1.4 million - have been in sectors related to the housing market boom, from construction to DIY stores. As the boom runs out of steam, Capital calculates that 73,000 jobs a month will be lost.The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for the first time in 18 meetings earlier this month, as chairman Ben Bernanke weighed the risks of high inflation and the threat to growth from the long-expected housing market crunch.
Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, predicts that the property slowdown will shave at least 2 percentage points off GDP growth next year, taking the US perilously close to recession, as construction spending plummets and homeowners lose the cushion of extra wealth that comes from rapid price rises.For a wealth-dependent US economy, the bursting of another major asset bubble is likely to be a very big deal,he said, warning that, with US fiscal and trade imbalances now larger than five years ago, the fallout for the rest of the world could be more devastating than the aftermath of the dotcom boom. A bursting of the property bubble
poses equally serious risks for America's key trading partners and for the rest of an increasingly integrated global economy,he added.
Anxieties about the fragile US housing sector come as analysts in the UK debate whether this month's rise in interest rates will dent prices here. Property website Hometrack will warn tomorrow that the so-called mini-boom that has buoyed the market in London over the past few months will be snuffed out by higher mortgage costs.Fionnuala Earley, group economist at Nationwide, said she believed the market could ride out the rate hike, but expects it to slow going into the new year. There are supportive factors: buy-to-let figures are strong, and immigration suggests there's going to be tenant demand, and there are property supply constraints,she said. 'But if the MPC's raising rates, it's a warning shot, and people are going to think again about whether they should move and whether they should stretch themselves.
JESUS THE TRUE GOD OF ISRAEL
JESUS THE TRUE GOD OF ISRAEL
DANIEL 9:24,27
24 Seventy weeks (70x7=490 YRS) are determined upon thy people(ISRAELIS) and upon thy holy city,(JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
IN DANIEL 25-26 ITS DANIELS 69 (69X7=483 YRS) WEEKS PREDICTION AND IN 26 IT SAYS THE ROMANS WOULD SIGN THE FINAL 70TH WEEK OF DANIELS FULFILLMENT TO END THE VISION AND PROPHECY.
27 And he(EU JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(7 YRS OR 70TH WEEK OF DANIELS PROPHECY) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(STOPS ANIMAL SACRIFICES AT 3 1/2 MARK OF 70tH WEEK) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
NOTICE ITS ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM IN DANIELS PROPHECY, THATS WHY WE KNOW IN JOEL THE PARTING OF THE LAND IS JERUSALEM.
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.(LAND FOR SECURITY BY THE EU)
ZECHARIAH 12:1-3,8-14
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.(ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM LIKE DANIEL PREDICTED)
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
8 In that day shall the LORD (GOD JESUS) defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I (GOD JESUS) will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
MARK 16:19
19 So then after the Lord (GOD JESUS) had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
LUKE 24:21
21 But we trusted that it had been he (GOD JESUS) which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.(INTERESTING,ITS 2000 YRS SINCE JESUS DIED FOR ISRAEL AND THE WORLD,ITS NOW INTO
THE 3RD DAY AS OF 2001).
FROM ADAM TO CHRIST WAS 4,000 YEARS, AND FROM CHRIST ( GOD) TO 2000 WAS 6,000 YEARS. AFTER 2001 STARTED THE 3RD DAY OR 7,000TH YEAR. THE EARTH WAS CREATED IN 6 DAYS AND GOD (JESUS) RESTED ON THE 7TH DAY.
ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT ISRAEL WAS REBORN AND CAPTURED JERUSALEM NEAR THE END OF THE 6,000TH YR. SO WE KNOW JESUS CAN RETURN ANYTIME NOW FOR THE 7TH DAY OF REST.(1000 YR MILLENIUM OF PEACE WITH GOD JESUS) RULING AS KING FROM JERUSALEM WITH ISRAELIS HIS HELPERS IN THE TEMPLE.
LUKE 24:50-51
50 And he (JESUS GOD) led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
AND WERE DID JESUS GO TO HEAVEN , THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. NOTICE IN ZECHARIAH 14:4 HE COMES BACK FROM WERE HE WENT TO HEAVEN, THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, ACCIDENT NO WAY. THE GREATEST EARTHQUAKE IN HISTORY OCCURS ON EARTH WHEN JESUS COMES BACK BODILY IN WHICH THE ISRAELIS WILL MOURN FOR THE TRUE GOD OF ISRAEL (JESUS).
ZECHARIAH 14:1-4,12-14
1 Behold, the day of the LORD (GOD JESUS) cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;(WW3 3RD WAVE) and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD (GOD JESUS) go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his (JESUS GODS) feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
OH OH LUKEWARM LIBERALS CHURCHES IN ISRAEL THROW OUT CHRISTIANITY AS RADICAL MILITARISTS. HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR THESE LUKEWARMERS WHEN JUDGEMENT COMES IN THE FUTURE BIG TIME AND THEY WILL BE CRYING TO JESUS TO STOP THE JUDGEMENTS THAT ARE COMING UPON THEM.
IT WILL BE LUKEWARMERS LIKE THIS THAT HELP DIVIDE JERUSALEM AND CAUSE WW3 TO OCCUR BECAUSE THE GOD OF ISRAEL (KING JESUS) IS SO MAD THAT HIS JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED.
THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM - Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.(Matthew 5:9)
Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. The Christian Zionist programme provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism. In its extreme form, it laces an emphasis on apocalyptic events leading to the end of history rather than living Christ's love and justice today. We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation.
We further reject the contemporary alliance of Christian Zionist leaders and organizations with elements in the governments of Israel and the United States that are presently imposing their unilateral pre-emptive borders and domination over Palestine. This inevitably leads to unending cycles of violence that undermine the security of all peoples of the Middle East and the rest of the world. We reject the teachings of Christian Zionism that facilitate and support these policies as they advance racial exclusivity and perpetual war rather than the gospel of universal love, redemption and reconciliation taught by Jesus Christ. Rather than condemn the world to the doom of Armageddon we call upon everyone to liberate themselves from the ideologies of militarism and occupation. Instead, let them pursue the healing of the nations!
We call upon Christians in Churches on every continent to pray for the Palestinian and Israeli people, both of whom are suffering as victims of occupation and militarism. These discriminative actions are turning Palestine into impoverished ghettos surrounded by exclusive Israeli settlements. The establishment of the illegal settlements and the construction of the Separation Wall on confiscated Palestinian land undermines the viability of a Palestinian state as well as peace and security in the entire region.
We call upon all Churches that remain silent, to break their silence and speak for reconciliation with justice in the Holy Land. Therefore, we commit ourselves to the following principles as an alternative way:We affirm that all people are created in the image of God. In turn they are called to honor the dignity of every human being and to respect their inalienable rights. We affirm that Israelis and Palestinians are capable of living together within peace, justice and security. We affirm that Palestinians are one people, both Muslim and Christian. We reject all attempts to subvert and fragment their unity.
We call upon all people to reject the narrow world view of Christian Zionism and other ideologies that privilege one people at the expense of others. We are committed to non-violent resistance as the most effective means to end the illegal occupation in order to attain a just and lasting peace. With urgency we warn that Christian Zionism and its alliances are justifying colonization, apartheid and empire-building. God demands that justice be done. No enduring peace, security or reconciliation is possible without the foundation of justice. The demands of justice will not disappear. The struggle for justice must be pursued diligently and persistently but non-violently.What does the Lord require of you, to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.(Micah 6:8)
This is where we take our stand. We stand for justice. We can do no other. Justice alone guarantees a peace that will lead to reconciliation with a life of security and prosperity for all the peoples of our Land. By standing on the side of justice, we open ourselves to the work of peace - and working for peace makes us children of God. God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.(2 Cor 5:19)
His Beattitude Patriarch Michel Sabbah
Latin Patriarchate, Jerusalem
Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad,
Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate, Jerusalem
Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal,
Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East
Bishop Munib Younan,
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
August 22, 2006
DANIEL 9:24,27
24 Seventy weeks (70x7=490 YRS) are determined upon thy people(ISRAELIS) and upon thy holy city,(JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
IN DANIEL 25-26 ITS DANIELS 69 (69X7=483 YRS) WEEKS PREDICTION AND IN 26 IT SAYS THE ROMANS WOULD SIGN THE FINAL 70TH WEEK OF DANIELS FULFILLMENT TO END THE VISION AND PROPHECY.
27 And he(EU JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(7 YRS OR 70TH WEEK OF DANIELS PROPHECY) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(STOPS ANIMAL SACRIFICES AT 3 1/2 MARK OF 70tH WEEK) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
NOTICE ITS ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM IN DANIELS PROPHECY, THATS WHY WE KNOW IN JOEL THE PARTING OF THE LAND IS JERUSALEM.
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.(LAND FOR SECURITY BY THE EU)
ZECHARIAH 12:1-3,8-14
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.(ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM LIKE DANIEL PREDICTED)
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
8 In that day shall the LORD (GOD JESUS) defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I (GOD JESUS) will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
MARK 16:19
19 So then after the Lord (GOD JESUS) had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
LUKE 24:21
21 But we trusted that it had been he (GOD JESUS) which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.(INTERESTING,ITS 2000 YRS SINCE JESUS DIED FOR ISRAEL AND THE WORLD,ITS NOW INTO
THE 3RD DAY AS OF 2001).
FROM ADAM TO CHRIST WAS 4,000 YEARS, AND FROM CHRIST ( GOD) TO 2000 WAS 6,000 YEARS. AFTER 2001 STARTED THE 3RD DAY OR 7,000TH YEAR. THE EARTH WAS CREATED IN 6 DAYS AND GOD (JESUS) RESTED ON THE 7TH DAY.
ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT ISRAEL WAS REBORN AND CAPTURED JERUSALEM NEAR THE END OF THE 6,000TH YR. SO WE KNOW JESUS CAN RETURN ANYTIME NOW FOR THE 7TH DAY OF REST.(1000 YR MILLENIUM OF PEACE WITH GOD JESUS) RULING AS KING FROM JERUSALEM WITH ISRAELIS HIS HELPERS IN THE TEMPLE.
LUKE 24:50-51
50 And he (JESUS GOD) led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
AND WERE DID JESUS GO TO HEAVEN , THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. NOTICE IN ZECHARIAH 14:4 HE COMES BACK FROM WERE HE WENT TO HEAVEN, THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, ACCIDENT NO WAY. THE GREATEST EARTHQUAKE IN HISTORY OCCURS ON EARTH WHEN JESUS COMES BACK BODILY IN WHICH THE ISRAELIS WILL MOURN FOR THE TRUE GOD OF ISRAEL (JESUS).
ZECHARIAH 14:1-4,12-14
1 Behold, the day of the LORD (GOD JESUS) cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;(WW3 3RD WAVE) and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD (GOD JESUS) go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his (JESUS GODS) feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
OH OH LUKEWARM LIBERALS CHURCHES IN ISRAEL THROW OUT CHRISTIANITY AS RADICAL MILITARISTS. HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR THESE LUKEWARMERS WHEN JUDGEMENT COMES IN THE FUTURE BIG TIME AND THEY WILL BE CRYING TO JESUS TO STOP THE JUDGEMENTS THAT ARE COMING UPON THEM.
IT WILL BE LUKEWARMERS LIKE THIS THAT HELP DIVIDE JERUSALEM AND CAUSE WW3 TO OCCUR BECAUSE THE GOD OF ISRAEL (KING JESUS) IS SO MAD THAT HIS JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED.
THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM - Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.(Matthew 5:9)
Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. The Christian Zionist programme provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism. In its extreme form, it laces an emphasis on apocalyptic events leading to the end of history rather than living Christ's love and justice today. We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation.
We further reject the contemporary alliance of Christian Zionist leaders and organizations with elements in the governments of Israel and the United States that are presently imposing their unilateral pre-emptive borders and domination over Palestine. This inevitably leads to unending cycles of violence that undermine the security of all peoples of the Middle East and the rest of the world. We reject the teachings of Christian Zionism that facilitate and support these policies as they advance racial exclusivity and perpetual war rather than the gospel of universal love, redemption and reconciliation taught by Jesus Christ. Rather than condemn the world to the doom of Armageddon we call upon everyone to liberate themselves from the ideologies of militarism and occupation. Instead, let them pursue the healing of the nations!
We call upon Christians in Churches on every continent to pray for the Palestinian and Israeli people, both of whom are suffering as victims of occupation and militarism. These discriminative actions are turning Palestine into impoverished ghettos surrounded by exclusive Israeli settlements. The establishment of the illegal settlements and the construction of the Separation Wall on confiscated Palestinian land undermines the viability of a Palestinian state as well as peace and security in the entire region.
We call upon all Churches that remain silent, to break their silence and speak for reconciliation with justice in the Holy Land. Therefore, we commit ourselves to the following principles as an alternative way:We affirm that all people are created in the image of God. In turn they are called to honor the dignity of every human being and to respect their inalienable rights. We affirm that Israelis and Palestinians are capable of living together within peace, justice and security. We affirm that Palestinians are one people, both Muslim and Christian. We reject all attempts to subvert and fragment their unity.
We call upon all people to reject the narrow world view of Christian Zionism and other ideologies that privilege one people at the expense of others. We are committed to non-violent resistance as the most effective means to end the illegal occupation in order to attain a just and lasting peace. With urgency we warn that Christian Zionism and its alliances are justifying colonization, apartheid and empire-building. God demands that justice be done. No enduring peace, security or reconciliation is possible without the foundation of justice. The demands of justice will not disappear. The struggle for justice must be pursued diligently and persistently but non-violently.What does the Lord require of you, to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.(Micah 6:8)
This is where we take our stand. We stand for justice. We can do no other. Justice alone guarantees a peace that will lead to reconciliation with a life of security and prosperity for all the peoples of our Land. By standing on the side of justice, we open ourselves to the work of peace - and working for peace makes us children of God. God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.(2 Cor 5:19)
His Beattitude Patriarch Michel Sabbah
Latin Patriarchate, Jerusalem
Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad,
Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate, Jerusalem
Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal,
Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East
Bishop Munib Younan,
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
August 22, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
IRAN NUKE LEAK POSSIBLE
1-GCC DRAFTS PLAN FOR IRANIAN NUKE DISASTER. 2-Growing fears over North Korea nuclear test. 3-Quake rocks Yogyakarta again. 4-17 counties get declared. 5-Exorcist says demonic influence is strong in today's world. 6-India seeks free trade accord with European Union.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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.
REVELATION 9:18
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.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
GCC DRAFTS PLAN FOR IRANIAN NUKE DISASTER
August 30, 2006
The Middle East Newsline reports: The Gulf Cooperation Council has been drafting a plan to respond to a nuclear disaster in neighboring Iran.
Officials said the Bahrain-based Marine Emergency Mutual Aid Center [MEMAC] has headed an effort to draft responses to a leak from Iran's nuclear reactor at Bushehr, about 120 kilometers from the Gulf Arab kingdom. They said the center has established a task force that would include representatives from all six GCC states as well as Iran.
Over the next few months, the center plans to send experts to Iran to inspect Bushehr. The 1,000 megawatt light-water reactor was expected to begin full operations by July 2007.The problem with nuclear radiation is that it spreads very quickly and lasts a long time,MEMAC chairman Abdul Munim Janahi said. An action plan is needed to limit any effect that it may have, just as we have a regional action plan for the oil and chemical industries.
Growing fears over North Korea nuclear test
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Wednesday August 30, 2006,The Guardian
International concerns about a possible North Korean nuclear test increased today with reports that Kim Jong-il may have crossed the border into China to explain his military provocations to uneasy allies in Beijing.According to the South Korean media, satellites have tracked a special North Korean train, the usual form of transport for Mr Kim, entering Chinese territory. If confirmed, it would be his second trip to Beijing in less than a year - an unheard-of flurry of diplomacy for a notoriously travel-shy figurehead.The reports are impossible to verify, but they come amid growing signs of Chinese anger with Mr Kim over last month's missile tests, and regional anxiety about his next move. Earlier this month, the South Korean president, Roh Moo-hyun, requested an emergency summit with Beijing's leaders.
For the past two weeks, Washington and Seoul have been buzzing with speculation that Pyongyang may be preparing to test a nuclear bomb. North Korea has frequently boasted it possesses such a weapon, but has never proved it. Testing a nuclear weapon would be seen as a dangerous escalation of the crisis.Mr Kim hopes to frighten Washington into making concessions, particularly lifting the financial restrictions on North Korea's overseas deposits. The choking of Pyongyang's foreign accounts, initiated by Washington in the name of an anti-money laundering campaign, has put Mr Kim under more pressure than any previous measure.
China has also demonstrated its frustration with the North Korean leader. Although the two countries were once described as being as close as lips and teeth, there have been several signs of a rift in the past year.
According to customs figures, China's exports of rice, maize and wheat to North Korea have slumped by more than two thirds in the first seven months of this year to 102,000 tonnes, compared with 331,000 tonnes in the same period last year. South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper has reported a significant decline in oil exports. Chinese financial institutions are also said to have cooperated with US moves to freeze North Korean accounts.It's quite clear that relations between China and North Korea are tense now, said Shi Yinhong of Renmin University in Beijing. Since the North Korean missile test, China has been indirectly supporting US sanctions on Pyongyang. If today's visit is confirmed, it may show that Kim Jong-il wants to complain about this.
Mr Kim is said to have expressed his distrust of his country's traditional allies after Beijing and Russia supported a United Nations security resolution criticising Pyongyang for the missile tests. According to a report by the Kyodo news agency, Mr Kim said China and Russia were unreliable at a meeting of North Korea's ambassadors, all of whom were hastily recalled to Pyongyang and instructed to prepare for a strengthening of the country's deterrent power.It is a critical time for North Korea. They are clearly frustrated. The financial restrictions are getting tighter and the Bush administration is showing no sign of flexibility,said Peter Beck,
a North Korea expert at the International Crisis Group in Seoul. If North Korea wants to do a nuclear test, they would want to consult with China first.But he said Beijing was already unhappy with its neighbour and a test would make relations worse. China's leaders want a stable buffer, but they also want a stable region and right now North Korea is threatening that stability. I don't know at what point Chinese leaders would start to think that North Korea is acting in such an irresponsible way that they cannot support it any more.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Quake rocks Yogyakarta again
Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) A tectonic earthquake measuring 2.2 on Richter Scale (SR) again rocked Yogyakarta and its surrounding areas at about 14:53 local time on Tuesday, a local Meteorology and Geophysics official said.
Dian, the official of the Meteorological and Geophysic Office (BMG) here told Antara that the epicenter of the quake was on the Parangtritis coastal area in the Bantul district.Lasting only for a few seconds, the tremor made some residents in the city shock, but not panic.In the meantime, a similar quake with a magnitude of 5.8 on Richter Scale was reported to have also hit the province of Gorontalo in Sulawesi at about 06:53 pm local time on Tuesday.
The meteorological office in Gorontalo said that the earthquake was located at 0.27 decrees southern latitude and 125.30 decrees eastern longitude at a depth of 59 km under the Maluku sea.It said that the quake which lasted for ten seconds had no potential to provoke tsunami tidal waves and material losses.No immediate reports on casualties and material losses.Indonesia with more than 17,000 islands, lies in a zone known as the Pacific ring of fire, which is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity.Among the worst earthquakes hitting the country was the 8.9 magnitude temblor followed by subsequent tsunami in Aceh Province and Nias, North Sumatra in December 2004 which killed over 168.000 people, and the 5.9 magnitude quake hitting Yogyakarta last May, killing at least 5,700 people.
Indonesia`s archipelago stretches across one of the most unstable parts of the Earth`s surface. The country`s position on the planet`s crust means it will continue to experience such catastrophes, just as it has done for the past 50 million years or so, according to seismologists.Gary Gibson, professor of seismology at the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, said recently that the plates of the planet`s crust that float on the molten core of the Earth smash against each other constantly, but while those plates usually move only a little bit each year, those that meet at Indonesia move more quickly.ANTARA,August 29.
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.
17 counties get declared
disaster areas from floods 9.01.2006
TRENTON - United States Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns has designated 17 New Jersey counties as natural disaster areas, following heavy rains, flooding and other severe weather conditions that led to crop and livestock losses during the month of June. Excessive precipitation, high winds, hail, and high humidity that occurred June 1 and on led New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine to seek a disaster declaration to assist farmers affected by the weather by providing them with low-interest emergency loans.
In the past 14 months, New Jersey farmers have been hit hard with harsh weather everything from damaging hail and wind, to floods and even drought,said Corzine. Farming businesses are dependent upon the weather, and the federal loan program can
provide much needed assistance when the weather doesn’t cooperate.The counties included in the primary disaster designation are: Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Salem, Somerset, Sussex and Warren. Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Union Counties were named as contiguous disaster counties. Field to field, farm to farm, region to region, we have experienced everything from some of the most dramatic losses to some very high quality yields this season, said New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Charles M. Kuperus. This disaster declaration will help ensure that New Jersey’s agriculture industry is strong and thriving now and in the future.
The disaster designation makes farm operators in both primary and contiguous counties who suffered 30 percent or more on losses directly due to the harsh weather eligible to be considered for low-interest emergency loans from Farm Services Agency (FSA), provided eligibility requirements are met. The loans can cover as much as 100 percent of the dollar value of the losses. FSA State Executive Director Paul Hlubik said farmers lost millions of dollars in crops this year due to hail storms, localized flooding, excessive rain and subsequent insect and disease damage. He said heat and wet conditions also caused accelerated maturing of crops and other problems.
Although the weather affected farmers individually, consumers will still find quality Jersey Fresh produce available in abundance throughout the state, said Hlubik. The Secretarial Disaster Designation makes farmers eligible for low-interest loans and restructuring of debt. I’m grateful to Secretary Johanns for providing this assistance and to Gov. Corzine for seeking this aid on behalf of the farmers I serve.
Farmers in Mercer, Hunterdon and Warren Counties as well as the contiguous counties already were eligible for assistance based on a Presidential disaster declaration due to flooding in June. FSA will consider each application on its own merit by taking into account the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. For further information, contact the State FSA office at 609-298-3446 or visit FSA on the web at http://disaster.fsa.usda.gov/emloan.htm.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Exorcist says demonic influence is strong in today's world
By John Thavis,Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- An Italian exorcist said demonic influence is strong in today's world, affecting individuals and sometimes entire societies.While it is very rare for a person to be possessed by a demon, history reveals some likely examples --including Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, said Pauline Father Gabriele Amorth.Father Amorth, who works as an exorcist in the Diocese of Rome, made the comments in an interview with Vatican Radio Aug. 27.Father Amorth said every culture in history has shown an awareness of the existence of evil spirits. With the Bible, he said, these spirits were identified as rebellious angels who tempt man to evil out of hatred for God.
The devil can possess not only individuals but also entire groups and populations. For example, I am convinced that the Nazis were all possessed by the devil, he said.If one thinks of what was committed by people like Stalin or Hitler, certainly they were possessed by the devil. This is seen in their actions, in their behavior and in the horrors they committed,he said.Therefore, society also needs to be defended against the devil,he said.Father Amorth said he thought one reason why the devil's influence was high today is that Christian faith has weakened, replaced in many cases by superstition and an interest in the occult, which he said open the way to demonic influences.He said the church teaches that the devil is a pure spirit; he is not seen, but his effects can be seen, he said.
Exorcism, he said, is a prayer made in the name of the church to liberate people stricken by the devil or by his evil influences.Father Amorth gained notoriety in 2000 when he revealed that Pope John Paul II had performed an impromptu exorcism on a young woman who flew into an apparent rage at the end of a general audience at the Vatican.In 1999, the Vatican issued a revised Rite of Exorcism, cautioning that cases of actual possession by devils were probably very rare. The church also has emphasized that before an exorcism is performed, it is important to make certain one is dealing with the devil and not a psychological or other illness.END
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING
BLOCKS)
India seeks free trade accord with European Union: report Tue Aug 29, 11:31 PM ET
BERLIN (AFP) India wants to sign a free trade agreement with the European Union, Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath said in an interview to the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during a European summit in Finland in
October, will call for the start of negotiations on an Indian-EU free trade agreement,Nath was quoted as saying.He described India and the European Union as natural trading partners.The two parties are also key members of the World Trade Organization and principal players in the Doha Round global trade liberalization talks, which are currently at a standstill.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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.
REVELATION 9:18
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.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
GCC DRAFTS PLAN FOR IRANIAN NUKE DISASTER
August 30, 2006
The Middle East Newsline reports: The Gulf Cooperation Council has been drafting a plan to respond to a nuclear disaster in neighboring Iran.
Officials said the Bahrain-based Marine Emergency Mutual Aid Center [MEMAC] has headed an effort to draft responses to a leak from Iran's nuclear reactor at Bushehr, about 120 kilometers from the Gulf Arab kingdom. They said the center has established a task force that would include representatives from all six GCC states as well as Iran.
Over the next few months, the center plans to send experts to Iran to inspect Bushehr. The 1,000 megawatt light-water reactor was expected to begin full operations by July 2007.The problem with nuclear radiation is that it spreads very quickly and lasts a long time,MEMAC chairman Abdul Munim Janahi said. An action plan is needed to limit any effect that it may have, just as we have a regional action plan for the oil and chemical industries.
Growing fears over North Korea nuclear test
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Wednesday August 30, 2006,The Guardian
International concerns about a possible North Korean nuclear test increased today with reports that Kim Jong-il may have crossed the border into China to explain his military provocations to uneasy allies in Beijing.According to the South Korean media, satellites have tracked a special North Korean train, the usual form of transport for Mr Kim, entering Chinese territory. If confirmed, it would be his second trip to Beijing in less than a year - an unheard-of flurry of diplomacy for a notoriously travel-shy figurehead.The reports are impossible to verify, but they come amid growing signs of Chinese anger with Mr Kim over last month's missile tests, and regional anxiety about his next move. Earlier this month, the South Korean president, Roh Moo-hyun, requested an emergency summit with Beijing's leaders.
For the past two weeks, Washington and Seoul have been buzzing with speculation that Pyongyang may be preparing to test a nuclear bomb. North Korea has frequently boasted it possesses such a weapon, but has never proved it. Testing a nuclear weapon would be seen as a dangerous escalation of the crisis.Mr Kim hopes to frighten Washington into making concessions, particularly lifting the financial restrictions on North Korea's overseas deposits. The choking of Pyongyang's foreign accounts, initiated by Washington in the name of an anti-money laundering campaign, has put Mr Kim under more pressure than any previous measure.
China has also demonstrated its frustration with the North Korean leader. Although the two countries were once described as being as close as lips and teeth, there have been several signs of a rift in the past year.
According to customs figures, China's exports of rice, maize and wheat to North Korea have slumped by more than two thirds in the first seven months of this year to 102,000 tonnes, compared with 331,000 tonnes in the same period last year. South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper has reported a significant decline in oil exports. Chinese financial institutions are also said to have cooperated with US moves to freeze North Korean accounts.It's quite clear that relations between China and North Korea are tense now, said Shi Yinhong of Renmin University in Beijing. Since the North Korean missile test, China has been indirectly supporting US sanctions on Pyongyang. If today's visit is confirmed, it may show that Kim Jong-il wants to complain about this.
Mr Kim is said to have expressed his distrust of his country's traditional allies after Beijing and Russia supported a United Nations security resolution criticising Pyongyang for the missile tests. According to a report by the Kyodo news agency, Mr Kim said China and Russia were unreliable at a meeting of North Korea's ambassadors, all of whom were hastily recalled to Pyongyang and instructed to prepare for a strengthening of the country's deterrent power.It is a critical time for North Korea. They are clearly frustrated. The financial restrictions are getting tighter and the Bush administration is showing no sign of flexibility,said Peter Beck,
a North Korea expert at the International Crisis Group in Seoul. If North Korea wants to do a nuclear test, they would want to consult with China first.But he said Beijing was already unhappy with its neighbour and a test would make relations worse. China's leaders want a stable buffer, but they also want a stable region and right now North Korea is threatening that stability. I don't know at what point Chinese leaders would start to think that North Korea is acting in such an irresponsible way that they cannot support it any more.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Quake rocks Yogyakarta again
Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) A tectonic earthquake measuring 2.2 on Richter Scale (SR) again rocked Yogyakarta and its surrounding areas at about 14:53 local time on Tuesday, a local Meteorology and Geophysics official said.
Dian, the official of the Meteorological and Geophysic Office (BMG) here told Antara that the epicenter of the quake was on the Parangtritis coastal area in the Bantul district.Lasting only for a few seconds, the tremor made some residents in the city shock, but not panic.In the meantime, a similar quake with a magnitude of 5.8 on Richter Scale was reported to have also hit the province of Gorontalo in Sulawesi at about 06:53 pm local time on Tuesday.
The meteorological office in Gorontalo said that the earthquake was located at 0.27 decrees southern latitude and 125.30 decrees eastern longitude at a depth of 59 km under the Maluku sea.It said that the quake which lasted for ten seconds had no potential to provoke tsunami tidal waves and material losses.No immediate reports on casualties and material losses.Indonesia with more than 17,000 islands, lies in a zone known as the Pacific ring of fire, which is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity.Among the worst earthquakes hitting the country was the 8.9 magnitude temblor followed by subsequent tsunami in Aceh Province and Nias, North Sumatra in December 2004 which killed over 168.000 people, and the 5.9 magnitude quake hitting Yogyakarta last May, killing at least 5,700 people.
Indonesia`s archipelago stretches across one of the most unstable parts of the Earth`s surface. The country`s position on the planet`s crust means it will continue to experience such catastrophes, just as it has done for the past 50 million years or so, according to seismologists.Gary Gibson, professor of seismology at the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, said recently that the plates of the planet`s crust that float on the molten core of the Earth smash against each other constantly, but while those plates usually move only a little bit each year, those that meet at Indonesia move more quickly.ANTARA,August 29.
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.
17 counties get declared
disaster areas from floods 9.01.2006
TRENTON - United States Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns has designated 17 New Jersey counties as natural disaster areas, following heavy rains, flooding and other severe weather conditions that led to crop and livestock losses during the month of June. Excessive precipitation, high winds, hail, and high humidity that occurred June 1 and on led New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine to seek a disaster declaration to assist farmers affected by the weather by providing them with low-interest emergency loans.
In the past 14 months, New Jersey farmers have been hit hard with harsh weather everything from damaging hail and wind, to floods and even drought,said Corzine. Farming businesses are dependent upon the weather, and the federal loan program can
provide much needed assistance when the weather doesn’t cooperate.The counties included in the primary disaster designation are: Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Salem, Somerset, Sussex and Warren. Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Union Counties were named as contiguous disaster counties. Field to field, farm to farm, region to region, we have experienced everything from some of the most dramatic losses to some very high quality yields this season, said New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Charles M. Kuperus. This disaster declaration will help ensure that New Jersey’s agriculture industry is strong and thriving now and in the future.
The disaster designation makes farm operators in both primary and contiguous counties who suffered 30 percent or more on losses directly due to the harsh weather eligible to be considered for low-interest emergency loans from Farm Services Agency (FSA), provided eligibility requirements are met. The loans can cover as much as 100 percent of the dollar value of the losses. FSA State Executive Director Paul Hlubik said farmers lost millions of dollars in crops this year due to hail storms, localized flooding, excessive rain and subsequent insect and disease damage. He said heat and wet conditions also caused accelerated maturing of crops and other problems.
Although the weather affected farmers individually, consumers will still find quality Jersey Fresh produce available in abundance throughout the state, said Hlubik. The Secretarial Disaster Designation makes farmers eligible for low-interest loans and restructuring of debt. I’m grateful to Secretary Johanns for providing this assistance and to Gov. Corzine for seeking this aid on behalf of the farmers I serve.
Farmers in Mercer, Hunterdon and Warren Counties as well as the contiguous counties already were eligible for assistance based on a Presidential disaster declaration due to flooding in June. FSA will consider each application on its own merit by taking into account the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. For further information, contact the State FSA office at 609-298-3446 or visit FSA on the web at http://disaster.fsa.usda.gov/emloan.htm.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Exorcist says demonic influence is strong in today's world
By John Thavis,Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- An Italian exorcist said demonic influence is strong in today's world, affecting individuals and sometimes entire societies.While it is very rare for a person to be possessed by a demon, history reveals some likely examples --including Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, said Pauline Father Gabriele Amorth.Father Amorth, who works as an exorcist in the Diocese of Rome, made the comments in an interview with Vatican Radio Aug. 27.Father Amorth said every culture in history has shown an awareness of the existence of evil spirits. With the Bible, he said, these spirits were identified as rebellious angels who tempt man to evil out of hatred for God.
The devil can possess not only individuals but also entire groups and populations. For example, I am convinced that the Nazis were all possessed by the devil, he said.If one thinks of what was committed by people like Stalin or Hitler, certainly they were possessed by the devil. This is seen in their actions, in their behavior and in the horrors they committed,he said.Therefore, society also needs to be defended against the devil,he said.Father Amorth said he thought one reason why the devil's influence was high today is that Christian faith has weakened, replaced in many cases by superstition and an interest in the occult, which he said open the way to demonic influences.He said the church teaches that the devil is a pure spirit; he is not seen, but his effects can be seen, he said.
Exorcism, he said, is a prayer made in the name of the church to liberate people stricken by the devil or by his evil influences.Father Amorth gained notoriety in 2000 when he revealed that Pope John Paul II had performed an impromptu exorcism on a young woman who flew into an apparent rage at the end of a general audience at the Vatican.In 1999, the Vatican issued a revised Rite of Exorcism, cautioning that cases of actual possession by devils were probably very rare. The church also has emphasized that before an exorcism is performed, it is important to make certain one is dealing with the devil and not a psychological or other illness.END
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING
BLOCKS)
India seeks free trade accord with European Union: report Tue Aug 29, 11:31 PM ET
BERLIN (AFP) India wants to sign a free trade agreement with the European Union, Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath said in an interview to the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during a European summit in Finland in
October, will call for the start of negotiations on an Indian-EU free trade agreement,Nath was quoted as saying.He described India and the European Union as natural trading partners.The two parties are also key members of the World Trade Organization and principal players in the Doha Round global trade liberalization talks, which are currently at a standstill.
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