1-Churches Urged to Turn Mideast Recommendations. 2-Listening to the Shofar: Hearing the Divine Breath of Life. 3-Egyptian Weekly on Hizbullah's Armed Children's Militias. 4-Europe Forsakes Christianity for Islam? 5-The Next We Told You So.
HERE WE GO AGAIN THE LUKEWARM LEFT WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES WANT IN ON MIDEAST PEACE PROCESS WHICH WILL LEAD TO THE ONE WORLD RELIGION WITHOUT JESUS IN THE FUTURE. (PROSPERITY WITHOUT GOD),
THE BIBLE SAYS THIS WHORE OF BABYLON WILL BE IN POLITICS,COMMITING FORNICATION WITH THE WHOLE WORLD. WATCH FOR THIS GROUP TO HAVE INFLUENCE AS WELL AS THE VATICAN IN THE PEACE PROCESS AND GRADUALLY LEAD TO A ONE WORLD RELIGION HEADED FROM THE VATICAN. REVELATION 17 SAYS ALL ABOUT IT.
THE BIBLE SAYS THE EU PRESIDENT AND THE FALSE POPE IN THE FUTURE FROM THE VATICAN WILL BE HAND IN GLOVE, WORK CLOSELY TOGETHER. AND NOW WE SEE THE EU STARTING TO TAKE FULL CONTROL OF THE PEACE PROCESS, AND THE VATICAN GETTING SERIOUS ALSO ABOUT THE PEACE PROCESS. PROPHECY COMING TOGETHER FOR THE DICTATORIAL RULE OF THE EU, ITS PRESIDENT AND THE FUTURE FALSE POPE. THE NEXT ONE AFTER BENIDICT 16. WHOS NAME IN CATHOLIC PROPHECY WILL BE PETER.
Churches Urged to Turn Mideast Recommendations, Prayers into Action
By Daniel Blake ,Christian Post Correspondent,Tue, Sep. 05,06
The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has issued an urgent call for a comprehensive ecumenical response to bring about long-term peace in the Middle East. The Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has issued an urgent call for a comprehensive ecumenical response to bring about long-term peace in the Middle East.
In a statement given during the WCC Central Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia proposed the establishment of a Palestine/Israel Ecumenical Forum that will provide a space for coordination of advocacy based on moral and theological principles and translate recommendations into actions that influence the political process.
We need further analysis and deeper engagement on complex issues — such as the 'right of return,' Israel's legitimate security concerns and its full recognition within mutually agreeable borders — topics which have impeded previous peace processes, the WCC head stated. The WCC Central Committee welcomed Kobia’s comments, which were also later echoed by the Rev. Jean-Arnold de Clermont, President of the Conference of European Churches. During a brief report on the WCC pastoral visit which he led to the churches of Lebanon, Palestine and Israel in August, de Clermont asked if the WCC's member churches had the will and courage to act.
The European Church head asked the Central Committee to respond to the expectations of the Middle East churches and their leaders, summed up by one person the delegation met: Do not remain content with praying. Do something! In particular, de Clermont pointed out that communities in Lebanon couldn't understand the seemingly indiscriminate violence and destruction in their country, but were certain that a multi-cultural and multi-confessional Lebanon was possible and necessary for peace in the region. Christian leaders have also said there cannot be peace without respect for the other or without justice. Injustices included the arrest of nearly one third of democratically-elected Palestinian politicians and the humanitarian crisis facing the population of Gaza. Do not forget Gaza, the pastoral delegation was told.
Describing the Middle East situation as the most pressing global issue today, Kobia said, Violence in Lebanon and northern Israel, and on-going violence associated with the occupations of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Israel, and also of Iraq by forces under U.S. command, have wreaked destruction and suffering on an immense scale. He added, The most important issue in relation to a lasting and durable peace in the Middle East is when and how the international community will end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, in compliance with international law and U.N. resolutions. Ending the occupation will allow different forces to emerge and give a new face to the Middle East. Proposing the establishment of a Palestine/Israel Ecumenical Forum, Kobia said the WCC could provide a space where the whole ecumenical movement could mobilize to put our collective energies and resources together.
He also said he would appeal to funding partners for special resources for the Middle East initiative. In his report, the general secretary declared, A way must be found to allow people of goodwill in Israel to begin to rebuild relations with neighbors — not only on the basis of law but also through negotiated solutions to mutual problems, and around mutually beneficial relations in the fields of commerce, culture and the environment. The world has a responsibility both to Palestine and to Israel, he said. They deserve more from the international community than they have received thus far, especially in the fair and impartial application of international law. We need to look beyond the current headlines to the underlying moral issues in the region. Kobia said the WCC with its rich experience and background in inter-religious dialogue could make a major contribution to the Israel-Palestine peace process. The WCC Central Committee meeting is taking place Aug. 30 - Sept. 6 in Geneva.
I BELIEVE THE FUTURE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY WILL BE SIGNED ON ROSH HASHANA IN THE FUTURE.
Listening to the Shofar: Hearing the Divine Breath of Life
Elul 11, 5766/September 4, 2006
parashat Ki Tavo
This month of Elul provides us with a spiritual moment in which to shed our worldly pretensions and vanities, and simply be ourselves. For our essential and simple inner self is what G-d truly desires as He sets out from His distant abode, as it were, and seeks us out now in the month of Elul. Preparing for the judgment of all mankind is not so much a matter of taking on vows of self improvement as it is stripping ourselves of all the dross and illusion of self-importance in which we envelope ourselves throughout the days of the year.
Rosh Hashana marks the completion of the process of creation of all existence with the birth of Adam Harishon - the first man. Having created the parameters of His kingdom, G-d now breaths the breath of life into Man - His subject. And as the descendants of the first Man, we are all His subjects, and no day is more propitious for recognizing G-d's sovereignty over us all than Rosh Hashana, the day of our birth. And only once we have recognized G-d's role as our creator and our Sovereign are we able to take upon ourselves the awesome task of repentance.
G-d draws near to us in this month of Elul, (the King is in the field), and we in return draw near to Him as we stand before Him on Rosh Hashana. The purity of this intimacy can be seen in the Hebrew letter yod which is associated with the month of Elul. The smallest and simplest of all the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the yod represents that small, still pure, still unspoiled spot within us that connects us to the Divine. Similarly, the Rosh Hashana service focuses on the single commandment to hear the sound of the blowing of the shofar. For the voice of the shofar is the voice within us, the very breath of life which G-d has breathed into us. By hearing the shofar we are reliving our own birth as Adam on the sixth day of creation. We are literally inspired to renew and refresh our life-bond with our Creator.
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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,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
INSIDE THE MURDEROUS MIND.
September 1, 2006 No.1276
Egyptian Weekly on Hizbullah's Armed Children's Militias
In its August 18, 2006 edition, the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Yusuf featured an investigative article by Mirfat Al-Hakim titled Hizbullah's Children's Militias.The article reveals that Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 children aged 10-15 to serve in armed militias, and that the Hizbullah-affiliated Mahdi Scouts youth organization is training them to become martyrs. [1]
The following are excerpts from the article:
Hizbullah Recruits Children Barely 10 Years Old.According to Roz Al-Yusuf, "Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 innocent children aged 10-15 to form armed militias. Before the recent war with Israel, these children appeared only in the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations, and were referred to as the December 14 Units,but today they are called istishhadiyun ['martyrs). Hizbullah has customarily recruited youths and children and trained them to fight from a very early age. These are children barely 10 years old, who wear camouflage uniforms, cover their faces with black [camouflage] paint, swear to wage jihad, and join the Mahdi Scouts [youth organization] The children are selected by Hizbullah recruitment [officers] based on one criterion only: They must be willing to become martyrs.
The Children Train to Become Martyrs
The children are educated from an early age to become martyrs in their youth, like their fathers, and their training is carried out by the Mahdi Scouts youth organization... [This organization], which is affiliated with Hizbullah, teaches the children the basic principles of Shi'ite ideology and of Hizbullah's ideology... The first lesson that the children are taught by Hizbullah is 'The Disappearance of Israel,and it is always an important part of the [training] program.The Mahdi Scouts organization was founded in Lebanon on May 5, 1985... According to the organization's website, the number of [scouts] who had undergone training by the end of 2004 was 1,491, and the number of scout groups which had joined [the organization] was 449, with a membership of 41,960. According to the organization's most recent statistics, since 2004, 120 of its members have been ready to become martyrs.
The organization's goal is to train an exemplary generation of Muslims based on the [principle of] 'the rule of the jurisprudent' [a founding principle of the Islamic Revolution in Iran], and to prepare for the coming of the Imam Mahdi [the Shi'ite messiah]. Its members, including the children, undertake to obey their commanders, to bring honor to the [Muslim] nation, and to prepare themselves for helping the Mahdi [when he comes].
A Nation With Child-Martyrs Will Be Victorious
According to the article, Na'im Qasim, deputy to Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, said in an interview on Radio Canada: A nation with child-martyrs will be victorious, no matter what difficulties lie in its path. Israel cannot conquer us or violate our territories, because we have martyr sons who will purge the land of the Zionist filth... This will be done through the blood of the martyrs, until we eventually achieve our goals.
YES THE EU WILL BE GODLESS. BECAUSE THE FUTURE JEWISH PRESIDENT BLASPHEMS JESUS OUR GOD.
REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3
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.
Europe Forsakes Christianity for Islam?
By Dale Hurd ,CBN News Sr. Reporter
CBN.com – Welcome to post-Christian Europe, a land filled with beautiful monuments to an ancient religion that few Europeans practice anymore or know much about.While Christianity is still very relevant in the United States, and is exploding in the developing world, Europe today has sunk below unbelief, and is now labeled Christophobic and anti-religious. While an American might look at a church building and think nice thoughts, that's rarely the case with a European, especially here in France, where religion is more likely to be associated with oppression, irrelevance, or simply the past. In France, as in much of Europe, only five percent go to church on a weekly basis, and most of them are the elderly. Only 10 percent think religion is very important.For all Europeans, that figure is only 21 percent.
As an American in Europe, when you tell Europeans that you go to church on Sunday, they look at you like a museum piece--something strange,said journalist Richard Miniter.Near Brussels, at Christian Center, an Assemblies of God church, Belgian Pastor Paul Devos ministers to a culture in which Christianity is largely irrelevant. In the United States, people would more quickly turn toward at least Christ in general and Christianity, because it's still somewhat part of the culture in general. Here in Europe we have gone beyond that point, and we do not expect anything from religion apart from some very abstract hope that there is something after this life,Devos said.Among the clergy in the state churches, unbelief is extraordinarily high.
Baylor Sociologist Rodney Stark said, It's easy to have a negative religious experience going to church in Europe. The one place unbelief is rampant is in the churches.”
The study Fragmented Faith? found that in Britain, one out of five Anglican pastors does not believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ. And only 60 percent believe in the virgin birth--that's a lower level of belief than among churchgoers. It's the churches they don't go to. And one of the reasons is [that] they don't go is the people running them don't care if they don't go,Stark explained.
There have been reports recently that although church attendance in Europe is low, belief in God is actually very high, but belief in what sort of God? Judging from surveys, it's a new age faith with a large dose of moral relativism.
Vince Esterman, a Frenchman who grew up in Australia, has been a French pastor for almost 20 years, and has a dynamic street ministry in Paris. Although he has led a lot of Frenchmen to Christ, he doesn't talk much about revival. He speaks of a Europe that is still moving away from God.Europe that was the custodian of the gospel in the very early decades now is the continent that is rejecting the gospel and Christianity,Esterman said. And so we have seen France go into decline and with it, Europe generally.
But instead of looking to faith for answers, the European media continue to mock America's high church attendance as weird. The British Economist Magazine wrote, To Europeans, religion is the strangest and most disturbing feature about (America).
Esterman said, “This last week in prime time television on one of the French national stations they had a program on God in America. And again it was Pentecostal Christians in the states, and they were ridiculed and treated as a simple minded naive people. But absolutely nothing can be said against Muslims of course because there's always retaliation. Stark wrote in the Victory of Reason that Europe owes everything--its culture, its freedom, its science, and its wealth--to Christianity. But European leaders today are defiant in their efforts to keep God and Christian faith out of public life.
A sociologist at the Sorbonne in Paris summed it up this way: "We are not going to sacrifice women's equality, democracy, and individual freedoms on the altar of a new religion,said Patrick Weil, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Christian Science Monitor.But some would say Europe has a new religion. Italy's Culture Minister Rocco Buttiglione, a devout Catholic, calls it a nihilistic fundamentalism against truth.Stark calls it hedonism, and says it is why Europe is dying. No Western European country is having enough babies to replace its current population.The loss of faith in Europe is like an unseen black star that still has a tremendous gravitational pull,Miniter said. “They don't understand why their culture is failing. They don't understand why divorce rates and suicide rates are so high. They don't understand why so few European women have more than one child, and why on most European streets, you see more dogs than children. This is the impact of the death of real Christian belief in Europe.
One writer described Europe today as a majority of Christian atheists and a minority of Muslim fanatics--an exaggeration. But there is a spiritual void on the continent that Islam waits to fill. It was this void in the life of a Belgian woman, a former drug addict named Muriel DeGauque that caused her to convert to Islam, go to Iraq, and blow herself up trying to kill U.S. troops.I have been an eyewitness to France becoming increasingly Islamicized. There is no longer an ability to morally resist a strong culture like Islam coming into the country,Esterman said.Stark said, Europe is going to get more religious than it is either because of a revival of Christianity or because they go Muslim…you can't sit there with no babies for ever.And because belief impacts everything from culture, to economics, to the war on terror, religious America and anti-religious Europe are likely to drift farther apart unless Europe returns to God.
MOSHE IS CORRECT THE FUTURE LOOKS GOOD BUT BAD IN REALITY.
ISAIAH 28:9-19 THIS IS THE FUTURE 7 YR TREATY SIGNING OF DANIEL 9:27 (70TH WEEK OF THE PROPHECY)
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
The Next We Told You So
by Moshe Feiglin
If you are from the Orange Camp of the Religious Zionists your warnings are meaningless. It makes no difference that you saw what was in store and you warned of the imminent danger. If you are Orange nobody listened to you before and even now, after it became clear that you were right, still nobody will listen. Nevertheless, I am writing the next We told you so...When it happens and it's going to happen there is going to be a much worse catastrophe here than in the previous round. In the upcoming catastrophe, we will be facing a regular army that is well equipped and well trained, complete with an efficient air force, anti-aircraft capabilities and full armored and engineering corps. Who knows? Maybe then people will start to pay attention to those who told them so?
The greatest danger to Israel at this point is Egypt. When Iran will go nuclear, that will change. But right now, the greatest military threat hanging over Israel's head is the Egyptian threat. There is not, and there never was -- peace with Egypt. All that poor Menachem got was a piece of paper,chuckled Anwar Sadat referring to his peace partner Menachem Begin, and I got the entire Sinai peninsula, the oil -- everything.
True, since the signing of the Camp David Accords there has not been a war with Egypt. But there has also not been a war with Syria. The only difference between Egypt and Syria is that Egypt - under the cover of the peace treaty - has upgraded its primitive army and transformed it into a modern, Western army - large and well equipped. The Syrian army is still muddling with outdated Soviet weapons from over thirty years ago, T62 tanks and MIG airplanes. The Egyptian army, on the other hand – thanks to $2 billion annual military aid from the United States - has modern Abrams tanks, F16s, Harpoon missiles and AWACS Radar planes.
The Egyptian army has absolutely no external enemy other than Israel. Sudan and Libya pose no threat to its security. Egypt spends the same percentage of its GNP on building its military might that Britain spent during World War 2. It is a country that is preparing its army to destroy Israel -- and they even admit it. The anti-Semitic propaganda in Egypt's government newspapers is even more venomous than the Nazi propaganda rag Der Sturmer. They are preparing themselves militarily and emotionally for a war while we continue to glorify the peace garments of the emperor with no clothes.
True, Syria is transferring huge amounts of weapons to Hizballah. But who exactly is transferring all the weapons into Gaza? (Besides the weapons shipments that Olmert, himself, sent to Gaza...) Where did the Karine A - loaded with katyushas and anti-aircraft missiles - come from? From Alexandria! How many other weapons ships did we miss? Nobody asks that question as it may spoil the peace with Egypt. And since the destruction of Gush Katif and the abandonment by Israel of the Sinai-Gaza border crossings, they don't even have to use ships anymore! So don't say that we didn't warn you. And please, don't explain to the grieving families that you just had to give peace a chance. We don't have any more children to donate to your experiments.To learn more about Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) and to read their plan for Israel's future, visit www.jewishisrael.org .
Manhigut Yehudit is the largest faction inside the Likud Party in Israel. It strives to turn Israel from The State of the Jews into The Jewish State.Contact:Shmuel Sackett, International Director (516) 330-4922 (cell)
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
MORE ISRAELIS COME HOME
1-PROPHECY POLL - A Thief in the Night? 2-Far-off Florence could become a hurricane. 3-Indonesian volcano put on high alert. 4-Space shuttle set for liftoff Wednesday. 5-Germany to make EU constitution a priority next year. 6-EU urges Israel to call off West Bank home plans. 7-US cites Iran, Syria as worrisome threats. 8-Seventh Summer Western Aliyah Plane Arrives.
POLL BY ARMEGEDDON BOOKS
PROPHECY POLL - A Thief in the Night?
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The Prophecy Poll Question for August was:
What does Jesus mean, when He describes His coming as, a thief in the night?
The results were:
True believers will unexpectedly be
taken away in the Rapture of the Church. 34%
Jesus' coming for His saints will be a
surprise to unbelievers, who are in darkness 49%
Jesus will return in stealth at night. 2%
Other 15%
Don't Know 0%
Well in my eyes the 49% got it right, JESUS will return off guard and UNGODLY MEN AND WOMEN won't have a clue what happened. Then the Tribulation and Judgements really occur on the UNGODLY.
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.
Far-off Florence could become a hurricane Wed Sep 6, 8:20 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Florence, which remains far from land and may not make landfall in the United States, could strengthen into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season within 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
The NHC forecast the storm, which is packing maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour, could strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane (winds of 74-95 mph) within 48 hours, a Category 2 hurricane (winds of 96-110 mph) within 96 hours and then garner near Category 3 (winds of 111-130 mph) strength within 120 hours.
The five-day NHC track of Florence shows the storm will likely pass between Puerto Rico and Bermuda on Saturday without nearing either island before turning north toward the west side of Bermuda on Monday. Over the next several days, however, that track can change.All of the other weather models mirror the NHC forecast track for the next few days. But after that, two models show the storm turning north toward Bermuda, one shows the storm turning south toward Haiti, and a couple show the storm continuing west toward the U.S. East Coast.
The NHC will issue another advisory on Florence at 11 a.m. EDT (1500GMT).Separately, the NHC said there was a poorly organized tropical wave located several hundred miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.Some weather models show the wave will continue west-northwest toward the Lesser Antilles, which include the West Indian islands between the Virgin Islands in the north and Trinidad and Tobago in the south.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
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.
Indonesian volcano put on high alert Wed Sep 6, 6:31 AM ET
JAKARTA (AFP) - Mount Bromo, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Java, has been put on high alert after it showed increasing signs of an impending eruption.We have increased the alert status to (the) second-highest since 10 pm (1500 GMT) last night,Toto Hendrasto, an official from the directorate of vulcanology and geological disaster mitigation told AFP.According to the directorate's website, the standby alert level signifies that if the trend of increasing volcanic activity continues an eruption is possible within 2 weeks.Mount Bromo, a popular tourist destination in the eastern part of densely-populated Java, last erupted in June 2004 killing one local resident.
Visitors are still allowed to come as far as the hotel, about one kilometre from the peak,said Hendrasto of a major hotel at the rim of the wide expanse of sand around Bromo's crater.Indonesia sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where continental plates meet and cause frequent volcanic and seismic activity.In May, Mount Merapi, another volcano on Java, was on highest alert for about two months forcing about 4,000 villagers from surrounding areas to evacuate.
Space shuttle set for liftoff Wednesday By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 5, 2:53 PM ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Atlantis' six astronauts did some last-minute studying for their 11-day mission Tuesday as the weather forecast for Wednesday's space shuttle launch continued to look good.
The shuttle's commander, Brent Jett, and pilot, Chris Ferguson, used a Gulfstream jet to simulate landing the shuttle, while other crew members reviewed the complicated construction tasks ahead of them.The astronauts will resume building the space station for the first time since the Columbia disaster 3 1/2 years ago, adding a 17 1/2-ton truss to the orbiting outpost. Their mission includes three spacewalks.Forecasters said there was only a 30 percent chance that weather would prohibit the shuttle from blasting off as planned at 12:28 p.m., a slight worsening of the outlook from the previous day. But the launch window opens before Florida's afternoon summer thunderstorms normally blow through.
No major technical problems were reported a day before launch. Technicians had noticed a slightly hazardous reading of gaseous oxygen in the rear of the shuttle, but they considered it the result of a bad connection during fueling of the spacecraft's power cells and said they were not concerned.The first couple of inches is the hardest part of the whole flight, said LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission management team. Anxious anticipation is how I would describe it.Atlantis originally was scheduled for liftoff Aug. 27 but was delayed, first by a lightning strike at the launch pad, then by Tropical Storm Ernesto.NASA had started to move Atlantis back to the hangar because of Ernesto but changed course last week. By sending the shuttle back to the launch pad, NASA gained enough time to prepare for a launch this week.If Atlantis doesn't get up in the air this week, the next chance probably won't come until the end of October.
The Russians plan on Sept. 18 to launch a Soyuz capsule ferrying two new station crew members and the space station's first female tourist, Dallas-area entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari. Officials with both space agencies did not want the shuttle and Soyuz at the space station simultaneously, for fear it would create a traffic jam.
On the Net:NASA: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov
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.(TR 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).
Germany to make EU constitution a priority next year
05.09.2006 - 09:41 CET | By Honor Mahony(EU OBSERVER)
Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said that reviving the EU constitution will be one of the priorities of his country's EU presidency next year.Speaking before a gathering of German diplomats on Monday (4 September), Mr Steinmeier said We need a constitution as soon as possible.We need this constitution so that we can benefit from better representation in foreign policy and security issues. The constitution will improve the EU, he suggested.His French counterpart Philippe Douste-Blazy, who was present at the meeting, gave his backing to the document as well.
According to Reuters news agency, Mr Douste-Blazy told the group that France also wants to see the constitution project relaunched.The EU charter was rejected by both French and Dutch voters in referendums last year putting the bloc into a conundrum about how to solve the political tangle – as 15 countries have already ratified the document.Meeting in June after a one-year period of reflection, member states avoided taking any concrete decisions and instead set out a timetable.
Under this timetable, Germany will during its presidency present a report on the constitution based on extensive consultations with other member states.The report should contain an assessment of the state of discussion and explore possible future developments.Afterwards EU leaders should examine the report using it as the basis for further decisions.However member states have not committed themselves politically much further than this with the June statements concluding in a woolly manner that it is understood that the necessary steps to that effect will have been taken during the second semester of 2008 at the latest.In the second half of 2008, France will have the presidency of the EU and will be under new leadership following elections in 2007.
The Netherlands, facing elections in November this year, could have a new leader with analysts suggesting that only after elections in these two countries can a constitution revival be spoken about in any real sense.However, others are taking a more practical approach. EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has made it clear that he thinks the bloc should stop navel-gazing over its constitutional tangle and should rather focus on concrete things that it can achieve using its internal market.
EU urges Israel to call off West Bank home plans 55 minutes ago
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union urged Israel on Wednesday to call off plans to build 690 new homes in two Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, branding the move illegal and apt to raise regional tensions further. Government tenders were published on Monday inviting bids on 348 plots in the Maaleh Adumim settlement and 342 in Beitar Ilit, the largest number of housing bids for settlement building offered since Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took office on May 4.This planned construction threatens the viability of an agreed two-state solution. Like all settlement activity, it is contrary to international law,EU President Finland said in a statement.
Furthermore, the Presidency finds the solicitation of the tenders in question particularly unfortunate at a time when confidence-building measures are urgently needed in the region.The EU, whose nations have pledged to send over half of an
expanded U.N. peace force of 15,000 to Lebanon, is pushing for a revival of Middle East peace efforts around the 2003 U.S.-backed peace road map,which sets out a path toward a Palestinian state co-existing alongside Israel.Israel has an obligation under the road map to halt construction on land Palestinians seek for a state.But Olmert has suspended an election pledge to set Israel's final borders through a unilateral pullback from parts of the West Bank after Israel's month-long war with Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon that ended with an August 14 truce.
Some 240,000 Jewish settlers and 2.4 million Palestinians live in the West Bank, a territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.Israel disputes a World Court judgment that all Jewish settlements on occupied land are illegal. It points out that Palestinians have failed to meet their own obligation under the road map to dismantle militant groups.(additional reporting by Terhi Kinnunen in Helsinki)
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)
US cites Iran, Syria as worrisome threats by Olivier Knox
2 hours, 44 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) The White House branded Iran and Syria especially worrisome threats as it unveiled a reworked anti-terrorism plan that downplayed the impact of the Iraq war and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The 23-page US National Strategy for Combating Terrorism came out one week before the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks and two months before November legislative elections overshadowed by the unpopular Iraq war.The blueprint warned that the United States is not yet safe and that the topmost priority is keeping weapons of mass destruction (WMD) out of the hands of terrorist groups that are constantly adapting to thwart US defenses.Our greatest and gravest concern,the White House said, is WMD in the hands of terrorists.
Preventing their acquisition and the dire consequences of their use is a key priority of this strategy.
Most troubling is the potential WMD-terrorism nexus that emanates from Tehran. Syria also is a significant state sponsor of terrorism and thus a priority for concern,the report said.Osama bin Laden's network, which carried out the September 11 attacks, is significantly degraded but still dangerous and serves as the vanguard of loosely connected extremists linked by ideology, the report said.Bin Laden remains the number one target in terms of our efforts, but he's not the only target,Bush's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, Frances Townsend, told reporters.The document, which offered no new policies for fighting terrorism, said Washington would seek to isolate state sponsors of extremist violence and warned that Iranian and Syrian terrorist activities are especially worrisome.
Iran remains the most active state sponsor of international terrorism,said the report, which was released as US President George W. Bush was to make the second in a series of speeches on the war on terrorism.Through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the regime in Tehran plans terrorist operations and supports groups such as Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Iran also remains unwilling to account for and bring to justice senior Al-Qaeda members it detained in 2003,it said.Syria also is a significant state sponsor of terrorism and thus a priority for concern. The regime in Damascus supports and provides haven to Hezbollah, Hamas, and PIJ. We will continue to stand with the people of Iran and Syria against the regimes that oppress them at home and sponsor terror abroad,it said.Amid the soaring price tag and rising death toll in Iraq and uncertainty about US efforts to resolve the Middle East conflict, the report downplayed the impact of both crises as sources of anger that fuels extremist violence.
Terrorism is not simply a result of hostility to US policy in Iraq,it said.Terrorism is not simply a result of Israeli-Palestinian issues.
In each case, the White House said that Al-Qaeda had plotted the September 11 attacks in the 1990s, during an active period in Middle East peace talks and well before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.However, the report also acknowledged that the ongoing fight for freedom in Iraq has been twisted by terrorist propaganda as a rallying cry.Democrats fired back at what they described as the political motivations for the report, with Senator John Kerry, Bush's 2004 rival for the White House, calling it a laundry list of objectives to get them through the next news cycle or the next election.The report does nothing to kill Osama bin Laden or clean up the disastrous policy in Iraq that has fanned the flames of terror, Kerry said in a statement sent by electronic mail by a spokesman.
ISRAEL WILL BECOME A NATION. LITERALLY IN THE SPRING.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
EZEKIEL 36:24
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
EZEKIEL 37:9-28
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds,(ALL THE WORLD) O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.(COME TO LIFE)
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.(ISRAEL WILL HAVE A POWERFUL ARMY)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.(BURNED BY HITLER)
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.(THE DRY BONES COME TO LIFE IN ISRAEL)
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).
MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, 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.
ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.
LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Seventh Summer Western Aliyah Plane Arrives
By Ezra HaLevi(INN)
The summer's seventh planeload carrying Western immigrants to Israel arrived Wednesday. More than 3,000 Jews have arrived this summer from North America and England. Wednesday’s flight included, among its 240 passengers, 70 young single men and women, 45 families and 30 retirees – hailing from 23 US states and Canadian provinces. The flight was organized, as were previous flights, by the Nefesh b’Nefesh organization, together with the Jewish Agency.Nefesh b’Nefesh co-founder Rabbi Yehoshua Fass addressed the new immigrants, speaking about the experience of seeing Biblical prophecies being fulfilled. Walking down the aisle of the airplane, seeing an 85-year-old and a 5-year-old share this same process; seeing a couple who survived the Holocaust filling out their paperwork; seeing single olim [Jewish immigrants] exchange numbers – it is truly a time of redemption.Two of the newest Israelis, Oren and Ora Nidam, knew forever that they wanted to make Israel their home. The couple grew up in the American Jewish heartland – Ora is from Fairlawn, New Jersey and Oren grew up in Westchester, New York.
They lived in Teaneck, New Jersey, but made all their decisions with Aliyah [immigration to Israel] in mind. Now, with their two-year-old daughter Kliel Amukah Tehillim and five-week-old son Nachman Mizmor L’David, they have finally made it. Ora says she looks forward to acclimating to both life in Israel and two-child motherhood simultaneously in their new hometown – Jerusalem.Over the past four years since its inception, Nefesh b’Nefesh has steadily increased the numbers of immigrants it has helped move to Israel. As crowds of soldiers, well-wishers and Aliyah enthusiasts cheered for the new arrivals, Rabbi Fass promised to bring unprecedented numbers home next summer.
POLL BY ARMEGEDDON BOOKS
PROPHECY POLL - A Thief in the Night?
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The Prophecy Poll Question for August was:
What does Jesus mean, when He describes His coming as, a thief in the night?
The results were:
True believers will unexpectedly be
taken away in the Rapture of the Church. 34%
Jesus' coming for His saints will be a
surprise to unbelievers, who are in darkness 49%
Jesus will return in stealth at night. 2%
Other 15%
Don't Know 0%
Well in my eyes the 49% got it right, JESUS will return off guard and UNGODLY MEN AND WOMEN won't have a clue what happened. Then the Tribulation and Judgements really occur on the UNGODLY.
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.
Far-off Florence could become a hurricane Wed Sep 6, 8:20 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Florence, which remains far from land and may not make landfall in the United States, could strengthen into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season within 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
The NHC forecast the storm, which is packing maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour, could strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane (winds of 74-95 mph) within 48 hours, a Category 2 hurricane (winds of 96-110 mph) within 96 hours and then garner near Category 3 (winds of 111-130 mph) strength within 120 hours.
The five-day NHC track of Florence shows the storm will likely pass between Puerto Rico and Bermuda on Saturday without nearing either island before turning north toward the west side of Bermuda on Monday. Over the next several days, however, that track can change.All of the other weather models mirror the NHC forecast track for the next few days. But after that, two models show the storm turning north toward Bermuda, one shows the storm turning south toward Haiti, and a couple show the storm continuing west toward the U.S. East Coast.
The NHC will issue another advisory on Florence at 11 a.m. EDT (1500GMT).Separately, the NHC said there was a poorly organized tropical wave located several hundred miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.Some weather models show the wave will continue west-northwest toward the Lesser Antilles, which include the West Indian islands between the Virgin Islands in the north and Trinidad and Tobago in the south.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
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.
Indonesian volcano put on high alert Wed Sep 6, 6:31 AM ET
JAKARTA (AFP) - Mount Bromo, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Java, has been put on high alert after it showed increasing signs of an impending eruption.We have increased the alert status to (the) second-highest since 10 pm (1500 GMT) last night,Toto Hendrasto, an official from the directorate of vulcanology and geological disaster mitigation told AFP.According to the directorate's website, the standby alert level signifies that if the trend of increasing volcanic activity continues an eruption is possible within 2 weeks.Mount Bromo, a popular tourist destination in the eastern part of densely-populated Java, last erupted in June 2004 killing one local resident.
Visitors are still allowed to come as far as the hotel, about one kilometre from the peak,said Hendrasto of a major hotel at the rim of the wide expanse of sand around Bromo's crater.Indonesia sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where continental plates meet and cause frequent volcanic and seismic activity.In May, Mount Merapi, another volcano on Java, was on highest alert for about two months forcing about 4,000 villagers from surrounding areas to evacuate.
Space shuttle set for liftoff Wednesday By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 5, 2:53 PM ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Atlantis' six astronauts did some last-minute studying for their 11-day mission Tuesday as the weather forecast for Wednesday's space shuttle launch continued to look good.
The shuttle's commander, Brent Jett, and pilot, Chris Ferguson, used a Gulfstream jet to simulate landing the shuttle, while other crew members reviewed the complicated construction tasks ahead of them.The astronauts will resume building the space station for the first time since the Columbia disaster 3 1/2 years ago, adding a 17 1/2-ton truss to the orbiting outpost. Their mission includes three spacewalks.Forecasters said there was only a 30 percent chance that weather would prohibit the shuttle from blasting off as planned at 12:28 p.m., a slight worsening of the outlook from the previous day. But the launch window opens before Florida's afternoon summer thunderstorms normally blow through.
No major technical problems were reported a day before launch. Technicians had noticed a slightly hazardous reading of gaseous oxygen in the rear of the shuttle, but they considered it the result of a bad connection during fueling of the spacecraft's power cells and said they were not concerned.The first couple of inches is the hardest part of the whole flight, said LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission management team. Anxious anticipation is how I would describe it.Atlantis originally was scheduled for liftoff Aug. 27 but was delayed, first by a lightning strike at the launch pad, then by Tropical Storm Ernesto.NASA had started to move Atlantis back to the hangar because of Ernesto but changed course last week. By sending the shuttle back to the launch pad, NASA gained enough time to prepare for a launch this week.If Atlantis doesn't get up in the air this week, the next chance probably won't come until the end of October.
The Russians plan on Sept. 18 to launch a Soyuz capsule ferrying two new station crew members and the space station's first female tourist, Dallas-area entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari. Officials with both space agencies did not want the shuttle and Soyuz at the space station simultaneously, for fear it would create a traffic jam.
On the Net:NASA: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov
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.(TR 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).
Germany to make EU constitution a priority next year
05.09.2006 - 09:41 CET | By Honor Mahony(EU OBSERVER)
Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said that reviving the EU constitution will be one of the priorities of his country's EU presidency next year.Speaking before a gathering of German diplomats on Monday (4 September), Mr Steinmeier said We need a constitution as soon as possible.We need this constitution so that we can benefit from better representation in foreign policy and security issues. The constitution will improve the EU, he suggested.His French counterpart Philippe Douste-Blazy, who was present at the meeting, gave his backing to the document as well.
According to Reuters news agency, Mr Douste-Blazy told the group that France also wants to see the constitution project relaunched.The EU charter was rejected by both French and Dutch voters in referendums last year putting the bloc into a conundrum about how to solve the political tangle – as 15 countries have already ratified the document.Meeting in June after a one-year period of reflection, member states avoided taking any concrete decisions and instead set out a timetable.
Under this timetable, Germany will during its presidency present a report on the constitution based on extensive consultations with other member states.The report should contain an assessment of the state of discussion and explore possible future developments.Afterwards EU leaders should examine the report using it as the basis for further decisions.However member states have not committed themselves politically much further than this with the June statements concluding in a woolly manner that it is understood that the necessary steps to that effect will have been taken during the second semester of 2008 at the latest.In the second half of 2008, France will have the presidency of the EU and will be under new leadership following elections in 2007.
The Netherlands, facing elections in November this year, could have a new leader with analysts suggesting that only after elections in these two countries can a constitution revival be spoken about in any real sense.However, others are taking a more practical approach. EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has made it clear that he thinks the bloc should stop navel-gazing over its constitutional tangle and should rather focus on concrete things that it can achieve using its internal market.
EU urges Israel to call off West Bank home plans 55 minutes ago
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union urged Israel on Wednesday to call off plans to build 690 new homes in two Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, branding the move illegal and apt to raise regional tensions further. Government tenders were published on Monday inviting bids on 348 plots in the Maaleh Adumim settlement and 342 in Beitar Ilit, the largest number of housing bids for settlement building offered since Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took office on May 4.This planned construction threatens the viability of an agreed two-state solution. Like all settlement activity, it is contrary to international law,EU President Finland said in a statement.
Furthermore, the Presidency finds the solicitation of the tenders in question particularly unfortunate at a time when confidence-building measures are urgently needed in the region.The EU, whose nations have pledged to send over half of an
expanded U.N. peace force of 15,000 to Lebanon, is pushing for a revival of Middle East peace efforts around the 2003 U.S.-backed peace road map,which sets out a path toward a Palestinian state co-existing alongside Israel.Israel has an obligation under the road map to halt construction on land Palestinians seek for a state.But Olmert has suspended an election pledge to set Israel's final borders through a unilateral pullback from parts of the West Bank after Israel's month-long war with Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon that ended with an August 14 truce.
Some 240,000 Jewish settlers and 2.4 million Palestinians live in the West Bank, a territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.Israel disputes a World Court judgment that all Jewish settlements on occupied land are illegal. It points out that Palestinians have failed to meet their own obligation under the road map to dismantle militant groups.(additional reporting by Terhi Kinnunen in Helsinki)
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)
US cites Iran, Syria as worrisome threats by Olivier Knox
2 hours, 44 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) The White House branded Iran and Syria especially worrisome threats as it unveiled a reworked anti-terrorism plan that downplayed the impact of the Iraq war and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The 23-page US National Strategy for Combating Terrorism came out one week before the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks and two months before November legislative elections overshadowed by the unpopular Iraq war.The blueprint warned that the United States is not yet safe and that the topmost priority is keeping weapons of mass destruction (WMD) out of the hands of terrorist groups that are constantly adapting to thwart US defenses.Our greatest and gravest concern,the White House said, is WMD in the hands of terrorists.
Preventing their acquisition and the dire consequences of their use is a key priority of this strategy.
Most troubling is the potential WMD-terrorism nexus that emanates from Tehran. Syria also is a significant state sponsor of terrorism and thus a priority for concern,the report said.Osama bin Laden's network, which carried out the September 11 attacks, is significantly degraded but still dangerous and serves as the vanguard of loosely connected extremists linked by ideology, the report said.Bin Laden remains the number one target in terms of our efforts, but he's not the only target,Bush's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, Frances Townsend, told reporters.The document, which offered no new policies for fighting terrorism, said Washington would seek to isolate state sponsors of extremist violence and warned that Iranian and Syrian terrorist activities are especially worrisome.
Iran remains the most active state sponsor of international terrorism,said the report, which was released as US President George W. Bush was to make the second in a series of speeches on the war on terrorism.Through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the regime in Tehran plans terrorist operations and supports groups such as Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Iran also remains unwilling to account for and bring to justice senior Al-Qaeda members it detained in 2003,it said.Syria also is a significant state sponsor of terrorism and thus a priority for concern. The regime in Damascus supports and provides haven to Hezbollah, Hamas, and PIJ. We will continue to stand with the people of Iran and Syria against the regimes that oppress them at home and sponsor terror abroad,it said.Amid the soaring price tag and rising death toll in Iraq and uncertainty about US efforts to resolve the Middle East conflict, the report downplayed the impact of both crises as sources of anger that fuels extremist violence.
Terrorism is not simply a result of hostility to US policy in Iraq,it said.Terrorism is not simply a result of Israeli-Palestinian issues.
In each case, the White House said that Al-Qaeda had plotted the September 11 attacks in the 1990s, during an active period in Middle East peace talks and well before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.However, the report also acknowledged that the ongoing fight for freedom in Iraq has been twisted by terrorist propaganda as a rallying cry.Democrats fired back at what they described as the political motivations for the report, with Senator John Kerry, Bush's 2004 rival for the White House, calling it a laundry list of objectives to get them through the next news cycle or the next election.The report does nothing to kill Osama bin Laden or clean up the disastrous policy in Iraq that has fanned the flames of terror, Kerry said in a statement sent by electronic mail by a spokesman.
ISRAEL WILL BECOME A NATION. LITERALLY IN THE SPRING.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
EZEKIEL 36:24
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
EZEKIEL 37:9-28
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds,(ALL THE WORLD) O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.(COME TO LIFE)
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.(ISRAEL WILL HAVE A POWERFUL ARMY)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.(BURNED BY HITLER)
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.(THE DRY BONES COME TO LIFE IN ISRAEL)
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).
MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, 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.
ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.
LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Seventh Summer Western Aliyah Plane Arrives
By Ezra HaLevi(INN)
The summer's seventh planeload carrying Western immigrants to Israel arrived Wednesday. More than 3,000 Jews have arrived this summer from North America and England. Wednesday’s flight included, among its 240 passengers, 70 young single men and women, 45 families and 30 retirees – hailing from 23 US states and Canadian provinces. The flight was organized, as were previous flights, by the Nefesh b’Nefesh organization, together with the Jewish Agency.Nefesh b’Nefesh co-founder Rabbi Yehoshua Fass addressed the new immigrants, speaking about the experience of seeing Biblical prophecies being fulfilled. Walking down the aisle of the airplane, seeing an 85-year-old and a 5-year-old share this same process; seeing a couple who survived the Holocaust filling out their paperwork; seeing single olim [Jewish immigrants] exchange numbers – it is truly a time of redemption.Two of the newest Israelis, Oren and Ora Nidam, knew forever that they wanted to make Israel their home. The couple grew up in the American Jewish heartland – Ora is from Fairlawn, New Jersey and Oren grew up in Westchester, New York.
They lived in Teaneck, New Jersey, but made all their decisions with Aliyah [immigration to Israel] in mind. Now, with their two-year-old daughter Kliel Amukah Tehillim and five-week-old son Nachman Mizmor L’David, they have finally made it. Ora says she looks forward to acclimating to both life in Israel and two-child motherhood simultaneously in their new hometown – Jerusalem.Over the past four years since its inception, Nefesh b’Nefesh has steadily increased the numbers of immigrants it has helped move to Israel. As crowds of soldiers, well-wishers and Aliyah enthusiasts cheered for the new arrivals, Rabbi Fass promised to bring unprecedented numbers home next summer.
APPLY THE BLOOD AND PRAYER
LEAVE PRAYER REQUESTS AND APPLY THE BLOOD EVERYDAY.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7)
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good. (Psalm 133:6-9)
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
Pray for Israelis protection.
The Rebuilding of the 3rd Temple.
Pray for Gods will in your life, Direction, Guidence, Wisdom,Knowledge and Understanding from the Holy Spirit.
Pray to be lead by the Holy Spirit and not your flesh.
Pray for Jack Van Impe.
Pray for Benny Hinn.
Pray for Creflo Dollar.
Pray for John Hagee.
Pray for Pat Robertson.
Pray all Ministries go by Gods word not the World.
Pray for all Those in Power so we can live in Peace.
Pray for everyone on Earth to be saved.
Pray for revival.
Let Us Apply the Covering
Of the Blood of Jesus Every Day.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. (Exodus 12:13)
Saints, we are living in a time when the covering of the Blood of Jesus is vital for our daily protection. Remember, Pastor Benny applies the Blood through prayer every day, and so should you.Today, as the Mighty Warrior Intercessory Army, let us through prayer cover Pastor Benny, every detail of this Ministry, and ourselves with the Blood of Jesus.We ask you to begin your prayer time by repeating this prayer each day with us.
Father, in Jesus’ Name, I pray Your hedge of protection, Your will and plan for Pastor Benny, Suzanne, his children, his Ministry, his entire staff, their families, and my life be established … and I pray that the enemy’s plans and purposes be destroyed.
Now, let us to go to prayer and apply the covering of the Blood of Jesus.
Lord, I cover everyone around me and myself with the Blood of Jesus. I cover all the members of my family (call them by name) with the Blood of Jesus. I cover my relatives and my possessions and goods with the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, by the power of His Blood, I break off every power of the kingdom of darkness, and I cancel every argument in heaven that has tried to establish itself against the plans of God in my life. I call forth, in the Name of Jesus, all of God’s plans and purposes for my family and me. As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord. Satan, the Blood of Jesus is against you, and you have no authority over my life.
LETS RAISE UP AN ARMY FOR GOD ON OUR KNEES SO WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR GODS KINGDOM IN THESE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE DAYS.
I will put this under links and if any one wants Prayer, leave it under comments, and who ever comes to my site and wants to Pray for them, they can.
I will be also praying for them.
Untill JESUS comes and takes us home LETS GIVE GOD ALL THE PRAISE AND GLORY FOR THE AWESOME GOD HE IS. AND FOR THE MIRACLES HE WILL BE DOING IN LIVES AROUND THE WORLD.
COME QUICKLY (LORD KING) JESUS WE PRAY OUR GOD AND SAVIOR. AMEN AND AMEN.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7)
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good. (Psalm 133:6-9)
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
Pray for Israelis protection.
The Rebuilding of the 3rd Temple.
Pray for Gods will in your life, Direction, Guidence, Wisdom,Knowledge and Understanding from the Holy Spirit.
Pray to be lead by the Holy Spirit and not your flesh.
Pray for Jack Van Impe.
Pray for Benny Hinn.
Pray for Creflo Dollar.
Pray for John Hagee.
Pray for Pat Robertson.
Pray all Ministries go by Gods word not the World.
Pray for all Those in Power so we can live in Peace.
Pray for everyone on Earth to be saved.
Pray for revival.
Let Us Apply the Covering
Of the Blood of Jesus Every Day.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. (Exodus 12:13)
Saints, we are living in a time when the covering of the Blood of Jesus is vital for our daily protection. Remember, Pastor Benny applies the Blood through prayer every day, and so should you.Today, as the Mighty Warrior Intercessory Army, let us through prayer cover Pastor Benny, every detail of this Ministry, and ourselves with the Blood of Jesus.We ask you to begin your prayer time by repeating this prayer each day with us.
Father, in Jesus’ Name, I pray Your hedge of protection, Your will and plan for Pastor Benny, Suzanne, his children, his Ministry, his entire staff, their families, and my life be established … and I pray that the enemy’s plans and purposes be destroyed.
Now, let us to go to prayer and apply the covering of the Blood of Jesus.
Lord, I cover everyone around me and myself with the Blood of Jesus. I cover all the members of my family (call them by name) with the Blood of Jesus. I cover my relatives and my possessions and goods with the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, by the power of His Blood, I break off every power of the kingdom of darkness, and I cancel every argument in heaven that has tried to establish itself against the plans of God in my life. I call forth, in the Name of Jesus, all of God’s plans and purposes for my family and me. As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord. Satan, the Blood of Jesus is against you, and you have no authority over my life.
LETS RAISE UP AN ARMY FOR GOD ON OUR KNEES SO WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR GODS KINGDOM IN THESE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE DAYS.
I will put this under links and if any one wants Prayer, leave it under comments, and who ever comes to my site and wants to Pray for them, they can.
I will be also praying for them.
Untill JESUS comes and takes us home LETS GIVE GOD ALL THE PRAISE AND GLORY FOR THE AWESOME GOD HE IS. AND FOR THE MIRACLES HE WILL BE DOING IN LIVES AROUND THE WORLD.
COME QUICKLY (LORD KING) JESUS WE PRAY OUR GOD AND SAVIOR. AMEN AND AMEN.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
DISEASE MIGRATES AS WORLD WARMS
1-Two Moderate Earthquakes In Indonesia. 2-Hurricane leftovers cause minor flooding. 3-Minister warns of worst floods in 25 years 4-Olmert: War Against Syria Would be Without Limits. 5-Israel, Palestinians to swap prisoners within 48 hours:. 6-Annan to mediate on captured Israeli soldiers. 7-Why is Iran given so much leeway? 8-COMESA-EU pact to open up more markets. 9-Bulgaria, Romania set to join EU in 2007 10-Disease migrates as world warms.
Just before we get to the Stories below, If anyone watched Benny Hinn this Morning,(Tue Sept 5,06) The Power of GOD was incredible. God told Benny not to lay hands on anyone. Then God lead Benny to tell the ones on the Stage to go to a certain place,God revealed to Benny himself while he (God) slain the members in the Spirit. They fell where they were without out Benny being no were near them. By doing this God was telling people that you don't rely on people,Its God who does the Miracles, Signs and wonders. Call on Jesus hes the one that you call on for anything you want as long as it lines up with GODS WORD (BIBLE). I hope for everyones sake Benny repeats this show on Friday. WATCH THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WORLD, PROVE HIS POWER TO THE WORLD AND THAT HES IN CONTROL.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
September 04, 2006 09:54 AM
Two Moderate Earthquakes In Indonesia
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 (Bernama) Two moderate earthquakes occurred in Indonesia this morning, the first one near northern Sumatra and another near Tanimbar Islands, southeast of Moluccas.The Meteorological Services Department, in a statement here,
said the first earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale occurred at 12.20am, with its centre 124km southwest of Nias, which is about 595km from Kuala Lumpur.The second quake of magnitude 5.6 took place at 7.18am near Tanimbar Island, 1,197km
southeast of Manado and 1,956 southeast of Tawau, Sabah.The statement said no threat of tsunami was reported.BERNAMA
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 leftovers cause minor flooding 33 minutes ago
SAN JACINTO, Calif. - Flash flooding triggered mudslides that trapped vehicles in Southern California as the fading remnants of Hurricane John dumped rain on parts of the Southwest.Eight separate mudslides covered a stretch of road in the San Jacinto area with up to 6 feet of mud and rocks Monday afternoon, trapping 19 vehicles but causing no injuries, said Riverside County Fire Captain Bret Cerini.Cerini said most of the vehicles were driven out but crews had to pull one car from deep mud. Hurricane John, which pounded parts of Mexico with up to 20 inches of rain, didn't directly cause the California rain but its remnants helped push tropical moisture into the region, said meteorologist Ted Mackechnie at the National Weather Service.It kicked up the moisture and helped (the moisture) spread into our area,Mackechnie said.
Normally dry southern New Mexico got enough rain from the storm system to cause isolated road flooding Monday, and southern Arizona had scattered rain.
In Texas, a half-mile section of Interstate 10 near downtown El Paso was closed by water Monday morning, police spokesman Javier Sambrano said. A Continental Airlines jet got stuck in mud Monday at El Paso International Airport when it strayed off a taxiway, airline spokeswoman Julie King said. No one was hurt.Across the border from El Paso, the rain flooded neighborhoods in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, knocked down utility poles and caused several traffic accidents. Hundreds of people were evacuated from one neighborhood because of concerns about a dam, said Luz del Carmen Sosa of the city's public safety department.The hurricane was blamed for the deaths of three people on Mexico's Baja California peninsula, officials said.
05/09/2006 - 1:34:38 PM
Minister warns of worst floods in 25 years :: latest
The worst floods for 25 years could hit coastal towns this weekend, it was claimed today.Urging a high state of alert, Minister for Environment Dick Roche warned local authorities to clear all drains and have sandbags ready for local homes and businesses.
The Army, the Coast Guard and Civil Defence are also on standby alert.Mr Roche said: Exceptionally high tides are expected to occur this weekend. However, we have no particular cause for worry unless we get storms and sea surges at the same time, and so far the weather forecasts remain favourable.Coastal local authorities have also been asked to ensure that all drains in low-lying areas are inspected and cleared and to have supplies of sand bags on site and available for collection by home and business owners who are not in a position to provide these themselves.Mr Roche advised people to follow guidelines on the www.flooding.ie website run by the Office of Public Works, the state’s lead agency on flooding.
If weather conditions do deteriorate householders should also consider moving valuables, electrical equipment and furniture upstairs.
Householders should keep drains around their own homes cleared. Communities should also ensure that vulnerable persons living near them are assisted and prepared in the event of a flooding incident.The Labour Party called for extra vigilance in Dublin areas previously flooded like Ringsend and Drumcondra in 2002, the East Wall and North Strand in 2001.Therefore it is essential that the local authority, Dublin City Council, immediately begins the procedure of clearing all drains, gullies and shores so that surface water cannot pool and aggravate the situation, front bench spokesman Joe Costello said.
Labour also called for a co-ordinated plan for any emergency flooding and to determine whether proposed new structures such as boardwalks on the rivers and canals are appropriate or whether they could add to the problem.
Olmert: War Against Syria Would be Without Limits
13:18 Sep 04, '06 / 11 Elul 5766
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a Knesset committee Monday morning that if Syria goes to war against Israel, the IDF will react without the limitations that restricted the retaliation against Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon.During the war, the government said it did not prevent the military establishment from carrying out plans, but senior army officers have stated that the ground assault was delayed several days by the government.What we have done in Lebanon amounts to a deterring element against the Syrians, because they now realize that while in Lebanon we have restrained our use of force, in a campaign against them we will not adhere to such restraints,he asserted.
EZEKIEL 38:1-3,5-7
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:
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.
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)
UPDATED: 07:33, September 05, 2006
Israel, Palestinians to swap prisoners within 48 hours: report
Israel will release 1,400 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for its soldier taken hostage in Gaza since late June, the Qatar-based al-Sharq daily reported on Monday. According to a deal, which will take effect within 48 hours, Israel will release Hamas ministers and lawmakers and reopen crossing points into Gaza, the report said. Israel will also stop assassinations and return tax revenues owned to the Palestinian National Authority, it added.
In addition to the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was seized by Palestinian militant groups on June 25, the Palestinians are asked to stop rocket attacks into Israel, said the report. A number of Arab, Islamic, European countries and the United States played a role in achieving the deal which will get the Palestinian National Authority back to the peace track in 48 hours, said the newspaper, which said it obtained a copy of the secret deal. According to the copy of the deal, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to pull back the Palestine Liberation Organization's recognition of Israel and resign if Israeli massacres against his people continued. The report said that Israel would call off all measures taken after the capture of Shalit. Source: Xinhua
Annan to mediate on captured Israeli soldiers Mon Sep 4, 12:55 PM ET
RIYADH (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday Lebanon and Israel have accepted his offer to mediate the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah in July. The two sides have accepted the effort of the secretary-general to help solve this problem, Annan told a news conference in Saudi Arabia. I will appoint a person to work secretly with the two sides. I will not announce his name today or tomorrow,he said through an Arabic interpreter.
European Union foreign ministers met in Finland, at Lappeenranta, on Saturday to back High Representative Javier Solana's continued discussions with Iran. 'Solana said he would not need extensive sessions with Iran to clarify the remaining questions, but did not provide any timetable nor was one set by the EU Foreign Ministers.
Britain, France and Germany each received a secret letter in response to the demand that Iran cease producing nuclear fuel. Some of the other EU states are growing impatient with the secretive handling of the Iran issue by foreign policy chief Javier Solana and the EU's big three ... 22 out of the 25 ministers were not allowed to see a top secret 21-page report which Tehran produced last week explaining its position - a document only seen by Mr Solana and the so-called EU-3. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has just been to Tehran, with its Holocaust cartoon exhibition and proposed Holocaust denial conference. Regarding the uranium enrichment programme, he told Iran they now have two more weeks tacked on to the deadline.
Why is Iran given so much leeway?
Like Russia and China during the Cold War, Iran is being allowed to develop its nuclear capacity because war is not an option. No country is ready to challenge Iran effectively. Take a look at the published letters from President Mahmoud Ahmadinijad: the letters to President George Bush and to Chancellor Angela Merkel. At best, these are embarrassing, even humorous. But actually they're rather worrying. Their combination of sycophantic flattery, tendentious argument and idiosyncratic construction shows the work of a cunning yet unbalanced mind, an autodictat lost in a fantasy world of unconstrained ambition and hatred. Ahmadinijad is consciously creating a volatile situation from which to gain maximum advantage for Iran. He's painting himself into a corner, making war inevitable, while the world's leaders are trying their best not to ignore it.Solana has a theory about the logic of war which he discussed when he visited Israel at the start of the recent Lebanese conflict. He's against it.
Yet the credible threat of war is the stick that must accompany the carrot of peace if diplomacy is to work. The way Solana and Kofi Annan openly recoil from the use of force makes it impossible to present Iran with a robust response to their defiance on nuclear enrichment. Ahmadinijad knows he can continue with impunity.The European Union and the United Nations are natural havens for appeasers. Anything but war.
Today's European ethos is to maintain peace through employment and economic opportunity. The Iranians understand this. With their secret letters, they have explained to each of their potential opponents individually and separately why they should let Iran follow its chosen course, in each case adjusting the argument to the recipient's situation. Each letter must surely contain the same sort of gibberish we've already seen in those sent earlier.
This makes it impossible to publish their contents. If the public were to realise what Ahmadinijad was writing to their leaders, war would be only a matter of time. So the world's leaders are left humouring Ahmadinijad, hoping he doesn't actually mean what he says but not confident enough in their faith to actually tell us what he's saying.
deWinter at 4. September 2006, 08:48 CET
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.(TR 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).
REVELATION 13,3,7-8
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.
COMESA-EU pact to open up more markets
By MARK OLOO
The Common Market for East and Central African (COMESA) states have begun fresh negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) in a bid to expand domestic markets through strategic trade liberalisation.
Through the agreement, the countries hope to significantly hasten ongoing plans to implement a customs union.
COMESA Secretary General Erastus Mwencha said the principal aim of the pact would be to enable member countries address issues of competitiveness and enhanced reach to external markets. Mwencha however said the EPA and EU pact did not mean that member states would exclusively open up their markets. Trading activities between us and the European Union is worth over 23 billion Euros and we would really wish to use such agreements as a road map to sustained economic relationships,he said. In a key note address delivered during the opening of a high level COMESA customs union talks in Nairobi yesterday, Mwencha noted that member were countries were keen on the EPA, saying the blue print would come with a host of economic benefits.
He said once ratified, the EPA will provide a safeguard to COMESA products that currently enjoy preference in Europe. Kenya, he said, will next month host a special meeting to discuss the proposed EPA. The official said COMESA members had consented to the launch of a customs union by December 2008 and that preliminaries ahead of the plan are in good progress. We are actually almost there, especially having resolved most of the issues that stood between us,he reiterated. He said members were in the process of deliberating on the recommended tariff bands for the common external tariff in respect of all goods imported into member states. The COMESA boss said member countries would also reach a consensus on the proposed regional trade policy and the policy space to be accorded individual member states within the customs union.
We have long since come to agreement on the rates for raw materials and capital goods, both with target rates of 0 per cent, with the remaining work focusing on intermediate and final goods,he noted. COMESA secretariat, he indicated, was holding talks with various regional economic blocks such as the East African Community (EAC) and SADC to concretise efforts of harmonising certain programmes to scale up poverty eradication.
He revealed that COMESA, SADC and EAC were in the process of establishing a joint air transport regulation board on the basis of joint competition regulations adopted by the three regional economic blocks. Trade and industry Minister Mukhisa Kituyi urged COMESA member states to come up with agreements over the common external tariff so as to have a common position in the negotiations with the EU. Times News Services Ltd,All rights reserved.
Bulgaria, Romania set to join EU in 2007
London /05/09/ 11:20
Bulgaria and Romania are set to get the go-ahead to join the European Union on 1 January 2007 under the strictest conditions ever applied to new members of the bloc, the Financial Times daily said.The paper says Bulgaria will come under the toughest EU scrutiny and faces possible legal and financial sanctions unless it proves it is serious in tackling organized crime and high-level corruption.EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso are on Tuesday expected to warn Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev that his country will be under unprecedented pressure in the coming months, FT said.EU officials have rejected the idea of postponing Bulgaria and Romania's entry until 2008 on the grounds it would discourage reformers.
EU has the power to suspend regional aid payments worth billions of euros to either Bulgaria and Romania if they are shown to be subject to persistent fraud, FI says, adding that If Bulgaria fails to tackle crime and corruption, it could be excluded from EU legal cooperation and its courts’ judgments would not be recognized by the union.In the case of Bulgaria, we hoped they would deliver concrete results over the summer in tackling high-level corruption and organized crime but progress has been disappointing, said EU official.Commissioner Rehn will make his formal report on Romania and Bulgaria’s progress on September 26. /end/
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORUS GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(MURDER, INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASES)
Disease migrates as world warms
Climate change may cause malaria carrying mosquitoes to migrate Climate change is exacerbating the spread of infectious diseases, according to new research.
Warming temperatures are causing organisms to migrate, Professor Paul Hunter told a
conference in the UK. In Europe, ocean swimmers have been infected with illnesses normally associated with warmer waters.And Professor Hunter warned not enough was being done to monitor the spread, due to the warming of the Earth, of big killers such as malaria in Africa. Professor Hunter, head of health protection at the UK's University of East Anglia, presented research tracking the movement of disease causing organisms in Europe and North America to the Festival of Science in the UK city of Norwich.
There are already significant indications of disease burden occurring in Europe as a result of climate change,he told the conference. Habitats extend One organism on the move is Vibrio vulnificus, which can cause severe illness - and in some cases death in humans, the research found. It only grows in warm waters, such as those in the Gulf of Mexico but has now been reported as far north as the Baltic Sea in Europe, and killed one person in Denmark.
In Italy, 100 holidaymakers had been taken ill after coming into contact with an organism Ostreopsis ovata which had extended its habitat because of warmer waters, Professor Hunter said. And Congo Crimea Haemorrhagic Fever - which causes bleeding from the skin, mouth and nose - had also began to appear in areas where it was previously unknown, he said.
In Europe we're getting worried about three or four cases of rare disease associated with the Baltic Ocean - but in Africa we're talking about potentially many millions of cases of malaria Professor Paul Hunter University of East Anglia Prof Hunter said the spread of such organisms was probably due to milder winters rather than warmer summers.
But he emphasised that the burden of climate change will fall on the poorest countries in the world, and the tropical countries. We actually have very little information about health and infectious disease statistics for many of these countries. In Europe we're getting worried about three or four cases of rare disease associated with the Baltic Ocean - but in Africa we're talking about potentially many millions of cases of malaria occurring as a result of climate change which might not have occurred earlier.
The migration of ticks and midges also caused diseases like malaria to spread, he said. The researchers also believe that infectious diseases borne by humans, such as TB and HIV, are likely to spread more widely as people migrate to escape drought and other effects of climate change.
World needs to adapt
At the same conference, the President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Frances Cairncross, told delegates it was time for the world to begin focusing on how to live with climate change, rather than solely on preventing it.
She said the Kyoto Protocol was ineffectual, in part because several big nations were not signed up to it. We almost certainly can't stop climate change, she said.
We probably can slow it down a bit and we should certainly try, but broadly, the main thing we are going to have to do is to adapt.The rich countries should help the poor countries to adapt - as well as helping them to introduce less
energy-intensive technologies.
Just before we get to the Stories below, If anyone watched Benny Hinn this Morning,(Tue Sept 5,06) The Power of GOD was incredible. God told Benny not to lay hands on anyone. Then God lead Benny to tell the ones on the Stage to go to a certain place,God revealed to Benny himself while he (God) slain the members in the Spirit. They fell where they were without out Benny being no were near them. By doing this God was telling people that you don't rely on people,Its God who does the Miracles, Signs and wonders. Call on Jesus hes the one that you call on for anything you want as long as it lines up with GODS WORD (BIBLE). I hope for everyones sake Benny repeats this show on Friday. WATCH THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WORLD, PROVE HIS POWER TO THE WORLD AND THAT HES IN CONTROL.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
September 04, 2006 09:54 AM
Two Moderate Earthquakes In Indonesia
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 (Bernama) Two moderate earthquakes occurred in Indonesia this morning, the first one near northern Sumatra and another near Tanimbar Islands, southeast of Moluccas.The Meteorological Services Department, in a statement here,
said the first earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale occurred at 12.20am, with its centre 124km southwest of Nias, which is about 595km from Kuala Lumpur.The second quake of magnitude 5.6 took place at 7.18am near Tanimbar Island, 1,197km
southeast of Manado and 1,956 southeast of Tawau, Sabah.The statement said no threat of tsunami was reported.BERNAMA
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 leftovers cause minor flooding 33 minutes ago
SAN JACINTO, Calif. - Flash flooding triggered mudslides that trapped vehicles in Southern California as the fading remnants of Hurricane John dumped rain on parts of the Southwest.Eight separate mudslides covered a stretch of road in the San Jacinto area with up to 6 feet of mud and rocks Monday afternoon, trapping 19 vehicles but causing no injuries, said Riverside County Fire Captain Bret Cerini.Cerini said most of the vehicles were driven out but crews had to pull one car from deep mud. Hurricane John, which pounded parts of Mexico with up to 20 inches of rain, didn't directly cause the California rain but its remnants helped push tropical moisture into the region, said meteorologist Ted Mackechnie at the National Weather Service.It kicked up the moisture and helped (the moisture) spread into our area,Mackechnie said.
Normally dry southern New Mexico got enough rain from the storm system to cause isolated road flooding Monday, and southern Arizona had scattered rain.
In Texas, a half-mile section of Interstate 10 near downtown El Paso was closed by water Monday morning, police spokesman Javier Sambrano said. A Continental Airlines jet got stuck in mud Monday at El Paso International Airport when it strayed off a taxiway, airline spokeswoman Julie King said. No one was hurt.Across the border from El Paso, the rain flooded neighborhoods in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, knocked down utility poles and caused several traffic accidents. Hundreds of people were evacuated from one neighborhood because of concerns about a dam, said Luz del Carmen Sosa of the city's public safety department.The hurricane was blamed for the deaths of three people on Mexico's Baja California peninsula, officials said.
05/09/2006 - 1:34:38 PM
Minister warns of worst floods in 25 years :: latest
The worst floods for 25 years could hit coastal towns this weekend, it was claimed today.Urging a high state of alert, Minister for Environment Dick Roche warned local authorities to clear all drains and have sandbags ready for local homes and businesses.
The Army, the Coast Guard and Civil Defence are also on standby alert.Mr Roche said: Exceptionally high tides are expected to occur this weekend. However, we have no particular cause for worry unless we get storms and sea surges at the same time, and so far the weather forecasts remain favourable.Coastal local authorities have also been asked to ensure that all drains in low-lying areas are inspected and cleared and to have supplies of sand bags on site and available for collection by home and business owners who are not in a position to provide these themselves.Mr Roche advised people to follow guidelines on the www.flooding.ie website run by the Office of Public Works, the state’s lead agency on flooding.
If weather conditions do deteriorate householders should also consider moving valuables, electrical equipment and furniture upstairs.
Householders should keep drains around their own homes cleared. Communities should also ensure that vulnerable persons living near them are assisted and prepared in the event of a flooding incident.The Labour Party called for extra vigilance in Dublin areas previously flooded like Ringsend and Drumcondra in 2002, the East Wall and North Strand in 2001.Therefore it is essential that the local authority, Dublin City Council, immediately begins the procedure of clearing all drains, gullies and shores so that surface water cannot pool and aggravate the situation, front bench spokesman Joe Costello said.
Labour also called for a co-ordinated plan for any emergency flooding and to determine whether proposed new structures such as boardwalks on the rivers and canals are appropriate or whether they could add to the problem.
Olmert: War Against Syria Would be Without Limits
13:18 Sep 04, '06 / 11 Elul 5766
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a Knesset committee Monday morning that if Syria goes to war against Israel, the IDF will react without the limitations that restricted the retaliation against Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon.During the war, the government said it did not prevent the military establishment from carrying out plans, but senior army officers have stated that the ground assault was delayed several days by the government.What we have done in Lebanon amounts to a deterring element against the Syrians, because they now realize that while in Lebanon we have restrained our use of force, in a campaign against them we will not adhere to such restraints,he asserted.
EZEKIEL 38:1-3,5-7
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:
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.
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)
UPDATED: 07:33, September 05, 2006
Israel, Palestinians to swap prisoners within 48 hours: report
Israel will release 1,400 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for its soldier taken hostage in Gaza since late June, the Qatar-based al-Sharq daily reported on Monday. According to a deal, which will take effect within 48 hours, Israel will release Hamas ministers and lawmakers and reopen crossing points into Gaza, the report said. Israel will also stop assassinations and return tax revenues owned to the Palestinian National Authority, it added.
In addition to the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was seized by Palestinian militant groups on June 25, the Palestinians are asked to stop rocket attacks into Israel, said the report. A number of Arab, Islamic, European countries and the United States played a role in achieving the deal which will get the Palestinian National Authority back to the peace track in 48 hours, said the newspaper, which said it obtained a copy of the secret deal. According to the copy of the deal, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to pull back the Palestine Liberation Organization's recognition of Israel and resign if Israeli massacres against his people continued. The report said that Israel would call off all measures taken after the capture of Shalit. Source: Xinhua
Annan to mediate on captured Israeli soldiers Mon Sep 4, 12:55 PM ET
RIYADH (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday Lebanon and Israel have accepted his offer to mediate the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah in July. The two sides have accepted the effort of the secretary-general to help solve this problem, Annan told a news conference in Saudi Arabia. I will appoint a person to work secretly with the two sides. I will not announce his name today or tomorrow,he said through an Arabic interpreter.
European Union foreign ministers met in Finland, at Lappeenranta, on Saturday to back High Representative Javier Solana's continued discussions with Iran. 'Solana said he would not need extensive sessions with Iran to clarify the remaining questions, but did not provide any timetable nor was one set by the EU Foreign Ministers.
Britain, France and Germany each received a secret letter in response to the demand that Iran cease producing nuclear fuel. Some of the other EU states are growing impatient with the secretive handling of the Iran issue by foreign policy chief Javier Solana and the EU's big three ... 22 out of the 25 ministers were not allowed to see a top secret 21-page report which Tehran produced last week explaining its position - a document only seen by Mr Solana and the so-called EU-3. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has just been to Tehran, with its Holocaust cartoon exhibition and proposed Holocaust denial conference. Regarding the uranium enrichment programme, he told Iran they now have two more weeks tacked on to the deadline.
Why is Iran given so much leeway?
Like Russia and China during the Cold War, Iran is being allowed to develop its nuclear capacity because war is not an option. No country is ready to challenge Iran effectively. Take a look at the published letters from President Mahmoud Ahmadinijad: the letters to President George Bush and to Chancellor Angela Merkel. At best, these are embarrassing, even humorous. But actually they're rather worrying. Their combination of sycophantic flattery, tendentious argument and idiosyncratic construction shows the work of a cunning yet unbalanced mind, an autodictat lost in a fantasy world of unconstrained ambition and hatred. Ahmadinijad is consciously creating a volatile situation from which to gain maximum advantage for Iran. He's painting himself into a corner, making war inevitable, while the world's leaders are trying their best not to ignore it.Solana has a theory about the logic of war which he discussed when he visited Israel at the start of the recent Lebanese conflict. He's against it.
Yet the credible threat of war is the stick that must accompany the carrot of peace if diplomacy is to work. The way Solana and Kofi Annan openly recoil from the use of force makes it impossible to present Iran with a robust response to their defiance on nuclear enrichment. Ahmadinijad knows he can continue with impunity.The European Union and the United Nations are natural havens for appeasers. Anything but war.
Today's European ethos is to maintain peace through employment and economic opportunity. The Iranians understand this. With their secret letters, they have explained to each of their potential opponents individually and separately why they should let Iran follow its chosen course, in each case adjusting the argument to the recipient's situation. Each letter must surely contain the same sort of gibberish we've already seen in those sent earlier.
This makes it impossible to publish their contents. If the public were to realise what Ahmadinijad was writing to their leaders, war would be only a matter of time. So the world's leaders are left humouring Ahmadinijad, hoping he doesn't actually mean what he says but not confident enough in their faith to actually tell us what he's saying.
deWinter at 4. September 2006, 08:48 CET
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.(TR 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).
REVELATION 13,3,7-8
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.
COMESA-EU pact to open up more markets
By MARK OLOO
The Common Market for East and Central African (COMESA) states have begun fresh negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) in a bid to expand domestic markets through strategic trade liberalisation.
Through the agreement, the countries hope to significantly hasten ongoing plans to implement a customs union.
COMESA Secretary General Erastus Mwencha said the principal aim of the pact would be to enable member countries address issues of competitiveness and enhanced reach to external markets. Mwencha however said the EPA and EU pact did not mean that member states would exclusively open up their markets. Trading activities between us and the European Union is worth over 23 billion Euros and we would really wish to use such agreements as a road map to sustained economic relationships,he said. In a key note address delivered during the opening of a high level COMESA customs union talks in Nairobi yesterday, Mwencha noted that member were countries were keen on the EPA, saying the blue print would come with a host of economic benefits.
He said once ratified, the EPA will provide a safeguard to COMESA products that currently enjoy preference in Europe. Kenya, he said, will next month host a special meeting to discuss the proposed EPA. The official said COMESA members had consented to the launch of a customs union by December 2008 and that preliminaries ahead of the plan are in good progress. We are actually almost there, especially having resolved most of the issues that stood between us,he reiterated. He said members were in the process of deliberating on the recommended tariff bands for the common external tariff in respect of all goods imported into member states. The COMESA boss said member countries would also reach a consensus on the proposed regional trade policy and the policy space to be accorded individual member states within the customs union.
We have long since come to agreement on the rates for raw materials and capital goods, both with target rates of 0 per cent, with the remaining work focusing on intermediate and final goods,he noted. COMESA secretariat, he indicated, was holding talks with various regional economic blocks such as the East African Community (EAC) and SADC to concretise efforts of harmonising certain programmes to scale up poverty eradication.
He revealed that COMESA, SADC and EAC were in the process of establishing a joint air transport regulation board on the basis of joint competition regulations adopted by the three regional economic blocks. Trade and industry Minister Mukhisa Kituyi urged COMESA member states to come up with agreements over the common external tariff so as to have a common position in the negotiations with the EU. Times News Services Ltd,All rights reserved.
Bulgaria, Romania set to join EU in 2007
London /05/09/ 11:20
Bulgaria and Romania are set to get the go-ahead to join the European Union on 1 January 2007 under the strictest conditions ever applied to new members of the bloc, the Financial Times daily said.The paper says Bulgaria will come under the toughest EU scrutiny and faces possible legal and financial sanctions unless it proves it is serious in tackling organized crime and high-level corruption.EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso are on Tuesday expected to warn Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev that his country will be under unprecedented pressure in the coming months, FT said.EU officials have rejected the idea of postponing Bulgaria and Romania's entry until 2008 on the grounds it would discourage reformers.
EU has the power to suspend regional aid payments worth billions of euros to either Bulgaria and Romania if they are shown to be subject to persistent fraud, FI says, adding that If Bulgaria fails to tackle crime and corruption, it could be excluded from EU legal cooperation and its courts’ judgments would not be recognized by the union.In the case of Bulgaria, we hoped they would deliver concrete results over the summer in tackling high-level corruption and organized crime but progress has been disappointing, said EU official.Commissioner Rehn will make his formal report on Romania and Bulgaria’s progress on September 26. /end/
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORUS GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(MURDER, INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASES)
Disease migrates as world warms
Climate change may cause malaria carrying mosquitoes to migrate Climate change is exacerbating the spread of infectious diseases, according to new research.
Warming temperatures are causing organisms to migrate, Professor Paul Hunter told a
conference in the UK. In Europe, ocean swimmers have been infected with illnesses normally associated with warmer waters.And Professor Hunter warned not enough was being done to monitor the spread, due to the warming of the Earth, of big killers such as malaria in Africa. Professor Hunter, head of health protection at the UK's University of East Anglia, presented research tracking the movement of disease causing organisms in Europe and North America to the Festival of Science in the UK city of Norwich.
There are already significant indications of disease burden occurring in Europe as a result of climate change,he told the conference. Habitats extend One organism on the move is Vibrio vulnificus, which can cause severe illness - and in some cases death in humans, the research found. It only grows in warm waters, such as those in the Gulf of Mexico but has now been reported as far north as the Baltic Sea in Europe, and killed one person in Denmark.
In Italy, 100 holidaymakers had been taken ill after coming into contact with an organism Ostreopsis ovata which had extended its habitat because of warmer waters, Professor Hunter said. And Congo Crimea Haemorrhagic Fever - which causes bleeding from the skin, mouth and nose - had also began to appear in areas where it was previously unknown, he said.
In Europe we're getting worried about three or four cases of rare disease associated with the Baltic Ocean - but in Africa we're talking about potentially many millions of cases of malaria Professor Paul Hunter University of East Anglia Prof Hunter said the spread of such organisms was probably due to milder winters rather than warmer summers.
But he emphasised that the burden of climate change will fall on the poorest countries in the world, and the tropical countries. We actually have very little information about health and infectious disease statistics for many of these countries. In Europe we're getting worried about three or four cases of rare disease associated with the Baltic Ocean - but in Africa we're talking about potentially many millions of cases of malaria occurring as a result of climate change which might not have occurred earlier.
The migration of ticks and midges also caused diseases like malaria to spread, he said. The researchers also believe that infectious diseases borne by humans, such as TB and HIV, are likely to spread more widely as people migrate to escape drought and other effects of climate change.
World needs to adapt
At the same conference, the President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Frances Cairncross, told delegates it was time for the world to begin focusing on how to live with climate change, rather than solely on preventing it.
She said the Kyoto Protocol was ineffectual, in part because several big nations were not signed up to it. We almost certainly can't stop climate change, she said.
We probably can slow it down a bit and we should certainly try, but broadly, the main thing we are going to have to do is to adapt.The rich countries should help the poor countries to adapt - as well as helping them to introduce less
energy-intensive technologies.
ISRAEL US READY FOR IRAN SYRIA
1-Moderate quake shakes southern Panama. 2-Atlantic tropical depression strengthens. 3-Authorities launch rescue in flooded Kashmir as 12 killed. 4-Hurricane remnants drench Mexico's Baja. 5-Delegation to world religious assembly returns. 6-Migrants keep coming as EU seeks new border plans. 7-Lebanese Security Is the Pretext for the Naval Babel around Lebanon’s Shores.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Moderate quake shakes southern Panama Sun Sep 3, 7:51 PM ET
PANAMA CITY, Panama - A moderate earthquake shook Panama's southern Darien province on the Colombian border Sunday but caused no injuries or damages, civil defense officials said. The magnitude-5.3 quake was felt strongly in the Panamanian town of Meteti, 124 miles east of the capital, after hitting early Sunday, the country's Civil Protection Director Roberto Velasquez said.
The epicenter was located close to the Panamanian town of Jaque, 31 miles from the Colombian border.
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.
Atlantic tropical depression strengthens 21 minutes ago
MIAMI - A tropical depression brewing over the open Atlantic was nearing tropical storm strength Monday morning, forecasters said.
At 11 a.m. EDT, the depression had sustained winds near 35 mph, 4 mph shy of becoming a tropical storm and the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.It was centered about 1,235 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and moving northwest at near 12 mph, a path forecasters said they expected to continue for the next day, according to the National Hurricane Center.The depression would be named Florence if it reaches tropical storm strength. Forecasters said it could become a tropical storm later Monday or Tuesday.It comes on the heels of Tropical Storm Ernesto, which was briefly the season's first Atlantic hurricane.
Ernesto's hit the U.S. mainland at tropical storm strength, first moving over Florida, then swinging out to sea before hitting the Carolinas just short of hurricane strength. The storm and its remnants wreaked havoc along the East Coast, tearing down tree limbs and power lines and flooding low-lying areas and roads.About 8,000 homes and business in Connecticut were still without power Saturday morning because of the storm. In New York's Westchester County, just north of New York City, 19,000 customers were without power, and residents of Yonkers were advised to boil water because of a power outage at a reservoir.
Last year's Atlantic storm season set a record with 28 named storms and 15 hurricanes, including Katrina, which devastated the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season hasn't been as rough as many forecasters initially feared. Forecaster William Gray downgraded his expectations for the season on Friday to five hurricanes, a slightly below-average season. The National Hurricane Center lowered its Atlantic storms forecast in August to between seven and nine hurricanes.
Authorities launch rescue in flooded Kashmir as 12 killed Mon Sep 4, 7:43 AM ET
SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Twelve people died from heavy monsoon rains lashing the summer capital region of Indian Kashmir as rescuers tried to reach thousands trapped by flood waters. Highways and roads were closed as rivers swelled above danger levels, submerging low-lying areas in Srinagar and the surrounding valley and forcing schools and businesses to shut, a police spokesman said.A mother and her two children were killed in a house collapse in (southern) Udhampur district, while another woman died in Reasi when a cow shed collapsed, the spokesman said.
Two middle-aged men were washed away by gushing waters in southern Anantnag district, the spokesman added.Late Saturday a family of six were killed in a house collapse just south of Srinagar.Soldiers and police late Sunday rescued around 1,150 people from marooned villages in Pulwama district, an army spokesman said, adding that efforts in other areas were underway to bring people to safety.We are using boats to ferry supplies to residents of over 100 villages, and evacuate sick to hospitals,spokesman Hemant Joneja said.In all over 150 villages have been marooned, affecting a population of more than 15,000.The school buildings will be used by the people displaced by the floods wherever required, the region's flood control minister Dilawar Mir said, as the weather department warned of more rains.
It is likely to rain in the next 24 hours, with heavy to very heavy spells of rain at some places,L.C. Ram, the head of Kashmir meteorology department, told AFP.Indian Kashmir is still coping with last October's devastating earthquake that left about 1,300 people dead and thousands homeless.In August, monsoon rains that sweep India from June to September caused flooding in four states. Hundreds were killed and more than 10 million people were affected.The rains are nonetheless crucial for India's agriculture sector, whose output is important for the country's economy.
Hurricane remnants drench Mexico's Baja By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Mon Sep 4, 7:05 AM ET
LA PAZ, Mexico - Rains from the remnants of Hurricane John soaked the northern half of Mexico's arid Baja California peninsula on Monday and threatened to cause flooding in the southwestern United States. The storm, which was downgraded to a tropical depression Sunday, had dumped up to 20 inches of rain in isolated areas of the peninsula and was expected to drop as many as 3 inches in desert areas from southern California to west Texas in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
John was a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 110 mph when it struck near the southern tip of Baja on Friday, but officials reported no deaths and minor damage.
The area hardest hit was La Paz, the capital of Baja California del Sur state. On Sunday, President Vicente Fox toured the city, noting the downed power lines, flood streets, and roofless tin houses.Fortunately there is no human loss and the impact (in terms of damage) is relatively modest,Fox said as he pledged to help residents whose homes had been affected.A total of 160 houses on the peninsula lost their roofs and four houses collapsed, officials said. More than 1,100 people remained in government shelters by Sunday. Mexico's health secretary was sending in officials to protect the state against dengue fever and other waterborne diseases.
Crews busily worked Sunday to restore electricity and phone service and remove fallen electricity poles in La Paz, still covered in a layer of sand and grit. Residents dragged trees from their yards and bulldozers cleared debris from roads.He told us he's going to help us repair our houses,said housewife Francisca Maldonado after meeting Fox.
John, which was expected to dissipate later Monday, initially was forecast to slam into the resort area of Los Cabos on the southern tip of Baja. But forecasters said a high-pressure ridge was weaker than expected and allowed the storm to keep traveling north up the peninsula.Meanwhile, tropical depression Kristy churned in the Pacific Ocean far from land, the hurricane center said. The forecast called for Kristy to lose steam over the next few days as it moves over cooler waters.
On the Net:http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
Delegation to world religious assembly returns
www.chinaview.cn 2006-09-01 23:44:04
Jia Qinglin (R), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, meets with the delegation to the Eighth World Conference of Religions for Peace in Beijing, capital of China, on Aug. 21, 2006. The conference was held in Kyoto of Japan from Aug. 26 to 29. (Xinhua Photo)
BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese delegation has returned from the Eighth World Conference of Religions for Peace held in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto, sources said Friday. During the conference, the delegation from the Peace Committee of Chinese Religious Circles discussed with world religious leaders global violence and called for active measures to jointly tackle poverty and regional conflict. Before their departure, top political advisor Jia Qinglin met with the delegation, which was composed of members from the Peace Committee of Chinese Religious Circles. The theme of the conference coincided with the pursuit of peace and harmony of Chinese religious groups, so the delegation should attend as peace envoys of Chinese religious circles and the Chinese people, said Jia, who is chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
He hoped the delegation would raise awareness of Chinese culture and freedom of religious belief at the conference. The Religions for Peace conference is the world's largest and most diverse multi-religious assembly. The first conference was held in Kyoto in 1970, and has been hosted on a different continent every five years About 500 religious leaders and 1,500 representatives of international organizations and civil groups from 100 countries and regions attended this year's conference from Aug. 26 to 29.
A working plan was established at the meeting, urging all religious bodies to oppose the misrepresentation of religion as an excuse for violence. Enditem,Editor: Luan Shanglin
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)
Migrants keep coming as EU seeks new border plans
04.09.2006 - 09:54 CET | By Helena Spongenberg
The Canary Islands have been hit by its biggest wave of illegal immigrants over the weekend, as European countries seek solutions to stop the flow of people from the African continent to the southern borders of the EU.At least 14 vessels carrying over 1,500 people arrived at the coasts of the Canary Islands on Saturday and Sunday from Sub-Saharan Africa.Spanish deputy prime minister Maria Fernandez de la Vega announced on Friday (1 September) that prime minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has put immigration at the forefront of a meeting of southern EU states in Madrid later this month to seek a joint response to the crisis.
The interior and defence ministers of the countries are set to talk about issues such as coastal surveillance, rescue operations and repatriation, and have a proposal ready for a summit of the 25 EU leaders in December.Spain has asked the EU and the UN to assist it with the immigrant situation. Last week, Ms Fernandez de la Vega travelled to Finland, the current holder of the rotating EU presidency, and to Brussels to lobby support for more EU-wide efforts to fight illegal immigration and for an extension of current efforts by the EU border patrol agency, Frontex.
Earlier this month, the EU launched its first joint border patrol aimed at stopping the illegal immigrants coming to the Canary Islands from Africa.The Canary Islands mission, dubbed Hera II, is expected to last nine weeks and is covered by an EU budget of €3.2 million, with Spain co-financing the project.After meeting with Ms Fernandez de la Vega, EU justice commissioner Franco Frattini said he would head a top-level working group to help come up with a European model on illegal immigration.Along with Mr Frattini, the five commissioners responsible for development, foreign affairs, EU regions, social policy and education policy will be on the team to tackle the problem from as many angles as possible.
Meanwhile, an EU strategic committee on immigration, frontiers and asylum with 120 experts from 30 European countries will meet on Sunday (10 September) in Finland for a three day meeting to discuss the Finnish EU presidency's proposal for a new strategy on ways to monitor the EU's external borders.Besides the member states, experts will come from accession countries Bulgaria and Romania as well as neighbouring Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.More than 20,000 African migrants have been intercepted so far this year in and on the Spanish coasts, and the number for August alone exceeds that for all of last year, according to Spanish authorities.
Migrants who survive the risky voyage across rough waters and make it to Spanish territory are kept in holding centres. Authorities then have 40 days in which to repatriate or release them. The immigrants are either sent back to their country of origin or to the country from which they set sail, if Spain has repatriation accords with that country.Malta, Italy and Greece have similar problems with scores of desperate Africans seeking better standards of living in Europe.Home affairs ministers from Malta, Italy and Libya will meet in Valetta this week to discuss the problem.
Lebanese Security Is the Pretext for the Naval Babel around Lebanon’s Shores DEBKAfile Exclusive Military Report
September 4, 2006, 11:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
The extraordinary buildup of European naval and military strength in and around Lebanon’s shores is way out of proportion for the task the European contingents of expanded UNIFIL have undertaken: to create a buffer between Israel and Hizballah. Close investigation by DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources discloses that Lebanese security and peacemaking is not the object of the exercise. It is linked to the general anticipation of a military clash between the United States and Israel, on one side, and Iran and possibly Syria on the other, some time from now until November
This expectation has brought together the greatest sea and air armada Europe has ever assembled at any point on earth since World War II: two carriers with 75 fighter-bombers, spy planes and helicopters on their decks; 15 warships of various types – 7 French, 5 Italian, 2-3 Green, 3-5 German, and five American; thousands of Marines – French, Italian and German, as well as 1,800 US Marines. It is improbably billed as support for a mere 7,000 European soldiers who are deployed in Lebanon to prevent the dwindling Israeli force of 4-5,000 soldiers and some 15-16,000 Hizballah militiamen from coming to blows as well as for humanitarian odd jobs.
A Western military expert remarked to DEBKAfile that the European naval forces cruising off Lebanese shores are roughly ten times as much as the UNIFIL contingents require as cover, especially when UNIFIL’s duties are strictly non-combat. After all, none of the UN contingents will be engaged in disarming Hizballah or blocking the flow of weapons incoming from Syria and Iran. So, if not for Lebanon, what is this fine array of naval power really there for?
First, according to our military sources, the European participants feel the need of a strong naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean to prevent a possible Iranian-US-Israeli war igniting an Iranian long-range Shahab missile attack on Europe; second, as a deterrent to dissuade Syria and Hizballah from opening a second front against American and Israel from their eastern Mediterranean coasts. Numbers alone do not do justice to the immense operational capabilities and firepower amassed opposite Lebanon. Take first the three fleet flagships. From France’s nuclear-powered 38,000-ton Charles De Gaulle carrier (see insignia), 40 Rafale M fighter craft whose range is 3,340 km can take off at intervals of 30 seconds. The ship also carries three E-2C Hawkeye surveillance craft. The combat control center of the French carrier can handle 2,000 simultaneous targets. The carrier leads a task fore of 7 warships carrying 2,800 French Marines.Charles De Gaulle s also a floating logistics center operating water desalination plants for 15,000 men and enough food to feed an army for 90 days.
The USS Mount Whitney (the tallest snowcapped peak in the United States), has the most sophisticated command and control suite in the world. Like the French Charles De Gaulle , it exercises command over a task force of 1,800 sailors, Marines, Air force medical and other personnel serving aboard the USS Barry, the USS Trenton , HSV Swift and USNS Kanawha . Available to the fleet commander, US Vice Admiral J. Boomer Stufflebeem, formally titled commander of Joint Task Force Lebanon, is the uniquely advanced C41 command and intelligence system through which he can flash intelligence data to every American commander at any point between the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf and Iran. USS Mount Whitney communications are described as unsurpassed for the the secure transmission of data from any point to any other point in the world through HF, UHF,VHF, SHF and EHF.
The third carrier joining the other two is the Italian aircraft-helicopter carrier Garibaldi , which has launch pads for vertical takeoff by 16 AV-8B Harrier fighter-bombers or 18 Sikorsky SH-3D Seak King sea-choppers (or Italian Agusta Bell AB212 helicopters), designed to attack submarines and missile ships. Military experts estimate that the Garibaldi currently carries 10 fighter planes and 6 helicopters. The new European naval concentration tops up the forces which permanently crowd the eastern Mediterranean: the Italian-based American Sixth Fleet, some 15 small Israeli missile ships and half a dozen submarines and the NATO fleet of Canadian, British, Dutch, German, Spanish, Greek and Turkish warships. They are on patrol against al Qaeda (which is estimated to deploy 45 small freighters in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean). The British have permanent air and sea bases in Cyprus.
This vast force’s main weakness, according to DEBKAfile’s military sources, is that it lacks a single unified command. A sudden flare-up in Lebanon, Syria or Iran could throw the entire force into confusion.
On paper, it has three commanders:
1. French General Alain Pellegrini is the commander of the expanded UNIFIL ground, naval and air force in Lebanon. In February 2007, he hands over to an Italian general who leads the largest of the European contingents of 3,000 men. It is hard to see France agreeing to place its prestigious Charles De Gaulle flagship under non-French command.
2. The American forces opposite Lebanese shores are under direct US command. Since the October 1993 debacle of an American peace force under the UN flag in Somalia, Washington has never again placed its military under UN command. (There is no American contingent in the UNIFIL ground force either.) In other words, USS Mount Whitney , while serving the European fleets as their operational and intelligence nerve center will stay under the sole command of Vice Admiral Stufflebeem in all possible contingencies.
3. Similarly, the NATO fleet will remain under NATO command, and Israel’s air and naval units will take their orders from Israeli Navy Headquarters in Haifa and the General Staff in Tel Aviv. The naval Babel piling up in the eastern Mediterranean may therefore find itself at cross purposes when action is needed in an armed conflict. Iran, Syria and Hizballah could be counting on this weakness as a tactical asset in their favor.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Moderate quake shakes southern Panama Sun Sep 3, 7:51 PM ET
PANAMA CITY, Panama - A moderate earthquake shook Panama's southern Darien province on the Colombian border Sunday but caused no injuries or damages, civil defense officials said. The magnitude-5.3 quake was felt strongly in the Panamanian town of Meteti, 124 miles east of the capital, after hitting early Sunday, the country's Civil Protection Director Roberto Velasquez said.
The epicenter was located close to the Panamanian town of Jaque, 31 miles from the Colombian border.
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.
Atlantic tropical depression strengthens 21 minutes ago
MIAMI - A tropical depression brewing over the open Atlantic was nearing tropical storm strength Monday morning, forecasters said.
At 11 a.m. EDT, the depression had sustained winds near 35 mph, 4 mph shy of becoming a tropical storm and the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.It was centered about 1,235 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and moving northwest at near 12 mph, a path forecasters said they expected to continue for the next day, according to the National Hurricane Center.The depression would be named Florence if it reaches tropical storm strength. Forecasters said it could become a tropical storm later Monday or Tuesday.It comes on the heels of Tropical Storm Ernesto, which was briefly the season's first Atlantic hurricane.
Ernesto's hit the U.S. mainland at tropical storm strength, first moving over Florida, then swinging out to sea before hitting the Carolinas just short of hurricane strength. The storm and its remnants wreaked havoc along the East Coast, tearing down tree limbs and power lines and flooding low-lying areas and roads.About 8,000 homes and business in Connecticut were still without power Saturday morning because of the storm. In New York's Westchester County, just north of New York City, 19,000 customers were without power, and residents of Yonkers were advised to boil water because of a power outage at a reservoir.
Last year's Atlantic storm season set a record with 28 named storms and 15 hurricanes, including Katrina, which devastated the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season hasn't been as rough as many forecasters initially feared. Forecaster William Gray downgraded his expectations for the season on Friday to five hurricanes, a slightly below-average season. The National Hurricane Center lowered its Atlantic storms forecast in August to between seven and nine hurricanes.
Authorities launch rescue in flooded Kashmir as 12 killed Mon Sep 4, 7:43 AM ET
SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Twelve people died from heavy monsoon rains lashing the summer capital region of Indian Kashmir as rescuers tried to reach thousands trapped by flood waters. Highways and roads were closed as rivers swelled above danger levels, submerging low-lying areas in Srinagar and the surrounding valley and forcing schools and businesses to shut, a police spokesman said.A mother and her two children were killed in a house collapse in (southern) Udhampur district, while another woman died in Reasi when a cow shed collapsed, the spokesman said.
Two middle-aged men were washed away by gushing waters in southern Anantnag district, the spokesman added.Late Saturday a family of six were killed in a house collapse just south of Srinagar.Soldiers and police late Sunday rescued around 1,150 people from marooned villages in Pulwama district, an army spokesman said, adding that efforts in other areas were underway to bring people to safety.We are using boats to ferry supplies to residents of over 100 villages, and evacuate sick to hospitals,spokesman Hemant Joneja said.In all over 150 villages have been marooned, affecting a population of more than 15,000.The school buildings will be used by the people displaced by the floods wherever required, the region's flood control minister Dilawar Mir said, as the weather department warned of more rains.
It is likely to rain in the next 24 hours, with heavy to very heavy spells of rain at some places,L.C. Ram, the head of Kashmir meteorology department, told AFP.Indian Kashmir is still coping with last October's devastating earthquake that left about 1,300 people dead and thousands homeless.In August, monsoon rains that sweep India from June to September caused flooding in four states. Hundreds were killed and more than 10 million people were affected.The rains are nonetheless crucial for India's agriculture sector, whose output is important for the country's economy.
Hurricane remnants drench Mexico's Baja By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Mon Sep 4, 7:05 AM ET
LA PAZ, Mexico - Rains from the remnants of Hurricane John soaked the northern half of Mexico's arid Baja California peninsula on Monday and threatened to cause flooding in the southwestern United States. The storm, which was downgraded to a tropical depression Sunday, had dumped up to 20 inches of rain in isolated areas of the peninsula and was expected to drop as many as 3 inches in desert areas from southern California to west Texas in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
John was a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 110 mph when it struck near the southern tip of Baja on Friday, but officials reported no deaths and minor damage.
The area hardest hit was La Paz, the capital of Baja California del Sur state. On Sunday, President Vicente Fox toured the city, noting the downed power lines, flood streets, and roofless tin houses.Fortunately there is no human loss and the impact (in terms of damage) is relatively modest,Fox said as he pledged to help residents whose homes had been affected.A total of 160 houses on the peninsula lost their roofs and four houses collapsed, officials said. More than 1,100 people remained in government shelters by Sunday. Mexico's health secretary was sending in officials to protect the state against dengue fever and other waterborne diseases.
Crews busily worked Sunday to restore electricity and phone service and remove fallen electricity poles in La Paz, still covered in a layer of sand and grit. Residents dragged trees from their yards and bulldozers cleared debris from roads.He told us he's going to help us repair our houses,said housewife Francisca Maldonado after meeting Fox.
John, which was expected to dissipate later Monday, initially was forecast to slam into the resort area of Los Cabos on the southern tip of Baja. But forecasters said a high-pressure ridge was weaker than expected and allowed the storm to keep traveling north up the peninsula.Meanwhile, tropical depression Kristy churned in the Pacific Ocean far from land, the hurricane center said. The forecast called for Kristy to lose steam over the next few days as it moves over cooler waters.
On the Net:http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
Delegation to world religious assembly returns
www.chinaview.cn 2006-09-01 23:44:04
Jia Qinglin (R), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, meets with the delegation to the Eighth World Conference of Religions for Peace in Beijing, capital of China, on Aug. 21, 2006. The conference was held in Kyoto of Japan from Aug. 26 to 29. (Xinhua Photo)
BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese delegation has returned from the Eighth World Conference of Religions for Peace held in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto, sources said Friday. During the conference, the delegation from the Peace Committee of Chinese Religious Circles discussed with world religious leaders global violence and called for active measures to jointly tackle poverty and regional conflict. Before their departure, top political advisor Jia Qinglin met with the delegation, which was composed of members from the Peace Committee of Chinese Religious Circles. The theme of the conference coincided with the pursuit of peace and harmony of Chinese religious groups, so the delegation should attend as peace envoys of Chinese religious circles and the Chinese people, said Jia, who is chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
He hoped the delegation would raise awareness of Chinese culture and freedom of religious belief at the conference. The Religions for Peace conference is the world's largest and most diverse multi-religious assembly. The first conference was held in Kyoto in 1970, and has been hosted on a different continent every five years About 500 religious leaders and 1,500 representatives of international organizations and civil groups from 100 countries and regions attended this year's conference from Aug. 26 to 29.
A working plan was established at the meeting, urging all religious bodies to oppose the misrepresentation of religion as an excuse for violence. Enditem,Editor: Luan Shanglin
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)
Migrants keep coming as EU seeks new border plans
04.09.2006 - 09:54 CET | By Helena Spongenberg
The Canary Islands have been hit by its biggest wave of illegal immigrants over the weekend, as European countries seek solutions to stop the flow of people from the African continent to the southern borders of the EU.At least 14 vessels carrying over 1,500 people arrived at the coasts of the Canary Islands on Saturday and Sunday from Sub-Saharan Africa.Spanish deputy prime minister Maria Fernandez de la Vega announced on Friday (1 September) that prime minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has put immigration at the forefront of a meeting of southern EU states in Madrid later this month to seek a joint response to the crisis.
The interior and defence ministers of the countries are set to talk about issues such as coastal surveillance, rescue operations and repatriation, and have a proposal ready for a summit of the 25 EU leaders in December.Spain has asked the EU and the UN to assist it with the immigrant situation. Last week, Ms Fernandez de la Vega travelled to Finland, the current holder of the rotating EU presidency, and to Brussels to lobby support for more EU-wide efforts to fight illegal immigration and for an extension of current efforts by the EU border patrol agency, Frontex.
Earlier this month, the EU launched its first joint border patrol aimed at stopping the illegal immigrants coming to the Canary Islands from Africa.The Canary Islands mission, dubbed Hera II, is expected to last nine weeks and is covered by an EU budget of €3.2 million, with Spain co-financing the project.After meeting with Ms Fernandez de la Vega, EU justice commissioner Franco Frattini said he would head a top-level working group to help come up with a European model on illegal immigration.Along with Mr Frattini, the five commissioners responsible for development, foreign affairs, EU regions, social policy and education policy will be on the team to tackle the problem from as many angles as possible.
Meanwhile, an EU strategic committee on immigration, frontiers and asylum with 120 experts from 30 European countries will meet on Sunday (10 September) in Finland for a three day meeting to discuss the Finnish EU presidency's proposal for a new strategy on ways to monitor the EU's external borders.Besides the member states, experts will come from accession countries Bulgaria and Romania as well as neighbouring Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.More than 20,000 African migrants have been intercepted so far this year in and on the Spanish coasts, and the number for August alone exceeds that for all of last year, according to Spanish authorities.
Migrants who survive the risky voyage across rough waters and make it to Spanish territory are kept in holding centres. Authorities then have 40 days in which to repatriate or release them. The immigrants are either sent back to their country of origin or to the country from which they set sail, if Spain has repatriation accords with that country.Malta, Italy and Greece have similar problems with scores of desperate Africans seeking better standards of living in Europe.Home affairs ministers from Malta, Italy and Libya will meet in Valetta this week to discuss the problem.
Lebanese Security Is the Pretext for the Naval Babel around Lebanon’s Shores DEBKAfile Exclusive Military Report
September 4, 2006, 11:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
The extraordinary buildup of European naval and military strength in and around Lebanon’s shores is way out of proportion for the task the European contingents of expanded UNIFIL have undertaken: to create a buffer between Israel and Hizballah. Close investigation by DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources discloses that Lebanese security and peacemaking is not the object of the exercise. It is linked to the general anticipation of a military clash between the United States and Israel, on one side, and Iran and possibly Syria on the other, some time from now until November
This expectation has brought together the greatest sea and air armada Europe has ever assembled at any point on earth since World War II: two carriers with 75 fighter-bombers, spy planes and helicopters on their decks; 15 warships of various types – 7 French, 5 Italian, 2-3 Green, 3-5 German, and five American; thousands of Marines – French, Italian and German, as well as 1,800 US Marines. It is improbably billed as support for a mere 7,000 European soldiers who are deployed in Lebanon to prevent the dwindling Israeli force of 4-5,000 soldiers and some 15-16,000 Hizballah militiamen from coming to blows as well as for humanitarian odd jobs.
A Western military expert remarked to DEBKAfile that the European naval forces cruising off Lebanese shores are roughly ten times as much as the UNIFIL contingents require as cover, especially when UNIFIL’s duties are strictly non-combat. After all, none of the UN contingents will be engaged in disarming Hizballah or blocking the flow of weapons incoming from Syria and Iran. So, if not for Lebanon, what is this fine array of naval power really there for?
First, according to our military sources, the European participants feel the need of a strong naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean to prevent a possible Iranian-US-Israeli war igniting an Iranian long-range Shahab missile attack on Europe; second, as a deterrent to dissuade Syria and Hizballah from opening a second front against American and Israel from their eastern Mediterranean coasts. Numbers alone do not do justice to the immense operational capabilities and firepower amassed opposite Lebanon. Take first the three fleet flagships. From France’s nuclear-powered 38,000-ton Charles De Gaulle carrier (see insignia), 40 Rafale M fighter craft whose range is 3,340 km can take off at intervals of 30 seconds. The ship also carries three E-2C Hawkeye surveillance craft. The combat control center of the French carrier can handle 2,000 simultaneous targets. The carrier leads a task fore of 7 warships carrying 2,800 French Marines.Charles De Gaulle s also a floating logistics center operating water desalination plants for 15,000 men and enough food to feed an army for 90 days.
The USS Mount Whitney (the tallest snowcapped peak in the United States), has the most sophisticated command and control suite in the world. Like the French Charles De Gaulle , it exercises command over a task force of 1,800 sailors, Marines, Air force medical and other personnel serving aboard the USS Barry, the USS Trenton , HSV Swift and USNS Kanawha . Available to the fleet commander, US Vice Admiral J. Boomer Stufflebeem, formally titled commander of Joint Task Force Lebanon, is the uniquely advanced C41 command and intelligence system through which he can flash intelligence data to every American commander at any point between the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf and Iran. USS Mount Whitney communications are described as unsurpassed for the the secure transmission of data from any point to any other point in the world through HF, UHF,VHF, SHF and EHF.
The third carrier joining the other two is the Italian aircraft-helicopter carrier Garibaldi , which has launch pads for vertical takeoff by 16 AV-8B Harrier fighter-bombers or 18 Sikorsky SH-3D Seak King sea-choppers (or Italian Agusta Bell AB212 helicopters), designed to attack submarines and missile ships. Military experts estimate that the Garibaldi currently carries 10 fighter planes and 6 helicopters. The new European naval concentration tops up the forces which permanently crowd the eastern Mediterranean: the Italian-based American Sixth Fleet, some 15 small Israeli missile ships and half a dozen submarines and the NATO fleet of Canadian, British, Dutch, German, Spanish, Greek and Turkish warships. They are on patrol against al Qaeda (which is estimated to deploy 45 small freighters in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean). The British have permanent air and sea bases in Cyprus.
This vast force’s main weakness, according to DEBKAfile’s military sources, is that it lacks a single unified command. A sudden flare-up in Lebanon, Syria or Iran could throw the entire force into confusion.
On paper, it has three commanders:
1. French General Alain Pellegrini is the commander of the expanded UNIFIL ground, naval and air force in Lebanon. In February 2007, he hands over to an Italian general who leads the largest of the European contingents of 3,000 men. It is hard to see France agreeing to place its prestigious Charles De Gaulle flagship under non-French command.
2. The American forces opposite Lebanese shores are under direct US command. Since the October 1993 debacle of an American peace force under the UN flag in Somalia, Washington has never again placed its military under UN command. (There is no American contingent in the UNIFIL ground force either.) In other words, USS Mount Whitney , while serving the European fleets as their operational and intelligence nerve center will stay under the sole command of Vice Admiral Stufflebeem in all possible contingencies.
3. Similarly, the NATO fleet will remain under NATO command, and Israel’s air and naval units will take their orders from Israeli Navy Headquarters in Haifa and the General Staff in Tel Aviv. The naval Babel piling up in the eastern Mediterranean may therefore find itself at cross purposes when action is needed in an armed conflict. Iran, Syria and Hizballah could be counting on this weakness as a tactical asset in their favor.
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