1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Strong quake hits near Indonesia's Moluccas islands. 3-Small quake rattles California coast. 4-Seven killed in Kenyan floods, toll hits 47. 5-Powerful cold front targets Midwest Wednesday. 6-NEW JERUSALEM TALMUD FOR SALE. 7-1,400 Terrorists for Gilad Shalit? 8-NATO to expand role to include WMD, terrorism. 9-Asia-Pacific leaders to study free trade zone. 10-Manhigut Yehudit Leaders Issue Statement on PM Olmert's Concessions. 11-Olmert's Speech Angers Many, Even in Kadima. 12-Analysis: U.S. dominance of Mideast ends.
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.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Wed Nov 29 1:00 AM EDT
NOV 29,2006
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.7 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.8 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 3.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.2 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 6.1 HALMAHERA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.1 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
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MAP 3.3 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.2 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.8 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.0 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
MAP 4.8 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.6 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.7 FIJI REGION
MAP 4.6 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.9 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 3.3 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
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MAP 3.4 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.5 ALASKA PENINSULA
Strong quake hits near Indonesia's Moluccas islands NOV 29,06
JAKARTA (Reuters) A strong undersea earthquake struck near the Moluccas islands in northern Indonesia on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site, but there were no reports of a tsunami or casualties. The U.S. agency put the strength of the quake, which struck at 10.32 a.m. (0132 GMT), at a magnitude of 6.1.Indonesia's state meteorological agency in Manado on nearby Sulawesi island originally measured it at a 6.6 magnitude and because of that issued a tsunami warning to local broadcasters.With that magnitude, it has a tsunami potential but a tsunami has not happened. If it did happen, it would have occurred by now. But we had to circulate a tsunami warning here,agency official Mudjie told Reuters by phone from Manado, which was 360 km (220 miles) from the epicenter in the Moluccas sea.We are waiting for signs to cancel (the warning), he said.The Hawaii-based Pacific Warning Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a tsunami warning.Manado, the closest large city from the epicenter, is some 2,200 km (1,370 miles) northeast of the capital Jakarta.There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the earthquake.
Small quake rattles California coast Mon Nov 27, 11:49 PM ET
PASO ROBLES, Calif. A magnitude-4.1 earthquake rattled California's central coast Monday night, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, authorities said.
The quake struck at 8:06 p.m. and was centered about four miles west of Paso Robles, or about 95 miles southeast of Monterey, according to a preliminary report by the U.S. Geological Survey. It was followed three minutes later by a magnitude-2.1 aftershock.San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Sgt. Jason Nefores said his department had not received any calls about injuries or damage.The quakes were near the location of a magnitude-6.5 earthquake in December 2003 that killed two women and caused at least $200 million in damage countywide.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Seven killed in Kenyan floods, toll hits 47 Tue Nov 28, 2:58 PM ET
NAIROBI (AFP)At least seven children have been killed in flood-related incidents across Kenya, where aid agencies are scrambling to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by torrential rains, police said.Police confirmed the new deaths a day after aid groups urged the Kenyan government to declare the devastating floods across the country a national disaster.They bring the death toll after four weeks of flooding to 47.Five children were killed early on Tuesday in the country's Eastern province, a region that is usually dry but which has suffered flooding in recent weeks.Three children drowned in Mutito Andei division, while two others were buried when the wet walls of a well collapsed in Kasikeu, a police official in Makueni township told reporters.
In the northwestern town of Nakuru, two children drowned late on Monday after they attempted to swim in a flooded dam.We were informed by the public that two children aged eight and 15 had drowned in a dam, which they thought was shallow, said Titus Yoma, a police commander in Nakuru, 140 kilometres (88 miles) northwest of the capital, Nairobi.The United Nations has said at least 723,000 people have been affected by the flooding, including tens of thousands of Somali refugees, prompting the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) to urge the government to declare an emergency.The last time Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki declared a national disaster was at the end of last year, when a scorching drought hit east Africa, putting millions at risk. Many of those people live in areas now inundated by the floods.The KRCS this month has appealed for 562 million shillings (8.0 million dollars, 6.1 million euros) to assist about 300,000 people. Officials said the appeal is likely to be revised to reflect prevailing and future needs.
In neighbouring Somalia, floods have killed at least 96 people, displaced more than 300,000 and otherwise affected about a million others. Some of those who died were devoured by crocodiles lurking in the flood waters.Officials in Somalia have sounded the alarm for outbreaks of waterborne diseases, particularly cholera, which has already been confirmed in two areas.In both countries the floods have destroyed farmland, disrupted food supplies, cut off villages and washed away roads. In Somalia the disappearance of roads has complicated the delivery of aid to vulnerable, poverty-stricken people living in remote areas.Last week, Ethiopia's disaster response agency appealed for 7.6 million dollars (5.8 million euros) to help hundreds of thousands of flood-affected people in the country's southeastern Somali state, which borders Somalia proper.The flooding has been caused by unusually heavy seasonal rains across the Horn of Africa. This time last year the same region was facing a searing drought, that endangered the lives of 11 million people in five countries.
Powerful cold front targets Midwest Wednesday Senior Meteorologist,
The Weather Channel Tue Nov 28, 8:46 PM ET
Midwest
A powerful cold front will slide eastward through Wisconsin, Lake Michigan, Illinois and Missouri tomorrow. Cloudbursts and thunderstorms, some severe (at least in Illinois and Missouri), will accompany the front, while elsewhere in the Midwest only scattered light showers are expected. Behind the front, the precipitation may change briefly to wind-driven freezing rain and snow before ending. Locations in and around Kansas City should be particularly alert to this eventuality late tomorrow. High temperatures are expected to range from the wind-chilled single digits and teens in the Dakotas and much of Nebraska to the 70s in parts of the mid-Mississippi Valley and western Kentucky. Most of the lower Midwest will see maxima in the 60s.
South
A few showers will dot areas of the South east of the Mississippi River tomorrow, but the heaviest showers, accompanied by thunderstorms, will splash down in eastern Oklahoma (mainly) and eastern Texas.
A few severe storms are a good bet for eastern Oklahoma and central Texas. Much colder air driven by blustery northerly winds will slam southward into Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle during the late morning and afternoon, so temperatures in those areas will be retreating. Overall, highs will range from the 30s in the Oklahoma Panhandle to the 80s in south Texas and the western portions of the Florida Peninsula. The Deep South and most of Texas will enjoy readings in the 70s.
West
Wintry weather will be less widespread in the West tomorrow than on recent days, but temperatures will continue to be very much on the wintry side. The heaviest snows, on the order of a half foot or so, will be found in limited areas of the Southwest, mainly in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico and the Rim Country of east-central Arizona. Wind-driven light snow and flurries will dust the frigid Montana plains, and light snow and gusty winds will blanket eastern Colorado, including Denver. Late in the day, light snow may trundle into northwest Washington ahead of a Pacific storm system. Farther south, chilly Santa Ana winds will sweep into Southern California. High temperatures are forecast to range from the single digits in much of Montana to the 60s in a small sliver of Southern California and southwest Arizona. Most of the Interior West will experience highs only in the teens and 20s.
Northeast
A few showers will dot parts of the Northeast tomorrow, but amounts will be quite light and many areas won't see any rain at all. High temperatures will be well above average for the season with readings ranging from the 30s in far northern Maine to the 70s in southeast Virginia. Maxima in the 50s and 60s will be widespread.
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WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
1,400 Terrorists for Gilad Shalit?
By Hillel Fendel (INN) NOV 28,06
Reports of an imminent prisoner-exchange deal are once again in the air. This time, they speak of up to 1,400 Arab terrorist prisoners going free in three stages, in return for Gilad Shalit.Egypt's Minister of Intelligence, Omar Suleimon, is scheduled to arrive in Israel within the next two days to finalize the details of the agreement.
Egypt figures heavily in the deal: the abducted soldier Gilad Shalit is scheduled to be transferred to that country, and from there to Israel, as part of the deal.The agreement under consideration stipulates the following three steps: An unknown number of Palestinian terrorists currently incarcerated in Israel for various crimes will be set free, immediately after which Corp. Shalit is to be transferred to Egypt. A second group of terrorists will then be freed, followed by Shalit's return to Israel. In the third stage, Israel will free a final group of terrorists.
Just yesterday, speaking at a memorial to David Ben-Gurion in Sde Boker, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert implied that terrorists would be freed only after the kidnapped soldier is returned home.
I hereby declare, he said, that when Gilad Shalit is released and returned to his family, safe and sound, the Government of Israel will be willing to release many Palestinian prisoners including ones who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in order to increase the trust between us and prove that our hand is truly extended in genuine peace.That the agreement is reportedly close to fruition is due to a phone call between Olmert and Abu Mazen, an understanding between Abu Mazen and Hamas leader Ismail Haniye, and the fragile truce in Gaza reached this week between Hamas and Israel. However, similar agreements have reportedly been nearly ready several times in the past as well, yet did not materialize.The identities of the terrorists to be freed are not yet known, nor whether Israel has agreed to the incessant PA demands to free convicted murderer Marwan Barghouti and the killers of Government Minister and former IDF General Rehavam Ze'evi.The question of releasing hundreds of terrorists in exchange for kidnapped Israelis has long been a controversial one in Israel. IDF historian Meir Pa'il totally dismisses the theory that if Israel gives in to Hamas demands, terrorists will kidnap more Israelis.
It's important for every soldier and Israeli to know, Pa'il said, that if he is taken captive, we'll do everything to redeem him.Col. (ret.) Meir Indor of the Almagor Terror Victims Association retorts, That's important, but it's also important for every soldier and every Israeli to know that he won't be the next candidate for kidnapping. The kidnappers must be dealt with forcefully.Family members of Shalit, as well as those of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev two soldiers who were kidnapped by Hizbullah 4.5 months ago into Lebanon have departed for Europe to lobby for their sons release or at least an initial sign that they are alive. No sign of life has been received from any of the three. The families will hold a public demonstration outside the European Parliament in Brussels, together with thousands of European Jews, on Wednesday.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
NATO to expand role to include WMD, terrorism NOV 25,06
LONDON: NATO should expand its role to include counter-terrorism, fighting cyber-crime, and the security of natural resources, according to a confidential document that will be endorsed at a summit next week, the Financial Times said on Friday.
The document, which the newspaper obtained prior to its being made public next week, has already been endorsed by defence ministers, ahead of a conference in Riga, Latvia beginning on Tuesday. Presidents and prime ministers at the Riga summit will also endorse it, the newspaper said.According to the FT, however, diplomats hopes for the conference are being scaled back because of the continuing struggle to quell a violent insurgency in Afghanistan, where more than 30,000 troops are under NATO command.The summit, unnamed NATO officials told the newspaper, is unlikely to provide major new commitments of troops.
Are we magically going to get big new news against the artificial deadline of the summit? I don’t think so, an unnamed senior NATO official told the FT.The classified document obtained by the paper seeks to provide a framework and political direction for NATO’s continuing transformation ... for the next 10 to 15 years. Over that period, it says, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction are likely to be the principal threats to the alliance.
Other challenges for NATO will include instability due to failed states, more sophisticated conventional weapons, and the disruption of the flow of natural resources.The document also says that NATO should be ready to fight more than one major operation at a time, along with an increasing number of smaller ones.This requires forces that are fully deployable, sustainable and interoperable and the means to deploy them, the document reads, according to the FT.
Officially called the comprehensive political guidance, it says that the alliance should put a premium on the ability to deter, disrupt, defend and protect against terrorism, and more particularly to contribute to the protection of the alliance’s populations, territory, critical infrastructure and forces.Other priorities for NATO should be the ability to protect information systems of critical importance to the alliance against cyber attacks, greater flexibility in responding to crises, the ability to carry out operations in difficult terrain, and increased protection against weapons of mass destruction. afp
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).
Asia-Pacific leaders to study free trade zone
NOVEMBER 27,06
Asia-Pacific leaders pledged at the end of a two-day summit to study the feasibility of a free trade zone comprising 21 key economies as part of the wider objective of regional integration.We have instructed officials to undertake further studies on ways and means to promote regional economic integration, including a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific as a long-term prospect, the leaders said in a statement in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi.While there are practical difficulties in negotiating the so-called FTAAP, it would be timely to seriously consider more effective avenues toward liberalizing trade and investment, they noted.
Results of the studies will be reported back to them at the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Australia next year.The United States tried to breathe life into the idea of an Asia-Pacific trade area, which would stretch from China to Chile and account for 60 percent of global economic output, at this week’s summit in Vietnam, a concept first raised by the region’s business executives in 2004.Some countries represented in Hanoi supported the idea, saying that such a sweeping free trade zone could serve as an alternative liberalization vehicle, should talks to free up global commerce under the World Trade Organization collapse.
But it also received lukewarm support from some APEC members, which said the forum should focus its efforts on reviving the multilateral trade negotiations already under way.To be honest, before this meeting, people weren’t so enthusiastic about the idea of the FTAAP, said Taiwan’s chief delegate to the summit, Morris Chang.But I would say that after this meeting, people are more enthusiastic about the concept now. And people are more supportive of this idea. So I would say that this is a major achievement.
Chang said however it might take a decade or two to achieve the goal of a Pacific Rim free trade area.
Main points of the APEC joint communiqué
The forum issued a wide-ranging joint statement at the end of a two-day summit in Vietnam on November 19. Here are the main points:
WORLD TRADE: The leaders stressed their support to free global trade and said reviving the stalled Doha round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks launched in the Qatari capital in 2001 remained a top priority. They said they would spare no effort to break the current deadlock in the Doha round of the talks and achieve an ambitious and balanced outcome.
REGIONAL TRADE: They also pledged to study ways to promote regional economic integration, including a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific as a long-term prospect. They acknowledged practical difficulties with creating such a free zone, but said their officials would report back on the idea at next year’s summit.
TERRORISM: Member economies said they were determined to combat terrorism and praised progress in efforts to dismantle trans-boundary terrorist groups and to eliminate the danger posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. They emphasized that securing food supply chains against terrorist attacks was a priority for 2007.
HEALTH: They endorsed a 2006 APEC action plan to prevent, or respond to, avian influenza pandemics and affirmed their commitment to implementing it.
The leaders also agreed to enhance cooperation on fighting HIV/AIDS and ensure the protection of the rights of those living with the disease.
NATURAL DISASTERS: On the threat of natural disasters, the joint statement urged member economies to further intensify cooperation, including with the private sector, to maximize regional available resources to prepare for disaster and post-disaster rehabilitation and construction.
BUSINESS: Members stressed the importance of intellectual copyright protection and to step up efforts against counterfeiting and ensure that governments and their agencies do not use illegal software. They also promised to fight corruption, which they identified as one of the greatest obstacles to economic and social development.
US, Russia sign long-awaited WTO accord
The United States and Russia have signed a bilateral agreement paving the way for Moscow to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) after 12 years of tough negotiations.US Trade Representative Susan Schwab and Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref signed the more than 800-page pact on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Hanoi.
Putin, holding his second meeting with Bush on November 19 in a week after one in Moscow on the 15th, suggested the accord would ease US-Russian relations across the board.This creates a favorable background for all our activities, including solving complicated international problems, he told reporters.Outlining tariff reductions on everything from aviation and medicine to the car industry, as well as detailing intellectual property rights protection, the agreement is seen as an American vote of confidence in Russia’s developing economy.
Without doubt this accord is a very important occasion for the integration of Russia into the global economy, Gref said after signing the document.Schwab said the accord was a very important milestone as Russia moves one important step closer to becoming a member of the WTO.The United States was the last member of the 149-member WTO global trade body still withholding consent for Russia to join, citing concerns on intellectual property rights and restrictions on foreign financial services. Up until the last minute, Russia had expressed concerns about sanitary conditions for US meat imports.The US leader also told Putin that Washington had lifted sanctions imposed on Russian military aircraft maker Sukhoi for providing weapons-related material to Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters.
The US-Russian agreement must now be ratified by legislatures in both countries, and Russia must also strike an overall multilateral accord with the whole WTO. Gref said that could take another seven to eight months.Particular attention in the multilateral talks would be paid to Russia’s ability to protect intellectual property rights, Schwab and Gref said. The accord had been repeatedly delayed amid mutual accusations that bilateral economic issues were being used as political leverage over unconnected disputes.American business groups are urging Congress to move swiftly on granting Russia Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status and to abolish Cold War-era limits imposed on commerce with the former Soviet Union.Congress cannot block Russia’s WTO accession but without PNTR, US and Russian businesses will not enjoy full access to each other’s economies, even after Moscow joins the global body.
LAND FOR PEACE
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
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(516) 330-4922 (cell phone),Shmuel@Manhigut.org Shmuel Sackett,Co-Founder & International Director Manhigut Yehudit Leaders Issue Statement on PM Olmert's Concessions
Jerusalem, November 27, 2006 Following is a statement on yesterday's speech made by Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in which he granted the Arab enemy significant diplomatic concessions which came on the heels of an unenforceable cease fire he also granted them, issued by Moshe Feiglin, President, and Shmuel Sackett, International Director of Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership), the largest faction inside the Likud party.Manhigut Yehudit President Moshe Feiglin deplores Prime Minister Olmert's promises to the Palestinians in his speech at David Ben Gurion's memorial service. PM Olmert called on the Palestinian leadership to choose the new path ofnegotiations while promising them a state void of Jews in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).
Mr. Olmert is attempting to prove that Albert Einstein's most common sense postulate defining insanity as doing the same thing over and expecting a different result is fallacious. PM Olmert is solely attempting to repackage his plan of unilateral withdrawal of Jews from Judea and Samaria into a negotiated settlement even though he surely will act as all Israeli Prime Ministers since the Oslo Accords were signed and not hold the enemy to ANY of their signed obligations. As the withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza have proven to be a disaster for the State of Israel and a harbinger of further and larger enemy attacks and wars, so will this surrender to our enemy bring further death and destruction to Israel.The State of Israel needs and deserves strong leadership now which identifies with its Jewish heritage, not the leadership of Ehud Olmert, who so infamously stated last year that we are tired of winning, and we are tired of being courageous.
A Prime Minister such as Olmert who calls upon his nation to forgo its national ethos should remember the chilling words of Winston Churchill to Neville Chamberlain at the onset of World War II: You accepted shame to avoid war - now you have both.
Manhigut Yehudit is the largest faction inside the Likud party, and strives to Turn the State of the Jews into The Jewish State. Am Yisrael Chai.
Olmert's Speech Angers Many, Even in Kadima
By Hillel Fendel (INN) NOV 28,06
How can it be that the Prime Minister, the leader of our party, talks about a new broad diplomatic plan without even consulting with his own party members? So say at least two Kadima members.The NFC Hebrew website reports on two Kadima Knesset Members who have scathing criticism for their party leader and Prime Minister. Because there's a ceasefire for a day and a half, we have to go and promise a Palestinian state and the release of terrorist prisoners? rails one of them, preferring to remain anonymous.Another Kadima MK said he categorically opposes Olmert's plan as it was articulated yesterday, noting that other MKs feel the same way.
Olmert said the Arab side must give up its demands for the right of return of millions of Arabs to Israel but this followed a list of far-reaching Israeli concessions that he offered. The Prime Minister said that in exchange for an end to terrorism, the formation of a Quartet-approved government, and the release of Gilad Shalit, the Palestinian Authority would achieve a contiguous and independent state, the release of many terrorists, and the evacuation of many territories and communities that were established therein.
Arab spokesmen refused Olmert's demand to give up the right of return. Hamas deputy leader Abu Marzouk, based in Damascus, said, We reject any deal that does not recognize the right of return... The Palestinian people will never give up this sacred right. Our people have been fighting for 58 years to achieve the right of return for all those who were expelled from their homeland.Hamas spokesman Razi Hamad that Olmert is trying to bypass the core of the Palestinian cause, namely the right of return for the refugees.MK Tzvi Hendel, of the National Union party, was disgusted by Olmert's offer to destroy more Jewish communities. I have no expectations, he said, from a man who is so devoid of morality that in the middle of a terrorism war, and amidst threats of murderous terrorism from every direction, he is not embarrassed to promise the enemy the expulsion of the residents and the
establishment of a terror state.
Hendel said he expects Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) and Eli Yishai (Shas) not to betray their voters, and to immediately quit the Olmert government.Speaking at a memorial to David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, Olmert said he believes Ben-Gurion would have supported his plan but MK Gilad Erdan of the Likud said it is more likely that Ben-Gurion is actually turning over in his grave at the military and diplomatic blindness shown by the Prime Minister. MK Erdan said that Olmert continues to ignore the warnings of the security leaders, choosing instead to deal with withdrawals and retreats instead of strengthening Israel's strength and deterrence power.MK Yuval Shteinitz (Likud), a former Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, condemned Olmert for offering to make an agreement with a group that has broken all agreements in the past. The speech symbolizes the end of Israel's determination to fight terrorism, said Shteinitz, a former left-wing professor. Olmert promises land to Hamas, which has murderously violated all the previous agreements and truces without changing its principles and charter.
On the other hand, far-left Meretz MK Chaim Oron said, Finally, the mantra that 'we have no partner has been replaced. The Government of Israel must act to strengthen the PA's national unity government that will arise and conduct a real dialogue towards a permanent arrangement that will bring an end to the cycle of bloodshed in our region. Internal PA negotiations for a unity government have been stuck for months.The Labor Party welcomed Olmert's speech. Faction whip MK Yoram Marciano said, Labor supports Olmert's diplomatic initiative and peace moves, as they were expressed [in his speech]... In response, the Palestinian Authority must stretch out its arm in peace and lay down its arms in order to create a life of hope and peace between the two nations.
Analysis: U.S. dominance of Mideast ends
By CLAUDE SALHANI,UPI International Editor
WASHINGTON,Nov. 27(UPI) U.S. dominance in the Middle East has ended, giving way to a new era in the modern history of the region amid growing anti-American sentiment.
This is the conclusion of a study by Richard N. Haas, president of the Council on
Foreign Relations in an article titled The New Middle East published in the November /December 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs. Expectations of a peaceful, prosperous and democratic Middle East based on the European model will not be realized, says Haas.
Much more likely is the emergence of a new Middle East that will cause great harm to itself, the United States, and the world. Haas writes that the most significant factor contributing to the end of this era has been the Bush administration's decision to attack Iraq in 2003 and its conduct of the operation and resulting occupation. Among the casualties of the war in Iraq is the Sunni's domination, a factor which was strong enough and motivated enough to balance Shiite Iran. This, explains Haas, has given rise to tensions between Sunnis and Shiites. Fighting between the two rival Muslim groups has reached new heights in Iraq with a car bomb claiming more that 160 lives in a single day last week. And in Lebanon tension between the Shiite Hezbollah and Sunnis has reached the point where it could easily tip into armed conflict.
Another casualty of the Iraq war has been the rise of terrorism. Terrorists have gained a base in Iraq where they developed a new set of techniques to export, says Haas. The war in Iraq, says Haas has reduced U.S. leverage worldwide by tying down a large number of U.S. troops in the area. Haas considers this as one of history's ironies. The first war in Iraq, a war of necessity, marked the beginning of the American era in the Middle East and the second Iraq war, a war of choice, has precipitated its end. The most significant factor contributing to the demise of the U.S. domination in the Middle East, according to Haas, has been the Bush administration's decision to attack Iraq in 2003. Haas also points out other relevant factors such as the demise of the Middle East peace process and the failure of traditional Arab regimes to counter the appeal of radical Islamism. In the Middle East's new era the United States will be challenged by China, Russia and the European Union. Iran will be one of the two most powerful states in the region, says Haas. Iran is the most powerful external influence in Iraq, and holds considerable sway over both Hamas and Hezbollah.
Haas calls the Islamic Republic of Iran a classic imperial power. Iran has ambitions to remake the region in its image and the potential to translate its objectives into reality. Israel, the only country in the region with a nuclear arsenal, still is in a weaker position today than it was before this summer's crisis in Lebanon. Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other large oil producers will benefit from the rising price of oil, which Haas believes is far more likely to exceed $100 (per barrel) than it is to fall below $40. Haas further predicts Iraq, traditionally a center of Arab power, will remain messy for years to come, with a weak central government, a divided
society, and regular sectarian violence. At worst, it will become a failed state wracked by an all-out civil war that will draw in its neighbors.The political landscape of the Middle East is changing. With Arab nationalism and Arab socialism a thing of the past, democracy belongs in the distant future at best, and a number of Arab regimes are likely to remain authoritarian. Arab unity is a slogan, not a reality, says Haas.
Islam will continue to make great strides and will continue to fill the intellectual vacuum in the Arab world, he says, adding Islam will provide a foundation for the politics of a majority of the region's inhabitants. Lack of imagination will continue to hurt Arab countries.
Says Haas: The Middle East's best-known organization, the Arab League, excludes the region's two most powerful states, Israel and Iran. Haas says the continuing war between Arab forces and Israel will continue to preclude the participation of Israel in any sustained regional relationship.While the tension between Iran and most Arab states will also frustrate the emergence of regionalism. The author of the report cautions U.S. policymakers not to be over reliant on brute military force. He points to two instances where two superior powers the U.S. in Iraq and Israel in Lebanon were unable to achieve their objectives. Secondly, cautions Haas, it would be a mistake to count on the emergence of democracy to pacify the region.
Creating mature democracies is no easy task, says Haas. If and when the experiment succeeds it takes decades. Among the dangers of the new Middle East is the possibility that Syria might be more interested in working with Tehran than with Washington.
Washington's shunning of Damascus and Tehran as part of its foreign policy is in fact the absence of a coherent policy. Diplomacy, writes Haas, is the best option available to Washington. Indeed, what seems to be emerging in the Middle East today is a new axis of power with Syria as its main cog and incorporating Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. And following the re-establishment of relations between Damascus and Baghdad could bring Iraq back into the anti-American fold.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
STOCKS FALL INVESTORS GAIN
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Winter wallop expected for southern Manitoba. 3-Schools, roads closed after snowfall. 4-Volcanic ash forces closing of airport. 5-Greater Vancouver boil-water advisory lifted. 6-NATO urged to whole-heartedly commit to Afghanistan. 7-EU meets Israel, Arab neighbors, hopes cease-fire is an opening for peace. 8-Olmert reaches out to Palestinians. 9-IDF Skeptical over Cease-Fire in Gaza, Says Hamas Rearming. 10-Stocks fall as investors take profits. 11-Terrorists Say Ceasefire Enables Arms Smuggling and Training. 12-It is the Zionist and Evangelistic Fundamentalists who threaten our nation, Not Islam, Arabs, or Muslims.
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.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Tue Nov 28 12:30 AM EDT
NOV 28,2006
MAP 3.3 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.1 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.5 ALASKA PENINSULA
NOV 27,2006
MAP 3.0 SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.3 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 SEA OF JAPAN
MAP 4.7 MARTINIQUE REGION, WINDWARD ISLANDS
MAP 5.5 SOUTHERN PERU
MAP 4.9 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 3.5 OFFSHORE BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.1 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.3 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP 3.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.5 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 OREGON
MAP 3.0 OFFSHORE BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP 3.4 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.8 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Winter wallop expected for southern Manitoba
Last Updated: Monday, November 27, 2006 | 5:20 PM CT ,CBC News
Folks, get out your shovels, snowblowers, plows and parkas: the first snowstorm of the season is expected to hit much of southern Manitoba late Monday and all day Tuesday.Environment Canada upgraded a winter storm watch to a warning for most of southern Manitoba on Monday morning, as well as for The Pas, Norway House and Island Lake in the north. Although southern Manitoba received its first snowfall of the year at the end of October, environment officials did not consider it to be a winter storm.
Environment Canada meterologist Dale Marciski said Monday afternoon that an expected snowfall of about 20 centimetres will begin overnight Monday, and continue through the day Tuesday. It seems to be more and more that it's going to be over the western portions of Manitoba, through Brandon, over the Riding Mountain Park, Dauphin, then into the Interlake, Marciski said.But he added that the incoming system, which he said is pretty extensive, will also hit eastern Manitoba.Further east, [there will be] somewhat less amounts [of snow]. But unfortunately, it doesn't mean that you're going to get away scot free either, because the places that don't get the heavy snow may have to deal with some freezing rain, he said.Because southeastern Manitoba is expected to see less snow, the weather watch remains in the Steinbach, Whiteshell and Sprague areas.
Flights delayed Monday
The snowstorm system was the same one that dumped 30 to 50 centimetres of snow in Vancouver on Sunday. The system tracked through Alberta and Saskatchewan on Monday, leaving behind 15 to 20 centimetres of snow in Saskatchewan.
Airlines have delayed or cancelled many flights Monday coming out of the Vancouver International Airport.We've seen a lot of delays on flights coming in from the west. Not only Vancouver, [but] we have some from, of course, Calgary, Victoria [and] Edmonton, Winnipeg Airports Authority spokeswoman Christine Alongi said Monday. Alongi suggested people expecting to pick up any eastbound travellers Monday to check with the airline for delays. They can also check the airport's website for real-time flight information.Snowplows are ready to clear the runways when the snow starts falling in Winnipeg, Alongi added.
City plows ready for action, officials say
Snowplows are also ready to clean Winnipeg streets, city officials said Monday, with about 300 plows, graders and other equipment standing by.Last year's first big snowstorm caught crews off guard because some plowing equipment, such as front-end loaders, was still being used outside the city for construction jobs.But Ken Allen, a spokesman with the city's public works department, said an equipment shortage won't be a problem this time around.The amount of snow that we get is hard to predict. Certainly we're preparing. We're monitoring the weather and we're making sure the equipment is ready when it's needed, Allen said.As for cost, Allen said Winnipeg can afford to clean up after a major snowfall. It estimates the city usually spends $2 million to clean up city streets from a snowstorm, and it has spent $13 million on snow removal so far this year. That leaves the city about $4.2 million remaining until the end of this year.
Province shows off new snowplows
As of Monday afternoon, there were already reports of poor visibility on highways in parts of southwestern Manitoba,including around Riding Mountain National Park.
Meanwhile, Infrastructure Minister Ron Lemieux chose Monday to show off 18 new
snowplows it has purchased to help replace more than 30 aging plows in the province's fleet.The province will spend $5 million on the new plow trucks, as well as about $2 million for 15 one-year-old trucks. The province currently has 249 snowplow trucks.
Schools, roads closed after snowfall
Last Updated: Monday, November 27, 2006 | 3:45 PM PT ,CBC News
The big weekend dump of snow on B.C.'s South Coast has made driving treacherous, knocked out power to thousands of people in Greater Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island, and closed numerous schools and universities.
Public schools were closed Monday in Surrey, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Mission, Abbotsford, Chilliwack and the Gulf Islands after as much as 50 centimetres of snow fell.Five elementary schools in Vancouver closed University Hill, Southlands, Graham Bruce, Renfrew and Queen Elizabeth Annex because the power was out. However, the rest of the public schools in the city opened, as did those in Richmond, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Delta, New Westminster and Langley.In Burnaby two schools have been closed because they have no power Cascade Heights Elementary and Westridge Elementary.
Heavy snow kept many people off the roads.(CBC) A number of private schools are closed, including Crofton House, St. George's, York House, the Vancouver Waldorf School and all francophone schools in Vancouver. Most church-run schools are also closed across the Lower Mainland, as are Vancouver Montessori schools.Many post-secondary institutions closed their doors:University of British Columbia. Simon Fraser University's Burnaby and downtown Vancouver campuses. Emily Carr School of Art and Design. Vancouver Community College. Langara College. Douglas College. Kwantlen University College.Trinity Western University. All campuses of the University College of the Fraser Valley.Capilano College's Sunshine Coast campus The Justice Institute in New Westminster remained open.
Travel difficult
The snow has left roads and highways littered with cars, and is being blamed for at least one traffic death in Surrey when a vehicle crossed the centre line and struck an oncoming vehicle.The snow has tapered off to flurries on Monday, but temperatures are falling, which is expected to make roads even more treacherous as slush turns to ice.It is also slow going on Lower Mainland buses and on the SkyTrain. Trolley bus lines are down in many areas, and SkyTrain is running slowly, as each train requires an operator in this sort of weather.SkyTrain is running longer trains to compensate for the slowness and the wider gaps between trains.However, the WestCoast Express train is running normally.
Thousands lose power
B.C. Hydro reports that about 60,000 people remained without power on Monday, after the heavy snow snapped tree branches and took down power lines.
The hardest hit areas were the North Shore and Vancouver Island, said Hydro spokeswoman Elisha Moreno. There were also outages in Surrey, Vancouver and Burnaby.Hydro is working to get the power back on, but Moreno said that as the temperature drops, the work becomes more difficult for crews as roads ice up.Airline flights in and out of Vancouver International Airport have been delayed and cancelled since the heavy snowfall, but now that the snow has stopped, the airport is struggling to get back to normal.Many B.C. ferries between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island are running behind schedule because of the winter weather.
Victoria overwhelmed
In Greater Victoria, the snow forced BC Transit to cancel much of its service early Monday, but bus service improved later in the day in the capital city.In the Victoria suburb of Saanich, residents are being asked to conserve water because power is out at local pumping stations. In nearby Langford, an emergency reception centre has been opened, so people who have no power can have a place to warm up, and a place to sleep. The University of Victoria was closed Monday, as were schools, recreation centres and many businesses across southern Vancouver Island.Meanwhile, Victoria is preparing for colder temperatures that are being forecast, by opening five more homeless shelters.
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.
Volcanic ash forces closing of airport NOV 27,2006
ROME /Clouds of volcanic ash billowing from Mount Etna forced authorities Monday to shut down the airport near the Sicilian city of Catania for a fourth straight night. Fontanarossa airport, the main one in eastern Sicily, will be shut down as a precaution from dusk Monday to dawn Tuesday, Italy's civil aviation authority said.
The airport is being closed only overnight since pilots during the day can avoid ash laden clouds, authority spokeswoman Loredana Rosati said.A number of flights have been canceled or diverted at Fontanarossa since a column of smoke and ash began pouring from Etna last week.Mount Etna, Europe's biggest and most active volcano, springs to life every few months. In 1669, a huge eruption destroyed Catania. Etna's last major eruption was in 1992.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
Greater Vancouver boil-water advisory lifted
Last Updated: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:43 PM PT ,CBC News
About a million people who have been under a boil-water advisory in Greater Vancouver for 12 days have finally been told it's safe to drink from the taps.The Greater Vancouver Regional District issued the advisory on Nov. 16, following a major rainstorm that created unacceptable levels of silt in the Capilano and Seymour reservoirs on the North Shore.Tap water is now safe to drink in Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver and West Vancouver.(CBC) It was lifted the following day for about a million residents of the Lower Mainland. However, the remaining million residents in Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver and West Vancouver didn't get the all-clear until Monday.Medical health officer Dr. Patricia Daly said turbidity levels in the Seymour watershed have dropped low enough to allow people to drink unboiled, unbottled water.
With the continuing downward trends in turbidity, and with nearly 1,000 water tests for bacteriological results being negative, apart from one false positive, the medical health officers believe that the water is now safe for people to drink.So we're advising all our hospitals, our long-term care facilities, our day cares in schools that they no longer need to serve bottled water, and the public can resume drinking water from their taps.Last week, one sample taken at the University of B.C. showed positive for E. coli, but it turned out to be a sampling problem and not a problem with contaminated water coming out of the tap.The Capilano reservoir, which was closed off last week, is still too turbid to drink and remains closed.The boil-water advisory had created a run on bottled water at stores across the Lower Mainland.Daly advises people who have not been running their taps to do so for three minutes to flush out any residual murky water in their pipes.She also warns that the water coming out of the tap may not be as clear as it could be.It may still be cloudy for a period of time as the clear water starts to come through the system, but we still believe it's safe to drink.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
NATO urged to whole-heartedly commit to Afghanistan by Karin Zeitvogel
Mon Nov 27, 4:39 PM ET
RIGA (AFP) /Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga urged NATO countries to whole-heartedly commit their resources to strife-torn Afghanistan, as alliance leaders gathered in Riga for a summit. If NATO is engaged and has accepted being present in Afghanistan, it should do so whole-heartedly and engage in such a way as to ensure results, she told a news conference on the eve of the first-ever NATO summit in a former Soviet republic.The crucial question will be how to achieve that and what is needed, she said.
The summit of the 26-member military alliance, set up to counter the military might of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, formally opens late Tuesday, a day after a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan claimed the lives of two NATO soldiers from Canada.The resurgence of the Taliban, five years after they were driven from power in Afghanistan in 2001, has peaked this year with daily attacks and full-scale battles claiming scores of lives.NATO's military commander, US General James Jones, in early September called for some 2,500 extra military personnel for southern Afghanistan around 1,000 combat troops backed by about 1,500 logistical and other staff, plus equipment to tackle the revived insurgency.
But NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer confirmed Monday that the call for more troops had not yet been fully met. Being in Afghanistan as guests or tourists is far from the aim, Vike-Freiberga said.A half-hearted presence there doesn't seem to be worthwhile. We must either go there, get the job done or say we are unable to deal with it and leave that country to its fate, she said.At a gala dinner for summit participants at Riga's Small Guild house, US Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar warned that failure of member states to commit to Afghanistan could deal a serious blow to NATO's credibility.Afghanistan has become a test case for whether we can overcome the growing discrepancy between NATO's expanding missions and its lagging capabilities, he said.NATO commanders must have the resources to provide security, and they must have the flexibility to use troops to meet Afghanistan's critical security needs.If the most prominent alliance in modern history were to fail in its first operation outside of Europe due to a lack of will by its members, the efficacy of NATO and the ability to take joint action against a terrorist threat would be called into question, Lugar said.
Vike-Freiberga said the heads of state and government would talk about enlargement and relations with Russia, which saw its former republics and satellites joining NATO in a bad light, but added "there are no burning issues on the table concerning relations with Russia or enlargement.The stated aim of the summit was to discuss NATO's transformation, to deal with modern-day security threats.This summit will prove that NATO is alive and well and adjusting to an ever-changing world. NATO, when it was created, was faced with a Europe divided in two. It lived for many decades through the Cold War. When the Cold War ended, a new world arose and NATO adapted,Vike-Freiberga said.The transformation of NATO and its readiness to assume new roles while keeping its ability to collaborate in an enlarged format of 26 members is a challenge in itself that NATO must to rise to, she said.The United States believes that the alliance's operation in Afghanistan, its most ambitious mission ever, is evidence that NATO must be able to work outside of its classic transatlantic area of operations.
But countries like France, Belgium, Greece, Spain and Italy believe that turning NATO into a coalition of democracies with global ambitions could spark concern in Asia, particularly in China. Scheffer on Monday urged NATO members to engage in frank political dialogue to ensure that the alliance remains strong and vibrant. He also assured critics that the alliance would not become the world's policeman, although he added that with missions and operations on three continents involving more than 50,000 troops with new capabilities and with new global partners NATO is providing security in new ways and new places.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
EU meets Israel, Arab neighbors, hopes cease-fire is an opening for peace
By ROBERT WIELAARD (Associated Press Writer) 11/27/2006
TAMPERE, Finland /Seeing a glimmer of hope in the Gaza Strip cease-fire, the EU opened two days of talks with Israel and its Arab neighbors Monday, trying to rescue the frayed Middle East peace process.
Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the EU presidency, said the cease-fire provided rays of hope for peace and reiterated the EU will restore relations with the Palestinians once they have a national unity government. It is important the Palestinians have a credible, representative government which no one will have any excuse not to engage with seriously,Tuomioja told reporters.He also said peace between Israel and the Palestinians was crucial for stability in Lebanon.No cease-fire will hold forever unless there is also a political process that in the long-held view of the international community must lead to a two-state solution, he added.
Tuomioja chaired a meeting between EU foreign ministers and their counterparts from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Turkey and Tunisia.
The meeting capped a year marked by nine chaotic months of a Hamas-led Palestinian government that does not recognize Israel and an July-August war between Israel and Hezbollah militants based in southern Lebanon. Disagreements at the meeting focused on the future of the peace process and conditions for both sides to return to the negotiating table. The Palestinians are trying to form a national unity government which could allow donors to restore direct aid to Palestinians but first, Hamas would have to recognize Israel, renounce violence and honor existing agreements with Israel. As delegations arrived in this southern Finnish town, the Gaza Strip cease-fire stoked hopes that Israel and the Palestinians would be able to restart long-stalled peace efforts after five months of deadly clashes. Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets at Israel on Monday, despite the two day-old cease-fire.
On Sunday, Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza Strip as part of the cease-fire, but two major Palestinian militant groups continued to fire homemade rockets into Israel. Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal said his group was willing to give peace talks six months, but threatened a new uprising if the talks do not lead to a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. The violence and suffering ... in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and northern Israel in the summer of 2006 have underlined the importance of reinvigorating the peace process, the European Commission said in a report to the foreign ministers. The emergence of a Hamas-led Palestinian government has forced the EU, the United States and other donors to stop direct aid - and Israel to withhold tax revenues on imports - to the Palestinian government. The EU has crafted a financing formula that bypasses official Palestinian channels and pays those Palestinians hardest hit by the financial crisis.
The EU's Euro-Mediterranean aid program aims to shore up peace efforts by bringing Israel and its neighbors together in a partnership meant to lead to a free trade zone. To make that possible, the EU has since 1995 funneled €21 billion in grants, aid and soft loans mostly to Arab nations. The EU's main goal is to engage countries on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean in a zone of peace, security and prosperity by extending cooperation in areas including energy, tourism, environmental protection, education, law enforcement, migration, trade promotion and investments. This has produced mixed results. There is no peace and it is debatable if the EU has raised its standing in a region where the United States remains the key to the peace process. At a 2005 summit, marking the 10th anniversary of the EU's economic aid for Israel and its neighbors, only one Arab head of state showed up and the EU failed to get its southern neighbors to agree on a definition of terrorism.
Olmert reaches out to Palestinians By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer NOV 27,06
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reached out to the Palestinians on Monday in one of his most conciliatory speeches yet, saying he was prepared to grant them a state, release desperately needed funds and free prisoners if they choose the path of peace.Olmert's remarks sealed a dramatic policy shift and built on a day-old truce meant to end five months of violence in the Gaza Strip, but new rocket attacks by Palestinian militants threatened the latest rapprochement.I hold out my hand in peace to our Palestinian neighbors in the hope that it won't be returned empty, Olmert said.We cannot change the past and we will not be able to bring back the victims on both sides of the borders, he said. All that we can do today is stop additional tragedies.
Olmert appealed to the Palestinians to form a new, moderate Cabinet committed to carrying out a U.S.-backed peace plan and securing the release of a captured Israeli soldier.
Once such a government was established, Olmert said, he would call for an immediate meeting with the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to have a real, open, honest, serious dialogue between us.Palestinian legislator Saeb Erekat, a top Abbas aide, said the Palestinians were ready to negotiate a final peace deal.
I believe Mr. Olmert knows he has a partner, and that is President Abbas. He knows that to achieve peace and security for all, we need to shoot for the end game, Erekat said.But the Palestinian Cabinet, led by Hamas militants who reject Israel's right to exist, accused Olmert of posturing.This is a conspiracy. This is a new maneuver. Olmert is speaking about the Palestinian state without giving details about the borders, said Ghazi Hamad, a government spokesman.
Olmert's speech raised the diplomatic stakes ahead of President Bush's scheduled trip to neighboring Jordan this week for talks with Iraqi leaders.Erekat said it was possible Abbas would meet with Bush there, but Israeli officials denied that Abbas and Olmert might meet on the sidelines of the Bush visit.Olmert was elected in March promising to set Israel's final borders with the Palestinians by uprooting isolated communities dotted all over the West Bank while holding on to major settlement blocs. Israel, Olmert said, would act unilaterally without a Palestinian peace partner something it appeared inclined to conclude because of Hamas violently anti-Israel ideology.But a summer war with Lebanese guerrillas, which many Israelis blamed on their unilateral pullout from southern Lebanon six years ago, left Israelis cool to ceding more territory, and Olmert shelved that plan.
His speech Monday signaled a final break with that program and an attempt to entice the Palestinians back to the negotiating table by outlining likely Israeli concessions under a future peace deal.We, the state of Israel, will agree to the evacuation of many territories and the settlements that we built there. This is extremely difficult for us, like the splitting of the Red Sea. We will do it for
real peace, he said.Israel would pull out of West Bank land and uproot settlements under a peace deal, Olmert said.In return for a serious Palestinian push for peace, he said, Israel would be prepared to reduce checkpoints that have severely restricted movement in the West Bank; release hundreds of millions of dollars in funds frozen after Hamas took power in March; and free some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners Israel holds if Hamas-linked militants release alive and healthy an Israeli soldier they captured in June. The freezing of funds has created great hardship in the Palestinian territories by rendering the Hamas government unable to pay full salaries to its civil servants, who provide for one-third of the Palestinian people.
A significant prisoner release would be a major confidence-building gesture because prisoners hold great weight in Palestinian society. Israeli government officials said they had not ruled out releasing Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences for masterminding deadly attacks. In exchange for Israeli concessions, Olmert said, Palestinians would have to renounce violence, recognize Israel's right to live in peace and security and give up their demands to allow refugees from the 1948 Mideast War to return to their homes in what is now Israel. The uncompromising extremism of your terror organizations ... hasn't brought you closer to achieving the goal that I'm convinced many of you share to establish a Palestinian state, he said.
Hamad, the Palestinian government spokesman, said Palestinians would not abandon the fight for refugees. It is a main part of the Palestinian cause, he said. Olmert's offer to revive stalled peace talks came a day after the two sides began observing a cease-fire in Gaza, raising hopes new peace efforts would follow. Palestinian militants violated the cease-fire by launching two rockets at Israel on Monday. No one was injured, but Israel has threatened to strike back if rocket attacks increase. Erekat said he was working with the Israelis to expand the cease-fire to the West Bank and hoped to have an agreement within days. Israeli officials said they would wait to see what happens in Gaza first. If the cease-fire in Gaza works, I hope it will be possible to transfer that more positive reality to the West Bank as well, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
IDF Skeptical over Cease-Fire in Gaza, Says Hamas Rearming
By Amihai Zippor,(IHC News, 27 November 2006)
The IDF is skeptical about the cease-fire struck by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday morning, 26 November 2006.
In the past, most cease-fire attempts have been periods for the Palestinians to regroup and replenish their arms supplies following large IDF counterterrorism operations such as the ones that have been going on for the past several months.The army’s southern command believes that even if the Qassam rocket attacks stop Hamas will continue smuggling weapons into Gaza, which it has been doing vigorously for months, in preparation for the next round of fighting.Several MKs agreed with the army’s assessment and also criticized the cease-fire, saying the government doesn’t have much to celebrate regarding its accomplishment.Olmert and [Defense Minister Amir] Peretz are serial failures, MK Arye Eldad (National Union-NRP) said from the Knesset.These weak people couldn't stop the attacks on Israel, and are therefore ready to allow Hamas the necessary time to turn Gaza into southern Lebanon, he said.
Former Foreign Minister and current Likud MK Sivan Shalom said the cease-fire reminded him of UN Resolution 1701 that ended this past summer’s Lebanon war but left Hizbullah intact and able to restock its missiles.We are playing make-believe. The cease-fire is imaginary and it will give Hamas time to get reorganized, Shalom said.Meanwhile, several Palestinian terrorist groups are expressing anger that the cease-fire doesn’t extend to Judea and Samaria as well and are threatening new attacks if the IDF does not stop its counterterrorism operations there.On Monday morning, IDF forces in Jenin killed a top Palestinian Resistance Committee leader and a 50-year-old woman who took his gun running away from the scene. Soldiers thought she was a second terrorist due to the fact she was wearing pants and there was not a lot of light in the early morning hours when the operation was conducted. Source: Original text contributed by the author, IHC reporter. Israel Hasbara Committee, 27 November 2006.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER (A COLLAPSE)
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Stocks fall as investors take profits
By Walter Hamilton, Times Staff Writer
6:38 PM PST, November 27, 2006
Stocks fell sharply on Monday, with a weakening U.S. dollar and tepid sales at retail giant Wal-Mart Stores giving investors the opening they were looking for to cash out some of the profits they've booked during the market's four-month surge.The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index each sank more than 1% for the first time since July 13. The losses were spread across many sectors, including technology and financial services, that had been strong performers in recent months.
Overseas markets also retreated.Investment pros said the decline was not surprising given Wall Street's strength this year, especially through its seasonally weak period in September and October. They attributed the sell-off largely to profit taking by big institutional investors that are sitting on sizable recent gains.
This is more of an excuse to sell rather than a real reason to sell, said Marc Pado, U.S. market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald. This isn't the start of something big.The Dow sank 158.46 points, or 1.3%, to 12121.71, its biggest decline since a 1.5% slide on July 13.The S&P 500 was off 19.05 points, or 1.4%, to 1381.90. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index skidded 2.21%, tumbling 54.34 points to 2405.92.Smaller stocks, which have rallied sharply in the last month, fell more than blue chips. The Russell 2,000 small-stock index was down 20.18 points, or 2.6%, to 772.10. It was the biggest loss since the index dropped 2.7% on July 20.
The declines seemed muted compared to the extended rally of recent months. Even after its decline on Monday, for example, the Nasdaq is up 19% since July 21 and 9.1% for the year.
The Dow is up 13.1% since Jan. 1, and the S&P 500 has gained 10.7%. Stocks historically sag after Labor Day before recovering at Thanksgiving and rallying into Christmas.But the post-Labor Day slump didn't happen this year. Stocks moved higher after the Federal Reserve paused in its string of interest-rate hikes as hopes grew that it could slow economic growth without triggering a recession.Market pros say institutional investors knew a downdraft would eventually come, and were prepared to sell at the first whiff of bad news.That opportunity came Friday, when the dollar fell to a 20-month low against the euro amid concerns about a weakening U.S. economy. Stocks declined in light trading Friday, but absorbed a bigger hit Monday when most traders returned from the holiday weekend.Stocks can actually go down as well as up, joked Phil Roth, a technical analyst at New York brokerage Miller Tabak & Co. I'll be darned.The dollar continued to lose ground Monday, with the euro trading at $1.313, from $1.309 Friday.
As stocks declined, some investors looked to the U.S. Treasury bond market as a safe haven. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to a nine-month low of 4.53%, from 4.55% on Friday. Yields decline as bond prices rise.Also adding to Wall Street's unease was the news out of Wal-Mart. The retail behemoth disclosed Friday that sales at stores open at least one year fell 0.1% this month, its first such drop in a decade.On Monday, shares of Wal-Mart fell $1.29, or 2.7%, to $46.61.Wal-Mart's sales slump overshadowed more upbeat reports from the long Thanksgiving weekend, the first big weekend for holiday sales. The National Retail Federation said Sunday that spending this past weekend was up 18.9% over last year, boosted in part by sales of big-ticket items such as high-definition televisions.But Wal-Mart is considered a retailing bellwether, and other merchants also posted declines Monday.Federated Department Stores, which owns big chain stores including Macy's and Bloomingdale's, subtracted $1.27, to $41.84. Electronics retailer Best Buy dropped 71 cents, to $54.37. Discounter Target dipped 64 cents, to $57.07, while Big Lots fell 76 cents, to $22.42.
In other markets highlights:
Technology and financial issues, which have been among the market leaders this year, took some of the hardest falls Monday.
Among tech firms, Google lost $20.25 to $484.75 and Cisco Systems fell $1.04, to $25.80.Among banking concerns, Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs slid $8.49, to $193.11, while rival Merrill Lynch sank $3.38, to $89.21.Airline stocks descended as crude oil prices rose to $60.32 a barrel, from $59.24 Friday. UAL, the parent of United Airlines, sank $2.81, to $41.63. AMR, which owns American Airlines, declined $1.90, to $32.20. Among the discounters, Jet Blue dropped 92 cents, to $13.79 and Southwest fell 44 cents, to $15.81.An AG Edwards & Sons analyst lowered his from buy to hold on several major hotel chains, sending their shares lower. Hilton Hotels $1.70 to $32.10, Marriott International gave up $1.54 to $44.91 and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide subtracted $1.92, to $63.46.walter.hamilton@latimes.com
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE 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)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Terrorists Say Ceasefire Enables Arms Smuggling and Training
By Hana Levi Julian (INN)
Leaders of major terrorist groups in Gaza said Sunday they either do not recognize the ceasefire agreement or plan to use it to re-arm and improve terrorist training. Two Kassams were fired Monday.
Abu Abir, spokesman for the Hamas-linked Popular Resistance Committees terrorist organization in Gaza, said Sunday, The ceasefire offers a period of calm for our fighters to recover and prepare for our final goal of evacuating Palestine. Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza on Sunday morning, calling for an end to all Palestinian terrorist activities and Israeli counter-terrorist activities. Israel has pulled most of its ground troops out of Gaza.Two Kassam rockets were fired from Gaza at western Negev areas this afternoon (Monday). No one was physically hurt in this latest ceasefire violation.In a series of exclusive interviews with Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily, terrorist leaders said the ceasefire which was broken within two hours after it officially went into effect at 6:00 Sunday morning will be used to smuggle weapons into Gaza, reinforce and train fighter units, and produce rockets for a future confrontation with the Jewish State.
Abu Abdullah, a senior leader of Hamas military wing, told WorldNetDaily that Hamas agreed to the ceasefire because we need a period of calm to recuperate. This lull in fighting will not bring us to speak about peace. Abu Abdullah is consider one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Iz-Addin al-Kassam Martyrs Brigades, the declared military wing of Hamas.Abu Luay, a leader of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, said Israel's weak stance proves that our rocket attacks work. The Zionists know there is no remedy for our rockets. The Islamic Jihad leader said rocket attacks against Israel would resume at a time of our choosing.IDF military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin and General Security Service (Shin Bet) director Yuval Diskin both recently warned the Knesset that PA terrorists will soon achieve military capability similar to that of the Hizbullah guerilla terrorist organization in Lebanon.
Both security chiefs urged Knesset Members to allow the IDF to launch a major offensive into Gaza to prevent PA terrorists from upgrading their military preparedness, in order to avoid a scenario similar to the debacle that took place during the Lebanon war this summer. After that war, numerous IDF reservists and other groups charged that Israel badly underestimated the military capability of
Hizbullah. They said Hizbullah had used the time following Israel’s pullout from southern Lebanon in 2000 in order to re-arm and upgrade its military skills.Security officials are now saying that a similar situation is on the horizon in Gaza if the government does not heed its warnings.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, however, told reporters on Sunday he had faith that the ceasefire could lead to a comprehensive peace deal with the PA. Olmert said Israel would show patience and restraint despite the violations.
Several terror organizations said they did not recognize and would not be bound by the ceasefire agreement. Six Kassam rockets were fired at Israel within the four hours following the onset of the truce, though the skies have been empty of rockets since then.
Hamas-led PA officials announced that some 13,000 PA troops have been deployed in northern Gaza along the border with Israel as a deterrent force to prevent Kassam rockets being fired at Israel from the area of Beit Hanoun, a favorite terrorist launching site.The PA forces are spread out along the entire northern Gaza border, said officials, in an effort to ensure that the rocket attacks are halted completely.
It is the Zionist and Evangelistic Fundamentalists who threaten our nation, Not Islam, Arabs, or Muslims by Mohamed Khodr (Monday November 27 2006) Media monitors network
Israel’s policies toward the Arabs since its foundation has been divide and conquer while serving as the arsonist to ensure a weakened destabilized region.
The Honorable Senator Chuck Hagel U.S. Senate Washington D.C.
Dear Senator Hagel:
I have long admired your courage of heart and mind, your wise independence, and rational approach to our national interest first and foremost. Our nation needs your foresight and thus my hope that you'd run for President.
Sir; you’re thoroughly familiar with the history of our MidEast Policy that for domestic purposes has implanted and supported an artificially created Jewish only state in Palestine. To create a Jewish only state necessitated expelling the native Palestinians who for 60 years have lived as marginalized refugees neglected by the world out of deference to Jewish suffering and the Holocaust in Europe; although recently the intimidating label of Anti-Semitism has become the weapon of mass destruction, ironically the same label utilized brilliantly by Zionists to establish Israel. With our unlimited political, financial, military, and Veto support, Israel has ensured that Palestinian suffering, lives and livelihood are taboo subjects in the West even when massacred, expelled, homes and farms demolished, imprisoned by the thousands, movement restricted, living under curfews and bombs, starved from food, water, health services and an education, thereby creating a hopeless, helpless, angry and frustrated generations, living under Apartheid conditions as President Carter recently wrote.
The entire world is against our blind support of Israel's policies and against Israel's inhumane treatment of an entire population to achieve Zionistic goals unrelated to Judaism. Since the Kingdoms of David and Solomon, Israelites never had a state or owned a majority of Palestine’s land until 1949 when by war they conquered 78% of Palestine despite U.N. and U.S. protests.
Throughout their Diaspora Jews preferred living outside of the Promised Land, even till this day. Between 1880 -1920, over 2 Million Russian and East European Jews preferred migrating to the U.S. rather than join the few thousand who went to Palestine. Under 1,300 years of Muslim rule in Palestine Jews were always welcome to come to Palestine, though few ever did. The famed Jewish theologian Moses Maimonides preferred living in Egypt as Saladin’s Counselor and Physician than going to Palestine. America's support of Israel, especially by Congress, has allowed Israel to dismiss all peace plans, including many American plans like the latest Quartet Plan proclaimed dead by Sharon, Bush’s man of peace. (You may wish to read Ambassador Mark Etheridge's account of the 1949 Lausanne Conference where Israel thumbed its nose at President Truman and refused to relinquish conquered land or allow return of Palestinian refugees. Israel’s rejection of U.N. Resolution 273 that demanded Israel accept the U.N. Partition Plan and allow return of refugees as a pre-condition of its admittance to the U.N. legally means Israel is not an accepted member of the U.N.).
Now America, following the Pro Israel Neocons, is akin to Israel, an occupying force in Iraq guilty of similar abusive Israeli policies against the Palestinians. Both Israel and America are in denial of their disastrous occupations and failed policies. Bush and Cheney's trip to the MidEast this week prompted Olmert to accept a ceasefire with the Palestinians to give both men some breathing room to enlist moderate Arab-American dictators to save our skin and give us a face saving way out of Iraq. They're sharing a preview of the Baker-Hamilton report and indirectly negotiating with Syria and Iran for assistance. Ironic, isn't it, that Bush who dismissed the world with such arrogance and planned to change the Middle East to suit Israel and American hegemony and reform its violent, primitive religion Islam, now humbly requests the Arab/Muslim world to extricate his legacy of war and destruction.
The Arabs are right when they paint America as a great Zionist conspiracy -- Professor Doughlas Rushkoff, N.Y.U. Wrestling with Zion (Grove Press, 2003).
America has avoided an honest debate on Israel for decades out of fear, intimidation, generous campaign donations and selective media support. The entire world is against Israeli policies and our blind support of such a state. Only in America does one find a simple majority supporting Israel; more out of ignorance and media indoctrination than true belief and understanding.
Sir, for how long must we and the world suffer from such a foreign domination of our foreign policy? How many Americans must die and trillions spent from our children’s future before America screams for its independence from Israel's and its Beltway influence? Who, Sir, benefits from a clash of civilizations between the West and the Muslim world? Prior to Israel's creation there was no such clash, only arelationship of mutual advantage according to Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Israel has succeeded in demonizing Islam, Arabs, and Muslims in our psyche and brilliantly built a separation wall between us and one fourth of the world's population. Sir, the core issue, the issue that tears at every Muslim’s heart are Jerusalem and Palestine, a nation that lived in peace for 1,300 years under Islamic rule where all three Abrahamic faiths lived in harmony.
Only Palestinian independence can ensure Arab/Muslim support and involvement in Iraq to extricate America's youth from the Bush-Cheney-Neocon disaster.
Only Muslims can influence other Muslims, but only after America finds its courage to stand up to the small nation of Israel with powerful long tentacles into all our branches of government, especially Congress. Bush demands the world to fight his war on terrorism; yet he’s oblivious that his support of Israel, right or wrong, as evidenced in the latest Israeli devastation of Lebanon is the underlying root for such terrorism. He once stated he wouldn’t like to be occupied but yet he supports
Israel’s occupation and now occupies Iraq. I can assure you that every Arab and Muslim will pour into the streets with joy, tears of happiness and enormous relief if Israel ends its illegal occupation of Palestinians according to the U.S. supported 1967 UNSCR 242 (2 nations 4 two peoples). America can have it all, cheap oil, a large Muslim market, friendly governments and populace, freedom from fear and terrorism, regain its world credibility and save its economic future if ever it can tell Israel to abandon its occupation that serves no purpose for Israel or America. Muslims desire good relations with America, but Israel's domination of our foreign policy chokes their hearts and gives support to further militancy.
Ending Israel's brutal occupation of an entire people, now surrounded and starved, serving as a shooting gallery for Israeli soldiers experimenting with America's latest weaponry, will bring permanent peace to the MidEast, our most vital strategic region. The Israel lobby has long denied this fact and tragically they’ve not been challenged. That’s why they fear the appearance of Al Jazeera English in the U.S. Americans are a fair people and once they see and understand injustice they react justly. If America avoids confronting Israel's militancy and expansionism, America will leave an Iraq in anarchy and civil war with many American dead and costly debts, our moderate friends will be overthrown, Iran will dominate the Persian Gulf, militants will burn the oil pipes rather than allow us access thereby also hurting Europe, Japan, China, and India (giving Russia more oil politics), Israel will re-occupy Lebanon (for water and revenge); more central banks will adopt the Euro; the dollar will collapse; Latin America will continue its leftward politics; and our future will indeed be jeopardized. Why? Because our government fears the A.D.L.’s Abraham Foxman, AIPAC, Z.O.A; Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations; and most importantly, the mainstream media, the same media that cheered for our current failure in Iraq. Sharon once said: The Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.
Israel’s policies toward the Arabs since its foundation has been divide and conquer while serving as the arsonist to ensure a weakened destabilized region. I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. -- Former Israeli P.M. Moshe Sharett, (Simha Flapan, p. 52-53)
It's not nice to challenge the Israel Lobby with its Armageddon loving Evangelists who seek the annihilation of Jews, Muslims, Hindus, others, and all Christians unlike themselves, who prefer life, peace, and harmony in this world. It is the Zionist and Evangelistic Fundamentalists who threaten our nation, not Islam, Arabs, or Muslims. Senator Hagel, you will find that many Congressmen share this view in private but are too intimidated to speak publicly. In numbers, our Congress (not Israel's) can save our nation from what the late Undersecretary of State George Ball called our Passionate Attachment to Israel, quoting President George Washington’s warning that such a foreign attachment is detrimental to our national interests. America needs you and our leaders. It's the Occupation, Sir, that's the core of our MidEast quagmire and failed policies. Solve that and America's future of peace and prosperity is assured. God Bless: Peace, Shalom, and Salaam,Source:Mohamed Khodr
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.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Tue Nov 28 12:30 AM EDT
NOV 28,2006
MAP 3.3 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.1 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.5 ALASKA PENINSULA
NOV 27,2006
MAP 3.0 SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.3 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 SEA OF JAPAN
MAP 4.7 MARTINIQUE REGION, WINDWARD ISLANDS
MAP 5.5 SOUTHERN PERU
MAP 4.9 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 3.5 OFFSHORE BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.1 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.3 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP 3.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.5 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 OREGON
MAP 3.0 OFFSHORE BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP 3.4 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.8 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Winter wallop expected for southern Manitoba
Last Updated: Monday, November 27, 2006 | 5:20 PM CT ,CBC News
Folks, get out your shovels, snowblowers, plows and parkas: the first snowstorm of the season is expected to hit much of southern Manitoba late Monday and all day Tuesday.Environment Canada upgraded a winter storm watch to a warning for most of southern Manitoba on Monday morning, as well as for The Pas, Norway House and Island Lake in the north. Although southern Manitoba received its first snowfall of the year at the end of October, environment officials did not consider it to be a winter storm.
Environment Canada meterologist Dale Marciski said Monday afternoon that an expected snowfall of about 20 centimetres will begin overnight Monday, and continue through the day Tuesday. It seems to be more and more that it's going to be over the western portions of Manitoba, through Brandon, over the Riding Mountain Park, Dauphin, then into the Interlake, Marciski said.But he added that the incoming system, which he said is pretty extensive, will also hit eastern Manitoba.Further east, [there will be] somewhat less amounts [of snow]. But unfortunately, it doesn't mean that you're going to get away scot free either, because the places that don't get the heavy snow may have to deal with some freezing rain, he said.Because southeastern Manitoba is expected to see less snow, the weather watch remains in the Steinbach, Whiteshell and Sprague areas.
Flights delayed Monday
The snowstorm system was the same one that dumped 30 to 50 centimetres of snow in Vancouver on Sunday. The system tracked through Alberta and Saskatchewan on Monday, leaving behind 15 to 20 centimetres of snow in Saskatchewan.
Airlines have delayed or cancelled many flights Monday coming out of the Vancouver International Airport.We've seen a lot of delays on flights coming in from the west. Not only Vancouver, [but] we have some from, of course, Calgary, Victoria [and] Edmonton, Winnipeg Airports Authority spokeswoman Christine Alongi said Monday. Alongi suggested people expecting to pick up any eastbound travellers Monday to check with the airline for delays. They can also check the airport's website for real-time flight information.Snowplows are ready to clear the runways when the snow starts falling in Winnipeg, Alongi added.
City plows ready for action, officials say
Snowplows are also ready to clean Winnipeg streets, city officials said Monday, with about 300 plows, graders and other equipment standing by.Last year's first big snowstorm caught crews off guard because some plowing equipment, such as front-end loaders, was still being used outside the city for construction jobs.But Ken Allen, a spokesman with the city's public works department, said an equipment shortage won't be a problem this time around.The amount of snow that we get is hard to predict. Certainly we're preparing. We're monitoring the weather and we're making sure the equipment is ready when it's needed, Allen said.As for cost, Allen said Winnipeg can afford to clean up after a major snowfall. It estimates the city usually spends $2 million to clean up city streets from a snowstorm, and it has spent $13 million on snow removal so far this year. That leaves the city about $4.2 million remaining until the end of this year.
Province shows off new snowplows
As of Monday afternoon, there were already reports of poor visibility on highways in parts of southwestern Manitoba,including around Riding Mountain National Park.
Meanwhile, Infrastructure Minister Ron Lemieux chose Monday to show off 18 new
snowplows it has purchased to help replace more than 30 aging plows in the province's fleet.The province will spend $5 million on the new plow trucks, as well as about $2 million for 15 one-year-old trucks. The province currently has 249 snowplow trucks.
Schools, roads closed after snowfall
Last Updated: Monday, November 27, 2006 | 3:45 PM PT ,CBC News
The big weekend dump of snow on B.C.'s South Coast has made driving treacherous, knocked out power to thousands of people in Greater Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island, and closed numerous schools and universities.
Public schools were closed Monday in Surrey, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Mission, Abbotsford, Chilliwack and the Gulf Islands after as much as 50 centimetres of snow fell.Five elementary schools in Vancouver closed University Hill, Southlands, Graham Bruce, Renfrew and Queen Elizabeth Annex because the power was out. However, the rest of the public schools in the city opened, as did those in Richmond, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Delta, New Westminster and Langley.In Burnaby two schools have been closed because they have no power Cascade Heights Elementary and Westridge Elementary.
Heavy snow kept many people off the roads.(CBC) A number of private schools are closed, including Crofton House, St. George's, York House, the Vancouver Waldorf School and all francophone schools in Vancouver. Most church-run schools are also closed across the Lower Mainland, as are Vancouver Montessori schools.Many post-secondary institutions closed their doors:University of British Columbia. Simon Fraser University's Burnaby and downtown Vancouver campuses. Emily Carr School of Art and Design. Vancouver Community College. Langara College. Douglas College. Kwantlen University College.Trinity Western University. All campuses of the University College of the Fraser Valley.Capilano College's Sunshine Coast campus The Justice Institute in New Westminster remained open.
Travel difficult
The snow has left roads and highways littered with cars, and is being blamed for at least one traffic death in Surrey when a vehicle crossed the centre line and struck an oncoming vehicle.The snow has tapered off to flurries on Monday, but temperatures are falling, which is expected to make roads even more treacherous as slush turns to ice.It is also slow going on Lower Mainland buses and on the SkyTrain. Trolley bus lines are down in many areas, and SkyTrain is running slowly, as each train requires an operator in this sort of weather.SkyTrain is running longer trains to compensate for the slowness and the wider gaps between trains.However, the WestCoast Express train is running normally.
Thousands lose power
B.C. Hydro reports that about 60,000 people remained without power on Monday, after the heavy snow snapped tree branches and took down power lines.
The hardest hit areas were the North Shore and Vancouver Island, said Hydro spokeswoman Elisha Moreno. There were also outages in Surrey, Vancouver and Burnaby.Hydro is working to get the power back on, but Moreno said that as the temperature drops, the work becomes more difficult for crews as roads ice up.Airline flights in and out of Vancouver International Airport have been delayed and cancelled since the heavy snowfall, but now that the snow has stopped, the airport is struggling to get back to normal.Many B.C. ferries between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island are running behind schedule because of the winter weather.
Victoria overwhelmed
In Greater Victoria, the snow forced BC Transit to cancel much of its service early Monday, but bus service improved later in the day in the capital city.In the Victoria suburb of Saanich, residents are being asked to conserve water because power is out at local pumping stations. In nearby Langford, an emergency reception centre has been opened, so people who have no power can have a place to warm up, and a place to sleep. The University of Victoria was closed Monday, as were schools, recreation centres and many businesses across southern Vancouver Island.Meanwhile, Victoria is preparing for colder temperatures that are being forecast, by opening five more homeless shelters.
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.
Volcanic ash forces closing of airport NOV 27,2006
ROME /Clouds of volcanic ash billowing from Mount Etna forced authorities Monday to shut down the airport near the Sicilian city of Catania for a fourth straight night. Fontanarossa airport, the main one in eastern Sicily, will be shut down as a precaution from dusk Monday to dawn Tuesday, Italy's civil aviation authority said.
The airport is being closed only overnight since pilots during the day can avoid ash laden clouds, authority spokeswoman Loredana Rosati said.A number of flights have been canceled or diverted at Fontanarossa since a column of smoke and ash began pouring from Etna last week.Mount Etna, Europe's biggest and most active volcano, springs to life every few months. In 1669, a huge eruption destroyed Catania. Etna's last major eruption was in 1992.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
Greater Vancouver boil-water advisory lifted
Last Updated: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:43 PM PT ,CBC News
About a million people who have been under a boil-water advisory in Greater Vancouver for 12 days have finally been told it's safe to drink from the taps.The Greater Vancouver Regional District issued the advisory on Nov. 16, following a major rainstorm that created unacceptable levels of silt in the Capilano and Seymour reservoirs on the North Shore.Tap water is now safe to drink in Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver and West Vancouver.(CBC) It was lifted the following day for about a million residents of the Lower Mainland. However, the remaining million residents in Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver and West Vancouver didn't get the all-clear until Monday.Medical health officer Dr. Patricia Daly said turbidity levels in the Seymour watershed have dropped low enough to allow people to drink unboiled, unbottled water.
With the continuing downward trends in turbidity, and with nearly 1,000 water tests for bacteriological results being negative, apart from one false positive, the medical health officers believe that the water is now safe for people to drink.So we're advising all our hospitals, our long-term care facilities, our day cares in schools that they no longer need to serve bottled water, and the public can resume drinking water from their taps.Last week, one sample taken at the University of B.C. showed positive for E. coli, but it turned out to be a sampling problem and not a problem with contaminated water coming out of the tap.The Capilano reservoir, which was closed off last week, is still too turbid to drink and remains closed.The boil-water advisory had created a run on bottled water at stores across the Lower Mainland.Daly advises people who have not been running their taps to do so for three minutes to flush out any residual murky water in their pipes.She also warns that the water coming out of the tap may not be as clear as it could be.It may still be cloudy for a period of time as the clear water starts to come through the system, but we still believe it's safe to drink.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
NATO urged to whole-heartedly commit to Afghanistan by Karin Zeitvogel
Mon Nov 27, 4:39 PM ET
RIGA (AFP) /Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga urged NATO countries to whole-heartedly commit their resources to strife-torn Afghanistan, as alliance leaders gathered in Riga for a summit. If NATO is engaged and has accepted being present in Afghanistan, it should do so whole-heartedly and engage in such a way as to ensure results, she told a news conference on the eve of the first-ever NATO summit in a former Soviet republic.The crucial question will be how to achieve that and what is needed, she said.
The summit of the 26-member military alliance, set up to counter the military might of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, formally opens late Tuesday, a day after a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan claimed the lives of two NATO soldiers from Canada.The resurgence of the Taliban, five years after they were driven from power in Afghanistan in 2001, has peaked this year with daily attacks and full-scale battles claiming scores of lives.NATO's military commander, US General James Jones, in early September called for some 2,500 extra military personnel for southern Afghanistan around 1,000 combat troops backed by about 1,500 logistical and other staff, plus equipment to tackle the revived insurgency.
But NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer confirmed Monday that the call for more troops had not yet been fully met. Being in Afghanistan as guests or tourists is far from the aim, Vike-Freiberga said.A half-hearted presence there doesn't seem to be worthwhile. We must either go there, get the job done or say we are unable to deal with it and leave that country to its fate, she said.At a gala dinner for summit participants at Riga's Small Guild house, US Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar warned that failure of member states to commit to Afghanistan could deal a serious blow to NATO's credibility.Afghanistan has become a test case for whether we can overcome the growing discrepancy between NATO's expanding missions and its lagging capabilities, he said.NATO commanders must have the resources to provide security, and they must have the flexibility to use troops to meet Afghanistan's critical security needs.If the most prominent alliance in modern history were to fail in its first operation outside of Europe due to a lack of will by its members, the efficacy of NATO and the ability to take joint action against a terrorist threat would be called into question, Lugar said.
Vike-Freiberga said the heads of state and government would talk about enlargement and relations with Russia, which saw its former republics and satellites joining NATO in a bad light, but added "there are no burning issues on the table concerning relations with Russia or enlargement.The stated aim of the summit was to discuss NATO's transformation, to deal with modern-day security threats.This summit will prove that NATO is alive and well and adjusting to an ever-changing world. NATO, when it was created, was faced with a Europe divided in two. It lived for many decades through the Cold War. When the Cold War ended, a new world arose and NATO adapted,Vike-Freiberga said.The transformation of NATO and its readiness to assume new roles while keeping its ability to collaborate in an enlarged format of 26 members is a challenge in itself that NATO must to rise to, she said.The United States believes that the alliance's operation in Afghanistan, its most ambitious mission ever, is evidence that NATO must be able to work outside of its classic transatlantic area of operations.
But countries like France, Belgium, Greece, Spain and Italy believe that turning NATO into a coalition of democracies with global ambitions could spark concern in Asia, particularly in China. Scheffer on Monday urged NATO members to engage in frank political dialogue to ensure that the alliance remains strong and vibrant. He also assured critics that the alliance would not become the world's policeman, although he added that with missions and operations on three continents involving more than 50,000 troops with new capabilities and with new global partners NATO is providing security in new ways and new places.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
EU meets Israel, Arab neighbors, hopes cease-fire is an opening for peace
By ROBERT WIELAARD (Associated Press Writer) 11/27/2006
TAMPERE, Finland /Seeing a glimmer of hope in the Gaza Strip cease-fire, the EU opened two days of talks with Israel and its Arab neighbors Monday, trying to rescue the frayed Middle East peace process.
Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the EU presidency, said the cease-fire provided rays of hope for peace and reiterated the EU will restore relations with the Palestinians once they have a national unity government. It is important the Palestinians have a credible, representative government which no one will have any excuse not to engage with seriously,Tuomioja told reporters.He also said peace between Israel and the Palestinians was crucial for stability in Lebanon.No cease-fire will hold forever unless there is also a political process that in the long-held view of the international community must lead to a two-state solution, he added.
Tuomioja chaired a meeting between EU foreign ministers and their counterparts from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Turkey and Tunisia.
The meeting capped a year marked by nine chaotic months of a Hamas-led Palestinian government that does not recognize Israel and an July-August war between Israel and Hezbollah militants based in southern Lebanon. Disagreements at the meeting focused on the future of the peace process and conditions for both sides to return to the negotiating table. The Palestinians are trying to form a national unity government which could allow donors to restore direct aid to Palestinians but first, Hamas would have to recognize Israel, renounce violence and honor existing agreements with Israel. As delegations arrived in this southern Finnish town, the Gaza Strip cease-fire stoked hopes that Israel and the Palestinians would be able to restart long-stalled peace efforts after five months of deadly clashes. Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets at Israel on Monday, despite the two day-old cease-fire.
On Sunday, Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza Strip as part of the cease-fire, but two major Palestinian militant groups continued to fire homemade rockets into Israel. Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal said his group was willing to give peace talks six months, but threatened a new uprising if the talks do not lead to a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. The violence and suffering ... in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and northern Israel in the summer of 2006 have underlined the importance of reinvigorating the peace process, the European Commission said in a report to the foreign ministers. The emergence of a Hamas-led Palestinian government has forced the EU, the United States and other donors to stop direct aid - and Israel to withhold tax revenues on imports - to the Palestinian government. The EU has crafted a financing formula that bypasses official Palestinian channels and pays those Palestinians hardest hit by the financial crisis.
The EU's Euro-Mediterranean aid program aims to shore up peace efforts by bringing Israel and its neighbors together in a partnership meant to lead to a free trade zone. To make that possible, the EU has since 1995 funneled €21 billion in grants, aid and soft loans mostly to Arab nations. The EU's main goal is to engage countries on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean in a zone of peace, security and prosperity by extending cooperation in areas including energy, tourism, environmental protection, education, law enforcement, migration, trade promotion and investments. This has produced mixed results. There is no peace and it is debatable if the EU has raised its standing in a region where the United States remains the key to the peace process. At a 2005 summit, marking the 10th anniversary of the EU's economic aid for Israel and its neighbors, only one Arab head of state showed up and the EU failed to get its southern neighbors to agree on a definition of terrorism.
Olmert reaches out to Palestinians By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer NOV 27,06
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reached out to the Palestinians on Monday in one of his most conciliatory speeches yet, saying he was prepared to grant them a state, release desperately needed funds and free prisoners if they choose the path of peace.Olmert's remarks sealed a dramatic policy shift and built on a day-old truce meant to end five months of violence in the Gaza Strip, but new rocket attacks by Palestinian militants threatened the latest rapprochement.I hold out my hand in peace to our Palestinian neighbors in the hope that it won't be returned empty, Olmert said.We cannot change the past and we will not be able to bring back the victims on both sides of the borders, he said. All that we can do today is stop additional tragedies.
Olmert appealed to the Palestinians to form a new, moderate Cabinet committed to carrying out a U.S.-backed peace plan and securing the release of a captured Israeli soldier.
Once such a government was established, Olmert said, he would call for an immediate meeting with the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to have a real, open, honest, serious dialogue between us.Palestinian legislator Saeb Erekat, a top Abbas aide, said the Palestinians were ready to negotiate a final peace deal.
I believe Mr. Olmert knows he has a partner, and that is President Abbas. He knows that to achieve peace and security for all, we need to shoot for the end game, Erekat said.But the Palestinian Cabinet, led by Hamas militants who reject Israel's right to exist, accused Olmert of posturing.This is a conspiracy. This is a new maneuver. Olmert is speaking about the Palestinian state without giving details about the borders, said Ghazi Hamad, a government spokesman.
Olmert's speech raised the diplomatic stakes ahead of President Bush's scheduled trip to neighboring Jordan this week for talks with Iraqi leaders.Erekat said it was possible Abbas would meet with Bush there, but Israeli officials denied that Abbas and Olmert might meet on the sidelines of the Bush visit.Olmert was elected in March promising to set Israel's final borders with the Palestinians by uprooting isolated communities dotted all over the West Bank while holding on to major settlement blocs. Israel, Olmert said, would act unilaterally without a Palestinian peace partner something it appeared inclined to conclude because of Hamas violently anti-Israel ideology.But a summer war with Lebanese guerrillas, which many Israelis blamed on their unilateral pullout from southern Lebanon six years ago, left Israelis cool to ceding more territory, and Olmert shelved that plan.
His speech Monday signaled a final break with that program and an attempt to entice the Palestinians back to the negotiating table by outlining likely Israeli concessions under a future peace deal.We, the state of Israel, will agree to the evacuation of many territories and the settlements that we built there. This is extremely difficult for us, like the splitting of the Red Sea. We will do it for
real peace, he said.Israel would pull out of West Bank land and uproot settlements under a peace deal, Olmert said.In return for a serious Palestinian push for peace, he said, Israel would be prepared to reduce checkpoints that have severely restricted movement in the West Bank; release hundreds of millions of dollars in funds frozen after Hamas took power in March; and free some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners Israel holds if Hamas-linked militants release alive and healthy an Israeli soldier they captured in June. The freezing of funds has created great hardship in the Palestinian territories by rendering the Hamas government unable to pay full salaries to its civil servants, who provide for one-third of the Palestinian people.
A significant prisoner release would be a major confidence-building gesture because prisoners hold great weight in Palestinian society. Israeli government officials said they had not ruled out releasing Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences for masterminding deadly attacks. In exchange for Israeli concessions, Olmert said, Palestinians would have to renounce violence, recognize Israel's right to live in peace and security and give up their demands to allow refugees from the 1948 Mideast War to return to their homes in what is now Israel. The uncompromising extremism of your terror organizations ... hasn't brought you closer to achieving the goal that I'm convinced many of you share to establish a Palestinian state, he said.
Hamad, the Palestinian government spokesman, said Palestinians would not abandon the fight for refugees. It is a main part of the Palestinian cause, he said. Olmert's offer to revive stalled peace talks came a day after the two sides began observing a cease-fire in Gaza, raising hopes new peace efforts would follow. Palestinian militants violated the cease-fire by launching two rockets at Israel on Monday. No one was injured, but Israel has threatened to strike back if rocket attacks increase. Erekat said he was working with the Israelis to expand the cease-fire to the West Bank and hoped to have an agreement within days. Israeli officials said they would wait to see what happens in Gaza first. If the cease-fire in Gaza works, I hope it will be possible to transfer that more positive reality to the West Bank as well, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
IDF Skeptical over Cease-Fire in Gaza, Says Hamas Rearming
By Amihai Zippor,(IHC News, 27 November 2006)
The IDF is skeptical about the cease-fire struck by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday morning, 26 November 2006.
In the past, most cease-fire attempts have been periods for the Palestinians to regroup and replenish their arms supplies following large IDF counterterrorism operations such as the ones that have been going on for the past several months.The army’s southern command believes that even if the Qassam rocket attacks stop Hamas will continue smuggling weapons into Gaza, which it has been doing vigorously for months, in preparation for the next round of fighting.Several MKs agreed with the army’s assessment and also criticized the cease-fire, saying the government doesn’t have much to celebrate regarding its accomplishment.Olmert and [Defense Minister Amir] Peretz are serial failures, MK Arye Eldad (National Union-NRP) said from the Knesset.These weak people couldn't stop the attacks on Israel, and are therefore ready to allow Hamas the necessary time to turn Gaza into southern Lebanon, he said.
Former Foreign Minister and current Likud MK Sivan Shalom said the cease-fire reminded him of UN Resolution 1701 that ended this past summer’s Lebanon war but left Hizbullah intact and able to restock its missiles.We are playing make-believe. The cease-fire is imaginary and it will give Hamas time to get reorganized, Shalom said.Meanwhile, several Palestinian terrorist groups are expressing anger that the cease-fire doesn’t extend to Judea and Samaria as well and are threatening new attacks if the IDF does not stop its counterterrorism operations there.On Monday morning, IDF forces in Jenin killed a top Palestinian Resistance Committee leader and a 50-year-old woman who took his gun running away from the scene. Soldiers thought she was a second terrorist due to the fact she was wearing pants and there was not a lot of light in the early morning hours when the operation was conducted. Source: Original text contributed by the author, IHC reporter. Israel Hasbara Committee, 27 November 2006.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER (A COLLAPSE)
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Stocks fall as investors take profits
By Walter Hamilton, Times Staff Writer
6:38 PM PST, November 27, 2006
Stocks fell sharply on Monday, with a weakening U.S. dollar and tepid sales at retail giant Wal-Mart Stores giving investors the opening they were looking for to cash out some of the profits they've booked during the market's four-month surge.The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index each sank more than 1% for the first time since July 13. The losses were spread across many sectors, including technology and financial services, that had been strong performers in recent months.
Overseas markets also retreated.Investment pros said the decline was not surprising given Wall Street's strength this year, especially through its seasonally weak period in September and October. They attributed the sell-off largely to profit taking by big institutional investors that are sitting on sizable recent gains.
This is more of an excuse to sell rather than a real reason to sell, said Marc Pado, U.S. market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald. This isn't the start of something big.The Dow sank 158.46 points, or 1.3%, to 12121.71, its biggest decline since a 1.5% slide on July 13.The S&P 500 was off 19.05 points, or 1.4%, to 1381.90. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index skidded 2.21%, tumbling 54.34 points to 2405.92.Smaller stocks, which have rallied sharply in the last month, fell more than blue chips. The Russell 2,000 small-stock index was down 20.18 points, or 2.6%, to 772.10. It was the biggest loss since the index dropped 2.7% on July 20.
The declines seemed muted compared to the extended rally of recent months. Even after its decline on Monday, for example, the Nasdaq is up 19% since July 21 and 9.1% for the year.
The Dow is up 13.1% since Jan. 1, and the S&P 500 has gained 10.7%. Stocks historically sag after Labor Day before recovering at Thanksgiving and rallying into Christmas.But the post-Labor Day slump didn't happen this year. Stocks moved higher after the Federal Reserve paused in its string of interest-rate hikes as hopes grew that it could slow economic growth without triggering a recession.Market pros say institutional investors knew a downdraft would eventually come, and were prepared to sell at the first whiff of bad news.That opportunity came Friday, when the dollar fell to a 20-month low against the euro amid concerns about a weakening U.S. economy. Stocks declined in light trading Friday, but absorbed a bigger hit Monday when most traders returned from the holiday weekend.Stocks can actually go down as well as up, joked Phil Roth, a technical analyst at New York brokerage Miller Tabak & Co. I'll be darned.The dollar continued to lose ground Monday, with the euro trading at $1.313, from $1.309 Friday.
As stocks declined, some investors looked to the U.S. Treasury bond market as a safe haven. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to a nine-month low of 4.53%, from 4.55% on Friday. Yields decline as bond prices rise.Also adding to Wall Street's unease was the news out of Wal-Mart. The retail behemoth disclosed Friday that sales at stores open at least one year fell 0.1% this month, its first such drop in a decade.On Monday, shares of Wal-Mart fell $1.29, or 2.7%, to $46.61.Wal-Mart's sales slump overshadowed more upbeat reports from the long Thanksgiving weekend, the first big weekend for holiday sales. The National Retail Federation said Sunday that spending this past weekend was up 18.9% over last year, boosted in part by sales of big-ticket items such as high-definition televisions.But Wal-Mart is considered a retailing bellwether, and other merchants also posted declines Monday.Federated Department Stores, which owns big chain stores including Macy's and Bloomingdale's, subtracted $1.27, to $41.84. Electronics retailer Best Buy dropped 71 cents, to $54.37. Discounter Target dipped 64 cents, to $57.07, while Big Lots fell 76 cents, to $22.42.
In other markets highlights:
Technology and financial issues, which have been among the market leaders this year, took some of the hardest falls Monday.
Among tech firms, Google lost $20.25 to $484.75 and Cisco Systems fell $1.04, to $25.80.Among banking concerns, Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs slid $8.49, to $193.11, while rival Merrill Lynch sank $3.38, to $89.21.Airline stocks descended as crude oil prices rose to $60.32 a barrel, from $59.24 Friday. UAL, the parent of United Airlines, sank $2.81, to $41.63. AMR, which owns American Airlines, declined $1.90, to $32.20. Among the discounters, Jet Blue dropped 92 cents, to $13.79 and Southwest fell 44 cents, to $15.81.An AG Edwards & Sons analyst lowered his from buy to hold on several major hotel chains, sending their shares lower. Hilton Hotels $1.70 to $32.10, Marriott International gave up $1.54 to $44.91 and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide subtracted $1.92, to $63.46.walter.hamilton@latimes.com
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE 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)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Terrorists Say Ceasefire Enables Arms Smuggling and Training
By Hana Levi Julian (INN)
Leaders of major terrorist groups in Gaza said Sunday they either do not recognize the ceasefire agreement or plan to use it to re-arm and improve terrorist training. Two Kassams were fired Monday.
Abu Abir, spokesman for the Hamas-linked Popular Resistance Committees terrorist organization in Gaza, said Sunday, The ceasefire offers a period of calm for our fighters to recover and prepare for our final goal of evacuating Palestine. Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza on Sunday morning, calling for an end to all Palestinian terrorist activities and Israeli counter-terrorist activities. Israel has pulled most of its ground troops out of Gaza.Two Kassam rockets were fired from Gaza at western Negev areas this afternoon (Monday). No one was physically hurt in this latest ceasefire violation.In a series of exclusive interviews with Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily, terrorist leaders said the ceasefire which was broken within two hours after it officially went into effect at 6:00 Sunday morning will be used to smuggle weapons into Gaza, reinforce and train fighter units, and produce rockets for a future confrontation with the Jewish State.
Abu Abdullah, a senior leader of Hamas military wing, told WorldNetDaily that Hamas agreed to the ceasefire because we need a period of calm to recuperate. This lull in fighting will not bring us to speak about peace. Abu Abdullah is consider one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Iz-Addin al-Kassam Martyrs Brigades, the declared military wing of Hamas.Abu Luay, a leader of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, said Israel's weak stance proves that our rocket attacks work. The Zionists know there is no remedy for our rockets. The Islamic Jihad leader said rocket attacks against Israel would resume at a time of our choosing.IDF military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin and General Security Service (Shin Bet) director Yuval Diskin both recently warned the Knesset that PA terrorists will soon achieve military capability similar to that of the Hizbullah guerilla terrorist organization in Lebanon.
Both security chiefs urged Knesset Members to allow the IDF to launch a major offensive into Gaza to prevent PA terrorists from upgrading their military preparedness, in order to avoid a scenario similar to the debacle that took place during the Lebanon war this summer. After that war, numerous IDF reservists and other groups charged that Israel badly underestimated the military capability of
Hizbullah. They said Hizbullah had used the time following Israel’s pullout from southern Lebanon in 2000 in order to re-arm and upgrade its military skills.Security officials are now saying that a similar situation is on the horizon in Gaza if the government does not heed its warnings.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, however, told reporters on Sunday he had faith that the ceasefire could lead to a comprehensive peace deal with the PA. Olmert said Israel would show patience and restraint despite the violations.
Several terror organizations said they did not recognize and would not be bound by the ceasefire agreement. Six Kassam rockets were fired at Israel within the four hours following the onset of the truce, though the skies have been empty of rockets since then.
Hamas-led PA officials announced that some 13,000 PA troops have been deployed in northern Gaza along the border with Israel as a deterrent force to prevent Kassam rockets being fired at Israel from the area of Beit Hanoun, a favorite terrorist launching site.The PA forces are spread out along the entire northern Gaza border, said officials, in an effort to ensure that the rocket attacks are halted completely.
It is the Zionist and Evangelistic Fundamentalists who threaten our nation, Not Islam, Arabs, or Muslims by Mohamed Khodr (Monday November 27 2006) Media monitors network
Israel’s policies toward the Arabs since its foundation has been divide and conquer while serving as the arsonist to ensure a weakened destabilized region.
The Honorable Senator Chuck Hagel U.S. Senate Washington D.C.
Dear Senator Hagel:
I have long admired your courage of heart and mind, your wise independence, and rational approach to our national interest first and foremost. Our nation needs your foresight and thus my hope that you'd run for President.
Sir; you’re thoroughly familiar with the history of our MidEast Policy that for domestic purposes has implanted and supported an artificially created Jewish only state in Palestine. To create a Jewish only state necessitated expelling the native Palestinians who for 60 years have lived as marginalized refugees neglected by the world out of deference to Jewish suffering and the Holocaust in Europe; although recently the intimidating label of Anti-Semitism has become the weapon of mass destruction, ironically the same label utilized brilliantly by Zionists to establish Israel. With our unlimited political, financial, military, and Veto support, Israel has ensured that Palestinian suffering, lives and livelihood are taboo subjects in the West even when massacred, expelled, homes and farms demolished, imprisoned by the thousands, movement restricted, living under curfews and bombs, starved from food, water, health services and an education, thereby creating a hopeless, helpless, angry and frustrated generations, living under Apartheid conditions as President Carter recently wrote.
The entire world is against our blind support of Israel's policies and against Israel's inhumane treatment of an entire population to achieve Zionistic goals unrelated to Judaism. Since the Kingdoms of David and Solomon, Israelites never had a state or owned a majority of Palestine’s land until 1949 when by war they conquered 78% of Palestine despite U.N. and U.S. protests.
Throughout their Diaspora Jews preferred living outside of the Promised Land, even till this day. Between 1880 -1920, over 2 Million Russian and East European Jews preferred migrating to the U.S. rather than join the few thousand who went to Palestine. Under 1,300 years of Muslim rule in Palestine Jews were always welcome to come to Palestine, though few ever did. The famed Jewish theologian Moses Maimonides preferred living in Egypt as Saladin’s Counselor and Physician than going to Palestine. America's support of Israel, especially by Congress, has allowed Israel to dismiss all peace plans, including many American plans like the latest Quartet Plan proclaimed dead by Sharon, Bush’s man of peace. (You may wish to read Ambassador Mark Etheridge's account of the 1949 Lausanne Conference where Israel thumbed its nose at President Truman and refused to relinquish conquered land or allow return of Palestinian refugees. Israel’s rejection of U.N. Resolution 273 that demanded Israel accept the U.N. Partition Plan and allow return of refugees as a pre-condition of its admittance to the U.N. legally means Israel is not an accepted member of the U.N.).
Now America, following the Pro Israel Neocons, is akin to Israel, an occupying force in Iraq guilty of similar abusive Israeli policies against the Palestinians. Both Israel and America are in denial of their disastrous occupations and failed policies. Bush and Cheney's trip to the MidEast this week prompted Olmert to accept a ceasefire with the Palestinians to give both men some breathing room to enlist moderate Arab-American dictators to save our skin and give us a face saving way out of Iraq. They're sharing a preview of the Baker-Hamilton report and indirectly negotiating with Syria and Iran for assistance. Ironic, isn't it, that Bush who dismissed the world with such arrogance and planned to change the Middle East to suit Israel and American hegemony and reform its violent, primitive religion Islam, now humbly requests the Arab/Muslim world to extricate his legacy of war and destruction.
The Arabs are right when they paint America as a great Zionist conspiracy -- Professor Doughlas Rushkoff, N.Y.U. Wrestling with Zion (Grove Press, 2003).
America has avoided an honest debate on Israel for decades out of fear, intimidation, generous campaign donations and selective media support. The entire world is against Israeli policies and our blind support of such a state. Only in America does one find a simple majority supporting Israel; more out of ignorance and media indoctrination than true belief and understanding.
Sir, for how long must we and the world suffer from such a foreign domination of our foreign policy? How many Americans must die and trillions spent from our children’s future before America screams for its independence from Israel's and its Beltway influence? Who, Sir, benefits from a clash of civilizations between the West and the Muslim world? Prior to Israel's creation there was no such clash, only arelationship of mutual advantage according to Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Israel has succeeded in demonizing Islam, Arabs, and Muslims in our psyche and brilliantly built a separation wall between us and one fourth of the world's population. Sir, the core issue, the issue that tears at every Muslim’s heart are Jerusalem and Palestine, a nation that lived in peace for 1,300 years under Islamic rule where all three Abrahamic faiths lived in harmony.
Only Palestinian independence can ensure Arab/Muslim support and involvement in Iraq to extricate America's youth from the Bush-Cheney-Neocon disaster.
Only Muslims can influence other Muslims, but only after America finds its courage to stand up to the small nation of Israel with powerful long tentacles into all our branches of government, especially Congress. Bush demands the world to fight his war on terrorism; yet he’s oblivious that his support of Israel, right or wrong, as evidenced in the latest Israeli devastation of Lebanon is the underlying root for such terrorism. He once stated he wouldn’t like to be occupied but yet he supports
Israel’s occupation and now occupies Iraq. I can assure you that every Arab and Muslim will pour into the streets with joy, tears of happiness and enormous relief if Israel ends its illegal occupation of Palestinians according to the U.S. supported 1967 UNSCR 242 (2 nations 4 two peoples). America can have it all, cheap oil, a large Muslim market, friendly governments and populace, freedom from fear and terrorism, regain its world credibility and save its economic future if ever it can tell Israel to abandon its occupation that serves no purpose for Israel or America. Muslims desire good relations with America, but Israel's domination of our foreign policy chokes their hearts and gives support to further militancy.
Ending Israel's brutal occupation of an entire people, now surrounded and starved, serving as a shooting gallery for Israeli soldiers experimenting with America's latest weaponry, will bring permanent peace to the MidEast, our most vital strategic region. The Israel lobby has long denied this fact and tragically they’ve not been challenged. That’s why they fear the appearance of Al Jazeera English in the U.S. Americans are a fair people and once they see and understand injustice they react justly. If America avoids confronting Israel's militancy and expansionism, America will leave an Iraq in anarchy and civil war with many American dead and costly debts, our moderate friends will be overthrown, Iran will dominate the Persian Gulf, militants will burn the oil pipes rather than allow us access thereby also hurting Europe, Japan, China, and India (giving Russia more oil politics), Israel will re-occupy Lebanon (for water and revenge); more central banks will adopt the Euro; the dollar will collapse; Latin America will continue its leftward politics; and our future will indeed be jeopardized. Why? Because our government fears the A.D.L.’s Abraham Foxman, AIPAC, Z.O.A; Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations; and most importantly, the mainstream media, the same media that cheered for our current failure in Iraq. Sharon once said: The Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.
Israel’s policies toward the Arabs since its foundation has been divide and conquer while serving as the arsonist to ensure a weakened destabilized region. I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. -- Former Israeli P.M. Moshe Sharett, (Simha Flapan, p. 52-53)
It's not nice to challenge the Israel Lobby with its Armageddon loving Evangelists who seek the annihilation of Jews, Muslims, Hindus, others, and all Christians unlike themselves, who prefer life, peace, and harmony in this world. It is the Zionist and Evangelistic Fundamentalists who threaten our nation, not Islam, Arabs, or Muslims. Senator Hagel, you will find that many Congressmen share this view in private but are too intimidated to speak publicly. In numbers, our Congress (not Israel's) can save our nation from what the late Undersecretary of State George Ball called our Passionate Attachment to Israel, quoting President George Washington’s warning that such a foreign attachment is detrimental to our national interests. America needs you and our leaders. It's the Occupation, Sir, that's the core of our MidEast quagmire and failed policies. Solve that and America's future of peace and prosperity is assured. God Bless: Peace, Shalom, and Salaam,Source:Mohamed Khodr
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