1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Next arctic cold shot sweeps east. 3-Public revolt quashes biometric ID chips 4-European Union treaty ratifiers want to build on current constitution 5-Spain pushes for extended EU constitution. 6-Iran prepares people for messiah miracles.
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)
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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.
Next arctic cold shot sweeps east Wayne Verno and M. Ressler, Meteorologists, The Weather Channel Sat Jan 27, 11:17 AM ET
Another arctic front has moved across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, and will continue to rapidly move southeast, clearing the eastern coast by Sunday. Across the south, well ahead of this front, rain and rain showers will shift from eastern Texas through the Lower Mississippi River Valley today, affecting areas from Houston and New Orleans to Memphis and Birmingham by afternoon.
Rockport, Texas, picked up 1.18 inches of rain during the morning. The rain will then spread east tonight, affecting areas from Atlanta and Mobile, to near Jacksonville. By Sunday, the front will clear the southeast coast, with rain showers lingering along the southern Florida. Rain amounts will generally be lighter due to the fast movement of the front, and generally a tenth to a half of an inch is expected. However, locally high amounts near inch will be possible along the northern Gulf Coastal areas, where a few thunderstorms could develop. Aiding the Midwest arctic front is a vigorous upper level disturbance, which will move across the southern Plains today. This will result in a band of light snow, from the southern Plains, into the Middle Mississippi Valley. Little accumulation is expected. On the cold side of the front, northeasterly upslope winds are generating a few inches of snow over parts of eastern Colorado. Lake-effect snows are in the increase across Upper and western Lower Michigan. Temperatures will be falling
most of the day across the northern Plains, Upper Midwest, and Great Lakes. Also, gusty northwest winds are gusting to between 30 and 45 mph across the Dakotas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa. Morning wind chills were between -20 and -35 across eastern North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Temperatures in the single digits are common across North Dakota, northeast South Dakota and both western and northern Minnesota with teens into Nebraska. Temperatures will fall into the teens across Upper Michigan, western Wisconsin and Iowa and into the 20s as far south as the Ohio River Valley. Temperatures will continue to drop through the night, and bottom out 5 to 20 below zero across the Upper Midwest and northern Plains, with single digits into the western Great Lakes. The cold temperatures will spread south and east Sunday, with highs only in the 40s from northern Texas to central Alabama, and in teens and 20s from the Appalachians westward across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. This air mass will not be as cold as the previous one, but it will be much more widespread. The impacts will also be greater across the South, where morning lows in the 20s will be common all the way to the Gulf Coast.
Public revolt quashes biometric ID chips
Citizens score success abroad while opposition to national card grows in U.S.
Posted: January 27, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - WorldNetDaily.com
While opposition grows to a national ID card in the U.S., citizens of the southeast European nation of Serbia have successfully pressed their government to back off on a plan to make biometric data chips compulsory in the country's new citizen cards. The decision followed a pitched battle prior to the Jan. 21 election as opponents criticized the accompanying plan for a centralized database of citizen information and the taking of fingerprints. Biometric technology uses data from sources such as fingerprints, facial features and iris scans to authenticate a person's identity. In the U.S., the Real ID Act passed by Congress in 2005 calls for a national ID portion to go into effect by May 2008. It requires states to participate in a federal data-sharing program when issuing driver's licenses, making those licenses de facto national ID cards. A number of state legislatures have passed nonbinding measures in opposition, including the Maine House and Senate, which yesterday almost unanimously approved a resolution refusing to implement the Real ID Act. Responding to public outcry in Serbia, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's administration, in one of its last acts in office, took the unusual step of announcing a decree before the government's session this month.
Serbian Interior Minister Dragan Jocic told the press that due to privacy concerns raised by citizens the new Law on Identification Cards would be modified to ensure the chips, with a digitalized photo and fingerprint, would be included only upon the card holder's specific request. Citizens' groups and non-governmental organizations that initiated an opposition campaign after the law passed last July applauded the concession but vowed to continue the fight until the entire law was struck down. Attorney Dragoljub Djordjevic, a founder of the group that spearheaded the anti-biometric media campaign, For Life without Branding, says his organization plans to challenge the law in the Serbian Supreme Court. That would have been our first step if not for the fact that the court has had a vacancy for months and cannot legally convene, said Djordjevic, who is also vice president of the Serbian Bar Association. As soon as it does, however, we shall challenge the centralized database the police plan to set up as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. We shall also challenge the taking of fingerprints of normal, law-abiding citizens as though they were convicted criminals.Large public outcry developed over the way the law was passed – without prior public debate – and a scandal inside the Interior Ministry itself arose from the purchase of equipment for more than $100 million outside of regular procurement procedures and a full three years before the law itself came before the parliament.
Church helped lead the way
Observers agree the Serbian Orthodox Church made the biggest difference. During its bi-annual Holy Assembly of Archpriests in early October, the church issued a decision delegating the Holy Synod – its executive body – to intervene with the relevant authorities in order to prevent the recently-passed Law on ID cards from being put into practice.The Serbian Church followed the pattern of similar protests in 2000-2002 within the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches, when their respective governments attempted to institute compulsory electronic ID cards and tax numbers. Many church members raised objections to having an object – the smart chip – on their ID cards tied to data to which they didn't have free access. They also were wary of having their personal data centralized in electronic form and available to unspecified third parties. Serbians additionally became irritated when the Interior Ministry's claims that such ID cards were already widely used in the European Union were proven false. Most countries in Western Europe either have optional biometric ID cards or non-compulsory ID cards, and few have centralized ID databases.
Also, IT professionals were angered by another Interior Ministry contention– that the biometric ID would ease introduction of government electronic services Electronic government services do not require an ID card at all, insisted Oliver Subotic, a computer expert and theologian, who has written two books on the ethics of IT technology and on biometrics.
Accessing e-government services by way of an ID card is a needless intrusion of privacy. Many European Union countries have well-developed e-government services without having issued electronic ID cards at all.Finally, Serbian public opinion, still sensitive to NATO after its 1999 bombing campaign, was receptive to arguments that the ID cards – with parts of its system purchased from Motorola – were a potential avenue for spying on the country's database. Motorola has been working closely with the Pentagon for decades, says Sladjan Mijaljevic, head of the nongovernmental group Truth. How do we know that there aren't backdoor Trojan viruses installed making our nation's personal data an open book?
The grass-roots campaign was perhaps the first to successfully challenge the central government since the deposing of former Yugoslavian and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in street demonstrations in October 2000.
Some observes say that amid the hardships of the transition from a socialist to a capitalist economy with its heavy unemployment and economic uncertainty, the anti-biometric chip campaign may be the harbinger of new winds blowing on the Serbian political scene. Meanwhile, in America …In the U.S., the Real ID Act stipulates that after May 11, 2008, a federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver's license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the State is meeting the requirements specified in the Real ID Act. While states can issue non-federal ID cards, they would not be accepted by the Transportation Security Administration for travel purposes, grounding those who don't carry federally approved cards. The data required to be included in each card are, among other things, the person's full legal name, date of birth, gender, driver's license number, a digital photo, the person's address and machine-readable technology so the information can be ready easily by government or banking personnel.
Each state must agree to share the data on the cards with every other state.
Supporters of the law say it does not require a national ID card because each state issues its own cards, not the federal government. But detractors note the cards are virtual national IDs since the federal law has dictated what data must be included and that each state must share its database with the others. As WND reported, the Department of Transportation, acting through a Security and Prosperity Partnership working group, is preparing this year to issue North American biometric border passes to Mexican, Canadian, and U.S. trusted travelers according to documents released to WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi under a Freedom of Information Act request.
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).
European Union treaty ratifiers want to build on current constitution JAN 26,07
MADRID, Jan 26: Representatives of the 18 states which have ratified a proposed EU constitution today said that all 27 EU states should use the existing document as the basis for a new accord.At the same time participants urged countries yet to ratify, led by France and the Netherlands after their electorates rejected the treaty, to clarify sticking points.We are willing to work together on the basis of the Constitutional Treaty, signed in Rome in October 2004, by all the governments of the EU member states, in order to reach an agreement which respects its fundamental content and its balances, the meeting said in a closing statement in Madrid.
Friday's conference was designed to back current EU presidency holder Germany over its plans to simplify the bloc's institutional structure and streamline decision-making.Failure to make progress by 2009 would be an historic mistake, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the European parliament last week.The 18 ratifiers, who collectively represent 270 million people, are Spain, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Romania.Ireland and Portugal also backed the final informal declaration.Adoption of the treaty foundered after France and the Netherlands decisively rejected the treaty by popular vote in 2005, while seven others have either postponed or indefinitely shelved moves to ratify it as a result. --- PTI
Spain pushes for extended EU constitution
26.01.2007 - 14:45 CET | By Lucia Kubosova
EUOBSERVER / MADRID - In a speech to open the Friends of EU constitution' meeting in Madrid, Spain's foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos argued that any revised treaty should be extended to include more European objectives rather than pared down to just institutional reforms.
Delegates from the 18 countries that have ratified the EU constitution plus its strong supporters - Ireland and Portugal - have gathered in a cultural centre - usually used for hosting events related to Latin America - to outline their positions on the future of the European treaty.In line with the motto of the meeting and the key idea to be highlighted in the forthcoming statement - Por una Europa mejor, for a better Europe, Mr Moratinos reiterated that the current treaty is an excellent document.We have met here to have our voice heard. Because it cannot be simply ignored that 18 countries ratified this constitution and some of them even after the negative outcome of referendums in France and the Netherlands.Luxembourg's Europe minister Nicolas Schmit - representing the country that adopted the constitution by popular vote following the French and Dutch polls - said I am convinced that we all should be in position to back the project that takes us forward.For his part, Mr Moratinos said that while a debate about possible changes to the form and content of the constitution often boils down to statements suggesting that only the core of the text should be retained, not everybody views this core and what constitutes it in the same way.
We all agree that the union requires institutional reforms in order to adapt to enlargement. These reforms are necessary, but far from sufficient to ensure the future of the union.He went on to suggest that Spain prefers a bold proposal, though not a rushed one rather than a proposal aimed at the lowest common denominator, with several delegates - such as Belgium's secretary of European affairs - set to suggest that the current constitution already represents a minimum minimorum.Mr Moratinos proposed that a new extended text could include provisions on subjects such as enlargement criteria, immigration, energy, climate change, defence policy and a European social space.It is clear we will probably need to negotiate its [the constitution's] modification. But Spain would seek to complete it rather than piece it up.However, during a debate following his speech, most of the delegates maintained that any future modifications should be just minimal.
Don't touch this text
We are all firmly behind this text, so don't touch it - that was the main message from most delegations, one observer told EUobserver.Also, almost everybody called for the two countries that have seen a negative referendum outcome to say clearly what their position is.He added that most countries also highlighted their support for the German presidency and its plan to salvage the constitution by 2009, while stressing that today's meeting was not supposed to divide Europe into two camps.Asked by journalists if he was bothered that the meeting was being attended only by lower-level officials, Spain's foreign minister said this was his country's plan from the start.
Iran prepares people for messiah miracles Government broadcasts series on imminent appearance of apocalyptic Islamic Mahdi Posted: January 27, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - WorldNetDaily.com
Official Iranian radio has completed broadcasting a lengthy series on the imminent appearance of a messianic figure who will defeat Islam's enemies and impose Islamic Shiite rule over the entire world – even speculating on specific dates the so-called Mahdi will be revealed. English-language transcripts of The World Toward Illumination programs can be found on the website of IRIB, a public broadcast arm of Tehran. Be joyous my heart, miracles of the Messiah will soon be here, reads a poem used to conclude the first broadcast. The scent of breaths of the One we know comes from near. Grieve not of sorrow and melancholy, as assured I was … last night that a Savior will come, it's clear.After the coming of the 12th imam, or Mahdi, liberal democratic civilization will be found only in history museums, explained the program. Contrary to the views of western theoreticians, who usually depict an ambiguous and dark future for mankind, Muslim experts believe human history, despite its many ups and downs, has a very auspicious fate, explained the program. Muslims believe hopes for the realization of such a happy ending for the world are called Awaiting Redemption, and means waiting for man's problems to be solved by the Savior at the end of time. This awaiting influences many, and inspired them with activity and enthusiasm in confronting darkness and oppression for changing the existing situation.
This messianic figure will be a direct descendant of Muhammad, according to the broadcasts. In short, when he reappears, peace, justice and security will overcome oppression and deceit and one global government, the most perfect ever, will be established, it said.
The Mahdi will appear suddenly, according to the report, in Mecca. Though no one can know the day, Shiites believe, the report actually suggests possibilities in the Muslim calendar. The Mahdi will lead a cataclysmic battle against a descendant of Muhammad's archenemy, Abu Sofyan, culminating in the cities of Kufa and Najaf. His enemy, though, is destroyed later in Jerusalem. Another beautiful moment of the Savior's appearance is the coming down of Prophet Jesus (PBUH) from heaven, says the report. Hazrat Mahdi receives him courteously and asks him to lead the prayers. But Jesus says you are more qualified for this than me. We read in the book Tazkarat ol-Olia, the Mahdi will come with Jesus son of Mary accompanying him. This indicates that these two great men are (sic) complement each other. Imam Mahdi will be the leader while Prophet Jesus will act as his lieutenant in the struggle against oppression and establishment of justice in the world. Jesus had himself given the tidings of the coming of God's last messenger and will see Mohammad's ideals materialize in the time of the Mahdi.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appearing at The World Without Zionism conference Oct. 26, 2005
As WND reported last month, in a greeting to the world's Christians for the coming new year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he expects both Jesus and the Mahdi, to return and wipe away oppression.
I wish all the Christians a very happy new year and I wish to ask them a question as well, said Ahmadinejad, according to an Iranian Student News Agency report cited by YnetNews.com My one question from the Christians is: What would Jesus do if he were present in the world today? What would he do before some of the oppressive powers of the world who are in fact residing in Christian countries? Which powers would he revive and which of them would he destroy? asked the Iranian leader.
If Jesus were present today, who would be facing him and who would be following him?
Ahmadinejad's mystical pre-occupation with the coming of the Mahdi is raising concerns that a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic could trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions will set the stage for the end of the world. In a videotaped meeting with Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli in Tehran, Ahmadinejad discussed candidly a strange, paranormal experience he had while addressing the United Nations in New York last September.
He recounts how he found himself bathed in light throughout the speech. But this wasn't the light directed at the podium by the U.N. and television cameras. It was, he said, a light from heaven. According to a transcript of his comments, obtained and translated by Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, Ahmadinejad wasn't the only one who noticed the unearthly light. One of his aides brought it to his attention. The Iranian president recalled being told about it by one of his delegation: When you began with the words in the name of Allah, I saw a light coming, surrounding you and protecting you to the end.
Ahmadinejad agreed that he sensed the same thing.
On the last day when I was speaking, one of our group told me that when I started to say Bismillah Muhammad, he saw a green light come from around me, and I was placed inside this aura, he says. I felt it myself. I felt that the atmosphere suddenly changed, and for those 27 or 28 minutes, all the leaders of the world did not blink. When I say they didn't move an eyelid, I'm not exaggerating. They were looking as if a hand was holding them there, and had just opened their eyes – Alhamdulillah!
Ahmadinejad's vision at the U.N. is strangely reminiscent and alarmingly similar to statements he has made about his personal role in ushering in the return of the Shiite Muslim messiah.
He sees his main mission, as he recounted in a Nov. 16 speech in Tehran, as to pave the path for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi, may Allah hasten his reappearance.According to Shiites, the 12th imam disappeared as a child in the year 941. When he returns, they believe, he will reign on earth for seven years, before bringing about a final judgment and the end of the world. Ahmadinejad is urging Iranians to prepare for the coming of the Mahdi by turning the country into a mighty and advanced Islamic society and by avoiding the corruption and excesses of the West. All Iran is buzzing about the Mahdi, the 12th imam and the role Iran and Ahmadinejad are playing in his anticipated return. There's a new messiah hotline. There are news agencies especially devoted to the latest developments. People are anxious to know when and how will He rise; what they must do to receive this worldwide salvation, says Ali Lari, a cleric at the Bright Future Institute in Iran's religious center of Qom. The timing is not clear, but the conditions are more specific, he adds. There is a saying: When the students are ready, the teacher will come.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
BEIRUT CURFEW IMPOSED
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Quake rocks eastern Turkey, no casualties. 3-Angolans face killer floods, death toll up to 81. 4-Storm, surge warnings prompt Cape Breton school closures. 5-Flood cleanup begins in B.C. city. 6-Bitter cold Northeast. 7-Thousands of Israelis seeking asylum in Canada: reports. 8-Jean Charest seeks free trade deal with EU. 9-Iran calls for summit with Iraq, Syria. 10-IAEA chief says attack on Iran would be catastrophe. 11-Olmert's party proposes handing West Bank to Europe. 12-Livni, Peres, Abbas Share Visions for PA State at World Forum. 13-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 14-Honored for Outstanding Dedication to Israel. 15-Curfew imposed in Beirut after clashes.
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 = Sat Jan 27 12:00 AM EDT
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Quake rocks eastern Turkey, no casualties JAN 26,07
ISTANBUL (AFP) - A moderate earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale jolted the eastern Turkish province of Elazig, causing minor damage but no casualties, officials said.The epicenter of the quake, which hit at 10:20 am (0820 GMT), was in Baskurt village near the town of Karakocan, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said.The tremor caused walls to crack in five houses in a nearby village, but there were no reports of injuries or deaths, Elazig Governor Muammer Musmal told Anatolia news agency.A tremor measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale on Sunday jolted the province of Agri, northeast of Elazig, again causing damage to buildings but no casualties.Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which is crossed by several major fault lines.Two violent temblors in the heavily populated, industrialised northwest claimed about 20,000 lives in August and November 1999.
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.
Angolans face killer floods, death toll up to 81 by Manuel Muanza Fri Jan 26, 12:01 PM
ET LUANDA (AFP) - Relief and repair workers struggled to deal with havoc wreaked by torrential rain and flash floods in Angola, where the death toll around the seaside capital Luanda rose to 81. During search operations 10 more bodies were found in Luanda. The toll is now 81, fire service spokesman Faustino Sebastiao told AFP, adding that 18 people were known to be missing.Fifty-nine of the deaths were in Cacuaco, one of the worst-hit areas just north of the capital, a local official said over radio.Other parts of southern Africa have been hit by heavy downpours, including Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.Central Luanda was cut off from Monday when three key bridges were damaged by heavy rain, but two of those have been repaired, linking the downtown area to the south and north east.Officials said makeshift shelters had been set up to house 1,300 displaced families while residents of the sprawling but rundown city of 4.5 million struggled to cope with the rising waters.Despite Angola's oil riches, Luanda has a skeletal infrastructure, which still bears the scars of a brutal 27-year civil war that ravaged the former Portuguese colony.Telephone lines which were been badly hit were slowly being repaired and it had become possible to make international calls again, the head of the state-runtele phone company said over radio.
Meanwhile, heart-rending scenes were witnessed in Cacuaco, home to some 900,000 people, which was still cut off from Luanda since a link bridge has been damaged.A young man on the beach in Cacuaco wept copiously by the side of his wife's body, recovered by troops who are helping in rescue and search operations.At least I have seen her body, he said. When the rains started lashing our area, we climbed on the roof. But the currents were too strong and our house collapsed. After that I lost sight of her.Businesswomen and shoppers meanwhile traversed the river separating Cacuaco and Luanda on rocks they have put alongside the destroyed bridge.On Thursday, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos visited Cacuaco and urge officials there to get to work.The capital was eerily still Friday with most vehicles off the roads.I walked four kilometres (three miles) before coming to a road where I could take a taxi, Marcos Costa said.Luanda's governor Job Capapinha told an emergency meeting his three main priorities were providing emergency relief, restoring road links and ensuring proper sanitation to stem the tide of cholera, which has claimed more than 2,000 lives across the country since February last year.The cholera epidemic broke out then in a sprawling Luanda slum and has been blamed on poor sanitation, an acute shortage of drinking water and inadequate infrastructure.In March 2005, flooding in northern Angola left over 10,000 people without shelter.
Storm, surge warnings prompt Cape Breton school closuresFriday, January 26, 2007 11:24 AM AT CBC News
Schools across Cape Breton are closed Friday as the island braces for a winterstorm.
Environment Canada expects the storm to hit its peak in the evening with up to 20 centimetres of snow and winds gusting to 90 kilometres per hour.Jean-Marc Couturier, a meteorologist at the Maritime weather centre in Halifax, said the expected storm surge is a concern, particularly in the St. George's Bay area where it could reach as high as one metre.It's the force of the system that's going to be building waves, and any shoreline that will be exposed to a northerly flow will see these waves crashing in, he said.
Flood cleanup begins in B.C. cityThursday, January 25, 2007 11:32 AM PT CBC News
Residents of Terrace have begun cleaning up following the heavy rain that led to serious flooding closing roads and triggering a mudslide in the northwestern B.C. city on Wednesday. Fire Chief Peter Weeber told CBC Radio Thursday that the flooding stopped almost as quickly as it started.Some streets in Terrace, B.C., were underwater on Wednesday following a heavy rainstorm.He said officials are now trying to find out why the rainwater flooded the town, instead of just draining away.If you take a step back and look at it, that volume of water coming down a frozen mountain, anything loose or anything that can be undermined, it was.Several streets were closed by the flooding on Wednesday, and Highway 16 between Terrace and Prince Rupert was closed because of the threat of an avalanche.The community is getting a break from the winter storms, with sunshine in the forecast for the next few days.
Bitter cold Northeast Wayne Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Fri Jan 26, 4:59 AM ET
Northeast
The big story will be the cold start to the day today, and again Saturday morning, as arctic air overtakes the area. After temperatures ranging from 10 to 20 below over northern New England, to the single digits and teens over the Mid-Atlantic, afternoon highs will recover only into the single digits north, to the teens and 20s south. Wind chill values this morning will be dangerous across northern New England, where readings will dip into the 30 to 40 below range. Elsewhere across the Northeast, expect wind chills in the 5 above to 15 below range today. Another cold morning will take place again Saturday morning, with temperatures similar to this morning. Wind chills, while still low, should not be as cold. A few lake effect snow showers may linger near the Great lakes today, but a general decrease in activity is expected through the day as winds shift to a more west and southwest direction ahead of the next arctic cold front. This next front is scheduled to move across the Northeast Saturday night into Sunday, with show showers accompanying its passage. Lake effect snow showers will then set up across the Great Lakes for the start of the upcoming week.
Midwest
A few lingering snow showers and flurries will be found across the Great Lakes this morning, otherwise generally dry conditions will expand across the central Plains and Midwest today. A new arctic front will enter the northern Plains and Upper Midwest by late day, producing a few snow showers there, otherwise milder conditions will be found across the region. Afternoon highs today will range from the 40s and 50s from Omaha, Kansas City, St, Louis, and Louisville, to the 20s and 30s from Minneapolis and Chicago, to Cleveland. The arctic front will sweep south into the Plains and Midwest Saturday, dropping afternoon highs into the single digits
and teens across the Upper Midwest. Highs only in the 20s will spread as far south as Omaha and Chicago. By Sunday afternoon temperatures in the 20s will reach to the Ohio River with single digits and teens across all of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes. Morning low temperatures this weekend, will drop into the single digits to below zero over much of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes. Scattered snow showers will accompany the arctic front Saturday, as it moves across the Midwest. Lake effect snow showers will then take over near the Great Lakes by Sunday.
South
High pressure will dominate the South today, resulting in plenty of sunshine in most areas. After a chilly start this morning, afternoon temperatures will rebound into the lower and middle 50s from Atlanta, Memphis, and New Orleans, to the lower 60s from Dallas, Houston, and Orlando. Lower 70s will be confined to far southern Florida. Clouds will be on the increase across parts of Texas today, as a weather disturbance moves across northern Mexico and a cold front approaches from the north. Rain showers will develop tonight across most of Texas. Saturday, the cold front will sweep rapidly south, as the weather disturbance crosses the northern Gulf of Mexico. This will spread rain showers across the Lower Mississippi River Valley during the afternoon, moving into the Southeastern states Saturday night. Rain showers will advance into southern Florida by Sunday, as the cold front pushes south. This will leave the entire South dry, but chilly, with afternoon highs only in the 40s across a widespread area.
West
High pressure will generally dominate much of the West today, resulting in fair weather conditions from Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, through Denver, into the northern Rockies. This same high pressure will also result in some low clouds, areas of dense fog, and stagnant air across parts of the Pacific Northwest this morning, affecting areas from Seattle and Portland to Spokane. One exception to the fair weather will be across north central California, north of the San Francisco area, where a weather disturbance will bring a few rain showers inland. The other exception will be over the far southern mountains near the Mexico boarder where a weather disturbance will result in areas of rain and snow. Saturday into Sunday, rain showers will linger across western and central California, as the weather disturbance slowly drifts south across that area. A few snow showers may also develop across the interior western mountains as some upslope flow develops there. It looks as if the next more significant storm system may begin to take shape across the central and southern Rockies Tuesday into Wednesday.
Thousands of Israelis seeking asylum in Canada: reports Friday, January 26, 2007 12:35 PM ET CBC News
At least 3,000 Israelis, most of them citing a fear of spousal abuse and Palestinian violence, have requested asylum in Canada since 2000, recent reports out of Israel said.Two major newspapers in Israel said that Canada has already granted refugee status to hundreds of Israelis, but thousands of others have filed applications.The reports, from the Yediot Ahronot and Maariv newspapers, both quoted figures from the Israeli Foreign Ministry that show at least 3,000 Israelis filed applications seeking asylum in Canada. Maariv said that upwards of 500 of the applications had been approved in the last six years.Yediot quoted the Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Alan Barker, as saying many of the applications Canadian officials were seeing were in fact bogus and that they were harming Israel's image and representing it as a country whose citizens are persecuted.Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said the department was aware of the number of Israelis seeking asylum in Canada, and said we have taken the matter up with the Canadians, but he did not elaborate. The Canadian embassy in Tel Aviv said it did not have the data, and referred inquiries to the government in Ottawa.With files from the Associated Press
Jean Charest seeks free trade deal with EUFriday, January 26, 2007 12:33 PM ET The Canadian Press
Quebec Premier Jean Charest wants a free-trade deal between Canada and the European Union, he said Friday.Charest said he has already spoken about the idea to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as well as his provincial counterparts, and has received a positive response.Charest is in Davos, Switzerland, for an annual economic forum.The Quebec premier wants to tap the economic potential of the European market, which has 450 million consumers. He also said an accord would ease the exchange of workers between Canada and Europe. Canadian government data suggests a free trade deal with the European Union would boost Canada's exports by $2.4 billion annually.The Canadian Press
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
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
PSALMS 83:3-7
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
Iran calls for summit with Iraq, Syria By STEVEN R. HURST and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers Fri Jan 26, 6:35 PM ET
Both Iran and Syria are seen as key players in Iraq. Syria is widely believed to have done little to stop foreign fighters and al-Qaida in Iraq recruits from crossing its border to join Sunni insurgents in Iraq. It also has provided refuge for many top members of Saddam Hussein's former leadership and political corps, which is thought to have organized arms and funding for the insurgents. The Sunni insurgency, since it sprang to life in late summer 2003, has been responsible for most of the U.S. deaths in Iraq.Iran is deeply involved in training, funding and arming the two major Shiite militias in Iraq, where Tehran has deep historic ties to the current Shiite political leadership. Many Iraqi Shiites spent years in Iranian exile during Saddam's decades in power in Baghdad. One militia, the Badr Brigade, was trained in Iran by the Revolutionary Guard.An Ahmadinejad spokesman said that Talibani's visit was scheduled several weeks ago for late November to work on improving bilateral relations. But Majid Yazdi told the AP that he had no information on a coming visit by the Syrian leader.But Talabani confidants said the invitation was issued on Thursday by Iranian Ambassador Hassan Kazimi Qumi, who said Syrian President Bashar Assad also would be in Tehran for the talks with
Ahmadinejad.AP correspondents Bassem Mroue in Baghdad and Nasser Karimi in Tehran contributed to this report.
IAEA chief says attack on Iran would be catastrophe By Stella Dawson Fri Jan 26, 5:23 PM
ElBaradei, head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, has been engaged in meetings here at the gathering of world political and business leaders. He said diplomacy is the only way forward, and talk of military action can only backfire.This strengthens the hands of those in Iran who say let's develop a bomb to protect ourselves, he said.The Bush administration has said it wants a diplomatic solution and that it is not preparing to attack either Iran or Syria.Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz also warned against an attack, while Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami urged calm to reduce tensions over Iran's nuclear program.If there is military action, it will have catastrophic results, not only in the region, but the whole world, Aziz said.I hope they would be good enough in managing the situation. We deeply need patience and understanding and not to get too emotional, Khatami said.ElBaradei said force should not be ruled out, but past experience has shown that it should not be used with haste, citing Iraq where no evidence ofnuclear weapons was found after the U.S.-led invasion.
I am convinced that the only way forward in Iran is engagement, ElBaradei said. We have to invest in peace, he said, adding that if the international community failed to do that the consequence will be 10 times worse.I hope we will stop speaking about a military option and focus on finding a solution, ElBaradei said.Iran says it needs nuclear power to generate electricity but the West fears it is secretly seeking an atom bomb. In December, the United Nations imposed sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology to try and stop enrichment work that could produce bomb material.
YES, ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER QUICK NOW, THE EU (REVIVED) ROME IS GETTING INTO THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS, AND WILL TAKE CONTROL OF IT AND IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, THE DICTATOR WILL COME ON THE SCENE, WILL BE ELECTED LEADER OF THE EU AND WILL SIGN THE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY BETWEEN ISRAEL - ARABS AND MANY OF DANIEL 9:27. I LOVE THIS HEADLINE
Olmert's party proposes handing West Bank to EuropeFollows WND reports of secret talks to evacuate strategic territory under EU supervisionPosted: January 25, 2007 - By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – A member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima party yesterday proposed transferring control of the West Bank to a European task force until the establishment of a Palestinian state, at which time the strategic territory would be handed to security forces associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The proposal comes after WND broke the story earlier this week that, according to top European and Egyptian diplomatic sources, Israel has been conducting behind-the-scene negotiations to hand over most of the West Bank to Abbas' security forces. The sources said the transfer of security control to
Abbas would be coordinated by the European Union and Jordan. The West Bank borders Jerusalem and is within rocket-firing range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport. At Israel's prestigious Herzliya Conference, Knesset Member Shlomo Breznitz, reportedly a close confidante of Olmert, said yesterday the West Bank should be transferred temporarily to the Europeans and that most of the territory's Jewish communities should be evacuated.
The only way to get out of the impasse is to transfer the territories, for a limited time, to an international mandate, that will run them until the establishment of a Palestinian state, said Breznitz at the conference. The Herzliya Conference is attended by Israel's top leadership and regularly maps out the country's agenda for the coming year. In 2004, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip at the conference. Breznitz told Israel's Maariv daily newspaper the West Bank should be transferred to the European community and not the U.S. because, he said, after the invasion of Iraq, America lost its status as an honest broker in the view of the Palestinians and the Arab states.Breznitz said his West Bank transfer proposal received a warm reception from European and Palestinian officials. I have reason to believe, and I don't want to expand on this, that the Palestinians will support the proposal. Ambassadors and diplomatic representatives from European countries who were shown the proposal also believe that without international help it will not be possible to resolve the conflict, said Breznitz.
According to the Israel Resource News Agency, Olmert regularly consults with Breznitz and is known to spend vacation time with the Breznitz family. The Knesset member's plan comes after WND reported yesterday the EU is in the process of expanding its offices in Israel, including in the Palestinian areas, in anticipation of an increased security role here following what Europeandiplomatic sources say is new momentum regarding an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. The sources, who said they were directly involved in behind-the-scene negotiations, said one proposal being considered is for the EU and Jordan to supervise the transfer of the northern West Bank to Abbas' security forces, which reportedly are receiving aid, weapons and training from the U.S. The sources said major changes in Israeli-Palestinian affairs are expected within a few weeks to two months.
According to an aide to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, speaking on condition of anonymity, there will be a historic political evolution and movement in negotiations in the next few weeks and few months, unseen since the Camp David peace talks in 2000. During the Camp David talks, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem. According to the diplomatic sources, still being debated in the purported West Bank negotiations is the role of Hamas, which leads the PA and maintains the majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament.
Negotiations between Abbas and Hamas leaders for a national unity government have mostly fallen through. On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said he viewed any Palestinian elements recognizing the state of Israel as a partner for negotiations even if it is Hamas.Olmert has made similar comments. So far, Hamas has refused to recognize Israel but recently offered a 10-year truce with the Jewish state. In a series of interviews this past weekend, Hamas leaders told WND during any 10-year truce period they would build a large Palestinian army and plan for the destruction of Israel.
Olmert's office this week denied the WND reports on negotiations to evacuate the West Bank. There were no negotiations regarding a West Bank withdrawal. This would go contrary to other things we have said in the recent past, said Olmert's spokesperson, Miri Eisin. Perhaps the officials talking to WorldNetDaily were referring to general expectations for movement in the Israeli-Palestinian arena,Eisin said. But the European and Egyptian sources stood by their statements that Israel agreed in principal to transfer West Bank security control to Abbas. Israeli leaders previously have denied reports of pending withdrawals only to later carry them out. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, elected in 2001 on a platform against unilateral withdrawal, at first denied media reports Israel was planning to evacuate the Gaza Strip but later announced his Gaza withdrawal plan. Olmert was elected prime minister on the platform of carrying out a withdrawal from the West Bank, but after this summer's Lebanon war, he has stated a West Bank withdrawal would not occur. Olmert in August called the policy of unilateral withdrawal a failure and said it was no longer relevant.
But he can argue handing the West Bank to Abbas in an agreement is not unilateral.
Contradicting Olmert, Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On of Olmert's Kadima party said last summer, The withdrawal plan is not dead, though its implementation has been postponed. The plan is now on the shelf or in the freezer, but when the time comes it will be accessed. Several recent public opinion polls showed the majority of Israelis now oppose a West Bank withdrawal. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan have expressed reservations about withdrawal plans, fearing terrorism can spill over into their respective countries. Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000. It had occupied a small section of Lebanon's border with Israel following repeated attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the area. Since the withdrawal, Hezbollah has staged numerous attacks against Israel, including rocket bombardments of civilian population centers, raids against military outposts and ambushes and kidnappings of Israeli troops. Hezbollah built an arsenal in south Lebanon of more than 13,000 short- and medium-range rockets capable of hitting central sections of the Jewish state Israel withdrew last August from the Gaza Strip. Since then, rockets have been fired almost daily into nearby Jewish communities, Hamas has been elected to power and both Israeli and Palestinian officials have stated al-Qaida has infiltrated the territory. Israel says the Palestinians have smuggled hundreds of tons of heavy weaponry into Gaza and are preparing for a large-scale confrontation.
Livni, Peres, Abbas Share Visions for PA State at World ForumBy Alex Traiman (INN) JAN 26,07
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tzippy Livni, Shimon Peres, and Mahmoud Abbas shared their visions for a two-state solution within the disputed borders of Israel. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzippy Livni made the formation of Palestinian state her top diplomatic priority during her speech at the forum of world leaders. According to Livni, the formation of a state for the Arabs within the biblical territories of Judea and Samaria is not an illusion. It's there. It's achievable.I would like to negotiate, to speak, to meet, to talk, Livni said, signaling an Israeli desire to yet again restart bilateral peace talks. There is nothing I want more. ... This is part of our dream; this is part of our goal.While acknowledging that terrorism must be reigned in for a two-state solution to be viable, Livni compared any future decision by the Palestinian Authority to stop terror with the Israeli government’s decision to expel 10,000 citizens from their homes during the Gush Katif Disengagement of August 2005.There are difficult decisions to take on both sides, and fighting terrorism is one of those decisions, and we cannot afford to put this obstacle aside. I know that it is not easy, Livni said. I can say it was also difficult for me to vote in favor of the disengagement plan. I voted to uproot Israelis, in order to give peace a chance. So there are difficult decisions, but the best way is to give an answer, and not to say, Okay this is too difficult, let's find something else.
The Israeli government has already formed a committee to study the ability to remove as many as 100,000 Jewish residents from their homes in the areas considered for the creation of a Palestinian State.Livni cautioned PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas against compromising with extreme elements within the Authority, labeling Abbas one of the moderate forces within the PA. The term often is used despite calls by Abbas at a Ramallah Fatah rally last week for arms, ostensibly received to protect him and his Fatah faction from Hamas, to be turned against Israel, which he referred to as occupying forces.Livni added in her address that PA Arabscurrently living in Judea and Samaria should remain in a new state to be created on those lands, as opposed to the PA demand that they be allowed to find homes within all of Israel.While Abbas also stressed his commitment to return to the negotiating table, he reiterated long-standing Arab demands that other Arabs be resettled in Israel, and not in any newly created Palestinian nation.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of the most serious conflicts that require a solution, Abbas said during his address. I am fully convinced that despite all the difficulties, an atmosphere conducive to the resumption of the peace process exists, one that could lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state.He added that a just solution must be found to solve the refugee crisis, stating that refugees wishing to return to their homes ... should be permitted to do so at the earliest practical date.Abbas stressed that a permanent resolution is necessary to end the long-standing conflict, as opposed to any temporary decisions, urging Israel to begin
discussing issues of final border status and insisting on the Israeli borders of 1967 as a starting point. We have the road map, a road map that includes the Arab initiative as well as President Bush's vision regarding the two-state solution, Abbas said. What is required now, in all honesty, is for us to trace the beginning and the end of this peace process.Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres also addressed the forum, expressing a vision of shared economic cooperation between Israel and the PA.
He said Israel and the Palestinians should work together alongside Jordan to stimulate foreign investment in the region. Peres stated that Israel, Jordan and PA have already agreed in principle to take the whole length of the frontier, a 500 kilometer-long strip along the current Israeli-Jordanian border, and convert it into an ongoing economic zone.We cannot save the Dead Sea unless we do it together. We cannot build new industry ... unless we do it together, Peretz added.US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has already announced plans to gather the Quartet committed to Middle East peace (US, UN, European Union and Russia) in Washington D.C. at the beginning of February. She will return to the Middle East for a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman Abbas, two weeks later.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein January 25, 2007
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
Since her founding in 1948, Israel has faced many threats. War and terrorism have taken their toll, and the price for her continued independence and freedom has too often been paid in Jewish blood.But, despite painful losses, Israel has always prevailed. And I am convinced that one of the main reasons for this is that her righteous friends have been quick to raise their voices in prayer to God, the One who watches over Israel and neither slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:4), for the welfare of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.This Sunday, January 28, on The Fellowship's 2007 International Day of Prayer and Solidarity for Israel, you have an opportunity to unite with Christians worldwide in raising a chorus of prayer to God for Israel's security, well-being, and protection.
This overwhelming expression of intercessory support comes as Israel faces multiple crises. Her enemies remain firmly committed to her destruction, and are even becoming bolder in their threats. Hamas, the ruling Palestinian group, still refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist. On the heels of last summer's devastating war, the Hezbollah terrorist group is solidifying its control of Lebanon, Israel's neighbor to the north - and the U.N. forces stationed there to keep the peace seem powerless to stop the re-armament. Iran continues its race toward nuclear weapons, meaning that its radical Muslim president may soon be able to realize his threat to wipe Israel off the map.In the face of these grim realities, it is especially comforting and encouraging to know that, in just a few days, Christians in churches around the world will pray for Israel. They will gather in churches of all sizes, from suburban megachurches with thousands of members to small rural congregations, and in countries as far-flung as Tanzania, Kenya,Malaysia, India and, of course the U.S. But, wherever they are, and whatever language they speak, their appeal for God's blessing and protection upon Israel will be heard by Him.
On behalf of the people of Israel, I extend my thanks to you for your prayers and heartfelt concern for Israel. On Sunday, as we pray, let us take to heart these words that express the deepest hopes of Jews and Christians alike: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels (Psalm 122: 6-7).
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Eckstein Bestows Ambassador Award to Pastor Hagee and Bishop ButlerThursday, January 25, 2007 Honored for Outstanding Dedication to Israel Chicago, IL, January 25, 2007
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Curfew imposed in Beirut after clashes By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer JAN 26,07
BEIRUT, Lebanon - University students loyal to Lebanon's government clashed with Hezbollah supporters Thursday, setting cars ablaze and battling with homemade clubs and stones. The melee deepened worries that Lebanon cannot contain the political and sectarian rivalries threatening to push it toward civil war. At least three people were killed and dozens were injured before army troops backed by tanks and firing barrages of warning shots into the air dispersed most rioters. The military then declared Beirut's first curfew since 1996.But the fallout reaches far beyond the casualty count. The clashes, sparked by a cafeteria scuffle between pro-government Sunni Muslims and pro-Hezbollah Shiites, reinforced fears that Lebanon's sectarian divisions are erupting into violence as they did during the 1975-1990 civil war.It was the third straight day of violence, sparked by a Hezbollah-led strike Tuesday that came ahead of a crucial gathering of donor nations in Paris. The conference Thursday raised pledges of $7.6 billion to help Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's U.S.-backed government rebuild after last summer's devastating Israel-Hezbollah war.
The money and show of international support could boost the embattled Saniora. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah has vowed to bring him down unless the opposition is given more power.The chaos has paralyzed the government. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday that donors were backing the wrong side in the standoff and that he could topple Saniora at any time.In Paris, Saniora pleaded to his countrymen to distance themselves from tensions.No one can help a country if the people of this country don't want to help themselves, he said. I call on your wisdom and reason. Leaders on all sides called for calm. Nasrallah who has insisted in recent days he does not want Lebanon to tumble into civil war went on TV in the evening to tell followers it was a religious duty to get off the streets to allow security forces to keep order.I appeal to you in the name of Lebanon and human conscience ... It's a pity to waste Lebanon like this, said Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally. It is time we learn from the past.During Lebanon's civil war, Christians battled Muslims. But the new confrontation has taken different sectarian lines: Shiites support the opposition, Sunnis back the prime minister and Christian parties are divided between the two camps.
If sectarian divisions explode in Lebanon, it would likely further fuel Sunni-Shiite tensions around the Arab world, already heightened by Iraq's turmoil. Mainly Sunni Arab nations like Egypt and Saudi Arabia have shown alarm at Hezbollah's increasing strength in Lebanon and have backed Saniora.Thursday's clashes in Beirut showed just how quickly any spark can turn into a wildfire.Students said it began with a scuffle in the cafeteria of Beirut Arab University between Sunni Muslims and supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah. As Sunnis in the surrounding Tarik el-Jadideh district moved in, Hezbollah activists called in reinforcements.Hezbollah activists with walkie-talkies were seen coordinating as a ragtag convoy of hundreds of vigilantes raced to the campus. Gangs many wearing blue and red construction hard hats and wielding clubs made from sticks and even chair legs poured into the area and battled Sunni students and riot police and soldiers.Hezbollah backers claimed Sunni gunmen fired from apartment balconies near the school, wounding several people. The claim could not be independently confirmed.Thick black smoke rose over the campus and the neighborhood on the southern edge of Beirut as rioters set fire to vehicles, tires and trash. Bands of youths clashed with stones andclubs in running street battles as the army tried to close off streets with tanks and armored vehicles. Troops fired tear gas and warning shots into the air.We are afraid about the future of the country. We are afraid about civil war, said Mohammed Abdul-Sater, a 21-year-old Shiite student.
Three people were killed and 169 injured, security officials said. It appeared one of the dead was Sunni and the other two Shiite, judging by the district of the hospitals their bodies were taken to. Up until the 8:30 p.m. curfew was imposed, young men were in the streets around the university. Government backers set fire to the offices of a small pro-Hezbollah party and burned its banner in the street as sporadic gunfire was heard. Hezbollah supporters smashed store windows miles away in downtown Beirut as they left a protest camp ahead of the curfew. After the curfew began, most streets were emptied. The last time Lebanon imposed a curfewwas February 1996 to stop labor unions from holding anti-government protests. In 1984, the army imposed a curfew to halt street battles between the army and Muslim militias.The alarming violence signaled what Lebanese have been fearing for months: that the drawn-out confrontation between Hezbollah and Saniora's government could move into the streets and rage out of control. Nobody should be surprised when things start to spin out of control, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman said in an interview with Alhurra, the U.S. government-funded Arabic-language satellite television network that broadcasts to the Middle East.
He said he suspected Syria which backs Hezbollah and controlled Lebanon for nearly three decades was behind the current troubles, but did not provide any evidence. There was no immediate reaction from Syrian officials. A woman who answered the phone at the Syrian U.N. mission in New York said nobody was available to speak to the media. The Hezbollah-led opposition has staged two months of demonstrations and sit-ins in a bid to topple Saniora's government. But the prime minister has held out, refusing the opposition's demands for a veto-wielding share of the Cabinet. On Tuesday, the opposition stepped up the confrontation with its general strike, which erupted into street battles around the country between its activists and government supporters. Three people were killed. Gunbattles broke out for a second day Wednesday in the northern city of Tripoli. The alarming violence has stunned supporters of both sides. But the leadership of the two camps do not appear to be backing down. Hezbollah, in a statement on its television station, accused pro-government factions of provoking the clashes even as it called on its supporters to get off the streets to avoid a strife which is being inflamed by pro-government groups. I find this a very strange debate, the U.S. ambassador said. There is a government that came to power after elections, the parliamentary majority that endorsed it is still there. And a party that voluntarily pulled itself out of the government is now saying they will use all means in order to impose their will on the country.
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)
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Quake rocks eastern Turkey, no casualties JAN 26,07
ISTANBUL (AFP) - A moderate earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale jolted the eastern Turkish province of Elazig, causing minor damage but no casualties, officials said.The epicenter of the quake, which hit at 10:20 am (0820 GMT), was in Baskurt village near the town of Karakocan, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said.The tremor caused walls to crack in five houses in a nearby village, but there were no reports of injuries or deaths, Elazig Governor Muammer Musmal told Anatolia news agency.A tremor measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale on Sunday jolted the province of Agri, northeast of Elazig, again causing damage to buildings but no casualties.Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which is crossed by several major fault lines.Two violent temblors in the heavily populated, industrialised northwest claimed about 20,000 lives in August and November 1999.
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.
Angolans face killer floods, death toll up to 81 by Manuel Muanza Fri Jan 26, 12:01 PM
ET LUANDA (AFP) - Relief and repair workers struggled to deal with havoc wreaked by torrential rain and flash floods in Angola, where the death toll around the seaside capital Luanda rose to 81. During search operations 10 more bodies were found in Luanda. The toll is now 81, fire service spokesman Faustino Sebastiao told AFP, adding that 18 people were known to be missing.Fifty-nine of the deaths were in Cacuaco, one of the worst-hit areas just north of the capital, a local official said over radio.Other parts of southern Africa have been hit by heavy downpours, including Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.Central Luanda was cut off from Monday when three key bridges were damaged by heavy rain, but two of those have been repaired, linking the downtown area to the south and north east.Officials said makeshift shelters had been set up to house 1,300 displaced families while residents of the sprawling but rundown city of 4.5 million struggled to cope with the rising waters.Despite Angola's oil riches, Luanda has a skeletal infrastructure, which still bears the scars of a brutal 27-year civil war that ravaged the former Portuguese colony.Telephone lines which were been badly hit were slowly being repaired and it had become possible to make international calls again, the head of the state-runtele phone company said over radio.
Meanwhile, heart-rending scenes were witnessed in Cacuaco, home to some 900,000 people, which was still cut off from Luanda since a link bridge has been damaged.A young man on the beach in Cacuaco wept copiously by the side of his wife's body, recovered by troops who are helping in rescue and search operations.At least I have seen her body, he said. When the rains started lashing our area, we climbed on the roof. But the currents were too strong and our house collapsed. After that I lost sight of her.Businesswomen and shoppers meanwhile traversed the river separating Cacuaco and Luanda on rocks they have put alongside the destroyed bridge.On Thursday, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos visited Cacuaco and urge officials there to get to work.The capital was eerily still Friday with most vehicles off the roads.I walked four kilometres (three miles) before coming to a road where I could take a taxi, Marcos Costa said.Luanda's governor Job Capapinha told an emergency meeting his three main priorities were providing emergency relief, restoring road links and ensuring proper sanitation to stem the tide of cholera, which has claimed more than 2,000 lives across the country since February last year.The cholera epidemic broke out then in a sprawling Luanda slum and has been blamed on poor sanitation, an acute shortage of drinking water and inadequate infrastructure.In March 2005, flooding in northern Angola left over 10,000 people without shelter.
Storm, surge warnings prompt Cape Breton school closuresFriday, January 26, 2007 11:24 AM AT CBC News
Schools across Cape Breton are closed Friday as the island braces for a winterstorm.
Environment Canada expects the storm to hit its peak in the evening with up to 20 centimetres of snow and winds gusting to 90 kilometres per hour.Jean-Marc Couturier, a meteorologist at the Maritime weather centre in Halifax, said the expected storm surge is a concern, particularly in the St. George's Bay area where it could reach as high as one metre.It's the force of the system that's going to be building waves, and any shoreline that will be exposed to a northerly flow will see these waves crashing in, he said.
Flood cleanup begins in B.C. cityThursday, January 25, 2007 11:32 AM PT CBC News
Residents of Terrace have begun cleaning up following the heavy rain that led to serious flooding closing roads and triggering a mudslide in the northwestern B.C. city on Wednesday. Fire Chief Peter Weeber told CBC Radio Thursday that the flooding stopped almost as quickly as it started.Some streets in Terrace, B.C., were underwater on Wednesday following a heavy rainstorm.He said officials are now trying to find out why the rainwater flooded the town, instead of just draining away.If you take a step back and look at it, that volume of water coming down a frozen mountain, anything loose or anything that can be undermined, it was.Several streets were closed by the flooding on Wednesday, and Highway 16 between Terrace and Prince Rupert was closed because of the threat of an avalanche.The community is getting a break from the winter storms, with sunshine in the forecast for the next few days.
Bitter cold Northeast Wayne Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Fri Jan 26, 4:59 AM ET
Northeast
The big story will be the cold start to the day today, and again Saturday morning, as arctic air overtakes the area. After temperatures ranging from 10 to 20 below over northern New England, to the single digits and teens over the Mid-Atlantic, afternoon highs will recover only into the single digits north, to the teens and 20s south. Wind chill values this morning will be dangerous across northern New England, where readings will dip into the 30 to 40 below range. Elsewhere across the Northeast, expect wind chills in the 5 above to 15 below range today. Another cold morning will take place again Saturday morning, with temperatures similar to this morning. Wind chills, while still low, should not be as cold. A few lake effect snow showers may linger near the Great lakes today, but a general decrease in activity is expected through the day as winds shift to a more west and southwest direction ahead of the next arctic cold front. This next front is scheduled to move across the Northeast Saturday night into Sunday, with show showers accompanying its passage. Lake effect snow showers will then set up across the Great Lakes for the start of the upcoming week.
Midwest
A few lingering snow showers and flurries will be found across the Great Lakes this morning, otherwise generally dry conditions will expand across the central Plains and Midwest today. A new arctic front will enter the northern Plains and Upper Midwest by late day, producing a few snow showers there, otherwise milder conditions will be found across the region. Afternoon highs today will range from the 40s and 50s from Omaha, Kansas City, St, Louis, and Louisville, to the 20s and 30s from Minneapolis and Chicago, to Cleveland. The arctic front will sweep south into the Plains and Midwest Saturday, dropping afternoon highs into the single digits
and teens across the Upper Midwest. Highs only in the 20s will spread as far south as Omaha and Chicago. By Sunday afternoon temperatures in the 20s will reach to the Ohio River with single digits and teens across all of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes. Morning low temperatures this weekend, will drop into the single digits to below zero over much of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes. Scattered snow showers will accompany the arctic front Saturday, as it moves across the Midwest. Lake effect snow showers will then take over near the Great Lakes by Sunday.
South
High pressure will dominate the South today, resulting in plenty of sunshine in most areas. After a chilly start this morning, afternoon temperatures will rebound into the lower and middle 50s from Atlanta, Memphis, and New Orleans, to the lower 60s from Dallas, Houston, and Orlando. Lower 70s will be confined to far southern Florida. Clouds will be on the increase across parts of Texas today, as a weather disturbance moves across northern Mexico and a cold front approaches from the north. Rain showers will develop tonight across most of Texas. Saturday, the cold front will sweep rapidly south, as the weather disturbance crosses the northern Gulf of Mexico. This will spread rain showers across the Lower Mississippi River Valley during the afternoon, moving into the Southeastern states Saturday night. Rain showers will advance into southern Florida by Sunday, as the cold front pushes south. This will leave the entire South dry, but chilly, with afternoon highs only in the 40s across a widespread area.
West
High pressure will generally dominate much of the West today, resulting in fair weather conditions from Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, through Denver, into the northern Rockies. This same high pressure will also result in some low clouds, areas of dense fog, and stagnant air across parts of the Pacific Northwest this morning, affecting areas from Seattle and Portland to Spokane. One exception to the fair weather will be across north central California, north of the San Francisco area, where a weather disturbance will bring a few rain showers inland. The other exception will be over the far southern mountains near the Mexico boarder where a weather disturbance will result in areas of rain and snow. Saturday into Sunday, rain showers will linger across western and central California, as the weather disturbance slowly drifts south across that area. A few snow showers may also develop across the interior western mountains as some upslope flow develops there. It looks as if the next more significant storm system may begin to take shape across the central and southern Rockies Tuesday into Wednesday.
Thousands of Israelis seeking asylum in Canada: reports Friday, January 26, 2007 12:35 PM ET CBC News
At least 3,000 Israelis, most of them citing a fear of spousal abuse and Palestinian violence, have requested asylum in Canada since 2000, recent reports out of Israel said.Two major newspapers in Israel said that Canada has already granted refugee status to hundreds of Israelis, but thousands of others have filed applications.The reports, from the Yediot Ahronot and Maariv newspapers, both quoted figures from the Israeli Foreign Ministry that show at least 3,000 Israelis filed applications seeking asylum in Canada. Maariv said that upwards of 500 of the applications had been approved in the last six years.Yediot quoted the Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Alan Barker, as saying many of the applications Canadian officials were seeing were in fact bogus and that they were harming Israel's image and representing it as a country whose citizens are persecuted.Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said the department was aware of the number of Israelis seeking asylum in Canada, and said we have taken the matter up with the Canadians, but he did not elaborate. The Canadian embassy in Tel Aviv said it did not have the data, and referred inquiries to the government in Ottawa.With files from the Associated Press
Jean Charest seeks free trade deal with EUFriday, January 26, 2007 12:33 PM ET The Canadian Press
Quebec Premier Jean Charest wants a free-trade deal between Canada and the European Union, he said Friday.Charest said he has already spoken about the idea to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as well as his provincial counterparts, and has received a positive response.Charest is in Davos, Switzerland, for an annual economic forum.The Quebec premier wants to tap the economic potential of the European market, which has 450 million consumers. He also said an accord would ease the exchange of workers between Canada and Europe. Canadian government data suggests a free trade deal with the European Union would boost Canada's exports by $2.4 billion annually.The Canadian Press
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
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.
Iran calls for summit with Iraq, Syria By STEVEN R. HURST and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers Fri Jan 26, 6:35 PM ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region, four key lawmakers told The Associated Press on Monday. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has accepted the invitation and will fly to the Iranian capital Saturday, a close parliamentary associate said.The Iranian diplomatic gambit appeared designed to upstage expected moves from Washington to include Syria and Iran in a wider regional effort to clamp off violence in Iraq, where more civilians have been killed in the first 20 days of November than in any other month since the AP began tallying the figures in April 2005.The Iranian move was also a display of its increasingly muscular role in the Middle East, where it already has established deep influence over Syria and Lebanon.All three countries intend to hold a three-way summit among Iraq, Iran and Syria to discuss the security situation and the repercussions for stability of the region, said Ali al-Adeeb, a lawmaker of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Party and a close aide to the prime minister.
Both Iran and Syria are seen as key players in Iraq. Syria is widely believed to have done little to stop foreign fighters and al-Qaida in Iraq recruits from crossing its border to join Sunni insurgents in Iraq. It also has provided refuge for many top members of Saddam Hussein's former leadership and political corps, which is thought to have organized arms and funding for the insurgents. The Sunni insurgency, since it sprang to life in late summer 2003, has been responsible for most of the U.S. deaths in Iraq.Iran is deeply involved in training, funding and arming the two major Shiite militias in Iraq, where Tehran has deep historic ties to the current Shiite political leadership. Many Iraqi Shiites spent years in Iranian exile during Saddam's decades in power in Baghdad. One militia, the Badr Brigade, was trained in Iran by the Revolutionary Guard.An Ahmadinejad spokesman said that Talibani's visit was scheduled several weeks ago for late November to work on improving bilateral relations. But Majid Yazdi told the AP that he had no information on a coming visit by the Syrian leader.But Talabani confidants said the invitation was issued on Thursday by Iranian Ambassador Hassan Kazimi Qumi, who said Syrian President Bashar Assad also would be in Tehran for the talks with
Ahmadinejad.AP correspondents Bassem Mroue in Baghdad and Nasser Karimi in Tehran contributed to this report.
IAEA chief says attack on Iran would be catastrophe By Stella Dawson Fri Jan 26, 5:23 PM
ET DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - An attack on Iran would be catastrophic and encourage it to develop a nuclear bomb, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Thursday. It would be absolutely counterproductive, and it would be catastrophic, ElBaradei said at a discussion on nuclear proliferation at the World Economic Forum.The Bush administration in recent weeks has toughened its stance against Iran, which the West has accused of seeking to secretly build an atomic bomb, raising fears among political and business leaders that the U.S. plans an attack.President George W. Bush has moved an additional aircraft carrier into the Gulf and told Iran that he would not allow it to provide weapons and support to insurgents in Iraq.Israel has refused to rule out pre-emptive military action against Iran on the lines of its 1981 air strike against an atomic reactor in Iraq, although many analysts believe Iran's nuclear facilities are too much for Israel to destroy alone.The United Nations imposed sanctions in December to prevent Iran using its nuclear energy program for military weapons, and Iran this week banned 38 IAEA nuclear inspectors.
ElBaradei, head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, has been engaged in meetings here at the gathering of world political and business leaders. He said diplomacy is the only way forward, and talk of military action can only backfire.This strengthens the hands of those in Iran who say let's develop a bomb to protect ourselves, he said.The Bush administration has said it wants a diplomatic solution and that it is not preparing to attack either Iran or Syria.Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz also warned against an attack, while Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami urged calm to reduce tensions over Iran's nuclear program.If there is military action, it will have catastrophic results, not only in the region, but the whole world, Aziz said.I hope they would be good enough in managing the situation. We deeply need patience and understanding and not to get too emotional, Khatami said.ElBaradei said force should not be ruled out, but past experience has shown that it should not be used with haste, citing Iraq where no evidence ofnuclear weapons was found after the U.S.-led invasion.
I am convinced that the only way forward in Iran is engagement, ElBaradei said. We have to invest in peace, he said, adding that if the international community failed to do that the consequence will be 10 times worse.I hope we will stop speaking about a military option and focus on finding a solution, ElBaradei said.Iran says it needs nuclear power to generate electricity but the West fears it is secretly seeking an atom bomb. In December, the United Nations imposed sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology to try and stop enrichment work that could produce bomb material.
YES, ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER QUICK NOW, THE EU (REVIVED) ROME IS GETTING INTO THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS, AND WILL TAKE CONTROL OF IT AND IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, THE DICTATOR WILL COME ON THE SCENE, WILL BE ELECTED LEADER OF THE EU AND WILL SIGN THE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY BETWEEN ISRAEL - ARABS AND MANY OF DANIEL 9:27. I LOVE THIS HEADLINE
Olmert's party proposes handing West Bank to EuropeFollows WND reports of secret talks to evacuate strategic territory under EU supervisionPosted: January 25, 2007 - By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – A member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima party yesterday proposed transferring control of the West Bank to a European task force until the establishment of a Palestinian state, at which time the strategic territory would be handed to security forces associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The proposal comes after WND broke the story earlier this week that, according to top European and Egyptian diplomatic sources, Israel has been conducting behind-the-scene negotiations to hand over most of the West Bank to Abbas' security forces. The sources said the transfer of security control to
Abbas would be coordinated by the European Union and Jordan. The West Bank borders Jerusalem and is within rocket-firing range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport. At Israel's prestigious Herzliya Conference, Knesset Member Shlomo Breznitz, reportedly a close confidante of Olmert, said yesterday the West Bank should be transferred temporarily to the Europeans and that most of the territory's Jewish communities should be evacuated.
The only way to get out of the impasse is to transfer the territories, for a limited time, to an international mandate, that will run them until the establishment of a Palestinian state, said Breznitz at the conference. The Herzliya Conference is attended by Israel's top leadership and regularly maps out the country's agenda for the coming year. In 2004, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip at the conference. Breznitz told Israel's Maariv daily newspaper the West Bank should be transferred to the European community and not the U.S. because, he said, after the invasion of Iraq, America lost its status as an honest broker in the view of the Palestinians and the Arab states.Breznitz said his West Bank transfer proposal received a warm reception from European and Palestinian officials. I have reason to believe, and I don't want to expand on this, that the Palestinians will support the proposal. Ambassadors and diplomatic representatives from European countries who were shown the proposal also believe that without international help it will not be possible to resolve the conflict, said Breznitz.
According to the Israel Resource News Agency, Olmert regularly consults with Breznitz and is known to spend vacation time with the Breznitz family. The Knesset member's plan comes after WND reported yesterday the EU is in the process of expanding its offices in Israel, including in the Palestinian areas, in anticipation of an increased security role here following what Europeandiplomatic sources say is new momentum regarding an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. The sources, who said they were directly involved in behind-the-scene negotiations, said one proposal being considered is for the EU and Jordan to supervise the transfer of the northern West Bank to Abbas' security forces, which reportedly are receiving aid, weapons and training from the U.S. The sources said major changes in Israeli-Palestinian affairs are expected within a few weeks to two months.
According to an aide to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, speaking on condition of anonymity, there will be a historic political evolution and movement in negotiations in the next few weeks and few months, unseen since the Camp David peace talks in 2000. During the Camp David talks, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem. According to the diplomatic sources, still being debated in the purported West Bank negotiations is the role of Hamas, which leads the PA and maintains the majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament.
Negotiations between Abbas and Hamas leaders for a national unity government have mostly fallen through. On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said he viewed any Palestinian elements recognizing the state of Israel as a partner for negotiations even if it is Hamas.Olmert has made similar comments. So far, Hamas has refused to recognize Israel but recently offered a 10-year truce with the Jewish state. In a series of interviews this past weekend, Hamas leaders told WND during any 10-year truce period they would build a large Palestinian army and plan for the destruction of Israel.
Olmert's office this week denied the WND reports on negotiations to evacuate the West Bank. There were no negotiations regarding a West Bank withdrawal. This would go contrary to other things we have said in the recent past, said Olmert's spokesperson, Miri Eisin. Perhaps the officials talking to WorldNetDaily were referring to general expectations for movement in the Israeli-Palestinian arena,Eisin said. But the European and Egyptian sources stood by their statements that Israel agreed in principal to transfer West Bank security control to Abbas. Israeli leaders previously have denied reports of pending withdrawals only to later carry them out. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, elected in 2001 on a platform against unilateral withdrawal, at first denied media reports Israel was planning to evacuate the Gaza Strip but later announced his Gaza withdrawal plan. Olmert was elected prime minister on the platform of carrying out a withdrawal from the West Bank, but after this summer's Lebanon war, he has stated a West Bank withdrawal would not occur. Olmert in August called the policy of unilateral withdrawal a failure and said it was no longer relevant.
But he can argue handing the West Bank to Abbas in an agreement is not unilateral.
Contradicting Olmert, Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On of Olmert's Kadima party said last summer, The withdrawal plan is not dead, though its implementation has been postponed. The plan is now on the shelf or in the freezer, but when the time comes it will be accessed. Several recent public opinion polls showed the majority of Israelis now oppose a West Bank withdrawal. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan have expressed reservations about withdrawal plans, fearing terrorism can spill over into their respective countries. Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000. It had occupied a small section of Lebanon's border with Israel following repeated attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the area. Since the withdrawal, Hezbollah has staged numerous attacks against Israel, including rocket bombardments of civilian population centers, raids against military outposts and ambushes and kidnappings of Israeli troops. Hezbollah built an arsenal in south Lebanon of more than 13,000 short- and medium-range rockets capable of hitting central sections of the Jewish state Israel withdrew last August from the Gaza Strip. Since then, rockets have been fired almost daily into nearby Jewish communities, Hamas has been elected to power and both Israeli and Palestinian officials have stated al-Qaida has infiltrated the territory. Israel says the Palestinians have smuggled hundreds of tons of heavy weaponry into Gaza and are preparing for a large-scale confrontation.
Livni, Peres, Abbas Share Visions for PA State at World ForumBy Alex Traiman (INN) JAN 26,07
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tzippy Livni, Shimon Peres, and Mahmoud Abbas shared their visions for a two-state solution within the disputed borders of Israel. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzippy Livni made the formation of Palestinian state her top diplomatic priority during her speech at the forum of world leaders. According to Livni, the formation of a state for the Arabs within the biblical territories of Judea and Samaria is not an illusion. It's there. It's achievable.I would like to negotiate, to speak, to meet, to talk, Livni said, signaling an Israeli desire to yet again restart bilateral peace talks. There is nothing I want more. ... This is part of our dream; this is part of our goal.While acknowledging that terrorism must be reigned in for a two-state solution to be viable, Livni compared any future decision by the Palestinian Authority to stop terror with the Israeli government’s decision to expel 10,000 citizens from their homes during the Gush Katif Disengagement of August 2005.There are difficult decisions to take on both sides, and fighting terrorism is one of those decisions, and we cannot afford to put this obstacle aside. I know that it is not easy, Livni said. I can say it was also difficult for me to vote in favor of the disengagement plan. I voted to uproot Israelis, in order to give peace a chance. So there are difficult decisions, but the best way is to give an answer, and not to say, Okay this is too difficult, let's find something else.
The Israeli government has already formed a committee to study the ability to remove as many as 100,000 Jewish residents from their homes in the areas considered for the creation of a Palestinian State.Livni cautioned PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas against compromising with extreme elements within the Authority, labeling Abbas one of the moderate forces within the PA. The term often is used despite calls by Abbas at a Ramallah Fatah rally last week for arms, ostensibly received to protect him and his Fatah faction from Hamas, to be turned against Israel, which he referred to as occupying forces.Livni added in her address that PA Arabscurrently living in Judea and Samaria should remain in a new state to be created on those lands, as opposed to the PA demand that they be allowed to find homes within all of Israel.While Abbas also stressed his commitment to return to the negotiating table, he reiterated long-standing Arab demands that other Arabs be resettled in Israel, and not in any newly created Palestinian nation.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of the most serious conflicts that require a solution, Abbas said during his address. I am fully convinced that despite all the difficulties, an atmosphere conducive to the resumption of the peace process exists, one that could lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state.He added that a just solution must be found to solve the refugee crisis, stating that refugees wishing to return to their homes ... should be permitted to do so at the earliest practical date.Abbas stressed that a permanent resolution is necessary to end the long-standing conflict, as opposed to any temporary decisions, urging Israel to begin
discussing issues of final border status and insisting on the Israeli borders of 1967 as a starting point. We have the road map, a road map that includes the Arab initiative as well as President Bush's vision regarding the two-state solution, Abbas said. What is required now, in all honesty, is for us to trace the beginning and the end of this peace process.Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres also addressed the forum, expressing a vision of shared economic cooperation between Israel and the PA.
He said Israel and the Palestinians should work together alongside Jordan to stimulate foreign investment in the region. Peres stated that Israel, Jordan and PA have already agreed in principle to take the whole length of the frontier, a 500 kilometer-long strip along the current Israeli-Jordanian border, and convert it into an ongoing economic zone.We cannot save the Dead Sea unless we do it together. We cannot build new industry ... unless we do it together, Peretz added.US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has already announced plans to gather the Quartet committed to Middle East peace (US, UN, European Union and Russia) in Washington D.C. at the beginning of February. She will return to the Middle East for a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman Abbas, two weeks later.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein January 25, 2007
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
Since her founding in 1948, Israel has faced many threats. War and terrorism have taken their toll, and the price for her continued independence and freedom has too often been paid in Jewish blood.But, despite painful losses, Israel has always prevailed. And I am convinced that one of the main reasons for this is that her righteous friends have been quick to raise their voices in prayer to God, the One who watches over Israel and neither slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:4), for the welfare of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.This Sunday, January 28, on The Fellowship's 2007 International Day of Prayer and Solidarity for Israel, you have an opportunity to unite with Christians worldwide in raising a chorus of prayer to God for Israel's security, well-being, and protection.
This overwhelming expression of intercessory support comes as Israel faces multiple crises. Her enemies remain firmly committed to her destruction, and are even becoming bolder in their threats. Hamas, the ruling Palestinian group, still refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist. On the heels of last summer's devastating war, the Hezbollah terrorist group is solidifying its control of Lebanon, Israel's neighbor to the north - and the U.N. forces stationed there to keep the peace seem powerless to stop the re-armament. Iran continues its race toward nuclear weapons, meaning that its radical Muslim president may soon be able to realize his threat to wipe Israel off the map.In the face of these grim realities, it is especially comforting and encouraging to know that, in just a few days, Christians in churches around the world will pray for Israel. They will gather in churches of all sizes, from suburban megachurches with thousands of members to small rural congregations, and in countries as far-flung as Tanzania, Kenya,Malaysia, India and, of course the U.S. But, wherever they are, and whatever language they speak, their appeal for God's blessing and protection upon Israel will be heard by Him.
On behalf of the people of Israel, I extend my thanks to you for your prayers and heartfelt concern for Israel. On Sunday, as we pray, let us take to heart these words that express the deepest hopes of Jews and Christians alike: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels (Psalm 122: 6-7).
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel EcksteinPresident
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Rabbi Eckstein Bestows Ambassador Award to Pastor Hagee and Bishop ButlerThursday, January 25, 2007 Honored for Outstanding Dedication to Israel Chicago, IL, January 25, 2007
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) presented its highest honor, the Ambassador's Award, to Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church of San Antonio, TX and Bishop Keith Butler of Word of Faith International Christian Center of Southfield, MI, for their outstanding support, leadership, and dedication to Israel. The award from The Fellowship and Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, its founder and president and Goodwill Ambassador to Evangelicals for Israel, was presented during the January 7, 2007, Night to Honor Israel event held at the Word of Faith Center.It is indeed an honor to bring greetings from Jerusalem on this special evening as we honor dear friends with whom The Fellowship works alongside and who are a blessing Israel, said Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein in a video message to the audience of more than 6,000 people at Bishop Butler's mega-church in Southfield, MI. Rabbi Eckstein quoted Psalm 133:1 encouraging the audience of Christians and Jews, Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell in unity! Thanks to the generous support of Christians across America, The Fellowship's On Wings of Eagles program has helped more than 300,000 Jews make aliyah (immigrate to Israel) from countries including the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, India and various Arab lands. And each day, The Fellowship's Guardians of Israel program provides basic necessities of food, medicine, clothing, and much more to an estimated 65,000 needy people in Israel.Rabbi Eckstein applauded Pastor Hagee for his ministry which has helped Jews return to Israel and provided assistance to orphanages, absorption centers, and hospitals.
More and more Christians are understanding their Jewish roots and the Biblical perspective that calls them to stand with Israel, declared Rabbi Eckstein. That didn’t just happen. Committed leaders like John Hagee have led the way, and for that, we are grateful.Rabbi Eckstein called Bishop Butler a hero with impeccable qualities of leadership. He has always been there in times of need. On one trip to Israel, he joined us on the front lines where we were dodging bullets. We are thankful for Bishop Butler and his commitment to stand with Israel.
Bishop Butler, who may be best known for his worldwide television outreach, The Word of Faith, is also a prolific Bible teacher, often appearing at U.S. and international churches, conferences and seminars. Both honorees expressed appreciation for The Fellowship and reaffirmed their ongoing commitment to support Israel. Pastor Hagee said, I am honored to receive the Ambassador’s Award. During these difficult days, I look forward to working with Rabbi Ecksteinand all other friends of the Jewish people to defend Israel from very serious threats looming. Butler added his thanks before his congregation, I am supremely honored by this award. My love for the nation of Israel compels me to do all I can to help.Founded by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein in 1983, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has a two-fold mission to promote understanding and cooperation between Christians and Jews and to build broad support for Israel and Jewish people around the world. The Fellowship provides financial support to help Jews in distress make aliyah (emigrate) from countries around the world to Israel. In addition, The Fellowship provides emergency aid in times of crisis to Israel and ongoing funding to help needy Jewish children, families and the elderly throughout the world.For more information, visit www.ifcj.org.
Bishop Butler, who may be best known for his worldwide television outreach, The Word of Faith, is also a prolific Bible teacher, often appearing at U.S. and international churches, conferences and seminars. Both honorees expressed appreciation for The Fellowship and reaffirmed their ongoing commitment to support Israel. Pastor Hagee said, I am honored to receive the Ambassador’s Award. During these difficult days, I look forward to working with Rabbi Ecksteinand all other friends of the Jewish people to defend Israel from very serious threats looming. Butler added his thanks before his congregation, I am supremely honored by this award. My love for the nation of Israel compels me to do all I can to help.Founded by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein in 1983, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has a two-fold mission to promote understanding and cooperation between Christians and Jews and to build broad support for Israel and Jewish people around the world. The Fellowship provides financial support to help Jews in distress make aliyah (emigrate) from countries around the world to Israel. In addition, The Fellowship provides emergency aid in times of crisis to Israel and ongoing funding to help needy Jewish children, families and the elderly throughout the world.For more information, visit www.ifcj.org.
Media interested in an interview with Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and recipients of the Ambassador's Award should contact Gregg Wooding, president of I AM PR services, (972) 567-7660 or
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Curfew imposed in Beirut after clashes By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer JAN 26,07
BEIRUT, Lebanon - University students loyal to Lebanon's government clashed with Hezbollah supporters Thursday, setting cars ablaze and battling with homemade clubs and stones. The melee deepened worries that Lebanon cannot contain the political and sectarian rivalries threatening to push it toward civil war. At least three people were killed and dozens were injured before army troops backed by tanks and firing barrages of warning shots into the air dispersed most rioters. The military then declared Beirut's first curfew since 1996.But the fallout reaches far beyond the casualty count. The clashes, sparked by a cafeteria scuffle between pro-government Sunni Muslims and pro-Hezbollah Shiites, reinforced fears that Lebanon's sectarian divisions are erupting into violence as they did during the 1975-1990 civil war.It was the third straight day of violence, sparked by a Hezbollah-led strike Tuesday that came ahead of a crucial gathering of donor nations in Paris. The conference Thursday raised pledges of $7.6 billion to help Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's U.S.-backed government rebuild after last summer's devastating Israel-Hezbollah war.
The money and show of international support could boost the embattled Saniora. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah has vowed to bring him down unless the opposition is given more power.The chaos has paralyzed the government. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday that donors were backing the wrong side in the standoff and that he could topple Saniora at any time.In Paris, Saniora pleaded to his countrymen to distance themselves from tensions.No one can help a country if the people of this country don't want to help themselves, he said. I call on your wisdom and reason. Leaders on all sides called for calm. Nasrallah who has insisted in recent days he does not want Lebanon to tumble into civil war went on TV in the evening to tell followers it was a religious duty to get off the streets to allow security forces to keep order.I appeal to you in the name of Lebanon and human conscience ... It's a pity to waste Lebanon like this, said Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally. It is time we learn from the past.During Lebanon's civil war, Christians battled Muslims. But the new confrontation has taken different sectarian lines: Shiites support the opposition, Sunnis back the prime minister and Christian parties are divided between the two camps.
If sectarian divisions explode in Lebanon, it would likely further fuel Sunni-Shiite tensions around the Arab world, already heightened by Iraq's turmoil. Mainly Sunni Arab nations like Egypt and Saudi Arabia have shown alarm at Hezbollah's increasing strength in Lebanon and have backed Saniora.Thursday's clashes in Beirut showed just how quickly any spark can turn into a wildfire.Students said it began with a scuffle in the cafeteria of Beirut Arab University between Sunni Muslims and supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah. As Sunnis in the surrounding Tarik el-Jadideh district moved in, Hezbollah activists called in reinforcements.Hezbollah activists with walkie-talkies were seen coordinating as a ragtag convoy of hundreds of vigilantes raced to the campus. Gangs many wearing blue and red construction hard hats and wielding clubs made from sticks and even chair legs poured into the area and battled Sunni students and riot police and soldiers.Hezbollah backers claimed Sunni gunmen fired from apartment balconies near the school, wounding several people. The claim could not be independently confirmed.Thick black smoke rose over the campus and the neighborhood on the southern edge of Beirut as rioters set fire to vehicles, tires and trash. Bands of youths clashed with stones andclubs in running street battles as the army tried to close off streets with tanks and armored vehicles. Troops fired tear gas and warning shots into the air.We are afraid about the future of the country. We are afraid about civil war, said Mohammed Abdul-Sater, a 21-year-old Shiite student.
Three people were killed and 169 injured, security officials said. It appeared one of the dead was Sunni and the other two Shiite, judging by the district of the hospitals their bodies were taken to. Up until the 8:30 p.m. curfew was imposed, young men were in the streets around the university. Government backers set fire to the offices of a small pro-Hezbollah party and burned its banner in the street as sporadic gunfire was heard. Hezbollah supporters smashed store windows miles away in downtown Beirut as they left a protest camp ahead of the curfew. After the curfew began, most streets were emptied. The last time Lebanon imposed a curfewwas February 1996 to stop labor unions from holding anti-government protests. In 1984, the army imposed a curfew to halt street battles between the army and Muslim militias.The alarming violence signaled what Lebanese have been fearing for months: that the drawn-out confrontation between Hezbollah and Saniora's government could move into the streets and rage out of control. Nobody should be surprised when things start to spin out of control, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman said in an interview with Alhurra, the U.S. government-funded Arabic-language satellite television network that broadcasts to the Middle East.
He said he suspected Syria which backs Hezbollah and controlled Lebanon for nearly three decades was behind the current troubles, but did not provide any evidence. There was no immediate reaction from Syrian officials. A woman who answered the phone at the Syrian U.N. mission in New York said nobody was available to speak to the media. The Hezbollah-led opposition has staged two months of demonstrations and sit-ins in a bid to topple Saniora's government. But the prime minister has held out, refusing the opposition's demands for a veto-wielding share of the Cabinet. On Tuesday, the opposition stepped up the confrontation with its general strike, which erupted into street battles around the country between its activists and government supporters. Three people were killed. Gunbattles broke out for a second day Wednesday in the northern city of Tripoli. The alarming violence has stunned supporters of both sides. But the leadership of the two camps do not appear to be backing down. Hezbollah, in a statement on its television station, accused pro-government factions of provoking the clashes even as it called on its supporters to get off the streets to avoid a strife which is being inflamed by pro-government groups. I find this a very strange debate, the U.S. ambassador said. There is a government that came to power after elections, the parliamentary majority that endorsed it is still there. And a party that voluntarily pulled itself out of the government is now saying they will use all means in order to impose their will on the country.
PERMISSIVE TREASON IN ISRAEL
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Quake strikes off Taiwan's east coast. 3-Malaysian rain warning triggers fears of more floods. 4-Bitter cold takes hold of the Northeast. 5-71 killed in Angolan floods as relief work under way. 6-St. John's and vicinity Issued at: 11.00 AM. 7-Fence Route Changed Due to Illegal Arab Construction. 8-Olmert Slams Katzav, Hopes For Sharon Revival and Warns Iran. 9-Iran air-defense missiles obtained from Russia. 10-Netanyahu urges trial for Iran leader, fearing new Holocaust. 11-Norovirus sickens hundreds aboard QE2.12-Permissive Treason in Israel.
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)
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Quake strikes off Taiwan's east coast Thu Jan 25, 6:21 AM ET
TAIPEI, Taiwan - A strong earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Taiwan on Thursday, rocking buildings in the capital of Taipei. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The Central Weather Bureau measured the quake at 6.2-magnitude. It put its epicenter 39 miles southeast of the city of Chengkung, or about 82 miles southeast of Taipei.Quakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.However, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in central Taiwan in September 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.
Last month a 6.7 offshore tremor south of the city of Kaohsiung severed two undersea cables, disrupting telephone and Internet service to millions of users throughout Asia.
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.
Malaysian rain warning triggers fears of more floods Thu Jan 25, 12:06 AM ET
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia has issued its highest red stage rain warning for the southern state of Johor, triggering fears of a third wave of flooding after weeks of chaos caused by torrential downpours. The Meteorological Services Department said in a statement late Wednesday that moderate to heavy rain was expected to persist until Sunday in Johor, which borders Singapore, and central Pahang state.Residents in the flood zone, where tens of thousands were forced to shelter in evacuation centres during the crisis which has peaked twice since late December, said they were not bothering to do repairs yet in light of the warning.I only cleaned up the house a little because we fear the floods will come again, for the third time, 61-year-old Hassan Saadon told the official Bernama news agency.
Hassan said his family cleared up the flood damage after the first wave of floods in the closing days of 2006, only to be devastated again just two days later when bad weather returned.State Drainage and Irrigation Department chief Chong Chee Han said river levels had already beached their danger mark.We never had heavy flooding twice within a month, but that too has occurred. All we can hope for is that a third wave does not happen, he told The Star newspaper.The floods, the worst in a century, have claimed 17 lives and caused damage worth 350 million ringgit (100 million dollars) to infrastructure in the south. The private sector has reportedly estimated economic losses at 2.4 billion ringgit.
Bitter cold takes hold of the Northeast Wayne Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Thu Jan 25, 5:07 AM ET
Northeast
Gusty north winds flowing across the Great Lakes in the wake of a cold front will continue to bring very cold air and snow showers across much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern States today. The most persistent snow showers and squalls will occur just downwind of the Great Lakes, affecting areas from Cleveland and Pittsburgh, to Buffalo and Syracuse. Scattered snow showers will reach as far east as Philadelphia and New York City. Several inches will accumulate in the lake effect snow bets off Lake Erie and Ontario, where locally up to a foot could accumulate. Several inches will also be possible across the higher elevations further south as well. Afternoon highs will range from the teens and 20s west of the Appalachians, to the lower 30s across the eastern Mid-Atlantic. Gusty winds will push wind chill values into the single digits and teens, with below zero readings across northern New England. Even colder air will settle in Friday into Saturday, with morning low temperatures in the single digits to below zero, and afternoon highs only recovering into the single digits and teens in some locations. Wind chills both Friday and Saturday morning may reach 20 to 30 below zero over parts of New England.
Midwest
The cold temperatures which dominate the Upper Midwest and northern Great Lakes yesterday will begin to shift eastward today. It will remain chilly across the Upper Midwest and western Great Lakes though, with afternoon highs in the teens and 20s from Chicago and Minneapolis, to Fargo. Highs in the 30s will dominate the Midwest and Plains, from Louisville to Kansas City.
Lake effect snow showers will also persist across the northern and central Great Lakes, where several inches could accumulate along the eastern snow belts. Friday, another cold front will enter the Upper Midwest. This will bring milder temperatures to much of the Midwest and central Plains, as southerly flow kicks in ahead of the front. By Saturday, much colder air will begin to spill into the Great Lakes and Midwest, along with windy conditions and an increased chance of snow showers. Bitter cold temperatures will dominate the Great Lakes and Midwest this weekend, with afternoon highs in the single digits and teens, and morning low temperatures below zero. Wind chills will be well below zero at times.
South
A persistent flow of moisture across the Gulf of Mexico, coupled with a weather disturbance, will finally exit Texas. Drying conditions are expected today across the Lone Star State. The unsettled weather will continue to impact Florida, where scattered showers will dominate the central and southern parts of the state, but these too will be ending by the later portion of the day.
Across the remainder of the South, from Memphis to Atlanta, high pressure will build south bringing an end to the cloudy dreary conditions which have dominated the area. As this high pressure builds in, windy conditions will develop on its leading edge, from Georgia into South Carolina. Dry conditions will remain across much of the South through Friday, but a cold front will begin to approach the Mississippi Valley Saturday, bringing the chance of rain showers back into that area. Much colder temperatures will settle across all of the southern states Sunday into Monday.
West
High pressure remains in control of much of the West, resulting in generally dry conditions. As a result of this high pressure, morning fog, and even some freezing fog, will continue to be an issue across parts of the Pacific Northwest, while much of the Southwest, including southern California, experience above average temperatures. A weak weather disturbance will enter the western coast by Saturday, bringing a few scattered rain showers to parts of northern California, with snow showers further inland.
Snow showers will also increase across the interior Rockies. This area of disturbed weather will linger and drift slowly south, bringing scattered rain and snow showers so parts of the southern Rockies and Southwest into the first part of the upcoming week. Generally, the Pacific Northwest will remain dry through the weekend.
71 killed in Angolan floods as relief work under way by Manuel Muanza JAN 25,07
LUANDA (AFP) - Flash floods in Angola had by claimed 71 lives as authorities in the seaside capital Luanda clambered to shelter some 1,300 homeless families and repair damaged bridges and roads.
Other parts of southern Africa have been hit by heavy downpours, including Malawi where at least 20 villages are under water and Mozambique where torrential rains have claimed five lives and turned 3,500 homeless.
According to the last count, there have been 71 deaths, fire service spokesman Faustino Sebastiao told AFP, saying 65 of these were in Luanda and six in the southern province of Benguela.We are carrying out search operations for bodies with the help of the defence forces and police, he said.Luanda's centre had been cut off after three key downtown bridges were damaged following heavy rains on Monday. Two of them have repaired.Residents of the sprawling but rundown city of 4.5 million are struggling to cope with the rising waters.Despite Angola's oil riches, Luanda has a skeletal infrastructure which still bears the scars of a brutal 27-year civil war that ravaged the former Portuguese colony.Telephone lines have been badly hit and vast tracts of low-lying and sordid slums are under water.
The Angolan government meanwhile approved a 10 million dollar (7.7 million euro) emergency relief plan to shelter, re-home and provide other forms of assistance to citizens between now and June, a communique said.
This followed warnings by the national weather office that the torrential rains were set to continue until June, traditionally the end of the monsoon in the southern African country.Luanda's governor Job Capapinha told an emergency meeting that his three main priorities were providing emergency relief, restoring road links and ensuring proper sanitation to stem the tide of cholera, which has claimed more than 2,000 lives across the country since February last year.The cholera epidemic broke out in February last year in a sprawling Luanda slum and has been blamed on poor sanitation, an acute lack of drinking water and inadequate infrastructure.We will put people in tents or in roofed shelters. We are seeing to it that the roads are quickly cleared of water before enforcing measures to prevent cholera, governor Capapinha told a news conference late Wednesday.Antonio Miguel Germano, a police official from Cacuaco, Luanda's worst-hit quarter, added: There are still people who are missing. We are carrying out searches.In March 2005, flooding in northern Angola a former Portuguese colony which is still recovering from a 27-year civil war left over 10,000 people without shelter.
Environment Canada Weather Forecast St. John's and vicinity Issued at: 11.00 AM NST Thursday 25 January 2007
Wind warning in effect. Today..Cloudy with 70 percent chance of flurries or freezing drizzle. Wind west 30 km/h increasing to 50 gusting to 80 this afternoon. Temperature steady near minus 1. Tonight..Cloudy periods. 60 percent chance of flurries this evening. Wind southwest 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming south 20 overnight. Low minus 3. Friday..Increasing cloudiness. Snow and blowing snow beginning in the afternoon. Amount 5 to 10 cm. Wind southeast 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming east 60 gusting to 100 late in the day. High zero. Saturday..Periods of snow. Windy. Low minus 5. High minus 3. Sunday..Flurries. Windy. Low minus 1. High zero. Monday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 3. High minus 1. Normals for the period..Low minus 8. High zero.
Fence Route Changed Due to Illegal Arab Construction
07:45 Jan 25, '07 / 6 Shevat 5767
(IsraelNN.com) The route of the security fence in Judea and Samaria has been changed drastically in at least two locations due to illegal Arab construction. The original route, which was determined in 2003, was changed after local Arabs built houses illegally along the proposed route. The changes caused the fence to be much longer in both areas, making it far more expensive than originally planned.One of the changes was near the Yakir junction west of Ariel; another is just north of the Gush Etzion town of Efrat. The new route of the fence will completely block the northern entrance to Efrat. The new route near Ariel will require the construction of an alternate road for Ariel residents. The new road is expected to be expensive, and will considerably lengthen the residents travel time.
Olmert Slams Katzav, Hopes For Sharon Revival and Warns Iran
By Ezra HaLevi(INN) JAN 25,07
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called upon President Moshe Katzav to resign and addressed the Iranian threat in his address before the Herziliya Conference Wednesday evening. The prime minister spoke following a panel on government corruption that referred to many specifics of the criminal allegations against him and his government. Immediately preceding his speech, however, was the televised address of President Moshe Katzav, which provided him the opportunity to play the prosecutor rather than the prosecuted.
I cannot speak tonight without referring to the events of the past day, and the Attorney General’s decision to hold a hearing for the President in light of the possibility that serious charges may be filed against him. In these circumstances, I have no doubt that the President cannot continue to fulfill his role and he should leave the President’s Residence. This is a sad day for the State of Israel, Olmert said.He went on to express his hope that Ariel Sharon would return to us.Olmert focused on Iran for the remainder of his speech, offering a run-down of diplomatic moves his government has been taking against Iran’s nuclear program. He cited his recent visit to China and took credit for the United Nations resolutions aimed against Iran.We know our efforts had much influence in this regard, he said.Those who believe, as we do, that a diplomatic solution is preferable, must exert pressure to bring about change in the near future, he said. Dragging our feet at this point…will only make harsher steps more necessary in the future. Iran is vulnerable and susceptible to international pressure in this regard despite its defiant and belligerent public declarations.Olmert urged the international community to act so Israel does not have to. At this stage, there is still time though not unlimited to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power that will threaten its adversaries, first and foremost Israel, he said. Israel is not spearheading the struggle against this threat. It must be dealt with first and foremost by the superpowers and other key countries. We are working to try to place this on the top of the agenda of world leaders.The prime minister stressed, though, that Israel would not rely on the world to protect it. The Jewish people, upon whose consciousness the scars of the Holocaust are deeply engraved cannot afford to ignore those who want to destroy us. In the past, the world remained silent and the results are known. Our role is to prevent the world from repeating this mistake, Olmert said. When the leader of a country announces, officially and publicly, his country’s intention to wipe off the map another country, and creates those tools which will allow them to realize their stated threat, no nation has the right to weigh its position on the matter. This is an obligation of the highest order, to act with all force against this plot.
In a direct message to the people of Iran, who would presumably be negatively impacted by an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, Olmert recalled past Israeli-Iranian cooperation. We have nothing against the Iranian people, he said. Prior to the takeover of Iran we had impressive and warm relations under the Shah.Olmert concluded with an explicit assurance that Israel will reserve the military option should diplomacy leave Iran with nuclear weapons.
We have the right and freedom of defensive actions in defense of our interests, he said. Nobody should misconstrue our hesitation for reluctance to defend the State of Israel…There is no difference between right, left and center in this regard and the people stand united as well.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
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)
Iran air-defense missiles obtained from Russia
By Nasser Karimi - The Associated Press JAN 25,07
TEHRAN, Iran Iranian officials said Wednesday they have taken delivery of advanced Russian air-defense missile systems weapons intended, according to one Russian news agency, to defend Iran's major nuclear facilities.Announcement of the delivery of the Tor-M1 mobile missile launchers came as Iran launched three days of military maneuvers, its first since the U.N. Security Council approved sanctions against Iran on Dec. 23.We have had constructive defense transactions with Russia, and we purchased Tor-M1 missiles that were recently delivered to us, the official Web site of Iranian state television quoted Minister of Defense Mostafa Mohammad Najjar as saying.Najjar did not say how many missiles were delivered or when they arrived. Russia previously said it would supply 29 of the mobile surface-to-air missile systems to Iran under a $700 million contract signed in December 2005, Russian media has reported.In New York, Richard Grenell, spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, called the development troublesome given that Iran is the leading state sponsor of terror in the world.
It certainly isn't an appropriate signal to be sending a government which is under U.N. sanctions for trying to develop a nuclear weapon, Grenell said.According to Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency, the weapons were expected to be used to protect major government and military installations such as the nuclear facilities at Isfahan, Bushehr, Tehran and in eastern Iran.ITAR-Tass on Tuesday quoted Sergei Chemezov, the head of the country's state-run weapons exporter, as saying that the Tor-M1 missiles had been delivered before the end of December 2006.It is not clear whether the sale was completed before the Security Council vote.
Russian officials have repeatedly said the sale would not violate any international obligations.Russia U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, current president of the Security Council, did not explicitly confirm the handover. But he said whatever deliveries may have been carried out, they had nothing to do with the U.N. sanctions on Iran over its uranium enrichment.Iran denies U.S. accusations that it is using its nuclear-power program as a cover to develop nuclear weapons. On Monday, Iran conducted missile tests and said it had barred 38 U.N. nuclear inspectors from entering the country.The Seattle Times Company
Netanyahu urges trial for Iran leader, fearing new Holocaust Thu Jan 25, 5:18 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Former Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has called for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be put on trial to prevent what he warned could be a new Holocaust by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Comparing events in Iran to those of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Netanyahu told BBC radio Thursday he was here as part of efforts to raise international support for such a trial.Both Britain's ruling Labour Party and opposition Conservative MPs are trying to drum up support here in Britain, a country that finally stood up against another hateful apocalyptic, hateful fanatic sect and ended up stopping it, he said.He added he was also trying to drum up support within the United States for a trial.Right now people have to understand that the combination of unbridled fanaticism of the militant Islamic government of Iran and its attempts to arm itself with nuclear weapons as it prepares another Holocaust, as it denies the previous Holocaust, is something unconscionable, he said.Men and women of conscience have to stop it, Netanyahu said.
One of the ways of stopping it is to bring Ahmadinejad to trial because he has expressly violated a 1948 convention against genocide which outlaws not only the action of genocide but the incitement to genocide, he said.When asked why Iran should comply with UN resolutions when Israel has flouted those concerning the Palestinians, Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations replied that the UN General Assembly resolutions are that the world is flat.These are not binding international conventions, he said.
Netanyahu left the door open for Israel to take unilateral action against Iran, but only after diplomacy and eventual economic sanctions are given a chance.I think those have to be tried before stiffer action is required, he said.Asked how long he would give for diplomacy and economic sanctions to work, he replied: The real timetable that you have to ask is when does Iran develop nuclear bombs.He cited estimates by Israel's domestic intelligence agency Mossad that Iran could develop nuclear weapons in three years.Diplomats in New York said Tuesday that the United States is circulating at the UN General Assembly a proposed resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust as increasing the risk that such a terrible historic event could be repeated.According to several diplomats, the draft resolution, which does not name any country, was inspired by the behavior of Iran, where Ahmadinejad has publicly denied repeatedly that the Holocaust occurred.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Norovirus sickens hundreds aboard QE2
POSTED: 1206 GMT (2006 HKT), January 25, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) A highly contagious form of stomach flu sickened hundreds of passengers during a worldwide voyage on the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship in what health officials called an unusually large outbreak.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 276 passengers and 28 crew members had come down with norovirus by the time the ship docked Wednesday in San Francisco, California, for a regularly scheduled stop, though only four passengers remained sick.The CDC boarded the QE2 on Friday in Acapulco, Mexico, to investigate the outbreak.Investigators determined the emergency sanitation measures put in place by the ship's crew, from disinfecting casino chips to halting self-service at the ship's buffet, were containing the outbreak.This one was a good example where they had a lot of cases but they did gain control over the spread of infection, Ames said.
The infections affected nearly 17 percent of the ship's 1,652 passengers, a particularly high percentage, said Jaret Ames, acting chief of the CDC's vessel sanitation program. By comparison, a norovirus outbreak last month aboard the world's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas, infected 338 passengers out of 3,823, or less than 9 percent.
In rare cases, the elderly and young children can die from dehydration caused by norovirus symptoms. The infection, which ranks second only to the common cold in reported cases, usually clears up in two or three days with no lasting effects.No passengers have canceled their tickets as a result of the outbreak, said Brian O'Connor, a spokesman for Cunard Line, the company that operates the QE2.The ship departed January 8 from New York on the first leg of its 106-day cruise around the world. It was to leave San Francisco for Honolulu, Hawaii, on Wednesday night.
Permissive Treason in Israel
Prof . Paul Eidelberg JAN 25,07
Article III, Section 3 of the American Constitution includes, in its definition of treason against the United States , adhering to their Enemies and giving them Aid and Comfort .
Israel ’s Penal Law on treason is more complex: it defines treason in terms of four kinds of acts:
1 . the category of acts which impair the sovereignty of the State of Israel —section 97(a);
2 . the category of acts which impair the integrity of the State of Israel —section 97(b);
3 . the category of acts under section 99 which give assistance to an enemy in war against Israel , which the Law specifically states includes a terrorist organization;
4 . the category of acts in section 100 which evince an intention or resolve to commit one of the acts prohibited by sections 97 and 99 .
The punishment prescribed in the Penal Law for the first three categories of acts of treason is death or imprisonment for life The harshness of the punishment emphasizes the seriousness with which the State of Israel originally viewed the crime of treason. This is no longer the case .Treason has become permissible in Israel .No less than six Israeli prime ministers, dozens of past and present cabinet ministers, and scores of past and present Knesset members are prima facie guilty of having violated at least section 99 of the law governing treason—by yielding, or by agreeing to yield, Jewish land to Israel’s implacable foe, the PLO-Palestinian
Authority .(I leave aside how often various Israeli governments have armed this enemy of the Jewish State since 1993 . ) Moreover, since various past and present members of the Supreme Court have adopted the mendacious ruling of the International Court of Justice that Judea, Samaria, and Gaza constitute belligerent occupied territory—territory over which no state other than Israel could claim sovereignty under international law—one can only conclude that Israel’s High Court of Justice has made treason legitimate and even respectable in the Jewish State .
To clinch my thesis, let us review the Geneva Accord or Geneva Initiative which was launched on December 1, 2003 at a ceremony in Geneva . Among its signatories were Israeli politician Yossi Beilin, one of the architects of the Oslo Accords, and former PLO-Palestinian Authority minister Yasser Abed Rabbo .This non-governmental agreement, reportedly distributed to two million Israelis, yields to Israel ’s enemy not only Gaza but almost all of Judea and Samaria .The agreement stipulates that the Temple Mount and most of the Old City of Jerusalem will come under Arab control . The Western Wall will remain Israeli, as will the Zion and Dung Gates—but the other city gates will be under Arab control . Jews will be permitted, according to the agreement, to walk freely from Jaffa Gate to the Jewish Quarter .Even the cities of Ariel and Efrat will be dismantled and evacuated, according to the agreement, as would most of the other Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria .As many as 200,000 Jews would thus be expelled from their homes .In return for this Israeli withdrawal, the Palestinians would limit their right to return! Whatever the term limit may mean, the Geneva Accord would return Israel close to the borders that existed before the 1967 war—which Abba Eban dubbed Israel’s Auschwitz lines .Although the Geneva Accord sanctions treason, it did not prevent Mr . Beilin from returning to the
Knesset—a return facilitated by Israel pernicious system of proportional representation and fixed party lists . But what is more, Israel ’s territorial withdrawal, as stipulated by the Beilin-Abed Rabbo agreement, appears to be the basis of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s realignment plan! Mr . Olmert need not worry about being indicted for treason .
Treason having become legitimate and respectable in Israel , he’s free to dispense with Jewish land as he might his own apartment . Aiding and abetting Israel’s enemy is not to be taken seriously in the Jewish State—certainly not so long as most Jews, too ignorant to realize that this State is their most dangerous enemy, lack the wherewithal to liberate themselves from bondage .
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 = Fri Jan 26 12:00 AM EDT
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Quake strikes off Taiwan's east coast Thu Jan 25, 6:21 AM ET
TAIPEI, Taiwan - A strong earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Taiwan on Thursday, rocking buildings in the capital of Taipei. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The Central Weather Bureau measured the quake at 6.2-magnitude. It put its epicenter 39 miles southeast of the city of Chengkung, or about 82 miles southeast of Taipei.Quakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.However, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in central Taiwan in September 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.
Last month a 6.7 offshore tremor south of the city of Kaohsiung severed two undersea cables, disrupting telephone and Internet service to millions of users throughout Asia.
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.
Malaysian rain warning triggers fears of more floods Thu Jan 25, 12:06 AM ET
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia has issued its highest red stage rain warning for the southern state of Johor, triggering fears of a third wave of flooding after weeks of chaos caused by torrential downpours. The Meteorological Services Department said in a statement late Wednesday that moderate to heavy rain was expected to persist until Sunday in Johor, which borders Singapore, and central Pahang state.Residents in the flood zone, where tens of thousands were forced to shelter in evacuation centres during the crisis which has peaked twice since late December, said they were not bothering to do repairs yet in light of the warning.I only cleaned up the house a little because we fear the floods will come again, for the third time, 61-year-old Hassan Saadon told the official Bernama news agency.
Hassan said his family cleared up the flood damage after the first wave of floods in the closing days of 2006, only to be devastated again just two days later when bad weather returned.State Drainage and Irrigation Department chief Chong Chee Han said river levels had already beached their danger mark.We never had heavy flooding twice within a month, but that too has occurred. All we can hope for is that a third wave does not happen, he told The Star newspaper.The floods, the worst in a century, have claimed 17 lives and caused damage worth 350 million ringgit (100 million dollars) to infrastructure in the south. The private sector has reportedly estimated economic losses at 2.4 billion ringgit.
Bitter cold takes hold of the Northeast Wayne Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Thu Jan 25, 5:07 AM ET
Northeast
Gusty north winds flowing across the Great Lakes in the wake of a cold front will continue to bring very cold air and snow showers across much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern States today. The most persistent snow showers and squalls will occur just downwind of the Great Lakes, affecting areas from Cleveland and Pittsburgh, to Buffalo and Syracuse. Scattered snow showers will reach as far east as Philadelphia and New York City. Several inches will accumulate in the lake effect snow bets off Lake Erie and Ontario, where locally up to a foot could accumulate. Several inches will also be possible across the higher elevations further south as well. Afternoon highs will range from the teens and 20s west of the Appalachians, to the lower 30s across the eastern Mid-Atlantic. Gusty winds will push wind chill values into the single digits and teens, with below zero readings across northern New England. Even colder air will settle in Friday into Saturday, with morning low temperatures in the single digits to below zero, and afternoon highs only recovering into the single digits and teens in some locations. Wind chills both Friday and Saturday morning may reach 20 to 30 below zero over parts of New England.
Midwest
The cold temperatures which dominate the Upper Midwest and northern Great Lakes yesterday will begin to shift eastward today. It will remain chilly across the Upper Midwest and western Great Lakes though, with afternoon highs in the teens and 20s from Chicago and Minneapolis, to Fargo. Highs in the 30s will dominate the Midwest and Plains, from Louisville to Kansas City.
Lake effect snow showers will also persist across the northern and central Great Lakes, where several inches could accumulate along the eastern snow belts. Friday, another cold front will enter the Upper Midwest. This will bring milder temperatures to much of the Midwest and central Plains, as southerly flow kicks in ahead of the front. By Saturday, much colder air will begin to spill into the Great Lakes and Midwest, along with windy conditions and an increased chance of snow showers. Bitter cold temperatures will dominate the Great Lakes and Midwest this weekend, with afternoon highs in the single digits and teens, and morning low temperatures below zero. Wind chills will be well below zero at times.
South
A persistent flow of moisture across the Gulf of Mexico, coupled with a weather disturbance, will finally exit Texas. Drying conditions are expected today across the Lone Star State. The unsettled weather will continue to impact Florida, where scattered showers will dominate the central and southern parts of the state, but these too will be ending by the later portion of the day.
Across the remainder of the South, from Memphis to Atlanta, high pressure will build south bringing an end to the cloudy dreary conditions which have dominated the area. As this high pressure builds in, windy conditions will develop on its leading edge, from Georgia into South Carolina. Dry conditions will remain across much of the South through Friday, but a cold front will begin to approach the Mississippi Valley Saturday, bringing the chance of rain showers back into that area. Much colder temperatures will settle across all of the southern states Sunday into Monday.
West
High pressure remains in control of much of the West, resulting in generally dry conditions. As a result of this high pressure, morning fog, and even some freezing fog, will continue to be an issue across parts of the Pacific Northwest, while much of the Southwest, including southern California, experience above average temperatures. A weak weather disturbance will enter the western coast by Saturday, bringing a few scattered rain showers to parts of northern California, with snow showers further inland.
Snow showers will also increase across the interior Rockies. This area of disturbed weather will linger and drift slowly south, bringing scattered rain and snow showers so parts of the southern Rockies and Southwest into the first part of the upcoming week. Generally, the Pacific Northwest will remain dry through the weekend.
71 killed in Angolan floods as relief work under way by Manuel Muanza JAN 25,07
LUANDA (AFP) - Flash floods in Angola had by claimed 71 lives as authorities in the seaside capital Luanda clambered to shelter some 1,300 homeless families and repair damaged bridges and roads.
Other parts of southern Africa have been hit by heavy downpours, including Malawi where at least 20 villages are under water and Mozambique where torrential rains have claimed five lives and turned 3,500 homeless.
According to the last count, there have been 71 deaths, fire service spokesman Faustino Sebastiao told AFP, saying 65 of these were in Luanda and six in the southern province of Benguela.We are carrying out search operations for bodies with the help of the defence forces and police, he said.Luanda's centre had been cut off after three key downtown bridges were damaged following heavy rains on Monday. Two of them have repaired.Residents of the sprawling but rundown city of 4.5 million are struggling to cope with the rising waters.Despite Angola's oil riches, Luanda has a skeletal infrastructure which still bears the scars of a brutal 27-year civil war that ravaged the former Portuguese colony.Telephone lines have been badly hit and vast tracts of low-lying and sordid slums are under water.
The Angolan government meanwhile approved a 10 million dollar (7.7 million euro) emergency relief plan to shelter, re-home and provide other forms of assistance to citizens between now and June, a communique said.
This followed warnings by the national weather office that the torrential rains were set to continue until June, traditionally the end of the monsoon in the southern African country.Luanda's governor Job Capapinha told an emergency meeting that his three main priorities were providing emergency relief, restoring road links and ensuring proper sanitation to stem the tide of cholera, which has claimed more than 2,000 lives across the country since February last year.The cholera epidemic broke out in February last year in a sprawling Luanda slum and has been blamed on poor sanitation, an acute lack of drinking water and inadequate infrastructure.We will put people in tents or in roofed shelters. We are seeing to it that the roads are quickly cleared of water before enforcing measures to prevent cholera, governor Capapinha told a news conference late Wednesday.Antonio Miguel Germano, a police official from Cacuaco, Luanda's worst-hit quarter, added: There are still people who are missing. We are carrying out searches.In March 2005, flooding in northern Angola a former Portuguese colony which is still recovering from a 27-year civil war left over 10,000 people without shelter.
Environment Canada Weather Forecast St. John's and vicinity Issued at: 11.00 AM NST Thursday 25 January 2007
Wind warning in effect. Today..Cloudy with 70 percent chance of flurries or freezing drizzle. Wind west 30 km/h increasing to 50 gusting to 80 this afternoon. Temperature steady near minus 1. Tonight..Cloudy periods. 60 percent chance of flurries this evening. Wind southwest 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming south 20 overnight. Low minus 3. Friday..Increasing cloudiness. Snow and blowing snow beginning in the afternoon. Amount 5 to 10 cm. Wind southeast 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming east 60 gusting to 100 late in the day. High zero. Saturday..Periods of snow. Windy. Low minus 5. High minus 3. Sunday..Flurries. Windy. Low minus 1. High zero. Monday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 3. High minus 1. Normals for the period..Low minus 8. High zero.
Fence Route Changed Due to Illegal Arab Construction
07:45 Jan 25, '07 / 6 Shevat 5767
(IsraelNN.com) The route of the security fence in Judea and Samaria has been changed drastically in at least two locations due to illegal Arab construction. The original route, which was determined in 2003, was changed after local Arabs built houses illegally along the proposed route. The changes caused the fence to be much longer in both areas, making it far more expensive than originally planned.One of the changes was near the Yakir junction west of Ariel; another is just north of the Gush Etzion town of Efrat. The new route of the fence will completely block the northern entrance to Efrat. The new route near Ariel will require the construction of an alternate road for Ariel residents. The new road is expected to be expensive, and will considerably lengthen the residents travel time.
Olmert Slams Katzav, Hopes For Sharon Revival and Warns Iran
By Ezra HaLevi(INN) JAN 25,07
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called upon President Moshe Katzav to resign and addressed the Iranian threat in his address before the Herziliya Conference Wednesday evening. The prime minister spoke following a panel on government corruption that referred to many specifics of the criminal allegations against him and his government. Immediately preceding his speech, however, was the televised address of President Moshe Katzav, which provided him the opportunity to play the prosecutor rather than the prosecuted.
I cannot speak tonight without referring to the events of the past day, and the Attorney General’s decision to hold a hearing for the President in light of the possibility that serious charges may be filed against him. In these circumstances, I have no doubt that the President cannot continue to fulfill his role and he should leave the President’s Residence. This is a sad day for the State of Israel, Olmert said.He went on to express his hope that Ariel Sharon would return to us.Olmert focused on Iran for the remainder of his speech, offering a run-down of diplomatic moves his government has been taking against Iran’s nuclear program. He cited his recent visit to China and took credit for the United Nations resolutions aimed against Iran.We know our efforts had much influence in this regard, he said.Those who believe, as we do, that a diplomatic solution is preferable, must exert pressure to bring about change in the near future, he said. Dragging our feet at this point…will only make harsher steps more necessary in the future. Iran is vulnerable and susceptible to international pressure in this regard despite its defiant and belligerent public declarations.Olmert urged the international community to act so Israel does not have to. At this stage, there is still time though not unlimited to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power that will threaten its adversaries, first and foremost Israel, he said. Israel is not spearheading the struggle against this threat. It must be dealt with first and foremost by the superpowers and other key countries. We are working to try to place this on the top of the agenda of world leaders.The prime minister stressed, though, that Israel would not rely on the world to protect it. The Jewish people, upon whose consciousness the scars of the Holocaust are deeply engraved cannot afford to ignore those who want to destroy us. In the past, the world remained silent and the results are known. Our role is to prevent the world from repeating this mistake, Olmert said. When the leader of a country announces, officially and publicly, his country’s intention to wipe off the map another country, and creates those tools which will allow them to realize their stated threat, no nation has the right to weigh its position on the matter. This is an obligation of the highest order, to act with all force against this plot.
In a direct message to the people of Iran, who would presumably be negatively impacted by an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, Olmert recalled past Israeli-Iranian cooperation. We have nothing against the Iranian people, he said. Prior to the takeover of Iran we had impressive and warm relations under the Shah.Olmert concluded with an explicit assurance that Israel will reserve the military option should diplomacy leave Iran with nuclear weapons.
We have the right and freedom of defensive actions in defense of our interests, he said. Nobody should misconstrue our hesitation for reluctance to defend the State of Israel…There is no difference between right, left and center in this regard and the people stand united as well.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
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)
Iran air-defense missiles obtained from Russia
By Nasser Karimi - The Associated Press JAN 25,07
TEHRAN, Iran Iranian officials said Wednesday they have taken delivery of advanced Russian air-defense missile systems weapons intended, according to one Russian news agency, to defend Iran's major nuclear facilities.Announcement of the delivery of the Tor-M1 mobile missile launchers came as Iran launched three days of military maneuvers, its first since the U.N. Security Council approved sanctions against Iran on Dec. 23.We have had constructive defense transactions with Russia, and we purchased Tor-M1 missiles that were recently delivered to us, the official Web site of Iranian state television quoted Minister of Defense Mostafa Mohammad Najjar as saying.Najjar did not say how many missiles were delivered or when they arrived. Russia previously said it would supply 29 of the mobile surface-to-air missile systems to Iran under a $700 million contract signed in December 2005, Russian media has reported.In New York, Richard Grenell, spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, called the development troublesome given that Iran is the leading state sponsor of terror in the world.
It certainly isn't an appropriate signal to be sending a government which is under U.N. sanctions for trying to develop a nuclear weapon, Grenell said.According to Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency, the weapons were expected to be used to protect major government and military installations such as the nuclear facilities at Isfahan, Bushehr, Tehran and in eastern Iran.ITAR-Tass on Tuesday quoted Sergei Chemezov, the head of the country's state-run weapons exporter, as saying that the Tor-M1 missiles had been delivered before the end of December 2006.It is not clear whether the sale was completed before the Security Council vote.
Russian officials have repeatedly said the sale would not violate any international obligations.Russia U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, current president of the Security Council, did not explicitly confirm the handover. But he said whatever deliveries may have been carried out, they had nothing to do with the U.N. sanctions on Iran over its uranium enrichment.Iran denies U.S. accusations that it is using its nuclear-power program as a cover to develop nuclear weapons. On Monday, Iran conducted missile tests and said it had barred 38 U.N. nuclear inspectors from entering the country.The Seattle Times Company
Netanyahu urges trial for Iran leader, fearing new Holocaust Thu Jan 25, 5:18 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Former Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has called for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be put on trial to prevent what he warned could be a new Holocaust by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Comparing events in Iran to those of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Netanyahu told BBC radio Thursday he was here as part of efforts to raise international support for such a trial.Both Britain's ruling Labour Party and opposition Conservative MPs are trying to drum up support here in Britain, a country that finally stood up against another hateful apocalyptic, hateful fanatic sect and ended up stopping it, he said.He added he was also trying to drum up support within the United States for a trial.Right now people have to understand that the combination of unbridled fanaticism of the militant Islamic government of Iran and its attempts to arm itself with nuclear weapons as it prepares another Holocaust, as it denies the previous Holocaust, is something unconscionable, he said.Men and women of conscience have to stop it, Netanyahu said.
One of the ways of stopping it is to bring Ahmadinejad to trial because he has expressly violated a 1948 convention against genocide which outlaws not only the action of genocide but the incitement to genocide, he said.When asked why Iran should comply with UN resolutions when Israel has flouted those concerning the Palestinians, Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations replied that the UN General Assembly resolutions are that the world is flat.These are not binding international conventions, he said.
Netanyahu left the door open for Israel to take unilateral action against Iran, but only after diplomacy and eventual economic sanctions are given a chance.I think those have to be tried before stiffer action is required, he said.Asked how long he would give for diplomacy and economic sanctions to work, he replied: The real timetable that you have to ask is when does Iran develop nuclear bombs.He cited estimates by Israel's domestic intelligence agency Mossad that Iran could develop nuclear weapons in three years.Diplomats in New York said Tuesday that the United States is circulating at the UN General Assembly a proposed resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust as increasing the risk that such a terrible historic event could be repeated.According to several diplomats, the draft resolution, which does not name any country, was inspired by the behavior of Iran, where Ahmadinejad has publicly denied repeatedly that the Holocaust occurred.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Norovirus sickens hundreds aboard QE2
POSTED: 1206 GMT (2006 HKT), January 25, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) A highly contagious form of stomach flu sickened hundreds of passengers during a worldwide voyage on the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship in what health officials called an unusually large outbreak.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 276 passengers and 28 crew members had come down with norovirus by the time the ship docked Wednesday in San Francisco, California, for a regularly scheduled stop, though only four passengers remained sick.The CDC boarded the QE2 on Friday in Acapulco, Mexico, to investigate the outbreak.Investigators determined the emergency sanitation measures put in place by the ship's crew, from disinfecting casino chips to halting self-service at the ship's buffet, were containing the outbreak.This one was a good example where they had a lot of cases but they did gain control over the spread of infection, Ames said.
The infections affected nearly 17 percent of the ship's 1,652 passengers, a particularly high percentage, said Jaret Ames, acting chief of the CDC's vessel sanitation program. By comparison, a norovirus outbreak last month aboard the world's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas, infected 338 passengers out of 3,823, or less than 9 percent.
In rare cases, the elderly and young children can die from dehydration caused by norovirus symptoms. The infection, which ranks second only to the common cold in reported cases, usually clears up in two or three days with no lasting effects.No passengers have canceled their tickets as a result of the outbreak, said Brian O'Connor, a spokesman for Cunard Line, the company that operates the QE2.The ship departed January 8 from New York on the first leg of its 106-day cruise around the world. It was to leave San Francisco for Honolulu, Hawaii, on Wednesday night.
Permissive Treason in Israel
Prof . Paul Eidelberg JAN 25,07
Article III, Section 3 of the American Constitution includes, in its definition of treason against the United States , adhering to their Enemies and giving them Aid and Comfort .
Israel ’s Penal Law on treason is more complex: it defines treason in terms of four kinds of acts:
1 . the category of acts which impair the sovereignty of the State of Israel —section 97(a);
2 . the category of acts which impair the integrity of the State of Israel —section 97(b);
3 . the category of acts under section 99 which give assistance to an enemy in war against Israel , which the Law specifically states includes a terrorist organization;
4 . the category of acts in section 100 which evince an intention or resolve to commit one of the acts prohibited by sections 97 and 99 .
The punishment prescribed in the Penal Law for the first three categories of acts of treason is death or imprisonment for life The harshness of the punishment emphasizes the seriousness with which the State of Israel originally viewed the crime of treason. This is no longer the case .Treason has become permissible in Israel .No less than six Israeli prime ministers, dozens of past and present cabinet ministers, and scores of past and present Knesset members are prima facie guilty of having violated at least section 99 of the law governing treason—by yielding, or by agreeing to yield, Jewish land to Israel’s implacable foe, the PLO-Palestinian
Authority .(I leave aside how often various Israeli governments have armed this enemy of the Jewish State since 1993 . ) Moreover, since various past and present members of the Supreme Court have adopted the mendacious ruling of the International Court of Justice that Judea, Samaria, and Gaza constitute belligerent occupied territory—territory over which no state other than Israel could claim sovereignty under international law—one can only conclude that Israel’s High Court of Justice has made treason legitimate and even respectable in the Jewish State .
To clinch my thesis, let us review the Geneva Accord or Geneva Initiative which was launched on December 1, 2003 at a ceremony in Geneva . Among its signatories were Israeli politician Yossi Beilin, one of the architects of the Oslo Accords, and former PLO-Palestinian Authority minister Yasser Abed Rabbo .This non-governmental agreement, reportedly distributed to two million Israelis, yields to Israel ’s enemy not only Gaza but almost all of Judea and Samaria .The agreement stipulates that the Temple Mount and most of the Old City of Jerusalem will come under Arab control . The Western Wall will remain Israeli, as will the Zion and Dung Gates—but the other city gates will be under Arab control . Jews will be permitted, according to the agreement, to walk freely from Jaffa Gate to the Jewish Quarter .Even the cities of Ariel and Efrat will be dismantled and evacuated, according to the agreement, as would most of the other Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria .As many as 200,000 Jews would thus be expelled from their homes .In return for this Israeli withdrawal, the Palestinians would limit their right to return! Whatever the term limit may mean, the Geneva Accord would return Israel close to the borders that existed before the 1967 war—which Abba Eban dubbed Israel’s Auschwitz lines .Although the Geneva Accord sanctions treason, it did not prevent Mr . Beilin from returning to the
Knesset—a return facilitated by Israel pernicious system of proportional representation and fixed party lists . But what is more, Israel ’s territorial withdrawal, as stipulated by the Beilin-Abed Rabbo agreement, appears to be the basis of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s realignment plan! Mr . Olmert need not worry about being indicted for treason .
Treason having become legitimate and respectable in Israel , he’s free to dispense with Jewish land as he might his own apartment . Aiding and abetting Israel’s enemy is not to be taken seriously in the Jewish State—certainly not so long as most Jews, too ignorant to realize that this State is their most dangerous enemy, lack the wherewithal to liberate themselves from bondage .
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