1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-The Nation's Weather. 3-Israeli premier defies calls to resign. 4-Ancient sect marks Passover sacrifice. 5-Venezuela pulling out of IMF, World Bank. 6-Colombia nets record cocaine seizure. 7-Canada March factory prices jump 1.3 pct. 8-Israel: Obstacle or Key to Jewish Identity? 9-JERUSALEM PRAYER TEAM NEEDS DONATIONS. 10-Olmert Tells Peretz to Expel Migron Within 2 Months. 11-Beleaguered Olmert Seeks Refuge, Plans to Uproot Yesha Outposts. 12-First Post-Winograd Resignation: Minister Eitan Cabel of Labor. 13-Gaydamak Announces Candidacy for Mayor of Jerusalem. 14-Lawmakers Want US to Honor 12-Year-Old Jerusalem Embassy Law.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Tue May 1 1:41 PM EDT
MAY 1,07
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.3 PUERTO RICO
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MAP 3.0 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
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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.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Tue May 1, 6:14 AM ET
Rain was expected across much of the nation on Tuesday, and forecasters said tornadoes and hail with damaging winds were possible in the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic. A low-pressure system in the upper Mississippi Valley was expected to move eastward through the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, southern New England and northern Mid-Atlantic, bringing widespread rain.Scattered showers and thunderstorms were forecast for the Southern Plains and the lower Mississippi Valley, where large hail and tornadoes were possible. Storms were also likely over the Four Corners and the High Plains.
A storm system approaching the West Coast was expected to spread rain across the Pacific Northwest. Snow showers could develop in higher elevations.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Monday ranged from a low of 25 degrees at Embarrass, Minn., to a high of 107 degrees at Death Valley, Calif.
WE ALL HAVE TO PRAY FOR OLMERT AND THE ISRAELI LEADERS NOW, THEY ARE GOING THROUGH TRIBULATION. ON TV I HEARD HIS PERCENTAGE IS 0% RIGHT NOW TO BE ELECTED. ALSO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM AND THAT ALL ISRAELIS COME TO THE TRUTH OF THE TRUE MESSIAH JESUS.
Israeli premier defies calls to resign By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer MAY 1,07
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced an onslaught of calls for his resignation and the first cracks in his coalition Tuesday following a government commission's harsh criticism of his handling of Israel's war last summer in Lebanon. Olmert defiantly declared he would not quit after the panel's report was released Monday, despite the inquiry's conclusion he showed flawed judgment in ordering and directing the attack on Hezbollah guerrillas.
His job appears secure at least for the moment. Despite the public uproar, he remains at the head of a broad coalition government whose members appear reluctant to risk their own jobs by holding new elections.Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, said Tuesday that the prime minister was confident he could recover his eroded authority.
He has complete awareness of the lack of public confidence, but he feels that rather than go into a period of turmoil, he must be the one to fix the problems, Eisin said. He thinks that through his actions, (public) support will come.But newspaper editorials and commentators demanded that he step down, saying he had lost the confidence of the Israeli people.
The report contains not even one lenient word to which the prime minister could cling in order to prolong his term, the Haaretz newspaper said in an editorial. On the Way Out, said the lead headline in the Maariv daily.Opinion polls predict the opposition Likud Party led by hawkish former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would sweep to victory if a vote were held.Olmert confidants have said only mass protests could force him to quit. He also might face an uprising within his Kadima Party that might force him out of office.Should he resign, he could either dissolve parliament and call early elections, or keep parliament intact and let the country's ceremonial president tap another candidate to put together a new coalition.
Olmert's popular foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, is considered a top possibility.
The only way to get Olmert out of office now is for his Kadima Party to show him the door or for the public to mount such public protests that Kadima will be forced to show him the door, said Reuven Hazan, a political science professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.Olmert called an emergency Cabinet meeting for Wednesday to discuss the war probe. The Knesset, or parliament, also scheduled a special session for Thursday.In recent weeks, Olmert has been working hard to shore up support within his government.In a first crack in that backing, Cabinet minister Eitan Cabel of the Labor Party resigned from the Cabinet on Tuesday and called on the prime minister to follow suit.He must bear responsibility, Cabel said at a news conference. I can no longer sit in a government led by Ehud Olmert.Later Tuesday, Kadima lawmaker Marina Solodkin also urged Olmert to resign — the first member of his party to publicly do so. Solodkin is not a major force in the party, however, and it was not clear whether others would follow. Kadima and Labor are the coalition's two biggest factions.
Olmert aides said the prime minister stayed up all night reading the results of the investigation. At an official event Tuesday, Olmert looked haggard, appearing to nod off several times while waiting to address the audience. On the dais, he was jocular and composed, but pointedly made no reference to the war probe.Olmert was only months in the job when the war broke out after Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon killed three soldiers and captured two others in a July 12 cross-border raid. Olmert laid out two main objectives: to retrieve the soldiers and crush Hezbollah. Neither goal was reached during 34 days of fighting, and Israel was traumatized by nearly 4,000 rockets that bombarded northern communities. Between 1,035 and 1,191 Lebanese civilians and combatants were killed in the fighting, as were 119 Israeli soldiers and 39 civilians, according to official figures from the two sides.
A U.N.-brokered cease-fire pushed Hezbollah away from Israel's border. But Israeli intelligence officials say the group is rearming with the help of its Iranian and Syrian backers. The inconclusive outcome of the war cracked apart the solid support that Olmert initially enjoyed. The criticism was stoked by reports from returning troops of confused orders, and shortages in food and supplies.
Olmert's opponents have scheduled a mass rally in Tel Aviv on Thursday. Small groups of demonstrators across the country began marches to Tel Aviv on Tuesday ahead of the rally. A poll commissioned by Israel Radio shortly after the war probe was released showed that 69 percent of those questioned thought Olmert should quit. Nearly nine months after the war ended, it's not clear how far the public uproar will go. The report's findings restated widespread criticisms of the wartime
leadership's performance. What was more surprising was the harsh language. The prime minister made up his mind hastily, despite the fact that no detailed military plan was submitted to him and without asking for one, the commission found. All of these add up to a serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence.
The inquiry analyzed the first six days of the war, as well as the six years leading up to the fighting, beginning with Israel's 2000 pullout from Lebanon. A full report on the entire war is scheduled for release this summer. The report also criticized Defense Minister Amir Peretz, a former union chief, for his inexperience and said wartime military chief Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz acted impulsively, misrepresented the army's readiness and suppressed dissenting opinions. Halutz resigned in January, while Peretz is expected to leave office after his party holds primaries on May 28. Polls indicate Peretz will not be re-elected as Labor leader, and he has said if he wins, he will demand a different Cabinet post.
Ancient sect marks Passover sacrifice MAY 1,07
MT. GERIZIM, West Bank - Dressed in white and spattered in blood, members of the tiny Samaritan sect gathered until the early hours of Tuesday for one of the Holy Land's most colorful religious ceremonies — the nighttime Passover sacrifice. The entire Samaritan community, which totals just over 700 people, was present for the sacrifice at the sect's holiest place, the West Bank hilltop of Mt. Gerizim, near the city of Nablus.Like the Jewish holiday of Passover, which was celebrated in early April, the Samaritan holiday marks the Israelite exodus from Egypt as recounted in the Old Testament. The Samaritans practice a religion closely linked to Judaism and venerate a version of the Old Testament, but are not Jews, and have a different religious calendar.The sect's high priest opened the ceremony with a prayer in the Samaritan tongue, a dialect of ancient Hebrew. Then ritual
slaughterers killed sheep, skinned them, and roasted them in large ovens. According to tradition, the meat must be ready in the middle of the night the time that the Angel of Death killed the Egyptian firstborn in the biblical story and the Samaritans eat it in haste along with unleavened bread, emulating the ancient Israelites.
Named for Samaria, a region in the northern West Bank, the Samaritans believe themselves to be the remnants of Israelites exiled from the Holy Land by the Assyrians in 722 B.C. They are probably best known for the parable of the Good Samaritan in the New Testament's Book of Luke.In the fourth and fifth centuries, the Samaritan population is thought to have topped 1.5 million, but religious persecution and economic hardship nearly erased it by the early 20th century. Half live in the West Bank, and the other half live in the Israeli city of Holon, near Tel Aviv.
Venezuela pulling out of IMF, World Bank By JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press Writer MAY 01,07
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez announced Monday he would pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a largely symbolic move because the nation has already paid off its debts to the lending institutions. We will no longer have to go to Washington nor to the IMF nor to the World Bank, not to anyone, said the leftist leader, who has long railed against the Washington-based lending institutions.
Venezuela, one of the world's top oil exporters, recently repaid its debts to the World Bank five years ahead of schedule, saving $8 million. It paid off all its debts to the IMF shortly after Chavez first took office in 1999. The IMF closed its offices in Venezuela late last year.Chavez, who says he wants to steer Venezuela toward socialism, made the announcement a day after telling a meeting of allied leaders that Latin America would be better off without the U.S.-backed World Bank or IMF. He has often blamed their lending policies for perpetuating poverty.
Chavez wants to set up a new lender run by Latin American nations and has pledged to support it with Venezuela's booming oil revenues. The regional lender, which he has called Bank of the South, would dole out financing for state projects across Latin America.Chavez has criticized past Venezuelan governments for signing agreements with the IMF to restructure the economy plans blamed for contributing to racing inflation.Under former President Carlos Andres Perez in 1989, violent protests broke out in Caracas in response to IMF austerity measures that brought a hike in subsidized gasoline prices and public transport fares.
Enraged people took the streets in violence that killed at least 300 people and possibly many more. The riots came to be known as the Caracazo, and Chavez often refers to it as a rebellion against the status quo.During Sunday's talks with leaders from Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti, Chavez predicted that sooner or later, those institutions will fall due to their own weight.They will wear away the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and all those institutions, Chavez said.
Bolivian President Evo Morales raised complaints about a World Bank body that mediates disputes between governments and foreign investors. He said governments never seem to win their disputes against transnational companies at the World Bank's International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
Chavez suggested that Latin countries could instead create their own arbitration body for disputes with big companies.Venezuela is not the only country in the region distancing itself from international lenders.Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Sunday that he hopes to get out of that prison of IMF debt and that we are negotiating with the Fund to leave the Fund.Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa, recently asked the World Bank's representative there to leave and said the country paid off its debt to the IMF. Argentina also has paid back billions of dollars to the IMF.
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Colombia nets record cocaine seizure By CARLOS GONZALEZ, Associated Press Writer MAY 01,07
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's navy made the largest drug seizure in the nation's history when it uncovered up to 27 tons of cocaine buried along the Pacific coast, the defense minister said Monday.
The cocaine, with a wholesale value of more than $500 million, was found Sunday buried in 1,000 packages of 55 pounds each near the coastal town of Pizarro, 250 miles west of Bogota, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told a news conference. Later, Navy Adm. Guillermo Barrera told The Associated Press by telephone that 919 packages of cocaine had been found. The different numbers could not be immediately explained. The figures put the cocaine seizure between 24 tons to 27 tons.
Santos said the seizure was the result of eight months of undercover police work and he called it the biggest in the history of Colombia.The cocaine was buried near an estuary accessible only by sea, he said.There were no arrests in the operation, but the drugs were believed to belong to Colombia's biggest drug trafficking organization, the Norte del Valle cartel, which operates near the area.
The seizure came as President Alvaro Uribe travels to Washington on Tuesday to shore up support on Capitol Hill and the White House for the U.S.-backed Plan Colombia, an anti-narcotics and counterinsurgency program that has cost American taxpayers more than $5 billion since 2000.
Colombia is the world's leading cocaine producer, producing annually more than 500 tons of cocaine that represents 90 percent of the drug consumed in the United States.Most of the cocaine leaves the country by sea, on go-fast boats that transport the drugs up along the Central American coast for their eventual smuggling into the United States overland through Mexico.Although drug seizures are an everyday affair, they rarely reach such large numbers. Last October, Colombia's navy made headlines when it found 9.3 tons of cocaine on three go-fast boats near the Pacific coastal port city of Buenaventura its biggest seizure of the year.
Canada March factory prices jump 1.3 pct Tue May 1, 8:40 AM ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Higher prices for petroleum, coal and primary metals boosted Canadian producer prices for the fifth straight month in March, beating forecasts by a wide margin with a 1.3 percent gain from February, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday. The jump in prices matched that of December 2006, which was the biggest since May 2004. However, excluding petroleum and coal, the price of goods at the factory gate crept up just 0.4 percent on the month. Raw materials prices increased 1.3 percent, thanks to gains in non-ferrous metals.Analysts in a Reuters poll had expected, on average, a 0.8-percent monthly rise in the producer price index and a 1.2 percent increase in raw materials prices.Compared with a year earlier, producer prices climbed 4.8 percent, the sharpest advance since October 2004, and raw materials prices jumped 9.7 percent.Prices for petroleum and coal rose 8.9 percent in March, the biggest leap in 11 months, while primary metal products increased
3.8 percent, Statscan said.
Israel: Obstacle or Key to Jewish Identity?
by Moshe Feiglin
On the morning of the recent Holocaust Memorial Day, Israel announced that it would allow the transfer of fifty million dollars worth of weapons to the personal security force of PA President Abu Mazen. Does anyone doubt that these weapons will ultimately be used against us? Reality has proven time and again that Jews are murdered as a result of these weapons transfers.
So why do we allow them to continue? How did the Jews of the Holocaust era allow the Germans to do what they did? the brave Israelis arrogantly proclaimed. After all, those Jews knew where they were being led. And what about us? We clearly understand that Jews will be killed with these weapons. What are we doing about it? It seems that as we mark the 59th year of Israel 's independence, the blood of the Jewish People is still cheap. The prevailing thought is that It is only natural that the Arabs of Gaza must be supplied with weapons and that in half a year or so those weapons will kill Jews. Then we will supply them with more weapons to protect us from the weapons that we gave them today, that were supposed to protect us from the weapons that we gave them yesterday. That's just the way it is; we have no control over it. We must come to terms with this Russian roulette and absolve ourselves of any responsibility and hope that we or our loved ones will not pay the price.
Luckily, we can still demonstrate. And there actually were demonstrations just before Holocaust Memorial Day. They were even stormy. However, these demonstrations were only about the rise in university tuition. Were there demonstrations against the weapons being transferred to Gaza ? About the Jews that will die? No. Why demonstrate? It is a fact of life that a certain percentage of Jews will be killed in terrorist attacks.
It is like the sun that rises in the east. Have you ever seen a demonstration against the rising of the sun? After Israel 's news announced the weapons transfer, Holocaust survivor and former Knesset Speaker Dov Shilanski was interviewed. For me, he said, the State of Israel is the guarantee that the Holocaust will never happen again. I deeply respect Dov Shilanski, but I can not understand the basis of his opinion: Israel 's military strength? That has turned out to be disappointing, at the very least. Anyone who can't figure out why should drive over to Sderot and watch the Arab rockets falling like rain every day. And what about the exile mentality that has supposedly ended? It has only gotten worse. We have recently encountered a new Iranian mass-murderer who unabashedly announces his intentions to destroy Israel : Why do the Arabs have to pay the price of your Holocaust? And the brave, new Israelis have no answer. They are helpless.
According to all logic, Shilanski is wrong. The State of Israel that denies its own heritage is leading us toward another Holocaust. If I did not believe in G-d, I would get my family out of Israel post haste. But I believe in the G-d of Israel and His Nation. I believe that G-d's will is that we remain in Israel . I believe in the Torah and in the prophecies that reassure us that the final redemption will be eternal.
The question is not if we will survive, but what will be the price. And that depends on us. When we flee our Jewish identity and destiny, our enemies flourish. I believe that when we connect to our national identity, new, fresh forces of life awaken within our Nation. It is then that we will understand the importance and power of our State. We will understand that although the State of Israel has been used to deny our Jewish destiny, it is actually the tool that will express it. When we connect to our destiny, we will do much more than merely exist or survive. We will thrive. And no one will dare dream of destroying Israel .To learn more about Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) and to read their plan for Israel 's future, visit www.jewishisrael.org . Manhigut Yehudit is the largest faction inside the Likud Party in Israel. It strives to turn Israel from The State of the Jews into The Jewish State.
JERUSALEM PRAYER TEAM NEEDS DONATIONS. MAY 1,07
When I sent the last email asking for 9 more Jerusalem Prayer Team members to give $91 to help the Corrie ten Boom Holocaust Center in Holland, I was not going to ask for anything else. However, the burden of this pure work is so heavy on my heart. No one associated with the Center has ever been paid a dime. It is as pure as was Corrie and her family.This is the greatest witness of God’s love to the nation of Israel. If God speaks to your heart, I will buy a full-page ad in the Jerusalem Post to tell the story worldwide and ask Christians to pray. It will cost quite a bit, but what a great witness of Christian giving – their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust and get them to the Bible land.
In 1844, the ten Boom family began a prayer meeting that ended in 1944, when they were arrested and taken to the concentration camps for saving the lives of 800 Jews. With your financial help, I will ask Christians worldwide to join in an Esther Prayer Appeal.I am going to fast and pray for 24 hours and ask God for 300 to give $91 to help us with this open door.
To make your donation to the Corrie ten Boom Holocaust Center.
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Millions of praying saints (Daniels and Esthers) can reverse the curse:
If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. What's more, who can say but that you have been elevated to the palace for just such a time as this? (Esther 4:14) Iran’s leadership is set on obtaining nuclear weapons and advancing its missile technology so that it has the power to destroy Israel and cripple the United States and Europe. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be within one strike of doing what he has claimed for years ought to be done: wiping Israel off the map as the first step toward the world he envisions as ideal—a world without Zionism and America. Most leaders do not believe he could ever really succeed, but they know that a dirty bomb the size of a refrigerator planted in Tel Aviv or New York could kill as many as a million Jews and/or Americans.
Thank you,
Mike Evans The Jerusalem Prayer Team.
Olmert Tells Peretz to Expel Migron Within 2 Months
13 Iyar 5767, May 1, '07
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told Defense Minister Amir Peretz to move ahead with his plan to expel residents from the Samaria community of Migron within the next two months. A brief filed by the state prosecutor’s office in the High Court of Justice described the petition by the Prime Minister which includes a request to the Defense Minister to proceed with expulsion of illegal outposts in Judea and Samaria.
Beleaguered Olmert Seeks Refuge, Plans to Uproot Yesha Outposts
by Hillel Fendel 13 Iyar 5767, May 1, '07 (1NN)
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has asked Defense Minister Amir Peretz - both of whom are under heavy pressure to resign - to prepare an organized plan to destroy small Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. News of Olmert's request was included in a State response submitted to the Supreme Court today (Tuesday). The suit in question, submitted last year by Peace Now and a group of Arabs, charges that the community of Migron is illegal and must be destroyed. Olmert has asked that the plan be ready within two months. He has thus apparently changed his policy regarding the destruction of unauthorized outposts. In the past, he has frozen plans to do so, explaining that the timing was not right in light of the diplomatic situation with the Palestinian Authority.
Migron: Strategically Situated
Situated atop a strategic hill, north of Jerusalem, between Beit El, Psagot, and Michmash, Migron is included in Olmert's request for destruction plans. Peace Now, the radical left-wing organization working tirelessly to destroy the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria [Yesha], claims that most of land on which Migron was built belongs to Arabs. Migron residents, however, say Peace Now worked hard to find the Arabs in question and convinced them to file the suit against the Jewish town.
Peace Now and Israel's Enemies
Binyamin Regional Council head Pinchas Wallerstein said that Peace Now worked together with Defense Minister Amir Peretz for their common political goals: The government's position, as explained by Defense Minister Peretz, is that there is no longer any need for time to find a compromise [with the residents]. Peretz apparently feels that the main thing is his bid to win his party's primaries [later this month] - even if it means that several dozen more families will be thrown out of their homes.... He was advised to call off talks with us, because it would not look good for his primaries campaign if he comes to an agreement with us. It's very sad to see a man who puts his own personal interests ahead of those of the nation.Wallerstein explained Migron's critical strategic importance, in that it overlooks the highway leading to many Jewish communities in the Shomron: A few years ago, former Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer [of Labor] agreed that this place must remain [settled by Jews]. Very sadly, Peace Now reminds me of other dark times in Jewish history when Jews would join up with their enemies against their own people...
Even ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that Migron was strategically vital, Wallerstein said: He told us, the members of the Yesha Council, that he had informed the Americans that he insists that this place and three other outposts must remain, despite other previous commitments that might have been.In this spirit, Wallerstein continued, the Defense Minister agreed that Migron would not be removed, and all Central Commanders since then have also demanded that this location remain as is.
Furthermore, many different government offices have helped Migron with infrastructures, and it was even decided in the Defense Ministry to begin with planning the permanent community.Wallerstein said that Peace Now has other court suits coming up against the community of Haresha and against a neighborhood in Eli.
Modern-Day Zionism
One resident of Migron, Aviva W., told Arutz-7, When we arrived here, it was clear that the land had no claimants and no one working on it... We are a continuation of the Zionist enterprise and the Zionist dream - just like all the pioneers who came to the Land of Israel over the centuries, starting with the students of the Gaon of Vilna [early 19th century], and later the First Aliyah [1882-1903], and the Second Aliyah [1904 - 1914], etc. - there is no difference. If anything, we are more in the heart of the Land of Israel than Tel Aviv is.
The only difference is political - an arbitrary difference made based on what is convenient for different politicians at different times - but we are doing the same thing that Land of Israel pioneers have done for generations.Founded in March 2002, Migron (mentioned in Samuel I 14,2 and Isaiah 10, 28) grew quickly, reaching 42 families after only a year and a half - at which point the government abruptly clamped down on further growth. Over 200 people, including well over 100 children, now live there. The synagogue and two homes are in permanent structures, while most of the residents live in caravans (mobile homes without wheels). Six government ministries, the Civil Administration, the Electric Company, Mekorot Water Company and other official bodies have all taken part in establishing infrastructures for the community.
Olmert now proposes a series of criteria to decide which outposts will be destroyed and when. The
criteria include:
* the level of expected resistance to the destruction
* the legal status of the outpost and whether it can be evacuated immediately or not
* the amount of families living in the outpost
* the legal status of the land on which it was built.
Olmert's top aides can be faxed at 02-6546717, 6705475 and 6513955.
First Post-Winograd Resignation: Minister Eitan Cabel of Labor
by Hillel Fendel MAY 1,07
Minister Without Portfolio Eitan Cabel of Labor, who has been saying for weeks that he is considering leaving politics, announced his resignation from the Cabinet this morning (Tuesday). He said that the Winograd Commission had found Ehud Olmert personally responsible for the failures of the Second Lebanon War, and I can no longer sit in a government headed by Ehud Olmert.The Winograd Commission's interim conclusions, released yesterday (Monday), chiefly blamed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, and ex-Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen.(ret.) Dan Halutz - but also apportioned blame to the entire government. Cabel did not deny that the Winograd Commission apportioned blame to the entire government, including himself - but did not note this as his reason for resigning. He said he hopes his resignation will lead to a chain reaction of resignations by other ministers in the government. This does not appear to be the case, however. Shas head Eli Yishai and Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Lieberman met today and agreed that Olmert need not resign at this point. Cabel, the Secretary-General of the Labor Party, has been re-considering his political path over the past weeks and months. He has told press interviewers that he is tired of the fact that everything in politics is personal.
Cabel Against Arutz-7 and Har-Shefi
In the past, Cabel led the campaign against the Knesset's legalization of Arutz-7, and filed a petition in the Supreme Court against President Moshe Katzav's pardon for Margalit Har-Shefi.His resignation from the government does not necessarily mean he will quit the Knesset, however, or his position in the Labor Party. Labor is facing internal primaries for party leader four weeks from now - a campaign that has brought internal rivalries to the fore. Cabel said today he hopes that the new leader - he personally supports Ehud Barak - will remove the party from an Olmert-led coalition.Olmert and Peretz have announced that they do not intend to quit. It would not be right to quit, Olmert said last night, and it is not my intention to do so. He said he would convene a special Cabinet session on Wednesday, at which he will propose a team to decide on the implementation of the Winograd findings and recommendations.
Protests and Demands for Olmert's Resignation
The Security for Sderot Task Force plans to begin a march from Sderot to Tel Aviv, beginning this afternoon (Tuesday). The march is timed to end on Thursday afternoon, just as the large anti-Olmert protest, called by a large group of Lebanon War reservists and others, will be starting at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.We are the proof that Olmert and Peretz have failed and continue to fail every day in the way they deal with the threat from Gaza, says Alon Davidi of Sderot. We wish to add our voices to the demand for their immediate resignations.Reservists organizing the Thursday protest say that the findings released yesterday are merely the tip of the iceberg. Every day that Olmert and Peretz continue in their jobs, they endanger the citizens of Israel.
Supreme Court Petition
The Supreme Court has already received one petition demanding Olmert's resignation. Atty. Yosef Fuchs, of the Land of Israel Legal Forum, filed the suit. Fuchs explained that the Kahn Commission investigating the Sabra and Shatila massacres of 1982 found that one who is found to bear ministerial responsibility for a grave security or political fiasco, must resign or be fired. It will be recalled that then-Defense Minister Ariel Sharon was found to be responsible for the fact that the defense establishment did not succeed in preventing the Sabra and Shatila massacres, and ended his job on the spot. The Chabad-affiliated Rabbinical Council for the Nation and Land said that the Winograd Commission failed in not noting that Israel's war failure stemmed from the Disengagement from Gush Katif and northern Shomron. The Disengagement brought the army's functioning and readiness to an unprecedented low, the group's statement said. An army that deals with expelling Jews and building a
terror state in Gaza cannot defeat its enemies.
Gaydamak Announces Candidacy for Mayor of Jerusalem
by Hana Levi Julian MAY 1,07 (INN)
Russian Israeli business tycoon Arkadi Gaydamak has announced his candidacy for the mayoralty of Jerusalem in next years elections. Using the platform of the recently-formed Social Justice movement, Gaydamak claimed he would focus his leadership of the capital on strengthening the city not only from the economic point of view, but to also turn it into a symbol of the Jewish spirit.
Sources close to Gaydamak said he made the decision to join the race some ten days ago. The billionaire was reportedly outraged when Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski criticized the annual march of Russian veterans of World War II through the capital. Mayor Lupolianski said the march, which was funded by Gaydamak disturbed city workers. Gaydamak fumed, The Jewish vets, old men in their eighties, who fought the Nazis were denied by Jerusalem City Hall the right to brandish their medals and ribbons once a year on the streets of Jerusalem they defended and saved.. The billionaire, also the owner of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team, pointed out that the city had no problem supporting the right of homosexuals to parade through the streets of the capital last year, despite the furor caused by the decision.
Gaydamak and Netanyahu Working on a Winning Combination
Gaydamaks party will also reportedly act as an ally to the well-established Likud party -- and more specifically to its Chairman and Knesset opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu. Initial media reports repeatedly quoted Gaydamak as claiming that he did not plan to become a candidate himself, but wanted simply to raise the issues of social and economic justice in Israeli society. The partys platform would appear to be a counterpoint to MK Netanyahus financial policies during his term as Finance Minister, thus garnering support that would otherwise be denied to the Likud faction. Gaydamak has been a consistent supporter of the former Prime Ministers bid to regain the top job, appearing together with him for interviews in the Russian-language media. The close association and mutual compliments in public appearances have paid off: polls in February showed that Netanyahus popularity rose by 17% among Russian immigrants after the interviews.
Social Justice or Politics on the Heels of Goodwill Funding?
Gaydamak spent millions of dollars last year on goodwill projects throughout the country that politicians complained were designed more to raise his popularity with the general public than relieve the stress on traumatized Israelis.
The business tycoon has paid for vacations for northern refugees fleeing the Second Lebanon War, a free weekend in Eilat for children traumatized by life in rocket-battered Sderot, and a whopping public party in Tel Aviv this year on Independence Day. These projects did indeed raise his popularity level with a public that has seen one government official after another fall under the shadow of various suspicions of embezzlement, corruption, bribery, fraud, rape, sexual misconduct and breach of trust.
Shadows of Doubt May Darken Political Prospects
Gaydamak is not free of suspicion either. One week after he announced, on February 21, that he was forming his new party, a storm of allegations of money laundering, fraud and bribery began to swirl around him. French courts asked Israel less than a week later to extradite the international business mogul to face charges of tax evasion and involvement in illegal arms deals with the Angolan government.
Israel has refused the request. A week after the extradition request, the Israel Police anti-fraud unit in Bat Yam began questioning Gaydamak in a separate investigation on allegations he falsified documents issued by the Justice Ministry. A spokesman for Gaydamak's office informed Arutz-7 that Gaydamak in fact came on his own volition to the anti-fraud unit in Bat Yam and produced evidence that the documents in question were genuine.He was also questioned on suspicion of having gifted Tax Authority officials with tickets to a soccer game played by his Beitar Jerusalem team. Gaydamak's spokesman told Arutz-7 that police have since closed the case.In March, a Tel Aviv judge ruled that the state could continue its freeze on $4.9 million owned by Gaydamak because there was reason to believe he might be indicted on charges of money laundering. Gaydamak and his growing cadre of supporters have accused the police and other officials of persecuting him in order to sideline his new political party.
Optimistic Despite Obstacles
Asked in February on his way to the anti-fraud unit if he thought the government was afraid of him, Gaydamak said, It is too late. They are afraid of the opinions of the public, but the majority of the public is already with me.At the time, Gaydamak assured reporters that he had no intention of being prime minister or of taking any other [political] position -- a stance he changed two months later. Now he says he expects to ride into the Jerusalem Mayors seat in a landslide victory at the polls a year from now. I have not doubt that the entire city will vote for me, he claimed in his announcement, adding that he wants to turn the city of Jerusalem into a symbol of peace and Judaism.
Lawmakers Want US to Honor 12-Year-Old Jerusalem Embassy Law
Julie Stahl Jerusalem Bureau Chief MAY 1,07
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Two U.S. lawmakers have submitted a resolution in honor of the upcoming 40th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem under Israeli rule, challenging the Bush administration to uphold U.S. law and move the American Embassy to Jerusalem.The resolution introduced by Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.) says Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected as they have been by Israel during the past 40 years.Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) is understood to be sponsoring a similar resolution in the Senate.
The 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act requires the U.S. to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel's disputed capital by 1999, but former President Clinton and President Bush have signed successive six-month security waivers to avoid the controversial move.The new resolution calls on the president and secretary of state to repeatedly affirm publicly, as a matter of United States policy, that Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of the State of Israel.
It also strongly urges President Bush to discontinue the waiver contained in the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 and begin the process of moving the mission to Jerusalem.Every sovereign country has the right under international law and custom to designate its own capital, the congressmen argue.In 1947, the U.N. approved a partition plan to divide the then-British mandated area into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem to be an international city under U.N. administration.
The Arabs rejected the U.N. plan and attacked the nascent state of Israel in 1948. The war ended with Jerusalem divided between an Israeli-controlled western sector and an eastern sector - including the historic Old City and Temple Mount - under Jordanian control.
The city was divided by barbed wire and concrete walls, and Jordan denied Israelis access to holy sites including the most revered location in Judaism, the Temple Mount.As a result of the 1967 Six-Day war, Jerusalem was reunited under Israeli control. Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, located on the Temple Mount, is the third holiest site in Islam, and the Palestinians want the city for the capital of a future Palestinian state.In 1980, Israel passed a law designating Jerusalem its united, eternal capital. In response most countries, including the U.S., withdrew their embassies from the city in protest.The Bush administration is backing the
creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as part of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Embassy move
Near the end of Clinton's term in office, amid speculation that the embassy move might happen, Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah threatened to turn the embassy into rubble and return your diplomats in coffins.A Palestinian Islamic cleric made similar threats two years ago.
But Yoram Ettinger, a former Israeli diplomatic liaison to Congress at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, said the assumption that relocating the U.S. Embassy to West Jerusalem would agitate the Middle East and prompt anti-American terrorism is incorrect.Not moving the embassy sends the message that pressure and threats from radicals in the Arab world pay off, he argued.Ettinger told Cybercast News Service that relocating the embassy, on the other hand, would send the message that pressure will not prevent the U.S. from complying with American law and American values.It would relay the message that Americans do not see Jerusalem as part of the bargaining process and that the Arab world should focus on obtaining what is attainable, he added.
Freedom of access
Wilson and Pence in their resolution observe that Jerusalem has been the focus of Jewish religious devotion for 3,000 years (since the Biblical King David declared the city his capital) and that there has been a continuous Jewish presence in the city since then.Since 1967, Israel has guaranteed freedom of access to adherents of all religions to their holy places, they said. Israel turned over day-to-day
administration of the Temple Mount to the Palestinian Authority 12 years ago, and Jews are generally not permitted to visit the area.The congressmen also note that the 2003 Foreign Relations Authorization Act directs the secretary of state that the birth of any U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem should be recorded as Jerusalem, Israel upon the request of the citizen or his or her guardian.That requirement has never been implemented. Birth records for U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem record the city only, without a country designation.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007
NUCLEAR TERRORISM HOW REAL OF THREAT
FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS
MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
I can't stand these false preachers like beyond today, United Church of God, The World Tomorrow, Amazing Facts and many more that put down True Christians for believing in the Rapture. These False teachers and preachers can gladly go through WW3 since they do not believe we meet JESUS in the Clouds. They just believe that their bodies meet JESUS on EARTH when he returns to JERUSALEM. These false Christians can decieve themselves but the sad part is many innocent new Christians will believe these falsies.
Read my link RAPTURE FROM NOT THROUGH WW3, and read for yourself if the Bible says we go throught WW3 like these falsies believe.
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2006/10/rapture-from-not-through_08.html
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-The Nation's Weather. 3-Wind direction aids firefighters (in Atlanta fires). 4-EU Grapples With Policy Approach to Terrorism. 5-Olmert will not resign after report. 6-For Zion I will not be Silent. US Rabbis Arrested. 7-US President Meets with 2 Top European Union Leaders 8-IDF Chief of Staff: Gaza Ground Offensive is Needed. 9-Campaign to Upgrade the Old City's Small Wall 10-Guardians of the faith. 11-NUCLEAR TERRORISM: HOW REAL IS THE THREAT?
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 = Mon Apr 30 10:02 AM EDT
APR 30,07
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.0 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.5 OFF THE COAST OF HOKKAIDO, JAPAN
MAP 4.5 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.8 VANUATU
APR 29,07
MAP 4.5 FIJI REGION
MAP 4.7 GUAM REGION
MAP 4.6 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.6 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.6 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF MYANMAR
MAP 3.8 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.0 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.6 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.5 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 3.2 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.3 PRIMOR'YE, RUSSIA
MAP 3.4 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 6.2 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN IDAHO
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.5 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.2 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 SOUTHWESTERN PAKISTAN
MAP 4.4 FIJI REGION
MAP 3.1 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.4 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.2 NEVADA
MAP 4.8 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Mon Apr 30, 6:33 AM ET
Severe weather was forecast for parts of the Plains on Monday, while the West was expected to cool down and the East was expected to warm up. Thunderstorms with damaging winds or hail were possible in southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and southern Texas. Forecasters said tornadoes could touch down in Texas.Flash flooding was expected to persist in Texas, while heavy rain across the northwestern Plains was likely to cause fewer problems.Temperatures were expected to continue dropping throughout the Northwest and along California's coast, though deserts in the southern part of the state were to remain hot.Temperatures were expected to rise in the East, particularly in coastal New England. Forecasters said the Northeast would remain cloudy, with showers and thunderstorms moving through the northern part of the region.Clear skies and warm temperatures were forecast for the Southeast and into the Gulf Coast states.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Sunday ranged from a low of 28 degrees at Stanley, Idaho, to a high of 112 degrees at Death Valley, Calif.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Wind direction aids firefighters (in Atlanta fires)
Wildfire prevented from crossing U.S. 1
Associated Press: 04/29/07
Waycross —A breeze Saturday helped push a raging wildfire back toward the Okefenokee Swamp, encouraging firefighters who had worked through the night to keep the blaze from crossing U.S. 1 and the tinder-dry forests beyond.Yet the vast wildfire continued to grow, charring nearly 100 square miles or just under 66,000 acres of forest and swampland in southeast Georgia since it ignited April 16.
Firefighters did controlled burns along a 16-mile stretch of the highway, which links Waycross with Jacksonville, Fla., to prevent it from setting ablaze acres of forest beyond the road.The highway remained closed, and residents in nearby communities who were allowed back to their homes were told to be ready to evacuate if the winds shift, said Georgia Forestry Commission spokesman Eric Mosley.In a bit of good news for the weary residents, smoke was blowing away from the towns and into the swampland Saturday morning, Mosley said. Emergency responders also said the 150 firefighters on site have managed to get about half of the blaze under control.I'm ready for it to be over, Jamey Cribbs, 21, said Friday after staying up all night with his father to make sure no burning ash from the fire fell on their home at the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. It's only been two weeks, but that seems like a lifetime.
Cribbs' family was ordered twice this week to flee their home in tiny Braganza community three miles southeast of Waycross.
More than 100 homes near the swamp had been under evacuation orders early Friday.The nearly 700 firefighters in the area are also battling frustration from 16-hour days trying to tame a fire too vast for them to extinguish.Valdosta firefighter Jeff Thibodeau, who joined the army of firefighters from across Georgia and neighboring states helping fight the blaze near Waycross, spent the night shift Thursday replenishing fire trucks with water.It's aggravating, because you just want to grab it by the throat and put it out, Thibodeau said after coming off his shift Friday morning. This fire is so big, there's not enough water in the state of Georgia to put it out. All you can do is let it run its course in the woods and protect the structures.
EU Grapples With Policy Approach to Terrorism APR 30,07
By BROOKS TIGNER, BRUSSELS
European Union policy-makers, who have long separated domestic- and external-security issues, are finding that this approach hinders attempts to grapple with international terrorism.Among the policy glitches:
There is no coordinated civil-military capability to deal with a crossborder terrorist attack in Europe, and no alignment of national armies to EU homeland security policy. Convoluted voting rules slow decision-making by the 27 EU countries. Cooperation is clumsy among national intelligence agencies, police forces and border protection authorities.There is a lot of [EU] rhetoric about counterterrorist action, but there are huge operational problems on the ground, Annegret Bendiet told a meeting of EU and national officials and security experts here April 17. Where’s any policy on military deployment in case of a domestic [pan-EU terrorist] issue?
Bendiet, a researcher on EU counterterrorism strategy at Berlin’s Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, pointed to Check the Web, a recent initiative by the union’s German presidency that calls on the 27 nations to monitor and analyze the Internet for Islamic radicalization and terrorist activity.Some countries are doing this, others have not even started. For whatever reasons technical, legal, budgetary we are looking at possibly years to make this idea work, she said, adding that even within Germany, civil liberty groups oppose the idea and are challenging its constitutionality.Europe’s counterterror agenda has mushroomed in recent years.
According to Bendiet, the union’s December 2005 counterterrorism strategy has engendered 160 horizontal measures spanning everything from the embedding of biometric data in passports to the creation of new agencies responsible for border protection and other security-related tasks.But this program is hampered by two problems. The first is incongruity of decision-making.
EU homeland security initiatives split into those steered by the European Commission in the name of the 27 members as a whole, known as first-pillar decisions, and third-pillar decisions handled on a strict intergovernmental basis among the 27 capitals. Each follows separate legislative approval procedures, whose complexity makes them virtually impossible to explain to the public.The other obstacle is also legal: There is no formal linkage between the 27 EU countries’ third-pillar-based external military and
defense decisions and those of the EU homeland security agenda.In a word, it means the union could not deal seamlessly with a terrorist event that spilled across its international border or within its internal ones.
It’s completely paradoxical, one EU official said April 17. Here we have the 27 [nations] launching one essentially supra-national initiative after another, and yet they still insist on national vetoes and lip service to ‘sovereignty’ that is eroding away with every measure.
Officials from the Council of Ministers bristled at allegations that EU nations were not doing enough. The council directlyrepresents the 27 national capitals.The council’s situation center, which gathers and analyzes intelligence from national authorities, now produces many reports on terrorist activity, and this is coordinated with national experts and operation units across the EU, said Johannes Vos, head of the council’s policy unit for police and customs cooperation. We’re also working closely with each member state to see how they are setting up their counterterrorist structures in all aspects. We all know that fighting terrorism has to be a group effort.
As for closing the European Union’s operational gap between external military defense policy and the internal homeland security agenda, some suggestions have begun to circulate.For instance, France and other continental EU states say national coastal authorities should start working more closely together to protect the common external maritime border. However, as one EU diplomat said, The U.K. is blocking this in the name of national sovereignty. Many of us don’t agree with that attitude.E-mail: btigner@defensenews.com.
Olmert will not resign after report By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer APR 30,07
JERUSALEM - A government commission that probed Israel's summer war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday of severe failure, saying he hastily led the country into the conflict without a comprehensive plan. A close aide said Olmert would not resign, despite strident calls for his resignation from coalition partners as well as opponents.A copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press cited a severe failure in the lack of judgment, responsibility and caution.Olmert, after receiving a copy of the panel's findings, said that failures will be remedied.
The report was being officially released later Monday.Olmert and his defense minister, Amir Peretz, who took office with limited security experience less than two months before the war, already had lost much of their public support because of the conflict, launched when Hezbollah guerrillas captured two soldiers and killed three others in a cross-border raid on July 12.Relying heavily on massive airstrikes recommended by the military chief, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, Olmert pledged to his people that Israel would crush Hezbollah and force return of the captured soldiers. Neither goal was accomplished, and Halutz already has resigned.
Cabinet Secretary Israel Maimon said the prime minister is not considering resignation.It is right to state as clearly as possible: The report lists difficulties, failures and mistakes by all the leaders, including the prime minister, Maimon told Israel Radio. The question is what do we do now.
Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with nearly 4,000 rockets, halting only when the U.N. Security Council imposed a cease-fire, its short-range rocket capacity intact. Israel launched a late, costly ground offensive with the Security Council nearing completion of its cease-fire resolution.In 34 days of fighting, between 1,035 and 1,191 Lebanese civilians and combatants were killed, as were 119 Israeli soldiers and 39 civilians.The report covers the first six days of the war, when Israel battered Lebanon with massive airstrikes as Hezbollah pounded Israel with rockets. Also, the report looks at developments during the six years that followed Israel's overnight pullout from southern Lebanon in 2000 — tracing the Hezbollah buildup across from the Israeli border.
According to TV reports confirmed by Israeli officials, the commission appointed by Olmert and chaired by a retired judge, Eliyahu Winograd, aims withering criticism at Olmert and Peretz over their decision-making, inexperience and failure to question plans presented by the military.The report also says that Halutz, a former air force commander, did not provide political leaders with a sufficient range of military options, played down the rocket threat and silenced dissenting opinions within the army command, Israeli media said.
The Winograd panel does not have the authority to fire officials, but the scathing report could ignite public protests and demonstrations, coupled with political infighting, that could force the resignation of Olmert and Peretz. Noisy public demonstrations were expected to back demands that they step down.Already Sunday, a demand their for resignations came from Labor Party lawmaker Ofir Pines-Paz, who is challenging Peretz for party leadership in a May primary election.They should follow the example of Halutz, who did not wait for the Winograd commission to show him the door, he said.Opposition lawmakers from the dovish Meretz as well as the hard-line National Religious Party also called for the government to step down.
Olmert's office declined comment until the report's official publication, but aides said Olmert was confident he would weather the storm and that he had no intention of quitting. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Vice Premier Shimon Peres pledged that the report's findings would be taken seriously.
We shall correct everything that calls for correction, he said. Olmert's popular support is nearing single figures in newspaper polls, mostly because of the Lebanon war, but also because of allegations of his involvement in alleged corruption including real estate deals and undue interference in government transactions to favor friends and backers. Olmert has denied any wrongdoing.
For Zion I will not be Silent. US Rabbis Arrested
by Baruch Gordon (INN) APR 29,07
On April 17, 2007, some 50 Rabbis, students, and laymen staged a sit-in protest calling on the United Nations Secretary General to expel Iran from the international body for its threats to wipe the State of Israel off the map. The protest began with a demonstration at the Iranian mission to the UN, and continued with a march through the streets of New York to the Isaiah Peace Wall.The day begins with a protest at the Iranian Mission to the UN It was under this wall bearing Isaiah's prophecy of world peace that the group of distinguished Jewish leaders acted on the prophet's declaration: For Zion's sake I will not be silent and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be still. In a glaring act of civildisobedience, the US Jewish leaders sat down on the busy New York City sidewalk obstructing pedestrian traffic.
New York City police warned the activists to voluntarily clear the way or face arrest and charges of disorderly conduct. The Rabbis chose the latter option, and one by one, they were handcuffed and hauled away. Three paddy-wagons of rabbis, students, and lay leaders were brought to Central Booking where they joined together in a spirited afternoon Mincha prayer service. They were later released.All streams of American Judaism were represented. In the words of participant Rabbi Mark Ankcorn, There were Orthodox, Conservative, Traditional, and Reform rabbis all in custody for protesting at the UN, and I was proud to be with them.
US President Meets with 2 Top European Union Leaders
By VOA News 30 April 2007
U.S. President Bush (r) meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, 30 Apr 2007 The United States is hosting an annual summit on economic and security issues with two top European Union leaders Monday at the White House.President George W. Bush is holding talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as Germany currently holds the rotating EU presidency, and with the head of the European Commission, Jose Barroso.
The U.S. and EU leaders are also expected to sign several economic agreements, including an open skies aviation deal aimed at boosting trans-Atlantic commerce. Mr. Bush has refused to commit the United States to limiting its production of greenhouse emissions, saying it would hurt the U.S. economy. The 27-nation EU agreed last month to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe by 20 percent by the year 2020.
Scientists say greenhouse emissions are a key factor in climate changes responsible for global warming.
IDF Chief of Staff: Gaza Ground Offensive is Needed
by Hillel Fendel (INN) APR 30,07
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi says the only way to stop the Palestinian terrorists from firing Kassam rockets from Gaza into Israel is via an IDF ground operation. He said this to the Cabinet ministers at Sunday's weekly Cabinet meeting. Our helicopters and artillery fire can reduce the Kassam rocket firings, Ashkenazi said, but cannot prevent them completely.The Deputy Head of the General Security Service, who was also present at the Cabinet meeting, said that all the raw materials used to launch Kassams in Gaza, except some Egyptian-made explosives, are smuggled in from Israel via the Karni Crossing.The GSS official also said that Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists continue to be trained militarily in Iran and Syria.
Olmert: Restraint Will End
Opening the meeting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Israel will not be able to restrain itself for long in the face of the continued Kassam rocket fire from Gaza. We have no interest in escalating the situation, Olmert said, but we cannot ignore the continued Kassams and the attempts of terrorists to infiltrate into Israel.The Prime Minister said that Israel had warned the Palestinian Authority that though it is not interested in escalation, we will not avoid taking the necessary steps necessary to protect our citizens living in the south.Just last Tuesday, on Independence Day, Hamas unleashed a barrage of rockets and mortar shells on Sderot and environs, causing damage but no serious injuries.
Intelligence sources say the attack was meant to camouflage an attempt to kidnap a soldier and/or a major terrorist attack in the area.
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one
week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
NOW I BELIEVE THEY ARE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, NORTH OF THE DOME OF THE (MOSQUE). I BELIEVE THE 3RD TEMPLE WILL BE REBUILT BY THE DOME OF THE SPIRITS TO THE NORTH OF THE ISLAMIC MOSQUE. THE BIBLE SAYS THE OUTERCOURT WILL BE GIVIN TO THE GENTILES IN REVELATION 11:1-2
Campaign to Upgrade the Old City's Small Wall
by Hillel Fendel (INN) APR 30,07
Unknown to most visitors to the Western Wall, the remnant of the Holy Temple compound extends to the north far beyond what they can see - and a campaign is underway to publicize this.
The Western Wall is a supporting wall of the Temple Mount complex, on which the two Holy Temples were built approximately 2,850 and 2,350 years ago, respectively. Though it is technically outside the Temple area, it has special sanctity; the rabbinic Sages taught that the Divine Presence would never leave the Western Wall. Of the nearly 500 meters of length of the Western Wall, roughly 200 meters of the southern end [to the right of the worshipers] are easily accessible today - but the remainder is just as sacred. Another 100 meters or so are included in a tour of the Western Wall Tunnels. Above these tunnels, near the Iron Gate entrance to the Temple Mount and on Temple Mount floor level, is an open area facing a short segment of the Wall. This is the area known as the Kotel HaKatan.
One Would Not Know It
Though it is off the beaten track, the Kotel HaKatan is actually slightly more holy than the familiar Western Wall plaza, because of its closer proximity to the Holy of Holies of the ancient Temples.
However, one would not know this upon visiting it - for it is hard to get to, has no trappings of a holy site, and is not even protected 24 hours a day.A no-littering sign is an improvement, but what we really want is a sign saying that this is a holy site and that it should be treated appropriately. An ad-hoc committee named Kotleinu, Our Wall, is working to promote and improve conditions at the Kotel HaKatan. The committee comprises mostly residents of the Old City of Jerusalem who are concerned that the area is not treated with the respect it deserves. The group says that of late, for the first time ever, the Tourism Ministry department in charge of Holy Sites has committed to upkeep the Kotel HaKatan. Deputy Director-General Rafi Ben-Hur acknowledged that the Ministry is responsible for the area, but said that special budgeting must be obtained before this responsibility can be actualized.Despite this, some recent improvements at the site include a police presence during daylight hours, a security camera monitoring the area and the access road, municipality-provided street-sweeping - and even a sign that says Do not litter.A no-littering sign is an improvement, an active Kotleinu member told Arutz-7, but what we really want is a sign saying that this is a holy site and that
it should be treated appropriately.
Prayer Services and Arab Bicycles
Yeshivat HaKotel maintains a daily afternoon prayer service there, and other groups and yeshivot also pray there on Shabbatot. This, despite the fact that there are no chairs or prayer stands at the site; even prayer-books cannot be stored there, as there is no security at night. Sometimes, Arab children pass through there with their bicycles, or Arab women with their shopping bags - reminiscent of the scene of the regular Western Wall up until several decades ago.If the Ministry sees that tourists from both in and out of Israel frequent the place and are interested in it, Kotleinu feels, this will provide an incentive to upgrade it. This is why we have started a letter-writing campaign to this effect.
Kotleinu asks concerned citizens and tourists to join the campaign for improving Kotel HaKatan conditions by visiting the Small Wall and by writing to or faxing (02-6496157) Tourism Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch.
Guardians of the faith APR 30,07
By Moshe Arens
The holiest sites of Christianity and Judaism, as well as major sacred Muslim sites, are located in the Land of Israel. The major Christian holy sites are in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth; the main Muslim holy sites are on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and in Hebron; and the major Jewish holy sites are the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. All Israeli governments have shown great respect for the Muslim and Christian holy sites and proper deference to the international Muslim and Christian communities, making a great effort to preserve the sites and to assure free access. For some strange reason, this is not true for the sites sacred to religious Jews.
Although great care has been given to the Western Wall and the large plaza built at its foot, the Temple Mount itself is frequently not accessible to Jews. And the Cave of the Patriarchs has been left in the care of the small Jewish community that has reestablished itself in Hebron, and the Muslim religious authorities. It reminds one of the days of the British Mandate, when Jews were not permitted to bring Torah scrolls to the Western Wall or blow the shofar there, or to ascend beyond the seventh step on the stairs leading to the Cave of the Patriarchs edifice.
When Ehud Barak, in the dying days of his ill-fated government, offered Yasser Arafat control of the Temple Mount in the Camp David negotiations without arousing a storm of protest in Israel, this affirmed that preserving and maintaining access to Jewish holy sites was not very high on some Israelis' priority list. Where does this cavalier attitude toward Jewish holy sites, expressed by so many Israelis, come from? It is true that many of these Israelis are secular, and some even are atheist. But why this lack of respect for the religious citizens of Israel and the places they hold sacred, while showing proper respect for the Muslim and Christian holy sites? There seems to be something almost perverse here, possibly in need of psychological analysis. The dislike that many Israelis, especially those on the left, have for the religious Jewish community may very well be at the root of this
phenomenon.
When it comes to the small Jewish community in Hebron, the fury shown by some Israelis has no bounds. They claim the Hebron community should never have been permitted to settle there in the first place; that once they were there, they should have been forcibly evicted; and that this should now be done at the first opportunity. Now that the community has acquired the halfway house between Kiryat Arba and the Cave of the Patriarchs, the drums are being beaten again: Under no circumstances should they be allowed to occupy this structure. Defense Minister Amir Peretz and the entire Labor Party, supported by Meretz, are now pledging to ensure that they do not.
It is true that the thuggish behavior of many in that community is intolerable. Left to their own devices and protected by the Israel Defense Forces, they insult Hebron's Arab residents, throw rocks and damage property. Their unruly behavior shames many Israelis, religious and secular, who value the historic and religious importance of the Cave of the Patriarchs and do not want the 1929 massacre of
Hebron's Jewish community to remain history's final verdict. However, the neglect of Israeli governments and the absence of a clear policy has left this small band of zealots with the task of assuring access to one of the holiest sites in Judaism. As things stand now, if they were not there, Jews would not be able to get even to the seventh step. Let's think again before we decide to throw them out of the halfway house. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
NUCLEAR TERRORISM: HOW REAL IS THE THREAT?
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., April 30, 2007) To answer the question many of you have emailed me about: yes, I am working on another novel, Dead Heat. I'm about half-way done at the moment. I hope to finish it later this summer and, Lord willing, it will release in the spring of 2008. A political thriller set in the midst of a presidential campaign, the novel explores a what if scenario that concerns me more every day: what if a terrorist network or terrorist regime were to actually launch a nuclear attack against the United States? How might they do it? What cities might they target? How would we stop them? How would we retaliate? To develop the most realistic scenario possible, I've been meeting with top military and intelligence experts in the U.S. and the Middle East. While these conversations have been off the record, I can tell you that there is a growing (if reluctant) consensus that it's not a matter of if but when such an attack, or series of attacks, will occur.
In February of this year, for example, James E. Goodby of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies wrote: It's only a matter of time. That's what the experts say when asked whether a terrorist organization might detonate an atom bomb in an American city.
Yossef Bodansky, former director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, said in 2004 that the United States is losing the war on terrorism and faces an inevitable al-Qaida attack with weapons of mass destruction that will be worse than 9/11 All of the warnings we have today indicate that a major strike something more horrible than anything we've seen before is all but inevitable.Graham Allison, author of the 2004 book, Nuclear Terrorism, warned: If policy makers in Washington keep doing what they are currently doing about the threat, a nuclear terrorist attack on America is likely to occur in the next decade. And if one lengthens the time frame, a nuclear strike is inevitable. Former Senator Sam Nunn (D-Georgia), once head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told National Geographic in 2005: Increasingly, we are being warned that an act of nuclear terrorism is inevitable. I am not willing to concede that point. But I do believe that unless we greatly elevate our effort [to secure nuclear materials] and the speed of our response, we could face disaster.
Now ex-CIA chief George Tenet is issuing the same warning, saying al-Qaeda's top priority is obtaining nuclear weapons to attack the U.S. directly.
Excerpts from an L.A. Times story: The main threat posed by Al Qaeda lies in its quest to obtain a nuclear bomb, former CIA Director George J. Tenet writes in his new book. In At the Center of the Storm, Tenet writes at some length about Al Qaeda's attempts to obtain or develop a nuclear weapon.
I am convinced that this is where [Osama bin Laden] and his operatives desperately want to go, Tenet writes. They understand that bombings by cars, trucks, trains and planes will get them some headlines, to be sure. But if they manage to set off a mushroom cloud, they will make history. Tenet details several attempts by the CIA to prevent Al Qaeda from acquiring nuclear weapons. Just weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, a Pakistani organization, Ummah Tameer-e-Nau, or UTN, had met in Afghanistan with Bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, to discuss how Al Qaeda should go about building a nuclear device, the CIA was told. Tenet also sketches out details of an attempt by Al Qaeda leaders in Saudi Arabia to buy what he described as three black-market Russian nuclear devices in 2002 and 2003.
EXCERPTS FROM NUCLEAR TERRORISM, by Graham Allison:
--Every day 30,000 trucks, 6,500 rail cars, and 140 ships deliver more than 50,000 cargo containers into the United States, but only 5 percent ever get screened. But even this screening, which rarely involves physical inspection, may not detect nuclear weapons or fissile material.
--There are approximately 130 nuclear research reactors in 40 countries. Two dozen of these have enough highly enriched uranium for one or more nuclear bombs.
--If terrorists bought or stole a complete weapon, they could set it off immediately. If instead they bought fissile material, they could build a crude but working nuclear bomb within a year.
--In Russia, 10,000 nuclear warheads and fissile material for 30,000 additional weapons remain vulnerable to theft.
--Pakistan's black marketers, led by the country's leading nuclear scientist, A. Q. Khan, have sold comprehensive nuclear starter kits that included advanced centrifuge components, blueprints for nuclear warheads, uranium samples in quantities sufficient to make a small bomb, and even provided personal consulting services to assist nuclear development.
MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
I can't stand these false preachers like beyond today, United Church of God, The World Tomorrow, Amazing Facts and many more that put down True Christians for believing in the Rapture. These False teachers and preachers can gladly go through WW3 since they do not believe we meet JESUS in the Clouds. They just believe that their bodies meet JESUS on EARTH when he returns to JERUSALEM. These false Christians can decieve themselves but the sad part is many innocent new Christians will believe these falsies.
Read my link RAPTURE FROM NOT THROUGH WW3, and read for yourself if the Bible says we go throught WW3 like these falsies believe.
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2006/10/rapture-from-not-through_08.html
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-The Nation's Weather. 3-Wind direction aids firefighters (in Atlanta fires). 4-EU Grapples With Policy Approach to Terrorism. 5-Olmert will not resign after report. 6-For Zion I will not be Silent. US Rabbis Arrested. 7-US President Meets with 2 Top European Union Leaders 8-IDF Chief of Staff: Gaza Ground Offensive is Needed. 9-Campaign to Upgrade the Old City's Small Wall 10-Guardians of the faith. 11-NUCLEAR TERRORISM: HOW REAL IS THE THREAT?
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 = Mon Apr 30 10:02 AM EDT
APR 30,07
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.0 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.5 OFF THE COAST OF HOKKAIDO, JAPAN
MAP 4.5 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.8 VANUATU
APR 29,07
MAP 4.5 FIJI REGION
MAP 4.7 GUAM REGION
MAP 4.6 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.6 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.6 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF MYANMAR
MAP 3.8 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.0 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.6 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.5 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 3.2 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.3 PRIMOR'YE, RUSSIA
MAP 3.4 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 6.2 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN IDAHO
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.5 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.2 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 SOUTHWESTERN PAKISTAN
MAP 4.4 FIJI REGION
MAP 3.1 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.4 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.2 NEVADA
MAP 4.8 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Mon Apr 30, 6:33 AM ET
Severe weather was forecast for parts of the Plains on Monday, while the West was expected to cool down and the East was expected to warm up. Thunderstorms with damaging winds or hail were possible in southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and southern Texas. Forecasters said tornadoes could touch down in Texas.Flash flooding was expected to persist in Texas, while heavy rain across the northwestern Plains was likely to cause fewer problems.Temperatures were expected to continue dropping throughout the Northwest and along California's coast, though deserts in the southern part of the state were to remain hot.Temperatures were expected to rise in the East, particularly in coastal New England. Forecasters said the Northeast would remain cloudy, with showers and thunderstorms moving through the northern part of the region.Clear skies and warm temperatures were forecast for the Southeast and into the Gulf Coast states.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Sunday ranged from a low of 28 degrees at Stanley, Idaho, to a high of 112 degrees at Death Valley, Calif.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Wind direction aids firefighters (in Atlanta fires)
Wildfire prevented from crossing U.S. 1
Associated Press: 04/29/07
Waycross —A breeze Saturday helped push a raging wildfire back toward the Okefenokee Swamp, encouraging firefighters who had worked through the night to keep the blaze from crossing U.S. 1 and the tinder-dry forests beyond.Yet the vast wildfire continued to grow, charring nearly 100 square miles or just under 66,000 acres of forest and swampland in southeast Georgia since it ignited April 16.
Firefighters did controlled burns along a 16-mile stretch of the highway, which links Waycross with Jacksonville, Fla., to prevent it from setting ablaze acres of forest beyond the road.The highway remained closed, and residents in nearby communities who were allowed back to their homes were told to be ready to evacuate if the winds shift, said Georgia Forestry Commission spokesman Eric Mosley.In a bit of good news for the weary residents, smoke was blowing away from the towns and into the swampland Saturday morning, Mosley said. Emergency responders also said the 150 firefighters on site have managed to get about half of the blaze under control.I'm ready for it to be over, Jamey Cribbs, 21, said Friday after staying up all night with his father to make sure no burning ash from the fire fell on their home at the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. It's only been two weeks, but that seems like a lifetime.
Cribbs' family was ordered twice this week to flee their home in tiny Braganza community three miles southeast of Waycross.
More than 100 homes near the swamp had been under evacuation orders early Friday.The nearly 700 firefighters in the area are also battling frustration from 16-hour days trying to tame a fire too vast for them to extinguish.Valdosta firefighter Jeff Thibodeau, who joined the army of firefighters from across Georgia and neighboring states helping fight the blaze near Waycross, spent the night shift Thursday replenishing fire trucks with water.It's aggravating, because you just want to grab it by the throat and put it out, Thibodeau said after coming off his shift Friday morning. This fire is so big, there's not enough water in the state of Georgia to put it out. All you can do is let it run its course in the woods and protect the structures.
EU Grapples With Policy Approach to Terrorism APR 30,07
By BROOKS TIGNER, BRUSSELS
European Union policy-makers, who have long separated domestic- and external-security issues, are finding that this approach hinders attempts to grapple with international terrorism.Among the policy glitches:
There is no coordinated civil-military capability to deal with a crossborder terrorist attack in Europe, and no alignment of national armies to EU homeland security policy. Convoluted voting rules slow decision-making by the 27 EU countries. Cooperation is clumsy among national intelligence agencies, police forces and border protection authorities.There is a lot of [EU] rhetoric about counterterrorist action, but there are huge operational problems on the ground, Annegret Bendiet told a meeting of EU and national officials and security experts here April 17. Where’s any policy on military deployment in case of a domestic [pan-EU terrorist] issue?
Bendiet, a researcher on EU counterterrorism strategy at Berlin’s Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, pointed to Check the Web, a recent initiative by the union’s German presidency that calls on the 27 nations to monitor and analyze the Internet for Islamic radicalization and terrorist activity.Some countries are doing this, others have not even started. For whatever reasons technical, legal, budgetary we are looking at possibly years to make this idea work, she said, adding that even within Germany, civil liberty groups oppose the idea and are challenging its constitutionality.Europe’s counterterror agenda has mushroomed in recent years.
According to Bendiet, the union’s December 2005 counterterrorism strategy has engendered 160 horizontal measures spanning everything from the embedding of biometric data in passports to the creation of new agencies responsible for border protection and other security-related tasks.But this program is hampered by two problems. The first is incongruity of decision-making.
EU homeland security initiatives split into those steered by the European Commission in the name of the 27 members as a whole, known as first-pillar decisions, and third-pillar decisions handled on a strict intergovernmental basis among the 27 capitals. Each follows separate legislative approval procedures, whose complexity makes them virtually impossible to explain to the public.The other obstacle is also legal: There is no formal linkage between the 27 EU countries’ third-pillar-based external military and
defense decisions and those of the EU homeland security agenda.In a word, it means the union could not deal seamlessly with a terrorist event that spilled across its international border or within its internal ones.
It’s completely paradoxical, one EU official said April 17. Here we have the 27 [nations] launching one essentially supra-national initiative after another, and yet they still insist on national vetoes and lip service to ‘sovereignty’ that is eroding away with every measure.
Officials from the Council of Ministers bristled at allegations that EU nations were not doing enough. The council directlyrepresents the 27 national capitals.The council’s situation center, which gathers and analyzes intelligence from national authorities, now produces many reports on terrorist activity, and this is coordinated with national experts and operation units across the EU, said Johannes Vos, head of the council’s policy unit for police and customs cooperation. We’re also working closely with each member state to see how they are setting up their counterterrorist structures in all aspects. We all know that fighting terrorism has to be a group effort.
As for closing the European Union’s operational gap between external military defense policy and the internal homeland security agenda, some suggestions have begun to circulate.For instance, France and other continental EU states say national coastal authorities should start working more closely together to protect the common external maritime border. However, as one EU diplomat said, The U.K. is blocking this in the name of national sovereignty. Many of us don’t agree with that attitude.E-mail: btigner@defensenews.com.
Olmert will not resign after report By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer APR 30,07
JERUSALEM - A government commission that probed Israel's summer war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday of severe failure, saying he hastily led the country into the conflict without a comprehensive plan. A close aide said Olmert would not resign, despite strident calls for his resignation from coalition partners as well as opponents.A copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press cited a severe failure in the lack of judgment, responsibility and caution.Olmert, after receiving a copy of the panel's findings, said that failures will be remedied.
The report was being officially released later Monday.Olmert and his defense minister, Amir Peretz, who took office with limited security experience less than two months before the war, already had lost much of their public support because of the conflict, launched when Hezbollah guerrillas captured two soldiers and killed three others in a cross-border raid on July 12.Relying heavily on massive airstrikes recommended by the military chief, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, Olmert pledged to his people that Israel would crush Hezbollah and force return of the captured soldiers. Neither goal was accomplished, and Halutz already has resigned.
Cabinet Secretary Israel Maimon said the prime minister is not considering resignation.It is right to state as clearly as possible: The report lists difficulties, failures and mistakes by all the leaders, including the prime minister, Maimon told Israel Radio. The question is what do we do now.
Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with nearly 4,000 rockets, halting only when the U.N. Security Council imposed a cease-fire, its short-range rocket capacity intact. Israel launched a late, costly ground offensive with the Security Council nearing completion of its cease-fire resolution.In 34 days of fighting, between 1,035 and 1,191 Lebanese civilians and combatants were killed, as were 119 Israeli soldiers and 39 civilians.The report covers the first six days of the war, when Israel battered Lebanon with massive airstrikes as Hezbollah pounded Israel with rockets. Also, the report looks at developments during the six years that followed Israel's overnight pullout from southern Lebanon in 2000 — tracing the Hezbollah buildup across from the Israeli border.
According to TV reports confirmed by Israeli officials, the commission appointed by Olmert and chaired by a retired judge, Eliyahu Winograd, aims withering criticism at Olmert and Peretz over their decision-making, inexperience and failure to question plans presented by the military.The report also says that Halutz, a former air force commander, did not provide political leaders with a sufficient range of military options, played down the rocket threat and silenced dissenting opinions within the army command, Israeli media said.
The Winograd panel does not have the authority to fire officials, but the scathing report could ignite public protests and demonstrations, coupled with political infighting, that could force the resignation of Olmert and Peretz. Noisy public demonstrations were expected to back demands that they step down.Already Sunday, a demand their for resignations came from Labor Party lawmaker Ofir Pines-Paz, who is challenging Peretz for party leadership in a May primary election.They should follow the example of Halutz, who did not wait for the Winograd commission to show him the door, he said.Opposition lawmakers from the dovish Meretz as well as the hard-line National Religious Party also called for the government to step down.
Olmert's office declined comment until the report's official publication, but aides said Olmert was confident he would weather the storm and that he had no intention of quitting. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Vice Premier Shimon Peres pledged that the report's findings would be taken seriously.
We shall correct everything that calls for correction, he said. Olmert's popular support is nearing single figures in newspaper polls, mostly because of the Lebanon war, but also because of allegations of his involvement in alleged corruption including real estate deals and undue interference in government transactions to favor friends and backers. Olmert has denied any wrongdoing.
For Zion I will not be Silent. US Rabbis Arrested
by Baruch Gordon (INN) APR 29,07
On April 17, 2007, some 50 Rabbis, students, and laymen staged a sit-in protest calling on the United Nations Secretary General to expel Iran from the international body for its threats to wipe the State of Israel off the map. The protest began with a demonstration at the Iranian mission to the UN, and continued with a march through the streets of New York to the Isaiah Peace Wall.The day begins with a protest at the Iranian Mission to the UN It was under this wall bearing Isaiah's prophecy of world peace that the group of distinguished Jewish leaders acted on the prophet's declaration: For Zion's sake I will not be silent and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be still. In a glaring act of civildisobedience, the US Jewish leaders sat down on the busy New York City sidewalk obstructing pedestrian traffic.
New York City police warned the activists to voluntarily clear the way or face arrest and charges of disorderly conduct. The Rabbis chose the latter option, and one by one, they were handcuffed and hauled away. Three paddy-wagons of rabbis, students, and lay leaders were brought to Central Booking where they joined together in a spirited afternoon Mincha prayer service. They were later released.All streams of American Judaism were represented. In the words of participant Rabbi Mark Ankcorn, There were Orthodox, Conservative, Traditional, and Reform rabbis all in custody for protesting at the UN, and I was proud to be with them.
US President Meets with 2 Top European Union Leaders
By VOA News 30 April 2007
U.S. President Bush (r) meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, 30 Apr 2007 The United States is hosting an annual summit on economic and security issues with two top European Union leaders Monday at the White House.President George W. Bush is holding talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as Germany currently holds the rotating EU presidency, and with the head of the European Commission, Jose Barroso.
The U.S. and EU leaders are also expected to sign several economic agreements, including an open skies aviation deal aimed at boosting trans-Atlantic commerce. Mr. Bush has refused to commit the United States to limiting its production of greenhouse emissions, saying it would hurt the U.S. economy. The 27-nation EU agreed last month to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe by 20 percent by the year 2020.
Scientists say greenhouse emissions are a key factor in climate changes responsible for global warming.
IDF Chief of Staff: Gaza Ground Offensive is Needed
by Hillel Fendel (INN) APR 30,07
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi says the only way to stop the Palestinian terrorists from firing Kassam rockets from Gaza into Israel is via an IDF ground operation. He said this to the Cabinet ministers at Sunday's weekly Cabinet meeting. Our helicopters and artillery fire can reduce the Kassam rocket firings, Ashkenazi said, but cannot prevent them completely.The Deputy Head of the General Security Service, who was also present at the Cabinet meeting, said that all the raw materials used to launch Kassams in Gaza, except some Egyptian-made explosives, are smuggled in from Israel via the Karni Crossing.The GSS official also said that Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists continue to be trained militarily in Iran and Syria.
Olmert: Restraint Will End
Opening the meeting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Israel will not be able to restrain itself for long in the face of the continued Kassam rocket fire from Gaza. We have no interest in escalating the situation, Olmert said, but we cannot ignore the continued Kassams and the attempts of terrorists to infiltrate into Israel.The Prime Minister said that Israel had warned the Palestinian Authority that though it is not interested in escalation, we will not avoid taking the necessary steps necessary to protect our citizens living in the south.Just last Tuesday, on Independence Day, Hamas unleashed a barrage of rockets and mortar shells on Sderot and environs, causing damage but no serious injuries.
Intelligence sources say the attack was meant to camouflage an attempt to kidnap a soldier and/or a major terrorist attack in the area.
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one
week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
NOW I BELIEVE THEY ARE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, NORTH OF THE DOME OF THE (MOSQUE). I BELIEVE THE 3RD TEMPLE WILL BE REBUILT BY THE DOME OF THE SPIRITS TO THE NORTH OF THE ISLAMIC MOSQUE. THE BIBLE SAYS THE OUTERCOURT WILL BE GIVIN TO THE GENTILES IN REVELATION 11:1-2
Campaign to Upgrade the Old City's Small Wall
by Hillel Fendel (INN) APR 30,07
Unknown to most visitors to the Western Wall, the remnant of the Holy Temple compound extends to the north far beyond what they can see - and a campaign is underway to publicize this.
The Western Wall is a supporting wall of the Temple Mount complex, on which the two Holy Temples were built approximately 2,850 and 2,350 years ago, respectively. Though it is technically outside the Temple area, it has special sanctity; the rabbinic Sages taught that the Divine Presence would never leave the Western Wall. Of the nearly 500 meters of length of the Western Wall, roughly 200 meters of the southern end [to the right of the worshipers] are easily accessible today - but the remainder is just as sacred. Another 100 meters or so are included in a tour of the Western Wall Tunnels. Above these tunnels, near the Iron Gate entrance to the Temple Mount and on Temple Mount floor level, is an open area facing a short segment of the Wall. This is the area known as the Kotel HaKatan.
One Would Not Know It
Though it is off the beaten track, the Kotel HaKatan is actually slightly more holy than the familiar Western Wall plaza, because of its closer proximity to the Holy of Holies of the ancient Temples.
However, one would not know this upon visiting it - for it is hard to get to, has no trappings of a holy site, and is not even protected 24 hours a day.A no-littering sign is an improvement, but what we really want is a sign saying that this is a holy site and that it should be treated appropriately. An ad-hoc committee named Kotleinu, Our Wall, is working to promote and improve conditions at the Kotel HaKatan. The committee comprises mostly residents of the Old City of Jerusalem who are concerned that the area is not treated with the respect it deserves. The group says that of late, for the first time ever, the Tourism Ministry department in charge of Holy Sites has committed to upkeep the Kotel HaKatan. Deputy Director-General Rafi Ben-Hur acknowledged that the Ministry is responsible for the area, but said that special budgeting must be obtained before this responsibility can be actualized.Despite this, some recent improvements at the site include a police presence during daylight hours, a security camera monitoring the area and the access road, municipality-provided street-sweeping - and even a sign that says Do not litter.A no-littering sign is an improvement, an active Kotleinu member told Arutz-7, but what we really want is a sign saying that this is a holy site and that
it should be treated appropriately.
Prayer Services and Arab Bicycles
Yeshivat HaKotel maintains a daily afternoon prayer service there, and other groups and yeshivot also pray there on Shabbatot. This, despite the fact that there are no chairs or prayer stands at the site; even prayer-books cannot be stored there, as there is no security at night. Sometimes, Arab children pass through there with their bicycles, or Arab women with their shopping bags - reminiscent of the scene of the regular Western Wall up until several decades ago.If the Ministry sees that tourists from both in and out of Israel frequent the place and are interested in it, Kotleinu feels, this will provide an incentive to upgrade it. This is why we have started a letter-writing campaign to this effect.
Kotleinu asks concerned citizens and tourists to join the campaign for improving Kotel HaKatan conditions by visiting the Small Wall and by writing to or faxing (02-6496157) Tourism Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch.
Guardians of the faith APR 30,07
By Moshe Arens
The holiest sites of Christianity and Judaism, as well as major sacred Muslim sites, are located in the Land of Israel. The major Christian holy sites are in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth; the main Muslim holy sites are on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and in Hebron; and the major Jewish holy sites are the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. All Israeli governments have shown great respect for the Muslim and Christian holy sites and proper deference to the international Muslim and Christian communities, making a great effort to preserve the sites and to assure free access. For some strange reason, this is not true for the sites sacred to religious Jews.
Although great care has been given to the Western Wall and the large plaza built at its foot, the Temple Mount itself is frequently not accessible to Jews. And the Cave of the Patriarchs has been left in the care of the small Jewish community that has reestablished itself in Hebron, and the Muslim religious authorities. It reminds one of the days of the British Mandate, when Jews were not permitted to bring Torah scrolls to the Western Wall or blow the shofar there, or to ascend beyond the seventh step on the stairs leading to the Cave of the Patriarchs edifice.
When Ehud Barak, in the dying days of his ill-fated government, offered Yasser Arafat control of the Temple Mount in the Camp David negotiations without arousing a storm of protest in Israel, this affirmed that preserving and maintaining access to Jewish holy sites was not very high on some Israelis' priority list. Where does this cavalier attitude toward Jewish holy sites, expressed by so many Israelis, come from? It is true that many of these Israelis are secular, and some even are atheist. But why this lack of respect for the religious citizens of Israel and the places they hold sacred, while showing proper respect for the Muslim and Christian holy sites? There seems to be something almost perverse here, possibly in need of psychological analysis. The dislike that many Israelis, especially those on the left, have for the religious Jewish community may very well be at the root of this
phenomenon.
When it comes to the small Jewish community in Hebron, the fury shown by some Israelis has no bounds. They claim the Hebron community should never have been permitted to settle there in the first place; that once they were there, they should have been forcibly evicted; and that this should now be done at the first opportunity. Now that the community has acquired the halfway house between Kiryat Arba and the Cave of the Patriarchs, the drums are being beaten again: Under no circumstances should they be allowed to occupy this structure. Defense Minister Amir Peretz and the entire Labor Party, supported by Meretz, are now pledging to ensure that they do not.
It is true that the thuggish behavior of many in that community is intolerable. Left to their own devices and protected by the Israel Defense Forces, they insult Hebron's Arab residents, throw rocks and damage property. Their unruly behavior shames many Israelis, religious and secular, who value the historic and religious importance of the Cave of the Patriarchs and do not want the 1929 massacre of
Hebron's Jewish community to remain history's final verdict. However, the neglect of Israeli governments and the absence of a clear policy has left this small band of zealots with the task of assuring access to one of the holiest sites in Judaism. As things stand now, if they were not there, Jews would not be able to get even to the seventh step. Let's think again before we decide to throw them out of the halfway house. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
NUCLEAR TERRORISM: HOW REAL IS THE THREAT?
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., April 30, 2007) To answer the question many of you have emailed me about: yes, I am working on another novel, Dead Heat. I'm about half-way done at the moment. I hope to finish it later this summer and, Lord willing, it will release in the spring of 2008. A political thriller set in the midst of a presidential campaign, the novel explores a what if scenario that concerns me more every day: what if a terrorist network or terrorist regime were to actually launch a nuclear attack against the United States? How might they do it? What cities might they target? How would we stop them? How would we retaliate? To develop the most realistic scenario possible, I've been meeting with top military and intelligence experts in the U.S. and the Middle East. While these conversations have been off the record, I can tell you that there is a growing (if reluctant) consensus that it's not a matter of if but when such an attack, or series of attacks, will occur.
In February of this year, for example, James E. Goodby of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies wrote: It's only a matter of time. That's what the experts say when asked whether a terrorist organization might detonate an atom bomb in an American city.
Yossef Bodansky, former director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, said in 2004 that the United States is losing the war on terrorism and faces an inevitable al-Qaida attack with weapons of mass destruction that will be worse than 9/11 All of the warnings we have today indicate that a major strike something more horrible than anything we've seen before is all but inevitable.Graham Allison, author of the 2004 book, Nuclear Terrorism, warned: If policy makers in Washington keep doing what they are currently doing about the threat, a nuclear terrorist attack on America is likely to occur in the next decade. And if one lengthens the time frame, a nuclear strike is inevitable. Former Senator Sam Nunn (D-Georgia), once head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told National Geographic in 2005: Increasingly, we are being warned that an act of nuclear terrorism is inevitable. I am not willing to concede that point. But I do believe that unless we greatly elevate our effort [to secure nuclear materials] and the speed of our response, we could face disaster.
Now ex-CIA chief George Tenet is issuing the same warning, saying al-Qaeda's top priority is obtaining nuclear weapons to attack the U.S. directly.
Excerpts from an L.A. Times story: The main threat posed by Al Qaeda lies in its quest to obtain a nuclear bomb, former CIA Director George J. Tenet writes in his new book. In At the Center of the Storm, Tenet writes at some length about Al Qaeda's attempts to obtain or develop a nuclear weapon.
I am convinced that this is where [Osama bin Laden] and his operatives desperately want to go, Tenet writes. They understand that bombings by cars, trucks, trains and planes will get them some headlines, to be sure. But if they manage to set off a mushroom cloud, they will make history. Tenet details several attempts by the CIA to prevent Al Qaeda from acquiring nuclear weapons. Just weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, a Pakistani organization, Ummah Tameer-e-Nau, or UTN, had met in Afghanistan with Bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, to discuss how Al Qaeda should go about building a nuclear device, the CIA was told. Tenet also sketches out details of an attempt by Al Qaeda leaders in Saudi Arabia to buy what he described as three black-market Russian nuclear devices in 2002 and 2003.
EXCERPTS FROM NUCLEAR TERRORISM, by Graham Allison:
--Every day 30,000 trucks, 6,500 rail cars, and 140 ships deliver more than 50,000 cargo containers into the United States, but only 5 percent ever get screened. But even this screening, which rarely involves physical inspection, may not detect nuclear weapons or fissile material.
--There are approximately 130 nuclear research reactors in 40 countries. Two dozen of these have enough highly enriched uranium for one or more nuclear bombs.
--If terrorists bought or stole a complete weapon, they could set it off immediately. If instead they bought fissile material, they could build a crude but working nuclear bomb within a year.
--In Russia, 10,000 nuclear warheads and fissile material for 30,000 additional weapons remain vulnerable to theft.
--Pakistan's black marketers, led by the country's leading nuclear scientist, A. Q. Khan, have sold comprehensive nuclear starter kits that included advanced centrifuge components, blueprints for nuclear warheads, uranium samples in quantities sufficient to make a small bomb, and even provided personal consulting services to assist nuclear development.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
TURKS PROTEST ISLAMIC ROOTED GOVERNMENT
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Earthquake hits Solomon Islands. 3-The Nation's Weather. 4-Israel wraps up West Bank war games. 5-Inquiring minds lead to saved souls at Creation Museum. 6-EU pledges to help fight diseases under Millennium Goals. 7-Israel denies Olmert comments on Iran missile raid. 8-Jerusalem Day: By Evans K Chama. 09-Russian leader newly combative, defiant. 10-Turks protest Islamic-rooted government.
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)
Earthquake hits Solomon Islands Sun Apr 29, 3:31 AM ET
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - A moderate earthquake toppled several houses Sunday in the Solomon Islands near where a quake and tsunami killed 52 people earlier this month, an official said. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 5.4 quake struck mid-afternoon local time, 25 miles southeast of the region's main town of Gizo and 6 miles beneath the earth's crust. The quake was too small to pose a tsunami risk.Provincial government member Danny Kennedy said there were reports of houses being toppled on the island of Mono in the western Solomons, but he said Gizo appeared to have suffered little damage. There were no reports of casualties.It certainly shook us quite a lot, Kennedy said.A magnitude 8.1 quake and tsunami on April 2 killed 52 people, including 33 on Gizo island.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Sun Apr 29, 7:14 AM ET
Forecasters predicted thunderstorms in the Southwest and a cold front in the Plains, while conditions in the Southwest were expected to remain dry on Sunday. A slow-moving storm system was expected to crawl through the Southwest, bringing widespread showers and thunderstorms and possible flash-flooding. A separate system was expected to move through the Northeast.A cold front was expected from the northern Plains to the Great Lakes, bringing rain showers. In the Northwest, a Pacific cold +front was expected, bringing some rain showers.
Conditions in the Southeast were expected to be warm and clear.
High temperatures in parts of the Southwest were expected to rise into the 90s and 100s, while the Plains could see temperatures in the 70s, 80s and 90s. The Northeast was expected to experience a range of temperatures, from the 40s to the 70s.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Saturday ranged from a low of 19 degrees at Raco, Mich., to a high of 110 degrees at Death Valley, Calif.
Israel wraps up West Bank war games Fri Apr 27, 8:31 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel has ended extensive military manoeuvres in the occupied West Bank that were designed to assimilate lessons learned from last year's war in Lebanon, a senior officer said on Friday. For the last 40 hours we have conducted large ground exercises in the Judean desert, Lieutenant Colonel Elad Ratsabi, the commander of the elite Shelah unit, told AFP by telephone.
These exercises were organised to deal with various scenarios and to take on board lessons learnt after the Second Lebanon War, he said.The war games mobilised a brigade, including artillery, armoured vehicles, infantry and sappers, and followed two and a half months of intensive training, Ratsabi said. A brigade numbers about 2,000 soldiers.A government commission into the conduct and failures of the Lebanon war between Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah is to publish partial findings on Monday, amid ongoing calls for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign.The commission was established on September 17 under pressure from thousands of army reservists who complained about inadequate preparation for battle, as well as perceived military and political mismanagement of the conflict.
Inquiring minds lead to saved souls at Creation Museum
allie martin-OneNewsNow.com-April 27, 2007
Workers at a museum that will focus on the biblical account of creation say the facility is changing lives, even though it has not yet officially opened. Most recently, a 28-year-old construction worker accepted Christ as Savior and Lord after working at the Creation Museum site for a few months.Ken Ham is president of Answers in Genesis (AIG), the biblical creationist and Christian apologetics group that is opening the Creation Museum, its $27-million project in northern Kentucky near Cincinnati. So far, he says, ten contractors have been saved while working at the museum, where many of the workers hear the gospel as they inquire about the museum.Ministry staff and volunteers have been working on the Creation Museum for several years, Ham says; however, he notes, You also hire people from temp agencies and also have outside contractors that come in, and they start asking about the museum. And for many of these outside workers, he explains, we find that they have no background understanding of the Bible at all, and they say things like, Oh, I didn't know the Bible taught about that.
At that point, these curious workers hear about the flood, and then they hear about the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, and the Tower of Babel, and so on, the AIG spokesman notes. Then, he says, what really happens is, as they're asking about the museum, they actually hear what the Bible is teaching, and they hear the gospel and then they start to ask more questions.That is because, for many of these people, they just have a lack of knowledge. They've just never heard, Ham asserts. That is why the Bible instructs Christians to go out into all the world and preach the gospel, he points out. If they haven't heard, we need to go out and tell them.All this is exciting too, the biblical creationist says, because when they come to the museum here, they recognize [that] we're not just saying, Here's what the Bible says. We're also saying, And we have this evidence to back it up.The Answers in Genesis Creation Museum is set to open Memorial Day, May 28. The attraction will feature more than 80 animatronic dinosaurs, a room housing a replica of Noah's Ark, and rooms portraying Babylon and Eden.American Family News Network - All Rights Reserved
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).
EU pledges to help fight diseases under Millennium Goals
CommissionHealth/Consumer 28 April 2007 - Issue : 727
The European Union reiterated the commitment to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis on a global scale and help meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The Council comprising of the Foreign Ministers of 27 members states of the EU on April 232 highlighted the important role the European Union plays in confronting these diseases and urged concerned to the pursue goals and objectives set out in the 2000 UN Millennium Declaration and allied proposals to fight against HIV/AIDS globally.The Council recognises that the fight against HIV/AIDS can only be successful if a comprehensive approach is taken that includes scaling up significantly towards the goal of universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010, it stated in its conclusions.
Emphasising the importance of achieving sufficient, long-term, predicable, sustainable and increased funding to tackle HIV/AIDS, the Council declared, The EU will collectively maintain and increase funding to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) and welcomes also the development and exploration of innovative sources of financing including through such mechanism as the International Drug Purchase Facility (UNITAID), the International Finance Facility (IFF), Advance Market Commitment for Vaccines (AMC) and others.The Council called for sponsoring “an EU or International Conference at the expert level with a wide group of stakeholders including representatives of the WHO, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), civil society, including the International Partnership for Microbicides and the Association for Microbiocide developments, regulatory authorities from developing countries and the pharmaceutical industry, on expanding HIV/AIDS preventive options.
The EU commitment not only to recognise the importance of the ongoing programming process for developing counties, but also to provide the necessary funding through different European financial instruments comes as a shot in the arm for the efforts around the world to fight these diseases especially HIV/AIDS.
Israel denies Olmert comments on Iran missile raid Sat Apr 28, 8:30 AM ET
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office denied on Saturday he had told a German magazine Iran's disputed nuclear program could be severely hit by firing 1,000 cruise missiles in a 10-day attack. Germany's Focus magazine said its reporter, Amir Taheri, asked Olmert in an interview whether military action would be an option if Iran continued to defy the United Nations. It quoted Olmert as responding: Nobody is ruling it out."It is impossible perhaps to destroy the entire nuclear program but it would be possible to damage it in such a way that it would be set back years, Focus quoted Olmert as saying. It would take 10 days and would involve the firing of 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles, it quoted him as saying.
Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, said the prime minister had spoken to the author of the Focus article, but she said Olmert did not make the comments that were attributed to him.Eisin said the meeting was not an interview and was conducted for background purposes, on the understanding it would not be used.The prime minister did not say these things, Eisin said.Ulrich Schmidla, a foreign affairs editor at Focus magazine, said he would try to contact the reporter who conducted the interview, who was a regular contributor.Iran says it is developing nuclear technology for power generation, but the West fears it is trying to build a bomb and two sets of U.N. sanctions have been imposed on Tehran.European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana urged Washington on Friday to speak directly to Iran over its nuclear program and said he was sure Tehran was ready for such talks.Focus quoted Olmert as saying UN sanctions should be given a chance to work before military action was considered.
We must give the (U.N.) process time to take effect, it quoted him as saying. We have no intention of attacking Iran at the moment.Olmert was quoted as saying he doubted whether Iran's nuclear program was as far advanced as Tehran said. I don't think that Iran is about to cross the nuclear technology threshold as its leaders claim, he was quoted as saying. We still have time to stop them.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proclaimed Iran's ability to enrich on an industrial scale, but U.N. inspectors say it remains at test level.Iran would face further sanctions if it has not stopped enrichment by a new Security Council deadline of May 24.
ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION IN SPRING
MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).
MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.
LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people (ISRAEL) and upon thy holy city, (JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Jerusalem Day: By Evans K. Chama SUN APR 29,07
May 16, 2007 Israel celebrates the 40th anniversary of Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day; the commemoration of the unification of Jerusalem after the 6-day war of 1967. In 1947, the UN decided to create a Jewish and an Arab state out of the Land of Israel of which Jerusalem was to remain neutral, belonging to neither state. That couldn’t be realised exactly as planned. When the British mandate ended on 15th May 1948, Seven Arab states waged war on Israel that ended in dividing Jerusalem. The East of Jerusalem, including the Old City, occupied by Arabs, belonged to Jordan while the West of Jerusalem was in the state of Israel. The borders were strict, no going and coming between these two peoples. The matter nonetheless remained unsettled for Jerusalem was an organic, inseparable part of Israel in the Jewish conscience, belief and history. And Jews have always demonstrated against loss of Jerusalem in history.
Some refused to eat meat or drink wine when nothing of it could be sacrificed no longer nor poured on the altar as libation, after losing Jerusalem and the Temple. Even in times of joy a Jew would not forget the lost Jerusalem. In the house, he would leave a patch of wall unfinished, at the wedding a groom’s forehead would be dabbed with ashes, the jewellery of the bride removed, and a cup broken. Jews are enjoined, If I forget you, Jerusalem, Rabbi Yehudah Prero said, let my right hand forget its skill.A Jew cannot make a home outside Israel, not matter his success in Diaspora he remains a slave; subject to immoral influences. The land of Israel is the holiest of all lands, and the city of Jerusalem the holiest in Israel. Only when in this holy land can a Jew be faithful to the Torah. Owing to this passion, such division of the City was unbearable and tension was already growing between Israel and Arabs states like Jordan, Syria, and Egypt, to mention some. War was in sight. Israel pre-emptied this situation and launched an attack on 5th June 1967; a war that lasted six days ending in Israel’s capture of the East of Jerusalem.
The Commander`s Speech of victory to the soldiers at the Temple Mount leaves no shadows of that Passion: For 2,000 years, the Temple Mount was off limits to the Jews. Until you, the paratroopers, came and returned it to the bosom of its people. The Western Wall, towards which every Jewish heart beats, is again in our hands…. To you has fallen the great privilege to complete the circle, to give back to the people its eternal capital and its sacred centre….Jerusalem is yours - forever.The Israel government was quick to effect the unification. The municipal area extended and Israel law applied in the whole City. Jews acquired houses in the newly conquered land. The garbage that had accumulated at the Western Wall, including the house around, was quickly cleared. The situation was quite delicate owing to different interests involved in the city. Firstly, for Jews, Israel is a land given to them as chosen people with Jerusalem as the citadel of God; his presence assured by the Temple. Then Arabs had lived here hundreds of years but all of a sudden became foreigners in the land they had known as theirs. The Arab Muslim world was also concerned about the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest place in Islam, which stands on the Temple Mount.
Christians too needed assurance, would they continue to have free access to their Holy Places; respecting the existing rights? Then, an international community. When Israeli Parliament declared Jerusalem, the undivided, eternal capital of the State of Israel in 1980 thirteen national embassies in Jerusalem closed as the declaration was against the UN resolution. However, the Israeli Government pledged commitment to make Jerusalem open to all members of different religions. In all these arrangements there is, of course, nothing that alters in the slightest degree any of the existing rights in the Holy Places, which the Government of Israel will respect in full. So Jerusalem Day, celebrated on Iyar 28, 8th month of the Jewish calendar, commemorates the re-possession of the entire city.
On this day k`eir shechubra la yachdav slogan is chanted that means The city which was reunited, based on Psalm122:3 The built-up Jerusalem is like a city that was joined together within itself. Even the festival Hallel, rarely used in Jewish liturgy, except at Passover and Independence day, is recited on this day because of the importance attached to Jerusalem, more than Israeli’s political power over the rest of the land of Israel. Crowds march around the city singing, dancing, and waving flags walking through the Old City to the Western Wall where speeches and festive dancing continue. This is a triumphal achievement for Jews. During the 19 years between the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and the Six Day War in 1967, Jews could not dare set foot in the Old City, no access therefore to their shrine. Only one possibility was open for them.
They used to climb the Mount Zion or the cemetery on Mount of Olives in order to set their eyes on the Temple Mount. Then, is it not just plain that Jerusalem Day is actually a Jewish feast? Well, today a Jew or an Arab can walk on the streets of East or West of Jerusalem, though their relationship still leaves much to desire. Besides, thousands of pilgrimages: Jews, Christians and Moslems pour into the city each day, free to worship and visit their Holy Places. If all that is the fruit of the unification, then, Jerusalem Day should be a celebration for many other people than Jews alone; and therefore a reason enough to be interested in the well-being of this Holy City. Therefore, if I do not pray for your peace Jerusalem, indeed, let my right hand forget its skill. Evans K. Chama 2007 A Missionary of Africa, studying theology in Jerusalem
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.
Russian leader newly combative, defiant By DOUGLAS BIRCH, Associated Press Writer Sat Apr 28, 8:41 PM ET
MOSCOW - As Vladimir Putin enters what could be the last year of his presidency, he has become more defiant of international pressure and more willing to challenge the United States and Europe.
Russia's affluence and stability, fueled by high oil prices, have given him the confidence to confront the West and to try to reassert the nation's influence as a world power. But Western critics warn the Kremlin's new assertiveness reflects renewed imperial ambitions and threatens its neighbors.Either way, the world appears to be entering a new period of accusation and acrimony in East-West relations with fresh fractures now appearing in fault lines resembling those that marked the Cold War.The Russians don't want a return to the Cold War, said Andrew Kuchins, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. But on issues they care about, they're going to play harder ball.In his state of the nation speech Thursday, Putin denounced what he said was foreign interference in Russia's internal affairs. Angered by a U.S. plan to place ballistic missile defenses in the Czech Republic and Poland, he threatened to walk away from an agreement that regulates the deployment of heavy non-nuclear weapons around Europe.
The Russian leader also rattled Washington in February with a closely watched and bellicose speech in Munich, accusing the United States of an overly aggressive American foreign policy.Russia has increased prices of oil and gas in the face of defiance from former Soviet states, briefly cutting off supplies in some cases.European officials watched the disruptions with growing concern about Russia's reliability as an energy supplier. The United States and others in the West have accused Russia of trying to use its vast energy resources as a political weapon.Some analysts say Putin has sought to turn back the clock by embracing the great power politics of the 19th century. Only this time, the Kremlin seems prepared to rely mainly on its economic clout and energy resources, rather than military force, to influence its neighbors.
Given Putin's overwhelming popularity at home, his successor who is scheduled to be elected in March 2008 is likely to be similarly combative.Dmitri Trenin, a scholar with the Carnegie Moscow Center, said Russia's new assertiveness is the logical result of the trauma it suffered after the Soviet collapse.Putin's criticism of the West kind of clears the air, he said, by demanding Russia's opinions be respected. That follows a decade when the Kremlin felt powerless in its dealings with the West in general and the United States in particular.There are three models of United States-Russian collaboration, at least as seen by Putin, Trenin said in a recent interview. The Gorbachev period can be summarized as attempts at partnership through concessions. The Yeltsin period, as partnership through submission. Putin wants a partnership built on competition.From the Soviet collapse through the end of Putin's first term in office, analysts said, Russia could do little more than complain as NATO expanded into Eastern Europe and the Baltic nations, and Western influence grew across the states of the former U.S.S.R. That changed following Putin's re-election in March 2004.
This time, under Putin II, they are resisting that openly and firmly, Trenin said.Neither has Russia, as many hoped, adopted Europe's political and social norms in particular, a commitment to political pluralism.That is not happening, he said. Russia is not going down the path of Europeanization.
Moscow's new aggressive posture abroad, many foreign analysts agree, is possible partly because of the perception that U.S. global influence has been weakened by the Iraq war. It's also due to the growing confidence that Russia has from its robust trillion-dollar, oil-fueled economy, which has averaged 6.7 percent annual growth since the disastrous financial crisis of 1998. Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister who is now a pro-Western opposition leader, says in an article in the current edition of the influential journal Foreign Affairs that joint action is required by the West to blunt Moscow's imperial ambitions.
The Russia that emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991 came with borders that reflect no historical precedent, Tymoshenko wrote. Accordingly, Russia is devoting much of its energy to restoring political influence in, if not control of, its lost empire.The Russian Foreign Ministry on April 16 took the extraordinary step of responding directly to Tymoshenko's article, denouncing it as a kind of anti-Russian manifesto and an attempt to once again draw dividing lines in Europe and return the world as a minimum into the Cold War atmosphere.Douglas Birch is The Associated Press bureau chief in Moscow.
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.
Turks protest Islamic-rooted government BENJAMIN HARVEY, Associated Press Writer APR 29,07
ISTANBUL, Turkey - At least 300,000 Turks waving the red national flag flooded central Istanbul on Sunday to demand the resignation of the government, saying the Islamic roots of Turkey's leaders threatened to destroy the country's modern foundations. Like the protesters who gathered for the second large anti-government demonstration in two weeks Turkey's powerful secular military has accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of tolerating radical Islamic circles.They want to drag Turkey to the dark ages, said 63-year-old Ahmet Yurdakul, a retired government employee who attended the protest.
More than 300,000 people took part in a similar rally in Ankara two weeks ago.
Sunday's demonstration was organized more than a week ago, but it came a day after Erdogan's government rejected the military's warning about the disputed presidential election and called it interference that is unacceptable in a democracy.The ruling party candidate, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, failed to win a first-round victory Friday in a parliamentary presidential vote marked by tensions between secularists and the pro-Islamic government. Most opposition legislators boycotted the vote and challenged its validity in the Constitutional Court.The military said Friday night that it was gravely concerned and indicated it was willing to become more openly involved in the process a statement some interpreted as an ultimatum to the government to rein in officials who promote Islamic initiatives.Sunday's crowd chanted that the presidential palace was closed to imams.Some said Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc was an enemy of the secular system, because he said the next president should be pious.In the 1920s, with the Ottoman Empire in ruins, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk imposed Western laws, replaced Arabic script with the Latin alphabet, banned Islamic dress and granted women the right to vote.
The ruling party, however, has supported religious schools and tried to lift the ban on Islamic head scarves in public offices and schools. Secularists are also uncomfortable with the idea of Gul's wife, Hayrunisa, being in the presidential palace because she wears the traditional Muslim head scarf.We don't want a covered woman in Ataturk's presidential palace, said Ayse Bari, a 67-year-old housewife. We want civilized, modern people there.The military, one of the most respected institutions in Turkey, regards itself as the guardian of the secular system and has staged three coups since 1960.Neither Sharia, nor coup but fully democratic Turkey, read a banner carried by a demonstrator on Sunday.
Associated Press Writer Selcan Hacaoglu in Ankara contributed to this report.
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)
Earthquake hits Solomon Islands Sun Apr 29, 3:31 AM ET
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - A moderate earthquake toppled several houses Sunday in the Solomon Islands near where a quake and tsunami killed 52 people earlier this month, an official said. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 5.4 quake struck mid-afternoon local time, 25 miles southeast of the region's main town of Gizo and 6 miles beneath the earth's crust. The quake was too small to pose a tsunami risk.Provincial government member Danny Kennedy said there were reports of houses being toppled on the island of Mono in the western Solomons, but he said Gizo appeared to have suffered little damage. There were no reports of casualties.It certainly shook us quite a lot, Kennedy said.A magnitude 8.1 quake and tsunami on April 2 killed 52 people, including 33 on Gizo island.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Sun Apr 29, 7:14 AM ET
Forecasters predicted thunderstorms in the Southwest and a cold front in the Plains, while conditions in the Southwest were expected to remain dry on Sunday. A slow-moving storm system was expected to crawl through the Southwest, bringing widespread showers and thunderstorms and possible flash-flooding. A separate system was expected to move through the Northeast.A cold front was expected from the northern Plains to the Great Lakes, bringing rain showers. In the Northwest, a Pacific cold +front was expected, bringing some rain showers.
Conditions in the Southeast were expected to be warm and clear.
High temperatures in parts of the Southwest were expected to rise into the 90s and 100s, while the Plains could see temperatures in the 70s, 80s and 90s. The Northeast was expected to experience a range of temperatures, from the 40s to the 70s.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Saturday ranged from a low of 19 degrees at Raco, Mich., to a high of 110 degrees at Death Valley, Calif.
Israel wraps up West Bank war games Fri Apr 27, 8:31 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel has ended extensive military manoeuvres in the occupied West Bank that were designed to assimilate lessons learned from last year's war in Lebanon, a senior officer said on Friday. For the last 40 hours we have conducted large ground exercises in the Judean desert, Lieutenant Colonel Elad Ratsabi, the commander of the elite Shelah unit, told AFP by telephone.
These exercises were organised to deal with various scenarios and to take on board lessons learnt after the Second Lebanon War, he said.The war games mobilised a brigade, including artillery, armoured vehicles, infantry and sappers, and followed two and a half months of intensive training, Ratsabi said. A brigade numbers about 2,000 soldiers.A government commission into the conduct and failures of the Lebanon war between Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah is to publish partial findings on Monday, amid ongoing calls for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign.The commission was established on September 17 under pressure from thousands of army reservists who complained about inadequate preparation for battle, as well as perceived military and political mismanagement of the conflict.
Inquiring minds lead to saved souls at Creation Museum
allie martin-OneNewsNow.com-April 27, 2007
Workers at a museum that will focus on the biblical account of creation say the facility is changing lives, even though it has not yet officially opened. Most recently, a 28-year-old construction worker accepted Christ as Savior and Lord after working at the Creation Museum site for a few months.Ken Ham is president of Answers in Genesis (AIG), the biblical creationist and Christian apologetics group that is opening the Creation Museum, its $27-million project in northern Kentucky near Cincinnati. So far, he says, ten contractors have been saved while working at the museum, where many of the workers hear the gospel as they inquire about the museum.Ministry staff and volunteers have been working on the Creation Museum for several years, Ham says; however, he notes, You also hire people from temp agencies and also have outside contractors that come in, and they start asking about the museum. And for many of these outside workers, he explains, we find that they have no background understanding of the Bible at all, and they say things like, Oh, I didn't know the Bible taught about that.
At that point, these curious workers hear about the flood, and then they hear about the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, and the Tower of Babel, and so on, the AIG spokesman notes. Then, he says, what really happens is, as they're asking about the museum, they actually hear what the Bible is teaching, and they hear the gospel and then they start to ask more questions.That is because, for many of these people, they just have a lack of knowledge. They've just never heard, Ham asserts. That is why the Bible instructs Christians to go out into all the world and preach the gospel, he points out. If they haven't heard, we need to go out and tell them.All this is exciting too, the biblical creationist says, because when they come to the museum here, they recognize [that] we're not just saying, Here's what the Bible says. We're also saying, And we have this evidence to back it up.The Answers in Genesis Creation Museum is set to open Memorial Day, May 28. The attraction will feature more than 80 animatronic dinosaurs, a room housing a replica of Noah's Ark, and rooms portraying Babylon and Eden.American Family News Network - All Rights Reserved
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).
EU pledges to help fight diseases under Millennium Goals
CommissionHealth/Consumer 28 April 2007 - Issue : 727
The European Union reiterated the commitment to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis on a global scale and help meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The Council comprising of the Foreign Ministers of 27 members states of the EU on April 232 highlighted the important role the European Union plays in confronting these diseases and urged concerned to the pursue goals and objectives set out in the 2000 UN Millennium Declaration and allied proposals to fight against HIV/AIDS globally.The Council recognises that the fight against HIV/AIDS can only be successful if a comprehensive approach is taken that includes scaling up significantly towards the goal of universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010, it stated in its conclusions.
Emphasising the importance of achieving sufficient, long-term, predicable, sustainable and increased funding to tackle HIV/AIDS, the Council declared, The EU will collectively maintain and increase funding to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) and welcomes also the development and exploration of innovative sources of financing including through such mechanism as the International Drug Purchase Facility (UNITAID), the International Finance Facility (IFF), Advance Market Commitment for Vaccines (AMC) and others.The Council called for sponsoring “an EU or International Conference at the expert level with a wide group of stakeholders including representatives of the WHO, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), civil society, including the International Partnership for Microbicides and the Association for Microbiocide developments, regulatory authorities from developing countries and the pharmaceutical industry, on expanding HIV/AIDS preventive options.
The EU commitment not only to recognise the importance of the ongoing programming process for developing counties, but also to provide the necessary funding through different European financial instruments comes as a shot in the arm for the efforts around the world to fight these diseases especially HIV/AIDS.
Israel denies Olmert comments on Iran missile raid Sat Apr 28, 8:30 AM ET
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office denied on Saturday he had told a German magazine Iran's disputed nuclear program could be severely hit by firing 1,000 cruise missiles in a 10-day attack. Germany's Focus magazine said its reporter, Amir Taheri, asked Olmert in an interview whether military action would be an option if Iran continued to defy the United Nations. It quoted Olmert as responding: Nobody is ruling it out."It is impossible perhaps to destroy the entire nuclear program but it would be possible to damage it in such a way that it would be set back years, Focus quoted Olmert as saying. It would take 10 days and would involve the firing of 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles, it quoted him as saying.
Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, said the prime minister had spoken to the author of the Focus article, but she said Olmert did not make the comments that were attributed to him.Eisin said the meeting was not an interview and was conducted for background purposes, on the understanding it would not be used.The prime minister did not say these things, Eisin said.Ulrich Schmidla, a foreign affairs editor at Focus magazine, said he would try to contact the reporter who conducted the interview, who was a regular contributor.Iran says it is developing nuclear technology for power generation, but the West fears it is trying to build a bomb and two sets of U.N. sanctions have been imposed on Tehran.European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana urged Washington on Friday to speak directly to Iran over its nuclear program and said he was sure Tehran was ready for such talks.Focus quoted Olmert as saying UN sanctions should be given a chance to work before military action was considered.
We must give the (U.N.) process time to take effect, it quoted him as saying. We have no intention of attacking Iran at the moment.Olmert was quoted as saying he doubted whether Iran's nuclear program was as far advanced as Tehran said. I don't think that Iran is about to cross the nuclear technology threshold as its leaders claim, he was quoted as saying. We still have time to stop them.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proclaimed Iran's ability to enrich on an industrial scale, but U.N. inspectors say it remains at test level.Iran would face further sanctions if it has not stopped enrichment by a new Security Council deadline of May 24.
ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION IN SPRING
MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).
MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.
LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people (ISRAEL) and upon thy holy city, (JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Jerusalem Day: By Evans K. Chama SUN APR 29,07
May 16, 2007 Israel celebrates the 40th anniversary of Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day; the commemoration of the unification of Jerusalem after the 6-day war of 1967. In 1947, the UN decided to create a Jewish and an Arab state out of the Land of Israel of which Jerusalem was to remain neutral, belonging to neither state. That couldn’t be realised exactly as planned. When the British mandate ended on 15th May 1948, Seven Arab states waged war on Israel that ended in dividing Jerusalem. The East of Jerusalem, including the Old City, occupied by Arabs, belonged to Jordan while the West of Jerusalem was in the state of Israel. The borders were strict, no going and coming between these two peoples. The matter nonetheless remained unsettled for Jerusalem was an organic, inseparable part of Israel in the Jewish conscience, belief and history. And Jews have always demonstrated against loss of Jerusalem in history.
Some refused to eat meat or drink wine when nothing of it could be sacrificed no longer nor poured on the altar as libation, after losing Jerusalem and the Temple. Even in times of joy a Jew would not forget the lost Jerusalem. In the house, he would leave a patch of wall unfinished, at the wedding a groom’s forehead would be dabbed with ashes, the jewellery of the bride removed, and a cup broken. Jews are enjoined, If I forget you, Jerusalem, Rabbi Yehudah Prero said, let my right hand forget its skill.A Jew cannot make a home outside Israel, not matter his success in Diaspora he remains a slave; subject to immoral influences. The land of Israel is the holiest of all lands, and the city of Jerusalem the holiest in Israel. Only when in this holy land can a Jew be faithful to the Torah. Owing to this passion, such division of the City was unbearable and tension was already growing between Israel and Arabs states like Jordan, Syria, and Egypt, to mention some. War was in sight. Israel pre-emptied this situation and launched an attack on 5th June 1967; a war that lasted six days ending in Israel’s capture of the East of Jerusalem.
The Commander`s Speech of victory to the soldiers at the Temple Mount leaves no shadows of that Passion: For 2,000 years, the Temple Mount was off limits to the Jews. Until you, the paratroopers, came and returned it to the bosom of its people. The Western Wall, towards which every Jewish heart beats, is again in our hands…. To you has fallen the great privilege to complete the circle, to give back to the people its eternal capital and its sacred centre….Jerusalem is yours - forever.The Israel government was quick to effect the unification. The municipal area extended and Israel law applied in the whole City. Jews acquired houses in the newly conquered land. The garbage that had accumulated at the Western Wall, including the house around, was quickly cleared. The situation was quite delicate owing to different interests involved in the city. Firstly, for Jews, Israel is a land given to them as chosen people with Jerusalem as the citadel of God; his presence assured by the Temple. Then Arabs had lived here hundreds of years but all of a sudden became foreigners in the land they had known as theirs. The Arab Muslim world was also concerned about the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest place in Islam, which stands on the Temple Mount.
Christians too needed assurance, would they continue to have free access to their Holy Places; respecting the existing rights? Then, an international community. When Israeli Parliament declared Jerusalem, the undivided, eternal capital of the State of Israel in 1980 thirteen national embassies in Jerusalem closed as the declaration was against the UN resolution. However, the Israeli Government pledged commitment to make Jerusalem open to all members of different religions. In all these arrangements there is, of course, nothing that alters in the slightest degree any of the existing rights in the Holy Places, which the Government of Israel will respect in full. So Jerusalem Day, celebrated on Iyar 28, 8th month of the Jewish calendar, commemorates the re-possession of the entire city.
On this day k`eir shechubra la yachdav slogan is chanted that means The city which was reunited, based on Psalm122:3 The built-up Jerusalem is like a city that was joined together within itself. Even the festival Hallel, rarely used in Jewish liturgy, except at Passover and Independence day, is recited on this day because of the importance attached to Jerusalem, more than Israeli’s political power over the rest of the land of Israel. Crowds march around the city singing, dancing, and waving flags walking through the Old City to the Western Wall where speeches and festive dancing continue. This is a triumphal achievement for Jews. During the 19 years between the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and the Six Day War in 1967, Jews could not dare set foot in the Old City, no access therefore to their shrine. Only one possibility was open for them.
They used to climb the Mount Zion or the cemetery on Mount of Olives in order to set their eyes on the Temple Mount. Then, is it not just plain that Jerusalem Day is actually a Jewish feast? Well, today a Jew or an Arab can walk on the streets of East or West of Jerusalem, though their relationship still leaves much to desire. Besides, thousands of pilgrimages: Jews, Christians and Moslems pour into the city each day, free to worship and visit their Holy Places. If all that is the fruit of the unification, then, Jerusalem Day should be a celebration for many other people than Jews alone; and therefore a reason enough to be interested in the well-being of this Holy City. Therefore, if I do not pray for your peace Jerusalem, indeed, let my right hand forget its skill. Evans K. Chama 2007 A Missionary of Africa, studying theology in Jerusalem
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.
Russian leader newly combative, defiant By DOUGLAS BIRCH, Associated Press Writer Sat Apr 28, 8:41 PM ET
MOSCOW - As Vladimir Putin enters what could be the last year of his presidency, he has become more defiant of international pressure and more willing to challenge the United States and Europe.
Russia's affluence and stability, fueled by high oil prices, have given him the confidence to confront the West and to try to reassert the nation's influence as a world power. But Western critics warn the Kremlin's new assertiveness reflects renewed imperial ambitions and threatens its neighbors.Either way, the world appears to be entering a new period of accusation and acrimony in East-West relations with fresh fractures now appearing in fault lines resembling those that marked the Cold War.The Russians don't want a return to the Cold War, said Andrew Kuchins, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. But on issues they care about, they're going to play harder ball.In his state of the nation speech Thursday, Putin denounced what he said was foreign interference in Russia's internal affairs. Angered by a U.S. plan to place ballistic missile defenses in the Czech Republic and Poland, he threatened to walk away from an agreement that regulates the deployment of heavy non-nuclear weapons around Europe.
The Russian leader also rattled Washington in February with a closely watched and bellicose speech in Munich, accusing the United States of an overly aggressive American foreign policy.Russia has increased prices of oil and gas in the face of defiance from former Soviet states, briefly cutting off supplies in some cases.European officials watched the disruptions with growing concern about Russia's reliability as an energy supplier. The United States and others in the West have accused Russia of trying to use its vast energy resources as a political weapon.Some analysts say Putin has sought to turn back the clock by embracing the great power politics of the 19th century. Only this time, the Kremlin seems prepared to rely mainly on its economic clout and energy resources, rather than military force, to influence its neighbors.
Given Putin's overwhelming popularity at home, his successor who is scheduled to be elected in March 2008 is likely to be similarly combative.Dmitri Trenin, a scholar with the Carnegie Moscow Center, said Russia's new assertiveness is the logical result of the trauma it suffered after the Soviet collapse.Putin's criticism of the West kind of clears the air, he said, by demanding Russia's opinions be respected. That follows a decade when the Kremlin felt powerless in its dealings with the West in general and the United States in particular.There are three models of United States-Russian collaboration, at least as seen by Putin, Trenin said in a recent interview. The Gorbachev period can be summarized as attempts at partnership through concessions. The Yeltsin period, as partnership through submission. Putin wants a partnership built on competition.From the Soviet collapse through the end of Putin's first term in office, analysts said, Russia could do little more than complain as NATO expanded into Eastern Europe and the Baltic nations, and Western influence grew across the states of the former U.S.S.R. That changed following Putin's re-election in March 2004.
This time, under Putin II, they are resisting that openly and firmly, Trenin said.Neither has Russia, as many hoped, adopted Europe's political and social norms in particular, a commitment to political pluralism.That is not happening, he said. Russia is not going down the path of Europeanization.
Moscow's new aggressive posture abroad, many foreign analysts agree, is possible partly because of the perception that U.S. global influence has been weakened by the Iraq war. It's also due to the growing confidence that Russia has from its robust trillion-dollar, oil-fueled economy, which has averaged 6.7 percent annual growth since the disastrous financial crisis of 1998. Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister who is now a pro-Western opposition leader, says in an article in the current edition of the influential journal Foreign Affairs that joint action is required by the West to blunt Moscow's imperial ambitions.
The Russia that emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991 came with borders that reflect no historical precedent, Tymoshenko wrote. Accordingly, Russia is devoting much of its energy to restoring political influence in, if not control of, its lost empire.The Russian Foreign Ministry on April 16 took the extraordinary step of responding directly to Tymoshenko's article, denouncing it as a kind of anti-Russian manifesto and an attempt to once again draw dividing lines in Europe and return the world as a minimum into the Cold War atmosphere.Douglas Birch is The Associated Press bureau chief in Moscow.
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.
Turks protest Islamic-rooted government BENJAMIN HARVEY, Associated Press Writer APR 29,07
ISTANBUL, Turkey - At least 300,000 Turks waving the red national flag flooded central Istanbul on Sunday to demand the resignation of the government, saying the Islamic roots of Turkey's leaders threatened to destroy the country's modern foundations. Like the protesters who gathered for the second large anti-government demonstration in two weeks Turkey's powerful secular military has accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of tolerating radical Islamic circles.They want to drag Turkey to the dark ages, said 63-year-old Ahmet Yurdakul, a retired government employee who attended the protest.
More than 300,000 people took part in a similar rally in Ankara two weeks ago.
Sunday's demonstration was organized more than a week ago, but it came a day after Erdogan's government rejected the military's warning about the disputed presidential election and called it interference that is unacceptable in a democracy.The ruling party candidate, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, failed to win a first-round victory Friday in a parliamentary presidential vote marked by tensions between secularists and the pro-Islamic government. Most opposition legislators boycotted the vote and challenged its validity in the Constitutional Court.The military said Friday night that it was gravely concerned and indicated it was willing to become more openly involved in the process a statement some interpreted as an ultimatum to the government to rein in officials who promote Islamic initiatives.Sunday's crowd chanted that the presidential palace was closed to imams.Some said Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc was an enemy of the secular system, because he said the next president should be pious.In the 1920s, with the Ottoman Empire in ruins, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk imposed Western laws, replaced Arabic script with the Latin alphabet, banned Islamic dress and granted women the right to vote.
The ruling party, however, has supported religious schools and tried to lift the ban on Islamic head scarves in public offices and schools. Secularists are also uncomfortable with the idea of Gul's wife, Hayrunisa, being in the presidential palace because she wears the traditional Muslim head scarf.We don't want a covered woman in Ataturk's presidential palace, said Ayse Bari, a 67-year-old housewife. We want civilized, modern people there.The military, one of the most respected institutions in Turkey, regards itself as the guardian of the secular system and has staged three coups since 1960.Neither Sharia, nor coup but fully democratic Turkey, read a banner carried by a demonstrator on Sunday.
Associated Press Writer Selcan Hacaoglu in Ankara contributed to this report.
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