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).
PREMEDITATED MERGER
U.S. under U.N. law in health emergency
Bush's SPP power grab sets stage for military to manage flu threats
August 28, 2007 - By Jerome R. Corsi - WorldNetDaily.com
David Nabarro is new U.N. system influenza coordinator.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canada released a plan that established U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law and set the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies. The North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza was finalized at the SPP summit last week in Montebello, Quebec. At the same time, the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, has created a webpage dedicated to avian flu and has been running exercises in preparation for the possible use of U.S. military forces in a continental domestic emergency involving avian flu or pandemic influenza. With virtually no media attention, in 2005 President Bush shifted U.S. policy on avian flu and pandemic influenza, placing the country under international guidelines not specifically determined by domestic agencies. The policy shift was formalized Sept. 14, 2005, when Bush announced a new International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza to a High-Level Plenary Meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, in New York.
The new International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza was designed to supersede an earlier November 2005 Homeland Security report that called for a U.S. national strategy that would be coordinated by the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Agriculture. The 2005 plan, operative until Bush announced the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, directed the State Department to work with the WHO and U.N., but it does not mention that international health controls are to be considered controlling over relevant U.S. statutes or authorities. Under the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, Bush agreed the U.S. would work through the U.N. system influenza coordinator to develop a continental emergency response plan operating through authorities under the WTO, North American Free Trade Agreement and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. WND could find no evidence the Bush administration presented the Influenza Partnership plan to Congress for oversight or approval. The SPP plan for avian and pandemic influenza announced at the Canadian summit last week embraces the international control principles Bush first announced to the U.N. in his 2005 International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza declaration.
The SPP plan gives primacy for avian and pandemic influenza management to plans developed by the WHO, WTO, U.N. and NAFTA directives – not decisions made by U.S. agencies. The U.N.-WHO-WTO-NAFTA plan advanced by SPP features a prominent role for the U.N. system influenza coordinator as a central international director in the case of a North American avian flu or pandemic influenza outbreak. In Sept. 2005, Dr. David Nabarro was appointed the first U.N. system influenza coordinator, a position which also places him as a senior policy adviser to the U.N. director-general. Nabarro joined the WHO in 1999 and was appointed WHO executive director of sustainable development and health environments in July 2002. In a Sept. 29, 2005, press conference at the U.N., Nabarro made clear that his job was to prepare for the H5N1 virus, known as the avian flu.
Nabarro fueled the global fear that an epidemic was virtually inevitable.
In response to a question about the 1918-1919 flu pandemic that killed approximately 40 million people worldwide, Nabarro commented, I am certain there will be another pandemic sometime.Nabarro stressed at the press conference that he saw as inevitable a worldwide pandemic influenza coming soon that would kill millions. He quantified the deaths he expected as follows: I'm not, at the moment at liberty to give you a prediction on numbers, but I just want to stress, that, let's say, the range of deaths could be anything from 5 to 150 million.In a March 8, 2006, U.N. press conference that was reported on a State Department website, Nabarro predicted an outbreak of the H5N1 virus would reach the Americas within the next six to 12 months.On Feb. 1, 2006, NORTHCOM hosted representatives of more than 40 international, federal and state agencies for an exercise designed to provoke discussion and determine what governmental actions, including military support, would be necessary in the event of an influenza pandemic in the United States.
NORTHCOM and other governmental websites document the growing role the Bush administration plans for the U.S. military to be involved in continental domestic emergencies involving health, including avian flu and pandemic influenza. NORTHCOM participated in a nationwide Joint Chiefs of Staff-directed exercise – code-named Exercise Ardent Sentry 06 – to rehearse cooperation between Department of Defense and local, state and federal agencies, as well as the Canadian government. A pandemic influenza crisis was one of the four scenarios gamed in Exercise Ardent Sentry 06, involving a scenario of a plague in Mexico reaching across the border into Arizona and New Mexico. As has been customary in SPP documents and declarations, the Montebello, Canada, announcement of the North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza acknowledges in passing the sovereignty of the three nations. The announcement says, The Plan is not intended to replace existing arrangements or agreements. As such, each country's laws are to be respected and this Plan is to be subordinate and complementary to domestic response plans, existing arrangements and bilateral or multilateral agreements.Still, the SPP plan argues the risk from avian and pandemic influenza was so great to North America that the leaders of the three nations were compelled to work collectively and with all levels of government, the private sector and among-non-governmental organizations to combat avian and pandemic influenza.Moreover, the SPP plan openly acknowledges, The WHO's international guidance formed much of the basis for the three countries' planning for North American preparedness and response.WND previously reported NORTHCOM has been established with a command center at Peterson Air Force Base, tasked with using the U.S. military in continental domestic emergency situations.
WND also has reported President Bush signed in May two documents, National Security Presidential Directive-51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive-20, which give the office of the president extraordinary powers to declare national emergencies and to assume near-dictatorial powers. Following the Montebello summit last week, the SPP North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza was published on a made-over SPP homepage redesigned to feature agreements newly reached by trilateral bureaucratic working groups.
IN THAT STORY THE U.N IS CONTROLLING THINGS, BUT IN MY EYES IT WILL BE THE EUROPEAN UNION THAT MAKES THE LAWS OF THE WORLD. AND HOW DO I THINK THE EU WILL TAKE WORLD CONTROL AND THE U.N WILL FOLD, BY THE ECONOMY A STOCK MARKET CRASH, THIS IS HOW I BELIEVE THE EU WILL CONTROL THE ONE WORLD GOVENMENT (THE NEW WORLD ORDER)BY ELIMINATION CASH AND GOING TO A MICROCHIP SYSTEM. THE BIBLE SAYS THE EU , NOT THE U.N WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Market Crash Forecast Suggests New 9/11
Mystery trader bets on huge downturn that could only be preceded by catastrophe
Paul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet - Monday, August 27, 2007
A mystery trader risks losing around $1 billion dollars after placing 245,000 put options on the Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 index, leading many analysts to speculate that a stock market crash preceded by a new 9/11 style catastrophe could take place within the next month. The anonymous trader only stands to make money if the market crashes by a third to a half before September 21st, which is when the put options expire. A put option is a financial contract between two parties, the buyer and the writer (seller) of the option, in which the buyer stands to benefit only if the price of the asset falls. The sales are being referred to by market traders as bin Laden trades because only an event on the scale of 9-11 could make these short-sell options valuable, reports financial blogger Marc Parent. Dow Jones Financial News first reported on the story.
The trader stands to make around $2 billion from their investment should an event trigger a market crash before the third week in September. The Internet leader in activist media - Prison Planet.tv. Get access to hundreds of special video reports, audio interviews, books and documentary films. Subscribers also get instant access to our hugely popular forum where you can network with like-minded people, meet up and get active! Click here to subscribe.Such a cataclysmic jolt could only happen as a result of two factors, China dumping its vast dollar reserves in reaction to the sub-prime mortgage collapse, which it has threatened to do, or a massive terror attack on the same scale or larger than 9/11. 9/11 itself was foreshadowed by unprecedented put options that were placed on United and American Airlines. Though the Securities and Exchange Commission refused to reveal who placed the options, private researchers traced the investments back to the Deutsche Bank owned Banker’s Trust, which was formerly headed by then Executive Director of the CIA, Buzzy Krongard.
Put options on Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, two of the World Trade Center's most prominent occupants, also spiked in the days before 9/11. News of the suspicious trades is dovetailed by the comments of Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers yesterday, who told ABC News that the risk of a recession in the U.S. was greater that at any time since 9/11.
Dollar collapse, stock market sell-off looms
Wall Street begging for Fed Funds cut, but rate already effectively lower
August 27, 2007 - By Jerome R. Corsi - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
With Wall Street begging the Federal Reserve to cut the Fed Funds target rate, few have noticed the effective rate already has been lowered, triggering what could be the beginning of an unprecedented worldwide dollar sell-off. Econometrician John Williams documented in the most recent newsletter on his Shadow Government Statistics website that in the 11 trading days since the Fed has cut the discount rate, the effective Fed Funds rate has averaged 4.84 percent, ranging 25 to 50 basis points below the official 5.25 percent target rate. The Fed Funds rate is the rate at which commercial banks may borrow excess reserves from one another. It is considered the key rate index set by the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee, or FOMC. The minutes of the Aug. 7 FOMC are due to be released tomorrow and are certain to be scrutinized by Fed watchers for indications of the future direction of movement in Fed Fund target rates set by the committee. Currently, Wall Street is begging for a rate ease as a return to the easy credit policy that fueled the credit markets in real estate, commercial paper and leveraged buyouts.
An unprecedented strategy of widely available easy credit has stimulated world stock markets to a string of record highs since 9/11, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching a peak of more than 14,000 July 19. To stabilize the Dow's 1,000-point drop since then, the Fed literally has printed money. Williams estimates central banks around the world, including the Fed, have infused $1 trillion in the global banking system during the last two weeks. While the European Central Bank has been raising rates, the drop in the effective Fed Funds rate and the reduction of the discount rate pushed the dollar down Friday to $80.68 on the U.S. dollar index, ending a brief rally that had begun in the prospect the Fed would hold rates in the face of a sell-off. The Fed is in a dilemma. If it lowers the Fed Fund target rate, the dollar will suffer on world currency exchanges. A dollar sell-off will trigger a new stock market sell-off.
If the Fed holds or raises rates to support the dollar, it will almost certainly prompt a massive stock market sell-off. Either way, the stock market in September and October is likely to drop below 13,000 and begin testing a new support level at 12,000. Bob Chapman, whose International Forecaster newsletter reaches an international audience of about 100,000 subscribers, estimated in his Aug. 25 newsletter that his reconstruction of M3, an important index of the money supply, has been rising at a historically unprecedented rate of over 13 percent. WND has reported the Fed simply stopped publishing M3 data after issuing a technically worded March 2006 announcement. Not publishing M3 data has allowed the Fed to print money to infuse billions of new liquidity into the market following the 1,000-point August Dow decline in the current worldwide credit meltdown of real estate foreclosures and multiple forms of bad corporate debt that was allowed to be created by rating agencies that drastically underestimated risk. Chapman agrees the dollar is at risk, writing in his current newsletter, If Fed Chairman Bernanke cuts prime interest rates he will be abandoning the dollar, whose value will fall against other currencies and gold.Chapman believes the current credit meltdown in the U.S. is headed toward a recession. He notes, Since the beginning of August, 25,000 workers nationwide have lost jobs in financial services. Since the start of the year, 40,000 have lost their jobs at mortgage institutions. We are told 20,000 have lost jobs in construction.Even illegal aliens have been hurt, Chapman notes, writing, In the last year, 200,000 illegal aliens have lost their construction jobs. This is far worse than in the airline industry in 2001, when 100,000 lost their jobs. We are talking about massive layoffs.
Revelation 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
Are ID chips too invasive?
An FDA-approved chip implant raises Big Brother concerns.
By IVAN PENN, The Consumer's Edge
Published July 28, 2007 - [Special to the Times]
Delray Beach's VeriChip offers a device the size of a grain of rice to allow access to a patient's medical history when implanted in the arm. About 400 Americans have chips.It appears that the effort to implant microchips into humans is not only alive and well but moving ever closer to getting under everyone's skin.Delray Beach firm VeriChip, the nation's only FDA-approved company allowed to produce microchips for injection into people, got a boost recently from the American Medical Association.
The AMA said such devices may help to identify patients, thereby improving the safety and efficiency of patient care. But the council warned that the devices safety and security are unclear.That was enough to create a stir in the technology and medical worlds as well as among privacy and religious folks. And enough to put a smile on VeriChip's face.Scott Silverman, chief executive officer of VeriChip, says the primary aim is to help high-risk medical patients such as those with diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer and heart conditions.The chip, implanted in the upper right arm, allows medical personnel to access a patient's medical history in the event the person is unconscious or otherwise unresponsive. The person's data is stored in VeriChip's database.Sounds a little spooky, and makes George Orwell seem more like a prophet than a novelist.Silverman says it could save lives, it's fairly safe and there have been no side effects. VeriChip's sister corporation, Digital Angel Corp., has been implanting chips in pets for 15 years.It should be first and foremost voluntary, Silverman says. No one should ever be forced to get an implantable microchip.But Katherine Albrecht, a co-author of the book Spychips, whom I'm sure drives Silverman crazy, argues that VeriChip is taking us down a treacherous road.
You can feel the writing on the wall that this is the direction our society is moving, said Albrecht, who received her doctorate in education from Harvard, specializing in adult development and consumer education.The chip uses technology called a Radio Frequency Identification tag.Albrecht points out that the RFID technology used in the chips is becoming increasingly pervasive throughout our society as merchants use it to track inventory and purchases.If everybody had a chip in them ... we would be blissfully unaware of Big Brother, Albrecht said.She says the program is flawed because if there are problems accessing VeriChip's database, the chip will prove useless. And, she says, as the AMA pointed out, there are questions about patient security.And the religious have concerns of biblical proportions: tagging people with such devices reads like a precursor to the mark of the beast.Silverman says his company's focus is on medical patients. And the chip they use is passive or, simply stated, it does not emit a strong signal. To read the chip, medical personnel must use a scanner and be within 12 inches.
And he says the data is stored in a facility as secure as any of the best. He does admit once you have a chip, it could be used for other applications. You can tie financial accounts to them and other data.He points out a year ago one company injected two employees with chips for security reasons. In addition, nightclubs in Barcelona, Spain, Rotterdam, Holland, and Edinburgh, Scotland, use them so patrons can access VIP lounges and make purchases.A bit much for me. The only chip I want in my body is a potato chip, maybe a tortilla chip. Definitely not a microchip.The Consumer's Edge is a twice-monthly column to help consumers in the marketplace. Ivan Penn can be reached at or (727) 892-2332.
FAST FACTS
The chips are inserted in the upper right arm with a a hypodermic-type needle. The cost of the procedure: $200.VeriChip uses a patented process, called bio-bind, to secure the chip to muscle tissue and prevent migration.Medical personnel wave a scanner within 12 inches of the chip. A 16-digit identification appears to identify the person.VeriChip maintains the patient's records in its database. Customers pay an annual fee, from $20 to $80, to keep a medical file.
HERE'S THE EDGE:
The American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs recommended that radio frequency identification (RFID) devices can be used to help identify patients, improve patient care and secure access to patient clinical information. But the AMA cautioned that the efficacy and security of the devices has not been established. As precautions, the AMA said, physicians implanting such devices should:
Disclose the medical uncertainties of RFIDs to patients as part of the informed consent process.Strive to protect patients' privacy by storing confidential information only on RFID devices with informational security similar to that required of medical records.Support research into safe, effective and potential nonmedical uses of RFID devices in people.
GCC, EU to Sign FTA Deal Soon
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
JEDDAH, 29 August 2007 — The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is expected to sign the long-awaited free-trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union within the next two months, according to Deputy Finance Minister Hamad Al-Bazie. The FTA with the EU will be signed in October or November this year, said Al-Bazie, who is GCC’s coordinator for the agreement. He said the next round of negotiations in Brussels would be crucial to the conclusion of this vital accord.The GCC — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates — has been holding FTA talks for the last 18 years. It has already fulfilled 95 percent of the conditions for the prestigious agreement.The last joint meeting of GCC and EU foreign and finance ministers was successful in settling most outstanding issues. GCC central bank governors are scheduled to meet with their EU counterparts next month to discuss monetary policies. Economic observers have insisted that GCC countries must intensify coordination to finalize the agreement as quickly as possible.
GCC foreign ministers are expected to discuss the FTA issue during their meeting in Jeddah on Saturday.GCC Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Al-Attiyah said the Jeddah meeting would discuss matters related to a GCC common market in preparation to announce its formation at the next GCC summit. It will also review the progress of negotiations with economic groups, he added.The GCC-EU free trade agreement is expected to boost GCC exports to Europe and bring more foreign direct investment to the member countries that seek funds to carry out vital projects in energy, petrochemical, telecom, power generation, railway and desalination sectors. It will also improve economic welfare in the GCC member states.GCC countries import EU goods worth 47.4 billion euros, thus being Europe’s fifth largest market in the world. GCC imports include cars, planes, machinery, and building materials. GCC exports crude oil, petrochemicals and aluminum products worth 35.2 billion euros to Europe. It holds 14th place among foreign exporters to EU countries.
Archeologists make urgent appeal to rescue Biblical relics pulverized by tractors on Temple Mount, Jerusalem - August 28, 2007, 1:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Muslim work on a shrine sacred to three world faiths
The Waqf Muslim authority, using heavy tractors, has so far excavated a trench 120 -meters long, 1.5 meters deep, crushing fragments of monumental building, pottery and glazed tiles in their path. The trench runs through the northern and eastern parts of the 2,000-year old Upper Platform of Temple Mount, where the outer courts of the Jewish Temple were situated, including the Women’s Court, until the Roman destruction of 70 C.E. Today, the Muslim Dome of the Rock stands there. Dr. Gabriel Barkai of Bar Ilan University is leading the protest against the wildcat, unauthorized Waqf project to improve the mosques’ infrastructure and demanding that the contents of the trench be scientifically excavated and documented before they are lost. This issue transcends politics, he told DEBKAfile. It is a tragic loss for world culture, as much as or more than the effigies of Buddha destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. It affects the foundations of Judeo-Christian civilization – as well as Muslim history in Jerusalem – by ravaging one of the most important sites for the history of mankind.
DEBKAfile’s sources add: The Temple Mount Plaza, paved over by the Muslim rulers of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages, has never been scientifically explored. All attempts to unearth and study the relics beneath the pavement have elicited a ferment of Muslim threats accusing Israel of attempting to destroy the mosques built over the ruins of the Jewish First and Second Temples. Even cautious shafts at a distance from the mosques are greeted with rage. Yet, in 1999 and again now, in 2007, the Muslim authorities themselves excavated deep below the surface to expand their mosques and improve their facilities. Then as now, they destroyed precious Jewish, Christian and Muslim artifacts with heavy tractors and dumped them helter skelter as unwanted debris.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 by Staff Writer
Half of IDF officers are religious
At least 50 percent of young Israeli army officers today are conservative religious Jews, according to a report in Israel's Ma'ariv daily newspaper. Religious, thought not not necessarily Orthodox, Jews are a minority in Israel, but because of their strong Zionist upbringing are becoming the backbone of the [Israel Defense Forces], the newspaper noted. Religious soldiers have long been praised within Israel as the most dedicated and courageous combatants in the army. However, there is also a growing fear that the Bible-based beliefs of such soldiers regarding Israel's right to the land could result in mutiny if the secular government orders a mass evacuation of Jews from Judea and Samaria as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians. Earlier this month, a group of religious soldiers refused to participate in the removal of Jewish settlers from Jewish owned property in the Judean town of Hebron.
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.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) 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)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Monday August 27, 2007
China: Projected Number of Men without Wives Massively Increased
By 2020, 37 million Chinese men would be unable to find wives if trends continue
By Elizabeth O'Brien
BEIJING, China, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recent demographic reports are showing that the ratio of males to females in China is spiraling out of control. If the increasing imbalance, caused primarily by sex-selected abortions and infanticide, is not remedied, it will lead to increased crimes against women and the threat of an aggressively militant state. In January Chinese media reports said that by 2020, 30 million Chinese men would be unable to find wives (See http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07011510.html). Since then, however, recent reports indicate that the numbers have dramatically risen. According to these findings, the imbalance will increase to 37 million more marriageable Chinese men than marriageable women by 2020, the Guardian Unlimited reports.Nationwide there are 119 Chinese males for every 100 females, rather than the average 105 males for every 100 females in the Western developed nations, ABC News reports. In some regions, however, there is an even greater divide with 130 males to 100 females. The city of Lianyungang in Jiangsu province has the most marked difference of 163.5 boys to 100 girls among children aged one to four. According to a recent report by the China Family Planning Association (CFPA), 99 cities in China have sex ratios above 125 boys per 100 girls.
Although there are two Chinese laws preventing sex-based abortion, this is ignored in many places throughout China. In some cases, the doctor gives a thumbs up to the parents if their unborn child is a boy and a thumbs down if it is a girl. People often abort their baby girls, especially in rural areas, because they want a son to support themselves and the grandparents in their old age. Within the past few years, the Chinese government has offered various attempts to remedy the skewed male to female ratio. In 2003 a Care for Girls policy was introduced which gave financial benefits to parents with female children, as well as a pro-female child slogan campaign. Such efforts have not affected the situation, however, which are a direct result of the government's one-child policy and its forced methods of population control.In order to stem the problem, China is planning to crack down on medical institutions that tell parents the sex of their child. In light of the recent population reports, the government announced that it would draft new legislation to punish sex-selected abortions. If the lopsided ratio does not improve, Chinese society will suffer a rise in prostitution, wife kidnapping and other forms of sexual violence against women, abuses that have already grown within the country. Some predict that the situation will also lead to increased militancy and terrorism in China (See http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05120602.html).
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
BUSH WARNS IRAN
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.
Earthquake strikes fire-ravaged south Greece; no injuries or damage reported
AUG 28,07
ATHENS (AP) - A strong earthquake has hit fire-ravaged southern Greece. The Athens Geodynamic Institute says it had a magnitude of five. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake struck just after noon and had an epicentre 185 kilometres west of Athens, 15 kilometres east of Pyrgos near Ancient Olympia. The quake panicked residents in the region and was felt in areas where firefighters were battling blazes.
THERE WILL BE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT HEADED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (The EU) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(Trading Blocks)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Sarkozy seeks to give EU greater world role
28.08.2007 - 09:22 CET | By Renata Goldirova
As France prepares to assume the EU's driving seat in July next year, president Nicolas Sarkozy has indicated he wants to turn the 27-nation bloc into a decisive player in the global arena – something he says would result in a fairer and more harmonious world order. Europe must progressively affirm itself as a first-rank player for peace and security, in co-operation with the United Nations, the Atlantic Alliance and the African Union, Mr Sarkozy said in the first foreign policy speech of his presidency on Monday (27 August). According to the French leader, it is time for Europe to form a common perception of the main global challenges and of ways in which to tackle them. He himself identified relations between Islam and the West as the main issue that currently needs to be examined.
The European Union alone has accumulated, during the long process of building the community, the practical experience of a shared sovereignty that corresponds well to the demands of our times, Mr Sarkozy told his audience of 180 diplomats, stressing the EU bloc has at its disposal a broad palette of instruments, ranging from military force to humanitarian and financial means. While outlining new ideas, Mr Sarkozy urged the 27-nation club to boost its common security strategy – namely to improve its conduct of joint military operations, to rationalize its arms procurement as well as boost countries' contributions to Europe's defence budget.
The construction of Europe will remain the absolute priority of our foreign policy, France's Nicolas Sarkozy concluded, underlining that France is not strong without Europe, just as Europe is not strong without France.
Different to Chirac
During his speech, president Sarkozy also reached out to new powers in Asia and Latin America, suggesting they should be granted seats at the UN Security Council table. France demands new permanent members – Germany, Japan, India, Brazil – and fair representation for Africa, Nicolas Sarkozy said, while also pushing for the G8 grouping of industrialised powers to expand to the G13. This would include China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. Compared to his predecessor, Jacques Chirac, the new French president has chosen a more pro-US tone, although he also condemned the US-led invasion of Iraq and called for a clear timetable for withdrawing foreign troops from the country.
On Russia, Mr Sarkozy used surprisingly tough words.
Russia is imposing its return on the world scene by using its assets, notably oil and gas, with a certain brutality Mr Sarkozy said, adding when one is a great power, one should not be brutal. Turning to Iran, he said the world must tighten the screw on the country's nuclear ambitions – by imposing new sanctions and offering new incentives to Tehran. This initiative is the only one that can enable us to escape an alternative that I say is catastrophic: the Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran, president Sarkozy concluded.
South Africa: Country Joins SADC-EU Trade, Development Talks
Business Day (Johannesburg)27 August 2007 - Mathabo Le Roux - Johannesburg
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is negotiating economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the European Union (EU). The EPAs are crucial for future trade with the EU when a waiver on the current trade regime with the EU, the Cotonou agreement, expires at the end of the year.The EPAs are trade deals with a developmental framework - a framework SA does not fit into. However, in March last year, SADC requested the EU that SA be included in the negotiations. The EU's first response was silence but eventually it agreed to include SA in the talks.The argument that convinced the EU was that including SA would smooth the way for greater trade harmonisation, and ultimately help regional integration.
So SA is part of trade talks that could have considerable upside, despite the fact that as part of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) SA already enjoys a trade relationship with the EU .Commentators see it as ironic that as SA embarks on arguably its biggest drive to boost economic growth , it is not clear at all that the region's powerhouse has the interest of its fellow members of Sacu in mind.In the national industrial policy framework, the blueprint for industrial development, SA is considering a substantial review of import duties in a bid to lower the input costs of downstream manufacturing - the focus of industrial development.One commentator estimates that the review affects as much as 75% of the tariff book.
The plans pay scant attention to a commitment in the Sacu agreement to develop common policies... for industrial development, say observers.Trevor Manuel signed off on this (industrial policy) but there is a treaty with Sacu - this is an extremely awkward situation. If I were Manuel I would be very worried, says one commentator.In fact, regional industrial development is barely mentioned in the policy.But it is unclear whether SA is considering the effect of its plans on industries in other Sacu countries, and whether it is communicating sufficiently with member countries about the planned changes.The International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) - which encourages fair trade through customs tariff investigations, trade remedies and import and export control - has begun a review of two large chapters of the tariff book , in a bid to eliminate tariffs on goods needed for government's multibillion-rand infrastructure programme.
The targeted chapters include many inputs for infrastructure development, but many other products are also included, such as washing machines, refrigerators, visual and sound equipment and spark plugs .Itac has excluded automotive components from the review. SA's automotive industry is set to benefit from government support beyond 2020 and it does not fit with the plan to liberalise tariffs . But fridges, for instance, are not excluded, despite the fact that a fridge manufacturer in Swaziland provides several hundred good jobs in that unemployment-ridden country.
But SA has also shown disregard for its neighbours in the differential treatment of other policy directives, says another observer.The Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) and the trade and industry department's keeping the programme going with attractive, yet costly, incentives to entrench the automotive industry in SA is well known.Yet a similar scheme, the Duty Credit Certificate Scheme (DCCS), exists for the clothing and textiles industry, and has a far lower profile.The state began a review of the MIDP two years ago , well ahead of its expiry in 2012 and has almost bungled the policy plan in its willingness to please powerful automotive companies.
But while the DCCS formally expired at the end of April, trade and industry let it lapse without mention of plans to review or extend it.The oversight may seem curious in view of the clothing and textiles sector's dire need for assistance, but the fact is that few South African clothing and textile manufacturers benefit from the export plan. They are simply too uncompetitive to export and therefore few use it. However, companies in Swaziland and Lesotho, whose economies rely heavily on this industry, benefit greatly from the scheme but have now been left without policy direction.SA holds out regional integration as a way to achieve an African renaissance but its actions explain why many in the region do not see it as a brother to lean on.2007 Business Day. AllAfrica.
North Atlantic nations call on EU to focus on Arctic
27.08.2007 - 09:30 CET | By Helena Spongenberg
North Atlantic nations are calling on the European Union to pay more attention to the Arctic by recommending the creation of an Arctic information office and an Arctic delegation from the European Parliament.The West Nordic Council agreed to a motion last week, calling upon Brussels to focus more closely on the Arctic region both within the EU system and in its interaction with the rest of the world, reports Greenland newspaper Webavisen.gl.The council, founded in 1985, is a cooperation forum of the parliaments and governments of the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland. The forum believes that the EU should have an information office where information about the Arctic and its situation is collected and taken into consideration when making decisions in Brussels.
EU attention on the Arctic region has increased recently, as Greenland in particular has become a showcase for the effects of global warming, with Commission president Jose Manual Barroso and German chancellor Angela Merkel both having visited the country this summer.The race to control the Arctic region has also intensified after Russia planted flag four kilometres (2.5 miles) below the North Pole earlier this month. The effects of global warming are thought to be shrinking the polar ice cap and could lead to new shipping lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as well as new access to oil.The Nordic Council, which also includes Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, as well as the West Nordic council, agreed in June to arrange a conference next year on the Arctic window in the EU's Northern Dimension – an EU initiative seeking to address the specific challenges and opportunities arising in the Nordic countries, Baltic states and Russia.
Olmert, Abbas speak about establishing Palestinian state alongside Israel
The Associated Press - August 28, 2007
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tackled the biggest issues dividing the two sides at their meeting on Tuesday —final borders, Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees, an Israeli official said.It was the first time the two men discussed these matters in depth, the official said.
These core issues have to be discussed on the way to finding a diplomatic solution of two states for two peoples, the official quoted Olmert as saying.He spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private.
I CAN NOT SEE ISRAELS 3RD TEMPLE REBUILT IF ITS IN ARAB HANDS THE TEMPLE MOUNT UNLESS THE EU PUTS PRESSURE ON THE ARABS TO LET ISRAEL REUILD IT IN THE FUTURE. I STILL KNOW JERUSALEM WILL BE DIVIDED BUT MAYBE THE VATICAN WILL BE PUT AS THE HEAD OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT THEN ISRAEL COULD NEGOTIATE IN THE FINAL 7 YR PEACE TREATY TO HAVE THE 3RD TEMPLE REBUIILT. EITHER WAY ITS GOING TO BE A STRUGGLE BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE WILL BE BUILT BEFORE THE FINAL TREATY IS SIGNED.
AND ONE LAST NOTE HERE I THINK THE FUTURE FINAL TREATY SIGNING WILL BE ON ROSH HASHANA IN THE FUTURE SO THIS TEMPLE MOUNT ISSUE IS COMING UP AT THE RIGHT TIME OF THE YEAR EVEN.
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Holy forfeit! Israel willing to give up Temple Mount
Report: Jewish leader offers Arab coalition joint control - August 28, 2007
By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com
Temple Mount
JERUSALEM – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Egyptian government the Jewish state is willing to forfeit control over the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – to the management of Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, according to an Arab media report. The Egyptian Al Massrioun daily reported this weekend Barak informed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the Jordanian government Israel is be willing to hand them joint control over the Temple Mount. The report follows a WND exclusive article last week stating Palestinian negotiators drafting an agreement behind the scenes with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office made clear they will not accept any final peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state forfeits the Temple Mount. According to the Egyptian media report over the weekend, Barak stated an umbrella group of several Arab countries controlling the holy site instead of only the PA would help ease Israeli domestic opposition to giving up the Temple Mount, since Egypt and Jordan are considered by Israeli policy to be moderate countries. Ronen Moshe, a spokesman for Barak, told WND the Egyptian media report is untrue.
We do not comment on the specifics of private conversations with world leaders, but this report is not what was said during the talks, Moshe said. A senior Palestinian official, speaking on condition his name be withheld, told WND yesterday Israel understands there won't be any deal with the Palestinians unless it forfeits the Temple Mount.The official said the Mount was previously a sticking point in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, but he said Prime Minister Olmert's government has expressed a number of times a willingness to compromise on the Temple Mount. We've recently received many Israeli plans that showed Israel is willing to allow another body, whether Palestinian or international, to control the [Temple Mount]. The issue is no longer a sticking point, the Palestinian official said. During U.S.-led negotiations in 2000, Barak, then prime minister, reportedly was willing to forfeit the Temple Mount to international control. Those negotiations fell through after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat rejected an offer of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem.
Adviser Gilad Sher – who represented Barak at initial Israeli-Palestinian planning meetings in 2000 during which President Clinton discussed the Temple Mount – wrote in his book Beyond Reach that Clinton's plan called for the Temple Mount to become complete Palestinian sovereign territory, while the Western Wall below and its complex would fall under Israeli sovereignty. Barak was said to have initially rejected that plan, but according to participants at the negotiations summit, he was ultimately willing to place the Mount under international sovereignty. Some reports claimed Barak offered the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, but the Israeli politician has denied those claims.
Palestinian state outline coming by November
A chief Palestinian negotiator told WND aides from Abbas' Fatah organization have been hammering out the parameters of a final status agreement for presentation in November at a U.S.-backed international summit regarding the Middle East. Yesterday, newly installed Israeli President Shimon Peres told a Tokyo newspaper he hopes to achieve the outline of a final status deal with the Palestinians before the November conference. Israeli and Palestinian diplomatic sources said U.S.-brokered biweekly meetings between Olmert and Abbas are being utilized to draft the outline of a permanent status deal, ultimately yielding a Palestinian state, scheduled to be aired in public at the November summit. Issues already discussed between Israel and the Palestinians reportedly include the division of parts of Jerusalem and debates regarding permanent borders between Israel and the PA. The November international conference and talk from the Bush administration the past few weeks has led many here to speculate the U.S. will push in the near future for intense Israeli-Palestinian negotiations leading to a Palestinian state. With a year and a half left in office, President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been urging meetings between Abbas and Olmert to establish a framework for momentum leading to a breakthrough at November's conference. Asked by WND whether Olmert is willing to forfeit the Temple Mount in an agreement with the Palestinians, David Baker, a spokesman for the prime minister, had no comment.
Jews, Christians barred from praying on Mount
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. Muslims say it is their third holiest site. The First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries. The Jewish Temple was the center of religious Jewish worship. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God's presence dwelt. The Al Aqsa Mosque now sits on the site. The Temple served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and was the main gathering place in Israel during Jewish holidays. The Temple Mount compound has remained a focal point for Jewish services over the millennia. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition. Jews worldwide pray facing toward the Western Wall, a portion of an outer courtyard of the Temple left intact.
The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed around A.D. 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark where Muslims came to believe Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven. Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. Islamic tradition states Muhammad took a journey in a single night from a sacred mosque – believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia – to the farthest mosque and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest mosque later became associated with the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Currently under Israeli control, Jews and Christians are barred from praying on the Mount. The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the area. Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians.
The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003. It still is open but only Sundays through Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered sensitive by the Waqf. During open days, Jews and Christian are allowed to ascend the Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any holy objects to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Waqf permission. Rules are enforced by Waqf agents, who watch tours closely and alert nearby Israeli police to any breaking of their guidelines.
Invasive European green crab spotted in waters of southern Newfoundland
Mon Aug 27, 6:01 PM - By Tara Brautigam
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - An invasive crab species known as the cockroach of the sea has been spotted in the waters off southern Newfoundland, posing a threat to the province's most lucrative shellfish stocks. The federal Fisheries Department is investigating sightings of the European green crab, an aggressive, olive-coloured crustacean known for its voracious appetite for mussels, clams, scallops - and other crabs. This hardy, highly adaptable species is native to the Atlantic coasts of Europe and northern Africa, stretching from Mauritania to Norway. It has no commercial value. A fisherman in North Harbour, N.L., about 180 kilometres west of St. John's, found a number of the cannibalistic crabs last Tuesday, said Cynthia McKenzie, a federal scientist who specializes in aquatic invasive species. They're some of the most aggressive species I've ever seen, McKenzie said in an interview Monday.
The green crab has already made its way to parts of the Maritimes and British Columbia, but this is the first time it has been detected in Newfoundland waters.
Earle McCurdy, president of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union, said the discovery in Placentia Bay has left fishermen there worried. It's a nasty little critter, said McCurdy, who represents almost 20,000 Newfoundlanders employed in the fishing industry. It's a bit like having the Hells Angels move into your neighbourhood. There's no good going to come of it.Its presence in Placentia Bay poses a risk to the region's lucrative shellfish industry as well as its growing aquaculture business. Fishermen in the province have increasingly turned to catching snow crab and shrimp since the federal government shut down most of the cod fishery in the early 1990s. It's not known how the crab turned up on Newfoundland's shores, but McCurdy suspects it could have arrived on vessels travelling along one of the North Atlantic's busiest shipping routes, which swings just south of Newfoundland.
That's certainly one of the risks associated with all that activity in Placentia Bay - tankers and refineries and smelters and everything else that people are planning for that bay, he said. It's a major fishing area and all of this activity is adding up to a very significant risk to fish harvesters there from a safety point of view, from an economic point of view and, clearly, from an environmental point of view.The green crab can survive in a range of habitats, including protected rocky shores and sandy beaches. We knew they were on their way, McKenzie said, adding that she and other federal Fisheries scientists are going to conduct a survey over the next couple of weeks to determine how far the crab has spread. The effect in our environment is basically just starting and so we have to decide how is this going to affect movement, how will this affect survival, reproduction, she said. All we have now is lots of questions.
A WORLD ON FIRE By Dr Jack Van Impe AUG 29,07 - Lighting new fires
In the 8th and 9th Chapters of the Book of Revelation, we find two unusual predictions concerning the woes of the Tribulation Hour. First, Revelation 8:7 mentions the burning of one-third of the earth. Second, Revelation 9:18 depicts the extinction of one-third of the world's inhabitants by fire, brimstone, and pillars of smoke. Could these prophetic and astronomical figures find fulfillment in our day?
The Answer is an unequivocal YES. HERE is an insight. In statistical surveys in geographical atlases, there are detailed pages of information about continents, land areas, and population figures for every country in the world. In fact I discovered that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America cover a total of 56,889,581 square miles. I decided to divide this figure by three, and the resulting sum was 18,963,194 square miles.
This is the amount of land that will burn during the Tribulation period, according to Revelation 9:18. None of this was shocking until I continued my research on the predicted alignment of nations, mentioned in Daniel, Chapters 2,7,11, and in Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39, that would confront each other in the last days. Their combined land area totaled - one-third of the globe.
Thus,Revelation 8:7, and 9:18 could become factual events - as current as today's headlines - in the near future. Think of it! This war will lead to Armageddon. It will also occur, according to major Bible scholars, during the Tribulation Hour.
The signs of the times are present. How much more proof is needed to convince the lost that Christ's return is very near.
Bush warns of holocaust if Iran gets nukes by Olivier Knox
Wed Aug 29, 1:03 AM ET
RENO, United States (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Tuesday raised the specter of a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East if Israel's arch-foe Iran gets atomic weapons, and vowed he would not let that happen. Iran's actions threaten the security of nations everywhere, and the United States is rallying friends and allies to isolate Iran's regime, to impose economic sanctions, he told the American Legion veterans group.We will confront this danger before it is too late, vowed Bush, who has pressed for tougher international sanctions and said he hopes for a diplomatic solution but has repeatedly refused to rule out the use of force.Shortly before Bush spoke, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scoffed at the notion of a US attack on his country dismissed a warning from his new French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, as a symptom of inexperience.There is no ... possibility of such an attack by the United States, Ahmadinejad told a news conference marked by his characteristic defiance.Even if they take such a decision, they cannot implement it, he said.
Sarkozy used a keynote foreign policy address on Monday that the threat of sanctions coupled with an offer of dialogue was the only way of avoiding a catastrophic alternative: an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran.He only recently came to power and wants to find a place for himself in the world, Ahmadinejad said of the French president. He is still inexperienced, meaning that maybe he does not really understand the meaning of his own words.In a speech billed as a defense of the Iraq war, Bush branded Iran the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, citing its backing of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Shiite fighters killing US troops in Iraq.And Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust, he said.
The United States accuses Iran -- OPEC's number two oil producer and owner of the second largest proven gas reserves in the world -- of seeking to make nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian energy drive.Iran insists that the drive is entirely peaceful and that its growing population will need nuclear power as fossil fuels start to run dry.Tehran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment -- a sensitive process that can be used both to make nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons -- has already seen it slapped with two sets of UN sanctions.Washington has been pushing for tougher measures, but Ahmadinejad said Iran was now cooperating so well with the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that more UN sanctions were unlikely.Not one member of the IAEA has cooperated as well as Iran. So from our point of view, Iran's nuclear case is closed. Iran is a nuclear nation and has the nuclear fuel cycle, he said.A deal reached between Iran and the IAEA last week sets out a detailed timetable for Tehran to answer outstanding questions about its atomic drive, but does not tackle the key sticking point over whether Iran should suspend uranium enrichment activities.
The US envoy to the IAEA, Gregory Schulte, has dismissed the plan as having real limitations, and claimed that Iran is clearly trying to distract attention from its continued development of bomb-making capability.Schulte insisted that the United States would continue pushing for a third round of sanctions, which diplomats said Washington wanted to happen in September. Meanwhile, US Senator John McCain warned that said Ahmadinejad's remarks point to show the looming danger posed by the Iranian regime. Iran's Holocaust-denying president today told the media that 'soon we will see a huge power vacuum in the region' as the American effort in Iraq collapses and that his regime is prepared to fill the gap in Iraq, the Republican presidential contender said. He added that the entire region faces instability and greater conflict, and called warned on Washington to do everything necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
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.
Earthquake strikes fire-ravaged south Greece; no injuries or damage reported
AUG 28,07
ATHENS (AP) - A strong earthquake has hit fire-ravaged southern Greece. The Athens Geodynamic Institute says it had a magnitude of five. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake struck just after noon and had an epicentre 185 kilometres west of Athens, 15 kilometres east of Pyrgos near Ancient Olympia. The quake panicked residents in the region and was felt in areas where firefighters were battling blazes.
THERE WILL BE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT HEADED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (The EU) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(Trading Blocks)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Sarkozy seeks to give EU greater world role
28.08.2007 - 09:22 CET | By Renata Goldirova
As France prepares to assume the EU's driving seat in July next year, president Nicolas Sarkozy has indicated he wants to turn the 27-nation bloc into a decisive player in the global arena – something he says would result in a fairer and more harmonious world order. Europe must progressively affirm itself as a first-rank player for peace and security, in co-operation with the United Nations, the Atlantic Alliance and the African Union, Mr Sarkozy said in the first foreign policy speech of his presidency on Monday (27 August). According to the French leader, it is time for Europe to form a common perception of the main global challenges and of ways in which to tackle them. He himself identified relations between Islam and the West as the main issue that currently needs to be examined.
The European Union alone has accumulated, during the long process of building the community, the practical experience of a shared sovereignty that corresponds well to the demands of our times, Mr Sarkozy told his audience of 180 diplomats, stressing the EU bloc has at its disposal a broad palette of instruments, ranging from military force to humanitarian and financial means. While outlining new ideas, Mr Sarkozy urged the 27-nation club to boost its common security strategy – namely to improve its conduct of joint military operations, to rationalize its arms procurement as well as boost countries' contributions to Europe's defence budget.
The construction of Europe will remain the absolute priority of our foreign policy, France's Nicolas Sarkozy concluded, underlining that France is not strong without Europe, just as Europe is not strong without France.
Different to Chirac
During his speech, president Sarkozy also reached out to new powers in Asia and Latin America, suggesting they should be granted seats at the UN Security Council table. France demands new permanent members – Germany, Japan, India, Brazil – and fair representation for Africa, Nicolas Sarkozy said, while also pushing for the G8 grouping of industrialised powers to expand to the G13. This would include China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. Compared to his predecessor, Jacques Chirac, the new French president has chosen a more pro-US tone, although he also condemned the US-led invasion of Iraq and called for a clear timetable for withdrawing foreign troops from the country.
On Russia, Mr Sarkozy used surprisingly tough words.
Russia is imposing its return on the world scene by using its assets, notably oil and gas, with a certain brutality Mr Sarkozy said, adding when one is a great power, one should not be brutal. Turning to Iran, he said the world must tighten the screw on the country's nuclear ambitions – by imposing new sanctions and offering new incentives to Tehran. This initiative is the only one that can enable us to escape an alternative that I say is catastrophic: the Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran, president Sarkozy concluded.
South Africa: Country Joins SADC-EU Trade, Development Talks
Business Day (Johannesburg)27 August 2007 - Mathabo Le Roux - Johannesburg
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is negotiating economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the European Union (EU). The EPAs are crucial for future trade with the EU when a waiver on the current trade regime with the EU, the Cotonou agreement, expires at the end of the year.The EPAs are trade deals with a developmental framework - a framework SA does not fit into. However, in March last year, SADC requested the EU that SA be included in the negotiations. The EU's first response was silence but eventually it agreed to include SA in the talks.The argument that convinced the EU was that including SA would smooth the way for greater trade harmonisation, and ultimately help regional integration.
So SA is part of trade talks that could have considerable upside, despite the fact that as part of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) SA already enjoys a trade relationship with the EU .Commentators see it as ironic that as SA embarks on arguably its biggest drive to boost economic growth , it is not clear at all that the region's powerhouse has the interest of its fellow members of Sacu in mind.In the national industrial policy framework, the blueprint for industrial development, SA is considering a substantial review of import duties in a bid to lower the input costs of downstream manufacturing - the focus of industrial development.One commentator estimates that the review affects as much as 75% of the tariff book.
The plans pay scant attention to a commitment in the Sacu agreement to develop common policies... for industrial development, say observers.Trevor Manuel signed off on this (industrial policy) but there is a treaty with Sacu - this is an extremely awkward situation. If I were Manuel I would be very worried, says one commentator.In fact, regional industrial development is barely mentioned in the policy.But it is unclear whether SA is considering the effect of its plans on industries in other Sacu countries, and whether it is communicating sufficiently with member countries about the planned changes.The International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) - which encourages fair trade through customs tariff investigations, trade remedies and import and export control - has begun a review of two large chapters of the tariff book , in a bid to eliminate tariffs on goods needed for government's multibillion-rand infrastructure programme.
The targeted chapters include many inputs for infrastructure development, but many other products are also included, such as washing machines, refrigerators, visual and sound equipment and spark plugs .Itac has excluded automotive components from the review. SA's automotive industry is set to benefit from government support beyond 2020 and it does not fit with the plan to liberalise tariffs . But fridges, for instance, are not excluded, despite the fact that a fridge manufacturer in Swaziland provides several hundred good jobs in that unemployment-ridden country.
But SA has also shown disregard for its neighbours in the differential treatment of other policy directives, says another observer.The Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) and the trade and industry department's keeping the programme going with attractive, yet costly, incentives to entrench the automotive industry in SA is well known.Yet a similar scheme, the Duty Credit Certificate Scheme (DCCS), exists for the clothing and textiles industry, and has a far lower profile.The state began a review of the MIDP two years ago , well ahead of its expiry in 2012 and has almost bungled the policy plan in its willingness to please powerful automotive companies.
But while the DCCS formally expired at the end of April, trade and industry let it lapse without mention of plans to review or extend it.The oversight may seem curious in view of the clothing and textiles sector's dire need for assistance, but the fact is that few South African clothing and textile manufacturers benefit from the export plan. They are simply too uncompetitive to export and therefore few use it. However, companies in Swaziland and Lesotho, whose economies rely heavily on this industry, benefit greatly from the scheme but have now been left without policy direction.SA holds out regional integration as a way to achieve an African renaissance but its actions explain why many in the region do not see it as a brother to lean on.2007 Business Day. AllAfrica.
North Atlantic nations call on EU to focus on Arctic
27.08.2007 - 09:30 CET | By Helena Spongenberg
North Atlantic nations are calling on the European Union to pay more attention to the Arctic by recommending the creation of an Arctic information office and an Arctic delegation from the European Parliament.The West Nordic Council agreed to a motion last week, calling upon Brussels to focus more closely on the Arctic region both within the EU system and in its interaction with the rest of the world, reports Greenland newspaper Webavisen.gl.The council, founded in 1985, is a cooperation forum of the parliaments and governments of the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland. The forum believes that the EU should have an information office where information about the Arctic and its situation is collected and taken into consideration when making decisions in Brussels.
EU attention on the Arctic region has increased recently, as Greenland in particular has become a showcase for the effects of global warming, with Commission president Jose Manual Barroso and German chancellor Angela Merkel both having visited the country this summer.The race to control the Arctic region has also intensified after Russia planted flag four kilometres (2.5 miles) below the North Pole earlier this month. The effects of global warming are thought to be shrinking the polar ice cap and could lead to new shipping lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as well as new access to oil.The Nordic Council, which also includes Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, as well as the West Nordic council, agreed in June to arrange a conference next year on the Arctic window in the EU's Northern Dimension – an EU initiative seeking to address the specific challenges and opportunities arising in the Nordic countries, Baltic states and Russia.
Olmert, Abbas speak about establishing Palestinian state alongside Israel
The Associated Press - August 28, 2007
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tackled the biggest issues dividing the two sides at their meeting on Tuesday —final borders, Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees, an Israeli official said.It was the first time the two men discussed these matters in depth, the official said.
These core issues have to be discussed on the way to finding a diplomatic solution of two states for two peoples, the official quoted Olmert as saying.He spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private.
I CAN NOT SEE ISRAELS 3RD TEMPLE REBUILT IF ITS IN ARAB HANDS THE TEMPLE MOUNT UNLESS THE EU PUTS PRESSURE ON THE ARABS TO LET ISRAEL REUILD IT IN THE FUTURE. I STILL KNOW JERUSALEM WILL BE DIVIDED BUT MAYBE THE VATICAN WILL BE PUT AS THE HEAD OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT THEN ISRAEL COULD NEGOTIATE IN THE FINAL 7 YR PEACE TREATY TO HAVE THE 3RD TEMPLE REBUIILT. EITHER WAY ITS GOING TO BE A STRUGGLE BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE WILL BE BUILT BEFORE THE FINAL TREATY IS SIGNED.
AND ONE LAST NOTE HERE I THINK THE FUTURE FINAL TREATY SIGNING WILL BE ON ROSH HASHANA IN THE FUTURE SO THIS TEMPLE MOUNT ISSUE IS COMING UP AT THE RIGHT TIME OF THE YEAR EVEN.
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Holy forfeit! Israel willing to give up Temple Mount
Report: Jewish leader offers Arab coalition joint control - August 28, 2007
By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com
Temple Mount
JERUSALEM – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Egyptian government the Jewish state is willing to forfeit control over the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – to the management of Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, according to an Arab media report. The Egyptian Al Massrioun daily reported this weekend Barak informed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the Jordanian government Israel is be willing to hand them joint control over the Temple Mount. The report follows a WND exclusive article last week stating Palestinian negotiators drafting an agreement behind the scenes with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office made clear they will not accept any final peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state forfeits the Temple Mount. According to the Egyptian media report over the weekend, Barak stated an umbrella group of several Arab countries controlling the holy site instead of only the PA would help ease Israeli domestic opposition to giving up the Temple Mount, since Egypt and Jordan are considered by Israeli policy to be moderate countries. Ronen Moshe, a spokesman for Barak, told WND the Egyptian media report is untrue.
We do not comment on the specifics of private conversations with world leaders, but this report is not what was said during the talks, Moshe said. A senior Palestinian official, speaking on condition his name be withheld, told WND yesterday Israel understands there won't be any deal with the Palestinians unless it forfeits the Temple Mount.The official said the Mount was previously a sticking point in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, but he said Prime Minister Olmert's government has expressed a number of times a willingness to compromise on the Temple Mount. We've recently received many Israeli plans that showed Israel is willing to allow another body, whether Palestinian or international, to control the [Temple Mount]. The issue is no longer a sticking point, the Palestinian official said. During U.S.-led negotiations in 2000, Barak, then prime minister, reportedly was willing to forfeit the Temple Mount to international control. Those negotiations fell through after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat rejected an offer of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem.
Adviser Gilad Sher – who represented Barak at initial Israeli-Palestinian planning meetings in 2000 during which President Clinton discussed the Temple Mount – wrote in his book Beyond Reach that Clinton's plan called for the Temple Mount to become complete Palestinian sovereign territory, while the Western Wall below and its complex would fall under Israeli sovereignty. Barak was said to have initially rejected that plan, but according to participants at the negotiations summit, he was ultimately willing to place the Mount under international sovereignty. Some reports claimed Barak offered the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, but the Israeli politician has denied those claims.
Palestinian state outline coming by November
A chief Palestinian negotiator told WND aides from Abbas' Fatah organization have been hammering out the parameters of a final status agreement for presentation in November at a U.S.-backed international summit regarding the Middle East. Yesterday, newly installed Israeli President Shimon Peres told a Tokyo newspaper he hopes to achieve the outline of a final status deal with the Palestinians before the November conference. Israeli and Palestinian diplomatic sources said U.S.-brokered biweekly meetings between Olmert and Abbas are being utilized to draft the outline of a permanent status deal, ultimately yielding a Palestinian state, scheduled to be aired in public at the November summit. Issues already discussed between Israel and the Palestinians reportedly include the division of parts of Jerusalem and debates regarding permanent borders between Israel and the PA. The November international conference and talk from the Bush administration the past few weeks has led many here to speculate the U.S. will push in the near future for intense Israeli-Palestinian negotiations leading to a Palestinian state. With a year and a half left in office, President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been urging meetings between Abbas and Olmert to establish a framework for momentum leading to a breakthrough at November's conference. Asked by WND whether Olmert is willing to forfeit the Temple Mount in an agreement with the Palestinians, David Baker, a spokesman for the prime minister, had no comment.
Jews, Christians barred from praying on Mount
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. Muslims say it is their third holiest site. The First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries. The Jewish Temple was the center of religious Jewish worship. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God's presence dwelt. The Al Aqsa Mosque now sits on the site. The Temple served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and was the main gathering place in Israel during Jewish holidays. The Temple Mount compound has remained a focal point for Jewish services over the millennia. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition. Jews worldwide pray facing toward the Western Wall, a portion of an outer courtyard of the Temple left intact.
The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed around A.D. 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark where Muslims came to believe Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven. Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. Islamic tradition states Muhammad took a journey in a single night from a sacred mosque – believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia – to the farthest mosque and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest mosque later became associated with the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Currently under Israeli control, Jews and Christians are barred from praying on the Mount. The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the area. Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians.
The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003. It still is open but only Sundays through Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered sensitive by the Waqf. During open days, Jews and Christian are allowed to ascend the Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any holy objects to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Waqf permission. Rules are enforced by Waqf agents, who watch tours closely and alert nearby Israeli police to any breaking of their guidelines.
Invasive European green crab spotted in waters of southern Newfoundland
Mon Aug 27, 6:01 PM - By Tara Brautigam
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - An invasive crab species known as the cockroach of the sea has been spotted in the waters off southern Newfoundland, posing a threat to the province's most lucrative shellfish stocks. The federal Fisheries Department is investigating sightings of the European green crab, an aggressive, olive-coloured crustacean known for its voracious appetite for mussels, clams, scallops - and other crabs. This hardy, highly adaptable species is native to the Atlantic coasts of Europe and northern Africa, stretching from Mauritania to Norway. It has no commercial value. A fisherman in North Harbour, N.L., about 180 kilometres west of St. John's, found a number of the cannibalistic crabs last Tuesday, said Cynthia McKenzie, a federal scientist who specializes in aquatic invasive species. They're some of the most aggressive species I've ever seen, McKenzie said in an interview Monday.
The green crab has already made its way to parts of the Maritimes and British Columbia, but this is the first time it has been detected in Newfoundland waters.
Earle McCurdy, president of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union, said the discovery in Placentia Bay has left fishermen there worried. It's a nasty little critter, said McCurdy, who represents almost 20,000 Newfoundlanders employed in the fishing industry. It's a bit like having the Hells Angels move into your neighbourhood. There's no good going to come of it.Its presence in Placentia Bay poses a risk to the region's lucrative shellfish industry as well as its growing aquaculture business. Fishermen in the province have increasingly turned to catching snow crab and shrimp since the federal government shut down most of the cod fishery in the early 1990s. It's not known how the crab turned up on Newfoundland's shores, but McCurdy suspects it could have arrived on vessels travelling along one of the North Atlantic's busiest shipping routes, which swings just south of Newfoundland.
That's certainly one of the risks associated with all that activity in Placentia Bay - tankers and refineries and smelters and everything else that people are planning for that bay, he said. It's a major fishing area and all of this activity is adding up to a very significant risk to fish harvesters there from a safety point of view, from an economic point of view and, clearly, from an environmental point of view.The green crab can survive in a range of habitats, including protected rocky shores and sandy beaches. We knew they were on their way, McKenzie said, adding that she and other federal Fisheries scientists are going to conduct a survey over the next couple of weeks to determine how far the crab has spread. The effect in our environment is basically just starting and so we have to decide how is this going to affect movement, how will this affect survival, reproduction, she said. All we have now is lots of questions.
A WORLD ON FIRE By Dr Jack Van Impe AUG 29,07 - Lighting new fires
In the 8th and 9th Chapters of the Book of Revelation, we find two unusual predictions concerning the woes of the Tribulation Hour. First, Revelation 8:7 mentions the burning of one-third of the earth. Second, Revelation 9:18 depicts the extinction of one-third of the world's inhabitants by fire, brimstone, and pillars of smoke. Could these prophetic and astronomical figures find fulfillment in our day?
The Answer is an unequivocal YES. HERE is an insight. In statistical surveys in geographical atlases, there are detailed pages of information about continents, land areas, and population figures for every country in the world. In fact I discovered that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America cover a total of 56,889,581 square miles. I decided to divide this figure by three, and the resulting sum was 18,963,194 square miles.
This is the amount of land that will burn during the Tribulation period, according to Revelation 9:18. None of this was shocking until I continued my research on the predicted alignment of nations, mentioned in Daniel, Chapters 2,7,11, and in Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39, that would confront each other in the last days. Their combined land area totaled - one-third of the globe.
Thus,Revelation 8:7, and 9:18 could become factual events - as current as today's headlines - in the near future. Think of it! This war will lead to Armageddon. It will also occur, according to major Bible scholars, during the Tribulation Hour.
The signs of the times are present. How much more proof is needed to convince the lost that Christ's return is very near.
Bush warns of holocaust if Iran gets nukes by Olivier Knox
Wed Aug 29, 1:03 AM ET
RENO, United States (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Tuesday raised the specter of a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East if Israel's arch-foe Iran gets atomic weapons, and vowed he would not let that happen. Iran's actions threaten the security of nations everywhere, and the United States is rallying friends and allies to isolate Iran's regime, to impose economic sanctions, he told the American Legion veterans group.We will confront this danger before it is too late, vowed Bush, who has pressed for tougher international sanctions and said he hopes for a diplomatic solution but has repeatedly refused to rule out the use of force.Shortly before Bush spoke, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scoffed at the notion of a US attack on his country dismissed a warning from his new French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, as a symptom of inexperience.There is no ... possibility of such an attack by the United States, Ahmadinejad told a news conference marked by his characteristic defiance.Even if they take such a decision, they cannot implement it, he said.
Sarkozy used a keynote foreign policy address on Monday that the threat of sanctions coupled with an offer of dialogue was the only way of avoiding a catastrophic alternative: an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran.He only recently came to power and wants to find a place for himself in the world, Ahmadinejad said of the French president. He is still inexperienced, meaning that maybe he does not really understand the meaning of his own words.In a speech billed as a defense of the Iraq war, Bush branded Iran the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, citing its backing of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Shiite fighters killing US troops in Iraq.And Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust, he said.
The United States accuses Iran -- OPEC's number two oil producer and owner of the second largest proven gas reserves in the world -- of seeking to make nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian energy drive.Iran insists that the drive is entirely peaceful and that its growing population will need nuclear power as fossil fuels start to run dry.Tehran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment -- a sensitive process that can be used both to make nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons -- has already seen it slapped with two sets of UN sanctions.Washington has been pushing for tougher measures, but Ahmadinejad said Iran was now cooperating so well with the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that more UN sanctions were unlikely.Not one member of the IAEA has cooperated as well as Iran. So from our point of view, Iran's nuclear case is closed. Iran is a nuclear nation and has the nuclear fuel cycle, he said.A deal reached between Iran and the IAEA last week sets out a detailed timetable for Tehran to answer outstanding questions about its atomic drive, but does not tackle the key sticking point over whether Iran should suspend uranium enrichment activities.
The US envoy to the IAEA, Gregory Schulte, has dismissed the plan as having real limitations, and claimed that Iran is clearly trying to distract attention from its continued development of bomb-making capability.Schulte insisted that the United States would continue pushing for a third round of sanctions, which diplomats said Washington wanted to happen in September. Meanwhile, US Senator John McCain warned that said Ahmadinejad's remarks point to show the looming danger posed by the Iranian regime. Iran's Holocaust-denying president today told the media that 'soon we will see a huge power vacuum in the region' as the American effort in Iraq collapses and that his regime is prepared to fill the gap in Iraq, the Republican presidential contender said. He added that the entire region faces instability and greater conflict, and called warned on Washington to do everything necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
GREAT COSMIC NOTHINGNESS
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).
Korea to Send Draft Proposal on FTA with EU AUG 26,07
The government will soon deliver a draft proposal to the European Union in preparation for a third round of free trade negotiations. According to Trade Ministry officials in Seoul, the proposal is expected to include a time frame for Korea to eliminate tariffs on cars and industrial goods. It will also specify when and how much Korea is willing to open its agricultural sector, the most sensitive area in free trade talks. The EU has so far demanded that 95 percent of commodity tariffs be removed within three years. Korea meanwhile wants rice and 250 other products to be exempt from market opening or at least subject to longer-term tariff removal.
Jordan's king hails EU role in Mideast
ParliamentForeign Relations
27 August 2007 - Issue : 744
The President of the Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly, Rene van der Linden, held talks in Amman August 19 with Jordans King Abdullah II, who expressed appreciation for Europes role in reinvigorating the Middle East peace process.
The monarch underlined the importance of the European support to US President George W Bushs call for an international conference later this year to discuss ways for spurring the peace process, a royal court statement said.
King Abdullah also urged a continuation of European economic assistance to the Palestinian areas, saying such aid has a positive impact on the living conditions of the Palestinian people, the statement added. During the meeting, Linden extended an invitation to King Abdullah to deliver a speech before the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, the statement said. Linden also held talks with Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit, who explained Jordans stand toward the latest developments in the Palestinian Territories, Iraq and other parts of the region, an official statement said.
Bakhit said that the Arab peace initiative provided a real opportunity for achieving progress in resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. The prime minister expressed the conviction that the United States, with the expansion of its experiment in the region, now realiSes that finding a solution to the Palestinian question will prompt a retreat in other conflicts in the region, particularly the phenomenon of international terrorism, the statement said. Linden arrived in Amman earlier in the day in the course of a Middle East tour.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
France tells EU: Improve defenseStory Highlights
Sarkozy has urged EU nations to accept greater share of defense spending
Says U.S. has nothing to fear from EU efforts to promote own defense 75 percent of budget currently carried by four richest European nations, Says will push for a European security plan during France's 2008 EU presidency
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged European Union nations Monday to accept a greater share of defense spending to cope with escalating global threats.Sarkozy wants some of the EU's smaller countries to contribute more to Europe's defenceHe said the United States had nothing to fear from European efforts to promote its own defense and called for a rationalization of existing arms programs in Europe's fragmented 200 billion euro ($270 billion) defense industry.We can't carry on with four countries paying for the security of all the rest, Sarkozy told France's overseas ambassadors in a foreign policy speech.France's defense procurement budget is the second biggest in Europe behind Britain.
Together with Germany and Italy, Europe's four largest economies accounted for 75 percent of European defense spending in 2005, according to the European Defense Agency.Unlike Germany and Italy, however, Britain and France spend more than 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense, which is a NATO benchmark, according to EDA figures.In the face of multiplying crises, there is not a surplus but a shortage of (defense) capacity (in Europe), Sarkozy said.I would like Europeans to assume their full role and responsibilities for their own security and for the security of the world. That means we need to boost our planning and operational capacity and develop a European arms industry with new programs and by rationalizing existing ones.In France's recent election campaign, Sarkozy pledged to keep French defense spending at 2 percent of gross domestic product and to press ahead with costly plans for a new aircraft carrier.
Sarkozy pledges new era of change
Bush calls on NATO to increase troops in Afghanistan
Defense analysts blame a proliferation of overlapping projects in Europe on the refusal of France and others to share out sensitive projects that guarantee thousands of jobs.Sarkozy sought to reassure the United States over European Union efforts to boost the region's defense capabilities, saying these should be seen as complementing rather than rivaling the 58-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization.Putting the EU in opposition to NATO doesn't make any sense because we need both. Better still, I am convinced it is in the well-understood interests of the United States that the EU should gather its forces, rationalize its capabilities and organize its own defense in an independent way.Sarkozy said France would push for a European security strategy to be adopted during its EU presidency next year.
France has traditionally highlighted the importance of the EU building up its defense capability and has been suspected by some NATO allies of holding back the 26-member alliance in its efforts to create a new post-Cold War role for itself.But many French commentators say that Sarkozy, a self-proclaimed Atlanticist, leans more towards Washington than his predecessor Jacques Chirac, a fellow conservative who clashed with U.S. President George Bush over Iraq. E-mail to a friend .2007 Reuters.
EC debates cross-border crisis force as Greek forests burn
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:39:03 GMT - DPA
Brussels - The European Commission is debating the creation of a European cross-border crisis-response force, officials confirmed Monday as teams from across the EU battled forest fires in Greece. The EC is looking at ways to increase the EU's capacity to intervene in moments of crisis, both by boosting the speed of cross-border reaction and by increasing the EU-wide pool of disaster-response teams, EC spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich told journalists. The suggestion for a cross-border disaster-response force comes in the wake of the catastrophic forest fires in Greece which have claimed at least 61 lives since breaking out on Friday. Europe already has a centralized disaster-response agency, the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), which serves as a coordinating point between countries seeking emergency assistance and those EU member states with the capacity to supply it.
On Friday, Greece asked MIC to pass on a request for fire-fighting aircraft to other member states. By Monday, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Austria had sent aircraft or firefighting teams to the stricken zone.
This is the biggest effort ever by EU member states to come to the aid of another member state since MIC was set up in 2001, Helfferich said. EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas had called the firefighters' work heroic, she added. But with fires still raging across the Peloponnese, the Commission is now looking for ways to both increase the EU's supply of disaster- response teams, and to speed up the process whereby teams from one member state can be sent to deal with a crisis in another. Eleven key modules, or networks of personnel and equipment geared to natural and man-made disasters such as floods, fires, and terror attacks, were being discussed, an EC press release said.
While some observers have suggested that the EU should have its own disaster-response force, Helfferich stressed that current suggestions were based on the competences of individual member states. The goal is to see to it that the existing capacity to react is bolstered so we can intervene more quickly and more material is available ... We are not talking about a Brussels-based EU force, she said. The forest fires broke out in Greece on Friday during one of the hottest summers in recent years. By Monday, 61 people were reported to have died, with rumours rife that some at least of the fires had been started by arsonists.
Israel: Olmert and Abbas to meet in Jerusalem AUG 27,07
Jerusalem, 27 August (AKI) - Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas will meet in Jerusalem on Tuesday for another round of peace talks in the Middle East.The talks are expected to focus on the creation of a Palestinian state and also focus on principles for discussion at a regional conference in Washington to be held later in the year. It will be the first time the two leaders have met since Olmert became the first Israeli leader to visit Palestine when he met Abbas in the town of Jericho amid tight security on 6 August. Tomorrow's meeting will be the fourth since the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas assumed control of the Gaza Strip in June.
After the last meeting between the two leaders, Abbas reassured Palestinians that there would be improvements in their quality of life. But there are reported to be four core issues that remain unresolved related to: the borders of a Palestinian state; a division of Jerusalem; removal of Israeli settlements and the fate of Palestinian refugees.In a bid to strengthen Abbas' fragile political situation, Israel released 250 Palestinian prisoners in early August and resumed the transfer of Palestinian tax money.
Mubarak says Mideast peace summit lacks framework Sat Aug 25, 5:43 PM ET
CAIRO (Reuters) - A Middle East peace conference called by U.S. President George W. Bush lacks a framework, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying on Saturday. Consensus on issues including the principles of Palestinian statehood should be reached before the meeting, semi-official newspaper Akhbar al-Youm quoted Mubarak as saying.Egypt supports the necessity of consensus around all the outstanding cases for political settlement before the international meeting called for by President Bush is held, Mubarak said.Issues including whether or not Syria would participate in the meeting had not yet been finalized, Mubarak said.Until now the framework of what will be discussed has not been specified, Mubarak was quoted as saying.Arab officials say the United States has given few details about the agenda for the conference, expected in October or November, leaving little time for a concerted effort to help Israelis and Palestinians bridge the chasm on issues such as final borders, Jerusalem, and the fate of Palestinian refugees.
Bush called in July called for a Middle East peace conference to include Israel, the Palestinian Authority and their neighbors.Egypt, a long-time U.S. ally and one of only two Arab states to make peace with Israel, played a facilitating role in past Israeli-Palestinian talks that failed to end the conflict.Last month Arab foreign ministers said the conference must include all the parties concerned, must aim to revive negotiations between Israel and all its neighbors and must be built on previous peace talks.
Who's in charge in the West Bank?
By Yehuda Bauer AUG 28,07
It is impossible for a modern state to exist without a monopoly over military, police or other power, and over its use in accordance with the law. When an alternative center of power is established, causing a significant number of citizens to stop recognizing the government's authority, the government is undermined.
The democratic government has monopoly power in Israel, within the Green Line border. Within the West Bank, Israeli security forces have control in the sense that, with marked success, they protect Israel?s interests in the face of the armed resistance of Palestinian terrorist groups. The price of success is a severely oppressive regime to which Arab residents of the West Bank are subject.
But Israel does not control the several hundred thousand Jewish settlers in the West Bank. They accept Israeli rule only to the extent that it works in their favor. When they think it does not, then in the best-case scenario they ignore it; otherwise, they succeed in resisting it. The police, security services and army are under the constant threat of active resistance on the settlers' part, and they submit to that threat. The necessary monopoly over this power no longer exists. There are two states; one committed to a Western democratic government, and the other committed to extremist, messianic religious rule.
Here is a completely imaginary scenario:
Under the pressure of the Quartet and others, the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority reach an agreement. Israel is to withdraw to the 1967 borders. A Palestinian state will be established involving an exchange of territory that will leave most West Bank settlements in Israeli hands. Israel agrees, after Knesset approval and a national referendum, to evacuate within 10 to 15 years tens of thousands of settlers from communities that are not included in these land swaps. Jerusalem is to be divided, with free trade between both sections. The Temple Mount will be transferred to Waqf control, and everyone will be assured access to it, under efficient international supervision. Palestinian refugees will be absorbed by the Palestinian state, and only a very small number will be able to enter Israeli territory in the framework of family unification. A third party will ensure adherence to the financial side of the deal. Arab states, aside from Syria and Lebanon, will recognize Israel and commit to normal financial ties with it.
Under this imaginary scenario, does anyone think that the tens of thousands of settlers slated for evacuation will leave their homes while singing Hatikva and dancing? It's clear that the resistance will be violent, and the hilltop youth are liable to become armed militias. The Israel Defense Forces, if no changes take place, will be sensitive in its dealings with the settlers rather than resolute, because the government has lost its monopoly over the use of power in accordance with the law. There is no truth to the well-known tradition that the Second Temple was destroyed due to baseless hatred or internecine rivalry. The Temple was destroyed because religious, messianic extremists forced the nation to rebel against a global empire that it had no chance of defeating. This time there may be a scenario (an imaginary one) in which a radical religious minority thwarts peace because the fanatic political assassins of the Second Temple period have found worthy successors. The author is a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of 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.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
Middle East turmoil could cause world war: U.S. envoy
Reuters - Monday, August 27, 2007; 6:57 AM
VIENNA (Reuters) - Upheaval in the Middle East and Islamic civilization could cause another world war, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was quoted as saying in an Austrian newspaper interview published on Monday.Zalmay Khalilzad told the daily Die Presse the Middle East was now so disordered that it had the potential to inflame the world as Europe did during the first half of the 20th century.John C. Davis III, 24, of East Baltimore is leaving for basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., shortly after working out with Staff Sgt. Brian Grotz. The bonus prompted him to sign up quickly. (Ricky Carioti -- The Washington Post).The (Middle East) is going through a very difficult transformation phase. That has strengthened extremism and creates a breeding ground for terrorism, he said in remarks translated by Reuters into English from the published German.
Europe was just as dysfunctional for a while. And some of its wars became world wars. Now the problems of the Middle East and Islamic civilization have the same potential to engulf the world, he was quoted as saying.Khalilzad, interviewed by Die Presse while attending a foreign policy seminar in the Austrian Alps, said the Islamic world would eventually join the international mainstream but this would take some time.They started late. They don't have a consensus on their concept. Some believe they should return to the time (6th-7th century) of the Prophet Mohammad, he was quoted as saying.It may take decades before some understand that they can remain Muslims and simultaneously join the modern world.Khalilzad was also quoted as saying Iraq would need foreign forces for security for a long time to come.Iraq will not be in a position to stand on its own feet for a longer period, he said in the interview.
Asked whether that could be 10-20 years, he said: Yes, indeed, it could last that long. What form the help takes will depend a lot on the Iraqis. Up to now there is no accord between Iraq and the United States about a longer military presence. Khalilzad said the chaos in Iraq since U.S.-led forces overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003 was not unavoidable but arose from mistakes in the initial period of occupation.
Historians are discussing now whether we should have sent more troops to Iraq to preserve law and order, if it was right to dissolve the Iraqi army, if we should have built an Iraqi government quicker, if there should have been such a sweeping de-Baathification program (removing Saddam-era officials).
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.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Iran defense chief says new bomb would be used on our enemies
By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press | August 27, 2007
TEHRAN -- Iran vowed yesterday to use a new 2,000-pound smart bomb against its enemies and unveiled mass production of the new weapon, state television reported.
The government first announced development of the long-range guided bomb Thursday, saying it could be deployed by the country's aging US-made F-4 and F-5 fighter jets.
We will use these [bombs] against our enemies when the time comes, Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on state television yesterday.Iran often announces new weapons for its arsenal, but the United States maintains that while the Islamic Republic has made some strides, many of these statements are exaggerations.The broadcast included a brief clip of a fighter jet apparently dropping one of the bombs, which destroyed a target on the ground.The defense minister continued his threats as state television showed him unveiling a mass production line for the weapon in Tehran.We will use this weapon where we want to . . . hit the enemy's strategic and defense targets, Najjar said. This will be used against our enemies, against those who violate our land and airspace.Israel said the televised announcement underlines its concerns over Iran's arms buildup.All countries of the Middle East, Israel included, are concerned about expansionist Iranian policies, and about their aggressive military arms buildup, said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry. There is no doubt that the regime in Tehran poses a very real threat to the peace and security of the region.The United States and Israel accuse Iran of developing nuclear bombs, a charge Tehran denies. Iran's president has said Israel should be wiped off the map; Israel considers Iran its main enemy.
Emanuel Winston, a Middle East analyst at the Houston-based Freeman Center for Strategic Studies, said Thursday that an Iranian smart bomb would be less dangerous than a missile development program, given the limited range of the country's aircraft.Najjar had boasted that the bomb remarkably increases Iran's defense capabilities.Iran launched its arms development program during its 1980-88 war with Iraq in response to a US-led arms embargo. Since 1992, the country has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, and missiles.2007 Globe Newspaper Company.
Mystery deaths hit Saudi camels AUG 26,07
Camels are traded for thousands of dollars.Nearly 2,000 camels have died in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia due to suspected poisoned animal feed. So far this month 1,982 camels have died. Symptoms include sweating, excitability, vomiting and fainting. The country's Agriculture Ministry has said tests suggested the deaths were caused by animal feed which was contaminated by insecticide. Owners have been promised compensation by King Abdullah. Camels are big business in Saudi Arabia.
The animals began dying in the Dawasir Valley south of the capital Riyadh but other camel deaths have been recorded from Mecca to the border of Yemen. Camels are traded by Bedouin tribes for thousands of dollars each. The animals are used for racing and are also eaten. Agriculture Minister Fahd Bilghoneim told a news conference: Veterinary experts say the symptoms indicate cases of poisoning and not an infectious disease, and this accords with what camel owners have said about animal feed they bought.
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS
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.
Great cosmic nothingness found AUG 26,07
The result comes from a sky survey by the VLA in New Mexico
It's hard to picture
Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across. It is empty of both normal matter - such as galaxies and stars - and the mysterious dark matter that cannot be seen directly with telescopes. The hole is located in the direction of the Eridanus constellation and has been identified in data from a survey of the sky made at radio wavelengths. The discovery will be reported in a paper in the Astrophysical Journal. Previous sky surveys that have traced the large-scale structure of the nearby Universe have long shown, for example, how the clustering of galaxies is strung into vast filaments and sheets that are separated by great gaps. But the void discovered by a University of Minnesota team is about 1,000 times the volume of what would be expected in typical cosmic gaps. It's hard even for astronomers to picture how big these things are, conceded Minnesota's Professor Lawrence Rudnick. If you were to travel at the speed of light, it would take you several years to get to the nearest stars in our own Milky Way galaxy; but if you were to go to this hole and enter one side, you'd have to travel for a billion years before you would get to the other side, he told BBC News. The void is roughly 6-10 billion light-years away and takes a sizeable chunk out of the visible Universe in its direction.
Dark evidence
The team used data from the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory's VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) to make its discovery. The VLA - which stands for Very Large Array - is a collection of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico. The finding is said to fit neatly with observations of the Universe's oldest light - the famous Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, the study of which has earned several scientists the Nobel Prize. This is the radiation that comes from just 380,000 years after the Big Bang when the Universe had cooled to such a degree that hydrogen atoms could exist. Before that time, scientists say, the Universe would have been so hot that matter and light would have been coupled - the cosmos would have been opaque.
THE CMB - OLD AND COLD
Nasa Probes have mapped the Cosmic Microwave Background which is all around us in space.This radiation from the infant Universe shines at weak radio (microwave) wavelengths.The maps show up tiny temperature fluctuations - the mottled colours above.These fluctuations correspond to the early distribution of matter in the fledgling cosmos.Nasa's WMap satellite sees a cold spot lying in the path of the newly found void
Ancient light takes Nobel
Today, this light shines at microwave wavelengths at a frigid -270C; and observations of the CMB made by Nasa's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe show a particular cold spot in the direction of the newly identified void. The explanation for this may lie in the enigmatic dark energy that scientists know so little about but which is said to be accelerating the expansion of the Universe. Light particles passing through the void would be expected to lose a little more energy than those passing through space cluttered with matter - if dark energy is stretching the Universe apart at a faster and faster rate. Scientists refer to this as the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect and a corresponding warm spot in the CMB associated with an area of space dominated by a supercluster of galaxies was identified some years ago. In essence, this latest study gives us a very elegant demonstration of the existence of dark energy in a way which is very convincing, commented Professor Carlos Frenk, the director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, UK. We keep getting evidence for dark energy, this component of the Universe which is so dominant, and yet we still have only a tiny glimmer of what it could be.The reason the void exists is not known. That's going to be a challenge for people that work on the development of structure in the Universe. It's a very hot topic in the cosmology right now, said Professor Rudnick.
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).
Korea to Send Draft Proposal on FTA with EU AUG 26,07
The government will soon deliver a draft proposal to the European Union in preparation for a third round of free trade negotiations. According to Trade Ministry officials in Seoul, the proposal is expected to include a time frame for Korea to eliminate tariffs on cars and industrial goods. It will also specify when and how much Korea is willing to open its agricultural sector, the most sensitive area in free trade talks. The EU has so far demanded that 95 percent of commodity tariffs be removed within three years. Korea meanwhile wants rice and 250 other products to be exempt from market opening or at least subject to longer-term tariff removal.
Jordan's king hails EU role in Mideast
ParliamentForeign Relations
27 August 2007 - Issue : 744
The President of the Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly, Rene van der Linden, held talks in Amman August 19 with Jordans King Abdullah II, who expressed appreciation for Europes role in reinvigorating the Middle East peace process.
The monarch underlined the importance of the European support to US President George W Bushs call for an international conference later this year to discuss ways for spurring the peace process, a royal court statement said.
King Abdullah also urged a continuation of European economic assistance to the Palestinian areas, saying such aid has a positive impact on the living conditions of the Palestinian people, the statement added. During the meeting, Linden extended an invitation to King Abdullah to deliver a speech before the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, the statement said. Linden also held talks with Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit, who explained Jordans stand toward the latest developments in the Palestinian Territories, Iraq and other parts of the region, an official statement said.
Bakhit said that the Arab peace initiative provided a real opportunity for achieving progress in resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. The prime minister expressed the conviction that the United States, with the expansion of its experiment in the region, now realiSes that finding a solution to the Palestinian question will prompt a retreat in other conflicts in the region, particularly the phenomenon of international terrorism, the statement said. Linden arrived in Amman earlier in the day in the course of a Middle East tour.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
France tells EU: Improve defenseStory Highlights
Sarkozy has urged EU nations to accept greater share of defense spending
Says U.S. has nothing to fear from EU efforts to promote own defense 75 percent of budget currently carried by four richest European nations, Says will push for a European security plan during France's 2008 EU presidency
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged European Union nations Monday to accept a greater share of defense spending to cope with escalating global threats.Sarkozy wants some of the EU's smaller countries to contribute more to Europe's defenceHe said the United States had nothing to fear from European efforts to promote its own defense and called for a rationalization of existing arms programs in Europe's fragmented 200 billion euro ($270 billion) defense industry.We can't carry on with four countries paying for the security of all the rest, Sarkozy told France's overseas ambassadors in a foreign policy speech.France's defense procurement budget is the second biggest in Europe behind Britain.
Together with Germany and Italy, Europe's four largest economies accounted for 75 percent of European defense spending in 2005, according to the European Defense Agency.Unlike Germany and Italy, however, Britain and France spend more than 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense, which is a NATO benchmark, according to EDA figures.In the face of multiplying crises, there is not a surplus but a shortage of (defense) capacity (in Europe), Sarkozy said.I would like Europeans to assume their full role and responsibilities for their own security and for the security of the world. That means we need to boost our planning and operational capacity and develop a European arms industry with new programs and by rationalizing existing ones.In France's recent election campaign, Sarkozy pledged to keep French defense spending at 2 percent of gross domestic product and to press ahead with costly plans for a new aircraft carrier.
Sarkozy pledges new era of change
Bush calls on NATO to increase troops in Afghanistan
Defense analysts blame a proliferation of overlapping projects in Europe on the refusal of France and others to share out sensitive projects that guarantee thousands of jobs.Sarkozy sought to reassure the United States over European Union efforts to boost the region's defense capabilities, saying these should be seen as complementing rather than rivaling the 58-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization.Putting the EU in opposition to NATO doesn't make any sense because we need both. Better still, I am convinced it is in the well-understood interests of the United States that the EU should gather its forces, rationalize its capabilities and organize its own defense in an independent way.Sarkozy said France would push for a European security strategy to be adopted during its EU presidency next year.
France has traditionally highlighted the importance of the EU building up its defense capability and has been suspected by some NATO allies of holding back the 26-member alliance in its efforts to create a new post-Cold War role for itself.But many French commentators say that Sarkozy, a self-proclaimed Atlanticist, leans more towards Washington than his predecessor Jacques Chirac, a fellow conservative who clashed with U.S. President George Bush over Iraq. E-mail to a friend .2007 Reuters.
EC debates cross-border crisis force as Greek forests burn
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:39:03 GMT - DPA
Brussels - The European Commission is debating the creation of a European cross-border crisis-response force, officials confirmed Monday as teams from across the EU battled forest fires in Greece. The EC is looking at ways to increase the EU's capacity to intervene in moments of crisis, both by boosting the speed of cross-border reaction and by increasing the EU-wide pool of disaster-response teams, EC spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich told journalists. The suggestion for a cross-border disaster-response force comes in the wake of the catastrophic forest fires in Greece which have claimed at least 61 lives since breaking out on Friday. Europe already has a centralized disaster-response agency, the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), which serves as a coordinating point between countries seeking emergency assistance and those EU member states with the capacity to supply it.
On Friday, Greece asked MIC to pass on a request for fire-fighting aircraft to other member states. By Monday, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Austria had sent aircraft or firefighting teams to the stricken zone.
This is the biggest effort ever by EU member states to come to the aid of another member state since MIC was set up in 2001, Helfferich said. EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas had called the firefighters' work heroic, she added. But with fires still raging across the Peloponnese, the Commission is now looking for ways to both increase the EU's supply of disaster- response teams, and to speed up the process whereby teams from one member state can be sent to deal with a crisis in another. Eleven key modules, or networks of personnel and equipment geared to natural and man-made disasters such as floods, fires, and terror attacks, were being discussed, an EC press release said.
While some observers have suggested that the EU should have its own disaster-response force, Helfferich stressed that current suggestions were based on the competences of individual member states. The goal is to see to it that the existing capacity to react is bolstered so we can intervene more quickly and more material is available ... We are not talking about a Brussels-based EU force, she said. The forest fires broke out in Greece on Friday during one of the hottest summers in recent years. By Monday, 61 people were reported to have died, with rumours rife that some at least of the fires had been started by arsonists.
Israel: Olmert and Abbas to meet in Jerusalem AUG 27,07
Jerusalem, 27 August (AKI) - Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas will meet in Jerusalem on Tuesday for another round of peace talks in the Middle East.The talks are expected to focus on the creation of a Palestinian state and also focus on principles for discussion at a regional conference in Washington to be held later in the year. It will be the first time the two leaders have met since Olmert became the first Israeli leader to visit Palestine when he met Abbas in the town of Jericho amid tight security on 6 August. Tomorrow's meeting will be the fourth since the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas assumed control of the Gaza Strip in June.
After the last meeting between the two leaders, Abbas reassured Palestinians that there would be improvements in their quality of life. But there are reported to be four core issues that remain unresolved related to: the borders of a Palestinian state; a division of Jerusalem; removal of Israeli settlements and the fate of Palestinian refugees.In a bid to strengthen Abbas' fragile political situation, Israel released 250 Palestinian prisoners in early August and resumed the transfer of Palestinian tax money.
Mubarak says Mideast peace summit lacks framework Sat Aug 25, 5:43 PM ET
CAIRO (Reuters) - A Middle East peace conference called by U.S. President George W. Bush lacks a framework, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying on Saturday. Consensus on issues including the principles of Palestinian statehood should be reached before the meeting, semi-official newspaper Akhbar al-Youm quoted Mubarak as saying.Egypt supports the necessity of consensus around all the outstanding cases for political settlement before the international meeting called for by President Bush is held, Mubarak said.Issues including whether or not Syria would participate in the meeting had not yet been finalized, Mubarak said.Until now the framework of what will be discussed has not been specified, Mubarak was quoted as saying.Arab officials say the United States has given few details about the agenda for the conference, expected in October or November, leaving little time for a concerted effort to help Israelis and Palestinians bridge the chasm on issues such as final borders, Jerusalem, and the fate of Palestinian refugees.
Bush called in July called for a Middle East peace conference to include Israel, the Palestinian Authority and their neighbors.Egypt, a long-time U.S. ally and one of only two Arab states to make peace with Israel, played a facilitating role in past Israeli-Palestinian talks that failed to end the conflict.Last month Arab foreign ministers said the conference must include all the parties concerned, must aim to revive negotiations between Israel and all its neighbors and must be built on previous peace talks.
Who's in charge in the West Bank?
By Yehuda Bauer AUG 28,07
It is impossible for a modern state to exist without a monopoly over military, police or other power, and over its use in accordance with the law. When an alternative center of power is established, causing a significant number of citizens to stop recognizing the government's authority, the government is undermined.
The democratic government has monopoly power in Israel, within the Green Line border. Within the West Bank, Israeli security forces have control in the sense that, with marked success, they protect Israel?s interests in the face of the armed resistance of Palestinian terrorist groups. The price of success is a severely oppressive regime to which Arab residents of the West Bank are subject.
But Israel does not control the several hundred thousand Jewish settlers in the West Bank. They accept Israeli rule only to the extent that it works in their favor. When they think it does not, then in the best-case scenario they ignore it; otherwise, they succeed in resisting it. The police, security services and army are under the constant threat of active resistance on the settlers' part, and they submit to that threat. The necessary monopoly over this power no longer exists. There are two states; one committed to a Western democratic government, and the other committed to extremist, messianic religious rule.
Here is a completely imaginary scenario:
Under the pressure of the Quartet and others, the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority reach an agreement. Israel is to withdraw to the 1967 borders. A Palestinian state will be established involving an exchange of territory that will leave most West Bank settlements in Israeli hands. Israel agrees, after Knesset approval and a national referendum, to evacuate within 10 to 15 years tens of thousands of settlers from communities that are not included in these land swaps. Jerusalem is to be divided, with free trade between both sections. The Temple Mount will be transferred to Waqf control, and everyone will be assured access to it, under efficient international supervision. Palestinian refugees will be absorbed by the Palestinian state, and only a very small number will be able to enter Israeli territory in the framework of family unification. A third party will ensure adherence to the financial side of the deal. Arab states, aside from Syria and Lebanon, will recognize Israel and commit to normal financial ties with it.
Under this imaginary scenario, does anyone think that the tens of thousands of settlers slated for evacuation will leave their homes while singing Hatikva and dancing? It's clear that the resistance will be violent, and the hilltop youth are liable to become armed militias. The Israel Defense Forces, if no changes take place, will be sensitive in its dealings with the settlers rather than resolute, because the government has lost its monopoly over the use of power in accordance with the law. There is no truth to the well-known tradition that the Second Temple was destroyed due to baseless hatred or internecine rivalry. The Temple was destroyed because religious, messianic extremists forced the nation to rebel against a global empire that it had no chance of defeating. This time there may be a scenario (an imaginary one) in which a radical religious minority thwarts peace because the fanatic political assassins of the Second Temple period have found worthy successors. The author is a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of 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.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
Middle East turmoil could cause world war: U.S. envoy
Reuters - Monday, August 27, 2007; 6:57 AM
VIENNA (Reuters) - Upheaval in the Middle East and Islamic civilization could cause another world war, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was quoted as saying in an Austrian newspaper interview published on Monday.Zalmay Khalilzad told the daily Die Presse the Middle East was now so disordered that it had the potential to inflame the world as Europe did during the first half of the 20th century.John C. Davis III, 24, of East Baltimore is leaving for basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., shortly after working out with Staff Sgt. Brian Grotz. The bonus prompted him to sign up quickly. (Ricky Carioti -- The Washington Post).The (Middle East) is going through a very difficult transformation phase. That has strengthened extremism and creates a breeding ground for terrorism, he said in remarks translated by Reuters into English from the published German.
Europe was just as dysfunctional for a while. And some of its wars became world wars. Now the problems of the Middle East and Islamic civilization have the same potential to engulf the world, he was quoted as saying.Khalilzad, interviewed by Die Presse while attending a foreign policy seminar in the Austrian Alps, said the Islamic world would eventually join the international mainstream but this would take some time.They started late. They don't have a consensus on their concept. Some believe they should return to the time (6th-7th century) of the Prophet Mohammad, he was quoted as saying.It may take decades before some understand that they can remain Muslims and simultaneously join the modern world.Khalilzad was also quoted as saying Iraq would need foreign forces for security for a long time to come.Iraq will not be in a position to stand on its own feet for a longer period, he said in the interview.
Asked whether that could be 10-20 years, he said: Yes, indeed, it could last that long. What form the help takes will depend a lot on the Iraqis. Up to now there is no accord between Iraq and the United States about a longer military presence. Khalilzad said the chaos in Iraq since U.S.-led forces overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003 was not unavoidable but arose from mistakes in the initial period of occupation.
Historians are discussing now whether we should have sent more troops to Iraq to preserve law and order, if it was right to dissolve the Iraqi army, if we should have built an Iraqi government quicker, if there should have been such a sweeping de-Baathification program (removing Saddam-era officials).
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.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Iran defense chief says new bomb would be used on our enemies
By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press | August 27, 2007
TEHRAN -- Iran vowed yesterday to use a new 2,000-pound smart bomb against its enemies and unveiled mass production of the new weapon, state television reported.
The government first announced development of the long-range guided bomb Thursday, saying it could be deployed by the country's aging US-made F-4 and F-5 fighter jets.
We will use these [bombs] against our enemies when the time comes, Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on state television yesterday.Iran often announces new weapons for its arsenal, but the United States maintains that while the Islamic Republic has made some strides, many of these statements are exaggerations.The broadcast included a brief clip of a fighter jet apparently dropping one of the bombs, which destroyed a target on the ground.The defense minister continued his threats as state television showed him unveiling a mass production line for the weapon in Tehran.We will use this weapon where we want to . . . hit the enemy's strategic and defense targets, Najjar said. This will be used against our enemies, against those who violate our land and airspace.Israel said the televised announcement underlines its concerns over Iran's arms buildup.All countries of the Middle East, Israel included, are concerned about expansionist Iranian policies, and about their aggressive military arms buildup, said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry. There is no doubt that the regime in Tehran poses a very real threat to the peace and security of the region.The United States and Israel accuse Iran of developing nuclear bombs, a charge Tehran denies. Iran's president has said Israel should be wiped off the map; Israel considers Iran its main enemy.
Emanuel Winston, a Middle East analyst at the Houston-based Freeman Center for Strategic Studies, said Thursday that an Iranian smart bomb would be less dangerous than a missile development program, given the limited range of the country's aircraft.Najjar had boasted that the bomb remarkably increases Iran's defense capabilities.Iran launched its arms development program during its 1980-88 war with Iraq in response to a US-led arms embargo. Since 1992, the country has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, and missiles.2007 Globe Newspaper Company.
Mystery deaths hit Saudi camels AUG 26,07
Camels are traded for thousands of dollars.Nearly 2,000 camels have died in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia due to suspected poisoned animal feed. So far this month 1,982 camels have died. Symptoms include sweating, excitability, vomiting and fainting. The country's Agriculture Ministry has said tests suggested the deaths were caused by animal feed which was contaminated by insecticide. Owners have been promised compensation by King Abdullah. Camels are big business in Saudi Arabia.
The animals began dying in the Dawasir Valley south of the capital Riyadh but other camel deaths have been recorded from Mecca to the border of Yemen. Camels are traded by Bedouin tribes for thousands of dollars each. The animals are used for racing and are also eaten. Agriculture Minister Fahd Bilghoneim told a news conference: Veterinary experts say the symptoms indicate cases of poisoning and not an infectious disease, and this accords with what camel owners have said about animal feed they bought.
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS
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.
Great cosmic nothingness found AUG 26,07
The result comes from a sky survey by the VLA in New Mexico
It's hard to picture
Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across. It is empty of both normal matter - such as galaxies and stars - and the mysterious dark matter that cannot be seen directly with telescopes. The hole is located in the direction of the Eridanus constellation and has been identified in data from a survey of the sky made at radio wavelengths. The discovery will be reported in a paper in the Astrophysical Journal. Previous sky surveys that have traced the large-scale structure of the nearby Universe have long shown, for example, how the clustering of galaxies is strung into vast filaments and sheets that are separated by great gaps. But the void discovered by a University of Minnesota team is about 1,000 times the volume of what would be expected in typical cosmic gaps. It's hard even for astronomers to picture how big these things are, conceded Minnesota's Professor Lawrence Rudnick. If you were to travel at the speed of light, it would take you several years to get to the nearest stars in our own Milky Way galaxy; but if you were to go to this hole and enter one side, you'd have to travel for a billion years before you would get to the other side, he told BBC News. The void is roughly 6-10 billion light-years away and takes a sizeable chunk out of the visible Universe in its direction.
Dark evidence
The team used data from the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory's VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) to make its discovery. The VLA - which stands for Very Large Array - is a collection of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico. The finding is said to fit neatly with observations of the Universe's oldest light - the famous Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, the study of which has earned several scientists the Nobel Prize. This is the radiation that comes from just 380,000 years after the Big Bang when the Universe had cooled to such a degree that hydrogen atoms could exist. Before that time, scientists say, the Universe would have been so hot that matter and light would have been coupled - the cosmos would have been opaque.
THE CMB - OLD AND COLD
Nasa Probes have mapped the Cosmic Microwave Background which is all around us in space.This radiation from the infant Universe shines at weak radio (microwave) wavelengths.The maps show up tiny temperature fluctuations - the mottled colours above.These fluctuations correspond to the early distribution of matter in the fledgling cosmos.Nasa's WMap satellite sees a cold spot lying in the path of the newly found void
Ancient light takes Nobel
Today, this light shines at microwave wavelengths at a frigid -270C; and observations of the CMB made by Nasa's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe show a particular cold spot in the direction of the newly identified void. The explanation for this may lie in the enigmatic dark energy that scientists know so little about but which is said to be accelerating the expansion of the Universe. Light particles passing through the void would be expected to lose a little more energy than those passing through space cluttered with matter - if dark energy is stretching the Universe apart at a faster and faster rate. Scientists refer to this as the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect and a corresponding warm spot in the CMB associated with an area of space dominated by a supercluster of galaxies was identified some years ago. In essence, this latest study gives us a very elegant demonstration of the existence of dark energy in a way which is very convincing, commented Professor Carlos Frenk, the director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, UK. We keep getting evidence for dark energy, this component of the Universe which is so dominant, and yet we still have only a tiny glimmer of what it could be.The reason the void exists is not known. That's going to be a challenge for people that work on the development of structure in the Universe. It's a very hot topic in the cosmology right now, said Professor Rudnick.
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