STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Haiti floods leave 45 dead Sat Oct 13, 2:12 AM ET
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - At least 45 people have died in the poverty-stricken island of Haiti as homes were swept away in floods triggered by heavy rain, the interior ministry said Friday. Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime told AFP 23 bodies had been found Thursday in Cabaret, just north of the capital, and 12 were missing after floodwaters hit their hillside homes, sweeping them away in the current.The water carried off people living in houses built on the hillside, sweeping them into the town, the minister said.More than 6,000 people have had to leave their flooded homes in Cabaret, where neighborhoods have been completely submerged, witnesses told radio stations in Port-au-Prince.
The mountainous and impoverished Caribbean island nation faces regular flash-flooding during the rainy season. Deforestation, which heightens the risk of flooding, is rife as the poor collect every scrap of wood for cooking.Civil protection authorities said thousands of families were displaced and hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged across the country. Roads were swamped and plantations wiped out.Farming has been particularly affected and numerous crops have been destroyed, Bien-Aime said.Apart from Cabinet, further casualties were reported in other villages after more than a week of rain. The ministry said the provisional death toll for the whole of the country was at least 45.The government released funds to send food and beds to the stricken areas and the United Nations has offered to help. It already has thousands of peacekeepers in the country, whose problems were compounded by violent political strife in recent years.
In eastern Cuba, just west of Haiti, civil defense officials evacuated more than 18,000 people amid flooding concerns from the same weather system, which damaged at least 1,000 homes there.And in Nicaragua at least 1,000 were evacuated in the Chinandega region of the northeast, were a flood alert was issued, emergency services told AFP. Heavy rain there has caused major rivers to flood their banks.
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)
Rice worried by Putin's broad powers By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer OCT 13,07
MOSCOW - The Russian government under Vladimir Putin has amassed so much central authority that the power-grab may undermine Moscow's commitment to democracy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday. In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development, Rice told reporters after meeting with human-rights activists.I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma, said Rice, referring to the Russian parliament.Telephone messages left with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov were not immediately returned Saturday evening.The top American diplomat encouraged the activists to build institutions of democracy. These would help combat arbitrary state power amid increasing pressure from the Kremlin, she said.
The U.S. is concerned about the centralization of power and democratic backsliding ahead of Russia's legislative and presidential elections in December and March. Putin will step down next year as president. He has said he would lead the ticket of the main pro-Kremlin party in the parliamentary elections and could take the prime minister's job later.Rice sought opinions and assessments of the situation from eight prominent rights leaders.
I talked to people about the coming months and how they see the coming months. How these two elections are carried out will have an effect on whether Russia is making the next step on toward democracy, Rice said after the private sessions at Spaso House, the residence of the U.S. ambassador in Moscow.Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday received a chilly reception from Putin and senior Russian officials on U.S. proposals for cooperating on a missile defense system in Eastern Europe that Russia vehemently opposes.But as she has in the past, Rice declined comment on Putin's possible political future and said she did not raise the matter in her official discussions.Although she would not speculate about Putin's ambitions, Rice said there were signs that whatever transition occurs could be smooth.
To the degree that anyone can predict, it looks like it will be fairly stable, she said. But, I would just caution that change is change.Earlier, Rice said she hoped the efforts of rights activists would promote universal values of the rights of individuals to liberty and freedom, the right to worship as you please, and the right to assembly, the right to not have to deal with the arbitrary power of the state.In the meeting with business, media and civil society leaders, Rice said she was especially interested in talking about how you view (the) political evolution of Russia, the economic evolution of Russia.
Russia is a country that's in transition and that transition is not easy and there are a lot of complications and a lot of challenges, Rice said. If Russia is to emerge as a democratic country that can fully protect the rights of its people, it is going to emerge over years and you have to be a part of helping the emergence of that Russia.Participants in the meetings said they outlined their concerns but that she did not offer any judgments about the state of human rights and democracy under Putin.Lyudmila Alexeyeva of the Moscow Helsinki Group told the Interfax news agency her organization sees the purposeful construction of an authoritarian society and an onslaught on the people's rights, elections are being turned into farce, and human rights and opposition organizations are experiencing pressure.
Alexander Brod, head of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau, said the discussions touched on authoritarianism and the crisis of human rights. He said he disagreed with the opinion that we had a flourishing democracy in the 1990s and that we have a setback now.
Not all is ideal in America, either. We see protests against the war in Iraq and violations of human rights on the part of security services and violations of human rights in countering terrorism, Brod said.
Vladimir Lukin, the government-appointed human rights ombudsman, was quoted by Interfax as saying he told Rice that human rights should be discussed in a dialogue rather lecturing in a doomsday style. The State Department frequently has criticized what Washington regards as creeping authoritarianism among Putin and other top Russian leaders. Its most recent human-rights report on Russia notes continuing centralization of power in the Kremlin, a compliant legislature, political pressure on the judiciary, intolerance of ethnic minorities, corruption and selectivity in enforcement of the law, and media restrictions and self-censorship. Rice and Gates later met with Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov for talks on trade and economic relations, including negotiations for Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. Moscow and Washington signed a trade agreement last November that removed the last major obstacle in Moscow's 13-year journey to join the 149-member group. Moscow must still conclude other outstanding bilateral deals and assuage the European Union's concerns about energy supplies. The Russian government press service said Zubkov also pressed the Americans to work to abolish the Jackson-Vanik amendment. The 1974 measure ties Russia's trade status to whether it freely allows Jewish emigration.
Iran calls on Muslims to boycott peace conference By Parisa Hafezi OCT 13,07
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's top cleric urged Muslim countries on Saturday to boycott a U.S.-sponsored international peace conference on Palestinian statehood next month. Opposition to Israel is one of the cornerstones of belief of Shi'ite Iran, which backs Palestinian and Lebanese Islamic militant groups opposed to peace with the Jewish state.When Palestinians consider this conference as deceitful and refuse to participate, how can Muslim countries take part in that?" Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a sermon broadcast live on state media.Other (Muslim) countries also should consider it a deceitful conference.
The United States is optimistic Palestinians and Israelis will agree to a joint document on the tough issues that divide them before the conference in November.Washington has backed the idea of a small territorial exchange between Israel and a future Palestine so that Palestinians would be compensated for Jewish settlement blocs that would remain under Israeli control in any peace deal.Negotiations on core issues such as the borders of a Palestinian state and the future of Jerusalem and millions of Palestinian refugees broke down in 2001 amid surging violence. Since its 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran refuses to recognize Israel.Under the name of seizing peace, Americans are trying to impose their will on Palestinians. This conference's aim is to rescue the Zionist regime (Israel), Khamenei said..
Iran's most powerful authority also said the United States and its western allies were to be blamed for instability and the bloodshed in Iraq.The occupiers of Iraq are the ones to be blamed for the insecurity in Iraq. They are not capable or they do not want to establish security in Iraq, he said.The United States and Israel accuse Iran of interference in Iraq, through backing Shi'ite militias, and of sponsoring terrorism, including the Palestinian group Hamas and Hezbollah. Tehran denies the charges.The United States and Iran, who have not had diplomatic ties since shortly after Iran's revolution, are also embroiled in a deepening rift over Tehran's nuclear program, which the West says is a cover to build nuclear weapons. Iran denies it.Khamenei, the spiritual heir of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who led Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, addressed tens of thousands of worshippers who gathered at a large mosque in Tehran to mark the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday ending the Ramadan fasting month in Iran.America and its allies are responsible for ... human and political catastrophe in Iraq, he said.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 11, 2007
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
Each spring, Israel celebrates Jerusalem Day, commemorating the reunification of the city under Israeli rule following the 1967 Six Day War. It is a joyous occasion a day set aside to reflect upon the significance of this ancient and Holy City to the Jewish people, and to celebrate the fact that, after thousands of years, it is once again the capital of a sovereign Jewish state.Just last week, another Jerusalem Day was observed throughout the Arab and Muslim Middle East. Supposedly meant to rally support for Palestinians and reaffirm the importance of Jerusalem to Muslims, it was instead little more than another occasion for hostile governments to issue hateful verbal attacks and threats against Israel.
These attacks were especially vicious. Speaking before a crowd shouting “death to Israel” in the Iranian capital of Tehran, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech calling Israel’s existence an insult to human dignity. In Gaza, an Islamic Jihad terrorist leader declared, Israel is a cancerous tumor that has sprouted in the region, but we will continue the jihad and the resistance until Jerusalem is liberated. At a rally in the Syrian capital of Damascus, a banner read, Palestine is ours, from the sea to the river.Meanwhile, as her enemies come together to call for her destruction, Israel continues to seek peace. Recent news reports say that Israel is even considering giving the Palestinians control over parts of Jerusalem. This shows again that Israel is operating in good faith and is prepared to make painful sacrifices for real, lasting peace. However, Palestinian leadership has yet to show a similar willingness to compromise and fulfill commitments made at the negotiating table. For that reason, there is every reason for Israel to carefully consider the possible implications of such a transfer, to proceed with extreme caution, and to ensure that any agreement reached with the Palestinians on Jerusalem requires them to follow through on their promises.
Obviously, putting any part of the Holy City in the wrong hands could have devastating consequences for Israel. No one understands this better than Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. He has written a new book called “The Fight for Jerusalem” that I strongly recommend to help you stay informed and stand firm in your support for Israel.Ambassador Gold shows how Jerusalem has become the battleground in an increasingly heated conflict between the West and radical Islam. He highlights the historical and biblical connections of Jews and Christians to Jerusalem, and documents how Islamists are destroying precious archeological artifacts in an attempt to convince the world that those connections are merely myths. The Fight for Jerusalem also provides insight into how Jerusalem is seen as the launching pad for global jihadism. You can purchase this important book from our catalog and when you do, proceeds will go to fund The Fellowship’s lifesaving programs that benefit Israel and Jewish people worldwide.
I believe that Gold’s book makes a compelling case that we are witnessing a pivotal time in history. Now, more than ever, we need to heed the ancient words of the psalmist: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels (Psalm 122:6). Please join me today in this prayer for the Israel and the Holy City, which my friend, former Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon, called, “the eternal capital of the Jewish people.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
Hamas warns Abbas peace talks a trap By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer Sat Oct 13, 1:39 AM ET
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas' top leaders in Gaza and Syria warned the moderate Palestinian president Friday not to fall into the trap of an upcoming U.S.-sponsored peace conference with Israel. Ismail Haniyeh, who was deposed as Palestinian prime minister after Hamas violently seized Gaza in June, urged President Mahmoud Abbas to mend his rift with the Islamic militant group and criticized him for planning to attend the peace conference next month.Don't fall into the trap of the coming conference. Don't make new compromises on Jerusalem, on our sovereignty, Haniyeh said, speaking to thousands of cheering supporters for the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday.Hamas' Syria-based supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal, echoed the warning in his own holiday message, accusing Israel and the U.S. of taking advantage of the Palestinian rift to try to wrest concessions in peace negotiations.
Abbas retaliated for Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip by expelling the group from his government and setting up his own administration in the West Bank. Mashaal urged Abbas to accept the Islamists' invitations for dialogue.Abbas and his allies will find out that they are pursuing nothing but a mirage, Mashaal said on Hamas radio.Israel and the Palestinians hope to present the contours of a final peace accord at the conference, tentatively set for Annapolis, Md., at the end of November.Israel has been pressing for a vaguely worded document that would gloss over the toughest issues — borders, control over disputed Jerusalem and a solution for Palestinian refugees who lost their homes in the 1948 war that followed Israel's creation.Palestinians prefer a detailed preliminary agreement with a timetable for creating a Palestinian state.
But Thursday, a key Palestinian negotiator said agreement on peace was near, adding that he doubted the U.S. would convene the conference if the two sides did not agree in advance on outlines for an accord.We have never been closer to achieving the end game than we are now, negotiator Saeb Erekat said.In an interview with Israel's Channel 10 TV, Erekat discounted Hamas' ability to sabotage a peace accord. He acknowledged that Abbas' Fatah movement was not strong enough to retake Gaza by force, but insisted once you produce an end game agreement, Hamas is down without firing a shot.Although Abbas says he has authority over Gaza, in practice he has little influence there.Haniyeh, who now heads the Hamas government in Gaza, received a hero's welcome from the crowd when he arrived at the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City with around 20 black-uniformed bodyguards for festive prayers.He told supporters that Abbas could not negotiate without Hamas' support.Don't go to conference when you don't have the power card in your pocket — and the power card is Hamas, Haniyeh told his supporters.Gaza's international isolation, empty shelves and bitter internal rivalries cast a pall over the Eid al-Fitr holiday — meant to be one of the happiest dates on the Muslim calendar.Israel has barred the entrance of all goods to the territory except humanitarian aid, and Western governments have imposed a financial boycott.Deepening the misery are ongoing clashes between the Israeli military and Gaza militants who fire rockets almost daily into Israel.
Hamas said one of its fighters was killed and five other people were wounded in an Israeli ground missile attack early Saturday. The Israeli military said troops targeted a squad that had launched a rocket attack on Israel.Because tensions between members of Hamas and Fatah in Gaza remain high, Hamas security forces were deployed in the streets to keep order during the holiday. Even Friday's prayers were divided along factional lines, with separate locations for supporters of Gaza's Hamas rulers and their rivals from Abbas' Fatah.
Olmert, Abbas narrow land gap By Adam Entous
Fri Oct 12, 12:48 PM ET
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The gap is narrowing between Israeli and Palestinian leaders over the amount of territory Israel would hand over to a Palestinian state, people close to the talks said a month ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference. But Israeli, Palestinian and Western officials say sketching the boundaries of a future state may be the easy part -- real progress, they say, depends on narrowing differences over the fate of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees, on which little progress can be discerned so far after closed-door meetings.Even vague talk of dividing the city has stirred opposition within Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition cabinet.Israeli officials link easing their stance on Jerusalem -- which Israel wants to keep as its undivided capital -- to the Palestinians being prepared to soften their demand that refugees and their descendants be allowed to settle in Israel.
In this tortuous process, everything is difficult, everything is problematic. But Jerusalem and refugees are the most difficult issues, said Shlomo Ben-Ami, who was Israel's leftist Labor foreign minister when the last talks on the final status of a peace deal collapsed in 2001.Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have said little in public about talks they have held in recent months.Western officials have told Reuters Olmert has privately signaled a willingness to consider handing over 90-something percent of the occupied West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip, with additional land swaps, as part of a final peace deal.
That may put the two sides within a few percentage points of consensus on the territory issue ahead of the Annapolis meeting.
ARITHMETIC
Western officials said it was unclear whether Olmert's 90-something percent means he might match Israel's last and best offer before negotiations broke down in 2001. At that time, Prime Minister Ehud Barak accepted ideas floated by U.S. President Bill Clinton that would have produced a Palestinian state in 97 percent of the West Bank and 100 percent of Gaza.Abbas's negotiating team considers the Clinton parameters and follow-up talks held in Taba, Egypt to be the basis for renewed negotiations with Olmert, Palestinian sources said.Abbas, in one of the rare public comments on the talks so far, said this week that a Palestinian state must have exactly as much land as that seized by Israel in the 1967 war.
Ben-Ami said: We don't need to invent the wheel ... These are the Clinton parameters. I don't see any other solution.But Olmert spokeswoman Miri Eisin said it would be wrong to see one past proposal as the one to guide future negotiations.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Jerusalem and the West Bank Ramallah next week to press Abbas and Olmert to reach agreement on a joint document addressing core issues for the conference, which President George W. Bush hopes will launch a final push to end the 60-year-old conflict.We feel a growing sense of urgency from Washington, said a senior Israeli official. He said he feared Israel's security concerns were not being taken fully into account in Bush's rush for some sort of deal before leaving office in early 2009.They are eager to get results, the official said.
Desperation breeds foolishness.
Western officials said heavy U.S. pressure on its Israeli ally would make it very difficult for Olmert to offer less than Clinton's 97 percent figure for West Bank land. Yet that could also trigger a backlash from within his own coalition. Everyone wants peace but they don't want to pay the price, said Ben-Ami. The maximum Olmert can offer falls short of the minimum for the Palestinians. If he makes proposals that are more far-reaching, he will lose his coalition.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
15-truck pileup closes Calif. freeway
10 injured, at least one missing after fiery accident in L.A. County tunnel - Oct. 13: At least 10 people were injured in a chain-reaction pileup in Los Angeles County. NBC's Patrick Healy reports. MSNBC
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - Smoke leaked from both ends of a tunnel early Saturday after a 15-truck pileup on a rain-slicked Southern California freeway left 10 people injured and at least one missing, authorities said. Fire Inspector Jason Hurd said the accident — the wreckage of which stretched for half a mile — began when two trucks collided late Friday and started a chain reaction in Interstate 5’s southbound truck-only tunnels that run under the regular freeway near the intersection with the Antelope Valley Freeway. Twenty people evacuated the fiery tunnel on foot, including the 10 injured, Hurd said, and five trucks were stuck inside. One truck driver was unaccounted for, and authorities were worried that more may be missing. We’re going to have to do a very methodical search, Deputy Chief John Tripp told KABC-TV. There could be unfortunately more people that were not able to escape.
Authorities said eight had minor injuries and two had moderate injuries, ranging from moderate burns to neck and back injuries. All 10 injured were taken to local hospitals. Smoke poured from both sides of the tunnel through the night. The majority of the flames had been doused by about 5 a.m., but firefighters had to stay out of the tunnel because of fears that fire damage could lead to its collapse. The tunnel may be structurally compromised, so we’re fighting the fire from outside right now, Tripp said. The freeway in northern Los Angeles County was expected to be closed all day Saturday, authorities said.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
LUKEWARM LIBERALS WIN BIG
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
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.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
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.
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
THIS MIGHT BE THE CURRENCY OF THE WORLD TO START BUT THE EU ULTIMATELY WILL CONTROL THE CURRENCY OF THE WORLD THE BIBLE SAYS.
PREMEDITATED MERGER
Amero plot real, says biz columnist
Cites 'usually reliable' sources in plans for dollar's end
October 11, 2007 - 1:11 p.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Commemorative amero coin
The U.S. dollar might be destined to disappear, replaced by a regional currency called the amero, reports the Tokyo correspondent for the Singapore Business Times today. Truth is said to be stranger than fiction sometimes, and what I hear about the future of the U.S. dollar may sound like pure fiction, but the sources from whence the reports spring are, as they say, usually reliable ones, and so they do have a ring of truth to them, writes Anthony Rowley. Rowley says the slide of the U.S. dollar in relation to other foreign currencies makes such a transition more likely. And, looking at the size of U.S. debt to all those foreign central banks and private investors who obligingly finance the American current account deficit, similar conclusions might be drawn, he writes. Because the U.S. is not going to stand by and watch its currency depreciate forever, he says his sources in the monetary and financial establishment plan a new currency that would take trade and investment cooperation within the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, into new areas of monetary cooperation – leading ultimately, perhaps, to a common currency for the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
In addition to the name amero, Rowley says the name americo is also under consideration for this new currency. It would be a currency more likely to be judged worth the paper it is written on than the obligations of a highly indebted U.S., he writes Rowley says there is also talk of an Asian monetary union and common currency. The commentary follows what appeared to be confirmation of the common North American currency plan by former Mexican President Vicente Fox, who told CNN's Larry King this week that he and President Bush had agreed on a regional currency for the Americas. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told WND she's not aware of any plan for such a currency either. The statement by Fox was perhaps the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan for a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration. According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency? Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He admitted he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere, suggesting part of the plan was to institute eventually a regional currency.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Muslims tell Christians: Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake 11.10.07
The letter was believed to have been sent to The Pope and The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams (below) Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the survival of the world is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other.
In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam, the Muslims plead with Christian leaders to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions.The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Pope Benedict are believed to have been sent copies of the document which calls for greater understanding between the two faiths.The letter also spells out the similarities between passages of the Bible and the Koran.The Muslim scholars state: As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not against them and that Islam is not against them - so long as they do not wage war against Muslims on account of their religion, oppress them and drive them out of their homes.The phrasing has similarities to the New Testament passage: He that is not with me is against me - a passage used by President George Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress nine days after 9/11.
The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, a non-governmental organisation based in Amman, Jordan, has organised the letter.The Institute said: This historic letter is intended by its 138 signatories as an open invitation to Christians to unite with Muslims over the most essential aspects of their respective faiths - the principles of love of one God and love of the neighbour.It is hoped that the recognition of this common ground will provide the followers of both faiths with a shared understanding that will serve to defuse tensions around the world.
It continues: Finding common ground between Muslims and Christians is not simply a matter for polite ecumenical dialogue between selected religious leaders. Together they (Muslims and Christians) make up more than 55 per cent of the population, making the relationship between these two religious communities the most important factor in contributing to meaningful peace around the world. If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace.Among those launching the letter in the UK will be David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, and Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and founding director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme.Aref Ali Nayed, a leading theologian and senior adviser to the Inter-Faith Programme, will also take part at the event in central London.
McGuinty wins massive majority, Tory loses seat
Last Updated: Thursday, October 11, 2007 | 5:39 AM ET
CBC News
Dalton McGuinty won a second majority government for the Liberals in Ontario on Wednesday night, a triumph for a party that earlier expressed fears of a drop to minority status.Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty grins after winning the provincial election in Ottawa Wednesday.Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)
The (GODLESS LUKEWARM) Liberals managed to increase their numbers from the 67 seats they had coming into the campaign. By late Thursday morning, with 99.9 per cent of polls counted, they were elected in 71 of the province's 107 seats. Progressive Conservatives were elected in 26 ridings and New Democrats in 10. Thank you, Ontario, a grinning McGuinty said to cheering supporters.The people of Ontario have spoken tonight with clarity and with purpose. They have chosen the Ontario Liberal Party to govern for four more years.PC Leader John Tory suffered defeat in his own riding, putting his leadership in doubt in the weeks ahead. Aside from the Liberals, the only party to make significant gains were the Greens, who didn't win any seats but more than doubled their share of the popular vote.Several weeks before the election campaign drew to a close, polls suggested a tight race and McGuinty mused about a minority government.The victory marks the first time in exactly 70 years that Ontario's Liberals have won a back-to-back majority. Mitch Hepburn won his second majority in October 1937.Less than an hour after polls closed at 9 p.m. ET (8 p.m. CT) on Wednesday, it became clear that McGuinty had also secured his riding of Ottawa South, which he has represented since 1990.In a significant loss for the party, Liberal cabinet minister Caroline Di Cocco conceded defeat in her southwestern Ontario seat of Sarnia-Lambton to PC candidate Bob Bailey.
Broken promises jabs fail to hurt Liberals
The Liberal win comes despite a lengthy campaign during which McGuinty faced an onslaught of attacks from the two main opposition parties, with the New Democrats and Progressive Conservatives repeatedly accusing him of broken promises.Despite that, McGuinty extended his thanks in his victory speech to both Tory and NDP Leader Howard Hampton for accepting the challenge of public life.However, he took several jabs at Tory's proposal to extend public funding to faith-based private schools, an issue that quickly came to dominate the campaign.We do not want to see our children divided, McGuinty told supporters gathered at Ottawa's Fairmont Chateau Laurier. We want publicly funded schools, not public funds for private schools.
We've got that behind us
In an interview following his speech, the premier was asked what to expect from his government this time around, given that he broke a 2003 election campaign vow not to raise taxes in the early part of his last term.McGuinty introduced a health tax at that time, saying it was necessary because of a deficit inherited from the previous Conservative government, which the latter government failed to disclose.In the 2007 campaign, McGuinty again vowed not to raise taxes, and he told CBC that was a promise he would keep.
Nobody here is hiding a $5.6-billion deficit, said McGuinty.He added that a new law has been introduced requiring the auditor to disclose the province's financial state in advance of an election. We've got that behind us, he said.
Tory hopes to stay on
Even people who don't agree with Dalton McGuinty respect him as an individual, former federal Liberal minister John Manley told CBC News. I think the aggressiveness of other leaders in this campaign may have turned away potential support they could have won.Ontario PC Leader John Tory leaves after his final scrum of the election in Toronto on Wednesday.(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) In a blow to his party and his leadership, Tory was defeated in the riding of Don Valley West by incumbent Kathleen Wynne, who served as education minister under the Liberals.Despite expectations he might step down, Tory said he would continue to serve as leader of the party, though he admitted disappointment with election results.
Tory was weighed down early in the campaign by his call for publicly-funded religious schools. A promise nine days before the end of the campaign to put the issue to a free vote failed to give him the last-minute boost he needed.One high-profile loss for the party was in the Mississauga South riding, where incumbent and former Liberal Tim Peterson was running for the Conservatives.A backbencher and younger brother of former premier David Peterson, he lost to the Liberal candidate, Charles Sousa.
Greens, NDP gain in popular vote
As far as the smaller parties go, the Green party made a notable breakthrough. The party was polling about eight per cent of the popular vote, with most of the polls accounted for — more than twice the support held by the party in the 2003 election.However, none of the party's candidates gained a seat, including leader Frank de Jong, who ran in Toronto's Davenport riding.Referring to the surge in the popular vote for the Greens, political commentator Allan Gregg of Harris/Decima said: It is kind of a protest vote, but it sends a message to the main parties.
Meanwhile, the NDP took nearly 17 per cent of the popular vote, up from 14.7 per cent in 2003.The NDP's Hampton was re-elected in his riding of Kenora-Rainy River, which he has held since 1987, but the party's seat count did not appear to change.NDP Leader Howard Hampton at a news conference in Fort Frances, Ont., on Thursday. Hampton hinted he might step down as party leader in a few months.
(Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press) In a speech to supporters in a Fort Frances hotel, Hampton took aim at the faith-based schools issue for supplanting issues that he said really matter to the people, such as fixing the school funding formula and boosting the minimum wage.Teary-eyed, the NDP leader said he loves the job and will stay on for the short term, but hinted he will be re-evaluating in the months to come.But there's a bigger issue, which I'll decide after talking with people in the party and sitting down and talking to my kids as well.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
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.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
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.
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
THIS MIGHT BE THE CURRENCY OF THE WORLD TO START BUT THE EU ULTIMATELY WILL CONTROL THE CURRENCY OF THE WORLD THE BIBLE SAYS.
PREMEDITATED MERGER
Amero plot real, says biz columnist
Cites 'usually reliable' sources in plans for dollar's end
October 11, 2007 - 1:11 p.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Commemorative amero coin
The U.S. dollar might be destined to disappear, replaced by a regional currency called the amero, reports the Tokyo correspondent for the Singapore Business Times today. Truth is said to be stranger than fiction sometimes, and what I hear about the future of the U.S. dollar may sound like pure fiction, but the sources from whence the reports spring are, as they say, usually reliable ones, and so they do have a ring of truth to them, writes Anthony Rowley. Rowley says the slide of the U.S. dollar in relation to other foreign currencies makes such a transition more likely. And, looking at the size of U.S. debt to all those foreign central banks and private investors who obligingly finance the American current account deficit, similar conclusions might be drawn, he writes. Because the U.S. is not going to stand by and watch its currency depreciate forever, he says his sources in the monetary and financial establishment plan a new currency that would take trade and investment cooperation within the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, into new areas of monetary cooperation – leading ultimately, perhaps, to a common currency for the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
In addition to the name amero, Rowley says the name americo is also under consideration for this new currency. It would be a currency more likely to be judged worth the paper it is written on than the obligations of a highly indebted U.S., he writes Rowley says there is also talk of an Asian monetary union and common currency. The commentary follows what appeared to be confirmation of the common North American currency plan by former Mexican President Vicente Fox, who told CNN's Larry King this week that he and President Bush had agreed on a regional currency for the Americas. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told WND she's not aware of any plan for such a currency either. The statement by Fox was perhaps the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan for a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration. According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency? Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He admitted he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere, suggesting part of the plan was to institute eventually a regional currency.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Muslims tell Christians: Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake 11.10.07
The letter was believed to have been sent to The Pope and The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams (below) Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the survival of the world is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other.
In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam, the Muslims plead with Christian leaders to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions.The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Pope Benedict are believed to have been sent copies of the document which calls for greater understanding between the two faiths.The letter also spells out the similarities between passages of the Bible and the Koran.The Muslim scholars state: As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not against them and that Islam is not against them - so long as they do not wage war against Muslims on account of their religion, oppress them and drive them out of their homes.The phrasing has similarities to the New Testament passage: He that is not with me is against me - a passage used by President George Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress nine days after 9/11.
The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, a non-governmental organisation based in Amman, Jordan, has organised the letter.The Institute said: This historic letter is intended by its 138 signatories as an open invitation to Christians to unite with Muslims over the most essential aspects of their respective faiths - the principles of love of one God and love of the neighbour.It is hoped that the recognition of this common ground will provide the followers of both faiths with a shared understanding that will serve to defuse tensions around the world.
It continues: Finding common ground between Muslims and Christians is not simply a matter for polite ecumenical dialogue between selected religious leaders. Together they (Muslims and Christians) make up more than 55 per cent of the population, making the relationship between these two religious communities the most important factor in contributing to meaningful peace around the world. If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace.Among those launching the letter in the UK will be David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, and Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and founding director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme.Aref Ali Nayed, a leading theologian and senior adviser to the Inter-Faith Programme, will also take part at the event in central London.
McGuinty wins massive majority, Tory loses seat
Last Updated: Thursday, October 11, 2007 | 5:39 AM ET
CBC News
Dalton McGuinty won a second majority government for the Liberals in Ontario on Wednesday night, a triumph for a party that earlier expressed fears of a drop to minority status.Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty grins after winning the provincial election in Ottawa Wednesday.Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)
The (GODLESS LUKEWARM) Liberals managed to increase their numbers from the 67 seats they had coming into the campaign. By late Thursday morning, with 99.9 per cent of polls counted, they were elected in 71 of the province's 107 seats. Progressive Conservatives were elected in 26 ridings and New Democrats in 10. Thank you, Ontario, a grinning McGuinty said to cheering supporters.The people of Ontario have spoken tonight with clarity and with purpose. They have chosen the Ontario Liberal Party to govern for four more years.PC Leader John Tory suffered defeat in his own riding, putting his leadership in doubt in the weeks ahead. Aside from the Liberals, the only party to make significant gains were the Greens, who didn't win any seats but more than doubled their share of the popular vote.Several weeks before the election campaign drew to a close, polls suggested a tight race and McGuinty mused about a minority government.The victory marks the first time in exactly 70 years that Ontario's Liberals have won a back-to-back majority. Mitch Hepburn won his second majority in October 1937.Less than an hour after polls closed at 9 p.m. ET (8 p.m. CT) on Wednesday, it became clear that McGuinty had also secured his riding of Ottawa South, which he has represented since 1990.In a significant loss for the party, Liberal cabinet minister Caroline Di Cocco conceded defeat in her southwestern Ontario seat of Sarnia-Lambton to PC candidate Bob Bailey.
Broken promises jabs fail to hurt Liberals
The Liberal win comes despite a lengthy campaign during which McGuinty faced an onslaught of attacks from the two main opposition parties, with the New Democrats and Progressive Conservatives repeatedly accusing him of broken promises.Despite that, McGuinty extended his thanks in his victory speech to both Tory and NDP Leader Howard Hampton for accepting the challenge of public life.However, he took several jabs at Tory's proposal to extend public funding to faith-based private schools, an issue that quickly came to dominate the campaign.We do not want to see our children divided, McGuinty told supporters gathered at Ottawa's Fairmont Chateau Laurier. We want publicly funded schools, not public funds for private schools.
We've got that behind us
In an interview following his speech, the premier was asked what to expect from his government this time around, given that he broke a 2003 election campaign vow not to raise taxes in the early part of his last term.McGuinty introduced a health tax at that time, saying it was necessary because of a deficit inherited from the previous Conservative government, which the latter government failed to disclose.In the 2007 campaign, McGuinty again vowed not to raise taxes, and he told CBC that was a promise he would keep.
Nobody here is hiding a $5.6-billion deficit, said McGuinty.He added that a new law has been introduced requiring the auditor to disclose the province's financial state in advance of an election. We've got that behind us, he said.
Tory hopes to stay on
Even people who don't agree with Dalton McGuinty respect him as an individual, former federal Liberal minister John Manley told CBC News. I think the aggressiveness of other leaders in this campaign may have turned away potential support they could have won.Ontario PC Leader John Tory leaves after his final scrum of the election in Toronto on Wednesday.(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) In a blow to his party and his leadership, Tory was defeated in the riding of Don Valley West by incumbent Kathleen Wynne, who served as education minister under the Liberals.Despite expectations he might step down, Tory said he would continue to serve as leader of the party, though he admitted disappointment with election results.
Tory was weighed down early in the campaign by his call for publicly-funded religious schools. A promise nine days before the end of the campaign to put the issue to a free vote failed to give him the last-minute boost he needed.One high-profile loss for the party was in the Mississauga South riding, where incumbent and former Liberal Tim Peterson was running for the Conservatives.A backbencher and younger brother of former premier David Peterson, he lost to the Liberal candidate, Charles Sousa.
Greens, NDP gain in popular vote
As far as the smaller parties go, the Green party made a notable breakthrough. The party was polling about eight per cent of the popular vote, with most of the polls accounted for — more than twice the support held by the party in the 2003 election.However, none of the party's candidates gained a seat, including leader Frank de Jong, who ran in Toronto's Davenport riding.Referring to the surge in the popular vote for the Greens, political commentator Allan Gregg of Harris/Decima said: It is kind of a protest vote, but it sends a message to the main parties.
Meanwhile, the NDP took nearly 17 per cent of the popular vote, up from 14.7 per cent in 2003.The NDP's Hampton was re-elected in his riding of Kenora-Rainy River, which he has held since 1987, but the party's seat count did not appear to change.NDP Leader Howard Hampton at a news conference in Fort Frances, Ont., on Thursday. Hampton hinted he might step down as party leader in a few months.
(Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press) In a speech to supporters in a Fort Frances hotel, Hampton took aim at the faith-based schools issue for supplanting issues that he said really matter to the people, such as fixing the school funding formula and boosting the minimum wage.Teary-eyed, the NDP leader said he loves the job and will stay on for the short term, but hinted he will be re-evaluating in the months to come.But there's a bigger issue, which I'll decide after talking with people in the party and sitting down and talking to my kids as well.
Friday, October 12, 2007
TURKISH U.S. RIFT
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Tropical depression forms in Atlantic OCT 11,07
MIAMI - The 15th tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed Thursday in the open ocean, forecasters said. At 11 p.m., the storm was about 905 miles east of Bermuda, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving east at near 9 mph. Maximum sustained winds were near 35 mph.It was not expected to increase much in strength or speed over the next 24 hours, forecasters said.
US says illegal weapons exports growing By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer OCT 11,07
WASHINGTON - Missile technology, fighter jet parts, night vision goggles and other U.S. wartime equipment increasingly are being illegally smuggled to potential adversaries, such as China and Iran, the federal government said Thursday. Last week, two Utah men were arrested for allegedly trying to sell parts over the Internet for F-4 and F-14 fighter jets — which are only flown by Iran. The week before, two engineers were indicted in San Jose, Calif., on charges of stealing computer chip designs intended for the Chinese military.Government lawyers and investigators Thursday described a growing number of unauthorized exports that could be dangerous if the parts and supplies end up in the hands of terrorists or hostile nations.The concept of terrorists, criminals or rogue nations obtaining weapons and other restricted technology is chilling, said Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie Myers, who oversees illegal export investigations as head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Assistant Attorney General Ken Wainstein called new government efforts to crack down on illegal exports the Justice Department's top counterintelligence priority.A Pentagon report noted a 43 percent increase in 2005 in what it described as suspicious foreign contacts with U.S-based defense companies. Another report last year by U.S. intelligence officials found that a record 108 nations were trying to buy or otherwise obtain U.S. technology that is restricted for sale. It did not list which nations or specify whether some of them were U.S. allies.Night vision goggles, body armor and equipment used in improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have been in particular demand since the 2001 terror attacks that prompted the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, officials said. But some prosecutors have been reluctant to pursue the smugglers because illegal export cases can be very complicated and time-consuming to chase.These are incredibly complicated cases, Wainstein said, adding that training and assistance will be given to prosecutors and investigators working on a new task force under the departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security, Defense, Commerce and the FBI. The task force largely will focus on U.S.-based exporters who sell or ship equipment overseas without proper authorization.
Other recent smuggling cases of concern to national security officials include:An Indonesian man was indicted in Madison, Wis., Thursday on charges of conspiring to export rifle scopes to Indonesia.Pittsburgh company SparesGlobal, Inc., was sentenced last week for lying about exporting equipment used in nuclear reactors and ballistic missiles in 2003 that ended up in Pakistan.
A man in California pleaded guilty in August to trying to smuggle 100,000 Uzi submachine guns and night vision goggles to Iranian government officials.Two men pleaded guilty in California on the same day, Aug. 1, to exporting military-use technology to China, including, in one case, computer code to help train fighter pilots.
7YR TREATY BY PROOF
GENESIS 2:2-3 GOD RESTED THE 7TH DAY
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
LEVITICUS 25:1-9 THE 7 YEAR SABBATICAL
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
God has always dealt with Israel in 7's, it just makes sense the last dealing with Israel and the World will be a 7 yr treaty. God rested from creation on the 7TH DAY. Every 7TH YEAR Israel is suppose to rest the land. And the 7X7=49 YRS and the jubilee is the 50TH YEAR.
Now the scriptures that a week in Israel history is 7YEARS.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
Isn"t this interesting it comes from the same Person whos name was changed to Israel,(JACOB) and Israel and Jerusalem is the places dealt with in Daniel 9:24-27.
GENESIS 32:27-28
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
1 CHRONICLES 17:6-14
6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
Syria unlikely to join peace conference By SAMAR KASSABLI, Associated Press Writer OCT 11,07
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian President Bashar Assad all but ruled out his country's participation in a U.S.-sponsored international peace conference on the Middle East, suggesting in an interview published Thursday that the meeting has no chance for success. His comments come amid growing skepticism of the conference among some Arab governments, which have expressed doubts the planned gathering in November will tackle the main issues of the conflict with Israel.Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have not said whether they will attend.Syria has not received an invitation to the conference, and even if it did, it will not take part in a conference that lacks the chances of success, Assad said in an interview with two Tunisian newspapers.The Bush administration has said it will invite adversary Syria to the conference. But Assad had said earlier that his country would not attend the meeting if it did not address Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria during the 1967 Mideast war.In Thursday's interview with the Ach-Chourouk and Le Quotidien newspapers, Assad said the conference should have serious and clear goals and should include all peace tracks including the Golan issue.
The United States has kept quiet on the most basic details about the meeting, including precise dates, the guest list and the location — though it is expected to be in Annapolis, Maryland.
Arab League chief Amr Moussa warned of a likely failure of the conference during an international economic forum Wednesday night in Cairo. He said the United States was only hoping for a photo-op between Saudi and Israeli officials rather than real progress.In the Saudi capital Riyadh, the head of the six-country Gulf Cooperation Council Abdul-Rahman Attiyah called Thursday for joint Arab-Palestinian action to set the conditions for the success the conference. He also expressed skepticism that the meeting would be successful because Israel does not want peace.Assad also referred to a reported Israel jet raid on a target in northeastern Syria on Sept. 6. Syria has described the site as an unused military building. Israeli officials have maintained an unprecedented wall of silence over the affair, though there have been reports — denied by Syria — that the target was a nascent nuclear facility being built with North Korean help.Assad, in the interview, said Israel's silence reflected the failure of Israeli or U.S. intelligence.They are trying to cover up their failure by shrouding it with mystery, he said.
Accord needed before Mideast conference By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer Thu Oct 11, 6:50 PM ET
JERUSALEM - President Bush should not convene his planned Mideast peace conference next month if Israel and the Palestinians have not achieved an agreement in advance, a Palestinian negotiator said Thursday. Israel has been pressing for a vaguely worded document that would gloss over the toughest issues still outstanding — borders, Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees. Palestinians prefer a detailed preliminary agreement with a timetable for creating a Palestinian state, though it is not clear if they would refuse to agree to less.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 TV, that when then-President Bill Clinton convened an Israeli-Palestinian summit in July 2000, it broke up without agreement and violence erupted three months later. Lack of proper preparation for the summit is often blamed.Do you think President Bush will do what President Clinton did? Erekat said. I really doubt the Americans will issue the invitation if decisions are not made by (Palestinian) President (Mahmoud) Abbas and (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert.
The conference is tentatively set for Annapolis, Maryland, at the end of November, but Erekat noted that no invitations have been sent.He said the Israeli-Palestinian agreement before the conference could be two-three pages. Olmert and Abbas have met six times in recent weeks to discuss the issues. Erekat said they have come to some agreements, but he would not elaborate.Erekat, a member of the five-person Palestinian team negotiating with Israel over the document, said overall agreement is near. I don't think we need negotiations anymore, he said. Negotiations are over. It's time for decisions. We have never been closer to achieving the end game than we are now.He said peace is vital for the Palestinians. I don't want my son to be a suicide bomber, he said.Erekat dismissed the notion that neither Olmert nor Abbas is strong enough politically to make the concessions necessary for an agreement or get the backing of their people.If Mr. Olmert and Mr. Abbas reach the agreement on the end game, they'll be the most important persons in this holy land since Jesus walked the streets of Jerusalem, he said. Erekat said a peace accord would be put before the Palestinian people in a referendum.He discounted the ability of the militant Islamic Hamas to sabotage such an accord. He acknowledged that Abbas' Fatah is not strong enough to retake Gaza by force after the Hamas takeover in June, but once you produce an end game agreement, Hamas is down without firing a shot.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that she asked the Israeli ambassador for clarifications about an Israeli plan to build a road near Jerusalem, partly on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians charge the construction will cut them off from Jerusalem.
Rice told reporters on the way to Moscow that she had not received a reply. Rice is due in Israel and the Palestinian areas over the weekend.Also Thursday, a top architect of Israeli military policy in the Gaza Strip was quoted as saying that the army will have to conduct a lengthy ground operation to halt rocket fire, the clearest sign yet that Israel is preparing an offensive against Hamas.In an interview with the Yediot Ahronot daily, Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky said a Gaza operation appears inevitable.We cannot over time stand idly by as Hamas rearms in the strip and as the rocket fire continues incessantly, Kaplinsky, who stepped down this month as the army's deputy chief of staff, told the newspaper. In order to dismantle the terror infrastructure, systematic treatment is necessary. A ground operation is a question of timing.He did not elaborate.Since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip two years ago, the rocket fire has persisted, despite frequent Israeli airstrikes and incursions targeting rocket squads. Thousands of the crude rockets have landed in southern Israel, killing 12 people over the past seven years and disrupting the lives of thousands of residents. In violence Thursday, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian policeman who was driving with a wanted militant in his car, Palestinian officials said. They said the shooting took place after a brief chase.
The undercover soldiers dressed in civilian clothes shot the policeman, but the Islamic Jihad militant in the car with him escaped unharmed, they said. The army said troops shot a man who drew a pistol when they approached.
Rice seeks Israeli clarification on land grab Thu Oct 11, 5:40 PM ET
SHANNON, Ireland (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she had requested clarification from Israel over its decision to confiscate Arab land near Jerusalem. I called their ambassador to the US yesterday and asked for clarification. I am waiting for one, Rice told reporters on her plane prior to making a stopover in Shannon, Ireland, en route to Moscow.Israel on Tuesday ordered the confiscation of Arab land outside east Jerusalem, officials said, reviving fears that the occupied West Bank could be split in two and challenging peace overtures.The appropriation orders came as Israelis and Palestinians prepare for a major US-sponsored international peace summit widely expected in Maryland next month, and were immediately criticized by Arab authorities.Until now, the United States has refused to comment on the Israeli move, with State Department spokesman Sean McCormack saying that he wanted to understand better the facts on the ground.
Washington's silence contrasted with the reaction of France, Egypt and Jordan, all of which swiftly denounced the land grab.
The situation is likely to complicate matters for Rice when she travels to the Middle East on Sunday following a two-day visit in Russia. The trip had been aimed at laying some of the groundwork for the peace summit.Her five-day stint in the region is scheduled to take her to Ramallah and Jerusalem, as well as short trips to Amman and Egypt, and is expected to include talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
US quiet on pending Middle East meeting By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer Thu Oct 11, 4:13 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Just weeks before a peace conference marking President Bush's most direct intervention in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, U.S. officials are trying to say as little as possible about what is on the table. The November session will be a serious run at problems that have proved insoluble in the past, U.S. officials say, yet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and others have avoided talking specifics or using the lexicon of past, failed peace talks.Rice calls the U.S.-sponsored session an international meeting, instead of the loftier summit or conference, as a way to keep expectations low. She talks about establishing a Palestinian state, the practical goal of peace talks, but almost never uses the word peace.The United States is still mum on the most basic details about the meeting, including precise dates, location — it's expected to be in Annapolis, Md. — and the guest list. Rice will be on the spot to fill in the blanks during a preparatory trip to the Middle East that begins Sunday.The intentional understatement masks the high stakes for a conference that could christen a historic agreement on some of the most difficult issues in the six-decade conflict, and the political and diplomatic risk Bush is taking late in his presidency.
Former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, a Rice mentor, and other well-known Washington advisers warned Bush and Rice in a letter Wednesday that the session must tackle the substance of a permanent peace.Arab states say they welcome Bush's engagement but are wary of being mere window-dressing for a too-little, too-late attempt to revive peace talks after a seven-year freeze.The Bush administration's closest friends in the Arab world have said they want no part of a feel-good session, or have put conditions on their participation.We haven't issued any invitations yet, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said this week, cautioning there will be posturing on all sides ahead of the meeting. We're going to focus on making this meeting the most efficient and effective use of all the participants' time to try to move the process forward.U.S. officials say they are encouraged by meaty discussions between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and new negotiating teams named this week. Those talks have not derailed despite political opposition and uncertainty on both sides.The best-case scenario has Olmert and Abbas fashioning a fairly detailed framework for an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.That document would be ready ahead of the November meeting. Arab neighbors, including some that do not recognize Israel, would then sign off on the plan during the conference. More formal peace talks to finish the details would follow, a process that would probably take months if not years.We've done a lot of dialogue between the two men, and they are making progress, Bush told an interviewer from the Arabic-language television news channel Al Arabiya last week.
The two leaders' work means the average Palestinian and average Israeli will begin to see what a vision looks like, Bush said. In other words, something to work for; something that's more tangible than just a Rose Garden speech by the president or hopeful comments by others — something real.Abbas on Wednesday laid out his most specific demands for the borders of a future independent state, calling for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war.With Israel seeking to retain parts of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, Abbas' comments appeared to set the stage for tough negotiations, which are expected to include complicated arrangements such as land swaps and shared control over holy sites.Olmert told his parliament Monday he won't be deterred from seeking a peace deal despite the need for painful concessions, warning that failure would mean a demographic struggle steeped in blood and tears.Olmert's closest political ally, Vice Premier Haim Ramon, spoke publicly about a future division of Jerusalem — long taboo in Israeli politics.
The future of Jerusalem is one of the three core problems that have shipwrecked past negotiations. The others are the borders of an eventual Palestinian state and the rights of Palestinians and their descendants who left homes in what is now Israel. Rice has said that the United States isn't ignoring those issues, but she says there are other practical questions to consider. The conference's success will be judged largely on whether regional power-broker Saudi Arabia attends and throws support to future peace talks, and on whether both sides and their U.S. host squarely address those three potential deal-breaking issues.
Whatever the outcome, merely holding the session marks a turning point for Bush and advisers who had steered clear of active Mideast peacemaking for most of Bush's tenure. That changed this year, largely at the urging of Arab allies Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. Rice and her aides say they see an opportunity now that did not exist a few years ago. The administration is gambling that it can capitalize on a bitter internal Palestinian split, strengthening the moderate Abbas at the expense of his militant Hamas rivals, and challenge Arab states to come off the sidelines to endorse a deal they say they want. The administration has said it will invite adversary Syria to the conference, but plans no olive branch to Hamas. The Scowcroft letter urged eventual engagement with Hamas, perhaps through intermediaries, to lessen its power as a spoiler for any deal that Abbas might reach.
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)
NOTICE IN VERSE 38:6 TURKEY IS AGAINST THE WEST.
Turkey threatens repercussions for U.S. By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer OCT 11,07
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey, which is a key supply route to U.S. troops in Iraq, recalled its ambassador to Washington on Thursday and warned of serious repercussions if Congress labels the killing of Armenians by Turks a century ago as genocide. Ordered after a House committee endorsed the genocide measure, the summons of the ambassador for consultations was a further sign of the deteriorating relations between two longtime allies and the potential for new turmoil in an already troubled region.Egeman Bagis, an aide to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Turkish media that Turkey — a conduit for many of the supplies shipped to American bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan — might have to cut logistical support to the U.S.Analysts also have speculated the resolution could make Turkey more inclined to send troops into northern Iraq to hunt Turkish Kurd rebels, a move opposed by the U.S. because it would disrupt one of the few relatively stable and peaceful Iraqi areas.
There are steps that we will take, Turkey's prime minister told reporters, but without elaboration. It also wasn't clear if he meant his government would act immediately or wait to see what happens to the resolution in Congress.He declined to answer questions about whether Turkey might shut down Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, a major cargo hub for U.S. and allied military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun is also used to ferry goods to American troops.You don't talk about such things, you just do them, Erdogan said.The measure before Congress is just a nonbinding resolution without the force of law, but the debate has incensed Turkey's government.
The relationship between the two NATO allies, whose troops fought together in the Korean War in 1950-53, have stumbled in the past. They hit a low in 2003, when Turkey's parliament refused to allow U.S. forces use their country as a staging ground for the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.But while the threat of repercussions against the U.S. is appealing for many Turks, the country's leaders know such a move could hurt Turkey's standing as a reliable ally of the West and its ambitions to be a mediator on the international stage.The Turks did suspend military ties with France last year after parliament's lower house approved a bill that would have made it a crime to deny the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey amounted to genocide. But Turkey has much more to lose from cutting ties to the U.S.The United States is one of its major business partners, with $11 billion in trade last year, and the U.S. defense industry provides much of the Turkish military's equipment.Turkey's ambassador in Washington, Nabi Sensoy, was ordered home for discussions with the Turkish leadership about what is happening in Congress, Foreign Minister spokesman Levent Bilman said. He said Sensoy would go back after seven to 10 days.
We are not withdrawing our ambassador. We have asked him to come to Turkey for some consultations, Bilman said. "The ambassador was given instructions to return and will come at his earliest convenience.The Bush administration, which is lobbying strongly in hopes of persuading Congress to reject the resolution, stressed the need for good relations with Turkey.We look forward to his quick return and will continue to work to maintain strong U.S.-Turkish relations, said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. We remain opposed to House Resolution 106 because of the grave harm it could bring to the national security of the United States.Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the measure is damaging relations at a time when U.S. forces in Iraq rely heavily on Turkish permission to use their airspace for cargo flights.About 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey as does about one-third of the fuel used by the U.S. military there. U.S. bases also get water and other supplies carried in overland by Turkish truckers who cross into Iraq's northern Kurdish region.
In addition, C-17 cargo planes fly military supplies to U.S. soldiers in remote areas of Iraq from Incirlik, avoiding the use of Iraqi roads vulnerable to bomb attacks. U.S. officials say the arrangement helps reduce American casualties. U.S.-Turkish ties already had been strained by Turkey's complaint the U.S. hasn't done enough to stop Turkish Kurd rebels from using bases in northern Iraq to stage attacks in southeastern Turkey, a predominantly Kurdish region where tens of thousands have died in fighting since 1984. Turkish warplanes and helicopter gunships attacked suspected positions of Kurdish rebels on the border this week and Turkey's parliament was expected to vote next week on a proposal to allow the military to pursue a large-scale offensive in northern Iraq. The U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson, was invited to the Foreign Ministry, where officials conveyed their unease over the resolution in Congress and asked the Bush administration do all in its power to stop passage by the full House, a Foreign Ministry official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make press statements.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I. Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the killings didn't come from a coordinated campaign but rather during unrest accompanying the Ottoman Empire's collapse. The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the resolution Wednesday despite intense lobbying by Turkish officials and the opposition from President Bush. The vote was a triumph for well-organized Armenian-American interest groups that have lobbied Congress for decades to pass a resolution. The administration will now try to pressure Democratic leaders in Congress not to schedule a vote, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated they were committed to going forward. Why do it now? Because there's never a good time and all of us in the Democratic leadership have supported it, she said. Turkish officials said the House had no business to get involved in writing history. It is not possible to accept such an accusation of a crime which was never committed by the Turkish nation, Turkey's government said after the committee adopted the measure. Associated Press writers C. Onur Ant in Istanbul and Suzan Fraser in Ankara contributed to this report.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Tropical depression forms in Atlantic OCT 11,07
MIAMI - The 15th tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed Thursday in the open ocean, forecasters said. At 11 p.m., the storm was about 905 miles east of Bermuda, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving east at near 9 mph. Maximum sustained winds were near 35 mph.It was not expected to increase much in strength or speed over the next 24 hours, forecasters said.
US says illegal weapons exports growing By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer OCT 11,07
WASHINGTON - Missile technology, fighter jet parts, night vision goggles and other U.S. wartime equipment increasingly are being illegally smuggled to potential adversaries, such as China and Iran, the federal government said Thursday. Last week, two Utah men were arrested for allegedly trying to sell parts over the Internet for F-4 and F-14 fighter jets — which are only flown by Iran. The week before, two engineers were indicted in San Jose, Calif., on charges of stealing computer chip designs intended for the Chinese military.Government lawyers and investigators Thursday described a growing number of unauthorized exports that could be dangerous if the parts and supplies end up in the hands of terrorists or hostile nations.The concept of terrorists, criminals or rogue nations obtaining weapons and other restricted technology is chilling, said Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie Myers, who oversees illegal export investigations as head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Assistant Attorney General Ken Wainstein called new government efforts to crack down on illegal exports the Justice Department's top counterintelligence priority.A Pentagon report noted a 43 percent increase in 2005 in what it described as suspicious foreign contacts with U.S-based defense companies. Another report last year by U.S. intelligence officials found that a record 108 nations were trying to buy or otherwise obtain U.S. technology that is restricted for sale. It did not list which nations or specify whether some of them were U.S. allies.Night vision goggles, body armor and equipment used in improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have been in particular demand since the 2001 terror attacks that prompted the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, officials said. But some prosecutors have been reluctant to pursue the smugglers because illegal export cases can be very complicated and time-consuming to chase.These are incredibly complicated cases, Wainstein said, adding that training and assistance will be given to prosecutors and investigators working on a new task force under the departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security, Defense, Commerce and the FBI. The task force largely will focus on U.S.-based exporters who sell or ship equipment overseas without proper authorization.
Other recent smuggling cases of concern to national security officials include:An Indonesian man was indicted in Madison, Wis., Thursday on charges of conspiring to export rifle scopes to Indonesia.Pittsburgh company SparesGlobal, Inc., was sentenced last week for lying about exporting equipment used in nuclear reactors and ballistic missiles in 2003 that ended up in Pakistan.
A man in California pleaded guilty in August to trying to smuggle 100,000 Uzi submachine guns and night vision goggles to Iranian government officials.Two men pleaded guilty in California on the same day, Aug. 1, to exporting military-use technology to China, including, in one case, computer code to help train fighter pilots.
7YR TREATY BY PROOF
GENESIS 2:2-3 GOD RESTED THE 7TH DAY
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
LEVITICUS 25:1-9 THE 7 YEAR SABBATICAL
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
God has always dealt with Israel in 7's, it just makes sense the last dealing with Israel and the World will be a 7 yr treaty. God rested from creation on the 7TH DAY. Every 7TH YEAR Israel is suppose to rest the land. And the 7X7=49 YRS and the jubilee is the 50TH YEAR.
Now the scriptures that a week in Israel history is 7YEARS.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
Isn"t this interesting it comes from the same Person whos name was changed to Israel,(JACOB) and Israel and Jerusalem is the places dealt with in Daniel 9:24-27.
GENESIS 32:27-28
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
1 CHRONICLES 17:6-14
6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
Syria unlikely to join peace conference By SAMAR KASSABLI, Associated Press Writer OCT 11,07
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian President Bashar Assad all but ruled out his country's participation in a U.S.-sponsored international peace conference on the Middle East, suggesting in an interview published Thursday that the meeting has no chance for success. His comments come amid growing skepticism of the conference among some Arab governments, which have expressed doubts the planned gathering in November will tackle the main issues of the conflict with Israel.Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have not said whether they will attend.Syria has not received an invitation to the conference, and even if it did, it will not take part in a conference that lacks the chances of success, Assad said in an interview with two Tunisian newspapers.The Bush administration has said it will invite adversary Syria to the conference. But Assad had said earlier that his country would not attend the meeting if it did not address Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria during the 1967 Mideast war.In Thursday's interview with the Ach-Chourouk and Le Quotidien newspapers, Assad said the conference should have serious and clear goals and should include all peace tracks including the Golan issue.
The United States has kept quiet on the most basic details about the meeting, including precise dates, the guest list and the location — though it is expected to be in Annapolis, Maryland.
Arab League chief Amr Moussa warned of a likely failure of the conference during an international economic forum Wednesday night in Cairo. He said the United States was only hoping for a photo-op between Saudi and Israeli officials rather than real progress.In the Saudi capital Riyadh, the head of the six-country Gulf Cooperation Council Abdul-Rahman Attiyah called Thursday for joint Arab-Palestinian action to set the conditions for the success the conference. He also expressed skepticism that the meeting would be successful because Israel does not want peace.Assad also referred to a reported Israel jet raid on a target in northeastern Syria on Sept. 6. Syria has described the site as an unused military building. Israeli officials have maintained an unprecedented wall of silence over the affair, though there have been reports — denied by Syria — that the target was a nascent nuclear facility being built with North Korean help.Assad, in the interview, said Israel's silence reflected the failure of Israeli or U.S. intelligence.They are trying to cover up their failure by shrouding it with mystery, he said.
Accord needed before Mideast conference By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer Thu Oct 11, 6:50 PM ET
JERUSALEM - President Bush should not convene his planned Mideast peace conference next month if Israel and the Palestinians have not achieved an agreement in advance, a Palestinian negotiator said Thursday. Israel has been pressing for a vaguely worded document that would gloss over the toughest issues still outstanding — borders, Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees. Palestinians prefer a detailed preliminary agreement with a timetable for creating a Palestinian state, though it is not clear if they would refuse to agree to less.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 TV, that when then-President Bill Clinton convened an Israeli-Palestinian summit in July 2000, it broke up without agreement and violence erupted three months later. Lack of proper preparation for the summit is often blamed.Do you think President Bush will do what President Clinton did? Erekat said. I really doubt the Americans will issue the invitation if decisions are not made by (Palestinian) President (Mahmoud) Abbas and (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert.
The conference is tentatively set for Annapolis, Maryland, at the end of November, but Erekat noted that no invitations have been sent.He said the Israeli-Palestinian agreement before the conference could be two-three pages. Olmert and Abbas have met six times in recent weeks to discuss the issues. Erekat said they have come to some agreements, but he would not elaborate.Erekat, a member of the five-person Palestinian team negotiating with Israel over the document, said overall agreement is near. I don't think we need negotiations anymore, he said. Negotiations are over. It's time for decisions. We have never been closer to achieving the end game than we are now.He said peace is vital for the Palestinians. I don't want my son to be a suicide bomber, he said.Erekat dismissed the notion that neither Olmert nor Abbas is strong enough politically to make the concessions necessary for an agreement or get the backing of their people.If Mr. Olmert and Mr. Abbas reach the agreement on the end game, they'll be the most important persons in this holy land since Jesus walked the streets of Jerusalem, he said. Erekat said a peace accord would be put before the Palestinian people in a referendum.He discounted the ability of the militant Islamic Hamas to sabotage such an accord. He acknowledged that Abbas' Fatah is not strong enough to retake Gaza by force after the Hamas takeover in June, but once you produce an end game agreement, Hamas is down without firing a shot.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that she asked the Israeli ambassador for clarifications about an Israeli plan to build a road near Jerusalem, partly on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians charge the construction will cut them off from Jerusalem.
Rice told reporters on the way to Moscow that she had not received a reply. Rice is due in Israel and the Palestinian areas over the weekend.Also Thursday, a top architect of Israeli military policy in the Gaza Strip was quoted as saying that the army will have to conduct a lengthy ground operation to halt rocket fire, the clearest sign yet that Israel is preparing an offensive against Hamas.In an interview with the Yediot Ahronot daily, Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky said a Gaza operation appears inevitable.We cannot over time stand idly by as Hamas rearms in the strip and as the rocket fire continues incessantly, Kaplinsky, who stepped down this month as the army's deputy chief of staff, told the newspaper. In order to dismantle the terror infrastructure, systematic treatment is necessary. A ground operation is a question of timing.He did not elaborate.Since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip two years ago, the rocket fire has persisted, despite frequent Israeli airstrikes and incursions targeting rocket squads. Thousands of the crude rockets have landed in southern Israel, killing 12 people over the past seven years and disrupting the lives of thousands of residents. In violence Thursday, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian policeman who was driving with a wanted militant in his car, Palestinian officials said. They said the shooting took place after a brief chase.
The undercover soldiers dressed in civilian clothes shot the policeman, but the Islamic Jihad militant in the car with him escaped unharmed, they said. The army said troops shot a man who drew a pistol when they approached.
Rice seeks Israeli clarification on land grab Thu Oct 11, 5:40 PM ET
SHANNON, Ireland (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she had requested clarification from Israel over its decision to confiscate Arab land near Jerusalem. I called their ambassador to the US yesterday and asked for clarification. I am waiting for one, Rice told reporters on her plane prior to making a stopover in Shannon, Ireland, en route to Moscow.Israel on Tuesday ordered the confiscation of Arab land outside east Jerusalem, officials said, reviving fears that the occupied West Bank could be split in two and challenging peace overtures.The appropriation orders came as Israelis and Palestinians prepare for a major US-sponsored international peace summit widely expected in Maryland next month, and were immediately criticized by Arab authorities.Until now, the United States has refused to comment on the Israeli move, with State Department spokesman Sean McCormack saying that he wanted to understand better the facts on the ground.
Washington's silence contrasted with the reaction of France, Egypt and Jordan, all of which swiftly denounced the land grab.
The situation is likely to complicate matters for Rice when she travels to the Middle East on Sunday following a two-day visit in Russia. The trip had been aimed at laying some of the groundwork for the peace summit.Her five-day stint in the region is scheduled to take her to Ramallah and Jerusalem, as well as short trips to Amman and Egypt, and is expected to include talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
US quiet on pending Middle East meeting By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer Thu Oct 11, 4:13 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Just weeks before a peace conference marking President Bush's most direct intervention in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, U.S. officials are trying to say as little as possible about what is on the table. The November session will be a serious run at problems that have proved insoluble in the past, U.S. officials say, yet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and others have avoided talking specifics or using the lexicon of past, failed peace talks.Rice calls the U.S.-sponsored session an international meeting, instead of the loftier summit or conference, as a way to keep expectations low. She talks about establishing a Palestinian state, the practical goal of peace talks, but almost never uses the word peace.The United States is still mum on the most basic details about the meeting, including precise dates, location — it's expected to be in Annapolis, Md. — and the guest list. Rice will be on the spot to fill in the blanks during a preparatory trip to the Middle East that begins Sunday.The intentional understatement masks the high stakes for a conference that could christen a historic agreement on some of the most difficult issues in the six-decade conflict, and the political and diplomatic risk Bush is taking late in his presidency.
Former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, a Rice mentor, and other well-known Washington advisers warned Bush and Rice in a letter Wednesday that the session must tackle the substance of a permanent peace.Arab states say they welcome Bush's engagement but are wary of being mere window-dressing for a too-little, too-late attempt to revive peace talks after a seven-year freeze.The Bush administration's closest friends in the Arab world have said they want no part of a feel-good session, or have put conditions on their participation.We haven't issued any invitations yet, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said this week, cautioning there will be posturing on all sides ahead of the meeting. We're going to focus on making this meeting the most efficient and effective use of all the participants' time to try to move the process forward.U.S. officials say they are encouraged by meaty discussions between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and new negotiating teams named this week. Those talks have not derailed despite political opposition and uncertainty on both sides.The best-case scenario has Olmert and Abbas fashioning a fairly detailed framework for an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.That document would be ready ahead of the November meeting. Arab neighbors, including some that do not recognize Israel, would then sign off on the plan during the conference. More formal peace talks to finish the details would follow, a process that would probably take months if not years.We've done a lot of dialogue between the two men, and they are making progress, Bush told an interviewer from the Arabic-language television news channel Al Arabiya last week.
The two leaders' work means the average Palestinian and average Israeli will begin to see what a vision looks like, Bush said. In other words, something to work for; something that's more tangible than just a Rose Garden speech by the president or hopeful comments by others — something real.Abbas on Wednesday laid out his most specific demands for the borders of a future independent state, calling for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war.With Israel seeking to retain parts of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, Abbas' comments appeared to set the stage for tough negotiations, which are expected to include complicated arrangements such as land swaps and shared control over holy sites.Olmert told his parliament Monday he won't be deterred from seeking a peace deal despite the need for painful concessions, warning that failure would mean a demographic struggle steeped in blood and tears.Olmert's closest political ally, Vice Premier Haim Ramon, spoke publicly about a future division of Jerusalem — long taboo in Israeli politics.
The future of Jerusalem is one of the three core problems that have shipwrecked past negotiations. The others are the borders of an eventual Palestinian state and the rights of Palestinians and their descendants who left homes in what is now Israel. Rice has said that the United States isn't ignoring those issues, but she says there are other practical questions to consider. The conference's success will be judged largely on whether regional power-broker Saudi Arabia attends and throws support to future peace talks, and on whether both sides and their U.S. host squarely address those three potential deal-breaking issues.
Whatever the outcome, merely holding the session marks a turning point for Bush and advisers who had steered clear of active Mideast peacemaking for most of Bush's tenure. That changed this year, largely at the urging of Arab allies Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. Rice and her aides say they see an opportunity now that did not exist a few years ago. The administration is gambling that it can capitalize on a bitter internal Palestinian split, strengthening the moderate Abbas at the expense of his militant Hamas rivals, and challenge Arab states to come off the sidelines to endorse a deal they say they want. The administration has said it will invite adversary Syria to the conference, but plans no olive branch to Hamas. The Scowcroft letter urged eventual engagement with Hamas, perhaps through intermediaries, to lessen its power as a spoiler for any deal that Abbas might reach.
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)
NOTICE IN VERSE 38:6 TURKEY IS AGAINST THE WEST.
Turkey threatens repercussions for U.S. By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer OCT 11,07
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey, which is a key supply route to U.S. troops in Iraq, recalled its ambassador to Washington on Thursday and warned of serious repercussions if Congress labels the killing of Armenians by Turks a century ago as genocide. Ordered after a House committee endorsed the genocide measure, the summons of the ambassador for consultations was a further sign of the deteriorating relations between two longtime allies and the potential for new turmoil in an already troubled region.Egeman Bagis, an aide to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Turkish media that Turkey — a conduit for many of the supplies shipped to American bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan — might have to cut logistical support to the U.S.Analysts also have speculated the resolution could make Turkey more inclined to send troops into northern Iraq to hunt Turkish Kurd rebels, a move opposed by the U.S. because it would disrupt one of the few relatively stable and peaceful Iraqi areas.
There are steps that we will take, Turkey's prime minister told reporters, but without elaboration. It also wasn't clear if he meant his government would act immediately or wait to see what happens to the resolution in Congress.He declined to answer questions about whether Turkey might shut down Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, a major cargo hub for U.S. and allied military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun is also used to ferry goods to American troops.You don't talk about such things, you just do them, Erdogan said.The measure before Congress is just a nonbinding resolution without the force of law, but the debate has incensed Turkey's government.
The relationship between the two NATO allies, whose troops fought together in the Korean War in 1950-53, have stumbled in the past. They hit a low in 2003, when Turkey's parliament refused to allow U.S. forces use their country as a staging ground for the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.But while the threat of repercussions against the U.S. is appealing for many Turks, the country's leaders know such a move could hurt Turkey's standing as a reliable ally of the West and its ambitions to be a mediator on the international stage.The Turks did suspend military ties with France last year after parliament's lower house approved a bill that would have made it a crime to deny the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey amounted to genocide. But Turkey has much more to lose from cutting ties to the U.S.The United States is one of its major business partners, with $11 billion in trade last year, and the U.S. defense industry provides much of the Turkish military's equipment.Turkey's ambassador in Washington, Nabi Sensoy, was ordered home for discussions with the Turkish leadership about what is happening in Congress, Foreign Minister spokesman Levent Bilman said. He said Sensoy would go back after seven to 10 days.
We are not withdrawing our ambassador. We have asked him to come to Turkey for some consultations, Bilman said. "The ambassador was given instructions to return and will come at his earliest convenience.The Bush administration, which is lobbying strongly in hopes of persuading Congress to reject the resolution, stressed the need for good relations with Turkey.We look forward to his quick return and will continue to work to maintain strong U.S.-Turkish relations, said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. We remain opposed to House Resolution 106 because of the grave harm it could bring to the national security of the United States.Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the measure is damaging relations at a time when U.S. forces in Iraq rely heavily on Turkish permission to use their airspace for cargo flights.About 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey as does about one-third of the fuel used by the U.S. military there. U.S. bases also get water and other supplies carried in overland by Turkish truckers who cross into Iraq's northern Kurdish region.
In addition, C-17 cargo planes fly military supplies to U.S. soldiers in remote areas of Iraq from Incirlik, avoiding the use of Iraqi roads vulnerable to bomb attacks. U.S. officials say the arrangement helps reduce American casualties. U.S.-Turkish ties already had been strained by Turkey's complaint the U.S. hasn't done enough to stop Turkish Kurd rebels from using bases in northern Iraq to stage attacks in southeastern Turkey, a predominantly Kurdish region where tens of thousands have died in fighting since 1984. Turkish warplanes and helicopter gunships attacked suspected positions of Kurdish rebels on the border this week and Turkey's parliament was expected to vote next week on a proposal to allow the military to pursue a large-scale offensive in northern Iraq. The U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson, was invited to the Foreign Ministry, where officials conveyed their unease over the resolution in Congress and asked the Bush administration do all in its power to stop passage by the full House, a Foreign Ministry official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make press statements.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I. Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the killings didn't come from a coordinated campaign but rather during unrest accompanying the Ottoman Empire's collapse. The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the resolution Wednesday despite intense lobbying by Turkish officials and the opposition from President Bush. The vote was a triumph for well-organized Armenian-American interest groups that have lobbied Congress for decades to pass a resolution. The administration will now try to pressure Democratic leaders in Congress not to schedule a vote, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated they were committed to going forward. Why do it now? Because there's never a good time and all of us in the Democratic leadership have supported it, she said. Turkish officials said the House had no business to get involved in writing history. It is not possible to accept such an accusation of a crime which was never committed by the Turkish nation, Turkey's government said after the committee adopted the measure. Associated Press writers C. Onur Ant in Istanbul and Suzan Fraser in Ankara contributed to this report.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
HAMAS MIGHT GIVE UP GAZA
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.
No tsunami warning after quake near Indonesia's Sumatra Tue Oct 9, 9:14 PM ET
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An undersea earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit southwestern Sumatra on Wednesday morning, Indonesia's meteorology agency said.The agency did not issue a tsunami warning following the quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.2.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Lekima's Vietnam death toll rises to 86 Wed Oct 10, 7:56 PM ET
HANOI, Vietnam - The death toll from Vietnam's Typhoon Lekima rose to 86 as rescue workers rushed to get aid to thousands of people still stuck in flooded areas, officials said Wednesday. Eleven more bodies were recovered in the worst-hit province of Nghe An, and one more body was discovered in Son La province. Nine people were still missing and feared dead.The flood waters that inundated central Vietnam continued receding Wednesday, but large sections of Nghe An and neighboring Thanh Hoa province remained unreachable by car.The waters are receding, but very slowly, said Do Minh Chinh a disaster official in Thanh Hoa province, where 15 people died.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Vietnamese government estimated that about 10 million Vietnamese had been affected by Typhoon Lekima, said Joe Lowry, a Red Cross official said from Ninh Binh.The typhoon washed away 6,000 houses, damaged 52,000 houses and destroyed about 200,000 acres of crops, Lowry said.Vietnam's Department of Floods and Storms Control said earlier the initial damage estimate from the typhoon was $131 million.Vietnam is prone to floods and storms that kill hundreds of people each year.
Mixed Atlantic hurricane season puzzles experts By Michael Christie Wed Oct 10, 4:38 PM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - Judge the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season by the 13 storms so far, and it looks like a relatively busy year. But look at the number of days a hurricane has swirled in the Atlantic, or use other measures of a storm season's ferocity, and 2007 has been surprisingly benign. Hurricane experts had predicted the season to be above-average because of warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures, the continuance of a decades-long natural period of increased storm activity, and the development of La Nina weather conditions in the Pacific.Many tropical waves, often a precursor of a tropical storm, developed in the Atlantic over the busiest weeks of the season between September and early October, and eight named tropical storms formed in September -- matching a record for the month.But apart from maximum-strength Hurricane Felix, which slammed into Central America on September 4, most were exceedingly brief or weak, meaning September only registered 3.5 days with a hurricane.One noted hurricane forecasting team at Colorado State University had predicted 20 hurricane days that month.
This year's storms caused relatively little damage and casualties especially compared to the havoc inflicted in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, Wilma pummeled the Mexican resort of Cancun and Florida, and Rita hit the Texas-Louisiana border area.
The main reason for the low number of hurricane days this year has been high vertical wind shear -- the difference in windspeeds at different altitudes -- which tears storms apart while they try to form, hurricane experts said.Scientists are puzzled. A periodic cooling in sea temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific, known as La Nina, is supposed to reduce shear over the Atlantic.
It's like everything else with hurricanes; every now and then the scientists just have to scratch their heads, said Jeff Masters, co-founder of the Weather Underground Web site.
END OF SEASON SURPRISE?
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Tuesday the La Nina phenomenon had definitely kicked in and would be weak to moderate this winter.That could make the end of the six-month hurricane season, which began on June 1, a little busier than one might otherwise expect because a normal increase in late-season wind shear might be suppressed by La Nina, experts said.
Gerry Bell of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, which issues the U.S. government's hurricane season forecasts and had called for between 13 and 16 named storms this year, said there was no anomaly in the total number of storms.We've had 13 named storms, so that's certainly above normal, Bell said. Where we've been a bit low is on the hurricanes.There have officially only been four hurricanes this season but many experts expect Tropical Storm Karen to be upgraded to a hurricane in a post-season analysis, pushing the number to five. The long-term average is for 10 to 11 named storms and six hurricanes per season.Bell said that in addition to the shear, this year had seen a lot of northwesterly flow in the upper atmosphere that had brought dry air over the tropical Atlantic where many storms form. Storms don't like dry air as they need moisture to grow.But the season isn't over, Bell cautioned.
But James Elsner, a Florida State University professor of geography who analyzes hurricane forecasting, said: We are getting to the end. If something doesn't happen in the next two weeks it's basically over.I think what we have to question is why there was so much enthusiasm for this season (in terms of the activity predicted),he said.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
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.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
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.
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
PREMEDITATED MERGER
Ex-Mexican prez: Amero on the way
Vicente Fox confirms long-term deal worked out with President BushOctober 9, 2007 1:15 p.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Ex-Mexican President Vicente Fox last night on CNN
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed the existence of a plan conceived with President Bush to create a new regional currency in the Americas, in an interview last night on CNN's Larry King Live.It possibly was the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan for a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration. According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency? Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He admitted he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere, suggesting part of the plan was to institute eventually a regional currency.
Long term, very long term, he said. What we proposed together, President Bush and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas.ALCA is the acronym for the Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas, the name of the FTAA in Spanish. King, evidently startled by Fox's revelation of the currency, asked pointedly, It's going to be like the euro dollar (sic), you mean?
Well, that would be long, long term, Fox repeated. Fox noted the FTAA plan had been thwarted by Hugo Chavez, the radical socialist president of Venezuela. Everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came, Fox commented. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea.
Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing FTAA as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an amero-type currency later – a plan he also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself. I think the process to go, first step is trading agreement, Fox said. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.Fox's reply to the CNN viewer was captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com. CNN posted video of the interview but did not include the segment with questions from viewers. Last week, WND reported BankIntroductions.com, a Canadian company that specializes in global banking strategies and currency consulting, is advising clients the amero may be the currency of North America within 10 years. Coin designer Daniel Carr has issued for sale a series of private-issue fantasy pattern amero coins that have drawn attention on the Internet. WND also reported the African Union is moving down the path of regional economic integration, with the African Central Bank planning to create the Gold Mandela as a single African continental currency by 2010.
The Council on Foreign Relations has supported regional and global currencies designed to replace nationally issued currencies. In an article in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, entitled The End of National Currency, CFR economist Benn Steil asserts the dollar is a temporary currency. Steil concluded countries should abandon monetary nationalism, moving to adopt regional currencies, on the road to a global one world currency.WND previously reported Steve Previs, a vice president at Jeffries International Ltd. in London, said the amero is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.A video clip of the CNBC interview in November with Jeffries is now available at YouTube.com. WND also has reported a continued slide in the value of the dollar on world currency markets could set up conditions in which the adoption of the amero as a North American currency gains momentum.
Barroso worried commission could take a hit in new EU treaty 09.10.2007 - 17:52 CET | By Honor Mahony
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso is worried that his institution will be sidelined under the new EU treaty which potentially introduces a new power hierarchy into the European Union.In a frank interview with Belgian newspaper de Standaard, Mr Barroso admits that he is eyeing the new treaty with some concern as it risks seeing member states circumvent both the commission and European Parliament and take decisions among themselves.If the new treaty is ratified, which I strongly hope, we will have to make sure that its changes are not abused to reduce the de facto power of the European institutions.Member states are currently putting the final touches on the EU treaty which is hoped will be in force by 2009.Amongst its most noticeable changes is the introduction of a possible five-year term president of the EU council - the 27 member states' decision making body - and an EU foreign minister.
Depending on the personalities of the people who occupy the posts, they have the potential to thoroughly shake-up the way the union currently runs its day-to-day business. The treaty also sets the stage for a power struggle between the commission president, council president and foreign minister who all to a certain extent represent the bloc towards the outside world. With Mr Barroso eyeing a second term as commission president from 2009, he could be in the thick of the changes.He suggests that the new longterm council president, which replaces the current system of rotation between countries every six months, could lead to a new circuit being created outside the Commission and the Parliament. The danger exists that the governments will handle problems among themselves, without taking into account the European institutions, said the Portuguese politician.Some member states do not accept that there is an European interest, which is different from a compromise between member states. I constantly explain to the British that the common market, in which they are the champions, is impossible without strong European institutions, such as the Commission, the European Parliament and the European Court [of Justice].
At the moment, the commission's main duty is as guardian of the EU treaty. It keeps an eye on member states to see if they are upholding law, referring to the court if it suspects they are in breach of it. Its other main duty is to propose EU law, the sole institution that may do so. More generally it acts as broker between countries and should represent a European view point.
Rice pushes 3 Latin America trade pacts By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Tue Oct 9, 3:15 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Congress to pass three Latin American free trade agreements, saying defeat of the deals would be a tremendous blow to America's standing in the region. Rice said Tuesday that such a defeat would be a serious setback for the leaders of Peru, Panama and Colombia and their efforts to strengthen democracy in their countries.It would send a signal loud and clear across the region that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its promises, she said in a speech at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington.Rice's speech was part of a concerted administration effort to jump-start its stalled trade agenda in the face of rising unhappiness as America's trade deficits have soared to record highs.
In the past two weeks, key House and Senate panels have approved a deal with Peru, putting it on track to be the first free trade deal passed by Congress since Democrats took control of the House and Senate at the beginning of the year.The deal with Peru and a separate free trade agreement with Panama are given good chances of passage by Congress this year, but approval of an agreement with Colombia is seen as less likely because of concerns about human rights there.The administration also has a free trade agreement pending before Congress with South Korea but that agreement is also given less of a chance of winning approval this year because of unhappiness with Korea's barriers to U.S. auto and beef shipments.Rice said increased economic ties with the United States would help support the spreading movement toward democracy and free markets in Latin America.The exceptions to this rule may be noisy but they are heading in the opposite direction of the hemisphere, Rice said, not naming any particular country, although she later said that the United States was preparing for a transition to a democratic government in Cuba.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., October 9, 2007) -- As the U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace summit approaches next month, a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is actually suggesting his government is now open to the previously unthinkable prospect of dividing their capital city of Jerusalem. Wouldn't it be the right deal today for the Palestinians, the Western world and the international community to recognize (Israel's) annexation of...(Jewish) neighborhoods as part of Jerusalem, and for us to quit the Arab neighborhoods? Vice Premier Haim Ramon told Israel Radio.
Reuters reported that Ramon made the comments as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators opened talks at a secret location in Israel over a joint document they hoped to present at a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood. A spokesman for Olmert later called speculation that the government would divide Jerusalem baseless and untrue, but Ramon's comments were public and on-the-record which is what is fueling the enormous concern and speculation.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu quickly and strongly denounced the government's talk of giving up control of Judea and Samaria (commonly known as the West Bank) as well as East Jerusalem as dangerous and destabilizing, especially in light of the rising Hamas and Iranian threats to the Jewish State...."The unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon created an Iranian outpost -= from which Israel is being attacked -- in the North, and the unilateral pullout from Gaza created a second Iranian base in Gaza, Hamastan,Netanyahu said on the floor of the Knesset. And now the government is planning a third withdrawal -- from Judea and Samaria -- that will lead to a third Iranian outpost....Giving Hamas half of Jerusalem will make the rest of Jerusalem unlivable. Giving up Judea and Samaria will transfer the areas controlling the coastal plain into the hands of Hamas, leading to Kassams…on Tel Aviv....according to the government's plans, Israel will pull back to the 67 borders. Obviously, this is the plan and any attempts to disguise it are futile. We are facing an exact replica of the government's plan at the Camp David summit in 2000....This is no way to make peace.Netanyahu is right. This would be a stunning and misguided move, and one that would further divide the Israeli public at a time unity is desperately needed. A recent poll found 63% of Israelis are opposed to dividing the Holy City. Even Olmert's cabinet is sharply divided on the issue.
The issue of the division of Jerusalem is an inalienable asset of the state of Israel. Palestinian refugees will not be returned to Israel and Jerusalem will not be divided, said Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, a former chief of staff and a member of the Prime Minister's own Kadima party. Now is the time to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6), not carve it up and serve it to the radical Islamic jihadists now in charge of the Palestinian Authority.
JOSHUA FUND UPDATE:
* Please keep praying for our Palestinian Christian brothers and sisters, especially those who live in Gaza. Pray that the would be strong and courageous and especially bold in loving their neighbors and their enemies, as Jesus commanded us to do. Remember that earlier this summer, radical Islamic jihadists blew up the Bible book store in Gaza, run by the Palestinian Bible Society. There is a concerted effort to intimidate and silence evangelical believers in the West Bank and Gaza. Let us, therefore, not cease to pray.
* Here are excerpts from an email I received yesterday from a dear friend who works closely with our brothers and sisters in Gaza: Rami was targeted because of his heart for lost Muslims and was told that he was being watched. Rami was one of the most gifted of the young leaders at the Bible Society. Saturday night he finished his work and then locked the doors of the Bible Society. One young woman from Gaza put it this way: He locked the doors and headed home. His earthly home was about 15 minutes away, but instead he was taken to his Heavenly home. Rami was kidnapped and finally killed Saturday night. He was stabbed repeatedly and then shot. The Islamic terrorists threw his body from a car at 2 AM on Sunday morning. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility yet and Pastor Hanna says the details are still sketchy. One thing is clear, this dear brother would not be intimidated by threats, harassment, persecution, and even death. He stayed strong until the end and will be given a martyrs crown in Heaven. His funeral was today. He is with Jesus right now. Pastor Jack Sara in Jerusalem says that this is the first Palestinian martyr that they know of. The believers in Gaza have been experiencing all out persecution since Hamas took over the Strip. It looks like Islamic Sharia law is just around the corner in Gaza. Please pray for his sweet wife Pauline. Obviously, she is devastated. Pastor Hanna and the believers in Gaza have rallied together and are at her side. This is difficult since the Christian community in Gaza is laying low because of continual threats....Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. Revelation 2:10. Rami has now received his eternal crown.
* An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a dictator and scuffling with hard-line students at Tehran University, reports the New York Times. Ahmadinejad, who was giving a speech to a select group at the university to mark the beginning of the academic year, ignored the chants of death to the dictator and continued with his speech on the merits of science and the pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said. Please pray for the pro-democracy forces to gain strength in Iran and for regime change that will remove Ahmadinejad and his allies from power.
* Pray, too, for the rapidly growing Christian awakening in Iran. In 1979, there were only 500 known Muslim converts to Christianity in all of Iran. Today, there are more than 1 million. What's more, Persian evangelical leaders tell me that an estimated 10,000 new house churches are expected to be formed in Iran over the next twelve months.
* We are in talks with several wonderful organizations in Israel and the surrounding region on ways to help them expand their humanitarian relief efforts. This is all part of OPERATION EPICENTER, our three-year initiative to get more than $120 million worth of aid into the Mideast to care for the poor and needy and to pre-position supplies ahead of coming wars. Please pray that these talks go well and that the Lord would provide the financial and human resources we need to bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus. Thanks so much.
Hamas seeks Fatah talks, hints at giving up Gaza By Nidal al-Mughrabi Wed Oct 10, 6:51 PM ET
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Wednesday it would hold reconciliation talks with the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and hinted it might be ready to cede control of the Gaza Strip, which it seized in June. Abbas, who is pursuing a peace deal with Israel, has ruled out dialogue with Islamist Hamas unless it submits anew to his authority and gives up Gaza. Israel and the West want Hamas shunned until it accepts coexistence with the Jewish state.There is a serious movement in the realm of Palestinian dialogue and we have agreed to hold a dialogue with Fatah in one of the Arab capitals, said Ismail Haniyeh, who was Hamas prime minister in the former government that Abbas declared void.Our administration in Gaza is temporary, Haniyeh said in an urgent bulletin posted on a pro-Hamas Web site. He said the talks would be held after Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that ends the holy month of Ramadan and falls on Friday or Saturday.
Foreign sanctions and an Israeli blockade have driven Gaza ever deeper into poverty and isolation, and put pressure on Hamas to find a breakthrough without compromising its doctrines.An official involved in Hamas-Fatah mediation but affiliated with neither group confirmed there would be a meeting as early as next week, and said Cairo was the likely venue.But a senior Abbas aide, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, denied talks had been set and accused Hamas, which has been vying with Fatah for Palestinian support since the factions fought a brief civil war in June, of trying to mislead the public.We have not heard about such a dialogue, Abdel-Rahman, who is also a Fatah spokesman, told Reuters. Hamas, he said, wanted to create a false positive atmosphere in Gaza so they can say they are the advocates of dialogue and Fatah rejects it.Abbas has made a precondition of factional talks that Hamas relinquishes the Fatah-linked security compound its forces overran. A senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, said such a gesture could come only as a result of dialogue being under way.Israel, whose prime minister, Ehud Olmert, will attend a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood with Abbas next month, opposes reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.
ABBAS OUTLINES PALESTINE VISION
Israel believes that Hamas should be kept out of the game as it is a consistent detriment to any chance for progress between Israel and the Palestinians, Olmert spokesman David Baker said in Jerusalem.Haniyeh's statement came hours after Abbas, apparently staking out a position ahead of the November conference, said a future Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza must cover the same amount of land as Israel seized there 40 years ago.Abbas also raised the possibility of amending the pre-1967 lines as long as Palestinians ended up controlling territory equal to what Israeli forces captured in a war that year.All Israeli governments since the 1967 conflict have ruled out a complete pullback to pre-war boundaries, citing security concerns and the Jewish state's claim to all of Jerusalem as its capital. Palestinians want the eastern part of the holy city, which Israel annexed, as capital of their future state.
The U.S. government has backed the idea of a small territorial exchange between Israel and a future Palestine so that Palestinians would be compensated for Jewish settlement blocs that would remain under Israeli control in any peace deal.Negotiations on core issues such as the borders of a Palestinian state and the future of Jerusalem and millions of Palestinian refugees broke down in 2001 amid surging violence.(Additional reporting by Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah and Dan Williams in Jerusalem)
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.
No tsunami warning after quake near Indonesia's Sumatra Tue Oct 9, 9:14 PM ET
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An undersea earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit southwestern Sumatra on Wednesday morning, Indonesia's meteorology agency said.The agency did not issue a tsunami warning following the quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.2.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Lekima's Vietnam death toll rises to 86 Wed Oct 10, 7:56 PM ET
HANOI, Vietnam - The death toll from Vietnam's Typhoon Lekima rose to 86 as rescue workers rushed to get aid to thousands of people still stuck in flooded areas, officials said Wednesday. Eleven more bodies were recovered in the worst-hit province of Nghe An, and one more body was discovered in Son La province. Nine people were still missing and feared dead.The flood waters that inundated central Vietnam continued receding Wednesday, but large sections of Nghe An and neighboring Thanh Hoa province remained unreachable by car.The waters are receding, but very slowly, said Do Minh Chinh a disaster official in Thanh Hoa province, where 15 people died.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Vietnamese government estimated that about 10 million Vietnamese had been affected by Typhoon Lekima, said Joe Lowry, a Red Cross official said from Ninh Binh.The typhoon washed away 6,000 houses, damaged 52,000 houses and destroyed about 200,000 acres of crops, Lowry said.Vietnam's Department of Floods and Storms Control said earlier the initial damage estimate from the typhoon was $131 million.Vietnam is prone to floods and storms that kill hundreds of people each year.
Mixed Atlantic hurricane season puzzles experts By Michael Christie Wed Oct 10, 4:38 PM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - Judge the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season by the 13 storms so far, and it looks like a relatively busy year. But look at the number of days a hurricane has swirled in the Atlantic, or use other measures of a storm season's ferocity, and 2007 has been surprisingly benign. Hurricane experts had predicted the season to be above-average because of warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures, the continuance of a decades-long natural period of increased storm activity, and the development of La Nina weather conditions in the Pacific.Many tropical waves, often a precursor of a tropical storm, developed in the Atlantic over the busiest weeks of the season between September and early October, and eight named tropical storms formed in September -- matching a record for the month.But apart from maximum-strength Hurricane Felix, which slammed into Central America on September 4, most were exceedingly brief or weak, meaning September only registered 3.5 days with a hurricane.One noted hurricane forecasting team at Colorado State University had predicted 20 hurricane days that month.
This year's storms caused relatively little damage and casualties especially compared to the havoc inflicted in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, Wilma pummeled the Mexican resort of Cancun and Florida, and Rita hit the Texas-Louisiana border area.
The main reason for the low number of hurricane days this year has been high vertical wind shear -- the difference in windspeeds at different altitudes -- which tears storms apart while they try to form, hurricane experts said.Scientists are puzzled. A periodic cooling in sea temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific, known as La Nina, is supposed to reduce shear over the Atlantic.
It's like everything else with hurricanes; every now and then the scientists just have to scratch their heads, said Jeff Masters, co-founder of the Weather Underground Web site.
END OF SEASON SURPRISE?
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Tuesday the La Nina phenomenon had definitely kicked in and would be weak to moderate this winter.That could make the end of the six-month hurricane season, which began on June 1, a little busier than one might otherwise expect because a normal increase in late-season wind shear might be suppressed by La Nina, experts said.
Gerry Bell of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, which issues the U.S. government's hurricane season forecasts and had called for between 13 and 16 named storms this year, said there was no anomaly in the total number of storms.We've had 13 named storms, so that's certainly above normal, Bell said. Where we've been a bit low is on the hurricanes.There have officially only been four hurricanes this season but many experts expect Tropical Storm Karen to be upgraded to a hurricane in a post-season analysis, pushing the number to five. The long-term average is for 10 to 11 named storms and six hurricanes per season.Bell said that in addition to the shear, this year had seen a lot of northwesterly flow in the upper atmosphere that had brought dry air over the tropical Atlantic where many storms form. Storms don't like dry air as they need moisture to grow.But the season isn't over, Bell cautioned.
But James Elsner, a Florida State University professor of geography who analyzes hurricane forecasting, said: We are getting to the end. If something doesn't happen in the next two weeks it's basically over.I think what we have to question is why there was so much enthusiasm for this season (in terms of the activity predicted),he said.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
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.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
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.
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
PREMEDITATED MERGER
Ex-Mexican prez: Amero on the way
Vicente Fox confirms long-term deal worked out with President BushOctober 9, 2007 1:15 p.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Ex-Mexican President Vicente Fox last night on CNN
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed the existence of a plan conceived with President Bush to create a new regional currency in the Americas, in an interview last night on CNN's Larry King Live.It possibly was the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan for a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration. According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency? Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He admitted he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere, suggesting part of the plan was to institute eventually a regional currency.
Long term, very long term, he said. What we proposed together, President Bush and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas.ALCA is the acronym for the Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas, the name of the FTAA in Spanish. King, evidently startled by Fox's revelation of the currency, asked pointedly, It's going to be like the euro dollar (sic), you mean?
Well, that would be long, long term, Fox repeated. Fox noted the FTAA plan had been thwarted by Hugo Chavez, the radical socialist president of Venezuela. Everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came, Fox commented. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea.
Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing FTAA as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an amero-type currency later – a plan he also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself. I think the process to go, first step is trading agreement, Fox said. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.Fox's reply to the CNN viewer was captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com. CNN posted video of the interview but did not include the segment with questions from viewers. Last week, WND reported BankIntroductions.com, a Canadian company that specializes in global banking strategies and currency consulting, is advising clients the amero may be the currency of North America within 10 years. Coin designer Daniel Carr has issued for sale a series of private-issue fantasy pattern amero coins that have drawn attention on the Internet. WND also reported the African Union is moving down the path of regional economic integration, with the African Central Bank planning to create the Gold Mandela as a single African continental currency by 2010.
The Council on Foreign Relations has supported regional and global currencies designed to replace nationally issued currencies. In an article in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, entitled The End of National Currency, CFR economist Benn Steil asserts the dollar is a temporary currency. Steil concluded countries should abandon monetary nationalism, moving to adopt regional currencies, on the road to a global one world currency.WND previously reported Steve Previs, a vice president at Jeffries International Ltd. in London, said the amero is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.A video clip of the CNBC interview in November with Jeffries is now available at YouTube.com. WND also has reported a continued slide in the value of the dollar on world currency markets could set up conditions in which the adoption of the amero as a North American currency gains momentum.
Barroso worried commission could take a hit in new EU treaty 09.10.2007 - 17:52 CET | By Honor Mahony
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso is worried that his institution will be sidelined under the new EU treaty which potentially introduces a new power hierarchy into the European Union.In a frank interview with Belgian newspaper de Standaard, Mr Barroso admits that he is eyeing the new treaty with some concern as it risks seeing member states circumvent both the commission and European Parliament and take decisions among themselves.If the new treaty is ratified, which I strongly hope, we will have to make sure that its changes are not abused to reduce the de facto power of the European institutions.Member states are currently putting the final touches on the EU treaty which is hoped will be in force by 2009.Amongst its most noticeable changes is the introduction of a possible five-year term president of the EU council - the 27 member states' decision making body - and an EU foreign minister.
Depending on the personalities of the people who occupy the posts, they have the potential to thoroughly shake-up the way the union currently runs its day-to-day business. The treaty also sets the stage for a power struggle between the commission president, council president and foreign minister who all to a certain extent represent the bloc towards the outside world. With Mr Barroso eyeing a second term as commission president from 2009, he could be in the thick of the changes.He suggests that the new longterm council president, which replaces the current system of rotation between countries every six months, could lead to a new circuit being created outside the Commission and the Parliament. The danger exists that the governments will handle problems among themselves, without taking into account the European institutions, said the Portuguese politician.Some member states do not accept that there is an European interest, which is different from a compromise between member states. I constantly explain to the British that the common market, in which they are the champions, is impossible without strong European institutions, such as the Commission, the European Parliament and the European Court [of Justice].
At the moment, the commission's main duty is as guardian of the EU treaty. It keeps an eye on member states to see if they are upholding law, referring to the court if it suspects they are in breach of it. Its other main duty is to propose EU law, the sole institution that may do so. More generally it acts as broker between countries and should represent a European view point.
Rice pushes 3 Latin America trade pacts By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Tue Oct 9, 3:15 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Congress to pass three Latin American free trade agreements, saying defeat of the deals would be a tremendous blow to America's standing in the region. Rice said Tuesday that such a defeat would be a serious setback for the leaders of Peru, Panama and Colombia and their efforts to strengthen democracy in their countries.It would send a signal loud and clear across the region that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its promises, she said in a speech at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington.Rice's speech was part of a concerted administration effort to jump-start its stalled trade agenda in the face of rising unhappiness as America's trade deficits have soared to record highs.
In the past two weeks, key House and Senate panels have approved a deal with Peru, putting it on track to be the first free trade deal passed by Congress since Democrats took control of the House and Senate at the beginning of the year.The deal with Peru and a separate free trade agreement with Panama are given good chances of passage by Congress this year, but approval of an agreement with Colombia is seen as less likely because of concerns about human rights there.The administration also has a free trade agreement pending before Congress with South Korea but that agreement is also given less of a chance of winning approval this year because of unhappiness with Korea's barriers to U.S. auto and beef shipments.Rice said increased economic ties with the United States would help support the spreading movement toward democracy and free markets in Latin America.The exceptions to this rule may be noisy but they are heading in the opposite direction of the hemisphere, Rice said, not naming any particular country, although she later said that the United States was preparing for a transition to a democratic government in Cuba.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., October 9, 2007) -- As the U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace summit approaches next month, a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is actually suggesting his government is now open to the previously unthinkable prospect of dividing their capital city of Jerusalem. Wouldn't it be the right deal today for the Palestinians, the Western world and the international community to recognize (Israel's) annexation of...(Jewish) neighborhoods as part of Jerusalem, and for us to quit the Arab neighborhoods? Vice Premier Haim Ramon told Israel Radio.
Reuters reported that Ramon made the comments as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators opened talks at a secret location in Israel over a joint document they hoped to present at a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood. A spokesman for Olmert later called speculation that the government would divide Jerusalem baseless and untrue, but Ramon's comments were public and on-the-record which is what is fueling the enormous concern and speculation.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu quickly and strongly denounced the government's talk of giving up control of Judea and Samaria (commonly known as the West Bank) as well as East Jerusalem as dangerous and destabilizing, especially in light of the rising Hamas and Iranian threats to the Jewish State...."The unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon created an Iranian outpost -= from which Israel is being attacked -- in the North, and the unilateral pullout from Gaza created a second Iranian base in Gaza, Hamastan,Netanyahu said on the floor of the Knesset. And now the government is planning a third withdrawal -- from Judea and Samaria -- that will lead to a third Iranian outpost....Giving Hamas half of Jerusalem will make the rest of Jerusalem unlivable. Giving up Judea and Samaria will transfer the areas controlling the coastal plain into the hands of Hamas, leading to Kassams…on Tel Aviv....according to the government's plans, Israel will pull back to the 67 borders. Obviously, this is the plan and any attempts to disguise it are futile. We are facing an exact replica of the government's plan at the Camp David summit in 2000....This is no way to make peace.Netanyahu is right. This would be a stunning and misguided move, and one that would further divide the Israeli public at a time unity is desperately needed. A recent poll found 63% of Israelis are opposed to dividing the Holy City. Even Olmert's cabinet is sharply divided on the issue.
The issue of the division of Jerusalem is an inalienable asset of the state of Israel. Palestinian refugees will not be returned to Israel and Jerusalem will not be divided, said Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, a former chief of staff and a member of the Prime Minister's own Kadima party. Now is the time to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6), not carve it up and serve it to the radical Islamic jihadists now in charge of the Palestinian Authority.
JOSHUA FUND UPDATE:
* Please keep praying for our Palestinian Christian brothers and sisters, especially those who live in Gaza. Pray that the would be strong and courageous and especially bold in loving their neighbors and their enemies, as Jesus commanded us to do. Remember that earlier this summer, radical Islamic jihadists blew up the Bible book store in Gaza, run by the Palestinian Bible Society. There is a concerted effort to intimidate and silence evangelical believers in the West Bank and Gaza. Let us, therefore, not cease to pray.
* Here are excerpts from an email I received yesterday from a dear friend who works closely with our brothers and sisters in Gaza: Rami was targeted because of his heart for lost Muslims and was told that he was being watched. Rami was one of the most gifted of the young leaders at the Bible Society. Saturday night he finished his work and then locked the doors of the Bible Society. One young woman from Gaza put it this way: He locked the doors and headed home. His earthly home was about 15 minutes away, but instead he was taken to his Heavenly home. Rami was kidnapped and finally killed Saturday night. He was stabbed repeatedly and then shot. The Islamic terrorists threw his body from a car at 2 AM on Sunday morning. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility yet and Pastor Hanna says the details are still sketchy. One thing is clear, this dear brother would not be intimidated by threats, harassment, persecution, and even death. He stayed strong until the end and will be given a martyrs crown in Heaven. His funeral was today. He is with Jesus right now. Pastor Jack Sara in Jerusalem says that this is the first Palestinian martyr that they know of. The believers in Gaza have been experiencing all out persecution since Hamas took over the Strip. It looks like Islamic Sharia law is just around the corner in Gaza. Please pray for his sweet wife Pauline. Obviously, she is devastated. Pastor Hanna and the believers in Gaza have rallied together and are at her side. This is difficult since the Christian community in Gaza is laying low because of continual threats....Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. Revelation 2:10. Rami has now received his eternal crown.
* An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a dictator and scuffling with hard-line students at Tehran University, reports the New York Times. Ahmadinejad, who was giving a speech to a select group at the university to mark the beginning of the academic year, ignored the chants of death to the dictator and continued with his speech on the merits of science and the pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said. Please pray for the pro-democracy forces to gain strength in Iran and for regime change that will remove Ahmadinejad and his allies from power.
* Pray, too, for the rapidly growing Christian awakening in Iran. In 1979, there were only 500 known Muslim converts to Christianity in all of Iran. Today, there are more than 1 million. What's more, Persian evangelical leaders tell me that an estimated 10,000 new house churches are expected to be formed in Iran over the next twelve months.
* We are in talks with several wonderful organizations in Israel and the surrounding region on ways to help them expand their humanitarian relief efforts. This is all part of OPERATION EPICENTER, our three-year initiative to get more than $120 million worth of aid into the Mideast to care for the poor and needy and to pre-position supplies ahead of coming wars. Please pray that these talks go well and that the Lord would provide the financial and human resources we need to bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus. Thanks so much.
Hamas seeks Fatah talks, hints at giving up Gaza By Nidal al-Mughrabi Wed Oct 10, 6:51 PM ET
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Wednesday it would hold reconciliation talks with the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and hinted it might be ready to cede control of the Gaza Strip, which it seized in June. Abbas, who is pursuing a peace deal with Israel, has ruled out dialogue with Islamist Hamas unless it submits anew to his authority and gives up Gaza. Israel and the West want Hamas shunned until it accepts coexistence with the Jewish state.There is a serious movement in the realm of Palestinian dialogue and we have agreed to hold a dialogue with Fatah in one of the Arab capitals, said Ismail Haniyeh, who was Hamas prime minister in the former government that Abbas declared void.Our administration in Gaza is temporary, Haniyeh said in an urgent bulletin posted on a pro-Hamas Web site. He said the talks would be held after Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that ends the holy month of Ramadan and falls on Friday or Saturday.
Foreign sanctions and an Israeli blockade have driven Gaza ever deeper into poverty and isolation, and put pressure on Hamas to find a breakthrough without compromising its doctrines.An official involved in Hamas-Fatah mediation but affiliated with neither group confirmed there would be a meeting as early as next week, and said Cairo was the likely venue.But a senior Abbas aide, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, denied talks had been set and accused Hamas, which has been vying with Fatah for Palestinian support since the factions fought a brief civil war in June, of trying to mislead the public.We have not heard about such a dialogue, Abdel-Rahman, who is also a Fatah spokesman, told Reuters. Hamas, he said, wanted to create a false positive atmosphere in Gaza so they can say they are the advocates of dialogue and Fatah rejects it.Abbas has made a precondition of factional talks that Hamas relinquishes the Fatah-linked security compound its forces overran. A senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, said such a gesture could come only as a result of dialogue being under way.Israel, whose prime minister, Ehud Olmert, will attend a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood with Abbas next month, opposes reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.
ABBAS OUTLINES PALESTINE VISION
Israel believes that Hamas should be kept out of the game as it is a consistent detriment to any chance for progress between Israel and the Palestinians, Olmert spokesman David Baker said in Jerusalem.Haniyeh's statement came hours after Abbas, apparently staking out a position ahead of the November conference, said a future Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza must cover the same amount of land as Israel seized there 40 years ago.Abbas also raised the possibility of amending the pre-1967 lines as long as Palestinians ended up controlling territory equal to what Israeli forces captured in a war that year.All Israeli governments since the 1967 conflict have ruled out a complete pullback to pre-war boundaries, citing security concerns and the Jewish state's claim to all of Jerusalem as its capital. Palestinians want the eastern part of the holy city, which Israel annexed, as capital of their future state.
The U.S. government has backed the idea of a small territorial exchange between Israel and a future Palestine so that Palestinians would be compensated for Jewish settlement blocs that would remain under Israeli control in any peace deal.Negotiations on core issues such as the borders of a Palestinian state and the future of Jerusalem and millions of Palestinian refugees broke down in 2001 amid surging violence.(Additional reporting by Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah and Dan Williams in Jerusalem)
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