RUSSIA DRIFTING BACK TO COLD WAR

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.

Levee in Mo. breaks a 2nd time, with flooding forcing evacuations; 2dead in Ark. Sun Apr 13, 1:22 AM
By The Associated Press

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - A levee along a river in southeast Missouri failed for the second time in recent weeks, causing widespread flooding and forcing the evacuation of homes, authorities said Saturday. About 50 homes east of Poplar Bluff were evacuated Saturday, but no injuries were reported, Butler County Fire Chief Bob Fredwell said. Some homes had a metre of water in them. The section of the temporary levee that failed was along the Black River and was built to repair a break in March. That breach flooded about 1,000 people out of their homes, authorities said. The latest flooding is much less severe than what happened in March, Fredwell said. The area has had unusually wet weather over the past few weeks. In Arkansas, meanwhile, authorities said two people drowned Friday in Yell County when their pickup truck left a water-covered highway and was submerged. Engineers cracked open spillways Saturday at Arkansas' Bull Shoals Lake, allowing excess water brimming near the rim of the dam to rush down the White River to communities already flooded by weeks of rain. High reservoir levels in the region have forced the Army Corps of Engineers to open spillways. More than three-fourths of Arkansas' counties have been declared disaster areas by Gov. Mike Beebe since tornadoes tore across the state Feb. 5.

The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press Mon Apr 14, 5:39 AM ET

Snow and rain were forecast for the Northwest on Monday, while unseasonably cool temperatures were expected across the East. Light snow was possible in the southern Appalachians, but significant accumulations were unlikely. The Southeast was expect to see lingering showers as a low pressure system develops off the coast.

Temperatures there weren't forecast to rise above the lower 70s, while highs in the 40s and 50s were expected across much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.The West Coast was also likely to see cooler weather as a cool trough of low pressure approaches from the Pacific. More hot weather was forecast for the Great Basin and Rockies.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Sunday ranged from a low of 7 degrees at Hayward, Wis., to a high of 100 degrees at Yuma, Ariz.On the Net:Weather Underground: http://www.wunderground.com.National Weather Service: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov Intellicast: http://www.intellicast.com

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

Asian, European stocks fall By THOMAS HOGUE, AP Business Writer APR 14,08

BANGKOK, Thailand - Asian and European markets fell Monday, following Wall Street's tumble late last week on concerns over a slowdown in the U.S. economy and the outlook for corporate profits.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 3.1 percent to close at 12,917.5. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 3.5 percent to 23,811.2. Asia's biggest declines came in China, where the Shanghai Composite Index plunged 5.6 percent and the Shenzhen index lost 6.3 percent. Meanwhile, in early European trading, the U.K.'s FTSE-100 dropped 0.6 percent, France's CAC 40 fell 0.7 percent and Germany's DAX slipped 0.8 percent.The declines followed a 2 percent drop Friday in the Dow Jones industrial average on Wall Street as an unexpected decline in first-quarter earnings from General Electric Co. sharpened worries over both corporate profits and the wider American economy, a vital Asian export market. The Dow Jones industrials fell to 12,325.4 on Friday.In Japan, the focus was on financial shares. Analysts said stocks were hurt by worries over earnings from U.S. banks and high-tech companies. Investors are also waiting for U.S. economic data for March, including retail sales and the consumer price index.Nomura Holdings dropped 4.9 percent, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group fell 3.7 percent and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group shed 4.2 percent.High-tech shares were dragged down by a Nikkei report that said Canon Inc.'s net profit for the January-March quarter is likely to fall 16 percent due to a rising yen.

Canon slid 4.9 percent. Sony Corp. fell 4.5 percent. Nikon Corp. dropped 4.6 percent.Carmakers were also weak as the dollar traded below 101 yen. Toyota Motor Corp. slipped 2.6 percent; Honda Motor Co. declined 3.6 percent.In China and Hong Kong, property developers and other blue chips also fell on fears that authorities may further tighten credit to combat inflation.On the Shanghai exchange, property sector leader China Vanke and Poly Real Estate Group both fell by the daily 10 percent limit. Market heavyweight PetroChina fell 3.3 percent.Banks and insurers were also hit by selling in China's largest city. Shenzhen Development Bank lost 10 percent. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China slipped 5.2 percent. Ping An Insurance shed 6.6 percent.Analysts said losses in Hong Kong were milder than those on mainland bourses, because fund houses took advantage of lower share prices to return to the market.

Locally the underlying sentiment is much firmer (than overseas). A lot of funds will be eyeing a market pullback as a chance to get in,said ICEA Securities Ltd. strategist Ernie Hon told Dow Jones Newswires.Among Chinese developers listed in Hong Kong, China Overseas Land dropped 5.6 percent, Shimao Property fell 7.3 percent and Guangzhou R&F Properties tumbled 11.4 percent.Analysts and traders said they expect the index to trade in a narrow range for the remainder of the week.Investors are awaiting key data from both the U.S. and China this week, so I think the HSI will remain volatile, said Ben Kwong, a director at KGI Securities Co., told Dow Jones Newswires.China will report first-quarter gross domestic product data Wednesday, and will also issue other economic indicators. DBS Group Research said China's economy likely grew at a slower pace in the first quarter, rising 10.5 percent from a year earlier. China's GDP has been growing in access of 11 percent, and last week, the government raised its estimate of 2007 growth to 11.9percent from the previous estimate of 11.4 percent. Elsewhere in Asia on Monday, market benchmarks in Australia and South Korea dropped around 1.8-1.9 percent, and in Singapore, the Straits Times Index fell 2.7 percent. Markets were closed in India, Vietnam and Thailand for public holidays.

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

LUKE 21:25
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)

Rising food prices could destabilize governments: IMF
14 Apr, 2008, 0651 hrs IST, AGENCIES

WASHINGTON: The head of the International Monetary Fund is warning that spikes in food costs around the world could lead to starvation and the crumbling of governments. We are facing a huge problem, Dominique Strauss-Kahn told reporters at the end of weekend meetings of world finance ministers and central bank governors, referring to rapidly rising food prices that have caused hunger and deadly violence in several countries. The IMF is often the lender of last resort for countries in trouble. Prices of wheat and rice have more than doubled in the past year, with rice, a staple in Asian diets, surging by 75 percent in the past two months, according to the World Bank, the IMF's sister organization. The IMF and the World Bank wound up two days of meetings Sunday that dealt with the financial crises roiling global markets and rising food and energy prices. A severe credit crisis could result in losses approaching $1 trillion (euro630 billion) before it is over, according to an IMF estimate released this week. Also Sunday, Robert Zoellick, the head of the World Bank, urged immediate action to deal with rising food prices. The international community has to put our money where our mouth is and act now to help hungry people, he said. It is as stark as that.

He called on governments to rapidly carry out commitments to provide the UN World Food Program with $500 million (euro315.8 million) in emergency aid it needs by May 1. Zoellick said the bank was responding to a number of countries with conditional cash transfer programs, providing food at workplaces and seeds for planting in the new season. Elizabeth Stuart, of the international aid agency Oxfam, said that aid levels are going down, not up. All this concern would look a lot more serious if they delivered the cash they have promised, she said in a statement. Concern is no substitute for cold hard cash.Despite heavy security precautions around the IMF and World Bank headquarters in downtown Washington, near the White House, there were few demonstrations.

Thomson Financial News EU's Almunia warns of exchange rate overshooting0 4.12.08, 1:55 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial - As the dollar falls relentlessly against the euro, the European Commission's top economic official warned today that the plunge of the greenback and the rise of the euro may have outrun its economic justification.The increased volatility in foreign exchange markets, which has accompanied the financial turmoil, points to the risk of exchange rate overshooting, Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told the International Monetary and Financial Committee, the governing body of the International Monetary Fund.The plunge of the dollar against the euro, is making European exports more expensive overseas and Almunia said the euro is in danger of reaching a level no longer inline with economic fundamentals.The EC noted with great attention, he said, the continuing reaffirmation by American officials that a strong dollar is in the interest of the US economy.

Without specifically mentioning China and the appreciation of the yuan, Almunia said that, currencies of the countries with the largest current account surpluses should appreciate more substantially in effective terms.That parallels the statement in the G7 industrial nations communique which commended China for recently allowing faster appreciation but said the yuan was not moving up quickly enough. US recession risk has increased and the euro area economy is slowing down but the euro area is still resistant to a global slowdown, Almunia said.Sharply rising energy and food prices have added to the problems confronting the global economy.In the European Union, the effects of financial turmoil have been mainly confined to the financial sector so far, Almunia said.Nevertheless, growth in the EU economy is likely to be affected both directly and indirectly by the turmoil.But because the EU economy has strong fundamentals and no significant macroeconomic imbalances it is in a relatively favorable position to absorb the effects of financial market disturbance.

Therefore, Almunia said, there is no need for policy activism in the EU, where the more appropriate approach is to maintain a firm commitment to stability-oriented monetary and fiscal policies and growth-enhancing structural reforms.The EC's basic forecast calls for EU GDP growth of 2.0 percent in 2008 and euro area growth of 1.8percent.However, the risks to this baseline forecast are significant and tilted to the downside, he added.The statement said the differing monetary policy approaches of the Federal Reserve in cutting rates and the European Central Bank holding rates steady are appropriate given their differing situations.The US Federal Reserve is facing both a liquidity crisis and a recession while the the ECB is facing primarily a liquidity crisis, he said.corbett.daly@thomson.com+tfn.newsdesk@thomson.com++dennis.moore@thomson.com

Posted to the web on: 14 April 2008
Linking the oil price to the euro
Jean Temkin

MANY of the world’s current woes are a result of the rising oil price. A problem may be that the currencies of some of the 14 Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) countries, which collectively produce two-thirds of the world’s oil, are linked to the US dollar. As the dollar dips against the euro, so do their currencies. It’s been suggested that these countries might rather link to the euro, and, given that several regard the US as an enemy, this would make better sense. For the chart I have used two plottings to show the exchange rates. The heavier plotting is the euro/dollar (how many dollars are needed to buy a euro) and a lighter plotting is the dollar/euro (how many euros are needed to buy a dollar). The plottings show that since the birth of the euro, the dollar has lost substantial ground against the unit . For oil I have used the price of Brent crude because although the UK is not an Opec member, Brent is used as a benchmark.

Over the past seven years, there has been some correlation between the rise in the euro’s value against the dollar and oil. I have placed standard deviation channels over both the oil price and the euro/dollar plottings. The solid line channel shows how the oil price has risen, and the dashed channel how the euro has gained against the dollar. The elevation of the euro is less steep than that of the oil price but there has been close correlation in the past six months. Both oil and the euro/dollar are now near the upper edge of their channels showing both are overvalued. The current equilibrium of the oil price calculated from introduction of the euro is $82,5 a barrel and the equilibrium of euro-dollar exchange rate is € 1/$1,45. In dollar and rand terms, as an oil barrel holds about 159l , at the oil price of $108,20 at the barrel-filling stage, oil is priced at $0,68, or R5,31. All countries are hurting, but S A ’s whammy is multiplied by three. Since November, the rand has lost heavily against the dollar; Eskom’s shenanigans have forced many businesses to use diesel-gobbling generators and another interest rate rise will further reduce shrinking disposable incomes. Food price inflation is directly linked to oil, as it’s used by human and animal food producers. Once produced it must be transported. Because the price of oil is high, the farming of crops that can be turned into ethanol has reduced the availability of food for humans and animals . Not surprisingly, the uproar of a few years ago about genetic modification, which can produce more crops on less land, has ceased. Not directly linked to oil, surveys show that meat consumption in China and India has risen, resulting in demand outstripping supply.

The market had already begun an about-turn ahead of the interest rate rise. The emphasis switched from industrials back into resources many of which are giving new buy signals. Two exceptions were Metair which shot skywards, despite its directors selling shares, and Dorbyl’s rise on the sale of property and disposal of a 50% interest in Guestro. Sasol reached a new high as it raced towards its next count of R419 and has further counts up to R491. Industrial metals came in for good demand and while some are already high in overbought territory, are signalling buying positions. Hulamin has a count to R29, Arcmittal R26, Metmar R5,80, Hiveld R171 and Palamin R153. However, Cycle Trends warn that the sector may lose a little ground in the short term. Coal is a favourite in the mining sector, but as coal shares are mostly not well traded, Anglo and Billiton are better bets. Coal contributes 11% of Anglo’s profits and platinum 23%. Anglo’s next count is to R568 and there’s a longer-term count to R690. Coal contributes 9,25% of Billiton’s profits, steel 9,15% and petroleum 11,66%. Billiton’s next count is to R321. The gold price moved better but gold shares remain lethargic. The platinum price jogs sideways but Angloplat, with an unfulfilled count to about R1650, looks set to challenge its record high. Chemicals won ground with Omnia, AECI and Afrox giving hesitant buy signals. Afrox has a new count to R308. In media, Naspers with a count to R186, is rushing towards an overbought position but may gain a bit more in its current cycle.
Jean Temkin is the author of More Charting for Profit, a textbook on technical analysis and has an interest in Anglos, Afrox and Sasol: jeantem@icon.co.za.

Oil prices rose above $111 a barrel By PABLO GORONDI, Associated Press Writer APR 14,08

Oil prices rose Monday after global financial leaders expressed concerns about volatility in major currencies and the dollar slipped against the euro. Light, sweet crude for May delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose $1.09 to $111.23 a barrel in electronic trading by midday in Europe. The contract rose 3 cents to settle at $110.14 a barrel Friday.Crude oil's recent run above $100 a barrel has been largely attributed to a steadily depreciating U.S. currency, because a weakening dollar attracts investors to commodities as a hedge against inflation.The Group of Seven industrialized nations said in a statement Friday that there have been at times sharp fluctuations in major currencies, and we are concerned about their possible implications for economic and financial stability.The group pledged to closely monitor the situation and cooperate as appropriate.The dollar fell further in morning trading Monday. The 15-nation euro bought $1.5839, up from the $1.5835 it bought in New York late Friday.

Crude prices have come under pressure after the International Energy Agency last Friday lowered its global oil demand forecast for the year by 310,000 barrels a day to 87.2 million barrels a day, citing lower economic output expectations in the U.S. and elsewhere.JBC Energy in Vienna, Austria, called the IEA report the strongest downward monthly revision in years, and also noted that gasoline consumption in the United States was expected to fall lower for the first time in years.More negative U.S. economic data also appeared to have taken steam out of oil's precipitous price rise this week. The Commerce Department reported last week the first decline in oil imports in a year — a possible sign that high prices and an economic downturn were hurting crude sales.The weight of the gloomy economic picture in the U.S. and to a certain extent other countries ... is getting heavier, and it's putting a heavy lid on oil pricing, Shum said. However, he said, oil's movements continue to be largely influenced by fluctuations in the dollar.

Nymex crude continues to be tightly correlated to the movements of the dollar, said a report by Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix in Switzwerland.The main reason why the correlation is so strong is that it has become a self-fulfilling trade with very few volunteers to trade against it until it is proven broken.In other Nymex trading, heating oil futures fell 1.71 cents to $3.1804 a gallon while gasoline prices dropped 2.65 cents to $2.7808 a gallon. Natural gas futures declined 1.2 cents to $9.913 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude futures fell 58 cents to $108.17 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.Associated Press Writer Gillian Wong in Singapore contributed to this report.

WAY TO GO ISRAELI LEADERS SNUB THIS ARAB LOVER CARTER.

Israeli leaders snub Carter By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer Sun Apr 13, 8:30 PM ET

JERUSALEM - Former President Jimmy Carter brokered the first Israeli-Arab peace deal, but he's getting a cool reception in Israel during his latest visit to the Mideast. Israeli leaders are shunning the globe-trotting peacemaker for planning to meet with Khaled Mashaal, the head of Israel's archenemy Hamas, and comparing the Jewish state's policies to apartheid.A schedule released by the Atlanta-based Carter Center showed no plans for the former president to meet any of Israel's key players: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni or Defense Minister Ehud Barak during this week's visit, which began Sunday.The only high-ranking official on Carter's schedule was Israel's ceremonial head of state, President Shimon Peres. The 83-year-old former U.S. leader held a closed meeting with Peres shortly after arriving Sunday.

A senior Israeli official said scheduling problems was the official reason given for the high-profile snub — even though Olmert recently took time to chat with Prison Break star Wentworth Miller.

But the real reason for the cold shoulder is Carter's plan to meet with Mashaal when his Carter Center delegation travels later this week to Damascus, Syria, the Israel official said.Israel's leader are not publicly criticizing Carter out of respect for his former position as U.S. president, the official added. He spoke on condition of anonymity because his explanation went beyond the official position.Ahead of his Mideast trip, Carter defended his reasons for wanting to engage Hamas and said he feels quite at ease about meeting with Hamas militants.I think there's no doubt in anyone's mind that if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process, Carter told ABC News This Week in a broadcast aired Sunday.

Hamas is sworn to Israel's destruction and has carried out dozens of suicide bombings that have killed more than 250 Israelis. Israel has no contacts with the Islamic militant group, whose violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in June has undercut newly revived efforts by Israel and the Palestinians to strike a final peace deal.
Several State Department officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and others from the Bush administration have criticized Carter's plans to meet with Mashaal.The position of the government is that Hamas is a terrorist organization and we don't negotiate with terrorists. We think that's a very important principle to maintain, Stephen Hadley, Bush's national security adviser, said Sunday on ABC. The State Department made clear we think it's not useful for people to be running to Hamas at this point and having meetings.But Carter is among a growing group of U.S. critics who say shunning enemies is counterproductive. Several months ago, a group of prominent former senior U.S. officials — including Carter's own former national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski — called on the U.S. to engage in genuine dialogue with Hamas, not isolate it.In Syria, senior Hamas official Mohammed Nazzal has said Hamas welcomes the request from Carter to meet with Mashaal. He said the meeting would take place Friday.Carter said the meeting would not be a negotiation, but he outlined distinct goals.

I think that it's very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to express their views, to ascertain what flexibility they have, to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel and to cooperate with the Fatah as a group that unites the Palestinians, maybe to get them to agree to a cease-fire — things of this kind, Carter said.Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work in mediating conflicts, while president and under the auspices of the Carter Center. In 1979, he brokered the landmark accord between Egypt and Israel, for which Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin were awarded that year's Nobel Peace Prize.But the goodwill Carter earned here was all but swept away two years ago with the publication of his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which compares the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories with the racial segregation and oppression that once reigned in South Africa. Jewish groups and some fellow Democrats strongly objected to the book and more than a dozen members of the Carter Center's advisory board resigned in protest. In a later afterword to his book, Carter criticized the lack of balanced debate in the U.S. about the Middle East and warned officials against being seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action or policy of the Israeli government. In recent years, Carter has embarked upon a crusade of hate against Israel, Uzi Arad, an adviser to parliamentary opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, told Israel Radio. There is no doubt that Jimmy Carter as a former president should be greeted as a matter of protocol, but it does not mean that the prime minister, the foreign minister and certainly the opposition leader have to meet him, Arad said.

While in Israel, Carter also plans to meet several lawmakers and visit Sderot, the southern Israeli town most frequently targeted by Gaza rocket squads. Carter is also scheduled to visit the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan during his Mideast tour. Carter will not be visiting Hamas-ruled Gaza. A Carter-Mashaal meeting would be the first public contact between a prominent American figure and Hamas officials since the Rev. Jesse Jackson met with Mashaal in Syria in 2006.

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Most Israelis Agree: Jerusalem is Being Secretly Discussed
by Hillel Fendel APR 14,08

(IsraelNN.com) Nearly 60% of Israelis say the Israeli government is secretly negotiating the division of Jerusalem with the Palestinian Authority - despite government attempts to blur the existence of such talks.This and other findings were the results of a survey carried out by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Bar Ilan University. The official numbers will be presented this Tuesday at a special seminar at Bar Ilan. The Guest of Honor will be Trade Minister Eli Yishai, the head of the government coalition member Shas Party. Yishai has stated frequently that the moment it becomes clear that Jerusalem is being negotiated, his party will quit the coalition. Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu, Natan Sharansky, Jerusalem mayoral candidate Nir Barkat and others will be in attendance as well.

PA is Sure to Make More Demands

The respondents were asked their forecast of the situation in the event that an Israeli-PA peace agreement would include an Israeli giveaway of Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods, Old City and Temple Mount to the PA. Nearly 70% said there is no or little chance that such an agreement would bring about an end to terrorism, and 56% feel there is a high or very high likelihood that the areas would be used for terrorist bases.Some 61% said there is no or little chance that this would mark the end of PA demands regarding Jerusalem. The survey further shows that 71% object to giving away parts of Jerusalem even in the framework of a comprehensive peace agreement. Only about a third of these - less than a quarter of the public - say they would actively demonstrate against a plan to divide Jerusalem. Approximately 7% of the public say they would even participate in violent protests. Prof. Efraim Inbar, Director of the Begin-Sadat Center, says that the public is essentially against giving away parts of Jerusalem - but that when the government gives in, this erodes the public opposition.There is great opposition to concessions in Jerusalem in general, and regarding the Temple Mount in particular, Inbar said. Before Ehud Barak presented his plan to give away the Temple Mount in 2000, 85% of the public objected to this - but Barak's plan broke the taboo.
Asked if they think the PA would preserve and maintain the Jewish and Christian holy sites, 50% said no.

WELL I GOT NEWS FOR THE PA. THE ARABS ARE GOIN DOWN IN THE NEAR FUTURE, NOT ISRAEL. I GO BY WHAT GODS SAYS NOT NO MAN WHO THINKS HES IN CONTROL OF ISRAELS FUTURE.

PA Ambassador: First Jerusalem, Then We'll Take All Palestine by Hillel Fendel APR 14,08

(IsraelNN.com) When Israel's ideology will collapse, and after we take Jerusalem, Israel's ideology will collapse altogether, and then we will proceed with our own ideology, inshallah [if Allah wills], and we will throw them out of all of Palestine. So said Abbas Zaki, the Palestinian Authority's ambassador to Lebanon on Lebanese television last week, according to a translation by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute).Expressing strong support for terror attacks against Israel, Zaki said, We believe wholeheartedly that the Right of Return [of millions of Arabs and their descendants who left Israel in 1948 and 1967 -ed.] is guaranteed by our will, by our weapons, and by our faith.Asked if this means he believes in weapons, not just in negotiations, Zaki said that neither of them is effective by itself: The use of weapons alone will not bring results, and the use of politics without weapons will not bring results. We act on the basis of our extensive experience. We analyze our situation carefully. We know what climate leads to victory and what climate leads to suicide.

We talk politics, Zaki said, but our principles are clear. It was our pioneering leader, Yasser Arafat, who persevered with this revolution, when empires collapsed. Our armed struggle has been going on for 43 years, and the political struggle, on all levels, has been going on for 50 years. We harvest U.N. resolutions...

Israel Must Pay a Heavy Price
Speaking with young Arabs who see themselves as Palestinians, Zaki said, The important thing is that in any [military] operation, Israel will pay a price. We don't want cases in which you [Arabs] don't kill even a chicken, but Israel kills 20 of you. I salute any operation that makes Israel pay a heavy price.

We'll Drive Them All out of All of Palestine
Zaki said that the PLO [Palestinian Liberation Organization] is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and that it remains true to its values and ideology: In light of the weakness of the Arab nation and the lack of values, and in light of the American control over the world, the PLO proceeds through phases, without changing its strategy. Let me tell you, when the ideology of Israel collapses, and we take, at least, Jerusalem, the Israeli ideology will collapse in its entirety, and we will begin to progress with our own ideology, Allah willing, and drive them out of all of Palestine.

From Munich to Hevron
A mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of 11 Israeli athletes, Zaki has long been a leading inciter against Israel and an outspoken proponent of anti-Israel terrorism. Back in 1996, he was arrested by Israel for suspected involvement in setting fire to Jewish National Fund agricultural equipment, and later frequently led anti-Jewish rioters in Hevron.Despite his warm words for Arafat, Zaki was one of his opponents at the end of Arafat's career. In July 2002, Zaki - then a member of the Fatah Supreme Council - said that then-PA Chairman Arafat has to go... Wherever he went, he brought with him corruption and instability.

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

THIS WILL BE THE 1ST PRESIDENT OF THE EU, THIS IS WHAT SEAT THE FUTURE DICTATOR WILL HOLD WHEN HE SIGNS THE FUTURE 7 YR PEACE TREATY WITH ISRAEL AND MANY OF DANIEL 9:27

Member states consider perks and staff for new EU president
14.04.2008 - 09:25 CET | By Honor Mahony

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU member states have begun preliminary talks on some of the most political aspects of the bloc's new treaty – the office set-up for the proposed new full-time president, the shape of the diplomatic service and the power-sharing arrangement for the regular ministerial meetings in Brussels.With the European Commission due to present the first draft of the 2009 budget later this month, EU ambassadors last week discussed a possible salary, number of staff and perks for the EU president – a job created by the new treaty which is supposed to come into force on 1 January next year.Characterising the talks as very abstract and very general, an EU diplomat said that there appeared to be general agreement that that the president of the council – whose job description has yet to be defined – will get the same sort of treatment as the president of the European Commission.This would mean a salary of around €270,000, a chauffeured car, a housing allowance and a personal staff of around 20.

What the EU president will actually do remains unclear.

The post may be purely administrative such as chairing EU leader meetings or could evolve into a much more high-profile and powerful role – a true face of the European Union.But speculation that the new president may get a special residence and a presidential jet was dismissed by several officials as being too symbolic, whatever the job description.One diplomat pointed out that the perk discrepancy between the presidents of the commission and the council cannot be too big, so as not to enhance the expected rivalry between the holders of the two posts.However the commission is not expected to mention the EU president's salary in its first budget draft for fear of upsetting the current ratification process of the EU treaty - particularly in Ireland which is to have a referendum.

(HERES WERE THE DICTATOR WILL LEAD - THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AS WELL)

Diplomatic service

Member states have also begun looking at the set up of the diplomatic service - a new body meant to back up the new foreign minister post and give coherence to the bloc's external policy. A briefing note circulated to ambassadors reminds them that technical work must begin now to ensure it goes into effect quickly after the treaty enters into force.Member states have been asked to consider what kind of extra money should be foreseen for the service and whether they still believe - as on previous discussions on the shelved EU constitution - that the service should be linked to both member states and the commission.This is a highly political question with some countries and MEPs fearing that if the commission is not fully involved, then the diplomatic service will simply become a tool of larger countries.EU diplomats must also grapple with the set up of the regular ministerial meetings. This runs the gamut from exactly what powers will fall to the foreign minister when chairing the external relations council to when agendas should be sent out for the meeting and who should pay for the postage stamps, noted one EU official. The treaty discussions come as just nine of the 27 member states have ratified the new document. The Lisbon Treaty needs all countries' approval for it to come into force with the political discussions set to be ratcheted up a notch in the second half of this year.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

From The Sunday TimesApril 13, 2008 German alarm at Nicolas Sarkozy's plans peace for Mediterranean union by Matthew Campbell

ISRAELI and Arab soldiers are being summoned to march through Paris this summer to celebrate the launch of a Union for the Mediterranean to settle regional woes. France is inviting all the countries around the Mediterranean rim, including Libya, Syria and Israel, to a European Union summit in Paris on July 13 and they are expected to take part in a Euro-Mediterranean Bastille Day military parade with European troops the next day, according to Henri Guaino, one of the closest advisers to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. The idea of a Mediterranean union has irritated the Germans, who have insisted that it be created in association with the EU. Guaino, the originator of the plan, believes that even a watered-down version would have an effect on terrorism and illegal immigration and would turn around a region ravaged by economic hardship and war. We are trying to promote projects that make people work together as much as possible and that will help to create conditions for peace, Guaino said. It is an audacious bet but it is better to take the risk of failure than to take the risk of doing nothing.

Guaino said the Bastille Day parade this year would be the biggest yet. It will be followed by a lavish fireworks display and a concert celebrating the start of France’s six-month presidency of the EU. Sarkozy has grand ambitions at the helm of Europe. Guaino suggested that he would like to see Tony Blair appointed the first EU president by the end of the year. Efforts to forge common immigration and defence policies are no less controversial. The Mediterranean idea has also proved to be a battleground. Britain, a backer of EU membership for Turkey, has been wary, suspecting a plot by Sarkozy to keep the Turks out of Europe by offering the club Med instead. Besides annoying the Turks, it has soured relations between Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor. Worried that wealthier countries such as Germany would end up paying for the new French-led association, Merkel reportedly threatened to boycott the Paris summit unless Sarkozy scaled back plans for a political, economic and cultural union for the Mediterranean. Under a compromise, all 27 EU members, whether or not they have a bit of Mediterranean coast, will be equally involved in the club. Additional reporting: Nicola Smith

EU to fund Mediterranean de-pollution Monday 14 April 2008

Three months ahead of the launch of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's primed Union for the Mediterranean, the Commission has stepped on Paris's toes by presenting plans to finance pollution reduction in the Mediterranean Sea.EU to intensify relations with most ambitious neigbours.France in semantic shift over proposed Mediterranean Union.Scientists warn of rising Mediterranean Sea level Professor: Obvious energy synergy between EU and Mediterranean region.

On 10 April, the Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) presented a study conducted in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme's Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP), identifying 131 pollution hotspots in Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco and the Palestinian Territories. The study identifies 44 priority projects, worth roughly €2.1 billion, for potential financing under a new Mediterranean Hot Spot Investment Programme (MeHSIP). These include urban wastewater and solid waste projects, as well as ones targeting industrial emissions. The initiative is being slated as an attempt by the Commission to mark its territory and show that Euro-Mediterranean cooperation is indeed advancing under the instruments already in place (like the Barcelona Process), before France takes over the EU's rotating Presidency on 1st July. Indeed, tackling pollution is one of the stated key priorities of Sarkozy's Union for the Mediterranean – a project the French President has already had to scale down considerably following strong opposition from Germany (EurActiv 13/12/07, 05/03/08).

But the Commission underlines that the initiative comes as part of its Horizon 2020 Initiative, launched in 2005, and is by no means in competition with French plans. The need for financial means to de-pollute the Mediterranean is so big that any political support is welcome and necessary, said the director of the Commission's Environment Directorate-General, Soledad Blanco, according to Le Monde. She added that the EU executive was in permanent contact with the French and that they were very interested in the proposals. EIB Vice-President Philippe de Fontaine Vive agreed: The Hot Spot Investment Programme is an important starting point for a joint effort of international and bilateral financing institutions […] We are not cutting the ground from under the feet of the French. Quite the opposite, we are sowing the seeds of a better harvest.

According to the study, more than half of urban areas with a population of over 100,000 on the Mediterranean do not have waste water treatment plants and 60% of their waste water is directly discharged into the sea. The decline of the Mediterranean threatens the health of the 143 million people living on its shore and jeopardises the long-term development of key economic sectors such as fishing and tourism, it finds. The EU and Paris would have until the launch summit of 13 July to agree on a list of projects that could be carried out in the context of the Union for the Mediterranean.

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.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Tehran rips Jewish state's warning it will destroy Iran
But doesn't mention Ahmadinejad's many threats to wipe Israel off map Posted: April 13, 2008 6:41 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein
2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – A case of the pot calling the kettle black? Iran has lodged a complaint with the United Nations over an Israeli official's remarks the Jewish state would destroy Iran if Tehran launched a war against Israel.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who denies the Holocaust and has previously stated Israel should be wiped off the map, said the Jewish state was heading toward annihilation and called Israel a permanent threat to the Middle East that will soon be liberated.The Israel regime continues to make impudent threats against Iran ... which blatantly violated international law and the U.N. Charter, threatened the Iranian nation with destruction, wrote Iran's U.N. envoy Muhammad Khazei in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.Iran's U.N. representative urged the Security Council to respond to Israeli Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer's remarks and deter Israel from threatening another state in the future.

Ben-Eliezer last week told reporters, the Iranians won't rush to attack Israel, because they understand the significance such action would have and are well aware of our strength. However, Iran continues to aggravate the situation by supplying arms to Syria and Hezbollah, and we must deal with this, he said.An Iranian attack will prompt a severe reaction from Israel, which will destroy the Iranian nation, stated Ben-Eliezer.The unusually harsh warning from Ben-Eliezer, a former defense minister, was delivered as the official visited his ministry's war room, which took part last week in a massive, nationwide, weeklong drill that included simulated chemical missile attacks on central Israel.Iran's Khazei complained to the U.N. that Israel has continued with its insolent, outrageous and unprovoked threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran ... in yet another manifestation of the terrorist, aggressive and criminal nature of the Israeli regime.The inaction of the Security Council in this regard, has emboldened the regime to pursue this dangerous course. Therefore, the Security Council should react to these vicious statements by unambiguously condemning them and calling on the regime to cease and desist immediately from the threat of using force against members of the United Nations, Khazei wrote. Khazei did not mention any of Ahmadinejad's threats against Israel in his letter.

A look at Russia drifting backward to a new Cold War
By CARLIN ROMANO The Philadelphia Inquirer

At what temperature does a cool alliance become a Cold War?

We might find out soon. Maybe it's just a coincidence that George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin met recently in Sochi, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.It's bracing to imagine how each would respond to The New Cold War by Edward Lucas, veteran Russian and Eastern European correspondent for The Economist.The New Cold War powerfully argues that America and Europe's excessive focus on Iraq and Afghanistan has blinded them to a threat closer to home. Thoroughly informed, steeped in his subject's recent history, with a flinty, caustic style that usually sizes up political phenomena with exacting precision, Lucas reminds us why longtime foreign correspondents surpass rookies who parachute into a foreign hotspot.

Lucas pulls no punches in describing the darker side of Russia since Putin, former head of the KGB's successor agency, took over from Boris Yeltsin. In Lucas' view, the once and perhaps future president of Russia has engineered a Kremlin dominated by ex-intelligence agents marked by xenophobia toward the West, a desire to get rich by controlling private business, and a disrespect for democratic institutions.Lucas believes Russia poses a direct menace ... not only to its own citizens, but to outsiders. Twenty years after Mikhail Gorbachev started dismantling communism, Russia is reverting to Soviet behavior at home and abroad, a policy exhibited in its contemptuous disregard for Western norms. Meanwhile, Western public opinion and policy makers alike find it hard to focus on more than one or two problems at a time, which proved a costly mistake in the 1930s.The New Cold War clarifies Putin's antidemocratic changes since he assumed power, among them state control of all TV news; politically motivated judicial attacks on companies that result in state seizure of their assets; elimination of gubernatorial elections; electoral rules that effectively ban smaller, opposition political parties from power; and legislation and manipulation of statutes that block dissidents and punish demonstrations.Lucas also spotlights the Kremlin's continuing soft war against former Soviet republics that broke away to freedom by such methods as its withholding of fuel and gas from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine.

To his credit, Lucas, in old-fashioned objective journalist style, additionally reports the supposed upside of Putin's authoritarianism. Unlike the Soviet Union, he states, Russia is not riven by economic discontent and failure. On the contrary, investment is pouring in, and living standards are rising. Most Russians have never had it so good, and Putin's approval rating is consistently over 80 percent. In general, that instinct for balance makes The New Cold War a solid study. Yet as that example shows, Lucas, for all his expert analysis, occasionally succumbs to platitudes bandied about by Russia pundits. Many ignore, for instance, how double-digit inflation in Russia eats away the supposed rise in living standards achieved by Putin. Talk to ordinary workers in St. Petersburg - they say living standards remain constant as salaries race to keep pace with inflation.

Similarly, the routine citation of Putin's popularity makes no sense in a society where, as Lucas admits, judicial and bureaucratic harassment have deterred all but the bravest from speaking out or getting involved. His own old friends, he concedes, are increasingly unwilling even to talk on the phone. People in such states do not tell pollsters the truth.That noted, Lucas offers one of the best briefs on how Yeltsin's Wild West became Putin's chilly petrofascism, detailing the return of rigged elections, forced psychiatric medication, the use of natural resources as foreign-policy bludgeons, and the rogue nations that are once again Moscow's best friends.In a final chapter, Lucas suggests How to Win the New Cold War. The West, he begins, must face the political truth about Russia, not ritually join a scramble to find yet more inducements for good behavior. The U.S. and the European Union must forge a common Russia strategy.Lucas argues, as only Sen. John McCain and a few prominent U.S. officials have, that Russia might be expelled from the G-8, which is supposed to include only democracies.

Emphasizing economic levers the West enjoys, Lucas urges capital markets to examine whether Russia's now state-run giant companies, such as Gazprom and Rosneft, meet market rules respecting property rights and the rule of law. (Lucas believes Gazprom and Rosneft would be immediately disqualified.) He thinks the U.N. Security Council should be marginalized as an organizer of world-crisis management, as it was when the Soviet Union's presence de-legitimized its authority in the eyes of Western states.Perhaps most ironically, Lucas writes that the single most important thing the West can do right now to protect both itself and its proteges from Russian neo-imperialism is to offer a so-called Membership Action Plan to Georgia to enter NATO. Just this past week, NATO's leaders, corroborating Lucas' judgment of their fear of Russia, voted against that move, out of fear of irritating the great bear to the north.Ironically again, the chief NATO leader who argued adamantly in Bucharest for a green light to Georgia and Ukraine was none other than George Bush. Could he be experiencing a reborn view of his Russian peer as the clock winds down on his presidency?One would like to listen in today. Chances are some folks will be doing just that.The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West by Edward Lucas; Palgrave Macmillan ($26.95)

Muslim reformer's heresy: The Islamic state is a dead end By Jane Lampman Wed Apr 2, 4:00 AM ET

Abdullahi Ahmed an-Naim has seen what can happen to an Islamic reformer: His mentor was executed in 1985 in Sudan; he himself had to flee the country. Still, the self-described Muslim heretic has no trouble traveling the Islamic world spreading his controversial message: There is no such thing as an Islamic state.A secular state and human rights are essential for all societies so that Muslims and others can practice their faith freely, he tells his co-religionists.My motivation is in fact about being an honest, true-to-myself Muslim, rather than someone complying with state dictates, says Mr. Naim, a professor of law at Emory University in Atlanta since 1999. I need the state to be neutral about religious doctrine so that I can be the Muslim I choose to be.So committed is this scholar to opening the door to free debate within his faith that he helped organize the first Muslim Heretics Conference in Atlanta over the weekend. Some 75 Muslims, engaged in various reform projects, gathered to discuss issues related to sharia (Islamic law), democracy, and women's rights – and how to cope with dissent and its consequences.We celebrate heresy simply to promote innovative thinking, he says. Every orthodoxy was at one time a heresy.

Naim's personal project involves what he calls negotiating the future of sharia. As Islamic societies struggle to define themselves in a globalized world and some talk of creating Islamic states to codify sharia, he says the state and religion must be kept separate. But religion should still have its place in political life, allowing Muslims to express principles of sharia as they see fit. He believes this is truly Islamic, and that articulating the reasons why will help ordinary Muslims not be taken in by political slogans.I know for a fact that Abdullahi has a following among young Muslims in places like Malaysia and Indonesia, says John Esposito, head of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. These people are often marginalized in their societies, but over time, these positions can become mainstream.Naim's view is not just a theory picked up in the United States, but the result of painful personal experience. As a Muslim from Sudan whose people have suffered tremendously from confusion over this issue, my mission is to clarify it so other Muslim societies don't go down the same road to come to the same dead end, he says in a phone interview. He has watched Sudan's institutions virtually collapse under fundamentalist Islamic rule and seen the disillusionment firsthand.While a law student at the University of Khartoum in 1967, Naim heard a talk by a Sufi Muslim thinker, Mahmoud Mohamed Taha. That lecture turned my life around, he says, and he joined Taha's Islamic reform movement.But when Sudanese strongman Jaafar al-Nimeiri was about to introduce sharia by decree in 1983, he jailed Taha, Naim, and others for 18 months. Taha was put on trial and executed.

The essence of the Sufi's message had been that certain verses in the Koran represented the universal, eternal message of Islam, while others were relevant to a particular historical context and no longer viable. Specifically [he argued] for equality for women, freedom of religion, and equality for non-Muslims, Naim says. After fleeing the country, he translated Taha's work, The Second Message of Islam, into English.Naim later became director of Africa Watch, monitoring human rights on the continent, and in 1995 began teaching at Emory. He's written books on human rights and sponsored social-change projects promoting human rights in local communities in Yemen, Tanzania, and Southeast Asia.A new book just released in English, Islam and the Secular State, represents the culmination of his life's work, he says.Islam teaches that every Muslim stands before God and is responsible for making his own moral choices in observing sharia. The Koran does not prescribe a form of government, but speaks only of the community of Muslims. The book argues that there has never been an Islamic state.You will not find any reference to an Islamic state or to state enforcement of sharia before the mid-20th century – it's a post-colonial discourse based on a European-style state, he explains.While Iran, for instance, claims to be a republic, implying popular sovereignty, a council of clerics is supposed to ensure that it is Islamic. But that council is made up of fallible humans as political as everyone else, he argues. How is it that 30 years after the revolution they cannot trust the Muslim citizens to make the choice as to who is likely to be faithful to Islamic values and to represent them?

Further, Iran and Saudi Arabia both claim to be Islamic states, but to each other they are heresies, he adds. So what does Islamic mean? To call a state Islamic is to attempt to silence political or theological dissent, he says. Most Muslims have an intuitive feeling about this but can't articulate it, so when confronted by Islamists who say this is the will of God, they are defenseless, Naim says. My hope is that with this book, we give people confidence to respond that this is not Islam, it is your view of Islam.For some time, Naim has been visiting countries across the Muslim world from Nigeria to Indonesia, testing his ideas in public gatherings, which may range from 25 to 800 people. Before he set out, early manuscripts of his book were translated into Indonesian, Bengali, French, Persian, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu and uploaded onto a website. Only once has he felt physically threatened – after a talk in northern Nigeria – although people have tried to shout him down. I try to persuade gently, to give examples from Muslim history that people understand, and that helps, he says. One huge challenge is the negative connotation in the Muslim world of secularism, often seen as being antireligion.

Yet Radwan Masmoudi, director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy in Washington, believes Naim's goal of separating political and religious institutions is what a majority of Muslims want. Gallup's recent global poll showed that 80 to 90 percent of Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia want democracy, he says, but similar majorities also want sharia to be a source, or the only source, of law in their countries. This is the struggle of our time, coming up with a modern interpretation of sharia that is true to Islamic principles but also to democratic values, he adds.

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.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.

MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Is China becoming Asia’s Policeman?

One accusation leveled by the Indian Left against the US is that in a unipolar world, the US is trying to be the global Policeman. Be that as it may, a question to be posed to the Left is: Is China usurping the role as Asia’s Policeman? The ruthless stand taken by China against Tibetan protestors and the way it is dictating terms to other countries on the issue of providing security to Olympic torch have demonstrated China’s increasing arrogance and assertiveness in international relations.It has asked countries like India not to allow protests by Tibetans, disregarding the fact that unlike dictatorship, a democratic country cannot suppress peaceful mass protests.Recently, China created a diplomatic flutter in New Delhi by reiterating Beijing’s claim that Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state, is part of Chinese territory .China’s predetermined position on Arunachal Pradesh has rendered the ongoing bilateral talks on the border dispute meaningless.
Now, in a startling move, the Chinese military establishment has warned India against recent military exercises and re-positioning of troops in north Bengal.

An article titled A warning to the Indian Government: Don’t Be Evil posted on the website of the China Institute of International Strategic Studies compares the present situation to 1962 when India misjudged the situation and initiated a war with the support of two superpowers. India is on the same old path of confrontation with China at present, the article adds.Doesn’t it amount to interfering in India’s internal affairs and questing the freedom and right of Indian defence establiment to decide where to deploy its forces?

Defence Minister A K Antony who visited Arunachal Pradesh recently found vast military buildup by China on the Arunachal border and China has not so far explained the reasons for it. One obvious reason for China’s hardening of stand vis-à-vis India is that it wants smooth passage for the Olympic torch across India. The other is that China doesn’t want Tibetans to use Indian soil as a launchpad for its campaign for a free homeland.India has so far chosen to respond to China’s arm-twisting tactics with stoic silence. India didn’t react when some nations expressed grave concern over the ecological and military implications of China building a highway to the Everest base camp purportedly to smooth the way for the carrying of the Olympic torch up to the highest peak in the world.Indian Left is charged by its political rivals with carrying out the Chinese agenda by opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal. China obviously sees nuclear co-operation between US and India as a threat to its hegemonic dreams in Asia.It is time for the foreign policy-makers in India to decipher if its diplomatic silence is emboldening China to heap more insults on us and weaken India’s emergence as a rival world power.

WORLD GOVERNMENT

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

HERE IS A MUST WATCH STORY ABOUT THE NEW WORLD ORDER GODLESSNESS. BY SHIMON PERES.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7661031476278031824&hl=en

OVER 50 PEOPLE ATTEND NYE COUNTY IAP CONVENTION

County IAP convention A meeting report by Chris Hansen:

The Convention started out with a joyous invocation by Jim Batel. This was followed by discussions of current issues that concerned those in attendance. Many issues were discussed including the dangers of the establishment of the New American Civil religion (secularism) in the U.S. A., the International Monetary Fund, the IRS, and the Federal Reserve Bank working together to destroy American liberties. Driver’s licenses and the National ID and the link between them were discussed. The dangers of the drug laws and how they are being used by the government as a tool to steal private property and how such laws and the war on drugs have become more dangerous to Americans than the drugs themselves- was readily agreed upon by those in attendance. The Patriot Act and how the Patriot Act is not stomping out Terrorists but is stomping on our liberties and our privacy. The absolute surety of the complete bankruptcy of the Social Security and Medicare system and how the taxes that support such socialist programs- was agreed upon without dissent. the coming use of the Amero and the intentional destruction & intentional inflation of the Federal Reserve Note meltdown to prepare the way for the Amero, its links to the North American Union and the Highway linking Mexico to Canada was common knowledge among members and guests. This Nye County Convention was made up of an amazingly educated crowd of dedicated patriots. It was wonderful to be a part of it.

Jon Kamerath, the Regional IAP Director for Southern Nevada, then spoke about his experiences with the IAP since joining, why he joined, how much fun it was running for office and how important it is for everyone to run for office to give Nevadans a choice.

Jon talked about being a Nurse at UMC and how concerned he is about the number of illegals coming to America The Crowd immediately got involved talking about the new laws in Arizona and Oklahoma and how the illegals are fleeing those states and how many of them are not going home to their own countries but just going to Nevada and other states. Jon also noted the size of the crowd and how the IAP now has 50,066 registered voters and is the third largest party in Nevada, stating We can make a difference if we stick together.

Louis J. De Canio was endorsed as a candidate for Justice of the Peace by those in attendance. He asked about what can be done about the obvious voter fraud in Nye County. The solution, it was said, was to select a few specific precincts and get affidavits from voters on who they would vote for, and after the election, who actually voted for the candidates, and compare those numbers listed by the County Clerk. There was a general agreement that this could work and people were excited about doing this in the coming election.

The convention then took a vote on the platform and unanimously supported the current State platform posted on the Web site as their County Platform.There was then a discussion on the Nye County Constitution and Bylaws. A few proposed changes were read. Tim Brex then made a motion to accept the changes and once again the convention voted unanimously to accept those changes. The Bylaws will be posted on the new IAP Nye county Web Site as soon as that Web site is up and running.

NYE COUNTY SELECTS CANDIDATES

Robert Smith nominated Tony Whitehead for State Senate and Sam Jones seconded. This was followed by a unanimous voice vote.Sam Jones then nominated Greg Athons for Assembly 36 and with a second from Tim Brex. The vote was again unanimous.There was a lot of consideration about County Commission candidates for Commission Districts 1,2, and 3. Some members said they were considering it and one Republican in attendance said he would be glad to run if he did not become a national delegate for Ron Paul. There were several Ron Paul Republicans in attendance. Most said that if Ron Paul did not get the Presidential Nomination that they would become IAPs.

COUNTY OFFICERS

Jeanette Smith nominated Tony Whitehead as County Chairman and Ann Turner seconded. The voice vote was unanimous.Ann Turner then nominated Bruce Calley as Vice Chairman with a second from Joseph Rauwolf and again the voice vote unanimous.Mike Gravlin nominated Vern Miller as Secretary with a second from Tony Whitehead. The voice vote was unanimous.Tim Brex then nominated Keily Miller as Treasurer followed by a second from Sam Jones and a unanimous voice vote; the officer voting was then complete.Keily Miller then nominated Tim Brex as a Executive Committee member-at-large.Tim Brex nominated Joseph Rauwolf as Executive Committee member-at-large and Joseph Rauwolf nominated Ann Turner as Executive Committee member-at-large. The votes on all were unanimous and the Executive Committee was complete.There was a benediction by Christopher Hansen and there was a motion to adjourn that was accepted by all.

IS OBAMA A CHRISTIAN ?

IS OBAMA A TRUE CHRISTIAN, WE WILL CHECK OUT SOMETHING HE SAID LAST SUNDAY AND WAS CAUGHT ON TAPE, BUT NOT RELEASED TILL FRIDAY.

Obama at a fundraiser in San Francisco last Sunday refures to people who lost their jobs due to the Economy.

Heres what he says: "...It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Now you have to reaslise OBAMA was talking in front of a gay crowd in San Fransico. He is sucking up to the Homosexuals, blaming religion (which he claims to be a Christian) and guns and people against homosexuals. HE claims racism in there to as he says anti-immigrants who aren't like them.(HOMOSEXUALS OR BLACKS) hes saying here.

AND by his statement of anti-trade hes a NEW WORLD ORDERER. HES FOR WORLD TRADE. Hes saying stuff against people who protest against WORLD TRADE.

SO YES JUST AS I FIGURED OBAMA IS A SECRET MUSLIM AS WELL AS A NEW WORLD ORDER PUPPET. OR HE WOULD NOT HAVE PUT DOWN RELIGION.

LEADERS TACKLE BANK REFORM

GINGRICH I'M WORRRIED ABOUT ISLAM.(A MUST SEE WARNING)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZiw3qVdFzw

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.

Powerful 7.1 quake in Southern Ocean Fri Apr 11, 11:56 PM ET

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A strong earthquake hit near the remote Australian territory of Macquarie Island Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Web site said no tsunami alert has been issued following the magnitude 7.1 quake.

The U.S. Geological Survey, which monitors quakes around the world, reported the temblor hit at 11:30 a.m. Saturday and was centered beneath open ocean, 70 miles southwest of Macquarie Island, Australia's main sub-Antarctic territory.It was located 1,240 miles south of the New Zealand capital, Wellington.

Earthquake shakes hills near Rome APR 12,08

ROME - Italian authorities say a small earthquake has shaken the Alban Hills southeast of Rome. No injuries or damage have been reported. Many people were awakened by the quake, which struck at 1:44 a.m. EDT Saturday. Parts of eastern Rome also have reported feeling it.Italy's Civil Protection Department says the quake had a 3.8 magnitude.About 15 minutes after the quake, an aftershock shook the area of the epicenter, near the wine-growing towns of Frascati and Marino.Ciampino, a town near the hills that has a small airport serving Rome, also reported feeling the tremors.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Kilauea volcano explodes again Fri Apr 11, 5:34 PM ET

VOLCANO, Hawaii - Kilauea Volcano has exploded again. Officials say a small explosion that sent rocks more than 200 feet up onto the rim of the volcano's main Halemaumau crater occurred Wednesday night, hours before the park reopened. The park was evacuated Tuesday and remained closed Wednesday because of elevated sulfur dioxide emissions.The U.S. Geological Survey says Wednesday's blast at Halemaumau crater was much smaller than a similar explosion in March, but still enlarged the new vent in the wall of the crater about 15 to 30 feet.Scientists say they found lava splatters and rocks ejected by the blast, which also contained volcanic glass shards.They say there is increasing evidence that molten lava is collecting about 300 to 600 feet below the new vent.

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.

Gale-force storm, hail showers hit Kuwait
Fri Apr 11, 4:45 PM

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - One person was killed and several wounded on Friday when a strong sandstorm triggered by gale-force winds and hail lashed the desert state of Kuwait, officials said.The victim, a man, drowned in the sea while several people were injured at a shopping mall where glass shattered and fell on shoppers, a security official said.The meteorological department said the storm was caused by gale-force winds that blew in semi-tornado fashion at around 90 kilometres (56 miles) per hour and warned that a similar storm is expected to hit the emirate on Saturday.The violent winds also uprooted hundreds of traffic signposts, billboards, and trees and damaged many cars in several parts of Kuwait, witnesses reported.Authorities appealed to people to stay indoors.

More storms damage homes in South By KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press Writer Sat Apr 12, 4:07 AM ET

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Another round of severe weather raked the storm-weary South with rain, hail and high winds Friday, damaging homes and injuring at least five people in Tennessee and Kentucky. A mother and two children were hurt when strong thunderstorms moved through southern Kentucky in the early morning, knocking over their trailer near Bowling Green. Tara Duvall, a spokeswoman for Warren County Emergency Management, said all three were hospitalized.

Apparently, the trailer rolled twice and fell apart, Duvall said.

Charles Foster, who lives nearby, said he helped pull one of the children from the wreckage.I ran up there and helped. There was a little girl, 6 or 7 years old, standing by the wall that had crumbled and had the mother and little boy pinned under the trailer, Foster said. The little girl looked OK.Homes were also reported destroyed in Kentucky's Wayne county. In Tennessee's Lawrence County, a possible tornado damaged 56 homes, felled trees and littered yards with debris.In northern Giles County, power lines were knocked down, a dozen homes were damaged and three people were injured when trees fell on an ambulance, emergency management officials said.Wind or rain damage apparently caused a roof to collapse at an apartment complex in Hoover, Ala., Friday evening, forcing the evacuation of about 20 units, said Mark Kelly of the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency. No injuries were reported.The damaging storms come in the same week as heavy rains that flooded parts of West Virginia and Tennessee and two months after tornadoes killed 33 people in the state.In northern Wisconsin, schools closed, thousands lost power because of trees falling on power lines and snow plows were back at work Friday as blizzard-like conditions hit.Keith Kesler, Douglas County's emergency management coordinator, said as much as 9 inches of snow had fallen near Superior, with wind gusting to 62 mph.

Tree limbs are flying through the air, he said. It is a little unusual for April to get hit like this. Winter is winter. It is getting awfully long this year.The record for April snowfall in the area near Duluth, Minn., occurred a year ago, when 12.1 inches fell April 7.Springtime in Superior, I guess, said Steve Erickson, 59, whose home lost power for about two hours Friday. I gassed up my snowblower in anticipation but the stuff is so heavy and slushy that I don't know if it is going to blow it or not.Recent heavy rains have swelled the Mississippi River so much that workers in Louisiana began opening a major spillway Friday to divert river water through Lake Pontchartrain and into the Gulf of Mexico.The opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway, about 30 miles above New Orleans, was being done to guard communities against flooding, ease pressure on levees and make for safer navigation conditions for ships and barges.In Missouri, where heavy rain fell Wednesday and Thursday, authorities reported the death of a 14-year-old boy in Shannon County. The boy, Kenneth Davidson, was swept away by rushing water Thursday while trying to cross a normally shallow arm of Loggers Lake, officials said. Emergency crews later found his body tangled in roots.In Oklahoma, which has been beset in recent days by tornadoes, severe storms and flooding, Gov. Brad Henry declared a state of emergency on Friday — the first step toward seeking federal assistance. Associated Press writer Jim Salter in St. Louis contributed to this report.

This is spring? Snow, winds whip through Labrador
Fri Apr 11, 2:02 PM

ST..JOHNS (CBC) - Snowplows took to the roads across much of Labrador Friday, as a storm closed schools and made driving treacherous.The south coast of Labrador is expected to bear the worst of the storm, with up to 25 centimetres of snow expected. Around Happy Valley-Goose Bay, about 10 centimetres of snow had fallen by midday, with forecasters saying the worst had passed.

However, high winds - which are expected to increase through Friday and into Saturday - have already led to heavy drifting and poor visibility.Schools in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, where Environment Canada said a storm watch warning was in effect, closed Friday. As well, Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay shut down for the morning.The provincial Transportation Department issued cautions about poor driving conditions in several areas, including the roads connecting Happy Valley-Goose Bay to Wabush and to Churchill Falls.

Laval on flood watch as spring melt comes
Fri Apr 11, 9:54 AM

MONTREAL (CBC) - Laval waterfront residents are on high alert after the Mille-Illes and Rivi?re-des-Prairies spilled their banks late Thursday, flooding streets and homes.Several streets and three riverside homes in the Fabreville district of Laval were evacuated, civil authorities said.A bridge spanning the Chaudi?re River near St-Joseph de Beauce was also closed to traffic because of high water levels.Rivi?re-des-Prairies and the Mille-Illes cause flooding every year and public security authorities have an emergency plan that includes shelter in community centres for any people forced from their homes, said Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt.Mild temperatures forecast in the next few days will cause the water levels to rise more even more, Vaillancourt said.
Elsewhere in Quebec, authorities are on alert for flooding along the L'Assomption, Nicolet, Saint-Francois, Yamaska and B?cancour rivers.

Rideau River breaches banks, flooding Ottawa streets
Fri Apr 11, 8:28 AM

Three streets in the Old Ottawa South neighbourhood closed Friday morning after the Rideau River breached its banks, washing out parts of Belmont Avenue and Fentiman Avenue and completely submerging Rideau River Drive.City of Ottawa work crews left a mound of sand in nearby Windsor Park for people who would like to start filling sandbags to use on their property.Most residents haven't started sandbagging yet - but with the river expected to peak over the weekend, they should be prepared to take action, said Patrick Larson, a senior water resources technician with the Rideau River Conservation Authority.[The peak] is entirely dependent on how much rain and when the rain occurs, he said. But definitely there will be some increase, possibly to what had been experienced in 1993.In 1993, the same section of the Rideau River rose 2.4 metres above its natural level without any serious damage to property.David Strutt spent Friday morning watching the water rise from a front-row seat at his Belmont Avenue home.This morning, it was just at the edge of the sidewalk and now it's up over the sidewalks, Strutt said. So it's come up six to ten inches (15 to 25 centimetres) in the last 24 hours.Nearby Windsor Park looked more like a mangrove forest than an Ottawa park Friday morning, as the Rideau River spilled onto the land, submerging half a tennis court.

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.

Calgary extends fire ban through weekend
Fri Apr 11, 7:48 PM

CALGARY (CBC) - Despite Thursday's snowfall, a fire ban remains in effect through the weekend, the Calgary fire department said.Fire officials said Friday that lifting the ban, first issued on March 26, would be premature in light of warm weather forecast for the weekend.The precipitation that fell on Thursday - altogether about 23 centimetres of snow - mainly hit the city of Calgary, so there's still concern about dry conditions in outlying communities, said spokesman Jeff Budai.The ban, which will be re-evaluated next week, covers:- Regulated fire pits.- Regulated burning barrels.- Charcoal barbecues.- Chimeneas.- Fireworks or pyrotechnics.- Incinerators, including for farm and acreage use.- Fire contained within approved facilities and appliances in designated camping and recreational areas.Fireplaces inside homes, camp stoves, fire pits and propane or natural gas barbecues are exempt from the ban.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

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

World finance leaders tackle bank reform By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer APR 12,08

WASHINGTON - World financial leaders facing the gravest economic crisis in at least a decade are pledging tighter control of banks and other financial institutions and hoping the U.S. slump is short. The 185-nation International Monetary Fund and the World Bank readied for weekend discussions following talks among the world's seven richest industrial countries.The IMF, the lender of last resort for countries in trouble, is facing its own hard times. One proposal on the agenda would trim 15 percent of the agency's staff and sell about $11 billion in the institutions' vast gold reserves.Overshadowing the sessions was the severe credit crisis, which could result in losses approaching $1 trillion before it is over, according to an IMF estimate released this week.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson assured the IMF's policy-setting panel on Saturday that the Bush administration was dealing aggressively with the U.S. slowdown, but that risks remain.The weak housing market, together with high energy prices and stress in financial markets, is penalizing U.S. economic growth, he said. We must expect more bumps in the road.The world's economic powers endorsed a plan Friday to keep closer watch over big banks, investment houses and other financial firms. These institutions have reported billions of dollars in losses from the credit crisis. The problem began with the widespread defaults on subprime mortgages in the United States, but quickly spread to other types of global investments.Announcement of the tighter oversight came in a joint statement after talks among the Group of Seven nations — the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada. other types of investments around the world.The turmoil in global financial markets remains challenging and more protracted than we had anticipated, G-7 officials said.The U.S. economy has to get over the economic unrest, Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga told reporters. What happens in the United States, he said, will affect Asia and other countries.An IMF economic outlook predicted a mild recession this year in the U.S., the world's biggest economy. That is seen as raising the risks of a global recession to 1-in-4.Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tried to reassure officials that U.S. policymakers are doing everything possible to loosen U.S. credit markets. That would enable businesses and consumers to get loans more easily and help the economy revive.

Axel Weber, head of Germany's central bank, said the measures that were taken in the U.S. have already had some effect and that the Fed's interest rate cuts should help bolster growth.Democrats in Congress are pushing for a more aggressive program to help an estimated 2 million homeowners at risk of defaulting on their mortgages. But Paulson said the administration believes its plan, which relies heavily on voluntary efforts by the private sector, was the best approach.

The G-7's statement's also touched on currencies.

Europeans won in an effort to note concern about the sharp fluctuations in currency values. It was the first major change in the language on the issue in four years and was meant to show European worries about the dollar's decline to record lows against the euro. That has led to cries of protests from European manufacturers losing sales to American producers whose goods are now more competitive.French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said the true test of the revised wording would come Monday when currency markets reopen. But there was no expectation the words would be backed up by any joint intervention to prop up the dollar.

The proposal to bolster financial regulation is intended to ensure that companies have sufficient capital to protect against losses, improve risk-management procedures and set deadlines so countries act quickly to put in place reforms. Associated Press writers Jeannine Aversa, Harry Dunphy, Foster Klug and Desmond Butler contributed to this report. On the Net: International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org
Treasury: http://www.ustreas.gov/ Federal Reserve: http://www.federalreserve.gov/

Polygamous sect encouraged fear By JENNIFER DOBNER, Associated Press Writer APR 12,08

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Texas child welfare officials have brought in mental health professionals and behavioral experts as the agency tries to ensure a sense of normalcy for the more than 400 children removed from a polygamous sect's enclave, an agency spokeswoman said. But for all their lives, the boys and girls of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have been told the outside world was hostile and immoral. Venturing beyond the brilliant white limestone walls of their compound would consign them to eternal damnation, their church leaders preached.

Now, if the state gets its way, hundreds of children could be put in foster homes, in what could be a wrenching cultural adjustment that may require intensive counseling.What they are up against is having to deprogram an entire community, said Margaret Cooke, who left the sect with seven of her eight children near the end of 1994. The children are so naive and they have been sheltered to the point that they don't even trust their own judgment.Marleigh Meisner, a spokeswoman for the state Children's Protective Services, said the agency is working with mental health and other experts to meet specific needs of the children. That information would be passed to foster families if a judge decides the children should be transferred to foster homes, she said.We want to keep their world as normal as possible, Meisner said. We also want to be certain that these children have gained a trust with us. We want these children to know that even if they may not have been safe in the past, they will be safe as long as they are with us.Meanwhile, in court papers unsealed Friday, authorities said they found a cyanide poisoning document in their search of the compound in the town of Eldorado. But the 80-page list of items seized gave no further explanation.Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said the document consisted of pages torn out of a first-aid book on how to treat cyanide poisoning. But she said she didn't know why the sect would have such information on hand.Child welfare officials seized more than 400 children, most of them girls, in the raid on the FLDS compound known as the Yearn for Zion ranch, saying the youngsters were in danger of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

The renegade Mormon splinter group requires girls at puberty to enter into polygamous marriages with much older men and produce children, authorities say. The sect also teaches children to fear the outside world, including the very authorities who removed them until a court hearing Thursday that will help determine their future.You're taught to fear everyone and everything, said Cooke, herself a 16-year-old bride.The children and the 139 women who followed them voluntarily out of the compound are being so secretive that child welfare officials are having trouble sorting out who the youngster' parents are.Most of the children are the offspring of the faith's inner circle — including its now-imprisoned prophet, Warren Jeffs — who were born since construction began on the compound in 2003, or were hand-selected by Jeffs to come to the enclave, which the sect regards as part of Zion on Earth.In 2003 and 2004, Jeffs, the spiritual leader of an estimated 6,000 followers in two adjoining towns along the Utah-Arizona line, plucked children under the age of 6 to bring to Texas, some without their parents, former sect member Isaac Wyler said.

Over age 6 they were too contaminated for the world to be of use to God, said Wyler, who still lives in Colorado City, Ariz., and has 38siblings. He picked the ones that would be the most obedient, the ones that would be qualified to go to Zion.Authorities raided the Eldorado ranch April 3 after a girl from the clan made a whispered telephone call for help to a family violence shelter. The 16-year-old, who indicated she was a few weeks' pregnant, said her 50-year-old husband beat and raped her. The girl has not yet been identified among the 416 children and may not even be among them.

In the call, the girl said that sect members warned her that if she ever left, outsiders would hurt her and force her to cut her hair, wear makeup and have sex with many men.Most of the sect's children have never attended public schools or worn modern clothing. The girls wear long, pioneer-style dresses and keep their long hair pinned up in a braid. In their search of the compound, police uncovered dozens of journals and other documents that contain birth, marriage and other genealogical records. That may help social workers match children with their parents. The hearing next Thursday will determine whether the state gets full custody of the children or whether they can return to the compound in Eldorado.

The women and children are being held at Fort Concho and nearby at the Wells Fargo Pavilion. Men from the YFZ ranch and any other relatives are not being allowed to visit. I think under the circumstances the folks are as happy in their environment as they can possibly be, said Kevin Dinnin, the shelter manager from the Texas governor's Division of Emergency Management. Beyond the basic needs of food, fresh water, showers and bedding, Dinnin said his agency has worked to provide toys for the children and address the unique clothing and laundry needs of the FLDS, who wear long, religious underwear year-round which are not meant to be seen by outsiders. The educational needs of the children were being assessed as were medical needs, including the treatment of about a dozen kids with chicken pox and prescription medications, he said. Mental health services are also being provided. We have encouraged sibling groups and mothers to stay together, Dinnin said of the living arrangements. More than 500 people are working with the shelter guests, and the agency is spending between $25,000 and $35,000 daily, Dinnin said. Associated Press writer Betsy Blaney contributed to this report from Lubbock.

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Livni Gives Away Northern Jerusalem
by Hillel Fendel APR 12,08

(IsraelNN.com) Negotiations for Jerusalem continue apace, with a local Jerusalem paper reporting that Foreign Minister Livni has agreed to give away Atarot Airport. Shas says it's still not leaving the government.The Kol HaZman (All the Time) paper reports that in ongoing secret talks with top Palestinian Authority negotiator Abu Ala, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has agreed, in the name of Israel, to transfer the Atarot airfield in northern Jerusalem to PA control. The paper states it source as senior Foreign Ministry elements.

The Goal: Strengthen Fatah
Israel apparently recognizes Hamas control in Gaza as permanent, and therefore wishes to strengthen Fatah - perceived as more moderate - in Judea and Samaria. Fatah terrorists, members of the organization's Al Aqsa Brigades, have carried out many murderous attacks against Israeli civilians in recent weeks, months and years. One of the most active terrorist forces in the area, it has been designated terrorist organization by the U.S., the European Union, Canada, and Japan.Alternatively, it is not clear that the Hamas-takeover scenario will not repeat itself in Judea and Samaria, thus leaving the Atarot Airport in Hamas hands - if Israel in fact relinquishes it.

Mayor is Against
Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski is strongly against the loss of Atarot to the terrorists. His aides said he was astonished to hear of the secret agreement, and feels it will be a grave security failure and a significant concession on Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. It is inconceivable, the mayor reportedly said, that while Israeli flights from Atarot have been stopped because of security fears, the threat will now become even more severe, with control of the entire area being given over to the PA. He warned of the dangers of hostile airplanes in the skies of Jerusalem.

Lupoliansky promises he will work even harder to advance his plan to build 10,000 housing units for Jews in Atarot, hoping to thus thwart the plan to give it to the PA. Jerusalem Municipality officials said the agreement to give away Atarot represents a de-facto recognition of the division of Jerusalem.

Olmert Takes no Responsibility
Staffers in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said, These are talks being handled by the Foreign Minister, and therefore answers must be received from her. Livni's press secretary said that the contents of the talks are not meant to be publicized.

Shas Doesn't Budge
Meanwhile, the Shas Party - whose departure from the government coalition would likely lead to the toppling of the government and new elections - continues to stay put. Relating to a new American initiative to give the PA partial control of Jerusalem for five years, Shas spokesman Ro'i Lachmanovitch told Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine on Thursday that Shas was going nowhere: We continue to stand behind the stance set by [the party's spiritual leader] Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, which is that the moment Jerusalem is placed on the agenda of the diplomatic talks, Shas will quit the coalition.
A late-breaking development in another sphere may move Shas, however: The sudden decision by the Cabinet secretariat not to discuss the non-enforced chametz law in this Sunday's agenda. Shas had hoped for quick government action to legislate a change in the law that would enable its enforcement, in light of a recent court ruling allowing chametz to be sold in stores. Shas MKs are reportedly angered by the decision, and political analysts estimate that Shas may threaten to quit the coalition over it - though this has not yet happened.

WELL CARTERS SO ANTI-ISRAEL ITS REDICULAS, STICKING UP FOR HAMAS AND THE ARABS ALL THE TIME.

Rice criticizes Carter over Hamas plans Fri Apr 11, 7:44 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized former President Carter on Friday for his reported plans to meet the exiled leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas during a visit to Syria. Carter has not confirmed the plans to meet Khaled Mashaal, but Hamas has said the former Democratic president sent an envoy to Damascus requesting a meeting with the militant group's officials.I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace, Rice said at a press event with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.Rice was responding to a question about Carter's plans but did not mention him by name.

Hamas is a terrorist organization, she said, repeating the Bush administration's explanation for why it will not meet with members of the group.The State Department says it twice advised Carter against meeting any representative of Hamas. A Carter-Mashaal meeting would be the first public contact in two years between a prominent American figure and Hamas officials.A press release from the Carter Center said the former president was to lead a study mission to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan as part of his ongoing effort to support peace, democracy and human rights in the region.Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work in mediating conflicts while in office and his humanitarian travels for the Carter Center since. One of his mediations was the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, for which Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin were awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.Several Democratic members of the House plan to forward a letter to Carter Monday urging him to reconsider his scheduled meeting with leaders of Hamas during his next visit to the Middle East. Reps. Artur Davis of Alabama, Shelley Berkley of Nevada, Adam Schiff of California and Adam Smith of Washington state asked Carter to drop the planned meeting.

The letter said we believe that your efforts to forge peace in the region will be overshadowed by this meeting. It said Carter's meeting could confer legitimacy on a group that embraces violence.

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

SLOVAKIA IS THE 9TH EU COUNTRY TO RATIFY THE LISBON TRETY. ONE THIRD ARE COMPLETED TILL THE EU PRESIDENT OR SEAT OF THE BEAST OR FUTURE EU POLITICIAN IS BORN.

EU welcomes ratification of Lisbon Treaty 11/4/2008 10:27

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday welcomed Slovak parliament's approval of the Lisbon Treaty. I would like to congratulate the Slovak Republic on the successful approval of the Treaty of Lisbon by the parliament today, said Barroso in a statement. I appreciate the support for the treaty from all sides of the political spectrum and that the parliament was able to approve the treaty in good time.He asked the European Union (EU) member states which have not ratified the treaty to do so. Slovakia is the ninth member state to approve the Lisbon Treaty after Hungary, Slovenia, Malta, Romania, France, Bulgaria, Austria and Poland.

The Lisbon Treaty, signed by EU heads of state and government last December, will make EU's much needed institutional reforms possible. The entry into force of the treaty requires the ratification of all 27 member states of the EU. Xinhua

Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union
By Patrick Seale, Special to Gulf News
Published: April 11, 2008, 01:01

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France believes passionately in a Mediterranean Union, and is putting a great deal of energy - and urgency - into bringing it to birth.Heads of state and government of 43 potential member states have been invited to attend a summit meeting on 13 July, when they are expected to issue a ringing declaration formally launching the Union. For extra solemnity, the summit will be held in the grandiose setting of the Grand Palais, a vast ironwork and glass structure, built in the heart of Paris for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. In the meantime, planning for the launch is in the hands of a high-powered French team, led by Ambassador Alain Leroy, which Sarkozy has housed under his direct supervision at 23 Avenue Marigny, a former Rothschild mansion just across the street from the Elyse Palace.

What exactly is the proposed Mediterranean Union about, and why the urgency? The Mediterranean lies at the centre of Sarkozy's geo-political vision. The Mediterrean, he likes to say, is not our past but our future, in the sense that he believes that many of Europe's most acute problems can be solved only in close coordination with the countries on the other side of the sea. This vision has led him to undertake several state visits to North Africa.The problems he has in mind are familiar ones which have been much debated: terrorism; illegal immigration; pollution of the sea affecting tourism and fisheries; scarcity of fresh water; rampant unemployment and over-population in the South; desertification which is spreading to countries such as Spain, Italy and Greece; and a widening of the already wide gap in personal incomes between North and South.In other words, Europe's security and prosperity can only be assured if the countries bordering the Mediterranean also enjoy security and prosperity - but this requires a major joint initiative by both North and South. Behind this thinking is a sense that since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western Europe has tended to neglect its southern flank while devoting much aid and attention to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union project faced early objections from German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She feared that he was planning to include only France, Spain and Italy in the proposed Mediterranean Union, excluding all other European Union member states. This problem was resolved when it was agreed that all 27 members of the EU would be members of the Union pour la Mediterranée (UPM). They will be joined by the countries bordering the Mediterranean, as well as by Jordan and Mauritania - 43 countries in all.Turkey was alarmed because Sarkozy's plan was first billed as a device to keep Turkey out of the EU by offering it the alternative of membership of the UPM. Turkish anxieties have since been partially allayed by its proposed participation in some of the major economic projects Sarkozy hopes to initiate.

Political conflicts

More than a decade ago, the Barcelona Process was launched in 1995, precisely in the hope that European money would help resolve political conflicts among the states bordering the Mediterranean, leading to economic development - and thus to preventing the import into Western Europe of terrorism and unwanted migrants.But the Barcelona Process has been a failure - or at least only a very partial success. It was launched at a time of high expectations. The Madrid Conference of 1991 and the Oslo Accords of 1993 seemed to open the way to a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But these expectations were soon disappointed.The assassination of Israel's prime minister Yitzak Rabin by a Jewish fanatic in November 1995 put an end to peace-making. It was followed instead by a period of heightened Arab-Israeli tension and violence. This in turn has contributed to the rise of militant Islamic movements, to the terrorist attacks on America of September 11, 2001, to neo-colonial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to a dangerous, and still un-bridged, rift between the West and the Arab and Islamic world. Against these odds, the Barcelona Process could make little headway.One should add that another reason the Barcelona Process failed was because it was undermined by the conflict between Morocco and Algeria over the Western Sahara, which prevented the creation of a single market in North Africa and thus discouraged inward investment into the region.

Over time, the Barcelona Process came to be seen as a doomed paternalistic project, launched by European governments for their own selfish purposes, with little input from countries in the east and south of the Mediterranean.Sarkozy's strategy today is to reverse the objectives. Instead of pressing for the resolution of political conflicts as a preliminary to economic development, his approach is to start with major economic projects in the belief that they will, in time, yield political dividends.Among the projects now being discussed on both sides of the Mediterranean is a scheme to clean up - or de-pollute - the sea by 2020, with a first-stage investment of $2 billion. Another scheme, dear to Egypt, is to create a high-speed shipping route between Alexandria and Tangiers - a sort of maritime motorway. There are plans to harness solar energy for the Mediterranean region, and to manage scarce water resources more efficiently, so as to provide drinking water for all and a better use of waste water for irrigation.

The French are particularly keen on creating a unified Mediterranean scientific and university space, in which professional training will be provided for managers, scientists and technicians, so as to improve agriculture and fisheries, and check the relentless advance of desertification. Plans are also being prepared for a Mediterranean civil protection centre, for an agency to promote small and medium sized industries, for a possible Mediterranean bank, and much else besides.Unlike the Barcelona Process, the idea this time is fully to involve the populations of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, to seek the participation of private sector interests and civil society associations, as well as financing not only from European governments and institutions, but also from the oil-rich countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.The idea is that the Mediterranean lies at the centre of a vast region extending from Africa to the Gulf. The calculation is that a healthy and prosperous Mediterranean will reinforce the position of Europe in the world and allow European to play a greater role in advancing the cause of peace in the Middle East.

The objective of the Mediterranean Union is political, Ambassador Leroy says, but it is driven by economics. We cannot wait for conflicts to be resolved before launching our projects. But the Union will launch a process which will, it is hoped, help solve the political conflicts. He adds that the great project of the European Union - 27 member states and a combined population of 495 million - started with the modest Coal and Steel Community.Sarkozy is determined to make the Mediterranean Union one of the great achievements of his presidency. It remains to be seen whether the injection of his redoubtable political will can make the ambitious project a reality.Patrick Seale is a commentator and author of several books on Middle East affairs.

EU to speed up trade talks with ASEAN
www.chinaview.cn 2008-04-12 16:43:42

JAKARTA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A visiting official of the European Union (EU) said in Indonesia that the EU will speed up negotiations on a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), according to local press Saturday. Karl Falkenberg, the European Commission's deputy director general for trade, said negotiations had made some progress since talks began in May 2007. It's important for us to know where the individual ASEAN members are, he was quoted by major newspaper The Jakarta Post assaying. We have set the rather ambitious target of completing negotiations in about a year or a year and half, so we should be able to achieve some kind of outcome, Falkenberg told the daily, adding that the EU is interested in moving the talks forward rapidly and comprehensively. Falkenberg will also hold similar talks with trade ministers of Brunei and the Philippines, according to the newspaper. Editor: An Lu

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.

Spy photos reveal secret launch site for Iran's long-range missiles A close examination of the photographs has indicated that the Iranians are following the same path as North Korea

Michael Evans

The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs. The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1research rocket on February 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space programme. Analysis of the photographs taken by the Digital Globe QuickBird satellite four days after the launch has revealed a number of intriguing features that indicate to experts that it is the same site where Iran is focusing its efforts on developing a ballistic missile with a range of about 6,000km (4,000 miles). A previously unknown missile location, the site, about 230km southeast of Tehran, and the link with Iran's long-range programme, was revealed by Jane's Intelligence Review after a study of the imagery by a former Iraq weapons inspector. A close examination of the photographs has indicated that the Iranians are following the same path as North Korea, pursuing a space programme that enables Tehran to acquire expertise in long-range missile technology.

Geoffrey Forden, a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that there was a recently constructed building on the site, about 40 metres in length, which was similar in form and size to the Taepodong long-range missile assembly facility in North Korea. Avital Johanan, the editor of Jane's Proliferation, said that the analysis of the Iranian site indicated that Tehran may be about five years away from developing a 6,000km ballistic missile. This would tie in with American intelligence estimates and underlines why President Bush wants the Polish and Czech components of the US missile defence system to be up and running by 2013. The Czech Republic has now agreed to have a special radar system on its soil and the Polish Government is still negotiating with Washington over the American request to site ten interceptor missiles in Poland. The Kavoshgar 1 rocket that was launched in the presence of President Ahmadinejad of Iran was based on the Shahab 3B missile, a version of the North Korean Nodong liquid-propellant missile. Dr Forden said that the Kavoshgar launch did not demonstrate any significant advances in ballistic missile technology. But it does reveal the likely future development of Iran's missile programme, he said.

At a meeting on February 25 between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Iranians, UN inspectors confronted them with evidence of design studies for mounting nuclear warheads on long-range missiles. The Iranians denied any such aspirations. However, according to Jane's Intelligence Review, the satellite photographs prove that the Kavoshgar 1 rocket was not part of a civilian space centre project but was consistent with Iran's clandestine programme to develop longer-range missiles. The examination of the launch site revealed that it was part of a large and growing complex with very high levels of security and recent construction activity. It was clearly an important strategic facility, Dr Forden said. The former Iraq weapons inspector said that Iran was benefiting from the North Korean missile programme and following its designs. The Taepodong 1 consisted of a liquid-propellant Nodong (like the Shahab 3) first stage, a liquid-propellant Scud second stage and a solid-propellant third stage. The production and testing facility next to the Kavoshgar 1 launch site would seem well positioned to contribute to this third stage, Dr Forden said.

EU accused of undermining UN development goals through free trade 10.04.2008 - 17:40 CET | By Leigh Phillips

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – A group of NGOs, trade unions and civil society groups have accused the EU of undermining global poverty reduction goals through its pursuit of free trade deals with African states.Gathered outside the European Commission building in Brussels on Wednesday, the demonstrators said that UN goals to eradicate poverty by 2015 were being threatened by the EU's programme of economic partnership agreements (EPAs) and bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) with their governments.The UN goals, known as Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), consist of eight goals aimed at eradicating poverty, promoting human and social development and ensuring environmentally sustainable development across the globe. They were agreed by 189 United Nations members in 2000.Through the EPAs and the FTAs, the EU contradicts its commitments to development and the MDGs by forcing developing countries to open their markets to European firms with which they cannot compete, said John Hilary, of the UK-based aid group War on Want.

Twenty years ago, for example, some 90 percent of rice in Ghana was grown in Ghana. Today, liberalisation forced upon the country by the rich world has resulted in only 10 percent of the rice that is eaten in Ghana having been grown there, and so the country cannot develop a domestic strategy to deal with soaring food prices.Dot Keet, of the Africa Trade Network, said: The promise of aid or the threat of withholding aid weighs more on the minds of African governments than the promise of market access. This is why many of them feel they have to sign these agreements.Many government officials have openly acknowledged that they won't benefit from increased market access. Their most immediate problem is the potential loss of aid.Ms Keet's words were an echo of comments from the secretary-general of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of nations, John Kaputin, who said on Monday (7 April), that the EU had pressured countries to agree to clauses in Economic Partnership Agreements that were harmful to development interests.

The race towards the deadline of December 31, 2007 [by which point EPAs had to be signed] was fraught with panic, confusion and frustration, he said.In the end, only 35 out of 77 countries initialled interim or full EPAs. Many more may not have initialled, but were held captive by the possibility of trade disruption that would have followed if they had not initialled, he added.

EU failing on aid promises

The NGOs' criticism comes as new figures released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show that EU member states are failing to meet pledges to increase aid – part of achieving the Millennium Development Goals.The figures showed that aid from Europe dropped last year for the first time since 2000. EU aid amounted to 0.38 percent of gross national income (GNI) in 2007, down from 0.39 percent of GNI in 2006. This translates to a total of €47.7 billion in 2006 and €46.1 billion in 2007 – a drop of €1.7 billion.European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday (9 April) called on member states to recommit to pledges made in 2005 to increase development aid to 0.56 percent of GNI by 2010 and 0.7 percent by 2015. Only the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Luxembourg have already met or exceeded the target of spending 0.7 percent of GNI on aid.He said the figures revealed some worrying, even dangerous tendencies.

The consistent gap between rhetoric and reality from member states to poor countries cannot be allowed to continue, said Luis Morago, head of development NGO's Oxfam's EU office.Europe has committed many times in the past to increasing its aid. Unless a massive improvement is seen in 2008, there's no way that Europe's targets to reduce poverty will be met, he added.

The CARMEL ALERT April 11th 2008
A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.

David's Comment: Calling All Prayer Warriors to Battlestations !!!
In just two weeks, Jewish people in Israel and in every nation will celebrate the Biblical feast of Passover - the remembrance and celebration of the Hebrew's deliverance from slavery under the Egyptian Pharaoh. That event took place almost 4000 years ago, but for the Jewish people, history continually repeats itself. The history of the Jews is a story line of successive demon possessed men who, under the direction of Satan, have attempted to destroy the Jews, and thus abort the plans and purposes of God to bring about world redemption through the Jewish people, and the re-establishment of YHVH's Kingdom rule upon the Earth. Haman, Antiochus, Herod, Hitler and Arafat are the most prominent names on the time line, with the addition of the current ones, Hizbollaah's Sheik Nasrallah, Hamas's Khalid Masahhl, and Iran's Machmud Ahmadinejhad.

Recent News Reports Concerning the Possibility of War in the Middle East
* As Passover 2008 approaches, the news is once again reporting a major increase in tension between Israel and Syria, Hizbollah, and Iran. Tension between Israel and Syria has been high recently, and there were reports that Defense Minister Ehud Barak cancelled his planned visit to Germany this week because of it. Defense Ministry advisor Amos Gilad denied this report and said that the Defense Minister changed his schedule because of a heavy workload.
Syria has also raised the state of alert of its armed forces because it knows Hizbullah's revenge attack against Israel for the killing of Imad Mughniyeh is near, according to Israel's Channel 2 TV.

* The Al-Arabiyah television network reported Sunday that the Lebanese military ordered residents of southern villages to move away from the border with Israel. According to the report, the Lebanese Army set up dirt roadblocks and inspection towers along the border with Israel to prevent Lebanese civilians from getting too close to the fence.

* Following public threats by Hamas this weekend to harm kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, cabinet ministers from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s ruling Kadima party warned the terrorist militia on Sunday it would lead to terrible consequences

* There are also intelligence reports that the United States is preparing to go to war with Iran because Iran is fueling the insurgence in Iraq. The London Telegraph reported that “British officials gave warning yesterday that America’s commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran’s intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian military facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment.”

The last item alone could be enough to set the Middle East ablaze. I dont believe that the timing of this reported escalation is a coincidence. Surely both sides of the spirit realm becomes much more sensitive and intense as the Feasts of the Lord approach. As much as YHVH loves His appointed times, Satan and the Kingdom of darkness hate them, and must become very agitated and even more intent to destroy Israel and the Jewish people.

So its an extremely strategic time for the Body of Messiah to pray and intercede for Israel right now. We need to pray in light of the above news reports, and we need to pray with the Holy Spirit. We need to pray up to, through, and until after the week of Passover, which means to the end of the month. For Zion's sake, please take this call to prayer as seriously as the serious situation calls for.

The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.

Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie

Shalom Stan, MESSIANIC BIBLE PROJECT APR 12,08

One of my cousins lives in Eilat, the southern most city in Israel by the Red Sea - which God parted when Moses and the Israelites crossed as they fled Egypt at Passover 3500 years ago. She recently asked me, Zev, why do we need a new Bible, our ancestors wrote our Bible thousands of years ago? Ayelet, our Jewish people rarely read the Bible, because they focus on the Talmud and other spiritual Jewish books. This keeps them from finding the Messianic prophecies in their own Jewish Bible.For 2000 years, the Messianic prophecies have been the best kept secret from our Jewish family!

Then I told my cousin that soon Jewish people around the world will find out about these prophecies because many Believers like you Stan are sponsoring these new Messianic Prophecy Bibles that will be given out to Jewish people for Free.A couple of years ago I told you about my cousin Ayelet, who is 20 years old, and is currently in the Israeli Army, doing her duty in Eilat. Israeli young women do two years of compulsory army, navy, or air force duty, while the young men from age 18-21, do three years. Many of these young Jewish people in the Israeli army are searching for answers, so it is my goal that we will give Bibles to them while they do their duty in the Israeli Forces.Zev, I think that if these prophecies you speak about really were fulfilled by Yeshua (Jesus), then everyone here in Israel should know about them, Ayelet exclaimed with her enthusiastic smile, as she gave me a hug. If I will believe in Yeshua, then I will give a Bible to every person on my base, and I will tell everyone about Yeshua, she said.

Please pray for my cousin Ayelet, because she is open to the Gospel!

With your help Stan many Jewish people in Israel and around the world will hear the Gospel of Yeshua for the first time, and I know that many will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven! Your financial gifts will provide many Prophecy Bibles in Hebrew, English, Russian, and Spanish to unsaved Jewish people. Please make the best gift you can today for this urgently needed Messianic Prophecy Bible.All correspondence should go to: vered@biblesforisrael.com or call Toll-Free: 866-242-5344

Carter's Visit With Terrorist Hurts The Cause of Peace
April 12, 2008

Dear Friend of Israel,

Friends of Israel know that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is a fierce critic of the Jewish state. In some respects, this is unremarkable - Israel has no shortage of critics. What makes Carter notorious is both his outspokenness and his willingness to disregard facts in order to portray Israel in the worst possible light.Carter's anti-Israel bias was painfully obvious in his 2006 book, Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, which was roundly criticized by many Middle East experts. Dennis Ross, Middle East Envoy during the Clinton administration and one of the negotiators at the 2000 Camp David Summit, said of the book, It is certainly legitimate to debate whether President Clinton's proposal could have settled the conflict. It is not legitimate, however, to rewrite history. One of Carter's former associates, director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel Kenneth Stein, ended his longstanding relationship with the former president’s non-profit organization, the Carter Center, for the book’s factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.

Then this week came the news that the former President intends to meet with Khaled Mashaal, leader of Hamas, during an upcoming trip to the Middle East. When it comes to Israel, Mashaal does not mince words. He has pledged that Hamas, which the U.S. State Department has designated a terrorist group, will never recognize the legitimacy of the Zionist state that was founded on our land. During a 2006 address he proclaimed that "Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated.Carter's actions not only undermine the U.S. government, which has a general policy of refusing to negotiate with terrorists like Hamas. They also fly in the face of common sense and decency. The cause of peace cannot be furthered by negotiating with someone whose only desire is to destroy the Jewish state - on the contrary, there is every reason to believe that Carter's meeting will do little more than embolden Hamas. In fact, there is evidence that it has already - one Hamas leader said the meeting with Carter would prove that Hamas is a power that can't be ignored.Obviously, it would be better if this meeting did not happen at all - and today I'm asking you to help us see that it doesn't. We've made it easy for you to send a message to the Carter Center demanding that Jimmy Carter cancel his meeting with Khaled Mashaal and instead publicly call on Hamas to disavow its tactics of terror and recognize Israel’s right to exist. With your help, we can challenge Carter’s anti-Israel bias, and strike a blow for fair treatment for Israel.Send your email to the Carter Center today - and then don't forget to forward this message to a friend. On behalf of Israel and Jewish people everywhere, I thank you for taking a bold stand for Israel.

With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS

A MESSAGE OF HOPE FROM DR. JACK VAN IMPE

THE DESTROYER

More than 100,000 U.S. deaths are caused by excessive alcohol consumption each year. Direct and indirect causes of death include drunk driving, cirrhosis of the liver, falls, cancer, and stroke.1

This means that each decade one million drop from our ranks, the victims of man's old and deadly enemy.

At 8: 15A.M. on August 6,1945, the first atomic bombs used on human beings were dropped on Hiroshima and then three days later, August 9, 1945 on Nagasaki, Japan, ushering in the apocalyptic nuclear age. Before the war, Hiroshima had been the seventh largest city in Japan with a population of 340,000. When the atomic explosion was over and the nightmarish mushroom cloud had ascended, 80,000 of Hiroshima's citizens were dead. In Nagasaki, 35,000 lives were snuffed out. The misery among the living in both cities remains unthinkable.

Most Americans would rather not dwell on the awful destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; many are still debating whether there might have been another way to end the war. Still, we tolerate a Hiroshima’s and a Nagasaki each year in our own land. No wonder Edwin R. Anderson entitled his tract on alcohol: The A Bomb Has Already Fallen.

The war in Vietnam was one of the most tragic chapters in American history. Apart from the Civil War, no conflict has ever found the nation so divided, so torn apart. Families were at war among themselves over national policy. With the benefit of hindsight, some have changed positions since the war ended, but refugees from that troubled land are still seeking shelter and a place to live in peace.

Casualties in Vietnam were high: More than 57,000 Americans died in the nine years of fighting. But on another front the casualties were higher: During the same period, alcohol killed nearly two million at home.

On December 24,1965, in Phoenix, Arizona, a drunken man driving a pickup truck sped through two red lights at eighty miles an hour. Seconds later, he veered across the center line and smashed head on into a station wagon.

In the car were a father and mother and two teen-age children on their way from Idaho to San Diego to meet a son returning from Vietnam. The parents were smashed against the instrument panel and died instantly.

The two teen-agers were hurled from the car into the street, where they lay critically injured.

The drunken driver in the pickup truck was so entrapped in the twisted wreckage that it took rescuers using a blowtorch thirty-five minutes to extricate him.

But that hardly mattered. He had died in the shattering impact.2

The soldier son arrived safely in San Diego, having survived the dangers of battle. But his family had been cut down by a different enemy.

The beloved enemy may not capture as much television coverage or as many headlines as a foreign war, but if you are one who works in the trenches you will see as much blood and misery as on any battlefield.

Ask the ambulance drivers, the policemen, the doctors and nurses-even the family members of those addicted to alcohol.

Highway deaths due to alcohol are a continuing national nightmare. The curtain never goes down on this deadly drama. There were 16,885 alcohol-related fatalities in 2005 - 39 percent of the total traffic fatalities for the year. The 16,885 fatalities in alcohol-related crashes during 2005 represent an average of one alcohol-related fatality every 31 minutes. An estimated 254,000 persons were injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was present - an average of one person injured approximately every 2 minutes.3

Often nondrinkers are victims.

Crash Kills Safe Driver and Five Others, read the headline. The news article told the heartbreaking story.

A national highway safety leader, his wife and a son died in a two-car crash which took six lives. Another son is in critical condition. On a straight stretch of highway an oncoming car swerved across the center line and slammed into the car coming in the opposite direction.

State Patrol Sgt. T. H. Embry said all three of the men in the weaving car had been drinking heavily. The official report said the trio had been refused more beer at two different places shortly before the wreck.4

Any other plague claiming 17,000 lives a year would call forth a national effort to root it out and eradicate it. Telethons would be staged to raise money to fight the destroyer. Rewards would be offered to persons finding a cure. Politicians would run on platforms dedicated to conquering the plague.

But beloved alcohol marches that number into the grave each year, while leaders lift their glasses in toasts to life.

The facts are in. Alcohol is a drug that causes violence, injury, and death.

Still, the general public remains unmoved. Impressive statistics have not proved effective in getting the message across.

It would be unfair to say that the public is unconcerned about traffic deaths and injuries. We have tried everything from seat belts to reduced speed limits in the interest of highway safety. But we have scarcely dented the accident figure. In spite of all our efforts, automobiles remain unsafe.

Why? Because we refuse to deal with the principle cause of car crashes: drinking drivers.

A common misconception about alcohol's highway killing is that most of it is done by drunken drivers. Actually, even a small amount of alcohol can make an otherwise capable driver a threat to himself and to others.

In his article What Two Drinks Will Do to Your Driving, Don Wharton claims that drinking drivers are an even greater menace than drunken drivers because there are so many more of them. He writes:

By focusing attention on drunken drivers , who are relatively rare , it whitewashes drinking drivers, who are almost numberless. A study of traffic around Evanston, Ill., showed that for every drunken driver there were about 30 who had been drinking. A report on 17,000 traffic accidents in Michigan reveals that about three times as many accidents were caused by drivers who had been drinking as by those actually under the influence.5

Even a casual acquaintance with the enemy may make you a highway death statistic.

How does a little alcohol affect drivers? Wharton explains:

It slows down reactions. The average man after one large whiskey, according to New Zealand's Road Code, will take about 15 percent longer than usual to depress his brake or swing his wheel in an emergency.

It creates a false confidence. New Zealand's Road Code put this neatly: A little alcohol has the double effect of making him drive worse and believe he is driving better.

It impairs concentration, dulls judgment. Alcohol makes drivers talk more and causes their attention to be more easily diverted.

It affects vision. Dr. Goldberg (of Sweden's Caroline Institute) conducted laboratory tests which showed that moderate drinking caused a 32 percent deterioration in vision. Alcohol has the same effect on vision, he concluded, as driving with sunglasses in twilight or darkness; a stronger illumination is needed for distinguishing objects and dimly lit objects will not be distinguished at all; when a person is dazzled by a sharp light it takes a longer time before he can see clearly again. A British ophthalmologist found that alcohol reduced peripheral vision-the capacity to see out of the comer of the eye and spot vehicles coming from side roads or pedestrians stepping off curbs,6
Drinking drivers see poorly. And some of their victims are not seen at all until it is too late .

It's not a new revelation. Hear Solomon on the subject:

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine: they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things (Proverbs 23:29-31).

Although traffic fatalities and injuries loom large on alcohol's grisly trail of destruction, that is but one area of the enemy's destruction. Alcohol is a threat to safety in nearly all of life 's activities.

5% of all deaths from diseases of the circulatory system are attributed to alcohol.

15% of all deaths from diseases of the respiratory system are attributed to alcohol.

30% of all deaths from accidents caused by fire and flames are attributed to alcohol.

30% of all accidental drownings are attributed to alcohol.

30% of all suicides are attributed to alcohol.

40% of all deaths due to accidental falls are attributed to alcohol.

45% of all deaths in automobile accidents are attributed to alcohol.

60% of all homicides are attributed to alcohol. 7
How widespread is alcoholism in industry?

Some sources estimate that one out of every ten industrial employees is an alcoholic. Add to these statistics the many drinkers who are not considered alcoholics but who often drink too much, and you have an immense potential for industrial accidents, to say nothing of the costs involved or the inferiority of the goods produced. People in the know hope they will not purchase an automobile or other item manufactured on a Monday after a weekend binge.

From the highway to the marketplace, alcohol is an enemy, a destroyer. The full impact of its devastation is difficult to grasp. Even America's most famous booze fighter, Billy Sunday, struggled for words to describe alcohol's destruction.

I wish I could unlock the door, gentlemen, that conceals the secrets of this damnable charnel house, but I am here to tell you, sir, that God never gave any man imagination powerful enough nor lips nor tongue eloquent enough to picture its damnable wreckage and its ruin.

If hydrophobia [rabies] produced one millionth part of the disease and trouble the saloon causes, every dog in America would be killed off before Monday morning.8

In reaching for words to expose the enemy that day in 1917 in Pittsburgh, Billy Sunday found one that deserves our study: disease.

What does alcohol do to our bodies?

Is beverage alcohol really harmful to health?

NOTES:

Substance Abuse: The Nation’s Number One Health Problem, Feb. 2001

Walter B. Knight, Knight's Up-to-the-Minute Illustrations (Chicago: Moody Press, 1974), p . 11.

http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html

Walter B. Knight, Knight's Treasury of Illustrations (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1963), p. 397.

Don Wharton, What Two Drinks Will Do to Your Driving, The Rotarian (October, 1951).

Ibid.

FAS Community Resource Center - http://www.come-over.to/FAS/alcdeath.htm

Billy Sunday, The Trail of the Serpent, 1917 sermon, The Sword of the Lord, July 14, 1967.

2007-08 FINAL NHL STANDINGS

NHL COACHES 2007-08 SEASON

Eastern Conference

Northeast Division

Ottawa Senators - John Paddock - Bryan Murray
Toronto Maple Leafs - Paul Maurice
Boston Bruins - Claude Julien
Montreal Canadians - Guy Carbonneau
Buffalo Sabres - Lindy Ruff

Atlantic Division

New Jersey Devils - Brent Sutter
Philadelphia Flyers - John Stevens
New York Islanders - Ted Nolan
New York Rangers - Tom Renney
Pittsburgh Penquins - Michel Therrien

Southeast Division

Tampa Bay Lightning - John Tortorella
Washington Capitals - Glen Hanlon - Bruce Boudreau
Atlanta Thrashers - Bob Hartley - Don Waddell
Florida Panthers - Jacques Martin
Carolina Hurricanes - Peter Laviolette

Western Conference

Central Division

Detroit Red Wings - Mike Babcock
St Louis Blues -Andy Murray
Chicago Black Hawks - Denis Savard
Nashville Preditors - Barry Trotz
Columbus Blue Jackets - Ken Hitchcock

Pacific Division

Dallas Stars - Dave Tippett
Anaheim Ducks - Randy Carlyle
Los Angeles Kings - Marc Crawford
Phoenix Coyotes - Wayne Gretzky
San Jose Sharks - Ron Wilson

Northwest Division

Colorado Avalanche - Joel Quennville
Vancouver Canucks - Alain Vigneault
Minnesota Wild - Jacques Lemaire
Edmonton Oilers - Craig MacTavish
Calgary Flames - Mike Keenan

Stanley Cup - HOPEFULLY CALGARY

NHL STANDINGS 2007-08 SEASON FINAL AS OF APR 06,08

Eastern Conference

TEAM GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY
01 MONTREAL 82 47 25 10 104 262 222 22-13-6 25-12-4
02 PITTSBURGH 82 47 27 08 102 247 216 26-10-5 21-17-3
03 WASHINGTON 82 43 31 08 094 242 231 23-15-3 20-16-5
04 NEW JERSEY 82 46 29 07 099 206 197 25-14-2 21-15-5
05 NEW YORK R 82 42 27 13 097 213 199 25-13-3 17-14-10
06 PHILADELPHIA82 42 29 11 095 248 233 21-14-6 21-15-5
07 OTTAWA 82 43 31 08 094 261 247 22-15-4 21-16-4
08 BOSTON 82 41 29 12 094 212 222 21-16-4 20-13-8

09 CAROLINA 82 43 33 06 092 252 249 24-13-4 19-20-2
10 BUFFALO 82 39 31 12 090 255 242 20-15-6 19-16-6
11 FLORIDA 82 38 35 09 085 216 226 18-15-8 20-20-1
12 TORONTO 82 36 35 11 083 231 260 18-17-6 18-18-5
13 NEW YORK I 82 35 38 09 079 194 243 18-18-5 17-20-4
14 ATLANTA 82 34 40 08 076 216 272 19-19-3 15-21-5
15 TAMPA BAY 82 31 42 09 071 223 267 20-18-3 11-24-6

Western Conference

TEAM GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY
01 DETROIT 82 54 21 07 115 257 184 29-09-3 25-12-4
02 SAN JOSE 82 49 23 10 108 222 193 22-13-6 27-10-4
03 MINNESOTA 82 44 28 10 098 223 218 25-11-5 19-17-5
04 ANAHEIM 82 47 27 08 102 205 191 28-09-4 19-18-4
05 DALLAS 82 45 30 07 097 242 207 23-16-2 22-14-5
06 COLORADO 82 44 31 07 095 231 219 27-12-2 17-19-5
07 CALGARY 82 42 30 10 094 229 227 21-11-9 21-19-1
08 NASHVILLE 82 41 32 09 091 230 229 23-14-4 18-18-5

09 EDMONTON 82 41 35 06 088 235 251 23-17-1 18-18-5
10 CHICAGO 82 40 34 08 088 239 235 23-16-2 17-18-6
11 VANCOUVER 82 39 33 10 088 213 215 21-15-5 18-18-5
12 PHOENIX 82 38 37 07 083 214 231 17-20-4 21-17-3
13 COLUMBUS 82 34 36 12 080 193 218 20-14-7 14-22-5
14 ST LOUIS 82 33 36 13 079 205 237 20-15-6 13-21-7
15 LOS ANGELES 82 32 43 07 071 231 266 17-21-3 15-22-4

2007-08 PLAYOFF MATCHUPS BEST OF 4 OF 7 CONFERENCE QUARTER-FINAL

A - BOS AT MTL
B - OTT AT PIT
C - PHI AT WSH
D - NYR AT NJ

E - NSH AT DET
F - CGY AT SJ
G - COL AT MIN
H - DAL AT ANA

REGULAR SEASON POWER PLAY - PENALTY KILL TEAM RECORDS

POWER PLAY PENALTY KILLING

TEAMGP ADV PPF PCT TEAMGPTSH PPA PCT
MTL 82 372 90 24.2 SJ 82 310 44 85.8
PHI 82 385 84 21.8 DAL82 352 51 85.5
PIT 82 378 77 20.4 NSH82 335 49 85.4
DET 82 391 81 20.7 MIN82 330 49 85.2
TB 82 296 57 19.3 EDM82 366 56 84.7
FLA 82 313 60 19.2 NYR82 343 53 84.6
MIN 82 338 64 18.9 STL82 359 56 84.4
CAR 82 420 79 18.8 DET82 357 57 84.0
WSH 82 346 65 18.8 CLB82 378 63 83.3
SJ 82 372 70 18.8 BUF82 333 56 83.2
PHX 82 339 63 18.6 PHI82 388 65 83.2
OTT 82 328 60 18.3 ANA82 408 69 83.1
DAL 82 354 64 18.1 NJ 82 314 54 82.8
BUF 82 366 66 18.0 VAN82 368 64 82.6
TOR 82 343 61 17.8 MTL82 342 60 82.5
BOS 82 319 56 17.6 FLA82 374 66 82.4
LA 82 366 64 17.5 CHI82 385 69 82.1
VAN 82 369 63 17.1 TB 82 312 56 82.0
CGY 82 352 59 16.8 NYI82 375 68 81.9
ANA 82 361 60 16.6 COL82 301 56 81.4
EDM 82 344 57 16.6 CGY82 388 72 81.4
NYR 82 370 61 16.5 OTT82 380 72 81.0
ATL 82 316 52 16.5 PIT82 357 68 81.0
CHI 82 365 58 15.9 PHX82 332 64 80.7
NJ 82 320 50 15.6 WSH82 349 68 80.5
CLB 82 356 53 14.9 CAR82 355 75 78.9
NSH 82 358 53 14.8 ATL82 354 75 78.8
NYI 82 330 48 14.6 BOS82 332 71 78.6
COL 82 335 49 14.6 TOR82 350 77 78.0
STL 82 334 47 14.1 LA 82 309 68 78.0

REGULAR SEASON PENALTIES - OVERTIME RECORDS

TEAM PENALTIES TEAM OVERTIME RECORDS 2007-08

TEAM GPPIM BM AVG TEAMGP W OTL SOL
NJ 82 830 08 10.1 ANA 20 12 02 06
MIN 82 862 12 10.5 ATL 23 15 02 06
COL 82 884 20 10.8 BOS 21 09 06 06
TB 82 897 06 10.9 BUF 21 09 03 09
SJ 82 955 16 11.6 CGY 16 06 07 03
DET 82 982 24 12.0 CAR 13 07 03 03
CAR 82 1021 14 12.5 CHI 17 09 04 04
NYI 82 1062 24 13.0 COL 18 11 04 03
ATL 82 1097 26 13.4 CLB 17 05 04 08
NYR 82 1109 22 13.5 DAL 15 08 04 03
DAL 82 1133 22 13.8 DET 14 07 02 05
MTL 82 1133 14 13.8 EDM 25 19 02 04
TOR 82 1139 12 13.9 FLA 18 09 03 06
OTT 82 1173 12 14.3 LA 14 07 04 03
FLA 82 1181 18 14.4 MIN 19 09 02 08
NSH 82 1179 24 14.4 MTL 20 10 04 06
BUF 82 1200 18 14.6 NSH 17 08 05 04
CGY 82 1204 22 14.7 NJ 22 15 03 04
VAN 82 1206 16 14.7 NYI 19 10 06 03
STL 82 1223 20 14.9 NYR 25 12 04 09
WSH 82 1233 16 15.0 OTT 14 06 03 05
LA 82 1239 24 15.1 PHI 17 06 05 06
PIT 82 1249 38 15.2 PHX 16 09 01 06
BOS 82 1256 24 15.3 PIT 16 08 04 04
EDM 82 1285 22 15.7 SJ 19 09 04 06
PHI 82 1301 16 15.9 STL 17 04 08 05
CHI 82 1332 16 16.2 TB 13 04 08 01
CLB 82 1357 20 16.5 TOR 19 08 07 04
PHX 82 1445 28 17.6 VAN 20 10 01 09
ANA 82 1457 30 17.8 WSH 19 11 04 04