IRAN MAY BE HIDING SECRET NUKES

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.

India floods, rains kill 173, say officials Sun Sep 21, 3:04 PM ET

SHIMLA, India (AFP) - The death toll due to heavy rains and flooding over the weekend across India shot up to 173 with the air force rescuing a revered Tibetan spiritual leader, officials said Sunday. Most of the casualties were reported from India's most populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh with 110 people dead in rain related accidents, revenue secretary Balwinder Kumar said in state capital Lucknow.

Further north, in the tourist state of Himachal Pradesh, state officials said 46 had died due to heavy rains lashing the state.In eastern Orissa, 17 people were washed away and 2.4 million people left homeless after four rivers burst their banks and flooded villages, senior official Ajit Kumar Tripathy said Sunday in state capital Bhubaneswar.In Uttar Pradesh, Kumar said incessant rains and strong winds triggered house collapses which killed many victims.Further north, rains felled trees and severed power lines in Himachal Pradesh, blocking roads and bridges and cutting off electricity to houses, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said.Indian air force helicopters, dropping food, medicines and supplies to affected people, also ferried the Karmapa Lama, who heads the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, to safety, Dhumal said.The Karmapa Lama -- Ugyen Trinley Dorje -- ranks only behind the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama in the Tibetan spiritual hierarchy.Another helicopter dropped food and other essentials to 45 trekkers including 25 foreigners stranded in the high altitude Lahaul valley, he added.Sudha Devi, a senior Himachal administration official said at least 150 tourists had been evacuated from the snow covered 13,050 feet (3,977 metres) high Rohtang Pass on Sunday.Meanwhile, in eastern Orissa state, about 266,000 people were evacuated to safer places after heavy rains and water overflowing from brimming dams inundated large parts of the state, Tripathy said.

According to initial reports, 1,849 villages in coastal Orissa are under water, he said.Indian Air Force helicopters dropped food packets to people in the worst affected districts of Cuttack, Puri, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara, he added.

Officials said many of the 17 deaths in the state were caused by the collapse of flimsy homes.

Monsoon rains kill 119 across India in 3 days Mon Sep 22, 9:40 AM ET

BHUBNESHWAR, India - Helicopters and speed boats tried to reach nearly 570,000 stranded villagers Monday as the death toll from heavy monsoon rains and flooding across India reached 119 in the past three days. Most of the casualties were reported in India's most populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 70 people were killed by drowning, house collapses and electrocution over the weekend in Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri and Pilibhit districts, state police spokesman Surender Srivastav said Monday.At least 17 people have died, mostly in house collapses, since Friday in eastern Orissa state with incessant monsoon rains causing the Mahanadi river to breach its banks at several places, causing the worst monsoon flooding in the state in 26 years, said Ajit Kumar Tripathi, the chief secretary.Another 32 people died in the northern hilly state of Himachal Pradesh over the weekend, mostly buried by mudslides triggered by heavy rains, The Hindu newspaper said.The new flooding came just a month after the monsoon-swollen Kosi river, a Ganges tributary that flows from Nepal to India, burst its banks and submerged nearly 1,000 villages in the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar, killing at least 48 people and driving more than a million others from their homes.In Orissa state, authorities have evacuated nearly 266,000 people since Friday and put them in 261 state-run relief camps, Tripathi told The Associated Press. Officials were trying to reach an addition 570,000 stranded villagers, he said.The rains subsided Monday, causing water levels to recede in Orissa state. But several villages were still under more than 10 feet of water, and many people waited on rooftops to be taken to higher ground, Tripathi said.Two helicopters delivered packets of food to the stranded villagers and 1,250 motorized and rowing boats rescued people in the worst-hit districts in Orissa state, Tripathi said.The annual monsoon season, which runs from June to September, brings rains that are vital to agriculture in South Asia but also can cause massive destruction.

16 dead in Thailand floods: ministries Sun Sep 21, 4:17 AM ET

BANGKOK (AFP) - Severe flooding across Thailand has left at least 16 people dead and affected more than half a million people, the government said Sunday. Floods caused by heavy rain have deluged 21 of Thailand's 76 provinces in the north, east and centre of the kingdom, affecting almost 700,000 people, the disaster prevention department said.Nearly 1,900 houses, hundreds of roads and tens of thousands of acres of farmland have been damaged in the floods, which began earlier this month, they said.The health ministry said more than 123,000 people had been given flood-related medical care in the last 10 days.The disaster prevention department said two people remained missing. It did not say how the 16 people were killed, but local media reports said most had been swept away in flood waters.Authorities are delivering food, drinking water and medicine to those affected, officials said.

POWER OUTAGE

REVELATION 16:10-11
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

Some 820,000 Texans still without power SEPT 22,08

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 820,000 customers in Texas remained without power Monday, nine days after Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast before cutting a destructive path all the way to New York. CenterPoint Energy Inc, the power company for most of the Houston area, still had about 767,000 customers in Texas without power early Monday, down from 2.15 million at the height of the storm.CenterPoint predicted its team of 11,000 restoration workers would return power to most of the Houston area by Thursday. The company could not estimate when it will return service to homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast, including Galveston where the storm made landfall early on September 13.Entergy Corp, the other hard-hit power provider in Texas, said 54,000 customers were still without power in eastern Texas, down from the 392,000 affected.CenterPoint and Entergy Texas said Ike knocked out service to about 99 percent of their Texas customers.Ike hit the Galveston-Houston area as a Category 2 storm with winds of 110 mph. Overall the storm cut power to more than 7.7 million homes and businesses in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia as it marched from Texas to the Northeast from September 12-19.CenterPoint, of Houston, transmits and distributes electricity to more than 2.1 million customers in Texas and natural gas to more than 3 million homes and businesses in Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas.Entergy, of New Orleans, owns and operates about 30,000 MW of generating capacity, markets energy commodities, and transmits and distributes power to 2.7 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.(Reporting by Scott DiSavino)

Nearly 250,000 Ohio customers remain without power Sat Sep 20, 3:22 PM ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Almost a quarter million homes and businesses across Ohio remained without power Saturday, one week after a huge storm blacked out large swaths of the state. The remnants of Hurricane Ike battered Ohio last Sunday, knocking out electrical service for 2.6 million customers.Cincinnati-area Duke Energy officials insisted workers would restore power by weekend's end to customers in the southwest corner of the state. About 85,000 of their customers remained without power Saturday.

We have entered a very tedious phase of the restoration process, Duke Energy Ohio and Kentucky President Sandra Meyer said in a statement. Much of the outage work is now focused on restoring power to smaller pockets of customers.Columbus-based American Electric Power on Saturday reported about 77,000 customers still had no power.Some residents watched with frustration as their neighbors' lights flickered on but not their own. Betty Pence, 85, watched anxiously as utility trucks pulled out of her Columbus neighborhood.I'd see them leaving and think Oh, no, it's not on yet. Don't go, she said.Chuck Woolsey approached one crew in Columbus. I'm not complaining, but do you have any idea when our power will be back? he asked.In northeast Ohio, FirstEnergy Corp. reported hundreds still without power. Dayton Power and Light said about 59,000 customers were without electricity Saturday, with plans to have service restored by Sunday to 90 percent of the 300,000 households that lost power Sept. 14.Utility administrative centers were flooded with complaints, both by phone and in person.Wind reaching 78 mph swept across the region last Sunday and at least seven of the 56 deaths blamed on Hurricane Ike were in Ohio. Toppling trees fell on homes, blocked roads and brought down power lines. Long lines formed at gas stations, grocery stores and hardware stores that didn't lose power. Schools and businesses were forced to close for days.You don't want to mention Duke, said Neil Leist, superintendent of the Clermont Northeastern School District, which was closed all week. I know they have a hard job, but the people are beyond frustrated. No one wants to be last.

VATICAN MESSAGE TO MUSLIMS FOR RAMADAN
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UN ASSEMBLY IN TOWN - VIDEO
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UN CLOSINGS IN NY
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Space shuttle moved to launch pad as rescue ship Sat Sep 20, 2:51 AM ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In an unprecedented step, a space shuttle was moved to the launch pad Friday for a trip NASA hopes it will never make — a rescue mission. The shuttle Endeavour is on standby in case the seven astronauts who go up on Atlantis next month need a safer ride home. Atlantis and its crew are headed into space for one last repair job on the 18-year-old Hubble Space Telescope. It's a venture that was canceled when first proposed a few years ago because it was considered too dangerous.The risk is this: If Atlantis suffers serious damage during launch or in flight, the astronauts will not be at the international space station, where they could take refuge for weeks while awaiting a ride home. They would be stranded on their spacecraft at the Hubble, where NASA estimates they could stay alive for 25 days. Air would be the first to go.Endeavour and four more astronauts would need to blast off on a rescue flight as soon as NASA determined Atlantis was too damaged to fly home.On Friday, Endeavour was parked at its launch pad just a mile from where Atlantis is tentatively set to lift off on Oct. 10.It is the first time since 2001 — when flights were more closely spaced — that both of NASA's shuttle pads have been occupied. And it will probably be the last.The Atlantis astronauts say there's a slim chance any rescue will be needed, and they say they would fly to Hubble even if there were no such backup plan.Scott Altman, Atlantis' commander, said it may seem like overkill, but having a rescue ship on the pad is the right thing to do.

It's kind of a belt-and-suspenders approach. But if you need the belt after your suspenders fail, you would be glad you had it, said Altman, a retired Navy captain and former fighter pilot.On top of the usual launch and landing dangers, the Atlantis crew faces an estimated 1-in-185 chance that a piece of space junk or a micrometeoroid will cause catastrophic damage to their ship. Those are greater odds than for a typical shuttle flight because of Hubble's extremely high and debris-littered orbit.Before reaching Hubble and again after leaving it, the Atlantis astronauts will inspect their spacecraft for signs of damage, just as crews always do while in orbit.Ever since space shuttles resumed flying following the 2003 Columbia tragedy that killed seven astronauts, NASA has had a rescue plan in case of irreparable damage. But all those missions have been to the space station, where astronauts could camp out for two months.The Hubble mission offers no such safe haven. That's why the Hubble repair mission was canceled in 2004; NASA's boss at the time deemed it too dangerous.A new NASA regime reversed that decision, once space shuttles were flying safely again and repair methods became available to orbiting astronauts. The caveat was that another shuttle be on the launch pad, all prepped and ready to fly — something never before attempted.NASA took similar steps in 1973 during its first space station program, Skylab. But a rescue was never needed.

Once Atlantis is aloft, if it even begins to smell like a rescue might be needed, final preparations for Endeavour will begin, said launch director Mike Leinbach. He said Endeavour could lift off within six days.The rescue craft would fly to Atlantis and use a 50-foot robot arm to grab the damaged shuttle. The Atlantis astronauts would put on spacesuits and float, a few at a time, to Endeavour over the course of three spacewalks. Endeavour would return home with all 11 astronauts.The toughest call, officials say, would be deciding that Atlantis indeed had serious enough damage that a rescue should be tried. This will be an emotional thing, Leinbach said. Such a rescue would put four more astronauts at risk and would mean the end of Atlantis, and undoubtedly the space shuttle program, which is set to be phased out in 2010. Atlantis would be sent into the Pacific once its astronauts were aboard Endeavour. It would rank right up there with the drama of Apollo 13, said Ed Mango, Atlantis' launch director. For Leinbach, who would head up the rescue launch, it would be the most important thing NASA has ever done, period. Altman realizes that if pressed into service, Endeavour might not get off in time. Storms or a last-second engine shutdown could keep it grounded. There's no guarantee it would get there, Altman said in an interview with The Associated Press. On the other hand, you look at how many things would have to go wrong to make it not possible to pull off. ...There's a scenario out there that doesn't have a happy ending, and I think we all have to come to grips with that before launch.On the Net: NASA: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov

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

HERES A HALF HOUR UPDATE OF DOW STOCKS TODAY.

09:30 AM -10.00
10:00 AM -114.77
10:30 AM -136.11
11:00 AM -132.93
11:30 AM -201.19
12:00 PM -185:18
12:30 PM -172.04
01:00 PM -178.49
01:30 PM -269.33
02:00 PM -213.13
02:30 PM -231.05
03:00 PM -255.90
03:30 PM -319.30
04:00 PM -372.75 TO 11,015.69 (DOW)
S & P 500 1207.09 - 47.99
NAS 2178.98 - 94.92

CRUDE OIL ROSE AN ALL TIME ONE DAY HIGH OF $15.45 TO $120.92 A BARREL.
GOLD ROSE OVER $900.00
AND THE AMERICAN(US)DOLLAR DROPS THE MOST IN ONE DAY SINCE 2001.

WE ALSO SEE MIDEAST BUYERS GOBLING UP AMERICAN AND WESTERN PROPERTY.

MOHAMED ALI ALABBAR EMAAR CHAIRMAN

THE CEO OF THE BIGGEST REAL ESTATE AGENCY IN THE MIDEAST SAYS: EVERYONE HAS THEIR MONEY IN THE USA. IT CHANGED MY PSYCHOLOGY. LETS BE HONEST, IT AFFECTS ALL OF US (WORLDWIDE), WE'RE PUTTING IN MORE CONTROLS BECAUSE WHEN YOU SEE YOUR NEIGHBOR CRYING, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE THERE. I STILL SEE OPPORTUNITIES. WE ARE BEGINNING TO SEE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE STATES NOW.WE ARE LOOKNG AT BUYING REAL ESTATE.

AND ANOTHER MIDEAST BUYER SHEKH HAMAD BIN JASSIM JABR AL-THANI QATAR PRIME MINISTER OWNS 6.2% OF BARCLAYS, 3.1% IN BADS, 5.1% IN LAGARDERE AND 23.5% IN THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.

DO WE SEE A TREND HERE FOLKS (WINK-NUDGE).

ISRAEL STOCKS PARE GAINS,HOUSING DOWN
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I WARNED YOU PEOPLE THE EU WILL CONTROL THE WORLD ECONOMY.

Germany and UK want global financial regulator
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today SEPT 22,08 @ 09:29 CET

The UK and Germany believe that a new international system regulating the financial sector must be constructed to prevent a repeat of global banking crisis in the future.Peter Steinbrueck, Germany's Social-Democrat finance minister, raised on Sunday (21 September) the idea of an international authority that will make the traffic rules for financial markets, while speaking to German radio, Reuters reports.

Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to outline proposals for just such a body, run under the authority of the International Monetary fund, in a speech to the Labour Party conference on Monday, as well as domestic plans to crack down on irresponsible bonuses handed out in the City, London's financial quarter.I think what people haven't appreciated is we've now got global financial systems but we've only got national regulators to cover them, Mr Brown told the BBC ahead of the speech, adding that he had been trying to convince his international counterparts for years of the need for a global system of financial regulation.His finance minister, Alistair Darling, according to the country's Guardian newspaper, is also set to tell his fellow Labour Party members: Just as one government alone cannot combat global terrorism, just as one government alone cannot combat climate change, so one government alone cannot deal with the consequences of globalisation.Mr Brown will be pressing world leaders to sign up to such a plan when he visits New York on Thursday for a meeting of the UN General Assembly.Meanwhile, Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, has publicly chastised the US and UK for historical opposition to stronger financial regulation.Speaking to an election rally in Austria over the weekend, Ms Merkel said: Today we have come further because now America and Great Britain are also saying Yes, we need more transparency, we need better standards for rating agencies'.

The chancellor was referring to US and UK opposition to Berlin plans for greater oversight of hedge funds proposed last June at a G8 meeting.We played ball, we adopted a nice EU directive into national law, we had to cope with a lot of complaints from medium sized enterprises, and at the end of the day, the Americans said: we won't, the chancellor said.In related news, the European Commission is to propose stricter conditions for banks offering credit to other financial institutions, according to draft documents first seen by the Financial Times Deutschland. Banks would now have to say if they maintain part of the risk in their own accounts when offering credit, according to proposals set to be approved by the commission on Wednesday.Elsewhere, European banks have been lobbying hard to win support under the framework of the $700 billion bail-out of Wall Street announced on Friday by US treasury secretary Henry Paulson.Banks such as UBS and Credit Suisse, which have significant operations in the US are likely to be eligible for part of the US Treasury's planned buy-out of bad debt held by American financial institutions.It's a distinction without a difference whether it's a foreign or a US one, Mr Paulson told the Fox News channel. However, to participate in the scheme, he suggested that European taxpayers would also have to take part in bankrolling the biggest bail-out of private firms in world history: Our system's a global one, and I also am going to be pressing colleagues around the world to design similar systems for their banks, he said.We are talking very aggressively with other countries around the world, and encouraging them to do similar things, and I believe a number of them will, Mr Paulson said.

FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT The coming 1-world currency,Some set 2010 as date for monetary union September 21, 2008 3:28 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily

Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium online newsletter published by the current No. 1 best-selling author, WND staff writer and columnist. Subscriptions are $99 a year or $9.95 per month for credit card users.On Wednesday, finance chiefs of five of the six-member, oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council approved a proposal to create a monetary union as a move toward adopting a single currency, according to the AFP.The six Islamic states constituting the Gulf Cooperation Council are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Oman pulled out of the agreement last year.

Five states in the compact have agreed to set 2010 as the target date for the creation of a monetary union and the adoption of common currency.The emergence of an Islamic single currency among these oil-rich Middle Eastern countries marks a significant step in the emerging worldwide movement to abandon national currencies in favor of regional currencies, along the model where the EU states have abandoned their national currencies in favor of the European Central Bank and the euro.In 2002, the finance ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council states sought out the assistance of the European Central Bank, as the model for their single currency, according to BBC reports.The council was created in 1981 to promote the development of the member countries.The monetary union will entail the creation of a central bank to issue the single currency.At the Wednesday meeting in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, the finance and economy ministers reviewed the European Union's response to the council's view on eliminating obstacles that have blocked a long-stalled free trade agreement with the EU.Progress was also made on key convergence factors required to underpin the common currency, including setting the ratio of budget deficit and public debt to the gross domestic product, target interest rates and reserve requirements. Progress yet remains in reaching a consensus on inflation, the last remaining stumbling block to creating the common currency.International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who met with the Gulf Cooperation Council finance ministers in Jeddah, hailed the move by the Gulf states toward economic integration, though he continued to express doubts the single currency would be adopted within two years.Achieving monetary union by 2010 will be a major challenge, as much remains to be done to enable the creation of a single currency within two years, Straus-Kahn. Overcoming the current inflationary pressures, developing a clear vision of the powers of the future common central bank, choosing an exchange regime of the common currency, and harmonizing financial regulations and structures will be critical in this process.

One factor easing the transition toward a single currency is that the six Gulf Cooperation Council member states all currently peg their currencies to the U.S. dollar.

Oil soars $11 a barrel as bailout weighs on dollar By STEVENSON JACOBS
SEPT 22,08

NEW YORK - Oil prices spiked more than $11 a barrel Monday as anxiety over the government's $700 billion bailout plan battered the dollar and touched off frenzied buying of safe-haven investments including crude. Light, sweet crude for October delivery jumped $11.39 to $115.89 in early afternoon trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude has gained about $20 in a dramatic four-day rally that has at least temporarily halted oil's steep two-month slide below $100.The Nymex temporarily halted electronic crude oil trading after prices breached the $10 daily trading limit. Trading resumed seconds later after the daily limit was increased to $20.The huge rally was poised to shatter crude's previous one-day price jump of $10.75, set June 6.Oil's sharp gains came as energy traders grappled with the implications of the government's proposed $700 billion initiative to stem the U.S. financial crisis by absorbing billions of dollars of banks' bad mortgage-related securities. Anxiety over the plan also sent stocks sharply lower Monday; the credit markets were calmer than they were last week, but still showing the effects of investors' nervousness.They're going to have to continue auctioning off a whole lot of Treasurys to finance these projects, so the dollar is going to suffer, said Matt Zeman, head trader at LaSalle Futures in Chicago. Right now it's fear and anxiety driving people who want tangible assets.

Democrats want pay limits, loan aid in bailout By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and MARTIN CRUTSINGER, Associated Press Writer SEPT 22,08

WASHINGTON - Judges could rewrite mortgages to lower bankrupt homeowners' monthly payments as part of congressional Democrats' proposal for a $700 billion financial system bailout. Also, companies that unloaded their bad assets on the government in the massive rescue would have to limit their executives' pay packages and agree to revoke any bonuses awarded based on bogus claims, according to a draft of the plan obtained Monday by The Associated Press.The proposal by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., the Banking Committee chairman, gives the government broad power to buy up virtually any kind of bad asset — including credit card debt or car loans — from any financial institution in the U.S. or abroad in order to stabilize markets.But it would end the program at the end of next year, instead of creating the two-year-long initiative that the Bush administration has sought. And it would add layers of oversight, including an emergency board to keep an eye on the program with two congressional appointees, and a special inspector general appointed by the president.The plan also requires that the government get shares in the troubled companies helped by the rescue.Wall Street didn't seem comforted by developments as the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than more than 200 points while the credit markets remained nervous. Not only that, oil prices rose by more than $7 a barrel, indicating the fractiousness still present in trading after a week of huge volatility.

Investors were uncertain just how successful the administration's plan will be in unfreezing credit markets, which many businesses depend on to fund day-to-day operations, and for propping up the still-weak housing market.Congressional aides said the House could act on a bailout bill as early as Wednesday. President Bush earlier Monday issued a statement saying the whole world is watching how the U.S. government moves on the legislation that has come in response to business turmoil that has roiled markets at home and abroad.Obviously, there will be differences over some details, and we will have to work through them. That is an understandable part of the policy making process, Bush said.But he also said it would not be understandable if members of Congress sought to use this emergency legislation to pass unrelated provisions, or to insist on provisions that would undermine the effectiveness of the plan.The proposal that Dodd has sent to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would let judges modify the mortgages of homeowners in bankruptcy to allow them to keep their homes.It also would require that the government come up with a systematic approach for preventing foreclosure on the mortgages it acquires as part of the bailout. That would include the home loans held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage giants now under the control of a government regulator.Asked about Democrats' demands, Treasury spokeswoman Brookly McLaughlin said, There are lots of issues but the discussions we are having are good.Asked if the negotiations could slow down passage of the measure, she said, We are confident that we can get a bill done this week.Dodd, interviewed on CBS's The Early Show on Monday, said taxpayers should be first in line to get money back once conditions in the industry stabilize and recover.We want oversight, he said, adding, It's important that we act quickly, but it's more important that we act responsibly.

Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services panel, said that Paulson is being entirely unreasonable to expect that Congress will pass a bill right away without examining the proposal thoroughly and adding provisions Democrats want, such as the curbs on executive pay.We want to limit those as a condition for giving them aid, Frank, D-Mass., told ABC's Good Morning America.If Secretary Paulson would agree to that, he said, we could move quickly.Meanwhile, the Group of Seven, an organization of the world's leading economic powers, pledged Monday to do all it could to help ease the crisis. The group said in a conference call that it welcomed the extraordinary steps the United States has taken so far. The fast-moving negotiations between the administration and Congress unfolded a day after the government approved a request by investment houses Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to change their status to bank holding companies. That change will allow the two venerable institutions to set up commercial banks that will be able to take deposits, significantly bolstering the resources of both institutions. It will also grant them permanent access to emergency loans supplied by the Fed rather than the temporary loan status they have had since last March when the Fed moved to prop up investment banks following the forced sale of Bear Stearns. Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke kept up their outreach with Congress, holding meetings over the weekend aimed at convincing lawmakers to move quickly to approve the relief package. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., who also serves on Frank's committee, said members need enough time to debate this and echoed Frank's concerns about executive pay. We don't have these great golden parachutes and so on. In the end we're doing it for the taxpayers.Frank said that lawmakers are building strong oversight into the measure. The private sector got us into this mess, Frank said, The government has to get us out of it. We do want to do it carefully.Republican presidential candidate John McCain, speaking Monday morning on NBC's Today show, said, We are in the most serious crisis since World War II.He also said that despite the ballooning national debt, he would not raise taxes if elected. Congressional leaders have endorsed the main thrust of the administration plan, but say it must be expanded to include help for people on Main Street as well as the big Wall Street financial firms who have lost billions of dollars through their bad investment decisions.

Putin Blames the U.S. for Russian Financial Turmoil. By Alex Nicholson and Henry Meyer

Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed the U.S. financial crisis for causing market turmoil in Russia's economy, which he said remains fundamentally sound. All the fundamental indicators of the Russian economy are healthy, Putin told foreign business leaders in the Black Sea town of Sochi, including the chief executive officers of BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, in comments posted on the Russian government's Web Site. The difficulties are mainly caused by the U.S. and European markets. He added that the current price of oil is comfortable for the Russian economy. The Russian authorities halted stock trading for two days this week to arrest the worst financial crisis since the nation defaulted a decade ago. Capital flight sparked by last month's war in Georgia, tumbling commodity prices and the seizure in capital markets made Russia this quarter's worst performer among the 20 biggest markets, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Trading resumed today with a 14 percent surge in the Micex Index in the first five minutes of trading. The stocks recovery came after Russia said yesterday it would slash export tariffs on oil and President Dmitry Medvedev pledged $20 billion to prop up the market, which was closed after the Micex Index lost 25 percent over three days.

Tax Burden

Putin in his meeting late yesterday said that additional steps to lower the tax burden on oil companies might be taken in 2010, while the funds to support the market would come from the budget rather than Russia's oil funds. I don't believe that the time has come to spend our oil and gas income, he said. The Reserve Fund, created to support the budget if oil prices drop, held $142.6 billion on Sept. 1, while the Wellbeing Fund, which will be used to finance pensions, was worth $31.9 billion. The Finance Ministry is due to prepare a plan by Oct. 1 for investing the National Wellbeing Fund in higher yielding stocks and bonds abroad and has said it may invest a portion of the money within Russia. Putin promised the business executives, who were in Sochi for an investment forum today, that Russia would remain open to foreign investment despite tensions with the West sparked by the Georgia conflict. Our policy stays the same, he said. There will be no closing of the market. We will take no politically motivated decisions.Given the global financial turmoil, Putin said the government would take a pause on the question of lowering sales tax. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has fought a proposed reduction of the tax rate to 12 percent from 18 percent proposed by the economy ministry and big business. Kudrin argues that instead of spurring growth the move will cut into budget revenue and spur inflation by an estimated 3.8 percent. To contact the reporters on this story: Alex Nicholson in Sochi via the Moscow newsroom at 7715 or anicholson6@bloomberg.net; Henry Meyer in Moscow at Hmeyer4@bloomberg.net.

Giant lawsuit to open new front in EU-Russia relations
PHILIPPA RUNNER Today SEPT 22,08 @ 17:06 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A €23 billion legal claim against the Russian state over the break-up of oil company Yukos will test EU-Russia energy relations and Russia's fitness to rejoin the international political family, the plaintiffs say.Yukos' main shareholder, GML, has brought forward the legal challenge, arguing that Russia violated a major international energy pact - the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) - by snatching Yukos assets back in 2004. The ECT is binding on Russia because it signed the charter even if ratification never took place, GML says, with the first hearing in the legal arbitration to take place in The Hague on 17 November.If GML wins, it may end up enforcing payment by using European courts to grab the foreign assets of Russian state-owned energy company Rosneft.The case could also set a precedent for Western firms such as British Petroleum and Shell, which have struggled to protect their investments in Russia's energy sector in recent years.GML director Tim Osborne told EUobserver that Russia's behaviour in the ECT arbitration will affect its ambition to become a respectable trade partner, with Moscow's reputation already damaged by the Georgian war.Russia is very keen to portray itself as a responsible member of the political family, and if it wants to join the WTO and the OECD and other rules-based organisations, at some stage it's going to have to abide by those rules, he said.The case will also test the EU's commitment to the energy charter in the face of a more pragmatic approach to Russia. The EU helped negotiate the original ECT, which was designed to protect Western firms willing to make badly-needed investments in the cash-poor Russia of the 1990s. But EU officials opted not to make the charter part of a draft new EU-Russia treaty, fearing that unrealistic demands in the energy sector could set back negotiations for years on the broader bilateral pact.The Russians are making every effort to portray the ECT as a lame duck, a still-born instrument, Mr Osborne said. The EU and Russia can't unilaterally change a multinational treaty. There are plenty of other countries which are signatories.The [EU] can help our case immensely by stating Russia is bound by the ECT, he added. A statement by the people who negotiated it that says they believe Russia is bound, as the UK government has said and as other European governments have said, would be helpful.

Watershed

The break-up of Yukos on tax evasion charges was seen in the West as a political attack on its CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in a watershed event for private property rights in the new Russia.Mr Khodorkovsky, portrayed in Western media as a liberal reformer, no longer owns GML shares and remains in prison in Siberia. His former business partner and GML-majority shareholder, Leonid Nevzlin, lives in Israel and has ceased to be politically active, focusing on philanthropic projects instead, GML's Mr Osborne said.Both Mr Nevzlin and Mr Osborne fear to step foot in Russia, with Mr Nevzlin sentenced in absentia on charges of organised murder and Mr Osborne feeling "bullied" by Russian suspicions he engaged in criminal activity as part of his work. GML itself is registered in the UK.But the view from Russia is different, with Mr Nevzlin noted for connections to anti-Kremlin exiles in London and his reputation marked by the in absentia murder trial. Mr Nevzlin met with ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in Israel in 2006 to discuss research into Kremlin action against ex-Yukos executives. The murder charges against him include the killing of Yukos critic Vladimir Petukhov, who was shot dead on Mr Khodorkovsky's birthday on 26June 1998.

OZONE DEPLETION

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

Arctic no sanctuary from drilling, says EU
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today SEPT 22,08 @ 17:20 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - As the Arctic ice melts, Europe would be foolish to regard the region as a sanctuary that must be protected from resource extraction, the European Commission has said. Meanwhile, both Russia and Canada are also issuing increasingly bellicose statements about their claims to the planet's northern regions. Drilling for oil in the fragile northern environment must go ahead with European financial and political support for the sake of EU energy security, energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs declared on Friday (19 September) at a debate on the subject in Brussels.You cannot say [the Arctic] is a sanctuary, said the commissioner ... otherwise, where will will we get our energy from? Instead, the commission should help countries who have this resource under their jurisdiction to develop it in a sustainable way, said Mr Piebalgs, adding that for this, there needed to be clear environmental rules and impact assessments.While according to the historical record, there's been ice in the Arctic in the summer for at least 16 million years, scientists believe that between 2040 and 2100 the world will regularly see an ice-free Arctic Ocean during the summer months. Some scientists argue that such an event might occur by 2030.Speaking at the same debate, organised by the Friends of Europe think-tank, Helge Lund, the CEO of Norway's StatoilHydro, the biggest offshore oil and gas company in the world, agreed, pointing out that declining fields on the Norwegian coast leave Europe with no choice.

We are making much smaller discoveries than 10 years ago, he said. The big elephants do not exist any more on the Norwegian coast.Mr Lund did however say that any such exploration had to have flawless environmental behaviour, but that work would not be able to be performed without the appropriate political framework conditions and financial support.Putting forward the environmentalist perspective at the debate, Stefan Singer of the Worldwide Fund for Animals (WWF), was horrified at thought of drilling when the Arctic is dying, and called such thinking perverse.The very materials you sell for profit are causing the reasons why increasingly have access [to the Arctic], he said.Mr Singer argued that the world was reaching the end of easily accessible oil and gas resources, so there's a rush to the final frontiers.

His organisation wants to see no drilling and no commercial exploitation of the Arctic.Instead, there should be an Arctic treaty like the 1959 Antarctic Treaty that set aside the continent as a scientific preserve without recognition of national claims and banning military activity on that continent.However, warned Mr Singer: The treaty protecting the Antarctic is running out, and we will see a rush to exploit the Antarctic too.The melting ice cap is pushing Arctic issues up the Brussels policy agenda.Earlier this month, the EU's fisheries and maritime affairs commissioner, Joe Borg told a meeting of the Nordic Council - which brings together Nordic countries, both members and non-members of the 27-country bloc that the receding ice brings a first time opportunity to exploit new transport routes and draw upon the wealth of untapped natural resources in the Arctic.

Military questions

While the commercial side of the debate over the race for the Arctic rages, the military question is never far away.In Spring, the commission together with the EU's chief diplomat, Javier Solana, published a seven-page paper that mapped out the latest thinking from Brussels on the security implications of climate change. The document underlined the risks and opportunities presented by the melting Arctic, alongside concerns about increased numbers of migrants, territorial disputes, water shortages in Israel and decreases in crop yields in the broader Middle East, and argued that the EU should boost its civil and military capacities to respond to serious security risks resulting from catastrophic climate change.In August last year, a Russian submarine planted a flag on the Arctic sea floor underneath the North Pole, while on Wednesday (17 September), during a meeting of the country's security council, President Dmitry Medvedev set in motion plans to claim part of the Arctic shelf as national territory. The move will turn the Arctic into Russia's resource base of the 21st century, he said at the meeting. Meanwhile, Conservative Canadian Prime Minister, whose nation also has competing claims on the north, has also pledged to assert Arctic sovereignty while campaigning ahead of the country's 14October federal election.We'll be present with eyes in the sky, ships in the northern passage, and boots on the Tundra, he said this weekend.

Military issue overblown

Also at the Arctic debate was Russia's ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, who told the EUobserver that the race for the Arctic had been very much overblown, not least by the media: These parties shouldn't find conflict where it doesn't exist.I don't think increasing the capacities of the oil and gas industry to explore the Arctic should in any way linked to military questions, he added.Under international law, each of the five countries with Arctic territory within their jurisdiction - Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russian and the United States - own a 320-kilometre region that extends north from their respective shorelines. The agreement is to be reviewed under UN auspices in May 2009.

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.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

EU provides Jordan's service sector with 15 million euros 21 September 2008

AMMAN - To enhance the competitiveness of the Kingdom's service sector, Jordan and the European Commission (EC) have signed a 15 million euro deal which officials hope will enable the Jordanian service industry to penetrate the EU market. The agreement, which was signed last Thursday, seeks to promote and boost the competitiveness of the Jordanian service sector both locally and internationally through developing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a number of areas.

In addition, the deal will attempt to reduce the trade balance between Jordan and the EU, which currently stands at over 1 billion euros, according to the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation.Planning Minister Suhair Al-Ali, who signed the deal with Ambassador Patrick Renauld, head of the European Commission Delegation in Amman, said the SMEs will be provided with technical support, service exports promotion, financial support and loan guarantees, capacity building and policy support. She added that under the agreement, a database of Jordanian companies to assist in business development and matchmaking will be established.The targeted sectors include business, finance, construction, travel and tourism, telecommunications, health, transport, education, distribution and environmental services, according to the agreement, which will also facilitate access to funding for SMEs through a financial support scheme. For his part, Renauld commended Jordan-EU relations, which he said have been enhanced under the framework of the EU-Jordan Association Agreement of the recent Barcelona Process and the European Neighbourhood Policy.Our support will not only be financial, Renauld said at the signing ceremony. Our goal is to share relevant European experience in the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises. We want also to encourage European businesses to get more involved with the Jordanian economy through investment, joint ventures and technology transfer, he said.

A delegation agreement was also signed between the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO) authorising the latter to implement the EU agreement.JEDCO CEO Yarob Qudah said the agreement will enhance the service sector, which has the highest employment percentage in Jordan.The service sector contributes 60-62 per cent of Jordan's gross domestic product and the sector's added value is high - reaching about 60 per cent. Therefore, there is a need to focus on upgrading the sector and this deal will help in this objective, Qudah told The Jordan Times.Planning Ministry Secretary General Nasser Shraideh said the deal comes as part of 45 million euro package of support provided by the EU, adding that the deal will help the Kingdom attract European investment and increase the volume of exports to Europe.By Mohammad Ghazal Jordan Times 2008

US seeks EU backing on isolating Russia Fri Sep 19, 11:15 AM ET

PARIS (AFP) - A senior US official called Friday for solidarity between the European Union and the United States to confront Russia's military surge in Georgia and consider moves to isolate Moscow. Washington will work with EU governments to ensure Russia is not able to have it both ways, to be in and out of the international community, US Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried told journalists.His remarks came a day after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped up US criticism of Russia, saying Moscow had put itself on a one-way path to self-imposed isolation and international irrelevance.Washington has warned that Russia is putting its entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) at risk over its actions in Georgia.Fried, the US State Department's number two official, said he would be meeting with EU counterparts in the coming weeks in Washington and on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York to agree on tactics and strategy.While the United States has called for a tough stance toward Russia, the 27-nation EU is divided over how to respond to the Georgia-Russia conflict and the bloc refrained from imposing sanctions at an emergency summit this month.The European Union, under the presidency of France, negotiated the ceasefire that ended fighting between Georgian and Russian forces and has been pushing for a full withdrawal of Russian troops from the former Soviet republic.

Fried said EU pressure may be working.

It may be that Russia is rethinking in the face of very strong international pressure, we certainly hope so, he said in a telephone news conference with Europe-based journalists from Washington.It may be that Russia did not count on such a strong reaction particularly from Europe, he added. Russia did not face a divided transatlantic community as it may have counted on.Russia sent troops deep inside Georgia last month in response to a Georgian offensive to retake control of South Ossetia, a Moscow-backed breakaway region that is internationally recognised as part of Georgia.Moscow drew broad international condemnation after it recognised South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another breakaway Georgian region, as independent states.

Human rights take back seat at EU-Central Asia talks
PHILIPPA RUNNER 19.09.2008 @ 16:56 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU and Central Asian foreign ministers pledged to work together on new gas pipelines and counter-terrorism at a meeting in Paris on Thursday (18 September), with the problem of grave human rights abuses in the region pushed down the agenda.We re-affirm the importance of active co-operation in the development of different hydrocarbon transport corridors that aim to ensure a guaranteed and reliable supply for European markets, the ministers' joint statement said.The EU and the five Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan - will in future hold regular exchanges on security risks. The EU will help combat terrorist financing and offer expertise on how to stop the illegal traffic of people, arms and drugs.The EU also offered to develop hydro-electric and water management projects to head off confrontation between upstream and downstream countries, such as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.The expression 'common threats and challenges' may seem audacious, as it covers two vast regions separated by ... six thousand kilometres, EU foreign relations head Javier Solana said. But energy security, terrorism and drug smuggling impact our two societies equally and in a direct way.The Paris meeting was in itself a diplomatic coup for the EU's Central Asia policy, launched in June 2007 with the aim of pulling the young, post-Soviet states closer to the West.

The modest package, which sees EU spending of just €100 million a year on all five countries, has had little impact so far. EU plans to open large embassies in the five capitals have stalled, with the blue flag visible only in Astana, Kazakhstan. Plans to build a major gas pipeline - Nabucco - linking Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan to Europe via Turkey, are also wobbling. EU states such as Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Greece have backed a competing Russian pipeline. The Georgia conflict has made the Nabucco transit route more risky, and the European Commission is sending mixed messages on whether it backs the Nabucco pipe or small-scale, compressed gas alternatives instead.We intend to redouble our efforts to develop energy links between the EU and Central Asia through diversified energy transportation routes and new energy infrastructure, including Nabucco, external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in Paris.

Human rights nuisance

EU diplomacy has not been entirely ineffective. Earlier this year, Turkmenistan pledged to supply 10 billion cubic metres of gas a year for EU energy projects and none of the Central Asian countries have joined Russia in recognising Georgia's rebel enclaves as independent states.But efforts to build relations with the repressive regimes are complicated by obligations to make at least some noise on democracy and human rights, with the values enshrined in the EU's foreign policy charter and monitored by NGOs such as Human Rights Watch (HRW).It's unrealistic to expect these countries to become like Europe. None of our [energy] competitors in the region - Russia, China, America - make co-operation conditional on human rights, an EU official said.The EU has taken an increasingly soft line on values since the launch of the Central Asia package. EU states suspended a visa ban on Uzbek officials for six months and will in October debate scrapping the ban entirely. The EU's special envoy to Central Asia, Pierre Morel, is keen to push through a trade agreement with Turkmenistan despite objections from MEPs.Neither Ms Ferrero-Waldner nor Mr Solana mentioned human rights in their Paris speeches, while the joint text made Central Asia sound like a co-guardian of EU values.Driven by a shared commitment to developing and organising our long-term partnership on the basis of ... respect for human rights and the development of the rule of law and democracy, the statement began.

Boiling water

The Paris meeting saw activists from French NGO Reporters Without Borders mount a brief protest inside the Turkmen embassy to demand the release of two journalists.

Annakurban Amanklychev and Sapardurdy Khadjiev have been in jail since 2006. They were arrested with a third reporter, Ogulsapar Muradova, who died in prison, AP reports.HRW is calling for Uzbekistan to free human rights activist Akzam Turgunov, arrested for bribery, and journalist Salijon Abdurakhmanov, charged with drug smuggling, with 18 other dissidents also stuck in prison. Mr Turgunov had boiling water poured on his neck during police questioning. In evaluating Uzbekistan, the EU should demand evidence of real reform, because Turgunov's prosecution shows that nothing has changed, HRW researcher Igor Vorontsov said.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

EU: Observers to deploy to Georgia on time SEPT 22,08

TBILISI, Georgia - European Union military observers will be deployed in Georgia by an Oct. 1 deadline despite Moscow's continued insistence that they won't be allowed into two breakaway regions occupied by Russian troops, the head of the EU mission pledged Monday. Under a French-brokered cease-fire, Russia has 10 days to withdraw its forces from Georgian areas outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia once the EU observers are in place.Hansjoerg Haber, who is heading the EU mission, promised that the 200 observers will be in place near the cities of Gori, Zugdidi and Poti by Oct. 1 — a promise that was praised by Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze.The deployment is a pivotal step to stabilize the situation, Gurgenidze said after meeting Haber. We appreciate the speed with which they sent the mission.The presence of non-Russian, foreign observers in Georgia was a key aspect of the updated cease-fire deal reached between Moscow and Tbilisi earlier this month. But the scope and effectiveness of the EU mission — and that of other foreign observers — has been in doubt due to Moscow's refusal to allow the observers into Abkhazia and South Ossetia.Moscow has also balked at letting more monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe into South Ossetia. The OSCE had hoped to send an additional 80 unarmed observers to South Ossetia, but talks with Russia broke down last week.

Moscow intends to keep around 3,600 troops in each regions, both of which it has recognized as independent states.Haber made no comments about EU observers having access to South Ossetia nor Abkhazia.War in Georgia broke out on Aug. 7 when Georgian forces attacked South Ossetia's main city and Russia repelled the Georgian offensive, routed its army and occupied swaths of Georgian territory.Also Monday, Georgian police official said a Georgia police officer was killed and two wounded when Abkhazian fighters fired on a Georgian police checkpoint Sunday.Another two Georgian officers were wounded Monday when they went into the area and stepped on a land mine, Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said.

Israel's Livni to be asked to form a government by Marius Schattner
Mon Sep 22, 9:34 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's president was expected to ask Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Monday to form a new government, a day after scandal-plagued Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially stepped down. Livni, 50, a former Mossad spy who replaced Olmert as head of the centrist Kadima party in a leadership vote on Wednesday, is hoping to become Israel's second woman prime minister after Golda Meir, who served from 1969 to 1974.President Shimon Peres was expected to formally ask Livni to form a government on Monday before he heads to New York for the UN General Assembly.She will then have 42 days to form a governing coalition in order to avert snap elections that polls indicate would bring the right-wing Likud party of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to power.Traditionally, the task of forming a government goes to the party with the most seats in the Knesset, in this case Kadima, which has 29 MPs in the 120-member parliament.Livni has already started talks with parliamentary factions that could be included in a future coalition, while at the same time pressing members of her own party to close ranks.But in the rough and tumble of shifting allegiances in Israeli politics, there is no guarantee that Livni will be able to come up with the numbers to form a coalition government and thus avoid an early election.

The Labour party, the main partner in the current coalition, has been sending mixed signals, having met Netanyahu over weekend and called for either early elections or a national emergency government.Livni met Labour chief Defence Minister Ehud Barak hours after Olmert formally submitted his resignation and offered to make the party a full partner in a new coalition, according to Haaretz newspaper, quoting unnamed Livni aides.Meanwhile the ultra-Orthodox party Shas -- which has frequently played the kingmaker -- has vowed to leave any government that negotiates the future of Jerusalem, a key issue in efforts to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.Livni also faces tough challenges in seeking to unify Kadima after new rifts emerged in the wake of her narrow victory over transport minister and former army chief Shaul Mofaz.Formed less than three years ago, the centrist party has itself been dogged by allegations of corruption.Olmert's decision to resign after just 32 months in office followed months of pressure from supporters and rivals alike in the face of a string of graft allegations against him.Police have recommended criminal charges against the 62-year-old Olmert in two cases in which he is accused of accepting large sums in cash from a US financier and multiple-billing foreign trips.

He has denied any wrongdoing.

The continuing political turmoil has cast a shadow over Israeli peace talks with the Palestinians which were revived only in November, further denting hopes of a deal by the end of this year.Both sides remain deeply divided on core issues, including final borders, Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the fate of 4.6 million Palestinian refugees and the future status of Jerusalem.Shas's refusal to negotiate the fate of Jerusalem could prove particularly tough for Livni, who is currently the lead negotiator for Israel. The Palestinians want mostly Arab east Jerusalem, which Israel seized in the 1967 Six Day War, as the capital of their future state. Israel, however, considers the entire city to be its eternal, undivided capital, a claim not recognised by the international community.

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.

Russian navy ships head to maneuvers in Venezuela By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer Mon Sep 22, 7:38 AM ET

MOSCOW - A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. The Kremlin recently has moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American nations amid increasingly strained relations with Washington after last month's war between Russia and Georgia. During the Cold War, Latin America became an ideological battleground between the Soviet Union and the United States.Russian navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said the nuclear-powered Peter the Great cruiser accompanied by three other ships sailed from the Northern Fleet's base of Severomorsk on Monday. The ships will cover about 15,000 nautical miles to conduct joint maneuvers with the Venezuelan navy, he told The Associated Press.The deployment follows a weeklong visit to Venezuela by a pair of Russian strategic bombers and comes as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — an unbridled critic of U.S. foreign policy who has close ties with Moscow — plans to visit Moscow this week. It will be Chavez's second trip to Russia in about two months.The intensifying contacts with Venezuela appear to be a response to the U.S. dispatch of warships to deliver aid to Georgia which angered the Kremlin.

Chavez said in an interview with Russian television broadcast Sunday that Latin America needs a strong friendship with Russia to help reduce U.S. influence and keep peace in the region. In separate comments on his Sunday TV and radio program, he joked that he will be making his international tour to Russia and other countries this week aboard the super-bombers that Medvedev loaned me, a reference to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Gentlemen of the CIA, to be clear, I'm joking, Chavez said with a laugh.

Chavez has repeatedly warned that the U.S. Navy poses a threat to Venezuela.

Russia has signed weapons contracts worth more than $4 billion with Venezuela since 2005 to supply fighter jets, helicopters, and 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles. Chavez's government is in talks to buy Russian submarines, air defense systems and armored vehicles and more Sukhoi fighter jets.Russian and Venezuelan leaders also have talked about boosting cooperation in the energy sphere to create what Chavez has called a new strategic energy alliance.Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, who visited Venezuela last week, announced that five of Russia's biggest oil companies are looking to form a consortium to increase Latin American operations and to build a $6.5 billion refinery to process Venezuela's tar-like heavy crude. Such an investment could help Venezuela, the world's ninth-biggest oil producer, wean itself from the U.S. refineries on which it depends to process much of its crude.

Sechin warned the United States that it should not view Latin America as its own backyard. It would be wrong to talk about one nation having exclusive rights to this zone, he said in an interview broadcast Sunday.Associated Press Writer Ian James in Caracas contributed to this report.

Chief inspector: Iran may be hiding secret nukes Mon Sep 22, 6:47 AM ET

VIENNA, Austria - The chief U.N nuclear inspector says Iran may be hiding secret nuclear activities. Mohamed ElBaradei says it is impossible to guarantee that Iran is not hiding such activities unless it allows his inspectors much broader access and answers allegations that it hid past attempts to make nuclear arms.ElBaradei is head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He spoke Monday at the opening of the 35-nation IAEA board of governors.Iran is under three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze uranium enrichment. While Tehran says it only wants to generate nuclear fuel, there is fear it could use the process to create the fissile core of nuclear warheads.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Peace partner funding al-Qaida,Pumping money, support to most radical Islamist terror groups in Gaza September 21, 2008 10:27 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization has been providing financial support to al-Qaida allies in the Gaza Strip, including some of the most radical Islamist organizations in the territory, according to information obtained by WND.Fatah, considered moderate by U.S. and Israeli policy, has been backing the Al-Qaida allies in a bid to destabilize the rival Hamas' leadership in Gaza. Hamas violently seized control of Gaza from Fatah last June, after Abbas unilaterally dismantled the democratically elected Hamas-led PA.The last few weeks have seen a marked rise in the boldness of radical Islamist organizations in Gaza, particularly three groups: Jihadiya Salafiya (the Jihad of Ancestors), Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam), and the Islamist Doghmosh clan. The Doghmoshes lead Jaish al-Islam but also act independently as a clan. They achieved notoriety for the March 2007 abduction of BBC reporter Alan Johnston.

Last month, Jihadiya Salafiya announced it established an armed wing, which it called the Damascus Soldiers, brandishing weapons in a public display in Gaza. All three Islamist organizations – Salafiya, Jaish and the Doghmosh clan – evidenced a recent infusion of weapons and have been openly challenging Hamas, according to Palestinian security sources in Gaza.Unlike other radical Islamic organizations such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, which have demonstrated pragmatism in some aspects of political life while still holding an Islamist world view, the three Gazan Islamist organizations in question believe in a strict interpretation of the Quran and that only the Quran can dictate how to act. The three groups are openly identified with al-Qaida ideologically; they believe jihad is the primary way to spread Islam around the world, including jihad against secular Muslim states.Hamas has in the past worked with the al-Qaida-allied groups in Gaza. It took credit along with Jaish al-Islam for the kidnapping in June 2006 of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

But Jihadiya Salifiya and Jaish al-Islam have been regularly publishing pamphlets the past few months labeling Hamas as non-Muslim since the terror group ran in 2006 democratic elections, which the Islamist organizations see as an expression of Western values. Also, for the past two years, al-Qaida leaders themselves have released audio tapes at a frequency of almost one per month blasting Hamas for participating in elections and in the democratic process.Hamas last week engaged in heavy fire clashes with the Islamist organizations in Gaza in which 11 were killed, including a top member of the Doghmosh clan. The fighting reportedly broke out after the Doghmoshes shot at Hamas policemen who had attempted an arrest raid against the Islamists.According to informed security officials, some top members of Fatah have been funneling large quantities of cash to Jihadiya Salafiya, Jaish al-Islam and the Doghmoshes in a bid to build up the Islamist groups at the expense of Hamas. The security officials said there was no official decision within Fatah to bolster the Islamist radicals, but that top Fatah officials were acting independently. A perusal by WND of official Fatah websites, including Fatah news websites, during the last six weeks found a strange phenomenon – Fatah was publishing the anti-Hamas pamphlets of the three Islamist organizations in question and also provided the al-Qaida-linked groups a platform to espouse their ideology. Fatah news websites have traditionally been more secularly oriented and have stayed away from promoting al-Qaida.

A senior source in Hamas' Interior Ministry told WND that Hamas recently arrested a number of Fatah members in Gaza suspected of serving as links between the Islamist radicals and Fatah officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah.The Hamas source said his group fears the three Islamist organizations, backed by Fatah, will attempt assassinations of Hamas leaders or suicide/car bombings against Hamas targets in Gaza.The source said Hamas' Interior Ministry is contemplating the formation of an intelligence apparatus specifically to deal with the purported threat of Fatah backing Al-Qaida-linked groups in Gaza.Aside from last week's attempted arrest raid, Hamas in recent weeks has rounded up and arrested prominent sheiks and religious leaders in Gaza who are known to promote al-Qaida views or are affiliated with the radical Islamist groups.Israeli security officials, speaking to WND, blasted Fatah for supporting radical Islamists.They are playing a dangerous, stupid game, one top Israeli security official commented. If they succeed in winning back Gaza, Fatah will have to contend with an al-Qaida territory.

Evangelical Christian Support For Israel Endures September 18, 2008
Dear Friend of Israel,

Earlier this month, a media frenzy erupted when Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose Alaska governor Sarah Palin for his running mate. Since then, radio, TV, newspapers, and the Internet have been filled with reports on the personal life and political views of this relatively unknown figure who could become America's first female Vice President.One image in particular caused quite a stir on the Internet. The photo, taken during a television interview in Palin's office, shows an Israeli flag in her window. It is a small thing - but one that got people talking. What, they asked, are Palin's views on Israel?It turns out that Palin is well known among her state's small Jewish population. One prominent Jewish businessman described her as absolutely a friend of the Jewish community. Rabbi Yossi Greenberg, well known in Jewish circles in Alaska, said that from the time she became governor, [Palin] has always supported the Jewish community.During last week's highly-publicized interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, Palin also voiced in no uncertain terms her support for Israel. Responding to a question about the proper U.S. reaction to a potential Israeli military strike to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, Palin said, First, we are friends of Israel, and I don't think that we should second guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves, and for their security.Given her strong support of Israel, perhaps it should come as no surprise that Palin is an evangelical Christian, currently a member of a non-denominational Bible church. In reading her story, I was reminded of my early exposure to evangelical Christians - an experience that ultimately led to the founding of The Fellowship.

In the late 1970's a group of neo-Nazis fought for the right to march in Skokie, Illinois, a Chicago suburb with a large Jewish population and a high number of Holocaust survivors. At the time, I was a newly ordained rabbi working in inter-religious affairs. As I organized opposition to the march, I was struck by the response of so many Christians, who were eager to work with Jews to fight this poisonous hatred. Thankfully, the Nazis never marched in Skokie. But I will never forget the Christians who stood up to them -- in fact, their courage and loyalty inspired my decision to respond to God's call and form The Fellowship a few years later.During this, The Fellowship's 25th anniversary year, it is especially heartening to see that the phenomenon of evangelical support for Israel endures. It does, I believe, because it is built on a solid foundation of biblical truth - that God called Abraham to be the father of the Jewish people, that He gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people as an eternal inheritance, and that those who bless the Jewish people will themselves be blessed. (Genesis 12:3). Added to this is the fact that evangelicals, as much as anyone, realize that Israel and America share common values - the values of faith, democracy, and individual liberty - and that these shared values draw us together as partners in a struggle against the Islamic fundamentalism that is the greatest threat facing free societies today.This is a highly charged political season. We have all heard and will continue to hear much partisan rhetoric. But perhaps all of us - Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike - can agree that the fact that a public servant like Sarah Palin can proudly proclaim her support of Israel, and her Christian faith, in the public square, is indeed cause for celebration.

With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein President Inter. Fellowshp of Christians and Jews.

Shalom Stan, MESSIANIC BIBLE PROJECT SEPT 22,08

Did you know that according to the rabbis Judgment Day is on September 30, this year? Each year on this day everyone comes before the Lord – to be judged. It is called Yom ha Din (Judgment Day). (Today, I just want to remind you that 99.9% of Jewish people do not believe in Yeshua!) The REAL BIBLICAL NAME of this High Holy Day is found in Leviticus 23:24; and it is referred to as Yom Teruah which means The day of the blowing of the Horns (Shofars).

However, you probably know this Holy Day as Rosh HaShanah (the Jewish New Year).

Although this name is not technically mentioned in the Torah, in Ezekiel 40:1 this day is referred to as, The beginning of the year. So that’s why the rabbis refer to it as Rosh HaShanah. Rosh means head or Beginning, and HaShanah means The year.At one of the synagogues near my house, Rabbi Slomovitz said to me, Zev, for one month before this day (Judgment Day), it is a time for you and every Jewish person to repent.From August 30 until September 30, each morning during the month of Elul, in synagogues around the world, the Shofar is blown as a call to repentance! Soon it will be Judgment Day!

However, can any of us stand before God’s judgment without Yeshua? Can you imagine standing in front of the Almighty with all of your sins? It is a terrifying thought! In Leviticus 23:28 it says to hold a sacred assembly and to sound the horns. It is also a Sabbath, and a day in which God commands the Jewish people to make atonement for their sins. Therefore the Jewish sages believe that on this day each year, it is JUDGMENT DAY, and that one year in the near future on Rosh HaShanah it will be the FINAL JUDGMENT DAY. And, each year, on this day, the sages say that the Book of Life is opened up and each person is judged by what they have done. But on the Final Judgment day, each person will either be written in the Book of Life, or not, and then the Book will be closed! September 30, (Yom Teruah and Rosh HaShanah) is also said by the Jewish sages to be the Coronation DAY of God. A coronation is the ceremony where a person of royalty (remember, Yeshua was from the line of King David) is given power to rule the people. A crown or coronet is placed on their head. Nations also have coronations for their kings and queens. Weeks before Coronation Day for England’s Queen Elizabeth, everyone in her kingdom was talking about her becoming Queen. On Coronation Day, there were hundreds of dignitaries, and tens of thousands of people lined the streets cheering, as she was about to be crowned queen. Millions of people around the world watched the Coronation being broadcast on television. It was a day of splendor and awe! The crowds cheered the procession of guests, including heads of state and members of the Royal Family. Trumpets were then sounded proclaiming her as the new Royal Queen.

This reminds me of Yeshua, our King Messiah and the Prophecies He fulfilled. He first came as the suffering servant (Isaiah 53). Remember before Passover he rode lowly into Jerusalem on a Donkey (Zechariah 9:9). The crowds lined the streets as they were cheering Him, shouting: “Blessed is the one who comes in the Name of the Lord – the King of Israel! And then a few days later, He was beaten beyond recognition fulfilling the Messianic prophecy of Isaiah 53. He was bruised and beaten for our sins. Then He had to carry his wooden cross – and like a procession, again crowds lined the streets for Him. It was Coronation Day. Yeshua was crowned! But it was a crown of thorns, not a crown of gold and jewels. And the sign that was hung above Him read: King of the Jews. Yeshua was crowned with the Royal Title, King of the Jews! That was just over 2000 years ago. But my friend, He is coming back very soon – as Messiah ben David (Messiah son of David), the mighty King Messiah who will Judge each individual (John 5:22). And so this brings us back to September 30 of this year. Many Bible scholars believe that because Yeshua fulfilled the Biblical Jewish holy days of Passover and Shavuot (Pentecost), that He will also return on Yom Teruah (Blowing of the Shofar) to fulfill this High Holy Day. In 1Thess. 4:16 it says: For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Messiah will rise first.Stan, we do not know the year when Yeshua will return, but even the Orthodox rabbis preach from their synagogues that we are in the last days. So please tell as many people you can that Yeshua is coming soon! And help us reach the 99.9% of Jewish people who are heading to a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth by giving the best gift you can today.

* * * * FLASH TRAFFIC: WASHINGTON UPDATE * * * * HEADING TO THE EPICENTER Olmert dismisses Bible believers as delusional. Will Livni follow his lead on Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria? By Joel C. Rosenberg

(Washington, D.C., September 21, 2008) -- Several colleagues and I leave tonight for various meetings and interviews in the Middle East as I finish the manuscript for Inside The Revolution. We will also be doing humanitarian relief work with our Joshua Fund allies. Lord willing, we'll return to the U.S. on October 8th. I will post updates from the region if I can, but I would be grateful for your patience as this won't always be possible. We would also be grateful for your prayers for safety, wisdom and open doors. Thanks so much. Last week, Lynn and I were traveling and I was unable to write Flash Traffic or post updates on the weblog. We were on a cruise from Boston to Montreal with Jack and Kay Arthur and about 350 Precept Ministries leaders and donors, teaching the Bible prophecies of Ezekiel 36 and 37 (the rebirth of Israel and the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land in the last days) and Ezekiel 38 and 39 (the rise of a Russian dictator who will form an alliance with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries to attack and try to destroy Israel in the last days). It was a wonderful time to be with evangelical Christian leaders who love Israel unconditionally and have demonstrated unwavering support for the Jewish State for decades. It was also a real honor to be able to work side by side with Jack and Kay to equip their team to teach Bible prophecy in light of fast-moving geopolitical events in Russia, Iran and Israel, as well as to brief their team on how more people in the epicenter are coming to faith in Jesus Christ than at any other time in human history. During the course of the floating conference, a number of dramatic events happened. Here are a few that caught my attention and that we discussed at sea:

* Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week offered to give 98.1% of the Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria (commonly known as the West Bank) to the Palestinian Authority (PA), despite the fact that the PA leadership has shown little if any capacity to govern effectively and protect the rights and God-given liberties of its own citizens, much less create and maintain real peace with Israel. The PA lost control of Gaza to Hamas, after all; has not been able to regain control of Gaza; and Hamas has fired well over 5,000 rockets, missiles and mortars at southern Israel since Israeli forces withdrew in 2005. How, then, has the PA earned the right to control more land?

* Olmert last week offered to divide the holy city of Jerusalem with the Muslim leadership of the PA, despite the fact that Olmert once vowed as mayor of Jerusalem never to allow the capital to be divided.

* Olmert said last week: The vision of a greater Israel no longer exists, referring to the Bible prophecies in Genesis 12, Genesis 17, Genesis 35:6-12, Genesis 38:3-4, Genesis 50:4, Exodus 12:25, Exodus 33:1, Joshua 21:43-45, I Kings 11:32, 2 Chronicles 6:6, Psalm 132:13-14, and Zechariah 3:2 (to name just a few) that indicate the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has promised the holy land to the Jewish people and chosen the city of Jerusalem to be His own special city, the capital of the Jewish nation.

* Olmert also said those who speak of it the Bible prophecies concern a greater Israel are delusional or deluding themselves.Olmert believes he is being a bold peace-maker. Actually, he is pouring fuel on the fire of Radical Islam by making the extremists feel that more violence leads to more Israeli concessions.

* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad immediately predicted Israel won't survive for long, saying, while some say the idea of Greater Israel has expired, I say the idea of a Lesser Israel has expired, too.

* Hezbollah leader Sheikh Nasrallah said Hizbullah was responsible for pounding the last nail in the coffin of Greater Israel….The victories of 2000 and 2006 destroyed the dream of a vast Israeli power, he said, referring to Israel's retreats from southern Lebanon. Today, we face 'Mediocre Israel.When he was the Vice Premier of Israel, Ehud Olmert once said "We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies. That was a very telling statement. Such immense fatigue has shown through in nearly all of Olmert's policies. Olmert and his advisors are exhausted by the Arab-Israeli conflict. They do not want to fight. They want to surrender. They want to give up more and more land in hopes of convincing Israel's enemies that they are men of goodwill. But enemies such as Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah are not exhausted. Indeed, they are energized by Olmert's statements and actions. They believe that the wind is at their backs and Allah is about to give them a great victory over the Jewish people. Thus, they are feverishly preparing for war.

The question now is whether Olmert's hand-chosen foreign minister - Tzipi Livni - shares Olmert's ideological and emotional exhaustion and the policies that emanate from such fatigue now that she has (narrowly) won the Kadima primaries and is in position to become Israel's next Prime Minister. Does Livni believe that Jews and Christians who believe the God of Israel gave Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the Jewish people are delusional? Does she believe the prophetic vision of a Greater Israel is dead? Will Livni thus try to give away Judea and Samaria? Will she try to divide Jerusalem? Will she try to give away the strategically vital Golan Heights? Will she try to appease Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas? Or will she confront Israel's enemies and do everything necessary to neutralize Iran's nuclear threat?

It is too soon to say.

The first Big Question is: Can Livni can put together a coalition to run the government? If she cannot, new elections are coming and Bibi Netanyahu may defeat her to become the next Prime Minister. The second Big Question is: If Livni does become PM, will she take military action against Iran's nuclear facilities in the window of time between the U.S. elections in November and the inaugural in January?

Olmert's resignation and Livni's emergence creates enormous uncertainty during a very volatile moment in the epicenter. Let us, therefore, continue to pray for peace while we make necessary preparations for war.

A MESSAGE OF HOPE FROM DR. JACK VAN IMPE SEPT 22,08

We want to continue our study in the cost of discipleship and revival.

Ephesians 2:10 states, For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works. When we become new creations in Christ Jesus, this text teaches that part of God's new creative work within us produces service. We do not work to become Christians, but work because Christ within is working through the life of the one He indwells. I am afraid that many lackadaisical, lazy professors of religion have nothing. The evidence of salvation is sadly invisible. What about it? Does God expect anything from overloaded (physically), undernourished (spiritually) twentieth century believers?

The truths I am about to present will not please lazy Christians who, like wheelbarrows, need to be pushed. Neither will these arrows of God's Word be as pleasing platitudes to modern saints who run their lives like present-day cafeterias-self-service only. Nevertheless, all need to hear from God. All of us need a spiritual bath occasionally, so let's proceed to use the Word and get washed (see Ephesians 5:26).

In chapter one we considered in a broad way, or telescopically, the price Christ paid. Now let's look at it microscopically, or minutely. Then let's follow Christ.

Christ Was Slandered

First; Jesus paid the price of malicious slander. The Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils (Matthew 9:34).

Again, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils (Matthew 12:24).

He hath an unclean spirit (Mark 3:30).

Some say, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people (John 7:12).

The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil (John 7:20).

Imagine the audacity of the people as they hurled these vicious accusations at Christ:

The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true (John 8:13). Here they call the Saviour a bold-faced liar. It gets worse in John 8:41 where they say We be not born of fornication. [We are not a dirty, illegitimate child like you].

Still again, Thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil (John 8:48). This was a racial slur because Samaritans were hated.

In John 10:20 they say, He hath a devil, and is mad. [He is demented and foams like a mad dog.]

I have but taken a few of the slanderous pronouncements made concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. The people said that Jesus had a devil, and an unclean spirit; that He was a deceiver, a liar; that He was an illegitimate child, a mad dog. About whom were they speaking? God in the flesh!

Will those who truly follow in His steps receive the same kind of treatment? You had better believe it! In fact, I have never felt better about some of the mail I receive. Praise God, I am on Christ's side, and this is the way it should be.

Listen to the Saviour in John 15:18, 19, If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

This same teaching is presented by our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount: Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. [Then what-quit? NO!] Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven (Matthew 5:10-12).

Paul said in 1 Corinthians 4:10, We are fools for Christ's sake. Verse 13: We are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. Let's study the word offscouring for a moment.

When dishes are washed, the pots have goop on the bottom. One then takes a scouring pad and scrapes the crud free. The released goop is the offscouring. Ugh! Well, dear refined, highly polished Christian, this is the term the Holy Spirit uses to picture the Christian who is taking his stand for Christ in this wicked world. He is the offscouring, the goop, and crud off the bottom of the pan in the world's eyes. Has this been true in your life? Why not? God wrote this verse and said it would be so if you lived the life. Forget about your image. Let go, and let God have His wonderful way in your life.

First Peter 2:12 says, They [will] speak against you.

First Peter 3:14: If ye suffer for righteousness' sake happy are ye. Why? Because of the reward in the future.

Again, 1 Peter 4:14 declares, If ye be reproached [maligned and slandered] for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.

Now I want to show you the prime reason the average Christian is never slandered and hated. First, his testimony is nil or watered down. Jesus said in John 7:7, The world... me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. Those who run around talking love, love, and more love usually are loved. But when one mentions sin, as Jesus did, and rebukes the iniquitous abominations of the hour, he becomes hated.

The Bible also teaches that godliness produces resentment among the unholy. Second Timothy 3:12: Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. This is why Cain slew Abel, his brother (see 1 John 3:12). This is why carnal Christians criticize spiritual men of God who preach holy living and keep the standards high.

You folks who look like the world, dress like the world, act like the world, talk like the world, run with the world, and live for the world will never be persecuted. You are living where they are. But it is wrong, and you will be the loser.

Romans 12:2 says, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed In simple English, don't be fashioned like the world, but about face. You women who wear tight blouses and sweaters to attract men will never be persecuted. Your little short skirts will bring the favor of the ungodly rather than mockery. You men with smutty mouths won't be considered religious fanatics. The world will love you; you sound like them. But, be not conformed to this world.

Christ Suffered

Second, Christ paid the price of suffering. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps (1 Peter 2:21).

First Peter 3:18 states, For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust.

Hebrews 12:2: Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross. Were you under the impression that Calvary was an easy ordeal? It was not! He endured-endured the cross.

In this day of easy-believism, are we to suffer as Christians? Are we to pay the price in winning lost souls to Jesus? Let's see.

Philippians 1:29: For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. It is not enough just to believe. One becomes a Christian by believing, but discipleship produces suffering. Believing gets one into heaven, but discipleship presents one with heaven's best crowns to place at the feet of Jesus.

Yes, He suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow His steps (see 1 Peter 2:21). His suffering was for sinners. Our suffering should be for the same reason. Think of this statement in the light of the millions of Christians who have never won a soul to Christ. Think of the shame that awaits their entrance into heaven (see 1 John 2:28).

Suffering is again discussed in Philippians 3:10: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death. All of us want a life filled with blessing, but few want to fellowship in His sufferings. Read again the listing of 2 Corinthians 11:23-28 wherein Paul enumerates his sufferings. Then bow before God and say God forgive me for my greedy, grasping, selfish attitude. Forgive me for allowing the old nature to have full sway.

Christian, will you have any scars, like Paul, at the Judgment Seat? Many live luxuriously and complain about the hardship of being a Christian. Let's accept slander and suffering as the will of God and press on to greater service for the Lord.

Christ Was Slain

Third, Christ was slain. He gave His life for a sinful world. God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:8).

Jack, will you go so far as to state that a Christian should be willing to follow Christ, even to death, in winning souls? I suggest it because Jesus taught this truth. He said in Luke 9:23, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. We must go back to the first century to understand the implications within this statement. The cross was the means of capital punishment in Christ's day. It was an instrument of death. A convicted criminal had to drag his own cross to the place of his execution. When one passed by pulling or dragging a cross, it meant that he was going to be crucified, yea killed.

Jesus said that one should be willing to die daily, or bear the cross 24 hours per day in order to follow Him. I believe this same lesson is pictured in Revelation 2:10: Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. There is more in this verse than the thought of faithfulness to Christ as long as one has life. The context indicates that a horrendous time of persecution was to come. Some would be hanged; others murdered in tortuous ways for the name of Christ. When it came, faithfulness unto death was the means of earning the crown of life for the martyr. This happened in past history, and may soon be the experience of God's people in America. Christians in Russia, China, and other parts of the world have already suffered greatly. Were you next, would you have the spiritual stamina to stand for Christ? Even unto death?

Adoniram Judson went to India as a missionary. He was soon imprisoned because of his love for Christ and the souls of men. They bound him in a stench-filled dungeon. There he was alone with his God for months. Many were the hours of torture he experienced. Anne, his sweet wife, would often look into the place of his interment and with tears flowing down her cheeks cry out, Hang on, sweetheart. I know it is difficult to bear, but God will give us the victory. Time passed, and the visits from Anne ceased. How Judson wondered as to the welfare of his family.

After a few years, he was released. He immediately went to the area where he and Anne had lived. As he arrived at the location, he saw a grimy, dirt-covered tot playing outside a tent. He did not realize it was his own little girl. He rushed into the tent and saw a bald woman lying on a bed. She was dying. Malnutrition had taken her hair and health. As he stood over the form of the one he had loved so dearly, his tears fell on her face. This revived his darling and she opened her eyes. She took his hand and said, Adoniram, be true to the Lord. Hang on, sweetheart. When I am gone, don't quit. Be faithful. Pay the price.

Today there are thousands of Christians and hundreds of gospel-preaching churches in India because the Judsons took up the cross daily and followed Jesus. What will you do with your life, Christian? Give it to the Lord now in prayer.

FROM THE HEART OF DR. REXELLA VAN IMPE SEPT 22,08

The Look

What a dramatic experience it must be for an infant to be born into this world! Leaving the security and warm comfort of its sanctuary just below its mother’s heart, the child is thrust suddenly into the noisy activity and bright lights of a completely different existence...in a whole new world.

How comforting and reassuring it must be for that tiny new being to look up into the face of its mother and gaze into the kindest, most loving eyes it has ever seen. There is grateful acceptance and a joyful welcome in that face, and that first look of love, I believe, is so important that it helps shape the entire life of that youngster. That look should-and usually does-carry special, deep meaning right on through all the child’s years on planet earth.

Sadly, for many children who enter the world these days, that look isn’t there. They never look up and see a gentle expression that says, I’m glad you’re here. Such deprivation, it seems to me, must have a negative impact on their early sense of security and well being, and may even affect their ability to relate to others in the critical growing-up years.

I got the look

I’m so grateful that I did read that overwhelming welcome in the eyes of my mother and father. As early as I can remember, that look of pride, joy, and approval greeted me every time I looked up at them. And I learned to check for the look as a reference point to help me along as I explored the world and ventured out to find my place in it.

When I was trying something new, or attempting to do something on my own, I could read in mother’s eyes-Yes, go ahead, or maybe, Hey, you’d better be careful and hold back just a little bit. My father was also a great source of guidance and encouragement just through the look. My parents never really had to say very much for me to understand where I was headed. I could always read their expressions...especially their eyes.

When I was a child, the look helped give me the courage to do my best in performing. I started singing in public when I was just five years old, and there were about 1,500 people in the church we attended. But if I felt a bit apprehensive while standing up before the crowd, all I had to do was look down at my mother. Her eyes would tell me, You can do this...I’m so proud of you!

At the end of a musical solo, Mom’s eyes might convey to me, Oh, honey, that’s the best you’ve ever done!

Of course, if I looked at my father, I would always see tears rolling out of his eyes. His eyes were always dripping with love, approval, and caring that said to me, I can’t even begin to express how I feel, Rexella-I have to do it this way!

Learning from the look

In high school, I was also very active in drama as well as music, and in my academic studies. The experience of introducing my songs before an audience gave me the confidence to try acting in plays. I found that I enjoyed learning to communicate from a different perspective.

But whether a solo performance, a choral concert, or a dramatic production, the first people I looked to after my performance were my parents. I could always determine if I had done a good job or not by the look I read in their eyes. Their expression would tell me, Oh my, we certainly approve. Or if I hadn’t done as well, I would read that in their expression. Of course, the tears rolled down my dad’s face at school, too-he could never control his emotions when it came to his daughter doing something.

This approval/caution feedback extended on into my adult life. I learned to recognize the look on other people’s faces and to be sensitive to their needs and feelings. After I was married and Jack and I were traveling the nation in evangelistic crusades, I found that I could stand before an audience and read body language and facial expressions like a book. In their eyes I saw the true identification of their hearts, and it revealed so much.

There might be thousands of people in an auditorium or stadium, but I could sense the people who needed to be there-those who needed the Lord. There was tremendous communication between them and me just through the look. When I stood up to sing, I could tell if they were truly receiving the message of my song or if they were just enjoying-or enduring-the performance.

I especially enjoyed interacting with the children. Youngsters are so openly honest and direct that it is usually easy to tell what they are thinking and how they feel. In more recent years, when we had an open house at our ministry headquarters and invited friends to come, the children would always attract my attention. I felt so free to get down and look into their faces to search out what they wanted to express. Often it was a look that said, Thank you, Rexella, for having us today. I love being here!

Communicating through the look

Before Jack and I went on television and our demanding production schedule kept us closer to home, I often traveled across the country to various ladies conferences. From the time I was twenty years old until a few years ago, I would speak before women’s groups as often as two or three times a month. So many times the Lord helped me to sense people’s needs, and the Holy Spirit directed my words because of the look that communicated so eloquently. Sometimes I’d even change what I had prepared to say and go a different direction. Maybe some little comment I didn’t realize was significant would seem to strike a nerve and reveal a special need. The look would instantly say, Oh, yes! Help me, tell me, teach me!

I’ll never forget the time in a crusade service when a lady came forward during an invitation-she was one of the pastor’s wives. I was immediately drawn to her because I could read the great need in her soul. Just one glance into her eyes told me the whole story, Oh, Rexella, I’m not sure that I really know the Lord. I’m just not sure!

I took her hand and said, Honey, don’t rely on the past-let’s be sure right now. I knew I needed to lead her to Christ, and she was so ready. So we prayed the sinner’s prayer together until the light of heaven broke through all her doubt and confusion.

I got a letter from this lady not long ago-she’s now going across Texas sharing her story about how she opened her heart to the Lord during our crusade.

Even more awesome than the marvelous communication between people that is transmitted through the look is knowing that the eyes of the Lord have followed you and me from the moment we were born. He knows everything about us, and has seen everything we’ve ever done.

In the Old Testament, God says, For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes (Jeremiah 16:17). And He goes on-Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? (Jeremiah 23:24).

The New Testament also testifies that neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him (Hebrews 4:13).

Pondering the wonder of Jesus

While I’m almost overcome by the idea that the Creator of the universe notices me, looks at me, and keeps track of my deeds, I literally tremble to think that He is aware of every failure, and careless act of my entire life. How could we stand before a righteous God if it were not for the amazing love of Jesus who loved us and gave himself as a sacrifice to redeem us from the penalty of our sins?

Such love is too great for me to comprehend! I can only ponder the wonder of Jesus whose shed blood has blotted out the record of all my sins-the things God has seen in my life of which He did not approve. God saw it all. He kept track of it. The penalty for my sin was a debt I owed that I could not pay. But Jesus paid it all. Everything bad that God saw in my life is gone-never to be remembered again! When I look into His face, there is no accusation of my guilt. His look is only total love and acceptance.

Talk about amazing grace! Why did my Lord love me so? How could He look at me with such compassion and forgiveness?

Do you remember the dramatic story of how Peter stood outside the high priest’s house where Jesus was being accused? Three times he denied that he was one of the Lord’s disciples, or that he even knew Him. About that time a rooster crowed, and the door of the house opened and they led Jesus out.

What’s in a look?

The gospel account says, And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly (Luke 22:61, 62).

Notice that Jesus didn’t say a word to Peter-He just looked at him. But oh, how much Peter must have seen in that look!

Another gospel story tells how the Pharisees brought a woman to Jesus who was accused of adultery and asked if she should be stoned as the Mosaic Law prescribed. Jesus waited a bit, then looked at them and said, Let him who is without sin cast the first stone (see John 8:7).

One by one the members of that self-righteous mob slunk away until no one was left except Jesus and the woman. Where are your accusers? He asked her, Who condemns you?

No one, she replied.

And Jesus, looking at her with great kindness and divine love, said, Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more!

Oh, the wonder of His love that takes away every mistake - every sin and gives us a perfect heart! How marvelous to claim the precious promise found in 2 Chronicles 16:9-For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

Do you realize what this means? Our Lord’s eyes always see us and what we do for Him. He has seen my every performance, every word I’ve spoken on the crusade platform or before the television cameras, every article I’ve ever written. He’s seen everything that you have done in your whole life to serve and honor Him. When we run the race, He keeps track of the course and is aware of the obstacles. He gives us power to endure and supplies us with everything we need to finish the course!

Running for the reward

At the end of the race, when we stand before the Lord, rewards will be given out for our efforts in running the course. We will be rewarded-not just for what we did, but also for the motive behind our performance. Did we do it just for attention, to say, Look at me! If so, our efforts were to no avail. But if we did it for souls, for the Kingdom of God, we will receive an eternal reward that we can lay at the feet of our Lord.

And I can’t help but believe that even before the awards are given out, all we will have to do is to look up into the face of Jesus and the look will indicate our standing! We won’t have to wait to hear Him say, Well done, good and faithful servant to know. Oh, we will hear those words if we deserve it, but just seeing the look on His face will tell it all!

The Olympics is always a great event with the attention of the world focused on the competitors who come from all over the world. They compete for a temporal reward-man’s recognition and the gold, silver, and bronze medals of achievement. The grandstands are full of cheering throngs of fans, and the Olympic judges are watching-never closing their eyes. They watch, judge, and reward every performance.

The Olympian competitors always appreciate and acknowledge the spectators in the grandstands, but when they finish their competition, they do not watch the fans. Their eyes are fixed upon the judges, watching to see if they can read their look to learn if they will be presented the prize!

The book of Hebrews says that we are in a very similar situation-that the great heroes of faith and all our loved ones and friends who have gone on to heaven before us are looking down and cheering us on. I believe that my mom and dad are in that crowd of heavenly witnesses. And as I run past, I’d love to see that look of approval from them again. But while I am aware of their encouraging presence, I want to finish my race with my eyes on Jesus!

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:1,2).

Let us seek for the approval of our Lord today and His look of approval tomorrow.

PAUL - NOT THE LAST BAILOUT

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

Ron Paul: This Bailout Won't Be the Last
September 19, 2008 05:35 PM ET

I recently chatted with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) about the gigantic financial bailout that the government is preparing to undertake.Some excerpts from the interview:

What's your take on this huge financial bailout?
It's more of the same. More debt and more inflation and more pressure on the dollar. Ultimately, although the markets are responding very favorably at the moment, I think it is going to be devastating to the dollar and to our financial situation in this country.

But don't we need to get these toxic assets off banks' balance sheets?
Sure, they need to be removed. Somebody needs to suffer the consequences [but] not the taxpayer. Everybody knows that they have to be removed. They are priced too high. The assets don't have real value—some have zero and some have 10 cents on the dollar.

The people who had been making profits for all these years and dealing in all of this debt creation and derivatives—that now is becoming unwound—are claiming that it would be so painful if somebody went bankrupt and therefore we have to put so much burden on the taxpayer and on the dollar because the alternative is worse. But quite frankly, if they destroy the dollar and the dollar system, then they have a much bigger problem that they are going to have to deal with and it would be the collapse of the whole international monetary system—which is conceivable.

So instead of having taxpayers buy the bad debt, the market should take care of it by itself?
Sure, prices need to go down. Bad debt needs to be eliminated. The taxpayer ought to be protected. Taxes ought to be lowered...We are following the same routine that we did in the Depression, and that is artificially try to keep prices up. People were starving in the Depression and the only thing they did was try to keep wages artificially high and keep food prices high. We are doing the same thing now—we are trying to keep housing prices high. Low prices for houses mean poor people could buy a house. This is the most important part of a free market economy and that is free market pricing. Without free market pricing, the market can't work. And this is in a way a major effort to price fix.

So you think the government should not have bailed out an y companies during this crisis?
That would have been the best thing. It would have been painful, but housing prices would have come down sharper and faster, and it would have been over by now. But this whole idea of price fixing—that's what they are doing—has been trying to keep housing prices up and trying to stimulate home building. Well, if you have 100 percent more homes than the market really wants, you can't keep prices up and you can't stimulate home building. If the prices go down, then people will go out and buy homes again. So they should allow the liquidation of debt.

Before the Depression, [the government] generally allowed these kinds of problems to unwind. They were very severe. They would last six months or a year—a lot of liquidation of debt would be wiped off the books. And then it would go back to work again. What we've been doing now—especially since 1971—is preventing the real liquidation of the malinvestment and the excess of debt . . . If this process continues, we're going to own General Motors and Ford, then we will have to own the airlines. We are socializing our country without even a vote by the Congress. It's a horrible situation.

Will this bailout stabilize the crisis?
I personally don't think so. It might be temporary, but no, there is much more involved. I mean, we are talking about trying to unwind trillions of dollars of derivatives . . . You have to get rid of all that stuff.

Will this bailout be the last?
No, no. This won't be the last one. There will be something else later on. But that doesn't mean you might not have a few months of a reprieve. But it will continue.

Will we have to bail out the auto makers?
Oh I think so. We are not going to let them fail. Our policy is such that everybody gets bailed out. It's like a drug addict, they've got to take their fix. It's too tough getting off these drugs. And the drug here is easy credit.

Exclusive: Foreign banks may get help Mike Allen
Sun Sep 21, 8:24 AM ET

In a change from the original proposal sent to Capitol Hill, foreign-based banks with big U.S. operations could qualify for the Treasury Department’s mortgage bailout, according to the fine print of an administration statement Saturday night.

The theory, according to a participant in the negotiations, is that if the goal is to solve a liquidity crisis, it makes no sense to exclude banks that do a lot of lending in the United States.Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson confirmed the change on ABC's This Week, telling George Stephanopoulos that coverage of foreign-based banks is a distinction without a difference to the American people.If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution, Paulson said.That's a distinction without a difference to the American people. The key here is protecting the system. ... We have a global financial system, and we are talking very aggressively with other countries around the world and encouraging them to do similar things, and I believe a number of them will. But, remember, this is about protecting the American people and protecting the taxpayers. and the American people don't care who owns the financial institution. If the financial institution in this country has problems, it'll have the same impact whether it's the U.S. or foreign.The legislative outline that went to Capitol Hill at 1:30 a.m. Saturday had said that an eligible financial institution had to have its headquarters in the United States. That would exclude foreign-based institutions with big U.S. operations, such as Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS.

But a Treasury Fact Sheet released at 7:15 Saturday night sought to give the administration more flexibility, with an expanded definition that could include all of those banks: Participating financial institutions must have significant operations in the U.S., unless the Secretary makes a determination, in consultation with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, that broader eligibility is necessary to effectively stabilize financial markets.The major change in the suggested eligibility requirements is the biggest change that Treasury publicly made after a day of briefings and conversations with Capitol Hill, and is likely the first of many. Aspects of the $700 billion, two-year proposal that are still under negotiation include what, if anything, will be added to the administration’s simple but sweeping proposal. And the parliamentary route, such as what committees or hearings might be involved, has not been finalized.House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has a hearing scheduled for Wednesday that is likely to focus on the proposal.Under what congressional officials called a likely scenario, the measure could go to the House floor on Thursday, with passage expected the same day.The Senate could take the package up as soon as Friday and send it to President Bush for his signature, although the Senate schedule is less predictable and had not been determined.Officials expect passage by huge margins in both chambers because Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have told congressional leaders the country’s financial stability depends on it.House Democrats plan to insist on adding protections for homeowners facing foreclosure. They also want to add a measure to help homeowners facing bankruptcy and an executive compensation restriction designed to prevent golden parachutes for the heads of troubled institutions.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who was supportive of the bailout concept in a statement released Friday, believes that whatever gets done in Congress has to protect Main Street, senior adviser Stephanie Cutter said on MSNBC on Saturday.On Fox News Sunday, Paulson told Chris Wallace that he would resist the Democrats' desired limits on executive compensation.If we design it so it's punitive and institutions aren't going to participate, this won't work the way we need it to work, Paulson said. Let's talk executive salaries: There have been excesses there. I agree with the American people. Pay should be for performance, not for failure. We've got work to do in that regard. We need to do that work. But we need this system to work. And so reforms need to come afterwards. My whole objective with the plan we have is to give us the maximum ability to make it work.And the secretary told NBC’s Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that he doesn’t want new regulations simultaneously: That's not doable to do that immediately. But we very much need new regulations.Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) told Stephanopoulos on ABC: If we’re going to spend taxpayer money to get rid of bad debt in these places, what is the reciprocal obligation … from the firms? … I think there’s going to be a strong interest to deal with the Main Street aspects.Appearing with him, House Republican Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio retorted: We’ve already dealt with that, when we had the housing bill last summer. I didn’t vote for it, because it’s $300 billion bailout for scam artists and speculators and others around the housing industry. But there are a lot of tools in there to help the Federal Housing Administration deal with the foreclosure problem that’s out there. We need to rise above partisan politics … and deal with this as adults.

Paulson resists calls for added help in bailout By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer SEPT 21,08

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday that the nation's credit markets remain frozen and Congress must move quickly to pass a $700 billion bailout package for financial firms. But key Democrats said the legislation needs changes to provide better protections for taxpayers and homeowners in danger of losing their homes. The credit markets are still very fragile right now and frozen, Paulson said in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press. We need to deal with this and deal with it quickly.Paulson made the rounds of the television talk shows to stress the need for speed in getting the bailout package approved. The administration spent the weekend negotiating the details of the proposal with members of Congress with the expectation that it can be passed in the next week.Paulson said that it pains me tremendously to have the American taxpayer put in this position but it is better than the alternative.Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, said that what Congress was being asked to approve was the mother of all bailouts which Shelby said would end up costing more like $1 trillion rather than $700 billion when the costs of the government taking over mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and insurance giant American International Group Inc. were added.Democrats said they understood the need for urgency but insisted that the measure needed to provide help for homeowners threatened with losing their homes, perhaps by changes in bankruptcy laws to allow for mortgages to be modified, and by capping pay and benefit packages for executives at the huge Wall Street firms that will be selling their bad debt to the government.I don't want the American taxpayer to get this bad debt and then the guy (whose company once held the bad loans) gets millions of dollars on his way out the door, said House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass.Paulson and President Bush have argued that the alternative would be credit markets that remain frozen, meaning that businesses will fail because they can't get the loans they need to operate and the economy will grind to a halt because consumers, who account for two-thirds of economic activity, won't be able to get the credit they need to keep spending.Bush said Saturday the White House is ready to work with Congress to quickly enact legislation to allow the government to purchase hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bad debt linked to the collapse of the housing market.

The administration proposal would be the biggest government intervention since the Great Depression. It would dole out huge sums of money to financial firms to purchase their holdings of bad mortgage-backed securities so that these firms can resume normal lending operations. The bad mortgage debt has been at the heart of the current credit crisis which hit more than a year ago but erupted with special ferocity in the past two weeks forcing extraordinary government actions.Two weeks ago, the government seized control of the nation's two largest mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and then last week, it took control of the country's largest insurance company, American International Group Inc.The measure that the administration sent up to Congress on Saturday is a mere three pages in length. While Paulson emphasized the need for speed, Democrats said Sunday that they could do it quickly while also adding necessary protections for taxpayers and help for people facing the threat of mortgage foreclosures.Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., appearing on ABC's This Week, said if all of this help was being directed to Wall Street there was also a need to provide help for people on Main Street.But Paulson, also appearing on ABC, said, We need this to be clean and to be quick.Paulson resisted suggestions being made by Democrats that the program be changed to include further relief for homeowners facing mortgage foreclosures and to include an additional $50 billion stimulus effort. Some Democrats have also suggested capping compensation of executives at firms who get the bailout help.Paulson said he was concerned that debate over adding all of those proposals would slow passage of the bill, delaying the rescue effort that is so urgently needed to get financial markets moving again.The biggest help we can give the American people right now is to stabilize the financial system, Paulson said.

But Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said that he believed there would be changes to Paulson's plan and that agreement could still be reached quickly. Schumer said that he was pushing to get a provision where the government would receive stock warrants in return for the bailout relief and for creation of a government oversight board to supervise the huge operation, which under Paulson's plan would be run out of the Treasury Department. He said Paulson seemed receptive to changes when he had discussed his ideas with him. I have told him ... we need changes related to housing, we need to put the taxpayer first ahead of bondholders, shareholders, Schumer said on Fox News Sunday.However, Republican lawmakers said that the Democratic efforts risks slowing down a measure that was urgently needed. This would be the most serious financial crisis that the world has ever dealt with. It is not a time to be playing games, said House Republican Leader John Boehner. Paulson said in the interviews that he had been talking to other governments about the need for them to offer similar relief because the current financial crisis is global. He said that the nation's outdated regulatory system for financial markets must be overhauled but the first job is to get the most sweeping rescue package since the Great Depression passed by Congress in coming days. The proposal would raise the statutory limit on the national debt from $10.6 trillion to $11.3 trillion to make room for the massive rescue.

I THINK GOD GOT PALIN IN AS VP RUNNER TO PROVE HOW THE GODLESS AND LUKEWARM LIBERAL DEMOCRATES AND THE MEDIA HATE TRUE CHRISTIANS. THIS WILL FORCE THE JUDGEMENTS ON THE EARTH BECAUSE PROOF THE GODLESS ARE GETTING WORSE AND WORSE AND SIN WILL BE JUDGED AND THE SINNERS WLL BE TAKEN CARE OF IF THEY DO NOT REPENT AND ACCEPT JESUS AS GOD AND KING OF THE EARTH. AND THAT GODS COMMANDMENTS ARE TRUTH AND MANS IMAGINATIONS ARE SATANS PLAYGROUND.

DEMOCRATES MOCK PALIN
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbpalinhumor0919sbsep20,0,3416290.story

CARTOON MOCKS PALINS FAITH
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75703

MUSLIM MAN MARRIES BEATS 10 YR OLD BRIDE
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-nujood20-2008sep20,0,6825083.story?track=rss

Canadian columnist's diatribe against Palin stokes anger in the U.S.
Sat Sep 20, 6:57 PM By Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - Canadian journalist Heather Mallick is facing an ugly onslaught from the U.S. right-wing media and its fans for an online column she wrote maligning Sarah Palin as white trash.The Sept. 5 column on CBC.ca, entitled A Mighty Wind Blows Through the Republican Convention, had already been on the receiving end of vitriol from some Canadian news organizations. But Fox News picked up on it this week, and unleashed its full fury on Mallick for stating that Palin, the Republicans' vice-presidential nominee, appeals to the white trash vote with her toned-down version of the porn actress look.Mallick says those comments pale in comparison to the abuse that's come her way in the wake of the column. She's been called a pig by Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren, has been branded an insane Pakistani Muslim by commentators on Fox message boards and has received violent and threatening email, some of which include anti-Semitic slurs - despite the fact that she's neither Jewish nor Muslim. I'd love to punch you right in your chops and knock every tooth out of your head. Come see me bi---, I have something for you! someone named Dave Jones wrote in an email to Mallick. Messages left on the Fox News website also contain a lot of anti-Canadian sentiment.

Canada is made up of small towns and many if not most trace their ancestry back to their redneck cousin and they still have relatives here in the U.S., one wrote.

Wrote another, Those morons up north just can't keep their ignorant mouths shut when it's really none of their socialist business ... the People's Republic of Canada is no friend of the USA! The Toronto-based Mallick admits she's been shaken by the violence suggested in hundreds of emails similar in tone to Jones', but adds the messages have simply served to underscore her point about the bigotry and small-mindedness of some Republican supporters. The responses to my column proved me correct about the extreme right in the United States: they have a great misogynist rage in them, Mallick said in an interview from Toronto on Saturday. The violent and obscene threats against me were one thing - it's easy to filter those - but the anti-Semitic hate mail was very troubling. I am not Jewish but I am honoured to be taken for one. I consider it a great compliment.The CBC said Saturday it had no plans to remove Mallick's article from its website despite the criticism. She's an opinion columnist, she expresses her opinion. Her opinions don't represent the views of CBC in general or CBC News in particular, said spokesman Jeff Keay. The people who object to her opinions have an opportunity to comment on the website as they've done.

Mallick was certainly not alone in attacking Palin in the days following John McCain's surprise pick of the Alaska governor as his running mate. Among many others in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere, Salon.com's Cintra Wilson had a column about Palin that was in the same vein as Mallick's. Ideologically, she is their hardcore pornographic centrefold spread, Wilson wrote. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.The rage of women about Palin in the so-called blue states - those that routinely vote Democrat in presidential elections - has, in fact, been well-documented. All of my women friends ... were on the verge of throwing themselves out windows, author and political activist Nancy Kricorian told the New York Sun earlier this week. People were flipping out. ... Every woman I know was in high hysteria over this. Everyone was just beside themselves with terror that this woman could be our president - our potential next president.But the woman-versus-woman slurs haven't just focused on Palin. Van Susteren levelled some Mallick's way when she repeatedly called her a pig while discussing the controversy with the Ottawa Citizen's David Warren on her Fox News Channel show Thursday. There's no part of me that thinks this woman published this as part of a grand motive to expose others. I think she just wrote it for selfish reasons and because, as I noted, I think she's a pig, Van Susteren said. One lone participant on Van Susteren's blog, amid the many cheerleaders, took her to task for the remarks. It seems particularly ironic that you decry Mallick's lack of tact/professionalism, etc., when she name-calls by doing precisely the same thing: what sort of journalistic integrity is there in calling someone a pig? wrote someone named Hope.

The media blog Media Bistro also defended Mallick. We kind of think Heather Mallick has some balls to be that snarky in a country that tries to legislate politeness, it wrote. Mallick was unapologetic about the column Saturday, adding the CBC has been supportive of her right to expression. Columnists have been opinionating since newspapers were invented, she said. And now journalism is online which makes reaction even more hyper than it used to be. I'm a confident writer and some of this new audience is not used to that.

Scholar claims to find medieval Jewish capital By MANSUR MIROVALEV, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 20, 2:13 PM ET

MOSCOW - A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear leaving little trace of its culture. Dmitry Vasilyev, a professor at Astrakhan State University, said his nine-year excavation near the Caspian Sea has finally unearthed the foundations of a triangular fortress of flamed brick, along with modest yurt-shaped dwellings, and he believes these are part of what was once Itil, the Khazar capital.By law Khazars could use flamed bricks only in the capital, Vasilyev said. The general location of the city on the Silk Road was confirmed in medieval chronicles by Arab, Jewish and European authors.The discovery of the capital of Eastern Europe's first feudal state is of great significance, he told The Associated Press. We should view it as part of Russian history.Kevin Brook, the American author of The Jews of Khazaria, e-mailed Wednesday that he has followed the Itil dig over the years, and even though it has yielded no Jewish artifacts, Now I'm as confident as the archaeological team is that they've truly found the long-lost city,The Khazars were a Turkic tribe that roamed the steppes from Northern China to the Black Sea. Between the 7th and 10th centuries they conquered huge swaths of what is now southern Russia and Ukraine, the Caucasus Mountains and Central Asia as far as the Aral Sea.Itil, about 800 miles south of Moscow, had a population of up to 60,000 and occupied 0.8 square miles of marshy plains southwest of the Russian Caspian Sea port of Astrakhan, Vasilyev said.It lay at a major junction of the Silk Road, the trade route between Europe and China, which helped Khazars amass giant profits, he said.

The Khazar empire was once a regional superpower, and Vasilyev said his team has found luxurious collections of well-preserved ceramics that help identify cultural ties of the Khazar state with Europe, the Byzantine Empire and even Northern Africa. They also found armor, wooden kitchenware, glass lamps and cups, jewelry and vessels for transporting precious balms dating back to the eighth and ninth centuries, he said.But a scholar in Israel, while calling the excavations interesting, said the challenge was to find Khazar inscriptions.If they found a few buildings, or remains of buildings, that's interesting but does not make a big difference, said Dr. Simon Kraiz, an expert on Eastern European Jewry at Haifa University. If they found Khazar writings, that would be very important.Vasilyev says no Jewish artifacts have been found at the site, and in general, most of what is known about the Khazars comes from chroniclers from other, sometimes competing cultures and empires.We know a lot about them, and yet we know almost nothing: Jews wrote about them, and so did Russians, Georgians, and Armenians, to name a few, said Kraiz. But from the Khazars themselves we have nearly nothing.The Khazars' ruling dynasty and nobility converted to Judaism sometime in the 8th or 9th centuries. Vasilyev said the limited number of Jewish religious artifacts such as mezuzas and Stars of David found at other Khazar sites prove that ordinary Khazars preferred traditional beliefs such as shamanism, or newly introduced religions including Islam.Yevgeny Satanovsky, director of the Middle Eastern Institute in Moscow, said he believes the Khazar elite chose Judaism out of political expediency — to remain independent of neighboring Muslim and Christian states. They embraced Judaism because they wanted to remain neutral, like Switzerland these days, he said.In particular, he said, the Khazars opposed the Arab advance into the Caucasus Mountains and were instrumental in containing a Muslim push toward eastern Europe. He compared their role in eastern Europe to that of the French knights who defeated Arab forces at the Battle of Tours in France in 732.

The Khazars succeeded in holding off the Arabs, but a young, expanding Russian state vanquished the Khazar empire in the late 10th century. Medieval Russian epic poems mention Russian warriors fighting the Jewish Giant.In many ways, Russia is a successor of the Khazar state, Vasilyev said. He said his dig revealed traces of a large fire that was probably caused by the Russian conquest. He said Itil was rebuilt following the fall of the Khazar empire, when ethnic Khazars were slowly assimilated by Turkic-speaking tribes, Tatars and Mongols, who inhabited the city until it was flooded by the rising Caspian Sea around the 14th century. The study of the Khazar empire was discouraged in the Soviet Union. The dictator Josef Stalin, in particular, detested the idea that a Jewish empire had come before Russia's own. He ordered references to Khazar history removed from textbooks because they disproved his theory of Russian statehood, Satanovsky said. Only now are Russian scholars free to explore Khazar culture. The Itil excavations have been sponsored by the Russian-Jewish Congress, a nonprofit organization that supports cultural projects in Russia.

Khazar studies are just beginning, Satanovsky said.

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 JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN Russians moving into Syria,Strategic alliance include fleet, missiles September 19, 2008 8:05 pm Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily

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The coast of Syria, where Tartus is located

Just as Russia has reasserted its power in the Black Sea, it now plans to make waves in the Mediterranean Sea by establishing a major base in Syria, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.This decision not only will allow a permanent presence of Russia's nuclear-armed Black Sea fleet in the Mediterranean, but it also offers the potential for future confrontations between Russia and Israel, as well as with the United States.The Russian navy has begun to upgrade facilities in Tartus, Syria, and already has backed this up by moving to Syria a flotilla of its powerful warships led by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. The flotilla includes the Russian navy's biggest missile cruiser Moskva and some four nuclear missile submarines.From 1971 to 1992, the former Soviet Union operated a naval maintenance facility at Tartus. It then fell into disrepair. Only one of its three floating piers remained operational.But the facilities now are being restored.

It is much more advantageous to have such a facility than to return ships that patrol the Mediterranean to their home bases, said former Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Eduard Baltin.The establishment of the permanent base also is viewed as Moscow's response to the upcoming installation of U.S. missile interceptors along Poland's Baltic coast at Redzikowo. Such an agreement was signed last month between the U.S. and Poland.Syria, meantime, also is considering a request from Moscow to base missiles in the country due to tensions between Russia and the West over its invasion of Georgia in the Caucasus.Russia would send in the surface-to-surface Iskander missile which Moscow says is capable of penetrating any missile defense system.With a NATO code name of the SS-26 Stone, the Iskander is a road-mobile system. It has a range of 300 kilometers, or 186 miles, giving Damascus the capability of striking Tel Aviv in Israel.

LIKE THE SONG GOES THERES SOMETHING IN THE AIR. I THINK IRAN AND THOSE COUNTRY DEMONIC SPIRITS CONTROLLING IRAN KNOW SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN SHORTLY BECAUSE AHMADINEJAD IS REALLY THREATENING THESE DAYS AGAIN.

Iran warns against attack on nuclear facilities By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer SEPT 21,08

TEHRAN, Iran - Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that Iran's military will break the hand of anyone targeting his country's nuclear facilities.

The president spoke during a military parade displaying various types of Iranian-made missiles, including Shahab-3 and Ghadr. Also taking part in the parade was a military truck carrying a huge banner saying Israel should be eliminated from the universe in both English and Farsi.If anyone allows himself to commit even a tiny offense against Iran's legitimate interests, borders and sacred land, our armed forces will break his hand before he pulls the trigger, Ahmadinejad said during the parade.The phrase legitimate interests is Iranian parlance for the country's nuclear program, which the West says is a cover for developing nuclear weapons. Iran, which denies the charge, already is under three sets of sanctions by the U.N. Security Council over the issue.Washington and its Western allies are pushing for quick passage of a fourth set of sanctions to underline the international community's resolve.But Ahmadinejad said Sunday that sanctions only help Iran achieve self-sufficiency.Those who once imposed sanctions, today should open their eyes and see our nation's technical achievements, he said.Both the United States and its ally Israel say they support a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff with Iran but cannot rule out the military option.Today, Iran is not in a position to show softness toward its enemies, said Ahmadinejad, but added that threats made against Iran's nuclear facilities amounted to only psychological warfare.Sunday's parade commemorated the start in 1980 of Iran's ruinous eight-year war with neighboring Iraq.

Meanwhile, the official IRNA news agency reported that on the sideline of the parade, the air force chief of the Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Hossein Salami, rejected the notion that Iran had any ambitions for nuclear weapons, describing them as ineffective.Any report about Iran's intention to use nuclear weapon is a sheer lie, he said, while adding that our missiles are able to target the enemy's points in the region.

Fatah officials in Egypt for inter-Palestinian talks SEPT 21,08

CAIRO (AFP) - Members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' Fatah movement arrived in Egypt on Sunday for talks with officials aimed at starting a national dialogue between rival factions, the MENA news agency said. The Fatah delegation -- headed by senior Abbas adviser Nabil Shaath -- was to meet Egyptian intelligence supremo and chief negotiator Omar Suleiman on Tuesday, MENA said.The meeting is part of a series of bilateral talks between Egypt and the Palestinian factions aimed at defining a unified Palestinian position to be presented at the comprehensive meeting of the factions which will take place in the second half of October, it reported.Egypt has been holding separate talks with rival Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Fatah which have been bitterly divided since June 2007 when Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to Fatah.Cairo has been acting as a mediator between the two groups, and between Hamas and Israel, which views the Islamist movement as a terror group.A delegation from Hamas is expected in Cairo on October 8, the agency said.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

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.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Scandal-hit Olmert to resign formally Sunday
By Jeffrey Heller SEPT 21,08

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will hand his resignation to President Shimon Peres on Sunday, Olmert's office said, but the scandal-hit leader could stay in office for weeks or months until a government is formed.Olmert, who faces criminal indictment in corruption probes, said earlier at the weekly cabinet session he was stepping down in accordance with good governance and history would judge the achievements of his administration.The ongoing political uncertainty has dimmed even further prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal which the United States had hoped Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could achieve this year.In a statement, Olmert's office said he would meet Peres at the president's residence at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. EDT) in order to hand him his letter of resignation.After Olmert does so, he will become caretaker prime minister until Israel has a new government through a coalition deal or an early election.Olmert was replaced by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as leader of the ruling Kadima party in an internal election on Wednesday, raising her chances of becoming Israel's first woman prime minister since Golda Meir in the 1970s.Peres will on Sunday hold talks with leaders of the four largest parliamentary factions -- Kadima, Labour, Likud and Shas -- before officially asking Livni to form a new government.Olmert had promised to resign once a new Kadima chief was chosen. At the cabinet session, Olmert wished Livni well, shook her hand and called on the country to support her.If Livni, Israel's chief negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinians, gets the nod from Peres to try to form a new government, she will have up to 42 days to put together a coalition.Failure to build a coalition would lead to an early parliamentary election.

Livni appeared to face an uphill battle to retain a political partnership with Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Labour Party.In a snub to Livni, Barak met opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud on Saturday to discuss the political situation.Political commentators said it appeared both men were trying to work out a deal for an early election, and by keeping Olmert on as caretaker prime minister, freeze Livni out of the top leadership spot before a national ballot.

Opinion polls predict Netanyahu would win a general election, amid speculation he would keep Barak as defense chief.(Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

Israel's Olmert announces Sunday resignation By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer SEPT 21,08

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, crippled by a series of corruption investigations, announced he would resign Sunday, clearing the way for his foreign minister to try to succeed him as Israel's next leader. The prime minister's office said Olmert would submit an official letter of resignation to President Shimon Peres later Sunday, freeing the president to formally tap Livni to try to put together a new government. Weeks ago, Olmert promised to step down after his governing Kadima Party elected a new chief to replace him.Livni, a rival of Olmert's, won that race last week by a narrow margin, but that victory did not assure her the premiership. Peres must first assign her the task of trying to cobble together a government, giving her six weeks to forge a coalition. Should she fail, parliamentary elections would be called for early 2009, a year and a half ahead of schedule.Olmert is expected to stay on as caretaker prime minister until a successor is in place.

At the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, Olmert notified ministers of his intention to resign, pledging to help Livni with all my might to form a government.Livni and Olmert have had a tense working relationship since she called on him to resign in May 2007 after a government report harshly criticized his handling of the war against Lebanon the previous year. Livni also was one of the first voices to call on him to leave office this year after a key witness in a corruption case said he had given illicit payments and fancy gifts to Olmert.Polls show that in the event of a parliamentary election, Kadima would be in a tight race with the hawkish Likud Party, headed by opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, a former prime minister.As prime minister, Livni would be expected to pursue a moderate and pragmatic course in peacemaking with the Palestinians and Syria. Netanyahu takes a tougher line in peace talks, and Israel's relations with the Arab world suffered when he was prime minister in the late 1990s.Any accords that might emerge from talks with the Palestinians and recently renewed, indirect negotiations with Syria would benefit from broad-based parliamentary backing.Over the weekend, Livni met with potential coalition partners, including two small factions that are not part of the current government, which controls 67 of parliament's 120 seats.

Neither Kadima nor its coalition partners appear eager for a new election, fearing they would be ousted from power. But the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, which could be key to building a new coalition, has already said it would not join a government willing to share Jerusalem with the Palestinians.As lead peace negotiator, Livni is committed to discussing all the outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinians. The fate of Jerusalem, whose eastern sector the Palestinians claim for a future state, is at the core of the conflict.Kadima was founded in 2005 by then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. But Sharon suffered a debilitating stroke in early 2006, pushing Olmert into the leadership role.Olmert led Kadima to victory in 2006 parliamentary elections. But his term in office was troubled by a series of police investigations, Israel's inconclusive 2006 war against Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and months of peace talks with the Palestinians that have yielded no breakthroughs.

The police investigations focus on Olmert's financial dealings in the years before he became prime minister. Police have recommended he be indicted on counts that include bribery and money laundering, but prosecutors have not decided whether to press charges. Olmert denies any wrongdoing.

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.

GOD SAYS, U WANT TO KILL EACH OTHER WITH VIOLENCE, I WILL KILL THE KILLER WITH VIOLENCE FROM THE EARTH, EARTHQUAKES, TORNADOES, FIERCE HURRICANES AND FINALLY THE ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION OF MURDERER TO MURDERER WW3 TO ABOLISH THE MURDERERS FROM THE EARTH.

Al-Qaida, Pakistani Taliban eyed in Marriott bomb By ZARAR KHAN, Associated Press Writer SEPT 21,08

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Rescuers pulled more bodies from the shell of the truck-bombed Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital Sunday, pushing the death toll from one of the country's worst terrorist strikes to 53, including the Czech ambassador and two Americans. The five-story hotel, a favorite spot for foreigners and the Pakistani elite — and a previous target of militants — still smoldered from a fire that raged for hours after the previous day's explosion, which also wounded more than 250 people.No group immediately claimed responsibility, though suspicion fell on al-Qaida and the Pakistani Taliban. IntelCenter, a U.S. group that monitors and analyzes militant messages, noted that al-Qaida's 9/11 anniversary video threatened attacks against Western interests in Pakistan, where many are angered by a wave of cross-border strikes on militant bases by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.The bomb went off close to 8 p.m. Saturday, when the restaurants inside would have been packed with Muslim diners breaking their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan.The owner of the hotel accused security forces of a serious lapse in allowing a dump truck to approach the hotel unchallenged and not shooting the driver before he could trigger the explosives.

If I were there and had seen the suicide bomber, I would have killed him. Unfortunately, they didn't, Sadruddin Hashwani said.The government released footage from a hotel surveillance camera showing the heavy truck turning left into the gate at speed, ramming a metal barrier and coming to a halt about 60 feet away from the hotel.Guards nervously came forward to look, then scattered after an initial small explosion.Several guards tried repeatedly to douse flames spreading through the cab of the truck as traffic continued to pass on the road behind. There is no sign of movement in the truck and the footage played did not show the final blast.Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the bomber attacked the hotel only after tight security prevented him from reaching Parliament or the prime minister's office, where the president and many dignitaries were gathered for dinner.The purpose was to destabilize democracy, Gilani said. They want to destroy us economically.Officials said vehicles carrying construction materials are allowed to move after sunset, meaning the sight of a dump truck near the government quarters might not have aroused suspicion.Rescue teams searched the blackened hotel room by room Sunday, but the temperatures remained high, and fires were still being put out in some parts. Officials feared the main building would collapse.Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said the bomb contained an estimated 1,300 pounds of military-grade explosives as well as artillery and mortar shells and left a crater 59 feet wide and 24 feet deep in front of the main building.Khalid Hussain Abbasi, a rescue official, confirmed that six new bodies had been found, but would not say if the dead were foreigners. He said he expected more charred remains to be discovered.Gilani said the death toll had reached about 53 and that Czech Ambassador Ivo Zdarek was among the dead. Zdarek, 47, only moved to Islamabad in August after four years as ambassador to Vietnam.

Malik said two Americans were confirmed dead as well as one Vietnamese national. Officials in Pakistan said at least 21 foreigners were among the wounded, including Britons, Germans, Americans and several people from the Middle East.TV footage showed at least two bodies partially visible from the wrecked facade Sunday morning. Outside, the hotel was surrounded by torched vehicles and debris. The bombing came just hours after President Asif Ali Zardari made his first address to Parliament, less than a mile away from the hotel. Malik said authorities received intelligence there might be militant activity linked to Zardari's address and security had been tightened. The attack drew condemnations from around the world, including the United States, which has pressured Pakistan to do more to wipe out militant hide-outs on its side of the Afghan border. Washington worries about Taliban and al-Qaida fighters using Pakistan as a training, recruiting and regrouping ground to aid the insurgency in Afghanistan. President Bush said the attack was a reminder of the ongoing threat faced by Pakistan, the United States, and all those who stand against violent extremism.A recent series of suspected U.S. missile strikes and a rare American ground assault in Pakistan's northwest have signaled Washington's impatience with Pakistan's efforts to clear out militants. But the cross-border operations have drawn protests from the Pakistani government, which warned they would fan militancy. Terrorism researcher Evan Kohlmann told the AP the attack was almost certainly the work of either al-Qaida or the Pakistani Taliban. It seems that someone has a firm belief that hotels like the Marriott are serving as 'barracks' for Western diplomats and intel personnel, and they are gunning pretty hard for them, Kohlmann said. The Marriott blast could prompt diplomats and aid groups in Islamabad, some of whom already operate under tight security, to re-evaluate whether nonessential staff and family members should stay. U.N. officials met Sunday to discuss the security situation and, for now, made no decision to change their measures, said Amena Kamaal, a spokeswoman. Zardari, who on Sunday was headed to New York to lead a delegation to the United Nations and was expected to meet with Bush during the week, spoke out against the cross-border strikes in his speech to Parliament. He condemned the cowardly attack afterward in an address to the nation.

Make this pain your strength, he said. This is a menace, a cancer in Pakistan which we will eliminate. We will not be scared of these cowards.In January 2007, a security guard blocked a suicide bomber who triggered a blast just outside the Marriott, killing the guard and wounding seven other people. The country's deadliest suicide bombing was on Oct. 18, 2007, and targeted ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto —Zardari's wife — who survived. It killed about 150 people in Karachi during celebrations welcoming her home from exile. Bhutto was assassinated in a subsequent attack on Dec. 27, 2007. On Aug. 21, 2008, suicide bombers blew themselves up at two gates into a mammoth weapons factory in the town of Wah, killing at least 67 people and wounding more than 70. Associated Press writer Nahal Toosi, Stephen Graham and Asif Shahzad contributed to this.

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.(TRADE 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).

Bush: Trade deal with Colombia is in US interest By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 20, 9:56 PM ET

WASHINGTON - President Bush and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe renewed their push on Saturday for Congress to approve a free-trade deal before lawmakers leave town to campaign for re-election. It's in our economic interest that we continue to open up markets in our neighborhood, particularly with a nation that is growing like yours, Bush told Uribe in the Rose Garden. And yet we can't get a vote out of Congress. I've been asking the Democrat leadership in Congress for a vote, and they've consistently blocked the vote.Congressional Democrats say they are delaying votes on trade deals involving Colombia, Panama and South Korea until the Bush administration resolves questions about the impact on U.S. jobs and other issues. But time is running out on the legislative calendar. The Colombian pact was negotiated in late 2006.Bush urged lawmakers to reconsider their opposition, but seemed resigned that it might not happen on his watch. Bush called Uribe an honest man who has responded to U.S. concerns about crime in Colombia and has been successful in reducing homicides, kidnappings and terrorist attacks.What happens in Colombia can affect life here in the United States, Bush said. You've got a strong supporter here. And after I leave office, it's going to be very important for the next president and the next Congress to stand squarely by your side.Uribe said a free-trade agreement would help increase U.S. investment in Colombia and provide jobs for people as an alternative to engaging in terrorism, illegal drug-trafficking and violence.Free trade agreement for us is the possibility to give certainty to investors for them to come to Colombia, and the more the investors come to Colombia, the less difficult for us to defeat terrorism, Uribe said. Investment is the real alternative to illicit crops. Investment is the real possibility for our people to find high-quality jobs.Later in the evening, Uribe was greeted at the North Portico by Bush and first lady Laura Bush, who had invited the Colombian president and other guests for a dinner of gazpacho, petite rib-eye steaks and coconut cake.

In remarks before dinner, Bush continued to pressure Congress to approve the free-trade deal while addressing a crowd of about 150 dinner guests, including members of the House and Senate, such as Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.The American people, Mr. President, are proud to call the Colombian people our friends and our allies, Bush told Uribe in the White House's East Room. My sincere hope is that the United States Congress will pass the Colombia free trade agreement as soon as possible.In a toast, Uribe praised Bush for his strong support to our policy but promised this is not the end of a U.S.-Colombia relationship, which will continue to grow stronger.In recent months, Bush has tried new ways to bolster his free-trade agenda. In May, a concrete mixer, crates of cauliflower, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and chunks of cheese were displayed on the White House lawn as examples of a lopsided tariff structure the U.S. has with those three countries.

A White House event in July was billed as a celebration of the day in 1810 when Colombia declared its independence from Spain, but the main message was trade.

Union leaders are not sold on the plan.

On Friday, the Teamsters, which represents 1.4 million workers, protested Uribe's visit, saying he was trying to promote a trade deal that threatens American jobs. The Teamsters and members of other unions and Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch held signs and passed out fliers in front of the National Press Building.With little hope the Colombian deal will be approved before Congress recesses for the November elections, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said that if there is a lame-duck session after the elections, lawmakers could ratify the agreement then.In light of recent divisive statements and rash actions by some Latin American leaders, ratification of the agreement would also send a strong signal to the region that the United States stands by its friends, said Lugar, top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, expelled the U.S. ambassador this month, accusing the diplomat of conspiring to oust him. Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, who claims the U.S. was behind a failed 2002 coup against him, quickly followed suit. That's enough ... from you, Yankees, Chavez said, using a barnyard expletive.

Associated Press writer Christine Simmons contributed to this report. On the Net:
Background on trade deal: http://tinyurl.com/3hrjgv

CERN: Damage to new collider forces 2-month halt By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 20, 2:07 PM ET

GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher — which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month — has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday. Experts have gone into 17-mile (27-kilometer) circular tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border to examine the damage that halted operations about 36 hours after its Sept. 10 startup, said James Gillies, spokesman for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.It's too early to say precisely what happened, but it seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out, Gillies told The Associated Press.Gillies said the sector that was damaged will have to be warmed up well above the absolute zero temperature used for operations so that repairs can be made — a time-consuming process.A number of magnets raised their temperature by around 100 degrees, Gillies said. We have now to warm up the whole sector in a controlled manner before we can actually go in and repair it.The $10 billion particle collider, in the design and construction stages for more than two decades, is the world's largest atom smasher. It fires beams of protons from the nuclei of atoms around the tunnels at nearly the speed of light.It then causes the protons to collide, revealing how the tiniest particles were first created after the big bang, which many theorize was the massive explosion that formed the stars, planets and everything.Gillies said such failures occur frequently in particle accelerators, but it was made more complicated in this case because the Large Hadron Collider operates at near absolute zero, colder than outer space, for maximum efficiency.When they happen in our other accelerators, it's a matter of a couple of days to fix them, Gillies said. But because this is a superconducting machine and you've got long warmup and cool-down periods, it means we're going to be off for a couple of months.He said it would take several weeks minimum to warm up the sector.

Then we can fix it, Gillies said. Then we cool it down again.CERN announced Thursday that it had shut down the collider a week ago after a successful startup that had beams of protons circling in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions in the collider.It was at first thought the failure of an electrical transformer that handles part of the cooling was the problem, CERN said. That transformer was replaced last weekend and the machine was lowered back to operating temperature to prepare for a resumption of operations.But then more inspections were needed and it was determined that the problem was worse than initially thought, said Gillies.The CERN experiments with the particle collider hope to reveal more about dark matter, antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. They could also find evidence of a hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — which is sometimes called the God particle because it is believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Scientists once thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but experiments have shown that protons and neutrons are made of quarks and gluons and that there are other forces and particles.The LHC provides much greater power than earlier colliders.Its start came over the objections of some who feared the collision of protons could eventually imperil the Earth by creating micro black holes — subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.

TORAH PORTION FROM SEPT 21 - 27, 2008

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION FROM SEPT 21, 2008 6PM TO SEPT 27,2008

Devarim
Book 5: Deuteronomy NITZOVIM


DEUTORONOMY 29:09 - 30:20
Chapter 29
Verse 9: You stand, this day all of you before Ad-noy, your G-d; your tribal chieftains, your elders and your law officers, every man of Yisroel.
Verse 10: Your young, your wives, and your convert who is within your camps; from your wood cutters to the water drawers.
Verse 11: For your passage into the covenant of Ad-noy, your G-d, and His oath-curse, that Ad-noy, your G-d, is making with you today,

Sheini (Second Aliyah)
Verse 12: In order to sustain you today as His people, and He will be for you a G-d as He promished you and as He promised your forefathers Avrohom, Yitzchok, and Yaakov.
Verse 13: And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath-curse.
Verse 14: But with whoever is here with us standing today in the presence of Ad-noy, our G-d, and with those who are not here with us today.

Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Verse 15: For you are aware how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the nations whom you passed through.
Verse 16: Where you observed their abominations and their loathsomeness [idols], wood and stone, silver and gold, that they owned.
Verse 17: Perhaps there is among you a man or a woman or a family or a tribe whose thoughts stray today from [being] with Ad-noy, our G-d, to go serve the gods of those nations; lest there is within you a root producing gall and bitter fruit.
Verse 18: When he hears the statements of this oath-curse, he will imagine self-blessings, saying, Peace will be my lot when I shall follow what my thoughts envision, so that the unintentional may be added to the sinful.
Verse 19: Ad-noy will be unwilling to forgive him, because then Ad-noy's nostrils will fume and His vengeful fury enflame against that man, and there will cling to him the entire oath-curse written in this book; and Ad-noy will eliminate his name from beneath the sky.
Verse 20: And Ad-noy will seperate him for harm from all the tribes of Yisroel, in accord with all the oath-curses of the covenant inscribed in this Torah scroll.
Verse 21: The latter generation will say--- your children who will arise after you and the stranger who will come from a distant land; and they will see the plagues of that land and its illnesses that Ad-noy has harmed it with.
Verse 22: Sulfur and salt, all its land, will be burnt, it will not be seeded, and it will not sprout, and no grass will grow there; like the overturning of Sodom and Amoroh, Admoh and Tzevoyim, which Ad-noy overturned in His anger and His wrath.
Verse 23: And all the nations will say, For what did Ad-noy do so to this land? Why the vigor of this great anger?
Verse 24: And they will reply, Because they forsook the covenant of Ad-noy, the G-d of their forefathers, which He made with them when He took them out of the land of Egypt.
Verse 25: And they went and served other gods and prostrated themselves to them; gods unknown to them and [which] He had not apportioned to them.
Verse 26: And Ad-noy became furious with that land, [causing Him] to bring on it the entire curse written in this book.
Verse 27: And Ad-noy forced them away from their land with anger and wrath and great fury; and He cast them into another land like this day.
Verse 28: The hidden [matters] are Ad-noy's, our G-d's, and the revealed [matters] are ours and our children's forever, to perform all the statements of this Torah.

Chapter 30
Verse 1: When it happens that there come upon you all these statements, the blessing and the curse that I have set before you; and you will restore to your perception amid all the nations where Ad-noy, your G-d, has exiled you.
Verse 2: You will return to Ad-noy, your G-d, and obey Him exactly as I am commanding you today, you and your sons, wholeheartedly and with your whole being.
Verse 3: Ad-noy, your G-d, will bring back your returnees and will be merciful toward you; and He will return and gather you from all the peoples that Ad-noy, your G-d, has dispersed you there.
Verse 4: If your exiled one will be at the edge of the heavens, from there will Ad-noy, your G-d, gather you and from there will He take you.
Verse 5: And Ad-noy, your G-d, will bring you to the land that your forefathers inherited and you will inherit it; and He will benefit you and multiply you more than your forefathers.
Verse 6: And Ad-noy, your G-d, will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love Ad-noy, your G-d, wholeheartedly and with all your being in order that you live.
Verse 7: Ad-noy, your G-d, will place all these oath-curses upon your enemies and upon your foes who chased you.
Verse 8: And you will turn back and obey Ad-noy; and you will perform all His commandments that I am commanding you today.
Verse 9: Ad-noy, your G-d, will give you surplus in all your endeavors, in the fruit of your belly, and in the offspring of your animals, and in the produce of your soil--- for benefit; for Ad-noy will return to rejoice over you for benefit as He rejoiced over your forefathers.
Verse 10: When you obey Ad-noy, your G-d, to guard His commandments and His statutes, written in this Torah scroll; when you turn back to Ad-noy, your G-d, wholeheartedly and with all your being.

Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Verse 11: For this mitzvah that I am commanding you today; it is not abstruse to you nor is it distant.
Verse 12: It is not in heaven, [for you] to say, Who will go up to heaven for us, and acquire it for us, and inform us of it, and we will fulfill it?
Verse 13: Nor is it overseas, [for you] to say, Who will travel overseas for us, and acquire it for us, and inform us of it, and we will fulfill it?
Verse 14: For the matter is extremely close to you; in your mouth and in your mind to fulfill it.
Verse 15: See, I have placed before you today life and good, and death and bad.
Verse 16: For which I command you this day, to love Ad-noy, your G-d, to go in His ways and to guard His commandments and His statutes and His laws; and you will live and you will flourish, and Ad-noy, your G-d, will bless you in the land that you are coming there to inherit.
Verse 17: But if your heart strays and you do not listen, and you are misled, and you prostrate yourself to other gods and worship them.
Verse 18: I tell you today that you shall certainly perish; you will not remain long on the land that you are crossing the Yardein to come there to inherit.
Verse 19: I invoke, as witnesses against you this day, heaven and earth: Life and death have I placed before you, blessing and curse; you choose life in order that you live, you and your descendants,
Verse 20: To love Ad-noy, your G-d, to obey Him and to cling to Him; for He is your life and your longevity, to live on the soil that Ad-noy swore to your forefathers---to Avrohom, to Yitzchok, and to Yaakov--- to give them.

PROPHETS PORTION

ISAIAH 61:10 - 63:09
10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

ISAIAH 62:1-12
1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

ISAIAH 63:1-9
1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

ROMANS 9:30 - 10:13
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

ROMANS 10:1-13
1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

HEBREWS 12:14-15
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;