I should have had these 2 stories on june 6th but june 8th is ok Microchip implant stories. 1-Doyle outlaws mandatory microchip implants. 2-tracking aliens just a step away.3-Another 666 has come and gone.4-Merapi spews ash.
REVELATION 13:15-18
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Doyle signs bill outlawing mandatory microchip implants
(Published Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:12:31 AM CDT),Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. - Gov. Jim Doyle signed a bill into law on Tuesday prohibiting companies and government agencies from requiring anyone to be implanted with microchips.The bill comes as a Florida company is starting to market microchip implants as a way for companies to limit access to highly secured rooms. Instead of swiping a card or punching in a code, employees who approach the area automatically set off sensors with the chips beneath the skin of their upper arms that give off radio frequency signals.
The company, VeriChip Corp., says the implants of chips, which are the size of a grain of rice, will always be voluntary.But bill sponsor Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, said the law was needed to stop anyone from being forced to get implants. Schneider said the law makes Wisconsin the first state with such a ban. Violators will face fines of up to $10,000.The bill "makes Wisconsin the leader among states in control of an insidious technology which could track, monitor and potentially control people's thoughts," Schneider said in a statement.
VeriChip, of Delray Beach, Fla., is the only company with federal approval to implant such chips in people.The company has implanted more than 2,500 people worldwide with chips that give hospitals access to their identification, which is used to access medical information stored in an Internet database. Former Gov. Tommy Thompson has endorsed that application and is a member of the company's board of directors.In February, a Cincinnati surveillance equipment company became the first U.S. business to allow employees who voluntarily got chip implants to use them to enter secure rooms. Some employees in the Mexico attorney general's office have also been implanted with chips for this use.
Bigger brother: Tracking aliens just an implant awayBy AL KAMEN, The Washington PostMay 24, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Seems Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has gotten into hot water at home over his creative proposal that Washington use microchip implants to track Colombians temporarily working in this country. You may recall that Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., recounting his Latin America trip in April, mentioned Uribe's proposal when they chatted in Bogota. Specter, in trip notes he entered into the Congressional Record, said he told Uribe "he doubted whether" implants would work since workers "might be able to remove them.
The column item sparked some angry protests. Uribe refused to say whether he proposed the implants, but he told a television interviewer: "If the United States, with all its technology, computers and chips, doesn't have the means to know who enters or leaves the country, then where are we? That's what we're trying to figure out right now.
WARNING THIS GUY IS NOT A CHRISTIAN IN THIS STORY BELOW.
Another 666 Has Come and Gone Asheville, NC 28803 June 7 2006
The sixth day of the sixth month of 2006 has come and gone with nothing more terrible than the usual acts of God -- tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes somewhere in the world. To the disappointment of the literalists, no significant catastrophic event occurred to make one believe that the "End of Days" is nigh.Early Christians knew that the Apocalypse was to take place in their lifetime and that 666, the number of the beast, would signal the return of Jesus and the final end of humanity.
It was predicted in the Book of Revelations, so it must be true. Jesus predicted that he would return from the dead during the lifetime of his disciples, but alas, it did not happen. The date for the Rapture continues to be postponed, though the final day remains close at hand. Tim La Haye and Jerry Jenkins have made a fortune writing about the terrible things that are going to happen to all who do not believe as they do, when Jesus returns and the prediction of Revelations becomes true.Fortunately for humanity the date for the end of life on earth keeps being deferred.
From Jesus' remark that he would return soon, we have now jumped to Nostradamus'prediction that it will occur in the year 3797 CE. Now all of us can rest easy if Nostradamus was correct.
William Miller predicted Armageddon and the end of the world in 1843. Some 40.,000 Millerites sold or gave away their property and waited patiently for the end to come. They were disappointed and had to change the date.Supposedly, only God knows the date that he plans to zap us all, but that does not stop the Fundies from trying to outsmart God.
John A. Henderson, M.D. discusses in great detail in his books, God. com; A Deity For the New Millennium and FEAR FAITH FACT FANTASY, the illogical beliefs in the myths and superstitions of the "Final End".
Indonesia volcano spews hot gas clouds By ROBERT KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer 26
minutes ago MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia - Indonesia's most dangerous volcano spewed a spectacular roiling cloud of hot gas and ash down its southern slope Thursday, sending more than 15,000 villagers running to safety or piling into cars and trucks, scientists said. Mount
Merapi has been venting steam and ash for weeks, but the Thursday morning burst was the largest yet, with billowing, dark gray clouds avalanching 3 1/2 miles down its slopes, said Sugiono, a vulcanologist who like many Indonesians goes by one name.It was one of a series of powerful explosions early Thursday, but hundreds of villagers living on the mountainside were still refusing to leave.
"Of course, we're worried," a villager named Supriatun told The Associated Press by mobile phone. "But as long as the hot clouds do not reach us, we won't leave our village. Some scientists say a powerful May 27 earthquake that killed more than 5,700 people in an area 25 miles south of Mount Merapi may have contributed to the volcano's volatility in recent weeks.The rumbling mountain's lava dome has swelled, raising concerns that it could suddenly collapse and send scalding clouds of fast-moving gas, lava and rocks into areas yet to be evacuated.
"A lot of people are panicking," said Sutomo, a government official at the scene, adding that 3,500 people had fled Sleman district on Merapi's southern side, some clutching children as they ran and others heading to towns at the base in trucks or cars.Another 12,000 fled their villages in Magelang district on the west side, many of them yelling and wiping away tears. Farmers carrying heaps of grass on their head ran down the mountain, as other clambered onto motorcycles.Roads leading to the mountain's peak have been closed, said Sunarto, another government official who goes by one name.
Authorities had earlier urged residents to evacuate the danger zone on the mountain's fertile slopes. Some 20,000 left, but thousands more stayed in their homes, saying they didn't want to abandon their fields and livestock, and complaining of boredom at the shelters.Others who have camped out for weeks in schools, mosques and government buildings said they would stay as long as necessary.A hot gas cloud is one of our worst nightmare,said Teguh Rahardjo, 64, recalling how a large eruption in 1994 killed 60 people and decimated houses, fields and animals. About 1,300 people were killed when Merapi erupted in 1930.Indonesia is located in the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS
Story 1-Jewish cupe members upset at union resolution.2-Eu urges action on trading blocks. 3-Poland-Slovak floods. 4-World quakes past 2 days June 6-7
Jewish CUPE members upset at union resolution By PAUL LUNGEN ,Staff Reporter
Four years ago at its regional convention, the Ontario wing of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) adopted a last minute, emergency resolution that critics argued was biased against Israel. Many of CUPE's Jewish members - including those employed by five Jewish agencies in the Toronto area - were incensed at the one-sided nature of the resolution, which in part claimed Israel “invaded” territories in 1967, ignoring the aggression of Israel's Arab neighbours. Around the same time, a CUPE official was seen carrying a CUPE flag at a rally protesting a speaking engagement of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Carolyn Roberts, president of CUPE local 2137, which represents 170 workers at Jewish Vocational Services of Greater Toronto, recalls being “blindsided” by the 2002 vote, and she feels that with the recent resolution attacking Israel that was adopted two weeks ago at CUPE Ontario's regional convention, it's pretty much a case of déjà vu all over again. The resolution is part of an international effort to boycott Israeli products and divest assets from Israel. The resolution criticizes Israel for failing to recognize a Palestinian right to self-determination and slams Israel's “apartheid wall,” the barrier Israel is constructing to prevent terrorist attacks that originate in the West Bank.
Katharine Nastovski, chair of CUPE Ontario's international solidarity committee, said boycotts worked against South Africa and should be used to force Israel to permit “the right of[Palestinian] refugees to return to their homes and property.Roberts believes that leaving CUPE would be going too far, but she is upset that the regional wing of CUPE is making international statements, leaving people like her to field angry calls from members who want to know why their union is dabbling in Middle Eastern politics. Local 2137 is a member of CUPE National, not the Ontario division, but the union's members feel they have been implicated in the Ontario vote, she said. I'm embarrassed to have to speak to my members about this issue,” Roberts said. “I think it's embarrassing to CUPE National. Four years ago, many CUPE members expressed dissatisfaction with the vote, and it was made clear to CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan that employees at the Toronto Jewish agencies were angry as well, Roberts said.
Given that CUPE touts solidarity among members as a key value and proclaims an injury to one is an injury to all, she wondered why CUPE Ontario is adopting resolutions that so many members find offensive.Lil Nobel, president of CUPE Local 2063, which represents workers from UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, Canadian Jewish Congress and Jewish Immigrant Aid Services Toronto, said, “We are ashamed to be a members of this union. Despite what Mr.
Ryan says, the resolution is an affront to the Jewish people, because it singles out Israel among all the countries in the world.There are many urgent issues affecting workers in this province. Israel's policies are not one of them. We don't understand why this outrageous, unreasonable and unbalanced resolution is taking precedence.Local 2063 pulled out of CUPE Ontario following it's vote on Israel four years ago, joining CUPE National, Nobel added.CUPE National weighed into the fray with a news release stating it would not urge local unions to join a boycott of Israel.
CUPE National has a policy that was adopted at our 2003 national convention. That policy states that we, 'demand that the Israeli Government immediately withdraw from the occupied territories and abide by UN Resolution 242 and 338; call for and actively work towards an end to all acts of violence that take the lives of innocent people, whether they be Palestinian or Israeli; and, help develop a peace process based on equality between Israelis and Palestinians and based on the implementation of UN resolutions and international law.CUPE National concluded by suggesting, “Debates focused on the Middle East should respect the legitimate
aspirations of both the Palestinian and Israeli people.
Ryan told The CJN the resolution was not aimed at Jews but at the policies of Israel. It was adopted in a unanimous vote at the CUPE convention and was submitted in accordance to union protocols, leaving ample opportunity for opponents to raise their concerns. He defended the apartheid references, saying “it's clear to anybody with any degree of common sense that there are clear parallels with what is happening in Palestine to South Africa.Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said as much, he added.As to the issue of Palestinian self-determination, he dismissed suggestions Israeli leaders had already acknowledged that, saying I come out of Ireland and know about the right to self-determination. You can't have self-determination without a viable state.It's no different than Northern Ireland. You had acts of terrorism in Northern Ireland. Does that mean you put down the entire population because of the actions of a few?
When The CJN suggested to Ryan the separation barrier had led to a dramatic reduction in terrorist attacks, Ryan shot back, Maybe if the occupation wasn't taking place, the bombings wouldn't be taking place.Steven Shulman, director of Canadian Jewish Congress's Ontario region, said Congress and the Canada-Israel Committee had received numerous complaints about the CUPE resolution. Not only are many of CUPE's Jewish members upset, but many calls and e-mails are coming from non-Jews equally concerned about the resolution. We've not seen this kind of groundswell in Ontario in quite a while,he said, adding he doesn't believe the resolution represents the views of the CUPE rank and file.This has hit a raw nerve in people, that this kind of one-sided statement sounds like a propaganda piece from 20 years ago.An e-mail “action alert” by Congress called on Canadians to denounce the resolution to CUPE Ontario's leadership and it urged CUPE Ontario members to voice their disapproval of the resolution to their local union leaders.
The mailing questions why CUPE Ontario would pass a resolution after Israel withdrew from Gaza and parts of the West Bank and had announced it would continue to pull out of more territory.Why would CUPE Ontario call for a boycott that will punish Israelis just as these important steps are being taken?” the mailing asks.Ryan said CUPE Ontario plans to follow the resolution with an action plan that will include educating members about the situation, work with the Canadian Labour Congress to adopt a similar position, lobby against the “apartheid-like practices of the state of Israel,and examine appropriate areas of boycott and divestment of CUPE assets.Most major Muslim and Arab groups strongly endorsed the CUPE Ontario resolution, including the Canadian Islamic Congress, the Canadian Arab Federation, the Muslim Canadian Congress and the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations.
In other developments, the Institute for International Affairs of B'nai Brith Canada last week released a 10-point manifesto urging Canadians to sign a document denouncing CUPE Ontario's planned boycott and reaffirming support for Israel.B'nai Brith's Manifesto engages CUPE members who feel disenfranchised and betrayed by their union, community leaders and individual Canadians who are working together on this campaign,” said Frank Dimant, B'nai Brith Canada's executive vice-president. While the ultimate aim is the repeal of the boycott, we hope in the process to draw public attention to the inappropriate and misguided interference by the union, which is devoting time and resources to advance an anti-Israel agenda at the expense of concentrating on areas that should fall within its mandate.
EU urges action on regional trading blocks including the Pacific Papua New Guinea
The European Union has renewed calls to speed up the pace of regional integration in all parts of the developing world, including the Pacific.Speaking at a summit between Europe and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific grouping of countries (ACP), the EU's top aid bureaucrat says most domestic markets of ACP members are too small to be attractive to investors. Radio Australia's James Panichi reports, the head of Europe's Development Directorate-General, Stefano Manservisi, says the creation of larger markets should be a priority for developing countries.
He was speaking at the opening of the summit in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby.The European Union says it will continue to support initiatives such as the Pacific Plan, the Pacific's blueprint for regional integration. However little progress appears to have been made after the first day of meetings, with ACP ministers unable to broker a deal with the European Union on the issue of Economic Partnership Agreements. The agreements, which are scheduled to be implemented in 2008, would provide the frame work for future trade and aid between Europe and the regions which make up the ACP.
The European Union is concerned that a lack of progress in creating regional trading blocks could compromise the effectiveness of the agreements.
Hundreds evacuated from flood-hit Poland and Slovakia Sun Jun 4, 2:59 PM ET
WARSAW (AFP) - Hundreds of people were evacuated from areas of Poland and Slovakia as torrential rain caused flooding, local authorities said. Some 500 people were forced to leave their homes in the southeastern Polish town of Jaslo, mayor Andrzek Czarnecki said on Polish television station TVP.Several farms and thousands of hectares of agricultural land were flooded when rivers burst their banks.
A flood alert was announced in around 20 townships in the Nowy Sacz and Tarnow regions of southeastern Poland, but by Sunday the situation had eased, the local crisis centre said.The waters rose very fast, but they are also going down quickly. Some of the evacuated inhabitants will soon be able to go home,Polish news agency PAP quoted fire service chief Dariusz Hachaj as saying.Around 50 townships in eastern Slovakia were also affected.The situation was most worrying near the towns of Bardejov and Presov,the head of the Presov fire service Viliam Popadic told the media.
EARTHQUAKES JUNE 6-7,06
Update time = Wed Jun 7 4:18:47 UTC 2006
MAP 2.8 2006/06/07 04:07:46 63.173 -150.394 100.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.9 2006/06/07 02:26:03 -7.562 -73.676 190.9 PERU-BRAZIL BORDER REGION
MAP 2.8 2006/06/07 02:15:12 45.386 -112.590 7.4 WESTERN MONTANA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/07 02:01:52 39.039 -123.088 0.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/07 01:49:36 51.873 -179.545 100.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA MAP 2.9 2006/06/07 01:12:40 54.719 -165.731 200.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALASKA
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MAP 2.6 2006/06/06 23:09:54 59.728 -153.329 160.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/06 22:48:55 54.146 -163.161 30.0 UNIMAK ISLAND ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/06 22:02:20 60.511 -148.904 15.0 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/06 21:10:25 39.010 -122.906 3.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 2006/06/06 17:03:09 35.641 46.045 44.3 IRAN-IRAQ BORDER REGION
MAP 2.8 2006/06/06 16:25:49 52.111 -172.314 1.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/06 15:40:10 60.388 -153.551 100.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/06 12:02:33 51.166 -173.413 80.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/06 11:15:18 51.000 -179.159 1.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2006/06/06 06:24:51 52.530 -167.790 30.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 2006/06/06 06:05:15 1.758 -90.788 19.6 GALAPAGOS ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.5 2006/06/06 05:48:16 52.485 -170.731 15.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.0 2006/06/06 04:59:41 60.220 -152.819 50.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.1 2006/06/06 04:34:28 15.252 -91.499 200.0 GUATEMALA
MAP 3.9 2006/06/06 03:33:31 63.672 -149.251 70.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.6 2006/06/06 01:13:54 55.329 -159.405 50.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.8 2006/06/06 00:03:53 58.806 -145.072 35.0 GULF OF ALASKA
Jewish CUPE members upset at union resolution By PAUL LUNGEN ,Staff Reporter
Four years ago at its regional convention, the Ontario wing of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) adopted a last minute, emergency resolution that critics argued was biased against Israel. Many of CUPE's Jewish members - including those employed by five Jewish agencies in the Toronto area - were incensed at the one-sided nature of the resolution, which in part claimed Israel “invaded” territories in 1967, ignoring the aggression of Israel's Arab neighbours. Around the same time, a CUPE official was seen carrying a CUPE flag at a rally protesting a speaking engagement of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Carolyn Roberts, president of CUPE local 2137, which represents 170 workers at Jewish Vocational Services of Greater Toronto, recalls being “blindsided” by the 2002 vote, and she feels that with the recent resolution attacking Israel that was adopted two weeks ago at CUPE Ontario's regional convention, it's pretty much a case of déjà vu all over again. The resolution is part of an international effort to boycott Israeli products and divest assets from Israel. The resolution criticizes Israel for failing to recognize a Palestinian right to self-determination and slams Israel's “apartheid wall,” the barrier Israel is constructing to prevent terrorist attacks that originate in the West Bank.
Katharine Nastovski, chair of CUPE Ontario's international solidarity committee, said boycotts worked against South Africa and should be used to force Israel to permit “the right of[Palestinian] refugees to return to their homes and property.Roberts believes that leaving CUPE would be going too far, but she is upset that the regional wing of CUPE is making international statements, leaving people like her to field angry calls from members who want to know why their union is dabbling in Middle Eastern politics. Local 2137 is a member of CUPE National, not the Ontario division, but the union's members feel they have been implicated in the Ontario vote, she said. I'm embarrassed to have to speak to my members about this issue,” Roberts said. “I think it's embarrassing to CUPE National. Four years ago, many CUPE members expressed dissatisfaction with the vote, and it was made clear to CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan that employees at the Toronto Jewish agencies were angry as well, Roberts said.
Given that CUPE touts solidarity among members as a key value and proclaims an injury to one is an injury to all, she wondered why CUPE Ontario is adopting resolutions that so many members find offensive.Lil Nobel, president of CUPE Local 2063, which represents workers from UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, Canadian Jewish Congress and Jewish Immigrant Aid Services Toronto, said, “We are ashamed to be a members of this union. Despite what Mr.
Ryan says, the resolution is an affront to the Jewish people, because it singles out Israel among all the countries in the world.There are many urgent issues affecting workers in this province. Israel's policies are not one of them. We don't understand why this outrageous, unreasonable and unbalanced resolution is taking precedence.Local 2063 pulled out of CUPE Ontario following it's vote on Israel four years ago, joining CUPE National, Nobel added.CUPE National weighed into the fray with a news release stating it would not urge local unions to join a boycott of Israel.
CUPE National has a policy that was adopted at our 2003 national convention. That policy states that we, 'demand that the Israeli Government immediately withdraw from the occupied territories and abide by UN Resolution 242 and 338; call for and actively work towards an end to all acts of violence that take the lives of innocent people, whether they be Palestinian or Israeli; and, help develop a peace process based on equality between Israelis and Palestinians and based on the implementation of UN resolutions and international law.CUPE National concluded by suggesting, “Debates focused on the Middle East should respect the legitimate
aspirations of both the Palestinian and Israeli people.
Ryan told The CJN the resolution was not aimed at Jews but at the policies of Israel. It was adopted in a unanimous vote at the CUPE convention and was submitted in accordance to union protocols, leaving ample opportunity for opponents to raise their concerns. He defended the apartheid references, saying “it's clear to anybody with any degree of common sense that there are clear parallels with what is happening in Palestine to South Africa.Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said as much, he added.As to the issue of Palestinian self-determination, he dismissed suggestions Israeli leaders had already acknowledged that, saying I come out of Ireland and know about the right to self-determination. You can't have self-determination without a viable state.It's no different than Northern Ireland. You had acts of terrorism in Northern Ireland. Does that mean you put down the entire population because of the actions of a few?
When The CJN suggested to Ryan the separation barrier had led to a dramatic reduction in terrorist attacks, Ryan shot back, Maybe if the occupation wasn't taking place, the bombings wouldn't be taking place.Steven Shulman, director of Canadian Jewish Congress's Ontario region, said Congress and the Canada-Israel Committee had received numerous complaints about the CUPE resolution. Not only are many of CUPE's Jewish members upset, but many calls and e-mails are coming from non-Jews equally concerned about the resolution. We've not seen this kind of groundswell in Ontario in quite a while,he said, adding he doesn't believe the resolution represents the views of the CUPE rank and file.This has hit a raw nerve in people, that this kind of one-sided statement sounds like a propaganda piece from 20 years ago.An e-mail “action alert” by Congress called on Canadians to denounce the resolution to CUPE Ontario's leadership and it urged CUPE Ontario members to voice their disapproval of the resolution to their local union leaders.
The mailing questions why CUPE Ontario would pass a resolution after Israel withdrew from Gaza and parts of the West Bank and had announced it would continue to pull out of more territory.Why would CUPE Ontario call for a boycott that will punish Israelis just as these important steps are being taken?” the mailing asks.Ryan said CUPE Ontario plans to follow the resolution with an action plan that will include educating members about the situation, work with the Canadian Labour Congress to adopt a similar position, lobby against the “apartheid-like practices of the state of Israel,and examine appropriate areas of boycott and divestment of CUPE assets.Most major Muslim and Arab groups strongly endorsed the CUPE Ontario resolution, including the Canadian Islamic Congress, the Canadian Arab Federation, the Muslim Canadian Congress and the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations.
In other developments, the Institute for International Affairs of B'nai Brith Canada last week released a 10-point manifesto urging Canadians to sign a document denouncing CUPE Ontario's planned boycott and reaffirming support for Israel.B'nai Brith's Manifesto engages CUPE members who feel disenfranchised and betrayed by their union, community leaders and individual Canadians who are working together on this campaign,” said Frank Dimant, B'nai Brith Canada's executive vice-president. While the ultimate aim is the repeal of the boycott, we hope in the process to draw public attention to the inappropriate and misguided interference by the union, which is devoting time and resources to advance an anti-Israel agenda at the expense of concentrating on areas that should fall within its mandate.
EU urges action on regional trading blocks including the Pacific Papua New Guinea
The European Union has renewed calls to speed up the pace of regional integration in all parts of the developing world, including the Pacific.Speaking at a summit between Europe and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific grouping of countries (ACP), the EU's top aid bureaucrat says most domestic markets of ACP members are too small to be attractive to investors. Radio Australia's James Panichi reports, the head of Europe's Development Directorate-General, Stefano Manservisi, says the creation of larger markets should be a priority for developing countries.
He was speaking at the opening of the summit in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby.The European Union says it will continue to support initiatives such as the Pacific Plan, the Pacific's blueprint for regional integration. However little progress appears to have been made after the first day of meetings, with ACP ministers unable to broker a deal with the European Union on the issue of Economic Partnership Agreements. The agreements, which are scheduled to be implemented in 2008, would provide the frame work for future trade and aid between Europe and the regions which make up the ACP.
The European Union is concerned that a lack of progress in creating regional trading blocks could compromise the effectiveness of the agreements.
Hundreds evacuated from flood-hit Poland and Slovakia Sun Jun 4, 2:59 PM ET
WARSAW (AFP) - Hundreds of people were evacuated from areas of Poland and Slovakia as torrential rain caused flooding, local authorities said. Some 500 people were forced to leave their homes in the southeastern Polish town of Jaslo, mayor Andrzek Czarnecki said on Polish television station TVP.Several farms and thousands of hectares of agricultural land were flooded when rivers burst their banks.
A flood alert was announced in around 20 townships in the Nowy Sacz and Tarnow regions of southeastern Poland, but by Sunday the situation had eased, the local crisis centre said.The waters rose very fast, but they are also going down quickly. Some of the evacuated inhabitants will soon be able to go home,Polish news agency PAP quoted fire service chief Dariusz Hachaj as saying.Around 50 townships in eastern Slovakia were also affected.The situation was most worrying near the towns of Bardejov and Presov,the head of the Presov fire service Viliam Popadic told the media.
EARTHQUAKES JUNE 6-7,06
Update time = Wed Jun 7 4:18:47 UTC 2006
MAP 2.8 2006/06/07 04:07:46 63.173 -150.394 100.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.9 2006/06/07 02:26:03 -7.562 -73.676 190.9 PERU-BRAZIL BORDER REGION
MAP 2.8 2006/06/07 02:15:12 45.386 -112.590 7.4 WESTERN MONTANA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/07 02:01:52 39.039 -123.088 0.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/07 01:49:36 51.873 -179.545 100.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA MAP 2.9 2006/06/07 01:12:40 54.719 -165.731 200.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALASKA
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MAP 2.6 2006/06/06 23:09:54 59.728 -153.329 160.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/06 22:48:55 54.146 -163.161 30.0 UNIMAK ISLAND ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/06 22:02:20 60.511 -148.904 15.0 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/06 21:10:25 39.010 -122.906 3.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 2006/06/06 17:03:09 35.641 46.045 44.3 IRAN-IRAQ BORDER REGION
MAP 2.8 2006/06/06 16:25:49 52.111 -172.314 1.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/06 15:40:10 60.388 -153.551 100.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/06 12:02:33 51.166 -173.413 80.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/06 11:15:18 51.000 -179.159 1.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2006/06/06 06:24:51 52.530 -167.790 30.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 2006/06/06 06:05:15 1.758 -90.788 19.6 GALAPAGOS ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.5 2006/06/06 05:48:16 52.485 -170.731 15.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.0 2006/06/06 04:59:41 60.220 -152.819 50.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.1 2006/06/06 04:34:28 15.252 -91.499 200.0 GUATEMALA
MAP 3.9 2006/06/06 03:33:31 63.672 -149.251 70.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.6 2006/06/06 01:13:54 55.329 -159.405 50.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.8 2006/06/06 00:03:53 58.806 -145.072 35.0 GULF OF ALASKA
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
THE CASE FOR ISRAEL
THE CASE FOR ISRAEL
Why are the Mexicans Immigrants saying they want to rule America. Could it be because the Americans are involved in letting the Arabs try to rule the Israelis when GOD gave the land to Israel (Isaac) not the Arabs (Ishmael).
Like the Bible says who ever comes against GODS plan for Israel will be destroyed, and America is disobeying GODS command that Israel gets the land promised them by GOD.
GENESIS 12:3
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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.
Any true christian will stand for Israel having the Land because GOD commands that Israel gets the Land. The Israelis and Arabs will live side by side in the future, but GOD says its Israels land. THAT MEANS ITS ISRAELS LAND. Lets look from John Hagees book JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN what Happens when you go against Israels plan by GOD.
This includes C.U.P.E, CHURCHES AND ANY COMPANY OR GROUPS THAT BOYCOTTS ISRAEL WORLDWIDE.
BIBLICAL REASONS (FROM JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN PGS 196-201)
There are biblical reasons why America and all Bible-believing Christians must stand with Israel and their claim to the land.
ISRAEL IS THE ONLY NATION CREATED BY A SOVEREIGN ACT OF GOD.
Israel belongs to GOD himself ! As creator of heaven and earth (GEN 1:1), GOD had the right to ownership to give the land to whomever He chose. GOD gave the title deed for the land of Israel to Abraham,Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants forever (GEN 15:18; 17:2-8). Ishmael, father of the Arabs, was excluded from the title deed to the land in Genesis 17:19-21. Therefore,
modern-day Palestinians have no biblical mandate to own the land.
The bounderies of the state of Israel are recorded in scripture. (see Numbers 34:2-15; Joshua 11:16-23; 13:11-22.) The bounderies are futhur described in Ezekiel 47:13-28 and all of chapter 48. Here is the Land Abraham, Isaac and Jacobs (Israels) decendants inherit forever.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.
When GOD established the nations of the world, He began with Israel. Israel is the center of the universe in the mind of GOD.(See Deutoronomy 32:8-10; Number 34:10-15; Joshua 11:16-22.)
CHRISTANS OWE A DEBT OF ETERNAL GRATITUDE TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS, WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
Paul recorded in Romans 15:27, For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their ( the Jews ) spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things. Jesus Christ a prominent Rabbi from Nazareth, said Salvation is of the Jews (john 4:22). Consider what the
Jewish people have givin to Christianity;
- The Sacred scriptures
- The Prophets
- The Patriarchs
- Mary, Joseph and Jesus of Nazareth
- The twelve disciples
- The Apostles
It is not possible to say, I am a Christian, and not love the Jewish people. The Bible teaches love is not what you say, but love is what you do ( 1 John 3:18 ). Someone has said: A bell is not a bell till you ring it, A song is not a song untill you sing it. Love in your heart is not put there to stay, Love is not love till you give it away.
JESUS NEVER DENIED HIS JEWISHNESS.
While some Christians try to deny the connection between Jesus of Nazareth and the Jews of the world, Jesus never denied his jewishness. He was born Jewish. He was circumcised on the eighth day in keeping with Jewish tradtion. He had his Bar Mitzvah on his thiteenth birthday. He kept the law of Moses. He wore the prayer shawl Moses commanded all Jewish men to wear. He died on the cross with an inscription over his head, King of the Jews. Jesus considered the Jewish people His family. Jesus said, verily i say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren (the Jewish people.........Gentiles were never called his brethren), ye have done it unto me. (Matthew 25:40)
CHRISTIANS ARE TO SUPPORT ISRAEL BECAUSE IT BRINGS THE BLESSINGS OF GOD TO THEM PERSONALLY.
In Psalms 122:6, King David command all Christians, Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you. The scriptural principle of personal prosperity is tied to blessing Israel and the city of Jerusalem. Why did Jesus Christ go to the house of Cornelius in capernaum and heal his servant who was ready to die? Jesus went because the gentile centurion desrved the blessing of God because he had demonstrated his love for the Jews by building a Synagogue in Israel (Luke 7:5). When you do things to bless the Jewish people and the state of Israel, God will bless you.
GOD JUDGES THE GENTILES FOR THEIR ABUSE OF THE JEWS.
In Exodus 17, there's the story of the Amalekites, who attacked the children of Israel as they came up out of Egypt en route to the promised land. Because the Amalekites, who were descendants of Esau, whom God hated, attacked the Jewish people, God promised to be at war with Amalek from generation to generation.
EXODUS 17:14-16
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Because Amalek attacked the Jewish people as they came up out of Egypt, God promised to be at war with him until He drove his remembrance from beneath the sun. That meant God intended to exterminate him and his people. Hundreds of years later, God was still at war with Amalek. God commanded King Saul to destroy the Amalekites utterly. We read:
1 SAMUEL 15:2-3
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
In 1 Samuel 15:28 , because Saul refused to obey the Lord, God took the kingdom from him and gave it to another. The judgement on Saul was instantaneous, because he refused to carry out God's judgement against those who had attacked the Jewish people.
1 Samuel 15:28-29 Samuel says to Saul28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
There is a point here that can not be missed. Hundreds of years passed from the time of Moses to King Saul, but God did not change his mind about exterminating the Amalek's descendants to the last man, woman, infant and nursing child.
Another illustration of God judging the Gentiles who attacked the Jewish people was the Pharaoh that knew not Joseph. A third illustration of God destroying Gentiles who attacked the Jewish people is that of Haman. Haman was an Old Testament Hitler who planned the first final solution for all the Jews living in Persia. The story is vividly recorded in the pages of God's Word (see Esther).The end result was that Haman and his seven sons hung from the gallows they built to hang the Jews of Persia upon.
The judgement of God came to those who tried to bring destrution to the Jewish people. Exactly what Haman planned for the Jews happened to himself and his sons.
Where is the Roman Empire? Where are the Greeks? Where are the Babylonians? Where are the Turks? Where is the Ottman Empire? Where are Adolf Hitler and his goose-stepping Nazis?
They are all footnotes in the boneyard of human history, because they all made a common mistake. They Attacked the Jewish people, and God Almighty brought them to nothing.
So we see here GOD is in control of Everything to do with his people and land and all the Earth. If any one comes against Israel Sudden destruction will occur. STORMS, HURRICANES, TORNADOES, TSUNAMIS, EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES, INCURABLE DISEASES, FEVER, BLINDNESS. ALL THESE AND MORE FOR PEOPLE OR COUNTRIES WHO COME AGAINST ISRAEL, TAKE THEIR LAND FROM THEM OR HURT THEM IN ANY WAY.
Yes im talking to C.U.P.E in canada. churches who boycott Israel. And companies who boycott or hurt Israel in any way.
Why are the Mexicans Immigrants saying they want to rule America. Could it be because the Americans are involved in letting the Arabs try to rule the Israelis when GOD gave the land to Israel (Isaac) not the Arabs (Ishmael).
Like the Bible says who ever comes against GODS plan for Israel will be destroyed, and America is disobeying GODS command that Israel gets the land promised them by GOD.
GENESIS 12:3
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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.
Any true christian will stand for Israel having the Land because GOD commands that Israel gets the Land. The Israelis and Arabs will live side by side in the future, but GOD says its Israels land. THAT MEANS ITS ISRAELS LAND. Lets look from John Hagees book JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN what Happens when you go against Israels plan by GOD.
This includes C.U.P.E, CHURCHES AND ANY COMPANY OR GROUPS THAT BOYCOTTS ISRAEL WORLDWIDE.
BIBLICAL REASONS (FROM JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN PGS 196-201)
There are biblical reasons why America and all Bible-believing Christians must stand with Israel and their claim to the land.
ISRAEL IS THE ONLY NATION CREATED BY A SOVEREIGN ACT OF GOD.
Israel belongs to GOD himself ! As creator of heaven and earth (GEN 1:1), GOD had the right to ownership to give the land to whomever He chose. GOD gave the title deed for the land of Israel to Abraham,Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants forever (GEN 15:18; 17:2-8). Ishmael, father of the Arabs, was excluded from the title deed to the land in Genesis 17:19-21. Therefore,
modern-day Palestinians have no biblical mandate to own the land.
The bounderies of the state of Israel are recorded in scripture. (see Numbers 34:2-15; Joshua 11:16-23; 13:11-22.) The bounderies are futhur described in Ezekiel 47:13-28 and all of chapter 48. Here is the Land Abraham, Isaac and Jacobs (Israels) decendants inherit forever.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.
When GOD established the nations of the world, He began with Israel. Israel is the center of the universe in the mind of GOD.(See Deutoronomy 32:8-10; Number 34:10-15; Joshua 11:16-22.)
CHRISTANS OWE A DEBT OF ETERNAL GRATITUDE TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS, WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
Paul recorded in Romans 15:27, For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their ( the Jews ) spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things. Jesus Christ a prominent Rabbi from Nazareth, said Salvation is of the Jews (john 4:22). Consider what the
Jewish people have givin to Christianity;
- The Sacred scriptures
- The Prophets
- The Patriarchs
- Mary, Joseph and Jesus of Nazareth
- The twelve disciples
- The Apostles
It is not possible to say, I am a Christian, and not love the Jewish people. The Bible teaches love is not what you say, but love is what you do ( 1 John 3:18 ). Someone has said: A bell is not a bell till you ring it, A song is not a song untill you sing it. Love in your heart is not put there to stay, Love is not love till you give it away.
JESUS NEVER DENIED HIS JEWISHNESS.
While some Christians try to deny the connection between Jesus of Nazareth and the Jews of the world, Jesus never denied his jewishness. He was born Jewish. He was circumcised on the eighth day in keeping with Jewish tradtion. He had his Bar Mitzvah on his thiteenth birthday. He kept the law of Moses. He wore the prayer shawl Moses commanded all Jewish men to wear. He died on the cross with an inscription over his head, King of the Jews. Jesus considered the Jewish people His family. Jesus said, verily i say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren (the Jewish people.........Gentiles were never called his brethren), ye have done it unto me. (Matthew 25:40)
CHRISTIANS ARE TO SUPPORT ISRAEL BECAUSE IT BRINGS THE BLESSINGS OF GOD TO THEM PERSONALLY.
In Psalms 122:6, King David command all Christians, Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you. The scriptural principle of personal prosperity is tied to blessing Israel and the city of Jerusalem. Why did Jesus Christ go to the house of Cornelius in capernaum and heal his servant who was ready to die? Jesus went because the gentile centurion desrved the blessing of God because he had demonstrated his love for the Jews by building a Synagogue in Israel (Luke 7:5). When you do things to bless the Jewish people and the state of Israel, God will bless you.
GOD JUDGES THE GENTILES FOR THEIR ABUSE OF THE JEWS.
In Exodus 17, there's the story of the Amalekites, who attacked the children of Israel as they came up out of Egypt en route to the promised land. Because the Amalekites, who were descendants of Esau, whom God hated, attacked the Jewish people, God promised to be at war with Amalek from generation to generation.
EXODUS 17:14-16
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Because Amalek attacked the Jewish people as they came up out of Egypt, God promised to be at war with him until He drove his remembrance from beneath the sun. That meant God intended to exterminate him and his people. Hundreds of years later, God was still at war with Amalek. God commanded King Saul to destroy the Amalekites utterly. We read:
1 SAMUEL 15:2-3
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
In 1 Samuel 15:28 , because Saul refused to obey the Lord, God took the kingdom from him and gave it to another. The judgement on Saul was instantaneous, because he refused to carry out God's judgement against those who had attacked the Jewish people.
1 Samuel 15:28-29 Samuel says to Saul28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
There is a point here that can not be missed. Hundreds of years passed from the time of Moses to King Saul, but God did not change his mind about exterminating the Amalek's descendants to the last man, woman, infant and nursing child.
Another illustration of God judging the Gentiles who attacked the Jewish people was the Pharaoh that knew not Joseph. A third illustration of God destroying Gentiles who attacked the Jewish people is that of Haman. Haman was an Old Testament Hitler who planned the first final solution for all the Jews living in Persia. The story is vividly recorded in the pages of God's Word (see Esther).The end result was that Haman and his seven sons hung from the gallows they built to hang the Jews of Persia upon.
The judgement of God came to those who tried to bring destrution to the Jewish people. Exactly what Haman planned for the Jews happened to himself and his sons.
Where is the Roman Empire? Where are the Greeks? Where are the Babylonians? Where are the Turks? Where is the Ottman Empire? Where are Adolf Hitler and his goose-stepping Nazis?
They are all footnotes in the boneyard of human history, because they all made a common mistake. They Attacked the Jewish people, and God Almighty brought them to nothing.
So we see here GOD is in control of Everything to do with his people and land and all the Earth. If any one comes against Israel Sudden destruction will occur. STORMS, HURRICANES, TORNADOES, TSUNAMIS, EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES, INCURABLE DISEASES, FEVER, BLINDNESS. ALL THESE AND MORE FOR PEOPLE OR COUNTRIES WHO COME AGAINST ISRAEL, TAKE THEIR LAND FROM THEM OR HURT THEM IN ANY WAY.
Yes im talking to C.U.P.E in canada. churches who boycott Israel. And companies who boycott or hurt Israel in any way.
6 6 6 IS OUR TIME UP
1-Israel Successful airstrikes. 2-6-6-6 is our number really up.
I wish we as Christians would be raptured to heaven today on June 6, 2006. At least the date brings talk about the Book of Revelation since not to many Churches teach prophesy.
The 666 Mark in the future will be a microchip implanted under the skin of everyone on earth, demanded by a future EU world Politician. If you refuse to get this implant that pledges your allegence to him you will be beheaded. Thats the true 666 MARK.
Israel Sucessful in Air-Striking Wanted TerroristBy Hillel Fendel (Arutz-7)
An Israel Air Force strike killed a wanted terrorist of the Hamas-affiliated Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza on Monday. IAF missiles were fired at a car carrying terrorists in the Jebalya refugee slum neighborhood in northern Gaza. Terrorist-attack planner Imad Asalia was killed and four others were wounded, including one in serious condition.Asalia had been involved in firing Kassam rockets at Israel, as well as in two failed bombing attempts at the Karni crossing. One of them, six months ago, was thwarted when IDF forces fired on a vehicle loaded with explosives as it approached the crossing.
In other war news: An IDF soldier was stabbed Monday afternoon by a Palestinian terrorist at the Machpelah Cave. The soldier, wounded in his hand, was treated at the site... An Israeli man was lightly wounded Monday night when rocks were thrown at his car south of Bethlehem;
the car was heavily damaged... Nearby, south of Hevron, terrorists attempted to run down soldiers at an army checkpoint; the soldiers opened fire, wounding two. The terrorists were taken for treatment and interrogation... Soldiers were also attacked with gunfire near Ramallah and Shechem over night; no one was hurt... IDF forces arrested 12 terrorists wanted for either arrest or questioning over the night.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
6-6-6: Is our number really up?
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 Posted: 1023 GMT (1823 HKT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Is Tuesday's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number or could it mean our number is up? There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year. It may be just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even the humor in people, said the Rev. Felix Just, a professor of theology at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and maintains a
666-Numbers of the Beast Web site that contains history, theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.
You can even make sport of it, betting online whether the apocalypse will happen on that date. The good news is that one online oddsmaker has made the world a 100,000-to-1 favorite to survive Tuesday -- something that Just said is supported by theology.Many people avoid the number; they're afraid of it almost and there's absolutely no reason to be afraid of it,Just said. It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end.It all started with Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: "This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.The beast is also known as the Antichrist, according to some apocalyptic theories.
Many scholars, such as Just, say the beast is really a coded reference -- using Hebrew letters for numbers -- for the despotic Roman emperor Nero and 616 appears instead of 666 in some ancient manuscripts. The Book of Revelation isn't prophesying a specific end of times but is about the overall cosmic struggle of good versus evil, Just said. But for some more apocalyptic
theologians, the end of times is coming, even if not specifically on Tuesday. The evangelical Raptureready.com Web site puts its rapture index at 156, calling that "fasten your seatbelts time.
It's not the date June 6 that's worrisome, but the signs in our society of the approach of the 666 antichrist, said the Rev. Tim LaHaye, founder of a self-named ministry and co-author of the best-selling Left Behind" series of apocalyptic novels. And even though LaHaye said Tuesday isn't the date of the apocalypse, his Left Behind Web site promotes his new book The Rapture with an ominous 06.06.06 Will You Be Ready. I don't think that people understand that 666 is not a good time, LaHaye said. He said he sees signs of an upcoming tribulation period" that leads to the Antichrist's arrival in a movement toward one-world government, a single economic system and single religion.
Apocalyptic culture and theology, especially those surrounding 666, is especially appealing for people in an underdog situation, said Just (pronounced Yoost). So people have looked for -- and found -- 666 in all sorts of places. Believers in the number's power have used biblical letter-numeric code to convert the names of countless political leaders, including many popes, to
come out 666, marking them as that generation's Antichrist. That includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
It's a number that the Reagans didn't want as an address when they moved out of the White House in 1989 to the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air. So they changed their address from 666 St. Cloud Road to 668. In 1980, a TV host and others rigged the number 666 to come up in a Pennsylvania lottery drawing. It's a number that is part of every UPC barcode on groceries (a
coincidence according to the code's inventor). With biblical coding, 666 also is the number for the WWW of the World Wide Web.
The math of 666 is also open to biblical interpretation and manipulation. Just points out that 666 is the sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel. Other oddities include variations on pi and products of prime number multiplication. There's also something special about the number 6, which in the Bible stands for man, said Brian C. Jones, a religion professor at Wartburg College in Iowa.People need to lighten up about this,Jones said. He noted that Tuesday has a more neutral reputation than other days, like dreaded Monday or bad-luck Friday the 13th.
But this Tuesday is a day to cash in on the number associated with the apocalypse. It will mark the debut for a remake of the classic 1970s horror film "The Omen," the publication of LaHaye's new "Left Behind" book, and an Ann Coulter polemic called Godless: The Church of Liberalism. And for truly cashing in, there's the nonsectarian online sports book, BetUS.com, which gives
Earth a better than sporting chance. At 100,000-to-1 odds, if you bet the maximum $500 that the world will survive and it does, you win half a penny. If you bet $100 that the apocalypse happens and it does, you can earn a cool $10 million, but you might have a devil of a time collecting it. People are betting both ways, company spokesman Mike Foreman said.
Commercialism based on numbers and fear bothers American University astronomer Richard Berendzen.What it really does is use some coincidence of some numbers for commercial gain,he said. It's superstition and money when it comes down to it. And that's about as satanic as you can get. Still scared about the date 666? Jack Horkheimer of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium has a piece of advice: "If it really spooks you, you can stand on your head and it'll be 999.
I wish we as Christians would be raptured to heaven today on June 6, 2006. At least the date brings talk about the Book of Revelation since not to many Churches teach prophesy.
The 666 Mark in the future will be a microchip implanted under the skin of everyone on earth, demanded by a future EU world Politician. If you refuse to get this implant that pledges your allegence to him you will be beheaded. Thats the true 666 MARK.
Israel Sucessful in Air-Striking Wanted TerroristBy Hillel Fendel (Arutz-7)
An Israel Air Force strike killed a wanted terrorist of the Hamas-affiliated Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza on Monday. IAF missiles were fired at a car carrying terrorists in the Jebalya refugee slum neighborhood in northern Gaza. Terrorist-attack planner Imad Asalia was killed and four others were wounded, including one in serious condition.Asalia had been involved in firing Kassam rockets at Israel, as well as in two failed bombing attempts at the Karni crossing. One of them, six months ago, was thwarted when IDF forces fired on a vehicle loaded with explosives as it approached the crossing.
In other war news: An IDF soldier was stabbed Monday afternoon by a Palestinian terrorist at the Machpelah Cave. The soldier, wounded in his hand, was treated at the site... An Israeli man was lightly wounded Monday night when rocks were thrown at his car south of Bethlehem;
the car was heavily damaged... Nearby, south of Hevron, terrorists attempted to run down soldiers at an army checkpoint; the soldiers opened fire, wounding two. The terrorists were taken for treatment and interrogation... Soldiers were also attacked with gunfire near Ramallah and Shechem over night; no one was hurt... IDF forces arrested 12 terrorists wanted for either arrest or questioning over the night.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
6-6-6: Is our number really up?
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 Posted: 1023 GMT (1823 HKT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Is Tuesday's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number or could it mean our number is up? There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year. It may be just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even the humor in people, said the Rev. Felix Just, a professor of theology at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and maintains a
666-Numbers of the Beast Web site that contains history, theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.
You can even make sport of it, betting online whether the apocalypse will happen on that date. The good news is that one online oddsmaker has made the world a 100,000-to-1 favorite to survive Tuesday -- something that Just said is supported by theology.Many people avoid the number; they're afraid of it almost and there's absolutely no reason to be afraid of it,Just said. It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end.It all started with Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: "This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.The beast is also known as the Antichrist, according to some apocalyptic theories.
Many scholars, such as Just, say the beast is really a coded reference -- using Hebrew letters for numbers -- for the despotic Roman emperor Nero and 616 appears instead of 666 in some ancient manuscripts. The Book of Revelation isn't prophesying a specific end of times but is about the overall cosmic struggle of good versus evil, Just said. But for some more apocalyptic
theologians, the end of times is coming, even if not specifically on Tuesday. The evangelical Raptureready.com Web site puts its rapture index at 156, calling that "fasten your seatbelts time.
It's not the date June 6 that's worrisome, but the signs in our society of the approach of the 666 antichrist, said the Rev. Tim LaHaye, founder of a self-named ministry and co-author of the best-selling Left Behind" series of apocalyptic novels. And even though LaHaye said Tuesday isn't the date of the apocalypse, his Left Behind Web site promotes his new book The Rapture with an ominous 06.06.06 Will You Be Ready. I don't think that people understand that 666 is not a good time, LaHaye said. He said he sees signs of an upcoming tribulation period" that leads to the Antichrist's arrival in a movement toward one-world government, a single economic system and single religion.
Apocalyptic culture and theology, especially those surrounding 666, is especially appealing for people in an underdog situation, said Just (pronounced Yoost). So people have looked for -- and found -- 666 in all sorts of places. Believers in the number's power have used biblical letter-numeric code to convert the names of countless political leaders, including many popes, to
come out 666, marking them as that generation's Antichrist. That includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
It's a number that the Reagans didn't want as an address when they moved out of the White House in 1989 to the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air. So they changed their address from 666 St. Cloud Road to 668. In 1980, a TV host and others rigged the number 666 to come up in a Pennsylvania lottery drawing. It's a number that is part of every UPC barcode on groceries (a
coincidence according to the code's inventor). With biblical coding, 666 also is the number for the WWW of the World Wide Web.
The math of 666 is also open to biblical interpretation and manipulation. Just points out that 666 is the sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel. Other oddities include variations on pi and products of prime number multiplication. There's also something special about the number 6, which in the Bible stands for man, said Brian C. Jones, a religion professor at Wartburg College in Iowa.People need to lighten up about this,Jones said. He noted that Tuesday has a more neutral reputation than other days, like dreaded Monday or bad-luck Friday the 13th.
But this Tuesday is a day to cash in on the number associated with the apocalypse. It will mark the debut for a remake of the classic 1970s horror film "The Omen," the publication of LaHaye's new "Left Behind" book, and an Ann Coulter polemic called Godless: The Church of Liberalism. And for truly cashing in, there's the nonsectarian online sports book, BetUS.com, which gives
Earth a better than sporting chance. At 100,000-to-1 odds, if you bet the maximum $500 that the world will survive and it does, you win half a penny. If you bet $100 that the apocalypse happens and it does, you can earn a cool $10 million, but you might have a devil of a time collecting it. People are betting both ways, company spokesman Mike Foreman said.
Commercialism based on numbers and fear bothers American University astronomer Richard Berendzen.What it really does is use some coincidence of some numbers for commercial gain,he said. It's superstition and money when it comes down to it. And that's about as satanic as you can get. Still scared about the date 666? Jack Horkheimer of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium has a piece of advice: "If it really spooks you, you can stand on your head and it'll be 999.
JUNE 6TH 06 (666)
Story 1-2 minor quakes in Turkey. 2-Olmert - Mubarik talk. 3-ARAB infighting
Two moderate quakes hit western Turkey, no damage ,Mon Jun 5, 6:23 AM ET
ANKARA (AFP) - Two earthquakes measuring 4.5 and 4.1 on the open-ended Richter scale have rocked western Turkey, sending panicked residents into the streets but causing no casualties, officials said. The epicenter of the tremors, which hit at 7:23 am Monday and again 15 minutes later, was the town of Buharkent, in the Aegean province of Aydin which is popular with foreign tourists, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said.
Buharkent Mayor Fevzi Uzun said the tremors caused short-lived panic among residents, but no casualties or damage were reported.There is no destruction resulting from the quake... People have calmed down and returned to their daily lives,Uzun told Anatolia news agency. Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which is crossed by several seismological fault lines. Some 20,000 people perished in two massive tremors in heavily industrialized northwestern Turkey in August and November 1999.
Olmert and Mubarak Discuss PA at Sharm el-SheikhBy Hana Levi Julian (Aruts 7 news)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Sunday evening to discuss mutual concerns about the current situation in the Palestinian Authority. The two leaders met at the presidential estate in Sharm el-Sheikh. Although Olmert and Mubarak have had numerous phone conversations since Olmert took over the functions of comatose ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in January, this was the first meeting between the two men since Olmert became prime minister.
Olmert publicly agreed to meet with PA President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the possibility of returning to the negotiating table for peace talks based on the Road Map plan. He stated, however, that the PA would be expected to keep its end of the deal at each stage of the plan, including disarming and dismantling terrorist organizations. During the meeting and the news conference that followed, Olmert tendered an official apology to Mubarak for last week’s shooting in which two Egyptians were killed; see separate story. The agenda for the meeting between the two leaders included ways to strengthen PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ position within the Hamas-led PA government, as well as the transfer of humanitarian aid to the PA population.Olmert summarized his recent meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush, as well as recent moves to facilitate the transfer of food, medical supplies and equipment into Gaza.Egyptian-Israeli cooperation and the delicate issue of Olmert’s unilateral withdrawal plan were also topics for discussion.
The prime minister told the Egyptian president that a negotiated peace plan would be his first priority – but if that failed, there would be no other choice but to activate unilateral withdrawal and set permanent borders independently. Mubarak is scheduled to meet with Abbas on Monday, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Information.
More Deaths in Hamas-Fatah FightingBy Hillel Fendel (Aruts 7 NEWS)
A state of emergency has been declared in Gaza, as fighting between Hamas and Fatah gunmen continues to claim victims. The latest victim: a Hamas military official killed by a bomb in his home. Officials have instructed medical aid workers to wear protective vests, in light of the feared escalation in fighting.The latest killing, around 11:00 this morning (Monday), was originally reported to be the result of a bomb placed by Fatah men in a Hamas official's home.
Later reports, however, stated the bomb might have been one the victim himself was working on. Among the dead in last night's fighting were the brother and 20-year-old pregnant wife of a Hamas terrorist; the targeted Hamas man is himself listed in very critical condition. The incident occurred in Khan Yunis, adjacent to what used to be N'vei Dekalim in southern Gush Katif.
Elsewhere, at a mourners' tent for a Fatah police officer in Gaza City, shots rang out and killed at least two mourners. The victims, like the officer, were Fatah men who were killed by Hamas gunmen.In a third reported incident, a Hamas operative was killed as he was shot while driving in Gaza City.Later in the day, militants took over and damaged a Fatah TV station. A Hamas spokesman denied that his organization was involved.Tensions were expected to abate yesterday, following the beginning of the payment of salaries to the more than 150,000 Palestinian Authority employees for the first time in three months. The salaries are being funded by interest-free loans granted the PA by local banks. However, the payments did not go smoothly today, and dozens of angry Arabs who were not paid rioted inside at least two bank offices, leading to their closure.
Agitation may also increase as the leaders of Fatah and Hamas find themselves unable to reach an agreement on the issues of dispute between them. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) says that if Hamas does not accept, by tonight, the paper known as the Prisoners' Document, he will call a referendum tomorrow. Hamas leader Ismail Haniye, however, who serves as prime minister in the Palestinian Authority, says that the people already said their piece in the January elections.
He refuses to either recognize the Prisoner's Document or to agree to a referendum.The document in question recognizes Israel's pre-1967 borders, calls for an Arab state in all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and formulates guidelines forunderstanding between Hamas and Fatah.
Hamas objects to the clauses that call for adopting international resolutions to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and considering the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the PA's Arabs.Yesterday (Sunday), Abbas refused to talk by phone with Haniye, and sent two representatives to speak with him instead. Haniye said he had no time to talk with them. Another attempt at a meeting between Haniye and Abbas' representatives will be made today.
Three Arabs were injured yesterday in southern Gaza when a political argument deteriorated into a shootout between Fatah and Hamas gunmen.
Two moderate quakes hit western Turkey, no damage ,Mon Jun 5, 6:23 AM ET
ANKARA (AFP) - Two earthquakes measuring 4.5 and 4.1 on the open-ended Richter scale have rocked western Turkey, sending panicked residents into the streets but causing no casualties, officials said. The epicenter of the tremors, which hit at 7:23 am Monday and again 15 minutes later, was the town of Buharkent, in the Aegean province of Aydin which is popular with foreign tourists, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said.
Buharkent Mayor Fevzi Uzun said the tremors caused short-lived panic among residents, but no casualties or damage were reported.There is no destruction resulting from the quake... People have calmed down and returned to their daily lives,Uzun told Anatolia news agency. Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which is crossed by several seismological fault lines. Some 20,000 people perished in two massive tremors in heavily industrialized northwestern Turkey in August and November 1999.
Olmert and Mubarak Discuss PA at Sharm el-SheikhBy Hana Levi Julian (Aruts 7 news)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Sunday evening to discuss mutual concerns about the current situation in the Palestinian Authority. The two leaders met at the presidential estate in Sharm el-Sheikh. Although Olmert and Mubarak have had numerous phone conversations since Olmert took over the functions of comatose ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in January, this was the first meeting between the two men since Olmert became prime minister.
Olmert publicly agreed to meet with PA President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the possibility of returning to the negotiating table for peace talks based on the Road Map plan. He stated, however, that the PA would be expected to keep its end of the deal at each stage of the plan, including disarming and dismantling terrorist organizations. During the meeting and the news conference that followed, Olmert tendered an official apology to Mubarak for last week’s shooting in which two Egyptians were killed; see separate story. The agenda for the meeting between the two leaders included ways to strengthen PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ position within the Hamas-led PA government, as well as the transfer of humanitarian aid to the PA population.Olmert summarized his recent meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush, as well as recent moves to facilitate the transfer of food, medical supplies and equipment into Gaza.Egyptian-Israeli cooperation and the delicate issue of Olmert’s unilateral withdrawal plan were also topics for discussion.
The prime minister told the Egyptian president that a negotiated peace plan would be his first priority – but if that failed, there would be no other choice but to activate unilateral withdrawal and set permanent borders independently. Mubarak is scheduled to meet with Abbas on Monday, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Information.
More Deaths in Hamas-Fatah FightingBy Hillel Fendel (Aruts 7 NEWS)
A state of emergency has been declared in Gaza, as fighting between Hamas and Fatah gunmen continues to claim victims. The latest victim: a Hamas military official killed by a bomb in his home. Officials have instructed medical aid workers to wear protective vests, in light of the feared escalation in fighting.The latest killing, around 11:00 this morning (Monday), was originally reported to be the result of a bomb placed by Fatah men in a Hamas official's home.
Later reports, however, stated the bomb might have been one the victim himself was working on. Among the dead in last night's fighting were the brother and 20-year-old pregnant wife of a Hamas terrorist; the targeted Hamas man is himself listed in very critical condition. The incident occurred in Khan Yunis, adjacent to what used to be N'vei Dekalim in southern Gush Katif.
Elsewhere, at a mourners' tent for a Fatah police officer in Gaza City, shots rang out and killed at least two mourners. The victims, like the officer, were Fatah men who were killed by Hamas gunmen.In a third reported incident, a Hamas operative was killed as he was shot while driving in Gaza City.Later in the day, militants took over and damaged a Fatah TV station. A Hamas spokesman denied that his organization was involved.Tensions were expected to abate yesterday, following the beginning of the payment of salaries to the more than 150,000 Palestinian Authority employees for the first time in three months. The salaries are being funded by interest-free loans granted the PA by local banks. However, the payments did not go smoothly today, and dozens of angry Arabs who were not paid rioted inside at least two bank offices, leading to their closure.
Agitation may also increase as the leaders of Fatah and Hamas find themselves unable to reach an agreement on the issues of dispute between them. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) says that if Hamas does not accept, by tonight, the paper known as the Prisoners' Document, he will call a referendum tomorrow. Hamas leader Ismail Haniye, however, who serves as prime minister in the Palestinian Authority, says that the people already said their piece in the January elections.
He refuses to either recognize the Prisoner's Document or to agree to a referendum.The document in question recognizes Israel's pre-1967 borders, calls for an Arab state in all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and formulates guidelines forunderstanding between Hamas and Fatah.
Hamas objects to the clauses that call for adopting international resolutions to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and considering the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the PA's Arabs.Yesterday (Sunday), Abbas refused to talk by phone with Haniye, and sent two representatives to speak with him instead. Haniye said he had no time to talk with them. Another attempt at a meeting between Haniye and Abbas' representatives will be made today.
Three Arabs were injured yesterday in southern Gaza when a political argument deteriorated into a shootout between Fatah and Hamas gunmen.
Monday, June 05, 2006
JEWISH LEADERS OPTIMISTIC
Story 1-Jewish leaders buoyed by interfaith meeting.2-Florida fire Statistics. 3-India Monsoon kill 133.
Jun. 4, 2006 7:59 Updated Jun. 4, 2006 8:00Jewish leaders buoyed by EU interfaith meetingBy JOEL CLARK / JTA
Jewish leaders said they were optimistic following a high-profile interfaith meeting held by the European Union last week. The Tuesday meeting was attended by Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders from across Europe, as well as Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Fifteen delegates were invited to Brussels to represent their faith communities in a discussion focused on the role religious communities should play in the promotion of freedom, democracy and human rights across Europe.
Organized by the EU Bureau of European Policy Advisers, the meeting was chaired by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, together with Wolfgang Schussel, chancellor of Austria, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU.
The event follows a similar gathering of religious leaders at the European Commission, the EU's executive wing, in July 2005, but this was the first time that such an initiative has had the support of the EU presidency. Europe's Jewish community was represented by Chief Rabbi Rene Gutman of Strasbourg and Bas-Rhin in France and Chief Rabbi Albert Guigui of Brussels, both members of the Conference of European Rabbis, the organization which coordinates Europe's chief rabbis. Barroso hailed the meeting as a very important moment,adding that dialogue between faiths was a vital condition in understanding their differences.
Delegates spent three hours discussing issues affecting their communities in front of senior members of the European Commission, including the employment, justice and education commissioners, as well as Barroso and Schussel. The meeting was also attended by Iranian-born Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Seyyed Abbas Ghaemmaghami, who expressed a willingness to work with Jewish leaders on common issues such as ritual slaughter. Guigui, also permanent representative of the Conference of European Rabbis to the European Union, was positive about the meeting.
The fact that the European Union now has a clear structure for interfaith dialogue gives us great hope that we can continue these meetings into the future," he told JTA. Guigui added that he and Gutman had raised several key issues affecting the European Jewish community, notably the rise of anti -Semitism across Europe.
Anti-Semitism is a very deep problem for the Jewish communities of Europe and the president said that they are preparing an EU forum to fight that phenomenon,he said. Imam Abduljalil Sajid, a representative of the UKbased Muslim Council for Religious and Racial Harmony, said the meeting had shown a lot of "hopes and aspirations" among faith leaders. Although there was nothing new in the gathering of religious leaders, Sajid said, the presence of such influential European politicians made it a historic event.
There's no alternative to dialogue, but what we need now is actions to follow it all up. Philip Carmel, director of international relations at the Conference of European Rabbis, said the meeting had been a real landmark. Bringing together religious leaders from all the monotheistic faiths of Europe under the flag of the European Union is something that I regard as very positive, he said. It gives a sign that the EU is committed to real interfaith dialogue and to integrating people of faith into the European discussion to build a better society.
Florida Wildfire Information: January 1- June 1, 2006:
2,974 wildfires have burned 121,954 acres
India monsoon toll hits 133, floods displace 25,000 by Zarir Hussain 41 minutes ago
GUWAHATI, India (AFP) - Twenty-eight people died in lightning strikes and rain-related accidents as the death toll from the early monsoon hit 133 and 25,000 people were displaced by flooding, officials said. Authorities in northeastern Assam state said floodwaters from the Brahmaputra river inundated at least 70 villages and severed road and rail links. At least 25,000 people were forced to take shelter in makeshift arrangements with floodwaters submerging villages,a government statement said.No casualties were immediately reported from the flooding in Assam, but 15 deaths were reported in northern Uttar Pradesh state, and 13 more nationwide after summer rains tore into the subcontinent earlier than expected.
At least 41 people have died in the western state of Maharashtra, which has been pounded by heavy rains since mid-week bringing back memories of floods in July 2005 which killed hundreds of people in the state capital Mumbai.The other deaths -- caused mainly by lightning strikes, drownings and house collapses in heavy storms -- were in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat, Jharkhand and West Bengal states, according to official reports.
The monsoon hit India's Andaman archipelago on May 18, about a week earlier than usual.According to Assam's Central Water Commission, the Brahmaputra was Sunday flowing above the danger level in at least six places with the river maintaining a rising trend.
The area worst hit by the first wave of flooding that began Thursday was Assam's eastern district of Dhemaji.State officials said at least 22 villages in the district had been submerged and 642 hectares (1,585 acres) of agricultural fields had been "devastated.Road and rail links in parts of Assam have also been hit by the floods.In many places in southern Assam, floodwaters have topped roads and caused breaches disrupting surface transport,government spokesman C. Nath said.A railway official said a breach in a canal washed away a major section of a rail track between the towns of Rangia and Rangapara in northern Assam.
Since Thursday rail links have remained snapped between Rangia and Rangapara,the official said.Eastern Assam's Kaziranga National Park, home to the world's largest concentration of endangered one-horned rhinos, was partially flooded. The animals are still safe despite floodwaters submerging a section of the park,said ranger D.D. Boro.The 2,906-kilometer
(1,816-mile) Brahmaputra is one of Asia's longest rivers, traversing China's Tibet region, India and Bangladesh before reaching the Bay of Bengal.
Every year the monsoon causes the river to flood its banks, submerging paddy fields, washing away villages, drowning livestock and killing many in the remote state of 26 million people. In 2004, at least 200 people died and more than 12 million were displaced in the floods although last year lower-than-usual rains saw a reduced death toll and fewer people displaced.
Jun. 4, 2006 7:59 Updated Jun. 4, 2006 8:00Jewish leaders buoyed by EU interfaith meetingBy JOEL CLARK / JTA
Jewish leaders said they were optimistic following a high-profile interfaith meeting held by the European Union last week. The Tuesday meeting was attended by Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders from across Europe, as well as Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Fifteen delegates were invited to Brussels to represent their faith communities in a discussion focused on the role religious communities should play in the promotion of freedom, democracy and human rights across Europe.
Organized by the EU Bureau of European Policy Advisers, the meeting was chaired by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, together with Wolfgang Schussel, chancellor of Austria, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU.
The event follows a similar gathering of religious leaders at the European Commission, the EU's executive wing, in July 2005, but this was the first time that such an initiative has had the support of the EU presidency. Europe's Jewish community was represented by Chief Rabbi Rene Gutman of Strasbourg and Bas-Rhin in France and Chief Rabbi Albert Guigui of Brussels, both members of the Conference of European Rabbis, the organization which coordinates Europe's chief rabbis. Barroso hailed the meeting as a very important moment,adding that dialogue between faiths was a vital condition in understanding their differences.
Delegates spent three hours discussing issues affecting their communities in front of senior members of the European Commission, including the employment, justice and education commissioners, as well as Barroso and Schussel. The meeting was also attended by Iranian-born Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Seyyed Abbas Ghaemmaghami, who expressed a willingness to work with Jewish leaders on common issues such as ritual slaughter. Guigui, also permanent representative of the Conference of European Rabbis to the European Union, was positive about the meeting.
The fact that the European Union now has a clear structure for interfaith dialogue gives us great hope that we can continue these meetings into the future," he told JTA. Guigui added that he and Gutman had raised several key issues affecting the European Jewish community, notably the rise of anti -Semitism across Europe.
Anti-Semitism is a very deep problem for the Jewish communities of Europe and the president said that they are preparing an EU forum to fight that phenomenon,he said. Imam Abduljalil Sajid, a representative of the UKbased Muslim Council for Religious and Racial Harmony, said the meeting had shown a lot of "hopes and aspirations" among faith leaders. Although there was nothing new in the gathering of religious leaders, Sajid said, the presence of such influential European politicians made it a historic event.
There's no alternative to dialogue, but what we need now is actions to follow it all up. Philip Carmel, director of international relations at the Conference of European Rabbis, said the meeting had been a real landmark. Bringing together religious leaders from all the monotheistic faiths of Europe under the flag of the European Union is something that I regard as very positive, he said. It gives a sign that the EU is committed to real interfaith dialogue and to integrating people of faith into the European discussion to build a better society.
Florida Wildfire Information: January 1- June 1, 2006:
2,974 wildfires have burned 121,954 acres
India monsoon toll hits 133, floods displace 25,000 by Zarir Hussain 41 minutes ago
GUWAHATI, India (AFP) - Twenty-eight people died in lightning strikes and rain-related accidents as the death toll from the early monsoon hit 133 and 25,000 people were displaced by flooding, officials said. Authorities in northeastern Assam state said floodwaters from the Brahmaputra river inundated at least 70 villages and severed road and rail links. At least 25,000 people were forced to take shelter in makeshift arrangements with floodwaters submerging villages,a government statement said.No casualties were immediately reported from the flooding in Assam, but 15 deaths were reported in northern Uttar Pradesh state, and 13 more nationwide after summer rains tore into the subcontinent earlier than expected.
At least 41 people have died in the western state of Maharashtra, which has been pounded by heavy rains since mid-week bringing back memories of floods in July 2005 which killed hundreds of people in the state capital Mumbai.The other deaths -- caused mainly by lightning strikes, drownings and house collapses in heavy storms -- were in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat, Jharkhand and West Bengal states, according to official reports.
The monsoon hit India's Andaman archipelago on May 18, about a week earlier than usual.According to Assam's Central Water Commission, the Brahmaputra was Sunday flowing above the danger level in at least six places with the river maintaining a rising trend.
The area worst hit by the first wave of flooding that began Thursday was Assam's eastern district of Dhemaji.State officials said at least 22 villages in the district had been submerged and 642 hectares (1,585 acres) of agricultural fields had been "devastated.Road and rail links in parts of Assam have also been hit by the floods.In many places in southern Assam, floodwaters have topped roads and caused breaches disrupting surface transport,government spokesman C. Nath said.A railway official said a breach in a canal washed away a major section of a rail track between the towns of Rangia and Rangapara in northern Assam.
Since Thursday rail links have remained snapped between Rangia and Rangapara,the official said.Eastern Assam's Kaziranga National Park, home to the world's largest concentration of endangered one-horned rhinos, was partially flooded. The animals are still safe despite floodwaters submerging a section of the park,said ranger D.D. Boro.The 2,906-kilometer
(1,816-mile) Brahmaputra is one of Asia's longest rivers, traversing China's Tibet region, India and Bangladesh before reaching the Bay of Bengal.
Every year the monsoon causes the river to flood its banks, submerging paddy fields, washing away villages, drowning livestock and killing many in the remote state of 26 million people. In 2004, at least 200 people died and more than 12 million were displaced in the floods although last year lower-than-usual rains saw a reduced death toll and fewer people displaced.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
JERUSALEM O JERUSALEM
Story 1-Jerusalem O Jerusalem. 2-8 vocanoes in phillipines ready to erupt.
City of Old ,Nelly F Villafuerte
SOMEONE once said: There’s some sort of intangible special feeling about Jerusalem. It’s difficult to put into words. It’s almost as if its walls are bursting with its tortured and triumphant history. It is a wonderful, hating, and mysterious place.
Nobody will dispute the fact that Jerusalem is a city revered by Christians, Muslims, and the Jews. It is also a city where lighting never ceases for thousands of years – and continues up to this day.
And unknown to many, archaeologists found evidence of people living in Jerusalem as far back as 3000 B.C. Confirming the speculation that people were living in Jerusalem for tens of thousands of years before cities appeared. No wonder, Jerusalem is called the City of Old. It is amazing that archaologists found pieces of a broken bowl from Egypt dating to about 1800 B.C. It was a practice of the Egyptians of the Old World to write names of their enemies on bowls and other objects which they then smashed.
The archaeologists found the name of the ruler of Jerusalem and his retainers on the pieces of the broken bowl – together with other enemies of the Egyptians. In Hebrew, Jerusalem is Yerushalayem, which is thought by many to be a combination of the words for city and peace. Jerusalem is a favorite pilgrimage site for many years now. Simply, because from the Biblical account Jesus preached in the place, miracles were performed, and finally Jesus died there.
The word Jerusalem appears about 600 times in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. In the Holy Bible, the City of Jerusalem is known by other names – Zion, City of Jehovah, City of the Prophets, Holy Mountain, Holy City, Hephzibah, and City of God. In one biblical passage (Isalah 45:13), the Lord Himself refers to Jerusalem as "My city." Far back in the early times, about 1400 B.C.,
Jerusalem was called U-ru-sa-lim, meaning the city of peace. Ironically, religious strife and not peace has often been the picture depicted every time Jerusalem is mentioned in the international scene. Jerusalem is special to God in a very extraordinary way. The Bible says that when Hezekiah, King of Judah was praying to the Lord to spare Jerusalem from destruction by the Assyrian army of King Senhacherib, the Lord in 2 Kings 19:32-34 said: He will not enter
this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it. By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city. I will defend this city and save it, for My sake and for the sake of David My servant. That night, 185,000 Assyrian soldiers were killed by the angel of the Lord!
Jerusalem is also special to many people. To the Moslems, Jerusalem is the third holiest city of Islam after Mecca and Medina because the Al Aqsa Mosque is located in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is known as al-Quds, Arabic for "the holy. To the Jews, the whole city is sacred. The Wailing Wall, Judaism’s holiest shrine is in Jerusalem. To Christians, Jerusalem is closely identified with Jesus Himself and with His spiritual teachings. For one, from biblical account, the triple events of the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ occurred in this place.
In Genesis 22:2 we see Abraham being tested by God to offer his only son as a burnt offering to God. The place was Mount Moriah. From 2 Chronicles 22:2, we again see King Solomon building the temple to the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. Later in 2 Kings 25:8-17, we see the Babylonians led by Nebuzaradan, commander of the army of King Nebuchadnezar burning the temple. It is in this same biblical site that the Al Aqsa Mosque is standing today. Nowadays, many people are trying to unravel the mystery of the biblical prophecy that the temple of God will be rebuilt and anti-christ will sit in the temple of God. Many people are puzzled how this
biblical prophecy can be fulfilled when the Al Aqsa Mosque is standing on the same supposed site of Solomon’s temple.
It is saddening though, to note that subconsciously many of us impose human restrictions to divine prophecies. We seem to forget that with our almighty and sovereign God, nothing is impossible. From biblical account, we can conclude that Jerusalem occupies a very special place in God’s reservoir of love. In Zechariah 12:3: on that date when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I (our Lord God) will make Jerusalem rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.
Only by reading the Holy Bible can the wonders of Jerusalem, the City of the Old be truly unfolded. Hopefully, this story of Jerusalem will inspire and challenge us to read the Holy Bible everyday of our lives. This column continues to give out copies of the Holy Bible for free to those who cannot afford to buy their own copies. If interested, please send your letter-request to Ms. Nelly Favis-Villafuerte, 5th floor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Roxas Blvd., Makati
City. Kindly mention if it is the Tagalog, English, Cebuano, or Ilocano version that is preferred.
This column is also giving out for free a 42-page 3x5 inch booklet that briefly explains the said doctrine of salvation presented in the Holy Bible. To those who are struggling as to what the Holy Bible really says on how souls can be saved from eternal damnation, please do not hesitate to write me and ask for a copy of the booklet. Let us not forget the Biblical verse that says What profits a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?
Have a joyful day!
8 volcanoes to erupt?
THE Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology is closely monitoring at least eight active volcanoes in the country which are showing signs of impending major eruptions.Speaking before the weekly forum Kapihan sa Sulo, Philvocs Director Renato Solidum Jr. identified the eight restless volcanoes as Mt. Bulusan, Taal volcano, Mayon, Mt. Pinatubo; Mt. Canlaon; Mt.
Hibok-Hibok, Mt. Matutum and Mt Parker. The last two are in Mindanao.
These eight volcanoes are among those 22 active volcanoes in the country, but these (have been) frequently erupting since (the) 1960s, that is why we are keeping our eye on these, Solidum said. According to Solidum, Philvocs is monitoring all active volcanoes in the country as these may cause a strong earthquake in the future.He said a strong earthquake like the killer temblor that hit Indonesia last week may strike the country since the Philippines is within the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Earthquakes are normal occurrences in the Philippines with Philvocs recording more than 20 weak temblors every day.The country experiences at least one to two strong earthquakes every five years.Because of this, Solidum once more called on the public to be always prepared for disasters.
Jester Manalastas,Peoples Journal,6/4/2006 19:14 PM
City of Old ,Nelly F Villafuerte
SOMEONE once said: There’s some sort of intangible special feeling about Jerusalem. It’s difficult to put into words. It’s almost as if its walls are bursting with its tortured and triumphant history. It is a wonderful, hating, and mysterious place.
Nobody will dispute the fact that Jerusalem is a city revered by Christians, Muslims, and the Jews. It is also a city where lighting never ceases for thousands of years – and continues up to this day.
And unknown to many, archaeologists found evidence of people living in Jerusalem as far back as 3000 B.C. Confirming the speculation that people were living in Jerusalem for tens of thousands of years before cities appeared. No wonder, Jerusalem is called the City of Old. It is amazing that archaologists found pieces of a broken bowl from Egypt dating to about 1800 B.C. It was a practice of the Egyptians of the Old World to write names of their enemies on bowls and other objects which they then smashed.
The archaeologists found the name of the ruler of Jerusalem and his retainers on the pieces of the broken bowl – together with other enemies of the Egyptians. In Hebrew, Jerusalem is Yerushalayem, which is thought by many to be a combination of the words for city and peace. Jerusalem is a favorite pilgrimage site for many years now. Simply, because from the Biblical account Jesus preached in the place, miracles were performed, and finally Jesus died there.
The word Jerusalem appears about 600 times in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. In the Holy Bible, the City of Jerusalem is known by other names – Zion, City of Jehovah, City of the Prophets, Holy Mountain, Holy City, Hephzibah, and City of God. In one biblical passage (Isalah 45:13), the Lord Himself refers to Jerusalem as "My city." Far back in the early times, about 1400 B.C.,
Jerusalem was called U-ru-sa-lim, meaning the city of peace. Ironically, religious strife and not peace has often been the picture depicted every time Jerusalem is mentioned in the international scene. Jerusalem is special to God in a very extraordinary way. The Bible says that when Hezekiah, King of Judah was praying to the Lord to spare Jerusalem from destruction by the Assyrian army of King Senhacherib, the Lord in 2 Kings 19:32-34 said: He will not enter
this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it. By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city. I will defend this city and save it, for My sake and for the sake of David My servant. That night, 185,000 Assyrian soldiers were killed by the angel of the Lord!
Jerusalem is also special to many people. To the Moslems, Jerusalem is the third holiest city of Islam after Mecca and Medina because the Al Aqsa Mosque is located in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is known as al-Quds, Arabic for "the holy. To the Jews, the whole city is sacred. The Wailing Wall, Judaism’s holiest shrine is in Jerusalem. To Christians, Jerusalem is closely identified with Jesus Himself and with His spiritual teachings. For one, from biblical account, the triple events of the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ occurred in this place.
In Genesis 22:2 we see Abraham being tested by God to offer his only son as a burnt offering to God. The place was Mount Moriah. From 2 Chronicles 22:2, we again see King Solomon building the temple to the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. Later in 2 Kings 25:8-17, we see the Babylonians led by Nebuzaradan, commander of the army of King Nebuchadnezar burning the temple. It is in this same biblical site that the Al Aqsa Mosque is standing today. Nowadays, many people are trying to unravel the mystery of the biblical prophecy that the temple of God will be rebuilt and anti-christ will sit in the temple of God. Many people are puzzled how this
biblical prophecy can be fulfilled when the Al Aqsa Mosque is standing on the same supposed site of Solomon’s temple.
It is saddening though, to note that subconsciously many of us impose human restrictions to divine prophecies. We seem to forget that with our almighty and sovereign God, nothing is impossible. From biblical account, we can conclude that Jerusalem occupies a very special place in God’s reservoir of love. In Zechariah 12:3: on that date when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I (our Lord God) will make Jerusalem rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.
Only by reading the Holy Bible can the wonders of Jerusalem, the City of the Old be truly unfolded. Hopefully, this story of Jerusalem will inspire and challenge us to read the Holy Bible everyday of our lives. This column continues to give out copies of the Holy Bible for free to those who cannot afford to buy their own copies. If interested, please send your letter-request to Ms. Nelly Favis-Villafuerte, 5th floor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Roxas Blvd., Makati
City. Kindly mention if it is the Tagalog, English, Cebuano, or Ilocano version that is preferred.
This column is also giving out for free a 42-page 3x5 inch booklet that briefly explains the said doctrine of salvation presented in the Holy Bible. To those who are struggling as to what the Holy Bible really says on how souls can be saved from eternal damnation, please do not hesitate to write me and ask for a copy of the booklet. Let us not forget the Biblical verse that says What profits a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?
Have a joyful day!
8 volcanoes to erupt?
THE Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology is closely monitoring at least eight active volcanoes in the country which are showing signs of impending major eruptions.Speaking before the weekly forum Kapihan sa Sulo, Philvocs Director Renato Solidum Jr. identified the eight restless volcanoes as Mt. Bulusan, Taal volcano, Mayon, Mt. Pinatubo; Mt. Canlaon; Mt.
Hibok-Hibok, Mt. Matutum and Mt Parker. The last two are in Mindanao.
These eight volcanoes are among those 22 active volcanoes in the country, but these (have been) frequently erupting since (the) 1960s, that is why we are keeping our eye on these, Solidum said. According to Solidum, Philvocs is monitoring all active volcanoes in the country as these may cause a strong earthquake in the future.He said a strong earthquake like the killer temblor that hit Indonesia last week may strike the country since the Philippines is within the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Earthquakes are normal occurrences in the Philippines with Philvocs recording more than 20 weak temblors every day.The country experiences at least one to two strong earthquakes every five years.Because of this, Solidum once more called on the public to be always prepared for disasters.
Jester Manalastas,Peoples Journal,6/4/2006 19:14 PM
Saturday, June 03, 2006
BUGS FLOODING QUAKE
Story 1-BUGS INFEST QUEBEC, 2-QUEBEC ROADS FLOODED OUT FOR WEEKS. 3-22 KILLED IN CHINA FLOODING.4-Iran Quake.
Mosquitoes, blackflies on attack in Quebec Last updated Jun 2 2006 05:13 PM EDT
,CBC News-Quebecers are under attack from more mosquitoes that are acting aggressively under ideal breeding conditions, an expert says.A mild winter and wet spring in Quebec have led to about triple the usual number of mosquitoes in the province, said Jacques Boisvert, an entomologist at the University of Quebec Trois Rivières who tracks bug populations.There's a lot more mosquitoes, more blackflies,Boisvert told CBC News. But to me, what's important is they are more aggressive towards people.May was largely rainy in Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes. In such weather, mosquitoes and blackflies delay their emergence, so their bites are
also delayed.
When conditions improved at the end of May, the emerging females quickly took a large blood meal to prepare for egg laying. Mosquitoes spread West Nile virus, but the infective species doesn't tend to emerge until early July in the province, when dead birds start to appear, Boisvert said. You can move to Antarctica, but it's quite difficult," Boisvert said. "Otherwise, you dress properly.He advised against wearing dark coloured clothing, which attracts mosquitoes.
Donning long sleeves and pants, and putting repellent on exposed skin such as the face and hands is recommended.
Washed-out roads to be closed for weeks near La Tuque Last updated Jun 1 2006 05:41 PM EDT ,CBC News
Officials in La Tuque, Que., say it will be weeks before roads damaged by heavy rains can be reopened. They have issued another dozen evacuation notices, except this time the notices were voluntary. More homes were evacuated Thursday, and officials say people who choose to stay could be cut off for a while. The Sûreté du Québec's helicopter brought loads of people from areas isolated by the heavy rains.
Denis Bilodeau and his wife had access to their cottage cut off by a washed-out road. On Thursday, the two were hoisted up to a helicopter in harnesses. We had enough food for another week," Bilodeau says, "but our kids were worried about us, so we decided to leave. Water from the heavy rain is still swelling small streams and ditches, but the flow is reducing every hour. Officials say it will be weeks before all damaged roads are repaired.
And until then, evacuees won't be going home, and people who choose to stay in isolated houses will have to make do.At least one death is being blamed on the severe weather in the region. A 28-year-old man was struck by lightning north of La Tuque Wednesday.The Quebec government has promised financial aid to residents.
Twenty-two killed, 19,000 homes destroyed in south China floods Fri Jun 2, 2:29 PM
ET BEIJING (AFP) - Rainstorms and floods have killed 22 people and destroyed thousands of homes in southeast China, state media reported. More than 50,000 people have been evacuated from central and northern Fujian province which has been lashed bynon stop rainstorms since Tuesday, according to the ministry of civil affairs, Xinhua news agency said. About 19,000 homes have also been destroyed, according to the ministry, which despatched a rescue team to the flood-hit areas, Xinhua said.
Floods have always been part of life in China.Since serious flooding of the Yangtze River in 1998, China has spent billions of dollars on flood mitigation. Major rivers have been brought under greater control and early warning systems have been put in place, but flash floods and landslides caused by unprecedented rains continue to cause major damage.
Strong quake hits southern Iran, one dead Sat Jun 3, 7:49 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - A strong earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale has jolted southern Iran, killing a young girl and injuring two others. The head of Hormozgan province Natural Disaster Department, Masoud Dalman, told state radio that the four-year-old girl was killed in the village of Ramkan on the Gulf island of Qeshm just off the coast from Bandar Abbas.The quake struck at 10:45 am Saturday, official media reported, with the epicentre at the port town of Khamir.
In November last year, 10 people were killed when a 6.0 intensity quake hit Qeshm.Iran suffers frequent earthquakes. The worst quake in recent times razed the southeastern town of Bam in December 2003, killing 31,000 people.In late March, a powerful earthquake hit western Iran, killing at least 70 people and leaving thousands homeless.In February 2005, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale killed more than 600 in Zarand.
Mosquitoes, blackflies on attack in Quebec Last updated Jun 2 2006 05:13 PM EDT
,CBC News-Quebecers are under attack from more mosquitoes that are acting aggressively under ideal breeding conditions, an expert says.A mild winter and wet spring in Quebec have led to about triple the usual number of mosquitoes in the province, said Jacques Boisvert, an entomologist at the University of Quebec Trois Rivières who tracks bug populations.There's a lot more mosquitoes, more blackflies,Boisvert told CBC News. But to me, what's important is they are more aggressive towards people.May was largely rainy in Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes. In such weather, mosquitoes and blackflies delay their emergence, so their bites are
also delayed.
When conditions improved at the end of May, the emerging females quickly took a large blood meal to prepare for egg laying. Mosquitoes spread West Nile virus, but the infective species doesn't tend to emerge until early July in the province, when dead birds start to appear, Boisvert said. You can move to Antarctica, but it's quite difficult," Boisvert said. "Otherwise, you dress properly.He advised against wearing dark coloured clothing, which attracts mosquitoes.
Donning long sleeves and pants, and putting repellent on exposed skin such as the face and hands is recommended.
Washed-out roads to be closed for weeks near La Tuque Last updated Jun 1 2006 05:41 PM EDT ,CBC News
Officials in La Tuque, Que., say it will be weeks before roads damaged by heavy rains can be reopened. They have issued another dozen evacuation notices, except this time the notices were voluntary. More homes were evacuated Thursday, and officials say people who choose to stay could be cut off for a while. The Sûreté du Québec's helicopter brought loads of people from areas isolated by the heavy rains.
Denis Bilodeau and his wife had access to their cottage cut off by a washed-out road. On Thursday, the two were hoisted up to a helicopter in harnesses. We had enough food for another week," Bilodeau says, "but our kids were worried about us, so we decided to leave. Water from the heavy rain is still swelling small streams and ditches, but the flow is reducing every hour. Officials say it will be weeks before all damaged roads are repaired.
And until then, evacuees won't be going home, and people who choose to stay in isolated houses will have to make do.At least one death is being blamed on the severe weather in the region. A 28-year-old man was struck by lightning north of La Tuque Wednesday.The Quebec government has promised financial aid to residents.
Twenty-two killed, 19,000 homes destroyed in south China floods Fri Jun 2, 2:29 PM
ET BEIJING (AFP) - Rainstorms and floods have killed 22 people and destroyed thousands of homes in southeast China, state media reported. More than 50,000 people have been evacuated from central and northern Fujian province which has been lashed bynon stop rainstorms since Tuesday, according to the ministry of civil affairs, Xinhua news agency said. About 19,000 homes have also been destroyed, according to the ministry, which despatched a rescue team to the flood-hit areas, Xinhua said.
Floods have always been part of life in China.Since serious flooding of the Yangtze River in 1998, China has spent billions of dollars on flood mitigation. Major rivers have been brought under greater control and early warning systems have been put in place, but flash floods and landslides caused by unprecedented rains continue to cause major damage.
Strong quake hits southern Iran, one dead Sat Jun 3, 7:49 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - A strong earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale has jolted southern Iran, killing a young girl and injuring two others. The head of Hormozgan province Natural Disaster Department, Masoud Dalman, told state radio that the four-year-old girl was killed in the village of Ramkan on the Gulf island of Qeshm just off the coast from Bandar Abbas.The quake struck at 10:45 am Saturday, official media reported, with the epicentre at the port town of Khamir.
In November last year, 10 people were killed when a 6.0 intensity quake hit Qeshm.Iran suffers frequent earthquakes. The worst quake in recent times razed the southeastern town of Bam in December 2003, killing 31,000 people.In late March, a powerful earthquake hit western Iran, killing at least 70 people and leaving thousands homeless.In February 2005, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale killed more than 600 in Zarand.
Friday, June 02, 2006
IRAN NO TO DEAL
Story 1-IRANS SAYS NO TO DEAL 2-FIRES IN CHINA. 3-Flooding in China. 4-Club of Rome 10 world regions.
In John Hagees book Jerusalem countdown, Iran is at stage 5 or possibly 6th and final stage of having a Nuclear Bomb. In his book he says by April to October of 2006, Iran could have the bomb, which would explain why Iran do not want talks. Hes ready for Paslms 83:3-5.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, 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:
Yes Iran wants Israel off the world map and won't stop till they get it done. Thank GOD JESUS will protect his people and lead Israel or USA or both to take action against Iran before this comes about.
Here are the steps that is needed in having a Nuclear Bomb.
Uranium once enriched, can form the core of a nuclear bomb. But enriching it requires hard to acquire technology and time. The equipment that mr Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, peddled included centrifuges, which are critical to enrichment. Heres how the process works.
1- DIG IT - Uranium ore is mined, milled, and soaked with sulfuric acid, leaching out pure uranium.
2- CRUCH IT - Uranium is dried and filtered into coarse powder called yellowcake.
3- BAKE IT - The yellowcake isexposed to fluorine gas and heated to 133 F(56 C) converting it into a gas, uranium hexafluoride.
4- SPIN IT - The gas is pumped into a centrifuge that spins at the speed of sound. As it spins, the heavier U-238 moves toward the outside while the lighter, highly fissionable isotope U-235 collects closer to the center.
5- SPIN IT AGAIN - The slightly enriched U-235 is fed into another centrifuge, where it is enriched furthur. It moves down a train of some 1,500 centrifuges. Once it is 20 percent pure, the uranium is considered highly enriched. Only at more than 90 percent purity-which takes about a year-is it weapons grade.
6- SQUEEZE IT - The enriched uranium is converted into a metal powder, uranium oxide, which can be molded into a sphere weighing 35 to 100 pounds (16 to 46 kg) and placed in a weapon.
So as we see Iran is on possibly the last stage which will squeeze Israel and America to take action against Iran and bomb their sites or WW3 will be right around the corner. Yes we are living in perilous (dangerous) times like the Bible says would happen in the last days before JESUS returns to Earth.
CORRECTED: Iran won't abandon nuclear technology: president Fri Jun 2, 1:23 PM
ET TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that Iran will not abandon its right to peaceful nuclear energy despite Western pressure, the official IRNA news agency reported. Pressure of some Western countries to force Iran to abandon its right (to nuclear technology) will not get a result,IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.Major world powers are preparing to deliver a pivotal proposal to Iran combining incentives to halt work that could produce nuclear weapons with a threat of U.N. Security Council action if it refuses.
IRNA said Ahmadinejad made the remarks at a meeting with the visiting head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.Our activities have been based on the International Atomic Energy Agency's regulations and we have had maximum cooperation with them and there is no sign or reason for us not to cooperate with the agency,Ahmadinejad said.Unfortunately, some countries which have nuclear arsenals and are not a signatory the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ... want to deprive us from our obvious right," he said in an apparent reference to Israel.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Over 20,000 fight 'out of control' forest fires in north-east China
Beijing - Over 20,000 firefighters and police officers are battling three major forest fires that are 'out of control' in remote areas of north-eastern China, a state forestry official said Monday. The three fires are 'still out of control despite intense firefighting efforts', the government's Xinhua news agency quoted Cao Qingyao, a spokesman for the State Forestry Administration, as saying.
Strong winds, high temperatures and dry weather are all hampering the firefighting operations, in which 13 aircraft have dropped water on the fires to help the 20,000 people on the ground, Cao said. One of the fires broke out at the Galashan Forest Farm in Nenjiang county, Heilongjiang province. The other two were in the neighbouring Inner Mongolia region, along the Miandu river and the Kandu river, which flows through virgin forest in the Greater Khingan mountains, the agency said. High fire risks followed rainfall more than 30 per cent lower than the average for the first five months of this year in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, it quoted meteorologists as saying.
Lightning strikes were one possible cause of the fires, it said, adding that no official figures were released for the land areas affected. Two more forest fires in Inner Mongolia were brought under control on Monday, and no casualties were reported in the fires, it said. © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
GENESIS 11:13
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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; the sea and the waves roaring;
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.
Rainy weather in southern China leaves at least 9 dead
Floods, mudflows and landslides triggered by days of torrential rain in southern China have left at least nine dead, dozens injured and hundreds of thousands homeless. In Central China's Hubei Province torrential rain left three people dead, 35 seriously injured and over 350,000 homeless, a local official said over the weekend. Liu Changdou, a disaster-relief official from the provincial civil affairs department, said 945 houses had collapsed and 137,500 hectares of farmland had been flooded. According to the provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters the heavy rain swept over 11 cities and counties from May 24 to 25.
The rain in Jingzhou, which was among the worst hit places, reached 260.7 millimetres, one of the heaviest rainfalls the city has ever experienced.Torrential rain has also swept through most of Guangdong Province in the past few days. Between May 26 and 28 local meteorological observatories issued 105 rainstorm warnings, with five cities and counties issuing warning signals of the highest grade.Most places recorded more than 100 millimetres of rain, with 409.4 millimetres of daily rainfall reported at Shangchuan Island.
Continuous heavy rain caused streets to flood in the cities of Jiangmen, Foshan, Heyuan and Huizhou, but despite damage from water logging no casualties or injuries have been reported. Heavy downpours inconvenienced workers in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, yesterday morning and rain continued for the rest of the day. The weather started to ease yesterday but is expected to gain force again on Thursday. Zhang Dejiang, Party chief for Guangdong Province, urged various areas to take anti-flooding measures to guard against further damage.
Meanwhile the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters warned that attention should be paid to mid and small scale reservoirs in southern China that have exceeded flood alarm lines. The one positive outcome of the devastating weather is that the continuous rainfall has eased the drought affecting 2 million hectares of farmland in southern and central areas of North China, central Inner Mongolia and southwestern China, added the office's spokesman. Source: China Daily
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
Club of Rome ,(Committee of 300 subversive body)
This group was organized in 1968 by the Morgenthau Group for the purpose of accelerating the plans to have the New World Order in place by the year 2000. The Club of Rome developed a plan to divide the world into ten regions or kingdoms.
In 1976, the United States Association of the Club of Rome (USACOR) was formed for the purpose of shutting down the U.S. economy gradually. The Technetronic Era Henry Kissinger was then, and still is, an important agent in the service of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, a member of the Club of Rome and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Kissinger's role in destabilizing the United States by means of three wars, the Middle East, Korea and Vietnam, is well known, as is his role in the Gulf War, in which the U.S. Army acted as mercenaries for the Committee of 300 in bringing Kuwait back under its control and at the same time making an example out of Iraq so that other small nations would not be tempted to work out their own destiny. The Club of Rome, acting on Committee of 300 orders to eliminate General ul Haq, had no compunction in sacrificing the lives of a number of U.S. servicemen on board the flight, including a U.S. Army Defense Intelligence Agency group headed by Brigadier General Herber Wassom. General ul Haq had been warned by the Turkish Secret Service not to travel by plane, as he was targeted for a mid-air bombing. With this in mind, ul Haq took the United States team with him as "an insurance policy," as he commented to his inner circle advisors.
Club of Rome and its financiers under the title of the German Marshall Fund were two highly-organized conspiratorial bodies operating under cover of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and that the majority of Club of Rome executives were drawn from NATO. The Club of Rome formulated all of what NATO claimed as its policies and, through the activities of Committee of 300 member Lord Carrington, was able to split NATO into two factions, a political (left wing) power group and its former military alliance. The Club of Rome is still one of the most important foreign policy arms of the Committee of 300, and the other being the Bilderbergers. It was put together in 1968 from hard-core members of the original Morgenthau group on the basis of a telephone call made by the late Aurellio Peccei for a new and urgent drive to speed up the plans of the One World Government now called the New World Order. Peccei's call was answered by the most subversive "future planners" drawn from the United States, France, Sweden, Britain, Switzerland and Japan that could be mustered.
During the period 1968-1972, The Club of Rome became a cohesive entity of new-science scientists, Globalist, future planners and inter- nationalists of every stripe. As one delegate put it, "We became Joseph's Coat of Many Colors." Peccei's book "Human Quality" formed the basis of the doctrine adopted by NATO's political wing. Peccei headed the Atlantic Institute's Economic Council for three decades while he was the Chief Executive Officer for Giovanni Agnellis' Fiat Motor Company. Agnelli, a member of an ancient Italian Black Nobility family of the same name, is one of the most important members of the Committee of 300. He played a leading role in development projects in the Soviet Union.
The Club of Rome is a conspiratorial umbrella organization, a marriage between Anglo-American financiers and the old Black Nobility families of Europe, particularly the so-called "nobility" of London, Venice and Genoa. The key to the successful control of the world is their ability to create and manage savage economic recessions and eventual depressions. The Committee of 300 looks to social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, as its principal method of creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients of the future.
The committee appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle. As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski's controller during the Bolshevik Revolution's formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts. Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus. He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that "Man is of no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts.
All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish." With regard to the Third World, the Club of Rome's Harland Cleveland prepared a report which was the height of cynicism. At the time, Cleveland was United States Ambassador to NATO. Essentially, the paper said it would be up to Third World nations to decide among themselves which populations should be eliminated. As Peccei later wrote (based on the Cleveland Report): "Damaged by conflicting policies of three major countries and blocs, roughly patched up here and there, the existing international economic order is visibly coming apart at the seams....The prospect of the necessity of the recourse to triage deciding who must be saved is a very grim one indeed. But, if lamentably, events should come to such a pass, the right to make such decisions cannot be left to just a few nations because it would lend themselves to ominous power over life of the world's hungry.
Prince Hassan named head of Club of RomeGroups Promoting A Globalist, Anti-American AgendaGroups Promoting A Globalist Anti-American Agenda pt2
In John Hagees book Jerusalem countdown, Iran is at stage 5 or possibly 6th and final stage of having a Nuclear Bomb. In his book he says by April to October of 2006, Iran could have the bomb, which would explain why Iran do not want talks. Hes ready for Paslms 83:3-5.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, 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:
Yes Iran wants Israel off the world map and won't stop till they get it done. Thank GOD JESUS will protect his people and lead Israel or USA or both to take action against Iran before this comes about.
Here are the steps that is needed in having a Nuclear Bomb.
Uranium once enriched, can form the core of a nuclear bomb. But enriching it requires hard to acquire technology and time. The equipment that mr Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, peddled included centrifuges, which are critical to enrichment. Heres how the process works.
1- DIG IT - Uranium ore is mined, milled, and soaked with sulfuric acid, leaching out pure uranium.
2- CRUCH IT - Uranium is dried and filtered into coarse powder called yellowcake.
3- BAKE IT - The yellowcake isexposed to fluorine gas and heated to 133 F(56 C) converting it into a gas, uranium hexafluoride.
4- SPIN IT - The gas is pumped into a centrifuge that spins at the speed of sound. As it spins, the heavier U-238 moves toward the outside while the lighter, highly fissionable isotope U-235 collects closer to the center.
5- SPIN IT AGAIN - The slightly enriched U-235 is fed into another centrifuge, where it is enriched furthur. It moves down a train of some 1,500 centrifuges. Once it is 20 percent pure, the uranium is considered highly enriched. Only at more than 90 percent purity-which takes about a year-is it weapons grade.
6- SQUEEZE IT - The enriched uranium is converted into a metal powder, uranium oxide, which can be molded into a sphere weighing 35 to 100 pounds (16 to 46 kg) and placed in a weapon.
So as we see Iran is on possibly the last stage which will squeeze Israel and America to take action against Iran and bomb their sites or WW3 will be right around the corner. Yes we are living in perilous (dangerous) times like the Bible says would happen in the last days before JESUS returns to Earth.
CORRECTED: Iran won't abandon nuclear technology: president Fri Jun 2, 1:23 PM
ET TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that Iran will not abandon its right to peaceful nuclear energy despite Western pressure, the official IRNA news agency reported. Pressure of some Western countries to force Iran to abandon its right (to nuclear technology) will not get a result,IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.Major world powers are preparing to deliver a pivotal proposal to Iran combining incentives to halt work that could produce nuclear weapons with a threat of U.N. Security Council action if it refuses.
IRNA said Ahmadinejad made the remarks at a meeting with the visiting head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.Our activities have been based on the International Atomic Energy Agency's regulations and we have had maximum cooperation with them and there is no sign or reason for us not to cooperate with the agency,Ahmadinejad said.Unfortunately, some countries which have nuclear arsenals and are not a signatory the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ... want to deprive us from our obvious right," he said in an apparent reference to Israel.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Over 20,000 fight 'out of control' forest fires in north-east China
Beijing - Over 20,000 firefighters and police officers are battling three major forest fires that are 'out of control' in remote areas of north-eastern China, a state forestry official said Monday. The three fires are 'still out of control despite intense firefighting efforts', the government's Xinhua news agency quoted Cao Qingyao, a spokesman for the State Forestry Administration, as saying.
Strong winds, high temperatures and dry weather are all hampering the firefighting operations, in which 13 aircraft have dropped water on the fires to help the 20,000 people on the ground, Cao said. One of the fires broke out at the Galashan Forest Farm in Nenjiang county, Heilongjiang province. The other two were in the neighbouring Inner Mongolia region, along the Miandu river and the Kandu river, which flows through virgin forest in the Greater Khingan mountains, the agency said. High fire risks followed rainfall more than 30 per cent lower than the average for the first five months of this year in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, it quoted meteorologists as saying.
Lightning strikes were one possible cause of the fires, it said, adding that no official figures were released for the land areas affected. Two more forest fires in Inner Mongolia were brought under control on Monday, and no casualties were reported in the fires, it said. © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
GENESIS 11:13
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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; the sea and the waves roaring;
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.
Rainy weather in southern China leaves at least 9 dead
Floods, mudflows and landslides triggered by days of torrential rain in southern China have left at least nine dead, dozens injured and hundreds of thousands homeless. In Central China's Hubei Province torrential rain left three people dead, 35 seriously injured and over 350,000 homeless, a local official said over the weekend. Liu Changdou, a disaster-relief official from the provincial civil affairs department, said 945 houses had collapsed and 137,500 hectares of farmland had been flooded. According to the provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters the heavy rain swept over 11 cities and counties from May 24 to 25.
The rain in Jingzhou, which was among the worst hit places, reached 260.7 millimetres, one of the heaviest rainfalls the city has ever experienced.Torrential rain has also swept through most of Guangdong Province in the past few days. Between May 26 and 28 local meteorological observatories issued 105 rainstorm warnings, with five cities and counties issuing warning signals of the highest grade.Most places recorded more than 100 millimetres of rain, with 409.4 millimetres of daily rainfall reported at Shangchuan Island.
Continuous heavy rain caused streets to flood in the cities of Jiangmen, Foshan, Heyuan and Huizhou, but despite damage from water logging no casualties or injuries have been reported. Heavy downpours inconvenienced workers in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, yesterday morning and rain continued for the rest of the day. The weather started to ease yesterday but is expected to gain force again on Thursday. Zhang Dejiang, Party chief for Guangdong Province, urged various areas to take anti-flooding measures to guard against further damage.
Meanwhile the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters warned that attention should be paid to mid and small scale reservoirs in southern China that have exceeded flood alarm lines. The one positive outcome of the devastating weather is that the continuous rainfall has eased the drought affecting 2 million hectares of farmland in southern and central areas of North China, central Inner Mongolia and southwestern China, added the office's spokesman. Source: China Daily
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
Club of Rome ,(Committee of 300 subversive body)
This group was organized in 1968 by the Morgenthau Group for the purpose of accelerating the plans to have the New World Order in place by the year 2000. The Club of Rome developed a plan to divide the world into ten regions or kingdoms.
In 1976, the United States Association of the Club of Rome (USACOR) was formed for the purpose of shutting down the U.S. economy gradually. The Technetronic Era Henry Kissinger was then, and still is, an important agent in the service of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, a member of the Club of Rome and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Kissinger's role in destabilizing the United States by means of three wars, the Middle East, Korea and Vietnam, is well known, as is his role in the Gulf War, in which the U.S. Army acted as mercenaries for the Committee of 300 in bringing Kuwait back under its control and at the same time making an example out of Iraq so that other small nations would not be tempted to work out their own destiny. The Club of Rome, acting on Committee of 300 orders to eliminate General ul Haq, had no compunction in sacrificing the lives of a number of U.S. servicemen on board the flight, including a U.S. Army Defense Intelligence Agency group headed by Brigadier General Herber Wassom. General ul Haq had been warned by the Turkish Secret Service not to travel by plane, as he was targeted for a mid-air bombing. With this in mind, ul Haq took the United States team with him as "an insurance policy," as he commented to his inner circle advisors.
Club of Rome and its financiers under the title of the German Marshall Fund were two highly-organized conspiratorial bodies operating under cover of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and that the majority of Club of Rome executives were drawn from NATO. The Club of Rome formulated all of what NATO claimed as its policies and, through the activities of Committee of 300 member Lord Carrington, was able to split NATO into two factions, a political (left wing) power group and its former military alliance. The Club of Rome is still one of the most important foreign policy arms of the Committee of 300, and the other being the Bilderbergers. It was put together in 1968 from hard-core members of the original Morgenthau group on the basis of a telephone call made by the late Aurellio Peccei for a new and urgent drive to speed up the plans of the One World Government now called the New World Order. Peccei's call was answered by the most subversive "future planners" drawn from the United States, France, Sweden, Britain, Switzerland and Japan that could be mustered.
During the period 1968-1972, The Club of Rome became a cohesive entity of new-science scientists, Globalist, future planners and inter- nationalists of every stripe. As one delegate put it, "We became Joseph's Coat of Many Colors." Peccei's book "Human Quality" formed the basis of the doctrine adopted by NATO's political wing. Peccei headed the Atlantic Institute's Economic Council for three decades while he was the Chief Executive Officer for Giovanni Agnellis' Fiat Motor Company. Agnelli, a member of an ancient Italian Black Nobility family of the same name, is one of the most important members of the Committee of 300. He played a leading role in development projects in the Soviet Union.
The Club of Rome is a conspiratorial umbrella organization, a marriage between Anglo-American financiers and the old Black Nobility families of Europe, particularly the so-called "nobility" of London, Venice and Genoa. The key to the successful control of the world is their ability to create and manage savage economic recessions and eventual depressions. The Committee of 300 looks to social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, as its principal method of creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients of the future.
The committee appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle. As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski's controller during the Bolshevik Revolution's formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts. Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus. He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that "Man is of no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts.
All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish." With regard to the Third World, the Club of Rome's Harland Cleveland prepared a report which was the height of cynicism. At the time, Cleveland was United States Ambassador to NATO. Essentially, the paper said it would be up to Third World nations to decide among themselves which populations should be eliminated. As Peccei later wrote (based on the Cleveland Report): "Damaged by conflicting policies of three major countries and blocs, roughly patched up here and there, the existing international economic order is visibly coming apart at the seams....The prospect of the necessity of the recourse to triage deciding who must be saved is a very grim one indeed. But, if lamentably, events should come to such a pass, the right to make such decisions cannot be left to just a few nations because it would lend themselves to ominous power over life of the world's hungry.
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NYSE EURONEXT MERGER AGREEMENT
Story 1-nyse-Euronext merger agreement, 2-Trouble for Canada boycotting Israel.
NYSE, Euronext unveil merger agreementDeal would create exchange behemoth offering stocks, options and futuresBy Alistair Barr, MarketWatch,Last Update: 8:11 PM ET Jun 1, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- NYSE Group Inc. and Euronext NV agreed to merge late Thursday in a deal that would create a transatlantic exchange behemoth offering near round-the-clock trading in stocks, options and futures. The combination of what is already the world's largest stock exchange and the second-biggest European bourse operator would produce a business worth between $15 billion and $20 billion that processes roughly $100 billion of trades a day and lists companies valued at $27 trillion, NYSE and Euronext said in a statement. It would dwarf the Nasdaq Stock Market , the London Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the world's second-, third- and fourth-largest markets and could lead to more consolidation.
NYSE and Euronext billed the deal as a merger of equals, but agreement gives NYSE 11 directors on a 20-seat board and the chief executive job to John Thain, NYSE's current CEO. The combined business will also be a U.S. holding company. Euronext CEO Jean-François Théodore will be deputy CEO and head of international operations. Under the terms of the agreement, each NYSE share will be converted into one share of the new company, NYSE Euronext. Euronext investors will get 0.980 shares of NYSE Euronext and €21.32 in cash for each of their stocks. They will also able to choose either all shares or all cash through a "mix and match" procedure, subject to proration, the companies explained. Euronext will also pay its previously announced one-time distribution of €3 a share.
Stock exchanges have transformed themselves from clubby, member-owned organizations into for-profit, public companies. In their new quest for bigger profits, exchanges are combining to cut costs and quickly create the scale needed to attract the biggest companies to list with
them. Once the top companies list on an exchange, investors trade more there, which in turn provides the deep liquidity that makes markets more efficient and prices more accurate. Euronext which has struggled to convince some shareholders of the merits of a merger with NYSE, told shareholders in May that a combination would be the international listing venue of choice and would offer the first truly global marketplace. But at the same time, traditional exchanges are facing competition from rival electronic trading systems and even large investment banks, which process many, more complicated and lucrative trades by themselves.
By combining to cut costs, exchanges hope to be able to invest more in the technology needed to support more complex trading. A combined NYSE and Euronext would offer stock trading
through the New York Stock Exchange, already the largest equity market in the world. It would also have equity trading in Paris, Lisbon, Brussels and Amsterdam and provide futures and options trading via Euronext.liffe in London, one of the largest derivatives exchanges in Europe. NYSE and Euronext estimated annual cost and revenue synergies of $375 million from the deal, with the majority of savings generated from a winnowing-down of their multiple computer systems and trading platforms. The combined company's three cash trading systems and three derivatives trading systems will be changed into one cash and one derivatives platform over the next three years, the company's said. Ten data centers will be cut to four, with two in the U.S. and two in Europe, they added.
NYSE Euronext's strong position in cash equities, listings and derivatives will give it the chance to lift its combined revenue by an estimated $100 million in three years, the companies forecast. Another goal will be to increase NYSE Euronext's share of international listings and strengthen its position in the U.S. equity derivatives market, they said. The transaction still has to be cleared by shareholders of the two exchanges. That could be a considerable hurdle, given past
opposition from some Euronext shareholders to a deal with the NYSE. Chris Hohn's Children's Investment Fund, a hedge fund that owns almost 9% of Euronext and a 10% stake in Deutsche Boerse (DE:581005: news, chart, profile) , wanted Euronext to do a deal with the German exchange. However, during Euronext's annual meeting last month, investors voted against a shareholder motion supporting a Deutsche Boerse bid. See full story.Alistair Barr is a reporter for MarketWatch in San Francisco.
I DON'T LIKE THIS ONE BIT CUPE IS BOYCOTTING ISRAEL ALSO. CANADA IS GOIN DOWN HILL FAST, WE ARE BRINGING JUDGEMENT ON OUR COUNTRY BY GOING AGAINST ISRAEL.
THE BIBLE SAYS WHO EVER BLESSES ISRAEL WILL BE BLESSED, BUT WHO EVER DOES ANYTHING TO HURT ISRAEL IS CURSED.
THE HURRICANE SEASON HAS JUST STARTED YESTERDAY, GOD COULD VERY EASILY REDIRECT IT TO CANADA A MAJOR ONE.
PLEASE CANADA REPENT AND HELP ISRAEL DONT BOYCOTT ANYTHING ABOUT ISRAEL THEY ARE HATED BY THE WORLD ALREADY MUCH LESS US CANADIANS GETTING AGAINST THEM ALSO.
WE BETTER PRAY THAT GOD HAS PITY ON US FOR GOING AGAINST ISRAEL.
C.U.P.E. on Israel:The echoes of dark evilsby Beryl Wajsman, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal Wednesday, May 31, 2006
"We cannot expect anti-Semitism to disappear - Jewish existence and Jewish philosophy will always be threatening. The trauma and insecurity, on the other hand, is within our power to diminish - should we decide to do so."
~ Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Harvard, 1968
The next time labour leaders in Canada want to know why there is such antipathy to their agenda in many quarters, they need look no further than the Canadian Union of Public Employee’s Ontario wing. This past weekend some 896 delegates representing 200,000 workers voted in convention to pass a resolution boycotting Israel, a social democracy with the most unionized political jurisdiction in the world. With all of labour’s supposed grievances, why the urgency on this issue? Because according to CUPE (Ont.) Israel does not recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination." Let us put aside the fact that Israel was the only country to recognize the future Arab state of Palestine after partition in 1947; put aside the fact that within one week of the 1967 war when Israel defended itself from invasion by five Arab states and still offered total withdrawal and recognition in return for peace and was greeted with the Arab states’ Khartoum resolution of "No negotiation; no recognition; no peace"; put aside the fact that Israel has recognized Palestinian self-determination at Oslo, at Madrid and at Camp David and been refused each time by Palestinian leadership; what makes this resolution so egregious in nature — such an affront to truth and transparency — is that it comes at a time when the Palestinian Authority’s own President has challenged the Hamas government to renounce violence and recognize Israel or face a referendum.
President Abbas’ own actions put the lie to the pretense that this CUPE (Ont.) initiative was done in the tradition of labour’s fight for universal social justice. The Palestinians don’t question Israel’s acceptance of their right to self-determination. They question only their own capacity to manifest it. It’s time to call a spade a spade. CUPE (Ont.)’s action is, at worst, a primordial example of a hypocrisy unmasked revealing the true face of anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, and, at best, a knee-jerk Canadian antipathy to any American ally. An antipathy that at its heart is fuelled by a self-doubt driven by a jealousy of others self-belief. Sid Ryan, the Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario president, used the old canard that, "This is not an attack on the Jewish people. It's [an objection to] the state of Israel's policies on Palestinians. They say they are creating an independent state but they're not giving them the tools to do that. In other words he is not an anti-Semite, he is just an anti-Zionist.
Israel is not saying it is creating an independent Palestinian state. It is saying it is recognizing it. Israel has no obligation to give any tools to build it. Who helped the 600,000 Jews, a tiny remnant of the 6,000,000 butchered in World War II, to build Israel? They declared the state. They bled for it. They built it. No American arms. No aid from anyone. Just the national will to live fortified by the sight of 50,000,000 Arabs thirsting for the blood of the Jews. Despite not having any obligation to help build Palestine, Israel has in fact contributed more than all of its Arab neighbours combined to that effort. For Mr. Ryan not to know this he must want not to know it. Israel gave 150,000 guns to the Palestinian police and militia. Contributed five times the total amount of money of all Arab countries combined to build Palestinian infrastructure, schools, and hospitals. Under Israeli administration the Palestinians have the lowest infant mortality rate among frontline Arab states; the highest literacy rate and the largest per capita percentage of university students. Finally, nearly 700,000 Palestinians work in Israel daily.
What did the Palestinians’ Arab cousins do for them during their twenty-year occupation from 1948-1967? Absolutely nothing but create conditions of grinding poverty that sowed the seeds of frustration and discontent with which Arab tyrants reaped racist, genocidal propaganda to divert, deflect and direct the hatred of their own imprisoned populations for their rulers’ barbarism toward bloodlust against the demonized Jews. One need not agree with the occupation or the settlement policies of Israel. However, to pre-meditatedly distort the truth of the occupation, as CUPE has done, is to be motivated by impulses far removed from any visions of social justice. Israel has the same rights in international law as France, Russia and the United States, to hold territory acquired after self-defense in the face of aggressive attack until peace has been achieved. Mr. Ryan and his fellow travellers who choose to hold Israel to a different standard do so out of the basest of motives.
Katherine Nastovski, chair of the CUPE Ontario international solidarity committee, had the temerity to equate Israeli policies with South African apartheid saying that "Boycott, divestment and sanction worked to end apartheid in South Africa." Israel has Arab judges, diplomats, MP’s, Arabic is an official language of the state and 20% of the student body of Hebrew University is Arab. Full and equal status. However Jews can still not get a visa to most Arab Muslim countries because of their religion. And in those Arab lands with remaining Jewish populations Jews live under a secondary legal status called "dhimmitude". So exactly who is practicing apartheid Ms. Nastovski? And where is your moral voice on Arab racism?
CUPE (Ont.)’s press release states that, "The Israeli 'apartheid wall' (the security fence) has been condemned and determined illegal under international law." Another lie. The International Court of Justice did indeed declare that certain parts of the fence that encroach and divide certain populated areas of the West Bank was illegal and should be moved closer to Israeli border areas to accommodate the Palestinian civilian population. But that was two months after the Israeli Supreme Court itself rendered a similar decision and one month after the Israeli government began changes in the fence to accommodate and respect that decision. Would
any Arab Supreme Court ever challenge a decision of its government? CUPE would dare not even examine this question for fear of disturbing its pre-conceived notions. Alice in Wonderland. "Sentence first, trial after," said the Mad Hatter.
CUPE’s resolution also demands the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties abandoned before and during the 1948 and 1967 wars. What is astounding about this is that the Palestinian Authority itself does not make this demand because its corollary would be the right of the two million Jews from Arab lands who were chased out at the threat of their lives having the same right. The difference however is that the Jews were indeed thrown out by Arab tyrants while the Palestinians left at the urging of their Arab cousins.As early as 1949, Lebanese statesman Emile Ghoury, the last Christian President of the Arab League, wrote in his resignation speech that he could no longer live with the lie that the Israelis chased out their Arab citizens. Ghoury said it was time that the Arab frontline states assumed responsibility for demanding that Israeli and Palestinian Arabs leave their homes for tactical military reasons in order to allow Arab armies to rain devastation only upon the Jews. The promise was that they could return in "…two weeks after we have driven the Jews into the sea…
Indeed, some 50 years later, on March 19, 2001, Fuad Abu Higla, then a regular columnist in the official Palestinian Authority daily Al Hayat Al Jadida, wrote an article before an Arab Summit criticizing Arab states for a series of failures. One of the failures he cited was that of the earlier generation of Arab leaders who "forced" Palestinians to leave Israel in 1948. But perhaps the most telling part of CUPE’s duplicitous hypocrisy was that the vote was held on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, when there could be no effective, organized response from its Jewish members. Racism wears many cloaks and disguises. But in this case it was out in the open.
In May 2005, Israeli and Palestinian academics from Jerusalem, Haifa, Hebron and Bethlehem met in Rome and resolved to work together in such vital areas as the natural sciences, economic development and the preservation of cultural heritage. If Israelis and Palestinians can meet and work together on a constructive basis, why is CUPE not supporting these efforts rather than encouraging mindless boycotts?
Several years ago, the Institute sponsored the first ever conference between leaders of Quebec civil society and Israeli diplomats. FTQ President Henri Massé said that while not fully supporting the settlement policy, he saw nothing to condemn in Israel's humanitarian policies and vehemently denounced Palestinian violence and hate. For the sake of the credibility of labour’s true progressives, it is time to hear this message candidly proclaimed and clearly defended. If this is not done, Canadian labour’s dream of universal social justice will be hijacked by nests of nightcrawlers purveying nothing more than parochial prejudice. And on this there can be no debate. We must always stand ready to marshal our vigilance and resolve against the CUPEs and Ryans and Nastovskis of this land. For they are the dark evils from the mists of history.
Evils whose true natures echo down to us through the decades from the lips of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. who said in an address at Harvard that, Despite its significance to the Jewish Nation, the State of Israel has failed to alleviate the levels of anti-Semitism. It has simply
allowed anti-Semites to masquerade themselves under the new banner of anti-Zionism. And what is an anti-Zionist? Someone who would deny to the Jewish people the fundamental rights and standards that we justly claim for all peoples and freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is discrimination against Jews, my friends, simply because they are Jews. In short, it is anti-Semitism. The anti-Semite rejoices at any opportunity to vent his malice. The times have made it unpopular, in the West to proclaim openly a hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the anti-Semite must constantly seek new forms and forums for his poison. How he must revel in the new masquerade! He does not hate the Jews, he is just 'anti-Zionist'!.
Beryl P. Wajsman is the president of the Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal. He can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com.
NYSE, Euronext unveil merger agreementDeal would create exchange behemoth offering stocks, options and futuresBy Alistair Barr, MarketWatch,Last Update: 8:11 PM ET Jun 1, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- NYSE Group Inc. and Euronext NV agreed to merge late Thursday in a deal that would create a transatlantic exchange behemoth offering near round-the-clock trading in stocks, options and futures. The combination of what is already the world's largest stock exchange and the second-biggest European bourse operator would produce a business worth between $15 billion and $20 billion that processes roughly $100 billion of trades a day and lists companies valued at $27 trillion, NYSE and Euronext said in a statement. It would dwarf the Nasdaq Stock Market , the London Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the world's second-, third- and fourth-largest markets and could lead to more consolidation.
NYSE and Euronext billed the deal as a merger of equals, but agreement gives NYSE 11 directors on a 20-seat board and the chief executive job to John Thain, NYSE's current CEO. The combined business will also be a U.S. holding company. Euronext CEO Jean-François Théodore will be deputy CEO and head of international operations. Under the terms of the agreement, each NYSE share will be converted into one share of the new company, NYSE Euronext. Euronext investors will get 0.980 shares of NYSE Euronext and €21.32 in cash for each of their stocks. They will also able to choose either all shares or all cash through a "mix and match" procedure, subject to proration, the companies explained. Euronext will also pay its previously announced one-time distribution of €3 a share.
Stock exchanges have transformed themselves from clubby, member-owned organizations into for-profit, public companies. In their new quest for bigger profits, exchanges are combining to cut costs and quickly create the scale needed to attract the biggest companies to list with
them. Once the top companies list on an exchange, investors trade more there, which in turn provides the deep liquidity that makes markets more efficient and prices more accurate. Euronext which has struggled to convince some shareholders of the merits of a merger with NYSE, told shareholders in May that a combination would be the international listing venue of choice and would offer the first truly global marketplace. But at the same time, traditional exchanges are facing competition from rival electronic trading systems and even large investment banks, which process many, more complicated and lucrative trades by themselves.
By combining to cut costs, exchanges hope to be able to invest more in the technology needed to support more complex trading. A combined NYSE and Euronext would offer stock trading
through the New York Stock Exchange, already the largest equity market in the world. It would also have equity trading in Paris, Lisbon, Brussels and Amsterdam and provide futures and options trading via Euronext.liffe in London, one of the largest derivatives exchanges in Europe. NYSE and Euronext estimated annual cost and revenue synergies of $375 million from the deal, with the majority of savings generated from a winnowing-down of their multiple computer systems and trading platforms. The combined company's three cash trading systems and three derivatives trading systems will be changed into one cash and one derivatives platform over the next three years, the company's said. Ten data centers will be cut to four, with two in the U.S. and two in Europe, they added.
NYSE Euronext's strong position in cash equities, listings and derivatives will give it the chance to lift its combined revenue by an estimated $100 million in three years, the companies forecast. Another goal will be to increase NYSE Euronext's share of international listings and strengthen its position in the U.S. equity derivatives market, they said. The transaction still has to be cleared by shareholders of the two exchanges. That could be a considerable hurdle, given past
opposition from some Euronext shareholders to a deal with the NYSE. Chris Hohn's Children's Investment Fund, a hedge fund that owns almost 9% of Euronext and a 10% stake in Deutsche Boerse (DE:581005: news, chart, profile) , wanted Euronext to do a deal with the German exchange. However, during Euronext's annual meeting last month, investors voted against a shareholder motion supporting a Deutsche Boerse bid. See full story.Alistair Barr is a reporter for MarketWatch in San Francisco.
I DON'T LIKE THIS ONE BIT CUPE IS BOYCOTTING ISRAEL ALSO. CANADA IS GOIN DOWN HILL FAST, WE ARE BRINGING JUDGEMENT ON OUR COUNTRY BY GOING AGAINST ISRAEL.
THE BIBLE SAYS WHO EVER BLESSES ISRAEL WILL BE BLESSED, BUT WHO EVER DOES ANYTHING TO HURT ISRAEL IS CURSED.
THE HURRICANE SEASON HAS JUST STARTED YESTERDAY, GOD COULD VERY EASILY REDIRECT IT TO CANADA A MAJOR ONE.
PLEASE CANADA REPENT AND HELP ISRAEL DONT BOYCOTT ANYTHING ABOUT ISRAEL THEY ARE HATED BY THE WORLD ALREADY MUCH LESS US CANADIANS GETTING AGAINST THEM ALSO.
WE BETTER PRAY THAT GOD HAS PITY ON US FOR GOING AGAINST ISRAEL.
C.U.P.E. on Israel:The echoes of dark evilsby Beryl Wajsman, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal Wednesday, May 31, 2006
"We cannot expect anti-Semitism to disappear - Jewish existence and Jewish philosophy will always be threatening. The trauma and insecurity, on the other hand, is within our power to diminish - should we decide to do so."
~ Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Harvard, 1968
The next time labour leaders in Canada want to know why there is such antipathy to their agenda in many quarters, they need look no further than the Canadian Union of Public Employee’s Ontario wing. This past weekend some 896 delegates representing 200,000 workers voted in convention to pass a resolution boycotting Israel, a social democracy with the most unionized political jurisdiction in the world. With all of labour’s supposed grievances, why the urgency on this issue? Because according to CUPE (Ont.) Israel does not recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination." Let us put aside the fact that Israel was the only country to recognize the future Arab state of Palestine after partition in 1947; put aside the fact that within one week of the 1967 war when Israel defended itself from invasion by five Arab states and still offered total withdrawal and recognition in return for peace and was greeted with the Arab states’ Khartoum resolution of "No negotiation; no recognition; no peace"; put aside the fact that Israel has recognized Palestinian self-determination at Oslo, at Madrid and at Camp David and been refused each time by Palestinian leadership; what makes this resolution so egregious in nature — such an affront to truth and transparency — is that it comes at a time when the Palestinian Authority’s own President has challenged the Hamas government to renounce violence and recognize Israel or face a referendum.
President Abbas’ own actions put the lie to the pretense that this CUPE (Ont.) initiative was done in the tradition of labour’s fight for universal social justice. The Palestinians don’t question Israel’s acceptance of their right to self-determination. They question only their own capacity to manifest it. It’s time to call a spade a spade. CUPE (Ont.)’s action is, at worst, a primordial example of a hypocrisy unmasked revealing the true face of anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, and, at best, a knee-jerk Canadian antipathy to any American ally. An antipathy that at its heart is fuelled by a self-doubt driven by a jealousy of others self-belief. Sid Ryan, the Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario president, used the old canard that, "This is not an attack on the Jewish people. It's [an objection to] the state of Israel's policies on Palestinians. They say they are creating an independent state but they're not giving them the tools to do that. In other words he is not an anti-Semite, he is just an anti-Zionist.
Israel is not saying it is creating an independent Palestinian state. It is saying it is recognizing it. Israel has no obligation to give any tools to build it. Who helped the 600,000 Jews, a tiny remnant of the 6,000,000 butchered in World War II, to build Israel? They declared the state. They bled for it. They built it. No American arms. No aid from anyone. Just the national will to live fortified by the sight of 50,000,000 Arabs thirsting for the blood of the Jews. Despite not having any obligation to help build Palestine, Israel has in fact contributed more than all of its Arab neighbours combined to that effort. For Mr. Ryan not to know this he must want not to know it. Israel gave 150,000 guns to the Palestinian police and militia. Contributed five times the total amount of money of all Arab countries combined to build Palestinian infrastructure, schools, and hospitals. Under Israeli administration the Palestinians have the lowest infant mortality rate among frontline Arab states; the highest literacy rate and the largest per capita percentage of university students. Finally, nearly 700,000 Palestinians work in Israel daily.
What did the Palestinians’ Arab cousins do for them during their twenty-year occupation from 1948-1967? Absolutely nothing but create conditions of grinding poverty that sowed the seeds of frustration and discontent with which Arab tyrants reaped racist, genocidal propaganda to divert, deflect and direct the hatred of their own imprisoned populations for their rulers’ barbarism toward bloodlust against the demonized Jews. One need not agree with the occupation or the settlement policies of Israel. However, to pre-meditatedly distort the truth of the occupation, as CUPE has done, is to be motivated by impulses far removed from any visions of social justice. Israel has the same rights in international law as France, Russia and the United States, to hold territory acquired after self-defense in the face of aggressive attack until peace has been achieved. Mr. Ryan and his fellow travellers who choose to hold Israel to a different standard do so out of the basest of motives.
Katherine Nastovski, chair of the CUPE Ontario international solidarity committee, had the temerity to equate Israeli policies with South African apartheid saying that "Boycott, divestment and sanction worked to end apartheid in South Africa." Israel has Arab judges, diplomats, MP’s, Arabic is an official language of the state and 20% of the student body of Hebrew University is Arab. Full and equal status. However Jews can still not get a visa to most Arab Muslim countries because of their religion. And in those Arab lands with remaining Jewish populations Jews live under a secondary legal status called "dhimmitude". So exactly who is practicing apartheid Ms. Nastovski? And where is your moral voice on Arab racism?
CUPE (Ont.)’s press release states that, "The Israeli 'apartheid wall' (the security fence) has been condemned and determined illegal under international law." Another lie. The International Court of Justice did indeed declare that certain parts of the fence that encroach and divide certain populated areas of the West Bank was illegal and should be moved closer to Israeli border areas to accommodate the Palestinian civilian population. But that was two months after the Israeli Supreme Court itself rendered a similar decision and one month after the Israeli government began changes in the fence to accommodate and respect that decision. Would
any Arab Supreme Court ever challenge a decision of its government? CUPE would dare not even examine this question for fear of disturbing its pre-conceived notions. Alice in Wonderland. "Sentence first, trial after," said the Mad Hatter.
CUPE’s resolution also demands the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties abandoned before and during the 1948 and 1967 wars. What is astounding about this is that the Palestinian Authority itself does not make this demand because its corollary would be the right of the two million Jews from Arab lands who were chased out at the threat of their lives having the same right. The difference however is that the Jews were indeed thrown out by Arab tyrants while the Palestinians left at the urging of their Arab cousins.As early as 1949, Lebanese statesman Emile Ghoury, the last Christian President of the Arab League, wrote in his resignation speech that he could no longer live with the lie that the Israelis chased out their Arab citizens. Ghoury said it was time that the Arab frontline states assumed responsibility for demanding that Israeli and Palestinian Arabs leave their homes for tactical military reasons in order to allow Arab armies to rain devastation only upon the Jews. The promise was that they could return in "…two weeks after we have driven the Jews into the sea…
Indeed, some 50 years later, on March 19, 2001, Fuad Abu Higla, then a regular columnist in the official Palestinian Authority daily Al Hayat Al Jadida, wrote an article before an Arab Summit criticizing Arab states for a series of failures. One of the failures he cited was that of the earlier generation of Arab leaders who "forced" Palestinians to leave Israel in 1948. But perhaps the most telling part of CUPE’s duplicitous hypocrisy was that the vote was held on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, when there could be no effective, organized response from its Jewish members. Racism wears many cloaks and disguises. But in this case it was out in the open.
In May 2005, Israeli and Palestinian academics from Jerusalem, Haifa, Hebron and Bethlehem met in Rome and resolved to work together in such vital areas as the natural sciences, economic development and the preservation of cultural heritage. If Israelis and Palestinians can meet and work together on a constructive basis, why is CUPE not supporting these efforts rather than encouraging mindless boycotts?
Several years ago, the Institute sponsored the first ever conference between leaders of Quebec civil society and Israeli diplomats. FTQ President Henri Massé said that while not fully supporting the settlement policy, he saw nothing to condemn in Israel's humanitarian policies and vehemently denounced Palestinian violence and hate. For the sake of the credibility of labour’s true progressives, it is time to hear this message candidly proclaimed and clearly defended. If this is not done, Canadian labour’s dream of universal social justice will be hijacked by nests of nightcrawlers purveying nothing more than parochial prejudice. And on this there can be no debate. We must always stand ready to marshal our vigilance and resolve against the CUPEs and Ryans and Nastovskis of this land. For they are the dark evils from the mists of history.
Evils whose true natures echo down to us through the decades from the lips of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. who said in an address at Harvard that, Despite its significance to the Jewish Nation, the State of Israel has failed to alleviate the levels of anti-Semitism. It has simply
allowed anti-Semites to masquerade themselves under the new banner of anti-Zionism. And what is an anti-Zionist? Someone who would deny to the Jewish people the fundamental rights and standards that we justly claim for all peoples and freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is discrimination against Jews, my friends, simply because they are Jews. In short, it is anti-Semitism. The anti-Semite rejoices at any opportunity to vent his malice. The times have made it unpopular, in the West to proclaim openly a hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the anti-Semite must constantly seek new forms and forums for his poison. How he must revel in the new masquerade! He does not hate the Jews, he is just 'anti-Zionist'!.
Beryl P. Wajsman is the president of the Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal. He can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
WTO BILL ON FREE TRADE ZONES
Story 1-WTO bill on free trade zones. Story 2-8 scorpians found in Jerusalem.3-EU States issue biometric passports with chips in them.4-Israel holiday Feast of weeks (Giving of Torah to Israelis).
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(EU) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(10 World blocs).
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
Serbia: Bill on free trade zones presented
12:43 - 01 June 2006 - Serbian Assistant Minister of Finance Vesna Hreljac-Ivanovic said that the new bill on free trade zones, drafted under World Trade Organisation (WTO) and EU standards, removes limiting factors which existed in this area so far. In a press conference Hreljac-Ivanovic presented new bills on free trade zones and foreign currency operations that the government approved in its last session. She noted that the founder makes a decision to set up a free trade zone, after which the company for managing the zone is established and a request is sent to state authorities, reports SMT.
The founder can establish only one company for managing a zone so as to prevent a monopoly, she explained adding that the company needs to submit evidence on technical and economic conditions. She also said that a special commission will be in charge of grading these conditions and added that the company will also have to submit a report on free trade zone feasibility. There will be tax incentives for setting up free trade zones, Hreljac-Ivanovic said. According to her, a report on operations will be submitted once a year. She also added that there are three zones in Serbia at the moment: in Subotica, Zrenjanin and Pirot, which are obliged to submit demands for new licences within 90 days after the law comes into effect. However, these three zones will not be obliged to submit new reports, she added. Assistant Minister responsible for foreign currency inspection Lidija Smiljanic said that the bill on foreign currency operations was drafted in cooperation with the National Bank of Serbia (NBS).
This law will liberalise financial transactions and will allow the purchase of securities issued by foreign issuers, she said. The new regulations on financial transactions should put an end to foreign currency operations by presenting fake invoices, Smiljanic said expressing hope that the bill will be passed by parliament in June. Source: Serbia & Montenegro Today.
Scorpion-like creatures isolated in cave for aeonsJerusalem,June 2, 2006
AdvertisementScientists have discovered crustaceans and scorpion-like invertebrates living in an underground cave that has been sealed off from the rest of the world for millions of years.Geologists from Jerusalem's Hebrew University made the discovery at a quarry near Ramla in central Israel after opening passages to a cave containing a lake and a unique ecosystem 100 metres below ground.Biologists found white crustaceans resembling prawns and invertebrates similar to scorpions. The cave also contained bacteria that served as food.
So far eight species were found in the cave, all of them unknown to science," biologist Hanan Dimantman said. Every species examined had no eyes, so they lost their sight due to evolution. Apart from the scorpions, all are alive. The scorpions are dead but we are sure live scorpions are to be found under boulders.The cave, with a maze of passages that extend about two kilometres, is sealed off from surface water and nutrients by a layer of chalk. The scientists said the lake's temperature and salinity indicated it drew its water from deep underground. The cave's ecosystem began forming about 5 million years ago, when part of Israel was covered by the Mediterranean Sea.- GUARDIAN
The chips are in the cards now but will be placed in peoples skin to keep track of everyone on earth.
REVELATION 13:7-8,16-18
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
EU nations to issue biometric passports Thu Jun 1, 11:03 AM ET
LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations will have to start issuing new secure biometric passports with a chip containing facial features by the end of August, EU officials said Thursday, and prepare to add fingerprint data to the travel documents by 2009. By Aug. 26 of this year member states will need to be able ... to include a facial image in a chip," said Friso Roscam Abbing, spokesman for EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini. He said Frattini would present plans to EU justice and interior ministers for adding fingerprints to the new biometric passports in two to three weeks time.
Roscam Abbing said the new biometric features, which reduce patterns of fingerprints, faces and irises to mathematical algorithms stored on a chip, would go beyond security standards demanded by the United States.EU nations participating in the American visa-waiver program were given until October this year to comply with U.S. standards to have either a digital photo or a chip containing biometric data in their passports if they wanted to continue visa-free travel to the U.S.
Shavuot/Sabbath Holiday: Thurs. Night to Sat.NightBy Hillel Fendel (Arutz 7 news)
The holiday of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks), one of the three Biblical pilgrimage-to-Jerusalem festivals, marks the Jewish People's receiving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai 3,318 years ago. Tens of thousands are expected to arrive at the Western Wall throughout Thursday night and Friday morning, in commemoration of the Biblical commandment to visit Jerusalem on this holiday. The commandment, like some others in the Torah, is not binding when the Holy Temple is not in place.
The Shavuot holiday of 1967 (5727), which followed the Six-Day War and the liberation of Jerusalem by only a few days, was the first holiday in 1,900 years in which masses of Jews congregated at the Western Wall.
Shavuot also marks the day after the 49-day Sefirat HaOmer counting period, which begins on the Passover holiday. The counting denotes the fact that the ultimate purpose of the Exodus from Egypt was for the Jewish People to receive the Torah and begin its national/spiritual existence as the People of the Book.
Shavuot is celebrated for one day by those who live in the Land of Israel, as originally prescribed by the Torah. However, outside Israel, in accordance with rabbinic tradition because of the lack of calendric certainty, the holiday is celebrated for two days.
Features of the Shavuot holiday include:
* remaining awake all night to study Torah;
* the bringing of the Bikurim (First Fruits) to the Holy Temple;
* the time of the wheat harvest;
* the public reading of the Book of Ruth;
* a wide-spread custom of eating dairy foods on Shavuot.
For more details on the holiday, see the sites listed at jr.co.il/hotsites.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(EU) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(10 World blocs).
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
Serbia: Bill on free trade zones presented
12:43 - 01 June 2006 - Serbian Assistant Minister of Finance Vesna Hreljac-Ivanovic said that the new bill on free trade zones, drafted under World Trade Organisation (WTO) and EU standards, removes limiting factors which existed in this area so far. In a press conference Hreljac-Ivanovic presented new bills on free trade zones and foreign currency operations that the government approved in its last session. She noted that the founder makes a decision to set up a free trade zone, after which the company for managing the zone is established and a request is sent to state authorities, reports SMT.
The founder can establish only one company for managing a zone so as to prevent a monopoly, she explained adding that the company needs to submit evidence on technical and economic conditions. She also said that a special commission will be in charge of grading these conditions and added that the company will also have to submit a report on free trade zone feasibility. There will be tax incentives for setting up free trade zones, Hreljac-Ivanovic said. According to her, a report on operations will be submitted once a year. She also added that there are three zones in Serbia at the moment: in Subotica, Zrenjanin and Pirot, which are obliged to submit demands for new licences within 90 days after the law comes into effect. However, these three zones will not be obliged to submit new reports, she added. Assistant Minister responsible for foreign currency inspection Lidija Smiljanic said that the bill on foreign currency operations was drafted in cooperation with the National Bank of Serbia (NBS).
This law will liberalise financial transactions and will allow the purchase of securities issued by foreign issuers, she said. The new regulations on financial transactions should put an end to foreign currency operations by presenting fake invoices, Smiljanic said expressing hope that the bill will be passed by parliament in June. Source: Serbia & Montenegro Today.
Scorpion-like creatures isolated in cave for aeonsJerusalem,June 2, 2006
AdvertisementScientists have discovered crustaceans and scorpion-like invertebrates living in an underground cave that has been sealed off from the rest of the world for millions of years.Geologists from Jerusalem's Hebrew University made the discovery at a quarry near Ramla in central Israel after opening passages to a cave containing a lake and a unique ecosystem 100 metres below ground.Biologists found white crustaceans resembling prawns and invertebrates similar to scorpions. The cave also contained bacteria that served as food.
So far eight species were found in the cave, all of them unknown to science," biologist Hanan Dimantman said. Every species examined had no eyes, so they lost their sight due to evolution. Apart from the scorpions, all are alive. The scorpions are dead but we are sure live scorpions are to be found under boulders.The cave, with a maze of passages that extend about two kilometres, is sealed off from surface water and nutrients by a layer of chalk. The scientists said the lake's temperature and salinity indicated it drew its water from deep underground. The cave's ecosystem began forming about 5 million years ago, when part of Israel was covered by the Mediterranean Sea.- GUARDIAN
The chips are in the cards now but will be placed in peoples skin to keep track of everyone on earth.
REVELATION 13:7-8,16-18
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
EU nations to issue biometric passports Thu Jun 1, 11:03 AM ET
LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations will have to start issuing new secure biometric passports with a chip containing facial features by the end of August, EU officials said Thursday, and prepare to add fingerprint data to the travel documents by 2009. By Aug. 26 of this year member states will need to be able ... to include a facial image in a chip," said Friso Roscam Abbing, spokesman for EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini. He said Frattini would present plans to EU justice and interior ministers for adding fingerprints to the new biometric passports in two to three weeks time.
Roscam Abbing said the new biometric features, which reduce patterns of fingerprints, faces and irises to mathematical algorithms stored on a chip, would go beyond security standards demanded by the United States.EU nations participating in the American visa-waiver program were given until October this year to comply with U.S. standards to have either a digital photo or a chip containing biometric data in their passports if they wanted to continue visa-free travel to the U.S.
Shavuot/Sabbath Holiday: Thurs. Night to Sat.NightBy Hillel Fendel (Arutz 7 news)
The holiday of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks), one of the three Biblical pilgrimage-to-Jerusalem festivals, marks the Jewish People's receiving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai 3,318 years ago. Tens of thousands are expected to arrive at the Western Wall throughout Thursday night and Friday morning, in commemoration of the Biblical commandment to visit Jerusalem on this holiday. The commandment, like some others in the Torah, is not binding when the Holy Temple is not in place.
The Shavuot holiday of 1967 (5727), which followed the Six-Day War and the liberation of Jerusalem by only a few days, was the first holiday in 1,900 years in which masses of Jews congregated at the Western Wall.
Shavuot also marks the day after the 49-day Sefirat HaOmer counting period, which begins on the Passover holiday. The counting denotes the fact that the ultimate purpose of the Exodus from Egypt was for the Jewish People to receive the Torah and begin its national/spiritual existence as the People of the Book.
Shavuot is celebrated for one day by those who live in the Land of Israel, as originally prescribed by the Torah. However, outside Israel, in accordance with rabbinic tradition because of the lack of calendric certainty, the holiday is celebrated for two days.
Features of the Shavuot holiday include:
* remaining awake all night to study Torah;
* the bringing of the Bikurim (First Fruits) to the Holy Temple;
* the time of the wheat harvest;
* the public reading of the Book of Ruth;
* a wide-spread custom of eating dairy foods on Shavuot.
For more details on the holiday, see the sites listed at jr.co.il/hotsites.
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