1-Strong quake hits between Colombia and Venezuela. 2-Thirty feared drowned in Pakistan floods. 3-Storm death toll rises to 48 in south China. 4-Police clash with Arab teens trying to enter Mount. 5-Spanish FM talks with Rice, EU counterparts following Mideast visit . 6-Four forest fires in Málaga province as temperatures soar.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Strong quake hits between Colombia and Venezuela Fri Aug 4, 10:54 AM ET
BOGOTA (AFP) - A quake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck between Colombia and Venezuela, geologists said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The temblor occurred at 8:41 am (1341 GMT) Friday, some 270 kilometers (170
miles) southeast of the Colombian city of Maicao, though its epicenter was located in Venezuela, the Colombian geological service said.Shocks were also felt in the cities of Cucuta and Bucaramanga, according to local media reports.
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.
Thirty feared drowned in Pakistan floods 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Thirty people were feared drowned when a bridge collapsed in northwestern Pakistan as torrential rains battered the area, police have said. Three bodies have been recovered so far from a river swollen by heavy rains in Mardan town, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of Peshawar bordering Afghanistan, local police official Mumtaz Khan said.
Rescuers are trying to find the other missing people,he said.Khan said around 30 people had gathered on a bridge to watch the flooded river when part of the bridge caved in, plunging them into the swirling waters, he said.More than 40 people have died in landslides and floods caused by rain torrents in Pakistan over the past two days.
Storm death toll rises to 48 in south China Sat Aug 5, 6:11 AM ET
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The deaths caused by Tropical Storm Prapiroon in south China rose to 48 on Saturday and 15 people remain missing, the official Xinhua news agency said, but the storm was weakening as it moved inland.
Over 5 million people were hit by torrential rains after the storm made landfall in the southern province of Guangdong on Thursday evening, Xinhua reported.
Direct economic losses were estimated at 2.4 billion yuan ($300 million) as Prapiroon triggered landslides, destroyed crops and severely damaged 7,000 houses, local officials said.Several hundred thousand people fled their homes, and tens of thousands of boats in the area were ordered to return to harbor.
In the Guangxi region, at least six migrant farm workers died before dawn on Saturday when a flash flood swept away their makeshift shelter in a valley. Rescuers were able to save six others.But Prapiroon weakened as it moved inland through Guangxi, and by early Saturday morning it had been downgraded from a storm to a tropical depression, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.Before it hit China, Prapiroon killed six people in the Philippines. It disrupted hundreds of flights in the regional transport hub of Hong Kong, but the territory's airport returned to normal operations on Saturday.Prapiroon, which means God of Rain in Thai, was
the sixth storm of the season to hit southern China.
Tropical storm Bilis killed more than 600 people when it struck in July, and it was quickly followed by Kaemi, which claimed at least 30 lives.
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Police clash with Arab teens trying to enter Mount
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
Jerusalem police on Friday fired stun grenades to disperse scores of Arab youths who turned violent after being barred access to the Temple Mount for Friday prayers, police said. There were no injuries reported in the noontime clash near the Damascus Gate.
Citing intelligence alerts over potential attacks, police prevented all Arab men under 40 from entering the Temple Mount due to the security situation in the country.Police sporadically close off the bitterly contested Jerusalem holy site to younger male Arabs on Fridays during times of high tension following multiple alerts over possible violence at the ancient compound.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
Spanish FM talks with Rice, EU counterparts following Mideast visit Fri Aug 4, 1:34 PM ET
MADRID (AFP) - Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos consulted with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and EU counterparts on joint efforts to bring peace to Lebanon following his two-day visit to the Middle East, foreign ministry sources said.
The sources said Rice and Moratinos had spoken by telephone to discuss his rounds of talks with Syrian and Lebanese leaders to coordinate strategy. He also spoke with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana as well as Finnish counterpart Erkki Tuomioja. Finland currently holds the rotating EU presidency.Moratinos, a former European Union Middle East envoy, earlier this week held talks in Beirut and Syria on the EU's behalf.Cadena Ser radio, quoting ministry sources, said Moratinos also consulted with British counterpart Margaret Beckett and Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
It was the first visit to the Syrian capital by a senior Western official since Moratinos last visited in March.His talks with Syrian counterpart Walid al-Muallem at the time drew strong criticism from Washington, which has been seeking to isolate Damascus amid accusations that senior officials had a hand in the February 2005 assassination of five-time former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri.Syria strongly denies those charges.Washington has also refused to involve either Syria or Iran in talks on ending the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
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.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Four forest fires in Málaga province as temperatures soar
By h.b.,Fri, 04 Aug 2006, 09:50
Once again Málaga saw the highest temperatures in the country with the mercury climbing above the 40 degree mark in many areas. The high temperatures led to the starting of four fires across the province, the largest in the area of Los Montes which was controlled late last night, while in Coín a gust of wind hit an INFOCA fire-fighting helicopter and the pilot had no choice but to jump clear.
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EARTH CHANGED AFTER SUMATRA QUAKE
1-This week with Rabbi Eckstein. 2-Russia asked to push Israel for immediate ceasefire. 3-Ukraine's Tymoshenko bloc mulls shadow govt. in firm opposition. 4-PM Blair responds to criticism over Lebanon. 5-Israel severs Lebanon road link to Syria. 6-Disproportionate' is 60 Years of Arab Assaults. 7-Study: Earth changed after Sumatra quake.
MATTHEW 24:14
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end(of the age of grace, not the world it goes on forever) come.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein August 4, 2006
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Dear Friends,
The Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av ended last night at sundown. On this day (the ninth of the month of Av on the Jewish calendar) in the years 586 B.C.E. and 70 C.E., respectively, the first and second Temples in Jerusalem, the holiest places of Judaism, were destroyed by invaders.Throughout history, great tragedies have befallen the Jewish people on this date. Accordingly, Tisha B'Av is a day of great mourning - a reminder to all Jews that they are always vulnerable to persecution and attack simply for being Jews.
The call to mourn seemed especially appropriate this year - and indeed still seems appropriate today even though Tisha B'Av has ended. Dozens of Israelis have been killed since Hezbollah launched its war of aggression weeks ago. Rockets fired by Hezbollah terrorists continue to fall in the north of Israel, sometimes at the rate of hundreds each day. Three of Israel's soldiers - kidnapped weeks ago - remain missing. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis now call a bomb shelter home.
These are solemn times. But they are also times when the Israeli people are united. They know that victory in this war will require strength, resolve and patience. During The Fellowship's recent relief missions to the north I have visited many bomb shelters. In each case, the feeling of the Israelis I have spoken to has been the same. Yes, the living conditions here are cramped and uncomfortable, they say. We fear for our lives and our livelihoods. But, with God's help, we will survive.
We just pray that the army is able to do what it has to do to destroy the terrorists, and that they are able to do the job completely.I have never been so proud of my countrymen. And I am equally proud of and grateful for The Fellowship partners who have given so generously in the past few weeks to our Israel Emergency Fund. Your support has been critical in providing for the needs of Israelis living in the war zone. And it has helped them realize that, whatever dangers and difficulties they face, they are not facing them alone.
I ask you to please continue your support of our Israeli Emergency Fund and your heartfelt prayers for the peace of Jerusalem.
Together, we will see Israeli through this current crisis.
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EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
04/08/2006 - 10:31:28 AM
Russia asked to push Israel for immediate ceasefire
Lebanon’s parliamentary majority leader today appealed to Russia to push Israel for an immediate ceasefire in its military offensive against Hezbollah, news reports said.We are appealing to you to use your relations with Israel in the interests of an immediate ceasefire,Saad Hariri was quoted as saying in a meeting with Security Council head Igor Ivanov.Only an immediate ceasefire can create the terms for a political resolution of all questions in the region. We are demanding this and will demand it, in the United Nations and in talks with our partners, Ivanov was quoted as saying.Britain and the US, which like Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, have resisted pressure for a resolution demanding an immediate truce, arguing that it must come with simultaneous steps to ensure that Hezbollah cannot threaten Israel.Hariri said he hoped the peace plan put forward by Lebanese
Prime Minister Fuad Siniora would be included in a UN resolution and we hope that a ceasefire will be secured next week,Interfax said.
Ukraine's Tymoshenko bloc mulls shadow govt. in firm opposition
KIEV, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc will form a strong opposition and may establish a shadow Cabinet
along European lines, a deputy leader of the bloc's parliamentary faction said Friday. Yulia Tymoshenko, President Viktor Yushchenko's first prime minister and ally on the streets in the 2004 popular protests known as the orange revolution, was the only leader of a major political movement who refused to sign Thursday a national unity agreement aiming to end the country's protracted political crisis.
And Oleg Bilorus said the faction would form a firm opposition to the new government, which should be led by Tymoshenko's long-time rival, Viktor Yanukovych, if he is confirmed as prime minister as expected in a Friday vote. We will form a
systematic, constructive and strong opposition, which will make use of all existing European models of the parliamentary struggle, including the formation of a shadow Cabinet,Bilorus said. Bilorus said that the bloc, which has 129 seats in the 450-member Supreme Rada, would not attend the Rada's sessions in a protest against the formation of the grand coalition and Yushchenko's decision to back Yanukovych for the prime minister's job.
The bloc was the leading force in the first parliamentary coalition to emerge after the March 26 elections, but the alliance collapsed when the Socialists defected to join Yanukovych's Party of Regions. He said the faction would not take part in the vote on Yanukovych for the prime minister's post, but would appear on the Rada's sidelines during ballots to elect members of the country's Constitutional Court.
PM responds to criticism over Lebanon
The prime minister's monthly press conference, in which he defended his stance on Lebanon, is covered by most of Friday's papers.
Tony Blair suggested there will be agreement on a United Nations resolution designed to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanon within the next few days.He continued to insist that the underlying problems between the two countries must be dealt with,
and any deal must address the concerns of both Israel and Lebanon.
Having spoken to both President Bush and Lebanese leader Fouad Siniora, Blair said the remaining differences are very slight over the resolution.Rejecting suggestions that his stance has been too pro-Israel, Blair said: The solution will not come by condemning one side.
The Guardian describes his comments as the beginning of a fightback against his backbench critics.But, under the heading Blair in crisis, the Telegraph focuses on his apparent admission that there are divisions in the cabinet.Many of the papers also report on a leaked memo from the outgoing British ambassador to Iraq warning the government that the country was more likely to descend into civil war and division than become a democratic state.And the the Mail highlights a New Statesman claim that the prime minister knew that the Israelis planned to attack Hizbollah before the militia kidnapped or killed any soldiers.
Israel severs Lebanon road link to Syria By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel expanded its assault on Lebanon Friday, launching its first major attack on the Christian heartland north of Beirut and severing the last significant road link to Syria. Hezbollah renewed attacks on northern Israel, killing two civilians in a barrage of 120 rockets.An Israeli airstrike hit dozens of farm workers loading vegetables near the Lebanon-Syria border, killing 28, the workers' foreman and a Lebanese official said.Five Lebanese civilians were killed and 19 wounded in the Israeli airstrikes north of the capital in Christian areas where Hezbollah has little support or presence, including the picturesque coastal resort of Jounieh.
In separate air raids near Beirut's airport and southern suburbs, a Lebanese soldier was killed and two soldiers and four civilians were wounded, security officials and witnesses said. The predominantly Shiite Muslim sector is largely controlled by Hezbollah guerrillas. Israel said Hezbollah facilities and a Hamas office were targeted.Two Israeli soldiers were killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile during heavy fighting in a southern Lebanese village where the militant group had been launching rockets, the army said.
The Israeli attacks on the four bridges on the main north-south coastal highway linking Beirut to Syria severed the only remaining major road link between Lebanon and Syria. The 90-minute drive to the Syrian border takes at least double the time on the small coastal road that remains open.
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, a staunch pro-Syrian and close ally of Hezbollah, charged that Israel is trying to pressure Lebanon to accept its conditions for a cease-fire , which include Hezbollah's disarmament and ouster from a swath of south
Lebanon.
The Israeli enemy's bombing of bridges and roads is aimed at tightening the blockade on the Lebanese, cutting communications between them and starving them,Lahoud said. He linked the new raids to Israel's failure to win quick victory in the south, where Israeli soldiers have been mired in ground battles with Hezbollah guerrillas for several days.An Israeli army spokesman, Capt. Jacob Dallal, said Israel targeted the bridges to stop the flow of weapons from Syria.
International aid agencies said Friday said the road bombing would slow down aid shipments to needy civilians in central Lebanon and the coastline around the capital, Beirut, where the bulk of the population lives.Border crossings in the east have been shut by airstrikes. Israel has imposed a naval blockade and has hit the international airport to seal off Lebanon's sea and airspace.This is Lebanon's umbilical cord,Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program told The Associated Press. This (road) has been the only way for us to bring in aid.
We really need to find other ways to bring relief in.In the farm attack near al-Qaa, a town about six miles from a Hezbollah stronghold, Lebanese civil defense official Ali Yaghi said at least 28 people were killed.Yaghi said at least 12 workers were wounded and some were likely buried under rubble. A bulldozer was brought to the site to try to uncover survivors, he said. The Israeli army said it had attacked two buildings where it suspected weapons were being stored, and it was checking reports that it had hit a vegetable storehouse and civilians.
In Israel, police said 120 rockets had fallen, including one that crashed into a house in the Israeli Arab town of Mughar, killing a woman. An Israeli man was killed near the border town of Kiryat Shemona.Police commander Dan Ronen said 45 rockets had fallen within one half-hour period. More than three weeks into the fighting, six Israeli brigades — or roughly 10,000 troops — were locked in battle with hundreds of Hezbollah guerrillas in about 20 towns and villages in south Lebanon. Israeli artillery intensified bombing there overnight, sending as many as 15 shells per minute against suspected Hezbollah strongholds. Defense Minister Amir Peretz has told top army officers to begin preparing for a push to the Litani River, about 20 miles north of the border. That would require further approval by Israel's Security Cabinet and could lead to far more casualties. Hezbollah said in a statement broadcast by the group's Al-Manar TV station that guerrillas had killed six Israeli soldiers near the villages of Aita al-Shaab and Markaba.
The Israeli army said two soldiers were killed and two wounded by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile during heavy fighting in a village where the militant group had been launching rockets. Despite Israel's efforts, Hezbollah launched at least 200 rockets into northern Israel on Thursday, in a new tactic of simultaneously firing a large number of rockets. Hezbollah's leader offered to stop attacking if Israel ends its airstrikes. Israel's United Nations ambassador, Dan Gillerman, said that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's offer of a truce was a sign of weakness ... and he may be looking for a way out.
Gillerman warned against a threat by Nasrallah to launch rockets on Israel's commercial center, Tel Aviv. We are ready for it, and I am sure that he (Nasrallah), as well as his sponsors, realize the consequences of doing something as unimaginable and crazy as that, the Israeli ambassador told CNN. On the second front of its offensive against Islamic militants, Israel began pulling tanks out of southern Gaza after a two-day incursion that killed eleven Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy.
The fighting in Gaza, which began June 25 after Hamas-linked militants captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid, has killed a total of 175 Palestinians,
the U.N. reported, adding that it was concerned that with international attention focusing on Lebanon, the tragedy in Gaza is being forgotten.The offensive in Lebanon began after another cross-border raid by Hezbollah guerrillas who captured two Israeli soldiers.
According to an Associated Press count, at least 530 Lebanese have been killed, including 454 civilians confirmed dead by the Health Ministry; 26 Lebanese soldiers; and at least 50 Hezbollah guerrillas.Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said that 1 million people — or about a quarter of Lebanon's population — had fled the fighting. Seventy-two Israelis have been killed — 43 oldiers and 29 civilians. More than 300,000 Israelis have fled their homes in the north, Israeli officials said.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said the United States and France have come a long way in negotiating a Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate end to Middle East hostilities,said. In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed support Thursday for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon as the first phase in ending the conflict. It was the most concrete signal yet that the U.S. may be willing to compromise on the stalemate over how to end the fighting.
Israel, backed by the United States, has rejected calls for an immediate cease-fire, saying it wants an international force or the Lebanese army to deploy in southern Lebanon to prevent future Hezbollah attacks.
A P reporter Ravi Nessman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Disproportionate' is 60 Years of Arab Assaults
Commentary by Willy E. Gutman ,Friday August 4, 2006
I arrived in Israel shortly after its rebirth in 1948. I was 12. War erupted when Arab forces from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq joined in a simultaneous assault against Israel. The war raged on for a year. Simultaneously, the infant state, poorly armed and barely released from the clutches of the British mandate, suffered daily incursions by Palestinian marauders who went on a door-to-door rampage of bloodletting during which hundreds of Jews - men, women and children - many born in Palestine and whose roots went back to biblical Israel - were massacred in their beds as they slept. In Jerusalem, where I lived, the Grand Mufti, an outspoken fan of Hitler, engineered nightly sorties during which movies houses were firebombed, synagogues were torched, drivers were ambushed on open roads, women were raped and young children were tossed in the air and skewered on bayonets.
From 1949 to 1956, a tenuous truce was punctuated by daily Arab raids. Tensions mounted when Egypt blockaded the Suez Canal, denying passage to Israeli, French and British ships. In 1956, Israeli forces, commanded by Moshe Dayan, launched a combined air and ground assault into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, capturing several key objectives, including the Gaza strip and Sharm el Sheikh.
Israel withdrew from these positions in 1957. Syria, Egypt and Jordan increased their incursions into Israel during the early 1960s, with Palestinian guerrillas supported by Syria. Arab threats and provocations continued until 1967, when Israel launched a massive air assault that crippled Arab air capability. With air superiority protecting its ground forces, Israel took the Sinai Peninsula in three
days. It then captured Jerusalem's Old City and gained the strategic Golan Heights on the Syrian border.
In 1973, Egypt launched a two-pronged assault on Israel while the Syrians, supported by Jordan, Iraq and Libya, advanced from the north. Israel was caught off guard but soon forced the Syrians and Egyptians back and, in the last hours of the war, established a foothold on the west bank of the Suez Canal. The 1973-74 War led to the signing of the Camp David accords. In 1978 Palestinian guerrillas, from bases in Lebanon, launched an air raid on Israel. Israel retaliated, sending troops into southern Lebanon and occupying a strip 4 to 6 miles deep designed to protect Israel's border. Rocket attacks and nightly raids against Israel continued. In
1982 Israel launched a massive attack to destroy all military bases of the PLO in southern Lebanon and, after a 10-week siege, forced the Palestinians to accept a U.S.-brokered plan whereby PLO guerrillas would evacuate Beirut. Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 1985. The latest chapter in the ongoing conflict began July 12, when guerrillas from the Islamic group, Hezbollah, the powerful and influential Lebanese Party of God, crossed into Israel and attacked an Israeli patrol, killing three and capturing two others.
The operation began with a diversionary attack of rockets and mortar shells fired at Israeli towns and military posts. Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said the men were taken to set up a prisoner exchange with Israel. Israel's prime minister,
Ehud Olmert, declared the attack an act of war on Lebanon's part and promised a strong response. An Israeli tank stationed nearby attempted to pursue the captors into Lebanon but was hit by an improvised explosive device, killing all four crew members.
Another Israeli soldier died during an attempt to recover the bodies from the disabled tank. After Hezbollah's cross-border raid, the Israeli military launched air, naval and ground attacks at Hezbollah targets across Lebanon. Hezbollah responded by firing hundreds of rockets into northern Israel, many reaching as far south as the port city of Haifa. Hezbollah also damaged an Israeli warship 10
miles off the Lebanese coast with an Iranian-made unmanned drone. Rational people will surely agree that being on the receiving end of a daily shower of missiles - for years - is sufficient provocation to strike back at a fanatic and well organized phalanx of terrorists. Israel, reborn from the ashes of the Holocaust, was attacked five times by its neighbors in less than 60 years. It has suffered repeated assaults by lunatics who blow themselves up in buses, marketplaces and restaurants. Suicide bombers are just the more extreme emissaries of a large, seething, teeming throng of Muslims who, given the chance, would cheerfully slit the throat of every Jew they met.
For a pithy and telling synthesis of the Muslims' mindset and intentions, here's what al-Qaida's Ayman Al Zawahiri, Bin Laden's deputy, said recently: All the world is a battlefield open in front of us. The war with Israel does not depend on cease-fires. It is a jihad for the sake of God and will last until (our) religion prevails ... from Spain to Iraq. The Muslims have not forgotten the Crusades,
which they claim the West is still waging. But this time, they intend to wipe out the Jews who once shared their fate at the hands of the Crusaders. What we are witnessing is well beyond Israel's battle for survival. The Western world, its values, freedoms, civilization and evolution are now in peril. A strong and resolute Israel is the key to stability in the Middle East. If Israel falls, we all fall. Willy E. Gutman of Tehachapi is a veteran journalist on assignment in Central America since 1991. His column reflects his own views, and not necessarily those of The Signal.
LUKE 21:26
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.
Study: Earth changed after Sumatra quake
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've determined Earth's gravity changed as a result of the giant 2004 Sumatran earthquake. The discovery marked the first time scientists have used satellite data to detect changes in the Earth's surface caused by a massive earthquake. The discovery signifies a new use for data from NASA satellites and offers a possible new approach to understanding how earthquakes work. The 9.1-magnitude December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in the Indian Ocean produced a tsunami that killed approximately 230,000 people, while displacing more than 1 million others. The event followed the slipping of two continental plates under the seafloor that raised ocean bed in the region by several feet for thousands of square miles.
The earthquake changed the gravity in that part of the world in two ways that we were able to detect,said Shin-Chan Han, a research scientist at Ohio State University. He and colleagues determined the quake triggered the massive uplift of the seafloor, changing the geometry of the region and altering previous global positioning satellite measurements of the area. And the density of the rock
beneath the seafloor shifted, producing detectable gravity changes.2006 United Press International
MATTHEW 24:14
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end(of the age of grace, not the world it goes on forever) come.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein August 4, 2006
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Dear Friends,
The Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av ended last night at sundown. On this day (the ninth of the month of Av on the Jewish calendar) in the years 586 B.C.E. and 70 C.E., respectively, the first and second Temples in Jerusalem, the holiest places of Judaism, were destroyed by invaders.Throughout history, great tragedies have befallen the Jewish people on this date. Accordingly, Tisha B'Av is a day of great mourning - a reminder to all Jews that they are always vulnerable to persecution and attack simply for being Jews.
The call to mourn seemed especially appropriate this year - and indeed still seems appropriate today even though Tisha B'Av has ended. Dozens of Israelis have been killed since Hezbollah launched its war of aggression weeks ago. Rockets fired by Hezbollah terrorists continue to fall in the north of Israel, sometimes at the rate of hundreds each day. Three of Israel's soldiers - kidnapped weeks ago - remain missing. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis now call a bomb shelter home.
These are solemn times. But they are also times when the Israeli people are united. They know that victory in this war will require strength, resolve and patience. During The Fellowship's recent relief missions to the north I have visited many bomb shelters. In each case, the feeling of the Israelis I have spoken to has been the same. Yes, the living conditions here are cramped and uncomfortable, they say. We fear for our lives and our livelihoods. But, with God's help, we will survive.
We just pray that the army is able to do what it has to do to destroy the terrorists, and that they are able to do the job completely.I have never been so proud of my countrymen. And I am equally proud of and grateful for The Fellowship partners who have given so generously in the past few weeks to our Israel Emergency Fund. Your support has been critical in providing for the needs of Israelis living in the war zone. And it has helped them realize that, whatever dangers and difficulties they face, they are not facing them alone.
I ask you to please continue your support of our Israeli Emergency Fund and your heartfelt prayers for the peace of Jerusalem.
Together, we will see Israeli through this current crisis.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
Founder and Chairman
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
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EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
04/08/2006 - 10:31:28 AM
Russia asked to push Israel for immediate ceasefire
Lebanon’s parliamentary majority leader today appealed to Russia to push Israel for an immediate ceasefire in its military offensive against Hezbollah, news reports said.We are appealing to you to use your relations with Israel in the interests of an immediate ceasefire,Saad Hariri was quoted as saying in a meeting with Security Council head Igor Ivanov.Only an immediate ceasefire can create the terms for a political resolution of all questions in the region. We are demanding this and will demand it, in the United Nations and in talks with our partners, Ivanov was quoted as saying.Britain and the US, which like Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, have resisted pressure for a resolution demanding an immediate truce, arguing that it must come with simultaneous steps to ensure that Hezbollah cannot threaten Israel.Hariri said he hoped the peace plan put forward by Lebanese
Prime Minister Fuad Siniora would be included in a UN resolution and we hope that a ceasefire will be secured next week,Interfax said.
Ukraine's Tymoshenko bloc mulls shadow govt. in firm opposition
KIEV, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc will form a strong opposition and may establish a shadow Cabinet
along European lines, a deputy leader of the bloc's parliamentary faction said Friday. Yulia Tymoshenko, President Viktor Yushchenko's first prime minister and ally on the streets in the 2004 popular protests known as the orange revolution, was the only leader of a major political movement who refused to sign Thursday a national unity agreement aiming to end the country's protracted political crisis.
And Oleg Bilorus said the faction would form a firm opposition to the new government, which should be led by Tymoshenko's long-time rival, Viktor Yanukovych, if he is confirmed as prime minister as expected in a Friday vote. We will form a
systematic, constructive and strong opposition, which will make use of all existing European models of the parliamentary struggle, including the formation of a shadow Cabinet,Bilorus said. Bilorus said that the bloc, which has 129 seats in the 450-member Supreme Rada, would not attend the Rada's sessions in a protest against the formation of the grand coalition and Yushchenko's decision to back Yanukovych for the prime minister's job.
The bloc was the leading force in the first parliamentary coalition to emerge after the March 26 elections, but the alliance collapsed when the Socialists defected to join Yanukovych's Party of Regions. He said the faction would not take part in the vote on Yanukovych for the prime minister's post, but would appear on the Rada's sidelines during ballots to elect members of the country's Constitutional Court.
PM responds to criticism over Lebanon
The prime minister's monthly press conference, in which he defended his stance on Lebanon, is covered by most of Friday's papers.
Tony Blair suggested there will be agreement on a United Nations resolution designed to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanon within the next few days.He continued to insist that the underlying problems between the two countries must be dealt with,
and any deal must address the concerns of both Israel and Lebanon.
Having spoken to both President Bush and Lebanese leader Fouad Siniora, Blair said the remaining differences are very slight over the resolution.Rejecting suggestions that his stance has been too pro-Israel, Blair said: The solution will not come by condemning one side.
The Guardian describes his comments as the beginning of a fightback against his backbench critics.But, under the heading Blair in crisis, the Telegraph focuses on his apparent admission that there are divisions in the cabinet.Many of the papers also report on a leaked memo from the outgoing British ambassador to Iraq warning the government that the country was more likely to descend into civil war and division than become a democratic state.And the the Mail highlights a New Statesman claim that the prime minister knew that the Israelis planned to attack Hizbollah before the militia kidnapped or killed any soldiers.
Israel severs Lebanon road link to Syria By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel expanded its assault on Lebanon Friday, launching its first major attack on the Christian heartland north of Beirut and severing the last significant road link to Syria. Hezbollah renewed attacks on northern Israel, killing two civilians in a barrage of 120 rockets.An Israeli airstrike hit dozens of farm workers loading vegetables near the Lebanon-Syria border, killing 28, the workers' foreman and a Lebanese official said.Five Lebanese civilians were killed and 19 wounded in the Israeli airstrikes north of the capital in Christian areas where Hezbollah has little support or presence, including the picturesque coastal resort of Jounieh.
In separate air raids near Beirut's airport and southern suburbs, a Lebanese soldier was killed and two soldiers and four civilians were wounded, security officials and witnesses said. The predominantly Shiite Muslim sector is largely controlled by Hezbollah guerrillas. Israel said Hezbollah facilities and a Hamas office were targeted.Two Israeli soldiers were killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile during heavy fighting in a southern Lebanese village where the militant group had been launching rockets, the army said.
The Israeli attacks on the four bridges on the main north-south coastal highway linking Beirut to Syria severed the only remaining major road link between Lebanon and Syria. The 90-minute drive to the Syrian border takes at least double the time on the small coastal road that remains open.
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, a staunch pro-Syrian and close ally of Hezbollah, charged that Israel is trying to pressure Lebanon to accept its conditions for a cease-fire , which include Hezbollah's disarmament and ouster from a swath of south
Lebanon.
The Israeli enemy's bombing of bridges and roads is aimed at tightening the blockade on the Lebanese, cutting communications between them and starving them,Lahoud said. He linked the new raids to Israel's failure to win quick victory in the south, where Israeli soldiers have been mired in ground battles with Hezbollah guerrillas for several days.An Israeli army spokesman, Capt. Jacob Dallal, said Israel targeted the bridges to stop the flow of weapons from Syria.
International aid agencies said Friday said the road bombing would slow down aid shipments to needy civilians in central Lebanon and the coastline around the capital, Beirut, where the bulk of the population lives.Border crossings in the east have been shut by airstrikes. Israel has imposed a naval blockade and has hit the international airport to seal off Lebanon's sea and airspace.This is Lebanon's umbilical cord,Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program told The Associated Press. This (road) has been the only way for us to bring in aid.
We really need to find other ways to bring relief in.In the farm attack near al-Qaa, a town about six miles from a Hezbollah stronghold, Lebanese civil defense official Ali Yaghi said at least 28 people were killed.Yaghi said at least 12 workers were wounded and some were likely buried under rubble. A bulldozer was brought to the site to try to uncover survivors, he said. The Israeli army said it had attacked two buildings where it suspected weapons were being stored, and it was checking reports that it had hit a vegetable storehouse and civilians.
In Israel, police said 120 rockets had fallen, including one that crashed into a house in the Israeli Arab town of Mughar, killing a woman. An Israeli man was killed near the border town of Kiryat Shemona.Police commander Dan Ronen said 45 rockets had fallen within one half-hour period. More than three weeks into the fighting, six Israeli brigades — or roughly 10,000 troops — were locked in battle with hundreds of Hezbollah guerrillas in about 20 towns and villages in south Lebanon. Israeli artillery intensified bombing there overnight, sending as many as 15 shells per minute against suspected Hezbollah strongholds. Defense Minister Amir Peretz has told top army officers to begin preparing for a push to the Litani River, about 20 miles north of the border. That would require further approval by Israel's Security Cabinet and could lead to far more casualties. Hezbollah said in a statement broadcast by the group's Al-Manar TV station that guerrillas had killed six Israeli soldiers near the villages of Aita al-Shaab and Markaba.
The Israeli army said two soldiers were killed and two wounded by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile during heavy fighting in a village where the militant group had been launching rockets. Despite Israel's efforts, Hezbollah launched at least 200 rockets into northern Israel on Thursday, in a new tactic of simultaneously firing a large number of rockets. Hezbollah's leader offered to stop attacking if Israel ends its airstrikes. Israel's United Nations ambassador, Dan Gillerman, said that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's offer of a truce was a sign of weakness ... and he may be looking for a way out.
Gillerman warned against a threat by Nasrallah to launch rockets on Israel's commercial center, Tel Aviv. We are ready for it, and I am sure that he (Nasrallah), as well as his sponsors, realize the consequences of doing something as unimaginable and crazy as that, the Israeli ambassador told CNN. On the second front of its offensive against Islamic militants, Israel began pulling tanks out of southern Gaza after a two-day incursion that killed eleven Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy.
The fighting in Gaza, which began June 25 after Hamas-linked militants captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid, has killed a total of 175 Palestinians,
the U.N. reported, adding that it was concerned that with international attention focusing on Lebanon, the tragedy in Gaza is being forgotten.The offensive in Lebanon began after another cross-border raid by Hezbollah guerrillas who captured two Israeli soldiers.
According to an Associated Press count, at least 530 Lebanese have been killed, including 454 civilians confirmed dead by the Health Ministry; 26 Lebanese soldiers; and at least 50 Hezbollah guerrillas.Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said that 1 million people — or about a quarter of Lebanon's population — had fled the fighting. Seventy-two Israelis have been killed — 43 oldiers and 29 civilians. More than 300,000 Israelis have fled their homes in the north, Israeli officials said.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said the United States and France have come a long way in negotiating a Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate end to Middle East hostilities,said. In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed support Thursday for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon as the first phase in ending the conflict. It was the most concrete signal yet that the U.S. may be willing to compromise on the stalemate over how to end the fighting.
Israel, backed by the United States, has rejected calls for an immediate cease-fire, saying it wants an international force or the Lebanese army to deploy in southern Lebanon to prevent future Hezbollah attacks.
A P reporter Ravi Nessman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Disproportionate' is 60 Years of Arab Assaults
Commentary by Willy E. Gutman ,Friday August 4, 2006
I arrived in Israel shortly after its rebirth in 1948. I was 12. War erupted when Arab forces from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq joined in a simultaneous assault against Israel. The war raged on for a year. Simultaneously, the infant state, poorly armed and barely released from the clutches of the British mandate, suffered daily incursions by Palestinian marauders who went on a door-to-door rampage of bloodletting during which hundreds of Jews - men, women and children - many born in Palestine and whose roots went back to biblical Israel - were massacred in their beds as they slept. In Jerusalem, where I lived, the Grand Mufti, an outspoken fan of Hitler, engineered nightly sorties during which movies houses were firebombed, synagogues were torched, drivers were ambushed on open roads, women were raped and young children were tossed in the air and skewered on bayonets.
From 1949 to 1956, a tenuous truce was punctuated by daily Arab raids. Tensions mounted when Egypt blockaded the Suez Canal, denying passage to Israeli, French and British ships. In 1956, Israeli forces, commanded by Moshe Dayan, launched a combined air and ground assault into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, capturing several key objectives, including the Gaza strip and Sharm el Sheikh.
Israel withdrew from these positions in 1957. Syria, Egypt and Jordan increased their incursions into Israel during the early 1960s, with Palestinian guerrillas supported by Syria. Arab threats and provocations continued until 1967, when Israel launched a massive air assault that crippled Arab air capability. With air superiority protecting its ground forces, Israel took the Sinai Peninsula in three
days. It then captured Jerusalem's Old City and gained the strategic Golan Heights on the Syrian border.
In 1973, Egypt launched a two-pronged assault on Israel while the Syrians, supported by Jordan, Iraq and Libya, advanced from the north. Israel was caught off guard but soon forced the Syrians and Egyptians back and, in the last hours of the war, established a foothold on the west bank of the Suez Canal. The 1973-74 War led to the signing of the Camp David accords. In 1978 Palestinian guerrillas, from bases in Lebanon, launched an air raid on Israel. Israel retaliated, sending troops into southern Lebanon and occupying a strip 4 to 6 miles deep designed to protect Israel's border. Rocket attacks and nightly raids against Israel continued. In
1982 Israel launched a massive attack to destroy all military bases of the PLO in southern Lebanon and, after a 10-week siege, forced the Palestinians to accept a U.S.-brokered plan whereby PLO guerrillas would evacuate Beirut. Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 1985. The latest chapter in the ongoing conflict began July 12, when guerrillas from the Islamic group, Hezbollah, the powerful and influential Lebanese Party of God, crossed into Israel and attacked an Israeli patrol, killing three and capturing two others.
The operation began with a diversionary attack of rockets and mortar shells fired at Israeli towns and military posts. Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said the men were taken to set up a prisoner exchange with Israel. Israel's prime minister,
Ehud Olmert, declared the attack an act of war on Lebanon's part and promised a strong response. An Israeli tank stationed nearby attempted to pursue the captors into Lebanon but was hit by an improvised explosive device, killing all four crew members.
Another Israeli soldier died during an attempt to recover the bodies from the disabled tank. After Hezbollah's cross-border raid, the Israeli military launched air, naval and ground attacks at Hezbollah targets across Lebanon. Hezbollah responded by firing hundreds of rockets into northern Israel, many reaching as far south as the port city of Haifa. Hezbollah also damaged an Israeli warship 10
miles off the Lebanese coast with an Iranian-made unmanned drone. Rational people will surely agree that being on the receiving end of a daily shower of missiles - for years - is sufficient provocation to strike back at a fanatic and well organized phalanx of terrorists. Israel, reborn from the ashes of the Holocaust, was attacked five times by its neighbors in less than 60 years. It has suffered repeated assaults by lunatics who blow themselves up in buses, marketplaces and restaurants. Suicide bombers are just the more extreme emissaries of a large, seething, teeming throng of Muslims who, given the chance, would cheerfully slit the throat of every Jew they met.
For a pithy and telling synthesis of the Muslims' mindset and intentions, here's what al-Qaida's Ayman Al Zawahiri, Bin Laden's deputy, said recently: All the world is a battlefield open in front of us. The war with Israel does not depend on cease-fires. It is a jihad for the sake of God and will last until (our) religion prevails ... from Spain to Iraq. The Muslims have not forgotten the Crusades,
which they claim the West is still waging. But this time, they intend to wipe out the Jews who once shared their fate at the hands of the Crusaders. What we are witnessing is well beyond Israel's battle for survival. The Western world, its values, freedoms, civilization and evolution are now in peril. A strong and resolute Israel is the key to stability in the Middle East. If Israel falls, we all fall. Willy E. Gutman of Tehachapi is a veteran journalist on assignment in Central America since 1991. His column reflects his own views, and not necessarily those of The Signal.
LUKE 21:26
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.
Study: Earth changed after Sumatra quake
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've determined Earth's gravity changed as a result of the giant 2004 Sumatran earthquake. The discovery marked the first time scientists have used satellite data to detect changes in the Earth's surface caused by a massive earthquake. The discovery signifies a new use for data from NASA satellites and offers a possible new approach to understanding how earthquakes work. The 9.1-magnitude December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in the Indian Ocean produced a tsunami that killed approximately 230,000 people, while displacing more than 1 million others. The event followed the slipping of two continental plates under the seafloor that raised ocean bed in the region by several feet for thousands of square miles.
The earthquake changed the gravity in that part of the world in two ways that we were able to detect,said Shin-Chan Han, a research scientist at Ohio State University. He and colleagues determined the quake triggered the massive uplift of the seafloor, changing the geometry of the region and altering previous global positioning satellite measurements of the area. And the density of the rock
beneath the seafloor shifted, producing detectable gravity changes.2006 United Press International
200 MILITANTS TO DESTROY VITAL INTERESTS
1-Earthquakes near battle ground rattle region. 2-51 quakes near Mayon. 3-Storms in Ontario leave 150,000 without power. 4-Typhoon kills at least 18 in China. 5-China evacuates 580,000 as typhoon comes to South China. 6-Pakistan landslides, floods kill another 33. 7-Flooding kills 31 more people in India. 8-Crews battle Mendocino forest fires. 9-Spain says Syria will play positive role to tackle Mideast conflicts. 10-Islamic group: 200 militants sent to bomb Israel's vital interests
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
August 3, 2006
Earthquakes Near Battle Ground Rattle Region
By KATU.com Web Staff
BATTLE GROUND, Ore. - An earthquake with a preliminary strength of 3.8 on the Richter Scale rattled Washington and Oregon residents early Thursday morning.Four aftershocks followed the quake, which struck just after 1:30 a.m.Residents in the Battle Ground, Washington were awakened by the temblor, and the USGS says they received thousands of emails from people who felt the earth move.According to emails received by KATU, the quake was felt over a wide area, including Vancouver, and as far south as Forest Grove and West Linn.Link: Pacific Northwest Seisograph Network.No damage or injuries have been reported, and geologists said the quake was not considered strong enough to cause any major damage.
However, geologist Ian Madin of the Oregon Department of Geology told KATU News that the quake's intensity may be upgraded to a 4.0 or above after sensor data is more closely scrutinized.Madin said computer-generated quake strength estimates received shortly after a temblor strikes are usually on the conservative side.Oregon, Washington and Western Canada sit in a quake-prone area near the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where thick tectonic plates of the earth's crust are slowly grinding past each other.
The tectonic activity is the cause for the region's many volcanoes and earthquakes.Scientists believe the region is due for a major quake, perhaps as strong as a 9.0.A quake of that magnitude would cause severe and widespread damage, and possibly tsunamis along the coast.
Scientists record 51 earthquakes near Mayon
By Mar Arguelles
LEGAZPI CITY—Low-frequency quakes rocked Mt. Mayon even as its steam emission dropped suddenly, indicating an explosive eruption is highly possible, scientists said yesterday.The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the low-steam emission indicated gas was being blocked by fresh magma and building pressure in the volcano’s vents. Seismic instruments detected 51 low-frequency quakes compared with the 16 recorded on Wednesday, indicating the volcano was bringing more magma up to the crater, it said.The instruments also recorded 343 tremors caused by lava tumbling down the volcano’s slopes. The presence of low-frequency volcanic earthquakes triggered by the active degassing and partial blockade of viscous magma would lead to either a continuing lava flow or an explosive eruption,volcanologist Ed Laguerta said. Scientists said the sudden drop in the volcano’s sulfur dioxide emission did not mean Mt. Mayon had stopped degassing. The volcano disgorged 4,760 tons of sulfur dioxide yesterday compared with 12,548 tons on Wednesday, but that only meant magma was partially blocking the gas’ path, Laguerta said.
The partial blockade also meant the volcano was building up pressure that could lead to an explosion, he said. The volume of lava emitted since Mayon started its mild eruptions on July 14 had reached 18 million cubic meters, and most of it had flowed down the Mabinit Channel south-southeast of the crater. Subsequent flows filled the gullies at the southeast’s upper and middle slopes, from Miisi Channel in Daraga to Buyoan Channel in this city. The lava front is now as big as a four-story building, and it is nearing the 6-km permanent-danger zone after incinerating hectares of coconut plantation and farmland in Mabinit town. The town’s farmers have cut hundreds of coconut trees so they can use them before lava destroys them. Officials said Alert Level 3 was still up, meaning sudden explosions and lava avalanches could happen any time. The danger zones remained off-limits to all residents and visitors.
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.
Storms and tornadoes leave 150,000 without power
Updated Thu. Aug. 3 2006 11:51 PM ET,CTV.ca News
Ontario residents heading to cottage country for the long weekend may find that the only light they have will be from a campfire, after a severe weather system battered the province Wednesday night, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes. By morning more than 100,000 Hydro One customers still had no electricity. The utility struggled through the night to restore power to about 150,000 customers who were initially cut off by the storm. The current that's down is one of our critical circuits feeding from the north,Hydro One spokesman Hugh Crockett told CTV News at the site of a Hydro One tower in central Ontario. The tower is a key conduit on the provincial power grid. It's a 500,000-volt tower line,Crocket said. Barrie, Bracebridge, Huntsville, Penetanguishene, Orillia, Minden and Tweed received the most severe weather, Hydro One spokeswoman Enza Cancilla said.
There were also small power outages in some southwestern Ontario cities. Efforts to restore electricity to everyone are expected to continue through the weekend. The severe weather in Ontario follows a vicious storm that ripped through Quebec Tuesday that left hundreds of thousands of Quebecers without power and is being blamed for two deaths. One man died after the violent storms caused a tree to fall on a car, crushing the 28-year-old motorist inside. The other man was struck by lightning. In Boisbriand, Que., Mary Visnyai, 80, said she has had no power for two days and most of her food has gone bad. They should pay for what we're losing,she told CTV News.Without electricity, a popular summer day camp for young hockey players and skaters has shut down in Rosemere, Que. We couldn't hold the day camp because there are no lights,day camp monitor Catherine Goudie told CTV News. So they all had to go back home.
The intense storms moved west from Quebec and swept through southern Ontario Wednesday evening. Lighting, gusty downpours, tornadoes near Guelph and Combermere, left a wake downed trees and power lines and flooded streets across the province. The violent storm stretched from Lake Huron east through Orangeville, Newmarket and all the way to the Ottawa area. The twister that touched down in Guelph left no damage behind, but the Combermere funnel left behind a scene of total devastation,according to Environment Canada investigators. They said it is possible to walk a great distance without actually touching the ground because of the debris covering the area. Residents in eastern Ontario say they feel like they're in a war zone. Winds of up to 160 kilometres an hour even pushed a train off the tracks.I watched it happen,a resident told CTV News. It just slowly went through the trees and then the two cars slowly left the track and there they were. The tornado was described as an F-1 twister by meteorologist Geoff Coulson, meaning the winds were between 120 and 170 km/h. It was like a train whistle coming in and then it got so loud, and then it just went bam -- and all these matchsticks started cracking,a resident told CTV News. Things were blowing in and breaking windows.
Cars and camper trailers were reportedly crushed by the twister, but no one was hurt. The storm hit the Greater Toronto Area at 9:15 p.m., causing damage to a number of homes.The high winds ripped four sections of a roof off a house near Yonge Street and Davis Drive. Central York fire crews helped the homeowners cover the roof to protect it from water damage. West of Toronto, a trained weather spotter reported a tornado in the Highway 401 and Highway 6 area at 3:20 p.m., Environment Canada said.
There were no reports of tornado damage there.
Emergency crews were busy in rural Peterborough after winds up to 120 km/h gusted through the region. The village of Combermere, south of Barry's Bay, declared a state of emergency after the storm destroyed a Home Hardware store. The storm also wreaked havoc in the Ottawa area, downing hydro poles and stranding boaters in the Ottawa River. In Hagersville, near Hamilton, the high winds knocked over a barn that in turn crushed a vacant motorhome. With a report by CTV's David Akin and files from The Canadian Press
Typhoon Prapiroon kills at least 18 after crashing into China by Verna Yu 44 minutes ago (Aug 4,2006)
BEIJING (AFP) - Typhoon Prapiroon killed at least 18 people and left up to seven others missing after crashing ashore in southern China, pounding the area with torrential rains and gale force winds. More than six million people were affected by the sixth typhoon to ravage China this year, with 534,000 evacuated in the southern provinces and regions of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan, China Central Television said, citing reports from the civil affairs ministry.Although it was downgraded to a tropical storm early Friday, Prapiroon was held responsible for the collapse of 8,100 buildings with initial economic losses set at 2.5 billion yuan (312 million dollars), the ministry said.State television footage showed people rushing for shelter, as rains lashed city streets and huge waves slammed into the Guangdong provincial coastline.
The fatalities were reported in different cities in Guangdong as relentless rains and gusting winds battered coastal cities in the south of the province, television reports said.Xinhua news agency, quoting the State Flood Control and Drought Relief headquarters, said some died fleeing collapsing houses.At least one person perished in a landslide in the neighboring Guangxi region, where the typhoon disrupted the lives of up to one million residents, Xinhua said.The typhoon, which packed winds of up to 70 kilometres an hour (44 mph), moved inland in a northwest direction after making landfall near Yangjiang city in Guangdong late Thursday, reaching the Guangxi region early Friday.In Hong Kong, more than 2,000 trees were uprooted or damaged while 20 cargo containers were tipped over at the city's massive shipping terminal on Thursday.Despite the storm being well clear of Hong Kong Friday, thousands of exhausted and angry passengers remained stranded at the airport after hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled.
The China Meteorological Administration forecast more wild weather on Saturday across the coastal regions of Guangdong and Guangxi as well as Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Hainan provinces.Prapiroon was the sixth typhoon of the season for southern China. The first, Typhoon Chanchu, hit on May 18, more than a month earlier than usual.The worst was Bilis, which struck on July 14 and hovered over southern China for 10 days, killing at least 612 people, according to earlier state reports.More than 1,400 people have been killed in China due to typhoons this season, according to the Red Cross, which this week appealed for 3.8 million euros (five million dollars) to help survivors.
China evacuates 580,000 as typhoon brings storms to south coast
Aug 3, 2006, 15:44 GMT
A woman, right, cries out as her umbrella is flipped by a strong wind as she walks with her companions in a street in Guangzhou, in east China's Guangdong province Thursday, 03 August 2006. Tropical Storm Prapiroon strengthened into a full-blown typhoon on Wednesday, with forecasters warning of possible severe destruction to parts of southern China. EPA/YAN GE Beijing - Officials evacuated at least 580,000 people and suspended shipping and some rail services as Typhoon Prapiroon brought more torrential rain and strong winds to southern China on Thursday. The eye of the typhoon was expected to bring force-12 winds to coastal areas of western Guangdong province overnight Thursday and early Friday, weather forecasters said.
Provincial officials issued an emergency notice calling all ships back to port early Thursday, after they were surprised by the speed of the typhoon's approach across the South China Sea, the official Xinhua news agency said. Rail passenger services were suspended across the bridge linking Guangdong with the island province of Hainan over the Qiongzhou Strait. Prapiroon is forecast to gain strength and move westwards across southern China at 15 kilometres per hour over the next 24 hours. Heavy rain hit most areas of Guangdong from Wednesday, and the provincial observatory warned government departments to prepare for possible high waves, landslides, flash floods over the next three days. Guangdong, Hainan and the neighbouring regions of Guangxi and Guizhou are expected to get 100 to 180 millimetres of rain by Saturday, the state meteorological office said. Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi had evacuated 580,000 people and recalled 53,200 ships vessels to harbour by Thursday evening, state televsion said.
More than 1,000 people have died in floods, landslides and other disasters following summer storms in China this year. Typhoon Bilis killed at least 612 people in southern and eastern China in mid-July. © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Pakistan landslides, floods kill another
August,4,06
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Monsoon rains triggered fresh landslides and floods in northern Pakistan, as officials and reports said another 33 people had died in weather-related incidents.Twelve people were killed Friday and seven were missing after a flash flood swept their minibus into a canal as they travelled to a religious school near Rawalpindi, state media said.The dead included three children and seven women, while 12 passengers were rescued, the Associated Press of Pakistan said.In the northwestern district of Mansehra, which was badly hit by last October's South Asian earthquake, officials said 31 people were killed in the past four days, mainly in landslides.Officials had previously only said that 10 people died in the district when a landslide flattened quake survivors' tents on Thursday.
District mayor Sardar Yousaf said around 20 of the deaths had happened around Balakot, a tourist town devastated by the October 8 quake that killed 75,000 people and left three million homeless.A further 300 families lost tents or temporary shelters in landslides and were being shifted to refugee camps.A key road from Balakot to the mountainous Kaghan Valley that was only recently reopened after the earthquake had been cut again, Yousaf said.There may be food shortages so we are concerned about people who are stranded in higher areas,he said.Landslides at the weekend also blocked the only route between Muzaffarabad, the capital of quake-hit Pakistani Kashmir, and the scenic Neelum Valley.The UN refugee agency says landslides and floods have forced 6,000 quake survivors to return to emergency camps and that nearly 20,000 others are set to do so.
The likelihood of larger displacement due to the ongoing monsoon is very grave, Kilian Kleinschmidt, the agency's senior emergency coordinator for the South Asia earthquake, told AFP in an interview late Thursday.Incidents blamed on the annual monsoon rains have now claimed more than 140 lives in Pakistan since they started early last month. In neighbouring India they have killed more than 300 people.
Flooding kills 31 more people in India By OMER FAROOQ, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
HYDERABAD, India - Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains swept away people and destroyed homes in southern India, killing at least 31 people, officials said Friday.The deaths occurred Thursday and Friday in the coastal area of the state of Andhra Pradesh, where some 50,000 people sought refuge in relief camps on higher ground after their homes were flooded, disaster management official G.T.
Priyadarshini said.Tens of thousands of others have been affected by the flooding across India.Reports from local officials in various parts of the country indicate at least 342 people have died so far in this year's monsoon, which runs from April to September. An accurate national death toll is not kept, and the total number of people killed across India is likely much higher.
The situation is quite alarming but the administration in the affected districts is taking all the necessary measures to help the people,Priyadarshini said.She said 26 deaths were reported from the Vizianagaram, Srikakulam and Vishakhapatanam districts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh, deluged under severe flooding for three days.
Twenty-one others were injured in the three badly hit districts, and many of them were in serious condition.The remaining deaths were from the East Godavari, Warangal and Adilabad districts. Officials said they feared there could be more casualties in areas where communication links had been cut off.The weather office forecast more rains through Saturday.The floods and heavy rains have paralyzed the state's road transport network, causing long pileups of vehicles on the highways and in cities. Most schools and offices were deserted.
The monsoon rains are eagerly awaited each year in India, where some 600 million people depend on agriculture for a living. However, they also bring widespread destruction, and thousands are affected annually in flooding.Most of those killed either drown in floods, are crushed when poorly built houses collapsed or are electrocuted when raging waters expose live wires.
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.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Crews battle Mendocino forest fires
By C. JEROME CROW-DN Staff Writer
Firefighters continue to battle two large fires in part of the Mendocino National Forest while Forest Service officials are implementing additional fire restrictions and planning a road closure on M-61.The Kingsley Complex Wildland Fire was reported to have been 20 percent contained as of Wednesday around 10 a.m. The blaze is located in Tehama and Glenn counties. The East Fire is west of Willows. 641 personnel have been assigned to fight the fire, which is actually several fires totaling 4,425 acres.On Wednesday, structure protection groups were in place, and weather was favorable for fire line construction. Construction continued along the north edge of the fire from Rocky Basin Ridge west to Black Butte River. Crews were also building a fire line from French Ridge to Black Butte River. Personnel completed a strategy to build fire lines on the southern end of the fire.
A group of fire engines have been put in place to protect 25 summer cabins in the area. According to the U.S. Forest Service higher relative humidity and lower temperatures have slowed the movement of the fire. Overall, the fire moved to the southeast. Smoky conditions are still persistent.Fire crews are also fighting the Hunter Wildland fire.The second fire is located on McCoy Ridge, 19 miles southeast of Covelo in the Mendocino National Forest. The fire was listed as 15 percent contained at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at 4,805 acres.According to the Arizona Central West Zone Management Team a dense layer of smoke held close to the ground by an atmospheric inversion created poor visibility for firefighters on the fire.Operations chiefs from the Hunter Fire and the East Fire met on Tuesday and flew over the area. The joint assessment produced a plan of attack from the California 4 Incident Management team. Staff writer C. Jerome Crow can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or at cjeromecrow@hotmail.com
DANIEL 7:7-8,23-24
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast,(THE EU) dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.(10 NATIONS)
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn,(#11 SPAIN) before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(THE EU) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(rule 3 countries out of the Eu in the future some time)
Spain says Syria will play positive role to tackle Mideast conflicts
DAMASCUS, Aug 3 (KUNA) -- Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Thursday Syria would play a positive role to help find a way out of the dangerous situation in the Middle East.Speaking to reporters before leaving Damascus, Moratinos said what would help the Syrian role was the unity positions of the Lebanese government and Hezbollah.He said Lebanese prime minister Fuad Siniora was capable of representing all parties, including Hezbollah.
On whether Damascus wins anything in return of its role, Moratinos said the sole return would be peace in the Middle East, which was exhausted by wars and crises.Moratinos underlined importance of diplomacy to achieving peace and solving conflicts away from military solutions.On the US-proposed new Middle East initiative, Moratinos said his country agreed with what the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice had said about the new Middle East but the rights and demands of the Arab peoples should not be neglected.He called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to back all parties to reach a compromising solution for the conflicts in the Middle East. (pickup previous) om.KUNA 031558 Aug 06NNNN
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
04/08/2006,Islamic group: 200 militants sent to bomb 'Israel's vital interests' By Reuters
JAKARTA - More than 200 Islamic militants from Southeast Asia have been sent on missions to bomb Israel's vital interests and countries that support the Jewish state, their leader said on Friday.The militants have been trained to carry out suicide bombings to avenge Israel's military strikes on the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, said Suaib Didu, chairman of the Jakarta-based ASEAN Muslim Youth Movement.We will limit our targets to Israel's vital interests and those that support Israel's aggression in Palestine and Lebanon,Didu said. We will not carry out attacks indiscriminately.Hardline militant groups in Indonesia have made claims in the past of sending volunteers to participate in conflicts overseas that have sometimes proved exaggerated.
Western countries such as the United States and Britain, as well as businesses, could be targeted unless they cease supporting Israel, he said.Didu said the group was watching Australia's position on the Middle East conflict.If John Howard makes a statement in support of Israel, he will be a target,Didu said.More than 3,000 people have signed up for the mission, and 217 people from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore have been dispatched abroad so far, he said.A show of force of the more than 3,000 volunteers will be held on Saturday in Pontianak in West Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Didu said, adding that many of the 200-plus militants had fought with Afghanistan against the Soviets.
Din Syamsuddin, chairman of the moderate Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, said Thursday that threats by radical Muslim groups to send volunteers to fight Israel were just symbolic gestures to show solidarity with the Palestinians and Lebanese.There are too many obstacles for these people to travel there. It is too costly and the Israeli army is no match for them,he told reporters.But in Canberra, Human Services Minister Joe Hockey said Friday the government was not shrugging off reports of the plans to carry out suicide bombings.The minister for foreign affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs are investigating what is reported in the papers today and we are treating it very, very seriously,Hockey told Australian television.
Australia is a staunch ally of the United States, with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. While it has been targeted in attacks in Indonesia, Australia has never suffered a major peacetime attack on home soil.Australia and Indonesia strengthened cooperation on counter-terrorism following the 2002 nightclub bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australian tourists.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
August 3, 2006
Earthquakes Near Battle Ground Rattle Region
By KATU.com Web Staff
BATTLE GROUND, Ore. - An earthquake with a preliminary strength of 3.8 on the Richter Scale rattled Washington and Oregon residents early Thursday morning.Four aftershocks followed the quake, which struck just after 1:30 a.m.Residents in the Battle Ground, Washington were awakened by the temblor, and the USGS says they received thousands of emails from people who felt the earth move.According to emails received by KATU, the quake was felt over a wide area, including Vancouver, and as far south as Forest Grove and West Linn.Link: Pacific Northwest Seisograph Network.No damage or injuries have been reported, and geologists said the quake was not considered strong enough to cause any major damage.
However, geologist Ian Madin of the Oregon Department of Geology told KATU News that the quake's intensity may be upgraded to a 4.0 or above after sensor data is more closely scrutinized.Madin said computer-generated quake strength estimates received shortly after a temblor strikes are usually on the conservative side.Oregon, Washington and Western Canada sit in a quake-prone area near the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where thick tectonic plates of the earth's crust are slowly grinding past each other.
The tectonic activity is the cause for the region's many volcanoes and earthquakes.Scientists believe the region is due for a major quake, perhaps as strong as a 9.0.A quake of that magnitude would cause severe and widespread damage, and possibly tsunamis along the coast.
Scientists record 51 earthquakes near Mayon
By Mar Arguelles
LEGAZPI CITY—Low-frequency quakes rocked Mt. Mayon even as its steam emission dropped suddenly, indicating an explosive eruption is highly possible, scientists said yesterday.The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the low-steam emission indicated gas was being blocked by fresh magma and building pressure in the volcano’s vents. Seismic instruments detected 51 low-frequency quakes compared with the 16 recorded on Wednesday, indicating the volcano was bringing more magma up to the crater, it said.The instruments also recorded 343 tremors caused by lava tumbling down the volcano’s slopes. The presence of low-frequency volcanic earthquakes triggered by the active degassing and partial blockade of viscous magma would lead to either a continuing lava flow or an explosive eruption,volcanologist Ed Laguerta said. Scientists said the sudden drop in the volcano’s sulfur dioxide emission did not mean Mt. Mayon had stopped degassing. The volcano disgorged 4,760 tons of sulfur dioxide yesterday compared with 12,548 tons on Wednesday, but that only meant magma was partially blocking the gas’ path, Laguerta said.
The partial blockade also meant the volcano was building up pressure that could lead to an explosion, he said. The volume of lava emitted since Mayon started its mild eruptions on July 14 had reached 18 million cubic meters, and most of it had flowed down the Mabinit Channel south-southeast of the crater. Subsequent flows filled the gullies at the southeast’s upper and middle slopes, from Miisi Channel in Daraga to Buyoan Channel in this city. The lava front is now as big as a four-story building, and it is nearing the 6-km permanent-danger zone after incinerating hectares of coconut plantation and farmland in Mabinit town. The town’s farmers have cut hundreds of coconut trees so they can use them before lava destroys them. Officials said Alert Level 3 was still up, meaning sudden explosions and lava avalanches could happen any time. The danger zones remained off-limits to all residents and visitors.
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.
Storms and tornadoes leave 150,000 without power
Updated Thu. Aug. 3 2006 11:51 PM ET,CTV.ca News
Ontario residents heading to cottage country for the long weekend may find that the only light they have will be from a campfire, after a severe weather system battered the province Wednesday night, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes. By morning more than 100,000 Hydro One customers still had no electricity. The utility struggled through the night to restore power to about 150,000 customers who were initially cut off by the storm. The current that's down is one of our critical circuits feeding from the north,Hydro One spokesman Hugh Crockett told CTV News at the site of a Hydro One tower in central Ontario. The tower is a key conduit on the provincial power grid. It's a 500,000-volt tower line,Crocket said. Barrie, Bracebridge, Huntsville, Penetanguishene, Orillia, Minden and Tweed received the most severe weather, Hydro One spokeswoman Enza Cancilla said.
There were also small power outages in some southwestern Ontario cities. Efforts to restore electricity to everyone are expected to continue through the weekend. The severe weather in Ontario follows a vicious storm that ripped through Quebec Tuesday that left hundreds of thousands of Quebecers without power and is being blamed for two deaths. One man died after the violent storms caused a tree to fall on a car, crushing the 28-year-old motorist inside. The other man was struck by lightning. In Boisbriand, Que., Mary Visnyai, 80, said she has had no power for two days and most of her food has gone bad. They should pay for what we're losing,she told CTV News.Without electricity, a popular summer day camp for young hockey players and skaters has shut down in Rosemere, Que. We couldn't hold the day camp because there are no lights,day camp monitor Catherine Goudie told CTV News. So they all had to go back home.
The intense storms moved west from Quebec and swept through southern Ontario Wednesday evening. Lighting, gusty downpours, tornadoes near Guelph and Combermere, left a wake downed trees and power lines and flooded streets across the province. The violent storm stretched from Lake Huron east through Orangeville, Newmarket and all the way to the Ottawa area. The twister that touched down in Guelph left no damage behind, but the Combermere funnel left behind a scene of total devastation,according to Environment Canada investigators. They said it is possible to walk a great distance without actually touching the ground because of the debris covering the area. Residents in eastern Ontario say they feel like they're in a war zone. Winds of up to 160 kilometres an hour even pushed a train off the tracks.I watched it happen,a resident told CTV News. It just slowly went through the trees and then the two cars slowly left the track and there they were. The tornado was described as an F-1 twister by meteorologist Geoff Coulson, meaning the winds were between 120 and 170 km/h. It was like a train whistle coming in and then it got so loud, and then it just went bam -- and all these matchsticks started cracking,a resident told CTV News. Things were blowing in and breaking windows.
Cars and camper trailers were reportedly crushed by the twister, but no one was hurt. The storm hit the Greater Toronto Area at 9:15 p.m., causing damage to a number of homes.The high winds ripped four sections of a roof off a house near Yonge Street and Davis Drive. Central York fire crews helped the homeowners cover the roof to protect it from water damage. West of Toronto, a trained weather spotter reported a tornado in the Highway 401 and Highway 6 area at 3:20 p.m., Environment Canada said.
There were no reports of tornado damage there.
Emergency crews were busy in rural Peterborough after winds up to 120 km/h gusted through the region. The village of Combermere, south of Barry's Bay, declared a state of emergency after the storm destroyed a Home Hardware store. The storm also wreaked havoc in the Ottawa area, downing hydro poles and stranding boaters in the Ottawa River. In Hagersville, near Hamilton, the high winds knocked over a barn that in turn crushed a vacant motorhome. With a report by CTV's David Akin and files from The Canadian Press
Typhoon Prapiroon kills at least 18 after crashing into China by Verna Yu 44 minutes ago (Aug 4,2006)
BEIJING (AFP) - Typhoon Prapiroon killed at least 18 people and left up to seven others missing after crashing ashore in southern China, pounding the area with torrential rains and gale force winds. More than six million people were affected by the sixth typhoon to ravage China this year, with 534,000 evacuated in the southern provinces and regions of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan, China Central Television said, citing reports from the civil affairs ministry.Although it was downgraded to a tropical storm early Friday, Prapiroon was held responsible for the collapse of 8,100 buildings with initial economic losses set at 2.5 billion yuan (312 million dollars), the ministry said.State television footage showed people rushing for shelter, as rains lashed city streets and huge waves slammed into the Guangdong provincial coastline.
The fatalities were reported in different cities in Guangdong as relentless rains and gusting winds battered coastal cities in the south of the province, television reports said.Xinhua news agency, quoting the State Flood Control and Drought Relief headquarters, said some died fleeing collapsing houses.At least one person perished in a landslide in the neighboring Guangxi region, where the typhoon disrupted the lives of up to one million residents, Xinhua said.The typhoon, which packed winds of up to 70 kilometres an hour (44 mph), moved inland in a northwest direction after making landfall near Yangjiang city in Guangdong late Thursday, reaching the Guangxi region early Friday.In Hong Kong, more than 2,000 trees were uprooted or damaged while 20 cargo containers were tipped over at the city's massive shipping terminal on Thursday.Despite the storm being well clear of Hong Kong Friday, thousands of exhausted and angry passengers remained stranded at the airport after hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled.
The China Meteorological Administration forecast more wild weather on Saturday across the coastal regions of Guangdong and Guangxi as well as Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Hainan provinces.Prapiroon was the sixth typhoon of the season for southern China. The first, Typhoon Chanchu, hit on May 18, more than a month earlier than usual.The worst was Bilis, which struck on July 14 and hovered over southern China for 10 days, killing at least 612 people, according to earlier state reports.More than 1,400 people have been killed in China due to typhoons this season, according to the Red Cross, which this week appealed for 3.8 million euros (five million dollars) to help survivors.
China evacuates 580,000 as typhoon brings storms to south coast
Aug 3, 2006, 15:44 GMT
A woman, right, cries out as her umbrella is flipped by a strong wind as she walks with her companions in a street in Guangzhou, in east China's Guangdong province Thursday, 03 August 2006. Tropical Storm Prapiroon strengthened into a full-blown typhoon on Wednesday, with forecasters warning of possible severe destruction to parts of southern China. EPA/YAN GE Beijing - Officials evacuated at least 580,000 people and suspended shipping and some rail services as Typhoon Prapiroon brought more torrential rain and strong winds to southern China on Thursday. The eye of the typhoon was expected to bring force-12 winds to coastal areas of western Guangdong province overnight Thursday and early Friday, weather forecasters said.
Provincial officials issued an emergency notice calling all ships back to port early Thursday, after they were surprised by the speed of the typhoon's approach across the South China Sea, the official Xinhua news agency said. Rail passenger services were suspended across the bridge linking Guangdong with the island province of Hainan over the Qiongzhou Strait. Prapiroon is forecast to gain strength and move westwards across southern China at 15 kilometres per hour over the next 24 hours. Heavy rain hit most areas of Guangdong from Wednesday, and the provincial observatory warned government departments to prepare for possible high waves, landslides, flash floods over the next three days. Guangdong, Hainan and the neighbouring regions of Guangxi and Guizhou are expected to get 100 to 180 millimetres of rain by Saturday, the state meteorological office said. Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi had evacuated 580,000 people and recalled 53,200 ships vessels to harbour by Thursday evening, state televsion said.
More than 1,000 people have died in floods, landslides and other disasters following summer storms in China this year. Typhoon Bilis killed at least 612 people in southern and eastern China in mid-July. © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Pakistan landslides, floods kill another
August,4,06
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Monsoon rains triggered fresh landslides and floods in northern Pakistan, as officials and reports said another 33 people had died in weather-related incidents.Twelve people were killed Friday and seven were missing after a flash flood swept their minibus into a canal as they travelled to a religious school near Rawalpindi, state media said.The dead included three children and seven women, while 12 passengers were rescued, the Associated Press of Pakistan said.In the northwestern district of Mansehra, which was badly hit by last October's South Asian earthquake, officials said 31 people were killed in the past four days, mainly in landslides.Officials had previously only said that 10 people died in the district when a landslide flattened quake survivors' tents on Thursday.
District mayor Sardar Yousaf said around 20 of the deaths had happened around Balakot, a tourist town devastated by the October 8 quake that killed 75,000 people and left three million homeless.A further 300 families lost tents or temporary shelters in landslides and were being shifted to refugee camps.A key road from Balakot to the mountainous Kaghan Valley that was only recently reopened after the earthquake had been cut again, Yousaf said.There may be food shortages so we are concerned about people who are stranded in higher areas,he said.Landslides at the weekend also blocked the only route between Muzaffarabad, the capital of quake-hit Pakistani Kashmir, and the scenic Neelum Valley.The UN refugee agency says landslides and floods have forced 6,000 quake survivors to return to emergency camps and that nearly 20,000 others are set to do so.
The likelihood of larger displacement due to the ongoing monsoon is very grave, Kilian Kleinschmidt, the agency's senior emergency coordinator for the South Asia earthquake, told AFP in an interview late Thursday.Incidents blamed on the annual monsoon rains have now claimed more than 140 lives in Pakistan since they started early last month. In neighbouring India they have killed more than 300 people.
Flooding kills 31 more people in India By OMER FAROOQ, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
HYDERABAD, India - Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains swept away people and destroyed homes in southern India, killing at least 31 people, officials said Friday.The deaths occurred Thursday and Friday in the coastal area of the state of Andhra Pradesh, where some 50,000 people sought refuge in relief camps on higher ground after their homes were flooded, disaster management official G.T.
Priyadarshini said.Tens of thousands of others have been affected by the flooding across India.Reports from local officials in various parts of the country indicate at least 342 people have died so far in this year's monsoon, which runs from April to September. An accurate national death toll is not kept, and the total number of people killed across India is likely much higher.
The situation is quite alarming but the administration in the affected districts is taking all the necessary measures to help the people,Priyadarshini said.She said 26 deaths were reported from the Vizianagaram, Srikakulam and Vishakhapatanam districts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh, deluged under severe flooding for three days.
Twenty-one others were injured in the three badly hit districts, and many of them were in serious condition.The remaining deaths were from the East Godavari, Warangal and Adilabad districts. Officials said they feared there could be more casualties in areas where communication links had been cut off.The weather office forecast more rains through Saturday.The floods and heavy rains have paralyzed the state's road transport network, causing long pileups of vehicles on the highways and in cities. Most schools and offices were deserted.
The monsoon rains are eagerly awaited each year in India, where some 600 million people depend on agriculture for a living. However, they also bring widespread destruction, and thousands are affected annually in flooding.Most of those killed either drown in floods, are crushed when poorly built houses collapsed or are electrocuted when raging waters expose live wires.
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.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Crews battle Mendocino forest fires
By C. JEROME CROW-DN Staff Writer
Firefighters continue to battle two large fires in part of the Mendocino National Forest while Forest Service officials are implementing additional fire restrictions and planning a road closure on M-61.The Kingsley Complex Wildland Fire was reported to have been 20 percent contained as of Wednesday around 10 a.m. The blaze is located in Tehama and Glenn counties. The East Fire is west of Willows. 641 personnel have been assigned to fight the fire, which is actually several fires totaling 4,425 acres.On Wednesday, structure protection groups were in place, and weather was favorable for fire line construction. Construction continued along the north edge of the fire from Rocky Basin Ridge west to Black Butte River. Crews were also building a fire line from French Ridge to Black Butte River. Personnel completed a strategy to build fire lines on the southern end of the fire.
A group of fire engines have been put in place to protect 25 summer cabins in the area. According to the U.S. Forest Service higher relative humidity and lower temperatures have slowed the movement of the fire. Overall, the fire moved to the southeast. Smoky conditions are still persistent.Fire crews are also fighting the Hunter Wildland fire.The second fire is located on McCoy Ridge, 19 miles southeast of Covelo in the Mendocino National Forest. The fire was listed as 15 percent contained at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at 4,805 acres.According to the Arizona Central West Zone Management Team a dense layer of smoke held close to the ground by an atmospheric inversion created poor visibility for firefighters on the fire.Operations chiefs from the Hunter Fire and the East Fire met on Tuesday and flew over the area. The joint assessment produced a plan of attack from the California 4 Incident Management team. Staff writer C. Jerome Crow can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or at cjeromecrow@hotmail.com
DANIEL 7:7-8,23-24
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast,(THE EU) dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.(10 NATIONS)
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn,(#11 SPAIN) before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(THE EU) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(rule 3 countries out of the Eu in the future some time)
Spain says Syria will play positive role to tackle Mideast conflicts
DAMASCUS, Aug 3 (KUNA) -- Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Thursday Syria would play a positive role to help find a way out of the dangerous situation in the Middle East.Speaking to reporters before leaving Damascus, Moratinos said what would help the Syrian role was the unity positions of the Lebanese government and Hezbollah.He said Lebanese prime minister Fuad Siniora was capable of representing all parties, including Hezbollah.
On whether Damascus wins anything in return of its role, Moratinos said the sole return would be peace in the Middle East, which was exhausted by wars and crises.Moratinos underlined importance of diplomacy to achieving peace and solving conflicts away from military solutions.On the US-proposed new Middle East initiative, Moratinos said his country agreed with what the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice had said about the new Middle East but the rights and demands of the Arab peoples should not be neglected.He called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to back all parties to reach a compromising solution for the conflicts in the Middle East. (pickup previous) om.KUNA 031558 Aug 06NNNN
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
04/08/2006,Islamic group: 200 militants sent to bomb 'Israel's vital interests' By Reuters
JAKARTA - More than 200 Islamic militants from Southeast Asia have been sent on missions to bomb Israel's vital interests and countries that support the Jewish state, their leader said on Friday.The militants have been trained to carry out suicide bombings to avenge Israel's military strikes on the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, said Suaib Didu, chairman of the Jakarta-based ASEAN Muslim Youth Movement.We will limit our targets to Israel's vital interests and those that support Israel's aggression in Palestine and Lebanon,Didu said. We will not carry out attacks indiscriminately.Hardline militant groups in Indonesia have made claims in the past of sending volunteers to participate in conflicts overseas that have sometimes proved exaggerated.
Western countries such as the United States and Britain, as well as businesses, could be targeted unless they cease supporting Israel, he said.Didu said the group was watching Australia's position on the Middle East conflict.If John Howard makes a statement in support of Israel, he will be a target,Didu said.More than 3,000 people have signed up for the mission, and 217 people from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore have been dispatched abroad so far, he said.A show of force of the more than 3,000 volunteers will be held on Saturday in Pontianak in West Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Didu said, adding that many of the 200-plus militants had fought with Afghanistan against the Soviets.
Din Syamsuddin, chairman of the moderate Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, said Thursday that threats by radical Muslim groups to send volunteers to fight Israel were just symbolic gestures to show solidarity with the Palestinians and Lebanese.There are too many obstacles for these people to travel there. It is too costly and the Israeli army is no match for them,he told reporters.But in Canberra, Human Services Minister Joe Hockey said Friday the government was not shrugging off reports of the plans to carry out suicide bombings.The minister for foreign affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs are investigating what is reported in the papers today and we are treating it very, very seriously,Hockey told Australian television.
Australia is a staunch ally of the United States, with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. While it has been targeted in attacks in Indonesia, Australia has never suffered a major peacetime attack on home soil.Australia and Indonesia strengthened cooperation on counter-terrorism following the 2002 nightclub bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australian tourists.
Friday, August 04, 2006
IRAN ISRAELS DESTRUCTION THE SOLUTION
1-Light quake hits San Francisco Bay area. 2-Atlantic storm forecast lowered to 7 hurricanes. 3-Floods, snow cause havoc in S. African cities. 4-Evidence Mountsthat Kana Massacre was a fake. 5-Prayers to rebuild the 3RD TEMPLE. 6-Temple Mount Faithful Hold Cornerstone Ceremony. 7-Olmert: Lebanon victory will help create Palestine. 8-International force for Lebanon, but conditionally. 9-Islamic Movement: Prevent Jewish groups from visiting Temple Mount on Thursday. 10-Israel's destruction is the solution.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Light quake hits San Francisco Bay area Wed Aug 2,
GLEN ELLEN, Calif. - A magnitude 4.4 earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area Wednesday night, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported. The quake struck just after 8 p.m. in Sonoma County, about 42 miles northwest of San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey said.No one was hurt and there were no initial damage reports, according to a Sonoma County sheriff's dispatcher.
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.
Atlantic storm forecast lowered to 7 hurricanes By Jim Loney
MIAMI (Reuters) - A noted U.S. hurricane research team reduced its Atlantic storm forecast on Thursday from nine to seven hurricanes, citing a cooler tropical Atlantic Ocean and a warming eastern Pacific. The new forecast could provide some relief to storm-weary residents of the Caribbean basin and the U.S. East and Gulf coasts who suffered through a record-shattering 28 tropical storms and hurricanes last year. That number beat the old mark of 21 set in 1933.In its August forecast update, the Colorado State University team formed by researcher William Gray said the June to November season would produce seven, not nine, hurricanes and that three of those would be intense, down from five in the earlier forecast.It predicted 15 tropical storms, down from a May forecast of 17.
Intense hurricanes, like last year's Katrina, Rita, Wilma and Dennis, have maximum sustained winds of at least 111 miles per hour (179 km per hour) and are capable of causing serious damage.The Atlantic season has produced only three tropical storms so far. The latest, Chris, was fading as it moved north of Puerto Rico on Thursday.The forecast was lowered in part because tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures are not quite as warm as expected and eastern Pacific waters are warming, the researchers said in a statement.Hurricanes draw their energy from warm Atlantic waters, while warming temperatures in the equatorial Pacific tend to dampen Atlantic hurricane activity.In addition, Atlantic surface pressures are not quite as low and trade winds are slightly stronger, said Gray, whose extensive hurricane forecasts are closely watched by financial markets.We're not reducing the number of hurricanes because we had only two named storms through late July,Gray said. It's a general erosion of a number of factors.
Private weather forecaster WSI Corp. lowered its forecast this week from 15 to 14 storms, citing in part an increased chance of an El Nino, the warm-water phenomenon in the eastern Pacific.Both forecasts were still well above the long-term Atlantic average of about 10 tropical storms, six hurricanes and two intense hurricanes.The Colorado State University team said activity was likely to ramp up in August, with four storms. It said three would likely be hurricanes and one of those would be intense.The forecast also contained a hint of good news for the beleaguered U.S. oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico, where last year's storms shut down a quarter of U.S. crude production.This year it looks like the East Coast is more likely to be targeted by Atlantic basin hurricanes than the Gulf Coast,said Gray's forecasting partner, Philip Klotzbach.
The 2005 season will be remembered for producing, for the first time since hurricane record-keeping began, four Category 5 storms, the highest rank on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity.Katrina, which burst the levees protecting New Orleans, killed more than 1,300 people and caused more than $80 billion in damage, becoming the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
Climate researchers believe the Atlantic basin has moved into an extended period of heightened hurricane activity that began around 1995 and could last 25 to 40 years.
Floods, snow cause havoc in S. African cities
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Heavy rain drenched large parts of South Africa's southern areas on Thursday, flooding roads and damaging houses in devastating storms, while deep snow forced mountain passes to close. Temperatures dropped to record lows for August as snow fell in industrial hub Johannesburg for the first time in eight years in what local residents say is an unusually severe winter.The city saw a high of 7 degrees Celsius (44 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday -- the lowest daily high recorded in August while overnight temperatures dropped well below freezing in some parts of the country. Colder temperatures are expected this weekend.There is serious flooding, we are today flooding in most areas of Port Elizabeth, South African Weather Services forecaster Mandisi Manentsa-Titise told Reuters.
The southern coast city, about 800 km east of Cape Town, was the latest coastal area to suffer serious damage as up to 270 mm of rain fell in the 24 hours to early Thursday.Police said four people drowned on Wednesday when their car washed away after a bridge collapsed near George, a small town 400 km east of Cape Town, famous for its lush golf courses.Roads were flooded and thousands of people fled their homes in nearby tourist haven Knysna.Tifendell ski resort in the southern Drakensberg mountains recorded 20 cm of snow on Wednesday, and transport officials closed one of the main passes through the mountains near Lesotho due to thick snow.Weather Service spokesman Siyabonga Mthethwa said a deep low pressure was pumping moist air and gale-force winds onto the southern coast.But despite the devastation and record rainfall, the rains and icy weather were not particularly out of the ordinary for a southern hemisphere winter in South Africa, he said.Although there have been some records broken it is a normal winter ... it is normal to get a low pressure system deepening quite fast and causing havoc along the coastal regions, Mthethwa added.
MATTHEW 24:7-13
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Evidence Mounts that Kana Massacre Was a Fake
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
The world awoke this Sunday to the news that an Israeli airstrike had killed 57 Lebanese civilians, leading Israel to stop airstrikes for 2 days - but evidence shows the massacre was just a fraud. The supposed massacre caused a major turnabout in world diplomacy. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suddenly canceled her plans to fly to Beirut, saying my work towards a ceasefire is really here [in Jerusalem] today.The implication was clearly that the onus was now upon Israel.
French President Jacques Chirac condemned Israel's unjustified action which demonstrates more than ever the need for an immediate ceasefire, Jordan's King Abdullah called it an ugly crime,and other world leaders echoed these sentiments.Though Israel emphasized that Hizbullah was to blame for waging its rocket war against Israel from within a civilian population, Foreign Ministry officials repeated their deep regret at the loss of innocent life in the campaign against Hizbullah,and were forced to promise a thorough and comprehensive examination.
Apparently, however, the incident was all one big fraud, staged by Arab elements for the world media in order to lead precisely to the situation described above.The central piece of evidence leading to this conclusion is the fact, mentioned by IDF officials from the very beginning, that the building collapsed a full seven hours after the Israel Air Force bombing. Why, then, would the residents inside not have been evacuated in the meantime? As Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel of the Israeli Air Force told reporters Sunday night, It is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it.Without additional evidence, Eshel merely left open the possibility that Hizbullah terrorists, or explosives they left behind, caused the explosion.Indeed,writes Robert Spencer for FrontPage Magazine, it strains credulity that not only did these Lebanese civilians remain in a house that had been bombed for eight hours, but peacefully went to sleep in it after the bombing – since the victims were all apparently sleeping, despite continuing Israeli air bombardment in the area, when the building collapsed.
Gen. Eshel also said that the building was used by Hizbullah to store explosives. This was supported by a letter by Dr. Mounir Herzallah, a southern Lebanese Shiite, who wrote that Hizbullah terrorists came to his town, dug a munitions depot and then built a school and a residence directly over it.In addition, as Reuven Koret writes for IsraelInsider, the bombing of the area occurred in three waves. The first bombs, according to CNN correspondent Brent Sadler, did not hit the building in question, but rather landed 20 or 30 meters away. The second strike hit targets further away, and the third strike, around 7:30 in the morning, landed over 400 meters away. The first reports of a collapsed building arrived a half-hour later. Another CNN correspondent, Ben Wedeman, noted that there was a larger crater next to the building. He observed that the roof of the building was intact and that the building appeared not to have collapsed as a result of the Israeli strike.Thus, the building was used to store explosives, was apparently not destroyed by the bombing, and sheltered dozens of women and children throughout a night of bombing. The identity of the victims was also not clear, except that they were not the original occupants of the building; a National Public Radio correspondent reported that they had left. The victims were non-residents who chose to shelter in the building that night,Koret writes, and who were 'too poor' to leave the town, one resident told CNN's Wedeman. Who were these people?
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Prayers to Rebuild the Temple
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
Today is Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of Av, commemorating many of the worst tragedies befalling the Jewish People over the past 3,300 years. Jews the world over are praying for the Temple's rebuilding. Among the calamities that occurred on this day were the refusal of the Jewish People to ignore the report of the Scouts and agree to go with Moses to the Promised Land; the destruction of the First and Second Holy Temples in Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians and Romans, respectively; the failure of the Bar Kokhba uprising in the second century; the deadline by which all of Spanish Jewry was to be expelled from the country in 1492; the beginning of World War I in 1917; and the end of legal Jewish residence in Gush Katif, in 2005.As on every Tisha B'Av since the liberation of the Western Wall in 1967, tens of thousands of Jews frequented the Wall last night and today, praying for the rebuilding of the Temple just behind it. Though pleasure trips and joyous get-togethers are forbidden on Tisha B'Av, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed Rabbi of Har Bracha in the Shomron, head of Yeshivat Shavei Shomron, and author of several Halakhic [Jewish Legal] works has written,
It is clear that one need not refrain from going to the Western Wall [on Tisha B'Av] for fear of meeting friends and being happy. My father and teacher [Rabbi Zalman Melamed] has said that there is no greater rectification [Hebrew: tikun] for Tisha B'Av than to go to the Wall, the remnant of the destruction, and to pray for the Holy Temple to be speedily rebuilt in our days. On the contrary: The fact that many people go there enhances the power of the prayer, and increases Divine honor. Rabbi Melamed the son added that when one meets friends there, he should not greet them, but is permitted to grasp their hands with love and pray with them for the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash.The police have restricted entry to the Temple Mount: No Jews at all, no tourists, and for Moslems only females or 45-year-old-and-over residents of Israel. The Supreme Court had originally permitted members of the Temple Mount Faithful organization to enter, together with other Jews, as long as they would not wear special clothing, act provocatively, or stand out in any way or form. The police, however, pre-empted the decision by forbidding all Jews to enter, for fear of Arab violence against them. Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky supported the police decision.
The Chief Rabbinate, which held a meeting in Sderot this week, issued a ruling forbidding soldiers at war from fasting on Tisha B'Av this year. The ruling states that fasting could affect their combat ability and is liable to cause danger to their lives and to others around them, and therefore they must eat and drink as much as they need in order to be as fit for combat as possible and to carry out this holy mission of fighting and winning.The rabbis also called upon all our brothers in the House of Israel wherever they dwell, including those who normally do not fast on this day, to make a special effort to strengthen the Nation of Israel and its unity, and to keep the fast of Tisha B'Av. All of Israel is responsible for one another, and this power obligates us to lend a hand and take part in the sorrow of those who are suffering because of this war.
Temple Mount Faithful Hold Cornerstone Ceremony 9th Av,August 03, 2006
(IsraelNN.com) Temple Mount Faithful organization activists on Thursday morning held their annual Tisha B’Av cornerstone ceremony near the Mugrabi Gate after police ruled they are banned from the Mount.The participants wished to lay a cornerstone for the Third Temple on the Mount, today, Tisha B’Av, the day marking the destruction of the First and Second Temples, but non Muslim worshipers are prohibited from entering the Mount today by police.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 12:1-3
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Olmert: Lebanon victory will help create Palestine
Disaster of Lebanon, Gaza pullouts fails to register with PM
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that an Israeli victory over the Hizb’allah in Lebanon would give impetus to his plan to abandon Israel’s most treasured areas for the creation of a State of Palestine.Olmert spelled this out while addressing news agency reporters he had invited to a special press conference concerning the war against Hizb’allah.The primary purpose of the meeting was to inform the world about Israel’s ongoing effort to defang and destroy as much of the Hizb’allah as possible before the international community imposes a ceasefire on the region.However, Olmert was also looking ahead to what will happen once the war in the north is over.
His comments dealt a blow to those Israelis and their supporters who had hoped that the violent outcome of two withdrawals – from Lebanon in 2000 and from Gaza last year – had put paid to any thoughts of now proceeding with the third and biggest pullout, from Samaria and Judea.Apparently the prime minister hopes that an effective degrading of the Hizb’allah and the successful insertion of a robust peace keeping force into southern Lebanon will see Israel’s deterrence returned to a formidable level in the region.In this event he may explain his position as follows:Israel is strong. We remain a regional superpower. We have shown that we will not sit quietly by while terrorists attack our land and our people. We have re-installed our deterrence and now we can make peace from a position of strength. If, after the establishment of their state, the Palestinian Arabs continue to attack the then-internationally recognized State of Israel, they must know from our response to Hizb’allah’s aggression in the north, and to the Kassam rocket firing in the south, what will happen to them.
If realized, Olmert’s convergence plan will be nothing short of catastrophic. It will see:
• Israel’s irreversible relinquishing of its national cradle, Samaria and Judea, containing the towns and cities central to the biblical narrative and thus to the heart of the Jewish people for millennia, including: Bethel, Shiloh, Shechem, Bethlehem, Hebron and the holiest parts of Jerusalem.
• Tens of thousands of Jews being driven from their homes, made refugees in and by their own country as happened to 10,000 Israelis who, until last August, lived in the Gaza Strip; many remain refugees to this day, having lost everything they poured their lives into, and barely even noticed by the Kadima-led government.
• A massive blow to the faith of untold numbers of Jews who believe that God returned them to the ancient mountains of Israel, and that He has promised to keep them in those lands and not permit them to be uprooted again.
• The defilement and desecration of hundreds of synagogues.
• The prohibition against Jews from visiting their holy sites in Palestine.
• The creation of a sovereign and independent Muslim Arab state, free to arm itself and continue propagating anti-Israel hatred; the majority of whose citizens abhor the Jews and believe deeply that their victory will not be realized with a homeland in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, but with the total removal from the Middle East of the State of Israel.
• A perceived victory of the god of the Muslims over the God of Israel. This, itself, will only fuel the conviction that Allah is greater and that Israel is doomed.
• The severance of the Jewish people from their roots, from the land that has fed them as a nation and kept them alive through thousands of years of exile, and without which they will wither, and die.
The critical spiritual aspect of this land-for-peace process is dismissed by secular-humanist Israelis and their leaders – Jews whose identity is based, not on the covenant God made with Abraham 4000 years ago, but on a history going back only to the late 1800s, when the need for a haven state for Jews led to mass immigration to Eretz Israel and the rise of political Zionism.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(EU) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.(THIS EU POLITICIAN COMES FROM THE OCCULT)
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
International force for Lebanon, but conditionally
By Christoph Bertram,Thursday, Aug 03, 2006,Page 9
Advertising The current discussion surrounding an international force for southern Lebanon has focused almost exclusively on which countries and organizations -- NATO, the EU, the UN -- will provide the troops. This is an important issue, to be sure, but the real question concerns the changes that Israel must make in exchange for this force being put in place and assuming the risk of such a mission.No international force will simply protect Israel from Hezbollah rockets while Israel continues its current strategy. After all, the recent military escalation in the region is at least partly due to that strategy. If an international force simply allows Ehud Olmert's government to pursue its plans further, the countries that provide troops for the international force will not only be seen as rubber-stamping Israeli policy, but will also be dragged into its failure.
To criticize Israel's strategy as flawed is not to condone the acts of Hamas or Hezbollah or to deny Israel's right to self-defense. It is merely to point out what should be obvious: Israel's efforts to find a unilateral solution to its security problems -- whether occupation, withdrawal, or separation -- have failed.The prior condition for setting up and joining an international force for southern Lebanon must be that Israel renews its commitment to the road map and negotiations with the Palestinians for a viable Palestinian state. Unilateral occupation without commitment to a viable Palestinian state has produced only the intifada and suicide bombers. Unilateral withdrawal from Gaza without the prior establishment of a local authority to maintain order has only led to renewed intervention. And the security fence, which was to allow for unilateral separation, may hold back suicide bombers, but won't protect against modern missiles of the kind currently employed by Hezbollah.
So far, the only lesson Israel seems to have drawn from its failed strategies is that it must extend and intensify the use of unilateral force: re-invade Gaza, devastate Lebanon, and threaten Syria -- and, by implication, Iran, which the Israeli government hints had a hand in orchestrating the recent crisis.It takes little foresight, however, to predict that more force will not produce more security for Israel. The policy, reminiscent of the terrorist stratagem of bombing civilians in order to force the hands of their leaders, will only strengthen the radicals and boost their popular support. It will not hide the fact that Israel has run out of unilateral options.Israel has so far been unwilling to accept this fact. Instead, its leaders hope that a robust international force in southern Lebanon will provide protection for northern Israel, leaving them with a free hand to deal unilaterally with Gaza and the West Bank, while committing the international community to Israel's failed unilateralism.
To join such an international force under such conditions would be totally irresponsible. Countries that contribute troops would appear to be siding unequivocally with Israel, thereby losing all of their credibility with Israel's adversaries. They would also risk being drawn into renewed Israeli operations against Hezbollah and its backers. Most important, they would forego what may be the last chance to promote a consensual peace.The prior condition for setting up and joining an international force for deployment in southern Lebanon must be that Israel renews its commitment to the road map and negotiations with the Palestinians for a viable Palestinian state. With this aim in mind, it must enter into talks with democratically elected Palestinian representatives. True, such talks will be difficult, and they may not succeed. But that can no longer be an argument against diplomacy now that Israeli unilateralism has once again proven to be a strategic blind alley.Only an Israel seriously willing to seek security through agreement, not one that wants to impose her security on her neighborhood by fiat, can be partner to an international effort to bring stability to Lebanon and beyond. Of course, some countries, not least the US, would oppose making such a reversal in Israeli policy a condition of creating an international force, and consensus in NATO, the EU, or the UN may not be found or, if it were to emerge, Israel might simply refuse to abide.Both prospects would provide reason enough for NATO's members to stay away from the project altogether. Creating an international force for southern Lebanon makes sense only as an investment in regional peace, not as an appendix to Israel's current strategy.Christoph Bertram is the former Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
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Islamic Movement: Prevent Jewish groups from visiting Temple Mount on Thursday
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent
The Islamic Movement warned Wednesday against the possibility that Jewish groups would try to reach the Temple Mount on Thursday (The Ninth of Av) and damage the Al Aqsa Mosque. The group's warning follows a Supreme Court decision made earlier this week, ordering police to allow whoever wants to visit the Temple Mount during regular visiting hours on the Ninth of Av.Two MKs from the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibrahim Sarsur (Ra'am-Ta'al) and Sheikh Abbas Zkoor (Ra'am-Ta'al) sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, requesting that the government prevent members of the Temple Mount Faithful from reaching the area outside the Al Aqsa Mosque.Extremist Jewish groups may damage the Al Aqsa Mosque. If this were to happen, heaven forbid, it would inflame the region, the MKs wrote. The Islamic Movement's Northern Branch also warned of what could take place Thursday in the vicinity of the Temple Mount. The head of the movement, Sheikh Raed Selah, said in a radio interview that the Supreme Court does not have the authority to rule on the matter. According to Selah, "The Supreme Court isn't worthy of deciding on matters pertaining to the Al Aqsa Mosque, because Israel does not have sovereignty over it. Selah called on Islamic Movement supporters to reach the Al Aqsa Mosque on Thursday.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Israel's destruction is the solution
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHERAN, Iran,August 03,06
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis was to destroy Israel, state-media reported. In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders in Malaysia, Ahmadinejad also called for an immediate cease-fire to end the fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed group Hizbullah. Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented,Ahmadinejad said, according to state-run television in a report posted on its Web site Thursday.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev accused Ahmadinejad of trying to rally the region to support Iranian-backed Hizbullah. Our operation in Lebanon is designed to neutralize one of the long arms of Iran, Hezbollah, Regev said.Hizbullah is their proxy, being used as an instrument of Teheran to advance their extremist agenda and the blow to Hezbollah is a blow to Iranian interests and a blow to all extremist Jihadist forces in the region.
Ahmadinejad called on all Muslim states to cut their open and secret political and economic ties with the fake and outlawed Zionist regime in response to its attacks against Lebanon. He also urged Muslim states to isolate the United States and Britain for supporting Israel's military attacks against Lebanon. Ahmadinejad also rejected deploying international forces on the Israeli Lebanese border. Peace and security in Lebanon and its borders has to be preserved by the Lebanese government and people. Deployment of foreign forces is not acceptable in any shape unless it is just, based on UN rules and preserves the unity and territorial integrity of Lebanon,he said.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Light quake hits San Francisco Bay area Wed Aug 2,
GLEN ELLEN, Calif. - A magnitude 4.4 earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area Wednesday night, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported. The quake struck just after 8 p.m. in Sonoma County, about 42 miles northwest of San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey said.No one was hurt and there were no initial damage reports, according to a Sonoma County sheriff's dispatcher.
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.
Atlantic storm forecast lowered to 7 hurricanes By Jim Loney
MIAMI (Reuters) - A noted U.S. hurricane research team reduced its Atlantic storm forecast on Thursday from nine to seven hurricanes, citing a cooler tropical Atlantic Ocean and a warming eastern Pacific. The new forecast could provide some relief to storm-weary residents of the Caribbean basin and the U.S. East and Gulf coasts who suffered through a record-shattering 28 tropical storms and hurricanes last year. That number beat the old mark of 21 set in 1933.In its August forecast update, the Colorado State University team formed by researcher William Gray said the June to November season would produce seven, not nine, hurricanes and that three of those would be intense, down from five in the earlier forecast.It predicted 15 tropical storms, down from a May forecast of 17.
Intense hurricanes, like last year's Katrina, Rita, Wilma and Dennis, have maximum sustained winds of at least 111 miles per hour (179 km per hour) and are capable of causing serious damage.The Atlantic season has produced only three tropical storms so far. The latest, Chris, was fading as it moved north of Puerto Rico on Thursday.The forecast was lowered in part because tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures are not quite as warm as expected and eastern Pacific waters are warming, the researchers said in a statement.Hurricanes draw their energy from warm Atlantic waters, while warming temperatures in the equatorial Pacific tend to dampen Atlantic hurricane activity.In addition, Atlantic surface pressures are not quite as low and trade winds are slightly stronger, said Gray, whose extensive hurricane forecasts are closely watched by financial markets.We're not reducing the number of hurricanes because we had only two named storms through late July,Gray said. It's a general erosion of a number of factors.
Private weather forecaster WSI Corp. lowered its forecast this week from 15 to 14 storms, citing in part an increased chance of an El Nino, the warm-water phenomenon in the eastern Pacific.Both forecasts were still well above the long-term Atlantic average of about 10 tropical storms, six hurricanes and two intense hurricanes.The Colorado State University team said activity was likely to ramp up in August, with four storms. It said three would likely be hurricanes and one of those would be intense.The forecast also contained a hint of good news for the beleaguered U.S. oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico, where last year's storms shut down a quarter of U.S. crude production.This year it looks like the East Coast is more likely to be targeted by Atlantic basin hurricanes than the Gulf Coast,said Gray's forecasting partner, Philip Klotzbach.
The 2005 season will be remembered for producing, for the first time since hurricane record-keeping began, four Category 5 storms, the highest rank on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity.Katrina, which burst the levees protecting New Orleans, killed more than 1,300 people and caused more than $80 billion in damage, becoming the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
Climate researchers believe the Atlantic basin has moved into an extended period of heightened hurricane activity that began around 1995 and could last 25 to 40 years.
Floods, snow cause havoc in S. African cities
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Heavy rain drenched large parts of South Africa's southern areas on Thursday, flooding roads and damaging houses in devastating storms, while deep snow forced mountain passes to close. Temperatures dropped to record lows for August as snow fell in industrial hub Johannesburg for the first time in eight years in what local residents say is an unusually severe winter.The city saw a high of 7 degrees Celsius (44 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday -- the lowest daily high recorded in August while overnight temperatures dropped well below freezing in some parts of the country. Colder temperatures are expected this weekend.There is serious flooding, we are today flooding in most areas of Port Elizabeth, South African Weather Services forecaster Mandisi Manentsa-Titise told Reuters.
The southern coast city, about 800 km east of Cape Town, was the latest coastal area to suffer serious damage as up to 270 mm of rain fell in the 24 hours to early Thursday.Police said four people drowned on Wednesday when their car washed away after a bridge collapsed near George, a small town 400 km east of Cape Town, famous for its lush golf courses.Roads were flooded and thousands of people fled their homes in nearby tourist haven Knysna.Tifendell ski resort in the southern Drakensberg mountains recorded 20 cm of snow on Wednesday, and transport officials closed one of the main passes through the mountains near Lesotho due to thick snow.Weather Service spokesman Siyabonga Mthethwa said a deep low pressure was pumping moist air and gale-force winds onto the southern coast.But despite the devastation and record rainfall, the rains and icy weather were not particularly out of the ordinary for a southern hemisphere winter in South Africa, he said.Although there have been some records broken it is a normal winter ... it is normal to get a low pressure system deepening quite fast and causing havoc along the coastal regions, Mthethwa added.
MATTHEW 24:7-13
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Evidence Mounts that Kana Massacre Was a Fake
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
The world awoke this Sunday to the news that an Israeli airstrike had killed 57 Lebanese civilians, leading Israel to stop airstrikes for 2 days - but evidence shows the massacre was just a fraud. The supposed massacre caused a major turnabout in world diplomacy. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suddenly canceled her plans to fly to Beirut, saying my work towards a ceasefire is really here [in Jerusalem] today.The implication was clearly that the onus was now upon Israel.
French President Jacques Chirac condemned Israel's unjustified action which demonstrates more than ever the need for an immediate ceasefire, Jordan's King Abdullah called it an ugly crime,and other world leaders echoed these sentiments.Though Israel emphasized that Hizbullah was to blame for waging its rocket war against Israel from within a civilian population, Foreign Ministry officials repeated their deep regret at the loss of innocent life in the campaign against Hizbullah,and were forced to promise a thorough and comprehensive examination.
Apparently, however, the incident was all one big fraud, staged by Arab elements for the world media in order to lead precisely to the situation described above.The central piece of evidence leading to this conclusion is the fact, mentioned by IDF officials from the very beginning, that the building collapsed a full seven hours after the Israel Air Force bombing. Why, then, would the residents inside not have been evacuated in the meantime? As Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel of the Israeli Air Force told reporters Sunday night, It is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it.Without additional evidence, Eshel merely left open the possibility that Hizbullah terrorists, or explosives they left behind, caused the explosion.Indeed,writes Robert Spencer for FrontPage Magazine, it strains credulity that not only did these Lebanese civilians remain in a house that had been bombed for eight hours, but peacefully went to sleep in it after the bombing – since the victims were all apparently sleeping, despite continuing Israeli air bombardment in the area, when the building collapsed.
Gen. Eshel also said that the building was used by Hizbullah to store explosives. This was supported by a letter by Dr. Mounir Herzallah, a southern Lebanese Shiite, who wrote that Hizbullah terrorists came to his town, dug a munitions depot and then built a school and a residence directly over it.In addition, as Reuven Koret writes for IsraelInsider, the bombing of the area occurred in three waves. The first bombs, according to CNN correspondent Brent Sadler, did not hit the building in question, but rather landed 20 or 30 meters away. The second strike hit targets further away, and the third strike, around 7:30 in the morning, landed over 400 meters away. The first reports of a collapsed building arrived a half-hour later. Another CNN correspondent, Ben Wedeman, noted that there was a larger crater next to the building. He observed that the roof of the building was intact and that the building appeared not to have collapsed as a result of the Israeli strike.Thus, the building was used to store explosives, was apparently not destroyed by the bombing, and sheltered dozens of women and children throughout a night of bombing. The identity of the victims was also not clear, except that they were not the original occupants of the building; a National Public Radio correspondent reported that they had left. The victims were non-residents who chose to shelter in the building that night,Koret writes, and who were 'too poor' to leave the town, one resident told CNN's Wedeman. Who were these people?
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Prayers to Rebuild the Temple
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
Today is Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of Av, commemorating many of the worst tragedies befalling the Jewish People over the past 3,300 years. Jews the world over are praying for the Temple's rebuilding. Among the calamities that occurred on this day were the refusal of the Jewish People to ignore the report of the Scouts and agree to go with Moses to the Promised Land; the destruction of the First and Second Holy Temples in Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians and Romans, respectively; the failure of the Bar Kokhba uprising in the second century; the deadline by which all of Spanish Jewry was to be expelled from the country in 1492; the beginning of World War I in 1917; and the end of legal Jewish residence in Gush Katif, in 2005.As on every Tisha B'Av since the liberation of the Western Wall in 1967, tens of thousands of Jews frequented the Wall last night and today, praying for the rebuilding of the Temple just behind it. Though pleasure trips and joyous get-togethers are forbidden on Tisha B'Av, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed Rabbi of Har Bracha in the Shomron, head of Yeshivat Shavei Shomron, and author of several Halakhic [Jewish Legal] works has written,
It is clear that one need not refrain from going to the Western Wall [on Tisha B'Av] for fear of meeting friends and being happy. My father and teacher [Rabbi Zalman Melamed] has said that there is no greater rectification [Hebrew: tikun] for Tisha B'Av than to go to the Wall, the remnant of the destruction, and to pray for the Holy Temple to be speedily rebuilt in our days. On the contrary: The fact that many people go there enhances the power of the prayer, and increases Divine honor. Rabbi Melamed the son added that when one meets friends there, he should not greet them, but is permitted to grasp their hands with love and pray with them for the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash.The police have restricted entry to the Temple Mount: No Jews at all, no tourists, and for Moslems only females or 45-year-old-and-over residents of Israel. The Supreme Court had originally permitted members of the Temple Mount Faithful organization to enter, together with other Jews, as long as they would not wear special clothing, act provocatively, or stand out in any way or form. The police, however, pre-empted the decision by forbidding all Jews to enter, for fear of Arab violence against them. Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky supported the police decision.
The Chief Rabbinate, which held a meeting in Sderot this week, issued a ruling forbidding soldiers at war from fasting on Tisha B'Av this year. The ruling states that fasting could affect their combat ability and is liable to cause danger to their lives and to others around them, and therefore they must eat and drink as much as they need in order to be as fit for combat as possible and to carry out this holy mission of fighting and winning.The rabbis also called upon all our brothers in the House of Israel wherever they dwell, including those who normally do not fast on this day, to make a special effort to strengthen the Nation of Israel and its unity, and to keep the fast of Tisha B'Av. All of Israel is responsible for one another, and this power obligates us to lend a hand and take part in the sorrow of those who are suffering because of this war.
Temple Mount Faithful Hold Cornerstone Ceremony 9th Av,August 03, 2006
(IsraelNN.com) Temple Mount Faithful organization activists on Thursday morning held their annual Tisha B’Av cornerstone ceremony near the Mugrabi Gate after police ruled they are banned from the Mount.The participants wished to lay a cornerstone for the Third Temple on the Mount, today, Tisha B’Av, the day marking the destruction of the First and Second Temples, but non Muslim worshipers are prohibited from entering the Mount today by police.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 12:1-3
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Olmert: Lebanon victory will help create Palestine
Disaster of Lebanon, Gaza pullouts fails to register with PM
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that an Israeli victory over the Hizb’allah in Lebanon would give impetus to his plan to abandon Israel’s most treasured areas for the creation of a State of Palestine.Olmert spelled this out while addressing news agency reporters he had invited to a special press conference concerning the war against Hizb’allah.The primary purpose of the meeting was to inform the world about Israel’s ongoing effort to defang and destroy as much of the Hizb’allah as possible before the international community imposes a ceasefire on the region.However, Olmert was also looking ahead to what will happen once the war in the north is over.
His comments dealt a blow to those Israelis and their supporters who had hoped that the violent outcome of two withdrawals – from Lebanon in 2000 and from Gaza last year – had put paid to any thoughts of now proceeding with the third and biggest pullout, from Samaria and Judea.Apparently the prime minister hopes that an effective degrading of the Hizb’allah and the successful insertion of a robust peace keeping force into southern Lebanon will see Israel’s deterrence returned to a formidable level in the region.In this event he may explain his position as follows:Israel is strong. We remain a regional superpower. We have shown that we will not sit quietly by while terrorists attack our land and our people. We have re-installed our deterrence and now we can make peace from a position of strength. If, after the establishment of their state, the Palestinian Arabs continue to attack the then-internationally recognized State of Israel, they must know from our response to Hizb’allah’s aggression in the north, and to the Kassam rocket firing in the south, what will happen to them.
If realized, Olmert’s convergence plan will be nothing short of catastrophic. It will see:
• Israel’s irreversible relinquishing of its national cradle, Samaria and Judea, containing the towns and cities central to the biblical narrative and thus to the heart of the Jewish people for millennia, including: Bethel, Shiloh, Shechem, Bethlehem, Hebron and the holiest parts of Jerusalem.
• Tens of thousands of Jews being driven from their homes, made refugees in and by their own country as happened to 10,000 Israelis who, until last August, lived in the Gaza Strip; many remain refugees to this day, having lost everything they poured their lives into, and barely even noticed by the Kadima-led government.
• A massive blow to the faith of untold numbers of Jews who believe that God returned them to the ancient mountains of Israel, and that He has promised to keep them in those lands and not permit them to be uprooted again.
• The defilement and desecration of hundreds of synagogues.
• The prohibition against Jews from visiting their holy sites in Palestine.
• The creation of a sovereign and independent Muslim Arab state, free to arm itself and continue propagating anti-Israel hatred; the majority of whose citizens abhor the Jews and believe deeply that their victory will not be realized with a homeland in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, but with the total removal from the Middle East of the State of Israel.
• A perceived victory of the god of the Muslims over the God of Israel. This, itself, will only fuel the conviction that Allah is greater and that Israel is doomed.
• The severance of the Jewish people from their roots, from the land that has fed them as a nation and kept them alive through thousands of years of exile, and without which they will wither, and die.
The critical spiritual aspect of this land-for-peace process is dismissed by secular-humanist Israelis and their leaders – Jews whose identity is based, not on the covenant God made with Abraham 4000 years ago, but on a history going back only to the late 1800s, when the need for a haven state for Jews led to mass immigration to Eretz Israel and the rise of political Zionism.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(EU) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.(THIS EU POLITICIAN COMES FROM THE OCCULT)
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
International force for Lebanon, but conditionally
By Christoph Bertram,Thursday, Aug 03, 2006,Page 9
Advertising The current discussion surrounding an international force for southern Lebanon has focused almost exclusively on which countries and organizations -- NATO, the EU, the UN -- will provide the troops. This is an important issue, to be sure, but the real question concerns the changes that Israel must make in exchange for this force being put in place and assuming the risk of such a mission.No international force will simply protect Israel from Hezbollah rockets while Israel continues its current strategy. After all, the recent military escalation in the region is at least partly due to that strategy. If an international force simply allows Ehud Olmert's government to pursue its plans further, the countries that provide troops for the international force will not only be seen as rubber-stamping Israeli policy, but will also be dragged into its failure.
To criticize Israel's strategy as flawed is not to condone the acts of Hamas or Hezbollah or to deny Israel's right to self-defense. It is merely to point out what should be obvious: Israel's efforts to find a unilateral solution to its security problems -- whether occupation, withdrawal, or separation -- have failed.The prior condition for setting up and joining an international force for southern Lebanon must be that Israel renews its commitment to the road map and negotiations with the Palestinians for a viable Palestinian state. Unilateral occupation without commitment to a viable Palestinian state has produced only the intifada and suicide bombers. Unilateral withdrawal from Gaza without the prior establishment of a local authority to maintain order has only led to renewed intervention. And the security fence, which was to allow for unilateral separation, may hold back suicide bombers, but won't protect against modern missiles of the kind currently employed by Hezbollah.
So far, the only lesson Israel seems to have drawn from its failed strategies is that it must extend and intensify the use of unilateral force: re-invade Gaza, devastate Lebanon, and threaten Syria -- and, by implication, Iran, which the Israeli government hints had a hand in orchestrating the recent crisis.It takes little foresight, however, to predict that more force will not produce more security for Israel. The policy, reminiscent of the terrorist stratagem of bombing civilians in order to force the hands of their leaders, will only strengthen the radicals and boost their popular support. It will not hide the fact that Israel has run out of unilateral options.Israel has so far been unwilling to accept this fact. Instead, its leaders hope that a robust international force in southern Lebanon will provide protection for northern Israel, leaving them with a free hand to deal unilaterally with Gaza and the West Bank, while committing the international community to Israel's failed unilateralism.
To join such an international force under such conditions would be totally irresponsible. Countries that contribute troops would appear to be siding unequivocally with Israel, thereby losing all of their credibility with Israel's adversaries. They would also risk being drawn into renewed Israeli operations against Hezbollah and its backers. Most important, they would forego what may be the last chance to promote a consensual peace.The prior condition for setting up and joining an international force for deployment in southern Lebanon must be that Israel renews its commitment to the road map and negotiations with the Palestinians for a viable Palestinian state. With this aim in mind, it must enter into talks with democratically elected Palestinian representatives. True, such talks will be difficult, and they may not succeed. But that can no longer be an argument against diplomacy now that Israeli unilateralism has once again proven to be a strategic blind alley.Only an Israel seriously willing to seek security through agreement, not one that wants to impose her security on her neighborhood by fiat, can be partner to an international effort to bring stability to Lebanon and beyond. Of course, some countries, not least the US, would oppose making such a reversal in Israeli policy a condition of creating an international force, and consensus in NATO, the EU, or the UN may not be found or, if it were to emerge, Israel might simply refuse to abide.Both prospects would provide reason enough for NATO's members to stay away from the project altogether. Creating an international force for southern Lebanon makes sense only as an investment in regional peace, not as an appendix to Israel's current strategy.Christoph Bertram is the former Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
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Islamic Movement: Prevent Jewish groups from visiting Temple Mount on Thursday
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent
The Islamic Movement warned Wednesday against the possibility that Jewish groups would try to reach the Temple Mount on Thursday (The Ninth of Av) and damage the Al Aqsa Mosque. The group's warning follows a Supreme Court decision made earlier this week, ordering police to allow whoever wants to visit the Temple Mount during regular visiting hours on the Ninth of Av.Two MKs from the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibrahim Sarsur (Ra'am-Ta'al) and Sheikh Abbas Zkoor (Ra'am-Ta'al) sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, requesting that the government prevent members of the Temple Mount Faithful from reaching the area outside the Al Aqsa Mosque.Extremist Jewish groups may damage the Al Aqsa Mosque. If this were to happen, heaven forbid, it would inflame the region, the MKs wrote. The Islamic Movement's Northern Branch also warned of what could take place Thursday in the vicinity of the Temple Mount. The head of the movement, Sheikh Raed Selah, said in a radio interview that the Supreme Court does not have the authority to rule on the matter. According to Selah, "The Supreme Court isn't worthy of deciding on matters pertaining to the Al Aqsa Mosque, because Israel does not have sovereignty over it. Selah called on Islamic Movement supporters to reach the Al Aqsa Mosque on Thursday.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Israel's destruction is the solution
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHERAN, Iran,August 03,06
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis was to destroy Israel, state-media reported. In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders in Malaysia, Ahmadinejad also called for an immediate cease-fire to end the fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed group Hizbullah. Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented,Ahmadinejad said, according to state-run television in a report posted on its Web site Thursday.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev accused Ahmadinejad of trying to rally the region to support Iranian-backed Hizbullah. Our operation in Lebanon is designed to neutralize one of the long arms of Iran, Hezbollah, Regev said.Hizbullah is their proxy, being used as an instrument of Teheran to advance their extremist agenda and the blow to Hezbollah is a blow to Iranian interests and a blow to all extremist Jihadist forces in the region.
Ahmadinejad called on all Muslim states to cut their open and secret political and economic ties with the fake and outlawed Zionist regime in response to its attacks against Lebanon. He also urged Muslim states to isolate the United States and Britain for supporting Israel's military attacks against Lebanon. Ahmadinejad also rejected deploying international forces on the Israeli Lebanese border. Peace and security in Lebanon and its borders has to be preserved by the Lebanese government and people. Deployment of foreign forces is not acceptable in any shape unless it is just, based on UN rules and preserves the unity and territorial integrity of Lebanon,he said.
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