1-US sends plane to check on Atlantic tropical wave. 2-Diplomats wrangle over UN draft. 3-U.S. beefing up presence in central, eastern Europe. 4-DRC denies sending hidden shipment of uranium to Iran. 5-EU Presidency Accuses Members of Leaking Docs to Israel. 6-Peretz Talks Tough: No Cease Fire Without Hostage Release. 7-12th Imam,’ key facet of Islamic prophecy, fueling Middle East turmoil, experts say.
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.
US sends plane to check on Atlantic tropical wave 44 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force is sending a plane to investigate whether a strong tropical wave near the Windward Islands has strengthened into a tropical depression or storm, the U.S.
National Hurricane Center said in a report Wednesday. The U.S. Air Force Reserve Reconnaissance aircraft will arrive in the afternoon at the wave located about 225 miles east of the Windward Islands and moving westward at about 20 to 25 miles per hour, which had become more concentrated on Wednesday
morning.All of the hurricane models show the wave crossing the Windward Islands and moving toward the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico over the next several days.
The Windward Islands include Martinique, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent, The Grenadines, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago.It is too soon to say whether the storm could get into the Gulf of Mexico, where it could disrupt the U.S. oil and natural gas production and refining.If a tropical storm forms, the NHC would name it Debby.The NHC did not expect a tropical storm to form anywhere else through Thursday.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast, 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.
Diplomats wrangle over UN draft
A building collapsed after air strikes on south Beirut Diplomats at the United Nations are discussing possible changes to a draft resolution aimed at ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. An Arab League delegation is travelling to New York to push Lebanon's demands for the text to call for an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces. Lebanon has pledged 15,000 troops for the border area when Israel pulls out. Israel continued air strikes overnight after at least 49 people died in raids on Lebanon on Monday.
The current text - drafted by the US and France - calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities and lays the groundwork for a second resolution that would install an international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. But the Lebanese government wants changes which include a requirement that Israel withdraw all its forces as soon as there is a cessation of hostilities - rather than waiting for the eventual deployment of a multi-national force.
Violations
The talks came as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a new report criticising both sides for targeting civilians during the fighting. Mr Annan said the Israeli bombing of the village of Qana on 30 July could be part of a pattern of violations of international law. He called for a further investigation into the Qana attack, which killed at least 28 people, according to Human Rights Watch although initially the toll was put at 56. Israel says it carried out about 80 air strikes across Lebanon on Monday night, targeting what it said were Hezbollah buildings and rocket launchers. On Monday, Israeli air strikes on Lebanon were met by the militant group Hezbollah with a barrage of more than 100 rockets, wounding some Israeli civilians.
Rescuers in Beirut said at least 15 people had been killed in evening air strikes on a southern suburb that caused a building to collapse. The Israeli army warned southern Lebanese residents to stay indoors from 2200 (1900 GMT) on Monday.
Three Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes in the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbeil, the Israeli military said, adding that five Hezbollah militants were also killed. Mr Olmert told reservists Israel was not stopping its offensive The Israeli military said it had downed an Hezbollah drone - the first time an unmanned spotter plane has been destroyed in the conflict. The Israeli army also released video footage that purported to show a Hezbollah fighter confessing to taking part in the 12 July raid in which two Israeli soldiers were captured, triggering the conflict. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora drastically revised down the death toll of an Israeli air strike in the village of Houla, where he initially said 40 people had died when a building collapsed on them. A UN spokesman later said five people had died in the attack.
Vote delay
Correspondents say the UN Security Council will vote, at the very earliest, on the draft resolution on Tuesday. Both the US and France have said they will listen to the Arab delegation's concerns. But US President George W Bush, at his ranch in Texas, warned against creating a vacuum into which Hezbollah and its sponsors are able to move more weapons. The BBC's diplomatic correspondent says the US and France will be reluctant to see the vote delayed very long for fear that the whole plan could collapse.
Senior Israeli officials have said they are broadly happy with the text of the UN resolution. More than 900 Lebanese, most of them civilians, have been killed in the conflict, the Lebanese government said. More than 90 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also been killed. Israeli Defence Minster Amir Peretz said Israel would step up its offensive against Hezbollah rocket-launching sites if the diplomatic process does not reach a successful conclusion. And Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, according to his office, told reservists on a visit to the Lebanese border: I give to you all the power and the backing. We are not stopping.
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,(JESUS) and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
U.S. beefing up presence in central, eastern Europe
European and American media have spread far and wide the move of the United States to build a guided missile defense system in central and eastern European nations for some time. A few days ago, it was confirmed by the Czech news agency, which said in a news dispatch that US military experts arrived at a military base in Bohemia, Czech for the selection of a guided missile defense site. In addition to Czech, the United States also thinks of turning to Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria for the selection of similar guided missile defense sites.
Since the conclusion of the cold war in the early 1990s, the European Union (EU) and the United States have distanced gradually in establishing the new world order (One World Government) and coping with a number of major international affairs, and many
Western nations have been grieved over the US unilateralism.
The foreign and defense policies of the EU have lagged far behind its fast progressing economic integration, so the EU has failed to shape their common stance on a quite number of major issues.
In this backdrop, the United States has kept shifting the gravity of its influence eastward and hopes to enhance its concept of value through its intensified contacts and intercourse with the central and eastern European nations.
These nations have all materialized their dream of return to Europe. In the course of prolonged, complex negotiations to join the EU, nevertheless, the candidate nations indignantly resented to the harsh and selfish terms imposed upon them by the EU member countries. A Czech newspaper once reminded people that it was France that tried to curb the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or the EU from being enlarged and it was Germany that attempted to stop the East Europeans from entering into the labor market freely.
Therefore, many central and eastern European nations want eagerly to draw support from the United States, or the third force, to defend and safeguard their political and economic interests in the EU. Most of these nations are imbued with strong, prevalent pro-American sentiments due to changes in their ideology, and hold that it was the US support that have enabled them to get rid of the yoke of the former Soviet Union and eventually to join in the EU. So, the foreign policies of these central and eastern European nations sometimes underscore much more the concept of value than those of Western European countries. They have followed the United States more closely whenever the latter sets forth various kinds of prosals and resorting to military actions overseas under the banner of morality.
Hungary permitted the United States to use its ground military base even before it jointed into the NATO. Almost all central and eastern European nations have involved themselves in the Iraq War under the command of the United States. Non-government
organizations (NGO) of Slovakia, Poland, Czech and three Baltic states, namely, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, have given active support to the pro-Western democratic movement of Serbia, George, Ukraine and Belarus.
The US moves in central and eastern European nations would possibly inflict intense dissatisfaction and pressure upon Russia. The aim of the guided missile defense system is obvious, though it is not nuclear weaponry and its main function is to intercept nuclear weapons at early stage. So either U.S.-Russian ties or the relations between the central and eastern European nations and Russia would likely stand new, severe tests. By People's Daily Online
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)
DRC denies sending hidden shipment of uranium to Iran
August 8, 2006
The Democratic Republic of Congo government has denied that a uranium shipment left its territory last year bound for Iran.It's a great big lie, government spokesman Henri Mova Sakanyi said. All our nuclear activities are under the control of the
International Atomic Energy Agency.
Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported that a smuggled shipment of uranium 238 had been intercepted in Tanzania in October. The report cited a senior Tanzanian customs official and an unpublished report by the UN from July 18.The article said the shipment had come from a closed mine in Lubumbashi, Congo, then had been driven via Zambia into Tanzania, where it had been uncovered during a scan at the port in Dar es Salaam while awaiting shipment to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
Anyone who knows about uranium knows that it is not exported in raw form in trucks. It must be treated and purified, and we don't enrich uranium in Congo,Sakanyi said.The paper cited a Tanzanian customs official, who it did not identify by name, as saying that the uranium was hidden inside a cargo of 50-kilogram drums of coltan, a mineral used to make computer chips.The Sunday Times said the uranium was suspected of having been extracted illegally from the Shinkolobwe mine, which was closed in 1961. - Sapa-AP
DANIEL 7:23-24
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.
EU Presidency Accuses Members of Leaking Docs to Israel
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
HELSINKI, Finland — The European Union presidency on Tuesday accused member states of leaking important foreign policy documents to countries outside the bloc, including Israel. Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, wrote in an opinion piece that the leaks are hampering the 25-member bloc's ability to act as a united force in global politics.It has long been known that all EU documents that deal with the Middle East also are known in Tel Aviv within an hour after having been distributed to the member states, and probably also in Washington and Moscow,Tuomioja wrote in the Helsinki newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet.
CountryWatch: Finland
He said the leaks encourage member states to act outside the EU's formal decision-making structure.This is problematic for the whole union, but especially harmful to the smaller member states,he wrote.Tuomioja also criticized EU ministers for acting in national interests — or at least giving that impression to the media — and preparing for summits as if they were facing hostile countries.It would have great significance for the EU's morale, credibility and efficiency if ministers came to EU meetings with a certain feeling of common goals and not primarily to bring home gains ... for domestic use,he wrote.He also accused the media of exaggerating differences within the union. For example, he said the union had a common view on how to respond to the violence in the Middle East, contrary to many news reports.Finland holds the rotating six-month presidency for the remainder of the year.
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Peretz Talks Tough: No Cease Fire Without Hostage Release
16:54 Aug 08, '06 / 14 Av 5766
(IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Amir Peretz categorically stated Tuesday that Israel will not agree to a cease fire without the release of two IDF soldiers who were kidnapped by Hizbullah terrorists at the outset of the war on July 12. Their freedom originally was a demand by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice but has not been specifically stated in the past several days.
Minister Peretz also repeated demands that Hizbullah be disarmed before the IDF retreats and allows the Lebanese army to patrol southern Lebanon. The Lebanese government which approved the deployment, for the first time in more than 20 years, includes five Shi'ite ministers who support Hizbullah.
12th Imam,’ key facet of Islamic prophecy, fueling Middle East turmoil, experts say Aug 7, 2006,By Olivia Tulley,Baptist Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Among the nearly 68 million people in Iran, the vast majority are Muslim who place their hope not in modern-day politics or rulers but in a person who walked the earth centuries ago and is promised to return.
Both Islam and Christianity have a very well-defined eschatology, or period of the last days; both of them cannot be correct …,said William Wagner, senior professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and author of the book, How Islam Plans to Change the World.A majority of Shiite Muslims traditionally believe that the 12th Imam (Islamic religious leader), born in 868 A.D., was placed by God into hiding (known as occultation) until the day of judgment. Southern Baptist author and evangelist Anis Shorrosh explained that many Shiites also refer to the 12th Imam as the Mahdi, an Arabic word that generally references a messiah, or a guide.
This man will come to show them the way, because the prayer of every Muslim five times a day …ends with ‘Show us the right path, not the path of those who have incurred your anger or those who are lost, but those upon whom grace has come, Shorrosh said.Though most strains of Islam have a belief in the Mahdi, Shiites traditionally believe he is Mohammed ibn Hasan, the 12th in the line of imams who were descendents of the prophet Mohammed. Though they do not know when the Mahdi will return, they believe he will come to end the misery of his people. Some strains of Islam even hold a belief that Jesus will be the Mahdi who will return and proclaim Islam as the true religion.Satan always tries to duplicate everything that God does, Wagner said, and I believe he has created his own eschatology that is somewhat similar to that of Christianity, but false enough to where it is apparent that it is not the truth.
Ray Tallman, director of the school of intercultural studies at Golden Gate Seminary, noted that the major eschatological question for Shiite Muslims is when the Mahdi’s return will take place -– and many hold the belief that the time is near. The increasing clash with Israel and that with Christianity are two indications to Shiites that the Mahdi’s return could be near, said Tallman, who spent seven years as the international director for Arab World Ministries.All of that is sort of a sign of the times that now it has come to this, and that what is actually being done now out of hate has an eschatological sign of promise to it,Tallman said of the Shiite view.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been cited by various news sources as not only believing in the eventual return of the Mahdi, but that the return is near and that it is the responsibility of the Iranian government to prepare the country for his return.
Belief in a savior is universal,BBC News quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in January. It is the pivot of our beliefs as Muslims and Iranians. We believe that an offspring of the prophet, may peace be upon him, will be the ultimate savior. His name and attributes are clear. He will come and will administer ultimate justice.The belief that the Mahdi’s return is near is not a new claim among Shiites, Wagner said, but one that has been held almost since the 12th Imam was historically placed into hiding.Almost every generation has some figures in Islam that either claim to be the 12th Imam or claim that the 12th Imam will come to himself, Wagner said.
Although Shiites and Sunnis often battle against each other, as is currently the case in Iraq, Wagner noted common efforts among both groups of Muslims to destroy Israel, which is a critical part of Islam taking control in the world and thus ushering in the Mahdi.
They feel like one of the major blocking points is Israel, and that is one reason why they feel like they must destroy Israel, Wagner said.Wagner further noted that Islam is on the march with the intention of the entire world becoming Muslims.The problem is that in many parts of the world today, Christianity has become very weak, Wagner said. It is extremely necessary for all Christians to reevaluate their faith and to become stronger in their faith in Jesus Christ. This is the one thing that Islam fears the most because, down deep; they know that they cannot compete with the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.Wagner also noted that Islam is a religion of fear, with many Muslims fearing their own faith.It is the task of Christians to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ to Muslims everywhere so that they can be released from this fear and find the assurance of eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, Wagner said.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
DECADE OF TURMOIL
1-Anderson Cooper interviews Council on foreign relations lee Feinstein on the future force on the Israeli-Lebanon border. 2-Magnitude 6.7 quake hits near Vanuatu. 3-F-3 tornado in Warroad had 180 mph winds. 4-Flooding halts production at India's largest gas fields. 5-Floods in west, north of Austria after heavy rain. 6-India races to help hundreds of thousands hit by floods. 7-33 more feared dead in Pakistan rains. 8-Volcano belches more ash in Philippines. 9-Iran's supreme leader urges Muslims to 'defend' Hezbollah. 10-Decade of turmoil.
On CNN Anderson Cooper interviewed Council on Foreign Relations member Lee Feinstein about the Force that must be on the Israeli-Lebanon border.
lee says this UNIFIL force is useless, and this un lead force they want to bring in now is UNIFIL on steroids. He says unless there are significant changes to this future force it will be useless as well.
Lee goes on to say: Theres always a temptation to throw a Peace keeping force at an intractable political problem. And thats the issue were facing here. First of all the peace keeping operation has to be understood as supporting a larger Political goal. By itself it's not going to be ableto nullify Hezbollah.
Israeli Defence forces are not able to do that. And unless the International Community is prepared to go to war, it's hard to imagine any stabilization force under a blue helmeted operation, a UN operation, or any other kind, to really succeed it.
Anderson then asks lee: Who needs to run this Operation force?
lee Answers: In the best case senario, you have a compitant Military force whos prestege is on the line. Run by a League nation such as France. France is a good candidate for this. You could even have the force run by a group of Nations like the European Union. But you need that kind of leadership and clear command in order to stand any chance of success.
JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS ITS THE EU NOT THE US THAT GUARENTEE ISRAELS SECURITY IN THE FUTURE. IN THIS FUTURE LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27.
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.
Magnitude 6.7 quake hits near Vanuatu Mon Aug 7, 10:53 PM ET
SYDNEY, Australia - A powerful earthquake struck near the Pacific island of Vanuatu Tuesday but caused no injuries or damage, officials said. The magnitude 6.7 temblor struck at midmorning and was centered about 140 miles northwest of the capital, Port Vila, and about 100 miles below the earth's surface, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Vanuatu disaster official Job Esau said there was no damage or injuries at Port Vila or any of the country's outlying islands.New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management said the earthquake was too deep to pose any risk of a tsunami.Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides Islands, is made up of 13 main islands located about 1,400 miles east of Australia.
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.
F-3 tornado in Warroad had 180 mph winds
Associated Press,Last update: August 07, 2006 – 9:58 PM
A tornado that struck Warroad over the weekend was an F-3, with winds up to 180 miles per hour, National Weather Service officials said.Meteorologist Greg Gust, who went to the community Sunday as part of a weather service storm assessment team, said it was a miracle no one was killed.The tornado flipped over 16 semitrailers at the Marvin Windows plant and tore down a sign at the Pepsi bottling plant.Dale Sand and Tom Pepera like to watch storms, but when they saw the dangerous-looking clouds Saturday night, they headed for home and took shelter in a crawl space under their house on the northern edge of Warroad.
Something like that, all you can do is close your eyes and pray, Sand said.The Sand and Pepera home, in the Warroad estates neighborhood, was at the center of the storm, their neighbors said. The tornado took the roof off an old garage near the house and lifted a new garage away, smashing it into a field.One plate in a collection remained on their wall but broke in half; another plate was carried across the room and gently set down without a scratch.
Flooding halts production at India's largest gas fields 20 minutes ago
NEW DELHI (AFP) - State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. has halted production at India's two largest gas fields after monsoon rains flooded a processing plant in the western state of Gujarat.The Hazira processing plant was shut down Monday night, the Press Trust of India news agency said Tuesday.All gas production from the fields connected to Hazira has been suspended, Oil and Natural Gas chairman and managing director R.S. Sharma told PTI. "The Hazira plant is in no position to take gas from the fields and so the wells had to be shut.The Hazira plant, which can process 32.5 million standard cubic meters of gas per day (1.14 billion cubic feet), receives gas supplies from the Bassein field off Mumbai and the Panna-Mukta-Tapti field off the Gujarat coast.
The two gas fields produce around 41 million standard cubic meters per day, PTI said.A gas pipeline that supplies industries in the north, including to the national capital where public buses run exclusively on compressed natural gas, was also shut.The state-owned Gas Authority of India, which operates the pipeline, has been asked to ration supplies with transport getting priority followed by power plants, the report said.Sharma was unable to say when gas production was expected to resume.It may take at least a couple of days to drain the Hazira facility before gas production is restarted,he said.The plant is submerged by about five feet (1.5 metres) of water, the report said.
Floods in west, north of Austria after heavy rain Tue Aug 8, 6:56 AM ET
VIENNA (AFP) - Parts of northern and western Austria were put on flood alert following heavy rain over the weekend but the situation was improving early Tuesday, authorities have said. This comes after the country experienced record high temperatures of up to 36 degrees in recent weeks.Flood alarms were triggered around Vienna, in the spa town of Baden just south of the capital and in Krems and St. Poelten, in the province of Lower Austria.Streets and railways in that province stood under water and had to be closed, several towns were cut off and one house had to be evacuated following a landslide. Over 2,000 firefighters and emergency services were working to pump the water out of houses and cellars.
In the towns of Frankenfels and Annaberg, west of Vienna, 180 litres per square metre of rain fell in just 24 hours, the Austria Press Agency reported.In Sonntagberg, the river Ybbs which flows into the Danube carried away a bridge holding a gasoline main, causing a considerable gas leak,according to authorities. Lower Austria's gas provider EVN immediately cut the supply.Parts of Carinthia and Upper Austria were also flooded following heavy rain on Monday.But despite fears the Danube might reach the record level of 9.20 metres registered in March 2002, when large parts of Europe were flooded, the water level only went as high as 8.60 metres early Tuesday before falling further to 8.45 metres as the rain abated, the Lower Austrian alert centre said.
India races to help hundreds of thousands hit by floods by Syed Amin Jafri 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
HYDERABAD, India (AFP) - Rescuers are racing to get food and clean water to more than 750,000 people left homeless in four flooded Indian states, officials said, as the death toll linked to lashing monsoon rains in the past week rose to 187. In southern Andhra Pradesh state more than 100 people have died in the past week and 472,000 have been hit by the floods, senior administration official Priyadarshini told AFP on Tuesday.More than 600 villages in three districts were under water and 296 relief camps had been set up to house those displaced by the flooding, she said in the state capital Hyderabad.Some 283 boats, including a naval craft, had been deployed to rescue marooned people while seven helicopters were dropping food, drinking water, milk sachets and medicines to those trapped.
The rains were easing and water levels starting to drop, Priyadarshini added.In neighbouring Gujarat state, the authorities have relocated 190,000 people from Surat, famous for its diamond polishing industry, an official from the state flood control room said.
Indian army, air force and paramilitary personnel have been asked to assist the relief efforts, distributing food, clean water and moving people from submerged areas,said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.Five people had been washed away by floodwaters in the state, the Press Trust of India news agency said.Thousands of people in Surat were forced to move out of their houses after water was released from the swollen Ukai dam upstream on the Tapti river which flows through the town.The water level in the dam is just one foot below the danger mark at 344 feet (105 metres) and we have to do something soon to relieve the situation,the official said.About 300 soldiers equipped with 10 boats and life jackets were rescuing people trapped on rooftops of submerged houses in waterlogged areas, he said.
We also have four air force helicopters (to drop) food packets and clean water sachets to the people,he added.Low-lying bridges were closed to traffic and authorities had issued fresh warnings, asking people living along river banks to move to safer places as they prepared to release water accumalated in many dams in the state.In the western state of Maharashtra, thousands left homeless by the monsoon rains in 15 of the states's 35 districts were being airdropped food and medicines, a state official said.
Twenty-seven people had died overnight taking the death toll in the state due to the current spell of rains that began a week ago to 62, said Bhupathy Pandey, Maharashtra's relief and rehabilitation secretary.About 105,000 people had been displaced by floods, Pandey said, adding people in another 184 villages would need to be relocated to higher ground as many of the dams and rivers in the state were overflowing.
Six navy boats had been pressed into service in the flood-devastated districts of Nasik and Nandanwadi to rescue marooned people, Pandey said.An India air force AN-32 transport aircraft was dropping supplies.The situation is under control,Pandey said. In the Maoist insurgency-affected tiny central state of Chhattisgarh, 20,000 people had been evacuated to 19 relief camps, an official said.
The latest deaths took the nationwide death toll linked to the annual monsoon rains since mid-May to 567, 187 of them in the past week alone, according to an AFP tally.The flood situation in the country was raised in India's national parliament with Home Minister Shivraj Patil assuring MPs that New Delhi was ready to provide any assistance needed.
33 more feared dead in Pakistan rains 1 hour, 1 minute ago
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) - Torrential monsoon rains are feared to have killed another 33 people across Pakistan, including 20 when a bus slid off a flooded mountain road and plunged into a ravine. Ten bodies have been recovered after Tuesday's bus accident in Swat, a scenic mountain region in northwest Pakistan, and another 10 are still missing, local official Jamal Khan said on Tuesday.Another five people were killed in Pakistani Kashmir when a landslide sheared off a mountainside left unstable by last October's South Asia earthquake.A woman, her daughter aged three and three sons died when a huge boulder fell on their home near the town of Balabandi, local police chief Zahoorul Hassan told AFP.
The United Nations warned last week that landslips and floods could displace thousands of people already in temporary shelters after October's quake, which killed 73,000 people.Flash floods swamped several villages in rugged southwest Pakistan on Monday, said Baluchistan province's government spokesman Shakeel Ahmed.One woman died when the roof of her house collapsed near the town of Sibi and seven others were missing after they were swept away by overflowing rivers, Ahmed said.Hundreds of people were being evacuated to safer places.Incidents blamed on the annual monsoon rains have claimed more than 170 lives in Pakistan in the past two weeks.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Volcano belches more ash in Philippines By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago
MATANAG, Philippines - A volcano in the Philippines showed more signs of erupting Tuesday, belching ash three times overnight as officials evacuated tens of thousands of villagers. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert for the 8,118-foot Mayon volcano to Level 4 on Monday — the second highest level — after six explosions sent ash columns up to a half mile high. The explosions prompted the mandatory evacuation of about 35,000 villagers in Albay province, about 210 miles southeast of Manila on Luzon island.Officials also extended the government's permanent danger zone from 4.3 miles to 5 miles on the volcano's southern side.
Mayon ejected ash at least three times late Monday and was emitting unusually high volumes of sulfuric dioxide, said volcanologist Ed Laguerta. He said instruments detected more than 100 volcanic earthquakes overnight, mostly unfelt by humans.This means there is more magma rising from beneath the volcano,he said.More than 28,600 of the 35,000 villagers who were ordered to leave their villages on the southeast slopes of the volcano had been evacuated by late Tuesday, said Jukes Nunez of the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council of Albay province.An additional 20,000 people would have to be moved out of harm's way in case of a major eruption, said Albay Gov. Fernando Gonzalez.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo commended authorities for an orderly evacuation so far and predicted no casualties even if a major eruption occurs. She assured evacuees there would be enough food rations and services in temporary shelters.With the ... effective handling of this crisis, we are confident of achieving a zero-casualty goal in this looming natural disaster,she said. We call on the local residents not to flirt with danger by going back to the declared danger zones.Despite the mandatory evacuations, many villagers stayed put on farms around Mayon to tend their crops and livestock while guarding their homes and belongings.In Matanag, a farming village of about 1,400 people, about 600 residents left Monday, but many more chose to stay behind. An army truck sat at the village entrance, ready to assist in a quick escape and soldiers dropped a coconut tree across the road to Matanag to block incoming traffic.My mother said that we would not evacuate now unless it's really urgent and there's a big eruption,13-year-old Jennilyn Nantes said as she walked to school.
Lava began flowing from the volcano on July 14 and has been slowly extending down Mayon's slopes. Its most violent eruption, in 1814, killed more than 1,200 people and buried a town in mud. A 1993 eruption killed 79 people.The Philippines is in the Pacific Ring of Fire,where volcanic activity and earthquakes are common.
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)
Iran's supreme leader urges Muslims to 'defend' Hezbollah 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
TEHRAN (AFP) -Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has renewed calls on Muslims to rally to the defence of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah in its war against Israel, state television reported. Today it is the entire Muslim community's duty to defend Hezbollah,Khamenei told a meeting Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the birth of the Shiites' first Imam, Ali.Iran helped to create and arm Hezbollah in 1982 in response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon, and Tehran stands accused by the United States and Israel of fomenting chaos in the region by channelling weapons to the guerrillas.Iran denies the allegation, saying it provides only moral support to the movement.
Khamenei's comments came as Arab ministers were due to plead Lebanon's case in New York before the UN Security Council, which is debating a draft French-US resolution calling on Israel and Hezbollah to stop the fighting which has raged for the past month.The all-powerful Iranian leader lashed out at the United Nations for what he called its incompetence, and also attacked some Arab countries for looking on in silence.Some Arabic states that have kept quiet should know that the United States will never consider their interests,Khamenei said.More than 1,000 Lebanese civilians have been killed in the Israeli offensive unleashed after the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah in a cross-border raid from Lebanon on July 12.Khamenei also accused the US and Britain on Tuesday of encouraging the Zionists' crimes and seeking to eradicate Islam in this region.
Decade of turmoil
Linda MacDonald,Sunday August 6, 2006,The Observer
1997
15 January
Palestinians sign a deal with Benjamin Netanyahu's government clearing the way for the handover of 80 per cent of Hebron to Palestinian rule.
18 March
Israel defies world opinion by building the Har Homa settlement on Jabal Abu Ghneim to complete Jewish settlements around occupied East Jerusalem.
1998
23 October
Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat, Netanyahu and US President Bill Clinton sign the Wye River deal foreseeing a phased Israeli withdrawal from 13 per cent of the West Bank in exchange for Palestinian security measures protecting Israel. Netanyahu freezes the deal two months later.
199913 September
New Prime Minister Ehud Barak signs a deal with Arafat agreeing to carry out a modified version of the Wye River deal.
2000
21 March
Israel hands over last portion of West Bank territory agreed at Wye River.
28 September
Ariel Sharon, leader of right-wing opposition Likud party, visits a Jerusalem shrine holy to Muslims and Jews. Violence erupts.
2001
6 February
Sharon, becomes Prime Minister
13 June
A fragile ceasefire takes shape calling on Arafat to clamp down on militants, and on Israel to withdraw from territory seized during the intifada.
14 August
Israeli tanks move into the West Bank city of Jenin.
11 September
Terrorist attack by al-Qaeda on America kills 3,000 people.
2 October
Bush says he is prepared to back the creation of a Palestinian state.
2002
6 May
The US adds Syria to its 'axis of evil'. Mentioned in State of the Union address
2003
20 March
America launches its 'shock and awe' attack on Iraq and tries to oust Saddam Hussein.
4 June
Sharon and Palestinian Authority PM Mahmoud Abbas pledge to implement road map for peace - calling for end to violence and a Palestinian state by 2005 - at summit with Bush but ceasefire falls apart.
6 September
Abbas resigns and Arafat nominates Ahmed Qurie as prime minister.
2004
2 February
Ariel Sharon reveals his intention to withdraw from Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, with or without signing a final peace agreement with the Palestinians.
International Court of Justice in the Hague pronouncesIsrael's 'wall' illegal and says it should be torn down.
11 November
Arafat dies. Abbas becomes the new head of PLO.
2005
9 January
Abbas wins election landslide.
12 September
Israel completes military withdrawal from Gaza. Palestinian Authority takes control of abandoned settlements.
21 November
Sharon announces he is quitting Likud to lead new centrist party Kadima in order to give him a freer hand
2006
January
Sharon's powers transfer to Ehud Olmert. Islamic militant group Hamas wins the Palestinian parliamentary election.
June
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed by US forces. Cpl Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by militants. Israel launches an offensive against targets in Gaza.
12 July
Hizbollah guerrillas capture and kill soldiers around Lebanese border. Olmert calls it an 'act of war' by Lebanon. Two days later opposition from the US and Britain means no resolution on a ceasefire is agreed at a UN meeting on Lebanon. G8 summit
20 July
Deaths in Iraq have reached 100 a day
28 July
Blair flies to Washington for talks with Bush about the crisis. They call for a UN-backed peacekeeping force to be sent in and warn Tehran and Damascus over their alleged role in the conflict.A leaked memo from Britain's outgoing ambassador in Baghdad warns Blair of the likelihood of civil war in Iraq.
On CNN Anderson Cooper interviewed Council on Foreign Relations member Lee Feinstein about the Force that must be on the Israeli-Lebanon border.
lee says this UNIFIL force is useless, and this un lead force they want to bring in now is UNIFIL on steroids. He says unless there are significant changes to this future force it will be useless as well.
Lee goes on to say: Theres always a temptation to throw a Peace keeping force at an intractable political problem. And thats the issue were facing here. First of all the peace keeping operation has to be understood as supporting a larger Political goal. By itself it's not going to be ableto nullify Hezbollah.
Israeli Defence forces are not able to do that. And unless the International Community is prepared to go to war, it's hard to imagine any stabilization force under a blue helmeted operation, a UN operation, or any other kind, to really succeed it.
Anderson then asks lee: Who needs to run this Operation force?
lee Answers: In the best case senario, you have a compitant Military force whos prestege is on the line. Run by a League nation such as France. France is a good candidate for this. You could even have the force run by a group of Nations like the European Union. But you need that kind of leadership and clear command in order to stand any chance of success.
JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS ITS THE EU NOT THE US THAT GUARENTEE ISRAELS SECURITY IN THE FUTURE. IN THIS FUTURE LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27.
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.
Magnitude 6.7 quake hits near Vanuatu Mon Aug 7, 10:53 PM ET
SYDNEY, Australia - A powerful earthquake struck near the Pacific island of Vanuatu Tuesday but caused no injuries or damage, officials said. The magnitude 6.7 temblor struck at midmorning and was centered about 140 miles northwest of the capital, Port Vila, and about 100 miles below the earth's surface, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Vanuatu disaster official Job Esau said there was no damage or injuries at Port Vila or any of the country's outlying islands.New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management said the earthquake was too deep to pose any risk of a tsunami.Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides Islands, is made up of 13 main islands located about 1,400 miles east of Australia.
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.
F-3 tornado in Warroad had 180 mph winds
Associated Press,Last update: August 07, 2006 – 9:58 PM
A tornado that struck Warroad over the weekend was an F-3, with winds up to 180 miles per hour, National Weather Service officials said.Meteorologist Greg Gust, who went to the community Sunday as part of a weather service storm assessment team, said it was a miracle no one was killed.The tornado flipped over 16 semitrailers at the Marvin Windows plant and tore down a sign at the Pepsi bottling plant.Dale Sand and Tom Pepera like to watch storms, but when they saw the dangerous-looking clouds Saturday night, they headed for home and took shelter in a crawl space under their house on the northern edge of Warroad.
Something like that, all you can do is close your eyes and pray, Sand said.The Sand and Pepera home, in the Warroad estates neighborhood, was at the center of the storm, their neighbors said. The tornado took the roof off an old garage near the house and lifted a new garage away, smashing it into a field.One plate in a collection remained on their wall but broke in half; another plate was carried across the room and gently set down without a scratch.
Flooding halts production at India's largest gas fields 20 minutes ago
NEW DELHI (AFP) - State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. has halted production at India's two largest gas fields after monsoon rains flooded a processing plant in the western state of Gujarat.The Hazira processing plant was shut down Monday night, the Press Trust of India news agency said Tuesday.All gas production from the fields connected to Hazira has been suspended, Oil and Natural Gas chairman and managing director R.S. Sharma told PTI. "The Hazira plant is in no position to take gas from the fields and so the wells had to be shut.The Hazira plant, which can process 32.5 million standard cubic meters of gas per day (1.14 billion cubic feet), receives gas supplies from the Bassein field off Mumbai and the Panna-Mukta-Tapti field off the Gujarat coast.
The two gas fields produce around 41 million standard cubic meters per day, PTI said.A gas pipeline that supplies industries in the north, including to the national capital where public buses run exclusively on compressed natural gas, was also shut.The state-owned Gas Authority of India, which operates the pipeline, has been asked to ration supplies with transport getting priority followed by power plants, the report said.Sharma was unable to say when gas production was expected to resume.It may take at least a couple of days to drain the Hazira facility before gas production is restarted,he said.The plant is submerged by about five feet (1.5 metres) of water, the report said.
Floods in west, north of Austria after heavy rain Tue Aug 8, 6:56 AM ET
VIENNA (AFP) - Parts of northern and western Austria were put on flood alert following heavy rain over the weekend but the situation was improving early Tuesday, authorities have said. This comes after the country experienced record high temperatures of up to 36 degrees in recent weeks.Flood alarms were triggered around Vienna, in the spa town of Baden just south of the capital and in Krems and St. Poelten, in the province of Lower Austria.Streets and railways in that province stood under water and had to be closed, several towns were cut off and one house had to be evacuated following a landslide. Over 2,000 firefighters and emergency services were working to pump the water out of houses and cellars.
In the towns of Frankenfels and Annaberg, west of Vienna, 180 litres per square metre of rain fell in just 24 hours, the Austria Press Agency reported.In Sonntagberg, the river Ybbs which flows into the Danube carried away a bridge holding a gasoline main, causing a considerable gas leak,according to authorities. Lower Austria's gas provider EVN immediately cut the supply.Parts of Carinthia and Upper Austria were also flooded following heavy rain on Monday.But despite fears the Danube might reach the record level of 9.20 metres registered in March 2002, when large parts of Europe were flooded, the water level only went as high as 8.60 metres early Tuesday before falling further to 8.45 metres as the rain abated, the Lower Austrian alert centre said.
India races to help hundreds of thousands hit by floods by Syed Amin Jafri 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
HYDERABAD, India (AFP) - Rescuers are racing to get food and clean water to more than 750,000 people left homeless in four flooded Indian states, officials said, as the death toll linked to lashing monsoon rains in the past week rose to 187. In southern Andhra Pradesh state more than 100 people have died in the past week and 472,000 have been hit by the floods, senior administration official Priyadarshini told AFP on Tuesday.More than 600 villages in three districts were under water and 296 relief camps had been set up to house those displaced by the flooding, she said in the state capital Hyderabad.Some 283 boats, including a naval craft, had been deployed to rescue marooned people while seven helicopters were dropping food, drinking water, milk sachets and medicines to those trapped.
The rains were easing and water levels starting to drop, Priyadarshini added.In neighbouring Gujarat state, the authorities have relocated 190,000 people from Surat, famous for its diamond polishing industry, an official from the state flood control room said.
Indian army, air force and paramilitary personnel have been asked to assist the relief efforts, distributing food, clean water and moving people from submerged areas,said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.Five people had been washed away by floodwaters in the state, the Press Trust of India news agency said.Thousands of people in Surat were forced to move out of their houses after water was released from the swollen Ukai dam upstream on the Tapti river which flows through the town.The water level in the dam is just one foot below the danger mark at 344 feet (105 metres) and we have to do something soon to relieve the situation,the official said.About 300 soldiers equipped with 10 boats and life jackets were rescuing people trapped on rooftops of submerged houses in waterlogged areas, he said.
We also have four air force helicopters (to drop) food packets and clean water sachets to the people,he added.Low-lying bridges were closed to traffic and authorities had issued fresh warnings, asking people living along river banks to move to safer places as they prepared to release water accumalated in many dams in the state.In the western state of Maharashtra, thousands left homeless by the monsoon rains in 15 of the states's 35 districts were being airdropped food and medicines, a state official said.
Twenty-seven people had died overnight taking the death toll in the state due to the current spell of rains that began a week ago to 62, said Bhupathy Pandey, Maharashtra's relief and rehabilitation secretary.About 105,000 people had been displaced by floods, Pandey said, adding people in another 184 villages would need to be relocated to higher ground as many of the dams and rivers in the state were overflowing.
Six navy boats had been pressed into service in the flood-devastated districts of Nasik and Nandanwadi to rescue marooned people, Pandey said.An India air force AN-32 transport aircraft was dropping supplies.The situation is under control,Pandey said. In the Maoist insurgency-affected tiny central state of Chhattisgarh, 20,000 people had been evacuated to 19 relief camps, an official said.
The latest deaths took the nationwide death toll linked to the annual monsoon rains since mid-May to 567, 187 of them in the past week alone, according to an AFP tally.The flood situation in the country was raised in India's national parliament with Home Minister Shivraj Patil assuring MPs that New Delhi was ready to provide any assistance needed.
33 more feared dead in Pakistan rains 1 hour, 1 minute ago
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) - Torrential monsoon rains are feared to have killed another 33 people across Pakistan, including 20 when a bus slid off a flooded mountain road and plunged into a ravine. Ten bodies have been recovered after Tuesday's bus accident in Swat, a scenic mountain region in northwest Pakistan, and another 10 are still missing, local official Jamal Khan said on Tuesday.Another five people were killed in Pakistani Kashmir when a landslide sheared off a mountainside left unstable by last October's South Asia earthquake.A woman, her daughter aged three and three sons died when a huge boulder fell on their home near the town of Balabandi, local police chief Zahoorul Hassan told AFP.
The United Nations warned last week that landslips and floods could displace thousands of people already in temporary shelters after October's quake, which killed 73,000 people.Flash floods swamped several villages in rugged southwest Pakistan on Monday, said Baluchistan province's government spokesman Shakeel Ahmed.One woman died when the roof of her house collapsed near the town of Sibi and seven others were missing after they were swept away by overflowing rivers, Ahmed said.Hundreds of people were being evacuated to safer places.Incidents blamed on the annual monsoon rains have claimed more than 170 lives in Pakistan in the past two weeks.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Volcano belches more ash in Philippines By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago
MATANAG, Philippines - A volcano in the Philippines showed more signs of erupting Tuesday, belching ash three times overnight as officials evacuated tens of thousands of villagers. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert for the 8,118-foot Mayon volcano to Level 4 on Monday — the second highest level — after six explosions sent ash columns up to a half mile high. The explosions prompted the mandatory evacuation of about 35,000 villagers in Albay province, about 210 miles southeast of Manila on Luzon island.Officials also extended the government's permanent danger zone from 4.3 miles to 5 miles on the volcano's southern side.
Mayon ejected ash at least three times late Monday and was emitting unusually high volumes of sulfuric dioxide, said volcanologist Ed Laguerta. He said instruments detected more than 100 volcanic earthquakes overnight, mostly unfelt by humans.This means there is more magma rising from beneath the volcano,he said.More than 28,600 of the 35,000 villagers who were ordered to leave their villages on the southeast slopes of the volcano had been evacuated by late Tuesday, said Jukes Nunez of the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council of Albay province.An additional 20,000 people would have to be moved out of harm's way in case of a major eruption, said Albay Gov. Fernando Gonzalez.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo commended authorities for an orderly evacuation so far and predicted no casualties even if a major eruption occurs. She assured evacuees there would be enough food rations and services in temporary shelters.With the ... effective handling of this crisis, we are confident of achieving a zero-casualty goal in this looming natural disaster,she said. We call on the local residents not to flirt with danger by going back to the declared danger zones.Despite the mandatory evacuations, many villagers stayed put on farms around Mayon to tend their crops and livestock while guarding their homes and belongings.In Matanag, a farming village of about 1,400 people, about 600 residents left Monday, but many more chose to stay behind. An army truck sat at the village entrance, ready to assist in a quick escape and soldiers dropped a coconut tree across the road to Matanag to block incoming traffic.My mother said that we would not evacuate now unless it's really urgent and there's a big eruption,13-year-old Jennilyn Nantes said as she walked to school.
Lava began flowing from the volcano on July 14 and has been slowly extending down Mayon's slopes. Its most violent eruption, in 1814, killed more than 1,200 people and buried a town in mud. A 1993 eruption killed 79 people.The Philippines is in the Pacific Ring of Fire,where volcanic activity and earthquakes are common.
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)
Iran's supreme leader urges Muslims to 'defend' Hezbollah 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
TEHRAN (AFP) -Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has renewed calls on Muslims to rally to the defence of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah in its war against Israel, state television reported. Today it is the entire Muslim community's duty to defend Hezbollah,Khamenei told a meeting Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the birth of the Shiites' first Imam, Ali.Iran helped to create and arm Hezbollah in 1982 in response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon, and Tehran stands accused by the United States and Israel of fomenting chaos in the region by channelling weapons to the guerrillas.Iran denies the allegation, saying it provides only moral support to the movement.
Khamenei's comments came as Arab ministers were due to plead Lebanon's case in New York before the UN Security Council, which is debating a draft French-US resolution calling on Israel and Hezbollah to stop the fighting which has raged for the past month.The all-powerful Iranian leader lashed out at the United Nations for what he called its incompetence, and also attacked some Arab countries for looking on in silence.Some Arabic states that have kept quiet should know that the United States will never consider their interests,Khamenei said.More than 1,000 Lebanese civilians have been killed in the Israeli offensive unleashed after the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah in a cross-border raid from Lebanon on July 12.Khamenei also accused the US and Britain on Tuesday of encouraging the Zionists' crimes and seeking to eradicate Islam in this region.
Decade of turmoil
Linda MacDonald,Sunday August 6, 2006,The Observer
1997
15 January
Palestinians sign a deal with Benjamin Netanyahu's government clearing the way for the handover of 80 per cent of Hebron to Palestinian rule.
18 March
Israel defies world opinion by building the Har Homa settlement on Jabal Abu Ghneim to complete Jewish settlements around occupied East Jerusalem.
1998
23 October
Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat, Netanyahu and US President Bill Clinton sign the Wye River deal foreseeing a phased Israeli withdrawal from 13 per cent of the West Bank in exchange for Palestinian security measures protecting Israel. Netanyahu freezes the deal two months later.
199913 September
New Prime Minister Ehud Barak signs a deal with Arafat agreeing to carry out a modified version of the Wye River deal.
2000
21 March
Israel hands over last portion of West Bank territory agreed at Wye River.
28 September
Ariel Sharon, leader of right-wing opposition Likud party, visits a Jerusalem shrine holy to Muslims and Jews. Violence erupts.
2001
6 February
Sharon, becomes Prime Minister
13 June
A fragile ceasefire takes shape calling on Arafat to clamp down on militants, and on Israel to withdraw from territory seized during the intifada.
14 August
Israeli tanks move into the West Bank city of Jenin.
11 September
Terrorist attack by al-Qaeda on America kills 3,000 people.
2 October
Bush says he is prepared to back the creation of a Palestinian state.
2002
6 May
The US adds Syria to its 'axis of evil'. Mentioned in State of the Union address
2003
20 March
America launches its 'shock and awe' attack on Iraq and tries to oust Saddam Hussein.
4 June
Sharon and Palestinian Authority PM Mahmoud Abbas pledge to implement road map for peace - calling for end to violence and a Palestinian state by 2005 - at summit with Bush but ceasefire falls apart.
6 September
Abbas resigns and Arafat nominates Ahmed Qurie as prime minister.
2004
2 February
Ariel Sharon reveals his intention to withdraw from Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, with or without signing a final peace agreement with the Palestinians.
International Court of Justice in the Hague pronouncesIsrael's 'wall' illegal and says it should be torn down.
11 November
Arafat dies. Abbas becomes the new head of PLO.
2005
9 January
Abbas wins election landslide.
12 September
Israel completes military withdrawal from Gaza. Palestinian Authority takes control of abandoned settlements.
21 November
Sharon announces he is quitting Likud to lead new centrist party Kadima in order to give him a freer hand
2006
January
Sharon's powers transfer to Ehud Olmert. Islamic militant group Hamas wins the Palestinian parliamentary election.
June
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed by US forces. Cpl Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by militants. Israel launches an offensive against targets in Gaza.
12 July
Hizbollah guerrillas capture and kill soldiers around Lebanese border. Olmert calls it an 'act of war' by Lebanon. Two days later opposition from the US and Britain means no resolution on a ceasefire is agreed at a UN meeting on Lebanon. G8 summit
20 July
Deaths in Iraq have reached 100 a day
28 July
Blair flies to Washington for talks with Bush about the crisis. They call for a UN-backed peacekeeping force to be sent in and warn Tehran and Damascus over their alleged role in the conflict.A leaked memo from Britain's outgoing ambassador in Baghdad warns Blair of the likelihood of civil war in Iraq.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
RADIO MICROCHIP IMPLANTS EXCITE SOME
1-Small earthquake rattles Athens. 2-Two Earthquakes Shook Albania. 3-More than 800 killed or missing from N.Korea floods. 4-Rain subsides after storm swamps El Paso. 5-Floods kill 150 people in Ethiopia. 6-Philippine volcano sends ash skyward. 7-Thousands flee imminent Philippines volcano eruption. 7-Doubts over UN plan to halt fighting. 8-Radio microchip implants excite some, alarm others
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.
Small earthquake rattles Athens Sun Aug 6, 12:18 PM ET
ATHENS, Greece - A small earthquake rattled Athens early Sunday, causing no damage or injuries, authorities said. The magnitude 4.0 quake occurred about eight miles northeast of the capital, according to the Athens Geodynamic Institute said.Earthquakes occur frequently in Greece but rarely close to Athens.In 1999, a magnitude 5.9 quake that struck the capital killed 143 people and damaged thousands of buildings.Also Sunday, the Geodynamic Institute said a magnitude 5.3 quake occurred off the coast of southern Albania and jolted the northwest Greek city of Ioannina and nearby island of Corfu. No damages or injuries were reported.
Makfax: Two Earthquakes Shook Albania
6 August 2006 | 17:56 | FOCUS News Agency
Tirana. Two earthquakes shook the southern part of Albania and fortunately there were no victims, the Macedonian Makfax agency reports. The first quake was felt at 7:00 a.m. and was with magnitude of 4.6 on Richter scale.
The epicenter according to the seismological center in Tirana was on 4 km from the town of Saranda. The second tremor with a magnitude of 4.7 on Richter scale was registered at 9:49 a.m. at 6km from Himara in Ionic Sea. There is no info for human loss of lives and for the material damages so far.
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.
More than 800 killed or missing from N.Korea floods Mon Aug 7, 12:51 AM ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - More than 800 North Koreans are dead or missing after major rain storms and flooding that damaged homes and farmland, a pro-North newspaper published in Japan reported from Pyongyang on Monday.
Three major storms drenchedNorth Korea in July, washing away crops and raising the possibility of famine in a reclusive country that already battles chronic food shortages.
The Choson Sinbo said that as of July 17 that 549 people were killed, 295 went missing and 3,043 were injured in the storms.The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said last Friday that flooding in the second week of July had killed 151 people and left 29 missing.Heavy rains fell in parts of (North Korea) between July 14 and 16 and caused major damage, Choson Sinbo said in a report posted on its Web site (www.korea-np.co.jp).
The floods affected 28,747 families, 7,500 of which saw their homes destroyed, it said.Nearly 24,000 hectares of farmland were damaged either by flooding or being washed away, the report said. The area is equivalent to about 1.3 percent of the North's arable land, according to data published by the South Korean government.North Korea has said in its official media that the storms left
hundreds dead or missing.
North Korea has turned down aid offers from South Korea's Red Cross to help it cope with flooding, but a North Korean official was quoted as saying last week the country would not refuse help if it came with no strings attached.The U.N.
World Food Program has said the North had declined its offer of help, saying it would deal with the problem on its own.South Korea told the North in talks just preceding the storms that it would withhold food aid until Pyongyang returned to stalled talks on ending its nuclear weapons program.Private groups in the South have been urging the government to restart humanitarian assistance and said they were preparing an aid package for the North.
Rain subsides after storm swamps El Paso By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer Sun Aug 6, 5:30 PM ET
EL PASO, Texas - With only a slight chance of showers in the forecast, recovery and cleanup efforts were under way Sunday as
this desert city slowly dried out from more than a week of flooding storms. More than 15 inches of rain — nearly twice the annual average — has fallen in El Paso since July 27, City Manager Joyce Wilson said.The deluge sent mud and rocks cascading into some parts of the city, destroying as many as 300 homes and causing an estimated $100 million in damage, Wilson said.So far, about half of the damage has been reported on the west side of the city and county, where quickly rising water and rock slides flooded homes and all but washed out some roads last week, Mayor John Cook said.
One flood-related death was reported, when a contractor clearing a flooded road was hit by a tractor-trailer, authorities said.Cook said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assured him an earthen dam that had threatened to burst in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and flood downtown El Paso last week would hold.Engineers have determined that none of the city's drainage systems, dams or reservoirs failed, Wilson said.Three emergency shelters remained open Sunday but officials anticipated closing two by Monday.
State officials have asked President Bush to declare El Paso a disaster area, a necessary step for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to begin providing aid.
I Despite partly sunny skies over El Paso on Sunday, Cook cautioned the flood risk
would continue until at least Thursday, when forecasters expect the chance of rain to finally end.Meanwhile, U.S. Border Patrol swift water rescue teams and four boats remained in the area and sand bags will continue to be available as a precaution.
Floods kill 150 people in Ethiopia By Tsegaye Tadesse
Sun Aug 6, 1:04 PM ET
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Floods killed about 150 people in eastern Ethiopia when heavy rains caused a river to burst its banks, sending a wall of water into a town that killed most of the victims as they slept, police said on Sunday. Floods from the overflowing Dechatu river hit Dire Dawa town in the middle of Saturday night while residents were sleeping,police inspector Benyam Fikru told Reuters.The death toll has now reached 150.Rescuers from the police and army launched an operation early on Sunday, Benyam said, using bulldozers to dig through the sandy river banks in search of more corpses.We may call off the search as evening approaches and then resume the operation in the morning,he added.Some 220 homes had been destroyed by the floods, Benyam said, and 90 people have been released from hospital after treatment, although four remained there with serious injuries.
Benyam said a store of coffee destined for export was also swept away when the floods hit the town, located in Ethiopia's lowlands, 525 km (326 miles) east of the capital Addis Ababa.The destruction caused to property could run into millions of dollars,the police inspector said. The estimate is being worked out and will be released as soon as possible.Heavy rains in Ethiopia's highlands during the June-August season usually cause rivers in lowland areas to overflow.Last week, government officials said some 15,000 farmers had been rescued from flooded villages and taken to safe areas.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Philippine volcano sends ash skyward By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 1 minute ago
MANILA, Philippines - A volcano in the Philippines sent six explosions of ash about a half mile into the air Monday, prompting authorities to warn that an eruption appeared imminent and to evacuate tens of thousands of people. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert for the 8,118-foot Mayon volcano to Level 4, the second-highest level. Officials also extended the government's permanent "danger zone" from 4.3 miles to 5 miles on the volcano's southern side.
About 35,000 villagers were being evacuated Monday, and an additional 20,000 people will be moved out if there is a major eruption, said Gov. Fernando Gonzalez of Albay province, about 210 miles southeast of Manila on Luzon island.Classes were immediately suspended in parts of Legaspi city, the provincial capital. Army trucks and government vehicles have been deployed to ferry residents to 34 evacuation centers, officials said.Those evacuated included people who have ventured back to the danger zone to tend crops in the fertile volcanic soil.I survive by tending that farm and I have lived here all my life, said Gerry Losentales, an 87-year-old farmer, as soldiers helped him board an army truck in his village of Mabiniet. I hope the government can help me now.
Lava began flowing from the volcano on July 14 and has been slowly extending down Mayon's slopes. Before the explosions Monday, volcanologists said they had detected 21 low-frequency volcanic earthquakes over the previous 24 hours.
Last week, the government deployed troops to keep sightseers away from the edge of advancing lava. Renato Solidum Jr., head of the volcanology institute, has said the danger could come from a collapse of the lava dome or sudden explosive eruption that could send pyroclastic flows — clouds of superheated gas and ash — racing down the volcano's slopes.Mayon is one of the Philippines' 22 active volcanos. Its most violent eruption, in 1814, killed more than 1,200 people and buried a town in mud. A 1993 eruption killed 79 people.The Philippines is in the Pacific Ring of Fire,where volcanic activity and earthquakes are common.
Thousands flee imminent Philippines volcano eruption 48 minutes ago
LEGASPI, Philippines (AFP) - Thousands of people were being moved out of their homes in the central Philippines on Monday in the face of the imminent eruption of the rumbling Mayon volcano, officials said. Volcanologists previously said an explosive eruption by Mayon, one of the country's most active volcanoes, could threaten the lives of about 60,000 people.We have to finish this by 12:00 noon (0400 GMT) to avoid incidents. These are orders from the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Center,Legaspi city mayor Noel Rosal said as he supervised the evacuation of 10,500 residents from four villages on Mayon's lower slopes.
The region was rocked early Monday by five successive volcanic blasts within 40 minutes, followed by a fountain of lava from
Mayon's crater, he said on local radio.By mid-morning the peak was covered in a dark cloud of volcanic material rising several kilometers (miles) above the crater.The government's seismology institute on Monday raised a five-step volcano alert over Mayon at the next-highest level of 4, meaning an eruption could occur within days.It began abnormal activity in February, and started emitting small lava flows on July 15.Materials thrown from the crater of the 8,070-foot (2,460-meter) mountain could threaten anyone within an eight-kilometer (five-mile) radius, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in an advisory.
It advised local officials in the central province of Albay to order the evacuation of 28 areas around the mountain, including parts of Legaspi city and the towns of Camalig, Daraga, Ligao, Malilipot, Santo Domingo and Tabaco.Areas just outside of these (villages) should prepare for evacuation in the event explosive eruptions intensify,it said.Mayor Rosal said government vehicles are rounding up residents of the farming hamlets of Mabinit, Bonga, Matanag and Buyuan.We are just waiting for them to gather some of their things before we take them to the major evacuation centers,he said.Evacuations were also underway in the other threatened villages.
The mayor said the mild lava eruption last month gave us ample lead time to prepare the evacuation centers, mostly schools and other government buildings beyond the volcano danger zone.They were stocked with food and sleeping facilities while tap water and electricity connections were provided.Asked if any residents were refusing to leave, Rosal said: Some are reluctant to leave.
Mayon has had 47 eruptions in recorded history, the latest being a mild outpouring of lava in June 2001.The volcano with a near-perfect cone buried the town of Cagsawa in the 19th century, killing an estimated 1,000 people.
Doubts over UN plan to halt fighting
Attempts to bring about an end to the fighting between Israel and Hizbollah fighters based in Lebanon appeared to stall yesterday.
A draft United Nations resolution was rejected by the Lebanese government, which said it was one-sided and failed to consider its own proposals for ending the conflict.Under the Franco-American plan there would be no call for an immediate ceasefire, Israel would be allowed to continue defensive military operations and its soldiers would be allowed to remain in southern Lebanon until an international force is deployed.Government officials in Beirut, said to have the backing of other capitals in the Middle East, argued it would have the effect of legitimising Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon.
The Israeli government is reported to be broadly satisfied with the draft resolution. Meanwhile, a Hizbollah rocket attack on north east Israel yesterday killed 12 people and injured 12 others.According to the Independent, foreign secretary Margaret Beckett is preparing to fly to the UN to press for humanitarian corridors to be established to get aid to the Lebanese.The Guardian reports that
the Iranian government has described Tony Blair and George W Bush as co-defendants in war crimes committed by Israel.
Conservative leader David Cameron has also intervened in the debate to say that elements of Israel's actions have been disproportionate.The Mirror reports on a poll of 221 MPs by the Ceasefire Group. It found 204 of those MPs, including 119 Labour
members, were in favour of an immediate and effective ceasefire.
BELIEVE THE BIBLE WHEN IT SAYS ALL THE WORLDS POPULATION WILL BE CONTROLED BY MICRO CHIP IMPLANTS. DON'T LET THESE WRITERS DECIEVE YOU IN TO BELIEVING AYTHING ELSE, ONLY GOD DOES NOT LIE TO US , MEN DO.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Radio microchip implants excite some, alarm others
By Francine Brevetti - Business Writer
IMPLANTABLE microchips such as the VeriChip (left) store data electronically. The technology is available from Applied Digital Solutions Inc. (VERICHIP CORP.) IN ONE of our stark nightmares of a Big Brother future, everybody on the planet is implanted with a microchip that carries the facts about your identity, medical history, DNA and tracks your movements under the watchful eye of a supreme authority.
Relax. It's not possible. Not the tracking part anyway. A radio frequency identification (RFID) chip merely carries a number. That number can be read by a scanner that leads to a database of information, possibly about you, or in the case of merchandise, information about pricing or other relevant data. The scanner needs to be 3 to 6 inches away from the chip. It cannot track your movements.
This is a huge misconception. It's not GPS (global positioning system). It merely tags you if there's a reader in range,said Will Smith, editor of RFID Update, the industry's daily online bible. RFID chips are becoming more mainstream. They are used to identify animals. They are used by retailers such as Wal-Mart to improve inventory management. But some say the mere existence of technology to implant microchips in humans, even if for voluntary use, bodes ill for the future.
And there already are voluntary uses for implanted chips.
Today, VIP members of the Baja Beach Clubs in Barcelona, Spain, and Rotterdam, Netherlands, can pay for drinks by having management scan a VeriChip Corp. microchip they have voluntarily had implanted in their hands as a distinguishing mark of their
premier level of membership.
In Cincinnati, CityWatcher.com, a video surveillance company, requires its employees to maintain strict security standards. One of the means it offers them as an option is a microchip implanted in their upper right arm, which is read by a scanner when they enter a sensitive area.
Two employees accepted.Scott R. Silverman, chief executive officer of Applied Digital Solutions Inc., whose VeriChip subsidiary sells implantable chips, said in a June interview with Fox News Channel that his company's chip could be used to register foreign workers and their identities at the U.S. border. He had discussed RFID technology with Washington leaders for use in a guest worker program, he also disclosed.
Since the technology cannot track individuals, he was merely suggesting that foreign workers be chipped with their biometric information.
Is this an acceptable use of implantable chips?
The (RFID) industry was horrified,said Smith of RFID Update. We are constantly having to clean up after VeriChip and its sensational application.Three years ago, Silverman also proposed the use of implanted chips as a cashless payment system in
retail outlets.
Imagine going to a checkout counter and waving your hand instead of your credit card. It's an interesting idea no one can steal your identity and you cannot lose it like a card or a wallet. But the idea hasn't gained any traction in the world of commerce in the three years since he floated it.
VeriChip's firstquarter revenue did increase to $6.6 million, from $15,000 in the first quarter of 2005, propelled by two acquisitions, though its loss was $1 million. VeriChip filed a registration statement in December for an initial public offering of shares of its common stock, but has yet to set an IPO date.
Shares of parent company Applied Digital reached a 52week low of $1.40 on July 28.
The United Kingdom's IDTechEx forecast that the global RFID market value will be $2.7 billion in 2006 and will grow to $26.2 billion in the next decade. RFID tags in use currently are estimated at 1.3 billion this year and are expected to grow to 585 billion by 2016, the research company said. However, those implanted in humans are a minuscule amount in comparison.Meanwhile, the government of South Africa is currently researching the implanting of chips in prisoners. Farhad Aghdasi, who oversees the research program, said ethical issues can be overcome as the implants will be done only on those with a criminal record, according to SABC News.The state of Wisconsin recently outlawed the implantation of microchips against a person's will, although there was no obvious move to do so in that state. And Ohio is considering a similar law. Unfortunately, the language of the Ohio proposal assumes chips can track citizens' movements.
Implanted chips have long been used for identifying livestock and pets.
When a dog with an implant gets lost and some nice person finds it and takes it to the vet, the microchip in its neck connects to a centralized database, which ultimately can connect the dog to its owner. A major veterinarian in Thailand has recently complained about that country's unruly pachyderms and has proposed microchipping elephants in Bangkok, according to the IOL online news site.The cow and the dog do not complain.Their owners are grateful. But for people, it's a whole different story.
Fears, beliefs and biases are brought into play.
The American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Privacy Information Center and researchers Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre as well as some Christian fundamentalist groups have been outspoken on the subject.EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg has been quoted saying workplace safety has become increasingly eroded. He complained that there were no laws and regulations surrounding the deployment of chips in humans or in inanimate objects.In the 1980s, you'd take a poly graph test to get a job. In the 1990s, it was drug testing. A little later on, it was reading your email. . . . Is the law going to create any zones of safety?he said on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight.In fact, the VeriChip microchip is encrypted. But as hackers get smarter, it's unclear how long your data will remain inviolate to all but the most crude attempts at intrusion.
The fundamentalist Christian cosmology holds that an Antichrist will rise up to enslave all people who have a mark on the right hand or on the forehead, deriving this belief from the verse Revelations 13:1618.RFID Update editor Smith doesn't see demand for implanted microchips being very great because people are not comfortable with the technology.They (VeriChip) keep coming up with new ideas for products, because they can't find markets that gain any traction because it creeps people out.
The benefits don't outweigh the creepiness factor,Smith said.
Even though RFID technology cannot track us and our movements, Thomas Frey, a futurist with the DaVinci Institute, said that in the future satellites will be hovering to track every individual; and each will have a unique signature that will be scanned by some technology of the future.This technology will be capable of picking out single individuals in crowds and recognizing them by their unique signature,providing there are no privacy barriers.That's a huge if.
Business Writer Francine Brevetti can be reached at fbrevetti@angnewspapers.com or (510) 2086416.
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.
Small earthquake rattles Athens Sun Aug 6, 12:18 PM ET
ATHENS, Greece - A small earthquake rattled Athens early Sunday, causing no damage or injuries, authorities said. The magnitude 4.0 quake occurred about eight miles northeast of the capital, according to the Athens Geodynamic Institute said.Earthquakes occur frequently in Greece but rarely close to Athens.In 1999, a magnitude 5.9 quake that struck the capital killed 143 people and damaged thousands of buildings.Also Sunday, the Geodynamic Institute said a magnitude 5.3 quake occurred off the coast of southern Albania and jolted the northwest Greek city of Ioannina and nearby island of Corfu. No damages or injuries were reported.
Makfax: Two Earthquakes Shook Albania
6 August 2006 | 17:56 | FOCUS News Agency
Tirana. Two earthquakes shook the southern part of Albania and fortunately there were no victims, the Macedonian Makfax agency reports. The first quake was felt at 7:00 a.m. and was with magnitude of 4.6 on Richter scale.
The epicenter according to the seismological center in Tirana was on 4 km from the town of Saranda. The second tremor with a magnitude of 4.7 on Richter scale was registered at 9:49 a.m. at 6km from Himara in Ionic Sea. There is no info for human loss of lives and for the material damages so far.
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.
More than 800 killed or missing from N.Korea floods Mon Aug 7, 12:51 AM ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - More than 800 North Koreans are dead or missing after major rain storms and flooding that damaged homes and farmland, a pro-North newspaper published in Japan reported from Pyongyang on Monday.
Three major storms drenchedNorth Korea in July, washing away crops and raising the possibility of famine in a reclusive country that already battles chronic food shortages.
The Choson Sinbo said that as of July 17 that 549 people were killed, 295 went missing and 3,043 were injured in the storms.The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said last Friday that flooding in the second week of July had killed 151 people and left 29 missing.Heavy rains fell in parts of (North Korea) between July 14 and 16 and caused major damage, Choson Sinbo said in a report posted on its Web site (www.korea-np.co.jp).
The floods affected 28,747 families, 7,500 of which saw their homes destroyed, it said.Nearly 24,000 hectares of farmland were damaged either by flooding or being washed away, the report said. The area is equivalent to about 1.3 percent of the North's arable land, according to data published by the South Korean government.North Korea has said in its official media that the storms left
hundreds dead or missing.
North Korea has turned down aid offers from South Korea's Red Cross to help it cope with flooding, but a North Korean official was quoted as saying last week the country would not refuse help if it came with no strings attached.The U.N.
World Food Program has said the North had declined its offer of help, saying it would deal with the problem on its own.South Korea told the North in talks just preceding the storms that it would withhold food aid until Pyongyang returned to stalled talks on ending its nuclear weapons program.Private groups in the South have been urging the government to restart humanitarian assistance and said they were preparing an aid package for the North.
Rain subsides after storm swamps El Paso By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer Sun Aug 6, 5:30 PM ET
EL PASO, Texas - With only a slight chance of showers in the forecast, recovery and cleanup efforts were under way Sunday as
this desert city slowly dried out from more than a week of flooding storms. More than 15 inches of rain — nearly twice the annual average — has fallen in El Paso since July 27, City Manager Joyce Wilson said.The deluge sent mud and rocks cascading into some parts of the city, destroying as many as 300 homes and causing an estimated $100 million in damage, Wilson said.So far, about half of the damage has been reported on the west side of the city and county, where quickly rising water and rock slides flooded homes and all but washed out some roads last week, Mayor John Cook said.
One flood-related death was reported, when a contractor clearing a flooded road was hit by a tractor-trailer, authorities said.Cook said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assured him an earthen dam that had threatened to burst in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and flood downtown El Paso last week would hold.Engineers have determined that none of the city's drainage systems, dams or reservoirs failed, Wilson said.Three emergency shelters remained open Sunday but officials anticipated closing two by Monday.
State officials have asked President Bush to declare El Paso a disaster area, a necessary step for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to begin providing aid.
I Despite partly sunny skies over El Paso on Sunday, Cook cautioned the flood risk
would continue until at least Thursday, when forecasters expect the chance of rain to finally end.Meanwhile, U.S. Border Patrol swift water rescue teams and four boats remained in the area and sand bags will continue to be available as a precaution.
Floods kill 150 people in Ethiopia By Tsegaye Tadesse
Sun Aug 6, 1:04 PM ET
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Floods killed about 150 people in eastern Ethiopia when heavy rains caused a river to burst its banks, sending a wall of water into a town that killed most of the victims as they slept, police said on Sunday. Floods from the overflowing Dechatu river hit Dire Dawa town in the middle of Saturday night while residents were sleeping,police inspector Benyam Fikru told Reuters.The death toll has now reached 150.Rescuers from the police and army launched an operation early on Sunday, Benyam said, using bulldozers to dig through the sandy river banks in search of more corpses.We may call off the search as evening approaches and then resume the operation in the morning,he added.Some 220 homes had been destroyed by the floods, Benyam said, and 90 people have been released from hospital after treatment, although four remained there with serious injuries.
Benyam said a store of coffee destined for export was also swept away when the floods hit the town, located in Ethiopia's lowlands, 525 km (326 miles) east of the capital Addis Ababa.The destruction caused to property could run into millions of dollars,the police inspector said. The estimate is being worked out and will be released as soon as possible.Heavy rains in Ethiopia's highlands during the June-August season usually cause rivers in lowland areas to overflow.Last week, government officials said some 15,000 farmers had been rescued from flooded villages and taken to safe areas.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Philippine volcano sends ash skyward By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 1 minute ago
MANILA, Philippines - A volcano in the Philippines sent six explosions of ash about a half mile into the air Monday, prompting authorities to warn that an eruption appeared imminent and to evacuate tens of thousands of people. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert for the 8,118-foot Mayon volcano to Level 4, the second-highest level. Officials also extended the government's permanent "danger zone" from 4.3 miles to 5 miles on the volcano's southern side.
About 35,000 villagers were being evacuated Monday, and an additional 20,000 people will be moved out if there is a major eruption, said Gov. Fernando Gonzalez of Albay province, about 210 miles southeast of Manila on Luzon island.Classes were immediately suspended in parts of Legaspi city, the provincial capital. Army trucks and government vehicles have been deployed to ferry residents to 34 evacuation centers, officials said.Those evacuated included people who have ventured back to the danger zone to tend crops in the fertile volcanic soil.I survive by tending that farm and I have lived here all my life, said Gerry Losentales, an 87-year-old farmer, as soldiers helped him board an army truck in his village of Mabiniet. I hope the government can help me now.
Lava began flowing from the volcano on July 14 and has been slowly extending down Mayon's slopes. Before the explosions Monday, volcanologists said they had detected 21 low-frequency volcanic earthquakes over the previous 24 hours.
Last week, the government deployed troops to keep sightseers away from the edge of advancing lava. Renato Solidum Jr., head of the volcanology institute, has said the danger could come from a collapse of the lava dome or sudden explosive eruption that could send pyroclastic flows — clouds of superheated gas and ash — racing down the volcano's slopes.Mayon is one of the Philippines' 22 active volcanos. Its most violent eruption, in 1814, killed more than 1,200 people and buried a town in mud. A 1993 eruption killed 79 people.The Philippines is in the Pacific Ring of Fire,where volcanic activity and earthquakes are common.
Thousands flee imminent Philippines volcano eruption 48 minutes ago
LEGASPI, Philippines (AFP) - Thousands of people were being moved out of their homes in the central Philippines on Monday in the face of the imminent eruption of the rumbling Mayon volcano, officials said. Volcanologists previously said an explosive eruption by Mayon, one of the country's most active volcanoes, could threaten the lives of about 60,000 people.We have to finish this by 12:00 noon (0400 GMT) to avoid incidents. These are orders from the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Center,Legaspi city mayor Noel Rosal said as he supervised the evacuation of 10,500 residents from four villages on Mayon's lower slopes.
The region was rocked early Monday by five successive volcanic blasts within 40 minutes, followed by a fountain of lava from
Mayon's crater, he said on local radio.By mid-morning the peak was covered in a dark cloud of volcanic material rising several kilometers (miles) above the crater.The government's seismology institute on Monday raised a five-step volcano alert over Mayon at the next-highest level of 4, meaning an eruption could occur within days.It began abnormal activity in February, and started emitting small lava flows on July 15.Materials thrown from the crater of the 8,070-foot (2,460-meter) mountain could threaten anyone within an eight-kilometer (five-mile) radius, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in an advisory.
It advised local officials in the central province of Albay to order the evacuation of 28 areas around the mountain, including parts of Legaspi city and the towns of Camalig, Daraga, Ligao, Malilipot, Santo Domingo and Tabaco.Areas just outside of these (villages) should prepare for evacuation in the event explosive eruptions intensify,it said.Mayor Rosal said government vehicles are rounding up residents of the farming hamlets of Mabinit, Bonga, Matanag and Buyuan.We are just waiting for them to gather some of their things before we take them to the major evacuation centers,he said.Evacuations were also underway in the other threatened villages.
The mayor said the mild lava eruption last month gave us ample lead time to prepare the evacuation centers, mostly schools and other government buildings beyond the volcano danger zone.They were stocked with food and sleeping facilities while tap water and electricity connections were provided.Asked if any residents were refusing to leave, Rosal said: Some are reluctant to leave.
Mayon has had 47 eruptions in recorded history, the latest being a mild outpouring of lava in June 2001.The volcano with a near-perfect cone buried the town of Cagsawa in the 19th century, killing an estimated 1,000 people.
Doubts over UN plan to halt fighting
Attempts to bring about an end to the fighting between Israel and Hizbollah fighters based in Lebanon appeared to stall yesterday.
A draft United Nations resolution was rejected by the Lebanese government, which said it was one-sided and failed to consider its own proposals for ending the conflict.Under the Franco-American plan there would be no call for an immediate ceasefire, Israel would be allowed to continue defensive military operations and its soldiers would be allowed to remain in southern Lebanon until an international force is deployed.Government officials in Beirut, said to have the backing of other capitals in the Middle East, argued it would have the effect of legitimising Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon.
The Israeli government is reported to be broadly satisfied with the draft resolution. Meanwhile, a Hizbollah rocket attack on north east Israel yesterday killed 12 people and injured 12 others.According to the Independent, foreign secretary Margaret Beckett is preparing to fly to the UN to press for humanitarian corridors to be established to get aid to the Lebanese.The Guardian reports that
the Iranian government has described Tony Blair and George W Bush as co-defendants in war crimes committed by Israel.
Conservative leader David Cameron has also intervened in the debate to say that elements of Israel's actions have been disproportionate.The Mirror reports on a poll of 221 MPs by the Ceasefire Group. It found 204 of those MPs, including 119 Labour
members, were in favour of an immediate and effective ceasefire.
BELIEVE THE BIBLE WHEN IT SAYS ALL THE WORLDS POPULATION WILL BE CONTROLED BY MICRO CHIP IMPLANTS. DON'T LET THESE WRITERS DECIEVE YOU IN TO BELIEVING AYTHING ELSE, ONLY GOD DOES NOT LIE TO US , MEN DO.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Radio microchip implants excite some, alarm others
By Francine Brevetti - Business Writer
IMPLANTABLE microchips such as the VeriChip (left) store data electronically. The technology is available from Applied Digital Solutions Inc. (VERICHIP CORP.) IN ONE of our stark nightmares of a Big Brother future, everybody on the planet is implanted with a microchip that carries the facts about your identity, medical history, DNA and tracks your movements under the watchful eye of a supreme authority.
Relax. It's not possible. Not the tracking part anyway. A radio frequency identification (RFID) chip merely carries a number. That number can be read by a scanner that leads to a database of information, possibly about you, or in the case of merchandise, information about pricing or other relevant data. The scanner needs to be 3 to 6 inches away from the chip. It cannot track your movements.
This is a huge misconception. It's not GPS (global positioning system). It merely tags you if there's a reader in range,said Will Smith, editor of RFID Update, the industry's daily online bible. RFID chips are becoming more mainstream. They are used to identify animals. They are used by retailers such as Wal-Mart to improve inventory management. But some say the mere existence of technology to implant microchips in humans, even if for voluntary use, bodes ill for the future.
And there already are voluntary uses for implanted chips.
Today, VIP members of the Baja Beach Clubs in Barcelona, Spain, and Rotterdam, Netherlands, can pay for drinks by having management scan a VeriChip Corp. microchip they have voluntarily had implanted in their hands as a distinguishing mark of their
premier level of membership.
In Cincinnati, CityWatcher.com, a video surveillance company, requires its employees to maintain strict security standards. One of the means it offers them as an option is a microchip implanted in their upper right arm, which is read by a scanner when they enter a sensitive area.
Two employees accepted.Scott R. Silverman, chief executive officer of Applied Digital Solutions Inc., whose VeriChip subsidiary sells implantable chips, said in a June interview with Fox News Channel that his company's chip could be used to register foreign workers and their identities at the U.S. border. He had discussed RFID technology with Washington leaders for use in a guest worker program, he also disclosed.
Since the technology cannot track individuals, he was merely suggesting that foreign workers be chipped with their biometric information.
Is this an acceptable use of implantable chips?
The (RFID) industry was horrified,said Smith of RFID Update. We are constantly having to clean up after VeriChip and its sensational application.Three years ago, Silverman also proposed the use of implanted chips as a cashless payment system in
retail outlets.
Imagine going to a checkout counter and waving your hand instead of your credit card. It's an interesting idea no one can steal your identity and you cannot lose it like a card or a wallet. But the idea hasn't gained any traction in the world of commerce in the three years since he floated it.
VeriChip's firstquarter revenue did increase to $6.6 million, from $15,000 in the first quarter of 2005, propelled by two acquisitions, though its loss was $1 million. VeriChip filed a registration statement in December for an initial public offering of shares of its common stock, but has yet to set an IPO date.
Shares of parent company Applied Digital reached a 52week low of $1.40 on July 28.
The United Kingdom's IDTechEx forecast that the global RFID market value will be $2.7 billion in 2006 and will grow to $26.2 billion in the next decade. RFID tags in use currently are estimated at 1.3 billion this year and are expected to grow to 585 billion by 2016, the research company said. However, those implanted in humans are a minuscule amount in comparison.Meanwhile, the government of South Africa is currently researching the implanting of chips in prisoners. Farhad Aghdasi, who oversees the research program, said ethical issues can be overcome as the implants will be done only on those with a criminal record, according to SABC News.The state of Wisconsin recently outlawed the implantation of microchips against a person's will, although there was no obvious move to do so in that state. And Ohio is considering a similar law. Unfortunately, the language of the Ohio proposal assumes chips can track citizens' movements.
Implanted chips have long been used for identifying livestock and pets.
When a dog with an implant gets lost and some nice person finds it and takes it to the vet, the microchip in its neck connects to a centralized database, which ultimately can connect the dog to its owner. A major veterinarian in Thailand has recently complained about that country's unruly pachyderms and has proposed microchipping elephants in Bangkok, according to the IOL online news site.The cow and the dog do not complain.Their owners are grateful. But for people, it's a whole different story.
Fears, beliefs and biases are brought into play.
The American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Privacy Information Center and researchers Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre as well as some Christian fundamentalist groups have been outspoken on the subject.EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg has been quoted saying workplace safety has become increasingly eroded. He complained that there were no laws and regulations surrounding the deployment of chips in humans or in inanimate objects.In the 1980s, you'd take a poly graph test to get a job. In the 1990s, it was drug testing. A little later on, it was reading your email. . . . Is the law going to create any zones of safety?he said on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight.In fact, the VeriChip microchip is encrypted. But as hackers get smarter, it's unclear how long your data will remain inviolate to all but the most crude attempts at intrusion.
The fundamentalist Christian cosmology holds that an Antichrist will rise up to enslave all people who have a mark on the right hand or on the forehead, deriving this belief from the verse Revelations 13:1618.RFID Update editor Smith doesn't see demand for implanted microchips being very great because people are not comfortable with the technology.They (VeriChip) keep coming up with new ideas for products, because they can't find markets that gain any traction because it creeps people out.
The benefits don't outweigh the creepiness factor,Smith said.
Even though RFID technology cannot track us and our movements, Thomas Frey, a futurist with the DaVinci Institute, said that in the future satellites will be hovering to track every individual; and each will have a unique signature that will be scanned by some technology of the future.This technology will be capable of picking out single individuals in crowds and recognizing them by their unique signature,providing there are no privacy barriers.That's a huge if.
Business Writer Francine Brevetti can be reached at fbrevetti@angnewspapers.com or (510) 2086416.
Monday, August 07, 2006
SYRIA REJECTS CEASE FIRE
1-Lindas message. 2-Iran Defies UN Security Council, Expands Nuclear Program. 3-Syria rejects Mideast cease-fire plan.
Linda"s Message to the World.
An 8 year old child caught stealing bread in a market of Iran is punished in a public place, in the name of Islam!!! His arm will be crushed and will lose its use permanently.A religion of peace and love, they say?
How can anyone believe them when they commit such inhuman acts?
I AGREE TOTALLY WITH YOU LINDA. A LOVING RELIGION THAT ISLAM IS, IS IT NOT.
Theres a great tape I suggest every one get, its free and its incredible and makes great sense of why the World hates God so much and the truth behind SLANDER AND GOSSIP. And how Slander destroys your life. This is the true meaning of when the Bible says SATAN accuses the Christians day and night before GOD. Everyone needs this tape
The Tape is called The POWER OF SPEECH BY RABBI MENDEL KESSIN.
To Order your free cassette: go to http://silberman.livejournal.com
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)
Iran Defies UN Security Council, Expands Nuclear Program
By Hana Levi Julian(INN)
Iran will broaden its uranium enrichment program, in defiance of a United Nations Security Council mandate to end it by August 31st or face possible sanctions.Top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Sunday that his country has rejected last week’s U.N. Security Council resolution. We will expand nuclear activities where required,” he said. “It includes all nuclear technology including the string of centrifuges.Iranian nuclear engineers use the centrifuges to enrich uranium. Enriched uranium can be used, among other things, to generate electricity – or to build a nuclear weapon, depending on the level of enrichment.Plans are on the table to install 3,000 centrifuges at the enrichment plant in the city of Natanz in central Iran by October. In February, Iran used a cascade of 164 centrifuges to produce low-grade enriched uranium.
The UN resolution sets an August 31 deadline for Iran to stop its nuclear activities. Political and economic sanctions may be considered if Iran does not cooperate.Larijani said his nation considers the resolution to be illegal,saying that it was contrary to the package of incentives to suspend its uranium enrichment program offered by Western nations two months ago.We won’t accept suspension,he said, adding that Iran would formally respond to the offer on August 22nd. The Islamic Republic said its nuclear program is geared for domestic use only. The United States has maintained that Iranian scientists are in the process of building an atomic weapon.Israeli security officials have said that the long-range rockets now being used to bomb Israeli cities in northern Israel are Iranian-made. The Hizbullah terrorist organization, which is at war with Israel, is heavily supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Syria rejects Mideast cease-fire plan By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
BEIRUT, Lebanon Syria's foreign minister declared Sunday that a U.S.-French cease-fire plan was a recipe for the continuation of the war, between Israeli and Hezbollah, which he said the Jewish state cannot win. As he spoke, Israeli warplanes struck a few miles away in the Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.Walid Moallem, on his first visit to Lebanon since Damascus ended a 29-year military presence in its smaller neighbor last year, said only a complete Israeli pullout would entice Hezbollah guerrillas to stop fighting.Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa landed in Beirut and told reporters at the airport that he came to consult with the Lebanese government on ways to stop the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.
Moussa, who met earlier in the day in Syria with its president, Bashar Assad, will take part in an Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Beirut Monday.Moallem, the former Syrian envoy to Washington, said his nation's armed forces were under orders to respond immediately to an Israeli assault.If Israel attacks Syria by any mean, on the ground, by air, our leadership ordered the armed forces to reply immediately,he said after emerging from a meeting with Lebanese President Emile Lahoud.Israel has issued repeated pledges not to attack Syria.After meeting the speaker of Lebanon's parliament, Moallem said whoever believes they can liquidate Hezbollah with their huge military ... is under an illusion.The war ends with an immediate and unconditional cease fire, a full Israeli withdrawal to the border and the return of refugees to their homes,he said.
Moallem reached Beirut by road, crossing into Lebanon at a northern border point, the National News Agency reported. He met with his Lebanese counterpart, Fawzi Salloukh, in the northern port city of Tripoli and said during that stop that Syria is ready for the possibility of a regional war if the Israeli aggression continues.Moallem said the U.S.-French draft resolution had adopted Israel's point of view only,and, underlining his support for Hezbollah, said that as Syria's foreign minister I hope to be a soldier in the resistance.Moallem's visit comes amid strained relations between Lebanon and Syria resulting from the Feb. 14, 2005, assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. A U.N. investigation has implicated several Syrian officials in the murder.Syria denied any involvement in the Hariri assassination, which led to an international isolation of Damascus.
Prompted by the crisis that followed Hariri's assassination, Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon in April 2005, ending a 29-year military presence.
Linda"s Message to the World.
An 8 year old child caught stealing bread in a market of Iran is punished in a public place, in the name of Islam!!! His arm will be crushed and will lose its use permanently.A religion of peace and love, they say?
How can anyone believe them when they commit such inhuman acts?
I AGREE TOTALLY WITH YOU LINDA. A LOVING RELIGION THAT ISLAM IS, IS IT NOT.
Theres a great tape I suggest every one get, its free and its incredible and makes great sense of why the World hates God so much and the truth behind SLANDER AND GOSSIP. And how Slander destroys your life. This is the true meaning of when the Bible says SATAN accuses the Christians day and night before GOD. Everyone needs this tape
The Tape is called The POWER OF SPEECH BY RABBI MENDEL KESSIN.
To Order your free cassette: go to http://silberman.livejournal.com
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)
Iran Defies UN Security Council, Expands Nuclear Program
By Hana Levi Julian(INN)
Iran will broaden its uranium enrichment program, in defiance of a United Nations Security Council mandate to end it by August 31st or face possible sanctions.Top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Sunday that his country has rejected last week’s U.N. Security Council resolution. We will expand nuclear activities where required,” he said. “It includes all nuclear technology including the string of centrifuges.Iranian nuclear engineers use the centrifuges to enrich uranium. Enriched uranium can be used, among other things, to generate electricity – or to build a nuclear weapon, depending on the level of enrichment.Plans are on the table to install 3,000 centrifuges at the enrichment plant in the city of Natanz in central Iran by October. In February, Iran used a cascade of 164 centrifuges to produce low-grade enriched uranium.
The UN resolution sets an August 31 deadline for Iran to stop its nuclear activities. Political and economic sanctions may be considered if Iran does not cooperate.Larijani said his nation considers the resolution to be illegal,saying that it was contrary to the package of incentives to suspend its uranium enrichment program offered by Western nations two months ago.We won’t accept suspension,he said, adding that Iran would formally respond to the offer on August 22nd. The Islamic Republic said its nuclear program is geared for domestic use only. The United States has maintained that Iranian scientists are in the process of building an atomic weapon.Israeli security officials have said that the long-range rockets now being used to bomb Israeli cities in northern Israel are Iranian-made. The Hizbullah terrorist organization, which is at war with Israel, is heavily supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Syria rejects Mideast cease-fire plan By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
BEIRUT, Lebanon Syria's foreign minister declared Sunday that a U.S.-French cease-fire plan was a recipe for the continuation of the war, between Israeli and Hezbollah, which he said the Jewish state cannot win. As he spoke, Israeli warplanes struck a few miles away in the Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.Walid Moallem, on his first visit to Lebanon since Damascus ended a 29-year military presence in its smaller neighbor last year, said only a complete Israeli pullout would entice Hezbollah guerrillas to stop fighting.Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa landed in Beirut and told reporters at the airport that he came to consult with the Lebanese government on ways to stop the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.
Moussa, who met earlier in the day in Syria with its president, Bashar Assad, will take part in an Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Beirut Monday.Moallem, the former Syrian envoy to Washington, said his nation's armed forces were under orders to respond immediately to an Israeli assault.If Israel attacks Syria by any mean, on the ground, by air, our leadership ordered the armed forces to reply immediately,he said after emerging from a meeting with Lebanese President Emile Lahoud.Israel has issued repeated pledges not to attack Syria.After meeting the speaker of Lebanon's parliament, Moallem said whoever believes they can liquidate Hezbollah with their huge military ... is under an illusion.The war ends with an immediate and unconditional cease fire, a full Israeli withdrawal to the border and the return of refugees to their homes,he said.
Moallem reached Beirut by road, crossing into Lebanon at a northern border point, the National News Agency reported. He met with his Lebanese counterpart, Fawzi Salloukh, in the northern port city of Tripoli and said during that stop that Syria is ready for the possibility of a regional war if the Israeli aggression continues.Moallem said the U.S.-French draft resolution had adopted Israel's point of view only,and, underlining his support for Hezbollah, said that as Syria's foreign minister I hope to be a soldier in the resistance.Moallem's visit comes amid strained relations between Lebanon and Syria resulting from the Feb. 14, 2005, assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. A U.N. investigation has implicated several Syrian officials in the murder.Syria denied any involvement in the Hariri assassination, which led to an international isolation of Damascus.
Prompted by the crisis that followed Hariri's assassination, Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon in April 2005, ending a 29-year military presence.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
SYRIA WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE
1-Tornado hits two towns in Manitoba, reports of injuries, damage. 2-At least 30 dead after bridge collapses in Pakistan. 3-Egypt group leaders join al Qaeda - Zawahri. 4-Israel cuts Lebanon's last route to Syria. 5-Praise and skepticism greet UN peace resolution. 6-Putin calls for immediate cease-fire in Lebanon in conversation with Annan. 7-Kim Clement: SYRIA, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU WILL NOT RISE UP AGAINST THE LION!
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.
Tornado hits two towns in Manitoba, reports of injuries, damage 40 minutes ago
GULL LAKE, Man. (CP) - A tornado has cut a swath through southeastern Manitoba. There are unconfirmed reports of at least one death and four people missing.RCMP Sgt. Steve Saunders says he's heard the damage is extensive in the immediate area of the Gull Lake campground.Environment Canada severe weather meteorologist Dan Fulton says a funnel cloud was reported near Patricia Beach about 5:19 p.m. local time.
He says a few minutes later, there were reports it touched down.Fulton says it was
definitely a tornado that hit Gull Lake and Patricia Beach, small summer resort communities about 50 minutes north of Winnipeg.Fulton says there are reports of houses damaged, toppled trailers, uprooted trees and vehicles turned over.
At least 30 dead after bridge collapses in Pakistan Sat Aug 5, 2:01 PM ET
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP)At least 30 people died and many more are missing after a bridge collapsed in northwestern Pakistan as torrential rains battered the area, police have said. Some 30 bodies have already been recovered from a river swollen by
heavy rains in Mardan town, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of Peshawar bordering Afghanistan, local police official Javed Khan said.
The search for those still missing has been hampered by nightfall, he added.Local mayor Himayat ullah Mayar earlier said more than 100 people had gathered on the bridge to watch the flooded river when part of it caved in, plunging almost all of them into the swirling waters.
He said army troops had been called out to join the rescue work.Twelve members of my family are missing,a Mardan resident Iqbal Hoti told reporters.More than 40 people have died in landslides and floods caused by rain torrents in Pakistan over the past two days.
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)
Egypt group leaders join al Qaeda - Zawahri video By Cynthia Johnston
Sat Aug 5, 6:35 PM ET
CAIRO (Reuters) - Some leaders of Egypt's Gama'a Islamiya have joined al Qaeda, al Qaeda's deputy head Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video aired on Al Jazeera television on Saturday. We bring good tidings to the Muslim nation about a big faction of the knights of the Gama'a Islamiya uniting with al Qaeda,Zawahri said in the video.He said the move aimed to help rally the Muslim nation's capabilities in a unified rank in the face of the most severe crusader campaign against Islam in its history.
Zawahri named Mohamed al-Islambouli as one of those who had joined al Qaeda. He was apparently referring to Mohamed Shawqi Islambouli, a Gama'a leader and a brother of Khaled Islambouli, who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
A man introduced by Zawahri as a Gama'a leader, Mohamed Hakaima, appeared in a portion of the video and confirmed the unity move, but said some group members had deviated from it.This (move) is in adherence to the Lord's word (about the need to unify Muslims) and in support of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman,said Hakaima, carrying an assault rifle and standing in an area covered with palm trees.Hakaima, who is not well known internationally, said the move was to push out the enemy occupier of Muslim lands.
Abdel-Rahman, a Gama'a spiritual leader, is jailed in the United States after being convicted on charges linked to the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.A group of brothers from the Gama'a Islamiya, who had been subjected to pressures and influences, ... went to the path of the Egyptian government and America,Zawahri said of those who had declined to join al Qaeda.
The Egyptian-born militant leader wore a white robe and turban and sat against a black background. He joined the Islamic Jihad when it was founded in 1973 and was among 301 people arrested in Sadat's assassination but was cleared at trial.He did, though, spend three years in jail for having an unlicensed pistol.He took over leadership of Jihad in Egypt in 1993 and was a part of a campaign in the mid-1990s to set up a purist Islamic state, in which more than 1,200 Egyptians died. In 1999, an Egyptian military court sentenced Zawahri to death in absentia.
The Egyptian government detained many thousands of Gama'a members or sympathizers in the 1990s, when the group was waging a low-level guerrilla war against the security forces, mainly in the south of the country.Hundreds have come out of detention over the years after renouncing the use of violence to overthrow the government.
Gama'a leaders declared a truce with the government in 1997, after an attack on tourists at a pharaonic temple in Luxor.
(Additional reporting by Firouz Sedarat in Dubai)
Israel cuts Lebanon's last route to Syria
Steven R. Hurst,Associated Press,Aug. 5, 2006 12:00 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel and Hezbollah fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday, including bombing raids that severed Lebanon's last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, and the guerrillas' deepest rocket attack inside Israel to date.Loud explosions resounded in Beirut early today as Israeli warplanes renewed their onslaught, carrying out several strikes on southern suburbs, local media said. Israeli helicopters, meanwhile, attacked suspected Hezbollah positions in the southern city of Tyre, according to residents.Israeli aircraft on a mission Friday to destroy weapons caches hit a warehouse where workers were loading fruit, killing at least 28 near the Lebanon-Syria border. And three Hezbollah rockets landed near Hadera, 50 miles south of the Israel-Lebanon border; 188 rockets rained on other towns, killing three Israeli Arabs.
Given the determination of both Hezbollah and Israel to look victorious when the conflict finally ends, the worst of the fighting may still lie ahead with the militant Shiite guerrilla fighters perhaps making good on their threat to rocket Tel Aviv and Israel launching an all-out ground offensive, pushing northward to the Litani River.Israeli military officials said Friday that they completed the first phase of the offensive, securing a 4-mile buffer zone in southern Lebanon, though pockets of Hezbollah resistance remained.Defense Minister Amir Peretz told army officers to begin preparing for a push to the Litani, about 20 miles north of the border, a move that would require Cabinet approval. Peretz vowed his forces will complete the whole mission of driving guerrilla fighters out of missile range, a defiant response to the Hezbollah leader's threat to launch missiles into Israel's largest city.
Israeli airstrikes destroyed four key bridges after dawn, severing Beirut's final major connection to Syria and raising the threat of severe shortages of food, gasoline and medicines within days. The attack in the Christian heartland just north of Beirut killed four civilians and a Lebanese soldier.
Israel said it targeted the bridges to stop the flow of weapons to Hezbollah from Iran through Syria. Those weapons include not only missiles, but sophisticated anti-tank missiles said to be responsible for most of the 44 Israeli soldiers killed in more than three weeks of fighting.However, aid workers said the destroyed highway was a vital conduit for much-needed food and supplies, with Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program calling it Lebanon's umbilical cord.Hospitals were in danger of closing soon because medicines, hospital supplies and fuel for generators was fast running out.
Staples like milk, rice and sugar were growing short across the country. Lines at Beirut filling stations stretch longer by the day.Dr. George Tomey, acting president of the American University of Beirut, said its Medical Center, one of the prime and best known medical facilities in the Middle East, will stop receiving new patients on Monday, except for emergencies.
As of Friday the Associated Press count showed at least 559 Lebanese have been killed, including 482 civilians confirmed dead by the Health Ministry, 27 Lebanese soldiers and at least 50 Hezbollah guerrillas.Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said that 1 million people, about a quarter of Lebanon's population, has fled. Others estimate that 800,000 Lebanese have become refugees.
Since the fighting started, 74 Israelis have been killed, 44 soldiers and 30 civilians. More than 300,000 Israelis have fled their homes in the north, Israeli officials said.Friday's attack on the refrigerated warehouse in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley killed at least 28 farm laborers as they loaded peaches and apples onto trucks bound for the Syrian market, Lebanese security and hospital officials said. Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported that 33 people were killed in the raid, including 23 Syrian workers.
Israeli army spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal said the army suspected the warehouse was used for arms because it tracked a truck it believed was carrying weapons that went into the warehouse from the Syrian side. He said the truck stayed inside for about 90 minutes before returning to Syria.
Praise and skepticism greet UN peace resolution By Scott McDonald
Sat Aug 5, 4:12 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair backed a U.N. bid to end fighting in Lebanon, but the plan was greeted with skepticism by some on Saturday who wondered whether it could be implemented. The draft U.N. Security Council resolution completed by the United States and France seeks to end fighting that began when the Iranian-backed group Hizbollah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12.The draft resolution, obtained by Reuters calls, for a full cessation of hostilities. It also tells Hizbollah to end attacks immediately and for Israel to stop all offensive military operations.
The text of the resolution, which calls for a framework for a political settlement between Israel and Lebanon, must still be reviewed and accepted by the full 15-member council.
This is a first step. There is still much to be done, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair. But there is no reason why this resolution should not be adopted now and we have the cessation of hostilities ... within the next couple of days.White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush, who is at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, knew details of the resolution and "he's happy about it.But getting the parties to stop fighting may not be easy, as seen by the statement by Hizbollah cabinet minister Mohammed Fneish, who said the guerrilla group would stop only when Israel ended its bombardment of Lebanon and withdrew its troops.Israel is the aggressor.
When the Israeli aggression stops, Hizbollah simply will cease fire on the condition that no Israeli soldier remains inside Lebanese land,he said.Francois Gere, head of the French Institute for Strategic Analysis, said the U.N. effort was a first positive signal but I don't expect the situation to stabilize in the coming week.
He added he did not see Hizbollah giving up the battle soon unless pressured by Iran.The big test is not the Lebanese government, it's really Hizbollah,said Ousama Safa, head of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies.Hizbollah will probably drag its feet because Hizbollah sees that its fortunes on the battlefield are on its side, so it will drag its feet and up the ante as much as possible to get a
resolution that is acceptable on its own terms.The conflict has killed at least 734 people in Lebanon and 78 Israelis. Hizbollah has fired 2,600 rockets into Israel.Other analysts also said the U.N. bid would be difficult to put into practice.
There's going to be a huge gap between the content of this resolution and the military and psychological reality on the ground (which) will make it hard to
implement,said Middle East expert Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institution in Washington.Telhami said one problem was that Hizbollah has not been involved with drafting the resolution.And it isn't clear that they have any input in this. And it's hard to see how you're going to implement something like this (without the input),Telhami said.Israeli Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog said time was running out for Israel's military campaign. We have the coming days for lots of military moves. But we have to realize the timetable is getting shorter,he said.
Putin calls for immediate cease-fire in Lebanon in conversation with Annan(AP),5 August 2006
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin called Saturday for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon in a phone conversation with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Kremlin said in a statement.Putin and Annan voiced an extreme concern about the situation in Lebanon, Putin’s press service said in a statement.
It said that Putin called for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a political settlement of the conflict with participation of all parties involved.It was underlined that the UN Security Council must demonstrate the full extent of its responsibility by passing, as quickly as possible, a resolution aimed at achieving those goals, the Kremlin statement said.Putin also emphasized the need to mobilize the entire international community to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Lebanon,the statement said.
Britain and the United States, 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.With international pressure for an end to hostilities intensifying, the US State Department said Friday that the United States and France were near completion of a UN resolution designed to end more than three weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants.
Kim Clement: "SYRIA, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU WILL NOT RISE UP AGAINST THE LION! July 16, Humble, Texas"
Your Enemies Will Come Out and Bite the Dust.I'm going to send My light to America. I'm going to send My light to this Nation. And My light will uncover the darkness. And My light will uncover your enemies in this land of Mine--America, America,says the Lord.
And your enemies are going to come out from every side of this Nation, from the north northeast to the south southwest, to the east to the west.God says, I'm going to bring your enemy down. This Nation that I call My own, I will save you from another war. I will save you from another war.Syria, who do you think you are? You will not rise against the Lion. Listen to what God says, Iran, you will not rise against this Nation or the Lion.
God says, Your enemies will come out, and they will bite the dust because of My light. I will send My light, I'm going to send My light to this Nation.And your children will dance. And your children will praise, praise in America. Your children will dance, dance, dance, and your children will praise, praise in America. Because of My light, because of My light.
This Nation Will Not Be Forgotten
The Spirit of God says, There has been a great attack that has been planned against a family member of the President of this Nation. I speak from this city, and I let My prophet reveal it because from this Texas soil, came a President that prayed and sought My face. Will I turn My ear? Will I harden My heart against one who prays? No! Therefore this attempt to come against a family member will not succeed, but shall be revealed. And they shall say, How could that have been? This one was not from the Middle East. This one was not from China, from Asia. This one was from amongst us.The hatred has come as a stench before Me. Hatred has come and division in this Nation, but not amongst My people. And because of that, I will save you, and I will raise up a righteousness in this Nation, and prosperity shall rule and reign because of the greatness of My people,says the Lord.
The Spirit of God says, Would you hear, would you hear the word of the Lord tonight? This Nation will not be forgotten. I will not forget the prayers for your forefathers. I will not forget the prayers and the pain, and the blood of the soldiers in the battlefield for this Nation. For as they were dying, they prayed prayers for the children of this generation. I will not forget the prayers of a soldier dying before he goes for this generation. You are not forgotten.God says, Look up, for your redemption draws near.There is a miraculous thing that I'm going to do. And I will save this Nation from embarrassment, and 'phooey' to the United Nations, for they have brought shame, they have brought shame to the soil of this Nation. They will no longer be a voice to be reckoned with. I'm raising up something new,says the Lord of Hosts.
By Kim Clement
Prophetic Image Expressions
www.kimclement.com
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.
Tornado hits two towns in Manitoba, reports of injuries, damage 40 minutes ago
GULL LAKE, Man. (CP) - A tornado has cut a swath through southeastern Manitoba. There are unconfirmed reports of at least one death and four people missing.RCMP Sgt. Steve Saunders says he's heard the damage is extensive in the immediate area of the Gull Lake campground.Environment Canada severe weather meteorologist Dan Fulton says a funnel cloud was reported near Patricia Beach about 5:19 p.m. local time.
He says a few minutes later, there were reports it touched down.Fulton says it was
definitely a tornado that hit Gull Lake and Patricia Beach, small summer resort communities about 50 minutes north of Winnipeg.Fulton says there are reports of houses damaged, toppled trailers, uprooted trees and vehicles turned over.
At least 30 dead after bridge collapses in Pakistan Sat Aug 5, 2:01 PM ET
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP)At least 30 people died and many more are missing after a bridge collapsed in northwestern Pakistan as torrential rains battered the area, police have said. Some 30 bodies have already been recovered from a river swollen by
heavy rains in Mardan town, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of Peshawar bordering Afghanistan, local police official Javed Khan said.
The search for those still missing has been hampered by nightfall, he added.Local mayor Himayat ullah Mayar earlier said more than 100 people had gathered on the bridge to watch the flooded river when part of it caved in, plunging almost all of them into the swirling waters.
He said army troops had been called out to join the rescue work.Twelve members of my family are missing,a Mardan resident Iqbal Hoti told reporters.More than 40 people have died in landslides and floods caused by rain torrents in Pakistan over the past two days.
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)
Egypt group leaders join al Qaeda - Zawahri video By Cynthia Johnston
Sat Aug 5, 6:35 PM ET
CAIRO (Reuters) - Some leaders of Egypt's Gama'a Islamiya have joined al Qaeda, al Qaeda's deputy head Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video aired on Al Jazeera television on Saturday. We bring good tidings to the Muslim nation about a big faction of the knights of the Gama'a Islamiya uniting with al Qaeda,Zawahri said in the video.He said the move aimed to help rally the Muslim nation's capabilities in a unified rank in the face of the most severe crusader campaign against Islam in its history.
Zawahri named Mohamed al-Islambouli as one of those who had joined al Qaeda. He was apparently referring to Mohamed Shawqi Islambouli, a Gama'a leader and a brother of Khaled Islambouli, who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
A man introduced by Zawahri as a Gama'a leader, Mohamed Hakaima, appeared in a portion of the video and confirmed the unity move, but said some group members had deviated from it.This (move) is in adherence to the Lord's word (about the need to unify Muslims) and in support of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman,said Hakaima, carrying an assault rifle and standing in an area covered with palm trees.Hakaima, who is not well known internationally, said the move was to push out the enemy occupier of Muslim lands.
Abdel-Rahman, a Gama'a spiritual leader, is jailed in the United States after being convicted on charges linked to the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.A group of brothers from the Gama'a Islamiya, who had been subjected to pressures and influences, ... went to the path of the Egyptian government and America,Zawahri said of those who had declined to join al Qaeda.
The Egyptian-born militant leader wore a white robe and turban and sat against a black background. He joined the Islamic Jihad when it was founded in 1973 and was among 301 people arrested in Sadat's assassination but was cleared at trial.He did, though, spend three years in jail for having an unlicensed pistol.He took over leadership of Jihad in Egypt in 1993 and was a part of a campaign in the mid-1990s to set up a purist Islamic state, in which more than 1,200 Egyptians died. In 1999, an Egyptian military court sentenced Zawahri to death in absentia.
The Egyptian government detained many thousands of Gama'a members or sympathizers in the 1990s, when the group was waging a low-level guerrilla war against the security forces, mainly in the south of the country.Hundreds have come out of detention over the years after renouncing the use of violence to overthrow the government.
Gama'a leaders declared a truce with the government in 1997, after an attack on tourists at a pharaonic temple in Luxor.
(Additional reporting by Firouz Sedarat in Dubai)
Israel cuts Lebanon's last route to Syria
Steven R. Hurst,Associated Press,Aug. 5, 2006 12:00 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel and Hezbollah fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday, including bombing raids that severed Lebanon's last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, and the guerrillas' deepest rocket attack inside Israel to date.Loud explosions resounded in Beirut early today as Israeli warplanes renewed their onslaught, carrying out several strikes on southern suburbs, local media said. Israeli helicopters, meanwhile, attacked suspected Hezbollah positions in the southern city of Tyre, according to residents.Israeli aircraft on a mission Friday to destroy weapons caches hit a warehouse where workers were loading fruit, killing at least 28 near the Lebanon-Syria border. And three Hezbollah rockets landed near Hadera, 50 miles south of the Israel-Lebanon border; 188 rockets rained on other towns, killing three Israeli Arabs.
Given the determination of both Hezbollah and Israel to look victorious when the conflict finally ends, the worst of the fighting may still lie ahead with the militant Shiite guerrilla fighters perhaps making good on their threat to rocket Tel Aviv and Israel launching an all-out ground offensive, pushing northward to the Litani River.Israeli military officials said Friday that they completed the first phase of the offensive, securing a 4-mile buffer zone in southern Lebanon, though pockets of Hezbollah resistance remained.Defense Minister Amir Peretz told army officers to begin preparing for a push to the Litani, about 20 miles north of the border, a move that would require Cabinet approval. Peretz vowed his forces will complete the whole mission of driving guerrilla fighters out of missile range, a defiant response to the Hezbollah leader's threat to launch missiles into Israel's largest city.
Israeli airstrikes destroyed four key bridges after dawn, severing Beirut's final major connection to Syria and raising the threat of severe shortages of food, gasoline and medicines within days. The attack in the Christian heartland just north of Beirut killed four civilians and a Lebanese soldier.
Israel said it targeted the bridges to stop the flow of weapons to Hezbollah from Iran through Syria. Those weapons include not only missiles, but sophisticated anti-tank missiles said to be responsible for most of the 44 Israeli soldiers killed in more than three weeks of fighting.However, aid workers said the destroyed highway was a vital conduit for much-needed food and supplies, with Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program calling it Lebanon's umbilical cord.Hospitals were in danger of closing soon because medicines, hospital supplies and fuel for generators was fast running out.
Staples like milk, rice and sugar were growing short across the country. Lines at Beirut filling stations stretch longer by the day.Dr. George Tomey, acting president of the American University of Beirut, said its Medical Center, one of the prime and best known medical facilities in the Middle East, will stop receiving new patients on Monday, except for emergencies.
As of Friday the Associated Press count showed at least 559 Lebanese have been killed, including 482 civilians confirmed dead by the Health Ministry, 27 Lebanese soldiers and at least 50 Hezbollah guerrillas.Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said that 1 million people, about a quarter of Lebanon's population, has fled. Others estimate that 800,000 Lebanese have become refugees.
Since the fighting started, 74 Israelis have been killed, 44 soldiers and 30 civilians. More than 300,000 Israelis have fled their homes in the north, Israeli officials said.Friday's attack on the refrigerated warehouse in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley killed at least 28 farm laborers as they loaded peaches and apples onto trucks bound for the Syrian market, Lebanese security and hospital officials said. Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported that 33 people were killed in the raid, including 23 Syrian workers.
Israeli army spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal said the army suspected the warehouse was used for arms because it tracked a truck it believed was carrying weapons that went into the warehouse from the Syrian side. He said the truck stayed inside for about 90 minutes before returning to Syria.
Praise and skepticism greet UN peace resolution By Scott McDonald
Sat Aug 5, 4:12 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair backed a U.N. bid to end fighting in Lebanon, but the plan was greeted with skepticism by some on Saturday who wondered whether it could be implemented. The draft U.N. Security Council resolution completed by the United States and France seeks to end fighting that began when the Iranian-backed group Hizbollah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12.The draft resolution, obtained by Reuters calls, for a full cessation of hostilities. It also tells Hizbollah to end attacks immediately and for Israel to stop all offensive military operations.
The text of the resolution, which calls for a framework for a political settlement between Israel and Lebanon, must still be reviewed and accepted by the full 15-member council.
This is a first step. There is still much to be done, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair. But there is no reason why this resolution should not be adopted now and we have the cessation of hostilities ... within the next couple of days.White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush, who is at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, knew details of the resolution and "he's happy about it.But getting the parties to stop fighting may not be easy, as seen by the statement by Hizbollah cabinet minister Mohammed Fneish, who said the guerrilla group would stop only when Israel ended its bombardment of Lebanon and withdrew its troops.Israel is the aggressor.
When the Israeli aggression stops, Hizbollah simply will cease fire on the condition that no Israeli soldier remains inside Lebanese land,he said.Francois Gere, head of the French Institute for Strategic Analysis, said the U.N. effort was a first positive signal but I don't expect the situation to stabilize in the coming week.
He added he did not see Hizbollah giving up the battle soon unless pressured by Iran.The big test is not the Lebanese government, it's really Hizbollah,said Ousama Safa, head of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies.Hizbollah will probably drag its feet because Hizbollah sees that its fortunes on the battlefield are on its side, so it will drag its feet and up the ante as much as possible to get a
resolution that is acceptable on its own terms.The conflict has killed at least 734 people in Lebanon and 78 Israelis. Hizbollah has fired 2,600 rockets into Israel.Other analysts also said the U.N. bid would be difficult to put into practice.
There's going to be a huge gap between the content of this resolution and the military and psychological reality on the ground (which) will make it hard to
implement,said Middle East expert Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institution in Washington.Telhami said one problem was that Hizbollah has not been involved with drafting the resolution.And it isn't clear that they have any input in this. And it's hard to see how you're going to implement something like this (without the input),Telhami said.Israeli Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog said time was running out for Israel's military campaign. We have the coming days for lots of military moves. But we have to realize the timetable is getting shorter,he said.
Putin calls for immediate cease-fire in Lebanon in conversation with Annan(AP),5 August 2006
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin called Saturday for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon in a phone conversation with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Kremlin said in a statement.Putin and Annan voiced an extreme concern about the situation in Lebanon, Putin’s press service said in a statement.
It said that Putin called for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a political settlement of the conflict with participation of all parties involved.It was underlined that the UN Security Council must demonstrate the full extent of its responsibility by passing, as quickly as possible, a resolution aimed at achieving those goals, the Kremlin statement said.Putin also emphasized the need to mobilize the entire international community to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Lebanon,the statement said.
Britain and the United States, 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.With international pressure for an end to hostilities intensifying, the US State Department said Friday that the United States and France were near completion of a UN resolution designed to end more than three weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants.
Kim Clement: "SYRIA, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU WILL NOT RISE UP AGAINST THE LION! July 16, Humble, Texas"
Your Enemies Will Come Out and Bite the Dust.I'm going to send My light to America. I'm going to send My light to this Nation. And My light will uncover the darkness. And My light will uncover your enemies in this land of Mine--America, America,says the Lord.
And your enemies are going to come out from every side of this Nation, from the north northeast to the south southwest, to the east to the west.God says, I'm going to bring your enemy down. This Nation that I call My own, I will save you from another war. I will save you from another war.Syria, who do you think you are? You will not rise against the Lion. Listen to what God says, Iran, you will not rise against this Nation or the Lion.
God says, Your enemies will come out, and they will bite the dust because of My light. I will send My light, I'm going to send My light to this Nation.And your children will dance. And your children will praise, praise in America. Your children will dance, dance, dance, and your children will praise, praise in America. Because of My light, because of My light.
This Nation Will Not Be Forgotten
The Spirit of God says, There has been a great attack that has been planned against a family member of the President of this Nation. I speak from this city, and I let My prophet reveal it because from this Texas soil, came a President that prayed and sought My face. Will I turn My ear? Will I harden My heart against one who prays? No! Therefore this attempt to come against a family member will not succeed, but shall be revealed. And they shall say, How could that have been? This one was not from the Middle East. This one was not from China, from Asia. This one was from amongst us.The hatred has come as a stench before Me. Hatred has come and division in this Nation, but not amongst My people. And because of that, I will save you, and I will raise up a righteousness in this Nation, and prosperity shall rule and reign because of the greatness of My people,says the Lord.
The Spirit of God says, Would you hear, would you hear the word of the Lord tonight? This Nation will not be forgotten. I will not forget the prayers for your forefathers. I will not forget the prayers and the pain, and the blood of the soldiers in the battlefield for this Nation. For as they were dying, they prayed prayers for the children of this generation. I will not forget the prayers of a soldier dying before he goes for this generation. You are not forgotten.God says, Look up, for your redemption draws near.There is a miraculous thing that I'm going to do. And I will save this Nation from embarrassment, and 'phooey' to the United Nations, for they have brought shame, they have brought shame to the soil of this Nation. They will no longer be a voice to be reckoned with. I'm raising up something new,says the Lord of Hosts.
By Kim Clement
Prophetic Image Expressions
www.kimclement.com
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