1-Hurricanes Gordon, Helene poised to strike Atlantic islands. 2-Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores brace for tropical storm. 3-Group threatens Christians in Gaza. 4-EURODAC: the European Union-wide biometric database. 5-China, EU sign agreement on trade security. 6-Weeks-Old Wildfire Still Burns Near LA. 7-Shame march (SODOMITES) gets green light. 8-Court Orders Girl Released from Prison.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Hurricanes Gordon, Helene poised to strike Atlantic islands Sept 18
MIAMI (AFP) - Hurricane Gordon was speeding toward the Azores Islands, while Helene, a powerful Category Three hurricane, could swipe the Bermudas later this week, the US National Hurricane Center said.
Packing maximum sustained winds near 160 kilometers (100 miles) per hour, Gordon, a Category Two hurricane in the five-category Saffir-Simpson scale, was located 1140 kilometers (710 miles) west of the Azores, at 0600 GMT, the Miami-based center said.It was moving eastward at a brisk 44 kilometers (28 miles) per hour.
A hurricane warning is in effect for all of the Azores Islands, the center said.Although some slow weakening is possible during the next 24 hours, Gordon is still expected to be a hurricane as it passes near or across the Azores Islanes by late Tuesday or early Wednesday, it added.Large and dangerous battering waves along with storm surges of one to three feet (30-90 centimeters) are possible, the center warned, adding that the hurricane was expected to dump from five to 10 centimeters (two to four inches) of rain over the islands, and up to 15 centimeters (six inches) over higher terrain.Meanwhile, Helene, the eighth named storm and fourth hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic season, was about 1,590 kilometers (990 miles) east-southeast of Bermuda at 0300 GMT, the center said.
The hurricane was packing winds of 185 kilometers (115 miles) per hour, with higher gusts and conditions appear favorable for strengthening during the next 24 hours,the center said.
The forecast puts Helena some 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of Bermuda by Thursday or Friday, with a 10 to 20 percent possibility the islands will be buffeted by tropical storm force winds.Helene was a Category Three hurricane in the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores brace for tropical storm Mon Sep 18, 3:25 PM ET
LISBON (AFP) - Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands braced for strong winds, tidal surges and torrential rain after the national weather office warned that a tropical storm was heading towards the archipelago. Hurricane Gordon was expected to be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hits the nine-island chain, about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) west of mainland Portugal, on Tuesday evening due to its movement over colder waters, the office said on its Internet site.The storm was expected to batter the islands until Wednesday with sustained winds of 100 kilometres an hour, with gusts up to 150 kilometres an hour, the possibility of
thunderstorms and 10- to 12-metre swells.Air and maritime travel on the islands, which is home to around 250,000 people, was expected to be disrupted by the storm, the weather office said.
Emergency services boosted the number personnel who will be on call and advised residents to close doors and windows, clear storm sewers, move livestock to safe areas and lock away farm equipment and garbage bins.The head of the Azores' firefighting and civil protection service, Antonio Cunha, asked local authorities to close all schools on the archipelago as a precautionary measure.
Many children leave home early to go to school, traveling great distances by car,he told the Lusa news agency.The two westernmost islands in the archipelago, Corvo and Flores islands, were forecast to take the brunt of the storm.
The weather office put the two islands on red alert, the highest level of the country's four-level weather alert scale which warns that weather conditions pose a high risk.The remaining seven islands remained on at the lowest alert level.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Group threatens Christians in Gaza From correspondents in Gaza City
September 20, 2006 04:23am
A PREVIOUSLY unknown group called the Mahdi Army today threatened to target Christians in the Gaza Strip unless the Vatican apologised for comments made by Pope Benedict XVI.All the crusaders in the Gaza Strip will be targets, all crusader meeting places will be targets, including churches, institutions and their homes until the cursed and unholy Vatican apologises to Muslims, it said. We will strike all those who protect them with an iron fist, said the group in a statement handed out in Gaza City, alluding to an increased security force presence around Palestinian churches.In a traditional blessing on Sunday (local time), the Pope said he was deeply sorry that remarks, in which he spoke of a link between Islam and holy war, had caused distress in the Muslim world. Palestinian interior minister Said Siam has said that security will be stepped up around churches in Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Several churches in the occupied West Bank and another in Gaza City have been targeted since the furore broke out over the Pope's comments. In a speech in Germany last Wedneday, the Pontiff spoke of a link between Islam and jihad, and quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said innovations introduced by the Prophet Mohammed were evil and inhuman.His remarks have sparked a backlash throughout the Muslim world, including in the Palestinian territories where there is a minority Christian population.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
EURODAC: the European Union-wide biometric database
Basileio De Rolia, 19/9/2006,15:00
Part of the European Union's Common European Asylum System, EURODAC is an EU-wide fingerprint database for the comparison of the fingerprints of asylum seekers and illegal entrants, to help determine which Member State should examine an asylum
application. The Commission published the third annual report on the activities of EURODAC today.
The report gives essential information on patterns of asylum seeking and illegal entry in the EU and shows that 16% of all applications in 2005 were 'multiple applications' asylum claims where the same person has already made an application in the same country or in another Member State.
In 2005, EURODAC processed 187.223 sets of fingerprints of asylum seekers, 25.162 sets of fingerprints of people crossing the borders irregularly and 46.299 sets of fingerprints of people apprehended while illegally staying on the territory of a Member State.
The EURODAC Central Unit which manages the central system was operational for 99.9% of the reporting period, operating 24/24 hours and 7/7 days. The Commission will shortly issue a report on the evaluation of the Dublin system, which legally determines which Member State is responsible for the examination of an asylum application and makes arrangements for their return there, and of which EURODAC forms an essential part.Further information: Eurodac.Basileio De Rolia,basileios@gmail.com,Freelance Journalist
China, EU sign agreement on trade security
www.chinaview.cn 2006-09-20 04:30:03
BRUSSELS, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- China and the European Union(EU) vowed on Tuesday to enhance their cooperation on trade security and facilitation by signing a deal to establish smart and safe trade lanes in a bid to boost trade while countering the threats of piracy and terrorism. The scheme will start with a pilot project focusing on sea containers transport between Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Felixstowe in Britain, and the southern Chinese port of Shenzhen, Chinese customs officials said.
A smart examining and monitoring system using high-tech electronic devices will be developed to minimize the risks of counterfeit goods and make the process of going through customs quicker and cheaper, they said.
According to Tuesday's deal, a steering group comprising representatives of the customs authorities of China, the EU, the Netherlands and Britain will be set up to guide the pilot project and see to its implementation. The EU is China's biggest trading partner, and enhancing customs cooperation with the EU is very important to China,Mu Xinsheng, Minister of China's General Administration of Customs, told reporters at the EU headquarters in Brussels.
Mu met with EU Taxation and Customs Union Commissioner Laszlo Kovacs on Monday to discuss closer cooperation between the two sides. On Tuesday he and Kovacs attended a meeting of the China-EUJoint Customs Cooperation Committee, which focused on protection of intellectual property rights and trade security. Nowadays customs authorities have to deal with both conventional and unconventional security threats, such as terrorism,Mu said, adding that the pilot project is a big step towards achieving better security of trade between China and the EU.
EU Taxation and Customs Union Commissioner Laszlo Kovacs said nowadays both the EU and China face global challenges like international terrorism, violation of intellectual property rights, and counterfeit. Therefore the pilot project is of great importance,he said, adding that the role of customs is both to facilitate and to secure the supply chain.
The pilot project is of limited scope, but we hope that one day it would be extended to all member states of the EU and China,Kovacs said. Since the entry into force in April 2005 of the China-EU Agreement on Customs Cooperation and Mutual Administrative Assistance, the EU and China have deepened their cooperation to step up the fight against counterfeiting and piracy, to facilitate trade and to increase security. An China-EU Joint Customs Cooperation Committee was set up to meet regularly to discuss problems encountered in bilateral customs cooperation.
Customs administrations of the EU and China exchange experience and develop best practices with a view to secure and facilitate trade between them. The pilot project should test security from the point of the stuffing throughout the entire journey of the container until its final destination, the European Commission said. Enditem
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Weeks-Old Wildfire Still Burns Near LA
Tuesday, September 19, 2006,By CHRISTINA ALMEIDA, Associated Press Writer (FOX NEWS)
OJAI, Calif. — Erratic winds pushed a stubborn, two-week-old wildfire toward a rural community in the Los Padres National Forest, threatening about 170 people living in scattered ranch homes near the northern edge of the blaze.The fire has scorched more than 125 square miles, or 80,111 acres, of chaparral and timber since it was ignited Labor Day by someone burning debris in the forest, 75 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It was 15 percent contained late Monday, said Bruce Emmens, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman.The fire doubled in size over the weekend, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds. But a cool, moist ocean breeze slowed the fire and put communities that were still several miles away out of immediate danger.
Counting on help from shifting winds, teams of firefighters trekked into the remote forest to carve fire lines in an effort to prevent flames from roaring toward several mountain communities, including Ojai, an artists'enclave popular with tourists.At one point, the blaze crept within 12 miles of Ojai. Authorities had advised precautionary evacuation of about 350 homes in the area over the weekend, but the threat had been greatly reduced by Monday, said U.S. Forest Service Capt. Mark Whaling.
It never came down into the communities like we feared it might. We didn't have the winds we were expecting,he said.More than 2,100 firefighters hoped to take advantage of the break in the weather, which was expected to last until the middle of the week.The fire, which has cost nearly $18 million to fight, scorched a condor sanctuary in part of the Sespe Wilderness, and state Fish and Game officials were closely watching a condor fledgling that hatched in May. The bird was last seen Friday in a high, rocky area that was not in imminent danger, officials said.
Meanwhile, firefighters took control of two desert wildfires eight miles apart, which forced the temporary evacuation of about 2,500 residents over the weekend. Two homes were destroyed by one of those blazes.
On the Net:http://www.inciweb.org,2006 The Associated Press.
HOMOSEXUALS.
GENESIS 19:5
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.(IS A SEX PHRASE IN THE BIBLE)
ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,(HOMOSEXUALITY) burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Shame march (SODOMITES) gets green light
By Stan Goodenough,September 18, 2006
A homosexual organization in Jerusalem is determined to ensure that a twice-cancelled public parading of perverse sexual lifestyles through the streets of the sacred city will take place after all.The fact that the Gay shame event will offend millions of Jews and Christians has only served to intensify the efforts of the Open House, which successfully persuaded Israel's High Court of Justice to rule that the march will now be held on Friday, November 10.
On that day, the tens of thousands of Jerusalemites who normally use Friday to prepare for Shabbat will have to ensure that they and their children are off the streets if they do not wish to be exposed to half-naked men kissing each other, and gyrating women embracing, in the city Israel's God chose to call His own.By given the event its blessing, the High Court has helped promote and protect a lifestyle that holds untold numbers of people prisoner. And it has aided and abetted those who have made their goal the perversion and imprisonment of our youth.
ISRAEL ON EARTH DURING TRIBULATION 7 YR PEACE TREATY
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ROMANS 11:28
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
Well the Ladies actions works again. On Israel National Radio Sunday morning, I was listening to Natia Matar co-founder of Women in Green who was talking about this young Israeli 15 year old Girl who was in Jail for dumping a pale of Olives on the ground. I could not believe what I was hearing, A girl thrown in Jail for dumping olives on the ground, what is the world coming to. But thank goodness for natia putting on the Women of Green site to fax the jail to have her released, and it worked, she is now out as you will read.
Court Orders Girl Released from Prison
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
Dozens of protest faxes apparently did the trick, and Tirtzah Sariel, 15, was abruptly feed from prison today, after weeks of wrongful imprisonment. Her parents were notified last night that she would be brought to the District Court in Jerusalem this morning at 10:30, before Justice Noam Solberg. The case had been running until now in the lower-level Magistrates Court.Tirtzah's next scheduled court date, as of yesterday, was several weeks from now, well after the Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah holidays. Until then, she was to have remained in prison - for having fought with Arab olive-pickers.
Justice Solberg ruled today that the girl must be immediately freed from jail - but the prosecution asked for 24 hours in which to appeal the decision. Shmuel Medad, head of the Honenu civil rights organization, predicted that it was possible the request would be withdrawn shortly afterwards, and within an hour, he was proved right.The judge said that even were Tirtzah to be convicted of the crime of which she was originally arrested for pouring out an Arab bucket of olives she would have sat in prison for less time than she has already been there.
Tirtzah refused to sign any papers in connection with the case, saying she does not recognize a Jewish court system that does not operate according to Jewish Law.
Tirtzah's mothe, who was present at the court hearing, told Arutz-7 afterwards, The prosecutor, in a last-ditch attempt to save face for the Prosecution, gave a whole lecture saying that she had to be punished for not recognizing the court system.
It just shows that she was in prison for two and a half months all because she has different opinions than they do! An impromptu welcome-home party will be held at Tirtzah's home in Elon Moreh, with many of her friends who visited and spoke to her by phone in prison over the past weeks. Nadia Matar, co-founder of Women in Green, wrote an article on Arutz-7's Hebrew website last week, calling for faxes to be
sent to the Commission of Public Complaints against Judges.
Matar explained, We must complain that Justice Ori Ben-Dor acted unlawfully by not speeding up the legal proceeding in the case, and by allowing a 15-year-old girl to rot in prison for four months until the next scheduled court session.Even the prosecutor in the case said, at a recent session, that a four-month hiatus before the next session was too long for a 15-year-old girl, but the judge said, I'm not interested.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
MY ENCOUNTER MIRACLE WITH GOD
I never really looked into how serious Reumatic Fever really was untill now. Now I know why JESUS was praying for me in my room on that certain night.
When I was 6 years old, (1966) I remember I was on the couch sore and a fever. I did not have a clue what it was. I was in the Hospital for 2 months I remember, It was over Christmas as well. I'm not sure when I went back home. One thing I do remember though was I had to take this Medicine that tasted like Coconut. That i remember clearly : yuk.
Now the encounter with God happened after I was at home from the Hospital. I can not remember how long after, but I was at my Home.
One night I went to bed, then during the night sometime I woke up, looked to the left side of the room and half way up the wall Jesus was praying for me, He never said a word, he was just Praying for me. His faced looked like the face on the Shroud of turin. He had a beautiful white Robe on with beautiful colors coming from his chest to his stomach. I do not know how long I watched him praying for me or how he left. I just remember KING JESUS praying for me.
I just do not know why he never said anything to me. I was always wishing he would have spoke with me. And I have always had the feeling if JESUS would not have been there that night I would have died. I give JESUS (GOD) ALL THE PRAISE AND GLORY FOR HEALING ME.
Now use know why I have no problem believing theres a GOD in Heaven whos in control of everything. And I want to prove to the World (GOD) KING JESUS will fulfill all the prophecies in the Bible in these last days. He will return for us in the clouds literally and 7 years later he will come back to Earth Bodily to rule and reign forever.
I PRAY COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS.
If anyone has a miracle like this lets give GOD the praise and glory by letting other people know about it. Put your miracles under comments so other people can read them. OUR GOD OF ISRAEL IS AN AWESOME GOD.
Rheumatic fever
From MayoClinic.com
Special to CNN.com
Overview
Rheumatic fever is a serious inflammatory condition that can affect many parts of your body — heart, joints, nervous system and skin. Although rheumatic fever can occur at any age, it most frequently occurs in children between the ages of 6 and 15 years. The disease is twice as common in females as it is in males.Symptoms of rheumatic fever generally appear within five weeks after an untreated streptococcal (strep) throat infection. Most cases of strep throat don't lead to rheumatic fever. In fact, even in untreated cases, only a small percentage of people with strep throat develop rheumatic fever.In many cases, rheumatic fever may affect the heart valves (rheumatic carditis) and interfere with normal blood flow through the heart. There's no cure for rheumatic fever. But it can be prevented by prompt and thorough treatment of a strep throat infection with antibiotics.Rheumatic fever isn't as common in the United States today as it was at the start of the 20th century, before the widespread use of the antibiotic penicillin. Outbreaks do occur periodically, however. Rheumatic fever is still common in developing countries.
Signs and symptoms
Common signs and symptoms of a strep infection include:
Sore throat
Red and swollen tonsils
Fever
Headache
Muscle aches
Many times, however, the initial strep infection may not cause any symptoms.
Signs and symptoms of rheumatic fever may include a combination of painful, swollen joints, chest pain, fatigue and shortness of breath. In diagnosing rheumatic fever, doctors generally look for the presence of either two of the following major criteria or the presence of one major plus two minor criteria. In all cases, evidence of a preceding strep throat infection is key to making a diagnosis of rheumatic fever.
Major criteria
Inflammation of your heart, sometimes indicated by weakness and shortness of breath or chest pain. Your doctor might suspect heart inflammation based on a physical exam or on results of medical tests such as an electrocardiogram or a chest X-ray.
Painful arthritis, most often affecting your ankles, wrists, knees and elbows, and often migrating from joint to joint.
Involuntary jerky movements of your limbs and face or more subtle movement difficulties, such as definite deterioration in handwriting. These signs usually disappear over weeks to months.
Broad, pink or faint-red, nonitching patches on your skin (uncommon).
Lumps under your skin (uncommon).
Minor criteria
Joint pain without inflammation
Fever
Previous rheumatic fever or evidence of rheumatic heart disease
Abnormal heartbeat on an electrocardiogram
Blood test indicating inflammation
New heart murmurs
Sore throat
Fever
Causes
The exact cause of rheumatic fever isn't clear. In a few people, it seems that when the body fights a strep throat infection, other parts of the body develop inflammation. For example, the heart valves aren't necessarily infected with the streptococcal bacteria, but they can be injured or inflamed as the body fights strep throat.Medical research has focused on an abnormal immune system response to the antigens produced by specific types of streptococcal bacteria. One possible cause for this is the similarities between streptococcal antigens and heart valve proteins and heart muscle cells. In addition, researchers are studying whether some people have a greater genetic disposition for an abnormal immune system response to streptococcal antigens.
When to seek medical advice
If you have a sore throat along with a fever that has lasted more than 24 hours — or a severe sore throat without cold symptoms and without much fever, especially if you've been close to someone with strep throat — see your doctor to determine whether you have strep throat. Although most of the time strep throat doesn't lead to rheumatic fever, you can usually prevent rheumatic fever by using antibiotics to treat strep throat. Also see your doctor if you've recently had a sore throat and high fever and you're experiencing difficulty breathing or chest pain.
Screening and diagnosis
If you or your child has signs or symptoms of rheumatic fever, diagnosis will likely involve a physical examination and questions by your doctor regarding these signs and symptoms. The physical exam may include:
Checking your joints for pain and inflammation
Examining your skin for rashes or lumps
Listening to your heart for abnormal rhythms or murmurs
Your doctor may recommend an electrocardiogram (ECG) of your heart to check for abnormal rhythms. Electrocardiography involves attaching electrode patches to your skin to measure electrical impulses given off by your heart. The electrical impulses, which cause your heart muscle to contract, are recorded by an electrocardiograph machine. They typically are recorded in the form of waves, which are displayed on graph paper or on a monitor.
No laboratory test can confirm that you have rheumatic fever. Doctors base a diagnosis of rheumatic fever on the presence of several major and minor criteria. The most common major criteria are:
Joint pain and swelling that migrates from joint to joint
Inflammation of the heart
Diagnosing rheumatic fever requires not only the presence of key signs and symptoms but also evidence of a recent strep infection. Your doctor may take a blood sample to test for the presence of antibodies to streptococcal bacteria. However, it's possible that by the time you see your doctor, your throat culture test for strep will be negative. In that case, the only suggestion of strep may be you telling your doctor about a recent sore throat accompanied by fever.
Electrocardiogram: Tracing the electrical path through the heart
Complications
During a first rheumatic fever attack, about half of people develop heart inflammation, but this doesn't always result in permanent damage. Most people with rheumatic fever recover fully after six weeks. In some cases, however, one or more of the heart's valves may be scarred. Permanent heart damage due to rheumatic fever is known as rheumatic heart disease. In many cases, heart damage isn't discovered until years later.In rare cases of rheumatic fever, the inflammation causes so much damage to the heart muscle that it leads to congestive heart failure. In other cases, a scarred heart valve may prevent adequate blood flow or may permit backward flow of blood. If there's serious impairment to the function of your heart valves, surgery may be needed to repair or replace the damaged valve or valves.
Rheumatic fever can also affect these parts of your body:
Joints. Often, several joints are affected with painful swelling, redness and sensation of heat.
Brain. If acute rheumatic fever affects the brain, loss of coordination and uncontrolled movement of the limbs and face may occur. These movements are called chorea — from the Greek word choreia, which means choral dance. They're also sometimes called Sydenham's chorea, rheumatic chorea or St. Vitus' dance. Chorea occurs in about one in 10 rheumatic fever cases. Chorea usually subsides or disappears within weeks to months. Skin. The disease can produce broad patches or, irregularly, round, pink to faint-red areas on your skin (erythema marginatum). Lumps or nodules may occur beneath normal-appearing skin.
Heart failure
Treatment
Treatment of rheumatic fever involves a dual approach:
Antibiotics to rid your body of the streptococcal infection and prevent recurrences. To eliminate any remaining strep bacteria once you have rheumatic fever, your doctor may prescribe penicillin or another antibiotic. Usually, you'll then need to take additional antibiotics for several to many years to prevent additional attacks of rheumatic fever. Without continued antibiotic treatment, recurrence is common during the first three to five years after the initial infection. Other medications to ease the symptoms of the disease. To reduce inflammation of your heart or joints, your doctor may recommend specific doses of aspirin or an over-the-counter or prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication. For severe heart inflammation, a corticosteroid medication, such as prednisone, can reduce the inflammation.
Prevention
Preliminary drug trials show potential for a vaccine to prevent strep. But until an effective immunization is developed, the only known way to prevent rheumatic fever is to treat strep throat infections with antibiotics.
Most of the time, a virus is the cause of a sore throat, and viruses don't lead to rheumatic fever. However, a sore throat with fever lasting more than 24 hours may indicate a strep infection. Only a small percentage of people with untreated strep throat will develop rheumatic fever. Prompt and proper treatment of strep throat with antibiotics can prevent strep throat from progressing to rheumatic fever.
When I was 6 years old, (1966) I remember I was on the couch sore and a fever. I did not have a clue what it was. I was in the Hospital for 2 months I remember, It was over Christmas as well. I'm not sure when I went back home. One thing I do remember though was I had to take this Medicine that tasted like Coconut. That i remember clearly : yuk.
Now the encounter with God happened after I was at home from the Hospital. I can not remember how long after, but I was at my Home.
One night I went to bed, then during the night sometime I woke up, looked to the left side of the room and half way up the wall Jesus was praying for me, He never said a word, he was just Praying for me. His faced looked like the face on the Shroud of turin. He had a beautiful white Robe on with beautiful colors coming from his chest to his stomach. I do not know how long I watched him praying for me or how he left. I just remember KING JESUS praying for me.
I just do not know why he never said anything to me. I was always wishing he would have spoke with me. And I have always had the feeling if JESUS would not have been there that night I would have died. I give JESUS (GOD) ALL THE PRAISE AND GLORY FOR HEALING ME.
Now use know why I have no problem believing theres a GOD in Heaven whos in control of everything. And I want to prove to the World (GOD) KING JESUS will fulfill all the prophecies in the Bible in these last days. He will return for us in the clouds literally and 7 years later he will come back to Earth Bodily to rule and reign forever.
I PRAY COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS.
If anyone has a miracle like this lets give GOD the praise and glory by letting other people know about it. Put your miracles under comments so other people can read them. OUR GOD OF ISRAEL IS AN AWESOME GOD.
Rheumatic fever
From MayoClinic.com
Special to CNN.com
Overview
Rheumatic fever is a serious inflammatory condition that can affect many parts of your body — heart, joints, nervous system and skin. Although rheumatic fever can occur at any age, it most frequently occurs in children between the ages of 6 and 15 years. The disease is twice as common in females as it is in males.Symptoms of rheumatic fever generally appear within five weeks after an untreated streptococcal (strep) throat infection. Most cases of strep throat don't lead to rheumatic fever. In fact, even in untreated cases, only a small percentage of people with strep throat develop rheumatic fever.In many cases, rheumatic fever may affect the heart valves (rheumatic carditis) and interfere with normal blood flow through the heart. There's no cure for rheumatic fever. But it can be prevented by prompt and thorough treatment of a strep throat infection with antibiotics.Rheumatic fever isn't as common in the United States today as it was at the start of the 20th century, before the widespread use of the antibiotic penicillin. Outbreaks do occur periodically, however. Rheumatic fever is still common in developing countries.
Signs and symptoms
Common signs and symptoms of a strep infection include:
Sore throat
Red and swollen tonsils
Fever
Headache
Muscle aches
Many times, however, the initial strep infection may not cause any symptoms.
Signs and symptoms of rheumatic fever may include a combination of painful, swollen joints, chest pain, fatigue and shortness of breath. In diagnosing rheumatic fever, doctors generally look for the presence of either two of the following major criteria or the presence of one major plus two minor criteria. In all cases, evidence of a preceding strep throat infection is key to making a diagnosis of rheumatic fever.
Major criteria
Inflammation of your heart, sometimes indicated by weakness and shortness of breath or chest pain. Your doctor might suspect heart inflammation based on a physical exam or on results of medical tests such as an electrocardiogram or a chest X-ray.
Painful arthritis, most often affecting your ankles, wrists, knees and elbows, and often migrating from joint to joint.
Involuntary jerky movements of your limbs and face or more subtle movement difficulties, such as definite deterioration in handwriting. These signs usually disappear over weeks to months.
Broad, pink or faint-red, nonitching patches on your skin (uncommon).
Lumps under your skin (uncommon).
Minor criteria
Joint pain without inflammation
Fever
Previous rheumatic fever or evidence of rheumatic heart disease
Abnormal heartbeat on an electrocardiogram
Blood test indicating inflammation
New heart murmurs
Sore throat
Fever
Causes
The exact cause of rheumatic fever isn't clear. In a few people, it seems that when the body fights a strep throat infection, other parts of the body develop inflammation. For example, the heart valves aren't necessarily infected with the streptococcal bacteria, but they can be injured or inflamed as the body fights strep throat.Medical research has focused on an abnormal immune system response to the antigens produced by specific types of streptococcal bacteria. One possible cause for this is the similarities between streptococcal antigens and heart valve proteins and heart muscle cells. In addition, researchers are studying whether some people have a greater genetic disposition for an abnormal immune system response to streptococcal antigens.
When to seek medical advice
If you have a sore throat along with a fever that has lasted more than 24 hours — or a severe sore throat without cold symptoms and without much fever, especially if you've been close to someone with strep throat — see your doctor to determine whether you have strep throat. Although most of the time strep throat doesn't lead to rheumatic fever, you can usually prevent rheumatic fever by using antibiotics to treat strep throat. Also see your doctor if you've recently had a sore throat and high fever and you're experiencing difficulty breathing or chest pain.
Screening and diagnosis
If you or your child has signs or symptoms of rheumatic fever, diagnosis will likely involve a physical examination and questions by your doctor regarding these signs and symptoms. The physical exam may include:
Checking your joints for pain and inflammation
Examining your skin for rashes or lumps
Listening to your heart for abnormal rhythms or murmurs
Your doctor may recommend an electrocardiogram (ECG) of your heart to check for abnormal rhythms. Electrocardiography involves attaching electrode patches to your skin to measure electrical impulses given off by your heart. The electrical impulses, which cause your heart muscle to contract, are recorded by an electrocardiograph machine. They typically are recorded in the form of waves, which are displayed on graph paper or on a monitor.
No laboratory test can confirm that you have rheumatic fever. Doctors base a diagnosis of rheumatic fever on the presence of several major and minor criteria. The most common major criteria are:
Joint pain and swelling that migrates from joint to joint
Inflammation of the heart
Diagnosing rheumatic fever requires not only the presence of key signs and symptoms but also evidence of a recent strep infection. Your doctor may take a blood sample to test for the presence of antibodies to streptococcal bacteria. However, it's possible that by the time you see your doctor, your throat culture test for strep will be negative. In that case, the only suggestion of strep may be you telling your doctor about a recent sore throat accompanied by fever.
Electrocardiogram: Tracing the electrical path through the heart
Complications
During a first rheumatic fever attack, about half of people develop heart inflammation, but this doesn't always result in permanent damage. Most people with rheumatic fever recover fully after six weeks. In some cases, however, one or more of the heart's valves may be scarred. Permanent heart damage due to rheumatic fever is known as rheumatic heart disease. In many cases, heart damage isn't discovered until years later.In rare cases of rheumatic fever, the inflammation causes so much damage to the heart muscle that it leads to congestive heart failure. In other cases, a scarred heart valve may prevent adequate blood flow or may permit backward flow of blood. If there's serious impairment to the function of your heart valves, surgery may be needed to repair or replace the damaged valve or valves.
Rheumatic fever can also affect these parts of your body:
Joints. Often, several joints are affected with painful swelling, redness and sensation of heat.
Brain. If acute rheumatic fever affects the brain, loss of coordination and uncontrolled movement of the limbs and face may occur. These movements are called chorea — from the Greek word choreia, which means choral dance. They're also sometimes called Sydenham's chorea, rheumatic chorea or St. Vitus' dance. Chorea occurs in about one in 10 rheumatic fever cases. Chorea usually subsides or disappears within weeks to months. Skin. The disease can produce broad patches or, irregularly, round, pink to faint-red areas on your skin (erythema marginatum). Lumps or nodules may occur beneath normal-appearing skin.
Heart failure
Treatment
Treatment of rheumatic fever involves a dual approach:
Antibiotics to rid your body of the streptococcal infection and prevent recurrences. To eliminate any remaining strep bacteria once you have rheumatic fever, your doctor may prescribe penicillin or another antibiotic. Usually, you'll then need to take additional antibiotics for several to many years to prevent additional attacks of rheumatic fever. Without continued antibiotic treatment, recurrence is common during the first three to five years after the initial infection. Other medications to ease the symptoms of the disease. To reduce inflammation of your heart or joints, your doctor may recommend specific doses of aspirin or an over-the-counter or prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication. For severe heart inflammation, a corticosteroid medication, such as prednisone, can reduce the inflammation.
Prevention
Preliminary drug trials show potential for a vaccine to prevent strep. But until an effective immunization is developed, the only known way to prevent rheumatic fever is to treat strep throat infections with antibiotics.
Most of the time, a virus is the cause of a sore throat, and viruses don't lead to rheumatic fever. However, a sore throat with fever lasting more than 24 hours may indicate a strep infection. Only a small percentage of people with untreated strep throat will develop rheumatic fever. Prompt and proper treatment of strep throat with antibiotics can prevent strep throat from progressing to rheumatic fever.
MIDEAST CHRISTIANS WORRIED
1-Hurricane Helene could menace Bermuda. 2-3 wildfires scorch SoCal; 1 doubles in size in national forest. 3-Israel ready to release more prisoners than expected: 4-Israel's Livni to meet Palestinian President Abbas. 5-IMF reform could prompt EU power loss. 6-Syrian Threat, Rocket Threats. 7-Iran leader says pope remarks part of US-Israeli conspiracy. 8-Pope remarks worry Christians in Mideast.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Hurricane Helene could menace Bermuda Mon Sep 18,
MIAMI - Hurricane Helene continued to gain strength as a Category 3 storm in the open Atlantic on Monday, and forecasters said it could threaten Bermuda at the end of the week. It was too soon to tell whether Helene would hit Bermuda, but the storm with top sustained winds of 125 mph was expected to be near the island Friday, said Chris Landsea, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami.Helene strengthened late Sunday into the second major hurricane of the Atlantic season with 115 mph winds and intensified even more early Monday. Major hurricanes are those Category 3 and higher.
At 11 a.m. EDT, it was centered about 900 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and about 1,090 miles east-southeast of Bermuda.
It was moving northwest at 9 mph and was expected to make a gradual westward turn but remain over open waters, forecasters said.Meanwhile, Hurricane Gordon picked up speed over the open Atlantic. The hurricane could pass over the Azores as a weaker storm sometime midweek, so forecasters said a tropical storm watch or warning may be required later Monday for the islands in the central Atlantic.It was centered about 1,125 miles west of the Azores and moving northeast near 20 mph, up from 14 mph Sunday. Gordon, the other storm to reach Category 3 status this year, had top sustained winds near 90 mph Monday.
The National Hurricane Center's latest forecast for the Atlantic season expects between seven and nine hurricanes, a slight reduction from earlier predictions. Scientists have said that weak El Nino conditions had inhibited hurricane development by bringing higher ocean temperatures that increase crosswinds over the Caribbean. The winds can rip storms apart or stop them from forming.But the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that the El Nino effect on hurricanes has been small so far. And the season, which lasts until Nov. 30, is still at its traditional peak.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Posted on Mon, Sep. 18, 2006
3 wildfires scorch SoCal; 1 doubles in size in national forest
CHRISTINA ALMEIDA,Associated Press
OJAI, Calif. - Firefighters battling a stubborn, two-week-old wildfire that scorched more than 116 square miles of wilderness along the Los Angeles-Ventura County line were counting Monday on help from shifting winds.The Day Fire, the largest of three Southern California blazes, doubled in size when it was fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds over the weekend. But a cool, moist ocean breeze Sunday night slowed the fire and put communities that are still several miles away from the flames out of immediate danger.
Authorities had advised precautionary evacuations over the weekend.The most recent forecast called for northwest winds of 15 mph to 20 mph with a shift to cooler and moister onshore breezes.If the wind shifts as predicted ... it could cool things a bit,said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Joe Pasinato.The Day Fire has burned 74,052 acres since Labor Day and was 15 percent contained Monday. No structures have been damaged.Meanwhile, two desert wildfires that forced the temporary evacuation of about 2,500 residents were mostly contained Monday. Two homes were destroyed by one of those blazes.While no one was injured and no homes were lost in the Day Fire, the blaze, which has remained largely in the Los Padres National Forest, crept within 12 miles of the artists' enclave of Ojai, in the mountains about 75 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The fire was also about seven miles north of Fillmore and 10 miles northeast of Santa Paula.
On Monday, firefighters moved equipment and personnel to the fire's western boundary and worked to set up a helibase to attack the blaze from the air. Crews also planned to drive up a hillside and hike a few miles inward, where they would use hand tools to cut fire lines and prevent the blaze from moving into populated areas.Battalion Chief Andy Ortega warned firefighters about rattlesnakes and bee stings in the wilderness. Several of the firefighters suffered minor injuries, including sprained ankles.
More than 2,000 firefighters were battling the blaze, which was ignited by someone burning debris.Officials said they expected the fire's main front to head northeast toward a group of mountains. The cooler winds pushing it could also provide a window for firefighters to get better control.
We expect stronger winds to come in Thursday and Friday, so we have a couple of days to work on it, Forest Service spokeswoman Dee Dechert said.Officials had advised the evacuation of about 350 homes in the Upper Ojai, Matilija Canyon and Wheeler Gorge areas as a precaution, said Sgt. Tim Hagel of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department.Ninety students cleared out of an Ojai Valley boarding school near the fire.It was a voluntary evacuation, but they were urged to leave,said Peter Cavalho, a supervisor of maintenance at Ojai Valley Schools Upper Campus.Marsha Campiglio, 58, who lives in the small forest community of Matilija Canyon near Ojai, said she had been prepared to go at any time since being contacted by officials at 6 a.m. Sunday.
We've been putting stuff in the car all day, but we've been watching football too,she said, laughing.The fire, which has cost about $15 million to fight, also scorched a condor sanctuary in part of the Sespe Wilderness, and state Fish and Game officials were closely watching a condor fledgling. The bird was in a high, rocky area that was not in imminent danger and no intervention was necessary, officials said.In Riverside County, two homes, two commercial buildings and three outbuildings were destroyed by a wildfire that ignited Saturday about 80 miles east of Los Angeles near the town of Cherry Valley, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.The Orchard Fire burned about 1,536 acres of brush and grass, or about two square miles, before being contained.A third fire started about eight miles away in a Banning structure and spread rapidly.
That blaze, dubbed the Ranch Fire, scorched 1,658 acres and was 90 percent contained.Two outbuildings and a barn were damaged, said Capt. Steve Diaz of the Riverside unit of the California Department of Forestry.Officials had called for mandatory evacuation in parts of Banning, Beaumont and the area around the Highland Springs Resort, but the orders were lifted Sunday evening and residents were allowed back in.
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ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
Israel ready to release more prisoners than expected:Mubarak Mon Sep 18,
CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said the number of Palestinian prisoners Israel is ready to release in exchange for a captured soldier is higher than expected. Egyptian contacts and efforts are progressing, and according to the outline of the agreement which has not yet been finalised the soldier will be freed in exchange for the release of a large number of Palestinian women and children,Mubarak was quoted as saying Monday by the official MENA news agency.Israel will then release Palestinian prisoners in three stages, MENA quoted him as saying, without specifying a number.
Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit was captured on June 25 during an attack by Palestinian militants on a border post in the southern Gaza Strip. His seizure was claimed by three groups, including the armed wing of the governing Hamas.Israeli media reports have estimated the number of Palestinians who could be released as part of a swap at between 600 and 800.
The Israeli side has shown readiness to release a higher number than what had been expected,Mubarak added.Egypt, together with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, has been involved in diplomatic efforts to secure the release of the Israeli conscript, whose capture led to a military offensive against the Gaza Strip.An Israeli government spokesman told AFP Monday that Israel was ready to reciprocate immediately if Shalit was freed, and if a new Palestinian unity government accepts Western conditions for resuming financial aid.
If the Palestinian leadership takes the right steps, Israel would immediately take the right steps to strengthen that,foreign ministry spokesman Marc Regev said.But Israeli officials also warned against hopes of an imminent release and stressed that no agreement had yet been reached.Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya, from the Islamist movement Hamas, said Saturday that efforts to secure the release of the Israeli soldier were making progress.
Israel's Livni to meet Palestinian President Abbas
18 Sep 2006 17:10:49 GMT, Reuters
By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said she would tell Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a meeting on Monday that any unity government he negotiates with Hamas must meet international conditions for lifting a freeze on foreign aid.Those conditions are that any Palestinian government must renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept interim peace deals Israel signed with the Palestinians.Livni said it would be her second meeting with Abbas -- whom she will see on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly -- since the Islamist group Hamas came to power in March and sparked a freeze on most foreign aid to the Palestine.
The last thing that the region, our region, the Middle East, needs is another terrorist state, Livni told reporters, adding that Israel supports strengthening Abbas, whose Fatah movement wants a two-state solution with Israel.The best way to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas is to demand the implentation of these requirements and not to compromise with them,she said.The measures were set by the Quartet of peace mediators the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia as conditions for ending a freeze on most foreign aid to the Palestinians.Abbas and ruling Hamas have begun talks on a unity government in a bid to lift sanctions, but aides to Abbas said on Sunday the president froze talks after Hamas said it would not accept interim peace deals with Israel.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said talks were only delayed while Abbas is in New York.Livni said it would be unacceptable for any unity government to be recognized if Hamas has not changed its ideology.
(Hamas) needs legitimization in order to get the money,Livni told reporters. They're looking for any hesitation in the international community in order to change the government to a unity government in order to get legitimacy.The three requirements are not negotiable, they are clear,she said.
Livni said she would also discuss with Abbas the case of an Israeli soldier captured in June by Gaza militants who have demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners and a halt to Israeli attacks.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
IMF reform could prompt EU power loss
18.09.2006 - 09:58 CET | By Mark Beunderman EU OBSERVER
The EU could lose out in terms of power in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the body is expected today to endorse a major overhaul of voting rights. At an IMF meeting in Singapore on Sunday, the organisation's steering committee the International Monetary and Financial Committee backed reforms which boost the decision-making powers of emerging economies such as China, South Korea, Turkey and Mexico.The IMF is a key international organisation which seeks to secure monetary and economic stability around the globe notably by providing credits to states with financial problems.The proposals, strongly pushed by US president George W. Bush, are being put to a vote in the 184-member IMF today (18 September) with results of the vote expected to emerge later this week.
The EU's richest states such as Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries are set to become big losers on the reform. Germany and the Netherlands said over the weekend that the proposed new formula determining IMF voting rights taking countries' economic power more into account should be adapted and based more on the openness of states' economy. German finance minister Peer Steinbruck said over the weekend The one-sided position of the US that GDP [Gross Domestic Product] should play the predominant role is not in line with our views,according to Bloomberg.
Echoeing his German counterpart's words, Dutch finance minister Gerrit Zalm said voting weights should be based on an international factor the openness of the economy, adding GDP cannot be the only basis for an international institution.EU finance ministers meeting earlier this month sought to coordinate positions for the Singapore meeting, agreeing that they would back a one-off increase of voting weights of China, South Korea, Turkey and Mexico but remaining cautious on longer-term IMF reform.
EU members must be treated equally with other under-represented members in this exercise,they said in a 9 September statement. Meanwhile, the member states of the eurozone – the EU's common currency area - are divided on ideas to merge to group eurozone states' seats on the IMF board into one. The plan has the backing of the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet as well as of the chairman of eurozone finance ministers, Luxembourg leader Jean-Claude Juncker, DPA reports. Germany, the largest eurozone member, is however against the idea, wishing instead to stick to its own seat.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Syrian Threat, Rocket Threats
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
Tensions with Syria continue, while Israel Air Force officer says short-range rockets are the main threat. Syria's Information Minister Muhsin Bilal says the Syrian nation will not wait much longer for the return of the Golan Heights.He told the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper that though Syria has waited patiently for 16 years hoping the peace for land formula would be implemented, nothing has happened.In the meanwhile, an Israel Air Force officer said today that the main threat against Israel today stems from short-range rockets from Gaza, Lebanon and possibly Judea and Samaria.
If the IDF had had full intelligence on everything going on in southern Lebanon near Israel, we could have prepared better for a better solution, both from the air and on the ground, to the short-range Katyusha missiles, he said. The officer said that the maps used by the Air Force were more up-to-date than those used by the ground forces.Two Kassam rockets were fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza Monday morning. The rockets landed just short of the northern Gaza border fence, causing no damage.
Iran leader says pope remarks part of US-Israeli conspiracy Mon Sep 18, 8:21 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) -Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has said remarks by the pope on Islam and violence were just the latest links in the chain of a US-Israeli conspiracy aimed at creating conflict between religions. Leaders of the arrogant imperialists have already defined the links of the chain in this US-Zionist project by attacking Iraq, Khamenei said in comments broadcast on state television.
The issue of insulting cartoons and remarks of some politicians about Islam are different links in the conspiracy of the crusaders and the pope's remarks are the latest links in this, he added.The pope's comments in his native Germany, which unleashed a wave of anger in the Islamic world, came after caricatures published in a Danish newspaper last year deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed set off deadly protests.
Pope remarks worry Christians in Mideast
2006/9 By ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago
CAIRO, Egypt - Extra security guards around churches in Egypt and Lebanon. Armed officers surrounding at least one. With the tensions over Pope Benedict XVI ‘s remarks on Islam still high, many in the Mideast‘s large Christian communities are worried about a backlash. Christians a minority in the Mideast that varies from nearly 40 percent in Lebanon to tiny communities in the Gulf states generally live in peace with the majority Muslims. Muslims, and some Christians, across the region have expressed anger over comments Benedict made Tuesday in Germany where he cited the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of Islam‘s Prophet Muhammad as evil and inhuman. There were no reports of violence against Christians in much of the Mideast on Sunday, but two churches in the Palestinian West Bank were set afire a day after Muslims hurled firebombs and opened fire at four other West Bank churches and one in the Gaza Strip .
On Monday, about 150 people in the Pakistani-controlled region of Kashmir demanded that the pope apologize over his remarks on Islam, chanting Death to the Pope and burning his effigy. Christians have been targeted in other cases. Car bombs exploded in January, killing at least three people in a coordinated spree of attacks outside the Vatican mission and at least five churches in Iraq , where Christians make up just 3 percent of Iraq‘s 26 million people. We in Egypt, despite coming from two different religions, have lived together for 14 centuries and engaged in religious dialogue, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III told reporters Sunday in Cairo. The tension being expressed over the pope‘s comments is not just coming from Muslims in the region.
Some Christians have openly expressed their dislike for Islam. Despite growing friction, Christian leaders gave mixed responses to the pope‘s words and the Vatican response, with some defending the pontiff and others saying his comments were offensive.
But one Roman Catholic priest in the Jordanian capital of Amman said he felt the pain of our Muslim brothers. We lived with our brothers in Islam in the good times and the bad times. We shared the laughter of joy and the tears of sorrow. We as Christians were so loyal to our nation. We have martyrs in all the battles of the Arab Jordanian army where the blood of Christians has mixed with that of Muslims,the Rev. Jihad Shweihat said. Magd in Cairo, Hamza Hendawi in Beirut, Lebanon, and Dale Gavlak in Amman Jordan contributed to this report.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Hurricane Helene could menace Bermuda Mon Sep 18,
MIAMI - Hurricane Helene continued to gain strength as a Category 3 storm in the open Atlantic on Monday, and forecasters said it could threaten Bermuda at the end of the week. It was too soon to tell whether Helene would hit Bermuda, but the storm with top sustained winds of 125 mph was expected to be near the island Friday, said Chris Landsea, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami.Helene strengthened late Sunday into the second major hurricane of the Atlantic season with 115 mph winds and intensified even more early Monday. Major hurricanes are those Category 3 and higher.
At 11 a.m. EDT, it was centered about 900 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and about 1,090 miles east-southeast of Bermuda.
It was moving northwest at 9 mph and was expected to make a gradual westward turn but remain over open waters, forecasters said.Meanwhile, Hurricane Gordon picked up speed over the open Atlantic. The hurricane could pass over the Azores as a weaker storm sometime midweek, so forecasters said a tropical storm watch or warning may be required later Monday for the islands in the central Atlantic.It was centered about 1,125 miles west of the Azores and moving northeast near 20 mph, up from 14 mph Sunday. Gordon, the other storm to reach Category 3 status this year, had top sustained winds near 90 mph Monday.
The National Hurricane Center's latest forecast for the Atlantic season expects between seven and nine hurricanes, a slight reduction from earlier predictions. Scientists have said that weak El Nino conditions had inhibited hurricane development by bringing higher ocean temperatures that increase crosswinds over the Caribbean. The winds can rip storms apart or stop them from forming.But the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that the El Nino effect on hurricanes has been small so far. And the season, which lasts until Nov. 30, is still at its traditional peak.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Posted on Mon, Sep. 18, 2006
3 wildfires scorch SoCal; 1 doubles in size in national forest
CHRISTINA ALMEIDA,Associated Press
OJAI, Calif. - Firefighters battling a stubborn, two-week-old wildfire that scorched more than 116 square miles of wilderness along the Los Angeles-Ventura County line were counting Monday on help from shifting winds.The Day Fire, the largest of three Southern California blazes, doubled in size when it was fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds over the weekend. But a cool, moist ocean breeze Sunday night slowed the fire and put communities that are still several miles away from the flames out of immediate danger.
Authorities had advised precautionary evacuations over the weekend.The most recent forecast called for northwest winds of 15 mph to 20 mph with a shift to cooler and moister onshore breezes.If the wind shifts as predicted ... it could cool things a bit,said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Joe Pasinato.The Day Fire has burned 74,052 acres since Labor Day and was 15 percent contained Monday. No structures have been damaged.Meanwhile, two desert wildfires that forced the temporary evacuation of about 2,500 residents were mostly contained Monday. Two homes were destroyed by one of those blazes.While no one was injured and no homes were lost in the Day Fire, the blaze, which has remained largely in the Los Padres National Forest, crept within 12 miles of the artists' enclave of Ojai, in the mountains about 75 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The fire was also about seven miles north of Fillmore and 10 miles northeast of Santa Paula.
On Monday, firefighters moved equipment and personnel to the fire's western boundary and worked to set up a helibase to attack the blaze from the air. Crews also planned to drive up a hillside and hike a few miles inward, where they would use hand tools to cut fire lines and prevent the blaze from moving into populated areas.Battalion Chief Andy Ortega warned firefighters about rattlesnakes and bee stings in the wilderness. Several of the firefighters suffered minor injuries, including sprained ankles.
More than 2,000 firefighters were battling the blaze, which was ignited by someone burning debris.Officials said they expected the fire's main front to head northeast toward a group of mountains. The cooler winds pushing it could also provide a window for firefighters to get better control.
We expect stronger winds to come in Thursday and Friday, so we have a couple of days to work on it, Forest Service spokeswoman Dee Dechert said.Officials had advised the evacuation of about 350 homes in the Upper Ojai, Matilija Canyon and Wheeler Gorge areas as a precaution, said Sgt. Tim Hagel of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department.Ninety students cleared out of an Ojai Valley boarding school near the fire.It was a voluntary evacuation, but they were urged to leave,said Peter Cavalho, a supervisor of maintenance at Ojai Valley Schools Upper Campus.Marsha Campiglio, 58, who lives in the small forest community of Matilija Canyon near Ojai, said she had been prepared to go at any time since being contacted by officials at 6 a.m. Sunday.
We've been putting stuff in the car all day, but we've been watching football too,she said, laughing.The fire, which has cost about $15 million to fight, also scorched a condor sanctuary in part of the Sespe Wilderness, and state Fish and Game officials were closely watching a condor fledgling. The bird was in a high, rocky area that was not in imminent danger and no intervention was necessary, officials said.In Riverside County, two homes, two commercial buildings and three outbuildings were destroyed by a wildfire that ignited Saturday about 80 miles east of Los Angeles near the town of Cherry Valley, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.The Orchard Fire burned about 1,536 acres of brush and grass, or about two square miles, before being contained.A third fire started about eight miles away in a Banning structure and spread rapidly.
That blaze, dubbed the Ranch Fire, scorched 1,658 acres and was 90 percent contained.Two outbuildings and a barn were damaged, said Capt. Steve Diaz of the Riverside unit of the California Department of Forestry.Officials had called for mandatory evacuation in parts of Banning, Beaumont and the area around the Highland Springs Resort, but the orders were lifted Sunday evening and residents were allowed back in.
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ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
Israel ready to release more prisoners than expected:Mubarak Mon Sep 18,
CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said the number of Palestinian prisoners Israel is ready to release in exchange for a captured soldier is higher than expected. Egyptian contacts and efforts are progressing, and according to the outline of the agreement which has not yet been finalised the soldier will be freed in exchange for the release of a large number of Palestinian women and children,Mubarak was quoted as saying Monday by the official MENA news agency.Israel will then release Palestinian prisoners in three stages, MENA quoted him as saying, without specifying a number.
Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit was captured on June 25 during an attack by Palestinian militants on a border post in the southern Gaza Strip. His seizure was claimed by three groups, including the armed wing of the governing Hamas.Israeli media reports have estimated the number of Palestinians who could be released as part of a swap at between 600 and 800.
The Israeli side has shown readiness to release a higher number than what had been expected,Mubarak added.Egypt, together with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, has been involved in diplomatic efforts to secure the release of the Israeli conscript, whose capture led to a military offensive against the Gaza Strip.An Israeli government spokesman told AFP Monday that Israel was ready to reciprocate immediately if Shalit was freed, and if a new Palestinian unity government accepts Western conditions for resuming financial aid.
If the Palestinian leadership takes the right steps, Israel would immediately take the right steps to strengthen that,foreign ministry spokesman Marc Regev said.But Israeli officials also warned against hopes of an imminent release and stressed that no agreement had yet been reached.Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya, from the Islamist movement Hamas, said Saturday that efforts to secure the release of the Israeli soldier were making progress.
Israel's Livni to meet Palestinian President Abbas
18 Sep 2006 17:10:49 GMT, Reuters
By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said she would tell Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a meeting on Monday that any unity government he negotiates with Hamas must meet international conditions for lifting a freeze on foreign aid.Those conditions are that any Palestinian government must renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept interim peace deals Israel signed with the Palestinians.Livni said it would be her second meeting with Abbas -- whom she will see on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly -- since the Islamist group Hamas came to power in March and sparked a freeze on most foreign aid to the Palestine.
The last thing that the region, our region, the Middle East, needs is another terrorist state, Livni told reporters, adding that Israel supports strengthening Abbas, whose Fatah movement wants a two-state solution with Israel.The best way to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas is to demand the implentation of these requirements and not to compromise with them,she said.The measures were set by the Quartet of peace mediators the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia as conditions for ending a freeze on most foreign aid to the Palestinians.Abbas and ruling Hamas have begun talks on a unity government in a bid to lift sanctions, but aides to Abbas said on Sunday the president froze talks after Hamas said it would not accept interim peace deals with Israel.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said talks were only delayed while Abbas is in New York.Livni said it would be unacceptable for any unity government to be recognized if Hamas has not changed its ideology.
(Hamas) needs legitimization in order to get the money,Livni told reporters. They're looking for any hesitation in the international community in order to change the government to a unity government in order to get legitimacy.The three requirements are not negotiable, they are clear,she said.
Livni said she would also discuss with Abbas the case of an Israeli soldier captured in June by Gaza militants who have demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners and a halt to Israeli attacks.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
IMF reform could prompt EU power loss
18.09.2006 - 09:58 CET | By Mark Beunderman EU OBSERVER
The EU could lose out in terms of power in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the body is expected today to endorse a major overhaul of voting rights. At an IMF meeting in Singapore on Sunday, the organisation's steering committee the International Monetary and Financial Committee backed reforms which boost the decision-making powers of emerging economies such as China, South Korea, Turkey and Mexico.The IMF is a key international organisation which seeks to secure monetary and economic stability around the globe notably by providing credits to states with financial problems.The proposals, strongly pushed by US president George W. Bush, are being put to a vote in the 184-member IMF today (18 September) with results of the vote expected to emerge later this week.
The EU's richest states such as Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries are set to become big losers on the reform. Germany and the Netherlands said over the weekend that the proposed new formula determining IMF voting rights taking countries' economic power more into account should be adapted and based more on the openness of states' economy. German finance minister Peer Steinbruck said over the weekend The one-sided position of the US that GDP [Gross Domestic Product] should play the predominant role is not in line with our views,according to Bloomberg.
Echoeing his German counterpart's words, Dutch finance minister Gerrit Zalm said voting weights should be based on an international factor the openness of the economy, adding GDP cannot be the only basis for an international institution.EU finance ministers meeting earlier this month sought to coordinate positions for the Singapore meeting, agreeing that they would back a one-off increase of voting weights of China, South Korea, Turkey and Mexico but remaining cautious on longer-term IMF reform.
EU members must be treated equally with other under-represented members in this exercise,they said in a 9 September statement. Meanwhile, the member states of the eurozone – the EU's common currency area - are divided on ideas to merge to group eurozone states' seats on the IMF board into one. The plan has the backing of the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet as well as of the chairman of eurozone finance ministers, Luxembourg leader Jean-Claude Juncker, DPA reports. Germany, the largest eurozone member, is however against the idea, wishing instead to stick to its own seat.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Syrian Threat, Rocket Threats
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
Tensions with Syria continue, while Israel Air Force officer says short-range rockets are the main threat. Syria's Information Minister Muhsin Bilal says the Syrian nation will not wait much longer for the return of the Golan Heights.He told the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper that though Syria has waited patiently for 16 years hoping the peace for land formula would be implemented, nothing has happened.In the meanwhile, an Israel Air Force officer said today that the main threat against Israel today stems from short-range rockets from Gaza, Lebanon and possibly Judea and Samaria.
If the IDF had had full intelligence on everything going on in southern Lebanon near Israel, we could have prepared better for a better solution, both from the air and on the ground, to the short-range Katyusha missiles, he said. The officer said that the maps used by the Air Force were more up-to-date than those used by the ground forces.Two Kassam rockets were fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza Monday morning. The rockets landed just short of the northern Gaza border fence, causing no damage.
Iran leader says pope remarks part of US-Israeli conspiracy Mon Sep 18, 8:21 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) -Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has said remarks by the pope on Islam and violence were just the latest links in the chain of a US-Israeli conspiracy aimed at creating conflict between religions. Leaders of the arrogant imperialists have already defined the links of the chain in this US-Zionist project by attacking Iraq, Khamenei said in comments broadcast on state television.
The issue of insulting cartoons and remarks of some politicians about Islam are different links in the conspiracy of the crusaders and the pope's remarks are the latest links in this, he added.The pope's comments in his native Germany, which unleashed a wave of anger in the Islamic world, came after caricatures published in a Danish newspaper last year deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed set off deadly protests.
Pope remarks worry Christians in Mideast
2006/9 By ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago
CAIRO, Egypt - Extra security guards around churches in Egypt and Lebanon. Armed officers surrounding at least one. With the tensions over Pope Benedict XVI ‘s remarks on Islam still high, many in the Mideast‘s large Christian communities are worried about a backlash. Christians a minority in the Mideast that varies from nearly 40 percent in Lebanon to tiny communities in the Gulf states generally live in peace with the majority Muslims. Muslims, and some Christians, across the region have expressed anger over comments Benedict made Tuesday in Germany where he cited the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of Islam‘s Prophet Muhammad as evil and inhuman. There were no reports of violence against Christians in much of the Mideast on Sunday, but two churches in the Palestinian West Bank were set afire a day after Muslims hurled firebombs and opened fire at four other West Bank churches and one in the Gaza Strip .
On Monday, about 150 people in the Pakistani-controlled region of Kashmir demanded that the pope apologize over his remarks on Islam, chanting Death to the Pope and burning his effigy. Christians have been targeted in other cases. Car bombs exploded in January, killing at least three people in a coordinated spree of attacks outside the Vatican mission and at least five churches in Iraq , where Christians make up just 3 percent of Iraq‘s 26 million people. We in Egypt, despite coming from two different religions, have lived together for 14 centuries and engaged in religious dialogue, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III told reporters Sunday in Cairo. The tension being expressed over the pope‘s comments is not just coming from Muslims in the region.
Some Christians have openly expressed their dislike for Islam. Despite growing friction, Christian leaders gave mixed responses to the pope‘s words and the Vatican response, with some defending the pontiff and others saying his comments were offensive.
But one Roman Catholic priest in the Jordanian capital of Amman said he felt the pain of our Muslim brothers. We lived with our brothers in Islam in the good times and the bad times. We shared the laughter of joy and the tears of sorrow. We as Christians were so loyal to our nation. We have martyrs in all the battles of the Arab Jordanian army where the blood of Christians has mixed with that of Muslims,the Rev. Jihad Shweihat said. Magd in Cairo, Hamza Hendawi in Beirut, Lebanon, and Dale Gavlak in Amman Jordan contributed to this report.
Monday, September 18, 2006
REVIVE PEACE ABBAS
1-Strong earthquake rattles Argentina. 2-Minor quake shakes north Dead Sea area. 3-Hurricanes churn over Atlantic, no threat to land. 4-5 dead or missing in Japan typhoon. 5-Lane weakens to tropical depression. 6-Struggling with globalisation, EU to take tougher line with trade partners. 7-Nonaligned nations condemn Israel, criticize United States. 8-Pope quails before Islamic fury. 9-Palestinian president calls for reviving Mideast peace process.
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EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Strong earthquake rattles Argentina 29 minutes ago
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina /A strong earthquake sent panicked residents fleeing from their homes Sunday in Argentina, but it caused no injuries or damages, authorities said. The magnitude 6.1 quake was felt in the provinces of Mendoza, San Juan and La
Rioja. Its epicenter was in Pampa de las Salinas, about 745 miles northeast of Buenos Aires and it was the second in less than a week to shake the region.A magnitude 5.7 quake struck the San Juan province on Tuesday but also caused no injuries or damage.
Minor quake shakes north Dead Sea area Sun Sep 17, 8:00 AM ET
AMMAN (AFP) - An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale shook the Jordan Valley area north of the Dead Sea, the second quake in the area in just over a week.There were no reports of damage or injuries, Darwish Jasser, assistant director at the national resources agency told state-run Petra news agency.The tremor occurred around midday Sunday and was felt by residents in the area, Jasser said, adding that no aftershocks were expected.A quake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale was felt in the same area on September 9.The sparsely-populated Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea and the Araba desert and Red Sea further south lie on the Syrian-African fault line, one of the world's most active seismic regions.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Hurricanes churn over Atlantic, no threat to land
MIAMI (Reuters)Hurricanes Gordon and Helene churned across the open Atlantic on Sunday, packing strong winds and gusty rains but posing no immediate threat to land, U.S. forecasters said. At 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT), maximum sustained winds from Helene the fourth hurricane of the Atlantic season were blowing at 105 miles per hour (169 kph) and the storm was moving northwest at about 9 mph (14 kph), the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
It said the center of the storm, which could strengthen over the next 24 hours, was located 920 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands.Gordon, the third hurricane of the season, had top sustained winds near 80 mph (130 kph), the hurricane center said. Located 1,430 miles west of the Azores, it was swirling north-northeast at 14 mph (22 kph).
Hurricane forecasters had predicted the current Atlantic storm season, which began June 1, would be more active than usual, following the record-breaking 2005 and the punishing 2004 seasons.But the development of El Nino weather conditions in the Pacific and other factors like high quantities of West African dust in the atmosphere over the Atlantic have led weather experts to lower their expectations.
The El Nino phenomenon, an unusual warming of waters in the eastern Pacific, causes high wind shear over the Atlantic. Wind shear, the difference in velocity or direction of winds at different altitudes, tears cyclones apart.
5 dead or missing in Japan typhoon By HANS GREIMEL, Associated Press Writer Sun Sep 17, 4:58 PM ET
TOKYO /A strong typhoon swept toward southwestern Japan with fierce winds and heavy rains Sunday, leaving at least five people dead or missing and injuring more than 100. More than 300 flights were grounded, cars were blown over and strong winds were
suspected in an express train derailment that injured five people, local media reported.Thousands of people, meanwhile, sought refuge in public shelters.
Although Typhoon Shanshan had weakened overnight, it was still lashing the region with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph. It was forecast to continue churning northeast toward Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.Heavy rain warnings were issued for much of western Japan, and the storm killed four people before even making landfall.A father and teenage daughter died Saturday when their car was hit by a flash flood, Kyodo News agency and public broadcaster NHK said. Another man was swept away in high waters, Kyodo said.One man was killed and another missing in Hiroshima prefecture, NHK said.More than 100 others have been injured by the storm, which started churning toward Japan early Saturday after sweeping past Taiwan.Authorities suspected that a sudden gust from Shanshan lifted two train cars from their tracks in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki, injuring five people, reports said. The train was moving slowly because of the storm.
Some super-express bullet train service was suspended because the storm and ship traffic was disrupted.Gusts of 155 mph were recorded Saturday on Iriomote Island, near Taiwan, the strongest winds ever observed there, Kyodo said. Up to 14 inches of rain were expected to fall in some areas of southwestern Japan by midday Monday, NHK reported.Typhoons and tropical storms frequently hit eastern Asia, especially Japan and Taiwan, in the summer and fall.
Lane weakens to tropical depression By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer Sun Sep 17, 3:43 PM ET
MAZATLAN, Mexico - Residents hauled bags of mud out of their homes and tourists tried to resume their vacations Sunday after Hurricane Lane battered this popular resort town. A day after the Category 3 storm swept away cars, toppled tree and crumpled billboards, some tourists sat in Jacuzzis and pools under a light drizzle or walked in ankle-deep water to shops and restaurants, which opened their previously boarded-up doors.Others, however, were trying desperately to get out of the mud-covered resort.
Robert Brown, 44, who builds race car engines in Aberdeen, Miss., said he and his wife were considering taking a seven-hour bus ride to Puerto Vallarta to catch a flight home after he was told planes were full out of Mazatlan on Sunday.I don't really know what to do now,he said.We don't know how the roads will be, but we also don't know how else we'll get out.Noe Tobar, 23, who was sweeping palm fronds and water out of the hallway of his concrete floor house in Mazatlan, said the cleanup from the storm should be quick. We were hit with a lot of rain, but give us a few days and everything will be back to normal,he said.Nearby, Martin Garcia, a 19-year-old musician, was hauling plastic bags full of mud out of his cement hovel, which he shares with seven others. He said the floodwaters had risen to the edges of his family's beds.
I'm glad it went farther north, but even so it left us flooded,he said.The storm weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after pounding Mazatlan with heavy winds and rain. It prompted the cancellation of flights and Mexico's traditional Independence Day parade in the resort and retirement community popular with Americans.The region escaped relatively unscathed with no reports of major damage or deaths, said Gerardo Delgado, a Red Cross spokesman in Sinaloa state, where Mazatlan is located.
A handful of small mountain villages were cut off by floodwaters but officials flew over the area in a helicopter and said there appeared to be no major damage or injuries, Delgado added.About 3,000 people had been evacuated in the state, but most returned home by Sunday.
By Sunday morning, Lane's maximum sustained winds had faded to about 30 mph — down from 125 mph on Saturday, forecasters at the U.S.National Hurricane Center said. The storm was expected to die out as it moved farther inland, the center said.Earlier this week, rains from the storm lashed coastal towns to the south, causing a landslide that killed a 7-year-old boy in Acapulco and flooding across western Mexico that forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.It was the second hurricane to strike the region this month. Hurricane John earlier hit a remote section of Baja California, killing five people and destroying 160 homes.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Miriam churned far off Baja California, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters said there was a slight chance it would turn toward land later in the week, hitting a sparsely populated section of the peninsula's coastline.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Struggling with globalisation, EU to take tougher line with trade partners by Philippe Ries Sun Sep 17, 1:18 AM ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Struggling to cope with shifting patterns of global commerce, the European Commission is planning a more hard-nosed approach to breaking into foreign markets and ensuring EU exporters get a fair deal from its trade partners. The tougher line on market access will be one of the main planks of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson's plans to beef up the bloc's international competitiveness, which are to be unveiled on October 4.
In preparatory notes seen by AFP, the commission said that its current trade strategy, which was launched in 1996, has not lived up to its full potential on opening markets, attracting investment and protecting intellectual property rights.Where EU companies face restrictions and their intellecual property rights are not fully respected we can and should be hard-nosed about improving these conditions,the commission document asserts.
However a tougher approach does not mean forcing open markets, it adds.Once the new strategy is brought in next year, it will focus on making sure that rules are respected and obligations to provide fair trading conditions are fulfilled.With that aim in mind, the commission wants to better use its available trade instruments, such as anti-dumping rules and negotiating new free-trade agreements.At the same time, the commission does not plan to back away from the multilateral approach and the WTO will remain the essential platform for ensuring Europe's interests are recognised in the gloabl trading system, the note said.In the future, new free trade agreements should be focused on key partners, and in particular on tackling non-tariff barriers, which now remain the main obstacle to the free flow of trade since tariffs have been eroded by succeeding waves of World Trade Organisation (WTO)
liberalisation.
For example, the commission is seeking a mandate from member states by the end of the year to open negotiations with ASEAN and South Korea for free-trade agreements.Brussels also has high hopes for trade with Latin America and wants to relaunch negotiations with Mercosur as well as opening talks with Central American and Andean countries.The commission wants to give particular importance to prying open public procurement markets, which represent an area of enormous untapped potential for EU exporters.The commission says that public procurement markets, which are so far not covered by WTO rules, generate 10 to 25 percent of the gross domestic product of some of the EU's partners.But although it considers its own public procurement markets to be open to others, the EU constantly finds it difficult to obtain satisfactory, reciprocal commitments from its trading partners.
In a recent example, Canadian train maker Bombardier was selected for a project without a tender in Quebec, leaving French group Alstom out of the race even though in France an open tender would have to be held.For Mandelson, who has been dubbed the globalisation commissioner in the EU executive, the stakes are not only economic but political and social.Opening up foreign markets makes it easier to dispel the temptation in some member states to shut out the outside world with trade barriers, the commission note said.Closing our own border is almost always counterproductive as it cuts off business from global supply chains and the import of cheap materials for production, it said. The commission's review of its trade policy would therefore identify the opportunities and risks of globalisation and set out a programme to increase our ability to respond to, and reap the maximum of benefits for our citizens, of global economic change. In the EU, that translates into taking care to help the victims of shifting trade patterns while making sure that the positive effects of trade opening benefit all consumers and are not captured by specific
interests.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Sunday, September 17, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
Nonaligned nations condemn Israel, criticize United States
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ,The Associated Press
HAVANA — Representatives of 118 Nonaligned Movement nations condemned Israel's attacks on Lebanon and supported a peaceful resolution to the U.S.-Iran nuclear dispute in the final declaration Saturday of a summit that brought together some of the world's staunchest American foes.The 92-page declaration also broadly condemned terrorism. But it said movements for self-determination and battles against foreign occupiers should not be considered terrorism.
And while declaring democracy to be a universal value, the movement said no one country or region should define it for the whole world and defended the right of Venezuela and other countries to determine their own forms of government.The final statements, many of which contain veiled criticisms of the U.S., were to be approved by unanimous consent after another round of speeches Saturday night by leaders of the movement.
No one in the Nonaligned Movement thinks that the United States is responsible for all the problems, but many think that it is for some,Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque said.An ailing Fidel Castro was named president of the movement, but he stayed home in his pajamas on doctors' orders while Acting Cuban President Raul Castro presided over the meeting of two-thirds of the world's nations.The meeting brought together the leaders of Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and Zimbabwe among other leading U.S. adversaries. Raul Castro joined them in saying a bellicose America had made the world more dangerous.The United States spends one billion dollars a year in weapons and soldiers, he said. To think that a social and economic order that has proven unsustainable could be maintained by force is simply an absurd idea.
North Korea's No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, claimed his communist nation would not need even a single nuclear weapon if there no longer existed a U.S. threat,and said U.S. financial sanctions have driven the situation into an unpredictable phase.Kim, the leader of Parliament, blamed the lack of world peace on the United States, saying its failure to respect the sovereignty of other nations has destroyed the international order.© 2006 The Seattle Times Company
Just remember when reading this story JESUS is the true GOD OF ISRAEL, and ALLAH is the MOON GOD OF ISLAM.
Pope quails before Islamic fury
By Stan Goodenough,September 17, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI, head of the world’s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics, attempted Saturday to placate the fury of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims after he purportedly offended them by reading from a 14th century book disclosing sordid truths about the teachings of the prophet Mohammed.The pope’s secretary of state said in a statement that Benedict’s position on Islam was unquestionably in line with the Vatican’s traditional teaching that the Rome esteems Muslims, who adore the only God.
This reassertion of a heresy that the LORD God of Israel and Allah, the Moon God of Arabia, are the same being was not enough to placate the latest fit of Islamic apoplexy.It erupted after Benedict, referencing a recorded debate between a Byzantium emperor and a Persian scholar, said that when the emperor came to talk about the issue of jihad he said, I quote, Show me just what Mohammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.Although the pope was quoting from an obscure old document, Muslims characteristically exploded in outrage in Arab and other Islamic states, protesting in the streets, firebombing churches, issuing fatwas and threatening to send suicide bombers to attack the Vatican in Rome.
It is the second time in a year Islamic leaders identified and seized an opportunity to fuel their growing global jihad, the ultimate aim of which is the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization and the forceful subjection of mankind to Allah.In September 2005, after a Danish cartoon depicted the founder of Islam as a man of violence, riots and other forms of protest flared in Muslim communities worldwide, instigated by imams and other religious leaders, This time again, fires of fury were ignited around the world.
In Israel, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh lashed out at Benedict for offending Muslims everywhere by his comments…about Islam as a faith [which] hide the truth and hurt its blessed essence.
The arch terrorist, who has personally embraced violence as a means of subduing the enemies of Islam and Palestine, appeared oblivious to the irony of remarks. Like all who head up Muslim terror groups, the Hamas leader prides himself as a faithful follower of Mohammed’s teachings.As he spoke, thousands of Palestinian Arabs marched to the buildings of the Palestinian parliament to vent their rage. At least four churches in Samaria and one in Gaza were set ablaze. The few Arab Christians in the overwhelmingly Muslim majority Palestinian Authority areas are believed to be in fear of personal attack.Further afield, Turkey accused the pope for trying to revive the mentality of the Crusades.The Pakistani parliament condemned him and called the Vatican’s ambassador to Islamabad on the carpet.The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and a senior Muslim cleric in Lebanon demanded that Benedict make a personal and public apology to Muslims everywhere.Morocco recalled its ambassador to the Holy See.
Historically Muslims have, often successfully, forced those who worship Christ and those who make obeisance to Mary to retract remarks and statements deemed offensive to the followers of Mohammed.High-profile evangelical leaders like Jerry Falwell have been successfully coerced into apologizing for calling Mohammed a terrorist.Notwithstanding the unwillingness of many western nations to defy politically correctness, by today’s definition – and according to the criteria used in various Judeo-Christian countries Mohammed, were he alive in the 21st century, would be labeled a terrorist, and states subscribing to his evil and inhuman teachings would be designated (as a few are) terror-supporting states and members of an axis of evil.
LAND FOR PEACE
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) 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:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) 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 (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
Palestinian president calls for reviving Mideast peace process
AMMAN, Sept 17 (KUNA) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asserted the importance of pushing forward the stalled Middle East peace process according to the road map agreed on by the Arab countries.
Speaking during a joint news conference, on Sunday, with Jordan's Prime Minister Dr. Ma'arouf Bakheet prior to his departure to New York on Monday, Abbas said:
We will tell the world community that the issue is in your court and you must find the appropriate mechanism to resolve it either through the Security Council or the quartet because the issue has been frozen more than enough.Asked about the formation of a national unity government, Abbas said that measures pertaining to its formation have been suspended till his return home after participation in the UN General Assembly meeting.
We had agreed with Hamas officials over a number of political and non political topics that are necessary for the government.Due to the issuance of some statements that led to misunderstanding of this agreement, we decided not to carry out any legal and constitutional measures to form a new unity government until I return from New York, he added.For his part, Bakheet stressed on the importance of formulating a united Arab stance towards boosting the Palestinian issue amid these critical and sensitive conditions.He urged the world community to take up its responsibilities in this respect. (end) bs.tg,KUNA 172249 Sep 06NNNN
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EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Strong earthquake rattles Argentina 29 minutes ago
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina /A strong earthquake sent panicked residents fleeing from their homes Sunday in Argentina, but it caused no injuries or damages, authorities said. The magnitude 6.1 quake was felt in the provinces of Mendoza, San Juan and La
Rioja. Its epicenter was in Pampa de las Salinas, about 745 miles northeast of Buenos Aires and it was the second in less than a week to shake the region.A magnitude 5.7 quake struck the San Juan province on Tuesday but also caused no injuries or damage.
Minor quake shakes north Dead Sea area Sun Sep 17, 8:00 AM ET
AMMAN (AFP) - An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale shook the Jordan Valley area north of the Dead Sea, the second quake in the area in just over a week.There were no reports of damage or injuries, Darwish Jasser, assistant director at the national resources agency told state-run Petra news agency.The tremor occurred around midday Sunday and was felt by residents in the area, Jasser said, adding that no aftershocks were expected.A quake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale was felt in the same area on September 9.The sparsely-populated Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea and the Araba desert and Red Sea further south lie on the Syrian-African fault line, one of the world's most active seismic regions.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Hurricanes churn over Atlantic, no threat to land
MIAMI (Reuters)Hurricanes Gordon and Helene churned across the open Atlantic on Sunday, packing strong winds and gusty rains but posing no immediate threat to land, U.S. forecasters said. At 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT), maximum sustained winds from Helene the fourth hurricane of the Atlantic season were blowing at 105 miles per hour (169 kph) and the storm was moving northwest at about 9 mph (14 kph), the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
It said the center of the storm, which could strengthen over the next 24 hours, was located 920 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands.Gordon, the third hurricane of the season, had top sustained winds near 80 mph (130 kph), the hurricane center said. Located 1,430 miles west of the Azores, it was swirling north-northeast at 14 mph (22 kph).
Hurricane forecasters had predicted the current Atlantic storm season, which began June 1, would be more active than usual, following the record-breaking 2005 and the punishing 2004 seasons.But the development of El Nino weather conditions in the Pacific and other factors like high quantities of West African dust in the atmosphere over the Atlantic have led weather experts to lower their expectations.
The El Nino phenomenon, an unusual warming of waters in the eastern Pacific, causes high wind shear over the Atlantic. Wind shear, the difference in velocity or direction of winds at different altitudes, tears cyclones apart.
5 dead or missing in Japan typhoon By HANS GREIMEL, Associated Press Writer Sun Sep 17, 4:58 PM ET
TOKYO /A strong typhoon swept toward southwestern Japan with fierce winds and heavy rains Sunday, leaving at least five people dead or missing and injuring more than 100. More than 300 flights were grounded, cars were blown over and strong winds were
suspected in an express train derailment that injured five people, local media reported.Thousands of people, meanwhile, sought refuge in public shelters.
Although Typhoon Shanshan had weakened overnight, it was still lashing the region with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph. It was forecast to continue churning northeast toward Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.Heavy rain warnings were issued for much of western Japan, and the storm killed four people before even making landfall.A father and teenage daughter died Saturday when their car was hit by a flash flood, Kyodo News agency and public broadcaster NHK said. Another man was swept away in high waters, Kyodo said.One man was killed and another missing in Hiroshima prefecture, NHK said.More than 100 others have been injured by the storm, which started churning toward Japan early Saturday after sweeping past Taiwan.Authorities suspected that a sudden gust from Shanshan lifted two train cars from their tracks in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki, injuring five people, reports said. The train was moving slowly because of the storm.
Some super-express bullet train service was suspended because the storm and ship traffic was disrupted.Gusts of 155 mph were recorded Saturday on Iriomote Island, near Taiwan, the strongest winds ever observed there, Kyodo said. Up to 14 inches of rain were expected to fall in some areas of southwestern Japan by midday Monday, NHK reported.Typhoons and tropical storms frequently hit eastern Asia, especially Japan and Taiwan, in the summer and fall.
Lane weakens to tropical depression By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer Sun Sep 17, 3:43 PM ET
MAZATLAN, Mexico - Residents hauled bags of mud out of their homes and tourists tried to resume their vacations Sunday after Hurricane Lane battered this popular resort town. A day after the Category 3 storm swept away cars, toppled tree and crumpled billboards, some tourists sat in Jacuzzis and pools under a light drizzle or walked in ankle-deep water to shops and restaurants, which opened their previously boarded-up doors.Others, however, were trying desperately to get out of the mud-covered resort.
Robert Brown, 44, who builds race car engines in Aberdeen, Miss., said he and his wife were considering taking a seven-hour bus ride to Puerto Vallarta to catch a flight home after he was told planes were full out of Mazatlan on Sunday.I don't really know what to do now,he said.We don't know how the roads will be, but we also don't know how else we'll get out.Noe Tobar, 23, who was sweeping palm fronds and water out of the hallway of his concrete floor house in Mazatlan, said the cleanup from the storm should be quick. We were hit with a lot of rain, but give us a few days and everything will be back to normal,he said.Nearby, Martin Garcia, a 19-year-old musician, was hauling plastic bags full of mud out of his cement hovel, which he shares with seven others. He said the floodwaters had risen to the edges of his family's beds.
I'm glad it went farther north, but even so it left us flooded,he said.The storm weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after pounding Mazatlan with heavy winds and rain. It prompted the cancellation of flights and Mexico's traditional Independence Day parade in the resort and retirement community popular with Americans.The region escaped relatively unscathed with no reports of major damage or deaths, said Gerardo Delgado, a Red Cross spokesman in Sinaloa state, where Mazatlan is located.
A handful of small mountain villages were cut off by floodwaters but officials flew over the area in a helicopter and said there appeared to be no major damage or injuries, Delgado added.About 3,000 people had been evacuated in the state, but most returned home by Sunday.
By Sunday morning, Lane's maximum sustained winds had faded to about 30 mph — down from 125 mph on Saturday, forecasters at the U.S.National Hurricane Center said. The storm was expected to die out as it moved farther inland, the center said.Earlier this week, rains from the storm lashed coastal towns to the south, causing a landslide that killed a 7-year-old boy in Acapulco and flooding across western Mexico that forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.It was the second hurricane to strike the region this month. Hurricane John earlier hit a remote section of Baja California, killing five people and destroying 160 homes.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Miriam churned far off Baja California, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters said there was a slight chance it would turn toward land later in the week, hitting a sparsely populated section of the peninsula's coastline.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Struggling with globalisation, EU to take tougher line with trade partners by Philippe Ries Sun Sep 17, 1:18 AM ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Struggling to cope with shifting patterns of global commerce, the European Commission is planning a more hard-nosed approach to breaking into foreign markets and ensuring EU exporters get a fair deal from its trade partners. The tougher line on market access will be one of the main planks of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson's plans to beef up the bloc's international competitiveness, which are to be unveiled on October 4.
In preparatory notes seen by AFP, the commission said that its current trade strategy, which was launched in 1996, has not lived up to its full potential on opening markets, attracting investment and protecting intellectual property rights.Where EU companies face restrictions and their intellecual property rights are not fully respected we can and should be hard-nosed about improving these conditions,the commission document asserts.
However a tougher approach does not mean forcing open markets, it adds.Once the new strategy is brought in next year, it will focus on making sure that rules are respected and obligations to provide fair trading conditions are fulfilled.With that aim in mind, the commission wants to better use its available trade instruments, such as anti-dumping rules and negotiating new free-trade agreements.At the same time, the commission does not plan to back away from the multilateral approach and the WTO will remain the essential platform for ensuring Europe's interests are recognised in the gloabl trading system, the note said.In the future, new free trade agreements should be focused on key partners, and in particular on tackling non-tariff barriers, which now remain the main obstacle to the free flow of trade since tariffs have been eroded by succeeding waves of World Trade Organisation (WTO)
liberalisation.
For example, the commission is seeking a mandate from member states by the end of the year to open negotiations with ASEAN and South Korea for free-trade agreements.Brussels also has high hopes for trade with Latin America and wants to relaunch negotiations with Mercosur as well as opening talks with Central American and Andean countries.The commission wants to give particular importance to prying open public procurement markets, which represent an area of enormous untapped potential for EU exporters.The commission says that public procurement markets, which are so far not covered by WTO rules, generate 10 to 25 percent of the gross domestic product of some of the EU's partners.But although it considers its own public procurement markets to be open to others, the EU constantly finds it difficult to obtain satisfactory, reciprocal commitments from its trading partners.
In a recent example, Canadian train maker Bombardier was selected for a project without a tender in Quebec, leaving French group Alstom out of the race even though in France an open tender would have to be held.For Mandelson, who has been dubbed the globalisation commissioner in the EU executive, the stakes are not only economic but political and social.Opening up foreign markets makes it easier to dispel the temptation in some member states to shut out the outside world with trade barriers, the commission note said.Closing our own border is almost always counterproductive as it cuts off business from global supply chains and the import of cheap materials for production, it said. The commission's review of its trade policy would therefore identify the opportunities and risks of globalisation and set out a programme to increase our ability to respond to, and reap the maximum of benefits for our citizens, of global economic change. In the EU, that translates into taking care to help the victims of shifting trade patterns while making sure that the positive effects of trade opening benefit all consumers and are not captured by specific
interests.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Sunday, September 17, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
Nonaligned nations condemn Israel, criticize United States
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ,The Associated Press
HAVANA — Representatives of 118 Nonaligned Movement nations condemned Israel's attacks on Lebanon and supported a peaceful resolution to the U.S.-Iran nuclear dispute in the final declaration Saturday of a summit that brought together some of the world's staunchest American foes.The 92-page declaration also broadly condemned terrorism. But it said movements for self-determination and battles against foreign occupiers should not be considered terrorism.
And while declaring democracy to be a universal value, the movement said no one country or region should define it for the whole world and defended the right of Venezuela and other countries to determine their own forms of government.The final statements, many of which contain veiled criticisms of the U.S., were to be approved by unanimous consent after another round of speeches Saturday night by leaders of the movement.
No one in the Nonaligned Movement thinks that the United States is responsible for all the problems, but many think that it is for some,Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque said.An ailing Fidel Castro was named president of the movement, but he stayed home in his pajamas on doctors' orders while Acting Cuban President Raul Castro presided over the meeting of two-thirds of the world's nations.The meeting brought together the leaders of Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and Zimbabwe among other leading U.S. adversaries. Raul Castro joined them in saying a bellicose America had made the world more dangerous.The United States spends one billion dollars a year in weapons and soldiers, he said. To think that a social and economic order that has proven unsustainable could be maintained by force is simply an absurd idea.
North Korea's No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, claimed his communist nation would not need even a single nuclear weapon if there no longer existed a U.S. threat,and said U.S. financial sanctions have driven the situation into an unpredictable phase.Kim, the leader of Parliament, blamed the lack of world peace on the United States, saying its failure to respect the sovereignty of other nations has destroyed the international order.© 2006 The Seattle Times Company
Just remember when reading this story JESUS is the true GOD OF ISRAEL, and ALLAH is the MOON GOD OF ISLAM.
Pope quails before Islamic fury
By Stan Goodenough,September 17, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI, head of the world’s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics, attempted Saturday to placate the fury of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims after he purportedly offended them by reading from a 14th century book disclosing sordid truths about the teachings of the prophet Mohammed.The pope’s secretary of state said in a statement that Benedict’s position on Islam was unquestionably in line with the Vatican’s traditional teaching that the Rome esteems Muslims, who adore the only God.
This reassertion of a heresy that the LORD God of Israel and Allah, the Moon God of Arabia, are the same being was not enough to placate the latest fit of Islamic apoplexy.It erupted after Benedict, referencing a recorded debate between a Byzantium emperor and a Persian scholar, said that when the emperor came to talk about the issue of jihad he said, I quote, Show me just what Mohammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.Although the pope was quoting from an obscure old document, Muslims characteristically exploded in outrage in Arab and other Islamic states, protesting in the streets, firebombing churches, issuing fatwas and threatening to send suicide bombers to attack the Vatican in Rome.
It is the second time in a year Islamic leaders identified and seized an opportunity to fuel their growing global jihad, the ultimate aim of which is the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization and the forceful subjection of mankind to Allah.In September 2005, after a Danish cartoon depicted the founder of Islam as a man of violence, riots and other forms of protest flared in Muslim communities worldwide, instigated by imams and other religious leaders, This time again, fires of fury were ignited around the world.
In Israel, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh lashed out at Benedict for offending Muslims everywhere by his comments…about Islam as a faith [which] hide the truth and hurt its blessed essence.
The arch terrorist, who has personally embraced violence as a means of subduing the enemies of Islam and Palestine, appeared oblivious to the irony of remarks. Like all who head up Muslim terror groups, the Hamas leader prides himself as a faithful follower of Mohammed’s teachings.As he spoke, thousands of Palestinian Arabs marched to the buildings of the Palestinian parliament to vent their rage. At least four churches in Samaria and one in Gaza were set ablaze. The few Arab Christians in the overwhelmingly Muslim majority Palestinian Authority areas are believed to be in fear of personal attack.Further afield, Turkey accused the pope for trying to revive the mentality of the Crusades.The Pakistani parliament condemned him and called the Vatican’s ambassador to Islamabad on the carpet.The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and a senior Muslim cleric in Lebanon demanded that Benedict make a personal and public apology to Muslims everywhere.Morocco recalled its ambassador to the Holy See.
Historically Muslims have, often successfully, forced those who worship Christ and those who make obeisance to Mary to retract remarks and statements deemed offensive to the followers of Mohammed.High-profile evangelical leaders like Jerry Falwell have been successfully coerced into apologizing for calling Mohammed a terrorist.Notwithstanding the unwillingness of many western nations to defy politically correctness, by today’s definition – and according to the criteria used in various Judeo-Christian countries Mohammed, were he alive in the 21st century, would be labeled a terrorist, and states subscribing to his evil and inhuman teachings would be designated (as a few are) terror-supporting states and members of an axis of evil.
LAND FOR PEACE
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) 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:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) 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 (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
Palestinian president calls for reviving Mideast peace process
AMMAN, Sept 17 (KUNA) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asserted the importance of pushing forward the stalled Middle East peace process according to the road map agreed on by the Arab countries.
Speaking during a joint news conference, on Sunday, with Jordan's Prime Minister Dr. Ma'arouf Bakheet prior to his departure to New York on Monday, Abbas said:
We will tell the world community that the issue is in your court and you must find the appropriate mechanism to resolve it either through the Security Council or the quartet because the issue has been frozen more than enough.Asked about the formation of a national unity government, Abbas said that measures pertaining to its formation have been suspended till his return home after participation in the UN General Assembly meeting.
We had agreed with Hamas officials over a number of political and non political topics that are necessary for the government.Due to the issuance of some statements that led to misunderstanding of this agreement, we decided not to carry out any legal and constitutional measures to form a new unity government until I return from New York, he added.For his part, Bakheet stressed on the importance of formulating a united Arab stance towards boosting the Palestinian issue amid these critical and sensitive conditions.He urged the world community to take up its responsibilities in this respect. (end) bs.tg,KUNA 172249 Sep 06NNNN
Sunday, September 17, 2006
WHY I HAD SO MANY HITS THIS WEEK
1-My explanation for the increase in hits on my site this week. 2-Text of Vatican statement on Pope speech. 3-Palestinian President Abbas to meet Bush. 4-IAEA complains of outrageous inaccuracies in Iran report to House Intelligence Committee.
For those of you who were wondering why my Events in Time site shot up from 4,302 to 20,693 Hits in one day, no it was not a big hit day, it was Just me adding on the 16,391 hits from the BLOGTOPSITE STATS, since they did hit my site but through BLOGTOPSITES. From the site Top 100 BLOGGERS,I never added them in. And the same with my 7 year Peace treaty Signing Site, I had 1,561 Hits and added the BLOGTOPSITE TOTAL of 4,423 for a total of 5,984. From now on though, I won't be adding the totals from the other 2 Sites, this was a one time Happening.
Text of Vatican statement on Pope speech By The Associated Press
Sat Sep 16, 10:28 AM ET
Text of Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's statement, issued Saturday in Italian, about criticism in the Muslim world over Pope Benedict XVI's remarks about Islam and violence. English translation is provided by the Vatican:
Given the reaction in Muslim quarters to certain passages of the Holy Father's address at the University of Regensburg, and the clarifications and explanations already presented through the Director of the Holy See Press Office, I would like to add the following:The position of the Pope concerning Islam is unequivocally that expressed by the conciliar document Nostra Aetate:
The Church regards with esteem also the Muslims. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, Who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion.
In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting (no. 3).
The Pope's option in favor of interreligious and intercultural dialogue is equally unequivocal. In his meeting with representatives of Muslim communities in Cologne, Germany, on 20 August 2005, he said that such dialogue between Christians and Muslims cannot be reduced to an optional extra, adding: The lessons of the past must help us to avoid repeating the same mistakes. We must seek paths of reconciliation and learn to live with respect for each other's identity.
As for the opinion of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus, which he quoted during his Regensburg talk, the Holy Father did not mean, nor does he mean, to make that opinion his own in any way. He simply used it as a means to undertake in an academic context, and as is evident from a complete and attentive reading of the text certain reflections on the theme of the relationship between religion and violence in general, and to conclude with a clear and radical rejection of the religious motivation for violence, from whatever side it may come. On this point, it is worth recalling what Benedict XVI himself recently affirmed in his commemorative Message for the 20th anniversary of the Inter-religious Meeting of Prayer for Peace, initiated by his predecessor John Paul II at Assisi in October 1986:demonstrations of violence cannot be attributed to religion as such but to the cultural limitations with which it is lived and develops in time.In fact, attestations of the close bond that exists between the relationship with God and the ethics of love are recorded in all great religious traditions.
The Holy Father thus sincerely regrets that certain passages of his address could have sounded offensive to the sensitivities of the Muslim faithful, and should have been interpreted in a manner that in no way corresponds to his intentions. Indeed it was he who, before the religious fervor of Muslim believers, warned secularized Western culture to guard against the contempt for God and the cynicism that considers mockery of the sacred to be an exercise of freedom.
In reiterating his respect and esteem for those who profess Islam, he hopes they will be helped to understand the correct meaning of his words so that, quickly surmounting this present uneasy moment, witness to the Creator of heaven and earth, Who has spoken to men may be reinforced, and collaboration may intensify to promote together for the benefit of all mankind social justice and moral welfare, as well as peace and freedom (Nostra Aetate no. 3).
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Palestinian President Abbas to meet Bush By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 16, 6:49 PM ET
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet President Bush in New York next week and will likely seek to promote his planned coalition with Hamas, a Palestinian official said Saturday.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the meeting with Bush would take place Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. The White House would not confirm the meeting and it was not clear whether Bush's final schedule in New York had been set. The two men last met in October 2005 in Washington.Abbas, a moderate who leads the Fatah Party, and the militant Islamic group Hamas, which currently rules alone, agreed last week to form a national unity government that would strive to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel implying recognition of the Jewish state.
Hamas, which is committed to Israel's destruction, swept to victory in January legislative elections, defeating Fatah, and formed a government by itself. The West and Israel reacted by cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, accusing Hamas of being a terrorist group.
Without the foreign aid, the Hamas-led Palestinian government has been unable to pay salaries to its tens of thousands of civil servants, causing widespread hardship. In a sign of desperation, women have parted with their dowry of gold jewelry their only financial security in the event of divorce.Abbas hopes a unity government with Hamas could restore international funding to the cash-starved Palestinian Authority. But the United States has said it wants clearer statements from Hamas that it recognizes Israel, accepts existing peace deals and renounces violence.
The European Union on Friday held off on renewing direct aid to the Palestinian Authority. EU ministers said they supported Abbas' steps to form a broader coalition, but wanted assurances the new government would back peace efforts.Erekat said Abbas would discuss with Bush the emerging coalition and the fate of an Israeli soldier seized by Hamas-allied militants in Gaza in June, whose capture led to an Israeli military offensive in Gaza.Erekat said delegations led by Abbas and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni would also meet next week, but would not say what would be on the agenda.Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev had no comment on the reported meeting, which would be a precursor to expected talks between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.Hamas has been pressured by tough international sanctions to force it to temper its anti-Israel stance. But Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas suggested Saturday that his group would go no further than it already has in agreeing to the unity government.
The agreement on the national unity government does not discuss the recognition of (peace) agreements signed with the Israeli occupation,Haniyeh told Associated Press Television News.
We will work with these agreements according to what serves the higher Palestinian interests, but that does not mean we recognize them.Israel has been boycotting the Hamas government but considers Abbas, who favors peacemaking, an acceptable partner for talks.
Today: Sunday September 17, 2006
IAEA complains of outrageous inaccuracies in Iran report to House Intelligence Committee New York, Sept 16, IRNA ,Iran-US-IAEA
A recent U.S. House of Representatives committee report on Iran's nuclear capability is outrageous and dishonest in trying to make a case that Tehran's program is geared toward making weapons, a senior official of the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
IAEA said in a letter outside a meeting of the 35-nation IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna that the US report is false in saying Iran is making weapons-grade uranium at an experimental enrichment site, when it has in fact produced material only in small quantities that is far below the level that can be used in nuclear arms. The letter, which was first reported by The Washington Post, also says the report erroneously says that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei removed a senior nuclear inspector from the team investigating Iran's nuclear program for concluding that the purpose of Iran's nuclear program is to construct weapons.
In fact, the inspector was sidelined on Tehran's request, and the Islamic Republic had a right to ask for a replacement under agreements that govern all states relationships with the agency, said the letter, calling the report's version incorrect and misleading.In addition,says the letter, the report contains an outrageous and dishonest suggestion that such removal might have been for not having adhered to an unstated IAEA policy barring IAEA officials from telling the whole truth about the Iranian nuclear program.Dated August 12, the letter was addressed to Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It was signed by Vilmos Cserveny, a senior director of the Vienna-based agency.
An IAEA official, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the letter, said it was written to set the record straight. The dispute was reminiscent of the clashes between the Vienna-based agency and the U.S. administration over whether Iraq's Saddam Hussein was trying to make weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear arms.
American arguments that Saddam had such covert arms programs were given as the chief reason for the US invasion of Iraq. ElBaradei's criticism of the U.S. standpoint on Iraq and subsequent perceptions that he was soft on Iran in his staff's investigation of Tehran's nuclear activities may be a cover for a weapons program led to a failed attempt last year by Washington to prevent his re-election.
For those of you who were wondering why my Events in Time site shot up from 4,302 to 20,693 Hits in one day, no it was not a big hit day, it was Just me adding on the 16,391 hits from the BLOGTOPSITE STATS, since they did hit my site but through BLOGTOPSITES. From the site Top 100 BLOGGERS,I never added them in. And the same with my 7 year Peace treaty Signing Site, I had 1,561 Hits and added the BLOGTOPSITE TOTAL of 4,423 for a total of 5,984. From now on though, I won't be adding the totals from the other 2 Sites, this was a one time Happening.
Text of Vatican statement on Pope speech By The Associated Press
Sat Sep 16, 10:28 AM ET
Text of Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's statement, issued Saturday in Italian, about criticism in the Muslim world over Pope Benedict XVI's remarks about Islam and violence. English translation is provided by the Vatican:
Given the reaction in Muslim quarters to certain passages of the Holy Father's address at the University of Regensburg, and the clarifications and explanations already presented through the Director of the Holy See Press Office, I would like to add the following:The position of the Pope concerning Islam is unequivocally that expressed by the conciliar document Nostra Aetate:
The Church regards with esteem also the Muslims. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, Who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion.
In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting (no. 3).
The Pope's option in favor of interreligious and intercultural dialogue is equally unequivocal. In his meeting with representatives of Muslim communities in Cologne, Germany, on 20 August 2005, he said that such dialogue between Christians and Muslims cannot be reduced to an optional extra, adding: The lessons of the past must help us to avoid repeating the same mistakes. We must seek paths of reconciliation and learn to live with respect for each other's identity.
As for the opinion of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus, which he quoted during his Regensburg talk, the Holy Father did not mean, nor does he mean, to make that opinion his own in any way. He simply used it as a means to undertake in an academic context, and as is evident from a complete and attentive reading of the text certain reflections on the theme of the relationship between religion and violence in general, and to conclude with a clear and radical rejection of the religious motivation for violence, from whatever side it may come. On this point, it is worth recalling what Benedict XVI himself recently affirmed in his commemorative Message for the 20th anniversary of the Inter-religious Meeting of Prayer for Peace, initiated by his predecessor John Paul II at Assisi in October 1986:demonstrations of violence cannot be attributed to religion as such but to the cultural limitations with which it is lived and develops in time.In fact, attestations of the close bond that exists between the relationship with God and the ethics of love are recorded in all great religious traditions.
The Holy Father thus sincerely regrets that certain passages of his address could have sounded offensive to the sensitivities of the Muslim faithful, and should have been interpreted in a manner that in no way corresponds to his intentions. Indeed it was he who, before the religious fervor of Muslim believers, warned secularized Western culture to guard against the contempt for God and the cynicism that considers mockery of the sacred to be an exercise of freedom.
In reiterating his respect and esteem for those who profess Islam, he hopes they will be helped to understand the correct meaning of his words so that, quickly surmounting this present uneasy moment, witness to the Creator of heaven and earth, Who has spoken to men may be reinforced, and collaboration may intensify to promote together for the benefit of all mankind social justice and moral welfare, as well as peace and freedom (Nostra Aetate no. 3).
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Palestinian President Abbas to meet Bush By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 16, 6:49 PM ET
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet President Bush in New York next week and will likely seek to promote his planned coalition with Hamas, a Palestinian official said Saturday.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the meeting with Bush would take place Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. The White House would not confirm the meeting and it was not clear whether Bush's final schedule in New York had been set. The two men last met in October 2005 in Washington.Abbas, a moderate who leads the Fatah Party, and the militant Islamic group Hamas, which currently rules alone, agreed last week to form a national unity government that would strive to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel implying recognition of the Jewish state.
Hamas, which is committed to Israel's destruction, swept to victory in January legislative elections, defeating Fatah, and formed a government by itself. The West and Israel reacted by cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, accusing Hamas of being a terrorist group.
Without the foreign aid, the Hamas-led Palestinian government has been unable to pay salaries to its tens of thousands of civil servants, causing widespread hardship. In a sign of desperation, women have parted with their dowry of gold jewelry their only financial security in the event of divorce.Abbas hopes a unity government with Hamas could restore international funding to the cash-starved Palestinian Authority. But the United States has said it wants clearer statements from Hamas that it recognizes Israel, accepts existing peace deals and renounces violence.
The European Union on Friday held off on renewing direct aid to the Palestinian Authority. EU ministers said they supported Abbas' steps to form a broader coalition, but wanted assurances the new government would back peace efforts.Erekat said Abbas would discuss with Bush the emerging coalition and the fate of an Israeli soldier seized by Hamas-allied militants in Gaza in June, whose capture led to an Israeli military offensive in Gaza.Erekat said delegations led by Abbas and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni would also meet next week, but would not say what would be on the agenda.Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev had no comment on the reported meeting, which would be a precursor to expected talks between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.Hamas has been pressured by tough international sanctions to force it to temper its anti-Israel stance. But Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas suggested Saturday that his group would go no further than it already has in agreeing to the unity government.
The agreement on the national unity government does not discuss the recognition of (peace) agreements signed with the Israeli occupation,Haniyeh told Associated Press Television News.
We will work with these agreements according to what serves the higher Palestinian interests, but that does not mean we recognize them.Israel has been boycotting the Hamas government but considers Abbas, who favors peacemaking, an acceptable partner for talks.
Today: Sunday September 17, 2006
IAEA complains of outrageous inaccuracies in Iran report to House Intelligence Committee New York, Sept 16, IRNA ,Iran-US-IAEA
A recent U.S. House of Representatives committee report on Iran's nuclear capability is outrageous and dishonest in trying to make a case that Tehran's program is geared toward making weapons, a senior official of the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
IAEA said in a letter outside a meeting of the 35-nation IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna that the US report is false in saying Iran is making weapons-grade uranium at an experimental enrichment site, when it has in fact produced material only in small quantities that is far below the level that can be used in nuclear arms. The letter, which was first reported by The Washington Post, also says the report erroneously says that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei removed a senior nuclear inspector from the team investigating Iran's nuclear program for concluding that the purpose of Iran's nuclear program is to construct weapons.
In fact, the inspector was sidelined on Tehran's request, and the Islamic Republic had a right to ask for a replacement under agreements that govern all states relationships with the agency, said the letter, calling the report's version incorrect and misleading.In addition,says the letter, the report contains an outrageous and dishonest suggestion that such removal might have been for not having adhered to an unstated IAEA policy barring IAEA officials from telling the whole truth about the Iranian nuclear program.Dated August 12, the letter was addressed to Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It was signed by Vilmos Cserveny, a senior director of the Vienna-based agency.
An IAEA official, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the letter, said it was written to set the record straight. The dispute was reminiscent of the clashes between the Vienna-based agency and the U.S. administration over whether Iraq's Saddam Hussein was trying to make weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear arms.
American arguments that Saddam had such covert arms programs were given as the chief reason for the US invasion of Iraq. ElBaradei's criticism of the U.S. standpoint on Iraq and subsequent perceptions that he was soft on Iran in his staff's investigation of Tehran's nuclear activities may be a cover for a weapons program led to a failed attempt last year by Washington to prevent his re-election.
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