1-Quake strikes off Kermadec Islands. 2-Small quake rattles northern Thailand. 3-Moderate quake shakes northwest Turkey. 4-Light earthquake shakes Northern California. 5-Tropical depression forms near Mexico. 6-AFA forces NBC to cancel scene mocking crucifixion of Christ. 7-First Anti-Pride Protest Held in Jerusalem. 8-Palestinians flock to Jerusalem. 9-Syria needs billions of dollars in investment to avert water crisis. 10-Antarctic ozone hole biggest on record, U.S. reports. 11-NKorea, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon,Syria shun chemical weapons ban.
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.
Quake strikes off Kermadec Islands Sat Oct 21, 9:04 AM ET
WELLINGTON (AFP) - A moderate 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Kermadec Islands in the south Pacific. The quake hit 193 kilometres (120 miles) north east of the main Raoul Island at 5:23 pm (0523 GMT), the United States Geological Survey said Saturday.There were no initial reports of casualties or serious damage.The quake struck 746 kilometres south west of Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, at a depth of 10 kilometres.The Kermadecs, New Zealand's largest marine reserve, are uninhabited apart from conservation officers and volunteers on Raoul Island, according to the New Zealand Department of Conservation website.
GNS Science, New Zealand's geological agency, records 14,000 earthquakes in and around New Zealand every year as the country is positioned on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. Most of these quakes are small with only 150 on average felt by New Zealand residents.
Small quake rattles northern Thailand Sat Oct 21, 8:08 AM ET
BANGKOK (AFP) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale struck northern Thailand, but there were no reports of casualties or damage.The quake hit the northern province of Chiang Rai, along the border of Myanmar and Laos, 790 kilometers (483 miles) north of Bangkok, the department said Saturday.The epicenter was located 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of Chiang Rai, but the department did not have a figure for its depth.
Moderate quake shakes northwest Turkey Fri Oct 20, 5:09 PM ET
ANKARA, Turkey - An earthquake shook northwestern Turkey on Friday, prompting some residents of Istanbul to flee their homes, officials and news reports said. There were no immediate reports of injury or significant damage. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0, was centered near a lake at the Manyas nature reserve in Balikesir province about 260 miles west of the capital Ankara, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The quake, which struck at 2:15 p.m. EDT, was felt in Istanbul, some 250 miles north.Balikesir police chief Celal Uzunkaya said there were no reports of any injuries.People in Balikesir and Istanbul rushed out of their homes when the quake struck, CNN-Turk television and the government-owned Anatolia news agency reported.Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which lies on active fault lines. Two devastating earthquakes hit northwestern Turkey in 1999, killing some
18,000 people.
Light earthquake shakes Northern California Fri Oct 20, 2:29 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A light earthquake of 4.5 magnitude shook part of Northern California on Friday morning about 74 miles northwest of the state capital, Sacramento, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no reports of injuries or damage from the mild event in the surrounding area, James Bauman, chief deputy for the Lake County Sheriff's department, told Reuters.The tremor hit at 10 a.m. (1 p.m. EDT/1700 GMT) and was centered near the Lake County hamlet of Cobb at a depth of 2.6 miles below the surface, according to the USGS
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.
Tropical depression forms near Mexico Sat Oct 21, 6:52 AM ET
MEXICO CITY - A tropical depression formed off Mexico's west coast early Saturday and forecasters said it could turn into a hurricane within a few days.
Tropical Depression 17-E was located about 260 miles south-southwest of the coastal city of Manzanillo, said Dan Mundell, a meteorologist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.The depression is forecast to intensify into a tropical storm in the next 12-24 hours and become a small hurricane within three days, Mundell said. It is moving westward at 11.5 mph with maximum sustained winds of 34.5 mph.Its sustained winds must reach at least 39 mph to be considered a tropical storm and 74 mph to be classified as a hurricane.The system is forecast to turn northward toward the southern Baja peninsula over the next few days, Mundell said.
AFA forces NBC to cancel scene mocking crucifixion of Christ
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1 CORINTHIANS 6:9
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,(HARDENED HOMOSEXUALS) nor abusers of themselves with mankind
2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXTUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good
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.
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:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL 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, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) 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.
First Anti-Pride Protest Held in Jerusalem
By Hillel Fendel(INN) Oct 20,06
Thousands of hareidi-religious Jews protested Wednesday against the gay pride march scheduled for the Holy City next month and say they will be out in force if the police don't cancel the march.The protest cut off all traffic through Sabbath Square in the Me'ah She'earim neighborhood of Jerusalem. Some of the speeches were in Yiddish, but were translated into Hebrew for our Sephardic brothers,NFC reported.One of the speakers said, Everyone whom G-d has blessed with children must check the level of modesty in his own home. You can't say, I don't know about this, I'm not involved in it. We must all unite against this plot that has fallen on us, and fight against it. All of us together will fight against this scheme.Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the head of the Eidah Hareidit Rabbinical Court, delivered a fiery speech, promising total dedication to the goal of stopping the march in accordance with the rabbis' rulings. He quoted traditional Jewish sources saying that righteous people die because they fail to protest abominations.
We must protest against the filth [coming to] Jerusalem,he said.
Rabbi Sternbuch arned that the march could lead, Heaven forbid, to the death of tens of thousands... We don't need a public inquiry to know why the war in Lebanon occurred and why we failed: Because of the abominations in the Holy Land. The gay pride march was originally scheduled for August, and was postponed because of the war. We have no intention of clashing with the police, Rabbi Sternbuch said, but they should know in advance that if the march is held, we will arrive en-masse, with our rabbis and teachers out in front.Hevron residents Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir wrote a letter to Jerusalem Police Chief Ilan Franco, asking him to cancel the march because of the fear of violence that will certainly erupt.They wrote that they themselves have been banned from certain places, such as the Temple Mount, for fear that they would incite violence.
Many march opponents note that adding to the desecration is the fact that it is scheduled to be held on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass that presaged the Holocaust. On November 9-10 in 1938, gangs of Nazi youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods in Germany, breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting.
Over 90 Jews were killed, almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, 101 synagogues were destroyed and 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.Jerusalem City Councilwoman Mina Fenton (National Religious Party) told Arutz-7 Hebrew radio that the nation must not be silent. The march is to be held,she said, because of a compromise reached between the Jerusalem Open House [a homosexual center that is organizing the gay march] and the police despite the strong objections of the mayor, the vast majority of the City Council, and many city residents. We must all fight to have this thing canceled not just postponed.
Before the parade was postponed this past summer, Fenton worked to gather tens of thousands of signatures against the parade many of them from non-Jews. The Jews are against it, the Moslems are against it, and so are the Christians, she said, and yet the police still approved it. The public cannot be trampled upon in the name of freedom of expression.Fenton notes the provocative way in which the organizers have gone about preparing for the march including the use of the Jerusalem municipal symbol of a lion in a provocative manner.They're not simply demanding equal rights, said IsraelNationalRadio's Tamar Yonah in a show on the topic several months ago, which could be understandable. They're actually showing pride in their sexual choice, and based on photos from other parades, they dress very scantily and exhibit physical erotic contact on the streets. Is this what we want on the streets of Jerusalem?
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)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Palestinians flock to Jerusalem By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer
Fri Oct 20, 6:50 AM ET
QALANDIA, West Bank - Thousands of Palestinians surged through the main Israeli crossing point from the northern West Bank, braving Israeli restrictions to worship on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a major Islamic site in Israeli-ruled Jerusalem. Women and children were among those pouring through the Qalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Men under 45, deemed a security risk by Israel, were barred from crossing though some had traveled for hours to in hopes of praying at the Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third-holiest site.The worshippers were initially told that only men over 50 would be allowed through, but an officer later announced through a megaphone that the age limit had been dropped to 45 years.Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that between 175,000 and 200,000 worshippers were expected to take part in midday prayers at Al-Aqsa, from where tradition says the Prophet Muhammad, Islam's founder, ascended to heaven.
Prayer in Al Aqsa is different from praying in any other mosque and Jerusalem is different from any other place, said Walid Rommaneh, a 47-year-old man from Ramallah who was waiting in the crush at Qalandia for his turn to pass through. His wife, teenage daughter and young son had been admitted earlier.Dozens of younger and more agile men scaled the nearby walls of Israel's West Bank separation barrier and scattered into the neighboring Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Police rounded up several and sent them back.Border police manning the crossing pushed back Palestinians trying to shove through the turnstiles but no serious use of force was seen at Qalandia, and Rosenfeld said there were no reports of any serious incident inside Jerusalem.
Last Friday Israeli forces used tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse Palestinians whose anger and frustration at entry restrictions erupted in disturbances at several checkpoints around Jerusalem.
Dr Samuel Doctorian and Angel 2 the Mideast
I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come. The angel said, The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God.I saw fires rising to heaven. The angel said,This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East.
Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries.The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
Syria needs billions of dollars in investment to avert water crisis
Friday, October 20, 2006
DAMASCUS: Billions of dollars of investment are required over the next decade if Damascus is to avert a critical water crisis, according to a leading development agency. The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the development agency of the Japanese government, has taken a lead role in tackling Syria's growing water shortages. Kazuhide Nagasawa, resident representative of JICA in Syria, recently told IRIN that over the past 20 years the level of ground water in the Barada basin, on which Damascus sits, retreated from 50 meters to 200 meters underground, leading to supply shortages and tap water in dry summer months.
In another 20 years, the water table could be down to 400 meters [below ground level] while the population of Damascus could have risen from its current figure of 4 to 5 million, to 10 million,Nagasawa said. At that point it will be difficult to survive on the limited water resources. The Syrian government will have to decide whether they want to transfer water to Damascus from the coast, or from the Euphrates,he added.Mufak Khalouf, head of the Damascus Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DELTA), said that the Syrian government was pressing ahead with a feasibility study for a project with a Swiss company to pump water from the Euphrates River which flows from Turkey through Syria to Iraq to Damascus.The project is estimated to cost $2 billion, and was previously believed to have been scrapped due to insufficient funding. The study is due to be finished before the end of the first quarter of next year, said Khalouf. In the meantime Damascus can extract water supplies from the ground water, and we are working on rationalizing water use among residents.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb
However, international specialists warn it will not be long before the ground water upon which much of Damascus and its surrounding countryside rely, dries up almost completely.The over extraction of ground water has left it in a very serious decline, said Noriyuki Mori, a technical expert in water resource management at JICA. If this continues, it will become so low that farmers and residents of Damascus will no longer be able to extract it.
Damascus uses an average of 215 million cubic meters of water per year according to Khaled Shalak, Deputy General Director of DELTA. At present, the available water in the capital is 200 million cubic meters a year. An additional 45 million cubic meters is already needed, and that figure will have risen again by 2010, Khallouf said.Because of water supply not meeting rising demands in Damascus, water is currently being rationed to 13 hours a day.
Even in the mainly urbanized Damascus basin around 80 percent of available water is used in agriculture, with outdated irrigation methods. Across Syria as a whole, only 16 percent of farmers use modern irrigation systems, according to JICA's Mori, and yet, the agricultural sector is set to grow by some 40 percent over the next 20 years. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
OZONE DEPLETION
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Antarctic ozone hole biggest on record, U.S. reports
Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:40pm ET,
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This year's ozone hole over Antarctica is bigger and deeper than any other on record, U.S. scientists reported on Thursday.The ozone layer shields Earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, and the layer thins out over the South Pole each year, primarily because human-made compounds release ozone-eating chlorine and bromine gases into the stratosphere.
From September 21 to 30, the average area of the ozone hole was the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million square miles ,said Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center outside Washington.If the stratospheric weather conditions had been normal, the ozone hole would be expected to reach a size of about 8.9 million to 9.3 million square miles, about the surface area of North America, NASA said in a statement.
THE 21st CENTURY IN PICTURES
Scientists measure the total amount of ozone from the ground to the upper atmosphere in Dobson Units, and a NASA satellite detected a low level of 85 Dobson Units on October 8 of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used balloon-borne instruments to measure ozone right over the South Pole, and by October 9 the total ozone in a column from the ground to the upper atmosphere had dropped to 93 DU from about 300 DU in mid-July.Temperature variations in the Antarctic stratosphere causes the severity of the ozone hole to vary from year to year. Colder temperatures result in larger and deeper ozone holes, while warmer temperatures lead to smaller ones. This year, the lower stratosphere was about 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) cooler than average.
Concentrations of ozone-depleting chemicals in the lower atmosphere have been declining since 1995, and scientists estimate the ozone hole will be completely recovered by about 2065.
N Korea, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria shun chemical weapons ban Sat Oct 21, 1:21 AM ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - North Korea, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Syria are unfairly refusing to join the convention banning chemical weapons, which has been signed by 180 countries, the head of the body monitoring the treaty has said. It is very unfair to other countries if a few countries retain for themselves the privilege of producing chemical weapons when all the others are transparent in this field, said Rogelio Pfirter of Argentina, director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).The convention, signed in 1993, entered into force in 1997 and mandated the OPCW to eliminate chemical weapons, including deadly nerve gases, forever and to verify the destruction of the declared chemical weapons stockpiles within stipulated deadlines.
Pfirter, who briefed the General Assembly, bemoaned the fact that North Korea has spurned calls to join the treaty, despite allegations of the potential existence of stockpiles.Last week, the UN Security Council unanimously agreed to slap sanctions on North Korea over its first-ever atom-bomb test and demanded that Pyongyang scrap all its weapons of mass destruction.Pfirter also took Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria to task for refusing to join the chemical weapons ban treaty.He said there could be no moral, strategic or legal excuse to remain outside the convention, which given the number of signatories, is considered international law.
Having even a single state outside the convention provided a major loophole that allowed the manufacture of very deadly weapons at the expense of humanity, he noted.Each OPCW member state is mandated to declare if it is in possession of chemical weapons. If so, it must undertake a commitment to destroy all stockpiles by a particular deadline, initially 2007, with an ultimate deadline of 2012.Pfirter told a press conference that while his organization, based in The Hague, was totally totally independent and technically not a part of the United Nations, it was guided by the same aspiration for peace and security.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Friday, October 20, 2006
IRAN THREATENS EU IF FOR ISRAEL
1-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 2-Strong earthquake rattles Peruvian coast. 3-300 evacuated from Ecuador volcano . 4-Indonesia disaster shows risks of mud volcanoes. 5-Death toll from Thai, Myanmar floods reaches 127. 6-Haniyeh: Hamas will not be moved from power. 7-Opening an Embassy for Yesha. 8-New Iranian Threats Set Off Alarm Bells in Israel. 9-U.N.: Number of ocean dead zones rise. 10-Gillerman: Iran is determined to destroy.11-PM Olmert: PA’s Moment of Truth Rapidly Approaching. 12-Ahmadinejad warns Europe it will pay for backing Israel. 13-Speculation mounts over Solana leaving job.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 19, 2006
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
Too often, Hollywood movie producers spend millions making films that look good, but are so short on substance they aren't long for viewing. On the other hand, people of faith have entered the film market and produced movies that try to tell good stories, but are marred by poor production values. A new movie, One Night with the King, is one that I'm looking forward to seeing when I return from Israel later this month. My friend Michael Medved, a national radio show host and movie reviewer, has called the movie, a very, very powerful testament to how much the American Christian community loves the Jewish community. My staff has confirmed that it is a beautifully filmed production comparable to the best Hollywood has to offer that faithfully recounts the biblical story of Esther, one of the most compelling in the Bible. The King of Persia chooses a beautiful young woman named Esther to be his queen, unaware that she is Jewish. Esther hears from Mordecai, her uncle, that the King has entrusted the fate of Persian Jews to Haman, the King's top adviser. Haman hates the Jews, and issues an order that they all be killed.
At great risk to her own life, Esther reveals to the King that she is Jewish and pleads with him to save her people. He agrees to do so, and, in a fitting twist, gives the evil Haman the same fate Haman himself had planned to give the Jews.The story of Esther is usually associated with the Jewish holiday of Purim, still four months away. But its message is timeless. Esther's bravery and obedience to God inspires in any season. And her willingness to put her own life on the line to save her people teaches us a valuable lesson about self-sacrifice and purpose.Haman, on the other hand, represents a sort all too common today the person who hates the Jews so much that he sees in their destruction the solution to all the world's problems. We hear echoes of Haman in Iranian president Ahamadinejad's call to wipe Israel off the map in the promise by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh that the Palestinian government will never recognize Israel's right to exist in the hateful words of radical Muslim clerics who refer to Jews as descendants of apes and pigs in their sermons.
The power of One Night with the King comes from its strong biblical message. In a world when Hamans often speak the loudest, we need more Esthers seeking to do what is right, to stand humbly before God and defend His people in the face of all difficulties.
Like Esther, perhaps God has indeed raised you and me up for such a time as this (Esther 4:14) a time when true Guardians of Israel are needed to confront anti-Semitism, to give generously to feed Israel's hungry and clothe her poor, and to comfort and bind the wounds of those whose lives have been shattered by war and terrorism. Let's continue in that duty and turn a time of great uncertainty and difficulty for Israel and the Jewish people into a time of joy and celebration.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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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 Peruvian coast 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
LIMA, Peru - A strong earthquake rattled Peru's southern coast on Friday, but no damage or injuries were reported. The magnitude 6.4 quake struck at 5:48 a.m. below the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 56 miles northwest of the coastal city of Pisco, according to Peru's Geophysics Institute. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake as magnitude 6.5. The earthquake was felt as a long shudder in the capital, Lima, and inland in the Andean provincial city of Huancavelica. But it caused the most alarm in Ica, a coastal city 165 miles to the southeast, where local radio reports said panicked residents rushed from their homes into streets and parks.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
300 evacuated from Ecuador volcano Thu Oct 19, 10:08 PM ET
QUITO, Ecuador - Lava and ash erupted from an Ecuadoran volcano and forced the evacuation of about 300 villagers, a local mayor said Thursday. An eruption two months ago of the Tungurahua volcano killed four people and left two others missing and still unaccounted for.We were able to take them out last night from the most dangerous zones located on the flanks where the explosions occurred Aug. 16,said Juan Salazar, mayor of Penipe, 12 miles from the volcano.The upper slopes of the volcano have been mostly deserted since August. But Salazar said about 80 families had returned to attempt to farm in the ash-encrusted ground.They saw incandescent rocks coming down on the slopes and so they evacuated, he said. No injuries were reported.
In addition to the casualties, nearly 5,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged and tens of thousands of acres of pasture and crops were also destroyed in the August eruption, according to the Civil Defense.Experts have warned that renewed explosions could come any time from the 16,575-foot volcano located about 85 miles south of the capital, Quito.What we have seen now is evidence that something there could be something similar to the episodes in July and August,said Hugo Yepes, director of Ecuador's Geophysics Institute. Inside the ground there is a chamber of magma much larger than the volcano itself.
Indonesia disaster shows risks of mud volcanoes By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent 1 hour, 45 minutes ago Oct 20,06
OSLO (Reuters) - In a village in Indonesia's East Java province, a man is struggling to watch television with a volcano erupting in his living room. Risks from volcanoes that ooze mud rather than spew lava have long been underestimated worldwide, even with a cataclysmic mudflow in another part of Java that has swamped an area the size of Monaco and forced 10,000 people from their homes.Experts say the disaster, flooding the Sidoarjo region since May 29, highlights lack of knowledge about mud volcanoes, thousands of which have been found from Alaska to Australia. They range from tiny seeps to cones 500 meters (1,640 ft) tall.
In Java nobody ever studied mud volcanoes,said Adriano Mazzini, a leading Italian volcano expert at the University of Oslo who says the Indonesian disaster may signal the first time people have recorded the birth of a mud volcano.In Indonesia they have other priorities magmatic volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis,he told Reuters.
On Java, villages about 10-20 km (6-12 miles) north of the mud eruption Gununganyar, Kalanganyar and Pulungan are built on old, near-dormant mud volcanoes that must have seemed attractive-looking mounds to village founders.
Pulungan was the most vivid example of ignoring the risks of mud volcanoes, such as subsidence.We went to one house where a man took us into his living room. He opened the cupboard beneath the television, and there were seeps erupting, Mazzini said after a recent trip.Another home in Pulungan has collapsed and elsewhere many residents are worried by seeps of gas, mud and fluids. The volcano may have been stirred by an earthquake on May 27, two days before the catastrophic mudflow began.
BUILDING LIFTED
In Kalanganyar, the end of one long thin building had been lifted a meter or two over the years by the pressures from a mud volcano bulging beneath.Mud volcanoes need better study,said Antje Boetius, a professor at the International University of Bremen in Germany.She noted that they could cause disasters, ranging from subsidence to tsunamis. They mean something for humans it's not just scientific curiosity,she said.Mud volcanoes are often caused by a build-up of pressure from sediments crushed several kilometers below the surface that release methane and other gases. They are often found near oil and gas deposits, also caused by a crush of organic matter.As in Java, they can also happen near where tectonic plates of the earth's crust rub together. Mazzini said it was impossible to say how long the Sidoarjo flow would last.
He said researchers would probably never know exactly what triggered the catastrophic mudflow at Sidoarjo, releasing the build-up of pressure deep below ground.The trigger might have been a magnitude 4 earthquake two days before the mudflow began, he said, or the drilling of a gas exploration well operated by PT Lapindo Brantas Inc, which is controlled by Pt Energi Mega Persada.
Mud volcanoes are rarely deadly since they more often seep rather than explode. In 1997, an eruption of a mud volcano at Piparo, a farming village in central Trinidad, threw mud 45 meters (150 ft) into the air, covering many homes. No one died. In Azerbaijan, a large mud volcano that erupted in 2001 also released giant flares of methane.
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.
Death toll from Thai, Myanmar floods reaches 127 Fri Oct 20, 4:25 AM ET
BANGKOK (AFP) - The death toll from severe flooding in Thailand and neighboring Myanmar has reached 127 as Thai weather authorities warned of more heavy rains over the weekend in the country's south.
At least 108 people have died in Thailand since severe flooding began in late August in the country's central and northern provinces, the interior ministry said in a statement.
The death toll soared overnight after the ministry confirmed that 25 people reported dead earlier were confirmed to be flood victims.The water that inundated northern Thailand was slowly working its way south, but 16 central provinces were still suffering from the floods, the ministry said.At its peak earlier in the month, the flooding, triggered by heavy rains from Typhoon Xangsane, affected 46 of the nation's 76 provinces.In neighboring Myanmar, 19 people died in floods across central and eastern parts of the country, but in most places there, the water has already subsided.
Haniyeh: Hamas will not be moved from power
Friday 20 October 2006, 17:38 Makka Time, 14:38 GMT
Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, said in a speech at a mosque on Friday that Hamas would reject any moves by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to oust Hamas from power.Haniyeh's convoy came under attack as it passed through the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza shortly after the prime minister's speech, but the Hamas leader was unhurt.Hamas officials said the attack did not appear to be an assassination attempt, but it comes at a time of growing tensions between rival Palestinian factions that have sparked fears of civil war.
An official in Haniyeh's office said: The prime minister is alright and he is out of the area which witnessed the gunfire. His car was not attacked. Islam Shawan, a spokesman for Hamas' armed wing, said that the last car in the motorcade was hit and set alight.
There were no reports of injuries.
Pointless
Abbas has hinted that he might fire the Hamas government after efforts to form a unity cabinet foundered over Hamas' refusal to soften its stance toward Israel.Haniyeh said it would be pointless for Abbas to fire the government, suggesting any emergency administration the president appointed would not get the ultimate approval of parliament, where Hamas has an absolute majority.
He also said Hamas would reject other measures such as calling early elections. Haniyeh said: All you have here are options that have no aim but to remove Hamas from government. The wheel of history will not go backward.All these options will not achieve stability and calm and will not represent a way out of the crisis.
Haniyeh did not threaten explicit action to oppose Abbas, such as calling Hamas supporters out onto the streets.
Western sanctions
Abbas said this week that he would make a decision soon on the fate of the government. The president has not explicitly identified his options but his aides have said that he might call fresh elections, appoint an emergency cabinet or hold a referendum to let the Palestinian people decide what to do.A senior Abbas aide told Reuters on Thursday that the president was expected to make his decision several days after the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Eid this year falls around October 23.Palestinians had hoped that a unity government would lead to a lifting of crippling Western sanctions that were
imposed on Hamas when it assumed office in March.(Reuters)
Opening an Embassy for Yesha
By Stan Goodenough,October 20, 2006
It was an event that went largely unnoticed (or was purposefully ignored) by the news media. For many of those participating, however, it was one of prophetic magnitude and an opportunity to express their unshakeable resolve.On Sunday, October 8, in front of more than 300 visiting Gentiles and invited Israeli guests, the Jerusalem-based pro-Israel Christian organization, the International Christian Zionist Center, officially opened its new offices on the road between Jerusalem and Bethel.According to an ICZC press release, the move to the area in Samaria, behind the controversial security fence and inside the territory earmarked for a future State of Palestine, was made in solidarity with the people of Israel and their undeniable historic link to all their divinely-promised land.
Because every unilateral Israeli withdrawal in the region had only increased the bellicose stand of Israel’s enemies and intensified their terrorism against Israel, with their final aim being to excise the sovereign Jewish state from their Muslim midst, ICZC director Jan Willem van der Hoeven said the Christians represented by the organization believed that Israel needs to spell out to the world as well as to her own, battered, people that this tiny piece of land is theirs and will never be forsaken by them.With members in nations around the globe, the ICZC had committed itself to tirelessly spelling this out to our own gentile leaders and governments.
Van der Hoeven recalled how, in 1981, after 13 embassies crumpled under Arab pressure and fled from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, he had led a small group of Christians in founding the International Christian Embassy so that Christians around the world could say to Israel, You are not alone.I feel to repeat that action today, Van der Hoeven said, and open an embassy for Yesha (the targeted areas of Judea, Samaria and Gaza) here, to say like Ruth to the Jews in these endangered communities, Your God is our God and we are with you.It is on the hearts of millions of Christians, from China to Brazil, from America to South Africa, as some of you have come to say to the Jewish people, You will never have peace when you give up the land; but you will have peace when you keep it!
The land where the ICZC offices were situated was the very land Jacob had been sleeping when God promised him that the ground on which you are lying, I will give to you.This land, which included Ariel and Bethel and Shiloh and Hebron and Jerusalem, was now under the gun. And if the battle to preserve Bethel and Shiloh was lost, the battle for Jerusalem would also be lost.Among the Israeli guests asked to address the gathering were Ron Nachman, the founder and mayor of Ariel, the biggest Jewish community Samaria, and Hebrew University Professor of Arabic Studies Moshe Sharon.Stepping up to the microphone, Nachman declared: In the Bible there is no West Bank, no Occupied Territories…only the Promised Land.He reminded world leaders that the first deed in real estate was not in Washington DC, not in Paris, not in London, it was in Hebron.
But he bemoaned the fact that the Gentile nations do not see the biggest threat today: the clash of civilizations, Islam against Christianity and Judaism.Nachman said he believed it was important that Christians and Jews stand together in defense of Israel’s land.When visiting the United States, he said, I am not welcomed and not invited to speak by the Jewish establishment, because I am mayor of the biggest Jewish city in the West Bank.So I go to the Christians.The mayor, a former Knesset member, said he sees a great hope in the connection of the Jewish and non-Jewish communities in resisting the world’s efforts to rob the Jews of their land.However, he stressed, while it was good that people prayed against the uprooting of Jewish communities Gush Katif was evacuated despite all the prayers.
The fight was also a political fight and we need to fight it on that front, he said.Moshe Sharon sounded the alarm he has been speaking out for many years but which have mostly fallen on the deaf ears of politicians who believe they have to remain politically correct:The world is caught up in a clash of civilizations and is already in fact embroiled in World War III.The Middle East conflict was part of that war, but it was reaching deep into areas in the Western world.Beware Europe! You are on the way to becoming an Islamic state. There are 4800 mosques in Germany alone!! And right now in the oldest city in Finland, a new mosque is being erected that is so high it will be visible from 50 km away…Muslims were teaching that Europe is the cancer. Islam is the answer!
Sharon, an advisor on Arab affairs to a number of former Israeli prime ministers, said there could never be peace between Israel as a Jewish state and the Arabs, for as far as the Arabs are concerned the establishment of the state of Israel is a reversal of history; it was something that could not happen! The word peace simply does not exist in the Quran, he said.Returning to the podium, Van der Hoeven told the gathering that while the International Christian Zionist Center was the only Christian-led organization to fully support Jews against expulsion from the heartland of Israel by physically locating itself on the endangered land, he believed other pro-Israel groups would one day follow this example.It was the vision of the ICZC to help train the millions of Christians from every nation to stand pro-actively with Israel, spiritually, materially and politically, as Israel’s few remaining friends among the nations faded away.
New Iranian Threats Set Off Alarm Bells in Israel
By Robert Berger ,Jerusalem,20 October 2006
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Israel no longer has any reason to exist and will soon disappear. The latest threats are adding to Israel's already deep concerns about Iran's nuclear program.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers speech after attending anti-Israeli rally Friday, Oct. 20, 2006.
Israeli officials say the saber-rattling from Iran is another warning to the international community that the Islamic regime must not be allowed to get a nuclear bomb. At a pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran, Iran's president said Israeli leaders are a group of terrorists, and he threatened any country that supports the Jewish state. He also said Israel is a fake regime that would soon disappear. It was a similar statement to one a year ago, when he threatened to wipe Israel off the map.
Since then, Israel has watched the Iranian nuclear program with growing alarm. Foreign Minister Tzippe Livni says the leaders of Iran pose a threat to regional and global stability.They speak proudly and openly of their desire to wipe Israel off the map, she said. And now, by their actions, they pursue the weapons to achieve this objective, to imperil the region and to threaten the world.
So what now?
The world faces a critical test.,she noted.Israel believes the international community is moving too slowly to stop Iran, and that the U.N. must change course and quickly impose sanctions.
Ehud Olmert
However, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Russia this week to urge a tougher stand on Iran, but came away empty handed from talks with President Vladimir Putin. Russia is building Iran's first nuclear reactor and opposes sanctions on Tehran.So Mr. Olmert warned that Iran would have a price to pay if it does not back down from its nuclear ambitions. It was a broad hint that if the international community does not act, Israel might launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities on its own.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
U.N.: Number of ocean dead zones rise By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Scientists have found 200 dead zones in the world's oceans places where pollution threatens fish, other marine life and the people who depend on them.
The United Nations report Thursday showed a 34 percent jump in the number of such zones from just two years ago. Pollution-fed algae, which deprives other living marine life of oxygen, is the cause of most of the world's dead zones that cover tens of thousands of square miles of waterways. Scientists chiefly blame fertilizer and other farm run-off, sewage and fossil-fuel burning.Those contain an excess of nutrients, particularly phosphorous and nitrogen, that cause explosive blooms of tiny plants known as phytoplankton. When they die, they sink to the bottom, where they are eaten by bacteria that use up the oxygen in the water.
The low levels of oxygen in the water make it difficult for fish, oysters and other marine creatures to survive as well as important habitats such as sea grass beds,U.N. officials said. These areas are fast becoming major threats to fish stocks and thus to the people who depend upon fisheries for food and livelihoods.By 2030, the world's rivers will pump 14 percent more nitrogen into seas and oceans than that found in the mid-1990s, according to new U.N. research released at a meeting in Beijing.Researchers led by Robert Diaz, a marine scientist at Virginia's College of William and Mary, said they found new dead zones at the Archipelago Sea in Finland; Fosu Lagoon in Ghana; Pearl River estuary and Changjiang River in China; and Mersey River estuary in Britain.Other new zones found were at the Elefsis Bay and Aegean Sea in Greece; Paracas Bay in Peru; Mondego River in Portugal; Montevideo Bay in Uruguay; and in the western Indian Ocean.
The United Nations marine experts said the number and size of oxygen-deprived zones has grown each decade since the 1970s.Not all the dead zones persist year-round; some return seasonally, depending on winds that bring nutrient-rich water to the surface.
It seems like a big jump in two years,said Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, who was not part of the U.N. research. She said an important factor has been the huge increase in pollution from fast-developing countries.Rabalais, who has studied the Gulf of Mexico's massive dead zone that is now the size of New Jersey, said marine creatures that swim fast enough can usually escape.The things that are left behind are the ones that usually can't survive, she said.
When you consider the size of some of these areas, it's removing what's considered the essential habitat for fishes and crustaceans.Other U.N. scientific findings released Thursday, however, raised hopes for the recovery of damaged coral reefs, which serve as the ocean's nurseries. It found that reefs bleached in the late 1990s by high surface sea temperatures are affected by how polluted the waters are.Coral reefs recovering faster are generally those living in marine protected areas and coastal waters where the levels of pollution, dredging and other kinds of human-induced disturbance are considered low,the U.N. said.
On the Net:U.N. report: http://www.gpa.unep.org/bin/php/igr/igr2/supporting.php
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Gillerman: Iran is determined to destroy
Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 10.19.06
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Gillerman took advantage of the monthly UN discussion on the situation in the Middle East Thursday to warn the members of the Security Council on the threat posed by Iran. Gillerman said Iran paid Hamas USD 50 million in order to torpedo efforts to release Gilad Shalit. Today I learned that Iran had paid USD 50 million to Hamas in order to torpedo the deal to the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
If Iran is willing to pay so much money to solve a humanitarian issue, it is frightening how much they will be willing to pay to torpedo any diplomatic initiative to block their nuclear efforts,Gillerman said, referring to an item first published by Yedioth Ahronoth Thursday morning. Although the speech was part of a routine discussion held monthly at the UN, this time it was held before the Security Council. During the meeting, UN special envoy to the Middle East Alvaro de-Soto presented his report and said that since the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit in late June, 295 Palestinians were killed by IDF forces, including 66 children, and another 1,113 were injured.
During his speech Gillerman praised the decision to impose sanctions on North Korea but warned that North Korea is only the prelude to a more disturbing story, the emergence of a nuclear Iran, armed and willing to share its state terrorist capabilities with the other unholy extremists who yearn to destroy us. He added that Israel sees the Iranian threat as an existential one, not solely to itself but to the entire world as well. The international community must be determined, clear, and unequivocal in its plan of action.
There is only one choice: the world must ensure that Iran does not attain nuclear weapons.
Are you doing everything you can?
Gilerman added that although the real, most urgent threat to stability and peace in the Middle East is Iran, We are bolstered by the surfacing of moderate voices in the region, voices that recognize the true threats facing us.Now these moderates are joining together to form an alliance against the extremists and for a historical reconciliation and mutual advancement. Ambassador Gillerman also criticized the fact that the kidnapped IDF soldiers have not been freed yet and the failure to enforce the arms embargo from Syria into Lebanon.This Council, in its unanimous adoption of resolution 1701, took upon itself the responsibility to secure the unconditional release of our boys, the Israeli soldiers Gilad Shalit, Udi Goldwasser, and Eldad Regev. I ask you now, as I did then, to do your utmost to alleviate this humanitarian crisis and bring them home.
Gillerman added that two and a half weeks after the last Israeli soldier left southern Lebanon, the situation along the northern border has begun to stabilize, but it is still early to declare it as a success. Success will be determined only to the extent to which resolution 1701 is fully implemented. There is reason to be concerned about the smuggling of arms across the border between Lebanon and Syria. Hizbullah’s rearming not only violates the essence and strength of resolution 1701, it places the entire region in immediate peril. There can be no ambiguity in policy here. The embargo must be enforced, and its violators must be held accountable,he said.
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).
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)
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) 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.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
PM Olmert: PA’s Moment of Truth Rapidly Approaching
By Yechiel Spira(INN)
Upon his return from Moscow on Thursday evening, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the PA’s moment of truth is rapidly approaching.
The prime minister stated that PA (Palestinian Authority) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) must make some critical decisions. Decisions, he said, that will determine the future of the region. If Abu Mazen does not take the required steps, we will all be losers,Olmert said.While negotiations between Abu Mazen’s Fatah and the ruling Hamas movement continue, fighting between rival factions has sharply increased, with daily shootouts taking place in Gaza this week as the two terror organizations struggle for control.
Hamas emerged the victor in the PA’s general elections, but Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah is now isolated by the western community which is demanding recognition of Israel, resulting in an economic boycott of the Hamas government.
Reaching an agreement with Abu Mazen whereby a new coalition government would recognize Israel in some regard would result in international acceptance of the PA government, a move that would unlock donor nation funds for the PA and its institutions. Regarding Iran, Olmert added the clock is running out, adding that today, things are happening and the situation has changed. While stating I did not threaten Iran,the prime minister added, Iran must not realize who it is up against .Iran should be afraid.Seeking to exhibit an air of success upon his return from Moscow, the prime minister added that Russian President Vladimir Putin opposes a nuclear independent Iran. This despite the fact that during a meeting between the two, Olmert failed to receive the assurances he was seeking a stronger Russian position against Iran’s ongoing nuclear program.
Russian technology has played a strong influence in the area with regard to Iran’s nuclear development; advanced weapon sales to Syria and indirect assistance to Hizbullah. Nonetheless, Olmert attempted to exhibit an atmosphere of cooperation between Jerusalem and Moscow.The London-based Arabic Al-Hayat newspaper, quoting Hamas sources, reports progress regarding efforts to obtain IDF soldier Gilad Shalit’s release from his PA captors. Israel’s Yediot Achronot daily reported on Thursday that a deal which would have led to Shalit’s release next week was thwarted by Iran. According to the report, a deal was reached in which Shalit would have been released during the Muslim holiday of Eid el-Fitr, marking the end of the month of Ramadan. In exchange, Israel agreed to release Arab prisoners - not all at once, but in a number of waves.
According to the report, Iranian officials arrived in Damascus and with a $50 million gift for Hamas politburo Khaled Meshal, succeeding in bringing the plans to a halt. Meshal upped his demands, calling upon Israel to release terrorists who he knew the Olmert government could not release. This gave him the ability to cancel the deal, placing the blame on Israel. Regarding Shalit, who was taken captive on June 25th, Abu Mazen stated on numerous occasions that he will not enter into a coalition agreement with Hamas until Shalit is released. He also told western media sources that he insists that Hamas recognize Israel’s right to exist and declare the government’s commitment to abide by previously signed agreements.In interviews with the Arab media however, Abu Mazen stated his Fatah Party needn’t recognize Israel.
Ahmadinejad warns Europe it will pay for backing Israel
Robert Tait in Tehran,Friday October 20, 2006,Guardian Unlimited
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran added a threatening edge to his verbal onslaught on Israel today by warning European governments to withdraw their support or face getting hurt in a storm of retaliation.He also called Britain and the United States enemies of Iran whose attempts to block the country's nuclear programme at the UN security council were illegitimate.Mr Ahmadinejad was speaking in Tehran at the annual Qods [Jerusalem] day rally, staged by Iran's Islamic regime to propagate its ideological opposition to Israel. He repeated predictions that Israel would soon disappear but, in a fresh warning, said European countries could pay a much higher price than the US for their backing.
We have advised the Europeans that the Americans are far away, but you are the neighbours of the nations in this region, he said. We inform you that the nations are like an ocean that is welling up, and if a storm begins, the dimensions will not stay limited to Palestine, and you may get hurt. It is in your own interest to distance yourself from these criminals ... This is an ultimatum. Don't complain tomorrow.Mr Ahmadinejad, who last year called for Israel to be wiped off the map and dismissed the holocaust as a myth, has not previously made such a clear distinction between US and European support for Israel.
The UN security council is poised to consider sanctions in response to Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.
But Mr Ahmadinejad dismissed the security council because of the presence of America and Britain as permanent veto-wielding powers.What sort of security council is this, he asked. You want to be the judge, the jury and the enforcer.Mr Ahmadinejad's outburst came amid a carnival atmosphere in which throngs of children carrying balloons milled among the crowds. Dozens swapped paintings depicting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for T-shirts donated by Tehran city council.A display of banners featured one bearing the phrase Israel must be wiped off the map in Hebrew. Others accused companies such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Nestlé and Marks and Spencer of being pro-Israel. A stall recruiting potential martyrs was selling DVDs showing volunteers from the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas preparing suicide attacks against Israel.
Speculation mounts over Solana leaving job
19.10.2006 - 17:36 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Speculation is mounting that Javier Solana, the EU's top diplomat, will step down for health reasons with the former Swedish, Slovak and Austrian prime ministers reportedly first in line to succeed him. Intense rumours about an end to the Solana era have been circulating in Brussels for the last couple of weeks, with several reasons being cited for his possible imminent retirement. One version says it became clear to the Spaniard during the Lebanon crisis in the summer that he could never really act on behalf of the EU, with member states refusing to give him a clear mandate.Mr Solana also had to recently admit that his efforts to get Iran to halt uranium enrichment which he had exceptionally handled on behalf of all UN veto powers have stalled.
On top of this, the deadlock on the EU constitution means that Mr Solana will not get the job as official EU foreign minister foreseen for November in the shelved charter.
Highly-skilled diplomat
Generally, the Spanish socialist is seen as a highly skilled diplomat who has managed to survive seven years in the gruelling position without facing much political flak. He is seen as at least having given a positive face to EU foreign policy despite the domain being still very much in member state hands. But Austrian paper Der Kurier on Wednesday (18 October) reported that the 64-year old Mr Solana could nevertheless soon step down for health reasons.
German chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly had a long phone call with the Spaniard last week in which he said he would follow his doctor's advice and soon quit the job, otherwise he would be dead in twelve months even if this is not visible in his appearance and in his statements. A press officer in Mr Solana's office however denied the report saying there was not such a phone call. Mr Solana's mandate expires in 2009 and his post is not available,she stated, adding that the Spanish diplomat jogs every day before work.
Verheugen not interested
The Austrian paper writes that Ms Merkel, whose country will hold the EU presidency in the first half of next year, has shortlisted two favourites to succeed Mr Solana: Slovakia's former prime minister Miklas Dzurinda and Austria's outgoing leader Wolfgang Schussel. The report contradicts earlier speculation saying that Berlin has its own candidate EU industry commissioner Guenter Verheugen.Mr Verheugen however told Germany's Die Welt on Thursday that he is not interested in the post, saying he consciously said farewell to foreign policy when he left the commission's enlargement department in 2004.Another strong candidate who has been doing the rounds is Sweden's former prime minister Carl Bildt, who is back on the EU stage since he was appointed foreign minister in the new Swedish centre-right government.
Insiders say Mr Bildt is not hiding his ambitions to obtain the top job, while also having a huge network in international affairs. The chances of the rumoured candidates is set to depend to a large extent on their ability to bridge the gap between atlanticist states such as the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and new member states and proponents of distance to Washington notably France.Mr Dzurinda is known as a strong pro-US politician and therefore difficult to accept by Paris. Mr Schussel, on the other hand, makes no secret of his opposition to Turkish EU accession which would put him at odds with the UK.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 19, 2006
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
Too often, Hollywood movie producers spend millions making films that look good, but are so short on substance they aren't long for viewing. On the other hand, people of faith have entered the film market and produced movies that try to tell good stories, but are marred by poor production values. A new movie, One Night with the King, is one that I'm looking forward to seeing when I return from Israel later this month. My friend Michael Medved, a national radio show host and movie reviewer, has called the movie, a very, very powerful testament to how much the American Christian community loves the Jewish community. My staff has confirmed that it is a beautifully filmed production comparable to the best Hollywood has to offer that faithfully recounts the biblical story of Esther, one of the most compelling in the Bible. The King of Persia chooses a beautiful young woman named Esther to be his queen, unaware that she is Jewish. Esther hears from Mordecai, her uncle, that the King has entrusted the fate of Persian Jews to Haman, the King's top adviser. Haman hates the Jews, and issues an order that they all be killed.
At great risk to her own life, Esther reveals to the King that she is Jewish and pleads with him to save her people. He agrees to do so, and, in a fitting twist, gives the evil Haman the same fate Haman himself had planned to give the Jews.The story of Esther is usually associated with the Jewish holiday of Purim, still four months away. But its message is timeless. Esther's bravery and obedience to God inspires in any season. And her willingness to put her own life on the line to save her people teaches us a valuable lesson about self-sacrifice and purpose.Haman, on the other hand, represents a sort all too common today the person who hates the Jews so much that he sees in their destruction the solution to all the world's problems. We hear echoes of Haman in Iranian president Ahamadinejad's call to wipe Israel off the map in the promise by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh that the Palestinian government will never recognize Israel's right to exist in the hateful words of radical Muslim clerics who refer to Jews as descendants of apes and pigs in their sermons.
The power of One Night with the King comes from its strong biblical message. In a world when Hamans often speak the loudest, we need more Esthers seeking to do what is right, to stand humbly before God and defend His people in the face of all difficulties.
Like Esther, perhaps God has indeed raised you and me up for such a time as this (Esther 4:14) a time when true Guardians of Israel are needed to confront anti-Semitism, to give generously to feed Israel's hungry and clothe her poor, and to comfort and bind the wounds of those whose lives have been shattered by war and terrorism. Let's continue in that duty and turn a time of great uncertainty and difficulty for Israel and the Jewish people into a time of joy and celebration.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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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 Peruvian coast 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
LIMA, Peru - A strong earthquake rattled Peru's southern coast on Friday, but no damage or injuries were reported. The magnitude 6.4 quake struck at 5:48 a.m. below the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 56 miles northwest of the coastal city of Pisco, according to Peru's Geophysics Institute. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake as magnitude 6.5. The earthquake was felt as a long shudder in the capital, Lima, and inland in the Andean provincial city of Huancavelica. But it caused the most alarm in Ica, a coastal city 165 miles to the southeast, where local radio reports said panicked residents rushed from their homes into streets and parks.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
300 evacuated from Ecuador volcano Thu Oct 19, 10:08 PM ET
QUITO, Ecuador - Lava and ash erupted from an Ecuadoran volcano and forced the evacuation of about 300 villagers, a local mayor said Thursday. An eruption two months ago of the Tungurahua volcano killed four people and left two others missing and still unaccounted for.We were able to take them out last night from the most dangerous zones located on the flanks where the explosions occurred Aug. 16,said Juan Salazar, mayor of Penipe, 12 miles from the volcano.The upper slopes of the volcano have been mostly deserted since August. But Salazar said about 80 families had returned to attempt to farm in the ash-encrusted ground.They saw incandescent rocks coming down on the slopes and so they evacuated, he said. No injuries were reported.
In addition to the casualties, nearly 5,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged and tens of thousands of acres of pasture and crops were also destroyed in the August eruption, according to the Civil Defense.Experts have warned that renewed explosions could come any time from the 16,575-foot volcano located about 85 miles south of the capital, Quito.What we have seen now is evidence that something there could be something similar to the episodes in July and August,said Hugo Yepes, director of Ecuador's Geophysics Institute. Inside the ground there is a chamber of magma much larger than the volcano itself.
Indonesia disaster shows risks of mud volcanoes By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent 1 hour, 45 minutes ago Oct 20,06
OSLO (Reuters) - In a village in Indonesia's East Java province, a man is struggling to watch television with a volcano erupting in his living room. Risks from volcanoes that ooze mud rather than spew lava have long been underestimated worldwide, even with a cataclysmic mudflow in another part of Java that has swamped an area the size of Monaco and forced 10,000 people from their homes.Experts say the disaster, flooding the Sidoarjo region since May 29, highlights lack of knowledge about mud volcanoes, thousands of which have been found from Alaska to Australia. They range from tiny seeps to cones 500 meters (1,640 ft) tall.
In Java nobody ever studied mud volcanoes,said Adriano Mazzini, a leading Italian volcano expert at the University of Oslo who says the Indonesian disaster may signal the first time people have recorded the birth of a mud volcano.In Indonesia they have other priorities magmatic volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis,he told Reuters.
On Java, villages about 10-20 km (6-12 miles) north of the mud eruption Gununganyar, Kalanganyar and Pulungan are built on old, near-dormant mud volcanoes that must have seemed attractive-looking mounds to village founders.
Pulungan was the most vivid example of ignoring the risks of mud volcanoes, such as subsidence.We went to one house where a man took us into his living room. He opened the cupboard beneath the television, and there were seeps erupting, Mazzini said after a recent trip.Another home in Pulungan has collapsed and elsewhere many residents are worried by seeps of gas, mud and fluids. The volcano may have been stirred by an earthquake on May 27, two days before the catastrophic mudflow began.
BUILDING LIFTED
In Kalanganyar, the end of one long thin building had been lifted a meter or two over the years by the pressures from a mud volcano bulging beneath.Mud volcanoes need better study,said Antje Boetius, a professor at the International University of Bremen in Germany.She noted that they could cause disasters, ranging from subsidence to tsunamis. They mean something for humans it's not just scientific curiosity,she said.Mud volcanoes are often caused by a build-up of pressure from sediments crushed several kilometers below the surface that release methane and other gases. They are often found near oil and gas deposits, also caused by a crush of organic matter.As in Java, they can also happen near where tectonic plates of the earth's crust rub together. Mazzini said it was impossible to say how long the Sidoarjo flow would last.
He said researchers would probably never know exactly what triggered the catastrophic mudflow at Sidoarjo, releasing the build-up of pressure deep below ground.The trigger might have been a magnitude 4 earthquake two days before the mudflow began, he said, or the drilling of a gas exploration well operated by PT Lapindo Brantas Inc, which is controlled by Pt Energi Mega Persada.
Mud volcanoes are rarely deadly since they more often seep rather than explode. In 1997, an eruption of a mud volcano at Piparo, a farming village in central Trinidad, threw mud 45 meters (150 ft) into the air, covering many homes. No one died. In Azerbaijan, a large mud volcano that erupted in 2001 also released giant flares of methane.
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.
Death toll from Thai, Myanmar floods reaches 127 Fri Oct 20, 4:25 AM ET
BANGKOK (AFP) - The death toll from severe flooding in Thailand and neighboring Myanmar has reached 127 as Thai weather authorities warned of more heavy rains over the weekend in the country's south.
At least 108 people have died in Thailand since severe flooding began in late August in the country's central and northern provinces, the interior ministry said in a statement.
The death toll soared overnight after the ministry confirmed that 25 people reported dead earlier were confirmed to be flood victims.The water that inundated northern Thailand was slowly working its way south, but 16 central provinces were still suffering from the floods, the ministry said.At its peak earlier in the month, the flooding, triggered by heavy rains from Typhoon Xangsane, affected 46 of the nation's 76 provinces.In neighboring Myanmar, 19 people died in floods across central and eastern parts of the country, but in most places there, the water has already subsided.
Haniyeh: Hamas will not be moved from power
Friday 20 October 2006, 17:38 Makka Time, 14:38 GMT
Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, said in a speech at a mosque on Friday that Hamas would reject any moves by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to oust Hamas from power.Haniyeh's convoy came under attack as it passed through the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza shortly after the prime minister's speech, but the Hamas leader was unhurt.Hamas officials said the attack did not appear to be an assassination attempt, but it comes at a time of growing tensions between rival Palestinian factions that have sparked fears of civil war.
An official in Haniyeh's office said: The prime minister is alright and he is out of the area which witnessed the gunfire. His car was not attacked. Islam Shawan, a spokesman for Hamas' armed wing, said that the last car in the motorcade was hit and set alight.
There were no reports of injuries.
Pointless
Abbas has hinted that he might fire the Hamas government after efforts to form a unity cabinet foundered over Hamas' refusal to soften its stance toward Israel.Haniyeh said it would be pointless for Abbas to fire the government, suggesting any emergency administration the president appointed would not get the ultimate approval of parliament, where Hamas has an absolute majority.
He also said Hamas would reject other measures such as calling early elections. Haniyeh said: All you have here are options that have no aim but to remove Hamas from government. The wheel of history will not go backward.All these options will not achieve stability and calm and will not represent a way out of the crisis.
Haniyeh did not threaten explicit action to oppose Abbas, such as calling Hamas supporters out onto the streets.
Western sanctions
Abbas said this week that he would make a decision soon on the fate of the government. The president has not explicitly identified his options but his aides have said that he might call fresh elections, appoint an emergency cabinet or hold a referendum to let the Palestinian people decide what to do.A senior Abbas aide told Reuters on Thursday that the president was expected to make his decision several days after the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Eid this year falls around October 23.Palestinians had hoped that a unity government would lead to a lifting of crippling Western sanctions that were
imposed on Hamas when it assumed office in March.(Reuters)
Opening an Embassy for Yesha
By Stan Goodenough,October 20, 2006
It was an event that went largely unnoticed (or was purposefully ignored) by the news media. For many of those participating, however, it was one of prophetic magnitude and an opportunity to express their unshakeable resolve.On Sunday, October 8, in front of more than 300 visiting Gentiles and invited Israeli guests, the Jerusalem-based pro-Israel Christian organization, the International Christian Zionist Center, officially opened its new offices on the road between Jerusalem and Bethel.According to an ICZC press release, the move to the area in Samaria, behind the controversial security fence and inside the territory earmarked for a future State of Palestine, was made in solidarity with the people of Israel and their undeniable historic link to all their divinely-promised land.
Because every unilateral Israeli withdrawal in the region had only increased the bellicose stand of Israel’s enemies and intensified their terrorism against Israel, with their final aim being to excise the sovereign Jewish state from their Muslim midst, ICZC director Jan Willem van der Hoeven said the Christians represented by the organization believed that Israel needs to spell out to the world as well as to her own, battered, people that this tiny piece of land is theirs and will never be forsaken by them.With members in nations around the globe, the ICZC had committed itself to tirelessly spelling this out to our own gentile leaders and governments.
Van der Hoeven recalled how, in 1981, after 13 embassies crumpled under Arab pressure and fled from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, he had led a small group of Christians in founding the International Christian Embassy so that Christians around the world could say to Israel, You are not alone.I feel to repeat that action today, Van der Hoeven said, and open an embassy for Yesha (the targeted areas of Judea, Samaria and Gaza) here, to say like Ruth to the Jews in these endangered communities, Your God is our God and we are with you.It is on the hearts of millions of Christians, from China to Brazil, from America to South Africa, as some of you have come to say to the Jewish people, You will never have peace when you give up the land; but you will have peace when you keep it!
The land where the ICZC offices were situated was the very land Jacob had been sleeping when God promised him that the ground on which you are lying, I will give to you.This land, which included Ariel and Bethel and Shiloh and Hebron and Jerusalem, was now under the gun. And if the battle to preserve Bethel and Shiloh was lost, the battle for Jerusalem would also be lost.Among the Israeli guests asked to address the gathering were Ron Nachman, the founder and mayor of Ariel, the biggest Jewish community Samaria, and Hebrew University Professor of Arabic Studies Moshe Sharon.Stepping up to the microphone, Nachman declared: In the Bible there is no West Bank, no Occupied Territories…only the Promised Land.He reminded world leaders that the first deed in real estate was not in Washington DC, not in Paris, not in London, it was in Hebron.
But he bemoaned the fact that the Gentile nations do not see the biggest threat today: the clash of civilizations, Islam against Christianity and Judaism.Nachman said he believed it was important that Christians and Jews stand together in defense of Israel’s land.When visiting the United States, he said, I am not welcomed and not invited to speak by the Jewish establishment, because I am mayor of the biggest Jewish city in the West Bank.So I go to the Christians.The mayor, a former Knesset member, said he sees a great hope in the connection of the Jewish and non-Jewish communities in resisting the world’s efforts to rob the Jews of their land.However, he stressed, while it was good that people prayed against the uprooting of Jewish communities Gush Katif was evacuated despite all the prayers.
The fight was also a political fight and we need to fight it on that front, he said.Moshe Sharon sounded the alarm he has been speaking out for many years but which have mostly fallen on the deaf ears of politicians who believe they have to remain politically correct:The world is caught up in a clash of civilizations and is already in fact embroiled in World War III.The Middle East conflict was part of that war, but it was reaching deep into areas in the Western world.Beware Europe! You are on the way to becoming an Islamic state. There are 4800 mosques in Germany alone!! And right now in the oldest city in Finland, a new mosque is being erected that is so high it will be visible from 50 km away…Muslims were teaching that Europe is the cancer. Islam is the answer!
Sharon, an advisor on Arab affairs to a number of former Israeli prime ministers, said there could never be peace between Israel as a Jewish state and the Arabs, for as far as the Arabs are concerned the establishment of the state of Israel is a reversal of history; it was something that could not happen! The word peace simply does not exist in the Quran, he said.Returning to the podium, Van der Hoeven told the gathering that while the International Christian Zionist Center was the only Christian-led organization to fully support Jews against expulsion from the heartland of Israel by physically locating itself on the endangered land, he believed other pro-Israel groups would one day follow this example.It was the vision of the ICZC to help train the millions of Christians from every nation to stand pro-actively with Israel, spiritually, materially and politically, as Israel’s few remaining friends among the nations faded away.
New Iranian Threats Set Off Alarm Bells in Israel
By Robert Berger ,Jerusalem,20 October 2006
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Israel no longer has any reason to exist and will soon disappear. The latest threats are adding to Israel's already deep concerns about Iran's nuclear program.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers speech after attending anti-Israeli rally Friday, Oct. 20, 2006.
Israeli officials say the saber-rattling from Iran is another warning to the international community that the Islamic regime must not be allowed to get a nuclear bomb. At a pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran, Iran's president said Israeli leaders are a group of terrorists, and he threatened any country that supports the Jewish state. He also said Israel is a fake regime that would soon disappear. It was a similar statement to one a year ago, when he threatened to wipe Israel off the map.
Since then, Israel has watched the Iranian nuclear program with growing alarm. Foreign Minister Tzippe Livni says the leaders of Iran pose a threat to regional and global stability.They speak proudly and openly of their desire to wipe Israel off the map, she said. And now, by their actions, they pursue the weapons to achieve this objective, to imperil the region and to threaten the world.
So what now?
The world faces a critical test.,she noted.Israel believes the international community is moving too slowly to stop Iran, and that the U.N. must change course and quickly impose sanctions.
Ehud Olmert
However, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Russia this week to urge a tougher stand on Iran, but came away empty handed from talks with President Vladimir Putin. Russia is building Iran's first nuclear reactor and opposes sanctions on Tehran.So Mr. Olmert warned that Iran would have a price to pay if it does not back down from its nuclear ambitions. It was a broad hint that if the international community does not act, Israel might launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities on its own.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
U.N.: Number of ocean dead zones rise By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Scientists have found 200 dead zones in the world's oceans places where pollution threatens fish, other marine life and the people who depend on them.
The United Nations report Thursday showed a 34 percent jump in the number of such zones from just two years ago. Pollution-fed algae, which deprives other living marine life of oxygen, is the cause of most of the world's dead zones that cover tens of thousands of square miles of waterways. Scientists chiefly blame fertilizer and other farm run-off, sewage and fossil-fuel burning.Those contain an excess of nutrients, particularly phosphorous and nitrogen, that cause explosive blooms of tiny plants known as phytoplankton. When they die, they sink to the bottom, where they are eaten by bacteria that use up the oxygen in the water.
The low levels of oxygen in the water make it difficult for fish, oysters and other marine creatures to survive as well as important habitats such as sea grass beds,U.N. officials said. These areas are fast becoming major threats to fish stocks and thus to the people who depend upon fisheries for food and livelihoods.By 2030, the world's rivers will pump 14 percent more nitrogen into seas and oceans than that found in the mid-1990s, according to new U.N. research released at a meeting in Beijing.Researchers led by Robert Diaz, a marine scientist at Virginia's College of William and Mary, said they found new dead zones at the Archipelago Sea in Finland; Fosu Lagoon in Ghana; Pearl River estuary and Changjiang River in China; and Mersey River estuary in Britain.Other new zones found were at the Elefsis Bay and Aegean Sea in Greece; Paracas Bay in Peru; Mondego River in Portugal; Montevideo Bay in Uruguay; and in the western Indian Ocean.
The United Nations marine experts said the number and size of oxygen-deprived zones has grown each decade since the 1970s.Not all the dead zones persist year-round; some return seasonally, depending on winds that bring nutrient-rich water to the surface.
It seems like a big jump in two years,said Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, who was not part of the U.N. research. She said an important factor has been the huge increase in pollution from fast-developing countries.Rabalais, who has studied the Gulf of Mexico's massive dead zone that is now the size of New Jersey, said marine creatures that swim fast enough can usually escape.The things that are left behind are the ones that usually can't survive, she said.
When you consider the size of some of these areas, it's removing what's considered the essential habitat for fishes and crustaceans.Other U.N. scientific findings released Thursday, however, raised hopes for the recovery of damaged coral reefs, which serve as the ocean's nurseries. It found that reefs bleached in the late 1990s by high surface sea temperatures are affected by how polluted the waters are.Coral reefs recovering faster are generally those living in marine protected areas and coastal waters where the levels of pollution, dredging and other kinds of human-induced disturbance are considered low,the U.N. said.
On the Net:U.N. report: http://www.gpa.unep.org/bin/php/igr/igr2/supporting.php
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Gillerman: Iran is determined to destroy
Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 10.19.06
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Gillerman took advantage of the monthly UN discussion on the situation in the Middle East Thursday to warn the members of the Security Council on the threat posed by Iran. Gillerman said Iran paid Hamas USD 50 million in order to torpedo efforts to release Gilad Shalit. Today I learned that Iran had paid USD 50 million to Hamas in order to torpedo the deal to the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
If Iran is willing to pay so much money to solve a humanitarian issue, it is frightening how much they will be willing to pay to torpedo any diplomatic initiative to block their nuclear efforts,Gillerman said, referring to an item first published by Yedioth Ahronoth Thursday morning. Although the speech was part of a routine discussion held monthly at the UN, this time it was held before the Security Council. During the meeting, UN special envoy to the Middle East Alvaro de-Soto presented his report and said that since the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit in late June, 295 Palestinians were killed by IDF forces, including 66 children, and another 1,113 were injured.
During his speech Gillerman praised the decision to impose sanctions on North Korea but warned that North Korea is only the prelude to a more disturbing story, the emergence of a nuclear Iran, armed and willing to share its state terrorist capabilities with the other unholy extremists who yearn to destroy us. He added that Israel sees the Iranian threat as an existential one, not solely to itself but to the entire world as well. The international community must be determined, clear, and unequivocal in its plan of action.
There is only one choice: the world must ensure that Iran does not attain nuclear weapons.
Are you doing everything you can?
Gilerman added that although the real, most urgent threat to stability and peace in the Middle East is Iran, We are bolstered by the surfacing of moderate voices in the region, voices that recognize the true threats facing us.Now these moderates are joining together to form an alliance against the extremists and for a historical reconciliation and mutual advancement. Ambassador Gillerman also criticized the fact that the kidnapped IDF soldiers have not been freed yet and the failure to enforce the arms embargo from Syria into Lebanon.This Council, in its unanimous adoption of resolution 1701, took upon itself the responsibility to secure the unconditional release of our boys, the Israeli soldiers Gilad Shalit, Udi Goldwasser, and Eldad Regev. I ask you now, as I did then, to do your utmost to alleviate this humanitarian crisis and bring them home.
Gillerman added that two and a half weeks after the last Israeli soldier left southern Lebanon, the situation along the northern border has begun to stabilize, but it is still early to declare it as a success. Success will be determined only to the extent to which resolution 1701 is fully implemented. There is reason to be concerned about the smuggling of arms across the border between Lebanon and Syria. Hizbullah’s rearming not only violates the essence and strength of resolution 1701, it places the entire region in immediate peril. There can be no ambiguity in policy here. The embargo must be enforced, and its violators must be held accountable,he said.
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).
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)
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) 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.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
PM Olmert: PA’s Moment of Truth Rapidly Approaching
By Yechiel Spira(INN)
Upon his return from Moscow on Thursday evening, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the PA’s moment of truth is rapidly approaching.
The prime minister stated that PA (Palestinian Authority) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) must make some critical decisions. Decisions, he said, that will determine the future of the region. If Abu Mazen does not take the required steps, we will all be losers,Olmert said.While negotiations between Abu Mazen’s Fatah and the ruling Hamas movement continue, fighting between rival factions has sharply increased, with daily shootouts taking place in Gaza this week as the two terror organizations struggle for control.
Hamas emerged the victor in the PA’s general elections, but Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah is now isolated by the western community which is demanding recognition of Israel, resulting in an economic boycott of the Hamas government.
Reaching an agreement with Abu Mazen whereby a new coalition government would recognize Israel in some regard would result in international acceptance of the PA government, a move that would unlock donor nation funds for the PA and its institutions. Regarding Iran, Olmert added the clock is running out, adding that today, things are happening and the situation has changed. While stating I did not threaten Iran,the prime minister added, Iran must not realize who it is up against .Iran should be afraid.Seeking to exhibit an air of success upon his return from Moscow, the prime minister added that Russian President Vladimir Putin opposes a nuclear independent Iran. This despite the fact that during a meeting between the two, Olmert failed to receive the assurances he was seeking a stronger Russian position against Iran’s ongoing nuclear program.
Russian technology has played a strong influence in the area with regard to Iran’s nuclear development; advanced weapon sales to Syria and indirect assistance to Hizbullah. Nonetheless, Olmert attempted to exhibit an atmosphere of cooperation between Jerusalem and Moscow.The London-based Arabic Al-Hayat newspaper, quoting Hamas sources, reports progress regarding efforts to obtain IDF soldier Gilad Shalit’s release from his PA captors. Israel’s Yediot Achronot daily reported on Thursday that a deal which would have led to Shalit’s release next week was thwarted by Iran. According to the report, a deal was reached in which Shalit would have been released during the Muslim holiday of Eid el-Fitr, marking the end of the month of Ramadan. In exchange, Israel agreed to release Arab prisoners - not all at once, but in a number of waves.
According to the report, Iranian officials arrived in Damascus and with a $50 million gift for Hamas politburo Khaled Meshal, succeeding in bringing the plans to a halt. Meshal upped his demands, calling upon Israel to release terrorists who he knew the Olmert government could not release. This gave him the ability to cancel the deal, placing the blame on Israel. Regarding Shalit, who was taken captive on June 25th, Abu Mazen stated on numerous occasions that he will not enter into a coalition agreement with Hamas until Shalit is released. He also told western media sources that he insists that Hamas recognize Israel’s right to exist and declare the government’s commitment to abide by previously signed agreements.In interviews with the Arab media however, Abu Mazen stated his Fatah Party needn’t recognize Israel.
Ahmadinejad warns Europe it will pay for backing Israel
Robert Tait in Tehran,Friday October 20, 2006,Guardian Unlimited
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran added a threatening edge to his verbal onslaught on Israel today by warning European governments to withdraw their support or face getting hurt in a storm of retaliation.He also called Britain and the United States enemies of Iran whose attempts to block the country's nuclear programme at the UN security council were illegitimate.Mr Ahmadinejad was speaking in Tehran at the annual Qods [Jerusalem] day rally, staged by Iran's Islamic regime to propagate its ideological opposition to Israel. He repeated predictions that Israel would soon disappear but, in a fresh warning, said European countries could pay a much higher price than the US for their backing.
We have advised the Europeans that the Americans are far away, but you are the neighbours of the nations in this region, he said. We inform you that the nations are like an ocean that is welling up, and if a storm begins, the dimensions will not stay limited to Palestine, and you may get hurt. It is in your own interest to distance yourself from these criminals ... This is an ultimatum. Don't complain tomorrow.Mr Ahmadinejad, who last year called for Israel to be wiped off the map and dismissed the holocaust as a myth, has not previously made such a clear distinction between US and European support for Israel.
The UN security council is poised to consider sanctions in response to Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.
But Mr Ahmadinejad dismissed the security council because of the presence of America and Britain as permanent veto-wielding powers.What sort of security council is this, he asked. You want to be the judge, the jury and the enforcer.Mr Ahmadinejad's outburst came amid a carnival atmosphere in which throngs of children carrying balloons milled among the crowds. Dozens swapped paintings depicting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for T-shirts donated by Tehran city council.A display of banners featured one bearing the phrase Israel must be wiped off the map in Hebrew. Others accused companies such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Nestlé and Marks and Spencer of being pro-Israel. A stall recruiting potential martyrs was selling DVDs showing volunteers from the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas preparing suicide attacks against Israel.
Speculation mounts over Solana leaving job
19.10.2006 - 17:36 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Speculation is mounting that Javier Solana, the EU's top diplomat, will step down for health reasons with the former Swedish, Slovak and Austrian prime ministers reportedly first in line to succeed him. Intense rumours about an end to the Solana era have been circulating in Brussels for the last couple of weeks, with several reasons being cited for his possible imminent retirement. One version says it became clear to the Spaniard during the Lebanon crisis in the summer that he could never really act on behalf of the EU, with member states refusing to give him a clear mandate.Mr Solana also had to recently admit that his efforts to get Iran to halt uranium enrichment which he had exceptionally handled on behalf of all UN veto powers have stalled.
On top of this, the deadlock on the EU constitution means that Mr Solana will not get the job as official EU foreign minister foreseen for November in the shelved charter.
Highly-skilled diplomat
Generally, the Spanish socialist is seen as a highly skilled diplomat who has managed to survive seven years in the gruelling position without facing much political flak. He is seen as at least having given a positive face to EU foreign policy despite the domain being still very much in member state hands. But Austrian paper Der Kurier on Wednesday (18 October) reported that the 64-year old Mr Solana could nevertheless soon step down for health reasons.
German chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly had a long phone call with the Spaniard last week in which he said he would follow his doctor's advice and soon quit the job, otherwise he would be dead in twelve months even if this is not visible in his appearance and in his statements. A press officer in Mr Solana's office however denied the report saying there was not such a phone call. Mr Solana's mandate expires in 2009 and his post is not available,she stated, adding that the Spanish diplomat jogs every day before work.
Verheugen not interested
The Austrian paper writes that Ms Merkel, whose country will hold the EU presidency in the first half of next year, has shortlisted two favourites to succeed Mr Solana: Slovakia's former prime minister Miklas Dzurinda and Austria's outgoing leader Wolfgang Schussel. The report contradicts earlier speculation saying that Berlin has its own candidate EU industry commissioner Guenter Verheugen.Mr Verheugen however told Germany's Die Welt on Thursday that he is not interested in the post, saying he consciously said farewell to foreign policy when he left the commission's enlargement department in 2004.Another strong candidate who has been doing the rounds is Sweden's former prime minister Carl Bildt, who is back on the EU stage since he was appointed foreign minister in the new Swedish centre-right government.
Insiders say Mr Bildt is not hiding his ambitions to obtain the top job, while also having a huge network in international affairs. The chances of the rumoured candidates is set to depend to a large extent on their ability to bridge the gap between atlanticist states such as the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and new member states and proponents of distance to Washington notably France.Mr Dzurinda is known as a strong pro-US politician and therefore difficult to accept by Paris. Mr Schussel, on the other hand, makes no secret of his opposition to Turkish EU accession which would put him at odds with the UK.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
TERRORISM THREAT
1-Scientists say Hawaii hit by two quakes. 2-3 micro quakes rattle Winston-Salem. 3-Three people dead after storms lash the Aegean. 4-NFL dirty-bomb threat defused. 5-Iran atomic aide warns of retaliation to sanctions. 6-Putin assures Olmert of support for Mideast peace process. 7-Canada supports Israel: PM. 8-King of Spain Kills Drunk Pet Bear at Russian Hunt — Report. 9-IDF Returns to Gaza-Egypt Border, Destroys Smuggling Tunnels. 10-Israel cannot survive: Ahmadinejad. 11-Brussels to defend core of EU constitution in treaty talks.
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.
Scientists say Hawaii hit by two quakes By JAYMES SONG, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
HONOLULU - Scientists are investigating whether a magnitude-6.0 earthquake that rocked Hawaii within minutes of Sunday's 6.7 temblor was a separate quake and not an aftershock.
The lead scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory and a seismologist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Wednesday they were two independent events. Others aren't so sure.The 6.7-magnitude quake struck 12.5 miles northeast of the Big Island's Kona airport at a depth of 24 miles at 7:07 a.m. Sunday. Seven minutes later, the 6.0-magnitude quake struck 27 miles north of the airport at a depth of about 12.5 miles.
Jim Kauahikaua, the scientist-in-charge at the observatory, said the difference in depths establishes that the two are independent. But Egill Hauksson, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, said it's too early to categorize the magnitude-6.0 event.Scientists still need to analyze the pattern of aftershocks in the coming months before determining whether the smaller event was an aftershock or a triggered earthquake, Hauksson said.There's more research to be done,he said.Seismologist Vindell Hsu, of the tsunami center, said it's not uncommon for earthquakes to trigger others and it has happened in Alaska and at California's San Andreas Fault.A major earthquake may trigger or activate a neighboring fault and start another good-sized earthquake, Hsu said.
Kauahikaua expects several opinions.
Some of these earthquakes get worked on for years. Different techniques come up. People have different points of view, he said. This is our assessment within the first three days after the earthquake. If somebody can make a powerful argument the other way, fine.Aftershocks are a series of smaller earthquakes that occur after the main shock and in the same geographic area. Aftershocks can rock a region for months or years. Generally, the bigger the main shock, the more intense the aftershocks will be.Dozens of aftershocks have been recorded since the initial quake.Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim, who served decades as the Big Island's civil defense chief, said the latest quakes came after a long stretch of seismic calm.Kim said a third to half of the population had never experienced a quake of Sunday's magnitude.Since 1960, the Big Island has been hit with 31 earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 4.0. But Sunday's first earthquake was the largest recorded since a 6.7 occurred under the east flank of Mauna Loa Volcano on November 16, 1983.
The island also experienced a 7.2-magnitude quake on November 29, 1975,and an estimated 7.9 temblor on April 2, 1868.The vast island spread across more than 4,000-square miles of lava fields, rain forests and pasture lands was formed by several volcanoes.
Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, spewing lava and expanding the island's surface. Preliminary damage estimates from the earthquake hit $73 million and President Bush declared a major disaster, ordering federal aid to help state and local recovery efforts. Kim said one of the reasons the island didn't sustain more damage than it did was the strict building codes that have evolved over decades of natural disasters. Buildings on the Big Island must meet the strictest level of any of the Hawaiian Islands. There are no buildings taller than 100 feet. There are also no highway overpasses. Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus in Hilo, Hawaii, and AP Science Writer Alicia Chang in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Wed, Oct. 18, 2006
LARGEST WAS 2.6-MAGNITUDE-3 micro quakes rattle Winston-Salem
Associated Press
WINSTON-SALEM - Three small earthquakes rattled a city in central North Carolina on Tuesday, shaking dishes in kitchen cabinets and surprising residents unaccustomed to tremors.There were no immediate reports of injuries or structure damage, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The first quake, a 2.6-magnitude tremor classified as micro, hit at 4:56 a.m. with an epicenter estimated three miles east-northeast of Winston-Salem, about 80 miles northeast of Charlotte.One resident said the quake felt like a large boom that lasted just a second or two.Another quake registering 1.5 was recorded about four miles west of the city just before 8 p.m. A third quake registering at 2.4 rattled the same area as the first quake at 9:11 p.m., according to the Geological Survey.
Winston-Salem police reported getting around 150 calls after the first quake from locals wondering what happened, and local media outlets were flooded with calls after the next two.Some residents said vibrations came through the floors of their homes and shook dishes in cabinets. Others said the rumbling sounded like a garbage truck.They reported a loud explosion and ground shaking, said Winston-Salem police Lt. David Kiger. They just want to know what was going on.Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the U.S.
Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said quakes that small typically don't result in damage or injury. She said the earthquakes were unusual for North Carolina, though quakes of the same magnitude would not be noticed in earthquake-prone California.
On June 15, a 3.1-magnitude earthquake shook buildings and rattled dishes in at least four Western North Carolina counties. That quake was centered 28 miles north of Franklin and felt from Maggie Valley to Bryson City to Cashiers.The biggest earthquake to shake North Carolina was on Feb. 21, 1916. The 5.2-magnitude quake centered near Waynesville, also in the western part of the state, toppled chimneys and sent people rushing into the street, according to the USGS.An earthquake Sunday in Hawaii registered a 6.7 magnitude, the strongest to hit the islands in more than two decades. No deaths or serious injuries were reported but preliminary damage estimates hit $46 million Tuesday.
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.
Three people dead after storms lash the Aegean AP
A couple of tourists look at the sea in Almyrida, near Hania in Crete, yesterday, as two overturned cars lie in the water behind them. A British tourist is missing in Crete after storms hit the island. Three people were reported killed and one missing yesterday after heavy storms lashed several islands in the southern Aegean, where winds reached 10 Beaufort, causing extensive flooding and road damage.
A British couple drowned yesterday after going swimming off the island of Rhodes despite a storm warning. Witnesses said they said they saw the pair struggling in 2-meter waves.Meanwhile on Crete, a truckdriver was killed late on Tuesday after being
swept away by a mudslide near the port of Hania. Rescue workers in Hania yesterday located the vehicle of a 54-year-old Briton, missing since Tuesday night after floodwaters washed his car off the road, but there was no sign of the motorist.
The bad weather caused extensive flood damage to homes, stores and hotels on both Crete and Rhodes, where the fire service received dozens of calls to drain water from buildings and rescue motorists trapped in their cars. On Rhodes, raging floodwaters swept 10 parked cars into the sea, wrecked roads and provoked landslides.Authorities yesterday declared a state of emergency in the Cretan prefecture of Hania as well as the islands of Leros and Astypalaia in the Dodecanese, which were also badly hit by storms.
On Astypalaia, landslides blocked local roads and police reportedly rescued an elderly man who had been carried off by floodwaters. Roads on Leros were seriously damaged.The Civil Protection Agency urged authorities and citizens to be vigilant today as the bad weather is set to continue, particularly in the Aegean, the Dodecanese and the Cyclades.Those who have booked ferry tickets should check with their local port authority before traveling.
If this is credible,there could be big trouble.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(TERRORISM)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence(TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(EARTHQUAKES,HURRICANES,STORMS,VOLCANOES ETC)
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Originally posted: October 18, 2006
NFL dirty-bomb threat defused
Posted by Frank James at 4:20 pm CDT
So what are we to make of this news that the Homeland Security Department has shared with National Football League teams information about a web site threat to explode dirty bombs outside seven stadiums this weekend? Not much, based on how quickly DHS is moving to play down the information. William Knocke, DHS’s press secretary, told me the threat was not credible. Matter of fact, it’s a web site posting we view with strong skepticism. One, there’s no credible intelligence and that’s the consensus of the entire intelligence community as well as or law enforcement partners to suggest such attacks. Another reason why we view it with strong skepticism is the spectacular nature of the threat that was in this web site posting. The fact is there’s simply no credible intelligence to support these claims.
Knocke called the sharing of the information routine. Last year, DHS issued about 1,500 products according to Knocke. Those would be alerts and other informational memos sent to state, local and private sector security officials. So the sharing of such information is very routine.The timing of the alert however, less than three weeks before the mid-term elections, will be met with a lot of skepticism, especially by Bush Administration critics.
Just a few minutes ago on CNN, Paul Begala, the former Clinton White House aide who’s a political analyst for the cable news channel said, It is interesting these things always seem to spike right before an election.. A lot of people are going to be deeply skeptical.I asked Knocke about the timing of the DHS alert given the level of cynicism that’s out there as reflected by Begala's comment. In recent years, there've been allegations that the Bush administration has used threat information for political purposes and those suspicions obviously are very strong.
It’s one thing for people to make those claims, those claims are certainly basis. But it would be another if the department took the opposite approach and the department chose not to share specific information. And then later that story gets out. That would be irresponsible on the part of the department.We have a very clear mission. We have a very serious responsibility… Anytime there’s specific information we’re going to provide that to our state and local partners and private sector officials…It does seem like this would be a lame approach to an October surprise. If the point were to raise voter fears and cause them to stampede to the polls to vote for Republicans, then why immediately pour cold water on the threat if you're DHS?
Anyway, when there’s something based on real intelligence reporting or law-enforcement information, DHS usually sends out joint bulletins with the FBI that are often classified. But this was considered so low on the credibility scale, that wasn’t done.It went out even as an unclassified document. It’s just simply relaying the specific information out there. It would be irresponsible for us to do anything other. The department strongly recommends that the American public continues to go about their plans, to not alter their daily lives, to go to large public gatherings, go to football games… Absolutely, the public should go to football games, this weekend, and other weekends.Below, is the text from a document about the threat from the U.S. government’s Open Source Center web site which is restricted to federal employees.Terrorism: The Friend Society Website Posting Claims 22 October Dirty Bomb Plot
Targeting Football Stadiums in Seven US Cities
On 16 October 2006, a posting on an English-language website located at www.thefriendsociety.com said that dirty bombs, delivered in trucks, will be detonated outside stadiums at NFL games in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland, and Cleveland on 22 October. The content of the website, which requires registration to post, is sometimes crude and contains none of the hallmarks of jihadist websites.The threat appeared as part of a thread entitled New Attack on America Be Afraid that included a rambling conversation on a variety of topics. The thread began on 18 September at 3:22 AM. when a participant called ALEX posted
the following comment:http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/...iams091606.htm an interview w/ Abu Dawood, the newly appointed commander of the al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan Abu says: He is an American and a friend of Muhammad Atta, who led 9/11 attacks five years ago.
We call him Jaffer al Tayyar [Jafer the Pilot]; he is very brave and intelligent. Bush is aware that brother Adnan has smuggled deadly materials inside America from the Mexican border. Bush is silent about him, because he doesn't want to panic his people. Sheikh Osama bin Laden has completed his cycle of warnings. On 12 October at 9:31 PM, a participant called javness posted comment #36 which contained the threat. The text of the posting follows:On Sunday, October 22nd, 2006, there will be seven dirty explosive devices detonated in seven different U.S. cities; Miami, New York City, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland. The death toll will approach 100,000 from the initial blasts and countless other fatalities will later occur as result from radioactive fallout.
The bombs themselves will be delivered via trucks. These trucks will pull up to stadiums hosting NFL games in each respective city. All stadiums to be targeted are open air arenas, excluding Atlanta's Georgia Dome, the only enclosed stadium to be hit. Due to the open air, the radiological fallout will destroy those not killed in the initial explosion. The explosions will be near simultaneous, with the cities specifically chosen in different time zones to allow for multiple attacks at the same time.The 22nd of October will mark the final day of Ramadan as it would fall in Mecca. Al-Qaida will automatically be blamed for the attacks. Later, through Al-Jazeera, Osama bin Laden will issue a video message claiming responsibility for what he dubbed America's Hiroshima.In the aftermath civil wars will erupt across the world, both in the Middle East and within the United States.
Global economies will screech to a halt. General chaos will rule. The posting prompted the following comments. No subsequent comments were posted on this discussion string as of 1620 EDT on 16 October 2006.
On 12 October at 9:55 PM, ALEX posted comment #37: did you make that up or is there like a source for that.
On 12 October at 10:47 PM, radicum posted comment #38: Football arenas are an unlikely target. They seem to go for things that are strictly government / global capitalism related.
On 12 October at 11:01 PM, radicum posted comment #39: and whose to say oakland blowing up isnt a good thing On 12 October at 11:17 PM, Kim Possible posted comment #40:[quote of javness quote #36, followed by the comment:] This isn't something you should joke about, if you are srs about this may I see your sources Unless you're a psychic
On 13 October at 2:09 PM, javness posted comment #41: [quote of ALEX quote #37, followed by the comment:] you already know too much
On 13 October at 7:14 PM, Pseudonym posted comment #42: Yeah it better be a joke, I work near one of those stadiums.
On 13 October at 8:08 PM, Moo the Magic Cow posted comment #43:lol cia watch list
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran atomic aide warns of retaliation to sanctions By Ali Ronaghi
Wed Oct 18, 1:12 PM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator threatened retaliation on Wednesday possibly by suspending international atomic inspections if the United Nations imposed sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program. Ali Larijani's comments, quoted by state television, came a day after the European Union backed limited Security Council sanctions against Iran for not halting uranium enrichment, a condition for starting talks on an atomic incentives package.Iran will not stand idle if pressured to ignore its nuclear rights. The path of the Security Council, sanctions and illegal (imposition of) hardship is such a path in which the other side should expect a reciprocal act by .Iran,Larijani said.The (Iranian) parliament has prepared a plan based on which the inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency will be suspended in the face of the West's adventurous behavior,he added, according to the television report.
Larijani, whose voice was not broadcast by the television, stopped short of stating outright that IAEA inspections would be halted if the sanctions went through.Diplomats say France, Britain and Germany plan to put forward a draft Security Council resolution this week providing for graduated sanctions, though details have yet to be agreed.Measures that have been suggested include travel
bans on officials, diplomats and scientists, freezing assets of individuals and firms, and embargoes on the sale of items that could be used in Iran's nuclear and missile programs.The United States has taken the hardest line, but Russia and China, both holding vetoes in the Security Council, have been holding back on the scope of sanctions and the speed at which they would be imposed, diplomats say.The West accuses Iran of seeking to enrich uranium to build atomic bombs, but Tehran insists it only wants to master the technology to make fuel for nuclear power plants.
CARROT AND STICK
The five permanent Security Council members the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France and Germany have offered Iran political and economic incentives if it first stops enrichment.But talks between Iran and the European Union have led nowhere and Tehran ignored an August 31 deadline set by an earlier U.N. resolution for it to suspend enrichment something Iran says is its right.Although the EU has said its incentives offer remains on the table, Larijani said if the sanctions were passed the nature of possible negotiations will definitely be different, because the conditions would have been changed.Earlier, he told the semi-official Mehr news agency that European states would be the losers if they pushed through a sanctions resolution.
If it is imagined that it is possible to simultaneously use the policy of carrot and stick, it is an error in calculation,Larijani said. One Iranian lawmaker was more explicit. If any sanction against Iran is ratified, parliament will oblige the government to have minimum cooperation with the IAEA, Hamidreza Haji Babaie was quoted as saying by Mehr, adding that this would start with barring inspectors.Inspections by the Vienna-based IAEA, whose role includes checking that nuclear fuel from civil programs is not being diverted for making weapons, are the main handle that Western powers have on Iran's nuclear activities.It was not the first time Larijani has warned of retaliation in the event of sanctions. In August, he even hinted at a cut in oil exports, a threat that was greeted with caution since Tehran receives 80 percent of its export earnings from energy.
Putin assures Olmert of support for Mideast peace process
dpa German Press Agency,Published: Wednesday October 18, 2006
Moscow- President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Kremlin Wednesday that Russia would do all it could to bring peace to the Middle East, Russian news agencies reported. Russia is ready to do all in [its] power to contribute to normalcy in the Middle East, Itar-Tass quoted Putin as saying. Olmert said he hoped Russia would always treat the countries of the Middle East as equals.I remember your personal promise that relations ... would never again be one-sided,Olmert said, recalling a conversation between Putin and Olmert's predecessor, Ariel Sharon, in 2005.
Olmert also said he relied on Russia to help the situation in Iran. Russia's influence is important ... for helping stabilization in the Middle East, especially with the Iranian atomic question,Olmert said in remarks reported by Itar-Tass. Russia, which is building Iran's first nuclear reactor, has been slow to criticize the country's controversial uranium enrichment programme. The visit came 15 years after Moscow reinstated relations with Israel, broken 24 years before.
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
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.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
Canada supports Israel: PM
Prime Minister Stephen Harper stands prior to speaking at an annual awards dinner of the B'Nai Brith in Toronto on Wednesday,
Oct. 18, 2006. ,Chris Wattie, CanWest News Service; National Post,Thursday, October 19, 2006
TORONTO -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper mounted a vigorous defence on Wednesday of his government's Middle East policy, saying support for Israel is fundamental to what this nation has always stood for.Speaking to a B'nai Brith dinner in Toronto, Harper made no apologies for his government siding with the Jewish state during this summer's fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.When it comes to dealing with a war between Israel and a terrorist organization, this country and this government cannot and will never be neutral, Harper said in a speech that drew several standing ovations from the more than 1,000 members of the Jewish human rights group. This position is rooted in what we have long stood for as a country.
The prime minister said he was not deterred by criticism from the opposition parties, who this summer called the Conservative government's unqualified support for Israel a repudiation of Canada's traditional role in the Middle East.That is simply not accurate, he said. Rather than charting a new (policy) course, we are restoring Canada to its traditional and true role: Principled leadership in world affairs ... a Canada that knows where it stands.And Harper said it is ultimately in Canada's best interests to support Israel.
Those who attacked Israel and those who sponsor such attacks ... seek what they and those like them have always sought the destruction of Israel and the destruction of the Jewish people, he said. Those who seek to destroy the Jews ... will for the same reason ultimately seek to destroy us all and that my friends is why Canada's new government has reacted with speed and spoken with clarity on recent events in the Middle East.Harper also said he believes Israel must seek a peaceful accommodation with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbours.Our government believes in a two-state solution in a secure, democratic and prosperous Israel living beside a viable, democratic and peaceful Palestinian state.National Post,cwattie@nationalpost.com
King of Spain Kills Drunk Pet Bear at Russian Hunt — Report
Created: 19.10.2006 16:24 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:33 MSK, 2 hours 19 minutes ago,MosNews
Authorities are probing a violation of hunting regulations in the Central Russian region of Vologda where Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, allegedly shot a harmless pet bear this August.Hunting was a part of the entertainment program for Juan Carlos, who paid a visit to the region in summer, Interfax reports.However local media, citing a hunting watchdog, claim that the bear the monarch killed at the hunt was by no means a wild beast, but a tame, timid creature made drunk.Organizers of the royal hunt allegedly took the good-natured bear called Mitrofan to the hunting base in a cage.The animal was given honey mixed with vodka and forced to go out into the field. The heavy clumsy bear was easy prey for Juan Carlos, who killed it with one shot.
IDF Returns to Gaza-Egypt Border, Destroys Smuggling Tunnels
By Ezra HaLevi(INN)
The IDF has returned to the Philadelphi Corridor between Gaza and Egypt. Leaving the security zone was one of the most contentious aspects of the Disengagement - even among the plan's supporters. IDF soldiers returned to the corridor Wednesday, one year after it was abandoned as then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s final step in the implementation of his unilateral surrender of Gaza.
Five tunnels were identified and destroyed on Wednesday alone.We found four tunnels within 500-meter strip, the commander of the mission said, so you can imagine how many there are in total.The Philadelphi Corridor is roughly 15 kilometers long, running between the Mediterranean Sea and the former Jewish communities of Rafiah Yam and Pe'at Sadeh in the north, to the Kerem Shalom border point in the south.The openings of the tunnels are well camouflaged, with one of them opening up inside a tomato greenhouse.
The Philadelphi strip was the location of smuggling tunnels throughout the years. Special IDF units were assigned to detecting and destroying the tunnels in order to disrupt the flow of weapons, drugs, terrorists and prostitutes. Following the Disengagement from Gaza, in which 21 Jewish communities (and another four in the northern Shomron) were destroyed and their residents evicted, the corridor’s tunnels were rebuilt.
The Rafah Crossing itself was placed under the supervision of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and European Union representatives. The border lay open for week-long periods after various terror factions bulldozed or blasted holes in the fence.Two large tunnels were exposed and two other tunnel openings were identified in Rafah on Tuesday. In recent weeks, 20 such tunnels have been discovered in the area. A recent attack on the IDF’s Kerem Shalom lookout was carried out by use of a tunnel from Gaza deep underneath the security fence.The government’s decision to send the IDF back to the corridor was a reluctant one, as much effort and US pressure had been invested in hammering out an agreement under which the European Union would oversee the border together with the Palestinian Authority. In reality, with Hamas running the PA and Egypt overseeing security on its side of the border, the smuggling has mushroomed to a level exceeding any other time in history.Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missiles, which were used against IDF tanks effectively in Lebanon, have been transported in large quantities into Gaza, according to IDF intelligence briefings to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The missiles were responsible for a third of the casualties suffered in the recent war with Hizbullah. Explosives, guns, ammunition and even anti-aircraft missiles are also being smuggled into the region.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz’s aids have been hinting that Israel is preparing to launch its largest operation in the entire Gaza region since the expulsion took place just over a year ago. Peretz himself said earlier this week that Gaza must be prevented from becoming a second Lebanon. The IDF's return this week to Rafah and the corridor met little resistance from local terror groups.
Israel cannot survive: Ahmadinejad 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called Israel a counterfeit and illegitimate regime that cannot survive, in a live broadcast on state television. The Zionist regime is counterfeit and illegitimate and cannot survive, he said in a speech to a crowd in the town of Islamshahr in southwestern Tehran.The big powers have created this fraud regime and allowed it to commit all kind of crimes to guarantee their interests,he added.
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).
Brussels to defend core of EU constitution in treaty talks
19.10.2006 - 09:25 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission is starting to take a position in the expected re-negotiations of the EU constitution, with communication commissioner Margot Wallstrom saying the core of the current text should be the departure point.
Commissioner Wallstrom said on Wednesday (18 October) that the commission would not like to depart too much from the constitutional treaty amid a slowly re-emerging debate on the fate of the charter, after French and Dutch voters rejected it in 2005.
The departure point should be keeping the core of the constitution, she said speaking at the presentation of a constitution revival plan by UK liberal MEP Andrew Duff. The commissioner argued that carefully negotiated deals in the current text should not be opened up for discussion, mentioning majority voting rules, the EU's foreign affairs minister, increased powers for the European Parliament, the possibility for citizens to demand action from the commission, as well as the charter of fundamental rights. There are a number of things which were achieved through very difficult negotiations by member states…and which if you start to open up,you open everything, she told EUobserver after the meeting.
Challenge to Kaczynski, Sarkozy
The remarks of Ms Wallstrom, who is also a member of the EU 'wise' group on the constitution led by Italian interior minister Guliano Amato, come after a long period of silence on the part of the commission over the content of a future EU treaty. Brussels has been careful not to offend any EU capital on the sensitive issue but it has now made clear it will stand firm on the key parts of the current text of the constitution.
Ms Wallstrom's remarks challenge the stance of Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski who has indicated he wants to re-negotiate member states' voting rights one of the carefully negotiated deals referred to by the commissioner. By mentioning the charter of fundamental rights as a part of the core of the charter, Ms Wallstrom is also at odds with French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy who is ready to ditch this part in his proposed mini-treaty.Ms Wallstrom indicated however that outside what she sees as the core of the constitutional text, changes are inevitable. The union cannot afford a second
failure,she stated.
Duff's Plan B
The commissioner said it is too early to go into any detai on ideas on how to win more popular support for the treaty in France, the Netherlands and elsewhere. But she did speak out on some of the ideas presented by the liberal MEP Andrew Duff, who in his Plan B suggests a new-look version of the constitution should include clauses on issues which are of direct concern to EU citizens.Ms Wallstrom expressed sympathy for Mr Duff's proposal to include the fight against climate change as a policy goal into the constitution, but she rejected the idea of a voluntary Protocol on a Social Union only for those member states wishing to further harmonise their social policies. I'm afraid this will be seen as division [between member states] rather than inclusion, she said.
The commissioner also expressed skepticism for Mr Duff's idea to enshrine a reformed budget system into a new EU treaty.She said that talks on a new budgetary structure for the EU will require intense and very difficult negotiations, adding that a realistic timeframe should be kept in mind with member states wanting to finalise a new treaty by 2009. But Mr Duff called upon European politicians not to underestimate their own negotiating skills. We've been too timid to actually take the plunge, he said.
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.
Scientists say Hawaii hit by two quakes By JAYMES SONG, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
HONOLULU - Scientists are investigating whether a magnitude-6.0 earthquake that rocked Hawaii within minutes of Sunday's 6.7 temblor was a separate quake and not an aftershock.
The lead scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory and a seismologist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Wednesday they were two independent events. Others aren't so sure.The 6.7-magnitude quake struck 12.5 miles northeast of the Big Island's Kona airport at a depth of 24 miles at 7:07 a.m. Sunday. Seven minutes later, the 6.0-magnitude quake struck 27 miles north of the airport at a depth of about 12.5 miles.
Jim Kauahikaua, the scientist-in-charge at the observatory, said the difference in depths establishes that the two are independent. But Egill Hauksson, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, said it's too early to categorize the magnitude-6.0 event.Scientists still need to analyze the pattern of aftershocks in the coming months before determining whether the smaller event was an aftershock or a triggered earthquake, Hauksson said.There's more research to be done,he said.Seismologist Vindell Hsu, of the tsunami center, said it's not uncommon for earthquakes to trigger others and it has happened in Alaska and at California's San Andreas Fault.A major earthquake may trigger or activate a neighboring fault and start another good-sized earthquake, Hsu said.
Kauahikaua expects several opinions.
Some of these earthquakes get worked on for years. Different techniques come up. People have different points of view, he said. This is our assessment within the first three days after the earthquake. If somebody can make a powerful argument the other way, fine.Aftershocks are a series of smaller earthquakes that occur after the main shock and in the same geographic area. Aftershocks can rock a region for months or years. Generally, the bigger the main shock, the more intense the aftershocks will be.Dozens of aftershocks have been recorded since the initial quake.Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim, who served decades as the Big Island's civil defense chief, said the latest quakes came after a long stretch of seismic calm.Kim said a third to half of the population had never experienced a quake of Sunday's magnitude.Since 1960, the Big Island has been hit with 31 earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 4.0. But Sunday's first earthquake was the largest recorded since a 6.7 occurred under the east flank of Mauna Loa Volcano on November 16, 1983.
The island also experienced a 7.2-magnitude quake on November 29, 1975,and an estimated 7.9 temblor on April 2, 1868.The vast island spread across more than 4,000-square miles of lava fields, rain forests and pasture lands was formed by several volcanoes.
Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, spewing lava and expanding the island's surface. Preliminary damage estimates from the earthquake hit $73 million and President Bush declared a major disaster, ordering federal aid to help state and local recovery efforts. Kim said one of the reasons the island didn't sustain more damage than it did was the strict building codes that have evolved over decades of natural disasters. Buildings on the Big Island must meet the strictest level of any of the Hawaiian Islands. There are no buildings taller than 100 feet. There are also no highway overpasses. Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus in Hilo, Hawaii, and AP Science Writer Alicia Chang in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Wed, Oct. 18, 2006
LARGEST WAS 2.6-MAGNITUDE-3 micro quakes rattle Winston-Salem
Associated Press
WINSTON-SALEM - Three small earthquakes rattled a city in central North Carolina on Tuesday, shaking dishes in kitchen cabinets and surprising residents unaccustomed to tremors.There were no immediate reports of injuries or structure damage, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The first quake, a 2.6-magnitude tremor classified as micro, hit at 4:56 a.m. with an epicenter estimated three miles east-northeast of Winston-Salem, about 80 miles northeast of Charlotte.One resident said the quake felt like a large boom that lasted just a second or two.Another quake registering 1.5 was recorded about four miles west of the city just before 8 p.m. A third quake registering at 2.4 rattled the same area as the first quake at 9:11 p.m., according to the Geological Survey.
Winston-Salem police reported getting around 150 calls after the first quake from locals wondering what happened, and local media outlets were flooded with calls after the next two.Some residents said vibrations came through the floors of their homes and shook dishes in cabinets. Others said the rumbling sounded like a garbage truck.They reported a loud explosion and ground shaking, said Winston-Salem police Lt. David Kiger. They just want to know what was going on.Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the U.S.
Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said quakes that small typically don't result in damage or injury. She said the earthquakes were unusual for North Carolina, though quakes of the same magnitude would not be noticed in earthquake-prone California.
On June 15, a 3.1-magnitude earthquake shook buildings and rattled dishes in at least four Western North Carolina counties. That quake was centered 28 miles north of Franklin and felt from Maggie Valley to Bryson City to Cashiers.The biggest earthquake to shake North Carolina was on Feb. 21, 1916. The 5.2-magnitude quake centered near Waynesville, also in the western part of the state, toppled chimneys and sent people rushing into the street, according to the USGS.An earthquake Sunday in Hawaii registered a 6.7 magnitude, the strongest to hit the islands in more than two decades. No deaths or serious injuries were reported but preliminary damage estimates hit $46 million Tuesday.
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.
Three people dead after storms lash the Aegean AP
A couple of tourists look at the sea in Almyrida, near Hania in Crete, yesterday, as two overturned cars lie in the water behind them. A British tourist is missing in Crete after storms hit the island. Three people were reported killed and one missing yesterday after heavy storms lashed several islands in the southern Aegean, where winds reached 10 Beaufort, causing extensive flooding and road damage.
A British couple drowned yesterday after going swimming off the island of Rhodes despite a storm warning. Witnesses said they said they saw the pair struggling in 2-meter waves.Meanwhile on Crete, a truckdriver was killed late on Tuesday after being
swept away by a mudslide near the port of Hania. Rescue workers in Hania yesterday located the vehicle of a 54-year-old Briton, missing since Tuesday night after floodwaters washed his car off the road, but there was no sign of the motorist.
The bad weather caused extensive flood damage to homes, stores and hotels on both Crete and Rhodes, where the fire service received dozens of calls to drain water from buildings and rescue motorists trapped in their cars. On Rhodes, raging floodwaters swept 10 parked cars into the sea, wrecked roads and provoked landslides.Authorities yesterday declared a state of emergency in the Cretan prefecture of Hania as well as the islands of Leros and Astypalaia in the Dodecanese, which were also badly hit by storms.
On Astypalaia, landslides blocked local roads and police reportedly rescued an elderly man who had been carried off by floodwaters. Roads on Leros were seriously damaged.The Civil Protection Agency urged authorities and citizens to be vigilant today as the bad weather is set to continue, particularly in the Aegean, the Dodecanese and the Cyclades.Those who have booked ferry tickets should check with their local port authority before traveling.
If this is credible,there could be big trouble.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(TERRORISM)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence(TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(EARTHQUAKES,HURRICANES,STORMS,VOLCANOES ETC)
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Originally posted: October 18, 2006
NFL dirty-bomb threat defused
Posted by Frank James at 4:20 pm CDT
So what are we to make of this news that the Homeland Security Department has shared with National Football League teams information about a web site threat to explode dirty bombs outside seven stadiums this weekend? Not much, based on how quickly DHS is moving to play down the information. William Knocke, DHS’s press secretary, told me the threat was not credible. Matter of fact, it’s a web site posting we view with strong skepticism. One, there’s no credible intelligence and that’s the consensus of the entire intelligence community as well as or law enforcement partners to suggest such attacks. Another reason why we view it with strong skepticism is the spectacular nature of the threat that was in this web site posting. The fact is there’s simply no credible intelligence to support these claims.
Knocke called the sharing of the information routine. Last year, DHS issued about 1,500 products according to Knocke. Those would be alerts and other informational memos sent to state, local and private sector security officials. So the sharing of such information is very routine.The timing of the alert however, less than three weeks before the mid-term elections, will be met with a lot of skepticism, especially by Bush Administration critics.
Just a few minutes ago on CNN, Paul Begala, the former Clinton White House aide who’s a political analyst for the cable news channel said, It is interesting these things always seem to spike right before an election.. A lot of people are going to be deeply skeptical.I asked Knocke about the timing of the DHS alert given the level of cynicism that’s out there as reflected by Begala's comment. In recent years, there've been allegations that the Bush administration has used threat information for political purposes and those suspicions obviously are very strong.
It’s one thing for people to make those claims, those claims are certainly basis. But it would be another if the department took the opposite approach and the department chose not to share specific information. And then later that story gets out. That would be irresponsible on the part of the department.We have a very clear mission. We have a very serious responsibility… Anytime there’s specific information we’re going to provide that to our state and local partners and private sector officials…It does seem like this would be a lame approach to an October surprise. If the point were to raise voter fears and cause them to stampede to the polls to vote for Republicans, then why immediately pour cold water on the threat if you're DHS?
Anyway, when there’s something based on real intelligence reporting or law-enforcement information, DHS usually sends out joint bulletins with the FBI that are often classified. But this was considered so low on the credibility scale, that wasn’t done.It went out even as an unclassified document. It’s just simply relaying the specific information out there. It would be irresponsible for us to do anything other. The department strongly recommends that the American public continues to go about their plans, to not alter their daily lives, to go to large public gatherings, go to football games… Absolutely, the public should go to football games, this weekend, and other weekends.Below, is the text from a document about the threat from the U.S. government’s Open Source Center web site which is restricted to federal employees.Terrorism: The Friend Society Website Posting Claims 22 October Dirty Bomb Plot
Targeting Football Stadiums in Seven US Cities
On 16 October 2006, a posting on an English-language website located at www.thefriendsociety.com said that dirty bombs, delivered in trucks, will be detonated outside stadiums at NFL games in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland, and Cleveland on 22 October. The content of the website, which requires registration to post, is sometimes crude and contains none of the hallmarks of jihadist websites.The threat appeared as part of a thread entitled New Attack on America Be Afraid that included a rambling conversation on a variety of topics. The thread began on 18 September at 3:22 AM. when a participant called ALEX posted
the following comment:http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/...iams091606.htm an interview w/ Abu Dawood, the newly appointed commander of the al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan Abu says: He is an American and a friend of Muhammad Atta, who led 9/11 attacks five years ago.
We call him Jaffer al Tayyar [Jafer the Pilot]; he is very brave and intelligent. Bush is aware that brother Adnan has smuggled deadly materials inside America from the Mexican border. Bush is silent about him, because he doesn't want to panic his people. Sheikh Osama bin Laden has completed his cycle of warnings. On 12 October at 9:31 PM, a participant called javness posted comment #36 which contained the threat. The text of the posting follows:On Sunday, October 22nd, 2006, there will be seven dirty explosive devices detonated in seven different U.S. cities; Miami, New York City, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland. The death toll will approach 100,000 from the initial blasts and countless other fatalities will later occur as result from radioactive fallout.
The bombs themselves will be delivered via trucks. These trucks will pull up to stadiums hosting NFL games in each respective city. All stadiums to be targeted are open air arenas, excluding Atlanta's Georgia Dome, the only enclosed stadium to be hit. Due to the open air, the radiological fallout will destroy those not killed in the initial explosion. The explosions will be near simultaneous, with the cities specifically chosen in different time zones to allow for multiple attacks at the same time.The 22nd of October will mark the final day of Ramadan as it would fall in Mecca. Al-Qaida will automatically be blamed for the attacks. Later, through Al-Jazeera, Osama bin Laden will issue a video message claiming responsibility for what he dubbed America's Hiroshima.In the aftermath civil wars will erupt across the world, both in the Middle East and within the United States.
Global economies will screech to a halt. General chaos will rule. The posting prompted the following comments. No subsequent comments were posted on this discussion string as of 1620 EDT on 16 October 2006.
On 12 October at 9:55 PM, ALEX posted comment #37: did you make that up or is there like a source for that.
On 12 October at 10:47 PM, radicum posted comment #38: Football arenas are an unlikely target. They seem to go for things that are strictly government / global capitalism related.
On 12 October at 11:01 PM, radicum posted comment #39: and whose to say oakland blowing up isnt a good thing On 12 October at 11:17 PM, Kim Possible posted comment #40:[quote of javness quote #36, followed by the comment:] This isn't something you should joke about, if you are srs about this may I see your sources Unless you're a psychic
On 13 October at 2:09 PM, javness posted comment #41: [quote of ALEX quote #37, followed by the comment:] you already know too much
On 13 October at 7:14 PM, Pseudonym posted comment #42: Yeah it better be a joke, I work near one of those stadiums.
On 13 October at 8:08 PM, Moo the Magic Cow posted comment #43:lol cia watch list
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran atomic aide warns of retaliation to sanctions By Ali Ronaghi
Wed Oct 18, 1:12 PM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator threatened retaliation on Wednesday possibly by suspending international atomic inspections if the United Nations imposed sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program. Ali Larijani's comments, quoted by state television, came a day after the European Union backed limited Security Council sanctions against Iran for not halting uranium enrichment, a condition for starting talks on an atomic incentives package.Iran will not stand idle if pressured to ignore its nuclear rights. The path of the Security Council, sanctions and illegal (imposition of) hardship is such a path in which the other side should expect a reciprocal act by .Iran,Larijani said.The (Iranian) parliament has prepared a plan based on which the inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency will be suspended in the face of the West's adventurous behavior,he added, according to the television report.
Larijani, whose voice was not broadcast by the television, stopped short of stating outright that IAEA inspections would be halted if the sanctions went through.Diplomats say France, Britain and Germany plan to put forward a draft Security Council resolution this week providing for graduated sanctions, though details have yet to be agreed.Measures that have been suggested include travel
bans on officials, diplomats and scientists, freezing assets of individuals and firms, and embargoes on the sale of items that could be used in Iran's nuclear and missile programs.The United States has taken the hardest line, but Russia and China, both holding vetoes in the Security Council, have been holding back on the scope of sanctions and the speed at which they would be imposed, diplomats say.The West accuses Iran of seeking to enrich uranium to build atomic bombs, but Tehran insists it only wants to master the technology to make fuel for nuclear power plants.
CARROT AND STICK
The five permanent Security Council members the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France and Germany have offered Iran political and economic incentives if it first stops enrichment.But talks between Iran and the European Union have led nowhere and Tehran ignored an August 31 deadline set by an earlier U.N. resolution for it to suspend enrichment something Iran says is its right.Although the EU has said its incentives offer remains on the table, Larijani said if the sanctions were passed the nature of possible negotiations will definitely be different, because the conditions would have been changed.Earlier, he told the semi-official Mehr news agency that European states would be the losers if they pushed through a sanctions resolution.
If it is imagined that it is possible to simultaneously use the policy of carrot and stick, it is an error in calculation,Larijani said. One Iranian lawmaker was more explicit. If any sanction against Iran is ratified, parliament will oblige the government to have minimum cooperation with the IAEA, Hamidreza Haji Babaie was quoted as saying by Mehr, adding that this would start with barring inspectors.Inspections by the Vienna-based IAEA, whose role includes checking that nuclear fuel from civil programs is not being diverted for making weapons, are the main handle that Western powers have on Iran's nuclear activities.It was not the first time Larijani has warned of retaliation in the event of sanctions. In August, he even hinted at a cut in oil exports, a threat that was greeted with caution since Tehran receives 80 percent of its export earnings from energy.
Putin assures Olmert of support for Mideast peace process
dpa German Press Agency,Published: Wednesday October 18, 2006
Moscow- President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Kremlin Wednesday that Russia would do all it could to bring peace to the Middle East, Russian news agencies reported. Russia is ready to do all in [its] power to contribute to normalcy in the Middle East, Itar-Tass quoted Putin as saying. Olmert said he hoped Russia would always treat the countries of the Middle East as equals.I remember your personal promise that relations ... would never again be one-sided,Olmert said, recalling a conversation between Putin and Olmert's predecessor, Ariel Sharon, in 2005.
Olmert also said he relied on Russia to help the situation in Iran. Russia's influence is important ... for helping stabilization in the Middle East, especially with the Iranian atomic question,Olmert said in remarks reported by Itar-Tass. Russia, which is building Iran's first nuclear reactor, has been slow to criticize the country's controversial uranium enrichment programme. The visit came 15 years after Moscow reinstated relations with Israel, broken 24 years before.
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
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.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
Canada supports Israel: PM
Prime Minister Stephen Harper stands prior to speaking at an annual awards dinner of the B'Nai Brith in Toronto on Wednesday,
Oct. 18, 2006. ,Chris Wattie, CanWest News Service; National Post,Thursday, October 19, 2006
TORONTO -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper mounted a vigorous defence on Wednesday of his government's Middle East policy, saying support for Israel is fundamental to what this nation has always stood for.Speaking to a B'nai Brith dinner in Toronto, Harper made no apologies for his government siding with the Jewish state during this summer's fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.When it comes to dealing with a war between Israel and a terrorist organization, this country and this government cannot and will never be neutral, Harper said in a speech that drew several standing ovations from the more than 1,000 members of the Jewish human rights group. This position is rooted in what we have long stood for as a country.
The prime minister said he was not deterred by criticism from the opposition parties, who this summer called the Conservative government's unqualified support for Israel a repudiation of Canada's traditional role in the Middle East.That is simply not accurate, he said. Rather than charting a new (policy) course, we are restoring Canada to its traditional and true role: Principled leadership in world affairs ... a Canada that knows where it stands.And Harper said it is ultimately in Canada's best interests to support Israel.
Those who attacked Israel and those who sponsor such attacks ... seek what they and those like them have always sought the destruction of Israel and the destruction of the Jewish people, he said. Those who seek to destroy the Jews ... will for the same reason ultimately seek to destroy us all and that my friends is why Canada's new government has reacted with speed and spoken with clarity on recent events in the Middle East.Harper also said he believes Israel must seek a peaceful accommodation with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbours.Our government believes in a two-state solution in a secure, democratic and prosperous Israel living beside a viable, democratic and peaceful Palestinian state.National Post,cwattie@nationalpost.com
King of Spain Kills Drunk Pet Bear at Russian Hunt — Report
Created: 19.10.2006 16:24 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:33 MSK, 2 hours 19 minutes ago,MosNews
Authorities are probing a violation of hunting regulations in the Central Russian region of Vologda where Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, allegedly shot a harmless pet bear this August.Hunting was a part of the entertainment program for Juan Carlos, who paid a visit to the region in summer, Interfax reports.However local media, citing a hunting watchdog, claim that the bear the monarch killed at the hunt was by no means a wild beast, but a tame, timid creature made drunk.Organizers of the royal hunt allegedly took the good-natured bear called Mitrofan to the hunting base in a cage.The animal was given honey mixed with vodka and forced to go out into the field. The heavy clumsy bear was easy prey for Juan Carlos, who killed it with one shot.
IDF Returns to Gaza-Egypt Border, Destroys Smuggling Tunnels
By Ezra HaLevi(INN)
The IDF has returned to the Philadelphi Corridor between Gaza and Egypt. Leaving the security zone was one of the most contentious aspects of the Disengagement - even among the plan's supporters. IDF soldiers returned to the corridor Wednesday, one year after it was abandoned as then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s final step in the implementation of his unilateral surrender of Gaza.
Five tunnels were identified and destroyed on Wednesday alone.We found four tunnels within 500-meter strip, the commander of the mission said, so you can imagine how many there are in total.The Philadelphi Corridor is roughly 15 kilometers long, running between the Mediterranean Sea and the former Jewish communities of Rafiah Yam and Pe'at Sadeh in the north, to the Kerem Shalom border point in the south.The openings of the tunnels are well camouflaged, with one of them opening up inside a tomato greenhouse.
The Philadelphi strip was the location of smuggling tunnels throughout the years. Special IDF units were assigned to detecting and destroying the tunnels in order to disrupt the flow of weapons, drugs, terrorists and prostitutes. Following the Disengagement from Gaza, in which 21 Jewish communities (and another four in the northern Shomron) were destroyed and their residents evicted, the corridor’s tunnels were rebuilt.
The Rafah Crossing itself was placed under the supervision of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and European Union representatives. The border lay open for week-long periods after various terror factions bulldozed or blasted holes in the fence.Two large tunnels were exposed and two other tunnel openings were identified in Rafah on Tuesday. In recent weeks, 20 such tunnels have been discovered in the area. A recent attack on the IDF’s Kerem Shalom lookout was carried out by use of a tunnel from Gaza deep underneath the security fence.The government’s decision to send the IDF back to the corridor was a reluctant one, as much effort and US pressure had been invested in hammering out an agreement under which the European Union would oversee the border together with the Palestinian Authority. In reality, with Hamas running the PA and Egypt overseeing security on its side of the border, the smuggling has mushroomed to a level exceeding any other time in history.Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missiles, which were used against IDF tanks effectively in Lebanon, have been transported in large quantities into Gaza, according to IDF intelligence briefings to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The missiles were responsible for a third of the casualties suffered in the recent war with Hizbullah. Explosives, guns, ammunition and even anti-aircraft missiles are also being smuggled into the region.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz’s aids have been hinting that Israel is preparing to launch its largest operation in the entire Gaza region since the expulsion took place just over a year ago. Peretz himself said earlier this week that Gaza must be prevented from becoming a second Lebanon. The IDF's return this week to Rafah and the corridor met little resistance from local terror groups.
Israel cannot survive: Ahmadinejad 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called Israel a counterfeit and illegitimate regime that cannot survive, in a live broadcast on state television. The Zionist regime is counterfeit and illegitimate and cannot survive, he said in a speech to a crowd in the town of Islamshahr in southwestern Tehran.The big powers have created this fraud regime and allowed it to commit all kind of crimes to guarantee their interests,he added.
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).
Brussels to defend core of EU constitution in treaty talks
19.10.2006 - 09:25 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission is starting to take a position in the expected re-negotiations of the EU constitution, with communication commissioner Margot Wallstrom saying the core of the current text should be the departure point.
Commissioner Wallstrom said on Wednesday (18 October) that the commission would not like to depart too much from the constitutional treaty amid a slowly re-emerging debate on the fate of the charter, after French and Dutch voters rejected it in 2005.
The departure point should be keeping the core of the constitution, she said speaking at the presentation of a constitution revival plan by UK liberal MEP Andrew Duff. The commissioner argued that carefully negotiated deals in the current text should not be opened up for discussion, mentioning majority voting rules, the EU's foreign affairs minister, increased powers for the European Parliament, the possibility for citizens to demand action from the commission, as well as the charter of fundamental rights. There are a number of things which were achieved through very difficult negotiations by member states…and which if you start to open up,you open everything, she told EUobserver after the meeting.
Challenge to Kaczynski, Sarkozy
The remarks of Ms Wallstrom, who is also a member of the EU 'wise' group on the constitution led by Italian interior minister Guliano Amato, come after a long period of silence on the part of the commission over the content of a future EU treaty. Brussels has been careful not to offend any EU capital on the sensitive issue but it has now made clear it will stand firm on the key parts of the current text of the constitution.
Ms Wallstrom's remarks challenge the stance of Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski who has indicated he wants to re-negotiate member states' voting rights one of the carefully negotiated deals referred to by the commissioner. By mentioning the charter of fundamental rights as a part of the core of the charter, Ms Wallstrom is also at odds with French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy who is ready to ditch this part in his proposed mini-treaty.Ms Wallstrom indicated however that outside what she sees as the core of the constitutional text, changes are inevitable. The union cannot afford a second
failure,she stated.
Duff's Plan B
The commissioner said it is too early to go into any detai on ideas on how to win more popular support for the treaty in France, the Netherlands and elsewhere. But she did speak out on some of the ideas presented by the liberal MEP Andrew Duff, who in his Plan B suggests a new-look version of the constitution should include clauses on issues which are of direct concern to EU citizens.Ms Wallstrom expressed sympathy for Mr Duff's proposal to include the fight against climate change as a policy goal into the constitution, but she rejected the idea of a voluntary Protocol on a Social Union only for those member states wishing to further harmonise their social policies. I'm afraid this will be seen as division [between member states] rather than inclusion, she said.
The commissioner also expressed skepticism for Mr Duff's idea to enshrine a reformed budget system into a new EU treaty.She said that talks on a new budgetary structure for the EU will require intense and very difficult negotiations, adding that a realistic timeframe should be kept in mind with member states wanting to finalise a new treaty by 2009. But Mr Duff called upon European politicians not to underestimate their own negotiating skills. We've been too timid to actually take the plunge, he said.
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