CANADA GIVES GAZA MONEY

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Moderate earthquake rattles Indonesia 3-GASPE QUEBEC GETS 63 CM OF SNOW. 4-Environment Canada Weather Forecast VANCOUVER. 5-Hurricane-force winds batter Europe for 2nd day. 6-Floods swamp homes, roads in South Australia. 7-Torrential rains in Mozambique cause havoc, claim four lives. 8-Europe counts cost of storms as stricken freighter is beached. 9-Jordan wants peaceful nuclear program: King Abdullah. 10-Police probe Quebec bomb threat letter. 11-DNA confirms death of Abu Sayyaf chief. 12-Moving day: B'nai Israel goes to modern new home. 13-EU aid masks big bully tactics in developing world. 14-White beetle dazzles scientists. 15-Hamas leader offers 10-year truce with Israel. 16-MacKay pledges new money for Gaza crossing.

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.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Sun Jan 21 1:12:09 AM EDT

JAN 21 NO QUAKES YET

JAN 20,07
MAP 3.2 NORTHERN ALASKA
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JAN 19,07
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Moderate earthquake rattles Indonesia Fri Jan 19, 11:59 PM ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A moderate earthquake rocked parts of eastern Indonesia on Saturday but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued, officials said. The 5.9-magnitude quake was centered 80 miles-deep under the Banda Sea, 200 miles southeast of Ambon, the provincial capital of Mollucan islands, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said that no tsunami warning had been issued.Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.In December 2004, a massive earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island and triggered a tsunami that killed more than 131,000 people in Indonesia's Aceh province alone and left half a million homeless.

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.

ITS BEEN COOOOOOOOOLD WERE I LIVE TO AND I LOVE THE WARMTH. THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NOT JUST GLOBAL WARMING FOLKS, GOD IS GIVING THE WORLD A REPENTENCE WAKE UP CALL.

GASPE QUEBEC GETS 63 CM OF SNOW

Environment Canada Weather Forecast
Forillon National Park - Gaspé - Percé
Issued at: 5.00 AM EST Saturday 20 January 2007

Snowfall warning in effect .Blowing snow warning in effect. Today..Snow and blowing snow. Amount 5 cm. Wind west 40 km/h gusting to 70. Temperature falling to minus 5 this afternoon. Tonight..Cloudy. A few flurries in Forillon Park. Blowing snow. Wind west 40 km/h gusting to 70. Low minus 14. Sunday..Cloudy with sunny periods. A few flurries in Forillon Park. Local blowing snow. Wind northwest 40 km/h gusting to 70. High minus 10. Monday..Sunny. Low minus 15. High minus 8. Tuesday..Cloudy with 70 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 16. High minus 8. Wednesday..A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 10. High minus 4.
Normals for the period..Low minus 18. High minus 6.

Environment Canada Weather Forecast VANCOUVER
Greater Vancouver Issued at: 6.45 AM PST Saturday 20 January 2007

Today..A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches dissipating late this morning. High 6. Tonight..Cloudy. Periods of rain beginning overnight except periods of wet snow over higher terrain. Low plus 1. Sunday..Periods of rain except periods of wet snow over higher terrain early in the morning. High plus 5. Monday..Rain. Low plus 3. High 6. Tuesday..Rain. Low plus 5. High 7. Wednesday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Low plus 5. High 8. Normals for the period..Low plus 1. High 6.

Hurricane-force winds batter Europe for 2nd day
Britain and Germany hit hardest, with at least 46 dead overall in several countries
Last Updated: Friday, January 19, 2007 | 2:11 PM ET - CBC News

The worst storm in years is pounding Northern Europe, killing at least 46 people, knocking out power to millions and bringing most travel to a standstill.A man tries to walk along the shore Thursday as fierce winds and waves batter Blackpool, on England's west coast.(John Giles/PA/Associated Press) Britain and Germany were hit hardest, with snow, rain and wind gusts reaching up to 190 km/h in some areas on Thursday. Scotland saw up to 25 centimetres of snow.As the storm moved east on Friday, forecasters reported winds of 200 km/h.At least 14 people were reported dead in Britain alone, including a two-year-old boy who was killed by a falling wall in London.Winds of up to 160 km/h roared through England Thursday evening. Many roads in the capital were closed because of debris blowing off buildings.

Europe's busiest highway, the M-25 around London, had traffic jams stretching for kilometres after a single gust of wind in the early afternoon knocked three trucks onto their sides.Hundreds of flights, ferry and train trips were cancelled across Britain.The storm led to the deaths of at least three people in the Czech Republic, 12 in Germany, 14 in Britain, six in the Netherlands, three in France, two in Belgium and six in Poland.In Germany, those killed included an 18-month-old child hit by a terrace door that was ripped from its hinges.

Europeans cancel flights, train services

Strong winds in Germany forced dozens of flight cancellations, prompted the national railway to suspend services across the country, and shut schools.Strong winds toss the hair of a woman in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, as fierce storms swept across Europe.(Michael Probst/Associated Press) Most long-distance train services in Germany were suspended.Berlin's new main train station was shut down after a two-tonne girder was ripped out of its facade Thursday night. No one was injured.In Utrecht, the Netherlands, strong winds toppled a construction crane onto a university building, crumpling the roof and injuring six people.In Amsterdam, bicyclists were blown over or, in some cases, blown backward. The city's historic canals were littered with trash barrels, piles of toppled bikes and dozens of broken umbrellas.Traffic on the Eurostar, the train service connecting Britain to continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel, was suspended after an electrical cable holder fell onto the tracks near Lille in northern France, France's national railway company said.Eurostar was running full service again on Friday, after one early Paris-to-London train was cancelled. But British train companies warned of delays through the day as repairs were carried out.

Heathrow Airport cancels 280 flights

Heathrow Airport, Europe's largest, cancelled 280 flights on Thursday. Other major airports including Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam and Vienna reported delays and cancellations.In Ireland and Latvia, winds kept rescue crews from helping ships damaged or missing after storms earlier in the week.Seven fishermen from Ireland, Poland and Ukraine are missing and presumed dead off the Irish coast, while Latvian rescuers were unable to attempt to salvage a cargo ship that ran aground Tuesday off the Baltic port Ventspils and has been leaking oil.With files from the Associated Press

Floods swamp homes, roads in South Australia
Saturday, January 20, 2007 | 11:17 AM ET CBC News

Heavy rain has caused severe flooding in South Australia state, isolating four communities.The worst hit is the town of Hawker, where 150 millimetres of rain, seven times the January average, has fallen in the past three days.It's feared the entire town could be submerged by water from the local dam if the rain doesn't stop soon.Roads around the towns of Oodnadatta, Whyalla and Port Pirie were also closed by rising waters.In Oodnadatta, the local hospital said medical supplies were running low.The State Emergency Service is using thousands of sandbags to stem the flow of water into homes.As the outback storm moved east across Australia it also caused flooding in the states of New South Wales and Victoria, where drought conditions sparked several weeks of wildfires.

Torrential rains in Mozambique cause havoc, claim four lives Fri Jan 19, 1:57 PM ET

MAPUTO (AFP) - Four people have died, hundreds of homes destroyed and more than 6,000 affected by torrential rains in Mozambique over the last two days, officials said. One person was electrocuted to death yesterday at Dondo in the Sofala province while three others suffered a similar fate in the town of Quelimane in Zambezia province, Joao Ribeiro, deputy director of the National Disaster Management Institute said.In all, more than 6,000 people have been directly affected nationwide, he said, adding that some 1,200 shacks were washed away in the northern Nampula province and another 150 risked collapse.In the central Manica province, the rains damaged a dam under construction.A preliminary survey estimates the damage at 100,000 dollars (77,400 euros), Manica's governor Raimundo Diomba told AFP.The rainy season in Mozambique begins in December and usually lasts until March.
In early 2000, about 1,000 people lost their lives in floods that caused widespread devastation in the southern African nation, which is also struggling to rebuild after a 16-year civil war that ended in 1992.

Europe counts cost of storms as stricken freighter is beached JAN 20,07

LONDON (AFP) - Salvage crews were beaching a badly holed, waterlogged British freighter carrying hazardous cargo while Europe counted the cost of the deadly storms that battered the continent earlier in the week. Tens of thousands of homes across Europe were still without power on Saturday.The MSC Napoli container ship was deliberately run aground on the southwest English coast to stop it from breaking apart in the English Channel, one of the world's busiest waterways.The 62,000-tonne cargo ship was transporting 2,394 containers, whose contents included 1,700 tonnes of hazardous industrial and agricultural chemicals.French officials said a long oil slick had spilt from the vessel into the English Channel.The MSC Napoli has suffered serious structural failure, said the British Maritime and Coastguard Agency.The large cracks on both sides of the ship have worsened. The stern of the ship is gradually settling lower in the water and deteriorating.

Risk assessments have been carried out and continually updated. The priority is to gain as much shelter as possible and keep the vessel in one piece. Therefore the decision has been made to beach the vessel and ballast it down east of Sidmouth.The beaching location was selected based on minimising the impact of any spillage and enabling salvage work to remove the vessel and cargo to take place, the MCA said.The 275-metre (900-foot) container ship developed long gashes on both sides just above the water line during stormy weather on Thursday and has since been under tow.Television footage showed the ship, registered in London and owned by the Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company, with its stern low in the water close to the shoreline in Lyme Bay.The Napoli was being hauled by two French tug boats, whose progress was hampered by rough seas and the cargo ship's jammed rudder.
When the engine room flooded and the vessel began listing badly, the 26-man crew abandoned ship. Three British Sea King helicopters winched them to safety from their lifeboat in nine-metre (30-feet) high waves and flew them to a navy base in southern England.Calmer weather returned to Europe on Saturday but tens of thousands of homes in England, Germany and apparently Poland were still without power.

Around 19,000 households in eastern England had no electricity.

In Germany, where the storms claimed 11 lives, around 12,000 of the 60,000 homes whose power was cut were still in the dark, 10,000 of them in the central state of Thuringia.Our objective is to reconnect all the 55 areas concerned between now and this evening, said Olaf Werner, a spokesman for German energy group E.ON.German rail services were largely back to normal after the appalling weather forced the Deutsche Bahn national railway company on Thursday to suspend all services for the first time in its history.In Poland where the storms killed six and injured 30, including nine emergency service workers it was unclear how many households were still in the dark. There is no information on the number of homes still without electricity this morning but on Friday afternoon, 800,000 were without power," fire brigade spokesman Dariusz Malinowski told AFP.

The new terminal of Warsaw's Okecia airport, which had been damaged, remained partially closed. The Netherlands was also counting the cost of the storms, which killed seven there. Insurers in the low-lying kingdom said their bill could come to at least 160 million euros (208 million dollars). That sum did not include damage to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and the railways, which could add another 40 million euros to the bill. In Ukraine, the emergency situations ministry said one woman had been killed on Friday by a falling tree, power lines had been damaged and telephone connections severed. Russian oil deliveries to European Union countries were interrupted on Friday after high winds knocked out electricity at a pumping station on the section of a pipeline that transits Ukraine.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:20,30
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.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
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.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

NOTICE ALL THE COUNTRIES THAT WANT NUCLEAR POWER IN THE MIDEAST LATELY SAUDI ARABIA, NOW JORDAN, EGYPT, ALL BECAUSE OF IRAN. WW3 IS GETTING SET UP QUICKLY TO BE FULFILLED.

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.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

Jordan wants peaceful nuclear program: King Abdullah
CBC News JAN 20,07

Jordan is pursuing plans to develop a nuclear program for peaceful purposes, King Abdullah told an Israeli newspaper.In an interview published Friday in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Jordanian ruler said the rules have changed on the nuclear issue, noting Egypt and several Gulf states would like nuclear programs.King Abdullah II of Jordan, left, shown here with Iraqi Vice-President Tareq Al-Hashimi at the Royal Palace in Amman on Thursday, said the linch-pin for peace in the region is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Yousef Allan, Jordan Royal Palace/ Associated Press) We are actually looking at nuclear power for peaceful and energy purposes. We've been discussing it with the West, said Abdullah.While Jordan would rather see a nuclear-free zone, he said countries with such programs have responsibilities.I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.What's expected from us should be a standard across the board. We want to make sure this is used for energy. What we don't want is an arms race to come out of this. As we become part of an international body and its international regulations are accepted by all of us, then we become a united front.

The comments marked the first time Abdullah spoke openly about desires for a Jordanian nuclear program for peaceful purposes.

As signatories of the 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, the U.S., Russia, the U.K., France and China are the only countries in the world officially recognized as nuclear weapons states.Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons, while India, Pakistan and North Korea have tested nuclear weapons. Washington believes Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict linchpin

In speaking about the general security situation in the Middle East, Abdullah said peace between Israel and the Palestinians was the key to broader Middle East stability. Jordan has a peace deal with Israel, with which it shares a border.All of us are looking at Iraq with concern. We don't know what's going to happen in Lebanon, although we hope that they're moving in the right direction, he told the paper.Whether people like it or not, the linchpin is always the Israeli-Palestinian problem.Abdullah also said Iran, through its support of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, has carved out a role for itself in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas won a surprise victory in parliamentary elections last year.With files from the Associated Press

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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.

Police probe Quebec bomb threat letter Fri Jan 19, 10:48 AM ET

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Police said on Friday they are investigating a threatening letter that claims to come from a violent Quebec militant group, but said there are no clues whether the group exists, or whether the threat is real. Police said the letter, dated January 15, threatens to place bombs at strategic targets of importance between February 15 and March 15, seeking maximum impact. That could include airports, roads, railways and shopping centers in the Montreal area.We have no indication that they are able to carry out what they threaten, said Corporal Luc Bessette, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Is a hoax? That's possible. Is is real? That's possible too. The RCMP takes seriously all threats against our citizens.The letter was addressed to Quebec Premier Jean Charest, French President Jacques Chirac and mayors in Montreal area towns and boroughs that have large numbers of English-speaking residents. It is similar to another letter sent November 15.The letterhead of the document refers to the Camille Laurin cell of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ), a militant separatist group that conducted a deadly series of bombings in Montreal during the 1960s and kidnapped several people in 1970, one of whom was later found dead.

There were generally no warning letters before those incidents.

Camille Laurin was a Quebec cabinet minister largely credited with creating language laws and regulations that restricted the use of English on signs in the mainly French-speaking Canadian province.Laurin died in 1999 and there is no indication that an FLQ cell named after him actually exists.The threatening letter comes as Quebec appears headed for a provincial election in the spring.
Public opinion polls indicate that the ruling Liberals, who want the province of 7.4 million to remain part of Canada, will be in a close contest with the opposition Parti Quebecois, which wants Quebec to separate.

DNA confirms death of Abu Sayyaf chief By OLIVER TEVES, Associated Press Writer JAN 20,07

MANILA, Philippines - DNA tests confirmed the death of the leader of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf terror group that was responsible for the beheading of a California tourist and the kidnapping of two American missionaries, officials said Saturday.

The Abu Sayyaf leader, Khadaffy Janjalani, was killed in September in fighting with U.S.-backed Philippine troops, who also killed Janjalani's possible successor in an operation on Tuesday.The deaths of Janjalani and Abu Sulaiman, who was wanted in the abduction of the three Americans and the deaths of two of them, mark a major victory in the campaign against Islamic militants in the south of the archipelago after years of bombings and kidnappings.The FBI conducted the tests on remains found buried in the jungles of southern Jolo island in December, comparing the DNA with that of Janjalani's imprisoned brother, said military Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon.The Armed Forces of the Philippines is proud to announce that we have neutralized the center of gravity of terrorism in the Philippines, Esperon said.

Martin and Gracia Burnham, a missionary couple from Wichita, Kan., and Guillermo Sobero of Corona, Calif., were taken by Abu Sayyaf from a resort island in May 2001. Sobero was beheaded by the militants and Martin Burnham was killed during a military rescue in June 2002 in which his wife was wounded.The U.S. Embassy said Janjalani's death marks an important and positive step forward in the ultimate goal of eliminating the ruthless and dangerous Abu Sayyaf group, and in destroying its links with international terrorist groups, such as Indonesian-based Jemaah Islamiyah. Police warned that Abu Sayyaf could stage retaliatory attacks.It is like wounded animal or a fighting cock it can still throw a kick, said Romeo Ricardo, chief of the national police Intelligence Group.

Janjalani, who had a $5 million U.S. bounty for his capture or death, escaped from police detention in 1995. He took over Abu Sayyaf from his older brother, group founder Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, after he was killed in 1998.Abu Sayyaf has been linked to several deadly attacks in the Philippines, including a 2004 bombing that gutted a ferry, killing 116 people.The group, which is believed to have about 400 followers and says it is fighting to establish a separate Muslim state in the southern Philippines, has also carried out mass kidnappings. Among them was the seizure of dozens of students and teachers in the southern island province of Basilan in 2000, and the abduction of 17 Filipinos and the three Americans.Janjalani was killed in a clash with soldiers on southern Jolo island on Sept. 4, about a month after the military launched a major offensive backed by U.S. troops, which provide training and intelligence support.The offensive on Jolo, about 600 miles south of Manila, has targeted Janjalani, Sulaiman, and two top Indonesian terror suspects blamed for the October 2002 Bali, Indonesia, bombings that killed 202 people.Associated Press Writers Jim Gomez and Hrvoje Hranjski contributed to this report.

Saturday, January 20, 2007
Moving day: B'nai Israel goes to modern new home
By DAVID YONKE - BLADE RELIGION EDITOR

It's a bittersweet weekend for Congregation B'nai Israel.Members of the Conservative Jewish synagogue, the oldest in the Toledo area, will say goodbye to their temple on Kenwood Boulevard tomorrow and move into a sparkling new $4 million facility in Sylvania.

On the one hand, it will be sad leaving the synagogue in the Old Orchard neighborhood where B'nai Israel has been since 1955, but on the other hand, it is a joyous occasion to move into the new building, said Miriam Beckerman, a member of the temple's Torah relocation committee.I've only been here 15 years, but for some people, like my daughter who will be 17 next month, this is the only synagogue they've ever known, Ms. Beckerman said this week. It's sad to be leaving the old temple, but look what we're moving into! She raised both hands to point out the beauty of the new building's main sanctuary.

Circular in shape, with a central platform - called a bema - surrounded by rows of movable chairs, the room is brightly lighted by the sun's rays that stream through clerestory and stained glass windows.The carpet is a light purple and the oak chairs are padded with purple cloth. The sanctuary walls are trimmed with oak and matching acoustical panels.Verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3, To everything there is a season..are carved in Hebrew into stone squares that encircle the room.At the south end of the sanctuary is another bema, above which hangs the Ner Tamid, or eternal light. In the old building, the Ner Tamid was a symbolic electric light. Here it is an actual flame of fire burning from a natural gas line.A crying room, suggested by Rabbi Barry Leff's wife, Lauri Donahue, provides a place where mothers can nurse babies in peace while looking directly into the sanctuary through a one-way window.Rabbi Leff said he and leaders of the synagogue visited other newly built synagogues for medium-sized Conservative congregations in New Jersey, Florida, and Detroit to gather ideas for their building.For a rabbi, this is a once-in -a-lifetime opportunity, he said. We wanted to look at the best synagogues in the country.The building was designed by Abraham Musher-Eizenman, an architect who is a member of B'nai Israel, and he emphasized a building that is flexible with space that can be adapted for different purposes.At 19,700 square feet, the new building is about half the size of the one on Kenwood Boulevard, Rabbi Leff said. By using partitions, movable walls, and free-standing chairs, its sanctuary, classrooms, and social hall can all be moved as needed.

Normally, the sanctuary will seat about 200, but during the High Holy Days the rear wall can be opened and the seating arranged to accommodate 600 people.Hazzan James Gloth said acoustic engineers helped set up the room for optimal sound, although he is eager to test it in an actual service.Tomorrow, the synagogue will hold an Ark to Ark service, removing 13 Torah scrolls from the ark in the old building and placing them into the ark in the new temple.Ms. Beckerman said the scrolls will be carried under a chuppa, or tent-like structure often associated with weddings.The ceremony will include a procession, a shofar blast with people sounding the shofar, or ram's horn, and placement of the scrolls into the ark, followed by a social gathering.One of the innovations unique to B'nai Israel is an LCD monitor set into a light-gold stone section outside the sanctuary that will be used for yartzeit, a Jewish tradition of remembering the anniversary of a person's death. In the old building, each name had a brass plaque with an electric light that was lit during the anniversary week. In the new facility, the names of the deceased will be illuminated on the LCD screen during the week of the anniversary, and the names will be on permanent display on plaques inside the sanctuary.

B'nai Israel was organized around the time of the Civil War and celebrated its centenary in 1966. It sold the Kenwood Boulevard property to the University of Toledo Foundation in 2004 for $1.75 million.The weekend celebration will include a farewell concert tonight at 8 in the old temple, 2727 Kenwood Blvd., by noted Jewish singer Neshama Carlebach. Tomorrow, the event begins at 1 p.m. at the Kenwood Boulevard temple and then will proceed to the new venue, located in the rear of the Jewish Community Center campus, 6465 West Sylvania Ave., Sylvania.Contact David Yonke at:dyonke@theblade.comor 419-724-6154.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

[Comment] EU aid masks big bully tactics in developing world
19.01.2007 - 09:32 CET | By Florent Sebban

EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - When rich nations impose an agenda tailor-made for their own interests on poorer ones, there is only one word that aptly describes their tactics: bullying. One of the topics addressed at this year's World Social Forum in Nairobi (20-25 January) will be how the European Commission resorts to bullying in its relations with developing countries. In public relations exercises, the EU institutions like to portray themselves as best friends of the poor. On a superficial level, this looks like an accurate depiction. At €46 billion per year - €6 billion of which is channeled through the Commission – the EU is the world's biggest donor of official development assistance (ODA). Thanks to decisions taken in 2005, the Union is scheduled to provide 66% of all ODA by 2010, with the Commission handling twice as much aid as the World Bank. But if you delve beneath the spin, the reality is that the Commission can be the kind of friend who twists the arms and pulls the ears of developing countries until they accept exactly what the Brussels bureaucracy wants. This is despite how Louis Michel and Benita Ferrero Waldner, the commissioners for development and external relations, repeatedly refer to recipients of EU aid as their partners and insist that they have ownership of EU-financed projects. Earlier this month, the European Parliament began examining a series of country strategy papers drawn up by the Commission for spending aid in its partners over the 2007-13 period. In theory, these were drafted following extensive consultations with governments, parliaments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in recipient countries.

What about health and education?

However, there are several examples to illustrate how the Commission ignored the views of those consulted. Perhaps worst of all, it has been known to overrule calls for health and education to be prioritised in the expenditure of EU aid, even though these are of fundamental importance for attaining the UN's Millennium Development Goals of dramatically reducing extreme poverty by 2015.

In November, Jamaica's then Ambassador to the EU Evadne Coye gave a detailed account of the consultation which occurred when the strategy paper for her country was being prepared. Coye said that one issue that was raised by the Jamaican participants in all consultations was that education had to be a top priority, with the emphasis placed particularly on primary schooling, the training of the teachers and addressing children with special needs. Yet Coye said that the Commission then told her government that education must only be a component in one of two central themes for the strategy paper. As a result, education would be subsumed as part of a general area called 'governance'; the second focal area would be known as competitiveness, and would be geared towards supporting Jamaica adapt to the Economic Partnership Agreements which the Commission is negotiating with countries in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bloc. While the Commission is correct to demand that there should be good governance and a crackdown on corruption in developing countries, it is taking a narrow view of what 'governance' entails. Surely, meeting the basic health and literacy needs of a population is a prerequisite for good governance and should be central to the EU's development aid activities.

Promoting Western firms interests

In Nairobi, Eurostep, a network of European NGOs, will be presenting a series of case studies on EU aid to Africa. These illustrate how the Commission has promoted the narrow interests of Western firms, rather than those of Africa's poorest citizens. A strategy paper for Burundi, for example, overlooks a national pledge of guaranteeing free primary schooling to all children. Meanwhile, in Cameroon, the Commission has decided to make a totally inappropriate use of development assistance by diverting part of it to promoting trade. Peter Mandelson, the trade commissioner, unveiled an external competitiveness strategy for Europe in October. European companies must be enabled to gain access to, and to operate securely, in world markets, he said. That is our agenda.

During recent contacts with the Pacific region, high-ranking Commission officials made it clear that the region's governments will only receive additional aid if they sign Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the Union. These accords would severely limit the ability of ACP countries to choose the development model they deem necessary for their own people and economies. Last month, a grouping of anti-poverty activists known as the Africa Trade Network said that the conduct of the EPA talks so far reinforced concerns that their aim is to deregulate developing countries in favour of European investors and that the Commission has rejected all studies on the potential effects of the accords whose outcomes it does not like.Before they next trumpet their commitment to ending poverty, the European Commission and EU governments should examine the criticisms directed towards them in Nairobi. If they analyses these seriously, they might just realise that friends to the poor should not behave as bullies.

Florent Sebban, a policy adviser with Eurostep, a network of organisations specialising in EU-financed development cooperation, is currently participating in the World Social Forum.

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:14
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

White beetle dazzles scientists JAN 20,07
The researchers looked at the beetle close up

A dazzling insect could help the development of brilliant white, ultra-thin materials, a study suggests. The finger-tip sized Cyphochilus beetle, found in south-east Asia, had a shell whiter than most other materials found in nature, UK researchers said.

Close inspection reveals a unique surface structure covered with scales 10 times thinner than human hair. A report in Science magazine claims mimicking these scales could provide a range of applications for industry. When I put them under the electron microscope, it was like another world had opened up Dr Pete Vukusic, Exeter University Such pure bright whiteness is uncommon in insects, explained lead scientist Dr Pete Vukusic of Exeter University. You do see the odd bit of whiteness here and there, mainly in butterflies, but the whiteness is really incomparable with this little beetle.In the study of the insect, Vukusic's team used a number of techniques such as optical microscopy, laser analysis and spectrometry. The researchers found, according to the International Organization for Standardization measurements, the beetle was much brighter and whiter than milk and the average human tooth.

Another world

But, said Dr Vukusic, the group also wanted to find out the sort of system that would physically create such dazzling whiteness.

And when I put them under the electron microscope, it was like another world had opened up; it was totally remarkable. The team found out why the beetles were so white.The researchers found the beetle's shell was covered with ultra-thin scales, measuring just five micrometres (millionths of a metre), with highly random internal 3D structures. This irregular structure, explained Dr Vukusic, was the cause of the beetle's whiteness.While colour, he explained, could be created through highly ordered structures, whiteness is achieved through very random features that scatter all colours simultaneously. The degree of whiteness given the scales' thinness is the really impressive thing, Dr Vukusic added. We can create this quality of white synthetically, but the materials need to be much thicker. This could have many applications. The researchers believe industry might draw inspiration from the beetle to enhance the whiteness of synthetic objects, such as papers, plastics, paints or white-light displays. The team thinks the beetle evolved to be so white because the colour provides camouflage in amongst the white fungi common to where it is found.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

IF THE FUTURE CONTRACT IS TO WORK OUT, IT HAS TO BE A 7 YEAR CONTRACT AND THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS TO DO THE CONTRACT. THIS IS JUST THE ARABS PLAYIN HEADS GAMES AGAIN. AND BESIDES IT HAS TO BE A LAND FOR PEACE DEAL.

Hamas leader offers 10-year truce with Israel
But terror group tells WND of long-term plan to destroy Jewish state
January 20, 2007 - 4:12 p.m. Eastern - By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com

JERUSALEM -- Hamas is willing to accept a temporary Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem in exchange for a 10-year truce with Israel, Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, announced today. But top Hamas officials and spokesmen for the terror group told WND the truce was meant to show some flexibility to the international community. They said Hamas' goal of destroying Israel had not changed, and that the terror group has a 10-year plan to build a large army and defeat the Jewish state. We are with liberating any inch of Palestine, but we will not close the door for the next generation, because the weak don't always stay weak, and the strong won't stay strong, Haniyeh said today in a televised address, explaining his 10-year truce proposal. His comments come as the U.S. is set to mediate a meeting within the next few weeks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to begin discussions on establishing a Palestinian state.

Haniyeh's statements could be seized upon by Abbas as proof Israel can make peace with the Palestinians even while Hamas runs the Palestinian government. But Hamad al-Ruqb, a top Hamas spokesman, said Hamas is working to destroy the entire state of Israel: Hamas will be able to free most of the territories of the historical Palestine occupied in 1948 (the state of Israel) and bring back the Palestinian refugees to their lands and houses. This step will be followed by a struggle to release the rest of the lands that will remain under occupation, al-Ruqb said. Al-Raqb said Hamas has a 10-year plan to defeat Israel that includes setting up a massive army comprised of all Palestinian factions that would train for a period of ten years. A senior Hamas official in the Palestinian parliament told WND al-Raqb's remarks were proof Hamas has not abandoned its main goal of destroying Israel.

The legislative member, who spoke on condition his name be withheld, slammed attempts by Abbas to present Hamas to the international community as a movement that would recognize a peace agreement with the Jewish state. Fatah attempts to present Hamas like a movement that gave up its ideology in order to keep its power, but these attempts failed. You see with the calls for a truce that Hamas can show some flexibility in its tactical policy but the strategic goals [of defeating Israel] are unchanged, the Hamas official said. Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' so-called military wing, told WND Hamas is preparing for a military confrontation with Israel in spite of Haniyeh's calls for a 10-year truce. The efforts in the field of preparations are running very well, Abu Abdullah said. He said other Palestinian factions, including parts of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's declared military wing, are sharing their knowledge, their technological experience, connections and trainings with us. Abu Abdullah confirmed recent reports members of Hamas and other Palestinian organizations have been receiving training abroad, although he would not list specific locations.

WND earlier this month quoted Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials stating Hamas members traveled to Iran and Lebanon for advanced military training. Haniyeh's calls for a 10-year truce with Israel in exchange for the West Bank, Gaza and parts of Jerusalem come exactly one year after WND conducted a well-circulated exclusive interview in which a top Hamas leader said his group would make public a peace initiative offering to trade strategic land with Israel, cease attempts to capture parts of Jerusalem, and sign a 10-year renewable cease-fire with the Jewish state. But the Hamas leader said the plan, which he justified using Islamic tradition, is a temporary machination to ease international and U.S. hostility toward his group. We will be ready for a long interim agreement based on a period of cease-fire that can go to 10 or even 15 years like it was done by the Prophet Muhammad with the enemies of the Muslims. During this period we will build our state on the strong basis of honor and with an honest administration, the top Hamas leader said. Hamas officials, including overall Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, who resides in Syria, formulated a peace proposal they said would be acceptable to their group in which the Palestinians would offer to trade certain lands with Israel, the top Hamas official revealed. With the territories we will be ready to discuss the possibility that the three big settlement compounds will remain under the power of the occupation (Israel) and in exchange we will receive territories for the Palestinian independent state, said the Hamas leader.

The leader told WND the three settlements he was referring to are Ariel and Gush Etzion, two large regions in the West Bank that contain many of the area's major Jewish communities, and western and peripheral sections of Jerusalem, which he said Hamas considers Israeli settlements. Hamas, in exchange, would want the eastern sections of Jerusalem, the parts of the southern Israeli Negev desert that border the Gaza Strip and the Jordan Valley, which extends from outside Jerusalem toward Jordan and encompasses most of Israel's major water supplies. The Hamas official said his group would be willing to compromise on its territorial demands. We are most interested in Jerusalem and the Negev, the leader said. The leader then justified the Hamas peace plan using Islamic history. The Muslim hero Saladin gave up land when he gave Acco to the Crusaders in order to keep Jerusalem. Therefore, I say that the possibility of the exchange of territories existed already in the history of Islam and it cohabitates with our principle that all of Palestine is a dedicated land from Allah, may he be blessed to the Muslims, and no one has the right to give up any part of it, said the leader. The leader insisted the policies are based on the formulation Hamas will not be able to defeat Israel in the near future, but he said his group is confident it ultimately will be victorious. I do not see the Palestinian people and Islamic nation succeeding to liberate this blessed land of Palestine in the very near future, he said. This is an Islamic land and the Jews are invited to live in Palestine and the Muslims will guaranty their safety and honor. ... But we will never give up our right for the whole of Palestine. We should be realistic to admit that the mission for the liberation of Palestine will pass on to the coming generations.

MacKay pledges new money for Gaza crossing
Last Updated: Saturday, January 20, 2007 | 4:45 PM ET CBC News

Canada has pledged $1.2 million to buy equipment for the Karni border crossing in the Gaza Strip, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay announced on Saturday.MacKay made the announcement after travelling to Jerusalem for a meeting with Lt.-Gen Keith Dayton, the U.S. security co-ordinator for the region.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, shake hands with Canada's Foreign Minister Peter MacKay in Amman, Jordan on Friday. (Nader Daoud/Associated Press) The money will be spent on unspecified equipment to help goods and services move more freely in and out of Gaza.

Canadians make up about a fifth of Dayton's staff.

MacKay met earlier on Saturday in Amman with Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit and Foreign Minister Abdul-Ilah al-Khatib on day two of his five-day trip to Jordan, Israel and the occupied territories.Jordan, as one of only two Arab peace partners of Israel the other is Egypt has an effective role to play in solving the long-simmering conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, MacKay said.MacKay said his first Middle East tour got off to a productive start on Friday with a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman.It was very much an opportunity for me to listen, and that again is behind my visit here to the region, he said. There's an accumulated knowledge in our country and an experience that many Canadians bring to this, and that's what I hope to do, as well.The Canadian foreign minister expressed a willingness to accept every possible effort in order to see to it that the road map [peace plan] is fully implemented, said Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator.On Sunday, MacKay will visit Bethlehem, which is in the shadow of the security barrier that winds around the town. He'll also meet with the Israeli prime minister, deputy prime minister and foreign minister.

CHINA SATELLITE KILLER TEST

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Moderate earthquake strikes El Salvador. 3-Storms in Europe kill 46, disrupt travel. 4-Two winter storms taking shape.5-Three dead after heavy rains hit Angola. 6-Storm hits southern New Mexico; wet, heavy snowfall possible throughout state 7-Concern over China satellite-killer test. 8-Dutch open to new-style EU constitution, poll shows. 9-EU ready for more military operations, Solana says. 10-EU seeks fast, full move on U.N. Iran sanctions. 11-Storm Worm rages across the globe. 12-Israel unfreezes $100M before summit. 13-Peretz Reneges on Promise to Build Maskiot. 14-Religious Persecution Growing Worldwide, Group Says. 15-One third of fish species in Yellow River dead. 16-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 17-Iran, Syria, UN should assist in Iraq settlement - Lavrov.

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.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Sat Jan 20 12:09 AM EDT

SAT JAN 20,07 NO QUAKES YET

JAN 19,07
MAP 3.0 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.5 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.9 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 NEVADA
MAP 3.3 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.3 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.3 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.4 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.7 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.3 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.9 SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA
MAP 2.6 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 5.4 OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP 2.6 PUERTO RICO REGION

JAN 18,07
MAP 4.8 CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN SEA
MAP 2.7 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 NEVADA
MAP 5.9 SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.5 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.2 WESTERN TURKEY
MAP 4.1 HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
MAP 2.5 UTAH
MAP 2.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.1 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 3.7 ALASKA PENINSULA

Moderate earthquake strikes El Salvador Thu Jan 18, 10:59 PM ET

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador An earthquake shook parts of El Salvador on Thursday night, but there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries, authorities said.The quake, with a magnitude of 5.4, was centered 35 miles south of the capital, San Salvador, and occurred at 7:43 p.m., the United States Geological Survey in Colorado reported.The temblor was felt in the capital and in several western provinces of the country, but did not affect communications or power, or threaten to create atsunami, national scientists said.Civil protection officials said they had received no reports of injuries.

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.

Storms in Europe kill 46, disrupt travel By DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer JAN 19,07

BERLIN - Europeans labored Friday to restore services across the continent after hurricane-force winds toppled trees, brought down power lines and damaged buildings, killing at least 46 people and disrupting travel for tens of thousands. Berlin's new main train station was shut down after a two-ton girder fell from the side of the glass facade onto an outdoor staircase. The station was evacuated after the beam plummeted 130 feet Thursday night, but there were no injuries.I can see maybe the glass falling, but not the steel, said Thomas Mueller, an electrician who had stopped by the downtown station to survey the damage. They just built this thing eight months ago.Virtually the entire German national railway system shut down during the storm, with trees over many tracks and overhead power lines down, and services were being restored gradually Friday.We've never had such a situation in Germany, Deutsche Bahn CEO Hartmut Mehdorn said.

Off the coast of France, a coast guard tug was called upon to tow a damaged British container ship containing explosives to safety, a day after its crew of 26 was rescued from the stormy seas.More than 1 million homes had no electricity in the Czech Republic, which was hit by winds of up to 112 mph, another 1 million households in Germany suffered power losses, while tens of thousands in Poland and Austria also were hit with outages.The flow of Russian oil through a Ukrainian pipeline to other parts of Europe was restored Friday after a temporary shutdown caused when the storm knocked out power to a pumping station. The interruption
occurred Thursday night on a section of the Druzhba, or Friendship, pipeline from the city of Brody in western Ukraine to Slovakia and Hungary, but Oleksandr Dikusarov, a spokesman for the Ukrtransnafta pipeline company, said the flow of oil was fully restored Friday afternoon.The storm led to the deaths of at least three people in the Czech Republic, 12 in Germany, 14 in Britain, six in the Netherlands, three in France, two in Belgium and six in Poland.It was the highest death toll from a storm in Europe since 1999, when gales downed trees and driving snow brought on avalanches, killing more than 120 in three days.Climate researchers had been predicting stormy weather this year for parts of Europe, saying that unusually high temperatures in the North Atlantic, around 1 to 2 degrees above normal would allow winds to accumulate more moisture and surge in energy.In times of rapid climactic change, extreme events arise more frequently, said Peter Werner of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research.Europe has been experiencing an extremely warm winter and has already been hit by several wind storms.Most of the people killed in the storm were motorists, but in Germany they also included two firefighters one hit by a falling tree and the other dying of a heart attack and an 18-month old infant in Munich hit by a terrace door that was ripped from its hinges.In London, a toddler was killed when a brick wall was knocked over by the wind and collapsed on him. Frankfurt Airport reported that flights were again leaving regularly Friday after some morning delays and 200 cancellations Thursday.National carrier Lufthansa canceled 331 flights across Germany on Thursday, affecting nearly 19,000 passengers, but intercontinental flights were largely on time again Friday, spokesman Thomas Jachnow said.British Airways canceled 34 incoming flights to London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports and the two main London-to-Scotland rail routes ran reduced services.

Eurostar was running full service again, after one early Paris-to-London train was canceled. Meanwhile, London Bridge station was reopened after being closed after part of a roof collapsed. British train companies warned of delays through the day as repairs were carried out. Thousands of Dutch commuters were stranded overnight when the service was halted on all trains because of obstructions to the tracks and downed power cables.By early Friday, most Dutch trains were running again after engineers worked through the night to clear debris and repair power lines, the railway said. German subways, trams and buses were largely back in service, but only a few long-distance trains were running. Bringing the service back is like a puzzle it goes bit by bit and we're now at the first pieces, railway spokesman Martin Walden said. The German Weather Service said the storm was the strongest to hit the country since 1999. The highest winds were felt in the southern state of Bavaria, where gusts of up to 126 mph were recorded. Associated Press writers around Europe contributed to this report.

Two winter storms taking shape Wayne Verno and M. Ressler, Meteorologists, The Weather Channel JAN 19,07

South

A developing winter storm increasingly impacts parts of Texas with snow for the west-central counties and the panhandle, sleet and freezing rain from the Davis Mountains to Wichita Falls and rain over the remainder of the state.

As the storm evolves overnight and Saturday, heavy snow will accumulate to a foot in parts of west Texas and advance into western Oklahoma. Sleet and freezing will will expand northward across a diagonal slice of Oklahoma from the southwest to northeast corners including Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Also wintry mix will develop over northern Arkansas. Steady rain will develop through central and east Texas and southeast Oklahoma, moving across the Lower Mississippi River Valley into Sunday. Meanwhile, a few scattered rain showers will impact parts of the Deep South, while most of Florida remains dry.

Northeast

A weather disturbance moving through the Great Lakes is generating areas of snow showers from the Great Lakes, into the Upper Ohio Valley and parts of the Northeast. Meanwhile, a wave of low pressure will move north just off the eastern coast, bringing heavy snow to Maine as the low pressure deepens later today into Saturday. With this deepening low pressure, northwest winds will become strong and gusty across all of the Great Lakes and Northeast today, through Saturday. On Saturday, New England could see occasional wind gusts between 40 and 60 mph. Lake effect snow showers will increase off the Great Lakes tonight through Saturday, and a foot of snow could fall in areas between Cleveland and Buffalo and across the Upstate New York counties southeast of Lake Ontario. By Sunday, the lake effect snow will decrease, but a new winter storm will move into the Tennessee Valley. This will spread a wintry mix into the southern Mid-Atlantic with snow moving up the Ohio River Valley.

Midwest

A reinforcing shot of cold air will move across the Great Lakes today, increasing the ongoing snow showers across the region. Lake effect snow showers and squalls will increase in the favored snow belts, with at 6 to 12 inches possible across parts of Upper Michigan and northwest Lower Michigan. The rest of the Plains will remain dry today, but a developing winter storm over the southern Plains will spread snow from the central Plains to the southern Great Lakes and northern side of the Ohio Valley this weekend with some sleet and freezing rain from southern Missouri to West Virginia. Snow showers will also increase across the northern Plains and into the Great Lakes, as a series of weather disturbances move across those areas. Temperatures will remain chilly, with 20s and 30s common thought the weekend; teens across the far north.

West

A series of weather disturbances will pass just northwest of the Pacific Northwest into the weekend, which will keep the chance for rain and snow in that region. The northern Washington Cascades could pick up an additional foot of new snow. Meanwhile a developing winter storm over the southern mountains will bring rain and snow to parts of Arizona and New Mexico today and Saturday. Parts of New Mexico could see one to two feet of snow. High pressure will build across the remainder of the western states, providing generally dry conditions, and a slow warming of temperatures along the western coast. Morning low temperatures through central California will still remain chilly into the weekend.

Three dead after heavy rains hit Angola Thu Jan 18, 4:27 PM ET

LISBON (AFP) - Three people were killed and a fourth is missing in Angola after torrential rains caused flooding in the southwestern African nation's capital Luanda, the Lusa news agency reported. The downpours which hit the city of some 4.5 million people on Wednesday caused over 20 buildings to collapse, knocked down trees and destroyed a key bridge, Luanda fire department spokesman Faustino Sebastiao told the agency.When the rains fell many people were at work and only children were at home so many people lost all their belongings, he said.Firefighters rescued five children from flooded homes, he added.In March 2005 flooding in northern Angola, a former Portuguese colony which is still recovering from a 27-year civil war that shattered most of its infrastructure, left over 10,000 people without shelter.

9:18 am: Storm hits southern New Mexico; wet, heavy snowfall possible throughout state JAN 19,07 By PETE HERRERA | Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - It was literally the calm before the slow poke storm.

The system that readied the snow plows across much of New Mexico paused in a holding pattern over northern Baja California, said Albuquerque meteorologist Ken Drozd.But moisture increased as the storm hit the southern edge of the state and began a slow march that is expected to continue into Sunday.Snow began falling over the southwestern portion of the state late Thursday, and the National Weather Service said it would likely move northward Friday, eventually reaching the Colorado border.The Cobre school district in southwestern New Mexico, as well as schools in Truth or Consequences, Arrey and Hatch, canceled classes Friday.

Hobbs and Silver City delayed the start of school.Anywhere from 3 to 6 inches were forecast for Albuquerque and Las Cruces. Higher amounts were likely along the foothills and other higher elevation areas. Drozd said Valencia County could get higher amounts than Albuquerque. Even El Paso could get from 3 to 5 inches of snow.

Drozd said the storm won't be in a hurry to leave.

We're going to have snow off and on through Saturday, he said. The northern areas will be the last to get it, but it will linger there the longest.Drozd said virtually all areas of the state will get moisture.The scope will be broad across the state, Drozd said.Forecasters issued winter storm warnings and heavy snow warnings into Saturday for southern New Mexico, winter storm warnings through
Saturday for central New Mexico and a winter storm watch through Saturday for northern New Mexico.By Friday night, snow will spread north across the state before tapering off from the southwest Saturday afternoon and evening, the weather service said. The snow often will be moderate to heavy, creating dangerous driving conditions. Winds also are expected to increase Saturday, causing areas of blowing and drifting snow.In advance of the rain and snow, the sun was a no show over much of the state Thursday. The heavy cloud cover was provided by a stream of cold air moving across the state.Temperatures Thursday ranged from the low 20s across the northern mountains to the low 50s across the southeast plains, with most highs in the 30s and 40s. The range was from 23 at Taos to 53 at Hobbs.Morning lows Friday were generally in the teens and 20s, with the range from 3 at Taos to 36 at Truth or Consequences.

This week's storm is the latest to target New Mexico, which still has remnants of the one over the New Year's holiday that left many New Mexicans stranded in their homes, played havoc with travelers and prompted Gov.

Bill Richardson to seek federal assistance.The unsettled and unseasonably cold weather is expected to continue into midweek. Another weather system could bring more snow to parts of the state late Sunday into Tuesday, although the weather service said that system was weaker.State Transportation Department spokesman S.U. Mahesh said the agency opened its Transportation Management Center in Albuquerque and it will be open around the clock until the storm subsides.It's a new tool in our tool box, said Mahesh, explaining that the center will allow the agency to coordinate with law enforcement and emergency management officials as they monitor road conditions around the state.Tim Manning, director of the state's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, urged people to be prepared.

I encourage each family ... to make a preparedness plan and prepare a supply kit for both the home and winter travel, Manning said. Since southern New Mexico has not seen significant snow recently, we especially want to remind residents (there) to be vigilant in their preparations.Supplies at home should include a gallon of water for each family member for at least three days, nonperishable food, first aid supplies, clothing and bedding, tools and emergency supplies, and an additional month's supply of any medications, he said.Manning said additional items to consider include battery-powered radios, flashlights with extra batteries, diapers, baby formula and food for pets.

For travelers, suggested items include sleeping bags or blankets, road flares, maps, a heavy sack of sand or kitty litter for tire traction, a tow rope and windshield scraper.Manning described the list as logical and necessary to survive regardless of the type of emergency.

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)

Concern over China satellite-killer test Agencies JAN 19,2007 (12AM UAE)

Washington: The United States, Japan, Australia and Canada have voiced concerns to China over the first known satellite-killing test in space in more than 20 years, the White House said on Thursday. The successful test means China could now theoretically shoot down spy satellites operated by other nations. The test was first reported by US magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology and confirmed by the White House. The US believes China's development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of cooperation that both countries aspire to in the civil space area, National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said. We and other countries have expressed our concern regarding this action to the Chinese.Using a ground-based medium-range ballistic missile, the test knocked out an aging Chinese weather satellite about 865 km above the Earth on January 11 through kinetic impact, or by slamming into it, Johndroe said. Canada and Australia had joined in voicing concern, he said.

Britain and South Korea were expected to follow suit, an administration official added. Japan also voiced concerns on Friday over the Chinese test and sought explanations from Beijing. From the view of the peaceful use of space and international security, we naturally have concerns about it, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki, the government spokesman, told a news conference. He said Japan was asking the Chinese foreign ministry to explain details about the test.

On a visit to New York, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Australia raised concerns with the Chinese some days ago. So far, the answer from the foreign affairs people in China, including the ambassador in Canberra, is that they are not aware of the incident and they are getting back to us, Downer told reporters. What we don't want to see is some sort of spread, if you like, of an arms race into outer space. The danger there is that you get into a situation where other countries, including the US I suppose, would have to start to look for ways to protect satellites in space, he said. The other concern is that the debris from the destroyed satellite could hit other satellites and damage (them), Downer said. The last US anti-satellite test took place on September 13, 1985. Washington then halted such Cold War-era testing, concerned by debris that could harm civilian and military satellite operations on which the West increasingly relies for everything from pinpoint navigation to Internet access to automated teller machines.

According to David Wright of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Union of Concerned Scientists, the satellite pulverised by China could have broken into nearly 40,000 fragments from 1 cm to 10 cm or up to 4 inches, roughly half of which would stay in orbit for more than a decade. On the day of the test, a US. defense official said the United States was unable to communicate with an experimental spy satellite launched last year by the Pentagon's National Reconnaissance Office. There was no immediate indication that that was a result of the Chinese test. Aviation Week & Space Technology, the first to report the test, cited space sources as saying a Chinese Feng Yun 1C polar orbit weather satellite, launched in 1999, was destroyed by an antisatellite system launched from or near China's Xichang Space Center in Sichuan Province. The capability demonstrated by China was no surprise to the Bush administration, which revised U.S. national space policy in October to assert a right to deny space access to anyone hostile to U.S. interests. The United States has been researching satellite-killers of its own, experimenting with lasers on the ground that could disable, disrupt and destroy spacecraft.

Marco Caceres, a space expert at the Teal Group, an aerospace consulting firm in Fairfax, Virginia, said China's test could bolster a host of costly military space programs, almost all of which are over budget and behind schedule. They are going to use this for as much as they can, he said, referring to Pentagon officials. Major corporate beneficiaries could be Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corporation, which build US communications, surveillance and early warning satellites, Caceres 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).

Dutch open to new-style EU constitution, poll shows
19.01.2007 - 09:23 CET | By Mark Beunderman (Eu Observer)

Dutch voters are increasingly open to the idea of a revised version of the EU constitution, but would still reject the current text of the charter, according to a fresh poll. A survey conducted by polling firm TNS NIPO suggests that the Dutch people's overwhelming rejection of the EU constitution in a 2005 referendum does not mean they are against the general idea of a European constitution.

The poll, released by Dutch RTL television on Wednesday (17 January), shows that 47 percent of the Dutch are positive about the idea of a European constitution - representing a surge of optimism compared to the eve of the June 2005 referendum, when this figure stood at 30 percent. A minority of 18 percent today feels negative about the idea of a constitution whereas 33 percent are neutral and 8 percent do not know, according to the survey. The Dutch poll comes just as Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is pushing the revival of the constitutional process, planning to present a roadmap towards a new treaty at the end of the German EU presidency in June. When asked by pollsters about Ms Merkel's efforts to revive a [new] European treaty, almost half of the Dutch (47 percent) said they are positive about the German initiative, while 17 percent said they are negative and 36 percent neutral. But the survey is not all good news for Berlin, which wants to stick closely to the current text of the constitution in the upcoming re-negotiations on the charter, with German politicians highlighting that it has already been ratified by 18 member states. If the document remains unchanged, a clear majority of 60 percent of the Dutch would still vote no if a new referendum were held, roughly the same figure as in 2005 (61.5%).

Pressure on The Hague

The poll results put pressure on the Dutch government to secure changes to the document that would tackle Dutch people's concerns about the EU primarily focusing on European integration being too quick and the loss of Dutch sovereignty.

Outgoing Dutch foreign minister Bernard Bot said in November that a new EU treaty should include substantial safeguards against further Brussels powers and uncontrolled enlargement. The Netherlands is currently engaged in talks on the formation of a new centre-left government involving the Christian Democrats, Labour and the protestant Christian Union, to be led by current prime minister Jan-Peter Balkenende.The three parties are also discussing a future government's stance towards a new EU treaty, as well as the possibility to hold a new referendum once a new text is agreed at EU level. A majority of 64 percent of the Dutch believe the EU constitution should play a role in the cabinet formation, according to Wednesday's poll, with Dutch media reporting that a new Balkenende cabinet could take office in March.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (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.(TRADING
BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

EU ready for more military operations, Solana says
19.01.2007 - 17:43 CET | By Andrew Rettman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Europe says it is ready for more military action under the EU flag in 2007 after its success in Congo last year, with the German EU presidency putting Kosovo, Bosnia, Lebanon and Afghanistan at the top of its defence agenda for the next six months. We begin 2007 ready to take up our responsibilities if needed - which I sincerely hope won't be the case - but we are in a position of readiness, EU top diplomat Javier Solana said in Brussels on Wednesday (17 January), after recalling that the EU's battle group structure reached full operational capacity on 1 January.

The EU now has two units that can be deployed for crisis-management anywhere in the world 10 days after member states take a unanimous vote, in a decision that would as a rule follow a UN security council resolution but that could also see the EU go it alone. Each group brings together 1,500 soldiers from two or three member states, which hold joint training exercises and wear both national and EU insignia a blue disk with 12 gold stars on the model of EU police missions in Bosnia andMacedonia. Europe can assume very important peacekeeping and peacemaking functions in this world, German defence minister Franz Josef Jung said, while standing next to Mr Solana. Europe is a great peace project and we will continue to make our contribution [to global stability].

EU army by stealth?

No EU battle group has ever been tested in a real operation, but last year saw two major EU military projects: member states coordinated sending 9,000 European peacekeepers under a UN flag to Lebanon and dispatched 1,400 soldiers under an EU flag to Congo.Now we really have the beginning of a European army, French general Christian Damay said in Kinshasa in December, with France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland broadly supporting a gradual move toward a permanently standing EU force that could number several thousands of soldiers.Other states, such as the UK and the Netherlands, are more worried about trespassing on NATO turf however, with no high-profile discussion of the concept taking place at EU level for now. An EU army is a very big word, but [any army] would be something very small, an EU official told EUobserver. The notion of an EU army is a red rag to eurosceptic parties in Europe, but some pro-integration politicians such as British liberal MEP Graham Watson also believe the trend toward ever-closer practical defence co-operation should be subject to open discussion on political implications. I don't think governments can go on building a European army by stealth we need a proper public debate, Mr Watson stated, adding that more and more policies are being done in the council [the EU member states' secretariat] and reported after the fact.

Kosovo to dominate 2007 agenda

Apart from building-up battle group capacity, the German EU presidency will focus on managing the EU-dominated force in Lebanon and exploring ways for EU police to support NATO in Afghanistan. A gradual pull-out of the EU police mission from Bosnia is also on the agenda - but a new EU police force will replace NATO soldiers in Kosovo after the region's final status is settled, Germany's Mr Jung said. The EU is currently preparing what is expected to be the biggest-ever security operation in its history in Kosovo, involving policing but also institution-building, due to start this summer at the earliest. Brussels is currently awaiting the result of
Serbian elections on Sunday before UN envoy Marti Ahtisaari presents a proposal for the final status of the territory in February.

EU seeks fast, full move on U.N. Iran sanctions By Sophie Walker JAN 19,07

LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union wants to apply United Nations sanctions on Iran fully and rapidly and may expand the list of people linked to Tehran's nuclear programme targeted by the U.N. resolution, diplomats said on Friday. Tehran maintains that its nuclear ambitions are limited to generating electricity. The European Union and the United States suspect Tehran is secretly seeking to build nuclear bombs.They say it will face harsher sanctions if it ignores the resolution unanimously passed on December 23 at the behest of the United States, Britain, Russia, China and France. The resolution gave Iran 60 days to suspend nuclear fuel-enrichment activity.

Foreign ministers from EU states are due to meet on Monday to coordinate moves to apply the current range of sanctions across Europe. Diplomats said the bloc's 27 members wanted to deliver a strong broadside to Iran urging it to halt enrichment.We are looking at a fast and strict implementation of all of the measures in the resolution, one EU diplomat said.

The U.N. sanctions resolution bans transfers of sensitive nuclear materials to Iran, freezes financial assets of those associated with the nuclear programme and asks countries to pass on information about the whereabouts of individuals on the list.We want the outcome (of the meeting) to reinforce the resolution so that the EU interpretation will not be limited to the names currently on the resolution's annexe, a second diplomatic source said.We will be looking to broaden the resolutions to allow us to impose travel bans and freeze assets of other individuals, the source said.One EU official said the bloc would also look at measures to stop Iranians coming to the EU to study proliferation-sensitive subjects, although not necessarily by outright visa bans.

DOOR REMAINS OPEN

An original proposal to make legally binding the existing EU arrangements which effectively bar arms sales to Iran will not be on the agenda of Monday's meeting, diplomats said.The EU has had a de facto arms ban on Iran for the past 10 years. When and if we now legally formalize it is not important the key issue now is its nuclear programme, said one.The EU has led international diplomacy based on the offer of trade, political and technical incentives for Iran to give up uranium enrichment, and diplomats say that offer remained on the table despite the move toward sanctions.We've always said the door remains open but someone has to go through it, said one diplomat.Iran said earlier this week it was ready to begin installing 3,000 centrifuges for industrial-scale production of nuclear fuel. That prompted a warning from British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett that Tehran's stance was not cost-free.Diplomats confirmed Iran's statement on Thursday, saying it had completed preparations at an underground plant where the 3,000 centrifuges are to be rigged up, expanding what to date has been a limited, research-level enrichment programme.

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the Natanz enrichment complex over the past week to gather material for an IAEA report due to be issued to the U.N. Security Council on February 21, the 60-day deadline.(With reporting by
Louis Charbonneau, Mark John, Ingrid Melander and Mark Heinrich)

Storm Worm rages across the globe. Worm baits people with timely information about a real-life front in Europe, creating one of the larger attacks in recent years. By Dawn Kawamoto Staff Writer, CNET News.com - January 19, 2007, 8:15 AM PST

update The new Storm Worm is baiting people with timely information about a real-life, deadly front in Europe and is creating one of the larger worm attacks in recent years, security researchers said Friday. Over an eight-hour period Thursday, the worm sent malicious e-mails across the globe to hundreds of thousands of people, who unknowingly were part of a botnet, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure. A botnet serves as an army of commandeered computers, which are used by attackers to distribute malicious payloads without their owners' knowledge. Storm Worm carries the subject line 230 dead as storm batters Europe, Hypponen said, noting the unusual twist to the e-mail. The e-mail was started 15 hours ago, when the storm was peaking in Central Europe, Hypponen said. This is unusual in that it was very timely. The attached file contains malicious code. That e-mail, via the botnet, has quickly spread the worm. The worm is already close to being as large as the bigger ones of 2006, Hypponen said, though it's still smaller than Sasser and Slammer. Hypponen also noted that the worm is unusual because most attacks these days tend to be smaller and targeted, as criminals seek to pilfer personal information for financial gain, rather than fame. Though the worm is widespread, the damage may ultimately be minimal in the U.S. because most tech security companies will have already added the virus to their blocking list before people get into work, he added. Other e-mail subject lines for the worm include U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza… and A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and...Hypponen told Reuters that most people would not notice the malicious software, which creates a back door to a computer that can be exploited later to steal data or to use the computer to post spam.

Israel unfreezes $100M before summit By STEVE WEIZMAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 19, 9:16 AM ET

JERUSALEM Israel said Friday it had paid $100 million in frozen tax funds to the Palestinians and rescinded a contentious decision for a new West Bank settlement, strengthening the hand of moderate President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of crucial weekend
talks in Damascus with his Hamas rivals. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said the payment, the first such transfer since the militant Islamic Hamas won control of the Palestinian government in March 2006, was made Thursday night.Defense Minister Amir Peretz, meanwhile, ordered plans for the Maskiot settlement frozen indefinitely in order to look carefully at the implications, ministry officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity.Israel drew international condemnation with its announcement last month that it had approved the construction of Maskiot to house those settlers removed from the Gaza Strip in Israel's 2005 pullout. It was the first new West Bank settlement officially approved since the early 1990s, when Israel promised to halt such construction as part of interim peace accords.

Israel has been trying to boost Abbas in his struggle with Hamas, which rejects the existence of a Jewish state in an Islamic Middle East. However, such efforts can backfire, as Palestinians of all stripes try to distance themselves from the Israelis.In a development expected to further fan Arab anger, the 10-year-old daughter of a Palestinian peace activist, critically wounded by Israeli security
forces during a demonstration earlier in the week, died of her injuries in a Jerusalem hospital Friday.Abir Aramin's father, Bassam Aramin, was among the founders of Combatants for Peace, a group of former Israeli and Palestinian fighters who work for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He said his daughter's death did not alter his commitment to work for peace.I'm going to continue in this role and not give up, he said.Abbas is to travel to Syria on Saturday for talks with Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, aiming at forging a coalition government and ending a punishing international aid boycott. Talks have sputtered for months amid clashes between each side's loyalists, which have killed 35 people, but the fact that the two leaders were meeting hinted that an agreement might be finally at hand.

Abbas said Friday if the latest round of talks fails, he will call early elections, but acknowledged that Hamas could emerge the victor once again.We say either there is a (unity) government or elections, he said after a meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Elections don't mean we want to throw Hamas into the sea. It has been elected and can be elected again.The financial transfer to Abbas was part of tax money Israel collects for the Palestinian Authority by mutual agreement. Israel halted payments when Hamas won parliamentary elections and set up its Cabinet.Abbas aide Saeb Erekat welcomed the payment, but said it still only represented about 25 percent of Palestinian revenues Israel is holding.We need it badly, and we consider this a step in the right direction, hoping that the whole lot of money withheld will be transferred to the Palestinian Authority, he said.Israel, the United States and the EU define Hamas as a terrorist group because of its suicide bombings against Israelis in the past decade, which have killed hundreds. Since the group took office, the international community has frozen foreign aid that kept the Palestinian Authority afloat since it was created in 1994.

An official in Olmert's office said the funds transferred Thursday were paid directly to Abbas for use in humanitarian efforts and to boost his security force. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been announced, said Israel was satisfied by assurances that the money would not go to the Hamas-controlled Finance Ministry.

The scheduled Abbas-Mashaal meeting would be their first in years. Abbas' Fatah and Hamas are bitter enemies their efforts to form a unity government must overcome deep ideological and political divides.Only the hardships caused by the aid cutoff have pushed them together, forcing them to look for formulas both could live with while satisfying Western demands that the Palestinian government recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept previous peace accords. So far, Hamas has refused. In Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees, a small local militant group linked to last year's abduction of an Israeli soldier, said it intended to carry out more kidnappings to pressure Israel for the release of what it said were at least 144 bodies of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army and buried around Israel. Kidnapping soldiers will be an effective way, said Abu Mujahed, a spokesman for the group, adding that seizing the bodies of dead soldiers to trade for the Palestinian remains was also an option. The PRC is one of three militant groups that tunneled into Israel and captured Cpl. Gilad Shalit in a June 25 raid near the Gaza Strip. Shalit has not been seen since then, but he is believed to be alive, and Egypt has been trying to broker his release in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

Peretz Reneges on Promise to Build Maskiot
By Hana Levi Julian (INN) JAN 19,07

Refugees from the destroyed Gush Katif town of Shirat HaYam received another slap in the face late Thursday after Defense Minister Amir Peretz decided to nix plans for their new home in Maskiot.

The news came in a phone call Thursday afternoon from Defense Minister Amir Peretz’s assistant, Yaakov Bachar, to the head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council, Duby Tal.Minister Peretz has decided to freeze all building in Maskiot until further notice, said Bachar. He did not say why, nor did he say when or if that decision might change.A group of Jews forcibly evicted from their seaside homes have been waiting to move into new homes and rebuild their community in Maskiot for more than a year and a half. The site, established in 1981 as an IDF base, was built with the specific intention of eventually becoming a town for civilians. At present, a handful of families already live in permanent homes in Maskiot, as well as 50 students who attend a pre-military academy there.In an exclusive interview with Arutz-7, Tal said the Regional Council immediately appealed to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to overturn Peretz’s decision. We requested that the Prime Minister intervene in this matter, he said. Olmert was set to make an official announcement on the start of construction at the site next week, according to a report by Channel 2 TV news.We hope the prime minister will keep his word, Tal told Arutz-7 Friday morning.Peretz did not honor his own promise, he added.

Government sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, claimed that Peretz had notified the Council two weeks ago of the freeze, saying he wanted to re-evaluate the project.The quiet notice came despite a public statement by Peretz on December 26th that he had given the final go-ahead for the project after a 14-month process in which the plans advanced through six different phases of approval.

Tal said he believed the decision to nix the community was connected with the upcoming Labor party primary elections scheduled to be held in May.It is a very significant statement that the Minister of Defense is freezing approvals that were already given, he commented. It is a statement about the value of settlement in general, said Tal. Peretz must be against settlement in the Jordan Valley, he added, pointing out that the embattled defense minister is facing a tough fight to retain his leadership of the Labor party in the primary elections scheduled for May. He wants left-wing support said Tal.

Decision May Affect Jordan as Well

Jordan’s Hashemite King Abdullah II may have his own feelings on the matter. The Jordanian monarch expressed adamant opposition two months ago to any peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority that would cause an influx of Palestinian Arabs into the Hashemite kingdom.The king said during a speech to the Jordanian parliament in November that the Israel-PA conflict is the core issue in the Middle East – but added that he would not accept settlement that would include PA residents moving to Jordan.Abdullah would much rather see a Jewish settlement on his border, asserted the Jordan Valley Regional Council head. A hundred percent, he does not want to have to deal with the Palestinian Authority on the Jordanian border.

U.S. Overpowers Israeli Government Approval

The day after Peretz announced his intention to go through with the project, the U.S. State Department registered its objections to the plan, saying it violated the terms of the Road Map plan. U.S. State Department spokesman Gonzo Gallegos told reporters that Israel should meet its Road Map obligations and avoid taking steps that could be viewed as predetermining the outcome of final status negotiations.Olmert spokeswoman Miri Eisen immediately responded to the complaint, saying the new houses do not violate the Road Map plan as it calls only for a halt to new communities in Judea and Samaria. The American-sponsored plan does not refer to existing communities nor to those that had already been approved.But within days after Gallegos’ statement, sources in the Defense Ministry were warning that Peretz was reconsidering his final approval despite Olmert’s clear public support for the plan.

One week later, according to a government source, Peretz did indeed officially notify the Council that he was freezing the development of Maskiot in order to re-evaluate the plan.As to what will now happen to the residents of Shirat HaYam, the Defense Ministry source had no comment.

Israeli Promises to the PA Rate Higher

Meanwhile, Israel opened a new passage for goods produced by the area’s Palestinian Authority farmers on January 10th despite opposition from Jewish residents in the area who were concerned with its effect on security and tourism.The new Bezek crossing came as part of goodwill gestures promised by the prime minister to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during their summit on December 23rd – three days before the final approval for the Maskiot community was announced.The newly-built passage in the Jordan Valley allows direct transportation of agricultural produce from Jericho and elsewhere in the Jordan Valley to northern Israel.

Previously, trucks had to make a detour through Jenin and were unable to use Highway 90, a central traffic artery running from Eilat to Metulla through the Jordan Valley. Jewish residents pointed out that Highway 90 is a national road. We as heads of the local authorities that are the main users of the road…ask and demand that you not operate the terminal, they wrote in a letter sent to Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh.Differentiating between the Jordan Valley and other areas of Judea and Samaria, and limiting Palestinian traffic gives more security to the residents of the Jordan Valley and those passing through it. The opening of the crossing will increase the number of Palestinians in the area and raise the danger level….the operation of the terminal will increase this feeling and will prevent innocent travelers and foreign tourism, which is so needed in our regions, from passing through it. The residents of our regions make their living from this tourism, and such severe harm to it is unacceptable, they objected.Meanwhile, the new crossing raises the standard of living of Arab farmers in the area, who grow mostly tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, dates and spices, by lowering transportation costs and increasing their profits.Further Jewish development in the region has now been halted with Peretz’s decision to freeze Maskiot.

The Next Step

The Jordan Valley Regional Council is now faced with two options, said Tal. First, we are considering filing a petition with the High Court of Justice to freeze the defense minister’s decision to freeze the construction.He noted that it was essential that all opposition to the decision be carried out in a legal manner. We are a legal body, he said, and we cannot act in a manner that contravenes the law.That doesn’t mean that residents of the Jordan Valley will remain silent, he added, noting that the area’s communities would act together as one hand to fight the freeze.Residents here are talking about organizing protests against Peretz’s decision, he said. There are advantages and disadvantages to such a move and we need to consider all our options before taking the next step.

PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS

JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME

ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).

WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Religious Persecution Growing Worldwide, Group Says
Payton Hoegh - CNSNews.com JAN 19,07

At a time when religious persecution prompts growing international concern, Christian advocates in the U.S. marked Religious Freedom Day Tuesday by drawing attention to those who do not have the freedoms enjoyed by Americans.However, some voiced concern that a bill currently before Congress may dilute religious freedom at home too, by threatening free speech under the guise of outlawing hate crimes.Last week, President Bush declared Jan. 16 to be Religious Freedom Day, urging Americans to continue to promote the importance of religious freedom at home and abroad.Jan. 16 is the day in 1786 when Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom became law.In a statement marking the day, the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) called on Americans Tuesday to be vigilant.Too often in this post-9/11 world, human rights and religious freedom, are sacrificed on the altar of political correctness, diplomacy, and oversensitivity masquerading as tolerance, said IRD's Religious Liberty Director Faith McDonnell.In a world where darkness is increasingly being called light and evil called good, we must insure that this injustice is
revealed, she said.McDonnell said every day brought new reports of religious persecution from around the world.Millions are discriminated against, beaten and tortured, imprisoned, and killed because they follow Jesus Christ or are members of other minority religions, she said.As Americans celebrate their own freedoms, McDonnell said, we must ask God for mercy and justice for those who are persecuted for their faith.

According to a recent report by persecution watchdog Release International, 250 million Christians will be persecuted over the course of 2007.The U.K.-based group said most persecution takes place in parts of the world under Islam, Communism, Hinduism and Buddhism, but that persecution is growing fastest of all in the Islamic world.Governments in even moderate Muslim countries often fail to safeguard the rights of their Christian minorities, Release International said. Abuses suffered by Christians include kidnapping, forced conversion, imprisonment, church destruction, torture, rape and execution.The U.S. government does its part to fight religious persecution through the work of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Set up under the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act, the independent panel compiles a list of the most flagrant offenders of religious freedom. Violators designated as Countries of Particular Concern (CPCs) are eligible for U.S.government sanctions or other action aimed at changing their behavior.Currently, the CPC list comprises Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, Burma, North Korea, Sudan, Eritrea and
Uzbekistan. The State Department removed Vietnam from the list late last year.

Hate crimes concerns

Some Christian advocacy groups worry that religious freedoms may also be at risk in the U.S.Earlier this month Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) reintroduced a hate crimes bill that has failed to pass several times in the past.Focus on the Family Action in a statement Tuesday linked the controversial measure to Religious Freedom Day.America was founded on religious freedom, and our future greatness as a nation depends on it, said Tom Minnery, the organization's senior vice president of government and public policy.Minnery said the hate crimes bill threatens that future by not aggressively prosecuting criminal acts, but by giving Washington the power to decide what constitutes criminal thought.He said in some states similar legislation had been used to punish peaceful demonstrators who have made politically incorrect statements. Minnery cited a 2004 case in Pennsylvania, when 11 Christians were arrested and five charged under a state hate crimes law after protesting against a homosexual event.A spokeswoman for Jackson-Lee said Tuesday the lawmaker had not issued any statement on her bill.According to the text, the incidence of violence motivated by the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability of the victim poses a serious national problem.It argues that violence of this type disrupts the tranquility and safety of communities and is deeply divisive and says existing federal law is inadequate to address this problem.All original CNSNews.com material, copyright 1998-2007 Cybercast News Service.

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.

One third of fish species in Yellow River dead By Clifford Coonan in Beijing Published: 19 January 2007

Human encroachment, pollution, overfishing and dam-building have killed one third of fish species in the Yellow River, China's second-longest waterway.

Its increasingly desperate plight is also threatening economic growth. The mighty Yellow River once made its away along 3,395 miles through nine provinces, supplying water to more than 150 million people and watering 15 per cent of China's scarce agricultural land.Where once the river teemed with many different types of fish, it now is a graveyard. The Yellow River used to be host to more than 150 species of fish, but a third of them are now extinct, including precious ones, an official from the Agriculture Ministry told the People's Daily newspaper.The basin was the cradle of Chinese civilisation more than 5,000 years ago, but the river's fate is closely linked to China's future because without water, economic development in the north of the country cannot continue at its current breakneck pace.The river runs from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau in the west across the parched northern provinces of China, through the flood plains of Shaanxi, where it passes through the coal district picking up hefty quantities of pollutants, and into Henan and Shandong provinces.The Yellow River was known as China's sorrow because it would regularly burst its banks and flood surrounding farmland. It is sometimes called the world's muddiest river because of the amount of silt it carries.These days environmental degradation means the river often runs dry before it reaches the sea at the Gulf of Bohai. Its flow hit historic lows for 10 months last year. Fishing catches have fallen by 40 per cent.It can be mainly blamed on hydropower projects that block fish migration routes, declining water flow caused by scarce rainfall, overfishing and severe pollution, the ministry official told the newspaper.What fish there are in the river are often inedible. In November, parts of eastern China banned the sale of turbot after carcinogenic residues were discovered inside some of the species.Last month engineers diverted water from the Yellow River into Baiyangdian Lake the pearl of north China and the largest freshwater lake in the northern region as part of efforts to restore the river's ecological functions.

Recent years have seen a frenzy of dam-building in China as the country seeks to shift away from dirty, expensive coal-fired power plants towards hydroelectricity. The Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze, which opened last year, is the world's biggest. Hundreds of smaller projects are being built on other rivers, including the Yellow River.

Dams also help to check flooding during the rainy seasons.Controlling the flooding has long been a problem for the Chinese. At some points along its course, the Yellow River's bed is 15 metres higher than the surrounding fields because of the constant building and rebuilding of dykes along its route. Chinese history celebrates a man called Da Yu, who mobilised villagers after a flood to build a dyke and drainage canals, before sinking an ox in the river to tame the flow.Government experts acknowledge the harm that dams can do to the environment but say that the economic benefits and the environmentally positive aspects of hydropower outweigh the negative impact caused to the surrounding land.As you travel along China's rivers, you come across factories, seemingly at random, pumping out poisonous clouds and filling the water with pollutants. Pollution now means that more than two thirds of the water is undrinkable in the Yellow River.The government says it has tried to curb pollution by investing in waste treatment plants and closing major polluting plants along the river.This week the Agriculture Ministry set up an integrated fishing resources committee to save the river from further problems by introducing protection plans and saying it would tackle serious incidents.The Yangtze, too, is having problems with fish. Last month it was feared that the the white-fin dolphin had become extinct.

This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
January 18, 2007

Dear Friend of The Fellowship,

Melanie Phillips is a Jewish writer from England. She is a bold, outspoken advocate for Israel, and a strong voice warning of the dangers posed to the West by radical Islam.During a recent visit to Israel, Mrs. Phillips was interviewed by The Jerusalem Post. The interviewer told her of recent statistics released by the Jewish Agency for Israel, which showed that the number of Jews making aliyah (emigrating to Israel) from Great Britain had risen by nearly half in 2006.Mrs. Phillips' response to this news is worth noting.

I'm not surprised by the fact that it has jumped, she said, because Britain's Jews are beginning to think in an increasing number that there is no future for the new generation of Jews in Britain.One of the main factors leading to this, she went on to explain, is the growth of radical Islam in Great Britain. A disturbingly high number of British Muslims have adopted this hate-filled ideology. They are open in their contempt for the West, Jews, and Israel, and use the freedoms granted them by British law - freedom of speech, and the freedom to criticize the government - to attack the very society of which they are privileged to be a part. Those attacks have, in some cases, gone beyond words - the terrorists who bombed London's transit system in 2005 were, in fact, British-born Muslims.

This is a sobering reality. The British Jews considering aliyah are doing so not simply for the joy of returning to their biblical homeland, or to escape poverty. It is because they recognize the rise of a culture hostile to the values they hold dear both as Jews and as Westerners. They fear for their children's future. And if this can happen in Great Britain, what about the rest of Europe, where similar demographic and ideological shifts are occurring?

Growing hostility toward Jews in Great Britain is just one other example of why The Fellowship is committed to supporting aliyah through our On Wings of Eagles program, which brings Jews to Israel from countries of distress around the world. While some Jewish people have the means to make aliyah, many do not and it is only through the help of generous partners like you that The Fellowship is able to give those in need the opportunity to do so. Your support of aliyah is one of the best ways to ensure the survival of the next generation of Jews, some of whom may be growing up in countries where large numbers of the population are hostile to their very existence. And I would add that aliyah is one of the best ways to strengthen the State of Israel.Your gift today will help fulfill the biblical promise to gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered (Ezekiel 28:25), and ensure that Jews young and old alike are given the chance to live freely as Jews in Israel.

With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

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)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
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.

09:30 GMT, Jan 19, 2007
Iran, Syria, UN should assist in Iraq settlement - Lavrov

MOSCOW. Jan 19 (Interfax) Iran, Syria and the UN should be involved in the Iraq settlement process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

We hope our U.S. partners have not said their final word on the Iraq settlement,where there has been a long-time need for the involvement of the UN, and all Iraq's neighbors, including Iran and Syria, and leading regional organizations, to support the national reconciliation of all Iraqi people, Lavrov said in an article published in the Moscow News newspaper on Friday.The realistic adjustment of the course of the coalition in Iraq might help implement the common objective of Washington's and Tehran's interests in the country, he said.This might mark a beginning of moves towards normalizing U.S.-Iranian relations, which in its turn would create a favorable background for the settlement of the situation surrounding the Iran's nuclear program, he said. EKk pr la