1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Maritimes feel blast as storm roars east. 3-The Nation's Weather. 4-Snow, snow showers Northeast, Appalachians. 5-Melbourne hit record high temp Friday. 6-PURIM SUN MARCH 04,07. 7-Pakistan test-fires nuclear capable missile. 8-MK Dotan: Israel interested in closer ties with EU.
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 = Mon Mar 5 12:05 AM EDT
MAR 04,07
MAP 3.1 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.8 NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 2.7 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.0 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 4.6 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 3.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.2 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 4.3 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAR 03,07
MAP 2.7 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.8 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 4.6 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.8 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.5 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 OWEN FRACTURE ZONE REGION
MAP 4.6 OWEN FRACTURE ZONE REGION
MAP 3.2 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 5.0 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.8 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 3.3 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.0 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.1 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 3.0 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN ALASKA
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.
Maritimes feel blast as storm roars east
Saturday, March 3, 2007 CBC News
Atlantic Canada was still dealing with the effects of a major winter storm on Saturday that swept across Eastern Canada this week.
A low pressure system was moving over southeastern New Brunswick on its way over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Environment Canada said.The system is bringing with it snow and ice pellets, as well as winds in the northwestern part of Nova Scotia reaching up to 140 km/h.As the storm moves across Newfoundland, the majority of the snow will be moving across the southern part of the island.The southern coast will get most snow, said CBC meteorologist, Teresa Fisico. The winds will be very strong this morning easing through the day and into tomorrow.Meanwhile, areas of southern Quebec and central and eastern Ontario remain in cleanup mode from the storm and will see some lingering effects with flurries today.
The storm brought with it a punishing combination of heavy snow, freezing rain and powerful winds that resulted in downed power lines and trees.At one point some 80,000 Ontario Hydro customers were without power.
The provincial utility said on its website that the storm knocked down wires, trees and more than 400 poles in the Bruce Peninsula and southwestern and eastern Ontario.Power officials said Saturday it had restored power to an estimated 70,000 customers.We're doing really well, Hydro One spokesman Daffyd Roderick told CBC.ca.We've got about 10,000 customers who are still without electricity. The crews are going to make more progress today.As the weekend continues, Roderick said crews may be hampered in places by how much snow has fallen.Some people may wait into Monday, he said.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, for The Associated Press
Sun Mar 4, 5:00 AM ET
After a week of heavy storms in parts of the United States, the weekend will end rather tranquilly, as no major outbreaks of precipitation are expected. The Great Lakes region could get snow showers, as a low pressure system moves out of the Northeast. Parts of Florida could also get scattered rain.
Temperatures are expected to be in the 30s in the Northeast, and in the 20s and 30s in the Upper Midwest.Conditions throughout the West are expected to be dry. Temperatures in the Northwest are expected to be in the 30s and 40s, while warmer temperatures are forecast for California, rising into the 80s in some areas.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Saturday ranged from a low of minus 25
degrees at West Yellowstone, Mont., to a high of 90 degrees at Miami, Fla.
Snow, snow showers Northeast, Appalachians B. Bernard, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MARCH 04,07
Snow and snow showers reach from portions of northern New England southward into the southern Appalachians this afternoon. Most of the snowfall, generally light, is concentrated in New York state, western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. Snow advisories are posted for portions of New York's Adirondacks and Vermont's Green Mountains where another inch or two is expected by evening. In the West, avalanche warnings, due to recent heavy snows, remain in effect for the mountains of northern Utah. Freeze warnings for tonight have been issued for parts of southern Texas, southern South Carolina, southeastern Georgia and northern Florida.
OZONE DEPLETION
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Melbourne hit record high temp Friday
BY SUSANNE CERVENKA MARCH 04,07
A record high for Melbourne set Friday afternoon was followed up by a rainy parade.
Temperatures shot up to 92 degrees at about 3 p.m. at Melbourne International Airport, breaking the previous record of 87 degrees set in 1991, said Matt Bragaw, forecaster with the National Weather Services in Melbourne.It was a pretty hefty break, he said. The record temperature was caused by a strong southwest airflow, Bragaw said. The wind blew across the entire peninsula, picking up the warm land air.But don’t expect a repeat. The cold front will not push through the Space Coast very quickly, and the dreary weather is expected through Sunday, Bragaw said. Sunday’s highs are expected to be in the upper 60s, he said. The sun should return Monday and Tuesday, but the highs will still remain in the upper 60s and lower 70s, respectively. Melbourne did not have any severe weather over Friday night, Bragaw said. Only a trace of rain was recorded at the airport, which will do little to quell the area’s dry spell, he said.
Brushfires should not be a concern today with the high humidity and clouds keeping the temperatures down, Bragaw said.That could change as the weather dries up at the start of the week, he said.
Residents should take extra caution with flames during any dry spell, he said.Contact Cervenka at 321-360-1018 or scervenka@floridatoday.com
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)
PURIM SUN MARCH 04,07
Today In Jewish History 14 Adar
In 355 BCE, the Jews celebrated their successful defeat of Haman's anti-Semitic mobs, an event we commemorate today with the Purim holiday.We read the Megillah (Scroll of Esther), dress up in costumes, and celebrate how the Jews of Persia narrowly escaped annihilation, thanks to the bravery of Esther and Mordechai. In Shushan, the Persian capital, however, the battle lasted one additional day and Purim was not celebrated until the 15th of Adar. Thus today in Jerusalem, Purim is celebrated one day later than the rest of the world.Adar 14 is also the day in 1912 that Henrietta Szold founded Hadassah, the women's Zionist organization. In 1892, even before Herzl's activities, Szold and her father formed the first Zionist society in Baltimore, and Hadassah was her idea to mobilize American Jewish women in support of Israel. In 1920, Szold made aliyah, wher she supervised the opening of Hadassah medical units, playgrounds and public health programs. At age 73, Szold, as head of the Youth Aliyah Department, traveled to Germany where she worked to save Jewish youth destined for Hitler's ovens. Szold is buried in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives. Today Hadassah operates the largest hospital in Jerusalem, and its 300,000 members make it one of the largest women's organizations in the world.
Also on this day, in 1942, in the town of Zdunska Wola in Nazi-occupied Poland, 10 Jews were hanged by Hitler's SS, in a sadistic parody of events in the Book of Esther. To add to this debacle, the Gestapo ordered all Jews out of their homes in order to witness the hangings. On Purim day the following year, 1943, there was another Purim massacre in the Polish town of Piotrkow, where 10 Jews were executed. Hitler harbored a venomous hatred for the holiday of Purim: When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, he banned the reading of the Book of Esther, an ordered that all synagogues be closed and barred on Purim day. Unless Germany is victorious, he proclaimed, Jewry could then celebrate the destruction of Europe by a second triumphant Purim Festival. Incredibly, when Nazi officer Julius Streicher ascended the gallows to be hanged at Nuremberg, he shouted, Purimfest 1946.
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.
Pakistan test-fires nuclear capable missile
Malaysia Sun - Saturday 3rd March, 2007 (IANS)
Islamabad, March 3 (Xinhua) Pakistan Saturday test-fired a short-range surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, a military statement said.The Hatf-II Abdali missile with a range of 200 km was launched from an unnamed location, said a statement by Pakistan's military Inter-Services Public Relations.The statement said that Hatf-II is an indigenously developed short-range ballistic missile, capable of carrying all types of weapons including, nuclear warheads.
Abdali was last time test-fired in February 2006. According to a 2005 agreement, Pakistan and India give each other prior notification of their missile tests. The two countries have been routinely carrying out missile tests since they conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests in May 1998.
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).
Mar. 3, 2007 22:26
MK Dotan: Israel interested in closer ties with EU
By SHEERA CLAIRE FRENKEL
MK Amira Dotan told European Union commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner on Thursday that Israel is interested in becoming more involved in the EU. Dotan, a Kadima MK who chairs the Knesset delegation to the Parliament of the European Union, wrote to Ferrero-Waldner - who visited Israel earlier this week - expressing her hope for a stronger partnership.I am writing to you in light of your comments to The Jerusalem Post regarding Israel's ability to do more to move closer to the European Union, wrote Dotan. I share in your thinking that more can be done to maximize the potential inherent in the Israel-EU potential (sic) by way of the European Neighborhood Policy and the EU-Israel Action Plan… I view your comments as an outstretched hand from the EU and I am committed to take the necessary measures to turn words into actions.Dotan also said that there was a natural base for partnership between the EU and Israel. The Europeans and Israelis are developing themselves in similar ways. Their dilemmas are similar to ours, said Dotan. I wanted to make sure [Ferrero-Waldner] heard my voice... There is a sense that Israel has not done as much as it should to be involved in the EU.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Sunday, March 04, 2007
HAMONGOG ARAB BURIAL SITE
I Wonndered how the Israelis could possibly think George W Bush is Gog in Ezekiel 38 and 39. Well I just found out how in this article. We know Gog is Russia, but the Israelis take the North to mean the United states and since someone came up with the word George for Gog, they just automatically believe who ever made it up. And it obviously stuck, because all the Israelis i talk to Believe George W Bush is Gog and not Russia.
How was Gog pronounced
A key to the mystery of what or who is Gog, might be to know the way that this name was pronounced at the days of Ezekiel, in ancient Hebrew.Gog is written in Hebrew with 3 letters. First is Gimmel with Dagesh, second Holam Male, and third Gimmel with no Dagesh. The Babylonian Jews have the longest tradition of the way of reading the Bible in the synagogues. When they read Gog, it is pronounced Gogh, which sounds in English like Gorr (gh like Arabic for Baghdad).
We can also try another way to see how it was pronounced. On the 7th century the Islamic religion arose in Arabia. In their book they used many Jewish phrases. They probably pronounced it in the way that Jews used to pronounce it back then. Gog is called in the book of Islam: Joj.So we have JOJ and we have GORR. Someone combined the two possible ways, and created the name GEORGE.
But this is a big change from Gog.Another interesting thing is that the name of Gog does appear one more time in the Bible, but in a rare place. In 1 Chronicles (5,1):Sons of Joel: Shmayah his son, Gog his son, Shim'i his son.
COULD THIS STORY BELOW BECOME FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECY THAT SAYS THE NAME OF THE PLACE WERE THE FIVE-SIXTH OF THE RUSSIAN-ARAB ARMIES WILL BE BURIED WILL BE NAMED HAMONGOG.
EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
IF THIS PROPHECY IS COMING TO PASS THE NAME OF THE SETTLEMENTS WILL END UP BEING NAMED HAMONGOG, THE ARABS WILL BE NAMING THEIR OWN DEATHWISH BURIAL PLACE. IF HAMAS DOES NAME IT HAMONGOG WE KNOW THAT THE MARCH TO ISRAEL CAN NOT BE TO FAR BEHIND.
THE 2 PLACES THE ARABS WANT TO RENAME ALREADY HAVE A SLIGHT RING TO HAMONGOG, Kfar Yam - Tripoli (a city in north Lebanon), Morag - Baghdad
Mar. 2, 2007 4:39 - Hamas may rename settlement sites
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government is planning to rename the sites of former Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip after famous Islamic battles and some former Arab cities inside Israel, as well as Arab capitals. The move, which comes on the eve of the formation of a joint Hamas-Fatah coalition, has drawn criticism from Fatah representatives, who say the outgoing government does not have the authority to make such an important decision. A document obtained by The Jerusalem Post shows that Hamas leaders have made plans to rename at least 20 settlements that were evacuated in August 2005. The document, drafted by Palestinian Authority Agriculture Minister Muhammed al-Agha of Hamas, will soon be brought to the Palestinian Legislative Council for approval.
For Morag - read Baghdad, for Elei Sinai - read Acre
Agha said the decision to rename the former settlements reflects our love for the liberated land. He said the names he and his staff chose mostly express Arab dignity and pride. He added that the decision was also an expression of gratitude to all Palestinians who sacrificed their lives to drive Israel out of the Gaza Strip. Fatah officials in the Gaza Strip, however, said they were opposed to Hamas's initiative, pointing out that the Islamic movement did not have the right to make such a decision without consulting with other Palestinian factions. The decision is unacceptable, a senior Fatah operative in the Gaza Strip told the Post. The Hamas government is trying to create new facts on the ground as if they are alone out there. Who gave them the right to take such a crucial decision and how come they didn't consult with anyone else?
Earlier this week, the Ministry of Agriculture fired hundreds of Palestinian guards who were working at the sites of the former settlements. Fatah spokesmen claimed the move was politically motivated and that Hamas was seeking to replace the dismissed workers with Hamas men.
For Morag - read Baghdad, for Elei Sinai - read Acre
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The Hamas settlement-renaming document lists 20 former Jewish settlements and Israeli-controlled areas in the Gaza Strip and suggests they be renamed immediately.
Following are some of the proposed changes:
• Erez - Qana (the south Lebanese village where more than 100 people were killed by Israeli missiles during Operation Grapes of Wrath more than a decade ago)
• Dugit - Badr (a place in Saudi Arabia where a key battle took place between Prophet Muhammad and his rivals. The battle was seen as a turning point in Muhammad's struggle against the Meccan Quraish tribe. The battle has been passed down in Islamic history as a decisive victory attributable to divine intervention or the genius of Muhammad.)
• Netzer Hazani - Hittin (the place where the battle took place in 1187 between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the forces of the Ayyubid dynasty under the renowned Muslim warrior Saladin. The battle enabled the Muslims to regain control of Jerusalem from the Christians.)
• Neveh Dekalim - Al-Karamah (a village in the lower Jordan Valley that was the site of a battle between the IDF and Fatah. The Arabs describe it as the first Arab victory over Israel after the Six Day War in 1967.)
• Kfar Yam - Tripoli (a city in north Lebanon)
• Morag - Baghdad
• Kfar Darom - Castel
• Bnei Atzmon - Safed
• Nisanit - Nahawand (The Battle of Nahawand (Niharvand) gave the Arabs a final victory over the Persians and ended the Sassanian dynasty that ruled Persia for four centuries.)
• Slav - Damascus
• Elei Sinai - Acre
- K.A.T.
How was Gog pronounced
A key to the mystery of what or who is Gog, might be to know the way that this name was pronounced at the days of Ezekiel, in ancient Hebrew.Gog is written in Hebrew with 3 letters. First is Gimmel with Dagesh, second Holam Male, and third Gimmel with no Dagesh. The Babylonian Jews have the longest tradition of the way of reading the Bible in the synagogues. When they read Gog, it is pronounced Gogh, which sounds in English like Gorr (gh like Arabic for Baghdad).
We can also try another way to see how it was pronounced. On the 7th century the Islamic religion arose in Arabia. In their book they used many Jewish phrases. They probably pronounced it in the way that Jews used to pronounce it back then. Gog is called in the book of Islam: Joj.So we have JOJ and we have GORR. Someone combined the two possible ways, and created the name GEORGE.
But this is a big change from Gog.Another interesting thing is that the name of Gog does appear one more time in the Bible, but in a rare place. In 1 Chronicles (5,1):Sons of Joel: Shmayah his son, Gog his son, Shim'i his son.
COULD THIS STORY BELOW BECOME FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECY THAT SAYS THE NAME OF THE PLACE WERE THE FIVE-SIXTH OF THE RUSSIAN-ARAB ARMIES WILL BE BURIED WILL BE NAMED HAMONGOG.
EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
IF THIS PROPHECY IS COMING TO PASS THE NAME OF THE SETTLEMENTS WILL END UP BEING NAMED HAMONGOG, THE ARABS WILL BE NAMING THEIR OWN DEATHWISH BURIAL PLACE. IF HAMAS DOES NAME IT HAMONGOG WE KNOW THAT THE MARCH TO ISRAEL CAN NOT BE TO FAR BEHIND.
THE 2 PLACES THE ARABS WANT TO RENAME ALREADY HAVE A SLIGHT RING TO HAMONGOG, Kfar Yam - Tripoli (a city in north Lebanon), Morag - Baghdad
Mar. 2, 2007 4:39 - Hamas may rename settlement sites
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government is planning to rename the sites of former Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip after famous Islamic battles and some former Arab cities inside Israel, as well as Arab capitals. The move, which comes on the eve of the formation of a joint Hamas-Fatah coalition, has drawn criticism from Fatah representatives, who say the outgoing government does not have the authority to make such an important decision. A document obtained by The Jerusalem Post shows that Hamas leaders have made plans to rename at least 20 settlements that were evacuated in August 2005. The document, drafted by Palestinian Authority Agriculture Minister Muhammed al-Agha of Hamas, will soon be brought to the Palestinian Legislative Council for approval.
For Morag - read Baghdad, for Elei Sinai - read Acre
Agha said the decision to rename the former settlements reflects our love for the liberated land. He said the names he and his staff chose mostly express Arab dignity and pride. He added that the decision was also an expression of gratitude to all Palestinians who sacrificed their lives to drive Israel out of the Gaza Strip. Fatah officials in the Gaza Strip, however, said they were opposed to Hamas's initiative, pointing out that the Islamic movement did not have the right to make such a decision without consulting with other Palestinian factions. The decision is unacceptable, a senior Fatah operative in the Gaza Strip told the Post. The Hamas government is trying to create new facts on the ground as if they are alone out there. Who gave them the right to take such a crucial decision and how come they didn't consult with anyone else?
Earlier this week, the Ministry of Agriculture fired hundreds of Palestinian guards who were working at the sites of the former settlements. Fatah spokesmen claimed the move was politically motivated and that Hamas was seeking to replace the dismissed workers with Hamas men.
For Morag - read Baghdad, for Elei Sinai - read Acre
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The Hamas settlement-renaming document lists 20 former Jewish settlements and Israeli-controlled areas in the Gaza Strip and suggests they be renamed immediately.
Following are some of the proposed changes:
• Erez - Qana (the south Lebanese village where more than 100 people were killed by Israeli missiles during Operation Grapes of Wrath more than a decade ago)
• Dugit - Badr (a place in Saudi Arabia where a key battle took place between Prophet Muhammad and his rivals. The battle was seen as a turning point in Muhammad's struggle against the Meccan Quraish tribe. The battle has been passed down in Islamic history as a decisive victory attributable to divine intervention or the genius of Muhammad.)
• Netzer Hazani - Hittin (the place where the battle took place in 1187 between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the forces of the Ayyubid dynasty under the renowned Muslim warrior Saladin. The battle enabled the Muslims to regain control of Jerusalem from the Christians.)
• Neveh Dekalim - Al-Karamah (a village in the lower Jordan Valley that was the site of a battle between the IDF and Fatah. The Arabs describe it as the first Arab victory over Israel after the Six Day War in 1967.)
• Kfar Yam - Tripoli (a city in north Lebanon)
• Morag - Baghdad
• Kfar Darom - Castel
• Bnei Atzmon - Safed
• Nisanit - Nahawand (The Battle of Nahawand (Niharvand) gave the Arabs a final victory over the Persians and ended the Sassanian dynasty that ruled Persia for four centuries.)
• Slav - Damascus
• Elei Sinai - Acre
- K.A.T.
MARKETS DOWN STILL
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Storm blankets Quebec, aims for Maritimes. 3-National Weather Service Preliminary Data - EF Scale 3 Tornado Hit Enterprise. 4-Widespread storms cause deaths in 3 states. 5-Dozens die in Indonesia landslides. 6-EU promises to rally efforts to push forward Mideast peace process. 7-Israel criticizes Russian-Syrian arms deal. 8-Israel training for war with Iran, Syria? 9-Israel Celebrates Purim Holiday Under Tight Security. 10-Stocks fall amid rise in yen; Dow posts worst performance in more than 4 years.
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 Mar 4 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 03,07
MAP 2.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
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MAP 5.1 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
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MAP 3.9 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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MAP 5.9 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
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MAP 3.1 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
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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.
Storm blankets Quebec, aims for Maritimes
Friday, March 2, 2007 - CBC News
A winter storm blamed for at least two deaths and commuter chaos in southern Ontario is bringing high winds and heavy snowfall to Quebec on Friday as it sweeps toward the Maritimes.
Environment Canada has issued a winter storm warning for regions stretching from Ottawa into southern Quebec as well as all of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.The problem with this winter storm is we've seen everything ,snow, freezing rain, rain, ice pellets and high winds, said CBC meteorologist Nick Czernkovich.The storm, which knocked out power to roughly 80,000 people in Ontario overnight, brought 27 centimetres of snow to the Montreal area in just 12 hours, Czernkovich said.Friday was a snow day for most students in the greater Montreal region, as all major school boards called off classes for the day. Many flights were cancelled at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.The combination of heavy snow, freezing rain and winds brought down power lines and trees, Czernkovich added.We all look at the snowfall, but we can't underestimate the effect of winds.Part of the storm is sheering off toward northern Ontario as the main body heads eastward and is expected to hit the Atlantic provinces later on Friday.In Nova Scotia, high winds were forecast for the shoreline late Friday, with some areas expected to be hit with gusts of up to 100 km/h.
Thousands without power
Meanwhile, across Ontario, thousands of residents woke up Friday morning in homes without power.Hydro One spokesman Daffyd Roderick told CBC Newsworld about 80,000 households and businesses had no electricity.Hydro crews were alerted to 25 snapped poles on Thursday afternoon, but the main obstacle facing power crews is gaining access, he said.There's only so much we can do until Mother Nature does her work, and then we can set about repairing … when conditions are safe out there.By Friday afternoon, officials said power had been restored to 40,000 customers.
Meanwhile, police in Toronto closed a downtown section of Front Street after chunks of ice were seen falling from the CN Tower and other buildings.It's like shrapnel when it hits the ground, a police officer told CBC News.
Few parts of southwestern Ont. unscathed
The power failures have affected portions of southwestern Ontario from Strathroy and Walkerton to Newmarket and the GTA.Very few parts are unscathed today, Roderick said, adding the hardest-hit areas may have to wait between three and five days to see the situation restored to normal. Wind gusts of up to 82 km/h were recorded at Toronto Island Airport.Many Ontario roads are flooded or slick with ice, and more freezing rain and snow on Friday could make driving conditions just as treacherous as the previous day, when the intense storm was blamed for the deaths of two children.
Police said the children seven-year-old Anita Hiebert and her six-year-old brother, Pancho died Thursday when a car and a truck collided on an icy, snow-blown road near the town of Listowel, northwest of Kitchener. The children's mother, Christina Hiebert, is in critical condition in a London hospital.Police and tow trucks responded to hundreds of other crashes across southern Ontario, as blowing snow and ice pellets created slippery conditions and poor visibility.
With files from the Canadian Press
National Weather Service Preliminary Data - EF Scale 3 Tornado Hit EnterpriseMarch 2, 2007 05:23 PM EST
ENTERPRISE, Ala., March 2, 2007 -- Bob Goree of the National Weather Service says preliminary indications are that the tornado that ravished the Enterprise area was an EF Scale 3 tornado.
Today we see the intensity of the damage. Now, we're not quite ready to put the new enhanced Fujita Scale value on this. We can tell you the preliminary finding is, it will be at least an EF scale 3. It may become that officially. We're getting some engineering help to hopefully finalize that intensity tomorrow.Goree says the storm was unusual for this part of the deep South. Yesterday's tornado in this area, Enterprise and other areas, over into Georgia were extremely powerful for this area of the country. Usually we see short-lived, smaller tornadoes that affect say one dwelling or more. But to see this school and other areas devastated by this powerful tornado is heartbreaking and really a rare sight fortunately for this area. He says this was an extremely long-lived tornadic super cell which even awed National Weather Service meteorologists.
The size of this storm was incredibly large. We seldom see tornados in the deep Southeast that are 200 yards wide or so. I think some of the video is out there of this storm and it's incredible. On our Doppler radars we rarely again get to see such a powerful storm signature as we did yesterday. Our meteorologists...were in awe of the shape, the structure and the intensity of the rotation in this super cell thunderstorm as it moved into this area.Goree says the new enhanced Fujita Scale is meant to be more practical. He said the earlier scale was more objective and looked more at wind speeds, but the new scale really reflects how bad was the damage whether than some exact wind damage measurement.So what does the National Weather Service look at to make their final determination?
On our new scale we use damage indicators such as trees - the number and percentage of the trees that were snapped, whether the bark is stripped off of the trees, indicators like that to determine what the power of the wind was. He says they also look at the strength of the buildings. This (Enterprise H.S.) is a very strong structure here and we saw some structural failure.Goree says the most powerful center of the vortex...moved through the center of the school and into the parking lot and across the stadium.It's a sad day for us at the National Weather Service...We're always saddened when we see death and injuries in the communities which we serve and we have to redouble our efforts to get people safe in the path of these terrible storms.
Widespread storms cause deaths in 3 states
By BRENDA GOODMAN Published: March 2, 2007
ATLANTA: A violent storm system that stretched nearly 1,000 miles from the Midwest to the Southeast has killed at least 20 people in three states, including 8 who died when what appeared to be a tornado caused the roof to collapse at a high school in Enterprise, Ala. on Thursday, state emergency management officials said.
At least 31 tornados have been reported over the last two days in Missouri, Illinois, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, the National Weather Service reported. The storm system has been blamed for nine deaths in Alabama, two in Georgia and one in Missouri.A tornado apparently touched down early today near the Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, 117 miles south of Atlanta. The storm blew out the hospital's windows, tossed cars into trees and killed at least two people, but the extent of the damage remained unclear.We're still tying to assess everything, the Americus fire chief, Andy Belinc, told The Associated Press early this morning. Georgia's governor declared a state of emergency.Storms continued to lash at the area this morning. The weather service issued a tornado warning for coastal areas of North Carolina. In South Carolina, the Coast Guard prepared to search for six people on a small boat who sent a distress call during the storm, saying they were taking on water off the coast.
Today in Americas
In the Mississippi Delta, a juke joint keeps the blues alive U.S. Army secretary resigns Head of criticized U.S. Army medical center is fired On Thursday, students at Enterprise High School had just been ordered to take cover in hallways when fierce winds bore down around 1 p.m., plunging them into darkness and pounding them with falling debris.
The ceiling part fell on us, and rocks hit me on the back, said Ezekiel Jones, 17, a senior who was in the school gymnasium when the storm struck. I was thinking of my mom, my girlfriend, my sister and my friends. Everybody was screaming.Steven Carter, 16, a junior, said he was in the science wing when the lights went out.It happened fast, Steven said. There wasn't much warning.He said he could smell gas leaking from the Bunsen burners in the classrooms. A lot of kids were trapped, Steven said.Steven said he saw science teachers tending to some of the wounded with first-aid kits salvaged from the wrecked classrooms.Toni J. Kaminski, a spokeswoman for Medical Center Enterprise, said the hospital treated 50 to 60 people.We have seen a myriad of injuries, including a ruptured spleen, head trauma, chest trauma, broken bones, Ms. Kaminski said.Though the high school seems to have taken a direct hit, neighborhoods throughout Enterprise also reported extensive damage.
Jeanne Davis, 55, a clerk at the Army base at nearby Fort Rucker, said she rushed home after the winds stopped to find shingles torn off her roof and a two-by-four driven into the ground in her front yard.
Throughout Enterprise, which has a population of about 21,000 people, cars were upended, trees were snapped and homes flattened, with other reports of injuries coming from the downtown area. A state emergency management spokeswoman, Yasamie Richardson, said that in addition to those killed at the high school, one other person in Enterprise was also killed.Seth Hammett, speaker of the Alabama House, said one person died in Millers Ferry, about 80 miles northwest of Enterprise, where 12 to 15 trailer homes had been destroyed.In Georgia, the storms killed at least nine people and caused an unknown number of injuries, including six deaths in Baker County and two in Americus, Reuters reported, quoting Buzz Weiss, spokesman for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
In Missouri, a 7-year-old girl was killed and four members of her family were injured when a tornado flattened their mobile home near West Plains.Tanya Bricking Leach contributed reporting from Enterprise, Ala., and Maria Newman from New York.
Dozens die in Indonesia landslides
POSTED: 1140 GMT (1940 HKT), March 3, 2007
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Landslides triggered by days of heavy rain killed at least 32 people in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, and scores more were believed to be buried under the mud, officials said.One social affairs ministry employee said he had received reports from amateur radio operators that 65 people had been killed on Flores island. The official, who was speaking on radio station el-Shinta, was not immediately reachable.Roads made inaccessible by a three-day deluge were complicating rescue operations and making compiling definitive tolls of the dead and missing difficult, said Frans Lebu Raya, a senior government official on the remote island.We have not been able to get heavy machinery to the villages, because landslides have also cut off the main road to the area, said Rustam Pakaya, the chief of the Health Department's Crisis Center in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.
Many parts of the road also have collapsed.
Pakaya said he received a fax from the island reporting that landslides early Saturday killed at least 32 people in Cibal and Lambaleda districts, and that 20 people were missing and believed buried.State news agency Antara reported landslides occurring in at least 15 other villages or districts, leaving some houses buried and vehicles damaged. It said roads were blocked in 20 places.Instant noodles, canned fish, cooking oil and emergency tents were being distributed to some districts on the remote island, about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Jakarta, Antara reported.Seasonal downpours cause dozens of deadly landslides and flash floods each year in Indonesia, a vast chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.Last month, floods in Jakarta killed almost 100 people and paralyzed large sections of the city.
EU promises to rally efforts to push Mideast peace MAR 2,07
Benita Ferrero-Waldner,European Commissioner for External Relations and European
Neighbourhood Policy, said here Friday that the European Union (EU) is adamant to rally efforts to push forward the Mideast peace process. Waldner, who arrived here Thursday, made the pledge in a press conference on Friday at the end of her two-day visit to Egypt, the last stop of her four-leg tour that also took her to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. The EU welcomes the Mecca agreement reached recently between the two Palestinian mainstream movements of Fatah and Hamas on the formation of a national unity government, Waldner told the reporters.
The European commissioner noted that she would present a report on the outcome of her regional tour to an EU Foreign Ministers Council meeting, which will be held in Brussels on Monday for talks on the situation in the Mideast. Meanwhile, donor states to the Palestinians will also meet in Brussels on March 13 for talks on means of further backing the Palestinian people, she added. Regarding the EU-Egyptian ties, Waldner denied that the union was seeking to impose reforms or intervene in the Egyptian affairs via the European Neighbourhood policy plan for Egypt. The EU action plan was meant to reinfroce the Egyptian government's program on political, economic and social reforms, she said. Source: Xinhua
Israel criticizes Russian-Syrian arms deal MAR 2,07
TEL AVIV, Israel, March 2 (UPI) Israeli officials Friday criticized Russia for agreeing to provide Syria with advanced missiles that could penetrate Israel's Merkava tanks. The Russian AT-15 anti-tank missiles have a range of 6 kilometers, beyond the Merkavas', and can overcome some of the Israeli measures designed to protect the tanks. Officials are concerned the arms would reach the Lebanese Hezbollah. During last year's war in Lebanon, Russian anti-tank missiles were fired at Israeli tanks and damaged some. The Jerusalem Post Friday quoted Vice Premier Shimon Peres as saying the supply of arms to Syria encouraged Damascus to turn to war.Syria is moving between peace overtures and its temptations to go to war, to which arms supply is an incentive, Peres added. Former Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said that Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly decided to restore Russia's Soviet-empire status, and was playing with fire.The military intelligence Sunday told the Cabinet the Syrians are using Hezbollah, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to fight Israel although Damascus is indicating a desire for a peace process. Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin told the ministers, The prospects for a Syrian-initiated full scale war are low, but the chances it would react militarily to Israeli military moves are high. The Mossad secret service said Syria is trying to improve its defensive military capability and is more ready to take risks and retaliate with force to Israeli moves. In the past, Israel sent F-15s over President Bashar Assad's home in northern Syria to signal to him to stop aiding militant groups that attack Israel.
Israel training for war with Iran, Syria?
Palestinians claim army conducted exercises in West Bank city
March 2, 2007 By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com
TEL AVIV – Israel this week conducted military training exercises in a Palestinian city for a possible war scenario against Syria or Iran, top Palestinian intelligence officials claimed to WND. The Israeli government denied the claim. The Israel Defense Forces today completed a week-long, large-scale operation in Nablus, the largest West Bank Arab city. The operation, codenamed Hot Winter, utilized four IDF battalions, reservists and border police guards and purportedly was aimed at arresting top wanted terror leaders in the city. Nablus is a stronghold of several major Palestinian terror organizations, most notably the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the declared military wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. The Brigades and Islamic Jihad are responsible for every suicide bombing in Israel the past two years. During the
large operation, the IDF did not arrest any top terror suspects, but the army said it found three weapons factories as well as an arms cache. One top Palestinian intelligence official said he found the operation unusual in that it involved a rotation of Israeli forces and didn't achieve anything militarily as far as fighting terrorism.
On the ground you had a massive number of soldiers who seemed to be conducting drills. They were in the city the entire week with units switching. Normally week-long military operations utilize the same units and don't keep switching troops. In the end, after a week of a major military presence, what did the IDF get as far as fighting terror in Nablus? commented the top official. The operation was very clearly an urban warfare training exercise, likely for a confrontation with Syria or Iran, the official claimed. Another top Palestinian intelligence official told WND, Nablus happens to resemble very closely as a model the city of Damascus.A spokeswoman for the IDF denied Palestinian claims the large operation was for war training. She said the Israeli army arrested 11 militants in Nablus this week, although she said they were lower-level and did not include any members of Israel's wanted list.
Abu Nasser, the second-in-command of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Nablus, told WND no members of his group or the Islamic Jihad terror organization were arrested during the Israeli operation. It didn't feel like we were even being targeted, Abu Nasser said. The claim of Israeli training follows reports in the Israeli media last week Syria, aided by Iranian officers, has been boosting its army and navy. The reports, denied by Damascus, claimed Syria last week was moving troops closer to the border with Israel. Israeli security officials told WND Israel is not expecting confrontations with Iran or Syria. Speaking theoretically, they said if any war breaks out involving Iran, they expect Syria, Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorists to join the fray and attack Israel. The security officials said the greatest threat Syria poses to the Jewish state are the country's missiles. They noted Syria recently test-fired two Scud-D surface-to-surface missiles, which have a range of about 250 miles, covering most Israeli territory. The officials said the Syrian missile test was coordinated with Iran and is believed to have been successful. It is not known what type of warhead the missiles had.
In addition to longer range Scuds, Syria is in possession of shorter range missiles such as 220 millimeter and 305 millimeter rockets, some of which have been passed on to Hezbollah. According to information received by Israel, Russia is set to conclude a deal worth several hundred million dollars transferring thousands of advanced anti-tank missiles to Syria. Anti-tank missiles used by Hezbollah during Israel's war in Lebanon last summer devastated Israeli tanks and caused the highest number of Israeli troop casualties during the 34 days of military confrontations. Last week, a senior officer from the intelligence unit of the Israeli Defense Forces announced Hezbollah is stronger today than before the 2006 Lebanon war.
Hezbollah has reinforced and it is stronger today than it was before the war in Lebanon, Gen. Yossi Beidatz, head of the IDF's intelligence research department, told the Knesset. During the war in Lebanon, Hezbollah fired more than 3,000 rockets into northern Israel, killing 39 civilians and devastating many northern towns. Beidatz also said Syria is reinforcing its military to prepare for the possibility of a new armed conflict in the region.
Israel Celebrates Purim Holiday Under Tight Security
By Robert Berger Jerusalem - 03 March 2007
Israel is celebrating the biblical holiday of Purim under tight security. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel has restricted the movement of Palestinians amid concerns of possible terror attacks. An effigy of the ancient Persian King Haman hangs from a lamp post at entrance to an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, 2 Mar 2007 It is a weekend of parties and celebrations as Israelis mark the holiday of Purim with costume parties in homes and community centers and on the streets. The holiday marks the deliverance of the Jews from annihilation in ancient Persia some 2,400 years ago, as told in the biblical Book of Esther. Security is extremely tight for the holiday. The army has sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Palestinians have been barred from entering Israel. Police say they have intelligence information that Palestinian militants could try to disrupt the holiday with terrorist attacks. It has happened before. A suicide bomber blew up a Purim parade in Tel Aviv in 1996, killing 13 people. But that hasn't stopped the celebrations this year. It's a party. Everybody's coming dressed up as something, says Amit Gabbai, a Jerusalem high school student, who was dressed up as character from a Hollywood hit. Well, I'm wearing this beautiful green dress and I put on a wig. And I'm dressed as Princess Fiona from Shrek 1.Are children worried about the threat of terror?
Yes and no, says Gabbai. No because, I don't know, I live here and it's usual for me and I know where not to go and I go to safe places, and yes because I mean everybody's dressing up, everybody's putting masks on and like carrying fake guns, and the terrorists could take advantage of that and dress up and, you know, do something bad.Police and soldiers have stepped up their presence at the borders and crowded public places. Despite the threats, police have urged the public to come out and celebrate.
Stocks fall amid rise in yen; Dow posts worst performance in more than 4 yearsBy Associated Press - Friday, March 2, 2007
NEW YORK Stocks stumbled in the final session of a tumultuous week Friday as the yen rallied against the dollar and concerns about the U.S. economy still dogged investors after Tuesday’s huge drop.
The Dow Jones industrials logged their worst weekly performance in more than four years; until this week, the stock market had gone more than 45 months without a drop of more than 2 percent in a single session. The Dow, as it had Thursday, poked tentatively into positive territory Friday before retreating as the yen furthered its gains and investors failed to shake their unease. Larger economic concerns such as the ascendent yen have dominated Wall Street for much of the week after Tuesday’s worldwide selloff that sent the Dow down 416 points and rattled investor confidence about the state of the U.S. economy. Neil Massa, senior trader at MFC Global Investment Management, said stocks wobbled Friday after the yen broke through a key resistance level of 116.80.
The dollar fell 0.92 percent to 116.86 yen.
Concerns lingered about a decline in the yen carry trade, which refers to the process of borrowing yen to acquire assets with greater yields in other currencies. A slowdown could hurt liquidity worldwide. Concerns about Japanese interest rates also weighed on investors. A well-received profit report from American International Group Inc. kept the Dow industrials from falling further Friday; the insurer and pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. were the only two advancers among the index’s 30 stocks. Merck, which received a mixed verdict Friday in a trial over its former painkiller Vioxx, finished up 20 cents at $44.19.
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 120.24, or 0.98 percent, to 12,114.10. The Dow has fallen seven of the last eight sessions. Broader stock indicators also fell. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 16.00, or 1.14 percent, to 1,387.17 and the Nasdaq composite index slid 36.21, or 1.51 percent, to 2,368.00. For the week, the Dow fell 3.3 percent, the S&P 500 lost 4.4 percent and the Nasdaq fell 5.9 percent. For the Dow and the S&P 500, it was their worst weekly performance since the week ended July 19, 2002. And for the Nasdaq, it was the poorest weekly showing since the week ended Sept. 21, 2001, the first week of trading after the 9/11 terror attacks.
Bond prices rose sharply as economic concerns lingered and raised hopes for an interest rate cut.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 4.51 percent from 4.55 percent late Thursday. The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices fell sharply. Light, sweet crude settled down 36 cents to $61.64 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after settling at a more than two month high Thursday. I think looking at the world economies as a whole it just seems like growth is slowing across the board, or at least that’s the impression, he said. Diane Dercher, chief economist at Waddell & Reed, said investors are trying to sort through the myriad signals the markets have given off this week.Fundamentally, I don’t think a lot has changed this week and I think it’s been more of a psychological re-evaluation of risk and a lot of this is focused around what’s happened in the Asian markets, she said. There is a renewed focus on how weak the economy is going to be and the data that we’ve gotten this week have been very mixed and that just adds to confusion about how weak the economy is going to be, Dercher said.
Investors seemed somewhat cheered by the final Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment reading for February, even as it fell to 91.3 from 96.9 from January. Earlier this week, the Conference Board said its own measure of consumer confidence reached a 5 1/2 year high.
With little of the economic data that has at turns boosted and deflated sentiment this week, investors again looked abroad for direction. Performance of overseas markets has taken on renewed importance this week after a nearly 9 percent drop in the Shanghai Composite Index helped touch off the worldwide selling and sent U.S. stocks reeling. The major U.S. indexes each lost more than 3 percent Tuesday, erasing $632 billion in shareholder equity, according to S&P. St. Louis Federal Reserve President William Poole said in remarks prepared for a speech Friday in Santiago, Chile, that rising energy prices wouldn’t necessarily lead to an economic slowdown if monetary policy were laid out carefully. With trading less frenetic than in previous days, investors had some time to parse individual stocks as they looked for bargains.
AIG’s fourth-quarter profit rose sharply from a year earlier when the world’s largest insurer spent $1.64 billion to settle charges over its accounting practices. Profits were slightly below Wall Street’s forecast though investors were likely pleased by the company’s announcement it would repurchase $5 billion in stock in 2007. The company also is targeting a 20 percent annual increase in its dividend.
AIG rose $2.13, or 3.2 percent, to $69.54. Dell Inc. rose 17 cents to $23.18 after the computer maker’s profit fell 33 percent amid weak laptop sales. While revenue fell more than expected, the overall results weren’t as sour as some investors had feared. Gap Inc.
fell 63 cents, or 3.3 percent, to $18.40 after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings dropped 35 percent amid problems that include its newest chain, which the company plans to close. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.86 billion shares, compared with an unusually heavy 2.22 billion shares traded Thursday. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 15.59, or 1.97 percent, to 775.44. Overseas, Japan’s Nikkei stock average closed down 1.35 percent, while the Shanghai Composite Index was up 1.23 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index added 0.49 percent. Britain’s FTSE 100 finished higher by less than 0.01 percent, Germany’s DAX index fell 0.56 percent, and France’s CAC-40 slid 0.62 percent.
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 Mar 4 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 03,07
MAP 2.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
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MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.1 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 3.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
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MAP 4.9 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
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MAP 5.7 COQUIMBO, CHILE
MAP 3.1 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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MAP 3.9 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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MAP 5.9 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
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MAP 4.6 GUERRERO, MEXICO
MAP 3.1 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.3 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 2.7 NEVADA
MAP 5.7 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
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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.
Storm blankets Quebec, aims for Maritimes
Friday, March 2, 2007 - CBC News
A winter storm blamed for at least two deaths and commuter chaos in southern Ontario is bringing high winds and heavy snowfall to Quebec on Friday as it sweeps toward the Maritimes.
Environment Canada has issued a winter storm warning for regions stretching from Ottawa into southern Quebec as well as all of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.The problem with this winter storm is we've seen everything ,snow, freezing rain, rain, ice pellets and high winds, said CBC meteorologist Nick Czernkovich.The storm, which knocked out power to roughly 80,000 people in Ontario overnight, brought 27 centimetres of snow to the Montreal area in just 12 hours, Czernkovich said.Friday was a snow day for most students in the greater Montreal region, as all major school boards called off classes for the day. Many flights were cancelled at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.The combination of heavy snow, freezing rain and winds brought down power lines and trees, Czernkovich added.We all look at the snowfall, but we can't underestimate the effect of winds.Part of the storm is sheering off toward northern Ontario as the main body heads eastward and is expected to hit the Atlantic provinces later on Friday.In Nova Scotia, high winds were forecast for the shoreline late Friday, with some areas expected to be hit with gusts of up to 100 km/h.
Thousands without power
Meanwhile, across Ontario, thousands of residents woke up Friday morning in homes without power.Hydro One spokesman Daffyd Roderick told CBC Newsworld about 80,000 households and businesses had no electricity.Hydro crews were alerted to 25 snapped poles on Thursday afternoon, but the main obstacle facing power crews is gaining access, he said.There's only so much we can do until Mother Nature does her work, and then we can set about repairing … when conditions are safe out there.By Friday afternoon, officials said power had been restored to 40,000 customers.
Meanwhile, police in Toronto closed a downtown section of Front Street after chunks of ice were seen falling from the CN Tower and other buildings.It's like shrapnel when it hits the ground, a police officer told CBC News.
Few parts of southwestern Ont. unscathed
The power failures have affected portions of southwestern Ontario from Strathroy and Walkerton to Newmarket and the GTA.Very few parts are unscathed today, Roderick said, adding the hardest-hit areas may have to wait between three and five days to see the situation restored to normal. Wind gusts of up to 82 km/h were recorded at Toronto Island Airport.Many Ontario roads are flooded or slick with ice, and more freezing rain and snow on Friday could make driving conditions just as treacherous as the previous day, when the intense storm was blamed for the deaths of two children.
Police said the children seven-year-old Anita Hiebert and her six-year-old brother, Pancho died Thursday when a car and a truck collided on an icy, snow-blown road near the town of Listowel, northwest of Kitchener. The children's mother, Christina Hiebert, is in critical condition in a London hospital.Police and tow trucks responded to hundreds of other crashes across southern Ontario, as blowing snow and ice pellets created slippery conditions and poor visibility.
With files from the Canadian Press
National Weather Service Preliminary Data - EF Scale 3 Tornado Hit EnterpriseMarch 2, 2007 05:23 PM EST
ENTERPRISE, Ala., March 2, 2007 -- Bob Goree of the National Weather Service says preliminary indications are that the tornado that ravished the Enterprise area was an EF Scale 3 tornado.
Today we see the intensity of the damage. Now, we're not quite ready to put the new enhanced Fujita Scale value on this. We can tell you the preliminary finding is, it will be at least an EF scale 3. It may become that officially. We're getting some engineering help to hopefully finalize that intensity tomorrow.Goree says the storm was unusual for this part of the deep South. Yesterday's tornado in this area, Enterprise and other areas, over into Georgia were extremely powerful for this area of the country. Usually we see short-lived, smaller tornadoes that affect say one dwelling or more. But to see this school and other areas devastated by this powerful tornado is heartbreaking and really a rare sight fortunately for this area. He says this was an extremely long-lived tornadic super cell which even awed National Weather Service meteorologists.
The size of this storm was incredibly large. We seldom see tornados in the deep Southeast that are 200 yards wide or so. I think some of the video is out there of this storm and it's incredible. On our Doppler radars we rarely again get to see such a powerful storm signature as we did yesterday. Our meteorologists...were in awe of the shape, the structure and the intensity of the rotation in this super cell thunderstorm as it moved into this area.Goree says the new enhanced Fujita Scale is meant to be more practical. He said the earlier scale was more objective and looked more at wind speeds, but the new scale really reflects how bad was the damage whether than some exact wind damage measurement.So what does the National Weather Service look at to make their final determination?
On our new scale we use damage indicators such as trees - the number and percentage of the trees that were snapped, whether the bark is stripped off of the trees, indicators like that to determine what the power of the wind was. He says they also look at the strength of the buildings. This (Enterprise H.S.) is a very strong structure here and we saw some structural failure.Goree says the most powerful center of the vortex...moved through the center of the school and into the parking lot and across the stadium.It's a sad day for us at the National Weather Service...We're always saddened when we see death and injuries in the communities which we serve and we have to redouble our efforts to get people safe in the path of these terrible storms.
Widespread storms cause deaths in 3 states
By BRENDA GOODMAN Published: March 2, 2007
ATLANTA: A violent storm system that stretched nearly 1,000 miles from the Midwest to the Southeast has killed at least 20 people in three states, including 8 who died when what appeared to be a tornado caused the roof to collapse at a high school in Enterprise, Ala. on Thursday, state emergency management officials said.
At least 31 tornados have been reported over the last two days in Missouri, Illinois, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, the National Weather Service reported. The storm system has been blamed for nine deaths in Alabama, two in Georgia and one in Missouri.A tornado apparently touched down early today near the Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, 117 miles south of Atlanta. The storm blew out the hospital's windows, tossed cars into trees and killed at least two people, but the extent of the damage remained unclear.We're still tying to assess everything, the Americus fire chief, Andy Belinc, told The Associated Press early this morning. Georgia's governor declared a state of emergency.Storms continued to lash at the area this morning. The weather service issued a tornado warning for coastal areas of North Carolina. In South Carolina, the Coast Guard prepared to search for six people on a small boat who sent a distress call during the storm, saying they were taking on water off the coast.
Today in Americas
In the Mississippi Delta, a juke joint keeps the blues alive U.S. Army secretary resigns Head of criticized U.S. Army medical center is fired On Thursday, students at Enterprise High School had just been ordered to take cover in hallways when fierce winds bore down around 1 p.m., plunging them into darkness and pounding them with falling debris.
The ceiling part fell on us, and rocks hit me on the back, said Ezekiel Jones, 17, a senior who was in the school gymnasium when the storm struck. I was thinking of my mom, my girlfriend, my sister and my friends. Everybody was screaming.Steven Carter, 16, a junior, said he was in the science wing when the lights went out.It happened fast, Steven said. There wasn't much warning.He said he could smell gas leaking from the Bunsen burners in the classrooms. A lot of kids were trapped, Steven said.Steven said he saw science teachers tending to some of the wounded with first-aid kits salvaged from the wrecked classrooms.Toni J. Kaminski, a spokeswoman for Medical Center Enterprise, said the hospital treated 50 to 60 people.We have seen a myriad of injuries, including a ruptured spleen, head trauma, chest trauma, broken bones, Ms. Kaminski said.Though the high school seems to have taken a direct hit, neighborhoods throughout Enterprise also reported extensive damage.
Jeanne Davis, 55, a clerk at the Army base at nearby Fort Rucker, said she rushed home after the winds stopped to find shingles torn off her roof and a two-by-four driven into the ground in her front yard.
Throughout Enterprise, which has a population of about 21,000 people, cars were upended, trees were snapped and homes flattened, with other reports of injuries coming from the downtown area. A state emergency management spokeswoman, Yasamie Richardson, said that in addition to those killed at the high school, one other person in Enterprise was also killed.Seth Hammett, speaker of the Alabama House, said one person died in Millers Ferry, about 80 miles northwest of Enterprise, where 12 to 15 trailer homes had been destroyed.In Georgia, the storms killed at least nine people and caused an unknown number of injuries, including six deaths in Baker County and two in Americus, Reuters reported, quoting Buzz Weiss, spokesman for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
In Missouri, a 7-year-old girl was killed and four members of her family were injured when a tornado flattened their mobile home near West Plains.Tanya Bricking Leach contributed reporting from Enterprise, Ala., and Maria Newman from New York.
Dozens die in Indonesia landslides
POSTED: 1140 GMT (1940 HKT), March 3, 2007
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Landslides triggered by days of heavy rain killed at least 32 people in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, and scores more were believed to be buried under the mud, officials said.One social affairs ministry employee said he had received reports from amateur radio operators that 65 people had been killed on Flores island. The official, who was speaking on radio station el-Shinta, was not immediately reachable.Roads made inaccessible by a three-day deluge were complicating rescue operations and making compiling definitive tolls of the dead and missing difficult, said Frans Lebu Raya, a senior government official on the remote island.We have not been able to get heavy machinery to the villages, because landslides have also cut off the main road to the area, said Rustam Pakaya, the chief of the Health Department's Crisis Center in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.
Many parts of the road also have collapsed.
Pakaya said he received a fax from the island reporting that landslides early Saturday killed at least 32 people in Cibal and Lambaleda districts, and that 20 people were missing and believed buried.State news agency Antara reported landslides occurring in at least 15 other villages or districts, leaving some houses buried and vehicles damaged. It said roads were blocked in 20 places.Instant noodles, canned fish, cooking oil and emergency tents were being distributed to some districts on the remote island, about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Jakarta, Antara reported.Seasonal downpours cause dozens of deadly landslides and flash floods each year in Indonesia, a vast chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.Last month, floods in Jakarta killed almost 100 people and paralyzed large sections of the city.
EU promises to rally efforts to push Mideast peace MAR 2,07
Benita Ferrero-Waldner,European Commissioner for External Relations and European
Neighbourhood Policy, said here Friday that the European Union (EU) is adamant to rally efforts to push forward the Mideast peace process. Waldner, who arrived here Thursday, made the pledge in a press conference on Friday at the end of her two-day visit to Egypt, the last stop of her four-leg tour that also took her to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. The EU welcomes the Mecca agreement reached recently between the two Palestinian mainstream movements of Fatah and Hamas on the formation of a national unity government, Waldner told the reporters.
The European commissioner noted that she would present a report on the outcome of her regional tour to an EU Foreign Ministers Council meeting, which will be held in Brussels on Monday for talks on the situation in the Mideast. Meanwhile, donor states to the Palestinians will also meet in Brussels on March 13 for talks on means of further backing the Palestinian people, she added. Regarding the EU-Egyptian ties, Waldner denied that the union was seeking to impose reforms or intervene in the Egyptian affairs via the European Neighbourhood policy plan for Egypt. The EU action plan was meant to reinfroce the Egyptian government's program on political, economic and social reforms, she said. Source: Xinhua
Israel criticizes Russian-Syrian arms deal MAR 2,07
TEL AVIV, Israel, March 2 (UPI) Israeli officials Friday criticized Russia for agreeing to provide Syria with advanced missiles that could penetrate Israel's Merkava tanks. The Russian AT-15 anti-tank missiles have a range of 6 kilometers, beyond the Merkavas', and can overcome some of the Israeli measures designed to protect the tanks. Officials are concerned the arms would reach the Lebanese Hezbollah. During last year's war in Lebanon, Russian anti-tank missiles were fired at Israeli tanks and damaged some. The Jerusalem Post Friday quoted Vice Premier Shimon Peres as saying the supply of arms to Syria encouraged Damascus to turn to war.Syria is moving between peace overtures and its temptations to go to war, to which arms supply is an incentive, Peres added. Former Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said that Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly decided to restore Russia's Soviet-empire status, and was playing with fire.The military intelligence Sunday told the Cabinet the Syrians are using Hezbollah, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to fight Israel although Damascus is indicating a desire for a peace process. Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin told the ministers, The prospects for a Syrian-initiated full scale war are low, but the chances it would react militarily to Israeli military moves are high. The Mossad secret service said Syria is trying to improve its defensive military capability and is more ready to take risks and retaliate with force to Israeli moves. In the past, Israel sent F-15s over President Bashar Assad's home in northern Syria to signal to him to stop aiding militant groups that attack Israel.
Israel training for war with Iran, Syria?
Palestinians claim army conducted exercises in West Bank city
March 2, 2007 By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com
TEL AVIV – Israel this week conducted military training exercises in a Palestinian city for a possible war scenario against Syria or Iran, top Palestinian intelligence officials claimed to WND. The Israeli government denied the claim. The Israel Defense Forces today completed a week-long, large-scale operation in Nablus, the largest West Bank Arab city. The operation, codenamed Hot Winter, utilized four IDF battalions, reservists and border police guards and purportedly was aimed at arresting top wanted terror leaders in the city. Nablus is a stronghold of several major Palestinian terror organizations, most notably the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the declared military wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. The Brigades and Islamic Jihad are responsible for every suicide bombing in Israel the past two years. During the
large operation, the IDF did not arrest any top terror suspects, but the army said it found three weapons factories as well as an arms cache. One top Palestinian intelligence official said he found the operation unusual in that it involved a rotation of Israeli forces and didn't achieve anything militarily as far as fighting terrorism.
On the ground you had a massive number of soldiers who seemed to be conducting drills. They were in the city the entire week with units switching. Normally week-long military operations utilize the same units and don't keep switching troops. In the end, after a week of a major military presence, what did the IDF get as far as fighting terror in Nablus? commented the top official. The operation was very clearly an urban warfare training exercise, likely for a confrontation with Syria or Iran, the official claimed. Another top Palestinian intelligence official told WND, Nablus happens to resemble very closely as a model the city of Damascus.A spokeswoman for the IDF denied Palestinian claims the large operation was for war training. She said the Israeli army arrested 11 militants in Nablus this week, although she said they were lower-level and did not include any members of Israel's wanted list.
Abu Nasser, the second-in-command of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Nablus, told WND no members of his group or the Islamic Jihad terror organization were arrested during the Israeli operation. It didn't feel like we were even being targeted, Abu Nasser said. The claim of Israeli training follows reports in the Israeli media last week Syria, aided by Iranian officers, has been boosting its army and navy. The reports, denied by Damascus, claimed Syria last week was moving troops closer to the border with Israel. Israeli security officials told WND Israel is not expecting confrontations with Iran or Syria. Speaking theoretically, they said if any war breaks out involving Iran, they expect Syria, Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorists to join the fray and attack Israel. The security officials said the greatest threat Syria poses to the Jewish state are the country's missiles. They noted Syria recently test-fired two Scud-D surface-to-surface missiles, which have a range of about 250 miles, covering most Israeli territory. The officials said the Syrian missile test was coordinated with Iran and is believed to have been successful. It is not known what type of warhead the missiles had.
In addition to longer range Scuds, Syria is in possession of shorter range missiles such as 220 millimeter and 305 millimeter rockets, some of which have been passed on to Hezbollah. According to information received by Israel, Russia is set to conclude a deal worth several hundred million dollars transferring thousands of advanced anti-tank missiles to Syria. Anti-tank missiles used by Hezbollah during Israel's war in Lebanon last summer devastated Israeli tanks and caused the highest number of Israeli troop casualties during the 34 days of military confrontations. Last week, a senior officer from the intelligence unit of the Israeli Defense Forces announced Hezbollah is stronger today than before the 2006 Lebanon war.
Hezbollah has reinforced and it is stronger today than it was before the war in Lebanon, Gen. Yossi Beidatz, head of the IDF's intelligence research department, told the Knesset. During the war in Lebanon, Hezbollah fired more than 3,000 rockets into northern Israel, killing 39 civilians and devastating many northern towns. Beidatz also said Syria is reinforcing its military to prepare for the possibility of a new armed conflict in the region.
Israel Celebrates Purim Holiday Under Tight Security
By Robert Berger Jerusalem - 03 March 2007
Israel is celebrating the biblical holiday of Purim under tight security. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel has restricted the movement of Palestinians amid concerns of possible terror attacks. An effigy of the ancient Persian King Haman hangs from a lamp post at entrance to an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, 2 Mar 2007 It is a weekend of parties and celebrations as Israelis mark the holiday of Purim with costume parties in homes and community centers and on the streets. The holiday marks the deliverance of the Jews from annihilation in ancient Persia some 2,400 years ago, as told in the biblical Book of Esther. Security is extremely tight for the holiday. The army has sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Palestinians have been barred from entering Israel. Police say they have intelligence information that Palestinian militants could try to disrupt the holiday with terrorist attacks. It has happened before. A suicide bomber blew up a Purim parade in Tel Aviv in 1996, killing 13 people. But that hasn't stopped the celebrations this year. It's a party. Everybody's coming dressed up as something, says Amit Gabbai, a Jerusalem high school student, who was dressed up as character from a Hollywood hit. Well, I'm wearing this beautiful green dress and I put on a wig. And I'm dressed as Princess Fiona from Shrek 1.Are children worried about the threat of terror?
Yes and no, says Gabbai. No because, I don't know, I live here and it's usual for me and I know where not to go and I go to safe places, and yes because I mean everybody's dressing up, everybody's putting masks on and like carrying fake guns, and the terrorists could take advantage of that and dress up and, you know, do something bad.Police and soldiers have stepped up their presence at the borders and crowded public places. Despite the threats, police have urged the public to come out and celebrate.
Stocks fall amid rise in yen; Dow posts worst performance in more than 4 yearsBy Associated Press - Friday, March 2, 2007
NEW YORK Stocks stumbled in the final session of a tumultuous week Friday as the yen rallied against the dollar and concerns about the U.S. economy still dogged investors after Tuesday’s huge drop.
The Dow Jones industrials logged their worst weekly performance in more than four years; until this week, the stock market had gone more than 45 months without a drop of more than 2 percent in a single session. The Dow, as it had Thursday, poked tentatively into positive territory Friday before retreating as the yen furthered its gains and investors failed to shake their unease. Larger economic concerns such as the ascendent yen have dominated Wall Street for much of the week after Tuesday’s worldwide selloff that sent the Dow down 416 points and rattled investor confidence about the state of the U.S. economy. Neil Massa, senior trader at MFC Global Investment Management, said stocks wobbled Friday after the yen broke through a key resistance level of 116.80.
The dollar fell 0.92 percent to 116.86 yen.
Concerns lingered about a decline in the yen carry trade, which refers to the process of borrowing yen to acquire assets with greater yields in other currencies. A slowdown could hurt liquidity worldwide. Concerns about Japanese interest rates also weighed on investors. A well-received profit report from American International Group Inc. kept the Dow industrials from falling further Friday; the insurer and pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. were the only two advancers among the index’s 30 stocks. Merck, which received a mixed verdict Friday in a trial over its former painkiller Vioxx, finished up 20 cents at $44.19.
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 120.24, or 0.98 percent, to 12,114.10. The Dow has fallen seven of the last eight sessions. Broader stock indicators also fell. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 16.00, or 1.14 percent, to 1,387.17 and the Nasdaq composite index slid 36.21, or 1.51 percent, to 2,368.00. For the week, the Dow fell 3.3 percent, the S&P 500 lost 4.4 percent and the Nasdaq fell 5.9 percent. For the Dow and the S&P 500, it was their worst weekly performance since the week ended July 19, 2002. And for the Nasdaq, it was the poorest weekly showing since the week ended Sept. 21, 2001, the first week of trading after the 9/11 terror attacks.
Bond prices rose sharply as economic concerns lingered and raised hopes for an interest rate cut.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 4.51 percent from 4.55 percent late Thursday. The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices fell sharply. Light, sweet crude settled down 36 cents to $61.64 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after settling at a more than two month high Thursday. I think looking at the world economies as a whole it just seems like growth is slowing across the board, or at least that’s the impression, he said. Diane Dercher, chief economist at Waddell & Reed, said investors are trying to sort through the myriad signals the markets have given off this week.Fundamentally, I don’t think a lot has changed this week and I think it’s been more of a psychological re-evaluation of risk and a lot of this is focused around what’s happened in the Asian markets, she said. There is a renewed focus on how weak the economy is going to be and the data that we’ve gotten this week have been very mixed and that just adds to confusion about how weak the economy is going to be, Dercher said.
Investors seemed somewhat cheered by the final Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment reading for February, even as it fell to 91.3 from 96.9 from January. Earlier this week, the Conference Board said its own measure of consumer confidence reached a 5 1/2 year high.
With little of the economic data that has at turns boosted and deflated sentiment this week, investors again looked abroad for direction. Performance of overseas markets has taken on renewed importance this week after a nearly 9 percent drop in the Shanghai Composite Index helped touch off the worldwide selling and sent U.S. stocks reeling. The major U.S. indexes each lost more than 3 percent Tuesday, erasing $632 billion in shareholder equity, according to S&P. St. Louis Federal Reserve President William Poole said in remarks prepared for a speech Friday in Santiago, Chile, that rising energy prices wouldn’t necessarily lead to an economic slowdown if monetary policy were laid out carefully. With trading less frenetic than in previous days, investors had some time to parse individual stocks as they looked for bargains.
AIG’s fourth-quarter profit rose sharply from a year earlier when the world’s largest insurer spent $1.64 billion to settle charges over its accounting practices. Profits were slightly below Wall Street’s forecast though investors were likely pleased by the company’s announcement it would repurchase $5 billion in stock in 2007. The company also is targeting a 20 percent annual increase in its dividend.
AIG rose $2.13, or 3.2 percent, to $69.54. Dell Inc. rose 17 cents to $23.18 after the computer maker’s profit fell 33 percent amid weak laptop sales. While revenue fell more than expected, the overall results weren’t as sour as some investors had feared. Gap Inc.
fell 63 cents, or 3.3 percent, to $18.40 after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings dropped 35 percent amid problems that include its newest chain, which the company plans to close. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.86 billion shares, compared with an unusually heavy 2.22 billion shares traded Thursday. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 15.59, or 1.97 percent, to 775.44. Overseas, Japan’s Nikkei stock average closed down 1.35 percent, while the Shanghai Composite Index was up 1.23 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index added 0.49 percent. Britain’s FTSE 100 finished higher by less than 0.01 percent, Germany’s DAX index fell 0.56 percent, and France’s CAC-40 slid 0.62 percent.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
TURMOIL STILL LOOMS IN MARKETS
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EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
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MAP 2.8 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.8 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.2 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
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MAP 5.7 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
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MAP 5.4 MOLUCCA SEA
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MAP 3.9 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.1 WASHINGTON
MAP 3.6 OREGON
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MAP 3.3 NEVADA
MAP 4.6 GUERRERO, MEXICO
MAP 3.1 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
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MAP 3.9 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.8 EASTERN TURKEY
MAP 5.0 KORYAKIA, RUSSIA
MAP 4.8 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 2.9 NEVADA
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MAP 3.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
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MAP 2.5 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
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MAP 3.5 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
4.2 earthquake hits San Francisco Fri Mar 2, 12:05 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - A magnitude 4.2 earthquake that could be felt throughout the Bay Area struck Thursday night, officials said. The temblor struck 1 mile northeast of Lafayette, the United States Geological Survey Web site said. Residents said it lasted between 10 and 15 seconds.There were no immediate reports of any damage or injuries, but Bay Area Rapid Transit trains were temporarily stopped, authorities said.
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.
MARCH 1, 2007 - 11:54 ET
Environment Canada: Ontario Weather Review
February 2007 - C-c-c-cold enough for you?
TORONTO, ONTARIO (CCNMatthews March 1, 2007) The above-normal temperatures that
have been reported since November of last year have now been replaced with exceptionally cold temperatures.
Across the province, the mean temperatures for the month have now dropped in a range of two to five degrees below normal.Snowfall was also noteworthy this month. The Great Lakes, with most of the surface as open water in the early part of the month, was responsible for high snow reports in some areas. The typical snowbelt areas, and atypically Hamilton, had high accumulations - in the case of Wiarton, it was record breaking. Locations outside these snowbelt areas had near-normal or below-normal amounts.Overall, the trend of precipitation was drier than normal across the province. The colder temperatures reduced the amount of available moisture in these cases.
Severe Weather
Lake-effect snows were the big story to start off the month. On February 1 and 2, a very cold flow of air from the southwest caused snow bands to set up off of Georgian Bay.
These bands ended up dumping approximately 40 centimetres of snow in the North Bay area during these two days. On February 2, a series of snow bands from the southwest moved onshore near the Cobourg area and caused near-whiteout conditions that may have been an important factor in a fatal crash on Highway 401.From February 4-7, the winds shifted and blew the cold air in from the northwest. This shifted snowsquall activity to the more traditional snowbelt areas to the lee of Lake Superior, Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. During this four-day period, Sault Ste Marie received a little more than 70 centimetres of snow and the Barrie area almost 60 centimetres. As well, in less than 12 hours during this timeframe, the Owen Sound area picked up approximately 50 centimetres of fresh snow.
St. Valentine's Day turned out to be more for shovelers than for lovers, especially around the western end of Lake Ontario. A well-developed storm system that moved south of the lower Great Lakes combined with strong lake-effect snow bands generated with a wind from the northeast to give the Hamilton area an official 46 centimetres. This all occurred just between the evening of February 13 and the morning of February 14. However, unofficial estimates of the snow in areas around Hamilton and Burlington were upwards of 60 centimetres, with drifts well over a metre in height. Other parts of Southern Ontario which were not impacted by the off-lake snow received amounts between 10 and 15 centimetres.The last weekend of the month saw another strong storm system pass to the south of the lower Great Lakes, with the biggest impacts in Ontario being felt in the extreme southwestern part of the province. The Windsor, Sarnia and London areas all saw a number of hours of freezing rain from this event on Sunday, February 25. The Golden Horseshoe experienced the whole event as snow, with general accumulations in the five- to 15-centimetre range. The majority of the snow fell between late Sunday and late Monday. Slightly higher amounts were received in the Oakville, Mississauga and Milton areas as east winds off of Lake Ontario added to the available moisture.
Seven killed as tornado hits US homes
By Tom Leonard in New York - GMT 02/03/2007
At least seven people, many of them teenagers, were killed in Alabama yesterday when a huge tornado ripped through the southern state, flattening houses and demolishing a school.Five of the victims were students and teachers who were killed after they were trapped inside a high school in the town of Enterprise which lay right in the path of the supercell storm.Other students were seriously injured after they were buried beneath a collapsing wall inside the building.In the chaotic hours after the storm, reports of the death toll varied wildly, at one point reaching as high as 18 dead. More than 50 people were taken to hospital in Enterprise, some of them seriously injured. Many of them were evacuated by army helicopters sent from a nearby military base.
The thing tore a swathe through town a mile and half, maybe two miles long, said Larry Walker, the deputy director of the local emergency management agency.An Enterprise resident said that the town in the immediate aftermath of the tornado looked like a bomb had dropped.Martha Rodriquez, a 15-year-old, said she had left the school about five minutes before the storm hit. When she returned, a hall at the school had collapsed.The stadium was destroyed and there were cars tipped over in the parking lot and trees were ripped out. There were trees and wood everywhere. It was just horrible, she said.It is complete devastation, Sheriff Russell Thomas said as he helped rescuers in Enterprise. It is very tragic.One volunteer helping to look for survivors told a local television station: I pulled out two dead little girls.
Bob Riley, the Alabama governor, said that he had asked about 100 National Guardsmen to go to Enterprise to assist in recovery efforts and that additional troops were standing by.The tornado was just a small part of an immense storm system, which extended down through the middle of America from Minnesota to the Gulf.It also hit Kansas and Missouri, ripping up power lines and damaging buildings.In Missouri, it was blamed for the death of a seven-year-old girl who had been sheltering with her family.Tornadoes, hailstorms and high winds remained a threat in many parts of the south-eastern United States during the night, said meteorologists.
Snow, freezing rain expected for Ont. on Thursday
toronto.ctv.ca FEB 28,07
The first day of March could be a miserable one for many in southern Ontario as a storm system moving into the region is expected to dump between five and 10 centimetres of snow and then change to freezing rain later in the day. Snow flurries are expected to begin falling in the morning, which could make the commute to work tricky.
But Environment Canada says the drive home could be treacherous with the forecast period of freezing rain. The weather system coming in from the United States is also expected to trigger wind gusts of up to 70 km/hr. Forecasters are calling for a high of 0C. Thursday's winter weather comes as residents in Toronto enjoyed a sunny and mild last day of February. The mercury on Wednesday hit 3C. March couldn't come soon enough for many in southern Ontario, who braved through a bitterly cold February that brought heavy snowfalls at times. Friday's forecast calls for a chance of flurries and a high of 1C, with similar weather predicted over the weekend.
NOAA outlines dangers of coastal living By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 1, 3:58 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The head of the nation's weather and climate research agency says the biggest challenge facing the world is population growth and people's desire to live in coastal areas where they can be endangered by storms. I believe that the population issue is huge, Conrad Lautenbacher said Thursday. And it's not just the U.S., there are six billion ... getting up to seven billion people on the Earth and they all want to live in coastal zones.Lautenbacher is head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency that studies weather and climate and issues storm warnings and forecasts, among other activities.More than half the U.S. population lives in coastal areas and Lautenbacher said that means you have a lot less margin of ability to absorb and to mitigate and to adapt to severe weather events.
We need to be much better at our ability to predict and tell you what's going to happen, he said. We need much better preparation along our coastlines, we need much better building codes, flood insurance, all of the economic issues.Lautenbacher's comments come just months before hurricane season begins in June, with millions of people in coastal areas wondering what the storm season will be like.While 2005 was one of the worst storm years on record, with such massive hurricanes as Katrina and Rita, last year was mild by comparison.Lautenbacher declined to make a prediction for this year, saying only that the National Hurricane Center will issue a forecast in May.However, on Tuesday his agency noted that La Nina conditions appear to be developing in the Pacific Ocean. La Nina is a cooling of the sea along with changes in winds and air pressure that can affect weather worldwide. Typically in La Nina years there are fewer storms in the Pacific and more in the Atlantic.
He said research is continuing in a variety of weather and climate areas.We need better environmental forecasts, Lautenbacher said. That goes all the way from water to drought to air quality to greenhouse gases ... all of the earth systems that we depend on for life.And that includes climate change, he added.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last month reported that the world is indeed warming and it is most likely because of human activities.I agree with the IPCC report, Lautenbacher said. I know of no reason not to take the IPCC report seriously.On the Net: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: http://www/noaa.gov
Yellowstone hotspot energy goes 150 miles Thu Mar 1, 8:38 PM ET
BILLINGS, Mont. - Scientists studying the giant volcanic hotspot beneath Yellowstone National Park said Thursday that even when the hotspot is inactive, it exerts energy that shapes the landscape 150 miles away.
The findings from the University of Utah defy long-standing beliefs that earthquakes triggered by volcanic activity account for most of the landscape deformations related to Yellowstone's hotspot, a volcanic plume more than 300 miles wide located deep beneath the earth's surface.Instead, much of the deformations were traced to more-constant pressures coming from the plume, said Robert Smith, a professor of geophysics and one of the authors of the study.
Smith said the results, which came out of a broader $2.3 million study of Yellowstone's geophysics, could help in forecasting future earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.Using satellite data to measure movements of the earth's crust over the past 17 years, Smith and his colleagues found the earth's surface was stretching by up to 4 millimeters a year due to energy released by the hotspot. They also found that a giant crater located above the hotspot the Yellowstone caldera rises and falls without always triggering eruptions.The energy that goes into deforming the ground is much greater than the earthquakes, said Christine Puskas, the lead author of the study. Regional deformation even is being experienced as far as the Snake River Valley in Idaho.The study is to be published Friday in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
March 1, 2007
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
Last week I drew your attention to a controversy at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, a place of great importance to both Jews and Muslims. A few years ago a severe storm damaged the pedestrian bridge leading to the Temple Mount, causing government officials to close it.
After very careful planning, Israel recently began replacing the decrepit walkway, with archeologists excavating nearby to ensure that no ancient treasures would be damaged due to the work.This simple act of replacing a walkway has caused an outcry from Muslim radicals, who see it as a conspiracy to destroy the Al-Aksa Mosque, located on top of the Mount—even though the mosque is hundreds of feet from the work itself. Incredibly, there have even been calls for Israel to halt this important work.In last week's Fellowship e-newsletter we asked your opinion—should Israel continue its work to construct the new walkway and protect antiquities in the area, or bow to the Islamist's demands? I am proud to say that you have not been taken in by the anti-Israel propaganda on this issue. More than 98 percent of respondents affirmed that Israel has acted with great sensitivity and should proceed with the work.Here are just a few representative comments, taken from the hundreds we received: More than sensitivity, I believe Israel has acted with utmost respect and has bent over backwards in trying to accommodate and calm the fears of all Muslims who may feel affected—which they aren't.
Unfortunately, the radical Muslims are always finding something to be upset and outraged about. They will try to cause problems anywhere they can. Israel must stand up to them, as must the rest of the sane world.This isn't about the walkway. It's about radical Muslims wanting total control of the Temple Mount, then Jerusalem, then Israel.My family supports Israel in all that she does, not only on this issue, but issues of safety and well being. I am not Jewish, but I know how God feels about the Jewish people, and I am proud to stand with them. It is time that Muslim leaders make an attempt to settle disputes in a civil way. It seems Israel continues … to make peaceful concessions but doesn't receive the same human kindness.How hypocritical that (the Muslim Authority that governs the Temple Mount) would demand work to stop considering the fact that they have destroyed so many ancient Jewish relics from the past.
Israel should invite some world dignitaries and neutral Muslims to see the truth. This should be videoed and sent all through the Muslim and world TV stations, so that the world would see the lies that are being perpetrated against Israel.Our holy sites are just as important to us as the Muslims' sites are to them. We do respect theirs and DO NOT destroy them, but I can't say the same for them.It is a travesty that Muslim leaders are distorting the truth for their own agenda. It is a vicious attempt, yet again, to undermine Israel at a time when they are sensitively dealing with these issues Once again, you have made it clear that you stand with Israel against the oppressive totalitarian regimes and forces that seek to destroy it, and that you are not deceived by the lies propagated by Israel's foes. You have said clearly and in a unified voice that Israel cannot bow to the threats of hateful Islamist fanatics and the forces of intimidation.
Your responses to this survey remind me of something former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said five years ago at our first annual International Day of Prayer and Solidarity with Israel. In a statement to Christians gathered that day to support Israel in prayer, he said, The great show of solidarity and support for Israel from American Christians offers great encouragement to me, my government and most importantly—the Israeli people.Those words are as true today as they were then. My friends, never underestimate the strength and comfort your prayers, support, and advocacy provide to Israel.
Thank you for you standing with Israel, for praying for her people, and for your continued support of the Fellowship's programs helping Israel and needy Jews around the world.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
Headline News
Thursday, March 01, 2007 by Staff Writer
Rabbis attempt to resume animal sacrifices on the Temple Mount
The present-day Sanhedrin Court along with a group of extremist rabbis announced their plans on Wednesday to resume ancient Temple practices of animal sacrifices on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, despite religious bans by Moslems and Jews. The court purchased herds of sheep for ritual sacrifice, which they have planned for the eve of Passover, depending on the situation at the controversial religious site. Regrettably, there are many extremist Israeli groups who want to carry out their plans, said Jerusalem's senior Islamic cleric, Mohammed Hussein. Let them say what they want, Al Aksa is a Moslem mosque.
The 71 members of the Sanhedrin have all the required elements necessary for Temple sacrifice, including the ritual altar, and said they want to begin sacrificing animals again, despite the absence of the Temple. Professor Hillel Weiss, a member of the Sanhedrin, said it is an important step to show that it’s not only talk. Rabbi Dov Stein, secretary of the new Sanhedrin Court, believes Temple sacrifices won’t happen any time soon. We want to do the sacrifice, but we have political problems, Stein said. We hope there will come a time when the government will agree. We will push for that to happen. Not all religious Jews are in favor of the sacrifices however. Animal sacrifice, as a mode of religious worship, stopped for Jews, Christians and Moslems, said Rabbi Daniel Hartman of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Moving back in that direction is not progress.
Pre-Purim Fast of Esther Today
by Hillel Fendel MAR 01,07
The joyous month of Adar takes a day off to commemorate the fasting and prayers led by Queen Esther against the genocidal decree of the evil Haman. Jews around the world are fasting today, in remembrance of the prayers, fasting and repentance that preceded the Jewish People's miraculous deliverance from Haman's plan to annihilate them some 2,500 years ago.
The story is recounted in the Bible's Book of Esther, which is read aloud on Purim night and morning. The Fast of Esther is generally held the day before Purim. This year, however, Purim falls on Sunday, and since the Sabbath is not a day of fasting (except if it coincides with Yom Kippur), the fast is pushed up to Thursday. The fast began at dawn, and ends shortly after sundown. Special penitential prayers, known as S'lichot, are added to the Fast of Esther morning prayer service, as on every day of fasting. The following are excerpts from the Fast of Esther prayers (translated by the late Rabbi Abraham Rosenfeld): They resolved to sell us, in our helplessness... I raised my eyes toward heaven and called upon Thee to... blot out [my enemy's] memory...Having listened to [Haman's] lying words, [King Ahasuerus] issued a hostile decree and invested himself with priestly garments [seized from the Holy Temple]... and ordered that diverse vessels from the marble Temple be used at the banquet, and Satan also came to take his stand among them.
When the [Jewish] people residing in Shushan partook of their foul repast, he opened his mouth to slander them and to deliver them into the hand [of Haman] who offered a price [to the king] for them; the Al-mighty consented that a document be written to destroy their hope....[The angels cried, and the Torah mourned, and Elijah the Prophet] girt his loins with a plaster of sackcloth and hastened to inform the three Patriarchs, asleep in [the Cave of] Machpelah; then he hastened to the shepherd [Moses, saying], Why are you sleeping so peacefully? Arise, call upon your G-d...[Mordechai] knocked at the gates of the schools, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on ashes [and fasted and prayed]... On both sides stood the children of my Patriarchs and my great ones; they all cried, and their cries went up to the L-rd... [Moses said], O L-rd, deliver from this wicked enemy those who are doomed to die. Then the All-Merciful's pity was deeply moved... Then the lot was reversed, that [the Jews] should rule over their enemies. The gallows stood ready to receive [Haman] the Agagite; the cloak of power was torn off and cast away from his face, and darkness enveloped the adversaries of our people. Peace and truth were decreed throughout [the realm]... Wherefore they made feasts which were ordained to be kept throughout the generations, and the recitation [of these events] should be read [aloud] O G-d, Thou hast taught us to recite the Thirteen Attributes; remember this day in our favor the Covenant of the Thirteen Attributes [as is written], The L-rd, the L-rd is a merciful and gracious G-d; slow to anger and abundant in kindness and truth; He keeps kindness for thousands [of generations], forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and acquitting; therefore, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us for Thy inheritance. Forgive us, our Father, for we have sinned.
The prayers include references to some of the important themes of Purim: The total reversal of fortunes enjoyed by the Jews and suffered by Haman, as well as the Purim feast and reading aloud of the Book of Esther; the name of Haman, a descendant of Amalek, is wiped out with noise and jeering every time it is heard.
Other Purim obligations include special gifts of charity to the poor, gifts of food to friends, wearing of costumes (emphasizing the reversal theme), and reaching a heightened state of joy - usually by intoxication. Torah scholars and students emphasize the importance of Torah study on this day as well. The atmosphere on Purim in particular, and throughout the month of Adar, is one of great joy and thanksgiving to G-d for the miraculous deliverance. Individual communities that enjoyed similar deliverances throughout history have marked the occasion locally with a holiday called Little Purim.Purim is celebrated in most of the world on the 14th of Adar, this coming Sunday.
In Jerusalem and other cities that were walled during Biblical times, Purim is commemorated on the 15th of Adar.
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.
Barge accident leads to toxic spill in river
Chicago Tribune news services
Published March 1, 2007
BROOKPORT, ILLINOIS -- Thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical spilled into the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky after a barge struck a lock wall, environmental officials said Wednesday.The spill, which occurred late Tuesday from a Kirby Inland Marine-owned barge, was as much as 8,000 gallons of a petroleum-based substance called cumene, said the state Environmental Protection Agency. The chemical spill did not appear to pose a serious threat to residents or marine life, the Coast Guard said.
Spain and Germany up pressure on EU constitution
01.03.2007 - 09:26 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER-BRUSSELS Spain has reaffirmed its role of a vocal promotor of the EU
constitution with renewed criticism of the UK, France and the Netherlands, while Germany is also upping the pressure saying it wants a new-style EU treaty before the end of the year. Alberto Navarro, Spanish Europe minister on Wednesday (1 March) reminded London, Paris and The Hague that the majority of 18 member statespresenting also a clear majority of the EU population have now ratified the EU constitution which French and Dutch voters rejected in referendums in 2005.
Mr Navarro reserved the strongest criticism for the UK, which has only recently indicated it wants to see a slimmed-down EU treaty including only some of the constitution's key institutional reforms. UK prime minister Tony Blair and his then foreign secretary Jack Straw in 2004-2005 strongly defended the constitution as a good result for Britain and for Europe, the Spanish minister highlighted. Obviously the position has changed in two years. At that time, they were proud. I don't know what has changed exactly and why they are so many problems now, he said. The remarks led Jim Allister, a unionist Northern Irish MEP, to say that all doesn't mean very much as Mr Blair is yesterday's man, expected to be replaced by his current finance minister Gordon Brown. Mr Brown is generally seen as more eurosceptic and less committed to a new EU treaty as Mr Blair.
Mr Navarro also expressed impatience with the unclear French and Dutch stances on the constitution, despite Paris being seen as paralysed until it has held presidential elections in May and despite the new Dutch government only taking office last week. What alternatives are being prepared by those who have rejected? Until now we haven't heard anything. France and the Netherlands have not told us what they don't like in the treaty.Eighty five percent of the constitutional treaty is already in the current treaty. As far as I understand the French and Dutch no does not lie in this 85 percent, he said.Mr Navarro also reminded Poland and the Czech Republic, who dislike key parts of the constitution text, that they are getting billions of euros of EU subsidies, appearing to suggest that they should be more grateful towards the rest of the EU.
Berlin makes haste
Spain, which approved the EU constitution in a 2005 referendum, has emerged as one of the most active proponents of salvaging the bulk of the charter in the upcoming re-negotiations of the document. Madrid together with Luxembourg organised a controversial friends of the constitution meeting last month to which countries who did not yet ratify the charter could only send observers. While Madrid has taken up a public pro-constitution campaigning role, Berlin is no less impatient to push the charter as the current EU presidency - albeit through confidential rounds of diplomacy with member states behind closed doors. Speaking at a dinner of the Brussels-based CEPS think-tank, German Europe minister Guenter Gloser said a re-negotiated constitution would have to be agreed by the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008, so there would be a long enough time to ratify by the European elections in 2009.
Berlin is expected to already present a basic deal on the constitution at the EU leaders' gathering at the end of its presidency in June this year. The deal would list the parts of the current constitution which would be left untouched, while also identifying the issues to come up for re-negotiations in a so-called Inter Governmental Conference (IGC) in the second half of the year. The presidency is going into the direction of establishing by June a kind of acquis for everybody – the broader the agreement of course the better, EU regional policy commissioner Danuta Hübner told journalists last week. And then of course we would have a very short IGC for all those hopefully short list of issues that still require an agreement, she added.
Dinner test
Berlin's constitutional drive will be put to the test already next week when German chancellor Angela Merkel is expected at an EU leaders summit dinner on Thursday evening (8 March) to present her ideas for a the Berlin declaration, marking the 50th anniversary of the EU. Berlin wants the solemn declaration, to be signed by EU leaders on 25 March, to include a reference to the need for a new EU treaty - possibly with a deadline for a compromise. But the move is opposed by states like the UK and the Netherlands who are not eager to be pushed on the constitutional issue.
I believe that the US economy is healthy
By David Litterick in New York
Last Updated: 1:09am GMT 02/03/2007
Comment: Experts' complacency cause for concern.Market shake-out points to end of the US era of financial dominance.US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson sought to calm volatile global markets. He insisted that, while he was watching developments carefully, he believed that the US economy is healthy.US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson.His comments yesterday came on another wild day for the markets, sparked by warnings from Japanese officials of higher interest rates that could disrupt the so-called carry trade and reduce liquidity in global markets.Japanese interest rates have recently been so low that investors have borrowed cheap yen then invested the money in higher-yielding assets in other currencies.
But, faced with higher borrowing costs in Japan, investors will find the cost of money more expensive, raising fears of a credit crunch. That prompted a 3pc drop in Shanghai and a near 1pc fall in the Nikkei in Tokyo, which sparked further losses in Europe.As one trader put it: Wednesday's rebound was like kissing your grandmother - somewhat comforting, but not exciting. I suspect there's more downward pressure to come.The Dow Jones initially fell more than 200 points. However, surprisingly strong figures from the US manufacturing sector followed by Mr Paulson's speech and an apparent U-turn from former Fed chief Alan Greenspan, who said a US recession was unlikely, meant the index was registering a 20-point gain by early afternoon.
The FTSE 100, after trading up 50 points at one stage and down as much as 150 points, closed at 6,116, a loss of 55.5 points.In his speech to the Economic Club of New York, Mr Paulson repeated his views that the biggest hurdles the world economy had to face were a return to protectionist trade policies and a reluctance by the Chinese government to move quickly enough to reform its economy.
Even presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waded into the debate, claiming that this week's stock market sell-off should serve as a wake-up call that the US economy was too dependent on foreign -held debt.
Fears of recession spark further turmoil in markets
By David Usborne in New York
Published: 02 March 2007
Fresh anxiety erupted about the health of the world's major economies yesterday after investors in stock markets across Asia, Europe and the United States once again staged significant retreats two days after Tuesday's unexpected global equity sell-off. In New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 200 points in the first minutes of trading, seeding fears of a repeat of Tuesday's massacre that saw a 416-point collapse on the index.With slowdowns emerging, notably in the housing market and car manufacturing in the United States, signs are building that it economy may be at a pivot point, with some observers worrying about decelerating expansion and possibly a recession looming.The fearful mood was exacerbated by comments from Alan Greenspan, the influential former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, about the possibility of the US entering recession before year's end. He told a conference in Tokyo yesterday: By the end of the year, there is the possibility but not the probability of the US moving into recession. He has argued this week that corporate profit margins appear to be narrowing, indicating that a recent economic expansion has reached a mature phase.
Market watchers warned of several more bumpy days to come, pointing to the renewed erosions in stock markets globally yesterday. The Shanghai stock market slippedan additional 2.9 per cent. The London FTSE index closed down 55.5 points or 1.5 per cent. The Dow later recouped most of its early losses as some more encouraging economic data was released and closed down 34.29 points. But fears remain that there may be worse to come. All the markets have fallen significantly during the course of the week.Senator Hillary Clinton, a candidate for the US presidency, last night called events of recent days a real wake-up call for the United States, saying it was increasingly losing control of its economic sovereignty because of the globalisation of economies and policy-making, including in China.We are in a different environment, she said, noting the $2.2 trillion (£1.1trillion) foreign debt held by the US. Obviously, the level of public debt that is held by central banks and foreign government is a problem and I don't want our government to ignore this wake-up call.A degree of calm was restored to the New York market after indicators were released showing better-than-expected manufacturing numbers for the US. The Institute for Supply Management's index of manufacturing activity registered 52.3 for January, stronger than the 50.0 reading analysts had expected. By convention, a recession is considered to be in the offing if that number falls below the 50-point mark.
The US Commerce Department revealed that seasonally adjusted personal income in the US rose by 1.5 per cent in January, which was also a better result than had been anticipated.
Investors have been spooked by this week's gyrations after enjoying 12 months of almost unbroken growth in stocks. No one was more shocked than the new Chinese investors who watched in dismay on Tuesday as the Shanghai index tumbled almost 9 per cent.US economists are contemplating a change in the balance of power between world markets, where New York can nowadays find itself hostage to foreign market performances.It's kind of the tail wagging the dog, said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co in New York. There's no stability in Asian markets, and no stability in European markets. We're trading the market as the rest of the globe is.After the Shanghai Sneeze, as some called it, officials tried to sootheinvestors. There was a brief claw-back on Wednesday in New York after Mr Greenspan's successor at the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, said in congressional testimony that there's a reasonable possibility that we'll see some strengthening of the economy sometime during the middle of the year. He played down a report that showed that a 2006 fourth-quarter expansion of the US economy was slower than previously estimated.
There was no saying how the week would end for world markets today. The aftermath of Tuesday's major sell-off will linger for the next couple of days, said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at brokerage house Avalon Partners. He added, however, that fear of recession is overblown.That Mr Greenspan is still able to move world markets even in retirement is certain to raise questions about whether he would do better to keep his counsel.
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 Mar 3 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 02,07
MAP 2.8 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.8 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.2 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAR 01,07
MAP 5.7 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 5.3 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 5.3 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.4 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.9 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.1 WASHINGTON
MAP 3.6 OREGON
MAP 2.6 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.3 NEVADA
MAP 4.6 GUERRERO, MEXICO
MAP 3.1 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.3 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 2.7 NEVADA
MAP 5.7 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
FEB 28,07
MAP 4.2 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 6.2 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 3.9 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.8 EASTERN TURKEY
MAP 5.0 KORYAKIA, RUSSIA
MAP 4.8 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 2.9 NEVADA
MAP 3.5 NEVADA
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 5.1 CELEBES SEA
MAP 2.5 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.9 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.7 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.5 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
4.2 earthquake hits San Francisco Fri Mar 2, 12:05 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - A magnitude 4.2 earthquake that could be felt throughout the Bay Area struck Thursday night, officials said. The temblor struck 1 mile northeast of Lafayette, the United States Geological Survey Web site said. Residents said it lasted between 10 and 15 seconds.There were no immediate reports of any damage or injuries, but Bay Area Rapid Transit trains were temporarily stopped, authorities said.
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.
MARCH 1, 2007 - 11:54 ET
Environment Canada: Ontario Weather Review
February 2007 - C-c-c-cold enough for you?
TORONTO, ONTARIO (CCNMatthews March 1, 2007) The above-normal temperatures that
have been reported since November of last year have now been replaced with exceptionally cold temperatures.
Across the province, the mean temperatures for the month have now dropped in a range of two to five degrees below normal.Snowfall was also noteworthy this month. The Great Lakes, with most of the surface as open water in the early part of the month, was responsible for high snow reports in some areas. The typical snowbelt areas, and atypically Hamilton, had high accumulations - in the case of Wiarton, it was record breaking. Locations outside these snowbelt areas had near-normal or below-normal amounts.Overall, the trend of precipitation was drier than normal across the province. The colder temperatures reduced the amount of available moisture in these cases.
Severe Weather
Lake-effect snows were the big story to start off the month. On February 1 and 2, a very cold flow of air from the southwest caused snow bands to set up off of Georgian Bay.
These bands ended up dumping approximately 40 centimetres of snow in the North Bay area during these two days. On February 2, a series of snow bands from the southwest moved onshore near the Cobourg area and caused near-whiteout conditions that may have been an important factor in a fatal crash on Highway 401.From February 4-7, the winds shifted and blew the cold air in from the northwest. This shifted snowsquall activity to the more traditional snowbelt areas to the lee of Lake Superior, Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. During this four-day period, Sault Ste Marie received a little more than 70 centimetres of snow and the Barrie area almost 60 centimetres. As well, in less than 12 hours during this timeframe, the Owen Sound area picked up approximately 50 centimetres of fresh snow.
St. Valentine's Day turned out to be more for shovelers than for lovers, especially around the western end of Lake Ontario. A well-developed storm system that moved south of the lower Great Lakes combined with strong lake-effect snow bands generated with a wind from the northeast to give the Hamilton area an official 46 centimetres. This all occurred just between the evening of February 13 and the morning of February 14. However, unofficial estimates of the snow in areas around Hamilton and Burlington were upwards of 60 centimetres, with drifts well over a metre in height. Other parts of Southern Ontario which were not impacted by the off-lake snow received amounts between 10 and 15 centimetres.The last weekend of the month saw another strong storm system pass to the south of the lower Great Lakes, with the biggest impacts in Ontario being felt in the extreme southwestern part of the province. The Windsor, Sarnia and London areas all saw a number of hours of freezing rain from this event on Sunday, February 25. The Golden Horseshoe experienced the whole event as snow, with general accumulations in the five- to 15-centimetre range. The majority of the snow fell between late Sunday and late Monday. Slightly higher amounts were received in the Oakville, Mississauga and Milton areas as east winds off of Lake Ontario added to the available moisture.
Seven killed as tornado hits US homes
By Tom Leonard in New York - GMT 02/03/2007
At least seven people, many of them teenagers, were killed in Alabama yesterday when a huge tornado ripped through the southern state, flattening houses and demolishing a school.Five of the victims were students and teachers who were killed after they were trapped inside a high school in the town of Enterprise which lay right in the path of the supercell storm.Other students were seriously injured after they were buried beneath a collapsing wall inside the building.In the chaotic hours after the storm, reports of the death toll varied wildly, at one point reaching as high as 18 dead. More than 50 people were taken to hospital in Enterprise, some of them seriously injured. Many of them were evacuated by army helicopters sent from a nearby military base.
The thing tore a swathe through town a mile and half, maybe two miles long, said Larry Walker, the deputy director of the local emergency management agency.An Enterprise resident said that the town in the immediate aftermath of the tornado looked like a bomb had dropped.Martha Rodriquez, a 15-year-old, said she had left the school about five minutes before the storm hit. When she returned, a hall at the school had collapsed.The stadium was destroyed and there were cars tipped over in the parking lot and trees were ripped out. There were trees and wood everywhere. It was just horrible, she said.It is complete devastation, Sheriff Russell Thomas said as he helped rescuers in Enterprise. It is very tragic.One volunteer helping to look for survivors told a local television station: I pulled out two dead little girls.
Bob Riley, the Alabama governor, said that he had asked about 100 National Guardsmen to go to Enterprise to assist in recovery efforts and that additional troops were standing by.The tornado was just a small part of an immense storm system, which extended down through the middle of America from Minnesota to the Gulf.It also hit Kansas and Missouri, ripping up power lines and damaging buildings.In Missouri, it was blamed for the death of a seven-year-old girl who had been sheltering with her family.Tornadoes, hailstorms and high winds remained a threat in many parts of the south-eastern United States during the night, said meteorologists.
Snow, freezing rain expected for Ont. on Thursday
toronto.ctv.ca FEB 28,07
The first day of March could be a miserable one for many in southern Ontario as a storm system moving into the region is expected to dump between five and 10 centimetres of snow and then change to freezing rain later in the day. Snow flurries are expected to begin falling in the morning, which could make the commute to work tricky.
But Environment Canada says the drive home could be treacherous with the forecast period of freezing rain. The weather system coming in from the United States is also expected to trigger wind gusts of up to 70 km/hr. Forecasters are calling for a high of 0C. Thursday's winter weather comes as residents in Toronto enjoyed a sunny and mild last day of February. The mercury on Wednesday hit 3C. March couldn't come soon enough for many in southern Ontario, who braved through a bitterly cold February that brought heavy snowfalls at times. Friday's forecast calls for a chance of flurries and a high of 1C, with similar weather predicted over the weekend.
NOAA outlines dangers of coastal living By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 1, 3:58 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The head of the nation's weather and climate research agency says the biggest challenge facing the world is population growth and people's desire to live in coastal areas where they can be endangered by storms. I believe that the population issue is huge, Conrad Lautenbacher said Thursday. And it's not just the U.S., there are six billion ... getting up to seven billion people on the Earth and they all want to live in coastal zones.Lautenbacher is head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency that studies weather and climate and issues storm warnings and forecasts, among other activities.More than half the U.S. population lives in coastal areas and Lautenbacher said that means you have a lot less margin of ability to absorb and to mitigate and to adapt to severe weather events.
We need to be much better at our ability to predict and tell you what's going to happen, he said. We need much better preparation along our coastlines, we need much better building codes, flood insurance, all of the economic issues.Lautenbacher's comments come just months before hurricane season begins in June, with millions of people in coastal areas wondering what the storm season will be like.While 2005 was one of the worst storm years on record, with such massive hurricanes as Katrina and Rita, last year was mild by comparison.Lautenbacher declined to make a prediction for this year, saying only that the National Hurricane Center will issue a forecast in May.However, on Tuesday his agency noted that La Nina conditions appear to be developing in the Pacific Ocean. La Nina is a cooling of the sea along with changes in winds and air pressure that can affect weather worldwide. Typically in La Nina years there are fewer storms in the Pacific and more in the Atlantic.
He said research is continuing in a variety of weather and climate areas.We need better environmental forecasts, Lautenbacher said. That goes all the way from water to drought to air quality to greenhouse gases ... all of the earth systems that we depend on for life.And that includes climate change, he added.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last month reported that the world is indeed warming and it is most likely because of human activities.I agree with the IPCC report, Lautenbacher said. I know of no reason not to take the IPCC report seriously.On the Net: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: http://www/noaa.gov
Yellowstone hotspot energy goes 150 miles Thu Mar 1, 8:38 PM ET
BILLINGS, Mont. - Scientists studying the giant volcanic hotspot beneath Yellowstone National Park said Thursday that even when the hotspot is inactive, it exerts energy that shapes the landscape 150 miles away.
The findings from the University of Utah defy long-standing beliefs that earthquakes triggered by volcanic activity account for most of the landscape deformations related to Yellowstone's hotspot, a volcanic plume more than 300 miles wide located deep beneath the earth's surface.Instead, much of the deformations were traced to more-constant pressures coming from the plume, said Robert Smith, a professor of geophysics and one of the authors of the study.
Smith said the results, which came out of a broader $2.3 million study of Yellowstone's geophysics, could help in forecasting future earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.Using satellite data to measure movements of the earth's crust over the past 17 years, Smith and his colleagues found the earth's surface was stretching by up to 4 millimeters a year due to energy released by the hotspot. They also found that a giant crater located above the hotspot the Yellowstone caldera rises and falls without always triggering eruptions.The energy that goes into deforming the ground is much greater than the earthquakes, said Christine Puskas, the lead author of the study. Regional deformation even is being experienced as far as the Snake River Valley in Idaho.The study is to be published Friday in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
March 1, 2007
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
Last week I drew your attention to a controversy at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, a place of great importance to both Jews and Muslims. A few years ago a severe storm damaged the pedestrian bridge leading to the Temple Mount, causing government officials to close it.
After very careful planning, Israel recently began replacing the decrepit walkway, with archeologists excavating nearby to ensure that no ancient treasures would be damaged due to the work.This simple act of replacing a walkway has caused an outcry from Muslim radicals, who see it as a conspiracy to destroy the Al-Aksa Mosque, located on top of the Mount—even though the mosque is hundreds of feet from the work itself. Incredibly, there have even been calls for Israel to halt this important work.In last week's Fellowship e-newsletter we asked your opinion—should Israel continue its work to construct the new walkway and protect antiquities in the area, or bow to the Islamist's demands? I am proud to say that you have not been taken in by the anti-Israel propaganda on this issue. More than 98 percent of respondents affirmed that Israel has acted with great sensitivity and should proceed with the work.Here are just a few representative comments, taken from the hundreds we received: More than sensitivity, I believe Israel has acted with utmost respect and has bent over backwards in trying to accommodate and calm the fears of all Muslims who may feel affected—which they aren't.
Unfortunately, the radical Muslims are always finding something to be upset and outraged about. They will try to cause problems anywhere they can. Israel must stand up to them, as must the rest of the sane world.This isn't about the walkway. It's about radical Muslims wanting total control of the Temple Mount, then Jerusalem, then Israel.My family supports Israel in all that she does, not only on this issue, but issues of safety and well being. I am not Jewish, but I know how God feels about the Jewish people, and I am proud to stand with them. It is time that Muslim leaders make an attempt to settle disputes in a civil way. It seems Israel continues … to make peaceful concessions but doesn't receive the same human kindness.How hypocritical that (the Muslim Authority that governs the Temple Mount) would demand work to stop considering the fact that they have destroyed so many ancient Jewish relics from the past.
Israel should invite some world dignitaries and neutral Muslims to see the truth. This should be videoed and sent all through the Muslim and world TV stations, so that the world would see the lies that are being perpetrated against Israel.Our holy sites are just as important to us as the Muslims' sites are to them. We do respect theirs and DO NOT destroy them, but I can't say the same for them.It is a travesty that Muslim leaders are distorting the truth for their own agenda. It is a vicious attempt, yet again, to undermine Israel at a time when they are sensitively dealing with these issues Once again, you have made it clear that you stand with Israel against the oppressive totalitarian regimes and forces that seek to destroy it, and that you are not deceived by the lies propagated by Israel's foes. You have said clearly and in a unified voice that Israel cannot bow to the threats of hateful Islamist fanatics and the forces of intimidation.
Your responses to this survey remind me of something former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said five years ago at our first annual International Day of Prayer and Solidarity with Israel. In a statement to Christians gathered that day to support Israel in prayer, he said, The great show of solidarity and support for Israel from American Christians offers great encouragement to me, my government and most importantly—the Israeli people.Those words are as true today as they were then. My friends, never underestimate the strength and comfort your prayers, support, and advocacy provide to Israel.
Thank you for you standing with Israel, for praying for her people, and for your continued support of the Fellowship's programs helping Israel and needy Jews around the world.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
Headline News
Thursday, March 01, 2007 by Staff Writer
Rabbis attempt to resume animal sacrifices on the Temple Mount
The present-day Sanhedrin Court along with a group of extremist rabbis announced their plans on Wednesday to resume ancient Temple practices of animal sacrifices on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, despite religious bans by Moslems and Jews. The court purchased herds of sheep for ritual sacrifice, which they have planned for the eve of Passover, depending on the situation at the controversial religious site. Regrettably, there are many extremist Israeli groups who want to carry out their plans, said Jerusalem's senior Islamic cleric, Mohammed Hussein. Let them say what they want, Al Aksa is a Moslem mosque.
The 71 members of the Sanhedrin have all the required elements necessary for Temple sacrifice, including the ritual altar, and said they want to begin sacrificing animals again, despite the absence of the Temple. Professor Hillel Weiss, a member of the Sanhedrin, said it is an important step to show that it’s not only talk. Rabbi Dov Stein, secretary of the new Sanhedrin Court, believes Temple sacrifices won’t happen any time soon. We want to do the sacrifice, but we have political problems, Stein said. We hope there will come a time when the government will agree. We will push for that to happen. Not all religious Jews are in favor of the sacrifices however. Animal sacrifice, as a mode of religious worship, stopped for Jews, Christians and Moslems, said Rabbi Daniel Hartman of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Moving back in that direction is not progress.
Pre-Purim Fast of Esther Today
by Hillel Fendel MAR 01,07
The joyous month of Adar takes a day off to commemorate the fasting and prayers led by Queen Esther against the genocidal decree of the evil Haman. Jews around the world are fasting today, in remembrance of the prayers, fasting and repentance that preceded the Jewish People's miraculous deliverance from Haman's plan to annihilate them some 2,500 years ago.
The story is recounted in the Bible's Book of Esther, which is read aloud on Purim night and morning. The Fast of Esther is generally held the day before Purim. This year, however, Purim falls on Sunday, and since the Sabbath is not a day of fasting (except if it coincides with Yom Kippur), the fast is pushed up to Thursday. The fast began at dawn, and ends shortly after sundown. Special penitential prayers, known as S'lichot, are added to the Fast of Esther morning prayer service, as on every day of fasting. The following are excerpts from the Fast of Esther prayers (translated by the late Rabbi Abraham Rosenfeld): They resolved to sell us, in our helplessness... I raised my eyes toward heaven and called upon Thee to... blot out [my enemy's] memory...Having listened to [Haman's] lying words, [King Ahasuerus] issued a hostile decree and invested himself with priestly garments [seized from the Holy Temple]... and ordered that diverse vessels from the marble Temple be used at the banquet, and Satan also came to take his stand among them.
When the [Jewish] people residing in Shushan partook of their foul repast, he opened his mouth to slander them and to deliver them into the hand [of Haman] who offered a price [to the king] for them; the Al-mighty consented that a document be written to destroy their hope....[The angels cried, and the Torah mourned, and Elijah the Prophet] girt his loins with a plaster of sackcloth and hastened to inform the three Patriarchs, asleep in [the Cave of] Machpelah; then he hastened to the shepherd [Moses, saying], Why are you sleeping so peacefully? Arise, call upon your G-d...[Mordechai] knocked at the gates of the schools, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on ashes [and fasted and prayed]... On both sides stood the children of my Patriarchs and my great ones; they all cried, and their cries went up to the L-rd... [Moses said], O L-rd, deliver from this wicked enemy those who are doomed to die. Then the All-Merciful's pity was deeply moved... Then the lot was reversed, that [the Jews] should rule over their enemies. The gallows stood ready to receive [Haman] the Agagite; the cloak of power was torn off and cast away from his face, and darkness enveloped the adversaries of our people. Peace and truth were decreed throughout [the realm]... Wherefore they made feasts which were ordained to be kept throughout the generations, and the recitation [of these events] should be read [aloud] O G-d, Thou hast taught us to recite the Thirteen Attributes; remember this day in our favor the Covenant of the Thirteen Attributes [as is written], The L-rd, the L-rd is a merciful and gracious G-d; slow to anger and abundant in kindness and truth; He keeps kindness for thousands [of generations], forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and acquitting; therefore, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us for Thy inheritance. Forgive us, our Father, for we have sinned.
The prayers include references to some of the important themes of Purim: The total reversal of fortunes enjoyed by the Jews and suffered by Haman, as well as the Purim feast and reading aloud of the Book of Esther; the name of Haman, a descendant of Amalek, is wiped out with noise and jeering every time it is heard.
Other Purim obligations include special gifts of charity to the poor, gifts of food to friends, wearing of costumes (emphasizing the reversal theme), and reaching a heightened state of joy - usually by intoxication. Torah scholars and students emphasize the importance of Torah study on this day as well. The atmosphere on Purim in particular, and throughout the month of Adar, is one of great joy and thanksgiving to G-d for the miraculous deliverance. Individual communities that enjoyed similar deliverances throughout history have marked the occasion locally with a holiday called Little Purim.Purim is celebrated in most of the world on the 14th of Adar, this coming Sunday.
In Jerusalem and other cities that were walled during Biblical times, Purim is commemorated on the 15th of Adar.
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.
Barge accident leads to toxic spill in river
Chicago Tribune news services
Published March 1, 2007
BROOKPORT, ILLINOIS -- Thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical spilled into the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky after a barge struck a lock wall, environmental officials said Wednesday.The spill, which occurred late Tuesday from a Kirby Inland Marine-owned barge, was as much as 8,000 gallons of a petroleum-based substance called cumene, said the state Environmental Protection Agency. The chemical spill did not appear to pose a serious threat to residents or marine life, the Coast Guard said.
Spain and Germany up pressure on EU constitution
01.03.2007 - 09:26 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER-BRUSSELS Spain has reaffirmed its role of a vocal promotor of the EU
constitution with renewed criticism of the UK, France and the Netherlands, while Germany is also upping the pressure saying it wants a new-style EU treaty before the end of the year. Alberto Navarro, Spanish Europe minister on Wednesday (1 March) reminded London, Paris and The Hague that the majority of 18 member statespresenting also a clear majority of the EU population have now ratified the EU constitution which French and Dutch voters rejected in referendums in 2005.
Mr Navarro reserved the strongest criticism for the UK, which has only recently indicated it wants to see a slimmed-down EU treaty including only some of the constitution's key institutional reforms. UK prime minister Tony Blair and his then foreign secretary Jack Straw in 2004-2005 strongly defended the constitution as a good result for Britain and for Europe, the Spanish minister highlighted. Obviously the position has changed in two years. At that time, they were proud. I don't know what has changed exactly and why they are so many problems now, he said. The remarks led Jim Allister, a unionist Northern Irish MEP, to say that all doesn't mean very much as Mr Blair is yesterday's man, expected to be replaced by his current finance minister Gordon Brown. Mr Brown is generally seen as more eurosceptic and less committed to a new EU treaty as Mr Blair.
Mr Navarro also expressed impatience with the unclear French and Dutch stances on the constitution, despite Paris being seen as paralysed until it has held presidential elections in May and despite the new Dutch government only taking office last week. What alternatives are being prepared by those who have rejected? Until now we haven't heard anything. France and the Netherlands have not told us what they don't like in the treaty.Eighty five percent of the constitutional treaty is already in the current treaty. As far as I understand the French and Dutch no does not lie in this 85 percent, he said.Mr Navarro also reminded Poland and the Czech Republic, who dislike key parts of the constitution text, that they are getting billions of euros of EU subsidies, appearing to suggest that they should be more grateful towards the rest of the EU.
Berlin makes haste
Spain, which approved the EU constitution in a 2005 referendum, has emerged as one of the most active proponents of salvaging the bulk of the charter in the upcoming re-negotiations of the document. Madrid together with Luxembourg organised a controversial friends of the constitution meeting last month to which countries who did not yet ratify the charter could only send observers. While Madrid has taken up a public pro-constitution campaigning role, Berlin is no less impatient to push the charter as the current EU presidency - albeit through confidential rounds of diplomacy with member states behind closed doors. Speaking at a dinner of the Brussels-based CEPS think-tank, German Europe minister Guenter Gloser said a re-negotiated constitution would have to be agreed by the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008, so there would be a long enough time to ratify by the European elections in 2009.
Berlin is expected to already present a basic deal on the constitution at the EU leaders' gathering at the end of its presidency in June this year. The deal would list the parts of the current constitution which would be left untouched, while also identifying the issues to come up for re-negotiations in a so-called Inter Governmental Conference (IGC) in the second half of the year. The presidency is going into the direction of establishing by June a kind of acquis for everybody – the broader the agreement of course the better, EU regional policy commissioner Danuta Hübner told journalists last week. And then of course we would have a very short IGC for all those hopefully short list of issues that still require an agreement, she added.
Dinner test
Berlin's constitutional drive will be put to the test already next week when German chancellor Angela Merkel is expected at an EU leaders summit dinner on Thursday evening (8 March) to present her ideas for a the Berlin declaration, marking the 50th anniversary of the EU. Berlin wants the solemn declaration, to be signed by EU leaders on 25 March, to include a reference to the need for a new EU treaty - possibly with a deadline for a compromise. But the move is opposed by states like the UK and the Netherlands who are not eager to be pushed on the constitutional issue.
I believe that the US economy is healthy
By David Litterick in New York
Last Updated: 1:09am GMT 02/03/2007
Comment: Experts' complacency cause for concern.Market shake-out points to end of the US era of financial dominance.US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson sought to calm volatile global markets. He insisted that, while he was watching developments carefully, he believed that the US economy is healthy.US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson.His comments yesterday came on another wild day for the markets, sparked by warnings from Japanese officials of higher interest rates that could disrupt the so-called carry trade and reduce liquidity in global markets.Japanese interest rates have recently been so low that investors have borrowed cheap yen then invested the money in higher-yielding assets in other currencies.
But, faced with higher borrowing costs in Japan, investors will find the cost of money more expensive, raising fears of a credit crunch. That prompted a 3pc drop in Shanghai and a near 1pc fall in the Nikkei in Tokyo, which sparked further losses in Europe.As one trader put it: Wednesday's rebound was like kissing your grandmother - somewhat comforting, but not exciting. I suspect there's more downward pressure to come.The Dow Jones initially fell more than 200 points. However, surprisingly strong figures from the US manufacturing sector followed by Mr Paulson's speech and an apparent U-turn from former Fed chief Alan Greenspan, who said a US recession was unlikely, meant the index was registering a 20-point gain by early afternoon.
The FTSE 100, after trading up 50 points at one stage and down as much as 150 points, closed at 6,116, a loss of 55.5 points.In his speech to the Economic Club of New York, Mr Paulson repeated his views that the biggest hurdles the world economy had to face were a return to protectionist trade policies and a reluctance by the Chinese government to move quickly enough to reform its economy.
Even presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waded into the debate, claiming that this week's stock market sell-off should serve as a wake-up call that the US economy was too dependent on foreign -held debt.
Fears of recession spark further turmoil in markets
By David Usborne in New York
Published: 02 March 2007
Fresh anxiety erupted about the health of the world's major economies yesterday after investors in stock markets across Asia, Europe and the United States once again staged significant retreats two days after Tuesday's unexpected global equity sell-off. In New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 200 points in the first minutes of trading, seeding fears of a repeat of Tuesday's massacre that saw a 416-point collapse on the index.With slowdowns emerging, notably in the housing market and car manufacturing in the United States, signs are building that it economy may be at a pivot point, with some observers worrying about decelerating expansion and possibly a recession looming.The fearful mood was exacerbated by comments from Alan Greenspan, the influential former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, about the possibility of the US entering recession before year's end. He told a conference in Tokyo yesterday: By the end of the year, there is the possibility but not the probability of the US moving into recession. He has argued this week that corporate profit margins appear to be narrowing, indicating that a recent economic expansion has reached a mature phase.
Market watchers warned of several more bumpy days to come, pointing to the renewed erosions in stock markets globally yesterday. The Shanghai stock market slippedan additional 2.9 per cent. The London FTSE index closed down 55.5 points or 1.5 per cent. The Dow later recouped most of its early losses as some more encouraging economic data was released and closed down 34.29 points. But fears remain that there may be worse to come. All the markets have fallen significantly during the course of the week.Senator Hillary Clinton, a candidate for the US presidency, last night called events of recent days a real wake-up call for the United States, saying it was increasingly losing control of its economic sovereignty because of the globalisation of economies and policy-making, including in China.We are in a different environment, she said, noting the $2.2 trillion (£1.1trillion) foreign debt held by the US. Obviously, the level of public debt that is held by central banks and foreign government is a problem and I don't want our government to ignore this wake-up call.A degree of calm was restored to the New York market after indicators were released showing better-than-expected manufacturing numbers for the US. The Institute for Supply Management's index of manufacturing activity registered 52.3 for January, stronger than the 50.0 reading analysts had expected. By convention, a recession is considered to be in the offing if that number falls below the 50-point mark.
The US Commerce Department revealed that seasonally adjusted personal income in the US rose by 1.5 per cent in January, which was also a better result than had been anticipated.
Investors have been spooked by this week's gyrations after enjoying 12 months of almost unbroken growth in stocks. No one was more shocked than the new Chinese investors who watched in dismay on Tuesday as the Shanghai index tumbled almost 9 per cent.US economists are contemplating a change in the balance of power between world markets, where New York can nowadays find itself hostage to foreign market performances.It's kind of the tail wagging the dog, said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co in New York. There's no stability in Asian markets, and no stability in European markets. We're trading the market as the rest of the globe is.After the Shanghai Sneeze, as some called it, officials tried to sootheinvestors. There was a brief claw-back on Wednesday in New York after Mr Greenspan's successor at the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, said in congressional testimony that there's a reasonable possibility that we'll see some strengthening of the economy sometime during the middle of the year. He played down a report that showed that a 2006 fourth-quarter expansion of the US economy was slower than previously estimated.
There was no saying how the week would end for world markets today. The aftermath of Tuesday's major sell-off will linger for the next couple of days, said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at brokerage house Avalon Partners. He added, however, that fear of recession is overblown.That Mr Greenspan is still able to move world markets even in retirement is certain to raise questions about whether he would do better to keep his counsel.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
ORTHODOX SANHEDRIN TO SACRIFICE ON MOUNT
HAPPY PURIM ISRAEL
IT LOOKS LIKE THE PROPHCY OF REBUILDING THE THIRD TEMPLE COULD SOON BECOME REALITY AS THE ORTHODOX SANHEDRIN WANT TO SACRIFICE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT FOR PASSOVER.
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( 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.
Present-day Sanhedrin court seeks to revive ancient Temple rituals FEB 28,07 By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
The present-day Sanhedrin Court decided Tuesday to purchase a herd of sheep for ritual sacrifice at the site of the Temple on the eve of Passover, conditions on the Temple Mount permitting.The modern Sanhedrin was established several years ago and is headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. It claims to be renewing the ancient Jewish high court, which existed until roughly 1600 years ago, and meets once a week.Professor Hillel Weiss, a member of the Sanhedrin, told Haaretz on Tuesday that the action, even if merely symbolic, is designed to demonstrate in a way that is obvious to all that the expectation of Temple rituals will resume is real, and not just talk.Several years ago, a number of members of the various Temple movements performed a symbolic sacrifice on Givat Hananya, which overlooks the Temple Mount from Jerusalem's Abu Tur neighborhood. During the ceremony, participants sacrificed a young goat that was donated by a resident of Tekoa. The participants also built a special two-meter tall oven, in accordance with halakha (Jewish law).
The Passover sacrifice is considered a simple ceremony, relative to other works performed in the Temple. On Wednesday, the Sanhedrin will hold its main conference, entitled Existential threats and ways to correct them. Rabbi Menachem Froman, far-right activist Moshe Feiglin, and Nativ editor Arieh Stav will participate in the conference. The guest of honor will be Makor Rishon publisher Shlomo Ben-Zvi.
PLANS FOR THIRD JEWISH TEMPLE DEVELOPING
By Joel C. Rosenberg MAR 01,07
1, 2007) -- It's been nearly 2,000 years since Jews celebrated Passover at the Temple in Jerusalem, but that will change soon if a growing Orthodox Jewish movement in Israel has its way. The present-day Sanhedrin Court decided Tuesday to purchase a herd of sheep for ritual sacrifice at the site of the Temple on the eve of Passover, conditions on the Temple Mount permitting, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported yesterday. The modern Sanhedrin was established several years ago and is headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. It claims to be renewing the ancient Jewish high court, which existed until roughly 1600 years ago, and meets once a week.
Professor Hillel Weiss, a member of the Sanhedrin, told Haaretz on Tuesday that the action, even if merely symbolic, is designed to demonstrate in a way that is obvious to all that the expectation of Temple rituals will resume is real, and not just talk. Several years ago, a number of members of the various Temple movements performed a symbolic sacrifice on Givat Hananya, which overlooks the Temple Mount from Jerusalem's Abu Tur neighborhood. During the ceremony, participants sacrificed a young goat that was donated by a resident of Tekoa. The participants also built a special two-meter tall oven, in accordance with halakha (Jewish law).The Passover sacrifice is considered a simple ceremony, relative to other works performed in the Temple.
Numerous Biblical prophecies in the Old and New Testaments indicate a new Temple will be built in the last days, suggesting such headlines have been foretold for centuries. Several Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel are currently making preparations to build and outfit the Third Temple.
Some are developing detailed architectural plans for the structure, while others are creating the religious implements and clothing that would be used by Levitical priests to carry out sacrifices once the Temple is in place. Tensions over control of the Temple Mount are running high at the moment, with Palestinians rioting several weeks ago to keep Israelis from building a ramp so visitors can safely access the ancient holy site. Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in Khartoum on a two-day state visit to forge a military and economic alliance between Iran and Sudan, to denounce Israeli Jews as children of the Devil and to denounce the United States for trying to plant seeds of sectarian discord throughout Iraq and the Middle East.
Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan, Ahmadinejad told a meeting of Islamic scholars. The Iranian leader also told the people of Sudan: There is no place in the world that suffers from divisions and wars unless America or the Zionists fingerprints are seen there.Ahmadinejad met with Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir to hold wide-ranging talks aimed at increasing bilateral cooperation in agriculture and industry that should culminate Thursday with the signing of a package of agreements, reports Agence France Presse.
Iran has also offered its expertise in the oil industry, an area currently dominated by China, India and Malaysia, but the issue that has also been at the heart of Iran-Sudan ties is military cooperation, with Sudanese Defence Minister Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein having visited Iran three times over the past year.Ahmadinejad also made known his opposition to U.N. peacekeeping forces being positioned in Sudan to end the genocide underway in the Darfur region and elsewhere. Iran together with China, whose President Hu Jintao visited Khartoum earlier this month is a key ally of Beshir's regime and spoken out against plans for a UN deployment in Darfur, reports AFP. It's bad enough, of course, that two radical Islamic countries are forging ever stronger ties in their jihad against Judeo-Christian civilization. But what is particularly curious about the emergence of an even stronger Iran-Sudan alliance this week is that it was foretold 2,500 years ago by the Hebrew Prophet Ezekiel in chapters 38 and 39. Ezekiel 38:5 tells us that Persia and a people group known as Cush will be allies with Russia and a group of other Middle Eastern countries in an effort to destroy Israel in what Bible scholars refer to as the War of Gog and Magog. Until 1935, Persia was the official, legal name of the country we now know as Iran. Cush is the upper Nile region that today is Sudan and Ethiopia. One other interesting note: right after the Hebrew prophet describes this War of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38-39, he goes on to describe the rebuilt Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in Ezekiel 40-48.
YES MOSHE FEIGLIN IS CALLING FOR THE TEMPLE MOUNT TO ISRAELIS. GO MOSHE GO.
Israel: Jewish Safe Haven or Death Trap? by Moshe Feiglin MAR 01,07
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Livni have only one significant solution for the Iranian nuclear threat: They suggest that we pressure the international community. Olmert's pressure includes development of the Arrow missile that is supposed to destroy incoming missiles in the sky. But the Arrow missile is a weapon that essentially breaks Israel 's Samson Option its power of deterrence. The Arrow has no chance of successfully protecting Israel if it is attacked at once by several ballistic missiles or by one missile with multiple warheads, or even if our enemy attacks Israel on a cloudy day. Israel just doesn’t have enough of them, and they just are not fool proof. If Israel actually tried to use the Arrow to intercept all the missiles with which its enemies are armed, it will have to invest its entire defense budget exclusively on building enough Arrow missiles.
In other words, we are paying astronomical sums of money for a national sleeping pill. And what are Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu’s plans to deal with the Iranian threat? Like Olmert, Netanyahu puts his main emphasis on shifting the burden to the international community. In addition, Bibi proposes that Israel turn to the international business community and request that businesses transfer their investments out of Iran . This idea is not realistic. No significant international company will give up its profits just to help Israel . As for turning to the international community, if we are lucky, the sheriff from Washington may decide to attack Iran . Most likely Bush's precarious political position will not allow him to open up a new front – and we had best not rely on him.The British and American
bombers that flew over the death factories of World War II allegedly didn't have time to bomb Auschwitz . Built on the ashes of the Holocaust, the State of Israel was supposed to provide security for all Jews. Could it be that instead of creating a safe haven, we have created a death trap?
A world leader who has the audacity to declare that he intends to destroy the State of Israel should automatically become a clear target for assassination by Israel 's special commando forces. If, after taking this action, Iran would continue with the production of nuclear weapons, Israel would have no choice but to destroy Iran ’s entire nuclear program at all costs. To carry out this necessary plan, Israel needs leadership with a strong Jewish backbone. Israel ’s current leadership tells the world, We are no longer Jews. We are Israelis. Take our holiest site, the Temple Mount , and give us a little bit of peace and quiet.And that is exactly what Iran's Ahmadinejad reminds us: You decided to negate your own Jewish legitimacy? You decided to destroy your souls? No problem. I'll help you out. I will destroy your bodies, as well.
To solve this problem at its source, we need leadership that returns to the source. We will not be destroyed if we return to the Temple Mount . Just look at what is happening today. We are being destroyed because we betrayed the Temple Mount . We no longer have the luxury of choosing if we want to have a Jewish State or a state of all its citizens. Our only choice is between a Jewish State – and no state at all.To learn more about Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) and to read their plan for Israel 's future, visit www.jewishisrael.org . Manhigut Yehudit is the largest faction inside the Likud Party in Israel. It strives to turn Israel from The State of the Jews into The Jewish State.Contact: Shmuel Sackett, International Director (516) 330-4922 (cell)
IT LOOKS LIKE THE PROPHCY OF REBUILDING THE THIRD TEMPLE COULD SOON BECOME REALITY AS THE ORTHODOX SANHEDRIN WANT TO SACRIFICE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT FOR PASSOVER.
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( 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.
Present-day Sanhedrin court seeks to revive ancient Temple rituals FEB 28,07 By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
The present-day Sanhedrin Court decided Tuesday to purchase a herd of sheep for ritual sacrifice at the site of the Temple on the eve of Passover, conditions on the Temple Mount permitting.The modern Sanhedrin was established several years ago and is headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. It claims to be renewing the ancient Jewish high court, which existed until roughly 1600 years ago, and meets once a week.Professor Hillel Weiss, a member of the Sanhedrin, told Haaretz on Tuesday that the action, even if merely symbolic, is designed to demonstrate in a way that is obvious to all that the expectation of Temple rituals will resume is real, and not just talk.Several years ago, a number of members of the various Temple movements performed a symbolic sacrifice on Givat Hananya, which overlooks the Temple Mount from Jerusalem's Abu Tur neighborhood. During the ceremony, participants sacrificed a young goat that was donated by a resident of Tekoa. The participants also built a special two-meter tall oven, in accordance with halakha (Jewish law).
The Passover sacrifice is considered a simple ceremony, relative to other works performed in the Temple. On Wednesday, the Sanhedrin will hold its main conference, entitled Existential threats and ways to correct them. Rabbi Menachem Froman, far-right activist Moshe Feiglin, and Nativ editor Arieh Stav will participate in the conference. The guest of honor will be Makor Rishon publisher Shlomo Ben-Zvi.
PLANS FOR THIRD JEWISH TEMPLE DEVELOPING
By Joel C. Rosenberg MAR 01,07
1, 2007) -- It's been nearly 2,000 years since Jews celebrated Passover at the Temple in Jerusalem, but that will change soon if a growing Orthodox Jewish movement in Israel has its way. The present-day Sanhedrin Court decided Tuesday to purchase a herd of sheep for ritual sacrifice at the site of the Temple on the eve of Passover, conditions on the Temple Mount permitting, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported yesterday. The modern Sanhedrin was established several years ago and is headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. It claims to be renewing the ancient Jewish high court, which existed until roughly 1600 years ago, and meets once a week.
Professor Hillel Weiss, a member of the Sanhedrin, told Haaretz on Tuesday that the action, even if merely symbolic, is designed to demonstrate in a way that is obvious to all that the expectation of Temple rituals will resume is real, and not just talk. Several years ago, a number of members of the various Temple movements performed a symbolic sacrifice on Givat Hananya, which overlooks the Temple Mount from Jerusalem's Abu Tur neighborhood. During the ceremony, participants sacrificed a young goat that was donated by a resident of Tekoa. The participants also built a special two-meter tall oven, in accordance with halakha (Jewish law).The Passover sacrifice is considered a simple ceremony, relative to other works performed in the Temple.
Numerous Biblical prophecies in the Old and New Testaments indicate a new Temple will be built in the last days, suggesting such headlines have been foretold for centuries. Several Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel are currently making preparations to build and outfit the Third Temple.
Some are developing detailed architectural plans for the structure, while others are creating the religious implements and clothing that would be used by Levitical priests to carry out sacrifices once the Temple is in place. Tensions over control of the Temple Mount are running high at the moment, with Palestinians rioting several weeks ago to keep Israelis from building a ramp so visitors can safely access the ancient holy site. Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in Khartoum on a two-day state visit to forge a military and economic alliance between Iran and Sudan, to denounce Israeli Jews as children of the Devil and to denounce the United States for trying to plant seeds of sectarian discord throughout Iraq and the Middle East.
Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan, Ahmadinejad told a meeting of Islamic scholars. The Iranian leader also told the people of Sudan: There is no place in the world that suffers from divisions and wars unless America or the Zionists fingerprints are seen there.Ahmadinejad met with Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir to hold wide-ranging talks aimed at increasing bilateral cooperation in agriculture and industry that should culminate Thursday with the signing of a package of agreements, reports Agence France Presse.
Iran has also offered its expertise in the oil industry, an area currently dominated by China, India and Malaysia, but the issue that has also been at the heart of Iran-Sudan ties is military cooperation, with Sudanese Defence Minister Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein having visited Iran three times over the past year.Ahmadinejad also made known his opposition to U.N. peacekeeping forces being positioned in Sudan to end the genocide underway in the Darfur region and elsewhere. Iran together with China, whose President Hu Jintao visited Khartoum earlier this month is a key ally of Beshir's regime and spoken out against plans for a UN deployment in Darfur, reports AFP. It's bad enough, of course, that two radical Islamic countries are forging ever stronger ties in their jihad against Judeo-Christian civilization. But what is particularly curious about the emergence of an even stronger Iran-Sudan alliance this week is that it was foretold 2,500 years ago by the Hebrew Prophet Ezekiel in chapters 38 and 39. Ezekiel 38:5 tells us that Persia and a people group known as Cush will be allies with Russia and a group of other Middle Eastern countries in an effort to destroy Israel in what Bible scholars refer to as the War of Gog and Magog. Until 1935, Persia was the official, legal name of the country we now know as Iran. Cush is the upper Nile region that today is Sudan and Ethiopia. One other interesting note: right after the Hebrew prophet describes this War of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38-39, he goes on to describe the rebuilt Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in Ezekiel 40-48.
YES MOSHE FEIGLIN IS CALLING FOR THE TEMPLE MOUNT TO ISRAELIS. GO MOSHE GO.
Israel: Jewish Safe Haven or Death Trap? by Moshe Feiglin MAR 01,07
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Livni have only one significant solution for the Iranian nuclear threat: They suggest that we pressure the international community. Olmert's pressure includes development of the Arrow missile that is supposed to destroy incoming missiles in the sky. But the Arrow missile is a weapon that essentially breaks Israel 's Samson Option its power of deterrence. The Arrow has no chance of successfully protecting Israel if it is attacked at once by several ballistic missiles or by one missile with multiple warheads, or even if our enemy attacks Israel on a cloudy day. Israel just doesn’t have enough of them, and they just are not fool proof. If Israel actually tried to use the Arrow to intercept all the missiles with which its enemies are armed, it will have to invest its entire defense budget exclusively on building enough Arrow missiles.
In other words, we are paying astronomical sums of money for a national sleeping pill. And what are Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu’s plans to deal with the Iranian threat? Like Olmert, Netanyahu puts his main emphasis on shifting the burden to the international community. In addition, Bibi proposes that Israel turn to the international business community and request that businesses transfer their investments out of Iran . This idea is not realistic. No significant international company will give up its profits just to help Israel . As for turning to the international community, if we are lucky, the sheriff from Washington may decide to attack Iran . Most likely Bush's precarious political position will not allow him to open up a new front – and we had best not rely on him.The British and American
bombers that flew over the death factories of World War II allegedly didn't have time to bomb Auschwitz . Built on the ashes of the Holocaust, the State of Israel was supposed to provide security for all Jews. Could it be that instead of creating a safe haven, we have created a death trap?
A world leader who has the audacity to declare that he intends to destroy the State of Israel should automatically become a clear target for assassination by Israel 's special commando forces. If, after taking this action, Iran would continue with the production of nuclear weapons, Israel would have no choice but to destroy Iran ’s entire nuclear program at all costs. To carry out this necessary plan, Israel needs leadership with a strong Jewish backbone. Israel ’s current leadership tells the world, We are no longer Jews. We are Israelis. Take our holiest site, the Temple Mount , and give us a little bit of peace and quiet.And that is exactly what Iran's Ahmadinejad reminds us: You decided to negate your own Jewish legitimacy? You decided to destroy your souls? No problem. I'll help you out. I will destroy your bodies, as well.
To solve this problem at its source, we need leadership that returns to the source. We will not be destroyed if we return to the Temple Mount . Just look at what is happening today. We are being destroyed because we betrayed the Temple Mount . We no longer have the luxury of choosing if we want to have a Jewish State or a state of all its citizens. Our only choice is between a Jewish State – and no state at all.To learn more about Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) and to read their plan for Israel 's future, visit www.jewishisrael.org . Manhigut Yehudit is the largest faction inside the Likud Party in Israel. It strives to turn Israel from The State of the Jews into The Jewish State.Contact: Shmuel Sackett, International Director (516) 330-4922 (cell)
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